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\ WOMAN’S BIRTHDAY.
. the summer’s great last beat.
tiH the fall’s lirst chill: they meet.
j mst j„ the rass, dust in the air,
n rin the grave—and everywhere!
Vi late rose, eaten to the heart;
‘ whose southward yearnings start;
Tli |. ~ne may fall, the other fly ;
ts hy may not I ? Why may not I ?
oh life! that gave me for my bower
I hu.-hiug song, the worm-gnawed flower.
1,.: <; 1- <.|, the rose from your shrunk breast
v,,l blow the bird to some warm nest;
V usli out yor.r dying colors fast;
, in -it dead leaf—will be the last.
\ , ? Must 1 wear your piteous smile
\ mho while, a little while?
The withering world accepts her fate
Of niist and moaning, soon or late ;.
she had the dew, the scent, the spr.ug
An upward rapture of the wing :
Their time is gone, hud with it they.
And am I wooing youth to stay
In these dry days, that still would bo
Not fair to me, not fair to me ?
\Vhatever gifts lie chose to iaafe,
If he has given, shall he not take?
His hollow hand lias room for all
The beauty of the world to fall
Therein. I give my little part
With aching heart, with aching heart.
SMALL WAISTS AND CORSETS.
A writer in Appletons’ Journal dis
courses thus about small waists and
corset-lacing : There is no doubt but
that a “small waist” is admired of all
nu*n and all women. No matter how
tin 1 physiologists or (lie physicians may
talk, women have always compressed
their wrists and expanded ther skirts,
and they always will, until public opin
ion pronounces for the heavy figure. It
has never influenced a fashionable
woman yet to hear that the Venus de
Medici has a large waist—she has been
told so ever since that fatiltless image
of female beauty was disinterred. She
knows very well that if she went to a
ball with that figure of the Venus, no
man would ask her to dance. So im
portant a matter is it to have a small
waist, that it has become a matter of
priile to the Austrian people, and is
often mentioned in the court journals,
that tho Empress of Austria is cele
brated for possessing a waist which
only measures sixteen inches. This is
a greater nobility than even the pos
rssiouof sixteen quarterings on your
shield, without which you cannot be
admitted to the best society of Vienna.
"Sixteen,” therefore, is a magic num
ber at Vienna. There are many per
sons, to bo sure, who have as small a
waist, but they have not the height aud
contour and becoming fullness which
the Empress has. Nor is the 4 small
waist furore ’ alone confined to the
women of civilized lands, so called.
The small foot of tire Chinese women
is a local peculiarity; tho small waist or
tlu‘ striving for it, is universal. Even
grave Humboldt describes the beauties
of Java as eating a sort of clay called
<nupo, by which they become very
much reduced in size. It kills them
finally, but what of that?
The savages of the islands *in the
I’acilic and Indian Oceans use very
potent means to attain slenderness of
figure for the. young women, and re
st arches among the ruins of Palenque
one of those mysterious forest cities of
Central America) prove that those al
most forgotten people knew of tho most
artificial aud well-fitting aud compressi
ble corset which has ever been invented.
Savage corsets are made of rattan, bones
of animals aud skins, and laced with
leather thongs, and are worn by men
and women. Tho young Indian war
rior of to-day laces himself when he
goes on the war-path or to see his lady
love in a “skin aud bone” belt, which
is a very good corset.
The women of Egypt, if we can be
lieve the Pyramids, were not above
tight lacing. In fact, gloves, corsets,
bracelets, and ornaments for the hair go
back to the remotest antiquity.
In the book of Isaiah we read of the
divine displeasure manifested against
the people of Jerusalem and Judah,
ami of the depriving of the women of
personal adornment, and there is this
striking allusion to the corset in the
spieudid poetical language of the time:
Instead of a girdle, tliero should be a
rent; and instead of a well-set hair,
baldness; and instead of a stomacher,
girding of sackcloth ; and burning
instead of beauty.”
Ihe Jewish ladies of rank wore pro
fuse ornamentation, aud always a light
y laced bodice, which is carefully and
beautifully alluded to by Scott in his
descriptions of Rebecca, that most ex
qnisite of ideal Jewesses.
5 Now, in looking at the loose, classical
rapeiy of the Homan women, one
say that the corset bad disap
peared for a while from one well-dressed
period of the world. But history tells
us differently. In fact., auy lady of
modern times who has draped herself
r private theatricals, or for tableaus,
:i 'be ltoman robes, knows well that it
must be a very carefully constinoted
uesp. It cannot be lightly assumed.
, 1 3 vcr .v ugly unless the shape be per
ee underneath its apparently negli
geut tolds. We learn from poets and
Lmatists, as well as from historians,
“ K! Roman women wore a girdle,
u 'mb they called the strophium, and
" 'h was probablv the same as the
!"" ra or girdle of the Greeks. The fa
‘"'m cestusof Venus is affirmed by apo
rLondon tradesman to have been
!•' .V - corset. And-the
uc l l Pluysso attractive a part in
' 1 ..‘gorieal and human history may
>e been only a combination ot well
Rill n ‘ T i a l e ’°one and steel quilted into
'■r cloth as the wearer chose,
an 1 f su PP°sefP purely natural
wim, Btatuep que figures of tho Homan
l) P i i e - n really laced into shape and
n lf n . durance vile” as much as are
1, . < : French ladios of to-day; and
mi-' ri f la ' V a,s remark that when
f or 1 j modern luxury we must not
woriT Cleopatra’s earrings were
Sami' ° hundred and sixty thon
gavl t!!° UD< !?’ and that Caesar
a Pair'* f no *her lady of his acquaintance
e ;! r f; n g s which cost bin, at the
t& tu ] T f 8 that day “forty-eight thou
lishmL ln f S * 4 So “ e industrious Eng
ftonev int ia9 L the Roman
rof, r ■' ho pounds for us. We can also
Plin v fnx H ’ r ;°° r da of Seneca and
ganc,. wV,:' rnplcs of female extrava-
Woit'i t,. j 1 ma h° the patroness of
Ur elf ft hu°sfc feel ashamed of
m Juv li a m °dera a. Martial
that ° not hesitate to record
dressed in '.y SO . wea ßhy dames being
their tresses < B< ? rgeous peplums,
Rizuled will I i ase hair, “ which they
J ’ ml * tot irons,” when they put
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on their splendid pearls and ornaments
of gold, and painted their laces aud
eyebrows, they would throw the little
brass hand-mirror at the head of the
offending slaves, or even applying the
whip if the tire-woman did not make
her mistress beautiful.
We see that there is “nothing new
under the sun;” even our “ little temp
ers ” have all been indulged in by the
Portias, the Cornelias, the Cleopatras
of the past, nor can we invent anew
folly, or caprice, or absurdity of dress,
but we find in history that some women
has been before us. So the corset has
its antiquity with all the rest.
About the middle of tho tenth cen
tury there came up a terrible and cruel
corset, called cottcs hardies. These
were stiffened with steel, and clasped
what intensely small waists were pro
duced, and what stiffness of figure.
The French words corps and serres (to
tighten), which seem to have suggested
the word corset, could not have better
expressed this article of dress. We do
not know how many women died of
these corsets—probably more than have
ever died of a broken heart, Men as
well as women wore the horrible things.
One lady of rank is described as wear
ing “ a splendid girdle of beaten gold
about her middle small.” Chaucer de
scribes one of his beauties as being
“ small as a weazel and upright as a
bolt,” which does not suggest a very
pleasing image of female loveliness to
the modern mind,
But, if it was one thing to lace in the
waists, it was another to augment the
size of the skirt until its outrageous
circumference should make any waist
look small. This idea undoubtedly
arose when the rich silks of the middle
ages, stiffened with gold and silk bro
cade, came to be plaited into a skirt for
a slender figure. The great mass stood
out of itself and made the waist look
very slender. It was a fabric unknown
to the Homans and Greeks, who had
mostly a soft woolen cloth out of which
to construct their dresses, and it made
a fashion for itself. We find those
hnndsome creatures, the Italian women
of the fifteenth century, outdoing all
others in this luxury of the robe.
Queen Catherine de Medici stands iu
one of the galleries at Florence iu
stately splendor, with a lioop of enor
mous dimensions holding out her splen
did brocade. In fact, the heavy skirt
at once suggested the hoop and necessi
tated it, for it was so heavy as to fa
tigue the wearer : and the hoop is al
ways a great relief.
It was reserved for the Emperor
Joseph 11, of Austria (who did not fore
see that his royal successor, tho present
Empress, would have a waist of sixteen
inches) to issue an edict against the cor
set. Undoubtedly tight lacing had be
come a very serious matte**, and the
health of tlie people was suffering. He
threatened all damsels with excommuni
cation if they persisted in wearing the
corset. Physicians, popes, and bishops
declaimed against it, and nunneries and
other places where young women were
educated were put under the surveil
lance of the police of the period, until
every woman was forced—absolutely
forced—to laco tighter than ever, and
put her wits to work to baffie king,
kaiser, emperor, pope, and bishop. No
doubt, however, that this crusade did
some good. It may have released some
poor girl from her corset prison who
was dying of spine disease or heart dis
ease, but, like all crusades of the kind
against the personal liberty of the sub
ject, it was not conducive of lasting
good.
Old Catherine de Medici, however,
invented a corset warranted to reduce
the waist to thirteen inches, which may
fairly be appended as a characteristic
cruelty to the history of the authoress
of St. Bartholomew’s Day. This was a
steel plate, with holes cut in to give it
lightness, closed with immovable hasps.
This was almost a suit of armor, and
made the wearer look “ as if imprisoned
in a closely fitting fortress.” Over this
terrible invention the silk basque or
jacket fitted without a wiinkle. Cath
erine could forgive a gt eat deal to the
ladies of her court, but she could not
forgive them a thick waist or an ill
fitting dress. She laced her daughters
aud her sons, this horriblo old Cathe
rine, until they said of her sons that
they were like their mother in slender
ness of figure, “only lacking her will
and understanding.”
Elizabeth of England was not slow to
follow tho fashions of her royal sister.
Who does not remember royal Bess,
stiff as a poker, iu her “ruff aud far
dingale V” The pictures which she
carefully caused to be painted of her
self, each and every one made her look
uglier than the last. What a tribute it
is to the feminine tact aid taste of Mary
Queen of Scots, that she, educated at
the court of Catharine de Medici and
living near that of Elizabeth, so mod
ified and ameliorated the excesses of
the times that she presents, at this mo
ment, the most beautiful study of fe
male costume that the world has ever
seen !
An English physician, writing in 1810,
says that it was no uncommon sight to
see “ a mother lay her daughter down
on the carpet, and, placing her foot on
her back, break half a dozen laces in
tightening her stays !”
The corset was made more stiff than
ever, hack-boards and steel bars were
used to correct stooping shoulders, and'
a waist must only be a “span.” A
young lady in tightly laced steel corsets,
with a board at the back, and her feet
in stocks, as tee learuo 1 Mary Somer
ville describes herself at sixteen, must
have presented a pitiable figure to the
sympathetic gazer.
Undoubtedly there will always be
foolish mothers who make their daugh
ters sleep in their corsets, aud many
foolish women who will always draw
their laces too tight, but the golden
mean remains—a figure well but not
too stiffly supported, a waist slender,
round, but not too small for tho adja
cent figure, is the grand desideratum
of female beauty.
Nothing is so unbecoming as a too
tight garment. A shoe which is too
small spoils a pretty foot; a glove
which squeezes the hand ruins the
effect; and a wai t in judiciously com
pressed ruins llie figure and the face.
The blood is forced into the hands and
arms ; the figure is pressed out of pro-
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portion ; and the whole effect is singu
larly unpleasant. A large woman in
France, where women have a taste for
the becoming in dress conferred upon
them by Providence, wears ample dra
peries, loosely fitting garments, and a
corset which does her ihi best possible
service, for it makes her look and feel
at her ease—no labored breathing, no
unnatural redness, no fear of suffoca
tion ; she is simply a large, beautiful
object, instead of a pillow tied in the
middle, with a general air of asphyxia.
The Place of Woman.
One of the principal features of the
middle ages is the recognition of the
fact that Christianity assigned to woman
anew place in the social order of the
world very different from what it had
by that epoch to woman could notTbut
exercise a most powerful and beneficial
influence on humanity ; for when man,
confident in his physical force, reigns
alone, we can never expect to see real
human culture develop itself. There
now arose anew kind of worship of the
Beautiful, and of female beauty in par
ticular, and that in a higher and more
refined sense than ha t been the case
with the nou-Christian world. The
Greeks, the Romans, and the Arabians
had bestowed praise on woman, as nec
essary to their happiness, but they
treated her only as an inferior, and even
as a slave. The Christian world set be
fore itself anew ideal. What man now
strives for is, that the lady whose affec
tions he endeavors to win should recog
nize his personal worth ; that she should
prefer him to other suitors ; that she
should love him because she honors and
esteems him. Such a demaud is based
upon the supposition that man consid
ers woman as his equal; nay, that he
looks up to her as a superior being ; the
endeavor he makes to deserve the favor
of her he loves, aud to become worthy
of her, reacts on his own conduct. Love
raises him above all that is common aud
vulgar; it becomes with him the main
spring of every noble action ; he can
henceforth neither do or say anything
of which he would feel ashamed before
her. The Teutonic nations especially
seized the full significance of this lofty
conception of woman and of her place
in life ; with them love was nothing but
the 6pontaneous homage of strength to
beauty; they introduced new social
usages and a more elevated sysrem of
ethics among the inhabitants of South
ern Europe, and at the same time, com
municated to them that reverential re
spect which raises woman, though nat
urally weak, above the common level of
humanity.
Thackeray on Female Society.
It is better for you to pass an even
ing once or twice a week in a lady’s
drawing-room, even though the conver
sation is slow, and yon Vnnw the girl’s
song by heart, than in a club, a tavern,
or the pit of a theatre. All amusements
of youth, to which virtuous women are
not admitted, rely on it, are deleterious
in their nature. All men who avoid
female society have dull perceptions
and are stupid, or have gross tastes,
and revolt against what is pure. Your
club swaggerers, who are sucking the
butts of billiard cues all night, call
female society insipid. Poetry is unin
spiring to a yokel; beauty has no
charms for a blind man; music does not
please a poor beast who does not know
one tune irom another ; but as a pure
epicure is hardly ever tired of water,
sancey, and brown bread and butter, I
protest I can sit for a whole night talk
ing with a well regulated, kindly wo
man about her girl Fanny or her boy
Frank, and like the evening’s entertain
ment. One of the great benefits a man
may derive from a woman’s society, is
that he is bound to be respectful to her.
The habit is of great good to your mor
al men, depend upon it. Our educa
tion makes of us the most eminently
selfish men in the world. We fight for
ourselves, we push for ourselves, we
yawn for ourselves, we light our pipes,
and we say we won’t go out, we prefer
ourselves aud our case ; and the great
est good that comes to man from wo
man’s society is that he has to think of
somebody to whom he is bound to be
constantly attentive and respectful.
An Important Invention.
A correspondent of the Vicksburg
Herald gives an account of anew in
vention now in practical operation in
Mountain Cotton Mills, near Bolton
Station, on the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad, which, if it proves to be
all that is represented, must have a
more important effecc upon the produc
tion and manufacture of cotton than
even Whitney’s cotton gin has had. It
does away with the ordinary process of
ginning, converting the cotton just as it
is taken from the field into thread of
superior quality. It costs only $250,
and it attached to the ordinary card
stand. It is said that speeimeis of
thread made by this machine have been
sent to nearly all the northern manu
facturers, and have been pronounced
stronger and more lustrous than that
spun by the ordinary motliod. It is
claimed that a thread spun by this
means will sustain fully one-third more
weight than a thread of equal size made
of cotton that has passed through the
processes of compression and compli
cated machinery of common cotton
mills. The great importance of the in
vention, however, consists in tho fact
that by its cheapness aud simplicity it
may bo introduced i-to common use,
the natural result of which will be to
transfer the whole work of cotton spin
ning from manufactories to the cotton
fields, thus effecting a great saving in
the cost of packing and transportation,
and in other expenses.
—About thirty applications for bank
charters under the new law have been
filed with the comptroller of the cur
rency since congress adjourned. They
come mainly from Illiuois, Wisconsin,
Indiana, Kansas and lowa, with a few
from the southern states. The amount
applied for is in tho neighborhood of
three millions of dollars. This leaves
one million therefore reported “ not
called for.”
—A Mississippi pilot saw the comet
the other night, and immediately cried,
“I’ve got ’em ; snake3 I’ve had before,
but now the stars have got tails on ’em;
I’m a dead man.”
In God lie Trust.
KATIE KING, THE MYTH.
The sensation for some time since in
London has been the “ Katie King” al
luded to as the spirit lest that convinced
Mr. Wallace, the naturalist. How spirit
came to revisit the glimpses of a twi
light room is thus told :
Among the persons in England pos
sessing mediumistic powers is a young
girl of fifteen years of age, Miss Flor
ence Cook. Mr. Crookes vouches em
phatically for her respectability and
her ingenuousness. Her powers have
been submitted to the severest tests at
Mr. Crookes’ own house, and under
conditions which he has himself dic
tated, and he does not seem to have a
doubt that they are genuine. While in
the trance state about three years ago,
a luminous form began to appear near
her nerson. This has in the course of
titac uOTolopoil iuio a wumitl),
and not merely the form of a woman,
but a flesh and blood one, which appears
suddenly, walks, talks, permits itself
to be touched and embraced, and melts
away into nothingness before the eyes
of the company. This “ spirit” says
that her name is Annie Owen, that she
died a hundred years ago in Wales, aud
that her nickname is “Katie King.”
She is described as very beautiful in
face and figure, wearing long hair of
light auburn, which haDgs in ringlets
down her back and each side of her
head, reaching nearly to her waist. On
the occasion of her later appearances
she was dressed in pure while, with
low neck and short sleeves. She wore
a long white veil, but this was drawn
over her fuce but seldom.
After the testimony of Mr. Wallace
and Mr. Crookes, the next witness must
be Mrs. Ross-Churcb, the novelist.'
On the evening of the 9th of May,
Katie King led me, at my own request,
into the room with her beyond the cur
tain, which was not so dark but that I
could distinguish surrounding objects,
and then made me kneel down by Miss
Cook’s prostrate form and feel her
her hands and lace and head of curls,
while she (the spirit) held my shoulder,
with one arm around my neck. I have
not the slightest doubt that upon that
occasion there were present with me
two living, breathing intelligences, per
pectly distinct from each other, so far
at least as their bodies were concerned.
If my senses deceived me, if I was le \
by imagination or mesmeric influence
into believing that I touched and felt
two bodies instead of one; if “ Katie
King” who grasped and embraced and
spoke to me, is a projection of thought
only—a will-power, an instance of un
known force—then it will be no longer
possible to know “ who’s who in 1874,”
and we should hesitate to turn up the
gas incautiously, lest half our friends
should be but projections of thought
and melt away beneath its glare.
Whatever Katie King was on the
evening of the 9th of May she was not
Miss Cook. To that fact lam ready to
take my most solemn oath. Katie was
\ery busy that evening. To each of
her friends assembled to say good-by
she gave a bouquet of flowers tied up
with ribbon, a piece of her dress and
veil, and a lock of her hair, and a note,
which she wrote with her pencil before
us. Mine was as follows : “ From An
nie Owen de M rgan (alias Katie King)
to her Friend, Florence Marryatt Ross
Church, with love. Pcnsez a mot.
May 21, 1874.” I must not forget to
relate what appeared to me one of the
most convincing proofs of Katie’s more
than natural power, namely, that when
she had cut, before our eyes, twelve or
fifteen pieces of cloth from the front of
her white tunic as souvenirs for her
Iriends, there was not a hole to be seen
in it, examine it which way you would.
It was the same with her veil, and I
have seen her do the same thing several
times.
Cleopatra To-Day.
A correspondent who has been to the
British museum writes : “ Full of
strange speculations and sober thoughts
I paused at last before th<a case con
taining the mummy or Egypt’s royal
flirt, Cleopatra. The soft light of the
English twilight was falling through
the dingy windows and chasing long
shadows around the cases and into the
dark corners. The sight-seers had ex
hausted themselves and withdrawn and
the apartment was deserted and silent
as the tombs, and I was all alone with
my reveries and the dead. Before me
was the short, dumpy figure of the
queen, the flash of whose eye and the
witchery oi whose smile had intoxicated
the mighty Ctesar and unnerved the
brawny arm of Marc Antony. She was
wrapped a thousand times in linen bands
and seemed bundled up to keep the
cold air out. On the outer covering
a portrait of the woman as she ap
l eared in life. The colors were nearly
as bright as when put there. The
cheeks were full and rosy, the hair dark
as the raven’s wing, and there was a
look of iueffable grace in the face,
blushing with an expression that be
spoke a knowledge of her beauty and
power as a woman rather than that of
a queen. There were the charms
before me that had seduced a score of
lovers, and the lips that it was a delir
ium to kiss. I stood there, and thought
aud thought until thinking became a
burden and the gloom of my feelings
warned me from the spot. But a
strange fascination held me there to
hold communion with this awful thing.”
Patti’s Debut.
Antonio Barili, a half-brother of Ade
line and Carlotta Patti, has confided
many family affairs to a correspondent
of the Chicago Post aud Ma 1, who
writes that Barili said ; “Adelina Patti
began with me, as did a : so Carlotta. I
taught her on the piano. When Jenny
Lind was here Adelina proved herself
such a wonderful imitator of the great
singer that she was placed iu other
hands for vocal culture. I was on a trip
south soon after. When I came near
New Orleans I stopped off one night at
a small town in Alabama* Bv the
merest accident I turned in at the court
house to hear a concert. I took a seat
well back tow irds the door and awaited
the singers. Before they came I heard
someone on the stage say, 4 Why, papa,
there’s Antonio.’ It was Adelina’s voice.
Then I knew I had come to listen to my
own sister* When she appeared and
gave one or two little ballads I was
amazed. Such a voice I had never
heard and never dreamed of hearing.
Such execution, too! Well, I was in
ecstasy. The girl’s debut, although
made in a backwoods town and attended
by not more than a hundred people,
was grand enough for a queen.”
Faces.
Lavater I think it is who requires all
right-minded persons to have what he
terms “ homogeneous faces,” every fea
ture and trait atxl curve in harmony
with all the rest, and all leading up to
the same meanieg. In sincere faces, all
the changing features do so; but it is
difficult to see why, when we take the
peimanent features, these must be good
faces ; it is essential to beauty, no doubt;
but if the face beau evil one, its char
acter will hardly be mended by having
no opposing trait, no redeeming feature
ABlt. rile greutci Napoleon li&& a lio
mogeneous face, and certainly all the
Madonnas have. But so also Tito’s
must have been, and if any one has a
good picture of Mepbistopeles, I fancy
it will be the same throughout. Indeed
one would think that these people must
be wholly good or wholly bad, only that
there are none such in the world. The
people we call single-hearted are likely
to have homogeneous faces, so are the
simple and vigorous. If their circum
stances suit them, they will be well con
tent; but you sometimes find them at
war with all their surroundings, and
then they are altogether unhappy—no
part of their nature is at rest. These,
too, are the people who can be killed
by grief. The ordinary photographs of
Keble, the prints of Pope Pius VII.,
R msstau, and Watts give us unhomo
geneous faces. If, then, incongruous
faces are not the handsomest, nor the
most lovable, nor the opposite thing,
they are generally the most difficult to
understand and the most in need of be
ing understood. Probably their owners
don’t understand themselves. When
one sees one set of features contradict
ing the other, tlm whole face tells us of
an inward conflict, a compfexity of char
acter that must bo always troublesome
to the man himself and often very in
convenient to his friends. And not only
are these the most in need of being un
derstood, but as it is ever the struggle
that pleases us, they are also the most
interesting to study. Generally the in
congruity consists, I think, in the mouth
an I chin failing to support the upper
part of the face ; and then the meaning
of it is most frequently that the man’s
nature is better than his acquirements,
not being duly supported by his ener
gy. Now it is wonderful how far more
common good foreheads and eyes are
amoDgst us than good mouths and
chins. This is evident from tho fact
that we meet so many more grand-look
ing men now they have readopted their
beards than we used to do.; for there
can be no doubt that when a man has a
good nvmth and firm chin, lie loses
greatly in looks by concealing these in
liis beard. And this is a very gratify
ing fact—not that of tho beards, but
that about good upper faces being so
much the most common. For our next
rule is, “ Obstrve the forehead to dis
cover what a man is by nature, or what
he may become according to his nature;
and tho motionless closed mouth when
you would know what he actually is, or
has become by habit.” The upper face,
the head, brow, and eyes express the
intelligence and nature of the man; the
lower part, the month and chin, give us
the measure o ! his resolution and
strength, his practical or acquired abil
ity, and the temper which lie himself,
or his circumstances, may have formed
in him. The movable features which
chiefly (not wholly) give us the passing
changes of thought and feeling, are the
mouth and nostrils or the oi.e part, the
eyes, eyelids and brow on the other. In
polished society .the expression of the
eyebrows and the mouth is voluntary
except in moments of self-forgetfulness
or rest, and then the lips take the form
of the governing or habitual disposi
tion, — Victoria Magazine.
Browsing in Libraries as a Means of
Culture.
So it is that Mr. Emeison tells us
again to 44 read in the line of our
genius.” If, alas ! every boy and every
girl knew what the lines of their genius
were. There is the exact difficulty.
Many of us have not found out what
the line of our genius is. Indeed, most
of us do not. Indi ed, we have very de
cided genius, it would have so taken
possession of us, that we could not get
away from it ; it would have forced our
lines of reading before this time. For
those, then, who have not found out
what the lines of their genius is, the an
swer is to be given. For such people,
it is a very great advantage to be turned
loose in a large library— not for a long
time, indeed, but for a time long
enough to determine wliat is best for
them, what they take to most thorough
ly and heartily. Here, it may be said
by the way, is one of the advantages
which the small colleges have ovtr the
large ones. Your large college, with
its large library, has a set aud special
librarian, who invariably and infallib y,
by the law of his being, considers the
tool of more impoi tance than the work
it is to do, and shuts up the books from
those who would otherwise handle
them. In such browsing here and
browiring there an intelligent boy, girl,
man, or woman finds out what Is good
for him, or what he is good for. Fail
ing this, which is, of course, out of the
question for most readers, the best rule
we know is, for the student to make one
bold plunge into the thicket,—with the
best intention, and from the best fight
he can get, and then follow bravely and
steadily the path which opens. At the
6nd of the week, for instance, look
steadily back upon the varied interests
of the week, and choose which, on the
whole, has been that which moved, at
tracted, or compelled you most.
—lt is curious to note the origin of
the sayings in common use. The ex
pression “too thin” comes from the
following’hitting sarcasm in 44 Henry
VIIL,” act 5, scene 2: “You were
good at sudden commendations, Bishop
of Winchester. But know, I come not
to hear such flattery now, and in my
presence ; thev are too thin and bare to
hide offenses.”
—Pearl river, Mississippi, furnished
the lumber for the St. Louis bridge.
Payable in Advance.
NUMBER 26.
Bursting Brains—A Singular Sick
ness in Mexico.
A most singular and unaccountable
disease, commonly known as the burst
ing sickness,” has broken out in this
vicinity, and already has spread to many
of the neighboring villages and cities.
The people are in consternation by rea
son of the many deaths which have oc
curred. Tho doctors —wretched medi
cal men at the best—are at a loss how
to deal with the trouble, and the priests
have tlieir hands full. Tlalenango,
Bolanes, Cartagna, and even Sanceda
Hac are suffering more or less, and
there is no telling where or when the
disease is to stopi lam not an expert
in describing sickness, but the trouble
seems to me to be an usual discharge of
nerve force into the brain. The symp
toms are sudden nausea, followed al
most immediately by a severe and sharp
pain along the spine, proceeding from
its lower extremity to the head, and de
scribed as feeling as though a blunt
knife were scraping upward. There is
then—when the pain reaches the back
of the head—a sharp and poignant dis
tress there which makes the patient de
lirious, although it never produces un
consciousness or loss of the right uses
of the senses. The eyes are bloodshot
and wild, with pupils greatly contract
ed. The sensitiveness to light is in
tense, so that even in paroxysms of ex
cruciating agony the patient will rise
and seek a dark place. This state lasts
commonly not more than from thirty
to forty minutes, during which the pa
tient. feels as though his* head was
splitting ; and when this condition has
lasted for about half an hour the
cranium actually bursts open at the sut
ures, as is sometimes the case with in
fants whose heads split thus after death
from water on the brain. The sound
produced 1 y this rending asunder of
the bones of the skull can plainly be
lizard full ten feet from the patient. It
is said that in some instances the dis
ruption is extremely sudden, and ac
companied w'ith a noise still louder.
This occurs, too, at a moment when the
sufferer is in full consciousness, and it
is most terrible to witness. The dis
ease broke out at the silver-mining re
gion at Bolanos about two weeks ago,
and its cause is unknown. About three
hundred persons—generally adults—
have already died of it and it ie yet
spreading. The sickness is, so far as
I know, as unique as it is singular.—
Tlalenanyo letter to N. Y. Graphic.
A Test Case.
In 1869 the Louisiana national bank
shipped by the Southern Express com
pany at New Orleans $13,528 to the
bank of Kentucky and $3,000 to the
Planters’ national bank. The money
was delivered by the Southern Express
company at Humbolt to complete the
transportation, and the last named com
pany w T as bringing it to Louisville on the
cars of thehiouisville and Nashville rail
road, when, at Badd’s creek, in Tennessee,
a trestle gave way while the train was
passing over it. This precipitated the
express and other ears in thje bed of the
creek, the cars caught tire from the en
gine, and all express matter, including
the money mentioned above, was burned.
In the receipt taken bj the Louisiana
national bank for the two Louisville
banks there were various printed condi
tions, among which was a condition that
the express company was not to be lia
ble for loss occasioned by the damages
of railroad transportation or by tire.
Various interesting questions arose in
the case, but the most important one
decided was that if the express agent
was not himself guilty of negligence in
caring for the money, if the express
company was not itself guilty of negli
gence in selecting the Louisville and
Nashville railroad as the vehicle with
which to complete the transportation,
then the express company -was not liable
to the banks, although the falling of
the trestle and the consequent fire may
have been the result of negligence on
the part of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad company.
For the banks it was contended that
the Adams Express company having
undertaken to complete the transporta
tion to Louisville, it would have been
responsible for any negligence of its
own employes whereby the money was
lost, and w as necessarily responsible for
the negligence of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad company, whose cars
it employed to do what it was bound to
do, viz : to complete the transpoitatiou
to Louisville; that the loss occasioned
as stated was not to be deemed a loss by
the dangers ef railroad transportation
within the meauing of the receipt, un
less it appeared that the loss could not
have been avoided by proper diligence
on the part of the railroad employes.
But Judge Ballard has ruled otherwise.
The case, we learn, will probably go
to the Snpreme riourt. of tho United
States. —Louisville Commercial,
The Poor Arab Women.
A writer on the “Women of the
Arabs” says : “Girlsin Syria may be
married at the age of ten and grand
mothers at twenty-one. The Moham
medans object to a girl being taught to
write, lest she should take to write
clandestine letters. The Druzes of
Lebanon are most despotic towards their
wives; but among the Nusairiyeh wo
men are worst treated, being excluded
from all rel igious communion as unclean
beasts. This miserable race of Nusair
iyeh believe-in transmigration of souls,
and hold that the spirit of a wicked
man is punished by his being born again
a dog or a woman, whereas an obedient
woman may be rewarded by being re
generated a man. And the poor degrad
ed pitiable lasses comfort themselves in
their servitude with the dim hope of
becoming men after the short life.
Amongst no class is much care mani
fested for womaals life. Until recently,
in Syria, women were poisoned, thrown
down wells, beaten to death or cast into
the sea, and fhe government made no
inquisition into the matter. On the
whole it is better to be a camel in Ara
bia than a woman : the quadruped is
more kindly treated.”
—The various government bureaus
are generally adopting a machine which
prints all letters instead of writing
them, and vrhich can print,- it is claimed,
faster than a, person can write. A clerk
in the postoffice department has written
fifty-six words per minute with this ma
chine.
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One-fourth col 11 50 22 50 84 00 46 00
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One column 35 00 60 00’ HO (X) 130 0t
Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1.50 per
square for the first insertion, and 75 cents for each
subsequent one. Ten lines or less constitute a
square.
Professional cards, 115.00 ncr annum; for six
months, SIO.OO, in advance.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
—A Chicago man is to start a con
densed egg factory.
—lt is nothing for a Georgia woman
to kill fifty snakes per week.
—lt is considered a pretty well-settled
fact that death has no terrors for the
man who marries a woman after a thir
ty years’ courtship.
—A Toledo woman muzzled her hus
band to keep him from kissing the
chambermaid. Is it really necessary
this time of the year ?
—Mme. Lind-Goldsclimidt and Mr.
Sims Reeves are each said to have a
child whose promise of future renown
as a singer is very great.
—Forty lowa schoolma’ams could’nt
tell what an abstract question was, but
every one of them understood the
meaning of pop the question.
—Not one lady in ten bathes at New
port bec.uise it isn’t genteel, and, fur
thermore, because they look like “ hor
rid frights” in bathing costume.
—“ Only children and fools sit on the
beach under an umbrella,” says the ex
asperated Miss Olemade from her eleva
ted seat overlooking Swampscott beach.
—Donn Piatt says the proper thing to
do when your horse is running away is
“ to hold fast to your seat and say your
prayers; anyhow, hold fast to your
seat.”
—A man in Stark county, Ind., pays
his boy ten cents a quart for potato
bugs, and the boy says that if next year
is as good as this he can buy the old
man out.
—More than a hundred peoplo are
drinking warm blood at the Boston ab
attoir for various diseases, and there is
talk of building a hotel to accommodate
the patients.
—Catgut is prepared from the intes
tines of the sheep or goat, and the
manufacture is chiefly confined to Italy.
No manufacture of catgut is known in
this country.
—A year ago a young man would bo
real good to his mother on the promise
of a shirt which buttoned behind, but
now such a promise wouldn’t swerve
him an inch.
—Another old pioneer gone. He
lived at Troy, and he “ goned ” with
$6,000 which did uot belong to him,
and took along the hired girl to com
fort his old age.
—A little boy was asked about the
story of Joseph, and if he knew what
wrong his brethren done in disposing of
him, when he replied, “ I suppose they
sold him too cheap.”
—“Yes, George Washington was
purty great and high,” said a Missouri
steamboat captain, “ but then, stranger,
he never owned a steamboat which
could hitch past the White Queen.”
—An old veteran was relating liis ex
ploits to a crowd of boys, and men
tioned having been in five engagements.
“That’s nothing,” broke in a little fel
low, “my sister Agnes has been engaged
eleven times.”
—The Vienna city architect has ob- .
tained permission to construct a stove
in the principal cemetery for cremation
purposes, and an old lady has given 30,-
000 florins for the construction of
others.
—A greenhorn sat a long time very at
tentive, musing upon a cane-bottom
chair. At length he said : “I wonder
what fellow took the trouble to find all
them ar holes and put straws around
em ?”
—A peddler calling on an old lady to
dispose of some goods inquired of her
if she could tell him of any road on
which no peddler had traveled. “ Yes,”
replied she, “ I know of one, and that’s
the road to heaven.”
—Detroit Free Press: “Turn for a
moment from the Beecher scandal and
ponder over the fact that the footprints
of a Chicago lady on the prairie near
Michigan City got a crowd of men out
to hunt for a stray elephant.”
—At a recent reunion of the alumni
of West Point it was voted unanimously
that all living graduates of the acad
emy, both from the south and north,
be invited to join the anniversary din
ner next year, on the 18th ofJune.
—A Connecticut girl twelve years old
tried to starve herself to de *th because
her beau deserted her, but the end of
the second day was induced to give it
up by the promise of a slice of bread
and butter with sugar on.
—One of the oddities of hot weather
advertising is that of a gentleman who
announces through the evening paper
“his readiness to supply pulpits for
any denomination or do any other min
isterial work, during the heated term.”
—We find the following item in an
Illinois paper : “ Mr. , who has
been in retirement for a few weeks after
marrying and burying three sisters,
came up smilingly to the altar again
yesterday, having begun on anew fam
ily.”
—Miss thackerav, daught r of the
late novelist, writes that a great num
ber of letters and signatures purport
ing to have been written by her father
are in circulation. The greater part
of these are forgeries, and of remarka
bly good execution.
Rules for Keeping Cool.
A cotemporary has instructed its read
ers how to keep cool in the heated term-
We propose to try our hand :
Never go in the sun; it heats the
blood.
Clothes prevent the escape of heat
from the body; wear none, or only a
loose shirt and drawers.
Work heats the system ; do nothing.
Sit in a draft.
Beading, talking and thinking gener
ate heat; do neither.
Bathe every hour of the day, and take
a shower bath between.
Wear a cap with ice in it.
Sit with your feet in a tub of ice
water.
Call your wife and daughters when
you want anything ; it is a gcod opera
tion.
Drink iced tea, lemonade, plain soda,
and such ; have a cool stream running
in all the while.
By observing these simple directions
one can get along without going away,
unless the effect sends him off.— Cincin
nati Gazette.