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The Weai'y World.
Fur down the winding lane of years.
The weary world is slowly wending;
Grim wails of fate and gates of tears
To trend ding prayers no answer sending.
Yet through it all sweet spirits call.
Through lonely days of grief and aching;
■“Hope's roses blossom on the wall.
To keep the wor'd's great heart from
breaking.”
Acrpts the sobbing sea of doom
The weary world is slowly drifting:
Eyes wet with tears pierce through the
gloom,
Yet see no sign of rest or rift ing.
’Atill. angels bright. from some fat- height.
d< t .eat through hours of weary waking:
H .pels starlight '■hir.es through darkest;
night.
To keep the world's great heart from
break lag. "
<)'«• troubled waves by ]>aths of rue,
Faint souls press towards the land of par
don,
Burdened with crosses, wet with dew
From chill Gethsemane's lone garden.
Yet to and fro. now loud, now low.
A voice i - sweetest mnsie making—
Hope, singing on, through pain and woe,
Tv keep the worlds great heart from
breaking,
[Clarence Unney.
AN EAST WIND.
BY HATTIE A. COOLEY
It was the cast wind. Not a doubt
about that.
The amount of mischief that an cast
wind can work in the daily lives of us
poor mortals isyreally astonishing.
When you get up some morning with
3sort of edgewise feeling toward the
world, if things seem inclined to topple
over and get out of'place at the merest
touch—in fact, everything goes wrong
in a peculiarly exasperating manner, you
have good reason to suspcH that the
wind is in the. east. That is certainly
where it was on this particular morning
.nt the Deane's.
For several days the cook's tooth had
given ominous threatening*. And when
-did an easterly wind ever propitiate the
toothache?
In this case at least it aggravated the
Mull grumblings into what the sufferer
< rmed the ''jumpin’ toothache," with
the awful throbbings of which it was ;
tint to he expected that she would be
•over solicitous in regard to the quality
■of the coffee or the state of the beef
steak.
Now Father Deane himself had ;
passed far from a comfortable night be- {
tween twinges of neuralgia in his head
and rheumatic aches down his back, to
say nothing of the creaking of a certain
blind which never made the least noise
.except when the wind was in this one
direction. The breakfast, muddy col- !
fee and weak at that, the cook having ;
simply poured in more water upon the I
old grounds without so much as adding
a grain of fresh coffee, and steak burnt i
m respect to outward appearance but I
raw in inward reality—no, the breakfast
did not tend to soothe him into a better
frame of mind. Generally he was a
pt tty jolly, good-natured man, but
when he was down, as the cook said,
-•he was down indade.” He was down
■“indade" this morning. So poor Mother
JJeane sighed very often. She was a :
.sinister little body,' keenly alive to her
Busband's mood).
Miss Winnie Deane’s was the only
bright face at the breakfast table. She I
scarcely noticed her father’s frowns or
her mother - sjghs. The words which
Chare y Traver had whispered the even
ing before rang too loudly through her
happy thoughts. He was to see her
father at the office this very morning.
And. knowing by actual experience that
after a good breakfast Father Deane
never had the heart to refuse his daugh
ter anytiung, she had charged Charley
to be suri and go early before business
began. She felt very confident that it i
would be the most favorable of times to
■spesik to her father, but then there
wasn't the slightest doubt as to his i
answer any way; for, had not Charley
Trevor a ways been a great
his?
Mi-.- \kjpnfe little rnidir.e«tathpt gneer
• hang, s come afxnit with a -hiftiug
o -nd II a.» w ith a turn of the tide.
SAVANNAH. GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1887.
Father Deane started off down town
walking unusually fast on account of the
disagreeable air. Therefore he was a
trifle earlier as the office boy was a trifle
I later than common,the latter having run
on an errand for his mother, who, be-
■ ing something of an invalid, could not
Igo out in all kinds of weather. And
consequently. Father Deane had his i
' choice of tin- dust from the boy'- vigor
ous sweeping or cf a tramp up and down
| the draughty hall.
He had just settle 1 himself at the
desk when Charley Traver came in.
The young man’s face was somewhat
flushed, but he said “Good morning,
Mr. Deane,” with bright, cheerincss and
an air of confidence as to his reception.
“Good responded that gentle-
I mat. coldly as he turned about from his
I desk and looked over his glasses at his
: early caller. Some people do have such
• an upsetting way of peering over the
I tops of their glasses at one; it would
' disconcert the coolest heart and strong- i
' est head. Charley Traver was a self- I
possessed young man, but 1 suppose the
most self-possessed have moments of i
awkwardness. Charley'-- had come now. i
Nevertheless he plunged bravely to the j
point at once.
“I presume you have noticed, Mt.
j Deane, that I have been quite a frequent ;
visitor at your home lately."’
Father Deane's bald head gave an al- :
| most imperceptible nod which was not
very helpful to the young man.
“The fact is,” said he, growing more
and more nervous, “Miss Winnie has
promised to Ik my wife with your con
sent, which I hope 1 have.”
Unlucky Charley! he did not know i
that, as lie sat facing his visitor, a 1
breath of that self-same wind having i
° I
found a chink somewhere in the office I
window, was blowing directly upon the '
back of Father Deane's head, sending i
keen darts through it in every direction, j
“Nonsense!” growled the old gentle- j
man fiercely; “you are both too young. ■
Neither of you know your own minds
yet.”
“We arc willing to wait if that be ;
i your wish,” replied Charley. “I only
wanted your consent that it might take
place some time.”
“I'll not consent to anything. Never
did believe in long engagements. When
you are both older than you are now I'll
consider the matter, not before. ’ Good
morning, sir.’’
Poor Charley! he had always supposed
that Mr. Deane was rather partial to
him. Poor Charley ! who went out in
a state of sore perplexity, wondering
what in the world he could havedone to
so offend Mr. Deane. Poor Charley!
who suddenly waked up to the fact that
' it was a horrid morning in particular
i and a most, dismal world in general.
| We may scoff about it as much as we
i please, but variable weather is a blessed
j thing sometimes, especially when it
I changes for the better.
Father Deane always lunched at a
restaurant, dining at home after office
I hours. Now, It so happened that the ■
wind took a sudden turn, and by the lime
he went out for his lunch there was the
gentlest of breezes from the south with
o
good hot sun. which, shining down upon
his head and back, did wonders for the
i neuralgia and rheumatism. Then, at
I the restaurant whom should he meet but
; an old friend from New York, who said:
I “Why, Deane, I don't believe you look ,
a day older titan you did ten years ago.”
While a man may de-pisc ordinary
compliments, 1 am inclined to think
he would find nth a greeting preferable
to “Why, how oid and gray you’ve
i grown!"
Meeting thus pleasantly, the friends
prolonged th • lunch as long as possible
i and walked back as far as the office door
■ together.
As soon as had parted from
. hi- friend ami stepja-i »n-ithe
office Father Deane thought of Charley.
“1 declare!'' he -aid to himself. “I’m
I afraid 1 was a little busty this morning.
1 Let me see; no, it can't be; yes, that's ,
so. a- true a- I'm alive Charley Traver
■ jnust be twenty-three or four; Las a ,
go3d business too. As for little
-fUkell, well. well. i suppose lt’> g<lj|
to come some time. Charley - ii-l In bi
wait awhile. He'Mx.re it hi tter, tho,
than 1 should if I’d Iwen in his shoes.
But 1 dare say he’s horribly vexed at
me: would I't blame him a bit. either, if ,
he were. 1 must have Winnie apologize
forme, sin'll make it all right. I can
keep my word too. Lucky for me that 1
put that in; 1 hate to go back on my
i word. Os < nurse they will both be older
than they were this morning. 1 must
have been a good deal out of sorts to i
have acted that way, I always did like
Charley.”
Meanwhile mother De me h id exerted
herself to < tire the cook's toothache,
and, having succeeded altera time, her
patient, in her gratitude, did her very
best in the matter of a dinner of which
it may be said that after Father Deane
had done ample justice to if. he was en
tirely his oily, good mitured self again.
And when anxious M innie perched her
self on his knee to whisper, “Did
Charley come to the oflic this morning?'
ihe kissed her hlushing cheeks and aid
I a little confusedly, “Ye*, dear; but I I
I was somewhat out of sorts and shouldn’t
i wonder if I answered the poor fellow
I rather shortly. When ho calls you can |
i exnbiin it to him and tell him I said it
was all right if he'd wait a couple of
years before taking you away. I can't
i lose you just yet,” this with nnothei'
kiss, “but 1 don't, know of any one I'd
i rather have for :i son-in-law than <'luirlcy :
TrtiveY.”
A very downcast, disconsolate-looking
person was the. Charley who came an
hour later. But. when Winnie had ex
plained ami delivered her father's mes
i sage he laughed with a sudden elevation
|of spirits. “It’s all right now,” he de
' elared, “but 1 did feel most aw fully cut
lup over it.” However, like a wise
I voting man. he relrained from mitering ‘
into further particulars of the interview
in her father's office. While within,
l with loving hearts, the two sat planning
j the beautiful future they were to spend
together, outside, among the -horn <
branches of the one evergreen by the
! parlor window, the wind, no longer a
■ mischievous «a-t w’ind, but the sweetest ,
lof southern breezes—was softly xviiis-
; pering. But neither of the two listened
to it for they did not know hoxv it had |
mixed itself up with the day's doings,
nor how closely the happy mifeonie of it
all was interwoven with the tickle ca
price of an idle, shifting wind. Chi
cago Current.
Life in the Ocean's Depths.
Fishes are not very eommon in deep
water, and until lately it. was thought
! there were none, chiefly because of the
!• immense pressure being one ton per
' square inch for every 1000 fathoms.
As sunlight fails about 200 I’nthorns
down, vegetable fife also ceases, and a
-a consequence d< e|! -ea fishes are’
carnivorous. The most voracious often
cat their own offspring, while other are
nourished by .itiimalcuim, which like a i
• const: i t rain, settle down iron; the
higher waters. Some are blind, some
have ordinary eyes, other-. Itave phos
phorescent protulierame - to furni-h
them wi.h light. Sir C. Wyville
Thompson (of the Chai'ergeri says that
animals ol all the marine in vertebrati'
classes, and probably fishes also, exist
all over ill : floor of the ocean. So far
the greatest depth reacfiml by -i d-mlge
in whi .'h fish were enclosed is 21*00 ;
fathoms; but the specimen thu ob-
■ taiiied lielongs to a species xvbw h o-em
to be ; bundant in upper strut.i of the
Atiaiiiiami Pacific, ae.d w.c- therefore
i most likely caught by tie' dredg'- in its
ascent. The next greatest depth, viz., ,
2750 l.uh ms, mud be acc' pted a one
at whi'h fishes’undoubtedly do live, the j
fish obtained at this depth of the At
lantic showing by its who!" habit that
it is a f>im living oi. the bi :t<>m.
I'ntil the Storm Bions Oier.
“Is your mi-tress in, M iry?’ inquired j
the head <>f th** house, as he ciunc home.
“No. sorr. I fie di'e-smaK' ; polled [
her new silk, an' site's gone there to see •
alxmt it.”
“W-h-e-w!* whistled the old man un
<.<sily. “Just say to her that 1 um called
On important tiushus ami
won’t *»c Lome untu lat?.” Puck.
Where the Day Begins.
According to the way in which this
arrangement is now carried out, the first
i land that the now day dawns upon is
Easter Island, about 230 miles west of j
the coast of Chili, South America. Thur!
is to say, the 2d of July breaks here i
within a tew hours of the Ist having
broken on the American coast to the
cast, ami the two days run on along
side -the 2d in Easter Island and places .
west, the Lt in all places on the Ameri
can continent. We may therefore
realize this idea that at 1.20 o’clock
any morning of our lives in Great Brit
ain, the next day is commencing on the
we rid, and is to be found at this little
island in the Pacific ocean, whence in
due course it will travel round to us.
But to have thus the start of the world
is not nn unmitigated advantage to these
islanders. Suppose one of them sails east
to America, what is the result / lie
.will find they keep the diiy there
undera different datepiml lie will have to
i reckon one day in his calendar twice over
to put himself right w ith their not ions.
On the. other hand, if an American cros
ses from ea«t to west this wonderful
iiUlgie line where the day begins, he
will find the dates in this fresh part of
thn world are one in advance of him, j
and he must needs strike a day out I
of his calendar to keep up with the I
times. This fact was curiously illus
trated in the ease of Magellan, the For- i
tuguese captain, who sailed round the !
world from east to w'est in 1522, ami
having crossed the magic line of “day’s i
birth” in his wanderings, his calendar
became of course a day in arrear. The
sailors wore completely ignorant, of this,
and finding, on landing at home, that
their Sabbath was falling on Monday,
‘ they accused one another of tampering
with the reckoning. It was not lor ;
some time that the true explanation was
discovered. —|( hamber’s .Journal.
Healthy ami In healthy Occupations.
The English Registrar-General has
made a comparison between healthy and >
. unhealty occupations. Assuming the I
normal average death rate of the com- j
rminity as the unit of comparison, and ;
calling it 1,000, particular occupations ,
may be regarded as healthy or unhealthy ;
according as the death-rates among those ;
pursuing them fall above or below that
figtire. The most healthy occupation
appeal's to be that of ministers of re
ligion, whose rale is 550. Next are
gardeners and nurserymen, stfl); fajin
cfs and glaziers, 031; ngricult ural labor
er®, 701; school masters, 719; and gro
cers, coal merchants, paper, lace, and
hosiery' manufactures, wheelwrights,
ship builder and coal miners, with all
of whom the average death rate is under
<75. The most unhealthy occupations
arc the trades connected with the liquor
traffic and hotel servic , with which the
death rate is 2,205; following *h"se are
general laborers in London, 2,020, eos-
Serrnongeibankers t:ud street sellers,
innkeepers, etc., 1,521; and
iiiewer.-, 1,30 t. After the trades con
cerned with alcohol, the highest rates
are furnished by occupations that involve
the breathing of dust -other than coal
dust —and exposure to lead poisoning.
The death /ate among butcher:; in aLo
high, 1,170. —[ Popular Science Monthly
A Serenade in Dahomey, Africa.
That night, perhaps, as u soother to
my nerves, the king gave us a serenade
by his own private band. 1 was awak
>■ ied about midnight with a noise, that I
can com pare to nothing but a thunder
storm in scales. They run from high to
low, and got terribly mixed in the mid
■ die. It was not really unpleasant, but
like the chirningof bell.-,should be heard
at a distance the greater the distance
the better. I -prang to thn window to
find that band consisted of twenty-two
men, each with a log, or piece of wood,
the largest so heavy that it took four
men to curry it. These were set, ono
; eml on the ground, the other supported
by a wooden trestle, and Is aten on the
high end with wooden hammers, of all
rize.-, from the hand hammer to a sledge,
tach stick or log emitting its sound, but
i o distinguishaut o air re-ulttd.---'North
i Amerieun Review.
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( 5 aenU"-In Ail vanos.
Australia’s Rabbit Plague.
Sever al of the worst pests of our field*,
in the way of weeds, were infroduccd
here from Europe ns ornamental or use*
j ful plants. From a similar ignorance or
thoughtlessness, the rabbit was intro
| <lu< ed into Australia as a pet, or pow»L
bly as a harmless creature of the chase,
and he has already proved himself more
than a match for dogs and men.
The London Telegraph tells us that
one tract of scrub, or bush, half as
large as Scotland, is already so overrnu
with rabbits that it is abandoned by tluj
settlers.
The soil of the scrub a mixture of
sand and <hi*t--is admirably suited to
the rabbit for burrowing in. The lack
of rain he docs not mind in the least, or
if he does mind, it is to take delight in
the drought. As compared with the
wot, clayey -oil of England, the dust of
\nstralia. i- a rabbit’s paradise.
Nature practises a curious economy in
allowing the rabbit to thrive. In the
first place this animal eats the scanty
herbage upon which the settlers’ sheep
, were pastured. Then the wild dogs,
which were nearly* exterminated, find
the Int rabbits excellent food, so that
I the dogs in turn multiply and grow
strong. Thus the dog- become em
! bohlened, and attack the poorly fed
! sheep. The country lias therefore to lie
abandoned to the rabbits and dogs.
■ Ferre ts and weasels have been im
ported into Australia to prey upon tha
rabbits, but, strangely enough, thess
natural enemies fraternize in the colonics.
Thousands of bushels of poisoned oat#
have been sown where the rabbits
would eat them, but the increase of the
animals has not been stooped.
The only protection to the fields of
w heat against the mischievous visits of
the rabbits is t<> fence with wire netting.
Besides n fence such as the creature can
not hop over, a strip of netting has to
belaid tint upon the ground to prevent
him from burrowing under it.
At the, siime time that the rabbits arc
multiplying so rapidly in Australia, the
price is advancing in all the markets of
Europe. A market value will prove
more fatal to the animal than poisoned
oats or weasels or a bounty on his care.
Once let it become possible to furnish ,
the rabbits fresh in the markets of Lon
don, and what is now the post of Aus
tralia will prove a source of revenue to
the settlers, j Youth’s Companion.
— ■ tit
The Zinc Supply.
In 1885 the world's production of zinc,
amounted to 291,009 tons of 2,240
i pounds each, 255,271* of which w r a* ob
tained in Luropc and 3(»,33f* iu the;
United Stales. The principal zinc pro
dm ing states in this country are Illi
nois, Kansas, and Missouri, which stood;
in this order in volume of output in ‘
1885. The production of Missouri wa»
about one ninth of that of the whois
country **> that year. Zinc ores wo
found in large or small quantities in
nearly every < minty of the state south of
•<■ Mi -soijj-j river. It is generally iul
j conjttt lion with lead. In Franklin,
i Crawford, Jeff rsoa and Washington'
rountb s, it is found disseminated id
! imtnetts" bodies of barytes with leadJ
I The richest ziac d< posits are found on
or itc ir the Ozirk mountains. Must of*
tl.e zinc mined in the state is- obtained I
in the -u.itLwestern counties, principal-!
I!yin .l ispar and Newton, in one week I
themim-oi J.r<par county produced!
over 2,500,009 pounds of this metal, tSMre
pi i <• of which w :i- about $29,000 al the I
mim -.- -St. L •ni- Globo Democrat. ■s« I
They Left Him Out. I
“The true xcntlemau,” said siie, “willi
never iidlic • un, and 1 never can re-1
i>pect a man who is not a true geatie-l
’ man.' 1
“T! i. M try,’ he said mmirtifully,’ f re
“I suppose that 1 can hi>pfl|fi>r your iovdß
! no lunger?” ’ Wl
‘A\ hy not, Edward?” p j
“Ln. » dentist, y<m know. * • 1
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