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%. i, The Cedartown Advertiser. Published every Thursday by D. B. BRE EM Ah. OLD SERIES-VOL, YII-NO. 3. CEDARTOWN, GA., APRIL 1, 1880. Terms: SI.50 per annum, in advance. NEW SERIES-VOL. II-NO. 16. EMIGRANT. : saw what it would come to. And Nellie ! grew older and graver day by day. But as | yet she kept her own secret, and she hoped | more and more that Edward had forgotten ! her foolish, thoughtless words on a certain Silver and gold, silver and gold! For the sun’s dusk red in the western fold Tells that the end of a day draws nigh, ADd the clouds they grow bolder along the sky. ; mo0 nlight night, now some seven or eight Silver and gold, silver and gold— i wee ^ s a &°* , For the moon in the Eaat is a queen to behold, j At last the engagement was announced. As she reigns with her spells o’er the calm, Gracie Basset had no friends to interfere sweet night, • with her, and flattered with Edward’s at- Holding tremulous sceptre where ghosts walk 1 Nations, and really believing that she lov ed him “quite enough for happiness,” she i had agreed that the marriage should take place as soon as all needful arrangements ' white. Silver new-molten meets ebbing of gold, On a wandering isle without a foothold; A vessel alone on the lonely seas. Stirred with the sigh of the fanciful breeze. Moonbeams and suubeams, silver and gold: And they toyed with the bark as she idly roll* d On the silent waters that shadowy grew, And the.night-gloom fell, and the Btars stole through. Silver and gold, silver and gold- could be made. The wedding was over. The honeymoon was over also, and Mrs. Melville, richly dressed, and looking very lovely, w ith Ed ward as an attentive and devoted husband beside her, was receiving her guests. Nellie was among them. She was paler than usual, and her free, happy, girlish And the surUh'at l ;a'wasted hTclondl.nd cold j langli was gone for ever. Yet she, too, Throws a purple pall o’er a womans face, looked lovely this afternoon, in her pretty Whf re death's coloiless fingfrs are smoothing I blue silk dress and cottage bonnet, and pain’s trace. Moonbeams and sunbsams, silver and gold— The youug is come in place ofAhe old, A seal set on lipa that have said their last word, And lips that ne’er opened before are stirred. lights of earth, light of heaven, shower silver and gold. Como aboard, the great ship is a traveler bold 4 . Tw.light and moonlight, in soft mantle hide.“ One that vanishes silently o’er the ship side. Silver and gold, silver and gold— Tho sun is lost in the wide sea*wold, The vail falls over ihe mother’s head. On a journey new is the traveler sped. Silver and gold, silver and gold— The waves, as if tells by the star rays knolled. Ring of death, and of ghosts that dance all in white, And tho babe’s cry breaks on the calm, sweet night. Moonbeams and sunbeams, silver and gold; A life is hidden, a life doth unfold: One goeth hence to a brightness afar, One bath found the way here by the light of a star. How He Learnt His Lesson. there was a beauty in the expression of her gentle young face that went far beyond tiny mere beauty of feature. Only a few weeks passed. Nellie was invited to dine with them. After dinner they were moving about the drawing-room, and Gracie was exhibiting to Nellie some choice bouquets of flowers which bad been sent to her that morning. They had all been arranged on one table, in accordance with a whim of the young wife, who de clared that the the effect of their richness and color was lost when they were scatter ed. But Edward had not heard her say this. “Let me put this blue vase here, Gracie, ’ he unwittingly began, removing it, as he spoke, to another table. There; it shows to advantage now!” Gracie, with heightened color, deliber ately walked to the table, and put the vase in its former position. “It is quite out of tfie way there*” she said stiffly, ‘and this is where I wish it to be Edward.” “How great a matter a little fire kiud- leth!” Edward’s color also rose, yet he did not look angry*. ••AndI wish that it should stand here,” i he returned, once more taking up the vase; Oh, what have I done! What have I j and theQ he a(1(led> half repr0 achfully, half done!” exclaimed Nellie, under her breath, j pi a yf U ll v', “You promised to obey me. as sad and dismayed she hurried up the j ( , ra( , ie .„ garden path. “He will never be kind to j qqjjg p roved to be only the beginning of me any more. How could I have said such ! gma jj discomforts and disagreements. a thing!” And her hands trembled so that she could scarcely lift the latch of the old fashioned door, and she turned away to quiet herself a little before going iu. Nellie glanced up at the rambling old farm-house, which had beeu her home for many year3. How she loved it! Every nook and corner that it contained was dear to her. “I have it, and all in it, loft to me,” she said, iu a soft, sad tone; “and dear father | , , .. Edward. and mother, too. A happy, happy home it _ „, ,, . , , . T .. i t Nobody but Edward, has always been, and I am thankini tor it. : i . ... ,, A J ’ j Love would have made him all the world | to Nellie. T would wear my prettiest dresses for “As for f Many months passed, Gracie grew more j imperious than ever; Edward’s lace lost all [ its brightness, and he seemed day by day to j grow old, silent and sad. j And when Nellie went to see them now I she found except Gracie expected visitors j she took very little pains with herself, re- j marking sometimes to Nellie as they went i downstaiis for the evening, i “I have not dressed, Nellie. Ot course | you don’t mind, and theres nobody else but But, oh, Edward, how could you be so un kind ? Oh, how could you ?” She listened, fancying she couid hear his ; departing footsteps yet, might have done so. With lofty looks and disdainful curve of j 1 care tor tllcm ’ , .. 1 But Grade, only frowned lor reply, hm rather dun lips he was on Ins way , ^ a ^ dansdll but instea d home along the ending lanes Hew*. ; Awards’, house, there was man of five and thirty, while Nellie was I J n scarcely twenty. She was simple and in nocent as a child; but he had learnt many a j lesson in the school of life ere this. And j one lesson which Edward MelvU.e prided )■even the tendered love himself on having learnt was the value of , ^ jn hours ^ thege , Gracie . s lagt m0 . money. e was a m in or, am so le , luC nts’s were numbered, and she passed made up his mind he would remain until he | leaving her Uttle one t0 * elite. And Edward, when the first benumbing influence of his grief was over, sold his And perhaps siie j Imsband, Gracie, " she said I other people, they might go. W hat should i bitter sorrow, and as the youug husband | knelt by the bedside of bis unconscious wife he felt all the old love for her filling his The Heathen Chinee at Home. The Awful Majesty of the Law. One of the officials of Justice Alley, of: ~ “ ' Detroit, was the other day called upon by 1 There are some facts in regard to the re- an old gray-headed farmer and his wife, suit of six or seven thousand yeais of Oii- toeether with a neighbor, and outside the , ?ese civilization. Just think of it. There door they hitched an old half-blind horse | “ not a road in all of the broad expense of whose cash value was reckoned at $25. j populous China where even a wheelbarrow “You see,” explained the old fanner , could lie driven or a horse led except around naybur Jones wants to buy the old boss i Shanghai, and here the English have con- out there, but lie wants a bill o’ sale signed j structed them. They have no cemeteries, by wife and I. We want you to draw up ! no tombstones mark and honor their last one for us." resting places on earth. Those who own The Justice reached down one of the j Pn™te gardens bury their dead and those printed blanks, filled it out, and then said: ! of them friends therein. Those who have “Now you listen while I read this over j uo gardens or plots of ground lay he bodies and see if it is all right. All ready now: | °f the dead in rough boxes on the surface Know all men by these presents. That j °f open fields. Ihe Chinese regard the - 4 1 Q,-mle r.f tlwnr anrxictrr ua lirtL'a in t nr* Ipnrrrn Presents! Why, I’m not going to pre sent him with that boss!” interrupted the farmer. ■And we don’t want any present from him!” added the wife. That’s all right—only a legal form,” exclaimed his Honor. Listen: Count}* Wayne first part con sideration sum of $25 grant bar- and sell party second part his executors, administrators .” I haven't got any executors or adminis trators!” interrupted neighbor Jones. ‘No; all he’s got is a wife and two girls! ” added the owner of the horse. “All form—all mere form,” explained the justice, and he went on: “And assigns forever covenant and agiee defend the same heirs, execu tors and administrators ” “William, I shall never sign no such paper!” suddenly exclaimed the wife as she rose np. “Nor I, either!” stoutly replied the hus band. 4 ‘Why, I’d shake iu my boots every time I met a constable!” “It is all mere form and according to law,” explained his Honor. “All bills of sale read this way.” “Looks to me as if it was sort o’ tangled up,” said neighbor Jones. “The old hos9 is blind in one eye, and how can they war rant hinT?” And what has this boss-sale got to do souls of their ancestry as links in the length of a great chain which they say enables them to reach up to the supreme source of life and ruler of the universe. This is the reason why these remarkably keen, quick witted people will not tolerate the con struction of a railroad in their country. They declare that the locomotives and rattling trams would certainly violate the sacred charm influenced in their behalf by causing the abrupt scared flight of their ancestry who are ever hovering around and over them. They have no banks in China, and uo coin of value except our silver and that of Mexico. They have no lawyers, but they have a perfect, rigidly enforced system of law and order. The principals alone can plead their cases. The first social rank in China can only be attained by literary merit. All Chinamen can read and write, because education is compulsory. Every man in China is free to complete for a li terary degree, and last year 107,000 candi dates for this honor were entered at Canton for examination. Those of this large number who passed muster then are free again to advance to the higher national grade competition at Pekin, annually held there, and when they pass this ordeal they become Mandarins and live in high estate at the pubiic expense. -No military man is permitted to aspire to these literary honor in China. This annual selections from the whole Chinese people of its rulers, who re presents its best thought and mental power, with his heirs and covenants?” inquired the has P/obably been the great and potent fac old mftn ! tor of their remarkable vitality and preser- “I won’t sign—I won’t have a thing to! ^tion as a nation but at the same time it do with it!” exclaimed the wife, as she >“teases the wonder that they should have walked around. “We’ve always kept clear j *ood still on the avenue of human progress o[ the law, and we ain’t going to get into! tor thousands of years. ^ no scrape and lose our farm now—not if j Herat. we know it!” The more the justice tried to explain the j This city stands on the Hcri River, on bigger the words looked, and the trio finally j the slope of the Hindoo Koosh, and conse- walked out. While they were unhitching! quently in the northwest corner of Afghani- tlie horse along came a house-painter, and stan. Due north, at a distance of abont 230 when be had heard their story he picked up 1 miles, is Mery: due east, at a distance of a piece of paper iu the alley, pulled out a! nearly 400 miles, is Cabul; considerably stub of a pencil, and wrote, j to the southeast, and almost equi-distant “We hereby sell this horse to Jonn Jones | from Cabul and Herat, is Candahar. If for $25, cash down. We raised him from j our readers want a war map which will a colt, anti his name is Andrew Jackson. | convey a fair idea of the situation from a “(Signed) j strategical and political point of view, let . ” j them suppose a capital L mounted on top The paper was signed, passed over with I of a capital V; Mery will be at the top of the horse, and as the farmer received the ' the L, Herat at the angle, and Cabul at the money he said: | horizontal extremity of the letter, while “That’s all there is to it, law or no law, Candahar will be down at the angle of the and it didn’t take two minutes. Why, I’d | V. Cabul may be eliminated from the have taken Andrew* Jackson back home ; situation, for though there are direct roads and knocked him in the head afore I’d put j between it and Herat, the route by Maimana my name to that paper binding us to keep ! to the north of the Hazarch mountains is on covenanting and agreeing ai.d assigning i circuitous and- difficult, and that through ''“j j. one who holds a check, as payee or and administrating a whole lifetime on one j the Hazarch country is equally roundabout*^ )t j ierw j so ^ trtt3m {era it to another, l.o hoa * and more arduA.ua. The ujnm ruuve, and, Khan took it after a siege of six months, it was a city of 12,000 shops, 350 schools, 144,000 occupied dwellings, and 6000 bath9, caravanserais and water-mills. Of the in habitants, 160,000 are said to have been slaughtered at this second sack. In 1398, Miran Shah, and in 1447, Jehan Shah, smote it severely, and twice in the sixteenth century it was attacked by the Usbecks. who were once beaten back alter a siege of eighteen months, and once succeeded in capturing and pillaging the city. When the Persians soon afterwards took the city, which they had always claimed as one of the four royal places ot the Khorassan, it was “not only the richest city in Central Asia, but the resort of the greatest divines, philosophers, poets and historians of the African Salutation*. A very interesting account is given of tlxv? ceremonials observed by the Tubu people, Africa, in greeting one another. A most elaborate performance is gone through when two strangers meet in this wild coun try. Each of the performers covers all his face but his eyes with this turban, seizes his spear and throwing-iron (a curious bowering-like weapon w ith a long project ing prong on the concave margin), and thus prepared, the two appioach one an other. At a distance of about six steps from one another they squat on their heels with spear upright in one hand and iron in the other. The one then asks “How do you do ?” about a dozen times by means ol four different words having that meaning used alternately, the reply being varied of the use of two words Laha, or Killala. Then one of the two loudly sings the word “ihiila,” which is returned by the other in a similar tone. The w*ord is exchanged again and again, being commenced in a loud high pitched note and gradually run down the scale until it reaches a low* bass murmur. When it has become so slow* as scarcely to be heard, on a sudden it is shouted again in high key and the gamut is run through as before. This goes on a very long while, the performers going through it as a strict matter of ceremony, and taking no interest in one another all the while, but looking round at the horizon or elsewhere during their vocal exertions. After a while various forms of the question “How are you?” and the answer “Well,” are introduced; at last questions or other topics are brought forward, although now and again the “ihiila” burst* out in the midst of them, but the seric* of notes in which it is shouted becomes shorter and shorter. At last the ihiila is got rid of al together, and ordinary conversation be comes possible. Strangers do not shake hands, but acquaintances do. The cover ing of the face when greeting or meeting strangers is considered as a mo3t important matter of etiquette. This is BnsinesR. Checks or drafts must he presented for payment without unreasonable delay. Checks or drafts should be presented during business hours; hut in this country, except in the case of banks, the time ex tends through the day and evening. If the drawee of a check or draft has changed his residence, the holder must use due or reasonable diligence to find him Are We to Lose >Ia{;a i so far as is known, the only road by which ra a ». | a j ar g e f ore e could be moved from Cabul Those who want to see the Horseshoe j (0 jj era f run3 through Candahar. From Falls of Niagara must, I fancy, come out: (j anda i,ai- to Herat is about three hundred soon, or they will not he able to form an | ml ) es ; u a direct line; the road, however, idea of what it was, for I think it is going j 3 not yer y direct, and for military purposes to change its form more quickly than it has | Gu . distance may be called 350 miles. The for a century past. Already a great change lias taken place in its appearance. About two years ago the shoe was rent in twain, ami ii v:ist rent made in the toe of the cliff over which the great river falls. The con sequence is that instead of driving straight down a circular wall of water, the course of the column is rudely broken in the mid road from Mery is so nearly straight as to he less than 250 miles long; it is a good one, being even at its worst part, where it crosses the Hazrat-i-Baba Pass about thirty miles north of Herat, practicable for all arms of the service. It traverses a fertile coun- trv, and tuds for a great part of its length along the valley of the river Kuslik, so that die, and a foaming torrent collapses in a | s „p.,]i t . s aud water are very abundant. 1 igged gorge of the cliff, lints splitting the; whenever the race for Herat begins, if ascade into two sides of a horseshoe, with, t i icre ; s a f a j r start, the Russians should he his wife. He himself was a country doctor, and, with a very small, and not | pTactice _ he had no need of it now-and never do to j 1 i went abroad. creasing practice, it would marry and have nothing but that to depend ! . , a J i Eighteen months passed away. A man upon, he told himself. i. , .. . , . . , . . „ , __ ... 4 , nronzed and bearded stood at the gate ot He had generally escorted Nellie to her j ^ oW tarmbous „ A Uttle toddling crea- own door, after their evening walks, but | ture ran down the path, her fair curls flying this evening he had left her just outside the I jn (he wind _ The stra uger took her in his gate. He was her aunt’s step son. She j eataiact in the center. Mucli more mist, oo, is produced by the cataract than was formerly occasioned by the sheer fall of the horseshoe, and the view of the falls conse quently obscured. The river might have fallen for centuries over this solid weir of ardest scist; but a fissure having been made in nature's masonry, it is not un likely that the river will continue its exca- ation. begun near Lake Ontario, and do its work more quickly thau of late. Now that a breach ha3 been made iti the for bad known him all her young life, and had always called him Cousin Edward, all un suspicious of the feeling which was gradu ally gathering strength within her heart, till this evening. And Edward, for his part, had always treated her as a mere child. “You will go to meet Miss Basset, I sup pose, Nellie?’ inquired her mother. “Ob, yes, mother. Edward was good enough to say that he would drive me to the station in his carriage, and he will drive us both home, too. He says that a rich young lady like Miss Basset will not care to walk a mile along our lovely lanes, he is Perhaps there was the slightest under tone of sarcasm in Nellie’s voice, for her mother glanced at her as if in surprise with out replying. Edward had given Nellie, bit by bit, and ■with a good deal of tact, his ideas upon the subject of money, and of the com fort to be got from a proper use of it. Outwardly the two were as good friends as ever. At heart, however, he was carefully on his guard, while Nellie, tender and gen- tle-natured thongh she was, could not help slightly despising him. Miss Basset was an old schoolmate of Nellie’s and an heiress, and she had taken a fancy to spend the remainder of the sum mer in the old tumble-down farm house which Nellie called home. Edward was very attentive, even speci ally kind to Nellie on tho way to the sta tion, and her heart went out to him again. “If only I had not said that to him,’’she thought, as the carriage stopped, and he carefully lifted her out. “I hope—oh!I do hope that he may forget it." The train steamed in. There was pret ty Gracie Basset's face at a parlor-car win dow; and in a few moments she was seated vin the carriage beside Edward, chatting to and laughing with him as if she had known him for years; and Nellie had taken the seat behind. And that was not the only drive they had, nor the only evening they spent in chatting and laughing. Nellie, her father and mother—all three, and many of the neighbors beeidea, aoon “What is your name, little one?’’ • And in a baby-voice she told him, “Gra cie Melville,” and he covered her little face and hair with kisses. But who is this coming out to look for her? ‘Aunt Nellie," she said and slid down from her father’s arms. “Cousin Edward!” exclaimed Nellie, ladly, the color rising very rapidly to her usually quiet pale face. And he shook hands with her; then keep ing the hand he had taken, he led her into the house. And will you tell me now, once more, Nellie dearest, that you love me better than any one else in the world Nellie swiftly covered his mouth with her hand, while burning blushes dyed her cheeks. “Oh, Edward, do please forget that I ever said so!” “Not likely,” lie returned, smilingly, “Ah, Nellie,” and he was serious now, “I have learned my lesson since that evening. I have learnt to value love, not as it deser ves, but at least to set it above everything earthly. My Nellie! do not tell me that your love for me is dead !” Never mind Nellie’s reply. Two months from that day she became Edward’s wife, and he never had the smallest need to re. mind her that she had promised to obey him, simply because she loved him, and to do as he wished was a pleasure. And having at great risk and cost learn ed his lesson, Edward strove to teach it to others, and to more than one young man he gave in confidence the advice: “If you wish to be happy, many only a woman that loves you. Neither money, nor posi tlon, nor anything else, can bear the least comparison with love, which will outlive them all.” tress, it seems certain that the volume of i under a mile in length. The water, acting as a peqietual battering ram j s * ree t s are ill-built, narrow and dirty; in- on the wall of each side of it, would soon ; deed, the common saying of the place is, detach other portions of ti:em, and thus j Jirt were to kill, where would we be?" alter the whole form and character of the '• i‘() n jy ma n is vile” at Herat, however, for famous Horselioe Falls. i na ture has done everything for the city and Hasty Burials. ! its environs. The climate is the finest in posed corpses are ^ alway3 gxfl, often cold. The Herats hurried away to burial. There w only one ■ p r0 verb. “If the soil of Ispahan, good that can result from tlje plenty with | ^ of Herat &nd th / waler9 Inch people ti PP°^ A tWn „ tot of Khwariziu were in the same place there would be no such thing as death.” The Bran as a food has not been fully ap preciated. The laxative tendency does not produce any unsatisfactory results provided the bran is fed as It should be A slight laxative condition of the bow els is better than the constipation that a lack of such food produces. Besides, the bran is rich in phosphates, so es sential to the development of healthy stock. get down the perpendicular of the L from Merv before the English can get up the thick side of the V from Candahar. The position occupied by Herat on the high road between India and Persia, the centre spot of an extensive and fertile valley, well watered by channels made from a perennial stream, marks her out as the natural garden and granary of Central Asia. It is situated in a plain about 2500 feet above the sea, and is fortified with mud walls, presenting the form of a square, each side of which a right to insist that the check be presented that day, or, at the farthest, on the day folfeftring. A note indorsed in blank (the name of the indorser only written) is transferable by delivery, the same as if payable to bearer. If the time of payment of a note is not inserted, it is held payable on demand. The time of payment of a note must de pend upon a contingency. The promise must be absolute. A bill may be written upon any paper, or substitute for it, either with ink or pencil. The payee should be distinctly named in the note, unless it is payable to bearer. An indorsee has a right of action against all whose name*"were on the bill when he received it. If the letter containing a protest of non payment be put in the postofilce, any mis carriage does not affect the party giving notice. Notice or protest may be sent either to the place of business or to residence of the party notified. The holder of a note may give notice of protest either to all the previous indorsers o: only to one of them; in case of the latter "j# must select the last indorser, and th list must give notice to the last before him, aid so on. Each indorser must send notice to the last before him, and so on. Each indorser must send notice the same or the day following. Neither Sunday nor legal holiday is to be counted in reckoning the time m which notice is to be given. The loss of a bill or note is not sufficient excuse for not giving notice of protest. If two or more persons, as partners, are jointly liable on a note or bill, due notice to rae of them is sufficient. Not Much Fireworks. packed; it is, that should they not at the time be dead, they are certainly frozen to death ere the moment of interment. Hor rible as this is, it is much less horrible thau being buried alive. It is the general igno rance of people, and not want of proper sensibility, that causes them to comply so readily with the usages of burying a body within three days after death. In this way, where ice has not been abundantly supplied, people who are believed by their friends to be dead, but who bear upon them more thau one indication of lurking life, are hur ried to the tomb. We do not call attention to these probabilities from any desire to awaken a morbid sensation upon the sub ject. We do not take the absurd ground that out of all the people buried the larger proportion are buried alive. But we do as sert that it is not impossible that a case of this kind sometimes happens, simply be cause the relatives of the uafortunate crea ture are too ignorant to detect the subtle signs of a vitality that might be reawaken ed. At the last opera ball. A young man du meilleur monde is seated in a corner and . . . . does not appear much more amused than j to pay the expenses of garrisoning the prm- waters of the Ileri, Conolly described in 1831 as the best he ever tasted, and the fruits as the most delicious in flavor. Peo ple enter the gardens and eat at will, being weighed as they pass in and out and charged for the avoirdupois gained; a sim ple system, which that sane wag Nasir Ed- din once defied by filling his pockets with pebbles and casting out ballast as he took in lading, so as to bring the astonished pro prietor into his debt. The soil is extraor dinarily fertile, and the orcliards, gardens, corn-fields and vineyards stretch to the mountains, four miles away on the north and twelve on the south, and along the valley as far aa the eye can reach. There are exten sive mines of iron and lead, only worked at the surface, and the scimitars of Herat are as famous in Central Asia as its horses. Silk is spun there largely, and carpets of wool, and silk are manufactured. The other articles of export are manna, assafee- tida, gum, saffron and pistachio nuts. Half a century ago it paid an annual reve nue of $450,000, and Malleson declares that under British rule the income to the Government from the district would suffice Remarkable Accideut. la Oil City recently a small number of persons witnessed the strange sight of about a quarter of a mile of railroad moving ra pidly from its bed, evidently paying no at tention whatever to the injunction to hike up its bed when started on a journey. It may be an oidinary occurrence for a rail road to start on a journey on its own hook, but if so it is not recorded. The Incline road, which is a quarter of a mile in length, is being taken up, preparatory to remove to Tamaqua. The track was a double one—i. e., four rails extended from the base to the summit. The single rails were fastened to gether in such a manner that each of the four was continuous. The workmen had a team of horses with which the string of rail3 was pulled down hill. After pulling it down a few yards they would remove three or four rails and then repeat. They only repeated twice. The string of rails weighed between five and six tons. The ground along the roadway was frozen, the ties were covered with ice and everything w*as propitious for a sleigh ride, and the string of rails commenced sliding. The foremost rail—the one which had the lead, had been crooked like a sled-runncr by last summer’s sun. It led off beautifully, ap parently caring not a continental where it went. "When it reached the foot of the declivity it did not pause in its mad career, but plunged across the street, extricating itself from the horses, aud partially de molishing the harness in a little less than no time; entefed the side of Mrs. Case's barn, near the floor, pranced through the barn like a streak of greased lighting, made kindling-wood of a small outhouse adjoin ing, struck as stone wall back of Y. James’ kitchen, and finding it impregnable, raised itself to something higher and better, struck the chimney of V. James’ house, knocking about ten feet therefrom; thence passed onward and upward, removing shingles and a portion of the chimney on the three-story house occupied by I). Lindersmith, and finally rested with about fifty feet of the iron rail extending heavenward from the roof of Liudersmitli’s house. The striking of the stone wall near the kitchen of James’ hotel was a fortunate occurance, as its doing so prevented it from entering the kiteken,* where girls were working at the time, and would doubtless have beeu injured. The thing might have continued on its mad carrer up Tunnel hill until this time, had not the line parted near where the horses were. The force with which the stiing was moving may be realized from the fact that when it broke a portion of one of the rails was thrown about a hundred yards. Yery fortunately no person was in jured, the horses were not badly hurt, and the damage of property was not ex tensive. Waterspouts on tlio Sound. Two fishermen of Greeuport, L. I., de scribe an extraordinary phenomenon which they witnessed while on the bound shore, opposite that village, on a recent afternoon. Their attention was first attracted by what seemed to be an unusual disturbance on the surface of the waterj directly under a heavy cloud coming from windward, the wind blowing heavily from the northwest and a heavy surf rolling. The tops of the waves assumed the spiral ascending motion pecu liar to waterspouts, which increased until the elevation was upward of fifty feet be fore the water took the clourl form. This w r as soon followed by a second, about a mile off shore, similar to the first, but con siderably larger, its- height, judging from the angle of elevation being nearly a thou sand feet. The top of this also resolved into a fog or mist directly under the cloud. Then, at a distance of about four miles, a third one was plainly discernible, whicli seemed to meet the sky at the rear of the cloud, aud which must have covered an area of several acres. All three of these spouts w*erc moving with the wind, and the first or smallest one subsided to the water level only a few* rods from the beach. Im mediately there was a sharp dash of rain, followed by a hail squall as the disturbing cloud passed over, and when this subsided, so that a view of the bound could be ob tained, the waterspouts had disappeared. So far as knofarn, these were the only water spouts ever seen in the bound. African Farms. In India the husbandman, being averse ti toil “that asks tough sinews,’’ prefers to tckle the surface of his fields with a stick iistead of plow ing them. To convince him a his error, an English plow was once im- prted by an enthusiastic official, and a mmber of the cultivators of the neighbor hood were invited towitness the great deeds j meats has caused a great many disputes, o: the new implement. Bullocks were so- Farms the boundaries of which were lic it is not to be imagined that these farms of the Boers are in any way comparable to what we understand in the ordinary appli cation of the term. They are simply huge tracts of country, containing 6000 acres or more, with nothing but a small beacon of piled up stones at certain points to mark the line of boundary. In proportion to the amount of land held by each proprietor, there is a very small piece under cultiva tion—at the most ten or twenty acres, and, in the majority of cases, two or three or none at all. The original method of mea suring these “runs” w r as somewhat primi tive. Starting from the last-made beacon, a Boer would ride in a straight line for half an hour as fast as his horse could carry him, then halt, erect a beacon, and again ride away for half an hour in a direction at right angles to his first ride, and erect an other. The rectangle made by these two lines of ride would contain his farm, so by this method the Boer who had the fleetest horse obtained the largest tract ot land. Within the last few years science, however, has been brought to bear on the subject, and farms are now measured by the theo- iolitc. The introduction of these instru- lennly attached to it and urged to proceed. They refused, of coarse, and so moie and rrpre were added, until at last the plow be- gu to move; but whether from the inexpe- riince of the plowman or the conduct of tie bullocks, or both combined, in such er- raic fashion that the nozzle was one in- sfcnt plunged deep into the ground and in tb next jerked up violently, sending sbwers of earth info the air; and the ex- hiition was finally brought to a premature caclusion by two of the bullocks joining ina single combat. The peasants assem bid were veiy much impressed by the bc- haior of the plow as a plow, but confided toffieir entertainer before leaving that they d£ not think much of it—as fireworks. Co<l Liver Oil la Disease. lieved to be perfectly defined were dis covered to overlap one another to a serious extent, and as this is the case all through the country, the land surveyors are having a pretty good time ot it. In Search of a Wife. does the domino who accompanies him. A boisterous brawler of gigantic height begins to poke fun at the ennuied couple. Go*away, you bother me,” said the gentleman, “you are tipsy, go and mind your own business.” “Tipsy!” screamed the brawler, “go to grass. Dandy! you would not dare to say that to me in the street!” A crowd gathered around. “See here,” said the young man, without moving, “you are pretty tall, you believe yourself mighty strong. Yery well; there is one thing you can't do!” “What! I’ll bet you a hundred francs 1” The young man drew ofLittis boot, then a silk stocking, and rektez^-'j*; white foot on the marble. ” At this unexpected action the brawler became furiously red, and then tried to es- oape in the crowd. “Pig!” thundered the young man du meilleur du mondt, ‘you have dirty feet.’ And the brawler disappeared, followed lay derisive laughter. cipafcities of Afghanistan. Foster, who visited Herat in 1783, described the city as far surpassing Candahar in the extent of its markets aud the volume of its trade. Christie, who spent a month there in dis guise in 1810, is as loud as Conolly in his praise of its delightful situation, brisk busi ness and phenomenal fertility. He placed the population at 100,000; Conolly’e esti mate was 45,000, and the present number of inhabitants is believed to be something under 40,000, though the encyclopaedias call it “about 50,000.” Herat, however, is only a shadow of its old splendid self. Its origin and early history are unknown or little known. There was a town there be fore Alexander, and the modem city stands on the site of one of the four cities of Arri an’s “Aria”—Artakoana, Aria Metropolis, The fish from which the oil thus named isibtained is said by the British Pharma copeia to be Gadus inorrhus, Lin.; but in tb United States Pliarmacopteia it is said, wji stricter accuracy, to be derived from tht fish “and other species of Gadus.” Te following are the species of fish from w.ich the oil is obtained: the Codfish, the calfish, the turbot, the ling and the dorse. Te chemical substances which cod-liver oiis found to contain are margaric, stearic ad cetvlic acids, all of which are white sdds; oleic acid and volatile acids, which a) liquids, glycerine and biliary matters, ad gadutne. These are shown in the rela- tle proportions iu which they exist in t6e oi Besides these bbdies, cod-liver oil con- tms minute quantities of iodine, bromine ad phosphorus. To each of these its med- iminal properties have been referred, but Candace and Sousia Akhala. The Persian 1 tb minute quantities contained in the oil, chronicles not so very much later speak of tb difference of opinion among authorities, Heri, the capital of Aria, as a place of oon- ari the fact that other animal oils are found sider’able importance. In 1167 the Turco- tcproduce similar effects, are regarded as A gentleman in search of a wife consults a matrimonial agency. “We have just the article—the angel, I should say — that you want,” says the Manager, rubbing his hand; 4 ‘widow lady of 23, husband (aged 68) died thirteen months ago, during the hooneymoon; large fortune invested in bonds and stocks; charming woman; accomplished; her only fault, perhaps, is the severity of her moral nature, but then having been brought up iu a convent—’’ The gentleman marries her off-hand and discovers that all these representations are strictly untnie. Furious he hies to the matrimonial agency and reproaches the agent with his deception. “You told me,” he cries, “that she was the very pargon of woman—that she would make a man really happy—that—” “You inimitable idiot,” cned the agent, “if I had thought she was, wouldn’t I have married her mvself ?” A stranger went into a cigar store in Cin cinnati and asked for a cigar. Mrs. Meyer set a box of the weed on the show-case. “Where is Mr. Meyer?” inquired the customer as he sorted over the cigars. “Across the street,” w*as the reply. “And are you left alone to keep shop ?’* he asked. “All alone,” said she. ‘‘Thin I’ll be going,” said he. Where upon he hitched the box of cigars under his m.n. captured and and probably proving sufficiently that cod-liver oil i« u»«-' arm and vamoosed. He has not been heard destroyed It, yet, when in 1289 Genghii 111 chiefly as an easily digested fat. J of sines. Tlie Hyacinth. The Hyacinth is a universal favorite in the most extended application of the word. ^ie number of its varieties is now fully equal to that of any other florist’s flower. They are not only desirable for planting i beds in the flower-garden, but for forcin L into flower in tne dull, cheerless months of winter and early spring, when their bright- colored blossoms and rich fragrance lend a charm not otherwise to be found. For growing in the conservatory or drawingroom the bulbs should be potted, as early as they can be obtained, in small pots of rich, light earth, aud placed in a cold-frame, or some protected place in the garden where they maybe secure from heavy rains, cover them with at least one foot of newly-fallen leaves and being once well watered soon after be ing potted, they may remain foi a month at least, to form their roots, when they may be secure from heavy rains; cover them with at least one foot of nearly fallen leaves, and being once well watered soon after be ing potted, they may remain for a month at least, to form their roots, when they may be uncovered, and the most forward brought out and repotted jnto large pots, and placed m a moderately warm room. The size of the pot will depend much upon the size of the bulb: as a rule, the first pott ing should be in four and the second six inch pots. Some care is necessary in the application and increase of heat, or the flowers will be abortive. For the first three weeks it should not be above fifty de grees at any time of the day; after that the heat may be increased to whatever degree is desirable in the room where they are to bloom. Water should be slightly warm when applied, and given in proportion to the development of foliage, and flower, in no case should the earth in the pots become dry, neither soddened, an excess of water being as injurious as drought. Hyacinths succeed best in a humid atmosphere, which is not easily obtained in the drawing-room; aud they are particularly sensitive to cold draughts of air, which may and should be avoided. Hyacinth in glasses are an ele gant aud appropriate ornament to the draw ing-room, and for this purpose occasion but little trouble. To those contemplating these interesting branches of floriculture, we make the following suggestions: 1. If you choose your own bulbs, pay more at tention to weight than size, and be sure that the bulb is sound at the base as well as at the top. 2. Use the single kinds only, because they are earlier, more hardy, and as a rule perfect their flowers in water better than the double varieties. 3. Use rain or soft spring water. 4. Set the bulb in the glass so that the lower end is almost but not quite in contact with the water. 5. When the bulb is placed, put the glass in a cool, dark closet, or any con venient place where light is excluded, there to remain for about six weeks, or until the roots fill the glass; which they will do sooner than in the light, as they feed more freely in the dark. 6. Fill up the glasses with water as the level sinks by the feeding 1 of the roots or by evaporation. 7. It is not necessary to change the water, if a few pieces of charcoal are placed in the bottom of the glasses. 9. When the roots are freely developed, and the flower-spike is pushing life, remove by degrees to full light and air. The Jackson Hermitage. In a conversation with Mrs. Jackson, I asked her incidentally when and where she met her husband. She smiled at the ques tion as if all the romance of her youth re turned to her, and said: “Why, I first met him in Philadelphia, on the streets. I was with a lady triend, he with a gentleman. As we passed I turned—it was not exactly the thing for a young lady to do—and looked at him, only to find that he had done the same tiling. He called that evening, and so began the acquaintance which ended in our marriage. That was during father’s (meaning General Jackson, whom she al ways speaks of affectionately as ‘father’) first administration. We went directly to Washington, and the White House was our home as long as father was President.” This little reminiscence seemed to brighten the lady not a little. She was seated in a cushioned arm-chaii in a rather gloomy looking room, immediately back of the one in which General Jackson died. Her eyes are bright and black, her raven hair show ing few silver threads and her complexion retaining its purity which, in her youthful days, made her a dazzling beauty. It has always been understood by those who knew them best that when the youth ful Mrs. Andrew Jackson went to the White House there arose a question as to whom the honor should belong of presiding as lady of the White House. Mrs. Andrew J. Donclson was already in that position and had filled it acceptably and gracefully. General Jackson desired that she should still preside, and the younger lady yielded any claims she might have had. In my conversation Mrs. Jackson re marked that she first visited the Hermitage before the birth of her eldest son, whom she named Andrew Jackson, and who is now Colonel Jackson, the stay and support of her declining years. “None of your children were born in the White House, I believe, Mrs. Jackson?” ”No, they were all—four in number— born here at the Hermitage.” When the terms of Jackson expired and he repaired to the Hermitage, Mrs. Jack- son, her husband, Andrew Jackson, Jr., and their family constituted the household, afterward increased by the admission into the family circle of Mrs. Marion Adams, sister of Mrs. Jackson. Jn the course of time General Andrew Jackson passed away aud was placed in the mausoleum he had long before pro vided for himself by the side of his wife, to whom he was so fondly attached. The years flowed peacefully on, the young peo ple bad grown up and many brilliant scenes of gaiety awakened the echoes iu the build ing and were reflected in the long mirrors. The marriage of the only daughter of the household, named in honor of the beloved and long-departed wife of General Jackson, Rachel, was an event that broke into long, ranquil yeais. Then came the distracting times of the war. Three young men—two of the Jack- sou sons and one Adams—went into the Confederate service. Only one returned, and that was the one now living—Colonel Andrew Jackson. The latter went through the vicissitudes of war with honor, but was at the close of the same, a prisoner at Camp Chase. While here he first heard, through a chance paragraph in a newspaper, of his father’s death. It seemed that while in dulging in his favorite pastime of hunting, Andrew Jackson, Jr., had shattered his hand; the wound produced lockjaw and death. Said Colonel Jackson: “The day on which I read that paragraph was the blackest, gl jomiest one of the whole war. I thought of my sorrow-stricken mother in her lonely home, and myselt unable to go to or help her. ” In a few months the unhappy struggle was ended, and Colonel Jackson returned to the Hermitage and to his widowed mother. Life now flowed on in a listless way. It had taken on a quiet, subdued tone, shadowed by the newly-made graves in tli# corner of the garden, only a few steps from the mansion. Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Adams, together, were going, hand in hand, through the remainder of the voyage of life. No bustle and stir of the busy out side world broke in upon them now, either with its cares or its gaieties. From time to time, when the evenings grew long, and they, with Colonel Jackson or some of the bright young grandchildren, gathered around the blazing fire, a visit to their rela tives in Philadelphia would be discussed. Both ladies desired once more to visit their native city and mingle again with their kinsmen and friends of long ago. The pleasure of the trip would be canvassed, the cost counted up, and, idas! the slim purse was always found too attenuated to admit of the expense. Then the bright anticipations would fade, the trip be given up and the humdrum life flow on in its un broken channel. But there again came a change in this quiet life, and a sad one. 3Irs. Jackson for years had been sustained and cared for by her less feeble sister. Mrs. Adams, but to the latter came a long and serious illness. Slowly she began to recover, and when con valescence seemed certain she met with an accident, causing relapse, and she suc cumbed to the inevitable. Her death oc curred about two and a half years ago. After the death of Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Jackson’s daughter, Mrs. Lawrence, be sought her mother to leave the sad hermit age and malic her home with her, but Mrs. Jackson sadly shook her head and said: “No; it will not be for long now! ” It would not be long ere she joined those gone be fore. Here at the loved Hermitage she had heard her children's infant prattlings re echo through the long hallways and listened to the patter of their young feet in and about the doorways. They had grown to man hood and womanhood beneath that roof, and had passed out from it to the duties of life. All her joys and all her sorrows had been witnessed here, and iu its peaceful solitudes she desired her own life to glide away. The servants at the Hermitage now are an aged couple—“Gracey” and “Alfred” —and any one visiting there finds them of fering themselves as escort to the tomb. Their youth was spent in the service of the Jackson family, and nowin their old age they do not care to leave it. it is upon this faithful couple that Mrs. Jackson relies for household assistance. Speaking of them she said Gracey had been her *owil hand maiden, and had been with her during all her married life. She domesticated herself with the Jacksons by marrying Alfred, body servant of General Jackson, after they came to Tennessee. Mrs. Jackson said: “I don’t know what I would do without Gracey. She knows my ways and my needs, she anticipates my every want. She is stout and well, and I do hope that her life will last longer than mine.” tiiorgia LeilL When Christina of Spain was about twenty years of age, a dwarf named Giorgia Leili was presented to her. He was full of wit and intelligence, and pleased the Queen so much that she attached him to her ser vice. Thanks to her liberality, the dwarf was able to accumulate a small fortune which he left when he died, recently, to two sisters married and living in Aquila. The heirs sent two persons to Paris to re ceive the gold pieces and hand bills which the Liliputian relative had left behind them, and these innocent countrymen on their re turn to Rome were fellow-travelers with three persons who became very friendly with them. The feigned travelers, were going, they said, to Alexandria, for busi ness of the greatest importance, and were delighted to have found such agreeable companions. \\ hen the men of Aquila told them that they carried the heritage of $10,- 000 in a «mall valise, one of them said they also had a large sum of money with them, and proposed putting it all together. The countrymen agreed to this novel arrange ment, and one of the three travelers took charge of their united treasure until arriv- at Turin. There the pretended friends left the train, giving the precious valise into the hands of the Aquilinesi, and promising soon to return. But they never did, and the deluded countrymen found on examin ing their valise, that the treasure had been replaced by some lumps of leads. When they related their adventure to the Police in Rome, it seemed so improbable that they themselves were held in custody until the truth of their story was proved, and some trace of the real culprits discovered. Fractions Floored Him. A High street woman was trying to do some figuring recently, “Let’s see,” said she, “seventeen yards at a quarter a yard. Two quarters w~»uld be a half,” wetting her pencil with the tip of her tongue—**two quarters would be a half, and two halves would Ik* four quarters, that’s four times three—oh. dear! no, it isn’t.” Then the pencil was wetted again, and another start was made. “Seventeen yards at a quarter a yard- How much is seventeen quarters ? Two quarters and a half. Seventeen quar ters would be how many halves? Two quarters one half, six quarters three halves, that’s one and a half, seventeen quarters ould be—six times three are—” Here a pause occurred, and the pencil went up to the tongue again, while the forehead of the mathematician corrugated and was bedewed with perspiration. She turned the paper upside down, downside up. looked at it several times, sighed, and was about to commence all over again, when her husband entered. “John, how much is seventeen yards at a quarter a yard.*’ Four into 17, 4 and 1 over—$4.25,” promptly replied John. “That’s what I had it,” said his wife, “but I wasn’t sure I was right.” “Figured all over that paper to get it V queried John. “No, sir!” she answered, indignantly, growing as red as the red, red rose, “I guess I studied mental arithmetic at school, and,” crumpling the paper up and putting it in his pocket—“have just got as much sense as some people who think they are so awful smart. John didn’t say anything but when he found that piece of paper, a few hours af terwards, he whistlei The habit of Fainting;* There is not so much fainting in public as there was thirty years ago. Sound health which necessarily secures the firm nerves and muscles, is the surest preventative of faintness. An exchange remarks that the majority of vigorous men go through all kinds of severe and painful experiences without fainting, while delicate men and many women swoon at trifles. American women, who used to faint continual—in crowds, at bad news, at scenes of distress —now faint comparatively seldom, and the fact is ascribed to their relinquishment, for the most part, of the habit of lacing, to their increased exercise in the open air, and their better physical conditions. Not one American woman faints to-day where, thir ty years ago, twenty-five women fainted, and the diminution of the disorder, always the result of direct causes, is an unmistaka ble evidence, which other things corrobo rate, of the marked amelioration of the health of the highly organized, extremely sensitive, but flexible and enduring women of our complex race.