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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-14
CHAPTER VIII.

At length tho last platform, or ter race, was reached, and we pulled up out sido the wall surrounding the central group of marble huts-for so 1 must call them for want of better name. Our approach had been observed by a crowd | of natives, whose race 1 have never been able to determine accurately; they be- llonged to the Basutu and peaceful sec- ltion of the Bantu peoples rather than to tthe Zulu and warlike. Several of these ran up to take the horses. gazing on us with astonishment, not unmiXed with awe. We smounted-speaking for myself, not without tditficulty-indeed, had it not been for Stella's support I should have fallen.
 "Now you must come and see my father" she said. II wonder what he will think of it, it is all so strange
 Hendrika, take the child to my hut and give her milk, then put her into my bed; 1 will come presently"
 Hendrika went of with a somewhat ugly grin to do her mistress bidding, and Stella led the way through the nar- row gateway in the marble wall, which may have inclosed nearly half an ''erf," or three-quarters of an acre of ground In all. It was beautifully planted as a gar den, many Europe ' vegetables and flowers were growing i'll 1t, besides oth- iers with which I was not acquainted. Presently we came to the center hut, and 1t was then that noticed the extra ordinary beauty and finish of the mar ible masonry. In the hut and facing the gateway, was modern door, rather rudely fashioned of Bucken pont, a beautiful reddish wood that has the ap- pearance of having been sedulously ipricked with pin. Stella opened it, and we entered. The interior of the hut was the size of large and lofty room, the walls being formed of plain polished marble. It was lighted somewhat dim ly, but quite effectively, by peculiar openings in the roof, from which the rain was excluded by overhanging caves. The marble floor was strewn with na-
 tive mats and skins of animals. Book eases filled with books were placed
 against the walls, thero was a table in l the center, chairs seated with rimpi or
 strips of hide stood about, and beyond | the table was Q couch on which q man
 was lying reading.
 "Is that you, Stellar said voice
 that even after so many years seemed familiar to me. ''Wherc havc you been
 my dear? l began to think that you had
 lost yourself again."
 |
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-14

found his scattered and broken bones, the fragments of his s:soe,i, .,,d four dead balloons. They had set upon him and torn him to pieces
 My father was very much frightened at this, but still he would not let Hem drika go, because he said she was i human, and that it was our duty to re- claim her. And so wo did--to a certain extent, at least. After the murder of Hendrix the baboons vanished from the neighborhood, and have only returned quito recently, so at length we vent ured to let Hendrika out. By this time she had grown very fond of mo; still, on the first opportunity. she ran away. But in the evening she returned again. She had been seeking the baboons, and could not find them. Shortly afterward she began to speak I taught her-and from that timc sho has loved me that she will l:Dt leave me. I think it would kill her if l went away from her. She watches me all day and at night sleeps on the floor of my hut. Once, too she saved my life when l was swept down the river in a flood; but she is jealous. and hates every body else. Look how she Is glar- ing g t you now because I am talking to you.
 ooked. Hendrika was tramping alorg with the child in her arms and staring at me in a most sin ister fashion out, of tho corners of her ey es.
 While l was rejecting on the baboon woman's strange story anel thinking 1 that she was an exceedingly awkward 1 ''Look! said Stella, "there is our l house. Is it not beautiful?''
 It was beautiful indeed. Here on the ] western side of the great peak a bay had 1 been formed in the mountain, which 1 might have measured eight hun dred or . thousand yards across by three-quar- ! ters of a mile in depth. At the back of the indentation the sheer cliff rose to the height of several hundred feet. and behind 1t and above it the great Rabyan Peak lowered up towards the hea vens. The space of ground, embraced thus in the arms Of the mountain, as it were, was laid out, as though by the ting hand of man, in three terraces that rose one above the other. To the right and left of the topmost terrace wore chasms in the cliff, and from each chasm fell Q waterfall, from no great height, in- deed, but of considerable volume. These two streams flowed away on either side of the inclosed space, one towards the north, and the other, the course of
 which we had been following, round the
 base of the mountain. At each terrace they made cascade, so that the travel CT approaching had view of eight
 waterfalls at once. Along the edge of the stream to our left were
 placed Kaffir kraals, built in orderly groups with verandas, after the: Basutu fashion, and very large part of the en-
 tire space of land was under cultivation.
 All of this noted at once, as we'll as the extraordinary richness and depth of
 the soil. which for many ages past mad
 been washed down from the mountain
 heights. Then following the line oi
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-14
DUEL BETWEEN COWS,
A Series of Battles Which Ended in the
 Death of One of the Eovines.

A Series of Battles Which Ended in the
 Death of One of the I;ovines.
 Two families living side by side in a country village had each COW. The cows grazed in different pastures, but often came together in the highway when going to and from pasture. They were on good terms for they had been acquainted several years.
 One of tho COWS was sold, and a new one, younger COW, came to take her place. When the young COW and the old COW of the other family met for tho first time, the younger attacked the older. They locked horns several times, each trying to drive the other, but they were so evenly matched that no advance was made by either
 As the fighters became more enrared, and as the younger COW had no buttons on her horns. they were driven apart, fearing that injury to one or both might result. The owners of the COWS re- gretted that the COWS could not fight it out" for until one did conquer, the battle would be resumed at every op- portunity.
 Several battles followed, always with the same result-they must be Separat-
  every onslaught. This state of things was inconvenient. The owners were not farmers, were away during the day, and must depend on the children to drive to pasture and drive home, and there was no way to either pasture except through the highway. The cows were driven in and out at diff ferent times. but when they came to the ,>1, Of 1>,< the earth, and the children had difficulty in driving them farther.
 The owners had nearly reached the conclusion that there must be a change of COWS before peace was restored, when the 6uei' occurred and settled the matter. By misunderstanding on the part Of the drivers one day, the COWS came together at the usual place.
 As they had not seen each other for several weeks, and fingered less at the former place of meeting, their enmity might have diminished. At all events they were not ''on guard" so much as they had been, and owing to this fact and to intervening roadside trees and bushes, they did not see each other till they were less than fifty va rds apart.
 Evidently they saw each other at nearly the same moment, for both start ed into a run, which increased a., they went on, and, heads down, they came to- gether, head to head with crash, a re- port that was heard in both houses. The older COW fell, and did not move again. She was dead-knocked in the head as with butchers axe. The other was uninjured.- A. Stockwell, in Coun- try Gentleman.
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from the place, shutting the door behind him. In another moment the poor ls- tle thing was out and flashing round the stone hut as though it were mad It sprung at the bars of the window, clung there. and beat it's head against them till the blood came. Then it fell to the noor, and sat there crying like child, and rocking itself backward and for ward. It was so sad to see it that be- gan to cry, too.
 Just then my father came in and asked me what all tho fuss was about. told him that we had caught a young white baboon, and he was angry, and said that it must bo let go. But when he looked at it through the bars of the window he nearly fell down with aston :ishment.
 Why" he said, this ;a not baboon. 1t is a white child that the baboons have stolen and brous int up.'
 "Now. Mir. Allan, whether my father Is right or wrong you can judge for yourself. You see, Hendriks-we named her that after Hendrix, who caught her -shc is a woman, not monkey, and yet she has many of the ways of monkeys, and looks like one. too. You saw how she can climb, for instance, and you hear how she talks. Also she is very savage, and when she is angry or jealous she seems to go mad, though she is as clever as anybody. think she must have been stolen by tho baboons when she was quite tiny and nurtured by them. and that is why she is so like them.
 But to go on. My father said that it was our duty to keep Hendrika at any cost. Tho worst of it was that for three days she would eat nothing, and I thought that she would die, for all tho while she sat and walled. On the third day, however, l went to the bars of the 'window-place and held out a cup of n illS and some fruit to her. She looked at ij for long while, then crept up moanin 2, took the milk from my hand and dran k it greedily, and afterwards ate tho fruit ; From that timo forward she took food readily enough, but only If would feed her. But l must tell you of the dread full end of Hendrix. From the day th at we captured Hendrika the whole place began to swarm with baboons, which were evidently employed in watching the kraals. One day Hendrix went out towards the hills alone to gather somo medicine. He did not come back again, so the next day search was made. By a big rock which I can show you they
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WATERBURY pOsT OFFICE

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-14

O-A mans debts will overtake him no matter how far they run be- .ind.-West Shore.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-14
NOTICE.
PENMANSHIP

ID K. HOLLY, Artist Penmai. and Tea, her. II gives private instruction in practi, al and ornamental p-nmanship. All kinds of pcnwura tsns at the parlor. Invitations gar writing ,aual tu the best engraving at short notice. Par or, l3i Bank street.
 N. B.-A good business hand acquired in six con lessons.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
VERMONT ALL RIGHT.

In his annual review in the Boston
Journal of Vermont's industrial pro-
gress in 1889, FORBES" concludes
that the state added $5,0O0,O0O to
its property value during the year.
The new buildings erected include
500 private residences, 80 manufac-
tories, 20 business blocks, - public
buildings, six churches, 10 railroad
stations and three school houses,
besides several church edifices re-
modelled or rebuilt and extensive i'm
provements made to blocks, resi-
dences and mills. The development
of the material resources of the state
and the growth of its industrial and
manufacturing interests exceeded
that of any previous year. A score
of new mills for working the product
ofnumerous mines and quarries were
built and large amount of capital
found investment in new industrial
enterprises. A large amount of for
eign capital was also invested in
marble and granite quarries and in
iron mines in western Vermont dur
ing the twelve months. 1t is safe to
say that this showing compares well
in proportions with that of any OF
the large states in the East. Yer
mont is not going to the dogs-not
Just vet
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
A STORY OF HORACE GREELEY.

To interrupt Horace Greeley when
he was in the throes of bringing forth
an editorial-an editorial which has
never been equalled in the Journalism
of America-an editorial which was
slogan for his party, a thunderbolt
for his foes-was a danger which no
friend, no enemy, none but a fool
dared to encounter | was once in
his editorial sanctum when the fool
was there. To relieve your appre-
tensions, | was not the fool. But
he was one of those itinerant and
persistent gentlemen with subscrip-
ton book. He kept presenting it
while old Horace was writ1ng-aS
most of you remember, with his pen
away up to his chin like this illus
trating,) and Horace had a habit,
when anyone would interfere, of
kicking, and so he kicked at the sub
scription fiend. Finally, when he
saw he could not get rid of the in
truder- by this means, he stopped in
the middle of a sentence, turned round
and said raspingly, in that shrill
voice of his:
What do YOU want? State it
quick, and state it in the fewest pos
sible Words
well, said the subscription fend,
81 want a subscription, Mr.. Greeley,
to prevent thousands of my fellow
human beings from going to hell"
Said Mr.. Greeley, Il won't give
YOU damned cent There don't
half enough go there > Told
by Chauncey M. Depew.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
WHAT IS THE BEST SOCIETY.

Some years ago we were visiting
Vermont, and met there a lady who
seemed bent upon impressing her
country acquaintance with the fact
that she moved in the best society.
In the presence of considerable COM
pany one day she glibly named some
of the wealthy families of Boston;
and then turning to us and said /:
Are the So-and-soes in the best soci-
ety." We saw the point and an
swered: We'll, really, l cannot say,
madam; | have no recollection of
ever meeting them there" The COM
pany were amused, and she asked no
more questions.
But this brings us to the point ::
What is the best society? We are
decidedly of opinion that the best So
ciety for each of us is that which, in
the long run, makes us the happiest.
Books, to some, are the best society.
Horses are mighty good society for
those that love them. Dogs are
mighty good society for those that
love dogs. We once had little ca
nary bird whose society we would
not have exchanged for a member
ship in all the clubs in Boston Our
own homes ought to be to each of us
the best society. Fortunate are
those of us who can truly say that
we find in our own homes the best
society," George I. Angel.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
THE DEAD OF THE YEAR.

The number of prominent men and
women who died during the year
1889 was comparatively small. OF
forever, we recall Robert Browning,
Samuel a. Allibone, Frederick A. p.
Barnard, president of Columbia col
lege; Mary Louise Booth, editor of
Harper's Bazaar; Allen Thorndyke
Rice, editor of North American Re
view; Martin Farquhar Upper,
author of ''Proverbial Philosophy, "
and Theodore d. Woolsey, ex-presi-
dent of Yale college.
Of the statesman and politicians,
these may be mentioned: William
II. Barnum, ex-senator of the United
States and chairman of the democrat
ic national committee; John Bright,
Simon Cameron, the oldest eX-sen-
ator of the United States; S. S.
Cox, one of the brightest men who
ever sat in Congress; William B..
Hart, state treasurer of Pennsyl-
vania; John Norquay, eX-prenier of
Manitoba; George H. Pendleton,
United States minister to Berlin, and
Francis Wharton, solicitor of the
state department, who ought, per-
haps, to be classed among the liter
airy men, because of his valuable
works on medical Jurisprudence
Among other famous persons who
have passed away are these: Alex
ander Cabanel, distinguished
French artist; Michael Eugene
Chevreul, the great French chemist,
who died at the age of 1902; John
Ericsson, the famous inventor of war
ships; William S. Harvey, once a
gallant soldier in the army of United
States; Lucy Webb Hayes, wife of
ex-president Hayes; D. H. Hill, a
conspicuous general in the confed-
crate army: Elias LOOMS and
Maria Mitchell, astronomers of more
than national regulations Stanley
Matthews, a member of the Supreme
court of the United States; Alex
ander B. Mott an eminent New York
physician; Amadeos A. Rernke,
senior bishop of the Moravian
church; Rudolph, prince imperial of
Austria; Henry Shaw, the St. Louis
philanthropist; Mrs. John TYLER,
widow of ex-President Tyler, and the
ex-Empress of Brazil.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
MA KING THE BIG GAINES.

The subscription lists of the large
magazines reveal some interesting
facts, if one has the opportunity of
studying them, and the compost i'm
preston one receives after CHANGING
over four or five is peculiar knowl-
edge in itself. 1t cOnvinces one, in
the first place, that seven-eighths of
the subscribers to the magazine liter
allure of today are of the female sex.
On the list of one magazine | have
counted $50 names successfully be-
fore coming to that of q man. Di-
vide the lists into states and there is
another surprise. You will see, for
example, that Iowa is the most pro-
ductive of all the states for the maya
zine publisher-that is, there are
more subscribers in Iowa, proper
tionately, than in any other single
state in the Union. The next is Con
necticut, and then in order comes
New York, Massachusetts, Illinois,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and SO on. The
clergy also form a very large part of
the subscription lists.
A writer of some reputation, who
ought to know all about magazines
day or two ago if | thought ii too
late to get the Century to print an
article in their January number. He
seemed to be quite astonished when
| told him that l happened to know
that all the big magazines were now
working upon their March issues;
that the January numbers, all print
ed and complete, were well on their
way to distant points, and that the
February numbers were already on
the presses. When one considers
that it takes from six to seven weeks
to print and bind a singleissuc of one
of the great magazines, it will be
seen that the editions do not 90 to
press too early. The illustrations
still further complicate matters, as
it takes fully two months to provide
an article with engravings such as
are madenOWadays. Thus | re1nem-
Der that last summer the ScribnerS
were hurrying forward the prepara-
ton of the article on Emin Pasha
which appeared in the November
number, and even fearful lest Emin
would turn up in Europe before the
article could appear. Another troub-
lie the magazine makers have which
few people probably realize, comes
from the conditions of printing a
finely illustrated periodical. A news
paper goes to press at 1 O'Clock in
the morning and the machines begin
to throw out papers by the thou
sand; but to put a form" of a mag
azine to press is very different mat
ter. Usually three and often five
days are occupied making ready"
the impression, to get it as near as
possible to perfection. The man who
will invent a printing press which
will print fine cuts as rapidly as the
great web presses turn out newspa-
pers, has an everlasting fortune as
sured him. = Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
A BIG SEA GOES DOWN A STEA NJ
Frs FUNNEL.

In the late fearful Atlantic storm
the British steamer Croma shipped
a sea which carried everything be-
fore it. Her engineer reports that
part of this sea went down the
funnel, the top of which is fifty-six
feet above the water, and the volume
of water came rushing through the
tubes in such quantity as nearly to
put out the fires" The maximum
height of Atlantic waves has been
much disputed by seamen since
Scoresby's time. Admiral Fitzroy
on one occasion in a storm off the
Azores estimated the hight as over
sixty feet. Considering their length
and momentum in deep ocean
waves q thousand feet long having,
according to Airv's calculations, a
speed of forty-two knots an hour-it
is by no means incredible that a
pyranidal sea curled over the
Croma's funnel and came near extin-
gushing her fires. On July 81, 1887,
the Cunarder Umbria, in q gale of
much less force than that encounter
ed by the Croma, was struck by a
wave about fifty feet high, CARRYING
away a portion of the steamer S
bridge and flooding the cabins and
Storage New York Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
THE
New ENGLAND
Company,
DADE COUNTY, GA.
A Corporation Chartered by the State of
Georgia, Nov. 2, 1889.

n Corporation ny ihS olstle OF
Georgia, Nov. 2, 1889.
CAPITAL STOCK So, 600. OOO divided in
to 10000 shares of 500 each. OF this
amount 1 6, 900 shares are sold, o. 900 shares
are retained in the treasury, and "a. 600
shares are offered for sale at $25 per share.
THE PROPERTY of this corporation lies
in Dade county, in the extreme northwest
corner of Georgia, and consists of 10000
acres of iron ore lands, 5000 acres of coal
lands and 400 acres for a city site.
THE IRON ORE territory has been selected
with a view to its actual value ore-bear-
ing land, and extends along both sides of the
Alabama Great Southern Railroad, which is
the direct route between Cincinnati and New
Orleans, and reaches from point about six
miles southwest of Chattanooga, a distance
of nearly "a miles. The northern extremity
Chattanooga & ST. Louis Railroad, within
the state of Tennessee and is only about two
miles from the Tennessee river.
THE COAL LANDS of this company, COM
prising more than 5000 acres, contain three
seams of valuable coal, averaging three feet
each in thickness; and it is conceded that at
no point in the South coal and iron found
in such quantities and in close proximity
to each other the property of the New
England Company.
TRANSPORTATION. BY the completion
of the canal around the mussel shoals on the
Tennessee river, the rich, inexhaustable and
varied treasures of the Chattanooga. district
are given easy and cheap access to all parts
of the world. This means more for