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BUTLER W, N. BENNS, Editor and Proprietor. “LET THERE BE LIGHT*” Subscription, $1.50 in Advanoe. VOLUME IX. BUTLEfi, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1885. NUMBER 50. THE GLOB^ OF THE YEAS. •CHANT ROTJt.Th B'hen Spring c£ime softly breathing o’er the land, With warmer sunshine and fcWeet April shower: Bidding the silken willow leaves expand; ‘Calling to hill and meadow, bee and flower, Bright with new life and beauty; bn light Bringing the birds again to lt>Ve and sing; And waking in the heart its joy amain, With old fond hopes and memories in its train; Childishly glad *mid universal cheer, How oft we sang the half-forgotten strain; Aoia we behold the glory of the year!” When Bummer by her gentle breezes fanned, With footstep Cree and proud in restless power, With plump, round cheek to ruddy beauty tanned, In blooming loveliness came to her bower, Her golden tresses loosely wandering In wild luxuriance-—then pretty Spring Seemed but a playful sister, pettish, vain. How well we loved the passionate Sum mer’s reign! How day by day our empress grew more dear! Beyond,” we asked, '’what fairer can remain i Now we behold the glory of the year!” But when grave Autumn’s ever bounteous hand Poured round our feet the riches of her dower; pulpy fruit, the nut’s sweet ripened gland, The largess free to gleaner and to plower, And all the Summer sought in vain to bring; When stood the hills in glorious garmenting, Shadowed by low-hung skies of sober grain, No more could our enobled thoughts Sus- tain Regretful memory of Summer sere— ' What of the past!" we cried in quick disdain; *' Now we behold the glprj of the year!" Then before mighty Winter, stern and grand, tve saw defenceless Autumn shivering cower. Changed to Duessa by his potent wand, Shorn of her loveliness, in Fortune’ lower Naked for Winter time I never knowed ye ter dt>er kind or generous deed.” The colonel could stand no more, and with a loud snifi of rage he sprang to his feet. “It’s no use argifyin’with er woman!” he cried savagely, and seizing his hat he jammed it down on his ears and strode from the room. Hannah Eldridge laughed scornfully, and continued her ironing, She had nearLy finished when the kitchen door Op'ehed • softly, and a giri with the irate colonel’s features repro duced and softened in her round face, sparkling with life and color, stole into the room, and slipping up behind the unconscious Hannah pressed her little brown hands over the woman’s eyes. “Guess?” cried the girl, and her merry laugh rippled out and filled the room. “Oh, it's you, tarment!” said Hannah, removing the warm hands and drawing the girl around in front of her. “Where hev ye ben!” “Down in the orchard,” She said this Very demurely, but her face flushed, and she dropped her eyes. Hannah’s sharp eyes detected the girl’s illy-concealed embarrassment and nodded her head knowingly. “Elsie Barton, ” she said, “ye needn’t try ter decisive me. What wuz ye doin’ in ther orchard?” “Hunting summer harvies.” “Anybody help ye, eh?" “Willie Siamcc happened to be going along the toad and he very kindly vol unteered to shake the big tree for me, You know, Ilannab, that I’m not strdng enough to—” explained Elsie. “Ye needn’t s&y ho htore,” said Han nah, interrhptinc her; “I know.” “Know what, Hannah?” “That Willie Spencer loves you, and that you love him. I spoke ter ycr father ’bout it this morain’.” “Oh. Hannah!" cried the girl. “How a 0 * M you?’’ eSd did it for the best, pet lamb. I’ve sting. i s new scepterod How godlike came the world’ King! He fettered fast her torrents with his chain, Bound with his manacles the moaning main, Yea, wrought his will with all things far and nonr, “ At hwt,” we said, “ what more can Time attain? Now we behold the glory of the year!’’ Neglected Spring, despised, insulted, banned! Poor weakling! came again one April hour. The tyrant struck his tent at her command- She laughed—down tumbling fell his frosty tower; At oim light finger-touch his captives fling Thuil shackles off, and make the valleys ring With praises to the conqueror of pain. All the lost lives that languishing have lain, Eeave^ grasses, buds, and birds again appear. 0 now! wo cried again and yet again, “Now we behold tho glory of the year!” ENVOY. Prince, while .Spring sports with sunbeam, tlower, ami rain— While wanton Summer riots on the plain— Neath Autumn’s calm, or Winter’s frown Change only clearer chants the old refrain, “Now wo behold the glory of the year!" Ernest Whitney, in the Century. scourge to emit® l rel ’ 1 .Aeed hit agom’ on for some time, BO I DOWN IN THE WELL. sorter hinted around to him this niorn- in’ ter see how he’d take it.'’ “And what did he say?” interrupted the girl eAgUriy. “He blustered orful, an’ I know he’ll never consent. He’s plumb sot on mar- ryin’ ye ter Squire Dave Peters, an’—” “The old miser!” cried Elsie, passion ately. “I’d die before I would be his wife! Why, he’s old enough to be my grandfather 1” “That’s what I told yer father,” con tinued Hannah, “but ho wouldn’t listen to no reason.” “Oh, dear!” moaned the girl despair ingly. “What shall I do? I've a mind to do as Willie wants me td—fun away and marry in spite of father. After the knot is tied he can’t put us apart.” “Dop’t. never do nuthin’ so foolish,” cautioned Hannah. “He’d cut yo off without a penny, an’ though Willie Spencer er likely enough boy, he’s got nothin’ tew start life with.” “We could work together, and some day—” “That’d take too long,’’cried Hannah, scntentiously. “Your father has er plenty, and by rights it’ll all come ter you some day, but he’s powerful stub born when he makes up his mind tew be, and ye’d better not anger him.” “But—” began Elsie. “Leave it all ter me, pet lamb. Ef any mortal soul kin turn him from his stubborn ways I kin do it, and ye can but they were old and rotton, and when Hannah drew nearer, she saw that th» covering was broken and displaced. “Hullo, Kiiiin'eii” she cried, bending over the well, “Hanner!” was the colonel’s faint an swer. “Throw me er rope, Git fer ladder. Run for help; I’rii drownin’ 1” “Ain’t water enuff for that, Kunnel. How did ye fall in?” “Walkin’ across—plank broke. Help me out.” “Hez it cooled ye off eny, Kunnel?” “Yes. Git me out. I’m near chilled tew ther bone.” “Look here, Kunnel!” cried Hannah, and she smiled triumphantly, “I’ve got ye right where I've been Wantin’ ter git ye. Nobody fcflfiws that yer here, an unless ye promise ter let Elsie marry Willie Spencer an’ set ’em up with ther Oak farm, ye air likely ter stay here. If ye don’t I’ll klver ther well again, an’let ye stay that.” 'Fhh imprisoned man, up to his neck in water, stormed, raved, threatened, begged and prayed. Hannah remained obdurate. Finally she began to lay the broken planks biefe Across the well. The fright ened colonel begged her to desist. “Git me out, Hanner!” he said, “an I’ll promise. ” “Promise now 1” “Yes!” “Ye’ll let Elsie and Willie Spencer marry an’ giv’ ’em ther Oak Farm?” “Yes!” “I never knowed ye ter break a promise, kunnel, an’ now I’ll help ye out. “I’llbe back in er jiffy.” She ran toward the house, but meet iug Elsie and one of the farm hands come in search of her half way, she hur riedly acquainted them with the acci J dent which had befallen the colonel, and the man procured a ladder which waS lowered to the submerged deacon. “5fe took an onfair edvantage uv me, Hanner,” he said, as he clambered out, “but I’ll stand by my promise. Elsie, ye can marry Willie Spencer, an’ I’ll giv’ ye a deed ov ther Oak Farm ther day ycr married.” “Thank you, father!" cried the de lighted girl. “You have made me very happy 1” “Don’t thank me,” grumbled the col onel, returning her kiss. “If it hadn’t been for that pesky well an’ Hanner, I’d never consented!”—Chicago Ledger. nv Kr,wood Burke. I tell ye what. Kunnel Nehemiah , Barton, big man as ye think ye’so’f ve’re re3t; easy that I’ll do tho best I can for ; might small potatoes in my opinion. \ ^ c * With all yer riches, ye ought to be a lib- \ thank you,Hannah!” cried Elsie cral Ilian, charitable, to yer pore fellow- j impulsively. “You are always good creatures, but Lord bless me, yer heart 1 to me -” ain’t no bigger nor a cider apple, an’ I threw her arms around the faith- it’s harder’n flint. Ye’re selfish an’ I' 1 * woman ’s neck and kissed the thin proud-spirited, Kunnel, but yer pride’ll : Iip s - have a fall one of these days, mark my Hannah’s eyes moistened, and she avoids, ef it don’t, an’ it’ll humble ye to U asse<1 Ilflr hand softly over the girl’s the dust!’’ brown curls. Mrs. Hannah Eldridge tossed her head 1 "I couldn’t love ye better, pet lamb, with a scornful sniff a3 she stopped if ye wus m - v ow °.” she said. “I’ve ben speaking and resumed her ironing. er mother tew ye, an’ I’ll so continuer. The subject of her tirade, Colonel tew the old squire? Not much Nehemiah Barton—he was the com- | the - v shan ’t ! ” mander of a regiment of militia dropped the paper he was reading with a gasp of astonishment, and stared over his spectacles at his housekeeper and maid-of-all-work in speechless wonder at iier audacity. Finally he found speech, enunciatin' She returned Elsie’s kiss, and then, turning away, began preparations for dinner. The meal was finally ready, and the table was laid. She went out on the porch and blew several leud blasts from the big tin horn which hung from his words with slow and ponderous dis- the rafters, tinctiveness. | This was a signal for Colonel Nehe- “Hannah Eldridge,” he said, “how miah, but fifteen minutes passed and he dare yc, a miserbul sinner, an’ er non- did not put in an appearance, professer, set in jedgment ergen me who Hannah sounded a second alarm, and is a deacon uv the church, and Chairman stood on the porch, shading her eyes uv the Board uv Selectmen?” with her hand and looking out toward “Pooh!” retorted Hannah, suspending the “far field,” where the colonel was her hot iron in mid-air, "er man thet j supposed to be. growls ez much cz you do whenever I She could not see him, and again Bhe happen ter give or poor beggar a piece raised the horn to her lips, of meat or er slice of bread needn’t brag : “I know he’s th&r,” she said, musing- ’bout his religion. Ef ye wuz twenty ly, “fori Beed him goin’ thet-er-way. times er deacon in ther church, hit Mcbbe he’s fell down in a fit.” wouldn’t make yc ez charitable toward She threw her apron over her head to ycrunfortunit fellow creature ez ye orter shield it from the sun, and passing be.” through the truck garden at the rear of “Tramps is mostly er lazy, shiftless the house, bent her steps toward the “far set, an’ sled of putten’ vittals inter ther ! field.” mouths we orter set ’em ter work an’ ” j She walked through the enclosure, and “Ther widder Bascomb wuz no tramp, ; finding no traces of the colonel, was but an honest, hard-workin’ woman 1 about returning to the house when she heard a faint cry which seemed to come who wu-; abuv’ axin’ charity till sickness driv he: to it,” interrupted Hannah, and before the colonel could formulate a suitable reply continued: “You knew this, an’ yet ye let her go tew ther work ’ue in her old age, when or little out ov jrtmr plenty would ha’ helped her along ,-’towardfiler grave in comfort.” “Buk Hanner,” began the colonel, ^jrotoatijag'iy. l^P/OTi’t Banner me,” was the sharp rc- tefi^t. “I’ve been here in this house goin’ j jSU^oA doorin’ all thet from the bowels of the earth. She bent her bead and listened. The cry was repeated. “Help!”' > “He’s fell (Liwn the old well!” cried Hannah, and turning sharply to the right, she ran toward a little clump of trees in one corner of -fte field. In the centre of this' miniature grove was an old Well which fitwl been dug to water stock. i It waa loosely covered with boards, Periodicity as a Disease. A certain publishing establishment in Chicago has a peculiar class of employes, In that, with the exception of a young lady cashier and the office boy, they arq all “periodical drinkers.” The “peri-, odical” is the drinker who abstains en tirely for a time and then goes to a frightful extreme in a debauch lasting ^ week or two. These men are usually able and skilled men sober, and the ones employed by this publisher are brilliant writers and capable of earning good salaries in steady positions if it were not for their occasional lapse into dissipation. They are paid barely one-third the salaries their talents entitle them to, but he has to take all risk of their failure to show up when most wanted. One of these half-paid, struggling writers is a gentleman of classical education and great natural ability, who lias held high positions in educational work, and who recently wrote a poem as brilliant as any thing in the language. “I always have two or three brilliant men about me,” said the publisher, “but I never know on coming down in tho morning if I shall find them here. I sym pathize with them, and never refuse to employ a periodical if he can be of any use to me. I suppose it was in this way that my place got to he a sort of head - quarters for them. It is painful to no tice the number of brilliant men who are stricken with this disease. They come and go like driftwood in the currents. Every once in awhile we’ll get a man who seems to be proof against drink’s temntations. We think he never was a drinker and in no danger of ever becom ing one. Suddenly some morning he is missing and isn’t seen again for ten days or two weeks, when he comes in, w recked in health and a wreck in appearance, and begs to be taken back. As a disease, inherited or acquired, I think period icity is entitled to careful consideration by scientific men, as it is certainly be coming very common. We have fewer steady drinkers than wc had years ago, but many more men who occasionally fall from respectability to the gutter at one swoop and stay there a week or two at a time, perfectly helpless.— Chicago Herald. Right-Handed and Left-Handed. A right-handed man is a man who takes hold of a hoe, a rake, a spade, or a fork, with the right hand down and the left hand up or nearest the body. A man who habitually puts his left hand down, or, for instance, the man who places his right hand on the top of a spade, and grasps the handle or shank with his left hand is a left-handed man. And so with an axe. A right-handed and a left-handed man can work together in chopping down a tree. If they were both right-handed or both left-handed they could not do this unless one chopped on one side of the tree and the other on the other side. And so it is in loading earth into a wagon. If the men stand face to face one should be left-handed and the other right-handed. In hoein'jj a row of com the right-handed man will walk on the left side of the row, while the left-handed man will walk on the right side of it. We think there are more left-handed men (in this sense) than right-handed men.—American Agri culturist, POPULAR SCIENCE, A French scientist who says he has in vestigated 5,400 shocks of earthquakes, attributes them, like the tides, to the influence of the sun and moon. The in terior sea of fire, he argues, is subject td the same laws as the surface sea of water. It has been shown experimentally that seed corn is rendered more valuable by being slowly kiln dried at a high tem perature, the corn so treated germinat ing in much colder weather than would otherwise be the case, while, on the other hand it may be exposed to ifluDh greater heat without losing its g@rhiiiidt- ’ng power. An interesting estimate of the amount in weight of one inch of rainfall on one acre of ground is thus given: An acre of ground contains 0,272,646 inches square. Rain due inch deep would give that many square inches; 1,728 cubic inches make one cubic foot. Rain one inch deep would give 3,630 cubic feet. A cubic foot of water weighs 62J pounds; 2,000 makes a ton. This will give 236,- 875 pounds, or 113 tons and 875 pounds, to the acre, of rain one inch deep. The age at which runniug can be prac tised, an eminent physician says, by a healthy man in training is from twenty to thirty. Boys an J girls also of ten or twelve can run with no apparent fatigue. In boys’ races, for those under fourteen years, no previous training should be inflicted. No one should train for run ning until he is eighteen, but twenty would be the safer. Between thirty and 'orty a wise man will think twice before undergoing training for race running Older men should run on no pretence whatever. Fahrenheit supposed the absolute zert of temperature to be thirty-two degrees of the scale below tho fieezing-pjint of water. Later physicists have found that it must he 492 degrees below freez ing-point, or 460 degrees below Fahren heit’s zero. The temperature of the globe is known to fall in polar regions ns low as 75 degrees below the Fahren heit zero, and in recent experiments in liquefaction of gases two Russian chem ists have produced an artificial cold of 346 degrees below zero. The latter tem perature—114 degrees above the theoret ical zero point—is the lowest which has fallen under the observation of man. Hr. W. Martein- Williams remarks that the popular notion that mosquitoes are chiefly resident in tropical and sub tropical countries is quite a mistake, the home of their mightiest legions being within and about the Arctic circle. On coasting trips to the North Cape even, vessels are invaded by maddening swarms at every stopping place. It is reported that in Alaska they form clouds so dense that it,is impossible for sportsmen to aim at objects beyond. Native dogs are sometimes killed by them, and even the great grizzly bear is said to be occa sionally blinded by their attacks and finally starved in consequence. The directors of the Paris observatory remark that the heavens may be com pletely photographed in 0,000 sections similar to a section of the Milky Way phown in a chart presented to the French academy of sciences. The whole work might he done at six or eight well situ ated observatories in five or six years. It is declared that such a work, contain ing the photographs of over 20,000,000 stars down to the fourteenth or fifteenth magnitude, and bequeAthing to future astronomers an exact picture of the starry regions at the close of the nine teenth century, would certainly he the greatest astronomic undertaking ever carried out. Pen Picture of Gladstone’s Successor. The New York Sun says; The mar. quis of Salisbury's speech on the first public occasion since he became prime min ster, at the lord mayor’s annual ban quet to ministers, is regarded very favor ably as to matter. He is about six feet, of unwieldy figure, and his sallow fea tures are completely curtained by copses of straggling hair. He has little preten sions to be regarded as an orator like the G. O. M. he has succeeded, being unprepossessing both in appearance and manner, and he has an unpleasant habit when he rises of turning his side, instead of his front, to his audience, and in this attitude bending, almost lying, over the table when he desires to emphasize a particular telling party point. There is about him, however, a certain air of melancholy which is interesting, and the tones of his voice are subdued and plaintive. At times, too, though not eloquent in the ordinary sense of the word, he is an effective speaker, tei»e, clear and vigorous. A Chinese Farm House. The Chinese farm house is a curious looking abode. Usually it is sheltered with groves of feathery bamboo and thick spreading banyans. The walls are of clay or wood, and the interior of the house consists of one main room, extend ing from the floor to the tiled roof, with closet looking apartments in the corners forsleeping rooms. There is a sliding win dow in the roof, made ot cut oyster shells arranged in rows, while the side windows arc mere wooden shutters. The floor is the bare earth, where at night fall there often gather together a miscel laneous family of dirty children, fowls, ducks, pigeons and a litter of pigs, all living together in delightful harmony. In some districts infested by marauding bands, houses are strongly fortified by high walls, containing apertures for firearms and protected by a moat crossed by a rude drawbridge. ARTIFICIAL LEGS AND ARMS. How They Are made,and Their Pecu liarities of mechanism- " ‘Cork’ limbs, did you say my friend,” replied a Denver dealer in those lovely subtitutes for nature’s original gift, in reply to a Tribune-Republican i : e : j porter inquiry for information. “It is 'cork’ now only by courtesy, in a ‘trans- i ferred sense,’ as the classical grammari- : anstellus. Artificially less and arms were originally made of cork to secure lightness, but both the material and the models were clumsy beyond endurance whett compared wfth the perfected model and material of to-day?” . “What material is used now?” “Willow and maple, because of their rightly proportioned weight, durability, strength, and just sufficient elasticity. This was found out after much labor and expense in experimenting; and has re sulted of late in such perfect substitutes for the natural article that the children may be said to cry for them. Take be- low-the-knee amputations; in a short time the patient can walk just as well as ahyhody else. Why, ft man Can skate or run with these things on, though it seems at first like a stretcher. But when above the knee it is quite different. A man who loses his knee-joint is in bad shape, though the present substitutes are so excellent that only a slight limp is no ticeable.” “Do you make to order or are supplies kept in slock to suit the purchaser like clothing and foot-wear?” “Invariably to order, as it would be impossible to keep a sufficiently large stock on hand to suit all comers. We measure for the necessary limb, and in two weeks it is ready for the cripple. Measurements are taken thus,” said the doctor, spreading out a large Bheot of manilaon the floor, on which was drawn a right arm and hand, while a stump ap peared alongside in pencil. “See, here is the way we do. The man wants an arm or a leg. lie lays out the whole and the amputated member side by side on paper where I make a drawing of both. This is sent with specifications as to style and cost of goods to the manufac turer, who can tell from the drawing just what is wanted every time.” “What if the limb doesn’t fit?” “Then the manufacturer is out two express charges and the cost of making things all right Some eastern makers in ^tting a limb, if they find a false thigh too long they saw it ia two, slice off half an inch or so, glue the parts to gether again, and refit till satisfactory. If too short, a piece is set in, but tif course such work as this below the knee is impossible, because of the ligaments or tendous by which the lower leg is worked. With thigh amputations the upper leg is kept in place on the stump by suspenders, the stump being protected from galling by a silk or worsted sack. I know a man with but six inches of thigh, yet he gets around without a cane, though, of course, he has to throw his leg and cuts an ungainly figure, but it’s a deal sight better than flinging one’s self around on crutches. “Now, with amputation at the knee and below, a laced bearing of leather is worn on the thigh, connecting with the main leg below by iron side-straps, Which move backward and forward on screw axis joints at the knee. It is in this leather setting that the thigh shank rests, and which sustains the direct weight of the body. Here is the knee- joint mechanism. A short rod from the thigh part ends of the knee center-point in a branch, the ends of the axis turning iu trunion, supports reaching from the upper sides of the lower leg. “That makes the knee joint, and by a spring attachment the leg is thrown into posi tion. One model has a steel pin for the knee to work on, bull don’t think much of it beside this. Now, here are tendon running down through the hollow cal into the foot so that the foot works on the ankle joint, and its movements hew the proper relation to those of the calf and upper leg. But the best thing in the way of false feet is the India rubber foot. See how the toes and heel work exactly like the natural foot. It has a block of wood for the core, io give it solidity and make a suitable base for calf construction. No tendons, no foot ma chinery of any kind; they are finding a ready market.” “What one thing more than another causes the loss of legs and arms?” “Railroad accidents, as far as legs are concerned, and they come to us in all 8 hapes. Arms are lost mostly among the miners, from premature explosions or from falls and rocks flying from blasts. The railroads also contribute their share. “A false arm put on above the elbow is of precious little use except for show. But with a good elbow-joint a great deal can be accomplished. See this false arm how freely and naturally the wrist-joint moves, while as for the fingers, they will stay in any position you place them, so that one can write, drive a horse, work in the fields, and do lots of things. Some people have a hook inserted in the palm, to have a firmer hold. It often comes in very handily. A laced leather gauntlet on the upper arm secures false arms firmly to the stump, as with the leg, but where the elbow-joint is amputated a false upper arm fits onto the stump, and the elbow connection has a universal bearing, so that the arm can be placed in any position desired." “Are there many people in Denver with false limbs?" “All of fifty men have false limbs, mostly legs, and three womey have false legs. Had one miner from Mj two new hands not long was a man in town with both eyes hands wanting, but he has left without getting new hands, and he’ll be sorry for it. Llttlston has a cowboy with both legs gone below the knefi from freezing. He was fitted out here, and now rides his mustang just as well as ever. It is surprising to see ho w quickly a man will learn to «3lk, even whore there is an amputation above both kneeS. “In New York or Chicago a Denver man will pay $150 to $200 for a leg, while here in town their cost is $100; only, the price is the same whether the leg is off above or below the knee. An arm above the elbow costs $75; below, $40. The cost to the manufacturer is, for a leg, not over $25; for an arm, about $15. So you see there is a tremendous profit, just like the poor druggists who buy acetic acid in large lota for two cents per pound and sell it here for fifteen cents an ounce.” Where Women Gamble. There are seven gambling places in the city into which none but females are admitted says a New York letter to the Philadelphia News. All of them are op erated by men, whose wives or mistresses assist them id receiving their patrons. There may be many more, but these seven I know of. One on Fourteenth street is back of a very fashionable mo diste’s store, run by Hugh Simmons and Helen Davenport. This is patrouized by tho middle class. Another on Lexing ton avenue, not far from Twenty-sixth street, is a very quiet game, presided over by Phil Bloodgood and his wife, and so on down to one in Thompson street, which is for the lowest class. The most aristocratic one is on Sixth avenue, above Thirty-fifth street, run in the in terest of Jennie Perkins and Norah Brooks, who own the one for gentlemen on West Thirty-fourth street. Even youog misses scarcely seventeen years of age are welcomed here. The game is only played in the daytime. Hardly two years agd the wife of a prominent civil lawyer, whose dffice is in Wall street, and who lived in comfort and luxury on Madison avenue, near Forty- first street, became so infatuated with this game that after pawning all her jewelry and rich garments during the absence of her husband, who was argu ing the case iu the supreme court in Washington, sent her baby and her nurse to her sister’s, at White Plains, to spend the day, and then deliberately sold all her houshold furniture to play. She lost, confessed to her husband, who attempt ed to regain the money from Mrs. Per. kins, but Bhe was obstinate, consulted a prominent firm of criminal lawyers on Centre street; and the unfortunate hus band, fearful of a public scandal,dropped the matter. This is not an isolated case. Before the surrogate not long ago a contested will case was being tried, a daughter being the contestor, and evi dence was adduced showing that she had lost nearlv $6,000 in this and other games in two years, and her father, knowing it, had simply left in trust for her use during lifetime a sum of money, the interest of which was to be paid to her every month. Gensral Grant’s Reticence. He was never a secretive man until the positions of responsibility in which he was placed compelled him to bo chary of giving expression to his opinions. He then learned the force of the philoso pher’s maxim that the unspoken word is a sword in the scabbard, while the spoken word is a sword in the hands of one’s enemy. In the field there were constant vis itors in camp ready to circulate any in timations of the commander's move ments, at the risk of having such val uable information reach the enemy; in the White House, every encouraging ex pression to an applicant for favors was apt to be tortured into a promise, and the President naturally became guarded in his intercourse with general visitors. When questioned beyond the bounds of propriety, his lips closed like a vice, and the obtruding party was left to supply all the subsequent conversation. These circumstances proclaimed him a man who studied to be uncommunicative, and gave him a reputation for reserve which could not fairly be attributed to him. He was called the “American! Sphynx” and “Ulysses the Silent,” and he was popularly supposed to move about with sealed lips. When accompanying him through New England the summer after the close of the war, it was soon seen that the stor ies of his reticence had preceded him. The trip was the first of those grand ova tions with which he was always greeted by the people through whose communi ties he traveled. The train stopped for a few minutes at a small town in Maine, and the people, as usual, took the op portunity of- extending a greeting and delivering their words of welcome. As the general stood in the doorway of the rear car, a tall, gaunt looking woman elbowed her way through the crowd till she got near the platform. Here she’ stopped, and put on a pair of spectacles with glasses in them that looked about as big as the lenses in large telescopes, and taking a good look at the general, said, gasping for breath as she spoke, “Well, I’ve come down hyere a-runnin’ right on the clean jump, nigh on to tew mile, just to git a look at the man that lets the women do all the talkin’.”— General Horace Porter, in Harper's. t returned •.just r during * four A mountain explorer, j: from Asia, states that month’s reaidene<vat a height of -.15,000 feet above the-sea, his pulse, nominally sixty-three beats per uifmite, sel- .ow 100 beats per minute, were often twiee as levels, WORDS OF WISDOM. What we learn with pleasure we never forget. The heart has always the pardoning power. Presumption is oiir natural and origi nal disease. The greatest of faults is to be con scious of none. ’Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now. Break through this pretense of exist ence ; determine what you will be and be it. What is joy? To count your money and know that it does not belong to creditors. Complimenfs of congratulation are al ways kindly taken, and costs nothing but pens, ink and paper. When we are alone we have our thoughts to watch—in our families our tempers, and in society our tongues. Nature is upheld by antagonism. Pas sions, resistance,. danger aro educators. We acquire the strength we have over come. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and, drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work. Our homes are like instruments ot music. The strings that give melody or discord, are the members. If each is rightly attuned they will all vibrate in harmony; but a single discordant string destroys the sweetness. How to Keep Cool; Don’t work as hard as usual during the middle of the day if it can be es caped. Don’t eat as much as usual. It is not necessary, and a little fasting in hot weather always pays. Don’t drink extremely cold ice water. It is always better to eat the ice or let it melt in the mouth. Don’t have any fires going in the house unless absolutely necessary. Use' cold foods and do without hot drinks. Don’t wear your clothes tight. It im pedes the already depressed circulatio* and is a great source of discomfort. Don’t eat any meat or butter if you can do without them. They are heat ing, and any one is better without them this weather. Don’t fail at meals to give preference to fruits and acids, which are more agreeable now to the stomach than any thing else that can be offered. Don’t neglect any chance to get out of the city to the country or seaside even for half a day. Such an excursion wj” often bridge a person over an en! heated term. Don’t walk any faster than is neces sary. Strain a point and ride as much as possible, as every street car fare such weather as this is a great saving of pby sical wear and tear. Don’t drink any strong stimulants, as simplest and plainest beverages, such as lemonade, milk or iced coffee, do more for the tired eneigies at such a time than the best brandy. Don’t worry and fret. Try and put -off the unpleasant thing with which you have to deal until cooler weather, and make up your mind not to get mad at anything. Don’t neglect your feet. Bathe them, night and morning, pay more attention than usual to corns, and wear the oldest and roomiest shoes you have. No ono can keep cool with tight shoes on their feet. Don’t miss any oportunity that is of fered to bathe or go into the water. If nothing else can be done dip the hands in a basin of water and rub them all over the person on arising and before retir ing. Don’t wear a stiff hat. Compromise on something light ancl soft—straw if possible—and ventilated above to let out the hot air. Frequent shampooning and wetting the top of the head is one effec tive moans of keeping coal.—Philadel phia Times. Two Royal Cranks. It is a strange destiny, that of the royal family of Wittelsbach, the ances tors of which won the crown of Bavaria by their wisdom in council as well as by courage in the field. Of the two broth ers who now represent the elder line one plays with his crown and sceptre as thougn they were mere baubles. The other is undoubtedly a madman. At pres ent the madness of Prince Otto has as sumed the form of fancying himself to have been turned by some magic spell into a lion and to suppose that he is shut up in an iron cage like a wild beast. He roars, he springs about his room, bites and scratches his keepers. When King Louis feels need of a little excitement to stir him up from his torpor and ennui he locks himself up with his brother and for ho“urs, until they are both ready to drop from sheer physical exhaustion, they romp around on ail fours, jumping over the table, upsetting and smashing the furniture and filling the chateau with cries that resemble rather the roaring and howling of wild beasts than sounds uttered by human throats. You might perhaps fancy that there were a pair of king? of beasts behind the doors of the room, but you would never guess . that such sounds were being made by a royal pair who were born to bo kings of men. —Philadelphia Times. According to the Journal of Inebriety, of 202 Blinois physicians whose deaths are reported -by the State board of health, six committed suicide, seven were pois oned by overdoses of chloral or morphia, and “over thirty were known to use spirits to excess.” Misery—a girl with a new dress on and no place to go.—Marathon Independent. The Finnish language ought to be Jaught at all boarding-schools.—Pica yune. “Women dentists are gaining ground in German,” says a Boston paper. Achers of it, no doubt.—Lowell Courier. More than $30,000,000 is invested in ' elephones in the United States, and vet dome people say talk is cheap.—Derrick. A dentist in a Western city is named Leggo. As a usual thing, however, he will not do so until it is out.—Boston Post. Perhaps nothing has more of a ten dency to sour the milk of human kind ness than a snoring man in a sleeping car.— Chicago Ledger. A felon is a bad thing to have, but there is one good point about it. It is always on hand when you want it—and when you don’t.—Texas Siftings. There is a Chinese laundryman iq Cali fornia who has no ehin. which leads us to remark that we wish our washerwoman were afflicted in a similar way. She has too much chin altogether.—Lowell) CitU i - ten. There arc times in a man’s life when the whole sky seems rose colored, and this old, dull world a paradise. One of these is when he has discovered a quar ter in the lining of his old vest.—Boston Post. “I [rather marry a yaller dog than you,” wrote a California girl to a suitor. She afterward reconsidered her determi nation and married him. He now wishes he had taken her at her word.—New York Graphic. Boots are'seldom worn in the evening and undressed kid is the favorite ma terial for slippers, says a fashion jour nal. It may be added that slippers are not a favorite material with the uiv dressed kid.—The Hatchet. A Too Successful Ruse. Telling fibs is sure to get a man into trouble, especially when the object is to deceive your best girl—or her mother. As an illustration, the following, from the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, will serve: There is a young man in this city, a good looking young fellow, who has a sweetheart out in the country a few miles, and he spends two evenings every week in her society. A few nights ago he stayed to the usual hour and as ho passed out the front < that it was cloudy not relish thg — the yo ency. Going contrived to slip a3 ground. Thereupon he' dous groaning. The ru3e wo? rably. The girl screamed, the me3 folks jumped out of bed and carried the young man tenderly into the house. His horse was put up, and he was assisted to undress and deposited in the spare chamber. He had hardly began to chuckle over the success of the strata gem when the girl’s mother put in an ap pearance, armed with a mustard plaster a foot square and of ten-horse drawng power. This she immediately proceeded to clap on the small of the young man’s back, where he had incautiously located the damage to his frame. For two mor tal hours that woman sat by the bed, and was not satisfied till she beheld with her own eye a blister an inch deep. The young man is now a reformed liar. Fishing by a Hen. Joseph T. Favinger, of Lawrenceville, East Coventry township, is the owner ol a Plymouth Rock hen which is possessed of the peculiar trait of seeking in the water for a portion of its livelihood. Pigeon creek empties inter the Schuylkill river at Mr. Favinger’s machine shops, just after furnishing the power for that industry, and before doing so flows, over a shallow, pebbly bottomed bed in which numerous minnows are at all times to be seen. Lately the hen referred to, which probably first discovered tho spot in seeking a place for water, has gotten in the habit of visiting this place daily and Bpending some time in wading about the shallow water and catching live minnows, which, as it catches them in its bill, carries them to shore and after pecking them until they make no more movements swallow them whole. The hen’s method of catching the fish is to go in among a school of small fish and drive them toward a spot where the water is so shallow that they are scarcely able to swim, when it will plunge in among them and is almost certain of capturing one at each effort.— West- 1Chester (Penn.) Village Record. A Dag’s Peace Offering. Walking along Post street, pretty weli out of the business portion ol the city, I chaued—tCLjtotics^a little child three years of age at play with an im mense Newfoundland, dog on the lawn in fropt of an elegant residence. In the rough and tumMe sport of the two the child hurt his dumb playmate so that he snapped rather angrily at the infant. A lady, who stood watching on the porch, cried out: “Nero, ain’t you ashamed of yourself to frighten baby? Go away, you bad dog.” Poor Nero slunk away vyhinlng and irresolute; suddenly he sprang toward a flowering rosebush, bit off one of the fragrant blossoms, a^d with many extravagant capers laid "it at the feet of the little child, and then bounded tmvard the mistress to receive the caress of forgiveness.—San Fran Alta.' i m
