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PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY MOHNENG. WM. BBADFORD, Editor. TEBMB OP SUBSCRIPTION: I Copy, one year - - - - " ® 1 « six months - - U •' one year ----- TERMS—cash in Advance. Address, ADVERTISER PUBLISHING CO.. CZDinowx, a*. Cedartown Advertiser. OLD SERIES—VOL. VI. NO. 36. CEDARTOWN, GA., NOVEMBER 20, 1879. NEW SERIES—VOL. I. NO. 49. ADVERTISING RATES. 1 Inch 2 inches-.... 3 inches...... % column..— column... l column.... l in. 13 m. $2 50 $5 00 3 00 7 SO 3 50! 10 00 500|15 00 7 SO 125 00 20 DO 140 00 i y. <12 00 18 00 25 00 40 00 60 00 100 00 cents per line each insertion. OBITUARY NOTICES—Charged at half rates. LITTLE PHIL. “Make* un a headboard, mis er, smooth and pa nted you so 1 ; Cur ina she d (U iast winter, anl sister and Jack and me L at Sunday c„uld Lardly find her, so many new graves about. And Bud cried oat, ‘We’ve lost her,’ when JaiA gave a little shout. We have worUe l an l saved all winter—been bungr. some times, I own— But we hid this much from father under the old door stone. He never goes there to see her ; ho hated her; scolded Jack When he heard us talking about her and wish ing sbo'd come back. But up in the garret wo whisper, and have a good time to cry, Onr beautiful mother who k>ssed us, and was’nt afraid to die. Put on it that uho was forty, in November she went away, That she icas the best of mothers, and we bave’ut forgot to pray ; ABd we metu to be as she taught us—be lov ing and true and square, To work and read, to love her, till we go to her up there. Let the board b i wbito like mother” (the small chin quivered here). And the lad coughed something under, an! conquered a rebel tear. ‘‘Here is all wc could keep from father, a dol lar and thirty cent-j. The rest he has got for coal aud Hour and partly to pay the renta.’* Blushing the white lie over, aud dropping the honest eves. “What is the price of headboards,with writing and I and-jome size ?” “Threo dollars! ’ a young roe wounded, just falls wi.h a moan, aud he, Witli a fuco like the ghost of h s mother, sank down on bis tattered knee. “Three dollars! aud wo shall lose her, next winter tho graves aud the snow !” But the boss had his arm t about him, and cuddle! the hoad of tow Close up to the great heart’s shelter, and womanly tears fell fast— “Dear boy, you shall never lose her, O cling to your sacred past J Come to-morrow, and bring your sister and Jack, aud the board bhall be The best that the shop can furnish, then come here and live with mo.” When the orphans loaded their treasure on tho rugged old cart noxt day. Ti.o surprise of a footboard varnlrfh, with all that their love could say ; And ."Edith St. John. Our Mother/” baby Jack gavohis little shout, And Bud, liko a mountain daisy, went dancing her doll about. But Phil grew while and trembled, and close to the bot>s he crept, Kissing him 1 ke a woman, shivered and laughed and wept: “Do you think, my benefactor, in Heavontbat she'll bo glad ?'* ‘ ‘Not as glad as you arc, Philip, but finish this job, my lad.” A Wilful Woman. If yod don’t hike compassion on such d devoted lover, and one ‘who is so good ami worthy of you as Hr. Crichton, all I can say is this,” said Mrs. llinxman to Alberta Graham, with much emphasis, as if she were leading up to a crushing crisis, ‘*1 shall have no patience with you, and shall think you are acting very foolishly. Now, as Mr. Crichton’s wife ” “It has not been proved yet that Mr. Crichton desires at all to have me in that capacity,” said Miss Graham, with a little laugh. “And if it were, my own inclina tion goes for something inthematter, I sup pose.” “Your own inclination ought to be for what is good for you.” said Mrs. llinxman, sententiously. “Sarsaparilla? Brimstone and treacle? What is it you give your children in the spring, Emily, especially the naughty ones?” “Yes, that is just what you arc like—a very naughty child, and you ought to know better at your age. And so I hope you will.” concluded Mrs. llinxman. shaking her head at her friend, as she rose from her writing table. Friends tried and true they were, since their schoolfellow days some dozen years ago. Mrs. llinxman had soon married and settled down to household cares and peri odical babies. Alberta Graham, beautiful, clever, and attractive in all ways, had, on the contrary, taken her full pleasure out of life, and now at thirty was better looking than she had been at twenty, and, what was to be expected, considerably more wil ful. About a month ago she bad come on a visit to her friend Emily llinxham, and there she had met the Mr. Crichton spoken of— a wealthy neighbor some forty years of age. As Mrs. llinxman prepared to leave the room, she said: “There! I shall leave you now to meditate on my good advice,” and Miss Graham, rising too, opened a glass door leading out on a balcony. Alberta sat down there, doing for once exactly as her friend had advised her— thinking over her advice. But did she care for Mr. Crichton ? That was the very thing she had been asking herself for days without getting any settled answer. “And if I loved him I should not be in doubt,” grid Alberta to herself. The glass door behind her suddenly opened, and Mr. Crichton himself, who had come over on a visit, with his mission writ ten on his face, asked permission to join her on the balcony. If Mr. Crichton’s face lietrayed his mission, lie had come there quite prepared to follow up the mute ap peal by word of lrouth. “Emily has sent him on purpose.” thought Alberta. Ile was evidently full of the tender sub ject, and ere long was saying.— “This cannot be a surprise to you, for I have let you see my intentions plainly, and Mrs. llinxman too.” “I do not say it is wholly a surprise,” said Albert a. who was zigzagging, so to speak, in he r replies. “Then surely you can give me an an swer,” said he; “there can be no difficulty in that.” “None, of course,” replied Alberta hasti ly, “and one thing it is my right to say—I will not be bothered and worried and perse cuted about a thing that is entirely my own concern.” “Never by me,” said Mr. Crichton, the smile of a moment ago changing to sudden gravity, “if I am to understand that you look upou my attentions in that light. I love you far too well to give you a mo ment’s pain. Do you mean that that is yonr answer ?” “Yes, that is my answer,” said Alberta, with unnecessary vehemence, “and I par ticular!}' beg I may hear no more on the subject” “That you shall not. be sure. God help me to bear this as best I may!” ami in u moment he was gone. She was wilful, but she had not expected this. In a few minutes he had vanished from view a3 he returned to his solitary home. And thc*n she was quite sure that she loved him. It was just a year later. Alberta, with her parents, had been staying in the same city, when she got a letter from Mrs. llinxman asking her to spare her a few days, and she concluded to accept the invi tation. Alberta did not look back with pleasure on the year that was gone. It had come to pass that Alberta had failed to gather much enjoyment from any of the old sources. A regret, a contrition, an insatiable yearning haunted her, and spoiled everything be sides. And now that Emily’s letter had come, Alberta could not resist it. Though she did not admit it to herself, she felt somewhat strange that the first day of her stay she did not meet Mr. Crichton. The next day passed too, and then came the last evening, and a very beautiful one it was. making Alberta’s heart aclie at the thought of leaving on the morrow', although she had inwardly known hut little peace or satisfaction throughout the visit. But there was something in it of relief how'ever. Mr. Crichton had come over to dinner, and they were not allowed to sit long after it. for the children had been promised to go and see the field w'here some workmen were burn ing charcoal. So off they started, Mr. llinxman with Alberta, Mr. Crichton] with Emily. The children w'ere in ecstasies. The glowing hills of fire made a scene that set them shouting with joy. As the shades deepened, the fires came out brighter. Tho whole field was a network of bright edges, spark ling and darting like fire flies, and full of mystery and romance. They were all get ting childish and merry, and the children were half beside themselves with the fasci nation and adventure of it all. Something of last year’s cordiality flashed out again between Mr. Crichton and Alberta in the unguarded gaiety of the moment. It was much too delightful to be left, but the night was drawing on, and after repeated re prieves, tin* children, hot and excited, were collected together, and the homeward jour ney began. In returning, the gentlemen running race, and playing with tho still excited childrens, Emily and Alberta fell behind, and reached J 1 ’ 1 *} 1 f( ' r tlie f f r '" , , to indigent Germ short, with her face in the moonlight grown suddenly hot. “But what?” said Air. Crichton, gravely, for there had been a few minutes’ silence, and his thoughts had been full of gloom. “But.” repeated Alberta, with a ripple of laughter in her voice, “supposing there had been no commands, what was it you would have said?” “Is that a fair question ?” he asked, halting and looking at her in a mixture of surprise and doubt. “Quite fair,” said Alberta, looking any where but at him. “Then I should have asked you once more to be my wife, and to give me love for love, if in ever so small a degree. Your answer, if you please. Miss Graham?” concluded Mr. Crichton, a smile upon his own lips now. “As you like it, then.” said Alberta, steadily, for she knew her own mind and his well at last. And with a fervent “God bless you for that!” Air. Crichton drew her closer to his side. . And the moon perhaps never smiled upon a happier pair of lovers than the honest- hearted gentleman who had lived in hope and the wilful woman w'lio had given up her wilful ness to love. An Odd Character of Paris. Baron Taylor died not along ago in Paris, lie was ninety years old and still sprightly. Only ten years ago he was in active life, and his name was in the newspapers daily. As long ago as 18*24, he was the “royal com missioner,” charged with the direction of the Comedie Francaise. and he weathered the various storms wiiich were provoked during the w'arfare of the classicists and romanticists. Had it not been for Baron Taylor's efforts it is doubtful if Victor Hugo’s “ Hernani ” would have ever been produced in the first theatre of France. The Baron managed, however, to remain reason ably impartial until the struggle was over. He was of Eiiglish-Flemisli parentage, but his father was naturalized in.France. When a youth he devoted himself for a time to literature, but finally studied art and became a most accomplished critic and connoisseur. His buy the up paintings which the allied armies had carried away at the time of the invasion, are historical. Louis Phillippe once gave A History in Coins. John n. McCall, the well-known railroad man, has amused himself of late years in making a collection of American silver and chance had afforded me this opportunity of becoming acclimated. Nevertheless as the first two students, upon whom 1 call oil. were not at home, I begun to think chance copper coins, and ‘lie result has betm j tliat those^dum/l^passed hwked^aniuTwitli hibhioLsof the^kind which any private ; a P? rtain Tm-^n t . r • .i ~ T#. ; c „ without saving anvtlung to me. very soon person can boast of m the country, it is a * , „ nn ;,n,ini Undid reminder of by-gone —>lg XfLining up these ancient pieces and think of the As j knew not one word of the varied scenes that have happened ... ^ J ^ ^ worth while to stop for a monosylable. and con- year of their coinage, and the things that have become history since. Mr. McCall has a sample of every silver coinage '‘"““J m .v walk. ,ade from 1794 'to ISO3. and , I ois ] " ' of dollars mad. again from 1830 to 1871), with the excep tion of two. Also of the half-dollars from 1795 to 1869, except that made in 1802, very few of which are in existence; the quarters as far back as coined, except those of 1823 and 1827, and the tens, five aud threes. Samples of pennies from 1793 to 187JI, inclusive, appear in this collection, aa d before l could divest my3e lf of my su- well as the half-pennies from 1803, being •- , t , in number. The twenty-cent, five-cent'#.u\*i two-cent pieces, representing more modem At the corner of Hue de •Jostchichik.” who was bow’cd to the ground drawing his sledge, but notwithstanding the rapidity of his strides, he felt obliged to speak to me in his turn, and cried "Noss!” Finally on reach ing the place of the “Admiralty.” I found myself face to face with a Russian peasant, who^said nothing at all: but gathering a handful of snow IhrcTV himself upou U1C, many missions to Spain, to Kgvpt, to ( interesting keepsakes, the obelisks, to other countries to hunt ! dates, are among these coins, while the col lection of tokens which had such a musbRxan growth during the war days contain 248 pieces, no two of which are alike. It is a study to go over these tokens which received their birth when change was so sacrce, and at the volition of individuals. They repre sent all kinds of business, from the n;iik dealer to the undertaker; the hatter and the clothier; the druggist and the confectioner ; the dry goods and the hardware man and saloon keepers without number, all redeem able in sums of $5. Every imaginable de vice is stamped upon these tokens, and they are decorated with all kinds of inscriptions from “In God we trust” down to “One country; one flag and and zwei lager.” The rarest coin in this collection is the silver dol lar of 1830, the first one that was coined after 1804, commonly known as the “flying eagle,” very few of which are extant; the well-remembered nickle penny of 1856 * the half-dollar of 1815; the cent of Alay 1, 1837, which was substituted for shinplasters, and tlieeentof 1839, commonly known as the “booby head.” Beside these coins, wiiich fill a large box, and are, of course, of no small weight, Air. AleCall is in possession of samples of all the script ever issued by the government. This collection has been made merely for amusement and instruction, but several times the owner has been offered large sums for it. Perhaps no other of the kind is more perfect, and as points on which to build past political history the coins are Dr. Carrer ou Archery* per-abundant apparel, began to wash my face, and to rub, particularly my nose, with all his force. I did not enjoy the joke very much, especially in such weather, and drawing one of my liaeds from my pocket I gave him a blow with my fist that sent him reeling ten paces off. Unfortunately, or fortunately for me, two peasants passing just at this moment, after having looked at mejib instant, threw themselves upon me. and in spite of my resistance held my hands whilst my enraged assailant, the peasant, gathered another handful of snow, and as if lie would not lie thwarted, precipitated himself again upon me. This time profit ing upon the impossibility of my defending myself, he began liis rubbing again. But if my arms were pinioned my tongue was free.* Thinking I was the victim of some blunder or of wilful murder, I called with all my power for help. An officer ran to me and demanded in French, with whom I was angry? “How sir,” said I, making an effort to free myself from the three men, who. with the most tranquil air in the world, pursued their path, one towards the “Perspective,” the others towards the Eng- glish quay. “Did you not see how these scoundrels were treating me?” “How were they treating you?” “Why they were rubbing my face with snow. Do you consider that by any means, a pleasant affair, especially in such weather as this?” “But sir, they have ren dered you a great service.” replied my in terlocutor, looking me (as we Frenchmen say) in “in the white of the eye.” “How is that?” “Your nose would undoubtedly been frozen. , . ... » f “Alercv!” cried J, putting mv hand to the privacy, while yet ara 1 a I t 1 wit w. f.ltll. The Front Gale. In all ages the front gate has been recog nized as an inpispensable element of real courtship. Of course, girls have been courted in brown-stone houses devoid of front yards and of every species of practical gate, but in such cases the poetry of love- making is lacking. According to Buckle, Darwin and Spencer, domestic happiness exist only in countries where front gates abound. Why is it that the French marri ages are arranged by the parents of the bride and groom, and are hence based, not upon love, but upon convenience? And why, in our favored land, are marriages arranged without the slightest reference to the old people ? It is plainly, because in France the front gate is rare and its true uses are unknown, while in our rural towns every house has its front gate, and the merest child knows its uses. French mar riages, contracted without the sweet influ ences of the gate, are too frequently unhap py, but with us the the path of domestic bliss lies through the front gate, and it is too plain to be easily missed. Among the Romans the wife was little better than a slave, and on Sunday nights the young un married Romun. instead of spending his evening in the “dim. religious light of the back parlor,” as Milton beautifully says, went to the circus or the amphitheatre to witness a gladatorial walking match or the antics of the Talmage of the period. The discovery of Pompeii explains why court ship was a lost art among the Romans. There was not a gate of any kind in the whole city wall, and we have every reason to suppose that nothing analogous to our front or back gates existed throughout the wide extent of the Roman Empire. It is in our Western States that the front gate lias reached its highest development of an aid to courtship As is well known, tiiere arc two schools which differ radically in their theory of the true method of using the gate. The Concord school, of which Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the leader, holds that young men and young women should lean on the same side of the gate— the inner side being regarded as preferable. The Western school, on the other hand, in sists that the young lady should lean on the will * Seeking Death. cherry and rose-color or pale cream he sufficient. ... , . , “Select from the oaks Quercua eoccinca Not long aTitM dressed traveler am- (the scarlet oak), with its growing red .vert at the Hotel <1- trance M. Petersburg, leaves, and Q. discolor (the swamp white stating that he a as Mr. Joseph O ,a oak), with rich brown deeply scalloped colonial agent, and that lie wishedto stay a leaves. These give elegance of form ami .short time m Jlutomir upon business. A beauty of color. When pressed and dried ; room on the second floor of the hotel was they are very effective as decorations. assigned to him and he sprat two or three The leaves of the sumacs, in their a u-j days m walking about the streets, although tumn tints of claret and crimson and gold, the weather was unusually wet and stormy, are fine material for wall bouquets. Re- On the fourth evening he retired to Ins room sembling ferns in theirpinnated form, they I early and locketl himself in. Next morning group well with them, and add brilliance to : ke was called at his usual hour, hut returned their delicate hues. The most desirable are ! no answer to the summons. After a good Run capaUina R. fi/phina, and R. ‘/'a- <l«*l » f kittle knocking and shouting the bra These hum' out their gorgeous ori- hotel proprietor became alarmed at ins ten- flammes in rocky pastures and by barren hillsides just as summer visitors are hasten ing homeward; and all the winter—after they have been nicely pressed—like the banners from old baronial halls, they will lend glory and grandeur to many an hum ble home. The boughs of some old trees are so cmnkfvl and curved as to resemble the ant lers of deer and when covered «un lichens and drooping moss are fine orna ments for an entrance hall or library. These are usually ancient hemlocks or junipers, and are found in damp localities. Alanv pretty things may lie made of these mossy boughs, such as vases and stands for dried grasses or pressed ferns and sumacs: also hanging baskets for holding pots of living plants or dried leaves and flowers, and easels for supporting sketches of rural scen ery. A little ingenuity in cutting and trimming the branches and in whirling them into the desired shape, will make of the most refractory boughs very beautiful ob jects. Use fine annealed wire to keep all firm and steady. The lichens that cover the fallen limbs of trees, old dilapidated fences, and the bowl ders scattered here and there* through the woods have a beauty peculiarly their own. Wooden brackets to which their lavender and gray ruffles are glued adorn a room and many useful purposes—arc especially lues that ant’s protracted silence, and caused the door of the room to be broken open. A terrible spectacle presented itself to the assembled household. Air. O ’< lxxly was lying on the bare bedstead, from which the mat; tress and bed-clothes had been removed - a sheet partly covered the legs of the corpse, which was otherwise in a state of nudity, its left hand pressed tightly upon the region tUo honrt. and its right hand convulsively clutching the hair. The eyes v%eic open, fixed in a glassy death stare, and the features distorted with agony. An oppres sive odor, as of scorched fat. pervaded the room. No wound was perceptible upon the body, but the chest was transversely barred in several places by dull red stripes. As soon :is the police, accompanied by the local medical officer, had made its appearance on the scene of this horrible tragedy, the corpse was turned upon its face, when the cause of death became known for the first time api. parent to the terror stricken spectators. A deep and broad burn was exhibited in the middle of the bark, and the spine was found to be completely carl ionized. Upon tho floor, underneath the bedstead, were dis covered the wicks, embedded in a little blotch of cold stearine, of three candles, which had been taken out of the candle sticks and fixed up on a planking on a layer of melted grease, and the flame of these candles Air. <> had laid upon the skele ton framework of his bedstead, and suffered desirable to hold a pot of growing »uiw will drop gracfully over and about them. h» spme to 1* slowly consumed unt he Collcma laceruw, resembling rosettes or*ed A marmsenpt. plare upon stable ,>earl gray laec. or a full blown rose carved I close to the hed, contained not only a resume inner side of the gate, on the othe: school lacks rience of greater numbe. w* — prejudiced mind there can be but little Ibox-board doubt that its doctrine is the true one. It is ate ori: may be found in moist woods. of wood, covered with the; are handsome receptacles for >f autumn leaves or ferns. having these lichens so D You see, ’said Dr. Carver, as ho de- “Mercy:” cried T, putting my hand to the i privacy, while yet afar off, the unsympa- him l.OOOroOO francs, and sent him to Spain ! posiied a whole sheaf of brightly feathered rt thrcateneJ _ ’ I thetic father and the wayfaring small hoy. to btiv whatever he chose for the French , arrows on a table, took off his umbrageous ; . lgi „ ^ H persf)n passing, addressing : The locality of the front gate, commanding museum. He returned 1 dC,000 francs out felt, and drew up a chair. “I must ke . himS( . lf lo thl . -I W arn you that r* 11 a full view of the bouse from of this million, and on the f»y of his return i shooting something or other all the »> mc ' [ your nose is freezing.” ' | wlncli the father may emerge with ms had not money enough to buy his dinner If it isn’t a Winchester it's a bow and ar- - , ffl ;f , heartless Imot. and tue public street, along with, so that he went to the house of a row. Pretty, they arc. But most 0,1 1 off ,J v s Uie lmst n' ura, thin- in the | wh ! c, !. Ulc Tl' ^ud os friend to dine. It never occurred to him fine ? Fancy things, these arrows, f or offt- "as the most natural thing whistling way, won .1 naturally he selected that Louis Phillippe had intended to allow I handsome young ladies to shoot on grass ; ^ , hmdftil of snow evun ’’- v loTC ™ " 1,oIly " lthoat engineering him to enrich himself. , The galleries of plats at straw targets. Now, an Indian ar-! Bowgghc Sobered a tadMoMaw instincts. Experience soon showed tlm Versailles are filled with treasures frem j row is a good bit longer-maybettor-two ™d ren^ tariff the same «mct| thc front gate possessed other onequated Italy. Greece. Turkey and Asia Minor, inches-and when a Sioux draws H chock which *tadness he was so brutally str “S c " c "‘'’“nkiges. To the eyes of the gathered together by the care of Baron I up to the bow it fairly hums when he *ets i , Taylor. He wrote well.' and his memoirs it fly. An Indian arrow has grooves cut in ought to be interesting. He knew every- it behind the barb, that is to say the ones body of any consequence in Europe. In they use in hunting, so that the blood ®n 1807, Bismarck went personally to thank j flow, otherwise wood would spoil ®d es whittle had rendered swell. The fighting arrows are na^y ligent German artists* He had been a j things. The barb is so put on the sWt easy to comprehend how the front I ,r I gate originally came into use The original j uc(J upon u a , t " hid<! its material adopted this pee.: ly have pair of lovers who first ul.hml it had doubt- look9 ^ jf cl]ist ^ in mm c arabesque pat-; onstralc whe her ; less sought a place where ^cy could enjoj tem fmm W)lid itc . Sllch a cros8 not. The latter; , ^ 4 public the lover c Do you mean to^ st . em3 to , JC on the outside of the gate .- , .... , , r ,1 • always seems lO 1>C in tllC UOt of going say sir that if it had not been for this aw|iy _ Whl . M anv onc except the avenging ™ an ~” c , , , , father drew near, tho-tover would remark. ‘Aou would no longer have had a nose, ’ „ Well ^ j was gavin& j rau9t rca n y go; ” replied the .nicer while rubbing his own. , thcn whcn thc objectionable perse •^hen sir, ]>ermit”—And I started on ** — -■ -r— • , , I to’imligcnt German artists) ile had been a I xnings. utrauo aipm a. me .., after mv nensant who thinkin" I was bad passed on,Mkc sweet sorrow of prolong. ll.e hall door alone, when they found a has- m ^ mll = of the Academv <.f Fine Arts sine,- that when it hits you the steel, or old hoop ^,^ cd y b f Ui,n ooimnenccd ed P artm " cou,d b ^‘“ "8“" a . nd ,as ‘ , ‘" td ket had been left behind. Nothing would j S J7. He was the found v of a great mini-1 iron, stays tn thc flesh when you go to pull : . , (] ., f ’ is , rltura n v ‘ke appearance of an elderly gentleman do for Alberta but to fetch it herself; she her of charitable societies. When he was out the arrow. Dear sakes what xift.y ! ^imdrislo^dmo - ^ with “dub at the front door seemed t„ said she had wanted all along to see that made a Senator, in 1869, under the empire. , wounds I have seen them make! An Im j ^“ver "vS"n Wm“ e^ | {«?**»£ P"*™* ° f am ' where she had gone, she was off round the He wag devoted to fjjg library, which con- His bow is taller than he is. He shouts at , , ■, farther FR|1 , ' ca ’ ro “- corner of the house. It was not far to go; taincd the finest theatrical collection in. most anything around the camp. hen he W hen I reached him I found him speakim- only u short cut across two fields, and the Europe. The old gentleman was compelled ; is twelve he uses sharp arrows. A boy must j ^ volubility in order to convince It seems almost sacrilege to mar the sym- i nical with, he would spend two dollars and gate was reached. Presently she became j to part with some of his literary treasures j ke^ r ongat ( dghteenUi usea^ man bow. i thcm ‘ tllat he was n , )t culpable but only too I metre of a well-grown tree bv cutting or j eighty-five cents for cliampa; granite. should rise from a base covered with the more common fiat species that abound on rocks hi pastures aud by the way side. James Gordon Dennett. >f the reasons which prompted this unfor- to undergo self-inflict<ttl martyr- the torturing chosen to destroy four languages and Czechish— aud commenced in a firm, bold hand-writing, the last few pages, however, being scarcely legible. In this letter he related that he adopted this peculiar mode of death to dem- suicidcs were cowards or portion of it was evidently written while stretched on the bed of torture. The cause of the act was undoubtedly a ove disappointment. In his manuscript he curses the being who caused his death, and says if he is able to revisit the earth he will leave her no single moment’s peace. A recent writer gives thc following pointed account of James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of the New York Herald. “I met him at the Union Club a few hours after his arrival. I never saw' him look handsome. Imagine before y< .Egyptian Pomades. Alost interesting is the reflection and how persistent is that human weakness which j — & tall, slim ] for more than 0.000 years has rewarded the man! about fortv.five years old, his face | skill of professors of cosmetic art. Weknow florid, and his hair’prematurely white. Mr. from the tract Sabbath of the Mishna Bennett’s eyes arq very singular. He lata that the oil of roses and the use of acnl what a horseman calls ‘watch-eyesthat remedies for tiic toolh-aehe, are as old as is, tin- iris of the eye iB light gray, while i the codification of thc oral law. Nay, the pupil or central dot is white. Walker, more, the use in those early days of artifi- the filibuster leader, laid the same restless rial teeth is proved by the debate on the ‘watch-eyes.’ Mr. Bennett’s white hair is | question whether it was allowable to get like that worn by Slokes. who killed Jim out on the Sabbath with these contrivances Fisk; by Frank Lord, the son of the late j in thc month. The decision, a very char- M. Hicks Lord ; and by voting George Law. ! acteristic one. was, that if thc tooth was re- It is caused by drinking. Champ; makes gray hair, while too much food pro duces gout. Bennett is a drinker, and not eater. If lie had three dollars to buy aware that one of the gentlemen had fo l-) after the being in _temp,,nwy financial: he“^nX^ i Pkkanthropic. Ten rubles that I lio takes an Indiii lowed her. She stood in the dark end of | distre8s ’ and U kroke his heart. _ the field under thc trees, from behind which the rising moon now sent tongues and shafts and trembling mysteries of light across the . ^ thcm dic | and a llalf to shadow. Her wlntc dress, however, he-! P ff jngt preTious to „j, ir flowering, the low-! tE.unting bow- trayed her, and. much to her annoyance, j er i eavcg turning yellow, and the stem event-, jjy having sinews pasted on it. I have seen ” ’ * Upon taking up the bulb ‘ We-shessa-has-ka, that’s the Long Man, him I bend it. It wants some strength, but more I explained the matter lo liis *rtjsfaction knack. Thc bow is made straight. When ^ Peusan kissed my hand, and one of it is strung, the cord, even when in tension, ! my “^stanls " ‘>0 spoke French, advised Lille*. H is si run {i, mecoru, cveu wuch iu icuoiuu, . - .. . Many cultivators of this beautiful tribe of. almost touches the bow. Jt is Uuck.^s.ime | “Xce was needless, durin, off just pre all their hunting bow-and has extristiffening !^ h "™ !dnder ° f my traTelS 1 " CVCr lest she should have been supposed to fore- j ually decaying. yarded as an ornament it was illegal so to do, but not if it was regarded as a useful implement. It was also allowed to bear alwmt the person on the Sabbath a fox’s tooth, which, if extracted from the living animal, was good to procure sleep. But the description of Tota carries us back to some 2.5(H) years before the Exodus. We its beauty; but when the ground is strewn jside the big house on Washington Heights might have formed our own conclusions as with leaves, it is needless to do this. From | e ft by his father, lie has a big double-house to the care that must be given to the ar- sucli profusion rare selections of coloring—| on Fifth Avenue, a house in London, a rangement of the complex head-tiring of mottled, marbled, striped, blotched, or ‘shooting-box’ in Lancashire, and now a . the early Egyptians. W e have their actual shaded—can lx* made that are unattainable j villa at Newport. All these things cannot jw 1 — i_ *’ breaking its branches. A few may some- ' cents for a sandwich, times be removed without detracting from , 0 f the ‘loudest’ livers and fiftei Bennett is really onc the eountrv. Be- Muslirooms. the trouble to come,” she said. “I begged ' f orn ;. m an j Qre Emily not to say I had come to fetch it.” “Has something been forgotten? I have not spoken to Airs. llinxman since, but. seeing you return to the field in a hurry. I thought you had lost something, and that I might be of use.” “Thank you; it is the basket; but I know exactly where to find it.” They went a few steps farther on and found it duly awaitinj gs in the British as’well as in the Berlin casgle branches; and these may be so ar-1 cost him less* than a hundred thousand dol-! Aluseum. Wc even have afforded us a tisticallv combined and mounted on wires as i ars jx.- r annum. He spends his money like ! glimpse at a monarch who.exereised the pa- to serve the purpose of natural branches. A a kins, and is really admired in New York, j terual care of instructing liis people as to few green leaves greatly enhance the bril- jMi\ Bennett, though a man of talent, has 'their pomades! We must be pardoned for r ♦ liancc of thc more highly colored. Both rca lly verv little to do with the Herald, j expressing thc regret that this ancient re- j of edible mushroom is not very ^ ^ ]lowg beconic more vivid in con- 1 n is business is simply to call aliout four ! ceipt is not translated. It would be curious ~ ~~ ; aucsou-uoa-na nuo iiuaiij ovvvu 1 • USC( iiuion avera.c ' ^* * 111 ] trust with green—a fact too often ignored, times a week and 'shake the boys up.’ One ito compare its chemical ingredients with gon species, and our native I an(l a goot ] Indian. On horseback, broad- ! and may be considered an acquired tacul- ; ]{athcr stout w j rc i s nce ded for the main 0 f M r . Bennett’s peculiarities is* the ‘sliak- those of tiic latest effort of American chrin- species, some of which like L. super bum. : gkle to a buffalo, I have more than once DJ-” The choicest specimens of the aj/ari- i gteni of a g ar innd or a branch; more slcn-1 big up’mania. Onc night, after a cham- ology, petroleum pomade, which is said ro 8eemtodefy cultivation; even the strong-; k nown that Indian to send an arrow through j cu * cornpcstris are however cousulere . to strcngt ben and render pliant the leaf j pagne dinner, he flew down to thc office, be of miraculous efficacy. growing L. lancifolium and its varieties, a b jg cow The arrow hung out on the i great, luxuries by many, and find a rea( W | stcm8> Common worsted, Berlin or Gcr- shouk up Connery, the managing editor. now common in our gardens. Our own ob- 0 th cr side. The bow for horseback and for j uiarket at high pnce9, in all our large , mantown j n re( ] ? marexm or brown; is ex- • nn d then wrote a loose, slashing editorial, servation and experience, as well as those of ! war a trifle shorter and maybe stiffer cities. M e saw a line and productive ar 1-; ce jj cnt p jr winding the stems to wires after a friend who is an enthusiastic cultivator of You do not draw the arrow to the eye, hut fi «“l mushroom-lied in Columbia, b. C., ^ manner of artificial flower sprays. Care this tribe of plants, lead us to the conclusion i ca tch aim as I do when shooting from the | J° me years^since at the old Iler( ^ in ^ 1 J b in arran gi n g the leaves, aceonling both to that it is owing to the excessive heat of the surface of the soil, which destroys the fibrous roots formed at thc foot of the stem, just them in all innocence in the charcoal field.; above the bulb; for many lilies have twosets t ,„.„ n ,i of roots, one set stout and comparatively Mr. Cnchton took it up. and they lurn < ed | fl^y,;^^ from the base of thc bulb, and their st'jps homeward almost in silence. AI- > tllc ot } ier ^ much more delicate and fibrous. berta walking very fast. Once'shc little slip, but recovered herself. pivc a Acting on this conclusion, wc have planted 1 bulbs of some of the species that annoyed us •The ground is very slipperv wi.h the most by their dying off, among groups or ® ,* ... . , A » clumps of dwarf-growing shrubs, and have dew. \> on’t you take my arm.' saul - lr - f 0lin( J that in such situations they thrive Crichton. _ \ finely; throwing up their flower-stems above “No, thank you; I shall do very well.” the shrubs, and blooming freely and beauti- said Alberta, slipping again in proof of it. fully. Thus planted,their roots are deep Is there any occasion to go quite so fast ?” shaded, and therefore more moist and cool he asked; -the night alone deserves -me'th-wbene^dtotheirull blaze oMUe notice. Onc could rarely see a finer. heating of thc surface soil. It also agrees “No,” admitted Alberta as they stopped j better with their natural situation, as many still under the trees, ‘in moonlight, shine j of them, like L. superbum, as most of onr and shade.’ to look at it. All the open. i^derem^ haveobrervc^£ow in tluAem country was spiritualized by moonlight: (lew and enchantment were everywhere. Al berta and Air. Crichton resumed their walk after a few vague commonplaces of admira tion ; now in silence, now with a constrained word or two that showed that silence no ticed. Then Air. Crichton said, rather ab ruptly : “You are going away to-morrow, and if I were a wise man I should lie glad of it. That I suppose I am not, for I a to bear it quite in silence, or admire this moonlight, or enjoy the present for thinking how soon it is to end.” “I do not see why my going should make any difference,” said Alberta. "Possibly not,” he answered, *‘Possibly you do not understand, either, how a man can get to care for a woman so that he cares for little else besides. Forgive me. how ever, for saying this, trouble you. I have not forgotten the com mands you laid on me to leave tills subject alone. If it had not been for them. I should have much to say to-night—but no doubt you wished them obeyed ?” •Of course 1 did,” answered Alberta. ‘And you wish it still ?” “I do.” ' r i throwing up tall steins above the shrubs loaded with blooms. Some, like L. aura- an yjoux onc, made of hickory or ash, turn and our native L. oanadense, grow in open grass fields, but in such situations the grass always keeps the soil moist and cool. No \Vomen. hip. That can only be acquired by Ion; practice. Thc string of the whole fin: shoot an arrow I (the Doctor buried up to the feather in the ceilin. the office, liis own peculiar ornamentation of thc Forest and Stream sanctum). I think that in a couple of months 1 could get into perfect practice, for 1 used to hold my own with any Indian on the plains. Some times after I had been shooting with my Winchester, an Indian would come up and show liis bow, and tell me his bow was muchee good; but then I used to take his own bow and beat him at it. “To pass awav the time when I was at the Brooklyn , and for the-benefit of any of j co i or an § size, is necessary to give satisfac ~ ~ . . - ghould leaf, size adapted for a farmer to carry out, is that . which the market gardner practices, who collects short litter from the stables “in town,” tlirows it into a heap, turns it over occasionally until he “gets the lire out of it,” then makes his beds into a long ndge, molds bed, when ready, in the usual way, and to protect thc bed from the too ex tremes of heat, he puts over it thatched hurdles propping them some few inches.. . - , , i , above the surface of the bed. On these tairung the leaves can be laid under a hear} hurdles lie adds straw, long litter, or any j or a pile of books. After wo or it inding the worsted, other twigs, similarly made, can be added as the work proceeds. The best way to prepare the leaves for mounting—they having been washed from all impuricties—is to press them between clean white papers under a weight. Where one has not pressing hoards designed es pecially for this puriKise. thc papers con- DrivingVar'q i'bought'me^n English Ihiw other fibrous refuse at hand, in ’thick™* orfrtwa of Hftlhprfftn -iml sonn irot in- according to the external temperature. In witli a warm yjiui nwj irvm. x thrown into the air quite as often as I miss- 18 a good situation for such a purpose. ■ , , c ] ast ' ic | lv t*. imparted and at the ed them. The English bows and arrows g^^rjmOU* bed, then cover dw. | “ d “ly jnl. he ^ ^ are fancy, hut good. ^ learn | ^ but the boss bow 1 ever owned was made of from 11 northern paper that the artificial An Indian carries his quiver . culture of musliroon During 890 years no woman is known to have entered tiic grounds of the monastery of Camaldoli, Italy, except once, when a princess of the house of Aledici, who had a sorrv i great desire to behold the place, disguised ‘ herself in man’s clothing aud was admitted. t But so stricken with remorse was she on be- I might. j 10 ]ji n g the sacred spot, that she hastened to the people to confess her fault, and as a penance she commanded to build a new cottage in the enclosure, whichshedid. This monaster}* is one of the few institu tions of the kind suffered to remain in Italy. A recent visitor says that what art* called cells are comfortable little dwellings. Each is surrounded by a wall, and has its garden, I have no right to j twenty feet square. A little piazza, with ! the trunk of a tree planed and squared for a bench as its only funiture, runs along the side of the house. Entering thc door, you fiud yourself in a brick paved vestibule, with an empty chamber where a spring of water is flowing into a basin on the left-, and the living rooms on the right. These con sist of a study just large enough for one person to enter and sit down, a (lining and sleeping room, with the hed built into the “Then that is enough for me,” said Air. wa R i n the fashion of a ship’s birth. Crichton, with such a depth of sadness in! small table, two chairs and a cupboard com- liis voice as he held the gate open for lierto plete the furniture. Food is passed to the irri _ occupant through a hole m the outer wail, i ; . nommnn 1-itolwin anti , ithout previous pressing. buffalo ribs. An Indian carries his quiver cuuurc oi uiusnruu.us by chemical pr ? a “ a ! ) (.aves'canhe'dried'wlth their twiji and of arrows over his right shoulder, so that is carried on "nth great succ^s in a ” ; - - Seeding maples lie can get his arrows quickly. When he has ; cellar m Hoboken under the: Palisades. The ; inches high, that are so discharged one arrow (the Doctor P r !t i refillTnWbfcotLTi^ abundant around full-grown maple trees, nounces arrow w.tha stng.e letter; he caffs Bn'gto’sZmt". |are very lovely dried in this manner. A Official Salaries la Europe. putting the price of thc Herald down to r three cents, lie not only shakes up his | Official salaries arc very low in Germany newspaper, but he shakes up his friends. : compared with those in England. Theen- Ilis trouble with the Alays was caused by ,{ rc Ha lary of the Imperial Chancellor, his appearing at thc Alay residence at twelve p^ ncc Bisinarek, from all sources, both as o’clock at night, ‘shaking up’ the door-bell, Alinister and Chancellor of the cleaning off the hat-rack, tiring a shot or j Empire js onIy 54^000 ($13,500). The two into tin* mirror, and then giving Alias ; hjgh^gt salary of a Prussian Cabinet Minis- Afay a pocket-pistol to defend herself with. ; ter j 3 zq^qqo marks. Pensions are on the Religiously, Air. Bennett ought to he a saillc , moderate scale. They are settled on Shaker—though in fact he is a Catholic, analogous principles to those which govern — the English civil-service pension system, Tlie L'mvorkctl Gold Fields of California. r j lC pt-ngjoQ amounting to as Jmany eigh- I tictlis of thc salary which was l>eing receiv- For hundreds of miles along the western a ^ t] ic time of retirement as there have base of thc Sierras are gold-bearing veins been years spent in the service of the State, and placers, awaiting development that will \ y C y years arc added to the record of service yield a profitable return to the energy and ; j n a ij cases where misconduct has not called money of the capitalists, who will yet seek f or censure. But where the salary exceed* this fietd as one of tho be9t and most relia- j 12,q00 marks ($3,000) only tlie half of such blc to be found on t he globe. Here will be J excess is taken into account. Dr. Falk, tlw found every facility of a kindly climate, retiring Alinister of Public Works and accessibility, cheap and available power. I ncation, entered the service of the State and every concomitant that can make the 11847. He lias consequently 33 yeors business profitable above the cost of produc- public service plus ten. His salary as Alin- tion. The gold mines of California, not- j ster was 30,000 marks, which becomes re- withstanding the vast treasurers they have dneed to 24,000 for the purpose of estimat- given to thc world, are comparatively un- j U g bis pension, which will be 42-80 of this worked fields. The gold-bearing veins are ! amount, or little over the half, namely, Un practically without limit, and the dead 200 marks ($3,300). river channels are only beginning to yield j f m t their inexhaustible stores. This is not an .. .. _ over-drawn estimate of the gold fields of ‘ California, and far-seeing men arc beginning , lias three or four arrows in the air, all goiu s . . . .. .. A at the same time. It’s great fun shooting i averaging in weight lo or 20 to the pound at a bird with a long tail that flies over tlie and reaching in some instances a weight oi prairie. Knock out liis ta 1 and Ills steering t0 8 , ix ounces «?*! and l V e demand for apparatus is gone. I have knocked the hu product is rapidly mcreasing. tail out of many a one, and so caught him in my hands when he tumbled. So here. | untish Exports to the United states. Talking about these things just makes me j long to be back again on the plains, A statement showing the exports of the A. ork is a mighty good place, and I av ^ principal articles of British and Irish pro- made lots of friends; but somehow I want Jj ucts and manufaetures from the United a horse, and a big field with miles on miles King( j om to t b e United States for the seven „ before me to gallop over, and buffalo just months ending j uly : >j t i 878 , as compared j suffice. At the end of that time remove the it an R.) with the same motion as he uses pnsouuicm uuuu i aimmon wire'sieve, a quantity of clean ; MM ., 0 0 4 4 4 in pulling thc string he clutches another ar-; He keeps Ins method a]» ^ncious sand and a box, thc bottom of which can j l0 realize the importance of giving more ] Among the many strange customs of sav- v. If he shoots one hundred yards he he has succeeded in nusmg the dchc us j rem0 ved .are thc materials needed. . attention to them as a source that will be age nations, not the least curious are the »three or four arrows in tlie air. all eoing esculent at the amount of loO poundsa da} e lhc 1k)X? and in thc in . j lasting and reliable in keeping up an equable ceremonious observances offered by them to terstices of the wire-work place the stems ! production of thc metal that is preeminently the wild beasts which they hupt and kill, of the maples or thc base of the branch, the need wherever the wheels of industry Tbe boldest native hunters of British.India with even’ leaf posed as usual. Pour the ■ are in motion or commerce spreads its sails, j would shudder at the thought of leaving the hcScd toblood warmth, through a <™If of.i slum tiger till they have singed naiK-r cone or tunnel around ami upon the: me Cobra at a Dinner Party. off its whiskers to the very root, without branches and leaves till all are covered. ~ winch precautmn they firmly believe that Set the liox in the sun or on thc hack of a I I "as assisting once at a burrakhana or , the ghost of thc dead monster will haunt stove or range. If in the sun, two or three [big dinner party, aud we had all been ex-, them into tiieir graves. In many I»rt3 J>f days will he required to dry them; on a stove or range. wiH * * wannth, twenty-four ; * t)lg Qinncr parly, auu »%(-* liau aw utxu x-a- . UU-UI wi;u lui-n s;:a>t.-». aw Lwuiiv |«uu> in Luicu iai v*. IUVU1 , a I tremely vivacious. At last thc ladies rose I Russia thc killing of a wolf is not thought U with ^constant,** steady to depart, when, just past the muslin skirts complete without cutting off the head and four hours will probably ! of a very pretty girl who had been my right, right fore-paw. Tlie Lapps and Finns, showing on the divide.” And here Dr. I correS ponding period of 1877, has Carver shut his eyes and seemed lost lor a prepared £ t the Bureau of Statistics. The little tree and branches will remain while in the visions of rolling prairies in the The decrease in some of the articles is quite the sieve, every leaf and twig gracefully far-off Western wilderness. A Frozen Nose. One day I decided to go the rounds while taking a walk. 1 armed myself from head to foot against the severity of the cold. I enveloped myself in a great Astracban sur- noticeable as favorable to the industries of this country. For instance, cotton piece goods have decreased from 42,259,000 to 25,822,000 yards, or nearly 39 per cent.; linen piece goods from 53,300,000 to 45,910,000 yards, or 13| per cent.; silk broadstuffs from 192,484 to 125,794 yards, bottom of the box and let the sand pass out. balanced, their colors clear and fresh, though in texture so firm as never to wilt, shrivel. A camel’s hair pencil dipped melted wax or paraffine should finish them, t hand neighbor, there glided a cobra, which ' whenever they kill a liear surround the bxly forthwith made for the open window be- with loud lamentations. One hunter then hind us, but was attacked and killed before a3ks the dead beast, “Who killed thee ?” it could escape. Tlie young lady, not un- i and another answers. ‘‘A Russian,” when naturally, got rather hysterical, but 9hc all the rest exclaim in chorus, “A cruel came round, and then told us what, con- deed, a bloody deed!” hoping by this means ridering all thc* circumstances, there was not to divert the bear's resentment from them- the slightest reason to disbelieve, that dur- • selves to thc imaginary Russian. Skulls of Arrange the trees in a disTi"of"’sind!Ta’y ingtiie progress of the dinner her foot had j liroivn bears, nailed to the trees by the ween moss upon the surface, and you have j on several different occasions touched a soft Indians, in compliance with some native anrettv parlorornament. object, which once or twice moved slight y, i superstition, are often found by Ct The leaves of the maple and oak. and of ! but which she concluded to he a pet dog lie- : camping parties in the woods around Lake object, which once or twice moved slightly, | superstition, arc often found by Canadian r „ _ . . ., . . . 1 V, % * c -r t ) in mnn ip ftnd oak nn d of I but which she concluded to be a pet dog lie- camping parties in the woods around Lake tout, I drew my fur cap dow*n over my ears or 341 per cent. A favorable increase is in The 1 ‘ ‘ . lon^in^ to the master of the house, which Simcoe; and the tribes of Northern Siberia I w’ound a cashmere cravat around my neck , the number of empty gram bags sent hi ^ a few ^ood} ^ ^ ^^ ^ 0 - in- f ;^ r shc"knew to be perfectly quiet and good- never kill a polar bear w ithout extracting tempered. The (log, however, had not been its two largest teeth, which in their belief and ventured out into the street, leaving j this year, which number 447,000 against mg plants, best repay Ac P a ““ only mv nose exposed to the weather. At 248,000 for the same time last year, radi- j preservation. Of the maples, aeerruUrum first all went amazingly well. I was even eating an increased movement of gram out- (the red maple), whose foliage tiums deep ment with the children so short a while ago | i “ked tbTM made so Uttle im- ; ward? Worsted stuffs have mcre^d j J^e^bwJT^Tf was more than the warm hut wilful heart nCTer eat nieat . and their portion of fish on j pression upon me, and secretly laughed at, sliglitly, while the quantity of wool sent, (thesugar■ ® t h e same leaf beside him could stand. all except fast davs consist, of six ounces j all the reports I had heard respecting ns has decreased f ? ou,9o8 881 to 280,0,8 red mid wTlic^* -But.” began Alberta, and the stopped | of fresh? or four of salt ft*. | severity. Besides. I was delighted that | pounds, equal to 70 percent. I-from maroon and orange in the room at all, and thc object she had - is onc only safeguard against its coming to touched had undoubtedly been the eoiled-up i life again. snake, whose bite would have been speedily ( fatal to the poor girl, who little guessed the i —The farms of Illinois are mortgaged awful danger she had se narrowly escaped 1 lor over $200,000,000.