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1CZL Sfct CiMmvn^dvnt^rr Oflee, WAREHOUSE STREET, of Cotton WartbooM. Official Journal of Folk and Haralson Countie*. Advertisements inserted at the rate of fl per square for first insertion, and 50 cents per square lor each subsequent insertion. The spa** of one inch is reckoned as a square. Special rates given on advertisements to run for a longer period than one month. '7~ 7*— D. B. FREEMAN, Publisher. LABORING FOR THE COMMON WEAL. TEKM8: $150 Per Annum, in Advance. OJJ) SERIES—YOL. X- NO. 40. CEDARTOWN. GA*. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1883. NEW SEREES-VOL. Y-NO. 47. UK THE BEACH. I clasped in mine her tender band, And aide by aide, with loitering pace, And pansing sometimes, bee to face, We wandered slowly on the Btrand. We left behind a laughing crowd— We felt no need of company; Ourselves, onr thoughts, the beach, the »*•, The clear bine heavens that o’er tis bowed, Made us a perfect solitude, Where all with peace and joy was filled. Where jarring fears and care were stilled And speech were interruption rude. So on we wandered, hand in hand, O'erglad to be to each so near, So heart-content, so fond and dear, Alone upon that pleasant strand. And when our footsteps were retraced, The comrades we had left behind Exclaimed; "Well, what’s upon yonr mind, Old boy? What fancies have yon chased While wandering slowly and alone? Yon are not wont to stroll away: What do the wild waves say today. By ns untamed and unknown?” I smiled. They could wot see the hand I clasped in mine, the upturned face; Their duller eye* beheld no trace Of little footprints in the sand. But that sweet hour along the sea Will never vanish from my heart, Whed, silent, from all else apart, I walked with unseen company. throw aside the duties of life once in! marrying a girl for whom he had never AM AFFAIR OF HOsOl; The hot rays of a July sun came down with uncomfortable intensity upon the glaring white sand of the beach, as a somewhat flashily-attired young man shielded himself with an umbrella, and watched the more active specimens of h umamty disporting them selves in the brine, which was tossed rather tumultuously by strong southerly breeze. “By gracious!” he muttered at length: “That girl in the blue-bathing suit had better be a little more careful; she’ll get beyond her depth.” And he took a few steps nearer to the bathers—mostly females, one of • whom, a little distance lrom the rest, seemed decidedly venturesome, the re ceding waves forming a dangerous undertow. • “There!—I thought so!” he cried, flinging away his umbrella and dashing across the narrow strip of sand, as a cry of alarm rose up from the water, and a blue-clad form disappeared from sight, drawn under by the backward rush i f the waves. He met the next incoming wave, but succeeded in getting beyond it, as a white face appeared in sight and a pair of plump arms were held despairingly toward him. He was a strong swimmer, and, spite of his clothing, which impeded him somewhat, managed to reach and grasp the imperiled maiden ere the saline waters closed over her again. His heart throbbed, as her arms clutched about his neck, and it seemed altogether probable that they would ' perish together; but he broke from her clinging grasp, in a measure, and bat tled manfully with the turbulent ele ment, so successfully that the next breaker landed them, breathless and exhausted, upon the beach—in a safe position, if not a graceful one. “You should keep within the protec tion of the life-lines,” enjoined the rescuer, as he assisted the half-stran gled damsel to her feet. And a moment after she appeared in a bathing house, leaving him to cast rueful glances at liis ruined clothing, and wonder who the pretty girl was whom he had saved. And then he realized that he was bareheaded, his hat having disappeared in the hungry maw of the waters, that rolled and tumbled, as though seeking more substantial victims. In an incredibly short space of time the door of the little box opened again, and a bewildering vision of lovelines burst upon him, and in place of the frantic, terror-stricken girl of a few moments before, he beheld a stylishly- dressed young lady, her amber-brown eyes shining with mirth and her face dimpling with smiles, tripping daintily toward him. “1 am exceedingly grateful,” she said, in a clear, low voice, “and feel that I must apologize for being the source of so much inconvenience to you, I had no thought that the water had such power”—and she drew up her pretty shoulders with a slight shiver, as she gazed at the incoming waves. “Oh—I—please don’t mention it,’ stammered the young man, who was little used to ladies’ society, bowing his hatless head and fumbling in his vest pocket, from which he drew a piece of drenched pasteboard upon which she could just decipher: “P. Filmore, Boston, Mass.” “I am from the ‘Hub’ myself,” she said, laughingly, her white teeth gleam ing between her ripe-red Ups; and her shapely hand drew forth a tiny card case, trom which she abstracted a dainfy bit of enameled bristol-board, bearing the legend: “Miss OUve Orrington, Ellington avenue, Boston.” The heart between Peter Filmore’s saturated vest gave a quick throb as he glanced at the card and recognized the aristocratic locality in which ghe Uved, “I hope. Miss Orrington, you wiU receive no ill effects from your immer sion.” And then he stopped confusedly, as a silver laugh rippled from her full lips. “Excuse me, but there is little danger of that, as 1 was already in the water; but I fear most disastrous consequences would have ensued but for your timely assistance. You are the one who have suffered,” and she looked comniiser- atlvely at his drenched attire and un covered head, “Never mind that,” he said, picking up liis umbrella, which had been roU- ing about on the sand. “I can shelter my defenceless head with this, and I -have other hats at the house where I am stopping. Have you friends here?” “Not any,” she returned, “I am stopping at the hotel yonder,” “And I am boarding at a private house just over the hill,” he answered, as she stopped and looked inquiringly at him; “and I consider myself very fortunate in making your. acquaint ance, even under zucn adverse circum stances.” It was the most grandiloquent speech he had ever made, but he felt amply repaid by the bright smile with which she rewarded him, and as he sat in his boarding-house that evening a nameless thrill pervaded his being to which he had heretofore been a stranger. It bad been the custom of Peter Fibnore for a number of years put to the 12 months, and for a few weeks least to be a gentleman of leisure. His occupation was the hard and rather unromantic one of blacksmith and car- riage-ironer; but he possessed a soul above that of the common Vulcan, and when the summer days grow warm and balmy; th*—leathern apron was cast aside, and behold the grub was a but terfly. The savings of a year were generally consumed in these annual recreations, and when they terminated, he would go penniless back to the shop and patiently smite the glowing iron and await the next respite from slavery. But that night a new impulse was creeping into his brain, and another more commendable had found lodge ment in bis heart. The latter feeling was admiration for the fair young girl he had rescued, and it wanned and glowed and lighted up his honest, not unhandsome face, as he thought of her smiling graciousness ana apparent obliviousness to the fact that he was only a hard-handed son of toil. And this thought only helped to augment the other, for something seemed to be whispering to him that if he could win the heart of this confiding maiden, he might thereby lift himself above the necessity of earning his bread by the sweat of his brow. All tbroughtthe night these thoughts haunted him, and visions of plump, white arms, a fair, frightened face, framed in the whirling water of an angry sea, a dainty, trim maiden, with dewy lips and a mischievous glint in her bright eyes, thronged in upon his fitful slumbers, and the next afternoon be dressed himself carefully in his “other” best suit, for his wardrobe was not exceedingly ample, and strolled down upon the beach. Miss Orrington was there, and greeted him with childlike frankness. “I have been looking for you,” she said naively, as she gave him her hand, and poor Peter was vanquished com pletely as the strong, yet gentle clasp of her fingers closed upon his. “I shall not venture into the water to-day,” said the lady, as they sauntered along the sand and watched the antics of the bathers. “My nerves were a trifle unstrung yesterday. She did not look in the least dis turbed, and when they parted Peter Filmore felt that he was a doomed man, for he well knew that, under ordi nary circumstances, his case was as hopeless as it could well be. How gra cious, and sweet and smiling she was, and how different a creature a city belle was from what he had imagined! Her laugh had such- a wholesome, hearty ring in it, and she was so unaf fected in her manner, while in years she could scarcely, as yet, have exceeded her twentieth. Again that night he sat as he did the evening before and wrestled with him self. At one moment her evident pleasure in his company lifted him to the hightest pinnacle of happiness, and then he would be plunged in the deepest abyss of misery as a dingy blacksmith shop, with its glowing forge and heavy drudgery rose up before him and seemed to stand between himself and the smil ing object of his newly awakened adoration. The place where he had met his fate was a rather secluded seaside resort in Eastern New England, and as he joined in the company of Miss Orring ton day after day, he determined to win her, if possible, let the consequences be what they would. He had developed of late a wonder ful liking for feminine society, and sur prised himself at the ease with which he gilded into the ways of the hitherto charmed circle; for though he was an entire novice in such matters, he was fairly well read and above the average of intelligence. So one evening late in July, as the sea lay like a huge mirror in the soft radiance of the silver monlight, he dropped the oars which he had been plying with unusual vigor, and allowed the boat to drift over the' glassy sur face, unruiflea by the slightest symptom of a breeze. His companion was looking dreamily toward the shore, from which strains of music and sounds of laughter floated like echoes from fairyland. “Isn’t this delicious,” said Miss Orrington, turning her radiant face toward him. “It seems as though I could live out my life in such a state of beautitude as this.” A strong hand seemed to grasp the throat of the young man. “It is heaven on earth, ” he answered, in a low, almost hoarse tone. The strange sound of his voice start led her. ‘Are you sick?” she said, reaching her hand toward him from the seat in the stem of the little boat, “Your voice seems to sound so strangely. “No, I am very well, indeed,” he returned, with an effort, “but I was thinking how soon these pleasant days must end.” The oppressed feeling came suddenly upon her, and her rosy cheeks paled in the moonlight. “I had never thought of that, she faltered, “It seems as though we had known each other a lifetime.” And the look in her face made him forget everything; and, at the risk of capsizing the frail craft, he threw him self on his knees before her, and clasped her hand, which he devoured with his kisses; while the stem of the boat sank deep in the tranquil water, which splashed in over the side, and brought him to his senses somewhat. “Don’t you know how much I have loved you, Miss Orrington?” he whis pered passionately, as though fearful that prying ears might heardum, suite of the seclusion of the waters, and her low answer assured him that hrs pas sion was returned, And hour after hour passed heedlessly by, and the moon cast many an admon ishing glance backward at them as she retired to rest behind the hill-tops, ere they realized the lateness of the hour, and the happy Peter, who envied not the angels, once more seized the oars and pulled his precious freight shore ward. But the reaction came as soon as he once more sought his pillow, and he moaned in agony as he thought of the cruel gulf that lay between himself and the girl whom he worshipped; for the thoughts of bettering himself by the alliance had all given place to the one- engrossing idea of possessing her. One device and another was hit upon and thrown aside as impracticable, and when morning came he seemed no nearer to a solution than before; but during the day, he conjured up a path way out of the dilemma, which, though not honorable, he felt assured would at least bring matters to a crisis. That evening he told her a story of how his parents were set upon his entertained the slightest affection, and then, as his well-nigh hopeless love added fervor to his words, he urged her to marry him immediately, so that this question might be settled beyond all dispute; and the girl, who was trembling with emotion, to his infinite delight consented. * Tneir arrangements were of the sim plest possible character, and twenty- four hours afterward the guests assem bled in the hotel parlor to witness the impromptu marriage, though Ml day long a horror of what he was doing had been creeping over Peter Filmore. chill ing his heart and paling his usually ruddy cheek. And now, as the hour drew near, and he went to meet the guileless, con fiding girl, he felt more like a con demned felon going to his execution, than a prospective bridegroom. Ilis eyes devoured her hungrily. He noted her dimpled shoulders that gleamed like ivory above the dainty muslin drees she wore, with the knots of flowers and simple adornments that so enhanced her beauty, for no jewels shone upon her fair person; and then, at the last moment, his manhood as serted itself, and be begged for a mo ment’s private conversation with her. A look of horror gleamed in the brown eyes of the girl as they stood alone in a side-room. She seemed al most fainting, and grasped a chair for support as he leaned toward her, with set lips and the impress of death upon his face. “Miss Orrington, I cannot marry you!” came from his pallid lips, low, yet distinct, and then he stopped, while the deceived girl sank into the chair and sobbed piteously. ‘I would have made you a good wife,” she moaned, as Peter gasped for breath and tottered back and forth before her. “But I am only a blacksmith and have nothing but my trade to depend -upon. It would take nearly my last dollar to pay the clergyman,” he said, at length, pausing before the weeping girl, “and I cannot wed one so far above me.” Miss Orriugton sprang to her feet and bounded forward. Her arms were about his neck, her tear-bedewed face was pressed to His, while the words she uttered seemed to come from the depths of her tender, girlish heart: “Oh, Peter, Peterl I am so gladl I am nothing but a ladies’ maid, and I thought I would try to do this summer as my mistress does; but if we love each other what do we care for money? I thought you were going to cast me off because of my poverty!” IN ever a happier bridegroom than Peter Filmere led his blushing bride to the altar, albeit the guests had become somewhat impatient at the delay; and the honest blacksmith is as proud of his tidy home and pretty wife as ever was prince of his gorgeous palace and bejeweled consort. Mark Twsla’s ExsrcSM, Settled by Win. The Oyster's Traak. UottoiulMfl Saguenay. Mark Twain went to Elmira last summer to find a quiet place to virile. He became souiewhat out of health, and one day recently he was interrupted bp the family physician, wbp acaUpd 4h- make a friendly visit. Into hia^ympa- thetic ear was poured the tale of the humorist’s woes, and after a moment’s consultation he remarked: “Clemens, what you need is exer cise!” With a look of gentle reuroach which soon changed to anxious innocence, the hero of many an experience of rough ing it (in pictures) and tramps at home and abroad (on paper), made reply: “Well, that’s all right, but who’s go ing to do it for me? You see, ” he con tinued, “the men on the place are all busy, and the children ain’t big enough to accomplish anything and—” “You must do it yourself I” was the professional stop put to his demur. •‘Do it myself ? How in thunder do you expect—why, what can I do? There ain’t a good poker player on this hill, and the hammock broke down yester day, so I can’t use that—” “No, no,” interrupted the doctor, “you must have active, exertive exer cise; something that looks like work, you know 1 You can walk down town, or—” “Hold on, you’ve struck it,” exclaim ed Mark. “I’ll chop wood I” “Best thing you can do,” said the doctor, as he took his leave. “It brings into play so many varied muscles, ex pands the chest, deepens the inspira tion and superinduces a more bountiful oxygenation by the beautiful process of enoosmosis and exosmosis, and hence the red corpuscles—” '* “Here, have a cigar,” said Twain, pushing a box before him, “and let up on Moses.” “Yon musn't smoke, you know, the doctor said, as lie picked out weed. “Oh I no, I’ve stopped smoking, said Twain, as he carefully placed a sheet of copy paper over the three old stumps and a brier pipe. “I found that it disagreed with my family long ago.” The doctor departed, and Clemens, with a glow of renewed health already shining in anticipation on his brow, took one of the farm hands from the harvest field and sent him to town after a new axe. He returned with the tool bright-bladed, sharp-edged. Finally, thinking he had the hang of the thing, Clemens had the man hitch up and drive up the road about a mile to a piece of woods. The members of the family went with him to look for flow ers and berries while he chopped. Ar riving at the desired spot, he carefully took out the axe, unwrapped the old coat, and laid the tool down beside-the stump of a dead pine. The family wandered away .picked one or two flow ers, and then hastened back, as they heard him shout their names. A lady entered the office of a law Said Prof. Bioe. of New York. firm on Montague street and consulted will show you the proboscis of an oys- Si, rent. He had iemorod with the inten- scale,* with a fragment of substance to turn of going to Bridgeport, and his I it. all the size of a lady’s finger nail- furniture was on the way to the boat, well, that’s an infant oyster, about a which was to leave shortly for the Con- month old. I will now place it under necticut town. Mr. P. immediately the microscope, and you will then dis- prepared the necessary papers and got cover the proboscis.” an attachment. A clerk was despatch In a moment the professor had adjust ed to New x erk with the directions to ed the lens, and the reporter looked put the attachment in the hands of the He at once draw back in honor and sheriff at once, and to search the river grasped for the table. The professor front for the furniture. The lady de- smiled. Through the tubes of- the parted, and Mr. P. awaited develop- microscope the reporter gazed again menta. An hour later Mr. W. entered into a wide sea, wherein lay a hideous the lawyer’s office. He wore a non-1 monster,and fromjts indescribable body cbalant air. He carried his hands in there rose a great serpentine coil which his pockets and a cigar in his mouth. swayed hither and thither as if search- “I understand,” said he to Mr. P., mg for a victim. ‘•that you are trying to seize my prop-1 “We are not certain of the functions erty.” I of the proboscis yet. but think that, “You are the man, I suppose,” Mr. I like an elephant’s trunk, it is made use P. answered, “who hired Mrs. Blank’s I of to catch and pass the food to the house and quitted without paying the I mouth- When the oyster is five months rent, and are removing your furniture 0, d it loses its proboscis; that is, it is to Connecticut?” absorbed and becomes part of the lips. “That’s about the size of it.” Mr. A will now show you the main artery W. said, “and I thought I would just weich helps the oyster’s heart to per- stopinandask whether you had got I form its proper functions.” my property yet?” Then he laughed Again the glass was adjusted. “You gaily as one who had made a pleasant 1 866 that dark line which contracts and joke. At that moment there came a j enlarges continually; that is the artery ring at the telephone. Mr. P. jumped referred to. ” To the reporter the artery up and responded with the usual looked to be at least an eighth of a mile “Hello.” in length and as large around as a log. “Who’s that?” came back. “I— “We will now look at the heart; P.,” was the answer, Mr. P. recogniz- sometimes it doesn’t appear to beat, but lng the voice of his clerk who had 1 8oess this bright morning it will be gone over the river with the attach-1 right- All! yes, there it goes beautiful- ment. ly.” “We’ve hunted everywhere,” camel The reporter’s eyes' had now become through the telephone, “and can’t find flolte used to both the ocean and its the furniture.” queer inhabitant, and soon his eyes Mr. P. turned to Mr. W. and said: rested on a throbbing mountain. There “What are you going to do about it?” was something fascinating about the “In the first place,” Mr. W. replied, throbbing of the centre of life. “I want to know whether you got my “1 h* ve counted the pulsations of the furniture—ha hal’- heart,” said the Professor, “and it ran “Tell the sheriff,” said Mr. P., with from thirty-five to fifty a minute; that his lips to the telephone, “to take the of a full-grown oyster does not beat furniture off the boat and put it in the 80 fast - I will uow show you its tenta- storehouse.” cles.” “Hold, there,” Mr. W. exclaimed, Again the lens was adjusted and the his tone of jubilant banter changed to monster examined, and from its sides one of genuine alarm; “I don’t want stretched away out into the sea were a the fnrniture taken off the boat. ” number of long arms, but without hands “Well, what shall we do?” Mr. P. and tbe monster kept 1 stretching them out and pulling them This river of death of Saguenay, is bottomless. Y'ou might, if possible, drulu the St. Lawrence river dry, says Mr. Le Moine, the Canadian authority, and yet this dark, still river would be able to float the Great Eastern aud all her majesty’s ships of the line. “A bottomless river” sounds strangely new indeed, were it not so I should not trouble you or myself to mention it. But this river is thus far unfathomed. is full of counter currents, swift, perilous in the extreme. As the vast red moon comes shouldering up out of the St. Lawrence away above toward the sea and stood there a glowing period to a great day, we draw back from Tadousac, where the ancient church sits in the tawnsy sand and scattering grass,and, rounding a granite headland, we slowly steamed up the silent river of death. It widened a little as we went forward, but even its mile of water looked narrow enough as we crept up between the great naked walls of slate and granite that shut out these dark waters from every living thing. On the right hand great, naked and mono tonous capes of slate and toppling granite. On the left hand, granite and slate and granite, and all silent, all new and nude, as if just fallen half finished from God’s hand. One mile, two miles, twenty miles, and only the weary wall of granite and slate; only the great massive monotony of nude and uncom pleted earth. Now the walls would seem to close in before us and bar all possible advance. Then as we round ed another weary and eternal cape of overhanging granite, In its few fright ened and tom trees, the dark way would open before us. And ten, twen ty, thirty miles more of silence, gloom, river of death. No sound. No sign of life is here. Summer or winter, spring time or autumn, all seasons alike, no bird, no beast, not even the smallest in sect, save only a possible housefly that may harbor in the steamboat and so be brought with you, is ever seen here. This is literally the river of death, I know no spot like it on the face oI this earth. Our deserts with their owls, horn-toads, prairie dogs, and rattle snakes are populous with life in com parison. And yet this awful absence of all kinds of lifo con not be due to the waters. They are famous for fish of the best kind. The air is certainly delicious. But all this vast river’s shore is as empty of lifo as when “darkness was upon the face of the deep.” And no man has settled here. For nearly 100 miles nut a sign of man is seen. Yau seem to he a sort of Colum bus, as if no man bad ever been here before you. At every turn of a great granite cape these lines rhymed inces santly in my ears; We were the first that ever burst Upon that silent sea. An hour past midnight and we near ed the central object of the journey. Cape Trinity, a granite wall of about 2,000 feet, which in places literally overhangs the ship. Our captain laid the vessel closely against the monolitn, and for a moment rested there. We seemed so small. The great steamer was as a little top, held out there in the hollow of God’s hand. No sound anywhere. No sign of lifo, or light, save the moon, that filled the canyon with her Bilver and lit the amber river of death with a tender and an al luring light. No lighthouse, no light from the habitations of mm for away on the mountains; only the stars that hung above us, locked in the stony hel mets of their everlasting bills. “I’ve done enough for to-day,” he said, as they came near. They saw four blisters on his hands and a piece of new leather shining on one of his boots, but no wood lying around. How ever, they said nothing and went home; the hired man carrying the ax. That evening, sitting on the piazza, applying arnica to his hands, he said: “It’s hard work, but I’m going to keep it up! It’s splendid exercise, and just see how it has built up other great men I Why, you know, Greeley pro longed his life many years by chopping at Chappaqua, and Gladstone is alive yet and making things hot in Egypt by reason of the beneficial results of an hour’s chopping every day. You wait a month and see me I I’ll be able to fight Tug Wilson and row Courtney and out talk Beecher.” All this was several days since. Cle mens noticed his new axe lying where he had left it on his return from his in itial trip, its brightness changed to re proachful rust. Conscience smote him. He would resume exercise. He would attack anew the monarchs of the forest. He would acquire muscle. So he bold ly marched for the same piece of woods and began operations on the old pine. But a few minutes had elapsed before a six-footer appeared before him and the following colloquy ensued: “Now, you skin right out o’ here young man I These is my woods, and you’ll learn to let foikses property alone after I’m through with ye! Git, now l”- Searcliing on his forehead for an im aginary bead of sweat, Twain glances dubiously at the enraged bucolic, and said: “Well, wh—what—seems—to—be— the matter with you?” “Matter,I’ll show ye! Tryin’ to steal my woodl” “But, my good man, I don’t want your wood 1” “Then what are you cutting it for ?” “Why, for exercise, that’s all. The doctor said—” “Oh, that’s too thin 1 Exercise I You look like a man that would do anything for exercise. Now (with re newed energy), you get right out o’ here 1 Bight out,” and the farmer made threatening advances. “But—but—look here, my good man, K i’t know who I am. You are to a—” “Yes, I do know. You’re that Cle mens. I’ve heard’ about your being here about four weeks ago, and I’ve had my eye on you ever since! Now (picking up a pine root), you git.” Clemens took up the axe,cast a with ering look on the bucolic, and sadly climbed out of the wood, over the fence, and out of danger, the voice of the en raged landowner sounding in his ears for some distance down the road. —The cultivation in Florida of the camphor tree is suggested. —The domestication of buffalo calves is being attempted in SueoMfol Books. Crrtartoim gWMrtfofr. Job Printing. THE ADVERTISER JOB OFFICE IS EQUIPPED WITH GOOD Press sad New Material, EMBRACING Type, Border, Ornaments, Ac„ v «?y latest designs, and all orders for Job Work will be noallT cheaply and promptly. NEWS IN BBIEF. Books which are immediately success- I —Florida has seventy-one newspa- ful are those which catch and reflect I’ers. said; “you hear my orders? The telephone bell rang violently. Mr. P. put bis ear to the funnel and heard these words delivered with great distinctness and emphasis: “I-tell- Making a start. j I am on my way East and have J.? r f r ,w e ," t * zot ' the ' funllture -' ve -1about three hours in which to see De- uiS. troit,” said a stranger yesterday to a .-n ,,' t vl n tf fke sheriff’s fees are po liceman on Jefferson avenue. “I too, Mr. P. shouted in return through want to begin right. Now, then, you the instrument; the defendant has to of course have the fin* ” loot the bill. Store the furniture at meat in the country?” °“ < **” . “Yes, sir.” i V ere F ’>” £be defendant “Ah! Exactly—exactly. And the said in a tone of supplication; “what’s best police force?” the best I can do?” “Yes.” The bell rang again furiously. Mr. “Just as I expected—exactly. This P. put bis ear to the tube and the speak- is, of course, one of the healthiest cities er at the other end said in tones which in the world? Mr. P. recognized as those of a clerk in “It is. the sheriff’s office. “Blank, blank you, “Ah—yes. You have a noble river what do you mean? Are you crazy? at yonr doors?” Don’t yon hear? We haven’t got the “We have, sir. blank, blank furniture, and we don’t “Exactly—I presumed as much. Y'ou know where it is.” have churches and schools for all, of Just so,” replied Mr. P. “Do the course?” best you can, and damage it as little as “Yes, sir.” possible. The defendant will have to “ExacUy—of course. Taxes are stand the expenses.” I low, the local government efficient, and “Now don’t be severe, ” Mr.W. said Iaw and order prevail in all directions?” almost in despair; “tell me what you I “Yes.” demand.” “I supposed so—yes. The city is im- “Pay the full amount due ” replied P r °ving, and is certain to become a Mr. P., “and we’ll throw off the costs I8reat metropolis?” and expenses.” . “That’s what we think.” The bell again rang with louder tones I course—of course. Y'ou have than before. Mr. P. listened. The I P ure alr > good water and freedom from voice that answered said: “I’ll be blank epidemics?” blanked if I ever came across such stu- “Yes, sir.” pidity. Hold on aud I’ll spell it out to ’Exactly—exactly—just as I suppos- you.” ed. They said the same in Buffalo, And then carefully, letter by letter Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, Indian- the voice spelled out: “We haven't apolisaml Milwaukee. If you will now been able to find the furniture ” have the kindness to direct me to a five- The defendant by this time bad got ^° P l wiU a shav _? —i—*. i- - -v* - umubvi, | and then see the city. With the^start you have given me I can not fail to do ab8 ? rb ' -Boston has 100 gallons of water a “E whde. they last, but from their I day for each inhabitant. ° f Xr^s 1 ™ 6 thiidtog to^U^y^rtherateofja.moS? their own. Their minds are formed T ,‘ by the conditions of the present L.7™^ . Gu L^ a, |?E "L Pou ® hkeep3ie hour. Their greatest man is he who I a ^ more to Vas- for the moment expresses most com-1 831 , . . pletely their own sentiments, and re-1 r 7, cotmc , £s Laramie, presents human life to them from their I Territory, turn out 90,000 own point of view. Tl^e point of view orlCKS a weeK - shifts, conditions alter, fashions sue-1 —Earl Spencer is a first-rate cricke- ceed fashions, and opinions; and hav- fee as well as horseman. He was a ing ourselves lost the clue, we read the prominent member of the eleven when writings which delighted our great- at Harrow. grandfathers with wonder at their taste. —A South Carolina inventor named Each generation produces its own McClain, purposes making wash tubs prophets, and great contemporary fame buckets, etc., of annealed glass ’ t? W extra ? rdini “J instances I —Street cleaning, repairing and isrevenged by an undeserved complete- maintenance in Paris, official returns ness of neglect. Very different m gen- show, cost $1,680,400 a year, eral is the reception of the works of I » onKa i n „„„ „ . .... . true genius. " A few persons appreciate harrl^ 38 b f dl J ant a “d them from the first. To the many they wanted P i?°i f ’-.i ha3 befta seem flavorless and colorless, deficient lnve " ted to superaede celluloid, in all the qualities which for the mo-1, ?■ cora l fishery, it is reported ment are most admired. They pass I ‘ a l lan Ministry of Commerce, unnoticed amid the meteors by which I men annually find employment, they are surrounded and eclipsed. But . — A Club Barber Shop is sustained the meteors pass and they remain, and I * n Lowell, Mass., and no one else is are seen gradually to be no vanishing I allowed to use the exclusive chairs in it. coruscations, but new fixed stars, —New York Schools are attended by sources of genuine light, shinely seren- 120,000 pupils. The appropriation to ly forever in the intellectual sky. They the department for this year is $3,000 - link the ages one to another in a com- 000. moil humanity. Virgil and Horace I —They have a gold mine at Dalton, lived nearly two thousand years ago, Mass.; the yield of the precious meta’l and belonged to a society of which the thus far is said to have netted over ten outward form and fashiou have utterly dollars. perished. But Virgil aud Horace do —One section of the National Exhi- not grow old, because while society bitiou of Architecture opened lately at changes men contmue, and we recog- Brussels, contains the almost priceless mze m reading them that the same drawings of Bubens. Empire, too, there were contemporary 94 £!?,!*’’ if** 1 popularities; men who were worshiped co ' w and at?Waterloo * * f M as gods, whose lightest word ^ cow f 1 " 1 Waterloo, treasured asa precious jewel—on whose I , r ... 8™®?® co-operative store at breath millions hung expectant, who I business had temples built in their houor, who m a ca P lta ' o£ s°ld last in their day were a power in the world. month $oS69 worth of 8°°^- These are gone, while Horace remaius — A co ‘ n issued by Lord Baltimore —gone, dwindled into shadows. They wa3 recently dug up m the principal were men, perhaps, of real worth, street of WaterviUe, Maine, three feet though of less than their admirers sup- beiew the surface of the ground, posed, anil they are now laughed at I —Twenty thousand pages of testi- and moralized over in history as de- mouy have been already taken in a tected idols. As it was then, so it is mining suit that is before speciaicom- now, and always will be. More copies missioners in San Francisco, and the of “Pickwick” were sold in five years ’•nd is not yet. than of “Hamlet” in two hundred. —On account of its representatio 1 of Yet Hamlet” will last as long as the a conspiracy, Strauss’ operetta, “I’riuce “Iliad;” “Pickwick,” delightful as it Methusaleiu,” lias been interdicted in is to me, will be unreadable to our liussia. great-grandchildren. The most genial —Six widows, the oldest 98 and the caricature ceases to interest when the youngest 78, and with an average age thing caricatured has ceased to be. | of nearly 90 years, live within a short distance of each other near New Haven, Climate of Our Large Cities. | Conil. —The registered debt of Berlin is out the bills. When be bad paid the $200 Mr. P. went to the telephone and called up the sheriff’s office once more. “Now, then, stupid, what’s the mat* ter?” was the reply. “Give the sheriff directions to let the furniture go.” Mr. P. said, you justice.’ Strangs Happenings In an Old Cburoh. Trap-Shooting and Field-Shooting. A man may excel in trap-shooting and yet never become anything of a field shot; it is not in him. There are men whom neither trap work nor field work can ever make crack field shots. We have frequently been put shooting with a friend whose company we value most highly; he has a large fund of woodcraft, is a close observer, and as full at ardor as any sportsman we ever knew. He has followed the dogs day in and day out, woodcock, grouse and quail; fired no one knows how many thousands of shots at the birds. The total amount of game actually brought to bag by him the last ten years com prises two ruffed grouse and woodcock —and there is every reason to believe that the grouse were killed by accident. As a field shut this man is a veritable, incorrigible “duffer.” But at the traps he can break ten glass balls straight, or kill the live birds sprung from a trap as often as any other gunner in his vicinity. Years ago at Yarmouth, Me., one quiet Sabbath while the preacher held Then he eai „ i forth upon the ruin of unbelievers, and ceiot The bell wenf^i tbe con 8 r ®g a ti°ii slumbered peacefully S' Mr v “ thelr bi g h-backed pews, a signal gun totL teieoho^nrf was Heard from the Princes Point Ita- the sheriff tn let the^fi^Iit.ire^’^a tion - Another sharp report followed romfto melor hiffei^ 8 and ^ another ’ The minister did not wait for the “fifthly” in his dis- . — / •> W1 ^ * "J 11 ® 011 k* 3 course, but dashed down the pulpit race listened for a reply, Blank, blank stirs and joined the excited people out- you, you thick-headed ass,” came over side. From their commanding situa- the wires mto Mr. P.’s ears, ‘*we tion they saw a strange craft sailing ^Then Mr « - r “P Casco Bay. It carried no colors. lhenMr. W. quitted the office. Mr. They could see no men on its deck. P. rang up the sheriff and received a After a hurried consultation it was highly complimentary reply. Then it decided to send an armed deputation was Mr. P. s turn. “While you were to Prince’s Point to find out the mis- beUowmg over the wires,” he said, I sion of the mysterious vessel. The Wanted nisi pitcher. had to make the proper answer to bring for defense, remained on the hill, while him to terms. Anything stupid or like tbe heroic band marched down to the an ass in that? Send over your bill, I point and waited the arrival of the the suit’s sHttinrl ” I stranger. An hour passed and they returned. The bark was—a schooner from down the coast which bad sailed up for timber! The Chronicle tells “Who is this gentleman that papa 12?*5J he hare story but with a grain of calls a daisv?” * facetiousness as if the humor was evi- “He is a ball player, my dear.” Jl nou ? h tt wit ??“ t any co “ me “ ts - “Bur mm Q.iH .73,' It does not attempt to account either k thefanofthe plastering in the same church at tbe very moment when nal curve,’ and that they couldn’t- hit him.” “Yes, my dear.” “But, mamma, he stood up straight, tbe parson, a gloomy man with a sono rous voice and pessimistic views of lifo, was enlarging on the passage, “Blow ye tbe trumpet! Babylon shall fall “Pan«m*..,t(i,.i»ii „ land become heaps,” but simply says th that “ the people thought the end of Yes, mamma, but I didn’t see the wnrM wi riiH i MV « the and I didn’t see any one try to bit I “™t! iSb^Ll! the world had come ana did leave the meeting-house in great distraction, in- “But what fiVRrv ’ tiliv I a woman seriously by tramping _* aaz maKes every one talk | upon her in their baste to get out of the door. bail. Neither could tbe batters, my dear. A Lamp- KiUsgsliMr. about him and call him a ‘daisy?’ “Because he’s the new pitcher from Chicago, whom the manager of the club has just secured at $3,000 a sea son.” I Two extinguishing plates, lunged “But is he so very smart, mamma?” under the cap aud near the wiok-tube, “Only as a pitcher.” ate furnished with arms which project “But can’t he really write his own I outwards through oblique slots in a name, mamma?” connected with a wire, which extends 8o they say, mv dear.” downwards along the side of the lamp And yet they give him $3,000?” and its stand. The wire is supplied Yes, my dear.” with a handle or knob, by means of When I grow upcan’t I be a pitcher, which it may be pulled down so as to a,mma?” cause the two extinguishing pistes to ‘.Perhaps, my dear. But why?” I dcio on wick-tube «nd thus put out “Could I get $3,000?” I ft. light. A spring ********* *idi my part “Perhaps.” I of the wire restores tlic different part “And not have to learn to read or I of ft* *pn******* to ti**** normal oondi- te?” — I ** The cities or the Union experience about 17.000.000 marks, ou which the every variety of summer temperature. Sllr l»lus profits of the gas works pays In Boston and Detroit there are a few “ ,e entir ® interest, days of hot weather; the rest are cool, I —One firm in Gates county, North and in October summer gives place to I Carolina, owns thirty miles of narrow- the copious autumn rains and a chill I gauge railway, connecting five of its that is more penetrating than the saw-mills. It does tbe largest lumber winter cold itself. But nothing can be business in the State, more delightful than the temperature I —The first steel rail successfully of June, July and August in Michigan I made in this country, and which was and throughout most of New England, rolled at Chicago May 25, 1865, is said The summers in New York city are to have represented over $500,000 in longer and more disagreeable, but the I experiments and outlays, hot spells last but a few days and then I —A Cincinnati publication repre- are relieved by showers and coolness, sents tbe total number of newspapers The summer temperature of Chicago is I and magazines now published in the much like that of New York, The uir- United States at 12,179, an increase of fortunate citizen of Cincinnati swelters 11028 over the number published last from June 1 to October 1. The nights year. bring no relief, being even warmer than —Wm. H. Spear, clerk of Chief En- the days. The average temperature in I gineer Cuyler, of Prospect Park, N. ot. -Louis is excessive, though more I Y, } has a horse that had part of its tail reasonable. New Orleans enjoys per- shot away by a cannon ball at Frede- petual summer, with a degree of heat ricksburg and which lest an eye at An. not intolerable to the native but un-1 tietam thC ?? rth ' -There are 11,000,000 horses in this «in*na*’ ‘- avann ab have country, or about one to every five hu- H*n li^Jp 1 !!* 3110 condl£l ®? s - . Perhaps I man beings. According to the census worlll ?wL.nT^f r th C 2 1D ? 3le , th< ; I of 1880, Illinois has most horses (over mniintain« f °tw Cumberland l 5 000,0(k)), and Pennsylvania comes “S?*? 1 ? 8 ’. t ¥*. e * tend through the f our th on the list, with 533,587. western part of the Garolinas, a portion I „ *. . , , of Tennessee and the northern coun- Elias Dockey. of rsorthumberland ties of Georgia and Alabama. Its char co “ nty ; Fa ’> th ® ot ‘' erday £ ounda turtle acteristics are days whose beat is easily fsnnwuh the date and mitials, borne and nights whose coolness is I scratched on its shell. balmy and invigorating. But else- are those of Mr. Dockey s where at the South, in the West and in I ^“hfather, who owned the farm at many cities of the North the summers th at time. They are also those of the are looked forward to with dread, and I ' vords Jokingly Done. those who are able escape to the mount- —Camels have been Dred in Italy tor ains and woods or seek a refuge in the over 200 years, it is stated, and the stud country boarding-houses, which offer a of four Arabian camel3 sent by King choice of evils. Those who live in the Humbert to Mr. J. W. Garret, of Bal- city east of the Bocky Mountains go to timore, are of native breed, from the the country to escape the heat; people Bucal form of San Bossore, long a fa in San Francisco for quite a different I vorite country seat of the rulers of Tus- reason, namely, to get the warmth and I cany. dryness not found beside the Pacific. | —A way to measure the speed of trains is to count the number of fish- coior-Hearing ■ | plates passed in 14j seconds in the case ot ordinary rails 21 feet long, and in the Popular expressions are often very case of steel rails, which average in significant. “I saw three dozen lights I length 30 feet, 20j seconds—the num- of all colors,” or some similar expires-1 ber of plates passed in the time stated the defendant was by my ’ sidej aidl I women" aM ehUdren,* with Tfew men Si ° n ’ vm - ^ heard from | being equal to the number of miles tra- ■write?’ : tion. Bablxi added to pan aoup helpa to I —It is °*“****-“-*< that 600 boats are ghre it an appetising flavor, and it adds I engaged in the fish business at Cedar to ita nutritive qualities alao. |Key. persons who bad received violent blows I veiled per hour. on the bead or face. Under the influ-1 —A syndicate in Galveston proposes ence of shocks of this kind, the eye I to build wharves out to deep water in really seems to see infinite numbers of I the Gulf of Mexico. To do this they sparks. Shocks of a certain class im- will try to borrow $5,000,000 of tbe pressed upon the nervous system seem State’s surplus, which will exceed to have the faculty of producing phe- $5,000,000 two years hence, and will be nomena of light. This remark has been $10,000,000 within five years, if the suggested by the facts which we are state sells tne school lands, about to relate, which lead us to sup- _ In st . Petersburg, Bussia, the tele pose that sonorous vibrations are sus- phone wasonly introduced a year or so ceptible m certain cases of provoking a g Q> but tbe most distant parts of the luminous sensations. There are, in city now connect with tbe centre, and fact, persons who are endowed with numerous public stations have been es- such sensibility that they cannot hear tablislied at which persons can converse a sound without at the same time pei- with ^ other at a distance at the ceivrng colors. Each sound to them smaI1 cost of ojd. per message. has its peculiar color: this word corres- , . * ' .. ponds with red, and that one with -London, it seems, isto give up the green, one note is blue, and another is yellow. This phenomenon, “Color- hearing,” as the English call it, has a re£>0 f5 itrrn hitherto little observed. I comes saturated with filth, which is been nithtrto little observed. . ff . fi da3 t under the influ- Dr. Nussbaumer, of Vienna, appears w sun fo2l Mike for the to have been the first person who took “Hi® ““ 8un > DaU aUke for the serious notice of it. While still a I ^P a . . . child, when playing one day with his ~ t ^G^fowh o^Jo ‘yeanMdd 1 brother, striking a fork against a glass he raw colois'atPuie ^Se^tte ^ way car,andhasnev*ridd^r<£ perceived the soiSd; and s^eli did he a brid 8®.i« any vehicle He lives in a discern the color that, when he stopped fe^lo^aml^ lowb^wee^ffimra his ears, he could divine by it how loud I zT?i and 80 low netweM floors a sound the fork has produced. His ri^in^t^The St" brother had similar experiences, 111 The furniture of the ait- Dl Nussbaumer was afterward able 3 ^ ^ to add to his own observations nearly b '\ r "f 01 uo “ le ' made syrop- identical ones made by a medical stu- What influence Has the moon\»n the dent in Zurich. To this young man. *” the teacher asked John Henry, musical notes were translated by cer- A “ d John H»m«y Mid it depended on tain fixed colors. The high notes in- J***”** le<, j .** w “* dog it made duced clear colors, aud the low notes bu ® “owl, and if it tree a gate, it untied dull ones. More recently, M. Pedrono, i4 » "“SR a now of ft young aaaa an ophthalmologist of Nantes, has ob- «“« •*««. » «• “eh things as tUa served tbe same peculiarities in one of I *kat make school teanhwa want to lie his friends. j down aud die every day at 4 o'clock.