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C. V. I Proprietor
8. B. CARTER, )
Too Young for Lore.
Too young for love?
roddeuiifg Ah, say not so!
Tell rosebuds not to blow!
Wait not for spring to pass away—
Love’s summer months l>e,dn with Mayl
Too young for love ?
Ah, say not so!
Too young? Too young?
Ah, no! no! no!
Too young for love?
Ah, say not so,
While daisies bloom and tulips glow!
June will eomc with lengthened day
To practice all love learned in May.
Too young for love ?
Ah, say not so!
Too young? Too young?
Ah, no! no! no!
•••[Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Atlantic
Monthly. ‘
THE STORM AT SEA.
It was a still, calm night at sea.
The water's scarcely murmured as the
good bark Swallow glided through
them. Almost it would seem as if
they slept, but here and there a waver¬
ing reflection of the moon which ever
and anon escaped from the fleeces that
sailed about her, told that the unquiet
heart of the ocean was pulsing still,
albeit silently.
Harold Jerome stood leaning silent¬
ly over the rail, seemingly lost to his
surroundings, dreaming of the land
he had left or the land to winch he was
returning—a stalwart, manly figure,
cut clear against the mingling sea and
sky.
And yet he was not thinking of any
spot on which his wandering feet had
trodden, nor was lie fondly dwelling
on the home to which ho was bound,
as his eyes traced tlio broad plain of
waters; lie was listening, heart and
soul, to the voice that was caroling
forth so sweetly the words of a song
familiar to his youth.
Youth! Had ho lost it in the alien
countries lie had visited—on the banks
of the Rhone, in the Scottish hilis of
heather, in the shadows of the snow
clad Alps, in the valleys beside the
Rhine? Nay; but the white hands of
tlie singer yonder hud torn it from his
heart ere he had gone roaming.
So strange that they should moot
again after all the long years of their
severance and meet on board a vessfl
bound for the land in which they part¬
ed; yet so they had met, two days be¬
fore, and looked in each other’s faces
with the blank, unrecogiiizing gaze of
strangeis.
“She has wholly forgotten. Low,
sweet and clear her voice is—one is re¬
minded of the German legends of the
Lorelei,” said Harold bitterly to him¬
self, a; out on tlio night rang the
strains of “Larboard Watch.”
Far up in the shiouds a sailor took
up the refrain and sang it softly, be¬
low iiis breath. In England a bonnie
lass had sung it for him many a time
and oft, and her healthy, rosy face
arose before the menial vision of the
sailor as he sang so softly.
But the face of tho woman sitting in
the fading aud flashing light of the
moon was the only object visible to
Harold Jerome. Although his eyes
were turned to the waters ho saw it as
it looked in the hour of their parting
—white and sot and scornful, because
he had said words which might pot
be forgiven and doubt had crept in
where love and faitli had stolon first.
“It was a very little thing that part¬
ed us,”hc whispered very low at last;
“a lover’s unreasoning jealousy, as I
knew later. I knew it when it was
too late, my iost Lucille, and oh, how
perfectly you havo forgotten!”
lie turned and looked at her; fair
still, for all the years that had passed
since she had loved him; stately,calm,
perhaps a thought too cold, but still a
gracious woman; surrounded by her
friends, clad in a long robe which
looked almost white in tho uncertain
light, with her darkly crowned hood
against the back of her steamer chair,
she looked one who had set her foot on
all remembrance which could bring
regret; and from her lips rang the
old, old song: “Larboard Watch
Ahoy I”
“Sho has forgotten; why is she
still reserved?” he asked himself as lie
watched her. “I would bo tempted to
fling myself on my knees before her
there and pray her for at least a kind¬
ly thought, but that I know that love,
burning out once, leaves only ashes
behind which any breeze may scatter
and no power warm.”
The captain and first mate presently
passed close by him.
, “Those clouds mean Btorm, sir,”
SPRING PLACE. GA.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1890.
the mate was saying; “best be pre¬
pared to meet it.”
“Yes,” answered tlio captain, scan¬
ning a rolling mass iu the southwest
with anxious eyes; ‘-we’ro in for r
gale, or I’m mistaken; but we mustn’t
alarm the passengers.”
Then they passed beyond heaving
and Harold turned again to the sea.
No longer liko a shoot of silver,
with wavering reflections here and
there, it was suddenly growing dark
and sullen looking, and faint flecks of
foam marked the rising of the bil¬
lows.
Old traveler that lie was, accus¬
tomed to danger by land and sea, he
read the portents in that cloud and iiis
face paled a little through its bronze.
Far off ho saw tho curling foam
crests, even before a sharp breath from
•the stormy demon struck on his cheek;
then there was a hurrying of the sail¬
ors hither and thither, a slight heaving
of the vessel, a total disappearance of
the moon behind the rolling bstnk of
cloud, and then the passengers were
sent to tho cabin and Harold Jerome,
laying his strong hand on the rail,
stood calm iu the gathering might of
the tempest.
The hours wore on, and with them
the ga!o that tore hungrily at the
Swallow, seemed to increase; ever
and anon, from the darkness of the
sky, came a keen flash of light, fol¬
lowed by crashes that were deafening;
rising liko demons that have burst
their chains, tho roaring, maddened
billows swept tlio vessel fiom stem to
stern, bearing all loose objects with
them—bearing in the weird, faint
dawn, a human life.
Harold Jerome did not join the other
passengers below; through all the
hours of tho long night he worked
vjitli the captain and his men, striving
to baffle the tempest; bis hand it was
that fell upon the wheel when the man
there sank back exhausted; his hand
It was which struck the firmest blows
when cordage had to bo severe*! and a
broken spar sent out to the waters,' and
his strong hand it was which toro back
one victim from the hungry jaws of
tho sea as once it swept the deck.
And day dragged on and still the
suddenly born tempest raged and tore;
the engines refused to work, the lircs
were out, the wheel was broken; the
Swallow, with her human freight, was
at the mercy of the waters.
In the dimness of a pallid and sor¬
rowful dawn, through which strug¬
gled a faint reluctant sun, the vessel,
with a crushing jar, rocked on the
sharp teeth of a reef.
Then there was despair on the bread
deck of the Swallow, for hope was
over; saye for the frail promise of the
life-boats, they were doomed!
With while, despairing face tlio pas¬
sengers gathered on tlio deck, waning
to he lowered to the boats, and 11a:old
Jerome found himself at last beside
Lucille.
lie hold out his hands to her and
she placed hers within them and clung
to him like a terrified child; and so
standing, with hand elapsed in hand
for tho first time in years, the two
who had loved long before waited
their turn to descend to the boat.
Once the captain touched Lucille on
(lie arm and moiioncd for her to ad"
vanec, but she shook her head and
pointed to a mother who was standing
near by clasping her infant to her
breast. So the mother and child were
lowered and the life-boat set free. It
pitched a moment oil the waters and
went down before their eyes.
Lucille, with a cry, covered her face
with her hands and Harold drew her
into the shelter of his arms, unre¬
proved. the
In this hour of peril, with
shadow of death over them, it seemed
that the old love lived again—nay, had
never died.
The last boat was lowered—filled;
one place remained and Harold drew
Lucille towards the vessel’s side.
“My love,” ho said, at her ear, “wo
may not meet again on earth; I go
with the ship’s officers on a raft we
have prepared. But I would have yon
know that, through all tho years since
our parting, 1 have loved you as I did
in thoso happy days when we thought
wo would be always together. Now
farewell, my dearest, In life or
death, on earth or in heaven, my life’s
love is yours and yours only.”
They were at the ship’s side as he
finished. For answer she put up her
lips and met his kiss. Then she clung
to him with passiouate strength.
“I will not go—I will not go!” sho
cried, her voice ringing out through
the surge of tho wind. “Lot another
have the place reservod for me—some
one who has love on shore. My love
is here. I wait for the raft.”
“Nay, that would be folly', my Lu¬
cille,” cried Harold, and ho strove to
loosen her clinging hands that he mi gilt
pass her over the ship’s side.
Ere lie succeeded, the ropes that held
the lifeboat parted, she shot from the
side of the .Swallow, was caught on a
wave and borne away, away, while
Harold looked down sadly in the face
below him and naught a smile like sun¬
light there.
“My love,” lie said, “my precious
one, you have chosen death.”
“With you,” she answered, and his
heart bounded at the surety that love,
on either side, had never died.
The raft was already constructed,
they had but to launch it, which they
did at once, and Lucille lllancoo found
heiself on (he wido waste of waters,
with a pale sky -hove her and winds
(eating by, and realizing that death
might be in every wavo that billowed
toward her, sho did not shrink; her
hand was in Harold’s, her head lay
restfullv niton his shoulder; she could
die so content.
There, between the sky and sea, all
that had seemed great enough to part
them in the old days was explained
away and found a very (rifle.
“To have lost all those years of hap¬
piness, and now to meet only to touch
hand with hand and die!” was the
thought in Harold’s heart, as their
frail support was ever and anon swept
by a mighty wave.
But death was not to come to them
there; the God who cares for the spar¬
row turns not Ilis eyes from the cast¬
away at sea.
In the noon-hour of the following
day a stately vessel sighted and picked
them up; and a fortnight later, ^Lucille
and Harold, whose severed lives the
storm bad once more linked in love,
wore made man and wifo iu the parlor
of a New York hotel.
The Deadly Single Instance.
IIow a single incident may bccomo
representative J” exclaims tlio Chicago
Advance. “General Sclienck is popu¬
larly supposed to have spent the larger
part of his evenings with Dukes and
Duchesses, Marquises and Marchion¬
esses, teaching them tho great
American game, and yet I believo the
evidence is that it was only upon ono
evening, and only as an accident of
that evening, that the American Minis¬
ter at the Court of St. James’ said a
word as to the game of poker. Andrew
Johnson is commonly supposed to
have been a drunkard. The common
supposition had its origin in the fact
that at the timo of iiis inauguration lie
was intoxicated. lie was; but it was
the last as it was tho first time. He
was suffering from a serious and an¬
noying disease.
At the recommendation of a friend
ho took a strong dose of brandy just
before the public exercises of tho in¬
auguration. The charges of his p. li.i
cal enemies that ho was drunk wore
true. Drinking was not his habit.
So a Minister, from a single incident,
gains a reputation which is not pleas¬
ing. For the sake of keeping an ap¬
pointment, he may drive a horse s«
hard as to produce listing injuries;
this incident m iy be the cause of a
reputation that he delights in fast
horses and is also cruel. Beware of
suffering yourself to be the subject of
a conspicuous and publicly known ex¬
ceptional incident; do not allow your¬
self to draw references from a single
incident.”
An Excellent Preventive of Cholera.
American naval officers who have
adopted Hje cholera belt in the tropics
find it so beneficial lliat they often re¬
tain it in all latitudes. It js simply a
broad band of flannel worn night and
day the year around tight about the
waist, so as to prelect the stomach
from sudden changes of temperature.
It is an excellent preventive of
stomachic disorders.
A Profitable Error.
Last May a man handed a ten-pound
note, as lie thought, to a book-maker
to bet on a certain horse, aud his state
of mind may be imagined when, after
tho horse won, be discovered that he
had accidentally bet a thousand-pound
note instead of a “tenner,” and had
won sixty thousand dollars instead of
six thousand dollars.
GREWSOME WORK.
Preparing Animal Skeletons for
the Market.
How The National Museum
Procures Its Specimens.
AVhon Jefferson Davis was Secretary
of War thirty camels were brought to
this country from Arabia for use in
the Great American Desert. It was
supposed that they could be profitably
employed for purposes of transporta¬
tion where horses were unavailable,
out they did not serve at all. They
were estab ished on a ranch in New
Mexico and encouraged to propagate
iheir species. Italian settlers, with an
eye to business, went into the enter¬
prise and raised camels for the mar¬
ket. It is said that many descendants
of these original assisted hump-backed
inuqigrants arc now being exhibited
in circuses. Biggest of the imported
lot was an old fellow named Nebuchad¬
nezzar, whose carcass has been at the
Smithsonian for some time past await¬
ing osteologieal attention. Now his
skeleton has been mounted and set up
in the museum.
One branch of the National Museum
is exclusively devoted to the manufac¬
ture of skeletons. Nothing could well
be more interesting than this very ex¬
traordinary industry. There are in
various parts of the world great es¬
tablishments engaged altogether in tho
business of collecting what nro oalled
“natural history specimens.” Largest
of all theso concerns is one at Roohes
tcr, N. Y., the proprietor of which has
several immense warehouses filled
with dead and preserved animals of
every imaginable sort. His occupa¬
tion in life is to gather for sale tho !
carcasses of beasts and birds from
every part of the earth, and he spends
most of his time travelling all over the
world In search or Ids stock in trade.
The object of his journey- is not to
procure the dead creatures himself hut
lo hire others to obtain them. lie
will contract with an Australian hun¬
ter, for instance, lo supply so many
samples of tlio duck-billed omithohyn
shus; or he will make a similar ar¬
rangement in South Afrioa for tho de¬
livery of a given number of dried
ostriches at a stated price. In tho
same way he will make an arrange¬
ment for a batch of crocodiles from
the Ganges or for an assortment of
pythons and anacondas from South
America.
He luis correspondents all over the
surface of the globe, and through them
or from other big firms liko his own
in London, Paris, Berlin and other
cities of Europe ho buys whatever he
wants in this way. The stock lie
keeps on hand is simply enormous and
includes such things as skeletons of
extinct and even antediluvian crea¬
tures, very rare and worth up in the
thousands of dollars, lie publishes
regular annual catalogues of what lie
has to sell, and one has only to send to
him an order for anything of the kind
that may be desired.
It is through this concern and others
like it abroad that an institution like
the National Museum secures its skele¬
tons. Such of them as are not got in
this way arc procured by exchange
with oilier museums, all of them hav¬
ing among themselves a regular sys¬
tem of barter. The original producer
of the raw material, if ho may so be
called, is the hunter or other person
who captures the ga lie. He cuts oil
from the bones as much of the flesh as
can be conveniently removed and per¬
mits the remainder of the carcass to
dry in tho open air—not in tlio sun,
for that would drive tho grease into
the bones, but iu the shade.
When the remains have become en¬
tirely dcssicated they a e packed up
and sent oft’ to the skeleton factory
;
wherever it may be, the skull aud leg
bones being placed inside the rib cavity
for the sake of economizing packing
space. In this condition they are
shipped in filling orders by tho com¬
mercial houses, or they are prepared
nnd mounted to suit tho customer.
This is really a great industry.
It is very interesting even to road
one of tho catalogues published by a
firm of this sort. From it you learn
that a human skeleton, adult, mounted
with a suspension ring, is worth from
$40 to $50. The same, article on a
black walnut pedestal, with bronzed
standard and wilii a cambric tunic, is
valued at $G0. It is worth mention-
Vol. X. New Series. NO. 80
ing that the tunic is a black dress for
the skeleton, calculated to show oil’ its
whitened bones to advantage.
Skeletons havo fashions like live
persons,and black is their proper wear.
If you wish to spend a trifle more for
tlio luxury you can havo your family
skeleton in a ‘•handsome ash ease with
a bracket and lock and key.” You will
readily see that, according to thoso fig
tires, very many people are worth
more dead than they are alive. A man
living, however, is supposed to by a
much more valuable creature than a
gorilla.
Strange to say the reverse is the
case when both are dead, the mounted
skeleton of the gorilla being worth
six times as much as a man’s, or $800.
A cat, worth nothing at all when alive,
sells for 8t2 when it’s bones are strung
together in proper shape with brass
wire. In Us case the raw material has
no value, tho labor of the artisan
creating it. AVith the gorilla it is just
the opposite, the raw material being
the thing that is difficult to obtain.
The skclclon of nil ourang-outang sells
for §200, a lion’s for §75, a bear’s for
$Gf>, a dog’s for $80, a whale’s for
$150, a horse’s for $70, an Indus
river crocodile’s for $80, a shark’s for
$50, an elephant’s for$400. a python's
for $75, and a Gila monster’s for $16.
—[Washington Star.
Law of the Signature.
An abbreviation of a name, wheth¬
er it be the last name or a part of it,
or the first name or a part of it, or a
middle name, or parts of all of them,
down to a bare initial, or a “nick¬
name,” or the titleofa man’s residence
or estate, or the district or country in
which he resides, or of any rank he
may hold or be addressed by, civil or
military—so that he is known by that
name or designation, or that lie is
known to use it iu his correspondence
or transactions of affairs—-tho written
or printed sign for that appollation or
designation, whatever it may be, will
constitute his signature, and so of
every woman’s signature, if proved to
be genuine.
Most of us know that in the case of
the disabling illness of a testator his
signature may be written in his pres¬
ence and by his express request or
direction, and that it will stand; and
that an X mark, properly witnessed
nnd vouched, will answer for a signa¬
ture ; and that it has been customary
to use seals and pictorial marks—but
this matter of what may be written as
a name and stand as a valid signature
is not known so well.
The purpose and requirement are
identification of the writer or tiie tes¬
tator; and this may be accomplished
whether the signature he Victoria
Regina, as the British queen writes
hers, or “Connaught,” ns one of her
sons writes his; or “Iz. Wa.,” as the
gentle fisher, Izaak Walton, wrote his;
or with the form of a snake, as the
Indian chief, King Tainauend, marked
his; or the plain 11. Franklin, as the
illustrious philosopher and statesman
signed his name.
Destroying the Illusion.
Dr. Nachtigal, the celebrated Afri¬
can explorer, was once the guest of a
rich Hamburg merchant. The' mer¬
chant’s son, a young man of a some¬
what sentimental temperament, sail!
that his dearest wish was to ride across
the desert on the back of a camel. lie
thought such a ride must be very poet¬
ical indeed. “My dear young friend,”
replied the explorer, “I can tell you
how you can get a partial idea of what
riding a camel on the desert of Africa
is liko. Take an office stool, screw it
up as high as possible, and put it into
a wagon without any springs; then
scat yourself on the gtool, and have i*
driven over uneven nnd rocky ground
during the hottest weather of July or
August, after you have not had any¬
thing to eat or drink for twenty-foui
hours, and then you will get a faint
idea of how delightfully poetic it is to
ride on a camel down in the wilds of
Africa.”
A Witty Reply.
A witty reply, to which fato has
since added an ironical comment, has
been attributed to the cx-Etnporor of
Brazil. On being shown one of those
mechanical wonders which always in¬
terested him. more than the cares of
government, a wheel that made we
know not how many revolutions in the
minute, “Why,” said the monarch,
“it actually beats our South American
republics.”
SCIENTIFIC NCRAPS.
It would take a canuon ball 100,
000,000 years to hit the beautiful dog
star.
Alcohol has been exposed to 110 to
120 degrees below zero without freez¬
ing. Mercury freezes at 40 degrees
below zero.
Experiments are to be made at
Havre to see if the telephoning between
vessels at anchor and the offices iu tho
city cannot be accomplished.
Ilerr lvrupp, the great gun manu¬
facturer of Essen, has submitted a
plan to tho Austrian Government for
placing the city of Vienna in connec¬
tion with the Danube by canal.
About 5000 barrels per day of crude
petroleum is consumed for fuel in
Chicago. In the use of this oil for
fuel about 500,000 tons of soft coal
per annum arc supposed to be dis¬
placed.
An English engineer proposes mak¬
ing doublcd-shcll boilers, maintaining
a pressure between them, By these
means he calculates that a much higher •
pressure can be carried than is possi¬
ble even with the coat boilers already
in use.
Photographs of 78 old couples and
the same number of pictures of broth¬
ers and sisters of an age averaging
that of the married people show that
the latter are more like one another
In appearance than tho brothers and
sisters.
There is talk in Franco of utilizing
water courses as a railway inotivo
power. It is proposed that the track
shall !»o laid on an embankment iu the
middle of the current, and that tho
locomotives shall have two paddle
wheels dipping iuto the water and re¬
volved by it.
Tho rusting of bright steel tools is
due to tlio precipitation of moisture
from the air.* It may be obviated by
keeping tho air surrounding such
goods dry. A saucer of powdered
quick lime placed in your show ease
will prevent tho rusting of cutlery ex¬
hibited thereon.
A new shell has lately been invented
by an Austrian for the purpose of
scattering oil over tho waves during a
storm. It is a wooden cylinder lined
with shcllnck to keep the oil from
penetrating the wood, and it carries iu
addition a calcium light which illumi¬
nates the water for a considerable dis¬
tance.
An admirable provision has been
made by tlio magistracy of Breslau,
which will tend in more ways than
one to the improvement of the pupils
in the public Schools, A botanical
school garden has been instituted for
the regular supply of plants to tho
schools of the place, and for enabling
teachers to make observations on tho
spot with their pupils.
The Opal.
While most gems owe their tint to
the presence of some foreign coloring
matter, the many-lined and beautiful
.opal differs. It is opaque, deriving its
beauty from the marvellous property
it possesses of decomposing tho rays
of light, and thus reflecting from its
polish.cd surface all the colors of the
rainbow. It needs, therefore, no bril¬
liant, but appears to best advantage
when alone. It is at present among
the most prized of gems, aud has held
its place for years. Marc Antony
once offered £170,000 for ail opal tlio
size of a hazel nut; but the owucr,
Nonius, a Roman Senator, preferred
exile to parting with his treasure. In
spite of their value, apal9 are unsafe
investments, for time and exposure
dim their lustre, while their sensitive¬
ness to heat is so great that the warmth
of the hand has been known to crack
them. The finest stones come from
Hungary; and among tho Austrian
crown jewels are gems of greater size
than that which tempted tho Roman
Emperor.— [Loudon Court Journal.
Artificial Ice a Success.
The manufacture of artificial icc has
been begun in Reading, Pa., and the
enterprise is already pronounced a
decided success. The icc is made into
cakes of ono hundred pounds each,
and is declared to be of tho finest
quality. Tho retail price is the same
ns that of natural ieo. Several of the
big browing companies of Reading
have decided to manufacture artificial
icc. Tho Reading Brewing Company
is now manufacturing artificial ice by
tho ammonia process.