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BY SAWTELL & JONES.
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 18Z0.
YOL. IV-NO. 19
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WlMan'l Work-
Darning little stockings
For restless little feet—
Washing litffk faers,
To keep them fresh and sweet;
Hearing little lessons,
Teaching catechism,
Praying for salvation
From heresy sod schism.
Woman's work.
Sewing on the buttons,
Overseeing rations,
Soothing with a kind word—
Other’s lamentations;
Guiding clumsy servants,
Coaxing sullen cooks.
Entertaining company,
And reading lecent boots,
Wotssnhsvotk.
Burying out of sight
II' r own unhealing smarts,
betting in the sunshine
On other elooded hesrfal;
Binding up he wounded,
'Healing of the sick.
Bravely marching onward -
Through dingers, 1 *r'r aid thick.
Woman’s work.
beading little children.
And btessing manhood’s years,
Showing to the sinful
How God’s forgivenc* cheers ;
Scattering sweet rises
• Along another's path.
Smiling l»y the wayside,
’Content with whu't site hath,
Woman’s WOrk.
betting fa 1 ! l«or own lews,
Where only Go 1 can see,
Wiping off anothers’s—
With tender svirpAtliy ;
1 .earning by experience,
■fcaching hy example.
Yearning for the gateway,
•Golden, pearly, nmpl".
Woman’s work.
At last there comes a silence,
A day ofd.-ep repoes—
Her locks all smoothly braided,
b'pon her breast a rose ;
Lashes resting gently—
TJpon the marine cheek,
A look so calm and tranquil
■Upon the forehead meek.
Woman’s work
The white hand? softly folded,
the kindly phlses still.
The cold lips know no smiling
The noble heart no thrill.
The piilow needs no smoothing
■fehe craveth f>r no care—
bore’s tendereat entreaty
Wakes no responses there.
Woman’s work.
A grsve doWn in the vslley,
Tears bitter sobs, regret;
Another leason taugtit—
That life may not lorget;
A face forever hidden,
A race forever ran—
“Dust to dust,” the preach* saith,
And woman’s work Is done.
-Anecdote -for Children.
The t -flowing anecdote, we have no
yjonTit will luith instruct and affitlSh wur
Youthful readers
One of the Elders of the Methodist
Episcopal Church has a son, who fnher
q t ,d his father’s love for whatever is
■comic, and this son returned from school
si few monlhis since with a report of
^scholarship below the average.
‘Well said -his lather, you’ve
behind this month, have you ?’
•Yes, sir.’
•Row itid that happen ?
•D -n’t fcnow, sir.’
‘The father knew, W the son did not.
tie had observed a number of dime
novels scattered about tho house ; but
had not thousfht it worth while to *»y
anything until a fitting opportunity
should offer itself. A basket of apples
.food upon the floor. And he said :
Empty out those apples, and take the
basket and bring it to me hall full of
chip*.'
Suspecting nothing, the son obeyed.
•And now, he continued, put those
tipples bark into tile basket.’
When hall the apples were replaced
ibe son said :
‘Father they roll eff. I can’t put in
toy more.’
•Put ’em in, T tell you.’
•But, father, I can't put them in.’
•Put them iu 1 No, of course you
can’t put them in. D > you expect to
fill a basket half full f chips and then
fill it with apples ? You said you didn t
know why you feil behind at school;
and I will tell y>l). Your mind is like
that basket. It will not hold more than
so much. And here you've- been, the
past month. Billing it up with cbip-mbt
—dime no cels
‘The boy turned on his heel, whistled,
and said, *Whew ! I see the point.
•Not a dime novel has been seen in
the house from that day to this.’
fallen
A Secret of the Sea-
We had bawled round the Horn and
up through yie ‘Roaring Forties.'—
Decks bad u^ been washed down, and
both passq^Ters and crew were rigging
themseVver out in smarter togs than usu
al, in j^onor of our first sunny, quiet
Sandfly at sea, when one of the men on
tbxflbrecastle sang out ‘A sail!' It was
e first that we had wren lince we had
fairly gotten away from Sydney, and
therefore it excited unu6uai interest.—
The captain bade the man at the wheel
change the course a point to the west-
ward, that we might make sure of speak
ing to the welcome stranger ; and when
ws came on deck again after breakfast,
every glass on bord was leveled at her
and the signal box was got out in readi
ness. We made the stranger out to be
a low black brig, with a ronnd stern, a
white quarter rail and very rakish masts
—the loWer mast painted white. The
spanker was hailed up, but all other
canvas, except studding sails, was set
—even a cotton muin sky-sail. The
brig flew no burning ot any kind^ tint
something in the cut of her double top
sails, and the build ol Iter hull and
White deck houses, led the experts on
board the ship to pronounce her a Yan
kee. In vain did we run up onr flutter
ing lines of gay, fight signal flags. Up
and down they went with gisal temper
patience, but the biig's gaff still obsti
nately continued dumb. Not a tnan or
hoy could we get the glitn|isc of nn
hoard Iter; and the way in which site
was sailing was most tin Yttaiikee like,
unless there was some piratical purpose
jn it. Now she was kept full, now she
fell off her course with flapping canvas,
and sometimes she slowed round, head
on the wind, and tras regularly taken
•rfhack. Then presently bIic would forge
round, fill again, and slant off on anoth
er tack. IT Vessels could get tipsy—
and one ha' heard of a'tiglit ship’—you
might have said that tbe hrig nad tts>
much grog On hoard. Her remarkable
manonvres puzzled us sorely at first, but
presently our captsin said earn emptu-
onsly, ‘Pirate I NdtTtffich, I reckon.—
It's my belief that every man Jack on
hoard is drunk. They were drinkt.tg
•Swethearts and Wives’ a little too deep
last night I guess; and now they are
skulking, from the skip|>er to the cabin
bov, Mr. Largie to tlie chief officer—
"•lower away one of the quarter boats
und hoard Iter. III stand off and on
till you've found out what’s tip.’
•There's room for you, if you like ti.
come,’ saiil Largie to me as lie went
over the side; and 1 fofiuwed him down
into The boat.
Tne excitement of fhe tiTp *19 at
tractive alter the confined monotony of
shipboard life; bnt, not wishing to make
myself out to be braver that I am, I
will acknowledge that I felt 'rather
queer at firs), when the davit blocks
were unhooked, and we had pushed "ff
■and were pulling away. For one thing,
as the light boat was sent up like a
foam-bell on the unfathoined waves, 1
begun to fear as to whether I had not
Imasted too soon of never being Sea sick.
For another, the waste Of'weltering
waters, with no visible bottom or shore
to reassure a landsman's eye, seetneJ so
drearily boundless, in spite of the sun
light on them—the countless golden
sqiunglre on the counth-ss ever-washing
Wiives, indeed, rather intensified the feel,
ing—that I more than‘half fancier! that
I had foolishly tlmown away my chance
of evCr getting home across The watery
wildert,ess, W’hen the little bout danced
off from the big ship; itself looking
so insignificant, when seeu from the out
side, heaving on the vast ocean, beneath
the vast sky, that with a dreamy vague
ness which suggested limitless sea and
sky beyond.
I gazed ruefully at the familiar Faces
clustered along the bulwarks, when
these faces vanished, as the boat slid
down into the through ‘of the sea, 1
seemed to be sinking down to the cen-
tre, or farther, ns one seems to be fall
ing through the bed in the same direc
tion on waking from a momentary
snatch of dyspeptic steep. 'Use is 'eVv
ervtlring,’ however, end is Boon fn.l
grown. After some half-dozen sledge-
like dips tintl cork like rises, 1 ceased to
look back regretfully at our good ship,
and reserved all inv curiosity for our
‘chase.’ A nice chase she led us, .jig
ging and reeling about as she did.—
Time afrer time the mate bad to alter the
direction of "the boA’u terse. At last,
however, as we topped a ridge crisping
into white foam for its fall, ive saw the
brig beating riirht down U|sm us. She
was clipper built below the water line,
hut had bluff, almost apple bows above;
and the spray which trer sharp cut wa
ter threw up, painted their blistered tar
with rainbows. About she staggered
again, when she had almost run us
down, and w-e pulled under her stern.
‘Heave us a line, ymi lubbers V slionteu
Largie.as tbe boat bumped against her
weather aide. Bnt no line was thrown;
so the man 111 the bows hooked on to
the main chains; the boat was mad.-
fast somehow, and we scrambled on
board.
The first thing Largie did was to
send a man to the wheel, which was
‘bobbing round’ in an eerie fashion.—
The tiller chains ground hp art? down;
the si aikes went backward • nd forwards,
as if unseen Lands—some ghost!? mar
iner's—were pulling and pressing at
them. When the flesh and the blood
tnan at the wheel had had the tcours'-’
given him the rest of^ns commenced
our inspection. The brig looked most
dismally lonely aloft and below. The
only living thing about the deck was a
big ape in the foretop which showed its
teelh, and jabber-d down at us, as if it
Homeopathy.—The Vk ashington cor-
respondents say a petition, signed by a
Dumber of citizens ol Massachusetts, has
been forwarded to Representative Cox,
of New York, with the request that he
submit it Congress. Tne petitioners
pray that their Stale be remanded to a
Territorial Government for its treasons
We court* in 1842, it* unrepublican de
nying the right of suffrage to those who
cannot read and writs and for its coo-
Section with the Hartford Conventton.
^ One hundred and fifty babies
bavTbeen found ill the little basset crib
a* th* door <>f the New York Founding
Asylum since the 20th of last Novem-
her. ...
«• In the eyes or modem to
nmw stains from character-Cfet rich.
half-burned envelope with—" gli
e-»t P lar,’ alone legible upon
it. Here and there we found a bullet
in the bulwarks, that must have been
fired on board; and on one of the be'
laying pins there was a bloody wisp of
grey hair. The water casks had been
started and we could find no stores.—-
Before we looked for them, however,
Largie had taken as much sail as he
could manage oft the brig, for the
weather had charged, and the wind was
freshing rather disagreeably. The men
tried to catch the ape when they Went
aloft, but he swung hinself from rope to
rope, rested fir a moment to jabber
with them, and then again sought gome
unsociable nook of refuge. The blend
ing of fear and ferocity in the eyes Was
something horrible to witness. ‘The
mrckle beustie is a na canny.’ said a
compatriot member of Largie's crew,
sagely shaking his huge, greyeyed, san-
dy-lhatched Aberdonia bead. Before
we bunted for the stores, too, we bad
been down into the cabin, and bad seen
a sight there which I shall not easily for
get.
Upon the floor, umler the table, lay a
green pai-ited iron box, with the lid
prized off the hinges. A cane bottomed
lounging chair, with a taper white fore
finger blood-glned to a rail of tire carv
ed back, was overturned in one corner
of the cabin. In another, on its back,
lay a corpse of a man—a short, spare
man, with a yellow ‘goatee’ beard ; the
upper part of his bead was frigldully
battered in; und his sni rt and green
grass-ch-rtti hip jacket were stiff with the
bits id that hail gu-hed, and arippled,
and clotted front the score or so of stabs
and shot-wounds with which he was
riddled. The flesh on the hack of his
hands was slashed with kuife tmts;
clenched in rule there was a fragment
of frayed black barge. Amongst the
jumple of disordered furniture lay a
hatVeri'd barometer. Tha cabin had
been sacked; lockers and l-oxes had
tnilh heeD forced open. We found no
papers—nothing that could give ns the
least due. The twig did not earry her
name upon her s ern ; her quarterboard*
hud been wrenched off and all her
boat* were gone. The only thing we
did find that shed any additional light
upon lire tawful tragedy that had plain
ly been enacted on that cramped stage,
was a photograph in the sleeping birth.
It had fallen between the battens of a
tumbled bunk ; but the open lid of its
1-ase had kept it -from dropping to the
floor. It was the likeness of an exceed
ingly beatifid young woman, nursing a
plump baby, with a short, spare, goa
tee-bearded man leaning on the back of
her chair Interested—flesb-creepingly
interested—:(S 1 conld not help Feeling'
in onr gloomy search, I was very glad
when Largie-said that it was time to
put an end to it. f*or some time the
brig had been pitching and rolling in a
manner very alarming to landsman,
who remembered that he had to be toes
ed in a cockle shell of a beat before be
could once more feel himself homeward
bound. Our ship was taking in reefs;
it was high time to get on board. Ac
oordingly, Largie ran the brig in as
near as he dust, and then, lashing'the
helm to keep her clear, we went over
the side. The pull back wae not a very
long one; byt I, at any rate, was very
glad when ft was over. The boat was
nearly strive in when she got along side.
I never felt Tnorc ’thankful in my life
than when I was pushed and hauled on
deck, drenched to the shill. When safe
back amongst cheerful faces and voices
in our own good ship once inure, I felt
as if only in a nightmare dreSm could
I ever have been on board the blood
stained floating hoarse that was slao-
ting away into file distance—left per
force to the wild will of the winds and
waves ; the murdered eaptaiu lying stiff
in his cabin, with the jabbering ape in
the rigging for a sole mourner.
A Touching Obituary.
A disconsolate husband thus bewails
the loss ol his wife and apostrophises
her memory:
Thus my wife died. No more wi.l
those loving hands pull off my boots
and part my black hair, as o-ilj 8
Wile can. No more will thoVe wrtHrvg
leet replenish coal hod and water pail.
No mure will she arise, ’mid the tern
pestuous storms of w inter, and gaily hie
herself away to build the fire, without
disturbing llte slumbers of a man who
doted on her bo artlessly. Her memory
is embabn-d in my heitre of lieaits. 1
wanted tc embalm her body, but 1 found
that I could embalm bsr money much
cheaper.
I procured of E i Mudgrta neigh »or of
mine, * very pretty gravestone. Hi*
wife was » consumptive, and he had
kept it on band several years in expec
tation ol her death. But she rallied
ttiat spring, and his hop--s were blasted.
Never siiatl I lorget this poor man’s
grief «hen f asked hint to part vjilh it.
‘Take it, Skinner.’ said he, ‘take )*, and
may you never know what it is to nave
your soul racked with disappointment
as mine has been !’ And he ourst into a
fl pod of tears. Ilis spirit was indeed
utterly crushed.
I had the following epistle engraved
upon the gravestone :
‘Til tlie memory of Tabiths, wile of
Moses Skinner, E-q , gentlemamy edi
tor of the Trombone. A kind mother
and exemplary wife. Terms, two dol
lars u year, invariably in advance. Uf-
fiee oVet Coleman's grocery, up two
flights. Knock hard. ‘\\'e shall miss
tliee, mother; we shall miss the, moth
er, 1 ‘Job printing solicited.’
Thus did my lacerated spirit cry out
in agony, even as Rachel weeping for |
her children. But One ray of light
then, slipped
had been frightened out of its wits, and --- - ------ —-
■ the lubber-hole, penetrated the despair ql mV sout.
through
and curled itself np between the mast
and the futtock shrouds. Both the deck
houses were empty. The bunks hud
been stripped. A pair of sea boots, a
tea chest with the lid smashed in, a
black cutty pipe, and a litter of rubbish
were the only contents in either. In
the gallery was a half-bucketful of burn
ed rice: and a pumpkin with a drop of
something down in it that tasted
like rum anti coffee, stood nu the stove.
The main hatchway was open ; the com
bings und part of the deck cloee by
were charred ; a very little of tlie cargo
had also been burned. When we had
cleared away the greasy black asbes
that lay upon the top, we came upon
charred hides. There were brow red
splashes and spots, plainly of dried up
blood, upon tbe deck ; a sailor s greusy
knife sheath; a pewter watcli case,
troadeo out of shape, a heap of biscuit
crumbs, with footmarks in H; and a
The undertaker took his pay in J" >
printing, and the sexton owed me a t ■
tie account I should not have gotten in'
any other way. Why should we pine
at the mysterious ways of Providence
and vicinity ? (Not a conundrum-)
1 here pause to drop a silent tear to
the memory of Tabilha Ripley, that
was. She was an eminently pious to
man, and couid fry the best piece ot
tripe I ever slung under ray vest. Her
picked up dinner* were a perfect
cess, and she always doted on foreign
missions.’
OS- Two little girls were heard one
morning engaged in a dispute as to
what their 'tnotlies could do.’ Ifae dis
pute was ended by the youngest child
saying: “Well, there's th,r
one thing tny
HU I • -- ---J
mother sail do that yours can t in,
mother can take every one of h*r t<
out at once.’
To Let—Inquire Within
The lady flounced cut in a rage.—
Two voting damsels and a Spinster aunt
followed, and after a lengthy inspection
of the prem'ses, came to a state coun
cil in the parlor.
‘Very gnod, twt'ara,’ said Nabum,
rubbing his hands, and scenting a spee
dy termination to his trials. ‘Name ’em.’
•The door handles must all be gilded,
and I should like the house newly pa
pered in velvet, and repainted, and the
partitiim between the parlors taken
down and replaced by an arch, and an
extension diningroom built on behind,
and a new style of range in the kitch
en, and a dumb waiter put in, and new
bronze chandeliers throughout, end
another furnace m the atib-eellar, and—
‘fluid on, ma’am—just hold on one
minute, said Nahum, feebly gasping for
breath. ‘Wouldn’t yon like the old
house carted away, and a new ooe put
in its place T I think it weuld be rath
er less trouble than to make the trifling
alterations you suggest.’
•Sir,’ said” the epmster, loftily.
‘I don’t think we can agree, toa’aiB.’
•Very well—very well—come, gills.’
With prim dignity the lady mar
shalled her two eba ges out, muttering
something about the extortionate ideas
ol landlords now-adays.’
While Nahum wildly rumpling hi*
iron-grey hair with both bands solilo
quized :
‘Well, if Job Had been alive, Bird had
a house to let, there never would have
been any book of Job written. There
goes that everlasting bell again! I’ll
haul it out by the mots, if this thii-g
goes on much lunger I'll tear down
the bill, and put up the place at sue
turn.’
Another lady, bul quite different from
the other—a slender little cast-down
lady, with a head that dr*«,ped like a
fitly of tl,e valley, and a dress of b owe
silk, that hud been mended, and turned,
and re-f«rued, re-triinmed, and even
Nahum Briggs, man and bachelor
though lie was, coil'd see bow shabby
it was. Yet she was pretty, with big
blue eyes, and shining brown buir, and
cheeks tinged with a lair fl .-eting color,
where the velvety roses of youth had
once bloomed in vivid carmine. Aud a
golden haired little lassie clung to her
dress, like the tinv little buds to a
blooming chime of flower boils.
As Nahntn Briggs stood linking al
her, there came back to him the sun
shiny days of youth ; a fieid of bloom
mg clover crimsoned the June light
like waves of blood, acd a lilue-eyed
gill leaning over the fence with her
bright hair barred with level irtmsct
gold, and he knew that he was standing
lace to face with Barbara Wylie, the
giri he hud quarreled with years ago,
and whose blue eyes had kept him an
old bachelor all his life long.
‘This house is to l»e let, I believe ?’
site asked timidly, with a little 'quiver
in her mouth.
‘I believe itfls, Barbara Wylie.'
•She looked np, starting with a sad
den flush of recognition.
And then Barbara turned very pale,
and began to Weep, with tbe golden
barred girl oliugiug to her skirts, and
wailing—
‘Mamma, mamma-what’s the mat
ter, mamma ?’
‘Nothing now,’ said Barbara, reso
lutely brushing away the tears.
‘If you please, Mr. Brigg-*, I will
took at tbe house-; I am k widow T.oW,
and very pour, zTtid I think of keeping a
hoarding house to earn my daily bread.
I hope the rent is not very high ?’
‘We’ll talk about the rent atterwards,’
said Nahum,-fiercely swallowing down
a big lump in bis throa; thattbreuteued
to choke him.
•Come here, little girl, and kiss me ;
I used to know your matnina when she
wasn’t much bigger than you are.’
Barbara, with her blue eyes still
drooping, went all over tlie bouse, with
out lindtug a word of fault, and Nahum
Briggs walked at her side, wondering
if it was really ft It Ceil years since the
J unc sunshine lay so brightly on the
clover field.
*1 think the bouse is beautiful,’ said
i;:esk Barbara. ‘Will you vent it to
me, NabutVi V
•Well, yw*,’ said Nabum tho'ugtfully.
‘I’ll let you have, my house, if yon
want it, Barbara.
‘With the privilege of beeping a few
boardeY* V
•No, ina’umf
Barbara stopped and looked wistful
ly at him.
■Bat I d n’t think voa understand
how very poor I am Mr. Btigg*.'
‘Yes I do.’
‘And thut I cannot afford to take tbe
house, without the privilege of buard-
trs,’
‘I leli yon what B trbara,' said Mr.
Briggs dictaiorially,‘I’ll give yon the
privilege ol keeping just one boarder,
mid him you have to ke> p nil your file
long, if yon oars take him.’
‘1 dou't think I quite understand you,
Nahum Briggs,’ said Barbara, but she
blushed very becomingly, and we are
rather inclined to think that she told a
haughty little fib.
‘Wlmt do you say to me for a board
er Barbara V said the old bachelor, ta
king isith the widow’s hands in bis.—
■Barbara, we were young fails once,
bnt that is no reason why we should be
old fouls now I like you just as well
as ever 1 did, and I’ll do mV best to be
a good husband to you, and a gtard
father to your little girl, it yon’ll be my
wife.’
Barbara blushed again, and hesita
ted, but Nahum was not to be eluded
thus.
‘Shall I take down the sign ‘To Let,
Bmbaia ?’
Yes,’ she murmured, almost under
her breath,
So Nahum went deliberately out,
and coolly tore down the bill, to tbs
great astonishment and disappointment
of a party ol rabid house hunters, who
were just ascending tbe steps.
•And wlteu shall We be married* Bar
bara V he next demanded.
‘In the summer, perhaps,’ said Mrs.
Barbara shyly.
Tomorrow,’ said Nahum decisively,
and ‘tomorrow’ it was. _
-Ujion my word, Barbara,’ said Na
hum, on the first day of May, as he
watched his wife’s blooming face be -
hind the coffee urn, ‘you can t think
hoW much j 'flier it is with yon for a
housekeeper tbau that, hag, Mrs- Par-
|^y a
Barbara only langhed, and said ‘be
was a dear, good old stopid.’
So tb* probabilities ar* that neither
ilr. Nahum Briggs nor bis brown
atone house will be in market agaiu or
‘To Let—Inquire With n.’
Enterprising Reporizr.—The follow
ing good story is told of a zealons Eng
lish reporter, who nearly got himself ^in
to serious*trouble by his efforts to get a
“beat" on a rival sheet: He lived a mile
or so ont tvf town, and on one side of
the road, for a considerab’e part of the
way, was a thick grove. As he was re
turning home lute one night, after hav
ing seen tire paper to press, he observed
that one of the trees near the roadside
bad an unusual appearance. Going
within the fence, he discovered that the
fxxly of a man was suspended from one
of the branches.
Hurriedly cutting it down, he drew
the body into a part of tbe gTOve -where
the undergrowth was thick mtevoiog to
conceal it. This done, he went borne.
Next morning he was taken into custo
dy, on a charge of wilful murder, and
brought before a magistrate. A game
keeper, going through the wood at ear
ly daylight, hud discovered the body in
its place of concealment, mrd some oth
er person remembered that about mid-
night, he had seen tbe reporter issue
from the gtove.
The case was su^icious—until a con,
staple, searching the pockets of the
dead man, discovered a written state
ment. containing bis name and place of
abode, and declaring that domestic mis
fortunes had made life so unbearable
that be had resolved to commit suicide.
Of course the reporter was discharged.
His explanation was to the eflVct
that, finding such a fine lit of “local” as
this ton late for bis own paper, he hud
concealed the corps in order that the
rival journal, which was to appear on
the next day, should not profit by the
discovery. But for the suicide’s confes
sion, a pretty strong case of circum
stantial evidence might have been made
••ut against the knight of the pea.
Love at Eiohty--Threi—Last Tail, a
well known citizen of La Crosse coun
try, Wisconsin, a venerable, but huh-
and hearty old gentleman. 83 years of
age, met with a most romantic incident
while on an Eastern trip. By some ac
cident the train was delay,d, and the
gentleman, .matin Jacolis, Esq, went to
a residence near. Judge of the old
man’s surprise to find that the lady of
the house Was one whom be knew in
early life. Indeed, wh.-n both were
young, in their Eastern home, they h d
loved each other; but be fates, as th§
fates will oftentimes do such cruel
work, separated thtm.
Both had travelled a long way down
the hill of life’s journey, and both bad
♦oat their consorts. What more natu
ral than they should talk i ver the olden
time and revive the affectionate scenes
of early life, and what more tiarurnl
than that there should spring from this
revival the old love, kindles anew, und
Tlratit should burn into n bright flame!
Such won the case. Then and there
again pi ghted their troth, and the
squire catne home a happy man, and
thanking Providence for the railroad ac-
isdent which gave him a new lease of
tile’s joys.
In a few days Sqnire Jacobs leaves
his home to go East, that his happiness
may l>e made complete. Senator Ran
ney and Postmaster Lottridge, of La
Crosse, were appointed a committee to
ask tbe old gentleman “nt what period
in life does nOptial felicity become ex
linguisbed The old veteran’s ^t-
sWer was, “Boys, you must ask some
man older than 1 am whereupon the
committee adjourned sine ifie.
The good old squire is a bale and
Vigorous man, who walks his four miles
daily to the West Salemn post office for
bis “mail matter.'*’ He is a great read
er. A few years ago, white holding,
court as justice of the peace, tie sum
marily settled a sadly -snarled quarrel
between two litigants, the confiiciling
testimony of whose witnesses had bad
ly mixed the court and audience, about
a spotted calf that Was the cause of liti
gatton and strife. Squire Jacobs, with
a look of unutterable disgtiBtfor all con
cerned, decided thus: “I dismiss the
suit, and Day the cosfe myself, if the
parties will cry quits.” Amid uproari
ous applause, nu one appealed Trom tbe
decision of the ’Court.
Loss Ano Gain —Two persons who
had not seen each Other for some time,
■met accidentally nod one asked how he
did. The other replied that he was very
we l and had married since Urey last
seen 'each other.
That is good news indeed, Said the
first.
Nay, replied the other, not very good
either for, 1 have married a shrew.
That is bad.
Not so vary bad, either, for I had ter.
thousand dollars with her.
Ha 1 that makes ail well again.
Not so well as yon think, lor I laid
out the mobey on a flock of sheep, and
they died of the rot.
■fhat was hard truly.
Not so hard neither, for I sold the
skins for more than the sheep cost me.
Yon were lucky, at any rate.
Not so lucky us you think for I pur
chased a house with tlie money, aud the
bouse burned down uninsured.
That, indeed must have been a great
loe-i.
Not so great a loss, I assure yon, for
my wife was burned in it.
The Earth’s Suai**.—A Writer in
the Scientific Opinion say that the ob
late spheriodal foini of the earth, which
has been adduced as proof of its origi
nal fluidity, is one of the supports iff
Laplace’s nebular hypothesis ; bnt that
in fact the supposition of such original
fluidity is not necessary in order to ac
count for such form. He says that if,
for the purpose of illustration, a spheri
cal form be assumed for the earth,—ot*
indeed any other form capable of rota 1
tion about a fixed axis,—it is easily
shown that it must always tend tn tu*.
sutne and maintain the forin of an ob
late spheroid* simply from causes at
present :n action, such as rains, rivers,
and glaciers. The material eroded from
i-.irctithpolar continents must be spread
upon the bottom of the equatorial ocean.
This form is that of equilibrium between
the centripetal and centrifugal forces ;
and tbe conditions required to bring it
absut upon a revolving globe, are hqne-
ous and atmospheric envelope, time, aud
an internal source of disturbing power.
He concludes that Laplsee’s hypothe
sis in no manner derives an argument
for its support from tb* preseut form ol
the earth.
The Preservation of Meat—Im
portant Discovery.
About four^^ars ago, in consequence
of the increasing price and scarcity of
meat, and of the danger incidental to
bringing live animals, possibly affected
with contagious dieasts, tn the toads
and pastures of Englund, Professor
Gampee, formerly head of the new
Veterinary College at Edinburgh, com
menced a series of experiments with a
view to determine the best method of
preserving the flesh of animals for food.
His early attempts were not) altogether
satisfactory. At last, however. Profes
sor Gatngec has returned to England
the possessor of a method of preserva
tion that he is prepared to expose to all
reasonable tests, und by whiob he ex
pects at once to remove butcher’s meat
from the number of jrerishable commod
ities. In the introduction of a purely
chymical process to the general frater
nity of botchers, Professor Gamgee has
lieen materially aided by the Messrs.
Boneor,of Newgate Market, who bad
the sagacity to perceive that imperish
able meat would be of at least as much
value in the ordinary course of the re
tail trade at home as to tbe business of
the importer from abroad. By tbe help
of Messrs. Bonsor, a certain number of
‘preserved* carcases were offered to the
butchers for sale, and these were eager
ly purchased, ut a somewhat enhanced
price. It may be presumed that eus
turners made no complaint, for tbe
botcher-purchasers- unanimously ‘asked
for more;’ nnd since then a oontiuButra
supply has been thrown into the mar
ket, und has been sold with readiness.
As far as regards colour and appear
ance there is very little, and as regards
flavour and texture there is nothing, by
which the preserved meat can be dis
tinguished from that which has been
slaughtered in the ordimry war; and
the chief or only difference between
them is that the former will keep good
for periods varying from three to twelve
mouths, according to the length of time
during which it has been exposed to tbe
gases employed. An Australian stock
breeder has taken away with him some
preserved sheep, in order to try how
they bear tbe packing snd shaking in
cidental to ship transit, and toexhilit to
bis fellow-colonists the results that been
attained. It these carcasses reach Aus
tralia in good condition, it is not too
much to hope thut the problem ot n meat
supply llieuce will be solved, and that
colonial breeders will next turn tbeir
attention to the quality of their rftock,
and will endeavour to produce animals
equal in condition and flavour to those
that now form the staple food of the
better classes in England. The chief
agent employed is sulphurous acid ; bat
in order to prevent this from flavouring
tbe meat, there m a preliminary expos
ure to carbonic oxide, by w hich the col
ouring matter of the blood and tis-ues
is rendered able to resist the reducing
or decomposing action of tbe acid. In
the first place the animals are killed by
being made to breathe carbonic oxide,
that is, by a process analogous to tile
admioiatralion of chloroform. Insensi
bility is quickly produced, and then tlie
mutual is bled, und tbe carcass dressed
in the ordinary way. Id a temperate
climate it is left to cool and set sponta
neously ; but iu a hot climate an artifi
cial process of refrigeration is required.
By this the carcass is reduced to about
50 degrees Fahrenheit; and it is then
placed in an air-light chamber, into
which an atmosphere of mixed carbonic’
oxide and nitrogen is driven by a blow
er. In this chamber there is also a
wooden case, containing charcoal, char
ged with sulphurous acid; and after the
carcases have been for a re tain pe
riod exposed to the carbonic oxide und
nitrogeD alone, the lid of the case is
-drawn off by a thong passing through
a stuffing boX, anil the charcoal gradu-
ally^gives off its acid to the meat. Tbe
chamber is left undisturbed for seven
or eight days in the case of sheep, ten
days for pigs, and 18 or 20 for bullocks.
After this the door is opened, and the
meat is taken oiu ready to be stored or
packed. In bo: climates ti‘6t ohTy do
the carcases require to be cooled at
first, bnt a BtTeatn of cold brine froth a
relrigerator is kept flowing Over the
chambers during tire whole of the pro
cess. The expense of tlie plant and
method is inconsiderable. In addition
to the butchers required to kill a d
dress Uie Animals, the large-t establish
ment would only need one man to drive
the refrigerating machine and blower,
and one to attend to tlie charging ol tlie
charcoal. In England the cost of pre
serving amounts to two or three pence
for a sheep and to about a shilling for
a bullock. — London Mail.
Elegant Extract
Bishop Kingsley says, there is a
plat of ground between Hudson and
the East River that not inaptly illus
trates our theme. A few years sioce it
was one of the most dismal portions of
the earth. Jagged and unsightly rocks
with dark and dangerous crevices, cov
ered a great portion of the area. Thor
ny brush wood mingled aod struggled
with stinted cedars,appearing hail dead
and huff plucked up by the roots, while
clinging to barren rocks. Deep and
dreaded ravines filled With putrid oir
from decaying carcasses, and miry
sloughs, where filthy swine wallowed,
alternated with rocky ledges, the haunts
of loathsome reptiles. Wojn-ifut horses
were led here to die, and Unclean birds
hovering over impatiently awaited a
post-mortim examination. Homeless
dogs wandered here to feed on carrion.
Thieves met to conceal or divide their
plunder; and assassins sought coticeul-
ingnt liom the sheriff. Men felt them
selves in danger in sm-h a place, and
none Sought for any attractions it con
tained unless it might be the poor mu
niac, whose own mental ruin found
shocking sympathy in the desolation
around tirm.
Such, not more than twelve years
ago, was tbe condition of shut is now
the New York Central Park. The
transformation is truly marvelous, and
almost past belief. Now spacious and
splendid avenues truverSc the plot in all
directions; winding walks fringed with
flowers of rare fragrance and beauty de
light the visitor; beautiful lawns with
exquisite statuary, and fountains gush
ing up in the sunlight, greet the eye;
paths meander through delightful ever
green bowers; mountain and prairie
scenery mingle in beautiful contrast.—
There is tbe cascade with its silver
spray and rainbow circle. The miry
slough bus given place to the crystal
lake, in whose waters the gold fish
sports, and whose bosom the swan sits
gratefully. Cool grottos invite the
tiaveler to explore what before seemed
the dreaded haunt of some evil spirit.—
The unsightly rocks have become beau
tifulio their new relations to surrounding
objects. A river, which ooee took ah-
other direction, now passes through
this charming spot, and supplies tbe
great oity of the continent with pure
water. The inhabitants now by thou
sands visit this place for the purity of
the air and the beautiful scenery. The
place is already exciting the admiration
of men of nil nations. Now what a
dreary waste is in the physical world,
human nature is m the intellectual and
moral world without the enlightened
and transforming power of Christian ed
ucation; and what the New York Cen
tral Park has become, and is yet to be
come under the influence of refined
taste end skillful engineering, hitman
nature may become through the power
of intellectual and mofa] culture.
Thi Pbintiuo Office as a Bchool.—
For a young man who is altogether a
fool, who has had the advantages of an
ordinary education, the printing office
is midtmbtediy a capita! school for in
tellectual advancement. In regard to
general knowledge, no class of men who
labor for a living can approach the
printer. The studious among them, if
their natural gifts be not below the lev
el of mediocrity have equal chances
with tbe members of the so-called pro
fessions, to acquire both wofdTy honors
and literary fame. From the days of
Caxlon to tliose of Franklin, and from
his day to our own, tbe eraft lias pro
duced eminent men in every profession
and in'every walk iff life.
•A good printer is generally a critic,
not only of language and punctuation,
but ol the intrinsic litetarj mcritB of
whatever conic under hand. It is im
possible that he should be otherwise,
since so great a part of his life is made
up, as it were rip, as it_ were of facts
that enforce rofliAitien. The labor that
employs hta hands gives his mind neith
er exercise nor cure. His fingers m -ve
intuitively to the exact points reqoiste
for the proper appointment of his work-,
white his mind seizes the idea sought to
be conveyed by the writer whose work
he is enguged on, and is only expelled
thTefrom after his judgment has passed
senteuee upon its merits. •
Many a one, without knowing it, pos.
sihly owes some unknown compositor or
proof reader mneb more reputation a*
a writer than he would be willing to ac
knowledge. If, by changing the read
ing of a sentence without effecting its
meaning, he can give it strength of
smoothness, a good printer asks no ques
tion about the matter bnt changes it fit
The Chinese and the Duke or Edin-
buugii—We give the following on the
authority of i’,*e contemporary“A
correspondent, writing from Shanghai,
stales that the respect of the Chinese
for the power of European States is liy
no means increased since they have seen
R.s Royal Highness the Duke of Edin
burgh. * This, however, is not the fault
of the Prince, who is rather to be pitied
thsa blamed It had been rumored
before hi* arrival tnat the son of the
Qpc-en of England was ten feet high and
had three eyre. Great and not unnatu
ral disappointment was, therefore, ex
perienced when it Was discovered that
he uossessed no other adVahtagee of
height and vision than three enjoyed by
ordinary mortals. The British residents
have been much humiliated by this un
avoidable destruction of ah illusion
which had taken a powerful hold on
the minds of the natives."
TrimmIng LAStre.—Some always use
a pair of shears to trim lamp wicks. ^ I
never do. A better way, and uhe which
I invariably practice, is to pinch or
wipe off the black crust with a piece
of paper ; you may keep a cloth for the
purpose, if you wish.
You will find that the flame frill be
perfect in shape, and exactly in tbe cen
tre of the lamp chimney, and also that
the wick will last twice or three times
as long. Quite a desideratum in the
country, where I have known it to be
necessary to liarndss the horse and
drive to town for lamp wicks.—Amiri
mis AjrialUnrcuist.
tgf An affectionate hnsbnnd once
said : ‘Ah, dear doctor how is my wife
to-day ?’ The doctor shook bis head snd
replied : ‘You must prepare for the
worst.’ ‘What,’ said the husband, ‘do
yon think she is likely to get over it.’
A Night in a Japanese Hote|
Prof. Pumptelly, in his admirable
of travels ronnd the world, gives the I
lowing very correct sketch of the
tier of Sleeping in Japan :
“As I was about to pass my
bight in a Japanese house, I watcl
anxiously the preparations for sleeps
TbeV were simple enough ; a mattif
iu the form of a very thick quilt, ah
seven feet long by four wflo,
spread on the floor; and over it
laid an ample robe, Very king, and hel
ily padded, and provided with laf
sleeves. Having put on the night dr
the sleeper covers himself with nnotl
quilt and sleeps, i. c. if he has so
years’ practice in the use of his bed. I
“But the most remarkable feattl
about a Japanese bed is the pillowj
This is a wooden box about (oar inclf
high, eignt inches long and two inch
wide at the to;>, It has a cushion
folded papers on the apper side to rfl
the neck upon, for the elaborate ma
ner of dressing the hair does not p|
mit tbe Japanese, especially the w-nma
to rest the head upon a pillow. Evef
morning, the uppermost paper is takl
off the cushion, exposing a clean ss
face without the expense of wasbiog I
piilow.
"I passed the greater part of*
night in learning how to poise my hel
in this novel manner; and when I finl
ly dosed my eyes it was to dream ti|
I was being slowly beheaded, and
awake at the crisis to find the pilld
bottom side up and my back resting
the sharp tower edge of the box.
Ting my stay in the country I le-irnl
many of its easterns, mastering tire nl
of chopsticks, and accustoming my pd
ate to raw fresh fish ; but the atten
to balance my head on a twoiiich pillol
I gave np in despair, after trying
vain to secure the box by trying it 1
my Beck und head.
A Great Trade in Horns.—The Bo
ton Commercial Bulletin, of the 12t|
says:
‘A cergo of horns was landed on od
of our wharves this week direct fro*
California. The number received inti
Boston annually Is imrnenso, and thel
come lrom very distant lands. Sout|
America sends the hulk of them, thong
many come from Texas, and not a foil
from California. The last lot receive!
numbered 27,500. They arc mostly i
horns, and are very large. Some bul
falo horns, are received from Asia, bq
in small quantities. There is qnito
speculative business dono in these nrtl
cies, and they ate put to very man|
uses ttnknown to most ol OHr readers.-
A short distance from Boston is the fatj
tory where these are ail Rent, and
that place they undergo a chemicd
change, by which they are transformel
into mnay articles which are both usa
ful and ornamental—combs, knife-han
dies, paper-cutters and buttons. Bq
sides these, they are now making
great variety of parlor ornaments, an*
piles of jewelry, some of which are verl
elegant in their designs. They have
preparation that changing horn inti
nearly every color, and much of tliil
jewelry, bought cheap for pure rubbeq
ts made from ox liorh3 and colored.’
ODCe - - , . ,
There are some printers, it is true,
wbo can nevpr leant the plainest rules
of composition or punctuation. To
such a one might we use the identical
words spoken by fi well ktiow-n dtVIne,
staking to a young, hut particularly
silly candidate for ministeriul orders :
“Young man, you have made a mistake;
you have been called to another—the
comfleld ”
‘What HSall that Boy Bo ?’—Who
will tell ? Tbe boy who reads this, what
will he do 1 When he becomes a man
will he do many th rtgs ? Will he read,
and ro be intelligent ? Will he brrag
the power* of mind and body into ex
ercise, abd so be useful find healthful
and Strong ? W ill be pray, and be pious,
good—-of a noble and virtttonS aotil ?
Will he write* and so be graceful, in
speech, ready in communication, and of
a strong influent* ? Say, mj boy, what
are you going to do ? What you like tb
do now, yoU will be very likely tb do
by and by. Do yoti SWbar now ? Do
you cheat, deceive, lie, steal ? Do you
do dishonbrable things ? Are you disre
speclful to, or do you disobey your pa
rents and teachers f Remember, the boy
makes the man If the boy it bad the
man icill be- If he is idle now he will
be idle When a man. What will you
be ?
SnarruAL Marriage.—A couple of
spiritualists lately married themseltea
in Michigan, by tbe following ceremo
ny :
‘Frank, will yon consent, before these
witnesses, I acknowledge you as my
true and loving wife.’
Tbe bride responded :
‘I, too, William, with yout consent,
before these witnesses, receive you as
my loved and lawful husband. Our
souls united, we shall be trie to each
other here ann in the grand hereafter.’
After the ceremony tbe guests, some
fifty in uomber, partook of m bountiful
and handsomely arranged repast;
A Lrtrtv Streak of Lightning .-
Some months ago Dr. Chas. Nes, of thil
borough, was cultod to visit a poor olf
lady, four or five miles In the conntrff
who stood in need of a physician. Till
day Was a dark and gloomy one, th|
ram falling in torrents, and the sky
times disturbed by lierco flames oflighl
ning and brad bursts of thunder. Thl
doctor knew he would get nothing foT
his visit nnd service, yet prompted hi
that spirit of benevolence for which hi
is characterized, he nevertheless slartel
out in the storm to look after this pal
tient. When he arrived at tho housl
he found that the lightning had strnc|
into a corner of it and had melted tip
gun barrel which had been standing
there. The house was uninjured,
careless inspection of the solved meta
suggested a thought, and that in retur|
begat another, until the final result wa
the discovery of the manufacture
steel by means of electricity for whicl
the doctor now holds letters patent frorj
the Government of the United State
and which, we are satisfied, will Ij
among the most important discover;^
of the age.
The Btofm, the sick lady, her impove
ished condition, tbe doctor’s wellknoa
kindness of heart, the old gun barrfl
And the lightning stroke led to it, anl
if it had not been for this singular eoiif
cidence of things Ibis discovery mig
never have be-*n made. Dr. Nes nevd
received ply from the old lady for hi
visits or Services nor would he have r|
ceived it, probably, tinder the circur
stances, had it not been tendered, bd
he tlow holds in his hands letters paten
Tor an invention snggested by the cifl
cUmstances of that visit, which may_rfl
ales for him millions of dollars. ‘
thy bread upon the waters and tho
shalt find it after faany days.”—Fi
(Pa.) Dembcrdti
Manure fob Potatoes.—An exchang
says the following receipt for iaisin|
potatoes is worth tile price of any pap
for one year (o any,farmer wbo is sho
of manure. Ifcis as good as the bed
superphosphate of lime, and it will nq
cost half so much. It has been trie
two years, and is good on dry land.-]
Take one cask of lime and slack It witi
water, and then stir in one bushel of firj
salt, and then mix in foam or a»'
enough, so that it will not become moj
tar: it will make about five barrels-
Put half pint in a hill at planting,
manures containing potash aie parfiefl
larly suitable for tlie potato. -5?hi
contain more than any other natural foj
tilizer, and should be freely used
carefully saved.
• — <“
IgW An Irish woman who had kept!
little grocery shop, was on her deat"
bed, when she called her husband
her bedside. , . ,
“Paddy,” she faintly said, . ther, l
Missus Mslony, sho owes me six sh|
JlD “Och r exclaimed her hnsband, “Bi|
dy dsrlint ye’re einsiWo to tbe last.
“Yes, dear, an’ there’s Missot
Craw I owe her half a sovereign. ’
“Oob I be jsbere, Biddy, and ye’re i
foolish ae ever. ’
A young lady being rocomma
ed^Te
,/ould jump at
risk.
ded exercise for her health, na'“
i offer an?.
i fun