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Darien Timber Gazette.
VOL. O.—NO. 1.
Darien Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY HORNING,
at ItAIIIU.V, GEORGIA ,
CORNER BROAD AND NORTHWAY STREETS.
RICHARD W. GRUBB,
Editor and Proprietor.
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Timber Gazette, Darien, Georgia.
City Directory .
COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Commissioners —James Walker, Chairman;
Adam Strain, Isaac H. Aiken, J. A. Atwood, T. H.
Gigniiliat, James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton.
Clerk Board of County Commissioners —Spalding
Kenan.
Clerk Superior Court —L. B. Davis,
Ordinary—C. H. Hopkins, Sr.
Sheriff- —T. Butler Blount.
Receiver Tax Returns— W. McW. Young.
Tax Collector —O. C. Hopkins.
County Treasurer —it. C. O'Neil.
County Surveyor —W. R. Poppet.
Coroner —Philip Maxwell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on
the first Wednesday in each month.
CITY OFFICERS.
Ex-Officio Mayor —James Walker.
Ex-Officio Aldermen—. Joseph Hilton, J. A. Atwood,
Adam Strain, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gigniiliat,
Isaac M. Aiken.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Committee on Finance— Messrs. Strain, Atwood
and Hilton.
Committee on Account*—Messrs. Holmes, Gignil
hat and Aiken.
Committee on Harbor —Messrs. Hilton, Aiken
and Strain. „
Committee on Health and Cemetery— Messrs. Gigml
liat, Atwood and Holmes.
Committee, on Paupers —Messrs. Atwood, Holmes
and Gigniiliat.
Committee on Jail —Messrs. Aiken, Ililton and
Atwood.
Committee rm Streets and Lanes— Messrs. Aiken,
Strain and Holmes.
Committee on County Roads —Messrs. Atwood,
GigniUiat and Hilton. .
Committee on Public BuiUhnys— Messrs. Strain,
Gigniiliat, and Aiken.
Committee on Jbftee—Messrs. Holmes, Hilton and
Strain.
Committee on Ordinances —Messrs. Aiken, Strain
anil Atwood.
Clerk and Treasurer— Spalding Renan.
City Marshal —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Deputy Marshal —Alonzo Guyton.
Harbor Master— James Abeel.
Port Physician— Dr. James Holmes.
Inspector general of Timber— George W. Farles.
Port Wardens —Isaac M. Aiken, John H. Burrell,
and James G. Young.
Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Board IHlot Commissioners— Oharlcß S. Langdon,
Chairman, R. K. Walker, W. C. Clark, Arthur Bai
ley, Dr. R. B. Harris, James LachUson and Robt.
Mitchell. Win. L. Gigniiliat, Secretary.
MASONIC.
Live Oak Lodge, No. 137, meets first Wednesday
night in each month at their hall near tilt; Magno
lia House; H. S. Ravenel, Worshipful Master; R.
W. Grubb, Secretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector of Customs, Brunswick District —John T.
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darien—
Charles U. Townsend.
Boarding Master —Edwin C. Davis.
Postmaster— D. Webster Davis.
Deputy Marshal —Joseph B. Bond.
SUPERIOR COURT—EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Hon. 'A'm. B. Fleming, Judge.
Major A. B. Smith, Solicitor General.
Bulloch County—Thursday before first Mondays
in April and October.
Effingham County—First Mondays in April and
October.
Bryan County—Thursdays after'first Mondays
in April and October.
Chatham County—Second Mondays in February,
May and October.
Mclntosh County—Tuesdays after last Mondays in
April ami October.
Liberty County—Tuesday after second Mondays
In May and October.
UNITED STATES MAILS.
The mails arrive from Sterling. No. 1, Macon &
Brunswick Railroad, every morning (Sunday ex
cepted; at 10 o’clock a. m., departing every after
noon at 3p. m. Mail closes at '2 1 1 p. m.
Side mad for No. 3, Atlantic A Gulf Railroad,
departs B,‘f o'clock every Tuesday morning and
arrives at 8 p. m. every Monday, touching at
Riceboro and South Newport both ways.
RELIGIOUS.
Religious services at the Methodist Church
every Sundav morning at 11 oclock, and evening
at 8 o'clock." School at the Ridge every Sunday
afternoon at o'clock. Rev. H. E. Harman, pas
tor.
Religious services every Sabbath at 11 a. ni. and
3 p.m. at the Methodist Church, colored, Rev.
L. H. Smith, pastor.
New Bakery
—AND—
CONFECTIONERY.
ALSO, A FINE STOCK OF
Dry Goods and Groceries,
(At M. Cullinan’s old stand.)
FRESH PIES, BREAD AND CAKES EVERY DAY.
Party and Wedding Cake made to order.
Pure, delicious ice-cold Soda Water on draught.
Also,
A Fine Stock of Candies
Of onr own manufacture constantly on hand.
Parties wishing anything in our line are respect
fully invited to give us a call.
•Isadore Collat.
maylf-ly Psopristor.
Professional Cards.
-yyALTER A. WAY,
Attorney-at-Law and Real
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Superior Court;? of the
Brunswick and Eastern Circuits. Also, in tho
Federal Courts in cases of Bankruptcy, etc. Par
ticular attention given to the collection of claims
and the examination of land titles. april2s
'yyr Robert gignilllvt,
Attorney-at-Law,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business in
the Eastern and Brunswick Circuits, and in the
United States Courts at Savannah, Georgia.
apri!2s-ly
le. b. Delorme,
J*
Attorney & Counsetor-at-Law,
and Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad street, near Timbor Exchange.
July 2
SPALDING KENAN,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and vicinity. Ho can bo found at all hours
day and night, at his offieo on Screven street, next
door to Mr. Wilcox’s dwelling house. augß-ly
|jli. R. B. HARRIS
Offers his professional services to tho citizens of
Darien and surrounding country. AB calls prompt
ly attended, both medical and surgical. Office
under the Masonic Hall, in old Custom House
building.
J J. ABRAMS,
Attorney-at-LaW,
Commercial Building,
jnne6-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
HENBY B. TOMPKINS. | B. A. DEKMAIiK.
rjIOMPKINS & DENMARK,
Attorneys-at-Law,
No. 105 Bay Street, SAVANNAH, GA.
Practice in the United States Courts, and in the
Superior Courts of the Eastern Circuit. je6-tf
Miscellaneous.
Xj<3o33L OTT^T.
HOYT’S COLOGNE, CORNING’S COLOGNE.
LUBIN’S EXTRACTS, POMADES,
H UB OIL, TOILET POWDER,
LILLY WHITE, PUFF BOXES,
ROUGE, TOILET SETS,
And in fact, a full assortment of Perfumery and
Fancy Toilet Articles. Soaps—toilet, laundry and
medicated. Give us a call.
W. H. COTTER k CO..
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
BANKRUPT' STOCK
OF ONE OF THE LARGEST
New York Wholesale
Clothing Houses i
—AT-
I-10 CONGRESS and 139 Sr. JULIAN STS.
Savanuali, Ga.
Fine Beady Made Clothing
—AND—
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS
MUST BE SOLD
Regardless of Cost!
The greatest chance that ever was offered. No
more high prices. Send your orders. Satisfaction
guaranteed every time. An immense stock of
Clothing, enough to supply all, and at prices at
least one thing less than any other store.
Tills is no Humbug,
as thousands who have bought can testily. Ad
dress or call at tho
YOm£
Bankrupt Giotiiing House,
110 Congress and 130 St. Julian Streets,
jan3l SAVANNAH, GA.
PREPARED AND SOLD ONLY BY
\V. H. COTTER & CO.
W. H. COTTER & CO'S.
Magnetic Liniment
Is an invaluable remedy in all cases of Rheuma
tism, Neuralgia, Chronic Pains, etc. It is also an
excellent application to all bruises.
W. H. COTTER A CO’S.
Cliolera Mixture
Is a snre and speedy cure for all Bowel Affections
and Summer Complaints incidental to our climate.
These preparations arc guaranteed to give imme
diate relief, and should be kept in every family.
—FOR THE LADIES—
W. H. COTTER A CO’S.
Sewing Machine Oil
The Best Oil made for all fine machinery. aplO-tf
Garden Seed.
XTTE HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH
T V Garden Seed, just received, consisting in
part of
BEETS, CABBAGE,
CARROTS. CUCUMBERS,
CELERY, EGGPLANT,
LETTUCE. OKRA.
ENGLISH PEAS,
BEANS. TOMATOES,
SQUASH, OYSTER PIANT,
EARLY CORN, PEPPER, Etc.
W. H. COTTER A CO..
Druggist* and Apothecaries.
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1879.
Steamboats.
GEORGIA & FLORIDA
INLAND
STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
The Darien Line!
THE STEAMERS
David Clark and Centennial,
—TRI-WEEKLY—
BETWEEN DARIEN AND SAVANNAH,
AND WEEKLY TO SATILLA RIVER.
M V II E D U L, E :
The Steamer DAVID
CLARK, Captain John
Fitzgerald, will leave
Hotel Wharf, Darien,
FOR SAVANNAH,
every Wednesday and
Sunday, touching at aU
intermediate landings.
RETURNING,
Leave Savannah every
Monday and Friday af
ternoon, arriving at Da
rien every Tuesday and
Saturday, and leave Da
rien the same day lor
St. Simon’s, Brunswick,
St. Marys and Fernan
dina.
Through rates of freight to and from Northern
and Western ports.
Steamers connect at Brunswick with the up
ward and downward trains of the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad and with tho Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad.
THOMAS WHITE, Agent, Hotel Wharf.
0. S. BENSON, Gen’l Passenger Agent.
KPECIAL NOTICE.
CAPT. THOMAS WHITE, Ageut, is authorized
to adjust, promptly, aU claims at Darien.
J. S. LAWRENCE, Manager,
sep22-tf Savannah, (la.
Savanuali and Melonville
STEAMBOAT LINE.
INLAND ALL THE WAY!
STEAMER ROSA
For St. Catherine's, Doboy, Union Island, Darien,
St. Simon’s, Brunswick, SatiUa River and St.
Marys, Ga., Fernandina, Jacksonville, Palatka
and all points on St. Johns River, Fla.
su. . V t-.e-l -Cle,-
STEAMER ROSA,
Captain I’. H. WARD,
'WiR leave wharf foot of Drayton street, every
TUESDAY at 4 o'clock p. m., for Jacksonville,
Fla., touching ai all the above points, except Sa
tilla River.
Through rates of freight issued by steamer
Rosa for points on 41tamaha, Ocmulgee and Oco
nee rivers, will be protected by Steamer Halcyon,
C. M. QUARTERMAN,
Agent Steamer Halcyon, Darien, Ga.
Trough low rates of freight and passage and
hills of lading given to all points.
Freights for Altamaha, Ocmulgee and Oconee
Rivers must bo prepaid.
Freight received daily, Sundays excepted.
J. H. SMITH, Manager.
O. S. Benson, General Business Agent. feblO
REGULAR LINE
On tlie Altamalia, Ocmulgee
ami Oconee Rivers.
THE NEW AND LIGHT DRAFT STEAMER
F O a:,
Drawing twenty inches only when
laden, wiß ply regularly on the waters of the
Altamaha, Ocmulgee and Oconee rivers, during
both summer and winter, connecting with A. & G.
It. It. at Doetortown, and M. k B. It. It. at Lumber
City Bridge, and with Savannah by steamer David
Clark. Captain Tom While, at Darien. Freights
are kindly solicited. Strict attention shaU be paid
to all freight and business consigned to her. Live
and let live, shall be her motto. With permission,
respectfully re'erring all parties to It. C. Bowiu,
House Creek. Wilcox county, Smith Turner, Ab
berville, Wilcox county, T. F. Fussel, Wilcox Lake,
Telfair couuty, Stephen Middleton, Appling
county, steamboat agents at Darien, and railroad
agents at Doetortown and Lumber City, and Robt.
Mcßride, Montgomery county.
dec'J<l-C>m JENKINS M. HOLMES, Master.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Ain: FEEL GRATEFUL TO OUR MANY
v V friends and customers for their liberal pat
ronage during the past year, and we have entered
anew year with the determination to deserve a
larger share of their trade. We do not keep cheap
drugs, but sell a GOOD AND PURE ARTICLE OF
MEDICINE as low as it can be sold. Remember
that we have constantly in stock a lull assortment
of
PURE MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS.
VARNISHES,
PATENT MEDICINER of all kinds,
HAIR DYES,
HAIR OILS,
HAIR BRUSHES,
TOOTH BRUSHES,
And the best article of No. 1 KEROSENE OIL at
lowest prices.
Prescriptions carefully compounded night or
day.
W. 11. COTTER A CO.,
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
Wheelwright and Jllacksmitli
I AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS
of Wheelwright and Blacksmith work at short
notice.
BUGGIES, WAGONS AND SIGNS
PAINTED.
Gorham's Patent Attachment for shafts (a great
saving of time and money to all who use them)
are kept on'hand.
All kinds of work done in first-class style. All
I ask of the people of Darien and Mclntosh
County is a trial. All work warranted.
ROBERT MITCHELL.
jeG-tf Second street, Darien, Ga.
Ordinary’s Citation.
(1 EORGIA, McINTOSH COUNTY—Whereas, the
T estate of Dr. Samnel W. Wilson, being un
represented, no annual returns having been made
for several years to law. These, are
therefore to eite all and singular the kindred and
alt parties concerned to be aud appear at my office
within the time prescribed by law, and file their
objections, if sny they have, why the law should
not be enforced and other executors appointed.
Given under my hand and official signature
this 2d dav of June. 1870.
CHARLES 11. HOPKINS,
fucert-t# Ordinary, Mol. C.
The Steamer CENTEN
NIAL, Captain W. C.
Ulmo, will leave Hotel
Wharf, Darien,
FOR SAVANNAH,
every Saturday, touch
ing at all intermediate
landings.
RETURNING,
Leave Ssvannah every
Wednesday afternoon,
arriving at Darien every
Thursday, and leave Da
rien the same day for
St. Simon's, Brunswick
and SatiUa River.
A SI.; Jilt Ell SONG.
Thou littlo child, with tender, clinging arms.
Drop thy sweet head, my darling, down and
rest
Upon my shoulder, rest with all thy charms
Be soothed and comforted, be level and blosaed.
Against thy silken, honey-colored hair
1 lean a loving cheek, a mild caress;
Close, close I gather thee and kiss thy fair
White eyelids, sleep so softly doth oppress.
Dear little face, that lies in calm content
Within the gracious hollow that God made
In every human shoulder, where Ho meant
Some tried head for eomtoft should be laid l
Most like a hoavy-foldod roso thou art,
In summer-air reposing, warm and still,
Dream thy sweet droams upon my quiet heart,
I watch thy slumber; naught shall 1 do tho ill.
—Celia Tliaxtcr
The Railroad Engineer.
Something about the engineer, his face
or his manner, or possibly his clothes, at
trated my attention. Anyhow, I wanted
to talk to him and here him talk about his
engine. There is always a wonderful fas
cination about railroad engineers and lo
comotives and railroad men generally, for
all people, and I am and have always been
especially susceptible to this fascination.
Mere you ever an Creston, Iowa? And
did you ever stop at tho old Creston
House ? I have sat, quiet and motionless
in its sitting-room by the hour, listening
to the clatter of the train men about me.
Creston is the Hornsville of lowa. “By
thunder," one man would be shouting, “I
looked out of the way-car window and saw
old Flanigan cornin’ down the main line
lickety split, thirty miles an hour if he
was makin’ a mile, and I—” “ —switch
open uud two coaches on the tiding," says
an engineer, “and squealed for brakes an’
throwed her clear over, and you should see
the lire fly out of them rails, and before—”
“Well, sir,” somebody else from some
other run chimes in, “1 twisted the blamed
old brake till I thought I’d twist it off;
hold nothing, you couldn't hold—” “Aw,
she is though; she’s the prettiest piece of
iron on this division; she’s quick as a—”
“Who went out on No. 37 last night?”
And so on through a charming confusion
of throttle an lever and lamp and draw
bar, fire-box, cylinder cocks, way-cars,
frogs, switches, trucks, tanks, claw-bars
cattle guard, platform cars, charis, cross
frogs, orders, signals, flags, and a thou
sand things that I didn’t know any thing
about. I rather liked it. But before I
could get to this engineer I was speaking
of, who had a passenger engine on the In
dianapolis, Bloomington and Western, an
other had already engaged him in conver
sation. lam always willing to lot any
body else make a fool of himself and ask
the questions, just so I get tho benefit of
the answers, so I let him talk while I
hung around and listened. This man
wasn't like any engineer I had ever make
friends with before. He was an awfully
practical fellow, the passenger said:
“Yours is a very exciting life?”
“Is it?” said the engineer, with an air of
interest.
“Well,” said the passenger, quieted a
little bit, “I meant, isn’t it?”
“Ob,” was the reply, with a satisfied ac
cent. Then after a pause, “Well, I don’t
know; do you see any thing very exciting
about this ?”
“He was lazily stretched out on his
cushion, dividing up his paper of fine cut,
putting all but one “chew” of it into his
veßt-pocket, and putting the one “chew”
into his tobacco-puch, so that he could
show the fireman that was all he had,
when that useful official should ask for it.
The passenger lidgetted a little, but
didn’t seem to want to give it up. I didn’t
know how to feel glad enough that I
hadn’t gone into the catechism business
with the quiet man.
“Well,” said the passenger, after a little
while, “are we pretty near ready to pull
out?”
“Pull what out?” asked the engineer.
“Why, the train.”
“Train isn’t in any thing. Train’s all
right.”
“Well," said the passenger, “I mean, Aire
we nearly ready to go?”
“I am,” quietly replied the engineer,
“are you?”
"You have a splendid engino there,”
said the passenger.
"Tain’t mine,” replied the sphinx, “it
belongs to the company.”
“How much can you get out of her?”
asked the passenger.
The engineer looked surprised. “Can’t
get a cent out of it” he said “can’t get
any thing out of any body except the pay
master.”
“Well, but I mean,” persisted the pas
senger, “what can she do, on a good road
easy grade, and you cricking on every
pound of steam she can carry?”
"It can pull the train,” he said, “what
would you except it to do?”
“Well, but how fast?”
“Schedule time,” was the reply, “that’s
all we’re allowed to make; must make our
time between all stations. That’s impera
tive orders on the Indianapolis, Blooming
ton and Western."
“Well, but couldn’t you pull her wide
open and —” >
“Pull who wide open?”
"Why, her; your engine, aud give her
sand and—”
“Why should I give it sand?”
“To make her run faster.”
"Sand does not increiise the speed of an
engine, steam is the only motive power.”
“But j’ou give her sand on a heavy
grade and—”
“Excuse me, I never give an engine
sand. The sand is poured on the rail.”
Oh well, you know what I mean. You
give her steam you know and—•"
“No,” he said, “I do not; I merely move
the throttle lever, thus opening the regu
lator valve, and the steam is introduced
to the proper portion of the machinery
in simple obedience to the laws of physics.
I have no control over it beyond regula
ting the supply.”
“Did you ever,” said the desparing pas
senger, “come so near a collision that you
had to throw her clear over and—”
“No,” the man s ; d very gravely, “and
I never expect to. It couldn’t be done.
No one man could throw this engine clear
over. It weighs thirty-five tons.”
“I suppose,” the passenger obstinately
replied “that when you start out with a
heavy train you have to hold her awfully
close to the rails?”
“I have nothing to do with that,” lpe
said, “the laws of gravitation and friction
control all that. I presume my weight on
the engine adds somewhat to its pressure
on the rail, although of course that
amanuts to very little in comparison with
the weight of the engine."
The passenger wiped tho beaded perspi
ration from his brow.
“Well, said ho, “how do you like life on
the footboard, anyhow?”
“I don’t live on the footboard,” the en
gineer said, “I live at home.”
“Well, how do you like runnng on the
road, then?”
“I don’t run; I ride.”
The conductor came along just hero and
handed the man in the cab a bit of yellow
paper and then shouted “All üboard.”
The passenger with a grateful expression
of countenance, said, “Thank heaven,” as
he went back and climbed on the rear
platform of tho last car, as far away from
the engine as he could get and I heard the
engineer, as I turned away, growling
about people who “always wanted to talk
shop.” It was a terribly narrow escape for
me, but I made it, and, I rather enjoyed
it. Providence always does take care of
tho truly good.—Robert Burdette.
The Great Schoolmaster.
We are convinced that the requirement
of the schools, the mental training which
comes of a study of tho ancient languages
and the higher mathematics, are far from
being so completely disciplinary as tho
ordinary experiences of the professions
and trades. The lawyer in his practice
soon gains tho power of concentration, and
is fairly compelled to bring his mind un
der the control of his will, his discipline
being more thorough, more exacting, more
sustained, than any that can be invented
by college systems. Tho daily experience
of the physician is likewise efficient in
bringing all tho functions of the mind
into subordination and under control. It
is only by sustained effort and severe con
centration that the man of letters can suc
ceed; the painter and tho poet are helpless
if their intellectual powers are not fully
at their command. It will bo said here
that the exact purpose of college discipline
is to prepare men for these exacting du
ties. But in our observation training at
college bears so small a proportion to that
which comes with tho competitions of life
that it is scarcely traceable. Wo have al
ways found that men whose necessities
force thorn to bend their energies to work
are the men who hold themselves well in
hand and that other men have little power
of application—that is the classification
does not distinguish between educated
and uneducated men, but between work
ing and non-working men. In the list of
men who have attained successor contrib
uted notably to tho world’s advance, it
will not be found that those who have ex
hibited remarkable mental power and in
tellectual self-command are specialty on
the side of the university class. Three of
tho most conspicuous men in English
philosophy and scienco—Herbert Spencer,
Huxley and Tyndall—have developed
their remarkable powers from the impulses
of natural gifts, and not by tho aid of col
lego discipline or classical guiding. Per
haps their labors would have been easier
under a thorough preparatory course
tins is not easy to gainsay—but tho fact
remains that in the pursuit of their sev
eral ends they have brought their mental
forces under complete and perfect control.
Necessity is the greut master, and it oper
ates on all classes of society—it gives the
power of concentration to the lawyer,
teaches the physician to he self-contained
and studious, gives efficiency to the pen
of the writer, drills tho book-keeper and
the clerk, and trains tho hand of the arti
san. It is an ever present and most ex
acting school-master; and, as with an im
mense majority of people, the school-mas
ter begins his lessons in youth by means
of the struggles and burdens of life, and
continues them without relaxation to the
end, the discipline, within certain limits is
complete—tho self-control being general,
but the proficiency lying in each case
solely along the line of experience.—Ap
plton's Journal.
Bismarck on Religion.
I can not conceive liow a man can live
without a belief in a revelation of a God,
who orders all things for the best, in a Su
preme Judge from whom there is no ap
peal, and in a future life. If I were not a
Christum, I would not remain at my post
a single hour. If I did not rely on God
Almighty, I should not put my trust in
princes. 1 have enough to live on and am
sufficiently genteel and distinguished
without the chancellor’s office. Why
should I go on working indefatigably, in :
curring trouble and annoyance unless con
vinced that God has ordained me to fulfill
these duties? If I were not persuaded
that this German nation of ours, in the
Divinely-appointed orders of things, is
destined to become something great and
good I should throw up the diplomatic
prpfession this very moment. Orders and
titles have to me no attraction. The firm
ness that I have shown in combating all
manner of absurdities for ten years past is
solely derived from faith. Take away
my faith and you destroy my patriotism.
Hut for my strict and literal belief in the
truths of Christianity, hut for my accept
ance of the miraculous ground-work of re
ligion, you would not have lived to see
what sort of a chancellor lam. Find me
a successor as firm a believer as I am and I
will resign at once. But I live in a genera
tion of pagans I have no desire to make
proselytes, but am constrained to confess
my faith. If there is among us any self
denial and devotion to king and country,
it is a remnant of religious belief uncon
sciously clinging to our people from the
days of our sires. For my own part, I
prefer a rural life to any other. Rob me
of the faith that unites me to God, and I
return to Yarzin to devote myself indus
triously to the production of rye and oats.
I should not envy that man his feelings
who could see a leaf wither or a flower full
without some sentiment of regret. This
tender interest in the beauty and frailty
of things around us, is only a slight tri
bute of becoming grief and affection; for
nature in our adversities never deserts us.
She even comes more nearly to us in our
sorrows, and leading us away from the
paths of disappointment and pain into
her soothing recesses, allays the anguish
of our bleeding hearts, binds Tip the
wounds that have been inflicted, whispers
the meek pledges of a spirit of still holier
birth, points to a home where decay and
death can never come.
$2.50 A YEAR.
“liaised.”
No barber knowotli whom he may shave,
and the man who rushes into a shop and
drops into a barber-ohair, without seeing
who occupies the next chair to the right
or left may get badly left, as u case proved
the other day. A solid old citizen in the
wholesale trade was taking it easy, his faoe
covered with lather, when in came a
young man who flung oft'his coat, bounced
into a chair, and called out:
“Ilurry up, now, for I must go back to
tho store before old Blank does or he will
raiso thunder 1 Hang him, he won’t even
give a man time to die ?"
The solid citizen turned his faoe to
glance at tho other, and tho barber no
ticed a reddening of his face.
“Going on a vacation this summer?"
asked the barber who was preparing to
shave the young man.
“Vacation! How in Topliet oan I get
away from old Blank ? And if I could he
pays such a stingy, comtemptible salary
that I couldn’t afford even a ride on the
ferry boat!”
“Why don’t yon ask him fora raise?”
queried the barber.
“Why dont I ask for the hand of hia
freckle-nosed daughter? He’d discharge
me in a minute, though he’s making
money and can afford it. If the old hyena
would have a stroke of apoplexy tho
junior partner might do something, but
such chaps always live to be a hundred
years old.”
Conversation ceased hero, the solid man
got out of his chair, took a brushing and
sat down, and when the clerk arose from
his chair and turned around snow-balls
would have looked black beside his face.
He tried to bow and speak, but something
wouldn’t let him, and when he started to
put on his coat ho held it tails up and col
lar down. He was still struggling with it
when tho solid man rose up looked around
and walked out, saying never a word.
The barbers wet tho young man’s head
and held cologne to his nose, but he
walked sideways when he went out, and
there was an uncertain wobble to his
knees. In applying for the vacant posi
tion to-day, state what shop you shave at.
—Detroit Free Press.
Love.
Wo find the following in the Tallahas
see Patriot, and as the month of June is
supposed to bo tho worso month in the
year for tho young people to imagine
themselves in love, tho warm weather
causing it to strike in:
Lovo is a very curious thing,isn’t it? It
is a lever of the blood; a wild fantasy of
tho mind, in which ordinary flesh and
blood seems gifted with tho attributes of
a goddess, and heaven seems to be the
front parlor at 10 p. in., with the light
turned way down.
Tliero is no reason in love, not a particle
—that is, in calf love, which pereod
ranges all tho way from 1G to 25, with sev
eral counties yet to hear from. The sepa
rate drops of water that go to make up tho
mighty wavo that dashes down Niagara
don’t know what business they have down
there, but still they can’t help themselves,
and bo it is with love. It spreads such a
film over the eyes of Charles Augustus
that he gives to Mary Jane all the charms
of a venus just risen from the bower of
kisses. Hair, the color of a second-hand
brick-bat, becomes, to him, silken auburn,
with a tender, golden hint way down in
the shadows. Freckles are lovo spots
where cupid has kissed too roughly. Eyes,
like those of a sphinx, arc to him twin
windows of the soul, that give rare glimp
ses of tho inlinity within—of the tender
devotion that only a woman is capable of
—that has made many a woman go down
into tho shadowy darkness of tho grave
for one she loved, with tho light of heaven
in her face! And, yet, perhaps these two
will bo clawing hair in loss than a year
after marriage.
Love is a dream, matrimony a night
mare, and single blessedness—a combina
tion of both.
In the wondrous alchemy of love all
things aro transmuted ! The baser metals
become puro gold, and on tho fabled
mountains the light seems to forever
shine.
The light fades sometimes;]the illusions
disappear into thin air—thank heaven l
after that we have the divorce courts.
A Puzzle. The Crawfordville (Ga.)
Democrat says: “We give it up. About
three weeks ago we set a hen on eleven
eggs, after setting for two week3 she bo
came uu patient and left the nest. The
third week another hen going to the nest,
of her own accord, set one week and
hatched out four chickens, and came off.
Two days afterwards another hen, with a
little more patience and experience than
either of the other two, thought she would
try the abandoned eggs; and in two days
hard setting and careful turning, she
hatched six more of the eggs. We took
the other egg and put it under and old
rumpless hen, and if there is anything in
side of it she will hatch it out in live days.
Now, I would like to know which hen has
the strongest claim on the chickens, and
if the old rumpless hatches her egg, what
relation will her chicken be to the second,
hen’s chickens.”
Emerson’s Last LEqTcuE. —Mr. Ralpti
Waldo Emerson recently gave what it is
feared will be his farewell lecture before
the students of the Harvard Divinity
School. “It was marked,” says the Chris
tian Register, “With his own beauty of
thought and vigor of expression. The
heat of the chapel oppressed him, but
there was a pathetic eloquence in the
pauses by which ho seemed to recover
himself. In some passages the old sweet
tone overcame the huskiness, and the
sentences came out sparkling like gems.
He was obliged to omit a large portion of
what will pfove, when printed, a notable
statement of the relation of his own life
work to the spiritual progress of the
world.” •
Probably the oldest timber in the World
which has been subjected to the use of
man is that which is found in the ancient
temples of Egypt. It is found as dowel
pins in connection with stone work which
is known to be at least 4,000 years old.
These dowels appear to be of tamarisk, or
chittim-wood, of which the ark is said t-o
have been constructed, a sacred tree in.
Egypt, and now very rarely found in. the
valley of the Nile.