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THE VOICE AND THE PEAK.
BY TENNYSON.
The voice and the peak
Far over summit and lawn,
The lone glow and long roar,
Green rushing from the rosy thrones of dawn.
All night have I heard the voice
Rave over the rocky bar ;
Rut thou wort silent in heaven
Above thee glided the star.
Hast thou no voice, oh, peak,
That standest high above all ?
“ I am the voice of the peak,
I roar and rave lor I fall.” .
A thousand voices go
To north, south, east and west;
They leave the heights and are troubled,
And moan and sink to their rest.
The fields are fair beside them,
The chestnut towers in his bloom ;
Rut they—they feel the desire of the deep ;
Fall—and follow their doom.
The deep lias power on the height,
And the height has power on the deep ;
They are raised for ever and ever,
And sink again into sleep.
Not raised for ever and ever,
Rut when their cycle is o’er,
The valley, the voice, the peak, the star
Pass, and are found no more.
The peak is high, and flush’d
At his highest with sunrise fire;
The peak is high, and the stars are high,
And the thought of a man is higher.
A voice below the voice,
And a height beyond the height;
Our hearing is not hearing,
And our seeing is not sight.
The voice and the peak,
Far into heaven withdrawn;
The lone glow and long roar.
Green rushing from the rosy thrones of dawn.
A MARRIAGE ON SPECULATION.
Translated from the French.
The French entered Amsterdam the
20th of January, 1815. The soldiers
stacked their arms on the pavement,
and waited anxiously lor their billots
for quarters.
Despite the severity of the weather,
the citizens turned out in large num
bers to welcome and admire the vete
rans in their rags. There was a general
rejoicing throughout the city, which
for the most part was illuminated. At
the extreme end of the town there was
a single house, whose dark, forbidding
aspect was in strong contrast to the bril
liant appearance of fho neighboring
buildings. It was the residence of the
rich merchant Meistor Woerdeu. He
was completely absorbed iu his commer
cial operations, aud neither know nor
cired to know what was going on in the
political world ; and, then, lie was too
familiar with the rules of economy to
think of squandering caudles on an illu
mination.
At, this moment, when all was joy
and enthusiasm throughout Amsterdam,
Meistor Woerden sat quietly in his big
arm chair beside the fire. On the table
there was a little brass lamp, a mug of
beer, and a big clay pipe. On the other
side of the fire sat an old maid-servant,
‘‘Whose rotundity betrayed her Flemish
origin. She was occupied in shoving
hack the coals that had fallen out on
the hearth, when thero came a loud
knock at the street-door.
“Who can that be? Go and see,”
said the old merchant to the maid, who
had risen to her feet.
A few moments later a stalwart
young man entered the room. He threw
off his mantle and approached the fire.
“ Good evening, father,” said he.
“How? Is it von, William? I did
not expect you back so soon.”
“T left. Brook this morning, but the
roads lmvo boon made so bad by the
army-trains that wo have been the whole
day on the way.”
“ Well, did you see Yau Elburg ?”
“Yes,” said the young ranu, seating
himself before the fire; “ Meister van
Elburg consents to the marriage, but he
adheres to his determination to give his
daughter a dowry of only four thousand
ducats.”
“ Well, then, he may keep his daugh
ter and his dowry,” replied Woerden,
with a frown.
“But, father—”
“ Not a word, my son ! At your age
we have no more sense than to sacrifice
oyerv thing for love, and to despise
riches.”
“ But Herr van Elburg is the richest
merchant in Holland, and what ho does
not give now will be ours at his death.”
“Nonsense!” replied Meister Woer
den. “Am I, too, not sick ? Listen,
my Ron. You will soon follow mo in my
business. Never forget these two rules;
never give more than you receive, and
never further another man’s interest to
the detriment of your own. Guided by
these principles, one will better liis con
dition in marriage as well as in trade.”
“ But, father—”
“Not another word, my son—not an
other word !”
William knew his father too well to
R ny any thing more, but lie could not
avoid evincing his displeasure by his
manner. To this, however, the old
nnin paid no attention ; he calmly filled
his pipe, lighted it, and began to smoke.
Again there was a loud rap at the
while at the same time the
•logs began to bark.
"Aha!” said Meister Woerden, “it
'uuHt be a stranger, or the dogs wouldn’t
uk so. Go and see who it is, William.”
I lie young man went to the window.
“ It is one of the militia horsemen,”
Ra >'l William.
A militia horseman! What can lie
*ant?”
At this moment the maid-servant en
' aud handed Woerden a letter,
•'/jwfnlly examined the seal.
M ’ I rom ie provisional government,”
hand trembled as ho hastily open
*l i , letter and read it, but suddenly
H ° o tradesman's face lighted up with
Juyoiig expression as he cried :
T|' mod—good ! I accept.”
i i letter contained an order for four
a"** thousand herrings for the
“ur ?. be delivered within a month.
lißva 11 iam r” cried the old man, “I
ma „ a capital thought. You would
a an Elburg’s daughter, and have
handsome dowry with her?”
{ u I would ; but—”
term , ave matter to me,” in
therl man. “But see that
mo * re two hor-es ready for us to
‘JT* morning, early.” *
and L 1 m °rning, at sunrise, father
WG f e ou ie high-road from
ed ahr ,Y Ua ?? Broek, which they reach
medint i ? ldda y- They repaired im
bSS il to the refi idence of Van El
crie ,| 0nt ‘ 0 > w * ien he saw them enter,
‘h good-morning, Meister Woer-
Two Dollars Per Annum,
VOLUME II
den ! Have you fled from the Parle.z
vousf In any case, you are welcome.”
“ No, I flee from nobody. Yon know
I have nothing to do with politics. I
come to propose a good speculation to
> on.”
“Yes? What is it ? ”
“I have an order from the govern
ment for four hundred thousand her
rings, to be delivered within a month.
Can you furnish me with that number
in, say three weeks ? ”
“At what price ? ”
“ Ten florins a thousand.”
“ Ten florins ! Yes, I will furnish
them. ”
“ Very well, and now to dinner ; I
am half famished. At the table we will
talk of another matter.”
Woerden introduced the subject of
the marriage, but Van Elburg could
not be persuaded to increase the dowry
he had offered to give his daughter to
the amount of a single stiver. They
nevertheless decided that the wedding
should take place that day next week.
The following day, Woerden and bis
sou retured home. Hardly had they
left Broek when the yonng man asked*:
“Then, father, you have changed
your mind ?”
“ How so ? ”
“Have you not decided to accopt the
dowry offered by Meistor Van Elburg?”
“ Let mo manage the matter in my
own way, my son, and ask no ques
tions.”
When the weddiug-day came, Woer
deu and his son returned to Broek.
Van Elburg received them kindly, but
he was so flurried and nervous that
William feared he had some bad news
for them. His father, however, lmd no
such misgivings ; tlio old fox knew too
well tho cause of his colleague’s dis
turbed manner.
“ What is the matter, Meistor Van
Elburg?” he asked, with a sardonic
smile. “ You seem to be worried about
something.”
“Ah, my friend, I am greatly embar
rassed. I must speak with you.”
“ What is it ? Have you changed
vour mind with regard to the marriage.
Speak frankly ; it is not too late.”
“No no; it is another matter en
tirely.”
“ Well, then, let us first proceed with
the wedding-ceremony. Afterward I
shall be quite at your service.”
The company, therefore, repaired to
a neighboring church, and iu a few min
utes tho young peoplo were husband
and wife. When they returned to the
house, Vau Elburg asked Woerdeu to
go with him into his private room.
“My friend,” began Van Elburg,
when he had carefully closed the door,
“in accordance with our agreement, I
should within two weeks from now de
liver to you four hundred thousand
herrings. Thus far, however, I have
not been able to procure a singlo one.
There are none in the market; they have
boon all bought up.”
“Certainly they have, I bought them
up myself,” replied Woerden, smiling.
“ But—but —how about my con
tract?” stammered Van Elburg.
“You will fulfill it. Listen, friend
Van Elburg : you will some day leave
your daughter a handsome fortune ; I
shall leave my son at least ns much ; it
is therefore uunecesjary to discuss their
future. This, however, is not true of
the present. I shall soon give my en
tire business to my son, while you give
your daughter only four thousand du
cats. I could not oppose the wishes of
the young people ; but when I consented
to their union, I determined to compel
you to do your duty toward them.
With this object in view, I contracted
witn y< u for four hundred thousand
herrings, at ten florins a thousand, al
though I then had all the herrings in
the market. Now in order to comply
with tho terms of your agreement, you
must buy from me, aud my price is fifty
florins a thousand ; you have, therefore,
only to pay over to me the sum of six
teen thousand florins, and we shall be
square.”
While Meister Woerden was arriving
at this mercantile deduction, Vau El
burg regained his wonted equanimity.
“I see, I see,” said he,” you are a
clever tradesman. lam fairly caugnt,
and must bide tho conseqence
Their conference ended, and tho two
merchants rejoined the wedding-com
pany, as though nothing unusual had
occurred between them.
A week later, Van Emburg went to
Amsterdam, ostensibly to see his daugh
ter. Now tho tables were turned.
“ Ah, meister, cried Woerden, on
seeing his colleague from Broek, “lam
in a terrible dilemma. The time is ap
proaching when I must deliver the four
hundred thousand herrings, and not a
cask can I lmd to put them in !”
“That tfoes not surprise me,” an
swered Van Elburg, smiling; “you
bought up all my herrings, and I
bought up all your casks.”
Iconoclasm.
Don Quixote took a tilt at the wind
mills, but the ed tor of tho Courier-
Journal charges church steeples. He
asks : Why not abolish the church
steeples? Ts there any part of a build
ing so useless as a steeple l It can
neither be constructed nor kept iu re
pair without great danger to human
life, and it dosen’t look well after the
best can bo done for it has bo u done.
As if heaven itself were protesting
against the folly of this unsightly heap,
scarcely a thunder-storm passes over
the country which does not hurl its
bolts against sorno church eteeple.
During a storm this summer iu New
Jersey, a steeple was struck three times
iu succession. The other day lightning
struck the steeple of a church in Ohio,
and nine women in the church were
prostrated, five of whom may never re
cover, Why should we set up targets
for the lightning ? Even if the road to
heaven really lies through the atmos
phere, we have surer guides to it than
church spires. We vould b 9 gainers
by building our churches on modest
plans. The story of the tower of Babel
is quite enough to show that heaven is
brought no nearer by building high in
the air. _
__Seeds and fruit-cuttings in packages
ss large as four pounds now pass
through the mails and post-offices at a
comparatively low rate of postage. A
bushel of orchard grass-seed weighs
fourteen pounds, which may be maied
in four packages for thirty-two cents to
| any part of the United States.
EASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1874.
JOSH BILLINGS.
VVliat, He Knows Abont Hotels nnd Ho
tel Keepers.
Hotels are houses ov refuge, homes
for the vagrants, the married man’s re
treat, and the bachelor’s fireiide.
They are kept in all sorts ov ways ;
some on the European plan, and menny
ov them on no plan at all.
A good landlord iz like a good step
mother—he knows his bizzeness, and
means to do nis duty.
He knows how to rub his hands with
joy when the traveler draws nigh ; he
knows how to smile ; he knew yure
wife’s father when he waz living, and
yure wife’s fust husband, but he don’t
speak about him.
He kan tell whether it will rain to
morrow or not ; he hears yure kom
plaints with a tear in his eye ; he blows
up the servants at yure suggestion, aud
stands around reddy, with a shirt-collar
az stiff az broken china.
A man may be a good supream court
judge, and at the same time be a miser
able landlord.
Most everybody thinks they kan keep
a hotel—and they kan; but thisackounts
for the grate number of hotels that are
kept on the same principle that a justiss
ov the peace offiss iz kept in the coun
try during a six days’ j ury trial for kill
ing souebody’s yello dorg.
A horol won’t keep itself, and keep
tbo landlord too, and over kure a trav
eler from tho habit ov profane swearing.
I hav had this experiment tried on mo
several times, and it alwus makes the
swares wuss.
It iz too often the kaso that landlords
go into tho bizzuess ov hash as minis
ters go into tho professhun—with the
very best of mot ves, but tho poorest
kind ov prospecks.
I don’t know ov enuy bizzuess more
llattersum than tho tavern bizzuess.
There don’t seem tow be ennything tew
do but tew stand in front ov the register
with a pen behind the ear, aud see that
the guests enter themselfs az soon az
they enter tho house; then yank a bell
rope six or seven times; and then tell
John tow sho the gentleman tew 976 ;
aud then take four dollars aud fifty
cents next morning from the poor devil'
ova traveler and let him went.
This seems tew be the whole thing—
and it is the whole thing in most cases.
Yu will diskover the following des
kripshun a mild one ov 9 hotels out ov
10 between the AMantik and Pacifick
Osliuus, akrost the United States iu a
straight line :
Yure room iz 13 foot 6 inches, by 9
foot 7 inches, paralielogramly.
It being court week (az usual), all the
good rooms are employed bi the law
yers and judges.
Yure room iz on the uppermost floor.
The carpet iz ingrain— iugrai nod
the dust, kerosene ile, and ink-spots ov
four generashuns.
Thare is two pegs in tho room tew
hitch coats onto, one ov them broke
opli, and the other pulled out, and
missing.
The buro haz three legs and one brick.
Tlio glass tew the buro swings on two
pivots, which hav lost their grip.
Thare is one towel on the rack, thin,
but wet. The rain-water in the pitcher
cum out of the well.
The soap iz az tuff tow wear az a
whetstone.
The soap iz scented with oinnamon
ile, and variagated with spots.
Thare iz three chairs, kane setters ;
one iz a rocker, and all three are busted.
Thare is a match-box, empty.
Thare iz no kurtiu tew the windo, and
thare don’t want to be ennv ; yu kan’t
see out, and who kan see in ?
The bell rope iz cum opli about G
inches this side ov the ceiling.
The bed iz a modern siat-bottom,
with two mattresses, one cotton and one
husk, and both harder and about az
thick az a sea-biscuit.
Yu enter the bed sideways, and kan
feel every slat at once az eazy az yu
could the ribs of a grid-iron.
The bed iz inhabited.
Yu sleep some, but roll over a good
deal.
For breakfast .yu hav a gong and rhy
koffee tew kold tew melt butter, fried
potatoze which resemble the chips a
two-inch auger makes in its journey
thru an oak log.
Bread solid; beef stake about az
thick uz a blister-plaster, aud az tuff az
a hound’s ear.
Table covered with plates, a few
scared-to-death pickles on one ov them,
and 0 fly-endorsed crackers on another.
A powterinktom castor with three
bottles in it, one without enny mustard,
and one with two inches ov drowned
flies and vinegar in it.
Servant gal, with hoops on, hangs
round you earnestly, and wants tew
know if yu will take another cup of
koffee.
Yu say, “No, mom, i thank yu,” and
push back yure chair.
Yu havn’t eat onuff tew pay for pick
ing yure teeth.
I am about az self-konsaitod as it will
do for a man tew be and not crack open,
but never yet konsaited that I could
keep a hotel. I had rather boa high
wayman than tow be sum landlords I
have visited with.
Thare are hotels that are a joy upon
earth; whare a man pays hiz bill az
cheerfully as he did the parson who
married him ; whare you kau’t find the
landlord unless yu hunt in the kitchen ;
whare servants glide around like angels
ov mercy ; whare the beds fit a man’s
back like the leathers on a goose ; and
whare the vittles taste just az tho yure
wife or yure mother had fried ’em.
Theze kind ov hotels ought to be
built on wheels, and travel around the
kuntry. They are az phull of real
comfort az a thanksgiving pudding;
but, alas! they are as unplentv as
double-yelked eggs.
Railway Accidents in England.
There is an impression that English
railway traveling is safer than our own.
Tne British companies are required,
under a penalty of £2O for each omis
sion, to report every case of accident.
The official returns thus arrived at
gives 773 as killed last year, and 1,171
as injured. Private inquiries made by
Mr. B&ss, M. P., show that on certain
sections of certain railways the ascer
tained number of accident's is far in ex
cess of the official report. On the as
sumption that these sections are fair
samples of the rest of the lines, strik.
In God We 2rust.
ing an average, the whole number oi
deaths appears as 1,200 and of injuries
27,000. The officials of the board of
trade are called upon to ascertain the
truth,
A Strange People Discovered in Eng
land.
Robert Owen’s dream has become
reality in the New Forest, where au
elderly “ lady of wealth and position ’’
has assembled about 130 men and wo
men to have them live as ccmmunists.
They occupy thirty-one acres, donated
for the most pai’t by the lady, and, as
may readily be supposed, the large ma
jority of them are from the poorer
classes, an l were very willing to accept
an offer which assured to them easy
times and full stomachs. The principle
on which the community is based is
that rich and poor alike shall give up all
they possess for the common behoof;
yet one or two persons of means, sur
prising as that may seem, havo joined
the community and complied with this
condition. No money is used except as
means of buying from the outer world
what the farm will not supply, and, as
the iarm is not sufficiently productive
to feed the community, it seems evident
that the communists are using up their
capital. While the great principles of
liberty, equality and fraternity are in
force in this earthly paradise, yet “they
are subordinate to another principle,
that of obedience.” The “mother,” as
the patroness of the institution is called,
is supremo, and her bidding must bo
done in all things. She assigns the
tasks and labors of the day, and at her
magic word the w hilom tailor must be
come a cobbler, aud the cobbler the
purveyor of meat. It will be readily
; een that tliis government will occasion
a precious deal of trouble when the
lady grows old and childish. The flow
ers, the sewing, the washing, the house
keeping and cooking are assigned to
different departments of the sisters,
and everything at present goes like
clock-work. All the women, young and
old, are dressed in plain bodice, short
skirt and trousers, which generally aio
becoming to them. The hair floats at
will down the back. The men dress
with the greatest plainness and neat
ness, aud music is tho chief art and
recreation of the community, which, it
should be said, holds no new or “ad
vanced” notions on the marriage ques
tion, and, therefore, is not regarded by
the neighbors as immoral and objection
able.
An Interesting Event.
Wo all remember that a thrill of an
guish ran up and down the spinal col
umn of the American people when a
certain announcement was made soon
after the marriage of Edinburg to the
czarina. We all know how tho daughters
of Columbia arose as one man and in
dignantly cast back the foul allegation
into the teeth of tho adegator, whoever
he or she might be. Now, howe?or, wo
have the pleasure to announce that it is
all right. England is not absolutely
starving for lack of royal family, but
will probably be inclined to welcome
this Auglo-Cossack little g ranger, as
Mrs. Edinburg’s papa is rich and care
less, and will be very likely to come
down with something handsome on the
occasion. It is interesting to know also
that the cherub has been born, if not
with a silver spoon in its mouth, at
least with half a dozen in the cupboard,
and will not be absolutely destitute of a
mug. This is from reliable authority.
Edinburg from this time wid have to
give up his lodge-meetings and private
smokes in the club snuggery and con
duct himself as beeometli the father of
a family and the sire of a second-hand
Romanoff. Tha czarina is reported to
be a great stickler for the proprieties of
life, like Victoria, and between them
both the outlook for Edinburg is not so
festive as it might be. However, there
is one comfort, his mother-in-law can’t
stay with him forever, which will at
least take from him the temptation to
follow the Romanoff example and put a
little cold pizen in his old lady’s tea
pot.—,St. Louis Republican.
Detroit Court Proceedings.
“You are a sailor, aru’t you?” in
quired his honor, as the prisoner hung
to the railing and stood on one leg.
“Yes, I sail,” he answered. “How
about this getting drunk?” “Is that
the charge?” “Yes sir.” “ I thought
it was stealing chickens,” said the pris
oner, heaving a sigh of relief. They
found him lying on the wharf, the cool
breezes of an autumn evening toying
with his raven locks, and his legs hang
ing gr; cefully over a lump of Brier
Hill coal. He didn’t want to “ come
along,” and tried to kick the officer be
low the belt and do murder. He said
he wanted to go and be an angel; that
the soft breeze was whispering to him
io cast off tliis shell called life and fly
to the stars, aud tho officer had to trun
dle him down here in a hand-cart.
“Wliat did thesoft breezes seem to say?”
inquired his honor. “ I don’t remem
ber much about it,” replied the pris
oner, glancing around in an uneasy
maimer. “Did they seem to say‘five
dollars or thirty days?’” asked the
court. The prisoner was undecided,
and Bijah put the fatal chalk-mark on
his back and led him away. —Free
Press.
The Thirty-five Ton Steam Hammer.
The great steam hammer lately built
for the royal gun factories, at Wool
wich, has been successfully erected and
set to work. Being mueh the largest
piece of mech nism of its kind in the
world, considerable interest attaches
to its performance. The weight of the
falling portion is nearly forty tons, and
its force of impact is greatly increased
by the use of steam to drive it down
from the top, the augumi ntation being
estimated to equal the force represented
by allowing the hammer to fall of its
own weight, from a height of eighty
feet. It has been allowed a striking fall
of fifteen feet three inches. The ham
mer is forty-five feet high, and covers,
with its supports, a base of about 120
square feet. Its weight is about 500
tons above the ground, and the iron
used in the foundation below will
weigh 665 tons.
—“How many people,’’[says Jeremy
Taylor, “are busy iD this world gather
ing together a handful of thorns to sit
upon.”
The Home of Jefferson.
A correspondent of the Washingtou
Chronicle who has lately made a pil
grimage to Monticello, once the home
of Thomas Jefferson, thus describes the
mansion in which tl>e great statesman
dwelt :
It is a two-story main building and
wings, the fernur projecting front and
rear in immense porticoes of solid
stone, the center of the building being
capped with a plain but ill-lighted dome.
On the ceiling of the front portico is a
large compass dial, and immediately
over the main door there is set in the
wall a large clock, with dials showing
inside and out, and there is now exhibi
ted a ladder made by Jefferson himself,
and with which he wound up the time
keeper at stated periods by the weights
suspended from pulleys on the walls of
either side. The main entrance really
consists af three double glass doors, ail
of which can be removed, and you enter
a vestibule, octagonal in shape, and pass
immediately into a parlor of the same
shape. The two apartments have in
laid floors of walnut, mahogany and
cherry, which have yet to be surpassed
by any work of the kind iu this country.
Although they were in constant use in
Jofferson’s davs, as he always had lots
of company, aud have been used sinco,
and are still, by picnic and danckg par
ties, they are not warped nor injured in
the least, aud need, apparently, only
soap and water to restore them to their
original glossy appearance. There are
two small dining rooms, one in each
wing, the rest of the building boing cut
up into small and badly-lighted bed
rooms. Ventilation seems to havo been
buried beneath every other considera
tion, as there is no room iu tho house
through which there could bo gained a
direct air current. The beds, oven, are
set in recesses of alcoves in tho walls,
to form which space and rooms arc
sacrificed, aud the stairways, one in
each wing, are so constructed, and of such
scant bond that their descent would be
perilous in the daytime without a lan
tern. A covered way, which is in
rather a dilapidated condition, loads
from either wing to his library and of
fice respectively, and an underground
passage, through which ho made his
escape from Col. Carletou and the Brit
ish cavalry, is shown to visitors. There
is suspended iu the vestibule tr four
light lantern, but beyond the old gig
body, in which it is said ho used to ride to
Charlottesville, there is not an article of
furniture or curiosity in tho house. The
janitor or keeper of tho premises is a
white man named Thomas Wheeler, who
1 i ves in the east wing. He was the overseer
for Commodore Levy, the last tenant of
the entire mansion.audas the property is
now in litigation lie remains in charge
by sufferance, sustaining himself by
what he can make off the farm and th'e
collections (twenty five cents each)
which he demands from visitors.
Tho Survey of the Fox ty-ninth IW
allel.
The work of locating the boundary
line between the United States and the
British North American Possessions has
been completed, and the American sur
veying party has arrived at St. Paul.
Major Twining and his men were ac
companied to Fort Buford by two com
panies of infantry, actig as escort. He
reports that the British commission
started for Pembina overland on their
way to Canada. The joint work be
tween the United States and England of
marking the boundary line between the
United States and British America on
the 49rii paralled of north latitude
was commenced late in the season of
1874. But ninety-on > miles were run
that season. Last year the work was
resumed, and 408 miles were run, when
the survey was suspended again. The
party resumed their labors once more
last summer, leaving St. Paul in June.
Since they ha ve ruu 360 miles of sur
vey, and on September Ist they reached
the monument which marked the west
ern termiuus of the old survey on the
summit of the Rocky mountains, thus
completing the entire boundary line
from the Lake of the Woods to the
summit o? the Roeky mountains, a dis
tance of 859 miles. Along this entire
distance at average intervals of three
miles the line is marked by stone pyra
mids, ten feet at the base and six feet
high. There are no points in conten
tion between the British and American
governments, but a year will be required
for the engineers to work up their
notes before making their report. Maj.
Twining will remain in St. Paul a week
or two, when he will proceed to Wash
ington, where ho will establish his office
and finish his report. He will proba
bly return to St. Paul next season to
superintend planting iron monuments
at intervals of a mile along that portion
of the line between Minnesota and
Manitoba.
A Journalistic Murderer.
The other day a compositor in the
Detroit Free Press office got hold of a
part of a page of cliirography cf G. M
D. Bloss, of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
It isn’t writiug at all, but Bloss seems
to kick the ink-bottle at a sheet of pa
per and then send the paper down to
the compositors as ed.torial. This part
of a page was used as the foundation
of a plot to deliberately destroy a hu
man life. A line or two was written
above it, Bloss’ page marked “solid,”
and it was handed to a “ jour” who had
just struck the office. He claimed to
be “lightning” on the “set” and on
reading manuscript, and he set up the
introductory line like a whirlwind.
When he came down to Bloss he grab
bed for a cap “ A,” held it a second, and
then dove into the “Y” box. Then he
threw that back and picked out a dollar
mark. No sentence can commence with
a dollar mark, and the typo paused,
spat on his hands, and rested one foot
on the cross-bar of his rack. After a
moment he grabbed an “ ffi,” but slowly
replaced it, and toyed with an italic
“ Z." Then he spit on his hands some
more, corrugated his brow, and hauled
the manuscript under his eyes. It was
no go. He held ths page further off,
close to his nose, slanting to the right,
aud square before the window, but he
couldn’t start it, and he knew in his soul
iliafc no other compositor outside the
Enquirer could do it. As afternoon
faded into twilight he laid the page
aside, set up two or three lines out of
his head, and then slipped into his coat,
said he’d got to go to the depot to see a
Payable in Advance,
NUMBER 10.
friend, and lie was gone. In his stick he
had set up the words: “Tell my
mother that I will meet her on the other
shore.” He probably will. He was
seen at the foot of Griswold street,
heard to ask if death by drowning
wasn’t easier than hanging, and it is
probable that his marble form lies in
the bottom of the cold, green river,
while Bloes is a murderer.
The American Girl in Europe.
A writer in the Arcadian speaks of
“ the American girl abroad” as follows:
“We have discovered that she can
dance and speak French. Let us inquire
whether she can talk. Certainly, we
have just heard her at the table.” She
can tell you who was the favorite tenor
in New York last season, and who will
probably be so next, and compare the
principal opera-houses of Europe with
the academy of music at home. She con
relate to you the private history of
Count Walewski and Baron Roseugar
ten, can tell you wlij' the former was not
received in London society, and what
induced Mrs. Bricabrac to refuse her
patronage to the latter in New York.
She is on intimate terms with the lady
who * brought out’ the Polish exile that
made such a sensation among the old
Knickerbocker families, and oan give
you scrappy genealogical information
as to tho unquestionable possessors of
blue blood. She will criticise with
frankness ‘ Les Idees de Mine. Anbray,’
and is half a convert to tho eonvictions
of the author of ‘Monsieur Alphonse.’
She will tell you, with as near an ap
proach to effusion as she ever makes,
that she has eighteen bosom friends and
correspondents ‘at home,’ and read you
portions of their letters, if you have
purchased for her a sufficient number of
bouquets and advanced far enough into
her good graces. She does not always
speak grammatically, having an odd
way of confusing the nominative and
objective cates, and ‘you was’m prefer
ence to the plural form of tho verb.
But slit* always has plenty to say, and
is indifferent as to where she suys it.
One of the chief charms of her eon--,
versatiou is the patieuce and publicity
with which she corrects her mother’s
pronunciation. That unfortunate lady,
far from being able to master a solitary
word in tho French language, lias not
been capable of coping t uccessfully
with the diflicultios in her own. But
she is never ashamed of her ignorance,
and accepts the correction of her more
gifted daughter with a meekness that is
not without a certain grace. Words of
five syllables are her special bugbear,
and her alert daughter is never so en
grossed in the delights of gossip as not
to detect the false quantity, trip the de
linquent up, and set the fraud ulency
right before the surrounding group. ”
Does Prohibition Prohibit ?
Figures won’t lie, and, as they won’t,
a wry ai.art.lino
with reference to • the working of tem
perance legislation. Maine, for in
stance, has a law forbiding the sale
and manufacture of liquor. This law
has been in .f rce twenty-three years.
In that time Portland Line increased in
population less than 50 per cent., while
the number of places where drunkards
are made has increased over 200 per
cent. Bangor, with 15,000 inhabitants,
has 300 saloons, so that every fifty of
the inhabitants have a saloou to them
selves. Massachusetts has a prohibi
tory liquor law. lu 1856 the number
of persons arrested in Boston for drun
kenness was 6,780, and in 1870 the
number was 18,670. In his official re
port for 1871 the chief of police shows
the number of men mado drunk during
the year, as follows :
Number of hotels, 76 ; drunken men .T 7
Groceries, 1.425; drunken men 1,425
Bar-rooms, 1.125; drunken men 6,425
Jug-rooms, 327; drunken men 3,511
Total 11,418
As compared with other cities, the
New York Sun says of Boston, that
while it has an average of one arrest for
drunkeuness in every 16 of her inhabi
tants, Providence has one in 22 ; New
York has one in 27 ; Sau Francisco has
ene in 29 ; Louisville has one in 29 ;
Rochester has one in 31 ; Washington
has one in 32 ; Detroit has one in 34 ;
St. Louis has one in 42 ; Cleveland has
one in 42 ; Brooklyn has one in 64 ; Cin
cinnati has one in 83. If it were the
habit of temperance-reformers to stop
and think at all, such facts and figures
as these ought to convince them of the
folly of any prohibitory legislation in
the matter of what a man shall drink ;
and that, instead of advancing the
cause of temperance, they are really ad
vancing the car.se of intemperance.—
Chicago Tribune.
The Writer of St. Elmt.
A Mobile letter in the Inter-Ocean
says of the author of “St. Elmo:”
“She is Mrs. Wilson, now, and lives in
a beautiful little chateau in the suburbs.
Her husband is a banker of wealth and
influence, and she is a plain, unassum
ing lady, about thirty-five years old, I
should think. From her appearance
one would not imagine she* had wres
tled w r iih Confucius, the ‘Sanskrit phil
osophers and the ancient^Greeks. Im
agine a tall, slender lady, of dark com
plexion, black hair, and eyes of an in
different color, feature plain but full
of animation and intelligence, and man
ners that are at once unobstrusive and
attractive, and you have this De Stael
of the south. She is seen but little in
society, and seldom entertains any but
intimate friends ; but the poor know her
well, and the hospitals and institutions
for the homeless and friendless find in
her a local Florence Nightingale.”
Stirring the Soil.
J. B. Root, a successful market gar
dener, mentions some experiments in
the Fruit Recorder, showing the impor
tance of stirring the soil as a preventive
of injury from drought. He puts among
some of his crops a horse cultivator for
every four acres, and keeps it going
early in s-ummer. The effect is always
striking. The soil, he says, becomes
“splendidly loose.” In some instances
the crop has been doubled. Nothing
keeps the moisture better in drought.
The result has been particularly satis
factory with melons, tomatoes, cucum
bers and cabbages. For onions he has
found nothing equal to manure for re
taining moisture in the soil.
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FACTS AND FANCIES.
—The naturally sluggish man never
gets thoroughly aroused until the time
comes to write his mother-in-law’s epi
taph.
—No man can read about all these
burglaries without a determination to
have his wife sleep on the front side of
the bed.
—An Indiana woman says if they
have to wash and iron in heaven, she
hopes they’ll let her remain in Indiana
for all time to come.
—A commission of Icelanders is about
to visit Alaska, to inquire into the pro
spects for the settlement of a oolony of
their countrymen in that territory.
—The Shakers of New York number
eighty less than two years ago, and
they’ve got to throw away their single
beadsteads or become an extinct sect.
—An old nmn in Alabama has a tree
near his house overhanging the road
which he wishes to cut, but is compell
ed to keep it standing for fear it should
kill a candidate for congress when it
falls.
—lf life insurance companies bad
been in business in Palestine at tho
time, wouldn’t Methuselah have been a
healthy risk—life policy, for instance,
annual premium from his twentieth to
his 999th year !
—An excited railway man, who shouts
into the cars the names of the station,
and who hears a great deal of complaint
because the names are called indistinct
ly, wants to know if tho public expects
tenors at forty dollars a month.
—An excited railway nmu who shouts
into tbe cars tho name of the station,
and who hoars a great deal of complaint
because the names are called indistinct
ly, wants to know if the public expects
tenors at forty dollars a month.
—A young man has boon arrested in
New York for sleeping in a standing po
sition. He would stand on the street
for hours at a stretch, with his eyes
closed, and not move a muscle. It is
hereditary. His fatlior was a policeman.
—ln view of the prevalence of birds
on ladies’ hats, t his season
some milliner make a fortune by put
tihg on the brim of a hat a whole poul
try yard, with a horse looking at it
through a stable window ? We charge
nothing for the suggestion.
—A keen-witted servant girl told tho
milkman tho other day that he gave his
cows too much salt. “How do you
know that V” said the lactealist. “Sure
I kin tell by the milk that they drink
too much water entirely !” said the girl.
The milkman drove off in a hurry.
—The BritiiAi museum recently be
came possessed of a jacinth, a precious
stone of exceeding rarity. The speci
men is no larger than a pea, and, says
the London Times, “flashes and glows
with a lustre which seem to denote
tho presence of lire and flame.” It cost
.>V)t)u.
—A new toy, lately patented, consists
of a figure of a dandy with a cigar
holdor in his mouth. In the. pedestal
there is a small bellows, operated by
clock-work and spring. A small cigar
is lighted and placed in the holder, and
when the spring is set in motion the
dandy puffs away as natural as life un
til the cigar is consumed.
—A religious body having resolved
to build anew church, the pastor went
around begging very zealously, accept
ing not only the widow’s but the child’s
mite. In the school, one Sabbath,
while instructing them, he compared
himself to a shepherd, and then inquired
what he did with his flock. One biight
eyed little fellow promptly replied, “He
shears them!”
—A strange man, who wanted to go
on the train, but missed it, walked up
and down the depot in a high state of
excitement, berating himself and every
one else. “I know just what my wife
will say !” he exclaimed, as he walked
up and down. “When that train gits
thar and she won’t see me, she’ll git
right up and jumn over chairs and
smash crockery and swear I’m ff on
another drunk !”
—A Chicago description of Fred
Grant : “Among the throng, after
having exchanged salutations with his
parental relations, mingled a stolid
looking, sullen-faced young man, with
a faint attempt at a mustache, and cold,
lifeless eyes, an ungainly figure, and
no redeeming feature, upon whom eyes
were occasionally cast, and persons fre
quently addressed as Col. Fred Grant,
‘the happy man.’ ”
—“ Six things,” says Hamilton, “the
requisite to create a home. Integrity
must be the architect, and tidiness Jare
upholsterer. It must be warmed by af
fection, and lighted with cheerfulness,
and industry must be the ventilator,
renewing the atmosphere, and bringing
in fresh salubrity day by day, while
over all, as a protecting 'glory and cam
opy, nothing will suffice except the*
blessing of God.”
—At a teachers’ institute in Scottville,
Ky., the question arose, “Why is it
that a pig may drink a bucket full of
slop and then be placed in the same
bucket and not fill it?” The teachers
having all failed to give any satisfactory
solution, the question was referred to
Capt. Gib Mulligan, who at once ren
dered his decision that there must have
been a leak about the pig. There was
no further discussion.
—A great many of the stores in Paris
are dedicated to someone or to some
thing real or imaginary. One sees such
signs as “To the Good Devil,” “To
the Poor Devil,” “To the Infant
Jesus,” “To the Gray Overcoat,” “To
the Madonna,” “To the Americans,”
“To the Universe,” “To the Poor
James,” etc. The stores for the sale of
miscellaneous merchandise are now
more generally closed on Sundays than
they were four years ago.
—On the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia railway fourteen wood
burning engines have been recently con
verted into coal burners, at a cost of
SI 90 for each engine ; and the differ
ence in the coat of the two fuels, wood
and coal, is said to be $5 a day for each
engine; this without considering the
time and labor saved in handling them.
In July, the coal-burners ran trains at a
Ifcst of 3 2 cents per mile, against wood
burning engines at a cost of 81-10 cents
per mile—a saving which alone would
make a fair dividend on some roads,