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GREENSBORO, GEORGIA.
TIME TO THINK.
n of the Urrai nrfrria in the Trninlns
of 4>!rln.
“One ol the most common defects in
the training of girls,” writes a mother
who has proved her right to be a coun
selor in this important work, “ia that
they are not brought up to live alone, to
Btay at home in their own minds.”
From babyhood they are watched,
tended, noticed, guarded, never let
alone. Even young infants are not so
much as permitted to think out the
mysteries of a door knob, but are tossed
np, their little trains of thought inter
rupted, their solitude continually in
vaded. Let a little girl be left to herself
hours of every day, near to loving
friends who have some other occupation
than watching and advising her, and
Bhe will invent Itoundless resources and
never be so happy. Solitude is a neces
sity to the formation of character.
There is food for reflection in these
■words for all who have the care of chil
dren. The privilege of solitude is not
enjoyed by mafly children of either sex
in our towns and cities. If they are not
mingling in the exciting labors or sports
of the crowded schools they are playing
in the streets or with their mates in
their own homes; some social diversion
fills up nearly all the leisure hours of
every day; and when there are i o play
mates at hand the mother must give np
her time to their amusements. Too
much company, too much watching, too
much effort to direct every thought and
action of the child, too little opportunity
for the development of its own individu
ality—doubtless these aro reasons for
the feebleness of many characters. In
deed, most of the young people of our
larger towns become wholly incapable
of spending any time by themselves.
The moment their companions are out
of sight and the efforts to direct them
have ceased, they are restless and mis
erable. Nothing but an exciting novel
will reconcile them to existence. Tins is
largely due, no doubt, to the attraction
of social sport which takes hold so
strongly of tho nature of tlio active
young peoplo; but it is also the result
of the too persistent watchfulness of
parents in the child's earlier years, by
which tho child is never left to itself or
fought to prize tho sweet delights of
solitude. Tills is one of the disadvan
tages which tlie children of the
cities are obliged to undergo. The
country boys and girls have much time
to themselves, and, while their minds
often lack the alertnoss that is produced
by the brisk social commerce of the
Cities, it is possible that they sometimes
gain in vigor and power of concentration
more than they lost in nimbleness and
wit. The fact is that the majority of
men and women who are at the head of
affairs in tho nation wore trained in the
country, and while their success is
largely due to the fact they learned to
work in their youth, it is due in part, no
doubt, to tho fact that they liad in tlioir
days a good deal of time to think.
The Lesson of Fetor Cooper’s Life.
In an anecdotal paper on Peter
Cooper, in the December Century (the
frontispiece of which is a portrait of the
philanthropist), the writer, Mrs. Susan
N. Carter, says: “The highest lesson
taught by Mr. Cooper was tho lesson of
his own life. As much as, or more than
(UIV one I leiow, Mr. I t| >,<r ... -J>. -< /
the problem; ‘ls live worth living ?’
“Observing him carefully for a long
series of years, it appeared that certain
parts of his nature were cultivated in
tentionally, as the result of a wisdom
which discriminated what was really
worth caring for from what was not
Worthy of pursuit. Personal ambitions
or selfish aims had no weight with liiiu,
and disappointments and annoyances
which would have left deep wounds
witli many passed off from him with
scarcely any observation. He was most
kind and loving; but if lie were usefully
employed, no domestic loss or separa
tion from friends seemed to touch bis
happiness seriously. He spoke often of
bis preference for plain living, and bis
habits were as simple as tlioso of a
child. Love of pomp or display never
touched him iu tho slightest, nnd ho
had an innocent openness of character
which concealed nothiifg. Never, under
nnv circumstance, did he show a particle
of malignity, revenge, or meanness. If
people disappointed him, he passed over
the wound it made and let liis mind
dwell on something more satisfactory.
Swedenborg’s phrase, ‘the wisdom of in
nocence,’ often occurred to my mind iu
observing Mr. Cooper. He knew what
was wise, and to that his heart was
given. Sensitive as any young man in
all works of sympathy or kindness, the
mean and bad ways of the world fell off
from his perception.
“So his life passed in New York nnd
iu the Cooper Union, serene, happy, and
contented. With ‘honor, love, obedi
ence, hosts of friends,’ he was an exam
ple and encouragement to those who had
not gained the quiet heights on which
his inuer self habitually dwelt.”
Trigs of the Peerage.
Says the London World: —Comment
is made of the preposterous airs which
some English and Irish men give them
selves on the Atlantic steamers. Lord
H. (the identical Irish peer who was
thrown into a state of irrepressible in
dignation when, by an accident, his wife
was sent down after some lady of lower
rank at a Brighton dinner party, and
exclaimed excitedly, to the consternation
of the company, “Lady H. must have
her rights !”)assumed on the Adriatic
airs such as all the Queen’s sons put
together never gave themselves in their
lives. “I want a bath by 8,” his lord
ship said imperiously to the barber.
“You can’t have it, sir ; it is engaged.”
“But I must have it,” said this magniflc
of the peerage of Ireland. “l)o you
know who I am?” “No, sir.” “I "am
Lord II.” “Ah, indeed,” pleasantly re
joined the barber ; “glad to make your
acquaintance, I’m sureand in a trice
the barber gripped the lordly paw and
-rigorously shook the same, to the ecstasy
of the bystanders and the ineffable dis
gust of the shaken. It it really a bless
ing when such men as the Dukes of
Buckingham and Sutherland, Lords
Dunraven, Elpliinstone and men of that
stamp visit the United States as a set-off
to the miserable specimens of the Peer
age and sprigs of nobility who bring dis
credit on their order there.
Mbs. Ponsonbt de Tomkyxs (pointing
to her books): “They are not many,
Lord Adolphus, but they are all friends
—dear old friends.” Noble Poet (taking
down a volume of his own poems and
finding the leaves uncut): “Ah! hum!
I'm glad to find that you don’t cut all
your old friends, Mre. de Tomkynsl”
{Mrs, P. de T. is at aloes for onoe.)
EDITORIAL NOTES.
General Roger A. Pbtob says it
would be unprofessional in a lawyer to
divulge what hifl counsel fees were, but
he states that his fees in the O’Donnell
case were considerably less than $15,000.
Tmr winnings of Hanlan, the oarsman,
during the last five years amount to $70.-
000. Of tliis sum he has managed to
save SIO,OOO, of which $30,000 is invested
in a hotel on Toronto island. He has a
wife and two children.
W. W. Cobcoran heads the list of tax
payers in Washington, and pays on
nearly a million; next comes John B.
Alley, formerly a representative from
Massachusetts, hut now a resident, who
pays on half that amount, as does George
W. Riggs, the banker, General Butler is
taxed SIIO,OOO. Senator Sherman on
SBO,OOO. Mr. I’lielps on $150,000, and
Governor Morgan’s estate on $125,000.
Repobts from the sugar parishes of
Louisiana announce that the cane crop
of 1883 is much larger than expected,
owing to the ripeness of tha cane. The
crop of molasses will be sh >rt; the warm
weather has fended to make it ferment,
decreasing its value. Great yields are
reported od somq plantations, the most
notable being that c* Belie Alliance, on
which 2,500,000 pounds of sugar were
made and 700 hogsheads of open-kettle
sugar. Other plantations report a pro
duction of sugar and molasses exceeding
any crop since 1800.
The question of who is tho oldest
postmaster in tho service has been dis
cussed very frequently of late, and sov
ora’ postmasters claim the honor. An
examination of the records of the post
office department was made to-day, at
tho reqnest of one of the contestants for
tho honor, and it was found that Mr.
Henry Beardsley, of North Lansing, New
York, iB tho senior postmaster. Ho has
hold his office since June, 1828, having
served all of that time under his original
commission. The bondsmen that he gave
have been dead for nearly forty years.
It is not generally known that amber
is found in this country. It is found in
considerable deposits at Gay Head,
Martha’s Vineyard, and at Camden, Now
Jersey. In tlio place some years ago
several barrels woro taken from tho green
sand, but burned by mistake or through
the ignorance of tho finders. The best
class of amber goes to Constantinople to
be worked into mouthpieces; the lower
grade is made into beads. New York
dealers pay $1.50 n pound for very small
pieces, and from SSO to SIOO a pound
when the piooes aro very large. Amber
has many colors, but green h the most
valued by smokers. Yellow brings the
best price. Largo pieces nre raro and
Costly. In the British museum there is
a picco weighing eighteen pounds, for
which SI,OOO was paid, and $5,000 was
refused for a thirteen pound lump found
in Prussia. Tho mines along Baltic
■coast yield yearly about pounds,
and the mining industry has bee.i vigor
ously pushed for many centuries.
The possibilities of cotton soed and its
products, there is every reason toboliove,
go far beyond anything that is yet done
with them. At the recent annual con
vention of the National Cotton Planters"
association at Vicksburg much attention
was excited by Professor Myers’s address
on that subject, lie considers the seed,
with proper treatment and iu connection
with the uso of its products as fuel, food
and fertilizer, to boas valuable as the
but itself. So valuable that the professor
sees iu it a means that will contribute
vastly to the independence of the Sou th
orn planters who can derive a profit from
them indexed by cotton and soed mjTla
ginneries and other interests. An inter
esting portion of the address spoke of
what the grower can get fr@m the seed
at his own home, and Professor Myers
exhibited oil from crude to refined, white
toilet soaps and common washing soaps,
made by himself, and said thatif wanted,
lard and butter could be got from the
oil. Ho also mentioned the fact that, in
. a recent suit at Chicago, testimony was
jiven that 120 barrels of ootton-eed oil
Hid twenty hogshead of tallow had pro
duced a “first-class leaf lard.”
Window dressing, as an art, was intro
duced in this country only eight years
ago. A fine display of stock in a store
window may be tastefully arranged, and
yet not be artistic. During the Christ
mas holidays several stores in Boston,
New York and Philadelphia, produced
remarkable effects by the elaborate
dressing of their windows. In the latter
city a Chestnut street window repre
sented Scuta Claus coming out of the
chimney in ene room iu which a boy lies
asleep iu bed. He passes through the
open door, looks at the Christmas tree in
the other room, and finally disappears in
the open fireplace. The moving figure
of Santa Claus, a result produced by
machinery, the life-like youngster in bed,
the frightened look of the eat under the
bed. the dim light iu the room and Christ
um tree, all make the spectator forget
the stock in the window. This is the
effect of artistic dressing. Any other ar
rangement, however skillful, would make
the stock more prominent than anything
else. Several of the scenes represented
in the large show windows of our great
cities during the holidays cost as much
as $5,000. This style of window dressing
originated in Paris.
Although the revised edition of the
Old Testament has not yet found its way
into print, several notable corrections
made by the revisers have been pub
lished, much to the surprise of the good
people who have been accustomed to re
gard the translators of King James’s ver
sion as showing the inspiration of the
Hebrew writers Joseph’s coat of many
colors has been ruthlessly sacrificed, and
the varigated patchwork affair has been
replaced by “atonic with long sleeves.”
3ho reader will find other surprises
equally as remarkable and distasteful.
Heretofore the Bible has represented the
hippopotamus as a thirsty beast that
“drinketh up a river and hasteth not: he
trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into
his month.” This exaggerated account
of the ugly brute has always been im
plicitly credited by the readers of Scrip
lures, bnt it now appears that Job never
used such extravagant language. What
he did say was simply this : "Though a
river swells, he is not afraid; fearless,
though Jordan washes to hie mouth.”
In other words the hippopotamus has
sense enough to keep out of the wet, and
is not going to flee to the mountain tops
every time he sees the river at high
water mark. Tho passage in which
Isaiah speaks of “chariots with flaming
torches,” appears in the revised version
as “chariots with flashing- steel.” In
stead of representing the woods as lieing
filled with “satyrs” and “dragons,” we
are now informed that “goats” and
“jackals” roamed the forests. In the old
Isaiah we are told that the “nation scat
tered and peeled whose land the rivers
have spoiled,” but the ruthless revisers
turn the distressed people into “a nation,
tall and shaven, whose land the rivers
divide.” Tho new version will doubtloss
meet with objections from conservative
people, hut if it proves to be a better
translation it will make its way in tima
Comparatively few people understand
tbeuses of asbestos. The Greeks and
Romans made napkins and towels of it,
as well as wrappings for the dead, when
bodies were cremated. For centuries,
however, the art of spinning or weaving
tlio material was lost, and it is only re
cently that it has again been discovered.
Asbestos can be made into cloth, thread,
paper for writing and printing, and for
sheathing buildings, and pasteboard. It
has been made into garments for profes
sional firemen, millboard sheathing,
packing for engines, lamp-wicks, gloves
for tho use of workmen handling hot sub
stances, fireproof roofing, paint, cement,
and curtains for theatres. For building
purposes asbestos may be utilized in
various ways, nnd there is nothing equal
to it as a preventive of the spread of
flame. Asbestos is composed of silcinte
of magnesia, silciato of lime and protoxide
of iron and magnese. It is a variety of
hornblende, greasy to the touch, and
Laving sometimes long fibres, resembling
in their bettor qualities, fine silk. The
material when taken from the mines is in
every shape, from bundles of loose fibres
to hard blocks which may be broken into
a fibrous state. It is produced by some
unknown proeoss of decomposition and
effectually resists tho action of fire and
of acids. Great Britain, Hungary,
Corsica, Canada, and the United States,
all produce this material. In this coun
try it is chiefly found in Georgia, North
Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Vermont
and New York. Tho Canadian fibre lias
supplanted the Italian in popularity, but,
soveral off southerxf states now pro
riuof, its rival, in Georgia asbestos is
found in large deposits, and the fibre can
be easily wovon into threads, Tho Geor
gia article is of very superior quality,
lteceut inquiries in New York have de
veloped tho fact that tho demand for
asbestos is practically unlimited, and the
prices paid for the material range from
fifteen dollars to one hundred dollars per
ton.
Georgia is one of the chief items in
the luxurious expense attendant on the
federal judiciary. During the last fiscal
year there was paid out in the northern
district court of Georgia for marshals'
fees $21,500, for jurors $8,900, for wit
nesses J 35,750, for support of prisoners
$11,900, for attorneys $6,247, for clerks
$11}656, for commissioners $7,788, for
miscellaneous items $4,490. These items
make a total of $111,183 os the oost to
the government for running the district
court which meets in Atlanta. There is
only one district court in all the states
which coat more ; that was in the Wes
tern Arkansas district where the govern
ment had to foot a bill of $156,943. The
district court in South Carolina cost
$110,451, but it covers the whole State,
whereas the Atlanta court is only for the
northern district of Georgia. In the
district of Columbia the bills ran up to
$243,300, of which $93,131 was for attor
neys’ fees in the star route cases mainly.
The fearful expense of those cases is only
partially represented in the big figures
given os tho expenses of the district
court. It would be difficult to tell wlint
they did cost the government, while the
defendants are said to have paid out far
more than the amount of their ill gotton
gains. The South Georgia court at Sa
vannah is a cheap affair compared to that
in Atlanta. Its total expenses footed up
only $29,817, for the last nscal year. An
examination of the different cases tried,
in each court during the period under
consideration will show the reason of
this great disparity. In the Northern
distinct there were 71 cases for violation
of the internal revenue laws. Of these
there were twenty-one in which a verdict
for the government was obtained ; one
where n verdict for the defendant was
given, and forty-nine which were dis
missed or continued. There were not
a half a dozen criminal cases tried in the
Northern district court, besides these
revenue cases. In the Southern district
there was only one revenue case, three
postoffice cases and two or three other
criminal cases. So the precious internal
revenue system, with its hordes of raiders
and other employes, is responsible for
the enormous drain the Atlanta court
makes on the treasury. For the same
reason the Arkansas and South Carolina
courts are such heavy loads. The total
expenses of the department of justice so
far as footed up for the past fiscal year
amounted to $2,929,857, but when all the
items are in, $3,000,000 will hardly cover
the cost.
GENERAL NEWS, j
Ex-Senator Yiji.ee, of Florida, is
worth $3,000,000.
The artesian well at Americas, Geor
gia, had to be abandoned after boring
900 feet.
Chattanooga Times : Abont thirty
emigrants returned from Texas last night
and went South to their former homei
About sixty workmen are employed on
the army and navy hospital at Hot
Springs, Ark, which is being pushed
toward completion.
The United States Government has
purchased from the Maverick estate at
San Antonio the land, 15,000 acres, upon
which Fort dark is situated, for SOO,OOO.
Savannah News : It is said that emi
grants coming from Europe to Georgia
are told upon their arrival at Castle Gar
den that they will be sold into slavery in
the south.
The colored people of Montgomery,
Alabama, met and passed resolutions of
thanks to the railroad commission,
which granted equal accommodations on
the railroads of the State.
Two farmers in Laurens county, Geor
gian 1j _ to/* ie firm $5,000 worth of
w</, ~T3>->i>eepfrom which the wool
w| till ll Ac oat in the woods and were
not a dollapfexpense to the owners.
The superstitious res'dents and the
negroes of North Texas are so agitated
over the red lights in tho west that re
vivals have sprung up all over that part
of the state, and the churches are so
crowded that there is not standing-room.
TnE Fort Worth Continental Beef
Company will begin slaughtering on the
15th of January, and will kill 600 cattle
and 300 sheep overy twenty-four hours.
It is feared that there will be some diffi
culty in supplying its demand for these
animals. v
An old citizen of Dale comity, Ala.,
was fined SBO, including cists, at the late
session of tljg United States court iu
Montgomery for cutting wood off of gov
ernment land. lie had no money with
which to pay the fine, but rather than
mortgage his land ho concluded to servo
out the fine in jail
A bill has lieeu passed appropriating
SIO,OOO for South Carolina's State exhibit
at the New Orleans exposition. The cot
ton centennial feature of tho Exposition
is especially-wteresting to South Caro
lina and Charleston, because the eight
bags of cotton constituting the first ship
ment from America were grown near the
capital, and exported from Charleston.
Tho city of Charleston will probably have
a separate exhibit of her own.
Key West Democbat : The fishermen
in tho channel have of iate been troubled
by sharks to such an extent as to render
it dangerous to sail far from the land.
They have, howevor, found a panacea
for all tlioir triubles in this respect—it
*s tho root oV’" dogwooi., which causes
■hiflsSt'ffistah*iu-ous deaui- Whenever
a shark is discovered, a small fish is
killed, this bark inolosed and thrown
overboard, and in a few minutes the car
cbbs of the shark floats to the surface.
Pension swindlers.
It would make the blood of any ordi
narily sensitive person boll iu his veins,
says a Washington letter writer, to
stand an hour in the office of District
Attorney Corkliill reading the letters
which he is receiving from all over the
country containing the complaints of
persons who have been victimized by
swindling pension attorneys. He re
ceives a great stack of them every day,
and every fresh lot reveals the names of
hitherto unknown firms engaged in this
nefarious business. The letters are
mostly from illiterate men and women
living away off in the couutry, in Texas,
California, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois,
New York —in faot, nearly every State,
but principally from townn in tho West
ern States. The stories told are monot
onously painful. They have been eu
ticed by lying circulars to send their
papers to attorneys who have bled them
of dollar, after dollar, leading them on
by stimulating promises, until it was
found that no more money could bo ex
acted. Then they were informed that
their claims had been rejected, or that
efforts to have them allowed would-be
suspeuded until further remittances
were received. A general complaint on
the part of all the writers of these let
ters is that in nearly every instance tho
attorneys have retained their papers,
and that repeated demands for their
restoration have been disregarded. This
complaint will go a great way in helping
Col. Corkliill to frame good cases against
the swindlers before the Grand Jury,
The Interior Department is supposed to
be favorable to the punishment of the
swindlers, but it has been unfortunate in
giving the impression that there is a
very strong body of sympathizers with
the agents iu the Interior Department,
who are determined to shield them as far
as they can. While the Interior Depart
ment is straining over technical difficul
ties, which are said to interfere with the
prompt disbarment of the thieving at
torneys, it may be that Attorney-General
Brewster and Col. Corkhill will get at
work and effect a cleaning-out of the
agents who ought to have beeu dis
barred long ago by the Interior Depart
ment. Tho courts may find fewer tech
nicalities to embarrass them than some
of the Interior Department officers are
said to be encountering.
Fifty years from now those of ns who
may fortunately, or unfortunately, be
living will read something like this:
“The final distribution of the Lick es
tate took place this morning, and the
trustees were released from their duties.
The residue of the estate consisted of a
four-bit piece, two collar-buttons, and a
pair of slippers originally belonging to
the deceased, which the trustees have
oarefully conserved. A glass eye, which
were among the effects, has mysteriously
disappeared, as has also a wig, but the
deficit has been made good through the
generosity of our esteemed fellow-citizen,
Mr. Macfurgerson.” This is about the
way in which Mr. Lick’s millions will
pan out —San Francisco News-Letter.
Fastidxogsn'ess takes various forms.
The man who will insist on a clean towel
on which to wipe his hands, in a barber
shop will unhesitatingly wipe his month
on the community towel hanging in front
of the bar.
ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN.
YOU M IKE A FOOJj OF YOI RBEI,*
ISI.NG PROFANE LANGUAGE.
K. J. Burdette Conrn*r** n Profane Man
with One YY’be Is not Profane and Show#
Very Plainly YY'hich is the .Superior.
My son, did you ever think what a
fool you are for swearing ? That pro
fanity isn’t an ornament to any speech ?
That the story that has to be pointed
with a dash lasts only so long as it is
being told ? That the brighest gems in
English poetry and the most eloquent
passages in all oratory, live through cen
turies of admiration and criticism, and
thrill the soul of people to-day, as they
thrilled the now pulseless hearts, that
caught their inspiration hundreds ol
years ago with never a “damn” in a
line? Did you ever stop to think why
you swear in a bar-room but never in a
parlor ? You can’t improve Shakespeare
by mixing in the lines a little cow-boy
profanity. If Bryant had written
“To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her dash dashed visible
forms
She speaks a blank blanked varied lan
guage,”
the poem would have been ruined. And
it ruins the force and beauty of your
conversation, just the same. Moreover,
indulgence in the habit ruins the force
of your profanity.' Nobody cares for
the swearing of a habitual swearer. His
volleys of profanity have no terror in
them. They mean nothing. It is the
man who never swears who scares you
out of your boots if once in a lifetime he
does swear. So far as wo can learn,
Washington only swore once during all
the eight years of the revolutionary war.
Bat that one time counted. It turned
back the tide of retreat, changed a rout
into a victory and made things hum.
But the fellow who swears on all occa
sions, and swears hot and cold with the
same mouth, the intellectual pauper who
ekes out his barren supply of ideas with
an adundant crop of profanity, whose
conversation is a long chain of mill
privileges and who talks as a beaver
works, bis swearing is weak, vapid, tire
some, disgusting. So, if you want to
swear with any effect, my boy, be very
seldom about it. Be exclusive in your
profanity. If you can’t get along with
out it, bring it out occasionally, like
rare old family diamonds, don’t keep it
running six or eight hours a day, like the
kitchen hydrant. And—you won’t l>e
offended, mv son—but if you will ob
serve closely, you will preceive that
young men, boys, fledgelings of about
your ago, swear more than men. More
frequently; more awkwardly; witli less
point and direction. A man becomes
ashamed of it. It belongs to the cigar
ette and matinee period of life, my boy.
It is a habit that flourishesiu the bread
and-butter days, along somewhere be
tween the high-school and the college
and while the blue ribbon on the
diploma is bright. It la-longs to what
Puck so aptly calls tho “unsalted gen
eration;” the fresh young men. So put
it away and put on manly things.
And just one word more. Suppose
vou are given to a habit of profanity.
You enter conversation with a man who
never swears; in other words, a gentle
man. By and by you begin to preceive
that he is the superior man. Your re
marks have a tame, flat, feeble sound to
your own ears. Your cheeks begin to
burn with a sense of your friend’s excel
lence. Your pert little damns sound
rough and coarse and vulgar, as they
are. They begin to drop out of your
sentences, ashamed to remain in the
company of good, honest English words,
nutil as you discover that you are carry
ing on your‘part of tile. couversatioA
without swearing, you feel easier and
your intellectual stature is increased by
a foot. Just observe this, my boy,
and see if lam not right. But yon will
rip out some time. Oh, yes, in some way
you will. I know some good meD, some
of the best iu the world, who will con
found it, and in New England even a
deacon has been known, under a terrible
Btrain, to “con-demn it.” But asarnle,
my son, don’t do it. Don’t swear. It
isn’t an evidence of smartness or world
ly wisdom. Any fool can swear. And a
great many fools do. I, my sou ? Ah,
if I could only gather up all the useless,
uncalled for, ineffective swears I have
dropped along the pathway of my life, I
know I would remove stumbling blocks
from many experienced feet, and my own
heart would be lighter by a ton than it
is to-day. But if you are going’ to be a
fool just because other men have been,
oh, my son, my son, what an awful,
what a colossal, what a hopeless fool
you will be.
Abolishing Steamboat Bars.
A letter from Cincinnati says : Cant.
H. W. Stein has abolished the bar privi
lege on the steamer Charles Morgan,
which has just come off of the marine
ways and will leave here for New Or
leans on Wednesday. The privilege had
been yielding $175 a month. An old
river captain said to-night that Capt.
Stein would make money by'abolishing
the bar on the Morgan. He was oertain
the boat would get a passenger traffic
that would be enough larger and more
desirable to compensate several times
over for the money received for the bar
privilege. The feeling, he continued,
lias been growing for several years
among steamboat men of the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers that they could get rid
of the bars on their boats to good ad
vantage. Capt. Stein is not the first to
try the experiment. Capt. Williamson
has not permitted a bar for some time on
any of the boats he controls in the Cin
cinnati and Pittsburg trade, and he
claims to have made a hit with the pub
lic in getting rid of them. The David
son Line on the Mississippi has fol
lowed the same course, and its business
has been benefited. The bars on the
Tennessee River Line of boats are to be
abolished, and the bar on the Ariadne,
which leaves Cincinnati this week, is
being removed. The example of the
Morgan, which is one of the largest
boats on the Western waters, it is
thought, will soon be imitated by other
boats running in the Cincinnati and
New Orleans trade, and a saloon attach
ment to a first-class boat may become
the exception instead of the rule. It is
said that the room saved by taking out
the bar will in most instances be worth
more to the owners of boats than is re
ceived for the bar privilege.
Boyys.—The amount of registered
bonds .if the United States held abroad is
so small—only $17,198,900, October Ist
—that the definite information given
about them by the Treasurer may not
seem very important. Yet it is a signifi
cant fact that, during the past year, the
number of foreign holders of registered
bonds has decreased from 1,131 to 495,
and the amount held by them from
$30,000,000 to the sum above named,
“Is tot? gwine to get an overcoat this
winter ?” asked a Bowery boy of a com
panion. “Well, I dunno how dat’s
gwine to be,” he replied. “I’s done got
my eye on a coat, but de fellah datowns
t keeps his eye on it, too."
The Day After.
Fellow-citizens: The local election is
a thing of the past, though some of the
headaches will hang on for a day or two
longer. There is no kind of doubt that
each and every one of you covered your
self with glory. There was also mud
enough to cover every freeman in both I
parties.
There will be no more roorbacks. It
yon didn’t succeed in catching one and
putting him in a strong cage your win
ter’s supply of roorbacks will turn out
mighty slim.
Every candidate on both tickets was
■ doubtless slandered and lied abont in
the best possible manner and to the full
limit of the privilege, If there were any
exceptions the oversight should be
brought home to the guilty party.
It is supppsed that every freeman did
his whole duty. If you can find any
body who didn’t, let him be docked on
his wages. The man who didn't split
his ticket went to bed feeling that the
bulwarks of American liberty were sold.
The man who split didn’t go to bed at
ali, and didn’t care whether the bulwarks
towered aloft or tumbled into the ditch.
There wasn’t any glorious sunshine of
a great republic to fall upon the sturdy
veomanry as they marched up to the
ballot box, but it was all right as it was.
Nobody heard the continent quake as
the old-time patriot dropped his fifty
fifth straight ticket into the window, but
the voter wasn’t particular about such a
trifle as long as the crowd was ready to
cheer him.
The country has been saved from
Caesarism, Mormonism, despotism,
fraud, corruption, panics and every
thing else you can handily think of. It’s
a cheap and easy way of saving a big
country like this, and if yon happen to
see a sack of flour or a smoked ham
ahead don’t give yourself away.
A pang of regret may occasionally
strike the defeated candidates some
where in the region of the belt, but we
can’t all hold office at the same time.
We all want to, but the crowd who drew
up the Declaration of Independence
knew what our feelings would be, and
chopped it off short. Every single can
didate on both tickets was worthy of
election, but the trouble was to make
tlie people believe it.
We didn’t all get drank, nor did we
all keep sober, but, considering all the
circumstances, we did the best we could
and are glad the tormented affair is
packed in cotton and laid away on the
shelf of time. Lots of us felt that we
should like to vote seven or eight times
for our ticket, but it was perhaps for the
best that we didn’t vote but once. It
was less trouble for the boards to count
up.
In conclusion, after giving the matter
mature deliberation and turning it over
to view it from every side, wo mildly
but firmly exclaim: “Hurrah for our
side I” —Detroit Free. Press.
Deserted Logging Camps iu Maine.
Few persons except those who have
shared the lumberman’s toil know any
thing of that fife iu the woods. Sports
men coming upon abandoned camps in
the summer, as they penetrate the Maine
woods in pursuit of game or fish, fancy,
no doubt, that they can see, as they
look about them, just how life went on
here in tho winter while tho camp was
tenanted. Tho chances are that the view
will reveal little of the reality of that life,
if it does not prove utterly misleading.
The fact is, the transformations wrought
by summer at its coming in the woods
are so great that if the chonper who
spent last winter fIC that cam were to
come here now
nize the spot. Air this open-space, so
rocky and so rough, Was trodden hard
and smooth after the snow had fallen
deep. If yon will look at the large
boulders you will see where the iron shoes
of the sleds ground ofi their highest
points, or where the sharp rocks gnawed
at the runners shod with maple. That
crooked, twisted hornbeam down there
by the road shows scars and marks of
wear higher up than one could reach
now. It is where the chain was put
around to tie up a pair of oxen, while
they munched their noon-tido foddering
of liny that was served them in the yoke.
Little is left about here that was aban
doned when the crew went out of the
woods upon the breaking up of the roads
in March. The runner of a sled lying
bv the hovel is one that had to be re
placed with anew one iu tho winter.
The broken yoke at the foot of the hem
lock shows by the grips about it and by
the rivets with which it was bolted, the
pains taken to make it last through the
winter. Had the old yoke been taken
out of the woods in the spring it would
not have been worn on the necks of the
oxen, for in moving, one yoke of cattle
hauled out the sleds and chains and
whatever had been carried into the
woods in the fall, while the others were
driven out unyoked so that they might
walk in siugle file where the roads were
narrow and the snow was deep. But
though Buck and Golding were at liberty
to walk apart, yet where the road was
broad enough they fell in abreast and
walked side by side, just as they had all
winter long made their turns to the
landing. Iu the summer too, if pastured
with large numbers, they will yet be
seen feeding together, or lying down by
themselves apart from the rest of the
herd. The companionship of toil forms
the bond of a life-long friendship.—
Boston Traveller.
Castor Oil for Shoe Leather.
There is one simple article which will
render any decently-made boot thor
oughly impervious. It is nothing more
nor less than cold-drawn castor oil,
“pure and simple.” It is best applied
before a moderate fire. The boots to be
dressed should be quite clean and dry,
and special care should be given to the
welt and the tongues and their stitching
to the upper leathers. I generally begin
by pouring the oil from the bottle all
round the welt, so that the angle be
tween the sole and upper leather is quite
filled with oil, and then proceed all over
the boot, including the edges of the
soles, rubbing it in with the hand.
When one is done, have a turn at the
other, and so alternately till you have
got in about a tablespoouful and a half
to each boot. The tongues, being thin
ner leather, should be quite saturated.
Subsequent dressings will not require so
much oil. I have never found anything
to touch this as a water-proof dressing;
the gelatinous oil seems to effectually
stop every pore in the leather. There is
another advantage for those who are
natty in such matters: The boots will
soon take a good (common blacking)
polish—so much so that a man may if
he likes water-proof his ordinary walk
ing boots for bad weather without spoil
ing their appearance. With a common
walking boot of ordinary thickness, ap
ply the oil over the sole. Shooting, I
wear boots so treated, over thick woolen
socks, from eight to twelve hours a day,
or more, without feeling the slightest in
convenience in any way; but they have
the chilly feeling inseparable from all
boots that are oiled in that way.—Lon
don Field, _
THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
WHAT WE FIND IN THE HUMOROUS
PAPERS TO SMII.E OVER.
CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER OASES.
“How long have you been married?”
asked the clerk at the hotel desk, as the
elderly bridegroom registered.
“Two weeks,” replied the happy man
“Front!” cried the clerk, “show the
gentleman to parlor B. Fifteen dollars
a day, sir.”
“Third wife,” calmly said the guest.
“Oh, excuse me. Front, show the
gentleman to 821, back. Take the ele
vator. Four dollars a week, sir.”
BEFORE AND AFTER.
Stranger—“ Hello ! How d’ do, ole
pard ? How’s ’is N ibbs this mom ?”
Officeholder—“ Pardon me, sir, but I
do not remember you.”
Stranger—“Oh, stuff, stuff! Don't
you remember last week what a jolly
time we had among the lioys, and how
you set ’em up in ail the isipous in our
division, and how we promenaded arm
in-arm all day, and how me and Bill and
Miae showed you the way home ?’’
Officeholder—“Ah, indeed’! Well,
you may be right; but that was liefore
election day. I don t recall you now.
Good day !”
A FINE VIEW.
Two Boston gentlemen, while tramp
ing through the White Mountains the
past eiimmer, came across a lonely lint
among the hills from which the prospect
was particularly fine and extended. The
proprietor ot the establishment was hoe
ing in a small garden, and the travelers
began to quiz him. Said one:
“You have an excellent view from your
house?”
“Purty fair,” replied the farmer.
“Isuppose,” continued the first speak
er, winking at his companion, “on a fair
day you can see almost to Europe ?”
“Kin see further than that,” returned
the man.
“How so?” was asked in surprise.
“We don’t think nothin' of seein’ as
fur as the mune!”
The Bostonians had found their match,
—Boston Courier.
THERMOMETER TALK.
“See here, Mr. Druggist, did you not
say that the thermometer you sold me
for 82.50 was a good one?”
“Certainly, it was one of the best I
ever had.”
“Then you keep a mighty poor stock,
that’s all.”
“Why, what is the matter?”
“Matter enough. Neighbor Brown
got a twenty-five cent one in the city
the other day, and this morning, when
I was blowing about how cold it was,
and told him what my new thermom
eter registered, ho laughed at me.”
“Well?”
“Then I got mad and we compared
them, and 1 hope to freeze if his ther
mometer was not ten degrees lower than
mine. Now, you’ve got to take it back
and give me one that will beat his on
cold mornings or yon lose my trade;
d’y’ hear?”— Philadelphia Call.
FAILED BUT NOT FOUNDERED.
“Yes, George, dear, I accept your
proffered love, and will bo your wife;”
and a pair of strong arms clasped her
tightly, lovingly.
“You have heard, of course,” she said,
from under the lapel of his coat, “that
father has failed ?”
“No, I hadn’t heard that,” said
George, weakening <Ais grip a little.
“ Yes,” she confirmed, nestling more
closely to him; “He failed last week
and”—
“That puts a different phase upon
matters entirely,” said George, strug
gling to break loose. But the girl held
him fast and continued :
“And settled with his creditors at twe
cents on the dollar; and”—
“Nay, dearest” interrupted George,
passionately, “Jp not speak of such
sordid matters. Let us think only ot
love and the happiness which the bright
future has in store.”—
But, gentle reader let us leave them in
their young love and perfect trust.
BOSTON DOTS.
“Oh ! my dear Mrs. Shoddy, you do
not mean to say that you eat hash !”
Mrs. Shoddy, apologetically—“l know
it is a very vulgar dish, Mrs. Dash, but
at my table it is made of tenderloins at
forty cents a pound.”
The explanation proves quite satisfac
tory, and the social equilibrium is pleas
antly restored.
At the window of a fashionable club.
Lounger, looking at a pretty and styl
ish girl passing by—“ What a beauty T
I wonder who she is*”
Second lounger, pleased at the oppor
tunity of enlightening him—“Oh! I
know her very well. Her brother is the
worst poker player in town.”
She said the other day at a friend’s
lunch table, at which she happened un
expectedly, and found several strangers
seated, apropos of a remark made of a
certain lady of uncertain age:
“Why, good gracious ! she is as old as
the hills,” and could not imagine*
in the least what had caused the general
consternation.
She did a little later on, however,
when it was explained to her that two
maiden sisters at the table, whose names
she didn’t catch in the introduction,
were named Hill, and were extremely
sensitive on the subject of age.— Boston
Gazette .
Jiot all Gone.
General Longstrget, of the Confeder
ate army, tells this story:
“In the battle of Cliicamanga where
I aided in the defeat of Rosencrans,
General Benning, one ef the bravest of
the Southern Generals, came charging
np to me in great agitation. He was on
an artillery horse. His hat was gone
and he was mnch disordered.
“General,’ said he, ‘my brigade is
utterly destroyed.’
“ ‘ls that so ?’ I asked quietly.
“ ‘Yes, sir; gone all to pieces.’
“ ‘Utterly destroyed, you say.’
“His heart was nearly breaking. I
approached him and said quietly :
“ ‘Don’t you think you could find
one man, General ?’
“ ‘One man,’ said he in astonishment.
‘I suppose I could. What do you want
with him ?’
“ ‘Go and get him,’ I said, laying my
hand quietly on his arm, ‘and bring him
here. Then you and I and he will
charge together. This is sacred, Gen
eral, and we may as well die here as
anywhere.’
“He looked curiously for a moment,
then laughed, and then galloped off in a
flash, and shortly after was leading a
new command gathered somewhere, and
went into the fight again.”
The largest farm in the world is prob
ably that of Samuel Mackey of New
South Wales. His land runs 700 miles
in one direction, and comprises 5,000,000
acres, and has been nearly all reclaimed
from the desert.