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AOT LOST.
M e look of Bvmpathv, the te'iitlo word
s| <■ keti so low that only angel heard ;
l he H*vrot art of pure Helf-narriTii',
I nseen by men, but marked by angels' eyes :
These are not lost.
The sarred music of a tender strain,
vt rung from a po> t’s heart By grief and pain,
\n<l rtianted timidly, with doubt and fear,
I busy crowds, who scarcely pause to hear :
These are not lost.
I he s'lent tears that fall at dead of night
Our soiled robes, that once were pure and white;
lhe prayers that rise, like incen c e from the soul,
I n.ii'c for t'lmst to make it clean and whole:
These are not lost.
I e harpy dreams that gladdened all our youth.
When dreams had less of s*df and more of truth;
I I o childhood’s faith, so tranquil and so sweet,
fl hioh sat like Mary al the Master’s feet :
These are not lost.
i he kindly plans devised for others'good,
sehlom guessed, so little unders'ood ;
the quiet, steidfast love that strove to win
K tie wanderer from the ways of sin :
These are not lost.
Not lest, O Lord ' for, in Thy city bright,
• ’ ir ei es shaU e th by clearer light.
And things long hidden from our gaz“ below
l hou wilt reveal, and we shall sure'y know
They were not lost,
BAR\EF\S HTMIMATION.
BY MRS. M. A. DENISON.
“ Homo callers for Miss Westbnry,”
said the well-trained hotel servant, as
lie presented cards on a silver salver.
“Oh, mamma! its those fashionable
Mays ; just tho best people in Washing
ton ! John, tell them I’ll be down very
soon. What shall I wear, mamma,
please tell mo quick? If Cousin Stella
wasn’t so awfully stupid she might have
got my lavender silk out bv this time ;
or my lovely blue one with the point
luce trimmings. Pray toll mo, some
body. what I shall wear.”
“The silver gray you have on with a
fresh ribbon will bo prettier than an
elaborate dross. T shouldn’t think of
making an evening toilet if I wore you,
ven for the Mays,” said Stella.
“ That’s because you don’t know any
liing about them,” responded Garnet.
“ What can such fashionable people
have in common with you? Probably
veil’ll never speak to them in your life,”
and she threw ribbons and necklace,
watch and chain recklessly on the mar
ble top table 'n her haste ; while her
mother, who bad brought a costly, im
ported dress from the wardrobe, pro
ceeded to arrav her only and beautiful
child in it. For Garnet was beautiful
and had been brought up, as her father
often said, “ without regard to cost.”
To please her, the old oil-merclmnt
1 ad consented to spend the winter in
Washington at one of the first hotels
and to incur no end of expense, for Gar
net was wild to see and mingle with the
best society.
There also he lmd found bis niece,
the daughter of his dead brother, ill at
an ordinary boarding house, ami in the
goodness of his heart had insisted upon
her leaving an arduous position and
spending the winter with Ins family.
Feeling the need <f rest and udas,
at ion Stella had accepted the kind offer,
much to the spoiled Garnet’s chagrin,
who saw only in the little plain figure
and somewhat old-fashioned garments a
dowdy and a foil. In fact she was very
much ashamed of her cousin and took
no pains to hide her dislike.
"They are very worthy people, I be
lieve," Stella answered, with a flush on
her cheek.
" \ cry worthy ! Good patience ! mam
ma, hear her the very pink and perfec
tion of Washington society! Very
worthy people, indeed ! Why, there
are persons who would give half they
are worth to be called upon by the
Mays. Do you really think they are very
worthy people, Stella? How much they
would be obliged if they could hear
yon.”
Her cousin settled quietly into her
corner ngain with a book, but the flush
on her check had faded into paleness,
“ Now, mamma, how do I look? Oh,
but how awfully long to keep them
waiting. They probably saw in the
papeis that l have just come out. I’ll
wear both diamond rings, mamma
Hear me, I wish the interview was over.
They say that Miss Bella May wears an
India slmwl of almost fabulous value,
given to her by some great eastern mag
nate, and that Miss Anne is to marry an
‘arl, an English earl ; think of that! If
ever we go abroad it will be of such ad
vantage to be acquainted with her.”
She swept once or twice back and
forth, her splendid train spreading in
peacock glory over the rich hues of the
carpet, then taking one last look in the
eheval mirror, and posing her head in
da daintiest fashion, she walked out of
the room like a little princess, conscious
of being at her best.
“ Isn’t she dressed a little too much
for a day call ?” asked Mrs. Westbnry,
anxiously, as she saw the last iris glitter
of the rich silk vanish at the threshold.
I think she is,” said Estelle, quietly.
“ I’m afraid ro ; but what could I do?
* mrnet has had her own way so long
that I never pretend to dispute her
wishes or her taste,” sighed the meek
little woman—a siul confession for a
mother to make, as Estelle thought,
with a pitying Jock.
“ I >ra J, are the Mays so very wonder
ful asked Mrs. Westbury.
“ I believe they are of very good
family, and I know they are immensely
rich," said Estelle ; “ but what I have
hoard them chiefly extoled for is their
unaflectedness and good sense. Though
they are really among the leaders of
society here they are ns quiet and un-
n *suming as—well, as true nobility of
character always makes one, I suppose.
\ am glad they have oalled upon Garnet,
't may really be considered quite an
honor.”
They must have seen her, and she
18 R 0 pretty ! ” said the gratified mother.
“Tes, Garnet is beautiful,” replied
Estelle ; adding in her heart, “if only
fi'e mind corresponded to the outer
shrine.”
Meanwhile, Garnet, gratified and tri
umphant, entered the handsome parlor
of the hotel. Her 6 and there in groups
sat visitors, ladies and gentlemen, .and
f he young girl was delighted at the
sensation caused by her appearance.
I or one little moment Garnet was con
fused as, going up to a small and well
dressed group of people, she said,
speaking to u lady : “Mrs. May, I pre
sume. ”
O no, that is Mrs. May by the win
' f ’"> responded the lady, pointing to
another circle with her fan.
v| Mercy, mamma," exclaimed Anne
•c ay, as the over-dressed Garnet came
Two Dollars Per Annum,
VO Id! ME 111.
toward them, “wo have evoked a rain
bow! ”
Garnet, a little taken aback at sight
of the plain toilets of this distin
guished party, sailed up to them with
her grandest manner, and to cover her
surprise and trepidation plunged at
once into conversation. She scarce
waited for questions, hut with the volu
bility of a school girl just released
from bondage talked and talked.
Before long these strangers, as well
as others, whoso ears were sharpened
by hotel experience, knew the prin
cipal events of her life ; what school
she had attended ; how she hated Blank,
her native city ; what sort of a house
her father had bought and furnished ;
that part of her family wore traveling
on the continent, and had sent her
costly presents; bow much she, too,
wanted to visit foreign countries ; ami
numberless little incidents that kept,
her visitors staring and almost silent.
At last she paused and began the con
templation of her dress. Surely that
most exquisite point lace must impress
them favorably ; and the diamonds on
her fingers and in her ea^s—not many
young ladies could afford to wear them ;
and then the dreRS itself, how she ached
to inform them that it was an importa
tion from Paris, and the work of the
great artist, Worth, the prince of dress
makers.
“Mamma,” said Anne May, in a voice
strikingly unlike the high-pitched tone
of Miss Garnet, “ would it not be as well
to mention the business for which we
called upon Miss Westbury ?”
Garnet’s ears tingled so that perhaps
anew splendor shot from their pendant
jewels, for was this not a prelude to an
invitation to their house, to somo Ger
man or grand reception, where she
might see the president, and somo of
the great men of the country?
“ Yes, dear,” said Mrs. May, in the
same low, modulated tones. “You see,
M ss Westbury. we have been searelnug
the city for a missing friend, and having
heard, accidentally, that you were a re
lation, we called to see if you could
give ns any information concerning INliss
Stella Glen.”
“ Stella Glen ! My cousin!” exclaim
ed Garnet, the blood receding from her
cheeks, while sho inwardly wondered at
the strange question. Was it possible,
after all, that this could have been the
only object of their visit? Did they
not come to make her a call of acknowl
edgment, or of compliment? Could it
be only to inquire after Miss Stella,
who perhaps they took for a dress
maker? And who knew but sho might
have been one—she was such a stickler
for the right of women to help them
selves ? and at the thought her cheek
burned.
Sho drew back a little, mortified to
the heart. Had all her fine clothes, her
point lace gone for nothing? Had she
been called down, it seemed to her now,
like a servant, to tell whatever she knew
about her cousin ?.
“Miss Glen it* here, with us,” said
Garnet.
“What! in Ibis hotel ? Oh, mamma !”
exclaimed Miss Anne, with sparkling
eyes.
“I will go up and send her down,”
said Garnet, rising.
“PiKy, don’t think ns so rude,” said
Mrs. May, and hor hand was on tho
bell-rope.
A card was sent up by tho servant,
while Garnet sat still, in mute surprise,
hor high spirits gone, her vanity laid
low.
Presently, to her horror. Stella ap
peared in the doorway, in the same
identical black silk dress —rusty at that—
which she always wore. But now Gar
net saw with new eyes—saw a delicacy
and beauty in her figure, au expression
in her face that had been sealed to her
hitherto.
What was her exceeding astonishment
to note that all the Mays rose, and with
outstretched hand welcomed her cousin
with the warmest demonstrations. Miss
Anne kissed her; Mrs. May patted her
cheek and called her darling; Miss
Bello chided hor for not coming to see
them ; all had a kind word, a real wel
come, for the girl Garnet had considered
a little nobody.
At last the truth cirae out. Miss
Glen was the daughter of one who had
been a brave soldier during the war.
Hor father had died, nobly giving his
life up in the heroic effort to save bis
superior officer—and that officer was
Col. May.
INliss Glen had then devoted herself
to the sick and wounded in hospital and
had, singularly enough, succeeded by
her devotion iu carrying through a ter
rible illness the son of this same Col.
May, a young lieutenant, who had been
dangerously wounded at Gettysburg.
From that time the Mays adopted her
as nearly as possible until they loft for
Europe. They had been very anxious
to take her with them, but as the young
officer aforesaid had made proposals of
marriage to Miss Glen, and been re
jected, she very wisely declined.
All this Garnet learned afterward. At
the time she only felt a burning resent
ment that this quiet, unfashionable
cousin had preceded her in the good
graces of one of the most prominent
families in town, and it seemed like
adding the one drop too much when
Mrs. May, after almost literally implor
ing a visit from Miss Glen, turned, as
f she bethought herself, aud blandly
added : “And bring your little cousin
with you.” Evidently they thought
her fresh fr. m school.
“ I’ll never go—l’ll never go !” she
cried, in a tempest of paseiou, when the
cousins regained their parlor. “ Why
didn’t you tell me you knew them?”
and she turned on poor Stella with a
perfect torrent of vituperation, blaming
her for all that she had been obliged to
undergo.
In time, however, she thought better
of it. Finding that her quiet little
cousin had the entree into society, she
condescended to treat her upon more
equal terms ; but she never forgot the
humiliation or the lesson of that day’s
defeat.
There are four hundred religions
journals in the United States. The
Methodists have forty-seven, the largest
number ; then come the Catholics, who
number forty-one ; the Baptists, thirry
five ; Presbyterians, twenty-nine ; the
Episcopalians, twenty-one ; the Luther
ans, fourteen ’ German Reformed, four
teen; Jews, nine, and Congregational’
iats, eight,
EASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1875.
;IUSSUOI’I'KIt Rl IV.
The Whole Northwest Thre*tent—-
Chicago and Vincennes Already
Reached h> t lie Vanguard of Ihe lie -
stroyers.
Chicago Tribune.
The great army of grasshoppers that
poured its vast multitude over the
northwest last summer reached far in
this direction, the van penetratieg as
far as Vincennes, although not in suffi
cient force to make any general devas
tation. An irregular triangle, with
that for its apex aud the Itocky Moun
tains for its base, would include the
territory thus far swept far over by the
victorious pest, including large portions
of Kansas and Missouri, and almost all
of Miunesoto, Nebraska, lowa aud Da
kota. The question which now agitates
the commercial interests of the country
is, can the grasshopper be kept within
that territory, or will they, as some
predict, overrun Canada, Northern
New York aud the Eastern States? It
is hold that in thickly settled parts of
the country, where smalls tarm abound,
there can be no great danger from
them, as the birds aud domestic fowls
will keep down their numbers, but if
tho invasion is made by such over
whelming hosts as defeated all meas
ures of protection last summer, such
instrumentalities will have little effi
ciency at first, however powerfully they
may thin their ranks in course of time.
And even in the event of the advancing
plague being successfullv stayed in its
progress east, it can hardly be expected
that Illinois, lying as it does on the
border line, and already partially in
vaded, will escape the attack of vora
cious legions, if the vast hordes of
grasshoppers shall issue forth again.
The intense cold of last winter and the
protracted frosts of the spring have
been relied upon by the agricultural
community to effectually rid them of
this plague. As late as the last day of
April there was a severe freeze, doing
much damage to fruit, but which was
borne with cheerfulness as being sure
death to the grasshoppers. Now the
report comes that in Southwestern Mis
souri “ the young grasshoppers are de
vouring everything green. Tho people
are panic-stricken. Cattle and horses
are dying of starvation. Everything
is being eaten by the pests.” Similar
news comes from Southern and West
ern Kansas, and largo sections of Min
nesota. lowa and Nebraska are declared
to be doomed. In the southwestern
portion of the latter state, they are
already swarming out by the million,
with millions yet in the ground. All
this, and only two weeks since a frost.
With the cessation of the cold rains
and the increasing warmth of the sun,
it is to be expected that the millions of
eggs in fhe ground will send forth their
myriad swarms, and the invasiou of the
grasshoppers begin. In that case it
can hardly Vie hoped that Chicago will
escape a visitation. Already the pre
monitory signs imvo appeared. The
warmtfi of the sun tin ring the past week
has bad the effect of causing the ap
pearance of young grasshoppers in the
southern sections of this eity, ou the
Hyde Tark line, and, although at
present in a state of inactive torpor,
the establishment of warm weather will
send them scurrying through the air,
their numbers rapidly increasing, until
the vast and compact host of tho main
army joins them.
Tho so-called grasshoppers that have
been the plague of the west are really a
species of locust, and have all the vora
cious appetite and omnivorous taste of
tho genuine African locusts. Instead
of proceeding by jumps like the com
mon grasshopper, these locusts go long
distances in the air, flying and borne bv
♦ho wind. They move along at a height
of from 30 to 10ft yards above the
ground, and extending upward as far as
the eve can reach. The<e flving swarms
arc described as looking like great banks
of snow when illuminated by the sun
shine, and again like clouds tossing and
rolling in a strong wind. When making
their descent upon tho country, and un
der impulsion from the wind, they rat
tle against the window-panes like hail,
and beat against the face of whosoever
may be out at the time, descending in
such myriads that it would be as im
possible to escape their contact as it
would be to avoid being rained on when
out in a shower. The concussion of
their million of wingß on the air make
a whizzing roar, plainly heard as thev
fly overhead. It is this ability to make
long and high flights that bids fair to
make them such a pest in Chicago.
They flv with the wind and without in
telligentdireotion; dropping, after a fight
of a few hours, on any place they may
happen to beover,'whether land or water,
town or country, and attack destruct
ively whatever they can. The country
is stripped bare of green and living
things ; cattle, and even human beings,
die of starvation. Gen. Ord, com
manding the military department of the
Platte, last fall reported that the bodies
of people who died of starvation were
found by his men in their marches,
and men and women were discovered
whose only means of subsistence for
days was clothing, which they gnawed
at like rats. Had it not boen for the
efforts of the charitable all over the
country, thousands whose crops had
ben destroyed bv this pest would have
starved to death last winter.
Marching On.
Prof. Riley, the state entomologist,
says that the ravages in western Mis
souri are indeed alarming. He explains
that the young hoppers will not be
ready to take the wing until the 15th of
June. For a whole month the farmers
of Missouri will have to stand the
scourges. The only approximate relief
that can be gained is through a war of
extermination, and farmers all over the
state are called on to fight them with
rollers, ditching, burning, drowning,
and continual flawing. The professor
recommends to the state authorities to
offer rewards for the destruction of the
grasshoppers by the quantity. About
the route of the swarms after b 'coming
full-winged, there are the meat contra
dictory opinions. The most probable
and popular belief is that will
move westward, northward, and to some
extent, eastward from this state. A
large firm of wholesale grocers to-day
received by express from the western
part of the state a box which, upon
being opened, was found to be com
pletely full of grasshoppers. Accom
panying the package, was a letter from
Iti God )f e Trust.
a heavy debtor, who said unless the
hoppers were received in liquidation of
his account, he saw no way of ever pay
ing his indebtedness, as theso were all
there was left, or in prospect, of the
product of his sectiou. All the whole
sale houses iu St. Louis are receiving
letters by the hundred from their west
ern Missouri creditors, declaring their
fotal inability to meet their paper, on
amount of the plague. The formation
of a relief commission, and a thorough
organ zation for the work surely in pros
pect. are already being agitated here.—
St. Louis Special.
Mark Twain on Spelling.
There was a spelling match at the
Asylum Hill Congregational church,
Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday even
ing, and Mr. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark
Twain) being called on for n> few pre
liminary remarks, spoke as follows :
Ladies and Gentlemen : I have been
honored with the office of introducing
these approaching orthographical solem
nities with a few remarks. The tem
perance crusade swept the land some
time ago—that is, that vast portion of
the land where it was needed—but it
skipped Hartford. Now comes this
new spelling epidemic, and this time
we aie stricken. So I suppose wo
needed the affliction, I don’t say we
needed it, for I don’t see any use in
spelling a word right, and never did.
I mean I don’t see any use in having a
uniform and arbitrary way of spelling
words. We might as well make all
clothes alike and cook all dishes alike.
Sameness is tiresome ; variety iR pleas
ing. I have a correspondent whose
letters are always a refreshment to me ;
there is such a breezy, unfettered
originality about his orthography. He
always spells Kow with a large K.
Now, that is just as good as to spell it
with a small one. It is better. It
gives the imagination a broader field, a
wider scope. It suggests to the mind
a graud vague, impressive, new kind of
cow. Superb effects can be produced
by variegated spelling. Now, there is
Blind Tom, the musical prodigy. He
always spells a word according to the
sound that is carried to his ear. And
he is an enthusiast iu orthography.
When you give him a word he shouts
it out—puts all his soul into it. J once
heard him called upon to spell orang
outang beforo au audience. He said,
“ O, r-a-u-g, orang, g-e r, ger, oranger,
t a-n-g, tang, oranger tang ! ” Now, a
body can respect an orang-outang that
spells his name in a vigorous way like
that. But the feeble dictionary makes
a mere kitten of him. In the old times
people spelled just as they pleased.
That was the right idea. You had two
chances at a stranger then. You knew
a strong man from a weak one by his
iron-clad spelling, and his handwriting
helped you to verify your verdict.
Somo people have an idea that correct
spelling can be taught and taught to
n-uylvuly.. TUat Iu a- -Tiuv
Spelling faculty is born iu man,
like poetry, music and art. It is
a gift; it is a talent. People who
have this gift in a high degree only
need to see a word once in print aud it
is forever photographed upon their
memory. They cannot forget it. Peo
ple who haven’t it must be content to
spell more or less like—like thunder—
and expect to splinter the dictionary
wherever their orthographical lightning
happens to strike. There are 111,000
words in the Unabridged Dictionary.
1 know a lady who can spoil only 180
of them right. She Rteers clear of all
the rest. Sho can’t learn any more
So her letters always consist of those
constantly-recurring 180 words. Now
and then, when she finds herself obliged
to write upon a subject which necessi
tates the use of some other words, she
—well, she don’t write on that subject.
I have a relative in New York who iR
almost sublimely gifted. She can’t
spell anv word right. There is a game
called Verbarium. A dozen people are
each provided with a sheet, of paper,
across the top of which is written a
long word like kaleidoscopical, or some
thing like that, aud the gamo is to see
who can make up the most words out of
that in three minutes, always beginning
with the initial letter of tho word.
Upon one occasion the word chosen
was cofferdam. When time was called
everybody had built from five to twenty
words except, this young lady. She only
had one won!, calf. We all studied a
moment and then said, “Why, there is
no 1 in cofferdam ! ” Then we examined
her paper. To the eternal honor of
that uninspired, unconscious, sublimely
independent soul be it said, she had
spelled the word “call’! ” Jf anybody
here can spell calf any more sensibly
than that, let him step to the front and
take his milk. The insurrection will
now begin.”
Changing the Names of Paris Ntreels.
Political affairs in France can not be
half so exciting as the telegrams would
have us believe. The perfecture of the
Seine has found leisure to occupy itself
with the good old sport of charging
the names of the Paris streets ; and it
is a pleasing illustration of the respect
in which the arts are held in France that
the government has given the artists
their share of these mnncipal honors.
The Rus Saint Paul is to bo known
henceforth as the Rue Henri Regnault;
the Rue du Chemin de Fer becomes the
Rue Lacaze, in honor of the great
amateur who presented his superb col
lection, long the glory of his residence
in the Rue du Cherche-Midi, and su
premely rich in French pictures of the
eighteenth century, to the Louvre , the
Rue des Artists sinks the general in the
particular and becomes the Rue Gayar
ni; Fragonard is to be commemorated
on the corners of wliat was the Rue
Philbert Delorme; the Rue Chariot
takes the name of the great painter
Troyon; aud the Rue des Yignes, the
name of the sculptor of Washington
and Voltaire (conjunction strange!)
Houdon.
3 IThe young lady students of the Syra
cuse medical college are very cireless.
Recently three of them purchased the
body of an Auburn convict, and, after
catting it up, threw the pieces into a
vacant lot, causing immense excitement
in the vicinity, the general- opinion be
ing that a diabolical murder had been
committed.
Tnr. taxable wealth of TeTa* is said
to have been increased thirty-three per
cent-, in four years.
Fashion’s Changes.
A Paris correspondent says : Fashion
has crept into even the minutest details
of a lady’s toilet, and it is decreed that
the simple Balbrigau stocking, whose
claims to attention were merely its fit
ness, its durability, and its elasticity, is
to be replaced l-*y a crowd of new in
ventions in the hosiery line. The coun
ter devoted to stockings m the large
shops here is now as radiant with color
as is that which is given up to ribbons
and neckties Striped, embroidered,
opened-worked, blue, pink, yellow,
violet, scarlet—every shade, in short,
save white. The long line of shelves
looks like the a rant garde of blood
less corps de ballet. It is the mode
now to wear a stocking that matches
the dress ; thus, if the toilet be in two
shades the stocking is striped to corre
spond. The last style in embroidered
stockings is to have a garland winding
round and round the leg.. Stockings
which are half dark and half light
should have the fool and ankle of the
darker shade. They are usually made
in different shades of the same color,
but sometimes a contrast is used ; thus
the lower part may be of pearl gray and
the upper of peach color. In stripes
scarlet and peach color, violet and
lilac, black and pink, and other pretty
contrasting shades aro worn. The
open-worked stockings are fine as lace,
and in as delicate and dainty patterns.
To better display all this luxury of
hosiery ladies’ boots are now cut across
the front to simulate straps, aud slip
pers are held in place by three straps
adorned with buckles or with bows.
The pointed American shape is begin
ning to replace the broad, square toe,
up to this time adopted for ladies’ boots
by French shoemakers. Handker
chiefs are coming into vogue again as
visible portions of a lady’s toilet. The
corner is suffered to peep out from the
little side pocket or the escarcella ; it
may be either of bastiste or of foulard,
with a colored hem or with colored
blocks at the corners, and marked with
a fac simile of the wearer’s signature or
elso with her arms or monogram. The
latest style for full dress is of finest,
cambric, edged with five rows of nar
row Valenciennes, or else richly em
broidered and bordered with a single
row of wide Valenciennes put ou like a
flounce. In parasols the latest mode
decrees a black silk covering, lined
with pink, blue or of straw color to suit
the costume : at one side a single spray
of flowers is embroidered, which must
match the flowers on the wearer’s bon
net. White parasols, all purely, spot
lessly white, both handle and covering,
are sometimes seen. Others are em
broidered with stars of brownish steel,
which new tint is called Sphinx color.
These new ornaments glitter very effect
ively in the sunshine. In letter-paper
the monogram has been replaced by
tiny devices stamped on the left baud
corner of the sheet, and each having
JLta special aignijWtiou. Tims, a car
rier pigeon means answer quickly; a
swallow, return ; ally, do not count on
me; a key, I expect you ; an opened
envelope, the secret is discovered; an
imp stirring a boiling saucepan, I re
nounce love, etc. If this style becomes
a general one stationers will be forced
to sell a card of explanations with each
quire of paper.
Why Men Become Bald.
Because they wear close hats aud
caps. Women aro never bald. Some
times, from long-confined headache,
heat in the scalp, bad hair-dressing ami
sorao other causes, women may have
bare spots here and there ; but with all
these combined, you never see a woman
with a bare, shiny, bald head. And
you never see a man lose a hair below
where the bat touches the skull. It
will take it oft’ as clean as you can shave
it down to exactly that lino, but nover a
hair below, not if he has been bald
fifty years. The common black stiff
hat, as impervious as sheet iron, retains
the heat and perspiration. The little
hair glands, which bear the same rela
tion to the hair that the seed wheat does
to the plant above ground, become
weak from the presence of the
moisture aud heat, and finally be
come two weak to sustain the hair. It
falls out, and baldness exists. A fur
cap we have known to produce complete
baldness in a single winter. A man
with a good head of hair needs very
little protection where the hair grows.
Women who live much within doors,
and who are, therefore, susceptible to
the cold, oil their hair and plaster it
down hard aud fiat, upon their skulls, so
as to destroy niue-teuths of its power
as a non-conductor, have worn for years
postage stamps of bonnets stuck on the
back of their skulls, and then going out
of furnace-heated parlors, have ridden
f r hours in a very cold temperature
without taking cold and without com
plaint.
Man, with his greater vigor and
habits of outdoor life, and with his
hair not plastered down, but thrown up
loose and light, could no donbt go to
the north pole, so far as that part of his
person is concerned, without any artifi
cial covering. And yet we men wear
immensely thick fur caps, and do not
dare to step out into a chilly atmos
phere a moment lest we take cold. It
is a silly, weak and really serious error.
The Creator knew what he was about
when he covered a man’s skull with hair.
It has a very important functiou in pro
tecting the brain. Baldness is a serious
misfortune. It will never occur in any
man who will wear a common black
high silk hat with five hundred holes
through the top, so that there shall be
more hole than hat. This costs noth
ing; the hatter will do this for you
when you purchase your hat. If the
nap be combed the wrong way, and
after the holes are made it be combed
the right way, no one will observe the
peculiarity. The hat will wear quite as
long—the hatters say considerably
longer—because it is dry instead of
moist; in brief, there is not a single
objection to it, while it will certainly
prevent baldness and keep the top of
the head cool and prevent much head
ache.
Last month the building erected
for the poor of London by the trustees
of the Peabody fuud was opened for
i general use. It covers about two and a
i half acres, and will accommodate 312
| families. The average rent of three
; roomn is abcrfit six shillings per week ;
! two r*oms, three shillings and sixpence.
Payable in Advance.
NUMBER IS.
and one room, two shillings and six
pence. lu alluding to this movement,
Sir Charles Rsod, member of parlia
ment, said they are proving the greatest
success the world has ever known in the
way of lienefieial charity.
Aeronautic.
Lucy Hooper in one of her Faris
letters, in speaking of the disastrous
aseeut of the balloon Zenith; l had
quite an interesting conversation with
M. Tissandier, who, though sorely de
pressed by the dreadful fate of his com
rades, is in no physical respect the
worse for his perilous expedition. A
sensation of heaviness in the head and
a general debility are the only effect*
remaining so far as his health is con
cerned. He is a quiet, modest gentle
man, and seemed rather oppressed by
the universal interest which his adven
tures have excited. It is reported he
is the only one of the three who ate
nothing before undertaking the ascen
sion, but the’seeretary of the aeronautic
society assured me "that M. Spiueli’s
breakfast consisted merely of a cup of
soup, a bit of bread, and a glass of
light claret; so that the question of
food had nothing to do with his fate.
M. Tissandier is not only the editor of
the scientific periodical entitled La
Nature , but he is a practical aeronaut,
he aud his brother having been charged
with the task of managing the balloon
expresses that went to and from Faris
during the siege. The aeronautic so
ciety, which, as its name indicates, is
devoted wholly to the investigation of
the question of aerial navigation, re
ceives no support from the government,
but it has been acknowledged and is
now protected by the academy and the
institute. It is not very sumptuously
housed, its present quarters being
merely a back room in a house on the
Rue Lafayette. In this room are col
lected together all sorts of queer ma
chines, the most imposing of which is
an enormous construction, with wide,
bat,-like, outspread wings, and a won
derful conglomeration, in the midst
wherein or whereon the passenger is
to sit to manoeuver the wings aforesaid.
Of c rnrse the whole structure is a fail
ure. but, it is extremely ingenious. A
model of a flying-machine which reallv
can and did and does fly was exhibited
to mo. It, looked not unlike a dragon
fly ou au exaggerated scale. The mo
tive power appeared to be a thick chord,
formed of loose, separate filaments of
India rubber, which chord is to be
wound up or relaxed at pleasure by
means of a kev, and which thus moves
the wings of the machine. The secre
tary assured me that it could fly with a
velocity of thirty feet per second.
The Professions and the Presi
dency.—'The confiident prediction by
so old and intelligent, a statesman as
Hon. Alexandria IT. Stephens that the
next president of the United States will
be a journalist, suggests the inquiry as
to how the different professions have
fared in the past ‘in the distribution of
that, honor. A hasty review of the list
will be found to result somewhat as
follows :
Washington, soldier. ITyler, lawyer.
Adams, lawyer. Folk, lawyer.
Jeffersom, lawyer. Taylor, soldier.
Madison, statesman. Fillmore, lawyer.
Monroe, lawyer. Pierce, lawyer.
J. Q. Adams, lawyer. JBnchanan, lawyor.
Jackson, soldier. !Lincoln, lawyer.
Van Buren, lawyer. fJohnson, lawyer.
Harrison, soldier. 'Grant, soldier.
It is true that Jackson was a lawyer
as well as a soldier—a judge as well as
a general—but as it was his career as a
fighter that made him president, he is
credited to that profession. So Pierce
was a brigadier-general in tho Mexican
war ; but be didn’t distinguish himself
peculiarly as a warrior, so we apply to
him the correlative of tho proposition
that we apply to his great democratic
predecessor. It should, perhaps, be
explained with respect to Madison that
ho studied law, but seems to have been
drawn into public life too soon to make
any progress in the practice.
Baptism a da Mode,— The Louisville
Courier-Journal says: A party of yonng
ladies in a street car yesterday, all
mindful of the presence of a reporter
among them, were discussing a bap
tismal scene which occurred in one of
the churches on last Sabbath. They
grew enthusiastic—as the ladies always
do over the toilet of ttie different per
sons who were numbered among those
who received the solemn rites. One of
them remarked : “ Mamie looked per
fectly splendid in a magnificent mauve
colored dress.” “ Mauve-colored !”
ejaculated one of her companions;
‘ why, who ever heard of any one being
baptized in anything save white?”
“Oh, well,” said the other, “white
will do well enough for some people,
but, Mamie never expects to be baptized
but once, and she thought she would
get up something stylish. I am sure
nobody has any right to complain at
such a thing, when it probably will
happen but once in one’s lifetime.”
This may properly be called the ruling
passion strong in baptism, as a gentle
man remarked who heard the above
conversation. There is nothing like
going about thincs in a stylish manner
in these latter days.
His Choice.— A good story is told of
a Chicago dry goods salesman, who has
the reputation of being somewhat of a
wag. He recently sold a bill of goods
to a country customer, who was be
lieved to be a little shaky, and was ex
pected to commit justifiable insolvency
as soon as he had disposed of his stock.
As he was the customer’s intention to
pay a small part of his account with
no r es, which might prove worthless, the
salesman—so the story goes—added
here and there a little to the price of
the goods, so that when the purchase of
some two thousand dollars’s worth had
been made, of which all but two or
three hundred dollars had been paid in
cash, there was no possibility of the
firm losing anything, even should the
notes go to protest. The transaction
concluded, the customer besought the
salesman to give a present of some sort.,
and the generous saleman accordinglv
presented him with a valuable red silk
pocket handkerchief.
“ That won’t do,” said the customer:
“ give me a nice silk dress for my wife,
or something of that sort.”
“Can’t do it,” responded the sales
man; “but I’ll tell you wbat I’ll do;
I’ll give ?ou back your notes.”
“ No,” replied the customer; “bold
ou, I’ll take the handkerchief, ”
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SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
A case has been before tho English
divorce court of a wau suing for a
divorce on the ground of hi# wife’s
desertion. Tbe judge said it was the
first case of the kiud since the estab
lishment of the court seventeen years
ago.
A cross-eyed man who handed his
ticket to a Chicago street-car oonductor
the other day, had three helea punched
in it. The conductor thought he
glanced at two ladies at his side. They
were entire strangers, but he meekly
forbore to say any thing. It costs
something to be cross-eyed.
The most perfectly shaped man or
woman is asymmetrical—that is to say,
there is a marked unlikeness between
the two sides of the body. The two
sides of the face (which is most seen,
and, therefore, permits of more accu
rate study') will be found always to ex
hibit considerable differences. Proba
bly no two sides of any hunurn face are
precisely alike. It is the same with
every limb. No pair of limbs is shaped
alike. One hand is almost always larger
than the other ; so with the foot; so
with the leg and arm.
The Rev. Esau Burden, a negro
preacher in Charleston, S. C., adopted
a novel but effective way of raising the
money to. bury a dead parishioner.
Laying a hve-dollar bill on his pulpit
desk, he said: “Who’ll cover that?”
A brother walked up aud put down a
bill of like denomination. The clergy
man then spread out a two-dollar bill
and repeated the question, “Who’ll
cover that? aud somebody responded.
So he went on with decreasing amounts
until displaying ten cents, he shouted :
“Now for the Sunday-school children—
which of tho lambs will cover that?
As they entered a dry goods store
yesterday you would have said that
love dwelt in both hearts and that a
dove of peace rested ou even’ shingle
on the roof of their abiding place. She
saw a lovely dress aud she begged him
to buy, but he replied : “I can’t dar
ling, not before next week.” “Can’t
you, deai,” sho smiled. “ Well, I will
wait.” They had hardly passed out of
the door before ho said: “I’d like to
seo myself getting that dress ! ” Aud she
answered : “ You couldn’t buy one
side of it, and if you could you are too
stingy and mean to do it V'—Detroit
Free Press.
Ladies are sometimes surprised at
the rapidity with which au apparently
heavy black silk will go to pieces. A
recent writer says this is often due to
tho fact that it has boen “weighted.”
This process, originally adopted for the
purpose of making up the loss occasioned
by ungumming, is now carried so far as
sometimes to increase both weight and
bulk three-fold. The weight is added
by treatment with salts of iron and as
tringents, salts of tin and cyanide, and
results in an entire change both of the
chemical and physical properties of tho
silk, it is au agglomeration of foreign
matters without cohesion, burns like
tinder, and, worse than all, is said to be
known to have absorbed gases until
enough heat was caused to produce
spontaneous combustion. Ladies should
Vie on the lookout for such silks as
these.
Of all tho love affairs in tho world
none can surpass the true love of a big
boy for his mother. It is a love pure
and noble, honorable in the highest
degreo to both. Ido not moan merely
a dutiful affection. I mean a love
which makes a boy gallant to his
mother, saying plainly to everybody
that lie is fairly in love with her.
Next to the love of her husband noth
ing so crowns a woman’s life with
honor as this second love, this devotion
of the sou to her. And I never yet
knew a boy to “turn out” badly who
began by falling in love with his
mother. Any man may fall in lovo
with a fresh-face girl, and the man who
is gallant to the girl may cruelly neg
lect tho worn and weary wife. But the
big boy who is a lover of his mother at
middlo age is a true knight, who will
lovo his wife as much in the sere-leaf
of autumn as in the daisied spring.
There is nothing so beautifully chival
rous as tho love of a big boy for his
mother. —Beriah Green.
Brigham Young is in good health,
and is doing as much harm as could
reasonably be expected from a person
of his ago. He said to his people re
cently : “Education renders a boy
worthless. All our congressmen and
governors of states and public officials
are the spawn of free schools. These
men never performed a day’s useful
labor in their lives, and they would bo
far more valuable to the community if
they would lay down their robes of
office and go to work in the corn-field.
Would you have your children grow up
maudlin and worthless? 1 had no
schooling, yet God chose me for the
most exalted position on earth. Your
college professors aud men cunning in
all the wisdom of the Egyptians often
want a meal, while I have laid up my
millions, and can buy every congress
man, every editor, and every preacher
in the country. Go away to your corn
fields. I am opposed to free schools
and to all legislation in favor of free
schools ; and, understand me, although
you come bogging to me on your knees,
I will not give one dollar to educate
another man’s child.”
A Trotting Wonder Without a Ped
igree.—The buckskin mustang, Don
Elipha, is expected to arrive here to
morrow from Los Angelos on the steamer
Orizaba. This wonderful horse, with
out a pedigree, has an interesting his
tory. He was for a long time worked
in hauling stages in Arizona, and has
done considerable cavalry service in
hat country. One of the feats per
o rmed by this half-breed while in the
cavalry was the carrying a soldier one
hundred miles in one day. He was
purchased by Smith k Billings, of Los
Angelos, two years ago. for a mere song,
and put in training. He has trotted
five races in the Orange Grove City,
and when he scored 2:30 he shut himself
out of future contests in that locality
until the racing stud shall be improved.
This is the best record made on any
course in Southern California. The
last race won bv the. Don was a two
mile race for §2,000. A brilliant future
is predicted for the Don, aud it is
expected ha will yet go to the string
under the twenties.— San Francico
Bulletin.