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VOL. XIV.
Now Goods At
Thomas N. Lewis,
NO. 5, BRICK ROW, THOMSON, GEORGIA.
Iveeps tlie best stock of (iUOt’KHIKS in Thom
son. It lias been tested and as declared
by first-class judges. His stock consists of
Flour, Meal, Corn, Meat, So-gar, Coffee,
and all their goods in the Grocery June.
Also Boots, Shoes, Hats Clothing, and Dry
Goods o all kinds.
Corn, Meat' & Fj.our
A Specialty!
J&UX M. CURTIS*
Manufacturer and Dealer in all kinds ol
Furniture and House Furnishing
Goods, Buggies, Carriages,
Wagons, &c, &c.
All Repairing promptly done and at rea
sonable rates. Blaeksmithing in all its
branches.
UNDERTAKING'.
I have a large and elegant
HEARSE,
Which will he sent to any part of the town or country at inn.ouable mtrs,
COFFINS ANI) .METALLIC CASES.
BURIAL CASES,
all aiiM ami qualMw. I
ep in atook h large and bftndhoiuc
assortment of '
iiciMi l K<mi:s,
Huitable for Males or Fauiahs, old or young.
,|,M. CIIHTIS 'riiomson, liiU
.). F. SHIELDS
- AT-
Old Stand On Hail road Street.
Genuine Cuba MoUvwh, Magnolia Hams, White and Yellow Corn, fWli Meal,
Flour of all Grades.
Don’t fail to try or?r Patent P'lour, Finest grade known to file trade. Gives ©very
body satisfaction. Try it.
Holman Sweeps,Grain Cradles*, Fine Lines of Hardware, Saddles, Harness, Plows,
Bridles. Haines, etc.
Wagons, one and two-holfee Buggies from *OS U> Finest, Live-ami let-five Prices.
HT< > VKS.
Full lane New Prices. Our Prices Drive out Gompetition. lI.fYo sold One
Hundred and Scventy-Niu* Stoves Iron. Nov. Ist to May Ist.
Thanking my frwiids and tlio public f"T a genermnHmtnmage, 1 ruapcoffnlly ask a
eontinuance of the same, promising my beat efforts to.daßffrve the name.
N. li>-llides, Kujm and Wax taken in eschauge for goods.
J. E. HII I REDS,
Thomson. Ga., May A, lffkS.
THE ADKINS HOUSE,
TREET OPPOSITE ODD FELLOWS' HALL.
AUGITS'I’A, <4 \.
yv. J. ADKIKS, JR, - - - PROP'H,
Newly FernsM Centrally Locatetl.
CONVENIENT TO DEPOTS. POST OFFICE, A y/D
BUSIN ESS POUT ION OF Cl If.
Hot and (old Baths allmlicd to Booms.
FIRST CLASS TARGES, CLEAN ROOMS AND HEDGING.
feb7'B3m Terms Moderate.
WATCHES !
I am soiling Waltham Stem Winding
'Watches from 88.00 up. Full line of Dia
monds, Watches and Jewelry, &e. Watches
and Jewelry repaired and Warranted.
WM. SCHWEiaERT.
Under Cenlrni Hotel, Aoguetn, fin ,
CKJ*ra*L MOTEL.
Augusta Georgia
MRS. W. M. THOMAS, PopkleTok
THIS Hotel, ho well known to fhe citizens of McDuffie and adjoir. ng ((Unities,is io
catde 1 m the centre of business portion of Augusta, convenient .o IVstoffb-C.Tele
ttanh Office and Depot, and off.ni inducements tv the public nuAQii .lied by ax y otho
Sotel m the City.
THOMSON, Q-EORGIA, WEDNESDAY! A.TJGKJST 36, 1885.
Lit
BESIDE THE BARS.
| Grandmothers knitting Ims lost its charm ,*
| Unheeded it lies in her ample lap,
While the sunsets crimson, soft, mid warm,
j Touches the frills of her snowy cap,
| She is gazing on two beside tie bars,
Under the maple, who little care
For the growing dusk, or the rising stars,
Or tlie hint of frost in fhe autumn air.
j One is a slender slip of a girl
And one a man in tho pride of youth—
The unuden pure as the purest pearl.
The Iwvor strong iu his steadfast truth.
| “Sweet, mv own as a rose of Tune,”
H. si\)s full low o’er tho golden head,
j It would sound to her like a dear old tune,
I Could grandmother hear the yords said.
i For it seems that r little while ago
Since under tho inrtples, besides the bars,
She stood a girl, while, the sunsets glow
I Melted away ’mid the evening stars.
1 And little yon dveaui how fond a prayer
; Goes up to God through life silver stars,
From the aged woman gazing there,
| For tho two who linger beside the bars.
A STKANbi: CLIIiNT.
J He life Adventure With a Buck
et and Dumbfounds life Lawyer.
The lion. Arthur D. Williams was
sauntering down Broadway recently
when he was accosted by a cripple in
cleanly garb. “1 am told that you are
; a lawyer,” tlie cripple, said. “Mr.
| George. Uoncraft, ol Franklin street,
recommended you to me.”
: Mr. Williams was unusually plons
j mt, fancying, ho was securing a Valu
able client. “Yes,” lie replied. “I’m
at your service.” He took the cripple
; into ilia office, invited him to take a
chair, -crossed his own legs, assumed :i
! t’hauneey Shaffer expression of coun
tenance* and in a deep and forensic
: tone of voice invited the man to “state
| his case.”
The yripple hesitated* lie cleared
out Ins throat, and begant “Mr, Hop
craft told me you had invented a mon
key-wrench, and thui you were inter
esh'd in inventions. 1 would like to
101 l you a bit of tlie unwritten history
of scientific devotion. There was once
a young machinist's apprentice who
worked hard by day to earn a living,
and at night pursued his studies. Aid
er live years of steady application he
was Considered one of the best men iu
the shop, and was in position to lay by
money to conduct those experiments
on which his heart was set. Ills pas
sion was the. invention of projectiles
for use in time of war, but his mind
was especially bent on improving the
modern rocket. While pondering
over the value of rockets as signals be
was suddenly seized with a desire to
know whether rockets could not bo
made large enough to rise a mile in the
j air, and i* was a wild thought -carry
j the weight of a man. Ho was fasei
i Bated by the idea. It was of little
j practical value,but the more he thought
i about it the more, lie became convinced
! that it could be done. You will any
i that if it were possible for a man to
i rise, up with a rocket, he would be
! dashed to pieces when lie cauie down
( with the stick* This thought also oc
curred to the young inventor, but he,
I Was ready fo overcome that objection,
j He began by making an experiment by
| which In detmxa.'Orated that a common
i i'*n ounce rocket Which would rise to a
[ height of 600 led, when loaded with a
rod of iron weighing eight ounces,
would rise to 100 feci. Then lie con
st meted a cylinder of the best sheet
steel 2d feel, long, pointed at the top,
and 1 foot in diameter. To till this he
made a compound which woidd exert
a pressure of 1(H) pounds to the square
?ncb on the air without, tht'ougli the
whole 11.0 square inches of what f will
call the muzzle of the rocket. In oth
er words, tlie rock'd would hate a lift
ing force of T\ tons. Tho figures seem
startling, but they are accurate.
“1 should say hero that tlie construc
tion of this cylinder caused much com
ment in the shop where he worked, but
as there are always numbers of invent
ors in every shop he was not interrupt
ed. When his cylinder was complete 1,
lie placed it up against an unused wing
lof the whop. Instead of the ordinary
1 rocket-slick, be prepared a slender
j piece of gas-pipe, at the end of which
I was a conical sheet iron basket, point
( up, with a wire grating across the
f bottom, through which a man could
[ enter. Here was the place in which
i the inventor intended to crouch while
[ the rocket shot up through the clouds
I “So far lie had taken no one into his
| confidence, but when lie was ready to
fill the cylinder with explosives, and
attach the stick with its basket, and
the apparatus widen was to case the
fall, he needed help. Two trustworthy
comrades gave it. They helped him
secure parachute around the
cylinder which was intended to open
to a spread of forty feet us he fell.
They rammed henno the explosive that
was to send tho. whole flying upward,
and when all was ready* hoisted the
whole up so that it. loaned over the top
of the high factor}’ Just as a common
rocket leans on a common guide. A
long fuse ran down and came up under
the basket so that the inventor could
tire it himself. The last touches of the
work were completed at night, an 1 tho
two tired assi.-tanu went homo antici
pating a wonderful exhibition in the
morning.
i “It was just midnight as the inventor
j saw Ids companions pa>s out through
the yard gate ami heard their footsteps
die away down the street. It was a
beautiful starlight night, and right in
line with the huge rocket Mars shown
with unWonted beauty. The supremo
moment of the inventor’s life had
\ come. He was to see the fruition of
| Ids labors alone, with none to cheer
[ hi.s success and none to taunt him if ho
failed. He raised the wire screen
across the bottom of bis narrow rest
ing place and climbed in, drew a match
down the steel rib of Ids basket, and
fired the end of the fuse, it smoldered
for h moment, and then the bright
scintillation broke out, and, sputtering,
disappeared from his view. His heart
leaped into his throat with suspense,
L and then in a sea of flame ami smoke
tho earth sank out of sight. Gasping
I for breath in the suffocating gas and
delirious with pain, he crunched on it is
grating and prayed for death, ago
seemed to have passed, when sudden
ly the roar ceased, the smoke was gone,
and the pure air of heaven was cooling
his brow. He recovered instantly, and
for a moment, as the rocket of its own
inertia soared aloft, he was able to
look around. The cily was a dark
blotch seamed and checkered with the
lighted streets far below. The rivers 1
and the bay sparkled starlight. Then j
he began to descend, gently fora time j
as the parachute caught the nir, but a '
moment! later Iris bucket began to sway, j
<He Lad forgotten to leave a bole for
, the escape of the compressed air in the i
an#*-* of tlie Parachute. It was awful. •
His basket was like a huge pendulum,
increasing its rfiotions with every foot
it descended. He was thrown from
side to*side, and dazed by the rapid
motion. Then in the hurried descent,
as he began to distinguish the tall tene
ments of the Fast side, a now peril
arose, lie would be dashed sideways
The lawyer hold up his bands. The
cripple hesitated, ffus.iod slightly, and.
Continued:
“Yes, sir, iam the man. Tho grat
ing gave way when the basket struck.
My arm was cut off’as if by a knife,
and my log was broken. It has never
been as good as before** Money weut.
for doctor’s bills. 1 cm no longer
work at my trade. 1 am wholly dis
heartened, amt only when looking at
the triumphs of other scientific men'
do I feel a relief from tho Constant mis
ery of my existence.' If you could'—-.
i Thanks.”.
j Mr. Williams had given tlie crippled
stranger a quarter,- taking his cigar
; from his month meanwhile, and say
11 ing: “Don’t mention it.” The Crip
-1 pie inquired the. way to tho elevator
| and disappeared. .Veto York Sun.
The Realism of Science.
We arc beginning io hear lamenta
tions over the realism of our time. Not
only are the gods dead, God
i Art finds no place forlmagination, save'
i In .sett ing her to devise ways ami mcantf
| for a more complete photographic pro
i cess. Among the, crimes laid to the
| account of Science, thi* is not the least;
indeed,perhaps this ntrty sum tlienr all,
that she has taken away our Lord and
j will show us nothing in return but the
| geologic formation of a sepulchre.
\\ Idle this charge is unjust,- radically
Unjust, it must be allowed that tho'
| manner of commendation employed by
many advocates of science is respnnsi
-1 blfcj in large measure, lor our bread
and-butter attitude.- The fault lies in
\ tho original constitution of certain men
not that they are scientists, but. that
j they are small scientists; men for whom
! a form’uln, or a compound, or a root,or
| a fact whatsoever, is the end. To
know the most names of the most class
| ideations is to be saved.to aipply chom
! istry iu tho manufacture of salable beer
! i?-. to make “calling and election” sure.
I The devotion of these little men to. sci
ence is not only at Uve expense of all
that is highest, but is, as was intimat
ed, largely responsible for the realism
over.which so many weep. Men of sci
ence, that is to say men of science, are
not accountable for deadliest of soul.
The wonder with which those early
Greeks looked out upon tho face of all
tilings may not for ouu instant be com
pared with tho wonder that fills the
soul to-day before this stupendous uni
verse!. Because wo lotvo learned that
color is not in sunset or rose, is there
therefore no color! 1 Js the marvel any
wise diminished by knowing that,upon
matter so adjusted and so acting as tho
brain is adjusted aim nets, all color de
pends? Because there is no sound iu
bell, or breeze, or <>ftsfb *• there jtjiore
turo no sound? .te'xjr win-rein is tho
wonder of it diniiniklfcd wffim we have
learned the construction of the ear, its
possible relation to a particular fold in
the brain, and the necessity of this for
all the harmonies t ivsl fill the soul with
glflfyi 1 Are we, tho thinking, sorrow
ing, hoping selves, any the loss foal be
cause ull this thinking, all this sorrow
ing. and all tins hoping depend in
strictest sense upon that most highly
organized form of matter tho human
brain?— /Ve/< .vs tor 11. It. Jkncdtcl, in
L ujiiukr Science MahUlih/ for June.
A Prison Harbor Shop.
Hero is the prison barber, down in a
corridor lighted by a pair of lamps,
which make his shop look in the dis
tance like a rude aliar with perpetual
tapers burning before it. liis chair is
not one of those fat, swelling divans,ffi
whose cushions you recline for a shave,
but a hard, wooden seat with shorter
lugs behind than before, so tips buck a
litile, and a high back.
The barber does a wholesale busi
ness. He shaves jill t.lic convicts once
a week and cuts their hair once u
month.
When lie is on ji shaving expedition
he plants his chair in one of the shops.
One ntau sits down and is quickly lath
ered and scraped. Then there is none
of your bay rum, or magnesia, or pull's
balls, or camphorated ice, or magnolia
balm, or those other toilet mysteries
which the loinon.il artist performs on
the face of his customer outside the
prison. After the man is shaved the
barber does not fret over him any, but
it is “Get out and wash yourself.” The
prisoner tumbles:out and goes to the
sink, while unotljer man lakes his place
in tho chair. Id; this way the prison
barber goes through tlie shops.
lie shaves tlie prison ollicers, and
they say lie is a tood harbor. Perhaps
lie is, and he may boa good follow -
but no man vvliq is iu tlie State Prison
may draw a razor over your humble
servant’s throat; it is had enough to
be shaved by a flian who ought to bo in
prison. Lcwisloum Journal.
CattleTlfivc iu Uruguay.
- ---.
“Cattle thieves in the land where I
raise slock, ” fiiiiid ii Montevideo cattle- j
breeder visiting New York, “have dis
covered a new'ind ingenious mode of
disguising tinny booty. Last autumn I
lost several head, and half a dozen
times 1 and my men, with tho mounted
policemen, came.up with the thieves,
and I saw with them cattle that I knew
at once were mine. My brand was,on
them (J. M.) and some!imen there
were sears on the bodies that 1 knew
quite well. Tito animals were exactly
like mine in every respect but one. The
horns branched differently. If those
on my cows had pointed up these
drooped toward the ground, and often
one pointed forward and tho other
back ward, or one toward tho sky ami
the other toward tlt'e earth.
“*/• M., tho drovoi said, were his own
or his employer’s initials. Tho cattle
were certainly mine, b..t I could not
swear to them, and 1 was obliged to
see them taken away.
“The thieves had kept the horns
wrapped in poultices of boiling-hot
meal until they wre soft enough to be
twisted, ami thus destroyed the cow’s
j identity. The h *rus soon hardened
I when the bandages were removed.
“i have been told that tue trick was
I invented by Russian cattle thieves* 1
[ Wish they hud kept it at home,”
| University is tho' finost-on- i
. dowed institution in tho country. It has j
j a cash endowment of $2,000,000, and !
j the buildings are worth sfioo,ooU more.
1 it also owns 120 acres of valuable land,
I an 1 lias one-third of Asa Packer’s $lO,-
t 000,000, beside various other princely
/ bequests.
A Dog Who Arc With tho King.
Jacob’is dead! All old guardsmen
wiil hear it with grief, lie was crush
ed to deal b yesterday in front of tho
king’s palace m Amnlienborg square
under tho treaty wheels of a truck
which with official zeal he was trying
to turn from the for bidden gate. It is
five years since Jaci/b was officially en
rolled in the guard. Up to tluit "time
he had been a volunteer, putting in his
whole time with the men, inspecting
i the sentries, and warning too' inquiisi
j live strangers away,- but’when the dog-
I catchers caught him ami took him to
*tho pound the regiment clubbed to
gether and bought him a license, and
ever siuoe a regular tax of n few cents
per man has been levied yearly for Ja
cob’s benefit. Ho was jealous of his
prestage, and usually allowed no other
dogs iu the square. The routine of
j his jffo* was that of his fcgimenL \*itfi
i the exception that lie breakfasted reg-
I Tiiarly with the king, who rarely forgot
j to bring him a bone from his morning
I meal. If tin; king did forget it or was
Into, Jacob lot him know that it was
breakfast-time by barking under the
palace, window until he was heard ami
leit. The rest of tlie day he browsed
about the guard-house, where tlie sol
diers shared their lunch with him. Un
: like most other dogs, he was a demo-'
; crat by instinct, and preferred the com
; pany of the privates to that of the oili
| eors, whose quarters he condescended
■ to visit only ut long intervals and after
much coaxing* From a profane civil
ian’s hand he would accept nothing.
It was the uniform that was tlie one
• all-absorbing love of his life. 11 is best
friends among the guardsmen lie treat
ed coldly in civilian’s dross, and the
day after the men bad been told off* on
home leave be would take no notice of
them in the street But ho looked up
on a now recruit with friendly approv
| al. In the summer, when the men
' had daily swimming exorcises, lie
would'go along and stay by their uni
forms. permuting no ununiformod
stranger to approach.- Into the water
he was never known to venture.
Henceforth Jacob will live in the
guards as a tradition, lie died in tho
guard-house half an hour after ho had
been crushed under the Wheels, sur
rounded by his sympathizing comrades.
I’liis morning ho Was borne to tho bar
racks, anti at the palisades in the pa
rade ground, adjoining the king’s gar
den, he will be buried with military
houors.• Cojtcn/KKjen NaltonalUUendc.
Politeness Thrown Away.
1 met with a discouragement yester
day in mv career of politeness, writes
Clara Belle. Fariicularly amiable 1
felt, as 1 sauutorodf out from my anees
tral halls, for this was the first wearing
of a brand-new walking costunfe, which
fitted mo so perfectly that the pressure
on no one square inch was perfectly
harder than on any other square inch.
My bonnet, too, was ingeniously and
success I''nlly calculated to Fender my
head a harmonious thing of beauty.
■So, as 1 ambled lo an elevated railroad
station, and, as usual to the New York
girl who makes any pretense to stylish
manners, kept a linn of masculine
ticket-buyers impatiently waiting while
I slowly searched for the pocket of my
unaccustomed dress, extracted my
wallet, looked between memoranda
slips and samples until 1 found a par
ticular dime, dropped the coin on tho
floor, couldn’t pick it up with my
gloved lingers, had it handed to me by
a dude, ami finally passed ill rough to
a train- -during this process, 1 say, an
noying as it may have been to my fel
low-passengers, I felt quite blissful and
blithesome.
Thai was my frame of mind when £
entered tho car. The vehicle was
crowded. I espied one empty seat
near a window, the occupied half
holding a big, soldier-like man. in
squeezing past him, I stepped squarely,
full weight nml considerable impetus
added, right onto one of bis feet.
There isn’t anything else cm onrlh that
makes mo sympathize so truly and
deeply with a human being as to jump
on his or her corns. This individual’s
pedal was extended in my way to bo
sure, and maybe 1 wasn’t to blame for
trampling on it; but, nevertheless,!
felt the profouiidost regrel, and I gazed
solicitously into his face Lo see and de
plore the expression of agony that 1
expeoted would transform his counte
nance from placidity into something
fiendish*
*d beg your pardon,” I said, as 1
sank into the scat by his side.
He manifested no attention whatev
er. AY as he going to treat my apolo
gy with silent scorn? 1 wouldn’t have
it so.
“I am sorry, sir, I hurt you,” I re
marked.
“Eh, miss?” ho responded.
“I beg your pardon.”
“For what?”
“I stepped on your foot, you know.”
“But I didn't know, miss. I have a
cork leg.”
He didn’t dare to smi!<\ for lie could
see plainly enough that I would have
run his levity through and through
with my parasol. But some of tho
witnesses were out of my reach and
liiey ventured to snicker.
A Natural Mistake.
A correspondent sends to The -Boston
louriml the following account of a
mistake, made by a little girl in his
vicinity: She always joins the family in
reading the scriptures during the fami
ly devotions, taking her verse in turn.
She easily rerds tlie shorter words, but
needs some help about the longer, but
is always eager to pronounce all the
words herself, and sometimes guesses.
Recently it came her turn to read the
verse, “No man can serve two masters,
for eiliior he will have to hate the one
and love the other, or else he will hold
to the one and de pise tho other. Ye
cannot servo God and Mammon.” She
made a slight variation at the end, and
finished the verse, “Ye can not serve f
God and women.”
A young man who was not lon
since a stockbroker’s clerk in Wafi
street now pays SIO,O 0 a year for a
Scotch moor, and $1,600 a year for a
hunter, lie married Lady Agnes Tollo
macho-Scott, sister to the aged and
eccentric carl of Dysart, upon whose
death she will become a countess iu
her own right.
Prof. Mommsen, tho historian of j
Koine, is quoted as the most absent
minded man on record, lie remained
seated in trim presence of the popcattlio
Vatican, the other day. But iu ex
, ten nation it in said that) he' often fai.s
to recognize his own children*. In the
last particular, however, lie may poa
sioiy have plenty of company.
Sawing Out a Channel Above Idaml
No. 10.
From an account in Ihe June Cen
tury by Colqnol J. W. Bisscll, of tho
Engineer Corps, who had tho work in
charge, we quote the following: “The
way through the submerged corn-field
and the half-mile of road was easy
enough, hut when wo reached the tim
ber the labor of sawing out a chantlol
commenced. The one Steamer which
had a powerful steam capstan was put
in the lead, and the others having hand
|upstans Wore fastened single tile in
wd reav, and then the six barges in
x-hke order, so that tho progress of tho
/first conlrollcd all tho-oMiers. Captain
{ TwoUdalo took charge of the cutting in
trout, while Lieutenant Itaudolph was
fitting tip tho Imp revised gun**boats
i astern. About three hundred rflon
wore assigned to each, and they
worked in relays without the slightest
iutermission from daybreak until dark.
“First of all, men standing on plat
forms on small falls cut oil* the trees
about eight feet above the water. As
soon as a tree was down,- another set
of men, provided with boats and lines,
adjusted about it a lino which ran
through a snatch-block and back to the
steam capstan, and lmuled it out of the
way; thus a partial cut was made for
ward, the lines always working more
than two hundred leet ahead of the
capstan, so as to have plenty of room
for the saws. It took about four sets
of lines to keep pace with twelve saws.
“When the so ace about the stumps
allowed sufficient room; a raft about
forty feet was lashed to a stump, and
the saws set at work in a frame at
tached by a pivot and working in an
arc as shown in the sketch—twey men
working the saws at opposite cuds by a
rope, and a fifth on the farther side of
tree guiding its teeth into the tree.
Where tho stumps were Lo close, or ir
regular, three yawl-boats were usod in
stead of the rail. No trouble was ex
perienced with the stumps a foot or
less in diameter. With tho larger ones
it was different; tlie elms spread out so
much at the bottom that the saw al
utyst’ always would run crooked and
pinch. It it com men cod running up,
wo notched the top and set tho frame
farther in; if down, wo put; in powerful
tackle, and pulled llio lop of the stump
over.
“Here was whoro tho ingenuity of
officers ami men was exercised: as the
saws were working four and a half feet
beneath tlie surface* and the water was
quite turbid, the question was how to
ascertain what was interfering with
the saw, and then to apply the remedy.
But 1 found Captain Tweddulo equal to
the most, obstinate stump. I think two
ami a half hours was the longest time
ever expended upon any one, while
about that number of minutes would .
dispose of some small ones vvheil 'the
saw was ready. In all it took eight
days Lo cut the two miles.”
Tho Last Confederate Charge at
Gaines's Mill.
From General Fitz John Portor’fl
conttibntion to the Century Illustrated
War Series in tho Juno number wc
quote the following: “As if for fi final
effort, as tho shades of evening Were
coming upon us, and the woods were
filled with smoke, limiting tho view
therein to a few yards, the enemy
again massed his fresher and re-lormed
regiments, and threw them in rapid
succession against our thinned and
wearied battalions, now almost with
out ammunition* and with guns so foul
that they could not be loaded rapidlv.
In preparation for defeat,- should "it
come, i bad posted artillery in largo
force just iu rear of onr confer ami leit,
ready for any emergency —and es
pecially to be ti?,cd against a successful
toe, even if big destruction involved
firing upon some of our own retreat
ing troops, as might have been neces
sary. Tho attacks, though coming
coming like a series of apparently irre
sistible avalanches, had thus far made
no inroads upon our firm and disci
plined ranks. Even in this last attack
we successfully resisted, driving back
our assailants with immense loss, or
holding them beyond our linos* except
in one instance, near the center of
Morel I’s line, where by force of num
bers and under cover of the smoko of
battle our line was penetrated and
broken; this at a point where 1 least
expected it. This was naturally tlie
weakest point of our line, owing to the
closer proximity of the woods held by
the enemy. Under this cover they
could form, and wit h less exposure in
time and ground than elsewhere, and
launch their battalions in quick suc
cession upon our men. i believed 1
had guarded against the danger by
strongly ami often ie-qnforciug tlie
troops holding this part of the line.
Here the greater pan of McCall’s and
Sioeiim s forces were used. Just pre
ceding this break, to my groat surprise,
J saw cavalry, which 1 recognized as
ours, rushing in numbers through our
lines on the left, and carryingotf with
sudden fright tho limbers of our artil
lery, then prepared to pour their irre
sistible lire into a pursuing foe. With
no infantry to support, and with ap
parent disaster before them, such of
tlie remainder of those guns as could
be moved wore curried from tiio field;
some deliberately, others in haste, but
not in confusion.”
A Rack of Cards Well Liu-nod,
“Why do you pick that up?” asked a
reporter of a man who had just stooped
down and taken a fugitive nine of clubs
out of the mini. lie was carefully
cleaning* the card with his pocket*
handkerchief.
“It’s a habit I’ve contracted,” ho
said, laughing. “Long ago 1 noticed
that a day rarely passed that I did not
see a playing card lying in the street.
1 wondered if it wore possible to make
a whole pack by picking up all i saw.
I went to work to try it. At first it
seemed easy enough, and I picked up
nloni vof cords of different kinds: but
as my collection grew larger the task
became more difficult, and I found
cards of the same sort over and over
again, it took me twelve years to find
the last four cards i wanted—the live
of diamonds, tho eight of diamonds,
tlie king of spades, and tho four of
hearts. Two of these years wore spent
in looking for tlie eight of diamonds/
which was all 1 wanted to complete
this pack. I found it three mouths
ago in an ash barrel on Baxter street,
and J have now the entire pack. J
was just eleven years and two weeks
.collecting it, and 1 would not sell it for
#I,OOO.”—A. T. Sun.
Last autumn th'o’ ToggerS of the
Northwest adopted u rule pledging a
reduction in the Jog supply. The re
sult shows, a decreases of 873,938,000
feet, tho figures for IHHi standing
3.238,000,000 against 2 > 3GJr,oC2-,UOO for 1
IKKS: l
ISTO. 34,
Natural Selection and! Civilization.
The sVstonr of Accumulating \\roahh[
ami hereditary Succession alone' woukt
suffice to prevent the Darwinian law
ever gaining a footing in Civilized com
munities. Among animals, tho survi
val of tho fittest takos plaCo quite natur
ally, because, as' gonoratiohfc succeed
each other,* eatflr one must create h
dwri position according to' his 6wu‘
strength and abilitios* amt fri this way
the purifying process; Vvhlch Mr; Her
bert Spencer so extols; is effected. A'
sifrfilar system was generally prevalent
amo£g barbarians,* but, at the present
day, traCos of it may bo seen only in!
instances of “self-maue men;” it dis
appears in their children, who, even*
if they inherft their parents’ talents'
and capacities, are brought up, as &
I’ulo, in so much ease and luxury that
the genus of such talents arc destroyed.
Their lot In life iri lUfetivCd to them, so'
why need they evert themselyes? Thus
they fail to cultivate the qualities and
tastes they may have inherited from'
their parents, and they and their de
scendants become In aW points' inferior
to their ancestors Who sCCurCd to'them,*
by labor and industry, the privileged!
position they hold. lienee tho prov
erb, A pere eoonome fi.s prodigue (To a"
thrifty father, a spendthrift sony.
It follows, therefore, that those who’
I wish to sec the law of natural selection;
j by tho transmission of hereditary apti
lades* established amongst us should^
| begin by demanding tho abolition of
hereditary succession;
Among animals, the vitiation' Of the
• race through the multiplication of ittf
inferior Samples is prevented “by the
lighting so universal in tho pairing
season.” tn the sO'eial order tho no"
cumulation and hereditary trasmfesion'
of wealth effectually irApcdO the pro
cess perfecting the race. In Greece'
after the atnletic sports; or ih those*
fortunate and Chimerical days of Which 1
the Troubadours sang, “the m'ofct beau-'
tiiul was sometimes given a‘ prize to*
the most valiant;” but, in oUY prosaic?
ago, rank and fortune too’often triumph
over beauty, strength, and health. In'
the animal world, tho destiny of each 1
one is decided by its personal qualities;
In society, a man attains a high posi
tion, or marries a beautiful woman, be
cause he is of high birth, or wealthy;
although ho may be ugly; lazy, and
j extravagant.- Emile dc L(ivelei/c t in
| l opulur Science Monthly for June:
He Broke ’Em Up.
In a corner of Windham 1 Gfltmty
I hero lived some years' ago a mau of
considerable wealth. He knew he was
near his death, ami sent foT a* lawyer*
fo make his will. His wife nird*daughter*
were present, and groediiy hatched the
proceedings. After generously
providing for them the sick man*direct
ed the lawyer to'designate #soo' to his 1
aged sister, vyho was needy, Thu Wife?
and daughter remoustrated angrily;
L'umily ilie sick man rfnid? “Make it
#I,OOO for my sister ” Awrtlvet protest
from the vultures. “Make It #1,600;
‘Squire,- ’’coolly said the legator; “You*
Guill not,” shouted' the swect-souled
females.- “Make it $2,000;” said the*
willmaker serenely/ and hero the self
ish fools concluded it was policy
hold their tongues. The lawyer kept
the secret for years, but somehow if
had leaked out. —UuniclsunviUe ( Conn ./
j Transcript.
Burned the King's Homl.
It fs related that one day (eo tg#
IJeriot had been sect for by tho king,
whom ho found seated in one of the
rooms-at Holy rood, before a ffre com
posed of Cedar, or some other per
fumed wood, which case a pleasant
fragrance around, and the king men
tioned incidcntty that it was quite as*
costly a£ it was ag re Cable; “if your
majesty will visit mo at my booth in'
Parliament close,” quoth Horiot, “F
will show you a lire more costly than*
that.” “Say you so?!’ said the king;
“then 1 will.” On doing so he Was'
surprised to find Unit Heriot had only
a coal lire of tlie usual kind. “Is this;
then, your costly lire?” asked the king/
“Wait your highness till V get my
fuel,” replied Heriot, who froAV’ an old
cabinet took a bond for JB2-,006' whiclf
lie lmtl lent to James/ ami, laying it otf
the lire, lie asked' laughingly; “Now
whether is your majesty’s lire in Holy
rood or mine the more Costly?” “Cer
tainly yours. Master Heriot!” replied 4
the king.— ( J/testcr Chronicle ;
Meaning of Colors In Seating-’Wai.
“Flirtatious in sealing-wax aro thtf
latest racket,” said a stationer 4
day. “The ordinary rod wafx signifies
business, and is supposed tC bedkCd
only for business letters/ Black is, of
course, used for mourning and Condo-*
lenco; Blue meaiVs love; and as we'
make four or live tints of this color;
each stage of the tender passion 1 can be'
portrayed.- When pink is used Con
gratulation is intended; Ail' invitation*
to a wedding or other festivity nr
sealed with’ white Wax; Variegated
Colors are stippofeod to idiow conflicting
emotions. Do yoit know that thimbles'
are being uLidzed to* bear se'alfr? Fact.
The designs of that sort) arC mild just
now, but arc developing/ We’ll work
tbo idea up and think it will become
fashionable. The Odors used in the
wtix are ravishing in their delicacy—
that is the expensive sort. The Cheaper
grades are as bail as the pomatum of a
6-cent barber-shop. The perfumery is
the element of cost in tlie wax. A
Baris firm makes the finest imported 4
article. 'Flic perfume of the burning
wax fills an ordinary sized apartment;
and lingers about the envelope for'
hours. ’’ — PhitatU tphia Tim^s.
The ClmrulVH Imfeiiry.
Gill 1 (Iren’s ideas of usefulness iff 5 thitf
world are primitive, to say the least.
A lAfetoti editor Iras a liVe-yOar-old boy
who has pronounced views on 1 this sub
ject. He said the other day at the ta
ble:
“Fmpa, I wish you were a bakeshopf
man!”
“Why, my boy?”
“Because then you couldvbring hohitf
cakes ami Chi-tigs, uu* we could go in 1
and get eobkh?s when we wanted to. Or
if you were a meat) man', or a grocery
man, or a Carpenter a*nd made' bice'
tilings, or a blacktfmithshbp'man—that
would be aWful Inn. Say, papa, is \t
any good wira't you do?” —JJdslon Kee
ning Journal.
—— m ♦
Tho harries in the New York Clearing
house that pay 2] per cent nit Crest
have decided to reduce tno rate t6' 2*
per chut, claiming that they Ct‘iilM
afford to pay more. The iQiirgidii de
posited by traders on the Produce Kx-‘
change are a fleeted by this; and mem
bers are trying to Combine add prevent}
tho reduction from per cent/