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EASTMAN TIMES. A Real Live Country Paper. rUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING —BY n. s. BURT ON. TKUMS OP SUBSCRIPTION : One copy, one year .$2.00 One copy, six months 1 00 Ten copies, in clubs, one year, each 1.50 Single copies 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. EASTMAN TIMES. RATES OF ADVERTIBINO: spack. in, 3m. #m. 12 m. One square f4 w j * 7 00 $lO 00 $ 16 00 Two squares „.... 625 12 00 18 00 25 00 Four squares 975 19 00 28 00 39 00 One-fourth col 11 60 22 50i, 84 410 46 00 One-half col 20 00 82 60 65 00 80 00 One column 35 PC 80 00 80 qq| 130 00 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, $15.00 ljer annum; for six months, SIO.OO, in advance. 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.”