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The Gainesville Eagle.
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GENERAL, DIRECTORV.
JUDICIARY.
lion. George D. Klee, Judge 8. C. Western Circuit.
A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. B. M. Wlnburn, Ordinary; John L. Gaines,
Sheriff; J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff; J. J. Muyne,
lilerk Superior Court; W. S. Pickroll, Deputy Ch r.
Superior Court ; N. B. Clark, Tax Collector ; -J E.
H. Luck, Tax Receiver; Gideon Harrison, Sur
veyor ; Edward Lowry, Coroner ; B. C. Young,
Treasurer.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Dr. H. 8. Bradley, Mayor.
Aldermen—Dr. H. J. Long, W. 11. Clements, T.
A. Panel, W. H. Henderson,W. G. Henderson,
T. M. Merck.
A. B. O. Dorsey, Clerk; J. R. Boone, Trreasnrer; T.
N.Hanie, Marshal; Henry Perry, City At.onoy.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Presbyterian Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath— morning and
night, except the second Sabbath. Su day School
•t 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4
O’clock.
Mbthodist Chubch—ltev. W. W. Wadsworth, Par
lor. preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School at i) a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Baptist Chubch ltev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School at 9a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening
•t 4 o'clock.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
J. 11. Estog, President; Henry Perry, Librarian.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jackson, President; R. C. Maddox, Vico
President; W. B. Clement?, Secretary.
Regular services every Sabbath evening at one
ef the Churches. Cottage prayer meeting? every
Tuesday night in "Old Town,"-and Fr.day [night
er the depot
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowury Branch Lodge No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS.,
assets.every Monday night, Joi;l La&eteu, N. G.
B. r.'dTKDff'.M. Sec.
Auioiiaxt Royal Ancn Ouaitkk meets on tire
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each
month.
tl. S. Bbadlf.y, See’y. A. W. Caldwbll, 11. P.
Gainrbville Lodok, No. 219, A.-. F.-. M.-.,
meats ou the Firsts ml Third Tuesday evening in
the month
B. Palmoor, Soc'y. U. E. Uukkn, W. M.
Aie-Lins Lodoz, No. 64 ,1. O. O. |F., meets
every Friday evening.
0. A. Lilly, See. W. H. Hardison, N. G.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change ofschodulo on the Atlan
ta end Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following
will be the schedule from date:
Mail train No. 1, going cast, leaves 7:47 p. m.
Mail for this train doses at 7:00 “
Mail train No. 2, going east, leaves 8:35 a. ni.
Mo mail by this trßtu.
Mall train No. 1' going west, leaves... .6:51 a. m.
Mail for this train doses at 9:30 p. m.
Mail train No. 2, going west, 1eave5....9:05 p. m.
Mall for this train doses at 7.30 “
Offlee hours from 7 a. lu. to 6:30 p. m.
General delivery open ou Sundays from B.' to9> a '.
Departure of mails from this office’:
Dahlonega and Gilmer county, daily 8q r. in
Dahlonega, vis Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday...B %. a. m
Jefferson & Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day aud Saturday 7 a. in
CleToland, White, Union, Towns and llayes
ville, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonvllle and Dawson county, Saturday Ba. m
Homer, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. m
Pleaaant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday. .1 pan
M. B. ARCHER, P.M.
—ON THE —
Atlanta and Charlotte
AIK-LINE,
Double Daily Trains
now rua over the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-
Line Railway, as follows:
past TXd.A.iiNr
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 5:00 p. in.
Arrive at Gainesville 7:17 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Arrive at Gainesville 6:51 a. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 0:10 a. in.
SECOND 'TPIAIN.
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 6:00 a. in.
Arrive at Gainesville 8:35 a. m.
GOING WEST.
Arrive at Gainesville 9:05 p. in.
Arrive at Atlanta 11:30 p. in.
Passengers leaving Atlanta hv Mail Train
at 5 p. m., will arrive in New York at 9:35 a.
m., eeeond morning.
Passengers leaving Atlanta bv Day Train
at 6 a. m., will diue in Washington City the
following day and arrive in New York 'at
10:05 p. m., same evena ’Sni
Accommodtion Train leaving heretofore at
7 a. m., is discontinued.
G. J. FOUEACRE, General Manager.
W. J. HOUSTON, General Pass, aiul Ticket Agent.
NORTHEABTEXH RAILROAD!
Change ot* Schedule.
SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE, 1
Athens, Ga , Sept. 29,1577. J
and after Monday, October Ist, 1877, trains on
U the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows.
Au trains daily except Sunday :
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Athens 2:35 a. m.
Arrive at Lola .... 4:50 “
Arrive at Atlanta, (via Air Line R. It.) 8:35 “
Leave Lula 5:45 “
Axrivsfet Athens - 8:15 “
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Athens 4 :00 p. m.
Arrive at Lnla 030 “
Leave Atlanta (via Air Lino R. R.) 4:00 "
Leave Lula. 7:15 ~
Arrive at Atheue 9:30 “
Close connection at Lola with passenger trains
es Air Line Ra lroad. J. M. EDWARDS,
Superintendent.
JOB WORK
CASH, at THIS OFFICE.
The Gainesville Eagle.
Devoted to Polities, News of* tlie Day, Tlie Farm Interests, Home Matters, and Olioiee Miscellany.
VOL. XII.
Can this be spring, the balmy season,
When ttowers begin to bud and bloom V
When poet, without rhyme or reason,
The long-neglected quills resume,
And odes indite to evening breezes,
To birds that fill the air with song ?
—That air ! This ear it almost freezes—
No wonder birds stay south so long.
Ethereal mildness ! Why, this morning
“It blew and snew and friz and thew;”
And Probs. bad given no word of warning
Of wbat the elements would do.
If we’re to have anew arrangement—
A swap among the seasons fonr,
A topsy-turvy iutercLangement—
How dare old Probs. the fact ignore ?
He should advise us now in season.
So that new flannels we may buy;
For think how sad 'twould be to freeze on
Our nation’s birthday in July !
Ignorance onr greatest Enemy.
It is astonishing to the earnest
thinker to discover, as he looks
around upon tho most refined and
elegant commuities of modern times,
how vast a mass of positive igno
uoranco still prevails, where he had
fancied there would be clear and per
fect knowledge.
Humanity still struggles and
groans under a thousand ills for
which no remedy has been found,
and the tide of trouble rises con
stantly so full and high that weak
combatants give up the contest in
despair, ami fall back upon a sort of
fate or providential destiny as the
only explanation of this seemingly
endless misery; thus, in effect, as
cribing to the source of all good, the
origin of ail evil.
Jt is so easy to throw our own
blame upon other shoulders; to cloak
our negligence under the shadow of
some pretended over-ruling decree;
to skulk away from the battle field,
because all has not gone just as we
wished at the outset!
But a higher civilization, a purer
Christianity point to self-knowledge
and analysis as a readier means of
arriving at the truth, than this kind
of shallow assumption that things
must be so and so, and there is no
help in us. "With the light then of
self-examination brought to bear up
on modern society, shall we not find
out that innumerable ills endured by
men, are the result chiefly of ab
solute ignorance?—ignorance not
merely of the broad principles of so
cial government, but of the physical
laws that govern our health, at every
hour in the day? We hear a great
deal said about tho proportion of
certain populations that can read
and write and sometimes we have
proficiency in the multiplication ta
ble thrust before us as an evidence of
high progress. But who comes for
ward to show us how much his
scholais know of hygienic principles? 1
of the laws of light, heat, cold, ventil
ation and proper food and cloth- 1
iug?
The air we breathe is tho first ab
solutely essential requirement of ex
istence. By respiration we live, and
by wholesome respiration, only, can
we live in health with the full use
of our mental and physical faculties.
Yet, it is only necessary to enter, at
random, almost any of our churches,
schools, offices, public conveyances,
or places of general resort—to look
at tho construction of vehicles and
buildings—in order to see what uni
versal, absolute, midnight ignorance
on the subject, prevails throughout
the bett population you cau select
in town or country. It is
easy to extend the remark to the
daily method of our food, clothing
and habits® Improper nutriment;
too ligut or too heavy clothing par
ticularly in attire for the head and
the feet; late hours; excessive in
dulgence; neglect of soap and water,
slay their thousands and tens of
thousands, daily, in all the countries
claiming to be civilized. It is hard
ly too much to say that nine-tenths
of the disease that afflict our race
spring directly from these causes
alone, and, there is no argument
more i onvincing of the benevolence
of God, than a comparison in num
ber of the swift deaths that result
from natural convulsions with the
slaughter daily wrought by oar own
ignorance or wilful neglect.
Terrific tempests not long ago
swept around the world, shaking
Continents and submerging islands,
yet the roll of the dead whom they
slew is smal , contrasted with the
record in a month of fatally gastric
and cerebral fevers, and pulmonary
catrosphes resulting iu the same
space of time, in any one country we
could name, from just the ignorance
of which we have been speaking.
* And as in the physical so in the
mental and moral world, does this
absence of knowledge work continu
al woe.
Let a man be really informed, and
as he will guard his person and
his house from the rigors of the sea
son so will he shield his mind, and
daily walk from all species of intem
perance and contamination. And
this, too on the principle of selfish
benefit—through the desire to be
safe and happy. "When you add to
these incentives higher and nobler
motives, the love of kindred and
country and the service of God, all
that can be done*for man, below the
direct intercesssion is achieved.
■‘A sound mind in a sound body”
will then become the object of con
stant watehfulnes in order that we
may b 9 the better enabled to dis
charge our office upon earth, and
prepare for the more exalted lifo be
yond.
Fewer abstractions,! hen; less of the
chaff and dross of knowledge; less
frippery and furbelows, and more di
rect, solid, practical instruction, and
we shall have fewer sickly, failing,
weak minded generations claiming to
be competent, yet,in reality, but clay
in the hands oPtho potter, for the
uses of the demagogue, the obscur
antist, the ffsher of men. “Les peti
tis creves’’ as the clerical Vits in
Paris call them, <: the little caved in”
populations may then, presently,
take pride in something better
than spindle kgs and sickly small
talk.
Popular political degredation is
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 8. 1878.
I ever associated with ignorance and
! dirt on the one hand, and with the
j f vshionable boarding school varnish
and the craming of aimless accom
plishments on the other.
Liberty is wrested from the form
er class because they can be gulled
and know not how to defend them
selves; from the latter, because they
have not the manly stamina to re
sist encroachment or because feath
ers, gold lace and crowns are such
stylish pretty things.
The ignorance of an over impover
ished multitude and the ignorance
of merely fashionable training are
twins—Gog and Magog,—the ene
mies of the Republic.
-—•— • ♦
The Moslem Temple.
There is a belief of long standing
among the Greeks of Constantinople
| that the church of Sancta Sophia—
now a mosque—shall be returned to
Christianity. This grand building,
which covers about 70,00 square feet
—more than one and a half acres—
was erected by Justinian in the sixth
century. It was eight years in build
ing, and when at last it stood. corn
plete it appeared so marvelous in the
eyes of all who saw it that it was
generally believed not only that an
angel had given the plan, but that
Heaven had rained gold and gems
for the express purpo e of its con
struction. The noblest temples of
Greece and Asia were despoiled, and
pillars of the most precious marbles
were brought to Constantinople,—
Ephesus, Pergamus, Balbec gave up
their treasures; and masses of Egyp-
tian porphyry and of syenite, which
centuries before had been hewn for
the honor of Zeus and of Artemis,
took their places in the great Chris
tian Church. It was the boast of
Justinian that he had excelled the
Temple at Jerusalem. “I have sur
passed thee, O Solomon,” he ex
claimed as he gazed ou the comple
ted building; it is said that ho caused
a statue of Solomon to be erected op
posite the church, “with a sad expres
sion, as though grieving at the vast
size and beauty of Justinian’s work.”
Earthquakes shook the church with
in a few years of its completion.—
The great dome fell, aud was re
stored by a younger Isidorus, neph
ew of the “mechanism.” Repairs
were made to the fabric by succes
sive emperors; but the design was
never altered, and there were no ad-
ditions. Then came the fatal May of
1553. At the high altar of St. So
phia, Constantinople received the
Holy Sacrament during tho night
before the great assault (May 29,)
in which she fell. As the news spread
that the Mohammedans had made
their way into the city, the old awe
and veneration which had spread a
sort of mystery around St. Sophia
returned. Senators, priests, monks
nuns hastened to take refuge within
its walls, recalling an ancient tradi
tion that an angel would descend at
the moment when 'the infidels wefib
advancing toward the column of
Constantine the Great, and, putting
a sword in the hand of a certain man
who would be sitting at tho base of
the column, would order him to
avenge the people of God; whereup
on the Turks, seized with a panic
would take flight to the borders of
Persia. But no such heavenly aid
came to the twenty thousand people
who crowded St. Sophia. Mahomet
on entering the city rode straight- to
the great church. Men, women and
children were divided among the sol
diers as slaves; and all the furniture,
plate, and ornaments disappeared so
quickly, that, in the words of Finlay,
“the mighty temple soon presented
few traces of having been a Christian
Church.” Mahomet himself was, it
is said, greatly impressed with the
rich marbles and general splendor of
the place. He caused the muezzins
who were with him to summon the
troops to prayer; and his own pray
er-carpet was spread on the high al
tar. There the “Son of Iniquity,” as
tlie Christian Ducas calls him, an
nounced that an orthodox Greek
Empire was extinct; and from that
time the church of Justinian has
served as the chief mosque of the
city.
Masonic Aprons,
The Deputy Grand Master of Ar
kansas says: Operative Masons,
when at work, wear an apron to pro
tect and preserve their garments
fi’om spot or stain. A white apron is
therefore very apprropiately used in
Masonic seremouies, as an emblem
of purity and innocence, and is in
tended to impress upon the wearer
of it the duty of preserving a pure
and spotless character, untainted
by corruption and free from vice.
When we see an operative Mason
whose clothes are all spotted and
stained with mortar and dirt, we
know he does not wear an apron at
all, or is unconcerned about the ap
pearance of his clothing. So it is
when we see a speculative Mason
indulging in intemperance, or hear
ing him take the name of God in
vain or otherwise liviDg in violation
of the moral law, we think at once
he has never learned the use of the
Masonic apron, and that his soul is
spotted and colored with violations
of his obligations as a mason. What
must be the feelings of a profane,
intemperate and immoral Mason,
when his mind reverts to the time
when first, as an entered apprentice,
he was presented with the white
apron,|and taught that it was an
emblem of innocence and the badge
of a Mason, and was told to wear it
with pleasure to himself and honor
to the fraternity.” How does he
feel, as clothed with his spotless em
blem of purity, he stands in full view
of those in and out of the Order,
who observe his work and conversa
tion to be corrupt.
Oh! how his conscience must
burn within him (unles he is cover
ed in the rubbish of sin,) when he
drops his eyes down upon the badge
and thinks of the vain, irreverent
manner in which he has used the
name of that Being who
er be spoken of except in a spirit of
awe and reverence? How should
I the intemperate one feel when hia
l trembling hand drops upon the clean
[ texture of that spotless emblem, and
he thinks of the rain he is bringing
upon himself, the disgrace upon
loved ones, and dishonor to the fra
ternity by his intemperate habits ? ’
Brethren, are we wearing our
aprons “with pleasure to ourselves
aud honor to the fraternity ? Or
are they a displeasure to us in con
stantly reminding us of broken vows
and violated pledges in the taking
of which we call God to witness our,
sincerity and fortitude ?Are we wear
ing them to the dishonor of the
craft by having the standard, of mo
rality of the Order lowered to our
own immoral character ?
Let us brush off the untempered
mortar that has discolored our Ma
sonic aprons; readjust them and con
form our actions in life to the teachj
iugs of that pure emblem, that Goa
may know and the world be convinc
ed of the sincerity of our professions.
Tben the busy tongue of slander cam
not harm us; the malignant shaft of
bigotry and fanaticism will fail
harmless at our feet —Philadelphia
Chronicle.
Tapping the Wires.
A correspondent writes: In the cur
rent number of Chambers' Journal
there is an interesting article on the
telephone. The following extract il
lustrates tho remarks of Prof. Barrett
on the wire-tapping, in a lecture re
ported in the Tunes of Wednesday:
‘ The observations made in the course
of these experiments convinced those
present that the telephone presents
facilities for the dangerous practice
of tapping the wires, which may make
it useful or dangerous according as
it is used for proper or improper pur
poses. It might be an important ad*
dition for a military commander to
make to his flying cavalry, as an ex
pert sound reader accompanying a
column sent to cut off the enemy's
telegraph connections might precede
the act of destruction by robbing him
of some of his secrets. The rapidity
and simplicity of the means by which
wire could be milked, without being
cut or put out of circuit, struck the
whole of the| party engaged in the
various trials that are described
above. Of course the process of tap
ping by telephone could not be car
ried out if the instrument in use wagt-
ail A B C, or a single needle, or if
the wire was being worked duplex,
or with a fast speed Morse; for in
these cases the sounds are too rapid,
or too indefinite to be read by ear!
The danger is thus limited to Morse
telegraphs, but these form the main
stay of every public system.”
It would seem from this, and from
what Prof. Barrett said, that tho ex
treme sensitiveness of the telephone
is at once its greatest virtue and its
greatest vice, and that it can be made
to extract the secrets of a parallel
wire without being actually joined
it. Portability is another essentidy
in a tapping instrument, and the tel*
ephone, not I’eqniring any battery
excepi for the call signal, which does
not come into play here, is so ex
tremely portable that it may be car
ried with ease in the breast-pocket.
This is one reason why the telephone
has been mentioned as an important
adjunct of modern warfare; but, as
has been already pointed out, there
is but little chance for the “still,
small voice” amid the roar of artil
lery.
Good Advice to the Roys.
Probably not one in a hundred
can do any one thing thoroughly.—
They can all dig away at “anything
that ,f comes handy,” but, as for ex
celling in any trade, business, art or
profession, that is utterly out of the
question. One of these young men
calls upon us; perhaps he is a grad
uate of some college, has his diplo
ma, and plenty of recommendations
from clergymen and members of Con
gress. We ask him what he can do ?
lie is not particular—can turn his
hand to most anything. We give
him a trial, and find he cannot write
a decent hand, nor 3pell or punctu
ate correctly, nor write with any
degree of rapidity, nor read a strange
manuscript, nor do anything what
ever with promptness and judgment,
which is requisite in business. He
has no knowledge on any subject;
has simply a jumbled mass of infor
mation, which may be sound or oth
erwise, and which he cannot turn to
any practical account. He has been
all his life reading about how things
are done instead of learning to do
them.
This is wrong. Young men should
reduce their education to practice as
they go along. They should learn to
do. They should study less, prac
tice, or work more; read less and
think more; that instead of being
useless, superficial, imbecile automa
ta, they may become thorough, prac
tical, executive men, capable of doing
what they undertake, to the last de
gree of perfection, and with a vigor
and rapidity in keeping with the
characteristics of the age.
The Phonograph.
There seems to be no doubt of the
ultimate triumph of this wonderful
instrument, lately invented by Mr.
E. A. Edison. Experiments have
been made with it of a most satisfac
tory nature, and it will probably not
be long before it takes a position of
prominence among the wonders of
science. It is thus described: It is
a very simple thing, about three feet
long, consisting of a brass cylinder
(like that in a large music box)
around which is wrapped a sheet of
tin foil. This cylinder works for
ward and backward by means of an
iron screw, properly supported at
each end. Attached to a moving
arm is a mouthpiece, a metal “dia
phragm;” under the diaphragm a
needle or sharp point, which touches
the surface of the tin foil. Revolve
this cylinder, and, at the same time,
speak distinctly into the mouthpiece
aud you will fiud that the needle has
scored the tin foil with distinct lines,
seemingly quite similar, but, in truth,
differing greatly in depth and char
acter. Now remove the mouthpiece,
screw the cylinder back into its origi
nal position when you began to talk,
and lo! the machine, being pnt in
motion as before, repeats in a deep,
seemingly far-away voice, all you
have said. You may reiterate the
sentence as often as you please by
readjusting the cylinder and its tin
foil casing. Says the Philadelphia
Ledger, speaking of the invention:
“Fancy fails when it attempts to
imagine the future of such an inven
tion. After examining and testing
the machine again and again, in the
Stevens Institute of Technology,
Hoboken, where an instrument is
now very kindly exhibited to those
interested in such matters, natural
and strong doubts as to the reality
are finally vanquished, and the great
est skeptics are compelled to admit
that, though utterly strange, the
thing is still entirely true.”
The New Silver Dollar.
Two designs have already been
made for the new dollar. The ob
verse of one of the designs which,
with a few alterations, will proba
bly be accepted if the Bland bill fi
nally becomes a law, has a head of
Liberty, an expressive profile with
luxuriant hair, crowned with the
traditional cap and coronet, with
shafts of wheat. Above the head is
the motto “E Pluribus Unum.” Be
low is the date 1878,” On the re
verse are an eagle with uplifted
wings, two stars, in a semi-circle tho
words “United States of America,”
and beneath them tho motto “In
God we trust,” while below the eagle
is stamped “One Dollar.” The oth
er design is similar, but less artis
tic.
Dr. Linderman, Director of the
Mint, has returned to Washington
from Philadelphia. While in that
city he inquired into the capacity of
the mint at that place for the imme
diate coinage of silver. He reports
that in two weeks from the bill be
coming a law silver will be coined
and ready to be stamped, the four
presses used for that purpose being
capable of stamping $240 per min
ute, and turning into the Treasury
at least $1,500,000 per month. This
will be in addition to all other coin
age. The mint at San Francisco is
capable of coining a similar amount
—51,500,000 per month —exclusive of
all other coinage, save the trade dol
lar. At Carson City, Nev., the ca
pacity of the mint will be $500,000
monthly, making $3,500,000 in all
per month, or $42,000,000 a year.—
In case the mint at New Orleans
should be utilized for coining purpo
ses, it would take over $75,000 and
four months’ time for it to be got
ready for such purpose. But the
mint at Philadelphia is in a most effi
cient condition for heavy coinage,
having perfected machinery and
workmen skilled in the manufacture
of silver; there being now on hand a_
moderate stock of bullion where witlf
to commence operations.
Tamerlane and the Ant.
All who have read the history of
Scotland know the story of the brave
king, Robert Bruce, who, when he
was hiding from his enemies, and
had almost given up all hopes of set
ting his country, because he had tried
six times and not succeeded, was
comforted and encouraged to try
again, because he saw a spider that
had tried in vain six times to make
her web. He determined that if the
spider tried the seventh time and
succeeded, he would try a seventh
time to drive away the enemies of
Scotland. The spider did try a sev
enth time, and succeeded—so did the
king. A story very much like that is
told of the brave king Tamerlane,
who lived in the thirteenth century.
At the beginning of bis wars he was
so hotly pressed by his enemies that
ha had to hide himself among some
ruins. He was making up his mind
to give up trying to conquer, when
he saw a little ant trying to lift a
grain of wheat, as big as herself, up
a hillock. Every time the ant seemed
about to drag her grain up the mound
she fell back, and had to begiu her
work all over again. Again and
again did the persevering ant try,
aud each time in vain, till at last, at
the sixty-ninth time, she succeeded
in dragging her grain to the top of
the hillock. Tamerlane was so en -
couraged by seeing her that he de
termined to persevere, and he be
came a great conqueror. A greater
King than Robert Bruce or Tamer
lane has said: “Gp to the ant, thou
sluggard; consider her ways, and be
wise.’’
Age of the Idea of Hell.
In the first place, it is necessary to
rise above that narrowness of views
which regards the doctrine of hell as
especially a Christian doctrine, or as
the monopoly of any particular reli
gion. On the contrary, it is as an
cient and universal as the systems of
religious faith that have overspread
the world. The oldest religions of
which we have any knowledge—Hin
doo, Egyptian, and the various Orien
tal systems of worship—all affirm the
doctrine of a future life, with accom
panying hells for the torture of con
demned souls. We certainly cannot
assume that all these Systems are of
divine origin; but if not, then the
question forces itself upon us, how
came they by this belief ? The old,
historic religious systems evolved
advanced and complicated creeds and
rituals, and if they were not real and
divine revelations in this elaborated
shape, we are compelled to regard
them as having had a natural devel
opment out of lower and cruder
forms of superstition. To explain
these religions—as to explain the
earlies political institutions—we must
go behind them. There is a prehis
toric, rudimentary theology of the
primitive man, the quality of which
has to be deduced from his low, in
fantine condition of mind, interpret
ed by what we observe among the in
ferior types of mankind at the pres
ent time.— Prof. Youmans, in Popular
Science Monthly.
Waste ami Want.
; Either man must be ontent with
* poverty all his life, or else deny him
i self some luxuries aud save to lay
i the base o independence iu the fu
ture. But if a man defies the future,
and spends all he earns (whether his
earnings be one or ten dollars a day)
let him look for lean and want ait
some future time—for it will surely
come, no matter what he thinks.—
To save is absolutely the only way
to get a soldid fortune; there is no
other certain mode. Those who shut
their eyes and ears to these certaiu
facts will be forever poor, and iu
their obstinate rejection of truth may
hap will die iu rags and filth. Let
them so die and, thank themselves.
But no! They take a sort of recom
pense iu cursing fortune. Great
waste of breath. They might as
well curse the moutains or the
eternal hills. For I can honestly
tell them fortune does not givo away
good and substantial goods. She
sells it to tho highest bidder, to tho
hardest and wisest worker for the
boon. Men never make so fatal a
mistake as when they think them
selves creatures of fate; ’tis the
sheerest folly in the world. Every
man may make or mar himself,
whichever he may choose. Fortune
for those who by diligence, honesty,
frugality, place themselves iu a posi
tion to grasp hold of fortune when
it appears in view. The best evi
douce of frugality is tho five dollars
or more standing in your name at
tho savings bank. Tho bestovidence
of honesty consists in diligence and
frugality.
Tipsy Senators.
Several lettei’s ask mo to publish
the names of the Senators who were
m ost jolly tight on the night of the
Passage of the Silver bill. There
is this much to be said iu favor of
Senators who may take ten or fif
teen drinks too much on the occasion
of a continuous all-night session, that
they do not have an opportunity to
get a good dinner at the usual hour,
and that the strain upon them is
often very great. They drink on
empty stomachs, and are soon half
seas over. The trouble the other
night all began over a few bottles of
champagne. Had the worthy Sena
tors taken nothing but champagne
there would have been no trouble,
but some of them had taken whisky
before wine came up, and more of
them piled in the ‘vintage of Ken
tucky” afterwards. The result was
confusion in the Senators’ stomachs,
and ultimate dismay in the Senato
rial brains. One or two of the Sen
ators who distinguished themselves
on this occasion were men who have
always got drunk and always will
do so during all night sessions.
Most of them will not do so any
more.— Washington Cor. of the Boston
Herald.
Maternal Affections.
All brutes, even the most savage,
are attached to their young. At a
recent exhibition of animals, there
was shown a lioness and a panther
with their cubs. It was curious to
notice, in both animals, that peculiar
pride in showing their offspring which
the domestic cat manifests in the
most unmistakable manner. It also
seemed as if these old animals regard
ed sudden raps on the bars of the
cages, or tho introduction of canes to
induce their progeny to take better
attitudes for sketching purposes, in
the light of grateful attentions; and
no matter how much the young ones
spit aud scratched, the mothers never
showed the slightest resentment, but
quietly crouched and stared at the
interloper in abstract calmness. The
writer saw the lioness deliberately
wake up her cubs, who were cuddled
together into an undistinguishable
ball of fur, and spread them apart
with a blow of her paw, for no rea
son that could be dovined other than
that she wished to display them.
They manifested no hunger; but sat
up, aud blinked like suddenly-awak
ened babies, until their eyes became
accustomed to the light.
Tlie! Way They Escape.
“How is it that you avoid cowhid
ing at least once a week ?” asked a
printing office “sitter.” “Well,” an
swered the manager of the Bugle,
“when a man comes iq with a copy
of the paper and mildly asks to be
made acquainted with the writer of a
certain article, we all shove it on to
the man that isn’t in, If all of ns
are in we make affidavits that the ar
ticle came by mail. If this don’t
work we swear that it was printed
through the blundering stupidity of
the foreman. When all the other re
sources fail we are, of course, forced
to tell the truth. ” “And what is
that observed the inquisitive loan
ger. “Oh, we just own right up —
give ourselves dead away—tell the
whole truth, and nothing but the”—
“But the what?” “The truth, sir!
the truth, sir! that the editor gave it
in hand while being deviled to death
by a loafer, sir!” The door was ob
served to close softly after a solitary
bore, who folded his ears about him
and slid around the corner.
Electric Storms.
In this section there are frequent
periodical storms, termed “electric”
by telegraph operators. During their
prevalence the telegraph wires are so
heavily charged with the electric
fluid that business is impossible, and
even the operators are in personal
danger from the discharges. Coils
of wire in the relays are frequently
melted and switch boards set on fire,
while the blaze of the electric can be
seen on switch board and instrument.
At such time the batteries have been
disconnected, and it was found that
the atmospheric electricity alone
was sufficient to operate the instru
ments. This display of electricity is
usually accompanied by a fall of
ilght snow, and it is now a well es
tablished fact that snow storms are
frequently accompanied by greater
displays of electricity than thunder
storms. —Cheyenne Leader,
Christ tlu> Rock,
The emblem of a rock, as applied
to the Divine Redeemer, is at once
sublime, beautiful aud appropriate—
suggestive as it is of strength, dura
bility, shelter, safety. It speaks of
nature’s noblest monumental col
umns coeval with creation, fresh as
at first sculptured by the great Arti
ficer; older, grander and more last
ing than obelisk or pyramid, or most
colossal work of human power,
Over these rocks have the winds of
heaven continually swept. Age after
age has the sun discharged upon
them his quiver of golden arrows;
but resisting all political convulsions,
no wrinkle can bo traced on their
majestic brow. Now in sunny robes
of roseate light, now gleaming in the
moonbeams with silver mantel, now
swathed in white garments of cloud,
now curtained in raging tempest,
now their echoes awake with the
trumpet of peace, now with the clar
ion of battle, but every hoary peak
remaining immutably” the same
such is the rock of our Salvation.—■
Macduff"* Clefl* of the Hod;.
The True Wife
Wliatdo you think the beautiful
word ‘wife’ comes from ? It is the
great word in which the English and
Latten languages conquered the
French and Greek. I hope the
h reuch will some day get a word for
it, instead of that dreadful word
“femme, ’ But what do you think
it comes from '? The great value of
the Saxon words is that they mean
something. Wife means ‘weaver’.
You must either bo lrousewifes or
housemoths; remember that. Xu
the deep sense, you must either
weave men’s fortunes and embroider
them, or feed upon and bring them
to decay. Wherever a true wife
comes, home is always around her.
The stars may be over her head; the
glow-worm in the night-cold grass
may be the fire at her foot; but home
is where she is and for a noble wo
man it stretches far around, better
than houses ceiled with cedar or
vermillion, shedding its quiet light
far for those who else are homeless.
This I believe to be the woman’s
true place and power.— Buskin.
The Art of Listening’.
Persons who talk are always in
danger of talking too much; the bet
ter they talk, the greater the danger.
Nearly all men and women who have
gained the reputation of eminent
talkers have been little else than
monologists, and monologue is as
deadly a foe to conversation as incur
able stupidity. We get tired, after a
while, of hearing the most eloquent
speech if it comes from one mouth,
and we inwardly pray for what has
been aptly called a few flashes of si
lence. How many brilliant people
there are in society whom all their
acquaintances fear on account of
their gift of utterance! Everybody
dreads to broach n subject, lest the
sparkling talker should exhaust it and
his hearers, and still be talking on.
The passion for speech, like other
passions, grows strong by indulgence,
and at a certain stage of develop
ment, becomes so morbid as to re
quire neither sympathy nor re
sponse.
The Blessing' of Steam Power.
The aggregate steam-power in use
in the worid is at present three and
one half millions horse power em
ployed in stationary engines, and ten
millions horse-power in locomotive
engines. This force i3 maintained
without the consumption of animal
food, except by the miners who dig
the coals, and the force maintained
in their muscles is to the force gen
erated by the product of their labor
about Ito 1,080. This steam-power
is equal to the working force of 25
millions of horses, and one horse
consumes three times as much food
as one man. The steam-power,
therefore, is equivalent to the saving
of food for 75 millions of human be
ings. Further, three power-looms,
attended by one man, produce 78
pieces of cotton fabric, against four
pieces produced by one hand-loom,
worked by one man in the year 1800.
A carpenter’s planing machine does
the work of twenty men.
Neuralgia and Rheumatism. —A
very simple relief for neuralgia is to
boil a small handful of lobelia in half
a pint of water till the strength is
out of the herb, then strain it off and
add a teaspoonful of fine salt.—
Wring cloths out of the liquid as hot
as possible and spread over the part
affected. It acts like a charm.—
Change the cloths as soon as cold
till the pain is all gone; then cover
the place with a soft, dry covering
till ail perspiration is ove”, so as to
prevent taking cold. Rheumatism
can often be relieved by application
to the painful parts, of cloths wet in
a weak solution of sal-soda in water.
If there is inflammation in the joints,
the cure is very quick; the wash
needs to be luke warm.
Great excellence is always limited
to a special kind, or developed in a
transcendent degree. This is true
of the capabilities or capacities of
man or beast, plant or animal. So
animals excel in certain directions
only: as a race horse's characteristic
is speed, a cart horse’s strength, a
Short-horn’s excellence is in its ready
fattening property for beef, a Hols
tein's for milk producing, an Ayr
shire’s for cheese, and an Alderney’s
for butter. This teaches us the im
portant lesson to labor'for a certain
purpose, to breed for a special quali
ty, to aim at a specific object. This
is the only highway to reach the
goal of our hopes, expectations, and
desires. Success is at the end of
this route.
Representative Southard, of Ohio,
has an elaborate proposition for the
election of three Presidents, to con
stitute the executive branch of the
the government. Mr. Southard, we
fear, doesn’t understand how much
trouble the people of the United
States have over one President.
If you would secure the favor of
an intelligent man cut off your stoyy
as soon as he smiles an understand-
I ing of its point.
The new salary list made by the
Mississippi Legislature gives the
Governor $4,000 a year, and the Sec
retary of State $2,000.
There is nothing that will knock
the ground spinning from under a
man’s theological training quicker
m io,
than to run against the edge of a
door in the dark.
A man who was fooled into buying
a pinchback watch called it Faith, be
cause it was without works aud there
fore dead.
It is proposed in ludiaua to
change the marriage service so that
it will read, “Who dare take this
woman!” And the bride groom
shall answer, “I dare’’
The prairie grouse is gradually
following the progress of the rail
roads from the Nebraska prairies
westward. California’s efforts to in
troduce and acclimate them has
failed.
The model husband has been*
found in Albany. He don’t permit
bis wifo to do more than half the
work. She puts up the canned
fruit in the summer, and he puts it
down in winter.
Dr, Lindorman, the Director of the
Mint, has received from Philadelphia
a specimen of the new silver dollar.
It is regarded as a marked improve
ment in design over all other dollars
previously coined.
The works of the great German
gun maker and manufacturer, Krnpp,
are insured for $9,500,000, the pre
mium cn which is about $12,000 a
year. The sum is divided among
twelve insurance companies.
The Southport literary society,
after wrestling with tho subject for a
lengthened period, have decided that
it is not so wicked courting Sunday
night as it is to work in the field,
and is a good deal pleasanter.
The new Pope is now thounght to
bo anything else than a liberal. In
these times, when men have an odd
habit of thinking for themselves, it is
little difference what are the views
of civil and religious governors.
The dressed carcass of a calf
weighing 150 pounds contains 9“>y
pounds of water, and 5G' f pounds of
dry substance; the latter quantity
is made up of 6f pounds of dry ni
trogenous substance and 24if pounds
of fat.
Prof. Sckem, one of the best of
American writers on statistics, esti
mates the number of the population
of the globe under the government
of Christian rulers to be 085,459,411
and the number under non Christian
rulers at 711,382,589.
‘‘Suppose we pass a law,’’ said a
severe father to his daughters, “that
no girl 18 years old who can’t cook
shall get married until she learns
how to do it ?” “Why, then, we’d
all get married at 17!” responded
the girls in a sweet chorus.
The number of British subjects in
Constantinople is under 4,000, and
of these more than half are not Eng
lishmen, Irishmen or Scotchmen, but
Greeks, Levantines, Italians, and
Turkish subjects, who have clothed
themselves with British nationality.
After a lapse of seventy years tho
herrings have returned en masse to
tne snores or oweaen, ana tne lisner
ies are now in their glory again, to
the great relief of the country. The
iast disappearance was in 1808, and
according to tradition they should
be plentiful for sixty or eighty years
to come.
The saddening intelligence comes
from Louisiana that many of the Re
publican members of the Senato of
that State would refuse to concur in
a pardon of the returning board
members. This rather indicates that
the “persecution of pure and uncon
taminated patriots,” is not altogether
conducted by the White League.
The Now Jersey Legislature has
passed an act fixing six per cent, as
the legal rate of interest in that State.
The tendency of interest rates has
been downward for some time, but
this may be due to the business stag
nation, which has prevented a demand
for money in the prosecution of busi
ness enterprises.
Paris is to have an extensive under
ground railway system, with four
principal lines, all meeting below the
Palais Royal, where an immense de
pot will be erected. Twenty-one mil
lion dollars are to be furnished for
the work by the general government,
the department of the Seine, and the
city of Paris.
“Well it can’t bo for long,” convul
sively sighed the bereaved widow, as
she returned from the last obsequies
of her dear lamented. “No, it won’t
Ibe for long,” and sure enough it
wasn’t. Six months later she was
skipping around pricing orange blos
soms and inquiring after the latest,
styles in wedding cards.
Missouri is carrying off about, all
the honors around Washington these
times. From that State are Blanc l ,
with his silver bill; Buckner, with
his greenback bill; Glover, with his
investigations; Frost, with his Pulit
zer; and Hutchins, with his Pod. It
is almost time for Missouri to move
up and give soma other State a
chance.
A marriage is definitively arrang
ed between the Crown Prince of
Sweden and Norway and the Prin
ess Victoria of Baden, granddaugh
ter of the Emperor William. Prince
Gustave was born in 1858. The
Princess Qictoria was born in 18G2.
The marriage is expected to tako
place in the ensuing autumn.
There are 79,000 miles of telegraph
wire in the United States and 0,850
offices, or one mile of line to every
thirty-six square miles of area. En
gland has 75,000 miles of line and
5,G00 offices, or one mile of line to
every one and a half miles of area.—
Russia has 31,500 miles of line and
900 offices, or one mile of line to
every 330 square miles of area.
A wild Texan boarded the train ut
Fort Worth for Dallas. It was his
first ride on the cars, ancl as the con
ductor reached in his hip pocket lor
his punch, the sharp eye of the Texan
caught a glimpse of its polished han
dle, and quick as thought he levelled
a navy six on the conductor saying:
“Put ’er up, or I’ll blow daylight
through you. No man can get the
drop on me.”