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I the home among the hills.
] V lIABRIF.T M’KWKN KIMBALL,
,iway between tliopo towering hills
J fondly human dwelling ;
t: circling acres, culture swept,
,, H jjttle history telling !
()|) fl tiicr hand the meadow land
Make fair the mountain spaces
Wiili golden reach of buttercups
\nd silver drift of daisies.
Behind, the niassive forest wall;
Before. the river running ;
\nil close about the little cot
The signs of human cunning :
The signs so homely and so sweet
That draw us to each other,
And make the daily life of man
Familiar to his brother.
IVe know the hand at early morn
That cottage hearth-fire kindling :
YVc watched the dropping of this corn;
\Y. wait its purple spindling !
A part have we in all the toils
Of these our mountain neighbors ;
A portion in the precious gain
Ih aven winnows from their labors.
We taste their trials, share their feasts,
And, with a passing wonder,
YV'e linger even while we go,
Their choice, their lot to ponder.
Amid the grandeur and the gloom
Ou every hand abiding.
A (lower of human blossoming
This little home is biding.
What tender wind of Providence
The small seed hither drifted,
Where yet those shadows vast may fall
On village spires uplifted ?
Lons awful seem those hills august,
I/'sh lone the valleys glooming,
Kn ee in this wilderness the rose
of human life is blooming !
documentary evidence.
BY ANNIE ItORERTSON NOXON.
If there is anything in the world
;asteful to me, it is a sudden railroad
ruev,” says Jasper Longworfchy, con
sntial clerk in the house of Lemon
m., cutlers, Bradbury street, to his
e, who vory carefully packed his
tmanteau with a chai ge of linen,
> extra pair of grey tweed trousers, a
cy checked waistcoat, a box of fine
ter collars, a neck-tie made of a
co of Mrs. L ngworthy’s wedding
SB, made the night before stealthily,
! designed by the good lady as a sort
talisman or amulet by wh’chher lius
id might, or ought to be preserved
ongh untold, undreampt-of dangers,
hat Mr. Longworthy failed to evince
Iden emotions at sight of the ever to
remembered puce-colored silk, with
white diamond fit ure, was simply an
dence of the utter heartlessness of
u, for it is not to bo presumed that
' muu could forget the dress in which
wife was married. The packing con
led until six tiers and a small flask
brandy and peppermint had been
.cozed in and the lid screwed down,
rton a maiden in a scarlet riding
lit with yellow buttons pranced gaily
r au orange meadow on a purple
se, and Mrs. Longworthy came for
d to procure Jasper’s assistance
nt strapping the portmanteau, her
d.s trembled, so.
Shan’t I put nn a nice lunch, dear—
df of cold chicken, two or three
'H of ham, some tongue, pickles, and
i quarter <. f whortleberry pie—”
“Mercy, woman,” says Mr. Longwor
hy wit lx flue disdain of this wifely so
icitude, “as if there were nothing eat
iblo between this and Tibury ! Lunch,
ftertainly not. What a figure I should
hit, like that troublesome man of Dick
>ns\ always going about with a huge
fhitc-brown parcel in a chronic state of
tilling to pieces. Now if I were going
or pleasure, my dear Harriet—but it is
i nasty piece of business my love, and
shall have plenty to think of besides
fhortleberry pie.”
Snatching a mouthful of cake, a gulp
coffee, and a hasty kiss, Mr. Jasper
/mgworthy and his portmanteau went
iown the front steps two at a bound,
md Mrs. Longworthv was left in a very
lesolate house, with odds and ends to
)ick up, soiled linen to count and put
ip for the wash, the day before’s mut
<>n to hash and—oh yes—Jasper’s cast
ill pockets to go through.
Hus is a business at which every
roman goes with expectancy at halx
tock—a kind of sickening dread that,
die will find that which the pitying gods
tumid snatch from her by a sudden
uarm of tire, or the tumbling of a
H'lghbor’s child into the cistern—any-
Mig to take her mind off the inter
acted and forbidden regions of the
waistcoat and coat, where men insist
I duns and disagreeable moms are
kept, telegrams, life insurance policies
wid price records.
Poor Jasper; he does hate to be
pent oft in this way, without hardly a
moment's warning, and the cars make
um so Hl <ck. I remember the summer
We were married, when we went down
\riti ’’o^ S t° C k to Aunt Calimy
Ihe investigation had been briskly
p'log onward, and with a deadly palor
j", cheeks, and her heart beating
iK “ a trip-hammer, Mrs. Longworthy
i,. 11 ?! i . oVer ftn .d over, before daring to
‘‘•m.l it, a delicate looking letter, ruled
water-lines and smelling of liedyos
,. hhey never scent price-lists nor
.ti’’ m sure ” swinging the abject
>.... mt ee of the dect itful Jasper under
, r 11 ( arm by the skirts, and sitting
‘",n D on {l couple of tomato cans.
* ‘ I,u ,v b*e reading begau, every let
of s ‘‘ cme d reeling away in a mad sort
!,*,/?’• U!i bl the little woman’s eyes
I n their sockets as if they had
1 aste d peanuts. If dear Jasper
01111 have seen her then :
mv Ur)avp'* N V In H P iteof everything,
toVn V dcnk I shall be able t) quit
little .. , v lou day. ard will meet you at the
tvhere r u!ii U °!‘ tlie E* and B. road, Paxton,
when T nr J ,' vait * or you, if you are not there
for !ti 1 ’?.* my own, we shall be be
-1 them Ever yours until death,
„ n , “Susie.”
jpi tiie deeply-dyed villain!” said
he L rß ’ J aß P er feeliug at first that
iwav 'Ti*" 1 hiug would be to faint dead
Sv jj' 111 “f H hJmg-room floor, with this
•cnee of perfidy locked in her hand.
1° nS ° f liavilJ S died in this state,
duel and heartless husband
Df U \ r ola y-oold hands, repenting
in? ti
)f L, JI) M J ,^ e frock they would,
)asi, out with his tears,
M. ‘, . hrough her mind with other
Could > r f ‘ f °^ onR ’ such as that lie
aen !°t t' ' coufidenca of his feliow
become prematurely bald.
b’inpi 'I nse lainting, or
fni )’ ie .Y as all alon e in that dread
iome withH. ?♦ bouse maid had gone
la <lgone hacb °’ an<l tiiecook
h->ueto the green-grocer’s for the
Two Dollars Per Annum,
VOLUME 11.
tomatoes to can, and if she came back
and found her mistress insensible, she
would perhaps douce her with nasty
cold water, or take the color out of her
new morning gown with ammonia.
. iipsing the hateful letter from her
as if it smelled of brimstone instead of
hedyosmia, Mrs. Longworthy, who was
a practical little body, albeit a trifle
romantic, got up from her uncomforta
ble position and wished that Jasper
Longworthy were there so that she
might sciatch his eyes out. But he
should see she was not to be trampled
on. Was she not a Wimbledon? And
were they not characterized by aminal
courage and noted for spirit?
“ I shall go back to mother’s this very
night, and never look on his deceitful
face agaiu. Brother Tom shall make
him repent of the way he has used me.
Susie indeed ! The artful minx—calls
him her own darling! Well, she can
have him now, I’m sure.” And at this
dreadful signing over, mentally, of all
right to Mr. Jasper Longworthy, five
feet seven in his stockings, thinking of
his general appearance as if called on
to make out a passport, Mrs. Jasper
staggered to her big cane-seat rocking
chair, fell into it, and burst into a vio
lent fit of weeping, sobbing as if her
heart would break.
“ Halloo ! halloo !” says a big bass
voice in the sitting-room, and sure
enough there was brother Tom, in his
usual creaky boots, coming in unex
pectedly to make Hattie the usual quar
terly visit, just to see how things were.
“What’s the row, old girl, and
where’s Jasper—not dead, I hope.”
“Oh, don’t mention him, brother
Tom ; I wish I were dead, I do. I
can’t boar to stay here, Tom. You must
take me back home immediately ; we
must never look on his face again.” A
fresh bust of sobs and tears.
“Take you back home—never look
on his face attain. If he has been
abusing my sister to this extent I’ll
break every bone in Mr. Jasper Long
worthy’s unmanly carcass; that’s what
I’ll do,” said Tom, bluntly, and mean
ing every word of it, too.
“No ; let him go, Tom. He’ll get
his deserts”—this in a dramatic tone,
very touching. “He Dever beat me,
you know, and I wouldn’t kill him if I
were you.” Tom growled like a mastiff
and began opening cupboards recklessly
and poking down spider webs as if Mr.
Longworthy was concealed in a pickle
closet.
Between sobs and tears Tom’s abused
sister threw her things into a trunk, as
Tom had decided to take her home first
and go on an animated hunt for Long
worthy afterwards, whom he should pro
oaed to annihilate on sight. He had
already pitched Longworthy’s tale-tell
ing coat and waist coat into the back
yard, when that unsuspected gentleman,
having left by the train, arrived on the
scene in a high state of excitement and
perspiration.
“ Good gracious ! What’s the mat
ter, Mrs. Longfellow ? Howdy, Tom—”
“ You’re a nice one, now arent you,”
said Tom, promptly knocking Long
worthy down, portmanteau and all;
“ now then, sir, explain yourself ; what
does this mean ?”
“ I’ll be hanged if I know,” said Mr.
Longworthy, picking himself up, with
very much the expression of a man who
has suddenly broken in on lunatics. He
ought, in the absence of an argument,
have knocked brother Tom down, but
the fact of it was that Tom was a
deuced big fellow, with muscles like
whip-cord, and it wouldn’t do.
“ Only to think of that cravat, too,
Mr. Longworthy. Oh, what a deluded
woman I have been; what would you
care for my wedding dress so long* as
you had your own ever till death Susie.
I know all about it; look at that letter;
I have read every word of it. Can you
face me after this ? ”
Here Mr. Longworthy had the bad
taste to laugh, long and loud, an evi
dence that the humor of the place was
catching, since no man in his sober
senses, who had just received a black
eye from his wife’s brother, would have
laughed like this.
“ This is too good, by George ! Come
here, Tom, I’ll tell you what this is;
it’s no use to explain to Harriet, she
wouldn’t believe me. This letter was
sent to young Bigelow, our clerk, who
absconded with two thousand dollars
three days ago. The firm intercepted it,
or rather, with the sanction of the law,
used this as a means of detecting the
chap, who had made arrangements to
elope with old Barker’s daughter, it is
supposed. I was sent on with an officer
to Paxton to help bring him back. But,
conlound it, I got left, as usual.”
“And you don’t love any other
woman, Jasper ? ”
This very penitently.
“ Not that I know of,” said Jasper,
wondering if his eye would swell
much.
“I don’t think I’ll ever marry, old
boy,” said Tom. rather sheepishly ; he
and Jasper ha' always been such
friends.
“If you find a woman who isn’t
curious in the least, marry her, Tom,
but always burn your letters, or any
body else’s which you happen to get
into your possession.” By this time
the cook had let the tomatoes spoil,
the dinner was late, and poor Long
worthy cursed young Bigelow from the
bottom of his soul, and taking a half
holiday went out of town with brother
Tom.
Bailey in Westminster Abbey.
Right this way, Mr. Bailey. Now
tell the people just how a man feels
who visits Westminister Abbey. “You
are rushed about from point to point,
and from trying to store your mind
with impressions you fall to looking out
for your legs. You are up to your neck
in romance, over your head in history;
and your whole performance is a reckless
and aimlesss effort to claw your way out.
The impressions which you receive are
but transitory come and go like
a flash, and after you are bowed out of
doors you feel as if you had taken a pro
minent part in a boiler explosion, and
are just about as clear as to the de
tails. I passed by scores of kings aud
queens and peers entombed, I walked
over acres of others, and wondered how
they could be so careless with their
dead. I got up from the service which
I witnessed on entering the building,
and found I had been sitting on au
entire family.”
EASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, fS74. NUMBER 31.
BLACK HILLS WONDERS.
A Veritable Kden-Discoveries of Gold,
Lead, and indications ot Silver.
The following is part of the official
report of Gen. G. A. Custar to the as
sistant adjutant general of the depart
ment of Dakota :
On the evening of the 22nd wc halted
and encamped east of and within four
miles of the base of Inyan Kara. De
siring to ascend that peak the following
day, it being highest in the western
range of the Black Hills, I did not move
camp the next day, but taking a small
party with me, proceeded to the high
est point of this prominent landmark,
whose height is given as 6,600 feet.
The day was not favorable for obtain
ing distant views, but I decided on the
folloYving morning to move due east
and attempt the passage of the hills.
We experienced considerable delay
from fallen timber which lay in our
pathway. With this exception, and a
very little digging, rendered necessary
descending into a valley, the pioneers
prepared the way for the train and we
reached camp by 2 o’clock, having
marched eleven miles. W@ here found
grass, water and wood of the best qual
ity and in great abundauce.
On the following day we resumed our
march p u the valley, which I had ex
plored several miles the preceding even
ing, and which led us by an easy ascent
almost southeast. After marching near
ly twelve miles we encamped at an ear
ly hour in the same valley. This val
ley, in one respect, presented the most
wonderful as well as beautiful aspect.
Its equal I have never seen ; and such,
too was the testimony of all who be
held it. In no public or private park
have I ever seen such a profuse display
of flowers of the most exquisite colors
and perfume. So luxuriant in growth
were they that men plucked them with
out dismounting from the saddle. Some
belonged to new or unclassified spe
cies. It was a strange sight to glance
back at the advancing columns of cav
alry, and behold the men with beauti
ful boquets in their hands, while the
head gear of their horses was decorated
with wreaths of flowers fit to crown a
queen of May. Deeming it a most fit
ting appellation, I named this Floral
valley. Gen. Forsyth, at one of our
halting places, chosen at random, pluck
ed seventeen beautiful flowers belonging
to different species, an 1 within a space of
twenty feet square. The same evening,
while seated at the mess table, one of
the officers called attention to the car
pet of flowers strewn under our feet,
and it was suggested that it bo deter
mined how many different flowers could
be plucked without leaving our seat at
the dinner table. S ?ven beautiful vari
eties were thus gathered. Prof. Don
aldson, the botanist of the expedition,
estimated the number of flowers in
bloom in Floral valley at fifty, while an
equal number of varieties bad bloomed
or were yet to bloom. The number of
trees, shrubs, and grasses were twenty
five, making the total flora of the valley
embrace 125 pieces.
Through this beautiful valley mean
ders a stream of crystal water so cold as
to render ice undesirable even at noon
day. The temperature of two of the
many springs found flowing into it was
taken, and ascertained to be 43 and 44£
degrees respectively.
As there are scientific parties accom
panying the expedition, who are exam
ining into the mineral resources of this
region, the result of whose researches
will accompany my detailed report, I
omit all present reference to that por
tion of our explorations until the return
of the expedition, except to state what
will appear in any event in the public
prints—that gold has been found at sev
eral places, and it is the belief of those
who are giving their attention to this
subject that it will be found in paying
quantities, f have upon my table forty
or fifty small particles of pure gold,
in size averaging that of a small pin
head, and most of it obtained to-day
from one panful of earth. As we have
never remained longer at one camp than
one day, it will be readily understood
that there is no opportunity to make a
satisfactory examination in regard to
deposits of valuable minerals. Veins
of lead and strong indications of the
existence of silver have been found.
Until farther examination is made re
garding the richness of the gold no
opinion should be formed. Veins of
what the geologists term gold-beariDg
quartz crop out on almost every, hill
side. All existing geological and geo
graphical maps of this region have been
formed incorrect. This will not seem
surprising when it is remembered that
both have been compiled by guess-work
and without entering the country at
tempted to be represented.
Robinson Crusoe’s Island.
Crusoe’s island is to-day a little para
dise. Lord planted there, on one of
his voyages, apples, peaches, grapes,
plums, strawberries, and several kinds
of vegetables. The number of the lat
ter was increased by a Scotchman,
David Douglas, who had lauded on the
island in 1825. He was not a little as
t nished to find a hermit there, who
had been on the island five years. On
the second day he was not a little sur
prised to see a man suddenly emerge
from a clump of bushes and approach
him. He looked upon himself as Cru
soe’s successor, although he did not
occupy the historical cave, having built
himself a hut of stones and sods, roof
ing it with the : traw of wild-oats. As
cooking utensils, he possessed only a
single iron pot, the bottom of which,
one unfortunate day, had fallen out.
This damage he had, however, the
ingenuity to repair with a wooden bot
tom ; but now he was compelled to
place his pot in the ground and build a
fire around it. This man’s name was
William Clark, and he came from Lon
don. He had a few books, and among
them there was a copy of Robinson
Crusoe’s adventures and of Cowper's
poems. He called Douglas’ attention
especially to tne well-known poem be
ginning :
“ I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there ia none to dispute,” etc.
Nevertheless, he did not seem to be
happy. There was one wish, his great
est, that he could not gratify—he could
get, no roast beef !
At present, this island is in the pos
session of a colony of Germans. Sixty
or seventy, under the leadership of an
In God }fc Trust
engineer named Robert Webrhahn, set
tled there in 1863. They describe the
island as being in the highest degree
s lubrious and fruitful. On their arri
val they found large flocks of goats,
about thirty half wild horses, and some
sixty asses. They brought with them
cows, hogs, fowls, farming utensils,
small boats, and fishing-tackle.
Egyptian Lore.
Great must have been the wisdom of
that ancient land, for it is spoken of in
the book of sacred truth ; the volume
of wisdom. But of the numerous paroh
ments, and vast libraries, alas ! but few
page3 have come down to us. There are
three or four manuscripts on papyrus
still extant that ware taken from the
tombs ; they are of great interest to all,
and especially to biblical students, as
they are coroborative of Bible history.
The most interesting and the largest of
these is now in the British museum.
Besides these, we have a few pages of
Manetho, the Egyptian historian. Of
the forty-three sacred books they once
possessed, but one remains; it was
called the book of the dead, and con
tains a description of the trial of a de
parted soul. It is represented on its
long journey, as occupied with prayers
and confessions. Forty-two gods occupy
the judgment seat. Os rus presides,
and before him are the scales, in one of
which the statue of perfect justice is
placed, in the other the heart of tiie de
ceased. The soul of the dead stands
watching the balance, while Hornus ex
amines the plummet indicating which
way the beam preponderates, and truth,
the justifier, records the sentence. If
this is favorable the soul receives a
mark or seal “Justified.”
Some of tho ancient inspired writers
appear to have been familiar with this
book. Lycurgus went to Egypt to learn,
and there many a sage of Greece learned
his first lessons in wisdom and philoso
phy. Classic limners, sculptors, and
historians searched for knowledge in
the land of Lotus.
The land of :he wonderful pyramids,
and mystic hieroglyphics is the birth
place of the alphabet. There the won
ders of astronomy were studied, and
was not that little apartment that
crowns yon colossal temple an observa
tory bv which the heavens were swept
by optical instruments? In the arts,
their knowledge was great. The manu
facture of glass was well understood ;
they made coffins. Paintings have been
discovered, showing machinery whose
motive power couldn’t have been any
thing else but steam. An obelisk
brought from Egypt to Napoleon, and
erected at Paris, was found to have been
polished by the saud-blast process. Men
skilled in the art of stone-dressing
could not effect a polish with their steel
instruments on # that granite shaft; it
would crumble and break bar oath the
plastic hand ; but by the sand-blast
process recently discovered in America,
they could wear smooth the crumbling
stone. The process consists in putting
in motion a stream of sand by a current
of steam or heated air. They made
steel, and were skilled in metallurgy.
Their paintings still remain, and are
wonderful for beauty, though thousands
of years have elapsed since those strokes
were made. In the science of medicine
they were proficient; in embalming they
could see the effect of disease. To this
day the characters used by apothecaries
to denote drachms and grains are E
tian ciphers as adopted by the Arabs. —
Washington Republican.
The Steamer Elephant.
Mr. Thomas Hartshorn is still able
to tliow a little light on the annals of
the steamer “ Elephant,” Capta n Jim
Homer remembers the “ Elephant,” and
bears witness to her speed. He re
membe*s that she had a tin elephant on
her jackstaff, and one painted on eash
wheel-house. All questions as to the
existence of such a boat are put at
rest. Mr. Hartshorn says, by way of
further recording the exploits of the
Elephant : “ She was cornin’ up from
Orleans on one.of her trips, and struck
a wood-yard just below Shirt tail Bend.
The wood-yard was about a mile long,
and the current set strong agin the shore
that the yard was on. The Elephant
pulled up at the lower end of the yard
and wooded. She started agin the cur
rent, and dura me if she didn’t wood
three times at that yard. She was the
broadest boat across the stern, I reckon,
that you ever saw. She had two rud
ders, one at each side, and when she
was moving she made a sort of suction
or eddy behind her so strong that if a
man fell overboard he would follow the
boat all day. When a man tumbled off
they used to look at the books to see if
his passage was paid. If it was paid
they pnlled him aboard, and if it wasn’t
they let him slide.”
“ The Elephant,” continued Mr.
Hartshorn, “ made one trip to St. Louis
just after she was built. She was in
sight of the town about two days be
fore she got there. All the steamboat
people were out lookin’ at her chimneys
and pilot-house, and trying to tell what
boat she was. Finally one of the pilots
on a Cincinnati packet, who’d passed
her two or three times on her way round,
sez, * I’ll bet, by gad, she’s the Ele
phant.’ And sure enough she was.”
—A naturalistic physician in Frsnce
thinks it worth while to protest against
that mistaken effort of self-control by
which people repress groans, cries and
tears under pain. Telling of a man
who, while suffering under a trying op
eration, reduced his pulse from 126 to
60 in two hours by crying heartily, he
maintains that tears are a beneficent re
lief provided by nature for anguished
adults as well as children, for men as
well as women, and that to check them
is to concentrate upon the whole nerv
ous system a restraint that may some
times be fatal.
—The editor of the Burlington (la.)
Hawkeye has discovered a woman who
will get up at six o’clock, kindle the
fire, get breakfast, rout out the family,
Mash the dishes and six childreu,
a button on the neck of her husband’s
shirt and hunt his hat, go to a mission
Sunday-school and teach a class, attend
church, rush home and have dinner
over and the things cleared away in time
for afternoon Sunday-school, read the
Sunday-school papers to the children,
go to church at night, and talk on her
way home about Sunday as a “day of
rest.”
AMERICAN INCIVILITY.
Wliat Or. J. <■ Holland Has to Say- on
the Subject.
There is, most undoubtedly, some
thing in the political equality estab
lished by American institutions which
interferes with the development of civ
ility among those who occupy what are
denominated the lower walks of life.
It is hard to see why this should be so.
One would naturally suppose that polit
ical equality would breed reciprocal re
spect among all classes and individuals,
no less than self-respect. Certainly
there could hardly be a better basis of
good manners than self-iespect and re
spect for others; yet, with everything
in our institutions to develop these, to
gether with a respect for women which
is entertained in no other country with
which we are' acquainted, it is not to
be denied that among the workers of
the nation politeness is little known and
less practiced. A man who steps into
Washington market, with a good eoat
on, looking for his dinner, will receive
the utmost politeness of which the stall
keeper is capable, and this will consist
in calling him “ boss “ —a boorish con
cession to civility for the sake of trade.
The courteous greeting, the “ Sir,” and
the “ Madam,” the civil answer, the
thousand indescribable deferences and
at entions, equally without servility or
arrogance, which reveal good manners,
are wanting.
It all comes, we suppose, of the fear
of those who find themselves engaged
in humble employments, that they shall
virtually concede that somebody some
where is better than themselves. It is
singular that they should voluntarily
take a course that proves the fact that
they are so unwilling to admit to them
selves and others. The man who un
dertakes to prove that he is as good as
a gentleman, by behaving like a boor,
volunteers a decision against himself ;
while he who treats all men politely
builds for himself a position which se
cures the respect of all whose conduct
is not condemned by his own. The
American is a kinder man than the
Frenchman, and better natured than the
Englishman, but the humble American
is less polite than either. One of the
charms of Paris to the traveling Ameri
can grows out of the fact that it is one
of the first places he visits, and that
then, for the first time in his life, he
comes into contact with a class of hum
ble people who have thoroughly good
manners. He is not called “ boss,” or
“boss.” He is himself pub upon his
good behavior, by the thoroughly cour
teous treatment he receives among rail
way officials, shop-keepers, waiters at
cafe and hotel, cab-drivers, etc. The
“ bien ! Monsieur,” and “ bien ! Mad
ame,” which responds to one’s requests
in Paris, is certainly very sweet and sat
isfactory after : “All right, boss ; you
can bet on’t.”
Where the cure for our national trou
ble is coming from, it is hard to tell.
There was a time, fifty years ago, when
there was a degree of reverence in Amer
ican children, and at least a show of
good manners. Great respect to those
of superior age and culture was then
inculcated, and at least formal courtesy
exacted. Those of country breeding
who are old enough remember the
strings of school children at the road
side, who arrayed themselves for the
formal exhibitions of courtesy to the
passenger. Certainly all this training
is done with, and such a sight as this
we presume has not been witnessed in
America within twenty-five years.
Even the men and women—fathers,
mothers, and teachers of fifty years ago,
had receded from the courteous habits
of previous generations. In the old,
colonial and even later days, great re
spect was paid to dignities. The
clergyman was reverenced bcause he
was a clergyman, and occupied the su
preme position of teacher of the people.
He was reverenced not only because of
his holy calling, but because he was a
scholar. All this has gone by. The
clergyman, if he is a good fellow, is
very much liked and petted, but the
old reverence for him, and universal
courtesy toward him, are unknown.
Are the people any better for all this
change ? We think not, and we do not
doubt that the change itself has much
to do with the habits of incivility of
which we complain. Men must have
some principle of reverence in them, as
a basis of good manners, and this princi
ple of reverence in the modern Ameri
can child has very little development.
He comes forward early, and the first
thing he does in multitudes of instances
is to lose his respect for his parents.
Indeed, courtesy toward parents is in
no way exacted. Poor men and woman
try to give their children better chances
than they had themselves, and the
children grow up with contempt for
those whose sacrifices have raised them
to a higher plane of culture. They call
the teacher “Old Snooks,” or “Old
Bumble,” or whatever his name may
happen to be. It is not unjust to de
clare that there is in America to-day no
attempt distinctly and definitely made,
to cultivate a spirit of reverence in
children.
We acknowledge that we have no faith
in any attempt to reform the manners
of the adult population of the country.
Our efforts to make sober men out of
drunkards, and total-abstinence men
out of moderate drinkers, are failures.
Our temperance armies are to be made
entirely out of children. We ea\j raise
more Christians by juvenile Christian
culture, than by adult conversfton,, a
thousand to one. So it will be in this
matter of national politeness. The;
parents and teachers of the country can*
give us a polite people, and this by the
cultivation of the principle of rever
ence not only, but by instruction in all
the form of polite address. With a
number of things greatly needed to
day in home culture and school study,
this matter of training in good manners
is not the least. Indeed we are inclined
to think it is of paramount importance.
It should become a matter of text books
at once. A thorough gentleman or
lady, who has brains enough to compre
hend principles, while proficient in
practice, could hardly do a better ser
vice to the country than by preparing a
book for parents aud teachers, as at
once a guide to them and to those who
are under them. Children mus f be
trained to politeness, or they will never
be polite. They must drink politeness
in with their mother’s milk ; it must be
exacted in the family and neighborhood
Payable in Advance.
relations, and boys and girls must grow
up gentlemen and ladies in tlieir de
portment, or our nation can never
be a thoroughly polite one—polite in
soul as well as iu ceremony, and kiud in
manner as well as kind in heart.
The Sonorous Sand of Kunai*
W. H. Frink, of Honolulu, has sent
some strange sand, taken from a bank
on the island of Kauai, to the Academy
cf Sciences of San Fraueisoo. In his
letter he thus describes its peculiarity:
“The bank, which is composed of this
sand, commences at a perpendicular
bluff at the southwest of the island,
and extends one and a half miles almost
due south, parallel with the beach,
which is about 100 yards distant from
tha.base of the sand bank. This sand
drift is about sixty feet high, and at the
extreme south end the angle preserved
is as steep as the nature of the sand
will permit. The bank is constant
ly extending to the south. It is said by
the natives that at the bluff and along
the middle of the bank the sand is-not
sonorous. But at the extreme south
end and for a half-mile north, if you
slap two handfuls together there is a
sound produced like the low hooting of
an owl—more or less sharp according as
the motion is quick or slow. Sit down
upon the sand and give one hand a
quick circular motion, and the sound is
like the heavy bass of a melodeon.
Kneel upon the steep incline, extend
the two hands and clasp as much sand
as possible, slide rapidly down, carry
ing all the sand you can, and the sound
accumulates as you descend until it is
like distant thunder. In this experi
ment the sound was sufficient to frighten
our horses, fastened a short distance
from the base of the drift. But the
greatest sound we produced was by
having one native lie upon his belly and
another taking him by the feet and
dragging him rapidly down the incline,
carrying as much sand as possible with
them. With this experiment the sound
was terrific, and could have been heard
many hundred yards distant. With all
the experiments that were made, it
seemed the sound was in proportion to
the amount of sand put in motion with
a proportionate velocity. Another con
sideration seems requisite—that is, its
perfect drynefs. The dry sand would
sound on the surface where six inches
beneath it was wet; but if any of the
wet sand became mingled with the dry,
its property of sounding ceased at once.
The sand appears to the eye like ordi
nary beach sand, but ordinary beach
sand will not produce the sounds. It
has been said that it lost its sonorous
properties when taken away from the
bank. But I can discover no diminish
ing of its sonorous qualities, even with
the bottle uncorked, and we have had
rain frequently and an atmosphere more
than ordinarrily moist for this time of
year. Perhaps if exposed to a very
damp atmosphere it might absorb mois
ture enough to prevent its sounding.”
The Formation of Diamonds.
Two specimens of diamonds found by
Agassiz imbedded in the itacolumite or
elastic sandstone of Brazil settled the
long mooted question of the matrix or
natural origin of that jewel. Diamonds
are particles of pure carbon crystalized
at a certain temperature, caused by the
volcanic action which has upheaved all
the ledges of itacolumite or elastic sand
stone found on the face of the globe.
If this precise degree of heat should by
any irruption or convulsion of nature
be applied to those vast storehouses of
carbon, the coal fields of the west,
there is n© telling the amount of dia
mond crystals that might be produced.
But it seems that this exact amount of
heat is never attained save in the ita
columite formation, and whenever loose
diamonds are found in sands or in con
glomerate formation they prove the ex
istence of larger quantities imbedded
in itacolumite in the neighborhood.
Wherever that formation is upheaved,
therefore, we may look for diamond de
posits here. As yet no efforts have been
made to bore into the itacolumite for
mation itself for these gems. But as it
is a granular silicious rock of laminated
structure distinguished by its peculiar
flexibility, sheets of it bending back and
forth as if jointed, there is no reason
why it should not be worked to advan
tage in searching for diamonds. Ledges
of it are found in Georgia, and North
and South Carolina, and diamonds of
great value have been pieked up in the
first named t fate.
Vanderbilt and His Son.
A Saratoga letter says : ‘This morn
ing I watched Commodore Vanderbilt
as he walked down the balcony to join
a whist party in the elegant private
club room built by the United States
hotel for its guests. The old railroad
king leans heavily on his cane, and
walks as if this was his last summer at
Saratoga. His weight goes heavily on
one foot, the foot slides forward slowly,
the cane feels its way ahead, and then
the body moves heavily and slowly
along. When the octogenarian sits
down his silver head leans forward, one
hand rests on his cane and the other
tails on his knees. As he thus sits a
great crowd pass by with reverential'
look.
Near the commodore is the oldest
and favorite son, William H. Vander
bilt, on whose shoulders all the cares
and responsibilities of a revered father
will rest. Wm. H. Vanderbilt has been
schooled to take his father’s place, and,,
when the commodore dies he will suc
ceed to the presidency of the New
York Central and to the posses
sion of the bulk of his father’s
fortune, ranging from fifteen to fifty
millions. W. H. Vanderbilt is a sturdy,
strong man, about fifty years old. He
has a broad brow, strong, individual
features, large mouth, and is a man of
power and character, and when his mind
has full scope he will make combina
tions and carry out gigantic plans which
will astonish the admirers of the old
commodore. His habits aye good, he
likes hard work, and has all the power
of his great father.
—A Hartford man was drowned, and
friends brought home the dead body to
his afflicted wife. As they came to the
front door with the,- corpse the new
made widow appeared and sadly re
marked : “I guess you had better
take him around to the back door, so he
won’t drip on the parlor carpets ! ”
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FACTS AND FANCIES.
—Nine thousand bushels of peanuts
from Africa arrived in Boston the other
day.
—How Patrick proposes to get over
his single blessedness—By proposing to
Bridge it.
—ln Boone, lowa, the young ladies of
the period meander through the streets
playfully kicking over dry goods boxes
and punching one another’s hats off with
tlieir parasols.
—Gent (calling at the house of a lady
friend) —“ Is your mistress in ? ” Mary
—“She is, sur.” Gent—“ls she en
gaged ? ” Mary—“ Faith, she’s more
nor that; she’s married.”
—The reason an urchin gave lately
for being so late at school was, that the
boy in the next house was going to have
a dressing down by his daddy, and he
waited to hear him “ howl.”
—lt was “darling Gweorge ” when a
bridal party left Omaha ; it was “ dear
George ” at Chicago ; at Detroit it was
“George.” and when they reached
Niagara Falls it was “Say, you.”
—“ I don’t want to make any sacrifices
uselessly,” said her husband, as he
rolled up his sleeves and stood over the
wash-tub, while his wife executed a
pas seul around him with a potato
masher.
—People talk about the Christian
spirit of forgiveness to bo met with in
America, but let a young man sit down
on anew plug hat at a Sunday-school
excursion and it mars the harmony of
the whole assembly.
—lt may not be generally known,
says a Chicago paper that the enormous
arches which support the Chicago and
St. Louis bridge were copied from a
cast taken from the instep of a promi
nent St. Louis belle.
—First drunkard—“l live faraway.
I am not like you, a rich man, who can
afford to live in the centre of the city.”
Second drunkard—“ Never mind, rich!
Of what use is it to me ? Even if I was
a millionaire I couldn’t be more drunk
than I am.”
“ What dainty note of long-drawn melody
Athwart our dreamlesa sleep rings sweet and
clear,
Till all the fumes of slumber are brushed by,
And with awakened consciousness we hear
The pipe of birds. Look forth. The samo
white day
Blesses the hill-tops, and the sun is near ;
All misty phantoms slowly roll away
With the night’s vapors toward the western
•ky.
The Real enchants us, the fresh breath of hay
Blows toward us ; soft the meadow grasses lie,
Boarded with dew ; the air is a caress ;
The sudden sun overtaps the boundary
Of eastern bills, the morning joyousness
Thrills tingling through the frame; lifo’s
pulse beats strong
Night'b fancies molt like dew. So ends the
song!”
—Each farm hand in New York pro
duced S67G in crop*? in 1870 or the year
before, as shown by the census. In
Pennsylvania the return was $715; and
$39 more than in New York. In North
Carolina the yield per laborer s2ll, in
Tennessee $3lO. These figures are very
suggestive.
—ln London a nrospectus has been is
sued for a Canadian meat and produce
company, with a capital of $1,000,000,
in 20,000 shares of SSO each. The com
pany is formed, it is mentioned, “ for
purchasing and slaughtering in Canada
or elsewhere cattle or other stock, and
exporting meat to Great Britain or elso
where.”
—“ Missus Snowdrop,” said a gentle
man of color the other afternoon during
a shower, to a lady of bis acquaint
ance, “as de wedder is somewhat am
phibious, will you do me de honor to
step under my umbreller an form a
quorum?” “Thank you, Mr. Billups,
I will. In dis wedder an umbreller is
rather cosmopolitan.”
—Mr. Alfred Organ, of Sumpter,
Wisconsin, has an acre of teasles that
are now in the burr, and are looking re
markably fine. Teasles aie extensively
used in woolen factories for raising the
nap on cloth, and owing to the small
production of them in this country, the
market is seldom, if ever, overstocked,
particularly in the west.
—Swinburne has put on his war
paint, and is skirmishing around de
manding justice. When told, the other
day, that hie ten-mile poem, “Bothwell,”
would* have to be cut down for the stage,
he went on worse than Dr. Johnson, and
threatened to emigrate to America. Al
gernon is a child of impulse, and won’t
be anything else until he gets married.
—The latest novelty in earrings is
probably the singular pair which were
sported by a dashing Parisian belle at a
recent wedding. From each ear hung a
small gold gridiron, on which was laid
a heart formed of garnets, the idea t*
be conveyed, says a gushing corres
pondent, being that of a bleeding heart
upon the fiery coals of love !
—The death rate in London, England,
is only half as great in proportion to
population as it is in New York. This
indicates that there is something wrong
in the habits of our people and in their
sanitary management. Poverty and
crime,’"the great accessories of death
must be far greater among the crowded
millions of the British than the Ameri
can metropolis.
—A young husband took his wife to a
soda fountain last evening, and, look
ing solemnly at the man who asked
them “what syrnp?” said he would
take “crusade.” Imagine his horror
when she said she would try some too.
He laughed feebly, but the cold sweat
stood* in great drops on his clammy
brow ; iut, fortunately, the soda man
never lost his presence of mind, and,
while the husband threw in an extra
dose of “crusade,” hiß wife made a very
wry face over ginger. She will never
try “ crusade” again.
—The Founder’s medal of the Royal*
Geographical society was granted to Dr.
Schweinfurtb, and the Victoria medal
to Major Warburton, who has lately
crossed the interior of Western Austra
lia from the M’Dowell ranges to the
coast north of Nicol Bay, passing over
eight or nine hundred miles of territory
never before trodden by the foot of a
white man. ’ The country traversed
proves to be eminently barren and un
interesting in an agricultural point of
view. For three months the expedition
had nothing to Hve upon but dried
camel’s flesh and such roots aid bulbs
as they could gather.