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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

"FoR seven long years struggled away
farming, running "a mill, &c, until was
fortunately introduced to B. f. Johnson q
Co., Richmond, Va, by my brother, and ]
went to work at once, and in scvet months l
had made more clear money than had made
in the seven years before. They took me
right by the hand from the start and seemed
to be very glad of tho chance to show me
how to do it." This is about what young
man said year or so ago of the above-men'
toned firm. Since that time he has been
steadily at work for them, and is now one
of the happiest men in America. Ifyou need
employment it would be good thing for you
to follow this young mans example.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15
b THE WESTERN MULE
The Burro's Interesting. Amusing and Ex-
asperating characteristics.

@@&o 1aAAV AhtoFtbthuks AhusiuS Auu El1-
asperating Characteristics.
"a man who has roughed it out
among the mountains it was said at
a saies-stable the other day. "remem-
bers the mules about as well and as
long as any thing"
1t is just about at this time, the
speaker told, when asked why the mind
should be particularly impressed by
the familiar quadruped that good
many are rounded up for the summers
work after being turned out all winter,
AS natural to expect a mule that has
had no restraint for several months is
inclined to show the worst side when
the hand of would-be master begins
to be felt. A drove of one hundred or
so in a corral fresh from the plains will
carry just about as much downright
''cussedness" as can be found in any
brute collection under the sun. The
first thing is to have them shod. Such
thing as one OF them consenting to
the job is unknown, but frontier black
smiths have no fear or hesitation, and
in trice the mule is tied up and
irOned.
New phases of character are con-
tinually unfolding in the most positive
manner. One. for instance, will be
amiable and pleasant until led up to be
saddled, when all at once he will APP
parently be possessed of the evil spirit
itself Another will resist all attempts
to saddle and pack until the others
have been attended to, when he will
be as docile as could be wished for.
Another, perhaps used for riding, will
not let a match be lighted by any one
on his back without an outbreak, but
will not object to smoking. Some will
wade through stream without hest.
tation, and another will vigorously OBJ
ject to wetting his feet When in the
water If one falls down and any water
| gets into his big ears, he will lie anG
drown without struggle. They are
very private and particular about
their ears, objecting to having then
handled.
1t is not easy to gain mules conf
dence. They are absurdly timid, ant
If one OF drove is scared the rest are
also panic-stricken. An old black los
always makes mule shy. Snakes
terrify and bears paralyze them. On
the plains no squirting or whipping
can drive mule up to an Indian
Take a number of mules and throw
their reins over some OF the others
ears and they will stand all day in thu
belief that they are securely tied. :
St. Louis GlObe-DemOcrat
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15
Not Without Its Advantages.

SMITH notice you are as bald as
m ostrich's egg, Jones
Jones-Been that way since / was a
young man.
S-Don't you find it little annoy
ing?
J.-Well. it is not without its al
yantages I am married man, you
know.-Boston Courier.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15
enterprises Of Great PIth and Nome, 1t

Have, ere now, had their currents turned
awry,ip as Hamlet says, by an attacko OF dys-
pepsia. Napoleon failed 10 improve his adj
vantage at Austerlitz in consequence, 1T IS
said, of indigestion brought on by some iu-
discretion in eating. In order TO avoid dys-
pepsia, abstain from over indulgence; and
prccede the meal by q wineglasstul OF Hos
tetter's Stomach Btters, more effective than
any dietetic in improving the tono of the
stomach. Liver complaint, chills and fever
and rheumatism are annihilated by the
Bitters.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

THE Elizabeth Thompson science fund,
established by the woman whose name it
bears ''for the advancement ard prosecu
ton of scientific research in its broadcast
scnse.n now amounts to $4,000. The sum
of So 600 has already been bestowed on in.
vestigators1 for important researches, and
there Is now some accumulated income
AVnilnhln
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15
OCCURRING OF LATE.

A LONDON paper says 500 Cornwall fam.
flies are reported to be wearing Grape for
relatives lost in the Conemaugh valley.
81 WANT 1900 girls to pick strawberries, y
was an advertisement in Connecticut
paper which sent about 700 girls on wild
goose chase to the country. Some one had
done it for q job on an old farmer.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

AMONG the most wonderful inventions Of
the age is musical instrument, or n com
binatiOn of musical instruments, known
as the "Pickaphone.r 1t consists Of eight
stringed instruments, vlclins and the like,
eight bells and one triangle. It is whole
orchestra in itself. and certainly Is a monu-
ment 70 the patience offs inventor, Charles
S. Crawford, Of Plymouth, O.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

The whole apparatus Of the new electro
pneumatic signal balloon, including the ma
chine for making the gas, weighs only fifty
two pounds and can be conveniently carried
by one man. The balloon is held captive by
two wires connected with two electro-mag-
nets acting on cylinder Of compressed air
which works a set of signal arms.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

to use uncertain means when suffering
from diseases of the liver, blood or lungs,
such as bilousness, or silver complaint"
skin diseases, scrofulous sores or swellings,
or from lung scrofula commonly known as
consumption of the lungs) when DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery is guaranteed to
cure all these affections, II taken in time, or
money paid for it will be promptly refunded.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

ADoLPH STRUTHEIs, of Hancock County,
o., is bound to keep cool this summer. He
has invented fan to be placed in his hat,
which is run by an electric battery carried
IN one of his pockets. He has been using
the fan for several weeks past and says it
works perfectly and that he doesn't mind
the extra weight.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15
RALEIGH, N. c., Feb. Goth, 1888.

DR.. A. T. SHALLENBERGER,
Rochester, Pa Dear Sir:-I wish
to say word in behalf of your wonderful
Chill and Fever Pills. Some months ago a
friend, who knew that my wife had been
afflicted for months, sent me package of
your pills. I gave them to her and they
cured her at once. A neighbor, Mr.. Perry,
had suffered with chlls for more than a
year, and had taken Quinine until his hear
ing was greatly injured. Seeing the cure
wrought in my wife's case. he procured q
bottle of pills and was speedily restored to
perfect health. / feel that this is due to
you. Very truly, REV. j. d. DAVIS.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

MORE than third of the board school
mistresses in London get salaries of over
$1,000 a year, and there are altogether ABOUT
one thousand in the metropolis and The
provinces altogether who receive $3.50 OF
upward.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

THOUSANDS of people place necklaces OF
coral beads around the necks of babies, with
tie belief that they will assist the children
In teething.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

FIVE cents saved on soap; five dollars lost
on rotted clothes. Is that ec0nomDF There
is not s cents difference between the cost OF
bar of the poorest soap made and the best,
which is as all know, Dobbins' Electric.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

IT has cost the city of Boston to supply
school-books for the last five years an aver
age per year of sixty -three cents for each
scholar. The number Of scholars is sci
down at 60 OOY
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

MISS AMELIA b. EDWARDS, the popular
English novelist, who is coming to America
to lecture on Egypt, has long been on the
staff of one of the great London dailies, a
fact known TO but very few people.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

ALL disorders caused by billions state OF
the system can be cured by using Carter's
Little Liver Pills. No pain, gripping or dis
comfort attending their use. Try them.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

ASwIss chemist has invented new full.
minating mixture that can be carried about
with perfect safety, but will explode with
a deafcning report II brought in contact
with drop of ether or alcohol.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

ARE as small as homeopathic pellets, and
as easy to take as sugar. Everybody likes
them. Carriers Little Liver Pills. Try them.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

WHEN the policeman says "Move ont it
is wise to move. He has two advantages;
club and the semblance of law.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

THE New York Legislature, just before
adjournment authorized the creation of five
extra normal schools, costing the State this
year about S350, 900.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

WHEN the Saxon dynasty was overthrown
by the Normans all persons below certain
rank were forbidden TO wear necklaces
under heavy penalties.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

In South America the natives wear neck
laces of peculiarly marked seed which be
longs TO plant growing only on the mount
aims along the snow line.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

1T is estimated that the Protestant
churches of the United States contribute
annually 000 for foreign missions.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

TIE Puritans abolished necklaces, as they
abolished every thing they laid their hands
on which savored of ornament.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

TRUSTS are combinations of men and cor
ruptions that canLot trust one another.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

A sALLow skin acquires a healthy clear
ness by the use of Genn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whiskcr Dye, 50 cents.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

THE jamestown (Pa) School Board has
issued orders forbldding lady teachers 10
embark either in counting or matrimony.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

The next thing to having wisdom our
selves, is to profit by that Of others.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

$500 offered for an incurable case of Ca
tarrh in the Head, by the proprietors of DR..
Sage's Remedy.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

Try a small patch Of white beans
for q winter supply. They require
less labor than cern
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

A POCKET mirror free to smokers of sTan-
sill's Punchn &c. Cigar.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

liz afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Taompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. Csc
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

MEN would be less wicked il they would
hu MT for fewer opportunities.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

VINION COLLEGE of LAW, Chicago. Fall Term be-
u gins ept Is. For circular add.H Booth, Chicago.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-15

ILI.) LAW SCHOOL, Fall term
ID begins Sept. To- For Circular ads Il. NJ BENJAMIN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22
EXCITING WOLF HUNTS.
How the Lapps Pursue and XIII the Rein
deer's Destroyer.

How the Lapps Pursue and XIII the Rein
deer's Destroyer.
Youths Companion.l
The Swedish Lapps live entirely with, by,
and upon the reindeer. A Lapp who owns a
thousand deer is a very rich man; but as
taxes are assessed upon the number Of deer,
he is inclined to underestimate his herd.
The most dangerous enemy to the herd is
the wolf, which if disposed, can kill 30 deer
in q night. A band Of wolves can make
rich Lapp poor.
When the snow is deep and soft, and it is
announced that the wolf-tracks have been
seen in the neighborhood OF the deer, the
swiftest runners on snow-shces prepare for
an exciting chase. The wolf may have a
start of mile or two, but the track it leaves
in the deep, soft snow is 50 prominent that the
hunters can follow it at their best speed. The
wolf, though he may run fast, has but q
slight chance for escaping the short men
who, on snow-shoes, rush through the wood,
dart down steept hills, and jump from lodges
several yards in height.
Each hunter does his best to outrun the
others, for the wolf belongs to the Lapp who
strikes the first blow. As soon as the lead
ing hunter is close enough to the wolf, he
gives it heavy blow across the loins with
his strong, spiked snow-shoe staff. III there
are other wolves to be pursued, he kills it
outright; if not, he disables it, and waits till
all the hunters have arrived, before giving
the death stroke.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22

pointed to them, to raise the spirits Of his
exhausted "moles," but the sight Of them
had quite an opposite effect; for the man s
unkempt hair was already gray, though he
was hardly past so, his tall figure bent and
haggard, and his bare back striped with
many scars and clotted blood, while
his wife, who had shared his fate,
had gone blind: She sat huddled on
an ass in the brooding melancholy of mania;
and although the prison gang, as they
marched past, loudly broke the silence Of
the desert, and her hearing was as sharp as
ever, she paid no heed to them, but stared
unmoved into vacancy.
The sight of these hapless wretches held
up his own hideous fate as clearly as a
mirror before Joshua's eyes; for the first
time he groaned aloud and clasped his
hands over his face. This the driver no.
ticed, and touched by the horror of a man
whose powers Of endurance had till now
seemed indomitable, he cried to him "But
they do not all return like this-no. indeed,
not like this ~
sBecause they are even more utterly
wretched," he thought to himself, "bnt that
poor fellow need not know that. Next time
/ come this way will remember to ask for
Joshua, for shall be curious to know what
will become of such bull of man. The
strongest and most determined often are the
quickest to perish"
At this he fourished his whip over the
heads of his gang as if he were driving a
team of horses, without touching them,
however. Then he pointed to a cloud of
smoke rising from behind wall of rock on
the right hand and said:
"There are the smelling furnacesl We
shall be in by midday. There is no lack
of fires here to cook our lentils, and bit of
sleeps flesh into the bargain; for we are
keeping the kind gods birthday, the Son of
Ra. Long may he liYel Hail and good
health to himp
For half an hour longer they toiled along
the dry bed a torrent, with high banks on
each side; after the storm a roaring noun
tain stream had rushed down this gully to
the lower ground, and even now few pools
were exhaling their moisture. When the
melancholy train had made their way
round a steep shoulder of rock, on the top
of which stood q small Egyptian temple to
Hathor and q considerable number of grave.
stones, they found themselves close to a
bend in the ravine which led to the gorge
where the mines lay.
Flags were waving from tall masts in
front of the temple IN honor of Pharaoh's
birthday; and when presently q noise came
up from the valley, usually so silent, of
shouts. and tumult and clatter, the driver
expressed his opinion that the high fes-
tival was being kept by the prisoners with
unwonted jollity, saying SO to the other
guards who had paused to listen.
So they moved forward without delay;
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22

by degrees, an anxious frown came on her
brow, and she softly gasped out; "It is we'll
yes. all is well-but yet one thing Ny
body, unembalmed-With no holy anu
lets"
And here Nun again interrupted her, say
ing: "As soon as we have closed your ewes I
will deliver it, safely wrapped, to the Phe-
nician seaman who is close at hand, that he
may convey it to your father"
She tried to turn her head TO thank him
with q loving glance; but suddenly she
clutched at her throat with both hands, dark
blood rose to her lips. bright fame tinged
her cheeks and faded to dead white, and
after snort and painful struggle she sank
back. Death had laid his hand on the low
ing heart, and her face wore the look Of
child's whose mother has forgiven 1t some
fault, and kissed it before it fell asleep.
Nun closed her eyes, weeping as he did 50;
Ephraim, deeply moved, kissed the dropping
lids; and after few moments silence the
old man said: 81 trouble myself very little
about the lite beyond the grave. of which
even Moses knows nothing; but one who
lives as she has lived must always survive
in the faithful memory of those whom she
loved, and she has done her part, 1t seems to
me, to attain immortality. We will dispose
of her body according to our promise, and
then set forth to prove to him for whom
Kasana gave all she had to give, that we
love him no less well than the Egyptian
woman"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22

It is by right. Yet, that you should be
willing to yield your own dignity to me, I
take as a noble deed; for I know full well
how hard il is for q man to resign power,
more especially in favor Of q younger man
who is not dear to his heart. This you have
done, and thank you. And 1, too, have
had evil thoughts OF you, tor through you I
lost another blessing which a man finds it
harder to give up than his ofice-the. love
of a woman"
Hereupon the blood mounted to Hur's
face, and he exclaimed: "Miriaml never
forced her to marry me. Nay, without my
paying for her even, after the manner OF our
fathers, she became my wife of her own free
will"
''I know it." replied Joshua calmly.
"Still, another than you had loved and
Wooed her longer and more fervently, and
the fires of jealousy burn fercely. But
have no fears. If you were now to get
bill Of divorce and bring her to me, that
should open my arms anl tent to her,
should say: Wherefore have you done
this thing to yourself and to me2'
For I have just now learned what the
love of woman is and can do, and was
mistaken when believed that she loved me
as hotly as loved her. Yes, and in the
course Of my vanderings, with fetters on my
feet, in grief and misery, vowed to my
self that would devote all that is in me Of
the fire and lorce of love to no single Great
ure, but all to- my people. /. Not even the
love of woman shall ever turn me away from
the great duty have taken upon me. And
as for your wife, I am as a stranger to her,
unless it be that she sends tor me, as
prophecies, to declare to me some new pur-
pose of the Lord" And be, on his part,
held out his hand and Hur took it.
[ To be continued nezt Sunddy.J
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22
LIFE OF SHOOTING STARS.

Myrinds Of Little Mereors That May Have
Wandered for Ages.
A small body, perhaps as large as q paw
ing-stone or larger, more often perhaps not
as large as a marble. is moving round the
sun. Just as q mighty planet reYolVes in
an elIipse, so this small objecE will move
round and round In an ellipse, with the sun
in the focus. There are at the present mo-
nent, we find in "The Story of the
Heavens" inconceivable myriads of such
meteors moving in this manner. They are
too small and too distant for our telescopes,
and we can never see them except under ex-
traordinary circumstances. At the time we
see the meteor it is usually moving with
enormous velocity, so that it often traverses
a distance of more than 20 miles in second
of time. Such velocity is almost impossi-
BILE near the earth surface; the resistance Of
the air would prevent it. Aloft, in the
emptiness Of space, there is no air to resist
the meteors. It may have been moving
round and round the sun for thousands, per-
haps for millions of years, without let or
hindrance; but the supreme moment arrives
and the meteor perishes in q streak of
splendor.
In the course OF It's WanderlngS the body
comes nearer the earth and within few hun
dred milesOf its surface of course begins to en-
counter the upper surface of the atmos-
phere with which the earth is inclosed. To
q body moving with the appalling velocity
of meteor, plunge into the atmosphere
is usually fatal. Even though the upper
layers of air are excessively attenuated, yet
they suddenly check the velocity, almost as
n rifle bullet would he checked when fred
into water. As the meteor rushes through
the atmosphere the friction of the air warns
its surface, gradually it becomes red-hot,
then white-hot, and is finally driven off
into vapor with brilliant light, while we
on the earth, one or two hundred miles be-
low, exclaim: "oh lOOkI there is a shooting
star "
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22
CHAPTER XIV.

The prisoners were making their way but
slowly to the mines. Never in all his ex-
perience had the leader of the gang known
worse journey through the desert. more
luckless in every way, or so beset with mis-
haps and hIndrances.
One of his "mOles," Ephraim, to wit, had
made his escape; he had lost one of his faith
full hounds; and after his gang had been ter
ri6ed and drenched by such storm as
scarcely befell once in five years in all that
thirsty tract, another overlook them on the
following daY-the same in which Pharaoh
and his host had perished-even more vio-
lent than the first The tempest had stopped
their march, and after this second deluge
some of his prisoners and men had sickened
with fever from sleeping on the wet ground
in the open air. Even the Egyptian asses,
unaccustomed to the rain, had suffered from
the wetting, and the best had been left to
die on the way.
AT last they had been compelled to bury
two Of their comrades in the sand, and three
more were so ill that they must be mounted
on the asses that were LETT; thus the pris-
oners were forced to carry the provisions