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BY FROST, LAWSON. OOIiKEII <fe O W.VY.
VOL. 111. i
POOR LUCILLE.
Sitting this afternoon at iny window,
listening vaguely to all the sounds which
make up “the sad music of humanity,”
a face was lifted for a moment to mine,
which, like a talisman, opened one of
the forgotton wards of memory and gave
me back again (Oh, Death in Life!) a
form whose beauty has long been hidden
: by the dust.
I Poor Lucille! That was my first
thought. It came a strain of sol
emn, mournful music into my heart, and
so I let it staud. Poor Lucille ! driven
to the wall—nay, driven over the wall
into the grave by the cruelty which saw
only in her weakness and her helpless
ness legitimate prey.
Our acquaintance was the result of
one of those inexplicable attractions
which are none the loss interesting for
their mystery. It began in church,
where I first noticed her In charge cf
four or five children, to whom site was
evidently governess. Her beauty was
very great, but this did not influence
me so much as the hopeless desponden
cy which shadowed it, relieved on ly by
an eager, questioning look, like that of
a little child lost and bewildered in s
crowd.
A kind feeling is a species of mental
telegraph, and she soon understood that
I was a friend, and in quick, intelligent
glances showed ine her comprehension
and her gratitude. Do you wonder that
for many weeks I contented myself
with this silent sympathy? I wonder,
too, now—but then, all was so diff'e-ent.
I was among a people who never shook
hands without a social license to do
so. and whose acquaintanceships were
always prefaced by the most ccreni j
mous initiation.
I was very young, too, and had been
just admitted, by right of marriage, into
a circle which resented alike my country
and my religion, and barely tolerated
the mistakes l was constantly making,
either through my ignorance or my im
petuosity. -So. in my peculiar position,
there was some excuse for me allowing
many weeks to pass over and still *to
have learned nothing of the girl except
what her position and her sorrowful
face reveale
One Sunday, however, when we came
out of church, it was snowihg furiously.
It had been snowing at intervals slight
ly all the morning, but now the air was
dark with the thick driving flakes.—
She had come alone to church, and she j
stood now at the door looking into the ;
stormy air with shivering and dismay. |
31y good angel whispered, “Take her
home in jour carriage and never mind ;
what 31 rs. Grundy will say about it.’’ j
Acting on this impulse, I touched her j
hand and said, ‘‘Conic with us, we will ,
leave you at home, dear.' 1 • |
She accepted the offer at once with j
that true politeness which disdains all
apologies, because it pays your courtesy
the compliment of sincerity, and I im
proved my opportunity as far as possible.
When we parted she promised that she
would waive all ceremony, and call on
me at my residence as soon as she could.
Thus our friendship ripened gradual
ly, and I was soon the confidante of a
story so pitiful that the hardest heart
might have giveu it tears and sympathy.
A .story of petty cruelties and irritat
wrongs ; little troubles that kill by slow
torture, work that was never done; crav
iugfor loveand recreation never satisfied;
no books to read, no music to practice;
not one hour of that blessed solitude
which is the soul's restorer.
Without anger, without much demon
stration, but with a weary, hopeless
manner that was almost despair, she
poured out all her poor, breaking heart.
Fast from my eyes dropped the angry
tea r s, but hers were sad and dry. Hot
indignation gathered in my breast as 1
beard of the polite taunts, the cruel
sneers, the cold indifference, the wretch
ed pittance which rewarded her toil
some life.
Poor child ! She had no homo and no
friends who acknowledged her claim.—
Her father and mother were both dead.
The former had been a captain in a fine
cavalry regiment, but having married a
poor French lady, had been disowned
and disinherited in consequence. There
was no one to see auy justice done to
her, and after admitting this she said
with a miserable attempt at indifference,
“You see it is evidently my duty to
leave a world iu which 1 am so much
out of place.”
“Why do you not leave the Mouteiths
j instead?” I inquired.
“Whore shall I go? 1 have no friends,
|no money, and but little clothing. If 1
left her, Mrs. Montoith would do her
utmost to prevent my getting another
home, and I cannot go into the market
place and the newspapers and detail pay
wrongs as I do to y<u.”
* “BALUS POPULI SUPB EM A LEX E 9 T O
WAYNESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1873.
| What could I do for her? Some
Quixotic idea of appealing in her behalf
to her employers occupied uty thoughts,
until the following Sunday, wheu I nar
rowly scrutinized them, after which I
gave up the notion at once.
What charity could I hope for in
that cold passionless face, whoso gray,
petrifying look made me understand
that the Medusa’s head might be more
than a fable. There was less to fear iu
Mr. Monteitit’s face, but no more to
hope. The thin, light hair, the small
cunning eyes, and the long sharp nose
i indicated keen business tact, lie was
! evidently a man to whom “books” would
i ouly mean “ledgers,” and whose whole
life would rcsolvo itself into a question
j of £.. s. and.
How <lsc could he have sat daily
under the reproach of those mournful
jeyes? How else have listened every
Sabbath day to the decalogue and “that
I other commandment,” and yet feel no
reproach ?
Then I wrote in Lucille’s behalf to
several of my frieuds in England, and
was generally treated as a harmless en
thusiast in other people’s affairs. In
the meantime summer came on and we
were preparing to leave town for the
sea-coast,
The last time I saw her alive was
where I had seen her first—at church.
A stranger preached, nnd he took for
his text these words : “And went and
told Jesus.” The sermon seemed to
affect her profoundly, and I rather
blame myself because that in all my
efforts to comfort, her I had never
named this friend above all other*.
I had not been many weeks at the
coast before I received from her the
following letter:
“My Only Fkikxd—
Wheu you receive this l shall have
solved the great, sad mystery of iny
life. I snail know the grand secret
then lam going to “tell Jesus about
it.” He will not be as hard to me as
men have been. My life here has been
all wrong some way, but I think there
will be no mistakes there. Farewell!”
I knew at once what it meant. I
never hoped to see her again. Yet I
took the first steamer I could get, and
late in the afternoon arrived at Mon
! tcith House. They were holding an iu
i quest on the body when I arrived, and
1 was rather rudely refused admittance.
But I declared I was possessed of im
portant evidence, and insisted on being
permitted to give it.
To the stupid, ignorant, prejudiced
jury (who looked on the beautiful corpse
as if they expected Satan every moment
to claim it), I poured out in fervent
words the story of her sufferings and
her wrongs. They shook their heads,
and evidently considered that I needed
a church session on my own case; then
they solemnly decided that “Lucille
Morton had come to her death by her
own bands.”
“God will reverse your verdict, geu
tlemen, at the Great Assize,” I answer
ed, passionately. He will pronounce her
‘done to death by slanderous tongues
and cruel hearts;’ and in that day there
will be neither laudanum nor nepenthe
for her murderers.
They made her grave far from all
human habitations —deep in the yellow
ribbed sands, where the perpetual hills
hang over it, and the gray solid granite
flings back without ceasing the tumult
of the stormy Atlantic. All alone in
Death as in life ! So young !so ! beau
tiful ! yet so weak and helpless that
Earth could give her no inheritance but
a grave. Poor Lucille !
Cicero, in his hatred of Augustus,
wished to kill himself on his hearthstone,
so that lie might become his evil genius
1 and pursue his doccndants with unro
■ ienting disaster. I am sure Lucille
never thought of this, although in the
I continual misfortune which after her
death followed the Montcith family nn
| old Roman would have acknowledged
1 this agency
Asa Christian woman, however, I
! recognized a higher authority, and was
well pleased to sec that He who said
“Ye shall not afflict any widow or
fatherless child ; for if thou afflict them !
in any wise, and they cry at all unto
1 me, I will surely hear their cry,” was
not slack concerning his promise.
A Memphis lawyer fell down while
speakiug the ot’icr day. It will make
i the case clearer to say that an inkstand
1 thrown by the opposing counsel hit him
just before lie fell.
i A Baltimore clergyman writes to a
friend concerning the frequency of fires
in Boston as follows: “In the rapid
whirl of events, the motion of the uni
verse becoming accelerated, the hub is
evidently overheated by friotion,” bcnce
the numerous coDflugratjops.
TWO DOLLARS A YKAU, IN ADVANOE.
MIRRORS.
To the inherent vanity of the human
race must doubtless be attributed the
invention of artifical mirrors. In the
primitive ages of the world, tranquil
lakes and springs furnished natural re
flecting surfaces for the gratification of
this passion; but advancing civilization
suggested a more convenient agent for
its indulgence. The introducing of
mirrors is ascribed to the Egyptians,
with whom originated so many appli
ances* of convenience nnd luxury.
For many gcnturics mirrors were
manufactured exclusively from the va
rious metals, skilfully elaborated nnd
highly polished, copper being first used
for this purpose. They were fashioned
into spherical shapes und united to
handles highly finished, either with at
tractive representations or with fright
fully repulsive figures, which would,
by contrast, heighten the attractive
ness an observer’s features. It is
said that such was the inordinate vanity
of the ancient Greeks and Romans, that
even the interior surfaces of their wash
ing basins and drinking vessels were
highly burnished, and so constructed
that the countenances of those using
them would be distinctly reflected. In
process of time tin nnd lead were com
bined with coppcr.in their construction
and subsequently silver was substituted
and in the fourth century (B. 0.), mir
rors manufactured from the latter metal
were iu very general use among the
Greeks and Romans, constituting an
extensive branch of industry. By some
authorities gold is also mentioned as
being used for this purpose, but the
better opinion seems to be that it was
employed in decorating the frames in
which the plates were enclosed, rather
than as material for the reflecting sub
stance. They were usually of sucli
dimensions as could bo conveniently
held by servants before ladies and gen
tleuieu while attiring themselves, al
though allusiocs arc frequent to mirrors
sufficiently large to extend from the
ceiling to the floor of an ordinary ap
portment. A species of a lava, resem
bling green bottle glass, and semi trans
parent, was al.-o succes.-fully applied in
the prosecution of this industry, and
continued to be employed until glass
was substituted, during the second cen
tury. In the first experiments with
this material black glass was employed,
and at a later period transparent glass,
on the back of which a coating of po
lished steel foil was placed. But, for
some reason unascertained, the use of
this substance appears to have been
abandoned, as writers make no further
allusion to gla.-s minors until the thir
teenth century. About the middle of
this century iron, stefl, glass coated
with lead, and even highly polished
marble were u-'od as reflecting surfaces
for mirrors. In the sixteenth century
convex glass mirrors were manufactur
ed in Germany which reflected a very
small but well defined image. In this
century, also, the Venetians introduced
the art of manufacturing mirrors by
coating glass with a composition of tin
foil and mercury, aud so successful was
their enterprise tiiat, at the present day,
no marked or substantial improvement
has been made upon the process they
originated. Though many inventions
of new methods have been introduced,
and uumcrous improvements suggested,
such as precipitating silver, gold and
platinum upon glass, yet the process of
the artists of Venice still holds its place
on account of the cheapness and dura
bility of the coating aud the brilliancy
of the reflection.
-
The news of the death of Junius
Brutus Booth, in Paris, Domes to us
rather circuitously by way of Manches
ter, England. The •deceased was an
actor of some note, hut was chiefly re
markable for having as a sire one of
tho most illustrious tragedians of the
first half of the nineteenth century, and
as brothers one who is the brightest or
nament of the American stage to day,
and another who became immortal
through the commission of one of the
darkest deeds in history. His life was
,not very eventful. He was born in
Charleston, South Carolina, in 1821,
soon after his fathers arrival in this
oouutry, and made his debut upon Abe
stage as Tyrrcl, in Richard 111, in
Pittsburg, before he was twenty years
of age.
The priuoipal of a Massachusetts
academy on tuc approach of a tempest
insulated hisjehair on four pieces of glass,
and as he thought, politely invited a
young lady to sit iu his lap for safety.
To show the popularity of tho man of
letters, the young lady replied she would
rather be struck by lightning
OVER-POPULATION.
The Rev. T. R. Malt bus, one of tho
ablest writers on political economy dur-
I ing the last century, held that popula
tion iu a given county tends to increase
faster than food, so that tho people are
constantly pressing closely on the means
of life, and hence that poverty and
wretchedness arc unavoidable unless
tho ‘Surplus population,” beyond the
number that can be well fed, is dimin
ished by war, pestilence, or other causes |
sweeping in their effects. While this
view is ingenuous in the suggestion of a
useful function of dreadful evils, it was
evolved before steam had revolutioniz
ed commerce. The fucility with which
food and men arc now transported to
lands where either is greatly needed, !
put a different face on the matter.— j
While it is true, as Malthus and subse
quent writers have pointed out, that :
in many families there are more child
ren ibail the parents can pr. pcrly pro !
vide for, aud that this fact lies at the
bottom of much social trouble, the bar
riers between countries are now sc fcro
keu down that the world is, for such
purposes, but one country ; and the vast
tracts of arable land, as yet scarcely
trodden by man, uegative, for ages to
come, the effect foreshadowed by Mal
thus ; while improved methods of cul
tivation may yet yield tons where we
now harvest bushels.
The lack of fuel, too, need neither
prevent nor check manufacturing where
food is cheap. Transportation of food
aud of manufactures cau largely
be ecouomizcd without the action of
government, simply by utilizing the
power of the air. Now that windmills
liaTe beeu so perfected that they catch
every breath that blows, and that vari
ous contrivances for storing up power
cau be adjusted to the vanes, this great
power, the cheapest anu most inc-xhaas
tible in the world, can be made to work
with regularity; and all over the world
manufactories, as well as agreat variety
of minor mccbauical operations, can be
conducted in the midst of farming pop
ulations. or where farming is impracti
cable, with equal facility ; so that the
need of fuel for manufacturing purposes
is unlikely to operate either favorably
or unfavorably on the distribution of
population.
The Altitude at Which Hen euti
Live.
There has been a great deal of dis
cussion as to the altitude at which hu
man beings can exist, and Mr Glaisher
himself can tell us as much about it as
anybody. In July, 1872, he and Mr.
Cox well ascended in a balloon to the
enormous elev ation of 37,000 feet. Pre
vious to the start, Mr. Glaisher’s pulse
stood at seventy-six beats a minute;
Coxwell’s at seventy-four. At 17,000
feet, the pul.-c of tho former was at
eighty-four; that of the latter at 100.
At 19,000 feet Glaisher’s hands and
lips quite blue, but not. his face. At
21,000 feet he heard his heart beating,
and his breathing became oppressed ; at<
29,000, he became senseless; notwith
standing which the aeronaut, in the in
terest of science, went up another 8,000
feet, till he could no longer use his
hands, aud had to pull the strings of
the valve with his teeth. JErouauts
who have to make no exertions have,
cf oour.se, a great advantage over mem
ber* of the Alpine Club, and those who
trust their legs ; even at 13,000 feet
these climbers feel very uncomfortable,
more so in tlu Alps*, it seems, than else
where. At the monastery of St. Ber
nard, 8,117 feet high, tho monks be
come asthmatic, and are compelled fre
quently to descend into tho Valley of
the Rhone for—anything but “a breath
of fresh air”; and at the end of ten
years’ service arc obliged to give up
their high living, and come down to
the usual level. At the same time, in
South America, there arc towns (such
as Potosi) placed as high as the top of
Mont Blanc, the inhabitants of which
feel no inconvenience.' The highest in
habited spot in the world is, however,
the Buddhist cloister of Hanle, in Tibet,
where twenty-one priests live at un al
titude of 16,500 feet. The Brothers
Seglagintweit, when they explored the
glaciers of the Ibi-Gamin in tho same
country, encamped at 21,000 feet, the
highest altitude at which a European
ever passed the night. Even at the
top of Mont Blanc, Prof. Tyndall’s
guides found it very unpleasant to do
this, though the Professor himself did
not oonfoss to feeling so bad as they.
The highest mountain in the world is
Mount Everest (Himalaya,) 29,003
feet, and the condor has been seen
“winging the blue air” 500 feet higher.
The air, bv the by. is not “blue,” or
olst, as De Saiiisufe pointed out, “the
RULES FOR LEGAL ADVERTISING:
■Sale* qf lanti, etc., by Administrators, Ext tutors,
or Guardians art required ay tor* to bt held on tho
■ first Tuesday in the month, between the hours qf ten
| in the Jurinuvn arid three in the after noon, at the
‘ court house m the county in if A iri the property is
, situated Aotices <d thter tales truest hr given in a
public gazette in the county ,chirr the land lies, if
there be any. Notices for the sale qf pi rsunal prupsaAu
must hr given in lthe manner ten days prerioußp
sale day Notices ’u Debtor* and Creditors of JR
estate must bt published forty days. Notice that ap
plication trill hr made to the Court if Ordinary fir
IruTc is sell hptd, etc .' must be published oner a week
for four teeehs Citations for letters of Admonish
trahon, Guardianship, etr , must be published thirty
days Fur direr, ission from Administration and Ex
ecutorship three, month*-Dismission from Guard
ianship, forty days /tutor for Foreclosure cf Mart
gage must be published monthly far four months.
For establishing lost papers, for the full space of
three, months. For compelling titles from Adminis
trators or F.xteutors. where bond has been given by
declar'd, three months ApfiHcutton for Homestead
must be published twice Publications wilt always
be continued in rinding to these requirements unless
otherwise orjrrerf y-f One inch, or about eighty
words, is a squurr; fructions cuunltd as full square*
JN0.47.
distant mountains, which are corered
witli snow, would appear blue also;” its
appnreut color being due to the reflec-
I tion of light. What light can do, and
does, is marvellous; and not the least
is its power of attraction to humanity.
Chamber* Journal.
MODF.R.C EGYPT.
The la: and of the Khedive is likely
soou to rival in greatness the ancient
kingdom of the Pharaohs aud the Ptol
emies. Modern Egypt cannot, it is
true, compare with ancient Egypt in
the number of its inhabitants, for Diod
orus tells us that tho latter contained
30,000 towns and villages, while He
rodotus says that in the reign of Ama
i sis there were in Egypt 20,000 cities.
What successive sovereigns, however,
from Sesostria to the caliphs failed to
effect, or aecomplishe J only in part, hu
: been completely achieved under the
I rule of tile Khedive by the opening of
the Suez Canal, while Alexandria and
Cairo are List becoming cities of palaces,
and the wealth of the country is every
day increasing.
Western prejudice attributes the
present ignorance of the Mussulman
population of Turkey to Islatnism, and
concludes that the religion of Moham
med is a bar to all bumau progress.
Any one, however, who visited Egypt
ten years*ago, and could now see the
vast improvements that have been and
are still being made by the Khedive,
would at. once have his prejudices very
much modified, if uot altogether re
moved. He would see the harbor of
Alexandria, the finest, probably, in the
world, crowded with the shipping of all
nations, with a new breakwater and new
docks in course of completion, ware
houses filled with cotton, grain and oth
er agricultural produce ready for export,
railways in ope r ation or in course of
construction—everywhere, in fact, the
signs of increasing civilization and pros
perity. He would see Alexandria it
self moro like n European than an
Eastern city, with its magnificent
buildings aud its “Place des Consuls,”
that exceeds in size and beauty any
square to be found in Europe. He
would see the land, iirigated by the
Nile’s overflow or by means of machine
ry, every where teeming with rich crops
of wheat, maize, barley, beaus and
peas, elovtr and flax, rice, sugar-cane,
tobacco and cotton, coffee, iudigo and
madder; the gardens producing apri
cots iu May; peaches, plums, apples,
pears and carobs in June ; grapes, figs
and prickly pears in July ; pomegran
ates, lemons and dates in August; or
anges in October, sweet lemons and ba
nanas in November, and the mulberry
and Sevilee oranges in January. In
old times we know there was “corn iu
Egypt;” now there is also •'cotton in
Egypt,” and cotton too of the best de
scription. Even six years ago there
were not less than two hundred steam
ploughs at work in cotton cultivation.
Every mechanicalaid to production has,
in fact, been made use of, and the re
sult is an enormous increase of wealth
both to the people and their ruler.
The romance of travel in Egypt is
fast disappearing. Anew bridge has
been recently built by the Khedive over
the Nile, so that travelers can now go
direct in carriages from their hotol to
the pyramids without being obliged, as
formely, to cross the river in boats and
finish the excursion on camels or don
keys. The old “dahabeah,” or Nile
boat, is giving way to the comparative
ly luxurious Nile steamer, and the
charms of that dreamy Epicurean life,
floating up and down tho great river,
will soon become a memory of the past.
No more encampments beneath the my
riad stars and tho wondrous sky of an.
Egyptian night, amidst the labyrinth,
of pillars, obelisks and fallen temples
of Luxor or Karnalc. Instead of, as
heretofore, passing tic night on land!
under a tent, the traveler now sleeps in
his comfortable berth on board: the
Khedive's steamer, and “docs” the
Nilo in three weeks, instead of three
months, as in the palmy days of the dfc
habeahs. During the winter of 1871*
before the steamers began to ply, the
price asked for a firSt-clnss boat was
from $l5O to S6OO a month for throe
or four months; while now the voyagb
—585 miles—from Cairo to philsp, a
few miles above the first aataraet, and
back again, can be made by the pas
senger steamers on the Nilo belonging
to tho Khedive administration at a
cost of $220, included steamer, living,
guides, and all other neoessary expense.
— N. J. Mechanic
At the present time there are over
25,000 Americans iu Paris, who spend >
on an average nearly, if not quite, >
$500,000 a day.