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CartetgfriHr '•American, VOLUME 111. Tlic Dream of Life. [From tli Kaleidoscope.] Once methouglit I saw a vision. Sublimely grand and wondrous fair. Lo! a maiden crowned with beauty, 1 Reamed of life all free from care. On her brow no trae of sorrow, Only love and, joy, and mirth ; Smiled at phantoms seen in Dreamland- Dreamed of joys too bright for earth. Peace' , ftnd„happincss entwined her In their‘fond and soft embrace ; Kissed the lips so fresh and joyous, Wreathed with smiles her sunny face. With a laugh she wak’d from slumber, Gathered up the broken thread Of the dream, but half completed— Watched the phantoms as they fled. Soon her face grew stranegly thoughtful; Smiles lmd faded like her dream. Ah! the roseate light had vanished With bright Fancies’ parting gleam. Then she spoke ; so deeply earnest Were the trembling words I caught; “ ’Tis sweet to dream of far off castles With weird, mystic fancy fraught; But ere we gaze upon the vision, When we’ve wak’d to life again, All has passed into oblivion, Only scattered wrecks remain.” From her face tliejsmilcs have faded ; She sits wrapt in solemn thought. “Why waste time in idle dreaming V My fair visions come to naught. Life is true and full of meaning; Fleeting joys how soon must fade, As the flick’ring, woodland sunbeams, Leaving only deeper shade. Oh, for some abiding purpose. Every thought and act to guide! And when life’s brief dream is over This will live though we have died.” Lola throng arrayed in grandeur, Plumed with jewels costly, rare— Wisdom, Wealth, and Fame and Honor; Which bright trophy shall she wear? Ah ! methinks 1 hear the rolling Of the chariot drawing near, Bearing this majestic army, To entice her willing ear. Yes, the soulful eyes have brightened, The dazzling myriad host to see; “Life has sent her choicest off’rings, Which shall my great purpose be?” Wealth, in tones of sweet beguiling. Tells her of its many pleasures “Only make me your elicit' purpose, I will give earth’s richest treasures.” Forth came Honor’s brightest laurels, And her mockings vv ealth deride. “What will earth’s best treasures profit After you, yourself, have died?” At these words approacheth Fame, Waving glitt’ring banners high, “I will give to you a name. That, shall live when honors die.” Wisdom clothed in strength and beauty, Whispers, with fair seeming guise, •‘Taste, and drink of my deep fountain, 1 will make thee great and wise.” From her eyes has flown the gladness ; Sadly come the words to me, “Life is empty, vain and shallow, These cannot my purpose be.” All, brief moment, gravely solemn ! “Comfortless, undone!” she cries; “Lord, to me give Thou a purpose ” Tears are falling from her eyes. Again the plumed host advancing, Lay their trophies at her feet, Whisper words of soft beguiling. Chant their praise so falsily sweet. Heeding not her fair enticers. Turn her longing eyes above. Ilarkr a still small voice seems speaking Words of tenderness and love. Ah ! a sudden light is stealing Deep into her darkened soul, Grand and holy words revealing, “Jesus Christ can make thee whole.” With the arms of faith beneath her, Buckles she Truth’s armor on. “Live for dying souls and save them,” Holy purpose! Heaven born ! Lo! again she looks above her. “Let me live and work for thee; When the harvest time is over, Bring immortal sheaves with me.” The vision fades —’twas but a dream ! But deeply cherished in my soul, A purpose to live more for others, And oft tell them the story old. Oh! to Him who died to save us, Let our fleeting time be given, And when life’s short dream has ended, We shall then awake in heaven ! Maiuon Daniel. F'ASHION NOTES. Lace dresses will again be worn. Lace over satin is tlie favorite bride’s dress. The organ-fluted muskmelon waist is re vived this spring. Marabout trimmings arc very fashion able for ball dresses. Velvets come with spring dress goods as well as with fall fabrics. Sleeves of evening dresses are as short and gloves as long as ever. Hats will be worn almost to the exclu sion of bonnets in the spring. Among other fanciful bodices are some with length-wise organ pleats. Tulle makes a much more becoming bridal veil than lace, real or imitation. Gold and silver braid will be used to ex cess in trimming spring cashmeres. Soft Surah sashes are worn around the waist under zouave and Eton jackets. ■Watered silk is again in vogue as a com bination with cashmere and camel’s hair fabrics. ’Tis petv , but tis true; the hair is worn higher and higher on the head from week to week. The cashmere broches brought out this spring are among the prettiest goods of the season. It is said that when the real spring hats and bonnets appear they will be in bolder and higher shapes than ever The Eton is a new' cutaway jacket, pointed in the back and very short on the sides, where it barely reaches the waist lino. Gold and silver braid and all sorts of gold decorative objects trim many hats and bonnets intended for early spring w r ear. Even elderly ladies will vrear hats in the spring, for all the bonnet shapes are very small, eccentric, and suitable only for even ing wear or for very young faces. Many black cashmere suits for spring wear have plain stuff skirts, made in plain, simple styles, kills preferred, over which is worn a tastefully looped polonaise of cashmere broche. A current item says that MoMsigor Cupel does his best work after midnight. We see nothing remarkable in this. Most people do their best work after midnight, say from seven to ten hours after. THE NEW SOUTH. AN ELOQUENT APPEAL FOR PROGRESS Charles Woodward Hutson’s Ad dress lie to re the Alumni Asso ciation of South Carolina— A Masterly Review of the Situation. [From Charles \\oo<lwar<l Hutson's Alumni Address at South Ca.-olinu uulegt*, Oucern b.:r 18,1884 Call tho process evolution or revolu tion, tiie fact remains an undoubted one tlmt we of the South have reached anew starting point in the career for which we are destined; and critical historians will, in the days that are to follow ours, l>e not likely to call this period the South ern Renaissance. After feudalism in Europe came the Renaissance, that great awakening of the human mirnl which meant the reaching out in all directions for new forms of ex pansion, for fresh fields of enterprise, for multitudinous processes of energy. It was the great revival in thought, arts, learning, invention and discovery, which has made the modern world what it is. It would be merely a partial truth to call our old Southern life feudal, for it <vas also both patriarchal aud republican. But it was feudal so far as tremendous resistance to change and to new move ments was its necessary essence. We had then, here in our Southern land, so long as slavery lasted, a sort of feudalism islanded in the vast current of modern progress. Slavery fell and with it passed away forever our baronial life, “born cut of due season. ” For us, as for those lands that years ago lost the feudal form of society, the rich exuberance of the Renaissance has come—a new birth of thought, of feeling, of art informed by science and science euviehing arts of resources hitherto uu drempt of, and of multiform energies. Tho very air about us seems tingling with new vibrations. We are to be young again, while others have ceased to feel the elasticity of youth. TRUE MANHOOD HAS COME AT LAST. Let us, then, take heart and thank God that our time of restored animation —our true manhood as a nice—has come at last. We at least, we of the South, should have no sympathy with the non sense that is talked about the melan choly, the deep discontent, the joyless doubt of the “Time Spirit.” The prig gish pessimism of modern dilettanti philosophers is as absurd to us as to our sires were the lurid affectations of Car lyle’s jeremiads. If ever there was a time of splendid energy, of glad and buoyant hope, of rich fruition, it is this. We laugh at doubters and dreamers, for we know our people and are too proud of our post to dread our future. Let us be ripe for our time; and, keepiug the sober gooebsense which scouts fanaticism, let us take care at the same time not to lose that enthusiasm which is the flowering of the soul. No society, with any real current of life in it, stands still. There is unceas ing change, modification, growth, decay,' renewal. There is endless substitution of constituent elements, transformation of forces, expansion of latent germs. We of this generation, who have outlived so many stages of growth, afid have seen changes so tremendous, ought to under stand this law of life. We ought to look closely behind us, around us and before us and make up our miuds as to where we stand. Wo ought to be ready to point the rising generation to a future clearly in view and to direct their steps over the intervening roughness into smooth ways. Let us put ourselves into sympathy with the spirit of our age. We have ac cepted the vital changes that have come upon our organic body. Let us do more; let us provide adequate nourishment and fit sanitary treatment for the organism as it now exists. The four great factors in progressive civilization are race, language religion and environment. There must be a proud, aspiring, energetic race, of dis tinct and well-marked characteristics. There must be a language that has grown with the race, reflects its history aud is free to change with it. There must be a religion based on some higher principle than the dread that produces fetichism and looking up to a Father almighty and all-loving. There must be such a set ting for the race as shall favor its healthy growth. THE HOPEFUL DESTINY OF THE BLACK. Yet there are those—even among our own people—who are filled with appre hension because they cannot foresee the destiny of the black people. I do not share this appreheusion. I grow up with that race around me, I have never lived where they were not my neighbors or in my service, I know their many good qualities and am not afraid of them or for them. They are improving steadily year by year. They are learning to know themselves and to understand the situa tion. They are by nature the best peas antry the world ever saw. Ido not pre tend to solve the problem of the future as connected with them and their relation to us. But I believe from my soul that it is a problem that will solve itself, very simply and very naturally, and that it will leave us of the Caucasian type the higher workers, as wo havo always been. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH>f*TIBBS. Other inferior races disappear iu the presence of the higher race. The negro will not. He never has disappeared. The Spaniard and the New Englander used him, liecause the Indian perished iu the using. The Egyptian him used long before and liis type stands out dis tinct, if not luminous, in every ago of the monuments of the Nile. The Arab used him and uses him still. The Dutch set tler used him in South Africa. All the Europeans used him, almost from the beginning of American history. But he grew and multiplied under slavery and be grows and multiplies as a freeman. KELIGION AND EDUCATION FOR THE BLACKS. Let us make sure that in our new ad vance we keep the purifying and ennob ling influences of that religion—keep them, extend them and intensify them. In the providence of the Father of all races the negro was brought to this land to receive Christianity and civilization. That he has received both in a wonder ful degree readers of Livingstone and Stanley are well aware. Compare him but.with the wild worshippers of fetishes from whom he sprung, or compare him with the English, if you will, of as many generations beyond the first reception of Christianity and culture, and you will admit that his progress is wonderful. But neither he nor we can ever receive these blessings on too large a scale, and it is both our duty aud our safety to help to our utmost in having the pure gospel preached to him and in fitting him to look into the open Bible with an intelli gent eye. In the manifold industries, the myried arts, the forms of beauty and utility which trained skill in eye and baud can produce, this land of. ours, favored in sky and soil, river and forest, will soon be rich beyond the wildest dreams of the past. Where brain and will are needed 1 , the historic Aryan will answer to the call as of yore. Where there Is need of mus cle and of enduring toil under the burn iug sun and amid miasmatic exhalations, what race is so well furnished for the ser vice as the African ? It was that he blight worthily minister to the progress of civil ization that nature made him malaria proof. Would you keep away from our dear Southland the accursed cry of the Com munist ? Would you secure for our dear Southland a safe peasantry? It is an easy and a simple task. Encourage the negro in every way to save up money enough to invest in a piece of land and to build him a home of bis own. Aid him by counsel, I>J, Lj treaty, to get the fee-simple of a small acreage and to feel the pride of owner ship. It will do more to bring the race to sound and honest politics than all the stump speaking in the world. It will do more to bring them to sound and honest ways of living than all tlie merely moral preaching they might hear from now to the day of judgment. THE BEST LABORERS IN THE WORLD. Let us do justice to these children of the wild Africans brought to us by New England slavers. It is a gentle race. I have never wondered at their being led astray by demagogues, at their yielding to the enormous temptations held out to them. I have ouly wondered, knowing history us I do, that they should have behaved, on the whole, so well. What untaught multitude in any other land, visited with so mighty a change as that which was their lot, aud tempted to spoil, and worse than spoil, by men of a supe rior race, closed with all thee authority there was in the land, would have acted with such moderation ? Not the English laborers, lam sure. Not the Irish peas antry. Not those Russians and Germans who have so lately been persecutiug the Jews for being shrewder and more mon ey-making than themselves. Not any race whose slavery—call it by what name you please—lnis been really a hard and bitter yoke. How the French peasants behaved under similar circumstances ail the world knows, and three generations have shuddered at the tale. DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRY DEMANDED. Now that we have ceased to plant one great staple, now that we are having di versified indstries, now that our people have a hundred occupations to choose from where once there were not half a dozen, we need training in these special ties. To say nothing of the fine arts for which, perhaps, wo are hardly ready yet—there are practical arts, such as printing, type-writing, reporting, teleg raphy, mechanical engineering aud man ufacturing processes, especially such as pertain to tho preparation of textile fab rics, fictile ware, artistic forms in woods and metals and the use of dye-stuffs, for whipli there should be training schools in every great institution. It was tho institution of slavery whioli foroed the anoieuts to despise manual in dustry. The same difficulty existed within tho lifetime of the present gener ation for our whole Southern land. I shall be the last to deny the immense benefits to both races which accrued from this institution. To say nothing of other results, the civilizing education of barbarians and the culture of lands that must otherwise have been left a wilder ness are two mighty facts for which both races should forever be thankful. Bat here, as in Hellenic and Roman Slates, slavery degraded handicraft. The cause cf degradation here is now wholly remov ed aud with it should go every prejudice Against the association of training in the industrial mts with purely intellectu.il training. THE SCLENT CHANGES OF HISTORY. One note of warning: do not expect sudden and splendid success from any scheme, from any system, from the adop tion of any policy. Character, the most precious of all possessions, must form si lently, as the temple at Jerusalem was built—as the grandest operations of na ture are carried out—noislessly. It is so with the individual, it is so with races, it is so with periods. Their essentijfl char acter is a growth, a slow formation of al most imperceptible gradations. It is these silent changes that make history. Not Marathon, nor Saluinls, not Rome’s I’rouU fewav, with roads ot stone to hold the world, Not high Csesar by secret daggers bitten, Not Lepanto’s check to fusions Turk, Nor Spain’s huge tin cat by England beaten back, Nor Waterloo that stilled the thunderbolt, Noi that sad close of glory 'or our South That wrung those brave pathetic words! rom Lee: “How easy ’twcrc to end all this by riding Along the skirmish line there. But, ior those At home our duty ’tis to live.” Nor these Nor all the grander themes of history Can weigh for potency against the lessons Tlie child gets at the niotht r’s knee, the prayer Uouttered mounting froth Hie heart, the change That slowly grows within a nation’s creed. CAPT. WIRZ. . Wlmt Hen. Perloy'Poore Remem bers About His Trial amJ'Kxe cution. The trial, conviction and execution of Capt. Wirz, for alleged ill-treatment of Union prisoners simply made this for eign Confederate ofliieer a scapegoat. When he was brought to Washington to be tried by a military commission he was suffering from scurvy. His right arm near the wrist was an open inch-deep wound, and part of the bone already gone. Tho hand and that part of the arm around the ulcer were very much swollen, and two fingers were closed to the palm of the hand. His left arm he could not bend up to his face, as the del toid muscle was gone. His feeble state of health made him sometimes so weak that he could not appear in court. When there lie could not sit up, and had to re cline on a sofa. Besides, when the trial took place, the season was very hot, and the room iu which he was confined, and where a light was burning throughout the night, was full of mosquitos which troubled him greatly. Olio '* rr Je tn+.-i court in a very weak state. Col. Chip man, the Judge Advocate, had given or ders to have him put iu irons, but the officers at tlie capital, finding that the right hand was too much swoleii to per mit the iron to be fastened, except in the incision made by flic open and inch deep wound, had not had the cruelty to force the iron on his right arm, but had, m order to show that lie had been willing to carry out the orders of his superiors, fastened the iron to the left hand only. Even had it been possible to put iron on both hands, it would, aside of the wound, have been very cruel, as it prevented the prisoner from driving the mosquitos from his face, or even wiping off the perspira tion, as his left arm could not be bent up to his face. His devoted council, Mr. Louis Schade, called the attention of Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, one of the mem bers of the commission, to that outrage, and he became very indignant. As soon as the court opened he inquired by whose order the prisoner had been put in irons, and Col. Chipman acknowledged to have given the order, because he had feared, judging from the high state of excite ment under which the prisoner labored, that he would commit suicide. The principal witness was a pretended French man, who called himself a grandnephew of Lafayette, aud who presented pencil sketches representing murders and cru elties by Capt. Wirz, which were accep ted as evidence. The Judge Advocate rewarded him by obtaining for him a clerkship in the Department of the In terior, but eleven days after the death of his victim it was proven that lie was a German impostor, whose name was Felix Qeser, and he was discharged. Capt. Wirz was hung in the yard of the old capital, and he walked from his cell to the scaffold with an undaunted air. “Previousness.” When Beverdy Johnson, the famous Baltimore lawyer, was in Glascow, he was invited to the Art Dinner, and fall ing asleep over the post-prandial speech es (only too natural) woke suddenly on hearing the name of “Johnson” in a list of Scotch painters which one of the ora tors was enumerating, at once plunged up under the impression that somebody was drinking his health; aud immediate ly, and with overflowing amiability, be gan returning thanks. The spectacle was then presented to the astonished company oi the American Eagle being restrained by the coat-tails from swoop ing at the moon, while the smaller birds endeavored to explain to it how the ease stood. This Was on a larger scale, but hardly more amusing, than what happened in the home of a Methodist minister nearer home. He had as guests two fellow preachers who were deaf. Oil asking one of them to lead in prayer at family worship each supposed lie was tire one invited, and so both kneeled down and commenced. Both being deaf, the host had no little difficulty in stopping one and explaining the precise state of the case. —Every Other Satuaday. A SOUTHERN STATESMAN. SENATOR LUCIUS Q. C. LAMAR. Who Will Probably be in Persident Cleveland’s Cabinet. It is generally expected that represen tation of the South in the Cabinet of the next President of the Union, will include Lucius Q. C. Lamar, now a United Suites Senator from Mississippi. He is eminent for his learning and broad states manship. His friends were surprised, not to say shocked, when he pronounced a splendid eulogium on Charles Sumner. Senator Lamar is a native of Georgia. He was born in Putnam county, Septem ber 17, 1825. After receiving a collegi ate education he read law and was admit’ ted to the bar. In 1849 he became a resident of Miss issippi, as an associate professor of math ematics iu the University of that State. While holding this position he also acted as an associate editor of the Southern Review. After a few months of this double employment he returned to Geor gia aud opened an office at Covington for the practice of his profession. While there he was elected to the State Legis lature. He once more made iiis home in Missis sippi in the year 1851, and lias continued to be a citizen of that State ever since. After having served as a Representative in the Thirty-fifth Congress he was elect ed to the Thirty-sixth, from which he re signed when his State seceded from the Union. His next .step was to become a member of the Secession Convention of Mississippi. Frcm the halls of debate lie entered the arena of war, commissioned as a Lieu tenant-Colonel of Infantry. He was pro moted to be Colonel, and led hiS regi ment until 18G3, when he accepted a diplomatic appointment to Russia, made by the Confederate Government. At the end of the war he recommenced teaching. The subjects of his lectures at the State University of Mississippi were political economy and social science, for a time; he afterwards taught the principles of law to the students of that institution. His election as a Representative to Forty-third Congress necessitated the resignation of his professorship. He was re-elected to the Forty-fourth. His membership in tlie United States Senate dates from March 4, 1877. Tho term of six years which he is now filling, will not expire until March 3,1889. Senator Lamar is a fine-looking man, and both a hard student and ready-witted man of affairs. He posseses great influ ence in his State, aud is one of the most considerable figures in the Senate at Washington. His recreation include in dulgence among tho sweets of polite lit erature, to which is largely due the ease and fluency of his oratorical efforts. Cut Worms. Savannah News. To destroy this pest it is generally re commended to break up the ground dur ing the winter under the impression that they will be killed by the cold. As they are hatched out in the fall, however they are sufficiently large to take care of them selves against the danger of cold by im mediately’ burrowing again under the surface, which they know well how to do, and here in the South quickly pass below the frost line. The eggs are deposited late in summer in manure heaps or about the roots of raukjjweeds or other plants, which suggest that if the beds are clean ed etf immediately after the summer crops are gathered and the grou and brok en and leveled, there will remain no in ducement for the moths to deposit eggs there. To prevent their deposit iu the manuro heaps sprinkle the heaps once a week with salt, if in tho open air and damp, or if, under cover and dry, with salt water during the laying season. Where they already infest beds in the garden, after breaking and smoothing with rake or harrow, sow salt thick enough to strike every square inch and they will leave that locality. The beds can be planted in a very few days there after without any danger from the salt, unless the ground is so dry that the salt <a mot dissolve. I that event salt water may again be resorted to, but the sprin kle should be though. Another advan tage is also derived from the ure of the salt —it preveuts the germination and groth of the weeds and grass that gener ally spring up and cover the beds at that season, while it aids in moistening and preparing the soil for vegetables. CUSTOM AND MYTH. POTATO AND RHEUMATISM - MOLY AND MANDRAGORA. Traci US Hack tho Superstitious Idea of Magical Healing Herbs f Fl:e lmndlady’s Potato — Digging the Mandrake. % [Andrew Lauar, M. A.] “I have found out anew cure for rheu matism,” said the lady beside whom it was my privilege to sit at dinner. “You carry a potato in your pocket.” Some one has written a:i amusing ac count of a man who was finishing a book. He takas his ideas everywhere with him, and broods over them even at dinner in the pauses of conversation. But here was a lady who kindly contributed to my studies and offered me folklore and sur vivals in Cultivated Kensington. “My mind had strayed from the pota to cure to the New Zealand habit of car rying a baked yamat night to frighten away ghosts, and to the old English be lief that a bit of bread kept in the pocket was sovereign against evil spirits. The human mind works very rapidly,Jand all this had passed through my brain while I replyed in tones of curiosity: “A po tato?” “Yes; but. it is not every potato that will do. I heard of the cure iu the coun try, and when I came up to town and my husband was complaining of rheumatism I told one of the servants to get me a po tato for Mr Johnson’s rheumatism. ‘Yes ma’am,’ said the man, ‘but it must be a stolen potato.’ - I bad forgotten that. Well, one can’t ask one’s servants to steal potatoes. It is easy in the country, where you can pick one out of anybody's seid r “And what did you do?” I asked. “O, I drove to Coveut Garden and ordered a lot of fruit and flowers. While the man was not looking I stole a potato —a very little one. I don't think there was any harm in it.” “And did Mr. Johnson try the potato cure ?” “Yes; he carried it in his pocket, and now he is quite well. I told the doctor, and he says he knows of the cure, but dare not recommend it.” How’oddly superstitions survive ! The central idea of this modern folly about the potato is that you must pilfer the root. Let us work the idea of the heal ing or magical herb backwards from "Kensington to English folk-lore, and thence to classical times to Homer aud to the Hottentots. Turning first to Ger many we note the beliefs, not about the potato, but about another vegetable, tie mandrake. Of all roots in German su perstition the earaun or mandrake is the most famous. The herb was conceived of in tlio Savage fashion as a living hu man person, a kind of old witch-wife. Again, the root has a human shape. If a hereditary thief who lias preserved his chastity gets hung the broad-leaved, yellow-flowered mandrake grows up iu his likeness beneath the gallows from which he is suspended. The mandrake, like the moly, the magical herb of the Odyssey, is hard for men to dig. He who desires to possess a mandrake must stop his ears with wax, so that he may not hear the deathly yells which the giant utters as it is being dragged out of the earth. Tnen before sunrise on a Friday the amateur goes out with a dog “all black,” makes three crosses about the root, ties the root to the dog’s tail and offers the beast a piece of broad. The dog runs at the bread, drags out the mau drake root and falls dead, killed by the horrible yell of the plant. So much for mandragora, which, like the healing potato, has to be acquired stealthily and with peril. Now let us ex amine the Homeric herb moly. The plant is described by Homer with some minuteness. “Moly,” the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig, liow heit, with the gods all things are possible. The etymologies even of moly are almost as numerous as the etymologists. The black root and white flower of moly are quite unlike the yellow flower and white fleshy root applied by Pliny to man drake. Only confusion is caused by regarding the two magical herbs as iden tical. How Gould is Postered. [Chicago Herald.l Somebody’ in Mr. Gould’s office lias been giving the press an idea of the great spepu lator’s correspondence. More than onehalf of the letters which he receives come from beggars or cranks. One man wanted him to make him a present of $30,000 in 4 per cent, bonds because they would pro duce an income sufficient to maintain him in idleness, and he thought Gould could spare the money easily enough. A man in Central New York sent him photographs of himself, wife and eleven children, asked permission to take an excursion in his yacht. One man wanted the capitalist to cover a particular stock and another be sought him to depress the. price of a certain class of securities on a certain clay. Every body who calls on Gould must state his name, address and business A clergyman presented himself the other day, and was promptly admitted. When lie had seated himself he took out $2,000 in currency and asked that it be invested along with Gould’s money in his next “whirl” in the street, and that the specu lator keep it until it had amounted to $20,- 000. The proposition was refused, and the preacher withdrew in disgust. NUMBER 43 There’s ;>i ways a liver to cross,' Always an effort to make, If there’s anything good to win, Any tieli prise to take ; Yomler’s the fruit we crave. Yonder the charming s ene ; Bnl deep and wide, with a troubl’d tide, Is the liver that lies between. ROUNDABOUT. Wildcats are becoming the terror of set tlers along Lost river in Idaho. By her city directory, just issued, Lou isville, Ky., figures out a population of 159,137. Two women in Buffalo have gone crazy over the story told them by a fortune teller. New York’s directory contains 300,029 names, which indicates a population of 1,500,145. London policemen are to have electric bull’s-eye lanterns, revealing objects at 150 feet. Tramps arc now searching for defective rails on the railroads. To find one means a free ride and a purse from the passen gers. The White House has been so often painted that the white lead upon it is said to be, by actual measurement, nearly a quarter of an inch thick. The roller rinks are cutting into the receipts of the theaters East, and the man agers are urging the passage of a SSOO li cense bill, compelling the rinks to put up the same amount as theatres. The postal returns from Georgia for the past fiscal year show an excess of expen ditures over receipts of $230,5302.31. Del aware is the only one of the old slave that had an excess of receipts. They say that Mr. William H. Vander bilt’s fortune lias, by unfortunate invest ments, dwindled down to one-half what it was in 1881, and that now he is worth barely $100,000,000. Governor Harrison, of Connectieutt, has received as a gift from a citizen of New Haven a cane of wood taken from the Benedict Arnold house in that City. The Emperor and Empress of Russia have entered gay life again, and arc at tending the theaters and giving balls, much to the delight of their subjects. Among the 150 Roman Catholics who have united with the Presbyterian Church at Valparaiso, South America, about one third have said that the turning point in their religious experience took place while witnessing the celebration of the Lord’s Supper. Wedding outfits are frequently hired in France, and many firms make a specialty of letting bridal toilettes, including a prayer book, orange blossom, wreath and dpessfc A most sensible custom prevails among the Swiss peasantry of having bri dal dresses made of good black silk, thus providing the bride with a handsome ser viceable dress for future wear. JOCULAR CURRENCY. [l’oaitivciy NoCrcilit.J Oli! lor a touch of that vanished hand. Oil! lor that hand of the long gone by, Oh! for the home in that tar off land; For its joys long past I sit and si ;h. Let me still dream of that vani>hed hand?' That hand with a slipper pois’d in air; Ho .v I used Ur roar in that far off land As that brogue came down my pants to wear. Straight whiskies make crooked roads. A cent vat you find vas more worth as two vat you lose. The shrewd skating rink man never ad vertises hard wood floors. The roller skating rink is a good place to study “ fall ” fashions. There’s one line that every woman de lights to hang on—the masculine. The dude, after all, is os some use. If he did not exist, the cigarette trade would not flourish. A dude’s trousers beat a breach of con tract all to pieces. They are breeches of contract. Men of note —the bank cashiers. The bill collector’s work is always dun before he gets his pay. “ I must shake off this bad habit,” sad a tramp, as lie gazed at his tattered coat. A spring poet sings, “Will they miss me, I wonder V” If they do, they ought never to fire another gun. “ Now your talk has the true ring,” said the girl to her lover, when he began to speak of a diamond circlet. Several young girls have been appointed station agents in Minnesota, and engineers are keeping a sharp look-out for misplaced switches.' A poet sings: “ I miss you, my darling, my darling ; the embers burn low on tho hearth.” Yes, it’s an awful thing not to have a wife to attend to the fire. Webster’s speliing book, it is said, still sells at the rate of a million copies a year. Though not so exciting as some novels, it nevertheless throws a potent spell over the reader. lie that is familiar with curtain lectures may not advocate stage effects, but he is certainly familiar with the drop curtain.— Yonkers Gazette. One of the most important questions to be decided is, “ W hat does the roller-skat ing deacon think when he connects with the floor ?”—-Boston Post. If the gymnasium is a good, moral place, why do they keep so many bars and have young men hanging on to them all the time V —Cincinnati Merchant-Traveler. “Love may be blind, but sight is not needed to detect the cloven breath,” said a young lady to her sweetheart, as he slipped out between the acts. —N. Y. Journal. The statement that roller skating dan gerous probably originated from the fact that so many heart-breakng young ladies may be found at the rinks. —Oil City Bliz zard. “If bees come after you,” says an ex change, “stand still,- with head bowed.” That’s a pretty way to give in ! Swing your hat and run like blazes.—Burling ton Free Press “Mama, who tore Mr. Bland’s hair all out,” said little Mabel. “Hush, child, you musn’t speak of such things. Pupa is bald too, you know.” “Yes, but I want to know who tore Mr, Bland’s hair all out; he isn't married.”