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VV of Modidno.
T-&* Our new office is at the rear of the new
brick store. IJUIGGS A J ELKS, j
March 31, 1871. 13 ts
Medical Notice.
Dh griffin f .ffers his Professional Ser- ]
vices to the Citizens of Quitman and its,
vicinity.
Rksiiwnck. in the house formeiy occupied by j
Doctor McCall.
Okhck. with Col. E. C. Wade.
October 20, 1871. 3m
win. bewnet;
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Ql I'.M.iN I'r • ' GorXTV, GFomUA.
TIT IF I * GIVE PROMPT ATTENTION so all
V v Civil bn-im-.-L- intrusted to his care.
September 8, 1871, 36 4m
JA! TER,
Monun nnh Counsellor atfafe,
QUITMAN, CA.
Sit- Office, i.\ rim CornT Hof«n."lsu
Mart'll 17, 1871. ly
EDWARi) R. IIAIii)ETV,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
QUITMAN, GEORGIA,
Late an Jl»«t!a<e Jit- !<« Supreme ( our! I’nfi
(<e! stales for Nebraska and Ctah.
nuFunnxcss :
MoKUlnp A Fpragiu*, (Commercial Atc-ncy) N. Y \
Ml■■■-!■'. Harden & Levy, Savannah j
lion, livery 11 .Jat-ksem <lo.
lion. J. 11. Alexauetvr Thom .-villi'. Ca.
Meow. H. 0.l & Kiddoo CnlMrcrt, Ga.
11 .it. I lavid 1!. Harrell Inn --on, Ga.
Ilftn. Jnrepli L. Cr own Atlanla. Ga.!
lion. Datv-on A. U". dker i>allon.Ga
Capt.. .Mm McMahon. Yic«* President ravings;
Bank, .-aviinmib, Georgia.
May 2d, 1871. It
H. F. MABBETTV
Jlfcnug anb Counsellor at Xafo,
Quitman, Brooks Cos . Ga
January 6. 187 1 . ly |
THOMAS AVER A,
Justice of the P^ace,
AM)
COLLECTING AGENT,
QVITMA X GEORGIA
pBT Will give particular attention to all
claims placed in bis hands for collection, and
make prompt and proper returns of the same.
March 24. 1871. 12-ts
I. E. SOLOMON,
WHOLESALE
Or !]FL O OE!?!L
Commission Merchant ,
173 B£7 St. Savannah Ga.
lias on hand and daily receiving,
Bacon. I‘lour, Sugar, Coffee. Tea, Soda, Pofash,
Lye. Pickles. Sauce, Jellies, Preserves, Can
Goods. Vinegar, Starch,, Sardines, Mus
tard, Pepper, Spice, Matches, Soap,
Candles, Paper Twine, Paper
Bags, Pipes, Cheese, Butter
Lard, Hams, Syrup,
Molassei, Shot,
Powder, Caps
Wooden
ware,
Brooms, Condensed Milk,
Raisins. Almond-, Nuts, Apples.
Potatoes. Onions, Mackerel, in kits
and febls., Soda, Lemon and Sugar Biscuit,
Ac., Ac., Ac., &c.
RECEIVES AND SELLS
COTTON & OTHER PRODICE,
A'd g iaraatPea to give sa is&ction to all who
fav o him wit ..their buAnes .
November 17. 1371. j; 2m
AFTER DARK.
Strange pictures are those which oft
meet the eye of the wo tide ror after dark.
Many a life lesson may be learned upon
the almost silent street, and many a cu
rious phase of character may we study
i here. Food for the mind and heart, and
| work for the hands are nightly found
1 upon our principal thoroughfares.
Olil how painful is the eight of a de
i graded spirit flutb ring in its cage and
struggling to regain its former station
;in ihe ranks of society, li is bo Borrow*
j till, eo helpless, so enlitlid to our truest
sympathy. The drowning man has
friends who woik, heart and soul, to]
save him; but who among us, professed i
Christians as we are, is very ready to
stietcli forth the redeeming hand to this
wretched sou'? Q'W many of us too,!
diaw onrselvi s up in our pride, as wr
sec the wayward one tossing to and fro j
in Ihe sea of moral rectitude, refusing j
even a pityi g look, and then turn Cold
; !y contempluoosly away, as the last ag- i
lonizing cry goes forth, as the while:
hand* are clasp and above the waves, and :
i tin" lost one goes down forever.
Humbled, ei ring In aits have Strug
: gird ong and fervently to free them*
selvi shorn the bonds < f the demon, hut
have been met with scorn and contempt
without encouragement and utterly
al aiid'ined by Christian ct.artty. they
have-tesigned themselves loan awful
late. \Ye are tin often the indirect
cause of such consequences, for we close
every inviting avenue, and iinleelingly
exclaim to the betrayed and wandering
—"Go your own way.”
A woman's highest aim is to he the
obji ct of true love—to be esteemed—and
to stand out, pure and bright fnun the
shadows of slander and suspicion. This
s a part of her nature—her strongest,
holiest incentive to the truth and v line j
Rut let one dark spot mar the bounty ]
and character —mm false stop will lower;
her from her proud station—and she is
lost—lost perhaps forever, beeauco "Re-I
form woman is almost disgrace,” nod j
this is graven on Inn heart with an irn
point and tie dread sentenc- of society.
Should s'-e even make an iflat to rise,;
the sen,fill look the eu ling lip— the]
insinuating expression -the equivocal;
disparagement, all c mbiiied to break:
down the resolution formed liy an enfee
bled wil ! , rvntl with a longing sigh for
departed hopes, she Settles into despair I
and deg red- lion.
Oh, who eon lull the hearts that have I
liei h redeemed from everiastisg ruin j
the inhuman lining ie,w treading the
I nth of life, holy >o heart and upright in
spirit, and the souls that have found ;
‘sweet rest in Jesus”—and through the j
influence of sympathy and the kind baud
ot encouragement.
What a talc of wee and lingering ag
ony might one hear from that i>* ■■ r, mg- j
ged and emaciab and cinature sitting there
homeless and fi ieedhe s upon the linn! |
cm li, beneath the gl am ot the gas lamp
How pi table and forlorn is the picture
this lone and starving woman- as she j
sits there unheeded, with her imploring j
look, ler quivering lip, tier slender, bogy ,
hands el ns pod upon her trembling knees! ;
tier morn of life whs spent, pel haps, ’mid ;
luxury and elegance of ease and alflit j
cnee; her decline in want and misery. j
And this pale, end haggard man, whoj
stands g,zing wistfully info the hub
win re fortune and mill go hand in hand
--do y. n mark the clenched hands -Die
hard set teeth --ni and the wild < xprm-sioi
those eyes new assume? What think;
you, do they illditat' ? They tell tiM
plainly (sci eshed hopes, of thickening j
crime, and rayless deftpuii I Tais is a ;
sad wreck indeed?
There hurries a stray wail-—a wither
i: g dower—one who I- o's in st keeody
her situation. That slarthd bewildered,
look will leave her only at death’s door— ;
that crouching stealthy carriage is sec
hi and i ature with her and she is drawn g ;
to her last hour; her sm-ses-com wan- j
del ing, but death is not far off —may-
hap t -morrow’s paper will tell the ram- ;
munity of
One more unfortunate, weary of breath,
Ka-ldy importunate, gone to her ihuttli.
Many a heart now longing for the eo'd
erntn ace, and lingering patienl'y upon]
t'-.e batik of the and. rk l iv, r growing cold
and damp in its rising dews watches'
with failing, aching eyes, for the beacon
light which el" long will flash up from
the l.oi izon that verges the gloomy ]
grave. Such could lie redeemed from;
the jaws of ruin and return to life and ]
joy—to once more battle with their busy
actualities, to rear within a structure ol
; truth and religion, and at last, when j
; “life’s shore is lessening on the lea,” go j
forth to the home of the blessed, all;
'brightwith the radicuce of heavenly
bliss. -
i The poet I a-> said:
j ‘The ptoper study of mankind is man.’
and therein embodied a religions truth
i too often overlooked. VVe should all re
-1 member that it is our doty t > save om
; felluwneu fr,,m ruin, for the verriest
! wretch on earth is not wholly abased,
I wholly destitute nf good.
Make Home Beautiful.
Y T on should spate no pains in beauti
fiing- your t omes and improving the
roads that lead to them. TV tat a beau
tiful picture is a dwelling embowered in
trees, its door yard filled with fragrant
flowers, the wo- and bine or honeysuckle en
j circling the doors or windows. How
; grab fut to the trav Uer is a toad bee
of stones and gulches, and shaded by the
‘cleanly tuaple or the graceful elm. Make
HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED 13Y FEAR AND UNBRIDDD EY GAIN
QUITMAN, GEO., FEBRUARY 9. 1872.
your homes radient within every social
virtue, and beautiful without by those
simple adornments with which nature is
everywhere so prolific. The children
born itt such homes will leave them with
regret, and come back to thorn in after
life as pilgrims to a holy shrine; the
town on whose hills and in whose vales
such homes are found will live forever
in the hearts of its greatful children.
“THE COMPOST HEAP.”
“Why not make the manure at home
that is used on the farm?” “Oh, : t
takes so much work to tix up the sliijT,
then we don’t have time to haul out so
many loads as it takes to put open an
acre to double the crop; we can buy the
‘Phosphates’—its so handy, and easily
put out—much the easiest to put into
the ground.”
Well, that’s all so —but after al', there
has to be work done, and lime sp lit. in
making something to sell, to pay for
these same easily and readily handled
Phnsphati s, &c. How is it with those
Northern farmers, who bun! from eight
to ten hundred loads of manures, made
upon their farms? They have cattle,
homes, sheep, lings, &,t., and compost
all their manures to improve their lands
they don’t liny any Phosphates, al
though toey con’d get it at half what
has to be paid for it in the South.
The composting of the manures that
can he made upon each farm would do
away with a desire for spends g so
much money for the Phosphates now
used—if properly attended. To make
good manures upon the farm will re
quire a system —a regular hand should
have the control and work to do, ami,
the work should he properly done, from j
beginning to end.
Where there is a farm with thirty to i
fifty head ol cattle, with tenor fifteen]
mules and horses, with the usual stock j
or legs, one efficient hand with a mule I
and dump-earl, would ftmi'a'i in Ihe]
vicinity of a thousand heavy two-hoisei
wagon loads of well composted manure j
per year: that from ten t twelve leads
to tlie acre, properly uppl.od, would
d> tilde the crop—keeping all land
where used in goad heat all Ihe time
bringing up the crop larger and larger
every year the application is made.
There is no kind of grain but will re
spond ut once to the apt lication of a
g■ and compost. II a In avv crop of
grass is wanted for hay. all that is re- ,
qiiired will he—about the middle of May
--to plow and hairow a few acres of’j
fa r eoru land —spread luoatcast t> the |
acre, say twenty loads of this good j
cotnposl —then again harrow, and ioli j
it iiv i smooth and level for the scythe. j
No need it< requited; l-y the middle of j
Aiignsl t icre will boa crop of crab- j
grass ill bloom at, least knee high, which j
Can be cut, dried and put away for win
ter (’■ eding, fully equal to any that can;
lie obtained from tie Noithwest. The
vu-hl will .ted he less tl an one ton to;
the acre, and in 10 than likely at. the
rate of two or three lons—in accordance
to the richness of tin* compost.
Toe compost heap to tl o farmer is
his bank—if proper di p si's have In on I
made they g 1 on impiliving, and when,
taken out and put upon the land the]
infill' nee wil ; show Imni year to year.
(Hi" large farmer in the North used,
atiemg other (nod for his stock, twenty
tons of cotton seed cake, for which he
counts as ati income on manur s at
about SSOO. Now, the notion sod, all]
the film era have, limy can easily feed
l! ern to their stale, a fid bring il into the
compos: heap and hack again under Ihe
next growing crop, to increase the yield
fully double per acm.
A 1 ; immures should be well and com
posed; ii lace the nee ssily of trie eom
p, sr 10-.ip Com sin ks, traw, I aves,
bobd.hg for mules, k'\ all must lie de
eoinposi cl pttlVel :s"d; well I'd stock
wi.l yield far i idler manures than those ]
fed only upon pour food—hence ihe ne
ci s.ty of Mi xing nil togel! er, and [Hit
ting together every kind of good male
rial to help out—making all ferment and
become a go and fettiliz r.
If a farmer wants a heavy crop ho
must manure heavily—if he has a urge ,
rich compost heap he can do it. A lev.
acres v/iil make a wonderhi! crop; tons
of comp st put on will yield tons of
produce to be taken ofl. That’s a fai;
exchange. )' ■ D.
TilK CHINESE WALL.
Mr. Sew aid who visited the great
wall of China during bin visit to that
country, recently gave the following des
eripti nos that wonderful structure:
The Chin-se have been for at h ast
two or three thousand y ears a wall
building people, it would bankrupt N.
York or Faiis to build the wal sol the
city of Pekin. The great wall of China
is the great wall of the woiid. It is
forty feet high. The lower thirty feet
is of hewn limest ni' or granite. Two
: modern caniages may pass each other
idm the summit, it has a parapet
' throughout its whole length, with con
’ venient staircases buttresses and g irri
] sou houses at every quarter of a mile,
and it runs, not by cutting down bibs
and raising valleys but over toe uneven
; cicstß of ti e mountains and down
through their gorges for a distance! 1 a
' thousand inihs. Admiral Rogers and 1
; calculated that it would cost more now
to build the great wall of China through
j its extent of one thousand miles than it
j has cost to build the fifty-five thousand
' mib.a of railroad iu the United fctaled.
The County Court Bill.
A writer signing himself “Justice” in
the last issue of the Southern Recorder
speaks some strong words in favor of
this bill, a portion of which wo make
room for below. He takes his own
county (Baldwin) as an illustration,
but his argument will apply with great
er force to other counties where crime is
more prevalent. We erll particular at
tention to l:is remark jin reference to
] Ihe additional expense that it is charged
! will fo'low the establishment of this
Court. He says :
There are two features in this bill
which commend themselves to the calm
and thoughtful consideration of our pen- j
pie. First, the jurisdiction of said Court j
of all oflensos of the laws of this State, [
where the punishment does not extend I
to imprisonment in the Penitentiary.!
The necessity for such a court —having
summary powers to try such offenses—
is manifest. They are of daily occur
rence in our community, and the offender
almost invariably goes unpunished, be
cause I lie prosecutor prefers to pass
over the offense rather than have, the
criminal committed to jail, at an ex
pense of 75 cents a da\ to the county,
and he himself compelled with his wit
ness to attend the Superior Couit, day
after day and term after term, in order
lo s: cure a trial and conviction. This
delay is both tedious and expensive to
the prosecutor and Ins witnesses, and
often deters him from doing his duty to
himself and the community, and the re
sult is, that the crime is encouraged
and the outraged law seldom vindicated.
This is the evil. Where is the remedy?
I answer, in the establishment of a
court, with summary jurisdiction In tiy
the perpetrators of such demeanors in
stanlur, that justice may follow swiftly
on the heels of crime. The GVnnly;
Court meets this desideratum in our Ju
diciary system, for it is open at ail
times for the trial of such offenders—the
accused having a right to demand a ju
ry trial in said court, and being enti
tled to a reasonable time for the prepa
ration of his case; hut unless ho de
mands a jury, or indictment by the
Grand Jury, the court proceeds to hear
evidence and to dispose of the case with
out furl her delay. It may he objected
that the establishment of this court will
entail additional expense, in the wav of
taxes, on our overburdened people. I
answer that the single item of jail fees
saved to the county, will almost or quite
pay the salary of the ('minty Judge !
lor, (if I um correctly informed) the jail
fees of one prisoner, E Imund Goolsby, J
(col.) amount'd in 1811 to tin; sung;
iltt’e sum of §275, and as there were!
three or lour prisoners besides him in |
j til, on an average during the year, 1 j
think we may safely estimate thin one j
item of cost to the county, at not lens |
than SBOO or §I.OOO per annum. Be
sides the fees of the Judge of the County j
Court, in civil and criminal cases go in
to Ihe County Treasury; and when we
remember that he has jurisdiction of all
eases arising out ol contracts or torts—
where (ho aiuatinl involved does not. cm
coed §loo of cases arising under pos
sensory warrants, ti e eviction of intru
ders, the foreclosure of th us, Ho., wo
see at mini that the revenue which the]
county will derive from this source is;
considerable.
Htivetl by Salt.
The Pittsburg (Mo.) Register gives!
ilie following:
A lew days ago Win, Hamilton, resi-j
dent near tli Missouri Pacific Railroad, j
went into the limber about a mile off to j
shoot squirrels. Nothing being heard ;
of him al! night., several neighbors the j
next morning went in search ol him.
About three o’etoek in the afternoon
tloy found him up a leaning tree, thirty!
lee! from the ground, fa-land unable to
extricate himself. After some trouble j
lie was taken down, and it was seen
that one foot and ankle were badly torn
and bleeding.
He raid that about three o’clock (ho
previous day he came across a large
l,tack hear, a-,d shot at. but missed him.
T c hear made for him with all his might.
IT: ran, and finding the hear gaining on
I him. threw away his rifle, and partly
] climbed and partly ran up a leaning
] sycamore tree) with the bear following
right, at his hoe's, Tim top of thie Gee
] had been broken off and was .hollow, lie
i thrust one of his logs into the hole to
] keep himself from falling, hut roon found
lliat his leg was last, lie tried to ex
! trie ite I itnself but could not. The he ir
!in the meantime had torn his boot off,
! and was gnawing and eating the flesh
i from the foot and ankle. Mr. H.nulton
; took his p icket knife out and cut at bru-
in’s eyes; but with one sweep of bis paw j
the bear stiuck the knife from his hand, j
with a part of two of his fingers.
Mr. Hamilton could not see no help,
and gave up to and e, exa cting to he eat
en up alive ly the bear. But soon a ■
happy thought truck him. That tnnrn- :
j. gl e had put s me salt In his pocket
to salt some cattle he had running in the
timber. He took a small handful and
spiinkl-d it in the b( ar’s eyes. It had
the desired cffi;Ct. The bear shook his
head, growled, and went down. He soon
returned, li wevor. bin, a little more salt
drove him away the second time, and to
Mr. Hamilton’s expressible delight In-
UutUd off into the forest.
How did people get in the habit of
shaking hands? The answer is not far
to seek. In early and barbarous times,
when every savage and semi-savage was
his own law-giver, judge, soldier and
policeman, and had to watch over his
own safety, in default of all other pro
tection, two friends and acquaintances,
or two strangers desiring to he friends
or acquaintances, when they chanced to
meet, offered each other the light hand
—the hand alike of offenso and defense,
the hand that wields the sword, the dag
ger, the club, the tomahawk, or other
weapon of war. Each did this to show
that the hand was empty, and neither
war nor treachery was intended. A
man cannot well stab another when lie
is in the act of shaking hands with him,
unless he he a double dyed traitor and
villain, and strives to do him a cowardly
blow with the left while giving the
right, and pretending to be on good
terms with his victim.
A Bki.lk’s Conquest at Washington.—
Some gifted quill-driver ought, to take
up the annuls of the National Hotel, that
abounds in comic and serious events.
For many years it was the headquarters
and grand rendezvous of political pimps,
journalists’ and prominent social actors
and actresses of past generations. The
volume of register alone that must bo
extant, would be as valuable as patent
office reports, and as interesting as those
of the Agricultural Bureau. There was
a time when Presidents elect went from
the National to bo Inaugurated, and
lovely belles sweq.it through the parlors
captivating beaux known to the Union.
The thought brings up one of the last
named mot, whose entrance to the' ball
room was the ovation to a Queien —a fair
girl from the West, and at whoso luet
these called statesman of the dry bow
ed in love that approached adoration.
She in:irrii el one of these statesmen, and
a rival hello, her superior wit, but not
equal in beauty, said commenting upon
the event :
“You wonder at the match because
yi u do not understand it.”
“What do you moan?”
“1 mean that she marri.'d one term in
the S nate.”
“Wiuit a small ambition; only six
years out of a life-time.”
“Six y. ata makes up a woman"s social
life. After, it is a living tomb in a nur
sery; and then she has her chances.”
1 What do yon jnean?'’
“Did you never n ail the story of the
philosopher who undertook the task of
making the Pasha's donkey read the
written wonls of the pr iphet?”
"I never (I’d; tell ni".”
“The philosopher, like al! philosophers,
was poor. At times he was hungry, at
nil times be was ragged. He offered |
the Pasha to tench hin donkey to read
in live years. But during the difficult i
tail he was to he clothed in purple and
line; linen, fed on the beat, and lodged ill;
a palace. If Ini failed, the penally wis j
deatli. One day an old fiicml met him j
lending fe nlt tlie royal donkey to the]
"■rove where the: lessons were supposed |
to he given, and lie: said, VLm.dy you ile>;
not expect that ims to read?' The phi-
I iseplier, putting his thumb to Ins nose,
witii'e 1 one of his ]oiV!i'"l oy sand said i
nothing ‘But,’ continued the friend, ‘il ;
you tail at r <• end oflivi' yearn yon i",!.
surely lie Hlraughd.’ ‘.My friend,' re-]
kjio iileel tiiu philosopher, ‘you forget that |
ill that lime Ihe ass may die.’ They are
lie>r chances, ’fhe Senator may die. —
The Capital.
FemMEiihV a very large, well-known,
am! somewhat noted hilly goat roamed
at, large in the streets of Washington, j
and the ucwspnpt r boys, boot-blacks,
and other street imps goneral’y ui.idi
common Cause against him. Henry ,
Olay Id; dto roe dumb animal-j
abused or worri'-d, and on one occasion
while poshing down the avenue, a large]
moved eif ilm-io mischievous urchins were
at their usual sport. Mr. Olay, with
his walking stick, drove them away,!
giving them a sound lecture in tlie mean !
while. As tlier scattered and scamper
ed ia every direction, Billy, seeing no ;
one hut Mr, Clay wit l in ri noli, non! -a
charge on him. Olny dropped his cam'
ami caught lii.s goatship by the horns.
Tlie- goat would rear up, being imady ns
high as the tall Kn stuck ion himself, and
the latter would pull him down again
This sort of sport soon became tiresome',
and he con'd conceive of no way by
which he com 1 free himself from the
two horned dilemma, set in his despera
tion he sang out for the boys to know
what to do. One e.f the smalle-st. in the
crowd shoute:'! back : “Let g<> ami run,
you and -d fool!’’ Clay always rnainlniii
jed that though ho signed the treaty ol
peace at Ghent, jet that ragged boj
i knew more than he and and.
! Testing Death.- -A new awl very
I simple me thod for diuUitgnisliing be
tween real itnel apparent death ban been
recently discovered by M. Eabordo.
i V’heu a sharp steel needle—not Cas'd
with steel-—is driven into tlie; tissues o!
a living man or animal, in a short time
; it loses its metallic lustre, and becomes
dim —or, in scientific 1 align ige, becomes
oxidized: while- a similar neesl'e may res
: main an hour oi metre iri tie* lis.-io-s ed a
dead person without undergoing any
apparent change. Hence, the oxidation
i Ol nei!i-nxi'lall"H ot the ueiedlo affudsu
; decisive prool whether death is real or
i only appaicnl.
| $2. n 0 per Annum
t lnrdTutiesam! Wlia! CaunesTliem
We are fast becoming a nation of
schemers to live without genuine work.
Our boys are not learning trades, our'
farmers’sons are crowding into cities,
looking for clerkships and postoffices;
Imrdly one .American girl in each hun
dred will do housework for wages, how
ever, urgent her need; so we are sond—
ing to Europe for workmen and buying
of her artisans millions worth of products
that wo ought to make ourselves.
Though our crop of rascals is heavy, wo
do not grow our hemp: though we aro
overrun with lads who deserve flagella
tions, we import mir willows. Our wo
men (unless deceived) shine in Europe*
'an fabi ics; our men dress in foreign
clothes; the toys which amuse our littlo
cliildrtu have generally readied us over
the sea. Wo arc like the farmer who
hires bis neighbor’s sons to cut Ids wood,
feed his slock and run his errands vviiilo
his own boys lounge at the grog shop,
play ing billiards, and then wonders why,
in spite of !■ is best efforts, lie sinks an
nually deeper and deeper into debt, un
til iho hcriffclonns hint out, and he starts
west to begin anew.
Wo must turn over anew leaf. Oar
boys an:] girls mast 1«> taught to love
loh r by qualifying themselves (o do it
efficiently. We must turn out fewer
professionals am! more skilled artisans,
as well in food- growers. Wo must
grow and fabricate two hundred millions
in value per annum, Hint wo now import
and so r iduco tlio foreign debt that wo
have so long and s> sm'Ce.xofiilly aug
mented year by year. Wo must qualify
nr clever beys to erect and run l'aolo
| ries, furnaces, rolling mills, tanneries,
I machine shops, etc.; 10 open and work
mines, improve and fashion implements
and double tile present product of their
father’* farm. So shall wo stem the
tide ( I debt that sets steadily against
our shores, and cease to be visited and
ami yed by hard times.
Ivory i» Alaska.—Upon every stream
in Alaska that cruises its way to the
ocean are being found vast, quantities of
fossil ivory; the lowlands and lakes aro
tilled with tun!::: and lonics of elephants
of an age long past, and a race, zoolog
ically speaking, long since extinct. This
ivory is not found in isolated localities
or masses, but over aim ist the entiro
couotiy from the mountains to the oo«an,
and in snub abundant q uilitiiM that ship
ioa Is of it. are being e Heeled and sent
to ihe markets of the world. Upon the
Y ikon river there are such great u
iinumts to be collect! and that there aro
now a large imniber of persons engaged
in collecting the name, and they are re
ceiving largo eoinpoasalion I ir their la
bor. In the e loc ililies are also found
mill • of the moat ext-en-dve beds of tlio
liae.-t quality ol liituoiiii as c-ial yet
o;n n and on tin: cnntiue it, and in them tlio
ie:n :in iof a flora and nylva entirely
tropical ia its i- e igidz at lorms. Tneso
fheiK :: eui to point to an a o’ when oils
coldest regions were nto i the homes of
the fauna and Horn or a truly warm 1 iti-
I.tidy not I- -s intense tintn that now at
the equator.
What i: IsT.ixiuAtroN'?— -Ft is poison
ing with a'colio! whether in gin, rum,
whisky or wine. Tiic word “ intoxicate!’
is deiiv.-l from f> itin and (freelc terms,
u. and to and 'si ;na'e the p b .on In wliieli
daggi rs and arrows were anciently dip
p.-d, in order to render their wounds fil
ial. When the poison of alcohol (and
all leading chemists and t..sinologists
class alcohol among the poisons) is fil
ls in int i the system it seizes upon tlio
brain and, as already said, to the extent
to which it is imbibed it disqualifies it
for service. Truth cannot then be prop*
oily weigh.'d, duty estimated, or any
great moral question clearly decided.
Flow long will timber last when corri
pletely iaunot ~ and in watei? This qnes
ti a r Ivi : a partial assw. rat least in
the example in the pies of the bridge
built by ti : emperor Trojan across tlio
Duoolio, One of those piles wore taken
up and found to be pot rill Ito llie depth
nt ihrci-bm; ths ol an itndi; but the rest
of the wood was liul i different from its
ordinary slate, though it bad been driv
en moic than sixteen c nturies. The
] piles under piers of old 1. >n lon hridgo
: hod <li iv u about (j!)0 years, and,
! hi 17 Id, itdidun t appear that they were
I n.liter ui ly decyed; indeed they wore
h,u ml to he St Hi :icii!ly sound to snpp at
ih i ma siv. superstructure. They worst
| chi. fly elm .
Dm ax'y ok thru out Away.-— A good
story is told ol a well known New York
politician and railroad manager.
Daring bis absence from borne his
good wife gave birth to twins. lie was
Kilo implied of Inn-confinement, no par
ticulars being given, and immediately
hasten’d home.
Knowing lie might be expected, the
j noise borrowed a third baby of about
! the Slum: age, and placed it in the crib
v. i:h the twins. Immediately upon reach
in:' home our friend hastened to bis wife s
chamber, and oiferiii ; to her, congratu
lations ached to he sli '-vn the baby. The
an rue, who had served r.t similar occa
sions in his family, raised the Cov. ring
and exhibited to li rn the three babies,
j opening bis eyes with surprise, and
. thoroughly taken back bv the view, lie
i turned to his v. In :r and exclaimed: 'Good
I L lid Mother, did a:iy of them gel av, ay?’
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