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Through gathering cloud* an : stormy seas c,l
fate
Tao golden watchwords y Me and comtoil
me;
Toiling along my path, early mi l late,
I cling to patience and fidelity.
In all the weary changes ol my day
I strive to follow duty laithlully;
And when I falter, tainting by the way,
With subtle iufiuenee patience strengthens
me.
So onward, through what suffering God may
send,
I walk with faith, and teet that shall not
tire,
1 mating with patience, strong unto the end,
lo reach at last, oh, f,ord, my soul's desire.
Hewn S. Conant. in H.rrper’t.
A Midnight Struggle.
In the early autumn of the year 1849,
about half an hour of sunset, I drew
rein in front of a large double log house,
on the very summit of the Blue Ridge
mountains of Eastern Kentucky.
The place was evidently kept as a
tavern, at least so a sign proclaimed,
and here 1 determined to demand ac
commodation for mysell and servant
Bose, a (lark-skinned body-guard. Bose
and 1 had been playmates in child and
boyhood, and I need hardly say that
the faithful fellow was attached to me
as I was to him, and on more than one
occasion In! had shown his devotion.
I here had been a “shooting match”
at the Mountain House that day, and,
as 1 dismounted, I saw through the
open window of the barroom a noisy,
drunken, and evidently it quarrelsome
set of backwoodsmen, each of whom
was swearing by all possible and im
possible oaths that he was not only the
best shot, but that he could out-tight,
out-jump, out-wrestle, run faster, jump
higher, dive deeper and come up dryer
than any other man “oh the moun
tains.”
“I say. Mars Ralph, ’ said Bose, in a
low tone, as I handed him my bridle
rein, “ I don t like the looks of dem dar.
S’pose we goes on to tin; next house;
taint fur.”
“Nonsense, Bose,” I replied; “these
fellows are only on a little spree over
their shooting. We have nothing to do
with them nor they with us. Take the
horses round to the stables and sec to
them yourself. You know they’re had
a hard day of it.”
And throwing my saddle-hags over
my Si.oulders, I walked up the narrow
path to the house,
I found, as J have intimated, the bar
room tilled with a noisy, turbulent
crowd, who one and all stared at me
without speaking as I went up to the
bar and inquired if 1 and my servant
could have accommodation for the night.
Receiving an' affirmative reply from
the landlord, a little, red-headed,
cadaverous-looking man, I desired to he
at once shown to my room, whither I
went, hut not until 1 had been compelled
to decline a score of requests to “take a
drink,” much to the disgust of the stal
wart bacchanalians. .
The room to which I was shown was
at the far end of a long two story struc
ture. evidently hut recently added on to
the main building, which 'it intersected
at right angles. A gallery extended
along the front, by means of which the
rooms were reached.
I found my apartment to be large and
comparatively well furnished, there
being, besides the bed, a comfortable
cot, half a dozen “ splint bottomed”
chairs, a heavy clothes press, and a
bureau with glass.
There were two windows, one along
side the door, and the other in the oppo
site end of the room.
The first mentioned door was heavily
barred with stout oak strips, a protec
tion, I presumed, against intrusion from
the porch, while across the latter door
was drawn a heavy woolen curtain.
In the course of half an hour Bose
entered and announced that the horses
had been properly attended to, and a few
minutes later a bright-faced mulatto
girl summoned us to supper.
Supper oyer, I returned to my room,
first requesting to la* roused for an early
breakfast, as I desired to be on the roail
bv sunrise.
Thoroughly wearied with my day’s
ride, I at onee began preparations for re
tiring, and had drawn oil'one boot, when
Bose came in rather hastily, lookin'-
furtively over his shoulder! and then
cautiously closing and locking the door.
Mars Ralph, dars gwine to be
trouble in dis house afore morning,” lie
said.
And I saw in a moment that some
thing had occurred to upset the faithful
fellow's equilibrium.
“ Why, Rose, what is it? What do
you mean?” 1 asked, barely restraining a
smile.
“ tole you. Mars Ralph, we’d better
trabbel furder.” was the rather mysteri
ous reply. “ You see dat gal dere tole
me dar would be a muss if we stayed in
this old house all night.”
By close questioning I elicited the fact
that the girl had really warned him that
four men whom I lent noticed together
were a desperate set of villains, and
probably had designs upon our property,
if not our lives.
The girl had seen two of them at the
stable while l was at supper, and by
cautiously creeping into a stall, next tin
one in which they stood, had heard
enough to convince her that they meant
mischief. Subsequently to this she also
saw the landlord in close confab with
the entire party, and from his actions
judi-ed that he was urging the men to
their netarious work.
',l tell you. Mars Ralph, tlem people
am t arterno good—now you heard me.
persisted Bose.
1 had begun to think so myself: but
what was to be done. The situation
was mil of eniharassment, and I felt that
nothing could be done save to wait ami
watch, and, by being on the aleit, defeat
their plans by a determined resistance.
I found that from the barred window,
in which there was a broken pane of
class, a good view of the stables could
he had.
Then for the other window.
1 crossed the room, drew aside the
heavy curtain, and, raising the sash,
looked out.
A single glance was sufficient to cause
n a thrill of surprise, and’l gave a low
exclamation that instantly brought Bose
to my side
Far below I could see the faint glim
mer of water, the low murmur of which
came indistinctly up from the depths,
while on a level with wliat should have
oeen the ground. I dimly saw the waving
tree-tops, as they gently swayed before
the fresh night breeze, and knew that
the window overlooked a chasm, the
soundings of which 1 could only gue*s
at.
In other words, the house, r that por
tio i of it was built upon the very verge
of the cliff, the solid rock forming a
foundation more lasting than any that
could be made by the hands of man.
1 leaned far out. and saw that there
was not an inch of space left between
the heavy *og on which the structure
resttd and the edge of the precipice; and
then I turned away with the full con-
Mct that if escape must be made, it
certain.y would not be made in that di
recti on. There was nothing especially
strangem this; there are many houses
so constructed—l had seen one or two
myself—ami vet w n I drew back into
the room and sav the look in Bose’s
face I felt that da ger quick and deadly
was hovering m ti e air.
Without speaking I went to my saddle
bags and got out my pistols—a superb
pair of long double rides, that I knew to
be accurate anywhere under half a hun
dred yards.
“Dar! deni s what I like to see!” ex
claimed Bose, as he dived down into his
bag and fished out an old horse pistol
Oglethorpe Echo.
Bv T. L. GANTT.
that had belonged to my grandfather,
and which I knew was loaded to the
muzzle with No. 1 buckshot. It was a
terrible weapon at close quarters.
The stables in which our horses were
feeding could be watched, and by events
transpiring in that locality we would
1 shape our actions. I found the door
could be locked from the inside, and in
addition to this, I improvised a bar by
means of a chair leg wrenched off and
thrust through a heavy iron staple that
had been driven in the wall. Its fellow
on the oppoiste side was missing.
We then lifted the clothes press before
the window, leaving just room enough
on one side to clearly see, and, if neces
sary, fire through; dragged the bureau
against the door with as little noise as
possible, and felt that everything that
was possible had been done.
A deathlike stillness reigned over the
place, broken only once by the voice of
the colored girl singing as she crossed
the stable yard.
I had fallen into a half doze, seated
in a chair near the window facing the
stables, where Bose was on the watch,
when suddenly 1 felt a slight touch upon
my arm and the voice of the faithful
sentinel in my ear.
“ Wake up. Mars Ralph; dey’s foolin j
’bout de stable doo’ arter de horses,
shuah,” brought me wide awake to mv !
feet.
Cautiously peeping out. I saw at a
glance that Bose was right in his con
jecture—there were two of them—one
standing out in the clear moonlight, evi
dently watching my window, w-hile the
other—and I fancied it was the landlord
—was in the shadow near the door,
which at that moment slowly swung
open.
As the man disappeared within the
building, a low, keen whistle cut the
air, and at the same instant I heard the
knob of my door cautiously tried.
A low hisslrom Bose brought me to
his side, from the door where I had been
1 listening..
“ Dey’s got de horses out in de yard,”
lie whispered, as he drew aside to let me
lookout through the broken pane.
“Take the door,” I said, “ and fire
through if they attack. I am going to
shoot that fuilow holding the horses.”
“ Lordy, Wars Ralph, it’s de tavern
keeper. lie ain’t no count. Drop the
big man!” was the sensible advice, which
T determined to adopt.
Noiselessly drawing aside the curtain
I rested the muzzle of my pistol on the
sash where the light had been broken
away; and drew a bead upon the tallest
of the two men who stood, holding the
three horses, out in the bright moonlight.
I lie sharp crack of tin- weapon was
instantly followed by a yell of pain, and
I saw the ruffian reel backward, and
measure his length upon the earth, and
then from the main building there rang
out:
“Murder! Murder! Oh, help!”
Take lightning it flashed across my
mind. There were three horses out in
the open lot! There was, then, another
traveler besides ourselves.
“A heavy blow descended upon the
door, and a voice roared:
Quick! Burst the infernal thing open,
and let me *gct at him. The scoundrel
lias killed Dave!”
“ Let them have it, Bose,” I whis
pered, rapidly reloading my pistol.
“The second panel.”
With a steady hand the plucky fellow
leveled the huge weapon and pulled the
trigger.
ueaiening report rouoweil, and again
a shrill cry of mortal anguish told them
the shot had not been wasted.
“ Sabe us! how it do kick!” exclaim
ed Bose, under his breath.
The blow had fallen like an unexpect
ed thunderbolt upon the bandits, and a
moment later we heard their retreating
footsteps down the corridor.
“ Dar’ll be more of’em heah ’fore long.
Mars Ralph,” said Bose, with an ornin
ous shake of the head. “I ’spects dese
b’longs to a band, and if dev comes an’
we still heah, we gone coons tor sliuar.”
I’his view of the case was new to me;
but I felt the force of it. I knew that
such bands did exist in these mountains.
Stunned for a moment, I turned round
and stared hopelessly at Bose; but lie,
brave fellow that he was, never lost his
head for an instant.
“Bound to lea!) here. Mars Ralph,”he
said, quiteeonfidently. “ An’ dar ain’t
no way gwine ’cept tro dat window
and lie pointed to the one overlookin'- the
cliff.
I merely shook my head, and turned to
watch again, hoping to get a shot at the
rascal on guard.
Bose, left to his own devices, at once
went to work. I heard him fussing
around the bed for some time, but never
looked to see what he was after until lie
spoke.
“ Now den for de rope,” I heard him
say, and in an instant I caught his
meaning.
He had stripped the bed of its cover
ing, dragged off the heavy tick anti the
stout hempen rope with which it was
“ corded.”
In five minutes he had drawn the ropi
through its many turnings, and then,
gathering the coil in liis hands, lie drew
up the sash and prepared to take sound
ings.
It failed to touch the bottom; but, no
wise disheartened, he seized the cotton
coverlet and spliced on. This succeeded
and the cord was drawn up preparatory
to knotting it in place of cross-pieces.
In the meanwhile the silence without
had been broken onee. A shrill, keen
whistle, such as we had heard before,
was given by the man on the watch, and
replied to by someone seemingly a link
way oft'. Then I heard footsteps—soft,
cat-like ones—on the veranda outside,
showing that the roboers were on the
alert at all,points.
At length Bose announced the “ lad
der ” ready. It was again lowered from
the window, and the end was held and
made fast to the bed we had dragged '
over for tin- purpose.
“ Now, den. Mas’r Ralph, I go down
fust and see if 'um strong enough to
bar us.”
And lie was half way out of the win
dow before I could speak.
“ No. Bose: you shall not,” I answered,
firmly, drawing him back into the ,
room. “ You must—”
The words were lost in the din of a
furious and totally unexpected attack
upon the door.
The dull heavy strokes of the axe were
intermingled with the sharp quick clat
ter of the hatchets as they cut away a‘
the barrier, and once in a while I could
hear deep oaths,as though they had been
rendered doubly savage by our resis
tance.
“ Here, Bose, your pistol! Quick!” I
whispered, and the heavy charge went
crashing through, followed by shrieks
and curses of pain and rage.
“Now. then, out with you! I will
hold the place,'' I said, rushing back to
the window. Come, Bose, hurry, or all
will be lost.”
The fellow now wished to insist on
my going first: but he saw that time was
wasting and glided down the rope, grad
ually disappearing in the neavysnadows.
The fall of one of rneir number had
caused only a momentary lull, and I
heard them renew the assault with ten
fold furv
I dared not fire again, tor I felt that
every bullet would be needed when af
lairs were more pressing.
It seemed an age before I felt the sig
nal from below that the rope was ready
for me; but it came, and I let myself
down, pausing an instant, as my eves
guinea a level with the sill, to take a last
look into the room.
As I did so the door gave way, and the
bloodthirsty demons poured over the
threshold.
I knew that I had no time for delib
erate.movement. They would instantly
discover the mode of escape, and either
cut the rope or else fire down on mq.
I h:_d taken the precaution to draw
oil my heavy riding gloves, and mv
hands, thus protected, did not suffer as
much as might have been expected.
THE ONLY PAPER IN ONE OF THE LARGEST, MOST INTELLIGENT AND WEALTHIEST COUNTIES IN GEORGIA.
M ith my eyes fixed upon the win
dow, I slid rapidly down, and struck
the earth with a jar that wrenched every
bone in my body.
! Quick as lightning I was seized by
i Bose, dragged some paces on one side,
and close against the face of the cliff.
Not a secord too soon, for down came
a volley, tearing up the earth about the
toot of the rope, where, a moment be
fore. I had stood.
“Thunder, they will escape! After
them, down the rope!” yelled a voiceal- '
most inarticulate with rage.
And I saw a dark form swing out and
begin the descent.
“ Now, Mars Ralph,” whispered Bose,
significantly, and with a quick aim I
tired at the swaying figure.
M ithouta sound the man released his
hold, and came down like a lump of
lead, shot through the brain.
Another had started in hot haste, and
was more thaD half way out of the win
dow, when suddenly the scene above
was brilliantly lit up by the glare of a
torch.
Again the warning voice of the watch
ful black called my attention to the
figure now struggling desperately to re
gain the room, and, as before, I threw
up my pistol, and covering the exposed
side, drew the trigger.
With a convulsive effort the wretch,
springing far out into the empty void,
turned once over, and came down with
a rushing sound upon the jagged rocks
that lay at the foot of the precipice.
A single look to see that the window
was clear—we knew there could be no
path leading down for a long distance
cither way, or they would never have
attempted the rope, and we plunged
headlong into the dense forest that
clothed the mountain side.
We got clear, it is true; but with the
(Oss of our animals and baggage; for the
next day, when we returned, with a
party of regulators, we found the place a
heap of smoldering ashes, and no living
scul to tell whither the robbers had
tied.
Little Johnny’s Philosophy,
There was a dog, and there was a cat,
and there was a ox. The dog it sed to
the ox, the dog did :
“ That’s a mighty long tail you got
there, mister, with a nice tossle to the
end, but you can’t waggle it when you
meet your master.”
Then the cat it sed to the ox :
“No, indeed, and you can’t bio it up
like a bloon when you git mad.”
Then the lam it sed :
“ Y"ou ain’t able for to twinkle it,
either, wen you think of something
funny.”
The ox he thot a while, and bime by
he spoke up and sed his ownself:
“ I plade hooky wen I was a little boy
so much that I dident learn them vain
accomplishments, that’s a fack, but I got
a tolably good bisness edecashun, and I
iress rnebbe you fellers wude have to cum
to me for to hellep you out if you had to
til a order for ox-tail soup.”
Wen Mister Gipple was in Africa he
seen sum natifs, wich is called ILotten
tops, and they likes their beef raw, like
| dogs, and lie see em cut it orf of the cat
tles wile they was a life and bellerin.
And sum of the cattles had ben cut up a
good deal that way, but not ded. One
nay the King of the Hottentops he see
Mistet Gipple, and he sed, the King sed:
“ Did you see any cattles ’long the
road you cum? Cos mine have strade
away, and I can’t find ’em.”
Mister Gipnle he sed:
“Yes, sir, jest over beyond that hill is
a porter-house stake with one horn broke
orf, and ’bout a mile further ’long yule
find a rib roast eatin the wilers, and near
by I seen two houtches of bull fitin sum
soop bones! and onto the other side of
the spring I gess yule see a liver and sum
tripe a layin in the shade and a die win
their cuds.”
But Mister Brily, the butcher, he nock
cm onto the lied with axes and cut their
throte in a minnit, and me and Billy we
say hooray.
. Cows is beef, and a calf it is veal, but
little pigs is mutton.
One time I was in MisterJßrily’s shop
and he had cut orf a pigs lictl and set it
on the top of a barel, and ole Gaffer
Peters'he cum in and seen it, and he sed,
old Gaffer did:
“ Mister Brily, your pier is a gittinsr
out.”
Mister Brily he luked, and then he sed:
“ That’s so, Gaffer, you jest take that
. stick and rap him onto the nose fore he
; can draw it in.”
So Gaffer he took up the stick and
: snook up real sli, and fetched the pigs
lied a regular nose wipe, hard as ever he
| cude with the stick, and nocked the pigs
lied orf the barl, and you never seen sech
. astonish old man. But Mister Brily he
i pretended like he wasent lookin, ami old
Gaffer lie sed:
“Mister Brily, you must xeuse me,
but wen I struck at that pig it dodged
and cut its hed orf agin the edje of the
barl.”
It is Better.
It is better to look up and take pleas
ure in •eonte'mplating the good and
great, than to find happiness in low de
vices and mean acts. It is better to tell
the truth than to tell a lie; to do good
than to do mean; to save a reputation,
than to blast one; to have charity than
to be critically severe: to love your fel
lows than to hate them; better to litt up
the fallen than to pull down those al
ready up : to speak kind words than to
hiss out the gall of bitterness; to keep
pure than to reek with filth: to be on
the losing side of right than to be on the
triumphant side of wrong; to be honest
than to cheat; to have honest piety than
to be a flaunting hypocrite; to he* indus
trious than to be an idle vagrant; to be
a fair and square human being than to
be an uncertain quantity. With your
virtue worship the true and you may at
tain unto greatness, but you can never
do it in the eyes of justice by trampling
upon, or by despising what is undersoil.
The poor have as bright eyes and asten
der hearts as the rich. They are not be
low your consideration. Nature’s wil
low will bend over them with the same
grace and beauty they wilt over the
proudest son and daughter of earth. Con
cerning being true in" life, Grace Green
wood says: “ Never unsex yourself for
greatness. The worship of one true
heart is better than the wonder of the
world. Don’t trample on the flowers
while longing for the stars. Live up to
the full measure of life, give way to your
impulses, loves and enthusiasms: sing,
smile, labor and be happy. Adore poetry
forits own sake; yearn for. strive after
excellence; rejoice when others attain it'
feel for your contemporaries a loving
envy; steal into your country’s heart:
glory in its greatness, exult in its power,
honor its gallant men, immortalize its
matchless women.” llow much better
to do these things than to go sulking and
skulking through life like some dishon
ored cur! It is better and easier-to do
right than to do wrong. You go straight
forward to the right, but you approach
the wrong by devious and doubtful wavs.
—Quincy Modem Argo.
Where He Stored His Money.
A few days ago there died in the town
of \ emon. Winneshiek eoanty. an aged
farmer named Carpenter, who left & will,
bequeathing to his son an old chest that
had been an heirloom in the family. On
opening the chest the son was surprised
and incensed to find that it contained
nothing of value. He so reported to the
remaining members of the familv. when
they persuaded him to make further in
vestigations. which he did in taking the
chest apart. In doing so. two cleats,
each half an inch thick and perforated
with auger holes, were discovered. Tear
ing off these cleats the young man found
that they were hollow, and that the
space between the lid and the bottoms of
the cleats had been filled with gold coins
by the thoughtful parent, flow long
they had been stored in such a singular
manner in that old chest is a mystery
Town State Register.
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1879.
A QUEER BUSINESS.
The Feline Hoarders of Mew York and
How they are Nerved with their
Steals—ProflU of the Cat Purveyor.
A Herald reporter while taking the
early morning air in the region of the
deserted Battery noticed two cats, sit
ting like miniature caryatides, one on
each side of a warehouse, eagerly peer
ing around the corner and occasionally
interchanging a remark, which led him
to the belief that the cats had some
special object in so sitting and so peering.
A walk through Bridge, Stone,
>V ater, Pearl, Front, and other adjacent
warehouse streets, revealed more cats,
all evidently with some fixed purpose.
Kittens were there, too, but they dis
played none of the levity commonly at
tached to youth. Each wore the solemn
aspect of bummers. Sedately seated at
the front doors of their respective ware
houses. as if they were themselves the
proprietors, they looked up and down
the streets as if awaiting the arrival of
the postman.
The solid individuality of the eat
family, who looked after the welfare oi
the great brick buildings intrusted to
their charge, occasionally was intruded
upon by a strange cat, of the tramp kind
in fact, whose coat showed signs of wear,
but who was of course frowned upon
and driven away by the more respecta
ble members of the cat fraternity, who,
with hisses and other feline expletives,
expelled him from the neighbor
hood. All down town was alive with
cats. Cats crawled from little square
holes in doors; eats came out from un
der iron gratings; cats assembled from
neighboring housetops, where they had
been making night hideous with their
serenades; stray cats, who had neither a
local habitation nor a name, hut who
seemed intent on something, visited the
precinct; black cats, gray cats, Maltese
cats, and every other variety of the feline
family was represented.
The cause was presently apparent.
A man in a blue checked shirt, with a
heavy basket on his arm laden with
small packages of meat, came around a
corner. At once every cat came to the
attitude “ attention !” ‘ a e d “ presented
arms,” and in many cases tails toot
From this basket the man, on meeting a
regular hoarder, took a package of nrea"
wrappedin brown paper and handed his
portion to each cat. Those who were
not regular boarders made spasmodic at
tempts in some cases to assist the regu
lar boarder in the consumption of his
food, but as a rule were unsuccessful.
The purveyor knows all his customers,
or rather his boarders. Ho knows that
the Maltese lives at No. 19 State street,
and if she inquires for her breakfast at
No. 40 he punishes her by refusing to
give her her rations. So, too,'lie knows
that the huge, tawny cat who looks after
the interest of a pork warehouse on
Bridge street has no business in Stone
street. He has studied his hoarders,
“ has them down line,” and no cat now
dares be on any other premises but his
own at breakfast hour.
In an interview with the man for
whose coming the cats so impatiently
wait, and whom they fondle, purr about,
and against whose legs they rub their
superfluous fur, said:
“Well, I have been in this business
several years. 1 manage to make about
890 a week, the actual amount varying
iit different seasons of the year. I take
out about one hundred and fifty pounds
of meat in the morning for delivery
among my cat family, and it’s pretty
hard work, for to say nothing of the
job of lugging grub around, all the cats
in the country know me and follow me,
and I sometimes leel as though I was
father of the whole cat tribe.”
Reporter—Whom do you supply with
cat’s meat generally?
Purveyor—There are lots of stores in
this neighborhood whose occupants deal
in pork, cheese, hams and other eatable
matter of that description. Now s.ll
these stores are mostly very old, and in
fested with rats. Well, the people who
occupy the stores have to keep plenty of
eats to keep the rats down. These eats
have to be fed. They ain’t a-going to
cut ham to feed the cats, and cats don’t
like salt meat anyhow, and on Sundays
there would be no one hereto feed them.
So, as,l had read one time how men in
London went round with carts and fed
tiie cats, I thought I would go into the
business on a smaller scale.
Reporter—What do you charge per
day for the board of a cat?
Purveyor—Five cents, and it’s too
cheap at that. I buy my meat away up
town, and have to buy wrapping paper
to keep the separate pieces in; and,
wliat’s more, I don’t board my cats on
boarding-house hash.
Reporter—You don’t mean to say vou
teed them on tendei-loin steak?
Purveyor—Of course I don’t give ’em
choice cuts; but I don’t feed ’em on
poor grub. I don’t give ’em no cuttings
from dead animals, as they say they do
in London and other places where cat’s
meat men go round, but I give ’em good,
fair, decent food, varying it from day to
day. I always give ’em fish on Friday.
There is always plenty of fish in the
market then, and it’s cheaper to me than
meat on that day, and cats like fish any
how. A change of diet is good for eats
as well as men.
The cat in the daytime is rather agree
able and has its uses. At night, how
ever, the case is reverse. Among the
down town warehouses, however,where
there are few residents and the cat’s
more unpleasant peculiarities do not
make themselves so conspicuous as they
do in up-town yards, they are very
necessary. A down-town dealer in pro
visions said: “We [keen six cats here.
They goon duty when we lock up.about
six in the evening. If we didn’t, the
rats would play high carnival, and cat
our stock so that it would be utterly un
salable. The worst thing is the cheese.
Rats gnaw right through the boxes.
They seem to fancy it more than meat.
But we have sometimes other goods in
stock which, if it wasn't for the cats,
wrtuld be speedily ruined. We used to
feed them ourselves, but it was a very
great trouble, as we had to send to
\\ ashington market for meat, and when
ie cauic round and offered to sup
ply them with food for five cents a day
apiece we accepted the offer gladly. It
is cheaper to pay a couple of dollars a
week than to have the place overrun
with rats.”
. The meat man said, in response to an
inquiry whether he ever missed a cat
from the appointed place: “Oh, yes;
I sometimes rind them dead in front of
the store where they age employed. 11
“Are their situations tilled at once?”
asked the reporter.
“ 'Tell. I'm sure I can't tell,” said the
purveyor. “I leaves the rations
for the eat who is vaiting for ’em,
and don't feel called upon ’to sit as
a ?T?T ner s * nc i ues t on the body of a cat.
Aii I look for is ven I puts in the bill on
-Monday is the color of the cat’s master's
money.”
There is probably a sort of guild
among the cats, so that when one of
them comes to a violent death by 4he
brickbat, of a sleepless and infuriated
citizen Ins situation is filled at once.—
New York Herald.
Cruel Device.
Anew device for the worriment of
lovers was operated successfully by a
heartless young man on the local train
yesterday. A couple sat in the seat be
fore him. The lady was young and
modest, and the swain wore very large
cuffs. One arm was thrown carelessly
along the back of the seat, and upon this
e 7 l ‘- minded person rubbed some
phosphorus. The affectionate perform
ances of that cuff, when the train was
rushing through the kindly darkness of
the. tunnels, were beheld by all the un
feeling and snickering occupants of the
?. ar ,’ . lose cruel enjoyment was not a
little increased by the demure and un
concerned appearance of the lovers ea <u
time the tram bounded again into the
light.— Virginia (Aw.) Chronicle.
American Physique.
It has been, and is with a large class
of people to-day, a generally received
opinion that Americans as a whole are
deficient in physical development. The
ideal Jonathan, a lean and withal wiry
specimen of humanity, has been popu
larly looked upon as the typical Ameri
can citizen; but let us see if this theory
is borne out bv adequate evidence. A
distinguished lecturer connected with
the Harvard Medical School recently
stated before one of his classes that, on
a careful comparison of the vital statis
tics of school children in this country
with those of the same class in England,
he found the Americans slightly superior
to their English cousins in strength and
stature. This statement, coming as it
does from so high an authority, must be
a surprise even to many scientific men.
The fact is there has been a vast change
in the physical condition of American
citizens during the past half century.
The statistics of our army surgeons
in the late war show that our native
soldiers were taller and stouter than
their comrades from England, Ireland
or Germany. All our representative
men of late years, with few exceptions,
have been men of magnificent physique.
The members of our present Congress
are remarkable in this respect, and un
doubtedly afford the finest spectacle of
physical development to be found among
existing legislative bodies.
Mr. George M. Beard, writing in a
recent number of the Atlantic concern
ing the future of America from a physi
cal standpoint, records very accurately
the causes which have led to these
changes. There are three important fac
tors in the physical development or non
development of any nation, viz., race,
climate and surroundings. Perhaps the
most important factor of all is climate.
It is the difference in climate between
this country and Europe Which has
wrought such wonderful changes in our
people in so short a time. To this
cause alone may be ascribed our ten
dency to nervous diseases, for such
things as nervous exhaustion and ner
vous fevers were comparatively unknown
during the first century of this nation’s
existence. Our English ancestors, com
ing to these then inhospitable shores,
brought with them their English tem
perament which had been developed
through centuries of residence in a moist
and equable climate. Time was re
quired to bring about a change, hut from
the day the Pilgrim Fathers landed on
this continent there has been a gradual
evolution of anew race. The fevers in
cident to residence in a moist climate
have given place to the alarming train
of nervous affections which are often
regarded as mythical by many who still
retain the Anglo-Saxon temperament.
With time also, wealth has increased;
people are better fed, better clothed, bet
ter able to withstand tl* sudden changes
so injurious to a foreigner, and in this
accumulation and t ransmission of wealth
Mr. Beard also finds the agents which
are to alleviate nervous disorders. With
increased prosperity comes leisure, and
with leisure physical improvement, and
the above-mentioned writer pictures to
himself an ideal state of society in which
the wealthy few will be occupied in ad
vancing the temporal welfare of the
needy many. His summing up of the
result of race evolution during the past
history of the nation is, however, en
tirely satisfactory: he says: “During
the last two decades, the well-to-do
classes of America have been visibly
growing stronger, fuller, healthier. We
weigh mile than our fathers; the women
in all our great centers of population are
yearly becoming more plump and beau
tiful, and in the leading brain-working
occupations our men are also acquiring
robustness,'amplitude, quantity of being.
On all sides there, is a visible reversion
to the better physical appearance of our
English and German ancestors. A thou
sand boys and girls, a thousand men in
the prime of yeax-s, taken by accident in
any of our largo cities, are heavier and
more substantial than were the same
number of the same age and walk of life
twenty-five years ago.”
Whence it appears that the American,
in spite of his much-derided want of en
thusiasm for athletic sports, stands even
now at the head of the nations in physi
cal development; and this certainly is a
good omen for the future. —Boston Trav
eller.
Hypochondria.
There are mild forms of hypoenondria
which never receive that specific name
from the doctors who attend them, but
nevertheless give their victims much
trouble. The nervous man who is visited
with a pimple magnifies it into a malig
nant pastule, and his imagination tor
tures him with the morbid picture ol
the suffering qnd sudden death which he
will be called to undergo. Many people
are haunted all their lives in this way
without anything serious ever happen
ing, and when they reach old age have,
for sole compensation, the opportunity
of congratulating themselves that not
one of the disagreeable omens they had
was ever realized. But after the hypo
chondriac is cured of one of his un
healthy fancies he is sure, sooner or later,
to acquire another. As Dr. Maudesley
points out in his “Responsibility in
Mental Disease,” though the patient
may seem to go away entirely disabused
of his sick fancies, they return to him or
are supplanted by worse.
In very exceptional instances, indeed,
the hypochondriac may take anew de
parture and with a daily supreme effort
of will shake off the encumbrance that
weighs upon him. But this is so sel
dom the case that statistics scarce make
mention of it; and it may generally be
taken for granted that when hypochon
dria is cured a change of surrounding
conditions is more responsible for it than
is the direct exercise of will on the part
of the patient, his environment remain
ing unchanged. Few men thus afflicted
have the perseverence :qyl the strength
of will necessary to lift off everyday the
incubus which fastens them down and
to think and act like well men merely
because they choose to do so. —New York
Telegram.
Wrapping Food in Paper.
It is a matter of daily experience on
the part of every one who purchases
such common necessities of life as butter,
bacon, cheese, sausages, etc., that these
goods are almost invariably wrapped up
in printed or manuscript paper. Per
haps we might also say that provisions
for picnics and other hampers are stowed
away in similar coverings, and it will,
therefore, not be amiss if we call atten
tion to the fact that danger has been dis
covered to lurk in these newspaper
wrappings.
In the case of printed paper, the char
acters have often been transferred to the
cheese or butter, and either they are cut
away by the observant cook, or they are
unnoticed, and in due course become as
similated in the process of satisfying
hunger. It is supposed that the ink or
the paper itself may possibly by some
chance contain something deleterious.
But written paper is even more likely to
be hurtful, inasmuch as in writing the
paper has been in close contact with the
hand, which not improbably may be
giving off a perspiration, that may enter
the pores of the paper and may there
ferment, not with advantage to health
in the event of any portion of the manus
cript being allowed to accompany the
food down unsuspecting threats.
This subject lias called forth some
correspondence in German papers, and
though we would not attach absurd im
portance to it, it may still be said that
clean unused paper is so cheap that
retail dealers have small excuse for
using either printed or written matter |
for wrapping up their commodities.—
Jjfxhange.
That’s what I .call “tripping the light
fantastic tow.’ 1 said the boy,as his blonde
haired sister fell over the rope he had
stretched across the garden walk.— Riggs.
A Troublesome Princess.
The New York Herald has a letter
from Cairo, Egypt, giving an account of
the deposed khedive’s personal extrava
gances. The correspondent tells this
story of the khedive’s harem: The
princess mother had a young girl who
had been left her by a very dear friend,
to whom she had promised to take care
of her child. As the girl grew up she
was attached to the old lady, who finally
concluded to marry her off. Applying
to her son she was informed that there
was a clever young major at the young
lady’s disposition. Aehmet Efl’endi was
informed that the old princess, wishing
to honor him. would give him in mar
riage one of her hand-maidens, lie was
promoted to the rank of lieutenant
colonel. The princess provided a house
duly furnished, and everything looked
well for tiie young couple. The proper
amount of feasting was gone through
with and the bride entered her new
home. She was a high and mighty
dame, duly imbued with an exalted idea
of all that was due to her rank. After
tile departure o£ the guests, when the
groom appeareiPshe treated him with
great coldness, refusing to allow him to
sit in her presence or even to touch her.
Feeling aggrieved he retired to his own
appartments, waiting for some sign of
contrition on her part. A day or two
later she called on her former mistress,
and, on being questioned as to how she
liked her husband, burst into tears, say
ing that he was a wretch, a brute; that
he never came near her, hut hid himself
in a distant corner of the house, passing
his time reading foreign books. The
princess was justly indignant and sought
her son. The wretch, Aehmet Bey, was
unworthy the treasure she had bestowed
upon him; he had slighted her highness’
gifts, and was unworthy such a mark of
favor. So the unworthy husband was at
once exiled to the Soudan. Naturally a
divorce was at onee declared. Had he not
deserted his w ife ?
Another man was promoted and mar
ried to the same girl. The same scene
passed this time; the princess was high
and mighty, and the husband that fate
had given her was only the meanest of
her slaves. Apparently he had other
views. Next morning he strolled over
to the palace of the queen mother.
Meeting the chief eunuch he casually
asked, “ What sort of a girl is t.fcit they
have given me for a wife')” The eunuch
wished to know why. The Bey could
only say that he was under the impres
sion that her highness had wished, as a
mark of her favor, to give him a wife,
but that he could not understand how it
was possible to live with such a high
and mighty princess, who wished to re
verse the natural order of things and
make him stand in her presence. The
eunuch remembered that there had been
some trouble about that young lady
once before; that she had got Aehmet
Bey into disgrace. He would see her
highness. When the story was related
to the old lady she exclaimed in disgust,
“ Allah! she can’t be married to the en
tire army. Go over and reason with
her.” So off went the Kislar Ajha, or
captain of the girls, with a couple of
satellites, armed with sharp switches.
They argued the matter with her lady
ship—so much so that when her lord re
appeared she brought him slippers and
sat at his feet. Meantime his predecessor
was speeding southward in doubt as to
whether it was exile or death that
awaited him. As he was an officer of
great promise the governor to whom he
was consigned felt disposed to assist
him. So, being called off to a distant
part of the province, he left Aehmet Bey
as his deputy. To Achmet’s horror he
one day received a letter from Cairo ad
dressed to the governor pointing out
that it was highly desirable that Aehmet
Bey should disappear at once—that he
had been guilty of all manner of crimes.
Aehmet felt in no mood to assist in his
own taking off; so he replied to his
highness, pointing out that in the ab
sence of the governor Aehmet Bey was
doing duty as lieutenant governor, and
that it would be extremely inconvenient
to execute the orders concerning him.
lie should therefore delay until the re
turn of the governor or fresh instruc
tions from Cairo. He survived, and af
ter twelve years of exile returned to
Cairo. He had been forgiven and pro
moted to very important posts.
Wheal fields of the World.
In the Nineteenth Century Mr. Vernon
Smith presents to the English people a
sketch of the wheatfields of the United
States and Canada which utterly shuts
out all hope of Great Britain ever again
recovering her position as a bread-rais
ing country, and shows how utterly im
potent will be the efforts of tenant-farm
ers in that country to compete with the
new fields of America, which are destined
to supply the world with bread.
This area of territory which he points
out as the future empire of wheat pro
duction is in that part of British Amer
ica beginning at Lake Winnipeg: it ex
tends over the valleys of the tipper and
Lower Saskatcliewan, extending respec
tively 1,054 and 1,092 miles westward to
the Rocky mountains; both of those riv
ers are navigable, and, with the Assini
boine, Red river and others, empty into
Lake Winnipeg. The two Saskatche
wan drain what is known as the “ fer
tile belt,” containing not less than 90,-
000.000 of acres of the finest wheat land.
These rivers and their tributaries are
10.000 miles in length, and are navigable
4.000 miles. Lake Winnipeg empties
through Nelson’s river into Hudson’s
bay, and the writer looks forward to the
time when vessels will leave Winnipeg
bearing the wheat of that country to
Europe. This immense region, lying
just north of tire American line, includes
2,984,000 square miles of territory, while
the area of the whole United States is
put down at 2.933,000 square miles. In
cluding the older portions of Quebec,
Ontario and other Dominion provinces,
Canada measures 3,346,000 square miles,
while all Europe contains 3.900,000.
This wheat region, which is yet al
most unknown, it is claimed, h s a soil
as adapted to wheat and as fertile as
that of Minnesota, and its capacity for
production is almost unlimited. Once
peopled and put under cultivation, it
will be able to produce wheat in such
quantities and of such qualify as will
render wheat cultivation in Europe as
unprofitable as it has already become in
England, and as it is rapidly becoming
in I ranee and other western nations of
Europe. This estimate of the wheat
fields of British America, and of their
ihagnitude and productiveness, leaves
out of view altogether the wheat-grow
ing districts of the United States.
V heat-raising will of course cease to be
profitable in all tin* States east of the
Allegltanies; Western wheat will be
sold there cheaper than it can be pro
"duced in New \ ork or Pennsylvania.
Indeed Ohio finds it more profitable to
put the land to other productions. The
wheat-producing field in the United
States.is moving westward, and in a
brief time will be confined to the States
of Illinois, Michigan. Wisconsin, Kan
sas, part of Missouri, Nebraska, Minne
sota. Dakota, with portions of Montana
and Wyoming, not including the States
on the Pacific. The great area of Brit
ish America, whose drainage falls into
Lake Winnipeg, will, however, eventu
ally become the wheat-growing region,
capable of supplying the world with
bread. The picture of this territory and
of its fertility, and of its adaptation
to wheat, is not overdrawn. — Chicago
Tribune.
The Charleston (111.) Plaindealer says
that the farmers of that vicinity have
discovered anew cure for hog cholera
When the cholera appears among their
animals they cook a dead one and feed it
to the others, and it rarely fails to effect
a cure.
The man who runs up large bills is s
man of some account.— Yonkers Stales, „
man.
LAND TELEGRAPH LINI£.
Their Haps and Mishap*.
The troubles caused by the animal
creation to telegraph lines in primeval
countries, and especially in. the tropics,
are more varied and curious than those
due to man. The termites or white
ants, the curse of these regions, ruin the
wooden posts in a very short time, and
either posts impregnated witli creasote
or poles-of iron have to be adopted, al
though at a greater primary expense. In
Java the wires are carried on living
kapas trees pruned of all their branches.
Such is the vitality of the tree that the
trunk continues to grow, putting out
horizontal sprouts on the top, and the
living pole is proof both against dry rot
and termites. In India, the crows have
been known to collect the odd ends of
wires cut off in erecting a line, and build
their nests between the posts and wires
with them, thus destroying tiie insula
tion of the line. Similarly, wasps’nests,
offal dropped by birds of prey on the
wires, monkeys playing at gymnastics,
frequently cause a serious leakage of the
current; and freaky elephants, rejoicing
in the strength of their trunks, occasion
ally feed their vanity by uprooting doz
ens of poles right off. On the plains of
the Far- West, the snaggy bisons find a
welcome scratching-post in the poles of
the overland lines; and as bisons scratch
with extraordinary vigor, they soon
loosen the poles, and level them with
the ground. An ingenious Yankee hit
upon the idea of driving sharp spikes
into the poles to keep the buffaloes oft';
but what was liis surprise when he found
that they ever afterward selected the
spiked posts as a currycomb, and left the
plain ones alone. The large number of
prairie hens killed by flying blindly
against the wires has often been re
marked by travelers.
Though the foregoing toes are at times
exceedingly trying to the working power
of the telegraph, they are simple com
pared with the ravages committed by the
action of the elements. Their influence
is ever at work slowly and impercepti
bly, or sudden and violent. The posts
rot away in five or six years even in dry
countries, unless preserved by impreg
nated creosote oil or other preservative.
The wires rust in open air. especially
along railways and in cities, where steam
and acid vapors corrode them rapidly.
In some situations a wire will rust
through in a few years; in others it will
last for forty years. ' Lines along the sea
coast preserve well; but wires in warm,
humid tropics decay quickly. Gales of
wind often level dozens of poles at one
swoop, and the tangle of wires falling
across the railways has been known to
throw a train off the rails. During some
of the severe sleet storms of the northern
United States and Canada, the wires and
lodes, burdened by the frozen sleet and
strained by the b.ast, have given way
over a whole track of the storm, and
rendered it necessary to re-erect 200 miles
of line. A mishap' which is too often
brought about by high winds in the
forest tracts of America, but which also
results from prairie fires and natural de
cay, is the falling of trees across the
wire, which either breaks it or levels
the poles to the around. Generally,
however, there is a track fifty feet wide
cleared of trees and brush for the line to
run through, and the wire is loosely hung
in the insulator so that it will yield to
a falling tree -and not break, fn Brazil
this track requires to be eighty feet wide
and constantly lopped clear.
The least understood source of trouble
to land telegraph lines are “ lightning ”
and “earth currents,” those rushes of
electricity in the air above or the earth
beneath us. Until recent times a single
Hash of lightning would destroy hun
dreds of telegraph poles in England ; but
now every pole is protected by a light
ning rod, which conveys the dangerous
fluid to the ground. In America, how
ever, where they do not uniformly pro
tect their poles in this way, great num
bers are still shivered in pieces by the
discharge. In India, lately, on a line
near Calcutta on which lightning rods
are not fixed to every post, some twenty
posts were destroyed, and the solid por
celain insulators were shattered by the
flash in passing from the wires to the
posts, thus overcoming a resistance
equivalent to several million miles of
telegraph wire. “Earth-currents,” as
they are technically termed, are always
traversing telegraph wires in greater or
lesser strength, but they are usually so
feeble as not to interfere with working
telegraph instruments. They are some
times caused by thunder clouds in the
atmosphere and sometimes by some cos
mieal influence. They frequently pre
cede or accompany earthquakes, the au
rora borealis, or disturbances of the
earth’s magnetism. On the evening
prior to the Indian earthquake of De
cember 14, 1872, the earth-currents were
so powerful on some European lines as
to stop all telegraphing for several
hours.
These earth-currents, even when they
are comparatively weak, play strange
freaks with the telegraph instrument.
Signals made by no human hands are
motioned; bells are rung, and inflamma
ble substance is ignited by their myster
ious agency. When very powerful, as
for instance during thunder-storms anil
auroras, they destroy the magnetism of
the instruments, or fuse the metal-work,
and sometimes set fire to the office. It
is not uncommon for the spark caused by
an earth-current to set fire to the cotton
tape of the connecting wires within the
office, and from this beginning the fire
spreads.
The saddest mishap of all which at
tend these intense earth-currents are in
juries to life and limb, which sometimes
take place, especially in America. Thun
der storms are often very violent here,
and it is the custom to cut the instru
ment out of the line circuit on the ap
proach of a storm, at the same time
keeping the lightning protectors on the
line. These precautions are not always
taken in time, however, and sometimes
an operator gets a finger burned off by
the great spark from the signaling key,
or is blinded or deafened by the shock.
Every now and again one‘hears of an
operator being killed, outright by the in
duced lightning-stroke proceeding from
their apparatus; and perhaps the most
melancholy of these was the case of Miss
Lizzie Clapper, a young lady operator of
Readville, Mass., who, during a thunder
storm, was sitting at the window too
near her apparatus, when the lightning
leaped from the instrument to her neck,
a distance of about a foot, and killed hei
instantaneously—a painless yet dreadtui
death. Thus we see that the subtle fluid,
to whi h we give the name of electricity,
is an agent which, while it has been ren
dered subservient to man’s convenience
and even to his safety, is, when uncon
trolled, fraught with terribly disastrous
consequences.
The Oueen of All.
Honor the dear old mother. Time has
scattered the snowy flakes on her brow,
plowed deep fuiTows on her cheek, but
is she not sweet and beautiful now? The
lips are thin and shrunken, but those are
the lips which have kissed many a hot
tear from the childish cheeks, and they
are the sweetest lips in all the world.
The eye is dim, yet it glows with the
soft radiance of holy love which can
never fade. Ah, yet, she is a dear old
mother. The sands of life are nearly run
out, but feeble as she is, will go further
and'reach down lower for you than any
other upon earth. You cannot walk into
a midnight where she cannot see you ;
you cannot enter a prison whose bars
will keep her out; you can never mount
a scaffold too high for her to reach that
she may kiss and bless vou in evidence
of her deathless love. When the world
shall despise and forsake you, when it
leaves you by the wayside to die un
noticed, the dear old mother will gather
you in her feeble arms and carry you
home and tell you of all your virtues un
til you almost forget that your soul is
disfigured by vice. Love her tenderly,
and cheer her declining years with holy
i devotion.— Exchange.
VOL. V. NO. 48.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Xotfs.
Vegetables are now seen on bonnets.
Lawns of a pale green are fashionable.
Mexican filigree jewelry is the coming
rage.
The last novelty in fringe is made of
pack-thread.
Carefully-made flies are worn as ear
rings and pins.
Linen serge slippers are cool for home
wear in hot weatlier.
Dressmakers say that alpaca will be
much worn this fall.
Feathers prevail wherever they can
be used with propriety.
The yoke waists have been superseded
in Paris by the fan waist.
Silk nets are more popular than ever,
especially for young ladies.
The costumes of grenadine over silk
are usually made with a polonaise.
High colored stockings are the rage
still, and especially for young misses.
Anew sort of goods, Glace Mar
guerete, of silk and wool, is much worn.
Linen costumes much embroidered are
worn for morning dress in the country.
A profusion of knife-plaited rutiles
weighs down the new cheese cloth
gowns.
Dresses are worn much shorter in the
streets abroad than they are in this
country.
The flower that a lady wears at her
throat should give the keynote of color
in her dress.
Dresses of the same material as those
worn by thei<- mothers are made up fur
young girls.
Ribbons with spotted stripes are the
latest importation, and take the fancy oi
nearly all the ladies.
Imitation pearl beads are coming into
fashion this faL, and large importations
from Italy will he made.
Tidies made of pink and blue silesia
and bordered with lace are considered
quite the thing just now.
Pointed waists, both back and front,
are being revived, but are far from being
a becoming style for the figure.
Barege dresses for young girls are
trimmed with cascades of Breton lace,
with loops of ribhon in each fold.
Imitation Lisle thread gloves, costing
but ten cents per pair, are just as hand
some as the real, which cost ten times as
much.
Some walking suits have long waist
extending nearly to the knee in front
These can be worn without any outside
wrap.
Sewing beads on black lace would be
a profitable amusement for idle hours.
Beaded lace is to be fashionable in
the winter.
A Paris idea is to wear flesh-colored
stockings under open-worked ones.
Preposterous as this is. it is fashionable
on the boulevards.
Velvet is more used for trimming now
than at the beginning of the summer,
but it is placed on cotton materials
rather than on woolens.
Anew hat called the Princess Louise
has made its appearance in Ixmdon and
New York. It is of delicate straw and
turned up one side and back.
To Mend Stockings,
A lady, who finds in the practice of
the homely art that she brings comfort
to her family, gives these suggestions as
to stocking-mending:
Given a dozen pairs of woolen ribbed
socks. Select from them the two or
three pairs most worn: cut away the
heels and toes, and lay by the better
parts for use in mending—well, yes, for
patches.
From the best hose retained to be re
paired, cut out the worn heel, and from
the patches cut anew lied precisely like
the old one.
First sew the bottom of the heel, then
sew it into the place made vacant. Use
soft cotton, or else the fine, soft mend
ing yarn, which comes, of all colors, on
spools.
Sew the raw edges “ over and over,”
about as close as a nice overcast; so that
when the new heel is worn out, vou
have only to pull the thread and insert
another.
The thread must not be so tight but
that the seam will flatten and become
imperceptible to the foot. To sew in
such a heel will require about one
minute.
If tiie toe is worn, so that the new
darns seem to take from the old. and the
rent is made worse, cut it off so far from
the instep as it is thin.
From the top of the sock put ariile,
cut anew toe like the old. Sew across
the end, and then around the foot, ob
serving to make the seam, as before,
flat and soft.
When again worn out, repeat the pro
cess, till the entire dozen, like the fabled
ducks, have eaten one another up.
Sayings of Celebrities
Dean Stanley says: “ Our leisure hours
are among those that have the most
importance in molding our characters.
Our working hours are very important,
but our leisure hours are those that form
our tastes and our habits.”
Lieutenant - Colonel Knollys says:
“That the ranks of the British army are
now filled with immature boys is a fact
obvious to any one who will use bis
eyes. Officers deplore it, the press calls
attention to it and the authorities do not
attempt to deny it.”
Sir Henry Thompson, the English
surgeon, says: _ “ Persons who drink
water when dining probably enjoy food
more than those who orink wine. They
have generally better appetite and diges
tion, and they certainly preserve an ap
preciative palate longer than the wine
drinker.”
Mr. Thomas Hughes says: “ The ideal
American, as he has been painted for us
of late, is a man who has shaken off the
yoke of definite creeds, while retaining
their moral essence, and finds the highest
sanctions needed for the conduct of hu
man life in experience tempered with
common sense.”
The Earl of Dunraven says: “Whether
in connection with this country (Great
Britain) or as independent, or as joined
to tiie United States, or any portion of
them, that vast region which is now
called British North America will as
suredly some day support the strongest,
most powerful and most masterful pop
ulation on the continent of America.”
Mr. W. E. Forster, M. P., says: “ In
dealing with the education of girls in
the training colleges it has been found
that they require little driving to work
compared with boys, and that they are
more susceptible to influences of ambi
tion and a desire to succeed. The danger
in the training colleges for elementary
schools is from overwork. There is no
fear that young women will not avail
themselves of the opportunities offered.”
Mr. Caird, the English agriculturist,
says: “We are threatened with good
things from America in a profusion be
jond past experience. The cost of
transport from the rich com lands of
the interior has been vastly diminished
and Liverpool is thus being brought as
near the center of production as New
York was twenty years ago. I believe
there is a serious competition awaiting
us from this cause, to which it would be
folly to close our eyes.”
Dr. B. W. Richardson, the English
chemist who first made known to the
world certain tacts concerning chloral,
says that there arc* now chloral-drinkers
just as there are dram-drinkers and
opium-eaters; that the disease which he
calls chloralistn has become rather
widespread among merchants, lawyers,
doctors, artists, literary men. clergymen,
and that if chloral cannot be kept for
use within its legitimate sphere as a
medicine, it would be better for man
kind not to have it at ali.
TIE OGLETHORPE ECHO.
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Ballad of thn Preis,
[From a poem by J A... „\ Overall read at
the house-warming el eb rat ion ol the New
York Press Club.]
In other days with fiery hands,
The troubadours ol story
O’er the lyre’s wild throbbiug bo3r:m
Poured heroic strains ol glory;
They tell us how the knights of old
Braved tempest, sea and breaket
And met Ihescofting Saracen
At Ascalon and Acre.
We sing a song ot modern days—
Ol something lar diviner,
The ballad ot the giant Press
Creator and refiner!
Obedient to the will ot thought
It moves its steel phalanges,
And nations bend to catch its breath
I' rom Golden Gate to Ganges.
Room tor the conqueror ol the world!
The steel-clad Alexander!
Hoorn for the pen, the sword ol mind
Which sweeps from grand to grander!
Hoorn lor the teachers of their kiud.
Who scorn the wrong’s defiance
And proudly bear upon their crest
The motto: “ Sclt-reliance!”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Whatan oarsman likes—“A real oo
lime.”
The total number of American patents
extant and expired is more than 210,000
The mosquito almost always succeeds
in getting a speech from the person it
honors with a serenade.
Next year will be a very prosperous
one for dealers in smoked glass. No less
than seven eclipses arc advertised.
“Those whom the gods love die
young.” That’s what be •onu sof all the
honest advertising agents.— Middletown
Transcrivt.
A gas jet has recently been discovered
in the lake near Buckhorn, Ont. If is
situated about a mile from the shore,
and the water around it is greatly agi
; fated Tt burns on applying a match.
“ Walter, do you think the stars are
inhabited?” she said glancing at him
with an expression 'that showed what
confidence she bad in his superior wis
dom. “Clara,” he replied, “your father
only allows me ten dollars a week, and
you can’t expect any but a high-prici and
clerk to answer that question.”—An
drew's Bazar.
A ghastly incident in the voyage of a
Russian transport ship with 700 Nihilist
prisoners for Shanghalia is related by a
Paris paper. The ship was so over
crowded that 300 of the prisoners died on
the voyage, and 150 more were landed in
a dying state. It is asserted that the
prisoners were packed like cattle in the
hold of the ship.
Old Mrs. Cuir says she has always
noticed that in the summer time when
it is not needed, the sun is always as hot
as an oven, while in the winter, when a
warm sun would he very agreeable, it
is as cold as an ice-house. We have
noticed this, too. It must lie the fault
of the almarac makers, - Norristown
Herald.
CASABIAKCA.
The boy stewed on the burning deck
Whence nil but him had fled;
And when they shouted, “Leave the wreck?
lie turned and hotly said,
“ I’m goin’ down with this ’ere ship—
Hulk, mast, jibboom and spanker;
And, when I’ve made my briny trip,
You’ll find Casa-by-anchor.”
—American Punch.
i Geo. P. Rowell & Cos., in the Ameri
can Newspaper hire dory for July, show
that the whole number of newspapers in
the United States has increased since
January of the current year from 8.703
to 9,153. New papers abound in-the Ter
ritories. Suspensions have been fewer
than in any corresponding period for
several years.
A London paper describes the assegais
used by the Zulus, stating tiiat the name
I “assegai” or “hassagaie”—which is
j nearer the native word —is derived from
the tree from which the wood used in
! making those wcajions is usually taken.
This wood has peculiar properties, being
brittle and at the same time slightly
elastic, and spears made from it quivei
in their flight, a movement upon which
the accuracy of their aim and their great
penetrating power depend.
The average of mortgages upon the
farming lands of France is about five per
cent. In England it is fifty-eight. The
United States have but 3,000,000 pro
! prietary agriculturists. France, with a
1 vastly smaller area, has 6,000.000. 5.000,-
; 000 of whom are small farmers. England
j has hut 250,000 landholders, and twelve
i per cent. only of the people till the soil;
| the rest are engaged in manufacturing
and other pursuit-. One million are
! paupers.
! “ Say, mister,” said an urchin to a pal
; ’ant protector of the peace, “there’s a
fellow just been struck with abeam what
I fell a fearful way!” “Where is he?”
j asked the excited peeler. “Just around
the corner!” And it wasn’t till he
1 rushed madly around and discovered :■
| man sitting down and wrestling with
| the sunbeams with a pocket handker
! chief that lie took in the situation.
Meanwhile the boy remembered that he
1 had been sent on an errand just twe
hours and a quarter previously.— Yon
i kers Gazette.
Professor St. George Mivart says : “ It
j is now known that a variety of animals
habitually reproduce their kind, ns
1 plants st> largely do, by a process of ex
ternal budding. This happens, for cx
ample, witli the hydra and animals like
it. Animals may even be propagated fiy
, cuttings. Thus, if a .ivdra or tin com
mon sea-anemone (fidhea) be bisected!
1 each half soon grows into the perfect
form once more, and many worms (such
as scyilis or eatenula), and many ani
malcules. called infusoria, habitually
multiply by self-made sections —that is,
by spontaneous division or fission.”
A MIDSCMMER IDTI..
Thou art so near and yet so tar,
O filmy, pale mosquito bar !
In silent watches ol the night,
When owlets moan and bats disport
And cats u]xm the woodshed court,
We stretch o::r hands to thee so white
To plnck thee ’round us ill about.
Gest flies blaspheming find us out
By dawning morning light.
Thou art so near and yet so tar,
Coquettish, v a moeqnito bar!.
Some nail liave c itched thee on the fi- or
Perchance some hook upon the wall
Impedes thy gracelnl, sheltering tall ;
Yet when the dreary night is o’er
We find thee splattered on the bed
Entwined about our feet and head—
O clinging, gauzy bore !
Dr. Enwaril G. Loring speaks in Har
per's Magazine, of persons not taking
proper care of their eyes as follows:
Whatevei an ounce ot prevention may
be toother members of the oodj. it cer
tainly is worth many pounds of cure to
the eye. Like a chronometer watch,
this delicate organ will stand any
amount of use, not to say abuse, hilt
when once thrown oft’ its balance, it
very rarely can Ik* brought back to iis
original perfection of action, or, if it is,
it becomes ever afterward liable lo a re
turn of disability of function or the s<
of actual disease. One would have sup
posed from this Cu t, and from the fact
tliut modern civilization has imposed
upon the'eye an ever increasing amount
of strain, lw>th as to the actual quantity
of work done and the constantly hf-'
ereasin" brilliancy and duration of the
illumination undft* which it is pi r
tornied, that the greatest pains would
have been exercised in maintaining tin
organ in a condition of health, and the
greatest care and solicitude used in its
treatment when diseased. And yet it is
safe to say that there is no organ in tin
body the welfare of which 1 so p**r>-i-.
tently neglected n the eye,”