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W. A. I tUKSl’MAlKj Kdllorsand Proprietors.
Till- DA\KI:R’N IIIAKKN.
O. W. HOICKS.
The Banker's dinner is tho stateliest feast
Tha town has heard of for a year at least.
The starry lustres shed their broadest blaze;
paruask an;l silror catch aDd spread the rays.
The fl'turist’s triumph crown tne daintiest "spoil,
tVon front the sea, tliolbreat, and the soil;
The steaming hot-heuse yields its largest pines ;
The sunless vaults unearth their oldest wines.
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Of all that cMter round the genial board,
>,}t one as the banquet’s lord.
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\„th the merry tale and jovial song,
tY jocund evening whirls itself along,
-nil die last chorus shrieks its loud encore,
And the white neckcloths vanish through the door.
( n savage word, the menials know its tone
And slink away : the master stands alone.
'• Well played, by breathe not what were best
Unheard.
His goblet shivers as he speads the word :
•• If wine tolls truth —and so have said the wise—
It makes me laugh to think lmw bandy lies,
bankrupt to-morrow—millionaire to-day !”
The iavee is over, now begins the play!”
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Hark ! the dec)) oath, the wail of frenzied woe!
j,',st; ] os t to hope of heaven and peace below.
He kept his secret, but the seed of crime
uistsof itself in God’s appointed time.
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The moral market had the usual chills
Of virtue suffering from protested bills.
The white cravats, to friendship’s memory true,
Sighed for the past, surveyed the future, too,
Their sorrow breathed in one expressive line:
“ Gave pleasant dinners; who has got hi* wine?”
IX THE MORMON TABERNACLE.
Tlic Children of llie Saint*--Orson lra(t
liiilrctking tin* Saint*—lll* View* on
5 the Marriage (tiicstion.
salt Lake Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.
You find the Tabernacle to be a large
oblong room 250 feet long by 150 feet wide
with a single, self-sustainging arch roof
*!5 feet high, supported around the sides
by 4(> sand-stone columns. It is capable
of seating 8,000 persons, but having no
heating apparatus, is used only in sum
mer. In one end is the organ, second
in size only to the Boston organ. It is
:m instrument of rare sweetness and power,
built by a Salt Lake saint. The large
choir, of perhaps sixty voices, is placed
immediately around the orgon, and in
front are tiers of seats with chairs and
desks in the center for the superior officers
of the congregation, from the President
down. In front of all is a long table, on
which are placed the bread and water of
the Communion service, which is admin
istered every Sunday, water taking the
place of wine.
5 hi the morning of our attendance, a
children s gathering was held, preparatory
to the observance of the great Mormon
anniversaries, July 24, commemorating
the “Landing of the Pilgrims” on the
sand-bound shores of Salt Lake, twenty
eight years ago. Some 3,000 children, or
more, were present, belonging to the vari
ous ward Sunday-schools, for the purpose
of rehearsing their songs and declama
tions. The delivery of the latter indica
ted the influence of the theater rather
than of the school, the articulation being
generally far from perfect, and the pro
nunciation faulty. The children kept
excellent time and tune. The music and
poetry were up to the machine average
of Sunday-school verse and song. The
latter-day element, of course, was promi
nent, as in the following:
Bless Brigham Young, we children pray,
Thy chosen Twelve, in what they say; "
Thy elders, priests, and teachers, too,
Their labors bl< css in all they do.
We :m> the children of the saints,
< >f t hose, the after days,
When God again has caused to shine
Truth’s bright effulgent rays.
His kingdom he is building up,
To hear unbounded sway,
That Zion may appear in all its glory.
CHORUS.
Hurrah ! hurrah! we’ll help the work along;
’Tis expected the children will perform a noble
part,
In rolling on the kingdom in its glory.
How bright have been parental hopes
About what we shall do
In rolling on Jehovah’s work,
And helping put it through.
We’ll stem the tide of wickedness,
That deluges the world,
That Zion may appear in till its glory.
Chorus—Hurrah, etc.
We're heirs unto the priesthood,
For in it we were lorn;
By naught but vilest actions
Can we be of it shorn.
We’re of the fold of Jesus,
His precious lambs are we,
And ii we are pure-hearted,
His face we soon shall see.
Another hymn, entitled “The Standard
of Zion,’’ was an adaptation of the “IStar
Spangled Banner.”
During the singing our eyes ranged
over the mottoes painted on the panels in
front of the gallery. One of these read—
and it found a striking exemplification in
the scenes before us—“ Utah’s best crop
children.” Other mottoes are: “Our own
mountain home;” “United we stand; divi
ded we fall,” “Heirs of the priesthood;”
"Brigham our leader and friend;” “The
kingdom is ours;” “We thank thee, O
God, for a prophet;” “Our martyred
prophet.” After the service some of our
party had a brief interview with Brigham
Young, who is said to show signs of ad
vancing age and debility, as might he ex
pected of one seventy-four years old.
SERVICE IX THE TABERNACLE.
In the afternoon the regular public ser
vice was held in the tabernacle. In Mor
mondom no one preaches, except as he is
moved by the Holy Ghost. He is un
doubtedly the ablest living exponent of
the theology and morals of the saints. He
is of medium stature, sturdily and some
what heavily built, with a large head,
broad face, ruddy complexion, long white
heard; on the whole, a fair American rep
resentative of the old- time patriarch. He
stands speaking, with a side-long inclina
tion of the head and an upward cast of
the eye, jus though hiking aim at a squir
rel with a shotgun. His voice is strong,
manner ponderous, language plain and
homely, style forcible rather thanelegant,
direct rather than correct. His address
was preceded by singing and a prayer
from another brother, who prayed for the
strangers present, that they might be led
to see things as they are, and to report
ac-cord-ing-ly, with a highly expressive
syllabification and penultimate accentua
tion of the last word.
Brother Orson took for his text Matt,
xjx., 3-9; and after a preliminary state
ment that he had no knowledge of what
fte was about to sav, but that he should
speak as he was directed to speak, an
nounced his theme to be marriage. He
then proceeded to unfold the Mormon
theory of this institution. It would be
neither practicable nor profitable to give
anything like a complete synopsis of this
singular discourse. Suffice it to say, it
"as an elaborate exposition and defence
of spiritual marriage and polygamy. Since
e anostolic age there has been no true
religion in the world, until on April 6,
1830, the church was organized anew hv
special revelation, with its apostles, rev
elators, and prophets, just as the Chris
tian Church was organized at the begin-
ning. There can be no valid marriage
unless celebrated by one specially author
ized by God. All marriages before the
divine revelation [to Joseph Smith] are
invalid. True marriage is for eternity.
Those not properly married cart only be
angels, i. c., ministering servants hereaf
ter. Those truly, i. e., Mormonically,
married shall inherit thrones and be rulers
of celestial kingdoms. Polygamy enlarges
these kingdoms, and so gives man a higher
position in Heaven. Polygamy, more
over, makes provision for the souls of the
departed, who are as yet imprisoned in
Paradise. The men and women of to day
can become baptized and married for the
dead, and so secure their release from
Paradise, and their establishment as gods
or rulers of celestial kingdoms.
And so on for quantity and for quality
a strange medley, by turns forcible and
feeble, shrewd and silly, biblical and blas
phemous, amusing perhaps, but disgust
ing beyond a doubt. And this, I felt, is
Mormonism—fanaticism putrified into a
fraud; religion reduced to the propagation
of the race; solitary Bible texts exagger
ated and perverted into a revelation of
absurdities; and abominations, salvation
by marriage; a Christianity, the corner
stone of which is the sexual relation; a
Mohammedan heaven, seen through a
New Testament perspective with an Old
Testament background.
THE CONGREGATION AND CHOIR.
The large congregation, which must
have numbered nearly 4,000, the men oc
cupying one-half of the house, the women
the other, listened attentively, many of
them admiringly. They seemed to believe
this strange gospel—although how many
of them, or how much of it, it would be
hard to say; time will show.
During the first half of the discourse
the communion elements were adminis
tered to the congregation. The bread
having distributed, Apostle Pratt stop
ped in the midst of his argument, prayer
was offered by one of the brethern in con
secration of the water, which was then
distributed, the speaker resuming his dis
course. The choir closed the service by
singing Mozart’s Twelfth Mass Gloria in
admirable style. Now, at least, one could
worship and believe that after all heaven
may be a place worth going to.
“The Campaign.”
I think the campaign lias opened. I
am no politician myself, but I think so
because a drunken man ran against me
last night, and yelled :
“ Rah for Thompson!”
And he had scarcely staggered out of
sight when another intoxicated individ
ual came running around the corner and
hoarsely inquired :
“ Where’s the reptile that called our
candidate a horse-thief?”
Later in the evening several men halted
in front of my house and thus addressed
me as I slumbered :
“ Come down here, you old gray-headed
heathen, and give us money to buy pow
der !”
1 didn’t go down, and they unhinged
and carried off my gate, and broke down
two shade-trees.
As I said at the start, I don’t keep my
self posted on politics, but I am con
vinced that the campaign has opened;
this is the way, if I remember rightly,
that all campaigns have been opened for
the last fifteen years.
This morning while I was selecting a
roast at the butcher’s, a man with red
eyes and wicked face came up, slapped
me on the hack, and as he twisted around
so as to give me the full force of his tan
yard breath he remarked:
“ Gimme ver hand—less holler lor John
son !”
He seized my hand and shook me
around and continued:
“ I kin lick any human being who says
a word agin Johnson !”
“ Who’s Johnson ?” I asked, for really
I did not remember of ever hearing or
reading of him.
“ Who’s Johnson ?” he echoed, gazing
at me in astonishment and indignation,
“ why, lie’s lived in your own ward for
ten years!”
“ I never met him.”
“ Never did ? Why, lie keeps the big
gest and best saloon in the ward !”
“ Ah!”
He looked at me for a moment in a
puzzled way, not understanding what
“ ah!” meant, and then he pulled off his
coat and exclaimed:
“ See here, maybe you are going to cut
Johnson and vote for Spicer?”
“ Maybe I am.”
“ You are, eh ?” he yelled. “ You are
going to cut Johnson off the reg’lar
ticket and vote for that long-haired Spi
cer?”
A policeman took the man away just
as he was preparing to demonstrate the
freedom of the American ballot-box, and
I got my roast and went into the grocery.
Old Mr. Lovejoy and old Mr. Arnold
happened in at the same time. I knew
they differed in politics, but also knew
that both were good men, and had been
friends for twenty years.
“ Going to lie a hot campaign, I guess,”
remarked Mr. Arnold, as he hunted fora
match to light his pipe.
“ Oh, I dun no,” replied Mr. Lovejoy,
“ I think we’ll scoop you high and dry
without much effort.”
“You will, eh? I’ll wager that you
are the sickest looking man in the county
before snow flies.”
“Guess not,” said Mr. Lovejoy in a
nettled tone; “the people are tired of
being robbed and plundered and bur
dened and roasted at the stake, as it
were, and they are rising in their might
to hurl the villainous party from power.”
“What party do you refer to, sir?”
demanded Mr. Arnold.
“Yours, sir,” replied Mr. Lovejoy.
“ Then, sir, you are a dotard and a
liar!” shouted Mr. Arnold.
“And I’ll knock you down!” cried
Air. Lovejoy; and they struck and
kicked and fell over a barrel, and were
separated only to vow eternal enmity.
From now until the campaign is over
I shall see such things every day. As I
come home men will demand money of
me to drink the health of this or that
candidate; men will seize me and rush
me into a saloon, and oblige me to swal
low some villainous drink to show that
I favor their candidate; men will throw
brickbats :it me if I come up a back
street to avoid them. If I rule on a
street car I shall hear men abuse and
malign every candidate on my party
ticket; if I ride in the omnibus I shall
hear men relate villainous lies about
every candidate on the other ticket.
CARTERS VJLLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1575.
The chances are that my butcher and
grocer and tailor will fall out with me
because 1 refuse to hurrah for their can
didates, or because 1 can’t see that Saun
ders is a liar, hypocrite, horse-thief, burg
lar and jail breaker, while Morton has to
wear an overcoat to hide his angelic
wings.
During the day I shall hear all these
things down town, and when 1 come
home to rest, and just as I am enjoyim
my first nap, someone will ring niv’bell
and want to know if I am on this or that
ward or city committee. In leas than
lialt an hour someone voting the other
ticket will heave a rock against the door
irom across the street to remind me of
the error. of may ways. At midnight
parties will come alone and hurrah for
someone, and at daylight, the man who
has been “laying wires” all night will
wink at me as he goes along home. If I
take any part in this campaign I must
fold tickets and lay plans on Sundays,
remain up the most of every night,
drink with every man who asks me,
treat every loafer encountered, lie about
men whose characters are above reproach,
and praise men who are not fit to asso
ciate with heathens.
I sometimes think that I won’t have
anything to do with politics.
Household Hints.
If you have been picking or handling
any acid fruit, and have stained your
hands, wash them in clear water, wipe
them lightly, and while they are yet
moist strike a match and shut your
hands around it so as to catch the smoke,
and the stains will disappear. If you
have stained your muslin or gingham
dress, or your white pants with berries,
before wetting with anything else pour
boiling water through the stains, and they
will disappear. Before fruit juice dries
it can often be removed by cold water,
using a sponge and towel if necessary.
Rubbing ’the fingers with the inside of
parings of apples will remove most of
the stain caused by paring.
Tubs and pails saturated with glycer
ine will not shrink and dry up, the hoops
will not fall off, and there will be no ne
cessity for keeping these articles soaked.
Butter tubs keep fresh and sweet, and
can be used a second time.
To clean and restore the elasticity of
cane-chair bottoms: Turn the chair
bottom upward and with hot water and
a sponge w&sh the cane; work well, so
that it is well soaked ; should it be dirty,
use soap, let it dry well in the air, and it
will be as tight and firm as new, pro
vided none of the canes are broken.
Match mats can be made of ordinary
sandpaper, cut in circular and octagonal
shapes, fastened upon pasteboard and
bound with bright-colored braids, a ring
attached to each, and the whole hung
near the match-safe for use whenever a
match is lighted. The unsightly marks
that disfigure many walls may by this
inexpensive and simple arrangement be
entirely prevented. There should be one
in. everv room in the house.
Tricks of Speech.
Nothing is easier to acquire, nothing
more difficult to lose, than a trick of
speech and manner; and nothing is more
universal. If we look round among our
friends and acquaintances we shall find
scarcely one who has not his favorite
word, his perpetual formula, his auto
matic action, his unmeaning gestures —
all tricks caught probably when young,
and, by not being corrected then, next to
impossible to abolish now. Who does
not know the familiar “I say” as the
preface to every remark? —and the still
more familiar “you know” as the middle
term of every sentence? Who, too, in
these latter times, hos not suffered from
the affliction of “awful” and “jolly”
milestones in the path of speech inter
spersed with even uglier and more obtru
sive signs of folly and corrupt diction —
milestones that are forever turning up,
showing the successive distances to which
good taste and refinement have receded
in this hideous race after slang to which
our youth is given. Then there are the
people who perpetuate ejaculations; who
say “Goodness!” as a mark of surprise,
and “ Good gracious!” when surprise is si
little mixed with reprobation; lower in
the social scale it is “My word!” “ Pa
tience!” “Did I ever!” and indifferently
to all stations, “ You don’t say so!” or in
a voice ofdeprecation, “ No!” and “Surely
not!” To judge by voice and word,
these ejaculatory people are always in a
state of surprise. They go through the
world in unending astonishment; and
their appeals to their goodness and that
indeterminate quantity called good gra
cious lire incessant. In the generation
that died with the fourth George the
favorite ejaculations were “By Jove!”
and “By George!” with excursions into
the region of “Gad!” and “By jingo!”
Before then we had the bluff and lusty
squires who rejoiced in “ Odsbodikins”
and “Zounds,” with other strange and
uncouth oaths that were not meant to
offend the hearers, but were simply tricks
of speech caught by the speakers. So,
indeed, is the habit of swearing and using
bad words generally. It is emphatically
a habit, a trick of speech, meaning for
the most part no more than the “ Good
ness!” and “Fatience!” of the milder
folly.
It occurred in Oshkosh. “ Will you
do it?” she said, twisting one end of the
strap around her hand and fetching him
a “stinger” across the shoulders with
the other. He squirmed and looked
frantically at the keyhole of the door, as
if he could crawl through it. “ Will
you do it?” she said, aiming two or
three at the calves of his legs, while he
skipped around like a great north
western grasshopper with the jim-gams.
“ Will you do it?” she repeated, con
centrating her energies for a terrific
swoop, and dealing him a blinder over
the eyebrows that made the cold per
spiration start out of every pore in his
body. “I will!” he roared in agony;
and they were married.
For some time past cotton cleverly
treated by chemical and other proceases
has been woven into goods which have all
the appearance of silks, and which are
sold as such, so perfect is their resem
blance to the genuine article. An imita
tion of merino is also made from cotton
and extensively sold.
A Bostox paper calls for two separate
Heaven* —one for the good and the othir
for the fair to medium. Oh, pshaw !
Less all go in together-
A Real Indian •Romauee.
The Louisville Courier-Journal tells
this torv : Between Clarksville, Tenn..
and EdJyville, Ky., on the Cumberland
river, there is a cavern which can only
he entered by diving into the water, and
which lias no other light than that re
flected from the bottom of the river. It
was accidentally discovered by a young
Indian chief, while one day diving for
Us gun, which he had dropped from his
canoe into the river. The Indian youth
who L Y-overed it, for along time kept
the secret to himself, and would often
resort to it in his lonely hours, where, by
the aid of hi - flint and a piece of dry
wood, he would kindle a fire and enjoy
himself in looking at the magnificence of
the scene as the light reflected back mil
lions of beams from the numerous stalag
mites and stalactites of gigantic size and
fantastic forms. The cave was about
fifty feet wide, and about the same in
height. In the course of time this young
son of the forest became enamored with
a beautiful daughter of one of the back
woodsmen in the settlement. The young
chiefs name was Wallahalla and the girl’s
name was Agnes Robertson. In those
days the daughters of the backwoodsmen
could swim, ride, and handle a gun with
all the dexterity and skill of their fathers
and brothers. Arriving at the place the
lover disappeared beneath the surface of
the water and the maiden quickly fol
lowed him. Here he informed her she
must remain as his prisoner until he
gained the consent of her parents to their
union. Wallahalla then departed to re
turn soon after with dried venison and
such articles as were necessary for her
comfort. Returning to the settlement,
Wallahalla found that the place had been
attacked by the foe and the village burnt
to the ground. The parents of Agnes
mourned her as dead, or lingering in a
eaptivitv to which 'death would be far
preferable. The young chief was loudest
in his lamentations over the lost girl, and
at the war dance of his trifle swore the
direst vengeance against her captors. All
the male portion of the settlement,
together with the friendly tribe to which
the young chief Wallahalla* belonged,
started in pursuit of the foe to rescue the
girl. After a long and tedious march
they came upon the enemy in the neigh
borhood of where Metropolis city, 111.,
now stands. A furious battle was fought,
in which the attacking party, headed by
young Wallahalla, dealt death and de
struction to their foe until the ammuni
tion was exhausted. At this moment
the enemy was reinforced, and the attack
ing party was compelled to retire across
the Ohio. The father of Agnes Robert
son was almost crazed with grief at the
loss of his beloved daughter. In his great
agony he published to the troops the fol
lowing announcement:
“I, Andrew Robertson, will give to
the rescuer of my daughter from the
hands of the lowas her hand in marriage,
1,000 acres of land, 100 head of cattle
and horses, 100 pounds of powder, and
two rifles.” Andrew Rebertson.
Twenty men, warriors and riflemen,
among them Wallahalla, stepped forward
and tendered their services. The girl
herself was a fortune to any man. The
parent and his trusty friends, with the
exception of those who were to go in
pursuit of the lowas in search of Agnes
Robertson, returned to the settlement on
Little river, near the place now known
as Cadiz, in Trigg county, Ky., to rebuild
tlier huts and the stockade which the In
dians had destroyed. Wallahalla separ
ated himself from both parties, and by ji
circuitous route wended his way to the
cavern in search of his beloved Agnes,
whom he found in almost a starving con
dition. The full moon shone forth in all
its splendor on the night of the 25th of
May as they rose to the surface of the
water and entered their canoe to return
to the arms of the lovely Agne’s parents,
and receive the reward and a blessing.
Their advent into the settlement on the
following morning was an occasion for
great rejoicing. Feasting and dancing
were the order for several weeks, and the
young chief Wallahalla was the toast of
the country for miles around. He was
the recipient of presents of land, horses,
cattle, skins, etc., to a larger extent than
any man living since the foundation of
the world. Of the nineteen men who
stepped forward to offer their services to
Andrew Robertson, not one returned to
give in his experience, and the general
impression existed at that time that they
were either tomahawked or burnt at the
stake. Wallahalla married and changed
his name to Robertson. Many of his
descendants lived in the neighborhood of
what is now known as Crittenden county
and Trigg county, Ky., till about the
year 1818, when (hey removed to Eastern
Georgia.
How to Harvest Castor Beans.
The Rural World says: As soon as the
spikes begin to hurst open they must he
cut off and thrown into boxes, and hauled
to the popping-out place. The manner
of gathering is to make a sleigh that will
pass between the rows, having a box that
will hold ten bushels, that being a load
for an ordinary horse. One horse at
tached to a sled on which a dry goods
box is placed will answer. For twenty
acres, three sleds, made of 2x6 stuff,
wide enough to hold the largest sized
dry goods box, will suffice.
Care should he taken to gather up
those that have popped out before a rain,
as rain blackens them, and they will not
sell as well. To prepare a place for them
to pop out, select a clean, smooth, hard
place on the prairie, sloping enough to
cause rainwater to flow off freely, so that
none will stand or lie dead; take sharp
hoes and scalp off smooth all the grass on
a space say 100 by 80 feet, for twenty
acres. This should be swept off clean,
leaving a level surface of hard ground.
Then deposit your spikes, leaving a bor
der uncovered of at least twenty feet all
around, to catch those beans that jump
outward when opening under a hot sun.
About the second or third day they
should be turned, to bring those at the
bottom to the top. A steel garden rake
is the best implement to use. About
the fourth or fifth day they are nearly
all out of the burs, and the haulm or
straw, then greatly diminished in bulk,
should he pitched on a pile to give them
time for stragglers to leave it, and the
beans being set free are found in the bot
tom of the debris, can easily he raked
clear of empty burs, and taken away
preparatory to fanning. Any good fan
ning machine will clean them, and when
the vard is clean and solid very little
eartli will go with them.
After the beans begin to rijien the
field should be gone over once or twice a
week till frost. In hot, dry weather
they ripen more rapidly than in cool,
wet weather. Children can jierform this
work, and a large family of children can
not be more profitably employed than in
taking care of a crop of castor beans.
The work is all light. With a steady
horse children may do all the work.
THE MISSISSIPPI’S MOUTH.
(•‘iioral Belief of the Knjfiiieer* In tle
('apt. IMan*.
The Board of Engineers convened by
Capt. Eads, with the approval of the
President, for the purpose of considering
his plans for the construction of a system
of jetties at the South Pass of the Missis
sippi river, resumed its session yesterday
morning at the Fifth avenue hotel.
Though the details of the plan upon
which the jetties are to he constructed
were fully examined and discussed, no
action was taken except to recommend
that the mattresses he laid in the river
out to the depth of thirty feet of water.
Mr. Whitcomb, secretary of the tjoard,
stated yesterday that very little doubt
was entertained of the success of Capt.
Ead’s plan. Unless the construction of
the jetties, he said, should develop some
action of the waters in the river above
and in the gulf, which can not be fore
seen or calculated on, the jetty system
will attain all that is neccessary to make
the river navigable at its mouth. No
engineer, who has given the subject the
slightest consideration, entertains any
doubt that by confining the river lie
tween artificial walls the force of the
currents thus produced will deepen the
channel. The experience derived from
other works of a similar character has
satisfactorily settled this point. The
chief difficulties that lay in the way of
the jetty system are supposed to exits in
the construction of works having suf
ficient stability to withstand the action
of the current of the river within and of
the tides and gulf currents from without,
and at the same time preventing the form
ation of anew bar within too/hort a
period. It is now generally addmitted
by the present board of engineers that
Capt. Eads has obviated these difficul
ties. Some members of the hoard believe
that it will require over a century to
form anew bar, while others, who do not
think it will take so long, believe for at
least twenty years the mouth of the river
will he kept free from obstruction by the
works now in progress. It is also the
opinion of all the members of the com
mission that the mattress system of build
ing up the jetties will be successful. —
New York Tribune.
The Turning' Tide.
Tt is noted as a significant fact that the
southern and western merchants now
crowding into New York for fall pur
chases, almost universally take a more
favorable view of affairs than they find
existing in that city. The United States
Economist says they all report that busi
ness in their districts is active; that the
crops are abundant, and that the plant
ers and farmers are in a more favorable
condition for supplying themselves with
the commodities of which they stand in
so much need. And they afford the best
possible evidence of their views by pur
chasing with a freedom and liberality
that affords assurance of an active trade
just as soon as the crops begin to move
forward freely. An impression also lie
gins to prevail that the less favorable con
dition of affairs in the northern manu
facturing states is more apparent than
real. When the crops in the other parts
of the country begin to move forward,
orders will pour into the factories from
all parts of the country to supply the
demand for agricultural utensils, cloth
ing, and household goods generally. The
manufacturers as a rule were never in a
better position to take advantage of any
improvement that may take place in bus
iness. In this connection the following
remarks of the Economist indicates that
northern manufacturers liegin to realize
that “ protection ” is not without its
drawbacks:
It is a significant fact that the chief
complaints of bad business come from
what are known as “the protected in
dustries,” those which enjoyed the high
est bounty of the government now mak
ing the most complaints, and in fact suf
fering most severely. This is especially
the case with the iron trade, which has
been benefited to the amount of scores
of millions of dollars a year by federal
legislation. It exhibits least vitality and
energy.— Nashville American.
Darwin on Consanguineous Marriages.
In a letter to the London Academy,
George Darwin, son of the great scientist,
says:
My father has now been carrying on
experiments for about nine years on the
crossing of plants, and his results appear
to him absolutely conclusive as to the
advantages of cross fertilization to plants;
although as the investigation is as yet
unpublished, Mr. Huth, of course, could
not Ik? aware of this. Now, all modern
biological research points to the legiti
maey of arguing by analogy between
forms even as distinct as animals and
plants, and accordingly the fair deduction
to be made from this inquiry will be, that
what is good or bad for plants is the same
for mankind and animals. But this
purely scientific point stands rather apart
from what is in fact the main practical
puestion at issue, viz.: Is consanguineous
marriage, to the extent to which it is now
practiced by civilized nations, detri
mental, and is the detriment so great as
to justify legislative interference? Mr.
Huth himself must be forced to admit
that it must be to some extent detri
mental from the multiplication of identi
cal pathological germs, and from the fact
that no man knows with certainty until
towards the end of life what ills may lie
hidden in his edition of the family con
stitution ; but by his work he makes a
good case for the opinion that the evil
seems thus far practically small, and that
legislative interference is so far uncalled
for; and this opinion my own recent in
quiry confirms.
This isn't a good season lor “catches”
at the watering-places, and many nice
girls are willing to take up with fieckled
faced, imapove shed men.
The Latest Fashions.
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A great many trousseaux are made in
September for the weddings that take
place later in the autumn. The new
fabrics for wedding dresses are creamy
white brocaded silks, or else white with
the faintest pink tinge, covered with
brocaded white roses. There are also
verv rich white velvets with blocks and
broken plaids of heavy pile, and also
matelasse velvets with raised leaf and
arabesque patterns. White rose brocaded
silks in cream and in snow tints are $7 a
yard; those with scroll and leaf pattern
are $6. Some of these rich bridal dresses
are made in princesse shape. They are
quite plain as low down as the knee, hut
below this they are richly flounced with
plain gros grain and lace. Others are
made with a long cuirass basque with
sleeves of point lace, or else transparent
sleeves of some kind. The cuirass has a
jabot of lace straight down the back and
down the front. The Lamballe fichu of
lace or of the silk edged with lace trims
other basques. White roses will be much
worn mixed with orange blossoms for
bridal parures. Anew way of arranging
garlands on the tablier is shown in the
engraving on our first page.
ENGLISH WALKING JACKETS.
Double-breasted English walking jack
ets are made in large numbers for fall
and winter wraps. The materials em
ployed are Scotch Cheviots, diagonal
cloths as finely twilled as vigogne, and
other soft wool cloths. The trimmings
are broad Titan braids, loosely woven,
like Panama canvas, and buttons covered
with this braid. Black is the prevailing
color. They cost from sls to $lB.
SILKS.
The novelties in fall silks are now dis
played on counters of retail stores, and
some idea of their prices is obtained.
One of the most tasteiul novelties is natte
silk in loosely-matted tresses woven in
basket checks. This is meant for over
dresses to lie used with velvet or plain
gross grain, and cost $4.50 a yard. It
comes in all the dark stylish shades for
suits, such as myrtle green, prune, seal
brown, slate blue, gray, navy blue and
black. Moyen age brocaded silks or sin
gle color, blue, green or brown, are also
shown for parts of suits. They measure
twenty-four inches and eost $3.50 a yard.
The winter gros grains are exceedingly
soft and of medium fine reps. They are
to be made up in connection with plain
and figured velvets and with natte silks;
hence merchants have imjmrted in shades
to match the handsome novelties just de
scribed. At every large house the an
nouncement is made that myrtle green,
seal brown and slate blue will be the
leading colors. Prices range lower than
those of last season. Dress silks begin as
low as $1.50 a yard, in new colors as well
as black, and increase to $5 or SO. For
$3 and even less can be bought hand
some gros grains for costumes. Trim
ming silks in all the rich park shades are
$1.35 a yard. Striped silks for parts of
costumes, black with a colored stripe,
can lie bought for 75 cents a yard in
qualities that formerly sold for sl.
Hand-woven black silks are highly
commended by reliable merchants. They
are spun and woven entirely by hand
instead of by the powerloom. They are
richly repped lustrous blue-black silks,
very soft and finely finished ; and as this
softness and lustre are in the silk itself,
they are not lost hv usage. They are
imported in four different grades, and
sold for $2, $2.50, $3 and $3.50 a yard.
They are said to wear better than any
other silks. Those at $3 are as rich anil
lustrous as many silks sold for $4 or $5 a
yard.
ENGLISH PRINTS AND CAMBRICS.
English calicoes are in the plaid pat
terns so popular in wool stuffs. They
come in blocks, cross-bars and in bias
plaids as well as m plain ones. Shaded
brown plaids, black barred with violet,
blue barred with black or with white,
and black plaided with gold are the best
patterns. These colors are also shown in
irregular stripes. Price 28 cents. The
soft-finished cambrics imitate twilled
Cheviots, and have diagonal strips and
plaids. Blue, brown and gray are the
prevailing colors. Navy blue grounds
are barred with white in Greek key pat
tern. The slate blues are also pretty.
These goods are a yard wide, and cost
28 cents. They ere being made up with
side-plaited basques, or else with loose
basques. They nave long round over
skirts plainly hemmed, or else bordered
with a stripe of calico. The lower skirt
may also be quite plain, but one gathered
flounce does not detract from the neat
style appropriate for such dresses.
Read Your Country’s History.
In the action of Lundy’s Lane a Colo
nel O’Neil (General, he came tocallhim
self,) got a scratch on his leg. The
wound was a matter of great joy, and he
nursed it through after days,growing lamer
with every year, that the memory of his
bravery might Ik? ever near him. Gradu
ally, from sheer pondering over his stories
he grew to think that the success of the
battle was largely owing to his services.
One day, late in his life, as he sat nurs
ing his leg and pondering over the glories
past, a young man, visiting the family
♦hr the first time, approached and sym
pathetically remarked, “ Lame General?”
“ Yes, sir,” after a pause, with inexpres
sible solemnity, “I am lame.” “Been
riding, sir?,’ “No,” with a rebuking
sternness, “I have not been riding.’’
“Ah! slipjx'd on the ice, General, and
hurt your leg?” “No, sir,” with actual
ferocity. “Perhaps you have sprained
your ankle, sir?” With a painful slow
ness the old man lifted his pet leg in
both hands, set it carefully on the floor,
rose slowly from his chair, and looking
down upon the unfortunate youth with a
stare of mingled wonder, pity and wrath,
burst forth in the sumlimity of rage,
“Go read the history of your country,
you puppy!”
Figures tell us that-agriculture is the
leading interest in the country; that
forty-five per cent, of our population are
engaged in agricultural pursuits—more
than one-half larger than those who are
engaged in manufactures and the leading
trades; more than four times larger than
those engaged in merchandise, and nearly
ten times larger than those engaged in
he professions.
Prof. Tyndall now takes the ground
that Ham was an Indian instead of a
negro. Anybody can take any ground
he wants to these'days.
VOL. 16--NO. 40.
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
Fifteen thousand dollars is thy con
tract price for the new bronze statu®
which the city of Providence is about
erecting to Roger Williams.
There is a Maine man who has pre
served a document emanating from a
justice of the peace, to this effect:
“Hancock, ss. Novr 11th 1809. Then
personally appeared Ibrook Eddy of Ed
dington, and acknowledged myself guilty
of having uttered two profane oaths on
this day, and has paid a fine for th®
same as the law directs to me.”
It is the London Telegraph which
f>uts forth this slander upon American
>abies: “ The transatlantic infant has a
peculiar mode of crying in a series of
sharp, spasmodic yelpc, very different
from the soetenuto howl of the British
bantling, and with intonation as though
it were prematurely striving to recite
the Declaration of Independence with
its mouth full of peanuts and pop-corn.”
There is a megatherium in the Detroit
Museum. Its stomach must have been
about the size of a beer-vat, and a cor
respondent of the Graphic dosen’t under
stand how it could possibly have satis
fied itself with ants. Unscientific minds
are always criticizing everything that
they do not comprehend. Undoubtedly
the megatherium used to spell his ants
with a“u” and found it very easy to
live on them.
A man of kindly nature is apt to pro
vide for the comfortable old age of a
horse that has long carried him, and
would be grieved to sell such an animal
to a poor master for mean work and mis
erable treatment. Poverty may force
consent; but a certain gratitude is felt
for old and faithful service; still more
where there is personal affection, as in a
dog. But when there is no personal re
lation it would seem that our rights over
animal life are increased by certain do
mesticity. If bv defending sheep we
cause their numiters to increase, our
right to take the lives which would not
have existed without your cares appear*
greater than in the case ot wild animals
wholly independent of.
France Learning to Sfoot. —Th*
international rifle matches of England,
America, Switzerland and Belgium have
at last roused France to a perception of
the importance of reviving and extending
among Frenchmen the knowledge and use
of arms. The French Societe au Tir, or
shooting club, which meets in the house
of the Club des Officers, in the Rue de
Bellechasse, at Paris, is now organizing
shooting-matches for Franee on the prin
ciple of those which have long been so
popular in Switzerland and in Belgium.
One great source of the inefficiency of the
vast but hasty levies made by France
after Sedan in the late terrible war was
the absolute ignorance of the use of fire
arms which prevailed to an incredible ex
tent among the new recruits, both from
the cities and from the rural districts.
A Famous Armorer. —Andre de Far
rara was the most famous armorer of
modern times. He first came into note
in the Highlands of Scotland. It is said
he was the only person who could forge
armor that would resist the Sheffield ar
row heads, or make swords that would
vie with tne best w-eapons of Toledo and
Milan. He is supposed to have learned
his art in the Italian city whence he was
called, to have, practiced it in secrecy
among the Highland hills, as his genuine
blades were all marked with a crown.
Before his time no man in Great Britain
could temper a sword in such a way that
the point should touch the hilt and spring
back uninjured. He is said to have
worked in a dark cellar, the better to en
able him to perceive the effect of the heat
upon the metal, and to watch the nicety
ot the tempering, as well as possibly to
serve as a screen to his secret method of
working. Many of his blades, with new
basket hilts, are to l>e found in the Scot
tish regiments of the present day.
The Smugglers of Upper-tendom.—
Last week the new and stringent regula
tions adopted by the Treasury Depart
ment for the examination of the baggage
of passengers arriving at Atlantic port*
went into effect. Every article in every
trunk and box is taken out and over
hauled. Miss Flora McFlimsey, and all
the other McFlimsevs, are required to
make oath as to the foreign market value
of each article. The custom-house offi
cers then attach the amount of duty to
the items in the list. The examination
is very strict, and the disgust of both
ladies and gentlemen, especially the for
mer, at the vulgar exhibition and ap
praisement of their finery, is said to be
something ludicrous. .Sometime® passen
gers are compelled to pay from SSOO to
several thousand dollars duty. Of course,
this is all according to law, but a great
government which resorts to expedients
of this kind cannot be complimented on
its fiscal simplicity. But it is chiefly to
the class of persons who now feel the ter
ror of the screw, that the existence pf the
present odious tariff is due, and if they
now complain they will receive little
sympathy.
A Colossal Image. —ln a “Jaunt in
Japan,” by Mr. Bassett, of the United
States Navy, we find the following ac
count of a statue of Buddha: Threading
the narrow streets our guide led us up a
deep wooded ravine by a broad, leafy path.
Suddenly there burst upon our view one
of the most remarkable works of man that
it has been my fortune to see. Securely
embowered in the tall trees, in sight of
the waves of the Pacific, is erected an
enormous statue in bronze of Buddha, the
Japanese divinity. It is in a sitting pos
ture, with the arms resting in the lap in
front, and is fifty feet in height from the
stone platform, to which a flight of nine
stone steps leads. Around the head are
rows of enormous cockle-shells, exempli
fving the tradition that these animals
sheltered the divinity from the heat of
the sun. As an art expression of the
ideal, the execution is wonderful. The
typical state of eomple rest and contem
plation, which all good Buddhists hope
to attain, is well suggested in the majes
tic repose of this colossal statue. Of all
the wonderful works of this curious peo
ple, this is the most remarkable. To get
an idea of its comparative size, we climbed
the front of the image and stood in the
palms of the hands. The tallest of our
party was hardly longer than the thumb
of the hand exposed to view! From this
station we could see the bay four mile
awav.