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TROUT-PI SUING.
'Tin twenty years. Do yon remember
When, boy and sir!, we stole the skiff
And went a.-ft*taing one September? ’
The lake so clear, it was as if,
I pborue on love’s delicious leaven,
We floated in a jmre mid-heaven,
With clouds of lilies for a border.
Tin* fragrant summer seemed to ache
in hlo-KcmiH for dear passion’s sake,
! xeessive with its sweet disorder.
In yon, too, was that fond distress
of (lush and fear and happiness,
i .resets by earess unhanded,
Till fingers mated on the reel,
I thought the very trout could feel
His double spoil was caught and landed.
Alas ! that love which we remember,
Rlush-ripe as all those wanton weeds,
Should he a blossom of September,
Horn guiltless of the promised seeds—
Sw. ct dying things, whose only duty
1 elothn g life in forms of beauty !
I or though I held you in my arms,
As full of honey in your charms
As when the trefoil holds the clover,
Your Angers, tutored in a thimb.e,
In playing trout were found so nimble
V-u hooked the fish and cast the lover.
but often, since we slipped the books
To play for life with baited hooks
In pools less pure, do I remember
The fragile blossom of September,
Horn guiltess of the promise seeds—
A dying thing, whose only duty
Was clothing life in forms of beauty,
With heaven above and heaven below it.
Though life lias grown to other needs,
Our boat lies rottiDg in the weeds,
And we can ueithtr raise nor row it.
— Harper's Magazine.
SPANIARDS.
I.— CARL I,STS.
I wan indebted to my Spanish teacher,
oii*o a Spanish nobleman, for my first
• *lwir knowledge of the Cirlist struggle.
I ho old S lique law, which prevented
nny woman from ascending the Spanish
throne, having been abrogated by Fer
dinand, the last king, who left the
crown to his daughter Isabella, under
the regency of her mother, Maria Chris
to* h whose partisans were calk'd Cbris
tinns, Don, Carlos, the king’s brother,
and the direct male heir, resisted the
change.
The cinstitutional government es
tablished by the Chnstinos, bringing
all under one general law, does away
witli the ancient fueros , or priviliges of
the provinces.
This was especially resented by the
IJiacay provinces, whose inhabitants had
been left to enjoy great freedom among,
and most probably on account of their
mountains.
They therefore presented the singular
spectacle of a free people, ready at auy
time to take up arms for absolute kings,
because this absolutism had never both
ered them.
I’fie career of my informant was a
good illustration of the recent history
of Spain.
lie had begun life as an Andalusian
noMe, and naturally espoused the cause
ot l),m Carlos. Becoming one of “the
king s” staff officers, his position w T as
excellent for observing everything, and
is account of a, Carlisi camp at that
’inie was exceedingly interesting.
The old men and women with the
smaller boys and girls, remained at
homo to work the farms, and procure
provisions lor them all. The larger
boys conveyed supplies to the camp,
which contained all the able-bodied
men.
Tbo young women were there also to
cook and keep things tidy until a fight
came, when they also brought in the
wounded from the battle field, and
tended them until they recovered, or
until they passed away.
The usual loose license of a camp had
no exis once there. Every young wom
an was just as safo from harm or in
sult among her relatives and fri nds in
c imp as she would have be*, n in her own
home.
Oue daj as my informant, "with the
n -t of tint staff, was riding with “the
king” along a narrow road among the
mountains, they met an old woman,
bowed down with age and grief, walk
'll in front of a rough hand barrow,
onu> by four young women, on which
1:l J 11 fine-looking young man who
seemed badly wounded.
I lie clatter of the horses’ hoofs
" ,s ed the aged mourner, who raised
* ! i'ln'ut as the horsemen reined aside
: make room in the narrow road.
“ I'he king,” raising liis hat, said :
“ Mother, is this your son?’’
I’iie old woman turned toward him
•i- line, though wrinkled face, and,
seeing who it was, saluted him and
answered :
“ <s, your majesty.”
“ lie seems badly wounded.”
‘ he is dying, and he is the
‘• ''oiiil son that I have thus lost, my
0,1 v consolation being that I. have one
mere still left for the service of your
majesty.”
1: nding down her head again, she
1 ! >ved on as before with her sad train,
je all the horsemen remained uncov
oroil till they passed.
‘course, with such devotion as this,
' m Carlos had them and theirs always
his command. When he chose to
! :usf> bis standard, he ntver backed for
| ardy soldiers. Their mountains of
!l red a secure base for operations, in
uring them a safe retreat, while their
1 'fended seaboard put them in eomrnu
u ttion with all the world, and gave
’ i( ' m au amount of supplies limited
by their power to purchase.
, informant, while in command
il body of troops, was obliged, in
1 *■' to avoid capture, to cross the
"Cuguesc frontier. Ho and his men
'“ .V disarmed and imprisoned.
' or two years he tried in vain to free
mmi. Then, feeling he had done
"mole duty toward them, he secured
, " w n escape and went to England,
m-e lie gained the continent, and
5 settled in Paris.
ii. —eucmiiiiOs.
‘be national weapon of the Span
. 'is the, knife, and certainly they
■ 'ij'V now to use it. Talking one day
1 n ' oung man wno seemed likely to
v , 1 asked him what there was pe
the management of the knife,
.yhy,” said he. with a smile, “I
1 and kill you, and you couldn’t kill
■ai>T J
■ }'• <'H,” said I, “please point out
\ and rence between us. What would
do first ?”
'd by. I’d make you wink, and stab
■ "'J while you winked.”
I “ !|r OW ' v,Ml bl you make me wink ?”
I '' by, so,” said he, throwing up his
I' ( ' n nd near my eyes.
I ~,,V I conUl do the same.”
I r f r ' * L ’ '
■ , ri ‘‘d, and found it impossible to
, ll 0 him wink, though I passed my
Two Dollars Per Annum,
volume ir.
a i ( ? own several times so as
a.most to touch his eyelashes.
Tim bright, black eyes looked out at
me unflinchingly all the while. It was
clear that las eyes were educated, and
tnat mine were not.
I then asked if there was nny possibil
-1 y °,. aQ unarmed man’s defending
lamsel. again t one armed with a knife.
yh, yes,” said he, “I’ll show vou,”
and in an instant whipping off his’eoat,
ne held the end of one leeve firmly in
his left hand, wrapping the rest of his
coat rapidly around his forearm, and,
iringing the end of the otlier sleeve
also into his hand, where it was firmly
held binding together the whole mass
which formed a sufficient defense
against the thrust of any ordinary
I then recollected that one of the
marks of the men of Puerta del Sol, at
Madrid which answers to our Bowery
* VViiS a slashed cloak, evidently not so
honorable in its origin as a “slashed
doublet,” of the olden time.
The use of the knife appears to be so
ingrained into Spanish history and hab
its that ono mode of expressing the
idea of being “lord of a manor” was
“tener horca y cu chillo”—to hold
gallows and the knife.”
HI. SPAINSII PRIDE
National pride is very general, but
that of the Spaniards seems to tower
ab ve the average. The sea which
nearly surrounds Spain, Jand the rug
ged mountain chains that cut rff inter
course to a great* degree between the
provinces, have given them almost in
sular prejudices, and afford anotbei
illustration of the truth tlia those who
mix least with others have the highest
ideas of their own importance.
A Spanish gentleman once, in conver
sation, claimed, what had been so often
claimed for other languages, that it
could express more in small compass
than auy other. I asked him to quote
the most striking illustration he could
recollect.
Why, said he, when a man is pre
pared to meet any consequence, aud,
stretching out his arm, says, ‘Ojala,’ no
other language can express that idea
so condensedly.”
I told him ho was mistaken, for we
could say “Be it so,” aud thus express
the same idea in the same number of
syllables.
Lhe Duke of Wellington used to say,
lo boast of Spain’s strength is tlu
national weakness.”
A Castilian preacher went so far, on
one occasion, as to remark to his con
gregation that when our Saviour was
tempted by Satan, who showed him all
the kingdoms of the earth, it was a very
fortunate circumstance that the Pyre
nees hid Spain from his view, or we" do
not know what might have happened.
One gf their common proverbs say;- :
“ Quien dice Espana dice todo”—“ He
who says Spain says everything.”
Another says: “German is the lan
guage of hogs; Euglish, of horses;
French, of the ladies; Italian, if the
angels ; but Spanish is the language of
God.” b 8
Another one goes still further, and
says : “Si Dios no fuese Dios seri rey
de las Esponas, y el de Francia su co
cinero ! “If God were not God he
would be King of Spain, and the French
king his cook ! ”
Farther than this it is diffiult for
human pride to go.
“No More Ducks —No More Injun.”
Over at Washoe City, the otlier .lay,
some men stopping at"the principal ho
tel, while viewing the surroundings of
the plac&, saw a large flock of ducks
settle down on the farther “side of
Washoe L ike. A Washoe Indian, also
saw the ducks, and told the meu he
would go after them if they would get
him a gun. Tn tho hotel they found an
old United States musket. This they
loaded nearly to the muzzle, and giving
it to tho Indian, started him to the lake.
Alter he had gone the wags who loaded
the gun for him went to the upper story
of the house, aud witli opera-glasses
watched the progress of the noble red
man. He at la t reached tlie spot where
the ducks had been seen to settle down
among the tules. Presently they saw
the siiuke dart from the Indian’s gun,
saw him fall backward to the ground,
and heard a tremendous roar from over
the lake—a sound as though the gun
had burst into a thousand pieces. Fear
ing that the gun had indeed hurt aud
killed the poor fellow, the jokers began
to feel very guilty. They hastened
from the house and struck around the
lake. When they had got about half
way around they met the Indian coming
toward them. There-yffis a long gash
across his right cheek bone and his face
was covered with blood, but lie had as
many ducks as ho could hold in both
hands. “Well, Jim,” said they, “bow
did you make it?” “Yes,” said Jim,
“ one more shoot urn—no more ducks,
no more injun !” Virginia City (Nec. )
Enterprise.
An Enterprising Young Journalist.
Some time since the editor of the Col
orado Herald had occasion to leave
town for a few days, and intrusted his
organ to the care of a novice in journal
ism, instructing him to pile it or as
thick as he could whenever he had a
chance to advertise the Herald. He
then went away, and the following
night his wife died very suddenly.
This is how the assistant editor men
tioned the circumstances :
Gone, i:ut not Forgotten. —We are
compelled this morning to perform a
duty which is peculiarly painful to the
able assistant editor who has been en
gaged on this paper at an enermous ex
pense, in accordance with our determ
ination to make the Herald a first-class
journal. Last night death unexpected
ly snatched away from our domestic
hearth (the best are advertised under
the head of stoves and furnaces, upon
our first page). Mrs. Agatha F. Burns,
wife of Rufus P. Burns, the gentlemau
lv editor of the Herald. (Terms, three
dollars a year, invariably in advance.)
A kind mother and exemplary wife.
(Office over Coleman’s grocery, up two
flights of stairs; knock hard.) “Weshall
miss thee, mother, we shall miss thee. ’
(Job printing solicited.) Funeral at
four and a lialf, from the house just
across the street from the Herald office.
(Advestisements inserted for ten cents
per square.*)
KASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1874.
FRENCH CHARACTER.
Causes ot the National Cheerfulness-
At each repeated visit to this coun
try, I am newly struck by the irrepres
sible gayetv of the French. Haplv, it
is more visible in Paris, and in "the
Latin Quarter than anywhere else. It
has been often said that t:.eir habitual
gayety is rather external than internal :
that they spontaneously assume it in
order to hide a temperamental melan
choly ; though how the opposition b.*-
.tween spontaneity and temperament can
be reconciled, it would be hard to de
termine. It is mad rubbish to talk of
the sadness of modern Gauls, whether
manifest, or secrets. Sadness does not
euter into their composition. Sadness,
in any true import, is something that
belongs to the constitution, something
which by indulgence grows habitual';
and this is alien to their nature. Moody
they are; frequently cast down; but
they are extremely energetic in ridding
themselves of such feeling. If it
won’t leave them, they leave it by self
destruction, which if not philosophic,
is assuredly in consonance with their
character.
Why they should be on so much better
terms with th mselves than other people
are, it is not easy at first to perceive.
The cause, as I infer, is that, princi
pally, they have sound digestion ; dys
pepsia having more to do with discon
tent than is generally thought. The
worst dyspepsia is that which is not ap
parent to the sufferer, who believes him
self entirely well, because he is not per
ceptibly ill. The French, as a rule, are
completely eupeptic, thanks to their
cooking! their usual simplicity of diet,
aud their freedom from excess of every
kind.
Secondly, their vanity is so great, so
pervading, so ineradicable that it keeps
them in perfect favor with their own
minds. They are vain on account of
their nationality ; they are vain on ac
count of their individuality ; they are
vain on account of their personality.
Others may be more fortunate ; but no
body can be better than they or they
might be under propitious circumstan
ces. Each one of them is a potential
hero to himself ; spanning the present,
however narrow, with the rainbow of
hope.
Thirdly, They perpetually look on the
bright side of things—not from philos
ophy or self-discipline, but from an in
herent incapacity to ste the dark side.
In the worst condition they hope for
the best, and by their very hope, the
best is apt to come to them. Any en
terprise they may engage in shows them
only its fairest result; its darkest result
is, in their appreciation, reserved for
somebody else.
Fourthly, their innate and uncon
querable paganism Helps them vastly.
Excessively as they relish life, they
have no craven fear of deatn ; iile hav
ing once ceased to be attractive. Death
is something winch they feel they can
seek with indifference, if not with sat
isfaction, when the purpose of their
creation— enjoyment of some kind—
absolutely fails. They do not deem it
their duty to stay in a world that has
lost its charms for them, anti, accord
ingly, they go out of it logically and
serenely.
They have a tremendous advantage
over other nations in this. As they
were placed here without their consent,
they nold rationally enough, that they
have a light to take themselves off,
without other permission than their
own. Iloman Catholic as France is,
nominally, very few educated Trench
men believe any more of the Roman
creed than harmonizes with their reason.
Severely as the church condemns sui
cide, they feel privileged to commit it,
if their existence be out of tune. Even
the ignorant and superstitious French
iorget theological dogma and denun
ciation, when their small portion of the
planet is in eclipse, aud they seek the
light—or the eternal darkness—beyond
che grave, without waiting for nature to
alleviate them. Secularly, they’Ure ad
mirably constituted for terrestrial exis
tence—and who knows what there is be.
side? Good digestion, entire self-love,
temperamental capacity to see only the
bright side, and the consideration of
death as entirely desirable, should for
tune play false, seem so beneficial, in
the case of the French, that we may
feel tempted to imitate tnem.
A Moving Bridge.
Few visitors to Rome have failed to
cross the Tiber fj om the Ripetta stairs
in a boat linked to a rope suspended
high above tho river, which boat is
waited backwards ana forwards across
the stream by tne mere strength of the
current. But within the 1 st lew months
a very ingenious moving bridge, or
pout roulaii/, Jurao OCCLI eStaDilSUeil 1U
Fiance to.connect the Brenton seaport
town of Bt. Malo with its suburb of Bt.
Bervan. The two places are divided by
a wide basin* through which the river
Ranee finds its way to the sea. The
tide at its height rises to the extent of
some fourteen metres above the low
water level, but when at its lowest,
leaves the bottom of the basin dry. Ad
vantage has been taken of the daily
subsidence of the water, and a line of
rails has been laid across the basin,
upon wnicii a bridge or platform raised
high above the highest tide runs back
wards and forwards. To the visitor
who has never crosned the harbor in
this snadowy and finnsy-looking con
veyance, nothing can appear at first
signt to bo less inviting. The supports
oi the platform look too slender to re
sist the sea, especially when the sea is
running rapidly in. But for several
months Frenchmen have taken freely to
patronizing the Bt. Maio and Bt. Btr
vanfi aung bridge, audits introduction
is likely to provoke many industrious
mutators. The boat which runs upon
the submerged rails is pulled to and
iru by the agency of horc.es. Altogether
the biidge is a great favorite, especially
with the ladies, who have taken to
using it with perfect confidence.—
London Daily JScics.
—The subject of hydrophobia is under
going thorough investigation. A meet
ing of the medical faculty was recently
convened at the college of .physicians
and surgeons in this city, an<k the vari
ous complex questions in connection
with this mysterious disease were frank
ly discussed. “ What is hydrophobia?
In God We Trust.
Can the disease be produced by the
bite of a non-rabid dog?. Can it be
caused by tiie imagination alone ? What
are the best methods of prevention and
of treatment?” These aud kindred
topics were brought before the meeting
by various physicians. As yet the dis
ease is not fully understood by medical
men, but facts are studied carefully,
and knowledge in regard to it is increas
ing.
- The Bullion Yield.
Few persons have any adequate idea
of the yield of precious metals in the
United States. The figures for the last
quarter of a century arc startling and
almost iucredible. From 1848 to 1874
the enormous sum of $1,578,407,641
was mined on the Pacific coast. To this
amount California contributes over one
billion and ninety four millions aud
Nevada a little more than one hundred
and nineteen millions. The remainder
is divided between Montana, Idaho.
Coloraaa, aud Utah. The two last ter
ritories have yielded but about fifty
millions between them, but it is well
known that their soil is wonderfully
rich in silver ores of a superior charac
ter. When these territoiies become
fully developed it is expected that their
enormous yield of bullion will recall
the golden days of California. In Utah
particularly a grain culture has been
developed heretofore to the exclusion of
mining interests, but this will prove
itself no loss in the long run, since it
has served to prepare food for a large
population. Judging by the amount of
precious metals already'extracted from
the hills of the far west, it may be
confidently expected that the yied of
the next quarter of a century will, with
proper energy, nearly or quite equal
the last. New improvements in ma
chinery, the investment of large quan
tities of capital, aud the knowledge
that the slopes .of the Rocky moun
tains are so many rich deposits of gold
and silver give promise of an abundant
return to the capitalist and laborer.
This is a happy answer, too, to the
gloomy auguries of those who look upon
our financial future with distrust. The
abundant promise of agriculture and
mineral wealth will tide us over our
difficulties. A billion and a half of
gold and silver is no small return from
barren hills, though it took a quarter of
a century to gather it.
Decidedly Personal.
Mr. Ruskin, in a recent number of
Fors Claveriga, says :
“ It is quite_possible for the simplest
workman or laborer for whom I write
to “understand what the feelings of a
gentleman are, and share them if ho
will ; but the crisis and horror of this
present time are that its desire of
money and the fulness of luxury dis
honestly attainable by cimmen persons
are making churls of all men ;
and the nobe, v passions are not merelv
disbelieved, bm,, ven the conception of
them seems ludio*, ua to the ordinary
churl mind; so that, to take only
poor an instance ot then, as my own
It. e _—because I have pa wed it in J alm9 .
giving, not in fortune hurr n „. becansp
I have labored always for the ( iolJor *
others, not my own, and have c ] iasen
rather to make men look to Turne/ an( |
Luini than to form or exhibit the sk-q
of my own hand : because I have low
ered my rent, and assured the comfor
table lives of my poor tenants, instead
of taking from them all I could force
for the roofs they needed ; because I
love a wood walk better than a London
street, and would rather watch a sea
gull fly than sboot it, and rather hear a
thrush siug than eat it; finally, because
I never disobeyed my mother, because
I have honored all women with solemn
worship, and have been kind even to
the unthankful and the evil; therefore
the hacks of Euglish art and literature
wag their heads at me, and the poor
wretch who pawns the dirty linen of his
soul daily for a bottle of our wine and
a cigar talks of the * effeminate senti
mentality of Ruskin.’”
A Disrespectful Man.
The tiling occurred in Edingburgh,
when Jeffrey, Brougham, Sydney and
the rest of that brilliant constellation
of men of genius were shedding so
great a lustre upon “ Auld Reekie” and
the world. There was, at the time a
literary pretender and bore in Edin
burgh, whose everlasting subject of the
discussion was “ The North Pole,” and
whose delight it was to inflict his theme
upon every patient listener. He met
Jeffrey in the street one day, and after
the usual salutation, at once introduced
his favorite subject. “D n the
North Pole?” vociferated Jeffrey, and
extricatiog himself from the bore’s
crrar nursned the even, tetmr "f hia
wav. The former, wincing under
Jeffrey’s abrupt treatment, also went on
his way, when, encountering the good
natured Sydney, he related to the latter
(with much chagrin and di-gust) what
Jeffrey had said. “Ah!” says Sydney,
“I wouldn’t mind it. We all know
Jeffrey. You’ll hardly believe it, but,
in a conversation I had with Jeffrey,
the other day, he actually spoke disre
spectfully of the equator!”
A Substitute for Ice.
It is probable that many good house
wives do not know that butter may be
kept firm and nice-looking by merely
inverting over it a flower-pot covered
with damp cloths. In the same way a
water-pitcher enveloped in wet olofchs
will keep its contents cool and grateful
to the parched throat this hot weather.
On a.large scale the same plan may
be used in the fields—as we have before
said, but it will bear saying again. The
contents of a barrel enveloped in cloths
which are kept constantly wet, will be
so pleasant as almost to induce the la
borer in the field to drink more than is
good for him.
The reason why water kept this way
is cool is, that the evaporation of the
outside dampness carries off the heat
from the inside—just as perspiration
carries off the heat from the human
frame', and renders a live man capable
of withstanding a heat which wiircook
a beefsteak.
—A breach of promise of marriage,
iu which the damages were laid at s2o*
000, has been compromised with a pres
ent of five dollars and anew chignon.
It was in Kentucky.
Tlie Cost of Sunday Opera in New
York.
A first-class quartette, with an orgiu
ist. costs from $6,000 to $19,000.
It costs something to have a fashiona
ble choir. An ordinary quartette costs
$2,500.
A good tenor siuger, soprano or con
tralto commands readily SI,OOO. Some
sopranos are paid $3,000.
Warren, of St. Thomas’ Chnrch,
stands at the head of choir leaders. He
has $10,600 a year salary and a house.
Grace Church pays its musical con
ductors $6,000 a year. Out of this sum
he hires all the help he needs, and pavs
himself
One female singer has $3,000 for
morning and afternoon service, and
SI,OOO extra for singing in the evening
in another church.
Trinity Church, though very econom
ical, pays SIO,OOO a year for its music.
R has a boy choir of thirty m mbers.
These are paid a salary, and receivo a
complete musical education.
Many of our fashionable congrega
tions are dispensing with choirs alto
gether, and are calling in the aid of a
preceptor. But this style of music has
its drawbacks.
The First Presbyterian Church has
never had an orgon or instrument of
music. The spirit of Robert Lennox
still abides. It was considered a great
innovation when a quartette choir was
introduced.
St. Bartholomew is just now the rage
among fashionable church goers. It is
the newest and most elegant Episcopal
Church in New York. Its singing is a
specialty. Men crowd the aisle to hear
the music. When the sermon comes on
they leave in droves.
The elegant little church on Fifth av
enue known as Chirst Church has been
famous for its music. Run down by
Mr. Ewer’s ritualism, a New York
broker proposed to tone this up by
brilliant singing. The broker paid in
one year $20,000 for the music of this
church.
Plymouth Chnrch has congregational
singing, led by a full clioir. Inside the
chair is a paid quartette. The trustees
set apart $7,500 for music. To this is
added SSOO more, bringing it up to
SB,OOO. Fifteen hundred of this is paid
to Mr. Zundel as organist. The balance
tlie leader uses at his discretion.
Many churches tire of the present
mode of conducting the services of
song in the house of the Lord. In some
cases singers hardly get the b”rnt cork
off their faces in season for the morn
ing worship. Italians and Jewesses
who sing at the theater until midnight,
on Satnrday, at a heavy salary, appear
in the church to praise the Lord.
The Washington Correspondent.
A correspondent of the Cleveland
Leader, speaking jof Washington coire
spondents, sais: “It is no ordinary man
that can catch the bulk of rumor and
actual occurrence, cull from it what, is
freshest and strongest and truest, ard
in short, clear sentences, every word
alive with meaning, dispatch the news
to his far-away paper. This he does not
one day (or night rather, for the dis
patches ar • sent late at night), but
i very night of the congressional season.
Not much chance for sentiment or phi
losophizing in the crisp, telling “ spe
':al Washington dispatches” that have
lc nlace ot honor in our leading daily
papei. No room f or jj es or f a ] se state
ments, tf. co 0 { ear tbly use would
br *° w day You would have
to take back to-mnrrow? These para
graphs that we read so e aetvl U
carelessly, rather represent the cLa “ st
working, most pains-taking class ol
in Washington. They embody the keen,
cool criticisms upon every-day politics,
coming from intelligent, acuto, inde
pendent reasoning. These men are
obliged to be ‘smart/ to use the Yankee
term, since they watch politicians and
their politics, to catch the unwary or
applaud the honest; they are obliged
to be keen-witted ana intelligent, since
they must be able to reject the seeming
truth, to recognize the positive ; and
ofttimes in their dispatches they fortell
or foreshadow to-day the actual occur
rences of the next week or month. So
in one sense they are our political edu
cators as well as our political critics.
There are some knaves, and I know of
several fools among them, but I am
bofind to own that neither fools i or
knaves thrive as well in ‘ newspaper
row as they do in other localities in
Washington.”
In the Surf at Long Branch.
r lhe gossipy Long Branch correspon
dent of the New York World writes :
Fcom the Ocean House cone six or
eight tender minxes with bundles look
ing cautiously behind them. They pick
the!* way down the steps, accompanied
by tLtii guardian of safe and proper
age, anil are watched from the bank by
tlxeir manner and aunt in evening dre s.
There are a,t this time no more than lif
teeu peoph, all told, on the whole
stretch of mud from Sandy Hook to
West Enti. Tne minxes disappear in
the disreputable shanties that are
meant ior tnedressing cases, and pres
ently they vnerge in woolen blouses
and" “pants,” holding each other's
hands and emitting little screams as the
soft, white sati*. touches their tender
feet, aud looking around to see that no
body is photographing them. One can
see "their fragile bodies shiver, even
from the top of he bank, when they
step with bated breath and anxious
looks into the whbe spume that is roll
ing and foam'ng up the beach. Two or
three steps and they are ankle deep in
the ocean. At that an amorous wave,
swollen with desire, makes at them.
Thev see it coming; the clasp of their
hands tightens ; they take a deep
breath, the defiance of their sex is in
their eyes, but the weakness of their
sex is in their vertebrae, and they bend
their knees and bow their heads, and
the ravishing element breaks over them
with a wet embrace, hugs them a mo
ment in foaming paroxysm, and then
goes broken and bellowing to fling it
self in reckless delight upon the sands
where their feet have trod.
An admirable improvement in the
present crude system of communicating
by telegraph has been inaugurated by
the government of Switzerland. It is
proposed to allow parties at different
stations to hohl interviews, to be paid
Payable in Advance.
NUMBER 27.
for in proportion to the time used, and
not by the number of words. This will
supply an opportunity for detailed ex
planation in business matters which is
not afforded under the arbitrary system
that is in vogue is most countries.
The Life of an Indigo Planter.
For some six months in the year the
indigo planter in India is in the saddle
from six o’clock in the morning until
noon, superintending the plowing, the
sowing, the weeding and the reaping.
About the end of June, says the Lon
don News, “ Mabaye” begins, and lasts
until the beginning of September.
“Mahaye” is the manufacture of the
indigo, the mashing and heating of it
in great vats, the running off of the
water into other vats, and the treatment
of the stuff through various stages un
til it emerges from the “ presses” veri
table indigo, worth eve.r so many rupees
a pound, “ Mahaye” occurs in the very
hottest part of the Indian year ; but the
indigo planter must disregard the heat
if he is to keep up his character and
earn commission. He spends hours
every day in a little shed perched high
over his vats, whence he can superin
tend the labors of the coolies, and see
for himself that the mashing is
thorough, and the running off takes
place in the nick of time. He must gen
erally pervade the presshouse, and it
will not do for him to be dainty over a
stain or blue on his hands or face. He
must superintend the storing, for the
mild Hindoo is not proverbial for hon
esty, and feels sorely tempted when the
chance offers to carry off a piece of in
digo which will hardly make a knot in
his cummerbund, and vet for which he
can realize a rupee. When “ Mahaye”
is over, the cold weather is thinking of
setting in, and then, giviug a start to
his cultivation, the indigo planter feels
himself a free man for a season. His
holiday time has come, and he is the
man who knows how to enjoy a holiday
time.
Galileo as an Inventor.
Of all his varied gifts, Galileo has
produced the most important influence
upon modern progress by his mechani
cal dexterity and his inventive force.
His busy and dextrous touch moulded
the rarest instruments and the most
complicated machines. His house at
Padua was a worship, where a ceaseless
round of invention and of mechanical
improvements went on, where laborious
days and nights were given to the ad
vance of those practical arts that most
affect the physical welfare of man.
was the prince of m®kouico, almost the
parent of modern invention. There is
scarcely a branch of mechanical labor
that has not felt the influence of his
practical skill, nor a modern inventor
that has not owed something to his cre
ative power. Of the vast net-work of
machinery that sustains the fabric of
modern civilization there is no part that
has not its trace of the labors of Gali
leo. He invented, improved, or embel
lished the barometer and thermometer,
the pendulum and the magnet, hydrau
lic and military machines, the compass,
the telescope, and the microscope. A
throng of less renowned instruments
and engines, prepared by his delicate
touch and unprecedented" skill, flowed
from his worship. His treatises on me
chanics, fortification, and the laws of
motion excited the emulation of Eu
rope ; and it was by his rare accom
plishments as a practical mechanic that
he was enabled to create that wonder
ful instrument whose revelations have
founded anew science, and penetrated
the starry heavens.— Harper's Maga
zine.
The Ideal Foot.
A Wiu„ r w h o professes to beau fait
upou the suVxj ec t; Q f human beauty de
clares that a paix 0 { pretty feet finish
ing a woman s frame are the rarest thing
meet. As a rule, owing
to ill-formed shoes and unsknif n i c hj
ropodists, tne female foot lacks, in some
particular, that perfect harmony ot
proportion which is essential to beauty.
The size of the foot does not enter into
the questh >n. It does not matter wheth
er it be large or small, but it must be
in just proportion "with the other parts
of the body. A large woman should
have a large foot and a large hand, oth
erwise she is not well made. In fine,
the ideal foot comprises a high instep ;
a round, plump form; toes slightly sep
arate d—the first being larger and round
er than the others; toe-nails bright,
polished, and of a rosy tint; and an
ivory skin, with the veins showing
through.
Our Demand upon Spain not Yet
Answered-
No reply ha3 yet been received to the
peremptory demand made, some time
ago, upon Spam for indemnity to the
families of American citizen® wno
formed part of theoffi' M> *° an< l crew of
the Virginius, ami who were executed
by Spanish volunteers in Cuba, It is
understood that the Spanish authorities
are waiting to consult Admiral Polo de-
Barnabe, who was Spanish minister to
the United States at the time the pro
tocol with regard to the Virginias affair
was arranged. A member of the cabi
net states that it was the purpose of
the administration to press this matter
upon Spain and obtain an early settle
ment. It is held that, under the proto
col agreed the Spanish minster, there
can be no question as to the right of
our government to enforce this claim.
A Queen’s Enjoyments.
Queen Victoria is now in the midst of
her faithful Highlanders, and enjoying
herself in her own way. As soon as she
got to Balmoral she attended the funer
al of one of her ghillies, going to the
house of the deceased and laying a
wreath of flowers on the coffin at the
end of the service. A few nights after
there was a servant’s ball at the castle,
and in the course of the evening the
Queen not only countenanced the pro
ceedings by her presence, but took part
in the dancing. She danced with
Prince Albert Victor and Prince George,
sun of the Prince of Wales, and after
ward took part in a reel with John
Brown, her attendant, and Donald
Stewart gamekeeper. It is easy to un
iderstand what a relief this must have
' Seen after the severe etiquette of an
uperial reception. This is the first
j tine that the Queen has danced since
\ the death of the Prince consort.
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subsequent one. Ten lines or less constitute a
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FACTS AND FANCIES.
—An exchange mentions orange-peel
as a power behind the thrown.
—Delicately Put.—Customer—“l’m
afraid I’m getting a little bald !’*
—The Minnesota grasshoppers can
cradle twenty-four acres of wheat in an
hour.
—A Bostou man says: “It is very easy
to remember the poor. I can remenber
cases twenty years ago. ”
-Patriotism, Conservatism, hog, hom
iny, pickles and courting, are the order
of the day.
—Chicago will hereafter not allow
the presence of frame buildings within
her limits. Correct.
—A marble company at Brandon, Vt.,
is making one hundred thousand head
stones for dead soldiers.
—Prairie grass has become the next
thing to intellectual food. It is being
exported from Illinois to Liverpool, to
be made into paper.
—A new York company will insure
poodle dogs, but won’t take a cent’s
risk on babies. They know which re
ceives the most care.
—A chap who spent $1,400 to graduate
from Harvard is postmaster in lowa at
$24 per year. Where would he have
been but for his Latin and Greek.
—A marine editor at Cincinnati dares
to say that there is not a steamboat
man on the western rivers who w r ould
not die rather than tell the truth.
—Two St. Louis women were refused
places as drivers on street cars ostensi
bly because they couldn’t manago
mules. This was frivolous. They had
both been married for years.
—The editor of the Panama Star ap
ologizes for the non-appearance of his
paper by saying that he had to haul off
to dig buckshot out of his legs.
—“O, Lord,” prayed a minister,
“keep me humble and poor!” “O,
Lord, if Thou wilt keep him humble,”
said the deacon who next prayed, “wo
will keep him poor.”
—A Louisiana man puts a two-ounce
can of nitro-glycerine inside of a chick
en, tosses the chicken to an alligator,
and that alligator does not trouble the
bayou any more.
—Those Texas are bad men to be
trifled with. One of them wanted a
foundry at Galveston to cast him a
glass bottle, and when they laughed
at him he peppered three men with
buckshot.
When a Michigan woman w’us tak
en from the cowcatcher of a locomotive,
upon which she ha t been caught and
carried half a mile, she said with feel
ing, “I was just scooped up like gosh
almighty, wasn’t I?”
—The example of Mr. James Lick is
beginning to bear fruit. It is said that
Mr. Henry Shaw proposes to deed to
Sfc. Louis his extensive botanical gar
dens, which have long been the prido
of that city.
—lt is not high crimes, such as rob
bery and murder, which destroy the
peace of society. The village go sip,
family quarrel J , jeolousies, bickerings
between neighbors, meddlesomeness
and tattling, are the worms which eat
into all social happiness.
—The present Dumas says : “ From
the fact that man wanders from the
right path, do not let us conclude that
it is woman who will lead him back
again. She can only follow him when
he has found the right path again, and
he will find it himself alone.”
—lt is said that the mosquitoes aro
unusually large this season. The only
satisfaction that people who are oblig
ed to remain in the city can get from
this is the hope that the old bull mos
quitoes will loaf around the back-yards
at night and eat up tie tom-cats.
—ln the new university at Newbury -
port all the students acquiring any
special tongue are to be domiciled as
boarders with a family speaking that as
their native language ; and all foreign
are to be natives of the coun
tries to whicn particular langua
ges belong.
—A walking stick with tar on the end
got a brace of suspicious-looking men
into difficulty in St. Louis, and caused
their being conveyed as prisoners to
the police-station. The police seemed
to have an idea that the tar on the end
of the stick was there for financial pur
poses, and was meant to facilitate the
hauling in of a portion of the loose
change generally to found on the shelf
behind the oounter in beer halls when
the bar-keeper’s back was turned.
-Said that Detrcit Judge to Henry
Melius, the other day: “This affair
will ■wrench a $lO bill from you unless
you want to go up for ninety days. Be
careful how von slider your fists around
after inns. John 0. Heen&n gained
something of a reputation by blowing
his muscle up, but public opinion has
changed. If you want to be famous
you must discover a comet or hang
around a reservoir and look out for
breaks. ”
—Be careful how you make a noise in
Echo Park, Colorado canyon : “ When
a gun is discharged total silence follows
the report for a moment—then, with
startling suddenness, the echo is heard,
seemingly at a great distance—say five
miles to the south—whence it comes
back in separate and distinct reverbera
tions, as if leaping from glen to glen.
Louder and quicker grows the sound,
until apparently directly opposite, when
a ffia.ll volume of sound is returned ;
then once more the echo is heard, like
the snapping of a cap far the eastward.”
—Little Sherman W. Smith accom
panied his mother to a Boston auction
store. The Globe says : “He soon ran
behind the counter, out of sight, aDd
climbed on a chair got hold of a pistol
that had been placed on a shelf. He
began playing with this dangerous
weapon, which was a Smith & Wesson
seven-barreled revolver, and pulled the
trigger once behind the counter, with
out the cartridge exploding, he then
came round the edge of the counter,
and presenting the pistol at his mother,
who was sitting facing him at the sew
iDg machine, before any one had time
to notice him or to be made aware of
what he was abeut, pulled the trigger
a seconed time and shot his mother
through the heart. The poor woman
could only ejaculate. ‘ Was that load
ed V’ before fell dead upon the
floor.”