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THE WEEKLY.
CONYERS, - GEORGIA.
WRITTEN IX BLOOD.
NetrVmfefPs Letter to ilie Cz:.r-How n
Prisoner Valued a Glimpse ot iLe >ky.
A St. Petersburg dispatch Nihilist journal, of Oct. 22,
says that the new the
Messenger of the Will of the People.
contains a letter from the Nihilist pris¬
oner Netchaieff to the Czar. The origin¬
al letter was written in blood. It says:
“~ir: On taking Commandant charge of the fort¬
ress, the new Ganetsky
addressed liis subordinate officers in the
ravelin on the event of March 13. The
character of the speech, and also the
fact that, it was made in the hall not far
from my cell, showed to me that it was
intended for my ears. And, indeed, I
heard every word of it. But this intimi¬
dation did "not reach its aim. The indi¬
rect threatening of Gen. Ganetsky did not
frighten me. It showed me that, under
the influence of the late events, even the
highest representatives their heads of the
Administration have lost and
feeling of personal dignity. I would not
mind the trick of His Excellency if, for
no fault of mine, he did not aggravate
my lot, which has already exhausted my
endurance.
“The Alexis ravelin is a secret prison.
No supervision is allowed there. The
late Commandant Baron Meidel, used to
restrain to a certain degree, the thievish
Warden Philimonoff. While fulfilling
his hard duty, he did his persona’ not torture cruelty. the
prisoners to gratify speech of Ganetsky,
But after that the
thief Philimonoff took from us the last
crust of bread, order saying impudently Commandant. that
such was the of the
In order to get in favor with the new
Commandant, the officers of the ravelin
have tried their utmost to oppress politi¬
cal prisoners in all possible ways. For
months they have kept me in my cell,
without permitting me to see daylight.
Ganetsky ordered that even the warm¬
ing-holes in my cell should be closed, on
the pretence that I might there get soot
and make ink of it. The upper pane of
my window was clean, and through it I
conld see a part of the sky. It is neo
■essary to experience the horrors of a
long solitary confinement in order to un¬
derstand what relief a prisoner gets from
the sight of passing clouds and sljining
stars. Ganetsky closed that pane. The
two Commandants, six of the chiefs of
gendarmes, and even the chief of the Su¬
preme Commission, Gen. Melikoff, while
visiting me, saw the clean pane and did
not think the State was in danger on ac¬
count of it. [Here the letter was illegi¬
ble.!
“Ten years already I have suffered
here. The further aggravation of my
lot cannot proceed from any political
consideration, but only from the cruelty
of the man to whom you have entrusted
the fortress. General Mezentseff was
my personal enemy. For two years he
kept me in heavy chains, and yet he did
not shut me np out of sight of the sky.
I had another enemy, General Potapoff.
He insulted me in words, and I slapped
his face. Of course he hated me, yet
he did not take revenge. He knew that
to take revenge npon a man who is hound
arms and legs would he an action fit only
for a wild beast., and General Potapoff
was a man anyhow. Genetsky enjoys
the sight of suffering prisoners. Perhaps
he exacts to bring me into and a the state of
despair in order to madness, see tears and to listen pas¬
sion of helpless
to insane shouts of rage from me like
those I hear from a neighboring cell,
where a comrade at the end of a long
confinement has become a lunatic. Oh,
no. I will not treat Ganetsky to such a
pleasure. I hope he will preserve even
a hundreth part of the calm and self
control I possess when he shall be car¬
ried to n scaffold.
“In 1R75 the Government requested
me to express my views on the state of
affairs in Russia. Tn mv memorial sent
to your late father I explained that the
time of absolute power was gone, that
the unlimited monarchy was undermined,
and that, a liberal Constitution might
yet saw Russia from the horrors of revo¬
lution T insisted upon the need of lib¬
eral institutions which, and which only,
con'd stop the scries of daring attempts.
I said then thnt in few years even a
Constitution v onld be too late. Snlose
qnent events have justified mv views.
The reaction which set. in after the catas¬
trophe of March 13 was a matter of
cour-*\ It was in the nature of things.
But, lieing carried too far. even the re¬
action will bring about qniteunexpected relief from
results. I do not. expect any
the new administration. I shall not be
anri ri*ed if mv lot. becomes still harder
on ecount of (lie present letter. Louis
XV f. realized I lie horrors to which the
prisoners of tbe Hostile were subjected
onlv when he became himself a political
prisoner. Sfroe Nktchaifff.
“I write this with my nail in my
blood. K. N."
In Decern I >er, 1882. Netchaieff w
tortured by the Warden, and soor after
was found dead. '
A Stow ny. j’.
The body of a young man, apparently
Alxmt 20 years of - ge, a stranger both to
the crew and the passengers, was din¬
ed rn 1 lie* bold of the steamer Pro
,-or Woermann, of Hamburg, ns the
.lore wt-re unloading her Popo, on the 29th
. July last, near Little The body on the
western coast ot Africa. was
found completely blocked in by huge
bales njKin bales of merchandise, and
otlier heavy goods, sufficient space,
however, having lieen left for the unfor¬
tunate man to breathe, and even to
move al-ont a little. It was supposed
that ho had contrived to ensconce him
self here when the vessel was about to
sail Irani Hamburg, being under the im¬
pression thnt her destination was Kng
land, and that he would therefore be re¬
leased before, the food with which he had
provided bin-self would l>e * xh misted.
By liis side was the bone of a leg of
mutton, of which he Lad dev- urod si)
tbe flesh. He had also found means of
breaking op; n a case of Hollands, and
had e mptied two bottles. His provisions
having been consumed, and there being
no means of escape, or even of making
hif piesenec known, the unhappy stow¬
away hod appart tly died a lingering
death from exhaustion.
LIKE A LITTLE LIBERIA
A COLONY OP COLORED PEOPLE JN
TI1E METROPOLIS.
Thrifty and Iiidu*triou* -and if» only Saloon
kept by a White Man-The Grades of
its .Society.
In a large city like New York, says
(be New York Times, it is customary
tor tbe lower classes of each foreign
race to dwell together in some particular
portion of the town. In the principal
American cities the colored people follow
(his rule. More persons of that race are
to he seen on Thompson and Bleecker
streets and on Sixth avenue than in any
other parts of New York. But the lo¬
cality which is most thoroughly given
up to citizens of African descent here
consists of the three little thoroughfares
which are mentioned in the Street
Directory as Minetta-street, Minetta
lane, and Minetta-place, respectively.
This locality which may properly he
called Minetta, is a very peculiar place, one. it
Though an extremely quiet
links three busy thoroughfares, in which
the street car bells keep up an unceasing
jingle. Minetta-street begins at Bleecker
street opposite the Universalist Church,
and, turning at a slight angle about Minetta- half
way uj> its length, empties into
lane, which runs from the foot of Sixth
avenue to No. 124 Macdougal street.
The street and lane form a figure T,
which, owing to the angle in the former,
is a little shaky about the knees. The
length of the street is about equal to
that of the average block, while the lane
is considerably shorter. A short open
passage leads from Minetta-street, near
its head, to Minetta-place, which runs
parallel to the street, and is of miniature
proportii Minetta ns. is old-fashioned lo¬
a very
cality. The inhabitants have kept it in
nearly the tame condition as they found
it a number of years ago. The most
notable exception to the rulo is a five
story apartment house of fashionable
build, which overlooks the rest of
Minetta. Here dwell the aristocracy of
the colony. But few white people live
within the limits of Minetta, and they
quite properly look upon themselves as
belonging to an alien race. They con¬
sequently feel obliged to submit to the
domination of the more powerful na¬
tives. On a when
the pavements swarm with dusky
skinned children at play, the white-faced
little ones are obliged to keep their dis¬
tance, and when allowed to join in the
sport they must subject themselves *o
the discriminative rules laid down by
the young lords of Minetta, Some of
the young colored lads are provided
with bicycles, out of the way of which
it behooves the white child to keep it¬
self. Many of the youngsters are well
dressed, and their clothes appear to have
been mado for them. While occupied
in manly sports they appear skin to advan¬
tage. The dark hues of their make
the colorless faces of their humble white
companions appear Many by contrast maidens tallowy
and half-baked. of the
of Minetta are comely, even if they can
not be truthfully spoken of rule as bloom¬
ing. The men appear as a quite re¬
spectable. Very few negro loafers have
homes in Minetta. The women are in¬
dustrious. Many who have time to
spare after attending to their domestic
duties earn considerable sums by taking Some
in washing or going out to work.
are cooks in restaurants, while their hus¬
bands are waiters, mechanics, washers
in white, or laborers. Near the head of
Minetta street is a neat, one-story gro¬
cery store, which is kept by a colored
mail. There is but one bar-room to be
found in Minetta, and this is a small one
and difficult of access. To the credit of
the neighborhood, be it said that this is
not kept by a colored man.
On pleasant d .ys the windows of the
neighborhood are full of dark f«o< s, or¬
namented with white teeth and bright
eyes. In cold weather, happy little
“coons” flatten their noses against tlx
well-cleaned window panes. Old women
who have once been slaves and still
cover their heads with bandana handker¬
chiefs are frequently seen at the win¬
dows. The wild whoop of the licen-ed
vend r will bring them to tliedoors by tin
score. Even among the best people o‘
Minetta the prejudice against poor foi •
eigners is very strong. The most ue
complisbed colored lady will not besifafi
to leave her door and scold like a fish
woman at the slovenly Italian garbagt •
hunter who has the hardihood to dose
crate her ash-barre» with his loatliaom
hook. No hawker of razors would dm
to enter the precincts of Minetta and to
his presence remind the ordinarily quite
matron of the weakness of the color--:
man for secreting a razor in liis boot a
a weapon of defense. Old-fashion
cellar floors, openi g on to the highw
abound along the str- et and lane. O!o
fashioned stoops rise from one aide <
the houses, instead of from th“ ,l ''.
leaving the approach to the basement
open. Old-foe’ ' hi knockers still hang
on many <>*’ Moors. Their marks
still on others, ahhough long low,
^nice removed. The houses arc
many being not more tLan two storks
arc ar<
generally quite neat, but many of tin
backs are rather shabby and are of wood.
Lines ran out from the rear windows in
•til directions, and on these art- dried
the clothes which are brought there from
all portions of the city to be cleansed.
Even this little Libelia has its aristo¬
cratic and its low quarters. Minetta
place may be described as the Fifth ave¬
nue of the colony, while the lane is the
Bowery. Minetta place is very neat.
The houses are of brick, with green
blinds and clean steps. The walk in
front of them is kept scrupulously place neat.
Among the luxuries of the are a
pump and a lamp-post. A neatly
painted wooden fouee hides tho yards in
the rear of the houses which front on
Minetta street. But the view from the
windows of the place is spoiled by the
-hobby, in printed backs of the opt ositv
houses and tin- long, heavily-loaded line*
from which float hundreds of drying
patrician undergarments. These look
clean, but the fact that they are so
-ptiilv exposed gives the scene a houses vulgar
iir. The contrast lie tween tho
fronting on the place and those belong
tig to tlie street is v- vv striking. Mi
uetta street is much more respectable in
appearance than the lane. The latter
a cheap look. Two or three rather
uninviting-looking courts run out from
it. One of these is so crowded with
clothes-lines that it is almost impossible
to see the sky from the ground. Signs
in front of tho doors are quite common
in the lane. One of them reads: “Mrs.
Anthony, Washing and Ironing, Going
out to Day’s Work.” Another is as fol¬
lows: “Fashionable Dress and Cloak
Maker. Ladies’ Suits Made Over Equal
to New.” Another announces the fact
that “Cheap Dress-making and Famiiy
Sewing” is done inside At the entrance
of a basement is the sign: “Mason-work
and Plastering Done,” with a slate over
it for orders. “Lodging for Gentlemen”
is on another sign. Other signs devoted an
nonnee that artists who have
themselves to cl limn cy - s wee pii u g and
whitewashing respectively are to lie
found within.
Minetta has the appearance of having
been a suburb many years before the
surrounding streets were built up. The
houses have an ancient look and their
architecture is that of a past generation. doubtless
Its former inhabitants were
driven from their quiet retreat by the
advance of business, the buildings of
which sprang up around them on all
sides. Something of an ancient air of
respectability still seems to linger there,
and it is still comparatively free from
the bustle which surrounds it. A few
steps will suffice to take one of its in¬
habitants from his home to he noisy
outside world.
The Opium Curse.
The latest case of the terrible work of
opium that is, the most notable that has
come to light recently, is that of a mid¬
dle aged woman who, born iu affluence,
wealtn and refinement, becomes a slave
to the opium demon, and sinks in the
lowest walks of life. The woman went
from a home in the State of New York,
with her two children, to Denver, Co!.
When she had arrived in that city a year
ago she had forty thousand dollars in
money, many valuable diamonds and a
large number of rich and costly dresses.
She took rooms at tho Windsor Hotel,
the most fashionable and costly- in the
city, and soon began to indulge her
false and unnatural appetite for opium.
She went from tho Windsor lower and
lower for her place of living until now
her money and jewels are all gone, her
honor fled and she and her little ones,
for whose sake a natural mothers’ heart
would have kept her irom her degrada¬
tion, are objects of charity. The case
iu all its details is indeed one that ex¬
cites sympathy as the woman ia the
daughter of a prominent army officer
and has been sent by the \Voxnau’a
Humane Society to her fathers’ home.
She could not be trusted with a cent of
money or be sent alone, so great was her
determination to get the drug which
had wrought her ruin as she would
pawn anything and everything to her ob¬
tain it, so a lady was sent east with
to see that she and her children were
again in the keeping olher relatives and
friends. A movement to abofish the im¬
portation of opium should be inaugu¬
rated and a severe punishment inflicted
on those who deni in tho drug for other
than medicinal purposes. Tms drug is
on tho list of secret sins, it is taken on
the sly at first, but in a sfiort time it
gets a fiold on its victim only to expose
and degrade. For tills, if tor no beside other
reason it is worse than tvnisky, and
that it leaves its mark on the children of
its victims and brings into the world a
class of physically and menially weak
human beings. There is no argument
iu favor ot, but thousands ol reasons
against tho use ot opium and tne strict¬
est legislation with tho severest punish¬
ments should be promulgated against it,
How Soldiers are Swindled.
CLAIM AGENTS EXACTING FEES FOR WORK
THAT IS NEVER DONE.
Judge Ferris, the Second Auditor of
flic Treasury, has submitted to tho
Secretary his annual report, in which he
say 8 that on July 1, 1882, he had 38,440
accounts and claims on hand; that27,-
592 wore received during the fiscal year
1883, that 24.104 were disposed of, leav¬
ing 41,928 unsettled on June 80. The
net amount drawn from the Treasury in
payment of claims and in advances to dis¬
bursing officers was $23,878,043.49. The
Auditor states at some length the condi¬
tion of the public business intrusted to
liis charge and asks for fifty additional
clerks to enable him to dispose of ac¬
cumulated work, there being more un¬
settled claims on hand than at any time
since 1872.
Judge Ferris says that not one in
twenty of all the pending claims w r as
filed npon the suggestion or by the
voluntary adion of the claimant. The
ordinaiy causes th t establish the rela¬
tion of attorney and client do not exist.
The attorney seeks the client. An agent
is employed to solicit business in a "cer¬
tain sect, on and liis advent is announced
by advertist meut. He is armed with
blanks ready to be filled np, and repre¬
sents to the uni formed, more generally
the colored soldiers or tlieir heirs, that
they have not been paid ail that is justly
due them ; that some new law or new
construction of existing law entitles
them to more bounty or further pay. A
small fee in advance is required, general¬
ly $2 or $3 sometimes more, in fact all
that can he got, with the promise that
no more will he demanded mile s the
claim lio allowed. The teo is paid, the
application filled, and thing in theend rejected.
It is a very common to receive in
claims. one package fifty or a hundred such
The att rney rarely looks after
tin m. as it does not pay. lie lias re¬
ceived his lit tie advance fee and it, pays
better to hunt up more victims.
Judge Ferris says that another class of
ourworthiess clnrus is constant)',' increas¬
ing—claims for bounties already paid—
and renews his former recommendation
for the passage ot a law of limitation.
A Warm Reception. —Two Mormon
missionaries recently presented them¬
selves at the door of Farmer de Armoud
iti Franklin County, Indiana, told and asked
to stay over night. He them they
conld not Vie entertained. They insisted
hi rein a mug. He went out to the barn
ami brought in a corn-knife. “If yon
day I’ll cut your beads off,” said he,
riiey left .—Kt ntucky Journal.
A Muskfgon young man has married
liis aunt. Now let some paragraph' rbe
in calling the man uncle to liimself,
brother-in-law to bis own mother, and
son i*-l aw to his own grandmother.
IF.
If you your lips
Would keep from slips,
Five things observe with care;
Of whom you speak,
To whom you speak,
And how, and when, and where.
If you your ears
Would save from jeers,
These things keep meekly hid;
Myseif and I.
And mine and my,
And how I do or did.
— Christian Advocate.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Our content is our best having.
Keep potatoes in a cool, dark place.
Apples keep best oil shelves.
Lesion-juice will usually remove mil¬
dew; place the fabric in the sun.
A handsome woman pleases the eye.
but a good woman charms the heart.
Stay not until you are told of oppor¬
tunities to do good; inquire after them.
Love without esteem eaunot reach far,
nor rise very high; it is an angel with
but one wing.
“Yes,” said the merchant, “I’m in a
great hurry. I’ve got to go and wait an
hour in a barber’s shop.”
A Little Rock man found a cake of
soap and nobody for days carried it as a curi¬
osity, as could tell what it was.
“It’s a weigh I have,” remarked the
butcher as he let his hand rest on the
scales while weighing the meat.
He whose first emotion, on the view
of an excellent production, is to under¬
value it, will never have one of his own
to show.
“The dog has queer taste in matters
of dress; he wears his pants in his
mouth.” Yes, and the man’s pants, too,
sometimes.
It is said that a hot shovel held over
furniture removes white spots. It will
also remove young gentlemen callers
when they stay too late.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill
manners as flattery. If you flatter all
the company, you please none. If you
flatter only one or two, you affront the
rest.
When you ask the old gentleman how
his daughter is coming on, and he iras¬
cibly snaps back at you, ‘' V\ ell enough,
take our advice and let well enough
alone.
Profane swearing is a voluntary sin.
Most erring people, when they do wrong,
count upon some good to be derived
from tlieir conduct, but for profanity
there is no excuse.
Old Gent— “Ah, MrB. B., did you
keep a diary during your visit to
the country ?” Mrs. B., indignantly—
“No, sir, I didn’t. The family bought
milk from the neighbors. ”
At the roadmaster’s office a few days
since a report of material used was re¬
ceived wi h this indorsement: “Charge
to Mrs. Lane’s account. ” Investigation
roved that miscellaneous account was
tended.
Pat was quite right when he said th t
it is a great blessing that night never
omes on in the middle of the day to in¬
terfere - ith an honest man’s work, but
always when the day’s work is over and
fellow is all tired out
Howells and Mark Twain are to com¬
bine and write a book on American
humor. We shall get out of the busi¬
ness right away, while we are yet safe.
American humor won’t stand much more
writing about. r—Lowell Citizen.
“Handsome is that handsome does,”
quoted a Madison avenue man to his
wife. “Yes,” replied she, iu winning
tones. “For instance, the man who is
always ready to hand some money to his
wife for fall clothes.” She won.
It must be admitted—and tbe fact is
greatly to Coleridge our credit—that Lord Chief
Justice is being lionized al¬
most as much in this country as the
English prize fighters and pedestrians
who preceded him .—Norristown Her¬
ald. t
A Little Coal Mine, —DickLuke is
the owner of a whole coal mine in
Michigan, and yet ho is not much of a
capitalist, for it is a very small prop¬
erty. He personally works the only tun¬
nel, into which he crawls in the morn¬
ing, to before get night. out an average of a ton of
coal
Writing Under Difficulties.
Wilkie Collins writes most of his
Aoveis wild ilia own Land, nut now and
Uien lkeumuuc fcoul goes Inin suoU
pain linil so uau-ot neia a pen, and men
at) i in ploys unamaLUeLsus. Aire greater
part ea “ilie lUiAiaoiune Was metaled,
unu lVir. (JoliLio s-o a H is tlie only one
of ms Wwills wnieii lie Uaa not read.
The recollection ol Hie agony hesuneled
wliile ihoiatiug ii vitlei’o mm. “P ur a
long time, wmie tuai Dvok w as Willing,’
he aa^s, ‘I hau lue ulmuol mlkeuny in
getting an aniaLUencio who numu go oil
witu Lis Worn, vvituout Intel rap ting mm
seif to Kympauiize WiiU me. T aui
much like a heast in many w.»ys—if I
am in pain, 1 must huwi; and, ao I lay
in the ned iu tuo cornel yonucr, I wouid
otten bleak lurlu in a yml of anguish.
T'neU my amanuensis w ould urge me to
'compose my sod and not to write any
more. Between lUe paragraphs i woUid
go along nicely enuugu, Having in my
mind just wUat 1 Wanted Vo say, and
tUeseinterruptions wouid drive me mad.
Finally a young gut, not more than
seventeen, ottered to Ueip me, and I
consented that she shouiu, in case she
was sure she could let me howl and cry
out in my pain wmie she kept her place
at the table. bhe did it, loo, and ’luo
Moonstone’ finally came to an end.
But I never read it—nover.”
Planting Fruit Tkeis. — Sufficient
ccs been said on autumn planting in for¬
mer months. How long it may be eon
tinnod Wherever will depend soil is iu npon the season.
the good condition
trees may still be planted, but by no
means should they be set if the ground
is partly frozen and unfit to comein con¬
tact with the roots. In such condition
of the soil it will be better to heel-in the
trees until spring.
Postal. —'l'he estimated postal reve¬
nue for the next fiscal year is $47.1< 4
078, and the expenditure $50,062,189,
a of $2,958,111.
JOHNSON, THE PACER.
Only 82,000 Commissi on for a Ilorf
Sale.
[From the Denver Tribune.]
Some men are unfitted by nature to be
the owner of a fast horse, and Mr.
Mather, who recently sold the pacei
Johnson to Commodore Kittson, is one
of them. Mr. Mather is a banker of
Berlin, Wis., and discovered the now
famous pacer in that sylvan nook some
three years ago. At that time Mr.
Mather was the owner of a pair of gray
driving horses, whose speed he rated at
about a mile in three minutes. It was
while driving road these moderately day rapid
steeds up tbe one that he first
saw Johnson. The owner of the pacer,
a man of moderate means, conveyed to
Mr. Mather the information that the bay
gelding could go along pretty well, and
suggested that the would ownership of a half
interest in him be a good thing,
even for a banker. Mr. Mather, judg¬
ing everything in the way of horse flesh
from the standard of the gray team, told
his neighbor to start (Mather) up the road with
the pacer while he kept along¬
side with the grays, and noted how the
horse went. It is hardly necessary to
say that Mr. Mather viewed the per¬
formance from a considerable distance
in the rear, but this fact so impressed
him that he became a half owner in the
pacer, paying less than $500 for his
share of the animal. Later he secured
the other half, and in the summer of
1882 found himself the owner of a horse
that could go a mile in about 2:15.
Last spring the animal was placed in
Peter Johnston’s hands for training, and
soon after that Mr. E. H. Smith secured
a controlling half in the horse for $5,000.
When the trotters and pacers began op¬
erations in Michigan, Mr. Mather con¬
cluded to go across the lake and see how
his horse would perform. He reached
Detroit in time to see Johnson win his
race with ease. At the Chicago races
Mr. Mather again had the pleasure of
beholding Johnson win, and at the end
of the second heat the entire field that
started against bim had been distanced.
Then came a cloud ou the hitherto rose
tinted horizon of Mr. Mather’s turf ex¬
perience. At Pittsburgh the horse was
taken sick. Mr. Smith, the other part¬
ner, wanted to buy or sell. Mr. Mather
reflected—and bought out Smith. At
Chicago, this fall, Johnson paced a mile
in 2:10. In the mean time Mr. Smith
had secured an agreement from Mr.
Mather, which was to the effect that in
case Smith could sell the horse for over
$18,000 the surplus was to be his com¬
mission on the transaction. Kittson Negotiations
with Commodore were opened,
the price of Johnson being placed at
$20,000. These figures were satisfac¬
tory, provided the horse could show
three good heats. He did that, and
then nothing remained but to pay the
money. Dan Woodmansee was the pay¬
master. Mr. Mather suggested that the
entire $20,000 be handed over to him
and he would settle with Smith. Mr.
Smith objected gently, Mr. but Mather firmly. could He
would take $2,000 and
have $18,000. At this juncture Mr.
Mather sought consolation and advice
from John Splan, who was one of the
party. me,” he said, “that I
“It seems to am
paying an awful commission.”
“Does it?” replied Splan. “I think
you are getting off remarkably cheap.
As a rule, when the boys sell a horse for
a man, they just split the amount in two
with the owner.”
“What! Is that really the custom?’
“Certainly. When Rarus was sold
tor $36,000, I got $17,500 for my part.”
Mr. Mather wanted to hear no more,
but went across to the Palmer House
rotunda at a 2:20 gait in order to sign
the bill of sale. After the sale had been
concluded and the draft for tbe money
handed over and vouched for by a bank,
the party again fell to chatting.
“Don’t you think,” said Mr. Smith
to Mr. Mather, “that now you have got
all that money you could afford to buy
me a nice cigar ?” to,” the reply,
“I should like was
“but I have only just time to catch my
train,” and a grab was made for his
satchel.
‘ You’d better look out,” said John
Splan. “Every sand bagger iti Chicago
has been waiting for you lining to get road that
money, and they are now.” t-lie
from here to the depot the money,”
“Oil, l haven’t got re¬
plied Mr. Mather, earnestly. “I put it
all in the bank except $15. Good day,
geiitl- men.”
“Good day,” replied Mr. Smith, “and
God bless you.”
A Little Change.
A wealthy man from the old German
Country of P-imsylvauia said to me,
says Gatli: “You would not th uk that
iu our legion it is hard to get domestic
servants, where we have so many strong,
farm-raised native girls to whom work
is the chief education. Yet it is true,
and I attribute it to the radical change
money lias effected to the real injury of
the well-to-do pi-ople; f -r of what use is
our money if we cannot get reliable
cooks, nurses and maids ? Not many
years ago wc raised the best household
servants in the country and there were
plenty of them at easy wages. Then
wo were not so puffed up with money
and our girls had a pleasant- relation with
the family and when their work was
done would come upstairs and hear what
was being talked about. Now, since
some of us have become rich, they are
no longer invited upstairs and must sit
in tho kitchen, and as they are social
animals they will have tln-ir company.
They say, ‘they don’t care anything
about ns. We owe them nothing.’
And,” said my friend, “it is rapidly com¬
ing down to a s rt of eight or ten hour
law among servants. certain They will get your
breakfast at a hour and stay with
you till evening, and then they are going
np in the village to have recreation.
The fact is,” said my acquaintance,
“that they are Americans like ourselves,
and if we want to draw the live on them
they mean to draw it on n~. There are
disadvantages about dividing our repub¬
lican neoole into two classes.”
A fragment of conversation between
yonng gills: “Do you know what a
preface is? ’ “No, do yon ?_’ “Not ex¬
actly; only I know that it is at the be¬
ginning of books.” “Oh, well; then it
must be the same as when we are courted
before entering on marriage.”
chopping DOWN A TREE.
Description of ,he I’rocess Praciic
as i ,
the Maine W ools.
[From the Boston Transcript. J
knee.® looked before S" P ? ° lle b ^ed
to see
clmed. For this he steps fee back f
distance If he is to m where doubt he he can lifts his its veryIn n iVo?’ si
end of tho helve av f',3 e
suspended. and lets it hang 1
lme by which This he gives him , if ,, f f ? b
of the measures the
ion tree. But it is not
to determine m what direction eno fi
nill fall most readily. It the £
large trees are standing may if therZ be
ot its tailing that right
these the tree will on be lodged. side, and It^ust aeainaf
be and earned herein to consists the one side of the or the off
one mysteries
gieatest ease. Having decided where
lie wants it to go to avoid the risk
edging against other trees, beini of
broken by falling or of
on uneven ground
to have it he so that the logs will’be
aKff.aw&trsj upon the side toward which he will
it fall, and in such h ave
line of the kerf shall a be manner that the
angles tree is to with lie. the If line the tree along standsffrlv w'hicV'the
perpendicular, and has no inclination to
fall as he wishes, the chopper cuts a little
beyond the heart on that side. By do¬
ing this he removes the base when the
tree is ready to fall, and rests upon a
base of hut an inch or two in breadth so
much from the center of the stumn
The effect of this will be very great in
moving the base so that the center of
gravity will fall on the side desired
Though he works in so cramped a pos¬
ture, the chopper cuts the stump so level
and so smooth he thinks his little boy
could spin his top upon it. J
Having undercut the tree with the
greatest care, the woodman now changes
his position a little, but remains on the
same side, rests on his other knee ax’ and
shifts hands, that is, wields the with
the other hand forward. He now cuts
upon the other side, leaving the stump
two or three inches higher according as
lie wishes to gain advantage for the last
few strokes. The work goes on with
little concern until the base is no
thicker than a plank and quite as even
then and the a blow chopper is aimed looks full quickly at the at the center’,
to note the effect. If he perceives top
in the a
tremor trunk, or if a bit of bark
or moss is loosened from its hold, he
knows now every stroke will tell, and he
aims these with the greatest precision.
Soon as ever the top bows to its fall he
marks the direction to which it is mov¬
ing. If he wishes to bring it more to¬
ward him he strikes a blow upon the
further edge; if to carry it further from
him, the blow is given upon the side
that is nearer. These last strokes need
to be given with great nicety. If fee¬
ble, they will fail to effect their purpose;
if ot too great force, the tree will be sev¬
ered from the stump upon that side, and
then all control of it is lost at once, and
it plunges blindly forward. A tall tree
like the pine is broken differently from tlie stump
by a force acting quite from
that which is applied in the case of
shorter trees. In its descent the pine
acquires at its top a centrifugal force so
powerful and as to lift it the forward tree five from the
stump carry or six
feet before it reaches the ground. When
it does come to the earth the top and the
butt strike at the same time, and the
tree lies half buried in the snow.
Beauty and the Beast.
A king had a son named Kusa, who
was beroical y strong, but who, unfor¬
tunately, ugliness, and “possessed face like the that 18 ox signs a lion.” °?
a
In order that the youth might not know
how hideous he was, he was brought mirror up
without ever having standing seen, a water. And or
even the surface of
when he married, he was ordered never
to show himself to his wife in the day¬
time, or by artificial light, lest she
should find that she was wedded
to a monster. After a time, however,
the curiosity of the Tibetan Psyche was
aroused. One night she lighted a lamp
and covered it up with a bowl. When
her husband arrived she lifted the bowl,
and then for the first time she saw that
he had “the eighteen marks of unsight¬
liness and a face like a lion’s jowl, so
she exclaimed: fled
“A demon ! a demon !” and away
to her father’s house. husband
Sorrowfully did her deserted
seek to recover her. Several timr-s he,
unrecognized, won her heart by bis ad¬
dress. But whenever she saw lus lace
she always uttered tho same cry and
fled. At last he displayed ain-h heroic
qualities in fighting against In r fathers
foes, that the Princess thought: excellently
“As this youth Kusa is
endowed with boldness and courage,
wliv should I dislike him ■ and
liking for him, .
So “she took a Ail went
returned to live with him.
well for a time. But at length Kusa
w.-ut down to a pool one day to batne.
Catching sight of the reflection of Ins
face iu the water, he said to himself,
“As I have the 18 signs of nncomelmess
and a face like a lion, and as on that ac¬
count the Princess takes no pleasure m
use, it is needless that such a one and as
should remain alive. I will go pu -
tnvsolf to death.” Thereupon he en¬
tered into a copse and was about to hang
himself, when ludra interfered and pre¬
sented him with a jewel which when
upon his forehead endowed hun
worn After which be
with personal happily beauty. with lus admui.-g ) •
lived considerably d
Tho story has been mythological
torted in "its change from originally a belong^
to a moral tale. It ot li’Gm^
no doubt, to the large described group the 1
legends in which arc generally Div-iie
tunes of a brilliant and nsromeJ *
being, who is forced to
time a sombre or even repulsive ^
mice, and to live on earth, at *
during even the as so day-time, inferior as a a ere 1**^ aS y a
or until last th
nig or a frog, a. usual!] _
which binds him is broken, b ^
consequence of something d °^ -, ,
and the long-degraded husbm^ a
wife, bright and g ‘ ^
<>nmos once more Reviei.
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