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a. ;n arscihlk i J „ W. A. ittAKAIULK,/ Editors and Prprie t#rw , PROM ALL-SOURCES. 1 * ari’enter, in discussing tiie nb-<ovHti<m.s made by thr American vessel th* in the deep sous between the l ruled Scales and Japan, infers the general want t that sub-surfEtee stratum of above 40° l which, in the north Atlantic, with the same or vet higher parallels, has a thickness .i it least five hundred fathoms. The true e iuse of this peculiarity is that the north l'neifie derives its deep stratum of glacial wa ter. which nearly fills its basin, from the polar arc vof the opposite hemisphere, the inlet at B bring straits being too narrow and too • hallow to admit n flow of water of any appre ciable importance. This northward* flow of flic water from the equator must have, as its complement, a movement of the superficial stratum front the northernmost limit of this flow toward the equator, and thence toward the southern pole. The glacial current when it reaches the north Pacific comes nearer the surface than it does in the Southern ocean, even in the higher latitudes; and this, modi fying still further the reflux surface flow to ward the equator, appears to account for the well-known indie ration of the climate of the Sandwich Islands, though they lie within the tropic of Cancer. The principal time-piece of the Paris observatory is located in the catacombs so as mbe free from the disturbing influence’of all vibrations, and by it arc regulated all the numerous dorks employed in the observato ry. It is described as an instrument of such envision that it scarcely varies to the extent < i one second in a twelvemonth. A proposi tion, it appears, ha-v just been made by M. vorrier, the director of the observatory, to ular • all the public clocks throughout Paris u dio’vi connection w ith this time-piece. He proposes to lay a telegraph wire which shall connect the ivgulator of the observatory with ?!n clock of the Luxembourg palace, now used for the prefecture of the Seine and the municipal council; and that time-keeper in mm, it is proposed, shall be put in electrical . omimiuication with those at the Bourse, Palace de dnsfiee, mairies of all the arron bissements of the city, churches and other pubi*c buildings. iuic salmon trade on the ColumMa river during the season of IS,’a has been one oi remarkable prosperity the unfavorable in dications at the outset not having been eon ’ min'd. _ Of fourteen canning establishments ■ ri the river, twelve were in opteration, and pm up i all two hundred and sVVvuiiv-iive thvmsjmd cases, each r-asp eonVaihlng* four Mown one-pound asts. A large quantity of hs.i tins also been packed In tierces and hai'- v<ds the weighted which has not lew, given \n important addition has WtSVi made to the oMiai treat ment of these fish in the utilization • u the heads forth? purpose of extracting the ”1, r)V,Io > too > that the oflal getver a - will all he utilized ultimately for oil and manure. r l'he prices so far realized for thy ’-.dmoTi have been heUer than in 1874, atUount mg to from *1 vjo to $1 35 ]A-r dosyp this vear, as contrasted with $1 Do por dozen last year. I x a, speech delivered a day or two :ig-> in New \ ork, Colonel Frederick a i'onK .ing sanl: “l nquestionably the fsode o[ the Mississippi valley is the greatest Vyinmercial prize that was ever strttgghiii for. Within ’he hie of the child of to-day, there will be a population of one hundred millions of htm!\ ■industrious fremvieu to that valley, find sut-h ,i stream of w ealth as has never teea swu t -1 ore will pour from it to some city fry thy-side of tloi Atlantic.” _ He thiViks 'that Y*iVy she'>Vu be. Lew York. tV> : u if here, ih the jtfihth and w 'St, we are 'wise ahd properly encourage English I'ap.iPd and enterprise to come and develop Phi- noble territory, and help to es tablish diced trade, that city will be a south ern mi?-New Orleans of course —and the whole Mississippi valley will profit, by it. Mr. Henry Lee, in Land and Wa ter, uivt's an interesting account of l*is visit t > the Great Eastern for the iwoqvis,. of ofc tainim; marine animals for the Ilrigtifoft aqua ium from tin* ship’s Wttoni, WhfCh was About he in,it cleaned of a vast ;reeiim illation of or .Jianie matter. The pfim ipalmass of adherent •'distances consisted of mussels, form ft £ r.Vie dense dejuvut coWring a surface „f fifty rhoa-and square feet of iroy plates, and in Mune parts six inches thick. On the basis of an ylmvam’c of twelve pounds of mussels > the square foot, which was considered very •■■■asonable, it was estimated that bo less than 'hive hundred tons were attached—enough ) load two colliery brigs with ftdl cargoes. flic 1 me,-4 smugglers’ trick tit San Frane.seo \v*s the introduction of twenty-five boxes ih (iWe, the interior filled with Havana L r ar> ssiu fine playing cards. Among recent ■'(‘irc.fcs were Sf> boxes invoiced as oil, but ''outlining 520,000 worth of opium, :>n<l a *j (, ‘ iitity of ale barrels containing st>,9.o vorth. Opium is otherwise introduced by concealing it in false bottoms of Coflfce ket tles, used ou the voyage, in tinner’s pots which are brought ashore on the backs of passenjrers, and in old pieces of timber, h* vhieh pieces are cut just large e*o*i<h to hold ii vc-t;!c! cans of opium. Another mode n ts to have the boxes fitted o.vohnd the calf "f n man’s leg, which were tilled with opium. v anada claims to bo tJc third in inportance among the shijKVwning countries ‘i the world. According to a report by the UriUxh government* the do minon, at the end of the year jx74, owned ,; ,93U vessels, measuring t ,158,363 tons. Of these, 634 are steamgrs, 23(j first-class ships, ->b> harks, and the remainder of smaller di mensions. The ship-building trade was dur ing the same year exceedingly good, as vessels 1 1X.5,000 tons) were lit Can ada, <uid rhe other six (7,7iS proceeded to Iv.jdand under a yovyfhor’s pass and v.cro there registeredv fun best method of rendering faded manuscript legible, consists in moistening the paper first with water, and then dipping it in •ii solution of sulpho-liydrate of ammonia. The writing reappears immediately, becoming very distinct, and remaining permanent On parchment. Certain parchments treated this way ten years tigo still maintain their legibil ity. I his result is due to the fact that by the action of sulpho-hydrate of ammonia the iron which outers into the composition of the ink is tr;ir* sforuled into a very black sulphuret. Dangerous counterfeits are in cir vulatioH of the denomination of $3 of the fol lowing banks: The first national bank of Chicago, Ills.; the traders’ national bank of Chicago, Ills.; the first national bank of Paxton, Ills.; the first national bank of Can ton, 111. Nearly the entire amount of genu ine $5 notes of these banks have been with drawn from circulation, and no additional is sues will be made. A Connecticut girl baby came into the world the other day to find her relations -so mixed up that she will never get them straight as long as she lives. Her great grandmother is first cousin to her greatgrand father; her step-grandfather is first cousin to h<r mother; her uncles and aunts are her - aamd cousins, ami her mother is her third cousin. lint of course the poor little thing doesn’t know it yet. The Gardner machine gun, the in vention of Wil iam Gardner, of Hartford, ■vhich.is aid to be much more effective than 'he Gatling, though of similar construction, 'as tested at Hartford last week. The gun •'sed had only two barrels, and weighed 90 pounds, but 40 shots were fired irrtm it in less than five seconds, and, as the number of bar rels can be raised to 2.3, the rapidity of firing 'atn be proportionately increased. The Providence, Tv. I. tool company ’ manufacturing 700,000 stand of arms for die Turkish government, which looks as if dr. Uulul Assiz means business. It is jiossi -1 that a number of unfortunate tax-payers V’dl be fearfully burdened in order to pay tor diene tpnnittnijs. JIM_WOLF. ~O' V he Failed to Cirab (tie Tom Cat* hilt Spoiled a Candy I*,. 11. ’ ISY MARK TWAIN. I knew In- the sympathetic glow ti]>ou hi 4 bald head—l knew bv the thoughtful look upon his face—-I knew b\ tiie eimulonal Hush upon the straW herry on th * end of the old free liver’s nose, that Simon heeler’s memory was busy with the olden times. And •so I prepared to leave, because all tnese were reminiscences—hilt I war too slow; he got the start of me. As nearly as 1 can recollect, the infliction was couched in the following language; “We were all boys then and 'didn’t care for nothing, and didn’t have no trouble, and didn’t worry about noth mg only to shirk school and keep up a levivjn state of devilment till the time. This yah Jim Wolf 1 was talk ing ’bout was the ’prentice, and he was the best hearted feller* he was, and the most forgivin’ an onselfish I ever see—well, there couldn’t he a more bullier lx>y than lie was* take him how }°u would, and sorry enough was I when I saw him for the l ist time-. Me and Henrv was always pestering him and plastering- horse hills on his back and putting bumble bees in his bed, and so on, and sometimes we’d crowd in bunk with him not’thstand ing his growling, and then we’d let on to get niad and fight across him, so as to keep him stirred up like. He was nineteen, he was, and long, and lank, and bashful and we was fifteen and sixteen, and tolerably lazy and worth less-. . So, that night you know* that my sister Mary gave a candy'pullin', they started us on to bed early, so as the company could have full swing-, and we run in on Jim to have some fun. Our winder looked out onto the roof of the ell, and about 10 o’clock a pair of old tom cats got to rtirin’ and Charg in’ around it and carrying on like sin. 1 here was lour hiehes of snow on the iwof* find it was frozen so that there was a right smart crust of ice on it, and the moon was shining bright,, and we could see them cats like daylight. First they’d stand ofh and e-vow yow vowi just the same as if they was a cus- one another, you know, and bow up their hacks and push lip their tails' and swell around and spit, and then all. of a sudden the grey cat he’d snatch a handful of fur out of the vidlo fat’-- klllll - iUiil -jjxiA Iki -4 like IX ysp ;Vt> burn door. But the yaller cat was game, and he’d come and clinch, and the way they’d gouge, and bite and howl, and the way they’d make the fur flv, was powerful. Well, Jim, he got disgusted with the row, and ’lowed he’d climb out there and shake him cfi’ii that roof. He hadn't reek’ no notion of doin’it, likely Ivut we everlasfrin’lv dogged him, and bully-ragged him, and ’lowed he’d al ways bragged how lie wouldn’t take a daxe, and so on, till bunchy he highsted up the winder, and bv flu A behold you, he went—=Went exactly as lie was, nothing on hut a shirt, and it was short, hut you ought to see hint. You ought to see him cre-e-pin’ over that ice. and diggin’ hu toe-nails and finger-nails in to keej) from slippin’; and hove all, you ought to seen that shirt-tailflappin’ in the wind, and them long, rtdicku lous shanks of his glistenin’ in the moon-light. Them Company folks was down there under them eaves, and the \vh<dp*t“,Uad of ’em under that ovnel'V shed of old Washin’ton lb AVer vines—al l sett’in round fioout two dozen sassers f hot Candy, which they’d sot in the snow to Cool. And they was talkin’ and laugh in’ lively; hut bless you, they didn’t know nothing’ ’bout the par/mama that was goin’ On c-vfii their heads. Well JirAi !\e went a-snea-kin up, tinbe knowns to them tom cats —they was a switehin’ their tails and yONYvowin’ and threatenin’ to HiiVeli, you know, and not payin' liny attention —he went a di-Vi if right up to the comb of the roof, till he was in a foot’ll half of’em, and then all of a sudden he made grab for the yaller cat! Hitt hv gosh he missed fire and slipped his holt abd hts heels flew up and he flopped on liis hack, and shot OffTi that roof like a dart?—wellt a slashin’ and a crashin’ ■ down thro’ them old rusty vines, and landed right in the centre of them comp’ny people! —sot down like a yearthquake in them two dozen sassers of red-hot candy, and let off a howl that was hark fm the tomb! Thertl gals —well, they looked, you know. They see he wasn’t dressed for comp’ny, and so they left. All done in a second, it was just one little war-whoop and a whish! of their dresses, and blame the wench of ’em was in sight anywhere! Jim lie was ti sight. Hewasgormed with that billin’ hot molasses candy clean down to his heels, and had more busted sassers hangin’ to him than if he was an Injun princess—and he come a prancin’ up stairs just a-whoopin’ and cussin,’ and every jump he gave he shed some china and every squirm he fetched he dropped some candy! And blistered! Why bless your soul, that poor cretur couldn’t reelyset down comfortable for as much as lour weeks.” In olden times it was the fashion fer a suitor to go down on his knees to a la-ly when he asked her to become his wife, which, with very stout gentlemen was an uncomfortable proceeding. The way in which Daniel Webster proposed to Miss Fletcher was more modern, being at the same time neat polite. Like many other lover, he was caught holding a skein of thread or wool which the lady had been un- CARTERS\ ILLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1. 1575. ravelling. “Grace,” said he, “we have been untying knots. Let us see if we can not tie one which will not untie in a life-time," With a piece of tape he fashioned half a true lover’s knot. Miss Fletcher perfected it and a kiss put the seal to the symbolical bargain. ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS. A Single YearN Pi unurtion of (lie Mines of America. I he year 1876 will rank as an event ful one in American mining, Whether in the line of new and rich discoveries, increased yield from old ones, or better me..tods of taking out and reducing ores, it is equally a year of great pro- K ress ; The yield of precious metals in tiie l nited States, which has for some time fluctuated from $(>0,000,000 to $70,000*000 per veal', will ill 1870 ag gregate very nearly $100,000,000. It F claimed also by those who have giv en the subject most attention that the yield in actual cash lets been greater to the number of men employed, and the average per cent, of profit higher, in mining than in any branch of manu facturing or commerce. Since the pan ic of 1873 mining seems to have passed entirely from the domain of speculative investment and become a systematized business, in which money is made by the same management and nice atten tion to details as in manufacturing. Perhaps the greatest progress has been made in the reduction of “rebel lious” ores, notably those of Colorado. For instance, in Griffith district, in that territory, the first ores produced had to lie sent abroad, frir reduction, mostly to SwailsCtfi M Elies; but some even to Germany. As late as 1867 the mills which first succeeded in treating the ores of that vicinity charged SIOO per ton for reducing, and did not claim to exact more than si sty per Cent, of the silver contained in the ores, as shown by fire assay. Under this sys .tem only the richest ores could be profitably mined, and many of the mines now most valuable necessarily were abandoned for the time. Succes sive improvements have been made un til now the average ores of that country are reduced at a charge to the miner of but SBO per ton, and the freest ores for $25. According to the prevailing sys tem the mill owners deduct the cost and pav the Lninc.r fCr the remainder. Thus ore vielUiiig 100 . . ~ ton is worth .1 the mill S7O, the re mainder being retained as toll. Obvi ously even at this reduced rate ores cannot profitably be mined which yield leas than fifty ounces per ton, as the margin above thirty is nearly consumed in mining and transporting. Children's Rights; The first right dt‘ every child is to he well born; and by this I mean that it has a right to the best conditions, phys ical, mental and moral, that it is in the power of the parents to secure. With out this the child is defrauded of his rights at the outset, and his life can hardly fail of being a painful protest against broken laws. Centuries of prep aration fitted the earth for man’s oc cupancy-, hinting thus the grandeur ol hf destiny* and suggested that in an event of such magnitude as the incar nating of a stud s provision should be exert'LOu, and all the best conditions secured in aid Of, a barntopunis and happy result. On<M health, good habits-, Sound mentality and reverent love should form the basis of every new life that is involved. The mother who giver- herself up to morbid fancies, who considers her health an excuse for petulance and non-exercisc of self-con trol, proves herself unworthy of the holy office of mother, and ought not to lie surprised if she reap at a later day the bitterest harvest of her unwise sowing* second in importance to none, as the means of securing the happi ness and best good of childhood and youth, is the right to be taught obedi ence. It is easy to submit to what we know is inevitable, and tn the little child the requirement of the patent should he the law without appeal. The ten der, miniature being, shut in by the unknown, where every relation is a mystery and every advance an experi ment, has a right to find itself every where sustained and directed by the parent. It should not be tempted to resistance by laws that are imperfectly enforced, nor subjected to the injuri ous friction of discussion b.v having a long list,of reasons fir every require ment. The habit of obedience to the parents may be formed before the child is two years old, and this is a necessary precedent of obedience to law, the next stage of true development. The child has a right to ask questions and to be fairly answered; not to be snubbed as if he were guilty of an impertinence, nor ignored as though his desire for in formation were of no consequence, nor misled as if it did not signify whether true or false impression were made upon his mind. He has a right to be taught everything which he desires to learn, and so be made certain, when any axked-for information i- withheld, that it is only deferred until he is older and better prepared to receive it. Answering a child’s question is sowing the seeds of its future character.— 1 Victoria Marfazinr. A wealthy New Yorker in Long Island stopped a man who was driving a spanking team along the road and inquired whether the outfit was for sale. “Yes,” said the driver. “What L the price?” “Fifty-six thousand dollars,” was the reply. The New Yorker thought he wouldn’t buy, The horses were Lulu and Finely Guhkliay, and the driver was Charley Green, A MINISTER’S FALL. A Painful Sn nt* an<l a Touching Confes sion. In the Maroa (111,) News of the 25th of September, is an account of the res ignation _ of Elder J. V. Beekman as pastor of the Christian church of that village. For some time past the rev erend gentleman’s habits have been such as to cause great grief to his friends and bring reproach upon the church. At the close of the sermon which was preached by a neighboring pastor, El der Beekman made the following ad dress, which we give as a warning to all men, both young and old, to avoid the sin and shame which have come upon this man: Asa man I have the highest concep tion as to what the life and character of a minister of the Gospel should be. 1 know that lie should lead a consistent and an upright life, that can be looked to by the community as an example of purity and righteoilsnessi Knowing that my life has not been such in all respects, I desire to tender to this church, for which I have labored so long, my resignation: You are Mare that t refer to my sin of intemperance. This may be my last opportunity of addressing you, and I want to ask you that you will not charge this great sin to the religion of Christ. It teaches better things. Charge it all to niy own depravity and sinful nature. To you who have not this habit, it is strange that I should thus yield to temptation. I well re member the time when 1 thought it strange tlliil (fillers tirttnk tint! ruined themselves with alcohol. I am glad that there sire so many young men here this morning, that I may lift my voice in warning, and beg them to profit by my example: Tint think new that you are strong, and in no danger. 1 well remember the time when I believed the same. Twelve years ago, when I reached forth my inexperienced hand •uid took the intoxicating cup, I thought I was strong; but I developed a habit that now holds me in chains, and in the most awfjil shivery that, bjinlanity was ever subjected to. It Holds nie in its embrace when I seek my bed for re pose; it disturbs my dreams during the weary hours of the night, and seizes me as its prey when I rise up in the morning to enter upon ilie duties of Profit, oh! profit by my example, see what it has done for me. There was a time when l stood as fair as any minister of the church in Illinois; there was a time when l had ns bright pros pects and as cheering hopes for the future as any qf niy classmates- But now tliej’ tire ail gdne befafise (J intem perance. O! that I could bring the whole world to hear my warning voice. Young ladies, vqil can, do much to re move this curse fluid tiie wdrld by not countenancing its use among your com panions. Brethren, I sever my connection with you as your pastor with a sad heart. It would be sad under the most favorable circumstances, but much more so as it is. But 1 shall remain with you in the church, and labor in the Community for a livelilkmd i 1 will Conte td your social meetings and work with you in the Sunday school; and will do what I can to atone fdi ; ilie ifrdiii; sin l Have committed: God knows I do not vt;isfi p) injure his cause. Prav for.ifie that I may yet overcome this besetting sin; I trust I shall be able to conquer. Bat should I go down under the withering influ ence, I ask that you remember me kindly. Whenever you meet me, and under what circumstances; remember there was a time wllcil Vdii WCfe proud of me. But treat me as you may, act toward me as you choose, I beg that you will remember my wife kindly. Do not give her pain and sorrow be cause of my wrong doing. Poor wo man, she hits already suffered enough. I married Dei 5 :! r-WCPt fil'd innocent girl. She lias Been a patient anti a faithful wife. Again, 1 ask that you will kindly remember my wife and children. Fire Under the Smoke. The Daily Graphic has this to say of the late election, in Ohio: The Ohio election has blown most of the smoke front the political field, Hut it leaves the public in a lk ; ttei : condition than before to ascertain exactly how much fire there was underneath and where it is located. Those who im agine that this soft-money agitation is . purely gratuitous, a mischievous inven tion of a few uneasy and malignant politicians, are profoundly mistaken. They represent a large and powerful constituency. When over two hun dred thousand citizens of one of the most intelligent States in the Union vote against contraction and in favor of a greenback currency, it may be safely assumed that there are plausible if not valid reasons for their course. And it is morally certain that an issue which polls thousands of votes more than were cast at previous elections conducted on the old party grounds is not settled by a paltry majority of 5,000. The financial question which was raised in Ohio is a real and vital one, and will agitate the country till it receives an approximate if not a sat isfactory solution in the settled policy of the Government. There is fire under the smoke. The democratic vote in Ohio expresses a profound dissatisfaction on the part of a large body of the people. Aiul it has a solid reason in the continued hard time* which depress trade and lower prices and depreciate values and make everybody feel poor. People out of work and with little to eat, farmers who have no market for their produce, mechanics with nothing to do, manu facturers whose business is at a stand still feel that something is wrong and demand a change of some sort. The constant element in all the democratic speeches was the badness of the times and the necessity of change for their improvement The diagnosis of the disorder may have been all wrong, but the pain was real; the specific may have been quackery, hut the paralysis was there. Then, too, the existing national bank monopoly furnished an unfailing argument tor the greenback orators. Here was a real incongruity in our financial system; a vast privi- lege ?given to capital at tiie expense of the industry and wel fare of the country. The people could see at a glance that there is a manifest injustice in taxing the nation some twenty millions a year for the sake of enabling twelve hundred banks to make from twelve to tweiltv per cent, on th eir money. The proposed substitute for the national bank system may have been idiotic, but the. common sense of the country stH* clearly enough that the system is wrong. With two such solid reasons to back them, and coining within five thousand votes of victory after an excited cam paign, it is not probable that this finan cial agitation will sultside as a passing flurry. The Ohio agitators have thrown a great question into the political arena, and there will he no peace until it is Settled. The next congress might do much to solve the problem were it to set about the business in downright earnest. Prehistoric Handicraft. In a lecture on tiie subject of “Tools of Prehistoric Man” before the society of arts, the Rev. Art-hug Rigg, M. A., gave some very interesting particulars in regard to the curious implements which have from time to time been found.- He says: The word “prehis toric” has a cie'arlv defined meaning with geologists; If One turds to a scheme of geological strata,* then those strata found above the tertiary are di vided into three classes—the post-gla cial, prehistoric and historic. In the formei* (jMsbyWhil),there are not any second fpreYustdricAhere ate mains of canoes made of trees, ot dwellings erected on piles, implements made of flint and stone, and fragments of charred wood. A hen speaking ol the third or historic period, even then geologists do not refer to such written history afi We iMidefftand by the word; but to the foregoing iithdemCids they add such as are made of rrtetai. (\\ ith the flora and fauna of these periods we are ndt concerned.) Each* may for himself decide liOV many years arc comprehended in these three geologi cal periods. For our purpose these are three “ages;” one ol which tool were of stone, and this is again subdi vided into two periods, when the pal aeolithic nr ancient stone period, when the stone tools Were left with rude and rough eMtefidrlq and the neolithic or recent* when there Was somewhat ol an externfii finish Of polish on the tools.* A sefiond age in which tool are fount! fit ruled Of pure Hopper or bronze, the pure copper tools being so rare that they are comprehended in the term bronze: A third age in which tools tire fdriiieu Of iron: these intro duce us to the age in which we live. It must not, however, be assumed that these ages arc ptarkedly distinct. It is more titan pr filial)te that whilst in one part of the world men are Using bronze in another part they might he using iron. Thus much, however, is certain, that in times to which even geologist might hesitate to apply the term “re cent,” the smelting of copper and ot tin were known, and the combining oi tbe*e metals to form the hardest bronze made and Used at the present time was also practiced. An analysis of these ancient bronze implements shows that the copper is alloyed with from five to ten per cent, of tin. Secret Societies in Europe. The secret societies of Europe h ivc assumed anew importance within the last five yeatx The Masons of France nmhber 500*000, aiid afe acknowledged to be a great agitating fdrOe.- Mo Ho man catholic can be a member of that order in England or any continental country, and in even the United Suites the most solemn of all the sacraments, that of extreme unction, will not be administered until the dying man re nounce his connection with Freema sonry. The result is that that popular organization has become, certainly in France, a vigilant enemy of the church of Rome. It must be confessed, how ever, at least in Latin countries, that the Masons, in what they call their war upon the Jesuits, do not console themselves with any other special form of religion, and so the charge is freely made that when they attack the Roman catholics they find in those countries a refuge in what i- known as infidelity. The Odd Fellows of England, accord ing to Mr. William E. Poster, M. I*., in his last speech at Bradford, numbers close upon half a million members — 430,000 in England, and the rest in colonies, Scotland and Ireland, with a money capital of £4,000,000. The co-operative element among the Odd Fellows of Great Britain is its strong point, and might be profitably imitated among the working classes of the United States, LEONA BY JAMES G. CLARK. [Competent literavy critic's Imre pronounced the following poem un-m pa*cd liy any other production otlts class in our laiijfiiasi,.. It ie perfect in rhyme, beautiful in figure and expression:] Leona, the hour draws nigh, The hour we’ve waited so long. For the angel to open a door through the skv. That my spirit may break from its prison and try Its voice in an infinite song, Just now, as the sltmilters of night Came o’er me with peace-giving breath, The curtain, half-lifted, revealed to my sight Those windows which look on the kingdom of light That Inmlers the river of death. And a vision fell solemn and sweet, Bringing gleams of a morning-lit land ; I saw the white shore which tlie pale waters l>eat, And l heard the low lull as they broKe at their fe.-t Who Walked on the beautiful strand. And T wondered why spirits could cling To their clay w ith a struggle and sigh, When life’s purple autumn is letter than spring, And the smi! flies away, like a sparrow, to sing, jn a climate where leaves never die. Leona, come close to my bed, And lay your dear hand on my brow ; The same touch that thrilled me in davs that are fled, And raised the lost roses of youth from the dead, Can brighten the brief moments now. We have lived front the cold wold apart, And your trust was too generous and true For their hate to o’erthrow ; when the slanderer’s dart Was rankling deep in my des date heart, I Was dearer than ever to you. I thank the (treat Father for this, That our love is not lavished in vain ; Each germ in the future will blossom to bliss, And the forms that We love, and the lips that we kiss Never shrink at the shadow of pain. liy the light of this faith am I taught That my labor is only begun; In the strength > f this hoi>e have I struggled and fought With the legions of wrong, till my armor has caught The gleam of Eternity’s sun. Leona, look forth and behold From headland, from hillside and de.-p, The dav-king surrenders his banners of gold, The twilight advances through woodland and wold, And the dews are beginning to weep. The moon’s silver hair lies uncurled Down the broad-breasted mountains away ; The sun-set’s red glory agifht shall 1m: furled On the walls of the West, o’er the plains of the world, And shall rise in a limitless way'.- Oil! come not in tears to my tomb, Nor plant with frail flowers the sod ; There is rest anioilf- rose* too sweet for its gloom, And life where the lilies Ctmdiy bloom, In the balm-breathing {Xwdous of God. Y. t deeply those memories burn Which bind me to you and to earth, Arid I sometimes have thought that my being would yearn In t lie bowers of fbe beautiful home, to return And visit the HoWP of jt birth. ’Twould even he pleasant to sfriy And walk by your side to tlie last; But the land breeze of heaven is beginning to piriy - Life-shaWows are meeting Eternity’s day, And its tumult is hushed in the past. I -oona, good-bye; should the grief That is gathering now, ever Imj Too and irk for your faith, you will long for relief, And remeirilter, the journey, though lonesome, is brief, O’er low hind arid fiver to true Nothing Moan About Him. A r?fan went into s coinedwm ery store a few Jays ago,- in an excited manner, and rushing Ujr U* the propri etor said: “Do you make wedding cakes?” “Yes, sir,” said Blight. “Well,” said the other, “I’m goin' ter git married ter-day, an’ I want a cake. I’m no slouch, an’ I’m goin’ ter dew things right up ter the handle. I don’t intend ter git married hut once, an’ yew bet 111 lfinke things howl.” Blight smiled bhmtffjq and com menced lifting out ten and twenty dol lar wedding cakes, gorgeous in Ixmmi ful frosting aUd artificial flowers. Among the rest was a small plain cake. “How much is that?” asked the ex cited purchaser. “Four bite,” said Slight. “That’s the one for me; —here’s your money, old pard—wrap her up. Thar’s nothin’ mean about me; I wouldn’t care if it was six bits.” Blight gaifett on the purchaser as he went out about five minutes, the picture of amazement* and t hen he sat down and fanned himself for half an hour, and then got tip and Consumed half an hour more in stowing away the piles of fancy cakes and talking to himself softly, but his bland smile had passed away for the time being. “Ain’t you exprised to see me?’ said a five year old girl, a* she tripped into my house in the midst of a ndn storm. “The rain fell all over me like it ran down through a strainer, and I shook it off, hut it wouldn’t stay shooked. I asked God to stop, hut there was a big thunder in the way, and he ctfiihl n*t hear me, I under speck; and I ’most know he couldn’t see me,* ’** mse a black as an V thing! Nobody couldn’t see little girls through black clouds. I’m going to stay till the sun shines, and then, when I go home, God will look down and say: “Why, there’s Nettie! She went to -ee her auntie right in the middle ot the rain;’and I guess lie’ll he just as much exprised as you was!” Di'iunO the time when Clayton was ruler of Arkansas* all juctiees of the peace had to be appointed by bis excel lency. One old negro, who thought he knew enough to discharge the duties of the office, called on the governor to be examined and receive his appoint ment. Several questions were given him, all of which he managed very well. But when he was asked: “What would you do in a case where a man had committed suicide?” “What would I do?” said the negro. “Well, sah, in a case like dat, de very least 1 could do, sah, would be to make him sport de child.” He was appointed. A co ßiiESPONdent of the Jewish Messenger says: The small boy sharp ened his pencil and wrote the advent ures of the day. The diary was passed around, and we admired the graphic description of sea life couched in sentences like these: “June 13th Very Ruff. June 14th Buffer to-day. June 16th, To-day we went 61 nets. It is still very ruff. June 17th, There were pot many at dinner to-day, and I liked the plums. June 16th, I didn i keep a diary yesterday. Ma said it wtw the plums. 64 nofs to-day.” VOL. lU--NO. 45. PARAGRAPHS OF THE PERIOD. “Father,” asked a Vicksburg bov at the dining table the other day, “are you a big man?” “Well I dunno,” musingly answered the parent. “Why:” “Cause I heard some men talking at the hotel, and they said you were one of the biggest men in town.” “Well, I suppose I do stand pretty high,” replied the parent, looking pleased and consequential. There was half a minute of silence, and then the lx)V added: “They said it was a won der how you carried your feet around?” The boy can’t understand yet why he should have received a box on the ear which made his head roar for two long hours. An aged colored woman in Galves ton, when urged to leave her residence to escape the recent Hood, replied: “I jess don’t done nothing ob de kind; de good lx>ok says dat de world don’t get stroyed by water again, an’ I’se gwine to stay here suah.” In less than two hours the house went to pieces* and Aunty came paddling to shore on a part of the roof. The old woman’s faith was somewhat shaken, but all she said as she made her wav to the higher ground was, “I jess ’clare to goodness if dis ere isn’t ’markable.” Have von ever watched an icicle it formed? .You noticed how it froze one drop at a time, until it was a foot long or more. If the water was clean the icicle remained clear, and sparkled in the sun, but if the water was slightly muddy, the icicle looked foul, and its beauty spoiled. Just so our characters are forming. One little thought or feeling at a time adds its influence. If every thought l>o pure and right, the soul will l>e lovely, and will sparkle with happiness; hut if impure and wrong, there is always wretchedness. Tun husband and wife had ar ranged that when one was drunk the other should work, thus keeping on every day. But once John kept drunk for three days, and came home in dis tress. “And what are you crying about: * asked his helpmate. “Oh, I feel so unhappy,” cried John. “Un happy! and you’ve Ixen drunk while I’ve been working ever since day l>e fore yesterday. I)o you expect to be an angel?” f 't' U.’<(kliLl lui u iiiila fiiniki' Ot nno some time after the purchase of that tefritorv by the United States govern ment, they used slyly to nudge each other and hint that they had got much the better of that bargain; but now, the finding of extensive silver mines is reported there, and if Alaska should develop sources of wealth like Nevada, the fun would not be quite all on the Russian side. — St. Louis Globe-Deuw ernt. Tm:Picton Gazette says Mrs. Rorke, wife of the mate of schooner Union Jack, which sunk in Lake Erie re cently. saved her preserved peaches, although the vessel sank in five minutes. The woman who, with a jar of preserved peaches in each hand, call calmly await death is worth hav ing, although sugar is ten cents a pound. —Owe jo J \iUndi uni. In the matter of perseverance the world must learn the lesson from boys. A boy does not sink into despair if the first burr he throws at another boy fails to stick; lie keeps on with a steady aim and a stoical indifference to ill fortune, and though he may have missed his mark a dozen times, he fi nally succeeds in decorating a pair of trowsers in the most satisfactory man ner. A Texas judge is credited with the following neat decision: “The fact is, Jones, the jail is an old rickety affair, as cold as an iron wedge. You ap plied to this court for release on bail, giving it as your opinion that you would freeze to death there. The weather has not moderated, and to keep you from freezing I will direct the sheriff to hang you at four o’clock this afternoon.” In some churches choirs are per mitted to sing their own voluntaries with which to close the service. At the funeral of a distinguished gentle man of Massachusetts, the singers sang of their own accord: “Believinp: we rejoice To see the curse removed.” “Won’t you cut open a penny for me father?” said a little girl w hen she came home from school one day. ‘•Cut open a penny! What do you want me to do that for?” asked her father. “Cause,” said the little girl, “our teacher says that in every penny there arc four farthings, and 1 want to see them.” Boo akdi's, the demoniac pigeon murderer, can shoot fifty innocent birds in eight minutes without ruffling his conscience. If there are such things as special providences, the day will come when this terrible man will involuntarily blow into the muzzle of his gun to sec if it is loaded. belts are the latest agony among the wqnld-be conspicuou girls of the period. distance the - took—the monogram latffv ; from Chinese tea-boxes; and as they m<* worn so near the chest the impression is sustained. When a boy has been off all day, contrary to the express wish of hi mother, and on approaching the home - stead at night, with an anxious and cautious tread, finds company at tec, the expression which suddenly light •> up his face ran not be reproduced on canvass,