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®ht ‘3mmnntih xivibnnc. PablMhsd bv the Tmwkb Publithme Oo.) J. H. DKVEADX. Mavaokf Y VOL 111. 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. t >1.25 Per Annum; 75 cents for Six Months; s 50 cents Three Months; Single Copies ( 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 - <« ■> I « '* ■ < otihin'l Scan- Her. j|. before Mirwgj -‘‘i 'U ; won't be nrnWT'it tb<f - .X NO. 5.