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VOL X.
THE DREAMER.
All day the white-haired woman sitn
Betide the open door, and knits.
No living thing h r r dim eye ieew,
As busy with old memories,
tfhe dreams her drt-ama of what has been,
And knits her old time fancies in.
Bhe thinks of them who long ago
Wont out across the threshold low,
j How many times her listening ear
Has thought familiar footsteps near;
Ami she has started up to find
A dead leaf rustling in the wind.
But never as of those who lie
Beueath the wide aud tender sky
With folded hands 01 quiet breast,
All wrapped about with peace ad rest,
Bho thinks of them. For her the> tread,
The green earth with her. None ar dead.
Though years have tallon like tho leaves
Above the graves where Hummer weaves
Her grass fringed coverlet, to keep
Hafo hid from us the ones asleep,
She sees them all. No grass or mold
Uau hide tho ones sho loved of old.
She talks with thorn. When brown winged bees
Make merry in the Locust trees,
She thinks he comes and sits with her,
Whose voice was love’s interpreter,
Odreamer! young again to-day,
What matter if jour hair is gray?
Sometimes she thinks that round her knee-
Her children play in happy glee,
And when they tired aud sleepy grow
She sings some song of long ago,
Aud on her loving mother breast
She rocks her little ones to rest.
O dreamer, knitting all the day
Your dreams in with your stitches gray.
Yours is a happy, happy heart,—
A haunted world from ours apart,
The years that turned your tn sees gray-
Have given you back your youth to-day..
‘•I III: IRISH KI'RMNC, IIUT NOT CON
SUMED.”
Tin llev. J. ,L. Rentoul, M. A., St.
George’s English Presbyterian church,
Liverpool, iu preachiug from the text,
lux. iii. 2, towards the dose of his ser
mon, alluded to the fact that “The
Burning Bush” was the ollicial and
time-honored symbol of the Presbyte
rian church. Ho said: Some forms of
Christian faith havi), from their age,
their stragglings, their eullerings and
their influence on the world, a place in
history that is unique and glorious.
This, the Burning Bush, and round
about it, as its scroll, the words of the
old Latin Bible, “Nee tamen coiuiuiue
batur —this was the motto chosen by
our Reformation fathers in the day of
tbeir sore strait aud suffering and per
secution, on corning out from Rome, as
the symbol of our Presbyterian church.
I'o that symbol her history has beeu
strangely and nobly true. This motto,
more than any motto I know of, has
been dyed in blood J not the blood of
her enemies, but the blood of her own
anguish. She has been pre-eminently
the Church of Martyrdom; trampled
in her struggle for the freedom ef
mans mind and man’s spirit; tram
pled, but rising again, “burning but
not consumed.” She has been named
by one of her ablest enemies “The
Mother of Republics,” because the
liberties of Germany and of Puritan
England, and the cause of Evangeli
calism in tho Church of England, and
the cause of English Non-conformity
sprang from her bosom. Call her, in
honest candor rather, the mother of
freedom—the freedom of the soul of
man; lighting ever for this—that Jesus
Christ and he only is Lord of man’s
conscience, and King and Head of his
Church. These principles are growing
in tho world—growing in the form of
Wesleyanism, grovviug in tho form of
Congregationalism, growing in tho
more living portions of the Church of
England; and I care not under what,
name they grow, if only they grow.
But let not the world forget by wbat.
Church’s bloodshed and sweat of an
guish the seed of them has been sown..
Those Waldeusian heroes, in whose
honor Milton sang, and who, amid
their Italian hills, “kept. God’s truth
so pure of old,” before there was any
•Reformation’ elsewhere iu Europe—
they were Presbyterians; . and their
motto also is the Hyht burnimj in Ike
wilderness. Those Huguenot men who
saved France, and whom France, to
France’s endless loss, crushed down in
blood on the day of St. Bartholomew;
they also were Presbyterians, tin* men
of the Burning Bush. They who, from
Germany and Puritan England, and
the Scotland of the Covenant, saved
the world's liberties—they too were
the Church of the Burning Bush.
Where in modern history has there
been heroism or martyrdom for prin
ciple like to this? God’s holiness,
God’s eternity, God's redemption of
men through Christ’s atonement—
these are the truths to make men
heroes—a family tree with God’s glory
on each branch—a Bush “burning,”
but by God’s love upheld and “not
consumed.”
It is undoubtedly true that more
misery is produced among us by the
irregularities of our tempers, than by
real misfortunes. And it happens, un
fortunately, that those irregularities of
temper are most apt to display them
selves at our firesides, where every
thing ought to be tranquil and serene.
But the truth is, we are awed by the
presence of strangers, and are afraid
of appearing weak or ill-natured when
, we get out into the world, and so very
heroically reserve all oar ill-humor for
our wives, children and servants. We
are meek when we might meet with op
position, but feel ourselves undaunt
edly bold where we are sure of no ef
fectual resistance.
THE POST OFFICE.
The wonderful growth of our post
ofliee is one of the most satisfactory
evidences of the excellence with which
some of the public work is done. The
postmaster general of the German em
pire has found time to write a history
of the post office, and as his subor
dinates are not changed at every elec
tion, and are rarely troublesome or
successful iu their efforts to violate
the law to their own profit, his leisure
is well employed in showing the extent
to which this comparatively modern in
stitution is an evidence of the business
activity of various nations. The ancient
empires knew little or nothing of post
offices. The Egyptians were very proud
of their literary productions, but they
were nc letter writers in the modern
sense. The Persians borrowed the post
office from China, aud alike used it only
for government service. The Greeks
sent their messages by word or by
mouth, except the results of their
Olympian and Isthmian Games, which
were transmitted by carrier pigeons.
The Romans in the time of the Re
public used ivory tablets, and Cfosar,
in his reports to the Senate of his
military operations, set the example so
well followed in our own day, of an
army correspondent. Cicei-o wrote let
ters from Tusculum, Horace from the
Tiber, and Lucullus from Baia, and
the charlcc epidolares of which Martial
speaks, were prototypes of our own
postal cards, but it was not until the
time of the Empire that Augustus
Created aud Hadrian completed the
organization of a national post office,
an improvement that Charles the Fifth
renewed for his own vast empire; but
the modern post office owes its exist
ence to Louis the Eleventh of France,
aud to Roger von Taxis, whose de
scendants down to our day enjoyed
the monopoly for Germany.
As far back as the thirteenth century
the growth of commerce in Northern
Italy and iu the free cities of Germany
compelled the use of special messen
gers to transmit letters. In our own
day tho international exchanges of
post office matters makes geographical
lines almost a thing of the past; yet it
is not without interest to see how the
amount of business done by the post
office measures the extent -of the com
mercial activity of each country. Great
Britain leads off' with a per centage of
twenty-nine letters per head of its
population, and the total—a billion
and a quarter of letters—bears evi
dence to the extent of British indus
try, its maritime greatness, and its far
reaching commerce. Switzerland re
ceives and sends one hundred and
twenty- million letters, giving its small
population a percentage of twenty-one
per head; but besides its business and
literary activity, aud its own well odu
catod people, it is the holiday ground
of Europe and of many thousand
Americans. Our own country comes
next, with eighteen letters a head to
each of our citizens, and the post office
is only another evidence of our untir
ing industry and restless activity. Rail
roads, with their postal facilities, have
carried civilization across the whole
continent, and wo liavo the cheapest
postage in tho world when wo measure
it by the enormous distances over
which our letters are carried at uni
form rates, leaving a deficiency every
year, which is cheerfully paid as the
price of our post office facilities, and
for the honor of carrying the mails for
the rest of tho world, from Europe,
Asia and Africa, to and fro across our
own continent. In 1799 the American
post office c.trried a million letters;
now it deals w’ith seven hundred mil
lions, and the 1 increase of eacii year is
helped on by slich expedients as the
post office ‘special mail train,’ which
have gone into successful operation.
Germany does it business of fifteen
letters a head for’ each inhabitant of
the Empire; France only nine—but
even there cheap .foreign postage has
been introduced, and domestic rates
are likely soon to >x* reduced, and the
number of letters carried will be pro
portionately increas ed. Russia has an
enormous extent o i half populated
and far less than ha Jf civilized coun
try, and carries only seventy-five mil
i lions oi letters—less than one for each
of its inhabitants, and less a great deal
than Spain, Portugal, xTaiy and Greece,
. which stand at the rate respectively of
five, four, three and one* per head. The
United States almost leads off in the
number of post offices to population,
supplying one to every eleven hundred
people. Switzerland is ahead, with
one to every thousand Great Britain
one to every twenty/-five hundred;
Germany one to every' five thousand;
France one to every sis thousand, and
Russia one to every t ,wenty-five thou
sand. Great Britain collects seventy
five millions of dollai s from postage;
France (by means of high rates) not
very much less; Ru ssia gets thirty
millions, Germany twi mfcy-tive millions,
while the United Sta tes pay for their
post office, over and above all its re
ceipts, from six to oigl it millions of dol- j
lars, and, although n nick of it is well
expended, there are i items of subsides
for steamship lines an jd new post office
buildings, and dislic meet contractors
and postmasters, tkr£ might he saved
with great profit to the National Trea
sury and to tha eas o and comfort of
every tax-payer. Un Ail our postmaster
general has reform jd all this, he will
hardly have time I ju write books or
find it pleasant to pdf the history of
our pupt office.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1876.
ROPE WALKING NIAGARA.
The Signorina Maria Spelterini is a
genuine belle of the Campagna, the
name being her own, as we are posi
tively assured, and her nationality un
questionably Italian. The signorina is
not particularly sylphlike; on the con
trary, she is quite what might be
termed buxom, aud physically able to
hold her ow f n in the battle of life. Sat
urday afternoon this lady accomplished
a feat which no woman had ever before
essayed. This was no less an under
taking than the crossing of the gorge
of Niagara on a tight rope stretched
immediately over tho point whertrtiie
rapids boil most furiously, a couple of
hundred feet beyond the Railroad
Suspension Bridge. At the point se
lected for the exhibition, the same at
which the famous Blondin stretched
his second rope, the gorge As some
thing more than eight hundred foet
across, and the banks about two hun
dred feet above tho seething water. It
is one of the wildest, most troubled
parts of the river. Inclosures had been
formed by rough fences at either end
of the rope on both the American aud
Canada sides, and an admission fee
was charged, but on the Dominion
sides an unruly mob tumbled down
the fence aud defied the toll collector.
Oa tho hither side quite a large num
ber of spectators, bot i iu carriages
and on foot, who had gained admission
by paying their honest fee of entrance,
were assembled, but many preferred
to view the novel aud startling specta
cle from the bridge. This might be
considered hardly the fair thing, in
consideration of the fact that the Sig
norina had been to an expense of SG4O
for her rope and guyropes alone. The
rope, we may mention, is two and a
quarter inches iu diameter, of the best
Manila, and weighs nearly a ton. It
is held taut by 1,4000 pounds of guy
ropes. The Signorina started upon
her perilous journey promptly at the
advertised time, four o’clock. When
those who went down by that train ar
rived inside the inclosure, they saw a
glistening figure far out upon ‘the
straight and narrow way,’ and with
steady, measured steps progressing.
The lady was attired with green bus
kins, tights of the color nature gives
tke cuticle of the.)> £aaoagioifr, -jyftce, <
tunic, of scarlet, and shining green
bodice. Her head was covered onlj
by its luxuriant growth of flowing
brown hair. Bands at either side of
the river played inspiriting music, but
every eye was fast fixed upon tbo form
of the daring woman who was now
passing up the ascent to the further
shore. A few more seconds of intenso
interest, at least to those who were
lookers-on, and she stood upon the
shining shore of Her Majesty’s Domin
ion. The accomplishment of her pas
sage wasjthe signal for applause from
both banks and the bridge. Then
they waited, probably ten minutes. At
the expiration of that time the Signo
rina again appeared, balance-pole in
hand, and stepping lightly upon the
rope began the return journey. Stead
ily she came back across the long line,
stopping at tho center to rest upon
one knee, then again stepping forward
with measured and steady tread.
When within a few rods of the final
destination she stood immovable for a
moment in statuesque pose while an
enterprising photographer socured her
presentment. Then she traversed the
remaining distance until safe again on
terra firm a, and thus the exhibition of
the day was closed. Tho Signorina
Spelterini is twenty-three years of age,
dark, with an essentially Italian cast of
countenance, square built, and probably
turning one hundred aud fifty pounds.
Her features are quite regular, her ex
pression intelligent, her manner en
gaging. From the time she was three
years old she has continually practiced
upon the tight-rope and slack wire.
UNLUCKY PEOPLE.
There is no such thing as luck, I
fancy. People make their own good
or evil by their own deeds. The un
lucky man is generally a shiftless sort
of a person who lets all the opportuni
ties of life pass; while the lucky man
is shrewd and far-seeing, and makes
the most of everything. An old story,
entitled ‘Murad the Unlucky,’ illus
trates what I mean. Two men start in
life with equal advantages of education
and position. At the end, one of them
becomes immensely rich (as the saying
is, ‘Everything he touches turns to
gold,’) and finally, regarded as the
benefactor of his city, is placed over it,
by the sovereign, as its ruler. * In the
execution of his duty, he comes across
Murad, who has always been unfortu
nate, and relieves him. Each relates
his adventures, and it turns out that
| the lucky man had got on by industry,
sagacity and integrity, while his un
lucky friend failed through the ab
sence of these essential qualifications
for success. Luck is simply another
name for ability, in nine cases out of
ten.
In 1770 it took about three days to
go from New York to Philadelphia. Iu
1870 it takes less than three hours.
SHIPPING CHINESE.
The steamer at Hong Kong lies at
anchor in the bay after she has received
her cargo. The regular Chinese cooly
passengers are given to understai '
that on a day named she will sail, ai. j :
that they must be ready to go on boar*' j
|tt an early hour in the morning. A
i.boutTJTfofotock a. m. the embarkation
begins, the coolies being brought out
to the ship from the shore in lighters,
which usually carry from four hundred
to six hundred persons. When the
fighters come alongside, a gangway is
\nado, aud along this the coolies pass
file, each having in his hand
a i ickotrYTin which ho has been pro
vided, 'which he exhibits. As soon as
al/ are on board the anchor is weighed
aid the ship streams out of the har
luTr-beioro all this, which is regular,
has occurred, aud under the cover of
thc| darkness of night, small boats, or
‘saitpans,’ as they are callod iu China,
111 silently off from the shore, each
containing from five to ten Chinese
females of the lower cyder. These
wo.’.rr-mto dot pass aboard the ship
by;any gang-plank, but they are put
thiough a port, which has been left
conveniently open for this purpose.
Thty are received on board by some
oilier of the ship, who has provided
a j secret hiding place for them; aud
bfiiore the gray twilight of morning
appears every thing about the ship has
a remarkably regular appearance.
'List before the ship roaches Yokohama,
on her way to San Francisco, all the
CuTiese passengers, except tho women,
are mustered on the main deck, aud
are made to pass thiough a narrow
gangway, only wide enough for one to
pass at a time. Their passage tickets
aie taken up auA another ticket fur
nished each one, to show that he will
be all right when disembarked at San
Francisco. While this inspection is iu
progress upon the main deck, two oi
the ship’s officers go into the steerage
and make a search to ascertain if there
are any stowaways on board. If any
are found they ashore at Yoko
hama; but no iastyiuce has ever Leen
known where a female stowaway was
put ashore except after the .arrival* of
the sterner iu Syi Erancisco. >-’<
.—'■ J vat)
port opportunities are given to the
owners of these women to smuggle
them ashore. This is done by the
connivance of some officer of tho si ip,
and possibly of some subordir te
Custom-house officer.—San Francisco
Morning Call.
The Sioux are tho perfection of Na
ture’s wild men. They are red repub i
beans, polytheists who worship every :
object in nature—objects being rai i• J
their plains. They are polygamis .o
whom nature contributes a wife e . ?-
where; and Sioux infancy is spent i
- to the detectabilities of war, <
the child precociously weeps to take a
scalp. The chiefs have little or no au
thority, and are overcome by the
bravos. There is no law or code oi
law among the Dakotas, and propertj
is an institution of abhorrence with
them. Untamable, factious, but form
idable in war, treacherous and coward
ly, but still in arms forevei’, they have
survived every European innovation—
small-pox, railroads, Indian agents
and rum. They all used to go afoot,
aud now they ride as well as Cbinan
ches. They had only bows and arrows,
and now have Spencer rifles. They
want the scalp of mankind.—Gath, in
Graphic.
This is the time to guard against
cholera iu chickens. The time to lock
the stable door is before the horse is
stolen. An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure. Use an iron
vessel for them to drink from, or if
wooden vessels are used, put in iron
scraps; drop in a piece of assafoedita
and,, sjuaii. piece of camphor gum and
renew the water frequently to prevent
it becoming too warm. Clean out the
coop frequently and scatter slaked
lime or a quantity of dust from the
road over the bottom or fioor of the
coop; give them access to grass and
insects, and a little grain to eat regu
larlv with their soft food, aud you
need have but little fear of cholera. If
a little carbolic acid be sprinkled over
the coop it will prove a good disinfec
tant.
It, is not well for us to cherish the
habit of dwelling much on tho faults
and short-comings of those with whom
we live. It makes us more critical
than generous. It affects the cordiali
ty of our manner toward them. It in
sensibly lessens our confidence—inter
feres with the delicious ease and free
dom of our intercourse with them. It
colors the remarks that we make about
them to others, and then reacts with
double force upon our own fee’mgs
and our relations to them. It is said
of the virtuous woman, whose price is
above rubies, that the law of kindness
is in her tongue. But in order to be
in the tongue, it must first bo in the
heart, and the habit of dwelling much
on the imperfections of our friends and
associates will soon drive it from us.
LENGTH OF MODERN CAMPAIGNS.
The great social feature of the pres
ent day is ‘pace;’ everything goes
ahead, and armies must conform to
this rapid order of things. According
ly, military operations and results
which used to occupy years are now
compressed into months; it might
almost be said weeks. The war of
1856 was declared by Aurtria on April
26; the first action, Montebello, was
fought on May 19; and the war was
finished at Solferino on July 24. In
1866 the Prussians virtually declared
war by crossing the Austrain frontier
on June 23, and in seven weeks the
latter power was forced to come to
terms at the very gates of her capital.
Prussia received the French declara
tion of war on July 19, 1870. On Sept.
2 France’s last army in the field was
destroy at Sedan, and the last shots
were fired on Feb. 2,1871. Here, then,
we have at once an immense saving of
life. The long delays, which meant,
for the soldier, exposure to tho weath
er and to sickness; the defective com
munications,entailing insufficient food;
the slowly dragging campaign with all
its privations and hardship—all these
fertile sources of disease and death
have vanished, or are vanising. It is
true that the French soldiers both in
aud out of Metz suffered terribly from
want of proper food and supplies; but
it must be remembered that their ad
ministration was exceptionally bad,
and the ver/ magnitude of their
defects will prevent a repetition of
them. Let, us for comparison, take
one or two instances from tfte wars of
the first Napoleon. Here is the state
o. his army during the invasion of
Russia iu 1812, not alter but before
njoeting the enemy otherwise than in
small skirmishes:
‘From the yvaut of magazines and
the impossibility of convoying an ade
quate supply of provisions for so im
mense a host, disorders of every kind
had accumulated iu a frightful manner
on tho llanks and rear of the army.
nor spirits could be
had; the flesh of over-driven animako
and bad water constituted the sole
subsistence of the soldier. * *
and before the gieat part of the army
had even seen the enemy, it had uu
iifor;vMmmiimWefia great'yy*
been expected from the most bloody
campaign. When the stragglers and
sick were added to the killed and
wounded the total reached 100,000.’^'
KILLED AND WOUNDED IN ANCIENT
AND MODERN WARFARE.
At tho battle of Talavera (1809 ) the
oss in killed and wounded was one
eightli of those engaged. At Austerlitz
(1805) it was one-seventh. At Malpla
quet (1709), at Prague (1759) and at
Jena (1806) it was one-sixth. At
Friedland (1807) and at Waterloo
(1815) one-fifth. At Marengo (1800)
it amounted to one-fourth. At Sala
manca (1812) out of ninety thousand
combatants, 30,000 were killed and
wounded. At Borodino (1812) out of
250,000, 80,000 fell on the two sides,
-t Leipsic (1813) the French sustain
i a loss of one-third of their total
fective. At Preussich Eylau (1807)
55,000 were killed and wounded out
of a combined total of 160,000 com
batants, giving a loss of more than
one-third; while at Zorndorf, (1758)
the most murderous battle which his
tory records in modern times, out of
82,000 Russians and Prussian troops
engaged, 32,800 were stretched upon
the field at the close of the day. Let
us now come to more recent times.
The first great battle in which rifled
fire-arms were used was at Solferino
in 1859, and when the war broke out
it was confidently predicted that the
effects of the new weapon would be
frightful; but the loss actually fell to
1-11 of those engaged. At Koniggratz
where, in addition to rifled weapons,
one side was armed with breech-load
ers, the actual loss was further dimin
ished to 1-15. Finally we come to the
last war, in which the proportions
were—-Worth 1-11, Gravelotte 1-12,
and Sedan 1-10. These figures may
surprise many who, not unnaturally,
imagined that improved weapons en
tailed increased slaughter. It is not
intended to imply that battles are not
still sanguinary, but it is incontestable
that they are much less so than they
were.—Macmillan’s Magazine.
Spurgeon tells the following story:
“A poor man, who had a largo family,
gave thorn a very comfortable support
while he was in health. He broke his
leg, ami was laid up for some weeks.
As he would be for some time desti
tute of the menus of grace, it was pro
posed to hold a prayer meeting at his
bouse. Tho meeting was led by Dea
con Brown. A loud knock at the door
interrupted the service. A tali, lank,
blue-frocked youngster stood at the
door, with an ox-goad in his hand, and
asked to see Deacon Brown. ‘Father
could not attend this meeting, he said,
‘but he sent his prayers, and they are
I out in the cart.’ They were brought
I in, in the shape of potatoes, beef, pork
1 and corn. The meeting broke up witli
' out the benediction.”
MUTUALLY CARING FOR EACH OTHER.
The Oakland (Cal.) Transcript tells
the following pleasant story: ‘There
has lived in this city the past few years
a quiet modest gentleman by the name
oi’ Peter Miller. He has resided iu
this State twenty years, worked in the
mines, and part of the time at his
trade, carpentering. Years ago he com
menced to send home to his widowed
mother, living iu Michigan, what he
could afford to spare from his earnings.
Being a bachelor, he could not brook
the idea of having the idol of his heart
toil iu her declining years,consequently
he sent her money from time to time,
making no extry of it, but presuming
bis worthy relative would use it as she
deemed proper. After years of absence
his mother kept writing for him to re
turn, but like other old Californians
he was proud and did not desire to go
back until he had sufficient to ‘show’
that he was from the Golden State.
Time works changes, so it did with
Peter; he found himself about a month
ago without labor—‘strapped,’ to use
the common term—and the surround
ings neither pleasant nor satisfactory.
Ho was unwell and thought of home
and the friends of his youth back in
the Wolverine districts. He wrote’to
his mother that he could not conceal
his pride any longer, and stated the
situation; if ho had money ho would
return, but he had to make it. Mon
day last he received a check for 8-51*0,
and in the letter was stated that the
money he had been sending homo for
years had been invested in real estate,
and that he had better come back and
take charge of his property, which was
worth over fifty thousand dollars.’
WHERE SUCCESS LIES.
Great things are not the things on
which tho life and happiness of the
world depends. We do not gather our
crops from the peaks of the mountains,
but from the fertile valleys and far
stretching meadows ol the level
ground. And though the occasional
actions of exceptional men are
‘idore startling at the time, aud more
beautiful to look upon, as impressing
what lies within the scope of
humanit.y ? they are not to be compar-
for their.-/affect _on the aggrouMf*
happiness ol mankind, to those my
raids of hourly familiar duties which
belong to the lower and ordinary plane
of existence. It is not by sudden and
sporadic-jerks that the business of life
is kept going. It is by the masses of
ordinary men and women doing their
ordinary duties, according to the mea
sures of their abilities and under a
sacred sense of duty.
That some spheres are more impor
tant than others—more influential, and
even, in some sense, more honorable —
need not be denied. But all true
work is honorable, and contributes its
share to the good of society and the
life of the world. And the man who
looks down with contempt on a fellow
creature who is honestly and faithfully
doing his duty, simply because his
sphere is an humble sphere, and his
occupation an humble occupation, is a
barbarian at heart, whatever he may
be in outward appearance.
As with the general business of the
world so with its happiness. That
happiness depends far more upon
small things than upon great. Sup
pose you have a cheerful and loving
heart—suppose that you abound in all
the little kindnesses and courtesies of
life—suppose that yon are tender and
considerate of tho feelings of those
around you, willing to oblige, mindful
of others rather than of yourself, and
in all things exercising yourself to
have a conscience void of offence to
ward God and toward man—your
presense will make sunshine wherever
you go.
TRAINING HORSES TO STEP.
I never draw a carriage up to a horse
when he is about to lie hitched before
it. No matter how awkward and blun
dering he may be, he is always taught
to step over one thill to the desired
place between the shafts. Before a
horse has been trained to step over
one shaft the two shafts are placed on
a small bench, eight or ten inches high.
The animal is led along the side of the
carriage and taught carefully to step
over one shaft with the fore feet, and
then to place his hind feet between the
shafts. If he is awkward at first, exer
ci.se patience with his stupidity, and
lead him forward again and bring him
around until you induce him to under
stand what is desired of him. A tract
able animal (if his driver knows half
as much as the horse) can easily be
taught to step between the thills and
never touch them with his feet.
A society has been formed in London
for the colonization of Syria and Pales
tine with Christian settlers from Eng
land. At a recent meeting one of the
speakers was the Rev. Dr. Bliss, of the
American Presbyterian College at Bei
rut, who strongly advocated the move.
There is already a German settlement
on Mt. Carmel, which is represented as
being very prosperous.
FEATHERS.
They who weep over errors were not
formed for crimes.
A straight line is the shortest in
morals as well as in geometry.
Nothing can be love to God which
does not shape itself into obedience.
Good words and good deeds are thi
rent we owe for the air we breathe.
Of the 226 Protestant churches built
in Chicago since 1831, 197 are still
standing.
When men publish their acts of
charity they doubt tho ability of the
Lord to keep account.
NO. 29
A modern essayist defines ‘gossip’ to
be the ‘putting of two and two together
and making five of them.’
When tho Declaration of Independ
ence was signed, there were only two
steam-engines, of the crudest design,
iu the United States.
Susan B. Anthony carries a largo
family umbrella at tho Centennial,
capable of stampeding as many as five
hundred men at a time.
The present number of churches iu
London is 802, an increase of sixteen
the past year. The clergy has increased
from 1,375 to 1,445.
An old granger says: ‘When your
wife gets to despising a kaliker dress,
it’s about time to break up the family
and divide the property.’
‘Are you a Christian?’ asked a min
ister of a forlorn looking man at an
inquiry meeting, who had taken a front
seat. ‘No,’ he answered sadly, Tin a
guano agent.’
‘Woman is a delusion, madam,’ ex
claimed a crusty old bachelor to a
witty young lady. ‘A man is always
hugging some delusion or other,’ v.-as
the quick retort.
An exchange says that any family
man who says he is too poor to take a
newspaper, should bo indicted by tbo
grand jury for obtaining a family un
der false pretenses.
The New York Times calls upon
President Grant to halt and notqisp
his power to help the wild' 1 'Nngs
turning out of ofliee all who *’ve b
trying to break them up. v
A sensible writer advises those \,ho
would enjoy eating to keep good
natured, for, say.-; he, ‘an angry man
cannot tell whether he is eating boiled
cabbage or stewed umbrellas.’
William H. Cooper, the head waiter
at the Pequot House, New London,
laughed so heartily at a sack race on
the glorious Fourth, that he burst a
blood vessel and died immediately.
A man with no hair, and a bullet
hole in the calf of his leg, says he is
satisfied that there is gold in the Black
Hills. He also says lie is satisfied
♦vrf -it*l fl*o . liJ.y.'-l’’
Hills
The Chinese question on the Pacific
coast has assumed a more serious as
pect since it has been discovered that
emigration from China has been the
means of introducing leprosy into Cali
fornia.
Cholera of an unusually virulent type
killed half the residents of Golwood,
India, within four days. The rest ed,
but were refused admission to oY^ I ' oll
villages, and had to return to they
footed place most of them to die.
‘I specs my bluvved hoarers,’ sail
colored parson, ‘I specs to-day io 6 •
a broad field in my ’scourse. i° re d
me a good while to git ..' ’Clare to
dock, but when I once strikes
water, den look out fur de big fish.
A dissipated old negro in Montgom
ery, Ala., while watching the monkeys
in the menagerie in that .city, spoke
thus: ‘Dorn children got too much
sense to come outen dat cage; white
folks cut dar tails off, and set ’em to
votin’ and makin’ constitewtions.’
A Washington special to the Balti
more ISuu says: Although Mr. Blaine
has accepted the appointment of Sena
tor, to fill the vacancy occasioned by
Mr. Morrill’s retirement, he will make
no attempt to come on this session, no
matter what its duration may be.
South California has three temper
ance colonies. Two of them are in Los
Angeles county, and the third in Santa
Barbara county. The colonists are
thrifty, quiet and enterprising, and
the colonies themselves are in a most
tiourishiug condition, the absence of
intoxicating liquor attracting a moral
and intelligent class of people.
Postmaster Jewell has been turned
out of the cabinet with as little cere
mony as if he had been a serving man
in the President household. Mr.
Jewell may have deserved this treat
ment, but if he did, the President owes
it to the country to explain how. If
his resignation was demanded out of
mere caprice, or from some motive
which the President is ashamed to
avow, Gen. Grant has put himself in a
position where his party will brt oblig
ed to resign him to the indulgence of
a perverse humor, for whose freaks
they must decline any responsibility.
They call it the ‘fighting trick’ in
Detroit. A benevolent-looking man
enters a drinking saloon, followed soon
after by a wiry little fellow who invites
No. 1 to take a drink and a cigar. The
liquor is swallowed, the cigars are
lighted, when suddenly No. 2 exclaims:
‘For thirty long years I have followed
your trail day and night! You broke
up my happy family, villain that you
are, but now come out here and fight
me like a man !’ ‘I will fight you to
the death!’ is the determined reply,
and both rush into hack yard. Tho
. agitated barkeeper runs to the front
j door, whistles for a policeman, and
j hurries to the back door just in time
| to see a coat tail disappearing over the
; lence. Then he begins to realize the
: situation.