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NEWS GLEANINGS.
W. N. BENNS, JAMES 0. RUSS. Editor..
“LET Til i.lii: fJE I .Kill'I'.’
VOLUME Y,
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. JULY 19.'1881.
Subscription. $1.50 in Advance.
NUMBER 42.
.Nopcly all the Geoigia'editors are in
fi*vpr of a local option law.
Yvtiisin county, Florida, lias the larg
est orange prove iu the world—1,^00
ncrca. x V
Route 2,300 doge have been Hated fo
taxation in Lewie county, Va.
A fruit canning factory, to coat $40,-,
000, is to be 1 uiit in Nmhville, Tonnes
The inmkct price* for turtle eggs iu
St Augustine, Florida, is 1G cent# per
doiten.
Georgia, jtnvb out akopt $(>,000,000
per year to increase the cotton, .^rop and
lessen tlio price.
A company lias been organized with
a plenty of capilal to go into the busi
ness of canning fruits and oysters at
Pascgouln, Mississippi.
A negress, arrested at Abbeville, 8.
C., for carrying a pistol, was discharged
on Hie ground thnt.tho concealed weapon
act docs not apply to women.
The frpit growers of California have
clmllnigul the fruit growers of Florida
10 exhibit fruit with tlicpi in the city of
New Yoik during next spring.
Loudon Hood, a. well-known negro,
died in Meriv ether county, Ga., last
week, aged ninety-five years. It was
bis proudest beast that during bis long
life asa slave he had nevei been whipped.
Gen. Gordon is prospectively the
richest man in Georgia, Gov. Colquitt
is reported to, have recently’ made $70,-
0( 0 lv the sal* of n coal mine in which
lie ni H ’Gcn. Guidon were interested.
A wlifer in the Ennis (Texas) Re
view proposes raising catnlpa trees for
fence posts; he. says that in five yenrs
frew planting the tree is large enough
for \ osts and that in ten ye ra it. is
large enough for a railroad tie. He es
timate* that 2,000 trees can be grown on
an acre.
Unpopular ministers that no coinmun
ity wants are called “gum-l^gpreitchehc”
in 1 be Georgia M. E. Conference. T.hCy
are “hard stock,” and arc generally put
off on some inpnntnin community, where
they'{jet a salary ranging from $00 to
$200 a year.
A Souty Carol : na paper says that
thousands nqd tbow/mds of doves are
infesting the rice fields of West Wa
tiirce. In some places the riee has l»een
replanted two or three times, ai d yet
the stand is not good, owing to its de
struction by the birds. f , Ky
A party of miners in Northeast Geor J
gia, at the depth of twenty*?cet liefoi
the MiFfi'dfybfuiifl 'Seventeen diamond:
Tlief bftVeAml jnt>m unc< d*genuine by
a New^ York firm, and arc said to W
equal to the African diamond. There
may have .beep “salt” in the neighbor
hood.
Recent census .bulletins show tliat
.Selma liaq.7,529. people; Greensboro,
1,833 ; DemopoHs, 1,839 ; Marion, 2,074
Jacksonville, 882; Oxford, 1,361; Annis-
lot), 0-)2; LaFayette, 1,001, and Tallnde*
gal,?33 v;
While Rev. Mr. CollisFon, of Hous
ton, 'tyxns, was taking farewell of his
Methodist congregation, preparatory to
going over to Episcopnlianism, and wa*
giving his objections to Methodism,
Brother deems F. Durable interrupted
him, saying: “I have no right to ob
ject to.your quitting the church if you
think proper, but I have a right and do
prolest ngnint your using a Methodist
pulpit to Abuse the Methodist chinch i
or to condemn Methodist doctrine,
There wan quiet on the Potomac after
that.
Mr. J. M. Dar*$y, of Hinesville. Ga.,
was annoyed last year by the otters;
Just back of his house is*a spring branch
which ufiords a borne for a great many
otters. Fish being scarce, when the
corn was in mutton, they left the branch
and. took to eating the com, and they
could destroy ns much as so many coons.
Mr. Darsey W( uld sometimes run ns
many as five out of the field at one time,
and the dogs soon became afraid of them.
He succeeded in killing a number, how
ever.
Apple# as Food.
An exchange states the benefits of
apples to be os follows: “A raw, mel
low applo is digested in an hour and a
half, while boilSd cabbage requires five
hours. The most healthy dessert that
can be placed on a table is a baked
apple. If eaten frequently at breakfast
with coarse bread and butter, without
moat or flesh of any kind, it lias an ad-
miible effect upon, the general system,
oltqn removing constipation, correcting
acidities and coolingoff febrile conditions
more effectually than the most approved
medicines. If families oould pe induced
to substitute them for piesi cakes and
sweotmeAtft, with which their children
arefroqnently stuffed, there would .be a
Jimmution in the total sum of doctors
BOMB TIMM.
So dm ttm* I tblnk you will b* *l«d to know
That l tanvo kept you ever tu my heart.
And that my love haa only deeper grown
In all that Uma that wa bav* lived apart
Soma day when you have slipped away from oar*,
And lily fall to dreaming of the paat.
And sadly think of all your life has mlaaod.
You win tememhar mjr trua leva at taat.
Or It may oome to pass, tone dreary night,
After a day that haa baan hard to bear,
When you aye waary, heart-slok anti forlorn,
And there la nonoto comfort or to care,
That you will cloae your tired eyea to dream
Of teadey klaaea falling soft and light,
Or realful touches smoothing off your hslr,
,And sweet words spoken for yonrbeart's delight
6h t then you will remember end be glad
That I have kept you In my heart,
And that your heart's true boms will still he there
Although wa wander sliest and apart
THE WATER LILY.
The little village of Ohelston, in the
county of Hertford, might have been
termed with Goldsmith’s “Sweet Au
burn" tho “loveliest of the plain,"
*' Where smiling spring It's earliest vlmt paid,
And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed,”
And on this bright summer's morning
on which onr story opens it appeared
more lovely than ever, with the rich
foliage swaying beneath tile clear blue
sky, the broad green meadows, and tho
'Taxing cattle, while the gurgle of a
rooklefc mingled its music with tho
earoling of birds.
Half-hidden amid a ahady clump of
troos a young artist sat painting at a
small, light easel, aud the faint outlines
of distant hills and scattered hamlets
were already standing out from tho can
vas in front of him.
He was apparently but little over
thirty years of age, and his fnco looked
grave and stern for one so young, and
bore unaccountablo traces of some long-
hidden sorrow.
He had for some time been sitting ab
sorbed in his work, almost unconscious
of anything around him save the fair
sketen of landscape he was so faithfully
delineating.
The brooklet ran by him—not twenty
yards from wlitro he was seated—and
the dappled oows lay chewiug their
cuds upon its banks, or quenching their
thirst in its crystal waters, reminding
one of Sidney Cooper's most perfect
pictures of oattlo.
Ernest Darrell's attention was, how
ever, suddenly arrested by a new object,
and one which to his gaze was fairer
than any he had seen that morning. A
i girl • scarcely seven years of age.
standing near tho brook—She had
been gathering water-lilies, and in her
hand she held a basket containing a
number of the pure white flowers. His
eyes fell upon her face, lifted wistfully
to liia own, and then something like a
Bmile broke over the little one’s mouth
as she said, half shyly:
“Do cotno and reach me this bonuty,
if you please."
- * Ernest ■Darrell was hardly sure at first
Whether it vfA really himself sho was
addreBflftift; DOT? no sooner was he aware
of the fact tilth he m down Kis palette
and ..brushy V a|4 ©A»te forward, toiler
For a moment her little ungloved lujnd
rested on his own, her lips parted iu an
other smile and then she was gone, has
tening away with all possible speed across
tho sunny fields, bearing her sweot bur
den of flowers—tyi>es of her own pure
soul.
Ernest Darrell stood gazing after her.
Was it the tonch of her light fingers that
had brought so strange a thrill to his
heart ? He sat down to resume his paint
ing but even that had last its wonted
charm—he was restless, and his thoughts
wandered back to whut might have been
some years ago, whon he married a girl
who loved him only for his father’s
wealth, and who (when tho securities
failed in which old Mr. Darrell had in
vested the whole of liis money, and he
was a ruined man, his son’s prospects
also) left him—his Bix mouths’ bride-
leaving behind her a cooly worded-note,
intimating that she could share poverty
with no one, and tlmt ho need not seek
her, os she never intended to return.
And he never had sought her; but the
love he had borne her was as warm in
his heart now as it had been on the day
they were married. And as he sat at-
his easel there, in the field where little
Lilian had left him, ho wept for the
memory of her who, in those days, had
not been worthy one throb of his noble
heart
Several days elapsed l>efora he saw tho
little girl again, hut during that time
she was hardly once absent from his
thoughts. He had lived such a lonely*
life since his father died (broken down
by the trouble that had come upou him
in the loss of his wealth,) and, with
nothing to care for in tho world but the
art he wo# wedded • to. tlio ohild had
come across his path like a ray of sun
shine in the darkness. But one day, as
was returning home, -she came anne-
f toward him, aud seizing liia hand as
iioir acquaintance -TimL been of yeati
itead of days, site immediately begat
fen animated conversation, such as only
Children can begin pu tlio spur oi a mo
ment. v
Ernest-waa oertainly amused. if j not
interested; but as thoir way along led
them past the brook where they had
met before, Lily broke away from him
gnd ran eagerly toward it Sho looked
hook once or twice to laugh at Ernest
aud ili doing so tripped g'-fUml
bidden iu the grass and foil forward int$
the water.
' A cry burst from her lips, but immo-
dmtely Ernest enmo to the rescue, end
ere she became totally submerged! had
succeeded iu drawing her out upon tho
bank. -
Wot clothes and a severe fright was
all the harm tho child had suata\Rtd
an*d ns Ernest procoodod to
diminution in the total
bills in n single year sufficient to lay
stock of this delicious frmt for the whole
season’s use."
assistance, ■
“A water-lily, ia it?" he asked, glanc
ing at her basket.
“Yes, such a beauty, but so far out of
my reach," sho repeated, and then stood
eagerly watching Ernest, who stretching
himseif full length upon the bank
ceeded with his long arm in grasping
the coveted flower.
The ohild’s delight was unbounded,
the sight of which amply rewarded him
for his trouble; but the unusual beauty
of her face and the air of childliko graoo
which accompanied her every movemont
completely won Ernest’s heart, and ho
was determined not to let her run away
just yet.
“You must give me a kiss as pavment
for it,” he said, with a smile, lightly
passing his hand over her golden head
from which her hat had falleu. Who
started back, with a vivid blush.
“Oh, no, indeed; I am a great deal
too old to kiss you," she exclaimed.
“Why, I am aeven, and quite a young
lady/’
“Are yon, really? Then I ora sure I
beg your pardon," said Ernest, hardly
able to repress a laugh. “But at any
rate you will tell me your name?" he
added.
“Oh, yes; my name is Lilian, but I
am nearly always called Lily," replied
the little girl, with an air of consequence.
“Lilian—nothing else?" asked Ernest.
“No; only that," sho answered.
Surnames are generally superfluous
with children.
“Then, I pressunio, the fact of ycrnr
being a lily yourself makes you fond of
tlio flowers that bear your namo,” he
rejoined, smiling.
Sho laughed*-a soft, silvery, happy
laugh, that fell like music upon tho
young artist’s ear.
“Oh, I don’t know; I think I love all
flowers, but especially those,” she said,
glancing down at her basket “They are
so large and pure and white, like the
white-robed angels In the stained glass
windows at church. Mamma loves them
too, because she says when I am not with
her they remind her of me. ”
'‘Yon are mamma’s pet, then and pft-
Vs, too, I suspect, for the matter of
that,” replied Ernest, liia interrupted
occupation totally forgotten in tho new
pleasure ho felt in conversing with tho
child.
“I haven’t % papa." she oaid, droppipg
her voice; “he died, oh, long before I
can remember, bnt I never ask about
him, because it always makes mamma
cry. Would you tell me the time,
please ?”
Ernest glanoed at his watoh. “Nearly
1 o’clock, he told her.
“Then I must bid you good-bye," she
said, “or I shall bo late homo." And
setting down her basket she bethought
herself of the hat, which she proceeded
to adjust on the top of her golden
“Do you come here every day ?” she
asked of Ernest.
“I shall be here every day for a little
while.’’ he answered her.
'•'tfhen I hope I will see you again,"
'And thank you
flood that which I would have given tho
best years of my life to bring baok. Re
member what I had always been—a
spoiled, petted ohild, with nover a wish
ungratified, and it seemed so hard to face
iraverty—even with you. 1 was very
youtag—only seventeen, remember, Er
nest—and all through the dim vista of
years that lay before mo 1 saw nothing
but want, penury and deprivation. I
fled in a moment of madness, delirium—
anything you liko to call it—leaving be
hind mo that cold note, in which
I hade yon nover seek me. I
did not go home, for my parents
would have immediately have com
municated with you. I went to an
ancle, who loved mo only too well—sin
ful wretch that I was—and I told him a
lie, that yop hud deceived me, and that
I married a beggar whom I believed to
have l>een rich. He was a bachelor,
and lived a secluded life, away from all
relatives and friends. I think I wna tho
only creature he loved on earth, and wo
two lived aloue. At his house my little
{child was born, and it was then that ,1
began to think and long for you. .1
wrote and told my parents—ns soon as
I was able—of wliat I lind done, arid
,bade them to seek you, and tiring yon
•back home. They wrote, I know, but
(never received any ouswer; and so I
{thought you had treated me as I de
served, and had resolved to forget me for
ever. When Lilian was throe years old
my uncle died, leaving mu his heiress,
(and I took this house, in which I have
lived ever siuce, aloue—quite aloue,
with my child. Oli, Ernest, how I have
lougeil for you, ond prayed to heaven
to send you back to me? I have seen
firoiir lmme in the newspajicrs sometimes,
mid I know that ns an artist yon have
risen to fame. And now, Ernost, for
our child’s sake, forgive me—take mo
•back, and try to think of me as leniently
.as ]H)Hsihle. I know that you can nover
Jove mo agaiu. I don’t expect you to;
|iut—
• “Indeed, Marian, you are wrong; I
have neuter ceased to love you," inter
rupted Ernest’s cold, stern voice. “I
have been ns truly your husband iu
heart, nil through these bitter years, ns
if we had never parted. I have wept for
Jyon aud have proved for you too, over
pud over again.. But—"
I “But you cannot take me back. No,
■to!’’ exclaimed Marian weeping. “I
pros wrong to ask it; only I thought for
JLily’s sake—’’
" “And, fbr Lily’s sako, I will,” said
fewest. ‘fj lovo my ohild too well to
aitft with her now. Riso, Marian, mv
p$e.4-ih!r %ell-beloved—the past shall
pe Jorqoiien; blotted out ns though it
Itad neyW boon, and we will liegin our
tnarriago life again. ”
» “I jim not worthy. Oh, Ernest, I
have nifever deserved such love as this!?’
Raid Marian, as she Was clasped in her
husband’s embrace.
' “You shall make yourself dcsorviug;
it is all in your hands now, remember,’’
h* said, with grave tenderness, and
looking into the depths of her beautiful
eyes.
How Jong they remained thus, iu
linppy liloneo, they might never have
known had not it little hand, tho touch
of whose fingers Ernest Darrell had folt
buforo, bea&jm|aed within fijs w <Hvn.
He looked down and mat the upturned
enza of-Jiis oh'fld. In a momoftt sho
. :bd to his wins,, w^ilo
upon her fair young Mad.
had fallen liko. a suribeau:
in the beginning, bo did
• tho ond; and through the
long afterward lie could
:, with joy and Hhankftil-
unspeakable, to tho day on which
he had met her by the side of the brook,
carrying her basket of water-lilies.
n round
her a thick plaid shawl, which lie gen
erally carried with him to protect hip
/ect from damp grass, sho began
laugh at her little adveuturo.
“I have gathered ray water lily now,"
said tlio young artist, smiling; “and I
would not exchange it for all tho others
in creation.”
He took her, entirely enveloped in tliri
warm slmwl, np in his strong arms and
continued his walk, now in tho direction
of Lilian’s hoqjo
“I am so sorry—mamma will he out, "
she said, lifting her beautiful eves to his
face. “Sho would so liked to havo
thanked you herself. But do you know
which way to go?"
“I want you to direot me, Lily.’Vhe
said.
The distance was short, as lie sup
posed; and as they reached tho gate of
a pretty villa residence, which had ofteu
attracted Ernest’s attention before by its
quaint picturesquoness. Lilian informed
him that, this was .“her homo."
“I thank yon so very muoh,” said tho
child, ns sho stood once more upon the
ground and rang tho bell. “I wish
mamma oould thank you herself—I don’t
know how to."
“Yon need not thank mo at all, dear
child " Ernest Darrell assured her, with
the old shade of sorrow darkening his
face. “I only hope the oousequonoes
of what lias hapi>e»ed may not bo
serious.’’ Ho remained with her until a
middle-aged woman, whom Lilian called
“nurae," came forward to claim her
young charge; and then, after giving a
brief explanation of tho whole affair,
ho hade Lily good-bye and walked on.
Al>out a woek subsequent to this event,
Ernest Darrell happened to lie passing
the house wliero little Lilian dwelt, when
ho heard her voice calling after him
down the sunny road:
“Oome back—Oh, please come baokl ’
she was saying, in breathless ongorness;
“mamma does want to seo you so much,
and thank you for saving me when I fell
In tho brook. ”
And Ernest felt his hand grasped in uihu uj fcuo VUIVO „ —
the child’s, and almost before he was < conn j B f or tlio success of beet-sugar
aware of it, Bhe had led him through the I mnlc j D g there; and it seems that it will
gates and up the stens to the portico | continue to bo so, at lei^t so
Then across tho wide hall .'he dragged ( j^g an tbiB discrepancy in tho price of
labor exists. Should we l»o able, liow-
Imligestlon
Among onr vegetables aro those eon
taiuing sulphur, such as onions, leeks
waterei esses, radishes, mustard and
cress, etc. Their use should bo Hhuuued
by people of weak digestion. If they
are not digested they produce sulphur
etted hydrogen and bod breath and un
comfortable distention from tliut gas.
Celery is a salutary vegetable; so aro
somo roots. Carrots and parsnips, if
thoronghly cooked, will lie better digest
ed than turnips, as the latter also con
tain much sulphur. Steaming these
vegetables is far better than boiling
them, and preserves the sugar in them.
All fibrous materials should be avoided,
such as cabbage-stalks, green leaves
with strong or coarse fibers, green beans
with fibrous skins, etc. Whatever is
used cd vegetables must >k> thoroughly
well cooked and reduced to u pulp with
out losing its nourishing properties.
Steaming, wherever it can lie employed,
is, therefore, better than lioiling. Salads
can only he used sparingly, made of
duiuty head lettuce, the leaves lmring
been well picked. Gncumlier onu never
be eaten raw, but, if stewed, it is di
gestible. Of fruits the lierries are tho
best. Rlrawlierries eaten with sugar or
rosplierrics are lietter than currents;
oranges are good, eaten without the
skins; apples or puurs must lie eaten
sparingly, and aro liest stewed with
sugar ond a little spice. Oranges ought
to bo avoided unless eateu without the
pulp ; lemons, however, inuy do good if
they arc made iuto a lemonade wiih
warm water and sugar. Nuts arc en
tirely to bo doue away with. Of vege
table beverages we have tea, cofleo aud
cocoa to consider. There is no doubt
that tea bus a refreshing influence on
the digestive organs, if used moderately
aud not in too strong an infusion. It is
hotter, however, liot to use it in the
inoniing for a weak digestion, as it will
stimulate too soon aud rather weaken
than strengthen the flow of the gastric
juice at that time. One cup of t n ti
d iy is all that can he allowed for the
& tio. Coffee, when well roasted,
i strengthening in its effect, but
it must not ho taken too strong, and,
i than this, it must not have been
boiled, but only have had the infusion
taken off. I may here say that the roast-
iug of coffee leaves, as yet, much to lie
desired, nml that inferior coffees might
iade more useful than they are if
they were properly prepared. A pro-
f aration has come under my notice which
found most beneficial with jiereons of
weak digestion. The best brands of
Java or Mocha coffee, mixed with roast
ed and ground dandelion root, iu propor
tion of two or one of dandelion to three
four of coffee. This article, if deli
cately manufactured, is a most whole
some mixture uiul cau be well recom
mended.—Food and Health.
American Sugar.
The time is approaching very evident
ly when the manufacture of sugar in this
republic will reach a sufficient magnitude
to supply the whole country. Our terri
tory is so eaten si ve and tho temperature
so varied that there is scarcely anything
consumed by man that it will not fur
nish, whon tho intricacies of the art of
producing it is once sufficiently well un
derstood. We do not say that tho sugar
supply will come from boots, though to
some oxtont, and a very large extent, it
may, and we hope will. But more liko
it will be the product of sorghum and
the amber oune, which would seem to bo
less costly iu the way of labor. Sugar
from beets can undoubtedly be made of
as excellent quality as uny produced
from any other material, but wo foar not
so cheaply. Labor is tho great draw
back; this being so much more econom
ically supplied in France nml Germany
Qian in the United States, readily
A woman may talk “ women’s rights,"
“independence of tlio *®xes, 'Suf
frage, “her mission,” and all that sort
of thing, but when her face lights up,at
the sight of a baby and she calls It a
“sweet .’ittle oosty toosty," insteed of su
“infant,’’ you may bet fifteen cents that ^
that woman’s heart is in the light place artlessly. „
rmil (hut she w ill come out ull light in very muoh for getting me the water
flui cud.—Steubenville Herald, , JUy,”.
'>•;*) ; i jv'y* *» T '' ' ;
Mm. lau/rhimr and chatfcfnar wilv the
wnue, into a luxuriously nirnisnes rovne,
where her mother sat.
A beautiful woinnn, with derk hair
aud Oriental eyes, rose from an ottoman
at their entrance and came toward them.
At least, she came half way and then
tottered baok, with a deathly pallor
overspreading her countenance; while
lie—Ernest—dropped Lilian’s hand and
stood gazing at that agonized face.
“Marion—my wife!"
“Emesl! Oh, is it possible that we
meet at last?" .
There was a dreadful silence, during
which, at a sigu from her mother, Lilian
fled, and those two were alone—after
seven long years.
The stern, grave face of Ernest Uar-
roll was sterner and graver still—even
Lilian might have shrunk from it then
—and Marian, tho woman who had
blighted his life, fell at his feet.
“Oh! Earnest, my husband — Bnr
much-wronged husband—forgiv* me!
she cried. “I havo suffered ddeply*-
evor since that day I left you."
"Suffered!” repeated Ernest, in col4,
rigid tones. “Have you ever thought
of what I havo suffered?"
“Yes, yes: ten thousand times,” re
plied Lilian's mother, in a vdioe well-
nigh choked writh emotion. “Rut mine
has been the undying worm of an accus
ing conscionoo. Oh, Erneetj 1 have
lieon justly punished tor my wickedness.
I uover knew how dearly I loved you
until I had lost you—uuu| I bud MittV
ever, to counterbalance this by increased
product ol the beet per acre, or by im
proved machinery, or from any other
cause not now developed, the uapect of
things may be changed. The factory in
Delaware is experimenting jierhaps more
intelligently tnan any other that has
been established in this country, and the
prospect is more encouraging than any
other. Should it be finally successful,
it will of course lend tho way to the
establishment of others, and hence sup
ply a want in the United Htates so great
and commanding as to give employment
to labor and capital to on enormous ex
tent. —Germantown Telegraph.
Lime-Preserved Wood.
Lime has been found snccessfnl as a
wood-preserver. The method, which is
French, consists in piling the planks in
a large tank, then covering them with
quicklime and slaking them with water.
The timber requires about a week to be
thoroughly impregnated with the lime-
water before it is taken out of pickle
and slowly dried. The entrance of tho
mineral particles into the groin also ren
ders the wood harder and denser than
before. Beech wood, for example, be
comes like oak, and, without losing the
elasticity that fits it for tool-handles, is
far more durable than oak.
Lost Ills Underpinning.
Timblethorpe, who hod not attended
olmrch for somo time, thought lie woifM
the other Sunday, aud as Uo didrndt
vo time to shave himself, he concluded
that he would not make his appearance
thg sacred edifico until after the ser-
. .jes had begun. When begot there,
however, he found that there wore a
great many people of ovidentlv tho same
mind as himself, for the rear pews were
all full. The polite sexton seeing his
annoyance told him there were plenty of
seats* half way up the aisle, and Tim
blethorpe, ashamed to turn back now
that he had placed himself at tho re
ligions plow, proceeded through the
dim light towards the chancel. He
looked right and left, hut could find no
place until he reached the vicinity of the
pulpit, when lie espied a pew with only
a lady and a small hoy iu it. They oc-
oupied the upper end ol it, and he
modestly took ins position at the opposite
extremity. Ho devoutly proceeded to
kneel, when tho knoeling bench shot up
like a rocket and struok the small boy,
who was standing of oourse, under tho chin.
An unearthly yell shot through tliochnreh,
all the members of the congregation
sprang to to their feet, and the music of
the choir was completely drowned. Tho
next thing Timblethorpe know was that
he was being escorted down the aisle by
two policemen, preparatory to being
locked* up on a charge of malicious as
sault. It was not till tho next day that
tlio sexton discovered that some mis
chievous hoy Imd t wisted ojT tho under
pinning of the kneeling lieiieh at Tim-
blcthorpe’soudof the pew. Tiinblethorno
was discharged from custody, but he
says that no saint ever endured so much
mortification as he, and tliat he is sure
of Heaven if ho never goes to church
again.—Ronton Courier.
Impressions of 1lie Blind.
The very interesting lecture of Trof.
Nothnagel ntthoHnmbolt Vorein treated
of tho peculiur ways in which blind jh*o-
ple form their ideas of things alsmt
them. Contrary to people who can see,
and whose first impression of a thing is
its total view, tho blind learn by touch
just the single parts and form the idea of
the whole by composing the parts. The
teacher, however, has to make a decided
distinction between a patient born blind,
or who lost his eyesight before his fifth
or sixth year, and those who became
blind in later years. While tho former
has no idea—and caunot jwssibly form
an idea— of light, darkness and colors,
the latter has in his recollections of the
time when he could see n rich fund of
ideas which give his imagination color,
light and life. Nevertheless, those Irani
blind know whon it is day or night,
when a room is lighted up brilliantly or
when it is dark; “they see through thoir
skin," •« Diderot expresses it. The blind
are born musicians, because their car is,-
or becomes the most refined organ; they
are no poets, however, aud cannot pos
sibly be; their imagination is too color
less; they love poetry, though, and fre
quently write poetry, but mostly out of
A Laiy Man’s Defense.
Not a thousand miles from 8t. An-
bony, Minn.—and not very mauy years
igo—u certain physician, from New
Hampshire, went to work getting up
gauizing a Luzy Man’s Club, and
lie huil good success. The club was
1uiv constituted ; its by-laws adopted ;
d, chief of all, its larder looked after.
:ie chief law—really tho law that
formed the distinctive feature of tho
Jub — was this : Any member who
should be proved guilty of haviug been
u hurry—i. e.,'oi having allowed any
thing under the sun to enuse him to
hasten a movement of body or mind —
should be fined an amount sufficient to
pay for a supper for tho club.
The first man accused, aud brought
forward for trial, was the President and
orgauizer of the club himself — Dr.
Haskett Eastman. The court was duly
organized ; tho complaint read ; and tlio
witnesses summoned. It was proved—
first—that a boy was seen to coll ut East-
door and deliver u message;
nnri it was known that said messenger
reported on that occasion, a case of sick
ness, and begged that the doctor would
make haste. Next—it was proved by
several reliable witnesses that Dr. East
man was seen, very shortly after the de
livery of that message, driving through
the city “ like lightning!’’ which plainly
signified that lie was in a tremendous
hurry. Aye, clearly enough, he hud
willfully violated the fuudumentul law of
the society!
But Eastman called witnesses iu his
own behalf. He called two grooms,
I rath of whom swore that the horse winch
lio used on that occasion was a head
strong, hnrd-bitted, high-mottled boast,
tliat would “streak it off like blazes
if ye’d only let her.”
And Dr. Eastman claimed that he had
not burned au atom. His horse hud
hurried, but not he. Iu no way, manner
or shape hud ho made any haste.
“But," said tho Judge Advocate,
“ you could havo held that horse iu—
you could have prevented the beast from
tearing away in such a hurry?"
“Certainly. I oould have done that
very easily. ’’
“ Aud why didu’t yon do it?"
“Why—didu’t — 1—do—it!” The
doctor rejiefttod th#words in amazement.
“Doit! Hold iu my home? What are
you thiuking of ? Hud I done that, you
might well have mulcted mo; but I
didn’t. The fact was—I was too lazy to
do it! I was just that lazy, torpid, su
pine and nttcrly lifeless, on that occa
sion, that the headstrong beast might
have killed me, ond I wouldn’t have put
forth effort enough to hold her in !”
We will simply udd tliat the club did
not get a supper lit their President’s ex
pense on that occasion.—Hew York
Ledger.
Funny.
One is very fortunate if he has wit
^Bough to got out of a funny dilemma
without boing laughed at. The poor
Teutonio musician of whom the follow
ing story is told by a Southern doctor of
divinity was not one of these fortunate
ones.
The doctor was pastor of a iiue city
church. The organ loft aud choir gal
lery were immediately in the roar of tho
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
Dr. Hp.rz, a foreign electrician, has
shown that it is possible to telephone
Thr tinge hunting spiders of South
America and Ceylon have legs which
cover a foot of ground.
Nearly 6,000 different species of
birds have been exhibited Rndjclassified,
and probably thousands more exist.
Taking that of boef at 100, the total
solids or actual nutritive material in
different fishes vary from sixty-two to
163.
Experiment has proved that sound
travels faster in water than in air—in
water at the rate of 4,078 fe4t pter .sec
ond.
Tiie acorn-bamnclo cements its fore
head to a rock and remains thus all its
life with its head downward and its
heels in the air, kicking its food into its
month.
Aoasriz once* imd an opportunity to
carefully measure a large jolly-fish ok it
lay at the surface of tho sea. Its disk
was seven feet in diameter aud its ten
tacles 112 feet long.
The house-spider’s web will last fof
many weeks, while tlio garden-spider
must spin afresh or mend her web every
twenty-four hours. The former some
times lives from six to eight yenrs. J
It 18 not. generally known tliat there
is such a thing as false eyebrows, yet
such is the ease. They arc made per
fectly by tho use of “hair lane” and
would never be suspected as a counter
feit.
Dr. Nordenskjold, the Arctic travel
er, has discovered that iron is always to
lie found in snow, from which it may Ira
oxtracted by a magnet. It is snpposed
that those particles of iron are of mete
oric origin.
Tun hones of tlio Aroliae plory, a rare
fossil found in Germany, are very much
like those of a lizard, and its hind legs
are like those of a bird, and it was when
alive clothed with feathers. This was
really a most wonderful link betweon
the birds aud the reptiles. There can
he no doubt regarding the reptilian
affinities of birds.
Machines in a watch facto.y will cut
screws with 689 threads to tho inch—
the finest use<l in a watch has 260.
These threads are invisible to the naked
eye, and it takes 144,000 of tho screws
to make u pound. A pound of them n
worth six pounds of pure gold. Lay one
upou a piece of white paj*er aud it looks
like s tiuy steel filing.
The name of the Deity is si railed with
four letters in almost every known lan
guage. It is in Latin, Dons; Greek,
Zeus ; Hebrew, Adou ; Syrian, Adad;
.Arabian, Alla; Persian, Syvn ; Taita -
n»n, Idga; Egyptian, Annin or Zout :
East Indian. Esgi, or Zeui; Japanese,
Zain; Turkish, Addi; Scandinavian,
Odin; Wallachian.Zene; Croatian, Deg.*;
Dalmatian, Rogt; Tyrrhenian, Eliei ;
Etuurinn.Chur; Morgariuu.Ocsc; Hw. d
ish, Codd ; Irish, Dicli ; Gerinnu, Got!
French, Dieu; Spanish, Dios; Peru-
Trb speed at which some wings are
driven is enormous. It is occasionally
so great, as to cause tlio pinions to emit
n drumming sound. To this source the
buzz of tho fly, the drone of the bee and
the boom of the beetle are to be referred.
When a grouse, partridge or pheasant
suddenly springs into the air. the sound
produced by the whirring of its wings
greatly resembles that prodnoed by the
qjnt act of steel with the rapidly-revolv-
‘.one of tho knife-grinder. It has
been estimated that the common fly
moves its wings 330 times per second- -
i., 19,800 times per minute, aud tin**
the butterfly moves its wings nine tie*
per second, or 540 times per minute.
pulpit, and a little elevated above it.
Tim organist wasa Gorman, who, though
u fiuo performer, was not remarkablo
for presence of mind, and was easily
disconcerted.
Tlio hour for afternoon service hod ur-
rived, aud, though tho organist was in
his place, the choir had not arrived. By
some mishap, also, the key of the organ
had been misplaced.
Tho minister, not knowing tlieso
facts, solemnly arose, and, after an
nouncing n liymn and rending it, took
liis seat. Tlioro was no response from
tho organ or choir. Bilence reigned su
preme.
Tho minister and congregation beenmo
uneasy. All eyes were turned to the
organ-loft.
At longth tho organist, witli a flilgoty
manner and a very red face, cauio to
tlio railing in front of tho loft, and in a
tone intended as a whisper, bnt which
was distinctly hoard by all, made tho
following startling announcement:
“Mister breceher, mister breeeher,
vo von’t have no singiug dis afternoon.
Do key not roomed, and do lady vat
sings do sobrano bees not eoombed, and
do rest of do people vat sings he not
coomed, aud do orgau bees not aliened,
and vo vou’t have no singing dis after
noon, mister broodier, dal’s so.” The
effect may be readily imagined.
Self Control.
Iu some people passion and emotion
aro never checked, but allowed to burst
out iu a blaze whenever they
Others suppress them by main
and prororve a callous exterior wheu
there are rugiug fires within. Others
are never excited over anything. Some
govern themselves on some subjects,
but not on others. Very much can bo
done by culture to give the will control
over the felings. One of the very best
means of culture is the persistent with
drawing of the mind from the subjoct
which produoes the emotion, and con
centrating it elsowhere. The man or
woman who persistently permits tho
mind to dwell on disagreeable themes
only spites him or herself. Children, of
course, have less self control, and so par
ents and teaohera must help them to
turn their attention from that which ox-
cites them to something else; hut
adults, when they act like ohildreu,
ought to be ashamed of theinBolvos. Tho
value of self control as a hygienio agent
is very great It prevents the great J
waste of vitality in feeling, emotion r>
and passion. It helps to give on Jfe-
mastery over pain and distress, ra'-J^r
than it a mastery over us.
The Poison Habit.
Under all circumstances, make n m
stand against the poison habit. J*n
best to cull things by their true nniR.
The effect upon the uuirnul econompf
every stimulant is strictly tlmt of n >i-
son, and every poison may becoi a
stimulant.. There is no bane in he
South American swamps, no vinmt
compound ill the North Amorionn <ng
stores—chemistry knows no dcaier
{raison—whose gruduul and persiicut
obtrusion ou the human orgnnismrill
not create an unnatural craving ofir a
repetition of the lethal dose, a mrbid
appetency in every way analogous * the
hankering pf tho toper alter liis favrito
tipple.
Hwallow % tablo-spoonflil of laudnum
or a few grains of arsenmus ucid iverv
night; at jinit your physical eons.ieneo
protests by every means iu its p>wer ;
nausea, grWs, gastric spasms am' nerv
ous honufunes warn you aauiu undagain;
tho struggle of tho dUeativo orgaHS
aguiust th> foil intruder joiivulses your
whole sydem. But you continue the
itese, and nature, true t» her highest
law to preserve life ut anj pri*.o, finally
adapts 1 ifrself to an abnormal condition
—mlaptslvour system to 1 the {raison at
wh ate vet cost of health, strength and
huppincMb Your body L. -comes an opium
machine, an arsenic mill, s physiological
engiuo unved by poison, aud performing
its vital fractions ouly under the spur of
tho uttnataral stimulus.
But byand-by the jailed system fails
to responl to the spur, your strength
giveaway aud, alarmed at tho symptoms
of rapid leliquium, you resolve to rem
edy the evil by removing tho cause.
You try/to renounce stimulations, and
rely one! more ou the uuaided strength
of tho if# vita:. But your strength is
almost aibausted. The oil that should
havo fed/lie flame of life bus lieon wasted
on a health-consuming tire. Before you
(•Rn regiui strength and happiness, your
system must readapt itself to the normal
condition, and the difficulty of that re-
srrangenent will be proportioned to the
degree ©: tho present disarrangement;
tho furtker you huve straved from nat
ure, tho longer it will take you to re
trace yuur steps. — Popular Science
Month!n,
iove for tho music which lies in the
rhyme. Prof. Nothnagel made the ro-
marknblo statement, ond proved it by
numerous examples, that the blind are
fit to learn almost any profe*sion. There
are blind sculptors, blind farmers, etc.
Especially farming would bo a great im
provement if introduced into the educa
tion of tho blind, and the learned and
practical professor promised to lay before
the Society, at some future day, a per-
A Philadelphia man, whose wife put* feet plan of an institution for the educo-
up lota of cauuod stuff, orIIs her his pre* ! tionoftho blind iu connection with a
vorvor# 1 largo wodol farm.
“Picture couundrum," i« • game
which requires no apparatus but a ponc.il
and a slip of paper. The first player
druws u picture and folds the slip so as
to hide it. The second writes a guess as
to what the picture is; tlio third does the
same, and when all havo written the list
is read altjudb
Thi desire lor ownership, for develop
ment, for power, is a good and useful
one; but, to make it • thoroughly
wholesome foroo in human life, it needs
to be blended with a sense of depend
ence upon And truil in other*.
Bob Ingersoll’s Wife.
Mrs. lugcrsoll is a bright-faced and
handsome matron, on whom tho cares of
life haw set lightly, and whoso clear-cut
aud animated countenance is a perpetual
study with its quick pluy aud chauge of
expression. The two daughters are
pretty aud charming young girls, with a
'quiet ease and modesty of demeanor
that quickly render thorn delightful en
tertainers. Tho elder—Miss Eva Iuger-
8( ,ll ) 8 by many considered a most de
cided beauty, l>eing of that fresh?Aewy-
oved, and virginal typo that tho English
painters depict, with a wealth of golden
brown hair massed in groat braids at tho
back of her head, and a pliant and grace
ful figure. It is tho boast of their proud
parents that these two daughters never
went to school. —Rochester Union and
Advertiser.
Ladies-who wear sealskin Backs are
very liable not to wear them, for in Bel
gium rabbit-skins are successfully pre
pared to resemble sealskin, and thou-
toiuIhoI raliUtR aro annually pupa in
England wlioac pclta gn to Belgium, and
Utava that oountiv aa gauuin^—Jjiauia.