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SUMMER-TIDE.
There are blossotrs in the garden sweet and fair •
There’* a eeuse of wondrous fragrance in the air’*
And the meadow-grass is swaying ’
The fickle breeze obeying ; ’
And the daisies lift their white heads everywhere.
There’s a twittering in the tree-fojn when the earth
Rejoices at the noouiing’s glorious birth,
And the little birds, awaking,
Their leafy nest forsaking,
Fly hither and fly thither in their mirth.
And the bees about tho buttercups fly round.
"With a lazy, humming, droning sound,
And they gather all the sweotness
Of tho summer-day’s completeness
Where the fields with clover-blossoms most abound.
There are fleecy clouds above me soaring high,
Light and lazily, across the azure sky :
There are shadows shifting lightly
the sunbeams follow brightly ;
And the day in peaceful beauty passeth by.
And a silv’ry sound of soothing melody
From within the grand old forests come to me :
"Pis tbe tiny brooklet gliding
Beneath the trees, half-hiding,
The while it r.pples forth its song of glee.
And when day'is done the distant evening-bell
Itingelh out, while echoes soft the sweet tones swell
TUI the stars, their bright watch keeping,
From the shadowy skies are peeping,
And gentle silence comes at last with ns to dwell.
ALMOST A GHOST STORY.
“ Did you ever see a ghost ?” was the
appeal.
“ Well, I came deuced near it, I can’
tell you,” said young Howard.
“How near ?” cried the company,
drawing their chairs to the fire.
“ It was in that desolate, God-forsa
ken part of New Jersey,” said Howard,
“near Barnegat Shoals. What with
the nature of the soil there, its barren
ness and sterility, the jagged, repelling
grimness of tho rocks, pnd the wild,
desolate infinity of the waters, there’s
something about Barnegat that breeds
an affinity with ghosts and spectres.
There had been a wreck of a coasting
schooner in the vicinity, and although
the news didn’t make much of a sensa
tion in tbe newspapers, it brought de
spair and desolation to one heart at
least—that of the young mate’s mother.
He was an old school-mate and warm
friend of my own, and I volunteered to
go down and see if the body could be
found and brought home.
“ When I reached there the whole as
pect of the place struck me as forbid
dingly wild and lonely ; and when, to
ward the close of a stormy day,
poor old Jack’s body was washed ashore,
stark and stiff, and distorted almost be
yond recognition, I wasn’t able to lend
the fellows down there a helping hand.
I was seized with a nervous chill, and
went in-doors to the brandy flask. Pi op
ped up with au artificial courage, I went
out again and found them hauling their
helpless burden toward a fisherman’s hut
close by. They had flung it in an old
tarpaulin blanket, and I couldn’t help
protesting inwardly against die rude
way in which they bumped it along
through the breakers and over the
rocks.
“ I thought of that tender, womanly
heart at home in the east, and the gen
tle reverence that hedged about even
her every thought and feeling about
Jack, and I determined there and then
that he should be taken home to her in
some shape that WV'han’t appall or hor
rify her.
“They laughed at me when I spoke
of a coffin, but nevertheless I resolved
upon getting one, if such a thing could
be had for love or money. Not that a
coffin is absolutely requisite in all cases.
It wouldn’t have mattered a pin to
either Jack or myself if, tied up in the
old tarpaulin, with a weight heavy as
destiny itself, we were forced to the
bottom of the S’‘a. But to a woman,
an old church-ridden, conventional
woman, a victim to circumstance and
enstom, a coffin was the only thing that
could render the affair respectable, or
indeed bearable.
“ I passed a sleepless night, and went
off before daylight in search of an old
man that bore a queer reputation about
there for appropriating any thing that
came inshore, and rendering it useful
or ornamental with a rude knack he had
in the ca-penter line. The boys told
me there was a little of everything in
his old rookery, and they hadn’t the
least doubt I could find even a coffin
there, or something that could be mod
eled into one.
“It was good league to his dwell
ing, and I reached there with a forebod
ing that my journey was for nothing ;
but upon broaching the subject to him,
he stated his readiness at onoe to com
ply with my demands.
“ ‘But what will you do for material?’
I asked.
“He smiled grimlv, and opening a
door that led up to a sort of loft, he
beckoned me to follow him In that
loft there was wood readily adapted to
build a ship, a house, a theatre —auy
thing and every thing that might be de
sired, Not common wood, mark you,
but wreckers’ material—panels of French
walnut, exquisitely carved in bass-re
lief, bits of precious ebony, of sandal
wood, of box, and some of that delicate
white pine that exhales a delicious per
fume, The boys had said that he was
Very clever in the carpenter line. I was
inspired with a sort of trust in his ca
pacity, and his willingness to undertake
tho job was only eqnaled by bis deter
mination to be paid well for doing it.
“ ‘ Don’t you fret, young man,’ said
the old skeleton. Til fix it for you in
a shape that ’ll suit. I’ll have it as
scrumptious as a nut—that is, ef you’re
ahle to bear the, heft of the expense.
It’s costly, ver know, to hev things pi
ous and nice down this wav; we can’t
a’lers afford it; then the sea bein’ han
dy, it’s a temptation to save time and
money; but ef the expense ain’t counted
in— ’
“‘Nevermind the expet se, pard,’ I
< xclaimed. ‘You do the thing up nicely
for me, and I’ll see you through ; but
it must bo done at once; the body is
almost beyond saving now, and I want
the coffin by to-mcrrow-night. It must
be ready to be shipped before daybreak
the next morning.’
“ ‘AH right,’said the old screw. ‘I
don't mind losin’ a little sleep to be
obligiu’, ef only the expense— ’
“‘You old vulture,’ I roared, ‘l’ll
Pay you half on the spot!’ And I
counted out to him enough greenbacks
to make his sharp old nose come down
ft ud chop over his chin with an unctuous
smack of appreciation.
“ ‘ I’ll hev it that scrumptious,’ said
thH wretch, with greedy enthusiasm,
* c * a P y° ur bauds over it.
ft 11 be that peart and pious that you
*>fteiln t bo ashamed of it in a church!’
Two Dollars Per Annum,
VOLUME 11.
I nodded approvingly, and started
on the home stretch with the oomforta
i e feeling of a man who has done ail
,e ameliorate an inemediable
suffering. All that day there was a
threatening aspect of the winds and the
waves that boded more mischief on that
malevolent shore. Massive heavy clouds
hung black as ink over the sharp jagged
rocks, and a fierce under-tone in the ele
ments told of a conspiracy for a tem
pestuous debauch.
“ My poor old Jack bad beeu washed
and shaven, his last toilet rendered with
all the care that his old friend and
school-fellow could bestow upon a mel
ancholy labor of love; a few hot tears
burst from my burning eyes, and fell
upon that strange and unfamiliar faee ;
and fluding it become less and less re
cognizable as I gazed upon it, I covere 1
it reverently with my handkerchief, and
sat silent and alone with it and the
darkness, waiting for the old man with
the coffin.
“As the day waned and twilight
gathered, a wail brokeriorth from the
rocks and waves; a few belated gulls
flopped their wings heavily over the
water that began to lash furiously the
low sandy shore. Presently a few drops
fell, the precursors of one of those furi
ous storms that riot on that desert
ooast.
“ An agony of impatience seized me.
I got upon my feet, and paced to and fro
the loose boards of the hut.
“Was I, then, condemned to stay
here, powerless to save my poor Jack
from being the puppet of yonder malig
nant fiends of the shore and the sea ? I
knew if the coffin were delayed until
the storm increased in fury, the road to
the old wrecker’s home would be impass
able, flooded, and without a clew.
“ Was it, then, destined that he should
be thrown into the greedy maw of the
sea, after all, and his place in the dear
little church-yard at home know him no
more? There were prayers even tben
offered up for him in that dear little
village in the valley, not only by the
thin and withered iips of his mother,
but sweet and roseate ones were trem
bling in his behalf that late had clung
to his own in rapture, aud gentle youug
fingers would gather flowers for his
grave and murmur benisons there for
many a year. Oh, was it, then, impos
sible to give this joy to my poor old
Jack ?
“ I started up with a malediction upon
the storm and its surroundings, aud
with an impulse of desperation wrapped
myself in an old tarpaulin and ventured
forth.
“I suppose my nerves were pretty well
unstrung, for the dea 1 face of my lost
comrade followed me with a grotesque
and honible persistency. I strug
gled against the feeling, but it seemed
to me the murky air was full of shape
less fiends and bodiless spirits of devil
ish propinquities.
“Stumbling along, the rain beating
mercilessly down, making the rocky path
perilously smooth, I made my way slow
ly in the direction of the old wrecker’s
abode.
“Feeling the step by step in
this wilderness and storm, it must have
taken me many hours to accomplisii a
mile, for I had scarcely gone half-way
when I found by mv watch it was
nearly midnight. The same lurid
gleam of MghtniDg that showed me the
face of my watch gave me also a fleet
glimpse of something lying in the road
before me, almost at my feet.
“ I looked, and started back in hor
ror ; a peculiar sensation came to my
scalp; I felt my hair, so to speak,
rising on end ; for there, in a defile of
the road, half wedged in the shelter of
a rock, was a coffin. The peculiar
shape of it was only dimly discernible,
and either exaggerated by this dimness
or else the coffin was of gigantic size.
How did it get there ? Did the fiends
about me contrive this shape to deceive
my half-delirious senses? I looked
again, and slowly I saw tho pond; rous
lid rise, a skeleton hand come forth;
then an arm. At last half the form
emerged from this terrible resting
place, and, wrapped about with a wind
ing-sheet, seemed struggling to leave
the coffin altogether.
“ I seized my pistol with a trembling
hand. I cocked it.
“‘Don’t shoot, young man!’ cried
the spectre. ‘ Ye’ll spile the polish, ef
yer do. This cussed rain has e’en a’-
most done for it already. It was nious
and peart a spell back, but it’s pretty
well spiled nw, I’m afeard.’
“It was my old wrecker, carpenter,
and coffin-maker. He explained to me
that he’d started on time with the cof
fin, and kept up till the storm had come
upon him, and was forced to rest awhile
under the overhanging rock. He
thought, very properly, hat no bett r
shelter could be found than the coffin
itself ; and he was right. We might
both have crept inside, and there would
still have been room for more.
“ ‘ Why on earth did you make it so
big?’l said. ‘ I ’don’t want my poor
Jack to lio around loose in this way.’
“ ‘Well, where’s the odds? ’ said the
accommodating artisan. ‘Yon didn’t
seem to spare the expense ; so I thought
I’d leave plenty of elbow-room. We
can find suthin or other for ballast, I
reckon down below. ’ __ ,
“ Poor jjuok USB to Vms day in'the
singular ooffiu thus provided for him,
and over him the arbutus blooms, and
tender violets, and all the dainty flow
ers dear to a young girl’s fancy or an
old worn in’s love.”
Victor Hugoesque,
A writer in Lippincott’s gives this bur
lesque of Hugo’s recent style : “ What
a precipice of the past! Descent lugu
brious ! Dante would hesitate at it.
The Ego, the Hugo, does not. The
Niagara flows from a sea and falls into
an abyss. The Rhine flows from an
abyss and falls into a flat. Paroxysmal
paradox. The Lurlei sings at St. Goar,
and the bugpiper plays the bugpipe at
the First of Fourth. The 14th July de
livered ; the 10th August thundered ;
(be 21sr. September established. 1789,
1793, 1830. In 1690 a child was abar
doned on the rocks of Portland, in 1800
the rocks of Portland were broken in*o
Portland cement, and in 1845 the Port
land vase was cemented, after being
broken by a young man named WHliam
Lloyd. John Brown Montgolfier, iE-ichy
lus, Bug Jargal, Job. The facts appear,
as connected with the Rhine, to the au
thor’s grave.”
EASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1874.
LYING.
The Social Lie aad Its Disastrous Con
sequences.
Although the commandment against
lying is found almost at the close of the
decalogue, I incline to place it, in the
education of children, at the head of
the list, for lying seems to be with most
children the first intentional offence.
It is sometim s inherited, but oftener
taught by imitation. Children hear
their nursery maids tell downright false
hoods to shield themselves from blame
for various trifling faults or omissions
of duty; and they are, indeed, fortu
nate in their parents if they do not also
find them guilty of pr*vurication and
intent to deceive. In a hundred differ
ent ways mothers deceive their little
children, not thinking for a moment
that they are teaching them a lesson in
falsehood which may bear fruit to their
latest hour, and educating the children
to doubt the one in whom, of all per
sons, they should put implicit con£-,
dence.
Riding in the cars a few weeks since I
heard a mother sav to an uproarious
child:
“ Jamie, bo still ! If you don’t stop
screaming I’ll throw you out of the car
window, certain sure ! Hush, now, or
you’ll see what I’ll do !”
The child, a boy about two years old,
looked his astonishment at the threat,
but his cries were not much lessened.
Then the mother took him up in her
arms as though she would throw him
out, when he screamed in frantic terror
and clung to her neck with such ap
palling fear that she was forced to hush
him with kisses, caresses and candy.
After a while he fell asleep, worn out
vvith his tumultuous passion. Poor lit
tle child !
A little girl of four or five, who had
watched the whole scene silently but
with the deepest interest, and who,
when her mother motioned to throw her
little brother from the window, had
caught her arm in terror, now said :
“ Mamma, would you have thrown
Jamie out ?”
“No, indeed child,” replied the
mother; “I only wished to frighten
him.”
“Frighten him,” forsooth! She suc
ceeded in it far better than she expected,
and at the same time taught her little
girl a lesson in falsehood, aud also in
oontempt for her mother, for the ex
pression of that child’s mouth betoken
ed the feelings of her heart. How I
longed to cry out to her, in Othello’s
words :
“ You told a lie; an odious, damned lie;
Upon my soul a lie ; a wicked lie!”
Of course she would have thought me
an escaped lunatic, so I forbore, but I
could not help my lips wreathing in
scorn at the woman’s perfidy, aud I did
wish to tell her that if she disciplined
her children in that style she was surely
sowing “ the whirlwind to reap destruc
tion.”
Lying in a besetting vice of weak
characters, and therefore the love of
truth and the hatred of falsehood need
to be most assiduously cultivated in
sciousness of evil. Truth-telling and
truth-loving are the fundamental basis
of whatever is excellent and desirable
in character, and if a man or a woman
lacks this essential element, all their
other virtues suffer and re of little
value. If a person is truthful we can
forgive many little faults, because this
salt of character may possibly redeem
other failings; besides, a person who
loves truth will never rest satisfied un
til he has improved his moral strength
and raised it nearer to the standard of
rectitude. Tact, management and pol
icy are all essential elements in social
and domestic life, but they are not in
consistent with perfect truthfulness.
Daily we come into contact with per
sons who require to be properly man
aged to bring out the agreeable traits of
their character and repress those which
are annoying and disagreeable, but it
does not necessitate falsehood to accom
plish this. Many persens have a fac
ulty of telling you disagreeable truths
in a pleasant manner ; or administering
antidotes to vice ot which the recipients
are barely conscious; of hinting at
facts which will not bear a frank
disclosure. And all candid persons
must admit they are not always justi
fied in telling the whole truth. Indeed,
were we to do so, we should doubtless
be called insane. For there are very
many things that should not be spoken,
yet we are never guiltless, if we utter
falsehoods, and it is our duty to strive
by example and precept not to lead ten
der feet astray from the paths of truth.
The child who imbibes with his first
nutriment a reverence and love for it
will become a man of honor. Holy
writ assures us that it were better for
us to have a millstone about our necks
and be drowned in the sea than to of
fend one of these little ones. And when
a mother utters a deliberate falsehood
to her children it seems to me that she
has committed an unpardonable sin and
will surely suffer for it. The lack of
truth brings dishonesty, and dishonesty
is tho ce?in& sin of our nation. Oh,
mothers, be warned in season and
counsel with your own
a , . coaa P ac * ; yourselves that from
- wfiS'iiine forth you will never deceive a
child. The battle of Christianity is to
be fought in the family rather than in
the church. See to it that you are not
deserters from the ranks !
Music at Milan.
A Milan correspondent of the Arca
dian says : “ This city is the most mu
sical in Europe, and I might easily call
it the great music market of the world.
Here almost all the music composed in
Italy is published, either by Riccordi or
Lucca, and here all the artists come to
make their engagements. The singing
teachers of Milan are considered the
best in Italy, which I am sorry to say is
not saying much for them. Of those I
know anything of I should decidedly
recommend Prati and Lamperti as th i
best, and even these aro not up to the
mark of the days when Busti and M r
candante were alive and doiny. erdi
and his music have not only ruined the
voices of most of the Italian singers,
but the teachers also, who actually
give the screaming cavatinas of this
noisy composer to young pupils with a
de icate and very ‘ forming ’ voice. The
o insequence is, the voice is ruined be
fore the scholar has finished his or her
first series of lesions. There are quite
In God Jfe Trust.
a number of Americans lere learning
singing, and some are saicto give prom
ise of excelling in tbe art. But it I were
to take to learning singinjfor the stage,
I should avoid Milan and go south, to
Rome or Naples, where tii old method
is still taught. Said ‘oldaiethod ’ may
not be very brilliant or sUwy, or easy
to learn, but at any rate it preserves
the voice, and after all thenew one has
produced no singers to cone up to those
of other days—Pasta, S >ntg, Malibran,
Persian, Rubini, etc., for in
stance.”
Table Customs.
While certain forms of able etiquette
may seem altogether conventional, even
fantastic, the forms usthlly observed
are founded on good sense and adapted
to general convenience. etiquette
is not, as is often alleged, merely a
matter of fashion, things
that were in vogue a geaerdion or two
.ago are no longer deemed poi The rea
son is that manners and taUA furniture
have undergone so many chauges ; have
really so much improved, as to require
a mutual readjustment. For example,
everybody was accustomed twenty or
thirty years since to use the knife to
carry food to the mouth, because the
fork of the day was not i dapted to the
purpose. Since the intioduction of the
four-tined silver fork it has so entirely
supplanted the knife tint the usage of
the latter, in that way, is not only
superfluous, but is regarded as a vul
garism.
Another example is the discontin
uance of the custom of timing tea or
coffee from the cup into the saucer.
Although small plates were frequently
employed to set the oup in, they were
not at all in general use; and even
when they were used, the tea or coffee
svas likely to be spilled upon the cloth.
The habit, likewise, of putting one’s
knife into the butter arose from the fact
that the butter-knife proper had not
been thought of. Such customs as
these, onee necessitated by circum
stances, are now obviously inappro
priate.
Certain habits, however are regulated
by good taste and delic;cy of feeling,
and the failure to adopt them argues a
lack of fine perception or social insight.
One of these is eating or dunking audi
bly. No sensitive person can hear any
one taking his soup, coffee, or other
liquid without positive annoyance. Yet
those who would be very unwilling to
consider themselves ill-bred are con
stantly guilty of such breach of polite
ness. The defect is that they are not so
sensitive as those with whom they come
in contact. They would not be disturb
ed by the offense; they never imagine,
therefore, that any one else ca.i be. It
is for them that rules of etiquette are
particularly designed. Were their in
stinct correct, they would not need the
rule, which, from the absence of in
stinct, appears to them irrational, pure
ly arbitrary.
To rest one’s elbow on the table is
more than a transgression of courtesy;
it is an absolute incosvf ry.enoo Jo one’s
TiOSl
tion, such as sitting too far back from
or leaning over the table, are reckoned
rudeness, because they put others ill at
ease through fear of such accidents as
are liable to happen from any uncouth
ness.
Biting bread or cake, instead of cut
ting or breaking it into mouthfuls, is
unpleasant, since it offends our sense of
form or fitness.
These and kindred matters are trifles;
but social life is so largely composed of
trifles that to disregard them wholly is
a serious affront. We can hardly realize
to what extent our satisfaction or dis
satisfaction is made up of things in
themselves insignificant until their ob
servance or non-observance is brought
directly to us.— Scribner's Monthly.
Profitable Politeness.
The Boston Traveller, in commenting
on the prevahnce of rudeness, tells the
following incident that happened some
years ago :
There was a very plainly dressed
elderly lady who was a frequent cus
tomer at the then leading dry goods
store in Boston. No one in the store
knew even her name. All the clerks
but one avoided her and gave their at
tention to those who were better dressed
and more pretentious. The exception
was a young man who had a conscien
tious regard for duty and system. He
never left another customer-4© wait on
the lady, but when at liberty he waited
on her with as much attention as though
she had been a princess. This con
tinued a year or two until the young
man became of age. One morning the
lady approached the young man, when
the following conversation took place :
Lady—“ Young mau. do you wish to
go into business for yourself ?”
“Yes, ma’am,” he responded; “but
I have neither money, credit nor friends,
nor will any one trust me.”
“Well,” continued the lady, “you
go and select a good situation, ask what
the rent is, and report to me,” handing
*~ h iT fuTiTig ;?r tic~ .The young
man went, found . cajraLmpatiCii, a
good store, but the
security, which, he give.
Mind ul of the lady’s request he forth
with went to her and reported.
“Well,” she replied', “yon go and
tell Mr. that I will be responsible.”
He went, and the landlord or agent
was surprised, but the bargain was
closed. The next day the lady called
to ascertain the result. The young man
told her, but added, “What am I to do
for goods ? No one will trust me.”
“Yon may go and see Mr. , and
Mr. , aud Mr. , and tell them
to call on me.”
He did, and his store was soon stocked
with the best goods in the market.
There are many in this city who remem
ber the circumstances and the man. He
died many years since and left a fortune
of three hun red thousand dollars. So
much for politeness, so much for civil
ity, and so much for treating one’s eld
ers with she deference due to age in
whatever garb they are clothed.
There are now sixty Chinese stu
dents supported bv their government in
Connecticut and Massachusetts. Thirty
came two yeais ago, and thirty arrived
a year since, and thirty more are ex
pected in about a fortnight. So tar
their deportment has been excellent
and their progress’quite^remarkable.
The Costumes and Manners of the
Good Old Times.
The tradesmen before the revolution
were a different race from the present.
They were none of them ashamed of
their leather aprons. Faded buckskin
breeches, once radiant in yellow splen
dors, checked shirts, and red flannel
jackets were the common wear of most
working-men. All the hired women
wore short gowns and linsey-woolsey
petticoats. Calf-skin shoes were the
exclusive property of the gentry. The
servants wore cowhide. Toothbrushes
were unknown. The better sort were
content to rub the teeth with a chalked
rag or with snuff. It was commonly
thought effeminate for men to clean the
teeth at all. Not only the roystering
cavalier but the quiet citizens were fond
of a certain bravery in dress. Men wore
cocked hats aod wigs, coats with large
cuffs and big skirts, lined aud stiffened
with buckram. The coat of a beau had
three large plaits in the skirts, wadded
profusely to keep them smooth, with
low collars to show off the fine lineu
cambric stock, aud the largest silver
buckle on the back of the neck. The
shirt was ruffled to the wrists. The
breeches had silver, stone, or paste
buckles. Gold or silver sleeve-buttons,
set with stones, were generally worn.
No cMton fabrics were then known.
Stockings were of thread or silk in sum
mer and of worsted in winter. Surtouts
were never worn, tyit they had cloth
groat-coats instead, or brown camlet
cloaks, with green baize lining. In the
time of the revolution many of the
American officers introduced the use of
Dutch blankets for great-coats. In win
ter gentlemen wore little woolen muffs
to protect their hands. It was not un
common to see old people, with large
silver buttons on their coats and vests,
with their initals engraved on each but
ton. The ladies all wore large pockets
under their gowns, and white aprons.
No color but black was ever made up
for si kor satin bonnets. Fancy colors
were unknown and white silk bonnets
‘had never been seen. The use of lace
veils did not commence until the pres
ent century. Ladies’ shoes were made
of silk or russet, stitched with white
waxed thread and having wooden heels.
Tbe sole-leather was worked with the
flesh side out. Subscription balls be
came very fashionable soon after the
revolution. No gentlemen under twen
ty-one and no lady under eighteen were
admitted. The supper consisted of tea,
chocolate, aud rusks. Everything was
oonduoted by six married managers.
They distributed places by lot and ar
ranged the partners for the evening.
The gentlemen drank tea with the par
ents of their partners the day after the
ball, whieh gave the chance for a more
lasting acquaintance.
Darwin’s Devotion to Truth.
Darwin shirks no difficulty ; and, sat
urated as the subject is with his own
thought, he must have known, better
than his critics, the weakness as well as
the strength of bis theory. This, of
Uio ‘ object" a * dialectic vic
tory, instead of the establishment of a
truth which he means to be everlasting.
But he takes no pains to disguise the
weakness he has discerned ; nay, he
takes every pains to bring it into the
strongest light. His vast resources en
able him to cope with objections started
by himself and others,so as to leave the
final impression upon the reader’s mind
that if they be not completely answered
they certainly are not fatal. Their neg
ative force being thus destroyed, you
are free to be influenced by the vast
positive mass of evidence he is able to
bring before you. This largeness of
knowledge and readiness of resource
render Mr. Darwin the most terrible of
antagonists. Accomplished naturalists
have leveled heavy and sustained criti
cism against him—not always with a
view of fairly weighing his theory, but
with the express intention of exposing
its weak points only. This does not ir
ritate him. He treats every objection
with a soberness and thoroughness
which even Bishop Butler might be
proud to imitate, surrounding each fact
with its proper relations, and usually
giving it a significance which, as long
as it was kept isolated, failed to appear.
This is done without a trace of ill
temper.
He moves over a subject with the
passionless strength of a glacier; and
the grinding of the rocks is not always
without a counterpart in the logical
pulverization of the objec or. But,
though, in handling this mighty theme,
all passion has been stilled, there is an
emotion of the intellect incident to the
discernment of new truth, which often
colors and warms the pages of Mr.
Darwin. His Success has been great;
and this implies not only the solidity of
his work, but the preparedness of the
public mind for such a revelation.—
Popular Science Monthly.
Fossil Mammals of Colorado.
Some remarkable and gigantic ani
mals related to the rhinoceros and the
-Eebs-htew 'We iSSAE .recently discov
ered by Prof. Cope in t%? Sad of
Colorado. Theifc are seven species, six
of which are referred to the new genus
Symborodon, and one to Miobasileus,
also new. While related to the rhino
ceros, these creatures were higher on
the legs, and had comparatively short
necks ; it is also not unlikely that they
possessed a short proboscis. What ren
dered their physiognomy most striking
was the presence of horns, in pairs, on
the front of the head. The cores are
preserved in the specimens of all the
species, and are very various in their
forms. In Miobasileus they stand over
* ye ** u Symborodon over the side
of the or the snout. The smallest
species is S. acer, whose horn oore3 are
a foot long, round, and curving outward
on eaah side of the snout. It was about
the size of the Indian rhinoceros. The
largest species was equal to the ele
phant. Its horns were flattened in one
plane, and its cheek-bones were enor
mously expanded, so as to form a huge
projection on each side of the face, and
give the muzzle a wedge shape. The
eves were compelled to look obliquely
upward The S. altirostris was nearly
as large ; its horns were round aud
straight, aad the muzzle exceedingly
short and high, so that the eye was very
far forward. S. trigonoceras had three
cornered horns, which rolled outward,
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and but little upward. It was little
smaller than the preceding. S. pelo
ceras had mere knobs in the position of
horns. The muzzle was longer.
These animals a o interesting as con
firming tho conclusions reached by the
discoverer of E 'basileus, as to the rela
tionships of f his remarkable form and
its affines. Tue whole structure shows
that the peculiarities of Eobasileus, by
which it differs from tho other probos
cidians, are to bo found in the rhino
ceros and these, its extinct allies, and
not among the eloven-footed types.
Normandy Picturesqueness.
In “Through Normandy” Miss Mao
quoid thus describes the market-people
at Dieppe : “It is market-day, aud
there is a most picturesque array of
country women, who look as if they all
belonged to the sea, they are so coarse
and hard featured. Their dress is won
derfully full of low-toned color, with
perhaps bright-colored cotton handker
chiefs tied over their heads, aud bine
and one or two black and scarlet striped
skirts. One wonders where painters
have seen the gaudy hu£S in which they
sometimes depict Norman peasant wo
men. Black, dark, and bine, and a sort
of gr enish gray are almost the univer
sal colors seen in skirts all over the
province; the aprons black, grav, lilac
or blue. In La Haute Normandie, the
short, loose jacket is worn by all, and
this is always of black or dark-gray
stuff. The color lies in the aprons, or
where a bright-colored square of cotton
is tied over the cap. In Basse Morman
die, especially in Calvados and La
Mauclie, where the neckerchief is still
worn across the shoulders in place of
the jacket—this is usually bright-color
ed scarlet or orange mingled with black
The ‘ indiennes’ they wear for this pur
pose cost often five shillings er six
shillings, and are treasured for years,
and worn only on market days and festi
vals ; but a scarlet petticoat is not often
seen. The Normans are much too thrif
ty to wear any but dark-colored gowns,
unless indeed it be a lavender cotton,
and this is always of a pale, subdued
tint. It is the wonderful neatuess and
jauntiness which pervade the whole cos
tume of even the poorest, from the
black wooden sabots to the snowy bon
net de coton , with its tassel a little ou
one side, that make the Norman peasant
so admirably suited as contrast and re
lief to the quiant, rickety wooden
houses and mouldering gray stone won
ders of past times, among which she
lives, the colors of her dress always in
harmony with the surroundings ; and
the men with their blouses and trousers,
often faded to greenish hues, with many
patches of the same color, but of differ
ent tint, are just as harmonious objects
as the women are. Their skins, too,
warm as if the sun had borne its own
reflection into them, their vicacions, in
telligent eyes and ready smile, and the
intensely brightening effect of the pure
atmosphere make them quite salient
enough against the ancient, sombre
back-grounds of these picturesque old
of the fitness of things would repudiate. ”
How He Took His Bath.
The Cape May Wave relates the fol
lowing incident : “Among the excur
sions that came down from Wilmington
by steamer was an unevenly-weighed
man aud wife—she, 300 avoirdupois;
he, scarcely 100 pounds would poise.
Well, they must bathe, of course;
what were the trips to Cape May with
out an ocean dip ? A bath-house was
secured. By tight squeezing our fat
lady got into a bathing-robe that was
ready to burst at every step. Little
husband girded about his body a woolen
garment that fit like a shirt on a kil
deer. Down they go, bold as a couple
of whales, to the water; but just at
the ocean’s edge Puny suddenly ha ted,
looked with awe on the furious billows,
and then into the face of his determined
three On her countenance
were the words : ‘ Come on !’ On hie
trembling lips shivered the sounds :
4 Oh, no !’ The small specimen of di
minutive husbandry feared to risk his
diminutive portion of flesh and bones
in the dashing foam, lest some unlucky
billow might swallow him down like a
snipe. ‘You shall go in,’said the fat
woman. ‘I won’t,’said skinny, at the
same time making frantic efforts to tear
away; down he goes into the sand,
scratching worse than a Kilkenny cat.
Down drops the 300 upon terrified
bones, slick as a hawk upon a spr.ng
chicken. The sand flew, legs kicked,
man screamed ; yet in spite of all the
mammoth wife gathered her 100 pounds
of furious sweetness in her arms,
walked complacently to the biggest
breakers, and kersouse she landed him
headforemost into the sea, and as he
popped up to the surface, half stran
gled, she 'pressed him to her bosom,
saying : 4 Now, honey, that’s what you
came all the way from Wilmington to
eDjoy.’”
Old Letters.
Lord Cockburn writes in his memoirs:
44 1 hard'.fill ms.life had a had habit *
preserving letters and keeping thsgtpifc
arranged and docketed, but seeing fhe
future use that is often made of papers,
especially by friendly biographers, who
rarely hesitate to sacrifice confidence
and delicacy to the promotion of sale
and excitement, I have long resolved
to send them up tha chimney in the
form of smoke, and yesterday the sen
tence was executed. I have kept Rich
ardson’s and Jeffrey’s and some corres
pondence I had during important passa
ges of our Scotch progress ; but the
rest, amounting to several thousand, can
now, thank God, enable no venality to
publish sacred secrets, or to stain fair
reputations by plausible mistakes. Yet
old friends cannot be parted with with
out a pang. The sight of even the out
sides of letters of fifty years recalls a
part of the interest with which each
was received in its day, and then anni
hilation makes one start as if one bad
suddenlv reached the age of final obliv
ion. Nevertheless, as packet after
packet smothered the fire with its ashes,
and gradually disappeared in dim va
por, I reflected that mv correspondents
were safe, and I was pleased.”
—“ Is the candidate for sheriff here?”
asked a stranger aa he looked into an
Illinois bar-room. “Yes; why?” ans
wered eighteen men as they rose up.
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FACTS AND FANCIES.
—Great works are performed not by
strength, but by perseverance.
—lnjnn probabilities: “ Mebbe snow
next week ; mebbe heap dam hot.”
—The experiment of utilising Chi
nes labor en the rioe plantations of the
Georgia coast is reported successful,
—The girls at Vassar college are
learning to swim. Fourteen of them
get into a wash-tub at once so as to
give each other oonrage.
—A Saratoga belle was thrown into
oonvulsions, and her health seriomsly
impaired, because her bean wanted to
dance with her without wearing gloves.
—By this time the school-girls have
told each ether where they spent their
vaoation, and, taking up the burden of
life again, have resumed last season’s
quarrels.
—To be happy, the passions must be
cheerful and gay, not gloomy and mel
ancholy. A propensity to hope and ioy
is real riches; one to fear and sonow,
real poverty.
—Asshe rolled up her sleeves and
looked hard at a big basket of tomatoes
she remarked: “There’s get up, pay
up, bang up, go up, step up and climb
up, but here goes for catsup.”
—“When yon see a man so partickler, ”
says Mrs. Marrowfat, “ as never to take
a glass of water w ithont looking tbr® ugh
it for insects, don’t trust him—he’s on
his way to a drunkard’s grave.”
—A gentleman who landed from an
Erie express train attracted universal
attention by the magnificence of his
diamond breastpin. He was supposed
to be a hackmau from Niagara Fulls.
—A man who goes to Kansas to settle
on a homestead must expect to eat roots,
sleep on the floor, fight gnats and get
away from the Indians for the whole
five years befoie he can begin to enjoy
life.
—A backwoodsman, describing a
steamboat, said : “It has a sawmill
on one side, a grist mill on the
other and a blacksmith shop in the mid
dle, and down stairs there’s a tarnation
big pot boiling all the while.”
—At a recent baby-show in Wiscon
sin twenty-seven women started home
tearing each others hair and hoops.
Nine-tenths of the women shouldn’t be
permitted to have babiei. They can’t
bear rivalry. If all women were ban
ished from the world, we would never
have any trouble at onr baby-shows.
—A party of twelve crack-brains left
Chicago recently to join in the estab
lishment of a “community,” similar to
the Oneida community in New York, on
Valcour’s island, in Lake Champlain,
the foundation of the society being “ ab
solute social freedom,” and its only gov
erning law “complete, univeral free
love.”
—A pouting bride, on her first sea
voyage, writes home: “The motion
of the screw steamer is like riding a
gigantio camel that has the heart-dis
ease, and you do not miss a single
.. i v t —. „<r to oonipSTfi
with it for boredom, unless it be your
honeymoon when you have married for
money.”
—We are now told how we can reach
the gold regions in the Black hills.
Somewhere in the neighborhood of one
hundred dollars will carry one through.
But we would advise the honest miner
to take two hundred dollars along. He
will need the other to get back on, and
to buy a bod to commence work with—
and likewise a wig.
—A novel street car, built somewhat
in the shape of a balloon and capable of
seating fourteen persons, has been put
in use in San Francisoo. It revolves
on the wheels, and, in case the street is
blockaded, the driver can turn back at
once ou his return trip. No conductor
is required, the passengers putting
their fare into a box. A great advant
age of the car is that it cannot be over
crowded.
—ln Paris the dealers in refreshments
have had a congress to ag:ee on the
important reform of reducing from six
to five the number of pieces of sugar
served with a cup of coffee. Formerly
they sarved six pieces with each cup ;
the customer put three pieces in his
coffee, two in his pocket, aud left one
on his saucer out of respect to public
opinion. Now that only five are served,
he puts three in the coffee, still leaves
one out of sense of public deoency, and
only puts one in his pocket.
—ln the government of Pioskan, in
Russia, a letter was circulated which re
ported that the government intended to
send 5,000 of the prettiest girls of the
country to Africa to be married to ne
groes. There was a panic, and the girls
made haste to marry any one ' ho would
have them, and there was any number
of marriages. One brandy dealer mad©
a small fortune out of it for at Russian
weddings they must have brandy. Now
the authorities have discovered that this
merchant started the story, and they
are not yet done with him.
—According to Rochard, a veterinary
surgeon, a simple method of preventing
flies annoying horses oona’sb TrT
“painting the inside of the ears, or any
other part especially troubled, with a
few drops of empyreumatic oil ©f juni
per. It is said that the odor of this
substance is unendurable to flies, and
that they will keep at a distance from
the part so anointed. If this treatment
should accomplish the alleged result,
it may, perhaps, be equally applicable
in repelling mosquitoes from the face
and hands of tourists and sportsmen
when passing through the wood* or
meadows.
Opportunity to Try an Organ before
Purchasing.
Many a person is half persuaded that
a Cabinet Organ would be a capital
thing for his family ; worth much more
than its cost. Yet they are not sure that
it would be permanently valued, but
fear that after a few months’ use the
family would tire of it, and so it would
prove a poor investment. The Mason
Sc Hamlin Organ Cos. now offer their
famous Cabinet Organs on terms which
will satisfy all such. They will rent an
organ with privilege of purchase. The
party hiring may try it as long as he
pleases, paying only the rent for it
while so doing. If he concludes to pur
chase within a year, all the rent he nas
paid is allowed, and dednefced trest the
price of the organ-,