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GENERAL NEWS,
The females outnumber the males in
Alabama by 17,24".
There are ever ICO varieties of timber
in Murray county, Ga.
-There are 60,000 orange trees at Bay
St. Louis, Mississippi.
There will soon be three cotton-seed
mills in and around Cheraw, Ala.
From one acre of long staple cotton in
Bank in county, Mississippi, Mr. W.
Waddell realized $260.
The Ben. Hill residence in Athens,
Ga., which seme time since sold for $6,-
000, is now held at 112,000.
A young lady near Bainbridge, Ga.,
has about four acres in onions and ex
pects to realize 11,500 on the crop.
The number of bearing orange trees
trn Halifax river, Fla., is estimated at
300,000, New groves are being planted
all the time.
A bill w ithdrawing all public lands
in tire State from sale or lease for two
years is to be ihtroduced into the Texas
Legislature.
The Key West sponge fleet, number
ing 70 vessels and about COO men, is out
on a cruise. A large catch of sponge
brings about $300,000 into that city.
The entire police force of Birming
ham, Ala., have demanded higher wages,
and refused to work. They are being
paid SCO per month in city script, dis
counted twenty per cent.
Almost within sight of the Court
house at Monticello, Fla., there are 300
acres of watermelons and 00 acres in
potatoes. These crops are estimated to
bring the producers $20,000.
The North Carolina State Board o
Agriculture have decided to make a full
display of State products at the fair of
the New England Mechanic’s Institute,
at Boston, in September next. An am
ple appropriation will be made to secure
air admirable display.
The Charleston News and Courier
states that South Carolina phosphates
are in demand in almost every market,
and South Carolina fertilizers are pro
nounced by progressive farmers to be
the cheapest and at the same time the
mist valuable commercial manures that,
can be used in tbe cultivation of our
various crops. More than $3,000,000 arc
invested iu the manufacture of fertil
izers in that State, and a very large cap
ital is also employed in the mining of
phosphate rock.
The great hulk of the jugwarc need in
the South i* manufactured above Ath
ena, where clay especially adapted to
thin purpoae is found. It is taken from
the banka of atreama and all the work
done by hand. A man can manufacture
about 100 gallons a day, but a one-leged
jug-maker in Jackson county easily put
up 200 The clay is first gtpund,
•very luiujfcarefully weighed, when the
▼easels are formed around a revolving
wheel turned by the foot. They are
then baked in furnaces and g'azed with
glasi. They sell for about four cents a
gallon at the works.
The story is told that some distance
down the Georgia railroad, not far from
Augusta, a ease was before a Justice,
and an Augusta lawyer was one of the
attorneys employed. The lawyer, har
ing all the facts and the law that he
desired in the case, made little or no
argument before the Justice, but to his
utter astonishment the case was decided
against him. After court was over the
lawyer went to the Justice privately and
asked him how in the name of common
sense he could decide that ease as he
did. He simply replied: “ Well now,
sir, we Justices know a great deal more
about these cases than is ever brought
up before the court.
Montgomery, Ala., has the following
m&ufactories now in operation: Two
oil mills, one flouring mill, one cotton
mill, two planing mills, four grist mills
two ice manufactories, two candy man
ufactories, two sodawater manufactories,
two carriage manufactories, one furni
ture manufactory, one broom manufac
tory, one tinware manufactory, on
clothing manufactory, one wagon man
ufactory, one cigar manufactory, one
fertilizer works, one iron works, two
marble works, two railroad machine
shops, one railroad oar work*, one gin
andmachine works, one cotton compress,
one oil refinery, two iron foundries,
four printing houses, four brick yards.
The above makes a total of *l-1 establish
ments in operation, which is a fair ex
hibit for a city comparatively unknown
as a manufacturing point.
There is talk in Georgia of purchasing
Liberty Hall, Alexander Stephen’s late
residence, by voluntary contributions,
and retain in it the famous rolling chair
and other relics, making it a peculiar
pilgrim shrine for tl e people of the
State, especially the young men. It is
also suggested that the State employ
some famous sculptor to make a statue
of the late governor, seated in a roller
chair, for Georgia's contribution to the
liatfonol Capitol.
The Kiml Father.
A man went to a din-tor and told him :
“Doctor there is something the mat
ter with bit brain. Alter any severe
mental exertion 1 have headache. What
is the remedy tor it ? ”
“ The best remedy is to got yourself
elected to the Legislature, where you
will have no occasion to think."
The patient replied if it wasn't for the
sake of his children lit- would make the
experiment. He didn’t want them to
go through life with a stigma attached
io their names- _
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
The largest vessel in the English navy
sost 'a million and a quarter to build,
snd nearly a thousand dollars a day to
keep them at sea afterward.
English railroads have paid, since
1870, over $5,000,000 in damages fur
personal injuries to passengers. In 1870,
$1,436,000 were paid in this way.
The estimated expenses of the Gov
ernment for 1884 are placed at $340,280,-
102. The amount of import duties is
estimated at $235,000,000, and of inter
nal revenuo at $145,000,000.
Miss Mart A. 11. Gat, who was prom
inently instrumental in establishing the
Confederate Soldiers’Cemetery at Frank,
lin, Tenn., has now undertaken the task
of raising money for a monument to the
late Senator Hill, of Georgia.
Tjie charge for third class passengers
per mile on tho railways of India has
been reduced to about one-half cent.
The result has been a large increase in
traffic, the poorer classes availing them
selves more generally of the railways.
New York City has 2,000 rag-pickers,
whose collections are valued at $750,000
per year, while the handcarts engaged in
tlio same business gather $3,000,000
worth. The entire rag trade of the comy
Iry reaches about $30,000,000 annually.
Children born before the marriage of
their parents can not inherit property
unless by will, according to a statute ex
isting in New York. A different law
prevails in Pennsylvania, where the sub
sequent marriage of their parents legiti
matizes the children.
It is estimated that the wheat crop of
he prosent year in the United States
wiil fall below that of 1882 by at least
50,000,000 bushels. Much of the wheat
throughout the Northwest and West is
reported to bo winter, killed by the ex
ceptionally cold weather.
William P. Ai.i.en and Iloraco E.
Jones, of Caribou, Me., have bought
10,000 acres of land in Aroostook Coun
ty, in that State. This land will be set
tled by immigrants from Sweden, ami a
new town will be organized that will
probably be named Stockholm.
The Treasury Department lias made
contracts for the establishment of euttle
quarantine stations at Baltimore, Boston,
Portland, and New York. ,is the pur
pose of ths department to pgt a thorough
system of cattle quarantine into opera
tion at the earliest practicable day.
Philadelphia is rejoicing in' the suc
cessful opening of tbe cable motor rail
way, a substitute for the horse railway,
and regarded as a much more agreeable
substitute than the elevated road. The
cable runs at the rate of seven miles per
tiour.
At a wood catting contest in McKean
County, Pa., a few days ago, two women
won tho first prize for crosscut sawing,
the contestants
women really dcsifl
men in uuliislriaAMfl
ftfey*
them.
Investigation shows that in Utah tho
Mormon Church has 120,000 members,
in tho Western States and Territories
about 80,090, aud in tho Sandwich
Islands about 7,000. It has about ninety
chnrohes iu Groat Britain, and tho do
nomination is one of tho largest iu the
southern part of Wales.
Dr. E. E. Showwaltkr, of Mobile,
Ala., has presented to the University of
Alabama his collection of fossils and
marine fresh-water shells, embracing
more than one hundred thousand speci
mens, together with a fine library of
scientific works. It is said to be one of
tbe best collodions in the United States.
.Tottm G. Whittier thinks that the
old ludian policy of reservations is no
longer available. “Tho Western tided
immigration,” ho writes, “is everywhere
■weeping over the lines. What is need
ed,’’he adds, “is that not only the Indian
schools should be more liberally sup
ported, but that new ones should be
opened without delay. The matter does
not admit of procrastination.”
In cutting away the knolls abont the
old fort at Lake George, N. Y., to obtain
earth mid gravel for repairing the rail
road embankment, the workmen lately
dug iuto what was doubtless at one time
the military burial ground. Seven skel
etons were exhumed, nearly all of which
bear the marks of battle, t Hie skull has
a bullet-hole in the forehead, and when
the sand was shaken from it out dropped
tlio flattened bullet.
Dr. Yorsa. in liis work on “Malaria
and its Effects,” says: “When the
poison of malaria exists in the human
body in a hidden form, it will exei/e mid
complicate any disease to which the
body may be disposed. It becomes a
great danger when complicated with
local affections of the lungs, heart, liver,
and kidneys. The liver should pass out
two and one-half pounds of bile daily.
The kidneys also relieve the system of a
proportionate amount of poison.
I.rrz, the composer, has been supposed
to entertain the same enmity for the Jews
that was evinced by Wagner, but in a
letter just published iu a Hungarian
newspaper he denies that such is the
case, and says that Meyerbeer, Heine,
and other Jews were long his personal
friends, lie also speaks of various
services that he rendered to meritorious
Jewish artists, and of aid that he gave
numerous Jewish benevolent institutions
iu different countries during liis long
public career.
Tite English rate of telegraphing is to be
lowered to sixpense for an ordinary mes
sage. any distance. Tho motion J-dar
ing the redaction advisable was
against the wishes of the government,but
time will undoubtedly make manifest its
wisdom. Cheap telegraphing is a neces
sity. The English Government is com
pelled to meet this need by arbitrary
reductions. In this country the demand
is likely to be answered by ingenious in
ventions, which of themselves work arev
olution in methods of transmission and
expenses of operating. Where improve
ments are desired in order to cheapen the
cost of a system an ounce of private en
terprise is worth a ton of government
inertia.
Da. Wa. James, of Harvard Univer
sity, has made some experiments to test
the modern theory of the semi circular
canals of the ear, instead of being con
nected with the sense of hearing, servo
to convey the feeling of the movement
of the head throngh space, which, when
intensified, becomes dizziness. He sub
jected deaf mutes to rapid whirling. Of
518, 186 were wholly incapable of being
made dizzy, 134 were made dizzy in a
very slight degree, and 139 were nor
mally, and in a few cases abnormally,
sensitive. Of 200 students arid instruc
tors, but a single one proved exempt
from vertigo. These results seemed to
Dr. .James to support the theory which
was the object of his inquiry.
When the new electric lights in the
Big Mountain colliery, near Shenandoah,
were first put in opera ties
ago, seven dozed T ' , t ,
ah. h for flv y or , iwj m.'
luminary than lanterns,
flci; into the depths of the
workmen tell interesting stories about
the habits of colliery mules, their tough
ness, their contentment, and their total
depravity. Several months ago the
lower levels in the largest colliery at St.
Clair wero Hooded, work was stopped,
and all the mules wero hoisted to the
surface. More than n dozen of them
had passed eleven continuous years iu
the mine, and had apparently forgotten
that there was a world of grass and sun
shine, for when they wero turned out to
pasture they huddled together in evident
alarm, and for a whole day did nothing
but gaze on earth and sky. The prob
ability is, that they wore at first blinded
by the glare—a common experience with
their kindred under similar circum
stances. dust as they wero beginning
to enjoy their new life work was resumed
in the mines, and they to
thoir old home in tho darkness.
A Knotty Problem.
It was a severe retort; and yet a mer
ited reproof for a piece of uncalled-for
asperity and uukindnoss, if not of down
right indecency.
They wero in the small cabin of a river
ferryboat. Two young ladies sat to
gether, one of whom had just hod an
amlirotypo likeness, or miniature, of
herself taken, whieh she was exhibiting
to her companion. She was an ordinary
appearing girl—she of the ambrotype
—with one exception: slie hod a very
largo nose—an enormous nose for such a
face. it
On the sent opposite sat a middle-aged,
fatlieriy-looking man, to whom an ain
brotype was something now. His garb
nnd general appearance bespoke a man
of the rural district. As tho owner of
tho pictMe w<* about to put it away,
this ma* .iff ou\ his hand,. and asked if
JuMui“that
at him indignantly.
“What is my picture to you ?” she re
torted, angrily. “Just you mind your
own business 1"
For a moment the innn was as one
thunderstruck; then ho seemed hurt,
and pained; and, finally his honest face
was stamped with disgust.
After n timo lie caught tiie gaze of the
damsel fixed upon him ns though half
ashamed of herself; but alto would not
break tho silence. He, however, ven
tured:
“You’ll pardon me, miss; Imt I had a
particular reason for wanting to see that
ore pictur o’ yonrn.”
“Well,” sniffed tho girl, with a de
termined effort to maintain her assumed
dignity, “what might that particular
reason have been V”
“Wal—it might a’ been a good many
things; but really I was curious to see
how in the world the man ’at made tho
pietnr ever contrived to get that nose on
to so small a plate!”
At that moment the boat touched tho
landing, and the countryman picked up
his bundle, bowed politely at the chok
ing, quivering damsel, and moved on.
Voting (Jiinlifications in tlio State of
lilimlc Island.
Tlio franchise in Rhode Island not
being very well understood by the gen
eral public, the following explanation of
the matter is made as brief and succinct
as possible: There are two classes of
voters in Rhode Island, property ami
registry voters. Both can vote for all
general officers, Mayors aud general city
officers, and Presidential FJeetoi's, but
only property voters can ballot for mem
bers of City Councils in cities, the idea
governing this latter franchise being that
only property-holders can have an inter
cst- iu the question of taxation. Qualifi
cations of voters are distinct. First,
natives of the United States can become
registry voters by a residence of two
years iu the State and six months in the
town*, or they become property voters by
a residence of one year and owning $134
value of real estate* Second, those born
in foreign countries must be naturalized,
must live one year in the State, and must
ow n $134 worth of real estate in all eases.
They cannot become registry voters, nor
voters in any way, except by owning real
estate, but when made voters by owning
such real estate, they vote for officers of
every kind. It is this imperative clause,
that in Rhode Island naturalized citizens
must own real estate to the value of
$134, which is not generally known. Be
sides the qualifications for registry
voters, these persons must have their
names duly entered in the registry list
before the end of December of the
preceding year, and must pay $1 registry
fee before the 10th day of January of the
year iu whieh they intend to vote. Reg
lstrv voters of American birth can be
come property voters by p*aying a tax on
$134 w orth of property, real or personal.
Men native born, without property, real
or personal, may be taxed for a nominal
sum of S3OO personal property, so called,
said thus become property voters.
An Irishman applied to an overseei
of a ship-yard to lx- put on a job. He
w*os informed that his request could not
ho complied with ; but, as Pat continued
to gaze at an anchor which was lying in
the vicinity, the foreman repeated his
reply that there was no work for him,
and advised him to go away. “Divil a
bit will 1 stir, sorr, till I see the man
that’s going to use that pick 1 ”
TILE ALL-GOLDEN.
*
X. J **
Through every happy line I sin g
I feel the tonic of the spring.
The flay is like an oM-time face
3 at gleams across seme grassy place—
/.n oM-time face—an old-time chum.
Who rises from the grave to come
Ar.fl lure me backdUong the ways
Of Time’s ull-goldc-n yesterdays.
FwecWßay! to thus remind me of
The truant boy 1 used to love —
To set, once more, Ms finger tips
Against the blosjym of bis lips,
And pipe for ite t u- signal Known
Jiy none but he and I alone!
n.
I sec, across the school-room floor
The shadow of the open door,
And dancing dust and sunshine blent,
Slanting the way the morning went,
And beckoning my thoughts afar
Where reeds ar.d running waters are;
Where amber-colored bayous glass
The half-drowned weeds and wisps of grass;
Where sprawling frogs, in loveless key,
King on ami on incessantly.
Against the dim wood's green expanse
Tbe cat-tail tilts its tufted lance,
While on its t : p—one might declare
Tho white “snake-feeder” blossomed there!
in.
I catch my breath, as children do
In when life is new,
And all the bTfod Is warm a- wine
And tingleswth a tang divine.
My soul the atmosphere
And <iod can hear,
f ”' v a i
| f O’i l '.
IV hr.-,! !. blew
* ,
jtnd luftMis back along the ways
' n. Time's allyrolden yestenluvs!
—Jnnwt Whltwmb kiltu, in liulinnaooUs Jour
nal.
MY LOVE MTOKV.
“ no underwriters for human
"-Hi p:<-
•rc ncc
I IfHi !• mili 1 a’l day, t<• !>ij
by faJMWthe devil. All summer lonjr
I had been trying to clasp hands for a
life journey with a mail I did not love;
a man nobft of soul and born to the
purple, whivsi'i up high lineage against
tny poorgi?ft of beauty and song. lie
threw fiatfc log* l into the scales, ton, hut I.
< iod helper", bad none to give in return.
I had bartered crcwhilc my whole pos
sessions fora few glances of a dark,
dark eye, tpd my note had gone to pro
test.. ,
Could I, could 1? It kept following
me about jM fateful persistency, for
to-night .kfkhvto give my answer to my
high -born'An or.
I tried to look tilings in the face, to
count the cost.
Moneyw&js a good tiling: it insured
one warmth in winter and delicious cool
ness in stpimer, and prettiness and
daintiness, mid the entrance into good
society. money was a good thing,
and position and power, and houses
and lands. -Ho far, good; but my soul
hungered aid thirsted for a love com
mensurate with my own, which this
man, who offered me purple and gold,
had it not ij his power to give, or, let
me qualify jiat, had it not in his nature
to give. (j
The stars’eame out golden and soft,
and the fragrant summer dusk crept
around me yhrrel sat inhaling the scent
of the rosesj Ambition and love tore
my heart hi turn, and weariness, too,
put in a MHpitiful plea, for I was co
tired, so t^tl.
lt£**jJyiiftnt future that Reginald
1 Wherein toil and
i
of the line linen; the lux-~
minus rest; the emoluments! Then my
daily life passed in review before mo—
tliat of companion to a haughty, line
lady, anil a singer in a fashionable
church, among fashionable saints and
sinners. I begau to croon over the old
satire:
*'.ln u church which is varnished with imillion
and *rnble.
With altar and reredos, with garßoylo and
groin,
Tlie penitents' dresses are sealskin and sable.
The odor of sanctity's can de cologne.
Hut surely ii .Lucifer Hying from Hades,
Could gate at this crowd, with its paniers
and paints.
He would say, looking round at the lords and
the ladles,
•o where is All Sinners, if this is All
Saints?’"
1 had entered upon this life from :iu
unloved and unloving home, a home
doled out to me lty the tardy justice of
a grand-uncle who had robbed me of my
inheritance. 1 thought at (irst 1 might
find tho sangreal somewhere in this
new country, which seemed so fair, but
alas! I had not even heard the swish
of wings.
I thought of it all—the fever and the
fret; the petty jars; the misunderstand- '
ings; the pain of incomprehension; the
unguerdoned toil; the lagging hours;
the awful pauses.
This or marriage: this or marriage.
It seemed written like a placard on
earth and sky. It seemed hound like
phylactery upon the brows of the peo
ple as they passed to and fro; and soon
tin' word marriage lost all its signifi
cance fof 1 mo. as words do after oft iv
pealing. l>id it mean misery or happi
ness, bliss or woe? This marriage
that rung its changes through m.v brain
was it God-appointed? Did it mean
(iod’ blessing or His curse?
You know 1 did not love this roan
Who offered me rest from my labors,
lie had not power to evoke cue thrill at
his call. Hut then love is only one
reason why one should marry a man.
There might he love and plenty of
money, anil yet one go hungry all one’s
life. 1 have known such things.
1 had tried to make my life straight
and fair. I had tried to keep dean
hands and a pure heart; tried—God
who knows the secrets of all hearts,
knows this —to tight despair.
" * * * I one. preen days.
Worn bare of grass and suushine; long calm
nights
From which the silken sleeps were fretted
out—
Be witness for me."
We see through shadows all our life
long. We come into this world with
out our being given a choice as to our
advent,and go out of it in the. same man
ner.
We have not been consulted as to
birth or death. More and more the prayer
of Kmotei us haunts me. “Lead me. Zeus
and Destiny, whithersoever 1 am ap
pointed to go: I will follow without
wavering: even though l turn coward
and shrink. I shall have to follow all
the same.”
Should I marry Mr. iiacrc? AY as he
a good parti? as' the world said. Too
good for me, as my lady elegantly
phrased it.
1 had been born into the world amid
fierce throes of mental anguish. My
mother’s heart was rent with the great
pain of my father's sudden death —
drowned off llie Cornish coast, for I was
born at sea. She lived until I was ten
years old, a life of sorrow, anil poverty,
and renunciation. Then she died, leav
ing me to the care of a compassionate
world and my uncle. Of him I have
already spoken.
My life dragged on with clogged
wheels. I was always at war with
my surroundings. Though too proud to
express it, I had never realized my
ideal of womanhood, or in any way
grown up to my aspirations and line.nis.
If I had grown :it all it bad been
through pain and repression—a fatal
thing always for a warm-hearted,
earnest woman.
My unclb. Edward Earle, had pro
cured me the friendship (?) of the lady
in whose house I had passed a tv, - Ive
month —Mrs. Lucien Granger, a distant
cousin of his own. I was an unsalaried
governess or companion, our remote
cousinsbip being always made available
by my uncle. It was during my resi
dence with that lady that mv fate eame
to me. A young nephew of Mrs. (i ran
ger's came to the hail. He was an ar
tist. young and handsome, and fresh
from a four years’ sojourn in Some.
I need not weary you with the pro
logue or the epilogue of our love, for
words are so poor to express the heart's
utterance. O golden days! O t inder,
passionate nights'. O princely heart,
come back to me!
Alan Leighton was the last son of a
high-born family, and because of the
blue blood—tho united blood of all the
Howards—flowing in his veins. Mrs.
Granger interpo.-ed her liat against our
love, dreading, doubtless, the plebeian
admixture of mine.
It is a pity that blood does Dot always
tell. It was an inglorious triumph to
me—yet still a triumph— to bare my
white arms to the shoulder during our
gala nights—to which my voice was al
ways invited—contrasting their satiny
smoothness and perfect contour with tho
lean, brown appendages Mrs. Granger
folded over her aristocratic heart.
Put a cloud crept into the sky, and
its shadow fell across our path.
Alan was called suddenly by telegram
to England, where his grand old father
lay dying. We had but a moment for
our farewells, for Alan’s heart was rent
with sorrow, and J helped to expedite
his departure.
But one letter over reached me. Ills
father was dead, and he was Sir A lull
now.
“Mv Precious Helen: My father, whom I
loved arid respected above ail men. died yes
terday. I need not tell you how desoiati
feel, anil how tho light seemsto bat e de and out
or every nook and corner. My dear mother is
prostrated with the blow whieh ha* : iLen
away the lover of herye-iitb, ar.d I not
be able to return to you for some weeks. An
nounce our betrothal, dearest, to my aim* and
uncle, which, you know, was mv intention the
very niirht J was called away, lie trio* to me*,
iny (lading Helen, as ] shall be true to you.
(inod-nivli{’ear love. I eluvll write at leeirth
ns soon ns my mother and I have rent ured our
plans l'or her lonely future, Hood-night, yood
uljrtit. May angels (ruble yon, and may Hie
Rood Father fold about you His everlasting
arms. Year friend and lover,
“Alan Leighton.”
Two years had dragged their slow
length along since that letter came, and
1 had never heard from Alau, though
craving his presence as the prisoner
craves the sunshine. I had written him
once, and I had regretted that, “lie
was soon to be wedded to an Earl’s
handsome daughter,” Mrs. Granger
read aloud from an open letter in her
hand; “in fact, it was an old affair,
■prior to his visit to the hall,” etc., etc.
How 1 regretted I had written,though
the words had been few, merely askiug
if he hail been enabled to procure me a
certain book we had made mention of
together, and the time was more than a
year ago when I had the right thus to
address him. And now! O pitiful
Christ! another woman was to be his
wife, and now I must never think of
the old days, or tho old dreams, or look
iuto his dark eyes, or feel his kisses
upon iny unkissed lips! Never! ami 1
might live fifty years.
And O the pity of it, out of all this
world’s, million possibilities I had only
of two
haughty woman. I had
accepting Mr. Dacre. The tiny note of
barely two lines I had placed between
the leaves of a book it was his nightly
custom to read.
But Alan! but Alan! I bad thought
him so true, so noble. I had called him
“my prince,” “my king,” alone in the
warm dusk under the stars.
" I will not soil thy purple with my
dust,” 1 had whispered in my heart.
“ Nor breathe my poison on thy Venice
glass.” * * * j W cnt down to the
sea to listen to its sullen roar; hear it
tell its tale of human misery; of fair
faces dead under its waves; of gold and
jewels lying on green beds of moss; of
argosies gone down, the wail of human
misery their requiem. 1 tried to re
member all this, so that mine might not
scent such a great thing amid a world of
sobbing and tears. It was agood thing
to think of the sufferings of others, anti
try to ignore your own; a good thing-.
But, mv misery! the misery of the girl
called Helen Preston!
, This girl was somewhat of a genius,
the people said. Bhc possessed the gift
of song aud she was handsome, too,
men said. And she. had two chanet sin
the world, and if she had had money
enough to have utilized her gift of m rig
she might have had three.
But she had smirched her soul, for all
her beauty and gifts; had been false to
herself, to Cod and humanity; false,
too, to Reginald Dacre, for she kept her
love for Alan looked in her heart.
“ I have sold my soul for houses and
lands,” she said, " and I am wretched.
Mea culpa! Mea culpa!”
“ I have sold myself with open eyes,”
she said, “knowingly, with malice pre
pense. I have no one to blame. That
Alan forgot his vows did not make it
right that 1 should forswear myself.”
But the sea, with its fuss and fret,
made mv heart ache, and the turbulent
water seemed wooing me thitherward.
The chimes of our quaint old church,
playing an old song, caused a choke in
ray throat. 1 would go and invoke
grand airs from the organ, and mayhap
1 should forget the sea's roar.
It was mv wont to go there to prac
tice. and I knew the service would not
be held for a half hour. The lights
wore turned down to a semi-darkness,
and the old sexton, with whom I was a
favorite, had left the key in the door
forme. The moon shone across the
organ keys and across my face: and the
trailing folds of my white dress looked
almost ghastly in its light. O quaint
old church! O quaint old chimes! Too
soon I would be far away from you.
over the sea to my suitor's lordly homc.i
carrying with me a heavier heart than
my years should warrant.
But it was too late to look back: and
the fault was mine. I had rained mv
own life, and must pay the price. Be
cause 1 had been forbidden the desire
of mine eyes. I had sealed my fate. I
had bound my hands, and had intoned
l’lioehe Cary’s wailing words:
"I have turned from thegood gifts Thy bounty
supplied me.
Because of the one which Thy wisdom denied
mo:
I have bandasred mine eyes—yea, mine own
hands have bound me:
I have made me a darkness when liirht was
around me.
Now I cry by tho wayside. O Lord, that I might
receive back my sight.”
“Peeeavi,” I cried, and mv head sank
upon the organ and tears stained the
red roses at my throat.
“Helen!” and my head was lifted
gently and Alan Leighton's tender eyes
met mine. .“Alan!” was all my aston
ishment could utter.
I “My girl, you have suffered,” he
I ejaculated, in a tone of exquisite ten
derness. “Helen, my first and only
love, how we have been wronged. I
only learned, an hour before I em
barked, that you were not the false
woman you had been painted to me.
Mrs. Granger wrote me eighteen
months ago that you had ‘married Mr.
Dacre, and left with him for Cuba.’ A
subsequent letter, without date or sig
nature, inclosing the tiny pearl pin I
had given your, left me no room for
doubt. I left England : - -r. an 1
have been on the wing ever since, find
ing no rest for my heart on sea or
shore. Helen, I suffered as few men
suffer because of losing you, and be
cause of your apparent falseness. But
I could not waste my whole life be
cause of a woman's untruth, so I tied
up the broken threads and tried not to
look back. It was by chance 1 met
Herman Sloan, and in the midst of
mutual confidences he asked me why
I had never returned to America and
to the beautiful Helen Preston, who
had declined all suitors, and was still
unwed. Helen, I embarked that after
noon, and 1 am here, never to bo part
ed from my darling. When will we be
married, sweet?”
“Married! Alan,” and the dreary
present recurring to me, I withdrew
myself from bis arms, and almost un
consciously my lips framed the words:
“ I bad died for this last year to know
You had loved tne. Who shall turn on fate?
I care not tf love come or go
Now; though your love seek mine for mate,
It is too late.”
‘Too late! Helen, my only love, ex
plain your meaning, for God's sake.”
Then came a broken, disjointed (ale
of my sorrow and temptation when I
heard of his handsome and high-born
bride; of my weariness of the ball; of
Mrs. Granger; of myself, of Mr. Da
ne's constant wooing, and at last of the
little note only this night thrust be
tween the leaves of his book, making
Alan's coming forever too late for my
happiness.
Rapid hoof-beat s along the road, and
my courtly lover came iu sight.
“Saved! Alan,” and my words came
thick’aud fast.
“Engage him in conversation, Alan,
regarding the hall, Mrs. Granger, the
weather, stocks, etc., etc. I will escape
by the vestrv door, fly to the hall! se
cure the note! and then, O, Alan!!”
“Mv darling, mv bright darling!”
but 1 broke from his clasp and sped
away like a chamois to the hall. 1 did
not heed that the roses fell from my
throat, that a portion of my lace
flounce graced a thorn-bush, or that my
hair, unloosed from its fastening*, hunjr
about my shoulders. I think if I had
possessed a piece of paper I should have
held it aloft, and should have shouted a
reprieve! a reprieve:
Shall I try to tell of how I secured tho
note and hid it in mv bosom, of how I
ran up-stairs and peeped for one mo
ment into tho mirror, twisting up mv
shining hair, and trying to hush the
loud beating of my heart, of how I
rapidly traversed the path leading to
the church, dodging behind an osa*re
hedge to escape meeting Mr. Dacre,
hurrying on as soon as 1 was free, to be
folded close to Alan's heart?
“And you will not laugh at me Alan?”
“Laugh at you, my darling, and
wherefore?”
“Oh, for my mad flight, for the red
roses scattered all along the road: for
my unbounded joy at your return; for
proposing to run and ste*al the note, and,
and —things.”
For answer came tender kisses pressed
uponbrowand lips, and closed eyes,
ENGLISH KISSES.
TMlliuonlAla lo lh<> swrelacM ol Anglican
OtrnlMlion.
The women of England (says Polydore
Virgil), in the Parisian, not only salute
their relations with a kiss, but all per
sons promiscuously; and. this ceremony
they repent, gently touching them with
the lips, not only with grace, but w ithout
tlio least immodesty. Such, however, as
are of the blood-royal do not kiss their
inferiors, but offer the back of the hand,
as men do by way of saluting each other.
Erasmus writes in raptures to one of his
friends on this subject. “Did you but
know, my Faust us," says lie, “the
pleasure s which England affords, you
would fly hero on winged feet, and, if
your gout would n t allow von, yon
would wish yourself a Diedalna. To men
tion to you one among many things, here
are* nymphs of tho loveliest looks, jyod
hnm red, easy of access, and whom you
would prefer even to your favorite muses.
Here also prevails a custom never enough
to be commended, that where ver vo.i
come everyone receives you with a kiss,
aud when you tak * vour 1, r.vv everyone
gives you a kiss; when yon return, kisses
again meet you. If anyone leaves you
they leave you with a kiss; if you meet
anyone the first salutation is a kiss; iu
short, wherever you go kisses everywhere
about; whieh. my Faustus, did yon once
taste how very sweet and how very
fragrant they are, you would not, like
Solon, wish for ten years’ exile in Eng
land, but would desire there to spend the
whole of your life.” Antonio Perez,
Secretary to the Embassay from Philip
11. of Spain, writes thus to tho Earl of
Essex: “I have this day, according to
the custom of your country, kissed, at an
entertainment, seven females, ail of them
accomplished iu mind and beautiful in
person.” Dr. Pierins Winsemius, his
toriographer to their Mightinesses the
States of Friezlaud. in his i '/iro.iijck van
LVicstandt, printed in 1662, informs us
that the pleasant custom was utterly un
praetieed aud unknown in England (just
as it is this day iu New Zealand, where
sweethearts only know how to touch
noses when they wish to be kind! until
the fair Princess Rouix, the daughter of
King Hengist of Friezland. “pressed the
beaker with her lipkius” (little lips, and
saluted the amorous Vortigem with a
husien (little kiss.)
Sehliers Under Fire.
Whenever you can find a soldier who,
under fire, aims low and shoots to make
every bullet wound or kill, you will find
fifty who are nervously thro*wing away
ammunition, seeming to reason that the
reports of their muskets will check or
drive the enemy. And yet this nervous
ness need net be wondered at, for they
are playing a game of life and death.
At Malvern Hill, seventeen soldiers
belonging to an Ohio regiment took
cover in a dry ditch, winch answered
admirably for a rifle-pit. A Georgii
icgiment charged this little band three,
times, and were three times driven back.
The fire was low and rapid, and the loss
in front of their guns was more than 100
killed in ten minutes. Regiments have
been engaged for an hour without losing
over half that number. The fire of
those seventeen was so continuous that
McClellan forwarded a brigade to their
support, believing that an entire regi
ment had been cut off 1
PITH AND POINT.
—A great modiste issued the follow*
irg directions for wearing anew style
of he3d-gear: “With this bonnet the
mouth is worn slightly open.”
—A writer on subjects of science save
that as a fertilizer an inch of bone is
worth an inch of roses. One shad onghi
to produce a mile of bloom.— N. '£.
Herald.
A Hartford architect says “the be?}
fire-escape 13 a cool head.” We'd like
to see that architect letting himself
down from a sixth story window on a
cool head. —Boston Pest.
—“Otway, a dramatic poet of the
first-class, perished with hunger.”
What became of the third class poets in
Otway’s day is not stated, but they
were probably fired from a mortar
against a stone wall.— Norristoivit-
Hera'd.
—A seven-year-older, with the pun
ster’s mark on his brow, at dinner,
asked his mother what was in a jar op
the table. “Pickles, my son,” was the
reply. “Then, mamma, please pick!®
little one out for me,” came with stun
ning force from the child, and th®
mother fell over a chair and fainted.—
Detroit Free Press.
—lf you want to find a logician, go
to your tailor. The other day one of
these fractions of the human family was
overheard to remark: “I Dover ask a
gentleman for money.” “But suppose
he doesn’t pay youthen?” Well," if ho
doesn’t pay me within a reasonable
time, 1 conclude he is not a gentleman
—and then I ask him.” —The Judge.
—A man drank some Bowery whisky
in New York last week, and turned in
eight fire alarms before he recovered.
In one fire-box he left a note asking tho
fire department to put out the comet.
No villain could* have successfully
played it on our firemen. Not because’
our police are too vigilant to allow it,'
hut simply because Laramie has no firo
alarm boxes. —Laramie Boomerang.
—“How can I leave you, my darling?”
murmured a Toledo lover in tones of
distressing tend- rhess, as be observed
both hands of the clock approach a per
pendicular on the dial. “Well, John,”;
responded the girl with wicked inno
cence, “you can take your choice. If
you go through the. hall you will b®
liable to wake up father, and if you
leave by way of the back shed you’ll bo
likely to wake up the dog.”— Exchange.
—A Chicago paper says that a printer
in that city has been cured by prayer.
It does not say what the printer was
cured of. If lie was cured of extracting
the word in a paragraph on which a
joke hinges, and substitute a word of
his own “to make sense,” as he puts it,
we wRI indorse tho prayer cure, and
give it a five-inch electro ad. free, one
year, top column, next to reading mat
ter. All omissions and wrong insertion*
to be made good at end of contract.—
'Texas Siftings.
—The only way to deal with a liar i
to beat him at his own game. What!
started this item was reading about aft.
American who had been to Europe, and
who was telling a friend who knew he was
a liar, about ills trip across the Atlantic,
and how, on the 25th cl the month,’
“they encountered a swarm of locust*,'
and the locusts carried every stitch of
canvas off the ship.” The listener
looked thoughtfully a moment, and thes
he said hesitatingly: “Yes; 1 guess wo
met the same swarm of locusts the nosh
day, the 26th. Every locast had on a
pair of canvas pants.” The first liar*
went around the corner and kicked him*
self,— Peck's Sum.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. /
STat etrsiNE, when. Sflministered in
heavy doses to mammals, acts, accord
ing to M. Riehet, acts partly like chloral
and partly like curare.
It is estimated from observations on
the shadows of Jupiter’s moons that the
ilmosphero of that planet is from three
to nine miles deep.
The presence of iodine in Curacoa
guano has been proved by H. Steffers.
When a mass of guano was subjected to
a heat from 110 degrees to 120 degrees
C, the soluble vapors of iodine were given
off.
Trichina: are by no means confined to
pork. Two French soldiers died lately
of trichinosis contracted by eating the
flesh of geese. Dr. Glendeuning has de
tected the dangerous parasites in a pike
caught near Ostend.
W hen bars of a magnetic nature are
compressed, twisted or stretched, they
have a tendency, says M. Ader. to re
sume tlieir primitive molecular disposi
tion when they are subjected to the ac
tion of magnetizing current.
The German African Society has at
present six different expeditions travel
ing through Central Africa. The money
f°v these expeditions is obtained from
the German Government, or through
private subscriptions. Dr. Naehtigatt is
the President of the Society.
A. W. Sterans, son of the late Presi
dent Stearns of Amherst College, has
gone to Labrador, where he will pass the
winter in scientific rest arch, and in col
lecting zoological, botanical and geologi
cal specimens for Amherst College and for
several museums.
Adolf Mater has discovered that oxy
gen has no direct infiner.ee upon fermen
tation. Wholly i)ot:tssiniy-liy.ir l vf,-iwflp-.
tii.te Was' allied 'fo a*stroiig'synip cofF“
Rining yeast, tho cells of the yeast grew
tapidly and the fermentation was easily
recomplishecL
The committee appointed by the
French Government has recommended
that the prize of §lO,OOO be awarded to
Professor Graham Bell for his invention
of the telephone, and that a prize of §.!,-
000 be given to Mr. Gramme for his mag
neto electric machine.
Prof. O. N. Rood, of Columbia Col
lege, contends that theories of Bracks
and Anbust fail to account for the
phenomena observed when while light
is mixed with colored light. And Pro
fessor Rood himself is as yet unable to
advance a plausible explanation of the
observed facts.
A French scientist states that on
one occasion, at the beginning of a vio
lent snow-storm he saw small tufts of
light at the ends of the steel ribs of his
umbrella, and heard at the same time a
sort of hummingsonnd. Whenhebrought
his hand near one of the luminous points
he received a slight shock, and the lights
then disappeared. This electrical dis
play is rather exceptional.
Precipitated silica attracts and fixes
aniline colors, turkey red much better on
fabrics than silcious infusorial earth, but
argues a writer in Hiemann’s Farbcr
Zietung in opposition to Engel, these
properties of silica cannot be due to
capillarity because, of the two substances,
the influsorial earth can only be said to
possess capillarity.
—The Boston TranscripFi musical
critic characterizes Mr. Mass’ piano
playing as “eminently musieianly.” It
is sorrowingfullv to see the English lan
guage maitreate’dly.