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The Right Will Right Itself.
Wlif u overcume with anxious fears
And moved with passion strong,
Because the right seems losing ground
And everything goes wrong,
Row oil does admonition say:
“‘Put trouble on the shelf;
Truth will outlive the liar's day,
. And Eight will right itself!”
By ali the triumphs of tiie past,
By ali the victories won.
The good achieved, the progress made
Each day from sun tu sun;
In spite of artful ways employed
By perfidy or pelf.
Of one tiling we can rest assured.
The Eight will right itself!
Unshaken in our faith and zeal,
’Tfs ours to do and dare,
To find the place we best can fill,
And serve our Maker there;
For he is only brave who thus
Puts trouble on the shelf.
And trusts in Clod, for by Hit aid
The K’gJH will right itself.
— [Josephine l’ollnid in the hedger.
WHAT THE WOMEN HID,
’.Y HELEN EOUUEST GRAVE*.
It was one of those June days when
the wild roses dye ali the woods with
deepest pink and the farmer begins
meditatively to decide which of his
fields will first be ripe for the glitter¬
ing scythe.
Mr. Chipficld sat by tho window,
with his farm calendar and account
bowks piled upon the low wooden sill,
a stumpy pen in lfis hand and a conc
shaped glass inkstand on the table be¬
fore him.
A close prisoner within his house
from acute rheumatism, lie yet ruled
his domain with a rod of iron, and
boasted that everything on the farm
went by clockwork, the same as if lie
were able personally ti supervise it.
lie was a small, sallow man with
bead-like black eyes, close-cut hair and
a grim, Napoleonic jaw.
By the opposite door sat Airs. Chip
field, a clean gingham apron tied hur¬
riedly over her charming costume,
while Joanna, her ral-chcekcd sister,
leaned over tiie back of her chair. T'iie
minister stood in the middle of the
room, a paper in his hand.
“It’s a very commendable purpose,
Brother Chipficld,” said he. “These
poor creatures have Icing needed a
chapel in their midst, and it’s aa out¬
rage longer to neglect it. How much
shall I put you down for?”
“For nothing at all,” said Mr. Chip
field.
“Eh?” said the minister.
“I can’t afford 110 such luxury ns
domestic missions,” said Air. Chip
field. “Times are hard. Farm pro¬
duce is low. No, you needn't put my
name down at all, parson.”
Air. Clover turned to Airs. Chip
field.
“Generally,”.said lie, “the ladies
are more generous. What will you
give me, Sister Chipficld?”
“I haven’t a cent to give,” faltered
Airs. Chipficld, with an appealing
glance at her husband. “Chipficld
buys every yard of calico I wear and
gives me every cent I send out for
yeast.”
The minister looked very grave.
“And you, Miss Joanna?” said he.
“I’d give you a hundred dollars,Mr.
Clover, if I had it, cried Joanna,
blushing to the roots of her shining,
chestnut brown hair. “But the poor¬
est beggar in the city streets ain’t poor¬
er than I am.”
• “Humph!” said Air. Clover, “where
shall I find Air. Zcplianiah Gedncy?”
There was a moment’s silence. Air.
1 .Chipficld stired straight out of the
window. Airs. Chiptield turned her
face away. Joanna Gedncy was the
oiae to speak at last.
“We dou’t-'Jjnow,” said slie. i “He
went away [morning. Sell) told
him lie wouldn't* have him idling
round Che {liace^rb longer.” (
1
. “I suppose he Vovihl, have workqd
if lie could find something to do,” said
Air. Clover. -
“This ain’t no house of refuge for
all the drones in creation,” said Mr.
Chipficld, with the Napoleonic jaw set
square and firm. “Them that won’t
work, neither shall they cat.”
Mrs. Ciiipfield’s apron was at her
eyes. Joanna bit her lip.
The minister gathered his papers to
gether and departed, not greatly en¬
couraged by the success of liis mission
in this especial houselydd. • -
“What are yon standing fliero for,
Mary?” said’ Air! Chiptield, harshly.
“Ain’t that there churning sp’iling?
Go and drive the red culf outen the
SPRING PLACE. GA.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER U, 1800.
truck-gardiug, Joanna, as quick as you
can!”
“Seth,” cried liis wife, with a sud¬
den accession of courage, “I wisji
you’d do like Squire Staples, and give
me an allowance, that I could maybe
save out of.”
“And I wish,” valiantly added Jo¬
anna, “that you’d pay me fair wages
for what I do in this house over and
above my board’s worth. I declare, 1
felt justlike a pauper just now!”
Seth Chipficld snarled like an ill
conditioned dog.
“Because Squire Staples is a fool,"
said he, “that’s no season I should be
one. And as for you, Joanna Gcd
ney, if you don’t liko stayin’ in my
house on these terms, you can leave
it. It passes mo what use you wo¬
men can have for money. You'd only
waste it if you had it. I can’t trust
neither of you with no sum bigger
than a dime!”
Joanna’s eyes flashed.
“You’re a mean, stingy miser, Seth
Chipficld!”' said she. “Mary is tied
to you. She can’t go and leave you,
but I can, and I will! And if you
want a drudge in your kitchen after
this, you can hire one!”
Joanna Gcdney was as good as her
word. She left the house that even¬
ing, but on the morrow she was
obliged to return to her sister’s aid.
Seth Chiplield’s ailment bail suddenly
taken an inflammatory turn. He was
confined to his bed, helpless as a log.
“It’s a judgment on him,” said the
girl.
“Oh, Joanna, don’t talk so!” said
meek Airs. Chiptield.
But through all liis pangs and tribu¬
lations, Seth adhered to liis financial
policy and dealt out 110 funds, penny
by penny, as they were needed.
“Women hain’t 110 business idees,”
said lie. “You need to treat ’em jest
like they was children. Mary wouldn’t
know wlrnt to do with a big sum of
money, if she had it. As for the farm,
if l’eter Prickctt can’t como to look
artor it, I s'pose you'll have to send for
Zcphauiah again.”
“Zephanialfs clerking it, down at
tho now store,” said Joanna, who just
then came in with a bowl of chicken
broth.
“What new store?”
“One that tiicy’ve opened down at
the cross roads.”
“A pretty clerk they’ll have,”
snarled Seth. “I'd advise ’em to get
ready for bankruptcy, an’—ow!
there’s no need to scald a fellow’s
throat with your boiling hot stuff, Jo¬
anna I Who's been fool enough to
open a store at Hawley’s old stand?
Whoever it is ’ll make a dead failure,
that’s sartain!”
“They say it’s doing a good busi¬
ness,” observed Joanna, stirring the
broth around to cool it.
“Don’t you never believe ‘they
say!’ ” growled Seth.
The next day bad tidings came to
them. Tiie Necker Banking Com¬
pany, in which Ciiipfield’s little sav¬
ings were invested, had clo.ed its
doors. The Wilding Iron Syndicate,
to join which I10 had mortgaged his
farm, had deserted its shafts, left its
derricks standing like skeletons
against the mountain side and dis¬
solved into thin air.
Seth heard the news silently.
“Alary, ’ said lie, “give me the old
pistol that belonged to Great-uncle
Jedutlium. I may as well clean and
oil it, lyin’ here with nothing to do.”
“I won’t give it to you, Seth Chip
field I” said his wife. “I can read your
eyes, if I can’t trust your voice; and
you’shan't have Great-uncle Jedu
tlulm’s pistol 1”
Seth turned his face aside. A tear,
salt as the Dead Sea and bitter as gall,
crept down bis wrinkled face.
“If a man’s ruined,” said he, “the
best thing lie can do will be to die!
Oh, what a fool I’ve been—what a
fool!”
Joanna Gedncy Svatclied him in¬
tently.
“I guess likely you wish now,” said
she, “you’d subscribed somethin’ to
Mr. Clover’s mission, and laid pipes to
the well to save Mary carrying water
up the hill, and bought her the black
silk gown she wanted 1 —”
“Don’t! Joanna!” pleaded Mrs.
Chiptield.
“Yes, I do,” said Seth. “There,
now—I wish it like all everlasting!
The old farm will have to go, Alary.
You and Joanner ’ll have to go out to
service, and me— Well, therc’s always
the town-house for me. I’ve brought
it on myself!”
“Seth,” cried Mrs. Chipficld, “don’t
take on so! The farm won’t have to
go. Me and Joanna will tako care o'
that. And there ain’t no question of
the poor-house for you. Tell him,
Joanna—tell him what we’ve done!”
“It was my plan,” said Joanna,
“but Mary sho joined into it, and
Zcpltaniah be backed us up. It’s our
store down at the Cross Roads, Seth,
and I bought the goods down in Phila¬
delphia, and hired the house and put
Zephaninh iii, to clerk it. And we’ve
doubled our money a’readv, Sctli, for
all you used so offeu to declare that
women hadn’t no business ideas; and
we've done a capita! business in cali¬
coes and crockery and canned things
and Yankee notions. And we’ve paid
back all we borrowed of Squire Sta¬
ples, and got a nice little sum of
money in the bank a’ready—our own
money, Seth, that we don’t have to go
begging to no man after. And you
needn’t fret about the mortgage and
the Wilding Company and the poor
house, for Mary and me will take care
of you!”
Seth Chipficld gave a little gasp.
“You—ain’t —jokin’— be — you?’
said lie.
“I’ll show you the bank-books, if
you want,” said Joanna, briskly.
“Ali, Set)), yon never had no respect
for what you used to call our money
faculty, but Mary and I know what
colors women liked in their gowns,
and what the best brand in flannels
was, and which pattern in bowls and
tea saucers was fancied most at 11 ill
IIollow! We ain’t a bad pair of.mer¬
chants; give us plenty o’ money aiul
discretion combined to use.”
Mary Chipficld looked wistfully at
her husband as Joanna went away to
produce the vouchers for her words,
in the shape of leather-bound bank¬
books.
“Seth,” faltered she, “you ain’t
mad with me, be you? 15 ut Joanna,
she planned it all out, and I was so
put to it for a little money to spend
“Mad with you?” repeated Fctli.
“I’m mad with myself. I jest wish I
could undo all the last ten years 1”
lie lay quite silent for some time.
Then lie spoke up.
“If I had jest a hundred dollars left
outen the ruin,” said he, “I knosv
what I’d do with it.”
“What?” asked Alary, who was si¬
lently nibbing liis pain-swollen joint#
with liniment.
“I’d send for the parson, and give it
to him for that ’ere mission. When a
fellow lias turned his back on the
Lord lie can’t expect the Lord to look
out for him.”
“There needn’t be no ‘if’ In the
matter, Seth,” said liis wife. “Mo
and Joanna will draw out tho money
you want any time you say.”
I ‘Yes, that we will,” acquiesced
Joanna, eagerly.
Seth Chipficld lifted liis eyes re¬
morsefully to her face.
“You ain’t following my example,”
said he. “I wouldn’t let yoa have
nothin’ to subscribi?.”
Joanna laughed cheerily.
“We’ll let bygones bo bygones,”
said she, “if only you’ll own up,Seth,
that women can manage money.”
And Seth “owned up.”—[Saturday
Nig lit.
Glimpses of the Sultan’s Treasures.
In a letter from Bucharest, Colouol
A. Loudon Snowden, United States
minister to Greece, Servia and Rou
mania, gives the following account of
an experience in tho far East:
“On my way here I stopped over in
Constantinople for a few days, visit¬
ing the objects of interest in that re¬
markable city. The Sultan designated
an aide-de-camp, who conducted us to
such places of especial interest as the
I encral visitor is not expected or per¬
illed to sec. Tiie treasure house of
the Sultan, which contains tho ac¬
cumulations of centuries, is simply in¬
describable. Hero arc stored dia¬
monds, emeralds, pearls, and other
precious stones, such as exist in no
other place in the world, and in quan¬
tities bsyond calculation as to value.
The palaces on the Bosphorus are mar¬
vels of beauty and splendor.”
Encouraging.
Nimrod Stoutleigh—Any shooting
here, my boy?
Native—Ycssir. Dad just shot a
man dressed liko you.—fThe Argosy.
A FLOATING ISLAND.
R smarkable Freak cf Nature in
a Vermont Lake.
Over 100 Acres of Moveable
Land. With Trees For Sails.
The floating island in Sadawga Lake,
in the town of Wl.ittingha.n, Vt„ is
one . of -,, the most , remarkable , ,, freaks „ , of ,
nature and , one of .. the . greatest . . iimosi- . .
ties in (ho world. I he island , , contains , .
over 1AA 100 acres, and , ., it actuallv finals
upon ,, the , top ot the water. Ihere is .
no doubt about iti, It is . not , attached . , ,
to , the main auu , or auv part , of „ ,, the
*
j ‘
The fact „ that it really floats on the
•
water was made , evident last year. At
that time a stone dam was built at the
oiitht of the lake over six feet high,
which raised the water a little more
than six feet. When the gates were
shut and the water for the first time
began to rise in tlic lake, there was
great curiosity to sco whether the
island would ho submerged or rise
with the water. It took about 48
hours for tiie water in the lake to rise
to the top of the dam, and it was then
discovered that (lie island presented
exactly the same appearance that it
did when the water was six feet low¬
er. There is no part of the island that
has ever been more than two or three
i'ect above the surface of the water.
Therefore, if it did not float when the
lake was raised six feet; by this new
dam, it would have been entirely sub¬
merged.
Since the water was raised this great
mass of l aid lias floated about more
readily than it previously did. Por¬
tions of it, containing from one to
three acres, have been broken away
from the main island, and go swim¬
ming around independently. There
are four such pieces. Three of them
are dose together, anGYadrparty 50 or
CO rods to the northeast',of 4I10 main
island. Sometimes they u\e filve or six
rods apart;. Then again they will be
ail in a duster, the smaller or.es flout¬
ing around fastc • than the linger ones,
as the wind curries them piore easily.
Tho great n fin island, which con¬
tains over 10. afcres, moves about
slowly. The prevailing winds are
from the south and west, and after it
has blown hard for a dayor two the main
island is found to have changed its po¬
sition several rods. Sometimes it will
be near the east shore, and then again
it moves over toward tho west. It
never has come nearer than a quarter
of a mile of the north shore.
There is a small forest of tamarack
trees growing upon this remarkable
Bland. Some of them are more than
twenty-five foot high. They are in a
thrifty condition, and arc of large size
at the butt. Smaller trees of the same
kind are rapidly growing up beside
them. The wonder is how the roots
of these trees arc nourished. The
lake is situated in marshy surround¬
ings 011 the southwest side, and it is
supposed that there is vegetable mat¬
ter enough in the water to keep
tiie grass in healthy condition. Cran¬
berry bushes grow in great luxuriance.
In some places they are so thick that
it is difficult to pass through them, and
the berries, which are of the wild sort,
are gathered in large quantities bv tho
natives that live about the islands.
Alder b»rrio3 and a great variety of
native weeds grow on all part* of the
island. The surface is spongy, and in
many places soft, but tliero are other
parts of it where it is comparatively
solid.
There i* no difficulty in getting
upon the island, although in some
places persons who visit it have to be
careful that they do not sink through
it.—[Boston Globe.
A Vermont Custom.
One of the oldest tilings I have
heard lately was told me yesterday by
Silas Fletcher of St. Albans, Vt. It
seems that tho Green Mountains divide
Vermont into two nearly equal, though
irregular, portions. The law makes
the range the dividing line between
tho two Congressional districts, but
there is no similar provision as to the
two Senator*. Nevertheless, there is
always a Senator from the ea3t side
and one from tlio west. I11 the same
way the Governors alternate, being in¬
variably chosen first from one side
and then from the other. It is this
custom that prevent* the renomination
of a Governor.—[New York Star.
Vol. X. New Series. NO. 32
Slept for Four Months.
Patrick Meehan, 22 year* old, an in
mate of the insane department of the
Philadelphia Hospital, ims just awak
died from a sleep of four months,
recognized those about him, and asked
for the attendant who was with him
when lie sank into his slumber, says a
Philadelphia dispatch to the Boston
Herald lie came from Ireland a few
>' ea ™ aK °’ Jlc bec ? mc ,nentflll >' lIi s
eased, was sent to tlie hospital l'obru
ary , last, was seized ..... with “La Grippe'
1
. March, the attendants , found „ great
in s
difficulty ,, in . , keeping . him awake, and
fiually ........... he fell into deep sleep, The
a 1
aek , Of , nourishment . , , became evident
, by decreasing , . weight, . , a deathlike , pal
' ’ 1
, lor and , pinched . , wan features, aecom
punied by a corpselike rigidity, ' together
vvitn an apparently . general suspension
^ all ;. n . lt i on
Efforts to pry open (lie set jaws for
the administration of food proved
futile. A silver tube was inserted
through the nose and down into the
throat. A quart of milk in four doses
was first given, after that eggs whipped
in milk and a varying liquid diet was
administered, together with medicine.
The first month passed without inci¬
dent. Median slept 011 immovable
when pins were inserted into lfis flesh,
electricity applied and oilier heroic
measures of sleep disturbance tried.
Three weeks ago the first change
was noticed. The muscles of the jaws
relaxed, and shortly afterwards his
eyes opened. Motions made as if to
strike him did not cause any tremor of
the lids, however, and a ily walked
across tiie pupil without effect.
On June 150 there were movements
of llie lips and other signs of returning
consciousness; then motion returned
and the patient turned his head. Food
was now administered through tiie
mouth direct.
Two weeks ago lie moved aiul mum¬
bled some unintelligible sentences.
Speech was restored a day or two ago,
and the first sentence he sp ?ko was to
ask for his clothes, and then for the
attendant who had boon with him when
lie went off four months before.
His clothing was piuced at liis bed¬
side, and last week be arose, dressed
and walked about tiie ward, still, liow
cver, in a half-awake condition. Full
consciousness lias now returned, 11ms
cular action lias grown stronger, and
rapid recovery is now certain. The
patient cannot yet take solid food and
there is no change in his mental cou
dition.
Persian Civilization.
I have been much surprised to hoar
even well educated Englishmen, in nr
cent discussions in Persia, speak of the
Persian nation as if it wore completely
wanting in civilization and were ages
behind Europe in manners, customs
and ideas. Such a false impression of
tho characteristic* and social condition
of our good friends, the neighbors of,;
our Indian empire, is, I think, due' {
ignorance, and I fear also to insular ’
prejudice. Persia lias not progressed
as Europe has done, but Persian civ¬
ilization and Persian art had reached
a high degree of development when
England was covered with tangled
forests and its inhabitants were half
clothed savages, whose highest skill
was shown in the slaughter of wild
animals with the rudest of weapons.
Persian civilization has not retro,
graded, though Persian art is certainly
stifled by the introduction of cheap
but inartistic articles from the com
mercial West. In Persia a polite eti¬
quette is as strictly observed as in any
country in the world, and though in
some trifles the manners of a Persian
gentleman may appear strange and
even amusing when observed in the
West, it is safe to say that nothing
which a Persian gentleman would be
likely to do when mixing up in West¬
ern society would in any way shock
the delicate feelings of that society.
In this respect it is fortunate that the
recent journeying* of the Shah and his
suite were sufficiently extended to givo
a practical and widespread contradic¬
tion to tho numerous absurd stories
which had been current concerning tho
disagreeable peculiarities of the Per¬
sian manners uud customs.—[Nine¬
teenth Century.
A Timely Hint.
Clara (11 p. m.)—“Do you know
why you arc like au old fire-cracker,
Air. Crawl?”
Crawl—“No; tell me.”
Clara—“It’s about time you went
off!”—[Judge.
Iusigltt,
•n the river of life, as I float along,
1 see with the spirit's sight
That many a nauseous weed of wrong
Has root in a seed of right.
For evil is good that has gone astray,
And sorrow is only blindness.
And the world is always under the sway
Of a changeless law of kindness.
The commonest error a truth can make
In shouting its sweet voice hoarse,
And sin is only the soul’s mistake
Ill misdirecting its force.
And love, the fairest of all fair things
That ever to men descended.
Grows rank with nettles and poisonous
things
Unless it is watched amt tended.
There could not he anything better than this
Old world in the way it begun.
And though some matters have gone amiss
From the great original plan;
And however dark the skies may appear,
And however souis may blunder,
I tell you, it all will work out clear,
For good lies over and under.
—[Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
HUMOROUS.
A remedy for sea sickness—Travel
by rail.
“Spars” of course come in very
handy in a sea fight.
An energetic woman with a broom
in her hand sweeps every tiling before
her.
The expenses of ati electric company
may bo summed up as current ex¬
penses.
Taking a day off now and again
doesn’t toml to shorten tho working¬
man’s life.
In Texas it is unlucky to find a
horseshoe, if a horse happens to be at¬
tached to it.
Bobby—How did you manage to get
tho bowl of cream? Tommy—Told
111a I saw the cat put her nose in it.
The average wife lias little difficulty
in keeping her husband well in hand
once she gets him under her thumb.
“Did you call on Miss Jonas?”
“Tes. She was awfully disagreeable,
too; didn’t cheer up, really, until X
started to leave.”
“What shall we do to get our young¬
er men to the front?” asks a writer.
The answer seems plain: “Induce the
older ones to lake back scats.”
Mamma—Good by, dearie; what
shall 1 buy for my little girl? Helen
—Some bunions, please, so I can tcN
when the weather is going to change.
It is rather tough on a doctor's son
to bo named William, and have to
sneak through the eiysium of youth
under the opprobrious title of “tho
doctor’s Bill.”
Husband—“Am I never to have my
own way?” Wife—“Certainly, my
dove, when wo are botli agreed you
can have your way, aiul when we dif- s
for I’ll hq,ye mine.”
Employment Agent—See here! IIow
this? You staid two weeks in your
last place. IIow did that happen?
Domestic—Sure, Oi duiino. Oi uiusht
av overshlept myself.
Aliss Lentils (in Boston)—“I liavo
just discovered a poem in this maga¬
zine which I can’t understand.” Mws
Beans—“Oh, how nice. Let us organ¬
ize a club immediately.”
“I always was a mighty unlucky
chap,” complained a Joliet convict to
a visitor. “Indeed!” “Yes, I got
nabbed the first piece o’ safe-crackin’
l undertook, an’ now my number is
1318 . Just think of that!”
Airs. Jones—Why are you so anx¬
ious about the arrival of the steamer
from Europe, Phyllis, dear? Phyllis
—On, nothing much; only papa or¬
dered a count from Germany for me
and its about time lie was here.
“There are times when it is a deal of
satisfaction to give a young fellow a
lift to help him along,” remarked tho
father of several marriageable daugh¬
ters. [lie had just hoisted an objec¬
tionable suitor off tiie front stoop.]
“What are you doing there in tiie
bath-tub, my dear Air. Brown? It i*
as much as your life is worth to stay
a moment in that water, Are you
crazy?” “But, doctor, you know you
told ine to take those pills that you
left me—in water!” *
When a woman, gets frightened at
niglit, sho just pulls the bed clothes
over her head, says she is terrified out
of her wits and goes to sleep, say*
one who knows; but with a man it is
different. He says he is not afraid,
pushes the clothes down, and lies
tremblingly awake for two or three
hours, straining his cars at eveqy
sound.