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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
*V. X A. MAUH’HAIkJ Editors and Proprietors.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WEST.
A fire at Chico, Cal., destroyed a con
siderable part of the town. The loss ia over
SBO,OOO. Insurance light. Forty-five valua
ble horses were burned in Shearer & Evans’
stable. The fire was the work of an incen
diary.
There was a terrible clond-burst on
the Humboldt division ef the Central Pacific
railroad last week. The 'track was washed
®ut, and au emigrant train, drawn by two en
gines, went into the chasm. Both engineers
were instantly killed. No others injured.
The superintendent of the Central
Pacific railroad publishes a card in which he
tacitly admits the truth of the frequent
stories of robbery and outrages by gamblersjon
their road in Nevada, but says travelers must
protect themselves by refusing to play at any
game with the sharps. Ho does not allude to
statements that entire passenger trains had
been captured by robbers near Iteuo. the pas
sengers insulted, threatened and despoilod of
their property without an effort of the officers
of the road to prevent them.
EAST.
It is reported the New York agency of
the bank of Montreal loses $25,000 by the
failure of James Bishop & Cos.
The cotton and woolen manufactur
ers’ committee, of Providence, R. 1., recom
mend that the mills be run from the first Mon
day in October to the first Monday in January
next, on the baeis of forty-four Lours a week.
Booth’s theatre at New York will be
sold under a foreclosure Nov. 5. The friends
of Booth are making efforts to have the thea
tre remain in his hands. They state that the
unsecured creditors will extend all the leniency
he may require, and if enough money can bo
raised to satisfy the mortgage, amounting to
throe hundred thousand dollars, the security
for which is good, the affairs of Edwin Booth
may be arranged.
Rhode Island cotton and'woolen man
ufacturers, following in the track of the es
tablishments represented at the Boston meet
ing, have resolved to diminish the hours of
work to forty-four per week. This measure is
expected to reduce production by one-third,
and is to continue in force for three months.
A slight stiffening of the market for manu
factured goods already indicates the anticipa
ted effect of the reduction.
The shooting in the Bennett long range
championship rifle match at Creedmoor, Long
Island, last week, between the Irish and Amer
ican teams, resulted ae follows: The first prize
was won by Rigby, of the Irish team ; the
second by Fulton, of the American team ; the
third by Captain MasoD, of Canada; the fourth
and fifth by Messrs. Millner aud Hamilton, of
the Irish team. A contest was entered into by
the muzzle loading Rigby rifle and the Sharpe
breech-loaders. Each competitor was allowed
twenty-five shots at a 1,000 yards target. The
shooting resulted in a victory of the Rigby
rifle over the Sharpe by 113 points.
SOUTH.
Four companies of cavalry have been
ordered to West Alabama.
Commodore M. B. Woolsey, comman
der of the Pensacola navy yard, died of yel
low fever last week.
Geo. Bragg is now the chief engineer
of the Galveston and Santa Fe railroad, with
headquarters at Galveston.
Miss Mattie White, daughter of Mrs.
J'r. Thomas C. Bhlte, aged fifteen years, of
Pulaski, Town., was burned to death last week
by the explosion of a kerosene lamp.
J. B. Goode, formerly sheriff of Col
orado county, Texas, committed suicide a few
days ago by taking strychnine. Pecuniary
embarrassment ia said to have been the cause
of the act.
Hie governor of Georgia has ordered
the sale of the Macon and Brunswick railroad
on the first Tuesday in December next, at the
depot, in Macon, Ga., at public auction, to the
liighest bidder.
The Texas papers are groaning over
the heavy and damaging rains which have re
cently fallen upon that state. The gathering
of cotton has been greatly interfered with and
the crop has been injured.
The north bound train on the Missis
sippi central railroad was precipitated down
an embankment over thirty feet, three miles
south of Holly Springs, Miss., on the 28th iust.
The ladies’ car and Pullman palace car turned
over twice. No one was killed, but fifteen
were wounded, one seriously, a colored man.
Ihe accident was caused by a heaw rain dur
ing the morning, which uudermiued the em
bankment.
At a meeting of the hi. Orleans exchange
committee on classification it was resolved, that
we find after a careful comparison the follow
ing differences between the types upon which
our quotations have hitherto been made, and
those adopted bv the national exchange, upon
which we are directed by a resolution of the
board of directors to base our official quota
tions on and after this date : The national
standard of ordinary is barely equivalent to
the old type of ordinary; good ordinary equiv
alent to the old type of strict ordinary; low
middling equivalent to good ordinary; mid
dling equivalaut to barely low middling; good
middling equivalent to middling. The new
standard middling fair, to agree with the na
tional classification, will be made|equivalent to
the old type of good middling.
A dispatch from Charleston* S. C.,
dried Sept. 29, says : The most fearfffl gale in
this city since 1854 occurred to-day, beginning
about daylight with a strong southeast wind,
and increasing in violence until 9 o’clock, when
it had become a hurricane. The tide was
forced up au unprecedented height, inundat
ing the entire river front of the city, damag
ing the wharves, aud in some instances sweep
ing aw ay pier heads. The long stone sea wall
kuown as the battery, a famous promenade
resort, was laid in ruins, and the public bath
ing house was demolished. The shipping
generally escaped serious damage. Through
out the city fences and outbuildings were des
troyed, branches torn from the trees, aud dur
ing the height of the storm, the air was filled
with slates and tin stripped from the roofs,
making the streets impassable. The massive
brick walls of the new theater, which had just
been completed, with the exception of putting
on the roof, were leveled with The street. It is
probable that $250,0)0 will not repair thedam
ages.
FOREIGN.
Mt. iEtea ia still in a state of agi
tation.
The German government intends es
tablishing a naval hospital at Yokohoma.
lue yellow fever has broken ont at
M azarian, Mexico, and assumed an epidemic
form.
Gen. Garibaldi has issued a manifesto
requesting electors at the coming elections to
vote for those now in prison lor political of
fences.
An insurrection has broken ont in
Boneos Ayres in consequence of the fraudu
lent conduct of the presidential election.
Gen. Mitre is at the head of the insurgents.
Advices from the north of Spain say
there are signs of a breaking up of the Carlist
army. Several insurgent leaders have sur
rendered, and it is reported others were shot
by order of Don Carlos for demanding a cessa
tion of hostilities.
The situation of affairs in Buenos
Ayres is desperate. The government is tak
ing vigorous measures to suppress the insur
rection. All government offices and commer
cial houses are closed. The rebel squadron is
commanded by Gelleyobe. The insurgents are
purchasing steamers and arms, and recruiting
at Montevideo.
A dispatch to the Pacific mail steam
ship company from Hong Kong, states that in
the typhoon of the 21st of September the
steamship ' Alaska was blown ashore and is
now on the rocks. Up to the present she has
made no water and hopes are entertained she
may get off. The vessel is valued at half a
million, uninsured.
A barge lying in Regent’s canal, Lon
don, near the Zoological gardens, and loaded
with powder, exploded last week, killing a num
ber of persons, wounding many, and shattering
bridges aud houses in the vicinity. The re
port of the explosion'was heard at a distance
of twenty miles from the place where it oc
curred. The details of the occurrence show
that its disastrous effects were widespread.
Many trees were uprooted, and houses, located
two miles distant from the canal, were shat
tered. Seven persons are missing. There
was a perfect panic for hours, and it was not
until the cause of the terribie report was
learned that the fears of the people were al
layed. Several persons died from fright.
The London Times iu'aleadingarticle
contradicts the statement recently current
that the queen has paid the debts of the prince
of Wales. At the present time, says the wri
ter, debts of the prince amount to a little
more than one-third of his annual income and
include scarcely any bills due longer than a
year. The prince’s balance at his bankers to
day will more than suffice to meet every claim.
It is true that the prince is unable to live with
in his income, but the excess is provided from
a fund which is his private property. The
fund which accumulated during the prince’s
minority from the revenues of the duchy of
Cornwall, is still sufficient to meet the yearly
deficit in his expenses, though the time may
come when this resource will be exhausted.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Cbas. Sumner’s estate has been up
praised at $134,754.
Our government is still pressing upon
Spain indemnity for the Yirginius affair.
Elmer C. Washburne, of Chicago,
has been formally commissioned by Secretary
Bristow as chief of the secret service bureau.
The controller of currency has issued
a circular calling upon the national banks for
reports of their condition at the close of bus
iness Friday, Oct. 2.
Col. Wingate, captain of the Ameri
can company has sent a letter to the comman
der of the Irish team, formally accepting the
challenge for a match at Dublin next year.
Reports received at the agricultural
department show that the wheat crop will av
erage that of last year. None of the large
corn producing states reach an average.
There will be a fair crop of oats, potatoes aud
hay, but less than half a crop of tobacco.
At a meeting of the depositors of the
Freedman’s bank, last week, Robert Purvis,
colored, one of the commissioners appointed
to wind up its affairs, said he would at an ad
journed meeting make a statement of its af
fairs which would not probably be as favorable
as that hitherto published, nor would it be so
bad as represented by those who in connection
with it had taken advantage of the fears and
necessities of depositors, who have sold their
deposits at a heavy discount.
Attorney General Williams has sent
the following circular to United States mar
shals in the southern states: “Sir—l would
suggest that at those points where United
States troops are or may be stationed in your
district, some prudent and fearless person, in
whose judgment you have confidence and
whom the people respect, may be appointed as
deputy marshal, to act at once in the arrest of
parties committiug outrages in that vicinity,
so that it may not be necessary in such eases
to send for you before the troops can be used
for the purpose of arresting those who are
guilty of violating the laws of the United
States. This, of course, will not be necessary
where you are easily accessible, but where
troops are placed at remote points, before the
necceesary communication of the crimes com
mitted can be made, the offenders, as a gen
eral rule, have an opportunity to escape. Y'ou
will give the deputies the necessary instruc
tions as to procuring warrants, and I need not
repeat it is important you should delegate
this' power to none but careful aud respon
sible persons.”
The Story of a Trunk.
A trunk was taken through Dallas,
Texas, the other day, among the bag
gage on the Central train going north,
that has traveled some. The owner
left Boston, Mass., a month ago, for the
purpose of going to Charleston, S. C.,
hirecting his trunk to be forwarded to
mm. At Baltimore he changed his
diind, and started for Cincinnati, tele
graphing to Charleston to have his
trunk sent to him at Cincinnati. At the
latter place he was called to Louisville,
and sent word when the trank reached
Cincinnati to “put it through” to Lou
isville. At Louisville he went to St.
Louis, and directed that active recepta
cle to be whacked through to the latter
place. At St. Louis the trunk was so
much behind that he had to leave for
Memphis without it, but told his friends
in St. Loiris not to forget to hurry
along that nice young trunk to Mem
phis. Out of Memphis ne went, but
loop-holed an old pard, aud says, “ My
covey, don’t forget to send my trunk to
Key West.” At Key West he had a gay
old time, notwithstanding he was dis
patched to “get out of that” sooner than
he expected, and so the trunk was again
behind. Still, says he to an army offi
cer down there, “I've got a trunk, cap.,
that’s been following me around infer
nally lively, but it hasn’t caught me yet.
Oblige ‘a high private in the rear ranks,
by sending that Saratoga knapsack to
Mobile.” At Mobile the proprietor of
that trunk found a carte blanche from
his employer in Boston to “go west,
young man.” Then his trunk didn’t
come, and he thought he’d start for
Cheyenne or Eagle Ford (in either of
which places if he had been born he
could have been President of the Uni
ted States or married the queen of the
Sandwich Islands), but after the pro
foundest reflection he thought best to
get off at the most romantic wood-pile
in the Indian territory, and hunt the
storied squaw. The trunk that passed
Dallas, yesterday, will reach him there,
perhaps, in lavender kids, a tie like a
beacon fire, and dressed like Disraeli in
his dandiest days, make the territory
tremble for its safety, and finally force
it to apply to be admitted as a state in
the union.
Leech Pends in Holland.
Among the most singular sources of
industrial production in the world, are
the leech ponds of Holland. Most of
these are owned l y a regularly organ
ized company. The marshes of the
land, “ which, if moored to its shore,”
are admirably adapted to the unlimited
cultivation of the leech, and the trade
in them is larger than imagined. A
good fat leech, of powerful suction, is
not a thing to be condemned. Brock
klein is the town most interested in this
strange trade, aqd owns stock in the
company mentioned above to the amount
of one million florins, and an immense
reservoir has been constructed in which
to breed millions of voracious leeches,
fine brown-black fellows, warranted to
hold on like aquatic bull-dogs. The
l ech deposits its eggs from May to Sep
tember in the mud of shallow waters,
from whence they are taken and trans
ferred to artificial ponds, constructed
expressly to hatch them. What will
make the experiment a profitable one is
the fact that the demand for leeches has
of late years exceeded the supply. The
marshes and streams of Central and
Southern Europe are nearly exhausted.
The Dutch leech is superior to the
Swedish, which is now most generally
used. The American species used here
comes principally, we believe, from
Pennsylvania, where many hundred
1 thousands are caught annually.
usTEsme.
Her white hand flashes on the strings,
Sweeping a swift and silver chord,
And wild and strong the great harp rings
Its throng of throbbing tones abroad;
Music and moonlight make a bloom
Throughout the rich and sombre room.
Oh, sweet and long and shivering swells,
Adcl sweeter still the lingering flow,
Delicious as remembered bells
Dying in distance long ago,
When evening winds from heaven were blown,
And the heart yearned for things unknown !
Across the leafy window-place
Peace seals the stainless sapphire deep;
One sentry star on outer space
His quenchless lamp lifts, half asleep;
Peace broods where falling waters flow,
Peace where the heavy rosea blow.
And on the windless atmosphere
Wait all the fragrances of June;
The sumiber night is hushed to hear
The jiission of the ancient tune ;
Then why t oese sudil< n tears that start,
And why this pierced aud achfng heart ?
Ah, listen ! We and all our pain
Are mortal, and divine the song!
Idlv our topmo't height we gain,—
It spurns that height, aud far along
Seeks in the heavens its splendid mark,
And we fall backward on the dark!
THE DOCTOR’S FEE.
What a vast difference between a sim
ple country village and the crowded
city;—a difference not only in the
structure of buildings and the width of
streets, bntinthe manners and customs
aud even in the thoughts and feelings
of its inhabitants.
We do not pretend to judge where the
greatest degree of happiness may be
found. Perhaps not in one more than
in another, for happiness is not con
fined to place, and is less dependent
upon external than upon internal asso
ciation.
But it would sometimes seem as if
there were more of sympathy with the
fellow beings around him, in the unpre
tending villager, than in the busy citi
zen. True, this benevolent interest in
the concerns of others may at times be
come annoying by its prying inquisi
tiveness, but the heart craves sympathy,
and even this is preferable to the fash
ionable indifference and total ignorance
of neighbor and neighbor.
What a sensation is caused by a birth
or a jleath, a wedding or a funeral in
the little world of a countrv village. All
seem to participate in the joy or the
sorrow. To find a person ignorant of
the event, would be a source of exceed
ing surprise and wonder. News spreads
like wildfire. The very birds of the air
seem to carry tidings.
Sam Brown, an intelligent, active
little fellow, well known in the village
of F , has been seen to run at full
speed from the machine shop to the
doctor’s office; apparently not finding
that worthy at his post, darts across
the way to a house where some new
fangled practitioner had lately hung out
his sign, aud, in a moment, with the
last mentioned personage at his side,
takes his wav to the shop again. This
is enough. Every one in that part of
the village knows that some sad acci
dent has happened, and curiosity and
sympathizing interest are expressed on
every countenance.
Good Mrs. Walton, as she peeps
from her door, is “thankful to provi
dence that none of her folks work at the
shop,” and “hopes to goodness” that
it is not the engineer, “poor Mr. Whit
man,” b cause he has such a large fam
ily dependent upon him.
Anxious wives and mothers, who are
less fortunate than Mrs. Walton, and
have husbands and sons exposed to the
danger, whatever it may be, are seen hast
ily approaching in different directions,
wishing to put an end to suspense, and
know the worst at once.
All is soon Iff spite of Mrs.
Walton’s indeed poor Mr.
Whitman who has met with the acci
dent, and a serious one it is likely to
prove, for his right arm has been er tan
gled in the machinery and is shockingly
mangled.
What sympathy and sorrow is felt by
all, when the unfortunate man is car
ried nearly insensible from the shop to
his own home, which fortunately is
near by. There is no lack of assistance.
Men, women and children stand ready.
Every one is desirous to do something.
But there is one source of almost uni
versal regret. Good old Dr. Pembroke,
the experienced physician who for a
long series of years has been the only
one to look to in an emergency of this
kind, being, in fact, the only medical
man in the village and of course re
garded as au oracle, has, as it were,
been defrauded ©f his proper rights by
this young Dr. Lansing, anew comer,
whom nobody knows, and who for some
unheard of reason (for surely he was
not wanted in a place where Dr. Pem
broke had ruled supreme for nearly half
a century) has lately established himself
in the pleasant little village of F .
The young man certainly had much
to contend with, for, with the exception
of a few enlightened minds who had a
glimmering perception that the science
of medicine might in the lapse of years
have left the old doctor in the rear, he
was universally regarded as a very un
necessary interloper.
And now to think of his having the
charge of poor Mr. Whitman. Surely
if he was ar.y gentleman he would not
take advantage of the family physician’s
having been absent at the time of the
accident, but would politely resign the
case into his hands.
This was the opinion of the good
wives of the village, and publicly and
privately was it expressed,
Dr. Lansing might have heard it, at
any rate he must have felt it, but it ap
peared to make little difference in his
proceedings. He was unremitting in
his attentions to the injured man, and
so established himself in the good
graces of him and his wife, that they
were quite deaf to the remonstrances of
their benevolent neighbors who earnest
ly desired that they should dismiss him
at once.
“ The arm is certainly doing better
than we could have expected; why
then should we dismiss the doctor ?”
asked the sufferer, as a deputation of
the village worthies appeared at his
bedside, and again began their remon
strances.
“ Why, you see, neighbor, the case is
this,” commenced Philip Benton, who
was to be chief spokesmsn on the occa
sion. (Philip Benton had received some
early advantages of education and was
regarded as having a “ power of learn
ing.”) “ Y'ou are a poor man, and,
having met with a severe accident, en
dangering life and limb, or I may justly
sav, injuring limb if not life, your
neighbors holding yon in high estima
tion, are willing to lend y®u a helping
hand, for whioh purpose a subscription
was set on foot, and quite a sum raised
for your relief. Now this money we of
course wish to be expended for the
benefit of yourself and your family, but
we do not feel willing that a large por
tion of it should be paid to this smart
young doctor.”
“Now if it were good Dr. Pembroke,
the case would be different.” chimed in
Isaac Dobbs, the miller; “we should
not mind paying him a moderate bill,
and indeed he would have charged yon
little or nothing, and everything wonld
have been properly attended to. I have
’t from his own lips. He feels greatly
for yon, neighbor Whitman, and regrets
that yon were thrown into ignorant
hands. In his opinion the limb should
have been amputated at once.”
“Thank God that Dr. Lansing dif
fered from him,” exclaimed the sick
man, with an energy which startled
them. Then speaking more calmly, he
added:
“lam very grateful for your kind
ness, neighbors, and with my large
family, there is indeed need of assist
ance. As to turning off the young
doctor, I cannot see my way clear to do
it, because he has done and is doing
well with me, In all probability he will
CARTERS VILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1874.
save my arm and restore its use, when,
as you yourself admit, Dr. Pembroke
would have taken it oil at once. Surely
it is better to have two arms than one.”
There was a force in this argument
which none could gainsay, but after a
short pause, Philip Benton replied :
“This may be all very well, neigh
bor. I do not wish to say anything
against the young man’s skill, but it
does not look well to see him trying to
run you up such a great bill. Why, I
have counted three and four times a
day that he has entered your door. I
understand he charges high—a dollar a
visit, or something like that. Such im
position! just for looking at a man. Now
you can easily see that it would be trying
to the feelings of your friends to think
that they were raising money to pay
this stranger. lam empowered by Dr.
Pembroke to say that if Dr. Lansing
will give up the case, ho will attend
you gratis, and if yon desire, I will call
upon the young doctor and state this in
a polite way. No doubt he will consent
to the arrangement at once.”
Very reluctautly, Mr. Whitman agreed
to this proposal. It was really strange
how he clung to the young doctor, and
how much he felt that he should miss
his kindly words and smih s, and his
gentle touch and light tread—so differ
ent from the bustling sway of portly
Dr. Pembroke.
But there was no help for it. He
might be dependent for a long time, and
it was not for him to dictate how his
neighbors should befriend him.
So with his best coat and his most
dignified manner, Philip Benton, or
’Squire Benton, as he was commonly
styled, waited upon Dr. Lansing, and
politely stated his errand; but, to his
unutterable surprise, the request was as
politelv declined.
Dr. Lansing “ regretted that he could
not oblige Mr. Benton and the friends
whom he represented, but the case had
progressed so successfully under his
charge that he could not conscientious
ly relinquish it to another.”
Preposterous ! And to speak of con
science in the matter, when it was per
fectly evident that it was a mere avari
cious desire to get all he could from the
poor man.
It was the talk of th“ whole village.
The minister from the pulpit denounced
in very strong terms those who defraud
ed the poor. The old doctor gave a
more expressive shrug than usual when
his young rival was mentioned. Dobbs,
the miller, gave the bags of grain au
extra shake, and the worthy blacksmith
wielded his hammer with unusual en
ergy, as they thought of Dr. Lansing,
while the old wives raised their hands
and eyes with indignation when they
saw him pass their deor, and the young
maidens avoided returning his cour
teous salutation, although they indulged
in a sly peep at his handsome form at and
fashionably cut coat, and sighed as they
thought of the popular Dr. Pembroke.
Still everything went, on swimmingly
at neighbor Whitman’s. The young
doctor continued his visits, aud the pa
tient was making rapid progress toward
health. It would be long, however,
before his arm would regain its strength,
and feais for the future would some
times arise. In spite of the subscription
which bad been raised for him there
were still many wants unsnpplied, and
nothing more could be expected from
the neighbors, for they “had no notion
of raising money to pay that spruce
young doctor.” In fact they were
somewhat indignant that neighbor
Whitman did not insist upon his dis
missal.
At length, however, when the chil
dren were actually seen barefooted as
the cold weather came on, and it was
observed that the wood-shed was still
unfilled, and a rumor was abroad that
the cow was to be sold, charitable feel
ings were again called forth, and a spe
cial meeting was appointed at the ves
try to see what could be done.
The room was filled. Facts were
stated, and expressions of opinion were*
desired. The great question was how
to assist their neighbor without placing
it in his power t pay the dactor’s bill.
This all agreed was not to be thought
of. The young man, as ever’; body
knew, was well off, and by rr> moans
dependent upon his profession; aud
even if he were, it waR but just that he
shoul 1 be a loser in this case, for had
he not declined to resign the case to Dr.
Pembroke, who had offered his services
gratis ? So after much consultation it
was decided that a committee should be
appointed to receive subscriptions, and
expend the money in any way which
they might judge to be for the benefit
of the family. Fifty dollars were raised
on the spot, and the worthy villagers
went to their own homes well satisfied
with the result of the meeting.
The committee were men of business,
and two or three days passed before
they were at leisure to attend to the
duty which had devolved upon them.
But at length they fixed upon an even
ing, and agreed to meet at neighbor
Whitman’s and ascertain from him what
was most needed.
They found him comfortably seated in
his armchair, with the youngest of his
chidren climbing on his knee. He gave
his neighbors a cordial welcome, and
appeared so cheerful and contented that
they hardly knew how to speak of the
errand npon which they came.
At length after a few preliminary
efforts, such as clearing the throat, pok
ing the fire, etc., Squire Benton, who
was as ususl foreman on the committee,
remarked that he was glad to see neigh
bor \V hitman so smart once more, and
supposed he would soon be at work
again.
“Very soon, I hope,” was the reply.
“I am out of the doctor’s hands at last.
He gave me my discharge yesterday.”
“ And a round bill with it, I’ll war
rant,” exclaimed the three committee
men in a breath.
Neighbor Whitman smiled with a very
meaning look as he quietly replied, “He
did, indeed.”
“ I knew he would. I always said as
much,” cried Squire Benton, almost ex
ultingly. “ A mean piece of business
it was, and what no gentleman would
have been guilty of. Excuse me, Mr.
Whitman, but if I had been in your
place I would have sent him marching
quick enough.”
“ I might have Been a loser, squire.”
“Not in my opinion. Dr. Pembroke
would have done better for you than
that young upstart. But as to his bill.
Plain speaking is best, neighbor. At a
vestry meeting th' other evening, we
raised fifty dollars for your benefit, and
we are prepared to extend it for yon in
any way you see fit, always excepting
paying the doctor’s bill. That we must
absolutely decline having any thing to do
with.”
“It is not desirable that von should,”
replied neighbor Whitman, again smil
ing. “ Seriously, gentlemen, lam ex
ceedingly grateful for the kindness
which has been shown me, but I would
not willingly take what might perhaps
be better bestowed upon those more
needy than myself. I have jnst received
a little gift which will enable me to pur
chase what comforts are really necessa
ry until I can go to work.”
“ Indeed !” was the somewhat disap
pointed reply of the astonished aud
itors. “You are fortunate, certainly;
but your doctor's bill, how will you set
tle that ?”
“ O, the gift disposes of that for me.
Read this note gentlemen, and you will
understand the whole affair.”
As he spoke he handed them a neatly
folded envelope, containing the fol
lowing note:
My Dear Sib:— lam happy to say that'it
will ho longer be necessary for me to visit yon
as a medical adviser. As a friend I trust yon
will continue to welcome me at your fireside.
You have requested me to hand you your bill.
The inclosed is the only bill I could conscien-
tiouflly offer you. Accept it as freely as it is
given, thanking Providence who enables us to
be mediums of good to one another.
Very truly yours, F. Lansing.
“ This is the bill inclosed,” continued
Mr. Whitman, producing a bank note
for fifty dollars. “You see, therefore,
that l am well provided for the present,
as your kindness when I was first in
jured has prevented my running in
debt.”
For some minutes the committee
made no reply. The “ doctor’s bill”
had turned out. so differently from what
they expected that they were quite dumb
with astonishment.
At length, however, Squire Benton
stammered ont that he was quite sure
tho. neighbors would insist upon Mr.
Whitman’s keeping what had been con
tributed to him, and there would be
ways enough to spend his large
family. As to tho doctor, he was free
to say that he had been mistaken in him,
and for one he would bear witness that
he had behaved handsomely, as became
a gentleman. The three visitors teen
bade neighbor Whitman good evening
and took their leave. The news spread
through the village in the usual rapid
manner. The miller ground it in his
mil), the blacksmith hammered it at his
anvil; Dr. Pembroke left of sbrugcring,
aud the minister looked full at Dr. Lan
sing as he pronounced the text: “He
that giveth to the poor lendeth to the
Lord.”
Bull Battles in Texas.
A correspondent among the great
oattle herds in Texas writes to the Gal
veston News :
In case of a severe winter, when grass
is scant, a pack of wolves single out
some decrepit old bull that has fought
his last fight, and been deserted by his
herd long ago, which they follow and
worry day and night until he is at last
pulled down. Like the buffalo which
formerly roamed over this country,
these bulls are constantly fighting for
the mastery of the herds, and the cows
have a hearty odntempt for the fellow
that is not ready at all times to present
an undaunted front. With their im
mense frames and terrible horns, a pair
of Texan bulls make a bad fight. Short
horn Durham bulls have been intro
duced by men who thought to improve
the stock ; but they have no show at all
—and one is occasionally seen feeding
in solitude. In rounding up cattle upon
the prairie, the driver witnesses a great
many of thes9 fights. Perhaps half a
dozen distinct herds are brought to
gether and the “lords” take occasion
to plume themselves, and meandering
around, with deep roars, pay their re
spects to the gentle sex, and glance
defiance at eaoh other. Young aspi
rants for honors are equally as demon
strative ; and outcasts thus brought
into contact with victora in former con
tests are punished for their seeming
temerity; old sores are revived; hos
tilities begin ; and soon a dozen fights
are going on in different portions of the
large herd. Toe first symptoms of an
accepted challenge are telegraphed over
the herd by prolonged and shrill roars.
Instantly all the bulls in the immediate
vicinity, not engaged, rush to the spot,
ana caper about the two adversaries, in
a way they would seem incapable of—
all the while bellowing—and undoubt
edly taking sides, and urging on the two
central figures. About twenty feet apart
they stand, tossiug up dirt with hoof
and horn, until suddenly, with lowered
head, they spring at eaoh other, and
their foreheads meet with a dull thud.
They rebound, and a seoond and third
time rally, when comes the sullen strain
—head to head and horn to horn. Every
nerve and muscle are exerted to the ut
most ; and no living thing can long en
dure such fearful tension. Presently
one will prove the weaker, or slip a foot,
and for the moment be thrown off his
guard ; but the slightest advantage is
not lost to those watchful, glaring eyes
of his antagonist, who throws his last
energies into a mighty plunge forward,
which turns the victim’s neck, and the
long, raking wound in the flank follows.
It is not good to bo too near them, for
horse and rider might be overturned.
Nothing will stop a vanquished bull
in his headlong flight; and blind with
rage and agony, he runs far away
npon the prairie. Many lose their lives
fighting. If not gored in a vital part,
the wounds are fly-blown directly, often
causing death.
Dean Swift’s Two Loves.
Esther Jolmson, the celebrated Stella,
was Dean Swift’s pupil, and her attach
ment for him grew as her mind, pure
and beautiful, to cease only with death.
Swift wooed and won this beautiful
girl, whose noble heart he broke by his
strange, mysterious conduct. Hope de
ferred aud au unenviable position in
society were not enough to try the con
stancy of poor Stella ; she must have a
rival, and that she soon found in Miss
Yanhomrigh. Swift became acquainted
with this lady when at the height of his
power and full vigor of his faculties;
when the chosen companion of states
men aud courtiers. She possessed a
graceful person, a lively disposition,
and taste for mental cultivation, which
Swift soon perceived and admired ; and
the gratitude she felt for his attentions
soon ripened into the lover which broke
her heart. While Swift found pleasure
in the society of Vanessa (her poetical
name), Stella suffered alone in Ireland
the pangs of wronged affection. He
could not be blind to the nature of
Vanessa’s regard, nor the hopes she
might reasonably entertain from his
attentions ; nor are we to suppose this
love onesided, since the tone of his
journal to Stella implies the contrary.
Vanessa waits anxiously the Dean’s
declaration of his passion—but in vain;
so at last she determines to know her
fate, and discloses the secret of her
heart to the Dean. Without power to
accept her love, or courage to refuse it,
he offered his friendship and esteem,
and strove to parry her just remon
strance by bis wit. After her mother’s
death she followed the Dean to Ireland,
which placed him in pecnliar circum
stances, for how could he treat one
whose only misfortune was to love him
too well, harshly, for well might a lady
of youth, fortune, and a fine genius ex
pect more from her lover. Meanwhile,
tho sorrows of Stella began to show on
a delicate and sensitive frame, and to
save her from a premature grave the
Dean made her fhis w ife. But only in
name did she eDjoy this sacred title;
they lived apart till death at length re
lieved her of her sorrows. What added
fresh hope to the fond dreams of Stella
proved fatal to her less fortunate rival.
After having nursed her passion for
eight years for the Dean, and refusing
two suitors for her hand, she wrote to
Stella to learn if her suspicions were
well founded, and Stella, wounded to
the heart that another should share tho
Dean’s love, wrote back a reply that
marr age united them, at the same time
forwarding her letter to the Dean.
Swift’s fury was as unreasonable as his
former conduct; he hastened to Marley
Abbey, the residence of Vanessa, threw
her letter in a rage on the table and de
parted—having sealed the doom of one
who loved too well, for soon after she
died. A few years after Stella followed
her unfortunate rival.
Said a Detroit lady to a small boy
whom she found crying in the street the
other day : “Will you stop crying if I
will give you a penny?” “No,” said
he, “ but if you’ll make it two cents I’ll
stop, if it kills me.”
The way to wealth is as plain as the
way to market. It depends chiefly on
two words, industry and frugality; that
is, waste neither time nor money, but
make the best use of both, — Franklin,
ENGLISH WOIIEX.
Their UondlneM tiom an American
standpoint.
An American or French woman, land
ing in England, finds infinite food for
mirth and amusement in the dresses of
the English women, not only of those
of the middle and lower classes, but
those of the highest aristocracy : the
parrot-beaked and purple-checked dow
agers that are to be seen at the opera in
Hyde park, and their comely young
daughters. There is a depth cf inge
nuity, an inventiveness, so to speak,
about English bad taste which is per
fectly marvelous. Not content - with
following the French fashions, they
contrive sundry fashions of their own
which are simply amazing. For in
stance, a few years ago tho “ upper ten”
at the opera adorned themselves to a
woman with showy gilt coronets,
not unlike the diadem of a stage
queen. In the matter of coiffure
it must be confessed that they excel.
Long after the set, stiff, horse hair
stuffed chignon had been replaced in
France and America by the graceful
low-drooping looped braids which have
been succeeded by the high nceuds of
the present style, English women still
were wearing chignons of portentious
bigness, and I once saw a lady who
wore two chignons, both of immense
size, one fastened at the back of her
head, where such ornaments are usu
ally appended, and the other pinned on
the top of her cranium—a sort of two
story chignon, the effect of which was,
to say the least of it, odd. I have also
a vivid recollection of an old lady, a
lady somebody something, who was
staying at the Laugham hotel when I
was last there, and who occupied a table
next to that of our party. She used to
come down dressed for dinner, with a
large, long-stemmed flower, either a
rose, a tulip, or a cluster of smaller
flowers, planted at the junction of her
huge chignon with her head, and stand
ing stiffly erect to the height of about a
foot. Then there was a young lady
who used to wear a black silk apron,
trimmed with an old-fashioned set of
Honiton lace (collar and sleeves), the
collar being so placed as to mark the
outline of the damsel’s abdomen, while
the sleeves were tastefully disposed on
each of the lower corners of the apron.
Nor can I forget a lady who came in
great state to the hotel to make a call,
and who probably thought she was
dressed in mourning, her toilet consist
ing of a bombazine dress, the whole
skirt nearly oovered with a broad band
of crape, a black crape bonnet, a velvet
jacket trimmed with guipure lace, and
pin and earrings of bright yellow gold.
Then they have no idea of appropriate
ness or the relative fitness of things.
Straw bonnets and velvet jackets are a
very common combination, while if
there is a costume that the English
bourgeoise loves beyond another, it is a
light-colored organdie muslin worn over
a dark worsted balmoral skirt. Thus
attired, with a cotton lace shawl and a
black net bonnet adorned with cheap
and gaudy flowers, our Anglaise consid
ers herself “ dressed.”
Eventne best bred English ladies have
not yet learned that a thin dress should
be worn over a petticoat as long as itself,
and I have seen fair dames at fetes and
flower shows, attired in costly toilets of
Valenciennes lace and transparent mus
lin, the delicate dress sweeping tho
ground, while beneath appeared a short
petticoat of glazed muslin and a pair of
stout English feet arrayed in substan
tial and shapeless walking boots. Eng
lish boots are generally extremely ugly,
being broad, flat, and heavy, and I have
sometimes thought that American
chaussures might have robbed the pedal
extremities of the British female of
half their reproach. Cinderella herself
would not have been able to display a
pretty foot had she bought her glass
slippers in LoLdon. Perhaps it is by
reason of these ugly boots that short
walking dresses have never become pop
ular in England; nay it is not so very
long ago that I saw in the Queen, among
the queries of correspondents, the
question as to whethor it was proper to
wear a short dress to ohurch. But if
English ladies desire amplitude and
longitude of the lower section of their
garments in the daytime, they do not
object to curtailing the upper half of
its fair proportions in the evening. A#
they have magnificent busts and shoul
ders, the effect aesthe f ically is good;
morally, it might be considered the re
verse. Nor can I forge.t the criticism
of a disgusted old gentleman who,
while railing at the exposed charms of a
decollete damsel, wafe gently checked by
his young daughter with the remark,
“But, papa, she has such a beautiful
neck.” “Yes, my dear,” was the an
swer, “her neck and shoulders are well
enough; bat her stomach is devilish
ugly-”
I have met English ladies traveling in
rough cloth jackets, worn over dirty
ball dresses ; and I once encountered a
party who for costumes de voyage were
arrayed in old riding habits (with tLe
superllnous skirt out off) aud battered
high beaver riding hats. Nor can I
forget the accomplished Lady X ,
whose habitual costume when she was
at Niagara Falls, in the broiling month
of July, was a black velvet gown and a
white opera-hat with a long white
plume. Bat the loveliest English toilet
that I ever did behold was worn by a
lady about fifty years of age whom I
met while traveling in Germany, and
whose traveling attire consisted of a
dirty crushed skirt of white puffe 4
tulle, an India shawl, and a black straw
round hat. Her appearance as she
sailed down the platform of the Carls
rnhe station, with a wisp of soiled tulle
dragging at her heels, was decidedly
striking, for she was tall, stout and
florid, and showed off her peculiar cos
tume to perfection.
Eating When Sick.
It is the custom among a oertain class
of people when a member of the family
is sick to begin at once to ask, “ Now
what can you eat?” Every one has
heard the old story of the man who ate
eighteen dumplings when he was sick.
On one occasion, when engaged npon
the eighteenth, his little son said, “ Pa,
give me a pieoe !” “No, no, my son,”
replied the father; “go way, pa’s sick.”
When a young man has been turfeited,
in season and out of season, until ex
hausted nature gives way and a fever is
coming on, the good mother is in trou
ble. She anxiously inquires, “Now,
John, what can you eat? You must eat
something. People can’t live without
food.” /Then comes toast, tea, etc.
The stomach is exhausted and no more
needs stimulating or food than the jaded
horse needs the whip. What is needed
is rest, complete rest. Nine-tenths of
the acute might be prevented
by a few days’ starvation when the first
indications appear. I < on’t mean com
plete abstinence in every case, but per
haps a piece of cold bread with cold
water for drink. H such a policy were
generally adopted what ruin would over
take the medical profession !
The World’s Railroads.
The length of railway-lines in course
of operation and construction on the
Ist of July, 1874, was as follows :
IN OPERATION.
Franco 11,000 miles.
Great Britain 7,300 “
America 74,000 “
IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION AND PROJECTED.
Franco 5,100 miles.
Great Britain 3,500 “
America 12,000 “
The length of railways throughout the
world exceeds two million miles, while
the capital invested in them during the
last thirty years is not less than four
thousand million dollars, and, on the
completion of lines in course of con
struction, will exceed eight thousand
million dollars. The locomotives em
ployed on all existing lines represent a
power of four million one hundred and
fifty thonsand horses, the distance run
over by them in 1873 beiDg six hundred
million miles. In France alone, the
number of railway-passengers in 1873
amounted to one hundred and ten mill
ions.
PHYSICAL TRAINING.
Kxercig* and a Plain Diet Better Than
Pill*.
The Chicago Tribune, publishing a
reporter’s interview with a prize-fighter,
and his description of the process of
physical training required fer these
brutal contests—the sweating, the rub
bing, tli9 dieting, the laborious gymnas
tics—points a moral, as follows :
Leaving out the motive which induces
the bruiser to submit to this sort of
physical disoomfort, there is a result
achieved which is worth some consider
ation. The bruiser s oes to the trainer
as an old hat is sent to the hatter, or an
old carpet is sent to the renovator. Nine
times out of ten he is out of condition,
enervated by dissipation, bloated with
whisky and a general physical wreck.
By the time, however, that he gets
through with his trainer he oomes out a
new man. He loses all his superfluous
flesh. His muscles are firm and hard.
His digestion is perfect. His lungs are
as tough as a blacksmith’s bellows. His
nerves are iron cords. His bleared eyes
are brightened. His whole frame is
supple, sprightly and elastic. He is
the perfeofc picture of physical health,
strength ana beauty.
Now this result is what two-thirds of
mankind aro seeking. Doctors of all
schools have this purpose in view, name
ly, the repairing and renovating of worn
and dilapidated human bodies. Drag
stores are multiplying rapidly. Mineral
springe, blood purifiers and curative
pills are advertised everywhere. C/owds
of people flook to the watering-places
every summer and other crowds flock to
Europe,'with the one object in view to
repair ttie ruins of time and reckless liv
ing or overworking. And yet, in ninety
nine cases ont of one hundred all these
means fail. Bat here is a bruiser who,
without drugs or doctors, without min
eral springs or travel, transforms his
whole physical man in an incredibly
short space of time. The process never
fails. The trainer of prize-fighters
knows more than the doctors. His pa
tient eats mutton and beef without seas
oning of any sort, tea without sugar and
dry toast. He makes him get np early
in the mornii g and go to bed early at
night. He gives him plenty of exer
cise. He uses nothing but nature's
medioines and uses them with unerring
accuracy. If the bruiser has a weak
spot, he streng'henß it. He goes over
his man as a tuner goes over a piano and
brings every note into perfect tune. If
he has not flesh enougn he puts more
on him. If he has too much he takes
some off, and he performs this operation
with such accuracy that he will take off
the same amount every day, and upon
the day of the fight will present his man
weighing within an ounce of a specified
number of pounds. Now what ia good
for a bruiser ia good for those who are
not bruisers, if they have the oourago
and persistence to follow the regimen,
which, of course, can be reguiated to
suit each case. Here is a chance for the
overworked to be made good as new at
a very cheap rate. The clergymen need
no more ge to Europe after their health.
Fat men need no longer to be fat. Lean
men have some hope of covering their
ribs more comfortably. They have only
to pitch physic to the and take the
bruisers’ remedies, modified to suit their
cases.
Steamboat Couveution in St. Louis.
The convention of steamboatmen met
at St. Louis last week, with full delega
tions from Cincinnati, Louisville, Pitts
burg, New Orleans, Vicksburg, Cairo,
Evansville and St. Louis. Capt. E. W.
Gould, of St. Louis, was elected tempo
rary chairman. He said the general ob
jectsof tbeoonvention are to devisemeans
to remedy existing evils in steamboat
ing and remove the embarrassments un
der which the interest is suffering. He
urged that the local associations should
become auxiliary members of the na
tional board of steam navigation, in or
der to band the entire steamboat inter
ests of the country together for their
protection. We have failed on the
Mississippi to give river matters the at
tention which their importance demands,
aud wo are in consequence resting un
der a cloud. The prime objeot of this
convention, in my idea, is the harmon
izing of conflicting interests ; also, the
question of railroad competition. At
the start, the railroads desired no co
operation with river transportation.
Being unsuccessful, their managers are
now in a condition to treat.
Another matter of importance is the
improvement of our rivers, aud every
effort should be put forward in this di
rection. We are also interested in the
improvement of the mouth of the Mis
sissippi, and this convention should set
tle upon some plan to urge upon con
gress whatever may be done at the ear
liest possible moment.
After some other preliminary business
the committee on permanent organiza
tion reported R. H. Woolfolk, of Louis
ville, For permanent president and J.
Shields, secretary. The convention
then adjourned.
Ireland as She Is.
The population of Ireland decreased
by 1,662,319 persons between the years
1841-51, by 775,814 in the next decade,
and by 396,208 between the years 1861-
71. There is reason to believe that this
decrease by the end of the present de
cade will have wholly ceased, that is,
that the emigration will not exceed the
natural increase of population. The
condition of the country is now really
prosperous. Wages have greatly ad
vanced in consequence of the limited
supply of laborers. The reform of the
land law has had a most excellent ef
fect, and not unfrequently Irishmen re
turn from America with fortunes gained
there to take up their abode in their
native land. The aggregate invest
ments in government stocks, joint stock
banks, and savings banks in 1864 were
£54,888,000; but on the 30fch of Jane,
1863, they were £67,362,000, an increase
of 23 per cent, in ten years. The value
of live stock in 1864 was £30,728,910 ;
in 1874 it was £37,225,887. It is to be
remarked that although in thirty years
Ireland has lost about 3,000,000 of her
people, the relative proportion of Cath
olics and Protestants remain almost, tin
changed. In Munster, in 1861, 938 out
of every 1,000 were Catholics ; the pre
portion now is 936 to each 1,000. In
Kerry the Catholics iD 1861 were 967 in
each 1,000; they now are 968 in each
1,000. In “ Protestant” Ulster—which
is Protestant only in name—there were
751 Catholics ineach 1,000 in 1861, and
now there are 755 to each 1,000. The
old faith does not die out, despite the
fact that the emigrants are for the most
part Catholics. —Dublin Letter,
The Herald of Health is of the opin
ion that the simple color of one’s sur
roundings has a marked influence of his
health. It says: “Yellow on the
walls of our Tooms has a very depressing
eflect on the mind. Violet is worse.
A man would go mad in a little while
in a violet papered or painted room.
Black rooms, or rooms heavily draped
in mourning, produce gloom and fore
boding. Never wear mourning long,
unless you wish to become sad and sor
rowful beyond what nature ever in
tended.
LOYE AND BUCKSHOT.
The Trarfncer Perforated by Sl* *• Get*
Well and fllarrie* the Daughter.
In Jane last the press of the jountry
contained accounts of the shooting of
one George F. Long by Congiessman
J. H. Sloss, of Tuscumbia, Alabama.
The circumstances were as follows : Mr.
Sloss, when he returned homo from
Washington, learned that injurious and
slanderous reports had been set in cir
culation concerning bis danghtei, Miss
Mamie, a young lady of eighteen years,
by Long. The reports were of e most
slanderous character, and when Mr.
Sloss succeeded in tracing up their au
thor his rage naturally knew no bounds.
Loug is considered a desperate man,
and as he associated with several of like
ilk, who had openly threatened ven
geance should Mr. Sloss seek pe -sonal
redress, that gentleman concluded to
employ strategy. Procuring a double
barreled shot-gun, .which he loaded
with a handful of buckshot, he stationed
himself near a second story window of
a building which Long frequently pass
ed. He had been there but a shor. time
until he espied the tradneer of hie
daughter’s good name coming np the
street with several boon companions.
Waiting until his man got well in range,
Mr. Sloss turned both barrels loose,
and lodged thirteen of the shot in the
anatomy of Long, who fell senseless to
the pavement. Long was carried home
on a shutter by his friends, while Mr.
Sloss surrendered himself to the proper
authorities, and was released on bond.
The entire community justified the
Action of Mr. Sloss, while their sym
pathies were heartily extended to Miss
Mamie as a victim of a slanderous per
secution. Long soon recovered from
his many wounds, and a few days since
was once more on the streets. About
that time Mr. Sloss, who is an indepen
dent candidate for re-election to con
gress, started out to canvass his dis
trict, and has since been absent from
home.
Mrs. Sloss and Miss Mamie were left
at home alone. From some reason the
mother kept watch on the daughter,
whom she confined to her bed-room in
the second-story of their residence.
Last Wednesday Miss Mamie esked
permission to go down stairs for a drink
of fresh water. Mrs. Sloss, suspecting
nothing, granted the request, and the
young lady went down stairs. Net re
turning in a short time, Mrs. f loss’
suspicions became aroused and she went
in quest of her daughter. A search of
the premises only revealed that the
young lady had got up a mysterious
disappearance. With a rare divination
as to the cause and probable waere
abouts of the erring daughter, Mrs.
Sloss picked up a brace of six-sho iters
and started for the office of a very pop
ular ’squire, only a few squares distant.
When she arrived she found Long and
her daughter the centre of a circle of
an admiring group of friends, who were
extending their congratulations in the
heartiest of manners. The good “old
lady leveled her artillery and demanded
her daughter or gore. She was deter
mihed to have one or both until the
’squire interposed, and in the blandest
of tones, introduced her daughter as
Mrs. Long. Seeing that she was too
late, Mrs. Sloss proceeded to relieve her
mind, and then with her implements of
warfare tucked under her arm, sallied
forth for home, while the groom and
bride proceeded in another direction.
The sequel to the almost tragedy, as
related above, created the liveliest as
tonishment and gossip that Tuscumbia
had ever experienced. At present, in
view of all the circumstances, it is
thought that Long defamed the youa
lady with a view of rendering her odious
in the community, so that her parents
would consent to her marriage with him
as a compromise. The slander had an
opposite effect, as is shown, and it was
within the last few weeks that the two
determined npon an elopement. The
absence of Mr. Sloss rendered it com
paratively easy, although Mrs. Sloss
camo very near putting an extinguisher
on the whole affair.
Mr. Long is a man of very good fam
ily, but was objectionable on account of
his associations. It is only a few months
ago that, in a fight, he had his face from
eyebiow to chin laid open with a razor,
and at the same time got a slash across
the throat that came very near resulting
in a funeral. A few years ago, while
passing from one car to another, he
missed his footing and fell between the
cars, catching on a brake, in which po
sition he was dragged three-quarters of
a mile ere he was rescaed. All this,
combined with the thirteen buckshot
which his now father-in-law gave him,
would go to show that Mr. Long is a
very tough man— one who would prove
invaluable in leading forlorn hopes in
battles. —Memphis Avalanche , Septem
ber 27th.
Thoughts From the Talmud.
The thoughts of the sin is worse than
the sin. The older the wise man gets
the wher he grows ; the fool, when he
ages, becomes an old fool. He who
studies for a good purpose, to him his
study becomes a blessing; to him who
does not it grows into a poison. A bad
wife is like a hail storm. Do not dw ell
too long on your friend’s praises; you
will end in saying things against him.
Do much or little, so that you do it for
a good purpose. Refined music is lilted
by refined people ; weavers do not much
care for it. Three cry, out but get no
pity, viz.: he who lends out his money
without witness, the hen-pecked hus
band, and he who cannot get in at one
place and does not try another. Bten
the common talk of the wise should be
pondered over. One goose generally
folio ts another. Bad servants first isk
only when they have committed a blan
der! The load is laid upon the carael
according to its strength. If a word is
worth a pound, silence is worth two. A
pig is the richest animal; everything is
a pieoe of goods to him. Whoever does
too much does too little. The greater a
man the greater his passions. He who
presses the hour, the hour will press
him. May our future reward be like of
him who remains under a false imputa
tion. One peppercorn is better than a
hundred gourds. A learned man whose
deeds are evil is like a man who has a
door and no house. He who prays for
his neighbor will be heard first for h im
self. He who marries his daughter to
an educated man throws hpr before a
wild beast. He who throws out sus
picions should at once be suspected
himself. Do not cry out before the
calamity has really happened. Passion
is at first like a thin reed ; by and b f it
becomes like a cable.— Jewish Mes> ea
ger.
The lowa Cattle Disease.
The Wilton (Iowa) Exponent has the
following information regarding the new
cattle plague which has proved so fatal
to stock in the neighborhood of that
place :
“The disease is as curious in it*
workings as it is fatal in its result. The
first indication of an attack is a violent
twiching of the muscles on the order
jaw; then a frothing at the month, from
which saliva flows freely ; the eyes be
come watery and the animal seemt to
suffer the most intense pain, which in
creases from the moment it is attacked
until deatn ensues, which in no case has
been longer than twenty-four hoars.
They commence rubbing the head,
mostly on the left side, and continue un
til the skin, and sometimes one of the
ears, is rubbed off; and the head sw ells
np so as to close the eyes in many cases.
The last struggle seems to be a tremen
dous one. The animals stand erect,
and straining every muscle to the ut
most extent, giving evidence of a j ow
erful internal convulsion, they otter
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the most pitiful cry, you can hard y
call it anything else, and throwing the
head from Bide to bide fall over dead.
The best veterinary talent has been taxed
to the extent of its ability to find a
name for the disease and a cure for the
contagion, but without suocees. Change
of pasture will prevent fever, but has
no influence in checking this malady.
The remedies administered are numer
ous but ineffective. Climate may have
something to do with it, but we* think
not, and we shall expect dealers to
profit by this experience and look well
to the locality from which they procure
their stock cattle.”
Scott aud Bulwer.
Scott painted the external man; he
seldom troubled to seek for “the mo
tive and the cue for passion.” He did
not care to trace the subtle thought
from its germ until it stood forth a
thing. la the novels of Lord Lytton
the physical man is ever subservient to
the mental —the mind of a character is
more prominent than his actions. No
two writers, psychologically considered,
were more dissimilar than these great
masters, to whom, as pioneers, prose
fiction is chiefly indebted for its over
whelming supremacy in the literature
of the present day. The excellences
of the one are tne weakness of the
other. Much of this similarity must
be ascribed to the diverse influences
under which they began to write. Soott
was fotty years old when his first novel
appeared, Bulwer was in his teens.
The former’s more romantic vein of
thought Ljvd been already worked out
in poems. He was a member of the
most anti remantic of professions, a
conservative in all things, little influ
enced by the new school of ideas which
had arisen out of the chaos of the
French revolution ; he was essentially a
man of the pre-revolutionary period,
the barriers of which he never seemed,
intellectually, to have eroded. Bul
wer was the brilliant man of fahsion—
restless, errat c, fond of straying out of
the social grooves into the wilderness
of life; now the cynosure of the draw
ing room, now the solitary pedestrian,
wandering amid the wildest scenes of
Italy or Switzerland, or the companion
of a horde of gypsies; an enthusiastic
disciple of the new prophets, imbued
with the brilliant radicalism of France,
the mysticism and metaphysics of Ger
many, and the sensuous, passionate
poetry of which Byron, Shelley, and
Keats were the high priests. Scott
half despised the art of novel writing.
He wrote to satisfy no inward sense of
artistic beauty—not to embody the
teeming forms of a shadow-haunted
brain, but to build Abbotsford; he
wrote that which would sell best. On
the other hand, Bulwer held the art of
the novelist second to none. Writing
was to him a necessity strong as speech
—the outpourings of a soul overflowing
with passion that would have utterance.
No man was ever more eager for dis
tinction—yearned more for fame and
approbation; yet to obtain them he
never departed from the ideal artistic
standard which he had fixed in his
mind. While Sir Walter Scott gov
erned his literary pursuits by the same
law that obtains in commercial transac
tions, Lord Lytton—to judge by several
of his works which were written under
the full conviction that they would
evoke a storm of hostile criticism—be
lieved that art should be amenable only
to its own laws; but to those laws he
bowed submissively. Thus each of his
great works is like some delicious strain
of concerted music in which the har
monies and oounter harmonies, the va
rious instruments and the opposing
parts, blend in one delicious whole.—
Temple Bar.
Racing Record.
Asa matter of interest to our friends,
we give the following record, oarefully
corrected to date, of the best running
time:
? mile; Olitipa, by Leamington. 2
years, 97 lbs.; time 47J, Saratoga, 1874.
a mile; Madge, by Australian, 3 years,
87*lbs,; time 1:15?, Saratoga, 1874.
1 mile; Alarm, by Eclipse, 3 years,
90 lbs.; time 1:42?. Saratoga, 1872.
1 mile; Springbok (second heat), by
Australian, 4years, 108 lbs.; time 1:42?,
Utica, 1874.
1 mile; Gray Planet, by Planet, 5
years, 110 lbB.; time 1:42i, Saratoga,
1874. , ,
[Longfellow was said to have run the
flrßt mile in the cup race at Saratoga in
1871 in 1:40, and Tom Bowling was
timed a mile at the Lexington spring
races in 1:41? —not official. ]
li milee; Fadladeen, by War Danoe,
aged, 111 lbs.; time 1:56, Saratoga,
1874,
li miles ; Pioolo, by Concord. 3 years,
83 lbs.; time 1:56, Saratoga, 1874.
U miles; Fannie Ludlow, by Eclipse,
4 years, 105 lbs.; time 1:56?, Saratoga,
1869. . _ . _ .
1? miles ; Frogtown, by Bonnie Scot
land, 4 years, 104 lbs.; time 2:99j, Lex
ington, 1872. _
li miles ; Tom Bowling, by Lexing
ton, 4 years, 104 lbs.; time 2:34f, Lex
ingtoD, 1874. .
1? miles ; Frogtown, by Bonnie Soot
land, 4 years, 104 lbs.; time 3:07?, Lex
ington, 1872. .
is miles; Reform, by Leamington, 3
years, 83 lbs.; time 3:05?, Saratoga,
1874. . _ , T
[Tam Bowling was timed at the Lex
ington spring races 1? miles in 3:00? —
not official]. . _ . , .
2 miles; True [Blue, by Lexington, 4
rears, 108 lbs; time 3:32 j, Saratoga,
1873.
2 miles; Katie Pease, by Planet, 4
years, 105 lbs.; time 3:32?, Buffalo, 1874.
[Tom Bowling was timed at the Lex
ington spring races 2 miles in 3:27? —
not official].
2? miles ; Harry Bassett, by Lexing
ton, 4years, 108 lbs.; time 3:59, Sara
toga, 1872.
2* miles ; Katie Pease, by Planet, 4
years, 105 lbs.; time 4:28?, Buffalo,
1874. _ . ,
2? miles; Hubbard, by Planet, 4
years, 108 lbs.; time 4:58f, Saratoga,
1873.
3 miles; Norfolk, by Lexington, 4
years, 100 lbs.; times:27?, 5:29?, heats,
California, 1865.
4 mile 6; Fellowcraft, by Australian,
4 years, 108 lbs.; time 7:19?, Saratoga,
1874.
4 miles; Lexington," by Boston, 5
years, 103 lbB. ; time 7:19|, New Orleans,
1855.
The Diseases of the Day.
A correspondent of the Boston Jour
nal writes : “ Paralysis is becoming a
prime disease. It is not confined to
the fleshy, the plethoric, nor to the
aged. The fast life of our business
young men tells on them. It is a very
common thing to see men of thirty and
thirty-five bald-healed, feeble-gaited,
and walking about with eanes, their
underpinning knocked out., with oiher
signs of premature age. These signs
of early weakness develop in paralysis.
Sudden deaths from this cause are
very common. Several have occurred
in railroad trains; the vibration seeming
to predispose persons to the dis ase.
Not long since a gentleman died in one
of onr churches. He was interested in
a case of discipline. He made a report
to the church on the case, sat down,
laid his head on the back of the seat
and instantly expired. In another case,
a man not aocnstomed to public speak
ing arose to relate his religious experi
ence. He was so excited that he oould
scarcely speak. In the midst of his re
marks he was seized with paralysis, and
carried to his home. Onr young men
will have”to tone down their. style of
living if thay amount to anything.”