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THE SUN.
umrau, HAST COIISIIY, U\
AYERS & McQILL, Editors.
rOK PRESIDENT,
GEN. W. SUIANCOCK
OP PENNSYLVANIA.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
HON.' W. H. ENGLISH,
OF INDIANA.
rßWitmuL elect;*bi.
TOR THE STATE AT LARGE;
J. C. C. BLACK, R. E. KEN NON.
alternate:
LUTHER J. GLENN, A. P. ADAMS.
DISTRICT ELECTOBB:
First District— Samuel D. Bradwell
of Liberty. Alternate—Josephus Camp
of Emanuel.
Second District—iVm. M. Hammond,
of Thomas. Alternate—Wm. Harrison,
of Quitman.
Third District—Christopher C. Smith,
of Te'fair. Alternate—James Bishop.
Jr., ef Dodge.
Fourth District—Lavender R. Ray,
of Coweta Alternate—Henry C. Came
ron, of Harris.
Fifth District—Jno. I. Hall, of Spald
ing. Alternate—Daniel P. Hill of Ful
ton.
Sixth District— Reuben B. Nisbet, of
Putnam. Alternate—Fleming G. Du-
BignoD, of Baldwin.
Seventh District—Thos. W. Akin, of
Bartow. Alternate—Peter W. Alexan
der, of Cobb.
Eighth District—Seaborne Reese, of
Hancock. Alternate—James K. Hines,
of Washington.
Ninth District—Wm. E. Simmons, of
Gwiunett. Alternate—Marion G. Boyd,
of White.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The (lute of the earliest eclipse of the
sun, recorded in the annals of the Chi
nese, “on the brut day of t.h® laot
mouth of autumn, the sun and moon did
not meet harmoniously in Fang,” or in
that part of the heavens defined by two
stars iu the constellation of the Scorpion,
has been determined by Prof. Von Op
polzer, of Vienna, to have been the
morning' of Oct. 23, 2137 B. C.
A correspondent of the London
Times gives the following singular but
interesting information tor the benefit
of those who are interested in the study
of the transmission of hereditary qual
ities : The following cases are token
from a list of seventeen candidates for
election to an institution for the instruc
tion of deaf and dumb children : 1. A.
B. has six brothers and one sister, two
of the brothers and the sister being deaf
and dumb. 2. C. D. has four brothers
and one sister, two of the brothers being
also deaf and dumb. 3. E. F. has two
brothers and one sister. Father, mother,
two brothers, grandfather, two uncles
and an aunt are deaf and dumb.
A rapid penman can write thirty
words in a minute. To do this he must
draw his pen through the space of a rod,
sixteen and a half feet. In forty min
utes his pen travels a furlong. We
make, on an average, sixteen curves or
turns of the pen in writing each word.
Writing thirty words in a minute, we
must make 480 to each minute ; in an
hour, 28,800; in a day of only five
hours, 144,000; in a year of 300 days,
43,200,000. The man who made 1,000,-
000 strokes with his pen w r as not at all
remarkable. Many men, newspaper
writers, for instance, make 4,000,000.
Here we have, in the aggregate, a mark
of 300 miles long to be traced on paper
by such a writer in a year.
The proportions of the human figure
are six times the length of the feet.
Whether the form is slender or plump,
the rule holds good. Any deviation
from it is a departure from the highest
beauty in proportion. The Greeks made
all their statues according to this rule.
The face, from the highest point of the
forehead, where tho hair begins, to the
chin, is one-tenth of the stature. The
hand, from the wrist to the middle of
the forefinger, is the same. From the
top of the chest to the highest point of
the forehead is a seventh. If the face,
from the roots of the hair to the chin,
is divided into three equal parts, the
first division determines the place where
the eyebrows meet, and the second the
place of the nostrils. The height from
the feet to the top of the head is the
distance from the extremity of the fing
ers when the arms are extended.
By the State Comptroller's report of
1879, it appears that the colored people
of Georgia own 541,199 acres of land,
which is equal to six and one-tenth acres
per poll. This is an increase in holding
by colored people from 338,769 acres in
1873, and shows a rapid growth in their
wealth.
“I sraposE,” said a punning lady to a
sailor whom she saw holding the rudder
of a boat, as she was sauntering on the
seashore, “ I suppose that your favorite
tree is the ’elm. “ Yes, madam,” he
responded, “ and I see that your favorite
is the beech.”
The Haktwell Sun.
By AYERS & McGILL.
VOL V. NO. 11.
Ol'lt VOl'Ntl VOLKS.
Our Habjr.
Two little aliooa,
Out it tin- town,
Trot Unit about
Where’er mother ftooe;
Soiled Ktnghuu drew.
Put on Juit now—
They do get ao dirty,
No oue know* bow;
Li t tic black face,
Black each woe hand—
Been making mud plea,
And playing In sand.
Dear, precious head,
Toiuieled and rough;
Bright, laughing eyee.
Can’t see enough;
TUle la our baby
All day.
Two little feet.
Rosy and lure;
Two chubby hands,
Folded In prayer;
Tired little head,
Dark-ringed with hair;
Soft baby face.
Dimpled and fair;
Punay hlue eyes,
Heavy with sleep;
SUv’ry sweet voice,
Lisping—“Fathor, us keep;”
This is our baby
At night,
Old llnnntbnl.
“No, mother,” said Col. Dunway to
his wife, at the breakfast table, “ I shall
ride the black colt on parade today.
Hannibal is too fat and too old.”
“ Too old ? He and Barry are just of
an age. ”
“And Barry’s only a little colt yet?
Well, you may bring him and Prue out
to the grand review in the afternoon, but
I guess I’ll ride the black tills morning.
You can put Hannibal in the carryall.
Perhaps he’d like to take a look again at
a regiment of troops iu line. ”
Barry- and Prue listened with all their
ears. They knew there was to be a grand
parade of soldiers that day, and they i
were prouder than they knew how to
tell of tho fact that their father was to
wear a uniform, and ride a horse, and
give orders to some of the men.
“Prue,” said Barry, “father’s going
to ’speck them. ”
“/n-speck them,” whispered Prue,
correcting liim. “Nobody else knows
how. ”
That might be, for Col. Bun way had
been an officer of the regular army, and
he was now Colonel of a regiment of
militia; but there was one thing he had
said that puzzled Barry and Prue dread
fully.
“Barry,” said Prue, after breakfast,
“is Nibble old?”
“Father says he is."
“ And he said he was fat.”
“Dr. Barnes is old, and he’s fat.”
“But his liead\bar§.”
“Nibble isn’t bald, and he isn’t gray,
either. ”
“ He’s brown.”
Mrs. Dunway had told the exact truth
about Hannibal, or Nibble, as the chil
dren called him. He and Barry were
jifst of an age, and he had been a mere
2-years-old colt when Prue was a baby
in her cradle. It was after that that
Col. Dunway had taken Hannibal with
him to the army and brought him homo
again. He had been a war-horse, tho
Colonel said, and so it would not do to
turn him into a plow-horse, and the con
sequence was that Nibble did not have
enough work to do, and he grew fat too
fast. Yet he and Barry were only 9
years old apiece. That made eighteen
years between them ; and, if you added
seven years for Prue, it would only have
made tw-enty-five, and everybody knows
that is not very old, if you had given
them all to Hannibal. Barry and Prue
would have .given him almost anything
they had, for he was a great friend and
crony of theirs.
“Prue,” said Barry, “let’s go. out to
the barn. I’ve got an apple. ”
“ He can have my bun.”
What there was left of it, that meant,
for Prue’s little white teeth had been at
work on the bun. That had l>een a
troubled morning for Hannibal. Before
he had finished his breakfast a party of
men rode by the house, and one of them
was playing on a bugle. He had set
Hannibal’s mind at work iq>on army
matters and war; so when Barry and
Prue came to see him he would not
even nibble. He smelled of the apple,
and he looked at tho bun, but that was
all.
“He’s getting Old, ’’ Said Barry.
“ And fat,” added Prue.
“Tell you wlxat, Prue, let’s take him
out into the lot, I know mother’d let
us.”
That was likely, for Mrs. Dunway al
ways kept safer about them if Nibble
were keeping them company.
“I’ll get on his back.”
“And I’ll lead him. Wait till I fix
the halter.”
Prue climbed up on tho side of the
stall where Nibble was, and he stood
perfectly still while she clambered over
to her place on his back. Barry knew
exactly what to do, and the old war
horse riegan to think he did himself. He
must have been thinking, for he half
closed one eye as he was walking out,
and opened the other very wide, with a
wonderfully knowing look. He was
looking down the lane, and ho saw that
the front gate was open, and just at that
moment there came up the road, very
faint and sweet, the music of the cavalry
bugle.
“ Nibble! Nibble! ” exclaimed Barry,
“ where are you going ? ”
Hannibal did not answer a word, but
walked on down the lane very fast in
deed, and Barry lost held of the halter.
As for Prue, she was not scared a parti
clo, for she had ridden in that way many
a time, and her confidence in herself and
old Nibble was unbounded.
“ Cluck, cluck, cluck —get-ap.”
“Stop, Prue, stop! He’s going
faster.”
“Get-ap! Come, Barry. Oh, theres
mother at the .window 1”
Mrs. Dunway was not frightened any
more than Prue, for she said to herself;
HARTWELL GA., NOVEMBER 10. 1880.
“ Too old, indeed ! Well, they’re more
like three children, w-hen they're to
gether, than auytliiug else. I’m glad h
is fat. He won't go fix) fast for I rue. ”
Ho was in the road now, and h
seemed disposed to keep Barry from
again getting hold of that halter.
“On, dear,” said Barry, “the parado
grouud’s down there. ”
Hannibal knew that, by tho music,
and ho was almost trotting now. In
fact, ho was looking younger and
voimger, somehow, every minute, and
Barry folt more and more as if he ought
to have hold of the halter, instead ol
merely running alongside and shouting
to Prue.
Tho regiment was drawn np on the
great bare field whore the review was to
be that afternoon, and they looked
splendidly. Col. Duuway was saying
so, as he sat in front of them, on his
handsome black oolt, and a number of
other officers who were riding with him
said tho same, and so did the ladies who
were keeping them company.
Just then the bugle sounded again,
from the head of the column, and Pine
had to hold on hard, for Hannibal sud
denly began to canter, and he answered
the music with a loud, clear whinny of
delight. Barry was half out of breath
with running, but he kept up with th
other two, and in a moment more Han
nibal baited, proudly arching his neck,
and treading daintily upon the grass,
right in front of tho regimont.
“I declare.” exclaimed Col Dunway,
“ the old fellow has come to reviow tho
troops.”
“So has Prue,” said one ol the offi
cers.
Barry hardly knew whether to laugh
or cry, but the soldiers suddenly broKo
out in a wild “ hurrah.”
They were cheering Prue and her war
horse, and Col. Dunway himself was
compelled to let the “ tiiroe children ’’
stay and keep the place Hannibal chose
for them at the head of the regiment.
There was plenty of apples for Nibble
that day.
i . ■ ■ 1 " ■
Manners Two Hundred Years Ago.
A curious littlo book, called “The
Rules of Civility,” which was published
in 1675, throws" amusing light on the
manners of our ancestors, two conturiea
ago. “ Being in discourse with a man,”
we read on one page, “ ’tis no less than
ridiculous to pull him by tho buttons,
to play with liis band strings, belt or
to punch him now and then on the
stomach.” Again, “It argues neglect,
oiid to undervalue a man, to alee]) when
ho is discoursing or reading. There
fore, g(xxl manners command it to be
forbid ; besides, something may happen
in the act that may offend, as snoring,
sweating, gaping or dribbling.” More
explicit are tho rules for behavior at ta
ble. “In eating observe to lot your hands
be clean. Feed not with both your
hands, nor keep your knife in your hand.
Dip not your lingers iu the sauce, or
lick them when you have done. If you
have occasion to sneeze or cough, take
your hat, or put your napkin before
your face. Drink not with your mouth
full nor unwiped, nor so long till you
are forced to breathe in tho glass.”
There are rules also for the drawing
room. “If a person of quality be in the
company of ladies, ’tis too juvenile and
light to play with them, to toss or tum
ble them, to kiss them by surprise, to
force away their hoods, their fans, or
their ruffs. It is unhandsome among
ladies, or any other serious company, to
throw off one’s cloak, to pull off one’s
peruke, to cut one’s nails, to tie one’s
garter, to change shoes if they pinch, to
call for one’s slippers to be at ease, to
sing between the teeth, or to drum with
one’s fingers.”
Runaway Horses.
The horse that has once acquired tho
habit of running away will bolt on the
first opportunity. If you susiiecthis in
tentiou, the best plan is to chock it the
moment he begins to move, taking hold
of one rein with both hands, and giving
it one or two such violent jerks thut the
rogue must pause or turn around. Then
stop him, and, if you doubt your being
able to hold him, get off. Perhaps a
too-vigorous “plug ’ may make liim
cross his legs and fall—not a pleasant
contingency, but anything is better than
being run away with in a street. In
open country you may compel the runa
way to gallop with a loose rein until ho
is tired, or to move in a constantly nar
rowing circle until he is glad to halt. A
ten-acre field is big enough for this ex
pedient But the great point is to stop
a runaway before he gets into his stride ;
after-he is once away few bits will stop
a real runaway—a steady pull is a waste
of exertion on the rider’s part. Some
horses may be stopped by sawing the
mouth with the snaffle, but nothing will
check the old hand. Another expedient
is to hold the reins very lightly, and on
the first favorable opportunity, as a ris
ing hill, for instance, to try a succession
of jerks. But the cunning, practiced
runaway is not so much to bo feared as
tho mad, frightened horse. Tho mad
horse will dash against a brick wall, or
jump at spiked railings of impossible
height. I once saw a runaway horse,
after getting rid of his rider, charge ana
burst open liis locked stable-door.
A recent observing tourist in Portu
gal says that he has never been in a
Roman Catholic country where there
are so few outward signs of religious
feeling, or even of worship. It is rare
to find a service of any kind being cele
brated in the churches, which are nearly
always shut A light is seldom burning
before the altar, the few shrines ainl
images by the road are neglected and
often in ruins, aqd the monasteries have
all been suppressed.
Devoted to Hart County.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Bellas, Ala., is growing rapidly.
Tomato cider is anew drink in Texas.
A negro woman 103 years old died
near Fort Valley, Ga.
Nashville ships fifteen ear loads of
lumber northward every day.
Five negroes were elected to the Geor
gia Legislature at the recent election.
The ladies of Macon propose to make
a vigorous winter campaign in the tem
perance cause.
The people of Clarendon, Texas, are
building abode houses. They are made
of suii-dried bricks.
A colored couple were married in the
poor-house at Barnesville, Ga., the groom
110 years old and the bride only forty.
The three richest men in Georgia are
Joseph E. Brown, of Atlanta, and Fer
dinand Phinixy and John A. White, of
Athens.
Barnum is having had luck in Texas.
An elephant, two tigers, a giraffe, a train
ed oxen and a number of smaller animals
in his show have died.
The tobacco outlook has increased the
value of timbered land in Buncombe
county, N. C., at least fifty per cent,
within the last three years.
In Bchley county, Gif., a freed man,
with oue inule, this year made twenty
three bales of cotton, weighing over 500
pounds each, and 200 bushels of corn.
A young man died at San Antonio,
Texas, after | icking cotton from tho ef
fect of jMiison put on tho cotton to kill
insects, nis brother is ill from the same
cause.
A colored girl named Lizzie Hampton,
in Union county, 8. C., has given birth
to twin children, which are joined to
gether by a union of tho breast bone,
having hut one naval, hut supposed to
have two sets of intestines confined in
one cavity.
■ li. A. Hyslop, a gentleman living in
Norfolk county, Va., recently captured
an ordihary live turtle possessed of two
well-formed heads. The turtle was
brought to bay in the woods by a dog,
and is considered such a curiosity thut
Mr. flyslop lias decided to send it on to
the Smithonian Institution at Washing
ton.
Leprosy exists to a considerable extent
in the parish of Lafourche, La. An at
tempt to make in official investigation
was lately resisted with arms, the lepers
and their friends believing that the suf
ferers were to be isolated on an island in
the ocean. The report of the physicians
is that the disease is not gaining ground.
Baton Rouge, La., has no public
schools open. The same is true of Bt.
Landrey, and the Democrat, of the latter
parish, says: “ We have school officials,
State and parochial, all the time, hut no
schools. What is the ilsc of having an
organization that accomplishes nothing?
The public school system of this State is
a delusion and a snare.”
Samuel Hawthorne, who killed McGee
at Vicksburg in September, has been sen
tenced to the penitentiary for life by a
jury of twelve colored men. This is the
first casc in Mississippi in which a white
man has been convicted by negroes. The
jury is said to have exibited every evi
dence of marked attention, and brought
in their verdict intelligently.
The Vallambrosa Place, near Dublin,
Gil, once the home of Gov. George M.
Troup, but recently the residence of Col.
Robert Wayne, who married a grand
daughter of Gov. Troup, was destroyed
by fire. The family pictures and fine
old silverware were all lost, and many of
the historic oaks were killed by the fire.
Col. Wayne has suffered losses from fire
four times within eleven years.
In Tennessee, under the law o‘ 1874,
no liquor can be sold within four miles
of an incorporated school of learning,
unless located in an incorporated town
or city. The friends of temperance are
taking advantage of the enactment in
aoine portions of Shelby county by secur
ing charters of incorporation for schools
in their neighborhood, in all cases near
some little village where the inebriating
fluid is dispensed.
The King’s Mountain Centennial As
sociation reports a surplus of funds re
maining after defraying the expenses of
the recent celebration. It has deter
mined to build an iron railing around the
monument and construct a dwelling
house on the mountain near by for the
keeper of themionumcnt, who is to lie
selected hereafter. The Association is a
perpetual organization and it has been
l determined to maintain it, holding meet
ings from time to time as may be required
for this purpose.
$1.50 Per Annum
WHOLE NO. 219.
Singular Climatic Effects.
Bays the Denver (Col.) Great West:
It is a singular fact that almost every
body loses flesh on coming here from
the East. The average loss in weight
sustained is alxiut ono-oighth. For in
stance, in tho oourHO of two or throe
months a 200-poiuul man loses twenty
five i>ountls and becomes a 175-ixiunder.
This is due to tho high altitude of Den
ver—a mile above the sea to the dry and
light atmosphere, to tho scarcity of vegi
tatiou and the comparative abundance
of oxygen, which consumes the tissinw
and tail's the vital functions to a greater
extent than on lower altitudes. Higher
up it is much worse than here. At Leod
▼ule, for instance, which is two milt's
above the sea level, the diminution in
weight does not generally fall short of a
sixth or seventh, and it takes place
much more rapidly than here. In that
high altitude, too, lung diseases, such as
pneumonia, very frequently set in, and
they prove fatal in übout 30 per cent., of
the cast's attacked. But very tew dogs,
except hounds, can live iu Loadville,
and no cats survive there. In Denver,
however, we have a multitude of both
dogs and cats, and they appear to ex
perience no sptx'iul difficulty alxiut liv
ing and getting fut. Yet it is a
noticeable fact that annuals and men lose
a share of their stri'iigth after coming
here. After being hero two or throe
mouths their muscular power is not near
so great as in the East. Eight hours of
continuous labor does more to exhaust
and prcHtrate a man here than ten hours
in Illinois or Wisconsin. And wliou
worn out and prostrated a fooling of las
situde and drowsiness that it is very dif
ficult to dispel comes over one. In such
instances many hours of rest art 1 requi
site to repair mid rebuild the wasted en
ergies. Mental labor is oven more ex
hausting than physical. A healthy man
may do manual labor for eight or ten
hours a day and experience therefrom no
special evil effects ; but let mental labor
lx' pursued with like assiduity and tli
nervous system becomes weakened ami
irritable. In time the physical powers
become disordered and weakened by
sympathy and by the strain upon them
to supply the brain waste. These foots
art; more predicable of new-comers than
of those who have resided for a year or
more at high altitudes. Persons and an
imals thoroughly acclimated do not ex
perience those drawbacks. Indeed, these
could not look better anywhere than
they appear here. The groat difficulty
is in getting acclimated.
Rewarded for Sinking liis Ship.
A remarksble instanoe of presence of
mind on the part of the Captain of a
man-of-war is related by the Ht. Peters
burg papers. The Russian war frigate
Olaf, which hud accompanied tho yacht
of the Ozarowich to ('tqienhagen, was
lying at anchor among hundreds of other
ships in the harbor, when a fire was dis
covered in the coal banker below, which
was only a few feet from the powder
magazine. There was no time to put out
the fire before it could reach the maga
zine, and an explosion of the large stores
of cartridges and gunpowder contained
in it would probably have destroyed not
only the Olaf, and the surrounding ships,
but part of Copenhagen itself. Cupt.
Rohbindor, the commander of the Olaf,
saw at once that the only thing to be
done to prevent a catastrophe wits to
sink the ship. After sending away the
crew with the ship’s papers, cash boxes
and valuable instruments in boats, be
ordered tho carpenters and engineers to
make a leak in the vessel, and half an
hour afterward she sank in not very
deep water. Next day she was raised
again, and after some provisional repairs
was taken to Cronstadt. The damage
done is stated to lie comparatively tri
fling, and u court martial held on the
officers of the vessel unanimously ex
pressed the highest praise of the conduct
of the Captain and men. Tho Emperor
has appointed him liis aide-de-camp,
which is one of the highest honors con
ferred on Russian naval officers, and
men under him have received gratuities
from the Emperor’s privy purse.
The Small Days of Chicago.
New York and Boston, about 250
years old, have respectively 1,000,(XK)
and 350,000 inhabitants. Chicago made
uji her half million in little over forty
years. In New York and Boston one
sees the graves of eight generations, and
tho relics of colonial times. In Chicago
Mr. Gurdon 8. Hubbard is now living,
an active man, 78 years of age (and
looking 60), who came to the sjsjt when
there were but two houses there.
The site of this great city, a favorite
one with the Indiana, was early visited
by some of those sploudid old “pioneers
of France in tho New World,” who have
l>een made famous in this generation by
the jam of that accomplished and genial
historian, Mr. I’arkman. Old Peru
Marquette was there in 1673, and re
turned in the winter of 1674-75. It was
also known to Joliet (for whom a town
not far off is now named), Hennepin, and
La Halit'. Tho name is of Indian origin,
cheer,aqua meaning “strong,” and be
ing also the term for a kind of wild
onion found on the shore of the lake in
old days. The place is first known to
f ts igruphy us the “ Fort Ohecogou” of a
French map published toward the end
of the seventeenth century. Fort Dear
born was built by our Government in
1804, and the late John 11. Kinzie, an
eminent pioneer and citizen of Chicago,
celebrated the first anniversary of liis
birthday on its site, his father having
arrived three days before, in company
with Maj. Whistler and his command.
The Fort Dearborn massacre, perjie
trated by the Indians, was .in 1812, ami
the bones of the soldiers were lying un
buried near tho shore when young Kin
zie returned from L>etroit iu 1816.
Harper’s Magazine.
Golden Words.
Tlie following extract* art' culled from
an addrt'ss by Hon. Horatio Heymour to
tin* young-lady students of Walla Fo
lualc College, Aurora, N. Y.:
Yonth is lieautiful in tho eyes of age,
anti it looks with admiration, upon tho
courage with which Mu* young oonfront
the uncertainties of the future, and tho
faifli that lends them to look forward to
happiness and suot'es*.
He If-cheating is tho most common
kind of fraud. It is a good rule, when
you find that subject* of importance or
objects of value ore matters of indiffer
ence, to conclude that there art* some
things which you do not, but which you
ought to, know.
Then* is nothingyoucon loam nlmut any
subject which will not give it new inter
est in your eyes. The deeper your learn
ing the better, but the quality of knowl
edge is like thut <>f gold,which, although it
is reduced to the thinnest leaf, yet makes
all the thing* glitter that it touches.
Hurface knowledge is lightly sjiokenof
by the learned, but it iM information
worked out iu tho past by toil oiul study
until it is bmught within tho reach of
all.
In tho course of my life T have studied
all classes of men with care, and, as a
rule, I have found those to lie the most
cheerful and wise whose habits and ob
servations have given the widest rango
to their mental action, ami have brought
within the scope of their thought* tho
most varied topics, although they may
not have liet'U learned with regard to any
of them.
Men do not live in the same world.
When wo look around us wo see that
they live in very different houses; some
are humble houses, tint poorly finished ;
others art* costly residences, odornod
with paintings and statuary, and every
thing that art can do to gratify tho
taste.
Wo make tho world in which we live.
It is more disreputable to livo in ono
that is dull and barren than it is to
make our home iu jHior and dilapidated
houses.
Intelligence will enable us to cojio
with the problem of life, to endure its
misfortunes with fortitude, and to lieur
its successes with moderation and wis
dom.
The office of the eye is to give fact* to
the mihd. Things are not seen in a
true sense merely because they are
lir< light within the range of the vision,
but when they have stirred the mind and
thoughts have been evolved.
Ho strong are tho enjoyments of look
ing upon famous objects, or of treading
upon ground made sacred by events,
that men cross broad oceans to visit
them. And through after lift* they are
wiser and happier for the knowledge
thus gained.
Tt may ho that some are gifted with
aptitudes in certain directions lieyiuul
others; jthiit some have faculties for
learning, for arts, or for science, that
gives them (leeuliar advantages m their
pursuits.
When I am visited at my farm by
those who feel no sympathy with nat
ure, and say they have no taste for
country life, I make up my mind they
do not like it because they do not know
enough übout tho world around them to
Mljoy its beauties.
No one who Ims reached the age of
three-score years and ten would, upon
retloctiou, ho willing to ruli out from
the experience in life the sorrows which
have softened hi* character, the mis
takes which have taught him wisdom,
or wrong-doings which lie Ims ever re
gretted, and which, by their influences,
have made tho golden threads which
may bn formed in tho texture of liis
moral character,
Went her Wisdom.
“Gemlen,” said tho President, “I
fink dat dt; inhabitants of dis kentry am
payin’ altogether too much ’tenshun to
dis wedder qneshun. Dar’s a groan o’
dispair when it’s hot an’a growl o’ dis
pleashur when it’s cold. If it rains
somebody raises a row, an’ if it’s dry
somebody else Ims a bone to pick wid do
powers above. Ebcry red-headed, oe
-hosH white man—ebcry broken-down old
two-cent darky, has got do idcah in his
head dat dt; Lawd am boun’ to send him
long jist de sort o’ wedder ho wants, no
matter 'bout de rest of de kentry. Do
ole man Rnbottom, liltin’ up dar by my
cabin, has got about fifteen cents worf o’
garden truck back of liis house, an’ when
it’s hot or cold or wot or dry, he am so
agitated dat ho forgits dat any twitter
soul in dis kentry lias sot out an onion
or planted a ’tater. Mo’ dan fifty y’ars
ago I come to do conclusion dat I mus’
put uji wid sich wedder as de Lawd gim
me no mutter whodtler it brought on
chilblains or rheumatics, an’ it was a
great burden off my mind. I take it jist
as it comes, keepin’ do ole umbrella in
good repair, an’ I doan’ know nullin’
'bout almanacks an’ I doan’ want to.”—-
Liim-Kiln Club Proceedings, Detroit
Free Press.
Dress-font Misery.
A man of considerable note in tho
journalistic and literary world was at a
crowded evening party in New York,
some years ago, standing in an up-stairs
corridor.
To him a lady, in a magnificent dress,
and spar’ dug with jewels, came with
great eagerness. Though she was un
known to him, ho naturally snpiwised
she had recognized liim by the light of
his genius, shining on his Hyperion
brow, or knew him by reputation. He
was, therefore, prepared to receive her
with smiles.
“Are you the waiter ? ” she demanded.
“No!” retorted he, with looks of
thunder. “ An;you the chambermaid?”
And he darted down stairs.
The private apartments of the inmates
of tho Hultan’s harem are unadorned
above the floor, and a rug, with a mat
tress and pillow, is all that is needed, and
all that exists ; for, though each fair one
has her own “dressing case and spice
box” combined, a common room for the
bath and toilet is the rnlo, as is also a
common wardrobe, kept under the charge
of “the mother” of tho seraglio. The
first wives and the favorites and mothers
of male children have sjieeiftl privileges
by prescriptive right, and these take the
form of personal attendants and the exer
cise of certain authority ; but the major
ity have no luxuries to make their life
enchanting, and few pleasures to relieve
its dullness.