THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
B, F. SOHWEIER,
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY II. 1894
NO. 30.
VOL. Xi.VIII
bpi ratio;?.
t am the blush of the summer rosa
The Cush of tho morn,
Ibe smile on the face ot the dead,
The sons newly born
from her.rt of the poet, from shell of the
sea,
from ru-.b of the river that oceajiwari
flows.
am immortal. Who knorrs me Is gla-J.
Men give me the namo
Of passions that kindle the soul
Love, faith, beauty, fame.
I dwell with all these, yet
am higher than .
all
Without me tho ancfeis of heaven were s.id.
Edith Willis Linn, In the Century.
ME SUSPENDED JUDGMENT i
HEY
wero cast
ing votes for
life or death.
The day had
been warm for
spring, even in
that southern
latitude, anil the
grateful eool-i!-:o
of the coin
ing night was
unconsciously
wele o m e d by
both men and
horses us they
halted where the
trail left the open mesa and climbed
the little divide.
The animals had been gathered in,
head to head, nnd all the bridles were
held by one of the party ; the priboner,
btill handeufi'ed, hud beta allowed to
dismount, and now stood silent, look
ing down tho rolling idain toward the
sunset, v.! tched by a single guard.
The other.', seven in number, in n
group hah" a dozen rods cway, were
caFtmg votes. I
The leader of the posse, christened
fifty years ago u home quaint English '
villngo John itobinson, but far better
known in his New Mexican home at
"Sheriff Jack," held the ballot-box, a
worn sombrero.
".Now, genll'Tiien, let us understand
tiis question, bo that no trouble arLse
liereafter, " mid he, glancing about at
his companions. "We have, ut the
call of our city, made) a successful ef
fort to capture Janus Brownell, other
wise known as lied Jim, who to-day
stands indicted for more than half the
crimes that have been committed in
QgTigo County during the past live
years. Time was, and not so fur in the
past cither, as several of you ran bear
mo witness, when such n capture meant
a prompt trial and short shrift for tht
prisoner ; but customs have changed.
Our duty, it seems to me, is to return
to Mesa City with Brownell, and sub
mit him to tho disposition of tho reg
ularly organized authorities. The
road, however, is long', our
horsed tired and tha man des
perate, and some of you believe
it better to conclude tho mattet
hero and at oue- nil things being
seemingly convenient," und as he
paused, his eye unconsciously turned
toward the single stunted pine thai
with sturdy, outstretched limbs stood
near. "In order, therefore, as it were,
to poll the jury on the question of what
to do with our prisoner, I have pro
posed the casting of ballots. Draw up,
gentlemen, and make your wills
known : a pistol cartridge means Judge
Lynch, a Winchester, the court at
home, and tho majority shall rule.
1'reparo your ballots."
Thero was a certain grim humoi
about both the speaker and his ad
dress, but the others did not-notiee it.
They busied thenicelvcs in selecting,
each according to his choice, tho re
quired cartridge, and then, with all
tho solemn decorum of a New England
school meiting, one by one they ad
vanced ami dropped tho leaden mes
sengers of their desires into tho hat.
There was no discussion, no seeking
to influence each other, and when
Sheriff Jack hud passed his sombrero
to the two who wntched tho prisoner
and held the horses, with tho same
oiliciul dignity ho declared the polif
closed, and turning the cartridges out
upon tho ground, separated them, large
and small, into two tiny piles, counting
them as ho did so.
A man's life hung in tho balance,
but no sign of excitement showed itself
upon tho bronzed faces of the posse,
nor was there an expression of satisfac
tion or disappointment when, rising,
tho Sheriff said :
"Boot and saddle ! We ride home !
The verdict is five for town law to foul
.... , , , -i-ti
against it-nna muc n gooa may uo
uuii, ueme-.eo, .,u ..u..-,. v.u.
fliii-; of his head toward the silent pris-
:. r, who had watched all tuese pro
ceedings, even to the Anal announce
ment, with the stoicism of nn Indian.
Tho vote had meant death to hini within
an hour or days of opportunity ; yet
not a shadow had erof .-.ed his hardened
face. Xow, ct a sign from his guard,
ho mounted the Lrse led to him,
placed himself in the center of the lit
tle cavalcade, and nt a brisk trot all
proceeded northward through Ihe rap
idly deepening gloaming of the even
ing. Two months lakr to City lay
ecorched and browning beneath the
blaze of a July sun.
Tho wide streets Honked by rows of
painfully new brick f lores aud wooden
dwelling, the court house, city hall,
graded school mid churches, tho dia
mond shaped phiza, boosting a dry
urncd Niobe, and even the discouraged
trees that had been planted near tho
doors of tho tempting saloons cro oao
and all white bencr.th the alkali dust,
ii.ud quivered and chivercd ir. tho
turning flare like the unstable city of
i; mirage. '
Few inhabitants ventured forth, for
tho heal was unusual, even for Xcw
Mtxieo, an 1 while it latted work must j
wait. But in one building there had
gathered quite a concourse, notwith-
fjnnding the temperature, and Judge
r-- from i:ir bench across a I
crowaea room cs tnj crier nroso cnl I
with sonorous vck-e rnnouucdl the
openiccr of the court for the trial ol j
criminal cases. '
There were n few minor cares, all
occupying some to ir Ore? hours, '
when tho attention of the Court and
the ncdicncc became fixed by tlio Caal '
cause, upon tho day calendar. Under
the escort of Sheriff Jack, ttill ironad .
and a trifle paler than when last seen,
Jcmcs Browucil was led ist j the room
and took hi:i place in iho prisoner'
dock. The murmur of low coavcrta-
ticn, Jtkooccasionfil .eaaeak.ctajafitt
the shutting of feet, dH ceased as the
clerk a! one to read the indictments.
Violation of the liquor laws, viola
tion of the gambling laws, horse, steal
ing, robbery, burglary, and, last of
all, murder. One by one the black
' record wasspread before the Court, the
j result of a series of years of iniquities,
' the work of half a dozen Grand Juries,
and now, for the first time, the much
indicted man was in the hands of the
law to answer its repeated summons.
Judge Gary looked towards Brownell.
"How does the prisoner plead?"
"Not guilty to every count in every
indictment," replied his attorney, one
j of the younger lawyers in the city;
"and we demand a separate trial upon
each charge."
A murmur of disapproval ran t jrongh
the room. "Was this notorious desper- '
ado to escape through the very techni- !
calities and delays of the laws he had
set at defiance. 1
"Then it becomes the right of the
District Attorney to move whichever oi j
tho indictments ho -may choose," re- j
plied the Judge. "Mr. Arnold, what
1 . .... I
Then it becomes the right of the .
is the desire on the part of the peo
pie?"
The gray haired prosecutor for the
county arose, and in a deliberate and
dignified manner announced that be I
would elect to try under the principal
indictment. i
"The greater might be said in this
case, Your Honor, to include the less.
Should the prisoner be convicted of
murder, it will relieve both him and
tho commonwealth from the weariness
and expense of trials for the lesser
crimes ; should he be acquitted I shall
, move an immediate trial under the m
, dictment for burglary." i
j The crowd breathed more easily.
: Brownell was not to escapo after alL
j "Old Arnold '11 do him," whispered
' one listener to another; "the evidence
I is a dead sure thing ! He's bound to
haner. an the Sheriff's posse thought
6o, or they'd never a brought him in !"
The preliminaries were soon oter, a
jury drawn and agreed to, tho case
opened, and the trial Degun.
Witness after witness was sworn in
rapid succession, and the dark story of
tue crime with which Brownell was
charged a street riot, resulting in the
j death of one of the rioters was re
told in all its hideousness. The crowd
' listened with eager cars, untiring for
hours, though the heat seemed to grow
with the day ; tho lawyers bent more
closely cser their notes; the Judge
forgot to lean back in his chair, and
even the prisoner, resting with man
acled hands upon the rail of the crimi
pO's box wherein he sat, showed by
t' gloom that gathered upon his
Wutul face and the dull, angry glow in
ids eye that he appreciated tho desper
ate strait in which he stood.
When the prosecution had rested,
the attorney for Brownell bent toward
him and whispered earnestly in his
ear. The man shook his head. Again
i tho lawyer addressed him, urging some
1 plan of defense newly thought, with a
gesture indicative of irritation, young
litewart rose, and turned to'nddress the
jury.
He told them of his client's early
life, the lack of good influences, the
hard paths for childish feet, the temp
tations of youth, tho struggles and
failures of manhood. Ho told them ol
the ficht for mere existence against
fate and fortune, with no one to lend
a helping hand or breathe a heartening
word, of the frowning faco of virtue
and the tempting one of vice, of aspi
rations smothered, efforts unavailing,
good intentions trodden nnder foot,
lind, at last, of hopeless, friendless, de
spairing wickedness. He warned them
r.gainst circumstantial evidence only;
he spoke of tho inherent right of self
defense ; he prayed their pity and the
benefit of the smallest cloud that might
cast a shadow of doubt ; he opened and
closed the case without a witness and
eat down.
Mr. Arnold summed up for the peo
plecoldly, logically, convincingly;
and when as he closed the level ray of
the western sun shot throngh the dusty
windows and lit the j-niting faces of
the Court and jury wi.WIUeir glory of
crimson and gold, th prisoner, un
touched in the falling shadow where ho
tat. seemed, to the breathless andience,
to rest beneath the gloom of a certain
punishmcnt, desperate and without re-
prieve.
In a few words the Court charged the
jury so cleorly, so fairly, that even
Biownell raised his ashen face from the
rail whereon he had bowed it, once
more to study, with gleaming eyes,
the countenances of the arbiters of his
fate.
as me iwuive
As tho twelve left the room thcro
cntered B child-a wee thing-in white,
--hn wandered sir
1. x vonilATArl clnvlr in from t.He ilnnr
behind the bar, looked solomnly about
if in KPAPrh of some lost friend, until
her gaze fell upon Judge Gary. Then
the little face brightened, and, with a
shout of "Grundpa!" she struggled
through the chairs, assisted by the law
yers, and claimed a seat at his side,
where, for a few moments, she whis
pered softly to the old man as ho
vaited for the hour of adjournment.
"Grandpa, it's going to rain, an'
mamma wants 'oo to come home !
Zey's a big cloud over zat way, an' it's
awful black !" and, with round eyes of
wonder, she pointed directly toward
the south.
"But, pet," said the Judge, "grand
pa's busy now. Who said that you
could come hero?"
"Xo one : onlv cemmt's ,'frr.id. an'
fcaowcU siio wanteu oo, an u u oig
:loud, an' it whirls and whirls, nn it
vr.rod me, too!"
As the judge was about to reply a
light commotion attracted his atten
tion. A moment later tho jury filed in
their box, and the foreman i ose and
(uced tho Court.
A hush fell upon the room as the
;le.rk called tho roll ; then in a voice
that snook a little he said :
"Have the jury agreed upon their
verdict?"
"Wo have," replied the foreman,
iiciply.
"How do they Cad?"
"Guilty, as charged in the indict
ment."
j A r,ound that might have been a sigh
rsn vhrough the listeners. The Juitga
, roso and faced the prisoner. In the
' silence that reigned tho voice of the
, uisUr.t wind, roaring afar off, fell upon
lue waiting ear?, tad the last gleam ol
sunlight faded ironi the walL
Solomnly tha District-Attorney
moved that sentence now bo passed
cpon the prisoner.
', "Br?wnell, stand np. Have roa
anytljing to say why the sentence oi
f uu cuu aiuiiAi-
upua
you?"
The prisoner bad noted the return a.
' the jury, and listened to their verdict
u one in a dream as a man stunned
by a thunderbolt watches the destruc
tion of his home, wrought by the sam
messenger from heaven, dazed and un
nerved. As the sound of the Judge'
voice beat upon bis dull ears he turned
his head slowly, and looked at him
wonderingly.
"Have you anything to say?"
The man gathered his feet beneatl
him, and with an effort rose. For
long moment he gazed about him at
mo Jury m tub uux, iuo uujd
bench, and the dense and waiting
crowd behind him. Then an ugly
gmila srjread across his face, and a i
fierce light burned in his heavy eyes.
"2Iev I anything ter say ? Yes; 1 ,
dare ye all to do yer worst ! wo job
think Red Jim is afeared er thet ye kin
cow lum? le tion t Know nun i juut-
eowmmr xeuooi
der, is it, fer a ma
We an ye threaten
it! Go on an" rea
r -T t ll. :tr
man o save uin uwu
ter hang me? Do
read out yer sentence.
I defv ve. Sheriff, an' all! Bed Jim
' never squeals !" and, with a snarl like
that of an animal he waved the man-
icled arms above his head.
"I know the trouble ; ye'reall afeart
of me, an ye better be, fer ef the devil
lets me live, I'll be the curse of this
thin-blooded town an' every one in it !
I hate it ! Curse ye one an' all, root
an' branch, young an' old ! What hev
ye ever done fer me? Nothin" but ter
toiler me an' drive me out o decent
livin' an' make me an outcast an'
criminal as I am ! When I asked f el
work what did yer give me? Jail!
When I found a place ye told my boss
thet I'd rob him, an' he turned me
out ! When I tried to be decent every
man's hand an' every woman's tongue
in this black town was agin me, an' I
curse ye all I"
The man had worked himself into a
fury. His eyes glared, his face was
white as death, and his shackled hands
swung to and fro excitedly,- clanking
the heavy irons as though they wer
bells.
His listeners were stunned all bui
Sheriff Jack and the Judge, and when
the former would have seized the
prisoner and conveyed him from the
room, the justice stopped him.
As Brownell paused for breath, tht
dull roar of the wind sounded louder in
the ears of the people, and the dark
ness, unusual excepi as the forerunner
of a storm at this time of the year,
thickened momentarily. The Judge's
granddaughter had crept into his arnu
and hidden her face.
"Ye hev forgot thet I was ever bet
tr'n the dogs at yer doors, er the
snakes at yer heels ; but I hev not !
Who saved you from the Injuns thir
teen years ago, Tom Bodoin?" he
shouted, turning suddenly toward one
of the jurymen and stretching his
manacled arms in his direction. "Who
saved ye an' yer fambly up on the
Rios? Bed Jim! But he's wass nor
an Injun now ! Who caught the man
thet tried to steal yer daughter, Dan
O'Keil?" he continued, pointing to an
other juryman, "when he hed shot yer
horse under ye. an' the girl had fainted
in his arms? Who? Bed Jim? But
ye don't remember it ! Who went in
to the engine-room o' the Last Chance
Mine an' shut off the steam when every
;ownrd had run, an' the b'iler was at
the point of buistin' an' the cage with
lifteca men would have gone to tht
bottom o' the shaft? Bed Jim? Bul
that don't count! He's a desperado
now hang him ! Hang him !''
His voice was raised to a shriek, and
sounded thrill through the gloom
shove the deepening thunder of the
storm.
"And yon, Jedgo Gary, thet are to
sentence me to hang by the neck outil
I'm dead, I talk to ye with yer grand
shild in yer arms ! Who refused her
father drink times without number an'
zared fer him nights without number:
Who druv him back to ye when ye
iouldn't git him yerself an' tried to
make a man o' him? Who saved him
rum the hands o' the men who wonld
st' torn him in pieces the last night o'
bis life fer his devilish work with hit.
knife when he hed no friends? Bed
lim ! Who gave yer son a bed to die
in. old man. when ye hed refused it
! yerself? Bed Jim ! An' now he braves
ionble curses, ten thousand curse
an
A sudden mighty blow, bursting tht
ide of the building, a hideous roar,
like the voice of an angry ocean, a
;rash as if the heavens had fa len, inky
blackness blotting out everything, and
iniid the rending of wood and iron,
ihe shrieks of victims, and the wild
trumpeting of the storm, the cyclone
j "wept on, leaving a mass of ruins where
couri uuubc uu .
Half a dozen hours later, as the rea
mers labored, thev camo uuou an
pening, a sort ot protected chamber,
is it were, in front of the desk where
ihe bar had formerly been, made by
ihe great beams falling one upon the
ther. And within it were found three
persons Judge Gary stretched apon
he floor, stunned but breathing, and,
Sending over him. Bed Jim holding in
lis shackled hands, sheltered close to
ais breast, the little form of the
fudge's granddaughter, living and uu
lurt. But tho central iron support of tho
;ourt honse dome had fallen directly
icross this group, and Brownell had
fielded his lifo in the effort to protect
ind save the others. Magazine of
Short Stories.
Wonderfnl Progress in Electricity.
Twelve years ago electricity, as ap
plied to street cars, for power pur
poses of all kinds, for honse and 6treet
illumination, was a new thing. In
fact, electric street railroads have only
been in successful operation abont
half that time. The electrical age was
practically just commencing and the
aggregate capital invested, outside of
telegraphy, was small. Xow, almost
any town of any size has its electric
railroad, streets everywhere are being
lighted by electricity, and electricity
furnishes power for factories, to run
elevators and for many other purposes;
still we have scarcely seen the begin
ning of electrical development. Al
ready, however, the capital invested in
all branches of this industry and
nearly all invested since 1680 is es
timated at $30,000,000. Engineering
Magazine-
Ullllll AM. OtJ
CAPTAIN KIDD.
TKXJE U1STORV OF THE NOTOE
lOUS PRIVATEER.
Employed by a Syndicate to Sail
Against the French and Pirates
- His Treasure Chest Seized
Ills Arts and Trial.
W
T"i J 1LLIAM KIDD was born
Scotland and married
Sarah Wort, of Xew York.
Several men of London,
Eneland. subscribed money, formed a
joint stock company, bought the Ad- .
A 11 l.AW viiK timnur '
armament, and provisioned her at a
cost of $3000. They employed Mr.
Kidd as commander, and furnished him
with a commission to act against the
French and pirates, or, in other words,
els a privateer. The king was to re
ceive one-tenth of whatever the vessel
brought home.
On the way down from London his
vessel was boarded by an impressment
:rew, his crew taken, and he had to
;o ashore and secure such seamen as he
;ould who were well fitted to act as
privateersmen. He sailed, and after
beinsr absent a vear it becan to be
talked that his acts savored of piracy.
When his voyages in the Indian Oceun
irere finished he set sail r.ad appeared
ii the Sound of XV. York and set
;oods on shoro nt several places. He
established himself at Gardiner's Island,
near tho Long Island shore, and sent
wcrd to Lord Belmont at Boston, by a
man named Emmot, thnt he had with
him ten thousand dollars worth of
goods, and had left the Quedah Mer
chant at Hispaniola in a creek there
with a valuablo curgo ; that he would
prove his innocence of what he had
been charged with. The letters of
Kidd and statements of Emmot and
two French passes were placed by Bel
mont before his Majesty's Council, who
at the same time describes Kidd's mes
senger as "a cunning Jacobite, a fast
friend of Fletcher's, and my avowed
snemy." With their consent, and in
their presence, he furnished Mr. Kidd
a "safe conduct." Captain Kidd re
lied on this, and came to Bo; ton with
his wife and took lodging at Duncan
Campbell's, tho most luxurious house
of entertainment in Boston, w here he
remained several days.
On July 3, 1699, he was summoned
Before his Excellency and Council to
ive an acconnt of his proceedings in
his late voyage to Madagascar. After
Captain Kidd had given a summary ac
count of his doings, of tho cargo on
tho sloop now in port and also on
board the vessels left at Hispaniola,
they required of him to give a detailed
account of his voyages, captures, etc.
Captain Kidd found that the safe con
duct which they issued was merely in
tt nded to induce him to come to Bos
ton, where he would be deprived of his
liberty. He did not make any further,
statement, and the Council ordered his
arrest and imprisonment, seized his
treasure chest at Gardiner's Island and
took everything that his wifo had.
The treasure chest contained quite a
variety of articles, and the following is
r, list of its contents :
No. 1, one bag ol cold dust. 63Ji ouueee.
No. 2, one bag of coined gold. 11 ounces
onetmg ol coined gold. 124 ounces.
No. 3, one bag of sold dust. 24j' ounces.
No. 4. one buff of silver rims. 4T ounce.-.
No. 5, one bag of precious stones, 12,'f
ounces.
No. 6, one bag Of unpolished preciouw
stones.
No. 7, ono bag of pieces ot crystal car
aelian.
No. 8, one bag of silver buttons and lamps.
No. , one Dag ol croten sliver, hj,'
ounces.
No. 10, one bag of gold bars, 353 Y ounces.
II, one Dag oi goia oars, 23fl.'4 ounces.
No. 12, one bag of gold dust. &3h ounces.
No. 13, one bag of silver, SO'J ounces.
The Earl of Belmont was evidently
unxious to get possession of the ship
and treasure, and preferred negotia
tion to immediate hostile measures.
Mr. Kidd seemed to have been willing
to surrender ship and treasure, but
wished in doing so to have, an insur
ance or guarantee of his own protec
tion. Captain Kidd requested that ht
should be taken as a prisoner to His
paniola to bring back the Quedah
Merchant. Belmont refused.
To thit,
refusal of Belmont we aro indebted to
the fact that no man knows where that: 0i"uu W) lu.uuu Amerit.in, niicn, ac
treosure is to-dav. It is the treasure ' cording to the ratio of weights (4 tc
in search of which tho whole coast o: I ), they should take In 14,000 biles.
New England has been visited. The Consider this In the figuring of ex
law officers and those of the Council penses, where $3, 94, 95, etc., Is
who were known as legal gentlemen j paid per cubic yard for ocean freights. "
decided and argued that there was no c 1K1 . ,CIK,0 daddi-itc
authority .to send him to England. MONEY IN RAISING PARROTS.
Belmont and his Council had an ele- ( mported Birds Are DMlcatr, but wiic
phant on their hands which they did j Trained Fetch nigh Trices,
not care for. Opportunity was al- An industry which invites the ai
lowed for his escape, but he declined jention of enterprising Americans is
the boon. In my possession is a depo- the breeding of parrots. Dr. Stejno'
sition which is the evidence, and also ( ger saysthat it would be entirely
that money was ready for him. The. practical to propagate and rear them
authorities here retained those papers , in hothouses. The best talker!
which he acted under, and sent him to among these birds, according to the
England for trial. Mrs. Kidd's jewels, j Washington Star, are the gray Arri-
silver tankard, a silver mug, silver can variety, with the red tall. They
porringer, spoons and forks were re-! are very delicate and make risky
turned to her, with other pieces of stock for the Importer. If one par
plate and two hundred and sixty pieces rot In an invoice dies, all of them
of eight. may be expected to succumb almost
In England he was confined closely Immediately. It Is suspected that
in prison two years and permitted no the water in this country does not
eounsel. The Government was repre-' agree with them. They are worth
sented by four men. Kidd was tried from $10 to $12 untrained, and when
both for murder and for piracy. The trained they fetch almost any price,
murder which he was supposed to have They come from Liberia and Monro
committed was that of Moor, his gun- via, where they are caught In great
ner, whose death resulted from a blow, ' numbers by the blacks. The latter
given by a water bucket in a fight make a business of catching parrots,
without premeditation. No sentence nd have regular parrot farms In
but that of manslaughter was justified their villages. At the breeding sea
fty the evidence. He was found guilty n the men, women and children
of murder. In the trial for piracy he icatter in the wilderness and rob
was treated with the same injuitice. aests. They wait until the young
He claimed that his commission ire nearly ready to leave the nest,
instified his seizing the Quedah Mer- tnd then they take them. Trading
shant, for he said she wassailing under resseis ouy mem in quantities ana
French pass when he tookher. These :arry them to ports where steamers
passes and other papers were in the in the African trade stop for cargo,
possession of Belmont, and Kidd could Thus they are forwarded to Europe,
not. -oduee them. This case was Us:d The talking powers of a parrot de
outsido of the court bv public hea ring pend to a great extent on its beint'
The verdict rendered decided to let hu
confederates, the joint stock company
and the King, escape public censure.
The severest criticism made upon th
affair was that Belmont, Somers, H all-
fax, and others were guilty if he was.
Nearly all the privateers fitted out at
that time pursued the sam, course. It
co happened that it was for the inter-
est of all parties except Captain Kidd
that he should be the victim, and that
his name and his memcry should be
withcrimesof .aarkest
HOW TO PACK COTTON.
abulmr and Illustrated Cauoas for the
Demand for Foreign Products.
Recent reports from J. C Mona
ihan, United States Consul at Chern
altz. (rive the reason for the demand
for certain j foreign proiuctions.over j
American, as for instance cotton, lie
ays:
; "The packing of American raw
:otton causes a deal of anxiety and
:oniplalnt here. The jute cloth cov-
'tringltls so torn before the bales
JMERICIIC BALE, CO) rCCNDS,
reach Chemnitz that the cotton is
exposed to mud, water, fire, and
theft. Of the original six or eight
Iron bands, two. three, four, and
sometimes more are loose or broken;
the cotton bulges out, takes up dirt
and dust when in a dry place, mud
in the docks, sea water when in the
ships, and rain water when on land,
on wharves, or In transportation by
boat, rail or wagon. In transportev-1
erv irust of wind tears away pieces ol
the valuablo commodity. The cas-
tom-houie floors, wharves, and Treight
IXDIXJI BALE. 400 rOCSDl.
cars are usually covered with pieces
torn or dropped from such bales, and
the danger from Are is great, for cot
ton Ignites easily, and sparks from
cigars or locomotives, fanned by the
winds, even those caused by the
movement of a train or wagon, could
cause not only the burning of Urn
cotton, but of other valuable prop
erty. "Contrasted with tho packing ol
Egyptian and Indian cotton, the
American must be regarded as verj
bad. Both Egyptian and Indian
have close, compact, tough coverings,
are rather long and smooth, and
leave little or none of tho cotton ex
posed. The Indian and Egyptian
bales are so tightly prcs-ed. o well
covered and bound, that injury from
KOTPTI4X BALI, TJ0 rOCNDS.
Ore, water, dirt, dust, etc., is mini
mized. Take this table as to space
occupied by the different bales:
Amcri
Egyptian. Indian, can.
Weight (pounds 700 4"0 47!
Space occupied. icuMi; ft.) 15 10 V.
"The Lloyds, who can pack Into
their vessels' holds lG.O'JO to 18.000
bales of Indian cotton, can take only
Mumuauuau a cauj
This would be one advantage of rear
ing these birds In confinement. Un
3er 6uch conditions also it would be
practicable to vastly Improve the
speaking faculty by mating the best
'fcn W66' ,for KCnlra"0n -
Thus would be produced such feath-
"ed conversationalists as are un-
nown UP, d,ate; " wuld ctaiii -
lCbo Profitable to breed and raise
Lhe 12t? knowa M Carolina parra-
SjiSvSSSS.
vs. rf'V
I very common as far north as Fenn
eylvsnia and Illinois. At present
the few survivors are almost whollj
confined to scattered localities In
Florida and the Indian Territory.
i They have been successfully bred In
iiniri Thn e-teen Australian
'akeets. of the sort used by stroll-
r f..,t0ii1.ri n t.h street, an
inr fortune-tellers on the streets. ar
' among the ea:i?jt 'da to rear.
Facing A Grizzjji !
On their return journey, they heard (
that a bear had been seen in the coun
try to the southwest of the Spillama- !
eheen Valley, and at Snooks's request
they walked in the woods where he was
supposed to be, "keeping touch" with '
each other; for, as 8. remarked, he
couldn't be expected to tackle a bear .
for the first time all by himself. Tom
said he was quite ready to support
him, and all three kept on, giving low J
whistles to assure each other in the
thick brush that help was at hand. j
"lou don t think ho would go for mc
at sight?" Snooks had nervously asked.
"No; he'll go for us first, and keep
you for dessert," Scott had encourag
ingly replied.
The little man became confident ai
time went on and nothing appeared.
They had come to a great piece oi j
fallen timber. The side branches '
stretched upward and all about at right
angles to the huge trunk. Snooks j
mounted ono to get on to the main I
stem cs it lay proetrate. He was going !
to swing himself down on the other
side, when lo ! m iront of him arose :i
vast brown pillar, aa it seemed to him,
with two big arms, tm', with a faint
cry, ftnooKs aroppeu dsck among ine
branches on the side of tho tree remote
from the bear for bear it was, and t
huge one and crouched, breathlese,
' his heart thumping in his throat and
i his limbs perfectly nerveless. The
bear had only a brief vision of the in
truder, and apparently concluded
' Snooks must be a bad dream, for he
! grunted, lowered himself, and took no
i further notice as far as Snooks could
learn, for he heard nothing, saw noth
ing, and felt only an intense desire to
shout, btit could not. But the bear
thought it might bo worth while to see
' what had becomo of his bad dream,
which had left a suspicious odor be
hind it. So he slowly raised himseli
again, and got up upon tho fallen tree
trunk. This made him visiblo to Tom,
who raised his rifle and fired. With a
noise something between a hiss and a
grunt and a groan, the bear jumped
down almost on the top of poor Snooks,
but did not touch him, and "went for':
Tom "at sight." Tom tried to shin up
a sma'l tree, leaving his rifle below ;
for ho had no time, as he thought, to
filing it round him. But the bear wnt
too quick for him, and clawed his
legging, T.'s foot escaping claws and
teeth. At this inutunt the hero of the
day, in the shape of Scott, came up,
fired, and the bear fell, tearing down
Tom. Anothor moment and he had
given him a nasty munch in the side,
but again his jacket saved Tom ; Scott
fired once more, and followed the shot
tip by driving a long knife into tht
rrizz-'s heart. It was most ealhintlv
. cud cleverly done, aud the thanks ol j
; both the young men were very earnestly
expressed. But it was a narrow shave,
' and, as Snooks observed, "might have
been much worse hail not he (Snooks)
insisted on their keeping together."
Marquess of Lome, in Harrtcr's Weekly.
The Marked Coin Returns.
"Here's old eighty-four, again," said
a clerk in a Ninth street grocery store
to tho Washington Nows man, as ho
twirled a silwL- quarter down thf
counter toward the proprietor.
The latter picked up the piece nuJ
examined it with a smile of pleasure.
"Been away a long time, this load
of poles, hasn't it ?" he inquired, as hf
tossed it into the drawer.
I usked an explanation of the
peculiar colloquy.
"Do you know that fractional cur
rency is local in its circulation?" said
tho merchant. "I mean that small
coins do not get outiiiuo of n certain
neighborhood. "
"Explain what yon mean," I sug
gested. "Why, can't you understand? This
quarter, for instance, has been taken
in and paid out over my counter, I
venture to say, 500 times. I marked
it live years ago, and no matter how
r.iany times I gave it to customers iu
fhauge, it invariably returns. Now
you know what I mean. Fractional
currency circulates within certain pro
scribed limits, I believe. It seldom
gets entirely away from the immediate
peighborhood in which it first becomes
u medium of exchange. It's funny, I
know, but it's true, for I have tested it
and proved it, time and again. Thn
quarter we just took in is only one of
the very regular coins that come and
vro all the time."
The Panama Silk Tree.
Ono of the greatest curiositits of tha
Panama Isthmus is the vegetable silk
tree. It is a plont that grows from
fifteen to twenty feet high and in aj
penrance does not differ greatly from
other trees, but the inner bar is a
perfect silky fiber, long, smooth and'
strong. Tho natives separated it by
some method best known to them
selves, tho process somewhat re
sembling that of beating flax. When
once it is separated and spun into
threads, it can be woven into a fabric
so closely resembling silk thnt it is
difficult for any one not familior with
it to distinguish between the two. This
species of silk goods is in high favor on
the isthmus, and a Colombian belle is
never happier than when she is arrayed
in a gayly colored dress made from tho
trees in her father's yard. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Same the World Over.
Moxy Gad! I wonder what the
poor Icelander does when he comes
home from the club after a six
months' evening poker party? Mrs.
Moxcy Probably the same thing he
says here "my dear, it's very early!"
New York World.
! -
! .
, M.ss -Willing (meaninely)Do you
, know they are talking of putting a
. tax on old bachelors? Mr. Lender
(more meaningiy)-They wou,d raise
more revenue if they'd tax all the
JL HAPPY PHILOSOPHER
Borne folks, they're complainin
Because it ain't rain In',
An' some 'cause the weather is dry ;
But I kinder content mo
With all that is sent me.
An' don't go to asldn' "em "why."
There's lots o' good fun in
The world the Lord's runnin",
Though it's sometimes a song an' a s'g1! i
But when troubles are rilin'
I jes' keep a smilin'
An' don't go to askin' 'em "why."
Jes hear the birds singin'
When death-bells are ringin'
In' thrillin' the world an' the sky '
They'll sing 80 while hence
When I'm in the silence
But don't go to :i3kia cm "why."
If life has one flower
One beautiful hour,
One somg that conies after a sigh,
For me there'll bo fun in
The world tho Lord's runnin'
An' I won't go to askin' him '"why !"
Atlanta Constitution
IIUJI0K OF THE DAY.
Long may it wave The ocean.-
Truth.
Nothing less than a strike arouses
bass drum to action. Detroit Free
ress.
Let il bo understood that there are
popular facts as well ns popular fal-
lacies. Truth.
T'm feeling dead rocky," as the ,
petrified fish remarked to itself. Har
vard Lampoon.
Love is frequently satisfied with
quantity ; but friendship demands
quality. Puck.
A girl's conversation must appeal
dowery when she "talks through her
hat." Statesman.
A man may itch for office, but it is
;he voter's right to do the scratching.
iSoston Courier.
"I'm in a pretty pickle," as the fly
said when he fell into n jar of red cab
bage." Texas Sittings.
The only bright spot left by some
aicn is tho scoured place on the chair.
Cleveland Plain Denier.
Sh.ce the introduction of electricity
;he street car horse has been gradually
losing his pull. Buffalo Courier.
There is something wrong with tht
nan's head who falls down on the same
banana skin twice. Barn's Horn.
Thy can dislnfoct and quarantine,
And work as hard us a beavftr
To make the country sweet and clean.
Bat they can't kep out spring fever.
Kansas City Journal.
In the summer perhaps we can turn
the big postage stamps wrong side up
and use them for fly paper. Washing
ton Star.
When a crate of crockery falk
through an elevator shaft it's a , little
the worse for tho vne. Binghamtoi
Leader.
They make tho man in charge of s.
team fog signal do considerable whis
ding for his pay before ho gt-ts it.
LJuffulo Courier.
'-'It's a wise monarch," said the mau
vho abdicated a precarious throne,
"who knows enough to camo in out of
the reign." Washington Star.
"it's pretty hard on a man of mj
.go to have to depend on his looks,"
(aid the astronomer as he put his eye
to the telescope. Washington Star.
Charlie "Why did they bury pool
jilder at night?" Archie "He had no
decent clothes but a dress suit." Tho
Clothiers' and Haberdashers' Weekly.
She "So you're fully determined to
narry her, aro you?" He "Abso
.utely." She "H'ni Don't you ever
feel sorry for her?" Detroit Tribune.
Clara "Did you know that Mrs.
Dangle had gone on a trip to Ber
nuda?" Maude "No. I must call
on her before she gets back." Vogue.
Whenever tho piano censed
There was a ureat furore.
And those who understand it least
Were loudest to encore.
Kansas City Journal.
Mrs. Goodwin "Ton Khuuldn't eat
so many peanuts, Johnny ; you'll be
having dyspepsia." Johnny "Dotho
policemen have dyspepsia, mamma?"
jife.
She "'A poor painter! Why, lit
iays that he is wedded to his art." He
"Perhaps that is the reason, then,
at ho daro3 treat her so budly."
"ruth.
A woman is keeping in a book a list
of things she ought to purchase, but
cannot afford to wear. She Talis tho
hook her ought-to-buy-ogrnphy. New
Vork Clipper.
About tho most discouraging thing
that comes to a man in this life is tha
desire to whip an enemy, coupled with
tho belief that he can't do it. Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Extract From Love Letter : "Shoulf.
rou fad to reciprocate my affection,
then please return this letti-r, in order
that I may use it on another occasion."
Fliegendo Blactter.
Customer "What's the price ol
four tallow candles?" Dealer '"Five
cents apiece; fifty cents a dozen."
Customer "Well, let mo havo a
twelfth of a dozen."
"I don't know which is worst,'
anguidly remarked the European
monarch as ho read of another attempt
on his life, ' my people s disloyalty or
their marksmanship." Washington
Uar.
Miss Elder ''I think it was res.
ncuu in you to tell Mr. Spatts I was
twenty-eight years old. " Miss Fosdick
"Why, you surely didn't want me
0 tell him how old you really were?"
Vogue.
Little Beth (in tha country)
'Grandpapa, you mu.st have to keep an
swful lot of policemen out here.'
Grandpa "Why. Beth?" Beth "Oh,
here's such a lot of grass to keep oft"
L" Chicago Inter-Ocuaiu
Trice of a Horse's Hair Cat.
Three dollars is a good price to paj
tor a huir cut, but that is what it costs
1 horse to have his hair just trimmed.
Three men aro required to do the
vork, one to hold tho horse, another
so run the machine, and a third to do
ihe clipping. It takes a solid ko.ir'a
ork.
It matters not how woolly a hora.
aoks when he gct3 in the clipper's
lands he looks as trim as a racer v,hei
le has been cliooed. Atlanta Journal
News in Brief.
Belgian workmen train rooster to
crow against each other.
The canals of the United States
are 4,408 miles in lenght.
Sciatica most frequently occura bo
tween the ages of 20 and 30.
Evidences of sun worship are found
in the mythology of every land.
The assessed valuation of the
Cnited States is $G5, COO, 000, 000.
Iceland has fewer cases of phthisis
than any other country on the globe.
In the Paris hospitals over 20 pel
aent ol the typhoid cases prove fatal.
Scarlatina is most fatal in London,
where 480 deaths in 10,000 occur from
it.
During the Franco-German wai
ihe French lost 23,493 men from smull
pox.
In England the aristocracy ycarh
spends several million dollars on jew
elry. In 134,50o,000 persons died of tht
plague at Bagdad in less than ninety
days.
The United States army is said tc
aave over 2000 cases of tcury every
year.
In Damascus, drunken men art.
called viotims of "the English dis-
'case."
Qver fifty per cent of the ciscs oi
j :ronp jn Sweden and Norway are
I fatal.
Of every 100 cases of cataract, fifty
our are males and forty-six are fe
males. The oflspring of a siuglo fly in out
lummer, if none are destroyed, may
Dumber 2,800,000.
The first paper ever m.ide in tht
vorld was made by wasps. '1 bey used
it for building nests.
Several large finds of the old tilve.
joins have been recently made near
Bayrenth, in Bavaria.
Over ninety-three million pound.,
if licorice root were imported into this
ountry during the year.
A railway tunnel under tho Kng
ish Channel was projected in ISO'J:
charter refused by Parliament.
The "digue," or breakewater ot
Cherbourg is one of tho boldest en
gineering feats ever performed.
The average weight of ileoccs pre
luced in the United States has doub
led within tho last twenty livo yenrs.
A Parisian lady has been fired Sl(.
ind condemned to pay SI 0 damages to
i lodger for calling him an anarchist.
Swords eqnally as fine as the fa
nous blades of Damascus are manufac
tured in Bhutan, a State in the Hima
layas. Jonathan Halls in 173G made t.
?mall steamboat It failed to work,
but had all the germs of Fulton's later
invention.
At an auction sale in Chicago a few
lays ago an inlaid ivory table, which
;ost $1,000 in China fifteen years ago,
jold for S17.
Cymb3ls"are believed to be among
ihe earliest musical inventions. They
were used iu Egypt at least 4,000 years
before Christ.
Over IGO.000,000, copies oi
.he Bible have been printed in 0j0
different languages and dialects during
this century.
James Watt was an inventor fron.
ihe moment he was intrusted with the
repair of a piece of costly aud intri
cate machinery.
A flag carried in tho war of lHli
s a reiic prized by Mrs. E. C. Blount
of Waynesboro. Ga. Tho flag bears
only fifteen stars.
The germ of tho guitar is found it
die warrior's bow, tho string of which
gave a sonorous twang as the arrow
sped to tho mark.
Cocoanuts and the nuts of the ma
jogany trees are often cast aslioro u
the cost of England, unimpaired by
their long journey.
Alaska is large enough to contain
ireat Britain and Ireland, Germany,
France, Greece, and Switzerland with
some room to spare.
The oldest architectural ruins in tht
world aro believed to bo the rock cut
temples' at Ipsambul, on the loft bank
of the Nile, m Nubia.
The hand-spinning, with npindlt
tnd whorl, is the same the world over
ind indentical with that shown in Egyp
tian paintings 3,500 years old.
A British clergyman's wife has per.
ormed the philological feat of com
piling a grammar and a dictionary of
the Congo dialect of Africin speech.
There is a remarkablo "burning
ipring" in Lincoln County, Kentucky,
which regularly overflows its banks
every afternoon at 4.30 o'clock pre
cisely. Wayncsville.Fulaski County, Mo.,
jas only 150 people, but it is one of
the most intellegent aad b wt read
towns in America, it take i tuirty-nmo
daily newspapers.
A bear weighing 3,10 pounds wo
Aptnred near Mount Fleasant, Mich.
it had a trap weighing twenty-live
pounds attached to one foot. Tho trap
was very old and very rusty.
Indianapolis Ind. health cflicen
lave been ordered by the State Board
x vaccinate all persons who have not
been vaccinated within seven y cais, to
pi event the spread ol smallpox.
The largest oil painting in the world
B one of the Tintoretto, entitled "Para
dise." It is thirty-three aud a half
feet in height and eighty-four f et iu
width, and may now bo seen in the
Uoge s i'alace, Venice.
arge Price for a Cup of Water.'
In May, 1888, an old gentleman
who was in a crowd watching the ar
rival of people to be presented at tho
Queen's drawing room at Buckingham
Palace, London, was overcome by
faintness. Some of the crowd thought
he was drnnk, but Miss Mary Burch,
of Ashford, Kent, saw that ho was ill
nd helped him to a bench in the park.
She sent a boy for a cup of water,
vhich quickly revived the old uuii,
if ho asked for her card. Miss Burch
heard nothing more of the occurrence
until recently, when a London solic
itor informed her that the old gentle
nan had died and left $750,000 to tho
lady who had given him her aid and
rympathy nearly five years before.
xew York Advertiser.
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