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.KOT LOST.
The look of sympathy, the gentle word
Spoken so low that only angel heard
The secret art of pure self-eacrffioe,
T T nseen by men, but marked by angels’ eyes :
These are not lost.
The sacred music of a tender strain,
Wrung from a port's heart by grief and pain,
An.l chanted timidly, with doubt and fear.
To busy crowds, who scarcely pause to hear:
These are not lost.
The silent tears that fall at dead of night
Over soiled robes, that orce were pure and white -
Che pravers !’>* rr-M>, Uk fncrn e fr ni the soul'
1, m i> g tor Chiist to make it clean auil whole:
These are not lost.
The happy dreams that gladdened all our vontb.
When dreams had less of self and more of truth;
The childhood’s faith, so tranquil and so sweet,
Which sat like Mary at the Master’s feet:
These are not lost.
The kindly plans devised for others’good,
So seldom guessed, so little understood ;
The quiet, steadfast love that strove to win
Some wanderer from the ways of stn :
These are not lost.
Not lost. 0 Lord! for, in Thy city bright.
Our eyes shall see the past by clearer light.
And things long bidden from our gaze below
Thou wilt revea', and we shall sure'y know
They were not lost.
UARNET’S HUMILIATION.
BY MRS. M. A. DENISON.
“ Some callers for Miss Westbury,”
said the well-trained hotel servant, as
be presented cards on a silver salver.
“Ob. mamma ! its those fashionable
Mays ; just the best people in Washing
ton ! John, tell them I’ll bo down very
soon. IV hat shall I wear, mamma,
please tell me quick ? If Cousin Stella
wasn't so awfnlly stnpid she might have
got my lavender silk out by this time ;
or my lovely blue one with the punt
lace trimmings. Pray tell me, some
body. wbat I shall wear.”
“The silver gray you have on with a
fresh ribbon will be prettier than an
elaborate dress. I shouldn’t think of
making an evening toilet, if I were you,
even for the Mays,” said Stella.
“That’s because you don’t know any
thing about them,” responded Garnet.
“ What can such fashionable people
have in common with you ? Probably
you’ll never speak to them in yonr life,”
and she threw ribbons and necklace,
watch and chain recklessly on the mar
ble-top table in her haste ; while her
mother, who had brought a costly, im
ported dress from the wardrobe, pro
ceeded to array her only and beautiful
child in it. For Garnet was beautiful
ami had been brought up, as her father
often said, “ without, regard to cost.”
To please her, the old oil-merchant
bad consented to spend the winter in
Washington at one of the first hotels
and to incur no end of expense, for Gar
net was wild to see and mingle with the
best society.
There also he had found his niece,
the daughter of his dead brother, ill at
an ordinary hoarding house, and in the
goodness of his heart had insisted upon
her leaving an arduous position and
spending the winter with his family.
Feeling the need of rest aud relax
ation Stella had accepted the kind offer,
much to the spoiled Garnet’s chagrin,
who saw only in the little plain figure
and somewhat old-fashioned garments a
dowdy and a foil. In fact she was verv
much ashamed of her cousin and took
no pains to hide her dislike.
“Thev are very worthy people, I be
lieve,” Stella answered, with a flush on
her check.
“Very worthy ! Good patience ! mam
ma, hear her—the very pink and perfec
tion of Washington society! Very
worthy people, indeed ! Why, there
are persons who would give half they
are worth to be called upon by the
Mays. Do you really think they are very
worthy people, Stella? How much they
would bo obliged if they could hear
you.”
Her cousin settled quietly into her
corner again with a book, but the flush
on her cheek bad faded into paleness.
“ Now, mamma, how do I look? Oh,
but how awfully long to koep them
waiting. They probably saw in the
papeis that I have just come out. I’ll
wear both diamond rings, mamma.
Dear me, I wish the interview was over.
They say that, Miss Bella May wears an
India shawl of almost fabulous value,
given to her by some great eastern mag
nate, and that Miss Aune is to marry an
earl, an English earl; think of that! If
ever we go abroad it will be of such ad
vantage to be acquainted with her.”
She swept once or twioe back aud
forth, her splendid train spreading in
ppacock glory over the rich burs of the
carpet, then taking one last look in the
cheval mirror, and posing her bead in
its daintiest fashion, she walked out of
the room like a little princess, conscious
of being at her best.
“Isn’t she dressed a little too much
for a day eall ?” asked Mrs. Westbury,
anxiously, as she saw the last iris glitter
of the rich silk vauish at. the threshold.
“ I think she is,” said Estelle, quietly.
“I’m afraid so ; but what could I do?
Garnet has had her own way so long
that I never pretend to dispute her
•wishes or her taste,” sighed the meek
little woman—a sad confession for a
mother to make, as Estelle thought,
with a pitying lock.
“ Pray, arc the Mays so very wonder
ful ? ” asked Mrs. Westbury.
“ I believe they are of very good
family. and I know they are immensely
rich,” said Estelle ; “ but what I have
heard them chiefly cxtnled for is their
uuaffeetedness and good sense. Though
they are really among the leaders of
society here they are as quiet and un
assuming as—well, as true nobility of
character always makes one, I suppose.
I am glad they have called upon Garnet.
H may really be considered quite an
honor.”
“ They must have seen her, and she
is so pretty ! ” said the gratified mother.
“Yes, Garnet is beautiful,” replied
Ktelle ; adding in her heart, “if only
the mind corresponded to the outer
shrine.”
Meanwhile, Garnet, gratified and tri
umphant, entered the handsome parlor
of the hotel. Here and there in groups
sat visitors, ladies and gentlemen, and
the young girl was delighted at the
sensation caused by her appearance.
For one little moment Garnet was con
tused as, going up to a small and well
dressed group of people, she said,
speaking to a lady : “Mrs. May, I pre
sume.”
“ O no, that is Mrs. May by the win
dow,” responded the lady, pointing to
another circle with her fan.
“Mercy, mamma,” exclaimed Anne
May, as the over dressed Garnet came
toward them, “we have evoked a rain
bow! ”
Garnet, a little taken aback at sight
°f the plain toilets of this distin
guished party, sailed up to them with
her grandest, manner, and to cover her
surprise and trepidation plunged at
once into conversation. She scarce
waited for questions, but with the volu
bility of a school-girl just released
from bondage talked and talked.
Before long these strangers, as well
as others, whose ears were sharpened
by hotel experience, knew the pr.u
eipal events of her life ; what school
she had attended ; bow she hated Blank,
her native city ; what sort of a house
her father had bought aud furnished ;
that part of her family were traveling
on the continent, and had sent her
costly presents; how much she, too,
wanted to visit foreign countries ; and
numberless little incidents that kept
her visitors staring and almost silent.
At last she paused and began the con
templation of her dress. Sorely that
most exquisite point lace must impress
them favorably ; and the diamonds on
her fingers and in her ea-s—not many
young ladies could afford to wear them’;
and then the dress itself, how she ached
to inform them that it was an importa
tion from Paris, and the worn of the
great artist, Worth, the prince of dress
makers.
“Mamma,” said Anne May, in a voice
strikingly unlike the high-pitched tone
of Miss Garnet, “ would it not be as well
to mention the business for which we
called upon Miss Westbury ?”
Garnet’s ears tingled so that perhaps
anew splendor shot from their pendant
jewels, for was this not a prelude to an
invitation to their house, to some Gor
man or grand reception, where she
might see the president, and some of
the great men of the country ?
“ Yes, dear,” said Mrs. May, in the
Ratne low, modulated tones. “You see,
Miss Westbury, we have been searching
the city for a missing friend, and having
heard, accidentally, that you were a re
lation, we called to see if you could
give us any information concerning Miss
Stella Glen.”
“ Stella Glen ! My cousin 1” exclaim
ed Garnet, the blood receding from her
cheeks, while she inwardly wondered at
the strange question. Was it possible,
after all, that this could have been the
only object of their visit ? Did they
not come to make her a call of acknowl
edgment, or of compliment? Gould it
be only to inquire after Miss Stella,
who perhaps they took for a dress
maker ? And who knew but she might
have been one—she was such a stickler
for the right of women to help them
selves ? and at the thought her cheek
burned.
She drew back a little, mortified to
the heart. Had all her fine clothes, her
point lace gone for nothing ? Had she
been called down, it seemed to her now,
like a servant, to tell whatever she knew
about her cousin ?
“Miss Glen ie here, with us,” said
Garnet.
“What 1 in this hotel ? Oh, mamma !”
exclaimed Miss Anne, with sparkling
eyes.
“I will go up and send her down,”
said Garnet, rising.
“Piav, don’t think iis so rude,” said
Mrs. May, and her hand was on the
bell-rope.
A card was seut up by the servant,
while Garuet sat still, in mute surprise,
her high spirits gone, her vanity laid
low.
Presently, to her horror. Stella ap
peared in the doorway, in the same
identical black silk dress—rusty at that—
which she always wore. But now Gar
net saw with new eyes—saw a delicacy
aud beauty in her figure, an expression
in her face that had been sealed to her
hitherto.
What was her exceeding astonishment
to note that all the Mays rose, and with
outstretched hand welcomed her cousin
with the warmest demonstrations. Miss
Anne kissed her; Mrs. May patted her
cheek and called her darling; Miss
Belle chided her for not coming to see
them ; all had a kind word, a rjal wel
come, for the girl Garnet had considered
a little nobody.
At last the truth came out. Miss
Glen was the daughter of one who had
been a bravo soldier during the war.
Her father had died, nobly giving his
life up in the heroic effort to save his
superior officer—and that officer was
Col. May.
Miss Glen had then devoted hersolf
to the sick aud wounded in hospital and
had, singularly enough, succeeded by
her devotion iu carrying through a ter
rible illness the son of this same Col.
May, a young lieutenant, who had been
dangerously wounded at Gettysburg.
From that, time the Mays adopted her
as nearly as possible until they left for
Europe. They had been very anxious
to take her with them, but as the young
officer aforesaid had made proposals of
marriage to Miss Glen, ami been re
jected, she very wisely declined.
All this Garnet learn eel afterward. At
the time she only felt a burning resent
ment tha t this quiet, unfashionable
cousin bad preceded her in the good
graces of one of the most prominent
families in town, and it seemed like
adding the one drop too much when
Mrs. May, after almost literally implor
ing a visit from Miss Glen, turned, as
f she bethought herself, and blandly
added: “And bring your little cousin
with you.” Evi lently they thought
her fresh frem school
“ I’ll never go—l’ll never go !” she
cried, in a tempest of passion, when the
cousins regained their parlor. “Why
didn’t you tell me you kuew them?”
and she turned ou poor Stella with a
perfect torrent of vituperation, blaming
her for all that she had been obliged to
undergo.
In time, however, she thought better
of it. Fiuding that her quiet little
cousin had the entree into society, she
condescended to treat her upon more
equal terms ; but she never forgot the
humiliation or the lesson of that day’s
defeat.
The Secret of Eloquence.
An admirer of Mr. Bright writes to a
Manchester paper that he has discov
ered the secret of the power this great
speaker posseses of riveting the atten
tion of his audience. This be believes
to lie in the fact that he uses monosyl
lables verv largely. The grand pas
sage in Mr. Bright’s speech on the
Burials bill describing a Quaker funeral
begins, “ I will take the case of my
own sect,” and on couuting the words
of that remarkable oration it will be
fonnd that out of one hundred and
ninety words one hundred and forty
nine, more than seventy-five per cent.,
were monosyllables. On this it is
urged that those in charge of youth
should teach them the use of monosyl
lables. American journal lately
mentioned a school where such pains had
been taken to instruct the boys in the
art of public speaking that if they had
learned nothing else they had acquired
the greatest contempt for all the de
vices of stump oratory. The course of
study prescribed left to the imagina
tion, but doubtless includes the trans
lation into monosyllables of the pon
derous verbiage which passes current
in most political assemblies' as gen
uine eloquence. It would, however,
be cruel to insist on the introduction
of such teaching into any of the
“standards.” Many are obliged to
sneak who have less to sav than Mr.
Bright, and to them the sesquipedalia
verba are indispensable, —Pall Mall
Gazette,
MRASSHOPPER RUIN.
The Whole Northwest Threatenerl--
t'hleapo and Vincennes Already
Keaehed by the Vanguard of the Pe
st royerg.
Chicago Tribune.
The great army of grasshoppers that
poured its vast multitudes over the
northwest last summer reached far in
this direction, the van penetrating as
far as Vincennes, although not in suffi
cient foroe to make any general devas
tation. An irregular triangle, with
that for its apex and the Rocky Moun
tains for its base, would include the
territory thus far swept far over by the
victorious pest, including large portions
of Kansas and Missouri, and almost all
of Minnesoto, Nebraska, lowa and Da
kota. The question which vr*r agitates
the commercial interests nf the country
is, can the grasshopper be kept within
that territory, or will they, as some
predict, overrun Canada. V
New York and the Eastern States? It.
is held that in thickly set led parts of
the country, where smalls farm abound,
there can be no great danger from
them, as the birds and domestic fowls
will keep down their numbers, but if
the invasion is made by such over
whelming hosts as defeated all meas
ures of protection last summer, such
instrumentalities will have little effi
ciency at first, however powerfullv they
may thin their ranks in oonrse of time.
And even in the event of the advancing
plague being successfully stayed in its
progress east, it can hardly be expected
that Illinois, lying as it does on the
border line, and already partially in
vaded, will escape the attack of vora
cions legions, if the vast hordes of
grasshoppers shall issue forth again.
The intense cold of Inst winter and the
protracted frosts of the spring have
been relied upon by the agricultural
community to effectually rid them of
this plague. As late as the last day of
April there was a severe freeze, doing
ranch damage to fruit, but which was
borne with cheerfulness as being sure
death to the grasshoppers. Now the
report comes that in Southwestern Mis
souri “ the young grasshoppers are de
vouring everything green. The people
are panic-stricken. Cattle and horses
are dying of starvation. Everything
is being eaten by the pests.” Similar
news comes from Southern and West
ern Kansas, and large sections of Min
nesota, lowa and Nebraska are declared
to be doomed. In the southwestern
portion of the latter state, they are
already swarming out by the million,
with millions yet in the ground. All
this, and only two weeks since a frost.
With the cessation of the cold rains
and the increasing varmth of the sun,
it is to he expected that the millions of
eggs in the ground will send forth their
myriad swarms, and the invasion of the
grasshoppers begin. In that, case it,
can hardly be hoped that Chicago will
escape a visitation. Already the pre
monitory signs have appeared. The
warmth of the sun during the past week
has had the effect of causing the ap
pearance of young grasshoppers in the
southern sections of this city, on the
Hyde Park line, and, although at
present in a state of inactive torpor,
the establishment of warm weatLor win
send them scurrying through the air,
their numliers rapidly increasing, until
the vast and compac- host of the main
army joins them.
The so-called grasshoppers that have
been the plague of the west are really a
species of locust, and have all the vora
cious appetite and omniverous taste of
the genuine African locusts. Instead
of proceeding by jumps like the com
mon grasshopper, these locusts go long
distances in the air, flying and borne bv
the wind. They move along at a height
of from 30 to 100 yards above the
ground, and extending upward as far as
the eve can reach. These flving swarms
are described as looking like great banks
of snow when illuminated by the sun
shine, and again like clouds tossing and
rolling in a strong wind. When making
their descent, upon the country, and un
der impulsion from the wind, they rat
tle against, the window-panes like hail,
and beat against the face of whosoever
may be out at the time, descending in
such myriads that it would be as im
possible to escape their contaot, as it
would be to avoid being rained on when
out in a shower. The concussion of
their million of wings on the air make
a whizzing roar, plainly heard as thev
fly overhead. Tt, is this ability to make
long and high flights that bids fair to
make them such a pest in Chicago.
They flv with the wind and without, in
telligeutdireotiou; dropping, after alight
of a few hours, on any place they mav
happen to be over, whether 1 and or water,
town or country, and attack destruct
ively whatever they can. The country
is stripped bare of green and living
things ; cattle, and even human beiugs,
die of starvation. Gen. Ord, com
manding the military department of the
Platte, last fall reported that the bodies
of people who died of starvation were
found by his men in their marches,
and men and women were discovered
whose only means of subsistence for
days was clothing, which they gnawed
at like rats. Had it not huen for the
efforts of the charitable all over the
country, thousands whose crops had
been destroyed by this pest would have
starved to death last winter.
Longevity of Jews.
According to statistics, gathered in
France, Algeria and Prussia, the Jewish
race is remarkable for longevity and
immunity from disease. Its mean aver
age duration of life exceeds that of
Christian races by about five years.
This tenacity of life is due to the in
heritance of a sound physical constitu
tion and to the watchful care of the
mother over her offspring. These two
causes insure the Jews comparative
security from maladies that decimate
other races. Tscliudi stages that the
plague of 1346 did not affect the Jews
of any country. Frascati asserts that
they completely escaped from the epi
demic of typhus in 1505. Ran mentions
that the same immunity from typhus
was observed at Langeons in 1824.
According to Rsmazzi, they were free
from the intermittent fevers prevailing
at Rome in 1691. And, according to
Degner, they suffered nothing from the
dysentery that raged at Nimenguen in
1736. It is said by other authorities
that croup is extremely rare among
Jewish children, and that they have
very little scrofula.
On the other hand. M. Ribaut says,
in his work on “ Heredity,” that, inter
marriage has exerted a baleful influence
on the Jewish race by sowing the seeds
of mental disorders. He declares that
the number of Jewish deaf-mutes is
enormous, and that idiocy and insanity
are very frequent. According to a table
of German statistics quoted by this au
thor, there is on- idiot in Silesia to 580
Catholics, to 408 P/o’estants, to 514
Jews ; in Wurtemberg, to 4 418 Citbo
lics, to 3 207 Protestants, to 3 003 Jews;
and one lunatic in Bavaria to9oß Catho
lics, to 967 Protestants, to 514 Jews; in
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1575.
Hanover, to 528 Catholics, to 641 Pro
testauts, to 337 Jews; in Silesia, to
1.355 Catholics, to 1,264 Protestants, to
624 Jews; in Wurfemberg, to 2,006
Catholics, to 2,028 Protestants, to 1,544
Jews.
The mortality amorg Jewish children
in London from one to five years of age
is rated by Dr. Stallard at ten percent.,
while among Christian children it is 14
per cent. The average duration of life
of the Chris’ian in London is 37 years,
and that of the Jew, 40.69
It is an interesting fact that there is a
larger proportion of boys born to the
Jews than to the Chnstiaus. Prof.
Waltz gives 100 female to 203 male
births amoug the Jews iu Berlin ; 100 to
120 iu Livorno ; and 100 to 111 through
out the Prussian dominions.
N hy Men Become Bald.
Because they wear close hats aud
caps. Women are never bald. Some
times, from long confined headache,
boat in the scalp, bad hair-dressing and
sumo other causes, women may have
bare spots here and lhere; but with all
these combined, you never see a woman
with a bare, shiny, bald head. And
you never see a man lose a hair below
where the hat touches the skull. It
will take it off as clean as you oan shave
it down to exactly that line, but Defer a
hair below, not if lie has been bald
fifty yoars. The common black stiff
Jiat, as impervious as sheet iron, retains
the heat aud perspiration. The little
hair glands, which bear the same rela
tion to the hair that the seed wheat does
to the plant above ground, become
weak from the presence of the
moisture and heat, and finally be
come two weak to sustain the hair. It
falls out, and baldness exists. A fur
cap we have known to produce complete
baldness in a single winter. A man
with a good head of hair needs very
little protection where the hair grows.
Women who live much within doors,
and who are, therefore, susceptible to
the cold, oil their hair and plaster it
down hard and flat npou their skullp, so
as to destroy nine-tenths of its power
as a non-conductor, have worn for years
postage stamps of bonnets stuck on the
back of their skulls, and then going out
of furnace-heated parlors, have ridden
f r hours in a very oold temperature
without taking cold and without com
plaint.
Man, with his greater vigor and
habits of outdoor life, and with his
hair not plastered down, hut thrown up
loose and light, could no doubt go to
the north pole, so far as that part of his
person is concerned, without any artifi
cial covering. And yet we men wear
immensely thick fnr caps, and do not
dare to step out into a chilly atmos
phere a moment lest we take cold. It
is a silly, weak and really serious error.
The Creator knew what he was about
when be covered a man’s skull with hair.
It has a very important function iu pro
tecting the brain. Baldness is a serious
misfortune. It will never occur in any
man who will wear a common black
high silk hat with five hundred holes
through the top, so that there shall be
more hole hot. Tnio ouotj uotn
ing; the hatter will do this for you
when you purchase your hat. If the
nap be combed the wrong way, and
after the holes are made it be combed
the right way, no ODe will observe the
peculiarity. The hat will wear quite as
long—the hatters say considerably
longer—because it is dry instead of
moist; in brief, there is "not a single
objection to it, while it will certainly
prevent baldness and* keep the top of
the head cool and prevent much head
ache.
Marching 011.
Prof. Riley, the state entomologist,
says that the ravages in western Mis
souri are indeed alarming. He explains
that the young hoppers will not be
ready to lake the wing until the 15th of
June. For a whole month the farmers
of Missouri will have to stand the
scourges. The oidy approximate relief
that can be gained is through a war of
extermination, and farmers all over the
state are called on to figkt them with
rollers, ditching, burning, drowniug,
and contiuual flawing. The professor
recommends to the state authorities to
offer rewards for the destruction of the
grasshoppers by the quantity. About
the route of the swarms after becoming
full-winged, there are the most contra
dictory opinions. The most probable
and popular belief is toat they will
move westward, northward, and to some
extent, eastward from this state. A
large firm of wholesale grocers to-day
received by express from the western
part of the state a box which, upon
being opened, was found to be com
pletely full of grasshoppers. Accom
panying the package, was a letter from
a heavy debtor, who said unless the
hoppers were received in liquidation of
his account, he saw no way of ever pay
ing his indebtedness, as these were all
there was left, or in prospect, of the
product of his section. All the whole
sale houses in St. Louis are receiving
letters by the hundred from their west
ern Missouri creditors, declaring their
total inability to meet their paper, on
account of the plague. The formation
of a relief commission, and a thorough
organization for the work surely in pros
pect. are already being agitated hire.—
Si. Iritis Special.
Changing the >anies of Paris Streets.
Poliiical affairs in Frauoe can not be
half so exciting as the telegrams would
have us believe. The perfecturo of the
Seine has found leisure to occupy itself
with the good old sport of changing
the names of the Paris streets ; and it
is a pleasing illustration of the resp-ct
in which the arts are held in France that
the government has given the artists
their share of these mnncipal honors.
The Bus Saint Paul is to be known
henceforth as the Rue Henri Regnault;
the Rue du Chemin de For becomes the
Rue Lacaze, in honor of the great
amateur who presented his superb col
lection, long the glory of his residence
m the Rue du Cherche-Midi, and su
premely rich in French pictures of the
eighteenth centnry, to the Louvre , the
Rue des Artists sinks the general in the
particular and becomes the Rue Gayar
ni; Fragonard is to be commemorated
on the corners of what was the Rue
Philbert Ddorme; the Rue Chariot
takes the name of the great painter
I'Toyon; and the Rue des Yignea, the
name of the sculptor of Washington
and Voltaire (conjunction strange!)
Houdon.
A Cmc ago lady, who had had the
misfortune to smash her last bottle of
P.wisiau hair-die, encountered a solemn
looking man with au armful of tracts,
who, in presenting one to her, took
1 cca-iou to ask if she was prepared to
uieet her Maker. “No,” she spitefully
replied, “I don’t expect to stir out 01
the house for several weeks,”
USE BT ONK.
They are gathering: homeward from every land,
One by one.
As their weary feet touoli the shining sand,
On - * by one.
fbeir brows are enclosed in a golden crown,
Their travel-stained garments all laid down,
\nd clothed in white raiment, tUey rest in the mead
Where the Lamb loveth his chosen c lead,
One by one.
Before they rest they pass through the strife,
One by one.
Through the waters of death they enter life,
One by one.
Vo tome sre the floo Is of the riv> r tiil
they f r I iheir way to the heavenly hill ;
To others the wave* run tie> c ly and wild.
Yet all reach the home of ttie undeflled,
One by one.
We, too, shall come to that river’s side,
One by one.
We are nearer its water* each eventide,
One by one.
We can hear the noise and rla*h of the stream
Now and&gaia in our life’s deep dream ;
Sometimes the floods o’er the banks o’erflow,
Sometimes in ripple* the small waves go.
One by one,
Jesus ’ Redeemer, we lock to Thee,
One by one.
We lift up our voices tremblingly,
One by one.
The waves of the river are dark and cold.
We know not the spots where our feet may hold ;
Thou who didst pats through the deep midnight,
Stieugthen us, send us thy staff and the light,
One by one.
Piant Thou Thy feet beside as we tread,
One by one.
On Thee let us lean each drooping head,
One by one.
Let but Thy mighty arm ’round us be twined.
We’ll cast all our cares and fears to the wind.
Saviour! Redeemer! witu thee in full view.
Smilingly, gladsomely, shall we pass through,
Oae by one.
MARRIED UNDIR DIFFICULTIES
BY GARRY MOSS.
“ Yes, Tom, you heard the rights of
the story ; someone did cry out, ‘ I for
bid the bans!’
“ That was a nice fix to be in, I can
tell you, at that late hour. Bessy and
I in church, with Miss Spicer, the old
general’s daughter, for bridesmaid, and
John Charles, a particularly nobby fel
low, who stood up as best man. There
was Bessy, as pretty as a picture, dress
ed in as handsome a bridal outfit as ever
you saw—white satin and lace and flow
ers and veil. I’m not much at desetip
tion about a woman’s rig, but I vow and
declare, though I’ve seen many of ’em
since, I’ve never come a cross a bride as
all-fired pretty as she was, and I never
shall.
“ I didn’t want to be married in
church—it lookel sort of conspicuous—
but Bessy wouldn't be married auy oth
er way, and I wanted Bessy.
“Well, the mbiister, a very tall,
grave-looking man, standing on the
other side of the rail, had just begun
the service, aud says he, ‘lf any man
has any reasons why,’ and so forth—
you know what it is—‘let him now
speak, or forever after hold his tongue,’
when up jumps somebody iu the bank of
the house and cries out:
“ * I forbid the bans !’
“Well, that was a pretty kettle of
fish to begin with. I felt Bessy trem
ble, and I grew hot all over. If the old
man, her father, a queer old codger, had
taken it into his head that Bessy was
too good for me—and, indeed, I don’t
deny she was—l was done for. But
thee that couldn’t be. The minister he
lurLoa -“A and the people who had
come to see were m a State ut
ness, you may be sure.
“ ‘ For what reason do you forbid the
bans?’ asked he of the white gown.
All this passed much quicker tfcan I can
write it.
“ ‘ Because she is already my wife.’
“Says I, ‘That’s a lie !’ and her father
repeated it with an amendment which
was not exactly appropriate to the
place—and in a moment there was a
pretty how d’ye do. I bad made my
way to the back of the church, and if I
had laid hands on that fellow he’d never
seen the outside of his skin again. I’d
have torn him in pieces. But there was
a crowd ; some pointed out one and
some another; and one man gravely
told me the villain had gone home to
get the proofs. Then Bessy frightened
out of her wits on missiog me, screamed
and fainted away, and of course the
minister couldn’t have gone on anyhow.
Bessy’s mother beg in scolding me, and
Bessy’s father ripped round there all
but swearing in the very face of the
parson, till I surely thought the last
day had come aud we had all gone crazy
together. So we ha Ito go back, every
body mad, Bessy in hysterics, and the
old folk i storming at her, at me, and
each other. Upon ray word, Tom, you’d
have pitied mo or any other man, for
what was 1 to do? A slur had been
cast upon Bessy, poor innocent child,
and oven I, who had been her lover less
than six mouths, didn’t know what to
think of the statement so boldly made
before all Israel and the suu.
“Well, of course it got iuto the
papers, aud all manner of comments
were made, which nearly drove me die
tracted. What to do wo didn’t know.
Bessy’s aunt, a regular old Tabby, de
clared it was the worst of bad luck to
have a marriage put <iff, and abused me
like a pickpocket. The wedding hieak
fast stayed for two days untasted, while
Bessy’s father and myself went tearing
round the city to find the man who had
set all this trouble going ; it wab like
hunting for a needle in a havriek.
“Meantime poor little Bes-sy was
sick with low, nervous fever. I went
there every day to inquire about her
and muse upon the uncertainty of man
daue affairs gem rally, when on© morn
ing the door was "opeue I before I had
reached the top step, a big, red hand
pulled me inside, and the whole house
hold began an Indian dance, including
everything but scalps and the war
whoop.
“‘Bulger, my glorious fellow, we’re
all right!’ shouted the old gentleman,
giving me such a plap between the
shoulders that I lost my breath.
“ ‘ My dear boy, our sorrows are at
an end,’ sniffled the almost mother in
law.
“ ‘ I hope it won’t be put. off again,
for then we should have a funeral,’ re
marked the Tabby aunt, looking at me
from under her spectacles with her
usual severity of expression.
“‘What! you haven’t found ’
cried I, utterly unable to finish from
sheer bewilderment.
“ * Yes, we’ve fouud him !’ said the
paternal.
“ * The poor, miserable wretch!’ ejac
ulated the maternal.
“ ‘ Ought to be roasted alive,’ mut
tered Tabby, glaring at me.
“ ‘ Jo,’ oried a weak voice at the head
of the stairs ; ‘ come up hare.’
“You may guess now those stairs
disappeared from under my feet. Poor
Bessy, pale little thing, "fell into my
arms without any fups, and cried—and
cried—and oried. Then, alter all this
c mmotion was —and it didn’t kill
me —my blaming father-in-law that
should have been at that time, handed
me a paper, with the brief nmaik,
‘ ead !’ And this is what I read :
“ ‘ A lunatic from G., in the county
of M —, has been at large for a
month, but was last night tracked to
his hidica-place in this city, and taken
bftca to the asylum, It seems, from
the accounts we can gather, that he has
been leading an eventful life since his
escape, having personated, successfully,
a member of congress, the governor of
a state, and a bank president. He is
evidently a genius, aud is highly de
lighted with his tonr. One exploit of
which ho boasts—for singularly enough
he remembers bis pranks—was that of
spoiling a wedding. The circumstance
will be remembered, and we sre most
happv te> make matters smooth again
lor on. esteemed fellow citizens, J. B
and C. L , also the charming
bride, whose maiden meditatioos were
so ruthlessly and painfnlly broken in
upon. We congratulate them as hearti
ly as if the weddiug were consummated,
and wLipu it is may we be there to see.’
“ Well, you’d better believe it wasn’t
long before that w edriing came off,
but we didn’t risk it in a church again.
And we might have admitted the tradi
tional five hundred friends, for we had
become celebrities ; but Bessy wanted
a quiet wedding, averring as a reason
that amoug five hundred people there
must of necessity be one or more luna
tics. Miss Spicer was gracious and
stood np with us again, but John
Charles had taken his departure to
realms unknowu, so we had to put up
with an ordinary man. The wedding
eame off this time without an inter
ruption ; and don’t fail to look in upon
ns, Tom. and wish ns joy.”
Some Facts Abont Brains.
Dr. W. A. Hammond, having been
re-elected to the presidency of the .Neu
rological society, chose, as the subject
of his inaugural address, “ The Brain
not the Sole Organ of Mind.” Asa
compilation of instructive facts, this
paper merits special attention, while the
conclusions reached, though not without
precedent, are yet deserving of renewed
attention, for which reasons we are in
duced to present the following con
densed review of these facts and views :
While there is no evidence to prove
that the mind can exist independently
of the nervous system, every fact in our
possession bearing upon the question of
their relation goes to prove that, where
there is injury or derangement of the
nervous system, there is corresponding
injury or derangement of the mind.
Accepting this intimacy of relationship
as conclusively established, Dr. Ham
mond briefly defines the constitution of
the nervous system as follows : “The
nervocs system consists of two essen
tially different tissues, which are dis
tributed in varying proport ions through
out the organism. Toe one of these,
the ganglionic, or gray tissue, is col
lected in masses in the brain, the spinal
cord, and in the course of the ramifica
tions of the great sympathetic nerve.
The other, the white tissue, exists in
much larger proportion, and is also
found in the brain and spinal cord, of
which it constitutes the larger quantity.
Examined microscopically, the gray
matter is found to be composed of cells,
while the white matter oonsists of fibres.
As regards function, the difference is
still greater, for the gray matter is the
generator of nerve toroe, while the
If Lltv u*LU—— Al— Janwn Uyo
which the force is transmitted.” As
the brain is by far the largest mass of
nerve substance contained in the body
of any animal possessing a braiD, atten
tion is first directed to certain general
faots regarding the relative size and
weight of the brains in various raoes of
men and in the lower animals. The
average weight of the brain of the
white inhabitants of Europe is forty
nine and one-half ounces, the maximum
being that of the brain of Cuvier,
which weighed sixty-four and one-third
ounoes, and the minimum, consistent
with a fair degree of intelligence, thirty
four ounces. The average of twenty
four American brains, aceuratel y weighed
by Dr. Ira Russell, was fifty-two and
six hundredths ounces, while that from
one huudred and forty-seven fall negro
brains was only forty-six and ninety-six
hundredths ounces. Tnming from the
weight of the brain to the oapacity of
the cranium, we fiud that this capacity
in the Teutonic family, including Eag
lish, Germans, and Americans, is ninety
two cubic inches. The largest recorded
capacity of the cranium is that of Web-
huudred and twenty-twosquare
inches. Owing to disease, however,
Webster’s brain weighed but sixty-three
and three-quarter ounces, thus placing
him second only to Cuvier. In the
native African negro, this capacity is
reduced t) eighty-three cubic inches,
and in the Australian and Hottentot to
neveuty -five. The brain of an idiot sel
dom cxc*mls twenty-three ounces in
weight, while in one instance coming
unier the speaker’s own observation,
the mature brain weighed but fourteen
and one half ounces. After no'icing a
few exceptional oases of diminutive
brams, Dr. Hammoud preceded to the
consideration of the brains of animals,
and the facts elicited are of interest
and value, both iu themselves and as
bearing upon the subsequent discussion.
Seuret found the mean proportional
weight of the brain to the /est of the
body to be in fishes as one to five thou
sand six hundred and sixty-eight. It
should, ho vever, be noticed that the
range in this order is very great, reach
ing from the bass, where the proportion
s'ands as one to five hundred and
twenty-three, to the gold-fish, where it
is as one to eight thousand nine hundred
and nineteen ; these latter observations
having been made by the lectnrer him
self. Passing from fishes to reptiles,
we find this average decreased, so that
it is represented by one to thirteen
hundred and twenty oue. Here, also,
are to be found wide diftVreuoes, the
proportion in lizards being as one to
one hnudred and eighty, while the
brain of an alligator, examined by the
speaker, weighed only a little over half
an ounce.
There ore four hur.dr* and religions
journals iu the United States. The
Methodists tmve forty-seven, the largest
number ; then come the CathoHcs, who
number forty one ; the Baptists, tbiriy
five ; Presbyterians, twenty nine ; the
Episcopalians, twenty-one ; the Luther
ans, fourteen; German Reformed, four
teen; Jews, nine, and Congrrgatioual
ists, eight.
There is a man in Paris with a great
project. He proposes to light that city
with one lamp. He wants a big lamp
and wants to suspend it at a proper
height by means of a balloon. His
argument is that all Paris can be lighted
on that plan as well as an opera house
The authorities hare a preju iceaaa nst
his plan, because he boards at a lunatic
asylum.
A case lias been before the English
divorce court of a man suing for e
divorce on the grouu 1 of hi* wife’s
desertion. The judge said it war the
tirst case of the knd siooe the estab
lishment of the eonrt seventeen years
aO.
Men as Women’s Idols.
While the pious women of Brooklyn
flock to Plymouth church and help to
fill the court room where the great de
fendant sits watching the trial of bis
reputation, their worldly sisters on this
side of the ferry are equally devoted to
the two shapely Englishmen who form
the leadiug attractions at Booth’s and
Wallack’s theatres. Superficially con
sidered, nothing coaid be further apart
than the pnlpit and the stage, the pews
and the pit, the clergyman and the ac
tor, or the sentiment which reigns in
the breast of a church-going damsel
and that which flutters the frequenter
of the play-house as she watohes her
favorite hero disport himself behind
the foot-lights. But when the phenomo
ena are analyzed, it is found that the
law which governs tbem is m both cases
the same. Women are naturally idola
ters, and whether their idol be Mr.
Beecher, or Mr. Montague, or Mr. Rig
nold, or some other conspicuous person,
depends upon circumstances which do
not affect the springs of their oondnet.
The whole fabric of society rests, in
fact, upon this fundamental trait of
tneir character, and men who ridicule
it, ridicule the very thing to which they
owe much if not all that makes life en
jovable.
In general women idolize men simply
because women are women and men are
men. The latest results of scientific
inquiry have only confirmed the ancient
belief that souls are male and female
as well as bodies, and that physical sex
is the result and not the cause of spirit
ual sex. Women love men by an in
stinctive impulse, and what is more,
they cunningly inspire love in men for
themselves so that men are unaware of
it, and fancy that it is they who kindle
the flame in the first instance. Every
woman, to be sure, denies that this is
true of herself, but she readily admits
and asserts it to be true of other wo
men. She will point out to her selected
victim, at the very moment that she is
weaving the net about him, the arts and
devices by which Miss So-and-so is seek-
ing to entrap Mr. Such-a-one, or Mrs.
Blank is fascinating old Brown, and she
will make him think, nevertheless, that
he is the irresistible charmer to whom
she is reluctantly yielding her heart. It
is as if a puppet should be made to
fancy that he pulled the wires by which
in truth he is compelled to dance.
Cynics and satirists impute this talent
to women as a fault, but without reason.
They might as well blame them for
being comely, rounded and graceful.
Women seek to win love, because, as
Dr. Watts says of the barking and bit
ing of dogs, it is their nature to ; and
men ought to be thankful that they
have such a nature, and not the nature
of dogs.
The legitimate object of woman’s
lovingness is a husband, and this is the
reason why marriage occupies so large
a part of her thoughts. The hackneyed
figure of the vine and the elm is a sym
bolic verity. A homelier illustration
is the potato, the sprouts of which feel
their way in the darkest cellar toward
the light. Women need, and therefore
seek, an object and a resting place for
their affections, and unless exceedingly
when they find it." II So 'mUBdJ
it, as many do not, or if having fancied
that they have found it they discover
that they have been mistaken, they
still continue the search. No amount
of disappointment or ridicule, or oppo
sition, can obliterate this their master
passion; and if it cannot expend its
force on a reality, it will create an
imaginary object for the purpose.
Here we find the key to women’s
adoration of men like Beecher and
Montague and Rignold. They do not
worship their idols for what they are
in themselves, but for what they repre
sent. The clergyman stands in the
pulpit precisely as the actor does on
the stage, personating an ideal charac
ter and surrounded by accessories which
heighten the effect of liis performance.
It is not surprising tha* the unsatisfied
yearnings of the women of his flock
should fix upon him as the support and
stay which they have sought in vain
elsewhere, any more than that the hand
some actor, decorated not only with
the trappings of the outer man, but
shifting with the wit and accomplish
ments which the playwright lends
him for the moment, should seem
the long-waited-for hero of the
woman of the world. Both profit
in a large degree by a fact which
every man profits by more or less, and
whoever is jealous of their success
should take a lesson from their example.
Lovers and husbands need only to be
what clergymen and actors seem, in
order to win the same admiration, and
enjoy the same devoted attachment.—
N. Y. Sim.
Skating Belles.
Mr. Conway writes of skating rinks in
England and says: A noted l>ello of
Brighton is at this moment laid up by
an accident suffered at the rink. Ail
her upper teeth were pressed through
her under lip, the teeth becoming dis
located, and she has been nnder the
combined attention of the surgeon and
the dentist for a week. A second
beauty has broken her thumb, and a
third her leg; bat they are reported to
be heroic, feeling that they have suffered
for a great cause, and oomDlaining only
that some little interval must elapse
before they can again fly over the nnk.
One thing was especially observable, I
thought, that no company of English
ladies ever appeared out of doors in
such really beautiful costumes before.
It is true that when I selected, by invi
tation of a Brighton friend, the lady
that seemed to me the most beautiful
and the best dressed, I was informed
that she was an American; but the
complacency with which I learned this
did not prevent my saying that there
was not an ugly or ill-dressed woman
among the gallant six hundred. There
was not a highly colored, not a sensa
tional, not a “loud” dress among them.
The dresses were short, thongh not so
short as is usual among fair skaters in
America, and they were all free from heav
iness. There stood on the sides of the
rink, looking on, a few ladies dressed
in the “tight” French f&shioD, which is
just beginning to appear among us, but
that fashion was in sharp contrast with
the loose draperies of the skaters. If
the new fashion should become general
over here there will have to be a special
skating costume made for Brighton, for
it is difficult to see how, in the tight
style, any of these young dames could
perform the graceful curves and brave
evolutions which now excite so much
admiration. lam told that the physi
cians declare that for sanitary advan
tages the seaside air aud bath are of
little importance compared with this
new exercise, which is gradually finding
i?s wav to all places of resort.
Tin cun be removed from copper ves
sels very thoroughly by immersing the
1 objects in a solution of blue yitrol.
VOL. 16-NO; 23.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
“Young ladies are growing oolder
and more selfish every day,” said a vet
e ran oynio, “ and how few do we find
now who love a man enongh to hang
around a barber-shop for a lock of his
hair.
When a man mistakes the height
of a chair he is going to occupy by
about an inch and a half, it is remarka
ble the amount cf momentum he will
acquire in making that little distanoe.
He will strike that chair with nearly a a
much force as if he bad sat down in it
from the roof of a two story building.
A cross-eyed man who handed his
ticket to a Chicago street-oar conductor,
?Jie other day, had three holes punched
in it. The conductor thought he
glanced at two ladies at his side. They
were entire strangers, bnt he meekly
forbore to say any thing. It costa
something to be cross-eyed.
Don’t leave wagons, mowing ma
chines, etc., in the weather. It rots
r,he wood and rusts the metal. A shed
built with rough posts and covered with
straw will save many a dollar as a cov
ering for such things. Paint the wood
work of wagons, hay frames, etc., and
tsee that all metallic parts of machinery
are well coated with oil.
I b THE young lady students of the Syra
cuse medical college are very careless.
]Recently three of them purchased the
l>ody of an Auburn convict, and, after
cutting it up, threw the pieces into a
vacant lot, causing immense excitement
in the vicinity, the general opinion be
ing that a diabolical murder had been
committed.
The most perfectly shaped man or
woman is nusymmetrical—- that is to say,
there is a marked unlikeness between
the two sides of the body. The two
sides of the face (which is most seen,
t.nd, therefore, permits of more aocn
iate study) will be found always to ex
hibit considerable differences. Proba
bly no two sides of any human face are
precisely alike. It is the same with
every limb. No pai .of limbs is shaped
f.like. One hand is almost always larger
than the other; so with the foot; so
with the leg and arm.
Last month the building erected
for the poor of London by the trustees
of the Peabody fnnd was opened for
general use. It covers about two and a
half acres, and will accommodate 312
families. The average rent of three
rooms is abont six shillings per week ;
two rooms, three shillings and sixpence,
and one room, two shillings and six
lenoe. In alluding to this movement,
Sir Charles Heed, member of parlia
ment, said they are proving the greatest
success the wrrld has ever known in the
way of beneficial charity.
Ladies are sometimes surprised at
the rapidity with which an apparently
heavy black silk will go to pieces. A
r jeent writer says this is often due to
the fact that it has been “ weighted.”
This process, originally adopted for the
purpose of making npthe loss occasioned
by ungumming, is now earned so far as
sometimes to increase both weight and
balk three-fold. Tfte weight is added
by treatment with salts of iron and as
tiingents, salts of tin ana cyamue, %*<*
nwmlts if* "u yih'rs change both of the
chemical and physical properties or tbo
silk. It is an agglomeration of foreign
natters without cohesion, bums like
tinder, and, worse than all, is said to be
kaown to have absorbed gases until
enough heat was caused to produce
B]>ontaneoas combustion. Ladies should
be on the lookout for snch silks as
these.
Of all the love affairs in the world
none can surpass the true love of a big
boy for his mother. It is a love pure
and noble, honorable in the highest
degree to both. Ido not mean merely
a dutiful affection. 1 mean a love
which makes a boy gallant to his
mother, saying plainly to everybody
that he is fairly in love with her.
Next to the love of her hnsband noth
ing so crowns a woman’s life with
honor as this second love, this devotion
of the son to her. And I never yet
knew a boy to “turn out” badly who
began by falling in love with his
mother. Any man may fall in love
with a fresh-faoe girl, and the man who
if gallant to the girl may cruelly neg
lfot the worn and weary wife. But the
big boy who is a lover of his mother at
middle age is a true knight, who will
love his wife as much in the sere-leaf
of autumn as in the daisied spring.
There is nothing so beautifully chival
rous as the love of a big boy for his
mother. —Beriah Green.
Brigham Young is in good health,
and is doing as much harm as could
reasonably be expected from a person
of his age. He said to his people re
el ntly: “Education renders a boy
worthless. All our congressmen and
governors of states and public officials
are the spawn of free schools. These
men never performed a day’s useful
labor in their lives, and they would be
far more valuable to the community if
they would lay down their robes of
office and go to work in the corn-field.
Would you have your children grow up
maudlin and worthless? I had no
schooling, yet God ohose me for the
most exalted position on earth. Your
cc liege professors and men canning in
all the wisdom of the Egyptians often
want a meal, while I have laid np my
millions, and can buy every congress
man, every editor, and every preacher
in the oountry. Go away to your corn
fields. I am opposed to free schools
and to all legislation in favor of fiee
schools ; and, understand me, although
you come begging to me on yonr knees,
I will not give one dollar to educate
another man’s child.”
The Professions and the Presi-
D3NCY. —The confident prediction by
so old and intelligent a statesman as
Hon. Alexandria H. Stephens that the
next president of the United States will
boa journalist, suggests the inquiry as
to how the different professions have
fared in the past in the distribution of
that honor. A histy review of the list
will be found to result somewhat as
fellows :
Washington, soldier. Tyler, lawyer.
A lame, lawyer. Polk, lawyer.
Ji ffersom, lawyer. Taylor, soldier.
Madison, statesman. lawyer.
Monroe, lawyer. Pierce, lawyer.
J. Q. Adams! lawyer. Buchanan, lawyer,
Jixskson, soldier. Lincoln, lawyer.
Van Boren, lawyer. iJohnson. lawyer.
Harrison, soldier. (Grant, soldier.
it is true that Jackson was a lawyer
an well as a soldier—a judge as well as
a general—but as it was his career as a
fighter that made him president, he is
credited to that profession. So Pierce
was a brigadier-general in the Mexican
war ; but he didn’t distinguish himself
peculiarly as a warrior, so we apply to
b m the correlative of the proposition
list we pp t htftor , e ’•a' I '*
r<l c - >r. f oTT
he studied law, but seems to have been
drawn into public life too soon to make
any progress in the practise-