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HOME JOURNAL GREENESBORO, : : GEORGIA 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.