The Gainesville eagle. (Gainesville, Ga.) 18??-1947, July 21, 1876, Image 1

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The Gainesville Eagle. PUBLISHKI EVERY FRIDAYMORNING. J ► -a. ify mn> w x isr ej . Eilltor and Proprietor. .1 C) II N B L ATS, Publisher. 1 EKMS : -■#:J A-Ycaiin Advance. , • , OJrTICE 1 in Gaudier Hall building, north-west corner Public Snuaro. , for a C ■- - Agents for Tlie Eagle. ,wer Bp/ itl:!H * nUir*vilJo, Ga.; -J. D. Uowakd, Hiwae * W. M. Handkrbon, Haysvilie, N. C.; Da. N. .oum, iiutord, Ga. DpS it i lle named gentlemen are authorized to 1 collectioriH, receive and receipt for subscription lie Eagle office. ,iue' Katos <il‘ Advertising. One dollar per square for ttr*t iuHertiou, and fifty outs for each aubsequent insertion. Marriage notices aud obituaries exceeding six lines ha charged for as advertisements. Personal or abusive communications will not be l. usorted at any price. Communications of general or local interest, under f a genuine signature respectfully solicited from any sou rce. Hates of Legal Advertising. Hhoriirs sales for each levy of ten lines or less $2 50 Each subsequent ten lines or less - - 260 Mortgage sale* (flu days) per square - - 500 Each subsequent ten lines or.less - - 5 00 Adm'r’s, Ex'i sor Guard’n’§ dales, (todays) pr sq 5 (Mi Notice to debtors and creditors - - 6 do Uitat’s for let'rs of adm'n or gnard’ns’p (4 wkh) 400 Leave to sell real estate - . - 5 00 Let’rs of dism’n of adm’n or guard'n (3 mo.) i 00 Estray notices 3 00 Citations (unrepresented estates) • - 4 (Mi Hole nisi lu divorce cases - - - goo HUT Fruition* of a square (or inch) are charged in all cae* a* full squares or inches. ' Notices of Ordinaries ' ailing attention of adminis trators, executors uml guardians to making th**ir an nual returns ; and of Sheriffs in regard to provisions sections 3040, of tho Code, PUBLISHED fuse for the Hheritfs and Ordinaries who patronize the Eagle. Advertisers who doaire a specified space for 3, A or 12 months will receivo a liberal deduction from our regular rates. tUT All bills due after first insertion, unless special contract to the contrary be made. GENERAL DIRECTORY. it on. George D. Itice, Judge 8. O. Wosteru Circuit. Emory Spoor, Solicitor, Athens, (ia. COUNTY OFHCEUB. J. B. M. Wlnburn, Ordinary. J. L. Waters, Sheriff. J. J. Mayne, Clerk Superior Court. N. It. Clark, Tax Collector. J. H. Simmons, Tax Receiver. V. Whelchel, Surveyor. Edward Lowry, Coroner. Samuel Lesser, Treasurer. CHUUCH DIRECTORY. Phkhhytkiitam Chintoii—ltev. T. P. Cleveland. Pas tor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning aud niglit, except the second Sabbath. Hu day School at oa. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o'clock. Methodist Church Rev. 1. D. Cox, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at '.I a. rn. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. Baptist Church ltev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor. Preaching Sunday morning. Sunday School at 9 a. in. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 4 o'clock. FKATKItNAL UECORD. Alleghany Royal Akoii Chapter meets on the See end and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each mouth. J. T. Wilson, Sec’y. A. Vv. Caldwell, 11. P. Gainesville Lodok, No. 219, A.-. F.\ M.\, meets on the First and Third Tuesday evening in the month It. Palmouk, Hec'y. J. K Hedwink, W. M. \m-Link Loimie, No. i>4, I. O. O. K., meets every Friday evening. C. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Harrison, N. G. Gaixksvillr GranuhNo. 340, meets on the Third Saturday aud I'irst Tuesday in each month, at one clock, p. m. J, E. Rkdwink, Mastei. 11. < 'll ESI!IK K, Sec. Morning Star Lodge, No. 313, I. O. G.T., meets ev ery Thursday evening. Claud Estes, W. S.“ J. P. Caldwell, W. C. T. North-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 386 I. O. G. TANARUS., meets every Ist aud 3d Saturday evenings, at Antioch Church. J. A. Smith, W. C, T. It. F. Gittenh, W. 8. GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE. Owing to recent change of schedule oil the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railrood, the following will be the schedule from date: Mail from Atlanta [lusrj 5.11 p. in. Mail for Atlanta lfasti 11.20 a. m. Office hours: From 7 a. m. to 12 m., and from I l j p. m. to 7 p. in. No office hours on Sunday for general delivery window. All cross mails leave as heretofore. MAILS CLOSE; Dahlonegii (Stag ?. Gaily) - - 8:30 a.m. J otters ni, ('dago, Wodnesday and Saturday) 0:00 p. iu. Cleveland, (Stage. Monday and Friday) 8:00 a. in. Jlomer, (Horse, Friday) 12:30 p. m. .... - * rooa.n*. Hawmnville, (Horse, Saturday) - 7 30 “ MAILS ARRIVE: Uabionega. 3:00 p.m. Jelferson ( Wednesday and Sat rday) 0:00 p. m. Cleveland, (Monday and Thursday) - 0:0n “ limner, (Friday) - - 12:00 m. Wahoo “ 0:00 a. m. Dawsonville, (Friday) - - 0:00 p.m. iM. R. ARCHER, P.M. I’rofussiunal and Business Cards, A . .r . SIiAF F K 1C , PXIYSICIAKT A N 1 S |I Kli BO !N , < all 111 *>i V i 11(all. Office and Rooms at Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga. jan2l-1y GAM PIiKLL lioWE, (Corner of Decatur and lvie Streets, near Car Shed,) A tlauta., Ga. M Y FRIENDS from Gainesville and Toeeoi City are respectfully invited to call on me at this place. I guarantee satisfaction. jan2B-ly THOMAS LITTLE. I r\ IP I ICMA R V, I’OK TUK TBKATMKNT OF IiISEASES Of WUAIKJJ, AM) omtATiVli SIIBUKUY, At th*) tbimoH’ ll,itol, (lainoßvillA, (in, by jli'i tt A. J. BIIAFFEU, M. I). V. I). LOI kIIAKT, M. D., INtlUt illo, Ou., 11TILL PRACTICE MEDICINE in all its branches. Yy Special attention given to Chronic Diseases oi women aud children. feblH rim i> it. it. 11. AI) A 1 it, DENTIST, (arltillOi-ivillo, Gn, JanH ly MARSHAL L. SMITH, VTTOHN ItY AND OOUNSKIJ.OR AT LAW Ihuntoneille, Vamton county, (la. jit lilt tf JOHN It. ESTES, VTTOUNKY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hall county, Uoorgia. C. J. W BLLIIOKiX, * TXOHNEY-AT-LAW, ltlairsville, ITuion county, Georgia. s VMI EL C. DUNLAP, VTTMKNKY AT LAW, Gainesville, On. Utllco in tiio Candler building, in the room occupied by the Eagle in 187.1. iiprotl. W. K. WILLIAMS, VTTOBNKY AND COtINSELLOIt Al' LAW, Cleveland, White Cos., Ga., will practice in the Com te of the Wnatern Circuit, ami give prompt atten tion to all busiueae outrueted to his care. Juue 12, 1874-tf WIER BOYD, 4 TToKNKV \T LAW, Dahloneya, Ga. /V I "ill Rnictiee iu the counties of Lumpkin, Dawson. Gilmer. Fannin. Union and Townsoounties nilic Blue Ridge Circuit; and. Hall, White aud Knbun in the Western Circuit. May 1,1874-tf. It. F. WOFFOIiD, , TTORNEY A I’ LAW, //outer, Ga. is a. "’ill execute promptly, nil buaiuitss entnnded ii cure. Mureli 21, 1871-ly. >er - ( i REV. A. MARTIN, I'TORNKY AT LAW, Dahloneya, Qa. t. jnlySil, 1.571 H ~ S. K. CHRISTOPHER, 6 C ‘ lfU >KNKY AT I.AW, Himmee, Ga. y ,] r .ii ;l execute promptly nil businese entrusted to * ‘ novlOtf <Th lu ;iIOMAS F. GREER, veil l<;|. : y Vl’ LAW, AND SOLICITOR IN c uti l Bankrupt' v. KUijay. tin. Will nrae ’ tale Courts, ami in the* District ami Cir- J ilie U. S., iu Atlanta, Ga. ,I'aml e!7d-tf flay-' M. W. lit DEN, A lan.l. Ls7o-1y .1 A MLS M. TOWERY, VTTOHN FV AT LAW. Oaiuesville, J. J. ~ 4 TTOKNEV AT LAW, Homer. Qa —Will practice /A. ill ill tho comities eumposing the Western Cir cuit. Prompt Attention given lo all claims entrusted to his care. lan. 1, 1875-1 y. JAMES A. BUTT, ATTORN EY AT LAW .4 LAND AGENT, Blair,ville Qa. Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to his care. june 2,1871-ti' The Gainesville Eagle. Devoted to Polities, News of tl.e Tnv, The Farm Interests, Hon- Matters, and Choice Miscellany. 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.