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CITIES OF PORTO RICO Picturesque Places In Uncle Sam's New Island lis:: -ffiEUP. TO DATE T0WI? OP PONCE? ? With Its Playa Zt Has nore Inhabitants Than San Jain-The Attract ?vt Ladles of Porto Rico-Very Little Vacant Land Left-The Deas? Population. VI. The elinsa?? jof Porto f?icoiihot and the mean temperature ri the lands being not far from 100 degrees; i?nt one may change his climate ina Journey of a few hours. For instance, "e the city of Ponce on the southern may be sizzling beneath a^orrid with the temperature up in the in the pretty mountain town Adjuntas, only 16 miles distant, the mercury may be down as low as 60 or Due west from San Juan lies the of Arecibo, with over 6,000 inhab ts. It is 35 miles from the capital 2j> a bisect line and by rail about 50 on a river of the same name, which dr?ins u valley famed for its natural beauty I and plantations. About eight miles in? land is a wonderful grotto, with exten? dive chambers and beautiful stalactites. ?The commerce of the town is important, hat the ports is poor, all freight having to be lightered. Swinging around to a point on the Borthwest coast there opens up the ; magnificent bay of. AgnadiEu, capable of fioatinjg a navy, the town of the same name being the most picturesque of any in the island. It lies at the base of a very steep mountain covered with lem- I on and orange trees, palms, eta, and j .from a nearby ravine gushes out a j ?pring of pure water of immense vol- j wae, which nows through the town to j the sea. An antique church and an old vfort add to the picturesqueness of -the ?cene. The town, has about 5,000 inhab? itants,' and five miles farther to the south on the same big bay is the town of Agriarla, on the site where, tradition .relates, Columbus touched fco: water in 1493, and was so impressed with the beauty of the scene that he called the island the "Bich Port. " fine south lies the city of Mayaguez, .with 11,000 inhabitants, but 28,000 within its juris? diction, the third city of the island in importance, and one that exports vast quantities of sugar and coffee, pineap? ples and coccanuts and imports flour, etc, from the United States. It is the second port for coffee, its average an? nual export being about 17,000,000 pounds. The temperature is said rarely to exceed 90 degrees, and the mountains are not far away, where the cool breezes 3 GAME COCKS TAKING always blow and from which pout down the rivers, notably the Mayaguez, from which ia olden times much gold was obtained. To the south and east of Mayagnez fies the handsome town of San German, -wb?ch is contemporary with San Juan, and was founded in 1521. It is built on a long, uneven hill, at the foot or which lies the beautiful valley of two united livers, where every tropical fruit and vegetable is grown. Southeast of this town lie? Yanco, 150 feet above the sea, with a ?ne climate and good running water. It is connected by a cartroad with the port of Guanica, where there is a "playa," or shore settlement, of ?bout 1,000 people. This port was the initial point in the strategic plans of General Miles in his recent military occupation of Porto Rico. East of Yanco and connected with it by rail lies Ponce, the chief city of the south coast and second only to San Juan in commercial importance. It was founded about 1600 and lies two to three miles from its port, the spacious harbor of which will admit vessels of 25 feet Graft. There are about 27,000 people in Ponce and its "playa" and within its jurisdiction about 47,000, making this city the largest, as it is in some respects the finest, in the isiand. It has 34 streets, several plazas, a fine old church, hospitals, three theaters, a municipal library, markets, casinos, park and gas works. In fact, it has the entire equip? ment of a first class city, with the finest theater, the Pearl, to be found in Porto Bico, built of iron and marble at a cost of 70,000 pesos. The climate is hot, but rather dry, and the land and sea breezes make the city endurable, even desirable, as a place of residence, particularly in the winter season. Just outside the city are the thermal baths of La Quintana, efficacious in many diseases and embow? ered in a lovely garden. The taking of Ponce by our troops and their enthusi? astic welcome by the inhabitants most be still fresh in the mind of the reader. About 50 miles eastward from Ponce lies the town of Guava ma. with 4,500 inhabitants, which was founded in 1736, and has one of the richest churches in the island. Twelve miles west of it is Salinas, OD a good but small harbor, and five miles east the port of Arroyo, which, though founded so recently as 1885, already has a large export trade with the United States. Near the port are the wonderful caves of Aguas Bu? enas, which run under the river of Ca guiras ?ind are over 1,200 feet in extent. The chief town of the east coast is Kumacao, on the river of that name, with about 6,000 inhabitants, founded in 1798. Ten miles south cf it lies Ya bucoa, with 4,000 people, half the num? ber, as in the case cf nearly all the towns and smaller cities, being black or colored. Ten miles northeast of Hu macao is the town cf Naguabo, with 2,000 people, said to bo near the site where Columbus first landed in Porto Bice, and 16 miles distant is Fajardo, in the extreme northeast.^ the island, about two miles from Tes handsome port, which has a third class light. All the places on the east coast have har boris or roadsteads at their playas with depth of water from 10 to 23 feet. Off the coast, east, lies the most im? portant of the subsidiary isles which come to U3 with the large one, that of Vieques, 13 miles distant, and 21 miles long fey 6 wide. It is a fertile and well timna-ed isle* with forests of- cabinet woods, sugar plantations and pastures for vast herds of cattle. North of it lies Culebra, or Snake island ; off the south coast, not far from Ponce, the Dead Man's Chest, and in the channel, be* tween Porto Rico and Santo Domingo, Mona island-none of them as fertile as Vieques or at present of much account. In the east and southeast are great pasture lauds, where herds of cattle are reared, which form an important^item of export All kinds of domestic fowl, ducks, geese, turkeys, etc., find here a congenial home, in which they multiply with astonishing rapidity. The inhabitants of Porto Biico, ac? cording to the latest statistics, number about 813,000, over 300,000 of whom arp black or colored, and the majority of them very much mixed indeed. All speak Spanish, are governed by Spanish laws, and have Spanish habitudes; but there are not only descendants of Span? iards here, but men and women with Jewish, Indian, African and Moorish blood in their veins. All writers agree, however, that they are a tractable and docile people, indolent, delicately or? ganized, vivacious, apt to kiss or em? brace a man they like, where the Amer? ican would merely shake his hand. The ladies are, like all Spanish-Amer? ican * * ?encellas, " attractive and pleas? ing, graceful in deportment and elegant of bearing, "loving as sisters, faithful as wives, sweet and amiable as sweet? hearts and daughters. " These are those of the cities and towns. In the country, owing to the comparative density of population and scarcity of markets, most of the people are extremely poor. AN AIRING IN PONCE. According to a book called "La Cues? ti?n of Puerto Rico," published in Spain, the density of population is ex? traordinary, with about 1,744 inhabit? ants to every square league, while in Cuba it is only 376. Twenty years ago the number of individual land proprie? tors was over 55,000, while in Cnba at the same time, with double the popula? tion, they did not exceed half that num? ber. This subject has a portentous as? pect just at present, when so many Americans doubtless cherish the hope of acquiring some holding or other in our new tropical possession. In other West Indian islands, notably the British, there are large tracts of coffee and cacao lands, as well, as aban? doned estates, which go under the name of crown lands, and may be obtained at a low price per acre, but in Porto Rico, it is believed, the Spanish government had but little of that sort. Even if there are any, the retiring Spanish officials will lose no time in having them trans? ferred to individual ownership before the United States government can bring them within its jurisdiction. Most of the so rolled crown lands were seized in de? fault of payment of taxes and distribut? ed among the favorites of the adminis? tration. That is the Spanish way. A native of the island and an author? ity reports that large tracts of sugar lands can be obtained, especially in the eastern districts of Guayama, Humacao and Fajardo, on account of ihe low price of sugar. These lands command from 5250 to $300 per acre and are capable of raising four tons of sugar to tho acre .?e first year, 25 per cent less the sec? ond, etc., without fertilizing. Coffee plantations command at least $500 per acre, but wild lands suitable for that culture can be had at S j 00 au acre. A line of steamers has plied between New York and the island for many years, and it is to be augmented soon iu anticipation of an extensive passenger traffic, while probably th . projected railroads will be fiuisbefS . ;l thus the beauties and the bo-untie* < i Porto Ric i will be made acce^si ;??!** i ? al! <! -siy: . . to visit our latest a'ii ujsir: -J I : .oy. :v.\ Waters. F;;;.:-i...u i\ o. Trained Pigeons, Pigeons are carefully trained. Tho young horner is taken half a mile the first day, a mile the second, two miles the thiri, and so on, doubling the dis? tance each time. It must be liberated each time only in the same direction as to its loft, for a bird can be trained along only one route at a time. When 40 miles have been reached., a week's rest comes between. A hundred miles are enough for a young bird's first year. So essential is the training that old birds are taken only two nrles out for the first lesson of a season, though they may have flown their 250 miles the year preceding. The end of the next season, however, will, if the birds are willing and the trainer patient, be crowned by the accomplishment of a 400 mile flight. As you get higher in the scale of distance, longer and longer rests are needed. Male birds are generally used for long distances. Family matters are apt to engross the attention of the hen, though she is still capa ble of good work when she has a mind for it.-Good Words. _ Aa to the Links. There is no more ardent evolutionist in the city and no more persistent ad? vocate of Darwin's theory than Dr. d'Ancona. His friend, Dr. de Harville, on the other hand, is a great bird fan? cier and devotes all his spare time to an enthusiastic study of ornithology. "I have a splendid specimen of a monkey in my office, " remarked Dr. d'Ancona proudly. "Come in and see him," he continued, being a firm be? liever in the object method of demon? stration. "You will admit that I have the missing link in a cage. " "That's ali right," replied De Mar ville, absorbed in his own pet hobby. "I have a cage at home myself, and something in it too. You're not in it, and^ neither is your monkey. lean show you something much better than your missing link. I have got a bobolink." ! -San Francisco News Letter. j . - Prioleau and Calhoun. The Pendletonians were justly proud of Mr. Calhoun and sensitive as to the impression which he made upon stran? gers. When Judge Prioleau became a resident, they were anxious to know his impressions of their Ajax. When they first met, as soon as Calhoun left the table, the question was eagerly asked, "How do yon like him?" j "Not at all," was the newcomer's I reply. "I desire never to meet him again. " This was a sad rebuff, and an explanation was demanded. "I hate a ? man who makes me think so much," the judge replied. "Foo: the last three i hours I have been on the stretch trying to follow him through heaven and earth. I feel wearied with the effort, and I hate a man who makes me feel my own inferiority." Pendleton was appeased.-Exchanga Good, bat Not I-atended. Now and then a man gets off a good thing and does not know ir. An in? stance is noted by Sir M. Grant Duff in his "Diary:" j We began to talk about the fog. "It was so bad," I said, "a week or two ago that I hear Farrar preached against it at St. Margaret's." "It was at that church," my friend answered, "that a clergyman, denounc? ing Mr. Tooth, the ritualist, said, 'I will not name him, but his name is in everybody's mouth. ' Then, seeing the smiles on the faces of his congregation, he turned scarlet." The Earth's Shadow. The earth has a shadow, but very few ever see it, except in eclipses of the moon, or else few recognize it when they see it. Nevertheless, many of us have noticed on fine, cloudless even? ings in summer shortly before sunset a rosy or pink arc on the horizon opposite the sun, with a bluish gray segment under it As the sun sinks the arc rises until it attains the zenith and even passes it This is the shadow of the earth. The Little Carato. Some years ago the English prime minister received the following letter from a workingman: SIR-Doubtless you do not often get a letter from a workingman on the subject of clerical appointments, but, as I here you have got to find a minister for to fill Mr. Boyd Carpenter'*) place, allow me to ask you to just go some Sunday afternoon and here our little curate. Mr. -, at St. Matthew's church-he is a good, Earnest little man and a genuine little Fellow ; got no humbug about him, buta sound Churchman, is an extempor Preacher and de serves promotion. Nobody knows I am writ? ing to you, and it is not a matter of kiss and go by favor, but simply asking you to take a run over and here him and then put him a stept higher-he deserves it. I know Mr. Sul? livan will give him a good character, and so will Mr. Alcroft. the Patron. Now do go over and. here him before you make a choice. We workingmen will be sork*y to loose him, but we think he ought not to be missed promotion as is a good fellow. Your obedient servant The Kaiser's Latest. The German emperor has devised a new scheme for the encouragement o? vocal music in the German empire. It wijl be put into operation in 1899, and it consists of a singing competition to be held in a different town every year. Cassel has been selected for the first competition, the chief condition of which is that each choir taking part will receive an unpublished musical composition about an hour before the contest takes place. There will be no accompaniment. The kaiser's prize isa valuable jewel, and the president of the iming choir will be allowed to wear for a year, the name of each singer b g engraven upon it. Chalk as a Coal Saver. To make half a ton of coal go as 15 hundredweight pince a quantity ol chalk in the grates. Once heated this is practically inexhaustible from combus? tion and gives out great heat. Place the chalk at the back of each cf your fires in nearly equal proportions with the coal. Full satisfaction will be felt both as to the cheerfulness and as to the warmth of the fire, and the saviug throughout the winter will be at the rate of 25 per cent.-Exchanc? Harr "Underwear." A young German engineer whoso name is Herr "X." von der Werra had an amusing incident happen to him on a recent ocean voyage which will bear repeating and which he narrates him? self with relish. On the steamer were several English ladies who were devot? ed to whist and who frequently called upon Herr X. to join them in a friendly rubber. The young man does not care particularly for the game; but, as the ladies in question had several charming girls under their wings, policy as well as politeness bade him join in the daily gamea The young man suffered from a severe cold, and, in order to protect himself from the drafts, took occasion to wear a couple of heavy bicycle sweat? ers in addition tonis ordinary clothing. The ladies sympathized and frequent? ly spoke to Herr X.. "ftindervear, " as they pronounced it, about his precau? tions against addition?l cold. He was not particularly well versed in English, and the pronunciation of his name puz? zled him very much-in fact, he thought they were referring to his sweaters, so finally he blurted out: "Ladies, why do you call me Mr. Un? derwear? Is it because of these sweat? ers?" The reply was lost to posterity in the roar of laughter which caused the windows of the saloon to rattle-Phil? adelphia Record. Metallizing Wood. A method of metallizing wood, one by which it becomes very solid and re? sistant and assumes the appearance of a true metallic mirror, is described in the Paris Monde with much detail Briefly, the wood is first immersed for three or four days, as may be its degree of per? meability, in a caustic alkaline lye, and thence passed immediately into a bath of hydrosulphite of calcium, to which is added, after 24 or 36 hours, concen? trated solution of sulphur in caustic potash. The duration of this bath is about 48 hours, and its temperature is from 55 to 50 degrees. Finally the wood is immersed for 30 or 40 hours in a hot solution of acetate of lead. The wood prepared in this manner and after hav? ing undergone a proper drying at a moderate temperature acquires under a burnisher of hard wood a polished sur? face and exhibits a very brilliant metal? lic luster-a luster still further increas? ed in its attractiveness if the surface of the wood be rubbed thoroughly, in the first place, with a piece of lead, tin or zinc and afterward be polished with a glass or porcelain burnisher. A Mi*understood Jost. Lord Lytton when viceroy of India was seated one day at dinner next to a lady whose name was Birch, and who, though very good looking, was not over intelligent Said she to his excellency: "Are you acquainted with any of the Birches?" "Oh, yes," replied Lord Lytton, "I knew several of them most intimately while at Eton-indeed more intimately than I cared to." "My lord, " replied the lady, "you forget the Birches are relatives of mine." "And they cut me," said the viceroy, "but, " and he smiled his wonted smile, "I have never felt more inclined to kiss the rod than I do now. " Sad to say, Mrs, Birch did not see the point and told her husband his ex? cellency had insulted her.-Exchange. Opals. An exquisit? gem is the opal, its beautiful creamy surface lit with red, blue and yellow rays scintillating in the light and giving it a place in the front rank of precious stones. Unfortunately the opal has a bad name, and we know the proverb about the dog with the un? lucky cognomen. Superstition credits this, beautiful stone with bringing mis? fortune to its owner, and superstition will win its W3y so long as the world lasts. The opal is peculiarly brittle and sometimes crumbles away without any apparent cause, therefore it has been branded "unlucky." But let those laugh who win, there are still some who value opals for their worth and beauty and who can afford to make merry at the superstitious. The opal il the type of hope.-Chicago News. Gladstone ?ad Motet. A correspondent of The British Weekly tells the following story rela? tive to Mr. Gladstone: "I was driving one autumn evening in a conveyance which in those days nsed to ron from Lamlash to King's Cross (Island of Arran) when for any reason the late boat did not go round to Whiting bay. Sitting opposite me were two men who appeared to belong to the Paisley weav? er class, and true to the traditions of that class they were busily discussing politics. Presently one of them said, with much emphasis, * There hasna been a lawgiver equal to Mr. Gladstone since ehe days o' Moses.' 'Moses!' retorted the other. 'Moses got the law gien tae him frae the Lord, but Mr. Gladstone maks laws oot o' his ain head!' " Russian Liars. Kassian diplomats hold that it is no disgrace or dishonor to lie in the most unblushing manner in order to promote Mie interests of their country and of their sovereign. When tho late czar asked once of Count Ignateiff how he aime to be nicknamed "The Father of lies" while embassador at Constantino? ple, he with a low bow responded, "in the service of your majesty." Seamen Vote Ahead of Time. Norwegian seamen are entitled to oto before leaving their country if the polling day is within three months of their departure, or they can vote at a loreign port within the same time by having their votes sent homo through & Norwegian consul. Will ins to Sacrifice. Lodging House Clerk-Bed with bath, 15 cents. Weary Watkins-I guess I'd rather pay a little more and not take tho bath. -Indianapolis Journal. Th* "White" ruot? light. The "White" i"v?e right. THE CARRIER PIGEOS MYSTERY OF THE METHOD BY WHICH IT FINDS ITS WAY. Hotr ? French Scientist Tries to Explain the Taking: of Bearings and Homeward Flight by These Swift Winged Messen? Sera of the Air. The faculty possessed by many ani? mals for finding their way home through an unknown region has always been more or less of a mystery. It rises to its height in the case of the carrier pigeon, and its would be explainers fall back on expedients that range all the way from a mysterious special sense of "orientation" down to everyday or? dinary observation of landmarks, such as man uses when he finds his way. Most authorities are now inclined to take a middle course, and believe that the pigeon finds its way by methods more or less ordinary, but by a very extraordinarily skilled combination of them. We translate below part of an article on the subject, contributed by M. A Thauzies to the Revue Scientifiqua The author's assumption that the ani? mal organism is sensitive to magnetic conditions is contrary to scientific ob? servation and experiment! but this is only a detail of his theory and does not materially affect it M. Thauzies, after giving reasons for rejecting the theory of a special sense and other hypotheses put forth on the subject, proceeds to state the following facts which he be? lieves to be firmly established: "First.-Well trained pigeons, even if taken very far away-say several hundred miles from the pigeon cot get their bearings, in a normal atmos? phere, with wonderful promptness, without turning about in other direc? tions and without rising to a great height. Eefore one can count 50 they have disappeared. "Second.-These same pigeons, left in open air in their baskets several min ntes before releasing them, while they are given food and drink, look around them, walk to and fro, evidently study? ing the sky, until, having found out, doubtless, what they sought, they re? main quiet. Then, if the baskets are opened, they fly off low and almost horizontally, without zigzags and in a straight line in the proper direction. "Third.-The same pigeons, trans? ported to a strange region-that is, for instance, where they must make a southerly journey when they are accus? tomed to make a northerly one, betray a striking degree of disquietude in their baskets at the moment of departure. They seem to be surprised and some? what taken aback. As soon as they are free they fly off eastward, making large ellipses toward the sun. Then they ex? plore in all directions, but they always return to the east with a patient tenaci? ty that seems to signify that ?here is the key of the problem, and that there alone will be found its solution- After several minutes of this, having reached an altitude of 150 to 200 yards, they disappear in the proper direction. "Fourth.-The earlier in the morn? ing they are released the more prompt is their success in getting their direc? tion. After noon, even in calm weather, and even if the distance is small, their orientation is dull, slow, wavering and without vivacity. "Fifth.-When the day coircides with a change of the moon, the orienta? tion both at the point of departure and also on the route becomes difficult, the birds return slowly and at long inter? vals. *) "Sixth.-Finally, even when the sky seems everywhere clear, if the atmos? phere is undergoing any of those invisi? ble disturbances that are revealed only by the most delicate instruments of our observatories, the pigeons, as in the preceding case, hesitate, lag behind and sometimes take double the time that would be necessary for their journey under other circumstances. "What must be concluded from these facts? "The carrier pigeon, a bird eminent? ly electric, and of excessive nervous sus? ceptibility, is also endowed with pro? digiously sensitive vision and with spe? cial intelligence that cannot be doubted. The indefatigable excursions that it makes, especially in the morning, often to considerable distances around its cot, and to all points of the compass, accustom it to a great number of mag? netic and visual sensations whose va? rious characteristics it learns to distin? guish according to the region where it is and to the hour of the day. By what may he called its sense of touch and by its sight it registers, as it were, like a delicate mechanism, impressions as varied as they are complex, which, re? sulting in the concerted action of the organism, enable it to determine in a given place, at a given moment, the di? rection in which tho dovecot will be found. "This power of discernment increases with the accumulation of heredity of what may be called 'local instinct.' This is why the carrier pigeon is not satisfactory unless it has behind it au ancestral Imo of carrier pigeons living in the same region. This is why when, for any cause, the tur is disturbed, eveu to a degree imperceptible to man, the pigeon's element of investigation, its means of getting its bearings being dif? ferent and insufficient, it looks about, hesitates, gets its direction with diffi culry and sometimes even is lost." Literary Digest. Dogs kept exclusively for guiding blind persons or for tending sheep or cattle on a farm or by shepherds are exempt from taxation in Great Britain. It only takes a woman live minutes to clean up a man's d<:sk so that it will take him two weeks to find anything he wants. -Exchange. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will and not upon the number of days to have a sufficient length of life.-Mou taigne. DISGUSTED FISHERMEN. It Made Them 111 to See an Old Tia?3 Angler Catch Trout. One day a Boston party, on a fishing trip to Moosehead, carne across one of the old school fishermen. He was np off the mouth, cf Tornhegan stream and was fishing ont of a lumberman's bat teau. It developed later that he was the cook for a crew of river drivers. On tho bank near ai hand stood the cookee, or his helper. The cook had thrown about a peck of talle refuse into the lake in order to "tole" the fish, and over that lure he was having great luck. His pole was of the jib boom variety, and when a fish bit he would derrick it over his head into the - bushes where the cookee was stationed. The Boston men from their canoes watched operations with all the disgust of the true sportsmen. "Got enough for supper yet?'* shout? ed the fisherman over his shoulder as he set another great trout fiamping into the bushes. "No; better catch six or eight more," shrilled back the cookee. "Say, how many fish do you two fel? lows usually eat for supper?" shouted a Boston man who didn't understand tbs situation. "When you've cooked for 22 river drivers as lonsr as I have, " yelled the cook, derricking another fish, "you'll know more about empty nail kegs. " Hardly was this enigmatic utterance out when, there came a tug at his line that was nothing short of tremendous. He twitched. The fish didn't come. He braced, set his jaws and pried. His line only sawed the hissing water. "Play him! Play him!" screamed the excited sportsmen from the city. "Play your grandmother!" bellowed the cook. "I ain't here to play. I'm here to fish. " And as he spoke he boost? ed over his head a 15 pound laker. Any man in the Boston crowd would have given $10 to have played him an hour at the end of an eight ounce rod. 'Twas too much for their nerves. They came away.-Lewiston Journal. Entertaining the Copper. It was a bitter cold night, a?2 ? night policeman in Lombard street no? ticed a light in the bank window, and, going to the door, rapped. "Is that you, policeman?" asked a voice from within. ' ' Yes, ' ' was the reply. "Come in and have a drink, " said the voice. The policeman stepped inside and en? countered a dapper little fellow sitting at a desk. 'Tve been detained tonight straight? ening up accounts." The policeman warmed himself at the rousing fire that blazed on the hearth and went cat again on his beat. An hcur after the policeman came that way and, still seeing the light through the window, rapped again. "ls that yon, policeman?,, "Yes." "Come in and warm yourself." The policeman accepted the invita? tion. "It's a howling cold night," said the clerk. "You're right, sir," said the police? man. So he got another drink and returned to his beat. Ec was rather surprised next day to find that his friend of the night before had got off with some $50, 000 of the bank's funds.-London Suc? cess. An Attack on Sevastopol. From where I was stationed I could see the dense masses of the attacking columns advance up the slope. Then the torrents of grape which met them would obscure their ranks for a mo? ment and hardly a man would be seen to remain. I at one time saw a body of men many hundreds strong so complete? ly swept away by one discharge that only a few of the rear rank remained when the iron storm went past! Th6 dead and dying could be clearly distin? guished lying in piles on the hillside, and over their prosbrata bodies fresh troops crowded on to meet the same fate. Many a manly heart and nervous arm went down in the deadly struggle on that green hillside. No valor avail? ed. The cannon's force was greater than the strength of man. How many ardent hopes were extin? guished ! How many home circles de? stroyed and lives rendered miserable by the havoc of that hour none can tell, no more than they can imagine the bodily agony or the grief for home and friends which was there endured ! What would be the value of what is called "glory" if weighed on the field of bat? tle among the dead?-Good Words. Al tama or A? tau? ah a? There can, I suppose, be no doubt that in the lines in "The Deserted Vil? lage" To distant climes, a dreary scene, Where half the convex world intrudes between. Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go Where wild Akama murmurs to their woe Goldsmith is alluding to the River Al taruaba in Georgia, the colonization of which had taken place not long before. But his expressions are not very accu? rate. So far from being torrid in the strict sense of the word, the latitude of the mouth of the Altamaha is more than 31 degrees. No part indeed of the present United States is located within thc tropics. Bnt, besides this, although there are certainly rattlesnakes and, I believe, scorpions of a certain species in Georgia, there are no tigers there to "wait their hapless prey," which the poet reckons among the horrors of the region where some of the inhabitants of Auburn have gone.-Notes and Queries Warding Off Jealousy. Old Gotrocks (savagely)-What's that! You mean to teli nie that you really love my daughter for herself alone? Young Hardup (tremulously)-Y-yes, sir, but I think I could leam to 1-love you, t-too, sir, in t-t-time, sir.-Vanity Fftir.