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Surgeon and Physician, 1NMIL
CN DA It TO 11 *V, d A. I
-=fes« "J® Mill lift INSURAHCE tO,,
CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1875.
VOLUME II. NUMBER 22.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Till! public debt was reduced a^.tt
*ur millions during tltu month ol' (\-
Tm; l'nvdman- Dank at Washingt
*a» Commenced paying lo depositors t
wenty per cent, dividend decided
ouio i
I »r.N’. (Jaufiki.h say' that he intends
In move a repeal of the law increasing the
jM.Htaw upon newspapers a- soon as cou-
•pess li'v-omldos.
They lmve recently had the seventh
annual eat show in the Crystal Unlace.
I-ondon. The highest priced eat was cal
m'd bv its owner at *50,000, hut itdidn’t
get the first prize. "Tommy l)odd,” aged
nine years, valued at *500 was the win
ner. There wire over five hundred eats
exhibited.
Coffee drinker.-' will please remember
that the crop reports do not holdout any
eoiuforting assnram-es. A falling oil'has
Ihvii rejMirtisl all around. Of old lava
there i* a considerable falling off. Bio
shows a »till more marked diminution,
though there is some codec of the pre
vious crop left over. The islands near
Java show a decrease of about fifty per
cent, in prodtieliou.
lr is a significant fact that the grain
trade of New York law fallen off this year
18,772,510 bushel-? as compared with last
year, while the delivery at Haiti more Is
greater than last last. Philadelphia also
allows a gain. When our southern niil-
wav System is made wlmt it ought to he.
< harlesUm, Port lloval and Savannah will
export mute grain, Hour and meat than
-my other Atlantic cities
Vkoim.i: who wyRo letters will find in
struction in the met* shown in therejsirt
of the dead letter olfice last year. Some
LATEST NEWS SUMMA RY
norm.
The returns front nil palls of Missouri
slum tlutl tin* new constitution of that state
lias been adopted by a large majority.
The new cable between Key West and
Porto Basil lias been laid, and the second
cubic repaired and restored, making dupli
cate telegraphic rnmmnnicnlion with the
West Indias and South America.
Arrangements are lieing made for a
fast mail from Washington to New Orleans,
by the intlnenee of Senator Patterson, of
will pass through Pi
At la
* Will s
seven hours and a half between Columbia
and Washington.
A special from Virginia says building
is going on rapidly. The burnt side is dotted
with shanties. Work is plenty and wages
high. The people are recovering their
spirits, belief is coming in freely. As soon
as provisions and money have become plenty,
no more aid will be needed. The town will
l» • all right in a week or two. The Home
Mutual Insurance company, of this city, says
i dim itid at • 10>,0(X), and hits
cash available to pay in full. The t'oinmer-
$'V.,»HX), assets four hundred and seventy-
eight thousand. The relief movement is
on hoi
leaf tobanv
says: The
cable i
Immediate predecessor, though it will be
remembered with very different feelings. A
season of shrinkage and loss everywhere to
these engaged in handling the staple, it is in
striking contrast witli the buoyancy and pro
fits in trade which distinguished the former;
but if we incliidu the vast majority o£ our
population, and the large preponderance of
capital invested in cultivating tobacco, in
stead of buying and trading in it, the results
the
a ill fai
tliai
Idle
Hi n
ilensncss in directing. There
was taken mil of these letters the aston
ishingly huge sum of $1,500,001). All of
this was returned to its owners with the
exception i/f $-100,000, which remains as
H profit to the Po-t-office Department.
character. 'Ike successful crops and declin
ing pricus of 1875 a (lord better grounds for
congratulations than the ruined crops and
buoyant markets of Is71, hut as regards the
iiiiimct proper, nearly tne only agreeable
feature to which we can refer is the fact that
l/ouisville has continued to lead the van of
the primary markets of the world. There
has been a small crop to bundle, but she 1ms
controlled a larger proportion of that than in
former years.
En
, believed t
have l>een chid
in the organization of the whiskey ring
ut El. Louis, went Into court Tuesday,
■and, to the. dismay of his counsel, pleaded
guilty to all the counts in the indictment
against himself. Thorpe, a late store
keeper, iil.«o threw himsfclf on the mercy
of the court. This action is considered
»t St. Louis as the most significant epi
sode in the downfall of the once formid
able underground organization.
civ
the
muds, at I’hiladflohia.
A sale of real estate, amounting to
lots, ot New York, this week, showed a
neeiatioo of from 25 to 50 percent, within
in. The real estate pinch is almost
New York as anyw here In the conn-
s had
y, if i
t the -
A <• iMP.MMTivi: analysis of the public
debt statement published show- a de
crease in legal tenders during the last. |
month of #705.000. and in fractional cur
rency of $10”,000. The Treasury bal
ance increased nearly *11,000,000. The j
live-twenties of 1802 have disappeared j
from tie 1 interest bearing debt, having !
been absorbed by the new fives. The j
*10,000,000 of ISO l bonds called ill, leave I
but iilsnit *12,0110,000 of the new fivesl
not taken. There are alioul *8,000,000 j
of the new '(Ms -till outstanding, and j
they will Ik? called in Ix'forc the 15th
Says nn English paper: A sample of
condensed milk, weighing about one bun- [
hundred isnmds, wn* exhibited at the j
rooms of the Society of Arts, and an in-
tvre ting experiment made thereon. This I
prepared by Hooker', process. It had j
constant sire
ng through Mi
i Illinois and In
The Egyptian army has invaded Aliys-
A bit of revolution has broken out in
N'-w Grenada, South America.
'I'he ravages of the cult In disease in
England have been terrible. For the qtinr-
ter ending Oct. Id, there were over five hun
dred thousand cu-MS of disease, and tin
money damage w-> estimated at a million
dollars.
King Louis, of Bavaria, is not ashamed
idtramoiitam in (ho diet, lb- lias canned his
indorsement of their course to lie placarded
all over (lie kingdom, and has ordered p
t file bishop
permitting the archbishop of
three
quality was so excellent that in a few
minutes it was resolved, by churning,
into good fresh butter. This trial was
only one of a -cries made at the Interna
tional Exhibition,Smith Kensington, and
elsewhere. In each can* the same satis
factory result was obtained.
rob quantities
. Cuba. Tim r
foil load, mid
I pro
seque;
• the -a
• of the
desti
In .
i Ha
hundred and fifty thousand troops, it is
-urmisod that the provisions arc intended
for them. The cereals taken out include
rice and wheat in vast quantities, and
when the seven thousand more Spanish
troops land, it i- supjKised that the ex-
adsttiff- will L- doubled. Ail
p.rt
Ha
•rs which have r
Imve been pm
admit. The tie
rs. hilled to leav
ailed fo
•d as fa
books in the dark ag
them are recorded a,
o-ity, deserving perj:
Otto the king of X.
tual c
of signal t
humberland gave
of land for one lss»k containing
of the world. A countess of A n-
800 sheep and n large pared of
fora volume of homilies; 120
icre given for a single l*.ok of
'() crowns of gold for a Concord-
I 10 crowns for a satirical poem
loinauce of the Hose.’ n
Bible was valued at €.‘50, at
a time when two arches of London bridge
were built for less money ; at a time, too,
when t lie wages of a laborer were only
throe balf|snce a day, and when, of
railed the
oilld bA<
Bible.
L- could
try (there being !,'■ I'l l»iI Catliolies and 1,
.'t 12,51*2 Protestants), a large portion of th<
Catholic population L anti-ultramoiitaue, a
is evident from t'ne fact that this partv mil 1
has a majority of two in the diet.
The decree of the, Madrid government
ordering a general election to take place I.
rather farcical when placed in eonneetioi
graph, to the effort that the republican-, wil
not he allowed to hold electoral meeting.
It remain- to be seen what will he the ell'ee
of this order. ‘Die new cortex will e
.ill go through the
of
r of the lower
The new body
legalizing the
ate- that the
numerous places, among otliei
IV. Fm-ln, Odessa. Ria/ju. and ;
nine of the prisoners resisted, and one, lit-
eved to he a leader of the socialist n
is lit, defended hiliis-lf so desperately that
e had to be killed. The police are reported
nder the impression that they Imve st-iiek
low at the very stronghold and center i
ie movement, which will put nil effectual
A hand of Cheyenne Indians arc on tin
The direct United States cabin ha
en grappa
pled and buoyed, and the chance
it will soon again be in working order.
Extensive and destructive prairie fire
are raging in Southern Kansas along the lim
of the Ft. Seott railroad. The fire cnugli
from locomotives amt at last account hai
uwept over miles of country, destroying
houses, fenced and crops.
The |Kistnfiice department i - di
result of
and assista
onfoi
r giMU-rnl'VVm
expected that the s
ation by the first day of December.
Commissioner Smith, of the Indian
bureau, says tho Indians reported ns defeat*
ing our troops from Fort I laves, are a band
of between scvon!y-five and one hundred
Cheyenne warriors, who nearly a year ago
were declared outlaws belli by the bureau
agents and military authorities. They sur
rendered to the military last spring and were
placed upon the Cheyenne agency, but ran
ell one morning and regaining n quantity of
fire-arms wlituli they bad sderuted before stir-
rendering, fought the troops from behind
sand banks all ilitV altd itlatle good their
escape at night. They have proved to be
Imrd fighters, and the commissioner consid
ers it of great imporUiuee that they should
now he thoroughly whipped and subjugated.
The secretary of the treasury Ims Is
sued a call for the redemption of five million
coupon and five million registered ponds, a
total of ten million of the 5-20 bonds of 18(5-1
The bonds included in tills call are of tin* act
of dune 30, 18(5-1, as follows: t'oupon hands,
$50, No. 3,701 to 1,300, both inclusive; $100,
No. 12,001 to 17,200, both inclusive; $31 w,
No. 1,800 to 2,200, both inclusive; $1,000, No.
0.8,001 to .31,100, both inclusive. Total, live
millions: $ ,0, No. 151 to 370, llotll Inclusive ;
$100, No. 1,001 to 2,100, both inclusive ; $500
No. 751 to 1,000, both inclusive; $1,000, No,
l,t»0l to 8,350, both inclusive; $.1,000, No.
2,101 to 3,105, both inclusive; $10,000, No
1,001 to 0,000, both inclusive. Total, live
IM.mnnrck’s Plan for Strengthening; (ho
KnipiiT.
When, laat May, the (Icrnian papers
began to thunder against France, it was
difficult to Isdiove that the real Jupiter
was not the great Prince Bismarck liim-
self. At any rate, those shift- til the
(ierntau press, its sodden animations and
its sudden collapses, are quite in keeping
with tin* character of Prince Bismarck,
as it is being gradually revealed to his
contemporaries. Eeclilv conscious of
the greatness of his ability, ami of the
eminence of the position whit'll he has
won, violent bv nature, a hitler hater,
indifferent to the claims of friends or de
pendent*, contemptuous of the roles by
which ordinary people restrain mind mid
Uxly, and haunted by the thought that
assassination or disease may cut short
an astonishing career, he leads, and
loves to lea*I, a tempestuous life. He
has always a lluummid schemes mi hand
a thousand irons in the lire, lie longs
to use for great purposes the enormous
machinery at his disposal, and finds in
the quiet routine of Herman polities in
sufficient room fur its action. Like Alex
ander, lie does not feel quite himself un
less he has a new world to conquor. (>n
till? other hand, he has a singular width
of political grasp. He sees European
l»olities a- a whole, and forbears from
ruining great corporations in order to
gratify temporary and trivial freaks, lit?
has also a curious renditions to accept
compromise, and is perfectly willing to
get what he ran rather than get nothing.
When he is beaten lie does not trouble
himself, lie merely sets himself to work
at something els-, lie Ims only taken
one of his thousand irons out of the lire
and found it colder than lie expected.
Last May he thought the iron of a new
French war was hot ; hill he found ho
was mistaken, and put it hack again.
Helms too much confidence in himself
not to believe that the next time he
tries an iron lie may Ik? more lucky. It
is not surprising that a presswliifh has to
rolled the changing sentiments and pro
ducts of such a mind should he somewhat
hazy, a speckled mid uncomfortable sort
of mirror.
Since the close of the French war
(Jcrmmiy has been going on, in some
■spoi
power
bee
Cllglll,
■ SS diduted
•onipmod with that of Aus
tria or l' ranee, is fur greater than in 18(5(5
or 1870. It Ims done what its former
rivals merely proposed to do. Enormous
sums and unrivaled military skill li.ve
Ih'oii freely expended on the perfecting of
fortresses. Mel/., Btrusbiirg mid Elm
bristle with new works on the most mag
nificent ami extensive scale. The Her
man artillery is now as much superior to
the Herman artillery of 1870 as tin* Her
man artillery of that date was superior to
llm artillery of France, 'flic reserves of
the army have been largely augmented
and made more easily available, and tho
aniiv is really more popular with the
people. The army and the jieoplearc felt
to lie one, ami the men present at the
Silesian niano'uvres have been treated as
the guests, not the incumbrances,of those
on whom they were quartered. Hreat
1 ionic
Is- successful must be national. Even in
Bavaria, which of all parts of Uernmny is
least within the national fold, there is a
growing feeling that it is of no use to
think of resisting Uermmiy and Bis
marck, and that the lot which has fallen
to Bavaria mu-I In- accepted. In Alsace
itself, time ami despair are working for
Ucrmany. The population i- rapidly
netting over the pang of separat ion from
France. It is the acquiescing in the ne
cessity of being Herman, ami to retain
French sympathies is beginning to be
regarded by the mass of people as one of
the luxurious fancies of the rich. Last
ly, the church question haft not produced
so much internal discord as might ha
been expected. It has, no doubt, excit
much painful feeling. In some districts
the j tower of the priests is unbroken, am
many Hermans who approve of the gen
eral tenor of the ecclesiastical laws think
that they have been shajied and executed
with needless and imprudent rigor. But,
on the whole, the Herman notion of the
state, and a passion for a united Uer-
inany, have a stronger control over the
general mind than ecclesiastical sympa
thies. The Hermans of the present day
have not, indeed, many of the qualities
which make ecclesiastical martyrs. They
think it unnatural to resist the state as a
red Indian would think it to wear even
ing clothes. They have Ix-en tortured
into acquiescence from their cradles, and
what the lav.- orders and tin- police en
force they accept l/nulnn ttitiwbnj U>-
crluln I toil >
-• W i ll us lituitl tin
world toilti doin'
rv,| yo you lip a
And hold t
Hut |dn
'ton? ol Hold.
ioiikIi ot shilling hiiiII,
ll|o|>0
ii not'l I vo on'yol low diliT ’
ilvod with |inror ihliiji*,
«• who I'llivs up \vixi 1111 iiloiio
of ion Imve to -land
tils colter elicit, and own ■ «
" hullt 111hiii llio Nilul. " -
od to H|H<nk tn friendly gult*o
a . i ll should hind tIn* hiiiiiaii mind,
love link limn to mini.
Kill . toll Mot II
'* ioeds w ........
>' who pities NlnmtlK birds,
The
Lit ilissls with lntinuaijr
lie One wl
Hhotild s.
<1 a lieiptllg hand,
TUB TWO NEIGHBORS,
One evening as the twilight was dusk
ing into deeper shades, Farmer Weltnn
stood in his doorvard, with a gun in his
hands, and saw a dog coining out from
his shed. It was nut his dog, for his was
of a light color, while this Was surely
black.
The shed alluded to was open in front,
with double dours for the passage ol
carts, mid a wicket for pedestrians at the
back; ami this shed Was part of a coil*
llllttotls stt'lieltire eoilfitR'lliig the barn
with the house. Around back of this
house was the. sheep-fold.
There had been trouble upon fanner
Wi lton’s place. Dogs had been killing
Ids sheep mid some of the very best til
flint, lie had declared, in his Wrath,
that lie would shoot Ihe first stray dog
lie found prowling around his premises.
On this evening, bv chance, ho had been
carrying his gnu front the house to the
barn, when the canine intruder appeared.
Aye, mid in the htlrii lie had been taking
Ihe skin from a valuable sheep which had
been killed and mangled with tigerish
ferocity.
So, when he saw (.lie strange dog com
ing through his shed, lie brought the gnu
to his shoulder, mid, with quick sure
aim, fired. The dug gave a leap and a
howl, and having
r thro
In a tangent, yol pi
soon lost fo sight.
"Hallo! what’s
that
vItIskcd around
limes, he bounded of!
g painfully, and was
' Ye
Bee
shuntin' somethin,’ iiint
" I’ve shot a dog. I think.'*
" Ye. o-h. I seed him seootin off. It
was Brackett's, I reckon.”
Before the farmer could make, any fur
ther remark, his wife railed to him from
flu* porch, and he Went In.
Very shortly afterward a hoy and a girl
came out through the shed, as (lie dog
had canto. Down hack of Wei ton’s farm,
distant half a mile, or so, was a saw mid
grist mill, with quite a little Hottlomont
around it ; mid people having occasion
to go on foot from that section to the
farms on the hill could cut off a long dis
tance by crossing Wclton’s lot. The
boy anti girl were children of Mr.
Bracket!. When they reached home
they were met by a scene of dire confu
sion. Old Carlo, tlm grand old New
foundland dog l lie loving mid tin- loved
the trill* and the faithful Imd nunc
homo shot through the head, mid was
dying. The children throw themselves
upon their shaggy mate, mid wept and
moaned in agony.
Mr. Brackett arrived just jih the dog
breathed his last. One of flic older boys
stood by with a lighted lantern - -for it
had grown iiiiite dark now and the
farmer saw what hud liuppe
ingly
‘Who did this 7” lie asked, groai
' But i
lie
Og
r killdt
sheep-
ill? down there?”
" fie went over to the, mill with Sis
and me,” said the younger boy, sobbing
jih In* spoke; "mid he was running on
ahead of ih toward home. I heard a gun
just before we got to .Mr. Wclton’s, but
oh! I didn’t think lie could have shot
poor ('itrlo J”
Mr. Brackett was fairly beside him
self. To say lie was angry would not
express it. He loved tluit doe—if had
been the chief pet of his household for
years, lie was not a mini in the habit
cut
fierce oath
id they bad be *u friends, loo. Belwc
the
of love
j families the
•d
bond
nd it spirit of
fraternal kindness and regard had
marked their intercourse. Both the
farmers were hard-working men, with
strong feelings and positive, characterist
ics, They belonged to the same religious
,-oeiety, mid -vnipalhizcd in polities.
They bad bad Warm discussions, but
never yet a direct falling out. Of'the
two, Wei ton wa- the more intellectual,
and, perhaps, a little more tinged with
pride than was liis neighbor. But, the
were both hearty men, enjoying life for
the good it ga
Mr. Welton entered his kitchen, and
stood the empty gun up behind the door.
" What’s tlio matter, John ?” his wife
asked, ft« she saw his troubled face.
" I’m afraid I’ve done a bad tiling?”
lie replied regretfully. " I fear I have
shot Brackett's dog.”
“ ()h, John!”
“ But I didn’t know whoso dog it, was.
I saw him coming out from the shed—it
was too dark to see more than that it was
a dog. I only thought of the sheep I hud
lost, and I fired.”
" I am sorry, John. O, how Mrs.
Brackett and the children will feel. They
set every thing by old Carlo. But you
<:*?(>
Ye,
;pla
Mr. Wei to
mug
his barn with a lighted lantern
Ins hand, lie was thinking of the re
cent Unfortunate occurrence, mid was
surely worried and perplexed. What
would his neighbor say? He hoped
there might be no trouble. lie was
relli'ctlng thus when Mr. Brackett ap
peared before him, coming up quickly,
and stopping with an angry stamp of the
foot.
Now there may he a volume of electric
influence even iti the stamp of a foot, and
there was such an influence in the stamp
which Brackett gave; and Welton It'll,
it, and braced himself against it. There
was, moreover, an atmosphere exhaling
from the presence of the irate man at
ionee repellaul nud aggravating.
% .lohn Welton! you have shot mv
The words were hissed forth
I Welton, icily.
How dared you do it?”
I dare shoot any dog that comes
• l! 1 buildings, especially
ly sheep killed by
kvlieu I hllV
ttheni.”
“ But my dog never troubled your
sheep, and you know it.”
" I low should I know it?”
" You know that he never did harm to
a sheep. It wasn't in his nature. It was
a moan, cowardly act, and (an oath) you
jfhull sutler for it!”
" Brackett, you don’t know to whom
you are talking.”
"Oho!” (another oath) "We'll find
out! We’ll see! Don’t put on airs,
John Welton. You ain't a saint. I’ll
have satisfaction, if I have to take it out
".Peter, you’d lietter go homo and cool
off. You aro making yourself ridicu
lous.”
’ Now, really, this was the unkimlest
cut of all. Not all the mad words of
Brackett pul together Were so hard as
this single sentence; and John Welton
put all the hitter sarcasm of the com
mand into it.
Brackett hurst, forth into a torrent of
invectives, mid then turned away.
Half alt hour later John Weltnn ac
knowledged to himself that he had not
done exactly right. Had lie, in the out
set—In answer to Bracket I’s first out
burst-told the simple truth that he
Imd shot the dog by mistake; that 1m
was sorry ; and that he was willing to do
anything in his power to make amends
- lin'd lie done this, his neighbor would
probably have softened at once. But it
was too late now. The blow had been
struck; he had been grossly insulted;
and lie would not hack down.
Mr. Brackett was not so much reflec
tive. lie only felt his wrath, which ho
nursed to keep it warm. That evening
he hitched his horse to a job-wagon anil
went down to the village after a barrel
of flour. Having transacted his store
business, he calico upon Liilmit Pepper,
a U?wyer,-Jo whom he narrated the facts
of the shooting of Ids dog.
Pepper was a mail anxious for fees,
lie had no sympathy or soul above that.
" You snv your dog was in company
with t wo ol'yotir children ?”
" And Ibis passage over Mr. Wclton’s
land, mid thi'oiigli Ids shod, lias been
freely yielded by him iih ii right of way
to Ids neighbors'/”
"Then, i
liable. 11-
will step in
suit toninici
Mr.
•I at <
sir, Welton iH clearly
II with me, we
larllold’tt and have a
rfield was the trial iustico.
All this happened on Friday evening.
On Saturday it Imd become noised
abroad in the* farming district that there
was not only serious trouble between
neighbors Welton and Brackett but that
they were going lo law about it.
On Sunday morning John Welton
told Ids wife he would not attend church.
She could go if she liked. She had'no
need to jihIc her husband why he would
not go out. She knew he was unhappy,
and that he could not hear to meet nis
old neighbor in the house of Hod while
the dark cloud was upon him. Nor did
she wish to meet either Mr.or Mrs. Brack-
hot Ii stayed at homo.
• Brackett -
able than John Welton, though perhaps
lie did not know it. lie held m close
companionship the very worst demon a
limn can embrace the demon of wrath
ful vengeance; mill in order to maintain
himself at the. strain to which he Imd set
Ids feelings, he was obliged to nurse the
monster, lie did not attend church on
that day, nor did Ids wife. Two or three
times during the calm, beautiful Sab
bath, as lie glanced over toward his
neighbor’s dwelling, in? found himsell
beginning to wish that he Imd not gone to
see John Welton in such a heat ol anger;
but lie put the wish away, mid nursed
hack Ids wrath.
On Monday, toward noon, the consta
ble. nunc up from I lie village, mid read to
John Welton mi ini|Kising legal document.
It was a summons issued by Win. Unr-
lleld, Esq., a justice of the. peace, mid
quorum, ordering the said John Welton
to appear before him, at two o’clock, on
Wednesday, Jit his office, then and there
to answer to the complaint of Peter
Brackett, etc. The ollicer read the sum
mons, and left with the defendant n
copy.
11 wa
ever bet
first lie
mile
first time John Welton hud
upon to fact? the law. AI
id asked him wlmt it
trickcn, and then lie
Id himself tlmt ho would
light it to the hitler cm
tried to nurse his wrath,
unhappy than before.
On Tuesday evening, Parson Surely
called upon Air. Welton. The good i
lin'd heard of the trouble, and was exc
ingly exercised in spirit. Both the i
were of his flock, and he loved and
speeied them both. He snt liown alone
with Welton, '
meant.
"Tell me calmly mid candidly all aljout
it," lie said.
After a little reflection, Mr. Welton
told the story. He knew the old clergy
man for a true man and whole-hearted
friend, and lie told everything just
understood it.
"Ami neighbor Brackett thinks
now, that you shot the dog knowing it
"I suppose
"If you imd told him the exact facts
in the beginning, do you tiling he would
have held his anger?”
'This was ji hard question for John Wel
ton,* but. he answered it. manfully.
‘■Truly, parson, I do not think he
j,\"Wore you over more unhappy it
your life than you have boon since (hi
trouble on me?”
"I think not.”
"And, if possible, neighbor Bracket 1
more unhappy than you.”
■ think s
lie is
most angry and
and tlien the parson re
vengeful.
A brief j:
stimed:
" Brother Welton, with you are
needed hut few words. You are a stronger
man than brother Brackett. Do you
not believe ho Ims a good heart? ”
" Yes ”
" I wish you 'could show him how true
and good your heart is.”
" Parson! ”
" 1 wish you could show him that you
.possess true Christian courage.”
" Parson, wlmt do you mean?”
"I wish you had the eon rage to meet
him and conquer him.”
" How would you have me do it?”
" First, conquer yourself. You are not
offended ?”
"No. Ho on.”
And thereupon the good old clergy
man drew up his arm chair and laid his
hand upon his friend’s arm, and told him
just what he would have him do. He
spoke earnestly, and with tears in his
" Brother Welton, have you the heart
and courage to do this?”
The farmer arose and took two or
three turns across the floor; and finally
he said:
" I will do it I ”
On the following day, towards the
middle of the forenoon, Peter Brackett
stood in his door-vard with his head
bent. He was thinking whether he
should harness Ids horso and ho off be
fore dinner, or whether he would wait
until afternoon, lie could not work; he
could not even put his ntlml to ordinary
chores.
" I wonder,” he said to himself, " how
the trial will come out! I s'pose Welton
’ll hire old Whitman to take his case.
Of course the olfice ’ll ho crowded. Tom
Frost says it’s noised everywhere, and
that everybody Ml bo there. Plague take
it! I wish-—”
His meditations were interrupted I*,/
approaching steps, and on looking up lie
beheld neighbor Welton.
" (loud morning, Peter.”
Brackett gasped, and finally answered:
" < loud morning,” (hough ratiier crustily.
Welton went on, frankly and pleas
antly :
" You will go to the village to-day?”
" I s’pose so.”
" I have boon summoned by Justice
Otirfiold lo ix? there, also; hut really,
Pclcr, 1 don’t want lo go. One of us
will ho enough, (larfluhlisa fair man,
and when he knows the facts ho will do
\tlmt is right. Now, you can staff) them
as well as I can, and whatever his decis
ion is, I will ahido by it. You can tell
him llml I shot your dog, and tlmt your
dog had done mo no harm.”
"Do you acknowledge tlmt old Carlo
never harmed you- -tlmt lie never troub
led your sheep?” inquired Brackett,
with startled surprise.
" It was not his nature to do harm to
anything. I am sure lie would Imve
sooner saved one of my sheep llmii have
killed it.”
"Then what did you shoot him for?”
"Tlmt is wlmt I was just coming at.
" Peter. You will tell the Justice that
I Imd lost so ve nil of my hestshcop—killed
by dogs—tlmt I Imd just boon taking Ilia
skin from a I'at, valuable wether that Imd
been so killed and mangled—-tlmt I was
on my way from my Imrn to my house,
with my gun in my hand, when I saw a
dog come out from my slictl. My first
thought was tlmt ho Imd come from my
sheep-fold. It was almost dark and I
could not see plainly. Tell the Justice
I Imd no idea it was your dog. I never
dreamed that I Imd tired Hint cruel shot
at old Carlo until Tom Frost told me.”
"How? You didn’t know it was my
ilol!?"
" Peter, Imve you thought so Imrd of
mi 1 as to think tlmt I could knowingly
and willingly Imve harmed tlmt grand old
dog? I would sooner have shot one of
shown tlmt diluted sulphuric acid taken
internally is a valuable prophylactic. Al
kaline foods are, on the contrary,
favorable to the contraction and spread
of tin? disease. Tho points which are
here given in brief are very thoroughly
and clearly elaborated by Dr. Wood-
worth, ami the pamphlet deserves the
attention of medical men.
my own oxen.
“ But, you didn’t tell
Why didn’t you?"
" Because you i
suddenly—”
" (), pslmw !”
stamp of his foot.
at first.
I, out J
it ■
you so like a ho
lied Brackett, with a
" Why don’t you spit
Say I came down on
iet that von hadn't it
I was a blamed fool J--
banco to think,
that’s wlmt F was.”
"And I was another, Peter; If I
hadn’t been I should have told you the
truth at once, instead of Haring up. But
we will understand it now. You can sco
the Justice—”
“Justice be hanged !-John - Dang
-loot's
it nil! what’s the*
end it so!”
From her window Mrs. Brackett imd
seen the two men come together, and she
trembled for tho result. By and by she ” (
saw her husband, as though Hushed ami h
excited, put out his hand. Mercy! was
he going to strike bin neighbor? She
was ready to cry out with affright—the
ry was almost ii|ton her litis—when she
beheld a scene that (tailed forth rejoicing
instead. Ami this was wlmt she saw:
Elio saw these two strong men grasp
one another by tho hand, and she saw
big, bright tears rolling down their
checks; and she knew that the fearful
storm was passed, mid that the warm
sunshine of love and tranquility would
come again.
The History of fMiolera.
The causes and prevention of cholera
arc well set forth in a report on the chol
era epidemic of 1878, by Supervisor
Surgeon Woodworth, which has just been
published by the United States Treasury
Department. Dr. Woodworth claims it
to lie an established fact that cholera b
occasioned by the access of a specific
poison to the alimentary canal, which ih
developed s|>ontnncouHly in Hindustan.
As far jih the world outside of that
country is concerned, the jhmkoii is con
lamed in the ejections of the sick. Tin
poison may Ih: communicated through
tin: air or through food and drink. Acids
are the best antidote to the poison, and
may be contained in water or soil, n
atmospheric gases, and the secretions ol
the stomach. This may also be artificial
ly, administered, and experience has
The llaiiging-Ganlcns of Haliyhm.
Our pretty hanging-baskets, with their
suspension-wires completely draped indel
icate-climbing ivies and standing mosses,
with (heir masses of beautiful trail
ing plants, (trooping grasses, vincas,
mimosas, musk-scouted ami covered with
brilliant golden flowers, though liliputian
in size, are literally Imnging-gamlens.
But, even should they he made a million
times larger, their plan is so utterly dif
ferent, that they could never suggest tho
faintest notion of the hanging gardens of
Babylon, aiioiil tho very name of which
there is a ring of pootfo grandeur and a
flavor of oriental magnilicence. They
were literally paradises or pleastire-gar
dens. Xenophon mentions those of Bele
sis, governor of Syria; and such iih he be
held them, apparently, wo find them de
scribed by Umirdin and other modern
travlers. 'The hanging-gardens of Hnb-
lyon were limply a very costly variety
of tho paradise, such as only princely
wealth could a fiord. ’The orgm is attrib
uted to Hem Irani iH by some; others say
that lhey were invited by a king of Syria
to elmrm the melancholy of one of his
wives, of Persian origin, who sighed to
behold again tho verdant mountains <ol
her native land. Strabo and Didorns
Siculus have written about these famous
hanging-gardens, Philo of By/.anliiim.
and many others. 'They were called
Imuging-gardons, doubtless, because of
the huge branching palms and other
trees, overhanging the balustrade on tho
summit of tho high walls that inclosed
tho paradise. These walls were about
one hundred and thirty feet long on each
of tho four sides, twenty-one feel thick,
and fifty cubits high, or over ninety-one
feot nccording to the Hebrew cubit; by
the Roman or by tho English cubit, a
little less. Around tho intoror on all
sides, rose terrace above terrace to tho
number of twenty, tho top one resting on
the outer walls, ami even with tho bal
ustrade. 'Tho terraces were upheld by
immensely strong galleries, whoso ceil
ings wore termed of hewn stones sixteen
foot long and four feet wide. Resting on
these stones was a layer of reeds, mixed
with a great quantity of asphalt, and on
this was a doulile floor of Ii re-dried bricks
laid in mortar; finally, a floor of lead
plates to prevent any moisture from
penetrating the foundations of tin ter
races, the soil of which rested directly on
the leaden floor, and was of sufficient
depth to hold and nourish trees fifty feet
high,.and thousands pf rare plants culled
from fill parts of the known world. All
these wore kept in a perennially flourish
ing condition, we are informed, by water
raised from tho Euphrates through the
aid of machinery coneoiilcd from view in
rtain rooms made in tin* galleries. The
galleries also contain many royal apart
ments, variously decorated and fur
nished. Decently lighted they could
not Imvo been; hut one can easily im
agine that a walk around these upper
terraces on a fine moonlight night, senses
harmed by soft music and by wave of
perfume rising from tho wilderness of
flowers and shrubs below, in’-st have
cnclHSiting.—Marie J lowland.
A Little'Romance.
article in the Builder on Miss
Milford and her pretty cottage at Bead
ing, tho following pretty story is told:
Nor can you have forgotten how " a
whimsical experiment in legislation,”
making a preliminary visit to Swallow-
field C’ottngo essential to all the inhabi
tants ol " Our Village” who wore aliout
to murrv, introduced many a blushing
belle and awkward beau to the notice of
tho inhabitants. Tho romantic story of
llniiniih was probably the most striking
of all tho village love stories with which
that little old cottage thus became asso-
.iated. One morning tho limping parish
lerk introduced to the little hail on u
matter of business in tho matrimonial
way a pair of lovers; he a fine handsome
athletic young man, holding the hand of
his young woman, " who, with her head
jiiilf buried in a geranium in tho window,
turning bashfully away.” Miss Mil
ford was crossing tho hall; " tho shrink
ing grace of that bonding figure was not
to be mistaken.” She cried in surprise,
'Hannah!" and, with u woman’s eager
uriosity and interest, at once took tho
pretty, lady-like village girl aside to hear
love story. It wits very short. 'The
young man, who said he was it journey
man natter, Imd come to “.Our Village’
to sec the cricketers, whom Dr. Milford
took delight in patronizing. He saw
I.liiiiiitili, and came again. Hiinmih’s hard
working, widowed mother liked him; in
fnet, ns lliinimh gushingly said, "every
body liked Iter William,” and so she was
'oing to— " Was it wrong?” she anxious-
y asked. “Certainly not,” wits the em
phatic response. William had expressed
a fear lest Hannah should find Ins poor
home in some narrow street or lane, in
Beading a sad exchange for her cottage
home at Three-Mile Cross; hut, said
Hannah, “Ho little thinks, any whore--”
and broke off, finishing with a clasping
of tho pretty hands and blushing of the
soft cheeks, f ur more eloquent than words.
You remember the rest of that romantic,
lovostory,how tho “Journeyman” turned
out to ho the son of a “Great Ilatter,"
who lived in tho market-place of Read
ing, and hud much wcilth; and how,
when Miss Mitford visited the happy
blushing bride in that town, she found
her so prettily quaint and awkward as
tho mistress of one of the beat houses in
Reading, with fine servants, fine furni
turo, fine clothes, fine gardens, and more
money than "she knew wlmt to do with.
A touching little story that, perfectly
true, and, one fairly belonging to tins
little old house.—Daily Graphic
A Belgian has invented a machine by
which the movements of the vocal organs
in speaking are mechanically recorded.
It is placed in juxtaposition to the tongue,
larynx, or lips, and it is not necessary to
speak aloud. Tho writing consists o«
dots and dashes.
Kkiioi.enk and powdered lime, whit
ing or wood ashes, will scour tins with
the least labor.