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volume V.
I Heart of Mine.
1 r , m'ne. the io igest night "
Wf' in its pulseless breast •
divine, of l^ht
the waytoluture rest !
■jj night is foil ot fear,
shapes, that awesome rise;
Kh heart, that dawn is near,
‘ doubt and terror flies !
Bf , ■ [, e still, oh heart of mine,
V* ' '"f iu st love divine !
B, 0 ; joubt. why Hotter go;
thou yesterday.
S ee the lieacon glow
BLjtinthe west away ?
da y must have a close,
twilight lull of peace,
K'thcirtiiguid spirit throws
BLjtle ol a sweet surcease.
be cal in, oli heart of doubt,
§ Trust love without !
Lilad earth, oh heart ot mine.
Kjjen under the winter snow.
EiheirJ’ l |,im *
ti!!o<l the tuneful brooklet’s flow;
■ with the solt south breeze,
like a sweetheart's- breath,
tay the orchard’s blossomed tree-),
E'cth will smile, oh, heirt ot laith !
|f ~itient still, oh heart ot mine,
I Tiust love divine !
If ill E. Bt'ker, in Potter’s Monthly.
lyE OLD STONE HOUSE.
■lilt: re is A lint- P”
B] the old house, Charley—'A here
H, np is I was going to say. But
Become out for her meals, and to
Kii
Bowricv" Bunu tt looked somewhat
Bjfod a< his sister Eunice answered
E tbits. /"
Ktepretty face, half averted from
Hg,hnit over the needle, that she plied
Hihady, trembling hand.
Be looked disturbed, grieved and
Br angry, he thought; and there
Blwn ;i tone of offense in the words
Hindered.
Bltli s was new to him. Ilis sister
Brf was noted, among her own girl-
H friends and in her own family, for
■runtime-s of her temper and the
■Ktncfsof her disposition.
Ildar their orphan cousin, Alice, no
ItU welcomed her more warmly
■aEunice,when, at her father’s death,
lit came to them from the West, home
laud friendless, but for the home anr
affection she had found with them.
1: was at the dead of winter tha l
tire arrived at the burnett farm
tamer would soon he upon them now
adhere was Eunice, her fast friend
talmost sis'or, so changed, so cold t<
trdlier, after the lapse of a few happ
ttks.
■lntensely happy weeks' they had beei
■ Charley Burnett. If ever he lia
farm-life dul) and tame, h<
it .so no longer. If ever he had
•islied to leave his home and go ou
B tlis w< ri l to seek his fortune, tin
Htifh vas forever gone.
Bioiive and die at the old homestear
he craved to do; to toil each
■“ ftiid find a poetry in such toil; it
F-y his pretty cousin Alice would shari
■*fiome thus won!
Ijtltalf fids happiness— to which hi
■•wd forward with such simple faith-
W U J* lost to him if Eunice could
■w. as he phrased it, “get along well”
his wife.
■ Se loves his orphan sister as dearly
■*she loved him.
■ There were but twoof them. And on
■ -bed, his father had exacted a
■ J?!f e from dim to give Eunice a
If,' home beneath the old roof, so long
| 8 she should need it.
f*! 1 be till James Stoughton is
Ij7 t 0 her to his home. And
lir marr y lor a year or two
I* an ‘ ess business takes a sudden
I wonder what has gone wrong
l^ysay'’^ 6 gir^S? Eunice would
thus, and keeping his eyes
onsuously fixed on “the old house,”
p .“ ' 100(1 by his sister’s side at the
.-•o Pai ‘ orwwi dow, Charles Burnett
stiff' , s f Artc d and leaned forward,
'•ng his eyes through the window
v f, ln sl°ubt of what he saw.
7 eie could bo no mistake!
iU(\ stealing out at the side door of
;, V ! ‘Ouse, with a cautious, fearful
■ as the very man of whom he
,f fy foment thinking—his sister’s
j ■ ns sister’s plighted husband —
s tough ton himself!
fjj. e Joun S man glanced keenly at the
ronnf 1 ie house, where the sitting
oci- f ncrally use( * k y ie famii y was
d ow e V Spying no one at either win
/e ,“ a t room, he turned back, said
aughing words to someone in the
form USe ' and sto^e awa y around the
; ( j 0 lat house, into a path that
TilialflV, 1 , 16 fiol ? s to his home in the
■ • naif a mile away.
as death, Charles Burnett turned
10 "is sister.
A v,\m ! S ie reason why you dislke'
r., * le asked, sternly.
J!j lc<? b urst into tears.
h er h larle y. I have tried not to hate
d 0n ’ e , ut * cannot help it. We have
r Pr , . y ler ’ an< * onl J s^e bow she is
is '^ Dg us - She knows that Janies
to me ? and for ten days,
W V i e has not been here, to this
bp jj Ut ever y afternoon, at this time,
Alice, and spent two hours
or 1 with her out there. I have been
them n P Ug b to stay in here to watch
iook f * new that James would never
me here. Oh, Charley! I am
g 0 I 1 at you aQ d I both will have
Ca ' Cause to rue the day when she
Sh a p t° OUr home! What can I do?
1 send for James, and ask him
Wll at it all mean*?” ’ •
THE FOREST NEWS.
NVir ex
wretch ’’’ saiH rii"****- - tl,e -Pitiful
bL -r \ . Charley, hotly. “As for
he., if she is keen and sharp enough to
Can / on an mtiigue so she
needs no advice from ,„u or me ” ’
Charlpvt - cannot endure it,
Chartey. And oniy think of the scandal,
any one else should happen t 0 see
what we have seen!”
“ I will send Stoughton a letter to
morrow that will keep him away
For voi 1 T° n ? meCt hira at Present
your sake * 1 d °a’t wish to quarrel
h and T lf 1 see him> 1 shall d °
As for her, I cannot see her.”
Charley’s voice trembled.
•n ou , mu ; st teil her. Eunice. She
Y ,3 ‘ to Btay here - once found
out. But don t send her away penniless.
Cive her that from me, and tell her al
ways to apply to you if she is in need.
Eet her be what or where she may I
will always help her. Fori did love
her, Eunice, very dearly.”
There was a long, sad silence.
to '? o "°, w is m y eighteenth
birthday, and all the things are ready for
the birthday feast,” said Eunice, burst
ing into tears. “ You can’t think how I
was looking forward to it, Charley.”
W e can have no rejoicings now,”
said Charley; “ but I will ride into the
city and get the gift I promised you, all
the same. Break it to her as soon as I
am gone, dear; and don’t, don’t let her
be here when I get back. You and I
will spend the evening alone. But let
us have no more of this shameful treach
eiy and falsehood here in our home—our
home that wis so happy before she
came! lie added, wiping the tear away
from his own eyes, as Eunice, quite
heart-broken at the task assigned her
or the-'morrow, sobbed her heart out,
lying with her head upon his breast.
At ten o’clock, the next morning,
Charles Burnett mounted his favorite
bay' horse and rode away from the farm,
with a heavy heart. Alice, at her
chamber window threw him a kiss, and
a gay “ good-bye, Charley!”
He lifted his hat and he bowed pro
foundly, but neither looked up nor
spoke.
“ Good-bye, Charley!” Aye, it might
be “ good-bye” forever! And she knew
it not.
He left a sealed letter with the clerk
it James Stoughton’s law office for his
master, and went on to the city, where
iiis business kept him till the chilly
evening was fairly ushered in.
Arrived at home, he lingered in the
stables for some time, watching over
die comforts of his horse.
At last he was forced to go in. He
Cook a little box from his breast pocket,
•ontaining a small golden locket, and
>pened the door of the sitting room.
Eunice was there—not in grief and
tears, as he had to find her,
but nicely dressed, and radiant-, with
happiness, for Stoughton sat at her side:
He sprang up and caught Charley by
the hand.
“You rascal! to write me such a let
ter!” cried lie, pretending to threaten
him with his clenched fist. “ What
have I ever done that you should give
me up so easily?”
“ Yes, Charley, we were wrong, and
James and Alice were not!” said Eunice,
taking his other hand. “ What is this?
Oh, you dear, good, generous Charley!
What a love of a locket! with a revol
ving case in it for four photographs.
Only look at it, James! It is just the
thing for a copy of the portrait; and
Alice and Charley shall give me their
pictures, too.”
“ But you haven’t explained things lo
Char—to your brother yet, Eunice,”
said a sweet, but anxious voice.
And the bewildered young farmer saw
in the further corner of the room a life
like portrait of James Stoughton,
mounted on a tall easel.
Behind the easel, Alice, looking love
lier than ever, in her gala dress of white
merino, with blue ribbons in her light
brown hair, stood in the shadow, blush
ing deeply as she met his ardent gaze.
“That was their work in the old
house, Charley,” said Eunice, penitently
—“James’ portrait, taken by dear Alice,
as a surprise for my birthday. I don’r
know how she can ever forgive me!”
Charles Burnett sprang forward,
caught Alice by the hand, and whis
pered something in her ear.
And certainly she must have forgiven
him; for Eunice now wears in her
locket the pictures of her own husband
ai;d child, and those of Charley and his
wife.
Words of Wisdom.
Ability and necessity will dwell near
each other.
A good article is always worth the
money you pay.
There is nothing so imprudent as ex
cessive prudence.
Men may be ungrateful, but the
human race is not so.
By over-sugaring of all good qualities
you may turn them to acidities.
Success in most things depends on
knowing how long it takes to succeed.
No man can end with being superior
who will not begin with being inferior.
Blushing is a suffusion—least seen in
those who have the most occasion for it.
Knowledge without justice become
craft; courage without reason becomes
rashness.
If mortals could discover the science
of conquering themselves, we should
have perfection.
Cheerfulness or joyousness is the
heaven under which everything not
poisonous thrives.
JEFFERSON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1880.
How Spools arc Made.
Drunutondyille j 8 situated on the
Francis river, an 1 the northern
division of the Southeastern railway,
Canada, passes through it. Several
sears ago the prevailing wood which
grew in the vicinity was white birch,
which does not, we believe, make first
, l ass hie wood, but which appears to be
best for the manufacture of spools. This
probably was the reason why Drum
mondl vi lie wa3 selected as the place in
which to locate these factories, and the
farmers in the vicinity can always find
a ready market for this kind of wood at
about $2.50 to $ 3 per cord. Th e wo®d,
alter being delivered to the factories,
is first sawed into pieces about four feet
iong and from an inch to an inch and a
half square, according to the size of
the spool it is desired to make.
These pieces are put into a dry
house and thoroughly dried, from
whence they are taken into the
factory and given to the roughers, who,
in an incredibly short space of time]
' ore a hole in the center a couple of
inches deep, turn about the same space
round, and then cut off the length re
quired for a spool. The machines used
for this purpose are revolving p’aners,
m the center of which is a revolving
gimlet or bit, and immediately to the
right a small circular saw with a gauge
set to the proper size for the spools. The
roughers receive one and a half cents
per gross for their work, and experienced
men an turn out from 100 to 130 gross
per day. The round blocks pass from
them to the finishers, who place them
in machines which give them the shape
of spools and make them quite smooth.
It is quite interesting here to notice the
men at work. A man stands with his
left hand upon a small lever, and with
the right he places the blocks one at a
time in the lathe, then draws the lever
toward him for an instant, and the work
is done; the lever s pushed back, and
the spool drops into a box below, while
the right hand is ready with another
block. These blocks are handled at
the rate of twenty-five or thirty per
minute. Hie finishers also receive
one and a half cents per gross, and they
each turn out from 100 to 130 gross per
day. The spools are thrown loosely into
a large cylinder, which revolves slowly,
so that the spools are polished by the
constant rubbing upon each other for
some time. On being taken out of the
cylinder they are placed in a hopper
with aD opening at the bottom, through
wh i- t hey pass down a slide for inspec
ti ii. Here the inspector sits and
watches closely to see that no imperfect
spools aie allowed to pass, and a very
small knot or scratch is sufficient to
condemn them The spools hen pass
into the hands of the packers, who
handle them very lively. They are
packed in large boxes, made the proper
size, go that the layers of spools exactly
'fill the and no additional packing
is needed, v These boys receive one
quarter cent per gross for packing, anff
a smart boy who is accumstonaed to the
work can pack about 200 gross per day.
One proprietor ships over 2.000 000
spools per month to England, nd an
other firm ships over 1,000,000 spools to
Glasgow, Scotland.
A Tale of n Rat-Trap.
Slie was a woman of Bloomington,
li.d. Her husband was a mechanical
genius with a hankering after a per
petual motion machine, and her son was
a live boy with a taste for hunting rats.
The son one day set a steel trap in the
cellar and went away to borrow a rat
dog. The woman went into the cellar
with a requisition for rations, and her
searching gaze fell on the trap. “ Oh,
dear,” she sighed, “John Henry has
made another perpetual motion ma
chine,” and prompted by a womanly
curiosity she picked it up by the trig
ger to see how the old thing worked.
She saw. With hideous howls she
climbed the cellar stair like a whirl
wind and went wailing through the
house, and flea into the street, waking
the echoes with disconsolate shrieks,
while the neighbors shouted fire and
thronged into her house and began
pitching out the furniture. Order once
more reigns in Bloomington, but that
woman has posted a placard on the
doors notifying all to whom these pres
ents may come greeting, that hereafter
it is to be all perpetual motion machine
or all rat-trap about that house, she
don’t care a cent which, but she isn’t
going to have the thing mixed any more.
—Burlington Hawkeye.
The curious name ‘"state” for rooms
on steamers is said to have originated
in this way: A certain Western steam
boat captain called the rooms in his boat
after the States in the Union—Maine,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, etc.
The name Texas, which fell to the lot of
the pilot-house, remains in common use
on our Western waters to-day.
In the early days following the dis
covery of gold in California, extraor
dinary prices were paid for some of the
necessaries of life. Eggs brought fifty
cents and one dollar apiece at the res
taurants; onfors sold for $2.50 each;
a bunch of four carrots, turnips, beets,
parsnips, etc., could not be obtained
under fifty cents. One man netted $40,-
000 in one year from the sale ot tfie pro
duct of a single acre of ground-
London Truth hears from a pretty cer
tain source that the entire Winter palace
at St. Petersburg has been mined. This
has been kept secret, in order that it
should not be supposed that the Nihilist
conspiracy is as well organized as this
would go to show.
FOR THE PEOPLE.
FARM, SARD EX 1X1) HOUSEHOLD
§
> arm Nvlu.
Brown snuff put into the wool of
sheep and rubbed on lambs is a sure
death to ticks. Look well to the lambs*
for ticks will draw vigor from them
which no amount of food can counter
balance.
Laying hens need a great deal of lime,
in order that their eggs may have the
proper thickness of shell. Nothing bet
ter can be given than raw bones crushed
fine. They are of special value on ac
count of the fatty matter contained in
their cells.
Moderately fat animals are the most
profitable. Every fat animal lias been
fed at a loss during the latter part of its
feeding. When an animal is ready for
market sell it; if there is feed left buy
some more lean animals and feed them.
The “nimble xpence” brings the
profit.
In making anew orekard, says a fruit
grower, systematize matters by setting
your apple trees so that your summer
apples will be together, then your fall
apples, then your winter apples, and so
on. It will be much easier to gather
them; you will not be compelled to
haul all over the orchard.
A calf will draw milk in three minutes,
and the nearer a milker can come to that
time the better. A slow milker makes
the cow impatient, and often causes her
to hold up her milk. The strippings
are tiie richest part, and if a cow is
milked quietly as well as quickly, there
will be more as well as richer milk, be
cause of the stripping.
As soon as I have my poultry houses
closed I take the manure and spread it
over my wheat field or on a poor spot
on my meadow, and a man with one
eye can soon see where I put it. To
put hen manure in a barrel and keep
it a year before placing on a crop is,
according to my eexprienee, a wrong
way.
In selecting stable manure for garden
uses, it is best from stables where saw
dust has been used for bedding. It has
an excellent mechanical effect upon the
soil. But it is well to see to it that there
is not too great a percentage of saw
dust, as there h but little fertilizing
value to it.
; A'Pennsylvania, farmer cured ring
bone of four years’standing on his horse
by using four ounces of galtpeter in
a quart of good vinegar. Dissolve well
and apply by bath or mop. About a
dozen applications cured this case in
six months.
Pigs need dry beds as well as other
animals.
Feed the sheep well, give them fresh
pure water, and keep them out of t e
wet.
Soils which Are heavy and contain
much inert vegetable matter are. jn
Euglan.d called deaf, which is a good
and "poetic characterization'.- - * :r
Young steers lcs3 Ilian one year old,
may be broken to a yoke by any patient
boy. At first they should be yoked and
tied up until nave become used to
the ) oke when they may be led around
and taught to drive.
Ilouseliolct Hints.
To Mark Tools.—Warm them
slightly and rub the steel with wax, or
hard tallow, till a film gathers. Then
write your name on the wax with a
sharp point, cutting through to the steel.
A little nitric acid poured on the mark
ing will bite in the .etters. Then wipe
the acid and wax off with a hot, soft
rag.
To Remoye Iron Rust or Ink Spots.
—Moisten the spot and apply salts of
lemon until it disappears,and rinse well.
Salts of lemon are made of equal parts
of oxalic and tartartic acid, and any per
son can make them for his own use.
Another way is to moisten with lemon
juice, sprinkle on salt, and lay in the
sun. If ink is spilled on colored goods
that will not bear acids, soak them im
mediately in sweet milk, boiling hot.
Hot melted tallow poured through ink
stains will remove them.
Insects in the House.—To thorough
ly rid a house of red and black ants,
cockroaches, Bpiders, bedbugs and all
crawling pests, take two pounds of alum
and dissolve it in three or four quarts
ot boiling water. Let it stand on the fire
until the alum disappears, then apply it
with a brush when nearly boiling hot
to every joint and crevice in your
closets, bedsteads, pastry shelves and
the like. Brush the crevices, in the
floor of the skirting or mop boards if you
suspect that they harbor vermin. Cock
roaches will flee from the paint which
has been washed in cool alum water.
If, in washing a ceiling, plenty of alum
is added to the lime, it will also serve
to keep insects at a distance.
Turnips on the Griddle.— l had seen
for some time a statement going the
rounds of newspapers, that a turnip
used in rubbing the griddle, while cook
ing griddle-cakes, would give the de
sired smoothness, and do away with the
unpleasant smoke. I doubted it, but
a trial soon convinced me that the
statement was correct. I found, how
ever, that at times it was necessary,
when beginning, to put a very little
grease on the turnip, but this made no
appreciable smoke. —American Agricul
turist.
“ Did you sell him anything ?” asked
the proprietor of his clerk, as the door
closed on the retreating form of a
shopper. “Well,” said the clerk, “I
wanted him t j take these boots; and,
you see, they are half-soled.” Proprie
tor falls in a faint, gasping for a glass
of water. The clerk brings him two.
Cotton Possibilities.
One-half of the entire crop of the mer
chantable cotton of the world is grown
in-the United States. The ootton trade,
is watched more closely than any other.
There are daily reports of the amount of
cotton received at the centers of distri
bution, and how much is sold and ex
ported. Great pains are taken to get at
the exact facts regarding the supply and
consumption of this great staple. Asa
gentleman once expressed it, a cotton
statistician would chase a single bale all
over the country to see what finally be
came of it.
The figures that express the growth
and use of cotton are astounding. The
best authorities place the production
annually at from 4,500,000,600 to 5,500,-
000,000 pounds, or from 2,250,000 to
2,750,000 tons. There is no surplus.
What is produced is all used from year
to year. Mankind uses an average of
fully three pounds of raw cotton every
year for every man, woman and child
on the face of the globe.
When, however, we inquire how
much land is needed to raise this vast
crop, the reader will be surprised when
we say that there is land enough, ex
actly suited to the production of cotton,
in the State of Texas alone, to supply
the whole world.
The average production of cotton in
Texas is about one-half a bale to an acre.
The highest estimate of the world’s
crop is 12,000,000 bales, of 480 pounds
each. An area of 24,000,000 acres is
therefore all that is needed, and that is
but 37,500 square miles. The area of
Texas is more than seven times that
number of miles, and the part that could
be profitably devoted to cotton-growing
is many times greater in size than would
be required.
The cotton that is used fer manufac
ture is the wing of the seed. It corre
sponds to the light Ailment th it carries
the seed of the thistle, that pest of the
farmer. There are about two and a half
pounds of seed to every pound of cotton
fiber. How much cotton seed, then, is
raised every year in the world P Be
tween six and seven million tons!
The uses of cotton seed are many, and
yet it is only lately that the great value
of the article has been recognized.
When pressed, the kernels will yield
about one-eighth of their weight in oil,
which can be used for many purposes.
Indeed, it is more than suspected that a
large part of the “pure olive oil” from
Leghorn, is either pure cotton-sced oil,
or a mixture of cotton seed and other
oils.
What is left after the oil is expressed
is “seed-cake.” This is sent in vast
quantities to Europe, where it forms the
best known feed for cattle, and no better
fertilizer is known than the manure of
cattle fed upon it. The hulls of the cot
ton seed have usually been thrown
away, but now it is known that they are
as good for feed as the seed itself.
We are just beginning to use economy
id the cultivation of : cotton, and in the
se of the ©ther- Tproducts the plant.
The production of cotton is increasing
from, year to year. The crop of 1879
was the.largest cver gathered. But the
consumption of the staple is also in
creasing
In the United States we consume more
than thirteen pounds of raw cotton a
year for every person in the country.
The average amount for each person in
Europe is only four and a half pounds;
in Asia about three pounds; in Africa
less than one-third of a pound. As en
lightened civilization extends and
wealth increases, the consumption of
this article of trade must also grow; and
it is the mission of America to supply it
to tbe whole world.— Youth's Com
panion
Warts.
As much as warts and corns may be
thought to resemble each other, they are
quite different in origin, character and
means of cure. A corn is simply a
thickening and hardening of the scarf
skin, or epidermis. It is always caused
by pressure, and is removed only by the
iemoval of the pressure. And we may
here state that, so absolutely are they
thus removed, a protracted period of
sickness will gradually lift them wholly
out of the flesh.
A wart, on the contrary, belongs to
the skin proper—the vera cutis—and
consists of an abnormal growth of one
or more papillae, in which the nerves
and blood vessels terminate. For this
reason, while the substance of a corn is
as insensible as that of the finger-nail,
the substance of a wart is peculiarly
sensitive beneath the scarf-skin which
covers the head of the papillre, and
which these carry with them as they
push upward.
In most cases, as the equalized action
of the parts is restored, they go off by
themselves. They can be speedily re
moved, however, by touching them re
peated nitrate of silver, or by ap
plying nitric acid to their extremities.
Care should be taken not to touch the
adjacent skin.
Many superstitious notions prevail re
specting the cure of warts among the
people. They have been handed down
from the remotest times, when supersti
tion had more to do with medical meth
ods generally than true science.
In the aged, when the cuticle is hard,
the epithetical cells, instead of develop
ing upward, develop downward into
the tissues, and give rise to painful tu
mors, which the physician alone can
eradicate.
Sometimes moles tend to enlarge and
become painful. A little nitric acid ap
plied to them a few times will arrest the
tendency.— Youth's Companion.
There are forty-six rolling mills in
Ohio, thirty-two of which are in opera
tion.
- TIMELY TOPICS.
• The recent decision of the United
States circuit coyvt holding that a State
may impose :* tax op commercial travel
ers without violating the Federal consti
tution is one of no little interest to the
commercial world. The case arose
under a statute of Nevada, passed in
1877, which requires that “every travel
ing merchant, asrent, drummer or other
person selling or offering to fe’l any
goods, wares or merchandise of any
kind to be delivered at some future
time,” or carrying samples and solicit
ing orders, shall get a license and pay
twenty-five dollars a month for it; and
provides that whoever sells or tries to
sell in violation of the statute shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
liable to a fine of not less t&an fifty dol
lars nor more than five hundred dol
lars.
The latest discovery intended to pre
serve butter is the production ol the
continent of Europe. 11 is called ozonia.
It is vouched for by Dr. Cameron and
Prof. Sheldon, British cheraists. It is
said that there is no other known sub
stance approaching it in efficacy and
utility. It is also stated hat the utility
of ozonia is not restricted to butter. It
is claimed that it is equally applicable
to milk, eggs, bacon curing and fish pre
serving. As oversalting in the instances
of butter, hams, bacon and other articles
in which salt is used as a preservative is
the chief cause of their depreciation,
such a discovery as it is claimed ozonia
is must lie an immensely valuable one.
America is especially interested in it
The great objection to our butters and
meats in Great Britain is in their over
salting, and the great point with our
packers is to obtain what is called a
“mild cure ” that will at the same time
preserve the meat:
Henry H. Hadley, secretary of the
New York city business men’s modera
tion society, has made-his first annual
report, and the following figures show
some of the work done during the year:
Number of public meetings held, 39;
number of letters written, 1,003; num
ber of circulars distributed, 135,000;
prominent gentlemen visited by invita
tion, 56; inebriates visited, 70; number
of pledges distributed during the year to
applicants, 22,616. The pledges were
divided as fellows: The red pledge, or
total abstinence, 5,661; tbe white
pledge, not to drink during busi
ness hours, 4,100; the blue pledge,
not to treat or to be treated, 12,855. In
addition to this many were distributed
at meetings and otherwise, probably
bringing the whole number signed to
more than 25.000 during the year. The
society is free from debt. No salaries
have been paid, the labor as well as
money having been cheerfully contribu
ted . Letters from clergymen and others,
encouraging the.- movement, e ap
pended to the report. •
A short time ago George L. Taylor, a
well-to-do citizen of Denver, Col., be
gan to feel a weightiness in his cheeks.
The muscles appeared to be growing
stiff and the skin certainly had become
hardened. Mr. Taylor’s friends made
jocose remarks about his “ cheek ” when
the hardening began, but the sufferer
himself was in no mood for fun. Before
the expiration of a week both sides of
the man’s face had assumed the solidity
of marble. He was unable to hold up
his head. His eyes took a stony glitter.
One side of the neck also grew hard,
and in another week the victim died.
The Denver physicians pronounce the
case one of decided petrifaction. Mr.
Taylor was eighty-two years of age, and
just before the appearance of the singular
disease weighed sixty-five pounds.
After death the petrifaction continued,
so that the weight of the old man’s body
i3 now six hundred pounds. Mr. Taylor
had the use of his tongue until the hour
of his death, and, realizing the oddity of
his taking off, requested that his body
be sent to the Smithsonian institution.
“INeyer Take Medicine.”
During the short administration of
President Taylor, a young man visited
Washing on to sell cholera medicine.
Thinking it would aid him in his busi
ness, he called at the White House while
a public reception was being held, to
present the President with a bottle of
the medicine.
He had rehearsed a little speech with
which to preface the presentation. But
when he found himself face to face for
the first time with a live President, his
nerves were too much disturbed for him
to speak it. He, therefore, mumbled
ew words, more amusing than elegant,
about the medicine being “ a dead shot,”
and pulled out the bottle —only to hear
the President say, in a tone loud enough
to be heard through the room:
“ I thank you; but I never take medi
cine, cholera or no cholera.”
The young man almost fainted from
mortification. But in less than ten
days General Taylor died of cholera,
caused by his own indiscretion in eat
ing.
On a very warm fourth of July the
cornerstone of the Washington monu
ment was laid. President Taylor par
ticipated in the ceremony, and drank
freely of icewater.
On his return to the White House he
complained of feeling hungry, and ate
freely of cherries, washing them down
with iced milk.
At dinner, against the remonstrance
of a physician, who was present, he
again partook heartily of cherries. In
an hour’s time he was attacked by
cholera-morbus and died within four
days.
PRICE—B 1.50 PER ANNUM.
NUMBER 51.
The Happj Season.
The seasoii'that I lore the best of all,
Is when sweet April sobs her life away,
And weeping dies upon the breast of Miy.
When luscious cowslips bloom and oxlips fall;
When mated songsters warble, coo, and call,
From greening hedgerows all the lengthen'
Ing day;
When frisking lambs 'on daisied hillooks
play,
And oattle bask where genial sunbeams fall,
Flash the bright streams, valleys and
woodlands ring,
All naJore’s levels then in life’s excess,
Her cop o’erflows with new-born happiness,
Spring’s glamour falleth upon everything.
Blossom lair dowers in every sunny spot;
Ah ! sad the spirit t rejoiceth not.
—John Jlikham .
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
It is in a bass drum that two heads
are better than one. —Saturday Night.
The cattle exports from the United
States in the past six years were of the
value of nearly $23,000,000.
The Union stock yards at Chicago
occupy 350 acres of land, and will ac
comodate 136,000 head ot live stock at
one time.
Tobacconists say it is injurious to
smoke a cigar more than half its length.
It is, very injurious—to the cigar trade,
—Hawkey e.
A man living at Rimmersburg, Pa.„
is the father of thirty-iour children,
twenty of whom are living; nine were
burned to death at one time.
It costs from $1 to $1.25 to produce a
bushel of wheat in England. In Min
nesota wheat has been produced at a
cost of forty cents per bushel.
The Hudson river tunnel, whose pro
jectors propose to take passengers from
Jersey City to New York in six minutes
without changing cars, is making steady
progress.
An elephant has 40,000 muscles in his
trunk. A man was once struck by one
of these trucks. He estimated that it
had 9,000,000 muscles at the very least.
Elmira Free Press.
A down-East circus has a cannibal
among its attractions, but the foolish
reluctance of women to give up their
babie3, deprives him ol many opportuni
ties to show off. —Chicago Times.
The skull of Confucius, captured with
the loot at Pekin in 1860, stripped of the
$75,000 worth of jewels with which it
was decorated, seeks unsuccessfully for
a purchaser at a London curiosity shop.
A scientist sajs: The skulls of the
African negroes are dolichocephalic,
mesocephalie, prognathous, plathrine
and mesoseme, while the Adamese are
brachycephalic, microcephalic, mesog
nathous, mesorine and megaseme.
The hats of natives of British Colum
bia are adorned with figures resembling
tattoo marks. These marks all have a
definite meaning, being in fact records
of the, events which have taken place in
the lives the wearefs. Each indi
vidual thus displays his history upon
his head .
M. Seguin, about 1850, placed several
toads in an equal number of vessels and
inclosed them witli plaster of pans.
After an interval of several years the
vessels were opened and one of the im
prisoned toads was found still living,
although the extremely hard cement had
become exactly molded on .the animal,
leaving no vacant place between them.
On liberation the creature crept out
into the light of day.
Audacity of Spanish^Bandits.
Recently a band of robbers entered
Rodes, a Catalan village in Lerida
county, Spain. It was Sunday. Nearly
all thi inhabitants were at church.
The curate was in the pulpit preaching
a sermon. Three of the robbers boldly
stalked into the church. They (as in
deed all the band were) had their faces
smeared with soot. Rifles were slung
over their shoulders, revolvers were in
their hands, in their belts were bowie
knives. Elbowing their way to the pul
pit, they went up the steps, knocked
down the curate, bound him with ropes,
threw him on their shoulders and went
with their burden to the parsonage. As
they quitted the church they warned
the congregation that whoever budged
would be shot down. Their companions
appeared at the door to show this threat
to be no idle meance. Nobody dared
move. Once in the parsonage, the poor
curate was seated, still bound, on a
chair and ordered to surrender the fif
teen hundred ounces of gold they knew
were in his possession. He declared
he had no money. They thrust bowie
knives fifteen times in his legs and
arms, and as he persisted in his declara
tion, they put him on his feet and be •
labored him with a cudgel. He there
upon confessed that he had six hun
dred reals, but that this sum was all be
possessed. The robbers lighted a sheaf
of wheat and held the poor curate’s
head over it. His hair, eye-brows and
eye-lashes took fire. He shrieked with
pain. These screams brought his ser
vant, and she ran to ring the alarm
bell. The robbers felled her to the
earth with a bowie-knife. Furious at
being baffled of the 1,500 ounces of
gold which they knew were in the
curate’s hands, they ordered him to
kneel that he might be shot. They
were about to execute their cruel de
sign when oue of their companions en
tered with the 1,500 ounces of gold
which, after long search, he had found
together with some very valuable arms.
Thereupon they left. Such was the
terror they inspired that nobody dared
give pursuit.