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The Gainesville Eagle. Published Every Fiiday Morning —OFFICE in Candler Hall Building, Northwest Corner of Public Square. tCT The Official Organ of Kail, Banks, White, Towns, Union and Daweon counties, and the city of Gainesville. Hs a large general circulation in twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, ano two counties in Western North Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION. Oxk Year........... - i Six Months Thus Mostbh .....6 c n ADVANCE, CSUVtIIED BY CAI'-RfER OB tEKI-AID BY MAIL. All papers are stopped at the expiration of the time paid for without further notice. Mail sub scribers will please observe the dates on theii wrappers. Persons wishing the psper will have their orders dromptly attended to by remmitiing the amount for the time desired. ADVERTISING. SEVEN WOBDB MAKE A LINE. Ordinary advertisements, per Nonpareil line, 10 cents. Legal Official Auction and Amusement advertise ments end Special Notices, per. Nonpa reil Hue, 13 cents. Reeding notices per line, Nonpareil type lucent?. Least notices, per line, Brevier type, 15 cents. A discount made on advertisements continued for longer than one week. REMITTANCES Nor aubscriptiong or advertising can be made by Post Office order, Ko gistered Letter or Express, at our risk. All letters should be addressd, J. E. UEDWINE, Gainesville, Ga. REVISED RATES Per Legal’? Advert Ising in flic Engle. From, and including this date, the (rates ol legal Advertising in the Each a. will be us follows : (Sheriff's sales for each levy of 1 inch $2 50. Bsch additional Inch or less 2 60. Mortgage sales (u days) one Inch 5 00. Bach additional inch or less 3 00. Adm’r’s, Bz’r’a.Guard'n’s sales, 4 weeks, 1 inch 4 00 Jfiaoh additional inch 2 60 Notloe to debtors and creditors 4 00. Oitat’s for let’rs of adm’n or guard'ns’p (4 wks;i 00. Leave to sell real estate 1 00 Lst’rs of diain'n of adm'n or guurd'n 13 Ou. Kitray notices 1 00. Oitatlons (unrepresented ostates) 4 Cos. Role nisi in divorce cases r, 00. Homestead Exemption, 2 weekß 2 00. Buie Nisi to foreclose, monthly 4 mos., per in... 400 Notices of Ordinaries calling attention of admin, istrators, executors and guardians to making their annual returns; and of Sheriffs in regard to provis ions sections 3040, of the Code, published free for the Sheriffs pus Ordinaries who patronize the Dabli. 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.”