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TOPICS OF THE OAT.
Qksat Britain has do lees than 1,674
Generals in her army, bat only 200 of
them are in active (service.
The Inspector of Milk, in Hartford,
Ct, recently found seven samples of
milk oat of thirty-five adulterated with
Water or skim milk.
In Massachusetts there is one divorce
to twenty-one marriages; in Vermont,
New Hampshire and Connecticut, about
one to fourteen ; in Bhode island, one
to twelve ; in Maine, one to eight.
A DATs Assistant Commi.ssioner of
Ireland says that a proper system of ar
terial drainage is the most practical way
of assisting tbe solution of the “Irish
question.” By such a system lands
could be reclaimed and farmers would
take the place of lab .rers.
An Eli ink Sr French physician, who
has known Prince Bismark well for near
ly a quarter of n century, says that oil
talk about the Chancellor’s health break
ing down is sheer nonsense. His nerves
•nd general constitution ar. in admirable
condition, and bid fair to remain so for
twenty years to come.
Witi-N Dr. Weaker, the celebrated
German oculist, removed Gambelta’s
righteya in 1867, tha organ waa pre
served in Kpu-ii,;,. “it is tho eye,” the
Jltrpeoti grid. “of a mnd who is euro to ■
enact an important part in 4! ‘° wor^l’B |
history." II j waa right, imd tho eye is
•till preserved.
New Vows is soon tohuvo in readiness
a thoroughly drilled and conb. v ,-u life
•avine
Us Fite Department, It will 100 pro
i,l and with ingenious meclmni ’al con
trivances for scaling the liigho t builds
ingr and bringing inmates in bufety to
the ground.
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Aocobdtno to the report of tho Score- |
Uit of War, tho organized etrenglU of
the militia <>f tho United States in 87,614.
Of ibis number 6,883 are commissioned
officers, and 81,031 are non-commission
ed officers, musicians and privates. The
number'of men available for military
duty, but unorganized, is 6,71)7,000.
It is reported that there aro 30,000
negroes iu Indian Territory denied the
privilege of franchise and schools, and
we, incompetent as witnesses and jurors
inoourts. They were, or aro, descend
ants from former slaves of tho Indians.
They ask the Government to remove
them from among the Indians and settle
th cm oa Oklahoma lands.
Aoooriuno to the Manchester Guar
dian, the latest and largest donation to
tlie fnnd for England’s lioyal College of
linsio came from New York City, and
was the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie.
Iu amount was 623,01)0. Tho college
will, it is thought, bo opened in South
Kensington in May next with about
gfty m'tolsm.
A Nrcw You surgeon, the other day,
pncoessfully tried transfusion of Wood
(or asphyxia. A moil named Okeburg
Wow out the goo in his room at a hotel,
*ru alaioat dead wheu discovered, and,
m he was not revived by ordinary reme
dies, several ounces of blood, taken
from a healthy negro, were pumped into
* vein iu his ai m and he soon regained
jOoniciousnees.
A obkkrai, itepre.*ion of business pro
veils in England, one cause of which is
believed to l> the unfavorable agricul
tural outlook. The weather lias been
bad all through die winter for that inter
est, and now the heavy ruins prevent the
usual preparations for pns, planting.
The prospect iu other European coun
tries is also gloomy, particularly France,
Germany, Russia and Turkey.
ImmrNsr fields and mountains of lea
have slroa ly appeared off tlie banks of
Newfoundland. The year, bound to bo
historical for its floods, fires, storms
and accidents, will also probably o '
memorable for the immeus.t.v and dan
gerousiiesa of its ieolmrgs. These groat
masses of ice are said to lie productive,
through their atmospheric influences, of
the violent tempests that have of late
distressed Atlantic mariners.
That it is not good for man to be alone
has boon the belief of 6,000 years, blit it
is only recently that the fatal evil oi
•iirh solicitude has been worked out by
the statisticians, “Baclit lorhood," says
Dr. Stork, “is more destructive to life
than the most unwholesome trades
or than residence iu an unwholesome
bouse or district where there lias never
been the xndst distant attempt at sani
tary improvement.’’
Tim late Robert Asa Packer, when on
* visit to Connecticut in his younger
days, discovered that tho e: "sellout
bread ou his host’s table had bee ■ made
by one of his daughters. He nought
her out and married her, but they only
lived together a few years, not being
able to get along at all. Ho afterward
married a daughter of Victor K. Piolett,
with whom he lived as happily as
could wish, and entertained his friends
in regal style.
The junior M. P. for Edinburg has iai
proved waos his great colleague in the
matter of postal card*. Mr. Glads tom
ned to write hia, to the great joy of
autograph collectors. But Mr. Waddy
replies to all applications from his con
stituents with s printed card, as follows:
“I beg to acknowledge the receipt of
yonr note. I receive so man v applica
tions of a similar character, that I can
not possibly comply with your request. 1
regret my inability to assist you, aud am,
yours truly, 8. D. Waddy.”
Thrrb are several thousand house
keepers in the land who would feel
grateful to the several Legislatures if
they should carry into uflLat th„ su^es
fcou of Mm line Kiln CSab, of Detroit,
which is as follows : “ Retetlaed, Dat de
present Legischur of dis Btare ao>
ordered to pass a law makin’ it a penal
offense fur a grocer not to deliver one
pound of cheede and eleven cent*' wuf of
halibut vridin ten minits of de time
agreed upon when de said articles are
ordered and paid for,”
A committee to plan an industrial
school at Springfield, Mass., have de
cided to teach the rudiments of trades,
and not to turn out finished mechanics.
The desire is to give the boy a kuowl
eego that will enable him to choose a
pursuit for which he recognizes his own
adaptability, so that three or four years
of his life may not bo wasted after ha
leaves school in trying to determine
how he will earn his living, and finally
drifting through ignorance and neces
sity into work where manual labor, not
brains, is needed.
Wong Chin Poo, editor of the Chi
nr.ee American, is elated over tho suc
cess of his paper, which is now about
four weeks old. Wong came to this
country in 1874 with llev. Mr. Gil son,
and was mobbed at San Francisco for
trying to liberate twenty-three Chinese
women who had been sont over iu his
•hip by business agents. Since then he
has lived in the 1.-st as a lecturer and
writer on Chinese matters. He thinks
the present Chinese Embassy to this
country i a useless body, and has a
poor opinion of the common Chinese
American.
According to the summary of the
Catholic directory for 1883, the hierarchy
of the 'Catholic Church in the United
States comprises I Cardinal, 13 Arch
bishops, 63 Bishops, 6,646 priests, 6,241
churches, besides 1,180 chapels and
1,768 elutions, which aro attended by
priests, Mid wit Tp innss is ooe: Tonally
celebrated, The, Catholic population is
eornputi dto l>o 6,832,964. There ar 31
ecclesiastical seminaries for tho educa
tion of I,434ecclesiastical shul-tyis. The
number of colleges, 81: academic”, 673;
and parochial-schools, 2,491. The num
ber of pupils attending the Catholic
schools, exclusive <4 colleges and acade
mics, is given at 428,612. Them are 276
asylums of various kinds and 185 hospi
tals. A comparison of figures will show
that there is bat a very slight overaver
age of one priest to every church. The
number of educational Institutions foot
up over 3,000, or equal to half the muu
•her of churches.
A voting servant girl by tho namo of
Annie Louuon, who is employed in the
family of Sheriff Easton, of Newport, 11.
1., performed an act of bravo devotion
a few nights ago, of which it is proposed
to make some public recognition. She
and a five-year-old daughter of Sheriff
Easton were alone in the house, tho rest
of the family not having returned from
an Odd Fellows’ Festival. Soon after
midnight she awoke to find her attic
room filled with smoke. She waited
only to put on a skirt, hurried down
stairs, and, being unable to open the
door, climbed through a window upon a
back porch, jumped to the ground, eight
feet below, and ran with bare feet ovei
the lee and snow to rouso the neighbors.
Hastening homo again, sho appealed tc.
several persons, who by that time had
gathered before the house, to s ivo tilt
littlo girl sleeping upstairs, and, as no
one responded, she entered the house as
she had loft it, felt her way through the
blinding and stifling smoke to the child’s
room, and escaped with her to the yard
uninjured, though the boat was intouse
enough to scorch their clothing.
Tmc State of Georgia makes a very
happy allowing in the matter of develop
ment of a country by railroads. A few
years after the war the Southern manu
facturing State began to movo in the di
rection of oonnectiug herself with outer
markets by railways. The result was
that farmers began to putin larger crops,
idanters to doubletheir acreage in oottou,
and stock raisers to increase their cijKir
tation of domestic animals. They had a
market for their products. This is the
result in 1882: The State raises three
times as much corn and wheat as it did
iu 1870, and six times as many j> itatoes.
In all other farm products there has been
a corresponding increase. Since 1870
the amount of cotton raised has doubled,
A largely increased production to the
acre shows also that the methods of
tillage have improved. The added num
ber of farm animals, homes, mules,
swine, milch cows and sheep is no less
striking. The tendency seems to be to
cut lip the great estates into small ones.
In 1870 Georgia had 70,000 farms. There
nr® now 180,000. The value of farm
products has, iu fact, nearly doubled
since 1870. It is mostly owing to the
building of railroads.
Smart Boy.
“ Well, sonny, whoso pigs are tho o f
Old sow’s, sir!”
11 Whoso sow is it?” v
“Old man’s' sir.”
“ Well, then, who is your old innu ?”
“If you’ll mind the pigs. FU run
home and ask the old woman.”
“Never mind, sonny, l want a smart
boy ; what can you do?"
“Oh ! I can do more than consider
able. I can milk these geese, ride the
turkeys to water, hamstring the grass
hoppers, light the fires for flies to court
by, cut the buttons off dad's coat wheu
he is at prayers, keep tally for dad and
mam when they scold at a mark—old
woman is always ahead,”
“Got any brothers?”
‘‘Lots of ’em, all nomad Bill,’except
Bob, his name's Sam—my name's Larry
bnt they call me Lazy Lawrence, t >:
shortness. ”
“Well, you're most too smart."
Observations of snow collected on
mountain tops, and within the Arctic
circle, fur In youd tho influence of facto
ries and smoko, seem to conlirmthe stq>-
position that minute particles of iron
float in the atmosphere, and in time fall
to the earth. Prof. Nordenskjohl, who
examined snow in the far north, beyond
Spitzbergen, says he found in it exceed
ingly minute particles of metallic iron
phosphorus, and cobalt.
—ln the oil records of ti-.c Post-office
Department an entry has been found by
which T. O. Howe, the present Post
master-General. was appointed Postmas
ter at lleadfield. Kennebec County,
Maine, on June 12, 1811. Ho was re
moved by President Tyler.— Washington
Star.
THE IIAPPY ISLANDS.
tin roams about the town from dawn till
dark,
An old B.an with bent form and whitened
hair,
} Who dreams the earth lie tieads on Is a bark
Tiiat sails to find a shore forever fair,
The shore -o many <*ek and do not find.
Among the busy crowd, he heed-, it not,
| Biit sro“8 iu?' comes to all our pleasure blind;
! The world lie lives in seems by him forgot.
' Sometimes he stops one in the crowded
throng
And questions thus: "Why do we sail so
far?
• I know full well the vessel's course is wron#,
; For further south the flappv Islands are,
j And we arc near them, for last niydit I hr ard
The sound of music coming from their
shores,
Ano caught tha scent of flowers, and one
briTit bird
Flew homeward, over us, to roam no more.
“I almost thought I saw them in the dawn,
Fair as the rosy peaks of Paradise;
: But when the day broke fully they were gone.
Far, further south the shore we search for
lies!
i Pray (iod they turn the vessel ere too late!
Must we sail by, us many t rues before?
They make in hr takes, and lay it all to Fate
That we have never reached the longed-for
shore.”
1 And as he talks the old man’s eager eyes
Are looking southward, where he hopes tc ;
see
Tho purple peaks, crowned with strange .
giorv, rise
'Neath fairer skies than those of Italy,
i N< * sight of land breaks on his hopeful eves. •
“All, we have missed them, ns sc oft before!
And we were near, ho near to them,” he cries.
“Must wo sail cn and on forevermore!”
Where are our Happy Islands! Must we sail i
Forever p:i"t them when so near they seem: \
• Blow from the shores we left, O fuvorin ' g de ;
And wuf . us to the shores th a haunt easii .
dream 1
i O fellow voyager 4. nrav God \m find
The land we s' ek and do not pass it by!
: Oh. blow us to the s ;uth, inconstant wind!
' For there, we think, the Happy Isi lir Lj lie, I
—Elen E. ilcrjord. in Our Comnt^ggM
PrncUc.il Politics.
The domain of politics is the present.
Tho politician may know the past and
divine the future, but primarily ho must
deal with tho present. His operations
are with the real. Tho men and meas
ures of to-day arc before him. It is his
promise to deal with them. He must
take them na he finds them. He can
not have them as he wishes them.
Thero is to mqoh material before him,
and it is just this (shape. So tho practical
statesman finds affairs, lie sc :at once
that there must bo adaptation. The
past is dead. The historian can retreat
into it and rccon struct it. Tlu-re tic has
no resistance, Demosthencso docs not
oppose him. Cicero docs not Controvert
him. Burke docs not beat him down
with his rclenth as logic. Webst r docs
not slay him with a thunderbolt of his
eloquence. The historian works among
passive material. The philosopher, or
theorist may rush iu to tho future aim
give to his ideas what shapes his fancy
may build. There is little resistance for
man in either tho past or the future. It
is tho boast of politicians that they are
practical. That is what constitutes*
them statesmen of the hour. They must
work iu the present. If they aro practical
they can not work outside of it. It is
tho first qualification of t a ruler that lie
should know the temper of tho people
over whom he rules. This temper ho
must recognize. Failing to do this
murdered Alexander, anil causes the
pm sent Czar to hide himself from his
people. The man who n'ts truly for his
time is also building for the future. But
is a man servile to his age? If ho, then
lie will not livo iu tho future. Tho
practical politician too often becomes a
mere idle triller, toying with the present
for tho pro lit of it, and for tho honor.
Hitch men are tho weeds on public life.
They are neither maples nor oaks.
Consider Jefferson. He was a man for
his day. He lived truly the life that was
before him. He did not live in the past
With tho Kings of England, but ho hung
out his light for the people of his time.
The lamp has never boen put out. People
in this country nro walking by its light
now. Ho was a practical man and op
posed centralization. Then twenty-eight
years later came Jackson. Ho was a
bungler besides Jefferson, but he was
practical enough to fight monopoly. Ho
smote the national bank. Here were
two practical men who fought tho battle
of tho day iu which they lived; but the
logio of tho events of that day has
reached to tho present. Tho better fu
ture is wrapped up in the better now.
Tho practical politician who has the
scope to work unselfishly for the present,
is also building for the future. Ho will
be considered by the historian and the
philosopher. —ln it tuna noli* Herald.
I.lacksiniHiing In Germany.
In the interior towns and villages of
Germany, it lias been the custom for
many years for tho farmer to purchase
the iron for liis tires and horseshoes, and
in some instances, when having anew
wagon built, to purchase all the iron en
tering into the name, the lengths of every
piece being furnished him by the smith.
One part of tho contract is that the smith
shall not return to tho farmer ail ends
and cuttings from the iron, and it fre
quent U occurs that tiie fanner remains
at the shop until the iron is all cutup,
in order that the smith shall not indulge
ill ten) much cabbage. Each smith shop
has what is termed “the hell," and in
cutting off a set of tires, if t he fanner be
not present, tho largest half of the end
cut off finds its way to “the hell,” the
duty of putting it there devolving upon
the youngest apprentice. From this
always plentiful store the smith furnishes
his material for tho manufacture of
bolts, horseshoes, etc., for transient cus
tomers.
The horse shoeing part is also a fea
ture; the farmer will bring with him the
end of some piece of iron or tire, with
which to make tho shots, or perhaps a
dozen or more old horseshoes to be con
verted into now ones. Tho farmer must
blow the bellows until tho work is forgt and
or the shoes are made, and must then
hold up tiie horse’s foot while the shoes
are being driven on or taken off, and in
variably carries the old shoes home with
him, unless lie prefers to give the old
shoes iu payment for the apprentice's
service i- holding up the feet.
Tiie rob n also accommodates itself
to a mixed diet, taking fruit ill it = sea
sun. hut living almost wholly upon
worms in the early and later portions
of the year, and feeding its young al
most exclusively upon insect food. If
the robin gets tod mischievous lie rec
ommends taking a number o: him for a
pot-pie. as he is a v ry good game idl'd
when far. Itisproba le, however, that
the fruit eaten by the robin is not in ex
cess of what would be destroyed by the
insects he eats early in the spring, if
they wore left to do their work.
LrrrnE Bobby, aged three years, lias
attended Sunday-school one or two
months. He is an apt scholar, and gives
early promise of bearing rich ethical
fruitage. At play with an older brother,
the other day, his original Adam so far
got the better of him as to cause him to
clench his little list aud strike his brother.
Brother Tom was about to retaliate with
his more formidable weapon, when Bobby
cried out, “ No, no, no I Teacher says oo
mu’t n’t sink* back when oo is bit ”
the Trori^jpp-KBUPT.
Th* Larst* A soon v <>w* by nmen{%.
An ingenious statistician, who had
been losing sleep in the pursuits of
science, Ice. a:id, dup the nations of the
world, and is diatrean and t find out that
this jioor old world is really bankrupt;
that it owes more than it '-us pay, and
that, as the process of debt-making is
cm tinaally going <>u, Tsfe inevitable end
will be a universal smash. The iloomy
view of the situation is supported by the
magnitude of the figures—total amount
we belie ve is some $26,0h •,©•> t.OOdor 8’)9,-
000,060,000 —and it is plainly true that,
with the exception of the United Elates,
the civilized govermc-nts of the world tee
rapidly increasing their indebtedness.
But we believe that this immense aggre
gate of debt is an evidence rather of sol
vency than of bankruptcy; a proof, not
tiiat the world is so p ras to be insol
vent, but that it is 801 ich that Cos extrava
gance can min it All the great public
debts of the world jtie the creation c i the
! present century, and many of them of
I the pc: t twenty or thirty years. At tho
lieginuing of the eentnrv France had no
debt at all and En; land only a trifling
one. Italy, which is quite, active as a
. debtor, did not eiist ns a nation thirty
years ago and the Unib-d Slates had no
public or local debt of any amount twenty
years ago.
If, iu the course of eighty yc-.rs, the
nations of tho world Lave f.ucci- h-J in
wilding themselves up with a burden of
debt to the whole of the eslimalcd v. allli
of this country at' th. la.-1 r -.it is a
proof Uni! f i jH-i i lily and
*e o **r~ mRm: “ aL-vi ' reached pro
■ vr'"-
- '■ -I n- Any
previous era ol i. ' ,-y. Franc which
now thrive:; and p ..pars tt- !cr an enor
mous debt of : i,. ■'•' .on -vi-ich it
pays an annual in'—t- ■t o' >'J.fW,OOO,
would have found :i p T-.< -1>) years
ago to borrow- t’ , -rr. : P j.-; an- 1
iiuully paid for int r and owes ;
a debt of some 81, ■ - T.b i'i.b m, th - foun
dations of which : ■ I-61 iu the att- mpt
to prevent the Fre. eli ii..u l>eh:g n;'.d
by u sovereign of their own cheesing. -
But if England had had any id u at the 1
outbreak of the N q-il<-.-.;dc‘ sa of the
outlay which wouKlb - iu.auTcd, vve may ,
be sure the abk-- 1 h a.'u : ■) :} v - "hi have
said that tli ;rc w.. no credit of gover-!
meat or power of authority v. ii-.- 'i would
sufllco to-carry so large a. and bt. Now, ■
triumphant Gen vy s..d.s Urane..- for u
trifle of $1,000,00 i.iiTO as. coolly . i if it ;
were a liottlo of wine, and totally mort
gages tijo fesrare w of a n-ilioii beforo a
-is C s'alili .hecL .'..s the world ;
any richer It.K) y . a;.y>, when its lack |
of credit.prevent, ii; iii.riinving m<-ui-y? |
Is it any poorer n w, whe it has bor* j
rowed so niuch th .1 a .. . for pay- |
meut would bm.hrnpt it !
Avery simple answer 1 > tha question
may be bad by merely consul ring wliero I
all the money c.w from which is now
invested in the Grand Jivro or ledger of
•France, t’ne consols of England, and the
bonds of other countries. Before the
country could In vow there must lmvo
been capitalists vho lmd the money to
lend—-and to spare. The nationscouldnot
have borrowed unless the people were
nbleto lend, audit the world hud do to lend
820,000,000,000 or .<W,tK>o,ooo,ooo it can
hardly be iu danger of immediate bank
ruptcy. Iu fact, the debts uf the nations
are merely the surplus of the people, a
small part of tho accumulations which
have been made in a century of industry
and of progress. Steam, el ctrieity, and
patent inventions have accumulated in
the world such a mass of wealth ns the old
world never d.v-m e l of; and, as the pro
cess of aeem ilttu u is going on faster
than The pro. "fl!g, tho world
is growing r - iqeverv day. richer in
spite of wars uad armies and kings ami
tariffs and x.tx - lew, and other obstacles,
and there is mi cull for any learned statis
tician to sit up of nights in despair over
the future of an insolvent world.
Jonathan Edward*.
It is impossible that people of ordin
ary sensibilities should have listened to
his torturing discourses without becom
ing at last sick of hearing of infinite
horrors and endless agonies. It came
very hard to kind-hearted persons to be
lieve that the least sin exposed a creat
ure God had made to such exorbitant
penalties. Edwards’ whole system hud
too much of tiie character of the savage
people by whom the wilderness had so
recently been tenanted. There was re
venge-- “revenging justice" was
what lie called it—insatiable, i<-
lniusting its iugi unity in contriving the
most exquisite t< meats; there was the
hereditary hatred glaring on the babe in
its cradle; there were the mi fieri - , •
wretch and the pleased and ahtmtin-r
lookers-on. Every natural grace o' dis
position ; all that had once charm - and c .
the sweet ingenuousness of youth, iu ; 1:
laughing gayety of childhood, in i
winning helplessness of infancy; cv
virtue that Plato laid dreamed of, e\<
character that Plutarch hud drawn
were branded with the h' iron, v. .
left the bl,aliened inscription n,
them, signifying thatihey were
of (tod—the damning word w'
There is no BTtfiicaenx reason for at
tacking tho motives; of ; man-- and;
ill life, so holy in aspired-,: :~o m • ,
so laborious, so tbonv ly l
the work So whi< i b . ■ gi
But, after long s:uo:S;-.v: r in t; ■ -.
phurous ahuosplu re of 1 - r :t, , c
cannot help baking, 'V - : t ! ,i.- or t
tiling like this—is this or a; ll ;ng ■■
this—the accepted belief oi any eon i 1
erablo part of Protest-uiti-c.i ? Is - %
wo must say with Bacon : " It \o re K-t-
U-r to have no opinion of (E lat all tl :
natural theologiarr It is a less violence
to our nature u> deify protoplasm than
it is to diabolize the Deity— l>r O. It.
Holmes, in lutemation al fit view.
—lt is cruel to keep cheeking boys.
Little Krank'e ■ was astride the sofa
cushion, and was maxing hi.-, steed ap
parently taxe a 0 pil e. w::lt kicks
and slashes of h's whip, and yelling : t
the top :> his lungs liis poor mother
boro it awhde. mi l then said, sternly:
“ 1 ranke step m. king a noise! Dr.ve
you/ horse if you wan! to. bn: be
still." It wee very qiii. t or a while,
and rankle's mother looked an mini to
see her bo siting astride flic so a
cushion, butt *? tears rolling down his
check-. “Why. I'rankie. wha: is the
ilia terr” Frankie sobbed out: “1 can t
make him go, mamma, unless 1 holier
to him. It’s all ins de of me, aud if it
don’t conic out 1 shall burst’’ —C. .ienjo
Seir*.
Headwouk.—A man lately entered a
tavern in Franco looking dreadfully
wearied, and with a face as long as a
crescent moon. He seated himself
languidly at a table where a previous
customer was taking a glass of absinthe.
“ Sir,” said the latter, sympathetically,
“you appear much fatigued.” “Yes,”
replied the other: “headwork, sir, head
work!” “Dramatic writer, possibly?”
“No, sir, Fm a hair dresser, aud to-day
shaved twenty stubby beard* and cut the
hair of ton heads.”
The Story of a Princes”,
Tbe several current press rf ot ce s of
the royal order of Kap:ol: n', :c .1/
presented to the author of *- a'ani of
Oahu,’’ by King Kalauea, faffing de
scribe the relig i-ronuiut c in .-i. nt
which imparts intrinsic value to : ; *
name, -I send a Iri-iei epitocie j
story The lit •
ingot' K ipiolani is “prisonerof E • '
Princess Kat-ioiani, or Hav,. . ■.*
daughter o 'the ia -t ii :g o .1
among the first converts of th - :s
eries. \\ hen first sc n by to •;
clergy Kapiolani was publicly :n . :g
herself with eocoanut oil, whff-.- u . r
gong some heathen rite of i ;
creed. From this state of pa an r--.
daiion tlie beautiful Prin e-s • e
came one of the mo-t devout Christ': n
converts, glowing with plo s zc i to a
- something which rn : hr break
through the superstitious of h r ; eoi-:e.
Twenty-six thousand idols had ie a de
stroyed by fire, by order of iug Eiho
liho and the High Priest, He v hewa.
and yet the degrading tabu re n In .-.l
unbroken. It was time for rome <: her
overt act to'be thought of. I:: -rate
o drunken frenzy Eihollho I.;: ~;n
the tabu by eating with the w,m-.-n. A
brave act ior a vo’.in r King, ! not of
sufficient i portauoe to aUct-: t, • m.
Kapiolan: now came to : : -■ n- = i:
and, with a moral hvoisr i c tia •> ,nv
act of h r sex. she delermtn and t- i rave
J'cle in her owe fiery stn.cy!.-.. 1 of
Kiiauea, te-ting tii and \i:;e pow.-r of Iter
new-found God by defying rh • go idest
arid hreakin ; her tabu in i: - ; -e e
of a multitude. New- o' her .nr ~! 1
sacrilege w. s proclaimed a 1 . :e
island, crest'ng a ftedaro - ou tar: a-*
thm, not only for the w-h'-tre t m
Princ ss, but lest th very island -lum.-I
he destroyed. -Many came to plead that
she would abandon the rash act ard
r.onr were more tei rilied for her -a ety
than Nailie, her warrior-husband.
Followed bv eighty of iter teiTor
strleken friends. Ku;icilani waked a
hundred mhos through tho m<>’-;n.ain
Wildernc: son h r pi gr mage <>. terror.
Approaching the seething era er. ‘ia
pioi.Tiii w. s' met by a shrived ! old
j riesless of l’elc, bearing a l : erv mu •-
d'-Fon from Fcle • hotr fro;:; i!i dr- and
liallmaTi-van. (hotisu of iv-.a. n:
lire - in which Pole thro ff-ue.l not
onl; death to all coiners b it de.;i ruction
or ihc island.
The multitude stood uppali-d and
begged the ' rinee sto de-st from r
rash a.-t. Ft, quoting . -w
--loruncd passages fro: i Si.rlplme <•> llto
Kahuna wahine—woman prit* t :*.•
piolani talked caluiiy mid r -o’.n ■■ , to
the crater's verge, where the -ea o;
molten lava ra ed Lk ' r. lushed
ocean deraonstratingthe wrath o; iv-l -.
Gathering a handful of s.*. red ohelo
berries, ever consecrated to I‘ele, she
ate them in derision of tlie tabu rite,
in-tead of casting them into the crater
as a peace offering to the goddess.
Gathering up strums, she threw them
into the fiery food instead of tho a ens
tomeil berries. Standing tho c n the
presence of the most awful natural phe
nomena on earth, confronting the most
tend! !e conception of a pagan deity,
Kaniolani calmly addressed the multi
tude as they stood appalled at ’.heir
own fears
“Behold! my people, the gods of
Hawaii are vain gods. Great is .Jeho
vah. my Go I. lie kindles these tires.
1-ear not Pole she is powe; less. Should
I perish, then fear her power. Should
God preserve me, then break your tabu,
knowing thero is but one God. Jeho
vah.” In eommemoratiou of thisbravo
act of Kapiolani, lie Nui (the great),
the King’s present wife, was named,
and the royal Order of lvnpiohmi was
proclaimed, for tho “recompense of dis
tinguished merit to the St te. h r hu
manity. genius, science an 1 art. ser
vices rendered to Ourselvesor < ur Suc
cessors. ' ’ —Do An Courier.
Ingersoll as a Salilicr.
Last summer we asked the question
now Robert G. Ingersoll got the title of
“ Colonel?” Wo were of the impression
that lie never was in the army. We
could not understand how such a nan as
Ingersoll could go through the campaign
ami not be promoted above the Colonel.
The following extract from the pen of
Redpath, will be read with interest:
During the late war Ingersoll raised
a regiment of cavalry and commanded it,
and was assigned the western depart
ment. He was in the battle of Shiloh
and several other engagements. Oa one
occasion ho was commanded to guard a
ford, with instructions to delay an ad
vancing army of the rebels as long as
possible, in order that our army might
make certain counter-movements. He
held liis position as long as he could do
it. but the enemy come up in such over
whelming forces that.be had no other
course left but to give the order to r -
trt at—every man as lx -1 be could to-save
himself. As Colonel Ingersoll was gnl- i
loping away with his mii ;; - last as tlieir
horses could get over the go-and, his
horse stumbled in a lane ... 1 R.r -w him.
Just as he fell several balls struck the
log near him, and o:i lii .i. ... up he saw
two or three rebels ra. -ing carbines
at him. With characteristic quickness
and presence of mital he shouted at the
top of Ids voice; “ Hold on there! Don't
make d—-el fool-iaf yourselves! I've been
doing nothii ;r els.' for the last five min
utes but wishing for a chance to recog
ii,/.■ your g—d il—d Conful, racy!”
A Southern officer ordered the men to
stop, and they all laughed at the un
known Yankee’s impudence, and they
took him prisoner. At that time ho was
little known outside of Illinois and In
diana.
As he is one of the wittiest and best
talkers in America, in private as well as
on the stump, he was soon a great favor
ite; and Forrest, whose command capt
ured him, treated him with tho greatest
consideration, cc'o telling him that he
would get him exchanged the first chance
that offered, because he was getting so
d—d popular that he began to be afraid
he would take his own men away from
him. He was not exchanged I believe,
but paroled and sent home. This ended
his military history.
Ingersoll said of liis career: “I was
not tit for a soldier; I never saw our men
fire but I thought of the widows and
orphans they would make, and wished
they would mbs!" —Sew Albany (dud.)
Lcdaer~SUnidard, __
“Ah ! my darling wife,” said George,
the week after his marriage, “if yonr
husband were to die, what would you
do?” “Idon’t know, I’m sure, George,”
said the wife, reflectively. “I never
thought of that. I must look in my
‘ Book of Etiquette ’ and read the rules
for young widows 1”
What part of the eye is like the rain
tow? The iris. What part is like the
school-boy? The pupil. What part is
like the globe? The ball. What part is
like the top of the chest? The lid.
What part is like the piece of a whip?
The lash. Wl t part is like the sum
mit of a hill? The brow.
“Young mother” wants to know if
green apples are healthy. Yes, they are
generally healthy, but tha people who
tat them are not.
farm Morals —Borrowing and Lending.
In every cecu m !m, Fit character
and unify of t e ecu:! i has great in
to u■ e '<> h h * le-ipeo
abohv and. :: -: • - G. ocmp i
tion, ii lo udithT■ 1 m ..e •:• le-< gen
era’ y. Farm v- m it' i • u> m firms,
and general'V h . ami - for nc-gh
‘(• :rs. Very mm;-:! ■ v-arid can
wb h any -tri ■ ; a- ea! ed in
dr;i-T dm i !-e erudition of
, him O-oho .V i- e •-O ■ ■-s a C ll I I*o.l
lot pi..y re.liz-i .I ri dapeadenee.
j To ’ ase or iy m i-i desirable
! onl ;; -: <•{ . r : .. doty am mg
• farm r n-.-’g . • ■ leas of right
' v.-ro-.g fra i * ; 'nude reload, and
I acted upon. <Va would modestly and
h imiily present s ime suggestion)-, as
the matter *trikes our judgment, on bor
rowing and lending.
m i-t bi limits to the riglit of
borrowing, and cj --equently there must
be limit - to tix - oblige-ion to lend.
Hare implements. I'ch-tps easily,which,
though indi-peu-r.b'e at timT-, are but
rarely wanted iu n<c, ought not to be
borrowed. Suoh implements, when
w-.rited for u-e by other- ti a i their
owner -, sh ia!ii aiw :ys ba hired, n 1 the
price of hire r I tip in ar.d pa;d.
That v.i be f.-.l • a.-! c ; ial to uli pa-’ies.
h At owing w-.iu.d ff: mngiug, ami not
equal.
No person should borrow any article
from a person who li -Ids it only as a
borrowed article. V > one has any right
to lend what die ivi property belong
to him. f: is very unjust to the owner;
and is not a moral right. Such privi
leges ar-- atm rim ts taken, and often
result in lmnjh evil. They are morally
wrong, and .1 c not consistent with the
spirit of good neighborhood. It should
never be <1 me. The practice of any
thing like it should he regarded as an
immorality. In many e., e; it would
prove the -ante to the owner of an arti
cle as though it had been -tolen; for it
will be lost to him. If a borrower may
lend a barrowed utensil or article, the
second borrower may do' the same, and
• ■> or, until r.o one will know tho owner
ship of the article. The borrower of an
article or utensil has no shadow of a
right in the article which he can trans
fer to a third parly. He too who borrows
an article or uten-ii of any one whom
he knows to have it only ns borrowed,
is guilty of a trespass against good
neighborhood. It should have no tolera
tion in farm morals.
S lUihig, perh . #, I- mo,-.-- necessary '
to good neighborh • >d a:u-.-:r farmers,
and especially among farmer.-, who own
only small farm: as farm lioiqes, ihan a
strict imd; r.-tand-ug and c >n ideration
of the limi's of t;n:h ,iu iiorrowiug and
lending. And there should be no priv- ■
i'ejfed persons, as exempt from any of ,
the obligali'iis which are necessary to
good neighborhood. If a father bor- .
rows of'lms son, or a son borrows from
his father, or a brother fr-un ids brother,
it is a business transaction; and none j
of them can claim any exemption from
the laws and rules which should govern
others in a perfect society of harmony
and peace. Where relatives take special
liberties in such matters, it were, better
to live am tig strangers. They have no
right to do it. It should bo regarded,
as it truly is, a trespass, an immorality.
Much of the unpleasantness so often
seen among relatives, springs from an
inconsiderate presumption or supposi
tion of special light to take liberties
with each other, because they are rela
tive-. Many a in in has had it in bis
heart, when in such circumstances, to
pray to he delivered from his friends.
I should not be faithful to the subject
I am treating, were I to silently ignore
another form of presumption of special
rights, which I have often observed and
looked upon with profound regret.
People are often seen to act as though
any elevation of rank, which they had
gained, constituted a license to take
unusual liberties; whether that elevation
were financial, or social, or religious.
So young ladies often, when they step up
from the rank of mere scholars to that
of school teachers, will lake liberties iu
I violation of proper rules of politeness,
as they never did before. And farmers
and others, when they rise up to a pro
fession of piety and to church-mcmber-
I ship, are often foolish in the same thing,
in substance, and practically claim
. liberties which they ought not "to think
.of taking. In lending articles or uten
sils, none have tried my patience and
j forbearance more severely, by taking
| unwarrantable liberties, than have some
j religious people. It is certainly all
I wrong, an immorality. To become
! a true Christian can never make any
I man a bad citizen or a bad neighbor.
' Tho higher our rank the more strictly
i should we seek to bo right as neighj
bora. No man’s goodness is sufficient
to make wrong right.— A. O. Comings,,
:in Xetc Eng!a nd Farmer.
A tonlVsdnu of Rilifiknce.
Tho memorial sketch o' tli * late K v.
Wiiliam 1. 1 avion! read a' the iv. efit
meeting o: li c Cotigregnt ioual < 1n! • in
Sprin i ekl. .sta* and that i e confessed to
bis .r.i'tub that he w- very did dent
man. a fact uiv-u.-pectod coopt i>.‘
those who knew him iotira: to r. In
making such a couiessi n ho onc*> -ai i
that when he wa a boy his •:!. r
used olten to send him about the n igii
borhood to inv.te her tr ends to tea
aud that wb.cn ho rev hod a house
whore an invita’xon was to be left lie
never coukl look anybody in tin: face,
but with eyes upon the : o n - he would
repeat these words, wu eh he h and -a and
over and o - ,or on liis wa- there
“Mother sends her comp! !:■ n!~ ml
•he hopes you will tv .u ie i w rit her
this evening.” lie went on to say that
after he be.: nto pre:ich 'it: eo::l i never
catch the eyes of ids audience ill! after
he had listened to the sound oi Ins own
voice for a while, and that at s eh
times those -nine words wire sure to
come into his mind “ And some etay.”
said he. "1 shall speak them out, and
you will l:e very much astonished to
bear me remark, at the opening of a
sermon. ‘Mother sends her compli
ments, and she hopes you will take tea
with her this evening.’ ’’ —Sew London
(Cos m.) Ttl .ram.
Ch.as. H. Palmes. a deaeon in the
Baptist Chnreh at Jackson, Mich., was
seeing a young lady home from Sunday
Scliool recently, when it began to rain
and the two stepped into the deacon’s
store, where he gave her some candy,
kissed her and told her not to tell. But
she did tell, and after a long church
trial a resolution was passed censuring
the deacon for indiscretion. It is a ques
tion in our mind whether the deacon was
indiscreet or not. How did he know that
the girl would tell? Ho simply took his
chances on it, the same as anybody else.
If a man goes into the dry goods or gro
cery business and fails, is it right to say
that he was indiscreet when other men
are making money in the same line of
business. If that is the case a man is
indiscreet to try to do anything at all.—
Peck's Sun.
Two little Illinois girls raised chickens
and sold eggs, and after making a consid
erable amount of money they purchased
a monument for their grandmother’s
grave.
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
i’ne Home Sr.nifnel ears tff-.t aa rdli
ey.tcr laughs when it he.u-s that beauty
is only skin and : -p.
Hints to housekeepers—YThen' your
favorite eats < eeome too 1 rolilie you must
“pool their issues.”
Faith moves mountaL-.n, but if tubes a
coitple of express wr.gf.us to move a f jU
iom.Ue v-cmau’s baggage.
Tnr: grand and awful dfftVr: zee be
tween a tre: and a boix- is—the tree
leaves iu the spring, an.t the bore—why,
he never leaves.
The two urehins who played “escap
ing from the wreck” by using their
mother’s holiday dough-trough for a life
boat, were lashed together.
A max in Bidtimcre has the w-voden
ihutter of the room occupied by rff.iry
Phillipse, who gave George Wushington
the mitten. Cupid’s blind.
The bible tolls us not to put our trust
in riches, and a great many men don’t at
tiie present day. Their total lack of
riches explains why.
A Minnesota farmer who has five
grown-up daughters, has sued the county
en a claim that his rc-ideuc - has been
used as a “court-room” f>-r the part two
years.
A Haddexfiedd (Cape May) sign
reads: “Is cream salon ealn-s preitzelhi
and canddv and cigius ousters and lodg
ing aiid h-erses veattered coaslau-fv oa
hand. ”
It has been said that poverty trends
iH-ou the bosls of great and unex]iected
riches; but then a newspaper man never
has corns on his heels, and ha can
stand it.
Proi'BiETOß—“ If you boys don’t
clear out I'll call that officer and have
yon taken in.” l)oy-—“Thu's where
you’d be taken in; that I'oiia-man’s my
dad, he is. ”
The church is the pew rest plr.ee on
earth. — Steuben vUle Herald. And one
can tell how good the ineu are by the
number ol hymns found there.—Cincin
nati Gazette.
SoxiEßOsr wants to know why we do
not go to Europe. Well, the fact is if
the rest of Europe resembles the part
that lias come over here, we’ve seen
enough of it. —BurUnytan Hawk:-yc.
He th .k'd lore to her, axtJ dovo to her,
And : ried to squeeze li*r brtd,
Wl’ thi: StX Uj> ii' and S• -l” WUtl ‘‘nOt'v],”
A' l yawiie-1 be ud tier iin
(Ba lie s' a laid sit up the iiuht b f*>re.
\V i •a ft l ,. :v xim luvl an awful fun i: - for.)
( : : i;j.
The following advertisement a; •; • uvd
lately in an Lri h newspaper: “This is
to notify Patrick O'Flaherty, who lately
left his lodgings, ii he does not. v . turn
soon and pay for the same he shall ’.♦o ad
vertised.”
“Weei., if I ever raw the like," re
marked ale. Whisayskin, as he m -ppied
tho perspimtion li-.-.n ’uis b. e-v. “I
don’t see where all this water comas from
that oozes through my pores. I haven’t
tasted the stuff lor ten y--a.es.”
What a pity that a big heart is so
often compelled to keep company with a
small income?— N. )'. News. Rather,
what a pity that a big income is so often
compelled to keep company with a small
heart.
“Do not know commas when you see
them?” said tho village school teacher
to the book-keeper of a banking-house,
whose education , had been neglected.
“Wlvat. are these (~ ~ ~) on your gro
cer's bill?” “Beers,” said he.
Polios court scene—J uilge to an un
prepossessing tramp : “What are your
means of living?” “I am an inventor.”
“All, indeed. And what have you in
vented?” “Nothing as yet; but I am
on the lookout. ”
kins. Domesticity calls at the kitchen
furnishing store. “Have you Cook’s
stewers?” she asks. The dealer is dumb
founded till he is shown an advertise
ment of “Cook’s Tours,” when he di
rected her to the neatest railroad office.
Ten residents of Waverly, who
wouldn't do a day’s work for anything,
recently hauled over twenty cunts of
wood to get a red squirrel that wasn’t
there. Then they cracked a command
ment.—Oivego Hecord.
Why is it that whisky straight will
make a man walk crooked?— Boston
Globe. Why is it ? Why, it is because
you drink it. Did you never think of
that? You leave the whisky in the jug,
and it will not make you walk crooked.
Don’t blame the rooster for bragging
over every egg that is laid in the family.
Only human nature, nothing more. You
remember that when that bouncing boy
arrived at your house it wasn’t the
mother who went about doing the crow
ing.
An Indian came to an agent in the
northern part of lowa to procure some
whisky foi a younger brother, who he
said had been bitten by a rattlesnake.
• Four quarts!” repeated the agent, with
surprise; “much as that?” “Yes,”
replied the Indian, “four quirts; snake
very big.”
Know His Bos!*!?*?.
A few months ago a conductor on one
of tl.e Chicago street-cars suud'.rlv ex
p.'risnced religion and joined a small
flock in the neighborhood of Lis resi
dence. None more devout than he was
to he found hi the country around, and
every spare moment from his business
was put into something energetic toward
strengthening up tho little church into
which he had projected himself. Notic
ing bis inter st, his pastor, to encourage
bun, shoved him along rdl ha could, and
in ash rt time the new convert was a
shining light among his follow-weo /liin
pers, mid the Christian grace with which
he passed the contribution-plate evoked
Rickies from what before hud lx u bar
ren pockets.”
One Sunday morning a hoodlum was
noisy, and the conductor quietly ordered
him out. He went, but last Sunday
evening he appeared with *p. mob oi dis
solute companions bent on a difficulty.
The conductor kept an eye on the
leadei until the disturbance became mi- ■
bearable.
“Put on brakes a moment, parson,”
said he, “till I look after this fare.”
Approaching the thug, he went for
him, and wiped up several yards of aisle
with him, and then stood" him on his
legs.
“Five cents for the kingdom of God!”
he demanded.
The hoodlum said be ■ cot have to
pay.
_ “Five cents for this rids or. . he Gospel
chariot,” and he smashed the thug in the
countenance.
“But, brother,” remonstrated the pas
tor. “you cannot compel him to con
tribute. ”
“ Never yon mind that parson. You
preach and I’ll collect. This man can’t
dead-head on this orthordox through
line without putting up. Beside I'm re
sponsible to the company for his fare.
I’ve punched hia aid ha’s got to show
coin.”
A lady and her daughter sailed on
Governor Littlefield, of Bhode Island,
the other day, with a apodal request that
the Governor should kiss the daughter.
There ;e zo eni to the advantages of of
fice-holding, remark* the Bafialo Ah*
pre<A