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TOWN OFFICERS.
• ’Mayor—W. H. Whaler.
Uounciimeu—T. P. Littlefield, H. W.
-Vnaler. ( Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
AuderSiin Williams,
T Glerkaml Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal—G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OKFCF.RS.
Ordinary—Ricvhard B. Hopps.
V. Goodbrtad.
<Terk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton
Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher.
Tax Collector —W, R. Causey.
' < 'ouiity *-v.’-veyn■ —Nmill Bemiei .
County 'breastsrer—John Massey.
Coroner—D. McDitha.
County Commissioners—J. F. King, G.
- Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham
Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board,
3d W ednesday in January, April, July and
October. Jaa. F. Kin*, Chairman.
COURTS,
Superior Court, "Wayne County—Jno. L.
Harris, Judge; Simon. \V . Ilitch, Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
IMsta, Pierce Cairaty iitonia.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWS OFFICERS.
Mayor—P,. G. Ri-gins.
Counoilmen — T). P. Patterson,J. M. Downs,
J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantlv.
Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom.
'Town Treasurer—B. D. Brantly.
, Marshal—E. Z. Byrd.
* COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary—A. ,T. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore.
Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd.
County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson.
County Surveyor—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver ap'd* Collector—J. M. Pur
dom.
Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl
District, G. 11., Lewis C. Wyllv; 12=0 Dis
ti'ict, G. M., George T. Moody; 584 District,
G. M., Charles S. Yomuann's; 590 District,
G. W„ D. B. McKinnon.
Publics and Justices of the Peace,
etc.—Blackshear Precinct,sß4 district,G.M.,
Notary Public, J, G. S. Patterson ; Justice
of the Pence, ft. R. James; Ex-officio Con
stable E. Z. Bj-rd.
Dickson’s Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of
the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
r. Dickson.
’ Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. JL,
Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, H.
Prescott and A. L. Griner.
Sohlatterville Precinct, 590 District, G. M
Notary Public, 1). B. McKinnon; Justice o
the Peace, R. TANARUS, James; Constable, John W
sooth.
Courts—Superior court, Pierce county
John L. Harris, judge; Simen W. Hitch
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon
drv in March and September.
Corporation court, BUokshear, Ga., session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police
convt sessions every Monday Morning at 9
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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Non litem Hews.
Memphis is rapidly funding her debt
at sixty cents on the dollar.
The Atlanta constitution says the yards
are full of Kentucky mules.
Cairo has a temperance reform dub
numbering live hundred members who
wear the red ribbon.
Sixty five families from Pennsylvania
and New Jersey have emigrated to
Navarro county, Texas, and purchased
1,000 acres of land.
Tite Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, within the state of Mississippi,
has about 50,000 communicants, more
than 200 itinerant preachers, and about
tlie same number of local.
One of the newest, and a very profit- i
able industry, that of putting up canned
guavas, is in progress at Manatee, Fla.
It is stated that they are far superior to
the peach, and fully equal to the best
p eeerved pineapple.
General Ransom’s purpose to have in
serted £15,000 in the deficiency bill to
stock southern rivers with fidi is emi- i
nently wise and proper. The small
amount even will confer substantial
benefits upon the southern people.
The shooting tournament at Nashville
closed last week. The most successful
priz" winners during the week were Abe
Kieioman and E. T. Martin, of Chicago;
Merriman, of Memphis; and (Pritchett, '
of Nashville, who won the state cham
pionship.
Capt. Pratt, with a force of Indians,
has been searching the Seminole mounds
r.ear St. Augustine, and procured about
two bushels of skulls and bones, together
with some ten stone hatchets, sharpened
and shaped : one flint arrow head, and a
varied selection of pieces of pottery, some
quite unique, were dug up.
tUseellantnni.
An engineer proposes to heat the town
of Virginia, Nevada, by means of the
heat generated in the mines ’underneath
the place. He says there is enoug i heat
to warm every house, and he projiose-s a
system of pipes through which the warm
air will be distributed. Thus he will
Ventilate the mines also.
1 luring services at the church of the
ascension, in Philadelphia, Alexander B.
s vers walked up the aisle, drew a pistol
and shot his wif>. E'izabeth, who occu
pied a pew several feet in advance of
where 'dyers had been sitting. The
bullet enter' and her bath, and she cow lies
at the hospital in a dying condition,
flyers was promptly arrested. Both
VOL. 11.
parties were regular attendants at the
church, but had been separated for two
; years. The husband had already served
a term in prison for breaking her arm.
The effort of Mrs. Le Bau and Cor
nelious J. Vanderbilt to break up their
father's will, by which he left $95,000.-
000 to William H. Vanderbilt, his other
son, and $5,000,000 to charities and to
the other children and their issue, brings
some revolting testimony to light. We aie
requested to believe that Vanderbilt the
elder treated his first wife horribly, drove
her to an insane asylum, and then took a
concubine unto himself, and then another
at the dictation of William, and finally
married a second time; that William con
spired to prejudice the old man against
his other children in bis (William’s) in
terest, and through a long period acted
the part of a personal and ever-presant
devil towards liia father. The testimony
so far, if true, shows the old millionaire
to be very bestial in his proclivities, and
his son William to have been a very cool,
heartless conspirator. Money is a very
good thing to have, but the Vanderbilt
family appear in a fair way to suffer in
social standing, and to have several skel
etons rattled about them through time,
notwithstanding the possession of limit
less ducats.— Courier-Journal.
The palmetto has been considered one
of the most worthless trees of Florida.
A gentleman from Volusia now comes
forward with a display of brushes, mat
tings and ropes made from the inner
bark, and contemplate the building of a
manufactory at Volusia. The wild
orange, also, lias always been regarded
as a worthless lruit, and millions have
rotted every year. An enterprising
Yankee has engaged in manufacturing
Irom them Jeasenees, sirups and marina
ladel-. He has met with considerable
success.
ISelig’fotiN Mews.
Seven years ago Methodism was first
introduced into the dominions of Brigham
Young. Now there are six Methodist
churches and fifteen Sunday-Bchools in
Utah.
If the Northern and Southern Presby
terian churches were united, the sum
total of members would be 070,134. In
1861, when they parted, the total num
ber of members in the united body was
300,814.
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, says
that the negro children in the south
might, and should be, gathered into the
Roman Catholic church. He recommends
the establishment of Roman Catholic
schools for them.
The London branch of the Mormon
church has 20 branches, with 134 elders,
44 priests, 20 teachers, 31 deacons, and
891 lay members. The reports from this
country touching allairs in Utah have
greatly retarded the movements of the
Mormon missionaries in foreign lands.
The general Assembly of the Presbyte
rian church, South bar, squarely con
demned all kinds of dancing. One of the
resolutions says: “Some forms of this
amusement are more mischievous than
others, the round dance than the square,
the public ball than the private party,
but none of them are good, but are all
evil and should be discountenanced, and
we affectionately urge all our Christian
parents not to send their children to
dancing-schools, where they acquire a
fondness and an aptitude for the danger
ous amusement.”
The latest religious wrinkle in To route
is the holding of “ full-dress prayer
meetings.” They take place twice a
week at the houses of the wealthier mem
bers of St. James’ church. The guests
come in full evening costume. For
about an hour the parlors are vocal with
prayer and praise, after which cake and
conversation are introduced. The meet
ings are said to be exceedingly genteel.
The Rev. Mr. Rainsford, who was last
summer conspicuous at the Tyng gospel
tent in this city, is credited with being
the originator of this novel style oi
religious service.
From Wawtiin&tou.
The treasury department has decided
that wool imported irom the .Sandwich
islands is to be charged with the same
duty as other wools.
A change is to ba made in the internal
revenue collectorship for the third Au
gusts district of Georgia. Col. E. A.
Wade is to be appointed in place of the
present collector, Tannin.
A Washington special correspondent
thinks that the Texas Pacific will bill
not be brought in at the present session.
It is complete, but its friends only say in
regard to it, that its provisions are such
as will excite the fewest possible antag
onisms.
The house committee on postofiiceshas
agreed to recommend the passage of a bill j
providing that all letter carriers in the ■
free delivery service shall be divided into j
two classes, and that the first class shall j
receive $950, and the second class SBOO j
per annum, the distinction of classes to j
be made by the postmasters and the ap- j
pointments to first class to be made by
promotion from the second class.
The annual report of Gen. .Sherman
shows (October 12th) the regular army
v-a composed of general officers, 11 ;
[ general staff ofßc re, 500 ; hospital stew-
I ards, 186 ; engineer battalion, 101; ordi
nance enlisted men, 846; enlisted men of
staff corps, 651; 10 regiments of cavalry,
officers 439, enlisted men 7911; cavalry,
850 ; 5 regiments of artillery, officers 284,
enlisted men 2321 ; artillery, 2605; 25
j regiments of infantry, 9655. Besides
i which they are repo ted as non-commis
; sioned, staff, unattached to regiments at
i the military academy, recruits unas
aigned. Indian scouts and guard, ameuat
: ing in men to 1877; signal corps, 404 ;
retired officers, 301. and captain in
United Stats army by act of congress,
• 1 ; aggregating in officers and men 24,501;
of which the force available for war is
i made up of cavalry, artillery and infantry
i regiments, amounting to 20,601 officers
and men, to which should be added the
il general officers and officers of general
staff serving with them, together with
570 Indian scouts.
Foreign Intelligence
The Russian government has ordered
forty more iocomotives from Philadel
phia.
Mr. Gladstone, in emulation of Horace
Greeley, has been photographed in bis
shirt-sleeves, sitting among the chips of a
fallen tree.
JESUP, GEORGIA; WEDNESDAY. 5. 1877.
The remains of the Emperor Louis of
Bavaria have been discovered in the ex
cavations now proceeding under the ex
church of the convent of the Augustines
at Munich. The emperor was buried
after embalmment, and now turns up as a
first-class mummy.
The Hungarian minister of Worship
has just announced his decision that
henceforward the marriage, witli a Jew
ess, of a Christian converted to the Jew
ish persuasion will be held as null and
voiil. This declaration has caused uni
versal discontent in the Jewish commu
nity.
The city authorities of Leipsic, in Ger
many,have imposed a fineof not less than
five rior more than ten marks upon any
woman who may wear trailing dresses In
the streets. The police have orders to
arrest them, and their names are to be
published each week in the local papers.
The New York World's special corres
pondent in the city of Mexico, says the
sentiment of the people is in favor of a
war with the United States. The World
concludes t hat Seuator Maxey was right
in his inference that Secretary Evarts is
desirous of negotiating anew treaty with
Mexico, but thinks it impossible under
existing circumstances.
The beatification of Joan of Arc, which
has been for some time applied for by
Bishop Dupanloup of Orleans, has been
refused at the Vatican. The committee
on ritual could not discover in the merits
or deeds of Joan sufficient motive for
beatifying her, and, moreover, had no
documentary proofs of her chastity.
Strasbourg cathedral is now undergoing
a complete reparation. A great deal more
has been added than was knocked down
in the Franco-Prussian war. The statues
of the emperors are given prominent po
sitions without much regard aa to the
probabilty of their ever having stood be
fore in the place now assigned them.
A well-informed correspondent writes
the London Times from Paris; “la my
opinion, civil war is only a question of
weeks-—perhaps days. President MacMa
bon is entirely in the hands of the Bona
partists and clericals, 'fhe.se know the
marshal’s resignation would destroy their
last hope of governing France. But for
fear of Germany and Italy, the govern
ment would long ago have resorted to
force.”
The Housekeepers’ union of Berlin, or
ganized by Frau .Morganstern, now num
bers four thousand members, who do all
their buying on the co-operative plan.
The clerks in the grocery are all gills and
women, and the sales are made at cost.
The union began with two hundred mem
bers, who paid two dollars apiece as cap
ital. The members pay besides one dollar
a year dues, and for this have the privi
lege of buying all their stores at cost.
Tlie Wur ill I lie Eusl.
The Russianshave lost, in killed, woun
ded and missing, from the commencement
to November 7th, 64,863 men.
A dispatch dated Veran Kaieb,Sunday
evening, says the fortress of Kars, with
three hundred cannons, stores, ammuni
tion and cash fell into the Russian hands.
The Turks lost five thousand killed and
wounded, ten thousand prisoners and
manv flags. The Russian loss is about
twenty-seven hundred. The Russian
soldiers made but trifling booty, anil
spare peaceful citizens, women and chil
dren. General Melikoff directed tke
battle during the day. Grand Duke
Michiel was also present.
A Russian agent is in Philadelphia to
contract for a bridge across the Danube
iu ltoumania. The requirements are
such, however, that, the leading company
in Philadelphia distrusts its ability to
meet them, and has declined the contract.
It is provided that the bridge shall be
iron, and 2100 feet long, but without a
supporting pier from shore to shore, the
whole to be completed before the spring
campaign. For such a bridge the Rus
sian government is willing to pay $3,000,-
000. An order was received Friday from
the same government for sixty locomo
tives, but the terms offered were not sat
isfactory, and a member of the Baldwin
IX)comotive works company sailed atonce
to negotiate further at Bt. Petersburg.
Kars has been captured and
occupied by the Russians, after
a siege of nearly seven months. In
1828 Kars surrendered without defense.
In the Crimean war it was starved out.
.since then the fortifications have been
placed entirely around the town and
citadel, commanding the surrounding
country. The Russians have had a
hundred heavy siege guna operating
againt these works, and have stuck to
their task, with the exception of a few
weeks in August, with great tenacity.
The capture of Kars removes every ob
struction in Armenia, except Erzeroum
and Batoum. The former is not likely
to hold out long, as the Russians can
now rapidly re-enforce General Tergusa
koff. ilatoum is strongly garrisoned by
the Turks, and is backed by the Turkish
fleet, which could make the place unten- i
able even if the Russians took it. The*
capture of Kars, however, goes a long
way toward the subjection of all Turkish
Armenia to Russian rule, and will be re
garded at Constantinople as fatal to
MukhtaPs security in Krzeroum.—Cou
rier Journal.
A correspondent at Constantinople tele
graphs the following: “ A council, over ]
which the sultan presided, was held yes- j
torday. 1 am informed that a general j
feeling was expressed, and by no one more [
strongly than the sultan, in favor of j
making an effort to put an end to the ;
war, in which enough had been done on j
both sides for glory, and which, if con- j
tinued, roust inflict lasting misery upon j
the two empires. It was feit, however, j
that at present sufficient reliance cannot j
be placed upon the declarations of Russia, <
and that even while speaking to obtain
an honorable peace preparations for a :
prolonged resistance must be vigorously 1
carried on. lam told that subject to
this determination to prosecute the war
if an honorable peace cannot be main
tained, it was resolved that the time for
endeavoring to put an end to the war
had arrived. If my information is cor
rect, the grand vizier will to-day inform
the British ambassador of the decision of
council, in the hope that England will
aid in putting a stop to the war, whiet
greatly damage l - her own trade and
threatens to compromise her best inter
est-. Special dispatches -ay that (fount
Andrassy, the Austro-Hungarian i • -
mier, has declared his belief that Herv.a
will not break the peace.”
NVUVI7AL OF THE FITTKHT.
BY C. V. OKA.KOII.
“ Nought but the fittest yjW*,’*’ I hear
lUd* on the northfrn feetc ol thought;
“ lo Nature’s heart thwroug are dear;
he weak must paw anloved, unsought*”
Ami yet, in umleratonea, a Voice
la hoard that says: U child of earth,
Your mind’** beat work, your heart 8 best choice,
fchal! stand with God for what they’re worth.’'
’Tis not the strong alone survives:
Truth, Beautv, Virtue, scatteiod wide
Ist humble poil, bear noble Uvea
Whose fruits forever must abide.
Time’s buildings are not all of stone;
With frailest fibres Nature spins
Her living webs Irom aone to one
And what is lost she daily wins.
I fain would think, amid the strife
Between realities and forms,
Llight gifts may claim perennial life
’Mid slow decay ana snddcu storms.
This tuft of silver hairs l loose
From open windows fo the breeze,
Some bird of spring nerehnney may us3
To build her nest In yondtr trees.
Tli se pictuers painted with an ait
Supassed by younger sight and skill
Mav pass into some friendly heart,
JSome room with N.iture’a sudds may till.
These leaves of light and earnest rhyme
Dropped on the windy world, though lout'.
Neglected now, some future time
May weave into its nest oi song.
— AthniU .
A Thanksgiving Story.
It was the eveningbefore Thanksgiving.
The sun bad gone down behind the
hills of Greenville, leaving them cold
and bare against the dull sky. The
squirrels were safe and warm in their own
little houses, cracking nuts for their
thanksgiving dinner. The trees waved
their tall, bare branches in the biting
cold, but, they knew that their roots
were sheltered by the kind earth. The
cold wind shouted a merry “ good even
ing” to everything, as he rushed over
the frozen ground.
He raced over the .bare hills; the
squirrels drew closer together, and ex
ulted over their crowded store-house; the
trees bowed a stately good-night, as he
whisked away ; but he calmed down as he
met a little figure on the frozen road,
and gave her time to draw her faded
cloak tighter over her blue hand, before
he rushed on again.
A wagon was heard. “ Rattle, rattle! ’
Even the wagon is cold, the child thought,
as she heard the loose spokes rattling in
the wheels.
She stepped aside for the wagon to pass;
the dfiver, a pleasant-looking man, stop
ped his horse, and asked whither she was
going.
“To the city I ” answered the child.
“To the city 1” cried the man. “ Why
you will never get there, unless jou are
blown there, or 1 take you.”
“ Will you take me?” she asked, not
eagerly, but like one accustomed to re
fusals.
His answer was to reach down his hand
to help her up.
“Now,” said he, as he put her under
the heavy ,buffalo-robe, “ what’s your
name?”
“ Mary—only Mary,”—she answered
hastily.
“Mary,” said the man softly, more to
himself than the child, “I wish it hadn’t
teen that.”
“Why, there's lots of Marys, "said
the child.
“ Yes, 1 know it,” he said, “ I had a
little Mary last Thanksgiving. I—l
don’t like to see any one named Mary in
trouble.”
“ I ain’t crying,” said the child, smil
ing, “ because I’m in trouble, but cause
I’m so cold. I ought to have trouble,
Granny says.”
“Ought to have trouble, hey I” said
the man, stopping his horse, and drawing
from under the buffalo-robe a can of hot
coffee. “ That hasn’t been off the stove
more than five minutes,” he said, as he
filled a little tin cup and handed it to
her. “ Take that, and drink to your
Granny.”
“ It, is very nice,” she said, when she
liad drank it all. Bbedid not say, I have
tasted nothing before today. Why
should she, when there had been so many
days like this in her short life ?
The man replaced the can, pulled the
robe up even with her chin, and told the
horse to “get up” and “gealong;” then
he whistled awhile ; then he said, “It is
mighty cold, I hope it will keep so 1”
“O, don’t!” exclaimed the child;
“ ’cos it makes turkeys cost so much,
i poor folks can’t have any.”
“ Don’t you care anything for me'?”
cried the man, pathetically ; “ here’s my
wagon full of turkeys.”
“ I didn’t know you were a turkey
man,” she said, geDtiy.”
“ Yes, I am a ‘ turkey-maD,’ and I
think even poor people can afford to buy
a turkey once a year, if they are high.
The turkey-men have been .’airing a
year for this day.”
There was a twinkle iri his eye she did
not see; he looked down into the little
pale face. “I am afraid you don’t care
| for the turkey men!” he said, soberly.
.She huDg down her head, started to say
something, but stopped.
“ Well, what is it?” he said, laughing.
“ I do Ike you,” she answered, earn
estly ; “but the floor people—l have
kriowd them always.”
They rode on for awhile in silence.
Tne hot coffee had worked wonders ; the
* blue iittle h..nd- had stopped shaking,
and the child smiled as she saw the oity
lights in the distance.
“ Now, you are a little more oomfort
i able,” said the turkey-man, “ let ns hear
j where you are going, and what yourother
1 name is.”
“ My name is only 1 Mary,’ and I am
going to find my cousin.”
“Nonsense!” he said, a little sharply.
“ Of course you have got a uame.”
“ They call me ‘ Mary Rent’, but I hate
it, and I won’t have it!” she cried, pas
sionately.
I “ Why did they call you that ?” he
asked, gently.
“ ’Cause my father rau away, and left
me in Granny Cole’s house, when 1 was
ittle. He pinned a paper on my dress
•V'li.i spid on it, “ Left to pay the rent. ’
The turkey-man whistled,and asked if
Granny Cole was good to her.
“ Pretty kind,” said the child, wearily.
“Anyway, she didn’t ’spine me, like
Sally did.”
“ Who may Sally be. ?” asked the mr
key-man.
“ She’s Granny Cole’s daughter.”
“ Did Granny Cole send you alone to
the city ?” said he, watching her suspi
ciously.
“ She told me the other day,” said the
child mournfully, “ if I ever came home
and found her gone, to go to the city and
find mv cousin. Yesterday she sent me
off with Sally, and when I come back
Sally ran away from me, an’ 1 couldn't
find Granny.”
“ Are you quite sure you can find
your cousin ?”
She looked up in his face, and laid her
thin hand on his sleeve.
“ I never saw my cousin,” she said,
calmly. “ It Granny has run away from
me I haven’t anybody I know.”
“ Why, then, did you come to the
city?” said the turkey-man, wondering
where he could leave her.
“ I know the city best V ” she said
i“ (rrunny used to live there, till a week
ago. It is bo dark in the country, when
you have to stay alone 1 There are the
market-men —nee how bright they are 1 ”
It was the night before Thanksgiving,
in the city as well aw in the country; the
markets shone, as they always do the
evening before the great least. Never
were garlands more green, never apples
more red, nor gobblers more plump.
The turkey-man drove up and stopped.
“ Here is as far as I go, little one,' 1 he
aid, as he lifted her out and stood her
safely in the bright light ol th' market.
She was a pretty child, but pale now,
with blue lips and shaking hands.
“ Poor little thing,” ho muttered ; “ I
wish they hadn’t named her Mary,” and
he entered the market.
The market-men beamed on everybody.
They rubbed their hands as customer
after customer vanished with tlie cold
lorm of some kind of fowl neatly covered
all hut its feet, in brown paper.
It was growing late; the turkey-man
had sold out; he waited only to get a hot
supper before starting for home. He had
been thinking entirely of dollars and
cents ; hut as he walked out of the mar
ket, lie thought of his home, his wife
waiting alone for him in the great white
house, and his little Mary safe in (iod’n
home above —lie had forgotten the home
less child left alone outside the market.
A heavy hand was laid on his arm.
“ Htand back a moment!” whispered a
voice. He looked up and saw a large
policeman watching a child at a barrel
of red apples.
It is his little fellow-traveler.
“That’s a sharp youngster!” half
laughed the policeman, under his breath.
“This sort of thing is going on here all
the time. Nothing is safe.”
The little blue hand was already on an
apple, ft faltered a little, then grasped
it tightly, then dropped it.
Hhe hid her face in her hands. The
turkey-man stepi>ed up to her and
touched her shoulder gently. fihe had
not seen him; but without looking up
the child knew who it was—it was the
only friend she had.
“I couldn’t do it! Oh, I couldn’t!”
she sobbed. “Hut I am so hungry!”
and she fell against the barrel.
The stare were shining cold and clear
The turkev-man’s wife was looking out
and wishing the thermometer could go
up without the price of turkeys going
down. “ It’s so cold for .John riding from
the city alone!” she said to herself. She
opened the door, hoping to hear the wag
on ; but the cold wind sent her hack to
the blazing fire. She thought of a year
ago, when she did not sit waiting alone.
She imagined she heard the little voice, j
though it had been bushed nearly a
year—how plainly she saw the sweet face,
though it had been covered so long! She
wiped the tears from her eyes as she
heard the rattling wheels; .John must
not see her sad. She opened the door,
holding toe lamp high above her head.
The turkey-man came in, with some
thing wrapped in the buffalo robe ; he
laid it on the big dining-table. “ I>on’t
say no he cried ; “ let us do something
for Mary’s sake, this Thanksgiving!”
“ Are you crazy?” she exclaimed, as
he uncovered the [rale far*.
•• Wait till T tell you all,” said the
turkey-man.
When iie had told bis story he said,
I earnes’ly, “ How could I go to church
I 10-rnorrow and thank Hod for his care of
us, if I, with no little one to care for,
had left this child alone in the great
city ?”
“ You did light, John,” said his wife;
“ you always do.”
With these words, the woman—good,
practioal soul I—hastened to wash the
child, while the kind turkey-man went
to take care of his horse.
“ I remember this house,” said the
child, as she looked out ofa large blanket
before the bright lire. “ I saw it one day
with (Iranny Cole; 1 stopped and looked
through the fence, and threw stones at
the turkeys. I didn’t know he was a
kind man then. Oranuy bates rich men
—I wonder where Oranny is— I’m sorry
I threw the stones—but they wasn’t so
very big.” The litt’e head fell lower
and lower ; the pale lids closed ; the little
hand", grew quiet; but the little voice
repeated in sleep, “ I didn’t know he was
a kind man.”— Sargent Flint, in fit.
Nicholas. _________
T ill: POWER OF Till: ( '/.Alt,
A)p\Hudi'r H<T|>lhk llluinpK In the
Eye* of Bit* Olllcprn.
If I were to sum up the cardinal fault
of the KuKsinn army in three words i
should say it !h the total “ want of initia
tive.” Something in the imperial sys
tem seems to stifle and kill the power of
individual attention. And yet in no
army in the world are greater pains
taken to recoguize and stimulate indi
vidual enterprise. Crosses, decorations,
swords and sashes of honor arc distributed
with a lavish hand, and, better still, they
are given on the s]X)t, and not as with us,
when the recollection of the brilliant
deed has nearly died away.
The emperor himself is the great and
sole fountain of military honor. He
watches all personally. Tire theory is
tiiat no act escapes his eve. Certainly
to see liow his every word and gesture is
followed by those around him lie would
appear the earthly incarnation of su
prom, power. And his iiersonal bearing
enhance** the reward in every case. A
generous word, a friendly look, the well
chosen expression of praise to suit the
individual, go home to tho heart of the
recipient as much as the higher cherished
reward itself.
Two hundred officers of all ranks
breakfast and dine daily at his table.
From the youngest to tho oldest every
eye ih fixed on him. llefore the meal,
in the assembled circle, as the czar
appears, it is seen one day that
an aide-de-camp behind him uir
ries a cushion with crosses on it, and |>er
liaps, a halt dozen sword knots of lumor
the riband of St. George, orange and
black—to be worn attached to the sword
hilt. Instantly exjiectation is at its
height. The czar’s voice calls flic, chosen
name ; all make room lor the chosen man
to pass ; lie comes blushing and flushed,
receives the prize, bends low to kiss the
imperial hand, and retires Isiwirig at every
step, a made man for life, the admired and
courted of all beholders. Then he has to
go through the usual embracing ami
kissing on both cheeks from his friends.
The effect of the system is magnetic;
it is to concentrate all power and author
ity absolutely in one center. The czar is
the earthly providence of the soldier and
officer, as well as the embodiment of the
military ixiwvr and glory of his country.
I have seen old officers so overcome with
this mark of distinction that they went
about for ten minutes after like chil
dren, weeping with the prize decoration
in their hands, showing it around, half
dazed. No system can be imagined
more calculated to stimulate individual
efforts to the utmost. Yet with all this
spurring there is something wanting,
ft is the individuality and the habit of
spontaneous action which only the edu
cation and modes of thought of a free
people can supply. Whether it be long
standing taint of serfdom, whether it lie
too much iinjierialiam, the initiative
is wholly absent. Yet tell the Russian
what to do, and he will spring to it like
an obedient child. In a yea! it would
never have occurred to him to do it him
self,—Bv'hnretl (for. of the, fjondon Timm.
The ICartli Cure.
[/■Vi J'arsons, who has been a helpless |
invalid for the past four or five years,
his lower extremities from the small
his hack being totally paralyzed, has for
some time bad enough faith in the home
ly but excellent Indian remedy of burial
in the earth, to try it for his case. On
Sunday last he whs taken to Boswell
Hart’s farm, where there is a field of
blue day, and a hole three feet deep dug,
in which he was laid and covered nearly
t) the armpits in the earth and allowed
to remain about three hours, h rom !
j this one trial a very decided improve-
I raent is perceptible. H s feet-and ankles
I were covered with a thick incrustation
of dead skin. This ha* peeled off, and
leaves the feet loosing more li’e like.
Blood in the veins appears thinner and
flows much ijuicker, and he has turned
himself alone on his couch twice since,
j a thing he has not done since his confine
ment. The result npjiears so beneficial
I that he will follow it up.— Detroit /'ret
| Pret*.
A Nevada man’s Chinese laborer re*
• centlv refused tar chop wood on .Sunday
i morning and when the was asked
I he an-wered: “ Heap no work .•funday ;
Vi., -ame white man. Heap play poker.”
1 Our benighted Chinese.
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
Mother'll Rone:.
BV IIAI ftIKTT M’EWEN KIMBAI.Lz
brooklet runs over the rto-es—
t’retty hUukw !
* he iTrt’ueH axe hung with ooror—
fh'etty < odcn !
Th(- Urroklot nqiji but the larch is aiffhing:
“0, h ,miner is iJM nnu autumn flying !
Urighol”
And bn by can ring like the brook—
Tretty brook !
As it leap* from lp huh**-1 ringed nook—
Pretty nook!
Ami baby’s singinn shall diown the crying
Ol th* cross old world and tts endless elghuic:
“ Hdgho!”
Wid* Aft'tite.
NO. U.
A person of an inventive turnj of
mind lias a very plausable plan for
making olive oil much cheaper than it is.
Most of the oil used in this country goes
through three processes. Its first appear
ance is in the form of cotton seed oil;
the next process is shipment to Europe;
the third transformation is its reappear
ance in America as first-class olive oil.
Like all great inventions the cheapening
plan is very simple. It merely consists
in shipping the cotton seed oil directly
to the American wholesale dealers, and
thus saving the expensive freight across
the Atlantic.
. 4 young married lady in this city
recently named her canary after a friend
whose first name was Charley. The
other day her husband, who didn’t know
of this, returned, and as he went up the
stairs leading to her room he was horri
fied to hear the wffo of his bosom using
such expressions as, “ You're the dearest
little fellow I ever knew, Charley; ”
“You’re a nice old boy, ain’t you?”
“ Kiss me, Charley,” and like endearing
words. He grasped tho bannister for
support, and with difficulty was able to
roach the door and shout “ Madam.”
His wife gave a scream, and he started
for the vi Ilian, hut of course found him
not. That canary goes by a different
name now. — Torre Haute. Leader.
. .Great excitement was occasioned at
the Clifton (England) conference on con
fession, a fortnight ago, by the auddeu
and sensational act performed by Lord
Radstock. He was sitting in a conspicu
ous [losition on the platform, in full view
of the assembly, when a trap door sud
denly opened under his chair. There
was u shriek; Lord Itadstock’s heels were
seen where, a moment before, his head
had been ; and then, with a great crash,
his lordship and chair disappeared below
and tho trap flew back. But in a few
minutes the eclipse of so much right
honorable dignity was explained ; a con
juror had just vacated the rooms and had
used this trap as a means of exit in one
of the acts.
(Ve certainly live in a wondorlul
age. Melville Bell discovered a method
of reproducing any and all sounds of the
voice, which he called “ visible speech.”
Prof. Graham Hell invented the tele
phone, by which Bounds can be transmit
ted to a distance. And uow comes Mr.
Thomas A. Edison, with an invention of
the most marvelous kind. It registers
tho-Aones of tho voice, and ia capable of
reproducing every sound and every word
exactly. Mr. Edison’B invention is not
yet perfected, but enough bus been ac
complished to convince him that his
scheme is feasible. All recent inventions
sink info insignificance when compared
with this. It appeals to the imagination
as nothing else can do. By its aid one
is able to hear the voice of his friend—
absent or dead- -as though he. wo re in the
room. The illustrious orators would be
present whenever one of these instru
ments was found, and we would have it
in our power to crystallize down for fu
ture UHC the tones of the great singers in
the greatest operas. It is only the other
day that Professor Huxley objected to
any form of immortality, and here is Mr.
Edison doing lor the voice, by means ol
a mechanical contrivance, what Frederic
Harrison asserted history and traditltion
and hereditary did for the soul and mind.
Hound has become immortal. Who
knows if' other forms of feeling will not
lie immortalized some day through other
inventions ?
A Great Charity.
Thomas Belton bequethed to the
ironmongers’company of England, over
IN) years ago, his entire estate, with a
provision that one-half of the proceed*
should be applied to tho redemption of
British slaves in Turkey and Algeria,
and one-fourth toward the assistance of
poor Church of England schools within
London and its suburbs. Ing ago
there ceased to be any English slave* to
redeem from the Turks; the courts,
therefore, permitted the slave money Mho
to be used in the aid of schools. The
magnitude of the sum accumulated
during If/' years can liest lie appreciate.!
by the statement that 1,200 schools are
now aided from “ Betton s charity.
Woman.
The perception of a woman is as quick
as lightning—almost instinct,. By a
glance she will draw a deep and Justcon
elusion. Ask her how she formed it and
she cannot answer the question. A
philosopher deduces inlerence, and his
inferences shall be right; but he gets to
the head of the staircase, if I may say so,
by slow degrees, mounting step by step.
She arrives at the head of the stairscase
as well as he; but whether she flew t here
is more than she knows herself. While
she trusts her instinct she is . Idoui de
ceived, and she is generally lost when
she begins to reason.
The late election in Virginia was a
great triumph for the bar-room bcll
i punch.” Not an anti-register man, as
I far as heard from was anywhere elected
to the legialatuie, and Hr. Moffett, the
inventor of the ‘bell-punch, was
returned almost unanimously from his
district as an eviden * of the ponilar
| approval of his invention.
“Those of our compatriots whom
one encounters ontside their own countiv
are divider! into three classes: Commer
cial drummer*, missionaries and convicts.
Th frenchman travels only because ol
trade, religion or fon-e,” —Pat es Paper.
