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VOL. II.-NO. 4.
SAVANNAH, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 188G.
One Dollar Per Year.
OUT OP THE WAY.
It's outof my way," gays the seMsh man,
Unwilling to plume anotlior.
Or to put himself out of the daily rut
""To comfort needy brotlior;
It's out of my way, mid I haven't tlmel"
How common arc tlie-ie excuses;
And n chnr.oo is Inst at a trillion cost
Of correaling Uie world's abuses., 1 f
"It's out of tny way, ami I Imven't tfinor'"
8ii) 8 the lli ant, unfoeliiijf beauty,
W Im (UivU hor con-u-ience every day,
HcsiHtliiu the pttll of duty; . -
And she's but one or a nighty host, w
A prominent puree promt faction
Who never out of their way will go
To do a generous action.
If out of their way to he kind and true
To furnish a hulm for sorrow;
And they hnven't time to do (rood to day,
And they 'll have loss time to morrow. "
The cry or the s.ck anil needy one
t hey hoar, but they do not mind It ;
"Trouble comes," they eay, "and it doosn't
pay
To ko out of our way to find It"
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But the holiest deeds that are ever done
Take on the form of surprises.
And the hoart that is engor for angel tasks
A plan for Its work devises;
For the rend of sympathy is not straight,' .
And the I lies and the lanos of pity; 1 -Beyond
a doubt, are not laid out
Like IU slieels of a worldly elty. ,1
And every day, nil along our way, ;
There are chances U help another,
Kind aid to give and kind words to speak
To a suffering friend and brother;
And he has the sweetest reward of all
In lite as he journeys through it
Who, seeing the ueod of a kindly deed, '
Goes out of his way to do It
Jottphtne Follard, in N. K ietlyer.
A-BIG HALL.
The Assembly Chamber of the
Lower House of Congress.
How the National Legislators Are Ar
rangedConvenient Chairs and Unused '
Waste-Paper Baskets An Excited
i
Objector" Salaries, Etc.
The hall of the House of Representa
tives is tho largest legislative chamber
in the world. It covers fully a quarter
f an acre of ground and six acrobats,
each six feet high, might stand in it,
one on the head of the other, and while
tho feet of the first rested on tho floor
the hair of tlie sixth would just graze
the ceiling.- -The room is thirty-six feet
high, and tho floor insido the railing
where the Congressmen's desks are
placed, covers as much space as a cjty
lot of sixty-nine feet front and one hun
dred and fifteen feet deep.;, The ceiling
is of cast iron, and glass. There is
checker-board net-work of cast-iron
frames, and the panels of the board are
filled in with glass which is glazed
roughly and painted wjth the coats, of
arras of the various States. All of the
light which the House gets : comes
through the ceiling, as there aro no win
dows, except those in the many doors,
and these which enter tho House
through vestibules of ten or twelve feet
in thickness give only the radiated
light of windows far away. " This light
is supplied by the sun by day, and by
electricity by night. - ; . , ,
Tho floor Of this big hall is covered
with a carpet of Brussels which was
made to order for it. Its color is green
mixed with red, and it takes one thou
sand four hundred yards to cover it.
It looks new and fresh now, and there
ure no tobacco stains upon it. But the
average member chews theweed, and
though the Government gives him a
spittoon beside his desk, he spits as
often on ' the floor as in the spittoon.
The desks used by the members are
email affairs, much like those used in
the common schools. They have a top
which can be lifted up and gives room
below for tho stationery and papers of
the member inside. Each member has
one desk to himself, and his name is
pasted or tacked upon its lid. The
chairs of the members are the common
swivel attachment; sw1nging'"6flled
chairs with wicker backs, and these
backs are so high that the Congress
man can easily throw his back upon
them and by elevating his feet to the
ton of the desk In front of him put him
self in the favorite American attitude
for sleeping. - This is not an uncom
mon position in in the halls, of the
House during a session, and the Forty
eighth Congresshad members who did
more sleeping than working.
Beside eaoh- Congressman's desk
there stands a waste paper basket, but
your average Congressman never uses
this. He tears up his paper in bits like
a moody lunatic and scatters it on the
floor. After 4 day's session th floor
of the House is littered from one end
to the other and there is enough paper
upon its carpet to buy the country tin
ware for a whole Ohio County.
The desks at the right of the hall
are those occupied by the Republicans.
The Democrats sit on the left side, and
Morrison and RandaU bavo scats in
about the middle point' of the Demo
cratic body. ".Tom Reed, the Republic
an leader, sits in the midst of the Re
publicans, and Congressman Kelleyvery
near him. Kellcy's -seat will bo the
same this Congress as last He has the
choice of seats on the ground of being
the oldest member in point of service.
The Speaker' desk is in the center,
and is a very fine piece of work. It ii
three feet above the floor, and it is
made of white marble with a base of
Tennessee marble. Carlisle, who fills
it. is a tall, lank, black-faced fellow,
with a smooth face and with jaws
which are always chewing tobacco
when ' 'they are not talking.. He sits
generally o his spine, and his body
rests on it in the form of a bow. He
makes a goon Speaker, however, and is
generally fair iu his rulings.
Just beside the right of the desk, on
a pedestal of Vermont marble, stands
the maoe. .This mace is the insignia
of the authority of the House. It is at
ways in the House when that body is
in session , and the Sergcant-at-Arms
must carry it in his hands when he
wishes to arrest a member, or to force
him to submit to the rulings of the
House. The mace is a bundle of lie-
tor's rods, bound together with silver
cord and surmounted by a silver glooe
representing the world, which is
crowned by the American eagle.
The Hons umally begins its sessions
at twelve o'clock noon, and continues
to sit nntil about four or five o'clock p.
m. during ordinary times. The House
rlock is the timepiece that mles. It
Unds just over the entrance door at
tho back of the hall and opposite the
Speaker, facing him. It is a very pret
ty clock, and is a fine work of art. It
is tho bete noir of long-winded speak
ers, and cuts off many a blowharu be
fore his time for ending has come.
At. the sides of the hall door over
which tills clock stands there, are two
cloak rooms, and at the left hand cor
ner of the back there is a barber shop,
where the" members 'may bo shaved
while a stormy or dull debate is going
on. At times members are in this bar
ber's chair when some legislation which
interests them comes up, and I have
seen a statesman rush from the bar
ber' oflico' with half his beard off, the
lather over the rest of his face, and a
barber's sheet around his neck, and ob
ject to a certain ruling. Such speeches
are more food for laughter than foi
good. -
Half way up the walls of the House
hall tho galleries begin, and rise by
graded scats almost to the roof. These
galleries will seat twenty-five hundred
people. - The most important is the
press gallery to both tho speakers and
the people, for it is through this that
they hear of all the doings below. Thit
is directly back of tho Speaker's desk
and above it. It is gilded 'and bet let
arranged than the other galleries and
has desks with little ink stands set in
to them for the use of the press. Each
paper of note has a right to one seal
here, and about one hundred and
twenty-five men constitute tho occu
pants. Just back of this gallery there
is a telegraph office and a writing
room. A speech is delivered in Con
gress at two p. m. and tho words arc
in tho offices of the newspapers ali
over the country almost as fast as thej
fall from the speaker's lips. The gal
lery opposite the press gallery is the
diplomatic gallery, the seats of which
are painted blue. It is often filled with
foreigners, and nono but the diplomatic
representatives of foreign countries
have the ria-ht to enter it.
At tho desk in front of the Speakei
the Clerk stands with his assistants be
hind him. He reads generally iu a
voice which is a cross between the
rasping of a buzz saw and the sharpen
ing of a slate pencil. Ho gets $5,000 a
year for- doing it.' - Below -him us
shorter desk are the shorthand report
ers of the House, who take down the
matter of debate for the Record. These
men each get 85,000 a year.
Running abont through tho House at
all times are the pages, who are paid
about two and one-half dollars ner dav.
These are lively little; boys, generally
of about twelve or fourteen years of
age., When a member wants them he
claps his hands and they run to his
desk. In addition to these, there are
scores of other employes about the
House of Representatives who do all
kinds of work, from the cleaning of the
spittoons and carrying in of cards, to
the aiding the Speaker and Chairmen
of committees . in their work. These
get from $500 to 82,500 a vear. Door
keepers are paid from $1,200 to $2,000
for merely opening and shutting a door
about six hours a day, and when the
numerous servants are considered it is
no wonder that the expenses of a Con
gressional session run up so high. The
average cost of a session is about $3,
000,000, and the Congressmen receive
mileage in audition to their salaries ol
$5,000 each, amounting to a total ol
$143,624. The newspapers and station
ery consumed by a Congress runs as
high as $70,000 yearly, and the salaries
of the Senators amount to $3o'0,000 and
that of the Representatives to $1,665,
000 every year. The Speaker of the
House and the President pro tern, of
tlie Senate each receives $8,000 a year,
rind one of the poorest paid men in the
Senate is the Chaplain, who gets but
$900 a year. "Carp," in Cleveland
Leader.
THE FOUNDATION.
The Most Important Quality to Be Devel
' oped in a Child's Mind.
If. the question were asked by any
mother of thought and : character
What do you consider the most iniport-
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nut (juituijr w no uevejupuu in your
child's- mind?; The answer, without
doubt, would be: Truth: for tho corner
stone of character is truth, and there
dan be no true success without it.
"Electricity can not follow a broken
wire, nor success a lying life." With
out truth there is no development. And
how many ways there are of rtfovins'.
without speaking, that absolute truth is
essential in the first steps A baby takes
toward learning! Give him a box of
blocks to build a house, and you can
show him that .unless the first block
laid on the floor are in line the whole
structure, will be crooked: that in mak
ing the lines bn a elate, if the first is not
straight, not true, the lines will all fol
low tho first, or the spaces will not be
very true; that hi coDvins anv work
exactness is (he very foundation of suc
cess, and but another name for truth
. In repeating a conversation, in telling
oi a scene, to watcn carefully that the
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avium mui ia tcimeu, is ueacnueu as
mother's duty.
bo often , a grave fault is over
looked because it is a child, and it
is a pleasant fiction that the child will
outgrow it. . Any lavut that indicates
weakness oi cnaracter snouid receivi
immediate and prayerful care. An ex
aggeration, however amusing, should
be checked at orfce.
Carelessness in
giving accounts of its own or its play
mates' doings should be checked by
questions-so put that a child will dis
cover, if it is carelessness, that a mis
take has been made, and correct it at
once itself; if the'' trouble is a want of
love of truth, the knowledge that fal-s
hood is always recognised as falsehood,
whether intended or not, will help to
develop a regard for truth and exact
ness. " . -' , . x
Another great requisite for teaching
a child to regard truth is for the par
ents to set an example of perfect truth
fulness. In ali the intercourse of life;
in the home, the social life, the business
life, let truth in all purity be ever pres
ent, and the children will by instinct
and principle follow the example that
commands their love and respect
Christian I'nion. .
Ex-President Hayes' farm in Da
kota, which sold the other d:ty tor
$21,000, was purchased in 177 for
$3,800 worth of Northern Pacific Loud.
-mCkttlamt Ltader.
PETROLEUM WELLS.
The Selection and First Tapping of From-
t lslng Spota. . ...,. '
Prospectors in selecting a promising
pot to test new territory are often in
fluenced by a "belt theory", first ad-
nnccd by a man named Angell. In a
general way his idea has been verified
by experience. . It proceeded upon the
hypothesis that oil lies in belts or pools
having a northeast and a southwest
trend, sometimes called the "forty-five
degree line." In districts known to be
oil-bearing tho wells are frequently lo
cated near the boundary of the owner's
property, me omcct is to dram as
much of his neighbor's oil as possible,
for there are no partitions in tho sub
terranean "chambers corresponding'
to the lines of surface ownership. The
driller's motto is "first come, first
served," hence there is generally a
race to see who shall . first tap nature s
till.
When the exact Spot for the well has
been determined npon,. a well-hole is
dug about fifteen feet in depth, and if
solid rock is not reached, a wrought-
iron pipe eight to twelve inches in
diameter is driven down to it. Above
this is erected the "derrick", a pyramid
al structure of heavy timbors, generally
seventy-two feet in height. At cacn
side is located a fifteen to twenty horse
power engine, which operates a walk'
mg-bcam to which is attached a heavy
cable and the drilling apparatus.
This consists of four parts. ' 1 he up
per one is called tho "sinker-bar
about eighteen feet in length; next
come the "jars , sevon feet in length
then tho "auger-stem", about thirty
feet long, of throe and one-quarter inch
cold rolled steel; and finally, at tho end
of this is a "bit " three feet in length
Thus equipped, steam is turned on, and
the ponderous weight of two thousand
to three thousand pounds, alternately
raised and dropped, as in a pile.-dnver,
drives tho bit into the rock at the av
erage rato of sixty to one hundred feet
daily. After drilling for some tune tho
tools are hoisted and a fresh bit is in
serted. Meanwhile a "sand pump" or
"bailer ', a cylindrical tube with valves
opening Inward, is dropped down the
lioleto remove detritus or water. A
ea.sin?" is fitted snufflv to the walls
of the well to keep out tlie water; and
when it is necessary to pump tho oil,
the well is tubed. The tube is about
two inches in ' diameter, around which
a rubber packer is inserted just above
tho oil and gas bearing rock. This
cuts off the escape of the gas, forcing
it up through tlie tube, and causing tho
well tff flow. " The bore of the well va
ries from eight to six inches, and its
depth' vanes with the geological for
mation averaging perhaps twelve hun
dred to fifteen hundred feet, and some
times reaching twenty-five hundred
I ho (Hist of a well naturally depends
upon iU location, depth and character
of rock. . Tlie owner generally erocts
the derrick, engine and tank, . at an
average expense, of fifteen hundred dol
lars, and then contracts with a driller
to furnish the tools and sink, a well.
This charge will probably average sixty
cents per foot. It is perhaps sate to
say that wells in the larger fields aver
age in cost from twenty-live hundred
to three thousand dollars.
Torpedoes, which were first intro
duced about 1865, were received with
distrust,' but are now in general use,
and havo become a necessary part of
the equipment of a well. They are
cylindrical tubes, varying in size, but
generally eight inches in length and
four in diameter, containing fluid nitro
glycerine. : 1 hese torpedoes are care
fully lowered into the wells and ex
ploded by dropping a twenty-pound
cast-iron weight upon them from above,
The explosion shatters the walls, giving
a greater exposure of surface to draw
oil from, thus stimulating the wells and
increasing their production. Though
this treatment hastens tho exhaustion
of a well it is believed by many that
the amount of oil obtained exceeds
what otherwise would be procured. At
first only live or six quarts of nitro
glycerine wero introduced, but now it
r ' . i a 1 - 1
is nn.nnusnal thinir toemploy one liun-1
drcd aud twenty to two hunurcd uuitrts
of glycerine, equal to 8,240 to 5,400
pounds of gunpowder. ueorge K. Oo-
son. in Homer s Maaazine.
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A POSTMASTER'S CONVENTION.
Their Alleged Grievances, and the Rem
edies They Fropioee A Non-Partisan
Movement. -
The postmasters of the third and
fourth class have resolved upon a Ra
tional Convention, and have issued
their call to convene in Chicago on
Monday, February 15, 1886. As there
are over seventeen hundred of the third
grade, and almost fifty thousand of the
fourth, it is evideut that when they get
fully organised they will becomo a
power in tne una. ineir movement
is noi 01 a ponucai nature, out soieiy
but
for the purpose of inducing Congress
to grant them relief in the way of ex
penses for rent, light, fuel and clerk
hire. As their salaries are based en
tirely upon . the value of the stamps
canceled, getting a commission upon
them, of course their income instantly
i dropped one-third when letter postage
was reduced from three to two cents.
Their revenues were cut off while their
exitcnses remained the same, all of
which they have to bear themselves.
Thev feel sore that while postmasters
of the second class have everything
furnished them by the Government
they are compelled to foot all such bills
out of their own pockets. A post
master of the third class may be rated
as having an income of one thousand
six hundred -dollars, which of itself
looks very -large to those not in office,
but after he pays his rent, light and
fuel expenses and his clerk hire, these
figures will have become dissolved in
nothingness, and be will have but a
bare living out of his year's work.
The issuing of money orders at three
and one-half cents each is also a bitter
cause of complaint They claim that
it does hot begin o pay for the time
and labor involved in transacting the
business and that the old law giving
them one-third the fees charged the
public should be restored. They also
propose to make move toward having
a change made in the method of trans
mitting their surplus money order
funds to their depositing offices, as they
feel that the present arrangement is not
only troublesome in the extreme, due
entirely useless.
The question of box-rents is also s
subject of agitation and will receive at
tention during the convention, ihey
assert that under the present law a
postmaster oi the' fourth, class is de
barred from receiving- a greater com
pensation than $1,000 a year, while
those of the third class are cut off at
$2,000. They may invest all the W.iy
from $500 to $1,000 in beautiful boxes
and'-other attractive features, yet
if, for example, a postmaster of
the fonrth class is entitled to $950 per
annum bn his cancellation of stamps,
he i' debarred from receiving more
than... $50 from his box: rents,-even
though they may amount to $300, and
the entire surplus must be turned over
to the Government Considering the
fact that the boxes are the private prop
erty of tho postmaster, they feel that
the United btates has no moral or lust
right to the revenue from them in the
way of rents,, and they want the lav so
amended that they will receive what
ever income there maybe from that
source.
There is no question but that the
postmasters have just cause for com
plaint, and it is to be hoped that they
will succeed in their ..undertaking.
They have gone about it in a business
like manner, and the indications arc
that they mean business.- We are glad
to hear that the move is upon tho part
of Republicans and Democrats alike,
and that they have no political ends in
view. Cincinnati Time. ',
HARD TIMES.
An Honrst Sailor's Faille Attempts to Se
cure Winter Quarters.
Soon after-" eight o'clock tho other
morning a man about forty years old
rang the office bell at tho Workhouse,
and to tho door-keeper who answered
it, he asked: "Can I come in?
Why, yes, of course. Whom did
you wish to see?"
"Oh, nobody in particular. You may
put me down for about ninety days.
It was soon discovered that he was a
sailor who wanted to be locked up .for
the winter.' and tho door-keeper was
obliged to inform him that he couldn't
be taken in after that fashion.
"So I've got to bo arrested and taken
before the ponce mage, enr ne en
quired,
ies. have you any money r"
About twenty dollars, which I want
to save until spring."
"Then vou can t be arrested as a
vagrant. You will have to commit
some offense. You'd better get drunk
"Hut 1 am strictly temperate."
"Well, get up a row with somebody,
smash a window, or run off with some
body's horse. It ought to be an easy
matter to get arrested."
Tho man walked down to the nay-
market and looked around for some
body to get up a row with. Ho selected
a farmer who seemed to bo a good-
hearted man, and walked up to him
and said:
Say! I want a row with you. I want
to be arrested.
'Look a-here, young man," replied
the farmer, "don't you come fooling
around me! I m cold and mad, and if
vou give me the least provocation, I'll
make doPMneat oi you.
The sailor turned away and picked
n - . . .
up a rock and walked down to a saloon,
determined to hurl it througn the win
dow. The old man who keeps the
place saw him coming, and he went
out and said:
You keep avhay! If you throw
dot shtdhe in my window I'll shoot
you so help aie gracious!
lint i want to qo sometumg to ne
arrested."
! can't help dot! you keep avhay
or l put some millets into yon ! "
The matt passed on about a square
to where a horse was hitched, and he
was untying the animal when the
Owner came out and said:
"Say. von get up and skip or 1 11
break your back tor you!
1 . He urove off, looking back and ut-
tering threats, and a policeman came
along and asked what nad nanpened.
"Why, I want to be arrested, and I
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was going on witn nis norse. win you
arrest me if I abuse you?"
"Iry it on! '
' "Well, you are a. bow-backed sheep
thief, an infernal liar and the biggest
coward on the force! I wouldn't have
your face on me for ten thous f"
Tlie otneer seized nim ana nung nun
over a yard fence into a lilao bush, aud
then looked after him aud said
If you don't leave town before night
I'll hunt you down and hammer yon
until your own mother can't identify
the mangled remains!'
I'll be hanged if I don t! you haven
got enterprise enough to keep the
mhaa rtflT mv ' halr And 1 ' 11 frnt
.1 if t have t0 0 on my nRnds and
kr,cpgi" Detroit Free Press.
Sun-Glows in Sweden.
Toward the end of October the re
markable sun-glows wero again seen at
Stockholm. In the western horizon
yellow cloud-bank, strongly illuminat
ed, appeared behind & number of tiny
clouds, grayish in color, the sky above
the former, to a height of forty-five de
grees, being lurid, entirely coloring
the clouds. Later on in the evening
the glow imparted to the edges of the
clouds the most remarkable reflections
of color, varying from ochre fo yellow
violet and pink, with shadings of blue
At times the hurher-lving clouds formed
most remarkable formations. It
seemed that the glow was situated be
tween cumulus and cirrus clouds. A.
r. Post.
Georgie Felt He Was Safe. They
were standing at the front gate.
"Won't you come into the parlor and
sit a little while, iveorgie, dear? "i-o
I think not,' replied George, hesitat-
in2lv. "I wish you would," the girl
went on; "it's awfully lonesome.
Mother has gone out, and father is np
stairs groaning with rheumatism in thi
feet" "Both feet?" asked George.
"Yes, both feet" "Then I'll come in."
If. T. Ldqer,
SAILING ON SKATES.
Healthy Winter Sport for Old and
Young.
A Delightful runtime In Favorable Re
gions Flj-lng Oror Froien Fomlsand
Streams lllunlratlnns bliowlng
How to Rig and Sail Crafts.
To persons having a fairly robust consti
tution, and who aro not afraid of a little
cold weather, our loud! New England winters
present excellent opportunities for skating,
which Is rightly considered a prince among
out-door amusements, combiuiiig sport with
it "
ilYV U
SAIL AND FRAME.
exercise In such proportions as to afford
health and pleasure at the same time. An
agile skater on a good long stretch of smooth
Ice can outstrip the fastest horse and make
a record that would do Credit to a train of
cars. . ' 1 -
The wide and lontf-coiitinued popularity
of this amusement is due to the fact that
every one can enjoy It at a very small ex
pense. AH that Is wanted is a good pond
or stream well frozen, and a pair of skates
cost'iim from 81 to $5, according to the style
of finish. Armed with these the youth, and
even the middle-aged residents of the Nor
tliern New Eiurlnud States hail the approach
of winter, for they know that with the ice
and snow and biting cold weather comes
RTJXN1NG OFF HEF0HE TIIS Wtm
the most joyous season of the whole year,
when the dull, humdrum methods of sum
mer ti'Avet can be given up as too slow, and
everybody with two legs enn go skim
ming from place to place, emulating tho
birds in rapldity'or flight
Skaters have long beeu Hi the habit of
Retting aid' from the wind In going long
journeys over lee, but until- within a few
years the breezes were not used except In
"scudding'! before tlie blast. The idea of.
BKating "on" and, '"by" tlie wiud came In
af icr Ice-lKtats were constructed. Some say
it was invented by the Danes and Lap
landers ou tlie shores of the Haltie, while
othors claim tlie copyright for the D.ilcli,
who skate on the canals ot Holland. No
matter who tlie inventor was, the prrctlce
is something. new, and therefore doubly in
teresting. "'-..
-J ti order to n-t the benefit of the wind a
sail Is of course necessary. This can be
made of cotton,- limm, silk or any kind of
cloth that is not too heavy, and it is fast
ened to a stick running acioss the shoul
ders, mid extending a foot or more beyond
the body on either side. This sail Is large
enough to reach nearly . to the feet, and has
at e.ioh lower corner a slick attached, like
sprit ("spreet"), which is to be held In
the hands of tlis skater and "hauled close"
or "let off" to suit the varying winds. All
of this Is' attached loosely to the body,
which Is the mast of the winter sloop.
STARBOARD TACK.
Some have a topsail that readies above the
"rartt on the shoulders, and Is held ia
place by smaller stir or yard.
Thus equipped the skatr puts on his
sttl runners, spreads his sail, and, if he
wihes to run before it, trims the ysrd so it
will lie Miaight auo- his shoulder, and
strikes out If the wind is strong be soon
find-i himself goine over the k at railroad
speed. The art of balancing when "tnn
biaf betore it" Is very suia.l. bltouid a fail
nil
UNDER 81SOI.K I.KKF.
occur it is generally backward, and not at
all dangerous.
When the wind blows very hard, caus
ing the skater to lean far back to retain his
balance, and making him very liable to fall
down in the gusts and "Haws" of wind, he
pan take a single reef iu his salt by lower-
inn: the topsail, and running with mainsail
alone. Even this is enough to propel the
skater very rapidly, especially in the usual
windy weather of our Northern winters.
Going oil before the wind Is very easy.
but working to windward is a far harder
task. The sail ketit the wind off from face
and ears and made things very comfortable
on the first journey; but now the venture
some seeker after sport must face the keen
gate nuu get Dack to the starting point as
best he can.
If ho Is skating on a stream or narrow
pond he will find it best to furl sail and
skate back tlie usual way; but If the pond
is wiue ne can "beat to windward," like a
boat, making "a long leg and short leg" in
true nautical style, and hold his craft very
near the wind Jibing and coming Into
stays on the other tack are accomplished by
properly manipulating the sprits that are
held in his hands. The craft is steered by
tlie same methods. Like the lee-boat, the
sailing-skater makes his best time when on
the wind, and frequently has to let off sheet
for fear of losing his breath. In a few
trials a novloe"caii" learn' how to handle
himself on the ice, and will come into stays
on the starboard and port tacks with the
precision of an old salt At first, care
snouid oe taken In jibing, or the living ves-
. I.AltUOAIlD TACK.
8el will top over by the sudden and tinex-
dected filling of- the sail on the opposite
side. A little practice will remedy this,
however, and then tho courso up and down
the pond (an be laid out with mathmatical
accuracy.
Of course a larger pond is the best suited
to the sport, but small streams can also be
navigated by skaters with sailing attach
ments. They can run down before the
wind without any exertion; and in coining
back they can furl their sails and return in
the eye of the wind, like ordinary skaters.
Such a method as this would be a saving of
one-halt of the efforts now required, and
would have fewer objections than the al
ways popular sport of coasting, where tlie
IN Till: EVK OF THE WIND.
parties climb up hill for the sake of sliding
down. ....
W hen it is remembered that the new
sport is safe and inexpensive, that only
few hours are required to learn it, and that
girls as well as boys can take to themselves
wings and 11 y away, there seems no reason
why winged mortals should not cover all
ponds and streams, when ice forms thick
enough to bear the weight, of a person.
uostoii uuDe. .
Improving on Solomon.
"If 1 had been Solomon," sai! a curb-stone
philosopher, I don't think 1 would have
sent the lazy man to the ant"
"Where would you have sent hhn?" in
quired a man with a drooping nose, wlir
needed shaving badly.
"I would have sent him to the hornet."
"And what good would that have done?"
"A great deal, my friend. One hornet
would have told him more about enterprise
in five minutes thau he could have learned
from a whole colony of ants In three weeks
by the closest kind of observation.- If you
want to limber a man's Joints in a hurry,
send him to the hornet every time, and you
wont miss it -The hornet means business
from tlie very start, and don't you" forget
It." Cttcctio Ledger.
Liberal Asslstaae.
A St Louis girl, who bad returned from
a walk, was telling her experience to a Chi
cago friend. 1 !,--.
"And just think," she said, with a flurry,
"1 fell down flat iu the street"
"You don't say?" was the reply.
"And then was such nice young man
just behind me."
"What did he do? Laugh?'
"Ot course lie didn't He assisted me to
my feet What do yon thiuk of that?"
"Well," replied the Chicago girl, looking
critically at the St Louis shoes and their
contents, "I should say he was very liberal
in his assistance." Jlcrchnnt Trtuelr. '
llusiness Is Business.
Doctor (to servant) John, I am going to
have company to-morrow . nigbt Pour
water over the .front steps, let it freeze bard,
ServantAll right, sir.
Doctor And John, after the people art
all here, carefully collect their rubbers and
their arctics, and hide 'em; hide em so
they can't find 'era, and If any of the guests
fall down the steps in going come to ni for
further orders; I wouldn't have them go to
tlie hospital for anything, if they received
their injuries on my steps. Tvi-Uif.
New Care for Inebriates.
"Did yen notice, hubby, that they have
begun a new treatment on Inebriates?"
"No; what is it?"
"Ton remember the ftetal read vou yes
terday about tha man who was so full that
he fell down two flights ot stairs, and it
was feared that be had delirium tremens?"
"Yes."
"Well. 1 see by this evening's paper that
he is all right In court this morning
souieoociy onea iunt out "cvnnwo
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Nathaniel Hawthorne never useJ
an italicized word in any of his works,
his style furnishing all the needed em
phasis. ', . . . ' . . 1 : ' ' ' " I
Mrs. Dahlgron, tho novelist, is a r
Zanesviilo (O.) girl.. She is wealthy.
and she owns several nouses in wasu-
uigton.
Lotta, Mary Anderson, Emma Ne-..
Ysxla and Marie Wilton aro all com
municants of the. '.'Roman Catholio
Church.
The tallest man in Washington
Territory is John Hutchinson. Ho
stands seven feet four inches in his
stockings.
Robert H. Newell, the "Orpheus
C. Kerr" of popular remembrance, en
joys a serene old age at a cosy home
nest in Jersey nty.
Hon. Galusha A. Grow and Hon.
A. Gilmoro are the only surviving
members of tho Thirty-second Con
gress. tf. , Tribune.
Mme. Sophie Monter, the famous
pianist, is now enjoying the possession
of a fortune of three million dollars,
left her by a Russian admirer.
A Calcutta paper says that a na
tive woman has become the editor of
a Christian periodical, which she con-
ducts with remarkable ability and suc
cess. Catherine Gregory, who died in
New York the other day, was a
school teacher for twenty-two years,
and never missed a day during that
period until she was taken ' sick. N.
Y. Post. .
The Mexican Congress proposes to
change tho press laws to the end that of
fenses charged against newspaper
writers shall be tried before a special
jury, and not as is now done, underthr
criminal code.
Lord Hotchkiss, one of the swell
cowboys of Montana, recently won a
heavy wager by walking from his ranch
to Miles City, a distance of twenty-two
miles, in four hours and four minutes.-
Chicago Tribune.
Senor Quesada," the "new repre
sentative of the Argentine Republie at
Washington, is a journalist and author.
He is distinguished as" a writer on in
ternational law, has filled several
prominent posts in the civil service,
and for tho last four years has been
Minister to Brazil. ..'
--Ex-Governor Bishop, of Ohio, is
sixty-three years old, but is still very
active. Last summer he went to his
son's home in Clifton, and, passing
through a high gate, was attacked by a
savage dog who did not recognize him.
Tho Governor took a running jump
and cleared the high gate at one bound
like an athlete. Cleveland Leader.
A queer old lady, the Baroness
Rolle, has just died in England at the
ago of ninety years. She was married
at twenty-eight to a gentleman who
was seventy-four year old, and if he
were living now he would be one hun
dred and thirty-rive years of age. At
his death he settled an income of $50,
000 per year upon her, and she has de
voted more than fifty years of her long
life in charity.; 7 -, jU I 1- 'in.-;
. HUMOROUS.
Why is the barber's trado easy for ,
men to learn? Because every man
was once "a little shaver." 1
'ls the man lionestP" asked old .
Hyson, "Honest as the day is long;."
"Ye-es," said old Hyson; "but then ne
won't do at all. I want him for a
night watohman."-rfosto Bulletin.
Boston JEatheticism. . : ;
What to me aro heavenly plonttiret,
That from earth my fancy weans? ;
What care 1 for worldly treasur-osl1
Walter, please, more pork and beans. 1
,r . , . Chicago Telegram. .,
Our. Countrymen Abroad (In the .
Champs Elyfees). English Gentle-' ''
man (inquiring way) "Pardonnci
nun, Monsieur. irencn uenuoraan,
(very politely) "Certainmcnt, Mon
sieur. ' .together: "tiood gracious:-
Smith, Jones is that you?" llarper't
Vazar.
-"Do you allow drunken people on
the train?" asked an old gentleman at 1
the City nail elevated station. . "borne
times, but not when they are too
drunk," replied tho brakeman. "Just
take a seat near tho middle of the car
and keep quiet, and you'll be all right."
AT. Y. Suit.
-He "My dear, we can't possibly
take this flat..,, Why, when our furni-.
tnre is in there won't be room for mo
to walk around in it." She "Non
sense; you are not expected to walk .
around in a modern "flat: When you
want to walk what is the matter with
outdoors?" .rV. Y. Tribune.
-A four-year-old, who has a drum
and is not so' slow to beat it, beard n -
hand-organ the other day, and . was
particularly struck with the fact that
the organ-grinder took up a Collection.
After the "musician" had departed the ,
little follow remarked; "I don't drum
any more only Jar money."
We' are told that more than eight '
courses at a dinner is vulgar. ' Snibbs .
says he is in the height of the fashion,
for he has only six, as follows: Soup
a uu a pttra,. beans a la oven door, pork
de scored top, brown bread a la steam
er, oleomargarine in a butter-dish and 1
toothpicks ad libitum. Boston Budget.
A few days ago two men were in
Smith's barber-shop. ., One had red ,
hair and the other was baldheaded. .
,Red hair to baldhead "You were not
around -when Uioy Were giving out ,
hair?" Baldhead "Yes, I was there;
but they only had a little red hair left,
and I wouldn't take it" Bow rtvit
(Ore.) tTn0M.
- -r-"Now, John," said the keeper ol
the cigar store at closing up time to
his boyi "take the Indian figure from
the door and lay it down behind tl'
counter." "Hadn't we better let it
stand behind the counter?" said John.
"Why so?" asked the employer. "Bo
cause figures never lie, you know."
Boston Courier.
Brown to Smith, who has been an
Invalid for years "Hnlloa. Smith!
How are yon now-a-days? Has Dr.
Dubbledose helped you any?" Smith
"A little, perhaps, but not nearly
much a. I have helped him. YotfslwoM
see the new houte he has just built!
Nothing like it in town elegant per
fectly elegant!" Boston Trtnscnpl
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