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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.
Mrs. Swyer, who killed her three
obildren in Brooklyn a few weeks ago, has been
committed to the Poughkeepsie asylum.
Gen. Wm. Unckeles, of the confeder
ate army, and residing at Rutherford Park,
New Jersey, for the past six years, committed
licide last week.
In the Wehawken fire the total num
ber of barrels of oils burned was $5,000 and
about 60,000 barrels of naptha. Watson, the
b >ok-keeper of the Erie company, estimates
that two millions will coyer the total loss.
The freight agents who met in New
York to devise rates of freights from the west
by the Erie, New York Central and Pennsyl
vania Central railroads have resolved to in
crease the freight on live stock to about
double its former rate. The basis of the in
creased rate was fixed at fifty-five cents per
hundred pounds from Chicago to New York.
It is the intention of the managers to increase
and not decrease the charges on all classes of
freight.
WEST.
The California, grangers are said to be
organizing a bank with a capital of five mil
lion dollars, distributed in 50,000 shares of
SIOO each.
The ravages of grasshoppers in some
of the counties of Minnesota have been so
terribly destructive that all the crops have
been swept away completely, as by fire.
Capt. Jos. Busb, commanding mili
tary station at the Lower Brule Agency,
Dakota, writes that the Indians there are in
a warlike mood, and nothing but a good show
of force will prevent a serious outbreak
The war department has received dis
patches from Lone Tree, Nebraska, confirm
ing the press accounts of the battle with the
Sioux Indians, about 90 miles from Camp
Brown, in which fifty Indians were killed and
wounded. Lieut. Young is reported danger
ously wounded.
Capt. Carlyle Byrd, commanding at
Cheyenne agency, reports that the supply of
rations for the Indians are about exhausted,
and says should the issue of rations, and es
pecially beef, be stopped for any lengthened
period, it will lead to serious depredations, if
not actual warfare on the part of the Indians.
Col. John F. Smith, of the 14th in
fantry, commanding the Sioux expedition, un
der date of Camp Robinson, Neb., June 22,
writes as follows: Indians arriving from the
north yesterday, report large war parties, es
timated at from 400 to 600 Indians, have divi
ded into four parties : one tor this vicinity;
one to the old Red Cloud Agency, with the in
tion of crossing the North Platte; one to
Laramie and one to Eetterman, these two
last intending probably to cross between the
two posts. Also a party is reported going to
Bwcetwater. Of course this is an Indian re
port, and must be considered accordingly.
Authentic information has just been
received that a war party, supposed to be
Northern Sioux, who attempted the capture of
a party of soldiers, were followed up Wind
river valley, by the Shoshone scouts, and
trailed to their camp, some seventy-five miles
east of north from camp Brown. A party ef
troops and Shoshone scouts were organized
under .command of Capt. Bates, and Lieut.
.Young, of the 4th infantry, commanding the
scouts. They followed the taail for three
iiights, and on the morning of the third came
up to and attacked the Indians, killing and
wounding about 50 Sioux, and capturing over
a hundred head of horses. Three soldiers
were killed and three wounded. Lieut.
Young was wounded* hut not seriousiv.
These Indians have b'en committing depreda
tions along the frontier for some time.
Gen. Pope has written a letter to the
Governor of Kansas, showing that the whole
frontier of Kansas is lined with troDps and it
seems impossible that the Indians can do anv
damage. Gen. Pope says in relation to the
trading Anns at Dodge City, who, in violation
of law and to the incalculable injury of the
peaceful and honest farmers and frontier set
tlers of Kansas, established trading posts or
rather grog-shops in the pan-handle of Texas
to trade with the buffalo hunters and ruffians
who have invaded the Indian country
and committed violent and inexcusable
outrages upon the Indians, he has no word
of sympathy or concern, and if he should
send troops to the locality of these unlawful
trading establishments it would be to break
them up, and not. to protect them. He says : To
the unscrupulous and illegal transactions of
these people the murders of innocent settlers
on the frontier are largely attributed, and they
ought to be punished and not protected
SOUTH.
The supreme court of Texas has de
cided against the international railroad.
A cotton exchange has been formed
y the dealers of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
L’he school-house at Bee :h Grove, a
tw miles from Hartsville, Tenn., was totally
estroved by fire on Sunday last.
W. T. Cummings, president of the
1 ailors union, Atlanta, Ga., was struck by
lightning last week, and instantly killed.
Mr. Rockholdt, a planter residing
near Mount Zion, Tenn., while returning home
with a wagon-load of provisions was instantly
killed by a tree falling upon him.
T. J- Bayle, a merchant at Beebi,
White county, Ark., while drawing water from
the public well at that place Saturday, lost his
footing, and, falling into the well, broke his
neck.
At Memphis on the Ist, W. D. S.
Welch, the well-known attorney and candidate
for clerk of (he criminal court, was shot by
R. B. Barnes, also an attornoy, and probably
fatally wounded.
A survey for a branch road to Hot,
Springs, leaving the main line of the Cairo
and Fulton road thirty-one miles south of
Little Rock, has just been completed by the St
Lonis, Iron Mountain and Southern railroad
company.
Advices from Northern Texas say
crops are very fine in that section of the coun
try, and the travel very heavy, especially over
tho St. Louis, Iron Mountain A Southern rail
road, which is now running through trains to
Houston, a distance of 820 miles, in forty
hours.
There aro at present fifty-eight to
ba cr factories in Richmond, working on full
time, and employing on au average about 100
hands each. Of cigar manufactories there
are 44 in operation in Richmond, but the num
ber of hands employed bears no comparison
with those in the tobacco factories.
J. Weidner, a New Orleans broker,
drew checks on the Hibernia national bank,
had them certified, and afterwards raised
them as follows: A check for S3B was raised
to $3,800; for $41.50 raised to $4,150, and a
check for s7l raised to $7,100. It is reported
that Weidner purchased bends with the raised
checks and flßd.
GeD. G. P. T. Beauregard has re
ceived the appointment of chief engineer of
the Argentine lepublic, with a salary of $20.-
OQO in gold per annum, and he will sail from
New York for South America within a few
days. He will have charge of the defensive
w-irks, and will also superintend the explora
t ions of the Platte river.
At Horn Lake, Miss., Sawney Jacobs,
folored, was literally cut to pieces by a colored
boy named Dred Turner. The latter had loaned
the former a half-dollar, and for asking for it
w*s beaten for it several times by Jacobs.
Finally the boy drew a pocket-knife, catting
him fourteen times, killing him almost instant
ly, and then tied to the “ bottom.”
The steamer Belle of Jefferson, run
ning in the Osage river, when about three
mile* from Jefferson City, Mo., exploded her
THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
boilers, and is a total loss. A. A. Hebbard,
her captain, Alex. Stewart, pilot, and J. P.
Kelly, passenger, were scalded, dut how b&bly
is not yet known. Two colored deck hands
are missing, supposed to be drowned.
The mail and express car on the east
ward bound train on the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio railroad was entirely destroyed by
fire on the 9th, about nine miles east of Pe
tersburg. The mail car contained unusually
heavily northern and southern mails, which,
together with the express matter in the ad
joining department, were entirely consumed.
At Enterprise, Miss., on the 6th, a
fiendish outrage was committed upon the per
son of a child five years old, the daughter of
an esteemed merchant, by a negro named
Kidd. The negro was incarcerated in jail, but
the citizens overpowered the jailer, took the
negro to a neighboring tree, and hung him.
He confessed the deed and there was no doubt
of his guilt.
During a game of base ball at Mem
phis, last week, a negro man who was in the
way of Peter Math the catcher, was ordered
out of the way, to which he responded with an
oath and drawing a pistol fired at Math, who
ran to his coat and getting a ” pistol returned
the fire. Some half dozen shots were fired in
the melee that ensued, the negro firing at
other members of the club. Finally he was
shot in the back and then beaten terribly.
In the amalagamation and consolida
tion of the Mississippi Central and New Or
leans, Bt. Lonis and Chicago railroad com
panies, Col. H. S. McComb was unanimously
elected president. This is, its friends claim,
the fifth leading trunk of the American con
tinent, ranking with the Baltimore A Ohio,
Pennsylvania Central, New York Central and
Erie railroad companies, and will be greatly
improved in its advantages, strength and im
portance by the consolidation just accom
plished.
In response to a letter from a number
of citizens, Alex. H. Stephens announces his
determination not to be a candidate for re
election to congress on account of failing
health. If he does not improve during the
summer he will resign his seat in the present
congress in time for the unexpired term to be
filled at the same time that the election shall
be held for member to represent the district
in the next congress. Stephens is so feeble
from rheumatism that he has been but twice
out of doors in six weeks.
FOREIGN.
The republicans have defeated the
carlists in an engagemeut near Bilboa.
L’UnioD, which first published Count
Chambord s manifesto, has been suspended
for two weeks.
It is stated in Alphonist circles that
Isabella intends publicly to revoke her abdica
tion to the throne of Spain.
The Spanish governinent are getting
out of men and will enforce anew levy of 30,-
000 men.
The carlists are trying to drive away
foreign correspondents by shooting them as
spies. Many Germans have already withdrawn
from their lines.
It is stated that the British govern
ment demands eight millions of dollars from
Spain for the massacre of sixteen English sub
jects, captured on board the Virginius, in San*
tiago de Cuba.
The Japanese military operations in
Formosa have virtully ended. China pays
the expenses of the expedition and guaran
tees the safety of foreigners. Japan accepts
the arrangement and retires.
The Carlist general, Darnegary, has
issued a manifesto addressed to the civilized
nations, in which he assails the republicans,
and admits and justifies the shooting of fif
teen of them.
John Mitchell, the famous exile is
about to return to Ireland to be a candidate
for the British parliament. Nearly SIO,OOO
have been collected in this country and
Ireland to defray Mitchell’s expenses.
A dispr.tch from St. Petersburg de
nies that the young Duke Nicholas, who stole
his mother’s diamonds, has been sentenced to
banishment, but says his case is still pending
before the emperor.
While Prince Bismarck was driving
in the country last week, he was fired at by a
young man, and the ball grazed his wrist.
Thp wound is insignificant. The would-be
assassin was arrested. There is intense ex
citement in Berlin over the attempt on Bis
marck’s life.
A letter from Havana says : Manuel
Calvo has again gone to Spain. He is depu
ted to arrange, if he can, for the re-opening
of the port of Macao to the Coolie trade. An
other errand of Calvo, it is said, is to pave
the way for the new captain general, and it is
alr o reported that he is to use his influence
in Madrid toward getting 10,000 soldiers sent
out.
A letter from Havana dated July 4
eays : There is a great deal of sickness pre
vailing here. Many fatal cases of small pox
and yellow fever have occurred. Public
places for vacciuation have been established
throughout the city. Business is very dull.
Ouly about a hundred boxes of sugar were
sold during this week.
The Sindey Herald of June 5 gives
the particulars of the loss of the iron clipper
Admiral on the west side of King's
lolaiul. Out of the eighty-eight persons only
nine survived to tell the tale of the awful dis
aster. The British Admiral is the eighteenth
vessel wrecked on King’s Island since 1840 and
over 800 persons have perished on its shores.
The captain and principal officers of the ship
were lost.
Panama advices of the 16th inst.,
state President Guzman Baincc of Venez
uela, decrees the expulsion from the republic
of Bishop of Meridor for opposing the estab
lishment by law of civiLimarriages. The
bishop died before he could embark. Dr. Bar
nail was named his successor by the president,
but refused to obey other orders than those of
the Holy See. He was arrested and sent out
of the country, followed by various other
priests.
London dispatches announce the
death of a professor, while attempting to fly
from a balloon to the earth. After rising a
short distance the professor was lowered
and hung suspended from the balloon with
the wings of his flying machine extended. The
oalloou ascended .to a considerable height and
at a signal the rope was cut, when the profes
sor descended with frightful velocity to the
ground and was instantly killed.
Henri de Chambord has issued an
other manifesto. He says: France has need
of royalty. My birth made me your king.
The French Christian monarchy is a limited
one in its very essence, with two chambers,
one named by the people and one by the king.
The imported formula of a king who reigns
but does not govern France I reject. As be
fore, lam ‘’ready.” The house of France is
sincerely reconciled.
A Havana letter says the misery and
want existing in that city are great, and, as a
consequence, crime has increased to a fearful
extent, the columns of the papers being daily
filled with assaults and robberies. The jail is
literally packed with criminals, and it is re
ported that the governor-general has ordered
part of the island of Pines to be converted
into a correctional or penal colony for traitors,
vagrants and incorrigibles, and that a military
colony will be established there. Several se
vere skirmishes have of late taken place in
Cinco villa.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Erie company has commenced a
suit against Jay Gould for the recovery of
$1,293,000.
Attorney General Williams has in
structed A. G. Riddle to prosecute the safe
burglary cases without fear, favor or affection,
and summon every one who can throw any
light upon the subject. It is the intention of
the attorney general to have these cases
thoroughly sift ed in the courts and to bring
all the offenders to justice.
The navy department will not order
north this summer the vessels now m the Gulf
of Mexico and cruising in the waters adjacent
to the West Indies, but they will all remain
about their present stations so that, in case of
any necessity for their presence in Cuban wa
ters or elsewhere in that latitude it will not be
necessary to fit out and send vessels from the
north to that quarter.
The attorney general has decided
that, under section 19 of the act amendatory
of the bankrupt law, United States marshals
and registers in bankruptcy are not required
to make the returns therein provided for un
til they are furnished with tabular forms and
directions in respect thereto by the judge of
the supreme court of the United States.
In response to the application of the
governor of Minnesota, that he be permitted
to draw subsistence stores for the relief of the
sufferers from the grasshoppers, such stores
to be charged against the fund available for
the purchase of arms for the Minnesota mili
tia, the secretary of war telegraphs that he
has no authority to transfer appropriations for
oae purpose to another, and that he has no
money whatever at his command with which
to purchase the supplies requested.
The number of postal stamps issued
to postmas’ers by the department during the
fiscal year ending June 30, was 632,’753,420.
The issue for the previous year was 605,931,-
520. The value of the stamps issued in the
last fiscal year is $23,827,000. In addition to
the above over $32,000,000 official stamps were
issued to the several executive departments,
not including postal cards or stamped en
velopes. The total value of all adhesive stamps
issued during the year is $42,500,000.
Officers of the chief railway compa
nies recently, agreed to greatly reduce the
number of ticket agencies, in fact to abolish
all beyond the regular offices established by
the companies. It was agreed that these lat
ter meet all the requirements of the traveling
public, and that the commission paid other
agents, and the additional expense in priming
and advertising, were useless, and they
brought no increase in business, and the
risk run in the circulation of so many tickets
was very great.
The Tribune says: Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher has demanded investigation by
Plymouth church of the inuendoes against his
personal character by Theodore Tilton. The
request made June 27, the day of the publi
cation of Mr. Tilton’s letter, and special com
mittee appointed to conduct the inquiry. It
has been in progress since the Fourth of July,
and will probably be concluded in a few days
The inquiry has been conducted in private.
Mr. Tilton was summoned as a witness. Mr.
Beecher has not yet testified, and it. is said, on
the authority of Mr. Shearman, will not ap
pear.
The Amateur Rifle club, who, on be
half of the riflemen of America, accepted the
challenge of the Irish champion Team, pub
lish a circular which has for its object; that of
drawing together from all parts of the coun
try the best shots, so as to select from them
the American Team, to shoot against the
Irish Eight. The circular gives notice that
six competitive matches will take place at
Creedimoor on the 15th, 18th, 22d and 29th in
stant, and the Ist and 15th proximo. The
matches are open to all natives of the United
States, and any rifle of'American manufacture
that comes within the rules of the club may
be used.
The National Crop Reporter pub
lishes crop information, of which the follow
ing is a brief abstract: Returns fiom over two
hundred and fifty counties in the nine princi
pal cotton (states, indicate, as compared with
last year, a decreased area, amounting to fif
teen and six-tenths per cent. The average
stand in the nine states, June 15, was a trifle
more than twelve per cent, below a full aver
age, and the general condition of the plant is
very rapidly improving. Returns arc also pub
lished from seventeen states which produces
annually over three-fourths of the com raised
in the United States. From these aro deduced
an increase of 6 6-10 per cent, in the area
planted in corn this season, as compared with
last year. This increase aggregates in round
numbers over two million acres. The stand
and general condition of the growing corn,
June 15, was very good and the outlook prom
ising.
LOCUSTS.
Western Minnesota Eaten Uarc by the
Pests.
The following has been received at
the war department:
St. Paul, Minn., July 9.
To the Secretary of War :
A terrible calamity has befallen the
people of several counties in the north
western part of the state. The locusts
have devoured every kind of crop, and
left the country for miles perfectly bare.
They did the same thing last year in
the same area. Many thousands are now
suffering for food, and I am using every
public and private resource that I can
lawfully command to send immediate
supplies of food. This state is entitled
to two years’ quota of arms, estimated at
$8,160. I respectfully request that the
subsistence department be ordered to
turn over to me in lieu of these arms a
quantity equivalent in value of rations,
or such parts of a ration as I may re
quest. I should not make this request
but for the gravest reasons, and to pre
vent imminent starvation. I have used
every resource which the state has
given. I earnestly hope that < bstacles
of form will not be allowed to interfere.
Please advise me immediately by tele
graph. G. C. Davis, Governor.
Since the appeal of Gov. Davis of
Minnesota to the war department is
likely be denied because of the insuffi
ciency of the law, it is time for the peo
ple of the United States to be informed
that there is ntter and wide destitution
in the southwestern counties of this
state among new the settlers whose crops
have been destroyed for two years, and
urgent appeals must be made to the be
nevolent everywhere for contributions
in aid of the starving people who own
farms under homestead and pre-emption
laws, but have been unable to obtain
subsistence from them because of the
destruction by grasshoppers. These
pests aie now moving away to other re
gions to devastate and ruin other set
tlers, but in the meantime those they
have jnst ruined are in a starving condi
tion. The county commissioners of the
state are making appropriations to re
lieve present suffering, bnt laige and
immediate help is needed from the
country at large. Contributions of
of money or clothing may be addressed
to Gen. H. H. Sibley or Gov. G. C.
Davis, St. Paul, and provisions, etc.,
are most needed.
How to be Happy.
Nobody is happy who is not concei
ted. So it curiously happens that only
for imperfect characters is reserved the
life of perfect enjoyment. There is no
content so all embracing, so pervading
end invigorating as self-content. The
philosophers hold out other means of
happiness, but they are moonshine to
this. The man whose bosom contains a
perpetual principle of self-esteem, pos
sesses a balm for every woe. The
blues that so easily beset the rest of
humanity are unknown to him. His ways
are ways of pleasantness. The winds
and the rains may blow and cash against
him ; the hurricane may shake the win
dow-shutters and topple over his chim
neys ; but within all this is peace. Be
conceited and you will be happy.
Pkof. Muggins having carefully ex
amined the “ oomet” by the assistance
of several powerful glasses—at least
two-thirds full —is fully satisfied that
it is a “ straggler” from some drove—
consequently “ nameless. ”
CARTERS VILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22. 1874.
FALLOW,
Above, below me, on the hill,
Great fields of grain their fullness fill;
The golden fruit bends down the trees;
The grass stands high round mowers’ knees;
The bee pants through the clover beds,
And can not taste of half the heads ;
The farmer stands with greedy eyes,
And counts his harvest’s growing size.
Among his fields, so fair to see,
He lakes no counc, no note, of me.
I lie and bask, along the hill,
Content and idle, idle still.
My lazy silence never stirred
By breathless bee or hungry bird ;
All creatures know the cribs which yield;
No creature seeks the fal ow field.
But to no field on all the hill
Come sun and rain with more good will;
All secrets which they hear and bring
To wheat before its ripening,
To clover turning purple red,
To grass in bloom for mowers’ tread,]
They tell the same to my bare waste,
But never once bid me to haste.
. Winter is near, and snow is sweet;
Who knows if they be seeds of wheat
Or ciover, which my besom fill ?
Who knows how many summers will
Be needed, spent, before one thing
Is ready for my harvesting ?
And after all, if all were laid
Into sure balances and weighed,
Who knows if ail the gain and get
On which hot human hearts are set *
Do more than mark the drought nnd dearth
Through which this liitlo dust of earth
Must lie and wait in God’s great hand,
A patient bit of fallow land ?
THE OLD MAN’S STORY.
A tale which has been printed in pam
phlet-form, and had extensive circula
tion both in this country and in Eng
land, describes a thrilling scene in the
commencement of the temperance refor
mation.
It is written by one who, when a boy,
was accustomed to seeing liquors upon
his father’s table, aud to taste the sugar
from the bottom of his morning glass.
A strange notice had come to the vil
lage, of a meeting that was to be held
on a certain evening, in the church.
Public cariosity was aroused. At the
appointed time, this father and his bod,
the pastor of the church, the neighbor
ing tavern keeper, and maDy others
came together, to hear what might be
said. Two strangers came in and took
their places at the altar, and the
younger, who bad the manner and dress
of a clergyman, stated the object of the
meeting, and offered prayer. After
which, he made a short address and
asked any one present who wished, to
make remarks.
The pastor rose under the gall ry,
and attacked the positions of the
speaker—using the arguments which I
have often heard since, and concluding
by denouncing those engaged in the
new movement, as med llesome fanatics,
who wanted to break the time-honored
usages of good society, and injure the
business of respectable men. At the
conclusion of his remarks, the tavern
keeper and his friends got up a cheer,
and the current of feeling was evidently
against the strangers and the new plau.
As the pastor took his seat the old
man arose, his tall form towering in its
symmetry, and his chest swelling as he
inhaled his breath through his thin, di
lated nostrils. To me, at this time,
there was something awe-inspiring and
grand in the appearance of the old man,
as he stood with his eye upon the audi
ence, his teeth shut hard; and a si
lence like death reigned throughout the
churcN
He bent his gaze ipon the tavern
keeper, and that peon. iar eye lingered,
and kindled for a moment.
For a moment he seemed lost in
thought, and then in a low and tremu
lous tone commenced. There was a
depth in that voice, a thrilling pathos
and sweetness, which riveted every
heart in the house before the first period
had been rounded. “My friends,” he
said, “ I am a stranger in your midst,
but I trust I may call you friends. A
new star has risen, and there is hope in
the dark night which has spread a pall
of gloom over our country !” With a
thrilling depth of voice, the speaker
locked his hands together and con
tinued :—“OGod ! thou who looked with
compassion on the most erring of earth’s
children, I thank thee that a brazen
serpent has been lifted, upon which the
drunkard can look and be healed :—a
beacon has burst out upon the darkness
that surrounded him, which shall guide
back to honor and heaven, the bruised
and weary wanderer.”
It is strange what power there is in
some voices. The speaker’s voice was
low and measured, but a tear trembled
in every tone ; and before I knew why,
a tear dropped upon my hand, followed
by others like rain-drops. The old man
brushed one or two from his own eyes
and continued :
“Men and Christians! you have just
heard that I am a vagrant and fanatic. I
am not. As my God knows my own sad
heart, I came here to do good. Hear
me, and be j ust!
“lam an old man, standing at the
end of life’s journey. There is a deep
sorrow in my heart, and tears in my
eyes. I journeyed over a dark and
beaconless ocean, and all life’s hopes
have been wrecked. I am without
friends, home or kindred on earth, and
look with longing to the rest of the
night of death. Without friends, kin
dred or home ! It was not once so !”
No one could withstand the touching
pathos of the old man. I noticed a tear
trembling on the lid of my father’s eye
and I no more felt ashamed of my own.
The old man seemed looking away
through fancy, or some bright vision,
his lips apart, and his fingers extended.
I involuntarily turned in the direction
where it was pointed, dreading to see
some spirit invoked by its magic move
ments.
“ I once bad a mother ; who, with
her old heart crushed with sorrow, went
down to the grave. I once had a wife
—a fair, angel creature, as ever Bmiled
in an earthly home ! Her eyes as mild
as a summer sky, and her heart as
faithful and true as ever guarded and
cherished a husband’s love. Her blue
eyes grew dim, as the floods of sorrow
washed away their brightness, and her
living heart I wrung until every fibre
was broken. I once had a noble, brave,
and beautiful boy ; bnt he was driven
out from the ruins of his home, and my
old heart yearns to know if he yet lives.
I once had a babe—a sweet, tender
blossom ; bnt these hands destroyed it,
and it lives with One who lovetli chil
dren.
“Do not be startled, friends—l am
not a murderer in the common accepta
tion of the term.
“Yet tdere is light in my evening
sky. A spirit mother rejoices over the
return of her prodigal son. The wife
smiles upon him who again turns back
to virtue and honor. The child-angel
visits me at night-fall, and I feel the
hallowing touch of a tiny palm upon
my feverish cheek. My brave boy, if
be yet lives, would forgive the sorrow
ing old man for life, and the treatment
that drove him into the world. God
forgive me for the min that I have
brought on me and mine !
“ I teas once a “ fanatic,” and madly
followed the malign light which led
me to ruin. I was a fanatic when I sac
rificed my wife, children, happiness and
home, to tho aocursed demon of the
bowl. I once adored the gentle being
whom I injured so deeply.
“ I once was a drunkard. From re
spectability and affluence, I plunged
into degradation and poverty. For
years I saw her cheek pale, and her
step grow weary. I left her alone amid
the wreck of her home idols, and rioted
at the tavern. She never complained,
yet she aud the children went hungry
for bread.
“ One New Year’s Night, I went late
to the hut where charity had given us
roof. She was yet up, and shivering
over the coals. I demanded food ; but
she burst into tears, and said there was
none. I fiercely ordered her to get
j some. She tamed her eyes sadly upon
me, the tears fell fast over her pale
cheek. At this moment the child in
the cradle awoke, and set up a famished
wail, startling the despairing mother
like a serpent’s sting.
“‘We have no food, James—have
had none for several days. I have
nothing for Ihe babe. My once kind
husband, must he starve ? ’
“ That sad, pleading face, and those
streaming eyes, and the feeble wail of
the child, maddened me ! and, I!
yes, I! —struck her a fierce blow in the
face, and she fell forward upon the
hearth. The fires of hell boiled in mv
bosom, and with greater intensity as I
felt I had committed a wrong, I had
never struck Maiy before, but now
some terrible impulse bore me on, nnd
I stooped down as well as I could in my
drunken sta.e, and clenched both hands
in her hair.
“ ‘Goa of mercy, James !’ exclaimed
my wife as she looked up in my fiendish
countenance : ‘ You will not kill us -
you will not harm Willie !’ and she
sprang to the cradle and grasped him in
her embrace. I caught her again by
her hair, aud dragged her to the door ;
aud as I lifted the latch, the wind burst
in with a cloud of snow. With the yell
of a fiend I dragged her on, and hnrled
her out into the darkness and storm.
With a wild ha !ha ! I closed the door
and turned the button—her pleading
moans mingled with the wail of (the
blast and sharp cry of the babe. But
my work was not yet complete!
“ I turned to the little bed where lay
my elder son, and snatched him from
his slumbers, and against his half
awakened struggles I opened the door
and thrust him out. In agony of fear he
called me by a name I was no longer fit
to bear, and locked his fiDgers into my
side pocket. I could not wrench the
frenzied grasp away ; and with the cool
ness of a devil—as I was !—shut the
door upon the arm, and with my knife
severed it at the wrist.”
The speaker ceased a moment, and
buried his face in his hands, as if t)
shut out some fearful dream, and his
deep chest heaved like a storm at sea.
My father had arisen from his seat, and
was leaning forward ; his countenance
bloodless, and the large drops standing
upon his brow. Chills crept back to
my young heart, and I wished I was at
home. The old man looked np, I
never have since beheld snch mortal ag
ony pictured on a human face as there
was on his.
“It was morning when I awoke, and
the storm had ceased, but the cold was
intense. I first secured a drink of
water, and then looked in the accus
tomed place for Mary. As I missed her,
for the first time a shadowy scene of
some horrible nightmare began to draw
upon my wandering mind. I thought I
had had a terrible dream, but involun
tarily opened the outside door with a
shuddering dread. As the door opened
the snow burst in, followed by the fall
of something across the threshold, scat
tering the snow, and striking the floor
with a sharp sound.
“ My blood shot like red-hot arrows
through my veins, and I rubbed my
eyes to shut out the sight. It was—it—
O God ! how terrible ! It was my own
injured Mary and her babe frozen to
ice ! The ever true mother had bowed
herself over the face of the child to
shield it, and wrapped all her clothing
round it, leaving her own person stark
aud bare to the storm. She had placed
her hair over the face of the child, and
the sleet had frozen it to the white
cheek. The frost was whito on its half
opened eyes, and upon its tiny fingers.
I know not what became of my brave
boy.”
Again the old man bowed his head
and wept. My father sobbed like a
child. In tones of low and heart-bro
ken pathos, the old man thus contin
ued :
“I was arrested, and for long months
raved in delirium. I woke—was sen
tenced to prison ten years—but no tor
tures could have been like those I en
dured within my own bosom. Oh, God,
no ! —I am not a fanatic. I wisii to in
jure no one. But while I live, let me
live to urge others not to enter the path
which has been so dark and fearful a
one to me. I would see my wife and
children beyond this vale of tears.”
The old man sat down, but a spell as
deep and strong as that wrought by
some wizard’s breath rested upon the
audience. Hearts could have been
heard in their beating, and tears to fall.
The old man then asked the people to
sign a pledge. My father leaped from
his seat and snatched at it eagerly. I
had followed him, and as he hesitated
a moment with the pen in the ink, a
tear fell from the old man’s eye on the
paper.
“Sign it, sign it, young maD. An
gels would sign it. I would write my
name there ten thousand times in blood
if it would bring back my loved and
lost ones.”
My father wrote “ Mortimer Hud
son.” The old man looked, wiped his
tearful eyes and looked again, his coun
tenance alternately flushed with red
and deadly-pale.
“It is—no, it cannot be—yet how
strange,” muttered the old man. “Par
don me, sir, but that was the name of
my brave boy.”
My father trembled and held up his
left arm, from which the hand had been
severed.
They looked for a moment in each
other’s eyes; both reeled and gasped—
“ My own injured boy !”
‘ ‘ My father I”
They fell upon each other’s necks, un
til it seemed that their souls would
grow and miDgle into one. There was
weeping in that church, and I turned
bewildered upon the streaming faces
around me.
“ Let me thank God for this great
blessing which has gladdened by guilt
burdened soul,” exclaimed the old man,
and kneeled down, pouring out his
heart in one of the most melting pray
es I ever heard. The spell was then
broken, and all eagerly signed the
pledge ; —: lowly going to their homes,
as if loath to leave the spot.
The old man is dead, but the lesson
he tanght his grandchild on his knee,
as the evening sun went down with a
cloud, will never be forgotten. His
“fanaticism” has lost none of its fire in
my manhood’s heart.
The Snow Plant of the Sierras.
One of the grandest objects which
meets the eye of the traveler in our
mountains is the exquisite plant, the
snow plant of the Sierras, the Sarcodes
Sanguinea of John Torrev, the botanist.
It is an inhabitant only of the higher
Sierras, being rarely found below an
altitude of 4,000 feet, and its glorious
crimson spike of flowers may be seen
oarly in May forcing itself through the
snows which at that period cling abont
the sides of our pine forests. The por
tion of the plant which is visible above
the soil is a bright, rosy crimson in col-’
or, and presents the very strongest con
trast, to the dark green of the pines and
the shimmer of the snow. Its root is
succulent, thick, and abundantly free
of moisture, attaching itself to the roots
of other plants, principally to the
species of the pine family. Hence it is
among those curious members of the
vegetable world which are known to
botanists as parasites, and is conse
quently entirely incapable of cultiva
tion. The deer are extremely fond of
it, and it is not an uncommon circum
stance to find a number of the pi nts
uprooted and robbed of the fleshy part
of their underground growth by these
animals. It belongs to the natural or
der Orobanchacea, and is met with
through the whole of the Sierra region,
becoming rarer as we approach the
south. —San Francisco Bulletin.
A Dead Lock iu Denmark.
In the little kingdom of Demark, the
political situation is peculiar and inter
esting. In 1848 the Danish liberals,
who belonged almost exclusively to the
bourgeoisie, or what is called the tiers
etat, secured a most democratic elect
oral law, in fact, universal suffrage, b 6
lieving, as the same class believed in
France after the revolution of P3O, that
the “fourth estate” would never be
willing or able to obtain oontrol of the
government. But events have ehown
them to be in error; for the fourth
estate—or what wonld be called in
Europe the low.r class—hits preferred
to elect men of its own kind to the pop
ular House of R : gsdag, and has ob
tained a decided majority of that house.
Tue Eoglish practice—the unwritten
law—that a ministry shall retire with
its defeat in the popular bouse, has
been followed in Denmark for a quar
ter of a century. But when the pres
ent bourgeois cabinet found itself in a
minority, it considered it to be a
“higher” duty to remain in office. It
therefore declined to resign.”
Upon this the house resorted to the
British parliamentary remedy, and re
fused to vote the supplies. The minis
try promptly dissolved it, and appealed
to the country. The country responded
by electing a majority opposed to the
ministry ; and now for some time, even
for some years, there has been a “gov
ernment” or administration which is
powerless in the popular branch of the
legislature, and at open war with it.
It is felt by the best men in Denmark
to be a very demoralizing situation.
The prestige which the government had
obtained is fast disappearing. The
most necessary reforms are paralyzed,
and the whole machinery of govern
ment works with the utmost diffi
culty and friction. The English prac
tice being abandoned, there is no ap
parent remedy for the dead lock. If
the ministry will not resign, the king
cannot help himself. Indeed, there
seems no issue to the situation except
by revolution, and it is not easy to see
how such a resort is avoided.
But the whole European situation is
obscure. In France it is always vol
canic. French politics are, in truth,
the permanent revolution, because the
real question is not one of administra
tion, of policy, or expediency, bnt of
the nature and form of the government
itself. In Spain it is not less doubtful.
Meanwhile some of the wisest heads in
Europe feel that great events are even
now preparing. Just three linndred
years ago Sir Philip Sidney said, “ I
cannot think there is any man possessed
of common understanding who does
not see to what these rough storms are
driving, by which all Christendom has
been agitated now these many years.”
So, now, the enormous armaments, the
frequent interviews of monarchs, the
tone of the press, the deadly hostility
of Germany and France, the brief fury
of the oommune, the position of the
papacy, and a hundred other signs an
nounce to the coolest observers the im
minence of new wars, from which de
mocracy, or popular government, will
emerge crushed or all-powerful. This
is evidently the view of Mr. Disraeli,
who said in a late debate in parliament
that “ the great crisis of the world is
nearer than some suppose. ” His words,
taken in connection with his speech at
Edinburgh last autumn, in which he
described what he called the spirit of
the age, show that the British piime
minister believes great events to be
imminent.— Exchange,
The South Carolina Cotton Crop.
The Charleston News gives the fol
lowing report of tho cotton crop of
Sonth Carolina:
Only nine counties in the state have
failed to furnish reports. The remain
ing counties differ widely from each
other in some particulars ; but they
show, as a whole, a decrease in the cot
ton area, and a worse stand and an in
ferior cotton prospect, as compaied with
1873 ; but they show, likewise, a larger
area and a better prospect for grain,
with a general falling off in the use of
commercial fertilizers. The counties
var y so much, however, in situation and
in the quantity of cotton and grain
prodneed in them, that a simple aver
age, obtained by dividing the the totals
of the columns of the table by the
number of counties, would not give a
correct result. This has made it neces
sary to take into account the relative
importance of the several counties : and
the conclusions to which we have come,
after a careful consideration and exam
ination of the subjeot, are these :
1. Tne area planted in cotton in
South Carolina is 9 per cent, less than
in 1873.
2. The cotton stand is inferior to that
of 1873, to the extent of 9 per cent.
3. The cotton prospect is 9 per cent,
less favorable than in 1873.
4. The area planted in grain shows
an increase of 12 per cent, as compared
with 1873.
5. The prospects of the grain crop
are 11 per cent, better than in 1873.
6. The decrease in the use of oom •
mercial fertilizers is equal to 27 per
cent.
7. The cost of labor is about the
same as last year, but with an upward
tendency.
Our estimate of the decreased cotton
area in this state agrees, it will be seen,
with that of the agricultural bureau,
and we think that the remaining esti
mates will be found substantially cor
rect. The important point now is, the
decrease in the area in grain. Later on
we hope to be able to show, more ex
actly, the prospects of the cotton crop,
which depend very much on the charac
ter and length of the summer season.
Clerical Dress.
At a pastors’ meeting, held in New
York last week, the question of clerical
dress came up. Some advocated the
wearing of the black robes, others de
nounced the garb as unseemly and rit
ualist’ c. There is nothing more arbi
trary than “clerical dress.” In Eng
land there are two styles, that of the
Establishment —that of the Dissent.
You can tell a High churchman from a
Low ohnrchmaD, the one wearing a
cravat without a collar, and the other a
collar without a cravat. The great
army of the Establishment wear a dress
as distinctive as the “Queen’s Own.”
The dress of the Dissenters and that of
a servant in a nobleman’s honse are
alike, both wearing white cravats and
bl ack coat and pants. Spurgeon wears
this dress with this difference: instead
of a swallow-tail coat he wears a black
frock. In the days of Stillman and
Baldwin, ordained clergymen of all de
nominations wore the bands, and a
large portion of them wore the black
gown. In their own pulpits, Era. Bald
win and Stillman preached in fa 1 can
onicals. Bishop Asbury, the first
American bishop of the Methodist
church, traveled over the savannahs
and waste places of the south, and per
formed his foDctions in that wild re
gion in full bishop’s dress. The white
cravat was not a clerical badge. It was
worn by all gentleraen, judges, lawyers,
merchants, scholars, as well as by
clergymen. No one was dressed with
out a white cravat. When other class
es abandoned the distinction, the clergy
refi sed to follow the fashions; one
Brooklyn pastor astonished his audi
ence by ooming into the pulpit with a
white scarf and red necktie.
It is said that Dr. Chalmers once en
tertained a distinguished guest from
Switzerland, whom he asked if he
would be helped to kippered salmon.
The foreign divine asked the meaning
of the unoouth word “kippered," and
was told that it meant “preserved.”
Soon after the poor man made ase ef
this newly-acquired expression in a
public prayer, when he offered a peti
tion that the distinguished divine
might long be “ kippered to the Free
Church of Scotland.”.
THE MORGUE.
At the oommet. cement of the second
empire there stood facing the Hotel
Dieu, a gloomy building known as the
the most melancholy moDnment in
Paris. The form of this edifice united
in some Doric outlines the tureatenir.g
gloom of a malefactor’s cell with the
profound sadness of a tomb. Its
double aspect of incarceration sug
gested for it a name once used technic
ally to describe “.the eut ance of a
prison.” But in its new association the
“La Morgue” acquired an emphasis
of tragedy.
If the exterior of this bnilding was
sxd, its interior was appalling. A
chamber inclosed in glass contained
tables of black marble, upon whose in
clined planes were stretched before the
public gaze the ghastly hums of sui
cides or of unfortunates found drowned
in the Seine. The institution was be
gan in 1804, and had as its design the
exposure of all victims of violence, ac
cident, or suicide whose corpses should
be found in the streets or waters of
Paris. There they were held for a time
for the purpose of identification or of
recognition by friends.
Appalling as the place was, a morbid
fascination made it the central attrac
tion of its neighborhood; it was actu
ally courted as a place of rendezvous,
and a noted end of the promenade.
People rushed there daily, as to a morn
ing gazette or exciting bulletin, and the
scenes of its real grief were mocked by
brutal curiosity, and sometimes by re
volting levity.
There came a day at last when the
most hardened habitues of the morgue
coul l no longer look upon it without a
shudder.
To obliterate all traces of that bloody
time, Napoleon 111. transferred the site
of this melancholy institution, and
changed the character of its architect
ure to a plan more in accord with his
smiling renovations, Built upon the
little arm of the Brine that separates
the isle of St. Lonis from the city, the
new morgue occapies a miniature des
ert, and conceals in decent isolation the
details of its work. Staircases of stone
descend from it on every side, and
serve to facilitate the reception of the
drowned, who, excepting in the heat of
revolution, when cannon sweep the
streets, constitute in major part the
patronage of this funereal hostelry.
The morgue is composed of t vo cham
bers or saloons, the largest of which,
divided in two spaces by a partition of
glass. It is not always this larger sa
loon that bears testimony of the most
terrible tragedies. There is a secret
hall, a “ salte privee," devoted to the
dead who have been withdrawn from
the public gaze, or those already recog
nized, who await their enshrouding.
Here the processes of autopsy take
place, and confrontations are made of
accused murderers with their victims.
It was in this lesser chamber that the
murderer Traupmann recognized with
horror the Kaupt family, who had been
miraculously recovered from a ditch in
which he had buried them. The pop
ular excitement was at that time so fu
rious that La Morgue had to be closed
and guarded by soldiers to prevent the
abhorred wretch from falling into the
hands of an avenging mob.
The revolution of September made
few contributions to the new morgue,
nor was it crowded daring the siege,
for they who fell as heroes were regis
tered among the battalions; but in the
time of their bombardment there were
mangled bodies brought there hourly,
chiefly of gamins who had been collect
ing shells to sell as curiosities, or of
old people overtaken by unforeseen ex
plosions—parents killed with children
whom their arms vainly sought to pro
tect—young mothers pierced through
the breast, where her babe's lips were
still pressed.
During the commune it became im
possible to centralize the disposition of
the killed, and temporary morgues
were established in the chapels of the
cemeteries. As there were no conven
iences there for suspending the clothing
to view, the dead were left in the ha
biliments in which they fell, and what
ever objects had been fount. in their
pockets were laid upon their breasts to
nssist identification. When the insur
rection reached its climax even these
provisions ceased: the bodies were
placed in the trenches where they were
to be buried, and the trenches were left
for a short time open to allow the in
spection of those who sought their
missing friends. When the Versaillais
took possession of Paris the dead were
stretched at the foot of the wall where
they had fallen, and the pavements of
the streetß became the morgue.
The Seiue is always the principal re
source of these unfortunates of Paris
who wonld escape from life. So oom
mon is this mode of self-destruction
that when there is brought into the
morgue a corpse taken from the river,
the spectators exclaim, without interest,
“ Ah, it is only one drowned!” Unless
the viotim happens to be a young and
pretty woman, not yet disfigured by
death, the connoisseurs scarcely look at
the pitiful form, upon whese head a
slender jet of water falls. The objects
that draw crowds are victims of assas
sination, or of suicide that haunts the
imagination by some harrowing associa
tion.
The Number of Type In a Newspaper.
The Poughkeespio Eagle, in an ar
ticle on “How mistakes happen in news
papers,” figures up the number of
types used in a newsp; per the size of
the Eagle at 600,000, the actual number
of bits of metal arranged aud rearrang
ed every day in preparing a newspaper
the size of the Eagle for the press. We
suppose few people think of the print
ing trade as the most exact and particu
lar business, but it is. Iu making type,
variations that might be allowed in the
machinery of the finest wa’ch would
render the type useless. It is very
rarely that type furnished by two sepa
rate foundries ean be used together
without a good deal of trouble, though
they try to make it after the same
standard. We read once in a while of
a wonderful piece of cabinet work or
mosaic work, containing ten, twenty or
fifty thousand pieoes, the maker of
which has spent months or even years
of labor in producing it, and people go
te see it as a great curiosity, but the
most elaborate and carefully fitted pieoe
of w rk of this kind ever made does
not compare with that which the prin
ter does every day. The man who does
the first is looked upon as an artist—-a
marvel of skill,-and if a hundred of his
pieoes are put in wrong side up, or
turned the wrong way, it is not observed
in the general effect—bnt if the prin
ter, in fitting ten times as many pieces
together in the same day, puts one
where another should be, or turns one
the wrong way, everybody sees it, and
is amazed at “the stupid carelessness
of those stupid printers. ”
* ‘Mend your P’s and Q’s” had its origin
in the ale-houses in the olden timeß,
when it was customary to keep each
man’s account upon the wall or door.
At the head of the bill wonld be the
initials P and Q, which stood for pints
and quarts, and as the numbers moun
ted up, we can imagine one kindly rus
tic saying to another, “ Mind yonr p’s
and q’s, man ; mind p’s and q’s.”
THE SIGNAL LIGHT.
An Jntereetln? Narrative of Life on flit.
Rail.
Taylor’s Fast Life on the Modern High?-ay.
An engineer who had neglected to
display his red lamp flagging signal,
and being reminded of the omission
when approaching the train against
which he was bearing the flag, attemp
ted to prevent the inevitable collision
by a mode not in the rules, made the
following singular statement to the gen
eral superintendent;
Yon see, when we got the order I
went to the front of the engine to help
my fireman to fasten on the lamp. The
iron strap had got bent and would not
go into the slot made to hold it, s > we
tied it on with a piece of rope. It de
layed ns just about a minute fixing this.
“ Was it lighted?”
Yes, sir. After taking so much trou
ble to fix a lamp on we should not lie so
green as to go away without a light in
it.
Well, we were a little behind time,
and had not much to spare to save the
connection. I was keeping a stiarp
lookout ahead, and we vrere getting
along pretty fast.
It was not a clear night and it was not
a thick night; I had a good vie nof
things ahead.
Well, sir, you may think I’ve lost my
senses, but I tell you solemnly tiat I
saw a woman, or a woman’s ghost,
walking straight np the middle of the
track toward my engine!
It was no use whistling, she was so
close. I crawled ont of the cab window
as quick as I could, and went along to
ward the front just in time to see the
form sitting on the buffer-beam and
putting ont the light in the red lamp.
The creature got off when it saw me,
and walked away in front of the engine,
and as we thundered along after it, it
somehow disappeared.
I got back into the cab trembling
some.
I told John the. light was out, and
to go and get it and light it.
After he had done it he went out and
tied it on.
I went to see if it was burning all
right and it was burning bright.
I said nothing to Jack about what I
had seen.
Well, it was no more than three min
utes, and we were going on smart,
when I saw that same tignre walking np
the track towards the engine as be ore.
“ Jack,” I cried, “ look there!”
Jack had already seen it, and had
sounded a long whistle and bega l to
pnt on the brake.
“Go to the cow-catcher!” I cried;
and he crawled through the window.
A few minutes after he came back,
his face pale and his eyes starting out
of his head. He looked at me and I
looked at him, but we said nothing.
I pointed ahead, and there it was.
I got out and etched in the lamp.
The lamp was out 1
“ I saw it open the lamp door and
blow it out,” said Jack in an awful ter
ror ; “ and then it got down and walked
away in front of the engine.”
Well, I guess there never was two
men on an engine bo mortally saored as
my fireman and me.
However, I went out again with the
lamp and tied it on. I also turned the
rope once or twice around the door, so
it conld not be opened without some
trouble.
“Jack,” I said, when I got bad into
the cab, “there’s going to be some ter
ribly dreadful thing happen to ns to
night. That woman’s a ghost of evil.
No living thing could do as tha; has
done. ”
Jack’s teeth were chattering with
fright, and so were mine for the matter
of that.
I felt that we had been singled ont to
be the cause or the victims of something
awful.
“ Keep a good lookout, Jack,” I said;
“ we’re only a mile from G , where
we are flagging No. 174 to, and we mast
show the light if all the the dexilsin
hell are agin us.”
I ordered Jack to the front of the en
gine to watch the lam >.
He did not seem to like it, but he
went.
I wrote on the back of the time card
these words :
“For God’s sake don’t pass the sv itch.
We are flagging 174."
I stuck the paper on the end of a bit
of pine wood and kept it ready.
When I looked ahead again I saw the
shape as plain as I see yon, sir, wa king
toward ns, and afterward get or the
front of the engine.
I oonld see the head-light of No. 135
on the side-track, and I was sure onr
flagging signal lamp was ont, for there
was that female figure walking ahead of
ns on the track for the third time.
I wasn’t so scared as before, so I just
lighted the pine stick at the fire box,
and held it up flaming bright with the
paper upon it.
As I passed the eDgine No. 135 I
threw it toward the engineer.
It was getting dark, but by the engine
light I saw him pick it up.
He read the paper, as you knov, sir,
and waited till No. 174 had got in ; and
so there was no oollision.
My story may seem strange, bt.t it’s
true, as heaven is my judge.
You may discharge me and Jack, if
you like, for not showing the flag sigual,
as you say ; bnt I can’t alter wha; I’ve
said.
When we got to the end of the trip, I
found Jack had fainted away, anti was
lying on the front of the engine, for the
she devil had put the light out tome
how, in spite of him and the rope I tied
ronnd the door.
George Eliot’s Work.
A writer, speaking of George Eliot,
says: “ George Eliot’s mode of com
position, spontaneous as she is in ex
pression, is extremely painstiAing.
She always endeavors to do her best,
and is never satisfied when she feels
that she has done it. Sometimes shs
writes pages upon pages; goes over
them carefully,corrects,prunes,polishes,
and then, destroying every line of the
laborious composition, sets herseli res
olutely to doing the whole work again.
At other times she writes for an entire
day, hardly making an erasure, and
lets her copy stand as her happiest ex
pression. She believes in felicitous
moods ; and yet she toils at her MSS.
on an average fully six hours a day.
One day she may do three or four thou
sand words; another she will not do
four hundred. But much or little she
is satisfied with her achievement, con-
vinced that it ia the best possible un
der the ciicnmstftDoes. She says that
frequently the things that cost her the
most efforts attract the least attention,
and that the converse of this is equally
true. Clearly comprehending her gen
ius, she knows that genins will accom
plish nothing without work, and she
works as hard as if she was devoid of
every particle of inspiration. I have
been told that daring some weeks, em
bracing forty hours of the severest la
bor, she does not produce more than
3,000 words which she intends shall go
to the printer. She is as much amused
as most conscientious writers are it the
popular ideal of authors dashing off
great thoughts and faultless expression.
Genius, Bhe avers, is unflinching toil.
He or she who cannot afford to toil for
an ideal is devoid of ideals, and has
nothing to say that the world cares to
hear.
Pbof. Tyndall is exhibiting n fire
man’s mask which enables the wei rer to
remain in an atmosphere of hast and
smoke without danger. If a fellow
could only take the things of this world
along when he dies |
VOL. 15-NO. 30.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
The wife’s secret—Her opinion of her
hnsband.
The Bible.—
We search the world for troth; we cull
The good, the pure, the beautiful.
From graven stone and written scroll.
From all the old dower-fields of the soul;
And, weary seekers ef the best.
We come back laden from our queet.
To And that all the sages said
Is in the Book our mother read.
The oltl-fashioned women’s crusade
—A boy’s head and a fine-toothed oomb.
Tight-lacing is Again coming into
fashion. This is good news for short
armed lovers.
The fool seeketh to pick a fly from a
male’s hind le/. The wise man lettcth
out the job to the lowest bidder.
“ Now is the time for roasting ears,”
writes a rural editor. He should carry
a snn umbrella.
Love matches are often formed by
people who pay for a month of honey
with a life of vinegar.
That was a bright little chil 1 who in
quired, “ Ma, when cows die, 'do they
go to the ‘milky-way?’ ”
A PHILANTHBOPIST Suggests that it
would lower the price of small coffins
to muzzle the boys during the green ap
ple season.
Japanese civilization has progressed
so far that they now allow a criminal
his choice between being sawed up, be
headed or hung.
. Neveb vidt friends without some an
nounce men tof your coming. Crockett’s
motto is a gocd one: “Be sure you
write, then go ahead. ”
A LBCTixBER aptly demonstrates the
theory that heat generates motion by
pointing to a boy who accidentally sat
down on a piece of punk.
A mother advised her daughter to
oil her hair, and fainted flat away when
that damsel replied, “Oh no, ma; it
spoils the gentlemen’s vests.”
The French and English press con
sider that the manifesto of Count do
Chambord makes it impossible for him
to become king of France.
While Texas women claim to ride on
both sides of their horses, the New
Tork Herald claims that all sensible
people ride only on the outside.
The chancellor of the New York law
school told the gradnating lawyers to
marry as soon as they could. So as to
develop their argumentative powers ?
New Orleans has adopted the Lon
don and Paris plan, and the street car
companies are obliged to refnse trans
portation to a greater number of pas
sengers than can be accommodated with
seats.
The Detroit Free Press tells us that
“the sable Georgia agriculturists fol
low the plow or work among the com
this hot weather without enough cloth
ing on to conceal a good-sized wart.”
Walt Whitman on the Beecher mys
tery :
Himalaya of bamboozlement!
Great crawfish of the social seas and sacerdotal
likewise.
Odium theologicum, and go and come again.
Which if to be, or not, is why or which,
Here seeing that by what we think we see,
And nothing see at all.
The use of tobacco seems to be fall
ing off in England. The declared value
of the importations for the first quarter
of the year was only £322,302, against
£343,875, for the same period of last
year.
The “ beautiful and accomplished
daughters ” around Memphis go out
ooon-hunting with their beaux, and on
returning home climb into the second
story window so as not to arouse the
old man.
—The Flower Under Foot.
The flower may hide its lovely face
Among the tangled meadow-grasses;
It cannot hide its fragrance there
From any heart that passes.
Ah, gentle deeds, whose bles id wings
Alight in darkened doors, r bidden,
Your lovely flower is known in Heaven,
That low on earth is hidden.
Ax old chap, whose wife is as ugly as
sin, was reading an elopement ease
which seemed to affect him. Said he,
“ I should be tempted to shoot a man if
he was to run off with my wife.” “Well,”
said a hearer, “a man ought to be shot
if he ran off with your wife.” Verdict
for hearer.
Capt. Shaw, the chief of the London
fire brigade, will very likely lose his
position. Recently, in order to show
the efficiency of the firemen, he ordered
an alarm of fire at the British Museum
to be reported. The result was that
London, after having been frightened
from its propriety only to find that no
thing was the matter, is full of right
eons indignation, and demands the sac
rifice of Capt. Shaw.
When the celebrated French chem
ist, Orfila, was on one occasion a wit
ness at a trial for poisoning, he was
asked by the president if he oould state
the quantity of arsenic requisite to kill
a fly. “Certainly, M. le President,”
replied the expert. “ But I must know
beforehand the age of the fly, its sex,
its temperament, its condition aiid
habit of body, whether married or sin
gle, widow or maiden, widower or
bachelor.”
The Maiden’s Lament.—
The setting snn gilded her soft brown hair,
And mellowed the gloom in her luminous
eyes.
Then reddened with blushes her bosom fsir,
And sank in s blaze of luxuriant dyea.
Yet the sun comes up with the coming morn.
And the west will flame again, as of yore;
Bat a hope once Bet is never reborn.
And a heart that is broken is dead evermore.
So the maiden moaned with the moaning trees,
And lifted wet evee to the rising meon,
And whispered her woee to the whispering
breeze —
She must wear her spring hat till ths end of
June.
Not a bad joke is attributed to one of
the suite of the Russian emperor. The
talk of his English entertainers fell up
on the rather worn out talk of invading
London, when the gentleman alluded to
saw the merits of the subject and re
marked, “ London is so inunese that I
believe any small invading army land
ing at the east end of your capital would
lose its way, and at the close of a week
or ten davs the soldiers would be taken
np by the polioe at the west end for
begging.”
The records of tfae internal revenue
bureau show that the late temperance
crusade affected but very slightly the
consumption of liquor in this oountry.
During March last, when the crusade
was at its height the special tax on liq
uor sales was but eight thousand dollars
less than for the same month of 1873,
but the excitement evidently made the
distillers fear its effects, for the pro
duction of liquors during March was
less by eighty thousand gallons. The
receipt from both producers and sellers
of liquor since march have steadily in
creased, and now nearly reach the eld
limit.
Dk. E. O. Robinson, president of
Brown university, in 8 recent agricultu
ral address saia, what we fear is uni
versally too true, that our farmers suf
fer more from absurd ideas of life and
from bad diet than any other cause. It
is so all over the oountry. He had
known large farmers to engage in gi
gantic operations, and reckon their
wheat by the thousand of bushels, who
had no more idea of a vegetable garden
or the adornment of a table or variety
in their food, than if they had just
come out of Asia, gait pork, salt beef,
rye or oorn bread are their continual
diet year after year. A farmer should be
a man whose table is furnished with the
bast produsts of the best gardening in
the world, and if they would pay
attention to such things, they would do
something toward taking sway the rest
lessness of their sons.