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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
j. IT. HARRIS, l _
w. A. *AHtHALK,f B4lt#r * and Proprietors.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.
Four steamers of the White Star line
will hereafter leave Philadelphia for Liv
erpool, instead of sailing from New York.
The mayor of Philadelphia has is
sued a proclamation offering a reward of
820,000 for the capture of the abductors of the
child, Charley Brewster Ross, and the re
storation of the child.
The strike among the glass-blowers
of Fittsburg, Pa., which has continued about
a year, is now at an end, and the various man
ufactories are resuming business. The strike
was caused by a proposed reduction of wages.
Eastern establishments being able to manu
facture glass cheaper than here. The men
are now willing to resume work at a reduction
of about 20 per cent, below the former prices.
WEST.
Columbus, 0., reports much valuable
property destroyed by the storm of last week.
It is estimated that not less than forty
persons were killed by lightning in Minnesota
last week.
Sarnia, in Ontairo, reports a terrific
storm in which churches, houses and barns
were struck by lightuing, with great destruc
tion of property.
An Omaha, Neb., dispatch says the
grasshoppers are still coming eastward, doing
much damage in the middle and northern coun
ties. Wheat and oats are out of their reach.
Corn and everything else is destroyed even
with the ground.
In Minnesota the grasshoppers have
undoubtedly destroyed a million and a half
bushels of wheat, and are liable to destroy an
other half million bushels. The wheat crop
of the state may bo roughly estimated at from
twenty-two to twenty-five million bushels
Barley, rye and oats promise well.
Additional reports from all sections
of Nebraska relative to the grasshoppers are
very discouraging. In Dawson county tli6ie
will not be enough com raised for seed. The
corn, bean and potato crops of the Pawnee
Indians are totally destroyed. Without addi
tional aid from the government they cannot
but suffer severely.
Agents of foreign insurance compa
nies at Chicago, have received instructions
by cable. The Scottish Commercial has de
cided to withdraw, and its agent will take no
more risks. The London Assurance, North
British, Commercial Union, Queen, Lanca
shire and Imperial, all English companies,
have instructed their agents to raise their rates
to fifty per cent. The Liverpool, Londou and
Globe have not sent any orders.
Tins miners at the Lake Superior,
Cleveland, New York, Lake Angeline, and
Barnum’s mines, at Marquette, have been on a
strike since the 20th. The miners have thus
far been very orderly, but they guard the
mines and will not allow any workmen to re
main in the mines. The strikers number
about two thousand men, composed princi
pally of Swedes, Norwegians and Cornish.
A Fort Sill letter of the lGth states,
that on the 14th the wood camp of Mi. Evans,
thirteen miles from the fort, was attacked by
Indians. A small detachment of United
States troops followed, compelling them to
abandon about sixty head of cattle. The
body of a 4 white man was found, full of ar
rows and his head scalped.
A dispatch from Eureka, Nevada,
says a terrible water-spout burst in the moun
tains on the 25th inst., and swept through the
town, killing twenty persons, and causing
great destruction of property. The water
spout crossed the Central Pacific track be
tween Humboldt, Weels and Toane, washing
out the track. The west bound emigrant traiu
was wrecked and five passengers killed. It
liad been raining with great violence from ear
ly in tho morning till noon, when a cloud burst
on the lofty range of mountains to the east.
A vast volume of water rushed down the
cauou where the town is lo< ated. The east
ern part of the town was flooded in ten min
utes by the fearful rash of water constantly
increasing in violence, depth and impetuosity.
The people of that portion of the place were
hemmed in every moment. Houses were torn
from their foundations and swept away with
their occupants. Ropes were procured and a
line formed of brave men, who thus protected,
dashed into the torrent and saved many lives.
Only a few women and children were lost.
The body of one, Sirs. Bray, was recovered.
Rodger Robenott, reporter of tbs Sentinel, is
among the drowned. The Sentinel office was
swept away. Bodies are being brought to the
court house as fast as recovered. Three Chi
namen lost. Thirty houses swept away. All
parts of the town were involved. The dance
houses and other places of amusement are
gone. The flood lasted only half an hour.
The total loss of life is not yet known. It is
believed it will reach twenty-five or thirty.
SOUTH.
Iu Montgomery county, Ky., recent
ly, Mrs. Stevens split tlie skull of auother
woman for suspected intimacy with Mr.
Stevens.
In twenty out of twenty seven dis
tricts in southeastern Maryland, majorities
were given, at the elections held last week,
against the sale of liquors.
J. A. Brant, a much respectod young
man, residing at Paris, Ky., son of a banker
committed suicide last week while returning
from a ball, by shooting himself with a pistol.
Cause unknown.
James Dunning, charged with em
bezzling about $6,000 from the Atlanta, Ga.,
postoffioe, while his father was postmaster,
was arrested at St. .Louis, last week and sent
to Atlanta in care of deputy U. S. Marshal
Goodwin.
The next election is a very important
one iu Alabama, as the eik years office holders
are all to be chosen—judges of probate, gov
ernor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, and the
members of the lower house of the general
assembly.
An attempt was made last week by a
mob of negroes at Austin, Miss., to lynch
George R. Smith, who a few weeks since killed
a negro in a difficulty, and but for the prompt,
decisive action ot the sheriff who agreed to
put Smith in jail, he would have been hung.
The cotton caterpillars have made
their appearance in force in Orangeburg
county, S. C. In the interior of tho state as
well as on the coast the unfavorable weather
and lateness of the crops make planters ap
prehensive that the worm will do serious harm.
One stroke of lightning killed six
persons in Woodford county last week, viz :
Mr. Mindy and wife, Mr. Blank, wife and
daughter, and a colored man living in the same
house. During the same storm the lightning
struck many points in Central Kentucky, in
one instance burning a Darn to the ground.
Ihe Atlantacotton exchange sent a re
port to the New Orleans cotton exchange con
taining fifty-nine answers from twenty-five
counties,from which it appears that the weather
has generally been reported more favorable to
the crop than during the same period last
year. No lands planted have been abandoned,
but most of the early planting has been re- 1
planted and nearly the whole is of late plant
ing. Tho labor is efficient, the condition good,
and the plants growing rapidly. The weed is
not as large, and there is lees fruit than last
year at this time. Sixty to seventy per cent,
less ot fertilizers have been used than last
year.
FOREIGN.
Manuel Calvo telegraphs from Spain
that troops will be sent to Cuba to fill up her
original place.
A carlißt magazine exploded last week
at Quaza. Thirty men were killed and a large
number wounded.
The catholic bishop of Posen receives
fifteen months imprisonment for violating the
ecclesiastical laws of Germany,
A terrible disaster is reported in a
dispatch from Madrid. An avalanche of rocks
suddenly descended upon a town in the moun
tains of Navarre, crushing to death more tli&n
two hundred people.
Austria reports a fearful storm iu Mo
ravia. In one village only fourteen persons
escaped with their lives. In another sixty
four houses were demolished and only a few
inhabitants escaped.
A special from Berlin says it is re
ported that the German government is making
elrenuous endeavors to stop supplies of weap
ons and money being sent to the Carlists, and
has called the attention of the Versailles gov
ernment to the subject.
The German squadron now off Rye,
England, has been ordered to cruise off the
northern coast of Spain, and that iheso orders
were given conseqnenco of the shooting of
Capt. Schnide, a German newspaper corre
spondent and other German subjects by the
carlists.
The North German Gazette says, in
reference to the recent outrages by carlists:
Germany, in bebalf of outraged European
civilization, will seek and find tha means to
teach carlists that the murder of a captured
German shall not remain unpunished.
President McMahon, in response to a
deputation of members of the ascmbly, said
he was not summoned to power in order to
restore either monarchy or empire. His acts
proved that he would not participate in any
such an enterprise.
A proclamation has been issued sup
plementary to the decree establishing a state
of seige. It declares that charges of sedition or
conspiracy against the state shall be tried by
court-martial. All persons interfering with
the operation of the railway and telegraph
shall suffer death.
Nassau advices to the 20th state that
the Pacific mail company’s steamer City of
Gautemala, Capt. Hildreth, from New York for
Aspinwall, was lost off the northeast poiut of
Watling island, Bahamas, on Thursday 16th
net., at midnight. All hands saved.
Advices from India represnt there
are fears the cholera has has broken out
among tho fifty thousand pilgrims assembled
in Poor for tho Juggernaut festival. The
floods in the north have submerged the
country. The southern districts are still with
out rain. Even the little that has fallen in
some sections has done no good.
The captain general of Cuba has de
creed an extraordinary tax of two and a half
per cent, on the value of city and county
property, in<kistries, commerce, arts, and
professions, the capital whereof is to be as
certained by sworn statements, upon the basis
of which the tax is to bo estimated.
In a speech last week, at London,
Disraeli is reported to have said, “ No one was
able to view the state of Europe with com
placency. Every one must deplore the an
archical condition of some favored countries.
England would use her influence ia the inter
ests of peace. Disraeli repudiated the princi
ple that the country was not to be held respon
sible in many questions which arise abroad
affecting the fortunes of the world.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bristow consents that Spinner shall
have the selecting of his own clerks.
The last suviving sister of the late
E lgar Allen Poe died at Washington last
week, aged 68.
There have been about one thousand
applications for office ander the district com
mission.
The aggregate amount due the clerks
of the late board of public works, including
the engineer department and employes
under the superintendent of property, is
$1,207, 393.
Mr. Prce McGrath, says that Tom
Bowling hai been turned out, and will not ran
again this par. Perhaps ho will never grace
the turf mre. Slight hopes, however, are
still entertaied for his recovery.
A dangeous counterfeit having ap
peared on thtfive dollar notes of the Traders
National ban of Chicago, the treasury de
partment offer one-half per cent, premium,
for the return f the genuine five dollar uotos
of that bank ti the department for destruc
tion. The attetion of bank officers is espe
cially called to he necessity of retiring these
notes, which wilentirely prevent the circula
tion of counterfits.
In the case C the Union Trust Com
pany of New Yor vs. the Rock Islaud & St.
Louis railway, brught in the United States
court, to foreclos the nine million dollars
trust deeds agiust the company, and
for the appointnmt of a receiver, Judge
Blodgett has dismi-ed the bill on the ground
that tho necessarynumber of bondholders
had not joined in tt request to foreclose as
to former defaults iiiuterest.
The bids for tlnfive per cent, funded
loan forwarded frompew York, representing
those filed by foreigi bankers for European
markets as well as tbse for domestic hold
ings, will aggregate ni less than $80,000,000.
The large bids will ome from syndicates
whicn have been foned, the principal one
representing a combinfton of German bank
ers, and to each of tlioi bids will he attached
a condition that the bidets are to have a call
on the entire rcmaindi of the loan so that
should tli9 secretary aopt any one of the
bids, it would he to le exclusion of all
others.
A dividend of five er cent., author
ized bv the committee f creditors of Jay
Cooke <t Cos., has net yet eon paid, the regis
ter having doubts as to itafinding effect upon
liim. Ho has, however, loceeded with the
necessary calculations, so hat there should
be no delay if the court otired him to pro
ceed. In the meantime thtunds in his bands
have increased to such an aount as will war
rant the payment of seven ittead of five per
' cent. It is believed that 1 will bring Ihe
matter before the court whefits opinion can
be obtained, and if a propebrder is made,
payment will' be proceeded ith as early as
possible.
The lieutenant govern; of Missis
sippi has telegraphed that he sent to tho
president by mail a statemei of affairs at
Vicksburg, which led him to sprehend dis
turbance of the peace, which,>wing to the
unorganized state of the militiibe would he
unable to suppress. The majr and post
master of Vicksburg have on th other hand
telegraphed to the preside* proto-ting
against the sending of troops tobat city, as
such an act would have the efft of increas
ing the excitement, as there are i indications
of an outbreak. The secretary >f war, in
view of the protest of the mayi of Vicks
burg and the postmaster at than, ty against
sending troops there, has counteianded his
order directing troops to proceed that place
until the full particulars of the Wile trouble
be received from the acting govsor.
Don’t Criticise.
Whatever you do, don’t soap for a
critic. We don’t mean a fiwspaper
one, but in private life, in the omestic
circle, in society. It will not dany one
any good, and it will do you arm—if
you mind being called disagre*>lo. If
you don’t like any one’s nose, t object
to any one’s chin, don’t put yir feel
ings into words. If any one’ananner
don’t please you, remember ytr own.
People are not all made to tit one
taste, recollect that. Take thini as vn D
find them, unless yon can *lt< them.
Even a dinner, after is swlowed,
cannot be made any better. Gtinual
fault-finding, continual criticisipf con
duct of this one and the speechf that
one, the dress of the other, td the
opinions of t’other, will make line the
unhsppiest place under the sun.
A returning emigrant wago*>assed
through Cedar FaDs, lowa, latweek,
bearing the expressive and eujmious
label, “ D— n the grasshoppers.
PLIGHTED. A. D. 1874.
“ Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.”
Nellie, loquitur.
Bless my heart! You’re come at last.
Awful glad to see you, dear !
Thought you’d died or something, Belle—
Such an age since you’ve been here!
My eng gement ? Oraci ir.s! Yes.
Rumor’s hit the mirk this time.
And the victim 7 Charley Gray,
Know him, don’t you 7 Well, he’s prime.
Such mmstachios ! Spendid style!
Then lie’s not so horrid fast—
Waltzes like a Beraph, too,
Has seme fortune—best and last.
Love him 7 Nonsense. Don’t be “ soft.”
Pretty much as love now goes;
He’H devoted, and in time
I’ll get used to him, I s’pose.
First love 7 Humbug. Don’t talk stuff!
Bella Brown, don’t be a fool!
Next you’ll rave of dames and darts,
L'ke a chit at boarding-school.
Don’t be “miffed,” I talked just so
Some two years back. Fact, my dear !
Bat two seasons kill romance,
Leave one’s views of life quite clear.
Why, if Will Latrobe bad asked
When he left, two years ago,
I’d have thrown up all and gone
Out to Kansas, do you know 7
Fancy me a settler’s wife!
Blest escape, dear, was it not 7
Yes, it’s hardly in my line
To enact “Love in a Cot.”
Well, yon see, I’d had my swing,
Been engaged to eight or ten,
Got to stop some time, of course,
So it don’t much matter when.
Auntie hates old maids, and thinks
Every girl sho ild marry young
On that theme my whole life long
I have heard the changes rung !
So, ma belle what could I do 7
Charley wants a stylish w.fe,
We’il suit well enough, no fear,
When we settle down for life.
But for love—stuff! See my ring!
Lovely, isn’t it 7 Solitaire.
Nearly made Maude Hinton turn
Green with envy and despair,
Her’s sint half so nice, you see, —
Did I write you. Belle, about
How she tried for Charley, till
I sailed iu and cut her out?
Now she’s taken Jack Mcßride,
1 believe it’s all from pique—
Threw him over once you know—
Hates me so she’ll scarcely speak.
O yes ! Grace Church, Brown, and that,
Pa won’t mind expense at. last,
I’ll be off his hands for good;
Cost a foitune two years past.
My trousseau shall out-do Maude’s,
I’ve curie blanche from Pa, you know,
Mean to have my dress from Worth!
Won’t sho just be raving though 7
—Alice Williams, in Scribner's .
JUDGE WETTEMOBE S SECRET.
BY EMIIiY B. STEIN’ESTEIj.
“ The twentieth year is well nigh past
Since first our sky was overcast:
Ah would that this might be the last—
My Mary!”
Our village was not unlike other vil
lages. It had its old folks, and youDg
folks, its Mrs. Grundys and Mrs. Peace
maker, its gossip, and its facts, its
churches and its societies, its judge
and its old maid.
That these two last mentioned had a
history whose threads were interwoven,
even somewhat tangled, had become a
theme of every guarded conjecture, and
much dissatisfied whispering, only re
cently, and by the merest accident!
The ladies of our town had formed a
sewing society called “ The Workers,”
and rather prided themselves on the
amonnt of work accomplished at their
meetings without the usual character
plundering, said by the male portion of
the community to be proverbial at such
meetings.
True, the members made it a rule to
be prompt to the moment; the tempta
tion was thus avoided of discussing tho
peculiarities of an absent member, had
anyone ventured to display such a weak
ness, which is doubtful.
Miss Harrington, or the “village
maid,” was one of the most energetic
and untiring “workers,” ever silent','
when words were useless, unsympa
thetic and stern in appearance, going
her way unquestioned, for her acts
were like her character, above ques
tioning.
A most remarkable thing occurred at
one of these meetings. Miss Harring
ton was late ! the society was arlarmed
—fretted—tongues began to wag, the
ladies for;;ot themselves.
W idow Menken had the floor.
“ They do say it nearly killed him.
When his mother died she made him
promise to marry the poor thing, if
only for the sake of the child. I dare
say the gloom and remorse in the
judge’s heart is blacker than the face
he has been wearing all these years ! ”
“Yes,” added another worker,’“and
he engaged to Ollie Harrington at the
time ”
“ Its a lie 1 ”
“ Oh. Lord ! ” exclaimed tho forget
ful ones.
There stood the old maid, a pic
ture of scornful anger. One moment
she gazed at them in silence more elo
quent than language, then turning on
her heels she left the house, saying be
tween half closed lips :
“ Poor gossip skimmers ! ”
To say that this was not confirmation,
would be doing injustice to the judg
ment of the workers.
It decided the matter, indeed ; there
waa something in it. A secret iu the
community all these years ? horrible !
Widow Menken remembered, now
she came to think of it, although she
was only a slip of a girl then, and
Charley Menken was only beginning to
think of courting her, that Wettemore
and“ollie” Harrington were consid
ered a “ pair ” although he was an aw
ful gay young fellow, and Ollie the
wildest “ haram SGarem ” girl in the
village. But somehow they quit going
together after awhile, then George went
away and awful stories were afloat about
some college scrape he got into. Well,
boys will be boys, I hope I shant carry
such a broken heart to the grave as that
mother of his did, though.
How lightly we can talk of other
people’s sins and sorrows, how easily
dispose of tl’.em, how thoughtlessly
probe a tender spot, idly jostle a bruised
place supposed to be healed or calloused.
Miss Hairington walked home with
the same quiet dignity, the same meas
ured tread, as if no storm was whirling
the blood through her veins, as it had
not done for years ; as if nothing like a
thumping heart was tearing asunder a
painful past.
But onee inside her cottage door,
where none but a pitying Savior could
see her, she cried with hands out
stretched in spirit pleading :
“ Oh, God ! is my love not yet dead ?
spare me, oh spare me, their pitiless
searching !”
Yes, there was a secret. It had been
right under their prying noses this
many a year, and they had not scented
it.
Miss Harrington had gradually with
drawn from the gay sociables and frol
ics of the village, and became an old
maid so quietly that as 1 , one after anoth
er of her youthful companions were
married off and took up the matron’s
life, they scarcely wondered why she
remained single or noticed the change
from gay to grave, so gentle was the
transformation, and only when the ad
vent of anew set of young folks grew
around them did they realize that Miss
Harrington was no longer “ Ollie ” but
the old maid. True she was kind and
generous ; she had even heard of a lit
tle waif left at the mercy of the town,
many years ago, and taken it to her
home and for three years tended and
•cared for it like an own mother, and
when the little thing was taken with the
scarlet fever, and the old village doctor
pronounced the case fatal took it to the
city for more experienced treatment.
But it never came back alive. Mies
Harrington had accidentally discovered
its parentage and left the corpse in their
family burying ground.
The young man, Gecige Wettemore,
became a much better man after his
mother’s death, that happened about
this time, and some of the right-minded
people were Trilling to show their ap
preciation of his conduct and put his
name up for county judge. Of course
there were other right-minded people
who did not consider him fit for so im
portant a position, and said his politics
CARTERSYILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5. 1874.
were of a color with his morals, and re
ported some very nasty stories, quite
bad enough for even the best society to
swallow, and George "Wettemore conse
quently became judge and remained
judge up to the present time. He was
not a “ sweet man ”by any means. He
rever led young ladies or marri* and ladies
into cosy corners, and whispered tender
things into eager ears, but he was much
sought after nevertheless, and no one
could accuse him of favoritism, and
after awhile th 9 stories died and the
judge became a “ moral man,” if not a
married one.
Aud the years passed on, as old time
has a habit of casting them behind him
into that vast ocean oi the past, leaving
the bitter scraps of memory along the
wayside called experience.
Mis3 Harrington had one of these
hurled at her as she entered the “Work
ers’ ” room.
Seated before her writing desk in her
own home she was vainly trying to over
come the pain.
Hot, sore tears fell on the letter be
fore her, obscuring the writing, but she
knew every word. They had been in
delibly fixed in her heart for years.
They had cheered her dark and lonely
life, that her woman’s pride had forced
upon her. A hundred times had that
seeming cold and stately old maid
pressed them to her lips in passionate
love, cryiDg :
“Darling, my darling!”
And yet the writer and been passed
with a cold bow, and been in the same
company with her many, many times,
and she greeted him with perfect in
difference.
Her love was undying, and her sor
row was secret, for she was a woman.
* * * * * *
Judge Wettemore was ill; the doc
tor said he had no hope.
Judge Wettemore said something to
the doctor, and that gentleman drove
with all speed to Miss Harrington’s
cot age. In a few moments ho drove
back again with that lady at his side.
He led her to the sick man’s door,
and softly closed himself out—stand
ing, or walking guard in the hall, with
a curious face under his white hair.
“ Ollie, Ollie. At last you forgive ?”
Almost tottering with the intensity of
her emotion, towards the sick man she
turned. One little moment and the
years were wiped out; his head was
resting over her weary, hungry heart,
the resplendence of her eloquent face,
giving him the longed for answer.
When the doctor entered the room
again he received another commission,
and before another day was passed, old
mother Grundy was in highest glee,
telling her extensive family the news.
“Judge Wettemore and Miss Har
ringten are married !”
Widow Menken knew all about it.
Judge Wettemore got well; the doc
tor couldn't help it; he said it was not
his fault.
When the new made husband was
well enough to travel, he took his wife
to the city, and they went to the ceme
tery and stood beside a little mound,
and she took some'tear-dimmed letters
and made an altar of the grave, and
burnt them.
Some portion of their contents may
interest the reader.
“Would you cruelly sacrifice iwo
lives for an indiscretion, where the sin
was not premeditated, and the blame as
much on the other side ? I was not
myself—the other party designedly
placed themselves at the mercy
of a wine-mad boy. Ollie, have
mercy on me. I love you beyond even
God, beyond everything on earth or my
soul’s salvation. I have made what
atonement was in my power. With
this terrible lesson before me do you
not b live me, when I tell you my sins
are of the past. With my mother’s grave
haunting me sleeping or waking will I
ever forget again or place myself at the
mercy of the tempter ? God hear me,
NO.
“ Ollie, my pure darling, do not turn
from the repeutent.”
“ George Wettemore—Do you dare
cast the burdeu of vonr degradation on
the woman ! Po< >r despisable Adam, if
there was but the least pity in my soul
for you, this attempt to lighten your
crime at the expense of your unhappy
companion would kill it. Our life is
apart. Never dare insult me with a re
newal of your proposals. Yourself and
your future are dead to me. I despise
you, destroyer of innocence, let this be
your answer.”
What a queer contradiction a wo
man is.
Miss Harrington, or rather Mrs.
Judge Wettemore, never thought it nec
essary to inform the community that
she had a particular—if painful—inter
est in the little foundling she took un
der her protection, or that she had the
waif brought into the village, or that
the secret of its parentage belonged to
her husband Judge Wettemore.
“ And still to love, though pressed with ill,
In wintry age to feel no chill,
With me, is to be lovely still.
My Mary!’’
Domestic Felicity of George the I bird.
Here is a pithy extract from a recent
speech of Bradlaugh in an Eaglish
town: “Mr. Disraeli, at Manchester,
spoke of the royalty of this country.
He said that George the Third’s family
were ’an example of domestic felicity.
He said they illustrated the home of
the m tion. I ask you to only imagine
George the Third’s family an example
of demestic felicity. George the
Third’s grandfather locked up his wife
for thirty years, and in her absence
lived with two other women. Is that
an example of domestic felicity ?
George the Third’s grandfather never
spoke to George the Third. George
the Third’s|graudfatherjburnedhis wife’s
will, George the Third’s father burned
his father’s will, and still Mr. Disaeli
sets them up a3 an example of domestic
felicity! George the Third’s mother
said that her son was the most licen
tious, dishonest, and wicked man liv
ing, and she wished that he might die
and leave the world. That’s an exam
ple of Mr. Disraeli’s ‘ domestic felicity. ’
When George the Third was mad his
two sons came back to their clubs and
spoke it widely there in order to make
believe that the madness was incurable.
George the Third’s son was drunk the
day be was married. He deserted his
wife the day his firefc child was born;
and Mr. Disraeli says this is an exam
ple of ‘domestic felicity!’ When Na
poleon died, a man—George the Third’s
eldest son—came to him and said,
‘ Sire, your greatest enemy is dead ; ’
and George the Third, not thinking of
Napoleon, but of his wife, said, *ls
she, by G ? (Laughter). And Mr.
Disraeli says they are an example of
domestic felicity ! Not only did he
say that they were an example of do
mestic felicity, but that they repre
sented the morality ol the nation.
George the Third’s son wrote that the
Brunswickß were a family without prin
ple, and were not to be trusted. George
the Third’s three sons borrowed money
and placed anonymous signatures
thereon, and afterward denied the sig
natures and shipped off to a foreign
country those persons who were con
cerned in the affair, in order that they
might not criminate them. George
the Fourth stole a quantity of corona
tion diamonds, and then accused an
other man of the crime. And Mr.
Disraeli says they are an example of
morality !
A Kalamazoo judge went to a neigh
boring town to see a man, and tele
graphed back to his wife, “Have found
Garland; won’t be home in a week”
When the dispatch reached her it read,
“ Have found girl, and won’t be home
in a week.” Here let us draw avail,
RUSSIA’S ACQUISITIONS.
A Kt view of file Startling’ Rapidity ot
Muscovite Progress.
The extent of the Russian acquisi
tions of territory in Central Asia is as
little understood as the curious chap
ter, half of deliberate policy and half
of accident, which contains the history
of the acquisitions. The general state
ment that in a quarter of a conturv
Russia has advanced her frontier 700
mile to the south and 900 miles to the
south-east, gives but a vague impress
ion of the startling rapidity of Mus
covite progress. Russia is an empire
of “ magnificent distances,” aud the
mention of its advancing frontier sug
gests the acquisition of barren steppes
or fiozeu deserts. But it must be re
membered that the parallel of latitude
under which we live would but pass
through the center of the Russian ter
ritory in Western Turkestan. The
three great Khanites—Bokhara, Kho
kand, and Khiva—which Russia has
virtually absorbed during the present
generation, have been the seats of
highly civilized empires, and I have
formed the subject of the contest be
tween dynasties whose names are among
the foremost of Asiatio potentates.
Genghiz Khan, the modern Attill, once
ruled a vast dominion from Sjmareand,
which has now become a Russian mu
nicipality, and a successor of Timour,
the Turooman, founded the Empire of
the Great Mogul in India.
Territories both wealthy and pros
perous had, however, sunk into that
peculiarly hopeless style of barbarism
characteristic of the effete of Mussul
man rale, long before Russia crossed
the Kirghiz steppe, or began to con
tinue her Siberian forts southward to
wards the Jaxartes. At every stage of
her advance she has replaced the most
debased forms of tyranny with a sys
tem of administration which, if tainted
with the vices of military arrogance and
civilian rapacity, is at least a guaranty
of social security, and an immense
stride toward civilization. The ambi
tion of her generals, operating at im
mense distances from the central au
thority, and nenessarily invested with
very ample discretion in dealing with
semi-barbarous foes, has had rather
more to do with Russia advances in
Asia than any steadfast line of policy
traced at St. Petersburg. Nothing is
more striking than the ridiculous small
ness of the armies with which Russia
has subjugated Turkestan. Tashkend
was taken with less than two thousand
of an assaulting force, though the town
contained 80,000 inhabitants and a gar
rison of 10,000 to 15,000 men, and so on
with other celebrated actions of the
last twentv years. The late expedition
against Khiva was planned with more
deliberation and carried out with a
greater display of strength than any
previous advance against the other
Khanates. The causes which led to
that expedition are, however, a fair
sample of the reasons that have com
pelled the conquest of the surrounding
States. As the civilized nation ad
vanced its protectorate, the tribes which
it cowed became less fitted than before
to resist the attacks of their independ
ent neighbors, and in sheer self-defense
the Russian outposts had to be pushed
further and further into territories
which were used chiefly for the conceal
ment of organized bands of armed rob
bers. Of, the envoys, the merchants,
the soldiers of the advancing power
were taken prisoners by some of the
tribes beyond the line of conquest, and
expeditions for their rescue and the
punishment of their captors, led, by a
natural enough series of event.-’, to per
manent occupation.
Moral Culture is the True End of Life.
Men ask, What have you got ? What
do you know ? What can you do ?
God asks, What are yon ? On the ans
wer to that question hangs onr des
tiny. Then all things, all incidents,
all gettings, all losses of this life,
should bo measured by their outcome,
the resultant effect on our character.
A possession is good if it makes us gen
erous, if, in the use of it, we develop
all those right faculties that pertain to
its handling. But if not, woe to the day
on which the windfall came ! Whether
it shall prove to us a godsend, or a
curse, depends entirely npon onr use of
it. A loss may be a good if through
its means we develop these graces that
come from the patient endurance of
life’s hard and heavy things. In either
case we are not to estimate them by
what they are in themse.ves. This is
but a superficial, and thus a false view
to tak<\ What they make of us is what
determines their value. One of the
first times I ever preached without
notes, a friend said to rte, “ One disad
vantage is. that you haven’t got the ser
mon, now it is preached.” “Yes,” I
said, “ but I’ve got th j practice of going
without it.” A botanist makes a fine
collection of leaves and flowers, and
grasses. When done, the fire takes it.”
But the best part—the drill and prac
tice and knowledge acquired in making
the collection—these are left, and they
are worth more than a dozen collec
tions. The practice and study of col
lecting makes even a botanist. But one
might own the collection forever and
know nothing about it. A painter by
long years of work becomes skilled in
eye, and finger, and judgment and im
agination. At the age of 50 he sells
ail his pictures to someone rich enough
to buy them. He has loft only eye and
finger, and judgment, and imagination,
and the skill of all these. But these
are as much superior to one of his pict
ures as God is to the earth he has
made. He is an artist. But the man
who fills his house with his paintings
may be only a clown. What he becomes
in his work is worth more than all he
produces or what he gets paid for it.
You can buy pictures ; but you can't
buy genius and skill.— M. J. Savage.
The Last Man.
There is one man in the procession,
however, who does not possess these at
tributes. He is the last man. It is
said that there must be a last man to
every procession ; but it must always
be so until some mode is discovered of
making up the procession in a circle,
and then giving it motion like a rotary
shell, turning its own axis and going
straight ahead also. The last man is a
weary, worn, pathetic creature, who
looks as if life was a burden to him.
He is a rusty, seedy, biped, without any
good clothes. No stars blazo on his
breast. No banner shields him from
the fiery sun. His ear never hears the
nspiiing notes of the band. He catches
iall the dost of the procession. By stand
ers rush in front of him with impunity
He has no pride at all. There is no
pomp about him—no majesty of mein.
He always looks sick, tired, disheveled
and forlorn. Small boys jeer at him.
’Bus drivers contemptuously order him
out of the way. Reckless young men
make desperate efforts to drive over him.
He gets mixed up among newsboys,
bootblacks, yellow dogs, advertising
wagons, fan-sellers, drays and frantic
women rushing after erratic children,
and loses the prooession ; and by the
time he regains it he is a poor hanatsed,
dejected man and brother, and an ob
ject of universal pity. The chances are
that if he does not go off with sun
stroke, or get ruu over by an ioe cart
and have to be taken home in an express
wagon, he will, as the result of his pa
thetic situatioD, get drunk with remark
able dispatch before sunset. So long
as there must be a last man in every
prooession there should be some com
pensation. He should be made attract
ive. Let him be handsomely decorated
and caparisoned. Let him carry a ban
ner and have an American flag in his
hat. Let him also have a drawn sword
with which to keep off the small lxiys
and yellow dogs, and thus the last man
in the procession will cease to be the
most wretched object in existence.
Marriage as a Sanitary Measure.
The papers east tell us that Mr.
Qvington, a well-known Brooklyn mer
chant, has filed a petition for the di
vorce of his daughter, Mrs. Spiers, on
the ground of hopeless imbecility.
Miss Ovington, it seems, a few years
since, having graduated with high hon
ors at Packer Institute, w is ush-red in
to the social world with fairest prom
ise. Alas, the old story of over taxed
immature brain repeated itself and
th ose unhappy symptoms appeared which
only developed as time went on. The
child of wealthy parents, she doubtless
received every attention which affection
ootild suggest or money command—
travel and rest, sea-bathing and moun
tain air, various diversion by land and
water—all to no avail. Asa last re
sort, “she was married to her present
husband.”
Comment is here taken up by the pa
pers on the inability of the female
mind to cope with the more difficult,
abstruse collegiate stupes; an old
theme, and still worthy of considera
tion, notwithstanding the prominent
exceptions to the contrary. But the
novelty ot the final attempt to minister
to a mind diseased must give us pause.
Any new social experiment demands
close and respectful attention from the
possible importance of its results. If
man’s power become so developed by
the execution of the marital bond that
he can recover for his wife a lost reason
why wo ought to know it at once, be
fore we send any more girls to the lu
natic asylum, or suffer young men to
idle away single lives, while their agen
cy might be such a useful one. It was a
bold experiment to make, for there was a
and isagreeable acknowledgment in event of
failure, and in face of experience that
was almost inevitable. Sometimes there
is decided improvement physically
brought about by marriage. Eccen
tricities ate corrected by husbands of
tact like Petruchio ; wives are brought
to reason, but who ever heard of reason
being brought to wives ? It would in
deed be a happy condition of things
could one mind by constant sympathetic
intercourse lure back another which had
taken flight. Worthy would be the
cause for sacrifice, and beautiful the ac
tion of its devotees. To our sorrow,
there is no suoh encouragement. Mar
riage seems to bring out imbecility
rathe, than to slay it. In these days of
laced waists and high heels, girls not
only pay the penalty of a mother’s
folly, but borrow largely on their own
account. We regard them with wonder
as night after night they tread the
measures of the mazy, way past the
smallest hours, rise in the morning to
pay calls or shop, and to put saddle
horses to severe tests in the afternoon.
A young man is completely deceived,
for this wondrous endurance ceases after
marriage as though that’ were the one
grand blow which swept away all props.
German figures of a domestic cut won’t
answer ; the' illusion is over when there
is no prospect of changing partners. A
baby intrudes and the milk bill in
creases, as the home supply is apt to
run short. Did this happen in the days
of Spartan or Roman glory? Is it
conceivable that one can imbibe wit
and muscle through an India rub
ber tube ? And since a being is den: ed
that festhetie education which an ac
quaintance with his mother’s breast
gives, but is brought up on the fraud
of a bottle, is it at all strange that his
affections often cling tenaciously to this
latter the rest of his days ? Time was
when wives could give ample evidence
of affection and backbone combined,
when the witty fraus of Weinberg tri
umphantly bore off their husbands
from the beleagnred city. A fellow
would stand a good chance now of be
ing left to the tender mercies of
Krupp’s cannon for aught his better
half could do to help him.
Yes, the imbecility most often exhib
its itself in lack of energy and strength,
in poor management of husband,
children and household ; but there
isn’t always the kind father in-law to
step in with his petition of divorce.
Had the effort succeeded, the conse
quences might have been startling in
the extreme. There would have been
such a rush on the eligible young man
as was never known. Marriage would
be justly known as the true Pierian
fount, and the article husband drive all
other tonics out of the market. A
mother would regard them critically is
she might the jars in a drug store, while
the father would count them as so much
off his doctor’s bill. In short, they would
cease to occupy the simply ornamental
position of to-day and he considered thor
oughly useful as the universal health ie
storer. Stock would rise, and plenty of
those now ready to sell out at a mod er
ate figure would hold off for higher
bids—terms in proportion to serious
ness of case. It might pay to organize
a joint stock company, with every hus
band warranted.
But there was only failure to chroni
cle, and the young man’s chances are
as poor as ever. One consolation must
be, that he who weds it wealthily in
Padua isn’t of necessity happy ; and
that should wo evt r have a case pre
sented which will test our gallantry as
sorely as Miss Ovington’s, we must leave
the gate open for graceful retreat. The
groom’s expenses were doubtless well
covered, but for our part we think it
very fortunate that he escaped the name
of father.— Courier-Journal.
The Cotton Prospect.
The committee on information and
statistics of the Memphis cotton ex
change have made a report derived
from 84 responses from West Tennes
see, 82 from North Mississippi, 84 from
Arkansas, north of the Arkansas river,
15, as follows : Of 266 responses, 108
report favorable weather since the 15th
ult.; 157, too dry; 1 too wet; 171 re
port more favorable weather to date
than the corresponding date last year.
Two and three-fonrths per cent, of the
crop planted has been abandoned from
drouth and ovt rflow. Forty-two par
cent, of the crop was planted early. Of
the early planting, 170 report better
stands than last year; 95, not so good.
Of the late planting, 165 report it bet
ter ; 100, not so good. Of the early,
206 report the crop well formed and
boiled ; of the late planting, 150 report
favorably. On labor, 166 report labor
working well ; 100 only moderately
well. Of early planting, 141 report a
better conditioned crop than last year ;
52, as well ; 52 not so good. Of late
planting 102 say better 76 as well ; 90
not so good. The responses to the gen
eral condition indicate it has been bet
ter cultivated than for years, but su -
fering from continued drouth ; antici
pating danger from frost upon tbe late
crops with slight indications of rust and
blight. Twenty-nine per cent, of the
crops planted did not come up before
June 1. Nineteen and three-quarter
per cent, was planted after the 20 of
May.
Eighty-six report good corn crops ;
88 fair and 90 inferior. One hundred
and fifty-one report good wheat crops 81
moderte to poor ; 57 good. Of the oat
crop 176 say moderate; 6 poor. The
grass is generally poor owiDg to drouth.
They can’t agree in Denver how long
the blade of a bowie-knife should be, so
that you see all communities have a
skeleton in the closet, and no town can
expect to be perfectly happy.
COTTON MANUFACTURE.
Tlie Other Side ot the Picture-Words of
Kuconragcment for the South.
To induce parties in Georgia to erect
cotton mills, a southern writer the other
day compiled a table of dividends de
clared by some of the eastern cotton
and woolen mills in 1873. This table
showed that 26 ont of 47 companies di
vided from 10 to 20 per cent. each. In
order that the south may not be too en
vious on account of these enormous
profits, the Boston Journal undertakes
to picture what it calls the other side
of the history of manufacturing in that
section, the losses and sacrifices oc
curring durng the history of these
mills before those profits were found.
Some of those mentioned as making
such dividends iu 1873, we are reminded
lost their whole capital at other times,
and had to organize anew. The stock
of others, i aid in at SI,OOO a share,
sold at SSO in 1857. The Chicopee had
its capital cut down in 1860 from $700,-
300 to $210,000 by impairments; and
so on through the list. Still, these un
pleasant reminiscences need not dis
courage men from engaging in cotton
manufacture, for there are ups and
downs, lights and shades in all busi
ness, and the success of the mills at
Augusta, Ga., aud other places in the
cotton country, shows clearly that with
economical management it is very profi
table to operate such manufactories in
the south, where all expenses of trans
portation of the raw material is saved.
The results of the Augusta cotton
factory enterprise are snch as to en
courage the southern people to further
effoits in manufacturing. The depend
ence of the south on the north for man
ufactured products was shown striking
ly during the war, when, with cotton in
abundance, the wealthiest citizens were
obliged to purchase at enormous gold
prices clothing brought over in block
ade runners, while the poorer classes
were the roughest of homespun. Sinco
the war several praiseworthy efforts have
been made by southern capitalists to
render their section independent. The
most successful of those enterprises is
the Augusta cotton factory, started soon
after the war. Only sixty thousand
dollars were ever paid in, and the com
pany has paid out in dividends $1,068,-
000, ha3 property worth $1,200,000, at
the lowest calculation, and a surplus of
$265,870. During the fiscal year just
ended the company has expended $350,-
000 for new machinery and for the en
largement and improvement of the
buildings. Yet Georgia only consumes
25,C00 bales of cotton in her mills,
about one-twentieth part of her own
crop, while most of the other southern
states are without cotton mills, and
have to send their whole crop elsewhere
to be manufactured. — New York Sun.
Mrs. Snooks Washing the [Children.
If the religious press gets ahead of
the El Paso Journal we give it fair
warning that it must get up on its spine.
We have stood the “ Sleeping Cherub3 ”
by the Christian Union; we have gazed
on the picture of wall-eyed virtue with
which Brother Talmage ropes in sub
scribers from the rural districts un
moved, but when the Christian at
Work send sus a picture of two sore
eyed dogs watching three marino lambs,
and wants us to pay them S2O for it,
then, indeed, the free spirit of the
American citizen is aroused.
We want it distinctly understood that
we are in the chromo busines ourselves.
Hereafter, every subscriber who takes
the El Paso Journal will receive a beau
tiful chromo entitled “ Mrs. Snooks
Washing the Children.*’ It is oneof those
beautiful home pictures that at once
appeal to the fondest and holiest affec
tions of the heart. Every man who
sees it will at once “ Would he were a
boy again,” when being washed and
getting soap in his ejes was one of the
regular Sunday afflictions next to the
catechism.
In the foreground is Mrs. Snooks.
Before her is a tub, and one of the or
phans is struggling in the water. The
artist lias seized upon the moment when
the infant has just 'opened his mouth
for a prolonged solo, but is dexterously
checked by his mother’s swabbing his
voioe with a epunge. The manner in
which a stream of soapy water is repre
sented running down the urchin’s right
eye is very finely done. In the other
eye is thrown all the added emotion of
pent-up grief and “sorrow that knows
i o tongue.” We defy any man to see
this picture without being stirred to
his inmost depths. Mrs. Snooks’ face
is a study. ’ It is such an expression of
motherly love, housewifely zeal, and
beautiful devotion to duty that can be
likened to nothing except that seen
upon the face of our mothers on wash
days and at house-cleaning times.
Three of the children have already
been washed. Their rosy countenances,
bright with exuberant health, have been
further heightened by the art of the
limner, who has depioted them suffering
with colds as one result of their baths.
At the same time their complexion
forms an agreeable contrast to the three
behind the tub who have not been
bathed. This is finely done and cost a
world of labor.
The whole forms an agreeable con
trast to the naked cherubs sent out by
the religious press. It is a domestic
scene, full of holy joy, and tranquilized
by a sweet and dreamlike peace.
In order to convey the idea that even
in so perfect a home as this sorrow must
enter, the artist has depicted one of the
children suffering with measles. The
way in which the measles blotches are
struggling with the dirt on his nose,
having captured the last-named rgan,
is one of the sweetest things in the
chromo line that has ever been pre
sented.
We are now prepared to furnish these
ebromos to every subscriber of the El
Paso Journal. We append a few cer
tificates from prominent individuals :
“ True to life. The very atmosphere
smells of soap.”—Henry Ward Beecher.
“I assure you, on my honor, that the
chromo is so natural that one of my
children actually caught the measles
from looking at it.”—Ben. Bntler.
“ Reminds me of the time when they
used to wash me, now many, many years
ago.”—Susan B. Anthony.
“ Send the 15,000 dozen of your chro
mos ‘Washing the children.’ We want
to offer them as premiums.”—Christian
at Work.
“It shows domestic misery in the
highest degree. No woman ought to be
allowed to have seven children.”—Vic
toria Woodhtill.
We trust these testimonials are suffi
cient. We could append many thous
ands; bnt we forbear. Now let the
honest masses show their appreciation
of art by coming up and taking the
Journal.— El Paso (Ills.) Journal.
Where it Ail Comes From.
A writer on “hair” says: Though
the day for the best bargains has gone,
it is still not uncommon to obtain a
magnificent cfievelure from a Breton
peasant for a gaudy cotton handkerchief
or a twenty sous pair of earrings. Ty
ing his horse to a spreading tree, the
hair-monger, armed with a formidable
pair of scissors, soon attracts a crowd
of village maidens, who, after a little
haggling, submit to be sheared like so
many sheep. After dextrously and
gracefully clipping the locks, he de
posits them, neatly tied, in his bas
kets, and Jeannie is liberated, to' be
greeted with shouts and laughter from
her companions, for so well has the
work been done that her head has the
appearance of being shaved. Nowhere
but in Brittany will the girls submit to
this wholesale oropping, insisting upon
preserving a few thin locks, at least, of
nature’s fairest gifts. In that provit.ee,
however, where the custom is for wom
en to wear hideous, close-fittii.g caps,
hair which would be the glory c f Amer
icau ladies is useless, and it is there
that the hair-merchant reaps hie richest
harvest.”
“ Are Women Dolls.”
It is useless to assert that women are
what they were one hundred ye irs ago,
bnt is there need that they sho aid be ?
Then, every man was in some sense a
Eioneer. Then, as much depended upon
er t Sorts—often upon her nctu il labor
—as upon his. H r hands must minister
to the comforts of her household, —she
must be both mistress and servant. Not
only did she prepare their daily bread,
but the linen for the house, and the
clothes worn by every member of the
family, from the crude wool or llax, to
the last stitch iu them. She was equally
at home in the dairy, the spinnirg and
weaving room, the parlor, the kitch
en, tho garSeD, or the field. You ask
“ Where are they ?’ Gone with the
time n in which they lived, gone with
the need for them, gone as are the
strong, i turdy, helpful, brave, whole
souled, honest men to whom they were
helpmeets.
It may not be too much to say that it
is as surely folly and weakness to mourn
for the people as for the tbirgs of the
past, or, indeed, for the past itself. The
day has gone by when women can be,
at least here, what our grandmothers
were, and the day is but a memory when
men required or wished them* to be
that.
I am not in favor of shirking any
blame which properly attaches to use
less, wasted, purposeless lives that are
a burden to husbands, a curse to chil
dren, and a disgrace to woman, but I
want to ask who made them whaf they
are ? Men know as well as Ido that it
is their own work, and having done it,
why are they not satisfied ?
If women are dolls, I repeat who
made them so, or what are men doing
to make them anything better? So
long as yon show in every possible way
that you give all the admiration you
can spare from yourself to the vain,
pretty, senseless “ doll,” rather than to
more quiet, sober, earnest women, why
should they not be dolls, and earn the
premium you offer for folly? So long
as the belle of the ball-room and the
nymph of the pave are more attractive
than the gentle, modest woman who
would blush at a rude stare, why should
not all be attractive ?
So long as art is considered fairer than
nature, and woman’s beauty depsnds
upon her toilet, why should she not
make it a study ?
So long as she sees the bold, fast,
girl of the period the universal favorite
because she is bold and fast, why should
she not be bold and fast too ?
I have any amount of pretty theories
about these things, but there is no use
in talking, for so far as she knows liow,
woman will be the thing she believes
you admire and desire.
I am far from denying or justifying
facts, but there is nothing true under
the heavens than that women aim at .be
ing what they think men wish them to
be, and imitate what men seem most to
admire.
You ask what can be done—this :
Help her to be something better t han
she is now—take your young wives out
of hotels and boarding houses, let them
be the honored mistress of a neat, j lain
oottage home in which they can feel
pride and interest, and which will give
them occupation for hands and brains;
give up your extravagant habits, j our
cigars, cards, billiards, wine, and* the
numberless ways in which your small
change goes, in order that you may pay
for your homes, and then you will find
her a willing, loving, generous, patient
helpmeet, ready to sacrifice as much or
mere than you, a jewel whose price is
above rubies. Be what your grandfath
er was—that was good, honest, and
manly, and she will be what the women
of her time were.— Garnet B. Freeman.
A Novel Way to Prevent Drunkenness.
In Sweden a peculiar plan has bsen
adopted by the friends of temperance
for preventing the evils resulting fiom
an excessive use of intoxicating liquors.
The authorities of GotteLburg in If-65,
began a movement which afterward ex
tended throughout the kingdom, and is
said to have been attended with the
most beneficial results. It was based
on two ideas, first, no single individual
out to be permitted to derive any gain
from the sale of spirits ; and second,
that spirits ought not to be drank with
out the accompanying consumption of
solid food. The method adopted to
carry out these views is this : An in
corporated company in each town, con
sisting of the most respected memlers
of the community, takes the entire re
tail liquor traffic under its supervision,
selling at costjafter deducting a margin
for leakage and breakage. The persons
put in charge of the places where
liquor is sold are paid salaries by the
company. The expenses paid includ
ing the current rate of interest for the
capital invested, all profits are paid into
the town treasury. Of course where
liquor is sold at cost no profits can
accrue from that trade ; but each public
house is allowed to sell at a profit fcod,
tobacco and unintoxicating drinks, and
what is an important part of the plan,
every place where liquor is sold is
bound to snppiy wholesome cooked
food at all times during business hours.
The result of this system has been a
great decrease in drunkenness. It raay
seem singular that making drinks chsap
should lead temperance, but the secret
of the business is very simple. In the
first place habitual drinkers of small
means being able to satisfy their ci av
ings for liquor very cheaply, are, there
fore, enabled to buy nourishing food
without depriving themselves of alco
holic stimulants, which to them is the
first necessity, the food being always
ready at hand. And, in the pecond
place, as the traffic is not conducted for
gain there is no temptation to sell im
pure, poisonus liquors which excite a
desire for excessive indulgence, and at
the same time ruin the digestive organs
and destroy the appetite for natiral
food.
A Reckless old Man.
There was an old couple at the Cen
tral depot yesterday waiting to go
through to the west, and they seemed
loving enoHgli until the old man went
out and returned smoking a five cent
cigar, and with his hat slanting over his
left ear. The wife looked at him twice
before she coull recognize him, and
then opened her mouth and sal:
“ What’d I tell ye, Philetus Reming-,
ton, before we left New Jer. ey ? Didn’t
I say you’d go and make a fool of your
self the first chance von got?” He
tried te pacify her by saying that the
cigar only cost five cents, but she
.shouted : “ You teased and teased till
I let you git your boots blacked ; then
you wanted some soda water; then you
bought apples ou the train, and here’s
another five cents thrown away ! It ;11
counts up, and if you don’t die in tbe
poor-house then my name haint Sary ! ”
—Detroit Free Press.
One Mellen Cross, who mysteriously
disappeared from a Maine ltma.ic
asylum, and on whose alleged skeleton
a local corone'r held an entirely satis
factory inquest, has turned up as in
eremitic resident of Deer Island, in
Boston harbor, and the provoked coro
ner aforesaid observes that no one but
a madman would go off and leave lus
skeleton behind him.
VOL. 15-NO. 32.
SAVING AMI DOINGS.
Romantic school girls now spell
“jelly” with a final “ie."
The Chicago base ball club has been
beaten in everything but drinking oat
meal water.
It has been noticed that nothing
makes a woman laugh so much as a
new set of teeth.
Operator —“ Well, sir, I think, sir,
when you attend public worship, if I
were you, I’d sit in the gallery.
Caft. Frt’s widow has started a
wood-yard in New Orleans. She num
bers her friends in that city by the
cords.
The number of Jews in Jerusalem at
the present time is said to be 19,000,
thus forming more than half of the en
tire population.
It is shrewdly observed that sawdust
pills wc ild cure a great many diseases
if the patient would only make his own
sawdust.
Esther Shaw, of Davenport, lowa,
worked thirteen years in one family be
fore asking for a cent of pay. Needn’t
write for her; she’s dead.
A Cincinnati girl,
while indulging with her companions
in the amusement of kicking at a mark
the other day, dislocated her thigh
joint.
Connecticut loses 3,500 sheep every
year by dogs, bnt if it wasn’t for a
spotted dog under the bnggy who
would take any pleasure in driving
out ?
Tennysonian, More or Less:—
Low or'e her brow she pastes her hair,
Down carving to her Grecian nose;
Her frizzles once her fondest care,
Are wilted as a last year’s rose.
Landlady (fiercely)—“ You must
not occupy that bed with your boots
on!” Boarder.—“O never mind,
they’re only an old pair. The bed
bugs can’t hurt ’em. I’ll risk it. any
how.”
Ten years from now Germany expects
to be able to put into the field a traired
army of one million six hundred men.
This, for a country that has no Indian
war on hand, will be rather enterprising
It is estimated that it costs the peo
ple of the United States $5,000,000
yearly to keep their teeth in repair. All
the consequence of drinking ice water,
which, say the dentists, cracks the en
amel.
When a Tennessee husband will
horsewhip his wife for washing potatoes
in his Snnday plug hat it is time to in
quire whether this generation of men
isn’t getting to be too confounded high
toned for the age of the country ?
An interesting little boy, timid when
left alone in a dark room, was over
heard recently by his mother to say in
his loneliness, “O Lord, don’t let any
one hnrt me, and I’ll go to church next
Sunday, and give you some money.”
Turn for a moment from the Beecher
scandal and ponder over the fact that
the foot prints of a Chicago lady on
the prairie near Michigan city got a
crowed of men out to hunt for a stray
elephant.
“ What do you know of the character
of this man ?”’ was asked of a witness at
a police-court the other day. “ What
do I know of his character ? I know it
to be unbleaehable, your honor,” he
replied with much emphasis.
Father Taylor, while lecturing tn
temperance, was hissed by one of his
hearers, a notorious drunkard. Taylor
stopped, pointed to the offender and
said, “There’s a red nose got into oold
water; don’t you hear it hiss? ’
At High Falls, N. Y., the other day,
a young lady, while crossing a field,
was knocked down by a ram, and the
next time the damaged damsel saw her
lover fhe informed that astonished
youth that he might go about his busi
ness, as she was disgusted with the sex.
Because a St. Louis paper said some
thing alxmt “the boot of publio indig
nation,” the jealous Louisville Courior-
Jouraal must go and say : “On a St.
Louis foot such a boot would be cap
able of kicking the stuffing out of a
range of mountains.”
A serpent saw an eagle gain,
On soaring wing, a mountain height.
And envied him, and crawled with pain
To where he was the bird alight.
Bo fickle fortune oftentimes
Befriends the conning and the base.
And oft the groveling reptile climbs
Up to the eagle’s lofty place.
The Detroit Free Press gives this
study : “It is a very pleasant picture
to behold a fat woman sea*ed on the
front steps of her viDe-clad oottage,
putting a p -tch on her husband’s trows
ers with one hand and motioning off
with the other what Bhe’d do if she
were Beecher.”
Columbus, Ga., is enthused with wild
delight over the establishment in that
city of an artificial ice manufactory,
wherein the crystal lumps are made at
a cpst of less than one-tenth of a dent
per pound. In consequence, a wonder
ful stimulus has been given to the con
sumption of juleps, smashes, and other
iced drinks hitherto strange to the
parched Columbian palate.
Halloo ! you black rascal, what are
you rubbing your sooty nose against
that fish for?” “I sin t rubbin my
nose agin um, mas’r.” “ What are you
doing?’ “Me talk to um, dats all,
“Talk to a fish ?” “ Yah, yah.” “ And
what do you say ?” “Me ask um what s
the news at sev.” “And what does the
fish answer to that?” “By golly !he
savs he don’t know. He haint been
thar dese tree weeks.
John Mobrlssey’s club house at
Saratoga is in full blast. Most open
and shameless is the various gambling
carried on in this really elegant estab
lishment. It almost joins Congress
Hall, and young gentlemen and old steal
away from gay partners in the waltz in
the evening, aod go from the parlora of
tbe Grand Union and United States
over to the gambling den of thp illus
trious law-maker.
“ Oh, Lord! t ou knowest,” prayed
a Connecticutdeaeon in church meeting,
“ that I am afflicted with a most impious
and depraved son. Thou knowest that
he will swear, and lie and steal, and do
all sinful things. Thou knowest that
on last Sabbath day he was seen walk
ing down the principal street in the
village, with his hands in his pockets,
whistling the following ungodly tune—”
and the congregation were astounded
to hear “ Yankee Doodle” flow melodi
ously from the deacon’s pnrsed-up lips.
A oo lost of such men as the late
Simon Sturges, of Allentown, Pa., sent
into a state where the female portion
of the populations ont numbers the
males six to one, might accomplish a
great deal. “He had been married
four times, the weddings having been
on his fortieth, fiftieth, sixtieth and
seventieth birthdays. His ast wife
was dead, too, and it is likely that, had
Mr. Sturges lived another ya, he
would have celebrated his eightieth
birthday in the accustomed style, be
cause the local paper says he was a
very methodical old man.
Some time since a gentleman was
traveling on a railway train that had
but one passenger-ooach attached. The
gentleman is addicted to the bad habit
of smoking. He ha I but one cigar at
the time, and loDged for a smoke, but
hesitated, thinking that smoke might be
unpleasant to a fascinating lady passen
ger—the only one aboard. Finally he
could endure the deprivation do longer,
and, taking out the cigar and reaching
the cigar toward the seat where she sw,
asked if she objected to smoking, “Ob
no," said she, reaching for and taking
the cigar, “ I left my pipe ter home.