IHICARTSRSTILLKIXPBISS
CABTEKBVILLE, GEORGIA.
jp elected poetry.
THE LOTEB’S SOLILOQUY,
I have Id my thought* two maiden#,
And t hey dwell not far tpait;
There'# a question I’m debating—
It la, which one shall have my heart ?
One Is Ada Arabella,
And the other Busan Jane:
One ia poor, but she la handsome,
And the other rich, but plain.
The maidens both hare fathers
On their daughters’ welfare bent;
One is worth a hundred thousand,
£ Ihe other not a cent.
Arabella sports in jewels
And their beauty 1 admit;
But in Busan’s eyes are diamonds,
And she has the gems of wit.
1 hare heard it said that riches
Will take wings and fly away;
And perhaps that hundred thousand
Might on pinions go astray.
As there is a wealth substantial,
Called the wealth of heaxt and brain,
Avaunt! the hundred thousand!
I will marry Busan Jane!
For with her I must be happy,
Though my earnings may be small;
1 can buy my clothing cheaply
At the Mammoth Tower Hall;
And with what I save on clothing—
If there’s truth in what is said—
-1 can buy my wile’s apparel,
And have something leit for bread.
With my Busie for a helpmate,
I shall be in courage bold;
Bhe will know the heart that loves her
Was not bought with sordid gold;
And heT lips at eve shall greet me,
Breathing Home, sweet home,” so dear;
I shall see the pleasant picture
When the cherished tones 1 hear,
And shall feel that strength to labor,
With the health that labor brings,
Is far better than the riches
Which may to themselves take wings.
GIANT BIRDS.
How their Fossil Remains were Diieer*
ered in Blew Zealand.
N. Y. Evening Post.
The museum of natural history at
Central park has now within its cases a
very perfect series of specimens of some
of the most wonderful creatures of pre
historic life yet discovered by science.
These are the moas, or monster birds of
New Zealand, They occupy a case in
the extreme end of the Geological hall,
and owing to their massive proportions,
look more like the monstrous remains of
different quadrupeds than the sum total
of one biped. Even the smallest bones
equal or exceed in size the bones of the
largest horse. In a recent letter Mr. C.
N. B. Munston says that “a leg bone of
a moa with a ’arge piece of flesh adhering
to it was found some time ago in a cave
in the province of Otago, and is now in
the Otago museum, Dunedin, N. Z.”
This seems to settle the vexed question
as to whether the birds are actually
extinct or not; but the truth of the
statement is strongly contested—Dr.
Haast of the Canterbury museum, de*
daring with one party, namely, that the
creature has been extinct for hundreds
of years, and Dr. Hector, director of the
Colonial museum, that a few moas may
yet exist on the grassy slopes of the
southern Alps, between the limit of the
bush and snow line.
The thought of such huge birds
swarming in the low lands suggests the
tales of the Arabian Nights, and the
“ roc” seems almost a possibility. The
moas, however, were wingless, and
notwithstanding their enormous stiength
were evidently destroyed by man, if we
may believe the story of excavations
made by Dr. Haast. which resulted in
the fine collection now in the museum.
The place where the birds were first
found was almost inaccessible, and when
the cavity now called the Moa Bone
Point cave was enlarged by the waves of
the sea the estuary of Heathcote-Avon
in its present condition did not exist.
Close to this cavity on its western side
was a hard, delectric lava stream
through which the summer road now
passes to the sea. Masses of rock were
detached by the surf, forming a ridge
which gradually loses itself in the sand.
The formation of this ridge princi
pally took place when this part of the
• peninsula was twelve or fifteen feet
lower than at present, the upper line ot
bowlders being about sixteen feet above
the present high water mark. When
the land rose again the sea was eat off
by this bowlder ridge from the entrance
of the cave, acioss which lay a huge
rock, protecting it and preventing it
from being filled up by deposits of drift
sands, now forming on the plot close to
it. A second and lower line of bowlders
was formed in front of the former, about
five feet above the present high water
mark, with a small terraced space behind
it. Since then other deposits orming
in the Heathcote-Avon estuary have
created a small belt in front of this last
Jine of bowlders, brought into its pr^-
ent condition by the action of the open
sea. So it will be seen that nature has
done its best to protect this treasure.
Notwithstanding the constant changes
of land and sea, the cave retained its
individuality, the huge rocks and ledges
thrown across its mouth by the fierce
waves completely guarded its entrance,
and repelled the invasion of the ele
merits.
Ihe entrance to the cave in which
were found the remains ia about forty
feet from the summer road, which has
an altitude of 1,859 feet above the high
water mark, and is nearly five feet lower,
or 1,854 feet above the high water, tak
ing the level of the surface as a guide.
An opening which is about thirty feet
broad by eight feet high, much narrowed,
however, by a huge rock, leads into the
cave, of which the floor slopes gently
down. The cave consists of three corn*
partments, of which the first one is by
far the largest. It runs nearly due
north and south, is one hundred and
two feet long by eeventystwo feet wide
toward the middle, and about twenty
four feet high. From this cave’s termi
nation through a small passage a second
cave is reached, which is eighteen feet
loug and fourteen feet wide, and about
eleven feet high, its direction being
north by west to south by east. At its
southern end a small p.assage three feet
high by about two feet six inches broad
leads into a third or inner chamber
which is more than twenty feet lone,
with an average width of sixteen feet,
about twenty feet high, running, like
the principal cave, due north and south.
Its floor is about eight feet above high
water mark.
Near the surface, and trodden in, lay
many objects which showed that the
cave had been inhabited as a dwelling at
some remote time. The entire stratum
was removed by a systematic digging of
trenches by the natives under the direc
tion of Mr. Haast, and among the objects
recovered wer§ (1) cockle, periwinkle
and mussel shells common in the neigh
boring eitaary; (2) a layer of ashes
with pieces of flax, cabbage-tree leaves,
charred wood, etc.; (3) ashes and dirt
beds composed of the droppings of goats
which were brought into Canterbury
by the Europeans in 1839, and a few
pieces of moa bones; (4) a layer of ag*
glomeratic beds consisting of rocks that
had evidently fallen from the roof. Be
tween the layers of shells were found
pieces of wood, partly charred pieces
of wooden implements of Maori manu
facture, plaitings made of phormmm le
nax , and pieces of two broken polished
stone implements, while close to the
bottom of the trench moa bones were
found representing several species. Mr.
Haast, in noting this, says: “ I could
not divest myself of the conviction that
in and below the agglomeratic beds
remains proving human occupancy
would be found. ”
In this search human remains were
not found, and it was not until two or
three strata had been removed that they
were discovered ; but at last a Maori
skeleton was found a few feet from the
southwest wall. The aborigines who
placed the body there had dug through
the shell bed about eight inches, then
through the dirt two inches, and four
inches through the agglomeratic deposit.
They had then excavated the marine
sands for several feet and placed the
corpse in a silting position, bound with
flax, the face toward the wall of the
rock.
It was evident that the burial had
taken place long before Europeans came
to the place. The skeleton, which was
articulated by Mr. Fuller, stands in the
Canterbury museum and belongs to a
man past middle age and more than six
feet in height. The ulna of the left arm
was broken and was only partly healed
when he died; and letting imagination
run rife we can suppose that he was
killed by the blow o r a moa’s “ hool ”
an unbirdlike -erm—but appropriate to
the facta of the case.
Judging by the molars of this unfor
tunate maori, moa on toast was by no
means a tender dish, ai the teeth were
worn and twisted iuto almost Quilpian
ugliness. Most of the premolars were
missing in the lower jaw, the alveoli
(tooth sockets) being quite absorbed. In
the upper jaw, the first moiar on the
right side and the first on the left are
twisted upward, their anterior surfaces
adhered to the alveoli, which were di
velooed in a light bony outgrowth. Ow
ing to a very remarkable distortion of
tne left molar, mastication was performed
with its outer surface, which was worn.
The condition of this specimen, its evi
dent age and that of the surrounding
objects point to the truth of the theory
of Mr. Haast that the dinoris became
extinct at an extremely remote period
The bones were iouna in many posi
tions. Some in swamps where they bad
herded in their flight, and, like the m*-
tadon, had been swallowed by the soft
ooze that was to perpetuate their name
in future ages. The natives now living
attribute the first Maori to the Wattaha,
the first immigrants who preceded the
natives called Ngalimamoe, who pre
ceded Ngotekwu, the present inhabit
ants. The fact that these remains are
assigned to a remote period of Maori
occupation by the natives themselves,
considered in connection with the great
distance between the lower and upper
shell beds, goes for to prove that many
centuries must have elapsed since the
moa became extinct.
The fine collection of these huge
creatures now at the park represents a
variety of genera. They were set up
by Dr. Haast and the trustees of the
American museum purchased them by
telegraph, outbidding the agent of the
British museum. It is the most perfect
collection extant. Their huge forms
certainly tell a wondrous tale of the
degeneracy of power in the march of
time.
AT THE GATK.
And where were you just now, Mabel ?
Where have you been so long?
The moon is up, and all the birds
Have sung their evening song;
I taw you loitering down the path
Bo lonely and so late,
Beyond the well and lilac bush,
And hanging by the gate.
I love to hear the birds, mother,
And se? the rising moon;
And,-oh! the summer is sweet
Beneath the sky of June.
My cow is milked, my hens are cooped,
And washed are cup and plate,
And so I wandered out a whiis,
To hang upon the gate.
The gate is by the road, Mabel,
And idle folks go by,
Nor Bhould a maiden brook the glance
Of every stranger eye.
Besides, 1 thought I saw a cap—
I’m sure you had a mate;
Bo tell me who was with you, child,
Just hanging at the gate.
Now you know just as well, mother,
’Twas only Harry Gray,
He spoke such words to me to-night,
I knew not what to say;
And, mother, oh! for your dear sake,
I only bad 9 him wait—
And mayn’t I run and tell him now ?
He’s hanging at the gate.
— Harper's Magazine .
Hilling a Religion,
Dr. Beard in Norlh American Review,
Modern spiritism is an attempt to ap
ply the inductive method to religion ; to
make faith scientific; to confirm the
longings of the heart by the evidence of
the senses. In thus submitting spiritis n
to the inductive method, its friends for
got that to prove a religion would be to
kill it—to transfer it from the emotions,
where it belongs, to the intellect, where
it can find no home. A religion proved
dies as a religion and becomes a scientific
fact, and would take its place *ide by
side with astronomy and chemistry,
with physics and geology, in the organ
ized knowledge of men. Spiritists
would, therefore, have been wiser if they
had followed the example of one of the
very greatest of experimental philoso
phers, the late Prof. Faraday, of whom
it was said that when he “ entered his
laboratory he shut the door of his orato
ry.” The security of religious beliefs
consists in their keeping out of range.
Religion, indeed, is between two fires;
absolutely proved or absolutely disproved
it is destroyed; disproved, it becomes a
delusion, a negative fact of science;
proved, a positive fact, in both cases
recognized by the intellect and appealing
to it; like the horizon, it recedes as we
go toward it—even the attempt to sub
mit it to scientific study causes it to
disappear. No religion on the globe is
strong enough to bear the shock of its
own demonstration. That Christianity
has not clearer and more precise bisters
ical evidence for its claims has been the
experienced and oftentimes uttered
regret of apologists, and to supplement
this defect by toilsome researches has
been the burden of the first scholarship
in the world; but it is the weakest point
in Christianity that it is historically so
strong its recent decline among the
thoughtful corresponds to the argument
ing wealth of the testimony in its favor,
and at this hour its hold, in all sects, is
firmest among those who are most
obvious and most heedless of the argu
ment for its divine origin If Chris
tianity ever dies, it will be of excess o
evidence. Each addition of proof draws
b>ood. ___
..There was a terrible fight at the
West Hill school vesterday afternoon
Two boys, burning with rage and hate
jot od opposite sides of the street and
called each otnei “ nigger ” and “ red
h*-ad *' till the sun went down. The
hoy with the red hair was the maddest
hut the cotored boy had the loudesi
voice, and was declarer
the victor People who live in the
neighborhood say it sounded like a con**
gre!*sional debate.—[Buriingtor Hawk
eye,
A Devil-fish Playing Horse.
Charleston News and Courier.
While Mr. Henry May was out fishing
with a party on Thursday morning near
Fort Ripley, in the yacht Uncle Peter,
aud the vessel was lying at anchor, all
of a sudden, without apparent cause,
she started off at frightful speed. The
cause, however, was soon explained by
a huge devil-fish rising to the surface of
the water, with the anchor rope fastened
to his fins. A small negro fishing-boat
The pennies have been collected after
a most persevering effort, the wreath has
been made and exhibited in London, and
now Lord Beaconsfield declines to make
himselt ridiculous by receiving it. he
even hints that the projector got the
thing up to bring himself into notoriety,
if not from a more sordid motive. Car
dinal Wolsey on his death-bed mourned
over the ingratitude of kings; this En
glish enthusiast will new be disposed to
bring the same charge against premiers,
was soon caught., too, by its anchor rope
being entangled with that of the Uncle
Peter. The fish then went straight for
Fort Ripley with both boats, but as he
would get near shoal water he would shy
off again, and make for the channel.
The negro boat soon cut loose, but the
Uncle Peter was carried twice round
Fort Ripley, and it was nearly an hour
before the devil-fish finally let go. The
anchor rope was found covered with a
thick slime, which could not be removed.
There was no harpoon on board the
Uncle Peter, otherwise the namesake of
his sable majestymaight have paid dearly
lor his prank.
He Did Not Save tbe Czar.
London Truth.
As is well known, when the Czar was
fired at in 1866 by Karakosoff, in the
summer garden, the first officer who
came on the scene was General Todlebenl
The assassin was gone, but the genera
found lying on the spot and apparently
insensible, a young peasant whose name
proved afterward to be Ossip Ivanowitch.
Another young man, an apprentice, who
who was there likewise, but was never
heard of afterward, asserted that he had
actually seen Ossip pull back the arm of
the assassin as the latter was firing his
pistol, and the former had, consequently
saved the life of the Czar. The fact was
at once considered proved, and yonng
Ossip was lionized into a hero, and in
troduced to the Czar, who made a noble
man of him under the name of Komks
aroff, For a whole season the young
fellow, under the guidance of Gen. Tod
leben, was the idol of St. Petessburg
society. His father, a non-political con
vict in Siberia, was recalled, ani after a
triumphant journey, admitted to share
in the new prosperity of his son. Even
tually, when the enthusiasm had cooled
down, it was ascertained that Ossip had
never saved the life of the Czar at all,
and that being slightly tipsy when the
event took place close by him, he had
simply been frightened by the pistol’s
report, and had fainted. The matter
was hushed up as soon aa possible —they
manage that Bert of a thing very well in
St. Petersburg—and the new nobleman
was provided with a lieutenancy in the
Caucasus.
Bonnets With Lightning-Con
ductors.
In an old-fashioned book we are told
that, soon after the invention of the
lightning-rod, the ladies of Paris, France,
thought it fashionable, as well as safe,
to wear a bonnet ornamented at the
very top with a thread of bright metal.
To this was attached a little silver
chain which reached down the back
over the dress and touched the ground.
It was believed that the lightning
would be caught by the metallic thread,
and would then be so polite as to run
along the chain down into the earth
without harming the wearer of the bon
net.
Domestic Geometry.
Courier-Journal,
There is one poor boarding house
keeper who is going to be just perfectly
miserable for the next week at least.
She has anew set of servants, and green
servants are such a vexation I They
haven’t the first idea of geometry, and
it takes the average landlady at least a
week’s ca*eful drilling to teach them how
to arrange the tablecloth in such a scien
tific manner that tbe holes will be under
the butter-dish, the caster and the coffee
urn.
.. A little Waterloo Sunday-school
miss was asked by her teacher: “ Wha
must people do in order to go to
heaven ? ” M Die, I suppose, ” re
plied the little one. The teacher
didn’t question her any further.
. .A North Uaroima widower has been
arrested while attempting to sell a set
of false teeth belonging to his deceased
wife’s estate, to procure funds for the
purchase <>t a suit in which to marry a
second wife.
MX SWEETHEART.
My sweetheart’s like the sweetest flower
Bhe’s like a summer neon
She’s like frhe tender air that blows
In the sweet month of June.
My sweetheart’s like the sweetest soaj
That ever yet was sung;
Ihe myriad melodies of life
Are caught from her alone.
My sweetheart’s like the morning star
That hides a loving face
Upon the bosom of the dawn
and ?e caught from her alone.
Bhe’s like the harveet moon that shirs*.
Upon the ripened fields;
Bhe’s sweeter than the sweetest store
Theii richest buiden yields.
She’s like—oh 1 wicked waste of word*
On hei dear self bestown
The loveliest of all loveliness—
My life, my rride-mv own,
.. Necessity may be the mother of in
vention, but laziness is certainly the
father of it.
.. “ You follow the legal profession, 1
believe, sir?” Lawyer pompom: “ No,
sir, 1 lead it.”
.. Puck says that a man learning to
play the cornet interests all hh neigh*
bors—-in a horn.
.. Summer heat has the effect cf mak
ing people in one place want to go to
some other place.
..An English sporting nobleman last
year paid a bill of SI,OOO for medical at
tendance upon his pack of hounds.
..Have you ever thought hew kind
t is of the average murderer to forgive
everybody before he is swung off?
..Brown: “Gan you break me a $5
bill ?” Jones: “ I should like to break
it, but unfortunately I’m broke myself.”
.. In order to have the words “ Para
graphers’-Association ” convey their full
significance, they should be joined to*
gether with a high-fun.
.. Grandma: “ Yes, children, when I
was young as you are I used to walk in
my sleep.” Tommy (eagerly): “ Say,
grandma, what time did you make V*
.. “In the bright complexion of youth
we have no such word a 9 pale, ” and she
reached for the rouge-box with the
clutch of an angel.
.Don’t you mean to marry again*
deacon Jones ?” asked widow Simpkins.
“ No,” growled he, “ I’d rather lose
what ribs I’ve got than take any more.”
.. A bursting soda water fountain killed
a North Carolina man a few days ago.
Young women, beware how you lead
young men up to a loaded soda fountain*
.. The law prohibiting opium smoking
in Nevada, under a penalty of SI,OOO
fine or two years’ imprisonment, went
into etrect the Ist of May.
..When you come right down to
“ sounds of industry,” a boy, a club and
an old tin pan can do as much business
as six carpenters working on anew
house.
.. When a boy scrapes a little skin off
his knuckles while sawing wood for his
mother, he makes more ado about it
than when he knocks his big toe-nail
off in running to a fire. This is reliable*.
...Now the swell In Btyls arrayed
Goeth forth to promenade,
Bat wilts ’neath the fervor of the eanbeam'
glance,
And so do hi# collars and his jacket and hie
pants. I
.. An Albany girl was frightened into
convulsions by a brass band, and died
Usually the results of such inflictions
are not fetal, but tend to produce bad
language and insanity.
.. Speak of a man’s marble, and ne
will glow with conscious pride; but
allude to his marble head, and he f a mad
in a minute. Language is a slippery
thing to fool much with.
.. A young man, the other day, got
married against the wishes of his parents,
and, requesting a friend to break it to
them, said : “ Tell them lam dead, old
fellow, and gently work them up to the
climax. ”
.. A lady who had had much experi
ence in teaching both boys and girls,,
speaking of the extraordinary obtuse
ness of a certain pupil, said: “In a
physiology class, this young lady of fifs
teen inquired, with languid surprise, ‘ls
there not a straight passage through the
head from one ear to the other?’—a
somewhat natural conclusion/* the
teacher commented dryly, “if she ever
watched the processes of her own mind.”
“Which would you prefer teaching,”"
asked a visitor, * boys or girls ? ” “Boys,
infinitely,” was the prompt reply. “No
boy, for instance, would ever have asked
such a question as that. He would long
before ve investigated the subject
with a lead pencil, Not, probably, in
his own oars,” she added, meditatively,
•‘but in his younger
[Scribner for July.
