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NEWS GLEANINGS.
Mississippi yet owns'B,loo,o9® acres
oofublic land.
The total acbool.'population of Arkan.
aaa during last year was 272,053.3
The Florida ship canal charter [has
toeen'signcd by tha Governor.
More than zOO rafts of timber were'on
tbe'market at Darien, Ga., last week.*,
An
been discovered; in^Brunswick county,
North Carolina.
A million’ feet of black walnut tim
ber is to be shipped from Gaudaloupe
county, Texas, to England. 1
During last year forty-three railroad
and eight canal companies filed articles
of incorporation jn Florida.
In the year 1882 the Hot Springs rail
road carried 35,000,‘paHsengerM.
The business of catching aligators pro
vides occupation for quite a number of
persons in Florida.
Oen. Wade; Hampton says his grand!
father rtiscd the first cotton crop ever
harvested in the South.
A Hawk was killed in Georgia last
week that measured forty inches.from
tip to tip,
Five thousand dollars have been sub
scribed for a street railroad in Clarks
ville, Go.
The cabbago shipments this winter
from Wythe eounty, Va., will yield the
county 30,000.
The coal fields of A’shair.a cov r 10,
860 square miles, and the coal is all bit
uminous, but differs widely in quality.
J. M. Coleman, ex-l’ostmaster at
Crystal Springs, Miss., has purchased
10,000 coccoons, and intends trying silk
culture in that place.
Alabama lias 1,919 miles of railroad
and Hie railroads furnish eleven per
cent, of all the taxable property in the
State.
It is said that fifty years ago shad
were so plentiful in the Savannah river
that fishermen exchanged them for corn
at the rate of ene ear of com for one
ahad.
The peanut crop of Tennessee last
year is estimated at 350,000 or 400,000
bushels. Virginia raised 1,500,000 bush
els, and North Carolina 150,000 bushels.
The price ranges from $1.20 to $1.76 per
bushel.
Irish laliorers on the Texas and Pa
cific road, from the Pecos river to E
Pacos, have lieen supplanted by Chinese,
who are working for fifty conts a day
less than was paid the Irish,
The real estate business in Montgom
cry, Ala., is on a boom. It is estimated
tliat the transactions of the last five
months exceed those of the past five
years.
The Arkansas Lcgislatnre has passed
m bill which prohibits for two years the
aelling of liquor within two miles of any
church or school on a petition of a ma
jority *of the adult inhabitants.! s"**"*
There is a creek several miles from
Waynesboro, Ga., which is so highly
Impregnated with lime that it will take
the hair off a horse’s legs in passing
through it.
Mrs. Eli Brown, of Macon, Ga., while
whipping one of her children, accident
ally struck her husband’s finger. The
finger inflamed and Mr. Brown recently
died from the wound.
It is estimated that in the two Caro
lina*, Georgia and Louisiana, a total
population of about 200,000 people,
white and colored, are dependent on the
cultivation of rice.
“Work on the Savannah river is pro
gressing. The jetties will he built and
the strean improved as far as possible
with the limited appropriation, which is
considered as altogether too small.
At Flat Rock, N. C., Mrs. Alexander
Hollingsworth became exasperated at
her husband, who was a confirmed drun
kard, and assaulted him with an axe,
nearly severing his head from his body
and killing him instantly. The parties
were white.
The' Pascagoula, Miss., Ice Company
are making preparations to can oysters,
tomatoes, figs, okra, etc., thus offering a
home market for fruit and vegetables
The original South Carolina ordinance
f secession is preserved in the office of
the Secretary of State, at Columbia. It
is written on trchment, is entitled an
Ordinance to dissolve the union be
tween the State of South Carolina and
other States, united with her under the
compart entitled the Constitution of the
United States of America,” and is very
brief, containing besides the title, date,
etc., brrt t little more than 100 words
Macon Telegraph: Out at the Wilkin
son place, on top of Bassett s Hill, is a
negro woman who has what is termed in
tire neighborhood, a “snake baby.” The
woman says she found it in the woods
seven years ago and has provided for it
ever since. It bears a marked resem
blance to a snake in features and instead
of walking will crawl on the ground af
ter the manner of snakes. It is a great
curiosity, and is attracting considerable
attention.
Some of the ‘patients of tH Insane
Asylum at St.iuuu n, Va., drank some
medicine which had been prepared las
Saturday, and five of them dtopped
deal within ten minutes alter taking
the medicine. One man was expected
to die and three others are suffering, but
will recover. It is a mystery liow the
poison got into uie medicine, c-u in
vestigation ia to be instituted.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Iv b estimated that them are in the
United States 415 street railways, which
employ 35,000 men.
To light-boose at Sydney, New South
Wales, has an electric light of over
12,000,000 candle power.
The Washington Pott estimates tha:
$200,000 is squandered by Congressional
touring shout the country on gauzy
pretenses of official duty.
Ax African spider, which spins silk
like thread, has been discovered, and
French silk manufacturers talk of at
tempting to introduce it in France.
Manx Twain says there is somethin;;
very fascinating about science; it gives
yon such wholesale returns of conjecture
for such trifling investments of fact.
Thr French scheme for flooding the
North African Desert is finally taking
definite shape and a company is raising
the necessary funds to carry the project
into effect.
Ths New York Legislature lias passed
a bill donating to ex-Governor Horatio
Seymour the chair in the old executive
chamber used by that statesman when
ho was Chief Magistrate of the State.
Tn* street railway managers of New
York City will test this spring the prac
ticability of the cable system. But it is
not still an experiment. It has btn
successfully tested in Chicago and San
Francisco.
Tnn United States leads the world
in its number ef cattle, having 38.000,-
000, to Russia’s 27,000,000, and India's
30,000,000. Hut Russia lias 20,000,000
horses, and the United States comes sec
ond with 10,500,000.
Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto, says
that Ireland’s impoverishment is due
largely to alterations in the track of the
Gulf stream. He undertakes to demon
strate that during the last fifty years tbo
climate there lias changed very much.
It is a noteworthy fact that the depos
its in the savings banks in Ireland, which
showed a decrease in each of the four
yearn previous to 1882, gaiued that year"
within a thousand pounds of the largest
increment ever known for a single year.
T' ' ' • • •
Thr United States Senate now stands:
Republicans, 37; Democrats, 36 ; Re
adjuster*, 2 ; vacancy, 1. The vacancy
is made by the expiration of the term of
Hsn. E. H. Roilius, of New Hampshire,
and his successor will not bo elected
until next Jane.
Dorino 1882 tho murders committed
in the Uuited States averaged two a day,
while the executions only avoragod two
a week. Tlnfre were in the year 212
murders and fifty-three executions iu
the South, New York had 131 murders
and only fomr executions,
GrrMany is burying its telegraph
wires, and has already completed au
elaborate system of subterranean cables
from Konigabarg to Strasburg and from
Linden to Breslau, oonneoting 250 Ger
man towns. Ths sysVsm cost $10,000,-
000, and is working admirably.
Tn Rev. John Jasper decline? to
srgae aay more on the scientific gronuds
thet the ana moves rouud the oartli. He
seys that anybody who disbelieves a
plain end unequivocal assertion of the
inspired Scriptures is an infidel, on
wham he will not waste words.
A New York Judge declares that he
will deable the penalty to be inflicted
■pen e boy brought before him who ahall
prove to be e cigarette smoker. “Cigar
smekißg is bad enough,” he ears, “but
oigarette smoking is destroying the
brains and health of the young. Some
thing must be done to check it.*
Tm old bailding at Seventh and Mur
settle down, in some instances an iiu-li
and more. He oonoludos by citing the
fact that all men agree that women look
better in bathing suits than in stays.
A oocplr of hideous savages, man ami
woman, have been dragged from a cave
among the mountains of New Mexico,
where they were fonud two months ago
by a Capt. Lovett, and placed on ex
hihition in Denver. They were entirely
naked when discovered, frightful to look
upon, aud utterly devoid of intelligence,
put possessed of amazing strength. They
seem to be able to communicate with
each cither by inarticulate sonnds and
gestures ss beasts do, and though now
tractable, they are manifestly idiots.
They are supposed to be Pueblo Indiana.
Aooomdw* to statistics of the Franco-
German war, published by tho German
Government in August, 1870, 780,728
German soldier* crossed the French
frontier, followed during the wsr by
322,762 others. The soldiers remaining
in Germany were 400,000. At the dose
of the armistice the German army
counted 996,918 men. The army be
sieging Pari* numbered 180,000 meu,
while the Paris garrison numbered 230,-
men. The French lost 833,341 prisoners,
107 flags, 7,441 cannons, sad 855,000
firearms The loss of the German army
was 129,000 men. of whom 40,862 were
killed and 88.838 wounded; 17,572 were
killed on the field, and 10,710 died in
oonaequenoe of their wounds.
A Lomsnmi family contributed some
elothing for the flood sufferers. It was
afterward remembered that in the pock
et of a child’s garment was a silk hand
kerchief w its little owner's name
woven upon it. About* the same time
o::o of the young Ivuiie* of the family
missed a diamond ring, which, it was
supposed. had been stolen from the
house. A few days later an advertise
ment wa noticed giving the name of the
little owner of the silk handkerchief,
and saying that something of interest
could be learned by calling at a desig
nated street and number. The call was
made, ae : the handkerchief found with
the diamond nng wrapt**! up in it. Turn
family who had been at so much pains
to return the loot articles to their own
an bad lost everything by the flood.
Jtn> Oß AU,ISON, O t Philadelphia has
held that under the law of Pennsylvania
a sale of goods by sample does not
amount to a warranty that the article
sold and to be delivered shall correspond
in quality with the sample. He says
the risk is that of the purchaaer, who
moat “beware of the seller” in all such
purchases. Bat he adds that where “a
sample is made ths standard of quality,
an implication of warranty arises, as
where the buyer order* goods of ths
same quality as the sample or the seller
undertakes to deliver them of the same
quality." Inasmuch as all the grain sold
in bnlk and nearly all tbs merchandise
of the country is sold by sample and
can be traded in with expedition in no
other way, it might be well to hold the
sellers to a stricter responsibility than is
implied in Judge Allison’s decision.
The tonnage of the trading steamers
of England is nearly three times aa great
** that of the United States, France,
Germany, Russia and Italy combined,
and her colonial shipping is greater
than the whole mercantile marino of
France, Germany and Italy. That the
contiuuanee of such extraordinary pre
ket streets, in Philadelphia, where Jef
ferson is said to have written tho Decla
ration of Independence, ‘is being demol
ished to make room for a more modern
structure. The workmen engaged in
tearing it down have found a number of
gun-flints and other relics of revolution
ary days.
A noted physiologist has just con
cluded a series of special observations
which he says proves conclusively that
wearing corsets makes women tlrick-
and dumpy. The weaker the
muscles of the back, the back and body
ponderanoe may be insured, the London
Spectator says that the British navy
should be strengthened to the point o'.
being aide to successfully combat witlr
any combination of foreign navies that
could be brought against it. The Inflex
ible is proudly pointed to as the most
powerful vessel afloat, but the Thun
Jerer aud tho Dread naught have their
equals in other navies. The Spectaloi
argues that thirteen gunboats of tie
Alpha Beta class could bo built witli tie
money that would ho Decennary to pro
duce another Inflexible, and that three
of those terrible little craft would equal
her in destructive power. They would
present hut a small target, and if mink
the loss would uot be great Their ef
ficiency lies iu tho ease with which they
are handled, and a skillful nso of the
torpedo aud ram. In tho opinion of tbo
Spectator, the British navy should be
speedily strengthened, and it should be
done by the addition of vessels of this
class.
A Baby Carriage Hall.
A baby carriage in the hall.
Tho happiest piece of furniture that
any house cun laiaat, always making an
honorable exception in favor of tho
cradle.
That lni' y carriage menus-a home.
Without it, only a place to stav in.
It means a “dear little dimpled darl
ing”—that makes suushinoall tho time—>
when it hasn’t got the colio.
It means a happy mother, whoso life
is filled with all tender care, all sweet
responsibilities, all wonderful hojie for
the future.
It means a father who holds his head
Dp among men with the gi-audent dig
nity that any man may know.
To mother it is “Baby.”
To father it is “My boy."
That hnliy carriage in the hall means
all the wealth of rosy hours as mother
sings lullaby songs—perhaps,
“ Uuih mr denr, lie still and slumber.
Holy angels gua and thy bed."
When all the tim j she istheangel that
God appointed to guard it, as none of all
high heaven’s host eould do.
It means a word of plans aud projects
which all center iu that one little life.
It means a father that studies his bank
balance with wonderful diligence, for
“My son must have a good education,
and a good start in life,” you know.
And he goes home and catches the
laughing toddler up, and reddens the
dimples with his whiskers, and then put
ting sturdy little twelve-mouth’s old on
his feet, sets liim at his a, b, o of walk
ing, addressing him with comical dig
nity, “Well, Governor, where shall we
go now?”
And although ho only calls liim “Gov
ernor,” the mother's heart says—ami ths
father wouldn't deny it were she to put
it in words—that more likely it will be
President, in that dim, beautiful and
certainly very grand future.
Her choice, though, would be that he
should lie a good man and a happy one.
Between them With they parcel out for
his manhood's years all that makes life
worth the living.
That baby carriage In ths hall means
a good deal, does it not?
'lt means everything to the father and
mother. •
It means more than can be told.
If yon have such apiece of furniture in
use you know all about it
If you haven’t it's a waste of raw ma
terial to bother with you.— Wheeling
Leader.
American Olive Oil.
Wo notice in the Mining and Scien
tific. Press a formula for making olive
oil on a small scale, as produced in Cali
fornia, conparing this with a description
the J'harmaccutische ltandelsblatt
of the manufacture of olive oil iu south
ern France. In California they grind
the olives before pressure. This appears
to be an error: they should be crashed
between two stones turning against each
other vertically. We can quite under
stand that crashing ieiul3 to quite differ
ent results from grinding. Iu eider-pro
ducing comities in England apples are
prepared for eider iu the same manner as
the French prepare their olives, by grind
ing them under revolving stones. Cider
thus prepared will keep for years, and
improves with age, some say, on account
of an esseuti:d oil pressed from fhe ap- i
pie pips. Iu America cidei is made
from crashed or chopped apples, and
possesses neither the flavor or the keep
ing properties of that produced in Devon
shire or Herefordshire. England There
is another poiut which may be important
c.n the“llli-me.” The oil, when lilt-red,
is stored in stone vessels. Ou the pacific
they use tin cases.
The length of a degree of longitude is
tt the equator 69.16 statute miles ; at
latitude 20 degrees, 65.015 miles; at
latitude 30 degrees, 59.911; at 40 de
grees, 00.000 nuioa, wild 50 unices,
44.342 miles.
Z.VKS COLORADO PARK, 1873.
Wofs that you're restin' ? s novel? A nove
—welt darn my ki*!
You a man grown and bearded, and bisten
such atuff ez that in—
Stuff about sala and their sweethearts! no
wonder you're thin aa a knife.
Look at me:—clar two hundred—and never
read one In my life!
That’s my opinion o’novels. Andeztoiheir
lyin’ round here.
They belonged to the Jedge’a daughter—the
Jedge who c-tme up last year
On account of bis lungs and tbo mountain*,
and the balsam o' pine and Sr:
And his daughter—well, she read novels, and
that*a what’s the matter with her.
Yet she waa sweet on the Jedge, end stuck by
him day and night.
Alone in the cabin up yer—till she grew like a
Sheet aU white:
She was onl a slip of a thing, ez light and ez
up ana sway
Ez rifle smoke blown through the woods but
she wasn't my kind—no way!
Speak in' o’ gals—d’ye mind that house ez you
rise the bill,
A mile and a half from White’s, and jist above
MaUingby'a mill?
You do? Well, now, mar's a gal! What, you
saw her? O, com ■ now, tbar quit:
She wji only bedeVlin you boys, for to me she
don’t cotton one bit
Ilutwhatwasl talkin'of? o: the Jedge and
his daughler—she read
Novels the whole day long, and I reckon “ho
read them abed;
And sometimes she read them out loud to ibu
Jedge on the porch where he sat.
And 'twuahow “ Lord Augustus” said tbit, ill? i
how ‘"l.j'dy blanche” she said tUt
But tho sickest of all that 1 boerd, w. s a yum
ibat they rend 'tiout a chop.
“Lcath r-stocKing by o lino, and :i hunter
chock l ull o' the gre.inest o' sap;
And they asl.e t me to hear: but I says: “ "its
Mabel, not any for me:
When I likes Lkin sling my own lies, and :bct
chap and 1 shouldn't agree.”
Wit sorneh' jAfl other sir- always was sa iu’ 1
UroiigltfWdr to mind
Of folks about-whom she had read, or suth’n’
belike of thet kind:
And tlittr warn t’no end o’the names lie I ht
gave me th-t summer up here,
‘‘Robin Hood.” Leather-stocking,” "it .'i Roy ’
—O, I toll you, the critter wns queer.
Anti jet ef she b.'ln’t beui spiled, s: w.j
harmless enough Iti her way;
fjhe could Jabber In rr-ueh : her <’itd, slid
they sttid thet she knew how to pi i ,
And she worked me that shot pouch up t a:
which tho mail dnosti t l:v e : kin u
And slippers—you s o’em downyer— e,t v: ,:i!d
cr.iale an Injiu’g pa, pooso.
Yet along o' them novels, you see, sh w.ts
wnstin' mid mopin' nwa .
And till n she got shy Wi ll her tongue, :i:i ! at
last had noth n r to ray:
And whenever I happcnc t 'around. It r f.o o ;t
was hid by a book.
And it wam’t until she left that ah” g .vo me
or much ez a look.
And tills was tho way it was: II was nigh l
when I kem tip h r •
To say to 'em all good-by, for I reckoned to go
for deer
At sun-up the day they left, :o 1 shook ’i m all
bv the hand,
CeptM bel, and -he wat sick, oz they save
me to un In-stand.
Hu: list oz i passed the brut ■ tho next mom
lug ut dawn, some on -.
Like it little waver o' rnlst, got u > on tho hill
w.tlt tho sun;
Mias Mabel it whs. alone—sil wrapped up in a
mantle of luce—
And ho stood lucre straight in the roa‘, with
u touch o' the sun In her luce.
And she looked at me right in tho eye—l'd
soon siilhln’ like it i cfore
Whcn I hunted it wounded duo to the edge o’
Hi-* t lour lake shoo*.
And I had my knee on Its neck, and Jist was
raisin* my knife
Wi en it gave me a look llko that—well, It got
oir wita it t life.
•’We ire going today,” she said, ‘-and I
thought I would s.iygood-1 y
To you in your own house, l uke—thet * w< o !s
and the bright blue sky.
You've always been kind to its, Luke, and
pupa h/.* found you still
As good ns the air he breathes, an 1 wholcsu.no
ns bauret-Troe Hill.
“And we’ll always think of you, Luke, ns tho
thing we could not take away—
The balsam that dwells in the woods, the rain
bow that lives Iu tho -prav.
And you’ll sometimes ih nk of me, Luke, as
you know you one * used io say.
As rilie-sinoko blown through the woods, a
moment, but never to stay.”
And then we hands. Sho turned, but &
suiidmi^Phttciid amt fell,
And I caug!R her -h u p by the waist, and held
her it ininit—well—
It was onlva mlnir, you know, that ez cold imd
ez while Bhn 1 ly
Ez a SiinwMake here on my breast, nn l then
—well. she melted away—
And was gone * • • And thar ate her
ho ks; but I -ay not unv for me.
Good • nough ii ay bo for some, but them and
1 mightn't agree.
They sidled a decent gb I ez might have made
some chap a wife.
And look st me!—clar two hundred—and never
read one iu my life!
A CHANGE IN FORTUNE.
Mr. Timothy Bloom, salesman in Mr.
Crabb’s big retail dry-goods store, was
stealthily eating his lunch in a dusty
corner amongst some empty packing
boxes. It was not a very good* lunch,
and warm as the day was. he had but
one glass of ice water to drink w.th it
Avery mild, pleasant-iooking young
fellow was Timothy Bloom, w.th eves
liko a pretty girl’s, and fair hair parted
down the middle; but ho was rather
doleful at this moment, for Crnbbo.sen
ior, had just been abusing him for per
mitting a lady, who was not to be suit
ed by mortal salesman, to get off with
out buying anything, and had likewise
informed him that he had been live .ro
unds late that morning and would in
consequence “be deducted an eighth"
on Saturday evening.
That was not pleasant, and Mr
Crabbe's manner was i.ot pleasant, and
the dusty corner, and thu stale sand
wich were not pleasant. And who can
wonder that poor Timothy Bloom, look
ing up at a r* w of decorated 1 o -cit
boxes above h's head, an 1 taking h's
Idea from the winged in atit pictured
upon them, remarked, under his breath
“l wish / was a cherub."
At this moment, even as tin* wish
fluttered up to tho corset boxes. :• liulc
toy, about three feet high, bearing on
his bosom a badge with the enormous
number 1189, came around the 00 uvr,
nd lixed his pathetic eyes on Mr.
Bloom's glass of water.
“1 say, Mr. Bloom,’’ he whi-q cr.'d.
pathetically, “won’t you give me just a
mouthful of that water? Mr. Crab e
says us cashes ain’t to have no drinks,
and I'm chokin'.”
Mr. Bloom smiled pitifully at tho
child, a forlorn widow's bread winner,
and said mildly, as he held out the
glass:
“Here, Johnny, taka half. I’d 1 t
you have it all if we were not limited to
one glass ourselves.”
••Guess water is get-tin’ dear.” said
Johnny, eagerly swallowing the share
allowed of the cooling draught, but
scrupulously careful not to exceed ihe
permission
•‘Thank ’ee. You’re a brick. Mr.
Bumps hit me a lick when 1 asked him.
Here, bare tho paper? A customer left
it on tho desk. Save it for mo to take
homo to mar when 1 go home to-night.
She likes to read the murders and*them
things—”
‘•Cash T 189!” shrieked a female
voice. “Cash! Cash!”
“It’s Miss Pringle. I must go.”
whispered Johnny, and sped away in
terror.
There were ten cash boys in the store,
and they had been numbered high to
sound well.
Mr. Bloom peeped around the boxes
at the c ock, saw he had ten minutes
more to himself, and opened the paper.
The first thing his eyes lighted uoon
was an advertisement of a fine country
seat for sa’e, and he read it through—
the description of tho stables, bains,
bath-tubs, conservatory, veranda, lawn
and kitchen garden; the well, the oeta-
f on parlors and tho lupola; the tiled
alls and f res cord veilings, as though he
intended to buy it for himself thatar.er
noon.
Then he cast his eye upon an account
of hoar Mr. Mullen had bea en Mrs.
Mullen, and been arrested for so doing:
and then be found himself read ng a
paragraph to the effect that the lie rs of
Timothy B!onm, of Lancaster, Kngland,
if living, might hear of something to
their advanir.ge by applying to done -
Johnson, street.
“My name,’ thought Mr. Bloom, at
first. Then, with a start, he. remem
bered that he had heard ms grandfather
was Darned Timothy. Certainly, he
came from Lancaster, England." ills
father, David Bloom, had been an cuiv
son. He was an only son himself.
Weil, then, he was Timothy Bloom's
heir, if it should prove that the Timothy
Bioom inquired for was ready his fa'ti
er's father.
“But, oh, psha!’’ said Mr. Bloom.
“ This sort of thing couldn’t happen to
me. It’s some other Timothy, not p or
old grand ather.” And he <pied the
addre-s of Jones oz Johnson into his
pocket-book, and went back to his
counter quite calmly, though he wrote
<o Jones & Johnson that night.
However, wonder? will never eeaso
When Tim Bloom, the meekest of ail
young salesmen, went home ih, t fratur
day evening with a “deducted’ salary
and a scolding, he found Mr. .'oheson
himself in his boardiiig-hou-e parlor,
and an examination of the family Bible
in his possession, and of a certai bun
dle oi' yellow letters Ilia’ Mr. Bloom
had more than onvtj decided to hum,
but had, fortunately, spared, settled !he
matter. Half a million of money had
come to him in the regular course of a
ture, and he was richer not only than
Mr. Crabbe, but than any of his most
fashionable customers.
It was a wonderful surprise to little
Tin? Bloom, and lie scarcely grasped
the idea at first. Even after lie told
his chief confidant, his landlady's ret
ty grand daughter, Mebitable White,
a pretty, pink-cke ked, capable damsel,
called Hetty, for short—he only wont
so far as to think of a pair of patent
leather boot3 and a diamond cravat
pin.
lie!tv awakened him to a full realiza
tion of his changed condition hvsivinw,
rather -er ouslv, and look ng nwavlrom
him:
“Of course, grandma's won’t s :'t
you any longer, Mr. Bloom, and ymi l:
never lmve to go back to Crabbe *:■ o.’s
again.”
“Bv George! I never thought o' it;
so 1 aha’ n’t.” said’Tim Bloom “No
more counter jumping forme and if
Mrs White will let mo hire tiio hack
parlor. I’ll take that. Cos away? Not i."
“Not yet; it’s too soon,” sai i lie!
to herself; “but he’ll go who ; ho I; Tile
understands.”
“Let mo eonzratulate you, my de tr
Mr. Bloom,” said Mr. Cr.ibbe. bowing,
ns ho parted from tho dep irl ng -ieric
as he did to the carriage customers at
tho very siore-door. "I have alwa s
felt a superiority m you over the oilier
young men. I said to my daughter,
Belinda, the other day: If it c-c n t
for giving offense lo others I should ask
Mr. Timothy liioom to our litile even
ings. .‘•ometliing or the I’iiiice in dis
guise about him; but, an employer lias
nis duties. They sometimes make ■: s
heart ache; but ha iniqT Inro ;n
them.’ ”
Mr. Bloom -ememberod the placard
over tho water-cooler: “Cashc- 11 a al
lowed drinks;” “a cash who drinks
deducted one-half,’’ and thought that if
Mr. Crabbe really had a heart this must
bo time.
Tim Bloom was a rich man but ha
had no rich friends as yet. The clerks
at Crabbe A Co.’s had been alw.ivs
quarreling amongst themselves, and ho
had not known oue iu private.
The l>oarders were not “sociable;”
110 treated them to ioo cream sere -a!
times, and took Hetty White to a con
cert or two.
He improved his m nd in libraries
and museums, and set up a book-case
of his own, into which ho pit a miscel
laneous assortment of volumes; but
when one day ho rece vAI a perfumed
envelope, inviting him to a lawn ten
nis party at Mr. Crabbe.’s country seat,
he telt that the dissipations of the
wealthy had just begun for hint. Be
accepted, of course, and wen! atthed
in perfect style, and looking very well,
indeed.
Ho returned bewildered. Miss Crabbe
was very handsome. She play and and
sang and danced, aud was "stvlLli. ’
She had set her cap or him. and Mr.
Crabbe—yes, actually Mr. (Tabbo-had
plainly aliowea nun to see Ih: t ho
would give his eon<c’iit to the mulch.
“Two months ago he called me a
‘stupid idiot.’ Two months ago he
snubbed me. whenever he -poke to
me.” thought Tim Bloom •• Yes,
this is the old story; everybody every
body. even old Mrs. Wh te nattering
and eringing to my money. I wonder
whether Hetty is the sum -? And iu
the seclusion of h's own apartment,
poor, young Tim Bloom actually t ied:
though Mr. Crabbe called that even'og
and took him to a charming s :.g par' .
where the guests were pr'.ne p and y >n
the dry-goods line, and in e ery fli
roction"one’s ears caught :h.- roT.urk.
"sold a billot goods to a man.’ : nil
where evory one scorned to dr nk any
thing los- costly than champagne.
“You rascal,” sa : d the excellent
father, on the wav home. “I sec you
are afraid to speak, but 1 know you
couldn't keep your eyes off my Bel tula
last Wednesday.”
“Could I hope for your eonsent. if
aho —”
“My dear boy—ha! hul ha! Why, ask
her and see!” cried Mr. Crabbe. “it
has always been the wish of mv heart,
even when vou wo.ro a poor cleik. an<l
she (don t say i toiu you; always ad
mired you—always!”
At nine o'clock, one night. Mrs.
White's door bell rang, anil a messenger
boy handed in a letter—a big lett r,
with a big eal, and “immediate” on it.
What could it be? Something about tli;
property of course. Mrs. White car
ried it herself to -Mr. Bloom's room, and
as she handed it in saw him seated be
side a table, on which stood wine and a
tray of de icacies. Mr. Crabbe was at
supper with her boarder.
"Excuse me,” sai l Timothy.
• Oh! certainly,” said Mr. Crabbe.
Timothy opened the. letter, read it,
uttered a deep sigh, ar.d passed it to
Mr. Crabbe. Mr. Crabbe read it and
turned purplo.
“Do I understand it?” said Timothy,
hiding his face.
“Your lawyer says the property : s no
longer yours—that your grandfather
was not the r'ght Timothy Bloom, and
that the real heir will demand a res!ora
tion of all that vou h ,\e spent al
ready.”
• Yes, 1 was right,” said Mr. Hoorn.
“But, Mr. tra be. after all. 1 shall do
very well. 1 can go back to your si ore,
and Miss Belinda has quite asu ilcient
little fortune of her own. We can stUl
be happy.”
Mr. Crabbe leaped to h's feet.
• Sir! sir!" he sad. “th sis a great
piece of impertinence, sir. You haven't
spoken to 1 elinda.”
“But you assured me—” began Tim
othy.
“1 didn't!” shri’ked Mr. Crabbe.
“At least, I was mistaken. 1 came I ere
with ihe internum ot telling you upon
xny wo and and honor, that she can’t en-
dure you: and as lor the store..* <>u were
a most incompetent salesman. There
is no s'tuation open. Sorry for you,
but—Good-night. Good-eight."
“Good-Bight.” sad Timothy.
The ', ss the door c osed, he to k up
his letter and tarried it to ol I Mrs.
White, who. with Hetty as a-sistant,
was -ceding raisins for next days s pud
ding, silting one on either s'de o! the
drop-light in she dining-room.
.“i shall have to goe up the lack
parlor." said poor Timothy. “An !as
for my hal hall bedroom, id n’t know
bow to pay for thu'.. .or Mr. Crabbe
won't take me back."
‘Time owing ol<L- wretch!" sriJ
Mr-. II hite., “ ' o matter, Mr. Bloom.
I’ll trust you. Intentions be rt: r ght,
I never wi'il be hard on my boarders,
ad vou tan keep the par ov untit : s
hired, because ids more comfort abo”
“And try to keep up your spirits.”
said Hetty; “for, after all, money isn’t
everything.”
“It seemed too sudden to last,” said
Mrs. \\ bite. “I never trust these law
yers.” '
So the good souls *om orted him,
-and a ler a while, when he asked Hetty
Jo take a little w.t ; k with him. she - ou
sented.
'I here was a little park on the op
posite side of the street, and though
the gates were locked they wall ei
around its railings. Their talk was long
mid earnest, and at last Timothy -aid:
“Well. Hetty, poor as i am, will you
promise to marry me some day?"
. nd she had answered, “Yes. Tim.”
very simply -and so it was settled; and
for a v oung man, recently reduced ;r.uu
a;; uciice to poverty, Mr. "Bloom certain
ly looked \ cry happy as they went botnet
together. But it w.ri only when Mrs.
\\ hite had given her !o ing conso t to
his rimming licit. when the. had
enough for broad and buttes’, that he
made confession:
”1 ran’t keep tto mi df an v longer,
grandma. I wr-.te 1 hat letter tm self,
fm as rich as J ever was, and I’ve
tested tnv friends. Old Crabb has
proven ’'also, and you have proven ’rue.
1 felt sure about Hetty all tho while;
aud 'then we are married you must live
with us, and there shall be no more
hard work and boarder- for you u this
world, you dear old soul.”
After" which the reader is to rn.lcr
stand a wedding aud a happy life .or
all. —Mury Kr,k Hal fits, in ,\. i'. L<_d
Catching Smelts In Bake Champlain.
Winter fishing is now being enjoyed
by those wiio are fond of the s;,ort.
The lake at Burlington has just closed
in, and tho smelt-; shot's have moved
their little huts on runners out to the
accustomed grounds. Modern improve
ments have made this sport one of the
most luxurious imaginable. Instead of
kneeling in the cold wind beside a con
stantly freezing hole in the ion, the fish
erman now sits at case in his neat litile
movable house, warmed by a stove, and
keeps watch of two or three Lues !e‘
down through holes in the floor and
corresponding holes in the ice. lie
smokes an 1 re eels, 1 r talks with a
companion, and is as comfortable as a
millionaire before his grate of glowing
sea-coal. Besides being a lazy tmiii e
ment smelt fishing is a pretty profitable
employment, as the fish are exceeding
ly t othsome, and bring ago and pri e in
the local markets. An attentive and
persistent fiskerman will make about
as much out os iiis day’s sport as a
laborer who comes home sore and still
at night with his hard-earned pittance.
The genius who sits < n his bench and
mamjju'ates tho little lines is usually a
jolly, hospi able sort of a fellow, and
is | erfectly willing that the bine 11 fed
skate"? should seek refuge oceasiona'ly
in his cosy little house, and even
permits him to handle % oneof the lines
for a while. If he should chance to
bring a young lady companion with
him. the ancient fisherman becomes a
model of gallantry, lie lays his black
pipe under the stove, resigns his warm
scat to the fair one, amt places all hif
piscatorial resources at her command.
It is pleasant to note the immense satis
faction with which he resigns to her the
line upon which he has just detente 1 a
timid nibble, and when, fallowing his
directions, sho hooks the unhappy li.-h
and draws it up through the ice with a
little scream of mingled terr. r and de
light. his eyes shine with approbation
and pie sure, and he tools as proud as
did the Canadian woo Ism.in who ini
tiated the Princess Louise into tho mys
teries of salmon-lishlng. But when lie
removes the struggling \ ietim and coolly
bites out its eyes with his teeth for a
fresh bait, the situation becomes em
barrassing in tho extreme, and the cosy
hut no longer possesses any attraction
for tho young skaters. They beat a
Ere ipitate retreat, leaving the hospita
ls proprietor in such a state of aston
ishment and perplexity that 110 sticks
the fish’s eye into his pipe and puts a
slice of plug tobacco on the hobk. There
is such bewilderment in the memory of
a pretty face! - Hurling ton (1 ’t.) Cor.
Troy ( N . 1.) Times.
Seir-I stcem.
A reasonable amount of self-stoem is
necessary to secure a man's success in
life; and there are few characters into
which it does not enter to a great extent.
We laugh at our neighbors, their foibles
and absurdities excite our amusement,
because we consider ourselves superior
to like weaknesses. Their troubles cause
ns distress; but is not eveu divine com
passion a form of self-love, or rather,
self-pity? Do we not grieve for others
in proportion as we are able to put our
selves in their place, and picture what
we should feel under ths same circum
stances? The reciprocal regard for one
another's interests, the mutual esteem,
the exchange of kind offices, which con
stitute friendship, find their chief source
too, in self-love. If we have been in
clined to esteem any one ever so highly,
let it be but whispered in our ear that
that same person does not think mnch of
ns, and we immediately find out that
he is not nearly so charming as we had
imagined, and that his good opinion is
not, after all, worth having. On the
other hand, among our acquaintances
there may be an individual whom we con
sider but weak-minded and ignorant,
and think, in fact, quite beneath our
notice. Wait a little; it comes to our
knowledge that this same creature whom
we have been despising, has an immense
admiration for us. All our ideas change
directly, and we discover all his bidden
merits; he has at least powers of dis
crimination, and is some judge of ehar
racter. We like our neighbors much
more for the virtues they Ibid in us than
for any we discover in them, whether we.
choose to acknowledge it or not. But it
ia perhaps in the passion of love that
the very alcohol of egotism is to be found;
lovers never weary of each others so
ciety so long as they can keep up the in
tensity of mutual admiration; their tete
a-tetes are always interesting, for they
perpetually talk about themselves, and
should their love be crossed, both would
probably rather that the loved one should
be miserable than indifferent. They are
completely ruled by the self that rules
Sue wv&ui.
A Direful Disease.
One of the South Lawrence census
enumerators, says the Eagle, stopped at
a house the other day where, from the
front door-knob, hung a fold of crape,
showing that the grins messenger had
called and summoned a soul to the
far beyond. Had he not been r. Govern
ment employe ho might have shirked his
duty in this instance, but with du re
spect for the relatives of the depai-ad
dead one, he stepped lightly to the r ar
door, rapped and was admitted, ife
found there, seated in a chair, w ith i
bead bowed down in grief, an aged man.
After stating his business he asked the
necessary questions, which were readily
Answered. Finally he inquired who was
dead.
“My wife, sir,” sorrowfully replied the
aged man.
“ What did she die of ?” was the next
question.
“Of improvements, sir,” was the re
ply.
“Of what?” again asked the enumer
ator, who thought the man did not fully
understand Iris question
“Of improvements, sir, of improve
ments,” again was the reply, more em
phatic than before.
“ How could that be?” asked the enu
merator, his curiosity now thoroughly
aroused. s
“Well,” said the man, slowly and
thoughtfully, “the doctor came Monday
night aud said she was improving, ho
came Tuesday morning and said she was
improving. Tuesday night ho cam.: and
told me she was improving, he came
Wednesday morning and she was dead.
Yes,” continued tho old man, “she died
of improvements.”
The enumerator did not press his ques
tion further.
Meat Bread.
M. Seheurer-Kestncr has discovered
the remarkable fact tkatthe farme T tion
of bread cutises the complete di-v - .ion
of meat. llj found that b.-, f-tiak cut
into small pieces, and mix ed with fl .nr
and yeast, disappeared entirely during
the process of pauifleation, its nutritive
principles becoming incur] -rated with
the bread. The meat would idso aiqtoor
capable of preservation for an indefinite
period ii? its now state, for loaves of meat
{.read made in 1873 were submitted to
the French Academy of Science, when
not a trace of worms or mouldiin ;• - was
observable. At the beginning of his ex
periments, M. Sehetuvr-Kcxti” ’r n* and raw
meat, three parts of which, finely tuisteed,
he mixed with five piuTs of flour and tho
seme quantity of yeast. Sufficient water
was added to make the dough, which in
due time began to ferment. After two or
three hours the meat disappeared, and
the bread .was baked in the ordinary
manner. Thus prepared, the meat bread
had a disagreeable taste, which was
avoids! by cooking the meat for an hour
witksufficieut water to afterwards moisten
the flour. The meat must be carfuUy
deprived of fat, and only have sufficient
salt to bring out tho flavor, as salt by
absorbing moisture from the air would
tend to spoil the bread. A part of the
beef may be replaced with advantage by
salt lard, which is found to improve the
flavor. The proportion of meat to flour
should not exceed one-half, so as to insure
complete digestion. Bread made with a
suitable proportion of veal is said to
furnish excellent soup for the sick aud
wounded.— English Meehan i c.
And Drink, Too.
Bo great are the ravages of the pkyl
loxeria in France, that unless some
means can be soon devised for arresting
the progress of H4O evil, wine-making
there, which has long been one of the
ehief industries, must necessarily come
to an end. Whether this country will
be able to supply the deficiency in the
wine supply thus created, remains yet
to be proved. If any attempt to do so.
•hall be made we shall not only have to
pay even more attention than heretofore
to the improvement of our varieties of
grapes, but we shall also have to gvcatly
•ulargo the area of our vineyards. In
ordinary times the vintage of France
•mounted to between 1,600,000,000 aud
2,000,000,000 gallons, worth about $350,-
000,000.
Since the first appearance of the phyl
loxera in France, in 1865. it lias spread
through fourteen departments, entirely
ruining the vineyards, and despite the
•tudy and experiments of the best scien
tists, and liberal rewards offered by the
government, no remedy has yet l>cen
discovered. Already the supply of wine
from Madeira, which used annually to
export an average of 460,000 gallons,
has been cat off by the destruction of the
vines by the vine mildew—Oidium Tuck
sri—while the same cause has been
squally fatal to the vines iu the Canary
Islands, which every year used to send
abroad 6,000,000 of Canary wine, very
much like Madeira. Iu Spain too, the
region which supplies sherry, nnd in
Portugal, that which supplies port, aro,
it is reported, both suffering from the
phylloxera and vino diseases, so that e
wine famine seems immiueut in the near
latino.— Rural New Yorker.
Don’t Tell Yonr Age.
A woman isn’t obliged to tell her age
in Prussia, according to a recent de
cision of the Appeal Court at Metz. A
lady there, when courted by a man, ac
cepted him, allowing him to think shw
was six years younger than Bbe really
was. When the wedding came off, she
would have to produce the official certifi
cate of her birth, so she altered it to
make it agree with her previous asser
tion to her lover. In some process of
red tape the forgery was detected by e
clerk, and the bride woe arrested for
falsifying a public document, tried, oon
victed, and sentenced to three months'
imprisonment. She appealed ; and the
Superior Court reversed the sen
tence, the Judge declaring that de
fendant did not intend to commit an ille
gal act, but was probably actuated
merely by female vanity. A woman’s
age has thus been officially declared te
bs her own property.
Speech and Si*e.
The. Power of Speech. —A man vho=
cannot use his eye* should use hi*
tongue.
Man’s darkened soul can call for *
light when it cannot strike a light.
The spiritually blind man can utter a.
loud and exeeedingly-bitter cry that
shall pierce heaven and enter into th
ear and heart of God.
Sue. —Bigness is not greatness; and
yet smallness is in itself no blessing,
though it may be the occasion of a man’s
winning one.
Happily for little tnen the giants have
seldom any great wit.
It is not pleasant ii see every one
about you a bigger pet -on than yourself.
Yet this is a sight mary do see who are
not dwarfs in statue .
Delicious Pineapple Custard.— On
the day before you wish to use the cus
tard; peel and pick to pieces with two
forks a nice pineapple. Put plenty' of
sugar over it and set it away. Next day
make a custard, and when cool mix
with the pineapple, which will have
become soft and luscious, and thoroughly
sweeter cri.