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Aflor the Storm.
the wildest storm must sfjetid its force,
tfhe baffled winds pause with a moan,
For sunshine struggling through the nfist
Clasps the tired earth in shining tone.
So stormy grief will rob of light
The soul that prays for morning's dawn.
Through black despair in deepest night,
Ti 1 hope, and love, and life seem gone.
'Tis then the morning's golden splendor
Dispels the gloom, illumes the way,
Whilst dreamy voices, low and tender,
Whisper, sad heart, behold a perfect day!
—Chicago Journal,
WITTS ADVENTURE.
I was quite young wheii 1 itent out
to service—only sixteen—and I was
quite frightened at the .idea of going
among the grand folks; but father had
not left much, except dobls and mort¬
gages, when he died!, and mother was
feeble, and there weie all tho little
children to be taken caro of; and
Neighbor Ford told me that they
wanted a parlor-maid at the court,
“there ain't so much to do," said
Farmer Ford, “and- twelve dollars a
month.’’
“But a servant!'’ said mother, and
sho put her black stuff apron to her
eyes and began to c y in that weak,
uncerta n way sho had.
“We’re all of us servants, Lydia, to
the Lord,” said Noighbor Ford. “And
if every one of u? does his duty in the
state of life where it pleases God to
put Us; there ain’t nothing more to be
expected;’’
“Mother,” said I, “only think of it!
Twelve dollars a mouth. II >w much
it will help us! Oh, mother, I am so
glad!"
“The child looks at it right,” said
Neighbor Ford. 1 ‘She’s got more sense
tHari yttii haVc, Lydia! ’
So I went to Caris'ali Court; There
was a h mekeeper there, and a butler,
and seven servans borides ms, and I
soon learueJ to perform the duties of
my place neatly aid well.
Mrs. Ghristali’s mul used to give mi
many li-eful hints—she tWs a quiet, sub¬
stantial E lglis’iwomau whom the fami¬
ly ha l brought from foreign pirts with
them. But her brother fell ill, and she
went home to nurse him, aud there
came a fine French mademoiselle in her
place, whom they called Maden ohel e
Veroniquc; She spoke two or three differ¬
ent language*, dressed hair like ft fash¬
ion plate, altered over Mrs. C installs
bonnets and dressos until her wardrobe
seemed twice as large and variei, and
Bad a sgore of other accomplishments
at her finger cnl*. Mr*. C.iri till said
she was “a perfect treasure;’’ the old
housekeeper laughed until her
sides ached, at Veronique’s stories;
the footmia fell deep’y in love
with her, and all the other maidi copied
her dresses, repettod her smart sayiigs,
Und strove, iu variou; ways, to imitate
W< fiat I kept q iletiy aloof. Bom s-
iiow i was afraid d f MaJerrioiselio V«; ~
onique. She had grea’, luminous green
eyes like those of a cat; she showed her
teeth, in glistenirig double rows, when
Ihe laughed, and, although she wa3 al¬
ways jjriditig hers .-If on her completion,
I am quite sure it was powder and
pan*.
She came smding to me one night—
it Was of a Sonia/ evening, I rjrnom-
be?, when I wa3 sitting by ths windiw
reading my liyma-book, and woalering
what mother and the chi.dren were do-
ing.
“Hero is ma petite Lottee,” sho said.
“Tho shy bird who shrinks away from
me always. But I bare eyes, Lottce,
and I have already made myself to per¬
ceive that ycd are vory p-etes. Ah!
Bay 1 not the truth? And you shall put
a rose in those broWu braids, Lottce,
and dance tonight. Peter is going,
and Felix and Amanda; and the coach-
tfiadj Who proves h m elf mist* amiable,
will take us iu the wagonette.’
“But it is Sun lay evening,” said I.
JJa lemoiselle Vronique made n
grimace.
“We are not Puritans, Lot tee,” sail
the. “We have all been to tho church
tsday. Why not tnake a little simple
enjoyment tonight, like tho peasants of
ma belie Normandie? Madurai dine3
cut; the chi.dren, with their good,
heavy-headed nurse, wilt be asleep—’■
“Did Mrs. Christall say—’’
“Madame knows - nothing—absolutely
nothing,’’ reiterate! Veronique, impa¬
tiently. “Are we poor servants to be
always slaves? Come, ma petite. The
good Felix especially wishes to dance
With you, and I have promised him
that you will be there.”
L „Felix was the upper gardener who
was In charge of tho green-houses and
graperies; a spare, livid-faced, little
ns| whom I especially disliked.
I “It js Sunday evening,” said I; “I do
not wish to go. I have boon brought
up to spend Sunday eveniug quietly at
home.” ,
And Mademoiselle Varonique’s per-
auasions, flatteries and blandishments
were in vain.
They all went. I could l»e»r them
returning stqne o’clock in the m0ra '
THE ENTERPRISE. * w
ing, tiptoeing past my bedroom door;
and their descriptions of the festive
gathering at the breakfast-table next
day were enthusiastic in the extreme.
“There's to ba a hop Friday night
week," said Folix, “with a band from
Mncaster. Lotty will go this time, I
am quite certain, if I ask her; and Mr.
and Mrs. Ciiristall will be in New York
that night for the Charity Ball.”
1 looked gravely at him.
“Do you think it will be right,
Felix?” said I.
“Oh, bah!” Madomofselle Veroniquo
interjected, with extrema disgust.
“I'm quite sure there can bo nothing
wrong auout it,” Eaid Felix.
“Then, why do you notask Mrs.
Christall boldly to let you go?" I ques¬
tioned.
They looked blankly at one another
—and before they could answer, Mrs.
Hood, tho housekeeper, came in, and
a signal for silence was passed around.
“Friday night week l" It came before
we knew it, almost. Mr. and Mrs.
Christall went to the Charity Ball, the
latter so superbly dressed that the ser¬
vants gathered in a little group behind
the butler’s pantry door to see her go
out in her diamonds aud pink silk. Old
John, tho elder coachman, was to wait
at Slington station to briug them back
at 3 o'clock—the other coachman,
Thompson, was in league with Veron¬
iquc aud her friends, aud was to harness
up the wagonette as soon as the coast
was fairly clear for Vcionique, Hatty,
Julia and Fui.x.
“And Latty might go, too, if she
only would,’’ said Hatty, rcproach-
fully.
“I don’t tliiuk it’s right,” said I.
Mrs. Hood had gone to see her
daughter at Slingtou, leaving the house
in Julia's charge, for Julia had been
there some time and was regarded as
quite trustworthy; the old butler always
weut to bod at nine; so that when tho
wagonette was off I was the only per¬
son left about the place. And I had
hardly seated myself by the fire with
needlework beforo thcro came a tap at
the door.
I started, for I was nervous and
easily frightened, and the house seemed
unnaturally large and lonesome iu the
quiet evening silence. It wai a little
boy—a stunted, big.eyed creature—
whom I did not remember to have seen
in the neighborhood before.
“Are you Letty Lee?” ho asked.
“Yes,” I answered, in surprise.
“It’s your mother,” said he. • 'She’s
fell on the ice aud broke her leg. She
wants you right off.” /
“How did it happen?” I cried, burst¬
ing into tears. “Who told you?"
“I can’t stay.’ ’ said h3. “They’ve
sent me for a doctor, and I ain’t to de¬
lay second. "
a
And off lie scud led, his small figure
seeming to lose itself in the black
masses of evergreen ou the lawn.
What was I to do? I knew that
Lohnson, the butler, slept like a log of
wood, and there was no one else about
the house.
“I can just run down home and be
back in hdf an hour,” thought I. Bo
t lofckad the door, saw that the fire was
all right, and started off across the dark
copses an 1 frozen fields.
At the mill I saw a light burning,and
stoppel to inquire of old Mr. Dawson,
whose wife was our nearest neighbor, as
to the extent of the accident.
“Is mother much hurt?” slid I. He
looked amaze 1, and I proceeded to ex¬
plain myself mure fully.
“They’ve fooled you, my girl,” said
he. “I’ve just come from there—and
your mother’s as well and sound as
ever she was i.i her life.”
A sudden light seemed to flash across
me. Something was wrong. There
was some under-current of malicious
purpose bidden under all this tissue of
falsehood. And I saw in the eyes of
Harry P iw3on, the millers tall son,
who stood bsside me, that he, too,
shared my ideas.
“Father,” said he, “all isn’t right.
Call the Ford lads. Lot u»’ go up to
Christall Court with Lotty.”
“Eli?” said Mr. Dawson. “You
don’t suspect—”
“I don’t know what I do suspect,
farl; 9 r ”said Ilirry. hurriedly buttoning
l isn’t it
his coat. “But I know all as
should be.”
We cams up to the Court, a little ,
band of us, in the frozen silence of the
winter night, and found that it was as
Harry Dawson had suspseted. Christall
Court was in the possession of three
men whose tools, scattered around, pro¬
claimed them to be professional burg-
lars, while thi poor old butler, fast
asleep at the top of the house, never
dreamed that aught was amiss. But,
expert as were those thieves, the sturdy
strength and superior numbers of our
pafij were too much for them. They
overpowered and hound—and
were home with
when the wagonette came
its load of cross and sleepy servants,
served to carry the captives to the
it
/cotsuty j uL Ve¬
it proved that one of them w «a
CARNESVILLE, GA„ MONDAY, MARCH 3.1890.
ronique's brother—and that tho Froneh-
woman herself was in league with them.
Veroniquo left the country, abruptly;
all the other servants, except' Mrs.
Hood, Old John and the butler, wore
discharged—and lam Mrs. Christall’s
own maid, now.
To bo sure, it isn’t much of an ad¬
venture, but suqh as it is, I have told it
as plainly as I could remember .—The
Ledger.
Historic Mansions in Washington.
A number of the Senators livo in his¬
toric quarters, writes Frank G. Carpen¬
ter in a Washington letter to tho New
York World. Senator Cameron paid
|87,000 soma years ago for the old
Ogle Tayloe mansion on Lafayette
Square. It is a three-story brick of a
dirty yellow, with an iron portico run¬
ning along tho second story above an
English basement. The front door is
painted olive green and the lower story
contains the office of the Senator and
his reception-room. The parlors are on
the second floor, and tho house is nicely
furnished. In this house havo been en¬
tertained all of the Presidents since the
days of Andrew Jackson, and Winfield
Scott and Martin Van Buren hnvc often
put their legs under the mahogany in
its dining-room. One day when General
Scott was dining here a violent hail¬
storm occurred, smashing tho windows
and bringing down lumps of ico tho
size of hickory nuts. These hailstq^os
were brought to the table, and Scott,
as he dropped one of them into his
wineglass, said:
“Ladies, we will cool our champagne
with celestial ico.”
Just below this boose of Cameron's is
tho home of Secretary Blaino. He rents
tho house, but he has refura.ished and
repainted it. You eater the ground
floor from the street through, an olive-
green doorway and you find, the parlors
on the second floor. The dTawing-
room is furnished in saihnon tint and
the woodwork and mautels .arc of pearl-
white. The dining-room is on the
ground floor an l its walls, are hung
with crimson tapestry and the chairs
are upholstere l in red leather. The
sideboard is of old oak and the whole
house is adorned with the pictures and
bric-a-brac which Secretary Blaine
picked up in E-iropc. This home and
lot is worth now at least $ 100,000 aud
the lot would bring $50.,000 under the
hammer. Still it was once sold for a
jackass and it was Henry/ Clay who sold
it. It is just across the. wtreet from the
White house and Clay had often re¬
fused to self it. Oae day, however, old
Commodore Rogers came homo from
tho Mediterranean with his naval vessel
full of live stock which. he had picked
up abroad. One df 'Clay’s hobbies was
stock farming, and Rogers’s cargo in¬
cluded one finei Andalusian jackass.
Clay saw it and waited it. The Com¬
modore refused to> rsell, but at last said
laughingly:
“You can have Sum for your lot op¬
posite tho White .house.”
“Done,’’said Clay, and the animal
was shipped off to Kentucky. Commo¬
dore Rogers built a big four-story brick
ou the ground, anfl this brick has been
tho scene of many a Washington festiv¬
ity. In it Blaine wi.l enlertaiu this
winter, and in it. iSeward dined tho di¬
plomats when hi wa$ secretary of
state.
Thirsty Trs velers’ Tree.
A European travr.er,on his way from
the coast of Madaga scar to ’the capital,
Tananarivo, in the interior, had emp¬
tied his water-flask and was suffering
from thir»£. II© issked one of the na-
lives of his party when he should be
able to obtain water-
“Any time you like it,” said thl na¬
tive, smiling.
The European *saw no signs of springs
or water; but the matitve conducted him
to a group of tall, palm-like trees,
standing in a cluster on the edge of the
forest, with straight t runks and bright
green, broad leaves growing from the
opposite sides of the silalk, and mak¬
ing the tree appear like a great fan.
The white man gazed admiringly at the
tree.
“Yt.u think it is a fine tree,’’said the
native, “but I will show you what it is
good for. ■ >
He pierced the root of one of the leaf
stems at the point whore it joined the
tree with his spear, whijreupon a stream
<rf clear water spurted out which the
European caught in his water can, and
found cool, fresli and. excellent to drink.
The party having satisfied their thirst
and taken supper, the native who had
spoken went on,
“This tree, which is good for us in
more ways than one, we call the travel¬
ers’ tree.”
“But where does the water come
f r om that the tree contains,” asked tho
white man. “Is it taken up from tho
soil?”
“Oh, no,” said the native, “The
leaves drink in the rain that' falls on
them and when it has passed all through
them it becomes very pure and sweet,”
—Miee onari/ Herald.
“LA GRIPPE”
A New York Doctor Discusses
the Disease.
What It is, its Previous Histo¬
ry and Treatmant.
In a conversation with a reporter, Dr.
L. do Plasso, a prominent member oi
tho Academy of Modicine of Now York,
givo much interesting information
about the epidemic, lagrippo or influ¬
enza, of which he made a special study
in Europe as well as in this couutry.
According to the Doctor, the first great
epidemic of the kind appeared in Eu¬
rope in 1580.
“Why," said the reporter,’ “I thought
thcro had been one in Rome in tho year
90 of our era.”
“You refer, no doubt,” replied the
learned practitioner, “to the great
mortality mentioned by tho Greek
histor.an, Dion Cassius, as having
terrorized Romo in that year.- It was
not the grip that caused it, but the
stupid despotism of Emperor Domitian.
The Roman population was assembled
in the amphitheatre when a heavy rain¬
fall came, drenching the crowds to tiie
marrow, and the tyrant compelled them
to remain to the cud of the games.
Thousands died from pleurisy, but not
from the grip.
“By the way, let mo say that the
■word la grippe comes from the Polish
word chrypka, which means hoarse-
ness. It has been u-ed for tho last
fifty or sixty years in preference to the
Italian wurd influenza, and is now the
technical term adopted by the medical
profession all the world over.
“Since 1580 this disease has annoyed
Europe in 1591, 1675, 1763, 1780,
1803—which was the worst and tho
most deadly of its incursions—in 1836,
1833, 1837, 1846, 1885 and 1889 90.
“It is a fact worthy of remark that
tho actual epidemic in New York be¬
gins otten with the gravest symptoms.
It is sudden iu its attack and strikes
right and left, rich and poor, without
distinction of age, sex, bodily con¬
stitution, personal liabfts, etc. It is
often accompanied by delirium,
especially among children!, and to it
must be ascribed many of the suicides
which have taken place. Its duration
is from throe or four days to two
weeks, and more,”
“To what is the grip due, in your
opinion, doctor? ’
“To a miasmatic condition of the
atmosphere, The abnormal tempera-
turo of the present winter has no more
to do with it than would prolonged
fogs. > 1
“Is it contagious? ’
“Yes, although there are those who
think that it is not, on account of its
sudden appearance over largo tracts o f
land."
“Do you think there is a special mi¬
crobe in tho case?’’
“Yes, and I am positive that the
great physicians of 1850 and 1861 were
right when thoy attributed tho grip to
the presence of spec’al micrococchi,
which develop very rapidly in the at¬
mospheric principle called ozone.
That principle is an hypothetical body,
goneraliy admitted as being the cause
of the peculiar smell wh ch accompan¬
ies electric discharges in the air, aud of
the one which belongs to oxygen pro¬
duced under tho influence of a galvanic
current in water mixod with sulphuric
acid.
“If I had lime I would certainly con¬
tinue tho researches made by the cele¬
brated Letzerig, who, in 1880, declared
that the grip is a mysotic affection of
tlie blood, caused by special microbes
which do not develop in the form of
little chains, but in very irregular
groups.”
Hero the doctor took from his library
five or six medical works in. which the
grip microbes were carefully repro- j
duced in enlarged drawings.
“Have you any particular treatment
you might mention?” ,
“Well, in the case of grip not com¬
plicated with othor diseases, I attend to
the symptoms at once, prescribing rest
and confinement to the house. Anti-
pyrine and salicilate of quinine are of
excellent use. Bleeding must be prac-
tised in case pneumonia sets in. It is
an old remedy to which most doctors
return nowadays with success.”
Swiss Peasants.
I will tell some stories which prove
that the Swiss peasants, (hough thoy
look so stolid, have in them the stuff of
tragedj'. There was a lad in a valloy
called Schaufigg, not long ago, who
loved and was betrothed to a girl iu
the Hinter Rhointhal below Splugen.
8he jilted him, having transferred het
affections to another, and he went to
take a formal farewell of his sweet¬
heart in her home. Everything passed
decorously, so much so that the girl's
brother put his horse into the cart and
drovo the rejected lover with his own
sister down to Thuals. The three had
■ cached that passage of the Via Mala
where the Ruine loses itself in a very
deep, narrow gorge. It is called tho
Verloseue Loch, and is spanned by n
slender bridge thrown at right angles
over the river. Here, as they were
-.pinning merrily down-hill, the lad
stood up in the cart, sprang to the
parapet of the bridge, and dashed him¬
self at one bound iuto tho grim death
of jagged rocks and churning waves
below them. It was a stroke of im¬
aginative fanoy to commit suicido for
love just at this spot. And now a
second tale of desperate passion: A
rich man in the Prattignu had two
children, a daughter aud a sen. Tue
daughter wheedled him into allow,
ing her to marry some peasant,
who was poor and an unequal match in
social station. Then his son set his
affections upon a girl equally ineligible;
tho father stormed, but the youth was
true to his plighted troth. During a
temporary absence of tho son his father
contrived to scud tho girl off to Ameri¬
ca with n round sum of money. Oa his
return, after hearing what had hap¬
pened, the lad said nothing, but went
down to the Landquart water in the
evening and drowned himself there.
And now a third tale: Last spring, in
a village not throe hours A.htaut from
Davos, lived a young man who was an
orphan, lie had iakcritcd a considera¬
ble estate, and expected more from two
uncles. Life, could ho havo manage l
it prulently, would probably have
made him the wealthiest farmer in the
neighborhood, and lie was, to boot, astal-
wart follow on whom nature had lav¬
ished all her gifts of health, and come¬
liness. Unluckily he loved a girl oi
whom his uuclos disapproved as a
match for such a youth of consequence.
One Saturday evening, as the custom
is here, he went to pay his addresses by
stealth to this maiden of his choice,
and returatng early noxt morniug he
was upbraided by his interfering uncles.
I do not know what he replied, but cer¬
tainly he made no scene to speak of.
When tho uncles left he 'unhooked his
gun from the woodon paneling of the
house room, went out alone into the
copsehard bv nn 1 put a bullet through
His brain. —^Fortnightly Review.
Untiling In Chinn.
Tho following is u brief account of
the Chinese baths, (akon from personar
observation: There are two outoi
rooms used for undressing and dressing;
the first and larger is for the poorer
classes, the second for those who con¬
sider themselves more respectable and
who wish to be more private. As you
enter the larger of these rooms, a plac¬
ard which is Rung near the door in¬
forms you what tho charges aro, and a
man stands there to receive tho money
on entrance. Arranged in rows down
the middle and around the sides of
both rooms are a number of small
boxes or lockers, furnished with lock
and key, into which tho visitors put
their clothes, and where they can make
auro of thorn when thoy roturn from tho
bathing room.
The bathing room is entered by a
small door at. the further end of the
building, and is about thirty feet long
and twenty wide, tho hath occupying
the whole space, except a narrow path
around the sides. Tho water Is from
one foot to eighteen inches deop, and
the sides aro lined and covered with
mnrble s'abs, from which tho bathers
step into tho water, and on which thoy
sit and wash themselves. The ostab-
bailment in the uftemoou and evening
is crowded with visitors, and on enter¬
ing tho bath room the first impression
is almost insupportable. The hot steam
or vapor meets you at ths - door, filling
tho eyes and ears, and causing perspira¬
tion to run from every pore in the body;
it almost darkens the place, and the
Chinamen seen in this imperfect light,
with their brown skins aud long tails,
sporting in tho water, render the scene
a most ludicrous one to a foreigner.
Xhogc visitors who use tho common
room pay only six coppdr cash; the
other class eighteen; but they, in addi¬
tion, have a cup of tea and a pipe of
tobacco from the proprietor!. I must
mention that one hundred copper cash
nmount to about nine cents of our
money , g0 that the first class enjoy a
hot water bath for about one-half a
cent, aud the other a bath, a private
room, a cup of toa aud a pipe of tobac¬
co for something less than two cents.
From this it will be seen that the Chi-
nese, although far behind us in many
respects, could give our poorer classes
a lesson in cleanliness. —Popular (Science
News.
Another Girl Entirely.
Snaggs—The young lad/ who just
passed looks like a misanthrope.
Mrs. Bnaggs—But she isn’t, dear.
She’s a Miss Robinson .—Pittsburg
1 Chronicle.
The flannel shirt is so modest that It
shrinks from day to day.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Artificial glaciers os a means of stor¬
ing water for irrigation have been pro¬
posed.
A new industry at Bay City, Micb.,
is the manufacture of alcohol out o!
sawdust.
A great flight of locusts, calculated
to have covered about 8U00 square
miles, lately passed across the Rad Sea
from the African to the Arabian shore.
Adolph Sutro of San Francisco is
trying to solve the quinine problem on
liis oitalo by rus.ug cinchona trees,
from tho baric of which quinine is
extracted.
Mias Proctor of Lima, Ohio, has
paten tel a process by which it is
claimed 10,000 cub c foot of illuminat¬
ing g.s can bo extracted from one
barrol of Lima oil.
The mineral called turfa, or brazo-
lina, lately discovered in Bahia, fur¬
nishes an oil akin Kf petroleum,a paraf¬
fine suitable for the manufacture of
candles, and a goo 1 lubriciting oil.
Tho hydrocarbon process of fronting
iron so that it will not corrode, is said
to cost lc3s than one-half of that of
galvanizing, while tho durability, under
similar conditions, is considerably ex¬
tended.
A method of treating pine icivjs foi
the purpose of couvcrting them into a
pulp for tho manufacture of a strong
and superior paper by exposing the
leavc3 to tho action of steam under
pressure has been successfully tried.
The peculiar odor of Russian leather
which enables it to resist the ravages of
insects, arises from tho employment of
an oil obtained by tin dry distillation
of tlie bark of tho birch tree, the oil
being worked into the flesh side of the
leather by means of suitable tools.
Tho gradual failure of a cast-iron
bridge erected about 65 years ago at
Potsdam, Germany, has been the cau e
of considerable scientific inquiry, The
conclusion arrived at is that tho bridge
members wore too rigidly connected, no
adequa'e allowance being made for ef¬
fects of varying temperature.
Recent observations of the wators of
Great Salt Lake prove conclusively that
the statements made that no form ol
auimal or plant life (xisls in tho lake
arc erroneous, No fish or other large
form of animal life has been discovered,
Lilt ths presence of vegetable orgauisms
in the lake may be con idiriri a fact
from the abundance of animal exist¬
ences.
Dr. Aianus, loader of the G rman
vegetarians, has abandoned tho diet on
the ground that a purely vegetable diet
interferes with the proper functions of
the arteries. Tlio French physicians
Monin aud Trielii confirm this view,and
say it causes chalky degeneration of the
arteries on account of the too great
prepondcrancs of mineral salts.
S:gnor Schiaparelli, the eminent Mi¬
lan astronomer, W' 11 known for his re¬
searches ou the shooting stars and on
tho canals of tho planet Mars, has an¬
nounced that after ten years’ investiga¬
tion he has ascortainel thit Mercury
has a rotation like that of the moon.
Its rotation on its own axis and that
round the sun synchronize, so that it
always turns the samo silo to the sun,
as the moon does to the earth.
Powdered Milk.
The idea of c lucing cow’s milk to
a i owder, aud shipping it in this con¬
dition over all tho world, seoms to have
first originated with D.-. Krueger, a
Swiss savaut, and under his manage¬
ment a company was organized to make
milk powder in Switzerland.
It is claimed that milk in this fofm
is much better than canned or con¬
densed milk for one reason—it has no
sugar in it. "It well known that con¬
densed milk cannot bo used in many
departments of cooking on account ot
this sugar, and this also makes it ob¬
jectionable for uso with vory young
children; not that sugar itself is in¬
jurious to babies, for it is always put
into their milk, we believe, but it is
better that this sugar ho put in fresh
at the time of prepariug milk for tho
child.
How far this powdered milk will an¬
swer these objections remains to be seen.
One thing is certain—tho powder would
be much better for transportation, and
more handy to havo in tho house than
either plain or condensed milk, pro¬
vided it is a success.
It looks somewhat dubious as a com¬
plete substitute for plain milk, not only
on account of necessary expense, but
wc do not find any kind of food capa¬
ble of being thoroughly dried and after¬
wards made over with water so ns to
closely resemble tho original 'article,
and wc never expect to see it done with
cow’s milk.
Nature has a way of mingling these
thiugs that thu* far man lias not been
able to closely imitnto .—American
Dairyman.
NO. 9.
Light and Loro. t
Jf light should strike through every dark¬
ened place
How many a deed of wickedness and ct
shame
Would cease, arrested by its gentlo grace,
Anil striving virtue rise, unscathed by
blame!
The prisoner in his cell new hopes would
frame,
The miner catch the metal's lurking
trace,
The sage would grasp the ills that harm our
race, . sudden
And unknown heroes leap to
fame.
If love for one short hour had perfect sway,
How many a rankling sore Its touch
would heal,
How many a misconception pass away
And hearts long hardened learn^o foci;
What sympathies would awake, what feuds
decay, short
If perfect love might reign for one
day! Picayune.
—New Orleans
HUMOROUS.
It is better to have a turnup noso
than a cablmgo head.
Is a gnn thought to be doing great
execution when it hangs fire?
Culturo doo3 not m ike a gentleman.
A regular beet may be a cultivated
thing.
“Silence is golden,” said the wit
who wroto and sold his joke, instoad
of telling it.
Thcro is hope in the future for every
man. Even for the youth with a pair
of tight shoes on there is tho blissful
prospect of bed time.
“Take asvay woman, ’’ said a writor
on a morning paper, “and what would
follow I" A man would. Givo us
something hard, next time.
Inquisitivo Citizen—What’s the mat¬
ter with tho man? Been run over by a
railroad train? Ambulance Surgeon—
Worso than that. Ho was caught
among the women in a bargain rush at
Seller’s.
A good thing can bo carried tos far.
A Boston man, who had been told that
lie was about lo die, a koi the doctor
for his bill, saying that lie did not
wish to depnrt from his life-long rule,
“Pay as you go.”
Young lady ft© editor)—I have such
a pretty little story with me. Can you
use it? Editor—Oh, certainly; we can
use auything here. (To office boy)
Jimmy, put a few more manu c.ipts in
tho stove; tho room is grow.ug cold.
Always Employed—Buovolcnt Per-
ion (to tramp)—What do you umaily
do in tho wintor time? Tramp—Wait
fer summer. Benevolent Person—
And wkut do you do when summer
comes? Tramp (resignedly)—Bogin
to wait fer winter.
“Where are you going, my pretty maide?”
"I’m going to sneeze—atclioo,’' she saide.
Statistics as to Hunchbacks.
Ton years ago a remarkable character
died in Paris. He was known all over
France and the greater part of all Eu¬
rope as “Tho Learned Hunchback.”
He was very wealthy, and spent a m*nt
of money in tho last 50 years of his
life, traveling in all direction* maxing
researches concerning his l.u 'chbacked
brethren. It was in the mil ior por¬
tions of Europe that he found tho mis¬
fortune the most prevalent. Spun sup.
plied the greater uumber, and in a o r-
cumscribed locality at the foot rf tho
Sierra Morena he found that there w is
one humpbackod person to every 13
inhabitants. They wore also found to
be quite numerous in the valley of tho
Loire in France. Tho little humpbacked
statistician camo to tho c>nc urion that
there was one humpback in eac i 1 K)Q
inhabitants, or an aggregate of 1, U0d,-
000 against the estimated thousand mil¬
lions of the entire earth.
After the death of this eccentric indi-
vidual his heirs found in place of a will
a voluminous manuscript of 2)03 page s,
all concerning humps. The last page,
although it said nothing about the dis¬
position of property, oxproised tho
author’s wish to havo a hump of marble
raised over his grave, with this inscrip¬
tion: “Hero lies a humpback who had
a taste for humps, and who knew moro
about them than any other humpback, ”
The Czar’s Precautions.
When the Czar travels, a littlo van¬
guard is sent in advance, consisting of
two locksmiths, two carpsnters aud
two mason’, all of them being married
men, born in tho Imperial scrv’ice, and
devotedly attached to their august
master. Their duties aro to examine
walls, floors, chimneys and fireplaces,
locks aud furniture in every room oc¬
cupied by tho Czar. The chimneys in
particular aro tho objects of special
attention, in order that no infernal
machine shall be concealoi in them.
A Coincidence.
Wife—What did yon ever see in ms
to make me your wife?
Husband—Do yon know l’va asked
myself the same tiring a hundred timet
since we’ve been married?— Epoch.