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O —j |— |Z3h CD 5d pw TT s TJ1 m C. X. KING, t Proprle' or S. B. CARTER, )' 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.