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About The Butler herald. (Butler, Ga.) 1875-1962 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1885)
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1885. ictly beneath the equator, a dozen or twenty j s u r ro un<fity w i r> s e origin is lost Inch cost about one | in the mist of centuries] rise twonty vol- thc market women re- canoes, presided over by thu princely give them as change for If you buy a cent’s .ing and offer a quartil- you get a breakfast roll due you. live in villages and com- ? Clanking, clink! Labor lifts her arms on high, And the sparks fly from her anvils Out upon the darkened sky. In the lurid glow of teeling, With the anvil strokes of thought, Men are shaping creeds, and welding Single truths the age has wrought. Clanking, clinking, never shrinking, Strike tho truth and mold it well; Or the progress of the nations Each persistent stroke shall tell. Let the sparks fly from your anvils In the ways where thought is rife; Each shall light some friendly fire On the waiting forge of life; Clanking, clinking, nover shrinking, Work till stars fade, and the morn Of a wider faith and knowledge From tho radiant East is born. Crude the mass the sweating forgemen At your eager feet have hurled; Centuries of toil must follow Ero yo shape a perfect world; Yet with clanking, clanking, clinking, Striko the iron, sliapo the truth, Science is but now beginning. Thought is in its early youth. Think each one his arm tho strongest, Each believe that God to him Has revealed the fairest treasures Hidden in His storehouse dim; Clanking, clinking, never shrinking, Bing j’our sharp strokes, ago and youth Each must hold himself the prophet Of a perfect form of truth. -Arthur IV. Eaton, in Youth's Companion- Chimborazo, the lowqst being 15,- 023 feet in height, and the highest reaching anj altitude of 22,500 feet. Three of jtlresc volcanoes are active, five are dormant, and twelve extinct. Nowhere else ton the earth’s aro presided over by surface is such a cluster of peaks, such governor. The native : a grand assemblage of giants. Eighteen ilack. One never finds | of the twenty are covered with perpetual a glimpse of color upon a descendant of snow, and the summits of e’even have the ancient race. They are in perpetual ■ never been reached by a living creature mourning for Atahuallpa, the last of the j except the condor, whose flight surpasses Incas, who was cruellv murdered hv : that of any other bird. At noon the Piza-ro. Their costume is a short black j vertical sun throws a profusion of light skirt and a square robe or mantle of upon the snow crowned summits, where black, which they wear over their heads they appear like a group of pyramids and hold in place by a large pin or thorn cut in spotless marble. between tho shoulders. They look like nuns, and walk the streets with bur- Cotopaxi is the loftiest of active vol canoes, but it is slumbering now. . The dens upon their backs or heads in only evidence of action is the frequent processions as solemn as a funeral. They rumblings which can beieard for a hun. never laugh, and scarcely ever smile; dred miles, and the cloud of smoke bj they have no songs and no amusements, day and the pillar of tiro by night which Their only Bcmblance to music is a constantly arises from a crater that is mournful chant which they give in uni- more than three thousand feet beyond son at the feasts which are intended to j the reach of man. Many have attempted keep alive the memories of the Incas, to scale it, but the wails are so steep They cling to their traditions and the and the snow is so deep that ascent is customs of their ancestors. They impossible, even with icalin'g ladders, remember the ancient glory of On the south side of Cotopaxi is a great their race, and look to its restoration rock, more shan 2,000 feet high, called as the Aztecs of Mexico look for the i the “Inca’s Head.” Tradition says coming of Montezuma. They have rel- that it was once the summit of the ics which they guard with the most volcano, and fell on the day sacred care, and two great secrets no when Atahuallpa was strangled by amount of torture at the hands of the the Spaniards. Those who have seen Spaniards has been able to wring from Vesuvius can judge of the grandeur of them. These are the art of tempering copper so as to give it as keen ar.d en- Cotopaxi, if they can imsgine a volcano 15,000 feet higher, shooting forth its during an edge a9 steel, and the burial fire from a crest covered by 3,000 feet of place of the Incarial treasures. snow, with a voice that has been heard R03VSASTCE OF ECUADOR. TTIE WONDERS OP A STRANGE LAND. The landlord at tho hotel here says a letter from Quito, the capital of Ecuador, It will be remembered that Pizarro of- six hundred miles. And one can judge fered to release Atahuallpa if the Indians of the grandeur of the road to Quito if would HU with gold the room in which he can imagine twenty of the highest he was kept a prisoner. They did it. Pizarro thought there must be more where this came from, and demanded to the New York Sun, requires you to , that the ransom he doubled. Runners pay yoi;r hoard in advance, because he . we re sent over the country to collect the has no money tc buy food and no credit ; treasure of the kingdom, and were on with the market men; the muleteers ask for their fees before starting, because their experiance teaches them wisdom; and there is scarcely a building iu tho while republic in process of construc tion, or even undergoing repairs. Death seems to have settled upon everything artificial, but nature is iu her grandest glory. their way to Caxnmarca, where the Inca fas a prisoner, loaded down with g>ld mountains in America, three of them active volcanoes, standing along the road from Washington to New York. Here in these mountains, until the Spaniards came in 1531, existed a civil ization that was old when Christ was crucified ; a civilization whose arts were equal to those of Egypt,; which had tobuv his freedom, when they heard temples four times the size of the capitol that Pizarro had strangled him. This at Washington, from a single oue of The population of Ecuador is about a ap - Inca girl, and from poverty became million, and the nation owes twenty gold 1 which the Spaniards drew out twenty- two thousand ounces of solid silver whose rulers had palaces which the Spaniards gathered A Spaniard named Valverde married 30,000 ounces of gold and an unmeas ured quanity of silver. Here was an era- treasure was buried somewhere in the mountains of Llanganati, northwest of Quito, and has bean searched for ever nails suddenly rich. To escape persecution pi re stretching from the equator to tho from those who wished to know the se- antarctic circle,walled in by the grandest ants.' The president is compelled i cretof liis sudden accumulation of gold groups of mountains in the world, whose at Guayaquil so as to aee that the he - (ied to Spain, and upon his deathbed people knew all the arts of their time dollars per capita for every one of the inhabitants, to I've at ... , customs duties, the only soqrce of reve- ma do a confession to the effect that but those of war, and were conquered by nuc, reach the government, and to quell through hisavife lie had discovered the the revolutions that are constantly aris- I^ca treasures, and left a guide to the ing. Three hundred thousand of the P' acc ofjheir deposit as a legacy to his population are of Spanish descent. 100,- 000 arc foreigners, and 000,000 native Indians or persons of mixed blood. The commerce is in the hands of the foreigners entirely, and they have a mortgage upon (lie entire country. The Indians are the only people who work. Over the doors of the residences or 213 men under the leadership of a Span ish swineherd who could neither read nor write. DEVICES OF SHARPERS. A Po$(o"fjce Official Describes In* ffenious Dodges to flee Ufonc}'. “The slickest piece of work in the wav of a fraud conducted through the mails that has come to my attention re cently,” remarked Chief Inspector btrlfrp. of the postoffice department, to a Wash ington Star reporter, “is what we euii the l us medicine dodge. The ingen ious authorof this scheme now languishes in Jail, but, at the same time, he showed himself to be a man of no mean order of ability, His plan was to send out circu lars announcing a great cure for catarrh, which was discovered by himself after many years of study and investigation. He then proceeds to give, without cost, the prescription for this wonderful medi cine and enumerates twelve ingredients which enter into its composition. At the end of the circular is a.note which states that if the druggist does not hap pen to have all these ingredients that the prescription will he filled and forwarded upon receipt of §3. The person receiving the circular and desirous of trying the remedy takes the pre scription to the drug store, but is told by the druggist that he has three of the ingredients, but not the other nine. He looks through his book but fails to j t j Cb j this class of victims, however, there can j be no sympathy, for they arc at least- ! constructive criminals.” “Notes and Queries.” The following answers to correspond ents, taken from the Scientific American, give some useful and interesting infor mation : Neither alcohol nor giycercine freezes except at very low temperatures. Soap and water make about as good a compound as can be used to give tho skin a healthy clean color. A pound of very fine steel wire to make watch springs of, is worth about four dollars; this will make 17,000 springs, worth $7,000. It has been suggested, though we be lieve the matter is far from being satis factorily settled, that exposure to light makes potatoes bitter. Printer’s ink cannot be completely re moved from cards. A solution of ben zol or turpentine may sometimes remove small spots, but the process is not a suc cess. D. D. asks whether it injures a snot gun, by expansion or otherwise, to clean it with boiling water. No; cleaning guns with hot water is a common prac- find even their names, and so, of course, he is unable to furnish the desired medi cine. The discoverer of the remedy is applied to aud if the $3 has been fur- point the air from it3 rarity is very dchili nished a bottle of some mixture is sent on, which, of course, is entirely worth less.” . • “That is one phase of the case,” con tinued the inspector. “Now the man The highest point reached by man was by balloon 27,000 feet. Travelers have rarely exceeded 20,000 feet, at which taring. United .States government bonds are specially excepted by law from taxation, ! but greenbacks in hand aro taxable the same as any other description of personal prepares and causes to bo publisned in | property, some paper in New Aork city an article; Meerschaum is the common name for about the prominent doctors of New ' the mineral serpiolite, and itis ahydrated Tore city, with a portrait of each and a j silicate of magnesium. The word mecr- sketch giving some account of the life ( schaum is the German equivalent of sea foam. E. F. S. asks: “Has a rate of speed equal to ninety miles an hour, ever been and services of each. All the men men tioned are bona fide doctors, the leading men in the profession, with the excep tion of a man w 7 hose name is, say, Dr. ; attained by railroad locomotive?”. It is Hart. lie is unknown, but the sketch ; extremely doubtful if any locomotive states that he left a practice of $25,000 ] cver made =o high a speed. A mile in forty-eight seconds is the shortest time we have heard of. A. P. C. asks the weight and value of a cubic foot of solid gold or silver. A. per year to devote himself to the prac tiee of his specialty—catarrh. The bogus j medicine man then procures a largo number of copies of this paper, and marking the picture of Dr. Hart and the . A cubic foot of gold weighs ah rut 19,300 sketch, sends copies, together with theto ounces, ynd gold is worth $10.07 per circular, broadcast throughout the ounce. Silver is worth $1.29 per ounce, country. In consequence he receives : and a cub!c foot we j g l,t 10,500 ounces, an immense mail, and large numbers j Consequently the cubic foot of gold of money orders and registered letters. After the Postmaster General had di rected that no more money orders and registered letters should be delivered to would he worth $398,931 and the silver $13, o4o. S. R. G. writes: “Suppose a cannon ball and a rifle bullet be fired at the same Dr. Hart, $3,000 accumulated in the jnstant toward each other and on the Brooklyn post office that had been sent san , e n De) so that they collide, then when to him. When an attempt was made to the bullet atrikc3 the cannon ba]i and is find Dr. Hart, of course no such a man ; carried aloDg with it does the bullet stop could he discovered; hut a sign over a. before taking the course 0 f the ball?” doorat the advertised number was found, The shape of the bullot wilI be destr oyed by the contact, but every particle will and that was all. A Dr. Lawrence occu | l’' et * *-he same rooms, and to him the Btop be f ore reversal, although we may It frequently happens that visitors to ! mad " as del >vered, and when he was not be ab i e t 0 comprehend the shortness newspaper offices do and say things | told the letter3 could not be given to of time N- wspaper Etiquette. king. This guide has been followed by thc government and by private indi viduals; fortunes have been wasted in the search, hundreds of men have per- wb ; cb are improper, and rude, and an- i * 1 ' m ’ as * le was n ° t ^ r ' Hart, he went A ma'e catamount, or cougar, has a shed iu the mountains while engaged in " ‘ u: “'' it, and, while the gold of the Incas will never cease to haunt the memories of the avaricious, no man has been able to reach the business houses, and both are usually 1 die 8 P°' designated by the confession of ( 0m cd to newspaper etiquette. For this wo wish t o throw out a few ULU ill U UUU lllUCj RUU <IU~ I _ A 111(1 C LaUUllDUUl, vl UlU^iVI, llilo a ying. The visitor does not mean to‘ ; °® and S°^ a power of attorney by which bod y f our ( 0 four and one-half feet long, lie rude, and has really not the slightest idea that he is making himself disagree able, for the reason that he is not accus- undcr Die same roof, are signs reading, Vulverdo. “This is the property of an Englishman,*. The last t0 attempt it was an English “This is tho property of a citizen (if' ootanist > who wrote a P am l ,lllct g ivin f Dr. Hart authorized him to receive the mail. About this time, however, the officers came in and relieved him of further annoyance about his mail matter. the female being somewhat smaller. It is also known as the puma, American lion, and catamount, and is as much . larger than the wild cat as the latter is This same man was managing some other, stj0%erMmd flercer than tbe domestic scheme under the name of Lawrence, while his real name was Connolly. He bs experience. He says that no one whs was not familiar with every inch of cat. H. M. R. asks how to remote ink Germany,” and so on, a necessary wai>.i- ing to revolutionists, who are Thus notified to keep their hands off. The Spaniards are the aristocracy, poor hut proud, very proud. The nrlixed race furnishes the mechanics tind artisans, while the Indians till the soil and dothe drudgery. A cook gets twit dollars a month in a depreciated currency, but the employer is expected to Hoard her entire family. A iaborer gets four or six dol lars a month and hoards himself, except when lie is fortunate enough to have a wife out at service. The Indians never marry, because they cannot afford to. The law compels him to pay the priest a fee of six dollars, more money than most Ecuador ure ltiO miles from its only sea work , md entertain you. If you want of them can ever accumulate. When Spaniard marries, the fee is paid by con- a mule path, which is impassable fo r g0 and g( ,( it.for you t ributions from his relatives. s ' x mouths in the year, during the rainy Never ask for a sample copy, but tako It is a peculiarity of the Indian that he season, and in the dry season it requires ba )f a dozen, will sell nothing at wholesale, nor will eight or nine days to traverse it, with Never spit tobacco juice on tho floor, the Llanganati mount; 1 written the Vuiherde d laud marks are 8*1 m hut the path indie, 1 which is impassal to cross which tlifcif lives. It conation of cham^l by vo quakes as tr whim Valvt munently obs to have folio reason, hints that will enable the visitor to avoid unintentionally giving offense. When you enter the printing-office do not handle the type in tho cases. If you wish to examine the type say so to the printer, and he will he glad to stop his work and empty the case out on the j editor’s table, where you can sit in his | _ „ , chair and examine the type at your j °® ce window how these offers to > d j sa pp ear without injuring the fabric. must have made a great deal of money, | stains from |inen A Wet the fi in as one of the witnesses in the trial testi-1 then di int0 a powder consisting Red that he pad been offered $2,000 to of QQe part of findy peered oxalic personate Dr. Hart. acid mixed with four parts of cream tar- “It is a singular thing,” observed the tftr and rub on tha S p 0 t gen tlv, keep- c olonel, as he looked reflectively out of , fag it rather moistj and tbe stain will ,le have lost i e ; sure Never mind putting hack the ! £‘ ve sometdl ’ n g f° r nothing take with the A f ter tbe s t a j n disappears, wash the linen ; people, and how rogues fatten upon the credulity of the public. There is an other species of fraud, which one would If you want to know n^rally suppose had been given such wide publicity that no one would now be deceived bv it. I mean the counter type the printer can do that after you get through. Don’t read the proof sheets, clippings i or manuscript, . what is going to appear in the next paper ask the "'editor to read out aloud to vou. in pure water. The Afghan Commander-in-Cliief. Behind the Ameer was a knot of Afghans, among whom the tall figure of the Sipau Salar (commander-in-chief) in . He has plenty of time, and will be feit raoney dod S c > where men propose to cr j maon uniform covered with gold fac- The capital aud productive regions of gratcful t0 you for j hc cUance to quit his | forward a large amount of counterfeit; ings and with black helmet , wa3 raoflt *--- * _ _ _ j money by express or mail on the receipt; noticeable . Gholam Hyder Chiki is a port, Guayaquil, and are accessible only ' , ook over lhe cash book) make thc cditor of a small amount of genuine money to ; man o{ great staturC; resolute-looking i. i .1. — •-*- *- pay for the manufacture. Usually all at)d 0 f commanding appearance, lie is that the victim receives in return is a box a Ghilzai of the district lving between filled with sawdust. But a recent opera- i K usb i aud Ghazni, his native village _ tor has devised a new plan. He locates being Chirk, hence his distinctive name he trade with you anywhere hut in the no resting places where a man can find a aU , ays ;‘ t on the exchanges or on the ! n ° ar a SmaU t0 " n *“ a countr y Ui3tr >ct ! chirki to distinguish him from numerous marketplace, oil the spot where he and decent bed or food fit for human con wa n s> otherwise the editor will think his forefathers have sold garden truck sumption. Ihi9 is the only means of y 0ll are BO t accustomed to a newspaper for tine ■ centuries. Although travelers communication between Quito and the od ; cc _ Make the editor feel that liis on the highways meet whole armies of In- outside world, except, along the monn- p reseIlce does not nunoy you. dims, hearing upon their hacks heavy tains southward into Bolivia and Bern, Never ask for any old exchanges. Just ■burdens of vegetables aud other sup- where the Incas constructed beautiful plies, they can purchase nothing of them, as the native will not sell his milted to decay, until they are now goods until he gets to the place where practically useless. They were so wed he is in the hahir of selling them. He built, however, as to stand the wear and will carry them ten miles and dispos i° ar three centuries, and the slightest of them for less than he was offered for attempt at repair would have kept them them at home. in order. Thc same rule exists in Guatemala, A gentleman wlio lives some distance to Quito from town said that for the the former president of Ecuador, once Siftings. last four years he had heeu made it in thirty-six hours. He heard j trying to get the Indians, who of a revolution, and, springing upon his | packs of horse, went to the capital, had twenty- j sell him : two conspirators shot, and was hack iq help yourself to the unopened ones, for ways, which the Spaniards have per- tbey a i way3 contain much later news than those that have been opened. Ask the editor, if you are a perfect stranger to him to supply you with a du plicate key to his postoffice box, so you and then sends out his letters. He does other Gholam Hyders. He is not un- not offer to forward the counterfeit: known to us, having had command at ; money, but invites persons to visit him All Musjid when General Sam Browne and inspect his stock and buy what they | attacked it, and having played a leading : wish. When the visitor arrives the op-. part in the first fights about Cabul. He erator has a large quantity of good bills, j t was. too, who led the Afghans in the i which he shows him and allows him to J 8econ d action at Charasia when the examine. In order, however, to avoid j Gordon Highlanders and Guides, under outside interference tbe visitor is taken command of Colonel Jenkins, were off in the woods, where the business pro- attacked. He was thrown in his lot with ceeds. The operator produces his money j Abdur Rahman and is now Sipah 8alar at Cabul. The officers under him seem Although the journey from Guayaquil ; plicate key i Quito takes nine days, Garcia Moreno, editors , . , , „ , and the visitor examines it and deter can get his papers regularly. If ho is a . , , , , , - , . ! genrieman he will furnish you with a du- ! ml “ eS * w, ‘ ltakea “ dwhat smart, active, intelligent men, quite at without your asking, but some editors are not gentlemen.^- Texas passed every morning with alfalfa (the tropical clover), Treatment of Beggars in England. For an able-bodied man to be caught third time begging was considered a Moreno crime deserving death, according to an old law in England, which rematoed in compelled to go into town to buy one of thc fiercest and most cruel rulers i0ice ^ or sixty 3ears. The poor man what was carried by his own door. South America has ever seen. He shot might not change liis master at his will Nor will the natives sell at wholesale, men who would not takeoff their hats to or "ander from p ace to place. some at his gate, hut they invariably Guayaquil in less than a week, refused to da so; consequently he was was president for twelve years, and was buy They will give you a gourd full of pota- him in the streets, and had a drunken price is to be paid. Just as they are , home with their wild-looking soldiers.— about to close the transaction suddenly Pioneer Hail. two men emerge from the bushes, an nounce themselves as detectives, and Grant and the Skulker, proceed to place them under arrest. The * General Grant is a firm believer in detectives do not fail to take all the the mythical lucky star,’’ an old military money from both the men. As they are i man said to me last night. “Like Na- about to march them off to the town, polean, lie believes what will be will be. the operator obtains permission to speak i was with Grant in the days procedlng privately with the victim. He asks him the surrender at Appomattox. One after- how much more money he has than what noon, during one of the numerous skir- he was going to use in the transaction. mish«s of those last eventful days, one of and, if he has more, he advises that they ! the drafted men, a poltroon and a no- If out of employment, preferring to be idle, he toes tor a pcnnv as often as vou Hke, i priest impaled in the principal plaza of might he demanded for work by any had better try and buy off the detec- , torious coward, was caught skulking hut will uot sell their stock in "a lump Quito as a warning to the clergy to oh- master, of the “craft" to which he be- rives, for if they don’t, they will both am0 ng the horses in the commissary’s They will give you a dozen eggs for a serve 1 abits of sobriety or conceal their longed, and compelled to. work whether ; camp, real t ton cents), but will not sell you intemperance. There was nothing too five dozen for a dollar. This dogged brutal for this man to do, and nothing too sacred to escape his grasp. He dic'd in 1875 bv assassination, and uk country a second time his ear was slit or bored has been in a state of political eruption through with a hot iron. If caught a latter, course, accept the bribe, and, was found with a bullet in his brain *r since third time, being thereby proved to be pocketing all the money, disappear. The within the corral of train horses and 6 'Although the road to Quito is over an of n0 use upon this earth, hut to live victim gets away as fast as possible, and almost untrodden wilderness, it presents U P 0Q jt onl -'' to ^> s c' va tart and to that £ oea home and nev « r a word about the grandest scenic panorama in the of others, he sultered death as a felon. | his loss. He is too much ashamed. For | \ \ adherence t counted for, that their su; attempt to d custom cannot be ac- exoept on the supposit on ieions are excited by an unit from it. he would or no. If caught begging ready to pay anything to get out of the ‘“Let him go,’ said the general, ‘let mice, being neither aged nor infirm, he grasp of the supposed representatives of him go. A bullet can find a coward in vas whipped at the cart’s tail. If caught 'the law. and eagerly agrees to contrib- one place as well as in another.’ ute to a fund to pay the detectives. The “Half an hour afterward the soldier In Ecuador there are no smaller coius than the quartilln. change i3 therefore made by the use of bread. On his way- dead. The general’s words had been almost a prophecy. ”—Pittsburg Chronicle- Telegraph, FUN. A soft answer turnethaway wrath, hut a club keeps it turned away. The way to make an overcoat last is to make the undercoat first—Lynn Union. When boarder meets npring chicken then comes the tug of jaw.—Philadel phia Call. When a man sees double, it is evident that his glasses are too Strong for him.— Soslan Transcript. Some one says that liquor strengthens the voice. This is a mistake, it only makes the breath strong. Atmospherical knowledge is not thoroughly distributed in our schools. A boy, being asked: “What is mist?” vaguely responded: “An umbrella.” If a barber could only hold his own chin as well as he does that of his vic tim he would soon be able to use real bay rum.—New York Morning Journal. Friend—You don't mean to say yon understand French, Tommy? Tommy— Oh, yes, I do; for when pa and ma speak French at tea I know I’m to have a pow der. Reverend Gentleman—“My child, you should pray God to make you a new heart.” Youthful sinner—“So I did- papa, four days ago: g vss fit isn’t done yet.”—Lfc. 1 1 The fishing season is “on. ’ “What did you catch yesterday?” asked a Peoria urchin, with a pole aud an oyster can, to another boy. “Just what you’ll catch when you get home,” said the other, morosely, rubbing his shoulders. And then each smiled a sickly smile, and the convention slowly and solemnly ad journed" without date.—Peoria Trans cript. ’ A New York Sunday-school teacher told her pupils that when they put their pennies into the contribution box she wanted each one to repeat a Bible verse suitable for the occasion. The first hoy dropped in his cent, saying: “The Lord loveth a cheerful giver.” The next boy dropped his penny into the box, saying: “He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord. 1 ’ The third and youngest boy dropped in his penny, saying: “A fool and his money are soon parted.”—Detroit Journal. Torpedoes and Swimmers. Paul Boyton's recent prank in placing a dummy torpedo against the British war ship Garnet in New Yogi*harbor reminds the Scientific American of Sergeant Lee’s attempt to blow up Lord Howe's flag ship, the Eagle, in the same waters in 1770. He used a torpedo boa!-, invented by David Bushnell, afterward^' a captaiu in the patriot army. It had been tried with success experimentally and gave promise of being useful in scritus war fare. Thc first opportunity for such use occurred when the British fleet took pos session of New York harbor. The Bush nell boat was more like a barrel than a boat. It was of oak, iron banded, and only large enough for one person. IVhen floating upright the navigator's head was a little above the level of the water. By means of two force pumps, worked by the occupant’s feet, the ve.-sel could he made to sink or rise in thi water by forcing water out or iu, and so changing its specific gravity. Its progress hori zontally was governed by two revolving paddles in front, turned by a crank in side. The torpedo was fasleped to the back of the boat by a screw, tlis release of which set in motion a clock connected with a gun-lock aud flint. After the pre determined interval of time liadelapsed> the clock would strike and ignitethe pow der. The torpedo carried by Lee against the Eagle was charged with 150 pounds of powder (some say 130 pounds), and the clock was set to explode the charge in thirty minutes after the torpedo was placed. Lee was towed to the neighbor hood of thc fleet by a party in whale boats, and then proceeded to attack the fleet alone. He- succeeded in reaGhing the Eagle, a sixty-four gun kiiip, unde tected, and spent a long timelin a vain attempt to fasten the torpedo to lier bot tom with hooks ot.» screws; a band of iron at the edge of the copper sheathing proving an especia’ly serious ohstac e. As daylight approached, he was com pelled to leave the fleet and return.tn the city. Off Governor’s island he was in tercepted by a Eritish barge, when, to avoid capture, he exploded his torpedo, escaping from his pursuers during the panic which the explosion excited. The Scientific American says that if the tor pedo had been provided with a strong magnet, thc strip of iion^fiich thwarted him would have insured the success of his undertaking, and the use of torpe does in naval warfare might have been hastened half a centurv. NUMBER 38. “A First-Rate Mother.” Text, I. Famuel, ii. 19 : “ Moreover his mother made him a little ccati and brought it to him from year to j'ear when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacri fice.” The story of Deborah and Abigail is very apt to discourage a woman’s soul. She says hundreds of years ago; tha whelps knerw no / more now than did the whelps iof ages ago- they are taught no more by tY? lions of ty desert; but it is a shame thai-in this dtf Jt when there are so many opportunities off im proving ourselves in the best manner or- CU I* * «jring children, that so often there is nf more afraucement in this respect tha^ tht been srong the kids and the eagfits J whelps. Again Hann£w sti.nds . Christian mother. Irom her prnyers and from the way she consecrated her boy to God, I know she was good. A mother may have the finest culture, the most brilliant sur roundings, but she is net fit toiler.duties un less she be a Christian mother. There may be well-read libraries in the house, aTJ d ex- within herself: “It is impossible that I ever ! quisite music in tho parlor, and tbe canvas of achieve any such grandeur of character, and j the best artists adorning the walls, :--nd the I don’t mean to try;” as though a child I wardrobe bo crowded with tasteful a;fparel, __ try;’ „ should refuse to play the eight notes because he cannot execute a “William Tell.” This Hannah of the text differs from the persons I just now named. She was an ordinary woman, with ortlinary intellectual capacity, placed in ordinary circumstances, and yet, by extraordinary piety standing out before all the ages to come, the model Christian mother. Hannah was the wife of Elkanah, who was a person very much like herself— unromantic and plain, never haviug fought a battle or been the subject of a marvelous escape. Neither of these would have been called a genius. Just what you and I might be, that was Elkanah and Hannah. The brightest time in all. the history of that family was the birth of Samuel. Although no star ran along the heavens pointing down to his birthplace, I think the angels of God stooped at the coming of so wonderful a prophet. As Samuel had been given in answer to prayer, Elkanah and all his family save Hannah, started up to Shiloh to offer sacrifices of thanksgiving. The cradle where the child slept wns altar enough for Hannalrs grateful heart; but, when the boy was old enough she took him to Shiloh and took three bullocks and-an epnah of flour and a bottle of wine, and made offering of sacrifice nn f o il>^ Lord; and there, according to a previous vow, she left him; for there he was to stay all the days of his life and minis ter in the temple. Years rolled on, and every year Hannah made with her own hand a gar ment for Samuel, and took it over to him. The lad would have got along well without that garment, for 1 suppose he was well clad by the ministry of the temple; but Hannah could not be contented unless she was all the time doing something for her darling boy. “Moreover, his mother made him a little coat and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.” Hannah stands before us then in the first place as an industrious mother. There was no need for her to work. Elkanah, her hus band, was far from poor. He belonged to a distinguished family; for the Bible tells us that he was tho son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of lohii, the sou of Zuph. “Who were they?” you say. I do not know; but they were distinguished people no doubt, or their names would not have been men tioned. Hannah might have seated herself in her family, and with folded arms and dis heveled hair real novels from year to year, if there had been any to read; but when I see her making that garment and taking it over to Samuel, I know she is industrious from principle as well as from pleasure. God would not have a mother become a drudge or a slave; Ho would have her employ all the helps possible in this day in the rearing of her children. But Hannah ought never to be ashamed to bo found mak ing a coat for Saimftl. Most mothers need no counsel in this direction. The wrinkles on their brow, the pallor on their cheeks, the thimble mark on their finger attest that they are fathful in their maternal duties. The bloom and tbe brightness and the vivacity of girlhood have given place for the grain/ cr dignity and usefulness and industry of jpaOiGr- hood. But there is a heathenish idea getting abroad in some of tbe families of Americans; there are mothers who banish themselves from the home circle. For three-fourths of their maternal dut-ids. they prove themselves incompetent. TheyNtre ignorant of what j - a -iuP—. their children wear and ft hat | their children rfei and the children be wonderful for tiieir at* tainments, and make tbe house ring witt) laughter and innocent mirth; but there is something woeful-looking in that house if if be not also the residence of a Christian mother. I bless God that there ^re no* many prayerless mothers—not many oJ them. The weight of responsibility is so great that they feel the need of a divine hand to help and a divine voiqe to comfort^ and a divine heart to sympathize. __ Thous ands of the others have been led into th< kingdom of God by tho hands of their ! ittli children. There are hundreds of mot-hen who would not havo been Christians had i* not Been for the prattle of their little ones. Standing some day in the nursery they be thought themselves: “This child God has given me to raise for eternity. What is m3 influence upon it? Not being a Christian my self, how can I ever expect him to become t Christian! Lord help roe!” Oh, are then anxious mothers who know nothing of the infinite help of religion; Then I*commend ta them Hannah, the pious mother of Saint] Do not think it is your children come up iniqnitofc just such fai bro s and bright e Jos and hnnria and i-mnCAt its. tdms—extirpatingpurity from tfye heart rubbing out tho smoothness from the bi squelching the lutre of the eye and slu ing up and poisaiug and putrefying seething and scaldug and blasting and bi_ ing with shame an woe. Every .child ij bundle of tremindous possiDuties; £ whether that childihall come forh in life, heart attuned to th eternal harmonies, a after a life of usefulness on eartlgo to a of joy in heaven; oj whether a oss itsl jar eternal discords,and after a .’o of wrJ doing on earth it shill go toahoeof imjl etrable darkness and an abyss ‘immeas^J able plunge, is being docided byarsery song and SSabbatk lesson end evenir.prayer and walk and ride and lock and froi and smile. Oh, how many children in £'/, crowding all the battlements and lift! a million- voiced hossana—brought to id through Christian parentage. One hun a and twen ty clergymen were together 1 they were telling their experience and tumcestry; and of the 120 clAigyinen, ’ many of them do you suiu o^e ased as tho means of their conversion, the lence of a Christian mother? Owe hnnd out of the 120! Philip Doddridge* was biit to God by the scripture lesson\ on flitch tile of the chimney fire-place. ‘ Ttyo aer thinks she is rocking a child; but -t*; same time eat and what their children risad. ThgS trust to irresponsible persons tie young im mortals and allow them to be u» r'iniluences which may cripple their bodies -taint their purity or sjiofi their maimers or stroy their souls. From the awkward cut Samuel’s coat you know his mother Hinah did not make it. Out from under flami c handeliers and off from imported carpets ;d down tiie granite stairs there is come a gat crowd of children in this day, unrestraint, saucy, in competent for all practical dtes of life, ready to badaught m the first w.rl of crime and sensuality. Indolent an unfaithful mothers will make indolent an unfaithful children. You cannot expect jatness aud order in any bouse where the ;ug»iters 9ee nothing but slattern ness aud upde-downna- tiveness in their parents. Let Hannah be idle aud mit certainly Samuel will grow up idle. Wb are the in dustrious men in all our occupatms and pro- fessirms? Who are they managsg the mer chandise of the world, building the walls, tinning the roofs, weaving t,e carpets, making the laws, governing tie nations, making the earth to quake ane heave and roar and rattle with the trend of gigantic en terprises- Who are they? For tla most part they descend from industrious bothers who in the old homestead used to s ii their own yarn and weave thoir own carpet an 1 plait their own door mats and ting t heii own chad's and do tlieir own work. The stalwart men and the influential women of this 4ay, ninety- nine out of a hundred of them,came from such an il.ustrious ancestry; of h*r»l knocks and homespun. Aud who are tu s*-popple in society, light as froth, blown on jtvery wind of temptation and fash ion—-the peddlers of filthy stories, tbe danc ing jacks of polit-i al parties, the scum of society, the tavern 1 lounging, the store-infesting, the men of low wink an 1 fit thy chuckle and brass breastpin and rotten associations! For the moet part they came from mothers idle and disgusting —tho scandal-mongers of society, going from house to house attending to everybody’s bu iness but their own; believing in witches and ghosts and horse shoes to keep the devil out of the churn, and by a godless, life setting tlieir children on the very verge of* hell. The mothers of Samuel Johnson and of Alfred tho Great and of Isaac Newton and of Saint Augustine,and of Richard Cecil anidof Presi dent Edwards for the most part wjere indus trious, hard-working mothers. N w, while I congratulate all Christian mothers upon the wealth and the modern science which may afford them all kinds of help, let me say that every mother ought to be observant of her children’s walk, her children’s behavior, her children’s food, her children’s books, her bbiWren’s companionships. However^ much help Hannah may have, I think she ought every year, at least, make one igarmnt for Samuel. The Lord have meifyonthe man who is so unfortunate as to have a lazy mother! Again, Hannah stands before us as un intel ligent mother. From the way in which she talked in this chapter, and from the way she managed this boy, you know she was intelli gent. There are no persons in a community who used to be so wise and well informed as mothers. Oh, this work of culturing chil dren for this world and the next. This child is timid and it must be roused up and pushed out into activity. This child is forward and ho must be held back and tamed d<J*wn into i modesty and politeness. Rewards yfor one. bed ” and the dress foot of the bed. ^ _ »ui « she may be rocking the <JY 01 empires- roeking the fate of 2^*8—rooking tho glories of heaven. The / n m„ernalpower that may lift a child upf P r I c J s I s & child down. A daughter cam# ^ or -'Uy mother • and said she was anxhrr^ 3 * ns > and she had been prayingf’*}, r p°ther said: “Oh, stop pravj 1 [l 0 ! 1 DeJiava in pray ing. Get over ^ns; fandred^ 1 1 may wear it next \ ] week to that part}. The daughter took tha dress and she move the gay circle, tho gayest of all the that-uight; and sure enough all religior impressions were gone, and she stopped ( yihg. A fow months after she came fj-flie, and in her closing momentssaid: “fi aer, I wish you would bring me that dreiZthat cost five hundrec . dollars?’ The n<|,er thought it a veryl strange request; b s ‘, e brought it to pleasel tlieHying cSTl-tt'^lsew’foiv,” said tho daughter.! “mother, hang that |clre?s on the foot o. my 1 J -ess Iwas hung there on .hei Thlr.i the dying child got up 1 on one elbow and talked at her mother and then pointed to the -tress and said: ‘ Mother, that dress is tho prlice of my soul! Oto what a momentous tiling it is to be a mother! Again and lastly, Kannah stands before us as the rewarded motller. For all tbecosteshe made for SamuelV; for all the prayers she offered for him; tor the discipline sue ex erted over him, she (got abundant compen sation in the piety anfl the usefulness and the popularity of her soil Samuel, and that is true in all ages. Evety mother gets full pay for all the prayers anil tears iu behalf of her children. That man ( useful in commercial life-that man prominent in the profession; that master mechanict-why, every step he takes in life has an ecAo of gladness m the old heart that long apjo taught Inmtobe Christian and heroic, and earnest The story of what you have done. 1 , or what you have written, of the influence you have exerted, has gone hack to the' old homestead-for there is someone always ready to carry good tidings—and that story' makes the needle in the ofd mother’s tremulflus hand fly quicker, and the flail in the. father’s hand come down on the barn floor with a more vigorous thump. Barents-dove to. hear good news from their children. Do you send them good news always! Look out for the young man who speaks of his father as the “governor,” the “squire," or the “oln chap. Look ont for the young woman who calls her mother her “maternal ancestor." or the woman."' '“Tub eyethuT 1 mocketh.^ father and refusetn to obey his mother, the-* ravens of tho valley shall pick it ont, and the young eagles shall eat it." God grant that all these parents may have the ‘ ‘ An Assyrian Static of 850 B. G. ...... . - „ I modesty and pod About twenty-live years ago there was ; p! , n isliments tor another; that which will shipped to a gentleman in Philadelphia, | make George will ruin John. The rod i from a missionary to Syria, a life-size statue of a king, taken from the ruins of Nineveh at the time of Sir Henry Lay- ard’s explorations. It hud been lost by a caravan in the desert, and when received was stored and neglected, until a few days since. It represents a king clad in royal robes, bearing in one hand a basket and in the oriier a fir cone, a por tion of the stone being covered with sharply cut hieroglyphs; which Assyr ian scholars are endeavoring to trans late. The statue came from the temple of King Assur-nazir-pnlp a famous con queror who reigned from 8^3 to 8511B. C., and who was, there tore, sleeping in his grave when Nebuchaiijnezzar.'Kingof Babylon, was yet an inlfant. —■>’eientifii American. j The czar mles ove j * population num bering in 1882 a total 100,088,842. cessary in one case, while a frown of dis pleasure is more than enough in another. Whipping and a dark closet do nofcexhnnst all the rounds of domestic discipline. There have been children who have gone up and gono to glory without ever having hod tlieir ears boxed. Oh, bow much care and iutelli- S mce is necessary in the rearing of children! ut in this day, when there are so many books on th9 sub ject no parent is excusable in being ignorant of the best mode of bringing up a child. If parents knew more of diet- etics there would not ba so many dyspeptic stomachs and weak nerves and inactive liv ers among children. If parents knew more of physiology there would not be as many curved spines and cramped chests and inflamed throats and diseased lungs as there are among children. If parents knew more of art and wero in sympathy with all that is beautiful, there would not be so many ehu dren coming out m the world with boorish proclivities. If parents knew more of Chrisl and practiced more of his religion, there would not be so many little feet already starting on the wrong road, and all around us voices of riot and blasphemy would not come up with such ecstacy of infernal tri umph. The eaglets in the eyrie have no ad vantages over, the eaglets a thousand years ago- the kids have no superior way of climb ing up the rocks than the old goats taught ^ w -eat satisfaction of seeing their children grow up Christians. But; oh, the pang of that mother who, after a life of street-gadding and gorsip-retailing, hanging ou her children the fripperies and follies of this world, sea those children tossed out on the sea of life like foam on tho wave or nonentities in a world where only brawny and stalwart character can stand the shock! But blessed be the mother who looks upon her children as sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. Oh, the satisfaction of Hannah in seeing Sam uel serving .it the altar; of mother Eunice in seeing her Timothy learned in the scriptures. That is the mother’s recompense, to see chil dren coming up useful in the world, reclaim ing the lost, healing the sick, pitying the ig norant, earnest and useful in every sphere. There she sits—the old Chris-ian mother—* ri.ne for heaven. Her eyesight is almost gone, but the splendors of the celestiaLcity kmdla up her vision. The gray light of heavens morn has struck through the gray lock which are folden back ov*r the wrinkled temples. She stoops very much .«ow under the burden _ of care she used to carry' fW her children. She sits at home, too old to find her way to the house of God; but while she sits there, aU the past comes back, and the children that forty years ago trooped around her arm-chair with their griefs and joys-end sorrows—those children are gone now. Some caught up into a better realm, where they shall never cue, and others out in the broad world, attesting the excellence of a Christian mother’s disci pline. Her last days are full of peace; and calmer and sweeter will her spirit become until the gates of life shall lift an-.l let ill the worn-out pilgrim into eternal spring tide and youth. Texas will soon abound with cotton mills, says a San Antonio paper, which also chronicles the erection of a mill at Riverside at a cost of $30,000. Several outlaws who skipped out from Texas a year or two ago aro now officers in the army with which Gen. Barrios invaded San Salvador. In former years at Astoria, Ore., men were paid 12 J cents a fathom for knitting nets; this year it is done mostly by Chinamen at 9 cents a fathom. According to the will of a New Hampshire man his “dear wife” is to receive $10,000 in case she remains single eight weeks after his death. "Her Love.—She was a miss of sum mers ten, and did not care a snap for me:-, but only loved her pcodle. And when 6he got into her ’teens she did not care for men of means, bnt loved a sickly noodle. She’s thirty now and has more sense, and knows what money is, and hence her love must have the “boo dle.” ■k'
