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NORTH GEORGIA TIMES. v N. KLXU, I 1 proprietor Cloud and Sunshine. Waiting in gloom and pain Weary, oil .'so weary 1 Steadily falls the rain, Dark the day, and dreary. Tha bitterest winds are wailing loud, And the funeral Bky is clothed in cloud; Will the sun ne’er shine again? Courage! in heart and brain, Though the bay he dark’ning; Waiting is not in vain, If for God tbou'rt heark’ning. The dreariest weather will change some day, Aud never a cloud but will pass away, And the sun must shine again. Be still, sad heart, nor mind The heat of fiery trying, The mystery entwined With sorrow nnd with crying. The costliest gold, by a method slow, Must lose its dross in the hottest glow, Rut it cometh forth refined. — [R. Kelso Carter, in the Observer. ; A RASH ACT. “So you’ve been bounced?” said Mrs. Popover. Marian Milman winced at the inele¬ gant word; but she understood enough of the Popover stylo of dialect to know that no harm was intended. Mrs. Popover did not gauge her phraseology by “Webster’s Unabridged,” but she was a good soul, nevertheless. “Yes," she answered, meekly; “Pvc been discharged.” Mrs. Popover was stout and short, with no visible waist, a black lace cap on the side of her head and her feet thrust into carpet slippers. Miss Milman was slight and grace¬ ful, with ruddy brown hair and plead¬ ing hazel eyes, aud looked every inch the lady in her shabby mourning. “Pity, ain’t it?” said Mrs. Popover. “This time o’ year, tool” “Yes,” sighed Marian; “but I am not the only sufferer. Thirty other girls have gone, too. Business is so dull after tho holidays. Mr. Mcrodith says we shall be re-engaged when the state of trade warrants it. But I haven’t much hope.” “And what ye goin’ to do now?” asked Mrs. Popover. Marian drew a long breath. “I don’t know,” said she, piteously. Just then the door opened, and a blooming young girl came in, with a satchel in her hand. “Is this Mrs. Popover’s?” said she. “Does Mis3 Milman— Oh, Marian, you dear thing, I’ve found you at last! Oh, how glad I am to see yon!” Marian gave a little gasp. “Juliet Powers I” she cried. “Yes, it’s I!” beamed Juliet. “I got tired of teaching school down in Holbrook Hollow, and tho trustees wero so exacting, and the children so dreadful, that I made up my mind to come to you and see if I couldn’t get something to do in the city.” “Well, I declare!” said Mrs. Pop over. “Here’s Miss Marian herself just been throwed out o’ business. I’d like to know how she’s to help any¬ body else?” Marian gave the good soul an ap¬ pealing glance. “I will do the best I can,” said she. And Juliet, an apple-faced, san¬ guine natured young country lass, nestled close up to her. “I knew you would help me,” said she, “because you know all about the city. And oh, Marian, dear, I’m tired and 60 hungry I” And thus Marian Milman charged with tlio responsibility of an another beside herself. And the went by, nnd situations were than ever to obtain, and the common purse was exhausted, Mrs. Popover’s account became than ever for the rent of the back bed¬ room, with its hideous green paper, and its dispiriting outlook tho roofs and smoky stacks. “Marian,” said Juliet, “wliat are we to do?” She had come in tired and weary after a long day’s work at the old bus iness of looking for employment. Marian sat gazing sorrowfully at clumsy parcel that lay on the table be¬ fore her. “They have sent back my poor screens and plaques unsold,” said she, “with a polite note intimating that market for that sort of thing is stocked.” “Oh, Marian I And you worked hard at thetnl” with a quick burst sympathy. “The more fool I! To tell you truth, Juliet,” said Marian, with SPRING PLACE., GA.. THURSDAY. APRIL |(i, 1891. forced smile, “I begin to think that the market for everything is over¬ stocked—life included.” Juliet threw both her arms around the slight young figure. “Darling, you’re tired and discour¬ aged,” said she. “You’ll feel better after dinner.” “But, Juliet, there is no dinner.” Juliet threw open tire cupboard doors, and gavo one exhaustive glance around its empty shelves. There woro the two china plates, the two cups and saucers, the neat knives aud forks, ilio pewter spoons, tho nine-cent pep¬ per nnd salts—but that was all. “I’ll go out and buy something,” said she, cheerfully—“a neck of muttou to boil up for soup, or au end piece of corned beef.” “You can’t make bricks without straw,” said Marian, sadly, “nor buy soup-meat without money. At least I’ve never been able to do it.” “Is the money all gone, Marian?” “All but five dirty copper conls, Juliet.” Juliet clicked her tongue softly against the roof of her mouth. “Mrs. Popover will trust us for a few of yesterday’s rolls or a loaf of stale bread,” she suggested, cheerfully. “No, Juliet,” said Miss Milman, resolutely. “We are already too much in Mrs. Popover’s debt. I will ask no more favors from her.” “Must we starve?” resentfully de¬ manded J uliet. “I would rather starve than sink into the quicksands of debt,” Marian lirmly answered. Juliet’s cheeks flushed; she bit her iips. “There is a pawnbroker on Sixth avenue,” said she. “And I have got my mother’s old garnet ring and a mosiac scarf-pin which my father brought from Florence when ho was a sea captain. I’ll go and see wliat 1 can do.” ' But—a pawnbroker!” sobbed Ma¬ rian. “Oh, Juliet, what are we coming to?” ‘ ‘No worso than many another has come to,” said Juliet. “Cheer up, Marian! Remember that it’s always darkest just before daylight.” And she kissed the pale girl and went cheerfully out. The garnet ring and the mosaic scarf-pin kept them for a week. Still they were seeking for work—still tlio same old answer was returned. For every vacant placo there was at least a score of applicants. They sought from place to place; they traversed street after 6trcet, but in vain. And on a dreary February night, when the snow was turning to discolored slush on tho pavements and a dismal fog. hung over the streets, Marian looked sadly up into her friend’s face. “The soles of my sIioob are worn in holes, Juliet,” said she. “My feet are soaking wot, and my head aches, and—I don’t think I can go out any more. It’s of no use. I think heaven lias forgotten us.” Juliet, stronger and more courage¬ ous, brewed her friend a cup of weak tea, and produced two soda crackers from the cupboard. “Eat and drink, Marian, and you will feel better,” said she. “I have heard of a woman who wants a book¬ keeper in her business, and 1 must go there at once, this very evening, be¬ fore any one else has a chance to crowd me out” “You won’t get the place, Juliet.” “IIow do y u know?” cheerily. “I don’t know it. I feel it.” “Well, you’ll see. Eat and drink, I say, dear. Don’t sit so mournfully there.” “When you are gone, Juliet.” But when Juliet was gone, Marian rose and put tho soda crackers back into the cupboard. “She thought I didn’t know they were the two last,” said she. “Juliet was always a hearty eater. She is not so good at starving as I am. But the end’s come at last!” She took from the mantle a little vial of dark liquid, labeled ‘.‘Lauda¬ num” (Juliet had lmd ague in the face a few days ago, aud had used a little of it,) and looked at it questioningly. “I hope it isn’t very wrong,” she murmured; “but—but it must be so hard to die by inches! Harder still to go to the poorhouse on Blackwell's lslaud! Oh, no, I could not endure that I” And removing the cork, she drank the bitter draught. Surely this would be a dose strong enough to silence all the pangs and woes of a dozen poor souls! “Will it be painful?’’ she asked her¬ self, nestling down among the pillows of her bed. “Because lliave not much strength to endure.” No,.it was not jmbiful. ^Heaven be thanked for that! A sweet drowsine "Ihe breath of poppies, overapfi : being, and with a half-munnuB ,yer on her lips, Marian drifted iuto*%luniber. J* * * a St’i * * “Didn’t I tell you ft was always darkest before daylight? Wako up, Marian—wako aud rejqk|xvitli me l” Through a sort of clofiflj Marian saw Juliet’s radiant face. Mho strug¬ gled iuto a sitting posturefkaud tried to remember what had pasa Was it true? or was it on dream? “Who do you think | fvoman was who wanted abook-keeper? Why, my mother’s dearest school friend! She knew my name at once, and she says she should have known mo any¬ where from my resemblance of mother. She is in the perfumery business—oh, such a nice big store!— and she manages it all herself. And I am to be book-keeper, with a nice salary, aud you are to have a good placo there, too—right away, Marian, dear 1 And wc can pay good Mrs. Popover now, and live like Christians again; and I’ve brought home such a nice little supper of cold roast chicken, and hot potatoes, and a pitcher of smoking cofleo. A real treat, Manan. H:>use up, dear, and enjoy it.” A faint, sad smile flickered into Marian’s face. Had all the sunshine come, now that it was too late? And yet, how good tho little feast looked—how delicious¬ ly fragrant was the cofleo. i With a feeble gesture, she pointed ; to the little vial on tho mantle. Juliet would know what she meant. “Why,” cried the girl, “where is my cough medicine? I got tho bottle^ filled only yesterday, for I knew that I kept you awake, coughing at night. Mrs. Popover gave mo some out of the children’s bottlo; she’s such a kind old woman. Laudanum? Oh, yes, I know that’s wliat the label snys, but the vial- got tipped over long ago, and all the laudanum leaked out 1 Never mind, dear—we can easily get more now. We are not beggars any longer. Here, sit up. Drink Uiis hot coffee before it lias time to chill. And cat die chicken—and taste this dear little teeny glass of current jelly. You see I’m getting extravagant, but we have been starved so long.” “What a coward I have been I” said Marian to herself. “Oh, thank God that lie has saved me from my own rash will—saved mo to begin life anew—saved me for new strength and liope! Ob, I never, never will aban¬ don myself to despair again, no mat¬ er how dark the futuro seems!” And Juliet never know how near Marian had come to the solution of all life’s problems. It was a secret be¬ tween herself and heaven!—[Satur¬ day Night. California’s Gold Treasure. Never in any other country lias a change in the political dominion been followed so promptly by so marvelous an increase of wealth aud population, of productive industry and general in¬ telligence. Never did a province re¬ pay new masters more liberally for their trouble in its acquisition, nor did any other conquered territory ever receive greater benefit from conquest. Tlio most notable instance in history of triumphant invasions rewarded with great sums of precious metal were those of Babylonia by Cyrus, of Persia by Alexander, of Mexico by Cortez, and of Peru by Pizarro—all populous empires witli wealth accu¬ mulated through centuries of pros¬ perity. Yet not one of them yielded to its conquerors, within a generation! so much treasure as did desolate Cali¬ fornia to tho Americans.—[Century. Tlie Middle Ages. Tlio ‘ ‘middle ages” is a term of no definite period, but varying a little with almost every nation. In France it was from Clovis to Louis XI. (481 to 1461). In England, from the Hep¬ tarchy to the accession of Henry VII. (400 to 1485). In universal history it was from the overthrow of the Roman empire to the revival of letters (the fifth to the fifteenth century).— [Boston Cultivator. LABOR IN CHILI. Native Laborers are Muscular, Strong and Hardy. Chilian Methods of Working are Primitive, But Practical. From Theodore Childs’ article in Harper’s describing a coasting voyage in southern latitudes, we make this interesting extract about tho native workmen of Chili: The next day we were anchored in the hay of Coronol. Tho Osiris was surrounded by lighters laden with coal, which was being rapidly shov¬ elled into the hunks by dark-skinned natives. Tho white mist that hung over us made the water look like dull silver; in the foreground wero ships at anchor and small lighters provided with winches and nets for dredging up the bits of coal that fall iuto the water while the steamers are loading; in the background were the wind¬ ing wheels of tho coal pits; tho moles surmounted by trains of coal trucks; the sickly sulphurous smoke streams of the inevitable smelting works; the small town of Coronel clustered along the sandy black beach; and behind, the green hills diapered with mule paths aud patches of red or yellow earth. Tho meals of the coal heavers on the foredeck interested ns. Groat bowls of beans, lumps of salt beef aud fat, piles of biscuit, and gallons of coffee were served out to them. Each man took what he needed of the solids, chose his coiner on the rail, over the hatches, or simply on the bare deck, and ate witli no more •comfort Ilian a dog. Then each man produced a large violet mussel shell, which he used in lieu of a spoon to . fcoop up tho beans and drink tho coffee. Let it be remarked tll0 * c coal-hoavers earn high Wages, fts much as I've Chilian dollars, or say ten shillings gold, a day, and their food gratis; and yet they remain little better than good-natured brutes, taking no strong drinks while they are at work, but ready for any quan tity of dissipation after sunset, im¬ provident in the extreme, and willing to work, and to work well, only when they have no money left to spend. While watching those strong muscular fellows, I liad some conversation with the Russian timber merchant about bis experience of men and things in Chili, tho subject having been led up tp by my remarking the froquont evi¬ dences of pritnitiveness in Chilian methods of working. Speaking of the great strength and hardiness of the Chilian native laborer, Herr C. said that this was still more noticeable in tho more southern forest dis¬ tricts. At Puerto Montt, for instance, which is one of the most important timber ports, the work is done entirely by hand. The trees are felled with axes, sawn into planks on the spot by hand, and the planks carried to the port from a dis¬ tance of ten or twelve miles balanced on the shoulder of a man, who goes along under his burden at a run. None but native Chilians could do such work, and, given the absence of roads, and above all the nature of the work¬ men, all attempts to modernize the methods of getting out the timber have failed. Experiments have been made in introducing North American machinery, but without success. The innovators have invariably lost their money, and the natives, accustomed to do everything wiih their hands, have iu the end wilfully broken the machinery, in order to have done with it. 1 mentioned the fact that the Chilian government, as I had been informed, meditated the essay of Nor¬ wegian and Swedish colonists in these southern forest regions. Herr C. was of opinion that this scheme was utter¬ ly improbable, for the simple reason that Scandinavian colonists would re¬ fuse to live like pigs, as the Chiliaus live. The present primitive methods are the cheapest and the most practi cal. Sir David Brewster, an eminent Scotch writer and natural pliilospher, invented the philosophical toy called the kaleidoscope, in 1816. Tho name comes from the Greek and means “I see beautiful images.” Ibis optical iostruraent- is not only a pleasing toy, but it is of great use to pattern de signers and others to whom it supplies an endless variety of figures. VoL XL New Series. NO. 11. The Best Way to Ventilate. Eight persons out of ten will en¬ deavor to rid a room of its noxious gases by making an outlet for the air near the top of the inclosed space. Tho result is that the room is cooled, but the impurities remain practically where they were. The reason is this : As tlio air of a room is lrcated it rises, but. the impure gases, being generally heavier than ordinary air, settle to the bottom of the room. A great amount of harm has been done, in schoolrooms particu¬ larly, by lowering the upper sashes in windows, thus causing cold drafts upon the overheated heads of the pu¬ pils. A room is best veutilated when tho heavy and impure air is drawn gradually away from the lower part of tho room through an opening into a chimney, the healed walls of which cause an upward current. An open fireplace is thus one of tho best venti¬ lators kuown. When tiiis is not eon veuient, au opening covered by a grate should be made in the chimney near the floor. Low rooms frequently become so overheated as to re¬ quire au outlet near the top, but this should be used simply to cool the room, not to ventilate it. In close buildings occupied by animals, vonti lation can be secured by a close shaft six or more inches square, according to the size of the room, extending from within about twelve inches of the floor up through the roof of the building. The wind blowing across tho top of this will cause an upward current, which will draw oil' the im¬ pure air. Interesting experiments can be made by testing the effectiveness of various kinds of ventilation. Let the doovs of a room bo closed to keep out drafis; then with delicate tissue paper cut in long strips and held by one end, or with a lighted candle, note the out¬ ward current of air through an open¬ ing near the floor into a heated chi.nnoy, or from the room into an »p« «">■ »<*> *>.<.»«« rent of the upper air when a window is lowered, and at the same time the downward lu.b of cold .1,- ,o tbedoor near tho window. If a sleeping room has beon closed all night, as too many room. o«. i„» pure air for fifteen minutes; then go back into the closed room, and note the unpleasant change. Tho first seed of disease are too often sown in unvontilated bedrooms.—[American Agriculturist. How Danny Lost a Coat. He walked down to tho end of the pier where tho stpvedores wero work¬ ing, and looked sadly at the water. “How deep is it hero?” lie asked ono of tho men. “I dunno.” “Do you think it’s deep enough to drown a man?” “I guess.” ^ “Well, anyplace is good enough for me,” ho said, despairingly, as he began to strip off his coat and vest. “Are yez goin’ ter jump?” asked one of the stevedores. “Yes, I’m tired of life.’’ “Tliot coat an’ wescott will fit my Danny.” “It will, hey? Well, your Danny can have it if some one doesn’t come along and jerk me out of the water.” “Jerk ye out, is it? Shure, an’ there’s no danger of that. The last fel ley that went over there wnz a gnrrul, aud she Wuz bit in two paces with wan bite ov a big shark so quick that she never let a squeak out of her.” The young man who wanted to die walked to the edge of the dock and looked earnestly at the water. Then he put on his coat and vest and walked away. “Ef I had kept me mouth shut I’d had a foino coat an’ wescott for Danny. It’s mo mouth that’s always gettin’ me into tlirubbie. Giv us a hand wid de bale, Moike.”—[New York Sun. A Personal Reflection. “When I look at our honored guest,” exclaimed the orator of the evening, “and remember how he rose from a humble position to be the pres¬ ident of this vast corporation I realize forcibly the truth of the saying that theieis always lw.n at tho top.” Tho president of the vast corpora¬ tion, a gentleman with a large bald spot on the top of his head, made a memorandum in a little notebook,and the wages of that young orator have never been raised.—[Chicago Tribuns. Law of Conjugal Attraction. Ilermau Pol, one of the most eminent Nice—the living c-mbiyologists, while staying at Mecca of honeymooning—had his attention attracted to the resem¬ blances between young married couples. Fol has already given convincing proof of the phenomenal keenness of his ob servative faculty. He was the first sci¬ entist describe to precisely the notice aud accurately marvelous processes which take placo during the fertilization of an eg g The popular notion that married people “end by resembling each other” was shared by Fol, hut his trained vision de¬ tected amongst crowds of young married couples characteristics that led him to suppose a coutrary proposition to he nearer the truth—they begin by resembl¬ ing eaph other. To put the matter to a scientific test, he engaged in a series of observations observa and researches on n the pho tograpjis of young and old married couples, the results which lie publishes in the Revue Fcieritiji^ue. Tho following table gives his statistical conclusions: Re- Non-Re Couples. semblances. Par Cent. senUfianccs. Her Cent. Total Vounir young Oltt 132. 132, atout about atottt D8.86 W.6 - 80, about 30.33 - - 1M - - 83, 7U0 - 15, about 28.30 - - 5c cal The similarities vividly huge between percentage of mivrried physi¬ young fliat couples is marriages eigphasized made by the random—by calculation in at chance—the number of resemblances would not amount to more than two in a hundred. Amongst the non-resemblances were included some very curious cases, where man man and and wife, wile, though though quite quite exhibited dissimilar dissimilar in m every other respect, yet in com¬ mon “certain traits constituting an ugli¬ Sirs ness more or less ridiculous.” Fol in from this an argument in favor of the idea that candidates fox marriage do not fear which the particular mirror form of ugliness them. to their accustoms zation After warning results against hasty comparatively generali¬ from so meagre, Fol invites other scientists to modify follow up tho subject, and verify or the following tentative conclu¬ sion, he draws: (1) In the immense majority of mar¬ riages of “inclination,” the contracting parties are attracted by similarities, and not by dissimilarities. (2) The resemblances between aged married couples is not a fact acquired by conjugal life .—Review of Reviews. -----1 Only r Bream. - ... . j , ,, . ever, the young Ionian whs very morose ^*0 breakfast table, and behaved in a CL being it* questioned would by him as to the cause of she not give him satisfaction, St at last, “if I dream again that you haw kissed another woman, I will not speak to you again as long as I live.”—Wasp. The Smart Clerk. gloves?” “Have you any large-sized gentlemen’s he asked. “How largo-sized a gentleman?” inqir ed the salesman, with a smile of frosty, Boston severity. “Large enough, moving I think, sir,” replied the customer, away, “to walk without any clerks help to some other store Where the are not so classical.— Post. Manners for Boys. In the street—Hat lifted when saying “Good-bye” or “How do you do?" Also when offering a lady a seat or acknowl¬ edging a favor. Keep step with uny one you walk with. Always shall precede precede a lady her upstairs, but ask if you in going through a crowd or public place. At the street door—Hat off the moment you step in a house or private office. ask’s Let a lady pass first always, unless she you parlor—Stand to precede her. till In the every lady in the room, also older people, are seated. Rise if a lady and' enters the room after you arc seated, stand till in she takes a seat. they Look people speaking straight the face when are to you. "Tbs Bible on Wall Coatings.” “And behold if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, tjien the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days. * * * And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape place.” off without the city into an un¬ clean This matter of looking to the sanitary na¬ ture of wall coatings seems to be considered of much importance of lath. A supplement to the Michigan State Board of Health con¬ demns wall paper and kalsomine for walls, and recommends Alabastine as being sani¬ tary, pure, porous, permanent, economical and beautiful. To each of the first five persons in every city and town, who write the Alabastine Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, giv¬ ing the chapter containing the above pass¬ age of scripture, will be sent an order on the Alabastine dealer in tho town for a package of Alabastine, enough to cover fifty square yards of wall two coats, tinted or white. To test a wall coating, take a small quan¬ tity of it, mix in equal quantity of boiling water, and if it does not set, when left in the dish over night, and finally form a stone like cement, without shrinking, it is a kalso mine, and dependent'upon glue to hold it to the wall, the feature so strongly objected to by sanitarians. Continuing this sanitary wall-ooathig re¬ form tha Tribune offices have been nicely decorated with Alabastine. The effect it pleasing, and the rooms are very sweet and clann .—Detroit IbrihuM