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Thu Georgia Enterprise
VOLUME XXIII.
I'ELU" FEVER.
situation more hopeful
gy WAY THAN IT WAS.
■ HOT INfHKASIK** AT JACKHON VILI.U
j||:ASI - HKB ADOPTED KUMI-
sr.ll• KsTAULWaKD-KOTEB.
kjdtuatiou in Florida is calming
*bnt>h.'l"‘
JSttotsnding tin: cio.th rate in Jack
.null, anti that it Ima at no
,t: ' ~,( either at lampa, Manatee
Put cf v. n t the fears of the people
V ijuuiitf towns are such as to
Xl.Jt,, e-tahlish rigid ‘ shotgun”
even-where. At Callahan,
rl,r.li the citizens and there are
,ut t 0 ilo/en forhi 1 any train
J* j lir t .it er North or South.
Tl', * ,ui stations are now open at
L|,lm. ii„ e, Kla., and Dupont, (in.,
5,1 ti.m to that at Waycross. These
iciot in immediate connection
fctbe i: il""' st-.tioiw, but are some
final tie railroad towards FHor
. Tlw one at Chattahoochee is at
L .limi t on. nhout two miles from
ml’.. „■! ,• ■. I hose fumigation stations
roast mete-1 from box ears, which are
iljd into two compartments hy up
, ],’;uikiag in each compartment,
netting shelves arc placed at regu
j,t,. va s as thickly as practicable,
oar idea arc to be fumigated, they
1„, iv icattcrcd on the abelvis, and
till is leady, a charcoal brazier or
keit cis ti led with charcoal. As
las the charcoal becomes a glowing
I tiv c in iiinls of sulphur are thrown
jltai.il s ,on the fumes of sulphurous
I gas pi nitrates every part of
ar nml every fabric therein,
(rears similarly shelved have been
riiled Cr the railway mail service,
the dirks in thi.t mail service
illie mail bags, puncture the letters
ntter them upon the viie shelves,
r- - eing n vesble can be ahi ted
ipaie to place, and the passage way
nen the broad doors give ample
nfor the shifting of baggage. The
thud of ] tincturing the letters is the
easthat adopted in Europe during
rtoleri epidemic, and will
prevent them being read
He at the same time time
nil allow the gas to penetntte them.
teeiKO'S coming North from an in
tdtown must pa-s a short period of
nat'uii in the detention camp near
fenr. Fiont other towns in Florida
[my p.;- tlie inspectors but are not
nred t Mop nt iny Southern point,
iitlnyc rump near Boulogne is in
mu f I’.ssed Assistant Surgdon
t. This tamp with such police reg
tunsuMire inces-nry will lx: enforced,
st, st'iv'tl: sneaking, a military camp.
With.; Jacksonville and other in
rdpfalling sick at this camp
lit .1 to Jacksonville at once,
satiiji It s been supplied with
!H'i co king utensils, and the ltard
pof the <!e rgn ion will be reduced as
4is possible. Per mis unable to
([rations will be famished them
fcundcrniing detenti n, but it is
ftho-e:l>le to buy tickets that will
Ithenmlvcs of the camp. Ten days
imp i 1 In. required to enable one to
the ic-portor and go North. The
[Ketors h-ive lieen provided with con
tra putii lies, ami they punch and
Meclip gsengcr a ticket showing
tint pair t< bound, whete from, date,
•hr u; |i. ces of baggage and name
nispeeto:. The traveler must also
• hi- inline to the ticket as a means of
ifiraliou.
Oitmavier-Gci eral Dickinson istnlr
funignting stations at Bartow,
■ Flonmton Ala,, St. Augustine, Fla.,
"aycross Ga. At these points all
Batter from yel ovv fever districts
Hthoroughly fumigated before be
forwarded to i!s destination. No
my character comes through
soiivilie. Th" -iiuntion is decidedly
* r at Jacksonville. No new cases
then repotted and no deaths. Pa-
| ar -‘ doing finely Kain com
™!o fall at an early hour in the
“rag and poured in torrents all day.
tnereury is lower than at any time
hike week. The work of disin
- ISt!"(.s actively forward. The san
ff' roe Jms been increased to nearly
Many places arc found in
ttnlcdly unhealthy condition,
■ the premises of citi
"ll,J have ijed the town.
‘->r ami pitch fires and booming of
enliven the scene somewhat. The
puke mi cannonading has batteries
k'st (lilt- rent points night and morn-
L sl i “y people laugh at this, but the
y T deems it a measure worthy of
money for the Jacksonville relief
ftttee is begining to come in, anil
have been received from many
municipal assistance. Rep
>n Congrtss have sent tele
•oitfrirg to lend their aid toward
If™o ' 1,1 il appropriating $200,-
tuc purpose of stamping out the
1 “bed States, and especially
1 lu “ relief committee has
'H ' . ity into five districts with
,! la-ii in charge of each. lie
kl( f '* r the names of the needy and
M.V to paupers and tramps
4i '' ".V° ! lu; city to take advantage
Jlj -tnbution of rations,
it: twenty deaths from yellow
Jilv J ’ittßode Cuba, up to the 28th
t*t, i :11 - c ' ! y . among the military,
[of i’ , 1 * tarnished the disease by a
k w orl '. ' arrived Spaniards, who are
itfitv "-n 1,1 'i "arn-any mines near
MV , IL ' season is very irregular,
t[(y. ' ,l 1 1 whieh prevails when ycl
fc, ' 11 omes an epidemic on the
H t r ISl 'P°rts continue to Ire received
L* I,lU ' ,ior ' Many children and
P 1 s U l ' ai ‘ s are dying °f yellow fever,
fee, 'J S'lmti Espiritu refers to a
kit| ,'' s there. It is a longtime
' '-'ed that city. As many
n t mu- childten have been swept
i ' , Peci'j"f C xl ay hy the di-ease.
*ssviiii t N " w Orloana i La., from
4tf t . Ve '. ll 'xas, says: On account of
til in f,,,..' 111 ylatamorns, quarantine is
4tnß;, w- an - * 1 communication be
!i,u|)tni|','i' 1 ' 6 nnc * Matamoras liter
’ll'. '.n d'/V 0 l * le great inconvenience
'■tel:,,, • wh-i.-.e business relations em-
Jjk t, q l' ( ' s "t the river, ull business
t J u „. 1 the river being at a stand
. nidad held a meeting
•tlttti'r 1 Stuadcs Torre* presiding.
Jilts v 11 °fflcial communication
Jthe consul at Brownsville
, , lllat ! on of quarantine ofli-
T ANARUS, "Rthe ferry against Mata-
k V I ,ook ‘he following
la’ th, t' ,hn " ltor y ,lction: “Con
ant,., . I'. 1 "' 1 of New Orleans is
W'eadv ""‘i'ton, sanitary and topo
■ !l ’ Vent Cruz, and, Insides,
having reliable information that in the
llr-t I II nid port there is soundly existing
an epidemic of diphtheria without this
I eing an (li st cle against admittance of
pas-eng n and freiglr, which steameia
that frequently come liotn infected ports
In mg, the junta, ns a measure of pru-
II precaution, orders that passes
. 'tween Brownsville and Brazos and this
ity and its jurisdiction to Bagdad he
e i sed; the tune of this prohibition to
e iniiiiue for a period that the junta cou
si lers convenient.” Matamoras has a
vcr,’ small stock of flour, coffee, sugar
uni otln r necessities in stock of inerchan
lise, and goods fur that place which ar
i veil on Hie steamer will not be allowed
to (Tims the vivri. Matamoras merchants
a nltiuud, and fear scarcity, nnd are
ti citing for a s; ho iner load of groceries
to In' sent fiom New Orleans to Bagdad
nirect.
OYER THE GLOBE.
WHAT THE ELECTRIC WIRES
POUR INTO OUR EARS.
9
t.AIiOH NOTES— ACCIDENTS ON SEA AND
I.AND—TEHKim.E ACCIDENTS ON TUE
RAILROADS—NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
The Pennsylvania Rolling Mills, Lan
caster, Pa., will suspend on Saturday,
owing to dullness in iron trade.
Charles Crocker, second vice-president
of the Southern Pacific Railroad compa
ny, died at Monterey, Cal., on Tuesday.
The supreme court of Washington
Territory lias decided the law granting
, ull'r.ige to women to be unconstitutional.
Ihe National Bar Association in ses
sion at Cleveland, Ohio, declined to iu
iloise the appoint incut of Chief Justice
Fuller.
The new Catholic church at Coleman,
Wis., collapsed on Thursday, killing one
man and crushing seven others so that
they may die.
An Illinois Central Railroad passenger
train collided with a freight train on
Thursday at South Lawn, 50 miles from
Chicago, and a number of people were
hurt.
At Anderson, Ind., George Ayers, an
amateur tcronaut, went up iu a Ualloi n
on Wednesday, filled with natural gas.
This is the first in which natural gas has
been used.
The weavers at the American linen
mills, at Fall River, Mass., struck work
on Tuesday on account of dissatisfaction
with their pay. A conference w ith the
mill managers was not satisfactory.
About 2,000 looms are idle.
The eleventh conference of the Young
Men’s Christian Association of the Avorld,
convened in Stockholm, Denmark. Four
hundred delegates tvere in attendance, of
whom 200 are English speaking nnd
some sixty are from America.
1 he plant of the North Chicago rolling
mill company, at South Chicago, 111., is
to be shut "down for a time. Fifteen
(hundred men have been paid nnd laid off.
The blast furnaces were unaffected by the
order and will continue iu active opera
iiion. The cause of this unexpected turn
of affairs is due directly to a lack of or
ders.
Gen. Lew Wallace, the distinguished
author of “Ben Hur” and life-long friend
of General Harrison, has just completed
an authorized biography of him. \V. I.
Dense!, a stanch leader in national
councils of the Democratic party, has
just completed an admirable biography
of Cleveland, with a bright sketch of
Thurman.
Emma Traxcl, the eighteen-year-old
daughter of Jacob Traxel, of Crooked
Run, Ohio, was taken sick, and to all ap
pearances was dead. She was prepared for
burial and placed in a coffin. Miss '1 rax
el, to the astonishment of nil, suddenly
came to, nnd arose ns it were from the
dead. She had been in a fiance tliirtv
six hours, aud was conscious of ail sur
roundings.
Emperor William attended the unveil
jug of the monument erected in Daemon
„f bite Prince Frederick Charles at
Frankfort on Thursday. The emperor
was present at a breakfast given in bis
honor after the unveiling, and gave a
toast to German unity. He said that
40,000,000 of Germans would die rather
thim to deliver a single stone of Alsace
Lorraine to France.
Adolph Harman, a German, employed
as a clerk in Morford, Brown A Cos, s
stole, in Long Branch, N. J.. tried to
shoot Mrs. Haynes, his mother-in law.
nnd then killed his wife and himself at
Highlands of Navesink, in the woods
buck of Twin Light House. Harman
Avas a man of ungovernable temper and
was very jealous. He shot at Mrs. Mayr s
bec. use she took from him a stick with
which he was beating his wife.
BOLD RASCALS.
A system of letter-box robbery, ex
ing over a period of two years, involv
ing the theft of thousands of letters, in
cluding enclosures of drafts, check aud
postoffice orders aggregating an unknown
amount, though known to exceed SIOO,-
(00, and explaining in part the numerous
complaints made against the ( bicago,
111 postal service, has been discovered
by’the police and ,p stoffice inspectors.
Frederick Von Oberkampf and Thom
as J Mack are in custody, and more ar
rests aic likely to follow. Von Ober
kampf claims to be a member of a noble
German family of Berlin, and Mack is a
carpenter and a native of the United
Slates The discovery tame about m a
curious and unexpected manner. Von
Oberkampf was indebted to Ins landlady,
and in poyment tendered her a check
which she accepted, and returned him a
difference of about fifty dollars in cash.
The cheek turned out to have been
forged, and she placed the matter in the
hands of the police who located their
man in a room on North Market street.
In searching this room the o fficers were
astonished to find a trunk and to the
top with letters. J hey had all be n
opened, bore no postmark, and each had
had the stamp .eraoved. It was then as
certained that Non Oberkampf occupied
still another room, and th s
searched another trunk full of letter , all
in same condition above descnbed. wcie
found, and that ho was engaged n oU
binp letter boxes. Inspector vulder
is satisfied that the aggn’gato vMu* of
all stolen document i which wer cov
ered will be fully rtol
There is no means of telling how much
b
mail robbery scheme ever known.
WASHINGTON, D. (J.
BUSY TIMES STILL, IN THE NA
TIONAL CAPITOL
CONG IIKSB IN SESSION YET—MOVEMENTS
OK PRESIDENT AND MltS. CLEVELAND —
W HO AUE GETTING KAT SLICES.
conuukhniunai..
The Senate, on Thursday, went into
open executive session on the fisheries
treaty aud voted on Mr. Morgan's resolu
tion to postpone till December next.
The resolution was defeated—yeas 24,
nays 27—a strict party vote In the
House, the fortification appropriation bill
passed without division. Mr. Morrill, of
Kansas, called up the resolution previ
ously reported from the committee ou
invalid pensions, assigning May 2d aud
8d for the consideration of general pen
sion legislation, with the proposed
amendments changing the dates to Au
gust 29 aud 80. Mr. Morrill gave a
resume of the various measures of a gen
eral character which had been reported
from the committee on invalid pensions
and urged the necessity of fixing a time
for their consideration. Mr. Morrill de
manded the previous question, and the
vote resulted yeas 110, nays 7—no quo
rum, and a call of the House was
ordered. Roll call showed the presence
of 174 members, aud it stopped all busi
uess, there not being a quorum.
In the course of his speech in the Sen
ate on Wednesday, on the fisheries treaty,
Mr. Morgan, (there having been some al
lusions to “yankee” ou the one side and
“slave-holder” ou the other) said: “You
have not hesitated to sneer at us, and to
say that xve are rebels, traitors, men not
to be trusted, men who violated our
oaths and attacked the national flag,
men xvhose consciences are burdened with
political sin, that we all deserved to be
hanged, and that we arc living now by
your mercy aud grace; aud I have only
said that you did not dare to hang any
of us. You had Jefferson Davis under
arrest and the United States government
did not dare to bring him to trial because
it would have turned out —in opinion of
great jurists, who would have had to try
him—that he had not committed trea
son.” Mr. Frye—“ When the Senator
from Alabama was making those charges,
he was looking at me. I beg him to re
member that in the whole course of this
debate I have made no charge or liisinu
ation against him. lam a full-blooded
yankee, but I do not know a man on that
side of the Senate for w horn I have more
profound admiration that I have for
him.” Mr. Morgan—“My eyes wan
dered to the face of the senator from
Maine because I knew that they rested on
an honest and benevolent face, and it was
some relief to me to have that opportun
ity when looking on that side of the
chamber.” This xvas greeted wiih hearty
laughter The conferees'on the part of
the'two houses on the army appropriation
bill reached an agreement, aud the fact
Avas reported to the House. According
to the terms of the agreement, the ap
propriation for the equipment of Wh
tervliet arsenal, New York, which was
fixed by the Senate at $750,000, has been
reduced to $700,000, in consideration of
the fact that the sundry civil appropria
tion bill carries an appropriation of
SOO,OOO for that arsenal. At a further
conference of the representatives of the
two houses, they reached an agree
ment upon the naval appropriation bill.
The basis of agreement is a substantial
concession of the demands of both Sen
ate and House, the former agreeing to
restore to the hill the original provision
for a 7,500 ton armored cruiser, and the
latter accepting the 2,000 ton gunboa's
proposed by the Senate.
Iu the Senate, on Tuesday, the discus
sion ou the fisheries treaty was resumed,
and aviis addressed by Mr. Morgan and
much time was occupied by reading from
diplomatic correspondence on the subject
of the seizure of American fishing vessels
during the last half century. Iu one of
the breaks iu these readings, Mr. Sher
man, by Mr. Morgan’s permission, intro
duced a bill to declare unlawful, trusts
and combinations in restraint of produc
tion, and had it referred to the com
mittee-on finance. It declares unlawful
and void all arrangements, contracts,
agreements, trusts or combinations be
tween persons or corporations made with
a view, or which tend, to prevent a full
and free competition in the production.
Ibe manufacture or the sale of articles of
dome-tic growth or production, or in the
sale of articles imported into the United
States or that tend to increase the cost of
such articles to the consumer
Mr. Sayers, of Texas, moved that the
House go into a committee of the whole
for the consideration of the general ap
propriation bills. Mr. Towushend, of
Illinois, championing the opposition of
the military committee to the fortifica
tions bill, inquired of the Speaker what
bill Avould be considered if the motion
should prevail. The Speaker declined
to state, declaring that that was a matter
to he determined by the chairman of the
committee of the whole. Mr. Sayer s
motion was cairied —yens 1511, miys 9
five more than a quorum, but the fight
was resumed in the committee, Mr.
Townshend objecting to t. e consider
ation of the fortifications bill. That ob
jection being reported to the House, on
the question whether the House would
direct the fortifications bill to be lnid
aside, the vote lesulted—yeas 17, nays
132 —no quorum.
nossir.
Gen. John B. Parkhurst, of Michigan,
will be appointed minister to Russia to
succeed Minister Lathrop, resigned.
President Cleveland has issued an or
der, placing General Sclri field in perma
nent command of the armies of the Uni
ted States.
Col. Elliott has secured the establish
ment of anew postoffice at Sykesland,
Richland countv, 8. C., with Wm. Sykes,
postmaster; also at Horace, Sumter
county, S. C., with W. VV. Denis post
master.
MAINE’S EARTHQUAKE.
One of the most severe earthquake
shocks ever felt in Maine occurred on
Wednesday evening. A report like a
heavy cannon, continuing thirty seconds,
shook the earth violently, swaying build
ings and rattling dishes and furniture.
A second shock was felt about midnight
and was somewhat lighter, but of about
the same duration. The noise continued
at its loudest for half a minute. Houses
were shaken on their foundations, like
large oaks in a fierce gale, and then the
noise subsided into a distant roar, which
could be heard seemingly toward the
northwest. No serious damage is re
ported, although everything received a
general shaking up.
“MY COUNTRY MAT BRB KVRR BR RIGHT. RIGHT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY.”-Jefferson
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23. 1888,
tin: south.
CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGED
IN READABLE SHAPE.
LIGHTNING PLAYS HAVOC EVERYWHERE—
COTTON STATISTICS—HUH IDES —RAIL
ROAD CASUALTIES, ETC,
Ala bit mn.
John Wesley Dubose, u life convict at
the Pratt mines, who is insane on the sub
ject of religion, is again trying to starve
himself to death uud bids fair fo lower
the fasting record. Since the 28th day
of July nothing has passed his lips ex
eept a few swallows of water. He bears
up under this long fast remarkably well
and is strong enough to walk about his
prison.
A freight train with twenty cars loaded
with iron ore was wrecked near
Reeder s stati on, on the Birmingham
Mineral road fifteen miles from Birming
ham. The wreck was caused by the rails
spreading. Every one of the twenty cars
were broken to pieces aud pulled down
an embankment. Brakeman A. W. Sit
tle was instantly killed and Conductor
Lee Gardner and Brakeman J. A. Fuller
were severely injured.
Florida.
United States Court Clerk P. Walter,
of Jacksonville, has been ordered to re
move his official headquarters to Talla
hassee.
A colored man in St. Augustine who
was in the habit of stealing from a China
man was caught on Wednesday and
jailed. The Chinaman attempted to kill
him, snapping a pistol at him twiee.
The Presbyterians of Orlando have ex
tended a call to the Rev. J. G. Patton,
of Nashville, Tcnn., and the hope is en
tertained that he will be with them by
the Ist of October, by which time tin ir
handsome church will be nearing comple
tion.
Prof. Joseph Yoyle, of Gainesville, late
special agent and correspondent of the
Department of Agriculture at Washing
ton, D. C., has been in Lake City pre
paring landscape views for the Immigra
tion Association to be mounted and sent
to St, Louis aud placed with the Colum
bia county exhibit.
InmesMC.
News came to Chattanooga, that James
F Decamp, a former prominent citizen of
that city, died suddenly iu Cincinnati,
Ohio, from heart disease.
A threshing machine exploded near
Telford ou 1 hursday, and Bud Carper,
engineer, instantly, and wounded several
others. The cause of the explosion was
a defective steam gauge.
On Wednesday a collision occurred at
Chattanooga, between two trains on the
Western A Atlantic and East Tennessee,
Virginia A Georgia Roads. The two
trains came together at the crossing of
the roads with a crash. Conductor W.
I!. Johnston attempted to jump from a
oaeh and was bad y hurt. No one else
was hurt, but the damage to property
was considerable.
South Carolina.
In Kershaw county, on Thursday, Hen
ry Shropshire and his wife went to church,
about two miles from their house, taking
their baby with them bat leaving at home
their other children, aged respectively
eight and ten years. When they
returned, three hours later, they
found their house in smoking ruins
nnd the charred remains of the two chil
dren. The father fainted, aud when he
recovered consciousness it was found that
his reas rn was dethroned. The mother
is prostrated by the shock and her life
is despaired, of.
liOiilslnnn.
A heavy wind and rain storm prevailed
around New Orleans ou Thursday. Con
siderable damage is reported to the rice
and sugar cane crops. The storm is also
reported severe at Bayou Sara, Baton
Rouge and along the Mississippi gulf
coast.
(•corf in.
Dr. J. 8. Pemberton died at Edge
wood, near Atlanta, on Thursday. He
was a Confederate captain of cavalry
during the War and was a distinguished
chemist.
James L. Steedman, Post No. 73, of
Department of Tennessee and Georgia,
G. A. R., with 29 charter members, was
organized at Tallapoosa. Ibis makes
five posts in the state.
.North Carolina.
W. A. Darden, of Green county, was
chosen state agent of the Farmers’ Al
liance. It will be his duty to make all
purchases for the alliance. .AH sub
alliances will let him know their wants.
He will purchase with money which will
be furnished him.
many perished.
The steamship Wieland, Ca| t. Albers,
from Hamburg, arrived at New York on
Thursday and reports: August 14th.
thirty miles south of Sable Island, at
noon, saw tho Dullish stc&mcr 1 huijjf*
valla, from Copenhagen for New York,
with signals of distress. The Thingvalla
had collided, on the 14tli, at 4 a. in.,
with the steamer Geyser of the same line,
from New York for Copenhagen. The
Geyser sank in about live minutes.
Fourteen passengers and seventeen < f the
crew, among them Capt. Mollcr, were
saved. Seventy-two passengers and
thirty-three of the crew were lost. The
steamer Wieland brought 455 passengers
from the Thingvalla and those saved lrotn
the steamer Geyser to New \ ork. Ihe
Thingvalla will endeavor <> reach Hali
fax, N. S. The Geyser left New York
August 11th, bound for Stettin. Tin;
Thingvalla was on her way to N. Y. city,
and was advertised to leave August 25th.
\ very heavy sea and ii dense fog were
experienced through the night and early
morning of August 14th. It is said an
object could not be distinguished fifty
feet away, by reason of the fog. Stories
differ as to where the liability lies, if not
due wholly to the fog and heavy sea; but
the Thingvalla struck the Geyser on the
starboard side amidships. The boats
quickly recoiled, and within live minutes
the Gevser sank. The crew’ of the
Thingvalla did all they could to save the
Geyser’s crew and passengers, while .-ti I
in doubt whether the Thingvalla was not
dangerously disabled; but, owing to the
heavy sea, only thirty-one were saved.
No other vessel was near at the time.
The Wieland, on her way to port,
was 100 miles away. At 11.80 o’clock,
on the morning of the 14th, the \N ieland
was sighted. Signs of distm-s were
made bv the Thingvalla. nd the tiansft r
of passengers begin. The sea was then
very heavy, but no mishaps occusre 1 in
the transfer of passengeis. It is sti
mated that 100 persons were lost.
PLOWING OUT THE CORN.
The dew Is dried from off the freshened
leaves;
Thu birds have finished all their morning
■ong,
And. busy with tholr callow nestlings’ needs,
With tireless wings Hit through the bright
. ltours long.
rhe cattle in tho field* have < eased to graze,
And stand, kins* deep amid the cooling
stream,
Chewing thoir cuds with drowsy, half-shut
eyes,
Whisking at Hies that in the sunlight
gleam,
While patiently and slow, this blithe Juno
morn,
Along the furrowed rows John plows the
• orn.
The sheep have left the hill-side’s sultry slop *,
And, peaceful lying ’neath the elm tree’s
shade. V*
Scorn dreaming of a fairer landscape where
“Green pastures'’ and the “still waters”
glide.
The daisies lightly nod theiasnopry heads.
I Field lilies scarcely ring Jltoir scarlet ludls,
ahe tide of ripening grain, with shimmering
light,
Like that of the great ocean heaves and
swtdls.
With secret thought, half fear, half hope
new-born,
Along the furrowed rows John plows the
corn.
With heavy-laden sweets the toilsome bee
Low-flying homeward seeks his weary way,
Humming his air of satisfaction o'er
O rich stores gathered for a wintry day.
The gay-winged butterflies that all the morn
Have been coquetting w ith the flowers fair,
Intoxicated with the nectars sipped,
Fly zigzag through the quivering, heated
air.
While many a bright-hued insect sounds his
horn,
Along the furrowed rows John plows the
corn.
The fragrance of the field and woodland
blooms
Blend with the odors of the fresh-turned
loam;
I'hc weird-like whispers of the rustling
leaves
Speak to his heart of happier days to come;
Put dreams of mortals, though however fair,
Sometimes have wakings even far more
bright;
For, lo! sweet Polly Blynn comes down the
lane.
Dawning like Eden's vision oil his sight!
“Whoa; Billy, slower! (Ne’er was lovelier
lass!)
I must not end this furrow ere she pass!”
Bly glances toward the lane John furtive
casts,
And tries to frame some well-set speech to
gether,
The while bewildering words all coursing
toward
Tronic comments on the “crops” and
“weather.”
Doe:; see him? Yes-—if the love-lit glow
On her fair face the secret may betray I
No—if we watch her gaze that looks afar,
Over the fields beyond, another way!
“Whoa, Billy! Whoa!” And patient horse
and plow
Stand idly in the half-turned furrow now.
If there an artist who can paint a scene
Equal to that of Love’s first rosy dawn*
Lives there the poet who can tell the bliss,
The rapture of two spirits wholly one?
The birds and butterflies—they saw just this.
A bashful youth and winsome, blushing
maid
But never told what John so awkward
phrased,
Nor, in reply, w hat pretty Polly said;
But honest Billy wondered why, forlorn,
He waited long amid the half-plowed corn.
— Mrs. A. Park, in the Housewife.
AN ADOPTED CHILD.
BY KATE A. BRADLEY.
She’s such a little thing, Simpson—
and so thin and scrawney!”
“She’ll grow, mem.”
“And her eyes are so big and—child,
don’t Btare at me like that: She is very
dirty, Simpson.”
“She’ll wash, mem.”
“Well, take her away and do the best
you can with her. I’m afraid she won't
turn out to be as pretty ns I thought she
would when I looked at her in the
Home. Une can never tell about that
kind of children.”
Mrs. Lee turned away with a sigh as
the housekeeper left the room.
“I don’t know but I shall be sorry I
took her,” she thought. “If my own
little Elsie had only been spared to me
what a beautiful, good little child she
would have been by this time!”
Two long years of sorrow had passed
since that cruel day when the new nurse
maid burst into the loom where sat the
startled mother, crying: “She’s gone!
I’ve lost her!” and ending with a burst
of hysterical tears. Oh, what hours of
vun and agonized search followed 1 The
lt*le baby daughter, left alone in her
carriage for a moment while the careless
maid entered a store to ask the price of
some coveted article, had disappeared,
nor could one clue to h r whereabouts
be discovered from that time.
Gradually the belief that their darling
had in some way met an early death be
came fixed in the minds of the parents,
and they finally ceased to regard her as
lost and mourned for her as one dead.
Another year passed and then fell the
second overwhelming blow of the death
of her husband, and after a year of lone
liness, being comparatively wealthy, Mrs.
Lee decided to adopt into her home some
little friendless waif, instead of the
daughter who would have been a com
fort to her declining years.
“. he’s come, mother,” she said, as the
door opened and an elderly lady entered
the room. “I don t believe she will be
pretty after all and I do so dislike
homely children of that class. Her eyes
are too large—out of all proport on—and
her nose is as much too small.”
“My dear,” said her mother, smiling,
“when you wcie her age you were uearly
all eyes, and you had scarcely any nose
at all to speak of. I was sometimes
afraid you would never be pre-entable.”
Bhe smiled with motherly pride at the
fair face opposite her.
“And, my dear,” she continued, more
gravely, "remember you have adopted
her now for your own, and have, per
haps, the making or marring of her life
in your hands, l oil nni-t he patient
with her and allow for the difference in
blood.”
At this moment Mrs. Simpson entered,
holding the child by tlie hand. Both
ladies uttered an exclamation. The
rosy face fre-h from the bah, the stray
ing locks caught with a blue ribbon ami
twined into golden curls, and the uni
form of the Home exchanged for a dainty
dress of white, made the child almost
unrecognizable. She ilipped her hand
from Simpson's and crossed the room
with u little, stately tread. “Is oo my
mamma.” she asked with sweet shyness,
looking up at Mrs. Lee from uuder her
loug lashes. “S’nll me love oo?”
“No. no, child!” exclaimed Mrs. Lee,
drawing back involuntarily; then, see
ing the hurt, disappointed look on the
littlo one’s face, she added : “I will love
you, yes, if you’re a good child, but you
must not call me ‘mamma,’ call me
‘auntie.’ I can’t help it, mother,” she
said, excitedly, answering the look of
disapp:oval, “I cun t give her K.lsie’s
place - nor Elsie’s name, as you sug
gested. We can call her ‘Mabel’ after
you, if you like. You know we were
sorry wo had not named ‘Elsie’ after
you,” she added, apologetically
During this speech the child had been
looking piteously from one to the ether.
“Den where is my mamma?” she asked.
“Come here, dear," said the elderly
lady. “Bea good little girl and you
will find a mamma, sometime.” And
she gathered the little waif close in her
motherly arms.
“Den me wait,” murmured the little
one, and in a few minutes was fast asleep
in her new home.
“Whatever am 1 to do with her,
mother? Of all things I detest an un
truthful child!”
“You are too harsh with her, my
dear. A frightened child will tell a lie,
nine eases out of teu, where the truth
would have done better. I used to think
I should never be able to bieak your
brother of that habit, though he is now
a deacon in the church and one of the
most pious men I know.”
“But she deceives me, mother and,
the other day I missed that little choral
pin of mine, and when I asked her for
it she denied all knowledge of it with
the utmost impudence, and then I found
it shut close in her little hand. One
can’t teach a child honor aud honesty
when they have common blood in their
veins. I believe thoroughly in heredi
tary virtue and the refinement of an un
broken line of noble ancestry.” Mrs.
Lee raises her head proudly, conscious
of that same noble line of ancestors for
herself.
“You can’t help a plum tree’s bearing
plums, mother: neither canyon help the
natural vices of the lower closes from
appearing in one of their own, however
much of an exception she may be in the
matter of looks,” she finished.
Her mother smiled,then looked grave.
“I do not by any means hold that the
circumstance of birth is responsible for
our little one’s faults, Augusta,” she
said. “In fact, your great grandfather
was a notorious —swiudler, my dear,
though, to be sure, he reformed and
lived a Christian life for many years be
fore he died. Because a man is noble
in name he is not necessarily noble in
nature as well. There are lords in hovels
and louts in palaces. Remember the
child’s constant associations, my dear,
and do not expect three months—gg
possibly, even three years, to entirely
eradicate the training in vice Bhe has al
ready received.
“Well, mother,l will give her another
trial,” replied the daughter reluctantly,
“though I had almost made up my mind
to send her back and let her take her
chances with the rest. If she gives me
any proof—that is, that she will improve
in time.”
Little feet pattered through the hall;
little hands fumbled at the door.
“Me’stum,” she announced, stopping
on the threshold. With the wonderful
intuition of childhood, she scented
danger of some kind, and retreated to
Mrs. Taunton’s chair.
“Tell grandma what makes Mabel such
a naughty girl?” said the latter, taking
her tenderly in her arms.
“Mabel dood, now,” protested the lit
tle one, nestling her cheek on Mrs. Taun
ton’s hand. “Mabel fordet, an’ deblack
man catch her an’ make her tell ’tories.”
This last with an evident appreciation of
her own imaginative effort.
“Augusta, how can you steel your
heart against her?” cried the elder lady,
gathering the little, satisfied mite close
and kissing the top of her curly head.
“I don’t, mother,” answered Mrs. Lee,
with tears in her eyes. “ I love her too
well, 1 am sometimes afraid. But ‘blood
will tell,’ you know, aud too much in
dulgence will be sure to spoil her. lain
afraid the responsibility will be too
much for me, and that I must send her
back in the end.”
The child slipped down from her
place and stood before Mrs. Lee with
folded hands.
“.Mabel be dood now.” slie said grave
ly. “Mabel love 'oo—don’t send Mabel
’way!” Her lip quivered ominously.
“Poor child,” said Mrs. Lee, moved
against her will. “No, Mabel shall stay
if she will bo good.”
The next afternoon the ladies left the
house to pay a promised visit, leaving
Mabel seated on the floor quietly engaged
with anew picture-book, with big Bruno
for company.
“ Es, Mabel be dood,” she said in re
ply to Mrs. Lee’s query, “ she loves oo.”
“Whatis your opinion now, Augusta?”
asked her mother as they walked along.
“Just what it always was, mother,”
replied Mrs. Lee, smiling. “There can
not but be a difference between a child
with the noble blood of generations in
her veins, and one with the inheritance
of the ignoble traits of as many genera
tions. Now, Elsie would have had as
great a horror of decit and dishonesty as
I have myself.” Mrs. Lee sighed deeply.
“But you must admit that there are
exceptions, Augusta.”
“Exceptions that prove the rule. No,
mother, it would take some stronger ar
gument than you ran produce, I am
afraid, to make me change my opinion.’’
It was dark when they reached home.
An excited servant met them at the door.
“The doctor said it must bn kept quiet,”
she whispered.
“What is it—what lias happened?”
cried both ladies in a breath.
At this moment the doctor made his
appeal ance.
“Will she die, Doctor?” asked Mn.
Lee, clutching at the railing for support.
“No, madam, no,” said the Doctor.
“She is not at all hurt—only frightened
a little. It seems you had told her not
to leave the room, and after the lamp
was lighted the dog ran against the table
and tipped it over. It didn't break the
lamp, hut the flame caught the muslin
drapery and when the servant returned,
after a short absence, she found the
child standing in the middle of the floor
crying for ‘Auntie,’ while the clog had
fled down stairs. She will be all right
by to-morrow.”
Mrs. 1 ee and and not hear this last assu
ranee, being already half way up the
stairs. Mrs. Taunton was not far behind
her.
“Auntie,” cried the little one. as Mrs.
Lee entered the room, “tan’t Mabel have
her owntv mamma now: Mabel was
dood—B’uno was bad doggie. I’lease,
aunty,” she pleaded.
Mrs. Lee held out her arms. “My
darling,” she said, “I will be your
mamma, your ‘ownty’ mamma. Say
‘mamma,’ darling,” sho cried, the tears
running down her cheeks.
“My ownty mamma? Mabel so happy
—Mabel so s’ccpy.” The blue eyes
closed and they left her sleeping with a
smile on her lips.
The servant met them in the hall.
“Please ma’am, there’s a poor body
to see you. I was sort o’ ’fraid o’ her,
. ma’am, and didn’t want to let her in,
1 but she said ’twas mportaut business.”
Mrs. Lee followed her down stairs.
“What can I do for you, my good
woman?” she asked,
“Ycr can’t do nothin’ fer me,” said
the woman, roughly, “but I kin do fei
you. Thar’s some elus what belongs
1 ter ye. They’re ycr young tin's. ”
“Mamina!” cried a little voice. “Me
i 'ants my new mamma. Oh!”
A child's scream of terror. “Bad
woman, send 'way. mamma! Mabel
’fraid.” She hid her face in Mrs. Lee's
‘ dress.
“Wha —what do you mean?’’ cried
she, breathlessly.
“I mean, mum, tiiet I stole er’ au'
then guv ’er away. 'Ere’s 'er things she
bed ou. Tlict's what I mean, mum—
she’s yer own. Good day, mum.”
The hardeued womau closed the door
softly behind Her, wiping a shame 1 tear
from her eve at thought of the picture
she had left in the hall behind her; the
figure of a sobbing woman kneeling on
tho cold stones, aud clasping close to
her thankful breast a little wondering
child.
“What do you think of your theory,
now, Augusta?” asked Mrs. Taunton,
when she had heard the whole story.
“I —I think I haven’t any, mother,”
she said, laughing through happy tears.
—Detroit Free Frees.
The Terrible Kansas Grasshoppers.
A New York Telegram reporter was
allowed a brief chat with a Kansas grass
hopper man recently. He said:
“That’s the kind of insect that de
vastated a good part of the South in
1874, aud spread famine far aud wide.
Talk about war uud paragraphers! They
can’t compete with grasshoppers. They
get in their fine work and can discount
everything outside of cyclones.”
The speaker held in his hand a little
box with a glass lid containing the
dreaded bug. It had red legs and plate
glass wings. It was killed ten years
ago.
“I kept it as a souvenir of the grass
hoppers of 1874. I lost every blessed
thing 1 had growing then, aud had one
of the best farms in Kansas. It was
one of the finest days of the year. We
were sitting on the stoop when my
Maria, a child of eight, said :
“ ‘Say, dad, look at that fnnny red
cloud with silver edges. It looks as if
it was alive. ’
“‘Sakes alive, so it does,’says the
hired man. Look how fast it moves.’
“.My wife grew frightened, too, and
the children huddled together closely.
A strange dread came over us all as we
, looking at the queer moving cloud. It
.came a whoopin’, making a big noise
and growing louder till it filled the
whole sky, although it was miles away.
It got black, but round the edges there
was a strange silvery flickering that was
mighty purty.
‘“Oh, horrors! it's grasshoppers!’said
my wife, who could see further than me.
“Sure enough, it was the grasshop
pers.
“They flew at race horse speed, and
soon we could see their red legs, and it
got as dark as night while they whirled
around above our heads and finally set
tled down a foot thick all over the farm.
My wife tuck the hysterics then and
tliar and cried like a child skeert to
death. Soon the hoppers began to
crawl among our feet anil we had to
club ’em off the stoop. Bushes and
trees broke under them with their
weight, and when you met the column
it divided on every side till you were
standing up to the knee in the living
mass. People met them with long clubs,
built barricades and fired among them
with guns, killing millions, but it was
only a drop in the bucket. Nothing
could stop them, aud at last people left
them alone. Freight trains were stuck
by ’em. One day they formed in column
and suddenly started ou their march.
They didn’t leave a single thing but the
fences and bodies of trees. The country
looked ns if it had lieeu in the hands of
an earthquake. They marched on
through Missouri and Arkansas till they
came to Texas, By that time the winter
was coming on and the heavy frosts
froze ’em solid. They had laid their
eggs, however, before they left and next
spring the fields were alive with young
hoppers. We killed carload on carload
of them, but the more we killed the
moic they multiplied. Every one was
in terror till the next harvest, when
suddenly they all rose and skipped thd
country and went South. It appear?
they never eat. the herbage where they
are born, but move to some other place
ou their work of destruction. The
third year more appeared, but the fourth
year we could not find one Then farm
ers got into the way of killing of grass
hoppers in the egg, and that settled
them.”
How lo Keep Cool.
Don’t get excited.
Bathe frequently.
Leave alcohol alone.
Don’t over feed.
If you must drink, drink slowly and
sparingly. It is the throat, not the
stomach that is dry.
Don’t drink large quantities of ice
water. Put oatmeal in it. Lemonade
is better still.
Keep your temper even.
Cold water poured on the wrist where
the pulse is. is cooling.
AVarm baths before going to bed open
the pores of the skin and induce perspi
ration.
Don’t get angry.
Don’t argue.
Don’t worry.
A contented mind can stand more heat
with less suffering than a fretful one.
Passionate men see everything like a
man standing on his head —-a very hot
position.
Don’t be chump enough to sweat for
fashion's sake.
Clothes light in color are the coolest,
as light goods reflect the sun's rays while
black absorbs them. —Philadelphia Call.
Leap Year.
We were sitting, after supper,
Tete-a-tete upon the stair.
With the gleam ot waxen tnpers
Falling gold upon his hair,
And Ins roguish eyes were downcast,
While upon his sunburnt cheek
The dash of red grew deeper.
Ca se voit. I had to sprak.
The strong, brown fingers trembled
As I held them fast in mine;
A shy, sweet glance made glad my heart
Like draughts of Gascon wine.
I kissed his unresisting lips.
And then, in keen delight,
He sighed : “I bet them ten to one
T?vat you’d propose to-night!”
NUMBER 42.
A K 1:33 FOR YOU AND ME.
Tl'ft veal’s are speeding by, my lova,
The years are speeding by,
And marks of age, they say, are there,
To mar the face to me so fair;
Let others see It, but not I
Will over find It so, my love,
Will ever find it so.
Tho years are going fast, my lore.
The years are going fast,
And many griefs have been thy lot
To make thee seem what thou art not;
Still dear to me, while life shall last,
Will be thy own sweet self, my love
Will lie thy own sweet self.
And though we twain should go, my love,
And though we twain should go
Along life's path still many years,
Or flower strewn or liathed in tears
’Twill ever be, we both do
A kiss for you and me, my loVe,
A kiss for you and me.
—New Orleans Picayune.
mil AND POINT.
Fun flows from the vein of humor.
Something uncanny—Over-ripe fruit.
The widow is the person who look*
out for number two.
Just now the favorite tune with tho
girls at the seaside is Neptune.
Engineers and baseball pitchers have
got to be acquainted with all the curves.
The liabilities of a dead failure must
generally amount up to a pretty stiff fig
ure.
Championship eating matches ought to
be for large steaks. —Rochester Fost Ex
press.
The difference between a striker and a
kicker is that the former SctoltY
times.— Dansville Frees-.
Iced coffee is said to be gaining ground
usa beverage. —Nashrille American. It
was settled Tong ago that coffee needs no
more grounds. Nets York World.
On the Atlantic,
Maiden :esthetic,
“ Oh! how romantic I™
Action—emetic.
— Ocean.
He had lent his stylographic pen to
direct an envelope. She: “Oh, doesn’t
it write beautifully? I declare I am in
love with this pen. ” • He: “ I am in love
with the holder." —New York News.
The biby rolls upon the floor,
Kicks up it s tiny feet,
And pokes his toes into Ins mouth,
Thus making both ends meet.
— Siftings.
“I look nice and cool, and the nectar I give
Itefreshes the multitude these torrid days;
But the fact is, although 1 help others to live,
1 find life a lizzie,'' the soda fount says.
—Boston Budget ,
Mr. Edison, the famous inventor, is
said to be immensely pleased with hit
new baby. He is now at work on an
ingenious electric apparatus which will
carry a baby’s squall noiselessly off and
dr< p it a mile or two from the house.—
When Belva takes her pretty place
To rule this mighty nation,
The cow will fly with ease and grace,
The mule have whiskers on his face,
The hog start conversation.
—Nebraska Journal.
It was on a Central Hudson tram
bound north, and he had been delivering
a learned disquisition upon the political
and financial outlook to a passenger in
the seat ahead. “My friend,” ho con
cluded, ‘ what is your opinion of gov
ernment bonds ?" Just then the whistle
sounded for Bing Sing, and his friend
replied; “I don’t think much of ’em,"
displaying a pair of handcuffed wrists;
“but I’ll have to say good-by, sir; this
is my station."— New York Sun.
A Russian Prison Kitchen.
We went to the prison kitchen, where
the dinner was i eing got ready for the
convicts, says a Russian correspondent
of the Full Mall Gazette. The smell of
the soup was fragrant and appetizing.
Great l-owls of boiled buckwheat stood
ready to be served and the reservoir of
soup was piping hot. I tasted both.
Buckweat is an acquired taste, but the
souj) was capital. It is served out in
wooden bowls, each containing a portion
for five, who sit round the bowl with
wooden spoons, helping themselves. In
the bakery wc found the great loaves of
rye bread all hot from the oven. In ap
pearance rye bread is like a dull ginger
bread, but in taste it has an acidity not
pleasing to the unaccustomed palate. The
Russians all eat it when at large and the
prison bread is quite as good as that you
get in private houses. I asked about
the dietary scale. I was assured by Mr.
Balomau and tho Governor that no re
striction is placed upon the amount of
food prisoners may consume. They had
as much bread as they cared to eat at
breakfast, at dinner and at supper. As
a rule the daily consumption of bread
did not extend two pounds per man.
There was no skilly. Quass, a kind of
thin beer, was supplied them, and this
again without limit as to the quantity.
Of the soup eaca man could have as
much as he pleased; also buckweat. The
only article which was weighed out was
meat. Every man received a quarter of
a pound of meat a day. They do not
weigh their prisoners in Russia on enter
ing and on leaving jail. That is a prac
tise which they might introduce with
ad van'age. Thete is no argument so
crushing to the assailants of the cruelty
of prison treatment as the evidence ol
avoirdupois—the statistic of increase of
weight which lias accompanied the al
leged privation and torture. And as
they do not weigh their prisoners neither
do they photograph them : neither do
they take impressions of their thumbs,
as is done in some French prisons.
Germ iny’s Ex-Em press.
Some of the ladies of the Court call
ing upon the late Empress of Germany,
as Crown Princess, shortly after her es
tablishment at Berlin; found her in het
drawing room on a step ladder with I
hammer in her hand nailing up sornt
lace curtains. Instead of being confused,
she was rather proud of it. She pul
white caps on the palace maids, cover
ing up thai hair whose display is a chiei
object in life to a German maiden. She
introduced oatmeal porridge as the in
variable first dish at breakfast, aud was
henceforth regarded as having insulted
the national cookery. Her three little
daughters once found a maid blackening
a grate in the study. They took brushes
and blackened the maid’s face and deco
rated her apron and dress in chiaros
curo. Their mamma made them beg the
maiden's pardon aud buy her anew
dres3 out of their own money, which for
Princesses Koval of Prussia was unheard
of and staggering. Their brother Will
iam would have gracefully told some
body to throw the maid into the river
and her to stay there till she got clean.
There is something even yet almost bar
baric in tlie absolute sovereignty of th<
ing in Prussia, and of this \\ iiiiam is
the choice exemplar. —New York Times.