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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-04

II carried as good a gun as there
was in the woods; and what | have TO
tell you is nothing against that par
ticular gun, bnt its failing was com.
mon TO its kind.
Zone morning | made the regular
rounds of my traps and had took up an
uncommon fine pack of Martin, otter
and beaver pelts.
maybe, as | trudged along through
the woods, | was thinking little more
of my mornings good luck than / was
of what was going on around me
'At any rate, when looked up and
glanced little ways ahead of me,
saw as big bear setting straight up in
hay path as ever laid eyes on.
1T was so sudden-like that when
walked up to the situation it made me
feel so sort o foolish and unstrnng that
most believe would have stood stock
still and seen that bear walk off and
leave me If he rad offered to.
but he didn't snow any symptoms
of that kind of Weakness not to
speak of! SO made up my mind that
the sooner could get the drop on him
the healthier it wou' be for me.
just as | drew bead on him and
pulled the trigger he turned his head in
such way that the ball tore through
his nose
"For minute he grabbed his nose
in both paws and held it there just
long enough to let me pour charge OF
powder down my gun and fit patch
and slug over the muzzle and whip out
the ramrod and start to crowd them
down.
"a slug, on account of its conica
shape, requires greater care in loading
than round ball, and unless its start
ed exactly right its liable to stick be
fore you get it down.
"My haste to get the second charge
into the wounded bear before he qui
nursing his nose and turned his atten
ton to me, betrayed me into starting
the slug little out of true; and by thu
time / had rammed it half way dowr
the barrel, it stuck fast, and couldn'
bulge 1t to save my life!
"a hurt bear can get over grounC
about as lively as anything I'm ac
quainted with, and had scarcely tim,
to drop my gun and take to my heel
before he was close in my tracks
gaining on me at every canter.
81 saw that it was no use trying tt
outrun him. and that | must depenC
upon some other shift for my life.
"When the old fellow was close upol
me, lodged behind big pine, ant
jerked my Ratchet, which was as sharl
as razor, from my belt
THE bear reared up on his launches
threw his arms about the tree, and be
gan to hip-i-ty-hop around after me.
"Then the music began in earnest
The tree was a big one, and the.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-04
HUMOROUS.

--Ted-"Sportman is pretty fresh"
Fred-"How SOP" Ted-''IIe was az
rested in New York, and telegraphed
the faculty for his five-hundred-d dollar
bond for bail. Yale Record.
Front seat?" asked the sexton of
the stranger. No" he answered. II
can't afford it, The front seat always
has to make good showing in the con-
tribution plate. IN. Y. Herald.
Unreasonable Woman! Wife
How lightly the leaves futter down
from the trees" Husband (gruffly)-
"You didn't expect em to fall up, did
you?"-Kate Fields Washington.
Didn't Suit -Tom-"Did you get
measured for suit at Carder's?" Jack
No, he didn't suit me-" Tom-"Ah,
| recollect forgot to tell you that
he did only cash business. Yankee
Blade.
DO you think that monkeys can
be taught to ta'k?" he asked, 81 never
put the question that way" she re-
piled. 81 always wondered whether
they could be taught not to. Wash
ington Star.
DO you have much trouble collect
| ing money, doctor?" Eyes, a great
deal" "What is the matter? Can't
your debtors raise it?" "Well-er-the
chief drawback is, can't get any debt
ors. "-Pharmaceutica Era.
Decidedly Promising. Handsome
Young Tutor-"Now, Miss Ethel, we
take up the verb 'amo' Are you quite
prepared to conjugate?" Young Pupil
LA, Mr.. Primus how-how sudden
you are. Chicago Tribune.
-A.-"They're such loving couple;
there's only one thing that could make
them quarrel" B.-"What's that?'
A.-"Overturn the carriage they may
be in. They'll fall out then, will they
not?"-Demorest's Magazine.
Henrietta (who had been sitting on
the sofa with Algernon)-"You might
shut the window, Algernon. 1t would
be better if it were warmer here" AL
gernon-"Yes, and closer, too-don't
you think so?"-Harvard Lampoon.
One Way to Get Recognition
What are you painting for the academy
this year. Dobbley?" asked Paletti "A
thousand-dollar bill. think the com
mittee would think twice before re
jecting It," replied Dobbley.-N. Y
Sun.
Young msonbeak-"What kin
of a mattress is that l sleep onP'
Boarding-H Mistress - at wa,
bought for hair mattress, and good
one, too" Crimsonbeak-"W it mus
be getting baldheaded." - Yonkerl
| Statesman.
-Hicks-"We've got something new
at our house-a machine to wasl
dishes" Wicks-''And how does i
work?" Hicks" beautifully 1t break.
on an average five dishes day. Fact
you would hardly know it from hired
girl. boston Transcript.
Too Much Like Liar. -Customer-
"The person to whom | sent this golC
Tyre returned it without so much as
note of thanks" Jeweler what wal
his business?" Customer-He was al
editor" Jeweler-"I--I-- think you
selection was peculiarly unfortunate.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The South Atlantic university to be
built by the Presbyterian synods COM
prising the states of North and South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida, at a cost
of $500, 600, will be located at Augusta,
Ga.
"A Chicago school-boy received box
on the ear from his teacher, and was
deaf in that organ for three weeks. A
school teacher in Montreal was recent
ly fined twenty five dollars for the same
offense.
The reported expenditure for do
nestle missions of the Episcopal church
for the year ending September, 1891,
was S29l ,4O2, of which gross sum $42,-
OS2 was expended for work among the
colored people. The gross receipts for
domestic missions for the fiscal year
were $25l, 467.
Since the partition of Africa the
governments of England, Germany,
Italy and Portugal have made an agree
ment for the reciprocal protection of
their missionaries in the dark CONT
nent Armed with a passport from the
government to which they belong, the
missionaries will enjoy the protection
of each Of these powers.
New York city, with population
of 1,TOO, 600, has more than 800 school
| departments, 1900 teachers, an aver
age attendance of 100000 pupils daily,
| and total attendance of 100000. The
salaries of teachers, janitors and en-
ployes now aggregate over $3,000,O0O,
and the expenditure for the schools
yearly exceed considerably 81, 200, 600.
Among those in London who have
given themselves earnestly to work
among the poorer classes in London is
the earl of Beauchamp, who has decid-
ed to take up his residence among the
east end poor for the purpose of direct
ing mission work among them. The
earl is secretary of the Christ Church
mission at Poplar one of the suburban
districts.
The beardless priest is so only as a
matter of custom. There is no edict
upon the subject. All the popes from
Adrian VI. to Innocent XII, and all the
clerGymen from the cardinals to the
young clerics, including Ignatius
Loyola, st. Francis Xavier, Francis de
Sales, Vincent de Paul, the cardinals
Bellarmine and Richelieu, were bearded
dignitaries of the church.
The new Georgia association
formed by the union of the white and
colored churches of the state and South
Carolina, of the Congregational order,
will meet at Atlanta, April 6, 1892. All
the churches of the old association have
approved of the plan of union except
the First church of Savannah and the
Plymouth church of Charleston, and
these have now withdrawn opposition.
The Danish government has intro.
duced bill into the Folkthing provid.
ing for the erection of state college
for women teachers. 1t is calculated
to accommodate sixty-four; the term
extends over three years and no one
can be received who has not completed
her eighteenth year. In connection
with the college it is proposed to have
state school for some thirty or forty
children of ages between seven and
ten, so as to afford the intending teach
ers an opportunity of useful and prac
teal training.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-04
CASH IN QUEER PLACES.
Eccentric Persons Hide Money Where 1t
Is Least Likely to BE Looked For.

Eccentric Persons Hide Money Where It
Is Least Likely to BE Looked For.
at is hard to tell where the eccentric
people will not hide money" said de-
tective the other day. 81 was once sent
Tor to find the money of man who had
died suddenly and left no visible trace
of his wealth. The family had made
careful, systematic search before ar
rived. / learned that he was not mi
Serly, and Inferred that he had not used
any of those complicated methods of
concealment which are one of the
miser's chief characteristics.
81 found that his business took him
frequently from home, and that he had
formerly been a sailor. asked what
room he usually slept in, and they said,
all over the house. adding that they
had fully examined every place in
which he was ever known to be.
asked about his clothing, and insisted
upon seeing it. Some one brought his
garments in at last, and very shabby
looking they were. ! went over them
without success until my eye caught
the binding.
"'He always kept them well bound,
said his wife; sailors are good sewers
THE binding was wide, but we soon
had it off and there we found, folded
lengthwise and protected with oil silk,
fourteen fve-hundred-dolla notes and
a score of "fvers." A systematic search
is often not as good as a shrewd guess
by an experienced person.
Yes, there are men who conceal
wealth away from their homes Grim
inals almost always do it. Middle-aged
countrymen will do it, but when they
get old they are almost always sure to
hide it near the spot where they pass
most of the time. have found money
in the covers of old family Bibles, be.
hind mirrors, in the bored-out legs OF
chairs, behind cupboards nailed tightly
to the WALL in false ceilings, balusters
pin-cushions, in the lining of old hats
in clocks, stoves and bronze images in
vases with the bottoms covered inside
with plaster of paris, in black bottle:
weighted with mercury and marked
poison, in canes, shoes and vest Innings,
in ported salmon tin and tea cansters
in cracked walls covered with wall
paper; in all sorts of bedding and up
holstery, and in almast every conceiva
ole place. IN. Y. Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-04
A Romantic Tour Cut short.

young couple who had just been
married at Prague determined to make
their way to their new home in Stettin
by balloon voyage instead of by railway
journey, which, it is gravely suggested,
they thought to be less safe in these
days of frequent continental railway
accidents The balloon came down at
Beeskow, in Brandenburg. and could
not be further used without refilling, a
process for which there seems to have
been no facilities at hand. The mar.
ried couple were, after all, obliged to
resort to the hateful and prosaie rail.
way train, Y. Journal,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-04
FARMERS AS DEBTORS.
An Interesting Question Viewed from
Both Sides.


An Interesting Question Viewed from
Both Sides.
Frequently one hears the remark that
Indebtedness is mark of prosperity.
OF course this is not true, but it is an
inference from the truth that indebted
ness is usually an attendant upon
prosperous conditions. There is always
vast amount of capital in the hands of
class who never invest in productive
industries, but are always ready to loan
to others who belong to the producing
classes. In times of depression there is
little inducement to producers to extend
their operations, and, as a consequence.
less demand for capital When, how
ever, industries are profitable, business
is extended, and producers become bor-
rowers in order to increase their
facilities. They use the money
of capitalists because their bust
ness will pay them a greater in.
tercst than money-loaners demand, and
thus does it happen that the increase OF
indebtedness indicates prosperous con.
dition in those lines of business. .Many
of our most active and prosperous bust
ness men are large borrowers, and as
they accumulate large property and re
| tire from business others take theil
places, charging their facilities on Dor
rowed money.
This condition of affairs in the bust
ness world has led men to say that th'
present Indebtedness of the farmer, a
indicated in some degree by the census
returns, is not the mark of any deprcs
sion in agriculture. Fifteen years age
the mortgage indebtedness of the ma
jority of farmers in the United State
was a sign of reasonable prosperity an,
great hopes on the part of the farmer
Additional acres were bought and fine
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-04
USE BOTH HANDS.
The Left May BE Made as Dcxtrous as the
Right.

The good physician says that the
child should be taught to use both
hands with equal dexterity. 0ne'never
knows how much a thumb is worth till
he sprains IL; more particularly the
thumb of the right hand. But he will
then come into the full appreciation of
the phrase: always on hand, like a
sore thumb" And he will find, too,
through its disability, that that piece Of
anatomy is an important factor in
about everything he undertakes to do
Indeed, man can live without cooks
more comfortably than he can live
without thumbs.
What the thumb is to the hand, so is
the hand to the remainder of the body;
and thus it becomes prime essential
that the doctors advice be followed,
and the boy trained in his earliest youth
to use both hands with equal facility.
Nor is the matter one of special diff
Guilty The infant is not born right or
left-handed, as generally supposed. His
becoming either, or ambidexterous, is
incidental, or by education. In the
earliest stage, in fact, the youngster
has no use at all for his fists, except
plunging them into his eyes or mouth.
He has to learn the use of both, and,
while he is about it, little attention
not more than is bestowed on his walk
and his talk by his doting parents-will
put him on the proper tack as to his
digital extremities.
That this can be readily done is
shown from the ease with which grown
people learn the use of the left hand in
special cases. The young lady type
writer for example, knows no differ,
ence between the right and left bank
of her keys while the pianist is accus-
toned to execute the most difficult
passages on the lower register of the
instrument.
The athletic sports particularly call
for ambidexterous work, as in rowing
and baseball, or in football, where the
heads of the opposing team are often
punched with the left as with the right
fist. Mr.. John L. Sullivan and other
gentlemen of the joyous science of fisti.
cuffs always lead with the left hand
and do the major part of their smuggling
in that form, the right hand being kept
in reserve and for defense.
Since these results can be attained in
special cases there is no reason why in
general, the left arm, if trained in
youth, should not be as effective as the
right, and, like the left, be placed or
an equality with its fellow limb-N. Y
Weekly.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-04
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


DIR. Ernst, the new professor in the
Harvard medical school, was the man
who once demonstrated to some skep.
teal professors the fact that curved
ball could be pitched by repeatedly
curving the ball between two posts set
up in n line.
The French academy's first prize
for virtue, $500 francs, was awarded
this year to Marie Sedier, of Bayonne,
who has devoted herself to placing de-
serted children with peasants and
artisans. In seven years she has res
cued twenty-seven.
Queen Victoria was an exhibitor at
a recent horse show, but the animal
she sent was beaten in the competition
and had to be contented with second
prize. Cattle-show judges have no
more respect for royal exhibitor than
for farmer who can hardly pay his
rent.
President Eliot of Harvard is rather
sensitive about the cherry-red birth
mark on his cheek. He need not be so.
There are many prominent men whose
cheeks are hard enough to defy every
mark, and if they ever show red spot
it is only the raat of the chilled steel
working its way out.
The Oxford university press has
just issued the most diminutive Bible in
existence. 1t is finely printed on Ok
ford Indian paper, and its minute di-
mansions are only three and three
fourths inches in length, two and one
eighth inches wide and seven-eighths of
an inch in thickness.
Probate Judge Wales of Burling-
ton, Vt, was called upon the other day
by dubious-loobing man, who solemn
ly addressed him with the assurance:
81 am the devil" The court promptly
exercised him. There were no horns
visible, but, probably, too many of them
is what accounted for his appearance.
-Apropos of the successful new COM
poser, Mascagni, it may interest some
readers to know that he always has his
wife and their two tiny children in a
private box at the production of any of
his works, and runs up every spare mo-
ment to see them. The young COM
poser is barely twenty-seven, and looks
younger.
Claus SpreclSles, the sugar king, is
man of swarthy face, which contrasts
sharply with his white hair and white
beard. He is of German parentage and
never tried to learn English well, SC
that when he speaks rapidly it is diff.
cult matter to understand him. He be,
gan to refine sugar in a small way in
California, and his rise in fortune dates
from the time he was brought into as
ISOLATION with Kalakaua.
--Longfellow's home in Cambridge
with its lilac hedge, its elms and it:
superb view across the meadows to the
Charles, is tenanted now by the poet,
daughter, Miss Alice Longfellow, who
sometimes extends the hospitality of it.
roomy parlors and handsome ground.
to the ladies of the Harvard annex
The house was built by colonial tory
and although it is nearly century ant
u half old, there are few handsome
residences in New England to-day.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-04

hAu tVeryWnerei
One was aged and experienced, and ono was
young and brash
The Experienced was prudent, the mex
perenced rash.
And presently they came upon couple un
aware
huge and hideous monster who beat lady
fair
He was great and grim and terrible, o dubious,
bloated brute,
With hairy hands and nose that shamed the
beets ensanguined root
He was knobbed and gnarled and twisted like
huge misshapen tree;
And the young mans heart waxed furious to
see what he did see.
For the brute he banged the lady till one
trembled for her life
And when they asked him why, he said: "Oh,
nothing she's my wife"
The knight Grant OF Experience, he made q
bow polite;
Said he; "a family AFFAIR." Excuse me- sir
good night!
Excuse me II cannot stay-I think I'll hurry
onr
" Shamew cried the inexperienced knight; but
the older knight was gone.
So the young knight laid his lance in rest ant
his youthful heart uprose;
And he charged upon the monster, and jus
touched his mighty nose;
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-04
Musical Note.

At the Yerger NAL sion at an evening
sociable, a musical young lady played
and sung a piece called Sylvan
Sounds, in which the singing and notes
of the mocking. bird and the lark were
initiated.
Ibid not that young lady's singing re-
mind you of the singing of the birds?
You might have thought she was really
bird" asked Gilhooly
Eyes, but never saw bird SIT down
at table after it got through singing
and hide away three or four cups of
tea, half ham, and enough cake and
ice-cream to founder mule. You
never saw lark or a mocking- bird,
did your replied Hostetter McGinnis.
Texas Siftings.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-04
THE AMERICAN JOKE.
1t Is Better Understood by the arab thar
the Enclshman.

1t is Better Understood by the arab than
the Englishman.
America, said Darweesh ~ one of
the ladies, must be a fine place and
very like Egypt. You have corn, to-
bacco, watermelons and big river
there"
"And crocodiles," to she replied.
"Wallah!" he cried in admiration;
then, with a slight touch of jealousy
that these blessings should be scattered
broadcast, he added; "Do they eat
men?"
mo, only dogs" she admitted.
"Ah!' he returned, exulting in the
superior gastronomic taste of the Egyp-
tian saurian, ''ours eat men"
"Of course yours will not eat dogs;
they are Moslem crocodiles," she an.
swered referring to the Mohammedans
avoidance of the dog as an unclean ami.
NAL.
AS one of the most lovable character
istics of the Arab is his instant and in.
tense appreciation of the feeblest joke
Darweesh seemed much amused and re.
peated with many chuckles; ours are
Moslem crocodiles," as he went about
his daily work'--Seribner.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-04
A HELPFUL EXPERIENCE.
How Young Man was Saved From Be
coming q Misanthrope.

How a Young Man was Saved From Be-
coming a Misanthrope.
1.-THE years that had spent in learn
ing the trade" said wealthy retired
stove dealer, 'had left gloomy i'm
preston on me. Then, as now, almost
everybody that had a furnace that
needed fixing up put off attending to it
until the last minute, and then they all
wanted the work done at once. Of
course most of them had to wait, and
those who had to wait growled. 1t
seemed as though the world was full of
GROWERS At twenty-one was in dam
ger of becoming a misanthrope, but
was saved from that by new expert
ence.
about the first call had after start
ing in business for myself was from a
school. The furnace had broken down
suddenly in midwinter. The school
was closed while the repairs were be-
ing made. The breaking down of the
furnace fairly delighted the children;
their only regret was that it wasn't
more broken down, so it would take
longer to fix it. Of course, it was per-
fectly natural that the children should
look at it just as they did. Neverthe-
less it was pleasing incident; and be-
yond the mere amusement that it af-
forded me at the moment, it yielded
| this more substantial benefit: 1t awalS-
ened me to the fact that the way in
which things appear often depends very
much on how you look at them.
SIN this happier frame of mind dis
covered that besides the GROWERS that
! had happened to meet there were III
the world plenty of thoughtful and con-
siderate people, and that one needed
only the right sort of eyes to be able to
see good points even in the man that
got cross about his stovepipe. IN Y.
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