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Tie CraifMle Democrat.
CRA W FORI * VILLE - - (i BORG IA.
GENEKAE NEWS.
A new directory puts the population
«f Little Rock at 23,7fi3.
Sassafras root is on a boom in Win
ft ton, Miss., where a mill has been star
ted to grind it.
Wir.KFS county, Oa , voted on the
stock law Monday, and gave a majority
of seventy for “no fence,”
In the southern part of Louisiana
many plantations will yield this year one
and a half hogsheads of sugar j>er acre.
The Pensacola, Fla., navy yard has
Iieen virtually closed, Only enough
employes left to look after the property.
Fiftv-two students are registered at
the colored Nations! School at the Lin
coin Academy, at Tallahassee.
Con Killebrew, of Tennessee, has
mine to Mexico 1'woith to work the Polk mines,
*3,000,000.
It is claimed in Atlanta that Atlanta
people Sr-'*" own at least twenty silver mines
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The Lady Easley mining and menu
faeturim/ K ........... liave tmrehused 75.
000 acres of orojand in 1-ran .. kl ,, in, Colbert ,, ,, .
and Marion counties, Ala.
It will require four cars to bring the
TJHMimnu, Escambia county loiuuy am., Ala big ig free uw. to w> the
Louisville Exposition. It is 117 feet
long, Ind will 1 m*. used as a flag pole in
front of the exposition building.
Bins for building the new Navy Hos
pita) at Hot Springs, Ark., are rapidly
coming in. I here is an appropnation of
$100,000 for this purpose. Work is to
begin by the 20th of August.
„ ,u..l A„ ;
ties, Ala., a worm 1 eseml>ling tlie cotton
worm has made its appearance. Several
bead of mules have been killed recently (
, \JL , , 4 nn
- *x» cui...
? Texas, “ST the other nT’l;r day, for the New V Mex
i0 ° La, ‘; 1 11,1,1 CatUe C ' 0mi ’ aUy > “ HoBton
organized in Washington,
D.C., lately has purehasial six thousand
uireH nf hmil in i> ( ,it * Fin iind
: -
will raise oranges, limes, lemons and ,
other tropical fruits.
The total number of failures in South
Carolina the vast six months is forty
eight, with liabilities amounting to $(>57,
766. The number of failures for the
corresjKwnding period of 1KN2 wausixty
eii4>!. and the Up.!' illt - Sled- +0
$<120,617.
Thk Board of Health have issued a
procluinmntion that all vessels from in¬
fected ports arriving ut Pensacola with
yellow fever ou board shall remain at the
quarouteen station until frost. The re¬
gret is genera] that Ship Island station
for infected vessels has been closed.
At the United States Laiul Office at
Gainesville, Flu., during the month
ending Jund 30. 134 homestead entries
were mode, embracing 17,704.08 acres.
Forty-six final proofs were made, con¬
taining 4,077.00 acres. Tlio total re¬
ceipts of the office for the month were
♦76,018.27.
Thu Peters place at Enterprise, Flo.,
was sold recently, under foreclosure of
mortgage for $12,000, bought by Fred¬
erick de Barv. Tlie mortgagor had be¬
fore refused $10,(XX) for it. It is said
laird Peters spent too much time and
money in Jacksonville to make iui orange
grove successful
A oirctlar giving an exhibit of the
trade in crude and manufactured phos¬
phates in South Carolina allows the
shipments of fertilizers to have 1 increased
from 22,589 iu 1S7J to 130,000 tons in
1883. The shipments of crude phos¬
phates rose from 132,020 tens in 1870 to
$55,333 tons in 1883. Much of it goes
abroad.
T. G. Brsn.’of Mobile, bus bought the
plantation of W. F. Higgins, one mile
from Oxford, Ala., for $15,000 cash, and
will remove his fine herd of Jersey cattle
to it. He has one of the finest herds in
the South and has bought p some of the
finest iiual 111 North Alabama. It is mi
derstoixl that he will improve the place
for a summer resort.
Sau.u. s; ,> I aumkk. ot v hosse. - lex., r about , ,
ten years old, mi adopted daughter ot M.
L. Jackson, while climlvir.g a. the d. or
of the crib, mvideu tally stuck a mvdb
which was sticking in the 1., m of her
dn-es against the door, running the nee¬
dle about an meli :uid a quarter into her
bmist. striking the base of the heart.
Medical attention was procured immoui
atelv, but she dual 111 about an hour
after the accident
Tuk Aikansos sheriffs have Ix-ea di¬
formed by imv, lierrv that the su|>*fKvid
efforts and those of law abiding citizens
of there respective counties. The Gov
ernorseee no necessity for calling out
tlie malitia to arn'st outlaws at a heavv
V. U„ Sl*u>, wh« a., .hen*
have authority to summon os many
— —W*
ces into custody.
Florida Times- Union: One of the
best things that has been done by the
Georgia Railroad Commission is the re¬
cent adoption of an order requiring the
railroads of that State to furnish means
for protecting merchandise offered for
shipment from damage by the weather.
A Northern or Western railroad which
failed to do this would be considered
behind the times, but in the South it is
common to leave cotton, for instance,
exposed to rain and dust while awaiting
shipment, of course greatly to its injury.
By such regulations as this, the commis¬
sion is justifying its existence.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
In an elaborate review of the pros¬
pects of the cotton crop, the New York
Financial Chronicle puts the total acreage
this year at 17,449,000 acres, against 10,-
5!M),000 wires last year—an increase of
5.18 per cent. Texas comes first with
3,102,000 acres, and Georgia comes next
2,«77,OfKL As to maturity, the
plant is l>a< kwan , l,lt '
hitH ><ien rapl<1,
The postottioe department has issued
a circular notifying postmasters of the
>-»-« reduction in rates which goes
into effect on the first of October. The
object of the department is to have the
<’ ,! “t stamps will be ready for delivery on
the fifteenth of September.
T Ini. Cremation r )l Society, q -.i. of (■ I piji.pi hfladel
phift, ib gradually growing, anil now has
a membership of over forty. The offi
cers say .i that the prejudice i i against f ere
mataon is daily growing less bitter, and
express the hope that with time and
patience they may at length succeed in
establishing a crematory in Philadelphia.
„ The directors ... of , the ,, Suez Canal _ , Com- _
pony unanimously approved the agree
niont relating to a second canal arrived
at between DeLesseps and the English
,„u gro-in
unfiopularity in England.
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The South American War.
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would have been drawn much r" nearer. 58
^”3^ thile P ^^exSglLe^^ doefle InS
trooim with sllucs and shotguns guns’nnd to the
witherinK tire iff Gatling re
, j r He has allowed his men
to commit atrocities on wounded Chil
cans which have led to reprisals and to
whole villages being burned down and
If,,,.? • JUs- j» < z
months the vXys leading^ the to
terior C S Th. y v strewed the r uul Sueant with tor
a w a e d fa see he
Kdtemwh down n, who wuRSrR were going to ariacktlmm
teXairbvthcsetere lowto l >SX notTn
^he^aLe Mnnleo torSdST w?iS* wXtwS They
Ke dete^e o?San Juali tlian’chileans wS
killed kultu more mon Peruvians l uuviaus tnai uin
1 he Young v Men. M
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In a letter from Mississippi, . M. Quad
savs-—“I want to siieak a word for the
yi'ung men of Grenada, they are enter
»l.< ...I M d
There are no idlers among them. They
run neither to drink nor cards nor
horses. They have accepted the situa
non and taken the only way to better it.
And what is true of that town is true of
nil towns in the State. I did not see
one ease of intoxication among the
vomig men of Mississippi find m a two weeks’ of
tour. It was raro to one out -em
ploy men t. It was an exception to find
one ...dissatisfied. On the contrary, it is
the young man who takes the most
hopeful view, who bothers the least with
polities, and who is the most ready to
pull off his coat and give the wagon a
lift out of the rut."
—
The Birch.
A Judge in St. Louis has discharged Was
a master of a public school who
prosecuted for whipping a boy after
minor punishment had been of no avail,
Tic Court found tint, fa* order to pro
M-rve discipline, necessity, the teoelier must deter
mine the Ills the nature, the ext, t
of punishment. acts, like those of n
n.. : <iireut licitig subject to judicial review.
Ihe Judge . , also said: , .... “hour years •
ox
p t , r i cnce in q> th.. tin' «.lministration administration of of crirn- 01
mal law ......... convinces me ..........,...... that boys who
ten-eme criminals are boys who don’t get
whipped n : an d when it is remember, d
thj|t a , p <>TlVntjlg ,, o{ the bolder
or ; mM known to the tew is committed
bv vouths ranging in age from 14 to 20
vc.us. the question arises Is it better
" blp first ° r atUwarJ ’
The Pope's Circular.
The full text of the Pope’s anti-Parnell
,.j lv u!ar as sent from Rome to Ireland is
given. His Holiness directly condemns
the Parnell testimonial fund now Ik mg
wised m Ireland and the United States,
aud ^ecJesiastic sAfs it should cannot promote 1 h> Unrated iu His that rioli- any
^ or t0 ^ n'lsjUion, and warns the
clergy of Uieir duty to curb the excited
feelings of the multitude. The news
'rom Ireland leads to the lvlief that this
^bollv withdrawn T-Ota.bM.lH- from the jxiliuool
$ OIt OK A CD.
He is gone to the mountain
Be is lost to the forest,
Like a summer-dried fo until®,
When our need is the sorest.
The fount re-appesring
From the rain-drops shall borrow (
Bat to us comes no cbeci ing,
To Duncan no morrow !
He hand of the reaper
Takes the that baarjr, *
ears are
But the voice of the weeper
Wails manhood in glory.
The autumn winds rushing,
Waft the leaves that are seared,
Bnt our flower was in flushing,
When blighting was nearer!.
fleet foot on the correi,
Sage counsel in cumber,
Bed hand in the foray,
How Hound is thy dumber?
Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou are gone, and forever.
Walteb Scott.
Ralph Terrill’s Courtship.
In front a moonlit, dimpling sea; on
either hand a stretch of level beach,
ghostly and dim; behind the mighty
black-browned cliffs with here and
toward the Bea beneath ; and
sea and cliff a pair of lovers.
T^t do> Nel]> H e’ll never con
sent! You remember he told me last
spring that he did not care for money,
but that the man who won bis daughter
JUUB ^ have performed some valorous deed
to prove his worthiness of the precious
trust. It’s a queer notion, pet. Why,
mv heloved it is ^ an insult to talk of
1 you, but to win
y on j ne ver hope, ’ except by the power
of that love!”
The handsome fellow bent his face
toward the girl f at his side and a suspi
ciou „ BOUnd c aucwl out across the glim'-.
mP ring waves. Ralph dear, perhaps father
“ But,
’ v > 11 —”
^ „ „ , .
,
close to him. “ I know what you would
1 e may change. But it’s im
possible. Darling, we must either wait,
wait indefinitely, or else—
'*& Ihe MSS’ girl staueu.
thatKhi P never U do that! ' Wlmt! Z
for ever, but this I cannot do?”
The young man soothed bis com
panion with low words and tender, and
plead his love and longing as a reason
for the proposal, but when the moon,
whose blushing face had been hidden
behind a great rift of cloud, peeped forth
~ - “*
By chance the young people had met,
«id meeting had'loved ^ho ; but how hope
lessly those only knew had learned
the foibles of old Jeremy, when over his
"ine his tongue was loosened. As Ter
rill had said, he cared little for money
with a son-iu-law; but for some unknown
reason he had fixed upon a hero for his
daughter’s husband. To win Nellie
Trevillion a man must first prove him
se)f fl kni ht of » ye olden time;” and
the chances of attaining such fame were
fl , w en ough in the nineteenth century.
NTovAriWU'SK Torriil 1-111 the edict - ail j ill
though , lerriu ha nau, i bv oy his ms genuemaniy centlemanlv
i^^ases" gain'ial the esteem "of his^le
• fm xipllie
.. , . . ., • (i " . e' .
T^^o'uwas f n ,
b ° '' a ® that ' toe y yoiuig K people ?
ml 8 ht > ^> a ollly , *°' e n n “ uope> Lmt ,
>
tiiov l.nd ‘ in ‘Nellio’c \
, t ,. i
* ( nv..,.Mlinn—t, ail*
. nim . Uiey 00 p,n„ aa i their trrmlflpq uoui its.
This sage old party listened and advised,
but as yet no result had been reached
an t the future remained dim enough,
were it not for the light of glowing trust
and love. They would watch and wait
p . 1 . movninir “Zis on the coast- and as
kLc.1 waves^wako of tt,e happy sun
Sim all the fa^e littte bnri.t
2 the S of tlm smooth ^een beach two
fn!m ^ott^^nd were toinTowarf to cmcree
the
Tt was Jeremy ^ound and Dwight Trevillion
the brothers for a day’s fishiim
.J ^evente 7 \.Wilig
( V1 ami were breczc-^loue ge tlv
a u -Mon kUw the lteht laud
f° Biesc 4 gentlemen ere thorough ,
r ^
sportsmen, am desired no third party in
their tlu >• taps. inharked, This Dwight monnng^owever Trevilhon had ere
‘
‘ xpi cased a. half ho[>e that some man
m, S ht 1m> stlrn "f; wuose services they
' ifid engage “to attend to the boat
they tish«nl
But hm brother langlW him to score
,„Sing tenonTnns with to-Ts-‘
when xre
ivent crabbing ? ” replied the
“Oh, no reason,” father,
hesitatingly, “ only I thought if we
wonted to go far from our boat it would
he hotter."
“Well j’ we can toss her anchor over.”
bed oremv , >. :Uld she'll wait for us.
kt ns have ft mau .”
j llst ^ the chimes of the far away
viflage clock rnng across the smooth water
>ma.l sanobank ^rcephble at low fade,
aud Hie Trevrlhon brothers embarked.
• Now for a johj day, said Jeremy,
.^ha't'little'aneh.'r^'tho poLT' beach '
The other obeyed, aud witt rods an<
tafc gSS.' WW
A little later two young the people Trevillion met
upon the cool piazza of
:ot
“"My darling!” whispered Ralph
Terrill, stealing a kiss ; “ your bright
sweet face pales the Ix-auty of this
glorious morning, even 1 ”
“ Oh, Ralph ! ” cried Nell, laughing ;
“ what a Persian compliment And, my
love, may I not say that the brightest
morning is dull until I have seen your
face?”
“ My queen !” ejaculated the young
lover, his eyes dancing. “Bnt, dearest!
this day more than all others will, i
trust, be a bright one to us. Come,
sweetheart, sit here a moment and I will
tell you.” And he drew a chair to her
side. “ I have a plan. If it succeeds
your father will have given his consent
to our marriage before another morning
brightens the earth !”
And with Nellie’s hand clasped in his,
Ralph half her whispered the modus oper
andi in ear.
“ Splendid!—splendid ! Oh, Ralph,
vou darling !” And her white, plump
?.rms wereabout his neck and two soft,
ripe lips repaid the recital “Oh, my
love, then yon will be with me always !”
she continued, wit)' a charming blush.
“ And Uncle Dwight helped to contrive
all this ?”
“ Yes, sweet, it was his plan. I am
but a factor in it. But it will be sure to
3llcceed if the weather remains fair,
And now, silence. Not a word of it until
y our ^ father “ ust ^ know ! ve can ^ tel1 hl “: *
^ -
th^dlv forever°”
—
Slowly the day wore on. The morn
ing sun grew older, and prowl of his
strength, beat upon the earth beneath
with noon-day beams ; then regretting
his passion as the hours flew by, lie drove
rapidly down the western heavens—half
in sorrow fleecy clouds attending lm,
unt list as the crickets began to chirrup, in
and the tide come in, he sank to rest
a bank of rose-colored vapors far in the
distant horizon.
villion had fashed, mncning beneatn tne
shadow G f the single point of rock that
the sand-bank boasted, shadows and continuing
their sport until the of the
coming night and the swift-rising tide
SSSSS^tt the boat, but to this gSSfSSSZ Dwight ob
jug to
jected. There’s need. It’s high and dry
« no
now, and will be until the tide turns,
^“ ,mpiore ° m,ime ’"“‘r:; m ?'
sasr^ B “ a ’‘ Jh
N ^ight however thev had waited too
^g. was at hand and the tide
Dwight,
ened their.creel m fl P n upon ST their t .shoulders ,
the tide is father Himn I thought.
^J. pr^i^snme^tnInidatfon .“ ' “You
diopped the nchor -
f |L replied the brother, ( but it
v lip rapidly. You know the tide
mg cov
ers this place entirely. We must get to
the boat!”
“ Good heavens !” cried Jeremy; “this
is horrible ! Are we to drown, then ?”
The surf was now breaking upon the
little bank in long, steady waves;
each moment the strip of sand grew more
narrow, and behind there could be heard
the roar of the ocean among the rocks
where they had eaten dinner. Retreat
was no longer possible.
„ T I mfianto mean to 8av say thia tins, ■> 8aidt saiatney h e younger u g
m * n; ‘ v ® a f e 111 a trap ’ and n ‘ sa ‘
caill our ooa t, or succor comes . from the H .
f hore wlthi S twenty mil3UteS the Sea Wl)l
’
My pool Nellie! groanea „o„,a jeremx,
and together they-ran onward.
Suddenly »wight, who was in advance
stopped with a sharp ‘ Look!
Through the night they could see be
fore them the outline oi their boat. ®‘ l< '
was twenty rods away, rocking upon the
swells and drifting from them .
Trevillion uttered a long, hoarse cry,
aU(1 t ] irew up his arms m despair.
“We are lost!” he groaned; ^ “ Wt '
shall both be drowned! And the waves
lapped their very feet.
“ Hold on !” said the brother; ^ ‘were
not lost yet Can you swim .
^° \
Neither can L _ We „ must shout. Per
hape some fishln £ ®aackor passing boa
m;,y ¥ ar Come > toge^er-now lo,u .
Th the T growing Im rear * ° of nt r A the oug surf a ¥ about , J
° veI '
t u “ 'P; Again ^°, au w ¥* lnspeiei f ' . , 1 Tw;~v.t .. g. . -
. D
mg his breath.
second shout went ...... bJindty out . .
A m o
the darkuess - Uns time it was fmntlx
answered. Jeremy seaea his brothers
arm.
, Some m one comes t Feaven
man was from his
terrib ] ( , fv j gbt Another call brought a
^ ^ , answer and then, as the cries of
’ ed the sound of
mea r , 1H f ilm
oars ^WMg was heard near and still nearer, tus
U-' men
bedistinguished in the gloom. It stopped break
outside the surf, which was now
ing with a heavy roar upon the low sand
imiks each instant rising higher about
the Trevillions.
‘ Boat aho*"!” cried Dwight; “ drifted come
in and take us off! Our craft has
awnv aiul we shall drown !
“'.All right sir!” responded a cheery
voice, “ we’ll be there directly ! and
again the craft was headed toward
them.
„ xjXZvZ now, surelv He is brave
Lookout , All! -
_
rr«.„ boat had been caught
by S S..,— the tumbling surf and overturned,
side as it rolled am. to^e.. in ne <• ire ^
wild ,t™g
gling, and then, borne upon the crest of a
coining wave, boat and men were hurlet
into the sea of foam that frothed about
the Trevil'ions and four half-drowned
adventurers stood knee deep in the rising
ocean. Nel
“Great heavens !*' cried the fair
L d in^r d “GreatTe^! Tw "we
are lost! T -w
“Not erie „
so, sir. ’
peering across the white 1
Into the night beyond- fair not so
Deputed by your g
here and see tha. y ou , '
honest .
ployed this dang , . eek
came to find you m r
to save the life of one precious to
whom Hove better than life itself! And
sir, my mission shan not be in vam
Staud here Owen, he continued to his
boatman, and assist _ these
‘ gen em .
As for me, I will swim to yon er »
which I can see tossmg beyond pensh these
cruel waves, and return with it or
m the attempt! Not a word, >
went on, as Jermey Txevnlion would have
spoken. I love your daug . love
me show how much love can do for s
sake life_ tor Beeause j ours, sir. l^love I will her gain I^will risk my <
and save you, or die .
And with these tragic words, Ralph
plunged into boy the !—brave sea. boy !” sobbed Mr.
“Brave
Trevelliou, as the dauntless rescuer dis
appeared. “Oh, Dwight!—such worthy Nellie, a man
is a hero ! Such a man is of
and she shall marry him if she will, do
we but live to see the shore again. ”
His brother only pressed his hand,
and the three figures stood silent, braced
against the hurrying waves that each
moment burst against them, rising
higher and higher. Suddenly a shout
rang in their ears, then another, and al¬
most before they could believe it, the
boat loomed through the night before
them.
“Men ahoy! Stand by to take hold of
this line!”
“Ay, ay, sir 1”
A rope whirled through the air. The
boatman caught it, a little craft plunged
into the surf close at hand, there was a
general scramble, a flap of sails, and
then the Seagull bore away with foul
drenched but happy men aboard, and
breakers tossed alone upon the shal¬
low.
E..ph M .„u h i. bride. Tbep„«
of his prospective father-in-law knew no
bounds;nor did he offer a word of objec
tion to the nuptials proposal be of celebrated the longing lover the
that their on
«■**»***«
the following morning, when the two
youngpeopte stood before him.
Jsil^s d
“
know that he purposely tupped the
anchor short, so that, the Seagull might
drift awa y: that Terrm was to be °. H
for a rescue, and that the tide
never covers the sandbank to a greater
dypt h than four feet, except in the most
length and half a mile in width, sloping
gradual y downward toward the east, but
presenting to the wetem ^yes a p^
feet eipitous m height, front of crowned about with seven a ^ired rna^ifi
cent lighthouse of granite and iron such
as;may defy the wildee »tantLandwrn
all mariners deadly to keep coast as K» far as said possible
r°m the
this blessed hght can be d ‘ ‘
distance of upwards of thirty miles, but
practically the height o le ciag d b
" ln eh \ l liaa been pla f d “ f ml ! to «
a du 1 , :u lvantage, as its hght all , clear is often . be
shrouded in mist, while is
,
Lonely indeed is the lot of the mon in
M. this liei.ilien loll,™ isle,
owR 1 . esollrces 011 uttermost
then-only communication with the outer
world being when, twice a year, the
lighthouse stores are brought by a
ste# mer, wlfleh can only lie to for a few
hb U rs, for th.ere is no manner of anchor
ftnd (be on!y p OHri ji,| ( , landing-jiloce
is a shelving ledge of rock, on which he
w ] 10 wou [ c i go ashore must spriug at the
moment when his boat rises on the crest
0 f a wave, and then make the best of his
way to the summit by scrambling up a
slippery, shelving rock. Barra
Once a year, too, a priest from
comes here to visit his little flock, mm
he ring about two score—a fine, hardy,
se] f_r e]ia:1 t race. Their isle supplies
; t , jre for cows goats, so they have
be blessiag o{ good milk; otherwise the
-ea-birds who congregate |pi on the cliffs
p uffins and anks> llem ots and kitte
wakes—supply their larder with fresh
niea t in summer and salt meat for winter
use; ’ also with oii for them lamps and
feat hers for bidding. When fishing is
Lirvest iW the boats go off to wrest a
from the sea-cuddies, haddock,
herring, floimders, lvtlie and svthe, rock
codlings, and skate. Eels they will not
touch, but dog-fish are welcome, and are
salted and dried for winter store.
Iu the spring time thousand of eggs
are taken by bold cragsmen, who adven
hire and sometimes sacrifice their lives
in this quest —AU the Year Hound.
We never knew a man who could ap
predate the blcssmgs of
did a Histon pnnter who long smee bud
tetl to He sLilt^lb
aviditv. gazcd at it long and tranquilly,
then called a “ sub,” put on his coat and
went ofit “ When a man gets such a fat
! take as that,” he said, “he can afford to
* loaf for a day or two .”—Boston Tran~
script.
The Postmistress General.—M rs.
blonde hMr, a peachy complexion, large
hazel eves, overshadowed with long silk
en lashes. At a reception she wore a
beautiful wine colored silk dress and a
tag
St> be "termed a’ model of feminine
A little Money.
A woman ought whichever to have her it own purse,
great or small, may be ;—
ten, lars, fifty, a hundred, or a thousand dol¬
according to circumstances, but her
own, for which she accounts only to her¬
self.
Well, then ; A maid-servant knocks
down a teacup, a servant breaks a glass
or suddenly ^ teapot, cup, ^ and glass all at
^ ^ d ^
broken them, and so on. The wife who
has not her own purse, goes to her hus
band > relates her misfortune, and begs
for a little to make good the damage,
He scolds the servants, his wife, who
ought fo look . lfter the servants,
.< Money> iudeed t A little m0 ney! ^A
Money doeg not grow Qut o£ t]ie gIov
nor ye£ j 8 d ra ined down from heaven.
Many ' small brooks make a great 6 river,*
^ uch like
At ^ he give8 a utile money> ^
remains often in a very £ ill humor,
Agdu> lf the wife h 8 her own uttle
£ purse, ’ then such little vexations never
ome neftr lmn< Children, servants,
misfor t une , remain the same, butnodis
order is remarked—all is made right, as
a t first—all is in order, and the head of
the bouse—who perhaps with the great
est ease could lay down a thousand doi
las at cnce—-need not for a few pence,
squeezed equipoise out at his different times, which lose the
of temper, is as
invaluable to the whole house as to him
self,
And dost thou reckon as nothing, thou
unfeeling nabob, those little surprises—
those little birth-day and name-day
pleasures with which thy wife can give
herself thousand the delight small of pleasures surprising which, thee—
those
unexpected as falling stars, gleam like
them on the heaven of home, and which
must all come to thee from the affection
of thy wife through a little money, which
thou "must give to her in the gross in
order to receive again in the small, with
rich interest of comfort and happiness.
To every true woman’s heart it is in¬
describably delightful to give —to feel
itself alive iu the satisfaction and happi¬
ness of others ; it is the sunshine of the
heart, Besides this, a little freedom is
bo refreshing.
Forced Labor in Egypt.
The conditions of forced labor do not
seem to differ much in the different parte
of the country. Nowhere do the labor¬
ers receive any pay, or food, or task-mas¬ shelter,
while their treatment by their
ters would seem to be simply brutal.
Mr gj* Slnart de6crib , s , he 1 . wCt™;' Jsfcm . w
Eeneh, t in cf^pi Uppei ''. uere “ T
Xut ITghteenieT ,
in depth had been
by high embankments constructed of
the matenal removed from the trench,
and along the bottom and on the slopes,
“men swarmed thickly, like bees on a
honey-comb for a distance of about a
mile in length. The entire strength of
the impressable labor m the province,
.
C0Mtituted the day’s dietary The la
borers prov ided their own baskets for
carrying the excavated soil, and them
own toolgj when they used any, but most
employed their fangers. Overseers walked
nbout among them armed with sticks,
with which they struck the men while
th were carrying loads upon tlieir
often without any apparent rea, the
son. At night they slept clothing upon and
ground . l]most without
££e without shelter, though the has air
was often very cold. Mr. S uart
spf>n negro slaves at work m the cotton
plantations of Cuba, and the convicts at
{^pfifion, both were to be envied ’ in
lu 1 by the Egyptian fellahs.
A Western Experiment. .
---
“It is stated that the Chicago, Burlmg
ton and Quincy management has rented
pews in the various churches of the sev
eraJ w'estem cities for its employees 11ns to
worship in,” says an exchange. is
no doubt a move in the right direction,
and probably before another year is over
every railroad in the country will either
rent pews in the towns along their lines,
or build churches for the accommodation
of their employees. This will give the
boys a place to go on Sunday where they
can he at home, and instead of going
fishing on Sunday, when they lay over
in a town, or sitting on a pdeof “waste
at the “round-house” all day Sunday road,
talking of the management of the
or playing draw poker they will each
Sunday be found in their accustomed
pews at the church, absorbing religion
and faying to forget how, during the
week before they had made the air
along the track blue with red-hot excla
mations about their work. The conduc
tor will sit in his seat at church, and re
pent for having mauled a tramp the day
before or for havmg “accidentally
punched out three hundred miles from
an editor s ticket, who>he knew was onlv
going forty miles. The brakeman will
repent for having sassed the switeh
tender at the junction, and the engineer
will, as the preacher warms up to hm
^tofbexs ^1 !lT g“townt jdltoddflJi! Sr
im
SJ minisfer, a|d np” liberally for fel pay
the experiment of the.Cliieago. all. will go Bnrlmg
The
ion A Qumcy road, will be watched with
a good deal of mterest by railroad men.
-Milwaukee bun.
Tobacco. —Although the Scotch are
greater smokers than the English, than yet
less tobacco is smoked in Scotland
in England. This is due, according to
the London Truth, to the canny char¬
acter of Scotchmen. Owing to the large
quantity of water in the ordinary tobacco
soid, a pipe goes out 1-efore the tobacco
in* it is smoked this out. damp The tobacco; Englishman the
throws away it from his
Scotchman carefully extracts it has dried,
pipe, and then, when re¬
places it
