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VOL. XI.
ellijay courier,
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COLEMAN ft KIRBY.
BftT Office in the Court Home
WerhdTbectoby.
Superior Court meets 3d Monday iu
May and 2d Monday in October.
Hon. James R Crown, Judge.
George F. Gol er, Solicitor General.
COUNTY COUNT.
Hon. Thomas F. Grt6r, Judge.
Moultrie M. frcssions,Count y Solicitor.
Meets 3d Monday in each month
Court of Ordinary meets first Monday
iu each moLth.
town council.
J. P. Terry, lutendent.
M. McKinney, i. fl. Tabor, I n
J. Huunicutt, J.R. Johnson, J L ' om ‘
W. H, Fo3ter M Town MarshaL
county officers.
J. C. Allen, Ordinary,
T. W. Craigo, Cierk Superior Court,
H. M. Bramlett, Sheriff,
J. H. Sharp, 'lax Receiver,
O. \V. Gnus, Tax Collector,
Jas. M. West, Surveyor,
G W. Rice, Coroner,
W. F. Hill, School Oommisaioner.
The County Board of Education meets
at Eilijav the Ist Tuesday in January.
April, July apd October.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South—
every 4th Sunday, and Saturday before,
Rev. C. M. Ledbetter.
Baptist Church—Even- 2nd Saturday
end Sunday, by Rev. E. B. Shope.
Methodist Ep’scopal Church—F.ver
Id Pa unlay and Sunday, by Rev. R
If. Robb.
FRATERNAL RECORD,
Oak Bowery Lodge, No 81, F. A. M.,
meets first Friday iu each month.
W. A. Cox, W. M.
I . B. Greer, S. W.
W. F. Hipp, J. W.
R. Z Roberts, Treas.
T. W. Oraigo, Sec.
W. W. Roberts, Tyler.
T. B. Kirby, S. D.
H. Jl. Bramlett, J. D.
J. W. HENLEY.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
JASPER, GEORGIA
Wi 1 practice in ihe Superior Court of the Blue
Uiiige C rcuit. Prompt attention to a'l busi
up-s in hunted to liig care.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ELLIJAY, GA.
Will practice in Bine Ridge Circuit, Count?
Court Juetice Court of Gilmer Count?. Legal
buaineea solicited. '‘Promptneea" ii our motto.
DB. J. S. TANKERSLEY.
Physician and Surgeon,
Tenders hie profeesional eervices to the citi
ecne of Ellijay, Gilmer and Burrounding conn
tics. All calls promptly attend-d to. Office
npslairs over tho Arm of Cobb A Son.
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Calhouk, Ga.
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both the Spring and Fall term of the
Superior Court—and ofteuer by special
(ontrart. when sufficient work is guar
anteed to juitify me in makingtlio visit.
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Wife—“ What a lovely Paris hat!”
Husband—“ Come away, dear. Per
haps thers’s cholera germs in them for
eign fixin’s.”— Si/tings.
Ax old bachelor wants to knew If s
scolding woman with her month shut
caa be arrested for carrying concealed
“A MAP or BUST Lirm-m TLVCTVATIOXS ASP ITS VAST OOSCBBSS."
dreams.
"Drams are bat Interludes which fancy makae.”
In the purple dreamland lying,
White winged dreams,
Sleep with folded pinions fair
In the hearts of violets rare,
Where the yellow rose lies sighing,
Slumbering seems.
Soft grey clouds with sleep o’erweigted
Far are seen, e
And each heavy lidded star
Drifts through dream seas still and far,
Mists of gold, with peace o'erfreighted,
Lie between.
Brooding wings stretch o’er the meadows
Purple barred.
Snowy lilies, faced with gold,
In their bosoms dreams enfold,
Where the night wings cast their shadows
Golden starred.
In the mist land dreams are lying
Full of peace,
Weary souls give up dark care
In the dream land far and fair.
In the hearts of roses sighing
Sorrows cease.
—Fannie Isabel Sherrick.
DOWN THE SHAFT.
“As if I would think of a common
coal-hand 1” said Emmeline Lathrop, con
temptuously. “I am surprised at your
insolence, Mr. Hilford?”
She laughed liglitly as she spoke, but
to Garrett Hilford it was no matter of
mirth.
“You’re not in earnest, Emmy!” he
pleaded. “You can’t be in earnest? You
never would have accepted all my atten
tions, and looked at me with such sweet,
smiling eyes, if you hadn’t meant some
thing by it. I may be only a coal-hand,
that is true,” he added, with a dark-red
flush mounting to his brow, “but I’m
getting fair wages, and I could make a
good and comfortable home for the
woman that trusts herself to me.”
“It’s quite out of the question,” said
Emmeline, decidedly.
Hilford gnawed his under lip.
“Then you meant nothing all this
time?” he said, in a repressed voice.
“I meant to enjoy myself—nothing
more.”
“Humph!” uttered Hilford, sardon
ically. ‘-The spidir means to enjoy her
self when she lures the wretched fly into
her net I Tiie beautiful, hissing, dia
mond-eyed serpent means nothing else
when it drags the palpitating bird to de
struction ! A strange sort of diversion,
that!”
For her turned np nose,
Her sweet little toes,
Her pretty pink hose.
And all her clothes
“I wish, Mr. llilfor<],if you’re through,
you’d go about your busine s.” said
Emmeline, coloring and biting her lip.
“There’s a good many customers coming
in.about this time of night, and I don’t
think they’d be particularly edified by
your tragedy speeches. ”
“You think not, eh?” said Hilford.
“Well, I will go.”
“Good-by!” said Emmeline Lathrop,
much relieved at this prospect of being
so easily rid of her swam.
“Oh, I won’t say good-by I” returned
Hilford, with a light laugh. “Who
knows but that we may meet again!”
Emmeline sincerely hoped not. And
just then some ladies came in to look at
ribbons and laces, and the pretty shop
girl found all her thought and time oc
cupied.
And after all, what was the use of
troubling herself shout it? It was very
faolish of young Hilford to attach so
much importance to a mere flirtation—
an exchange of tho silly, smiling noth
ings which belong to the vocabulary of
all young people. Did he think that she,
with all her attractions, intended to be
come that worst of all drudges—a poor
man’s wife?
And when, a few days subsequently,
she heard that Garrett Hilford had left
the place, she was very glad.
“I don't really think that he would
have made me any trouble,” she mused;
“but there was a look in his face that I
did not like. It’s a good thing that he
is gone.”
And once more Emmeline threw her
self into the gaieties of her light and
frothy life. She was young and beauti
ful. Why, then, should she not eniov
herself? J 3
To have half a dozen lovers at once;
to be engaged three-deep at every ball,
picnic or excursion; to muse on the
possibilities of a splendid match some
day, when she should have danced and
dreamed her fill—this was her life.
80, one day, she accepted Ethelbert
Warren’s invitation to go with him on
an excursion to the Wardenville Moun
tain Glen.
“He’s rich,” said the little schemer to
herself, “if he is stupid. And money
means so much! Of course, it would be
pleasanter to go with George Sisson; and
George will feel dreadfully to be thrown
over; but poor, dear George is only a
steamboat clerk, at ten dollars a week.
Oh, dear, why .is it that all the nice
young fellows are so horribly ineligible?”
And no one acceded more joyfully to
the proposition to descend into the black
chasm of th: Wardenville Coal Mine,
“just for fun,” than did Emmeline
Lathrop.
“Have I ever been down a mine? No,
of course not!” the saucy beauty cried,
“/live above ground, thank you! But
of course it would be a splendid frolic to
go down the shaft, if all the rest of you
are going.”
And they huddled together, screaming
and laughing, on the rude elevator as it
descended lower, and still more low, into
the black depths of the earth, until the
yellow shine of day had vanished,- and
all that illuminated their faces was the
lurid light of-the torches carried by the
men who accompanied them.
“Why,” cried Emmeline, as at last the
elevator touched ground, and she sprang
off, “it’s like a cathedral, with long
aisles, supported by columns of glittering
jet! Three hundred feet below the level
of the earth 1 Oh, it don’t seem possible!
It is grand beyond all I had dreamed of 1
—yet oh, how frightfully gloomy! One
feels as if one were under a spell.”
The little party scattered in various
directions under the gleaming arches of
coal, lighted here and there by the piti
ful glare of torches, and Emmeline found
herself in a long, apparently interminable
aisle, with its rudely-hewn sides glisten
ing like black diamonds.
“Where am If” she cried, a little un
easily. “Have I 10-t my way?”
From a pathway, which seemed to In
tersect the broader eisle at right angle-,
a dark figure supped forth, with a light
ELLIJAY, GA.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1886.
•Rising like e yellow star in the bud ef
the cap it wore.
“.Step this way, ’’said a deep, subdued
voice.
And Emmeline gave a little shriek.
“Is it Garrett Hilford?” she cried
“Here!”
“Itis Garrett Hilford, and here,” he
answered, composedly. “How do you
do, Miss Lathrop? Can I show you around
my quarters? We don’t have many visi
tors dowu here, and so, of course, wo
are proportionately glad to sec them.”
“Where is the rest of the party?” said
Emmeline, glueing nervously in'this di
rection and that.
"Gone around by the Black Arch, 1
suppose, ” Hilford answered. “It’s quite
1 curiosity, that Bfcck Arch—at least, so
the above-ground-people seem the think.
Would you like to see it!”
“I must go back to the others,” said
Emmeline, hurriedly.
“We can meet them presently," said
Garrett, with tba utmost composure.
“Follow me, p’. ,'se. It’s only a few
rods.”
He walked on, and Emmeline, after a
few moments’s hesitation, reluctantly
followed.
What else was there for her to do, but
to keep in sight of that faint yellow star,
where all else was hideous blackness?
But after she had walked quite a dis
tance through sinuous pathways, some of
which were scarcely wide enough to
admit of the passage of the humu form,
she suddenly stopped.
“I will go no further, she declared.
Garrett Hilford looked around.
_ “Just as you please,” said he, with a
sinister smile.
“Take me back to the mouth of the
mine," she cried. “All this time you
have been leading me astray.”
.He leaned against the almost perpen
dicular low wall of the mine, with folded
arms.
“Well,” said he, “why should I not?
Didn’t you lead me astray once, and laugh
at me, afterward, as if it were a capital
joke? Do you think there is no such
thiug as retaliation in this world? Is
it a pleasant sort of a thing, this being
deceived and made game of, do you think,
Miss Emmeline Lathrop?”
K deadly chill seemed to enfold the
girl’s heart. She gasped for breath. In
this sepulchral gloom, this terrible iso
lation, what was to become of her? she
asked herself.
“Hush!” he said, lifting his finger in a
listening attitude.. “Do you hear that
creaking sound ? It is the chains of the
elevator going up. Your friends have
finished their survey. They are going
back again. Up to this time they have
not missed you. Yes, shriek—cry out
until you have strained your lungs to the
utmost! Do these black walls return you
any answer? And who is there to hear
you—tho mules, champing their feed in
the furthermost sockets of these aisles?
The few Swedes working beyond, who
cannot understand a word of English ?
No, Miss Lathrop,' you are at my meroy
at last. You amused yourself with my
anguish once; I can play with your fears
now.”
“I am not afraid of you I” cried Emme
line, feigning valor she was far from
feeling. *
“You are!” he retorted, sharply. “I
see it your eyes, I hear it in your voice,
and it tills me with delight.”
“Why should I be afraid? I have done
you no harm,” she asseverated.
“No harm!” he bitterly repeated.
“You have blighted my life! You have
ruined my future! You havo destroyed
my faith in human nature! Is that what
you call no harm?”
She sunk on her knees, with wildly
clasped hands.
“Be mercifull” she wailed. “Be gen
erous! Take mo to the mouth of the
mine! Signal them to return for me!”
“I will not!” ho said, savagely. “Does
the wolf give up the prey upon which his
teeth have already closed? Does death
give up its victim? I have Rworn to be
revenged, and I will keep my word!”
She turned and fled from him at the
top of her speed, shrieking as she went;
and, oh, joy! at the first turn of the black
pathway sho met men, hurrying toward
her with torches.
She had been missed at last; they had
returned, in quest of her.
“Why did you allow yourself to get
separated from us?” asked they, reproach
fully.
But she oould not answer with sobs
and tears.
“I—l thought I was lost!” she faltered.
“I was so frightened!”
“There was nothing to be frightened
about,” said the superintendent. “You
could not possibly have got lost. Garrv
Hilford is working there somewhere, and
he would have set you on the right p ith.
He is a poor, love-crazed fellow, but he
would have been civil enough.”
“Love-crazed!” repeated one of the
ladies. “How very romantic!”
“He’s been disappointed,” explained
the man. “and he has never gotten over it.
He works when he feels like it. and when
he don’t he lies at full length in the
straw we keep down here for the mules,
and stares at the roof of the mine.”
Emmeline listened in silence; but if
an arrow had pierced it, the pain in her
hea:t could not have been keener.
Three weeks later she astonished ril
her friends by accepting George Sissm
as an affianced husband.
“I love him,” she said, simply, “and
he loves me. If we are to be poor, we
shall at least be happy.”
For that half-hour in the Wardenville
Mine had wrought a complete change in
Emmeline Lathrop’s frivolous nature.
She had*put the tawdry tinsels of life
: behind her, and looked its realities in the
| face. She had comprehended—alas, too
late for poor Garrett Hilford’s happiness!
—that a roan’s heart is not a thing to
play with! — Helen Forrest Grates.
A mammoth gum tree in the woods
near Cambridge, Md., has for four years
been used by an eagle for the rearing oi
her young. The tr.-e has been cut down
after great labor. The nest at the top
was found as large as a cart-bo !y, and
contained two young eagles nearly full
fledged. The birds survived the shock,
and have been cared for as pets. The
old bird was out on a foraging cxcursios
at the time.
Anew method of treating smallpox
with ether and opium, the ether being
administered hypodermically and the
opium by the mouth, has recently bees
tried in Paris w th remarkable succese,
even in very severe cases
FIREWORKS.
Alt INDUSTRY THAT HAS BEEN
LARGELY DEVELOPED.
Combinations of Color, Light and
Flame That Illumine the Skies
at Night—Curiosities of
Day Fireworks.
The firecrackers in use in this country
arc all imported. They cannot be manu
factured so cheap here as in Europe. But
the fireworks which are now so exten
sively used are all made here. There are
more than eighteen large factories in the
Northern States, which turn out many
millions worth of pyrotechnics annually.
The chief seat of this class of industry is
in East New York and Williamsburg.
Gunpowder is still the principal ingre
dient of fireworks, and as is well known
three materials enter into the composition
of gunpowder, saltpetre, sulphur and
charcoal. These ingredients are first
separately ground into fine powder, then
mixed in the proper proportions, and
afterward committed to the mill for the
purpose of incorporating their compo
nent parts in the special body to be pro
duced. The latter process is generally
carried on in a number of little wooden
huts with light roofs, so that in esse of
accidental explosions the loof may fly off
without difficulty and in the least injuri
ous direction. When the powder has
been dusted and glazed it is dried in tho
stonehouse, where great care is taken to
avoid explosion.
Another important ingredient in fire
works is steel dust. Being mixed with
mealed powder or some other composi
tion, and the mixture inflamed in a
proper tube, a jet of fire is produced with
a most brilliant effect. Iron filings,when
free from dust, are also often U3ed. But
firework makers generally prefer cast iron
reduced to powder
There are many other substances occa
sionally employed in the composition of
fireworks which can be procured from all
chemists and druggists. They are chiefly
camphor, antimony, wh’ch gives to the
tiro different and particular shades of
color, n benzoic acid, which imparts to
the tire an agreeable odor, and spirits
of wine or camphorated spirits, used
for mixing up too ingredients into a
paste.
The goodness of tho article to be pro
duced depends ns much on the construc
tion of the molds that are used as on the
purity of tho ingredients. Tho molds
consist chiefly of solid and hollow cylin
ders made cither of wood or metal. Both
arc used in the construction of rockets.
Then there is a machine for contracting
the aperture of the cases, tho operation
of which is called choking; another for
boring them after they are tilled, and a
simple apparatus for grinding the ma
terials previous to their being tilled into
the cu es.
Buckets have ever held the first place
among single fireworks since the inven
tion of the art. Tho parachute rocket
discharges at great hight a floating star
of heavy calibre, suspended from a para
chute, which is set free, expanded and
illuminated by theburatiug of the rocket
when it ri aches its elevation. These
parachutes float a long distance, and
change colors several times before disap
pearing. Another rocket is called tne
“comet.” It ascends to a great height,
and discharges a single star of large size
and great brilliancy, which changes colors
several time*, while floating slowly away,
then suddenly resolves itself into a re
volving wheel of brilliant fire, ending
with a burst of tinted meteors.
Colored fires for theatrical use, tab
leaux aud outdoor illuminations are now
mnde free from disagreeable smell while
burning. They consist of a dry powder
which is spread in a metallic dish. A
brilliant and dazzling illumination is pro
duced by Bengal lights, which are slow
burning. A novelty are the colored
Bengal light books, which consist of a
book of six leaves, with three strips to
each leaf. A strip or a leaf is tom from
the book and then lighted. It burns
with a brilliant red or green illumina
tion.
Pieces of fireworks, which are harm
less and can be used by ladies and chil
dren, are the flower pots. They are
shower cases, throwing out while burning
remarkable streams of beautiful spur fire
and spangles, presenting the appearance
of a fountain of brilliant fire. Flower
pots are held in the hand by the handle.
There arc a number of wheels which, in
their revolutions, throw out circles of
beautiful and dazzling spangles. These
wheels arc attached to a smooth, upright
post, by a round nail through the centre
hub. The finest of these wheels are com
posed of six cases of brilliant fire, each
one after firing changing in the form and
appearance of its scintillations, and ex
hibiting, at the same time, variegated
colored centre rings, changing to the
most beautiful colors known to the pyro
technic art.
One of the finest effects produced last
season at Coney Island were the “Colored
Saucissons.” A shower of fire rises with
intermediate stars of variegated colored
fires, which finally explode with a heavy
report and discharge high in the air a
mu's of contortions of fire, hissing and
squirming in every direction and resem
bling fiery snakes. Floral bombshells
show in burning all the choice colors
known to the art, consisting of gold,
crimson, red, blue and variegated stars
of all shades. They project a bombshell
in the air to an elevation of about 300
feet, which then explodes and throws out
stars of every hue, mingled with showers
of golden rain.
Avery amusing and beautiful display
is made by the “colored flying pigeons.”
These pyrotechnic curiosities fly a dis
tance through the air of 100 to 800 feet
and return back to the starting point.
They require a line or wire fastened to
posts or trees upon which the pigeons
fly-
Within the last few weeks anew kind
of fireworks has become very popular,
which is used upon the water only. The
fuses are lighted and the pieces are then
thrown from the shore or the boat into
the water with the lighted end upper
most. They are called diving devils,fly
ing fishes, Roman floaters, spray foun
tains, water wheels, etc., and exhibit
many pleasing and wonderful effects,
diving into the water and arising again.
The latest uovelty ever produced in
this country in the line of fireworks are
the daylight fireworks imported from
Japan. They were exhibited at Coney
Island and otbar places last year to larga
crowds of wondering ad-'-rare. These
daylight fireworks consist of shells
which comprise a selection of curiosities
such as animals, fish, birds, caricsturss,
dragons, beautiful colored smoke effects,
etc. They are thrown from a mortar to
a high altitude, when the figures de
scribed are released, which float through
the air to the wonderment of the be
holder. To the same class of fireworks
belong the hot air balloons and the ani
mal figure balloons, which are made of
tissue paper tinted and colored, and in
the shape of large pigs, elephants and
fishes. After being inflated they are
sent up, and present in the air a lifelike
representation of the animal. Some of
these balloons have Srcworks attach
ments, which are set ail when in mid-air,
exhibiting in all varieties of color a
bursting of shells, showers of golden
rain and the dazzling brilliancy of the
meteor.
Nearly all the fireworks come into the
market in assorted cases, which range In
price from $lO to S2OO. A case that can
be bought for S6O contains 338 colored
Roman candles, 144 sky rockets, 24
flower pots with handles, 18 Bengal
lights, 16 colored triangle wheels, 21
mines of colored stars, 6 colored vertical
wheels, 6 dozen pin wheels, 12 dozen col
ored lights, 24 sticks Chinese punk and
one unexcelled colored show bill. Extra
large pieces are sold single. A girandole
costs about $125, a flight of rockets
from SBS to SIOO, and a piece called
“whirling phantoms,” $62. —New Tori:
Star.
Country Life in China.
Life in a Chinese hamlet is wound up
to run like clockwork, and its busy regu
larity never varies. The hamlet itself,
says a writer, is often very picturesque.
Here is u group of 700 or 800 houses,
situated between two graceful hills, pre
senting a charming view. Excepting
about a hundred tradesmen massed on
the banks of a small river that runs
through the valley, the inhabitants have
scattered their cottages a little every
where, leaving between them hero and
there spaces occupied by fields and gar
dens. The stream, spanned by bridges,
is constantly dotted with big and little
boats going and coming from neighbor
ing towns. Compelled to shape their
fields according to the sinuosities the
water describes and the contours of tho
bills, their designs are of the most un
looked-for sort. By small canuls, con
veying the water from tho river, tho ter
races on the hills are irrigated for culti
vation. Upon these terraces the gay,
green color of the rice fields predomi
nates over the darker tint of the sugar
care in spots not so well irri
gated ; big yellow flowers stand
out on the cotton stalks; lines of
orange-trees, with their sombre leafage,
are visible, and beyond stretch planta
tions of tea trees, under which is caught
a glimpse of the gray earth, contrasting
with all the to t. Rice, tea, cotton,
sugar and oranges are the most import int
crops of the locality, but there are several
others that add to its income, viz.:
Hemp, yielded by a palm tree, its large
leaves reaching twenty feet from the
ground; oil extracted from a tree which
has a disgusting look on account of its
knotty, crooked trunk and rusty leaves,
and bamboo, the most useful of all the
small trees, and exceedingly graceful,
witli its branches extending thirty feet
and balancing their leaves in tho slight
est breeze. The country roundabout has
bunches of small trees, from which as
cend morning, noon, and evening, silver
tinklings from the bells of a dozen pago
das, revealing their triple roofs of yellow
tiles and their upturned corner* through
rifts in the foilage against the pure blue
of the sky. No rumbling wheels are
heard, and even the song of birds, the
echoing voices of the field laborers, do
not break the deep prevailing stillness.
Diminutive as the farms are, their yield
is enormous. On a farm of four acres •
family will live comfortably and econo
mize five or six hundred dollars a year.
To secure such a result, the tillers do not
limit themselves to selling the raw prod
ucts of the land, but transform them as
far as possible by manufacturing in their
homes. They manufacture, by primitive
process, their own oil and sugar, and
weave their silk, hemp, cotton, ana, by
thus establishing manufactories as much
as possible on the farms, keep many la
borers attached to the soil and prevent
their concentration in targe factories,
which would encourage overproduction.
They proportion the quantity of their
products to their immediate wants, thor
oughly convinced that steady work will
always supply them from year to year.
Asa consequence, little capital is accu
mulated, an China, perhaps, has less
money piled up than any other nation
of the worlu. All this is simply in ac
cordance with frugal methods of living
and the cardinal idea that work is the
chief end ot man. —Baltimore American.
Cheerful Cripples.
“The cheerfulness of crippled men
takes me off my feet. The other night
I attended a little reception at which
there were present a dozen or twenty old
soldiers. Some of them had wooden
legs, others had crooked legs or maimed
legs, and there was in fact scarcely a
whole-bodied man among them, and yet
when the music took a martial turn all
those old fellows insisted on dancing. It
was the most remarkable performance
that I had ever seen, and for-ten minutes
a good many of us could not tell whether
we were laughing or crying. But the
boys seemed to enjoy it, and when their
blood was up they were as reckless as a
lot of romping lads and girls in attempt
ing all the extraordinary capers inci
dental to a frolicsome dance.”— lnter-
Ocean.
All Is Yanity.
He whistled an opera air,
As those who can whistle will do;
They said, with a sarcastic stare:
“Why can’t you invent something nawf
He told them a joke that he read.
But soon he his folly did rue;
They simply looked tired and said;
“Why can’t you invent something new!"
He sang them a popular song;
His voice it was equaled by few;
Their faces told something was wrong;
They told him to sing something new.
He made a remark that was bright,
But instantly weary they grew:
And one of them sahl in his flight:
“Why can’t you invent something new!
The strain on bis poor frightened wits,
To something quite horrible grew;
Row in an asylum ha sits.
And tries to invent ooraethin^new.
018 DOLLAR Par Asshb, la iivssea
WORDS or WISDOM.
He hath no leisure who useth it not. •
Take you heed. To be near the life
boat is different from being in it.
Common sense in an uncommon degree
is what the world calls wisdom.
Genuine cheerfulness is an almost cer
tain index of • happy mind and a pure,
good heart.
We pray for mercy; and that same
prayer doth teach us all to render the
deeds of mercy.
The manner of • vulgar man has free
dom without ease, and tho manner of a
gentleman has ease without freedom.
Multitudes of words are neither an
argument of clear ideas in the writer,
nor a proper means of conveying clear
notions to the reader.
Frequent consideration of a thing
wears off the strangeness of it, and shows
it in its several lights and various ways
of appearance to the view of the mind.
The men in cities—who are the centres
of energy, the driving wheels of trade,
politics or practical arts —and the women
of beauty and genius are the children or
grandchildren of farmers, and are spend
ing the energies which their father’s
hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty
furrows, in poverty, necessity and dark*
sess.
Endurance at Sea.
In a recently published book Clark
Russell gives some remarkable instances
of human endurance at sea, and one of
the most interesting relates to an Arab
seaman, who lived without either food or
water for eighteen days, during which
time he drifted upward of five hundred
miles in an empty tank before striking
the coast. Another instance of tenacity
of human life is exhibited in the ac
count of the loss of a vessel called the
Sally. The Sally was struck one morn
ing by a heavy squall. She lay over till
her decks were up and down, and in this
posture remained for about five minutes,
and then turned keel upward.
Five of her crew were drowned; the
remainder, six in all, got hold of a spar
that was floating alongside, and by means
of it contrived to crawl on to the vessel’s
bilge. The mainmast coming up, they
removed an iron hoop from it, with which
and a bolt of a foot long they Went to
work to penetrate the hull, in the hope
of obtaining food and drink. She had
heen lately cleaned, and there were no
barnacles on her for the poor fellows to
stay themselves with,' and thus, in prob
ably the most awful situation that can be
imagined, without meat, drink or sleep,
not daring to lie down for fear of falling
off the vessel, did these unhappy seamen
go on hacking and scraping at the hard
wood for six days, during which time
one man died raving for drink.
On the sixth day they had mads a
hole big enough to enable them to reach
a barrel of bottled beer. On the elev
enth day they got a barrel of pork, which
they ate raw. With staves and shingles
used as dunnage, which they obtained
out of the hole they had made, they
manufactured' a platform, and so man
aged to obtain some rest. So matters
went on for fourteen days, and they were
then picked up by a brig named the Nor
wich. *
Sailors are of opinion, says Mr. Rus
sell, that if it were not the feeding quali
ties of the ocean air, they would scarcely
be able to keep body and soul together
upon the bad pork, beef, biscuit and peas
which, in many sailing ships, are served
out to them; nor would any man be will
ing to challenge the sailor’s theory after
examining the mahogany-like, lumps of
stuff with which the beef-tierces are
filled, and the leader pellets which do
duty for peas in the forecaetle soup.
Feeding His Flock.
The Rev. Freeman Wills, Vicar of 8..
Agatha, Shoreditch, London, pitying the
poor people who have to pay exorbitant
prices for butcher’s meat, bought a couple
of frozen New Zealand sheep, had them
cut up in a Finsbury school-room, and
sent tne schoolboys round to tell the peo
ple what he was about. He sold his stock
at a profit of two shillings a sheep, and
next week bought six. Very soon he set
up a regular shop and engaged a trust
worthy manager, who soon perceived that
it would be just as easy to buy for sev
eral shops as for one, and more profitable.
Accordingly, four “Eastward Ho meat
stores” have been established—one in
Shoreditch, one in Hackney, one at Stam
ford Hill, and another in King’s Road,
Chelsea. The trade at these four shops
averages about £2OO a week, or a business
of some £IO,OOO a year. They just pay
their way and enable Mr. Wills to give
five per cent, on the capital some of his
friends have intrusted to him, while the
patrons of these new establishments get
prime English legs of mutton at Bd. a
pound, frozen imported legs at 7d., and
shoulders at fid. An increase of such
stores would help to relieve purchasers
from the extortions of ordinary butchers,
and the tax paid to intermediate sales
men.—London News.
Mosquitoes That Kill Bears. *
J A. Johnson, a well known mining
expert, returned from Alaska a few days
ago. “Next to the rich ore,” said Mr.
Johnson, “what I struck the most for
cibly was the mosquitoes. Why, sir,
they kill the bears. Now it seems strange
that a mosquito could kill a bear, but
this is the way it is done. The bears
come down from the hills into the marsh
land to feed on roots and berries—a sort
of a cranberry found there. As soon as
they get comfortably to work the mos
quitoes attack them, and go for their
eyes. The bears get up on their hind
legs to fight them off, and sink into the
swamp. The mosquitoes, which are of a
most extraordinary size, keep at them
until they are totally blind, and then
they have them completely at their
mercy. I have seen over a dozen bear
carcasses in those swamps positively
killed by the mosquitoes.”— Victor in
Times
The Difference.
In muslin light,
So bright and white,
She chattered with a youth from town;
A<:d with a sigh
Her eyes so shy
Turned all its blushing glances down.
Bethought: This maid.
Afraid and staid.
Could bring me into love's young dream.
She thought: How nice,
It twioe or thrice
- would-tup the oam!^^
NO. 24.