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YONDER lIILL.
WILLIAM LYLE.
There is a rot by yonder hill,
A* covered ow’er wi' heather;
Aroon’ the hallan blue bells no<l
Tae tbe breezy weather—
Bonnie bell- nod tae Hie fa'
O' that footstep in tbe ha\
As liclit as ony feather.
There is a burnie rinnin by,
Wi' clearer wave than inony;
A thousan* thorn-buds kiss tbe stream,
An' ilk ane has a croiite.
Burn an' bulls, nae fairer ye
Than the lass that welcomes me—
Nae tnair than half sae bonny.
I'hcre sits a birdie on yon tree.
An' lifts her praise sae airy—
-1 wnnner what malt's a’ things fair
Fa' deep in love wi' Mary.
Bird an’ burnie, bell an' sang, '
Seem tae worship a' day lung
My wee bit mountain fairy.
> ei etna's the wunrter, after a',
For roaist hearts own the tether.
An', half unconscious, seek the lass
That lives aiming the iieather.
Heed, gin 1 tbe truth maun tell,
I'll no feel jaist riclit ousel’
t ntil we're tied thegither.
—Rochester Union and Advertiser.
“ RERUN SOCIETY.”
\ I iv Additional Extracts from Vasili's
Suppressed Book—Manners and Mor
als in the German Capital.
Aii English translation of Count I’aul
Vasili’s ''Berlin Society,” which has been
suppressed into notoriety, has been
printed in New York. In addition to the
extracts already printed, the following
are appended.
“Prince Bismarck is a cynic, at the
same time a skeptic. When iie thinks
that a man's conscience is undecided he
trits to buy it. and ninp times out of ten
succeeds—for men are cowards, and
surrender always to one from
whom they hope to gain something. *
lie lives like a hermit, shut up with
in the four walls of his palace, concealed
from the gaze of everybody, friends as
well as enemies, showing himself only in
Pai;lament from time to time, or to some
one from whom he has occasion to draw
some information. Then he makes him
self agreeable, becomes conversational—a
good fellow—knows how to fascinate
those who do not know him or do not di
vine him. Apart from these rare occa
sions. nobody sees the Chancellor, who
shuts himself up more and more in the
bosom of iiis family, who, for their part,
surround him with "the most tender affec
tion.
•IJis wife is a good and honest crea-
Uire, very vulgar in her manners, hut
having a kind heart, endowed with much
wit. although without penetration; ad
miring her husband naively, with a
tenderness as true as it is profound; in
no way proud of her position; kindly dis
pos and, although brusque; amiable to
everybody, taking note of the enmity of
som ■ and tbe false protestation of devo
tion of others, but disdaining the lirst
and placing no reliance upon the second.
“Two sons and a daughter are the issue
of this marriage. Of the sons, the elder,
tie- • mint Herbert de Bismarck, lias been
much talked about apropos of the scandal
about his relations with a lady celebrated
for her beauty. In this sad store lie
played a reprehensible role, and showed
himself as egotistical as he was cruel
and weak, lie is a man very vain, very
much engrossed with liis own person,
very proud of his position as son ol the
Chancellor, and, like almost all children
of great men, as insignificant as his
father is remarkable. In society they
cringe before him on account of the power
attributed to him; they sing to him con
tinually the song of the fox in the fable
of i.it Fontaine: ‘Eh! good slay. ,M. de
Crow; how pretty you are; how handsome
you appear to me!’
“The Count Von Mnltke is a tall old
man, thin and lean, quite taciturn, very
vigorous still for his SO years, with cold
exterior, polished manners, awkward ges
tures, and on the whole rather insigniti
c;il:. Iu society he likes to efface him
self, being naturally modest, and appears
to suffer from the homage and respect
with which he is surrounded. Jle rarely
hazards an opinion in public, and some
grave circumstance or extraordinary
event is necessary to decide him to aban
don his habitual reserve. He disdains
the worl I, as well as the |ud
lneiits or the crowd; firmly con
vinced that the destinies of the people
depend upon those who govern them, h e
is of the opinion that it is the Governors
alone who should hold power in their
hands, without even initiating the subalt
erns into their projects. He is not a poli
tician. he is a soldier, who wishes <o en
joy as a soldier the fruits of his labor and
profit to the fullest extent made possible
by his victories. He is not ambitious,
but avaricious of the blood ot his troops,
and for that reason desirous of the spoils
ot the enemy, in order to render his
enemy incapable of harm iu consequence
of their exhaustion'.
“ 4 he majority of the married women in
the grande monde of Berlin have, or
dream or having, a lover. Vice is not
eon-klered as such, ami virtue is among
the number of things regarded as useless?
As to love, one meets with it rarely.
Liaisons are formed according to the ca
price ot the senses, and by that instinct
which throws a pretty woman into the
arms of a handsome man. In society at
Berlin they take and nuit each other ac
cording to their iancy. The needs of one's
amorous nature are satisfied with the
same calm as those of one's appetite.
Gallantry is there a thing unknown. \
l.uu/hu or a Richelieu would be there im
possible. Every thing there isdone brutal
ly. without poesy, without grace, without
that half-anxious, half-hypocritical pre
occupation which in other countries is at
least a homage rendered to virtue. But
th:*- society, so little scrupulous about
what concerns its own morals, becomes
of a rigid severity when the morals of any
other social circle are in question. It ob
serves the least transgression, notes the
least wavering, condemns actions the
most innocent, and suspegts even one’s
secret thoughts.
•So much concerning morals. As to the
intellectual side, they do not even try to
cultivate it. In general the Berlinese
lady of the highest class does not read,
vyork or occupy herself. She passes her
life in babbling, dressing and undressing,
ami searching for someone to aid her in
every way in doing so. She has not two
serious ideas in her head, nor two honest
thoughts in her heart. Her preferences
are vulgar, her influence nothing. She
lacks grace, education, tact, is noisy, and
aims, unfortunately for her, to imitate the
French woman in what the latter has of
loudness. It.is very difficult, if not im
possible, to make an elegante of Berlin
converse, so little is she au courant with
what is going ou, so much is she absorbed
ov her own personal actions or by the ac
tions and doings of her rivals. She offers
no other resource to her admirers than
that of speaking to her of their desires.
••The men of the grande monde, like
wise, do not appear to me very interest
ing. Those who have real worth are at
the same time very reserved. The old
men even surpass the women in their
gossiping, and the young only know how
to eat, dance and play. Their ideal is
a supper after a cotillon. The amount of
dancing ami eating in Berlin is incredible.
The oflieers in particular bring to these
two occupations an arder greater still, if
possible, than that with which they are
animated upon the field of parade. A
llgure in a eontredanse is in their eyes a
sacred thing, and a supper an affair of
state. They never say after a soiree: ‘lt
was very gay,’ or ‘very tiresome last
night;’ they say, ‘good buffet’—‘bad
buffet.'
“Tne morals ot the middle class seem to
ue better than those of the grande monde;
•ut their manners, if this is a sample,
must be worse:
" rue , . past is of the most simple kind;
a saddle <1 deer, some salad and fruit,
fresh or preserved, according to the sea
son. compose the menu. The guests eat
with their knives, put their lingers in the
salt cellar, lick their forks, wipe their
mouths with the backs of their hands; but
>ou pardon them these inconveniences
out of gratitude for the agreeable hours
which they have made you pass.
“ fhe most learned and intelligent wo
maii in Berlin is the Countess Schleinitz.
An excellent musician, gifted in painting,
literature and science, she is also au ac
complished woman of society. Bismarck
‘made her understand that it would be
_'etter for her to discontinue her recep
tions. In consequence of this singular
intervention the only intelligent centre of
v t r ' vas suppressed. Xow Mme.
• ch.einitz continues her receptions, but
they are rarer.
“Her house is a true republic. There
ou may meet painters, musicians, ac
i"i >. journalists, politicians, the nobility
anu w omen of society. You jostle there
against no mental pettiness. However,
as perfection is not of this world, the
charming Countess has also a weak side,
a defect, or rather a false note, in the
harmony of her person. This defeet con
sir-ts of a passion—or shall I sav a fanati
cism.'—for Wagner and his music. The
; rman character is whollv incarnated
in Wagner's music. Just as Bismarck
represents its practical side, Wagner
represents its artistic side. The Ger
man music is strong, sonorous, in
harmonious, energetic, imperious, bar
barous almost, as well as the nation.
It wants to destroy others, to impose
itself on all, and, what is a feature still
more characteristic, it was only developed
and gave proof of individuality at the mo
ment when this nation itself accomplished
the same transformation. Wagner is the
Bismarck of music. The German loves
Wagner, and protects him to the death
against any criticism or reservation. He
thinks that in so doing he is loving, pro
tecting and defending the German lather
land."
With some chapters on art and artists
at Berlin, the government’s control of the
press, and a parting thrust at “the dupes
of the Chancellor,” or those “lost souls”
whom he has called into his service by
intimations that there is in them the stuff
for great men, this cynical work closes.
“Uncle Bob.”
James B. Cable in "Current."’
Cane, cane, cane; blue of stock and
green of ribboned leaf, bowing and flut
tering in the summer breeze like water
fowl in the bath. Overhead a cloudless
azure that seems not altogether over
head, but also brooding over the outlying
earth.
In the surrounding forest, swinging on’
low-growing brush and darting athwart
the vision hosts of mocking birds bespeak
their guileless joys in such medleys of
harmony as man’s most tenacious memory
never held obedient to its call.
Furrows of the close-growing cane
blades part and meet again in quick but
irregular succession, and, as the “turn
row” is attained, there steps into view a
little, shaggy, runted Texas mule, a small
plow, and, guiding both, gray, grizzly,
droll, hearty “Uncle Bob.”
They are a pair, that mule and he.
Apparently the fiercest ot enemies at
times, they are the closest of friends, for,
on the whole plantation, none but Uncle
Bob dare cross that mule’s ambitious back.
Many a furrow they have turned together:
many a time in the quickly told hours or
the night, those two have traveled home
ward, when only Rock, the mule, was
solver.
No night so dark nor way so slippery
but Rock’s tiny hoofs would patter uner
ringly along the homeward road, with
i never the slightest disobedience of the
\ tnany-pieced old head gear Boh calls a
[ “brivel.”
1 others than Bob might hold the plow
! with Iloek before the beam, but Bob must
111 him to Ins place, and with the h;m-
I dies grasped by any to whom the inner
recesses of tnuiish eccentricities had never
| been rev aled, the “stubborn glebe” was
vacillation extreme compared with the
liveliness of that mule at the welcome
' wagging of the noon bell's creaking
tongue.
But it is not Rock, but Uncle Bob, who
is now under consideration, though the
dainty-hoofed creature of unstinted ears
pours forth his htixcrcrc leaning his de
sp' indent head upon the topmost bar of
I the barn-yard gate.
i The gray old negro, hobbling wearily to
his cabin when the sun is down, is a book
of many chapters. Tragedy, comedy and
j farce spread their sentences and para
> graphs along the pages of his life.
In tiie enactment of life’s counterfeit
; on histrionic boards 1 have seen tenderest
| portraiture ot love and sympathy greeted
with laughter in the stead of "scalding
! tears.
So, too, there are those to whose shal
low senses the old negro is but a merri
ment alone. But though woe were plenti
ful in his experience, the world might
laugh at its own imaginings or mope in
dreary quiet; yet, to it, bis book is never
opened by his hand.
Seldom, indeed, does he open it at all.
Som times when memory brings it and
lays it before him, he rests his bread black
) hand upon its cover; but whether lie looks
within or pushes the volume beyond his
sight, no reprint of its contents ever ap
pears on his wrinkled face.
His evening meal concluded, from a
j crack in his log-cabin’s wall he takes his
veteran pipe with its cane-root stem cut
in the swamp behind the cabin. It is
already rilled, or partly tilled, with the
remains of a former using; a coal from
the broad Dearth relights it, and to him it
becomes the calumet forbidding further
combat between him and conquered recol
lection.
From under the rickety bed in the cor
ner ho draws his old violin, and respond
ing to the old man’s dancing elbow, down
to the floor, under the scanty furniture
of the room, swinging from the joists
overhead among the lishing tackle and
strings of pepper dangling from them, up
and down, round and round, the little
notes spring from the flying bow, and
joining hands with the dancing shadows,
swing and scamper and frolic merrily,
while the negro’s big, flat russet brogan
urges them on with hearty beat, and his
old wife removes her pipe from her tooth
less mouth, ejaculating with beaming
face: “I’d rudder hveh d'likes o’ dat dan
feat.”
buck is the life ot I'ncle Bob in brief.
Year after year its routine has been as
a path between high walls, with no re
lieving sweep of landscape bright where
sight might wander and bring back re
freshment to the starved intelligence; a
road avoided by righteous encouragement;
whereon the lofty purpose was as the
bird, alighting but to fly away again at
once alarmed, and frequented alone by
foot-pads ot evil suggestion and persua
sion, accompanied by tumbling clowns of
indiscretion and ignorance.
On these surroundings Uncle Bob has
scarce turned his eye because of the be
numbing drudgery of his daily tasks.
What wonder that in this same Mam
moth Cave of dark condition sightless
ones like him are contented never to be
hold the sun of uplifted knowledge!
Yet his life is not to him one of utter
miser} - .
The tires of tragedy once roaring round
him burned themselves out, leaving but
a little heap of cold ashes almost hidden
beneath dead leaves of circumstances,
and Bob is the favorite plowman, the most
skilled fiddler, the best fisherman, the
shrewdest hog thief, and the hardest toper
of all the region round.
lurie<l Under the Flag,
A Leavenworth letter to the St. Louis
Republican' says: “Col. Clough, United
States Commissioner tor this district, tolls
me the following story concerning the
wish of an old soldier' and how it was
gratified: ‘Peter Moll, a private soldier
of Company P, Nineteenth Infantry, alter
continuous service ot some 20 years, was
honorably discharged at Fort Brown,
Texas, owing to a lung disease contracted
while in the service. He came to Leav
enworth with $lO4 in money and took up
his residence with a friendi hoping to re
gain liis health. While here he made ap
plication through me for a pension, and
his papers were started on the usual rou
tine. He began to fail and his money was
soon gone; but friends contributed small
amounts, and his spirits were kept up by
telling him that his pension money would
be forthcoming and he would be" able to
repay his friends. Ue said that he knew
his days were few, and there was but one
wish that he would like to have gratified,
and that was when he was dead his re
mains might be placed in the national
cemetery at Fort Leavenworth. I knew
it was well nigh useless to make a request
of that kind, for no one can be interred
there unless he is in the actual service of
the government at the time of his death.
1 did not tell Moll this, however, but he
seemed to know there was something
wrong, and on Tuesday he sent for one of
his friends and told him he would like to
drive to the fort and see his old quarters
for the last time. He was so weak that
he had to be carried to the hack, and
friends tried to dissuade him, but all touo
purpose. He insisted on seeing the old
flag again and listening to the assembly
calls of bugles whose notes he had re
sponded to so often. The trip was made,
but it was noticed that Moll was surely
sinking. As the carriage was driven
down the west side of the parade ground
and under the garrison flag, the buglers
of the Twentieth Infantry stepped in front
el their quarters and sounded the call for
inspection. The old soldier sprang to his
feet, touched his hat, and kissed his hand
to the flag, and fell in his companions’
arms in a faint. He was driven to the
hospital, but the authorities refused to re
ceive him. sm-jreon Fryer, who happened
to be passing, he rd the conversation, and
glancing at the man’s face, said: ‘He can
not live to be taken back to town; admit
him to the hospital.’ This was done, and
as the last sound of the ‘sunset gun’ re
verberated over the hills the old soldier’s
spirit joint'd the silent majority. When
his story was retold to the authorities
permission was granted for his burial in
the cemetery, and now all that remains of
Private Moll is ‘present and accounted
lor’ in that quiet resting-place of so many
gallant fellows who have served their
country long and well.”
The People’s Worltl-wide Verdict.
Burnett's Coeoaine has been sold in
every civilized country, and the public
have rendered the verdict that it is the
chevpest and hast Jlair Dressing in the
world.
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts are in
variably acknowledged the purest and the
best.
TIIE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY", MARCH 28, 188*.
THE SHIP RAILWAY.
Capt. Eads’ Great Project for Trans
porting Ships Across the Isthmus.
London Engineering.
Work on the roadbed of tbe railway for
carrying ships between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, projected by Mr. James
B. Eads, across the Isthmus of Tehuante
pec, in Mexico, was formally commenced
last year near Mmatitlan. its northern
terminus on the Coatzacqalcos ri ter. As
this enterprise unquestionably takes a
' foremost place among the engineering
i anil commercial enterprises elaborated
j during this century, some account of its
i leading features yvill possess unusual in-'
terest. •
Tehuantepec is the most northern of the
| several isthmuses which, with the States
of Central America, form the connecting
link between North and South America.
1 Being 1200 miles nearer the former conti
f nent than Panama, the route over it pos
{ sesses immense climatic as well as geo
! graphical advantages over the latter one.
j No less than five states of Central Ameri
! ca lie between these two rival routes, viz:
J Yucatan, Campeachy, Guatemala, Nica
j ragua, Costa Rica, and also parts of the
! Mexican States of Oaxaca and Vera Cruz,
i and the Colombian State of Panama. In
I considering, therefore, the great superior
ity of the Tehuantepec route for all com
merce between the British islands and
the North Pacific ocean, Japan, China,
and the Orient, the fact should be kept in
mind that between the locality where M.
de Lessejis is striving to cross the Ameri
can isthmus, and that where Mr.Eads has
commenced to construct the ship railway,
there exists a territory twice the length of
j Great Britain. Togo by the way of the
j ship railway to California, British Colum
■ bia, Japan", the Philippine Islands, or
1 China, we would pass through the Gulf of
’ Mexico, but to go by Panama we must
sail south to the Carribean Sea, cross the
| lower end of the isthmus, and then sail
j 1.200 miles along its Pacific coast to the
Bay of Tehuantepec, where the ship rail
i way crosses it.
That the ship railway project is one
' fraught w ith the most stupendous results
; may be readily seen when we consider the
facts that the American isthmus sepa-
I rates about 100,000,000 of the most enter
! prising, industrious and enlightened peo
j pie ou the earth, inhabiting the North
j Atlantic coast’d Europe and America,
[ from 000,000,000 souls who inhabit the
| Orient and islands of the Pacific,
j It is true that the sailing distances
i which separated’England, France, Ger
many and Italy from India, China and
otliur Oriental nations have been greatly
lessened by the Suez canal, but these dis
tances are almost insignificant when com
| pared with those which the ship railway
| will annihilate. For instance the great
lost saving effected by the Suez canal be-
I tween London and Calcutta is about 4,500
! statute miles; whereas the sailing dis
tance by the ship railway from Loudon to
j every port on the Pacific coast of North
! America will be lessened by nearly twice
this vast distance, or about 8,250 miles,
j The Suez canal brought Loudon and
j Canton about 5,500 miles nearer together
by sea. The ship railway will save more
than three times this distance between
the great American metropolis and every
j port in British Columbia. It will lessen
; the sailing distance which to-day separ
ates the Atlantic and Pacific ports of
British America by a distauee but little
It ss than half of the circumference of the
world, and give a sea route between the
Gulf of St. Lawrence and Vancouver’s
sound only 50 per cent, longer than the
railway route across the American con
tinent.
! The American Isthmus and the Coruil
! leras of North America constitute a nar
row but almost impassable barrier to the
j interchange of the manufactures and
i productions of 40,000,000 people in the
Mississippi Valley and Atlantic States,
i not only with those of 10,000,000 of their
| countrymen to the west of them, but with
j the products of nearly 100,000,000 oth
' ers on the islands and coasts of the Pa
| cific. who are seemingly their nearest
j neighbors.
i The ship railway will give to these
descendants of the British Isles a sea
route between their Atlantic and Pacific
ports scarcely a thousand miles longer
| than the railway between New York and
' Sau Francisco, and it will give to the vast
valley of the Mississippi a gateway equiv
i alent to the discharge of its mighty river
j directly into the Pacific.
An A|fOMullf Mniiuntiili'l) runJ
A discovery of great interest and im
portance to students ot Apostolic church
history is announced. Philotheas Bryen
nios, the learned Bishop of Xieomedia,
has found a manuscript of the second
century, which he has published in the
original Greek, with an able dissertation
on its origin and genuineness. Prof. Har
nack, the celebrated German patristic
scholar, who has translated the more im
portant parts of the document into Ger
man, accepts it as genuine. From advance
sheets of his translation the Independent
| gives a version in English of chapters
YII.-XYI., which concern the mode of
| baptism, the administration of the Lord’s
Supper, the reception of apostles and
| prophets, the choice of bishops and dea
! cons, and meetings for worship,
j The title of the manuscript is “Teach
< ing of the Apostles.” Its date has not
I been definitely fixed, butits place is sotne-
I where between 100 and 100. It has been
well known by name through reference of
! the early fathers. Clement of Alexan-
I dria, Eusebius, and Athanasius quote
i lrom it, and it is mentioned in the “Stick
! ometrv of Xicephorus,” who places it be
{ tween the Gospel of Thomas and the epis
i ties of Clement, and makes it to consist
J of 200 lines. The length of the Bryenmos
j manuscript is 203 lines, or about that of
j the Epistle to the Galatians. Its identity
; is therefore well established.
The great value ot the discovery lies in
I the fact that it is the oldest document ou
| church order which has come down to us,
I and that it throws a flood of light on the
j character of the worship, practice, and
j life of the Apostolic churches. It is much
i older than the “Apostolic Constitutions,”
1 into the substance of which a part of it
! enters, and it therefore invests these, writ
; ings, which, though received as authority
j in the Eastern, "have not been highly
| prized in the Western church, with anew
| interest. It bears a similar relation to
! other ancient books, such as the “Didas
; kalia” and the “Epitome.” It is at least
Ia century and a half older than the oldest
| parts of the “Constitutions,” the seventh
j chapter of which proves to have been
drawn lrom chapters VII. -XVI. pf the
i manuscript, which are, however, enlarged
and essentially modified in the latter
i work. Thus in the “Constitutions” the
j “prophet” of the manuscript appears as
“priest,” and the term “presbyters” isin
| troduced, though it is not once mentioned
in the earlier document. Other impor
tant changes were also made in the line
j of development. The discovery is a con
firmation to the theory of Prof. Harnack
j and others that book VII. of the “Consti
; tutions” and the “Epitome” were based
1 on some older work.
The interesting points in chapters VII.-
j XVL, which are given In lull in English,
are, first, as relates to baptism. It directs
that baptism be in “flowing water;” but
| if neither flowing nor still water, cold or
! warm, be at hand, then sprinkle the head j
three times with water in the name of the j
i Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. It does not !
j intimate whether the baptism in flowing i
water should be by immersion or affu
sion. Those practicing trine baptism,
as the Greek Church and the Tunkers,
will find warrant for it in what is said
about sprinkling. 2. The directions con
j cerning the euebarist are of the simplest
I character. There is no prayer of conse
; oration, nothing hut the giving of thanks
j for the cup and the bread, with the in
\ junction that none but the baptized should
partake. There is some evidence that a
supper was first eaten, and that the com
munion or eucharist came immediately
after, as is the custom among the Tunkers.
3. As to apostles, who are invariably re
ferred to as wandering evangelists'and
prophets, instructions are given how they
are to be received, and how they may be
distinguished as true or false. Those who
asked for money or tarried more than
three days, or whose practice did not con
form to their teachings, were to be re
garded as false prophets. 4. Christians
| are enjoined to gather themselves together
on the" Lord’s Day and break bread and
say thanks, after' confessing their mis
deeds and having made peace with those
with whom they have been at odds. This
point will have an interest for Seventh
Day Christians. 5. “Choose for your
selves,” says the fifteenth chapter, “be
sides prophets], bishops and deacons,
! who are worthy of the Lord, gentle and
not miserly, anil upright and proven men,
for they perform also for you the service
of prophets and teachers.” The bearing
1 of this on the views of Stanley. Milman,
Lightfoot and others as to the organiza
i tion of the Apostolic church does not need
| to be pointed out. The discovered manu
script can hardly fail to command wide
! attention.
—
HOESI’OKU'S ACIIJ PHOSPHATE.
Decided Benefit.
j Dr. John P. Wheeler, Hudson, X. Y.,
says: “1 have given it with decided"bene
fit in a ease of innutrition of the brain,
1 from abuse of alcohol.”
LOVE LENDS LIGHT.
Onlv a dozen old letters.
Worth, in the scale, but a penny or so;
Binding, ill tangible fetters.
Love from her neart lying under the snow.
St rangers may never discover
Such wealth of thought as I read in each
line;
None but tbe eye of a lover
bees here the rose and forget-me-not twine.
Wisdom, unaided, mav never
Fathom love’s message from earth or from
heaven;
Only be knows, whosoever
Giving himself, tlnds to him it is giveu.
— J. Walton in Chicajo Current.
A CHARGE TO THE JURY.
Laying Down the Law With a Revolver.
San Francisco Call.
In a flourishing mining town known as
Chipp’s Flat, Sierra county, thirty years
ago. the location of the claims and the
mining law adopted thereunder were
such that one continous war of litigation
was the result. Two mining companies
having conflicting claims, seeing the
almost impossibility of settling their dis
putes by a resort to the District Courts,
mutually agreed to try their cause before
a Justice of the Peace and a jury of
twelve miners selected from those having
river claims on the Middle Yuba. A. S.
McMillan, of Minnesota, the banking and
express agent of Langton’s express and
banking-house at Downieville, had been
elected Justice of the Peace for the town
ship, including Minnesota and Chipp’s
Flat, in 1853. So it was agreed that he
should preside, and the trial came off
early in the year 1854 at Chipp’s Fiat. In
order that sufficient room should be had
for the parties litigant and their iiknds
the billiard and liquor saloon of Paul
Copperas (now living at Snow Point, in
Nevada county, just a ltttlo east of Bouth
Minnesota) was chosen as the most spa
cious building in town. The trial com
menced promptly at 9 o’clock in the morn
ing and occupied tbe entire day.
Both of the parties litigant had plenty
of money, and each seern&l to vie with the
other in liberality during tbe progress of
the trial. Lawveis had been provided
by each side to "conduct the case, and it
niust be presumed that they felt no inter
est in putting a stop to the liberality of
their respective clients. At all events,
frequent recesses of the court were had
during that day, of live minutes each,
when" refreshments would be served
mostly of a liquid character. Justice
McMillan was not erudite in the law; but
if there was one thing in which he exhib
ited great pride it was to be addressed as
“Your Honor” while presiding in a case.
Anything more familiar than that always
roused his ire. The numerous adjourn
ments which the court took this day bad
more perceptible effect on tbe presiding
Justice than on any one else connected
with the case, though champagne and
whisky bad been freely imbibed ail
around. Plenty of substantials in the
eating line had been provided, in order
that the case might be determined at one
sitting. The testimony was all in at 5
o'clock, and the counselkad con
eludedtheir arguments at a little
before 9. Realizing the fact
that many thousands of dollars were
involved in the suit. McMillan thought it
incumbent on him for the first and last
time in his life to deliver a charge to the
jury, and did so. By this time the fre
quent adjournments bad produced a
marked change in “His Honor.” His
tongue seemed thick, and his utterances
had no meaning or special application to
the case at bar. Upon McMillan stating
that such and such were laws for the jury
to consider, one juryman, clear-headed
and sober, made this inquiry: “Mac,
where do you find that law?” "“What is
that sir?” angrily inquired “His Honor.”
“1 simply want" to know,” replied the
juryman, “where you found that law just
quoted ?” “Dash dash your soul,” replied
“His Honor.” “i’ll give you to under
stand that when I tell you a thing is law,
it is law 1”
Upon this His Honor reached his right
hand down to his right hip, where he had
a large navy Colt revolver in its sheath,
and drawing it, the juror saw it was no
place for him, and he broke for a side
door and escaped from the room. As “His
Honor” still held the weapon in a threat
ening attitude, the remaining jurymen
thought it would be more healthy to be
outside, and so they followed tbe first
juryman. Believing tbe dignity ot the
court to be horribly outraged, His Honor
followed* tcngcftncc upou
the whole jury. The ridge between
Chipp’s Flat and Minnesota at that time
•was heavily timbered with pine and fir.
There was a fiat of about 50 or CO yards
before reaching this ridge, and the
jurymen seeing the irate Justice making
for them, revolver in hand, at once broke
for the timber, he fallowing closely and
threatening death to each and all unless
they returned to the court-room. But the
jury outfooted the Judge and took shelter
among the timber. That jury never re
assembled to render its verdict. Tbe
members of the two mining companies in
litigation met that night in a spirit of the
best humor (in fact, they had been so all
day) talked over the abrupt dispersion of
the jury, and mutually agreed to divide
the mining ground in dispute. And that
ended the last litigation on Chipp’s Flat,
but all those conversant with the facts of
the ending of this trial still maintain that
on this occasion McMillan’s charge to the
jury was the most remarkable of all time.
Wliat Ailed Him.
Detroit Free I’rese.
Down in a town in Alabama I found a
native with his chair tipped back under
an awning in front of a saloon, hat down
on his ears, eyes halt closed, and his toes
showing through his boots. Out at the
hitching post was a faded old mule, head
down and eyes closed, and the ntud of last
fall had not been cleaned off his skeleton
frame. I was looking from man to mule
to see if I could establish a chain of evi
dence, when the native straightened up
and said:
“Stranger, ye ain’t goin’ to settle in this
kentry?”
“Xo.”
“Powerful glad to hear it. Let’s drink.”
I declined, and he took fifteen cents'
worth and came back and said:
“Stranger, this is a powerful bad kentry
—powerful bad.”
“What’s the matter?”
“Xo chance for a poor man—not a shake
of a chance. Let’s drink.”
1 declined, and he took his usual dose
with a sigh of satisfaction.
“Look at me!” he said as he returned to
his chair. “I’m a livin’ evidence of the
fact that this is the wust kentry on earth
for a white man who honestly desires to
break his back in agrycultural pursuitsr
I’ve bin goin' down hill as stedy as clock
work for the last twenty y’ar. Stranger,
wet your whistle?”
1 replied that my whistle r ••; :ircd a dry
atmosphere, and he woe: . i and took it
straight again.
“Yes, sir,” he said, a 5 he got his chin
dried off, “the durn and Southern nabob
grinds me on one side and the infernal
nigger on the other, and I’m bound to be
pulverized.”
“Do you farm ?”
“What’s the use? Nothin’ that I planted
ever growed. It’s alius too much or too
little rain, and if I hire niggers they don’t
stay.”
“Then you speculated”
“Mebbe 1 do. Mebbe if I trade a mule
wuth a hundred dollars fur one wuth six
ty you kin call It speculation. Say, let’s
licker.”
I declined and he never shod a tear as
his corn-juice went down.
“I tell you, a poor .man hain’t got no
rights ’round yere, and he’s bein’ ground
into the dust,” he observed, as he enlarged
the hole in the top of his hat so that a
tuft of nair could stick up through it.
“It seems to be a fine country?”
“That’s a deception.’’
“But you have a nice climate and can
raise most everything.”
“Then, what ails me? Why hain’t Ia
Southern nabob? Why don’t I ride a boss
an’ wear good clothes and hold office?”
“Because,” I answered, determined to
lie to him, “your wife is probably a very
careless manager, while you have never
carefully studied the foundation principles
of economy.”
“Stranger!” he said, as he rose up and
shook both hands at once, “you’ve hit it
plumb-centre, and you are the only man
who ever has! All the rest of ’em say it's
’cause 1 kin do more loafin’and drinkin’
than any man in the State of Alabama.
Stranger, writ them words down fur me.
I'll git the hang of ’em in about an hour,
and then I’ll go home an’ gin niv faulty to
understand they’ve got to buckle
right down to economy or hunt fur other
diggins! Let's destroy about three fingers
of the juice!”
Advice to Mothers.
Mns. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup
should always be used when children are
cutting teeth. It relieves the little suf
ferer at once; it produces natural, quiet
sleep by relieving the child from pain, and
the little cherub awakes as “ bright as a
button.” It is very pleasant to taste. It
soothes the child, softens the gums, al
lavs all pain, relieves wind, regulates
the bowels, and is the best known remedy
Itr diarrhcea, whether arising from teeth
in or other causes. 25 cents a bottle.
A GEORGIA BEAR HUNT.
The Adventures of a Party of Hunters
in Randolph County.
The Cuthbert Enterprise of March 20
has the lollowtng: “Last Saturday was
a day of considerable excitement with
some of the loys of Spring Vale. Harb
in tbe morning Jim Duffy, who lives on
the Pataula creek about a mile*and a
half from here, came in town and in
formed the citizens that a large bear had
visited his place the night before, and had
killed a hog of his; and that he saw him
about daybreak that morning making to
ward the swamp. Jim is known to be a
truthful man, and soon the excitement
among the boys for a bear hunt grew to
fever heat. Before 9 o’clock a crowd of
six white men, Jim Duffy, Walter Cobb,
Sam Edwards, Bob Davis, Josh Den
uington, Professor Rice, and three
negroes, started with a pack of dogs in
search of tbe depredator. In the coun
tenance of every man could be seen de
picted a bloodthirsty look and a determi
nation to exterminate bruin without
mercy whenever and wherever found.
The time in going from here to the swamp
was taken up in planning the attack and
discussing other points of minor impor
tance, 6uch as the proper part of the body
of a bear to shoot at in order to produce
death sure and quick, what we would do
with the carcass, etc. None of us had ever
been in a bear hunt before, and we were
evidently reckoning without our host, as
the sequel will prove. Soou we were at
the point where Jim thought the bear en
tered the swamp, and sure enough, on ex
amination we found a track which was
unmistakably the track ot a very large
bear. Here let us- remark that, "though
we had the utmost confidence in the cour
age of the beys, we fancied we could dis
cover a change in the countenance of
some or them, and perhaps a slight tremor
in their limits. Whether this was ac
tually the case, or that we were judging
by our own feelings, we cannot say pre
cisely. We pint the dogs on the trail of
the bear, and to our surprise, they went
off as if they hatl been trained
to the business; and in less
than an hour they had aroused the animal
from his lair, and were in hot pursuit.
The swamp here is wide, flat and muddy,
with occasional thickets of cane, bam
boos, laurel and ivy, and in these thickets
and through the mud and water for more
than an hour, the dogs went pell-mell
after the bear, and the boys all the while
making strenuous efforts to see him and
get a shot. Bob and Josh had gone fur
ther into the swamp than the rest of us.
and happened to get directly in the bear’s
path as he was making a tack. Sudden
ly, about 200 yards off, we heard someone
shout, “here he comes!” and immdiatelv
afterward heard the report of a gun in the
same course. Looking in the direction of the
noise, we saw Josh swinging from a limb
ten or twelve feet ahtpre the ground, in a
skin-the-cat position, and not more than
eight feet off was Bob, sticking to tbe side
ot a large gum tree some twelve feet up,
and evidently in quite a strain, as tbe tree
was too large for him to meet around. To
make matters worse tor the boys, the
bear, finding the dogs in close proximity,
turned on his pursuers, backed against
the very tree Bob was up, with his head to
ward Josh, and concluded to fight it out.
No one could tell exactly how Bob and
Josh felt. Bob could go no higher up the
tree, knew that he could not hold a great
while where he was, nor did;
he know at what minute the bear
might decide to share the tree with him
above. Josh was in a better condition—
he could look down at what was going on
below and change positions occasionally.
The rest of us got together and ventured
up to take in the situation, and if possible
to relieve Bob and Josh, who were in such
a sad predicament. We formed a circle
around the bear to make sure of our
game. Jim was elected to do the first
shooting, having, as we supposed, the
best gun. It was a difficult matter to
shoot without hitting a dog, as they were
all around him and between us and the
bear—that is all that had not lett. Two or
three had gone up near enough for the bear
to get a lick at them, and he never failed
to improve the opportunity by slapping
them about 15 feet winding over bushes
and briars, which invariably gave them a
sudden disposition to leave without
further ceremony. Finally Jim saw, or
thought he saw, a pretty good opportunity
to shoot, anil, taking aim, tired, killing a
dog dead and wounding the bear. Here a
scene occurred which was exciting in the
CAtitme. Tiro xxx u tltloilOd i o
tion by the wound, made a wild lunge at
the crowd, scattering men and dogs in
every direction. Nobody thought to shoot.
Sam Edwards happened to be in the route
of the bear, and the bear, overtaking him,
caught him in his arms and gave
him a squeeze that he is not
likely to forget soon. Sam squalled
manfully for help, and a negro being the
nearest * person to him, with a pole
gave the bear a punch or two which had
the effect to relieve Sam but proved dis
astrous to the negro. The bear loosing
Sam made for the negro, and rearing up
on his hind feet gave him a slap with his
fore paw that sent him helter-skelter over
all obstacles into a pond of water about
fifteen feet distant. The negro went out
on the opposite side and left hurriedly for
parts unknown. By this time, following
the example of Bob and Josh, we had ap
propriated nearly all the trees in
the immediate vicinity, and the
bear finding tbe coast clear made
off down the swamp. We came down
from our retreat determined to try it
again, but all the encouragement we
could bring to bear would not induce the
dogs to run liis track again. They would
start oft', raise the hair on their backs and
come back to us. Failing to get the dogs
to again take the track, we left for home
with the unanimous opinion that there is
less sport than danger in bear hunting.
It was 9 o’clock at night before we could
laugh much over the ludicrous scenes of
the day. Sam says if a bear’s affections
can be measured by their capacity for
hugging tightly, they are the most affec
tionate creatures under the sun.”
FISH WITH LEGS.
A Reptile that is Called an Axiloti ami
is Eateu by Mexicans.
In a tank in Fish Commissioner Black
forcrs office, in Fulton Market, says the
New York Sun of the 17th inst., floated
an amphibious reptile yesterday. It was
white, about three inches long and resem
bled a l'resh-water bullhead in shape, ex
cept that it was longer and more slender
and it had four legs. Near the end of its
broad flat nose, that resembled a toad’s,
were two black eyes.
“‘Fish with legs’ is the name given to
the creatures by the native Mexicans in
the neighborhood of the high mountain
lakes where they are found,” said Prof.
Rice, Mr. Blackford’s assistant. “The
native name is axiloti. They are remarka
ble in many ways, but this little fellow
has a claim to fame, for he is the first of
the species born and reared here by hand.
Ills parents were brought here froni Paris,
whither they were sent from Mexico.
White axilotis I never sa v or heard of be
fore. Their color is usually dark brown,
with spots, and they grow to be ten inches j
long. Out of several hundred caught, !
these white ones were selected. The na
tive Mexicans, by the way, eat them. But I
I see the little fellow is hungry from ihe j
way he follows me around the tank. I
think he recognizes me.”
I’rof. Itice took a splint from a broom
and speared a tiny bit of liver with it, and
as soon as the flesh was under water the j
axiloti’s eyes snapped, and it leaped for
ward like a trout for a fly. The meat dis
appeared in its wide mouth, and the end
of the broom splint was held so firmly in
its teeth that the creature had to be
shaken off.
“1 used to feed it with a pair of divi
ders,” said Prof. Rice, “but now it is
risky, as it might rush on the points and
put an eye out or break one of its jaws.
We don’t want to lose it, for it is the only
young one left out of hundreds of eggs
that hatched out. The female has been
laving eggs to-day.”
In another tank were two axilotis, and
on the surface of the water floated a green
vine, to which were attached hundreds of
eggs clustered like grapes. “The mother
deposits them while she is crawling slow
ly over the vine. When first hatched the
little axilotis can hardly be seen, they are
so small and transparent, and they nearly
all die.”
“From experiments with the axiloti,”
Prof. Rice continued, “it appears that it
is the larval condition ol a family of pa
traehians usually regarded as a distinct
family. After being kept for a long time
a metamorphosis is seen in the reptiles.
Dark spots appear on the sides of the tail,
and the thin membrane which runs along
the backbone disappears. Then gradual
ly the lungs on the outside of the gills are
absorbed, and the creature comes to the
surface of the water more frequently to
breathe. Finally the body diminishes in
size, the sjres become more convex, and
prominent, the head becomes more oval
In outline, and at last it escapes from the
water a species of salamander closely al
lied to the frog family. These changes,
under favorable conditions, occupy about
three weeks. It is strange that iii its im
mature state the creature has the power
I of reproducing its species.”
He to a&Brrtwrmfttto.
Crowds of customers have proven their apprecia
te'ation by purchasing freely of our great bar
gains which we advertised last week. We
are now compelled to revise our special
bargains, as some lots are sold out,
and by adding thereto other at
tractions, which will not
fail to have a like mag
netic influence.
To avoid disappointment, do not postpone your vi A. as these goods at the prices
offered are bought up rapidiv.
THE GREAT SENSATIONS
AT OUR STORE!
We offer at our Centre Counters two lots of EMBROIDERIES, such bargains as
were never seen before.
£■§ 1 Comprises 250 pieces Embroideries, worth from
i IHv S um 8 10 to 15 cents, at the uniform price of 5 cents.
&ET 8 OiT Comprises 300 pieces Embroideries, worth
w tbo ws? hot 1U it# '%/ 8 from 15c to *2sc, at the uniform price of 10c.
f §Jj §ES IT! B Oi On our Dress Goods Counter, a large lot of Hem
i ab i ink {La 1 naiits of Summer Silks of various lengths. Some
few full Dress Patterns at about one-half their usual selling price.
In addition thereto we will continue to sell the celebrated LONSDALE CAM
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SHIRTING CAMBRIC at 5c.; STANDARD GINGHAM CHECKS at 5c.; good quality
FAST COLORED PRINTS at sc. Also, immense bargains in PARASOLS and UM
BRELLAS. An entirely new lot of handsome DRESS GOODS and SEERSUCKERS,
and extraordinary attractions in Housekeeping Goods, such as 8-4 UNBLEACHED and
BLEACHED good quality SHEETING at 15 aud 17 cents, and the celebrated New
York Mills 10-4 BLEACHED SHEETING at 30c., regular price 40c.
Tie Great Sensations at Our Bazaar!
Have been for the last tew weeks our incomparable assortment of Ladies’ Fine
UNDERWEAR, such as Night Robes, Chemises, Skirts, etc., at prices which have
never been equaled in the history of this class of goods, Among other prices we
offer as specials;
50 dozen LADIES’ CHEMISES, worth 35e., at only 15c.
25 dozen LADIES’ CHEMISES, worth 40c., at only 19c.
SXI dozen LADIES’ CHEMISES, NIGHTGOWNS, SKIRTS, DRAWERS, at remark
ably low prices.
1 job lot ol soiled CORSETS, worth lrom 50c. to sl, at the uniform price of 25e.
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rmo Ticiiiri’ i < >it Fssl
THE SEAMLESS TURPENTINE STILL,
T\ T ITII A PLATFORM DECLARED AGAINST LEAKS, which will cause a LARGE IN- i
>Y CREASE, over all other makes, ol both Spirits and Bosir. to tiie operator. The cause j
of the great increase in Naval Stores last year mav not be from over-production of the Crude
Turpentine, hut from the great saving from leaks by the general use of
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We have THIRTY-FIVE NEW and SECOND-HAND STILLS, from Twelve to Thirty Bar
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SAVANNAH, GA., or FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.
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SAVANNAH, CEORCIA,
Dealer in WATCHES, JEWELRY and SILVERWARE.
REPAIRING A SPECIALTY.
Rockford, 111., January 1,18.54. .
This is to certify that we have ap- -J
pointed A. L. DESBOUILLONS Sole .nnicK- sF- • JjKy- n-irm
Agent for the sale of the Rockford Quick lVv*s 1
Train Watch in Savannah, Georgia, and &tt\, /p C j
that we will, to the lullest extent, bus- /. p Am ‘
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purchasers of our movements. Xo ' —- I . u *y — .
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goods when offered for sale by others '
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Hublicatiouo.
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PRESSED BY MORSE COMPRESSORS.
Its use is saving Four to Five Million Dol
lars Annually to the crop, in freight charges.
Several of those erected six years ago have
now compressed 600,000 to 800,000 bales
each, without breakage or appreciable wear.
Not a single breakage or defect has
ever occurred in any one of the MORSE
COMPRESSORS, built of Cold Blast
Charcoal Iron.
It has made the business of cotton com
pressing the safest and most profitable of any
111 the South.
Those wanted for next season should lie or
dered at once. For particulars address the
sole proprietor.
S. C. STEERS,
NEW ORLEANS.
Tjoor auD Sprinklers.
“ PERFECTION’'
Lawn & Garden Sprinkler!
The host means obtainable for watering
your gardens. Price, Nickel-plated, $1 25.
ALSO, A LARGE STOCK OF
RUBBER HOSE,
All sizes and prices. Quality guaranteed.
JOHN NIOOLSON,
30 and 32 Drayton Street.
(Ellina, <str.
K I] A 1)
The cheapest place to buy Crockery, Glass
ware or House Furnishing Goods is at the
Crockery House of Jas. 8. Silva.
T IIIS.
pm
IDTOM I
(BKFORH.) . (AFTKR.)
ELbOTRO-VOLTAIC BELT and other Electric
1 apfliarces sent on 30 Days’ Trial TO
MEN ONLY. YOUNG OR OLD, who are suffer
ing from Nr.iiv'.cs Debility, Lost Vitality,
Wasting Weakne. srs, and alt those diseases of a
Personal Nature, r, suiting from ABt'SEs and
other Causes. Speedy relief and complete
restoration to Health, Vigor and Manhood
O'Vabants io. Send at once for Illustrated
Pamphlet free. Address
VOLTAIC BELT CO.. MarOinH. Mich.
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