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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: - $1 oo - - .50 . - 10.00 . * TERMS—Cash In Advance. Address, ADVERTISER PUBLISHING CO., Ckdartown, Ga. 1 Copy, one year - 1 *• six months - 11 •' one year - OLD SERIES—YOL. YI. NO. 28. CEDARTOWN, GA., SEPTEMBER 25, 1879. NEW SERIES—YOL. I. NO. 41. cents per line each Insertion. OBITUARY NOTICES—Changed atfetif rates. THE CLOUD. The clond lay low in the heavens, Such a little cloud it seemed ; Just lightly touching the sea’s broad breast. Where the rose-light lingered across the west. Soft and gray as innocent rest, While the gold athwart it gleamed. It looked such a haijnleHS cloudlet Seen over the sleeping wave, Yet the keen-ej'ed mariner shook his head, As slowly it crept o’er the dusky red. :• See the rocket lines are clear, ” he said, And bis lips set stern and grave. And long e’re the eve was midnight, That cloud was lowering black, D mming the flash on the furious spray. As the breakers crashed in the northern bay; Ifands howling on th ir track. So, in life’s radiant morning, May a tiny care or cross Just trouble the peaceful course of love, As if the strength of its sway to prove, As if to whisper -‘Ilf surface may move, But my roots eau laugh at loss.” It may seem such a little jarring, Only experience sighs, For with time’s sa 1 learning to sharpen the glance, He sees the “rift m the lute” advance, Knows how fate may seize upon circumstance To sever the closest ties. Ah me, in the fiercest tempest, The life-boat its work may do ; But what can courage or skill avail When the heart lies wrecked by passion’s gale, Wlieft change or death have furled the sail, When treason has bribed the crew ? Then watch, oh, hope and gladness. Watch for the rising cloud, Sun itraway, frank warmth of youth, Blow it away bright breeze of truth, For olu there is neither mercy tior truth, Should it once your heaven enshron J. The Willow Switch. Aliont lorty years ago a large part ot Cen tral New York, that is now fust becominga gardou* was almost a new- country, and jioofili*'talked of “moving West” when they emigrated from the hanks of the Hudson to those of r the Genesee. Still one of the cities on the line of the Erie Canal waif even then a town of some importance and Toasted much of what then amounted to wealth and even aristocracy. 4)1 this later class had been the family of -Judge Morton, but sundry unlucky speculations had made it impossible for l/ini to retain his accustomed position among Ids old neigliliors, and he was about to seek a new field in one of the younger settlements. Everything had long been prepared, the wagons were laden, the adieus for the mast part had been said again and again, and a part of the cavalcade was fairly under way. The heavier goods, indeed, had been started two or three days before. The ladies of the party as well as the gentlemen had de cided to attempt the journey on horseback, well aware that the condition of the roads, even though spring was now well advanced, could not he depended upon. Apart from the rest, mounted on a stout and quiet looking pony, sat a young tody <rf sunur iTgrireeir sntiiniers, in wikwc r^sy cheeks and bright, black eyes the excite- raent of the occasion seemed almost to have overcome its sober suggestions. Still, some thing like a shade was on her face as she leaned forward in her saddle and conversed in low tones with a gentleman whose arm was thrown carelessly over the neck of her pony. “Never mind me, Charlie; why it isn’t three days’ riding at the very worst, and that won’t hurt me.” “But me, Susie! I am ordered off for a long cruise, and I cannot tell when I shall see you again.” ‘•But you will come back ?” “Yes—but when ? And will you— “Will I what, Charlie ?” “Wait a moment, Susie!” And the young man, who was in the un dress nniform of a naval officer, sprang off to the side of tne road, where some willow trees were growing in untrimmed luxuri ance. Catching hold of one of the grace ful ly bending boughs he cut therefrom a long and pliant slip, with which he re turned, stripping off the leaves as he came. “There, Susie, that will answer for a riding whip, but do not wear it out on your pony, even if therondsare bad.” “Why not, Charlie?” “Because at the end of my cruise I shall come back to claim it. Will you keep it for me ?” A very soft light stole into the black eyes; but she said in a low voice, “Yes, Charlie, I will keep it. But are you sure you will come to claim it ?” “If I live, Susie.” “Ah! then it is good-by, sure enough, now, for father is calling me. Good-by, Charlie!” There was a most passionate earnestness in the young officer's reply, and he stood gazing after the pony and his mistress long after they were hidden by a turn of the road. We cannot follow him, however, by land or sea, for our business is with the willow switch. If Susie's pony suffered on the road it was not from any excessive application of Charlie’s queer memento, and on the third day about noon Judge Morton rode up to the side of liis daughter and announced that they were close at their journey’s end! They were nearly at a fork of the road at the foot of a gently sloping hill, and just where the two ways met a little spring bub bled up and wandered off into an adjoining meadow. There were more signs of im provement than Susie had expected, but enough of wilderness remained to add to the rural beauty of the spot. “Our new home,” said the Judge “will be on the top of this knoll when it is built, and our present quarters such as they are, will Ik* a little further on.” A sudden thought seemed to have en tered the brain of Susie. ‘ ‘Father, won’t willows grow from slips ?” “Yes, my dear; that's the usual way of setting them -out. ” “Aid they want water, don’t they ? Is this one fresh enough to grow?” “1 should say it was.” ‘,Wdl, then, may be we cau have some thing growing here to remind us of our old home. In an instant Susie was down from her pony, and the willow 'switch was carefully planted, just above the little spring. It would have all the water it wanted, at all events. And thejj -pusie-, and her father rode on'to.Lhiijr new libihe; biitthere was a warm flutter at the young girls heart and a blush on her cheek, as she wondered, “Will it ever grovr? 5 ’ The new settlement was a good one ft r the Judge, and Susie’s willow prospered famously. Even the rude farmer boys bail learned how it came there, and respected it reljgimisiy, wlrile a littte paling kept off other intruders. Susie’s heart throbbed high with hope anti faith, at times, as she noted the wonderful vitality and prosperity of her leafy favorite. It grew as if it had a dutyto perform anti was determined to do it well. And the little spring bubbled up more briskly from under it, and seemed to murmur softly “He will come! He will come!” Still, one year and another and another went by and Charles did not come, and let ters were terribly uncertain and far l>et\veen. All around the world he had been sent, and Susie’s heart at times grew siek and weary in spite of the willow. But she had other suitors, for her beauty seemed to grow every (lay, and her father was getting along well in the world once more. Truth to tell, Susie had something of Mother Eve in her, and was not at all adverse to admiration. So it happened that one day in June of the fourth year of the residence of the Mortons in their new home, just as the sun was setting, Susie found herself taking a stroll along the shaded roadside accompa- nied-by the handsomest arid most favored of her numerous train of worshippers. They did not seem to be in a talking humor, but walked slowly along until they came to the forks of the road and paused a moment by the side of the spring. Here, at last,-the young man seemed to have found his tongue and he pleaded eloquently and passionately for the -the half-reluctant hand which he had seized in both his own. Still Susie was silent, and it may be that the bubbling spring and the sighing willow were talking to her; but just then they heard the sound of horses hoofs coming at a (piick pace up the road, and in a moment inpre a rider drew his rein bqsiiie them and asked politely if he could be directed to the residence of Judge Morton. The young man had dropped Susie’s hand, and, lmlf- vexed at the interruption, was proceeding to give the desired information, but his words were aot listened to. * The horseman was leaning forward is his saddle, and had fixed a gaze of earnest penetration on the face of Susie Morton, on which the blushes had given way to a deadly pallor. “Susie, I have come ! The willow—” The light came back to Susie's eyes in an instant, and with a long sigh of relief, she pointed to the little branches which swept her shoulder, and answered, “Here it is, Charlie; it has been growing ever since you went away.” Susie’s other companion was not obtuse enough to linger longer in the shade of such a tree as that, and before she returned to the house.Charlie had reclaimed his gift. The song of the spring only changed enough U> sound like “He has come—he has come?” 'Thirty years went by, and the Morton willow kept on growing, until it became a well-known landmark, towering high in air above the little spring at the forks of the road But thirty years work - changes in ottyer tilings besides trees, and a slip from tilt willow had been’, dissevered to grow above a little moinid In the village grave yard, for the Judge slept, like a true American, not with his fathers. Every thing else had undergone changes, if not always improvement, and last came the fearful changes of the war of 1801. It was not many days after the Gettys burg fight and a matronly lady in deep mourning, supported by a fair young girl similarly clad, walked slowly and feebly down the sloping road to the spring. “If there is a bough within react), dear, I would rather gather it myself, and then if 1 can find where they have laid him I will go and plant it with my own hands.” One long, sweeping branch of the willow tree seemed as she approached it almost to lie lield out to her with a sympathizing pur pose, and with a pale face and quiyerbu:- lips she was proceeding to sever the slip she wanted, unmindful of the rattle of coming carriage wheels. As for her girlish com panion, she had sunk down upon the grass and covered her face with her hands. The good lady’s trembling fingers almost re fused to perform their duty and the car riage drew within a few paces of her just us she had severed the slender rod. “Well, mother, I hope that you are not cutting that for me,” said a cheery but somewhat feeble voice from the carriage. The young girl sprang to her feet, but only just in time to save hermother from falling, though she did not quite faint, and re covered quickly. “Oh, Charlie, my boy!—my boy!” “Here I am, mother—hurt, sure enough but in no need of a willow yet; am I. “Not by any means, ” said a hale and hearty old gentleman, in a naval undress, who now sprang out of the carriage ; “and they’ve given us both a furlough,, though mine is a short one. This willow was always a good omen.’’ And again the spring seemed to bubble up softly, “lie has come! he has come!” And the old lady, and the young lady, too, sobbed and laughed, and kissed the returned warriors, till the good mother, with the bit of willow still in her hand, knelt down in the shade of the memorial tree, to pour out her thankfulness to Him who had made her prosperity to grow with its growth, from the day when she sprang from her weary pony to plant it. A Home Glacier. A great deal is said about the glaciers of the Alps, but it is not generally known that we have a genuine glacier in ^lie White Mountains. In the winter large quantities of snow collect in Tuckerman’s Ravine, on Mount Washington, and last well into the next summer, sometimes even continuing till the "following winter. The question has often occurred to me, is not this huge snow patch a true glacier V I went through the ravine early this year, on the 7th of July. Indeed, our party was the first one through, and we found the patch larger than usual. It was nearly triangular in form, broad above, aud tapering to a point at the liottom. It was about one thousand feet in length, three hundred in breadth, and perhaps cue hundred in depth. I placed a line of stones across the snow two- thirds of the way down, and marked the two ends by cairns built in the neighboring rock. On the 27th I visited the ravine again to find quite a change in the appearance of things; the famous snow arch had fallen in the night before, owing to the very heavy rains which occurred there; but a consider able portion of my line of stones remained intact, and, as I expected, they were not in the place where I had placed them, but had been earned down the mountain a distance of thirteen feet in twenty days, showing a daily rate of motion of a little less than eight inches. This is as fast as many of the Alpine glaciers travel, although one of them, I believe, moves at the rate of four feet per day. Though our little glacier may not afford the excitement that some of its greater al pine congeners, and is without cheir beauty still it has the advantages over them of being without any of their attendant dan gers, aud now that a good path has been constructed from the Glen House, there is uo reason why any one who is capable of walking five miles on level ground should fail to see it and the magnificent scenery t by which it is surrounded. The Appalachi an Mountain Club has recently undertaken the improvement of an old path which led in the ravine by way of the beautiful Crys tal Cascade, and, if femds permit, it will be continued to the summit of the mountain, thus procuring a most enjoyable walk for those capab.e of enduring the necessary fa tigue. “Gerald.”—You grieve that your pas sions are so strong, doyou ? All right; mix in a little of your morals, which are weak enough to thin-them down. “Little Buttercup” writes—“How can I mend a crystal goblet that has got a hole punched through its side ?” You can’t re pair it permanently, but if you stick your thumb in the hole when you are using the goblet, it will answer for all practical pur poses. “Mary Ann” saj’s she is “a-weary,” and complains that “woman's work goes on forever.” So it does, and we are glad of it. But that doesn’t affect you. Bless your soul, you don’t go on forever; you don’t have all the work to do, not even while you live. Man’s work goes on forever too, we hope, but that doesn’t fret us a particle. We are not going to stay here and do it all. Bless you, no; we are not going to do our own any longer than we have to. Brace up, Alary Ann, and don’t you fret about the work that “goes on forever. You’re not going on with your work more than forty or fiftj' years longer, Mary Ann, and don’t you forget it. “Airs. Blodsoe” wants to know “which is the quickest way to make ice cream with out a freezer?” Buy it in one of those little paste-board boxes they sell at the ice cream factories. “Gentle Annie” is in a desponding mood tills week. She begins her sad plaint by asking, “Will they forget us when we are gone?” You may bet your sweet life, gentle Annie the}* will. They will forget us so completely they won’t even be posi tive where we have gone. “Marguerite” asks if “a wornau should marry a man whom she respects and es teems, but does not love, for his money ?” Oh, no. Marguerite, n-no; not exactly that. You should not marry him for his money, unless v r ou can’t absolutely get it any other way. But if you do really “respect” the man, you might love his money, and then you would have all the ingredients, for a happy match, anyhow. We wouldn’t ad vise you to marry a man for his money alone, nor, on the other hand, Alarguerite, ould we advise you to marry a man merely for the sake of his poverty; there is neither merit nor novelty in that. But you should many hio, even though he is rich as Croesus, because—by the way, Mar guerite,.you didn't say that this rich man had asked you or wanted you to many him ? How is that, by the way ? “Baby Mine” says “she is just crying her eyes out because she is not pretty, and she feels lonely and nobody loves her, and she longs for some sympathetic heart that can feel for her troubles aud drop words of sympathy like healing balm into her lovely life, and ” “Baby Mine,” bush it right up ; not another line of it; not a whisper. You scare us to death and we haven’t a line of sympathy for you. We are a mar ried man, with a boy old enough, or at least smart enough, to go to college; we are the busy head of a pleasant, happy household, and we are not going to be de coyed off into any sympathetic streaks, not by all the lonely women in America. Dry it up, and the next time you write to this department, tell us how to make water enmps that will last all night’ and won’t traighten out in one hot afternoon. ‘Lonely,” are you? Then why don’t you go to the sociable, where you will meet so glance through the window, hut still no sheriff in sight.) Aside: “What shall I do ? ” “There, I’ve got only ten minutes to catch my train. If you will assure me uppn honor that it Is all right, and that the bank is not going to bust, I won’t wait now; but if you are going W> shut up I want my money Come now, how is it, old fellow ? ” “Really, sir,” replied the polite cashier, “you place me in a very delicate position. If I tell you the bank is safe, and anything happens hereafter, you will blame me; on the other hand, if I tell you it is shaky, I shall be unfaithful to my employers, and shall very justly he discharged. I prefer not to make any statement, but simply to count out to 3*ou 1,000 half dollars.” (Half dollars were the principal coinage in circulation at that time.) Turning, screw driver iu hand, to a strong wooden box, apparently tightly screwed together, such as silver coin was usuall>' packed in in those days, but which the cashier knew very well to he absolutely Tlie Sea Cow. Recently there arrived at the New York Aquarium a monster manatee or sea cow .from Indian river, Alanatee county, Fla. 'piis strange amphibious beast was brought l»y steamship from Florida, packed iu a large box, fifteen or sixteen feet in length by* five feet .in width and three in deptlL It was Iiedeil in algae, fucus natans and other aquatic plants, andi its guardians and kee pers, who had brought it from Florida, said thar^it had eaten notliiug since it was taken from Indian river, and that the only care that it required on the passage and jouine3’ was a plentiful supply of water run through the holes of the box in which it was trans ported. When the box was ripped off, and the odd of the .same removed, the monstrous beast, thirteen feet in length, and “weighing about three thousand poundp” (Mr. Reiche said) was slowly launched in the shallow water of the great t.There it lay, a long, black mass, neither a “fish nor an animal, shaped souie- t. iipg like a .seal, , but hearing as much empty, "he wiped off'his brow and set him- «•<&»«•<» as to a hipopotamus. It lay ’ - -- - « * pr.»ne on the bottrihi of the tank while the self to work as if to an herculean task. The man glanced at the clock, and then at the iron bound coin box, then mentally calculated the weight of a thousand haif dollars, then burst out with: “Never mind; I see that 3’<>u have got the coin, and I’ll l>c d d if I’m going to pack a thousand half dollars all tlie way to Dex ter to-night. Never mind, Air. Cashier, I won’t trouble you,” and out of the hank he darted. The injunction was served soon after and the danger passed. But the old Far mers and Alcchanics’ still kept up the habit of being short of coin, afid did 90 till the last, when nearly twenty yeare later what was left of it was consolidated with a pri vate bank, and became the now’prosperous American National bank of Detroit. The worthy cashier still lives in Detroit, and finds a bonanza of enjo3rment in recounting the amusing incidents of old-time finan ciering. We Gentlemen in IHack. Timely wit can do easily a great many very hard things. It can even disarm a haggling debtor. A Northumberland Bishop returned home alter a long absence in London. A cliimne3’-sweeper had been at work cleaning the cbinine3'8 of the large mansion and its connections, and had just completed his work as tlie gentleman met him in the drive-wa3*. “Alercy onus!” cried the Bishop, as he came face to face with the apparent imp of water poured in and the keepers patted its black hide and threw water over it and chared its flattened anterior, fin-like arms of seaweed, and raised up its calf-like mouth and nostrils and e3 r es. It has no legGor p< s erior limbs, outy a broad flat other substances. For the ash of the fiber, thirt3’-three and one-third per cent, phos phate of potash, sixteen and two thirds per cent- phosphate of lime, twelve and one- half per cent, phosphoric acid, and thirt3' seven and one half per cent, magnesia and other elements. A bale of lint cotton of 400 pounds, thorough 13' incinerated, would 3'ielti four pounds of ash, half of which is made up of phosphates of potash aud lime. Tke seed from which this line is taken, some 800 pounds, reduced to an ash, would 3'ield about fifty pounds over half of which is composed of phosphates of lime and pot ash, the lime preponderating. These cons tituents, as found in the seed, are WI10II3', or nearty* so, from the hull, the kernel fur nishing but little. It is well known that the natural color is white, reddish or 3’ellow; blit the compo sition of these colors has never been satis factory explained, any more than that it is thought they are allied with *some pectine and resinous substances which cau be re moved by treatment with diluted solutions.’ For the most favorable results the plant requires a uniform temperature, a singular adjustment of heat aud moisture, a peculiar equilibrium in the climatic relation between the mountains and the sea, abundant ruin during the planting season, frequent and gentle showers while flowering and fruit ing, and a rainless period at maturation and gathering. It is one of the least exhaustive teued, horizontal caudal expansion at the Q f anv known crop plants, that is, if the posterioi end of its body. Its thick, black ! sta ] k an( i t h e seed are retained to the soil skin is sparsely scattered over with bristly, j an( j nothing but the lint taken from it. It coa*se, black hairs. ‘AY hat are you going . j 8 that an average crop of wheat (ten to feed it with?’ I asked Mr. Reiche. ; bushels) |tak e s from an acre of land about “^Die leaves of the drascena aud of pond : thirty-two pounds of vegetable such as pot- liliei, was the reph'. “We will get the ’ } isli, lime, magnesia aud nitrogen; while of drascena from Florida, the pond lily roots j these elements the cotton plant removes in and plants from the great northern lakes. I jj n t onty two and tliree-quarter pounds per \Vehave already telegraphed for them.” i acre, presuming 450 pounds of seed cotton “Will 3'ou keep it iu fresh or salt water?” ; to jj ie acre “That is croton running into the tank, i ---- - but it likes brakish water the best.” “Is its 1 1 he Squeaky Door, flesh fit for food?” “They say its excel- Some thirty years ago, in a small town lent, and sells for fifty cents a pound in j n Ohio, had grown up a nice congregation Culo, and as high as a dollar a pound in j 0 f Methodists, who had built themselves a sone localities, as the Catholic Chr rch per mits the use of the same on some fast days, ecclesiastical dogma having declared tins creature, along with whales and other ce nice church edifice, which had, unfortu nately, a very squeaky door. The new ministerMiat the Conference had sent them, was annoyed by the habit some of the mcm- taccnns, to be fisli, not flesh. ’ “How did i>ers had of coming late, but what particu- yot gci this one ?” “Of native Floridans, 1 lariy troubled him was that, as soon as the who have had it for a pet four years.” j squc‘ak3' door opened, all the congregation 4 flow old is this specimen supposed to be.” j WO uld twist their necks round to 6ee who •‘Al»out fifty years old,^and it has not‘yet it was that had come in. He made up his gaiaed its full size, though it is the largest, m i n d tlmt he would correct these bad hab- onc 1 ever saw in captivity. It-will be, its; so the next Sunday morning he fiankty twenty feet long if it Jives long enough to told them thut between those who came get its full size.” j late, and those ^who turned round to see While *we were talking about the Mana- j w ho had come in, he could not get on with uum; mu, w low; vyimi uic ojijiaiviui nujrvi • •• ““v ..... , «ik> iijui cuuic i darkness—for the fellow had just come tee, and watching it raise its nostrils above j Bis sermon, and that if they would only from the last chimney, and was a literal the water at intervals ef about five minutes j remain quiet every time the door opened, mass of soot from head to foot. “Who and for air, it suddenly liecame active, and 1 he would announce to them who it was that what art thou ? “I, 3'our Grace, am 3’oilr most humble aud devoted servant aud helper—the cleaner and amender of 3'our chimneys. ” “Oho! You have been sweeping the chimneys ?” “I have, 3'our Grace r and 3'ou may now build your tires with solid assurance of peace and comfort.” “1 am glad of that. And now, I sup pose, 3'ou would like for me to pa3 r 3*ou ?” ‘ ‘From 3'ourself, my lord, cither the pay, or an order on your treasurer. ” “I’ll pa> r you. How much will it be ?” “Indeed, sir, it was a pretty job; take ’em big and little, there were six-and many other lonely people that you will feel chimneys, and I should surely have happy? “Lonely ?” Great guns, ami a new a slnUmg ap eep, but w* circr/s billed 03 the fence nro —11 ! '""^rSu-enty shillings Bishop. “And how long have you been at it ?” “Yesterduy and to-day, your Grace.’’ “Well, I declare, you manage to earn a very short space Old-Time Banking. laGicd itself around furiously for a few se- hail come in. conds. The keepers jumped out of the j Squeak went the door, “Sister Fdwards,” tank in double-quick time, but no one was i he announced, in a distinct, clear voice, hurt, and after that exhibition of its activity j sister Edwards took lier seat, not tlie sea cow ,(or Sea bull this one is, as it is : knowing why her name had been called a male), relapsed into its dormant condition ! out> }U1( j fancying, not without good reason, and did not stir its tail or arms again during that ever3 r one was laughing at her. tin next tiiirty minutes that I sta3'ed watch- j Squeak again “Brother Brooks,” in the ing it. During that time it took in and ex- j same c i ear voice. He, too, looked as if linled air four times, and slowly ■winked its something was going on that he could not eyes about as often. It’s the queerest beast j g et the hang of. He could not imagine I aave yet seen in the aquarium. j why his name should be called out, and j everyone in the church sit motionless as summer Breakfasts. 1 statues, excepting Sister Edwards, and she s i gave him, as she turned, such a look of Beefsteak, or ham and eggs, short bis- j anxiety, that he suspected, although he it, fried potatoes, and such articles, with; cou id no t for a moment believe it, that ye’ll calLit foutejlR^ are not Uie dishes to sit lightly on a ; they were on trial for having l>een seen j ^^^an’s .,‘omack. jiqri give him. comfort; t h e public park, conversing a few days lx hillings!” cried the through tne day, ana yet they are what; f ore . >45. owing to some disastrous operations . deal of money m a vei 1 Ohio, it was temporarily badly crippled, time. ^ id to tide over the crisis the directors lent “Ah, your Grace,” retort* The old Farmers and Alcchanics’ bank was established in Detroit in 1839. 1845. fn and their best energies. The bank had a large volume of notes outstanding, all redeem able in coin on presentation, and it was apprehended that the moment the condition of the institution became known a run would ensue which would compel the clos ing of their doors. Now-a-da} r s a bank officer would throw' up the sponge under such circumstances; aud suspend payment like a little man, but then bankers were liotli bold and fertile of expedient. The coin had ruu ver3' low and there was no time to he lost. The services of a friend of the institution were -secured, and he was privately sent to a large creditor (Lyell, the subsequently defaulting banker, by tlie way,) -to whom the critical state of the hank was whispered, and the wisdom of some measures for self protection suggest- . Lyell snapped at the bait, and, upon hint frpm the officious visitor, rushed around to the nearest court and got out an injunction forbidding the bank to pa>* out any more coin pending the order of the court. This effectually saved the concern, for when note holders subsequently pre sented the bank’s paper for redemption they were politely r met with the repl3 r : “We should be ver3’ happy to oblige you, sir, but unfortunate^' we are for a few' days tied up by a process of the Wayne circuit court. We hope tlie injunction will soon be dissolved. It was late in the afternoon w hen the in junction w'as served, and the stock of coin had some hours previous dwindled to $53. The cashier meantime was on nettles. If that injunction did-not come quickly'the concern was ruined. At every opening of the door the poor man trembled iu his shoes, lest the newcomer should be a note holder in quest of coin. One more de mand would close the concern forever. Slowly the clock ticked off the minutes, retorted the sweep, with a comical shrug aud leer, at the same time giving a sweeping indication of his finger toward the prelate’s glossy habili ments of matchless broadcloth, “we that wear the black cloth must needs get good pay for our work.” Tlie Bishop laughed heartily at the humor of the retort, and paid the four-and- twenty shillings willingly'. most people fill up with constantly. Now, t Squeak again. The minister looked hesi undoubtedly, it is not good in hot weather ta te d— looked again, and finally said, to overload ijie stomach by partaking of a “Sniall man ^ with white hat, crape on it; hCavy meal. And yet we doubt the pro- j has a cane in his hand. I don’t know him; priety of discacding meats and living exclu- j ^ a p may turn round and look at him to sively or principally on oatmeal, cracked ' ^ jf ^ey do.” Round went every head wheat, etc. In hot weather there is a great j f or p wa s a relief, as they had sat so long wastage of“our bodies going on ; and food gazing at the minister, when nearly all ex- should be taken, although in moderation, in | claimed, “Why, it’s Brother Brick.” Tlie Lone Branch Pi The pier is one of the boldest bits of en gineering ever attempted. It has been talked of for years and laughed at by many, who said that the first winter gale would knock it all to pieces. But laughter never kills anything, and the structure, though not yet quite completed, is an ac knowledged success. True, it has not en countered winter storms, nor have any ice bergs floated against it, nor wrecked vessels been blown upon it. The weather si nee* its opening for traffic has been for the most part placid, and the boats liaye generally been able to land without much difficulty. Considerable trouble in regard to tliis was feared. The pier is now about 6U0 feet long, and will be, when completed, about 1,0U0. It extends from the bluff intd the sea, directly in front of the Ocean hotel It is supported by about 140 iron piles, each one of which is a tube, forced far down into the sand and clay which 'form the bottom o f the ocean. These tubes are firmly braced together by iron girders, and the structure thus combines an immense amount of strength with elasticity ebough to resist the force of the waves. ‘Even when the sea is as rough as it has been at an3 r time since the pier has been erected, no motion is perceptible to one who stands on the floor or deck. In appearance the thing is so light an airy as to suggest the pqesibil- . „ , ,. , l . . . , ity of its being swept away. All fear of full thirty of which must yet elapse before gucll a calamity vanishes at once .from the "ould the junction mind of the passenser who sets^oot on deck or stairway. At the present -ocean the hour of closing never come! At last the door opened and a nervous, bustling man hurried up to the counter. The casliier saw at a glance it was all up with him, but while there was life there was still hope he thought. “Here, Air. Cashier, I’ve got $500 of 3'our notes I want coin for.” The cashier endeavored to preserve a placid exterior while he deliberately be thought himself how he might delay a re fusalof pa3 r ment for a little while, until, perchance an officer would come in with tlie hoped for injunction. “ So you want gold coin for >'our bills, end of the pier the depth of water is about twenty-six feet. Tlius the biggest boats can be accommodated. Traveline Stones. Alan}' of our readers have doubtless heard of the famous travelling stones of Australia. Similar curiosities have recently been found in Nevada, which are described as almost perfectly rtund, the majority of them as large as a walnut, and of an irony nature. When distributed aliout upon the floor, ta- r , . .. ble, or other level surface within two or >u ? ” suavely remarked the cashier, | ’ f . , oth ^ immed iately c 8 "** 1 ng through the open wmdow into the “ gia tmv!lrd ’ a c J Ilmon centre, and there huddled up in a hunch like a lot of eggs in a nest. A single stone, removed to a distance of three and a half feet, upon being released at once started off, with wonderful and somewhat comical celerity, to join its fellows ; taken awa3 r four or five do y glanci: Jill too quiet street. “Why,yes; I live in Dexter, and I want to catch the four o'clock train; so please hurry up the specie.” “All right! What’s the news in Dex ter? How do the crops look ? How’s m}' ^ ^ ^ old friend ? Is be living there still: ; f ee ^ ft remained motionless. They are And, l>\’ the way, what in the world can f oun d in a region that is comparatively 3’ou do with specie iu that little country ] j L , ve i ? an( i j s nothing but bare rock. Scat- town that banners and Mechanics bills ^ tered over this barren region are little ba- won t accomplish? ’ sins, from a few feet to a rod or two in di- “Oh, never mind. Give me my money anieter , and it is in the bottom of these so that I can catch the train. The fact is, , ^j ia ^ ^he rolling stones are found. They there is a little flurry out there about the f r om the size of a pea to five or six safety of your bank, and I want to make j inches in diameter. The cause of these sure of my money’. ” [ stones rolling together is doubtless to be “Ha! ha! ha!” laughed the cashier; f nnm | in tlie material of which they are “afraid of our bunk, are they’ ? \\ell, | composed, which appears to be lodestone they must be getting pretty fastidious 0 r magnetic iron ore. hen the conservative old Farmers’ and Alecbanics’ won’t suit them. AVhy, my dear sir—” “Never mind the pedigree of your bank but give me my money or I shall miss my train.” “Certainly, niy dear sir.’* (Another —Judge James T. Leonard, of Clear field. Pa., has given $19,300 to the pub lic school fund of that borough.the amount due him on money advanced by him for the erection and furqishing of a graded school building. the highest degree nutritious and calculated to keep our bodies in their full normal con dition. We regard beefsteak or a nice amt ton . chop, accompanied with few cu cumbers or spring onions as a salad, and eaten with properly-cooked potatoes, as an admirable Summer breakfast. Such nutri tious food serves to fortify the system against the insidious effects of the heat which comes to us during the Summer’s day. There is another excellent breakfast, easily got up, which we wish was more common. We allude to Graham bread and butter and a slice of rich cheese, accompanied with a cup of good coffee. To get up such a breakfast will give tlie housekeeper but lit tle trouble. This Is also a good fortifying meal against the heat of the day which lies before us. Cheese forms an admirable sibstitnte for meat, but it should be always eaten in Hie forepart not in the latter part of the day. So, also, to those who are en tirely healthy, hurd-boiled eggs with Graham bread and butter, makes an admir able substitute for meats. An important item about Summer breakfasts is to change often. The same writer, from whom we have quoted above, also says:—“More wholesome dishes for breakfast, however, are rapidly coming into use. Within the list five years the consumption of oatmeal and cracked wheat has increased wonder fully. Cooked as musli/or as nee, they make a diet that not only satisfies the appetite, but sustains the ph3’sieal and metal energies longer tnau almost any other food. At first they will seem a little insipid, suid one will think he ought to have something a little more substantial; but gradually he will recognize and appreciate their delicate flavor, and relish them highly. They are eaten both hot and cold.” It is needless to say, the bad habits were corrected from that time. Cotton Fiber. Tlie cotton fiber is a hollow, elongated cylinder, tlie walls of which are of the purest and thinnest cellulose, filled with a sap or protopalasm, more or less glutinous, which in the state of maturation becomes dense by the dissipation of the volatile parts, causing the filament to assume a spi ral convolution. During the process of ripening the fiber collapses, presenting the appearance of a flat ribbon with thickened Horrors of Silver Speculation. Air. Ichabod resides in the wild sub urbs of a part of tlie city where don keys occasionally “roam and howl.” Mr. Ichabod is quite a joker in his way. He has living with him a neice, lately arrived from a part of the Atlantic States where such an animal as a jack ass is hardly seen twice 111 a lifetime. A night or two since this young lady had retired to her sleeping apartment after having duly and dutifully kissed her relatives good night, but feardty been absent three minutes before she rushed back into the parlor with ashen cheeks and widely distended e3’es. “Oh, uncle!” cried she, “did you hear him ? Some one in the street ut- ering such fearful cries! He must be in horrible agony. There he goes again! Why, uncle, some one is surely being murdered!” Uncle Ichabod now heard the long- drawn, wheezy bray of an old asth matic jackass, and smiling reassuringly upon the startled and excited girl, soothingly said: “Calm yourself, my dear, it is not so bad as you think. He will soon get over it.” “Wh3 T , uncle, who is it, and what is the matter of him!” “Why my dear child, how excited you are! It is nothing—nothing! It is only poor neighbor Jones across the way. He’ll soon calm down.” “Calm down ! But, uncle, why docs -he take on so?” “Well, he is of a sensitive, nervous coustitution, and he has probably just beard of the $3 assessment on the Sierra Nevada.” CurlQua llbling Places. Some women have curious ways of hiding margins. In proportion to the abundance their money. A woman put fifty dollars in of twist in th« filler, so its strength mid the oven of her stove one night to keep it pliability, two of tlie chief values tor safe. Next morning after breakfast the na- manufacturing purposes. j tional debt bad been diminished exactly The glutinous composition gives what is that much. A student of the curious would ^lled the ‘body’ to the cotton, which is find it interesting to note the places in more copious in rich cotton that is grown which women hide their money. One ex- OnYich land, which aoecounts for the supe- cellent and frugal dame used to tuck her nority in strength of such cotton over that little savings under a corner of her carpet, crown on poor soil. The direction of the ; The tin3* roll of greenbacks grew fatter and twist in the fiber is variable; and not al-; fatter in the course of a year or two, when, ways complete, there being quarter, half, ' the da3' after it counted $250, the house tliree-quarter, full turns. ! burned to the ground, and again the na- The numbers of sinuations to an inch tional debt was diminished by a little roll of differs according to the nature of the cotton, \ woman’s pin money. There was that oth- but seldom exceeding 150; nor are they er careful lady, too, who used sometimes to uniform throughout the fiber. "The largest bide her diamond ring between two teacups number of twists t(7 the inch that ever came in the kitchen cuplxiard. sometimes behind under my observation was 160, including a certain brick in the cellar, and again un half turns. I am inclined to the opinion der the lining of an old hat. She had div- that the firmness awd softness of cotton are ere other places of safety for her jewelry dependent greatly upon relative humidity also, the only trouble being that she had so of the atmosphere. The fineness of the n.any hiding-places she occasionally forgot fibers averages nu$r ^ ar Rom 1,690 diame- : where she last put her precious things, and rs to the jnr>h . 1 about every three months would fancy she The chemical analysis of the seed and had been robbed, and the house would be fiber demonstrates the existence of potash, turned inside-out, and all therein be made lime and magnesia as the principal consti- uncomfortable until the missing gems would tuents in various combinations. The most be found carefull3’ tucked away in the folds satisfactoiy ansdysis w'hich I have seen is of the bottom towel of the pile in the left this: For the ash of the seed, sixty per hand comer of the lower drawer in the cent, phosphate^ of lime, thirty per cent. ! clothes-press at the east end of the dinmg- phoarhate of ’lotash and ten per cent, of room. Ka*rally Ingenuity. A bright example of perverted ingenuity was developed in Paris during the time of the Exhibition. Three persons it seems, are necessary to carry out the trick, the modus operandi of which is as follows: A man, accompanied apparently by liis wife and daughter, enters a shop in which the articles lie alxiut a little careless^’, and the gentleman at ofice goes up to the bead asj sistant behind the counter and makes confidential communication. “I must warn you,” he sa3’s, “that my wife is affl cted with kleptomania. Be so good as to watch her, but do not say an3'tliing to her which might make her tliink 3'ou have any suspi cions.” The elder lad3 r is consequently watched with great care, all the shop being on the alert. Some article is pilfered due course, tlie theft noticed, and the gen tleman on going out quietly and promptly pal's for what has been taken. While the shopkeeper is congratulating himself the honesty of the husband, the trio are making off with a valuable boot3* secured by the younger lad3 r , whose movements had not l»een watcl^*d at all. But the best part of the s f ratagem remains to be told, in case the disappearance of the articles really stolen should be detected a little too soon, and the party be followed b}' the indignant shopkeepers, nothing is easier than to ex press regret and surprise that there should have been other mistakes, aud to ruturu the articles with profuse apologies. B>’ this ruse a considerable degree of safety is in sured even if the swindlers are balked of their booty; the scheme provides for escape as well as for success. A German in Paris latcl3’ adopted a plan wliich was successful in despoiling shop keepers of their goods. Provided with s loaf of bread, which he carried uncon cerned^’ under one arm, he would saunter up and down in front of the shop windows, till, watching Ins opportunity, he would seize some small articles exposed outside or otherwise within liis reach, and secrete it in his loaf. Suspected, and at last arrest ed, lie was subjected to a strict search, and was on tlie point of being released, when some one thought of the loaf, which the accused had laid unnoticed on a form. On examining it, a watch, some rings and other missing articles were disclosed to tlie sur prised spoctators, and another swindling dodge thus exposed* Equals successful, for a time, was another system of robbeiy practised not very long since in the streets of London. A man dre&sed like a clergy man would walk about the crowded thor oughfares carrying a half-opened umbrella in his hand. Innocent as that useful article appeared, it was acting all the time as a convenient receptacle for sundr3' articles of value dexterous^' slipped within its folds by two or three female pickpockets, who were active in their depredations among the foot passengers, but were captureiL, together with their respectable-looking ac complice. Thefts by means of any kinds of ruse are had enough, but when they are com mitted under the cloak of religion the\’ are innneasurahl3' worse. A sister of charity called on a famil3' in Paris to enlist their sympathies for the poor; she was most pleasant and attractive in her manner. Eventually she induced those present to join with her in an act of devotion, and the party knelt side 113* side in the drawing room while the sister offered a pra3'er. From the time of her entering the house, and during this act, she had kept her hands crossed upon her 1k)Soiil When, therefore, in the middle 01 tlie prayer, a lady felt somebody’s hand in her pricket, it required some nerve to seize the si$tcr and accuse her of theft. This she nevertheless did; and then the m3'ster3' was solved. The crossed anus were of wax, and, being par tially hidden under the sleeves, seemed real, while the actual hands were at liberty to enable the lady to pursue her fraudulent calling. The Bill S3’kes fraternity, in following out their profession of housebreaking, some times give evidence of an amount of in- genuity worthy of a better chuse. A bur glar concealed under tlie bed ef a married couple by some incautious niouement al most betra3’ed his presence, the noise he made being sufficient to make the wife call her husband’s attention to tlie sound. “It is only one of the dogs,” was the sleep>: answer, and, snapping liis fingers, he called by its name one of his favorites, wliich was supposed to lie present. The thief’s pres ence of mind did not desert him though on the briuko f discovery; for, divining the situation at once, he immediately licked the extended hand in the hope of confirm ing the gentleman’s surmise. This clever ruse was not, however, we believe, success ful, though one might say it deserved to be for its boldness and ingenuit3'. BR I EPS! . Removing Old Paj>t We would urge the necessity, from a sanitary point of view, of having the walls of a room thoroughly stripped of all old paper and washed and dried before laying the new papers, containing as they do a large amount of vegetable and animal mat ter in the form of size, are easily softened by moisture, and are then subject to pntre faction and mildew, the odor from which is both unpleasant and unhealthy*. This, however, is an evil that can easily be averted by expending a few dollars in strip ping and thoroughly cleaning the wall be fore each repapering. Inquby is often made by the careful housewife as to whether paper-hangings will clean, and, if so, wliich is the best method to adopt. Good hand-painted paper will clean, but machine-made paper, owing to the material used in sizing the colors, as alread>' ex plained, will not. The following method can be used : Cut into four or six parts a moderately sized loaf of bread that is two dav'S old—it must be neither newer or staler. 'With one of these pieces, after blowing off all the dust from the paper to be cleaned with a good pair of bellows, begin at the top of the room, holding with the crust in tlie hand, and, wisping hghtiy downwards with the crumps, about half a yard at each stroke, till the upper part of the banging is completely cleaned all around. Then go round again, with a light sweep ing stroke downwards, and always com mencing each successive course a little higher than the upper stroke had extended, till the bottom is finished. This operation, i if carefully performed, will frequent^’ make ver>’ old paper look almost equal to new. Great caution must lie used not by an3’ means to rub the paper hard, or to attempt cleaning it in a lateral or horizontal wa3’. The dirty part of the bread, too, must eacli time be cut away, and the pieces renewed as soon as it may become necessary. A J Water Velocipede. Elon Marsh, of Battle Creek, Alicliigan, has inveuted a velocipede to ride upon the water. It was given a good test a day or two ago. and proved perfectly satisfactory, the frame is similar to that of an ordinary velocipede, having tliree wheels, or rather air-tight drums, with fans, two in front as propellers and one behind to steer by. Tlie machine is steered in the manner as any bycicle. At the trial on the river it walked up the stream against the current much faster than an ordinary boat, and with greater case than rowing. The machine draws only five inches of water. The . principal objection seems to be that a fel- y low can't take his girl riding with him. —The hospitel for the insaqe-at Dan ville, Pa., has about 452 inmates at pre sent. —The valuation of Springfield, Mass., is $29,458,089, an increase #f $83,214 over last year. —Niagara river under the ftfwer sus pension bridge is 700 feet d6fcp—the deepest running stream known. —A firm iH WjJJiamsport ,has a con tract, for manufacturing the erases for fifty thousand miniature piano*J —It is estimated that the yield!of the Aliiniesota wheatcrop will be 40^)00,000 bushels. —Over twenty families name# Nich ols reside near each other in. iiife lower porclon of Carolina^county, Md. —The original autograph will/ of George Frederic Handel was lately sold by auction in London for £53. • —Crop returns lunu Kentucky show an extraordinary yielii of wheat, but the corn and tobacco crops are looking badly* . ' —it is < stimated that .the .present year’s wheat crop will ptit iffto the pockets of the faraiers of Indiana at least $35,000,000. , c —A United States Si^alService Sta tion is being establisheci on the iummit of Sugar Loal Mountain, twelve miles from Frederick, Aid. —The debt of California iii foiir years has been reduced $3B6,2L4, and 'is now less than $3,dOO,0(KJ, while is $1, 498,450 in tlie Treasury'. —The total valuation of 111 Alnssa- cliusetts cities and to\Vnsi#$15lr’000,000 650. Last year It was $161,318,180. Boston is not include^ ip this f report. —The French Comedy Company in England, while phijring in an eating piece, demanded real food,'aiu^drink, which cost the management $20a night. —The llagyr^own (Md.) .tilobe says that an empioye 2 of the Anfleram paper mills while sorting a lot o#cdU!)paper recently, found a copy /if the laws of England published in f602. —Wm. R, Taylor, of New Gloucester, Maine, is 85 years old.and is said to be the oldest harness maker in the State. He has worked in one sflop in New Gloucester for 57 3rears. —An equestrian.statue of the Prince ot Wales was 11 irvei led, at Bombay^ India, on the 2Cth‘ of «?une '~Tt is a gift to the city by Sir Albert Lassoon, and com memorates the visit of the i’rijice in 1875-6. —Arthur Reese, a Clearfield (Pa.) farmer hung himself In his barn re cently. On a shingle near by lie had writteu his will, and charged his wife with being tlie cause of*the trouble that led to the suicide. —The sale of cigar stamps in the col- lecticu district of Schuylkill, Berks, Le banon and Lehigh counties, Pa, during the present fiscal year, it Is estimatod, will amount to about $300,000, or nearly $1000 a day. —The extent and destruction of the famine in India may be judged from the statement of the Bomtjay Gazette that jhe city of Serinogur, the capital of Casemere, which contained 300,000 inhabitants has now only 30,000. —Down to the close of 187S the Uui- ted States had produced a total of 2,145,- 595, net ton of Bessemer Steel rails. In 1863, when the States first, imported Bessemer steel rails from this cpur.try, they paid us at the rate of $150 per ton. —The late Robert Arg3'le, of Gold Hill, Nev., one of the first settlers of the Comstock, has left 10,000 to the cit3 r of San Francisco to build a fountain. He has ordered the foundation to be made of refuse quartz from euoh of the Comstock mines. —More than half the glass used in the United Spates is produced at Pitts burg, where over 5,000 hands are em ployed in making it; 12,110 tons of soda ash were used in the business last year, aud the value of the glassware amoun ted to nearly $7,000,000. —The Pacific ocean covers 80,000,000 of square miles; the Atlantic 25,000,000; the Indian ocean, 14,000,000; the South ern, to thirty degress, is 25,000,000; the Northern ocean, 3,000,000; the Black Sea, 170,000; tlie Baltic, 175,000; and the North Sea.’ 160,000. —Asa Otis, of New London. Conn., left in his will $5000 to an old negro servant, Preston Hamilton, who has expended part of the sum in the pur chase of a lot near the Otis residence, wliich he turned iuto a park and pre sented to the city. —Mrs. Maria Rice, of Saucon town- slqp, Lehigh county, Pa., Iras attained the ripe old age of 107 3’ears. She is quite active, aud when in Bethlehem a few days since, the band serenaded her, which she acknow ledged in a few re marks. —A Russian physician, M. Malarey- ;y. struck by the prevalence of # Kirtsightedness among literary men, proposes that books should be pcfeited in white ink on black paper, aud has made experiments with tiftv' persons which tend to confirm his view. —Vxs. Simmons, a resident of Aliiiers- vhle, Pa., went into the woods recently toynefc berries, and not returning at night, her husband and some friends went to look for her. She was found hanging by the skirts,head downward, in a deep pit, in which she had survived six long hours. —The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany are building at Altoona several hundred box cars, which they propose to run on their fast express trains. The axles, journals, etc., are to be sufficient ly heavy to m ike it perfectly safe to ruu the cars at high speed when carry ing 40,000 pounds. —Prince Albert Victor and Q*orge Fraderick of Wales, on July 24th, bade farewell to the Brittaoia,at Dartmouth, where they have been educated during the past two years. They have *both passed first-class in seamanship andcon- duct, thereby gaining six months’ time, w hich will entitle them shortly to be come midshipmen. —During the past few* days several large engineering firms in America have communicated to the Secretar3 r of the Bradford Branch Amalgamated Society of Engineers, offering employ ment to as many men as will go to America. The wages offered are much higher than is the case in England. Between two and three hundred me chanics have signified their intention of accepting the offer. —The following taxpayers at New port, R. I., pay taxes on the amounts annexed to their nvmes: Alexander Agassiz, $25,700; J* an Jacob Astor, $126,000; JohnC. Brown (estate),$822*- 000: Charlotte Cushman (estate)*$25,- 400; David King (estate) $548,000; George Bancroft, $36,600; August Bel- ntmii * 107 200 r Pierre Lori Hard. $133.- 800; Fairman Rogers, $68,300; Charles C. Van Zandt, $26,800; George P. Wet- more, $581,400. The estate of Mr. Brown pays the largest taxes of any single estate ir the city.