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Watering the Hills.
** He the hills from Hia chamber* ” —p§
civ.. 13.
Oh ' the rippling and the foaming,
Falling not from 'lawn tiil gloaming,
Where the rapida are descending, as for ages
they have done;
On each downward platlorm taking
Just a moment’s rest, then breaking
Into sweet enchanting laughter at the gleeful
triumph won;
All the latent echoes waking
With the fun !
Sweeping from their rocky portal,
liobed at. once in light immortal,
Bringing infinite revealings from the silences
profound;
How the little eddies whiten,
And the longer teaches brighten,
Ah the showers of brilliant dewdrops on their
slivery slopes rebound;
Falling into gems that lighten
All around.
When the unl>eamH come unbidden
To behold the marvel hidden,
All the waters take them captive, to adorn
their raiment white;
But the raml>ow tells the wonder
Of the radiance lying under,
And the sun in regal beauty stoops to claim
his own by right,
'f ill the ripples fall asunder—
Lost in light !
On the brink the mosses glisten,
And the grasses stop to listen
To the never-ending music of the waters
flashing by;
Overhead the elm-trees stately,
In their hearts rejoicing greatly
At the springs of welcome coolness that be
neath their strongholds lie,
Spread their myriad leaves sedately
To the sky.
When at night the stars assemble *
In the far blue heavens, and tremble
At their own reflected splendor, on the torrent
borne away,
Then the laughing waves discover
How the moon—earth's timid lover—
Watches for the perlect mirror they have
broken in their play;
Watches—with the stars above her—
Till the day.
Through all seasons’ varied phrases,
Still the waters speak their praises
Ol the Power that sweeps them outward, in
their fullness to the deep;
All their rush and tumult guiding,
For each drop a path dividing,
1 ill in far-off breadths of ocean each its des
tined place shall keep,
And at last, in calm subsiding,
Fail asleep.
— .Mart/ Howies, in Sunday Magazine.
JACK’S GREAT PERIL.
I never saw such a change in a man in
my life! When we last met, Jack—
well, l must not give his real name, con
sidering what I .tin going to relate, so
1 11 call him Jack l’allant—was, as lie
had ever been since I knew him, one of
the ligiiti -t-hearted. cheeriest fellows in
the world, full of fun and up to every
thing, ami as gentle and tender as a
woman, with the courage of a lion. And
now, wlmt did I find him? Even though
hut, three months had elapsed, he had
become a grave, dejected, saddened man
—in a word, hardly recognizable, either
mentally or physically. I was shocked,
and of course he saw that I was. He
came to see me, indeed, the moment he
heard I was in town, that 1 might learn
from his own mouth what had happened,
instead of at second-hand.
Jack had always been more or less a
spoiled boy—only sons are always more
or less spoiled—and having lost his
mother when quite a ehild. it was not
wonderful that his poor old dad made
much of him. Hut he had taken tno
spoiling kind,v, and beyond making him
perhaps a little idle and thoughtless, it
had done him no harm. There was no
harm in the fellow; he spent more money
than he should, hut many young soldiers
do that without coming to much grief
in tlm long run. and his father, a soldier
before him, regarded the failing leniently,
paid his bills and looked pleasant. Be
yond adding that he was a rather short,
dapper little fellow, Ifteed not say much
more about him ; I have only to try and
put into coherent shape the strange and
tragical business which had so fearfully
altered him.
lie was coming to town one autumn
evening for a few days’ leave from Gun
nershoTt, where he was quartered. 1 can
see him as plainly as if I had been there,
springing into the first carriage that
offered room, without regard to who was
in it; for he was the least fastidious of
men, without the slightest particle of
" hawliaw” pride and nonsense, or that
stand-off-ishness of manner, too usual
with men in his position; ready to make
himself happy wherever he was, or in
whatever company.
Burit so happened, it appears, on this
occasion that lie got into an empty car
riage; at least he thought so, for it was
twilight, and he did not observe for the
first moment the figure of a woman,
seated in a further corner, dressed in
dark clothes and thickly veiled.
The sudden discovery that he was not
alone rather startled him for a moment,
and it may be. as lie said, that the eve
ning before having been a guest night at
mess, ids nerves were not quite up to
their usual tone. He was not the lad.
however, to be King in such a situation
without making some remark to his fel
low-traveler, tlumgh in this ease an un
usual hesitation to do so came over him,
owing to her mysterious appearance and
extreme stillness. The between-lights
ot the carriage lamp and the evening sky
prevented him from discerning details;
but there she sat. perfectly rigid, and
with not a vestige of her face visible
through the thick bliu k vail.
** Ahem! ahem!” he said at last, shift
ing one seat nearer to her and nearly op
posite; “1 hope 1 have not intruded on
vou: 1 thought the carriage was empty.
I may lie disturbing you. I fear.” He
would say anything, in a random sort ot
way. to break the ice, as he called it.
No answer. A long pause. “Very
singular,” he thought; and he moved to
n seat exactly opposite to the figure,
making another commonplace observa
tion. No response, or any movement.
“ Asleep. I suppose.” lie said to him
self; and he sat quietly watching her,
while the train rattled on for a mile or
two. A station was reached and a stop
page made, with the usual accompani
ments of screech and whistling and slam
ming of doors, but without producing
any change in the posture of the occu
pant of the opposite corner. The train
again moved on. “ Can’t be asleep,” he
muttered. “ What’s the matter with
her*”’
1 lie window was shut close; he let it
down with a tremendous clatter and
bang. remarking that “ he hoped, as the
evening was tine, the weather warm and
the carriage close” (for he declared to
me there was a peculiar odor hanging
about which struck him from the first)
" she ' mid not object to a little air.”
Still no reply. Then he said “he
feared she was not well. Would she
like him to pull the bell for the guard
and have the train stopped again?” But
nothing he could s. or do elicited anv
sign of life from her
-lack now boean seriously uncom
fortable and alarn and on her account.
He thought she could not be asleep, but
bad fainted. Suddenly it crossed his
mind that she was dead. Night had
now closed in. but as the last tinge of
twilight faded from the sky the carriage
lamp gained its full power and revealed
every abject more plainly than lutherto.
Jack leaned toward the motionless
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Bv TANARUS, L. GANTT.
form. A long black veil, falling from a
close-fitting nat-like bonnet, enveloped
nearly the whole upper part of her
figure; indeed, on close inspection, it
hardly looked like an ordinary veil, bat
more like a large thin, black silk hand
kerchief. Her dress was of common
black stuff, much worn and frayed, from
amid the folds of which appeared the
j ends of a piece of rope that must have
been fastened round her waist; and one
! hand, encased in an old, ill-fitting black
j glove, lay placidly on her lap.
Full of uncomfortable sensations, Jack
! was about to lift the veil, when, for the
| first time, the figure moved; its hand
j stole slowly from underneath the folds
I of the dress, and the veil was gradually
| lifted and thrown up over the head.
; Involuntarily my friend shrank back
into the corner of his seat, for a face was
revealed to him which no one could have
looked upon without a sense of awe. It
was that of a woman somewhat past
middle age, thin, haggard and pale to a
degree wliich only death could parallel.
The features, finely chiseled and propor
tioned, showed that at one time there
must have been supreme beauty, while,
though the iron-gray hair looked a little
disheveled and unkempt, the glance of
the eye was steady, calm and determined.
In this glance lay, chiefly, the awe in
spiring expression of the face, for, in ad
dition to the penetrating look, there was
a persistencey in it, and at the same time
a fascination, quite terrible. It fixed
itself upon Jack from the first moment
that eye met eye. and for several minutes
not a word was spoken n either side.
Presently, however, he tried to pull him
self together, and to assume his usual
light-hearted manner, which had thus
fora minute been so strangely and unusu
ally disturbed, and he said, briskly:
“ I be< your pardon; I was afraid you
were ill.”
She slightly bent her head, but spokt
not a word, nor withdrew her glance
He felt more and more that it was
costing him an effort to be himself. Her
slow, stealthy, albeit lady-like demeanor,
added greatly to the effect already pro
duced, and a curious sensation w;is grad
ually creeping over him, that—impossi
ble as it might seem—that face was not
strange to him. Little as he. with fiis
temperament, was given to speculation
or introspection, he found himself striv
ing to look back for some event or cir
cumstance in bis life which might give
him a clew. Had he ever dreamed of
such a face, or had lie seen it in child
hood? He was puzzled, affected, quite
put out. And still the deep, penetrating
eyes were fixed on iiis, piercing as it
were into his very soul. And the hands!
what were they doing? Taking oft' the
gloves as with a set, deliberate purpose;
and the long, white, thin, almost claw
i like fingers worked strangely and ner
! vously, slowly closing and opening upon
the palm, as if preparing to grasp some
thing.
Again he strove to throw off the un
pleasant, unusual sensation which had
crept over him.
“I can’t stand this.” bethought; “I
was never so uncomfortable in all my
life! I must do something, or say some
thing to put a stop to this, to make her
take her eyes off me!”
He moved abruptly to the further
corner of the carriage, and to the same
side on which the woman sat.
“ I’ll try and dodge her in that way,”
lie said to himself; “she shall not sit
and glare at me in this fashion!”
But she too immediately shifted her
place, and, rising to her full height,
which was very great, went over to the
seat exactly opposite to him, never for
one single second dropping her eyes from
liis. He looked out of the window with
a vague notion of getting out of the car
riage; when suddenly, passing a little
station which he recognized, but at which
the train did not stop, an idea struck
him—an idea after his own heart—a
comic idea! He availed himself of it on
the instant, and assuming an ease which
doubtless sat ill upon him, and which lie
was fir from feeling, lie pointed with liis
thumb back toward the station they had
just passed, ns he said mysteriously in a
hollow voice:
“ Do you know that place?”
She seemed to answer in the affirma
tive l-ya slight inclination of the head as
before.
“Ah! you do. Good! Longmoor,”
he went on; “then I don’t mind telling
vou a secret.” He paused. (“ I’ll
frighten her,” he thought.) “Criminal
lunatics,” he said aloud; “I am one of
them. I have just escaped from there!”
He leaned forward, as if to impress her
with his words; she also bent forward
until her lips almost touched his ear, as
she hissed into it:
“So have I!”
With what had already gone before,
this put the finishing touch on Jack’s
uneaiiness of mind. It was not. as he
said, The mere presence of the woman, or
the revelation which his joke had elic
ited, which seared him, though the cir
cumstance in itself might be unpleasant
enough.
“ I should have faced it right away
from the first, as any man would have
done, had it not been for the re
markable influence her face and look had
upon me; that unaccountable feeling
that she was no stranger to me, it was,
that unnerved, and even appalled me.”
No sooner had she uttered the words,
“So have I,” than Jack sprang to the
cord communicating with the guard’s
van, for he felt their truth, and saw in
them a key to the whole mystery. But
ere his hand had reached the cord, she
had seized him round the waist with one
arm as with the grip of a vise, and at
the same instant he felt one of those ter
rible hands at his throat.
Every effort to release himself was
fruitless; her strength seemed superhu
man, and was as far beyond his as was
her stature. Her face glowered close
down upon liisnow. still'with the same
fell expression.
“The only thing I could have done,” I
went on .Tack, in describing the scene to i
me—and just here, he shall speak for
himself—“the only means by \ 'lnch I
might perhaps have made her relax her
hold would have been by aiming one
or two tremendous blows with my right
list (which was at liberty) at her face.
Had it been t* man’s, there would have
been no hesitation; had it been indeed
that of an ordinary woman, at such a
pass I should not have hesitated to strike
her, to stun her. if I could, by any
means; but that face, that I seemed to
know so well, yet so mysteriously, I
could not raise my hand against it, and,
as my arm swung up with the first im
pulse to deal her a blow, it fell helpless
by my side. Vain were my efforts to get
her hand away from my throat; there
was a terrible swaying to and fro for a
minute or two, I felt tile grip of the long
fingers tightening, and mvself choking.
Suddenly we fell, the whole earrhige
seemed to be falling—there was a fearful
>erk or two, a strange upheaving of the
door, a tremendous rattle'and crash—l
appeaml to be thrown headlong to some
great distance, and—all was darkness!”
The termination of that deadly strug
gle was brought about in a manner as
marvelous and unlocked for as could
well have been imagined.
Some fifty souis, say, were traveling
in that train —all, save" one, in apparent
security. Jack’s life alone was in dan
ger, when, lo! by one of those marvelous
coincidences which do happen at times
in the supreme moments of existence,
the rescue came, but at the cost of many
a life, which but just before would have
seemed worth treble the price of Jack’s.
At the verv instant tnat his might
have depended upon another tightening
grip or two from the hand of a maniac a
frightful catastrophe occurred to the
train. The tire of an engine-wheel
broke and half a dozen carriages were
hurled down a steep embankment. The
scene that succeeded is, unhappily, of
, too common an occurrence to need more
than a word of reference here. Seven
passengers were killed outright and
double that number slightly or badly
hurt, the remainder escaping, as by a
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miracle, with nothing else than a severe
shaking.
My friend was among the shaken. He
had been thrown clear of the debris on
to a soft, grassy spot, half bank, half
hedge; emphatically, his life was saved!
But what followed it was that which
caused the suffering—that wrought the
terrible change in Jack.
In the darkness of that soft autumn
night he strove, foremost among those
who had been spared, to render such
help as was possibletothe less fortunate.
When the official assistance came, and
fires were set blazing to give light, al
most his first care was to try and seek
out his dangerous fellow-traveler. In
the confusion nobody was prepared, of
course, to listen to Jack’s account of
her, even had he been prepared then to
give it. She was not, evidently, moving
about among the crowd; he assured him
self of that; but supposing her, like him
self. to have escaped injury (and he con
cluded that this was likely), might she
not, with the stealth and cunning inci
dental to her malady, be hiding, and be
thus further eluding detention, become,
with her homicidal mania, as dangerous
to the community at large as some fierce
wild animal would be ? The thought
made him shudder; he must lose no time
in assuring himself of her fate.
As soon as an approach to order could
be evolved out of that awful chaos, he
had convinced himself that she was not
among the injured, Then he turned to
the dead. His eye fell upon several mu
tilated and motionless forms, which had
been laid in an ominous row at the foot
of one part o ;the embankment. Hers
was not among them; he could find no
tracaof her.
At length, as a sfckly dawn was be
ginning to make the search easier, he en
deavored to discover the spot where the
carriage he had occupied had fallen, and
to retrace his steps (quite to the rear of
the train, by the way)to the place where
he found himself lying after the catas
trophe.
By this time lie had made known
briefly to some officials that a woman
was missing who had been in the
carriage with him, and one or two of
them followed him in his quest. Pres
ently lie realized pretty well where he
had been thrown; he all but identified
the spot. Then lie scrambled through
the hedge, and there, on the opposite
side, on the sloping bank of a ditch, he
beheld, lying quite still, her dark, un
mistakable form.
He ran forward, and, bending over
her and looking down upon the marble,
up-turned face, saw at a glance that
there was nothing dangerous about her
now —those terrible eyes were closed for
ever. Except for a slight wound on one
temple,whence a little blood had trickled,
find the distorted but now rigidly closed
Hand, which had been so lately at his
throat, she looked as calm and unin
jured as if she were merely sleeping,
while death had restored for a brief
period much of that beauty, the traces of
which had struck him when her vail
was first lifted.
One of the surgeons here came hurry
ing up, in answer to summons.
“Good heavens!” he exclaimed; “here
she is, then, at last! Why, she must
have been in the train. How on earth
did she manage it?”
“Who is she?” inquired Jack, earn
estly, with a strange return of the old,
inexplicable sensation. “AVho ip she ?
You appear to know her. Pray tell me.”
“Oh, one of our inmates; she got away
yesterday morning; no on? knows how;’’
was the answer.
“You are from Longmoor, then. llow
long has she been there? Wliat is her
name?”
“Oh, she has been there upward ol
twenty years, I believe; long before my
time,”
“And her name?”
“Upon my word, at this moment, I
can hardly,” went on the doctor, me
chanically passing liis fingers over one
of the pulseless wrists before him, and
with a calm hesitation wliich contrasted
strongly with Jack’s earnest, impetuous
manner, “I can hardly remember. I
think she was committed for the murder
of iier own little girl. It was a sad case,
I know. Ah! her name; I have it,”
went on the doctor suddenly; “her name
was Pallant—Rachel Pallant.”
Jack sprang from the kneeling posture
in which he was as if he had been shot.
Why, that was his own dead nanther's
name! But, pshaw! wliat of that?
Well, it was rather a startling coinci
dence ; that was all. Ay, but was it all ?
Indeed no!
The nquest led to a revelation. That
inquiry fully explained what had been
the nature of the influence which the
weird, pale face and strange presence had
had upo my friend.
The strong but subtle link, which no
time or absence can quite sunder, exist
ing between mother and son, had made
itself felt the instant those two sat face
to face, for the unhappy woman was in
deed neno other than Jack’s own mother
He had never been told—in fact, it had
been carefully kept from him. Why
run the risk of clouding for life that
•iqight and happy temperament? He
was only four yejrs old when the dread
ful business happened. Hence he had
scarcely known a mother’s care; she was
lost to him and to the world as com
pletely as if she had died. Nay, death
would have been a mercy by compari
son, and it was generally assumed that
she was dead; only a very few intimate
friends knew the truth.
The poor lady’s mind had given way
suddenly after the birth of a child, who
did not live. Within a week, the homi
cidal mania possessed her; by the
merest chance she had been prevented
from committing some frightful outrage
upon her little hoy. my poor friend Jack;
and restraint not having been put upon
her in time—for her maiady had hardly
been suspected, so unlooked-for was its
appearance—she consummated her dead
ly propensity upon her eldest child, a
girl fifteen years of age—killed her, in a
word, as she lay asleep.
And here, altera lapse of twenty years,
was the climax and end of the tragedy, as
dreadful as anything that bad gone be
fore. The order for release, when iteame,
brought with it as much suffering (to all
but one) as had the order for captivity.
No wonder that Jack was an altered
man. I have never seen a smile on his
face since—though I trust that time, with
its healing influence, may at least soften
the blow.
Length of Human Life.
How long a man can live is a question
that has been widely discussed. Ameri
cans are generally reckoned to be short
lived, compared with European nations,
md they have been in the past; but they
are steadily gaining in respect of age, as
their material conditions improve and
the laws of health are better understood
and observed. Several instances have
been recorded recently of persons in the
United States who have died at 107, 108
and even 110. It is maintained, however,
by men who liave paid special attention to
longevity, that there is no well-accredited
instance of any man or woman living
beyond 106—that that is the maximum
possibility of human endurance. It is
more reasonable to suppose that there is
a mistake in calculation than that the
mentioned limit lias been exceeded. In
Europe it is a subject of dispute as to
what nation lives longest. The distinc
tion has been claimed in. turn by the
English, French, Germans, Spanish,
Ita.ians .md Russians. Late statistics
! prove that the number of people in Eu
rope who are upward ol ninety years old
is 102.831, of whom more than 60.000
i are women. Of those beyond 100, there
are 241 women and 161 men in Italy, 220
women gnd 183 men in Austria, and 526
women and 524 men in Hungary. The
; percentage ot old people is found to he
much higher among the Germans than
the Slavs. Investigation appears to show
that human life fras been lengthening
in the last twenty year* tlirougnout the
civilised world.
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1879.
farm, garden and household.
Planting and Transplanting,
The well-known three requisites for
the germination of seeds, says the Coun
try Gentleman, are heat, air and moist
ure, but not iiitht. In a cold soil they
remain dormant; if too dry, they will
not sprout, and if buried deep and com
pactly beyond the action of the air, no
movement toward growth takes place.
The small seeds of weeds often remain in
the soil for years when turned under
deep by the plow; when brought again
to the surface, the new and copious
growth winch at once takes place has led
superficial observers to the erroneous Mo
tion that they have sprung up spontan
eously. Nurserymen sometimes keep
peach stones dormant a year when they
happen to have a surplus, by placing
them two feet under the soil until need
ed. The depth for planting must depend
largely on the size of the seed; and the
general rule has been given to bury
them from three to five times as deep as
their diameter. This rule will vary
somewhat with the nature and condition
of the soil. If heavy and moist, the
depth should be less than in a light, dry
and porous soil. In a moist, well-pul
verized soil ; most seeds, whether large
or small, will grow if merely covered
and kept moist; but this condition can
not be commonly continued, as a few dry
and warm days will dry the surface of
the soil and prevent the geimination of
the seed. Hence the common practice
to vary this rule witli circumstances.
Corn, planted early in the season when
the ground is moist, will gi-ow treely if
buried only an inch de#p; lyit under or
dinary circumstances two inches will be
better. It will find its way freely to the
surface after many days when buried six
inches below. Early in autumn, when
winter wheat is sown or drilled in, the
soil is usuaily much drier than in corn
planting time, and for this reason, al
though the seeds are smaller than grains
of corn, it should be placed at a depth of
two inches. In a dry spring corn should
be planted deeper than in a wet one, and
the old practice of pressing each hill with
the hoe, when the work was done by
band was useful when the soil was dry.
When planting is done with a machine,
a roller to follow the tube would be use
ful in dry weather.
In a dry season, as the present has been
in many places,'much care is required to
impart sufficient moisture to seeds when
planted. If the particles of soil are dry,
the small grains or lumps which com
pose it will touch the seed only at a few
points,and the chances for its germina
tion will be small. Even if moistened
by a shower, the water will be conveyed
to the seed only at the few points of con
tact. It is better, th eretore, to plant seed
after a shower than before it, its the soil
is rendered moist and yielding, and,
pressing the whole surface of the seed
causes germination at once. On this
principle, experience has shown that un
iter common conditions seeds grow
much better if planted after than before
the rain. The exceptions are, when the
soil has been so finely pulverized that it
cases the seed well on all sides while yet
dry; and when the rain is so copious
t hat it fills with water for a sufficient
time the interstices which surround the
seed.
Tile Bose Bus; Pest.
I Another bug has strangely increased
in numbers, in the past, two years, and it
promises to be more troublesome than
the enemy of the potato. The rose bug
has come upon us in swarms, and it de
stroys not only our grape and peach
crops, but our apples and plums, if un
checked. The best method of checking
them it is desirable to learn, if there be
any method. AVe have tried hand pick
ing, whale oil soap, and a variety o
agents, but our efforts have been only
partially successful. The white helle
bore dqst is the most effective destroyer,
but it is expensive and troublesome to
apDlv. It occurred to us this year to
take our grapevines from their supports
and lay them close upon tlie ground
when in blossom. This course saved
our crop so far as the experiment was
tried, and we present the plan for the
benefit of grape growers everywhere.
The insect cannot or docs not reach the
blossom when the vines are in this posi
tion, and no injury results to the vines
during inflorescence. As soon as the
fruit is formed, the danger is over, and
the vines may be raised and secured to
the supports. This we regard as im
portant information, and it should be
remembered. Our peach crop we saved
this year bypassing through the orchard
and jarring the trees by a blow witli the
hand once or twice a day. The insects
are detached from the fruit and fall upon
the. ground, and do not* return to the
fruit until after a considerable period of
time. The better way is to place a
sheet under the trees, catch the bugs and
uestroy them in a pan of whale oil soap
seds. —Boston Journal of Chemistry.
Household Hints.
Glass held level under water mav be
easily cut with a pail' of shears or strong
scissors. Cut a little at a time.
Never wash raisins that are to be used
in sweet dishes. It will make the pud
ding heavy. To clean them wipe them
on a dry towel.
In boiling eggs hard put them in boil
ing water ten m inutes and then put them
in cold, water; it will prevent the yolks
from coloring black.
To make macaroni tender, put it in
cold water and bring it to a boil. Il
will then be much more tender than if
put into hot water or stewed in milk.
All milk vessels should, in their last
rinsings, have boiling water or hot super
heated steam applied, as nothing short
will destroy the putrefaction which is
abundant in milk vessels not thoroughly
cleansed.
To take out tea stains, put the linen
in a kettle of cold water; rub the'stains
well with common castile soap; put the
kettle on the side of the stove, to let the
water get gradually warm; wash it
thorouglily in warm soap suds; then rub
the stain again with soap, and boil; then
rinse.
Single cream is cream that has stood
on the milk twelve hours. It is best for
tea or coffee. Double cream stands on
its milk twenty-four hours, and cream
for butter frequently stands fortv-eight
hours. Cream that is to be whipped
■should not be butter cream, lest in
whipping ii change to butter.
Small holes in white walls can be
easily repaired without sending for the
mason. Eqmil parts of plaster of Paris
and white sand—such as is used in most
families for scouring purposes—mixed
with water to a paste, applied immedi
ately and smoothed with a knife or flat
piece of wood, will make the broken
place as good as new. As the mixture
hardens very quiekly, it is best to pre
pare but a small quantity at a time.
Curious Phenomenon.
At the Cape of Good Hope, near Table
mountain, the clouds come down very
low now and then without dropping in
rain. At such a time, if a traveler
should go under a tree for shelter from
the threatening stonu. he would find
himself in a drenching shower; while
out in the open space, away from any
tree or shrub, everything would be as
dry as a bone. Here is the explanation;
The cloud or mist is rather warmer than
the leaves; and so, when it touches
them, it changes into dinging drops
which look like dew . Fresh drops keep
forming, they run together, and at
lengtlp the water drips off the leaves
like rain. And this process goes on un
til the clouds lift and the sun comes
out again.
The baby oyster is not much bigger
than a pin's head at the end of a.fcrt
uight. and at three months old only the
size of a split pea. In a year it will be
come as large'as a ftve-cent nickel, arm
at the end of four yearn* growth 5* fit for
*fee market. ..*•>*
Sheridan’s Peril.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has been
giving a correspondent of the Phila
delphia Times some reminiscences of the
closing scenes of the war, in which he
played a loading part as one of General
Lee’s corps commanders. AVe give this
extract:
“ I had a message from General Lee
telling me a flag of truce was in exist
ence, leaving it to my discretion as to
wliat course to pursue. My men were
still pushing their way on. I sent at
once to hear from General Longstreet.
feeling that if he was marching toward
me we might stilt cut through and carry
the army forward. I learned that he
was about two miles off with his men
faced just opposite from mine, fighting
for his fife. I thus saw that the ease
was hopeless. The further each of us
drove the enemy the further we drifted
apart and the more exposed we left our
wagon trains and artillery, which was
parked between us. Every time either
of us broke only opened the gap the
wider I saw plainly that the Fed
erais would soon rush in between us
and then there would have been no
army. I therefore determined to send a
flag of truce. I called Major Hunter, of
my staff, to me and told him that I
wanted him to carry a flag of truce for
ward. He replied:
“ ‘ General, I have no flag of truce.’
“ I told him to get one. He replied:
“ ‘ General, we have no flag of truce in
our command.”
“ ‘ Then,’ said I: ‘ Then get your
handkerchief, put it on a stick and go
forward.’
“ * I have no handkerchief, General.’
“ ‘ Then borrow one and go forward
with it.’
“ ‘He tried and reported to me that
there was no handkerchief in my staff.’
“ ‘ Then, Major, use your shirt.’
“ ‘You see. General, that we all have
on flannel shirts.’
“ At last, I believe, we found a man
who had a white shirt. He gave it to
us, and I tore off the back and tail, and
rigging this to a stick Major Hunter
went out toward the enemy’s lines. I
instructed him to simply say to General
Sheridan that General Lee had written
•me that a flag of truce had been sent
from liis and Grant’s headquarters, and
that lie couid act as lie thought best on
this information. In a few moments he
came back with Major , of Sheri
dan’s staff. This officer said :
" ‘General Sheridan requested me to
present liis compliments to you and to
demand the unconditional surrender of
your array.’
Major, you jvill please return my
compliments to General Sheridan and
say that I will not surrender.’
“ ‘ But, General, lie will annihlate
you.’
‘I am perfectly well aware of my
situation. _ I simply gave General Sheri
dan some information on which lie may
or may not desire to act.’
“He went back to liis lines and in a
short time General Sheridan came gal
loping forward on an immense horse and
attended by a very large staff. Just
here an incident occurred that came near
having a serious ending. As General
Sheridan was approaching I noticed one
of my sharp-shooters drawing liis rifle
down upon him. I at oncecalled to him,
‘Put down your gun, sir; this is a flag
of truce!’ But he never raised it. file
simply settled it to liis shoulder and was
drawing a bead on Sheridan when I
leaned forward and jerked liis gun. He
struggled with me, but I finally raised
it. I then loosed it and lie started to aim
again. I caught it again, when lie turned
liis stern white face, all broken with grief
and streaming with tears, up to me and
said, ‘ AVell, General, then let him keep
on liis own side!’ The fighting had con
tinued up to this point. Indeed, after
the flag of truce, a regiment of my men,
who had been fighting their way through
toward where we were and who did not
know of a flag of truce, fired into some of
Sheridan’s cavalry. This was speedily
stopped, however. I showed General
Sheridan General Lee’s note and lie de
termined to await events. He dis
mounted and I did the same. Then, for
the first time, the men seemed to under
stand wliat it all meant. And then the
poor fellows broke down. The men cried
like children. Worn, starved and bleed
ing as they were, they had rather have
died than have surrendered. At one
word from me they would have hurled
themselves on the enemy and have cut
their way through os have fallen to a
man with their guns in their hands. But
I could not permit it. The great drama
had been played to its end.”
A Snake that Killed Cows.
The largest snake ever found in Camp
bell county, Ky., was killed one day re
cently on the farm of Mr. Herman Carr,
near Cold Springs. Several years ago
a traveler along the road bordering upon
Mr. Carr’s farm reported having seen a
snake, at the lowest calculation measur
ing ten feet, run across the road a short
distance in front of him, and disappear
in the brush that grew by the fence.
I lie man was ad vised to join a temper
nnee society, and the whole affair was
soon forgotten. Early last spring one
of Mr. Carr’s cows was found dead in
the stall. Although not chained, the
animal had the appearance of having
been choked to death, its tongue pro
truding and there being a heavy mark
around the neck. The strangest thing
was that its eyes were eaten out. All
efforts to solve the mystery of its death
were unsuccessful. 'About three days
afterward another valuable cow was
found dead and similarly mutilated.
One morning Mr. Carr, on going to
liis stable, was norror stricken by seeing
a monster snake coiled about the neck of
one of his cows, while the poor animal
stood patiently, being hugged to death.
At the appearance of Air. Carr the snake
raised its head and darted out its fangs,
and then slowly uncoiled itself and
glided away beneath a large pile of hay.
Air. Carr at once raised the alarm, and
within an hour several dozen persons
gathered. The hay was removed with
large forks, and when near the center of
the stack the snake was found. It was
inclined to show fight and not turn tail,
but all trouble was ended by a well-di
rected blow on the head, wliich laid
it still forever. In the den were the
remnants of a young pig. AVlien meas
ured the snake was found to be eleven
and a half feet in length, and as thick as
a man’s wrist. The skin will be stuffed
and presented to the State Academy of
Natural Science. —Lexington (Ky.) Tran
script.
flie Language of Postage Stamps.
The language of postage stamps, in
stead of flowers, has just been invented.
Thus, when a postage stamp has been
placed upside down on the left, comer of
the letter, it means: “I lote yon;”
in the same crosswise, “My heart is
another’s;” straight up and down,
"Good-bye, sweetheart, good-bye;”
upside*down on the right-hand-comer,
rite no more:” in the center at the
top, “Yes.” opposite at the bottom,
“ No;” on the right-hand comer at a
right ande, “Do you love me?” in the
lelt-li.ina-corner. “I hate you;” top
corner on the right, “ I wish your friend
ship;- ’bottom corner on the left, “I
seek your acquaintance;” on a line with
the surname, “accept my love:” the
same upside down, “ I am engaged ;” at
a right angle in the same place, “ I long
to see you;” in the middle at the right
hand edge, “ W rite immediately.”
\\ hile this is all very good as far as it
goes, tl.ose who put a postage stamp on
any but the upper-nglit-comer of an
envelope, must hold themselves respon
sible lor all the swearing of the post
office clerks'.— Albany Press.
William H. Vanderbilt controls 3,620
miles of railway, and employs 27.706
men, who receive seme $1,178,000 salary
, each taonth.
TIMELY TOPICS.
An article in the New York Sun says
that Holyoke, AI: is., is the great center
of the paper trade of this country. The
town contains 20,000 inhabitants, of
whom 4.000 are employed in the seven
teen large paper mills of the place. The
capital invested in tlie paper trade at
Holyoke is estimated at about $5,000,000,
and there are annually produced about
36,500 tons of paper. The mills are run
by water power.
Henry Face killed tlie young man who
had wronged his daughter, at Clerken
well, England, and public sentiment
favored him so strongly that a fund was
raised to support his family during the
year and a half ol imprisonment to
which he was sentenced. His escape
from a worse punishment was regarded
as lucky, and he went to prison in good
spirits. But liis daughter taunted him
with being a murderer, and in conse
quence of that he hanged himself in liis
cell.
An association, under the name of the
“ Jasper Alonumental Association.” lias
been formed at Savannah, Ga., for the
the purpose of erecting a monument to
Sergeant Jasper, who on the 9th day of
Octobor, 1779, fell in the attack of the
American forces on Savannah. Tlie
sergeant’s exploit in leaping over tlie
ramparts of Fort Moultrie, Charleston
harbor, during tlie hottest part of the
British attack at that place, and fixing
anew the flag which had been shot from
its staff, will be remembered as one of
thejmost stirring episodes of the Revolu
tionary war.
A Alissouri farmer has been figuring
on the damage done by dogs in that
State. In thirty-two counties 10,602
sheep have been killed. He estimates
the number of dogs in thirty-two coun
ties to be 462,000; that a hog will thrive
on the food necessary to support an
able-bodied dog, and at the end of tlie
year weigh 200 pounds; therefore, if the
food for these 402,000 dogs was given to
the hogs, it would make 92,000,000
pounds *f pork, worth at least six cents
a pound, or $4,550,000 —nearly twice tlie
value of all the school-houses in tlie
State, and more than twice the amount
used by tlie State for school purposes.
Tlie streets of London. England, have
been recently placarded witli an adver
tisement stating that “ the art of begging
is exhaustively taught in six lessons by
Prof. Lazarus Rooney, who begs to in
form tlie public thai he lias founded a
college for theoretical and practical in
struction in medicaney.” Among other
practical appliances for tlie profession
the professor announces that lie
keeps on hand artificial wounds and
sores, assorted braces of twins, trained
dogs for blind men, crutches for crip
ples, and surgical bandages for wounded
impostors. Information is afforded re
peating tlie most lucrative streets and
neighborhoods.
The London correspondent of a Liver
pool newspaper says: “The papers an
nounced the other day that, owing to an
accident in tlie machine-room, the extra
double number of the Illustrated Lonond
News, advertised to appear, would be
unavoidably postponed for one day.
Asa matter of fact, the ‘ accident ’ was
a literary, not a mechanical one, the
proprietor canceling several thousands
of printed copies rather than allow the
publication of an article by one of its
editors, reflecting, as ho conceived, witli
ill-timed severity and offensiveness on
tlie family of tlie Prince Imperial. In
stantly, on perusing the article, Mr.
Ingram ordered ‘stop press,’ sacrificing
over £2,000 to this delicacy of feeling.”
Tlie classification of a company at one
of the seaside hotels, by a child who
had not troubled herself to remember
names, lias a great deal of significance.
To her they were “ tlie lady who whines
as if she were going to cry;” “ the lady
who talks about her headache;” “the
jady who scolds the children for making
a noise, and who plays the piano so
much herself:” “the kind lady who
speaks to all the strangers;” “ the ’happy
lady who draws matures and lets us look
over her shoulder;” “the young man
who thinks he is handsome;’’ and “the
boy who always offers to take you out in
liis boat when nobody else will take
you.” Truly, many tilings which are
thought to be hid bv the wise and pru
dent are revealed unto babes.
The maddest newspapers of the pres
ent time are those which are published
in the Austrian lunatic asylums. Con
tributions are received from all the in
mates who have either hobbies or griev
ances. Those who are afflicted witii any
monomania whatever may explain their
delusions and support their convictions
bv argument and example. The logic em
ployed in an article of a recent issue by
one gentleman to disprove the belief of
another that his beard was of heather
and required constant watering, was so
faultless and incisive as to have done
credit to a Regius Professor of Moral
Philosophy. Alas! he himself firmly be
lieved that his own nose was made of
sugar, and to prevent its getting wet,
and consequently melting away, always
drank through a straw. —New York
Tribune.
Even princes sometinr s starve to
death. Recently, the St. Petersburg
papers announced the death from sheer
starvation of Prince Serge Michaelovie i
Galitzin, employed as a censor of books,
and removed by “suoreme orders” to
Odessa, where he took lodging in the
1 muse of a carpenter, occupying a dark,
damp room, of such limited dimensions
that his coffin could not be got into it.
An inquir elicited the fact that for
months he had subsisted on dry bread,
with occasionally a morsel of cheese or
an apple. He left no effects save the
rags on him when he died. His mother
is a wealthy dame, resident in Aloscow.
where she owns several houses, a fine
mansion surrounded by a park and a
fashionable nunnery. His wife—for the
unfortunate nobleman was married—
iiastened from Aloscow to attend the
funeral, but was too late.
Physical Exercise.
Our greatest blessing is good health;
and none can question but that our ail
ments are too often catised by improper
food, neglect of bodily exercise, and fre
quently from injudicious and persistent
drugging. When our organs have by
over-exertion become weakly, and their
functions] slow and imperfect, rest and
repose would seem, to be required by
them: but no! instead of this it is the
application of the whip and the spur
Let us fdr a moment glance at the busi
ness and .professional man. Does he
give a thought to his health in his
ambitious race for wealth? Take the
so-called sporting man: his motto is, too
often, “A short life and a merry one.”
These] llustrations, and others which we
could quote we regret to say, preclude
almost anything like a rational treat
ment of the cause of physical exercise.
Yet, notwithstanding our rather
somber reflections, it is still a gratify
ing truism, that athletic exercises tWth
us are already assured of a bright future.
They are becoming, day by day and
hour by hour, more popular with the
masses of the American people of all de
grees and ages; their meetings, both in
doors and on the greensward, are patron
ized and indoi sed to an extent hitherto
unknown in our fair land; and it is as
suredly a great satisfaction for this
generation to know that the inevitable
and never-failing result will be the pro
duction of a more perfect race of men,
both intellectually and physically, re
sulting from their being endowed, as
they will be, with that sine qua non —the
glorv of perfect manhood—“ a sound
and vigorous mind in a healthy body,”
—Brr.vlano'a Aquatic Monthly .
NEW POSTAL RULES.
Bmliflrntioiis In Hate* of PoNtajre and
Classification of Batter.
By tlie provisions of recent acts of
Congress, as construed by tlie Postoffiee
Department, various important modifieat
tions have been made in rates of postage
and in the classification of mail matter.
As these changes will largely affect the
mercantile, insurance and other interests
and as they are at present but imper
fectly understood, the subjoined detailed
information upon the subject lias been
obtained by a New York paper through
inquiry at the postoffiee. It may be re
lied upon as being in accord with the
latest official rulings and decisions of the
department, and as absolutely correct.
The rate on commercial papers, insur
ance documents, papers in legal proceed
ings, etc., when partly in print and partly
in writing, has heretofore been the same
as on letters, viz., three cents per lial
ounce. All such articles have now, with
the exceptions mentioned, been assigned
to tlie third class of mail matter, and as
such are chargeable with postage at the
rate of one cent for each two ounces,
when sent in unsealed envelopes or
wrappers. The exceptions are: If such
articles contain writing in the nature of
personal correspondence, or are in them
selves the representatives of a monetary
value. In these eases tliev become first
class mail matter, and, ’as such, are
chargeable with letter rates of postage.
According to the last rulings of the de
partment (wlucn reverse a number ot
those recently made under the same law),
the specific examples of the exceptions to
third class matter are: Insurance poli
cies signed and in force, daily insurance
reports, insurance transfers, notices of
premiums due, assignments, transfers,
applications for insurance, promissory
notes, attached to premiums or not, and
all notices from local agents to policy
holders respecting renewals, cancella
tions, receipts or other kindred matter;
also, all signed notes, checks, drafts,
deeds, bonds, bills of lading, receipted
bills, and signed receipts of all kinds.
Insurance policies, canceled or incom
plete; unreceipted bills, invoices and
monthly statements may all be sent at
third class rates of postage.
Tlie former restrictions as to writing
in books have been removed, to the ex
tent of permitting a simple manuscript
dedication, or form of presentation, to be
written on the covers or blank pages.
Manuscript for publication, when ac
companied by proof sheets, may be sent
at third class rates; but, unless so ac
companied, is chargeable at letter rates.
Architectural and other drawings made
by hand, heretofore charged at letter
rates, are now assigned to the fourth
class, and may be sent on payment or
postage at one cent per ounce, as may
also original paintings in oil or water
colors, etc. Chromos arc rated as third
class matter unless mounted on cloth or
pasteboard, in which case they belong
to the fourth class. Postage anil revenue
stamps are now in tlie fourth class.
Articles of glass, formerly excluded
from the mails, may now be sent at fourth
class rates (one cent per ounce), provided
they are secured so as to guard against
injury to other mail matter in ease of
breakage, and are boxed in accordance
with certain instructions contained in
the United States Postal Guide. Original
packages of tobacco and boxes of cigars
and other articles sealed by internal rev
enue stamps, which were formerly
charged at letter rates, are now placed
in the fourth class by a decision of the
department, which states that they “ will
regard tlie stamp placed over the cover
or opening of such packages as evidence
that no matter is contained therein which
is subject to letter rates of postage.
All persons who desire to avail them
selves of the concessions noted above
will understand that they in volve certain
drawbacks. For example, with the
single exception of tiie packages sealed
by internal revenue stamps, all mail
matter not sent at letter rates must be
left open to inspection by the postoffiee
authorities. No articles, other 1 han let
ters and postal cards, can be returned to
the senders on request; nor forwarded
to _ other offices, unless again fully pre
paid, in ease the persons addressed* have,
removed; nor can they he advertised;
but, if found undeliverable or uncalled
for, they will be sent to the dead letter
offiefe. Alail matter of the third and
fourth classes is not assorted and put up
with, or in the same manner, as letters,
being placed loose in canvas sacks and
not in locked pouches; and, of course,
whenever it is necessary, on account of
unusual accumulation of mail matter or
for other reasons, to give preference in
dispatch, it is always accorded to letter
mail.
Thorean’s Thoughts.
Woe. to him who wants a companion,
for he is unfit to be the companion even
of himself.
That virtue we appreciate is as much
ours as another’s. We see so much only
as we possess.
The blue sky is a distant reflection of
tlie azure serenity that looks out from
under a human brow.
What does education often do? It
makes a straight-cut ditch out of a
free meandering brook.
Do you know on what bushes a little
peace, faith and contentment grow ? Go
a-berrying early and late after them.
There is nowhere any apology for de
spondency. Always there is life while
life lasts, which, rightly lived, implies a
divine satisfaction.
Cheap persons will stand upon cere
mony, because there is no other ground;
but to the great of the earth we need no
introduction, nor do they need anv
to us.
What is peculiar in the life of a man
consists not inh is obedience, but liis op
position to his instincts; in one direction
or another he strives to live a super
natural life.
When we cease to sympathize with,
and to be personally related to men, and
begin to be universally related, then we
are capable of inspiring others with the
sentiment of love for us.
No fields are so barren to me as the
men from whom I expect everything but
get nothing. In their neighborhood I
experience a painful yearning for society
which cannot be satisfied, for the hate is
greater than the love.
Alake the most of your regrets; never
smother your sorrow, but tend and
cherish it till it come to have a separate
and integral interest. To regret deeply
is to live a fast. By so doing you will
be astonished to find yourself restored
once more to all your emoluments.
Whatever your sex or position, life is
a battle in wliich you are to show your
pluck, and woe be to the coward.
Whether passed on a bed of sickness or
in the tented field, it is ever the same
fair flag, and admits of no distinction.
Despair and postponement are cowardice
and defeat. Alen were born to succeed,
not to fail.
A Queer House.
An eccentric Englishman has recently
built a house in the Quarter Tivoli for
the residence of himself, his wife ami
eight children, which is the talk of all
Paris. It is circular, and has neither
door nor window externally- The ap
proach to it is from the ground floor on
to the roof by means of a ladder, which,
is moved up and down by machinery
similar to that of a drawbridge. There
is only one floor, and that contains
eighteen apartments, more or les3 small
in dimension, looking into the center,
which is lighted from above by a glazed
cupola. One stove for all these rooms is
in the*middle, and in summer its place
is to be occupied by an exquisite parterre
of flowers. A circular balcony, open to
all the apartments, surrounds this space.
The motive for this oddity is, of course,
only known to the author of it, but
: everybody can see that two points are
gained by it—immunity from the taxes
on doors and windows, and a perfect pre
ventative of any attempt at burglary.
YOL. V. NO. 52.
Preyentiug (he Spread of Disease.
The commission of experts appointed
by the Nat ional Board of Health of the
L nited States to prepare a circular em
bodying familiar instructions for disin
fection lias made a report to the board.
The report is as follows:
Disinfection is the destruction of the
poisons of infectious or contagious dis
eases. Deodorizers are not necessarily
disinfectants, and disinfectants do not
necessarily bear an odor. The disin
fectants to be used are: First, roll sul
phur for fumigation ; second, sulphate of
iron (copperas) dissolved in water in the
proportion of one an 1 a half pounds to
the gallon, for soil, sewers, etc.; third,
sulphate of zinc and common salt dis
solved together in water in the propor
tion of four ounces of salt to the gallon
for clothing, bed linen, etc. The com
mission exclude carbolic acid, for the
reason that it is difficult to secure the
proper quality, and it mus‘ be used in
large quantities to be of service. In using
disinfectants in the sick room, the most
available agents are fresh air and clean
liness. The towels, clothing, bed linen,
etc., should, on removal from the patient
and before they are taken from the room,
be placed in a pail or tub of the zinc so
lution, boiling hot if possible. All dis
charges should either fee received in ves
sels containing copperas solution, or,
when this is impracticable, should be
immediately covered with copperas solu
tion. All vessels used about the patient
should he cleansed with the same solu
tion. Unnecessary furniture, especially
that which is stuffed—carpets and hang
ings—should, when possible, be removed
from the room at the outset; otherwise
they should remain for subsequent fumi
gation and treatment. Fumigation with
sulphur is the only practicable method
ol disinfecting the house. For this pur
pose the rooms to be disinfected must be
vacated. Heavy clothing, blankets, bed
ding and other articles which cannot be
treated with zinc solutions should be
opened and exposed during fumigation
as directed below: Close the room :is
tightly as possible, place the sulphur in
ir.in pans, supported on bricks, contained
in tubs containing a little water, set it
on fire by hot coals or withfthe aid of a
spoonful of alcohol, and allow the room
to remain closed for twenty-four hours.
For a room about ten feet square at least
two pounds of sulphur should be used;
for larger rooms proportionately in
creased quantities. Cellars, yards,
stables, gutters, privies, cesspools,
water-closets, drains, sewers, etc., should
be frequently and liberally treated with
copperas solution. The copperas solution
is easily prepared by hanging a basket
containing about sixty pounds of the
copperas in a barrel of water. It is best
to burn articles which have come in
contact with persons sick with conta
gious or infectious diseases. Art icles too
valuable to be destroyed should be
treated as follows: Cotton, linen, flan
nels, blankets, etc., should be treated
with the boiling zinc solution, introduce
piece by piece, secure thorough wetting
and boil tor at least half an hour. Heavy
woolen clothing, silks, furs,* stuffed bed
covers, beds and other articles which
cannot be treated with the solution
should be hung in the room during fumi
gation, their surfaces thoroughly ex
posed and pockets turned inside out. Af
terward they should be hung in the open
air, beaten and shaken.
Die First Ride Through a Canyon.
Two adventurous miners recently took
a ride through the Big Horn canyon, in
the Yellowstone region, never before
traversed by man. Had they been able
graphically to describe their adventure
they would have told .a tale seldom
equaled in thrilling incidents. Wishing
to save two hundred miles’ travel around
the mountains they concluded to try the
canyon. With some tools they had in
their mining camp they built a frail craft
at the bottom of the canyon, having
previously taken down their material of
red cedar. The boat was made twelve
feet long, three feet wide, and upon trial
was found to carry its cargo of freight
and passengers admirably. So one morn
ing they untied it and pushed into the
current. The rush of the river, which
before starting was almost deafening,was
terrible its the boat started on its journey
through tli is unknown gorge. To go
back was impossible; to climb the solid
limestone walls which rose five hundred
feet above their heads, where a narrow
streak of light lighted up their course,
was not to be entertained as a means of
escape; through they must go, trusting
to their ability to avoid rocks and to the
strength of their craft to run tne rapids
which they met at every bend of the
canyon. The loudest halloo was heard
as a whisper. (irottos, caves,unknown re
cesses of nature were passed by tliese hardy
navigators. In places flocks of moun
tain sheep, startled by the appearance
of the curiosity rushing by below them,
would run along a ledge of rocks, .jump
from crag to crag, where footing for man
would be impossible, and disappear.
Evening coming on they attempted to tie
up for the night. They worked the boat
close to shore, jumped out, and away
went the craft carrying the guns anil
provisions. With starvation behind
them and hardly a foothold before them
their chances of keeping on were doubt
ful,_ when they luckily found two logs,
which they lashed together*\vith their
belts, and again trusting to the river
and still more dangerous rocks they set
out to search for their boat, which they
found two miles below, where it had
stopped in an eddy. On the afternoon of
the third day, while wondering how
much longer the Big Horn canyon could
possibly be, they suddenly shot out into
the beautiful Big Horn valley, with Fort
C. F. Smith on their right.
Blondin at Brussels.
After a retirement of many years,
Blondin, the wonderful rope-walker and
“ Hero of Niagara.” recently made his
reappearance in public by giving a num
ber of performances at the “Zoological
Gardens” of Brussels. Belgium. All
doubts about his identity were at once
dispelled by a series of most astounding,
almost miraculous feats on the tight
rope, calling forth unexampled out
breaks of enthusiasm mixed with a
feeling of terror on the part of the
lookers-on.
The rope, 240 feet in length, lead been
stretched at a considerable height across
the lake. Blondin opened the perform
ance by appearing on the rope in the
paraphernalia of a Homan warrior, bow
ing to the spectators, who scarcely ven
tured to applaud him, being not a little
concerned about the daring man.
After changing his costume for that
of an acrobat he commenced a series of
wonderful feats that kept the audience
spell-bound. He would lie clown,
stretching. himself, hi3 whole length,
then he would make a daring somersault,
after which he would sit down on one
leg,'looking to the ground as unconcern
edly as if he were resting quietly in an
easy-chair on terra firma.
He then walked out to the middle of
the rope, blindfolded, and with his body
entirely wrapped up in n big bag, to
form a dance. The greater part of the
spectators were not a little glad when
he was through with this most danger
ous terpsichorean act. To quiet the ex
cited minds of the weak-nerved part of
the public, he introduced his comic feat
of baking an omelet in the air. He ap
r peared in the robes of a cook, with a
small stove and all kinds of culinary
utensils. Presently he kindled a tire,
put a pan on the stove, and in less than
no time the omelet was ready. He
threw it down, and a number of the
spectators bad a taste of it.
“Can you see the whole of me?”
asked a fellow who wanted an entire
view of the photographer. “Oh, yes,
sir.’ wn the reply, “I can see scarcely
anything else except the hole. You had
better dose it.” The fellow instantly
Pot hi* mouthc
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The Owl’s Matins.
Behold the East with gates ajar,
Through wliich the morning peeps
Hail, dawning light and lading star ’
Awake the world that sleeps 5
Sing heigh ho ! to whit, to whoo 1
Fair Phoebus upward leaps.
The glow-worm pales her amorous lig l.t
The fire-fly flickers dim.
The god ol day shuts out the niglil.
And lights the ocean’s rim.
Sing heigh ho ! to whit, to whoo !
The world awakes to him.
Xu flaming glow his orbit see.
High o’er the mountain crest.
Drips sparkling light from out the sea
And lights the owlet s nest.
Sing heigh ho ! to whit, to whoo !
I take my flight to rest.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Love can excuse everything hut a
missing shirt-button.
The letter I) is truly an old salt —has
been following the C for years.
James Liar and Henry Slander are
two of the best, citizens of Dubuque
lowa
Look out for a policeman, or any other
man for that matter, who is dressed up
to kiil.
During 187 R tiicre were 187 miners
killed and 602 injured in the Pennsyl
vania coal mines.
There are said to he only four words
in the English languageending in e-i-o-n.
Wnat are they?
We see a great deal about “spelling
reform” in our exchanges. We don’t
think “reform ” is very hard to spel I .
Norristown Herald.
There is a man in this city so averse to
being dunned for his hills that hecan’t
hear to see a crowd “collect” in the
street.—Rostov Gazette.
The man who got into a barber-chair,
pinned the newspaper round his perk
arid began to read the towel may justly
be called absent minded.
Men spend their lives in heaping up
colossal piles of treasure, wliich stand at
the end like the pyramids in the desert
sands, holding only the (lust of kings.
A house in the Avenue de Clicliy, Paris,
was lately struck by lightning, which
first followed a water-pipe to the earthj
and then reascended to the fourth story.
How many useful hints are obtained
by chance, and how often the mind, hur
ried by her own ardor to distant views,
neglects the truths that lie open before
her.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please
itself with very mean advantages; and
envy feels not its own happiness hut
when it may lie compared with the misery
of others.
Look not upon the watermelon core
when it is red, and tackle it not heartily
just before going to bed. A word to the
wise is “nuff ced.” —Cedar Rapids Re
publican.
Kansas has now 559 churches, 69 of
which are Baptist, 59 Congregational ist.
33 Lutheran, 22 Episcopal, 125 Metho
dist, 99 Presbpterian, and 15 United
Presbyterian.
The Railroad Gazette says that John
Iloughtaling, of Rochester, is the oldest
railroad conductor in the United States.
He has served forty-three years, and is
now poor and disabled.
Sh! Don’t give it away. We keep a
bottle with a-stick in it constantly on our
table. And we find that it adds much to
lighten our editorial labors. It paste to
keep it.— Yonkers Statesman.
Editors who are bothered with fellows
who just “drop in to see the papers”
now save all the papers from the yellow
fever districts and let the fellows read .
them. It’s an unfailing remedy — New
York Express.
The editor of the Hastings (Minn.)
New Era was attacked in his office, re
cently, by three masked men, hit lie
escaped from their clutches and now
gives notice that he will be prepared to
receive company at all hours.
A gentleman learned in the origin of
social customs was asked the meaning of
casting an old shoe after a newly-mar
ried couple as they start on the trip.
He said, “To indicate that the chances
of matrimony arc very slipper-y.”
Teacher, to boy who lias to be correct
ed frequently—“ Can you tell me where
the Blue Ridge is?” Boy (rubbing his
shoulder) —“No. hut I can tell you where
the black-and-blue ridge is.” — Saturday
Night.
When yesterday I asked you, love,
One little word to say,
Yonr brother interrupted us;
So please say yes-ter-day.
—JVhrristoirn Herald.
A woman in Cincinnati was arrested
not long ago for horrible cruelty to her
adopted daughter, aged sixteen, whom
she had been accustomed to beat terribly
with a whip and then put red-pepper
pods and brine upon the wounds. She
also is said to have crushed the nails on
the feet of the girl witli a hammer and
to have inflicted other terrible cruelties.
Two boys in Westphali age sixteenand
thirteen, lost their parents by death, and
were so sorrowful that they concluded to
die too. They wrote a will disposing of
their money and playthings. Then the
elder killed his brother with a hammer,
after which he swallowed poison,opened
a vein in his tyrist, and shot himsell
through the heart.
The small, meek'looking wife of Tom
Cottrell, a Missouri horse thief, followed
him we-ping out of a St. Joseph court
room, after his trial and conviction. In
the corridor she flew at the sheriff like a
tigress, threw him on the floor, and thus
enabled the prisoner to mount a mule
and escape.
*‘ There is a pleasure in the jwithles* woods,”
I There is a witchery in summer's kiss,
! There is a spell that charms our tend’rer
moods
When day brings on the twilight’s benefice.
I There is a richness in the morning chant
Oi birds just wakened from a night's iejc-se,
'I here is a something in the onion plant
That's uncongenial to the average nose.
Yonkeit Gazette.
The Family Hammer.
There is one thing no family pretends
to he without. This is a hammer. And
yet there is nothing that goes to until**
up the equipment of a domestic estab
lishment that causes one-half as much
agony ana profanity as a hammer. 1: is
always an old haniun-r with a h ;ndl<*
that is inclined to sliver, and always
bound to aim. The face is as round as
a full moon, and as smooth as glass.
When it strikes a nail full and square,
which it has l>een known to do, ttie act
will he found to result from a combina
tion of pure accidents.
The family hammer is one of those
rare.articles we nevtr protit by. When
it glides off a rail head, and mashes down
a couple of fingers, we unhesitatingly de
posit it in the yard, and observe that we
will never use it again. But the blood
lias hardly dried on the rag liefore we
are out of doors in search of that ham
mer, and ready to make another trial. '
The result rarely varies, hut we never
profit by it. The awful weapon goes on,
knocking off our nails and mashing off
joints and slipping off the handle, to the
confusion of the m;tntci ornaments and
breakingthe comrnandments.and cutting
up an assortment of astounding and un
fortunate antics witiiout let or' hin- •
deranci*. And yet we put up with it.
and put tiie handle on again, and lay it
where ii won’t get lost, and do up our
mutilated and smarting fingers, and it
the outrageous tiling should happen t<>
get lost we kick up a regular hullabaloo
until it is found again. Talk about tin
tyrannizing influence of a bad habit! It
is not 1- !•<* compared to the family hems
tner.— Ko nt'U y<-irr>iiM