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$fc* Office, WAREHOUSE STREET, Om Door north of Cotton WuohotiM. Official Journal of Polk and Haralson Counties. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1 per square for first insertion, and 50 cents per square tor each subsequent insertion. The space of oneinchis reckoned as a square. Special rates given on advertisements to run tor a longer period than one month. 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. D, B. FREEMAN, Publisher. LABORING FOR THE COMMON WEAL. TEEMS: $1 50 Per Annum, in Advance. OLD SERIES—VOL. X- NO. 37. — 1 r-r CEDARTOWN. GA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1883. NEW SERIES—VOL Y-NO. 44. iriiT.-M IT Job Printing. : THE ADVERTISER JOB OFFICE! IS EQUIPPED WITH GOOD Press and Hew Material, Type. Border,' Ornaments, &e.,~ Of the very latest designs, and all orders ! for Job Work -will be executed neatly, cheaply ami promptly. and yet be didd’t seem to know so all- ■ John had a carriage at the parsonage 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, I