Terre Haute Daily News, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 March 1890 — Page 5

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THE REAL ESTATE LETTER.

THE PBORPEmi

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ARE VERY EMC«I'BAGIS«.

Tfi« Ifews €«rrf*paiid«i)( DIkhmm Realty and the Outlook at tbf Time-A ifebeaic to

Find Oood l«eatlont.

It is a principle of the physical! world that the centripetal attraction of large

H(H|Jjodies

is «o great that they draw all unto them. This accounts for

^'^Aion, Paris and New York, growing More rapidly than any other communities in the world. These cities are growmost rapidly in numbers but not in ircentage of increase. Bat it is unubtedly true that every large city is growing at the expense of the surrounding towns, villages and country. Toward the centralized energies of large cities "^everything has been drifting since the era of railroads. In the opinion of many persons this centre drifting has not nearly fnlfllled its mission. Viewing these tendency from a local standpoint a gentleman said this week that if he could go forward a century in time, and

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Vive hw views lik*i Bellamy in "Looking Backward" hf* would describe Terre Haute as a large city, having a population of several hundred thousands, and Paris, Marshall, Kockville, Greencastle, Sullivan and all the amall towns about us, as having dwindled to mere hamlets. In other words Terre Haute is a center. It is already established in railroads and wilt have more roads. It has the cheapest fuel, b«8 an unlimited oil field yet undescribed. The Wabash river may at any time be of great value to the city. It only requires the proper invention to make travel as rapid upon the smooth surface of rivers as upon the rails.

As Terre Haute is thus a center her attraction over a oertain territory will be greater than Chicago's power in that territory. This city can never be a rival to Chicago, but it can have its own sphere and live handsomely in that. This gives to the property owner and investor a confidence and security in the future. To #sthis community there will in all human if probability come a constant increment of population and to property an increment of value. No one can be called unwise for investing money in Terre Haute. He would be unwise to invest in the small towns above named and expect in the long run of years the same increments that will come here. Then why may not

Chicago be ft better place for investment than Terre Haute? The chances are that it fill prove the better place. However, vames are now so high thure that it requires vast sums of money to purchase property, Outride influences ami low interest have already done much to raise values very high. The basin of a paying income there calls for a lower dividend than here. Chicago properly, gilt edged, often passes at an amount that will barelv pay Ave per cent dividend. Hero it is often difficult to sell the very best property for a sum ten times greater than the annual Income. »». Hence somewhere in the future this

means that wheu Terre Haute property can be sold for twenty instead of ten years purchase by income, values will double, although income may remain the same. Between Terre Haute and Sullivan, for instance, no such great difference exists in the matter of income expected from property. Hence the best reason exhts why a man should sell Sullivan and Paris property and buy Terre Haute property. Who fully foresees the future of Terre Haute may become a rich man by judicious investment in real estate.

XOTKSI.

John 0. Heinl is tearing away his frame building, number 1123 Bast Wabash avenue, and will replace it with a two story brick store room.

Excavation has been commenced just east of Tli irteentli-and -a- half street on Main. A new buiding will be erected and occupied as a drug store.

The Terre Haute Real Estate and Improvement Company have publish**! a neat list of their property, containinir •fifteen pages and illustrated by Ed Seidomridge.

Reirnan A Steeg have bought seventyfive feet north of Kidder's Main street mill. The ground will be used for the storage of sower pipe and tile. The ground passed at $15 per foot.

The increase of value is beginning to show on North End lots purchased a year Ago. One young man bought a lot for $250 and this week sold it for $375. Another gentleman purchased two lota for $500. Upon one lot he haa built a house and has refused $500 for the remaining vacant lot.

An English syndicate is reported to have bought 100,000 acres of land in Mi* souri. The land has cost them about §23 per acre. The company desires to secure 200,000 acres, most of the land being mineral. Query—will not the English turn to buviug knd ®oou as tnty are slotded with umnufactttrfag pbmte?

Burt Rock wood last summer bought 75 lieet on the North side of Main street between Ei^ th and Ninth front kwt. He has s-u- off eighteen .tvefuLtho rate of «162 per front foot

•Increase as was made the past year. Chances are fair that next summer Urn ground will pass at $200 per fool on the market.

Would it not pay Mr. Beach to open the alley from Ohio Street to Mam street into a street. On one side of

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is a three story building occupied by W* W, Oliver and on the other aide the rarnl» ture house of Ooet*. One of these b» lings would t* he ^~n down way for the 5 I this alley wmwmhI into a street O-ji'11 street a doomed to re!-- in a ^Another street iv_aldgi\ :t -«w..tor basin lis is receiving «Hr^Te tm -taid in to

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is a pa to at on a »n tin* w-.itttiy, **.

ijiitlv few* h*wt to ration iitaeartV.o I*"-* to

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to re advance to an .onnl to to •vailing w' -.ae in 'Vr Wl Ind»*»a- alu* shs- of attend Uien 5 to tlauto will be given whirl by oute ioi*.

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provement A great many people cross the railroad from the west side to trade in the East End. Bents are generally low and property is valued at about $100 per front foot. The East End is occupied by quite a lively lot of business men who mean to bring their houses to the front. The transfer system of the street railway has been of considerable value and people can come from any part of town.

THE NEWS would like to be able

On Wednesday evening of this week a count was kept at the railroad crossing on Main street of all the people passing between half past four and five o'clock. In all there were 232 persons on foot. Of this number 186 parsed along the south sidewalk and forty-six on the north side. Business men upon this street claim that fully four persons walk on the south side to one on the north, the whole year round. This matter of counting the persons passing upon the sidewalk is a good suggestion. It would give an interesting result if the business men in each block from Third to Seventh street would contribute ten cents apiece for the purpose of hiring a boy to count all the passers by on some certain Saturday from 9 a. m. to 0 p. m. The result would not be a sure index to where most people trade, but would indicate the best location for trade, in the long run people attract the stores more than the stores attract the people. The result would surprise many.

White Ilalr on Younjf IleatU.

Ladies do not blonde the hair so much as formerly, but now that white hair has become fashionable in Paris, the constant question is, "How can I make my hair perfectly white?" Ladies do not seem to wish to wait for time to bleach their locks, but would like, like Marie Antoinette, to turn white in a single night As there is no preparation that it is safe to use, I invariably discourage such attempts. I know a fashionable woman who went to Europe a few years ago and while there spent weeks at V.ihy, the health resort. She was persuaded by a coiffeur there to make use of a wonderful wash, which he assured her would obliterate the few brown hairs left on her head. The high price he asked was paid, and the purchaser departed, religiously following his instructions, and making a daily application. Not only did the brown hair take French leave, but the white hair as well, and the St. Louis lady Baved a small amount of her chevieure by throwing the treacherous bottle out of the window. But, I assure you, vanity is not only seen in women, for only last week a great fat butcher, weighing about 2S0 pounds, came into my establishment to purchase a mask, one of those used by ladies to beautify and whiten the skin, and only worn at night He, too, desired to be beautified, and purchased the mask and some emollient cream, after carefully inquiring into the modus operandi and the results to follow. It would have seemed to me more natural had he applied one of his own beefsteaks to his lace, like the famous tola Monte*, but he put his purchase under his arm with as much contentment as if it were a magician's wand which was to change him into an

Adonk.—(Interview

Hair Dresser,

in St Louis

reraUn Flower Worship.

A recent traveller in India gives the following description ol flower worship practised by the Persians in Bombay. A true Persian in flowing robe of blue, and on his head a sheepskin hat—black, glossy, curly, the fleece of Kar-Kal— would saunter In and istand and meditate over every flower he saw, and always as if half in vision. And when the vision was fulfilled, and the ideal flower he was seeking found, he would spread his mat and sit before it until the setting of the sun, and then fold up his mat and home. The next night, and night after night, until that particular flower faded away, he would return to it and bring his friends in ever-increasing troops to it, and sit and play the guitar or lute before it, and they would all together pray there, and after prayer still ait before it, sipping sherbet and talking the most hilarious and allocking scandal into the moonlight, and so again every evening until the flower died.

by way of a grand finale, the whole compay would suddenly arise before the flower and serenade it together with an ode from Baflx, and depart*

Tito la valuable Chopper.

•What's troubltn* yer, Jakey?" inquired the proprietor of a ThiHoenth-avenue restaurant, as he noticed his head waiter hanging aroxmd the cash desk. *JDe oook wants to know wot wa do wid restiddv pieces. •Much?" •Quite some. •Wot are they I* *Dere's half a ham, fire cold veal catVh, some liver, nineteen chicken wings, .... I twelve pieces ol mutton. "You tell the oook, Jakey, to put *era In and work de chopper, and dan put on the blackboard: 'Special to-day, "Excelsior croquettes, two fer ton.**1

S« Will Slay Away*

•Do yon know, George* I wish yo« *ou!d stay at home to-morrow. •Why. darling?" •Oh» hr'n'vf this afternoon a terrible looking same here while yon were away and ordered fine to give him acmething to u. so 3 had to give him all that cake I made last Saturday, and, Oe. „e, he says he's coming back Uy moerow.* "Did he ihe cake, darting?* •Yea, t"'d *t—every bit* •Weil, rn, eat few mt»d at rest, dear he will ndve? cocas back.

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state to the public the amount invested in the building and loan societies during the year 1888. There are so many of these societies and it being the duty of no one to collect statistics, no one has taken the trouble to ascertain the exact amount of money paid each year mlto these associations. THS NEWS very much desires that some one will do this service for the public. The Indianapolis papers state that a million and a half doflars are paid yearly into the building societies of that city. That statement may be the result of collected statistics, or may be mere guess work. At any rate no figures have been given here showing the amounts paid.

In Robert Browning's beautiful j*em "Pippa Passes," & little girl who has a holiday, and so goes about her tfaliac. town happily singing, influences great and powerful people to better things bj the mere beauty and parity of her song. When they hear her young voice chant "God's in His Heaven," they no longer dare break Bis decreet and scorn His counsels. A clergyman tolls, in the Philadelphia Times, a story of Ids own peril near Harper's Ferry, at a time when there were many rough and dangerous men at work in the vi cinity.

He was traveling alone, and having lost his way on a lonely road, suddenly found himself in the midst of a gang of workmen. He greeted them politely, told them his difficulty, and two of them sullenly offered to show him the way. He accepted the faror, though with some misgivings, and walked on with them, trying to make himself agreeable. He says: "After a while we came to a dark place where they had been working on the road, and they proposed that I aho'ild stop and resit I was bound to Jo as they suggested, but could not help wondering if I should ever get up again. "Near them lay two short drills and these they took up, but said nothing. 1 seemingly did not notice this and talked to them about Ireland, for they were Irishmen, and asked about their families and everything which might interest them. "At last I thought I would try the power of song, so I sang all the Irish songs I could think of. Still they seemed wholly unmoved and had the same wicked look, and I felt that I did not yet dare move and bring about a crisis. "I remembered one more Irish song, 'The Irish Emigrant's Lament/ and 1 sang it with all the pathos I could put into my voice. In a few moments I saw their countenances change the muscles of their faces began to twitch and their eyes filled with tears, which soon rolled silently down their bronzed cheeks. "When I finished thev turned to me and said, with voices trembling with emotion, 'That song has saved your life. We had intended killing you for wliat money you might have, but we could not touch you now. That song of old Ireland has brought the dear homes and all the loved ones so strongly before us that now we will protect you and go with you until you are safe from all danger.' "And so they did, but you may be sure I was glad when we came to the plaoe of parting, for I did not know how long these batter feelings might last. When we parted, I shook hands with them cordially, saying, Erin go bragh, Ireland forever,' and walked off, forcing myself to go a little slowly lest I should excite their ill-will by seeming in too much hurry to get awav.

Storied for Boya.

Talking of the absurdities of a certain class of juvenile literature, Burdette says: No, oh, no we are not going to pitch into the penny blood-aud-thunder novelette, not right directly at any rate. We were looking over a story in the late number of a most excellent and highly respectable juvenile magazine a good magazine, that doubtless views with alarm, as do all the rest of us, ths poisonous literature of the news stand. This story is about a boy fifteen years old, who, while standing alone on his father's engine on a lonely siding, saw a runaway train of cars, started by the wind, sweep past bins down the grade. Unusual thing—the lightning express nearly duo the train dispatcher always manages to have a lightning express about due when anything of this kind happens. There is no "telegraph wire," either this is also unusual a road without a wir eis apt to run lightning expresses and limited trains every fifteen minutes. The boy thinks quickly. Boys of fifteen are always quick thinkers He ruus his engine out on the main line, setting the switches for himself, for his father lias gone to supper miles away in the country, presumably, as it is quite customary for railway engineers to take all their meals on distant ranches, leaving their engines in charge of children. The runaway cars "are miles away," and he has "less than an hour" to catch them. He caught the runaways, which were flying like the wind ho slowed up *with excellent judgment"—we should think so—crept along the side of the flying engine, got out on the pilot, lifted the coupling-bar with one hand, and reached over as he "made the coupling ind dropped the pin with the other had a struggle with the flying cars, but it last

checked

Sometimes,

TERRE HAUTE DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, l§9d.-SPPELEMENT.

Song.

them got them started

back he had made thirty-five miles an hour, and the "lightning" in sight making sixty—on a road without a wirehe had ten miles to run in this shape, tot he made it, got the siding, time to Uirn the switch, and the lightning thundered by. Then "the boy fainted lead away. No wonder it was enough •JO make a man faint to read it it was ligh time somebody fainted. We javen't the least objection to fiction we rather like it, but even fiction for boys thould have some setae in it Not much, perhaps, but just somei

There are about a hundred species of nosqttitoee in the world, occurring In all ilinvm. England lias eight or ten spe:ies» for mosquitoes, as well a Hessian lies, are as common in England as white Kittcrfties, Most, if not all, of the British spe-'i'-s, bite in very hot weather, «hea apparently, lil% their betters, they •equire more refreshment.

It is said that in London luncheon is x» take the pi.uv of dinner as a nciai function, the fr&uionable people i?currring to the I a its of their forefetfeers, will take ti»nr heartiest meal in he middle of the day.

The artistic arrar.,: •:r.-.?nt of natural lowers is part of every Japanese lady's oducati -a much more s&tifactory acwmpliUuMBt than the tnaaafeetere of form! monstrosities in wax.

Tfccrr pef-1^ in the United &ates h*. arttfic legs or hands^ fhis nu does not include disabled

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At atlraealaiu Escapes from D«*th of Georgia's Soldier-Governor. For the first two years of the war the life of General Gordon appeared to be protected by some omnipotent power. In leading his men he was constantly exposed, and though others fell on every side of him he remained uninjured. He was braised many times, but never once was a drop of.li is blood spilled. His clothes on several occasions were pierced am? rent by bullets, ids hat was twice lifted from his head, and Im canteen was shot from his side without his being hurt. Finally a superstition grew among the men that their leader bore a charmed life. And when the opening shot at the battle of Sharpsburg was fired it was asserted that the bullet had never been molded that would break the skin of Gordon. Before the close of tlie great fight, however, not only one but many bullets had found their billets in his body, and the Sixth Alabama regiment, which he commanded, mourned bitterly because they believed that their leader, who knew not what fear meant, was beyond all hope. In that one fight General Gordon had more narrow escapes than almost any other man who survived through the great four years' struggle.

At the beginning of the engagement a shell burst immedia'ely in front of him, and a large piece struck him fairly in chest. A bad bruise was inflicted, but Gordon never showed that he felt the pain of it and continued at the head of his men. Shortly after the explosion of the shell a bullet passed through the fleshy part of iiis right leg, but still he made no moan. A handkerchief tied about the limb absorbed the blood and served to set an example of endurance to the men. One hour later a ball passed through the same leg, between the lead ers and the knee joint another bandage was applied, and still the commander continued at hu post. Only half an hour later and the left arm, raised to emphasize an order, fell useless, a ball having passed through it, severing in its passage every tendon and also a small artery. The constant loss of blood made him weak, but the mighty will conquered pain, and all requests to retire from the fight were refused with scorn. Fifteen minutes later and a minie ball tore through his left shoulder, breaking in two and leaving half the lead buried in the bone. Tottering and scarcely able to stand, Gordon turned to rally his men, and as he did so the final wound was inflicted. Square in the left cheek the bullet struck, coming out under the ear. At last the wonderful physical energy gave way, and the dauntless commander fell forward, witb his mutilated face buried in his cap, and so he would have died, drowned by the blood that flowed so freely, but for a bullet hole which had pierced his cap unnoticed, and allowed the red fluid to epcape. How long General Gordon lay there unconscious he never knew, but the sensations he experienced, as he himself describes them, must have been very terrible. He says he felt that a 6-pound shot had carried away his head. He argued with himself that if his head was gone he could no longer think, as the brain must have baen destroyed. Then he concluded that he was dead, and it was only the immaterial part of the man still hovering over the useless clay that was thinking finally he decided that if he were alive he could move his legs, but if he were dea he had no legs. With a great effort 1 did move his limbs and, pierced as they were, he drew them almost to his chest. The effort sent the little blood remaining in his body to the brain, and he recovered consciousness only to faint again. When he next came to himself he was on a litter being takon to the rear. For seven months General Gordon remained away from his command. At the end of that time, though his

wound3

his

body

were

only partially he.ded, he returned to duty as brigadier general He passed through several other desperate conflicts without injury, and was not wounded again until at the battle of Shepherdstown, in 1863, a bullet struck him in the head just above the hair and inflicted a bad wound.

On the 35th of Match. 1865, the battle of Stead man was fougut. and General Gordon, as a corps commander, received his last wound, a ball piercing his right leg-

Among his relics Genf""**1 Gordon keeps an iron bound oJw-'.-book which once saved his life. He carried it in his pocket and a ball struck it and bent it double. Had it not been for the pocketbook the missile would have torn through the hip bone and would almost surely have caused death.—[Atlanta Constitution. ..

Oae or Magician Keller'* Stories.

"Wliile in India," said Magician Keller to some friends recently, "I saw many things done by the native masters of legerdemain th completely 'stumped* me, and some scientific gentlemen that were with nip. The most wonderful performances^were in hynotism.

Framjee Cow&sjee Jeejoebhoy, a millionaire Rasee merchant, son of Framjee Cowasjee, the founder of the Bombay institute of physical inquiry bearing his name, gave me his word for this remarkable story: •"In the North of India, was a famous hvpontist who possessed the power of hypontixing hiawelf. His wife, who knew his secret, was accustomed to revive him whenever he exercised this exceptional power, fie killed a man and was sentenced to execution. Several days be the time of the execution he hypnot^J himself, passing into a condition which apparently was death. So perfect was the semblance to government physicians who were called in officially certified that be was dead and ordered

Care

mated But at this

point his wife appeared. She was stricken with grief, moaned and wept until

the

hearts of

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authorities were

touched. She vis permitted to talcs away tha body for private

geuier they escaped^

cmmtJism.

i« revived bar husband, and to-

Ko tu* for a girl to tell her deaf and dumb lover to "speak to pa.

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A LITTLB GJSX.

My lady trips the stairs adown To greet the rays ot morning, Which glisten round her head and crown.

Her natal day adorning.

What age's my lady? Just thirteen. You'd think she was far older. Her witching eyes have grown more keen*

Her teens, too, make her colder.

Alasl

how childhood with

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whirl

From yesterday Is fleeting. o&Ued her then **a little girl'" To-day she scorns this greeting.

Hit on, my lady, through the years f.ggWhich give to youth their plenty love and grief, of hopes and fears,

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Till age proclaims you twenty.

r»iea as each year time steals a curl And dimple from you (doubting^, Methinks I'd call you "little girl"

Without disdainful pouting. —iW. C. Nichols in Boston Transcript,

To Wara Off Xnflnensa and Broncliilli.

To be able to ward off attacks is better far than to cure them. This will hardly be effected by the constant use of medicine, cordials, stimulants, etc., which 1 am never tired of deprecating nor by toe much coddling indoors, for no man oi woman can have a hardy chest who does not breathe pure air. This is as essential as food, if not more so nor by a too warm temperature in the bed-room, which ought to be about 60 degrees Fahrenheit all night and kept uniform by a judicious banking of the fire nor by too great a weight or pressure of bed clothing, which is always prejudicial indirectly, if not directly, by weakening the system. Nor by wearing a great abundance of clothing out of doors, which also weakens not only the chest, but the whole system. Daily exercise of a pleasant but non-fatiguing kind is imperative. The sufferer should not be too much afraid of the weather, but be protected against it Light warm clothing defends one against the cold, a light waterproof should be worn, but only when the rain falls, while as for dry powdery snow it hardly-signifies.

Sunshine should be courted. Gentle exercise taken in the sun and out of a draught cannot be too highly recommended.

Avoidance of chills sliould be studied. If carriage exeroise be taken it should not boon a day when high wind blows against the person. The only bad effectfc ot night air lie in its being colder and generally damper than that of day. A sudden change from a warm room t. a cold one, if one stands about In it, very often gives a disagreeable chill, or coming out of heated apartments into the &ir of night without being well wrapped up.

Weak-chested people would do well not to take the morning tub cold, but tepid There is a plan of bath I have rec mmonded to many, and which is very bej eUcial in securing that action of skin ho accessary. But, indeed, it is an Irish bull to call it a bath, for it consists in simply well rubbing the body every morning with dry rough to»vels.

I have recommended also the rubbing of the chest with a saturated solution of the ordinary sea salt of the shops, and ilie wearing of a light client-protector. The strength of the weak-cheated should be kept up to par, but not beyond it. Any approach to grossness or overfultiess of blood is favorable to a return of the cough, as the secretions become vitiated.

Milk is a good thing. A small cupful in the morning before getting up will do fpxd, but I cannot approve of adding any rum to it Plain, easily digested food is the best the meat should be tender, or it will not be easily assimilated iish and game in season. Vichy water with meals occasionally does good, or lemonade aud lime juice.—-fCassell's Magazine.

Bow to Drink Mlllc.

If a glass of it is swallowed hastily It enters the stomach and then forms in one curdled mass, difficult of digestion. If, on the other hand, the same quantity is sipped and three minutes at least are occupied in drinking it, then on reaching the stomach it is so divided that, when coagulated, as it must be by the gastric juice while digestion is going on, instead of being in one hard, condensed mass, upon the outside of which only the digestive fluids can act, it is more in the form of a sponge, and in and out of the entire bulk the gastric juice can play freely and perform its function.

Mrs. Logan as an Editor.

Mrs. John A. Logan has become distinctly a literary woman, and each day finds her in the editorial chair presiding over her Home Magazine. The cares of editorial work have certainly not left their traces on Mrs. Logan's face. She retains her perfect health aud seems contented in her new work. Her hair is now snow white, which she wears sombed very high. Her eyes are as expressive as ever, while her manners entertain the same charms as of old. She to a thorough business woman, with an appreciation of the practical side of literature, and this aids her wonderfully in her editorial duties. \/r_*

Colonel Ingersoll, speaking OB "Tobacco** at a banquet of the Legal Protective Association of Cigar Manufacturers in New York, said "I have loved It all my life—that is, since I was 1C yearn old—and I liked the first chew of -Jd plug I put into my mouth as well a* I do now. There's too much hypocrisy ibout the use of tobacco thousands use it and lie about it I want you to uw it rod defend its use, because it adds something to the value and happiness of life, in spite of the thunders of the pufpu uid the anathemas of physicians its use is increasing and thb is because the arain of man ewes it"

A smart little boy in Georgia, who was kicked by a mule, instead of saying oaughty words or going home crying to his mother, tied the mule within five feet of a beehive, backed him around to itaxtd let him kick.

The most common error of men and women is to look for happiness outride jf useful work. It has never been found when thus sought, aad never wili b» while the can revolves aad the earth

JL XJBRroea HUXTJSR.

How a Famous Mississippi Crack She* Missed llli Game.

Almost any portion of Mississippi furnishes good fields for sporting, and there is scarcely a citizen old enough to vote who does not own his gun and dogs. Quite naturally, there is always an abundance of stories in this connection, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat, and the wayfaring man has but to loiter around any one of the small country hotels to gather in a goodly supply of palatable yarns.

George Nance, a peculiarly bright and happy fellow, hails from West Point, while he travels from St Louis. His fund of anecdotes is as prolific as his calling makes him ubiquitous. "Did I ever lose my nerve on a hunt?" he asked around the Diilard House stove. "Well, I should say so. I keep at home one of the handsomest little 22Winchesters in the country, which I use on small game, and many's the robin red-breast I have picked off the china trees around my yard. "One morning I went out into the woods alone to find anything in sight, but after an hour's teaming around I seated myself on a log and pulled out a turkey call I had in my pocket Laying the rifle across my lap and tucking my hunting cap over my eyes, I began calling, little dreaming I would bring anything. I was almost dozing, I believe, when suddenly I recognized the familiar 'cluck,' 'cluck,' 'cluck' of turkeys. I was so frightened I trembled like a leaf. Slowly raising my eyes I saw a full dozen heavy gobblers within twenty feet of me, moving around nervously. I could have killed one with a rock. As gradually as I could raise my rifle from my lap I brought it down on one of the biggest fellows, aimed at the front edge of his wing and fired. Well, sir, I missed him six feet 1 The ball struck a red oak and peeled the bark the height of a man above my aim.n

The crowd around the office stove roared. "Another time," continued Nance,

UI

was walking along the banks

of Big creek, in Clay county, going up stream. Looking for duck, I was not surprised to see a large flock swimming not 200 feet away. They must have seen me, also, for they moved away lik® a rocket, still in the water. I'll circle around and get 'em,'said I to myself, but when I did so they were exactly the same distance away as when first discovered. I took another half circle, with the same result "Just then I remembered a bend .irr the stream about a quarter of a mile away and I hastened to head them off. I wis pretty tired from my race, and having taken ambudi behind a scrub growth on the banks, I sat down to await the coming of my game. In a litwhile my dog pricked up his ears and I Btarted. Right upon my nose, having swam around the bend out of my fight, were at least fifty mallards, some of them great big black fellows. Again I trembled, and when I tried to shoot, hanged me if I didn't miss the whole business. But I got four the second shot, just the same—a week later—at the same bend."

ItOVQM Qtr JASPER.

Bat General Mahone Manages to Pass Pearly Galea.

To point an argumeut the CourierJournal revives a speech made by Abram Jasper to the colored picnic at Shantytown in the last Virginia campaign: Feller freemen, says he, you all know me. I am Abram Jasper, a Republican from away back. When there have been any work to do I has voted early and often. When there has been any fightin' to do I has been in the thiokest of it I are above-proof, old-line, and tax-paid. And I has seed many changes, too. I has seed the Republican up. I has seed the Democrat up. But I is yet to see the nigger up. 'Tother nij^ht I had a dream. I dreamt that I died and went to heaven. When I got to the pearly gates old Salt Peter he says: -W' h?" says he. "A am aper,BsaysI "Is you iounted oris you afoot?" says he. "I's afoot," says "Well, you can't come in here," says he. "Nobody's 'lowed in here 'cept them as come mounted,"says he. "Dat's hard on me,"says I, "arter comin all this distance.n But he neber says nothin' mor\ and so I starts back, and about half way down de hill who does I meet but Gen'l William Mahone. "Wliar is you gwine, Gen'l?" says "I is gwine to heaven," says he. "Why, Gen'l," says I, "'tain't no use, Tee just been up dar and nobody's 'lowed to get in 'cept dey comes mounted, and you's iifoot" "Is lat so?" says he. ,»

Yes, it is," says Well, de Gen'l sorter scratched his head, an' arter a while he says, says he "Abram, I tf 11 you what let's da Suppose you get down on all fours, an* I'll mount an'ride you in, an* dat way we kin both get in." "Gen'l. "says I,"do you think you could or it "I know I kin, "says he. "So down I gits on all fours, and de Gen'l gets a straddle, an' we ambles up do hill agin an' prances up to de gate, in' ole Salt Peter, he says: "Who's dar?" ti: "Gen'l William Mahone of Virginey," jays be. "Is yon mounted or is you afoot says he "I is mounted," says be. "ALi right Jen hitch your boss outside, Gen'l, aad sad come right in. •*-----•-'-••8

The Hatband Sbeald Talk The average woman sees no one from daylight to dark but her husband and children and hired girL Her husband never talks state affairs to her. If he hears down town that some man has run off with another man's wife, be tells her of It. and then complains afterward that the talks scandal

"Why do you suppose Pafcti dyed her hair?" "Oh. for diva's reason*."—[Pack.

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