THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA
I L. C. HAYNE, Pres';. F. G.FORD, Cashier.
Capital, $250,000.
Undivided fiuillii } $110,000.
, Facilities of our magnificent Kow Vault
containing 410 Safety-Look Boxes. Differ
ent Sizes are offered to our patrons and
the public .at 93.00 to 810.00 per annum.
THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR/1
EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY,. FEBRUARY 7, 1900.
THE
PLANTERS
LOAN AND
SAVINGS
BANK.
AUGUSTA, GA.
Pays Interest
on Deposits.
Accounts
Solicited.
L. C. HATHZ,
President.
TY. G. WABDLAW,
Cashier.
VOL. LXV. NO. f.
xv ipprv WAT.irp.n
THE TRAC
With head bont low and shouldor? stooped,
And slow, home-keeping eyo
Pixed on the rails, a silent shape,
The trnok-walkor goes by.
A five-mile strip ot grimy stones,
Edged with an iron baud.
Is ali his world. June snows that drift
In daisies o'er the lund
He heeds not, nor red autumn flakes
That raslie down the'air
Bali, bolt and bur to keep in place
This is bis only care.
He quits his task three steps before
The rocking tritln shoots past,
Thea stoops, while still the pebbles whirl,
To make a loose bolt lust.
The ruin bid in sudden flood,
mow rust und silent frost
V
j A Shaken J
4 THE ASSISTANCE OF AN EABTHQI
4 -
?BY HARRY :
v aaa/W W W
The cannery cook looked nervously
at his watch. Quarter past eight and
no fruit 1-He stooped to the tank-cock,
aD.i three experimental jets of steam
sputtered up in impatient bubbles
through the cold water. Somewhat
relieved, he shut the valve and glanced
at the clock on the wall. Apparently
it had stopped like the rest of the
works.
"The slowest gang of girls I ever
saw!" he snorted. Dave was a high
pressure boiler, but he frequently let
ott.
A youngish, brown-whiskered man,
in a pink golf shirt, jumped on the
edge of the tank and balanced there
perilously. He was the manager of
, the Califoruia Consolidated company.
Restlessness and vehemence boiled
down, he often raid he paid Dave extra
wages to help him fume. One reason
why the manager managed everything
so well was becanse he knew so well
how to mauage the manager.
"Hang it, D.-.ve!" said he, "the
minute a girl gets to be good for - any
thing, she quits and marries. If I
could keep my best help, life would
be worth living. Come, girls, come!"
It quickened the workers across the
half-partition, this clarion call and the
glimpse of the manager's tense face.
"The boss is gowing cranky," said
a brown-haired girl with rubber glove
fingers on, hurriedly poking a half
apricot through the little round hole
in the top of the can. All the packers
had their fingers protected against the
cruel curve of the tin. White cot:
rags would do.
. "Have you noticed how tho ::<
has duded np lately?" asked
blonde, who sozzled the syrup
the packed cans with the rubber
' hose that came down from tho *
the attic. She was rather state
ambrosial, and reminded one o
on a frieze irrigating her row bf gods
with sweetened water. Tho California
Consolidated had damped a ton of
Bngar into its nectar pots that very
-morning.
"Don't you sabe?" asked another
girl. "Jessie did, pretty pronto."
Spanish adapts itself elegantly to
slang m tho southwest
"Oh, you're locoed!" rejoined Hebe
swishing the nectarious nozzle from
oue little tin god to another with an
elysian disregard of the spill. "The
manager will look above Jessie!" she
added.
"You see!"
Dave had turned the valve again,
and the steam roared into one of the
big tanks. Another hissed and
growled, and the conversation of the
girls was inaudible. The packers had
caught up with the process-room, and
the apricot factory was in full blast.
How deftly the sealer blistered the
yarn of solder around the can tops,
which spun on the revolving disks in
front of him. The metal string ran
down fr .m a coil over his head, tho
whirling can caught it, and the hot
iron tied the knot The other workers
might fall behind, but the sealer could
stand in his track?, hold his hands
over the whirligigs, look pleasant and
keep caught up.
The manager drew a breath of sat
isfaction as he saw the platform of
cans lowered into the hissing bath.
"Give 'em forty-five minutes this
time, Dave," he said, and passed into
the labeling shed.
If there was anything that pleased
the manager more than another it was
bis labeling department; and perhaps
he could not have told whether his
labels or his labeler gave him the more
pleasure. To the eye they were
equally inviting. The cream-and
yellow undertones of the enameled
wrappers appealed to one's imagina
tion; they tasted good. Upon them
the designer had ripened two juicy
apricots, suggesting that the only bite
in the world worth taking came from
the fabulous orchards of California.
:"It's the label and not the stock thut
sells the pack, " the manager would
admit in a confidential moment. The
golden apples of the Hesp?ridos would
have humbugged more people than
they did had there been lithographers
in those days.
Jessie's left hand picked np a glis
tening label and her right seized a can
of fruit; one end of the label flirted
daintily through a little pool of paste
at the end of her bench; the can re
volve)! once and rolled itself into the
wrapper-done! An ugly tin had
turned into a thing of beauty. Jessie
had merely beckoned and it had
jumped into its yellow jacket. Small
wonder was it that the q?hor girls
thought she had beckoned the man
ager into his pink shirt.
He stood for a moment and admired
her. The lines of her fair young face
and blooming figure had not been
hardened by the months she had spent
in the cannery, earning her dollar and
sixty cents a day. "I wonder if I
shall lose her, too!" the manager said
to himself. It would be bard to tell
all that was in his thoughts theo.
Most of the time he was thinking of
the success of the company and the
difficulty of keeping good help. "By
Jove!" he went on, his countenance
lighting up with a business inspira- .
tion, "I'll put her picture on the new
pie label!"
This enthusiastic intention was in
tended as a compliment and perhaps
more. With his absorbing devotion
to the fruit trade and his glory ia the
K-WALKER.
'Tis his to fend; and men ride by
In cushioned ease, at cost
Of his long march and lonely watch,
Nor give a backward thought
To the bent shape and ploddiug feet
Whose toil their safety bought.
Morn ls to him a sentry beat
To tread through sim and rain,
His noon a place to turn and sturt
Back into night again.
A,ceaseless traveler all his days,
New lands he ne'er may roam
in yonder orchard is bis bouse,
Here 'twixt the rails, his home.
Unmounted, un m Used, be dies to find
(The last lone miles all trod)
That whoso walks a railway track
Aright-has walked with God.
iilliam H. Woods, in Youth's Companion.
\ttachment.
JAKE IN A MOMENTOUS DECISION.
E. ANDREWS.
TrTF'VVVVVVVVVV
standing of bia brands, possibly tbe
manager could not have thought of a
happier distinction than having one's
face stamped in green and gold on the
glittering labels of the California Con
solidated No. 1 Pie Apricot. And, in
deed, bas not la diva been flattered
into serving the less gorgeous designs
of tooth-powder aud soap?
There was a little hiss, an audible
fermentation, then a pop and a slam.
A pyramid of cans toppled over and a
splash of yellow lusciousness was
flung upon the manager's golf-shirt.
Jessie wiped a sticky blotch from her
rosy face. A box of freshly labeled
tius was in disgrace?
"Cussed carelessness!" exclaimed
the angry manager. "See here,
Dave!**
.'Sir?"
"Another burst. Can set away
with a leak in it, again. "Why don't
you stop such slovenly work?"
"The mender went over'ern all,"
muttered Dave.
"With his eyes shut," commented
the manager, savagely.
"Accidents will happen," the cook
persisted.
"If there's another in your depart
ment, there'll be a shake-up."
Tho manager's tone closed the con
versation with a sort of bang. It burt
Dave as though his finger had been
caught a.-ainst the door-jamb, and the
worst of the pain was that Jessie had
heard. The manager had not said
anything so very bad if he had not
. .. * r" * - T-Dave wondered
it .\ <> ?*. - -r:r':-\.:?:u fbv .. ..
?.i?;-.' gos -u ttl." k '..*? Huirr. KU?
, ul? shat, lu it; ' --wi ir
?augneu. oes ^ .??giiett, too. The
manager was in his office, seriously
divesting himself of apricot juice and
sugar.
It seemed cooler in the steamy kit
chen, though the mercury was rising.
Through tho open door Dave soon saw
the manager strolling among tbe hur
rying cutters. Some of the girls could
halve the 'cot and flip out the pit with
one quick twist of knife and thumb.
The motion seemed simple, but you
could not understand it at first sight.
"Have 'em look a lit!le sharper
after their sorting, Miss Bnmble!"
the manager called, after a flash of his
quick eye*around the room.
"Ali right, 8ir!"said the "forolady,"
who waa clicking a hole with a ticket
punch in the tag of a fat and wheeziug
cutter, who bad brought her pile of
pits to get credit for having finished a
box of the 'cots. A hole in her tag
was worth six cents to her. "My,
ain't it bot!" she puffed, wiping her
face with ber apron. It was late in
July aud the suu beat remorselessly
on the corrugated-iron roof. The fat
woman wondered why the manager
had not set some eucalyptus-trees
around the works, as she stood in the
doorway for a moment and gu zed
longingly at the mountains half hiddeu
by a gray gauze of dust. "Looks like
a Sauta Ana," said the wheezy one.
"Trays!" sang out a shrill trio of
sopranos in the cutting room.
"Always short of trays! I believe
the boys eat 'em!" growled the man
ager, parsing through to the kitchen
and shaking things up all along the
line. The manager spent more time
in the kitchen than in his office, not
altogether to the gratification of Dave.
The cooking was a critical process;
and then from the back door of the
kitchen the manager could keep one
eye on the labeling. ? Privately, Dave
had expostulated to Hebe that it didn't
do the help any good to eye 'em all
the time; whereat Hebe winked pri
vately and luminously at the sealer.
The last batch of the forenoon had
been put into' cook, and Dave scanned
the water closely to see if a tell-tale
bubble was escaping from a leaky can.
Suddenly the water quivered. Dave
felt a little jar, and heard a crash as
if a tall stack of loaded trays had top
pled over in the cutting-room.
True to his trick, the .manager
leaped up and stood astride a corner
of one of the big tanks, peering across
the half partition, to see what the
mischief
There came a creaking sound. The
building swayed, the partitions heav
ing and the boards grinding against
each other. There was another jar,
as if a freight-shifter had bumped into
the cannery-then a tremeudous
splash, and sprays of water hissed
upon tbe sealer's bot irons.
A second of staring, startling pilen ce
was.followed by a chorus of shrieks
that overwhelmed all things. .After
tho earthquake was over, the girls
had time to be frightened.
"Merciful powers!" yelled the
sealer, "the boss is parboiled!"
For if quivering moment the whole
cannery seemed horror stricken, then
all rushed.for the tank. One woman
fell in a faint, and the others swept
by ber. Dave stood as if paralyzed,
but with a queer look on his face that
was either lunacy or amused self-pos
session. There were sounds of a strug
gle in the tank, but no cry was beard.
With blanched face the sealer
brushed by Dave and reached for the
steam valve.
"No," said Dave,holding bim back,
"that's a cold tank."
The manager Wal clambeiiti? dut,
rejecting courtesies. He was dun?t?j
pale, unreconciled. It was his weak
ness to take himself too seriously. If
nobody else laughs nt him, a man
should jolly himself once in a while.
There was only- one titter, aud it
came from the labeling'Shedi The
manager turned, Cdldred, bit ?li? lip,
hud wfiirig Citt ?is br'owd ?id?-whis-"
keri. T"lie One word of fire" ?'scap?'d
him, and he hurried off, tho piiik shirt
clinging to him like a shiny sticker on
a can.
When the new pie label came out.it
Was decorated with a striking figure
of a motirit?in lion showing his teeth
aud crouching foi ft ?pritig-w'hicli
was at ouce busiuess-Jike and appeti
zing, the manager said to the artist.
"jessie," Dave whispered as they
sat ou the porch one September even
iug, after she had put ou the ring,
would it have been any different if
there hadn't been any 'quake?*'
Jessie- laughed. "Who knows?"
she evaded. Jessie was always rather
elusive; but Dave caught her in his
arms aud took several satisfactory
a .swers.-San Francisco Argonaut.
THE ART OF SNOW SHOEING,
No Man Is Born to It and Only, Faithful
Practice flink?-? Perfect.
When Captain Glenn of our army
was sent with a detachment of soldiera
to carry ont some extensive explora
tions in Alaska, last year, he found
that snow shoes would have to play
au important part in the work. An
incideut occurred one day,that proved
to him it was high time to break in al!
the men who bad not learned the art
of snowshoe travel. The spectacle he
and his party witnessed was amusing
to all except the unfortunate person
who supplied the fun.
lt was before tho party had started
inland. Tho hospital steward was in
structed to cross a certain glacier aud
report to Lieutenant Leamard. It
was necessary to wear snow-shoes as
the weather was not cold enough to
form a crust that would bear tho
weight of a man. So he put on the
togs and Captain Glenn avers in his
report, which the war department has
just published, that no one was ever
seen who was so utterl}* helpless with
such footgear attached to him as this
hospitai steward.
He persisted in sticking the toe of
his shoes into the snow and his error
kept him in trouble. Then about
every third pace he would ?-tep on one
shoe with the other and keel headlong
over into the snow. - lu this situation
he was a mere mass of helplessness
and do what he might, he couldn't
arise till somebody came and boosted
him to his feet. It took him eight
hours to travel two miles and before
be ft A~-!.->.' . - -?
euiuk went torin LUUV tuc tn^.i. ? ?i'i
every other man who bad not pre
viously acquired this knowledge
shonld use snow shoes for a walk of
five miles every day till all were profi
cient.
All Arctic explorers have testified
that snow-shoeing is not easy to learn
and that it is still more diilicu.lt to
master the Norwegian ski.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
At Harborne, England, laborers ex
cavating to widen the road, unearthed
the skeleton of a man with a wooden
stake driven through the breast boue.
The skeleton was evidently that of a
suicide, who, in accordance with the
custom of the old days, had had a
stake driven through his heart and
then been buried at the dead of night
at cross-roads.
An unusual weddiug took place
lately at Phillipsburg, N. Y., when a
couple whose combined ages repre
sented 150 years were married in the
First Baptist church. Both parties
had entered the state of matrimony
before, aud there were present at the
wedding breakfast seven children,
twenty grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
A curious case of lightuiug destruc
tion took place at Gatchiua, an impe
rial summer residence, not far fr?m
St. Petersburg, Russia, where stood a
stone column fifty feet high, held to
gethfr by iron angles. When rain
fell n.or J or less water penetrated the
stones in the iuterior of the monu
ment. One day it was struck by light
ning and instantly the whole column
disappeared from view, killing a lone
sentry on guard. The only explana
tion is that the heat of the lightning
instantly generated steam on coming
in contact with some of the water and
the terrific explosion followed.
The Rev. E. R. Johnson of Mul
berry, Ind., one of the oldest ministers
in that part of the state, was taken
sick a few days ago. His illness re
calls the fact that he was once de
clared dead, and while lying in his
coffin he heard his funeral sermon
preached by a brother minister. Mr.
Johnson had Buffered an attack of cat
alepsy. He was conscious of what
was taking place about him, heard the
physician pronounce him dead, and
witnessed the preparations made for
his burial. The spell was broken just
after the eulogy had been pronounced.
His restoration to health followed.
According to the American Consul
at Chingting, China, the people of
China are not so far behind the pro
cession as may be thought. At least,
Mr. Smithers gravely reports to the
stale department at Washington that,
in the department called Yuugpei,
Chih-li-T'iug, gold is found in abun
dance by washing in the valley near
the city. The inhabitants of the
neighborhood keep largo flocks of
geese to work thu gold fields for them.
When the geese are found to be very
heavy they are killed, and their craws '
emptied of tho gold contained therein.
A flock of geese is sometimes worth n
good deal of money, but geese dressed
ready for eating aro very cheap, in
deed-from 15 to 20 cents each.
There are no return checks used in
Chinese theatres. They stamp the
band each evening, a different colored
ink being u ed.
If Uncle Sam could collect*! pair of
birds and reptiles -which inhamf?his nev
ho would have a, zoological "biggest she
markable ones are shown in the accompi
grotesque of Oriental animals/ its eyes
and its feet and ankles dre tiflCovored*
flying fox, is a bat. It lives on^tut. (
should beware of importing. ' The zibet
ceros rhinoceros, who imprisons; his m
wall over the entrance hole, so that she
nesting season, is the oddest of Philipp:
wife through a small hole all the while
hammers down the wall and lets lier out
most gorgeous birds in the world, The
I Modern War MecM$i
L??| Searchlights, Steam Ploughs and
% Heliographs in South Africa. '
?s might be expected, the English
are using in the South African war the
most modern military appliances that
can be had. They are thoroughly up
to date in the matter of guns and am
munition, and even the surgeons are
using now meaus of developing X
rays. The War Office has negotiated
with Marconi's business representa
tives for wireless telegraphic outfits,
and by this time the apparatus ought
to bo in service. Moreover, a num
ber of other appliances that are not
necessarily instruments of war . have
been put to use in the contest with
the Boers.
Ono of the most striking instances
of this kind is the employment of a
steam plough for digging trenches.
The ploughshare and pruning hook
are particularly typical of the arts and
spirit of peace, but now, for the first
time in history, the former implement
has become a military weapon. The
steam plough is not in itself any
novelty. It has been used for years j
on,a 1-~" lX'n r,flfl^i'n
vc rsi.tA?fc
KIMBERLE? SEARCHLIGHT. <
(A powerful electric light ls installed on t
the shaft head nt the De Beers mine. By i
this light! signals were exchanged bo
tween Kimberley and tho force under
Lord Methuen.)
ture is conducted on the wholesale
plan.
The particular plough used in South
Africa was designed by Colonel
Templer, of the Boyal Engineers, and
differs only in trifling details from /
that with which the Amerioan wheat ?
grower breaks up the surface of the >
fertile prairie. The superiority of
this means of digging trenches is so
manifest that one wonders why it was .
never thought of before. A three ?
wheeled "traction engine," such as is i
employed in hauling heavy wagons <
from town to town or in operating i
itinerant threshing machines, drags <
the steam plough of Colonel Templer ]
through the soil. Two of the wheels i
are large and broad, and the third, j
out in front, carries only a small part 1
of the load, and is used mainly for J
steering purposes. l
There is nothing especially Dew in |
the resort to telephony. The Ameri- i
can Signal Service has long had ample <
equipments of this kind for field work, i
particularly in the dissemination of i
BltlTISII SIGNALING LAD Ti
orders from headquarters and the re- ?
ceipt of reports from subordinates i
during an action. It is not at all ?
likely that the English are ahead of ]
the United States in this respect. ]
However, some interesting features 1
are presented by one of the instances j
S IN THE PHILIPPINES,
specimens Qi edah species of beasts,
riy acquired Phi'iip'pine possessions
>w oh earth." Some of fi? ?aost re
laying cut. The spectre is the most
i are like a great pair of spectacles
bone fofmations. The kaguau, or
fha Mongoose ii a pest which we
h is fi y?riety of civet cat, The bu
ate "in a hollo-rr bf building a piaster
cannot leave tbe Hatti/ during the
?ne fowls. Father Hornbill feeds Jais
. When the e^gs aro hatched h*
. The paradise major is one of the
i buffalo is used as a beast of all work.
oi telephony in South Africa just de
scribed in the dispatches,
After arriving on the field cf battle
it Eland8laagte, General French suw
the necessity of prompt reitJf?ree
caents. In his army were sever??
telegraphers, who were provided with
portable- telephones, batteries and in
sidontal apparatus. A regular tele
ifrcM.eyjt, uy a metallic hook or clip at
he top of a lighf, portable sliok, one
Hid of another wire. The latter ei
erded downward to a box containing
i telegraph key and sounder, two or
hree cells of battery, and a conveni
mt combination of telephone trans
nitter and receiver. To make the'ap
jaratua work, it was further neces
lary to run the lower end of the bani
ng wire into the ground. Thus a
regular "circuit" was formed, the
?arth affording a return route for the
mrrent. Either a telegraph key or a
;elephone could be used, according to
;he convenience of the operator.
A convenient substitute for 3\Iar
joni's apparatus has been found at
Kimberley in the powerful electric
searchlight there. It is a mistake to
inppose that such a device is service
ible only at sea. Although the uses
HOW BOERS DESTROY RAIL WATS,
ivhicb it haB in the navy aro somewhat
Afferent from those thus far found for
it on land, it certainly has its value
jn terra firma. At Kimberley it has
performed a double office. It has as
listed in the watch for an enemy, and
t bas furnished an excellent means of
telegraphing. By switching the cur
rent on and off the light can be broken
ap into dots aad dashes, to form tele
graphic letters. The enemy might
iee these signals, but as a secret code
tvould doubtless be employed, the sig
nificance of the flashes would not be
understood except by the initiated.
Searchlights have been made whoso
.ays could bo discerned at a distance
)f fifty or seventy-five miles. At
Kimberley it was known that Lord
Methuen's army had come within
twenty or thirty miles nearly a fort
ugh; aga, No difficulty should have
been experienced in sending messages
concerning tho situation in the be
leaguered city, therefore, although a
reassuring- response could not so eas
ily be transmitted.
The Boers, toc-V are learning to ase
modern methods. A small contingent
hare realized the uselessness of mere'
Jy tearing up a section of railway and
throwing the rails into a stream-the
usual Boer method of destroying a
track. What they now do is to heat
the centre ol ? section to a white heat
and carry the rai) by its two cool ends
to the nearest tree ont telegraph pole,
round which they twist it in such a
way that it is absolutely impossible to
use it again for railway purposes.
When the usual plan is adopted, the
British troops merely search for the
missing sections and replace them.
A rateable method of communicate
ing. which the British are using in
South Africa, is the heliograph, such
as our army has long employed on the
Western plains.
General Buller, while at Frere sta
tion, communicated daily with Gen
eral White, at Ladysmith, about twen
ty miles away, with the heliograph.
Sun rays flashed baok and forth told
the besieged army to be of good cheer
and assured tho relief column that the
garrison, though hard pressed, was
cheerful.
Th? Chrjiantlifinum.
The National Chrysanthemum So
ciety was instituted just fifty-three
years since, in 1840. The flower
? which it has taken under its patron
I age, upon whose aggrandizement it ?
has bestowed so successfully such
patient and ingenious caro, has been
established among ns only a little
over ? century. The first time it was
thought worthy of a "show" all to it?
2?ii? u.uuuuii LI unstated. *- .. .
generic name of the plant, the "gol
den flower," at first so pertinent, has
lost its distinctiveness. There are
golden chrysanthemums still, it is
true; yellow blossoms incomparable
for purity and brilliance; but what of
ail these other colors not less brilliant
and pure, these rich damasks, royal
purples, flushed pinks, this dazzling
white that puts a snowdrift to shame,
at last actually a bloom that is just
sea green?
Color, size, form, growth, all have
undergone a chauge that half a cen
tury ago it entered into no man's
heart to conceive. And the end is not
yet, it may be; tho last wonder has
not yet been revealed for us; so limit
less in its possibilities and potency it
that "affectation of Men to gratifie
the Pleasure of their Eyes, inciting
them to push on things to more and
more Perfection."-The Saturday Be
view. .
Mormons' Curious Alphabet.
An alphabet intended for exclusive
use in Mormon literature was de
signed by Orson Pratt and W. Phelps,
both contemporaries of the great
apostle of the Latter Day Saints,
Brigham Young. The Mormon abece
dary consists of forty letters based on
d 3 0 0 0 0 f 4 % 'd'
^ At 'AV 52, JL, ?a A? AW
> y J. Jj dWVf/
0 C? t Ot OW U WOO IX H P
8 1 6* C *V Q 'O P C ?'
s T ocKcO KCAr vrnt
U M $ l"v 1 I N
mt 6 2 E3H ZRK R L M H NG
SECRET SPELLING SYSTEM.
a sort of phonetic system. It has
never come into very general use, but
is employed when secret intelligence
is transmitted from ono head of the
church to a distant apostle.
-
A South Sea Island Bride.
The bridal procession was ap
proaching. lu front, walking abreast,
came the wedded pair-tall, hand
some, and of an excellent tawny hue.
The bride, a beautiful young girl, ex
hibited a ludicrously absurd appear
ance. Her shapely legs and feet were
naked. She wore a low bodice^of
scarlet satin, bedecked with shoulder
knots of brilliant blue. Bound her
body so many robes, some of the
paper-like barkcloth, others woven of
the native grass, were enwrapped,
that her aspect, instead of. impressing
us, as it doubtless did the natives,
with respect for her wealth, merely
made comic suggestion that the poor
child was parading iuside a barrell
Her pretty head, running over with
close rings of tan-tipped hair, was
uuoovered; and her neck and limbs
glistened with oil.-Blackwood.
An Auk Cuines South.
It will be quite a surprise to many
who have visited Billings & Freeman's
store in Lebanon and seen what they
supposed was an eagle, to learn on
the authority of the Rev. C. A. Downs
that it is but a little auk, or foolish
gilliemot,' a bird that is almost a per
fect stranger so far inland as where it
was captured. Few particulars are
knowu of this species, which is very
rare, and has its home in Greenland
and as far north as Spitzenberg. In
Greenland it is called the ice bird. It
is not by nature a crafty bird, and is
sometimes easiiy captured. It is,
when seen, usually on the seaooast,
and has very peculiar habits in feed?
ing.-M&nchsster (N. H.) Union?
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