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TIMIIIM JOURNAL HAMILTON, GEORGIA Hope for tin* I)rnnbnr<l. If inebriety is curable, as tho Boston Traveler assorts that it is, by the follow ing method, then is there hois* for Iho victim of this base passion—drink. That journal makes the following assertion: “An intemperate person can easily simply himself with the remedies used at all the inebriate asylums, and be his own physi cian, at his own home, without the neces sary expense and publicity of \isiting the Washingtonian Home or any other public institution. His laboratory need only contain a small quantity of cayenne liepper, a pot of concentrated extract of >eef, and a few grains of bromide of isttossium. When the desire for aleo lolio drink recurs, make a tea from the cayenne popper as strong as can lie taken with any degree of comfort; sweeten it with milk and sugar and drink. This tea will supply the place that a glass of liquor would till and will leave no injurious effect behind. Iterated daily as often rs tho a petite returns, it will bo but n few days before the sufferer will have become disgusted with the taste of the pepper, and with the up])ear anco of this disgust disapixmrs tho love of liquor. ‘ ‘The fact is proved every day. The extract of beef is to be made into beef tea, according to the direction on the pot, in such quantities as may bo needed for the time being, and furnishes a cheap, easily digested, and healthy nutriment —it being made to stay on tho stomach when heavier articles of food would bo rejected. The bromide of potassium is to be used carefully, and only in ease of extreme nervousness, the dose being from fifteen to twenty grains, dissolved in water. This is a public exhibit of the method of treatment adopted at the in ebriate asylums. In addition thereto the drinking man should surround himself with influences which tend to make him forget the degrading associations of the bar-room and lift him upward. lie should endeavor, so far as his business avocations will permit, to sleep, bathe, and eat regularly, and obey the laws of health. By the adoption of this course energetically and sincerely, no man who hns tho will to reform can fail to do so. Hundreds and thousand can attest the truth of these statements. Speak a Cheerful Word. Did you ever go out in tho morning with a heart so depressed and saddened that a pall seemed spread all over the ■world? But on meeting some friend who spoke cheerfully for a minute or two, if only upon indifferent matters, you have felt yourself wonderfully lightened. Every child dropping into your house on an errand has brought in a ray of sun shine which did not depart when he went liis way again. It. is a blessed thing to speak a cheerful word when you can. “The heart, knoweth its own bitterness” tho world over, and good words to such hearts “are like apples of gold in pic tures of silver.” Even the strangers wo meet casually by the way, in tho trav elers’ waiting-room, are unconsciously influenced by the tone wo use. It is the one with pleasant words on his lips to whom strangers in strange lands apply for advice and direction in their perplex ities. Take it as a compliment if some wayfarer comes to you to direct him which street or what train to take; your manner has struck him as belonging to one he can trust. It is hard sometimes to speak a pleasant word when the shad ows rest on our hearts; but nothing will tend more to lighten our spirits than doing good to one another. When you have no opportunity to speak a cheering word, you can often send a full beam of sunshine into tho heart of some sorrow ing, absent friend, by sitting down and writing a good, warm-hearted letter. A Bonanza of Boars and Lions. John llowlos li'fthis sheep ranch, near Keefer’s Mill, for a day’s sport. Ho did not got very fur before lie discovered hour tracks, both large and small. This discovery was followed up by his coming upon a number the “varmints” taking things easy under a spreading mauzanita tree. John stood his ground manfully, and blazed away with his deadly llem iugton, and two of the full-grown bears were killed out right. The third, although badly wounded, went for his scalp, and John had to retreat to the crotch of a tree close by. With admirable forsight he froze to nis gun, and as soon as the boast came up to his roosting-plnco ho laid him out by a splendid shot through the eye. On coming down for his porch John feasted his eyes with the sight of his victims, and while enjoying tUis pleasure ho heard some cubs crying for their mother. In looking around the brush ho found two lino cubs, which he secured and took homo. While on liis way hack ho fell in with two California lions, which he bugged, thus making a perfect bonanza of game for one day’s sport. Johnny feels bigger uow than old (bant, and will not soon forget his stdeiulid luck.—(Vi ico (Cal.) Fnt, rprisc. Foni> parent to his son: “Yes, San Francisco is the place to got on in. Lixik at James, he started without a penny, and has lately failed for SIOO,OOO. Of course that’s an extreme case. I don’t expect x u to do as well as that. Still, with honesty and industry, 1 see no reason why you should not, in a few years, fail for $50,000.” Thk recovery of Mary McAfee who had been abed for seven years with a spinal disease, at Stanford, Kv., is at tributed by her to prayer. A party of Free Methodists prayed incessantly at her bedside for seven hours, and at the end of that time she was well. How to Make a Toilet Table. The exquisite toilet tables that can seldom be purchased unless at a fair for an exorbitant price, may be easily made with but little cost. These stauds add great freshness and a most tasteful effect to tin* dressing room, however elegantly furnished. Four pine boards must be nailed together, forming a box about the size of a small bureau; the back, front, top and bottom are complete, but the ends are open. The back rises four and a half feet above the point where it joins the to]) board, sloping till at tho top it is not more than a loot across. On this is nailed a half circle, projecting half a foot in front. This skeleton box is covered with delicate blue silesia or French cambric, which is nailed all around tight except the ends. There the cambric is only fastened at the to]) and left loose at the sides and bottom; thus the inside of the box may be used for a little closet. Tho blue cambric is covered with white dotted Swiss muslin, with a broad hem at the bottom and two deep tucks above, both finished with narrow lace edging. Over this a valance of flounce of the same material is nailed at the top of tho table, a little full—hemmed, tucked and trimmed like the underskirt. This is caught up in festoons at tho front. Hound the top a pleating of narrow blue ribbon is nailed on with line brass-headed nails, and an edging above and below the ribbon. Long loops and ends of nar row blue ribbon are fastened in the cen ter of tho top, where it is festooned up, and at the end of the table. In the center of the back board, half way to the top, the board has a piece cut out a foot and a half long and a foot wide. Bound this is the narrow ribbon pleat ing, and on each side a face edging. In this open place put a tine mirror, fasten ing on the hack with cheats. From the lmlf circle at the top a long curtain of dotted Swiss muslin is nailed a little full, opening in the middle and fastened with a bow of blue ribbon, with a brood hem and tucks, edged with lace like the bot tom part. Tins curtain falls apart from the miiTor, leaving that and the table open, and reaches nearly to the floor, fastened at each corner of the table with bows. -Any colors may be used instead of blue that will make this pretty toilet table correspond with the room where it is to stand. —New York Commercial. Solomon and the Blacksmith. Tho story goes that, during the build ing of Solomon’s Temple, that wise ruler decided to treat the artisgus employed on liis famous edifice to a banquet. While the men were enjoying the good things his bounty had provided, King Solomon moved about from table to table, endeav oring to become better acquainted with his workmen. To one he said: “ My friend, what is your trade?” “ A carpenter.” “And who makes your tools?” “The blacksmith,” replied the carpen ter. To another Solomon said: “What is your trade?” and the reply was: “ A mason.” “And who makes your tools?” “ The blacksmith,’’ replied tho mason. A third stated that lie was a stone cutter, and that the blacksmith also made his tools. The fourth man that King Solomon addressed was the black smith himself. Ho was a powerful man witli bared arms, on which the muscles stood out in bold relief, seemingly almost as hard as the metal lie worked. “And what is your trade, my good man ?” said the King. “Blacksmith," laconically replied tho man of the anvil and sledge. * ‘ And who makes your tools ?” “Make’em myself,” said tho black smith. Whereupon King Solomon immediately proclaimed him King of Mechanics, be cause he could not only make his own tools, but nil other artisans were forced to go to him to have their tools made. A Liberal Editor. Wo were grieved to read the other day of the death of one of Michigan’s jolliest pioneer editors—almost the last man of a band who published weeklies in the State when a coon-skin whould pay for a col umn “ad,” and three bushels of corn dumped on the office floor stood for a year’s subscription. Never a publisher was more liberal with his space. It was hard work for him to charge for anything except the tax list and mortgage sales, and ho measured short even on them. One day in the years gone by his paper copied an attack on a county official, and old Mark was dozing at his desk when the injured party stalked in and began: “ You are a coward, sir—a—coward!” “ Mebbe 1 am,” was the editor's com placent reply. “ And I can lick you, sir—lick yon out of your wrinkled old boots !” “ I guess you could,” answered Mark as lie busted the wrapper oil'his only exchange. “ I’m going to write an article calling you a fool, liar, coward, cur, slanderer and body-snatcher, and go over to lonia and pav live cents a line to have it pub lished !” “ Hey?” queried the old man as he wheeled around. “ Yes, I’ll pay live cents a line to have it published!” “bay, let me tell you something,” re plied Mark. “I’ve got 200 more circu lation than the Manner, and I’ll publish your attack on me for two cents a line and take it out in mill fe ;d or corn stalks! Don’t trot over to lonia when you can help build up your own town!" Mark would have published it word for wmd, just as he said, and thrown in a out of a horse or a stump-puller free gratis, but the official cooled off.— Detroit Free Frets. Two pickling factories at Pleasant ville, on the Hudson river, have used this season 11,000,000 cucumbers. The Feet of Chinese Women. An American missionary, Miss Nor wood, of Hwatow, has lately described how the size of tho foot is reduced iu Chinese women. The binding of the feet is not begun till the child has learned to walk and do vax-ious things. The bandages are specially manufactured, and are about two inches wide and two yards long for the first year, five yards long for subsequent years. The end of the strip is laid on the inside of the foot at the instep, then carried over tho toes, under the foot and round tho heel, the toes being thus drawn toward and over the sole, while a bulge is pro duced on the instep and a deep indenta tion in the sole. The indentation, it is considered, should measure about an inch and a half from tho part of the foot that rests on the ground up to the instep. Successive layers of bandages are used till the strip is all used, and tho end is then sewn tightly down. The foot is so squeezed upward that, in walking, only tho ball of the great toe touches tho ground. Large quantities of powdered alum are used to prevent ulceration and lessen the offensive odor. After a month the foot is put in hot water to soak some time; then the bandage is carefully un wound, much dead euticlo coming off with it. Ulcers and other sores are often foundjm the foot; frequently, too, a large piece of flesh sloughs off the sole, and one or two toes may even drop off, in which case the woman feels afterward repaid by having smaller and more deli cate feet. Each time the bandage is taken off the foot is kneaded, to make the joints more flexible, and is then bound up again as quickly as possible with a fresh bandage, which is drawn more tightly. During the first year the pain is so intense that the sufferer can do nothing, and for about two years the foot aches continually, and is the seat of a pain which is like the pricking ' f sharp needles. With continued rigorous bind ing the foot in two years becomes dead and ceases to ache, and the whole leg, from the knee downward, becomes shrunk, so as to be little more than skin and bone. When once formed, the “golden lily,” as the Chinese lady calls her delicate little foot, cun never recover its orginial shape. —London Times. Rhyming Made Easy. The Tribune has fitted up a room for tho exclusive use of its poets, and has introduced its new system of rhyming charts, which are designed to aid those of our songsters who never have any difficulty in whooping up the sentiment, but are occasionally a little sliy oil the jingle part of tlieir otherwise highly creditable productions. The charts con tain words that rhyme pretty well, and are adapted to any kind of poetry, from the Papa’s-stepped-on-mother’s-bunion order to the wierd, mowing-machine verses of Swinburne. When a poet wants something that goes along smooth and easy, like Maud S. or the price of wheat, iio lias only to glance at the one syllab’ ait, which contains words like - J ■ n {*, . Time, C ■ ime, Dime. \f ho hi in search of something with a little more e :-up to it, he can refer to the next one, which contains words like: Item, Benison, Flv-time, Venison, Redress, Despot, MaudS., Guess Not. If the Swinburne metre is what he wants, Chart No. 3 may be studied to advantage. It reads: Azure Sky, Daffodil’s Glow, Refrigerator, Sorrel Horse. And so forth. All poets are cordially in cited to come in and try the scheme. Take the elevator. It may fall some day.— Chicago Tribune. Trees and Rain. The countries of Sardinia and Sicily, once the granaries of Italy, have suffered the penalty of their thoughtlessness in exterminating their forests. Two thou sand years ago these lands were cele brated* for their wonderful productive ness, and were said to be the most beautiful in the world. In 1800 Hum bolt visited Venezuela, and was informed by the natives living in Araguay that they hail noticed, with great astonish ment, that a lake which lay in the mid dle of the valley had decreased in volume evenr year: the cause clearly traced to the ‘falling of a great number of trees which grew on the surrounding mount ains. lu Hungary periodical droughts are universally attributed to the annihi lation of the forests. In Cairo, Lower Egypt, a great many years ago, rain fell but. seldom—only once in three or four years—but since "the time of Mohammed Aii thirty or more million of trees have been set’or planted, and the result is now that the country has from thirty to forty rainy days i:i every year. When New England and the heavily timbered States of the Union wore first settled the rain fall was greatly in excess of what it is since so much of the land has been cleared ui>. A Spider’s Cradle. A certain spider—found in the south ern part of Europe—makes a curious cradle to preserve her babies through the cold xvinter, so that the spider family shall not be exterminated. She makes a silk case somewhat the shape of a balloon upside down, not quite half an inch long, and fitted with a door, or cover, which may be opened, though she leaves it carefuliy closed. In this are placed the eggs, from which little spiders will come in the spring. To protect them from enemies and from cold the anxious mamma makes an outer case of exactly the same shape, only about an inch long, and of course larger all around, also fitted with a closed door. Between the two cases the space is stuffed with a golden-brown colored silk, which she spins herself, and makes it warm and comfortable inside. The whole thing is lmug to a bush, and left throughout the winter. Use the Bridle. A bridle is very necessary in guiding an unruly horse: and it is very needful in controlling that unruly member, the tongue. ‘ ‘Don’t go without the bridle, boys,” was my grandfather’s favorite bit of advice. If he heard auv one cursing or given to much vain and foolish talk, he would say: “That man has lost his bridle.” Without a bridle, the tongue, though a little member, “boasteth great things.” It is an unruly member, “full of deadly poison.” Put a bridle on it, and it is one of the best servants body and soul can have. “I will keep my mouth with a bridle,” said King David. Bo sure too, to keep a bridle on your appe tite. Don’t let it be your master. And don’t neglect to have one for your pas sions, or they will get unmanageable, driving you down a headlong course to min. I mean the bridle of self-govern ment. Good parents try to train and re strain their children, and you can gen erally tell by the children's behavior whether they have wise and faithful pa rents. But parents cannot do everything. Boys and girls must have their own bri dles; they must learn to cheek and gov ern themselves. Self-government is the most difficult and the most important gov ernment to teach us; but it becomes easier every day if you practice it with a steady, resolute will, and a firm trust in him who alone can teach us wisely to rule our own spirits. In Paris, children’s parties are preten tious affairs. The decorations and toilets are made as prominent features and as elaborate as among older society followers. At one of the children’s balls was a child of eleven decked in thousands of dollars worth of diamonds, and a toilet of lace worth six hundred dollars, with a gossa mer fan mounted in turquoise and pearls. Where all should be joy, life and light in this youthful crowd, there are the same rivalries, heart-burnings and en vious feelings that embitter and spoil the pleasure of older hearts. Chawed by a Bear. Ttecently near Riverdale, in the Town ship of Greenock twelve miles from Walkerton, Ont., two women and tlieir children, who had gone to the woods to pick acorns, were attacked by a bear. The women took lip the younger children in the arms, and got away, but a boy about five years of age, son of a farmer named Charles Symons, was seized by the ferocious brute. Assistance arrived in about half an hour, the cries of the child calling for liis father guiding the neighbors to the spot. The brute made oil on their approach, and the child was found still alive but dreadfully mangled. His entrails were torn out, the ribs were broken from the back, and the flesh eaten off in large quantities. The poor little fellow died shortly after. [St. Paul Pioneer Press.] What we Hate. We hate growling, no matter the source or cause, and. recommend here with the remedy. Use St. Jacobs Oil and laugh at pain. It/will do the work every time. An Egyptian Insane Asylum. Ancient Egypt had a high civilization, and it exhibited itself in the wisdom with which the insane were treated. At each extremity of Egypt was built a temple to Saturn, where lunatics of various de grees were brought by their friends. The temples were surrounded by beauti ful shady grounds, and patients were provided with every form of amusement and recreation that could occupy the mind and invigorate the body. Here, also, the finest works of art were brought. Music, wine, employment, fixing the at tention and exercising the memory, were the principle remedies used, and none but the most violent maniacs were put under any personal restraint. [Cleveland (Ohio) Herald.] A Hummock’s Wild Way. An Illinois exchange feels called to thus deliver itself: “His hammock swung loose at the sport of the wind,” and tumbled the Hon. J. S. Irwin on his head, and but for the application of St. Jacobs Oil, he might have gone “where the woodbine twmeth.” Even so dear Beacon as many others have gone, who failing to use the Great German Remedy in time, for their rheumatism and other dangerous diseases, “have paid the debt of Nature.” Hub is iur motto. Thk Boston Transcript says that civilian is only another form of barbar ism, or words to that effect. We think so every time we see a selfish brute tak ing up *a whole seat in a railway carriage while some pale-faced woman or tired man is compelled to travel through the entire length of the train in order to find a gentleman or a lady. The remedy that will cure the many peculiar to women is Warner's Safe .Kidney and Liver Cure.— Mother's Magazine. The blackberry, blueberry, and other berry crop of New Hampshire is esti mated at near SIOO,OOO on the yearly average, and it is a very satisfactory thing to know that it is mainly clear ; i . Two hundred years ago the entire State could be bought for less money. Feeble Ladies. Those languid, tiro-.•me sensations, causing you to feel scarcely aide t< > In*, on your feet; that constant drain that is taking from your system all it-elasticity; driving the blood irum your cheeks; that continual strain upon your vital forces, rendering you irritable and fretful, can •easily lie removed by the use of that marvelous remedy. Hop Bitters. Irregu larities and obstructions of jour-system are relieved at once, while the special cause of periodical pain is removed. Will von heed this Cincinnati Satur day night. HUMORS OF THE lAT. ■ i When you “whale” a boy he blubbers. T Why not call a hanging a necksecu tion ?” When trains nre telescoped tho poor passengers see stars. Why is a door liko a colored woman? Because it is an egress. “Come and seam me; I needle little of your aid,” remarked the piece of cloth to the maiden fair. * Considering that kind words cost nothing, what a poor!stock of them is in the domestic markets. The young woman who witnessed her young man carried away by a balloon saw her beau of promise in the sky. A Kansas paper ends a marriage notice: “The couple left for the East on the night train where they will reside. “Love,” says a writer, “lightens the heart.” And it has been known to have precisely the same effect on the pocket book. It ia said that what makes a lien look like a penny when she is sitting on a fence is because she has a head on one side and a tail on the other. Danbury tells of a man who refused to buy a cyclopaedia. “I know,” lie said, “I could never learn to ride on one of the pesky things. ” “Never borrow trouble,” said a hus band to his wife. “Oh, let her borrow it if she con,” exclaimed the next-door neighbor; “she never returns anything, you know. ” Georgie (four years old) at the tea table—“Mamma, mav I have some sar dines?” Mamma—“Wait till I’m ready, Georgia.” Georgia (surprised)—“Why, ma, its me ’at wants ’em!” Yes, Philip. If the young lady be good tempered while suffering from whs her father calls the epizootic, it is safe to say that she will endure all the small ills of life in a graceful way. —Boston Courier. Liquors are not among the things al lowed to be entered at agricultural fairs. The anxiety of all the directors to be judges of that department, and a fight to settle it were found to be disasterous when tried. A Nebraska Indian contrived to swal low a lot of dynamite, and now he can stand around the corners and call a white man anything he chooses, without being kicked for liis insolence. They’re shy of jarring him even.. Mamma—“Why, my dear Willie, what in the world is the matter with little Os car's head?” Willie—“ Well, we’re play in’ ‘William Tell,’ and somehow my ar row won’t hit the apple, but keeps plug gin’ his eyes and nose.” The word love in one of the Indian dialects is ckemleadamonghkanagogager. This accounts for the fact that Indians never have but one sweetheart at a time. You couldn’t expect a man to attend to two chemlendamoughkanagogager affairs at once.— Boston Bust. An Irish porter, closing a shop one rainy evening, took off his coat while putting up the shutters. When asked , why he went out in his shirt-sleeves in j the rain, “sure,” said he, “don’t I want a dry coat to go home in ?” “I understand,” said the Galveston Recorder, “that you are a confirmed drunkard.” “Dat’s winy you is too soon, Jedge. I ain’t been confirmed in no church yit, but de Blue Light Baptises is gibbing Satan a heap ob worry about me,” | A lady wants to know why the rail road companies do not provide special i cars for tobacco chewers as xvell as for . smokers. Bless your innocent heart! • Tobacco chewers are not so particular as that. An ordinary passenger car is good j enough for them. Cue Experience from Many. “I had been sick and miserable so long and had caused my husband so much J trouble and expense, no one seemed to ; know what ailed me, and I was com- > pletely disheartened and discouraged. In this frame of mind I got a bottle of Hop Bitters and used them unknown to my family. I soon began to improve and gained so fast that my husband and fam ily thought it strange and unnatural, but' when I told them what had helped me, they said ‘Hurrah for Hop Bitters! long may may they prosper, for they have made mother well and us happy.’ ” —The Mother.—Home Journal. The Wrong Leg. The Portland Advertiser tells the fol lowing story : There was an eminent sergeant-at-laxv some years ago who had a cork leg that was a triumph of artistic deception. None but his intimates kne for certain which was the real and wL was the sham limb. A wild young wag of the “ uttar bar,” who knew the ser geant pretty well, once thought to util ize this knowledge of the sergeant's secret to take in a newly-fledged young barrister. The sergeant was addressing a special jury at Westminister inhis usual earnest and vehement style, and the wug whispered to his neighbor, “You sed how hot old bnzfuz is over his . case i now, I’ll bet you a sovereign I’ll rur this pin into his leg up to the head, anc he’ll never notice it, he’s so absorbed ir‘ liis case. He’s a most extraordinary man in that way.” This was more thar the greenhorn could swallow, so he tool the bet. The wag took a large pin fron his waistcoat, and leaning forward drove it up to the head into the sergeant’s leg A veil that froze the blood of all wlu herfrd it, that made the hair of the jur stand on end and caused the Judge’s wi almost to fall off, ran through the ccurl “ By Jove, it’s the wrong leg, and I’v lost my money,” exclaimed the dismaye and conscience-stricken wag, quite ri gardless of the pain he had. inflieto upon the learned sergeant, - J If an untruth is only a day old, it called a lie; if it is a year old it is calle a falsehood; but if it is a century old is called a leg ml.