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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1873.
VOL. XV-NO. 302.
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CHAPTER VIII.
OVERTAKEN.
Down tho stream, men !” shouted
when, nt the head of his corn-
ions, ho stood for nu instant watching
^distracted dogs, that, thrown oft’ the
, bayed and barked in a circle about
p aoe where Miriam hud been sleep-
kith her servant.
Vait till tho dogs git the trail again,”
l ono of his companions,
pou fool, the course of the crik is tho
There is a nigger woman with her,
|he has sense enough to know that,”
ed Wilson as, waving his torch, ho
I in the direction he had designated,
jpro was some trouble in calling off
;R, that now redoubled their bay-
ad wont about toariug up the ground,
frn their canine hearts they were as-
| tho fugitives whom they had tracked
had sunk to the centre of tho
u end his men were fatigued.
Jhad had no rest tho previous night,
|ill day on foot thoy had followed tho
feeing hounds on tho trail that marked
Miriam had taken, nnd then
had swept about that fatal circle only
hie book to the starting point, ex-
id aud maddened. Now feeling ns-
f that ho was close on his victims,
i felt a now strength in his heavy
and his exatnplo stimulated his
jurato followers, lie did not follow
tho stream, as did the fugitives.
) douo so ho would have made bot-
Pj(%|||nio T for tho bed of the creek wns
rutivoly open, while tho hanks woro
*itli projecting roots, loose bouldors
1 overhanging vines. Still tho race
| unequal, with all the odds in favor of
trong nnd despond o oh was Pnlsy, her
j£ogth hud a limit, even if she ran un-
hmbored lint carryiug in her arms
8 half unconsciouH Miriam was a drag
t would break tho strength of a giant,
( which could not last, despite her en-
r and tho intense love that seemed to
| strength to her arms aud wings to her
Patsy, you cannot stand this. Let me
t or run. Our chance for escape will
Ibettor,” said Miriam, as she felt tho
|k arms straining tighter and more
ately about her tho more the feet
I ter bearer became stumbling and un-
ain.
No, honey ! Dress de Lor, I ain’t a
to gin out yit. Dey’s farder an’
off! Don't heah dem dogs no
king comfort from her own words,
r made another splendid exhibition
r strength, and increased her speed
jttgh the increasing obstacles and over
|eniug waters. But it was a sprurt
port duration. Gradually the speed
pod, the hold on the trembling girl
jened, and tho heavy, panting breath
moro labored. Miriam insisted
(liking, and Patsy, feeling that to al-
r mistress to run through the stream
I bo fatal, staggered to the bank and
l her on firm ground.
jjTe must not give up, Patsy! Hero,
band! Wo can escape them yet.”
grasped the hand of her ser-
and, guided by the murmur of the
aud the glimmer of the stars
■pHtgh overhanging branches, thoy kept
ftb. same course.
pOfl£j|nd ou, impossible, in their terrible
'ftoxiety, to know how long or how far,
Ibonah [ every step was marked by tho
tracks of bleeding feet, nnd each thorny
, as if marking the course they had
i,' hold a fragment of their torn
fee.
;ain nearer nnd moro distinct catno
aying of tho houuds, though even
[oml-loviug animals seemed to be ex-
ig in the tromendous pursuit,
i heard them now without a tremor,
bausied nature briugH a deadening
\ the senses, nnd dampens all the
gs ; ho that calamities that would
at ono blow if they came unlier-
, are borne without nn increase of
iug when anticipated, or when the
foxed feelings can no longer respond.
Isy’s strength wns purely physical,
being exhausted, she now impeded,
t than aided, tho heroic girl by her
| ami finally the effort at escape
for Patsy fell forward with a
» men on tho battle field full
ed through tho heart.
> is a desperation begot of high
in momenta of great danger and
[ necessity. It is tbe desperation of
i Attack against overwhelming odds,
roio resistance with only tho gliui-
>f success. This was the feeling
eld tho Old Guard in tho valley at
^rloo, refusing to sutrender to the
squadrons that charged them on
sido, and the same resolve that
bed tho division of Piokett on tho
^al centre at Gettysburg. This daring
shown when masses move to-
►ther, aud strike os if with ono arm,
|od by oue heart. But there is a cour-
p—cull it desperation, if you wilt—
»r than that displayed by mon who
> when they hold w eapous in their
'. ’Tin tho grand < ourago of a con
ked man, uuablo to .csist, and power-
L to ward off' the fatal biow, aud,
knowing this, he tarns, and, with heroic
fire in his eye, baros his breast to receive
the stroke, and falls with tho old battle
cry on his lips. There was now no hope
in tho effort to bafllo pursuit. The heavy,
blistered, bleeding foot refused to obey
tho'still resolute will. Her servant wob
dead or helples, the dogs were nearing
every second, and, knowing this, ©very
particle of fear and dread left brave
Miriam's heart, nnd she turned to moet
her pursuers with a grander courage than
if able to strike n blow in her own de
fence.
Ou came the dogs—so close that she
could hear their rapid panting—and as
they neared their baying became louder
nnd moro exultant. Tbe hurried feet and
stumbling steps of men close bohind
them, who now begnn to shout in blas
phemous words their proans of victory.
Then up came the dogs, and dashed about
Miriam Troup in a cirole, as she stood
nbovo the prostrate form of her servant,
nor dared to come nearer.
Miriam had not long to wait, for llordick
Wilson, ragged, red, and exhausted, soon
appeared with a fresh lit torch in his
hand, and, like fhe dogs, he seemed nt
first afraid to approach tho heroic girl,
whoso burning blue eyes seemed to hold
all the animals at bay.
CHAPTER IX.
ORCJANIZINU.
Louis Macon wqr completely over
whelmed by the insano conduct of Mr.
Troup. It was undeserved, and his in
sinuations wore uncalled for and cruel;
hut, ns young Macon considered all the
circumstances, his feelings softened to
ward tho old man whoso life ho had saved
at so mnch risk, nnd who had been his
enemy long beforo Louis was old enough
to love the beautiful Miriam. Indeed,
tho hato of Mr. Troup had its origin long
before Louis wns born, and before his
father had married the woman who pre
ferred him to Henry Troup.
Tho old man was not responsible now.
Ilis mind wns orazed by the culmination
of his troubles, nnd the appearance of
Louis Mucon at tho very acme of his an
guish led him to associate the young man
with the cause of his suffering.
Louis knew it woyld be folly, in Mr.
Troup’s present sorrow, to follow him up
aud roiterute his pledges of regard and
tender of services and sympathy, and had
he entertained any thought of so doing
the servants, who knew their master well
would have urged against it.
“Mauss Louis, we ain’t got no head
now; jist say what wo’s got to do, an’
we’ll do it,” said a strapping young black
man, whoso bleediug head showed he had
boon in a position to use tho long l'ifie
which he held in his right hand to some
advantage.
“How many armed^servants are there
here ?” asked Louis.
“Wo’s all alimed, Mauss. Ole Mauss
Troup got us guns foah wo left de Savan
nah, kaso he thought we’d have trouble
wilh tbe Indians,” answered the black
ginut who had just tondered his services.
“How many men has Mr. Troup on the
placo ?”
“Mor’n fifty, Mauss Louis.”
“And you are all willing to fight for
him ?”
“Yes, Mauss, if so please do Lor. We s
willin’, all of us, to die for him.”
“Then you must bo willing,” said Louis
earnestly, “to die with me, for I am go
ing to follow up this scoundrel Wilson,
and fmd Miss Miriam. One-half of
you will be enough to remain back to take
caro of Mr. Troup and tho place. If you
act as I think you will, under my direc
tions, we will return with victory before
the grass has grown an inch higher.”
The words of Louis were applauded ou
every hand, and now the difficulty was to
select, for all tho mon, nnd even some of
the women, who boasted of their Ama
zonian qualities, were anxious to follow
him. Ho selected, with Batty's assist
ance, twenty young, stalwart fellows,
who, under bis leadership and example,
would light to the death, and then order
ing them to take what provisions thoy
could conveniently carry, he mado them
divido tho ammunition with those who
were to remain behind to guaid their
master, and ho was ready to move.
Just as ho was about to start ngain Mr.
Troup appoared, supported by a servant,
for ho was too weak to walk alone, and
seeing that a number of his pooplo were
about to follow Louis Mucon away, ho
worked himself into a towering rage, and
forbade his people to leave the place.
“I am acting for your best interests.
I wnut to roscue or bring your daughter
back. You will yet see I am right, and
while I respect your feelings, I cannot
now permit your passiou to interfere wilh
my ideas of what is necessary. These
pooplo must follow mo to save yourself
1 and your daughtor."
j A murmur that Mr. Troup could not
I mistake ran through the dusky crowd to
! whom Louis pointed, and the old man,
' hearing it, fell ou Lis knees, saying,
I “Even tho servants whom I have fos-
torod are turning against their master!
I Let me die.”
I “No, ole Mauss," said tho young giant
j before referred to; “we ain’t a gwine
agin’ you, but we’s a gwine to fine young
| Miss, what yoh loves, nn' we'll bring her
I bock, an die, if so need be, for you."
j The old man waved his hund, and then,
I covering bis face, fell to the ground.
Louis gave some hurried instructions
j to ft white-headed old man, who had long
acted as an overseer aud confidential ser
vant for Mr. Troup, and then, calling
Batty to his aide, be was about to lead in
the direction whioh Wilson and his des-
' perate followers had taken, when Batty
stopped him.
“Well, B<*tty, what is it now?”
“Mauss Louis, Phil (poiutiug to tho
1 black giant) says as how they're got two
hounds on de place,” Baid Batty.
“Who has the houuea?”
“Ole Mauss Troup.”
“What if he has, Batty ?"
“Ony din, Mans? Louis. We can't track
dem c' aps at night widout de dogs.
“Let me see them, Phil.”
Phil was only gone a few moments,
when he returned with a couple of
thorough-brod blood houuds, heavy-
cbestud, rod-eyed, white-fanged fellows,
that at the prospect of a chase already be
gan to snuff tho ground and bay, as if
supplicating to be roloased, that they
might follow a trail that smelled of blood.
“Good ; wo will take them along. But
keep them fast; they would leave us away
behind in the woods at night,” said Louis,
as he mado an attempt to pot the head of
one of the fiorce-lookiug brutes.
“Dey don’t tako soon to folks what dey
don’t know; bud dem dorgs mor’n loves
Miss Miriam,” said Phil, apologizing for
tho reception they gave Louis.
“I am glad they do. Yonder is the
course Wilson look. Get tho dogs on the
trail, and let us away.”
Phil held one dog and Batty the other,
and in a few seconds the animals had
caught tho scent, and, with their holders,
were over tho fence.
“Keep olose together, boys,” said Louis,
as in tho advance of his black companions
he followed tho dogs through the dark
forest, whoso interlaced branches woro
jealous of even tho light of tho stars.
On during tho night till high noou, and
they halted under a tree near a babbling
stream, ami then they started on the
groat circle which those in advance had
taken.
chapter x.
THE DENPEKADOEg’ COUNCIL.
“Miriam Miss Troup, I’m your
friend and your father’s friend,” said
llerdick Wilson, touching his fur cap as
with slow, cautious stops, as if he were
nearing danger, ho approached whore
Miriam stood.
“What wnut you boro, sir?” she de
manded in tho authoritative tone of a
princess questioning an intrusive slave.
“I want to take you to your home.'’
“To my home ?”
“Yes-, to your homo and your father.”
“A coward is never afraid to lie. Her-
dick Wilson has ever been afraid to speak
tho truth. Ypn tako mo to my home,
when you know it has been reduced to
ashos by the torches of your robber fol
lowers ! You take me to my father, when,
if ho be living, it is despite the blow
struck by a coword against an old man !”
Tho baud, with blazing torches, now
gathered about her in a circle, nnd there
was something in tho pure, heroic pres
ence of the girl that cowed and rcstraiuod
them.
“Let u* guide you hack, and you will
fiud your mistake, and learn I am not so
bad,” whined Wilson.
“Of course yon are good and brave!
The man who stiikes down nn old man,
fires his house, aud then pursues his
daughter with blood hounds, must bo an
angel, in your opinion; but, Herdick
Wilson, thoy are not the angels whoso
acts are approved by tho All-seeing God !"
As Miriam spoke Patsy recovered from
her swoon, and, rising to her knees, she
looked about in fear aud wonder at Wil
son’s desperadoes, nnd then up ut tho
marble-like face of the girl, who seemed,
in tho weird light, like a guardian spirit
protecting tho life below her.
“Oh, Miss Miriam, don't stop to talk to
dem bad men ! Lot’s get homo,” said
Patsy, pleadingly.
This wns a voice nnd a person to whom
i ho stepped a
bolder tone
i block devil, or
Wilson could respond
littlo closer and said, ii
than he had yet assumed
“Hold your tongue, yc
I will kill yon!"
“I don't lteer if you does, artor ye’re
gone hunted us down like deer. Go on
an’ kill.”
“Hush, Palsy,' whispered Miriam, who
saw tho words of her servant only irri
tated aud gave conrogo to Wilson, who
was now so olose that two hurried steps
would bring him within reach of his vic
tims.
Wilson seemed debating with himself
for a few seconds, for not a word was
spoken, and tho dogs lay panting ou tho
ground. Suddenly ho stepped forward,
saying,
“Miss Troup, I will save you in spite of
yourself. Your fright has made you
orazed.”
Ho reached out his hand as if ho would
grasp tho white arm that seemed within
his reach, but like a tlnsh tho arm
was raised, and Miriam, without moving
an inch from where sho stood, drew from
tho tattered folds of hor dross o long,
glittering knife, that for tho moment
crossed beforo the eyes of llordick Wil
son liko a blue flume, nnd with a cry of
dread ho sprang back.
“They uro both she fiends," exclaimed
Black Ned, who had his arm in a sling
and who had joined Wilson a few minutes
beforo the party started in pursuit of
Miriam.
“What are wo to do?” asked Wilsob,
who half eursod himself for not getting
Miriam in his possession, as ho might
have dono, lmd he exercised moro pru-
deuce, beforo sho could have left thognr-
deu.
“I know one thing you can’t do,” said
Black Ned.
“Whut’s that ?’’
“You can't tako that gnl alive while
she’s got that knife about her.”
“I don't want you to tell nio what I
can’t do,"growled Wilson.
“Then I’ll tell ye what yo kin do."
“Well ?’’
“Start n tiro right hoab, whur wo kin
watch ’em, an’ wait till dey play out.”
Herdick Wilson stroked liis rod heard,
and, turning, said, with u preliminary oath
of exultation,
“I think you’re right, Nod."
Fires woro soon started in a ciroloabout
Miriam and her servant, both of whom
now sat ou tho grouud in wonder at this
new phase.
“Dey’ro a goin’ to wait till wo'ro too
starved an’ sleepy to stop dar takin’ us,''
Slid l’aisy.
“I will stay awake till 1 die, Patsy, if
need bo.”
“No, no, Miss Miriam ! Heah, lean on
mo an’ sleep. I’m stronger now, an’ if
dey comes neah us I'll wako you up.
Trus’ me, young Miss. Yo know I’d dio
for ye, if so need be.”
Miriam could not
affecticnutu croat;ir<
solved not to sleep, sli
again*t tho black shouldc.
I the offer of tho
“Thom couple’s a goin' to snooze purty
soon. Jist wait nu’ seo if I niu’t right,”
said Black Ned, ns, nursing his arm, he
cast a glance at tho spot whore Miriam
sat.
“I’m thinkin’, Ned, you mado a bad job
of that Louis Macon affair,” said Wilson,
his eye rested on Nod's bandaged arm.
“Ho catno neah rankin’ a bud job of
); but I b’liove wo killed him. I’d al
most swar I saw 'em both fall,”
“Then why didn’t you wait to make
sure of your work ?"
“Wait, an’ mo wounded, an' all tho fel
lers dead or ruuned off, an’ Macon an’ his
man jist covered wid pistols! I don’t
want any of that kind of waitin’."
“I’ll hot Macon’s living ; and if so, wo
will hoar from him beforo twenty-four
hours go past,” said Wilson.
“Ye don't suppose he'd bo fool enough
to attack us, wid ony hisself an’ dat nig
ger ?’’
“I do. Ho is n good woodsman, and
the best shot in Georgia. Ho could shoot
you or mo from bohind u tree, and escape
before we could find him.”
As Wilson spoko he glanced around at
the trees, that towered likosp6otres in the
fitful flashing of tho fires, and Black Ned,
hugging closer his arm, cowered below
Wilson, as if ho had said to himself,
“Wa’al, if anybody's goin' ter ho hit first,
I don’t want it ter bo me.”
CHAPTER XI.
AN ALARM.
Louis Macon, confident that ho was on
tho right trail, did not rest long at tho
roots of tho groat tree. The very fact
that Miriam had beon there bo lately
nerved him, and ho decided to givo the
mon ho was in pursuit of no time for
rest. With his black followers ho started
.soruo distance ou tho great cirole, when
Botty, who had remained behind, came
running after him, and called out,
“Stop, Mauss Louis ; dat ain't do way
dey’s gone, shush."
“How do you know ?”
“Ruse l'so found out. Coiuo buck,
Muuss Louis, an’ soo if I ain’t right.”
Louis hud a groat deal of faith iu the
shrowdness of his sorvant, aud leaving
tho mon in position, ho followed Batty
back to tho slroum ; but, while they saw
tho tracks of Patsy there, and tho im
prints of Miriam’s littlo feet, Louis saw
thoy hud turned back and woro on tho
very trail tho anxious dogs wero follow
ing.
Why Kpouk of that long, terrible march,
nor pnint tho despondency of Louis aud
his pooplo whou, far into tho night, they
returned to tho very point of starting ?
13ut this dospondauoy soon gavo place to
joy, for thoy discovered that tho party
thoy had boon in pursuit of had boon
there during their nbsouco, and that now
the trail led unmistakably down tho
stream.
This fact gavo all fresh courage, nnd,
preparing torches to light iu case of ne
cessity, they started ahead with ronewod
ardor.
Thoy wont on to the poiut where Miriam
and Patsy had turned from tho river into
tho woods, and hero Phil stopped tho
dogs aud said,
“Mauss Louis, I tinks we’re a giltiu’
purty close ou ’em.”
“Very well, Phil; let us hurry on and
strike them beforo they are awuro of it.”
“Yes, Mauss Louis; bud I tinks we’d
better fix do dogs fust."
“How do you moan ?"
“Why, muzzle dem, sab."
“You are right, Phil. I should have
thought of this before, but wo have no
muzzles! ”
“Yes, Mauss Louis. I looked ahond an
saw as how wo uiout want ’em, so J
brought ’em along." And so saying, Phil
producod from a pocket in his baggy
pants n pair of muzzles, which lie pro
ceeded to put on tho dogs, evidently
against tho wish of tho animals, if their
wishos woro to he judged by tho prelimi
nary growls and continued resistance.
“Now, Batty, you nnd I must keop
ahead of tho dogs, for wh*»n wo come up
with tho party wo will liud Miss Miriam n
prisoner, if it is possiblo that sho should
havo held out so long.”
“Dat am rite spriseu to mo, Mauss
Louis, foah wo’ro all pretty tiahod.”
Giving instructions to tho mon to keep
cool, and when tho time etiuo to make
every shot toll, and keep in u body, the
march hognn again.
They wero not so close us they expect
ed, for some miles wore passed over be
fore thoy saw in the dim distance a tire,
and at this discovery, Louis lmd difficulty
in restraining his followers from cheering.
“Wo must crawl up carefully. Keop
the dogs back, and when wo tiro bo care
ful that you take aim at the white mon ;
if wo got thorn out of the way, wo can
dash in and the Indians will break and
run at once.”
“Mauss Louis dat aiu my ’pinion, said
Phil unslinging his long rifle and peer
ing ahead, as if ho had serious intentions
of trying its range flora tho spot where
ho stood.
“You say our dogs know Miss Miriam,
und her sorvunt ?" asked Louis.
“Dom dogs!” exclaimed Phil in atone
of amazement,intended to convey the idea
that while there might bo doubt of the fi
delity of other dogs, and their attachment
for Miss Miriam, tho dogs in question
wero too far above tho suspicion of infi
delity to bo thought of for a moment;
nevertheless Louis intimated that tho
muzzled hounds wore the dogs he had ref-
ferunco to.
“Why. bros.s yeb, mauss Louis, dom
dogs would oat mo nr you if wo laid a fin
ger ou ’em."
Of course Phil n.c"' t if an angered
finger w ere put on I ho lady in question.
“All right, Phil, Lave them ready, und
at the proper moment I will toil you to
unmuzzle and loose them."
Phil stooped and whispered to the dogs
very earnestly to tho effect that there was
now a splendid opportunity for tho dogs,
by tho proper fulfillment of the work bo
as dogs could that they would endeavor to
do their duty. *****
Herdick Wilson was about to sink to
sleep, ns many of his companions had
dono, whou ho was startled to his foot by
an Indian’ who, in alarm, catno dashing
I ronthlossly into camp.
“Well, what’s wrong ?” demanded Wil-
“They are hero, within gun-shot!"
“Who?"
“Tho canoe man,nnd a hundred blacks.”
Before Wilson could call his men the
oehoas ware startled by blazing rifles, and
two blood-hounds, with hanging tongues.
How towards the desperado.
[to he continued. |
THE DESTINY OF THE EARTH.
Tho Hartford Times says:
Professor Wincbell, of tho University
of Syrncuso, in his interesting lectures,
tolls us what Roiouco touches in regard to
tho final destiny of tho world, llo say a
that tho glnoiors of (ho north and south
polar regions nro to close together and
wrap tho earth in ovorhsling ice; and
finally tho oarth is to plunge into tho sun.
But tho liino for that consummation is
not yet. It will require ono million of
years, or perhaps a thousand millions of
years, to accomplish the result. No umt-
tor, so far as thisgonorntion is concerned,
whether tho work is finished in ono mil
lion or a thousand million yonrs. Wo
viow tho ond only in tho dim distauco.
Profossor Wineholl says that science
enables us to look hack upon the slroam
of events and sen planets and systems
springing into existence, and tho phe
nomena that havo accompanied thoir
birth. From this point wo can look for
ward and draw deductions from tlm dis
tant future. Wo may soo tho ultimate
end and issue of material things, in
every rain storm wo soo tho turbid waters
rushing on to tho sea from brook and
river. Tho oarth is washed from the hill
sides and homo to tho sea. In Palostino
wo soo tho hills denuded and the valleys
stripped of their soil. Tho limealono is
1 >fi Imre.
At tho head wntors of the Colorado
river, on this continent, lhero is nn ole
vatoil plutonu, laid bare by tho action of
tho waters. It soeuis that tho grout gla
cier, during the glacial period, that
stretched from Massachusetts Bay t«> the
Kooky Mountains, moving from north to
south, grinding up the surface rocks ami
forming a now subsoil, did not touch that
plateau, which presents u stjono of deso
lation. Its bare rooks and dorp enuoiM
attest tho groat work of (lie tains iu
washing its soil down to tho river. It
has been tho work of thousands of yoars,
nnd tho whole continent, would have pro
sentod a similar appearance to day had
not tho great glacier done its work with
such amazing power.
Tho amouut of soil washed by Up Mi
sissippi river every year into the Gulf <>1
Mexico is sufficient to malm a deposit ono
milo Jong, ono rnilo wide, and !U)H feoi
deep. The same result is found in tho
Nile, tho Gauges, nnd the groat Amazon—
earth's largest river—indeed, in every
rivor. This process of taking the soil
from tho land and washing ii to tho sen is
constantly going on, and the result must
he, in time, that llto earth will he laid
hare and unfit for tho habitation of man.
Tho mountains of llio earth are steadily
sinking. The Alleghunios havo boon cut
down from 15,Out) to 0,000 foot. In the
past century it is known thut tho Andes
havo docroased in altitudo.
So that thoso who are here, a million or
moro years bonce will havo no soil, und
they must perish, unless the sou is up
turned and changes placos with the dry
land, giving to ourtli tho soil that it swal-
lowod iu past ages. And then another
flood and another ark will form a purl of
tho history of the world. But hero an
other difficulty arises to ooufrout earth's
living creatures. By radiation this planet
is losing its heat, it is cooling off, and
by the time tho soil is washed to the
bosom of the sea it will bo so old here
that no ono can live—not oven a soul.
As tho internal fires become dim, there
will not bo hoot enough to evaporate tho
raiu that sinks into the earth, aud solid it
back to tho clouds. Tho moisture will
sink deeper and deeper, till it. is finally
all absorbed, and the clouds, if thore are
any, will run dry. Tho surface of the
oarth will dry up and crack upon. It will
produce 110 vegetation, and nobody can
live boro. This, says the Professor, is
no fancy sketch. The moon has already
passed through thoso stages, having for
merly been under tho same conditions tin.
d :r which wo now exist.; it has been
through all tho phases that have marked
tho physical conditions of the earth, and
tho earth will finally arrive at the same
condition iu which tho m mu now exists.
Both moon aud oarth w -re once juntas
tho sun now is, masses of ineadcscont
matter. Bo of other planets. Our smaller
neighbor, Mars, has probably already
passed the habitable stage. Jupiter is so
large that it lifti not yd cooled off to a
degree sufficient to make it habitable by
human beings. It is cooling oft, how
over, nnd so is the sun. Tin. time will
coiuo, long ages bonne, when tho sun will
be so cool that lids earth will ho covered
by solid ice. Soiouco do a not lix that
time. if may bn one million, nr limit
Rinds of millions of years. No imillcr
how long I ha lime. The fact is no loss
fixed that tho time will coiue. Ami whom
nro we, or tho earth itself, to land ? '[ he
fore them, to redeem any misdeeds thoy
1, though sbo re- might; have boon guilty of iu tho past,and
loaned hack j that iu addition to establishing thoir ca-
with a sense nine reputations ou a basis unusaailablo
of relief. I by calumny, they would ho rewarded all
This act did not escape llordick Wil- | their livos with an abundance of moat.
Bin, or his wliito desperadoes aud painted | The dogs robbed thoir damp noses against
Indian allies. i the hlaok hands, aud intimated as plainly
Prof.
ideil
fluid “thinner than thought ' It 1., n
toii d fluid, and offers certain resistance
to bodies passing through it. lienee, we
find that tho comets, in thoir revolutions
around the sun, reach tho same point at
which they were iu tho preceding revolt!
Lion, each time a little sooner, and (noli
time a littlo nearer tho sun. The ether
resists, to a c rtnin extent, dm eontiifugal
force which keeps the body revolving, hut
does not interfere with the centripetal
which draws it toward tho sun.
In process of lime t he centripetal f-
will overcome tho centrifugal force, and
gradually draw tho revolving bodios,
spiral, toward the sun, and lin i’ly they
will ho precipitated into the solar mass
Earth and all tho planets me subject to
tf.is law, and all will finally ho drawn into
the tun. So science, as interpreted by
Wincbell. tcache", us Hint tho theory that
the earth is to end is truo, though the
suit is to bo accomplished, like ov
other result iu nature, by established
natural laws.
Iu the meantimo tho soas may ohnngo
thoir hods, and their waters may oovoi
tho dry land, as thoy have done, possibly,
many times iu tho past. Glaciers spread
ing over a continent may again grind tho
hare rocks to powdor and level tho un
tains. Tho cycle of past revolutions may
continuo—how long ! Nevermind \nd
shall there he improvement in the. 1
that cornu after those tint are engulfed
and swept off ? Prohuhly; unless tf
is no progross iu tho works of the Cre
ator ?
Mastodon Remains.—The last number
of tho American Journal of Science re
cord.; tho discovery of a large part of tho
skeleton of u mastodon near lllipolis, Il
linois. Ono of tho tusks proved to bo
I nearly ten feet iu longth, and t\v< nfy-nii 0
I inches iu circumfereuoe three loot from
the lower ond. All tho bones wore in a
lair state of preservation, and of a dark,
spongy and, porous appoaranro. It is
■ probable that tire specimens will bo added
to tho collections of fossils now being
gathered together by Profossor Worthen
for the State cabinet.
AN IDYL.
[TrmiflHtMl from UioUurmnn.]
Ettlingen is lictwumi ihrUrulie nuil
Hastadl, an hour’s walking as vou po to
Kelil. The flowers grow thorn without
thinking about it, and sow their own
Rood, it is, thoreforo, a simple tl ing l.»
he a gardener, and Bottiua's father, tho
florist, attended entirely to his pipe, leav
ing the oan.B of business to his appren
tice, whoso name was Naturo. Dottinn,
aa been mo the daughler of a gardener,
was a kind of rose. Wilhelm, thobaker’s
young man, would have thrown himself
into the furnace for her. But there came
along Fritz, tho dyer, who had been in
France, and who woro gloves. Kho con
tinued a while to promenade with Wil
helm under I lie chestnut trees which sur
round tho fortifications of Ettlingen, but
ono night she suddenly withdrew her
hand: “You had bolter find a nicer girl
than l nut; I do not foci that I could
make you happy.” Wilhelm disappeared
from tho country. Ilis departure, which
was the talk of Ettlingen, caused Bettinn
moro remorse than regret. Fornix months
sheshul horsolf up; tlioit hearing nothing
of hor lover, sho reappeared shyly on tho
promenade, divested of rings,'ear-drops
and ornaments. Tho bountiful Fritz, in
his loveliest gloves, intercepted hor I10-
nonth ill- tlu.itnuts, and, armed with hor
father'.; consent, proposed himself for her
“Not yet," sho unaweved ; “wait till I
wear my flowers again. '
In Germany, as iu Switzerland and
Italy, natural llowuis aro indispensahlo to
a young gill’s toilet. To appear at nu as
sembly without a blooming tuft at the
corsage or in tho hair is to indicate that
tho family is in mourning, the mother
sick, or tho lover conscripted.
Tho dancoH which animated tho others
made her cad. Sho loft tho hall and wan
dered on tho hill-side. Tlioro, honoath
the hedge of a sunken road, sho recog
nized her heautoous J''iifz. Poor Fritz!
fusing himself the ploasuro of
ighl not, partake
for temporizing
that to-day,
diinro which I10
1 her. Ah,
Itettii
in the oyos of every ono, they shall d
together, and he shall ho recognized as
her eerlobter. Slio looks hastily around
for lloweis. The hill is hare, tho road is
•.tony- an enclosure at tho loft otVers
some promise, and Bulliun outtis.
It was a cemetery. Animated with hor
new resolve, she thought littlo of tho
profanation, and crowned herself with
lloweis from tho nearest gravo. L11 an
hour tho villagers from Etlliugon saw hor
leaning on Fritz’s shoulder in tho waltz.
I’lint night the shade of Willultn stood at
her bed-head: “You havo acceptod tho
flow ors growing on my gravo and nour
ished from my hoart. I am onco moro
your rrrUlrr."
Next day Fritz coiuo, Vadi.uit, with a
silver engagement ring, which ho was to
exchange f or that on Boltina’s linger, re
turned by Wilhelm at his departure. But
I ho ring was gone. At night Wilhelm re
appeared, and showed tho ring on his
linger. Nome time passed, and Beilina
lost a good part of her bounty, disIraeTod
as slm was between the laughing Fritz in
tlm daytime and the pule Wilhelm nt
night. Sho win a a-nsililo girl, however,
and persuaded herself, with J'rilz's as
sistance, that tho vision was created by a
disordered fancy. Hut she caused in
quiry to bo mado about tho grave in tho
c( motory. Tho answer camo: “Under
the first stone in tho lino at tho light of
the gate lies tho body of William lluuss-
bnch, of Ettlingen, where ho followed
the trade of baker.”
Then she know that sho had robbed her
lover s gravo to adorn herself for 0 now
cerlobter. After this tho ghost of Wil
helm began to invade tho promenades
witli Fritz, and slm walked evening after
evening honoath tho chestnuts between
hor two lovers.
Tho gardonor's daughtor never looked
fairer than on her wedding day. Armed
with hor resolution, and filled with love
for Fritz, she presented horRolf at tho
altar. Tho priest hognn to recito tho
sacramental words, when ho cniuo to a
pause at tho sight of Dottinn, palo and
wild-oyod, shivering convulsively in her
bridal draperies.
Wilhelm was again nt her side, kneel
ing on tho right, as Fiitz on the left, llo
wan in tho bridegroom's habit, and ho of
fered a bouquet «d graveyard flowors —
the while immortelle and I ho forgot-uio-
imt. When Fritz rose and put tho ling
" :i hor linger sho felt tho icy hand draw
tlm tokou oil' and replace it by another.
At this, overcome with terror, nnd making
u wild gent uro of rejection both to right
and left, sho ran shrieking out of tho
church.
MIIMillt ITIvtIS.
THU I ’ll AIRIKs. —M
It. S. Elliott, Indm.tiial Agent of tho
Kansas Pacific Railway, has Loon expor
nmnting upon tho cultivation upon tho
plains of various seeds, without accompa
nying irrigation, tho principal trials Lav
ing boon made at. three stations along the
railroad tho first, Wif.on. being !/:::•
miles wosf of the Stale line, and
I'd above the son level the second, Ri
bs, .iML' miles west, and of :;,t>Iti font ele
vation; and the third, pond Crock, 122
miles west, and Ii, !7f. feet iu altitudo
Trials wero mado, iu those experiments,
Of winter grains, as wheal, barley and
rye: of spring grains, as wheat and oats;
01 various grasses ; of tree Hoods, such as
oilanthUH, chostuut, pci ion, elm, ole.; and
of various fruit frees. The conclusions
arrived at from these investigations woro,
that lucerne and other valuable forage
plants, winter nnd spring grains, and
trees, may bo grown on tbo plains from
Rood without irrigation, us far west as tho
l"0lh iiiondnui, and perhaps oven fur-
tin r ; also, that trees may ho grown from
sec Is, cuttings and young plants, for tim-
b. r or for fruit, iu all parts of the plains
l». tw« 1, the Platte and the Ark ..as riv-
01-; and, finally, that tlm growth of liv
ing storm shi< Ids along the line of tho
Kansas Pacific: Bail way, and of timber for
tho uses of tho road, is only a matter of
ottucl and time.
(in
'jjon.- A roninikahlo feature attendant
upon Iholalo French Genia n war is said
to Imvo consisted in tho destruction of
vegetation in the vicinity of the groat
b.itilo fiohD, this being not simply tho re
sult of mechanical injuries, but of some
m ro potent agency, nnd, according to
one writer, the result of tho enormous
mass of powder burned during tho bat
tles. As soon bs the powdor is exploded
sulphuric acid is distributed through the
atmosphere, and driven forward by tho
winds until it fs carried by rains down
into I ho soil, w haro it destroys vegeta
tion, tho effect being quite similar to that
of tho same gases as thrown out of manu
facturing establishments. As, diuiogthe
war, many thousand tons of powder w oro
burned, ii would ho quite easy to under
stand that an immoriHO number of oublo
foot of sulphuric acid must havo beon
thrown oil into the utmosphoro.
Imitation <t Human Haim. - -In nn arti-
o’o upon the trade in hii'tian hair, *i: 1 u-
thor slates that a patent has ivcentJ.v !.«■■«>'<
taken out for converting goat • hair into
hair ftr ladios' uno, and that the experi
ment is so successful as to render it al
most Impossible to distinguish the real
article from the imitation. This will ho
good nows not only to tho dealers in hair,
who might apprehend the exhaustion of
thoir source f supply, hut also to tho
ladi »who nd upon art to oompen-
salo tho dofirii m ien of naturo. 1 ho same
article states that in 18(18 over 22,000
pounds of hair w« re imported into Great
Britain, representing tho clips of about
l .,ooo women. Much of this is obtained
from tho largo communities of sister
hoods scattered throughout Franco and
Belgium.
INSURANCE.
ATLANTA DEPARTMENT
OFFICERS:
Cen. JNO. B. CORDON, President.
Cen. A. H. COLQUITT, Vice President.
J. A. MORRIS, Secretary. J. H. MILLER, Sup’t Agencies.
Assets Nearly $2,500,000.00!
Ratio of Assets to Liabilities 146.39-100 to $100.
Has just established a Branch at Columbus, Ga., and op»n#d au efliot at tho
1 'GEORGIA HOME” BUILDING.
The oitizeus of Columbus and adjoining country ar« urgently rtquMttd to tx-
amino tho claims of this Pioneer Company to their patronage and sappert.
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COLUMBUS GA. BRANCH.
OFFICERS 1
W. L, SALISBURY, Pres’t. G. GUNBY JORDAN, Vice Pres't.
L. SPENCER, Secretary.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE i
M. J. UKAWirOUL),
O. W. DU.t.lNUIlAM,
W. I.. IIJ.AUK,
ALFRED I. YOUNG,
C. A. REDD,
W. R. DROWN,
PETER PIKER.
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K. M. MULFOID,
MEDICAL BOARD)
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U. N. MILLED, Gen’l Agent and Manager.
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outlay. Full particulars given by inquiry nt the office.
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Cirooil Solicitors Wanted.
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