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gOUTHXn Kinß ITEMS.
Portions of Florid* are suffering from
drouth.
Tennesw* his a flattering prospect for
peaches sud wheat.
The late trat'dnl eerious damage to
. fruit in Texas.
TheTpxas n urderer cow pleads “emo-
They are still talkies in Charleston of
raising a monument to Calhoun.
Lightning s .rnck a team of six oxen
in Alabama and killed fire of them.
A negro wan sent to the Texas peni
tentiary for two years for stealing duetts.
Wheat is heading in Texas, bnt on
account of dreuth much of it is eery low.
Corn has gone up to fifty-five cents at
San Antonio in consequence of the drought
The sea hawtbrown up the sponge at
Ce<lar Keys, Fla., to the value of $75,500
since January 1.
A pair of horses in Virginia, aged re
spectively 33 and 34 years, still put in a
eood day’s work.
Gov. Hubbard, of Texas, says that
during his administration twenty-on* mur
derers have been banged.
North Carolina has fifty-four cotton
and woolen mills in operation. The capital
invested amounts to $1,838,000.
Charlotte Thompson, the actress, owns
one of the finest plantations in the south -
5000 acres near Montgomery, Ala.
In Bullock county, Ala., persons sen
tenced to hard labor are hired to the highest
bidder, and bring $9.50 per month.
Gen. Joseph R Davis, a nephew of
Jefferson Davis, was married at Missouri
City on the 18th ult. to M ss Margaret Green.
The export- from Norfolk, Va., for
March, aggregated $1,211,297, against $539,-
100 in 1879, an increase of $679,108.
John Letcher, Virginia’s “ war gov*
ernor,” has recovered from a long spell of
eickuess, caused by a fall on the ice.
Work upon the Lee mausoleum at
Lexington is progressing favorably, but $2,-
000 are still needed for its completion.
Jeff Downing, an old Georgia fisher
man, was missing. Bis friends slew two al
ligators, and found him stowed away in
bellies.
The biggest orange in Florida is
eight feet five inches around the trunk, 37
feet in height. 'ad 81 feet in circumference
at the ton.
An Alamo monument association has
been formed in San Antonio, Texas, to erect
a monument to the heroes who fell on that
memorable spot.
The Missouri house of representatives
has passed a bill making it unlawful tor any
dealer to sell to minors pistols, slungshots
brass knuckles or other dangerous weapons,
A few davs ago Prof. F. H. Biadley,
formerly of East Tennessee university, and
assistant geologist ot Georgia, was crushed
to death by the caving of a gold mine near
Nacoehe, Ga.
The confederate monument to beerect
ed by the ladies will be unveiled at Colum
bus, Ga., on the 25th, and Gov. Colquitt will
deliver the address. Muldoon, of Louisville,
made the Monument.
Clark county, Aik., one of tne five
original counties established by the territo
rial legislature of Missouri, has been abok
foiled, half going to Dallas and half to
Nevada counties.
Texas Jimplecute : In several instances
we hear of corn being plowed over and
cotton planted. The Colorado potato bug
has already made its appearance in small
numbers, and have commenced depositing
their eggs.
William Bollinger, a native of Win
Chester, Va., died last week in Monroe
county, Weßt Va., in the 105th year of his
age, having been born on January 16,1775.
Be was a soldier of the war of 1812.
Vicksburg Herald: If the Kansas
fever has not died out it has taken a lull in
this section. We shall probably hear very
little more of it after those at home have an
opportunity of hearing from those who have
gone before.
North Carolina prides herself on the
completion ot a tunnel under the Bine
Bulge mountains. The Western North Car
olina road has done the work at Swannanoa,
and it opens up the western part of the state
about Ashville.
A firm in New Orleans say they have
large orders for laborers from the section of
Louisiana and Mississippi lately abandoned
Oy no negroes. Many White laborers and a
fair proportion of Chinamen are sent for
ward almost every day.
Pointe Coupee Pelican ; Last year it
was estimated that there Were at least one
hundred and fifty of dewberry wine
ina ie in this parish. The dewberry crop of
this year bids f .air to be a large one, sugar is
cheap, and Ve trust that the vintage of this
year wil>. double that of last,
\ icksburg Herald: The exodus of the
Colored people to Kansas and to other west
ern states has, for the present at least, al
most entirely ceased. The last boats leav
ing here bound up stream had no more
colored passengers than customary.
Troy (Ala.) Enquirer: R a al estate of
every kind in the corporate limits of the
city has adv&noed since last fall, and lands
in the county command better prices than
for several years. People are generally more
settled and better contented in this section
than at any time within the past decade.
The state-debt meeting in Nashville
appointed the following committee to go to
New York to urge the bondholders to ac
cept the fifty cents and four per cent corns
promise: Ex Gov. Neil S. Brown, ex-Gov.
Janies D. Porter, Hon. Henry Cooper, State
Treasurer Marb T. Polk and Col. James L.
Gaines.
Savannah News: The number of little
negro children cremated in the interior of
the state through carelessness is really start
ling. On last Monday evening Dick Walker,
colored, living on the place of Mr. C. H,
Walker, seven miles from Dublin, left his
three little children in the house in charge
of their older sister, about twelve years of
age. Soon afterward the house took fire,
and the girl ran out, leaving the children in
the house, where they were burned up.
Assumption (La.) Pioneer: The crop
Crospects throughout the entire length and
readth of this parish are very flattering.
On nearly every sugar plantation the eane,
both plant and stubble, is springing up
handsomely in response to the caressing
spring weather, and occasional opportune
rainfalls. The season was unusually favora
ble for planting the well preserved seeds
cane, and at present writing, for cnltivation,
the earth is in splendid condition. Labor
seems to be plentiful.
Houston Telegram : Every day mur
derers are turned loose or condemned to
nominal imprisonment in the already over
crowded penitentiaries, and on all hands are
heard complaints of the expense of main
taining thousands of criminals in prison.
So violently has the fever of economy in
spending money on the punishment of crim
inals taken hold of our authorities in Texas
that it is considered a perfect godsend if
prisoners will only take the trouble to escape
and keep out of sight of the law officers.
Didn’t Have a Pair.
The Silver Reef (Utah) Miner tells a
touching story as follows : Two of our
sporting fraternity whom we will call
Smith and Jones, recently became en
gaged in a game of poker with a raw
boned, green looking stranger, and, as
sometimes will happen when strangers
are playing, the stranger found himself
looking at four queens, while Smith had
four kings, and Jones calmly regarded
four 'aces—the best hand. The betting
was pretty lively, and finally the stran
ger called for a “ sight,” and as all his
money was up, he said he had four
queens.
Smith said, “No good; I’ve got four
kings.”
“ The h—l you have f” yelled the
stranger, and let fly his right fist, about
the size of a peck of walnuts, plump
between Smith’s eyes, knocking him
across the room.
“ What have you got 7” sneered the
stranger to Jones.
With a glance at that big fist, Jones
hastened to reply, “Oh, I havn’t got
any thing, I was only bluffing,” and the
j-iranger raked in the “ pot,” and tie he’
departed, muttered: “ You can’t ring
in any cold decks on me I”
VOL. XX.-NO. 13.
THE TOKEN.
BT R. H- STODDARD
Clad in purple, be aat in bis palace,
▲ powerful kin*, in tbe days of old ;
They brought him Wine in a beautiful chalice,
Whose gem* were crusted in beaten gold.
“ Who bath jewel* like miner" demanded
The boeatful monarch ; acd straightway then,
Through hia men-at-aima, who at occe dlabanded
C ame one, who looked like the Vac of men
Be came in proudly, and held up a jew. 1,
Held it with both hands over hia head ;
lta light waa lovely, It* light was cruel;
But cruel, or lovely, the light waa rcjL
It shot out aparklf* ; ft w&* a tiiory,
A terrible “piendor, a heart ot Fire;
No one light like It, In aong or etjry,
For who had that had hi* aoul’a detire 1
It* brightneea abone over land and r c?an,
Far-reaching,—a dazzling, blinding light;
Creating wonder anti tlrabge devotion.
A tenae ot Love, and the sense of Might.
“ Who hath jewel* like thine 7” demanded
This Man of men. “ Look at my great gein 1
It grew where the rivers are golden-sanded,
With others,- it doee not compere with them 1
“ I aar to thee, monarch it la a token
Oi Masters, t bat fever on feaith remain ;
And if by Change any pert la broken,
It U Nothing less, but is whole again,"
Thus in Gallic Latin,—yeur Southey will show it,—
Two hundred and fifty years ago,
Wrote the great de fhon, of an early poet;
But what tbe meaning, he did not know.
“Love Lails at Msmilk”
Hillsburg is a pretty little vilhge,
somewhere on the eastern side of the
Alleebanies, but I Won't tell exactly
where, and Mollie Dane was one of the
prettiest girls in the village. At least
so thought Mr. Charley Abbott, and
nothing in the world would have made
him so happy an to be the owner of one
of the neat cottages on Main street in a
joint partnership with pretty Mollie
Dane.
Now, Charley Abbott was a manly,
good-looking young fellow, with a frank
smile, a clear, bright eye, and & heart as
big as a barn. And as like begets like
oftener than most folks believe, when he
fell in love wfth Mollie, she straightway
returned the favor by falling in love with
him.
It id quite likely that the paitnersbip
would have been speedily brought about,
but Mollie’s mamma had selected an
other partner for her fair daughter, and
would not listen to a word about young
Abbott.
Mrs. Dane’s choice of a sen-in law was
her own wcphfcw, a rising young doctor
by the name of Paul Reeves. The
Reeves had always been people of im
portance. Paul had a competency al
ready, aud at the death of his grand
father he would come in for a fortune —
a better match for her daughter surely,
than Charley Abbott, a poor banker’s
clerk, on a thousand a year.
There was one little circumstance of
which Mrs. Dane was not aware; Mr.
Paul was not quite free himself. There
was a young lady in the city where he
attended lectures, who had a word to
say on that subject. Mollie knew it,
however, for Paul had a strong, brotherly
friendship for his pretty cousin, and for
Charley Abfcott too; so they all three
took each other into confidence, and
Paul was the sworn ally of the lovers.
Mollie was an obedient daughter in
genera], but she bad a spice of her good
mamma’s will, and would not give up
Charley Abbott. Mrs. Dane would not
permit him to visit at the house,-and
MoLie was too proud and high-minded
to appoint clandestine meetings; but
there were many occasions when they
“ met by chance, the usual way,” and
there were walks in the open strict, and
several times Charley bravely escorted
Mollie to her own door. Mrs. Dane
could not prevent this, except by keeps
ing Mollie a prisoner at home. That she
did not caretodo Butone morning,when,
as she sat by the parlor window, they
came walking gayly up together, and
parted at the gate, she could stand it no
longer. Pretty Mollie came in, smiling
and blushing, well knowing a lecture
awaited her, and resolved to have it over
at once.
“ Well, miss,” began Mrs. Dane, sitting
up very straight and severe, “ how much
longer is this to go on ?”
“Is what to go on, mamma ?” asks
Miss Mollie, the very picture of demure
innocence.
“ This disobedience, madam ! This
running out into the street to meet that
—that young man ?”
“ Well, mamma, you won’t let him
come here.”
“ That is not an answer to my ques
tion, miss.”
“Oh ! well—not very long, I hope.
When he is your son, you won’t object
any longer.”
“ Whin he is my—what I” gasped
Mrs. Dane.
“Your son, mamma. He will be
before many weeks.”
“ You you Mary Dane ! You
haven’t, you surely haven’t ”
“ Promised to marry Charley ? Yes, I
have, mamma. I mean to keep my
word, too J” Mollie turned and faced
her mother with the flarhing eyes and
firm-set lips which Mrs. Dane knewYhe
meaning of very well. Her own eyes
flashed back, as she answered, sternly:
“Never! I’ll see you buried first.
Never, with my consent I”
“ With it, I hope, mamma. Charley
is coming to-day to ask you. But if
you won't give it, why, we shall be forced
to marry without it, that’s all.”
Mrs. Dane rose to her feet. Bhe was
a woman of few words and qnick action.
“ He has the audacity to come here for
my consent, has he ?”
“ Yes, mamma.’
“ Very well. I—l can’t talk upon tbe
subject just now. I must go up stairs
and think awhile, before I can decide
what to do. I am overpowered with
astonishment. Stay you here, and when
I call you, come up-stairs.”
“ Yes, mamma.”
Mrs. Dane swept away, and Mollie
waited anxiously to be called. In a very
few minutes her summons came, and
most unsuspiciously she ran up to her
mother in the third story.
She expected to be talked to, but as
soon as she was safe inside the door,
Mrß. Dane shut it, locked it, took out
tbe key, and put it in her pocket.
“ There, now !” she said ; “ I think I
shall bring you to your senses! In this
rocm you shall stay—you shall never
leave it until you promise to give this
fellow up.”
“Then I shall never leave it!’’ re
turned poor Mollie, very pale, but firm
and resolute.
“ We'll see I I fancy a day or two of
solitary confinement will bring you to
your senses. And when your fine lover
comes, I’ll show him the door, and that’s
ail the answer he’ll get. Now, I’ll leave
you to jour own reflections.”
Mrs. Dane let herself out, locked the
door on the outside, and went down
stairs, leaving poor Mollie completely
taken by surprise. But what could she
do ? She could not jump from the third*
story window nor struggle with her
mother for the door-key. Her rase ap
peared hopeless, for she had not eveb
any chance of communicating with her
lover, Mrs. Dane allowing no one to come
up-stairs but herself.
By the end of the second day, Mollie
had cried and fretted herself into such
a fever, that Mrs. Dane felt herself ob
liged to send for Dr. Paul Reeves. Dr.
Paul came, looked very grave, prescribed
some medicine, and told Mrs. bane he
thought it best to look in again before
bed-time. Aud he made out, when he
shook hands with his cousin, to leave a
tiny paper in her soft hand. The instant
the key was turned again upon Mollie,
she unfolded the scrap of paper and
read :
Dear Mollie : Charley and myself agree
in thinking that desperate cases require dee
fierate remedies. If you are willing to fol
ow our lead, give me a hint when I return
to-night. P.
Mollie had no writing materials. So
she tore a bit Irom a blank leaf of a
book, and scratched a few words deeply
upon it With a hair pin. This she man
aged to give to Paul when he made his
Becond call.
Dr. Paul was still very grave. He
told Mrs. Dane that he was afraid Mol
lie would have a tough siege of it, unless
he could help her at once (and that was
the truth, too I), and promised to come
again early next morning.
Mollie took her cue from him. and
pretended to be much sicker than she
really was. So when Dr. Paul came in
the morning, he found her in bed in her
own room on the second floor.
Mrs. bane, much alarmed, had ven
tured to remove her there, thinking she
would certainly make no attempt to see
Charley Abbott while she was sick.
This time Paul brought Mollie another
note, and it read thus.
When I come to-night, Charley will be in
my carriage at the door. I will get Aunt
Jane out of the room, and you must fly down
and make your escape quickly. Courage,
now ! and be all ready. P.
Molly was very sick all the morning.
In the afternoon she thought in prudent
to grow better, and when Mrs. Dane
brought up a cup of tea at supper-time,
she found Mollie dressed, wrapped in a
big shawl, and sitting in an easy chair.
“ Why, Mollie, what made you get
up ?” she asked.
“Oh, mother,” says Mollie, “you
know I could never bear to lie in bed.
Let me sit up awhile, and I shall rest
better to-night.’’
Mrs. Dane did not object, but she
mentally resolved that she should go
back to the third story in the morning.
Dr. Paul came soon, pronouuced her
better, sounded her lungs, and said he
still thought she had better have mus
tard applied to her chest. If Aunt Jane
would prepare the poultice herself, to
make Mire it was just right, they would
apply it at once.
Aunt Jane, not supposing there was
any danger in leaving the patient a few
moments in the doctor’s care, walked
right into the trsp, and went elown to
prepare.tbe mustard.
The moment she was elown stairs, the
sick girl sprang up, crying excitedly:
“Now, Paul, what?”
“ Throw your shawl over your head—-
don't stop for & hat—and run down to
Charley. I’ve left the front door open
on purpose. Fly, now, and make no
noise. Pm going to run down and tell
aunt, on second thought, I have decided
to let the mustard wait till morning.
You’ll escape while I’m gone, you know,
so I shall know nothing about it. Be
quick, now J”
Mollie flew down, and Dr. Paul ’fol
lowed, making a good deal of needless
noise, and kept his aunt nearly five
minutes before she remembered that
Mollie was alone.
Then she hurried to her post, but the
bird was flown.
Paul put on an air of such surprised
innocence, and was so indignant at the
idea of tbeir running off with his car
riage, that Aunt Jane was never certain
as to his complicity.
But at last she wisely resolved to en
dure what she could not cure, so she
forgave Mr. and Mrs. Charley and now
they all live together as happy and oosy
as can be.
.. There are two world’s fairs to take
place next year, and you can taxe your
choice between Mexico and Australia.
You’ll find the landlords in each rase
about the same.
CARTERSYILLE, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL *25, 1879.
SUNDAY READING.
■*■ Bel Iff Ilea.
Some religion is a thing of the heart
—which is tbe same as saying that it is
a thing ol love. It may exist in connec
tion with forms; and it may ext in its
sweetest unfolding independent of forms.
It may say grace at the table; and it
may not say grace at the table. It may
be gifted to sustain a family altar ; aud
it may not have the gilt requisite. But
if the heart be right, there shall be grace
and prayerfulness albeit forms be lack
ing in the family. There is a way of
eatimr your food which thanks God bet
ter than any formal grace-saying that
can be devised. There is a way of kiss
ing the wife after the meal, and the
hnsbanel is leaving for the office, which
covers the whole ground between bus
band and wife intent ed to be covered by
the influence of the family altar. We
have known a man ask a blessing on food
which he himself condemned in the very
next breath. To thank God for food,
and scold your wife or the cook in the
next breath because the Bteax is over
done, or the cakes not browned to your
suiting, or the tea too strong, is some
thing more, friend, than impiety ; it is
indecency. Home religion should be
loving, first of all, and last of all it
should be—loving. It should be very pa
tient, too—especially on those days when
it is hard to be patient. It should lie
cheerful, especially when it takes wit to
invent occasions of mirthfulness. It
should be brave, not to face the trou
bles that are without, but tbe troubles
that are within. A kindly word, a
pleasant speech, a cheerful or sympathe
tic look, a touch of the hand in the old
tender fashion of 'he courting days, a
stroking of the cheek nnd the soft move
ment of the palm over the hair. “ Fool
ish tricks?” You are a fool if you say
it, friend. You didu’t think that they
were foolish tricks once, and you were
wiser then than you are now that you
have dropped them. A little more court
ing in married life would keep married
life what courtship is. The foolishness
of love is wiser than the wisdom of hate ;
and the more foolish you are in these
directions, the happier will your home
be, and the sweeter will be your home
religion.—[Northwestern Christian Ad
vocate.
Ttie tl*e of Wealth.
The Lord never said to you, “Ye
shall not make money.” It is your sol
emn duty to make money, but not hoard
it up like a miser, nor to spend to the
winds like a spendthrift. You may
learn a leeon from the beetle that skims
over the water; it has two pairs of eyes,
one pair.under the water, and one above
it, so he can see above and below the
water. You may learn the lesson that
whilst you are liking on this land of
pleasure and business, you are to have
your eye of faith fixed on Heaven, and
the joys above, whilst your other eyes
are fixed on your business and the prop
er pursuit thereof. The lust of the eye
is condemned in the word ot God, but
it is hot wrong tb admire the beautiful.
Do you suppose if it was wrong to admire
the beautiful, God would have made the
rainbow? That he would have made
those ten thousand flowerß over the
mountains that (blossom in beauty and
send forth their fragrance on every pass
ing breeze? All the beautiful things
are right in their place, and it is right
for us to enjoy those things, but this is
a different thing from the lust of the
eyes. What a desire men have for dis
play ; but when their desires are grati
fied they are not happy. Baron Roths
child, when he died was worth $400,-
000,000. He was aoked if he was hap
py. He said, “Me happy IMe happy !”
and he shook his head. He lived and
died without being happy. Oh, how
much more happy he would have been
if he had imitated our Girard or our
Peabody, who gave their money while
living for the poor and needy, in the ed
ucation of the orphan and the lifting up
of humanity 1
A well-dressed lady came into a meet
ing where there was an address made to
raise money for the orphans. Her dress
cost $l,lOO. When the story of the
poor orphans was told, she took from
her pocket a handkerchief of magnificent
make, and when the collection box came
around she took out her portemounaie,
full to repletion, and deposited twenty
five cents. Ido not know whether this
was the same lady of New York that
paid SIB,OOO for six and a half yards of
lace. Qneen Victoria never did anything
so foolish as that with all her regal splen
dor.
But there is another side to this ques
tion of expenditure. The expenditure
of money often gives the poor work, and
in this way is a help to business. Frank
lin’s wife, feeling herself under some
obligations to a man from Cape May,
who had done a piece of work for her,
and would not receive any compensation
for it, sent his daughter anew style of
cap. Sometime afterward the man said
to her, “ That cap has cost our people
three hundred dollars. All the youDg
ladies admired it, and they must have
caps like it.” But let me tell the other
side of the story. All the girls about
Cape May knit warm mittens for the
workingmen of Philadelphia, and it re
vived a trade that was good for many
years afterward. When men have mon
ey, let them employ it so that others
will enjoy it as much as possible, end not
hoard it up to gratify the lust of the eye.
What strange notions people have in re
gard to this mere style! It begins with
the little child. A little child was anx
ious about what she should wear *in
Heaven ; whether she should wear her
moirei antique, and upon being told that
all who went to Heaven would beclothed
and beautified by the Father in some
jjiiher form, she wanted to know how th?
angels would know that she belonged to
good society on earth. It is no harm
ter a young woman to dress well if she
fun honestly pay for what she uses; but
the temptations of life in this city have
been so great that I have heard of fail
ure after failure, not only in this city,
but in other cities, that have been
brought about by the extravagance of
women. Many men of business could
not support such extravagance, and when
tbe hard times overtook them, they went
under the great current. Is it right, is
it Christian, to continue such extrava
gance which leads to such deplorable
results?—[Dr. B. L AgneW.
Wealej’a (Iturchuianahlii
The London Methodist Recorder deals
boldly with the assertion that John
Wesley lived and died a high churchman.
It says : “Wesley’s course from 1738,
l|nd the principles upon Which he acted )
sre utterly at variance with high church*
Jm. Was he a high churchman when
i 1739 he organized separate religious
cieties; when in 1740 he built meet
ing houses and settled them upon
trustees for his own use; when in 1741
he called out lay preachers; when in
1744 he established annual conferences;
when in 1784 he constituted the legal
conference as it has subsisted ever since;
when he ordained presbyters for America,
for Scotland, and at last even for Eng
land ? * * How high was Wesley ?
Take one crucial point. Tbe key of tbe
high church position is the dogma ot
apostolical successiou. This he describes
in 1775 as 1 a fable,’ which no man ever
did or can p>rove.’ Again, from the year
1745 onward he held firmly to the
equality of bishops and presbyters, rec
ognizing nothing more than a difference
of c fficial rank between them. Every
thing that a bishop could do a presbyter
could do. On this principle Wesley
ordained presbyters, and believed that
he thus conveyed every right which he
himself possessed, including ordination.
All this is to cut up high ehurchism by
the roots. Of what use is it to quote
words and predilections of another cast ?
These are simple survivals of a former
stage, which Wesley did not and could
not cast off all at once. St. Peter did
not unlearn his Judaism, or Luther hi&
popery, all at once.
A London Club Swell.
Thanks to his tailor aud hatter, a
neat figure and an agreeable appearance,
he looks the gentleman, but in bis views
and sentiments he has little in common
with the name. To rank he is prepared
to pardon every shortcoming ; and so
long as men and women are born in the
purple he extenuates every fault and
vice they commit. He worships birth
and all the surroundings of fashion as
only one of the middle class, who is
ashamed of the order to which he be
longs, can worship them. “ • food ” is
to him all what religion is, all what
principle is, ad what honor, truth, mor
ality are to other men. He does not
respect rank as it is only right that it
should in this country be respected, but
he regards it wit ’> the most slavish adu
lation. It the son of a peer is a kuave,
or the daughter of a peer hideous, he
will find the one honorable and the
other a beauty. He detests every class
but the one to which he does not belong,
and into which he cannot gain admit
tance. He is indifferent to any thing
for its own sake ; but if an undertaking
be encouraged by tho peerage, he likes
to see his name among those who have
given a guinea. He is the best ot men
to visit a fancy bazar, for a duchess or a
countess ran wheedle him out of half
his monthly allowance. He seldom plays
whist; but when he finds that any
“ swells ” are in the card-room of the
Caravanserai he will cut in and be proud
to lose his money in such good company.
Tbe Queer Turks.
Horace Maynard.
The climate of Constantinople re
sembles pretty closely that of Washing
ton, and life there is by no means disa
greeable, although restricted socially.
There is uo society in our meaning of
the term. With us society means the
association of the sexes, but in Turkey
you never see the wives of your friends,
and it would be a grave breach of good
manners to inquire after their health.
A Turn makes no reference to his larni
ly. no matter how intimate he may be
with you. Turkish gentlemen visit the
families of Christians and know how to
behave politely in ladies’ company, but
they never introduce gentlemen to their
own households. This is the rule of all
Mohammedan countries. The Persian
minister at Constantinople occasionally
gives receptions at ,his house, which are
attended by Christian ladies. He shows
his guests the arrangement of his harem,
but its occupants are carefully secluded
from their gaze. There is no court in
the European sense of the terra. On
ceremonial occasions no women appear.
The Turks with whom I came in contact
in my official intercourse with (he gov
ernment are men of fine appe. ?! ance,
dressed with scrupulous care, very neat
in their persons and exceedingly polite
in their manners. They talk in low,
pleasing tones. Many of them speak
French and a few English.
..“What,” says the Woman’s Jour
nal, “is a sadder sight than teeing a
young bride sick at heart ?” Why, sick
at sea, of course ; especially if you get
a subject who paws the deck with her
feet, digs her elbows into the rail, grasps
her bursting temples with desi etation,
and gurgles out, “ Oh, my! Oh, dear!
Oh, George!”
MACKEREL.
How Caaihl and Where An ißrrrmtiaf
Hu tinea*.
The historic mackerel made his best
flip in America with his insatiate friend,
the conservative Codfish, to the great
delight of the Pilgrims and i'ufitaflß,
in their exceeding time of need ; a kind
service their sons and daughters are not
soon inclined to forget. Of all the finny
tribes that roam or sport in the ocean,
the mackerel is the most beautiful, eats
able and valuable. While fresh it is
found upon the table of the rich and
poor many months in the year; aflord
ing always a healthy and desirable,
sometimes delicious, and often for
months an exceedingly cheap kind of
food. Fresh mackerel have been sold in
London markets as high as seven shil
lings each, and as loft as siity for one
shillii g.
Theie has been inspected in Massachu
setts alone, during the ten years pre
ceding and including 1874, two million
three hundred and sixteen thousand and
eighty-three barrels, an average of two
hundred and thirty one thousand bar
rels annually. At an average price of
twelve dollars and a half per barrel,
which must be conceded a low estimate
for these yearr, we have an annual pro
duct of about three millions from the
salt mackerel department of Massachu
setts. In 1850 Professor Htorer esti
mated that altout eight thonsaud bar
rels of fresh mackerel were sold in the
Boston market. Since 1850, owing to
increased facilities for transportation
and the general use of ice, this branch
has been augmented in Boston at least
ten fold. Immense quantities are car
ried diiect to the New York market
during the spring and early summer,
counting which, aud other places, it
would seem a safe calculation that at
least half as many mackerel are now
sold fresh as are salt packed. Estimat
ing their value the same as the salted
fish, and allowing only half a million
for all the mackerel caught in Maine
and the other states, we have five mil
lion dollars annual income to the in
dustry of the state, on an outlay of
thirteen millions. This five million is
purely productive; every dollar comes
from the tcean. Not eVen farming is eo
pre-eminently and entirely a productive
industry. The fisherman plows an un
taxed furrow, that needs no replenishing
year by year.
It is almost incredible how fast mack
erel may be caught by a trained crew.
The mackerel sometimes go up so fast
that the whole gide of the vessel shines
like silver. In July, 1842, a crew of
eleven men and boys “struck a school”
of biting mackerel on George’s bank. In
twenty-five minutes they caught thirty
strike barrels (a barrel bo full that the
mackerel jump out). Ten hours such
fishing would give six hundred strike
barrels, or about three hundred barrels,
which, at the present price of that qual
ity, would stock seven thousand five
hundred dollars. Among leading mack
erel fishermen, Skipper Richard Rich, of
Truro, was a celebrity in his day. For
many yeara he was “high line” in the
country. On account of sailing many
years in the schooner Osceola, he became
quite widely known as “Osceola Dick;”
some thought 'that mackerel knew him
as well and came to his hook. One I
hundred and fifty wash-barrels was not a j
great deck for Osceola Dick. He has
taken one hundred and ninety wash
barrels in a single day, all saved in good
order, and without feeling very fishy.
In pursuit of food, mackerel ioam the
ocean as the beast roams the forests; but
they move north or south by laws as
fixed as the rule of the seasons. Thoreau
in his “Cape Cod,” tells of a Wellfleet
farmer who kept his schooner anchored
in sight of his house, and while his Corn
and potatoes were growing, and at other
odd times, with his boys, he ran down to
Virginia and other points along the
coast. Thoreau calls the schooner a
market-wagon, which this ocean farmer
drove amain. As the farmer calls his
flock by scattering corn, and thus leads
them to fresh pastures and fields anew,
so these sea-farmers call their flocks into
the bays and on the banks of the coast,
and feed with food convenient for them.
In other words, the thousand or fifteen
hundred sail of fishermen that used to
fringe our shores, and by a systematic
practice scatter a huudred thousand bar
rels annually of fat, fresh-ground flood
to the mackerel, called “throwine bait,”
had educated the fish to visit, feed and
fatten in hsndy pastures.
As we have taken so succ o ßsfuHy to
eating oat meal, may we not take another
lesson of the hardy Scotch, and learn to
eat mere fish ? Surely if eating oat
meal and herring have given them brawn
and brain, they may be proud of both.
Dryden did not mean the Gaels when be
said, “ Brawn without brains is theirs.”
In 1860 there were employed In the Irish
herring fisheries 57,000 men and boys,
and more than fourteen thousand vessels
and b?ats. The Dutch and Scandina
vian fisheries are enormous, the fisheries
of Norway being its leading business.
In 1818 there were inspected in Massa
chusetts forty-seven thousand barrels of
mackerel, which was the largest of any
year in its history. It was regarded as
a good year for mackerel, and a great
many wondered where all the mackerel
went, and who ate them. In 1820 two
hundred and thirty-six thousand barrels
were inspected, and all found a ready
market. In 1831 the returns were three
hundred and eighty-three thousand bar
rels, and no complaint of surplus stock.
If any one should think my standard of
a million barrels pear annum a fancy esti
mate, let me call your attention again to
figures. At the ratio of expansion
during the thirteen year3 from 1818 to
S. A, CUNNINGHAM.
1831 we should need in 1790 nearly two
millions of barrels. There need, then,
be no doubt about the capacity of the
country to consume all the mackerel
that can be caught, however rapid the
increase.
SITKA.
AlnthH'i Prlnrlpaf Town-ll* Popula
tion and Hullnms.
Sitka is the largest town in the vast
territory for which our government paid
seven million dollars, it is situated on
the West coast of BaranofF island, and
although lying In latitude 58 deg 50
sec., nearly 16 deg north of .Boston and
only 2 deg. south of Greenland, the
climate is so modified by the Japan car*
rent that the thermou eter rarely falls
below zero. The summers are short and
cool, not differing more than 60 deg.
from the water temperature of winter.
The population consists of about three
hundred white people, exclusive of the
garrison, and one thousand two hundred
Indians. When Alaska belonged to
Russia, Sitka was in a more fl urishing
condition; it was a garrison town com
manded by Prince Mosontoff. Aithetime
of the transfer, the Russian inhabitants
were offered their passage to Russia or
the passage money if they remained.
All the best people went home to tbs
mother country, leaving the most de
graded class.
The Indians belong to the Asiatic
type, and differ in habits from the plain
Indian.l. They build good log houses,
and as they live almost entirely by fish -
ing, their villa e faces the bay. Each
family owns a boat, and in the summer
men, women and children go out on long
fishing excursions, coming back with
their winter’s supply of oil aud dried
fish. Most of the valuable furs they
obtain in barter with inferior Indians,
and in turn exchange them for provisions
and clothing at the Indian traders’.
Sitka still wears a foreign air, having
changed very little t-iuCO the Russian
occupation. The quaint church, built
in the form ol a Greek cross, with its
shining dome surmounted by a great
gilt cross, the summer house belonging
to the princess, the little chapel that
bears a grave interest from the massacre
of priest and people, many years ago,
the bUrying-ground, with slabs of mar
ble fitting over the graves, and the sym -
bol of our religion for a headboard, all
these are strange and picturesque to
American eyes. The strange, impres
sive service of the Greek church, the
floor crossed with resinous fir boughs
instead of carpets, the chanting
of the long robed priests, the singing of
the chorister boys, carry the traveler
back to the Catholic church of the mid
die ag6s. In no other place can a con
gregation be fonnd more absorbed in de
votion, nowhere a congregation more
oblivious of sacred teachings when out
of church.
Tourists have pronounced the bay cf
Sitka, although entirely different, equa
in beauty to the bay of Naples or Rio
Janeiro. It is never troubled by the se
vere et-onus that send mountains of spray
dashing over the reef at the opening of
the bay.
In the summer of 1872 the bay fpre
eented a very gay appearance The Sa
ranac, then flag-ship of the Pacific
squadron, with Admifal Winslow on
board, was cruising in Alaska waters.
She boasted of a boat crew that had
never been beaten, except by some light
Asiatic craft, and had been victorious
over many European crews. A race
was planned between this boat and an
Indian war canoe. The course waa from
the starting point up the bay, around
the Saranac and back. The Indian boat
won the race by a full quarter of a
mile. The interest displayed by the In
dians on the bank, during tbe race, and
their enthusiasm at the result, disproves
the theory that Inulans are perfectly
stoical.
When the forests of Oregon and Wash
ington are exhausted, and the salmon
destroyed iu the Columbia, attention
will be drawn to the vast forests ol
Alaska and the abundance of salmon,
and Sitka may be the capital of a valu
able territory. Until then there is little
hope for her. Now. w ith her resources
Undeveloped, her garri-on removed, and
her inhabitants living iu daily fear of
the Indians, she is the picture of deso
lation.
GTeen Cloth Romance.
The Asiatic gambler is the most reck
less ; it seems to be his second nature,
aud he will not scruple to stake his wife,
children, or, as a last venture, one of his
own limbs, bis life or liberty, becoming
thus the slave of hie antagonist. And
here I am reminded of a fine point in
law ones extant among the ancient Hin
doos and touching upon this very ques
tion. A warrior staked his last farthing
on chance, finally putting up his liberty,
losing which he bethought him of his
beautiful wife. Luck being still against
him, she was summoned as a slave before
her husband’s antagonist and escaped the
life of serfdom by the adroitness of her
first query: “ Did my husband lose me
or himself first ? For if he played away
himself he coul not stake me.” There is
a story of a similar story as having oo
curred in an English-speaking country.
It was during the plague in England that
a young captain of the king’s body-guard
pledged the key of his house against all
the winnings of his adversary and lost.
The wife’s honor was paved through the
medium of a terribl ’ avenger, the plague,
one spot of which having appeared upon
her throat, frighten and away the winner
of the key. The story is a long ene;
there was a duel; the husband was killed;
tbe wife died of the plague, and the cause
o all thisjwoe, the lucky gamester, was
only cursed by the weird plague-prophet,
“to perish ir ’’' Mng fire.”
WAIFS AND WHIKB.
80Fr, SOFT WIND.
Soft, soft wind, from out th *w*#t tooth tlidlnf.
W*lt thy tilrer cloud-web tthwtrt the rammer
sea.
Thin, thin threads of mitt on dewy finger* twining.
Wan ■ web ol dtppled gtute to shtde my Babe
and me.
Deep, deep lore, within thine own tbyta abiding.
Four Thyself abroad, O Lord, on earth and sir and
sea,
Worn, weary heart* within Thy holy temple hid
ing.
Shield liom sorrow, sin and shame, mv helpleas
babe and me.
.. Pork is not admitted to the best so
ciety in Italy.
.. The honeymoon is too often only
another name for the sigh-moon.
..Chinese poets have license to make
“ gait ” rhyme with “ dog,” end their
work is easy.
.’TThe favorite resource of the Turk*
is procrastination —their national weapon
is the yet again, as it were.
~ Some say that the quickest way to
destroy weeds is to marry a widow. It
is, no doubt, a most agreeable species of
husbandry.
..For “it’s a poor mule that won’t
work both ways,” in yesterday’s issue,
please read “ P's a poor rule,” etc*—
[Cincinnati Enquirer.
..There is th s s com'ert in the great
art of giving up smokings. One knows
that when he begins again he needn’t
necessarily get sick.
..An agricultural society offered ft
premium for the best mode of irriga
tion, which waa printed “ irritation ” by
m istake. A farmer sent hia wife to
claim the prize.
When a boy doe s something funny
and you laugh at it he will invarably
keep doing it twenty or thirty times
more, till you have to knock him down
with something.
.. Vermont comee to the head with a
horse having seven legs and five horns.
A horse fitted up as elaborately as this
ought to be killed and stuffed, and n&iled
up somewhefp for a hat rack.
...Quoth a wiao mail to a youth one day:
“ Tell me'your aim id Mb'* 1 pry.”
“ A mighty genoral I’d bd, ”
Replied the youth, ambitiously .
Then quoth the stripling to the sage:
“Tell me your aim layour old ago.”
Then said the sage, a little tired :
<< Aim ? Oh I I have no aim ; I’ve fired.”
Plant lice” is at the head of an
article in am agricultural exchange.
This 1b very unsatisfactory. Where,
and how, shall we plant them, and what
variety does the editor cultivate?
.. Ala ly told her little sou, who waß
teasing for something to eat, to waituns
til breakfast. With a tear in his eye,
he burst out: “ I jest honestly some
timeii think you’re a stepmother 1”
. ,Bwell : “ Oh, Robinson, I am not
at all satisfied with these trousers.’*
Shop-keeper: “ Indeed, sir I Sorry to
hear that. We made ’em to measure,
too!” Swell: “ Yaas. But, you see,
I didn’t want them to measure—l want*
ed them to wear 1”
..Oysters are never eaten in their
fresh state in China. After being taken
from the shell they are plunged into
boiling water, then exposed to the sun
until thoroughly dried. In such condis
tion they retain their delicacy and na
tive flavor for a long time.
..Wash a baby up clean and dress
him up real pretty, and he will resist
ail advances with a most superlative
crossness; but let him eat molasses gins
ger-bread and fool around the coal hod
for half an hour, and he will nestle his
dear little dirty face close up to your
clean shirt bosom and be just the lov
ingest, cunningest little rascal in all the
world. •
How tire Apostles Died.
1. Peter was crucified in Rome, and,
at his own request, with his head down
ward.
2. Andrew was crucified by being
bound t'. a cross with cords, on which
he hung two days, exhorting the people
till he expired.
3 St. James the Great was beheaded
by order of Herod, at Jerusalem.
4. Bt. James the Less < was thrown
from a high pinnacle, then stoned, and
finally killed with a fuller’s club.
6. St. Philip was bound and hanged
against a pillar.
6 St. Bartholomew was flayed to
death by command of a barbarous king.
7. St. Matthew was killed with a hal
berd.
8. St. Thomas, while at 'prayer, waa
shot with a shower of lances, and afters
ward run through the body with a lance.
9. St. Simon was crucified.
10. Thaddeus, or Judas, was cruelly
put to death.
11. St. Matthias; the manner of hie
death is somewhat doubtful; one says
stoned, then beheaded ; another says he
was crucified.
12. Judas Iscariot fell, and his bowela
gushed out.
13. St. John died a natural death.
14. St. Paul was beheaded by order
of Nero.
A Question of Damages.
Some lawyers take very practical
views of cases in which they are retained.
In a certain town in Missouri, Squire
G was defending a charge of mal
practice. A colored man was Buing foie
damages, his wife having died shortly
after an operation for removal of cancer.
When it came Squire G ’s turn to
cross-examine the plaintiff, he asked.
“ Mr. Wilson, how old was your wife
when she died?”
“ About forty-five, sir.”
“ Been in feeble health a long time,
ha she not, Mr. Wilson, and-cost you
a great deal for medicine and help ?”
Yes, sir.”
“ You have married again, have you
not?”
“ Yes, sir.”
“ How old is your present wife ?”
“ About thirty-five, sir ”
“ And she is stout and healthy, Mr.
Wilson ?”
“ Yes, sir.”
“ Then, Mr. Wilson, you will please
state to the jury how you are damaged
ni this case?”
Mr. Wilson had evidently never taken
this view of tbe matter, and could make
no answer. The good and true men
thought he had made rather a good thing
by his bereavement, and brought in ft
verdict for the defendant-