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CEDARTOWN RECORD. W, S, D. WELLE & CO., Proprietors, CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1870. VOL HI. NO. 18. TIMELY TOPICS. LATEST NEWS. The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians will not allow nogro children to attend their schools. Colk YoUNonn, one of tho rufliuns of the bank robbing gang who lecently came to grief in Minnesota, has written a letter, in which he says: “ I am proud to say we were raised by religions pa rents and attended Sunday school regular in our boyhood, and, too, bad charge of a bible-cl&ss while in Texas, at Seyuo, Dallas county. I have ever respected Christianity. I have known the right, and indorse it. I condemn the wrong, but yet the wrong pursued me.” Tin: excess of unmarried women should l*e diminished, if philanthropy and sound political economy are capable of grappling with the evil. There aio two ways of solving the difficulty. One is an c<|ualir.ation of tho sexes by means of (be aiiled emigration of surplus women to now settlements. Gov. Slade's down cast school mistresses married so rapidly after going west that their successors were put under two thousand dollar 1 wilds to remain single for three years. In many cases this proved no obstacle to impotuous wooers, who paid tho pecu niary forfeit that they might l*e united to the object of their affection. The same thing is going on every day in New Zealand. I UK problem of feeding the young and p.or physiologically is not easy, but is simple if considered from the scientific P°*nt of view. That the bulk of the food of the i>ooior classes must always Ih> bread is unquestionable. l»ens, lieaua and other like leguminous plants, how- i alhi ed to "dully compote with bread : first, l*ecause they require steep ing in water and boiling for hours--next, they become hard so easily, and then are indigestible, while at all times they are not so easy to l*e digested as bread. Hut bread ianot so good a food as meat—and here chemistry comes in, and shows that bread soaked in broth made from extract of meat is as good food nM the tost meat diet. Indeed, the most eminent chem ists and physiologists arc now agreed in the opinion that, when people will use more of such simple vitalising extract, and a litib* less ton, for their strength end health, they will bo willing todis- rise with the present artifices of cook ery as numberless ns they are useless. Thk centennial exhibition will, judg ing from present indications, prove to bo ihe most successful of any international exhibition. Last Saturday was the one hundred and fifteenth clay. At that time -1.071 ;*tlit paying visitors Imd been present. The Vienna exhibition was ojMjn one hundred and eighty-six days ami the totnl number ol paying visitors only reached 3,492,622. The Vienna pro ceeds at the gate were $1)1)4,02ft.25 while ut Philadelphia on Saturday, $1,884,584 had already lieen received—a sum nearly douhlo the Vienna Income. The non- paying visitors nt the centennial exhibi tion down to Friday last numbered 1 8,509, making a total attendance of 5,139,822 in the one hundred and fifteen days. At London in 1850 there were 0,039,195 visitors in one hundred and forty-one days; in 1802, 0,211,103 inonc hundred and seventy-one days, and at Paris in 1807, 8,805,069 in two hundred and seventeen days. The receipts at Paris were *2 203,075. The recepts at Philadelphia already approximate this min, and there still remains thirty-one exhibition days.—N. Y. Tribune. Fell o we ra II 's Four-Mile. Beaten. Her MOUTH ANII WMT. James Lick, the San Francisco million aire, died, lie hnd become famous for his magnificent public donations and his eccen tric revocations of bis various trust deeds and changes of trustees to carry out his be quests, which amounted to five or six mil lions of dollars. A bale of seed cotton has been shipped to Liverpool from New (•Means. It neighs nine hundred and fifty-five pounds, but is pressed to Ihe sixo of an ordinary bale. It was put up at Natohcx, and the Democrat of that place presumes tlmt “the objeet of the experiment is to obtain for the shipper the advantage of the great difference in the market value of tho seed in England and here. If the experiment proves to bn profit able, we may expect to sec n>large increase in the tonnage from New Orleans, and, as planters will persist in soiling their seftl in stead of using it at home, their profits on this part of their crop will probably he con siderably Increased.” rUHKIUM, M. A. Houilet, tho French ]Nililical economist, has made calculations as to the increase of population in European countries from I860 to 1870, and finds that Nervin conics first, after which follows Russia, Sw.tz crlatid, Norway, 1'rusain, Great Britain, Denmark, Saxony, Holland,Baden, Wurtem- burg, Austiia ami Hungary, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Italy, Bavaria, Boumania, Portugal, and Inst of all France. The admiralty hnx a letter from Allan Young, commander of the steamer Pandora, making a voyage to South Sound to bring to England dispatches deposited there by tho Arctic expedition under Cnpt. Nitres. It an nonnccs his arrival nt Upper Narim on the 18th of July, lie reports all well on hoard, and miys he would proceed northward on July 19. The winds during the sunnier had outhw id we > then Wednesday^.Sept. 27, will long 1h> memorable in the annals of the Amer ican turf, ns the day on which the renowned racehorse Ten Broeck achieved his great performance of beating Fellow- i craft’s four mile record of 7:194, which was the fastest time that distance had ever I been run in. The l/iuisvillr> Jockey club had offered a special purse of $1,000 frtr any horn* l>eating that record, and two hornes, Mr. F. It. Harper’s Ten Broeck, four years old, by imt>. Phaeton, dam Fanny Holton, and Mr. D. .1. ('rouse' • Add, lour year old,by Revolver, dam .Skylight, each carrying one hun dred and four pounds, started. How Ten Broeck successfully accomplished the great feat, wiping out Fellowcraft’s record of 7:194, and installing in i*s place bis own imperishable record of 7:15}, is fully described in another column. Twenty-one years before Mr. Ten Broeck had matched the world-re nowned Islington, for twenty thousand dollars, to beat Ix*comptc’s four-mile time of 7:2»i, and on the Metaire course, at New Orleans, the great sou of Boston inscribed 7:19} on the record. For a period of nineteen years this time , stood unequaled on the record, when Fellowcraft, his own grandson, eclipsed it at Saratoga, by running four mile* in 7:19$. It must nave been a source of in tense gratification to that veteran sportsman, Mr. Ten Broeck, who years ago figured so prominently on the Amer- can turf, to see a horae named in compli ment of himself, and aired by n stallion he himself imported, achieve this won derful perfornfflncc. Ten Broeck and his rider, Walker, have covered them- • selves with undying honor by this achievement; nor must Ten Broeck’s rival and companion, Add, be forgotten, ahhoueh he failed to accomplish the task which Ten Broeck so sucre a* fully performed. fore not calculated to clear Ihe ice from Melville hay, but ns far u* visible from Up. per. Nnvik the sen was clear. There was no news of the Arotlc expedition. The statistics presented by Prof. Vir chow, of Berlin, at the recent anthropologi cal congress in .Iona, upset the popular no tion thnt a majority of the German people arc blondes. < lie showed tlmt in the central regions of North Germany about one-third of the school children are blonde, in Prussia thirty-five per cant, and in Bavaria only twenty per cent. The population grows darker southward. Of the (icrumii Jews MISH'VSI.LANKOVN. The comptroller of the currency has called for reports from the National banka showing their condition at the close of bus iness on Monday, the 2d inst. Orders havo been issued-by the post- ollicc department to-day for weighing the mails dully for thirty working days, from November B on tho Eiie, New York Central, and the Luke Shore and Michigan southern railroads, with a view to the readjustment of their pay under the Inst appropriation act, and to ascertain precisely what changes in their respective services linve been caused liy the discontinuance of the fast mail system. The comptroller of the curioncy haw decli red a dividend of ten per cent in favor of the creditors of the First National bank of Mansfield, Ohio, and a dividend of the same amount in favor of the creditors of the First National hank of Anderson, Ind. This dividend makes a total of forty-five per cent, to the creditors of the Mnnslkdd hank, and twenty-five percent, to those of the Ander son bank. The totul coinage at the mints during .September was $7,000,000, including $4,500,- 000 in gold coin, $500,000 in trade dollars, and $2,000,000 in subsidiary silver. The Canadian yacht, Countess of l)uf- 11*riii, has been libelled in New York for va rious small debts, amounting in all to nhoiit seventeen hundred dollars. Her owners in tended, after winning the enp from the Ma deline, to sell her for a large sum, ns was done with the (jtniuliiin ynrht, Inn, in Chi cago. Failing in this, they lire likely to let her go for half the estimated value in order to pay off the debts. Tho erection of the tnuch-lulkcd-of statue of Liberty in the harbor, at Bedloe’a inland, seems likely to be referred. After raising, by individual effort and without any government nid, over two hundred thousand francs, with which the cost of a great part of the work has been defrayed, the French peo- proposc to do toward aiding the project, and meanwhile the work is temnorarily sus pended. General Newton did his work on Hell Gate thoroughly. An examination of it by divers reveals the fact thnt the reef was thoroughly broken up, and that there aro no rocks that can not readily he removed. All New York is delighted with the job, nml it is proponed by influential gentlemen to give the great engineer a complimentary recep tion at Gilmore's garden. Prof. Newcombc, ol the national ol>- gaged all day in watching for the transit of Vulcan, which, according to the theory of Leverier, was to have occurred to-day. The atmospheric conditions were favorable for the most successful observations. A most careful watch was kept during even* instant of sunlight, and the result was nothing. There was no transit of Vulcan observed here, and Prof. Neweombe is more than ever confirmed In his belief tlmt the theory that such a transit is possible is utterly base less.— Washington special {Oil. 2.) Too Mini for Endurance.—An English visitor to the centennial, says tho New York Herald, wandered into a cheap restaurant in Shanty Town and ordered a steak. After desperate efforts to over come its toughness ho next called for a napkin. The landlord came out from the kitchen in his shirt sleeves and ad dressed the astonished gm-f-f in indignant terms: “Sa-ay young feller, this ain’t no centennial. The next thing you’ll lx* wanting, I suppoee, is a grand planer. ’ A TltAPl’KH'ft ST(M(V. T'Vts n moonlight night,•• tho trapper hug As wo Uy by tho bright camp lire— Come, fill up your pipes nml ptlcou tho hr Anil draw a littlp Higher. ml plenty of hunting and dapping l<> do. of a sudden pricked u iidddowuto'trualt Ami tho woods ro-echocd their hideous ' A Vhov holder ah) wand SKduJS.- 8<* '“Id Pill-Driver • I brought’to bear,''' And g»TO tho loader a leaden dose. ' Now you must know, l( you draw the him ' This guv' ad my gui Though Hot was doing nor level heat. ' 1 began in think it was siting hot; Talk' 1 , . >r,ver ’(T b ‘ will never, ' Well, li mm h a left ; d lollowrd tho nat'ral m l. olh. rni. fast a* th nd.-nf.nd in his spac'oi SCIENTISTS ON SP1 RITUALISM, The Miihject in-loirdic llrllUli At Glasgow, on the twelfth, in the anthropological section, Prof. Burrott rend a panel- on some phenomena associ ated with the abnormal conditions of mind. The subject was one, however, fn regard to which there had been a great change of opinion, and no bqtter instance could be. given of this change of front tlmu tlmt afforded' by Dr. Carpenter. Prof. Barrett on one occasion took a card and put it in a l>ook. and gave the closed voluino to a girl. She held it close to her head a little behind tho car, and then said, “ I boo something inside the ltook with red spots on it.*' He then asked her to count the spots, nml she re plied that there were five, which proved to bo quite correct, for the card was the five of diamonds, and yet he was Vlioonly person in the room who could possibly have known what it was. This appeared to him to he a clear case of clairvoyance, and tho important point was that ovory care had,been taken to prevent any un conscious muscular action giving niiy In dication to the subject ol what she was being asked about. In another case there was a lady who was in the habit of telling tho lime on n hunting watch after the hands had been turned about in all sorts of directions. On one occasion they found, as they thought, that she was wrong. Returning the watch to her they told Iter ho. She persisted,however, that she was right,and on examining tho watch they found that such was really the case,-and it was they themselves who had made a mistake. In that case the thoughts of the mesmerist were against those of his subject. He had asked M Mnnkclyno, one of the cleverest conju rors ol the day, and a gentleman who was encaged in an attempt to disprove the reality of spiritualism, to sec some of these phenomena with him, and he hnd si nee received a loiter from Mr. Muskc- liue’s manager in which he said : " In matters of this kind your best men of science are more easily deceived than the men of ordinary talent.” Mr. Crookes, speaking as a spiritualist, contended against tho theory that people wero deluded into tho belief that they saw manifestations which nover occureu. He maintained that h trained ficiontlfio* inquirer was much more, than a match for any conjuror, and that if it were a mere matter of hallucination tho trickery would have been found out long ago. Dr. Carpenter said that there’ wore somo pet pie who had a curious power of thought-reading. Detective policemen, lie believed, bad this power in a wonder ful degree, and lie referred to tho Con stant's Kent case and others to show that the officers hit upon the truth By intui tion. As to Dr. Blade, he frankly con fessed that that gentleman hnd done things which hnd astonished him, and just before leaving London he had chal lenged him to refloat them in his own house, in the company of hisown friends, and with nothing but his own furniture in the room. Dr. Blade bad agreed to do so, ami therefore lie considered him on his trial and refrained from saying more of him at present.}. Mr. I’arke Harrison referred to an American case in which a woman bad confessed that she had l>een paid to pre tend that she was a medium. The president said that this woman was afterwards proved to have been tell ing falsehoods when she had made the pretended confession. Prof. Barrett, in replying pn the dis cussion, charged Dr. Carpenter with changing his jtosition. Dr. Carpenter denied that he hud done so, and in regard to what had heed said about clairvoyants referred to the instance in which Bir James Simpson had put a £500 note in a ease, and Haiti he would give it to any one who would tell its number, the result be ing that it lay unclaimed for months. During this exciting incident, Rev. Kohl. Thompson was seen ct the back of the platform flourishing a bank note, and apparently offering to submit it to the test, but no attention was paid to him. A Son Dives Three Times for Ills Drowning Mother, niitl Rescues Her. On Thursday, tho !Mth ultimo., Fred, Berryman, aged twelve years, rowed bis mother, Mrs. Berryman, and two of ids sisters, both younger than himself, across the St. Croix, in New Brunswick, to Calais, in a small Ixmt. When they reached their destination, Fred, helped one of the little girls to clumber uj> the wharf, and took her to a place or safe ty. When he returned for the other, lie found her running about tho .bout, screaming: '‘Where is my mamma?” Fred, rightly conjectured that his moth er had fallen overboard, and being a capital swimmer, though so young, lived immediately into the water,* where he saw hubbies arising, and lmd the good fortune to aid in bringing her to the surface, but could not do more, and Mrs. Berryman, like every other person In danger of being drowned, kept hold ing on to him. while both were sinking again; whereupon Fred, cried out: •‘Oh, mother, don’t drown mol” on which, still retaining her senses, Mrs. Berryman drooped her hold on him, nml pushed him from her, nml then sank the second time. Fred., in an agony of grief, alved and pulled her to the sur face again. Again she sank. Happily there was no current nt the time, anti, when the noble little fellow helped het- up the third time, ho succeeded by a superhuman effort in placing her right hand, which was open, on the stern ol the boat, and (hero Mrs. Berryman, though by that timoutterly unconscious, look lioltl and held on till Fred.mounted the wharf anti brought some men at work near by to her: assistance.—SI. Strjthru Journal. GREAT LONDON BREACHERS. lsunlon ('orrnqmndtncn ol tho New York Trihuno. Having hnd exCMlent opportunities for hearing the greatest preachers of London, I will give my impressions regarding thorn. It is strange that with the rare advantages possessed by the established church, in its universities, the greatest and most popular preacher In the city should lie a non-conformist, who has had no collegiate training. Mr. Spurgeon, to whom I refer, has been over twenty vonra in London. There is nothing in Ids manner that ordinarily gives a preach er popularity. He Is not sensational,and has lew eccentricities. Ho is uovor coarse, vulgar or profane. There is no trifling or levity in tho discourse,though there is sometime trenchant wit. There is, however, a thorough and careful ex position of the truths of the Scriptures as lie understands them, llis Hormons are constructed simply, and clothed in language of common everyday life. They are lighted up with brilliant 'metaphors, and impressed on tho mind with strong illustrations drawn from various sources, but mainly from the Bible. Tho seven thousand people who go to tho tabor- nnclo every Sunday nrfc held faco to face with God. They nre placed beneath Ids law, and are pointed to the eternal judgment which nwnits them. All this is not calculated, ordinary, to make tho preacher potmlar. Bnt, after all these years, Mr. .Spurgeon frits a stronger hold on the public thuu Wfer- it may well be asked how he (rtrofrtfNd In -mhtatafinng and strengthening it. The answer is near nt hand. IIo Jras been .ttiAiiOHt labo rious student • of oyorytliblg connected with the Scriptures.- He is. thoroughly in eurnegt! ' No one questions Ids sincer ity. Hi# Jifin 1ms beefi above reproach. Beside, be has beotiJglftcd with great common: sense amiiojmarvelous voice. His labors uro ulmoijMncrcdiblc. More than sixty Of Ids (rfnjons aro published every'year, and timy-JJire of such merit that they are Cfltp'Wgprlnted and read by the inhabitants «»flhn two continents. His-leAUijos and pi&jdlilng, and the pas- torinF wqrk ampne; nie sludonts in his trainbrg. college fW* iiijmchers, uro unsur- pftssorlv His expo,-ai'lii of flic Psalms of David 1 lias irrowii already to four largo volume* find to nidinravledger! to bo tho best‘Over‘feivnl to I ha world, being read by all, ritualists, big# and low church men nmt dissentelv.; y A very-'dlffift’itiL preacher is Dean Stanley. Hi# "paru.liH arc polished in theirstylo gs hiiflettietch on tho Jewish or Lhf»cafttarh .4'lnlVclj. They aro broad cnpi$li for ill6 mqpt liberal. sermon which ho preached in Westmin ster Abbey, in concluding a course deliv ered by various clergymen recently from tho text, “Gather Up the fragments,” the Dean said they should “gather up tho fragments” of truth Contained in hymns like one which he Quoted from Dod dridge, and then he ltd lowed tho hymn with a glowing eulogy upon thin “great nonconformist of the last century.” “Gather up the fragments,” he said again, “of truth found in the Zend a Vesta,” and in the scientific teachings of the time. The Dean, l<n», is very popular, ns might be judged from hun dreds beingiuimble to get admission to the ubboy on this occasion. Cunon Liddon, of St. Paul’s, is a preacher of a different order. His style of sermons might bo deemed almost fiRiltlesi'. His style and form of exp res sionnreunexcelled. Although bis voice is nutover strong, no one of the 5,000 people who sat under the great dome last Sun day afternoon need have lost a word of his discourse. Unlike Dean Stanley, Canon Liddon leans towards the ritual ists. This party is now giving the es tablishment a great deal of trouble. The Arches court is busy dealing with accu sations of ritualism. Whatever may be their faults it must be admitted, however, that the ritualists set in some respects a good example. St. Alban's church,which has a confessional, and a system resemb ling that ol the Roman Catholic inonas terms, is in Baldwin’s court, a most wretched place, inhabited by the very lowest classes. The rector of this church, who has been repeatedly under discipline for his ritualistic pract ses, is doing more for the poor people of this district, than all the other churches therein. Perhaps after all he is not under discipline by “thejudgesof all tie earth.” who may look morn to his work than how he does it, I A Mill for the Godh.—Canon City, (Col.) Avalanche: A camp of pilgrims were preparing breakfast under a cotton wood tree yesterday morning, and a small boy to whom the task of grinding coflee with a worh-out cofl’ec-inill had been assigned, aftdr twisting away until he got plumb sick of the job, startled the camp by the assertion : “ This ought t« be the gods’ coffee mill.” “ Why,” lie rallied, “they say the mills of the gods' grind slowly, and if slow’s any oYileri, they’d better come and get this’n.” THE YELLOW FKVKIL lion Its I'oImoii « !•«•<• pi Orrt' n ('Ur* Wo quote tho following stat* incut lately made by Dr. Flislm Harris, of New York, who is an excellent authority : The death rate in yellow fever is from twenty-live to thirty five per cent. It was twenty-flvo per cent, in Shreveport and thirty per cent, in Memphis. In the New Orleans opidomlo it has usually boon nbout twonty-fivo per cent. Balti more is much moro socuro against a yel low fever epidemic than New York is, for thoro the greater part of the popula tion live on nigh ground, and the dis ease will not travel up tho stoop hills of Baltimore. It will no moro likely to travel along the coast, and should the coming winter be a mild onoin the south, wo may look for yellow feVcr in the npniig. The true nature of tho poison has not yet boon Ascertained, and cannot bo un til more scientific progress is made. The time will come when wo shall doubtless be ablo to moot the enemy, and fully understand how it effects its work. The disease does not travel through tho air. as many used to think, llis a thing that creeps on the gftmttd. It travels oil a level or down a decline much faster than it ascends. This has been fully demonstrated by the examination of the progress of epidemics, particularly the one which passed through this city in 1822. It began at the foot of Rcetor street, on tho North river, where the poilfbn hnd been deposited from a sailor’s luggage. It traveled slowly up Rector street, which is pretty steep. Coming to Broadway, it branched out in both directions, and then went rapidly down tho streets lending toward Now and Broad st roots. At the same time it was spreading up and down, and atone timo tho fence that was put up to check its progress inclosed the city hull and the park. All tho merchants and bankers moved up to Greenwich village, which iH now in the neighborhood of Ninth avenue and Twenty-third streot. Somo positively de clined to go outside of tho enclosure' and many of tho obstinate ones lost tlicii lives as tho result of their folly. The poison wnspropagated on nboutnn average of about fifty feet each day, and over spread nearly the whole city. As I said before, tho poison goes up hill with ap parent. difficulty, and, in its march through the city, it never went over tho houses, but always round them. Persons living in the upper Htorics of tall houses would, therefore, not be likclv to be af fected if they remained in their domi ciles all the time. Absolute clonnlincs.H is the best pro tection. Bathing all over once or twice ovory day, and putting on clean cloth ing every timo; scouring, sweeping, scrubbing, etc., everything that could keep tho 1)ody and its surroundingsclean, would bo the course to pursue. People should keep their spirits up nmLthc. pores ol the skin open, (/'are should be tnljon to keep the dwelling and out- houses dry by tho use of lime, and no one should venture out in the night air when yellow fever is around. Our Study of (lie Attributes or Deity. From a mwnl sermon by 1’iof. HwIiik. It is not only, certain that tho new sciences need not harm Christian doc line. hut it is possible they may nlmo- Iutefy reform our ideas of God. When we inherited the notion of the Almighty being a person like a human person, we fell heir to a very inferior conception. A Deity fashioned like the colossal David of Angulo, has not boon the best form through which or in which the human family could behold its make rand judge. Tho Deity thus embodied, thus central ized, was too easily removed from tho homes and pallia of men. All human hearts have always thought of Him ns being elsowhoro, and hence Ho has been too faraway to alarm the sinful and to comfort the sorrowing. Wicked men have felt that they could hide from Him; that millions ami millions of miles lav between their little actions nml tho White Throne. Devout hearts have looked up with tears, wishing for the wings of a dove, or the wings of light and thought, that they might fiy away and find the infinite rest. In bis error and weakness, the christain 1mscompared his prayer to a telegraph that ran from enrtn to the realms of tho Father. If any science can conic with power to over throw these childish synilmls of Deity and to I'ivo us a Father filling all space with his presence, wo shall all hasten to mill that science tho noble lmne/actoi* of religion. It must be rernombered that a “ personal God” does not imply a lo calized or humanized God. A personal God is n power conscioiisjof scll’—a mind —a consciousness. To picture this mind as a person like a king or a judge was the error of the infant-man. If, by de grees, science can remove this idea from the earth, erase it from the memory of us who arc living and exclude it from the. generation to come, and give to the soul a belief in a mind which penetrates and permeates the whole uni verse, and which lienee envelopes every heart, it will have poured into mortals a new motive and into death itself new consolation. And it does indeed seem that the new science, should it ever be established, will be fol lowed, not by atheism, but by a new conception of the omnipotence of God. Instead of dressing up the Deity in the form of a Moses or a David, the universe will all become the form of the Al mighty ; every constellation will bo in cluded in His diadem, every flowery world be interwoven in His wreaths; all the Hoods of light Income the folds and trains of His garments. In all times Christians have loved here and there to venture ufon this thought. From St. John, who saw the creative word coming from all the universe aiid encamping in the Christ, to all the mystics of the seventeenth century the mind has attempted to bring the Infinite nearer to itself. But the fear of pantheism on the one hand, and tho feebleness of the intellect on the other, have always.come to lead the head back to great man on a throne as lHiing the lawful representations of the Eternal. Oh, that Home science may come, if come it has not, that shall throw down our graven images in our temple, and shall east our hearts into an omnipresent soul, as drops of water arc east IuU the sea ! Do yon desire to be lieve that a million years ago Deity placed in certain seeds the germs of life? Would we not better feel that the Father is still in the sunbeam that plays around our pathway at noon and in tho moaning winds that sigh at midnight? It is high time that those who .break tho laws of right, whoso loves aro full of all injus tice and vice, should feel that there iH an omnipresent mind and -power whoso empire they insult and whoso very pros- onoe they pollute with their dcoilH and character. The human soul needs for its virtue a ruling mind never to ho ab sent, never to no evaded, but always present with reward or punishment; the religious heart needs to nave its love in fluenced by tho thought that tho Being it worships is in tho very air that touches tho cheek, and is a mysterious agency in the very tomb where the earthly body returns to dust. Such a Doity, rescued from the iron-liko form of the past imagi nation, can bocomo incarnato in Christ, can enter tho Hotil of tho penitent, c explain the mental and moral photioinc of earth, explnin its learning, its pro gress, its love, its beauty, and then can enter tho chamber of death and make it tho gateway of a second existence. FOOL BETTING. One of the most serious evils of the turf iH thus discussed, editorially, by tho Turf, Field and Farm. That the trotting associations receive anything but a small rovonuo from the tax on pool sales aro not to lie questioned for a moment. At Homo-pf tho tracks tho tax after dividing with the pool-sel ler, frequently ainounts to five and six thousand dollars. Tho commission which the pool buyers pay in tho inarch from Clovoland to Springfield amounts to a small fortune. Capital Would soon be eaten up by the percentage charged on the in ami out speculation on heat races, did not tho winnings largely outnum ber tho losses. The tax would ruin any man \Vhoso nggregato winnings only equaled his aggregate losses. Almost every speculator knows this, and there fore lie Is not particular as to the menus by which ho wins. The odds are so great against him that ho is tempted into schemes which will not hear tho light of day. All the knavery practiced in the trotting turf is hatched in the interest of the pool box. There are thousands of peoplowhonre fond of racing, but who will not coun tenance a sport used to foster a gambling spirit. Wo might as well look the truth in the face first ns last. When professional drivers lament tho evils of tho day, it is time for nark managers to be up nml on guard. The question for them to take into serious consideration iswhotlier they can best afford to do without the five per cent, tax on pools, or tho one dollar at the gate. ■ Those who beliovo'in moderate instead of oxtremo measures havo suggested a plan which possibly might work well. They propose to retain the pool stand,hut to allow no pools to he Hold no. a race after the raco ban been called. They ar gue Hint this would breakup tho combi nations, as the speculator would have no ehniieo to liedgo after placing his money. If the judges believed that a hot so was not trying to win they could take him out of the hands of his driver and pul Homo one up behind him in whom thoy bad confidence. When made to realize the fact that honest judges would see to it that horses wero honestly driven, tho spectators would back their candid judg ment of the capacities of tho contending liorsos, instead of lending Ids support to a job. Ho would bo without protection should ho attempt to pursue any other course. To give force to this plan the telegraph would have to bo looked after. It would be necessary to instruct tho o|ierator on the park grounds to refuse every disimteh offered him giving Hie betting (aids. Unless this wero done tho horses would bo manipulated in the in terests of jobs put up in the pool rooms distant from the sceneof action. Will the Washington Monument St ami or Fall.’ Members of tho United States commis sion to superintend tho completion of the Washington monument do not expect to see any work dono this fall. No work by act of congress can bo proceeded with until an examination is made of the foundation by tho army commission just appointed by tho secre tary of war. If lias been stated tlmt the stone in the base of the monument is not strong enough to bear its weight when finished. This, however, is not believed by those who should know. The main point of examination will be the quality of dirt around mid undornonth tho mon ument to a depth of eighty or ninety feet. It is feared that about twenty feet under the surface there is a (tort of quick sand, the monument being but a short distance from the river. In that easo the great weight would probably press the quicksand out into the river and so sink tho monument. There is another fear that tho different strata of earth in cline downward toward the river, and that by the slipping out of one of these layers tho monument would either come down, or on the supposition many have that the leaning tower of Fisa was not built as it now stands, Washington would have a leaning monument. A Ska Serpent.—A California papor says that an inlant sea-serpent has been pieked lip near cape Flattery mid taken to fort Townsend, Oregon, whenco it will be sent to the centennial. It is seven feet long, and its head is twenty- two inches in circumference. It has a pair of formidable looking iaws, thickly set with powerful teeth, ana has a prom inent fin, above and below, running tho entire length of the Imdy. “ I sympathize sincerely with your grief,, said a French buly to a recently widowed friend. “ To lose such a hus band as yours.” “ Ah, yes, lie was very good. Ami then, you see, such a mis fortune is always great, for one knows what kind of a husband one has lost, but can not tell what kind of a man one will find to succeed him.” Connubial Burnt—A henpecked hns- b'iid declared that the longer he lived with liis wife the more he was smitten by h-r. FACTS AND FANCIES. Whenever wo pass judgment upon ourselves, the prisoner is suro to bo well defended. All men are better than their ebul litions of evil, but they are worse than their outbursts of noble enthusiasm. There is nothing moro truly insinu ating and deferential than llio ivnggle of a little dog's tail in tho presence o? a big dog with a bone. “Time waits for no man.” That’s another. Doesn’t time always wait for a man to get firmly Heated on tho top rail boforo it breaks? Kate Field is also mad at Joaquin Miller. She says she can’t respectn mi n who sloops with his head nt the foot ot' tho bed. General Dix hns got so old an fooblo that ho can no longer sec a worm hole in an apple, and every insect must look oqt for n i nine If. “We expect tho Great Father to feed nnd clothe us nslong ns we live,” tenderly remarked one of the Indians who had thirteen scalps hnuging in his lodge. Taxidkemihtk are now busy stuffing whito doves, which are in largo demnnd for room decorations, there being a su perstition among some classes that they bring ponce to tho iipnrtments where they e hung. Man’s Inhumanity to man 1h too familiar to require any explanation, but mnn’sinhumanitv to woman is perhaps best illustrated by the euro ho exercises in forming a circle around a dog fight, ho tlmt a passing female miiHtclimo a lamp post to get a view of tho proceedings. The day has come when inanufiietiir- s can take calves feet and work them up into delicious strawberry jelly, nnd raspberry him, hut that's us far as they can go; when they can tncklo a cnlrs head with success, somo folks will ho missed from society. Doctor: “I am pleased to say, Mrs. Fitzbrown, that 1 shall be ablo to vne- linato your baby from a very healthy Mid of your neighbor, Mrs. Jones’.” Mrs. Fitzbrown: “Oh, dear doctor, I could not permit thnt! Wo do not care to be ixell up with the JoneHcsin any way.” The flrat step toward making a man of your son is to train him to enrn what he spends; then the liest way to tench him to lie frugal is to tako away his money as fast as ho earns it. anil spend it wisely for yourself. There is nothing like teaching the young by cxnmplo.—Bur- I inn ton rfawkeye. A waiter advertising for a situation says lie can “ fold napkins in three hun dred (Hfforont ways,” but what the boarding community wants most just now is a waiter who carry a dish of soup without soaking tho first joint of ills thumb in it. Tain’t no use in your cry In’,V said a 1 heartless maiden to her prostrate lover; “ I wouldn't marry you if you wore tho last nmn on earth.” “ Well, Mary,” he replied, brouthing through his no«o with groat (lHHeulty, “you’ll lend me your pocket handkerchief, won’t you?” YEARBngo, when a painter wanted to depict wholesale anguish ho went for inspiration to the place whore criminals wore tortured to donlh; but now ho finds a bettor nnd more convenient subject in the young man in tho front seat at tho theater whoso tall collar has bocomo un buttoned behind.—fit. Louis Republican, !('.!•« i ontli'i Willi Mo's Ihjwcin mill rum ontwlno, And our lives wnulit l»o .Urkcned l.y err Dl.l wo even, like cnlit,lKHM»H ninol They wouhl lie porlmpn nil of thorn wort! Ami he reoklemiy wiunudorcd nwny, Ami not hull of Ihe Joyn wouhl ha taste Thnt one llfo enu umbrnco in u dnjr. Ami not borrow nt fifty per coni.; |.et iin never ccoio IovIiik nnd hmrnliiK, A ml iik llffl for lt« nohluit of emla, Then when ilnnt to lla dual In returnliiff M Wo ahull live In Ihu henrlnof our filend*. A well known author wos about lo ad a new piece in the green-room of it West End theater, when, before com mencing, a young and charming actress, who is always remarkable for the elegance of her toilets, smlrkingly said: “My dear Mr.—, is the part you lmvo written for me well within my power?” Per fectly,” replied tho author. “You havo to change your dress seven times 1” Tommy is fond of sugar, and asks his mother for somo to eat with his straw berries. Him refuses. Ho appears re signed, but adds gravely: “ You know, mamma, what happened round the coi ner? Thoro was a little boy, nnd his mother would not glvo him any sugar on Ills strawberries, and—” “ And—7” And next day ho fell into a well.” Aiiout nine o’clock the other morning no of our most active business men was beard to say: “ I am going to be worked to death again to-day. I’vo got to get that letter in »Jie postollicc before night, and it isn’t directed yet, and there is no stamp on it either. That will take an hour, nnd then it will be too late to go to tho postofliec, except in a hack, and there lis nobody nbout to help me into it.—fit. Louis Globe Democrat. At the distance of twenty miles from Carter station, on the Union Pacific rail way, is situated a remarkable coal-mine. It is about four miles in length, and con sists of sixteen veins, lying one above another, with ft thin layer of sandstone intervening. The bottom vein is the thinnest (live feet), while the one next above is over sevcnty*five leet in thick ness. A few feet above this is a vein of sixty feet, another of forty succeeding, and *»> on, making in all about four hun dred feet of coal. The veins solpe al an angle of about twenty-two degrees, and very easy of access. On other iipIkIiI-.iIiii! hrsr ches Mood Other hirdH who heard hlisuiiKi Loudly he Kims, and Hear and MroiiR; Sweetly he miiw. and K allrrcl (heir iK his Kruve one happy May, 1 brought (Ills HiikUnIi da *y nway. T/wrnas Bailey AUlrhh in