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HOME JOURNAL CREENFSBORO. GEORGIA. 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. < * —— 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