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W. B. HAlip, Publisher. 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press alarmed at the recent heavy sales of land to speculators in that state, is urging that the state lands should be withdrawn from the market tin til they are explored, classi fied and appraised, and then they should De sold in such a way as to swell the school revenues of the state.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.