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Tte Hamilton Journal
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
Beyond lue . Ten.
The sun, a 3 it lingered on the edge of
the horizon—sinking so slowly that one
might say darkness—lighted it regretted to leave his the
world in lip face
until the grandchild recognized asleep on him his knee had
would hardly have
she opened her eyes.
Old and feeble and gray—ready to bid
farewell to earth—he was a child again,
and his mind had the thoughts of a
child. The sun had gone down and the
dusk had come on for him ten thousands
of times without question, but this time
he felt afraid and whispered:
“Oh! sun, do not leave me just yet.
Wait until I am a man, and I shall care
not whether it is day or night.”
And the sun whispered back to him:
“I have seen you pass from childhood
to manhood and back. You cannot
travel the path again.”
“But wait a little longer. When I have
grown to be a youth the coming of night
will have no terrors for me.”
“Alas! old man,” answered the de¬
clining sun, “a grand old tree cannot
become a shrub again. It may be splin¬
tered or uprooted by the hurricane, but
it must die as a tree.”
“Then remain with me!” pleaded the
old man. “My limbs are feeble, and
your light will sa f ely guide my foot¬
steps.” I do, but I will send the
“That cannot
moon to cast her rays upon the earth and
soften the darkness of the night.”
And when the moon came the old
man’s locks were changed from the gold
of sunset to the silver ol evening, and
the furrows of age were melted and soft¬
ened until they could no longer be seen.
And he whispered to the moon:
“Do not leave me to-night, for I am
old and afraid of the darkness of night.”
“I cannot stay beyond my fixed time,”
answered the moon, “but when I go I
will send the stars to keep you company.”
“I had a wife—children—friends.
Bring them back to me from the mys¬
terious unknown.”
“Alas! but the dead are dead!” And
the moon went away and the stars came,
and the old man pleaded:
“I am old and lonely. Bear me com¬
pany during my brief stay on earth.”
And one bright star answered for all
the rest:
“A hand greater than man’s controls
our movements. Look beyond us.”
And the stars drew aside the mystic
veil, and the old man’s eyes looked be¬
hind it. They lighted up anticipation—of with the fires
of youth—of satisfaction. hope—of 11 is aged face
deep regained strength grew
young—his limbs his
—his blood coursed as in the veins of a
man in liis prime. The stars held the
veil aside but a moment, and yet he had
seen enough. child but the
The slept on, arms
around it gave up their strength.
The night-winds toyed with the old
man’s gray locks, but he gave no heed.
A hand was laid on his shoulder and a
voice whispered in his ear, but he gave
no sigu. The grand old tree had given
up its veil.— life on earth Free to begin anew behind
the Detroit Press.
In tho year 1800 there were in the
United States 3,030 evangelical churches;
in 1850, 43,073; in 1870, 70,148, and in
1880, 1)7,090, a gain of 27,000 in teu
years, ending m 1880. The number of j
communicants in evangeucal churches m
4he rnited States in 1800. was 364,000;
in 1830, 2,520,000; in 1870, 6,673,000.
and in 1880, 10,065,000. through, there Taking the j
whole country was in
1800 one evangelical communicant in j
every 14| inhabitants; in 1850, to every
6.1; in 1870, one to every 5f, and in 1880. j
one to every 5.
A small, roasted chicken on the table j
is worth more than the largest turkey in
the butcher’s shop.
an Item about the oyster industry In
,
Connectieut attracted Mrs. Pugm ire’s
attention, and she said: “Well, Inevex !
knew* before that oysters were industri
ous, or that they ever worked at all,
unless it was to make up their beds.
How queer it would sound to say, in
.
stead of ant, ‘Go to the oyster, thou
slugger, consider her ways and be wise.*
When I was a girl the ant and honey- I
bee was syndicates oif industry.*-#
Feck's Suj},
FOR FEMININE READERS.
The Queen * Per .onal A|>pr*.rsnce.
A London letter to the Chicago Herald
•a;.-: The queen, who looked, as I
■ bought, extremely gracious when Mrs.
Astor and Airs. White w^re introduced
at the drawing-room, was the center
figure in a setting of dazzling brilliance.
Mixed with toilettes inexpressibly gor
g CO i ig j n Due, texture and ornamentation
-white shoulders and rounded arms,
wer e the varied uniforms of men, in
all the hues of the rainbow, The
flashes of diamonds, the glit
ter of gold and jewels, the back¬
ground of artistically draped and bright¬
ly colored walls, the gentle ripple of
movement and the softly falling music
dreamily echoing from distant corridors
made up altogether a very satisfying
programme. The queen, who is per
fectly well aware that she looks her best
in the shades of widowhood, wore black
satin. From the regal coronet, which
sparkled with hundreds of diamonds and
pearls set in fine gold flowed a majestic
white tulle veil. The royal throat was
encircled with a wondrous necklace of
glorious pearls four diamonds rows deep, emitting and in
the tiny ears were
the purest rays. The royal person fairly
blazed with ribands, stars and orders,
and I am free to confess, impudent re¬
publican though I am, that Victoria pre¬
sented a queenly and majestic figure, on
which the eye dwelt with instinctive re¬
spect. She is the picture of a whole¬
some woman who feeds well, sleeps well,
thinks well, and is favored with a sound
mind and healthy body.
White DrcMea this Season*
White is to rage again in dresses this
season, and not a dissenting voice is
heard against its wear, even from the
chronic croakers who usually croak any¬
way. Six out of ten of the elegant
toilets made this season are cut with a
round waist. A number are of the fine
plaited blouse shape. good Some effect are cut
plain, but depend for fichus, upon lace
the. pretty and graceful lace
edged nun’s folds of the goods crossed
‘over the chest, or other like trioynings.
The majority, however, show a y oke of
rich “all-over” embroidery,* with sleeves
" made in
of the same. The skirts are
endless stylish ways,but no richer toilets
are seen 'than those with embroidered
ruffles alternating with plaited ones of
Oriental lace, or three deep flounces of
tho embroidery alone, A dress for
evening wear,made in the formerfashion,
shows a bodice opening surplice-fashion.
It is unlined and reveals an under bodice
open in a square shape, and trimmed
with white .lace insertion and edging.
The sleeves are short, but the arms are
to be covered to within five inches of
these sleeves by long silk gloves. The
trained dresses, made wholly of lace and
net, over princesse-slips of white silk,
are lovely beyond description. Strings
of Roman pearls about the throat, and a
garniture of white half-blown roses, and
palest green mosses, and feathery foliage these,
are the fashionable accessories to
for those who can adopt them with suc¬
cess. Sometimes the white dress is made
up over mauve, turquoise blue, paie
green, yellow or pink foulard or taffetas,
and decorated with ribbons or flowers to
correspond; but the perfectly whita
toilet with lace trimmings or ribbons of
the same is considered in more perfect
taste, only relieved by the spray of
flowers thrust into the belt or mingling
*ith the Hots of lace on the corsage.
Fashion Note*.
p ear ] 8 are decidedlv the fashionable
J . , f the J 1 esent time .
White and colored , , cotton ., embioidery , • Anw .„
18 . used for trimming silk.
Pique trimmed with embroidery is
again popular for children s wear.
Black lace shoulder capes are worn
with black grenadine and black silk
costumes,
Short jackets, opening over full baby
waists, art worn at seaside and country
resorts.
The short puffed tulle sleeves of many
ball robes have a little wreath of flowers
at the edge.
Gilt-ribbed parasols, covered with ec
ru muslin, are light, and harmonize with
any costume.
Low necked dreeswfor girls to be worn and
?u i mpe s hare shoulder puffs
s hirred bodices.
The popular “crazy cloth” is invalua
f or traveling costume*, as it is not
a ff e cted by dust or water.
Black batiste is a new wool fabric,
g Be an a smooth surfaced, especially
adapted to summer wear.
The gauze ribbons embroidered with
dots and printed in sof. tints and medi
a?val patterns are a novelty.
New bonnets show a new departure,
inasmuch as fruit is used on them for
trimming in place of flowers.
Little girls’ hats are either in colored
or yellow straw, and trimmed with im
mense bows of fancy ribbon.
Elegant shoes for wearing with out
door costumes are of fine kid, either
black or matching the dress, and no or
nament is put on.
Always in Danger of Fire.
No one who is unacquainted with the
character of an oil-producing, storing,
and transporting district, writes a War
run, Penn., correspondent to the New.
York Sun, can form any notion of the
scene that is presented when a fire breaks
out and gets beyond control in such a
district, f orest tires and lightning aie
the most dreaded agents of destruction,
but there are so many other latent forces
which may assert themselves at any
moment, and wrap entne communities
in flame, that life and property in the
oil regions may be said to hang upon he
The oilwclU are all flowing Ind over, and
are pouring forth, by dav night,
ceaseless streams of material not only
highly gases’ inflammable itself, but from which
of a most deadly explosive and
combustible nature are genera'ed. barrels Tanks of
holding from 1,000 to 30,000
petroleum are thickly grouped and in every them
producing district, and from to
the oil is constantly pouring through
networks of pipes in all directions
through the field. The ground, the
buildings, the fences, the trees, and all
surroundings are literally saturated with
crude petroleum. The puddles in the
roads are depths of oil, or water thickly
coated with oil. The physical character
of the country in which petroleum is
found in Pennsylvania is such that
every district is cut up by deep ra
vines or gulleys, and the wells are drilled
not only on every available rod in the
valleys, but they climb the rugged sides
of the steep and lofty hills to their very
summits. Rapid streams course the val
leys and tumble down the mountain
sides. The oil towns are compact col
lections of frame buildings, constructed
without any regard to contiguity of the
wells. Derricks rise from the very door
yards, in the streets, and tower above
the buildings on every side. Around
about in this mass of inflammable oil
wells and tanks, oil-saturated surround
ings and tinder-box buildings railroad
locomotives scatter showers of sparks al
most hourly. Natural gas is conducted
from gas wells in all directions, and is
used in all the houses for light and fuel,
at the oil wells for fuel, and leaps in pil
lars of flame into the air from pipes set
here and there in the ground in factories all parts
of the region. Nitro-glycgrine and the
are numerous in all districts,
dangerous explosive is stored in maga
zincs at many convenient points, and is
transported daily in wagons through the
field for use wherever it is needed at the
wells. The falling of a live spark from
a locomotive, the premature explosion of
a nitro-glycerine torpedo, the careless or
imprudent lighting of the natural gas in
one of the combustible houses, is sufll
cient to turn the whole country tor miles
around into a sea of flame in an incredi
bly short time. Thus at Rew city, a
leading oil town in the Bradford field, a
torpedo exploded one day, and in five
hours the ten miles of territory was swept
by fire. Not a derrick out of the three
hundred that w r ere in the district was
left standing, and for days three hundred
leaping fountains of flame, fed by the oil
spouting from the wells, presented such
a spectacle as few people ever witnessed,
Three hundred thousand barrels of oil in
tanks were destroyed, and not a building
was left in Rew city,
A New Device.
A stranger stepped into the Stafford
house office yesterday, and, calling the
bell-boy, said: “I’m going to send a
prize dog on a long trip through Canada,
Go to the kitchen and tell the girls and to
fix up some nice pieces of bread
meat to put in the box; so he can have
something to eat. “I’ll make it all right
with you.” The boy hastened to the
culinary department and presently re
turned with a plate full of sliced bread
and juicy meat. “That’s all right,” I
said the stranger, taking the plate, but
want some mustard on the meat. Go
get the mustard cup.” The boy re
turned to the kitchen; the stranger
passed quietly out of the door with his
docr dinner, and has not been seen since,
’Twas a new free lunch racket—only this
and nothing more .—Bujfalo Courier,
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The timepiece carried by Louis XIV.
of France was so small that it was set in
of that luxurious huger ,
one monarcus
rings. D. Ward, editor of the Independ
Rev. -
ent, thinks that the Garden of Eden was
iu southern Mesopotamia, which region
he has just been visiting,
Till the reign of William and Mary,
Blackstone states, women, by the Eng
lish common law, could receive sentence
of death and be executed for the first
offense in such crimes as larceny, bigamy
and manslaughter,
The honey bees cultivated in the Uni
ted States are principally of the German,
an( q Italian varieties, though within the
p as t five years many have been brought
f rom Syria and Cyprus. The honey bee
j s no t indigenous to America,
There are in the human voice about
n t ne perfect tones. Thus, 14 direct mus
c j eg a ]one or together, produce 14,883;
39 indirect muscles produce 173,741,823,
an( j a p j n co-operation produce the large
total of 17 , 592 ,185,044,410 different but
c i ear jy defined sounds.
A? “» mother, the Roman woman had
originally no legal inheritance m the
Property of her minor children; a child
desiring to marry need no. obtain her
consent; the children were no. m the
family of the mother but of the father;
the mother had no power over them,
La future gives an account of the dis
covery of a living toad enclosed in a
solid mass of flint, which was found at a
depth 'of sixty-five feet under ground,
Years ago, M. Seguln experimented with
toads, enclosing some in plaster; and
after ten years had elapsed, the plaster
being broken, the toads were found alive
and in good condition,
The mandraggorra, or mandrake, has
had at times a great share of folk-lore
attributed to it, partly owing, probably,
to the fancied resemblance of its root to
the human figure, and the accidential cir
cumstance of man being the first sylla
ble of the word. An inferior degree of
animal life was assigned to it, and it was
commonly supposed that, when torn
from the ground, it uttered groans of so
pernicious a character that the person
who committed the violence either went
mad or died.
The usual belief is that the “passion” the
flower derived its name because of
resemblance, or fancied resemblance, of
the parts of the plant to the instruments
of the Savior’s “passion” and crucifixion,
Thus the three nails through the hands
and feet on the cross are represented by
the stigmas, five antlers represent the five
wounds, the jays of glory, or (as others
sa ,v) the crown of thorns are represented
by the rays of the corona, the ten parts
ol\the perianth repi’esent ten of the apos
ties (Peter, who denied the Savior, and
Judas, his betrayer, being absent). The
hands of the persecutors are supposed to of
be indicated by the “scourges” finger-like in leaves the ten
the plant and the
arils.__
Buffalo Bill’s Fortune.
“I’m going to Europe next April,”
said Buffalo Bill, “and the show goes
j along, to be gone two or three years,
I’ve given up the stage entirely. We’ll
show in the Alexandria palace in London,
in the Champs de Mars in Paris and also
in Vienna, Berlin, Moscow and St. Pe
j tersburg and hundreds ot smaller places.
I We shall go to Europe in a special
j steamer.” Buffalo Bill is forty-three
years old, weighs 210 pounds, stands six
feet three inches, and has never been
; sick in his life. He says he has the
largest thoroughbred stock farm in
America at North Platte, Lincoln coun
ty, Neb. The ranch consists of eight he
thousand acres under one fence, and
claims the land is not wild government
land, but paid for by him. He owns
twelve dwellings in the town, and his
own house is a Western palace. Four
weeks ago, while in Chicago, he bought
fortv-one head of imported cattle of the
Hereford and Poil-Angus breeds, and
paid on an average $461 apiece for them.
They were shipped to his stock farm. He
employs over one hundred men on his
farm, and is worth $450,000. He has
been a member of the legislature, jusiice a pro- !
bate judge, bigh sheriff and 0
the peace. He says he is just in his
prime, and feels like a young buck every
morning when he gets up, and that he
can jump a fence or ride a horse with
j any man he ever saw.— Philadelphia
Times.
-
Fifteen the , sorest
years ago ne^ reve
nue of British India was $250, 000. Aow
it is $2,000,000. Forest culture b&*
brought about the change.