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Amid Amid the me Grasses. masses. Cm*' live iidnr. 00 .rce am Cw ringlet* "ic t'be <*t the dandelion fine! Cotnn, sing and croon and chant, Here lurks no aching want Of past or present; Her® honey -bind is found, And creeping o’er the ground Mellow sunbeams pleasant; "-of , All in the ^ and^y S^togethar, And H. W ejoa shine out from lair young la gentian* blue, that catch the thistle’s leather; Cases, breathe and live! For here grow sweet all gracious thing* to give. Here nod 'eth tine My Iwdy Columbine; M “* r “ Ob, hither eoroo and hide! Here in the grasses nestle, nestle deep with me! Herewith my bounteous love and me •‘hide! , sweet „ namre, qmen of all green things . t.,,..,, lor over all . . With vapor* through 8 lorm and the golden-drooping drowsy skies— hair, Breathes The mellow-tinted India-summer air— And oilers sacrifice! . Ah ...... what s so s wee , O^iurbrmrief'nSth th^iniows? And winit, ah! what’, so fair As the summer air, And the lark high up in its fleecy billows? And here in the meadow-land far below We can listen And catch the streamlet’s flow, And hear the lark till he’s ont of sight In the breezy blue above the hill, And watch the sunbeams drop and fill For hem thHSZ arfsohSd stiff Hist! be hushed as a startled mole Curled in its cradle; for over the knoll I see the soit brown twitching ear Oi the shy gray rabbit peeping! sleeping— He thinks that we are Natureand I! Ila, ha! And soon more near He’ll crouch his lorm and crop the hill-side tender; winds blow by, And if the Ho knows them, knows them just as well as I, Nor tears their shrill pipes slender. Hear how alolt the old crows caw!— Ca! ca!— Wicked black crows that fill the>r maw With pretty fleld-fares. What a shame! Here’s on* that built his r.est closo by, Last summer, and the grasses lie Trampled by the path he came. See! here deep down are mosses and sweet loros, that, burns: And meadow-fire Loye’s torch, they calfit rather, Or Cupids cup, ii maidens pluck and gather.! fairies smoke— Here’s Jndian-pipe, tire They light it by the meadow-fire— Am! hero’s the magic ring tlrey broke When dancing to their cricket choir. And here are spicy mints, And club-head lichens rail of freakish dints Of toothsome elves, and prints Of winding pathways thro’ the reedy grasses, burryihg wild, the emmet’s Where, army passes; roads, Here dainty Where, shining toft, the velvet-coated toads, rain is Crushing the herbage, pant when over, Hopping to meet their loves in musky clover; And here the field-mouse comes, Stealing sweet nature’s crumbs— Seeds that she plants for mice and birds un hoedod; Far from the cark of men She stores her wealth of grain— Way-side larms by walls, brier-grown and over-weeded. Here, here 1 watch them come— The wild bee with bis drum; The tilting dragon-fly with azure wing; The painted moths; and lo! With his sharp, wiry bow, The elbowed grasshopper, with sudden spring Setting the thickets brown in wild commotion; While fluttering down like shells through some blue ocean, fn undulations rhythmically slow, Through the blue-misted air ol autumn lucid— Purple us Tyrian tides, and interfused With incense odors of all sweet shrubs bruised— 1’he splendid wide-winged maplo leaflets mellow! Hero still are buttercups, so silvery yellow; And hero sweet wintei -giv.cn, with berries red. And here from nodding head The feathery dandelion soweth wide Her venturous parachutes—how light They mount tho breeze, and vanish from the sight! low-couched abide, And hei e And creeping soltly slide Arbutus tendrils through the rustling grass, Waiting for snows to pass, To breathe once more tho verdure ol the Ofi spring. And liere wing on Como the sharp sparrows, ami late robins sing Their farewells. So, farewell' The light deth pass From sky and vale and mountain As frona some spent and golden-watered ton u tain. So, tare well! While through the meadow-grass Crioket sad restless midge and night-wings rally Their torces (ar and near, And fill the ear With pantings of soft plumes and rustlings clear, long And mu si* shrill and high, through the dusky Talley. Magazine — W. Jf/. Brings, in Harper’s Story of a Skeleton Skirt. 1 was in the civil service at Rich¬ mond. Enough that 1 was there and on honest business. That business done, I prepared to return home. And there¬ by hangs this Confederacy. tale, and, as it proved, the fate of the For, of course, I wanted to take presents question home there tomy what family. these Very little should be—for was I had boys presents no or brothers. The women ot the Con ted eracy had one want which overtopped all others. They could make coffee out of beans; pins they hud from Columbus; straw hats they brai&d quite well with their own fair hana ; snuff we could get better than you cot-ld in tlie “old concern.” We had no hoopskirts— skeletcms. weused to call them. No in¬ genuity had made ibem. No bounties had forced them. The Bat, the Grey¬ hound, the Deer, the Flora, the J. C. Cobb, the Yaruna and the Fore-and Aft all took in cargoes of them for us in England. But tbeBat and the Deer and the Flora were seized by the blockadeis the J. C. Cobb sunk at sea, the Foie and-Aft and the Greyhound and Varuna were set fire to by their own crews, was never heard of. Then the State of A ’Aansas offered sixteen townships of v-t,jEp land to the first manufacturer who would exliibit tire gross of the home-manufactured article. But not e ever competed. The first attempts, in deed, were put to an end when Schofield crossed the Blue Lick and destroyed the dam on the Yellow branch, which that brute of a Grierson said there was never anything of it but the outside. Of course, then, I put in the bottom of my new large trunk in New York, not a “duplex elliptic,” >for ” none wen then made, but a “ Belmonte of thirty springs, for my wife. I broght Belle-Fon for her mor;M ommon wear and a good Sue taine.” For Sarah each I got two “ Dumb-belles.” For Ast Eunice cut! Aunt Chrn. maiden sisters of my I wife, w ire,■ who wuo lived nv«u with u us » after Winchester g h I „ go™”'' For my Jr«" own and “ Invisible Micof Combination U,c .1 Gos one good old samer.” I did not forget Jane. For Mamma Chloe and Mamma them I got substantial cages without names. With these tied in the heaps of figure eights in the bottom of my . U nk as I said, 1 put in an assorted drv fronds above and favored s c sss safely at Richmond before the autumn closed^ #t home with I rapture opened . Rut when, the next morning doubly my stores, this became rapture tell the enraptured. Words cannot old and ,| t delieht with which young, black and white, surveyed those fairv-like structures, vet unbroken and unmended Jzr u % •u’fflJS? fftto if ^Sdtol things had Belmontes and the other ]oof P( t a o loner as th*e advertisements declared. was' day ] up in the cedar closet one lookin<'for an old parade cap of mine, ” j thought, though it my was third best, might look better than my second best which I had worn ever since my best was lost at Seven Pines, I say I was standing on the low r shelf of the cedar closet, when, as I stepped along in the darkness, my left right did foot caueht in a bit of wire, my not , ^ in time, and 1 fell with a small wooden hat box in my hand full on the floor. The corner of the hat box struck me just below the second frontal sinus, and I fainted away. When T camp tn mvself I was in the hr 4 r- Vm-ehead 1 1 vinegar on a brown P a P« on , Sf^h’er thc room °hv was nark, and , J found moth *min s n me ’ - . and to knowjhat I knew » ™ leg is brok.cn above the ankle; you will not move these six weeks. Where do vniiTnnnme JOU suppose vnuaref” you are. fill then i had no notion that it was hve minutes since I went into the closet. W hen slit told me thetime five m .the afternoon— I groaned m the lowest depths. For in my breast I could pocket in that innocent coat, which now see lying on the window-sill, were the duplicate dispatches to Mr. Maso^>, for which, late the night before, I had got the secretary’s signature. They Wihmng- were to go at ten that morning to ton, by the navy department s special messenger. I had taken them to insure care and certainty. 1 had worked on them till midnight, and tuey had not been signed till near one o clock, Heavens an 1 earth, and there it was fiveoelock. The man mus. be half way to \\ liming!on by tins time. I sent the doctor for fcefarge, my clerk. Lefarge did liis prettiest in rushing to the tele Chowan graph. But river, no. or a raid A freshe^ by Foster, on the or something, or nothing, lias smashed the telegraph wire for that reached mglit. Wil- And before that dispatch ever the mington the navy agent was m offing in the bea Maid. But perhaps breathless the duplicate got through. . No, reader, the duplicate did not get birougli. The du piheate was taken by Faucon in the Ino. I saw it last week m I)r. Lieber s hands H 1 V.^ s ^ ngt on W ’ | know is the duplicate l 1 . had , got through the Confederate government would have had in March a chance at 83,211 muskets, wlneli, as it was, never left Belgium. So much for my treading irito that blessed piece of wire on the ; n' n of the cedar closet upstairs. W hat was the bit of wire. Well, it was not telegraph wire. when If it ft had been it would have broken was not wauted to. Don’t you know what it was? Go up in your own cedar closets and step about in the dark, and see what brings up about your ankles, Julia, poor child, cried her eyes out about it. When I got well enough to get up, and as soon as I could talk and plan with her, she brought down seven of these old things—Belmontes, simplex and ellipties she made and horrors pile of without, them in a the name— bed a room, and she asked me in the most penitent way what she should do with them. “ You can’t burn them,” she said, fire won’t touch them. If you bury them in the garden they come up at the second raking. If you give them to the servants they say, ‘Thank-e, missus,’ and throw them in the back passage. If you give them to the poor, they throw them into the street in front, and do not say ‘ Thank-e.’ Sarah sent seventeen over to the sword factory, and the fore¬ man swore at the boy, and told him he would flog him within an inch of his life if he and brought so—and any so,” more sobbed of his the sauce there; “I just rolled the wretched poor child, up things and put them in the cedar closet, hoping, you know, that something, some day the government would want and would advertise for them. You know what a good thing I made out of the bottle corks.” In fact she had sold our bottle corks for $4,216 of the first issue. We after¬ ward bought two umbrellas and a cork¬ screw with the money. Well, i did not scold Julia. It was certainly no fault of hers that I was walking on the lower shelf of her cedar closet. I told her to make a parcel of t he things, and the first time we went to ridt I hove the whole shapeless heap into the river. But let no man think, or no woman, that this was the end of the troubles. As I look back on that winter, and on the spring of 1865, it seems to me only the beginning. I got out on crutches at last; I had the office transferred to my house, so that Lafarge and Hepburn could work there at night and commu¬ nicate with me when I could not go out; but mornings I hobbled up to the de¬ partment, and sat with the chief, and took liis orders. Ah, me! shall I soon foiget that damp winter morning, when we all had such hone at the office s One or two,of the army fellows looked in at the window as they ran past, and we knew that they felt well; and, though I would not ask old Wick—as wv nick¬ named the chief—what was in the wmd, I knew the time had come, and that the lion meant to break the net this time. I made an excuse to go home earlier than usual; rode down to the house in the major’s ambulance, I remember, and hopped in to surprise Julia with the good news, only to find that the whole house was in quiet uproar, which shows that something bad has happened of a sudden. “ What is it, Chloe?” said I, as the old wench rushed by me with a bucket of water. “Poor Mr. George, I ’fr&id he’s dead, sah.” And there lie really was, dear, hand some. bright George Schaff—the Richmond; delight he of all the nicest girls of lay there on Aunt Eunice’s bed ^on the ground floor, where they had and brought he did him in. He was not dead, not die. He is making cotton in Texas now. But he looked mighty near like it then. The deep cut in his head was the worst I had ever seen, and the blow confused everything. When McGregor got round be said it was not hopeless; but we were turned out of the room, and, with cne thing and another, he got the boy out of the swoon, and it proved Lis head was not broken. No, but poor George swears to this if» «, n :d the right field.]For 1 Way ’ *nd on s that;even ing ROne wrong in fie surprise. There we had been waiting tor one of those ear A y fogs, and at last tne tog had come. AndJu bai Early had tha morning pushed out every man he had that could stand, and $&l ay i h &J?^ P^eWme. at th ^°^ iot Po ^atan, only Streight’s party was to fire at Wilson’s wharf, as soon as somebody on our left center advanced m force on the enemy’s lme above -Lurkey island, stretching across to Nansemond. Iam notinthe war department, and I forget whether he was to advance en barbette or by echelon of infantry. But he was to ad x„ e srss e L m s“n 0 jEarl7tre™hfmTe^ «d to surprise Rowhatan, you see; and then, it you Have understood me, Grant and Butler and the whole rig of them would have been cut off from their sp i plies, would have nad to fight a battle for which they were not prepared, with their rignt made into anew left, and their old left unexpectedly advanced at at_°khque angle fro>m their center; and womd not ^ uaw have been the end of themr Well, that never happened, /ind the reason it Schaff, never happened was that poor George with the last fatal order for this man, whose name I forgot (the same who was afterwaid killed the day before at High Bridge), undertook to save time by cutting across behind my house, from r rankim to Green streets. You know how much time hesaved; they waited all day for that older. George told me afterward that the last thing he remembered was kissing his window. J &Td h L1houghT Kjht S a i° g ’, feet an 1 headforemost p °° v George ,^ a s Pitched fifteen f against a stake there was in that lot. Julia saw the whole. She rushed out with all the vome n. and home. had just brought that him in wken j g0 f And was the reagon that the great promised combin a tj on G f December. 1864, never came off atall ^ j aIked out in the lot, after Mc G. regor turned me out of the chamber, to see what they had done with the oorse. There he lay, as dead as o'd Messenger himself. His neck was b ro ken. And, do you think, I looked to ?€e wk at had tripped him. I supposed j fc was on8 Q f ^} ie boys’ bandy holes. I wa9 no suck thing. The poor wretch ka( j tangled his hind legs in one of those hoop-wires j that Chloe had thrown oul w i Jcn gave her new ones. Though j ( ij d not know j it then, those fatal straps D f ru by S f ee } Ja( j broken the neck that day of Robert Lee’s army, That time I made a row about it. felt too badey to go into a passion. But, before the women wenr !o bed—they wcre all in the sitting-room together—I taiked to thcm like a father. I did not swear . I had got over that for a while, i i n that six weeks on my back. But did say the old wives were nuisances, and that the house and premises must, be got rid of them. The aunts laughed —though I was so serious—and tipped a w i uk t Q the girls. The girls wantecP* to laugh, but were afraid to. And then it came out the aunts had sold their old h 00 ps, tied as tight as they could tie them, in a great mass of rags. They kad made a fortune by the sale—I am sorry to say it was in other rags, but the rags they got were j new instead of old —^ was a rea Aladdin bargain. The ragman had been in a hurry and did not know what made the things so heavy. I frowned at the swindle, but they said all was fair with a peddler and I own I was glad the things were well out o Richmond. But when I said I thought it was a mean trick, Lizzie and Sarah looked demure, and asked what I would have them to do with the old things, Did I expect them to walk down to the bridge themselves with great parcels to throw into the river, as I had done by Julia’s? Of course it ended, as such tilings always do, by shoulders. my taking I the work on my own told them to tie up all they had in as small a parcel as they could and bring them to me. handsome Accordingly the next day I found a large, considering, brown-paper strangely parcel—not so and square, considering—which the minxes had put together They had and laid on my office table. had a great frolic over it. They not spared red tape nor red wax. Yery official it looked, indeed, and on the lefthand corner, in Sarah's boldest and most contorted hand, was written “secret service.” We had a great laugh over their success. And, indeed, I should have taken it with me the next time I went down to Tredegar, but that I happened to dine one evening with young Norton, of our gallant little navy, and a very curious thing he told us. Y/e were talking about the disap¬ pointment of the ombined land attack. I did not tell what upset poor SchafFs horse; indeed I do not think those navy men knew the details of the disappoint¬ ment. O’Brien had told me in confi¬ dence, what I have written probably for the first time now. But we were speak irg in a Norton general way of the disappoint¬ ment. finished his cigar rather thoughtfully and then said: “ Well, feliows, it. is r,otwoith whi to put it in the newspapei s, but what do you suppose upset our grand naval at¬ tack the day the Yankee gunboats skit¬ tled down the river so handsomely?” best “ Why,” beloved said Allen, who is Norton’s friend, “they say that you ran away from them as fast as they did from you.” “Do they?” said Norton, grimly. “If you say that I’ll break your head for you. “that Seriously, men,” continued he, was an extraordinary thing. You know I was o i the ram- But why she stopped when she stopped [ knew as little as this wineg.ass does; and Cal¬ lender himself knew no more than L We had not been bit. We were all right as a trivet for all we knew, when, sbree! she began blowing off steam, and we stopped dead and began to drift down under those batteries- Callender had to telegraph to the little Mosquito, or whatever Walter called im boat, and the spunk 3 T little thing ran down and got us out of the scrape. Walter did right well; if he had had a monitor under him he could not have done better. Oi course we all rushed to the engine room. What were they a. there? All they knew was that they could get no water iuto h^r boiler. “ Now. fenow3, this is the end of the story. As soon as the boilers cooled off, they worked all night on those sup¬ ply pumps. May I be hanged if they aa«i not sucked in, somehow, a long string ol yarn and cloth, and, if you wilt believe me. a wired some woman’;? crinoline. And that French foilv of a sham empress cut short that day the victory of the Confederate nav", and old Davis himself can’t telTwben we shall have a chance again.” The herring fishing on the cast coast of Scotland is the most successful on record, it has been found impossible to cure all the fish caught, and tons have been carried to the manure mer chants. How Limlmrger Cheese is Made. Limburger cheese, as its. name indi cates, originated in the province of Lim¬ burg, Holland, but ail that is consumed in this country is by no means ot foreign manufacture. Thousands of tons are annually made in the United States, mostly in New York and Wisconsin. Dodge, Jefferson and Green counties, Wis., are noted for this Industry; in the latter county alone there being tw enty- Lim¬ five factories engaged in making burger cheese. These factories are mostly in the hands of the Germans and Swiss. In an interesting paper on this cheese read before the W isconsin dairy¬ men’s association by Mr. John Lucnsin ger, Monroe county, Wis., he said: Limburger cheese is usually under favor¬ able circumstances standard more profitable American to the maker than the cheese, almost always bringing from pound ten in to market, twenty-five while per the cent, yieldgfrom more per given a quantity of milk is greater, the reason for which will be apparent when the process of making is explained. As a short account of the process of manu facture wfti doubtless be of interest the following will be in place: Limburger is made in factories capable of working up the milk of from 100 to 400 cows, rarely exceeding the latter number, for he reason that the milk is brought and tcheese is made twice a day, and a greater number of cows would require a larger area of country than would be conve¬ nient. The milk is usually bought agreed from farmers by the makers at a price conditions upon at the beginning be observed ot the season;.the both sides to on being in form of a written contract. Great care is taken that ail milk brought to the factory be pure, fresh and free from taint. The milk is set in a vat In the usual manner, nothing in the first stage of making being different from the same stage in making American cheese, except that the temperature is not so high and perhaps the rennet fluid a trifle stronger. Upon the curd being formed it is cut slowly and carefully, so as to liberate as few as possible of the butter globules, into pieces about tin size of dice; after the curd is properly stirred and slightly scalded it is dippec out of the vat, without being salted, inte per f orated wooden molds about five inches square, where it is left to drain, no pressure being applied hours at any it is stage carried o mailing. into After a few and placed edge¬ the curing cellar ways on shelves precisely like bricks set to dry. The cellar should not be too dry, and kept at a temperature not above sixty degrees Fahrenheit. Every day the cheese, which are now about five by two inches, are rolled in salt and turned; they become salted by absorption, When salted enough the cheese are still lm*ne.d each day, and all exuding moisture i 3 rubbed with the hand evenly over the surface and serves the double purpose of keening it moist and closing all orifices into which insects might penetrate about, this time, and in this slimy, exuding moisture is developed that indescribable odor which ever afterward accompanies and more than anything else character¬ izes Llm‘urger. It never forsakes it and sticketh closer than a, brother to all that touch or partake of it. After from eight weeks to three month it is ready for market. Each cheese is first packed in paper, over which comes a sheet of tin or lead foil, which are then packed in boxes containing from sixty to one hundred and twenty pounds and are sent forth to purchasers. Limburger cheese in contents and nutrition the richest cheese that can be made; in. flavor a predetermined outrage upon the organ of smell. An Indian Family. An Indian named Joseph Tehement lived in New York city with his wife, four children and his father, a chief over seventy years of age. They twelve sup¬ ported themselves there for years by making baskets, and were noted in their neighborhood lor their singular devotion to each other, and especially for the remarkable reverence and affection gi/enby the whole family to the aged chief. A few months ago the old man sud¬ denly dropped dead on the street in front of his house. The grief and dismay of the whole family were extreme, but his son Joseph, a middle aged man, was completely stunned by the loss. He prostrated himself on his father’s dead body, crying: “Father, 1 will you are gone, but I will follow you. not uve wihoutyou!” So great was his grief that he lost his reason, and the next day, leaving the corpse, he hurried to the river and threw himself into it. When rescued and confined he again and again tried to kill himself, saving: “He that gave me life is gone; why should I remain P” The tie between parent and child is often very close among the red men. Very pathetic stories are told by the missionaries and Quaker commissions among the Indians of the sacrifices made by some of the chiefs and their wives to secure an education or advan¬ tages for their children. “They seem,” their says one observer, “ indifferent to own fate it they can hope to give to their little ones a chance such as is open to the poorest white child.” It is a singular fact, too, that the Indian, whom we are accustomed to consider a roaming savage, is as much attached to his home as a Swiss. But a comparatively small portion of the Western tribes are nomadic. They occupy the same ground which be¬ longed to their ancestors, moving, however, from place to place to suit the hunting expedient season. that should It is now we all strive to ascertain the facts about this people who are dependent influenced on us, and not allow ourselves to be by prejudice or by partiality.— Youth's Companion, The Military Salute. Within the last few years among the many changes introduced in the army is that of the salute. Why abolished, the old, time honored salute was no one knows; but it is an interesting fact, and one probably that the unknown old salute, to most which of our readers, being con¬ sisted of the hand brought to a horizontal posidon old origin, over dating, the eyebrows, in fact, has a very from the very commencement of the history of the English army. Its origin is found in the tournaments of the middle ages, and was as follows: After the queen of beauty was enthroned, the knights which were to take part in the day marched past the dias on which she sat, and, as she passed, they shielded their eyes from the rays of her beauty. Such was the very interesting origin of the old salute Sexton Brown’s Mistake. Of the late “ Grace Church Brown,” the well-known New York sexton, this story i3 told: fHe worshiped family. It blood, and bowed down before was his custom to reserve several good seats in the church for distinguished his ability guests, and he prided himself on to tell at siuht who were worthy to sit in them. One ^Sunday a tall, elegantly side dressed man, with long, flowing him whiskers, entered. Brown looked at and was puzzled. * 4 Lord Dundreary,” by whispered a young fellow who stood the door to his companion. Mr. Brown caught the word “ Lord,” and that decided it. With his best bow and most expansive the smile he showed the stranger to chosen seat- The man was one of Del monico’s waiteis. Mr. Brown seldom made such mistakes. Origin of Hazing. The practice of hazing has an origin more ancient and more respectable than is generally supposed. Webster suggests that this word may be derived from a Swedish verb which signifies to ham¬ atring; but hs defines it thus: “To vex with’chiding unnecessarily or reproof; disagreeable to punish by exacting duty; to play abusive tricks or difficult chiefly college stu¬ upon; used In among dents and sailors.” some institutions the carrying ot a cane by a freshman is considered a piece of arrogance not to be endured, and the offender is sometimes subjected to treatment of the most out¬ rageous character. In others the stove ripe hat is held to be the dear preroga¬ tive of the advanced classes; and woe be to the freshman who presumes to wear one. ... find c . . . The origin of hazing we inci¬ dentally explained in a work upon “University Life in Ancient Athens,” by Professor W. W. Capes, of Oxford university. In ancient times every pro¬ fessor was independent of the others, and carried on the business of teaching entirely on his own account. In a city like Constantinople, Athens or Marseilles, there would be perhaps four or five professors of about the same standing and celebrity, between whom there would be a feeling of rivalry, in which their students would sympa¬ thize. who . Many of the young men, learning, would were particularly devoted to their be enthusiastic partisans of pro fessor, and would exert themselves to the utmost in procuring for them new students and increased fees. his W studies hen a young man arrived to pursue bear they would meet him at the shore, him off to the house o one of his coun¬ trymen, and use every means, fair and foul, to get him to join their cla s. Sometimes they res orted to violence Professor Libanius, who flourished about A. D. 350, tells us how lie fared when he arrived at the city of Athens to pursue his studies. After tlie dangers of a winter voyage from Constantinople he was seized, on landing, by a band of students and kept in confinement until he had taken an oath to join the class of their professor. And the worst Oi it was that the professor proved to be very in¬ competent. But .if he presumed join to criti¬ their cise, or even if he failed to ui rapturous applause, the scowls of the class notified him that lie was exercising f% dangerous freedom. So hot was the rivalry between professors and classes that tlie town was sometimes In a continual riot, and the professors dared not walk the streets unless escorted by a band of their partisans. And just as in modern times hazing is thought by some to be a fine thing, so these contests be¬ tween rival classes had a kind of roman¬ tic attraction to students meditating a course of study. records The same Professor Libanius that when, as a young man, he heard oi the fighting in the streets of Athens among the students, of the clubs, stones and swords used, and of the wounds en¬ dured by the students for the honor of their their teachers, he if thought they were as fighting highly^of for courage as their country, and he prayed heaven that he, too, might one day join _ those noble contests, and carry off new¬ comers from the boats in which they landed. The professors, too, were proud of the exploits of their pupils, and regarded the wounds which they showed in class as a proof of the love borne them. In the course of time, however, the professors found it necessary to make common cause with one another, and entered into certain agreements for their common interests. As time went on, these agree¬ ments embraced more and more particu¬ lars, until at length the body of instruc¬ tors formed a university. The students were no longer attached to one prolessor only, but sought instruction from each in his own branch. From that time the practice of hazing and seizing new¬ comers had no significance, and the cus¬ tom has been unknown in Europe for centuries. In this country also it is dying out, and is no doubt destined soon to pass away. That it should have been kept up so long is a curious instance of the survival of a practice after the cir¬ cumstances in which it originated ceased to exist. It is more than a thousand years since new students were carried off in the manner described by Professor Libanius. The Diamond Fraud. A New York correspondent ot the Troy Times writes: A view of metro¬ politan life, as afforded by the advertis¬ ing columns, will give one a glimpse of many strange features, some of which are worthy of at’.ention. The diamond fraud for instance. This is still exten¬ sively advertised, and no doubt occa¬ sional hits are made,the bait belngf ound in such notices as these: A lady must havo $280, and to raise said amount will part with her diamonds, cost $400. Please to call at once and inquire lor advertiser at 150 East Thirty-third street. A lady, whose diamonds and jewelry are in pawn, is unable to redeem them; will sell tickets at sacrifice. Address Mrs. Havlin Uptown office. A lady having her valuable jewels in pawn would like some honorable gentleman to re¬ deem and hold for a short time. Mrs. Sinclair. A lady having in pawn valuable diamonds and jewelry, unable to redeem them, will seli tickets. Mrs. Talcott, Uptown office. A lady having in pledge gold hunting watch chain and diamond ring would like to dispose ol tickets. Address Mrs. Lyman. It need hardly be said that “the lady” mentioned is merely the tool in the hands of professed sharpers. The best illustration of the method was afforded by the manner in which two Washing¬ ton market hucksters were fleeeed. They had a snug amount of surplus funds and wished to make a temporary investment. Having noticed an adver¬ tisement of the above-mentioned charac¬ ter, they opened a correspondence and were met by a “lady,” who told a wo ful tale. The diamonds were worth $20,000, and had come from some royal house. Could $5,000 be advanced it would be only one-quarter their value, and the money could be raised on them at any time. A diamond broker (so called) then appeared, Simpson who solemnly averred that the pawnbroker would advance $10,000 on the jewels, but his terms (twenty-four per cent, per annum) were too high. The lady offered to pay ten per cent., returnable on call. There is no sharper class of men than Washington off market their usual hucksters, track they but when taken are as weak as childhood. These men fell readily into the snare, and advanced $5,000 on what proved to be a mere fraud. This revelation was made at the police office where the swindlers were arraigned, but the charge failed for lack of testimony, and the hucksters became merely the object of ridicule. Not long afterward a kind-hearted clergymen, the known as Father Zucker, fell into same trap. He had some money, and the moving appeal of a lady in distress touched his heart. He responded to the advertisement, was charmed and affected by the tale of misfortune, and advanced nearly a thousand dollars on some paste diamonds which could be bought for a trifle. Tom Ochiltree was years ago a partner with his father in the law business at Galveston, Texas. The old gentleman went away for a few days, and on re¬ turning found stretched across the office an immense signboard, on which was painted in huge letters: “ T. P. Ochiltree and Father, Counselors and Attorneys a Law.” GRE&T REDUCTION l fall, Clock's, Jiwifr lie? aM Plates firs. HHUE LAttGEST ANO MOST COMPLETE STOCK IN XQE OITT, COMPRISING AU LINES G« I goods usually iupt in a FIRST-CLASS JEWELRY STORE ! Is now being offered GREATLY REDUCED PRICES LOR CASK, with a view to CLOSE OUT STOCK and change investment. Most of the goods are now and desirable, and BOUGHT AT HAKD-TIME PRICES! SPECTACLES and EYE-GLASSES, GUNS, PISTOLS, CUTLERY, Table-ware, Musical Instruments, Fine Violins, Etc. Mr. W. F. STARK will assist in sales, and gladly welcome all his friends and sell tbwn BAKUAliSS* REPAIRING! fisted to Vetches old Spectacle nicely adjusted Frames. at Lowest Prices. Quus and Pistols Repaired. Finest Pebbles ana Glasses CAEjXj .A-ietflD SJE333. Yours, Yery truly, W. A. TALMADGE, Col I e sge Avenue, Opposite Postoffice. AT G A. K. CHELDS. R. NICKERSON. r. H. WIN? CHILDS, NICKERSON * ta VW _*r m 9 No. 15 Franklin House Building, Athens, Ga., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN E3I .A. S, ID -W A. s, E, IinSlul, Sails, Hub aj hit Slits, In Sk Haul Agricultural Implements, Leads, Oils, Glass and Varnish, Harness, Leather Niiliburn Wagons, Cotton, Manilla and Jute Rope, Carnage and Saddlery Hardware, Felloes, Hubs, Spokes, Buggy Wheels, BellSi Axles Surintra A t* Rubber and Leather Belting, Mill Saws, Mill Finding*: Anvil*, Hollow Ware, etc. Manufacturers’ Agents for the sale ot ’ PAlRBArirKS’ STA3V3DAIL3D SCALES, Cider Mills, Syrup Mills and Evaporators, Watt Plows, Farmers’ Friend Plow, Pumps Cir cular Saws, Winships’ & Sawyers’ Celebrated Cotton Gin. ’ Also Agents lor Hall’s and Massey’s Fire and Burglar Proof Safes. 5^"Any article in onr line not in stock, will be ordered when desired with the least possible delay. CALL AND EXAMINE OUR STOCK AND PRICES. Chief Ouray. Chief Ouray, of the Ute Indians, whose death took place recently at the Los Pinos agency, Colorado, was one of the most remarkable of Indian states¬ men since the death of Black Hawk and Red Jacket. He was born probably within the present territory of Colo¬ rado when some that region fifty-five nominally or sixty belonged years ago, to Mexico, but was utterly unknown to white men. The important tribe of Utes, of vftiich he wa3 the most con¬ spicuous individual, occupied an im¬ mense territory, embracing a large part of Utah (which derives its name from the tribe), and nearly all of Colorado west of the rocky mountains. The chief settlements of the Utes were upon the Colorado river audits upper tributaries, the Grand,Green, White, Gunnison and San J uan rivers. They are divided into several bands, under separate chieftains, the best known bands being the Uintah Utes in Utah, the White River Utes, the Southern Utes and the Uncompahgre Utes, the latter being the most numer¬ ous and the one to which Ouray be¬ longed. The name is derived from the range of mountains which they in¬ habited, and this probably from the Spanish fellow godfather, words un compadre, literally a ing good friend. but coloquially mean¬ a Ouray became ac¬ quainted Mexicans in early the life northern with some of the on confines of New Mexico, traded with them and learned the Spanish language so as to be able to use it in conversation. Since the settlement of Colorado and Utah by Americans he came into close relations with many settlers, and was known as the white man’s friend. Many years ago, while hunting east of the Rocky mountains, his only child, a boy twelve years old, was captured by the Sioux and is believed to be still liv¬ ing. This was the greatest grief of his life, and he repeatedly,and not unreason¬ ably, appealed to the influence of tlie “Great Father” at Washington, to secure treaty his relations return. with ^Since bis the tribe opening Ouray of vapidly habits adopted many of the distinctive of civilization. Though the greater part of the Utes remained savages, he learned from the whites the methods of agriculture, established a farm of sixty acres on which he raised good fortable crops and cattle, and built a c >m house and had it well furnished. Governor McCook, of Colorado made him a present of a handsome carriage, and with a stylish team and Mexican driver, he was able to “ astonish the natives” by his magnificence. Being a natural diplomatist, he soon learned the secret of communicating his views to the Indian department or directly to the President, and used to sign his name to such letters as he caused to be writ¬ ten. He made at least three visits to Washington, being received with prop¬ er attention. His efforts to avert war last year in connection with the Meeker murder by the White River Utes, his ap¬ pointment as peace commissioner along with one or two white men, his eloquent speeches on the grievances of his tribe, his visit to Washington last winter and his appearance before the Committee on Indian affairs, will be remembered by our readers. Quite recently he had been negotiating the sale of a large portion-of Ute reservation in Colorado, but hi3 premature death will probably render it difficult to accomplish that coveted object.— New York Herald, Pins and a Woman’s Dress. Our wife wants a new dress. After two or three or a half dozen stores have been ransacked for the goods the dressmaker is sought out. The matter of measurement is tedious, and then the matter of fittinvis one of numerous and repeated trials. FinaHy the dress is finished and sent home. Then it is sent back to be taken in here and let out there, ana at last, after tlie customer has been fitted more times for that one dress than her husband has been measured in three or four years, the dress comes home for the last time and is pronounced by the wearer, her friends and the dressmaker as a beautiful and perfect Beautiful fit, and it is finished. it certainly is, far more beautiful than anything her husband ever wears. Colors: and materials, style, blending shades in and contrasting bits of colors, are all the perfection of good taste. No man can improve upon that. But, it isn’t finished. When it is completed as far as the skill of the dressmaker can finish it,and it is put on. it has to be pinned somewhere; some times in two or three often in a half dozen places. Leave out the pin and the dress Is all awry somewhere. On all thi3 broad continent there is not one American woman who can dress so as to make any kind of an appearance in society Now, without pins. suppose our tailor should send our suit home and on puting on the coat we had to pin it in the neck? Or eup pose there was no suspender-button alt, and we had to use pins there? tup pose he made our shirts so that we would have to pin on tlie collar, how long would a shirt or a ueh a suit of clothes slay in the house? Who would be responsible for the language used by the man who had to pin his coat? No tailor would care to so tampt the wrath of an independent man. But women—alas! she patiently pins on the dress that she paid some |‘30 or $40 to make, and don’t think anything about it. We will not pursue this painful subject. think Let the women of America it up and think about it and learn, in the noble independence of women hood, to make their clothes before they put them on .—Burlington Hawk eye. McWhorter bros., Attorneys ani Counselors at Lais LEXINGTON, 1 Georgia. GREENESBOKO, Will practice in all the Courts— State and Federal. POYNER & KENNEBREW, Attorneys & Counselors at Lav. LEXINGTON and CRAWFORD, GA. Will promptly attend to all business en¬ trusted to their care, JOS. N. WORLEY, Attorney and Counselor at Lav, ELBERTON, GA., Will practice in the counties of Franklin, Ogle¬ thorpe, ties. Elbert, Hart, and the adjoining coon* ^oldest QTIOULD music old acquaintance house in be Georgia. forget! The subscriber respectfully informs the pub¬ lic tlidt he has once more taken the helm in hand that he has held so satisfactory to his friends for the last thirty-one years in Au¬ gusta,^and hopes, with the assistance of his son, T. HARRY OATES, to be able to drive business in such a manner as to get his shans sf it and to show that he will sell Pianos and Organs as cheap as the cheapest and as good as the best. All he asks is a trial, and those who do not give him a chance are the losers. A good assortment of choice Stationery, Books, etc., always on hand at lowest prices. GEO. A. OATES, Agent. Pianos Tuned and Repaired in the best man¬ ner by T. Harry Oates, who has the highest recommendations. All orders punctually at¬ tended to. Disciplining the C'at. Grandma Slocum was busy over her sewing sitting-room, in the warm, quiet air of the and grandpa was stiivinv to convince himself that he was reading a paper, despite a vague impression that he was falling asleep, w’’en both were brought to their feet by a sudden crash in the pantry. “It’s that cat!” said grandpa. But grandma, who seldom ventured to express an opinion before looking into the question, said nothing and hastened to the scene of the dis¬ aster. As she opened the door of the pantry the unfortunate cat darted out, and grandpa, armed with the broom, started in pursuit around the spacious kitchen. The cat, however, was too nimble for his rather clumsy movements, and he was obliged to desist without having accomplished anything more than thoroughly “I’ll frightening the animal. teach the critter!” he exclaimed. ‘ Forever on she!ves and tables! Only yesterday had she chawed up the chicken you laid away, and last week skim¬ med half a dozen pans of milk! What’s she done now?” and pushing open the ! pantry door, he beheld his wife gazing sorrowfully several down at the fragments of china plates, among which lay an old teapot, which had belonged to grandpa’s mother, and was bald in great reverence by the family. For a moment grandpa stood speech¬ less with indignation. He was so lavish with his tongue upon ordinary occur rences he could find nothing to say which could fully express his mind on this occasion. When he did speak, it was only to say, very quietly: “T wouldn’t have taken money for that teapot.” Then he turned away, leaving grand ma to gather, up tlie fragments, and went out to the woodpile to vent his feelings in quick, heavy blows, continu ing the exercise until night, Meanwhile grandma had examined the teapot and thought it could be mended. To be sure, the nose and the handle were broken off, but if they were still ingeniously puttied on again, it would be serviceable, So, very carefully, she cemented the broken pieces together, placed the whole behind the new stove that the joints might harden, and returned to her sewing, where at length, overcome by the warmth and quiet, she fell asleep. At dusk grandpa came into the kitch en to see if supper was about ready, Grandma was not in the room. His eye caught the glimmer of white behind the stove. “Nice Kitty!” he said, coax ingly. “Pretty Kitty! Did she want to be petted? Well, she should. Just let me get within three feet on ye. and we’ll see whether there’ll be any more crockery Warn’t smashed! Yes; po-or kitty! satisfied with eatin’ off a ehiny plate. Had to see what wa 3 on tbe shelves, hey? Let me get two steps nearer, and I’ll never ask another favor of ye! Ni-i-ce kitty 1 Take that, you varmint!” The heavy foot struck the object with terrific force. There was a jingling crash, fated grandma screamed, and the ill in fifty teapot scurried across the kitchen Grandpa pieces. pletely surprised was probably in his never so com lifa. But in a moment the ridiculousness of his per foimance overcame him, and he dropped into a chair, laughing heartily, He made no further attempt to discip line the cat, The woman who really wishes to re¬ fuse contents herself by saying no. She who explains wants to be con¬ vinced.