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BRUNSWICK,
GEORGIA.
THE REAPERS.
The reaper* bend their lusty backs;
Their sounding sickles sway;
At every stroke the golden sea
i Recedes to give them way;
The heavy ears fall bowing down,
And nestled at their feet.
Such will, such work as theirs, perforce,
Must win—must homage meet.
So careless of fatigue they go,
So true, so steadily,
The admiring traveler on the road
Leans o’er the gate to see;
With marvel of the soon-fallen breadth,
The lounging gossips tell;
But the reapers labor for us all;
Tis need they should work well.
Ere the great a an that burns above
Shall crimson in the west,
And the children's poppy nosegays fade,
And they tie down to rest,
Each golden spear that upward points
Shall fall upon the field,
And the farmer drain a sparkling glass,
Rejoicing o’er the yield.
Ply, bonny men, your sickles bright,
And give the people bread 1
At every conquering stride you take,
On want and woe you tread.
Drop, heavy ears, and give the strength
You gathered from this plain,
That man may rise refreshed and firm,
And do great tilings again.
God bless the hands, all hard and brown,
That guide the cleaving plough,
That cast abroad the shining seed,
And build the wealthy mow;
They rear the bread our children eat;
’Tis by their toil we live;
Hurrah 1 give them the loudest cheer
That grateful hearts can give!
CENTENNIAL LETTER.
The Commissioners Should bo Compen
sated—No Imposition—Miscellany.
From our Special Correspondent.
THE COMMISSIONERS SHOULD BE COM
PENSATED.
Philadelphia, June 10.—The out
side world seem to apprehend that all the
great movements of life, where the pleas
ures or comforts of life are involved, are
to be gratuitous on the part of their pro
jectors of brain, muscle, and time, the lat
ter an invaluable property of the com
petent gentlemen generally selected to
. supervise all important interests, and
that these gentlemen should be compen
sated, when used for the public good, all
just men will agree. There are journals
who are constantly taunting the mem-
beis of the commission with their accept
ance of a remuneration for their atten
dant services. This is not a fair way to
state the case. The commissioners are
not paid. They are in most cases influ
ential citizens, who are pecuniarily losers
in tho time devotedly applied to the in
terests of the centennial. Again one
journal has it, “ Look at our delegates to
the national conventions; are they paid?”
* No? and they ought not to be.’ In
one cas*, time, money, energy and en
durance is employed; in the other, sim
ply a flying trip of a few days—the mis
sion closing on the dissolution of the con
vention. Jte it right that gentlemen
should come thousands of mites at stated
.periods, for a term of years, sit in coun
cil for days and weeks, far from their
homes and business interests, and all this
at their own expense ? The proposition
is absurd. I say pay them, and hand
somely too. And no matter how much
they receive, it will be a moiety of the
debt due them. A quid pro quo is the
principle.
no imposition.
The newspapers at many points are
singing the same old song—“ You’ll he
imposed on in the centennial city, and
gouged at the grounds,” Not so. I dine
daily at the grounds, and obtain a good
meal for fifty cjnts, and in the city, I re
peat it in this letter, as the repetition is
•demanded to check the injurious rumors
in circulation, that lodgings can be se
cured, and meals are as low, and the for
mer as comfortable and at as reasonable
rates as before the exhibition opened. J
have been in the city more than a month
and speak of my personal knowledge.
No one will he taken advantage of. I
aever dealt with a fairer or squarer peo
ple than inbabit'thisgoodiy Quaker city.
The following you can cut out as it will
Jive you collisions with the driven and
obviate the necessity of asking questions.
he rates are reasonable.
BATES OF FABE OF HACKNEY COACHES
One passenger, with trunk, valise, car
pet-bag or box, distance not exceeding
one mfle, fifty cents. Distance over one
mile and not exceeding two miles, seven
ty-five cents ; each additional passenger,
twenty-five cents. If engaged by the
hour, stopping as often as required, $ 1.
Distance average ten squares to the mile.
If distance be over two miles, each addi
tional mile or part of a mile, twenty-five
cents, in addition to the sum of seventy-
cents for first two miles; every additional
passenger twenty-five cents. All dis
putes settled at the mayor’s office. I am
sure there is no extortion in these rates.
Theory of imposition, like that of “wolf”
has created some apprehension, that a
visit to the centennial would involve a
vast expenditure for grub and the con
comitants incidental to sightseeing on
such an occasion. Even to those who
may be as timid on this question as a
hare, your correspondent again says,
there is no imposition. Philadelphia
proposes to give her visitors a square
MISCELLANY.
New York came to the front last week
on the Sunday question. Norman White,
president of the Mercantile bank, pre
sented a petition from fourhundred New
York citizens, approving and hoping
they would sustain the movement in fa
vor of closing the exhibition on Sunday.
The colossal statue of the American sol
dier has been placed in position. It is of
white granite twenty one and a half feet
high, and weighs thirty tons. It is in
front of the main building, and faces me
morial hall. I am pleased with the Rus
sians. I find them courteous and indus
trious. The collection of malachite
goods, lapis, etc., will sum up in a few
tables, mantels and clocks—at least $50,
000, exhibited by one firm from St. Pe
tersburg. Russia will also display large
quantities of articles for army and navy
purposes. The animals of the country
are represented by life-size stuffed skins,
Illinois comes up with the largest shin-
1 gle machine in the world. The following
1 are the assemblies for August: Conven
tion of historical and antiquarian socie
ties, August first. American dental as
sociation, August first. State camp
J iatriotic order sons of America at Reaa-
ng, August eighth. Photographers’ na
tional association, August fifteenth.
Grand lodge Knights of Pythias of Penn
sylvania, August fifteenth. American
association of instructors of the blind,
August fifteenth. Supreme lodge Knights
of Pythias, August twenty-second. The
Michigan state building will be opened
July fourth.
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati,
Williams of Boston, and Wood, of Phila
delphia, inspected the fountain last
week. Iowa has glass tubes eight feet
long, and eight or ten inches in diameter,
each containing soil of a county, thus
showing the character of her tillable
land in every county in the state. The
visit of the Knight Templars to the exhi
bition was a notable affair. Their parade
was brilliant and the closing scenes unu
sually grand. Balls, receptions, and va
ried entertainments made the first of
June a day of days in the records of
the order. Paying visitors first fourteen
days to the exhibition, two hundred and
fifty-eight thousand five hundred and
fifty-five, average eighteen thousand four
hundred and sixty-eight, Viena same
period, five thousand one hundred and
seventy, Paris, eight thousand nine hun
dred and fifty-eight. The cataract in the
annex to machinery hall has a sheet of
water thirty-three feet wide with a fall
of the same number. Rowell’s newspa
per pavilion is now completed. It is in
splendid condition, and the editorial
fraternity are welcomed in a princely
manner to home comforts; the newspa
pers of the country, pens, ink. paper and
pleasant quarters all free as air. Rolling
chairs are not permitted in the art gal
lory. The shoe and leather building will
soon be completed.. The Japanese and
English commissioners are not as accessi
ble at headquarters as other nationalities’
There is a specimen of a twisted pine
from the Rocky mountains which was
one hundred and twenty-three feet high,
twenty-two feet in diameter at the base
and two hundred and ninety-seven years
old. The great Corliss engine has double
beltings seventy feet long, twenty inches
wide; on an average the double beltings
required are of twenty feet width to con
vey the whole power of the engines, each
of which may in a straight line evolve a
shaft one hundred and fifty-five feet
long. The boiler house of tha engine baa
twenty-six engines, each twenty-six
horse bower; the engines are cylinder;
the two fourteen hundred horse tower,
can be increased to two thousand five
hundred; the cylinders are fortv inches
in diameter; the fly-wheel u thirty-five
feet in diameter, two feet thick and
weighs fifty-six tons. It has two hun
dred and sixteen cogs, lhaking thirty-six
revolutions a minute without noise, lhe
velocity of the periphery, with this spec
ified numberof revolutions is three thou
sand three hundred and eighty-four feet
per minute, or thirty-Bix miles per hour.
At the national convention of Baptist
social unions, the following officers were
elected: president, John P. Townsend,of
New York; secretaries, Col.W. H. Har
rison and Rev. J. G. Walker, of Penn
sylvania. Germans who appreciate the
great Humboldt will learn that, the un
veiling of the great man’s statue will
take place on July fourth. Fifty singing
and benevolent societies will participate.
Total cash admissions from May tenth to
thirty-first, three hundred and seventy-
four thousand twenty-nine. This will be
doubled in June. A large mosaic from
the ruins of ancient Carthage is on exhi
bition in the Tunisian department. The
Massachusetts press association, one
hundred and forty-four editors, were at
the exhibition last week. O. C. French,
of Mississippi, commissioner irom that
state, has left for his state to organize
excursions to the centennial. Cash ad
missions Friday, twenty-six thousand
six hundred and thirty-seven. A section
of mammoth coal vein trom Hazleton,
Lehigh valley, Pennsylvania, twenty-
seven and a half feet high, twenty-nine
thousand pounds weight. Detroit, Mich
igan, sends a beautiful organ, and New
York a splendid orchestrion. The ses
sions of the national archaeological
society in July, will he held in the Ohio
state building, the call Cor the conven
tion originating in that state. The na
tional photographic association hold their
three day’s session in the judges pavil
ion. Joseph Babbiebe.
A Rambling Letter from the Cen
tenniaL
New York Sun.
Almost the first thing seen on en
tering the main building is a group of
Chinese carpenters superintended by a
Yankee. They are jabbering, sawing,
jyid chiselling, with robes flopping and
queues trailing over their work. A
few feet from the laborers are several
Chinamen of higher caste, who are
having a flirtation with a party of
American girls.
Beyond the Chinamen is a group of
Japanese, dressed in Chatham street
clothes and high hats. Everything
about the two groupes goe8 to show
that the Japanese are becoming cos
mopolite—tl^at they have determined
to imitate France, England and Amer
ica—while the Chinaman still sticks to
his queue, his opium, his Joss, and to
all the antique characteristics which
have come down through twenty gen
erations.
One thing noticed about the China
men is their absolute simplicity and
good nature. They are always smil
ing. As I talk with them here I am
reminded of a story that George Carle-
ton, the publisher, tells about a China
man in Mrs. Van Auken’s kitchen in
New York. The first morning after
the Chinaman come the following con
versation occurred:
“ What is your name, sir ?” asked
Mrs. Van Auken.
“O my namee Ah Sin Foo.”
“But I can’t remember all that
lingo, my man. I’ll call you Jimmy,”
“ Velly well; now whachee name I
call-o you?” asked Ah Sin, looking up
in sweet simplicity.
“Well, my name is Mrs. Van Au
ken ; call me that.”
O me can no ’membel Misse Van-
ne Auken. Too big piece namee, I
call you Tommy—Miss Tommy I”
In one of the machinery rooms is a
small machine which can throw one
hundred thousand cubic feet of pure
air per minute with a ten-horse power
engine. That is,this machine can pump
a room one hundred feet square and
fifty feet high, containing five hundred
thousand cubic feet, full of pure air in
five minutes. In ten minutes it could
foroe out all the air in the present
any-
house of representatives, and supply
its place with pure air. The in venter,
Francis Murphy, says:
“This ventilator, with a five-horse
engine, can ventilate the largest ship,
the largest opera house, the bi
mine—in fact, it can ventilate
thing.
“Anything, you say?” I asked.
“Yes, sir, anything.”
“ Well, Mr. Murphy,” said my Un
cle Consider, “If your machine will
ventilate Mr. Blaine’s Little Rock
bond mystery, ventilate what Donn
Piatt did with the $5,000 from Pacific
Mail Irwin, ventilate how Robeson
deposited $80,000 a year on an $8,000
salarv, and ventilate the humbug in
Mr. feeeley’s motor, why I’ll hire Bill
King to go to Washington and sell
one to congress for ten times its value,
and give the bonus to Moody and
Sankey.”
Here is Mr. Johns, who stands in a
little room filled with asbestos. In his
hand he holds a piece of asbestos cloth,
a piece of asbestos fire hose, &c.
“What is asbestos?” I asked.
“Asbestos, sir, is petrified wood and
vegetables—petrified flax. It is a
white stone thread which we can weave
into cloth,” said Mr. Johns, handing
me a piece of cloth which looked like
coarse, unbleached domestic.
And you can make fire-proof'
clothing of it?”
“Yes, sir. I can make a suit of
clothing out of this asbestos cloth that
you can place in the hottest fire. In
fact, it is stone cloth woven from stone
yarn.”
Then Mr, Johns showed me a piece
of petrified wood. It bent like bark,
and split and’peeled into fibers.
“These fibers,” said "the exhibitor,
“ are the thread which wc weave into
fire-proof cloth, put around fire hose,
grind into fire-proof stone paint, and
which we dig out of the ground.
Eli Perkins.
A Cruel Fashion.
There is no lady deserving of the i
name who could witness without a feel
ing of horror the process of preparing
for use the feathered beauties which j
form such conspicuous ornaments in
the present style of women’s hats. If
those who wear such ornaments knew
the torture to which these helpless lit
tle creatures are subjected and the
heartless cruelty with which the busi
ness is carried on, they would shrink
from even indirect complicity in it.
Of course, the impression prevails tliai
all birds used for personal decoration
are killed immediately when caught,
and prepared in the ordinary way by
taxidermists; but there is just where
the mistake is made. The birds arc
taken alive, and, while living, the skin
is skillfully stripped from their quiv
ering, ghastly bodies. By this process
it is claimed the feathers retain a firm
er hold upon the skin. Such is the
method by which all birds used in the
decoratiion of ladiei’ hats are prepared.
Think of the exquisite humming-bird,
the blue-bird, the cardinal-bird, the j
oriole, and numberless others of beau
tiful plumage, struggling beneath the I
knife of the heartless operator; think
of this, tender-hearted ladies, as ygur
admiring gaze rests upon the latest
novelties in fashion by which our city
belles are crowned! Hundreds of
thousands of birds of the brightest
plumage are literally flayed alive every
year, and so long as our ladies will
consent to wear such ornaments, just |
so long will this cruel business con-j
tinue.
Now, lady fair—now, will you dare
Tempt such ruffians to torture the birds o’ the I
air? I
Should not beauty be guardian of beautiful I
things ?
Oh I once more be earth’* angel, and tewH
them their winga.
A DEBATING society has under «*>$|
sideration the questiqn, “ Is it wrong!
to eheat a lawyer ?” fee result is ex j
pected to be “ bo, but impossible.”