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OOLBIAI ft KIRBY, Editors sad Proprietors. VOL. XI. ellijay courier, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —BY— 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. M. M. Szssroxs. E. W. Colkjc**. SESSIONS t COLEMAN, 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. H? FE WALDO THORNTON. 0.D.8. DENTIST, Calhouk, Ga. W ill visit Ellijay and Morganton at 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. Address aa above. Imavil-lv Young men Woo wish a Tbokouoh preparation foi Business, will find superior advantagesai MOORE’S BUSINESS UNIVERSITY ATLANTA, GA. The largeet and beet Practical Business Sohoo! in the Sooth. can enter at any time. jßH*Bsnd for circnlare, CENTRAL HOTEL! Ellijay? Georgia. In (lie special popular resort for o immercia men and tourists of all kind, and is the general house for prompt attention, elegant rooms and arc second tc none, in this place. Reasonable rates. Mrs. M. Y. T-ern will give her personal at }eoi on t-. nests in ihe dining trail. 1?14 WHITE PATH SPRINGS! —THE— Favorite and Popular Resort o/ NORTH GEORGIA! Is situated 6 miles north of Ellijay on the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad. Accommodations complete, facilities for case and comfort unexcelled, and the magnificent Mineial Springs is its chief attraction. For other particulars on hoard, etc., address, Mbs. W. F. Robertsox, Ellijay, Ga. loitainYiei Hotel! ELLIJAY, GA. Tills Hotel is now fitted up in excel lent order, and is o|>en for the reception of guests, under competent management. Every possible effort will lie made to make the Mountain View the most popu ar Hotel in Ellijay. Accommodations in every department first-class. Livery, sale and feed stables in connection with hotel. Guests transfernl Li and from all traits lice of charge. 24 iy THE ELLIJAY COURIER. AURANTII Moat of the diieases whioh afflict mankind are origin ftOFMoaMlbj a disordered condition of the LIVER# For all eomplainta of this kind, anch as Torpidity of •hs Liver, Biliousness, Nervous Dyspepsia, Indigee* Man, Irregularity of the Bowels, Constipation, Flatu lency, Eructations and Burning of the Stomach (oomethnea called Heartburn), Miasma, Malaria, Bloody Flux, Chills and Fever, Breakbone Fever, Exhaustion before or after Fevers, Chronic Diar rhoea. Lorn of Appetite, Headache, Foul Breath, Irregularities incidental to Females, Bearing-down ache, Ao., Ac, STAOIGER’S MJRAWTH I* Invaluable. It is not a panacea for all disease.., tat niDC a " diseases of the LIVER, will yUnC STOMACH and BOWELS. It ohangaa the complexion bom a waxy, yellow tinge, to a rnddy. healthy color. It entirely removes low. gloomy spirits. It is one of the BEST AL TERATIVES and PURIFIERS OF THE BLOOD, and la A VALUABLE TONIC. BTADICER’S AURANTII Fog sale by all Druggists. Prioe gl .00 per bottle. O. F. STADICER, Proprietor, •40 SO. FRONT ST.,' Philadelphia, Pa. FIRST GLASS— Grocers Keep It. Tfcln child I# elenn And sweet, I ween, Aa any Queen You've ever seen. Were washed with ELECTRIC LIGHT SOAP Without Rubbing. First Class Housekeepers use it, Ist. Washing clothes in the usual manner is decidedly hard work; it •rears you out and the clothes too. 9d. Try a better plan and invest flvs cents In a bar of ELECTRIC LIGHT SOAP. Saves Time, Labor, Honey, Enel and Clothes. Use as <U rested on the wrapper of each bar, ORDERS SOLICITED. atkinsTsoap CO. INDIANAPOLIS. IND. Automatic Sewing Machine Cos. 72 West 23d St., New York, N.Y. J c We invite special at . . tention to our New Patent Automatic Ten- Sion Machine, making S /.VP precisely the same stitch W w the Wilcox & Gibbs, •iL _ and yet, if not preferred the Wilcox & Gibbs Automatic Tension M&- chine, can be returned any time within 30 days and money refunded. But what ia more remarkable still, we never knew a woman willing to do her own family sewing on a shuttle machine after having tried our New Patent AUTOMATIC. Even Shoe Manufacturers find it best Buited to their work—its elastic seams are more durable. Truly Automatic Sewing Machines are fast snperseding shuttle machines, and it is no nse to deny it. Truth is mighty and does prevail. Shuttle Machines have seen tlielr best days. Send for Circular . Correspondence solicited . Lawrence PURE LINSEED OIL TVMIXED Faints READY FOR USE. IP The Best Paint Made. Guaranteed to contain no water, benzine, barytes, chemicals, rubber, asbestos, rosin, gloss oil, or othsr similar adulterations. A hill guarantee on every package and directions for use, so that any pne not a practical painter can use it. Handsome sample cards, showing 88 beautiful shades, mailed free on applloatlon. If not kept by your denier, write to us. Be-rsfaltoaskfor “THE LAWRENCE PAINTS," end —not Jake any other said to be “as good aa W. wi LAWRENCE & 00., nrrsßvßSH, pa Dangerous. 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.