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VOLUME I.
SEWS GLEANINGS.
Alabama's total indebtedness is
111,500.
Texas has 4,600,000 sheep, valued a
*13,800,000.
The jailor at Trenton, county, Tenn ,
is paid SIOO a year.
It is probable the Virginia legislature
will abolish chain gangs and the ' hip
ping-poet.
At a Sale in Vicksburg, Miss., recent
ly, a plantation containing 1,900 acres
brought only $2,225.
Out of ninety convicts hanged in the
United States in 1881, Arkansas head
the list with fifteen.
There are nine colored men in the
Mississippi legislature, r eight in the
houfe and one in the senate.
The cotton mill at Wesson, Miss.,
pays twenty-six percent, divideud, and
the stock is worth over S3OO.
A two-inch carp put in a 'pond near
Atlanta, two yearsjago, was caught a few
days since, and weighed seven pounds.
The Mississippi press alarmed at the
recent heavy sales of land to speculators
in that state, is urging that the state
lands should be withdrawn from the
market tin til they are explored, classi
fied and appraised, and then they should
De sold in such a way as to swell the
school revenues of the state.
Augusta, (Ga.) News: A Pennsylva
nia firm is manufacturing paper at Sa
vannah, from what is called the “saw pal
metto,” a material heretofore regarded
as nearly useless. The paper is said to
be of superior quality, and especially
useful as a transfer paper, which has
heretofore been imported.
Messrs. Mertz, Finley & Purdy, have
bonded the Wertz gold mine, situated
two miles northwest of Gainesville, Ga.,
to Eastern capitalists for §IO,OOO. The
ore is quartzite, with liberal showing of
free gold. Both walls are argillite. A
test ton of the ore will be shipped East
this week.
Winston, (N. Oh) Sentinel. A man
by the name of Woods committed suicide
nt Laural Springs, Ashe county. He
came in from hunting and a-ked hi
wife to pull his boots off. She refused
1o do so, which so wounded liis feeling;-
i hat s he caught up his gun and by the
use cf his foot, discharged the contents
into bis body, killing himself instantly.
They wor both young and h. and been
married only about a year.
Atlanta Constitution Florida letter:
“1 he Speer grove, with 60b trees,
would bring perhaps $50,000, and this is
the best in Florida. This is about SB,
500 per acre, for six acres. It is the
best because it is the oldest. The lar
gest yield ever known from one tree
came from the oldest tree in the state,
at St. Augustine, which bore 14,8000
oranges. This is held to prove that up
to 70 or 100 years the yield of a tree will
improve. There are several trees thai
have yielded 7.0i 0 and B,OSO-oranges.
Florida Key of the Gulf; A friend
describes to us a remarkable scene wit
nessed by him at a religious meeting on
Whidby Island. W. T. A., a memcer
of the church, while praying, called
upon God to striae him deadfjf a certain
statement made by him in the strongest
and most unequivocal manner was not
exactly true. He had hardly uttered
the last word when he fell deaf Com
ing as this did, in the church, and upon
a leading member, the effect upon the
congregation can only be imagined.
“I believe,” says Gov. Bigelow, of
Connecticut, in his message, of his trip
South, “that the visit gave a large body
of Connecticut citizens nett anti truer
idea-* of the South in feelings and mo
tives. We hope that these Southern
citizens whom me met, and to whom we
are indebted for such a fraternal wel
come, gained truer conceptions of the
temper of our people toward-them. It
has certainly given an added cordiality
and heartiness to the good feeling be
w;ea Connecticut and South Carolina:’
Atlanta Constitution Florida letter:
“The only newspaper railroad in
the country, is * the Sdtith Flor
ida, running out from Sanford to Tam
pa. This road was built and is owned
and operated by the Boston Herald.
It is now in operation twenty-three
miles and is being extended rapidly. It
will be ninety miles Ibng when the pres
ent contracts are finished, and maybe
pushed to Puata Bossa. The Hera|d
people are doing the work themselves,
and as a Floridan said: ‘They are talk
ing less and doing more work than any
ot 'our developers.’ The road is paying
handsomely and runs two trains a day.”
The American Cultivator says that
“the scarcity of heavy Texas hides is
getting to be a source of anxiety to
tanners, who want to get out heavy
leather to answer the prevailing demand
The improvement of herds has been
going'on some time on the cattle ranches,
and the long-horned, snratrgy Texas
steers are getter scarcer every year.
There is more system pursued in raising
cattle. Crossing the breeds give finer
stoek and better meat, at the expense of
the hide, which in tSe best bred animals
THE JACKSON NEWS.
is finer and does not make such thick
leather.
Another large consolidation of iron
interests is nearly affected at Birming
ham, which will unite the Alice and
Eureka furnaces now in operation, the
great 8-loss furnaces now building, and
two more yet to be constructed. The
capital of the company will be slo,oi'o,-
000. The leading movers in the scheme
are De Barledeben, who recently sold
the Pratt mines to New York capitalists
for $l,O o,Got), the Hilmans and Col.
Sloss Ihisjvould practically consoli
date all the iron producing interests of
Central Alabama, except the charcoal
furnaces Hie six furnaces would have
a capacity of 150,000 tons annually.
The Bane of Habit.
Habits in little tliiugs exercise a petty
tyranny which is most degrading. A man
cannot do anything without observing a
lot of preliminary forms ; he must have
slept just so many hours, have risen at a
regular ti"ie, have breakfasted on beaf
steak and coffee, have reai I one particu
lar newspaper, have u’alked a certain
number of blocks, before he can make
his great speech, or write his brilliant
editorial. He cannot rise to a great oc
casion. He becomes a machine. His
work may be regular and neat, but it is
soulless, coid, touched with no charm of
individuality. Such a man may serve
well, bathe is not fit to rule.
If, at home, he is frequently respecta
ble, abroad he is always insufferable.
He is. made so miserable by the disturb
ance of his habits in the exigencies of
travel, that he can enjoy neither scenery,
pictures nor people. Yet he prides him
self on the “ good habits’’ by which he
has blunted his sensibilities, and limited
his enjoyment of everything intended by
Providence to elevate and inspire a fallen
race.
But there is a worse danger yet. This
subject basso long been misunderstood,
and that which is really a vice has so of
ten been upheld as a virtue, that people
have come to regard it with actual satis
faction. This unworthy contentment is
death, to intellectual growth. The mind
is hampered in thought and expression
by mental mannerisms which it is never
taught to shake off.
In speaking of the typical habitual
person I have said “a man” advisedly.
Women are more rarely subject to this
vice. Ido not put their superiority in
this matter on the ground of a stronger
moral sense. Ido not wish to exalt my
own sex undeservedly. Women are
gifted by nature with greater flexibility;
and, doubtless, the ordinary circum
stances of their lives offer fewer tempta
tions toward habits. We must wait till
a woman’s outward life becomes as nearly
like that of a man as it will soon become,
before we should boast of her superior
moral nature. We must see whether
her freedom of soul will stand the crucial
test of men’s unnatural “regular occu
pations. ”
If a woman would be charming, let
her shun habit like pestilence and death.
When Enobarbus said of Cleopatra :
“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety,”
he meant that she was one of those de
lightfully spontaneous creatures who
have no habits at all. Some days, I
fancy, she was very silent, and on others
overflowing with talk. When Antony
marched home late in the evening he
might be perfectly sure that the Queen
would not be upset by having her dinner
at nine instead of at six and that she
would be pleased to sit up the rest of
the night to listen to his exploits. Sho
probably rose one day at noon, and on
the next viewed the sunrise from her
garden.
As I have said, one who has habits,
may be a good servant, but one who
wishes to do more, must get rid of them.
A soldier, a mother, a frontiersman, a
physician, or any one who. has to meet
nature face to face, and work with her
forces, has nothing to do with habits.
Such a one must learn to bear fatigue,
ueat and cold, broken sleep, irregular
and insufficient food, days of arduous
iwork, and days of enforced idleness.
Claritta in Indianapolis Herald.
The Value of Study.
Increase of strength is called “ac
quired habit.” Our moral and intellec
tual virtues are acquired habits. The
acquired power to study is a moral vir
tue; inasmuch as its exercise forces back
the lower propensities and urges forward
the higher faculties. Hence the hard
students of a school are always gentle
men and the young man whose appear
ance show him to be a rough is never a
hard student. Hence also, men eminent
for great learning are generally eminent
for moral virtues.
Self-respect is also a moral virtue; and
it has been said that self-respect is at the
root of all the virtues. Hope, which is
the companion of energy and mother of
success, springs from self-respect. Hope,
which, as Carlyle says, ‘ ‘gives a man a
world of strength wherewith to front a
world of difficulty.” The value of repu
tation springs from self-r spect. When
Pythagoras admonished his pupils, " De
malista pa/on aitchuneo ecauton ”
“ But especially of all things reverence
yourself,” and when the apostle reminds
us that our Ignites are temples of the
Holy Ghost, they both inculcate this
same virtue of. self-respect. It is the vir
tue of self-respect that has determined
you to cultivate, improve and develop
your mental faculties to the highest de
gree of which they are capable; to make
of yourselves, as Richter expressed it,
“ the most that can be made of the ma
terials. ” You are accomplishing the end
when engaged in the business of educat
ing yourself at school.
What He Thought.
A pleasant faced countryman on a
train the other day, politely ask* and a styl
ish and haughty lady a question and
she answered him with only a frozen
stare. It staggered him for a minute
then he turned and went back to Ins
partner across the car and whispered :
I say Hill, what is it? I thought it was
a ladvf” Moral: All is not gold that
glitters, and fine feathers don t a.ways
make the best fowls.— SuuUnviUe Her.
old,
JACKSON. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
What has become of Ben Butler, any
way?
San Francisco granted 364 divorces
j last year.
It seems that the country i* about to
devote itself to paying pensions.
It is stated that Mrs. Garfield took no
interest whatever in the Guiteau trial.
The Cincinnati Commercial says the
English of SpuytenDuyvil is “Spitting
Devil.”
In Congress are eight Irishmen, four
Scotchmen, five Englishmen, and three
Germans.
Guiteau will now await the “ divine
pressure”—irresistible in its very nature
—of the hangman’s rope.
Edward S. Stokes, Fisk’s murderer,
lives in a house in New York for which
he pays a rental of $4,000 a year.
The Photographers’ Association of
America will hold their next annual
meeting at Indianapolis, August 8, 1882.
The leading Loudon newspapers ex
press satisfaction over the conviction of
Guiteao, but they all criticise the con
duct of the trial.
The shipping north of Florida straw
berries will begin in a few days. The
cream and sugar accompaniments arc
ripe and ready whenever they come.
The compulsory education law of
Sonora, Mexico, requiring children be
tween six and sixteen years to attend
school six months in the year, is being
enforced.
The jurors in the Guitean case say
that during the trial they talked with no
outsiders and read no newspapers. They
were virtually shut out from the world
seventy days.
A BtJMOB, almost too weak to stand
alone, says Dennis Kearney is about to
start an anti-monopoly party in Califor
nia. So then, Dennis is still in the laud
cf the living.
♦
Thebe is one person displeased with
the verdict rendered in the case of the
assassin of President Garfield and that
person is Charles J. Guiteau, “ the little
giant of the West.”
Conobess, as usual, is full of men who
are afraid to follow the ghost of what
conscience they have. What is needed
is a little hard, earnest work, and fewer
grand dinners, receptions, etc.
Ehthusiastio anti-polygamy meetings
are being held in many parts of the
country. The Mormon question seems
to be altout the next thing of any con
siderable importance for the country to
grapple with.
The people up in the Northeast have
been taking too many icebergs in their
weather. Thirty-five degrees below zero
must have been more disagreeable than
anything Mother Vennor, in her palmy
days, could have given us.
It is the thing now to be a “boy
preacher.” The third “boy preacher”
of the country has popped to the surface
in Baltimore, who, it is said, is saving
more souls than all the old gospel
’pounders of that city put together.
The murderers of Jennie Cramer, the
New Haven belle, are ltaving a delightful
time of it in jail. Blanche Douglass
divides her time between sewing and
reading the bible, Jim Malley reads
novels, and Walter sketches and plays
the zither.
Baltimobe extended a reception to
Oscar Wilde and Oscar forgot all about
it and went on to Washington, and now
Baltimore is so mad that they want to
rotten-egg the long-haired youth. It
seems that Baltimore forgot that Mb.
Wilde charges S2OO to attend a public re
ception.
Footpahs have become so bold in and
about Indianapolis that the citizens
threaten to organize vigiiarst committees.
The footpads hit their victims with a bag
of sand, knocking them insensible, and
then rob them of their valuables. Of a
number who have been thus assaulted,
one died of his injuries.
The Ohio State Temperance Conven
tion the other day adopted a resolution
asking that an amendment to tho Con
stitution be submitted to a vote of the
people, prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of alcohol for drinking purposes;
also, protesting against tux license, or
any restrictions or regulations whatever.
The stock of flour at the principal
points in the United States and Canaria,
actual and estimated, is placed at about
2 200.000 barrels. The annual manufac
ture of flour in the country is about 55,-
000,000 to C 0,090,000 barrels. The stock
of 2,200,000 is no more than abont two
weeks' consumption of the whole popu
lation.
The Boston Herald, thinks that if Wil
liam Penn, who was a go jd old Quaker,
were to-day nominated for Governor of
Massachusetts, he would be snubbed,
because be drank -wine. The Boston
Herald seems to forget that the longer
a man has been in the ground the better
he is thought of, 11 Peon wars alive
Tlevoted. to 1 lie Interest ot Jackson .mil Tlutts County.
to-day he would be no hotter than the
rest of us.
Prince Bismarck is rapidly going
down hill. He lately wrote to a German
in Chicago who had been in his service,
to whom he said that both his sons and
daughters were in good health, “ which,”
be added, “ unhappily, loan not always
say of my wife, sud not at all of myself.
I hunt no more, ami rarely ride, since I
ain too weak, and if Tdo not soon got
rest my vital forces will be worn out.”
The Washington Star refers to the
singular and suggestive fact that Mr.
Webster Wagner, who was burned to
death in one of his own palace cars on
the Hudson Kiver Railroad, a fow days
RpT°t was Chairman of the Oommiu, o ....
Railroads in the New York State Senate
which a year ago smothered and sup
pressed a bill introduced in that body
for the better protection of life on rail
ways.
Mule. Rhea, a Russian actress who
was interviewed by the Cleveland Leader
on Nihilism, said: “The majority of
the Nihilists are young men between
eighteen and twenty-two. Many of them
are girls of the same age; girls with short
hair anil spectacles who think they are
divinely inspired to throw bombs. It’s
queer that women always go to extremes
in everything.” Yes, it is a little queer,
but they do. Perhaps the actress wont
just a little to the extreme iu this state
ment of hers.
Senator Blair says lie has received
numerous letters from men prominently
identified with public education in the
South, indorsing his bill to appropriate
money from the National Treasury to
aid the cause of general education. The
bill proposes to appropriate $15,000,000
the first year, $14,000,000 the soeond
year, and so on for ten years, the sum
to be diminished $1,000,000 eaok year,
the money to be distributed to States and
Territories in proportion to the illiterate
population iu each.
A Louisville reporter Las gotten
himself into a nice mess. He tele
graphed over the country that Louisville
had thirteen oases of smallpox, whereas
an investigation proved that there was
no smallpoi in that city whatever. For
his enterprise, according to a citv ordin
ance, he will be compelled to pay SSO for
each case, an aggregate of $650. As
everybody knows that is somewhat
larger than the average reporter’s pile,
there is nothing left for the reporter to
do but to elope with his body.
The imports of German and Italian
beans at New York have amounted to
about 45,000 bushels thus far, and some
8,000 to 10,000 are in transit. Foreign
markets are said to have advanced
slightly under this large call from Amer
ica, but there seoms to be suffioient
margin at present cost to encourage im
porters. A lurge proportion of these
beans have gone West, where they can
he used in place of home-grown -stock at
a lower priqe. Most of the sales are at
$2.75 to $3; some of the best have brtsn
worked off in place of Stale mediums.
The coming Opera Fostival at Music
Hall, Cincinnati, which occurs on the
13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th of
February, will, beyond doubt, be the
most successful, both in point of musi
cal excellence and financially, that has
ever been held in this country. Patti,
whom at all other points in the country
it costs $5 to hear, will sing upon this
occasion, and to the entire series of per
formances, eight in number, a season
ticket can be had for sl4, which is made
transferrabla, and can be divided up
among several persons and thus still
further reduce the price of admission.
Those in distant towns desiring choice
seats can get thorn by applying in ad
vance of the occasion for a plat of the
auditorium of the Hall.
Aberdeen, Ohio—known as the
“Gretna Green” of America—is the
scene of many romantic marriages. No
licenses are required and iu consequence
persons of any ago or color may he
united in wedlock without risk of violat
ing the law. Au unusually exciting
event ia reported as taking place there a
few days ago. The candidates for matri
mony were from Kentucky, four in num
ber, named Mr. It. Smith and Miss
Alice E. Garrison and Mr. Willard F.
Garrison and Miss Maggie Neal. They
were iu a very great hurry, having
traveled all night and part of the day to
reach the place, as the bride of Mr.
Garrison was being pursued by her
parents, who objected to her getting
married on account of her age, she be
ing only thirteen years old. But they
managed to heat the old folks, and
all were married by ’Squire Massie
Beasly, in his usual graceful style. The
thirteen-year-old girl, it is said, was so
excited that she did not know her right
hand from her left.
There are poets and there are poets
—poets honored by a nation, and poets
who, for the sake of humanity, should
be hurried pell-mell to the nearesi pile
driver and there annihilated for all time
and eternity, From a late copy of a
farm journal, which, in aC. agricultural
point of view perhaps is unsurpassed in
excellence, we find some verses written
to “Sweet Madeline.” Asa sample of
the whole we print this one :
Oh she** m rweet u the Illy of th* Talley,
Her equal ne’er wa v*en;
How ljgbtly ihe trips along the alley,
Her UJ. me li Madeline
It (avoirs somewhat of richness to pio
hire in your mind a sweet maiden trip
ping along an alley. There are some
alley* in which we fear sweet Madeline
wonld wish she never had gone. The
steuoh of the refuse would overcome all
the sweetness she ever did have and
leave her a sad wreck. But what in fbe
name of heaven an editor—yes, an ed
itor—could see iu such doggerel to merit
its publication is beyoud human concep
tion. After the author of the verse
quoted has been crushed under a pile
driver, it will he high time to visit that
editor’s sanctum and hit him iu the head
with a stuffed club.
Too Much Talk.
There is probably too much talH-'S
in thq world —**- n writing, too muni)
priuting. There is much more said than
is well said, much more written than is
well writteu. Asa nation wo uru too
uoisy. We talk and write at random—
ull of us talk and write on ail manner of
subjects, whether we kuow anything
about them or not. Wo are getting to
be worse than the French. We ought
to act more and talk less—all of us that
are writing uud talking ought to. We
multiply words continually. There is
too much sad—too little done. But who
amongst us is going to commence the
needed reform by holding his tonguo
and going to work?
A proposed reform sets everybody’s
pen aud tongue to running, till tlio thing
is talked and written to death, and all
become heartily disgusted with the w hole
matter,
Free speech is a tine thing in theory,
but a rather poor thing in practical use.
Speech is so cheapened l>y being free
that no value is set upon it. The Amer
ican people are persistent talkers, but
impatient listeners, (speakers are morn
numerous than listeners. The issue of
books and papers in all shapes and
forms anil upon all possible questions, is
simply immense. No man heed now
wish in vain for his enemy to write a
book, or print a newspaper, or make a
speech, to the disgust of his neighbors
and his own demolition. It is the ago ol
speaking and printing. And in the con
flict and clash of words we Jose sight of
deeds. We talk much and set lint little,
whereas we should act much and talk but
little. Wo shall have to reform our
ways. Our prattle is out of all propor
tion to our performance. Thousands wo
wielding pen and tongue who arc hi tt r
adapted to this pulling of wee ! s “or the
hoeing of corn. Almost. ev< ry free
American citizen who can read and write
feels himself competent to instruct his
fellow-beings. But it is a free country,
and free speech must prevail. Every
man must talk and write all he wants to,
and make people listen and read if he
can.: —Seymour Times.
Ifornc!
J[ow many pleasant recollections are
ed into being by that one word?
Home! that sweet word has caused tears
to flow unbidden to the eyes of a
hardened criminal, or calmed his grosser
passions. Tig the one haven of earthly
rest. Bhould the outside world buffet
one around, if he has a homo—now I
must be understood to mean a home
where there is unison and sympathy
among the inmates, not a mere place
to eat, drink and sleep—when he goes
home, heart-sore and weary from his
contact with the worid, how soon ho will
be refreshed! His spirits will be reani
mated; he will feel, let come what may,
that he may retire to the bosom of his fam
ily and there find rest and contentment.
Cannot one toil manfully all day will)
his hard duties, if he has a home in
view ? Will he not feel abundantly re
paid for ill his preseverance, to meet, on
returning home, his wife, or sister, who
is waiting and watching for him ? Ah I
how sweet to him will he the tender
smile and loving kiss of welcome ! 'They
will bo doubly sweet to him now, and he
will thank heaven for giving him bucli
love and tenderness.
Now to make home attractive arid
cheerful is woman’s work. No home
can be a horns unless woman’s presence
can he discerned in the neatness and
coziness of everything around. Horne
females may rave about politics and all
such subjects, but if they could have
their way they would put themselves
where God Almighty never intended they
ever should he placed.
’Tis man's duty to go forth and battle
with the world; woman’s work to govern
that l’ouim of bliss—home. When woman
is raving about female suffrage, does she
think she is wiser than man ? No ; she
does not think any such thing. Sho is
one of those masculine women who are
too iilolent and hardened to have a soft
spot left in her bosom for such duties as
are required to be done for “home,
sweet home.” Some women should not
he allowed to invade the sanctum of
those lovable women who rightly appre
ciate domestic felicity.
A modest, sensitive woman will find
her heart expanding around tho family
hearth, instead of growing contracted
like those of worldly-minded women who
think they have a call to go forth and
govern the outside world, and let her
own little world lie governed by servants
or by chance. Now, as home should be
the deari st place on earth, it is the duty
of every member of the family to make
home as agreeable as possible, so that
each of the inmates of that loved place
may say with the poet :
“ Be It ever bo humble, there’s ooplaie like home."
~E. D. ti.
The Vanities of Teaching.
The desire to push a boy ahead to de
velop precocious tendencies, to have
have bright pupils, is among the
vanities of teaching. The surest
growths are the slowest. He wlui
makes haste slowly will generally win in
the long run—win at least all that is
worth having in the prizes of life. Tins
truth will come to general acceptance
with education. A Goetlie, a Hugo, a
Carlisle and an Emerson living on to
green old age are of more value to the
world than the corruacating careers of
Burns and Byron and Poe, going out in
an hour as it were, and leaving behind
them not so muoh the work they cud as
the '/rirow of mankind that they did not
do the great work that was in them.—
Hew Ycrk Herald.
A Wonderful Tree.
Why men occasionally see sea serpent*
and other snakes is plain enough ; but
what is there in a Jersey cedar to ac
count for the following from the Clinton,
N. J., coi respondent of the Philadelphia
Times. Ho says:
“ A funner living near Scliooloy Moun
tain has greatly excited his neighbors
by an account of a wonderful tree which
be discovered several years ago, and
which lie lias been watching ever since.
Ho says for three years it has gouo
through the cold weather without shed
ding a leaf. It s a maple tree, audits
sap makes very good maple sugar.
“The farmt r noticed it first while fol
lowing the trail of a fox up over tko
mountain early in December, 1878. AU
.4U.M (,rOCB, tJVUHOI MID MMIDD .
were entirely bare, while this tree had
not, to oil appearances, lost a single leaf.
There were no dried leaves underneath
it, and the leavos on the branches w ore
all green. It ivas with great difficulty
tiiat n leaf could bo pulled from the
twig to which it was fastened, and a
strong breeze, which was blowing at the
time, hail no effect upon the leaves. So
astonished was the discoverer at the
phenomenon that ho forgot ull uliout the
fox he was after anil the cold character
of the day, and spent several hours ex
amining the tree.
“ Ho went home greatly puzzled, and
returned several days later with a clergy
man living in the vicinity. They de
termined lo murk several of the leaves
ami see how long they remained where
they were. They also resolved to keep
the thing a secret and watch its progress
until spring. This they did. When
April arrived the leaves which they had
marked were just as green and fresh as
in December, anil the tree itself was not
affected in the least by the severity of
the weather and the muny wimly blasts.
“ The bark was tupped every week and
yiolded a plentiful supply of sap;
enough to keepbotli the farmer’s and min
ister’s families in syrup all winter long.
The same has been tried ever siuoe ; not
a loaf lias fallen, to tlio best of their be
lief, since the day the tree was first
noticed, anil the sap has flowed with the
same regularity and profusion.
“As far as can bo ascertained, there is
no cause for the mysterious vitality of
that particular maple. There is nothing
in the sod or sub-soil to render growth
more available or make the trunk and
branches better able to stand the storms
and cold weather.
“A number of people have lately vis
ited the curiosity, but each one comes
away perfectly mystified. At the pres
ent time not unother tree on the whole
mountain, witli the exception of several
evergreens near the hotels, has a leaf on
it, and the trunks and branches Btaiiil out
bleak and bare. This maple is in an
exposed spot, unprotected from the
winds and surrounded by rocks. Just
why it is as it is baffles the iugeuuity of
all beholders. Even the regular Decem
ber fox hunt is oast m tlui shade by tills
perpetually green maple free. ”
LETT Ml OF GEORGE ELIOT.
To * Crltla or Her “Daniel Beionde.”
[From th AthtunuM.)
We owe the opportunity of publishing
the following letter to the conrteay of
ProfoftHor D. Kmifmfcn, to whom it
wus addro&ftod. Profwsot Knufliiinn jh
well known by hi# remarks on “Daniel
Heron da,” and it will bo Hcen that his
critieiHiPi attracted the noth’© of the
novelist, and led her to writing to him :
The Priory, 21 North Hank, I
May 81, 1877. f
My Dear Bin—Hitrdly, wince 1 became an
author, have I hud a deeper antiafactioii, i
may say a. ore heartfelt J“.v, than you hMe
glvun me ill your estimate of Darnel
romia." , 1
I must tell you that it is my rule, very
strictly observed, not 1c read the entiolam* on
my writings. For years 1 have found this *i>-
siinenco iiicusnary to preserve me from tnaj j
(Hscotirugument s an artist which iil-judgou
praise, no loss than ill-judged Matne, tend* to
produce in me. For far worse than any verdict
hi tu the proportion of good and evil in onr
work in fho painful Impression that we write
for a public w hich has no discernment of good
and evil. . ...
Sly husband roads any notices or me trial
com s before him, and reports to me (or else
refrains from reporting) the general clmractei
of the notice, or something in particular wlnoti
strikes lnm as showing either an exceptional
insight or an obtuscuess that ia gross enough
to ho amusing. Very rarely, when fm has read
a critique of me, he hns handed it to me, aay
ing, *’ You must resd this.” And your esti
mate or Daniel Deiouda” made one of these
rar inwtancc*.
Certainly, if I had liecn askea to *•'• *>t
should he written about my book and who
should write it, I should have sketched—well,
not anything so good ns what you have writ
ten, hut an article which must he written by a
Jew Who showed not merely sympsthy with tne
best aspiration* of his lace, hut a remarkable
insight into the nature of art and the processes
of the artistic mind, lie.ievc me 1 should not
have caivd to devour oven ardent praise ir it
had not cone from one who showed the dl
■nmniAting sensibility, the perfect resiKinse to
the urtiHih’ intention, which must make tne
fullest, rarest J„y to one who work* fromi in
ward conviction, and not tu ‘iouipllane* witu
current fashions. Much a respdnae holds for
an author not only what i* best tu ,
that now is,” but ihe promise of that wmen
is to come.” I mean that the usual approxi
mative, narrow perception of wlmt one has bean
intending and professedly feeling ui ones
work, impresses one with the sense that it must
Ibo poor, perinhAble ntnff without root*, to take
i any lusting hold in the mimln of men ; while
any lijhUiic© of complete comprehension eu
i courage* one to hope that the 01 oalivo prompt
! ing has for* Mhaiiowed, lud will continue tout
wfy, a need in other minds.
Excuse mo that I write imperfectly* kuu
! haps dimly, what I have felt in reading your
article. It has Effected tne deeply, End though
the prejudice and ignorant obtu*en©e which
hsM met my effort to contribute •omething to
1 the ennobling of Judaism In the conception or
S the Christian community and in the oonacious
nosj of tire Jewish community, has never for a
moment made me repent my choice, but rather
1 lint been added proof to me that fhe effort wan
needed—yet I confess that I had an miHEiisfied
hunger for oertiuu signs of sympathetic dis
! comment, which you only have given. I may
i mention eh one instance your clear perctptiou
* of the relation between the presentation of the
Jewish element and those of English social
1 lifo -
I work under the pressure of small homes ;
for we are just moving into the country for the
summer and all things are in a vagrant condi
tion around me. But I wish not to defer an
swering your letter to an uncertain opportu-
I uity. • • •
My husband ha. ssld morn than once that he
feels grateful to yon. For he is more sensitive
on mv behalf than on his own.
tlniioe i> unite* with me in the aasuranoe of
the high regard with which I remain always
your* faithfaliy. M. E. Lkwes.
j Hi graceful if you can ; but if vo.j
can't be graceful, be true.
1 ERM-: $1.50 per Ahhwm.
NUMBER 23.
HUMORS OF THE DAY.
“ Ahiindancr, like want, ruins many ;" ,
however, Jet us risk it ou the abundance.
"Don’t give mo a weigh,” pleaded
the fat girl when invited to step on the
scales.
When a girl rejects au offer of mar
riage she goes through a sleight of hand
performance.
The end to las attained in the invest
ment of money is tha divid end.—Steu
benville Herald.
Ip George Washington cannot Have a
monument he has had a pie named tor
him, and that is better.
An old negro says : “Haas is power
... n . . i•. .. ttirap ,hiit* children.
Dey need some oilier kind of dressing.
The editor who called Chicago a Chris
tian country ought to lie better posted
in religious geography.— Boston 'l'hncs.
“Bride goes before a fail.” True
enough, but a pint of corn whisky can
give pride a bundled and beat it every
time.
An editor wrote a personal about a
youiig man going to spark his girl.
When it was printed he was horrified to
seethe letter “n” substituted for the
“r” iu the word spark.— Whitehall
Times.
“Have a place for everything and
everything} in its placo.” Somehow or
other this won’t work ; we have a big
ulaoe for our wealth, but we’ll Vie hanged
if we can put it there; we haven’t it 1—•
Jivanttville Aryan.
“Dobs our talk disturb you?” said
one of u company of talkative ladies to
an eld gentleman sitting in a railroad
station the other afternoon. “No,
ma’am,” was the naive reply, "I’ve been
married night ou to forty years.”—Hart
ford Times.
'• When I die let me be buried in the
stove, so that my ashes may niinglo with
tlie grate,” says the paragraphs r of the
Boston Star.' Iu tlie stove the gentle
man's ashes will scarcely mingle with
the gruto ; the chances we ho will gently
simmer us a base burner.
A milder in Peru, Jnd., fell asleep in
his mill and bent forward till ins hair
got. caught in some machinery and wa*
yanked out; and, of course, it awakened
him, and his first bewildering exclama
tion was: “ Durn it, wife, what’s the
matter now ‘/"—Boston Tost.
A vKur gushing young lady turned to
Mr. Whip and asked linn in passionate
tones: “Oh—ah —Mr. Snap, tell mo!
What —what—is your idea of real happi
ness?" Mr. Buiip—“Never reached the
(till meaning of the word, yet, hut I
guess pork uud beaus would cover the
ground.”
“Yon n!re on the wrong tack,” said the
pilot’s wile, when the hardy son of tho
loud-sounding sea sat down on it and
arose with the usual exclamations.
“No," ho replied, after a critical exami
nation, " I’m on the right tack, but shoot
me dead if I ain’t on the wrong end of
it. ” — Hurliiu,/ton lla ivkeye.
“ Have some more of (lie pie,” urged
Mrs. rilobson to her hoarders, who ob
stinately refused. Again she urged
them, inkling : “If yon don’t eat it I’ll
have to throw it away. It won’t keep
much longer.” Strange to say, their
appotiti departed. This is one of tin?
amenities of boarding-house life.
When you ate coming up the cellar
stairs with a bucket of coal in one hand,
two pics and a plate of butter in the
other, and a loaf of breud under each
arm, it is exceedingly trying to your
Christian fortitude to imvo u woman ydl
down and caution you not to forgot the
preserves on the swinging shelf in the
corner of the cellar, next to tho current
jelly. Be. n there, haven’t you?—\Vil
liumsport lirealr/ast Table.
Walter Scott on the Literary l*rofe
rion.
Tho following characteristic postcript
to an unpublished letter of Sir Walter
Scott’s has been ptee> and at our disposal
by the courtesy of the oorrcspomieut to
whom it was addressed. It gives in a
forcible form Scott’s wsH-knowe opinion
of literature as a profession. !t Is dated
February 2, 1828, when ncott ■■ hard
at work on “ The Fair Maid o* Perth
“Will you exoitse my oneruu* a piece
of serious advice? Whatever .'manure
you may find in literature, o'-•“•re of
looking to it as a profession, rev* seek
that independence to wnicu one
hopes to attain by studying branch
of Industry widen lies inosi wisriti your
reach. In this case you inv *>ursuo
your literary smusetueuis nouoraMy and
happily, but if ever yon nave w “>ok to
liteiature for au absolute amt ireeessary
support you must be degrade" by the
necessity of writing wheiucr vr> r vcl in
clined or not, and besides, suffer
all the miseries of it precanouo and de
pendent existence.”
This letter was addressed to * Bov.
Charles Room, under the impree"n that
Mr. Boom, then u young man. WJooosed
making literature a proieaaios- This,
however, was not the case, as Mr. Boom
was at that time preparing w> aMcr the
Christian ministry.— Acuaenvx
Can this be an extract from • diary
of that astounding commercial warder,
“Samuel Plaetrick, of Ponca?’
Hats order** 8
Halts of elotnes made 2
<ii>i<ls sold tor outer
Arms - ..$5,800
Commissions from
rival firms $2BO
Salary, $6 per oay
for 4C days $240
Saved from daily ex-
s42o
Money put in sav
ings bank .. $5OO
Cash n liand $7O
Got drunk.... 14
Badly broken up...., 2
Slipped out on hotel
Mile* traveled 2,R00
Number of trunk*.. '/
hhown samples 61
Sold good*. ..' 31
Been asked the
now* 60
Told the nows 3 ,
Lied
Didn't know 20
Been asked to drink 11
Drank J*
Changed politics... 1*
Changed religion... 3
Daily fIiMDHI al
lowed by house.. $9
DajA'expenses, act-
Been to church 0
Accompanied girl*
hornet ronuch iu:oh 17
Girl* flirted with. 42
Agreed to marry.'.. 2
Expected trouble
with 1
Kicked out of the
kee|>ere. mm 4
Cigars smoked 200
Cigars given away . 2
Number days actual
w*rk 32
Numbers dayacharg
tsi Arm 40
Light wagons *tove
Lilt'll' wu^uuo
*
A * tended horae race* U
Mad* on bets - fjj
Lost on bet*...-~u— *>s
My actual profit for
forty day* • $O4O
Firm’* actual profit
for forty day* $6lO
house 2
Left by back door.. 8
Dodged fair on
rai1r0ad......*.. °
Number of persons
cheated ........ 34
Tried to cheat 61
You can’t make good out of evil any
more than you can skim the cream off
the top of a pan of milk and then turnip
ever and skisa it off the bottom.