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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21
One Dollar Per Year.
HOWARD'S QUAIL TRAP.
How Its Poor Little Captive Froze -
Death In n Snowstorm.

Death In u Sn0wstorm.
Twenty years ago was little boy
going to school, | lived in the country
and the school house was small frame
building in the edge of the woods, about
half mile distant from my home. Dur
Ing the winter some of the older boys
made traps which they set In brushy
places for rabbits and quails, for there
were good many of both there at that
time. The traps were attended Mt
mornings, during the noon hour and
evenings after school. Now and then
a rabbit or quail was caught by some
one of the boys, much to the envy of the
others.
One Saturday / made trap, too. I
had watched the older ones and knew
how. II was what is called log cabin
trap, being made of narrow strips Of
oak, laid up two and two like a log
cabin and drawn TO peak at the top,
the whole held in place by hickory
bow bent over the top and tied by the
ends to the two lower pieces. tits set
with figure triggers, the long ono
pointed sharp and pushed into broken
car of corn.
In the afternoon went to the school
house, carrying my trap. There wass'its
school, IL being Saturday, but | could
not wait was little boy and the big
oea trap was very heavy, but tuggel
1t across the plowed field to the woodA
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21
OUR coLoRsD POPULATION.
Important Figures Showing Position of
Negroes In the United States.

A"pOTtuHt EbRurts SHoWfng IOsittOn OF
Negroes In the United States.
The last cehstis returns gave the pop
ulaton of the United States as 1922
25O. The colored population numbered
7,63s,360, of whom the Africans were
i,47O,040. The rest were Chinese, Jan
anese and civilized Indians. The per-
sons of African descent are subdivided
into blacks, mulattoes, quadroons and
octoroons. The general impression is
that the colored population is growing
more rapidly than the white, but the
facts are that the reverse Is the case.
In 1880 there were $3.50, 793 colored per-
sons in total of 50,155,7S3. The col
cred population has steadily decreased
since 1910, as compared with the white
people, and to-day the white element
in the southern states Is increasing
much more rapidly than the colored.
The distribution of the colored popu-
lation is confined chiefly to the south
crn states. Very few are found IN the
New England states, New York, New
anu
are few Chinese, japanese and Indians
in the southern states. The state which
has the largest population of African de-
scent is Georgia. Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont and North and South
Dakota have an almost entirely white
population. Pennsylvania has col
ored population Of 10o,757, of which
107,506 are of African descent. In Phil
adclphia the colored people are found
very largely in IA Of the wards. These
figures are important as showing the
position of the colored race to-day in
the United States. The Pacific coast
contains the larger number of persons
Of purely Asiatic descent The prob
lem of the negro is essentially south
crn problem, but his domination at
the south is checked by the larger pro
portionate increase of the white people.
These facts, taken from the census
throw considerable light upon our So
cial problem.-Boston Herald.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21
NOT ALL CURIOSITY.
4 Helpful Aitruism Seen In Our interest
In others Afairs.


People used to take it for granted
that the real interests of life were such
us belonged to getting on in it, to max
ing or saving money, 10 redring families
Of children, to preserving the health,
to obtaining an education; to expert.
encing religion. But think that either
we have greatly changed, and no longer
care for things that once vitality inter-
ested us, or else that we were in an IL.
fusion as to the fact in the past, and
were vitality interested only in the
things that did not concern us. 1t has
long been noted how the affairs OF
others attract us; and the innate al
truism of the mind will account for
much that is contradictory in our atti-
tude towards things that are no ones
affairs in particular, Here the we'll
known position is reversed, and what
Is nobody's business is everybodys bust
ness. OF course, there Is nothing in the
world that is not somebody's business,
but there are certain things that in
volve so very few people compared with
the vast number of people who involve
themselves in them that they may very
well be Chased az nobody's business.
Some OF these, in their hold upon the
witnesses, may be accounted for as
human events. But is football game
one Of them? Why should the elevator
boy be excited about such things and
wish to tell me which side has won?
He is on duty all day and has much less
chance to see them than the man in the
moon has. | myself can in the nature
OF things care nothing at all about
boat race between the two great uni
versities, but have suffered several de-
feats of Harvard with shame and grief
which / should not like TO have Yale
men know, and | have followed the
course OF the rival crews in tumult of
feeling which no affair Of my own has
ever reused in me.
Why do such multitudes OF people
gather in front Of the newspaper Of
fees when they are flashing the vote
on election night in figures of fire?
Ninety-nine hundredths of the spec
tators cannot possibly gain or lose any
thing by the restilt. They will be
neither richer or poorer, better ncr
worse, wiser nor sillier, when all Is
over. Why do we crowd and jostle one
another for q glimpse of some celeb
rity who could do none of us any good,
il he could miraculously become aware
OF us, and wished to do it? Why are
whole communities, nations, civilian
tons, convulsed from time to time
about things that never come home to
anybody's business or bosom?
1t is well enough to say that we aban-
don ourselves in most cases out OF curl
cslty; but / think there is n deeper
reason than this. We give ourselves to
them because they take us out of our
selves, and because the real interests Of
life are for each one of us the things
tLat do not personally concern u.s.
1larper's Weekly.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21

/ rested little in front of the empty
school house, then set out to find suit
able place for my purpose.
Some distance from the school house
there was thick growth of hazel and
In the midst of this set my trap. I
placed the triggers SO as to fall easily,
then laid grains of corn in two long
rows leading away from it, placing the
grains few inches apart, 80 as to entice
the game nearer and nearer and TO final
capture.
1t was very quiet there among the
hazel. 1t had been moist and warm all
day and the clouds above me were heavy
and hanging low. Somehow after all
did not feel as happy as I had expected.
/ was inclined to be tenderhearted and
the thought of trapping the timid little
bobwhites think weighed on my con-
science. But l consoled myself by
thinking that l probably would not
catch any and If did could let them
20. Then ] run home and / believe l
was more quiet than usual during the
evening.
About dusk it began to snow. A few
inches fell during the night, then the
weather cleared and turned cold. All
day Sunday it grew colder and Sun
day night the thermometer fell below
zero. Monday morning it was too cold
for me to go to school. Tuesday MORN
Ing the weather had moderated. Thur
ried down my breakfast and fastened
to my trap. Before got to it ] could
see through the brush that 1t was down
and partially covered with snow.
Ny heart was beating with excite
ment as / ran to 1t and looked in be-
tween the Stats. Then l raised 1t up
and flung it back, bottom upward. l
had caught quail, just one, and 1t was
lying there frozen-dead.
/ believe that as a child my imagina.
ton was unusually vivid. l could sec
the little creature, lost from It's mates,
seeking food and place of shelter
from the storm; finding at last the
scattered grains that led to what
seemed projections; pccking at the ear
until the heavy trap fell and shut II
In forever; sitting there crouched down
and frightened; beating against the
Stats or pulling nimbly at the flinty
kernels that chung stubbornly to the
broken ear. Colder and colder the wind
and fine snow blew in through the
crevices. All night It had sat there
trying to get warm--perhaps by Sur
day morning it had been too numb to
stir--surely it had died by Sunday
night.
/ united the hickory bough from the
trap and kicked the oaken Stats in every
direction. Then hid the little dead
quail and covered 1t up with sticks and
leaves from beneath the snow. On the
way back to the schoolhouse l said
a little prayer. never told of my trap
and have never set another to this day
Howard White, in Brooklyn Eagle.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21
tanned A BUTTERFLY.
French Lady Had One That Arched Its
Back When She Stroked IL.

Back When She Stroked IL.
There have been tame fleas, per
forming ants, acrobatic gnats, trained
mosquitoes, and other winged insects,
but the first instance Of tame butter
fly is given by a French lady as fol-
lows:
81 found in my garden magnificent
butterfly, quite numb with cold. Tak-
ing it into the house and putting it into
a box for two hours revived the little
thing. Then dipped its antennac In
q solution of sirup und sugar, and con-
tinucd this treatment for three days.
On the fourth day the creature fiut-
tered on my hand and sucked the liquor
Of it's own accord, and after this it be-
came perfectly tame. Iput flowers into
my room, and it fed on them, and was
perfectly happy. When It sat on the
table | could pass my finger down its
back without the slightest fear the but
terfy might take to the wing. In fact,
It arched it's back as does cat when
pleased. After three weeks Of perfect
tameness It's color faded, it's wings
sbriycled I'D and 1t died"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21

can help you with your fall cleaning,
and with the whitewashing and soap
making, SO you wont have to hire any
one. And you can send word to Abbie
Snow tomorrow that you won't need
l.er to sew for you; 30 there will be three
weeks wages saved, anyway"
"But, Henry" deprecated his wife, do
you think 1t would be just right to treat
your only sister that way? She won't
get strong very fast If we keep her ut
work indoors"
marcia, I'm surprised at YOU" re-
torted her husband, with nsperity
"You act as though / had nothing to
say about such matters. II Dora don't
like the way treat her, she may better
herself, II she can, but ! happen to know
that she hasn't any money left, and so
she can't choose. And as for growing
strong you women never are any thirg
but bundles Of aches and pains, and the
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21
Tnll of n Glacier.

1t was the fall of glacier in the
Bernese Overland about five o'clock o.
m. on September II, 1895, from an alti-
tude of 10,s23 feet above sea level. The
whole mass, estimated to be half as
large again as the largest Of the pyra-
mids of Egypt, leaped down 1900 feet
to the bottom of the valley, then up
1900 on the other side and back into
The valley just far enough to not de-
stroy the water course through it. II
appears to have jumped the water
course, moving as solid mass. Itonly
took about 20 seconds in its first down.
ward plunge, ten in It's leap upward and
ten in falling back, so that at the end Of
40 seconds the mass had changed its
place from near the top of the mountain
to the farther side of the valley, where
II buried nearly one square mile OF
rich pasture to the depth Of six feet,
A similar ice avalanche Is recorded as
having occurred at the same spot on
the same day of the year 17S2.-Engi
upprinr
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21
Live Craters ut Auction,

A curious piece Of real estate soon to
be auctioned off at the exchange in
London comprises the freehold of the
Island Volcano in the Mediterranean,
with numerous mountains and two live
craters. The island is one of the Ae.
olian group, off the north coast of Sici.
ly, and is five miles long by 21s broad.
Vines and fig trees flourish on it, and
the opportunity is fine one for some
ricn man who loves Theocritus and
would like TO have an island home all
to Misunderstanding on the mountain
side, with our flocks feeding below and
the blue Sicilian sea in the distance,"--
Chicago Tribuna
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21
toBsTERs ARE cANNlBALs.
In Their Infancy They win Eagerly be-
YOUR Ono Another.


One hundred millions of baby lob.
sters will be hatched artifcially by the
United States fish commission during
the coming summer. That number
would be sufficient to make Holsters as
plenty and cheap as they ever were, il
only they could all grow up. Unfortu-
nately, many difficulties interfere with
their propagation by the incubator
plan. 1t is easy enough to hatch them,
so far as that goes.
The eggs are obtained from fisher.
men, who bring the female Holsters to
the government station at Woods Holl,
Mass. One fair-sized lobster will yield
10000 eggs. They are scraped gently
from her body and put into glass jar
through which water circulates. In the
course Of few days the baby Holsters
come out, looking like so many little
bits Of shrimps.
An infant lobster looks not at all like
the adrlt specimen. The latter walks
about on the bottom of the sea, but its
Juvenile offspring swims near the sur.
face OF The water for the first few weeks
Of its life. 1t is almost sure to be COB.
bled by fish or by some predatory
mollusk or crustacean. If so lucky as
to escape these dangers it goes through
o series of molts.
Each time it changes its shell it looks
trife more like real lobster, until
finally at the end of the seventh week
or thereabouts IL assumes the adult
form and gives up swimming. Being
clad in armor, it has few enemies TO
fear from that time on, while 1t finds
concealmcnt among the rocks on the
bottom. Thenceforward the enemy
most to be dreaded is greedy man, who
tries to lure 1t into baited pots that are
easy to get into and hard to get out Of.
For long time the government cx-
perts have been puzzlng over problem
which remains to this day unsolved.
They could soon cause the waters of the
| Atlantic coast to swarm with Holsters
II only they could discover n way OF
rearing those artifcally Matched until
they are seven weeks old and arrived at
the adult state.
But Holsters are by nature cannibals,
and the young ones eat each other up.
1t is hardly practicable to provide y
separate compartment for each Adde'S
cent lobster. They are put into the
ocean to take their extremely small
chances Of survival. During the few
days preceding their liberation they ara
fed on tow stuff. This tow stuff con,
sists of small crustaceans and other an;'
mails collected by towing n net of fine
gauze from boat along the surface Of
the sean. Y. World.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21
Sad and Singular Meeting.

An Akron (0.) man died recently, and
4 telegram was sent to two Of his sons
In the New England states to come to
the funeral. The two brothers had not
met for 20 years, and 1t happened Tint
they took the same train at Boston for
the west. In the same coach, sitting
on opposite sides of the aisle, they
Travelled all the way to Akron, and
neither suspected the others identity
They left the train, and taking differ
ent routes, met again in front of their
fathers house, and after exchanging a
few words, discovered that they were
brothers. 1t was both sad and sim
gular meeting.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21

most of you wouldn't be strong II You
could. Now 90 to sleep, for there's lots
20 he done In the morning, and I'm 60
Ing TO ride up to Iron Mound ranch after
another cow; for II Dora's going to DO
here to help milk, we may as well make
more butter"
Dora followed the directions Of her
taskmaster quietly enough the next
morning, but when ne had mounted
and gallopcd off toward the ranch IN
the hills. she saddled another horse and
rode In the opposite direction. She was
home long before her brother, who rods
Into the yard about noon, driving the
cow he had just purchased. No men,
ton was made Of the addition to the
herd until after dinner was over, when
Henry turned his unsmiling face to.
ward Dora.
"I'll milk that new COW tonight,
Dora, but after this III turn her over 10
you, for my hands are full already"
nm sorry to disappoiht YOU, Henry"
answered she, demurely, though with
n spark in her eyes, "but don't think
Of staying here longer than this after
noon"
Her brother stared, as much aghast
at her independence of manner as at
her astonishing communication.
Good heavens! What do you mean ?
Do you think Of boarding at the poor
farm?" queried the exnsperated man.
"Not exactly, Henry" sweetly re.
turned his sister. "But I've hired out
to Father Hayward as 'chcre boy for
the winter, He will give me ten dollars
q month and board, and I shall have
only four cows to milk there, while
here should have five, and get only my
board"
"You must be crazy, girl! Do you
suppose man worth as much as / am
wants his sister to hire out as farm
| hand? 2"
Then Dora did what certain tragic
novel hervlhes are said to have done
"rose TO her full height" and, though
even that was not great, she certainly
looked stately enough to curb her
brothers wrath, rs she answered him:
"IIenry Carter, do you think that the
place of unpaid drudge with my own
people is much more respectable than
that of paid help on the Hayward farm
There shall do certain work outdoors,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21

ONE OF wEsTwOOD's NOVEL PLAYHoUsEs.
one in the back yard of a neighbor and
told the children they might use II for
playhouse. The children were almost
"ticlled to DEATH" The little folks
came for miles and peered through the
pickets of the fence. Then they went
home and leased for street car and
kept on teasing.
That first car was like the first boys
bicycle, in an out-of-the-way town. 1t
created demand. Now they are used
for offices, lunch rooms, and in one n
big contractor pays his men every Sat
urday. One man has six on vacant lot
fixed up as lodging houses. But it is
as playhouses that the old street cars
nre most successful, and the Juniors OF
Wcstwood are among the most privi-
legged of their kind in the whole land.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21
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(lhuruinD In the Stomach.

While the process of digestion is go
ing on the muscles of the stomach keep
up constant churning motion, fore
ing the food back and forth, and allow
ing the gastric juices to penetrate every
ton. The churning is continued un>
Ill nj the food ia digested,--Chirpga
Inter Ocean,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21
bananas in the West indies.

The banana is fast superseding the
sugar cane in the West Indies. It's cul-
tivation pays where that OF the cane did
not. The conquest the banana has
made over the appetites of the race
who, few years ago, had never tasted
II, is quite as remarkable and far more
rapid thnn that formerly made by ths
potato.---Chicago Chronicle:
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21
Horace Mnnn,s Advice to noys.

Horace Mann gives bit of advice to
boys You are made to be kind, boys.
II there Is boy in school who has
club foot don't let him know you ever
saw it. If there is n lame boy, assign
him to some part of the. game that
doesn't require running. If there is
hungry one, give him part of your din
ner. If there is dull one, help him to
get his lessons II there Is bright one.
be not envious of him; for, II one boy
Is proud of his talents and another ia
envious of them, there are two great
wrongs and no more talent than before.
If a larger or stronger boy has injured
you, and Is sorry for 1t, forgive him.
All the school will show by their couute-
nances how much better 1t IL than to
have great fuss. And remember who
said: Love your enemies and 'Blesa
them which curse YOU"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-05-21
A Pretty Marine Smile.

The fish are ships that swim the sta
In sunshine and In gales;
Their tails the trusty rudders ara,
Their fins the spreading sails.
~Harper's RoundTable.
The herald., 1896-06-21
Simon on Bull Fight,

Jules Simon, the famous French
statesman, recently expressed so liberaI !
an opinion on bullfghts that he seems
now to regret it. To an interviewer he
explained the other day as follows: II
said that neither the Spanish nor the
'meridionaux' of France ought TO he
looked upon as criminals, or even as
badly disposed people, because they are
passionately fond of this kind of com
bat. Whether a bull is killed in the
arena or in slaughter house. is it not
the same thing? The killing of a bull is
not, therefore, a crime, in my opinion.
To say that | am partisan of bullfght-
ing is not quite a just way to put it. I
think, however, that it would be wise to
be tolerant in regard to custom which
has lasted for so many years. 1t would
be better perhaps to pay little less at
tention to bullfights and little more to
The herald., 1896-06-21

triflin' trash, dat amt no preachers tall
and amt no better dan infiddles. Dey
don't preach nowhere, an dey don't go
to no church, an dey amt got no relig-
ion, an som'er EN- caypt speak the Chris
tian language. l caynt cook for no such
folks, Miss Susie, no / caynt b'long to
de Lod's people an caynt."
But, Linda" demonstrated the mis-
tress, they are ladies and gentlemen
and have done no wrong. If you mis-
took them for ministers of the gospel 1T
was not their fault. They never pre-
tended to be. They are members of the
diplomat tie corps, representatives of for
eign governments who come here to see
the president. mad they are called minis
ters for that reason. don't want you to
The herald., 1896-06-21

go away. can't get along without you.
Now go back to the kitchen and think it
over"
Use done thunk it ober, Miss Susie,
an Use rastled an Use prayed, but no
body has no right call hisself minis
ter onless he breaches de gospel. Dey is
wolves in de Sleeps clothin', and Jesus
hab no part with dem furriners and
sech."
But Jesus was foreigner" respond
ed the mistress. "Jesus did not live in
this country. He lived in Turkey, and
the Turkish minister is one of those
that came here"
Aunt Melinda gazed at her mistress
with astonishment. els you shoah OBJ
dat?" she exclaimed.
The herald., 1896-06-21

a very solemn air and decided that she
was going back to Georgia; that she
could not live in dis hyah wicked, God
forsaken town no moh.'
A little questioning disclosed the cause
of dissatisfaction. Mammy's heart was
broken.
Use toiled an Is 'spired in dat dark
ole basement kitchen, ober dat good
for-nothing range, which amt no place
for decent cooking nohow, specially fer
sech as has he'd cook houses all ter their
selves an Use got the best dinners in
de town, cas- you'se told me SO you
self, Miss Susie, 'sposin dat dose forren
ministers what comes hyar so often was
gospel men. But las week find deys
nuthlr' brt gooS-for- nothin', worthless,
The herald., 1896-06-21

The wife of a member of the cabinet
brought with her to Washington last
fall an oldfashioned colored nanny
who is famous for her piety and her
cooking, and the dinners she has pre-
pared during the last two seasons have
been the delight of the cabinet circle and
the diplomatic corps, because they have
been SO different from the conventional
dinners furnished by the fashionable
caterers and the French chefs. There
has been nothing like them in Washing
ton since the war. But the other day
Aunt Melinda came to her mistress with
The herald., 1896-06-21

There is so little wood in Spain that
the small boy knows nothing of the joys
of whiting. and develops no ambition
to become carpenter. The result Is
that the carpenters are few, and their
shops not well provided with modern
tools and machinery.
The herald., 1896-06-21
Eyes; get your Bible and I will read

you about it.
So began mammy's lessons in ecclesi-
astical geography and history, which re-
suited in modifying her sentiments, but
she will never recover from her disap-
pointment when she discovered that the
foreign ministers at Washington were
not gospel men.-Chicago Record.
The herald., 1896-06-21
Not Gospel lien

the animals which are so often ILL
treated before our very eyes