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1 3 j Through the G.,C. If the rights, interests, or welfare of the people are in any danger from the railroads,' every right thinking man will concede that it is the duty of the State Government in all its branches to do all that is lawful and proper to prevent the ■ MtAland " ron S- duty rests upon the Legis- Fstmd Ttie Georgia Hiuiana Nture as much as, but no more than, —- x- upon any one of the other departments of the government. Before steps are .. n apply to the Central as a seller of its stock. But the Georgia, Carolina and Northern did sell a majori ty of its stock to the Seaboard & Roa noke and the whole force of Mr. Olive’s wild and destructive measure will fall upon its head. It is not confined to a direct sale,in its venomous plunges after somebody’s vitals it declares that even “indirect” transactions of this sort shall be punished by death. But, says Mr, Olive, the Constitution must be carried out. Let Mr. Olive MR. E. G. HARRIS, THE NEW MAN AGER, ARRIVES IN ATHENS. Life Is very sweet just now— Pull of light and flowers; Not a single cloud to mar Or give a hint of showers. He Is Interviewed by a Banner Man About His Future Plans—The Electric Kotor Seems to be the Favored Plan. Life Is very sweet and fair. Rosy lined and smiling; With the music of the birds Happy hours beguiling. . Creat Southwest With “ v n C. 5b. * " Scr:h Sa7 Can t* Built, taken however, aimed at an anticipated first read the Constitution. The pnra- et i , t\\ o t img.-, should concur, first it graph he relies upon cannot be violated should appear with reasonable certainty by a corporation. It can only be viola- •lie&a ,.,.,1 fever is Ust taking ■p,e n ,|,c '' 1 of Allies- i tl* l " r ‘ ' . ' exciw»«»t f |:f ■ plan to con- in this line, Midland A« ;-ill IK :l fl5 AV itlt if ie Georgia ,!i <;* and there wasmuch vrterdiiy among pronu- ,it reii'r, t 1 . . iii/eti- ='=o"t the scheme. ^'los-Hlp.lan isnotanewone.lt is Ih “ P ,o-iiion made several Midland that there is a mischief to’be remedied; second the by a corpor ted by a Legislature. Its prohibition remedy should be appro- is upon the Legislature. If any Legis - priate and adequate. Taking the Olive bill as a measure intended to protect the people against such a wrong from the latu :e should pass such a fill as is there in prohibited, such a legislature will be a violator, but the corporation would railroads, let us examine for a moment not. The corporation would have the tue nature of the evil it purports to act of the Legislature as its warrant. remedy remedy. "and the character of or>S «-• flS d ' al l.ile the Georgia f construction, <nr' but it viniO.ll- >tiih much more enthusiasm the The Legislative sanction it would have, 1 would be just as high, and proceeding It is aaid that the leadingUnes of rail-I from the same authority precisely as roads in Georgia have almost all fallen I Mr. Olive’s bill itself. If Mr. Olive into Uie control of one company. This I must be a reformer lethirn aim his bolts is the evil, llie remedy proposed is to I at future Legislators if he thinks tlii forfeit the charters of the Georgia com- or any other Legislature can bind op filial'Gien. , * rfif r.tMcl>owongfc is the teronnfts , ,-..i-i Midland. It is orliy (tilt* } O ; W y miles di^nt from Athens , a |i lic beiween the two points oetild madly built. Tht territory through j f l lT j IC voiid would run is one •of the i u .1 ia agrieultuiral resouroesififeat can ffuiuul anywbe.t'e, and not that, i!t thealaiulaut watercourses make it i;ip lj fl l with woiierfull raanoicctnring MVt* r *. There ss not a better section [ country in Georgia than 'this, and ie roa j n> proposed would develop bevontl ill<v«H-eptio3. I ho lino coukl be made ttoorun through u.ver*aixi Monroe, two-ef the most Janies engaged in tlfis scheme of com bination. AVe have theb as a mischief which needs correction a contract which unites the control! of several roads; we have as a remedy a bill which proposes punish future ones. THE G. C. & N. to forfeit the <*»itersotthecontractinr I Ensin,,,, ' s »«*»» EnjMca PUntln, * their Grading Stakes—The Work will be Rapidly Pushed to Completion. companies. Is it not stoange that no complaint comes from *?iy quarter of any increase of rates? Is it not strange that some advocate of Mr.Olive’s measure does not point to some wrong that has been done to some citizen of Georgia in conse quence of this consolidation? Not a word of rftis sort is heat'd. Not a com plaint is made of extortion or discrimi nation. We have then nothing bat the bare fact of the eeutraet between these companies as the cause of complaint. A contract which «o far has injured no body is set up as a reason for forfeiting their ciia rter. But they say tJicy will hurt some- }?>ody. How? They cannot discrimi prosperous littie cities in Georgia, anti 4 The. commission prevents that infoiined that these-towns would They cannot increase the rates. IIow Viir.inl from right lnanTully as soon jean this contract injure any citizen ? die plans for building .tlie road as- j The ingenuity of the friends of the Olive bill has been exerted in vain. They cannot point out to the Legisla ture a single {thing which this consoli dation can do that is injurious to any citizen of Georgia. But look at the remedy. The charters are to be forfeited. Does it not strike ume 1 lr. IV road finite shape. W-e are told that L.TVek, a prominent citizen of iv01s is much interested in the scheme of bnihling the .line, and that mr double aid coukl be ob- :ill alon; only ’siaining lb In* material jicoplc art- will sub the line, in the matter right of way, but also l building of the road, all anxious for the road rihe liberally to its stock IV ha ■r might he queued.” would the road do for Ath- On last Saturday, at Chester, S. C-, the eoatracts for the grading of the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Rail road (Groin Chester for fifty miles were let. The engineers are now bnsily engaged planting out their grading'stakes along tlie .line, and the work of grading will be commenced at once. A large force of hands will be put on the road, and the grading will be pushed right through £0 an early completion. The next division .to be taken up is between Athens and the river, and this will be entered upon .as soon as the pres ent work is finished. It is believed that the same old survey will be followed. A Painful Accident. We are pained to chronicle a very painful accidentjwhieh befell Mr. Harry Norris [out at Princeton yesterday. While at work in the picker rooms, lie had his left hand caught in the maehiu- the mind of the average citizen that 1 ery and badly cut. The accident is very tiiis is a liai-h and violent treatment of painful and will disable Mr. Norris for a corporation. It is the severest penalty several days from attending >0 his du ly i would connect the O., C. <fc X. "till Columbus ami litere afford con- c in w'itli ibt* shortest lines leading to '.'great sent Invest via New Orleans. wu.iKl connect Athens with the East Gmu'S'i't*, Virginia and Georgia Rail- • - at Mi Iloiu.ugli ami thus put 11s in 'd'i'i Miinluk* to Brunswick and the ' rigiii coast, opening up the great Kinder ilistrii-tsio us and to the North dirougU the C. A N. road. 1,10 Get is. this line extending she Georgia Midland to Athens, aside 'mu being a splendid.local line, would be the best connecting .line we know of no ' v ! ' KU could be built to Athens, liir people of Athens should interest themselves in the building of this road. l ,eo l'lc‘ all along the proposed route 5 eanxious to see the plans taken up, i:i 'l" be heard from when the stocks ir « called for. They are ready not '*! " ith [their encouragement, but "*‘ii their money, to aid in the work of adding the road and all they want is '■if called on. , 1 Gunhy Jordan who has bad in , IJn 'l ’be construction of the Georgia Aidhinil should take The up the matter. Ia ,-i n °t the remotest shadow of a oubt but that he would with ali ease b 41 ' 4 su, Hvient subscriptions at an ear- y i.ue to begin the building of the line * predict that Athens will do its jiart, l stil Pl01n the way the matter vyas being -wii'sed yesterday on the streets, we N'eve that the stockholders J^rgia Carolina and > lsr gdy, 1 Jere can be 110 doubt but that the can be built and built whenever of the Northern Railway the matter quite that can be inflicted. It is capital pun ishment for it inflicts the death penalty upon the corporation. And all this simply because it has bought stock in another company. This and this alone is the sinew of the offense. Nobodj r has ties. A Barbecue iu Madison. On Tuesday last Mr. Bill Hardeman gave a barbecue at his bar in Madison county to a small party of friends, several gentlemen from Athens being been injured. No rate of fare or freight present. They report-a splendid time. the laoper leading spirits . take hold, t() ^ “'hooves the citizens of Athens , C an *”'*o the leaders in the enter- Piiw. x 0 the leaders in °ne can doubt the incalcula ble ' :llltf *ges of this’ road to our eity, Nort)' Tl * U tlie ® eor g* a > Carolina and completed will become ne- L v : , 7^» has much faith in this jilavi n<1 " e veri ?y believe that the jlitieo «°^ far ^t»tant when with this kith r nmg up great southwest; L1.V N * "Peking «p the hud 1 of the 2S"orth and East, *illb ng 0n t0 th * West » A ^ ens l**ctioi C °f le ^ le trun ^ u€ center of this I,b e t,. 11 ,? tPle South and take the name I Georgia deserve3 > “ Th e Gate City of The * Lert 01 ° U * nS la<Jieg of Athens will de- entirely, if the ratio of de- tw. c- ' COnti nue in the proportions W? Ve l)egan during the past few I has been or can he issued. No discrim ination has been or cau be practiced. That is clear. All that has been done to make a contract of sale or purchase of stock,a harmless trade which is des titute of every element of danger, and yet the corporation must be killed dead. The legislature of tills State will never take that step. It is a wild, passionate, dangerous movement, and has not a feature of wisdom or statemenship. Take the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad Company, as an ex ample. It is chartered to enter Geor gia on the line of Elbert county. It traverses tho counties of Elbert, Ogle thorpe, Madison, Clarke, Jackson, Gwinnett, DeKalb and Fulton to At lanta. It is about to be built. It will be a great advantage to the people of those counties to have it. The company has sold a majority of its stock to another company, the Seaboard aud Roanoke Railroad Company, to a Virginia cor poration. It had to do this to procure means to build its road. For this con tract the Olive bill forfeits its charter. The company will be killed dead. It has hurt nobody by this contract; on the contrary the contract was necessary to evoke the company to secure aid from the Seaboard and Roanoke. Yet Mr Olive and his supporters go blindly forward striking down a great enterprise and strangling a great public improvement in wich the people of this whole section of the State are vitally interested. The strangest feature in their whole mad program is the cool assurance they give that they intend to amend by say ing that his bill shall not apply to con tinuous lines. The trouble about this is that when once it is shown that a buy ing or selling of .stock has taken place, courts, some of them at least, will hold that the contract is committed. This act alone is held to be prohibited. It is not necessary to show that it effects competition. These gentlemen are playing very carelessly with the sharpest edged tools and setting in mo tion machinery they do not understand and eannot control The wicked injustice of the bill is no where more glaringly shown than in its cruel destruction of the Georgia Carolina and Northern Railroad. That campany stands alone as a seller of its stock to another company. All the stock in the other companies which is owned by another company was bought from individuals. The Central stock for example owned by the Terminal Co. by individual holders. This bill would The ’cue was Edge. given in hour of Col. Zeke Those chronic growlers, who are op posed to a.iy progress or improvement iin Athens.should exodust to some rur One of the Mahoue Appointees Think It Has Been Secured. Special to the Banner. Washington, T). C.,August 1.—State Senator Gee, who represents the Peters burg district in tlie Virginia legislature, ind who has been appointed lumber agent at Sitka, Alaska, was in Washing ton yesterday. ‘General Malione,” he said to a re porter, “will he the nominee of liis party for governor, and those who have been opposed to him will do as much to elect him as anybody else. The state is just ripe to fall into tlie hands of the republican party, and if we are sue cessful the state debt question will be settled satisfactorily both to creditors and the poeple.” Mr. Gee left for home yesterday. He will, in a few days, send his resignation as senator to Governor Lee, and depart his new post of duty. by individual holders. illage. Ourcitv is outgrowing them. HARMONY IN VIRGINIA. A Mad Horse. Special to the Banner. Chicago, August 1.—Ole Erickson, a butcher, made an attempt yesterday afternoon to hitch his big rorrel horse to a wagon. The animal bit him on the leg and then dashed up the street. The horse was foaming at the mouth and evidently mad. It ran at every person it met. It bit eight horses and ran over and seriously injured a little ebild. street car conductor sprang from bis car and made a * grab at the horse bridle. The animal sprang at him and hit a piece from his right hand. The horse was finally killed by a police man. No Fever in Brunswick. Special to The Banner. Savannah, Ga., August 1.—Tele grams from Surgeon General Hamilton and from Brunswick’s health authori ties declare that there has not been case of yellow fever and that the health of the town is all right. The steamer David Clark, from there was detained only a few hours by the Savannah authorities until the reports which were being circulated could be investigated. Savannah hils not put on any quaran tine and does not contemplate it. Mr. E. G. Harris, the new manager of tlie Classic City Street Railway, ar rived in tlie city yesterday, from Ma- j, con. A Banner reporter met him and inquired about tlie plans of bis com pany in the running of the line. “I can only answer iu a general way,” said he, “and say that wc ar® ready for any emergency. We will meet the demands of Athens in just whatever shape the encouragement of the people will justify. The object of my trip to Athens now is to pay over to the receiver of the road the six thous and seven hundred dollars that we have offered for it, and I shall do that promptly to-morrow morning. I shall also arrange to it run by horse power until we have fairly settled here.” “What will you do,* then?” we in quired. “The first thing to be done is-to tear up the old track and lay down a new one over the entire line. We will do this at once after we have fairly gotten started with the management. We will put down a good substantial track that will be suited to either the electric sys tem or the dummy engine.” “If you adopt either of these, which do you thing now more probable?’ asked the reporter. The company has been considering both,” said Mr. Harris, “and have as et come to no definite conclusion in the matter. Tlie electric system, however, is more favored at present, and I think it w*ll be the decision to adopt it, when ever the situation warrants it. We are determined to furnish Athens with as good a street'ear line as can be found in the Sdffth, no matter what system we ave t|> adopt. The people of Athens can rest e'asy with the assurance that they will be furnished with a thorough line, a regular and quick schedule and comfortable cars.” “How do you stand in regard to the city park?” we asked.""' We must have it by all means,” he eplied, “and I am authorized to say that my company is in sympathy with the move and will be heard from at the proper time. Yes, we are in for the city park.” Will you extend your line to the park?” Most certainly. We will extend the line wherever the park is established, and will run a regular schedule to it all through the summer months. We will do our part in establishing it, and will give the citizens a rapid transpotation to it when it is finished.” The Banner is glad to welcome Mr. He i ris to our midst, and bespeaks all manner of encouragement from the peo ple of Athens to his company in what ever enterprise they may enter here. Life is very sweet. You askr What can be the reason (Looking blankly at the clouds) Of the rainy season! Life is eery sweet because— Because—why not assist me? Sweet in spite of rain or clouds Just because you kissed me. ‘ -Abbie C. McKeever in Pittsburg Bulletin. DOST. Tt Was the year 8093. The Bt&nford uni versity was holding its twelve hundredth an- ni yersary. For thfse centuries 3hd more the great stdtfe Wall and bridge across the bay at Ravenswood had been completed, so that most of the professors from the elder univer sity at Berkeley came by this routo, looking down on the upper bay, changed into fields, with orchards of two hundred and fifty years establishment growing where the Nineteenth century sloops and oyster boats came to the prehistoric embarcaderos of Mowry’s Land ing and Alviso. A great industrial univer sity. Workshops reaching for miles along the beautiful slopes of San Mateo, training schools, art schools, language schools, scien tific schoels. Berkeley for the classic^ and the humanities, Stanford university for an unparalleled grouping of tho great industrial and scientific activities of the race. For mile beyond mile ran the gardens,the green houses, the intensive horticulture which for more than a thousand years had made the valley regions of California the richest and most thickly populated district in the world. Statistics from the census of the yearS09Q: “Population of California, forly-levon mil lions; population of the valleys which impinge upon San Francisco, including the valleys caused by the drainage of Suison bay, San Pablo bay, and the upper half of San Fran cisco bay, twenty-eight millions. One-half of these are in the ^crauir +0 ^ Valley, the other half within fifty 0 San Francisco city." The president of the university, Leland Stanford Ainsworth, a descendant of ono of the Oregon Ainsworths of the Nineteenth century, delivered his address: “Science is endless,” he said; “the race goes on, ever im proving. Those were foolish fears of the men of the dark ages, now almost prehistoric, when this state was founded, this institution established. The social order has changed. What they called revolution, and vainly fought, has proved evolution. We have come together, on this twelve hundredth an niversary, under these ancient stone arches, less to celebrate the past than to plan for the now conquests of nature. Whispers have gone forth to the world that in our chemical laboratory strange discoveries have been made. These discoveries we give to you to day, whether for human happiness or human misery will depend upon yourselves.” The audience listened with some bewilder ment. In that great hall, with its arches of weather beaten stone, more than 40,000 peo ple were assembled, but delicate electrical machinery made the speaker’s voice audible and the speaker’s face clearly visible to every one in the building, and even to the thou sands who sat beneath the stately oaks outside. What was this new discovery? Would it make life better worth living? Would it give a man longer life? At least it was evident that the discovery was one of thrilling im- cannot draw thorn from you. so that humanity may put them in chains. Help others to cast them out Help mein my work. It is atom by atom that we re build the human temple.” Hie man and the woman sank back in their places and a great pent up sigh swept over the audience, but no one spoke again. The professor went on: “All things tell their secrets at last. Every mote of dust has , its story, from the pollen dust of the wild rose on the slopes of Chimborazo to the star dust left but yesterday In our aimospbere by the great comet Hierophania. Hero, in this room, there is dust from the ruins of an- cleat London, earthquake-swallowed five cen turies ago. Out of the caves of the giant cave bejir of Europe, out pf the castles of robber barons on the Rhine, out of tho depths of tho ocean and tho heart of tho earth, these dust motes come in our midst, „ ™ 'myriad wanderings, and our science can now reveal the story of each one of them alL ’ The professor bent, and looked through his microscope, “There is a flake of dust here, he said, ‘‘which we will examine. It floated on the plate just now while I was speaking.’ He threw a magnified reflection on a screen, till the flake of dust seemed a hundred feet across; he dropped chemicals upon it and winnowed everything from the center. There was the atom at last; all the rest that it had drawn to itself had disappeared. Again the professor spoke; “It is evil, and yet you shall see it” On the Screen feU the reflection of a vast drop of blood, and in tho heart of the drop was a picture of strife on a desert edge, near a palm by an altar, and a clock struck the ceut^jes backward, in the ears of the audience, till they knew that thfl blood Was the first drop of blood ever shed in the world from man by his fellow man. * “It is an atom,” said the professor, “that makes disease wherevor it goes. Now it shall wander forth no longer.” He put it into one of his vials and fastened it up. Then he went on with dust mote after dust mote from . the air about him, and showed the audience pictures of the heart atoms of each t which; thrilled aud convince^ every man and woman there. The assembly laughed and cried. They yielded to his mighty spell; they ac cepted the stupendous secret. The ultimate atom was no more a profound mystery, but a creature to be captured, uamed, analyzed ‘unco. portance in the mind of tho president. He spoke with the utmost earnestness. “For and imprisoned by j the profe 4.-.. * -ha cast the screen TWO PETITIONS One Asks for -Local Option While the Other Appeals for the Present Laws, There are two petitions being circula ted in tlie city bearing upon the situa tion in Clarke county as regards the question of prohibition. The first is a petition which will be sent to Mr Tuck, our representative, asking that he make an effort to place Athens under the original option law. It was reported on the streets that Mr. Tuck had said that if a petition to this effect was sent him, signed by one hundred responsible vo ters, he would procure the local option law for Clarke. A Banner representative has seen a letter from Mr. Tuck, addressed to a private party in which he denies this statement. But he says that if he is assured that a majority of the people of the county are in favor of it he will ob tain the local option. We are informed that if Mr. Tuck re fuses to obtain the local option privi lege, that Mr. Clarke Howell, of Fulton will he asked to lay the matter before the Legislature. The other petition is one asking that the laws remain as they are, which is to say that a majority of legal voters be necessary to sign a petitioner an elec tion on the prohibition question. We do not know how many names are signed to these petitions, nor can we predict the outcome of them, hut from what he can learn they are both being widely circulated, and have a great many names signed to them. The G., C. & NT. Contracts. Mr. A. L. Hull tells us that he has not as yet learned whether the contracts to grade a 50-mile section on the Geor gia, Carolina & Northern road was let on the 27th or not, but presumes that they were. Dr. Norvin Green, President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, has written a letter to Postmas*er General Wanamaker,in which he goes into details regarding the expense of transmitting messages, and says that it will he impossible for the company to accept Government messages at a less rate than that now received. more than 100 years this university has held as a sacred trust a group of scientific discov eries made by one of its students. He wrote his formulas down and sealed them for this twelve hundredth anniversary. Three days before its celebration the faculty of this uni versity was to assemble, break the seals, test the formulas and decide whether to reveal the secrets or to destroy them forever. We r met; we have decided; we create a new pro fessorship, more important, perhaps, than any other in existence on the face of the earth. We have chosen a lineal descendant of the discoverer of this group of secrets, Pro fessor Lemuel Jones Carey, and, going back to one of the almost forgotten writers of the Nineteenth century, we name his chair tho chair of ‘The Ethics of Dust.’” A ripplo of half annoyed amusement ran over the audience. Was that all? Only an other of those interminable modern subdivis ions of biology, or psychology, or both? But the president went on: “Professor Carey was on the right track when this invent occurred. It is remarkable that all his in vestigations have fitted him to utilize and de velop this group of new facts. Without him the Ethics of Dust would have had to wait fifty years for an interpreter. With him you can catch a glimpse of its scope today. It is nothing that you imagine. It is not long life; it is not money, or happiness, except in cidentally. But, perhaps it means all the things which any of you, or all of yon, have ever dreamed about.” And the president sat down. The wall at the back of the stage opened and revealed a laboratory, strange even to the eyes of chemists there. Professor Carey came foward, and set a curious micro scope on the stand. Then he looked over the audience and spoke of the great subject. “What we have done is to conquer the ul timate atom, and discover whether it is. healthy or not. If it is diseased, it will pro duce disease—mental, moral or physical, as the case maybe. Every one of us has dis eased atoms in his system. That is what makes us die too soon; sometimes that is what makes us do wrong. When we find the diseased atom, we cannot destroy it. Noth ing can. But we can now isolate it so that it can do no harm—at least, not for ages to come, perhaps never again. We can force each atom—each dost mote which floats about the world—to tell its story; can dis cover where it has been, and what it has done, and whether it is helpful or hurtful. Since the number of atoms iu the atmosphere of the earth is now definitely ascertained, it only remains for the human race to isolate from farther evil the diseased atoms as fast as possible. Then, a few centuries from now, only healthy atoms will remain. This, as I need not explain to you, must mean perfect health, and a great many other things which the newspapers will tell you about.” A great hush fell on the audience, as they understood this stupendous claim. Then mur murs and cries began to break forth, as peo ple suddenly spoke to each other, forgetting all else in the presence of the fact The ulti mate atom had been conquered. That was what science and theology for thousands of years had said could never be done. Did it mean wiping out the secret sins, taking away the daily temptation from each one! A wo man, rich, beautiful, fashionable, rose in the audience and reached out her hands to Pro fessor Carey. “Take away my selfishness 1” she cried. A in the prime of life, famous over the continent, rose and called with deep voice of passion, “Take away that which once made me false to my oath l” The professor reached his hands out, and said in a tone which stilled the tempest jy“I cannot; No one can You live and die was as 'action of an aton magnified re- * *->» it lfimse! without first examim..^ at tho audience again with w sad expression. “Not yet; perhaps never," he said; “I see more than I am able to tell you, more than any man, with the heart of a man, could do- scribe. 1 read your hearts, I know your thoughts, I see tho record of your sins as I look upon these atoms which float iu your atmosphere. Now my only happiness is that each one of the diseased atoms I can bind, by so much I lessen the folly, the falsehood, the evil of all sorts that fills every atmosphere, even here, even now. It is our heritage^ the sad heritage of the whole humau race, through ages of wretchedness and crime. I will only show you what you can bear; the rest I will carry alone.” He closed his labor atory and left tho stage. The audience rose with a great sigh and went out; some few were rejoicing, but most were oppressed with the vast and mysterious forces thus newly given to the human race. The professor, wrapped iu a profound sad ness, sat alone in his study; and here the president of the university found him some hours later, with his head on his desk—dead. He had written on a piece of paper: “After all, I think we were too ambitious. The atoms will make all of us enemies to each other. My old heart disease is coming back, but to-morrow I shall ask, the faculty to wait another fifty years.”—Charles Howard Shinn in Tho Argonaut. Spoiling; Children. The mother’s task of conquering the child should begin at an early age, or in the end the child will be the victor. A striking illus tration of this was noticed on one of the busy streets of a certain city, recently. Two ladies whr* had evidently been shopping were push ing in front of them a carriage in which sat a bright eyed, laughing child of perhaps two year’s. It soon discovered, however, that the carriage was headed towards home and it at once began to fuss to go back. Its mother not complying, its face, a moment before all sunshine, assumed a look of passion and its cries could be heard far down the street. After one or two trifling attempts to still its cries, the mother laughingly remarked to her companion that perhaps they had better go where baby wanted to, which was done, and smiles once more covered the little one’s face. They were soon lost from sight in the mov ing throng, but already the little child had learned her power and will continue to use it. One lady was heard to remark, “If that mother can’t manage her child at two, how can she expect to have any influence over her at sixteen?”—Lewiston Journal A Complicated Find. The following account of the discovery of a hidden treasure is somewhat curious from the strange manner in which the veritable owner recovered his property. In a field near London, some laborers, digging up the roots of a tree, found two jars containing nearly four hundred sovereigns. They divid ed the money among themselves, and were then taken aback by the lord of the manor claiming it. Before this claim could be in vestigated a tradesman came forward and stated that one night, under a temporary delusion, he had gone out and buried the money; but when he awoke, and for some time afterward, he tried in vain to recollect the locality he had selected. It was not until he heard a rumor of the finding of 400 sover eigns that he obtained a clew and the entire transaction was recalled to his memory. He was able to bring forward sufficient evidence in support of his singular story, and, to his great relief, the money was eventually ro stered to him.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ^ A Disgusted Thief. Among carious recoveries are many in stances which are of interest on account of the odd circumstances rather than of the money value of the articles lost and found. A few years ago a parcel of manuscript of Poole’s great “Index to Periodicals," contain ing the material for about twenty pages, was stolen from the express on its way to the printers. The state of mind of the editors can well be imagined, for these twenty pages represented the three years’ labor of some fifty co-operators, and could not be replaced without going through, from beginning to end, over 4,000 volumes 1 The indexes of some periodicals might, as far as they were con cerned, furnish an imperfect substitute, but while Hie editors were considering how they could best make use of them, the manuscript was found under a street counter, where it had been thrown by the disappointed thief, and a vexatious delay in the publication of a most invaluable work was fortunately pre vented.—fit. Louis Globe-Democrat. An idea of the hardness of the time in Per sia may be gained from the fact that men who had a dozen wives' have had to reduce the number to three or four.—New York Tribune. _ i ~ HHSHI