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JOHN B. SEALS, - Editor and Proprietor \V. B. SEALS, - Proprietor and Cor. Editor. HRS. MARY E. BRYAN (*) Associate Editor. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 24 1878. Buttles Around Atlanta.—1« our next issue we expect to publish number twelve of this series of papers. It will comprise a deeply in teresting sketch ot the ‘Hero Brothers, Oapt. Jos, Clay Habersham and private Wm. Neyle Habersham, of Savannah, who fell in the ‘Battles of Atlanta.’ A fine double picture of those gal lant soldiers will accompany the sketch. It is engraved from an elegant painting mad* express ly for this purpose by Prof. Carl L. Brandt, a distinguished New York artist, and will be greatly admired. Egg Hatching as a Profes sion. — Some time since, we published an item from a Kentucky newspaper purporting that a young woman of the Blue Grass region had kindly taken to her bosom a number of duck's eggs, deserted by the legitimate mother, and in that soft respectacle had successfully hatched the fortunate ova, turning out as fine a brood of little quackers as the web-footed parent could have done with all her feathers. The story may have been a oanard, but it has served a World Editor as text for a commentary that has a good deal of Poe’s delicious sarcasm about it—that reduclio ad dbsurdam burlesqu*ry that very few except the oritic of New York Literateurs and ot William Ellery Charnning in particular, have ever succeeded in. The writer set out by declar ing that the oviparous exploit of the young lady was more or less laudable according as we dis cover whether there was any self denial in the matter. If she was one of the superfluous wo men such as abound in Massachusetts she can perhaps be dismissed with a low meed of praise, inasmuch as she may have acted from merely utilitarian motivse or from the desire to obtain a pet in whom she should have some grateful sense of property and deputy motherhood. As compared with Skye terriers, tabby-cats and even street Arabs, the duckling has, too the advantage that it can be eaten. If, on the other hand, this young woman had admirers, or a lover, the duck's eggs which she cherished in her bosom may be regarded as similar to the cognate peas of penitence that other sinners were wont to wear in their boots upon painful pilgrimages-—or akin to the collars of spikes and yokes carried by Oriental devotees for the mortification of the fl-sh. At the same time it should be definitely announced that incubating maidens are the exception and not the rule in the land of Blue Grass, otherwise the consequen ces will be fatal to sociability, for a plump young woman charged with a clatch of eggs is no more to be taken into one's arms than a wet Newfoundland dog. There arte. however, pla^wj* wliere the heat of the human nodyTs systemat ically utilized for incubation. Mr. Prank Buck- land has written that in certain districts of Eng land where the goose is much cultivated the cause of education suffers because the people keep their children at home to hatch out the eggs, which aie placed with them in warm beds. There is probably a good deal to be said on both sides of the question here presented. It is desirable that the agricultural laborers of the future should be able to read and write, but might not this boon be purchased at too great a cost if involved the scarcity of geese, stubble aud other? Men have been authoratively de-| fined as of greater value than many birds, but J the birds in question were sparrows, and the sparrow is notoriously pugnaoious,philoprogen itive, greedy and deceitful. There is also this to be said about the profession of goose-eggs hatch ing—it is a sedentary occupation wholy incom patible with what the illiterative Algernon has described as the resea and raptures of Yioe. 1 The infant incubator who attends strictly to I business cannot stone cats, steal apples, smash I windows and attach pernicious parasitic pans and kettles to the stem of stray dogs. The mind, teo, has ample opportunity for deliberate and thorough reflection. Indeed, so valuable does this system of incubation seem, either when regarded as a discipline or an occupation, that we cannot but regret that it has not been long ere now introduced into this country. There are scores and scores of eminent statesmen that could be utilized in thiR manner. It would have been money in the Republican party’s I pocket bad Mr. Stanley Matthews, for instanoe, | been induced to concentrate his energies on the < incubation of three-dozen anserine eggs, duly i protected by an armor of down with a three- i inch packing of felt. There are thousand of poets, book agents, lecturers, people who oross their legs while riding on street-cars, bass-ball players, Colorado orphans, authors of ‘Beauti ful Snow,’ exchange fiends, Kearneys, etc., etc., who might be made by a rigidly administered Incubation law as useful to society as now they are not. Well has the philosopher, whose name up to the hour of going to press escapes us, said that the man who makes two goose eggs to hatch where before there were none has a better title to immortality and grateful remem- branoe than Alexander the Gieat, or the man who first thought of sticking a small potato upon the nozzle of a kerosene can. * Yellow Fever.—The Gulf Citizen—the new Southern Monthly, is assured that the yel low fever is imported into New Orleans by fruit ships trading with infected tropical ports and urges upon Congress the enforcement of a rigid national quarantine, which shall draw a 'sani tary cordon’ around the whole Atlantic and Gulf sea-board. The yellow fever that contin ues to afflict New Orleans is milder in type than former epidemics. In our last week’s article— “Yellow Fever—Its Causes, etc.,” a mistake oc. curred in proof-reading. The statement “There were 17C deaths last week from that cause" should have been “176 deaths, of which G6 were from that cause,” meaning yellow fever. * Tlie Women Who are Only Home Keepers-—“How I crave your power to do good; but alasl my usefulness is circumscribed: I am only a home-keeper.”—Letter from a lady. ‘Only a home-keeper!' But the wisest among us have said that the woman who is, in its truest sense, a ‘home-keeper’ is the fulfillment of the best form of feminine life. Herbert Spencer in his Evolution of Society, says, intellect, that the woman whose work and life lies outside of home, is an abnormal social phenomenon, that however well she may do her work, however great her talents, she is still an anomalous not a natural ‘evolution’ of society. This is going rather far, but it is true that women whose orbit of employment lies without the home circle and who are absorbed in doing the work of the world, lose many opportunities for exerting sweet,near influence upon children, husband and intimate friends. In the female workers outside of home there is always a feeling of incomplete life—of unfulfilled trust—of some good they have lost. If I were asked what is the highest type of wo man, I would answer, not the busy worker, the author, the artist, the actress, the lecturer, the philanthropist; though these may have a far wid er influence, yet is it so deep, so true, does it reach so lastingly down through the ages as the influence of her who fulfills all her duties as a ‘home-keeper?’ who is her husband’s helper, her children’s best friend, who orders her house hold wisely and economically,yet without mean ness, dispensing hospitality according to her means, making home beautiful morally with small charities and quiet sympathies, and beau tiful outwardly with order and neatness, with flowers and trees and little touches of refined taste. Such a womrn, pure, sweet, feminine, quietly self-sacrificing, pliant without be ing weak, innocent without being ignorant surrounding her children with a pure and yet a strong-toned atm osphere of thought and mo tive, and breathing this atmosphere through the circle of friends in which she moves, is I think the best and most essential type of woman. We can do without the ‘great public workers' among women—those who can do such work are few and exceptional—but we could not do with out the ‘home-keepers.’ It is they who keep society from disintegrating; it is they who give us that bulwark of moral and national prosperity —the home. If the few women especially en dowed, who work for the public good or plea sure, are stars, then the ‘home-keepers’ are the house hold fires, the household lamp. We could live without the stars, but chaos would oome again if the fire and light were withdrawn. * Words of Sound, t»ood Sense.—A writer in the last number of the ‘Happy Home,’ says very sensible things to the mothers of our land—things that have been said before, but that the exigences of the times demand should be repeated again and again. Says the writer in question. So long as girls are taught that their highest aim in life is to dress handsomely, (whether they are able to afford it or not,) so as to catch rich husbands ! so long as boys are sl id wed to ItreBtb, serf tlemen by drinking, swearing, smoking cigars and fiirtiBg with the girls; so long as mothers sit with folded hands, and feebly say, ‘I don’t know what’s to become of Sally, Annie or Jim my, for I can’t control them;’ so long as wives waste their lives and energies at the sewing ma chines, making useless ruffles, puffs and tucks, while servants are wasting and destroying in the kitchens, gardens are ohoked with weeds, and fruit trees being eaten up with worms; so so long as husbands and fathers spend their time and talents in billiard and bar-rooms, while their account books are getting behind, and business going to ruin, so long will debts accu mulate, mortgages be foreclosed and poverty reign in the South. We not only want women with plenty of common sense, but men as well. Educate your sons and daughters, but with it teaoh self-reliance and industry. Teach them to say no, and mean it; teaoh them self-control, temperance in all things, and courage to do th*ir duty, whatever it may be, or whoever may condemn them for it. Teach them that honest labor is honorable, no matter whether behind the work-bench in a carpenter's shop, in the kitohen or at the wash-tub. * New Publications. Mr. W. H. Crongston from the Opera House, Pittsburg, has been engaged as stage manager at the Broadway Theatre Miss Eliza 0 Conor, a popular favorite in Chicago, has also been en gaged by Messers Edgar &. Fulton. A corps of artisan are busy at the work of renovation and alteration. The entrance vestibule is to be hand somely decorated. A new drop-curtain will be painted. Messrs Edgar A Fulton seem to be determined to make the Broadway one of the most attractive theatres in the city. Miss Ada Cavendish will open on the 9:h of September Miss Gwilt,’and Miss Rose Eytinge, in ‘A man of the people’will follow. Jeflerson Havls.—The Gulf Citizen, after aluding to the ‘vulture-like watch for dead is sues,’ whioh the Northern press keeps upon Mr. Davis, so that every time that unfortunate ex- Confederate President sneezes in public it is re garded as significant of treason, stratagems and spoils, says: “Mr. Davis is net a representative man of the South to-day. He is a man of strong natural convictions, of inflexible will and strong prejudices. These have all been ‘set’by long years of training in the ante helium sohool of Southern politics; and this natural bent—whioh never oould be swayed—has naturally been in tensified by years otposi helium trial. Mr. Davis, therefore, cannot be regarded in any sense as a representative of Southern feeling to-day. In deed, he does not live in today, but exists in the yesterday of the South, when her sentiment al, no less than material problems were seeking solution by far different methods. High-toned, sensitive, perhaps morbid, Mr. Davis dings in the sunset of his career to the lengthening shad ows of a dead past; BubstaDoe to him, vague re flection only to the active and living South of to day. Mississippi knows—what the common-sense of the North has already learned—that Jefferson Davis is not only not a leader of, but is not even a sympathizer with, Southern opinion of to-day; that the people of this section respect his past— even should they deprecate somewhat of his present; and that he stands, for any leadership, or spokesmanship of them, as Richelieu, speak ing the sad words: Yesterday I was— To-day a very weak old man. Prof. J. w. Beardslce,—an accom plished vocalist who ia known through his charming novelty—the ‘Old Folk’s Concerts’— is now in the city and will give one of his unique entertainments next Thursday evening, at the Opera House. He is a gentleman of remarkably fine physique and frank, intelligent face. We learn that he has been engaged to teach vocal music at Andrew Female College, Cuthbert, the ensuing term. Dr. Hamilton is determined that no parent shall send his daughter out of the State to be educated because there is no college within its borders that can afford all the facilities for a finished education. Andrew’s curriculum will embrace everything taught at the best Northern female seminaries. * Manual of Georgia: Prepared by Thomas P. Janes, Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture’ A long-felt want has been filled by the publi cation of this book. It is a complete hand-book of methodically arranged information upon all subjects relative to the State of Georgia. It gives a concise statement of the present politi cal, educational, religious and industrial status of Georgia, a sketch of the topography of the State, its climate, soil, mineral and farming re- rourees, its products, its railroads,manufactures, benevolent and educational institutions, and newspapers. Also a list of the Counties of Geor gia with the principal towns of each. In brief, all that a Georgian should know concerning his State, or that a person wishing to emigrate here should desire to learn, is contained in this neat little volume prepared for gratuitous distribu tion by our enterprising State Commissioner of Agriculture, Dr. T. P. Janes. * ‘Bonny Kate,’ by Christian Reid, issued late ly irom the press of the Appletons’, is a story very agreeably to>& with not much power or originality in oonstrjiotion or character drawing. Christian Reid’s characters do not take hold of one as veritable creations. She needs to study men and women as they are, outside the pages of books, or the world of her imagination. Gaerielle,—translated from the French of Henry Greviile, and published by Peterson Bros, is an unpleasant and unsatisfactory story,French in sentiment and maudlin in plot. Qaite differ ent in style and motif is Dosia by the same writ er—a pleasant, bright little romance, which we will begin to pablish next week in the Sunny South. ‘His Dear Little Wife.’—By an anonymous author, evidently a woman, is a story with a lively beginning and a pathetic termination. It is simply and naturally told, but the kind of wo man which it holds up to admiring sympathy, is entirely too sensitive, mimosa-like and in efficient to suit the necessities of this day of work and purpose. • The Science Monthly.—This young period ical—the exponent of scientific progress in Amer ica, sustains itself with undiminished vigor. The August number opens with a suggestive, instructive, yet sprightly lecture on Civilization and Science, delivered by Prof. Du Bois Ray mond, of Berlin University. It is followed by an address of Prof. Huxley. Anillustrated ar ticle on ‘Man and his Structural Affinities’ is cu rious and deeply interesting. The Monthly has a fine engraving of Edison as a youth, for a fron tispiece with a most entertaining and graphio sketch of the great inventor—the present sci entific sensation. Appleton & Company, Broad way, N. Y r .,publish the Science Monthly. Price 50cts per number. * The Eclectic for August contains an enticing variety of reading matter, The best outgrowth of foreign thought upon politics, literature, *■ co ■ »ti h a-tenad ic.thf? old an ah sterling Monthly, whose contents are collated from European publications of the highest order. Subscription prio# $5.00. E. R. Pelton, N. Y. Publisher. • Editorial Correspondence, A Run Through Texas. Honey Grove — Bonn am-—Sher man- Following the line of Texas and Pacific R. R. in the direction of Sherman, the next point wor thy of note is Honey Grove. It derived its name from the quantity of honey found there prior to the settlement of the town. In the absence of gums or hollow trees, the bees fastened their comb to the roots or lower branches of the small mesquite bushes which abounded on every side, forming a grove. Similar bushes, with the bees at work, are still to be found in the suburbs. The town, though situated in the black mud,is neat ly built, mostly of wood, with an occasional house built of very substantial brick, made in the neighborhood. The college building is an elegant building of large proportion and beau tiful design. It is well patronized, drawing pu pils from the adjoining counties. I was glad to find Georgia talent in demand here, the musical department being in the hands of a very accom plished Georgia lady. The society is good. Quite a number of new buildings are going up, which tell of prosperity. The town has a bright future. The present population is about one thousand. BONHAM is the county town of Fanin county, one of the best for farming purposes in the state. Being the natural enterpot for the various products of the soil, it does a thriving business. A few years ago the best part of the business square was de stroyed by fire. For the lack of a little firmness Dramatic Notes. The Atlanta Dramatic Association will repeat the popular play “Ingomar, ” at De Gives, on Thursday eve, Aug. 27tb. Rose Eytinge’s daughter will appear at the Lyceum, New York. All of Janauschek’s dates are filled for her next American tour. Mrs. Boucicault will certainly visit the Uni ted States next season. Oliver Doud Byron has made nearly $100,000 by ‘Across the Continent.’ Mrs. Frank Majilton is reported to have in herited $30,000 from a relative in Germany. Miss Mary Anderson is to add ‘Hernani,’ Vic tor Hugo’s earliest (1830) Parisian success to her repertoire. The rent Kate Claxton pays Shook & Palmer for the Lyceum, New York, is $10,000, and $2,500 paid quarterly in advance. At last Maggie Mitchell has a new play. It is entitled ‘Birds of Passage,’ and she begins the season with it at San Francisco. E. B. Plympton is engaged for the coming season at the Standard, New York. The vacan cy occasioned by the death of Mary Wells will be filled by Mrs. Clara Stoneall. Joseph Jefferson played in Salt Lake City, Utah, one night, in ‘Rip Van Winkle,'to a sev- en-hundred-and-fifty-dollar house. A corres pondent, writing on July ICth, says: ‘Mr. Jef ferson had a guarantee of five hundred dollars per night, and Salt Lake turned out her thea tre-goers en masse ; but, in spite of liberal pat ronage, the management lost money. There is but little encouragement to managers to play stars, unless they play on a percentage and draw their salary. I know Mr. Jefferson is in dependent, and not obliged to act; but he on the part of the city council, the sufferers onght to remember that the publio gave him * ... . . « .. . . ... Inc ninnnr onn Ihn nun linnelrmi n bnci Big Family Babies. The foolish habit, so dear to oertain weak parents, of keeping a full-grown boy or girl as the baby of the family, is infinitely pernioious. The boy, if he has any manly instinct in. him, takes the matter into his own hands, and, des pite the wrath to come, outs off hia luxuriant curls, changes his attire, and worries for school companionship till he gets his own way, and is emancipated from the weak society whioh was sapping the foundations of his future man hood. But girls, who are more plastio and less daring, suffer themselves to be manipulated at the will of the fond mother, so that they remain the babies which it is her pleasure to make them and carry on into womanhood the weak ness and inaptness which she has been so care ful to nourish during their girlhood. Baby oan do nothing for herself, and is not allowed to learn. When she is twelve years old she has her shoes and stockings put on for her, all the same as when she was two; and at sixteen is washed in the Saturday night bath by nurse with reluotance or compunction. She is enoour- aged in all childish amusements long after the natural age for them has passed. She plays with her dolls when she is seventeen, like that little French wife who so powerfully excited the jealousy of her husbaDd, till he found out that his formidable rival was a large wax doll; and she finds her ohirdish treasures and playthings as pleasant now as they were when she wore short frocks and lisped broken English. What is the consequence of all this ? Baby grows up into womanhood without one qualification for her career. Sheyias never been taught to do anything for herself, and has never been trained to think. She has been the petted plaything of her family, who find it amusing to keep up a baby among them, no matter to what number of pounds or breadth of inches in may run; and the after destruction of the girl’s oharaoter and usefulness counts for nothing. That she should some day be a wife and mother on her own ac count is of no oousequenoe to them oompared to the private pleasure of playing at babydom that she might be called on to aot, to direct, to think for others, does not disturb their minds or set them to calculate rationally. She is Ba by; and Baby she remains to the end. When therefore she marries, what does her husband find her ? Innocent certainly. But innocence, if a girl’s chief charm, is not everythtng in a woman;and the pure, sweet strength which can look steadily at the facts of human life, and deal with them when occasion demands, is more to the purpose by a great deal. But how can Baby manage her hou.se or her ohildren ? She has been always managed for herself—always kept in idleness, and spared all trouble or re sponsibility; how then can Bhe suddenly order and arrange and think for others ? If her ohild is ill, what can she do, she who has never been suffered to see sickness or sorrow ? She oan only stand helpless and scream; or perhaps make matters worse by fainting; or by insisting on taking the ohild on her lap and smothering it with kisses as the best restorative of whioh she can think. These great children, these grown babies, are infinitely distraoting both to theii husbands and to every one with whom they, have dealings.—[London Queen. were permitted to replace the lost houses with just such structure as their fancy dictated, and the consequence is, the business district is cov ered with mere shanties. Even the owners them selves, now regret that they did not erect better houses, but those old hulks will probably be permitted to remain until another fire shall sweep them away. It is much to be regretted as the location is eligible and the community intelligent and refined. The unsightliness ot the town is calculated to strikes stranger unfa vorably, and impress him with the idea that there is a want of enterprise in the people. The popu lation is about two thousand, and among this number is a strong bar and an able and experi enced medioal board. SHERMAN. This is the terminus of the northern branch of the Texas and Paoific R. R. and here for the first time we strike the great Texas Central R. R. running from Houston to Denison through the very heart, so to speak, of the state, three hun dred and twenty-five miles. A narrow gauge road is projected to extend thirty-five miles fur ther west. Geographically considered, this ought to be and was intended to be, the largest city in the state. It is finely located on a hill gradually sloping in every direction—is hand somely laid out and well built. Many of the buildings are fine, built mostly of brick wi'.h limestone trimmings. Street cars run from the Union Passenger Depot, through the entire extent of the city, and they seem to be well patronized. The streets are lighted with an excellent quality of gas, which is furnished about as cheaply as in Atlanta. The churches are good, with good ministers, while the children have the his money, and the five hundred-a-night busi ness was well enough during the flush times of 1892 and 1803, and as long thereafter as good times lasted; but now money is close, and the theatres have been obliged to reduce their scale of prices, while good stars won’t reduce their terms. THE ENGLISH ROYAL FAMILY. The Enormous Sum Annually Paid by the People for Its Support. In support of Sir Charles Dilke’s motion an tagonistic to the proposed grant to the Duke of Connaught on his approaching marriage, the following figures have been prepared: The an nual grant to the Queen is £385.000 from the consolidated fund, and shout £10,000 from the revenues of the Duchy Lancaster; the Prince of Wales has £40,000 from the consolidated fund and £66,000 from the revenues of the Duohy of Cornwall; the Princess has £10,000; the Duke of Edinburg has £25,000; the Duke of Con naught £15,000; Prince Leopold £8000; the Princess Fredrich Wilhelm of Prussia £8000; the Princess Ludwig, of Hesse, £6000; the Prino- ess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, £6000; the Princess Louisa, Marchioness of Lorn,£6000;the Duchess of Cambridge, £6000; the Dowager Duchess of Cambridge, £6000; the Grand Duch ess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, £3000; the Princess Teck, £5000; the Duke of Cambridge, £12,000. The whole of the annuities to members of the royal family, exclusive of the Queen, paid out of the consolidated fund, amount to £142,000. - —. ,, ' The amount whioh the Queen has for her own advantages of two flourishing female colleges j personal U3e . independe < t of th * e 8alarieg of the UOUl * A _ 1 II There is an air of thrift and enterprise jOv U . , ,„ , - , , the people that is truly refreshing,''and taken j £ . , J' , - ' 3 *° servants, allow all together, it reminds the visitor of one of the 1 a J“ 8 ’ 1°™'™ aD L d spemal^ serviees, m better class of towns in the older states. Indeed many of the largest and most substantial busi ness men have emigrated thither from the older states, and Georgians are there by scores. The Mayor is a Georgian and so are some of the best lawyers and physicians. A splendid oourt house has just been completed, and many other fine buildings are being ereeted. The trade of the city is very large, supplying as it does a scope of country three hundred miles wide to the west. The piles of buffalo hides whioh are to be seen everywhere, are astonishig to the visitor, and would lead one to suppose that the speedy extermination of this noble animal is not imprbable. These are brought in wagoDS, drawn by long teams of oxen, and either sold for cash or exchanged for goods. Merchandise of all kinds is reasonably cheap, owing to the very low freight charges by the Central Railroad. A merchant exhibited a bill to the writer, showing that 4th class freight was laid down in Sherman from N. Y. for 50 cents per hundred pounds. Cistern water is used mainly, aud fires are made of coal, brought down by the M. K. & T. R. R. The health of the city is as good as any in the state. Geod fruits abound in the country near, and the finest cattle and hogs. The climate seems especially adapted to the raising of hogs. The population Is now a little above ten thous and by reoent census, showing a very rapid increase in a few years. £102,000 pounds per year, of which £42,00 comes from the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir Charles Dilke makes his motion in opposition to the grant to the Duke of Connaught on the ground that the nation has already more than sufficient ly provided for the royal family. He made similar motions on the occasion of the grants to the Princess Louise and to the Duke of Edin burgh on their marriage: He does not expect his motion to prevail, but makes it on princi ple. It is thought that on a division of it, the bill wiil receive less than ten votes. Buffalo Ldtliia Springs.-The waters from these springs, located in Meoklenburg County, Virginia, are gaining a wonderful oe- lebrity for their medicinal properties, See what eminent physicians say of them in our ad vertisement in the last two issues of this paper. A BLOODLESS DUEL. One of the Principals Seizes 111* Second as • Shield From Danger. (From the Mouticollo Constitution.) A couple of colored gentlemen became involv ed in a quarrel on Wednesday of last week at Simkins’ livery stable, when Simkins suggested that they retire beyond the incorporate limits and fight it out in occordance with the code. The suggestion was promptly acquiesced in, and in a few minutes all preliminaries were ar ranged for a terrible death struggle. The loca tion selected was the grove west of Dr. Taylor’s residence; Messrs. E. B. B. and W. D. S. vol unteered their services as seconds, Mr. J. F., provided with a oarpenter’s saw and rule, was selected as the surgeon; Mr. J. L. was to pro vide breech-loadiug rifles, and Mr. T. B. S. was ohief diraotor. The principals were posted, the seconds and surgeons assumed their re spective stations, and the' rifles, loaded with blank cartridges, were placed in the hands of the belligerents. Principal No. 1 was cool and determined, and evidently meant mischief, but No. 2 was nervous and excited, and when his eyes rested upon the glittering barrel of his gun, heex- olaimed ; ‘Look here, gernmen, dis ere gun’s too bright for me!' and attempted to leave the field. He was brought baok and notified that unless he ‘stood up like a man’ his second would shoot him down, whereupon he dropped his gun, seized E. B. B.—his second—around ths waist, and held him between himself and bis antagonist. The barricade was speedily re moved, when the oonr&geous n egro fled from the field like a race horse, and thus prevented 'murder most foul.’ Those who witnessed the burlesque on the oode duello described it as rich beyond dasoriptou, and at least one of the principals is oured of hit bragging propensi ties. Thoughtful Trifles- Great things are not accomplished by idle dreams, but by years of patient study. Judge not from appearance lest you might err in your j udgment. Some of the grandest things whioh have been achieved were by those whom we thought were our inferiors. Narrow not your mind to your own eelfish- ness, but give it a broad field for your work men to work in. Study all things of nature in your daily walk through life. Do as your conscience dictates and you will not go far astray. Be respectful to all men that you may com mand respect. Kind words are better than gold, and the voioe of a friend has saved many a man from ruin. Many kind hearts beat beneath seemingly oold exteriors. Be happy it you oan, but do not despise those that are otherwise, for you know not their troubles. Is Croquet a Moral Game 1 Oae day this summer we rode fifty miles in a riilway car, seated behind four men who were playing with those awful playthings of the devil —cards. They played euohre until they were tired of it. They played a little seven up, pedro and occasionally a trifle of poker. We never heard a aispute. Their bursts of merriment occasionally at some unexpected play drew our eyes from our book. They never quarreled, and never called names once. After we got out at our station we sat at the window and watohed a party of young men and maidens playing cro quet. In fifteen minutes we saw two persons oheat successfully. We heard the one player who did not cheat acoused of cheating five times. We heard four distinct, bitter quarrels. We heard a beautiful young girl tell two lies, and a meek-looking young man three, and final ly we saw the young girl throw her mallet against the fence so hard it frightened a horse, the other young girl pounded so hard on the ground that it knocked the buds off an apple tree. They both banged into the house at different doors and the two young men looked sheepish and went off after a drink. Now, why is this ? Bismark'g Little Joke. After the congress adjourned the other eve ning, Bismarck punched Beaoonsfield playfully in the ribs, as the two sauntered down Main street, and said : ‘Who’s treaty ?’ ‘No particular individual oan olaim it, my dear friend. The treaty belongs to all of us. It is the product—’ •O, vipe your shiu of, schoot it,’ said Bis marck, laughing. ‘Ton’t you hunderstant ?’ and he repeated very slowly. ‘Who s treat-eh; treat; say to a feller if he will haf somedings; set ’em up. See?’ Beaoonsfield tumbled, and stepping behind a screen, exclaimed : 'It’s mine, it’s mine! What will you have ?’ ‘Peer,’ replied Bismarck, his face beaming; with good humor; ‘efry dimes peer.