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The Cedartown
X
1
THE INCONSISTENT HEART.
The valley was bathed in glory this morn
ing,
For high o'er the mountain tops hung the
bright sun;
The fragrant winds bore the notes of the
songsters
In through my casement, in soft liquid runs.
But out in the garden some one was hum
ming
A plaintive strain of the Miserere;
And I hid my face in my downy pillow.
While my heart re-echoed the minor key.
Down o’er the heather, where gowans were
' bending,
I walked, while the bells rang a musical
chime;
The harebells blossomed; this world was an
Eden;
The brooklets were purling a musical
rhyme,
But my wayward heart went back to the
morning,
To the quivering voice and the minor key,
The wonderful depths of the passionate
sorrow
And the wailing cry of the Miserere.
I still heard the birds with their clear-voiced
music.
And the warm sun still smiled with radi
ant light;
The soft blue mists that the mountain en
shrouded
Like a fleecy veil hid the cliffs from my
sight,
All the world was as fair as a dream of
heaven
And my life was as sweet as a life could be:
But somehow my wayward heart kept re
peating
The sorrowful wail of the Miserere.
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JOHN WAKE'S NURSE.
There are two reasons why Joanna
Blight had her studjo up in the man
sard.
In the first place, she craved quiet
and seclusion, in the second—well,
Mrs. Algernon Mowry was very much
ashamed of it.
Mrs. Mowry was quite content that
“her husband’s niece” should pay her
board bill. The money was very ac
ceptable to them in their narrow cir
cumstances. But for the life of her
Mrs. Mowry could not see why Joanna
preferred to earn her own living when
she had a brother able to support her.
This little studio was a very pretty
place. The bare floor was patched with
bright-colored rugs; the walls were
tinted a delica te 5 blue, bordered with
harmonious hands of crimson, olive,
and gold.
There was one wide window to the
front, and near it, at her easel, Joanna
sat one sweet April morning, finishing
a birthday card in water-colors.
From time to rime she would pause
at her work, and, leaning back in her
chair, she would watch the builders
over the way.
Some one had bought the corner lot
and the two lots adjacent to it on the
main and side streets. Within the
past six weeks a charming little Queen
Anne cottage had sprung up there as if
by magic.
Humor said that it was being built
for a gentleman from Washington.
“Me must be a man of taste,” Joan
na thought as she took in the’ graceful
effect of the building, even in its un
finished state. “How I should like to
live in a house like thatl Tiles and ter
ra cotta and low-down grates! That
ought to make life worth living!”
Joanna smiled at her own fancies as
she took up her brush and palette.
AVhen she looked up again the men
were hoisting some heavy framework
by means of a pulley.
“Look out there I” cried a tall, manly
fellow on the roof, who towered head
and sholders above his companions.
He was a well-made man, with a rich,
bronze skin, and a full brown beard
that had concealed his finely shaped
neck. The only parts of his dress visi
ble were a blue Cardinal jacket and a
pair of overalls.
“Tney have got a new workman,”
Joanna observed idly. “What a splen
did fellow is I I wonder what business
a carpenter has with a face and figure
like that? Sometimes it seems to me
that nature blunders sadly.”
That stalwart young carpenter disap
peared meanwhile, and Joanna left her
work.
“I wish the Palette club didn’t meet
this afternoon,” she murmured as she
passed into the next room and began
to uflplaither long, thick, yellow braids.
Her toilette was simple, but somehow
it went i or ward slowly. She felt rather
dull that day, and as she smoothed her
hair in a leisurely fashion, she hummed
to herself—
llelgho! for the holy!
Most friendship is feigning—
Most loving mere folly!
So she went on, placidly pinning up
her braids again, and never once
dreaming of what happened since she
left the window until Mabel came
bursting into the room with a panic-
stricken face.
“Joanna,” she cried, hysterically,
‘come on down stairs! One of the
workmen has fallen off the new house,
and they’ve brought him over here.”
“Good heavens!” Joanna exclaimed.
“Is he killed?”
“I don’t know,” Mabel answered
with a burst of tears. He’s all covered
with dirt and blood, and—he just looks
awful!”
Joanna went flying down stairs, and
met her aunt in the hall. Mrs. Mowry
was on the verge of hysterics.
“Do go in and see what they are
doing!” sue cried. “Good heavens,
who would have dreamed of such a
thing? And all these men with their
muddy hoots tramping over my car
pet—”
“Where have they taken him?”
Joanna interrupted, as she turned away
with ill-disguised contempt.
“In the library.” sobbed Mrs. Mowry.
‘“Oli, I don’t know how you can bear
to go ini My nerves could not endure
it.”
But Joanna pushed past her with
prompt determination. As she entered
the room she saw a little, horror-
stricken group of men in blue blouses,
and overalls hovering about the lounge
on which the injured man was lying.
She took several steps toward them,
and then a low, startled cry escaped
her lips. It was the handsome young
workman whose splendid physique she
had admired only an hour previous,
and there he lay, white, crushed, and
bleeding.
“Have you sent for a doctor?” she
said, as she dropped on her knees be
side the passive, insensible lorm.
“Yes’m,” answered one of the work
men, who ttood a: his head. “We sent
right off.”
“Who is this man,” she asked,
quickly. “W here does he live?”
“This man here? I dunno, ma’am.
His name’s John Ware. He is a new
hand. We don’t know nothing about
him. He was kind of a bossy chap,
fired much either—did he, Eli?
“Don’t you know any of his friends?”
Joanna asked. “Where does he Uve?”
“Deed, I couldn’t tell ye, ma’am.
I don’t know nothing about him.
The doctor came, and his verdict
was a grave one. Joanna came out of
the library with a pale, resolute face.
“Aunt Margaret.” she said, quietly,
“they are going to take him up to my
room
“What!” Mrs. Mowry screamed, in
a spasm of hysterical horror. “Joanna,
are you mad?”
He says he has no friends in the
city; and, anyhow, the doctor says it
might be fatal to move him from the
house. The slightest jar makes him
suffer unspeakable agony."
“But, Joanna, it is utterly impossi
ble for us to keep him here. Think of
the—the expense. He’s only a laboring
man, and-
“I will bear whatever expense his
being here may entail upon you.”
“But suppose he dies on your hands?
Or he may lie here for months. For
heaven’s sake, send him to the hos
pital!”
“I cannot think of doing anything
so inhuman. He may occupy my room,
Aunt Margaret. Do not distress your
self about it. I will see that he does
not occasion you the slightest annoy
ance.”
So John Ware was installed in the
little bedroom back of the studio, and
the doctor came and went for weeks
before it was really known that the
patient would recover.
Joanna nursed him with untirin;
devotion.
“You really think he will get well
now?” she said, some days afterwards,
with womanly tears in her eyes.
The doctor took her hand and pressed
it warmly.
Yes,” he answered; “thanks to
you!”
The patient had been sleeping, but
now he opened his eyes, and they
shone with a glad welcome as they fell
upon the pale, sweet face of Joanna.
‘I was just saying, my young
friend,” observed the doctor, releasing
Joanna’s slim fingers to take up John
Ware’s finely shaped hand, which was
now as white as marble—“I was just
saying that you owe your life more to
Mrs. Blight than you owe it to me. ”
The handsome fellow gave her a look
so full of gratitude that it was almost
admiration.
“I shall never forget her!” he said,
in a musical voice that promised to be
rich and deep when he grew stronger.
T cannot even estimate what I owe
her, much less repay her.”
Joanna did not like to be thanked,
and she slipped away at the first op
portunity; but she carried with her the
memory of that handsome head, with
its crown of chestnut curls restinj
softly among the pillows.
The weeks went on, and John Ware
was convalescent.
It was one midsummer morning that
he sat at the window of the study in
an easy chair while Joanna rfiade
feint of wbrkingwiitfle iiToils. i
But what did it mean, the (tender
light that shone in John Ware's eyes
as they rested on her lithe, graceful
figure clad in pure white? Why did
Joanna’s hand tremble as it held the
palette? And why was her face so
often suffused with a sweet, conscious
blush?
“Why don’t you come over here and
talk to me?” he said, with the pre
sumption of an invalid.
“I have something better to do, Mr.
Ware,” she answered, mischievously.
“But you don’t know what you are
missing. The little cottage must be
complete now. Here comes a wagon
load of new furniture.
Like every woman (and every man),
Joanna had some curiosity, and this
announcement brought her to the win
dow without delay.
Certainly, there was a wagon-load of
furniture, aud such furniture! In that
load, which was the first of several
that came that day, there was a beauti
ful oaken sideboard, exquisitely carved;
a .quaint, lacquered cabinet, ebony
bookcases, a handsome brass bedstead,
and dear knows what not.
“They are going to make a very
pretty home out of it,” John Ware
observed. “How do j T ou like the
house?”
Joanna's eyes sparkled.
“O,” she cried, clasping her hands
together, “I think it is perfectly charin-
ingl But, she added, with sudden
gravity, “I should think it would make
you shudder to look at it.”
“Oh! no,” he answered, with perfect
calmness. Then he added, softly, “It
might, under different circumstances.
But if I had never had that fall I
should never have known you as I know
you now.”
Joanna did not speak; but presently
she felt his firm clasp upon her hand.
Still, he did not look at her.”
“You know what has been tremb
ling on my lips for weeks,” he said.
“1 would not ask you to make the
smallest sacrifice for me, if you felt it
was a sacrifice; but I love you, Joanua,
and my happiness will never be com
pleted unless you are my wife.”
He did not ask her to marry him; he
did not press his suit. He simply told
her. She might do as she chose. As
for him, he knew tnat a mere mechanic
had no social right to win such a wo
man as she for his wife; but then—
“I could not help telling you,” he
said, turning towards her for the first
time. “The merest galley slave may
look at the stars and love them. I cau
go away—no, no! I cannot go away!
Joanna, speak to me!”
She was trembling like a leaf.
“I know itl” he cried, triumphantly,
as he caught her in his arm. “But I
was not so sure that your love was
strong enough to set at defiance the
ridicule of society. I did not know
that you would sloop to marry a car
penter.”
“It is not the carpenter I mean to
marry,” she said, hiding her face on
his shoulder. “It is the man.”
i When Mrs. Mowry heard of it there
was a scene, of course. In an hysteri
cal burst of tears she declared that
Joanna would disgrace the family, and
ended by ordering her out of the house.
John Ware demanded an account of
this interview, and heard it with com
pressed lips and an angry frown.
“Joanna,” he said, taking her two
hands in liis, “you must marry me to
day. 1 have a little money saved, and
we will make a home of our own. It
will be very humble, of course, but—”
“1 don’t mind that,” she said, smil
ing at him through a mist of tears.
You know I am a decorative artist.
Besides, I always had a fancy for love
m a cottage.”
They were married that very evening.
waiting to take them away.
“What extravagance!” cried Joanna.
“This is a bad beginning.”
“One isn’t married every day,”s aid
John, laughing. “I am going to take
you to the house of my dearest friend,
Joanna.”
The carriage stopped in front of a
dwelling that was shrouded in darkness.
John took a key from his pocket and
opened the door himself.
“My friend is away,” he said. “I
have the entree of his house in his
absence.”
Taking a match from his pocket, he
lit the gas in the hall and ran lightly
up stairs.
Joanna followed m amazement. She
had expected to enter a humble home,
but she found herself in a perfect palace
of luxury.
John lit the gas up stairs. When
she entered the room he had thrown
open, he stood in the middle of the
floor with his face all aglow.
You like it?” he queried, as lie
noted the wonder and delight pictured
upon her face. “Joanna, I have de
ceived you. This is the Queen Anne
cottage opposite your aunt’s—this is my
house—your house, darling; our home!
I am not the poor carpenter you thought
me, Joanna. I am J. M. Ware,
architect and designer, if you please."
Joanna could not say a word.
“I wanted to see now things were
going on, and so 1 came here in person.
But I knew that the men would put
their best feet foremost if I came to
watch them, so I Just appeared on the
scene as a new workman, and they
never guessed who I was. I did not
intend to deceive you. At first I was
too illto explain. Afterwards, Joanna,
when I learned to love you—and 1
learned that very soon, dear, I wanted
to win you for my own very self, and
so I let you think me nothing but a
poor carpenter, whereas I am rich, my
darling, rich in every way, and, please
God, you will never regret your
choice."
“It would take a IoDg time to tell
what Joanna said, but Mrs. Mowry
never said a word. What could she
say?
John and Joanna are perfectly happy
in their beautiful home. It is love in
a cottage, and there’s a great deal of
love in it,
Grain-Eating Bird*.
The finches are pre-eminently a grain-
loving species—using this expression In
its widest and most general acception—
but they are never known to do much
mischief to cereals. The cardinal gros
beak and towliee evince a fondness for
rice and com, hut are never so numer
ous as to be sources of much alarm to
the farmer. Among col.imbine birds,
to which oar various doves belong, the
wild or migratory pigeon is sufficiently
abundant in certain localities to be of
incalculable injury. But then, these-
birds frequent timbered regions and
waste fields in proximity to running
streams rather than thickly populated
districts, and have a seeming prefer
ence for arboreal fruits; and when
there is a scarcity of such diet they
feed upon the seeds of last year’s
growth.
In Dalecarlla, Sweden.
Passing through the station we open
ed the door into a new world. Crowded
around the ticket office was a score ol
people of both sexes, wearing the dis
tinctive dresses of a half-dozen Delecar-
lian parishes. We bad stepped from
the auditorium into the wings. Old
men in buckskin small-clothes and
leather aprons jostled pretty peasant
girls in quaint pointed caps and many-
bued kerchiefs; mothers with leather
sacks full of babies on their backs,
and workmen with bundles of tools,
all clamored eagerly for tickets,
evidently too little familiar with rail
way travel. Here and there flash
fd among the drapery the orange-
yellow aprons of the women, enlivening
the color composition of the group with
a few strong notes, and cheering us with
the proof that we had not lost the trail.
The Cninese in New fort.
“How many Chinese are there in
New York” asked a reporter of an of
ficer of the Chinese Consulate recently
established here.
“We are now engaged in making a
list of Chinese in New York, which
will tell the exact number. At present
I can only say that we estimate the
number at three thousand.”
“Are there any women amongtbem?”
“1 am told that one Chinese woman
lives here, somewhere on Sixth avenue.
You know that most if not all of the
men came here.from Sun.Francisco.
This trip, with the* ocean voyage to
California, is rather expensive to the
average Chinaman, and would be more
so, of course, if he brought his family.
Besides, the larger number expect to
return to China.”
“What are the upations of these
three thousand?”.
“Most of them are laundrymen, some
cigar-makers and the rest petty mer
chants. There is, however, a firm in
Broadway, opposite Astor Place, which
imports bric-a-brac, &c. There are no
Chinese importers of teas that I know
of.”
“Where do they get the names of
‘Lee,’ ‘Sing,’ ‘Lung,’ &c?” pursued
the reporter.
“Oh those simply represent certain
Chinese sounds. I can give you a curi
ous fact or two about their names.
One is that, by an old custom in China,
a man has one name in business
aud another in his private life. The
other fact is that their names corres
ponding to the English John, Tom, &c,,
follow, not precede the family name.
Some, however, have adopted the
English way.”
“How much intercourse is there be
tween the Chinese and Japanese here?”
“None whatever. You may be
interested in learning that though the
two nations use the same characters
for writing, one cannot understand the
spoken langauge of the other. The
Japanese here number about four
hundred.”
“Is not the language very difficult to
acquire?”
“Extremely so, there being, for in
stance, seven thousand letters, each
having four sounds.”
“Do the Chinese have any religious
or joss-houses here?”
“There isn’t any in this city, but I
believe there is one in New Jersey in
connection with a large laundry—a case
of cleanliness next no godliness,you
Give Your Wife a Vacation.
She needs one. Little cares are hard
er to be bom than great responsibilities;
and she has many more little cares than
her husband, and sometimes as great re
sponsibilities. 'Who needs a vacation if
she does not? And she cannot get it at
home. The more quiet and restful the
home is to you, the more evidence that
it is a care, if not a burden, to her. If
you see no friction, it is because she is
so skilful an engineer. If you see no
machinery, it is because she makes it
run so smoothly.
It is true that it is always difficult to
make a wife and mother take a vaca
tion. The better the wife and mother
she is, the greater is the difficulty. She
thinks that no one can take care of the
house as she can. And she is right.
She is sure that no man can take her
place in the care of the children. Bight
again. Nevertheless, she needs her
vacation; and she will be a better
housekeeper and a better mother for a
week’s rest. The house will value her
more for a week’s abdication of her
throne. Her children will appreciate
her better for a week’s laying down of
her scepter. Is she sometimes irritable v
She is tired. Is she sometimes depress
ed and gloomy? She is over-worked
and over-worried. Send her off, or
take her off, where she can sleep with
out one ear open to hear the children
Barring the destructive, grain-loving , am
sparrow of Europe, now wMl-estal?^“^y it^ n^^ummer.
lished in this country, we have more to
dread from the starlings and crows
than from all other species combined.
The sub-family of orioles, from the
smallness of its grain-eating propen
sity, can hardly be considered as an
enemy of the agriculturist, and there
fore must be passed by without a more
extended notice. Of the marsh black
birds, the bobolink, swamp blackbird
and meadow lark call for a share of at
tention.
The bobolink has at different seasons
of the year a remarkably extended dis
tribution. In its migrations it traver
ses the whole of the United States east
of the high central plains to the Atlan
tic seaboard, as far north as the fifty-
fourth parallel, which is considered as
its most northern limit. Its food with
us consists of the seed of various weeds
and grasses of valueless kinds and
grubs of diverse ground beetles, as
well as the mature forms themselves,
and grasshoppers, crickets, bats and
plant-lice. At’the Souththese birds do
a vast amount of injury to the young
wheat as they are passing northward
in the spring, and upon the rice-planta
tions, on their return in the fall.
Throughout their breeding territory
they are not known to molest crops,
but confine their food to destructive
insects and useless weeds.
About the middle of August or early
in September the flocks wend their way
southward. They soon congregate in
large numbers among the marshes of
the Delaware, where they are eargerly
hunted by sportsmen uuder the name of
reed birds, their flesh being a racy and
toothsome article of diet. Two weeks
later they swarm among the rice fields
of South Carolina. They are now
called rice birds. Southern epicures
pursue them with the same tireless en
ergy and pleasure, and thousands fall a
sacrifice. In October .they halt again
among the West India Islands, where
they feed upon the seeds of a certain
species of grass, which render them
exceedingly fat. The sporting frater
nity here call them butter birds, and
vast numbers are destroyed for the
table. They render immense service to
the cultivators of Sea Island_cotfe>n Jadm
destroying the larvas"of the’ obnoxious!] ,,,
cotton worm.
The swamp blackbird, is being a
lover of swamps and low, humid
grounds, from which fact the species
takes its name, extends throughout the
whole of North America from the At
lantic to the Pacific northward to the
fifty-seventh parallel ot latitude. While
these birds may occasionally he seen in
the stubble fields in quest of the fallen
grains of wheat and rye, we have never
observed them to attack these plants
while standing. With respect to buck
wheat we cannot say so much. In some
localities they manifest a relish for the
grain, which they do not hesitate to
take from the sown ground as well as
fr om the stalk. But, when all is told
to the detriment of the species that can
be said, a long experience has taught
us that the millions of insects which
these birds annually destroy compen
sate, in more than quadruple ratio,
the farmer for the losses—never enor
mous—which he sustains.
The meadow lark is resident over
large portions of the United States. It
ranges from Florida to Texas on the
south, and from Nova Scotia to the
plains of the Missouri on the north.
It is fond of lowlands, more elevated
situations only occasionally being cho
sen. With us it manifests considerable
distrust, shunning rather than court
ing the society of man, although in
Georgia and South Carolina it consorts
with the kill-deer plovers about the
yards aud outbuildings, showing won
derful familiarity. Their food consists
of seeds of grasses, blackberries and
strawberries—the wild kinds—and
ground beetles, fem-leaf beetles, grass-
loppers, crickets, ants, earth-worms,
plant-lice, caterpillars, grubs, butter
flies and moths. They are indiscrimi
nate feeders. Injurious and beneficial in
sects are alike destroyed. In the autumn
these birds, young and old, collect m
small flocks, and retire to the South.
They gather in large numbers in the
rice fields, being passionately fond of
this grain, and also about the buildings
where it is deposited. During the win
ter in Alabama and Western Florida
they visit the salt marshes in flocks qf
from ten to thirty, where they obtain
food and shelter. Although destroying
considerable rice, it cannot be reckoned
an unmitigated nuisance, but rather a
benefactor to man than otherwise. Its
Western cousin has a better reputation,
however, for it feeds upon seeds and
insects chiefly, destroying vast num
bers of the latter, but Is not known to
do any damage to the crops.
The crow blackbird, sometimes called
purple grakle, exhibits three distinct
varieties. From North Florida in the
South, to Maine, and from the Atlan
tic to the Allegheny Mountains, it is
known by the latter name. In the
country west of the Alleghenies as far
southward as the Bio Grande and
thence to the Missouri plains on the
northwest to the Saskatchewan, and
to Maine and NovaScotia on the north
east, it takes the name of bronze gra
kle. Few species are more condemed
than this, notwithstanding the great
good which it confers upon man.
Its bad reputation is due not so much
to its destruction of the cherry as to
the damage which it does in the corn
field in spring and to the corn while
shocked in the fall. Such is their pas-
uneasily tossing in their sleep; where
she can sit down to a table that will
present some unexpected dishes to her;
where her night will be without cares.
sion for this staple product that they
defy all efforts of the husbandman to
keep them away. Scarecrows are of
no avail. The gun must be brought
into requisition, and it is only by dec!
Such a vacation will take the tired look. mating their ranks with powder and
out of her eyes and put the old light
back again; it will give the rippling
merriment of girlhood to her laugh,
elasticity to her step, color to her cheek.
Woman’s powerof recuperation is won
derful, if it has half a chance. Try the
experiment. Why not?
shot that the grain is at last saved
from total destruction.
—The government hires a vault In a
safe deposit company in St. Louis for
the storage of silver dollars, and has
about 94,000,000 in it.
the vegetation was in its perfection, and
the sun shone for nearly twenty hours
each day. The people, sun-worshipers
in their way, were preparing for the
festivities of Midsummer-day—a popu
lar holiday, which is celebrated ou the
24th of June, and is perhaps more than
any other day the great Dalecarlian
festival. From the railway line it is
about twenty-five miles to Siljan Lake,
and the chief means of communication
is by steamers on the Dal-Elf, or river
Dal, a shallow stream only navigable at
intervals. Wagons, by courtesy called
diligences, transport the passengers
around the rapids and shoals,and mater
ially add to the discomforts of the
journey. The Dal-Elf is so near like
the American backwoods stream that
it is not remarkable that the* Swede
who exchanges his small river farm for
the extensive woodland tract in Ameri
ca rarely experiences the pangs of home
sickness, but settles down to a content
ed life of diligent toil. The stream ed
dies are full of timber on its way to the
saw-mills below. The odor of pines and
spruces fills the air, daisies and butter
cups sprinkle the fields, pond-lilies dot
the surface of the meadow-pools, and a
bright sun ripens the grain waving in
the large fields redeemed with difficulty
from the stony slopes or from the dense
forests that cover the liill-sides.
Shut your ears to the sound of men’s
voices, and you cannot believe you are
in Sweden. That little,gray log house in
the distance, with its shingled roof, the
cattle sheds and barns, the well-sweep
and curb, the stone walls and post-and-
rail fences, might be transported bodly
and set down in the backwoods of many
a State and never be noticed for the dif
ference of a single stick of timber or
the fashioning of a single stake. Let
the door open and the geography changes
by magic. A little child totters out into
the sunlight. It is dressed in a single
long garment of yellow homespun wool
as bright as the petals of the buttercups
or the dandelions. From under a close-
fitting cap of vermilion hue straggles
out a mass of flaxen hair. A stout
leather apron tied under the arms and
over the shoulders protects the dress
from the chin to the toes of the clumsy
little shoes, A half-dozen other chil
dren dressed exactly the same troop
out after it, and following them, the
mother, with a curious poke sun-bonnet
of bright red rivaling in brilliancy the
crimson of her homespun apron, carries
a pail on each arm to milk the cows
lowing at the pasture bare. The fath
er comes to the door of the barn to say
a word as they pass. But for his leath
er apron shining with wear you would
take him for a New England farmer of
Continental times, with his low shoes,
knee-breeches, long waistcoat and felt
hat. The ever equalizing influences of
modem science have not yet reached
them, and they live and feel much the
same as their great grandfathers did be
fore them.
K/w and Kara.
Dr. Conner contributes an article with
this title to a western paper, which thus
concludes:
To sum up what we have suggested, in
plain propositions, the best eyesight and
hearing can be obtained and maintained
by—
1. By acting as if the eyesight and hear
ing were of more importance than any
other thing on earth.
2. By having every child's eyes and
ears carefully examined by an expert be
fore it is given specific tasks to perform,
calling for the full exercise of healthy eyes.
If the eye or ear be found defective, then
by grading the tasks according to the na
ture ot the defect.
I. By never using the eye or the ear
when such use causes pain in either organ
or in the head.
4. By never using the eye when it is
imperfectly supplied with good blood, as
before breakfast, when utterly exhausted,
after a severe illDess, etc.
5. By never using the eyes for close work
in an imperfect light, as in early morning
or evening twilight, by a very distant or
weak light, far from the window, on a
dark day, etc.
6. By utterly avoiding the use of tobacco
and alcohol, except for medicinal pur
poses.
T. By always cherishing a cheerful habit
of thought and feeling toward all persons
and all events.
8. By avoiding all such injuries to the
ears as result from stopping, 'polling, and
very loud and sudden noises.
9. By keeping out of the external ear
all things smaller than the forefinger, or
stiffer than a towel or handkerchief.
10. By keeping out ot the ear all oils,-
all soaps, all cold water, and everything
else recommended by sympathizing but
mistaken friends; especially never apply a
poultice to the ear for the relief of pain.
Dry heat will do all that moist heat can to
relieve, and will be free from the danger
of absolutely destroying the membrane
tympana.
II. All running ears must be cared st
the earliest possible moment, at the peril
not only of the hearing, but that also of
the life.
12. By heeding the warning given by
redness of the eyelids and of the white of
the eye, by pain in or about the eyes or
ears, by the continuance ot indistinct vision
for any considerable time, or of imperfect
hearing, by the continuance of frontal
headache after usual remedies have faded
ti relieve it.
13. By regarding the eyes and ears as
simply a part ot a very complex system of
apparatuses, the best health of ail hung
absolutely need'ul for the best health of
each.
14. By remembering that we do not see
with the eye or hear with the ear, bat with
the brain. Bence, after the brain is ex
hausted, it is impossible to really aee or bear.
Hence, the utter absurdity aa well as the
pemictoiianeas of any endeavor to see or
hear after the brain has become exhausted.
Especially u this true of yoong and grow
ing brains. Ben; too, it to needful tore*
member that the normal brain continue
to grow util about the age of forty.
Phenomenal Horse-Flesh.
The sporting fraternity at Indiana
polis is in a ferment over a new
Indiana horse that promises to out-
trot any Hoosier horse-flesh on the
track; in fact, lias already done
so. This new and valuable animal
is a six year old brown stallion, and he
comes from Noblesville. His owner,
John Martin, is a wagon-smith of that
place, and suddenly finds himself in the
possession of a fortune. A few days
ago D. B. Brown, of this city, saw the
horse trot and offered five thousand dol
lars cash for him. It was the first time
that the owner realized that he had the
best horse on the Indiana turf, but he
knew a good thing when it was pointed
out, and since Brown’s offer $7,000, $9 -
000 and now $10,000 have been planked
down in vain before Martin’s eyes. The
history and training ot the horse will
almost cause a revolution in the jockey
business. Six years ago Martin reluct
antly accepted an old mare in pay for
some work done. From this unpromis
ing nag the colt in question was foaled.
Martin sold the mare for $100, and for
several years has been driving the colt
to * buggy in his daily business. All
this while he stabled the animal in a
rickety old shed, and in many ways
showed that he did not know what sort
of oiled lightning he was stabling. A
few turns, privately, on a race track led
Martin to believe that he might venture
to enter a county fair with some promise
of success; but when he applied at No-
blesvilie and elsewhere he was hooted
out. Last week he was admitted to a
county fair in northern Indiana, and to
everybody’s surprise captured the prize
with ease. Last week, there being no
body to enter the Noblesville race,
Martin was told that if he could beat
2,30 with his old brute he might have
the stake. Without any preparation he
SemlaolT* Terrible Tow.
«lrove into the ring and accomplished a
mile in 2,24.
Horsemen say this phenomenal horse
can make 2,16 without an effort. Par
ties in this city already have a $5,000
bet that he will beat Hare’s Mambrino
—with a 2,16 record—at the coming
Louisville races. Martin has been us
ing the horse carelessly, and he has
“just grqwed” into what he is. It is
doubtful if he ever was sponged or pet
ted or jockeyed. When heated he has
been tied up in a fence corner and left
to cool off, and yet has flourished, and
to-day is believed to be the best horse in
Indiana. Dr. Brown, learning the his
tory of the horse, went up to Nobles
ville, hunted out the old mare which
foaled the horse, bought her for $100,
and two days later, on the reputation of'
her son, sold her for $600.
A curious case involving all the feat
ures of the Corsican vendetta has come
to light at Beed's Station, North Cum
berland county, Peana., through the
deathbed confession of Alex. Seminoff,
a young Pole, who died last week. For
some time past Seminoff, ,wUo was an
educated man, but considered morose,
misanthropical and cynical- by his
countrymen, was noticed to be in fail
ing health, and on Wednesday a physi
cian was summoned at his request.
Being told that he could not live until
daylight, he desired those present to
listen to the following confession: In
1853, when he was a boy of about 7
years he resided with his father m the
Polish village of Setomir, on the Buss-
iaa frontier. His father’s sister, a yoong
married woman, lived in the same town.
Her hnsband was in the army at the
time, and she resided with her maids.
In the fall of the year a young man
named Bomanoff, son of the prefect of
the district, and captain of a regiment
of Cossacks, came homo on a furlough,
and dnriDg his stay became intimate
with the Saminoffs. and finally betrayed
the woman. She, as a result, ended
hei career at Biulen Baden in a noted
resort. Upon hearing the news of her
betrayal Seminoff took I113 young son
upon his knee and made him swear to
avenge the wrong by killing the entire
Bomanoff family. Soon after, the vil
lage prefect was found lying dead by the
roadside, but in such a manner as to
give the idea that he had cjmmitted
suicide. Seminolf's father had shot the
Bomanoff and liid the pistol by his
side. Soon after, young Seminoff left
Setomir, and the father enlisted ani
went to the scene of the Crimean war.
Two of the Bomanoff* were officer* in
the Btissian army and one night both
were aiscovered murdered in their tents.
No clue coaid be funnd to the mnider-
NEWS IN BRIEF
—Connecticut has 1,055 clergymen
and 1,189 bar-tenders.
—Growing crops of hops are beingl
bought at 25c. a pound.
—There are over 9,000 blind persons
in the state of Arkansas.
—Orange trees are being planted all
along the Mississippi coast.
—Paris has a telephone to every 2,000
and London one for every 3.000.
—In London there are now thirty-'^ ''
nine theaters giving performances. -
ers. Soon after the eider Seminoff de
Tne Blue-Grass Country
The blue-glass country is readied by
traversing Central Virginia and Ken
tucky along the line of the picturesque
Chesapeake and Ohio railway, unless,
indeed one prefers the swift and solid
Pennsylvania route to Cincinnati, and
drops down to-it frotnrthe- north. On
this particular journey, at any rate,
it was reached past the battle-fields and
springs of Virginia, and up -and down
the long slopes of the Blue Bidge and
gorges of the Greenbrier and Kanawha,
in the wilder Alleghanies. It is found
to be a little cluster of peculiarly -fa
vored counties in the centre of the
State. Marked out on the map, it is like
the kernel, of which Kentucky is the
nut; or like one of those “pockets”- of
precious metals happened upon by
miners in their researches. The soil is
of a rich fertility, the surface charm
ingly undulating. Poverty seems abol
ished. On every hand are evidences of
thrift corresponding with the genial
bounty of nature. • A leading crop in
times past has been hemp, and land
that will grow hemp will grow anything.
This is being more and more with
drawn in favor of stock raising ex
clusively, but the tall stacks of hemp,
in shape like Zulu wigwams, still
plentifully dot the landscape.
One drops into horse talk immediate-
on alighting from the train at Lex
ington, and does not emerge from it
again till he takes his departure. It is
the one subject always in order. Each
successive proprietor, as he tucks you
into his wagon, if ytfii will go with him
—and if you will go with him there is
no limit to the courtesy he will show
you—declares that now, after having
seen animals more or less well in their
way, he proposes to show you a horse.
Fortunately there are many kinds of
perfection. He may have the best
horse or colt of a certain age, the one
which has made the best single heat,
fourth heat, or quarter of a mile,
average at sill distances, or the best
stallion, or broodmare, or the one which
has done some of these things at priv
ate if not public trials. Each one has,
at smy rate, the colt which is going to
be the great horse of the world. This
an amiable vanity easily pardoned,
and the enthusiasm is rather catching.
A man’s stock is greatly to his credit
and standing in this section while he
lives, and when he dies is printed
prominently among the list of his
virtues.
Tbe Trade Dollar.
The trade dollar is an infidel coin—it
has no redeemer.
It is like a dude because it is lacking
cents.
It’s like a drunkard because it don’t
pass at par.
It is like a boy when his father is
thrashing him, because it’s below par.
It is likea laundry, It belongs to tbe
Chinese trade.
It is like a sluggish stream—it will
not pass current.
It is like a canvasser, it tries to ap-
jiear honest while it bears a lie on its
face.
It is like a lawyer’s cheek—it is not
legal tender.
It is like comer stone deposits, it’s
coin.
It’s like a politican’s promise—only
taken at a discount.
It is like a julep—it needs the mint
make it good.
It is like a doctor—the less you-have
do with it the better you are off.
Barefooted dales.
Attention has been called anew in
Pans to the order of the Barefooted
Clares. There are eighteen of these
nuns, and fourteen are under twenty-
two years of age. They go barefoot on
the oold stone flooring; they never warm
themselves atm fire, even the kitchen fire
bang placed beyond their acoeaa; they
eat meat only on Christmas Day; they
sleep on a narrow board; they most
■pend ten hoars even day upon their
knees,and they are only allowed to speax
to one another on rare ooeaaihm.
serted and was unheard of for some
time. During his absence in the Crimea
and elsewhere the son was pursuing a
course of study in the Cracow Universi
ty. For a period of ten years Ue never
saw his father, till one night the latter
appear! d and reqnestod that he follow
linn. The next morning they Btarted
for Italy and went to Florence. There
a brother of Bomanoff wa3 an attache
of the Bnssian Legation, and the father
and son determined to slay him.
One night ‘as they were walking along
the Arno they espied the object of their
search, accompanied by another gentle
man. Following in pursuit they soon
deliberately murdered him in sight of
the companion, whom old Seminoff held
in his grasp. While they trusted to the
masks which they wore, and went bold
ly back to the city, old Seminoff was
subsequently arrested for the crime,
and was shortly afterward executed. A
few weeks after young Seminoff escaped
and joined a brigand band which Ue
soc n left, and going back to Poland
found that all the Bomanoff family had
left, some tieing exiled to Siberia. Some
had died from, the hardship3 of that
clime, end the rest had gone to America.
Young Sem uoff theli came also. After
searching a few years he found tnat they
had gone to the min ng regions, and
that ail had died except one. This one
he found near Beed’s. Living alone
and disguising himself, Seminoff took
qnarters and soon perfected his plans.
One night Lobosky, the last of the Bo-
manc-ff tribe, disappe:tred. No notice
was taken of it by nis neighbors, sadden
disappearances Tieing common.
Seminoff then came to Beed’s, hia
vengeance satiated. He became a
gioomv, morose man, and took np quar
ters with the rest of his countrymen.
He gave a description of the spot where
he had bnried Lobosky two years ago,
aud following the account, a party went
to the place and dag up the skeleton of
a man, with a large knife still sticking
in the body. The carious Btory has
caused a good deal of excitement, and
there is no donbt of its trathfniness.
Tne singular manner of the man, to
gether with Ins remarkable education,
proved that he was more than an ordi
nary laborer.
—It is found impossible to raise the
Cimbria wreck. It will be blown up.
—The Buffalo public schools have
used the same text books for 2) years.
—Some fashionable ladies have maids
who can spell to do their letter-writ
ing.
—A firm in New York sells fonr-ieaf
clovers at $5 each, and has agood trade
in them.
—The total value of all taxable pro
perty in Nevada for the year 1S82 was
$27,369,835.37.
—Dakota has 21 national and 87 pri
vate banks, with an aggregate capital
of over $10,000,000.
—New York’sSunday-school scholars
of all denominations number 115,826,
in 4.1 S Sunday-Schools
—Kaiser Wilhelm has bestowed a
patent of nobility upon Professor Helm-
holz, the celebrated scientist.
—Tbe new Northwest, Alaska and
Washington territory, promises ;t<K be •
the charcoal-iron region of the near fu
ture.
--On the 1st of next August an in
ternational Electric Exhibition will be
opened at Vienna, and a fine display is
anticipated...
—In drilling for an artesian well at
Chesterfield, Iowa, a stream of‘milky
substance was struck, which is believed
to be magnesia.-
—An English paper says: Of the
269,547 owners of land set.down in the
new doomsday book, no less than 37,-
806 are women..
■The Galveston Veies thinks" tJie ; -,(
cotton crop in Texas this year will De'
500,000 bales less than last year’s crop.
It estimates the product at 1,000,000'
bales.
—The woolen and worsted industry
in Germany employs about 200,000 per
sons, that of England and Ireland over
300,000 and that of the United States
about 160,000.
—Ismail, the ex-Khedive, is going to
live in England. He has purchased
Caen Towers, Highgate, a luxurious
mansion, with twelve acres of ground,
for $400,000.
—Sumner Shepard has held office in
Windsorville, Conn., for fifty-one years
continuously, is now 94 years old, and
is regarded as the oldest .postmaster in
the United States.
—The recent report of the death of
Tamberlik, the famous tenor, is now
contradicted. He is said to bo on a
starring tour in the south of Spain, and
in excellent health.
Asphalt In Mexico.
it may be of interest to the American
public to know that among tbe natural
products of Mexico—with which country
we may anticipate in the near future
very close commercial relations —tbe ar
ticle of asphaltum is evidently destined
to hold no inconsiderable rank. It may
be of most importance to Mexicans,
however, if it can be utilized—as it is
said it can—for fnel purposes. Thereto
reported to be exhaustless deposits of
this material on the bank of the
Thamesi river in the State of Tamanli-
pas, about 60 miles above Tampico, con
taining an insignificant percentage of
foreign matter, and winch may be
reached by light draft boats, and with
proper methods of exploitation may
be put on beard of vessels that may en
ter the port of Tampico at a cost ol from
' to $10 per ton of 2,000 pounds. In
toe State of Vera Crnz, near the village
of Moloacan, a few leagues distant from
the navigable Giver of Uoatzacoalcos,
there to an immense deposit of asphal-
tom, which in some points to found
pore, and in others more or less mingled
with rock salt and saltpetre. It was
visited in 1844 by a learned German
traveler. Dr. Hechler, who thus de
scribes it: ‘‘The deposit to which I re
fer to not more than a league in a direct
line from Moloacan, although by the
winding road the distance to over three
jues. The *salt mine,’ as it to popu
larly called here, to an isolated spar
branching off from the main ridge or
cordillera. The mountain to from 1000
to 1200 feet in height, aud with a base
of from 3i to 4 miles in extent, shaped
conically, and cracked by earthquakes;
on its slopes are found a nnm ber of pits,
some cold and etili, others seething and
babbling with noise and a stifling odor.
These pits weald appear to have cav
ernous connection with the internal fires
of the mountain, which, as indicated
by the external heat and freqnent
subterranean notoe. doubtless contains
vast masses of material in a state ol
combustion. The whole adjacent sur
face consists of asphaltum, partly solid
and partly liquid, and more or less mix
ed with rock. So extensive are these
beds that the supply may be. considered
inexhaustible. In some places the seeth
ing pits still continue to eject masses of
asphaltum in a liquid state. The Indians
call it Chapopote. It may be that this
mountain will one day sink, and its site
be occupied by a lake of asphaltum, like
the historic Dead Sea of the Holy Land.”
There are also extensive beds of asphal-
tum in tbe State of Chiapek, on the up
per waters of the Grijalva river, which
has its course through tbe State of Ta
basco, and empties into the Mexican
Golf near Fronlera.
—The Princess Louise occupies a
large house at Bermuda, picturesquely
situated, and an adjoining dwelling was
found scarcely large enough for her
baggage—thirty-five trunks.
—A monkey-faced owl was captured
a short time ago by Capt. Pitts in the
Florida Everglades. The plumage to
that of the owl family, but the head and
face are those of a baboon, except that
the eyes resemble closely those of- an -
otter. •'
—Steamship captains report that
they can discern the electric light in
the new light-house at South Head,
Macquaire Harbor, a distance of from
35 to 60 miles, according to the state of
the weather.
—Experienced lumbermen say that
the supply of walnut is rapidly dimin
ishing, and that fully three-fourths of
the good stock throughout the United
States has been consumed within the
last ten years. - .
—The exhibition of coins, which is
to come off in the Vienna Mint next
month, on the occasion of the Third
Congress of German numismatists, pro
mises to be one of the finest and most
interesting ever held.
—A catalogue published by the Ger
man Bornological Society enumerates
839 kinds of apples, 912 kinds of pears,
235 kinds of cherries, 289 kinds of
plums, 108 kinds of peaches and 35
kinds of apricots.
—Naples has about as many people as
Chicago, and -Milan rather more than
Baltimore, Turin and Palermo would
rank with Cincinnati and the eternal
City has a population of300,467. Popu
lation in Italy increases a little less
than 1 per cent per annum.
—New York’s organized charitable
societies disbursed $4,000,000; and 141,-
765 persons were committed by the
Commissioners of Public Charities and .
Correction to the almshouses, prisons,
hospitals, nurseries, schools and asy
lums.
—The only place where jute is manu
factured into grain bags in California
to at the State Prison in San Quentin.
The operatives net a monthly profit of
between $4000 and $5000. Stocking
knitting to the most profitable employ
ment given convicts in the Eastern
Penitentiary in Philadelphia. -
—The Normal School, in Columbus,
Ohio, to free to pupils intending to be
come public school teachers; olhersare
charged forty dollars par annum for
tuition. No preference to given to *
Normal School graduates, however, in
filling public school teacherships.
—Nine hundred cigars and 400 cigar
ettes were shaken out of a trunk full of
clothes belonging to a passenger by the
Havana steamship Saratoga, at New
.York, some time ago, by a customs in
spector who refused to believe they had
been put there to keep moths out of tbe
garments. The .owner paid the (juries.
—The combined wealth of the mem
bers of the California Senate is about
$20,000,000. The Senate is composed
of four editors, eight farmers, one mi
ner, four capitalists, two merchants -
five mechanics, one contractor, one
physician, one viticulturist, and four
teen lawyers.
—The value of the poultry consumed
in the United States annually is esti
mated at $300,000,000, or $6 to each in
habitant. The value of eggs eonsumed
is set at $240,000,000, or $540,000,000
for poultry and eggs together, or about
$10 per year to each inhabitant. The
number of eggs consumed is estimated
to be 9,000,000,000, or 180 eggs to each
inhabitant, which would allow one egg
to eacn person every other day,
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