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mrnmrn Advertiser. =v 3Publis3ied every Thursday by 3D. 3d. . L£J_bK K M A. 1ST. mc OLD SERIES-VOL. VII-NO. 4. THE SUGAR MAPLES. Along the vale and o'er hill I&ee a bine and smoky haze; The afternoons are warm and still, And presage longer, warmer days. The blue jay, on the sumach' bough. Is screaming with discordant note; The phcebe-bird arouses now The longing heart with trembling throat. The hills are peeping through the snow, And bti^ed fences greet the view; On bare, brown knolls, squaw-berries glow, Or tiny snow-flowers flaunt in bine. The fresh new earth now scents the gale As, rising from her sepulchre, She casts aside her snowy veil And greets her train, who wait for her. Now stands the drowsy team asleep Before the buoket-laden sleigh. While, sinks the cruel steel full deep To draw the crystal sap away j The steady drip from wooden lip Makes music in the soft spring air, And soon the laden buckets tip And waste the nectar, rich and rare. Anon the pungent smoke-wreaths rise Around the kettle's tossing surge ; Hale youths attend the saoriflce, And high the flames with faggots urge. Ah 1 transmutation wondrous sweet! That steals the blood of bare, brown trees, And in the crackling flames and heat Has power those.golden grains to seize l O vanished youth ! O’balmy days! The odors rise of early flowers. I see again through smoky haze The picture of those fleeting hours; I hear again the wild hallo Of boys long silent in the tomb ; The fitful camp-fire brings to view ©lad faces from the outer gloom. They,tell of an eternal spring Forever bright, with springing flowers. Where morning is an endless ring, Existence knows not passing hours* It may be that the flames of strife Have stored for us some sweets sway; Or, frozen drifts of earthly life May yield for us a brighter day. How Douglass Cured His Wife. My young friend, Cora Lee, was a gay, dashing girl, loud of dress, and looking al ways as if, to use a common saying, just out of a band-box. *Cora was a be(Je, of course, and had many admirers. Among the number was a young man named Ed ward Douglass, who was the very “pink” of neatness in all matters pertaining to dress, and exceedingly particular in his observance of the little proprieties of life. I saw from the first that if Douglass pres sed his suit, Cora’s heart would be an easy conquest; and so it proved. “How; admirably they are fitted for each other I” I remarked to my wife on the night of the wedding. “Their tastes are similar, and their habits so much alike, that no vio lence will be done to the feelings of either in the more intimate associations that mar riage brings. Both are neat in person and drderly by instincts, and both have good principles.” “From all present appearances, the match will be a good one,” replied my husband. “There was, I thought, something like reservation in his tone. “Do you really think so?” I said, a little ironically; for Mr. Smith’s approval of the marriage was hardly warm enough to suit my fancy. “Oh! certainly. Why not?” he replied. I felt a little fretted at my husband’s mode of speaking, but made no further remark on the subject. He is never very enthusiastic'nor sanguine! and did not mean, in this instance, to doubt the fitness of the parties for happiness in the married state, as I half imagined. For myself, I warmly approved my friend’s choice, and called her husband a lucky fellow to secure for his companion through life a woman so admirably fitted to make one like him happy. But a visit which I paid Cora one day, about six weeks after the honeymoon had expired, lessened my enthusiasm on the subject, and awoke some unpleasant doubts. It happened that I called soon after break fast. Cora met me in the parlor, looking like a very fright. She wore a soiled and rumpled morning wrapper, her hair was in papers, and she had on dirty stockings and a pair of old slippers down at the heels. •THess me, Cora!” I said, “what is the matter? Have y*u been ill?” “No. Why do you ask? Is my disha bille on the extreme ?” “Candidly, I think it is, Cora,” was my frank answer. “Oh! well, no matter,” she carelessly replied, “my fortune’s made.” “I don’t clearly understand you,’’ I said. “I’m married, you know.” “Yes I am aware of that fact.” “No need of being so particular in dress now; for didn’t I just say, ’ replied Cora, “that my fortune’s made ? I’ve-got a husband.” Beneath an air of jesting was apparant and real earnestness of my friend. “You dressed with a careful regard and neatness in order to win Edward’s love,” said I. “Certainly I did.” “And should you not do the same in order to retain it?” “Why, Mrs. Smith, do you think my husband’s affection goes no deeper than my dress ? I. shouldj be very sorry indeed to think that. He loves me for myself.” “No doubt of that in th,e woaMj^Jora; but rtMBPber that we cannot see what is in your mind, except by what you do or say. If he admires vour dress, it is not from any abstract appreciation of it, but because the taste manifests itself in what you do; and depend upon it, he will find it a very hard matter to approve and ad mire your correct taste in dress, for in stance, when you appear before him day after day in your present unattractive at tire. If you do not dress well for your husband’s eves, for whose eyes, pray, do you dress ? You are as neat when abroad as you were bqfofe your marriage.” “As to that, Mrs. Smith, common de cency requires me to dress well when I go out into company; to say nothing of the pride one naturally feels in looking well.” “And does not the same commcn decen cy and naturally pride argue strongly in favor of your dressing well at home and for the eye of your husband whose appro val and whose admiration must be dearer to you than the approval and admiration of the whole world?” “But he doesn’t w r ant to see me rigged out in silks and satin all the time. A pretty bill my dressmaker would have against him in that event! Edward has more sense than that, I flatter myself;” “Street or ball-room attire is one thing. Cora, and becoming home apparel another. We look for both in their places.” Thus I argued with the thoughtless young wife, but my words made no impression. When abroad, she dressed with exquisite taste,' and was lovely to look upon ; but at home she was careless and slovenly, and made it almost impossible for those who CEDARTOWN, GA., APRIL 8, 1880. m Terms: SI.50 per annum, in advance. NEW SERIES—YOL. II-NO. 17. saw her to believe that she was the brilliant beauty they had met in company but a short time before. But even this did not last long. I no ticed after a few months, that the habits of home were not only confirming themselves, but becoming apparent abroad. “Her for tune was made,” and why should she not waste time or employ her thoughts about matters of personal appearance ? The habits ©f Mr. Douglass on the con trary did not change. He was as orderly as before, and dressed with the same re gard to neatness. He never appeared at the breakfast table in the morning without being shaved, nor did he lounge about in the-evening in his shirt sleeves. The slo venly habits into which Cora had fallen, an noyed him senously, and still more so when her carelessness about her appearance began to manifest itself abroad as well as at borne. When he hinted anything on the subject, she did not hesitate to reply, in a jesting manner, that “her fortune was made,” she need not trouble herself any longer about how she looked. Douglass did not feel very much com plimented, but as he had his share of good sense, he saw that to assume a cold and offended manner would do no good. “If your fortune iS made, so is mine,” he replied on one occasion, quite coolly and indifferently. Next morning he made his appearance at the breakfast table with a beard of twenty-four hours’ growth. -You haven’t shaved this morning, dear,” said Cora, to whose eyes the dirty looking face of her husband was particu larly unpleasant. ” “No,” he replied carelessly. “It is a serious trouble to shave every day.” “But you look much better with a clean ly shaved face.” “Looks are nothing—ease and comfort everything,” paid Douglass. “But common decency, Edward.” “I see nothing indecent in a long beard,” replied the husbaad. Still Cora argued, but in vain. Her husj band went off to liis business with his un shaved face. “I don’t know whether to shave or not,” said Douglass, running over his rough face, upon which was a beard of forty-eight hours’ growth. His wife had hastily thrown on a wrap per, and with slip-shod feet and head like a mop, was lounging in a rocking chair, awaiting the breakfast bell. “For mercy’s sake, Edward, don’t go any longer with that shockingly dirty.face,” spoke up Cora. “If you knew how dread fully you looked! ried it was necessary to be more particular in these matters, but now it is of na conse quence. ” I turned toward Cora. Her face was crimson. In a few moments she arose and went quickly from the room. I followed her, and Edward came after us pretty soon. He found his wife in tears, and sobbing al most hysterically. “I’ve got a carriage at the door,” he said to me aside, half laughing, half serious —“So help her on with her things, and we’ll retire in disorder.” “But it’s too had of you, Mr. Douglass,” replied I. “Forgive me for making your house the scene of this lesson,” he whispered. “It had to be given, and I thought I could ven ture to trespass upon your forbearance.” “I’ll think about that,” said 1, in return. In a few minutes Cora and her husband retired, and in spite of the good breeding and everything else, we all had a hearty laugh over the matter on my return to the parlor, where I explained the curious little scene that had just occurred. How Cora and her husband settled the affair between themselves, I never inquired. But one thing is certain, I never saw her in a slovenly dress afterward, at home or abroad. She was cured. ' odern Little Girl She begins life by taking airings in a new- fashioned baby-carriage, wrapped up in an afghan, and propelled on her way by a smart nurse maid, who takes this oppor tunity of flirting with questionable ad mirers, and making appointments for future flirtations. As the little girl progresses she copies mamma, and the other ladies of her set. She will want to wear a “pull back” by the time she is four years old, and kid gloves at six, certainly. Her soft hair will be tortured with “leads” and crimping pins by the time it is grown long enough to wind around any thing, and if it escapes the vile processes of the curling iron, we may consider it a lucky circumstance. The modern little girl w ants to be a young lady as soon as possible. She sighs for the time when she can have a reception, and wear a train, and carry' a fun, and have hot-house bouquets sent to her by youthful admirers. She reads novels by gas-light, and hides them under her pillow when older people come in her vicinity. She lias her ideal An Irish Yalunteer. I done without some trick, and that I didn’t " 7 j believe it. We had been cool and hadn’t Perhaps the most daring deed that ever j kissed since the row. She replied that I was won old England’s Legion of Honor was i insulting, and I answered that if her mother that which was sucessfully performed by j said she could do “15—14,’’fair and square, Kavanagh during the Indian mutiny. | ghe said what was not true, and that she Lucknow was besieged, and its garrison said so. Fanny, thereat, said that she was starving. Besides, the little band of never could have believed that I could so devoted men, there were also women and; far forget myself. I replied to the effect children cooped up in the residency, at the. that her mother had told a lie, and that per- mercy of some 50,000 or 60,000 savage and haps it was not the first one. relentless foes. Daily, nay hourly thel The next morning Fanny went to her little garrison was growing weaker, and j mother’s and sent a note saying that until I nearer were pressing the dusky Sepoys, un-! knew how to treat her and her mother with til it became a matter of life and death to j respect she would not return, and she never the heroic few that Sir Colin Campbell, f-will if I have to acknowledge first that her who was known to be advancing to their Smother can do “15—14,” because she can’t, relief, should at once be informed of their £ and that’s the end of it. real state, and their utter inability to hold > out much longer. A volunteer was called P for, a man who would consent to be dis- i guised of a Sepoy, and who would risk hiffj The proposed Nicaraguan Canal would Inter-Oceanic Ship Canal*. Between Life and Death. Not loDg ago Louis Blanding, one of the beat known mining experts on the coast, passed through Nevada city on his way from San Francisco to examine the Santa Anita quartz-mine, which is situated near Washington. Recently he returned, having accomplished his object. His expienences on the trip wereof an interesting nature,and it is by mere chance that he was enabled to live to relate them. After a tedious journey through the snow, he reached the home of one of the owners of the claim, and to gether they forced their way for three miles farther to the mine. Lightning candles, they entered the mine, which has been pushed toward the heart of the moun tain a distance of 130 feet. Twenty-five feet from the head of it they came to a winze fifty-six feet deep. Over this winze is a windlass. Mr. Blanding examined it carefully, and, observing no weak spots in its construction, had his companion let him to the bottom. He inspected the ledge, made measurements, secured a sack of spe cimens, and, putting one foot in the bight of the rope, shouted to the man above to hoist away. After ascending thirty feet he ceased to rise. "What’s the matter?’’ he asked. “Tlie windlass is broken,” was the re- Exercise, to be beneficial in the highest sense, should be for itself alone; it must Eot be work in any sense; it should pursue its own objects, and no other; it should be made a pleasure and not a labor; it should be utterly divorced from ulterior notions of economizing expended powers; and this should never more firmly be insisted on than in the case of those abnormal creatures who say they take no pleasure except in useful work. The theory of scientific gym nastics is direct to bring about qualities in | the tissues. 1. Responsiveness: 2. Endur ance; 3. .Strength. The first of these is dis played in suppleness or agility. The mus cle is well under the control of the will; it responds at once, with promptness and to the required extent. The quick blow of the prize-fighter, the exactly graded and lightning-like motion of the swordsman, are examples.' - Not only is the nervous message transmitted from the central organ to the muscle with the utmost rapidity, but the contraction of the muscle is just so much and no more than the designed effect de manded for its accomplishment. This is what we mean by responsiveness. Endur ance is the capacity of repetition of the same act, the reiterated discharge of the same amount of nerve force to produce equal muscular contractions for an inde finite period. It is the ‘‘staying power’ NEWS IN BRIEF. —Slow rivers flow four miles per hour. life among the mutineers, in order to make I be 181 miles long; it is to haye 17 iiftlocks, the best of this way to the advancing army, j *4 dams on the San Juan river, tfin-u short The call was immediately responded to— j canals around the dam^, thg) diversion of and two or three men expressed their wil-jffce mouth of the San C’artos^ivcj^and the lingness to undertake the task. From thes#: Recessary blasting and dr«fg?ng,if> which brave volunteers an Irishman named Ka- ($nust he added the lack of harbors on Lake vanagh was chosen, who, to his other qua-JSTicafagiia, and both termiiffiof the canal, lifications, added a knowledge of theFThis canal requires 82,000,990 cubic yards enemy’s customs, and a thorough acquaint- U>f excavation and embankment, of which ance with their language. The com-[21,000,000 cubic yards are rock on dry mandant shook the brave man by the hand, [land and 990,000 cubic yard^are rock oii- Ply- and frankly informed him of the dangerous j der water. The heaviest cost falls on the! “Fix it and hoist away. ” nature of the task he had undertaken construction ,aPTTlift-locl^Tn addition to'. “I can't. The support at one side has i which the tissues must; acquire in order to how it was more than probably that he lithe three-before named, one tide lock and broken down. One end of the drum has | do their best work. It also means the learn- might meet his death in the attempt. BuW-artifictai harbors. Colonel George-M. Tot- dropped to the ground. My shoulder is ; n g an( j adoption of the line of least mus the gallant follow persisted, and his skin ‘ ten’s estimate of the cost of this canal is under it, and if 1 stir the whole tiling will 1 cular force to perform a given task. This was at once colored by the means of burneo^$l 59,044, 460. A. G. Menocal’s is $86,- gwe way, was the startling reply that i i s slowly acquired, but when once known cork and other materials to the necessary; 000,000. Admiral Ammen’s is $52,577,718. , caille back. 1 allows of the performance of apparently hue. He was then dressed in the regular I The time required for its construction is The candle at the top had been extin- j mos; onerous tasks with little effort outfit as a Sepoy soldier. When night set estimated at ten years. Tnatimaarequired guished. Mr. Blanding recognized the - Strength is the third and, beyond a certain in he started on his lonely and perilous for the transit of vessels through the canal urgency of having a cool head in such an ! moderate amount, least important end of mission, amid the hearty “God-speeds” of is reckoned at 4J days. If a vessel’s daily emergency, and told the other party to take atheletic training,’although it is often put the famishing garrison. In his breast he .-expenses are $600, then the value of time ; things easy. He dropped the candlestick, I fl ret . The utmrat strenrfh that it is possi- carried dispatches for Sir Colin Campbell, 'in making the transit would amount to the 811 ck of specimens and the hammer to the i ble for any one to acquire is strictly limited with the contents of which he had been sum of $2,250. The Colon-Panama Canal bottom of the winze. .Then, bracing one j by conditions of age. height weight and made acquainted, in case of their loss, ( would be 42 miles long on a level with the of his shoulders against one side of the hole I structure beyond the individual's ^control- We have not the space at our command to sea, and nearly on astraight line, admitting a “ (i bis feet against tire other, he worked ! nor is it at all necessary to develop the j hero, six feet tail, with hair and eyes like ,- T - , . ! the raven’s wing, and a melancholy face, “Looks are nothing,’ replied Edward, : caused by ;< carkiag care ,” and the want of stroking lus beard. ; a good bed to sleep in, for your hero of that “Why, what’s come over you all atj description is found prowling around old ruins and beside marshy lakes, gazing at the moon and bewailing bis lonely condi tion. trouble to once ?’ ‘Nothing; only it’s such shave every day.” “But you didn’t shave yesterday.” “I know I am just as well off to-day as if I had. So much saved at any rate. ” But Cora urged the matter, and her husband finally yielded, and mowed down the luxuriant growth of beard. “How much better you do look!” said tile young wife. “Now, don’t go another day without shaving.” “But why should I take so much trouble about my mere looks? I’m just as good with a long beard as with a short one. It’s a great deal of trouble to shave every day. You can love me just as well; and why need I care what others say or think?” On the following morning Douglass appeared, not only with a long beard, but with a shirt front and collar that were both soiled and crumpled. “Why, Edward, how you do look?” said Cora. “You have neither shaved nor put on a clean shirt. ” Edward stroked his face, and ran his fingers along the edge of his collar, remark ing indifferently, as he did so. * ‘It is no matter; I look well enough. This being so very particular in dress is waste of time, and I am getting tired of it.” Aud in this trim Douglass went off to his business, much to the auno3'ance of his ■wife, who could not bear to see her husband looking so slovenly. give all the particulars of this remarkable vessels of the greatest tonnage and length wa J U P inch by inch, the owner taking journey. He succeeded, however, after i to pass freely. This canal requires 45,000,- m the slack of the rope with one hand, many narrow escapes and great hardships, 000 cubic yards of excavation, of which Ten feet were thus ascended. Then the —during which he often had to pass night! there are 17,000,000 cubic yards of rock on 6 ^ es the winze grew so far apart that after night in the enemy’s camp, and to, dry land and none under w r ater. There are this plan could no longer be pursued, march shoulder to shoulder with them in \ good natural harbors at both terpiini. The : There was but one salvation—the remain- the daytime; and when he left them, to; time required to make the transit of this mg ten feet must be climbed “hand over swim across rivers, or to crawl through the i canal is estimated‘at two days % This route band.” Releasing his feet from the knot, tangled thickets were the deadly tiger a3- j has the advantage of being short, on a level be put the idea into practice. Exhausted serts his sway — in reaching Sir Colin with the sea, and near a railway, affording by his previous efforts in walking to the Campbell’s camp; where, to finish his stir-; facilities of transport The cost of con-; m l° e and exploring it, it seemed to him he ring adventures, he was fired at and nearly struction of this canal is estimated by! bad climbed a mile, and, stopping to rest, shot by the British outposts. Kavanagh’sj Colonel George M. Totten at $102,869,516. ( found by the voice above there were yet narrative was listened to with rapt attention i The Paris canal congress estimate is $80,-jb ve f eet t0 go* With another super- by Sir Colin, who immediately gave orders 1 000,000, according to one newspaper re-j human effort, another start was made. ,. iuw<tui w il± iuw for the army to advance as soon as possible j port, and $240,000,000 according to an- j After what seemed an age one of his hands j t 0 their uses sothat *a symmetrical" 1 ^devek to the aid of the gallant defenders of the'other. The greater length of tfce Nicaragua struck the edge of the mouth. His body i opment may be secured." The blacksmith Residency. How the latter were rescued j route, as compared with that of the Colon- j and limbs were suffering the agonies of j w Jtli his mighty right arm but who is is a matter of history. Kavanagh lived! Panama, the cost of construction, cost of cramps and soreness and his brain began to ! ‘‘blown” in a foot race of a hundred yards long enough to wear his cross, though lie i maintenance, time of execution, time of r ^ el - All soists of frightful phantoms filled anf i t be ballet dancer, with her legs like lost his life shortly afterward in battle with j transit and cost of towage through the re- bis mind. With a final effort, he reached ■ Diana’s ana her arms like stems are famL the same enemy, but the noble example ! spective canals, would be in the ratio of up, and found he could get the ends of |], ar examples of the absence of symmetry. he left behind him was not lost on the j their respective lengths as 42 to 181. ! one hand’s fingers over the edge of a board | mm brave hearts who eventually saved India Therefore, if it would cost $100 to tow a that ariswered for part of the covering, j for England. vessel through the Col«n-Panama canal, it; With the despair of a man who faces a , . T,ie New Bu °y* ! would cost $430 to tow one through the ! fearful death and knows it, he let go the ; ~ The Gem puzzle ; Nicaragua one.' Again, if a vessel’s daily | ro P e altogether, and raising the other hand, ' The- ‘breeches buoy,' which lias been expenses are $500, the amount of time con-! obtained a precarious hold, nis body I brought into conspicuous notice by its effi- sumed in passing through the respective swung back and forth over the dark abyss i cieut 1 J se . m saving lives on the New Jersey r „ 0 _ 0 The gem puzzle or the boss puzzle, or the j. canals bein g ln tllc ratio of 42 to ] 8L then it an instant, and as he felt that his handsdunng the recent terrffic storm, is of When slie is called upon for any useful j b°^ nuisance, whichever it is, has played a cos t ? [ n the value of time, $2,250 in j were losing their hold, he cried, “Save me construction. A buoy resembling The modern little girl wears corsets by the time she is ten years old, and is particu lar about the fit of her boots, and the way her overskirt hangs. She could uot think of helping her moth- j er wash the dishes, or put the rooms to I rights, because housework spoils the hands and sweeping will lodge dust in the hair. strength of muscles to their utmost phy sical perfection. Quite the reverse, indeed, is the case. To develop these three quali ties of tissue wholly different methods of physical culture are required. They do not go hand in hand. The country lout with big muscles that can throw an ox has, as a rule, little endurance and less responsi veness. All army surgeons know how soon these big strong fellows will break down. The circus clown, agile as a cat, is often physically weak, and with no more endur ance than an ordinary mortal. Moreover, all three of these qualities are to be impart ed to all muscles of the body, iu proportion service, she is so tired, and she must get all those French exercises written before to morrow morning. But when some young friends come for her to go and play cro quet, she wakes to new life, and goes with them, and plays till twelve o’clock at night easily enough, and does not get tired—bless you, no indeed! Playing croquet is such delightful exercise. She knows all the gossip of the town as well as any of her elders, and she can talk over the broken matches, and the divorce suits, and the various other scandals with the best of them. She has a great deal to say about beaus, and speaks of setting her cap for this one, and that one, and designates all single women over twenty as “cattish old maids” and wonders what they are always poking themselves into society for? By way of accomplishments she plays on the piano, and every luckless caller at the house where she resides must have his or Gradually the declension from neatness her ear3 bomi wit h waltzes and marches, went on, until Edward was quite a match thumped out in tiine ad Ubitum aud witl [ tT ! sma11 re s ar(i to anything but noise. nnt o ,o int “* ” ” *“ The modern little girl ignores all girls younger than herself. They are children, and she will not associate with them. She does not care for juvenile parties, she pre fers entertainments which are not “so aw fully dull,” and where they dance some thing beside those “horrid quadrilles,” aDd where they euchre, or some game more in teresting than dominoes. She likes to stay at parties of that kind until other folks go home, and not be hur ried away by “ma” before eleven o’clock, just like a little girl! and he will lie in bed half the next day, and in two days be ready for just such another event. By the time she is twenty she is passe and faded, and if she marries, she is totally unfit for the duties of wife aud mother; but she is fashionable, and quite up to the times, and what cause have we old fogies to say anything about her? had not taken the hint, broad as it was. In her own person she was as untidy as ever. About six months after their marriage we invited a few friends to spend a social evening with us, Cora and her husband among the number. Cora came alone, quite early, and said that her husband was very much engaged, and could not come until after tea. My young friend had not taken much pains with her attire. Indeed, her appear ance mortified me, as it contrasted so de cidedly with that of tho other ladies who were present, and I could not help sug gesting to her that she was wrong in being so indifferent about her dress. But she laughingly replied to me: “You know my fortune’s made now, Mrs. Smith. I can afford to be negligent in these matters. It is a great waste of time to dress so much.” I tried to argue against this, but could make no impression upon her. About an hour after tea, while we were all engaged in pleasant conversation, the door of the parlor opened and in walked Mr. Douglass. At the first glance I thought 1 must be mistaken. But no, it was Edward himself. But what a figure he did cut. His uncombed hair was standing up in stiff spikes in a hundred different directions; his face could not have felt the touch of a razor for two or three days, and he was guiltless of clean linen for the same length of time. His vest was soiled, his boots b^ked, and there was an^uqgjistakable hole in one of his elbows. “Why, Edward ?” exclaimed his wife, with a look of mortification and distress, as her husband came across the room with a face in which no consciousness of the figure he cut could be detected. “Why, my dear fellow, what is the mat ter?” said my husband, frankly,, for he perceived that the ladies were beginning to titter, and that the gentlemen were looking each other and trying to repress their risible tendencies, aud there fore deemed it best to throw off all reserve upon the subject.” '‘The mattei ? Nothing’s the matter, 1 believe. Why do you ask ?” Douglass looked grave. “Well may he ask what is the matter,” broke in Cora, energetically. “How could you come here in such a pli^ “In such a plight ?” and Edwari down at himself, felt his beard, an* his fingers through his hair. “What matter ? Is anything wrong ? ” “You look as if you had just wak< from a nap of a week with your clotEes on, and came off without washing your face or combing your hair,” said my hus band. “Oh 1 ” and Edward’s countenance bright ened a little. Then he said, with much gravity of manner,” I have been extremely hurried of late, and only left business a few' minutes ago. I hardly thought it worth while to go home to dress ; I knew who we ■all were (and he glanced with a look not to be mistaken toward his wife) I do not feel called upon to give as much attention to mere dress as formerly. Before I was mar- Plaiu Talk to Yoons; Men. Remember, young friend, that the world is older than you are by several years; that for thousands of years it has been full of smarter and better young men than yourself; that when they died the globe went whirl ing on, and that not one man in a hundred millions went to the funeral or even heard of the death. Be as smart as you can of course. Know as much as you can; shed the light of your wisdom abroad, but don’t try to dazzle or astonish anytody with it. And don’t imagintf-a thing i ^simple be cause you happen to think it is. Don’t be too sorry for your father because he knows so much less than you do. He used to think he was as much smarter than his father as you think you are smarter than yours. The world has great need of young men, but no greater need than the young men have of the w r orld. Your clothes fit better than your father’s fit him; they cost more money; they are more stylish. He used to be as straight and nimble as you are. He, too, perhaps, thought his father old-fashioned. Your mustache is neater, the cut of your hair is better, and you are prettier, oh, far prettier than “pa.” But, young man, the old gentleman gets the big gest salary, and his homely, scrambling sig nature on the business end of a check will more money out of a bank in five les than you could get out with a ream ir and a copper-plate signature in six 'iis. Young men are useful, and they Irnamental, and we all love them, and couldn’t engineer a picnic successfully thout them. But they are no novelty. They have been here before Every gen eration has had a full supply ot them,, and will have to the end of time, and each crop will think themselves quite ahead of the last, and will live to be called old fogies by their sons. Go ahead. Have your day. Your sons will, by and by, pity you for your old, odd ways. Don’t be afraid your merit will not be discovered. People all over the world are hunting for you, and if you are worth finding, they will find you. A diamond is not so easily found as a quartz pebble, but people search for it all the more intently. serious -part ia tho history of myTamily-and-i pas8ing through the Nicaragua canal’, while | quick, I’m goinq!” ol my friends. In an unfortunate moment, i t k at G f passing through the Colon-Pana- I Just then his companion, who is a man 801116 j a ^° ( i y ia l eCilc tions be on it) 1 in- ma one wou ja be of the value of $500. A ; great strength; dropped the end of the vested ten cents in the ‘ fifteen” puzzle. I i eve i cana i wl thout locks, short, straight, j drum, and, grasping his coat collar, drew thought I had obtained my money s worth, j would have maD if 0 ld advantages over a ! him out on the floor of the tunnel, but alas I had purchased ten nights wake- cana i following the winding of a narrow I The mine expert was utterly prostrated rapid river with a score or more of locks, i as bis rescue was effected. He was car- Tlie latter would be quite liable to need i rie d out of the tunnel, his clothes dripping purchased ten nights 1 fulness and fifteen times more family feud than I had reckoned on. I thought as I carried the wretched little instrument of torture home in my pocket how himpy I was to have it, and instead of that, I have not known what it is to be happy since its shadow darkened my doors. On the first night I worked hard over it until 1 a. m., although the hardest work I had was to keep my wife and eldest daughter from seizing it. 1 went to bed with a headache, disappointed and mad, but determined. I j At the door leadin int0 the roora of the awoke in the morning with a headache and Secretary of the Navy, Washington, there found my daughter of fifteen at ‘‘fifteen | stands a ' old colorod ' man taU 8traight and She was late at school that day, and I reach-; (li ificd , The ^1!^’ covering of his ed my office two hours behind time It; veaera ble head is getting gray with age. was the 10th of the month but I dated all I His name u LmdK f Mule For fifty Uro my let ers loth and one of them after tUe | ye wi t h out intcrnussiGn, He has swung old style, “13—Id—14.. * That evening I j a „ A Cn/lrnfnr ,.- 0 « frequent repairs, thus, impeding traffic, which would abandon such a precarious channel for one offering greater facilities for a safe, brief, and a cheaper one, where impediments would not be likely to occur, and further from a volcanic region. A a Aged Doorkeeper was forced to use paternal and marital auth ority to keep the peaces, I may add. It never occurred to us to buy another puzzle. I worked all the evening hard, and got pretty mad not because I couldn’t do it, but because that busybody of a wife per sisted in telling me how to move the blocks —as if she knew any better than I did ! The next evening my mother-in-law came to tea with us. She said she had done the “fifteen” puzzle several times. “Not with 11—10, “nor with 15—14.” “Oh, yes.” she replied. “Well, there must have been some of the other numbers out of se quence, too.” I said. “No,” she still in to and fro the door of the Secretary’s office, and every one of the 365 days of the year, rain or shine, finds him at his post. Lind say Muse has known almost every officer of the army and navy, from admiral down to lieutenant and ensign, who have had business with the navy de partment for half a century. He was born in Northumberland county, Virginia, in the vear 1805. Being more fortunate than some of his colored bretliren he made his way to Washington when quite a young man, and, having worked about the Navy Department at different times, his fidelity and industry made him many friends, who liad him appointed assistant messenger un in perspiration, and laid in the snow. When partially recovered he was assisted to a house three miles away. His whole frame was so racked with the ph}*sical and men tal torture that for several hours he had no use of his limbs. Two days after he returned to the mine, and with au iron bar broke the windless into a thousand the painted life-preservers carried by ves sels for throwing to the rescue of “a man overboard” is its principal feature. Stich- ed to the inner circumference of this cir cular buoy is a nondescript sack, with two holes in the bottom, made as nearly as pos sible like the trunk of a pair of breeches, that will fit anybody. The buoy is swung to a “running block” by four small ropes, secured to it at opposite and spliced or plai ted into a single line up to the block. When flie life-line is stretched from the* shore to the wreck the “breeches buoy” is hauled back and forth by small lines attached.to the block, one extending to the shore, the other to the wreck. Get tine: into the buoy, pieces, then fished the sack of specimens ! getting into a pair of breeches with out of the winze. During a w'hole lifetime j a waistband, which reaches of adventures in some of the deepest claims : near ly to the armpits, formed of a mam- in the world, he says he has never been so j mo *k cork ring. W hen a person on the near the door of death as he was at the ! )' rrec k gets into the breeches and the signal Santa Anita, and he hopes never to pass : * s gi ven those on shore, the shore line of through the like again. the running block is pulled in by man or t , t ! horse. Away goes the buoy with its pas- a Famous Breviary. | senger—now in mid air, now on the crest 1 of a great wave now throng the top of Chief among treasures of art is the Brevi-1 f![ e surf > ‘ben into the arms of ery cherished in the old palace of the Doqes i th « st f wa f rt ' 3 [ ures ’ * ho 9 ? ake the n '[ n ;eneral and at Venice as a veritable pearl of price, j out of his breeches and signal those on the Placed under glass, it is open at one page, ! wreckt0 haul ^ C \ ? er and every day theleaf is tamed, so that if ! S e [- 11 ^i 11 be ™dmtood that the -breech- the art siudent has 110 weeks to spare for f, sbu0 > 15 us f when the vicdence of sisted, “nothing but 15—14.” “And you cerSecretary Samuel L. Southard in 1828. are sure you didn t lift one out?” continued | ™ oi I, skeptically. “Of course I didn’t,” she retorted with asperity; “do you think I cheat and tell falsehoods?” Whereupon I gulped down my sneaking suspicions on that subject, and replied very blandly (be cause she has money and my wife, Fannie, has only one sister), “Certainly not, mother dear! but then 1 thought perhaps it was accidental.” “Well. Mr. C.,” she said ex citedly, and rising from the table. “You must take me for an idiot to think that I could lift a block by accident.” “Can you do the puzzle again?” I asked, moved by a Satanic instinct to prove to her that she was wrong and utterly unmindful of her limit less bank account. “I don’t know,” she replied curtiy, as she swept out of the room with that dignity which is born alone of the consciousness of possessing cmjds of U. S. leistered 4s or other truck o^piimilar natu^ Fanny came down very cross and said, “Edward, 1 think you were extreme ly rude.” “Possibly,” said I, “but can’t do 15—14, I was.” Nothing more was said, and Fanny went off to bed early. I did not. Truthfulness runs in my wife’s family and consequently I was tortured with the belief that my mother-in-law had done “15 —14,” and if she had done it, it was possi ble, and if it was possible, I would do it; so I worked until halfpast twelve. When I went up stairs Fanny was awake, but an awkward slience reigned supreme. That was the first night for sixteen years that I had failed to kiss her good night, except when we were not together. The next evening my daughter declared she could do “11—10—” or 15—14,” so after tea we went at it vi et armis, or in other words, determined to vie without arms. She fool ed around over those blocks for an hour un til I got so nervous and so provoked with the stupid way she moved them that I would have slapped her had she only been young- A circle of five or seven is the only legitimate way to move, and instead of that she travelled all over the board. Finally she changed the location of the vacant square and declared she had done it. I sent her to bed. The next day was Sunday, and really, for me, a day of rest. Throughout the Lit any, when the congregation murmured. “Good Lord, deliver us,” I silently added, “from the puzzle of fifteen.” feut our cli max came on the following evening, when my wife asserted, and insisted, that she herself, with her mother, had done “15— I said she hadn’t; that it couldn’t be Since that time he has been on continual duty, and has served under the following Secretaries: John Branch, Levi Woodbury, Dickerson, James K. Paulding, George E. Badger, Abel P. Upshur, David Henshaw, Thomas W. Gilmer, John Y. Mason, George Bancroft, William Ballard Preston, William A. Graham, John J. Kennedy, James C. Dobbin, Isaac Toucey, Gideon Wells, Adolph E. Borie, George M. Robe son, and the present Secretary, Richard W. Thompson, of Indiana. The colored man has outlived all of these gentlemen, except two, viz.: George Bancroft, the. eminent historian, and George M. Kobeso^member of Congress from New Jersey.^^At the time this old servant first appeared on duty, John Quincy Adams was President, but Lindsay sticks whether the adodistration ii Democratic, Republican, or aU^hing else. He never voted in his life, andflhi firm ad vocate of the civil service ruieST - Almost every Secretary when leaving the office has thanked this doorkeeper for his faithful and intelligent performance of duty, and has given him an autograph letter testify ing to his high regard for him., Tjiese let ters Mr. Muse keeps locked up from human eyes, but brought forth one for the reporter to look at. He says it is a fair sample of them all. The following is a cojfy of the letter: Lindsay Muse: I cannot leave the De partment without expressing to you my high sense of your fidelity and good con duct as messenger of the Navy Department. Your manner in performing your duty has always met with my perfect approbation. George Bancroft. Washington, December 1, 1846. When Mr. Thompson was made Secre tary of the Navy, Mr. Robeson, bis prede cessor, brought him out to introduce him to Lindsay Muse. Shaking his hand warmly Mr. Thompson said: “Oh! Lindsay and I don’t need an introduction, we have been friends for the last twenty years.” Last year, when the officers of the Nav/Depart- ment were removed into the new building. Admiral Scott and several other gentlemen about the department took up a subscrip tion and purchased Lindsay a handsome black suit of clothes, so that the depart ment and its oldest servant could appear together in a new dress. Lindsay is now over seventy-four years of age, but |he is still strong and active. He says that he expects to be on guard for .many years yet, and that when he is at last compelled to retire he will do so with-great regret, Venice, he may hope mthat time to make himself acquainted with all the miniatures. Even this is much more than was once per mitted to the public. The old custodians of San Marco cherished the Breviary as the very apple of the eye, and it was considered a worthy entertainment for kings and for eign potentates to turn the leaves and in spect the pictures of this priceless manu script. No one of less importance than a king or a foreign guest, whom the Republic delighted to honor, was permitted so much as to catch a glimpse ot the cover; so that tor years it remained a hidden treasure, almost lost out of the memory of man, or mentioned now and then by some fortunate lover of art to whom a fleeting glimpse had been accorded, it acquired a fabulous splen dor, and wa3 spoken of as being covered with gold enriched by precious gems. Nothing is certainly know T n with regard to its origin. That more than one hand was employed in its adornment is sufficiently evident, for while some of the miniatures are distinguished by a nobleness of design —A moderate wind blows seven miles per hour. —A hurricane moves eighty miles per hour. —Chicago makes $15,000,000 worth of cloth a year. —The factories in Atlanta, Ga., em ploys 1,500 girls. —In 1870 the French army estimates were $100,000,000. —The school attendance in Japan is now thirty-six millions. —The Dominion of Canada is in debt to the amount of $190,000,000. —A full-blooded Seneca Indian is a fireman on the Erie Railroad. —Several chiefs have revolted against King John of Abyssinia. —Spelling reform pays. Josh Bil lings has made $100,000 by his writing. —Provisions and tallow to the value of $9,499,000 were exported in January. —Five thousand eight hundred im migrants landed at New York in Jan uary. —The debt of Cleveland, O., is $85.- 918,000. $693,000 were paid on the deot last year. There are made yearly in Reading and Berks counties, Pa., over 6,000,000 woolen hats. —On bis farm at Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis is preparing for a big cotton crop next season. Mississippi has decided to have an entomologist. The State loses $6,000,- 000 a year by worms. —The amount of United States cur rency outstading at the present time is $361,708,591.41. It is said ther^are 40,000,000 acres of public lands in the State of Califor nia yet unsurveyed. Accompany with a capitalTof $250,- 000 has been formed to work the petro leum springs in Germany. -Spain pays her ministers plenipo tentiary $60,000 a year and her favorite bull-fighter $30,000 a year. —The fifteen car manufacturing es tablishments in this country turned out 37,350 cars in eleven months. —The Marquis de Talleyrand Peri- gord, a relative of the famous Talley rand, is visiting Washington. •The total value of exports of pe troleum and petroleum products for December 1879 were $3,039,000. —During the year 1879 three new telegraphic lines were opened for ser vice by the Government of Persia. •The. total receipts of lumber at Chi cago during 1879 were 1,467,720,000 feeU~— an increase for the year of 25 per cent. —During '1579 more railroad acci dents occurred in the transportation of coal than ol any other kind of freight. —It is estimated that 'the increased cost of railroad building at present as compared with a year ago Is $3,000 per mile. In the United States navy there are but forty-eight vessels of all sizes and classifications that are *ble to fire a gun. —The Habeas Corpus—the people’s writ of right, passed for the security of individual right—was made a law May 27, 1870. —The State ol Mississippi is about to establish a college for young women. The State University now has 377 stu dents, and is prospering. —The new Cathedral at Edinburgh, built by the Misses Walker, is the largest Protestant Episcopal church ereeted since the reformation. —The revenue from New York ca nals in ’79 was $67,398 less than in ’68. This is ascribed to the late opening last spring. This year ought to compensate. —Connecticut has a school fund of $2,019,650, of which about three-quar ters are invested conservatively in mortgages on property within the state. —At the end of the present fiscal year the commissioner of pensions estimates that there will be 250,000 applications for pensions pending and unacted upon. —The treasury of the State of North Carolina has funded between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 of old bonds in new four per cents., bearing interest from July, 1880. —Capt. R. F. Burton is now in Egypt, the storm renders the use of life-boats im-. - . —. . possible or too dangerous. To make the | 18 a ^ >out proeeed, with a survey- life-line connection from the shore to the ! P art *V, to the gold mines which he wreck, a shot with a long “whip-Iina” at- J . ,- ‘ 0 ,° k Te .[ ed near the 8hores of tbe Gulf tached is fired from a mortar over the wreck. ; 0 a a * This line is caught by those on the wreck, ! There are ninety-five lakes in Iowa, who haul the life-line on board. Attached • c overiug an area ol 61,' 00 acres. Should to the end of the life-line is a “tally-board” tbe3e i^es dry up as some of them are hearing printed direction, including those : dom *’ tbe laad wl11 belon S w tbe for signals. When “all’s right” the men prnmpn on shore haul taut on the life-line secure it to anchor which, by this time, they have buried in the sand for the purpose. Then a high crotch is “up ended” beneath the shore end of the line, and the operation of the breeches buoy is commenced. In case of a wreck with many passengers the “safe ty car” is used in place of the buoy. It is constructed somewhat after the fashion of a covered boat, which is practically water tight, but admits a air for respirationj The car is, of course, much heavier than the buoy, and is suspended to the life line by two running block (one at each end), and is operated the same as the buoy. It was and finish of execution, others are feeble P? means of the “safety car” that about and confused, and a few, from their weak ness, seem scarcely worthy a place. The Breviary consists of 831 leaves of very fine white parchment, on which are written the Psalms, the Lessons, the Rubric, the Offices to the Virgin and the Saints, the Service for the Dead, etc. The margin of each one of these leaves is enriched by exquisite illum inations of every variety—arabesques of gold and silver, and various colors, amidst which are placed flowers and fruits of all kinds; every sort of creature that creeps on land, or flies in the air, or swims n the sea; shell-fish, insects, birds, and beasts; fairies, genii, and fabulous monsters, charm ing little landscapes; representations of men and costumes of various nations; scenes of life in town and country, in palace and cot tage—all on a minute scale, and all painted in that delicate pointille style so exquisite and so marvelous in its results. It is diffi cult not to linger over each one, so charm ing are they, and so well do they repay the closest examination. Here we are brought suddenly into the interior of a jeweler’s shop, where a woman, seated, is weighing out gold; there a lovely girl is leaning over a balcony; a gardener is plucking fruit from his tree; a pair of lovers are sailing on a lake on which swans are swimming; a her mit is prayiniy in the wilderness to an image of the Virgin; an old peasant woman is hobbling painfully along on crutches; a road winds through a mountainous country, with a glimpse of sea in the distance, an old peasant woman is approaching, bearing on her head a wicker cage of chickens, under one arm a cock, under the other a basket of eggs; a young girl is washing her hands at a fountain in the middle of a square in a Dutch Tillage. —Tbe flood in Ohio and Kentucky hes been very disastrous. two hundred persons were rescued from the wreck of Ayrshire, on the Jersey coast, below Swon -each, a few years ago,' and on several occasions mails, treasure and val uable merchandise have been saved by its means. Leaf Fhotographs. A very pretty amusement espetially for those who have just completed the study of botany, is the taking of leaf photo graphs. One very simple process is this: At any druggist’s get a dime's worth of bi* ! eminent. —The trotter Rolla Golddust, valued in his prime at $20,000, was sold at Eden farm at auction for $190. He is old and crippled, and is valued chiefly for what he has done. —The St. Gothart tunnel was com pleted iu less than seven years—that is, half the time consumed in piercing the Mont Cenis, which It exceeds in length by 2,700 metres. —The gross earnings of the Northern Pacific railroad for the year 1879 are reported to the railroad commissioner at $1,381,931, upon which the tax paid the State is $27,981. —Four thousand fig-trees, imported from Europe, Asia and Africa, were planted on Fairnie Hill, near Pensa cola, Fla., last autumn. A neighbor ing fig orchard contains 3,500 —There are about 292,000 Indians of all tribes. Of these 40,000 can read and write, 30,000 are members of churches, and there are about 250,000 acres of land cultivated by the different tribes. —The Belgian Queen still so fondly cherishes the memory ol her only son, the Duke of Brabant, who died in Jan uary, 1869, that she has never since permitted any Court festivities to be chromate of pOtafh Put this is at.* o ounce during that month, bottle of soft water. When the solution I —Lyons, France, is about to erect a become saturated—that is, the water has j statue to Jacquard, the Inventor of the dissolved as much as it will—pour off some well-known loom that bears his name, of the clear liquid into a shallow dish; on was D( > rr J an ^ died in 1834. this float a piece of ordinary writing paper j Lyons had tbe first use of his loom, till it is thoroughly and evenly moistened. ma J rem ® m b®red, was Let it become ie-arlydrj', in the dark, n ; poWic'F burnt. d be Of a. bright yellow. On this put 9* t * ie , Marquis of An- ‘ J; under it a piece of soft black cloth gtesey was insured in various com- veral sheets of newspaper.- Put these P a nies for an aggregate amount of not !D two pieces of glass (all the pieces ! should be of the same size) and with spring clothes-pins fasten them alltogether. Ex pose to a bright.sua, ‘placing the leaf so that the rays wUrtall upon it as nearly per pendicular as possible. In a few minutes it will begin tp turn brown, but it requires from half an^our to several hours to pro duce a perfect print. W hen it has become dark enough, take it from the frame and put it in clear water, which must be chan- quis will come into a magnificent and unencumbered property, with an in come of £100,000 a year. —An enterprising American shipped some wheelbarrows to Kio de Janeiro, and the natives filled them with stones and carried them on their heads. They said it was a capital contrivance, and wondered how they managed to get along so many years withont it. —Joseph E. Temple, a retired Phlla- ged every few minutes, till the|yellow part : dcI hia mer chant, has made a gift, becomes perfectly white. Sometimes the amount ing in all to $60,000, to the venation of the leaves will be quite distinct. By following these directions, it is scarcely possible to fail, and a little practice will make perfect. The photographs, if well taken, are very pretty as well as interest ing. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, on condition that the galleries shall be free to the public on certain days of every exhibition week, and that part of the income shall be devoted to encour aging art.