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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1882)
THE l.AIVE. Tt»y nwt In th* l*n« by the iwrtur* sets. (v > .rf] k»mj--s5>'ws:1t » net* Ur4 *»u«) 81m i)< i ght it tnw cbmce, but iie bnew It w«* fate; (On a »»»y!i a tree-top the bright btr<l nan?,) «*I 1 BcTueihitig to tfili you,'' ho gently rairt. Aim Mi: -liiri itke a roan- mi and bent her bead, »l> loudly the(W bird aang. I “n«rt to the lilrd in the old oak tree!" i :.»ve jyy k'Ve t ’‘ th© wooing bird nanff.) *11© U boidor t'tftJi I, lot him apeak for rue.” ! ' * ' ' nd forever,’* the brave bird raiig.) “ I }y nr ills ma le, but,Boy, the I fear waning V. : i n ihe *ii > v blown Into year HeV j ff t the song he tnngl” ** jLw'cn, love, f o the bop eful Wrl! w (“ fvove, I love thee,” til© t load bird Man#,) ” **Only iu HprUift-Hmn hi La v • m 15 beard, Alii lie true,” the bold bird nang,) «r» l me, iny darlifiK I I, too, will 1 b? true, A.od uiy fme shell mai,*; rprir.g-tijne tlie whole ■ttr through 1 n out. bird t.iui,” thu tutiiS. CUPID’S SUNFLOWER. “ 1 shall wear a sunflower in my hair, I fell you.” will look.” *• ,f ,w queer you “ J shall look well.” *• 1 bet? your pardon, but it is im¬ possible." ibihle for to look well ?” “ 1 mpo me “ lleavous ! no. Impossible to look well with a groat horrid wood on your tea'.1. ” I am going out ol town. * Cannot you got back ‘1 am afraid not.” • Very well. 1 i doar, «t s uiiik f. M :S •on if in “ •t Otlu J>1 --0 m k difficult, \Vl( ... to go with m.” A you n ill givo I ! :n our liair il i your elf. Goo I by. i'tcd in ■, Ho young man * Pi I reel-door ly behind hit iff Without stood a single in j, ugh ^ Eva long th s nilr hr lari no sue 1 igu of repentance, T1 died little creature knew well why Phil was so angry. When j out of sight she left tho parlor lowly up t ins to her sister a Mrs. Kent was indulging ! ‘he, wbirii meant a wrapper, i a iui d seclusion with a novel and j I th- loruiog papers. ' Mr. ]> rlnnuM n’nUy eotet*e<i. Joii"/’nho > ■ •’ , ‘S*. I am alraiil lm Ji:h ft shocking t<‘’ ■ it » all h»r th ^ Ik* .1, nodoubt,” Eli: ! i\ , ,iivu‘ ini ! ly happened? “Child, wlmt has ex claim,■■! Mrs. K.-nt, droppi.ig imr Imioa •' r lil l’- “ i,,u G 11 iirroliul w;< I’hilip ! Oh, you loolwh Eva I ” " “ 1 ll 111 with you. It u quite to., I ion to I, on to diet do about my *•' •• 1 1 : udl o.-ver be willing to give tu to that extent." *• Abo p y< ut on i ? How could that ; be, my dear V ” “ Well, Helen—I suppose I must toll you. Of course, /don’t caro about sun flowers, lilies or dandelions sjMjciidly. but I oon ider that 1 have a right to like te siftete s terte -for reasons of his owu-whioh l like. Non that in going too far, as you must S'wteftWi'XSJ: dress at St, Valentine’s ball, and a sun - flower in mv hair. Of course, I was only joking, but ho took it up seriously, assured mo I should look lmnid and—jiiKt fancy !—declined to go with m on a transparent pret.uiHo that ho win going Sure out of town. Ho could not on the mirht of me with a U. jrrid sm, flower ill mv hair, Go so ! u jfcro - did lie tiuppOriO I waa going to a sun* flo wer in Foliruiu y ? " “Oh, lic\ He tlionght it was for Mr. Maynard. Poor Piiil, ho i i joulous. How tun you trill ■ so, Eva?" “Trifle, Helen? Tt is no trifle now, 1 promise you. If there is a sunflower to lie got before the 14t h, I will wear that sunflower in uiv hair at the ball." Mrs Kent began to hriyli, but, look ing at her sister’s lace, siie suddenly re framed, not without some off -rt, and said, mildly, “You will think hotter of it by that time, mv child.”. Poor Phil Egerton, walking swiftly down the street, sotting down each foot with a fiery and determined stamp, met a t dl, pale young nun who nodded aud then stopped to sp-ak, “l know you come from Mrs. K nil's,” he said, slow¬ ly aid softly. “ Do tell me if th > lad’es are at home, it is so chilling to stand !! d ring nnd meet a blank denial,” “Miss Wilmarth i at home--Mia. Kent is ill," Egerton imswt “ Ah, thanks—then I will go ou,” murmured the other, but Phil had hur¬ ried past. “ Maynard has gon« to read poetry ou sunflowers to her." 80 he thought and despaired, reflecting on his own lately less expressed animosity to that harm¬ v table. “AH girls are alike," reused the unhappy young man, “wild after w ..qt.ver; i.-.v.j the lie west, whether ,s In Areas or poetry or peo¬ ple. My Eva prefers this Maynard to me, and tries to become as absurd as ho is by tho grace of nature. Well, I can bear tlie parting if it comes to that: better that than the other alternative.” Aud he strode proudly on to his office, where he made life miserable to his subordinates all that day. ■ tier In r chin ns'-ho -mil "such •• Ncv v flelen as’ never will 1 give up on a sub jeet We that to the liest man that lives do’ A, have J a few T rights and aud 1 1 mean moan to to de r h d f.iem . ,-,H> ( outmued .absently, to tne end of my Kin net strings. He on doyam tlnuk fi cv are becoming tH-d this way ? Her eyes in the glass l.xike.1 expectun ly at her sister, aiul Lor K autiful head leaned wdenavs on the .pause of doubt. « Yes, becoming anything—but, enough/ Iknowvou Eva, can wear almost remember you are only five feet one.” “So much the better,” said Eva, oracularly, and tbe sisters departed and ou their mission. Eva was grave pre¬ occupied all the morning, but Mrs. Kent did not wonder, being well aware that her sister objected more strongly to looking like a fright than to almost any¬ thing else, and not herself seeing a way out of the dilemma. In vain she en¬ deavored to persuade Wilmarth her to change firm tier mind. Miss was as a rock, and went on buying the different articles for her proposed insane toilet in tho most business like manner. The expedition was long and fatiguing. the “ I have a good mind not to go to ball,” said Eva, wearily, when they re¬ turned. “ I am tired* I hate the whole thing.” And sunflower ?” said her sis¬ “ your ter, wickedly. Oh, sunflower ! I must “ yes, my go, to wear i t. It is a great pity that people cannot understand each other, though you cannot be always Helen, explaining your¬ self, you know*, because people choose to imagine things.” Phil Egerton went out of town cro: and thoughts sad, dispatched full of his Eva, business and returned while bis were before the, festival of the patron saint of lovers. It waa weak, but he could not f hdp it. Ho had never cared for any girl in his life. Eva Wilmarth r< presented the whole sex to him. He h himself capable and yet of giving believed up everr- her g lor her, ha ready io forsake him for tliat miner able liiynard. Tho nioro lie thought ol li the more impossible it seemed to le v« in such a desecration, Tima ;■ time he went over tha history of :ut few weeks, seeking to trace tho P •i n of lier alienation and to ascor tain wh I her by doing leaving anything undone that lie had not done or any thing that ho had done this terrible catastrophe might have been averted — but lie got no li ’lit. IIo paused a dread j n j w ,, ( ,] c ftll d j n flio long nights, unable to sleep, lie meditated what ho could make of hia futurd when Eva was lost to j,; ni irrevocably. There worn moments w i,,.„ } t0 feared that in losing lmr lie K i u »uld also lose himself, and sink into (1v jj excitomcuta to drown I lie peril that would scathe Ids life as by fire; but till o violar^xp^li - tion, as affording a uairn'.nl calm retreat where Iso mi;; lit dra" out a jui'l crualiofi ; . „ m to Yalentino’s', Iih rolinf II -.it lion)., tln-u b hire Bt and on the j afternoon of that ssly* day he was Biuin 7, „ (H ij K tl. looking acou? 3’d t , | a duriu? niin of letters X«‘nce that had I’S his , t . Ml dd.-uly rorogni/cd ’ ’ throb ho tore it ojx n. It was ft viuon lino, n sunflower of goodly proportions, with this m^lto : Th- , ,, 1 ,-tnit a .Ivor mi wn in love tiionun; ,M;, re.e.ret b -rt taratb to ««« Phil was thunderstruck and puzzled, J{„ put his head in his hands and thought it all over again, harder than *!' cletorn»..u-d *» * to go °: to it.ik Urn ball by ,n lho clmracterof a spectator. . “>*> i, “ i I"; v™- ««* h ” ™ imght bc mistaken? Blissful tbmmhM thong ! lf by any possibflity '- be f true to tho la a, V- ™“ “ qmot lnrkiug pla:o, watcliod 1 tho aniv ilU - ,^ 1 '|V tl icy wme, Mr. Kent T\nl. ns w.fc, Eva sorted by an old-baohe ho oul(l onfy ^J^f^SocreS Heo t f la t ‘ )p of ETa . 8 BinaU ( , head, lint she was not accompanied by the odious Maynard, that was sure. nil Hero was tlio odious Maynard arriving by himself, with a serene air and a lily on his coat, Egerton oouhl have wept iu tho sense of relief. Still ho waited; ho had gone through too equilib- many nhasoa of suffering to regain his num ptl'sed ft qnfet Hour in his corner before summoning advanced, courage to approach Eva. At last he nkillfuily concealing so—under his trepidation— mask of at least lie thought a indiffereuc Sho waa surrounded by admirers, and had never looked more lovely to poor Phil’s eyes. He i-;uv that her dress waa of some dusky rich sub •tane.i, and that the arrangement of her fuiir \\u ; unlike other people’s hair, which gave her, ho thought, a distiu guiahed aud peon liar grace. In realitv, lier gown van otivo-groen >v:vet, ric’li viuto law at tho neck ana sleeves the only relief to its somlier color. Her red gold hair us-, dross, veritable .! high, and ou The top of her head a sunflower an parently blown magnificence reposed on like its edge in full¬ a star, or rather a sun. How tho thing was fastened on¬ there ly she and her hairdresser bright knew, but it was among the rings aud curls that shone the brighter front con¬ trast, with its dingy yellow and brown. Miss Wilmarth Was small and dainty in figure, she had large blue eves and a charming complexion, her childish lilies and roses were as well set off by her grave dress as her curls aiul daintiness by the cumbrous head ornament, she waa a fairy,a dry ad, a beautiful masquer ; ading child. It was highly probable that sunflowers in tho hair would be ; dcriffitrentho Egerton . made rest.ofrihe his .... bow season. and received a r .; : T ” from her manner nothing h** 1 h Rpeuod. Egerton gasped and ne cepted the situation. j “ 1 foun ’ 1 1 could come back,” lie said hvpocriUeallv> „ !Uldo( course late I did finding my l H x-t, though I am rather m mv V - U y to voiu” It struck him that he was on dangerous ground here, and he hastened off it. “ How beautifully fellow you Lud Kx>k , dearest,” the poor rapturously, perfectly!" “I never saw you dressed so Era’s mouth quivered, anil ctinceal the long 1 ashes fell over her eyes to their laughter. “lam pleased that you like my dress, for it is a fancy of my own.” “I am sure no one else coiild design anything so effective,” answered the en¬ amored Phil. / “ But remember you did ndt think it would he pretty when I spoke; of wear¬ ing olive-green and a sunflower.” “That was—some dime ago, And I was a fool to suppose that. I knew anything about a woman’q dress. Darling Eva, did you send nle a val¬ entine ?” “Yes, Phil,” said Eva, “ I did.” emerged Out of this turmoil there peace for E;rerton. He need no longer yearn for the mines or the tx/Ie. He thought of himself as a vanrtahof ftttjfe the de< i>..st d.ve wh ;; he looked licau- 1 if n! creature wearing her sunflower with the serene, unconscious grace of a child Princess, What was he then to^dictate in such ineffable matters ? Did he know anything beyond cropped hair and I a stovepipe hat ? Mrs. Kent radiant. _ “How came up fbr sensible of you to come back in tijne the ball 1” said she. “ How maity val entines have you bad this yea* ? And they all laughed. Rochester. No namo in Britain, however, Rocll wumora i ten sting than that ■ f ao&any ( .iter, wliidi admirably shows ns how other ! Ionian names have acquired a de lu-ivoly English foun, or have liecr.kui*- fson to..' si ; >r memorials of the I.nglis] ,VT i a i,„ town A wiM knaJ» as - n 1 ’ii "ih.'i 1 j ilrI ‘‘la _ ,.,,i ' \ ' distinctly MU us 4at Keif h r le bon of the West -lee, was consecrated “in the citvb ■ , ru . V.hivh the English ciU 1. ■ li >m .me of it, f ,rmer masUirs, j........ al’out tt.. it,‘we f i> jf fj,i 9 V lie r,. rc uli two Knew should to! 1 4tet I " v dcreribe.l the town ai be lii IH ' Che t r frmn °to an contrfdfct English c< m o uc ror Satemcni HroL and 5 th at Ser ■ ar absurd an eariy Fortu uaH^howiver was ,.... .umi'lnous or hnS (B ,^f w ilnff V, that Mini that he was a pure creation of Breda’s re,., MU Die of vmological guesswork. Ufred clearly knew b( . r, for 1 omi Emb, : Ss latSi d6 The t vM iSft^ mei t of a map of Roman 2| itain pre kro^n as the' - ‘ ^ down Rochester as itotibis. Etonco.it is pretty errtain that it mu.st have had two dit riiativo names, of whicli <ho other '-ns Hurobrivffl. Itotibis v.ould ea.-ily P as « (■>» the regular that again analogies) Hfofl mto Rotifi coast ar, and into cenrier aud Rochester; jn-l as Rlnitnpia? and iUtuj-.M paM-,-1 into Rduf bnrh, »»finally into Richboro;:; >•. Moreover, >“ a ebanu-b r of King helbert, of Kent, older a go -d deal than Rmda’s time, we find the town <h scribed under t j 10 , n i X ed form of Hrofl-brevi. After such a certain instance of phiological in blundering ” ns this, I for ono am not ( . lill( , (1 to !aoe gr ,. a t faith in statements as that made by the which English attributes Chronicle about Chichester, it to the mythical Mouth Saxon King Ciss i. Whatever Chmneeastor may mean, it seems to me much more likely that it represents another case of double narn ing; for though the Roman town ,u,s commonly known as lleguiun, clearly a mere administrative form, derived from the tribal namo of the Regui. Considering that the same veracious Chronicle derives Portsmouth, the Roman Portus, from an imaginary Teutonic invader, Port, and commits it self to other wild statements of the same sort, I don’t think wo need greatly hesitate about rejecting conjectural its authority portions.— in these earlier and The Cornhi/l At n/ctzinc. Bather Curious law In England, A British Member of Parliament, Mr. Mucfarlane, lias been comparing soma of Hie sentences recently inflicted upon offenders of various grades, and the ha has reached the conclusion that, in eyes of Bri i di law, it is a much lighter of¬ fense to kick a woman to death than to pick her pocket. A man who kicked his wife to death was sentenced to six weeks’ hard labor, and picked in the month following a man who lmd a woman’s pocket of nine shil.iu- s was sentenced to penal servitude for ten years. Nor are these exceptional cases. The penalty in a case of knockng down a wife and kiek iug j ier savagely in tho face was three mou ths’ hard labor ; for knocking down an d kicking a woman, a flue of £4; for t .. vil)R to kill a wife with a razor, being $ socondoffeps©, twelve mouths. Against these are sat su ‘h sentences as for steal* !lg 0c>a i 8 to the value of two shillings, eight months hard labor; t for stealing a watch, five years penal servitude. It would be interesting to inquire how much of this scandalous leniency to brutes is duo to tho ancient tradition that makes a man’s wife his slave. But it does not appear necessary that the woman attacked should be the man's w ife in order to give him practical im p munity. In a easo of violent assault j upon a woman in the street, the ruffian « as fined forty shillings, and in another 1 where threo ill-treated and case men killed a woman they were imprisoned, ono for sixteen months and the others for six months, while a man who stole a knife and some keys got five years. All this seems to show that the equal pro teetiou of English law is not meant to ' extend to women.— Philadelphia Times - all the real graces of love and beauty, of a quiet life, are denied us.” Life is some want feverish, going on under the pressure of steam and with the speed oi eleetnmty-bnt it is not the dismal thing Tiatt pamts it to be. The difference be tween now aud then is this: Then they st.xxl by and looked at the flowers, and simpered over them; now we pluck the rotes of content as we run. and enjoy I them as keenly as those who, in times past, leisurely lingered over them. Ancient Arts. interesting relics of antiquity are not permitted to cumber it. One of the last romainiuff fragments of tlie old Roman wall h;ia been removed. Though ex posed to the wear and tear of elements for considerably more than a thousand years, the mortar was found to be so tough and strong that the workmen were actually compelled to cut out the stone as if they had been in the original quarry. Mortar makers and stone masous nowadays might take lessons x„ nrorn m thr-ir tnc-ir remote remote nredecessors predecessors, whose who* ideas of durability seem to have been quite different from those prevailing at present. It is said that the stones of the I’, ramids—compared with which ^Le T onrlnn S w» moX 1 i* - thin" fhTcke^ihan of yesterday in no a sheet of paper the’lapse and vet remain so firmly fixed after of thirty or forty centuries that the thhmest knife-blade cannot aixi' i>e inserted between them. These nt Egyptians in’that then, could learn nothing from ns line of deal business; from rni^ht learn a vast tbem< Even the ruins of their buildings ma } ce modern architects ashamed. What must those buildings have b en in the pride of their youth and strength ? The stateliest stmernr ft of London,Pans and New -«• York are mere card-houses in com P“ riso i with the tempi;a a d palaces Nile, Will ;-h once lined th banks of the Abraham aud to-es _ saw .. - grander than spcci mens of crchitcc dure in Egypt can be seen in cur own time anywhere Rothachilds on the face of the earth. The all their money, cannot lmy such mechanical skill as their ancestors in tian bondage witnessedl,and profc ft bljt a ■ 1 -ten. ii tue art o. budding is not hnt, it ht at lean ■: '!iy rtegeu - - l v „ l concerned. ' ,r "" r ,' ;1 Yet y? m " the ^ i-W l-/-} of these « facts, / whicn eveiy suaool ' «>' 1 ‘ supposed te know, a accompanied gentleman whose profession is usually of learnifig ’’b ti reasonable amount rc said in a public address m cur city that no valuahJe inventions ever b 'en given to the world outside of 0 istianitv. What could lie have been i ’ ' ■ h't •> CVrlainly nct of what ho was saying. Inc arch, for instance, was invennd nobody knows when a bv whom; but, at the rexf lowest cal is tian mu"" The immense masses of ^ ^Teif idacesTy kuirvv Who invented it. We cannot even ge out aucli *>cncs as can no seen to-day m abandoned l^gyptian quartieo. v 10 juvenhul tne art of quarrying. saiad lens, such as might have been used a niJo telescope, has been fiuni \ ami ig the jniblus.i of Nintveli. \lioi,.vtu. , Jbe bricks o winch Mneveb iU1 ^ Rabjlon were built are lirnair presor vi-tion to-day and most of our know - ^S 1 ’of t.ie Chaldeans and their ins . i tlon clay * s tablets. is derived \> ho irom invented inscriptions^ ^ art on or bnck-making, and the stampi et tew and figures m clay •- • ” KS had the art ot manipulating -e m such supreme perfection tha.. the best ot “ lir sculpture is but “ miserable mnta not Christians, - .. lra ‘ l ee Pompeian J' 6 . re frescoes . " Cle are mosaics are i ar more beautilm as J;® 11 more lasting, than ours. Yet A' "a not done by C.ir.stians. s ■ .'P s compass, «'d that and gunpowder other imp and t e , /printing-press >nyentums, including known the geim in o C 1 le a were *long belore Europe obtained tn m. t the Chinese were not ana aie not u. ins bans. Ihere is too much 01 tins zea without knowledge. It does no good and indirectJy, not^ a little n«irm. j t justice be be done, even to the ancient heathen, though the heave s a . & 1 - Eouis EcpuoUean. Marriages. A man should many by all means; yet I am convinced tlie greater part ol marriages are unhappy, and this is not an opinion that I give as coming from myself; it is that of a very excellent, agreeable and sensible lady, who mar ned the man of her choice, and lias not encountered ostensibly any nary misfortune, as loss of health, riches, children, servedly, etc. She told me this unre and I never had any reason to doubt her sincerity. For ail this. I am convinced a man can not be truly happy without a wife. It is a strange state of things we live in. A tendency "sexes so as that of the union of the ought to lead only to the most harmonious re suits; yet the reverse is the fact. is certainly something radically the wrong in the constitution of society ; times are out of joint. It is strange, too, what little real liberty of choice is exercised py t) 10 gg even who marry according to w j la | j s thought their own inclinations. Xhe deceptions which the two sexes play ili 0 £ each other bring as mauv sorted couples into the bonds of Hymen as ever could be done by the arbitrary pairings of a legal match-maker. Many ft man thinks he marries by choice who only marries by accident; in this respect men have less the advantage of women than is generally supposed .—Lord Byron. ------------- Here are a few excellent specimens of Gallic Z. wisdom: i 'BBR When a light-haired _ man’s locks begin to turn gray” ------ ’ he ~ is getting black on he’s to fifty, c get- “~ When tliev begin to turn ting on to sixty. whom An ambitious man you can serve will often aid you to rise, but not Kisses by people who no longer love each other are merely collated yawns. Iu love women go to the length of f 0 Hv, and men to the extreme of silli ne ^.’ mother Beware, oh, beware, of the of a man that despises women. Wounds of the heart are the only ones that “ are healed bv opening. of bitter the reputation and invitations a tongue gets vou enemies * i A French from* n's Career of Crime. twenty-eight persons with poison, be hides making several unsuccessful at tempts. In non 6 Or iiox murders was cause alleged or discovered, though un doubtcdlv the pleasure derived irom the perpetration Her of victims crime was her the chief factor, were masters and mistresses, her fei.uw servants, her friends, and several nuns, for whom m their last moments sue displayed the utmost tenderness and care 1 he plea of monomania waa set up in her defense, but no evidence was brought forward by her , . counsel, , save „„ v „ the tne armarent, apparent want want of ol motive for her crimes. It was shown however, that she had begun her career of crime when only seventeen years old, by atteinuting she* had” to wlile poison her confessor ; that perpetrating her wholesale murders, affected the greatest piety, ami was for a time an inmate of a convent; that she had committed-over thirty thefts; that she hacl maliciously cut and burned various articles, of eloth ing placed in her charge ; that when asked why she stole things that were of no use to her, she had replied, “I always st il when lam angry; tuat sue was eunjeci to alternate periods of groat mental depression, and excessive and unreasonaoie gai. ty ; that site was at fccicd with pains m the head and vertigo; that when she wm angry sue vomited blood; and that, wni e 1:1 pusoa await ing eke was constantly laugiung a»<i joking about induE-rent subjects, biio was found guiliy,_ and vu mug asked it she had anything to say why sentence of death should not _ be passed, made p.u answer so much like one given ^e^^r^ntiy f>* ■ - - —j b^anoih^CKmmal J h, that^ , , , fc 1 ,; V V-• ’ J ri' ^Sul^^StLier <u ‘v-' die ^ innocoiit th-.-i b e^o. • .ou have] ^ i d d me ■ d i J • - — ‘ \ r aceusm a ^^^^ wo,....a as -i-* ^irs^WoSd i.sj_,„.jra , , A accomplice, whose name was not even mentioned during the tna , and who paimytic v.uo.^ ,i.e h. a ^onofS been o tie mwt exemplary character ^ most mE _ j^°p ^erer 0 ™4 5 M-i-icl t £ u-etTs lwy tVrturcr and The ■,'jT,. plea of sentence of death was commuted to im siStloiL stole ihonaturo.of tt’o r^tio^ol ^ - ' _!_ to cvxme ' * Ensssa as a luilitary Poyrer. Railroads lead from subject but hostile Poland to Mosoow and St. Petersburg, 'piiese cities, therefore, aro not more in acceg£ ible than several other European capi{a!s Moreovcr> the Crimean war d tllat Russia can be exhausted aud 0Q het frontier< The Russian Government is based on ^ OICe ^ The theory is simple; essential, but it ren ^ er3 a ] ar g 0 standing army ^Y'jthout tliis coercive element the gov ernment could not exist a dav. Where ^ congent of tlie ^irrelevant, governed is regarded ^ gomet j 1 j.,g wh a power {u[ BU p st ;. uto j s required. Under such conditions an empire that includes a par {; 0 f the habitable globe, peo ^ ,,i ed by nearly 90,000,000 of inhabitants, differeilt ractS) speaking suoeesfully many i an f g liagea fjy ^n cau only be forek pa tro ed immense miliary As patrol must be kept up in time of wal . even more rigorously than in time of pea(x ^ i 8 always difficult for the gov ernm ent to bring a large force into the fle j d without weakening, to a dangerous ex t en t, the foundations upon which the erupiro Iu 1812 reBta- Napoleon invaded Russia with a f orce 0 f 450*000 men; but the eggre gate of the Russian strength was some w lrat less than 200,000. The govern meut coped with the difficulties of the situation with unaccustomed energy in the late war with Turkey. The avowed intention was to make the contest short, sharp and decisive. In November, 1870, the Russian army on the Danube was composed of 180,000 men. Another army of 59,000 men marched against Kars, in Asiatic Turkey. In the follow ing April the principal army had been swelled in numbers to 246,000 men, in eluding 40,000 Servian and Roumanian auxiliaries, and 6,000 of tho Bulgarian also militia. The army in Asia had been increased to 79,000. Renewed and con tinual efforts were made to augment the number of the troops ; but the greatest number brought into the field at any one j time was 544,000, including both armies j of attack, shores with of 73,411 the Black men Sea. scattered along the j This seems to be rather an impotent I result when we consider that in Febru j ! population, ary, 1871, Prussia, invaded with Franco so much with smaller force a i 1.350.000 men. I... ...... - - j T B > n , . I * . * ; Fringes of pines displayed themselves i in the immediate neighborhood, each one i distinct and detached from the oilier; ! but beyond, and far away as the eye i could follow, the black mountains aceu mulcted Stretches 111 dense^dark of velvety masses fields and out- and | lines. slopes here and there relieved the gloom, White roads twisted suake-like, about the vast scene. To the right stretched great uninteresting plains, the flowing ! Rhine, a conspicuous object, but here j not more romantic than ____91___ the tamest 1 rivers. ____ in the distance _____ W.. rose the long 0 ! chain of the Yosges Mountains, with I their soft, wavy, graceful undulations, j though interesting. too far off Small to be streams very conspicuous their or ran 11S the clouds died out in space. One tree, one stream, one field, one hill, may resemble another, but a thousand time's multiplied, and a thousand times seen, the last look is as fresh and beautiful to the mind, as invigorating to the spirit as the first. The only sad spot was the ruin itself, which spoke so loudly of an gfzmg age and generation when other as,'in eves were upon three scenes, to other eves lofg again will gaze, when these tS " days hare passed tato history. USEFUL HIUTS. sr» wmh raisins that MM . sweet dishes. It will make the pud re ding heavy. Japanese napkins folded in tlie sli&po of fans and put in glasses at each end of the top shelf on the sideboard, are light and ornamental. There is a greenness in onions and p 0 { a foes that renders them hard, to di g es t_ For health’s sake put them in • warm water for an hour before cooking, To diK Restore wfthwater Color—S ifaSed oiriteof ammn ^ a u wa-er, applied wth with a a sponge or flannel ,, to discolored spots on carpe J t or S garments auaua, will of olttn ten res- res JV1 ' Celebt vinegar . is made , by soaking °ne ounce ot celery seed m half a pint of vinegar (white wine or go^ cider vin igax). I his is muen used to flavor soups and gravies. To Clean Marble.—A paste made of whiting and benzine will dean marble, and one made of chloride of soda, spread and left to dry (in the sun, if possible), will remove the spots, To Make a Bug.—F or a rug use a piece of small-figured Brussels carpet, Ground this place three rows of thick cloth, cut in scallops three and a half inches deep and two and a half wide. Make the first and third rows of black cloth, worked on the edge of each seaf j 0 p m buttonhole stitch with scarlet Germantown yarn. Make the second y-j-v of drab cloth worked with blue, p u t a with strip of drab worked in leather stitch blue. Cover the seam where the first row is sowed on. The whole is then sewed on another piece of carpet* itlg to keep it in place on the floor, Housekeepers fond of dainty napery cannot find anything more pleasing then of tine liiun, fringed on the edg0 and hem-stitched within, dossrib ing a central square. The corners of tlus ^m-stitching trouble hereby do not intorecct, and ^ is saved to the The iu " is divided needlewomatlj side diamonds, with brownish yellow If silk in outline stitch, and inside the diamonds are central rings with ray 3 and four-leaved clovers also in outliie stitch. Other doyleys conventional have bunches of cherries, flowers and de si S ns > bat * ueso aii. aone m brown tints,^scarcely ^ci5^a vaneu Ja^se*Stto?S with other colors, 0 ^ >,lU0S * ^ A Paste That Will Keep.—'W heat flour, one ounce; powdered alum, one half drachm; water suflicient, or eight ounces; oii of cloves, or v.intergreen, three or four with drops. Rub ihe flour aad the alum water to the consistence of milk; place this over a moderate fire and stir constantly uiiiil the paste drops from the wooden paddle in jelly-like flakes and lias the appearance of starch, While the mass is still hot, add the es sential oil and pour the paste into an earthenware pot or open jar. In the course of about an hour a crust forms on the top ; pour gently on this an inch of water, more or less. When some paste is wanted, decant the water, take out the quantity needed and put some water again on the remainder, repeating the operation each time. Paste may be kept in this way for months, and will never be troubled with flies, tondncting r . .. ,, llote.s t , m - t^pe. TifTTme Hotels in Europe are conducted^ on the theory that the guest i 3 a private personage to be entertained in a private manner. He is not required the to number register hi s name —he goes only frequently by 0 f his room, and most no one but the waiter-not even the landlord, w ifl have anything to say or do with him. Meals may be sent to the guest’s bed-room, or he may take them in the dining-room; in many hotels, also, in the “coffee room,” the “smoking room,” in the the “commercial room,” and even parlor, .Some hotels, hut not all, have a table d'h te. Britain,, t ’ la many hotels in Great rather good ones, too, as far as furnish i n gs go, nothing but cold cuts are to he had—except at breakfast or at the late dinner, cold ham, roast beef, corn beef 0 r chicken, bread and beer, form tho ordinary lunch. Some hotels in London furnish no vegetables. At such the bill of fare is coffee, tea, ham and eggs, mnt fcou chops, roast beef, soles or salmrif an d bread. Even with this indifferent hill of fare they are often crowded and at times decline to receive guests unless rooms have previously been bespoken, the j Most usually—invariably middle class-women so in j hotels of the are 1 the housekeepers; resign guests to ; rooms, keep the accounts and manage j the internal arrangements. Payment is ! exacted only for what the guest has ordered. He will be charged for the j room, but is under no obligation to take 1 meals in the bouse. A cup of coffee and i a biscuit will be as cheerfully furnished j as the most elaborate meal, j The waiter is the principal executive : officer. He invariably wears a suit of black broadcloth, claw-hammer coat, ] white necktie, bread expanse of shirt j bosom and sometimes a white vest, j ! “ What first is your coming number, in contact please?” with Ire you, will say on j j and will quietly book against that mim- the her the price of dishes ordered for j meal as well as the lodging. Previous • t 0 departing you will ask him to render ! you an account, or at any rate he is the ; official who will present the bill to you, ! receive the payment and make tha ______ ___ ____ Free change .—Edinburg Cor. Detroit ! Press. : 83 a l 1,°^) r m tit L-u™ ^in3 • , ..wapo Bh-pfchml ant l-T , rariL nms themselves at full length on the sofa and ma f.® m tones of the deepest affection. T oT”? '[ ldo ' ! ' xyas . however. &oon f“ i r lged to cut the > oke i sLort > f or T ot her suitors, , afKr ff - - of annexing a pair can dlestie^s introduced a bunch of long fingeremto her pocket and abstracted
