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ainbridge Democrat. “*6%r<nikall the Press the People’s Rights Maintain, Unawed by Influence aid Unbribed by Ga ; n.” TERMS: $2.00 Per Annum. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1875. NUMBER 37. timely topics. porros-'s swimming clothes are a suo- ^ The only difficulty is that they , t H bf,ut as much as a trip to Earope ^tu-anifr, so tlint nobody will want to J<11« across, after all. jur. Brule Sioux have commenced utilities in Nebraska. They attacked fettlers on'the Niobrara river, and ], r pe war party » re now on their way rtrd the Ponca Indian agenoy. Yonps are in pursuit. The design for the new postal card v lioen agreed upon, aDd is now being :(rr gved at the printing bureau of the t«i r iry department It is very plain, will diffir from thdoard now in nse, that the border is left off, and it is to made of better material. 'he qnestion of taxing the property B& H)nic and other lodges has been tn g in Georgia as well as Ohio. .. -.tate comptroller is of opinion that ,,jn on the question whether such *ee charitable institutions within awning of the code of Georgia. fj letter from Sir Edward Thornton, fitish minister at Washington, to a itleman in Indiana, is said to contain [prophecy that the governments of |#lind and the United States will wrttially bo alike in their main fea- res. that of England becoming assim- k:oI to onra. IKiso Kat.akaua has consented to cd his feather coat to the Philadelphia Dtcnnial. His eont or cloak is over e hundred years old, and the feathers s of a bright golden color. Don’.'tless (ill luve a fine display of < >ld [itlios at Philadelphia if this thing lejw on. The star of Don Carlos seems to be the ascendant. Ho is accredited |tli several recent and important vic- There are also rumors of dis- lisfaction with the rule of King Al- k’iho, and the prediction is ventured 1b( another revolution will soon fol- Ihe court of appeals of Maryland re ally decided, in the ease of a man who |M himself and who had hiB life in- , that wbon the act of self-destruo- i is done during insanity it is death I Accident, and the insurance company ' mad to pay the amount of the pol- , vhen insanity, temporary or other- , is proven. '(’E the terrible Holyoke (Mass.) rli burning, a bill has been intro- int<> the Connecticut legislature Riding t liat the doors of all churches public places of assembly shall u outwardly. This is a wise meas- hi case of a panic there would, II) outward opening doors, be no luce for the choking of the vestibules. I reward of iffi,000 has been offered funeral Spinner for the recovery of stolen $47,500 package. The five- dred-dollar bills are about one-fifth P« whole amount of five-hundred- «r notes in circulation, and the de- Iment has do record of the numbers bo stolen bills, which will give the F a better opportunity to esoape ctiou. PR Prussian government is making F efforts to secure an efficient navy, [expects in two years to have one P will be a fair match for the navies r’ e lesser powers. During this |th a large frigate is to be launched, the whole German squadron will able at Wilhelmshaven. Fifteen J vessels are now in process of con- lion. mills a* work in the Bombay Presi- don^Wone, employing 4.500 looms. 405,000 spindles, and 10,000 hands, turning ont daily 100,000 pounds of y*rn. The weekly consumption of «otton is described as 1,500 bales, and likely to it crease largely. There are also maDy cotton manufactories other parts of India. At a convention of car builders held in ’New York, last week, it was shown that the proportion of fonl air in the ordinary railroad car is greater than in a crowded chnrch or theater. Mn c discussion ensued, and it seemed gene rally agreed on that none of the man ifold devices for ventilation hitherto se d, will meet the case. Several spoke hopofnlly of tbe Tobin system, ■now twtng applied to public balls in England, which introduces fresh air by means of pipes rising through the floor and terminating above the heads of the auditory. The theory is that currents thus introduced are thrown upward like so many jets of water, and are distributed without draft or discomfort in a sort of at mospheric spra Recent experiments tend to show that forests increase atmospheric humid ity by the action of their roots rather than by any attraction exsrted on rain clouds. The moisture, in other words, comes from below, and not from above. The roots seem to servo as outlets through which water drawn from tbe earth is conducted to the leaves and passes thence into the atmosphere. An oak tree, experimented upon by Prof. Pettenkofer, was estimated to have between seven and eight hundred thou sand leaves, and tbe total amount of evaporation in a year was compnted to be eight and one third times more than that of the rainfall on an area eqnal to that covered by the tree, the moisture exhaled by the leaves being eqnal to some two hundred and eleven inches, while that from the rainfall was but twenty-five inches. The Wisconsin grangers have gone back on the regularly-constituted life insurance companies, as they think they detect a swindle about them, and have organized a company of their own. The features of the insurance company, or society, are in many respects similar to those of the Odd Fellows’ Life Insurance company, being on the co-operative plan. Any member of a grange, in good health and under 60 years of age, eligible to membership in the com pany. The fees of membership, when admitted, are: Less than 35 years of age, $3 ; from 35 to 45 years of age, in clusive, $5 ; from 45 to 50 years of age, $8; from 50 to 55 years of age, $12; from 55 to 60 years of age, $15. Two thousand dollars is the limit of insur ance allowed. At the death of a mem ber an assessment of $1 per member is made. A KFJfOKlAi. m»r* hare been few more beautiful poem. than thie written. It waa on readirg It th»’ George D. Prentice aaid: “One might almost aisb to die, if be knew that so beautiful a tribute as this would be written to hla meaorj."] On tbe bosom of a river. Where the sun unloosed hia quiver Ar d the atarligbt gleamed forever, Sailed a vessel lieht and free. Morofng Ac '-drops hung like manna On the bright folc s of her banner, And the zephyrs rote to fan her, Softly to the radiant sea. At bar prow a pilot beaming In the flush of youth stood dreaming, And he was in glorious se-ming , r L ke ail angel from above. * ur °ugh his hair the breezes sported, A-d as on the wave Ie floa'ed Oft that pilot, angel-tbroated, Warbled laya of hope and love. Through th"i<e locks so b’lthe'y flowing, Bnds of laur *1 bloom wers blowing, And bis hands a"oa were throwing, Music from a lyre of gold. Swiftly down the stream be glided. Soft tbe purple wave divided, And a rainbowsreb abided On bus Anxious hearts with fond devotion Watohed him sailing to the ocean. Priced that never wild commotion 'Mid the elements might r'se. And he se»rred like some Apollo ChWmiog summer winds to follow. While the water flag's c sro’lv Trembled to his mnsic sighs. lint those purple waves enchanted. Boiled beside a city haunted By an awful spell that daunted Every comer to the shore. Night shades rank the air encumbers 1, And the pale marb'e eta'ne nnmbered Where the lr.tns eaters slumbered, And awoke to life no more. Then three rushed with lightning quickness O’er his face a mortal sicknorB, And the dew in fearful thickness Gathered o’er his tempi's fair. And there swept a dving murmur Through the lovely 8outh< rn summer, As the beauteous pilot comer Perished by that city there. 8t1l’ rolls on that radiant river And the sun unbinds his qnivpr, And the sunlight streams forever On its bosom as before. But the vessel’s rainbow banner Greets no more the gav savanna, Ard that pilot’s lute drops manna On the purple waves no more. he Galveston News thinks alligator should begin to figure among SR exports. Florida and Louisiana krire to catch and ekin 20,000 alliga- | * year, and the News is satisfied I i he Texan crop is folly as great as ' of those states. The skins are Dted to England and France, but r J fo the latter country, which fur- r® Die best tanners in the world. BE l>08tmaster general has been V the sharp comments of the I s and the complaints of the public. consideration of the iniquitous PjDon which a blundering senator ^ to be levied upon the people. Bss expressed his purpose of calling Mention of congress, in Deoember *° Die law which governs the upon transient papers, with the °f securing a modification of the H? 4 Ending $1,300,000 in frait- e °ris to discover a process for [ Z ll (t silk rags, Mr. Lister, a wealthy * i* manufacturer, has snooeeded in ‘•ting such refuse into the finest ' *' now carries on this indns- P" au establishment which employs M.)>0i! workmen, and hundreds of tltrs are also employed whose sole ,' ltSa is to boy the silk waste, and I ey do in all parts of the globe, oe nry j s gg 1( j to have cost nearly 0,000. sutmal reports on India, issued 1 ’ ie India Office, states that a H quantity of cotton is now worked India. The report speaks of | steam spinning and weaving A dispatch of the 11th from Nor folk, Va., says: Capt. Brown, of the schooner “ J. C.” arrived here to-day having in charge the iron safe of the United States man of war Cumberland, which was run into and sunk in Hamp ton Roads by the confederate ram Vir ginia in 1862. Divers have been at work on the wreck ten years, haviDg in view the recovery of the safe. The lucky man had only been at the wreck forty-eight hours, when he fonnd the safe buried in three feot of mnd. The water at the place is seventy-eight feet deep. By the explosion of a torpedo the safe was cracked and it was hoisted on deck. A few pieces of gold coin dropped out. It is generally believed the safe contained between sixty and a hundred thousand dollars gold. The safe and treasure belong to Capt. Brown and O. E. Moltby, of this city, and Herbert Smith, of Detroit, Mich. While Capt. Brown was searching the wreck he came across a petrified human body in perfect state. The captain supposes the body to be that of one of the officers, and intends to return and get it.J West Tennessee Crops and Business Prospects. There is more corn, wheat, oats aDd potatoes and grass of different kinds growing within two hundred miles of Memphis than was ever known Bince the oonntry was settled by white men. The people will need but little of these things from abroad. The ootton crop will be almost a clear surplus with which to pay off old debts and improve their places. The lesson learned we are con fident will be an abiding one. When a community arrives at a conclusion after ten years of bitter experience it is apt to remember it. We see it stated that one and a half millions bushels of wheat is growing within easy reach of the Memphis market. Some of it is ripe and ready for harvesting. Tnis will bring money into circulation five months earlier than usual. ✓ A month from now the effect will be visible upon our streets and in tbe advertising columns of the newspapers. Tbe monotony of the long, dreary summer months will be broken by the rattle of heavily laden wagons and a bustle about the depots and landings, and on Front street, here tofore unknown in the middle of sum mer. It is a new departure as one of the slowly wrought out changes of the times. It is the adaptation of a whole people to a new order of things, by which they will lift themselves up from the slavery of old habits to walk proudly erect on the highway to success and wealth and all that is honorable and ennobling. PHILIP HUNTINGTON S CHOICE. BY ISABEL GBANT BOCHEORD An n*or BiihHe and sweet floated up from tbe garden where the pinks and roses opened their leaves to the evening air, and Philip Huntington, smoking his evening cigar on the balcony, saw Rose de Peyster walking among the flower beds, herself the sweetest flower of all. She was plainly dressed, for she was no favorite of fortune, this little country girl; but she wore her pink muslin with a royal grace that a duchess might have envied. A light, swift step upon the gravel walk, and her city cousin, Maude De Peyster. came close beside her, her hands fnll of fragrant crimson roses. Her hair was full of bewitching little kinks and twists, and her dress, of some white gauzy material, floated like a cloud around her as she walked. yqiat v .q demure little Puritan it is!” sbe said, gently caressing Rose’s shin ing bands of bronze-brown hair. “I can fancy that, ‘somebody’s’ eyes would admiro more than ever if I should enact the role of fairy godmother and change this plain attire to silken robes. I should like to see a tiara of pearls among these bonny brown braids. They would become you marvellously well, sweet Rose.” But Rose, who had no aspirations for a fashionable life—the life wherein her gay cousin won her triumphs as a belle —only turned her brown eyes, frank and fearless as a child’s upon Maude’s face, and shook her head with a demure smile. “No pearls for me,” she said, gayly. “ The only inheritance my father left me was a troublesome lawsuit, which it has impoverished the De Peysters to prosecute, and it would be little short of a miracle should it terminate favor ably. I shall expect nothing, and, therefore, no disappointment awaits ff *n6i “What a contented little goose!” ex claimed Maude. “Dd you know, if I were in yonr place I should worry over that affair day and night. A quarter of a million is no small stake.” And pnttiDg her arm caressingly round the “litlle goose,” who was the ODe object on earth for whom the gay, worldly belle felt a particle of love or faith, they strolled slowly down the walk till a clump of shrubbery hid them from view. “ I will follow them,” said Philip to himself, as he threw away a stump of Where, indeed? In vain did he ex plore the winding path, which seemed more intricate than the labyrinth that led to tbe bower of fair Rosamund. Thiy were not to be found, so Philip retraoed hia steps, singing in a fine tenor voioe as he went: “ In the dark, in the dew. All my soul goes ont to you.”^ But no vo ce answered the love-lorn plaint. Down where the waters of the foam ing river dashed and tumbled over the rocks in a cataract of silvery spray strolled Maude and Bose, deep in an exchange of girlish confidences. “ And yon could think of marrying that old man ?” said Rose, in innooent wonder. “ What a strange girl you are, .Maude 1” - » “Onlyas a dernier resort,jmydear, replied Maude’s cool, rl*>rr tones. “ Old Guv Jeffords, himself would not tnventive application. The result, how- be much of a prize certainly, but he is practically, is four different a veritable Midas, whose touch trans forms everything into gold. Besides She stopped with sudden fright at figure which confronted them. An old, Bent woman, whose attenuated form was but poorly protected by her torn and scanty raiment, held out a tremb ling hand, and, in a whining piteous tone, begged aims “for the love of heaven.” “It would be a sorry pretence of piety,” laughed Maude, in good-humor ed scorn, to bestow charity on such as you. I recognize the professional whim which proves vou to be no stran ger to the calling. You have chosen poor place for yonr trade, good woman. You bad much better return to the city. Come, Rose ;” and she drew the trembling form of her cousin closer, and turned away. But Rose, trembling and afraid, yet with all her generous sonl shining in her eyes, broke from Maude’s detaining grasp and went back to the spot where the beggar stood, motionless, with out stretched hand. * Here,” she '■aid, hurriedly ; “ I have n«t m icb, but such as it fs I give ti freely. I could not sleep this night knowing that any one was Buffering for wants that I could relieve. Take it, it will buy yon food and shelter for the night.” She took from her finger a gold ring, set with tnrquoise, and dropped it into the beggar’s outstretched palm. Among the ancient walks and prim parterres of the garden at De Peyster Hall stood Rose, her clear fresh voioe winding in and ont among the trills and quavers of one of Keziah’s old-time melodies. The dew shone like di amonds on the flowers which she was gathering, as she sang, for fresh bo- qnets for the parlor vases. A shadow fell across the path, and she looked up suddenly to meet the earnest look of Philip’* dark eyes. “Rose,” he said quietly, “I have made a discovery. I have found that life will be nnendnrable to me unless shared with yon. Will you be my wife ? ” A sudden flame dyed her cheeks scar let, but she looked up bravely and steadily with that frank* innooent, ex pression which was the chief charm of her expressive countenance. “Yon are high-born and fastidious, Mr. Huntington ; you will be wealthy some day. I am only a little country girl, without onltnre or riches, indebted to my cousin Mande for the shelter of a home. Seek some other bride more fitted for yonr station, who can bring you a bettor dower than a pretty face. She spoke in tones cool and even, bnt with a yearning in her eyes which be lied her words. Philip read their expression with eager joy. “ Such as yon are yon can be all the world to me. I will never marry any woman bnt you, Rose. As for my wealth, he added, with a bitter smile, “it was only a dream, never to be re alized. Contrary to all expectations, the lawsuit of Wales vs. Hume has been decided in favor of the defendant, and I am as poor as yourself. Bnt I thought— I hoped—it wonld make no difference with you. Can you marry a poor man, Rose?” She turned to him with a triumphant light in her shining brown eyes, “The lawsuit which has impoverished you has made me the richest heiress in the country. The old heritage of the bis cigar, and snatched his hat from Peysters is mine; and to think that the table. “Two of tbe loveliest girls in Chris tendom ! ” he murmured, as he de scended the stairs. And as he pro nounced the last word he became con scious of the mortifying fact that he had been overheard. Straight before him, not two feet distant, her black eyes shining bead like in the dusky twilight, stood Keziah Gray, tbe household factotum of the De Peysters. Mourning with them in their afflic tions, rejoicing in their prosperity, chief priestess at all the births and deaths of the family for the past fifty years, the rising or falling fortunee of the house were her one ambition, to which she clung with a faith as loyal as ever was accorded to sovereignty itself* She pnt out her hand and stopped Philip midway on the long flight of oaken stairs. ‘You say righ*, young man,” she whispered. “ Both are lovely : one by the divine right of nature, the other by the exercise of that taste which is a gift from divinity. But which is the best worth a brave heart’s winning? Either would scorn a dishonorable act, for are they not De Peysters ? Bnt who has always a pleasant word for the servants and is so gentle that the very dogs would give their life to her service? Ah, it is only the old woman who can tell yon that, young man ! Any one can see the beauty of a lovely face, but only the needy and friendless know the beanty of a generous and tender heart.” “ I do believe the old creature is half demented,” said the young man to him self as he ran down the steps. “ What the denoe can she mean ? Th^t Maude is the soul of truth and innocence, no one could doubt; and I could swear that Bose never felt an impulse that was net tender and womanly. “ Ah. how blest would my lot he with either, Were the other dear charmer away!” “ Where can they have gone, I won der?” I never knew all this time who was my opponent 1 But I rejoice only that I can bestow it all upon you, Philip.” “And I,” said Philip, “can give you only this. You will forgive my mas querading, Rose, since it has won you a husband and me a fortune.” And he slipped upon her slender finger a little turquoise ring. Maude shone no longer as the ex clusive star in the world of fashion, bnt divided the honors of bellehood with society’s new favorite, the naive and fascinating Mrs. Huntington. And when Rose and Philip received cards for the ceremony which trans formed her into Mrs. Guy Jeffords, they never dreamed that the little romance enacted the summer before at De Peyster Hall had destroyed the one love dream of Maude’s life. How Wages Have Tumbled in New York.—Bricklayers, who last year re ceived on the average $5 to $5.50 per day. now earn only $3 to $4, with tbe exception of men who lay front bricks, who, being more akilled, get $4.50. Carpenters earn from $2 50 to $3.25, against an average of $3.50 last year. Hodcarriers get $1.75, where last year they earned $2.50 per day. Painters get oaly $2 to $2.75, against an avetage last year of $3. There is a difference of 28 per oent, in the estimates of em ployers whose men adhere to the rales of tLe plasterers' society, and of those whose men do not. Stonecutters take this year all they can get, from $3.50 to $4.50 per day, against $41 • $5 last year. —In one place we read ‘that Julia Ward Howe says women need rest, and in another it is asserted that sixty- thousand women are exhibiting their spring bonnets on Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Such contradictions as this are always turning up just as the searcher after truth has come to a eon elusion, and he has to begin all over again. THE SCIENCE OF BETTING. The VuImi IjitauM Pools—How For- JJ’”' »»(« Woo by Spirting From Ihe Now York Graphic. Tbe passion for betting is so strong and so general that hnman ingenuity has been racked to devise new methods to gratify it. “ A man,” said a promi nent lottery dealer to the writer the other dav, “who could devise a new system ot alloting prizes, even if it were no better than the worst of those now iu use, would make a fortune. ” If this is the case in a method of risking money on chances which rests under the ban of the law, the system of betting upon races, which receives the sanction °f B o large a portion of the community, has been made the subject, of even a greater amount of study and terns. The tirs’—that betweeb one in dividual and the other—is probably as old as the human race. POOLS BY AUCTION. For many vears the most popular system of betting on raoes and other spoiting events was by the auction of nools, or pool-selling, as it is called. This is so generally understood that only the most cursory explanation is needed here. Let us suppose a horse race in which several horses engage is the subject of soeculation. The pool- seller offers at auction what he terms the “ first choice.” His patrons under stand that tbis means that a bet is to be made on the favorite against every other horse in the race. “ Pll give one hnndred dollars for first, choice,” savs a bettor. “ One hundred dollars is offer ed,” cries the auctioneer. No one offers more, and the bettor nays down his monev and seenres the right to place it on whichever horse he pleases. “ A is the favorite, and he bets on that horse, “ Wbat is offered for the second choice?” shouts the auctioneer. “Fif ty,” “sixtv,” “seventy” are t.be crips of the speculators. “ Done at seven’v dollars,” cries the auctioneer, and the second bettor selects “B”or“C” if he pleases. Then the third choioe is offered and sold, and last of all the field,” or the group of horses entered in the race, but whose merits are not well enough known to guarantee their individual mention. These fonr sums of money thus risked upon the first., second, and third choice, and on the “field” constitute a “pool,” to be turned over, minus a commission for the pool-seller, to the man who has placed his money on the horse that wins the race. Each person purchasing a pool receives a ticket, duly numbered and recorded by the auctioneer, bearing the name of the horse he has selected. BOOK-BETTING. The system of book-betting has been in use in this oountrv but a compara tively short time. To the uninitiated the term is only a source of mystery. A man who opens books on any race rau6t be well informed on all paints bearing on the speed, bottom, and prob able condition of the several horse3 that are entered. He arranges a series of odds on each one as against all the others, which odds are offered to the public. In looking down the list printed on a oar! a gentleman may find that opposite the name of Springbok the odds are five to one. He knows, therefore, that in th<? opinion of the book-maker thexe are five chances that SpringboK will be beaten by some one of the other horses in the race to one that he will win. If, therefore, he has a better opinion of Springbok, he backs that opinion by paying into the book keeper any sum of money he chooses above a certain prescribed minimum. If Springbok wins he will receive five times the amount he has ventured. If the horse does not win he will receive nothing. In a race in which there are twenty horses the odds offered will ran from two to one up to thirty or more to one. Suppose the least likely horse to win. then, if the minimum investment is $1,000, the man who bets on the winner will receive $30,000, less the percentage of the bookmaker, and in return, the bookmaker will have re ceived his “ proposition,”as it is called, on every horse, from which to pay it. If two persons have accepted his odds on the horse in qnestion he will have to pay ont $60,000, and if his sales of other horses have been complete he may be a heavy loser. The peculiar features of this mode of betting are that the sums bet are nsnally quite large, and that if a horse changes owners or for any other reason does not ran, the money of the investor is not returned to him, bnt belongs to the maker of the book. This is favorite way of betting with wealthy sporting men who prefer to risk large sums. THE PARIS HUTU ELS. HISTORY AND POPULARITY OF THE SYSTEM. A comparatively short time only has elapsed since this system of mutual pools was devised and the machine in vented by an ingtnions Frenchman by which a record is marked of each in vestment made. The merits and easy applicability of the system weie at once perceived in Paris by an eminent American gentleman ■who was sojourn ing in the French oapitol, and he brought a number of the machines here. The system was at once received with favor by the publio, and justly so, for it is tbe only way in whioh the man who orly seeks moderate risk can lay oat his money, while the full publicity of all the transactions and the checks which are employed to perfect the sys tem render tbe preparation of any fraud nearly imnossible. Therfe is no fraud. There can be none without an amount of craft and combination which is The only other system of betting that remains is one that has attained great popularity within the past fonr or five years, since its intro duction into this country from France, namely, the Paris mntnel pools. The seller of the pools in this instance stands behind a counter on which there is a series of brass knobs arranged like the keys of a piano-board. Suppose there are twenty horses entered. The tickets are always $5 a piece. A person desirous of investing will purchase a ticket on any horse he choses. Imme diately a key is struck, and he sees on the face of a large machine standing against tbe wall a figure 1 appear oppo site the name of the hone designated. If a second person invests on the Bame horse the same key will be struck, and the figure 1 will disappear and a figure will appear in its plaoe. In looking np and down the list of horses on the board he sees various figures opposite the horses’ names. From these he knows jnst how popular each horse is in the opinions of those who have gone be fore him. If he thinks any horse, although a poor one, has been rated too low, it at once becomes his interest to bny a ticket upon him. The sum of all the numbers shows just how many tick ets have been sold. Suppose it amounts to 100, then $560 has been paid into the pool-seller. Now, suppose again that C ” wins, and that ten tickets have been sold on him, the entire sum, $500, divided between the holders of these ten tickets, after a small percentage has been deducted aa the profits of the pool- seller. FACTS AND FANCIES. —After s bsnk of England dark serves for forty yean he gets $120 per month. —A husband at Cairo refused to let his wife throw dice, and Anna Diokinaon rose at midnight and left the town. —Tbe gibbet is a species of flattery to the hnman race. Three or fonr per sons are hnng from time to time for sake of making the rest believe they are vir tuous.—Soniol Dubay. —Whatever our plaoe allotted to os by Providence, that, for us, is the pos. of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, bnt by the way in whioh we fill it.—T. Ed wards. —Washing the tranks or limbs of fruit trees with the following prepare- >n which ts nrao- tion exclude all kinds of borers or ticany impo«ibU, in the f«oc of the ****** their entrance : One part Pane hundreds of men who' Hurroua&ifc* " stand upon which are placed 4he ma chines, the plavoards, and *** opera tors. The public know this, and the outcry, raised mainly by m -n who have tried to get ooutrol of the system them selves and failed, is of no effeot. Those parties may believe that fraud in the management of trie Mutuals is prac ticable, bnt it is a very general opinion that the chief reason of opposition is that they desire to control and mo nopolize thr business for personal profit. No man of common sense, although dishonest at heart, wculd at tempt fraud in the matter where the risk of detection is so great and the -legitimate emoluments of conducting the system with probity so large.- It will be the chief means o bet'ing from th s time forth, save the regular trans actions of the bookmakers and the heavy psols sold by auction, in which only large investments are generally practicable. It may be that a smaller percentage o - the money invested will be considered sufficient to remunerate the managers of the Mutuals, although it is not generally knovn wbat their ex- i ensen are for machines, printing, and salaries of operators ard accountants, Neither is it known to what losses they may be subjected throng l counter- fe t money or defalcations. That their expenses are large is manifest, notwitb standing there are people who argue that the system works automatically, and that after the first outlay for ma- (hines the percentage is all profit. For Jerome Park, Long Branch, and Sara toga the bills of the managers of the Mutuals are very large in necessary ex penses aside from the salaries of the scores of men they must employ in or der to do the business with dispatch and reliability. THE BETTING THIS SEASON. This has b9en an exceptionally lively year for betting. It is said that more than three-quarters of a million dollars have been placed upon the Jerome Tark races alone, while the sum total of bets on tbe southern and western races and the events of’ the Long Branch summer meetings exceeds two millions of dol lars. The races in the west and south whioh opened the season this year as nsnal, aroused an interest and enthusi asm totally unexpected in view of the f eneral stringency of the money market. 'here were five horses matched, and there was an indication of almost a national interest that these events create in European countries. The pool-sellers state that the amount likely to be risked within tbe coming month on the Long Branch races, and later on the Daily- mount rifle contest, and the yaoht raoes, will be more than double the sum wagered during any previous year. Bohemianism. Lads with a love of literature who fancy that it would be a fine thing to be a Bohemian like Savage and Chatterton and Dermody, had better think twenty times before they rash into any suen folly. For, in the first place, if there were no material points to be consid ered, beginners shonld take heed of the waste of ability whioh the so-called Bohemian life brings with it They will not find it pleasant at the end of a loose and unbrideled career to reflect that they might have done much and have done so little—a few verses, a tale or so, a farce, a few jokes in the oomic newspapers, and a miscellany of pen and ink staff forgotten in the reading. Of course, their light performances have creditable elements—brilliancy, perhaps, humor, good feeling, a suspi cion, of high and honorable aspiration. It is generous, doubtless, for a writer to put his best into his publio writing, and to reserve his worst for his own daily life and conversation; bnt such liberality comes to no good at last. Bad habits take away the power of good work. Without their constant com panionship, a man forgets what is in the bonks. Exigency will make him toler ant of his own hasty faults, and un mindful of the duty of doing bis best for the mere sake of doing it. Sensual pleasures will render the finest hand coarse in time. He who drinks beer,” said Dr. Johnson, “thinks beer and the stronger the beer, the smaller the thonght, may be added. Moreover, a want of method will make results frag mentary and quality unequal, while the waste of precious time and the unim proved “onoe” of opportunity, will •own the disaster of an ill-spent life. Then will come men’s pity, harder to bear than their reproaohes; the sting of conscience; the sense of failure; want, mortification, the extreme of discomfort, and at last death and the grave, with tbe undertaker’s bill paid by the charitable and a monument raised by subscription 1 Young gentlemen still in Liber Primus this is the brilliant Bohemianism of which yon sometimes pleasantly dream. Our advice to you is to have nothing to do with it. Love literature as much aa yon please, bnt cultivate a habit of pay ing yonr debts, of saving yonr money, of improving yonr time, of keeping sober, and ef wearing clean shirts! There isn’t a writer living by hia wits in this great city, who wfll not, in his serious moments, tell you that this is good counsel. He may repeat it to you over the mug of beer which yon are to pay for, warning yon to do as he preach es and not as be practices. Then he will drink the beer and wait for you to offer him a cigar.—N. Y: Tribune. —A broker says “ Give me the bonds of a government, and I ears not who j breaks its laws. ” Jhro parts whale oil soap, six _ —The average AmpriofliRmT wiO make a grant toss rtLsp*^UB bittfriy that it will spoil his clothes, ff aakfei to bring in an armful of wood for hia mother; but give him a (pin, and he will crawl half a mile on his stomaoh, through a ditch with four inches of water in it, to get p shot at some ducks. —“ My very d-e-a-r children,” said a traveling Sunday-school gimlet. “I love you so much I oould talk all day to you, but time forbids. Bnt I h-o-p-e to meet j ou in heaven, and then—” “ I hope he won’t,” said a restless, red headed bov, “ he’ll talk u to death; won’t he, Jim ?” —A writer discussing the compara tive economy of horses and males, after saying “ the only superiorly I see in the mnle is that he will stand, rough treatment better,” adds what, is very true when he says, “ but there is neither religion nor greenbacks in harsh treat ment of stock.” —A London journal oomplains that “ln-wr, dirty, blear-eyed, beery news- venders ran after us in the streets to sell Moody and Sankey lives and hymn books, insulting their superiors with such questions as these ; * Haven’t yer got a soul to save ? Don’t yer want to find Jesns ?’ And all they want to find is the penny profit.” —A man bonght a horse. It was the first one he ever owned. He saw in a newspaper that a side window in a stable makes a horse’s eye weak on that side; a window in front hurts his eyes by the glare; a window behind makes him sqnint-eyed ; a window on a diagonal line makes him shy when he travels;. a stable without a window makes him blind. He sold the horse. - -The laws of Paris are a strong per suasive to honesty on the part of trades men. Jewellers are obliged to distin guish plated from genuine ware by the word “ imitation ” plaoed where the cus tomer® Mnoot fail of moaimg H It a grocer is detected selling adulterated articles he is heavily fined; his name and plaoe is published at his own ex pense in the offioial journal, and be is compelled to expose in his store for a specified time a placard stating that he had been fined for selling adulterated goods. —The sale of soda water is faffing off all over the oonntry, and oostly foun tains, manufactured in the eastern cities for from $300 to $2,600, would be dead stock in the drag stores but for the sale of mineral waters. If lager beer were to be had in tbe private cafes and bonght for ladies, it would finish the soda altogether. Thousands of men, dow, are in the habit of sending bottled lager home to their wives, particularly nursing wives, whereas, a glass of beer from the keg is equal in freshness to a gross of bottles. Tartar: o acid is the principal and generally the only adul teration of beer. —Every duty brings its peculiar de light, every denial its appropriate com pensation, every thonght its recom pense, every love its elysinm, every cross its crown ; pay goes with perform ance as effect with cause. Meanness overreaches itself ; vice vitiates whoever indulges in it; the wicked wrong their own sonls ; generosity greatens; virtue exalts; charity transfigures, end holi ness is the essence of angelhood.. God does not require ns to live on credit; he pays ns wbat we earn as we earn it, good or evil, heaven or hell, according to our choice. Wild Men. The Lbndon Academy says: “ Dur ing last season Mr. Bona, an Indian suiveyor, while at work in the Madras Presidency, to the south-west of the Palanei Hills, managed to catch a couple of the wild folk who live in the hill jungles of tbe western Ghats. These people sometimes bring honey, wax and sandalwood to exchange with the villagers for cloth, rice, tobacco and betel-nut, but the, are very shy. The man was four feet six inches high ; he had a round head, ooane, black, woolly hair, and a dark brown skin. The fore head was low and slightly retreating, the lower part of the face projected like th6 muzzle of a monkey, and the month, which was small and oval, wi’ h thick 1 ps, piotraded about an inch be yond the nose; he had short bandy legs, a comparative y long body, and arms that extended almost to hia knees, the back, jnst above the buttocks, was concave, making the stern appear to be much protruded. The hands and fingers were dumpy and always con tracted, so that they could not always be made to stretch ont quite straight and fiat; the palms and fingers were covered with thick skin (more especially the tips of the fingers), the nails were small and imperfect, and the feet broad and thiok-skiimed all over. The woman waa the same height aa the man, the color of the skin was of a yellow tint, the hair black, long and straight, and the features well formed. This quaint folk oooasionally eat flesh, bnt feed chiefly upon roots and honey. They have no fixed dwelling- places, bnt sleep on any con venient spot, generally between two rocks or in caves near whioh they happen to he benighted. Worship is paid to certain local divinities of the forest. Although the race has been’ reduced to a few families, their exist* ence was not unknown, bnt this is the first time that they have been described with any minuteness,