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THE PROGRESS. rh JOHN U. G!.Ni\ DR VO TED TO TllK MIXING, AGRICHDTURAL AND KDUOATIONAL INTERESTS Of CLEVELAND, WHITE OOONTT AND NORTH EAST GEORGIA. TERMS:— One Dellar Ter Tear. T OL.TI. CLEVELAND, WHITE COUN'Q*, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1803. NO. 31. Great Reductions! Irresistible Bargains! My Semi-Annual Clearance Sale fS NOW ON. I propose to have clean counters for my And to insure this have made large reductions in every department, which will surely attract close buyers. J 1 . is West Side Public Square, GAINESVILLE, GA. CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL, CLEVELAND, GEORGIA. Spring Term Regius January 2(1, 1S93. Fall Term Begins July lOtli, 1893. Tuition in all Classes per Month, $1.00. In connection with tlie Spring and Fall terms, will he taught the terms of the public schools. For further particulars call on or address ALBERT BELL, Principal, Or CHAS. W. MERRITT, Assistant. Sash, Doors and Blinds! CLARK, BELL & CO., -Manufacturers and Dealers in- Sash, Doors, Bli ouldings, Brackets. 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Cream ok Caclikoweb.—Take hoiuc white cauliflowers, wick olT the green leaves, divide in flowerets, wash and parboil in sailed water for ten minutes; drain and put into a saucepan with four ounces of butter, salt, pepper and nut meg; cover, and let simmer slowly until thoroughly done; then rub through a colander, and mix with two quarts of veal broth, thicken with four ounces of flour oooked in butter; stir and hod ten minutes, skim and press through a very line sieve; return to tho slewpm, stir steadily until boiling hot; add a pint or more of boiling cream, J wo ounces of line butter, and a tablespoonful of sugar; mix well without boiling, and pour into a soup tureen over small round crusts of bread slightly fried in butter, and small flowerets of cauliflower kept for the pur pose.—[Delice. How to Stew a Chicken Properly. —This is the way in which a chicken should he stewed: Cut it in piece* a suitable size for serving before placing it in the pot. Separate the thigh, leg amhving joints, di vide the breast into not less than four compact pieces, and separate Hie neck, hack, etc. Place the gizzard, heart, wings and drum sticks in the bottom of the pot or kettle, then put in the neck, hack and other bony pieces, reserving the second joints and breast for the top. Use a pint of boiling water for each full- grown fowl, cover closely, and after it has stewed a quarter of an hour, add a tablespoonful each of flour and butter stirred to a smooth paste, with a little water, to each pint of liquor used in the stewing kettle. Keep the kettle simmer ing unceasingly until the fowl is tender, which can be ascertained by examining the pieces on top. If these pieces arc found to he suflicienfly cooked those beneath will be also, as in placing tho pieces in the pot or kettle those requiring the greatest amount of cooking were put at the bottom, so they would he subjected to the greatest heat. When tire fowl has stewed until perfectly tender, drain into a howl all the Liquor or broth from the stewing kettle, and set the kettle with the pieces of chicken undisturbed in it upon the stove where it will keep warm. If the broth is too oily, skim from it a portion of the grease, then add a spoonful of flour, stirred to a smooth paste with a spoonful of sweet cream or milk, and season sharply with salt and pepper, as this broth or gravy must sea son the entire fowl. After seasoning the gravy pour it over the chicken in the kettle and simmer gently for about ten minutes, then serve chicken and gravy together on tho same platter. A chick en one year old will stew an hour, and each year added to the age of a fowl ne cessitates an additional hour’s stewing. Pursuing essentially the same recipe, the stew can he varied by adding oysters, mushrooms, truffles, celery, parsley, etc., or by using less water and more cream or milk, and also by browning the pieces oI the chicken in the skillet, either before or after they are stewed. By these slight and seemingly unimportant variation- plain stewed chicken can he converted into chicken sauce, chicken fricassee, chicken marengo, and so on, until a dozen or more different dishes known by fanciful foreign names can be manufac tured from one innocent chicken Advertise now, it will pay you. liltv. DR. TAM AGE Tin* Brooklyn i)ivlnc*s Snndn$ SormoR. f ! "AW, /Wo Mit IW emit\ /omul throughout all the land if Israel," e'e -l 'jilmuol xilt , 10- 21, My lhVllVq litut Jilltil tmlnUllon to tliln lin- 1-0111110,t nort, Chautauquacs;. Christian Hu- nhaVoMi gospel frorkort aild their friends NMm nil imt-ts of WinoOIlklft ami America, kahils Mid sinners! My inxt la gloriously Appropriate. What a galling aKbJugattnn ho Israelites wore suffering! The Philistines had carried off all the hlaoksmlths and lorn down all the blnolumlths' shops and abolished the blacksmith's trade ill tlitt lahd Of Marl. Thesa pin istmea had a pafiinuiar grudge itRilihiit hlaoksmlths. althchigh 1 lmvo always aumirod thorn and have homotimes IhuiieM I ought to have beoh biltt thytkeifi THO Phil. 1st hies Would tH’fl OVoli rtllo\v these parties to WOtR their Valuable mitt os of brass and iron, nor might they make nay swords or Bpoars. Thoro woro Only two sword# left itt All tho Jnttd; Yeit, these PhllftliheJi Woilt on Until they had taken all tho grindstones from tho land of Israel, so that if on JSrselitish farther wanted to sharpen his plow oi l his ho had to go over to thtt gariMson Pf Dirt PHiUStftles to get it dottrt, Tlkftro Was oiity one sharpen ing instrument loft in tho land, and that was a file-. The farmers and tlltt hi Sell hi leg fifty*, ittg hothittg to whet ilp the tijwHter. and tho goad, and the pickax save n'fjfinplo file, in dustry was hindered and work practically disgrnoed. T’ho great idea of thasa Phitislinos was to keep the Israelites disarmed. They might get iron oat of the hills to make s\Vords of, hut they Would not have any blacksmiths tfl widd this Iron. If they got the ii-oh Woldedi they would have nrt grllldfltoiinb fill Which to bring the instrmnohts Of rtgHcultUre or the military Weapons up to an edge. oh. yoii boor, weaponless Israelites, reduced tri a file, how I pity you l lint theta PhilistlHeS worn hot forever to keep their heel on the nook of God's children. Jonathan, on his hands and knees, climbs up a groat rock beyond which wero tho Philistines, and his armor boaror, on his hands nnd knees, climb! up the same rook, and these two men, with their (wo swords, bow to pieces the Philistines, the Lord throwing a great terror upon them. so it was then \ so it Ls how. Tho two men of God on their knees mightier than aPhilistlho host on their foot, I learn ilrst from this subject hoxt danger ous it is for the church of God to albw its weapons to stay in tho hntids of Its enemies. These Israelites might again ahd again have Obtained a sttnply of bwordS and weapdhS) as for fnstanoe, when they took the spoils of tho Ammonites, but these Israelites seemed content to have no swords, no spoors, no blacksmiths, no grindstones, no active iron fninos, until it was too late for them to make auy resistance. I see tho farmers tugging along with their pickaxes and plows, and I nav. "Whom am you going with those things?'’ They say. "Oh, we are going over to the garrison of tho Philistines to get those things sharp ened." I say, “You foolish ittett • why don’t you sharpen thorn ut homo?'* ***yuj" they say, "the blacksmiths’ shops aro*. nil torn down, nnd wo have nothing left us but a file." $ Ho it is in the Church of OhritC to-day. We are too willing to give up our weapons to tho enemy. The world boasts that, it has gob bled up tho schools, and tho colleges, and tho arts, and tho sciences, and the literature, and tho printing press. Infidelity is making a mighty attempt to got all our Weapons in its hand and then to koep them. You know it is making this boast all the time, and after a while, when the great battle between sin jtml righteousness bus opened, if we do not look out we will ho as badly off ns these Is raelites, without any swords to light with and without any sharpened instruments. I call upon tho superintendents of literary Institutions to see to it tbut tho inon who go Into tho classrooms to stand beside the Ley den Jars, and the electric batteries, and tho microscopes or telescopes bo children of God, not Philistines. The atheistic thinkers •ft his day are trying to get all tho Intel lectual weapons of this century in their own grasp. What we want is scientific Christians to capture tho sttlenoe. and scholastic Chris tians to capture tho scholarship, and philoso phic Christian! to capture tho philosophy, and lecturing Christians to take hack the lecturing platform. Wo want to send out against Schonkel and Htrauss and Renan of tho past men like the late Theodore fJhristliob of Bonn, and against tho infidel scientists a God worship ing Hlllitnnn and Hitchcock nnd Agassiz. Wo want to capture all the philosophical apparatus and swing around the telescopes on the swivel until through them wo can see tho morning star of tho ifcjdeomor, and with minoralogJcal hammer discover the "Rock •f Ages,” and amid the ttoru of the realms find tho "Rose of SUarou and tho Lily of tho Valley." Wo want a clergy learned enough to dis course of the human oye, showing it. to bo a microscope and telescope in one instrument, witli 800 wonderful contrivances and lids closing 30,000 or 40,000 times u day, all its muscles and nerves and bones showing the infinite skill of an infinite God, and then winding up with tho peroration, "He that formed the eye, shall He not see?” And then wo want to discourse about tho human cur. its wonderful integuments, membranes ana vibration, and its chain of small bones, and its auditory nerves, closing with the question. "Ho that planted tho ear, shall Ho not hear?" And we want somo ono able to expound the first chapter of Genesis, bringing to it the geology and the astronomy of the World, until, as Job suggested, "the stones of the field shall be in league" with the truth, and "tho stars in their courses shall fight against Sisera." Ob, church of God, go out and re capture those weapons. Lot men of God go out and take possession of the platform. Let ail tho printing press of this country speak out for Christ, and the reporters, and the typesetters, and the editors and publishers swear allegiance to tho Lord God of truth. Aii, my friend, that day must come, nnd if the great body of Christian men have not the faith, or the courage, or the consecration to do it. then let some Jonathan on his bqsy hands and on his praying knees climb up on the rock of hindrance, and in the name of the Lord God of Israel slash to pieces those literary Philistines. If these men will not i»e converted to God, then they must bo destroyed. Again, I learn from this subject what a large amount of the church's resources is actually hidden and buried and undeveloped. The JJiblo intimates that that was a very rich land—this land of Israel. It says, "Tho stones are iron, and out of the lulls thou shalt dig brass," and yet hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of this metal was kept under the hills. Well, that is the diffi culty with tho church of God at this day. Its taleut is not developed. If one-half of its energy could bo brought out, it might take the public iniquities of tho duy by the throat and make them bite the dust. If human eloquence wore consecrated to the Lord Jesus Christ, It could in a few years persuade this whole earth to surrender to God. There is enough undeveloped Christian energy in tho United States to bring tho whole world to Christ, but it is buried un der strata of indifference and under whole mountains of sloth. Now, is it not time for tho mining to begin, and the ploknxos to plunge, and for this buried metal to be brought out nnd put into tho furnaces and be turned into howitzers and carbines for tho Lord’s host? Tho vast majority of Christians in this day are useless. Tho most of tho Lord’s battalion bo Long to the reserve corps. Tho most of the crew arc asleep in the hammocks. The most of the metal is under tho hill:;. Jp Oh, is it not time for tho church of God to rouse up and nnderfetand that \v<i want nil the energies, all the talents and alt the wealth I enlisted for Christ’s sake? I like tho nick- ham o that the English Sdldiers gave to Blu- eher, tho commander, They called aim “Old Forwards.” We lmvo had enough retreats in the church of Christ; Jet us have a glorious ftdvaneo. And I say to you now as the general said when Ids troops were affrighted. Rising Up iu his At iff lips, liiS half' ftvitfg in tho wind, ho lifted bis voice until 20,000 troops heard him, crying out, "Forward, tho whole lino!" Agnii, I learn from this subject that wo BtimhiittiUM dfi Well tfi take advantage of the worlds slmtpehiiig instriimoiiiA; Tli»v»« Israelites were tedueod td a lilt*; arid so they Weitt fiver td thd gatrisori df the Philistines to get their axes, aild their goadflj arid their plows sharpened. Tho Bible distinctly Mates in tho edritoxt that the£ had no Other instru ments iioW With which to do this Work, arid tho Israelites did right whftii they went over to tho Philistines to use their grindstones. My friends, is it not right for us to empty tho world’s grindstones? If there be art. if thoro bo logic, if there be business faculty on Ilia rape* sidoi lot US go over and employ it for,Christ’s Billed Tho fact is wo tight with too dull weapons, and wo work with too dull Implements. Wo hack arid \Vo muiil when we ought to make a clean stroke; Lot us go over rtriidflg -harp business men and among sharp litorary men and 11 nd out what their taste is, and then transfer it to the cause of Christ. If they hato floiofldo and art; it will do ns good to rub against it; J ii cither iVurd!; lflt em ploy tho world’s grindstones. Wo will listen to thoir music, and wo will wntoli thoir acu men; and wo will use thoir grindstones, and ivo will bfii'fotf thblM phiiosonjiical apparatus tri nmkfi our experiments, arid tfo Will btfr rpw thoir printing pressaH ttt priblisb our Bibles; and wo will borrow thoir rail trains to carry our Chfldtlari literature; arid Wo will borrow thoir ships to transport bur missionaries. That was what made Faul such a master in his day. Ho not only got all the looming lie could get of Hr. Gamaliel, but afterward standing bit Mars hill and in crowded thor oughfares inifi^d I Heir tieetry and grasped their 1 Iflgio aild wielded their oiriqllolldtt aild omplfiyed their mythfildgy. Until Hidiiysitis, the Arediiagltoi learned lit thd Schools of Athens and Heliopolis; worit down Uridor his tremoflddtia powers. That Was what gat’o Thomrifi Ohalmors his power in his day. Hci coiitjuorod tho World’s astronomy and compelled it to ring out tho wisdom and greatness of the Lord, until for tho second time tho morning stars snug to gether. mnl all the sons of God shouted for joy. That was wlmt gavo to Jonathan Ed wards bln influence in his day. Ho con quered tho World s nleiapiiysioS nlld fOfued it Into tho service of God, Until not only tile eld mooting house in Northampton, Muss., btlt iill UliriStoildOmi folt thrilled by his Christian power. Well, now, my friends. Wo all have tools of Christian Usefulness. Dd not lot thorn ldso thoir edged; We want no rusty blades in this tight) Wo want ltd editor that cannot rip up the globe. Wo want nd nx that can not fell tho trees. Wo want no goad that cannot start tho lazy team. Let us got tho very host grindstones we can And, though they bo in tho possession of tho Philistines, compelling thorn to turn the crank, while wo boar down with all our might on tho swift revolving wheel tint 11 nil our onorgles and faculties shall l»o brought up to a bright, keen, sharp, glittering odgrt. Again, my subjoet teaches us on what a small allowance Philistine iniquity puts a man. Yes, these Philistines shut Up tho mines, and then they took thd spearS arid tho swords, then they took tho blacksmiths, thou they took tho grindstones, and they took everything but a tile. Ob, tlmt is the wny Bin works. It grabs everything. It begins with . robbory, and it ends with robbery. It do- spoils tills faculty and that faculty and keens on until tho whole nature is gone. Was the man eloquent before, it generally thickens his tongue, Was ho lino la personal appear ance, it mars his visage. Was ho affluent, it sonds tile sheriff to soli him out. Was ho in fluential, it destroys Ills popularity. Was ho plaaid and genial arid loving, it fnnkes him splenetic and cross, and so utterly is ho obauged that you can soe ho is sarcastic and rasping and that tho Philistines have loft him nothing but a tile. Oli, "the way of tho transgressor is hard." Ills cup is bitter. His night is dark. Ills pangs are (loop. His end is terrific. Philis tine Iniquity ways to that man, "Now, sur render to mo, and I will give you all you want—music tor tho donee, swift steeds for tho race, imperial couch to slum ber on, and you shall bo refreshed with tho rarest fruits in baskets of golden filigree." Ho lies. Tho music turns out to bo a groan. Tho fruits burst tho rind with rank poison. Tho filigree is made up of twisted snakes. The couch is a grave. Brnall allowance of rest, small allowance of peace, small allow ance of comfort. Gold, hard, rough—noth ing but a flic. 8o it was witu Voltairo, tho most applauded man of his day t Tim McrJpturo wqh hi* Jest-book, whonco bo drew llotoiioU tounll tho (Jhrliitlan and tho Jowj An landed whoa wnh. but whni whoa Kick/ Oh, then a text would toitoh him to tho quick. Seized with hemorrhage of tho lungs in Paris, where lie had gone to bo crowned in the theater us an idol of all France, ho Bonds a messenger to get a priest that he may be reconciled to tho church before ho dies. A great terror fulls upon him. Ho makes the place all round about him so dismal that the nurse declares that she would not for all the wealth of Europo see another iufldol die. Philistine iniquity had promised him all the world’s garlands, bat in the lust hour of his life, when ho needed solacing, sent tearing across his conscience and his nerves a lllo, a file. Ho it was with Lord Byron, his unoleanness in England only surpassed by his unoloan- ness in Venice, then going on to his brilliant misery at Missolongni, and fretting ut his nurse, Fletcher, fretting at himself, fretting at tho world, fretting at God, ana lie who gavo to tho world "Ohilde Harold," and "Hardanapalus," and "The Prisoner of Chilian," and "The Hiege of Corinth," re duced to nothing but a file! Oh. sin hus great facility for making prom ises, but it hus just us groat facility for breaking them. A Christian life is the only cheerful life, while a life of wicked surrender is remorse, ruin and death. Its painted gloe is sepulchral ghastliness. In the brightest days of tho Mexican Empire Montezuma said lie felt kimwing ut his heart something like u canker. Hin, like a monster wild beast of the iorost. sometimes licks all over its victim in order that the victim may bo more easily swallowed; but generally sin rasps and galls and tears and upbraids and tiles. Is it not so, Herod? Is it not so, Hil debrand? Is It not so, Robespierre? Aye l u.ye ! it is so ; it is so. "Tho way of the wicked He turneth upside down." History tolls us that when Borne was founded, on that duy thoro wore 12 vultures flying through the air, but when a trans gressor dies tho skies is black with whole flocks of them. Vultures! When I soo sin robbing so many people, and l see them go ing down day by day and week by weok, I must give a plain warning. I dare not keep It buck lost I risk tho salvation of my own soul. Hover, the pirate, pulled down tho warning bell on Inohoaporock, thinklngthat ho would have a chance to despoil vessels that wore crushed on tho rocks, but one night his own ship crushed down on this very rock, and he wont down with all his cargo. God declares, "When I say to the wicked thou shalt surely die, and thou givest him not warning, that same man shall (lie in his iniquity, but his blood will I re quire at thy bunds." I learn from this subject wlmt a sad thing it is when the church of God loses its metal. These Philistines saw that it they could only got all tho metallic weapons out of tho hands of tho Israelites ail would be well, und there fore they took the swords and tho spears. They did not want them to have a single me tallic weapon. When tho metal of the Is raelites was gone, thoir strength was gone. This is tho trouble withthe church of God to- duy. It is surrendering its courage. It 1ms not got enough inetal. How seldom it is that you seen mrtn taking his position in a pew, or in pulpit, or in a religious society, and holding that position against all oppression, and all trial, und ull persecution, and all crit icism. Tho church of God tfi-drty wants more backbone, more defiance, more conSecTntrtd bravery, moro metal. How often you soo ft man start firit in somo good enterprise, and at the first blast of noWq»ap»vdom ho hoi collapsed, nnd all his courage gbriri/ forget ful of tho fact that if a men bo right all thd newspapers of tho earth, with all their col umns {torirfding away at him, cannot do him any permanent diirfintfo ! It is only when ft man is wrong tlmt ho emi be damaged. Wlij God is going to vindicate His truth, and lie is going to stand by, you, my friends, in otofy effort you make for Christ’s cause arid thd futlVrttian of men. I flrimetiiridft nay to my Wife: "There is Something wrong * flic RoWspapors lmvo not assaulted mo for three months 1 I have uot done friy duty against public iniquities, and I will stir them rip next Sunday/* Tbeu I stir them up, and all t«C following Week tho devil howls and howls, showing that 1 hi»vn him very hrtl'dj Go fortli in the service of Christ and do your Whole duty. You have one sphere. I have another sphere. "Tho Lord of Hosts is with us, and thd God of Jacpb is our refuge. Selah/* We tfkWrt of tho determination of Jonathan. I do not Silpposc lie was a very wonderful man, but he got ori till* knees and clambered up tho rook, and with the Hfilp of lite (trmor bearer bo hewed down the Philistines, and tl man of very ordinary in tellectual attainments, oil ID* knees, can storm anything for God and for flld truth. Wo want something of the determination c)1 the rfCriofftl who went into the war, nnd as ho entered his first battle bis knees knocked together, his physioal courage not quite up to his moral courage, and ho looked down at hi« knees and said, "All, if you know whore I Wari goiflg to take you, you would shako Worse tlmri timf !“ There is only orte qrieStlOB for you to ask and for mo fd ask. Wlmt does God want me to do? Where is tho field? Whore i» the work? Whofc is the anvil? Where is thfl prayer meeting? Where is the pulpit? And finding out whnt God wants us to do go ahead and do it—all tho energies of otff body, miml and soul enlisted iu the undertaking. Oh, iny brethren, we have but little timo in WHICH lo fight for God. YoU will bo dead BOOli. Put in the Christian cause every energy that God gives you. "Wlmt thy lmfld flndetn to do; do it with rill thy might, for there is neither wisdom nor do Vice in the grave whither we are all hastening/’ Oh, is it not high time tlmt we wake out of sleep? Olittroli of God lift up your head at the coming vic tory ! Tho Philistines Will go down, and the Israelites will go up. We are oil the winning side. Hear that—on the winning side l I think just now tho King’s horses are be ing hooked up to tho chariot, and when llo does ride down the sky there will bo such a hosanna among His friends and suoh a wail ing among His enemies as will make the earth tremble and the heavens sing. I see now tho pliimoS Of the Lord's cavalrymen tossing in the nir. The nfoliangel before the throne has already burnished Iiirt trumpet, and then ho will put its golden lips to Ills own, and ho will blow tfio long, loud blast that Will make all Nations free. Clap vour hands, all yo pjoplel Hark I I hoar xbe falling thrones and tho dualling down of domolishod in iquities. Sleep in Disused Quarries. Ono of the most curious and deplor able sights in connection with pauper ism during tho winter in Paris is tho influx of peripatetic beggars who in* Yiide at night the disused quarries of ArgentoUil and Montmartre, whore they huddle together, as close as they safely can, to tho limekilns, in order to obtain a little warmth. Along tho suburban roads in the direction of Paris they can bo seen in twos and threes bent double almost and hungry, hurrying on and footsore, in tho hope of being in time to obtain a night’s shelter in tho isiles do unit—night refuges—of the capital. But in those buildings, according to tho Philadel phia Ledger, thoro is not sufficient room to accommodate all applicants. Thoir hospitable doors arc open only for a short time late at night, and when once they are closed all entreaties for admission are rigorously unheeded. In the disused quarries they can find plenty of room. A whole army of mendicants could easily obtain sheltor in thoir long galleries -a warm corner to huddle up in and a convenient stone for a pillow. Moreover, there are no awkward questions asked as at the aisles do unit, such ns “Who art thou? From whence comcth thou? What is thy calling?" And so from all direc tions leading toward Paris they come in large numbers at night, inud-be- shattered, hollow-cheeked, worn out with fatigue, and numbered by hun dreds as they descend into the quar ries, where, pressed pell mell ono against tho other, they endeavor by contact to keep out tho cold. Tho largest number and deepest of those disused quarries are in the neighbor hood of Argenteuil, and there it is that the police often make their raids when in search of some criminal who has escaped capture, and who, it is thought, may be hiding among tho “niftlfrats." Hare fooled Among Snakes. While we aro telling snake stories the following good ono comes to us from tho mountain regions, E. T. Dulin standing as authority. Tho country between Little Big Black Mountain is a ginseng region, and the Parker family are noted as “Hungers." The girls go out barefooted in th» mountains, though tho country is in fested with rattlesnakes and copper head and dig the ginseng, for which they get good prices at the stores, and from which it is taken to Pennington Gap for shipn nt. But along Glover Gap and up Rattle snake Creek there are numberless rep tiles. Beokio Parker is a girl, about nineteen years of age, strong, healthy- looking and handsome, but with a very determined face. She is a splendid rifle shot and is often seen with her Winchester. She goes after ginseng barefooted and often alone. The roots are gath ered in May and September, and dur ing the month just past she did a thriving business. One day, however, she came across a don of rattlesnakes. She had only stones und sticks with which to light the desperate battle. Some of the snakes were larger than a man’s arm, and few of them us largo us tho calf of a man’s leg. For hours she fought them as thoy hissed and writhed and rattled around her. But the brave, determined girl battled with them until she exterminated every one that did not succeed in hid ing among tho crevices of rocks and in the dense underbrush. When she had crushed the last one to be seen she counted the dead, and there wero just sixty-three. — Fredericksburg (Yu.) Star. MOTHER SONG. ; ,"o f t sleeps tho earth in moonlight blest; Merit sleep* the bough above tho nost; O’or lonely depths tho whippoorwill Breathes ono faint noto and all is still. | Hlnep, little darling ; night is long — Sloop while J ring thy cradle song. About thy droam tlm drooping flower Blows her sweet breath from hour to hour, And while the great moon spreads her wings. While low, while far, the dear earth swings. Slepp, little darling ; all night long Thu winds shall sing thy slumbor song. , Powers of the earth and of tho air Shall have thee in thoir motlicr-oarc, And hosts of heaven, together prost. Bend over time, their last, thoir best. Hush, little darling ; from tho deep Home mighty wing shall fan thy sloop. —Harriot P. HpoITord.in Harper’s Bazar. PITH AnTTPOINT. Lniil by for ropniring—Widows. Deads of perspiration aro the jewelry of toil. The Londoner who saves up for a rainy day most lie kept pretty busy.— Puck, Silencd may givo assent, but it doesn't favor tins request for auy larger loan.—Truth. Examiner—“What is your opinion of this case?’’ Candidate—“Tho same as yours. Professor.” Death, taxes and tho sprays from n street sprinkler are all hard things to dodge.—Troy Press. i He was a fresh young duilelot gay ' "j 1 Togged out from shoes to hilt; ' But fresher was. I'm pained to Hay, ', j ' The paint In which lie sat. Vj —Buffalo Courier. 'I “She appeared to mo liko ono wo man in a thousand." “How so?” “I saw her at the bargain counter.”—De troit Tribune. .q Go, sluggard, to tho ant and soo . ^ Hur methods, over spry, V, i And If you want tho ant’s addross, ' Hook tlrst tho pteuin pin. —Washington Htar. ’ “Did lie marry tho girl who could paint things on crockery ware?” “No; he married tho one who could cook tilings to put into crockery ware.” —Now York Press. hough signs of summer that porplox TMay often ooino to hand, *>, he too cream sign is ono thnt all TTho lassos understand. ’' , —Washington Htar. J Clara Qiltman—“Aro you paid for all the jokes you write, Mr. MoCJom.- miek?” Humorist—“Yes, MiHs Cllara, all my jokes aro made at somo ono nine's expense.”—Joseph Banister, in Itnymond’B'Mouthly. Twonwook—“Sir, I wish to marry your daughter.” Gruff Father— “My daughter, young man, will con tinue under the paternal roof. ” Two- aweek—“No objection will be raised to that, sir.”—Tit-Bits. I “You say site triod to stop tho car by whistling at it. Did she mako a successor it?” “Yos, in a way. It wasn’t her whistling that stopped tho car, though. It was tho faco sho made.”—Indianapolis Journal, l The Afternoon Yap. ■„ 4 - Tho editor of Wisdom publishes tlic opinions of a number of eminent cor respondents concerning tho valuo of "the nfternoon nap.” Tho corre spondents are described as “brain workers, ” which term seems to mean literary and professional men. Tho replies aro as such replies aro usually. Our medical readers well know in this, as in other matters, tot homines tot iiHiis. Ono man can work long and well on hours of sleep which would fail to restore another, us ono man can’ uso the tobacco or tea which poisons liis neighbor. Some who cannot or will not work by day work by night. Now, other tilings being equal, tho value of morning sleep is loss than of sleep by night; it is lighter nnd moro open to disturbances. Ho who reads and writes by night finds, nt threo scoro or sooner, that ho has unduly taxed his strength ; for Bitch a person “the afternoon nap” is clear gain—it adds to the sum of sleep of a sort. | Elderly people and hud Bleepere I often wake very early, and remain nwnko in spite of the friendly sand wich; for these tho later nap is useful. There are, too, hard-worked men of naturally fooblo powers who benoiit greatly bv an addition to their houm of sleep; but for the ordinary man who sleeps of an afternoon, tho judi cious physician will prescribe luncheon. Finally, the value of casual slumbering to persons slumbering from “insom nia" is not sufficiently well known. It is too often supposed that sloop is u fund which must bo boarded up for use in due seasons. On the contrary, Bleep breeds sleep, and tho warm feet, the incurious mind and tho raised position of tho easy chair may offer what the softest pillow refuses, and thus the sweet custom of sleep is re established. Measuring the Great Wall of China, Tho great wall of China was meas ured in many places by Engineer Un- thank, the American, who surveyed for the chief Mongolian railroad. His | measurements gives it an avorago height of eighteen feet and a top width of Ilf teen feet. Every few hundred feet tho wall is widened and surmount ed by towers of twenty-four foot square and from twenty to twenty *vo feet high. The foundation of tho wall is of solid granite, nnd tho brick, which constitutes tho main part of the structure, are still good, even though they are supposed to have boon made 200 years before Christ. In building this immense fence as a barrier to tho regular incursions ol the Tartars tho builders did uot oven attempt to avoid mountains or chasms to save expense. For 1800 miles the wall goes straight over mountains and plains, hills and dales, utterly regard less of nature’s greatest obstruction^ —1’hiladelphia Press. ,