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VOLUME XLU.]
MILLED GE VI LLE, GEORGIA, JANUARY 10, 1872.
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:il 12in
March 2T, 1871-
The Three Bernices—By Mr.. A. iff. Bright,
Is a romance which was published
in Philadelphia two years since, and
which has been steadily gaining the
attention of the learned world ever
since that time. Not being a “sensa
tional” novel in the approved style of
the day, it did not attract the butterfly
devotees to fiction. Its readers are
those of a more substantial framework
than the latter class. Yet the “ Three
Bernices” is a book full of varying
scenes, of stirring life, of “ accidents
by field and flood,” and the various
mutations of human life and individ
ual fortune which make up the real
drama of man’s poor and transient
existence on earth.
“ The Three Bernices” is not a por
traiture of modern or mediaeval life, as
most of the works of modern fiction.
It is a reproduction of life in the ear
ly days of the Roman Empire. Nero,
Vespasian, Otho, Titus and Domitian
are in succession brought forward as
its characters, all wearers of the Im
perial purple of Rome sooner or later.
It is a picture of life at the same pe
riod as the one embraced in that won
derful and thrilling book, Bulwer-
Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii; but
“ The Three Bernices,” by locating
its scenes in three widely distant
places, paints life in three distinct
phases—Imperial Rome, the Moun
tains of Lucania, and in fated Jerusa
lem ; whereas the great English “ar
tist in words” presents merely a pho
tograph of life in the gay and ussolute
Campanian city when the fins from
Vesuvius (A. D. 79) embalmed it in
lava for the study and the wonder
of future ages.
'I'he Lucanian scenes painted with
great minuteness, are highly suirg-^s-
tive. Adjoining the weirdly beauti
ful Aprilia, the fate of Lucania had
been harsher than that of her gay sis
ter. Desolation after desolation had
swept over her territory for centuries.
The cultivated Greek inhabitants had
been driven from their foothold by
tiie fierce Lucani of Samnitic blood.
Then Came the Romans and swept in
a torrent of resistless conquest over
the Lucani. And finally Hannibal, in
bis tremendous invasion of Italy, com
pleted the destruction of Lucania—a
destruction from which it had not re
covered when our author of “ The
Three Bernices,” within a generation
after the crucifixion of our blessed Sa
vior, introduces us to the unostenta
tious home of Domitia the wife of
the Roman General Vespasian (then,
A. D. 62, reducing Britain to subjec
tion); and to the noble matron’s two
sons, Titus and Domitian, then youth
ful inmates of the maternal mansion.
A shipwreck brings to this hospitable
she! ter no less a personage than Agrip
pa, the king of some eastern provinces
including Judea, and his niece, the
beautiful young Bernice. An attach
ment springs up there between young
ble memorials over some Confederate
soldiers who yielded up their lives in
the vain but manful struggle forSouth-
ern Independence. A few volumes of
“The Three Bernices” is at L. W.
Hunt & Co., in this city, for sale.
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1 'rip for tlie practice of Law, under th. firm of
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KACON, GA*
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A Poor Man’s Wish.—I asked a
student what three things he most
wishfd. He said : “Give me hooks,
health and quiet, and I care for noth
ing more.
I asked a miser, and he cried,
‘Mon
ey, money, money :
’ I asked a pauper, and he faintly
gaid, “Bread, bread, bread !”
I asked a drnnkard, and he loudly
called for strong drink.
I asked the multitude around me,
and they lifted up a confused cry, in
which I heard the words, “wealth,
fame and pleasure.”
I asked a poor man who had long
borne the character of an experienced
Christian ; he replied that all his
wishes could be met in Christ. He
spoke seriously, and I asked him to
explain. He said :
•*I greatly desire these three things :
first, that I may be found in Christ;
secondly, that I may be like Christ^;
thirdly, that I may be with Christ.’
I have thought much of his answer,
and the more I think of it the wiser it
The heart of the wise man should
resemble a mirror, which reflects eve
ry object without being sullied by
any.
Titus and Bernice, which illustrates
all that is noble and devoted in human
love throughout the volume, making
Titus and Bernice really the hero and
heroine of the charming story. In
these wild mountains of Lucania we
find the stronghold of “Ansermo of
the Crag”—a strange character illus
trating the career of an ambitious and
unscrupulous schemer after power,
and the superstition of the age—the
aspirant through life to tlie hand of
that other Bernice, the sister of Agrip-
pa just named—and the daughter of
that other Bernice, the wife of Aristo-
bulus, the father ol him known in Ro
man history as “Agrippa the Great.”
We may remark, that Agrippa, here
portrayed as a noble and just charac
ter, is the same King Agrippa before
whom the Apostle Paul appeared and
pleaded his own cause at Cesarea A.
ID. 02; pleaded so powerfully not
: merely his own cause but that of the
I .Savior of mankind, that Agrippa ex-
I claimed “Almost thou persuadest me
; me to become a Christian.”
j But we intended to mention other
scenes in this remarkable book besides
those of Lucania. Jerusalem, in the
last wicked phase of its existence be
fore its utter destruction by the Ro
man army under Titus A. D. 70 is por
trayed—the field of wicked obduracy
i ripened and ready for tlie fierce har-
) vest of Almighty Wrath ; and Impe
rial Rome, in her first great agony un
der tyrannic po’^er—Rome inflames,
burning by order of the Emperor Ne
ro, whose guards put to death all citi-
• zens who essayed to extinguish the
flames A. D., 64. The recent great
lire of Chicago has provoked compari
sons with former fires—that of Mos
cow in 1S12; that of London in 1666;
but we have nowhere seen an attempt
to liken it, vast and terrible as it was,
to the incendiary burning of Rome by
the wicked and wontouly destructive
powei of her own Emperor! Burnt
not from accident, not from “ military
necessity,” but from sheer diabolism.
We know of uo chapters ol more
vivid historic iuterest in any work
than those of the burning of Rome in
“ The Three Bernices.” The adven
tures of Titus and his betrothed Ber
nice under the ruins of tlie burning
Palatine, are thrilling in the extreme.
Mrs. Amanda M. Bright, the author
of this singularly charming volume, is
a resident of Fayetteville, Tennessee.
She ingeniously avows in her preface
that the present work is her first at
tempt to write a book—an avowal
which will surprise the reader. The
vast mass of materials woven togeth
er in the “ Three Bernices”—sufficient
for the foundation of a dozen first-
class novels—is handled so powerfully
by our author that it is difficult to be
lieve the work is the first from the
artist’s hands. We learn that the
book was written for an express pur
pose : the proceeds are to be sacredly
appropriated to the erection of suita-
A\ INTELLIGENT ELEPHANT.
“In July 1S10, the largest elephant
ever seen in England was advertised
as ‘just arrived’. Henry Harris, the
manager of Covent Garden Theatre,
purchased it for the sum of nine hun
dred guineas. Mr. Henry Johnston
was to ride it ; and Miss Packer, the
Columbine, was to play up to it.—
Young happened to be one morning
at the box-office, adjoining the theatre,
when his ears were assailed by a
strange and unusual uproar within the
walls. On asking one of the carpen
ters the cause of it he was told “it was
something going wrong with the ele
phant, he could not exactly tell what.”
It had been arranged that Mrs. Hen
ry Johnston, seated in a howdah on
the elephant’s back, should pass over
a bridge, in the centre ol a numerous
group of followers, and it was thought
expedient that the unwieldly mon
ster’s tractability should be tested.—
On stepping up to the bridge, which
was slight and temporary, the saga
cious brute drew back his fore feet
and refused to budge. It is well
known as a fact in natural history
that the elephant, aware of its unusu
al bulk, will never trust its weight on
any object which is unequal to its
support. The stage-manager, seeing
how resolutely the animal resisted ev
ery effort made to compel, or induce
it to go over the bridge in question,
proposed that they should stay pro
ceedings till next day, w’hen he might
be in better mood. It was during the
repetition of the experiment that my
father, having heard the extraordinary
sounds, determined to go upon the
stage and see if he could ascertain the
cause ot them. The first sight that
met his eyes kindled his indignation.
There stood the huge animal with
down-cast eyes and flapping cars,
meekly submitting to blow after blow
from a sharp iron goad, which his
keeper was driving ferociously into
the fleshy part of his neck at tlie root
of the ear. The floor on which he
stood was converted into a pool of
blood. One of the proprietors, impa
tient at wliat he regarded as senseless
obstinacy, kept urging tlie driver to
proceed to still severer extremities,
when Charles Young, who was a
great lover of animals, expostulated
with him, went up to the poor, patient
sufferer, and patted and caressed him ;
and when the driver was about to
wield his instrument with even more
vigor, he caught him by the wrist as
in a vice, and stayed his hand from
further violence. While an angry al
tercation was going on between Youug
and the man of color who was his dri
ver, Captain Hay, of the ‘Asliel,’ who
had brought over ‘Chuny’ in his ship,
and petted him greatly on the voyage,
came in and begged to know what was
the matter. Before a word of expla-
HONEATY.
Were we to write a treatise upon
moral antiquities, our first and most
important chapter would be devoted
to this rare virtue, That in a work
relating to the antiquated and obso
lete, this moral quality might proper
ly be considered, the history which ev
ery day is being made by the rise and
fall of characters in the business and
social world all about us would seein
to fully warrant. The factor of moral
obligation seems to have been elimina
ted f rom tlie social ami busiuess prob
lems of the day, and selfish greet! aione
is left to work its certain result in fi
nancial and moral bankruptcy.
Many are the reasons given for this
sad state of things, but while, as indi-
LOiKIX; LP THE OLD rOLK*.
HOW A KENTUCKY GIRL MANAGED AN
ELOPEMENT.
Frem the Nashville Banner Dee. 24.
A rather romantic runaway affair
occurred at Franklin, Ky., early on
Friday evening. The father of a cer
tain young lady of that place had re
fused to give his consent to her mar
riage, and had treated her lover with
great harshness, on account, it is al
leged, of his being poor. Rut though
i love does nor, in-most instances, run
' particularly smooth, nothing can pre
sent two happy hearts from uniting
I their destinies for better or for worse
| whenever the owners so resolve. To
make oar story brief, a plan was con
rect agencies, he reckless race foi■. cocted bv which the pair were to run
wealth and pos. .on the influence of, , ]own to Mitchellville just this side of
extravagant display, the careless tram- , the State linet where arrangements had
mg of the youth ot our land, must be been made the dav previous with a
allowed due weight; beneath all these
as the prime cause, lies the fact that
lias lost Done of its truth or force since
it was first given as the peculiar char
acteristic of the worldy man—“God is
not in all his thoughts.”
The question, ‘ Is it right ?” ac
knowledges the element of moral obli
gation as the only safe foundation up
on which to build either character or
wealth, but for this the men of this
generation have found a devilish sub
stitute in the qm ry, “Will it pay ?”
Divers are the conjectures as to the
character and peculiaritiesof the “Com
ing Man.” It is asked, “Will he
smoke ?” “Will he drink ?” “Will
he marry ?” But far more important
than all these is the question, “Will
lie fear God and work righteousness.”
If not, then in this seeming
“Lowest deep, yet lower depths
Still threatening to devour us open wide.”
There never was a time when cau
tionary signals were more imperative
ly needed for the guidance of young
men than at the present. Men talk
of “business integrity,” as if integrity
itself were a composite quality, and pUmation was highly satisfactory. The
di 1 not mean entireness, moral sound- ' [Tain rolled in at 5:57, the lovers
ness, and therefore perfect symmetry jumped aboard and were married at
of character. 6:20 at Mitchellville. on the arrival of
To be a genuinely honest man is to tr:, ' n !t place.
ing man ; not a man- Tl,ti girl was certainly worth the
magistrate to perform the ceremony.
The fond couple appeared at the
depot at Franklin shortly after five
o’clock on the morning mentioned. It
having been suggested by some unfeel
ing wag that they might possibly be
overtaken by her irate father, and their
blissful hopes blasted at the very mo
ment of realization, the bridegroom
became considerably demoralized, but
was soon reassured by his pluckier
companion, w'm coolly remarked, “I
don’t see how he can ; I really don’t.
He lives three miles from here, and if
he comes he will have to walk. He
can’t make the distance afoot before
the arrival and departure of the train.
I foresaw the danger of such ^denoue
ment last night, and made my arrange
ments accordingly. I went, to the
stables, hit! all the bridles, locked the
door and threw the keys away. When
I left home this morning mother and
father wore asleep. I quietly turned
the kev on tiiern and threw it away
too.”
It need hardly be said that her ex-
tion could be given, the much-wrong
ed creature spoke for himself; for as
soon as he perceived the entrance of his
patron, he waddled up to him, and
with a look of gentle appeal caught
hold of his hand with his proboscis,
plunged it into the bleeding wound,
and tlieu thrust it before his eyes-—
The gesture seemed to say as plainly
as if it had been enforced by speech :
‘See how these cruel men treat ‘Cliu-
ny.’ Can you approve of it ?’ The
hearts of the hardest present were sen
sibly touched by what they saw, and
among them that of the gentleman
who had been so energetic in propos
ing its harsh treatment. It was un
der a far better impulse that he ran
out into the street, purchased a few
apples at a stall, and offered them to
him. ‘Chuny’ eyed him askance, took
them, threw them between his Ifiet,
and when he had crushed them to
pulp, spurned them from him. Young,
who had gone into Covent Garden on
the same errand as the gentleman
who had preceded him, shortly after
re-entered, and also held out to him
some fruits—when to the astonishment
of the bystanders, the elephant ate ev
ery morsel ; and after, twined his
trunk with studied gentleness, around
Young’s waist ; marking by his action
that though he had resented a wrong,
he did not forget a kindness.”
A Good Point.—The New York
World remarks that at this moment,
while white statesmen and scholars
like Schurz and Leiber and soldiers
like Sigel are disqualified, any rice
swamp negro of South Carolina has
become one of the privileged class,
and may aspire to positions to which
the accomplished white man looks in
vain. One plauk of the platform of
1S72 should be “One term for the
Presidency,” and “putting the uatural-
ized white man on an equality with
the native negro,” w*hich now is not.
Radicalism thinks the negro should be
preferred.
The Tribune, iu an admirable edi
torial on Agassiz, quotes the story ol
a shrewd ageut who tried vainly to
buy the great naturalist for a winter’s
lectures. “Why, sir, you will make
more money than by ten years of this
work,” he reasoned, “But I have not
the time to make money,” said Agas
siz. In this short sentence is express
ed the whole of that great sermon
which Americans most need.
be a GoJ-fearing
fearing man, though the latter is th
essential feature of the conventionally
honest man of to-day.
Woolsey’s lesson to Cromwell,
drawn from his own wrecked life,
was, “Let all the ends thou aiinst at be
tby Country’s, thy God’s and Truth’s” ;
but to aim at the last alone is to se
cure fidelity to both the others.
To be true, is to be like Him who
is “the Truth,” as well as “the Way”
and -‘the Life and the honesty
which has its germinal principle in
the inspiration of that divine example
is most seduously to be cultivated in
the young men of this generation.
As this leavcri works through the
mass of corruption in which it may be
cast, fortunes will be more slowly pil
ed up, and will be less colossal in
their proportions, but the hands that
have reared them will be clean, and
upon them will rest that “blessings of
God that maketh rich and addeth no
sorrow thereto.”
Proposed New Canal Route from
the Mississippi to the Sea.—A me
morial has been presented to Congress
from the Georgia Legislature praying
the United States to devote ten mil
lions to the construction ot a canal to , . _ . ^ ...
, ir - • ■ .. ». again to see tlie Uueen, and the police
connect the Mississippi with the At- ® , , ,, „ r
- 'took the matterm hand. He was ar-
troubie of winning, but we have a no
tion that if her husband tries to kick
out of the matrimonial traces, the keys
will be turned on him, too, some of
these days.
A XV EDGING GIFT.
All tliut I liars this Jay is thine,
A heart trhose faith lias never faltered,
A love that knew no other shrine
At d through all changes lives unalter’d :
Had I a thousand hearts to give,
Thine, ail their love and faith should be—
Had I thuusaud years to live
I'd gladly spend thorn all with thee.
The Queen’s Lover.—A very ec
centric and famous man died in a hovel
in thn St Giles quarter in London,
the other day. Thirtv years ago he
was one of the most celebrated men in
England. He was a chimney sweep,
and he, like Fletcher in the play,
“loved the Queen.” He became so
infatuated after the then young and
fascinating royal lady, that he climbed
down the chimney of St. James Pal
ace a number of times, but escaped
when chased, save on one occasion.—
Then he was taken as he was about to
enter the Queen’s apartments, and
shut into Tofhili street prison. As
soon as his time was up, be tried
lantic, A channel can be obtained
through Georgia by connecting the
waters of the Tennessee and Coosa
Rivers and the Coosa and Ocmulgee
Rivers by canal. The benefit to be
derived from the work, when comple
ted, would be, it claims, enjoyed
equally by the Eastern and Western
States of the Union, and that, in case
rested, taken into Gravesend, ernbark-
! ed on board the Diamond, and sent to
Australia. He lived for many years
i at Sidney, but was allowed to return
to England five years ago, always des
perately enamored uf the Queen. His
remaining years were spent in pover
ty. A fortnight since, a rumor was
, . - mu- T started in London that Queen Victoria
of a hostile invasion it would be inval- . , T t i
, , . ., . ■ . ■ ! was dead. He heard it just as he was
uable to the government as an interi- . . . _ , J ,
e ° * , • i , • , retiring to rest, littered a groan, and
or means of communication by which ,. , .° . m . r , 6 . ,
... i .... J ii. died instant y. 1 he unfortunate be-
supplies, in large quantities, could be . . J „. , r „
| , ,j r mgs name was Edward Jones.—Bos-
cheaply and safely transported from r . /
the West to the East, and that, for / ' ,ur,ia •
these reasons, it may justly and prop
erly be considered a national work.—
The impoverished condition of the
South, it adds, precludes the hone
that this work can be successfully , , . „ .
J recently published, has drawn atten
i State work or J 1 - -
The Boot and Shoe Interest.—
The address of the four hundred boot
and shoe manufacturers of Massachu
setts in favor of free trade which we
An enthusiastic editor, speaking of
a new prima donna says :
“ Her voice is a soft as a roll of vel
vet, and as tender as a pair of shop
pantaloons.”
A good word is an easy obligation,
but not to speak ill requires only si
lence, that costs us nothing.
Talent, alone, is only the rough met
al; it is diligent industry which works
it and ascertains its value.
prosecuted, either as
by private enterprise, lor many years.
Its freedom from ice all the year round
is pointed out, and the absence of a
necessity for transhipment or marine
insurance. It says that the grain re
gions of the Northwest demand an
outlet that will be cheaper and shel
ter tiian the existing ones to make corn
raising remunerative. This rouLe
wouid meet both ends, it avers, saving
232 miles from St. Louis to the sea,
via Georgia, and 844 miles to the
Georgia sea ports instead of to New
York by the lakes and the Erie Canal,
It says freight coyld be transported by
the new line from St. Louis to Savan
nah at $4 56 a ton, and corn at twelve
cents a bushel. It would take the
grant either in a donation of land or
by a loan of the credit of the govern
ment.—Sat. Rep.
To Preserve Field Peas from
Weevil.—Many years’ experience has
satisfied me of the efficacy of “spirits
of turpentine” for the preservation of
peas aud beans from weevil. For the
garden, put the peas and beans in a
tion to file fact that this interest is the
largest branch ot manufactures in the
United States. The estimates of ex-
: Commissioner Wells shows that the
annual value of our boot and shoe pro
duct i- £259,000,000 ; that of our cot
ton manufactures is $185,000,000;
the value ol our home-made woolen
goods S156,000,000, and that of our
iron manufactures S120,000,000. The
capital employed in the making of
boots and shoes is §62,000,000, and
the number of hands 126,000. The
annual product is estimated at 9S,-
000 000 pairs of boots and shoes, 51,-
1000.000 pairs for males and 47,000,-
0u0 for females. The materials used
in 1368 were valued at 3130,169 60S,
'including sole leather, 44,000,000;
upper leather, 43,000,000 ; split leath-
j er, 5,000,000; domestic calf skins,
1 6.000,000 ; imported calfskins, 9,000,-
000 ; last ngs, 4,000,000. To this ma
terial there were added labor to the
value of S->2,000,000 ; eapital to the
value ot $25,000,000, aud other mate
rial to the value of $10,000,000—
making the total product for that year
$246,250,000.
I It is an instructivefact that this vast
manfacturing interest, the largest in
common glass bottle, with a tew
pieces of paper saturated with spirits
of turpentine, and cork tightly. : , ^
Last year I preserved my field peas ! tiie L mted States, should ask for bee
rfectlv sound and brierht, bv rdacine trade aud a fair fight; and it derives
additional meaning from the circum
stance that its demand comes from
perfectly sound and bright, by placing
strips of paper saturated with turpen
tine in the bottom.
The deposits of borate and carbonate
of soda found in Nevada are reported
to be inexhaustible. Loads of carbon-
ateofsodaof snowy whiteness, freefrom
foreign substances, and fit for immedi
ate use, are daily brought into Virgin
ia City, aud crude borax, from Neva
da, is sold in Sacramento for five cents
a pound.
Massachusetts, the home of protection
aud champion of high tariff. The
grievance with American boot and
shoe makers is, that they were taxed
so heavily un the material they use ;
take off this tax, they say, and then
take oft' the tax on imported shoes,
and they will hold their own against
(he world, aud give the people cheap
shoes at the same time.—Exchange.
ROMES AND TUKi It ri'LTI RE.
No flower has been longer cultivated
and excited more admiration than the
rose. It is cited as a type of beauty,
and justly claims the title of Queen of
Flowers. Within the past twenty-five
years the several classes have been
greatly improved, both as to perfection
of form as well as flowering qualities.
We well remember when our finest
varieties consisted of only Spring
bloomers, and it was thought that per
fection had been reached. The first
advent of the everblooming hybrids
changed all these ideas, and out of a
collection of nearly one thousand va
rieties, which we possessed once, there
is not one left which would be admit
ted to-day in a select collection. No*
that their form, color or fragrance was
deficient, but merely they had to give
way to varieties that possess all their
fine qualities besides that of ever-
blooming, or at least blooming both in
Spring art^Fall.
To class roses accoiding to their
structure of wood, leaves and flowers,
becomes daily a more difficult task,
hence all those varieties that do not
combine all the chacteristics of either
the China, Tea, Noisett, or Bourbon
are classed as hybrids. These com
bine qualities belonging to several
classes and carry in general some mark
of their origin ; which often enables
the amateur to select the best bloom
ing varieties from his seedlings before
they are old enough to flower. One
great fault with both French aud Eng
lish rose growers, has been to send out
of late too many varieties that have
too much sameness in growth and flow
ers. Among the numerous varieties in
cultivation there aie but few that are
good fruit producers. Among the Ger
Jacqueminot is a most prolific one and
its offsprings have become so numerous
that we have had to discard at least
half a hundred so-called new varieties,
which had no claim to novelty but
their names, the flowers being identi
cal re-productions of the parent.
Our best perpetual bloomers in the
highland sections are those originated
from crosses between the Portland and
Bourbons The former seem to have •
been abandoned by present growers,
and although their form may not al
ways compare with offsprings of other
parentage, they redeem this slight de
fect by a profusion of bloom. Our old
florists of this class are still as desirable
as ever, and not surpassed by any of
late introduction. We would find our
collections incomplete were we to dis
card Blanche, Vicert, Sidoni, Yolande
D'arragon, etc., etc. On the other
hand the Hybrid showing more affinity
with the Bourbon type, combine the
most desirable qualities we seek in a
rose. In this class we find the well
known Giant of Baffles which was
among the first originated, and whose
advent created a furore among rose
fanciers whicli has not been equalled
since, except by the introduction of
the Marechal Neil. The best varieties
of this group are improvements upon
the old Giant, such as Louis Chair,
Baptiste Desport cSy. Gen. Wastiingivn.
Mine. Moreau, etc.—Farm if Gardener.
The Star Sirius.—Many things
combine to render this brilliant star
au object of profound interest. We
can gaze on its pure silvery radiance,
and reflect how many ages it has
adorned the heavenly dome with its
peerless lustre, and how many gener
ations of mankind have rejoiced in it—•
and among them all the wise and the
good and the great of history, without
awe and admiration ! Iu ancient
Egypt it was an object of idolatrous
iuterest. It was then of a brilliant red
color, but is now a lustrous white;
and the cause of this change of color,
as well as the nature and period of the
revolution it denotes in the star itself,
are wholly unknown. Its distance
from our earth is not less than 1,300,-
000 times our distance from the sun ;
and its light must travel twenty-two
years to reach us ! Another circum
stance of deep interest connected with
it is that it has changed its position,
during tlie life of the human family,
by about the apparent diameter of the
moon; and that astronomers, detect
ing some irregularities in its motion,
have been convinced that it had a com
panion star—which they thought must
be nonluminous, since their telescopes
could not detect it. But Mr. Clark,
with his new and powerful achromat
ic telescope, lias found this neighbor
of Sirius, hitherto invisible, and veri
fied the conclusions to which astrono
mers had been led by reasoning on the
facts they had ascertained.
Effect of Fear on a Tiger —
During the dreadful storm and inunda
tion in Bengal, in May, 1833, the es
tates of a Mr. Campbell, situated on
the island of Sauger, at the entrance
of the river Hoogly, suffered so great
ly, that out of three thousand people
living on his grounds, only six or sev
en hundred escaped, and these princi
pally by clinging to the roof and ceil
ing of his house. When the house was
in # this close, cramped state, with
scarcely room for another individual,
what should come squeezing and push
ing its way into the interior of the
house but an immense tiger, with his
tail hanging down, aud exhibiting ev
ery other symptom of excessive fear.
Having readied the room in which
Mr. Campbell was sitting, he nestled
himself into one of the corners and lay
down like a large Newfoundland dog.
Mr. Campbell loaded his gun in a verv
quiet manner and shot him dead on
the spot.
Struggle on to victory. Never give
up when you are right. A frown is
only a muscular contraction and can’t
last long. A laugh of derision is but
the modified barking of a cur. It you
can be laughed out of the good or the
good out of you, you are weaker in
intellect than the fool, whose argu
ments ia a huffaw, and whose Jogic 19
a sneer