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2 THE ATHENS GEORGIAN : OCTOBER 2, 1877. Eli Perkins on Saratoga Shoddy. [New York San.j Newport runs to 'polo, swell din. tiers, the carriage-parade up and down Bellevue avenue, and coaching The Mystery of Chief Jos eph. The Christian soldier sat alone in his guarded tent He heeded not the wind, which howled dismally without, and he paid no attention to the distant parties, while Saratoga runs to bal- t * le demoniac savages, as they cony cliques, worldly conversation*, and the swell dress-parade up and dmvn the halcouics and through the halls. Tfliere is very little sensible conver- sa’ion fti Saratoga. Brains are really at a discount here; while money and good clothes are sure passports to the most exclusive cliques. There is an aristocracy here (though darned around the encampment, vain ly attempting with insulting taunts to draw the American Havelock forth to battle He ^heeded nanght, for his burning sense of injustice was taking form jn eloquent words. His rapid pen skipped impetuously to and lio over the page;, page after page of manuscript fell fluttering like snow flakes to the ground till the floor of the tent was covered with white.' The not at pur hotel) founded on pure , monev and clothes that would look I ^ ir * s l* an commander was replying to down on a well-educated college ' he newspaper criticisms o.n his con. professor or author as a giraffe woidd look down on a mud-turtle. Yes, •there are hundreds of ladies .here in in Saratoga who wear a new §800 dress every day, and use plural verbs with singular nominatives, who would actually look down on Bret Hurtc or Charles Rcadc. They worship money alone, and have no appreciation what ever of worth or genius. If Socrates were here to-day and did not keep a carriage, and if Mrs Socrates did not wear imported Worth dresses, they would be ruled dut of the shoddy cliques. A sweet, beautiful young wile came into a Saratoga parlor the other evening. As site entered, one of the Worth dress clique arose to shake hands with her. *• flow do you iluf she said ; ami then the Worth dress examined the young wife, drosed in sweet muslin, from head to foot, as people used to •examine Horace Greeley. In a moment another member of the shoddy clique tugged at the Worth dress woman and whispered: “ Come a way! You don’t want to know any such dress as that. Didn't you know they’d lost their money? Wiiy her husband is a common pro- fessor in a college now.’’ . . j Ami, after that, the whole worldly- [ Worth dress clique all cut the accom plished wife of the college professor, and went on with the following con- vernation: “ Have you seen the Scroggs girls?* asked one. “ Yes, and they’ve got on the same dresses they wore the first night they came. Did you ever?’’ “ And awful dresses, too—machine- made—perfectly- dreadful!” contin ued Mrs. Buster, who married a rich ^soap-man. “How do yon know they are machine-made?” asked the lady in -diamonds. “How do I know?’’ ■'‘Yes, how do ycu know?” *“ Well, I’ll tell you confidentially flow 1 know ; mid Mrs. Buster leaned forward and whispered: “You see, I know because I used to be a seam stress. I married Mr. Buster, and ■joined the aristocrncy, and I could see the stitches clear across the room.” “And just think, the underskirt is last year’s, too;” continued the aris tocratic soap-maker’s wife. “ Oh, they’ve lost all their money, the JScroggses hast” “ But they keep a carriage?” stud -old Mrs. Grubb, by way of oxlenna- lion. “ No they don’t I They hire one, and dress up their coachman in their old livery. O, they’re poor now, and getting awfully common, too. Why, one of the gills sings in Grace Church.” “She does?” asked four Wortli -dresses at once. Yes; didn’t you know?” ■“ For money, tco ?” interrupted a rich old lady, all covered with velvet un i point-lace, whose husband is now •in the petroleum business. “Yes, twelve hundred a year.” “ That’s enough, we’ll have to cut 4ho Scroggses this year,” and the wives of the diamond-clad petroleum •king and rich soap-man settled back an their chairs and got ready lo prac tice social Lynch law on another C ir fellow-mortal whose sin. should more brains than money ” The first glass factory in the United -States of which we havedefinteknotvl- -edge:was built in 1780. Rum and Opium. % 1 A Wkbky Drinker would Lie, fcut m Eater would Lie all the Isue duct of the campaign. “If these gentlemen of the press,” he wrote,' “ knew the true character of the foe with whom I have to con tend, they would perhaps be slower to ridicule my policy. The Chief Joseph is a wily, audacious and unscrupulous adversary. He unites the compre hensive military genius of Napoleon with the dash of a Messena. Yet he does not hesitate to employ tho most reprehensible methods of annoying me, and eludes pursuit by stratagems un known to civilized warfare. My cam paign must not be judged by the ordinary standards, for his activity is superhuman, his resources apparently boundless, and his lack of principle wholly beyond belief.” The progress of the Geneial's com position wqs interrupted by the en trance of a breathless and agitated orderly. “ Well,” said the Christian soldier, after he had punctuated his last sen tence. The orderly touched his hat. “ Jo seph’s forces are advancing on the outppsts, jelling and swearing like devils!” “ It is as I have written/’ remarked Howard sadly. “This totally unprin cipled Aborigine tines not scruple to attuck me even upon the holj- Sab bath. Direct the Chaplain to go out and read to the encmj- the fifth chap ter of Matthew.” I have conscientiously endeavor ed,” continued the General, resuming his pen, “ both by moral and logical appeals, to bring Joseph to acknowl edge the unreasonableness of his atti tude toward the United States Gov ernment and .toward me, the representative of its military arm. It seems to be a case where argument is unavailing.” The orderly again appeared at the tent flap. “They have scalped the Chaplain and are still advancing,’’ he reported. “ He was a good man,” reflected Howard, “and we shall miss him. Try and find some pious private who will volunteer to go out and finish the cliapter.” “Newspaper criticism,” Y/rotc the General, continuing his letter, “serves not only to encourage the enemy, but to grieve me personally. 1 am, there fore, constrained to request that it may be fuspended, and, meanwhile, I look to history for the vindication of my ” Another orderly burst into the tent. “The sentries are shot,” he cried. “ What shall wo do?” A patient yet mournful look over spread the Christian soldier’s features, “ Pul the flag at half mast,” he re plied, “and make tlie necessary ar rangements for the funeral to-mor row ” “ iJut they hauled down the flag, and are making a Imnflre of tracts and by inn honks around the pule.” “ Summon niy'officers hither to de liberate o:i the most prudent course of action to pursue under the circum stances.” “ But the red devils are this very minute stealing your tent pins and the canvas will be down on your head/’ “ This is too much!” murmured the Christian commander. “ Saddle my mule without delay, aud order a retreat.” most important one. The importations j talks well, but understands everything of opium are largely increasing every ! that is said to her by simply watching The English Catholic Bishops are about to revise the Douay version of the Bible. The first temperance society jju this country, was organized in Saratoga county, New York, in March,1808. [From tht Chicago Tribune.J Tito eighth annual meeting of the American Association for the Cme of Inebriates was called to order yes terday morning in the chapel of the Washingtonian Home by the Presi dent, Dr. T. L. Mason, of Brooklyn, n. r. The Secretary read a paper on “The .Responsibility of the Profes sion in the Production of Opium Inebriety,” which had been prepared by Dr. J. B. Matteson of Brooklyn. The writer set fourth that, within the last two or three decades, the consumption of opium has increased far in advance of its direct therapeu tical need. The question to consider was whether patients indulged in the use of opium for 1 he purpose of obtaining transient happiness or ob livion, or whether once ordered by the physician and continued indefi nitely, its use caused such mental and physical changes as to engender a constant demand tor it. The vast prepoudei ance of testimony was to tlio effect that its use was often en tered njioii nncoiiscio”s!y, and con tinued until it became a . physical necessity. High authorities concur that, tlie opium habit lias its inception in prescriptions ordeiedby physicians It is, therefore, advisable not to re commend opium continuously tor the purpose of allaying pain, especially with patients of aueivoits tempera ment, lest the plij-sieian mig t be come the innocent cause of sett in>r the spark to the fire 5 lint maj r onlj' be extinguished with life. The writer held that fully 80 jier cent, of the cases of opium inebriety in this coun try may lie traced to opiate piescriji- tions. Physicians are too r ady*to prescribe ophites for the relief of pain or insomnia, and too * careless about seeing that, when the strict therapeu tical m-cesrily for its use has hem fulfilled, the use be disco:itimied. Dr Widneysaid t[iat in hisixpe- ricuee South during the war, when opihui was very stStrecjfJ^lle persons who had been in the habit of using it turned their attention to alcohol as a substitute. In one case a woman who had been iu tlie habit of taking as high as twenty grains of morphine a day drank a quart of whisky with out becomiug intoxicated. Persons could use alcohol for a longer time than they could opium without be coming dependent upon it. lie be lieved that legislation was necessary n»r the control of the sale of opium and its preparations. The Rev. Jon Willi-t believed that the charges against the doctors were ino sweeping, and that they were less responsible than the druggist* Great difficulty existed in reaching the facta, owing to the utter want of ve racity on the part of the patients No opium eater, in his experience, ever told the truth in regard to-the origin of the habit in them. A whis ky drinker wonld lie, but an opium eater would keep bn lying all the time. The habit arises insidiously and by accident more than in auy other way, aud physicians, in older to guard against the ■ danger, should watch their patients, and substitute harmless prescriptions. Dr. Earle concurred with the last speaker that physicians were not so much answerable us were the drug gists. They filled prescriptions with out the order of a physician, and be believed that under the law they were allowed to hold prescriptions as private properly, and might continue to hold them indefinitely. This was ail wrong, pml legislative restriction w:is needed. Hu did not 1 believe lhat the opium habit or the whisky habit were diseases. Dr. Day, 'of Boston, had considera ble experience of such eases, and considered that the origin of the habit was mote often accidental than other wise. He blamed the druggists for the indiscriminate filling of prescrip tions. He also recommended that special care should be given to the control of tho sale and usa of opiates. The opium habit was a most fearful disease. The Chair considered the subject a year, and the effect of its use on the race is very profound and wide-reach ing. Somewhere a great responsibil ity existed, and he held the druggists most culpable. Many of them were as directly interested in the sale of opium and morphine as the salcon keeper was in selling liquor. The Rev. Juhn Willet tollowed with an elaborate paper on the diseased appetite of the drunkard, as its cure. Mr. Willet utterly-disowned the mi- raculouscure theory advanced by the ■new order of religio-temperance teach ers, and claimed that the recovery of the drukard from his degraded condi tion must.be attained by human means. He invited the “ deluded zealots,” who insist that the drunkard’s habit aud appetite can be cured by miracu lous interpositi h, to visit an inebriate asylum and experiment on its inmates. Deadheading on paper. the News- Tlie Rome Sentinel rises to explain, and its language is plain, and is as follows There is no other business on wliicii the public levies such heavy contributions as on tlie newspaper publishing htishii ss. An organization is getting up sum- kind of festivities, tor example It pays for the use of grounds, pays for refreshments, gets §2 wortli of tickets and §4 worth of the lips of her interlocutor. Ou one occasion an eminent clergyman of this city called to see her mother, and was received by the young lady. After some fifteen minutes the mother pre sented herself, and the young lady re tired. Presently the'•'conversation turned upon the' daughter, and tlie mother said something about her in flrmity. The clergyman, who had seen nothing to iudicate any lack of perception in the young lady, and who had not noticed any physical defect, was surprised, and asked what was meant. The mother'then explained that her child was stone deaf. The clergyman was loath to believe it, and almost demanded f urther proof, of the fact. The young ludy was then called and it was proven to his entire satis faction, that she could not understand a single word that was spoken unless she saw the motion of his lips which uttered it. Liko the deaf girl de scribed in Wilkie Collins’ novel of “ Hide and Seek,” she is singularly susceptible to anv vibration of the timbers of the room or 1 uni sc in which she may be, and her mother has estab lished a system of telegraphy with her by means of the doors and balusters, by which she ran communicate with her throughout the whole house. By simply striking tho baluster cr door with the opeu hand her parents can apprise i.er that her presence is desired in a particular room or part of the loll* printed cither at a newspaper, . , , . „ . ... . - , . ' vrpremi-is, and by modifications of the office or somewhere rise, and theiiL . , * „ , , , .. „ ,7 raps can inform her of manv of the expects iree advertising from tl/c ‘ paper to. an extent iirtually woitli troni 88 to $20. The mere announce ment" of a pin-nic, sociable or festival is an advertisement and ought {Jobe paid lor. The result is, that ungen erous proportion of the profits of nearly all entertainments of this kind is money which rightfully belongs to newspaper publishers. Then, after the thing is over, tlie managers will cdtiie in with a long string of resolu tions, witlr which to rob the publisher oi more valuable space. The truth i-, that space in :t newspaper repre sents money. It is worth money to t e publisher. There is no more rea son why he should give it away, than why a merchant should give away his goods. Part of the spaee of tho paper is sold to business men for ad vertising purposes; the rest of the space is devoted to interesting read ing matter. On the last, the pub lisher depends for tlie attractions which shall sell his paper. Either space represents cash to hint. Yet, the business man who buys space to the amount of 82, often hir s a gr:<* tuity of space to the amount of 81 ar §2, or even mere. The managers of festivals,'pic-uics or other home enter tainments may not buy one cent’s worth of space, but all the same ex pects the free gift of several d liars’ worth of space. The politician, even though lie forgets to keep his sub- scrip: ton paid up, demands column after column of valuable space free and rarely so much as says thank yon for it. For all this, the newspaper man, taxed beyond any other bnsi- ness man, enjoys the high distinction of being regarded as a deadhead by two-thirds of his neighbors. Lip-Reading. A good many years ago, when the accomplished daughter of a well-known gentleman of this city was a little girl, she was taken ill with senret fever, and when she recovered was stone deaf. Fortunately the child, who possessed a remaikably sweet voice, had le. rned to talk before tlie attack, and the phy sician who attended her, finding that her sense of hearing had entirely' gone, enjoined upon the nmthir the necessity of carefully keeping up the habit of speech, in order that it should not be totally lost. Front that time out the mother devoted herself to the preser vation of her daughter’s voice, almost to the exclusion of everything else, and the successful issue of her undertaking has proved an ample reward for her labors. The young lady is now not only an accomplished member of socie ty, but an excellent artist, well known among the painters of New York. Her education was so carefully atend- ed to by her mother that she not only minor affairs <liat arc taking place. Although her father has a handsome competency, this young lady earns enough for her own support in the pursuit of her art.—AT. 1”. WoM. A Terrible Experience. THE tAFTAlX OF THK LOST VAX NAME TELLS HIS STOKT. Captain Hardy, of the schooner C. J. Van Name, which was wrecked on the way from New York to Barncon, Au<>usi 3rd, has just re! itrued to hi* '•onie in New Haven. He relates the story of a wonderful experience. For thirty-six hours, wjtb six companions, lie drifted about in a terrible sea on a frail raft which was all the time nndei water, and it* occupants were me naced constantly by the unwearying attendance of sharks, which came so near as to smeil of the men and to have their eyes put out by sheath knives in the hands of the sailors. The particulars as narrated by Cap tain Hardy are as follows: The Van Name was a new vessel, built near this city, and was laden with coal Her passengers were Matilda Assurus, aged twelve; Fieddie Assurus, aged nine, and a man, who were among the saved. At midnight on August 2nd, when nine days out, and three hundred miles from shore, the schooner began to feel the effects of the gale. She was hove to under .short sail and all was made snug. In the morning all were oil deck, except the girl. Tlie waves, were heavy and ominous, the sky whs black, the rain fell rapidly and tlie wirid shrieked. Anticipating no danger, tlie lashings of the boat on deck were allowed to remain. At five o’clock, three large waves—large waves. always roll by threes—ctime towering upon the .ves sel and swept over her with incon ceivable speed. By the time the sec ond had passed, the schooner was keeled over on her side and the water was rushing iu through the cabin windows. The steward, Wal ter Gill, at the command of the Cap tain, .went to get the girl out of the cabin. The third wave ’ reached completely>over the doomed craft, and the steward was carried away and never seen again, except for a moment hv the mate, and all the crew were thrown into the water. In six minutes from the time the first wave struck her, the Van Name had sunk. With her went down the girl and everything on board except an oar and a few pieces of scantling. The Captain had clung to tho back stay, but when taken under water, loosened his hold and came to tho surface. The oar was within his reach, but it wonld not support his weight, and as he could not swim, he resigned himself to death, shouting a farewell to the mate, who swimming near. When he came op acorn, he had the good fortune, how ever, to grasp a joist, and this held him up. The boy passenger he saw supporting himself on two pieces of lumber, but (be immense waves swept over the boy’s, head, suffocating hin,. The mate had two pieces of-timber and the sailors had each one piece. After great toil tlie pieces were col lected, and when fastened together with sailors* clothes, which could be poorly spared, as the water was cold, made a raft about three feet wide and twenty-four feet long. On this, seven men were floated, but to keep on the surface, they were compelled to remain on their hands and knees. No sail appeared all day Friday, and Friday night the raft gave indi cations of breaking up, the fastenings becoming partially loosened. The idea of repairing the damage was precluded by the presence of the huge sharks, which made their ap pearance a few minutes after the hastily-made raft had been construct ed and did not thereafter leave it. The raft was so low in the water, that the monsters were on a level with the men, but only once was an attack made. On that occasion, one o’" tlie sailors had barely time to save his feet. All Friday and Friday night it rained. The men spread handkerchiefs, and thus secured moist ure enough to assuage their thir*t, but had nothing to cat. Tlie position \va< very irksome, lint could not he changed for fear of the sharks. The oar saved had been raised, and to this a shirt was attached to attract attention. Saturday morning, after a most agonizing night, during which all had nearly resigned hope, a steamer was seen about a mile distant, the only' vessel that had been sighted save one from the time of the depart- u*-e from New York. Although all the men shouted with the energy of d spair, they failed to attract atten- tion. The action of the owner of (lie signal was eloquent. Ho said noth ing, but taking the shirt from its place pul it on and lay carefully down again. Throughout all this terrible time, li*tie had been said’by any one. Religions themes and the impending peril were alone mentioned. After the steamer bad passed later in the day there came in sight a sailing ves sel, bnt efforts to attract her attention were again uavailing. Of all the men on the raft, the Captain, who is about forty, was alone over twenty years of age, bnt all bore up wonderfully under tlie circumstances. In the afternoon, the schooner Minnie I’ip- pelier, sailing on the wind, came as tfie long-wished-fcr rescuer. O.e man had been told to keep watch, but in their feverish agony each in sisted that his eyesight was tiic best. There was danger of the schooner's passing, as nothing could he seen of the raft except the flags and the hu man heads. Lungs were, however, never more severely taxed, and the shouts were of good effect, although at the last minute there was danger of the raft breaking up. A line was thrown to them, but in tlicir eager ness there was danger again, as about all 'stood up and the raft sank lower, with the expectaut shark’s danger ously near and on the alert. How ever, one by oue the men got on board the Pippelier, Captain Henry L. Burton, and were lauded safely at Aspinwall. The Captain, in sum ming tip the. terror of the time spent in mid-ocean, said : “You can have no idea of the feelings we had when the steamer went away.”—A r . Y. World. When a man is making love to a widow he always feels as if >bo had to begin where the othe* fellow left off. Love makes itself understood by the simplest beings; it bears with it a charm which moves the indefferent, and the eyes of two young lovers have a language whose sweetness penetrates even those who have uevef loved. Organs are said to have been first introduced into churches by Pope Vi- taliauus, about A. D. 1670. Gold was first discovered in Cali fornia in 1848.