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BILL ARP’S LETTER
In Impressive Vein Bartow Man
Lauds General Lee.
.IMPRESSED WITH HERO’S GRANDIER
He Met the General on Two Occasions.
Calls Attention to Noble Work
of the Daughters of the
Confederacy.
“Duty is the sublimest word in our
language.” That is what General Lee
wrote to his son soon after General
Scott offered him the supreme com
mand of the northern army. Virginia
had just seceded and Lee saw on one
side that there were no honors to
which he might not aspire. On the
other side, if he east his destiny with
that of his state, he saw, or he
thought he saw, that miseries and
trials awaited him without number.
But to seek his duty and, having
found it, it was ever the principle of
his actions. These strong and beauti
ful words about duty were not origi
nal with General Lee, and in his let
ter he has them in quotation marks.
The expression came from Rev. John
Davenport, a famous Puritan preach
er of New England—the man who gave
shelter to the three regicides who
condemned Charles the First to death
and after the restoration fled for their
lives to New England and we lie hid
den by John Davenport in his barn.
When tills act of treason became
known among his people he neither
quailed nor relented, but preached a
sermon the next Sabbath from that
passage in Isaiah which says: “Hide
the outcasts. Betray not him that
wandereth. Let my outcasts dwell
with thee and be thou covert about
them from the spoiler.” It was in that
sermon that lie made use of this no
table expression: “It is my duty to
shield them, and duty is the sublimest
word in our language.”
During the war it was my privilege
to see General Lee quite often, but
never did I meet him face to face and
have a brief conversation with him but
twice. Even then we did not know
how great a man he was. General
Johnston had been wounded at Seven
Pines and General Lee came from
West Virginia to take his place. He
was almost a stranger to the Army
of Northern Virginia. He had been
in command but a week or two when
General Black, of Rome, came to see
his boys of the Eighth Georgia and
asked me to ride with him to General
I.ee’s headquarters and introduce him,
for he was desirous of meeting him
beforv he returned to Georgia. Of
course, I complied, for General Black
was a man of no small consequence
at home. He was old and gray and of
commanding presence and military
bearing. Introducing myself first, I
presented General Black, and af
ter we were seated I said
nothing, but paid modest and respect
ful attention. 1 was soon impressed
with the grandeur of the man before
me, and, of course, as he expanded,
I very naturally shrank up a little to
keep the equilibrium. Not long after
this the Seven Days battles began and
ended in McClellan’s defeat and our
army began to realize how great a
man Lee was. It was on the sixth
day that I was sent to his headquar
ters near Meadow Ridge to receive or
ders, and there I met him again. He
was standing uncovered and unarmed
in front of his tent, and “Stonewall”
Jackson was asleep inside upon the
straw, and the servant had set the
dinner tables over him so as not to
disturb his rest, for, as General Lee
said, "He needs it, and nothing but
artillery will awake him now.”
I said that the army did not know
at first how great a man Lee was,
for lie was one of the few great char
acters that develops and grows bright
er and grander as the years roll on.
For some years after the war he re
ceived hut little praise at the north
and a great national cyclopedia gave
more space and praise to Old John
Brown than to General Lee, who ar
rested and executed him. But now,
in the International, of fifteen volumes
—a standard work, edited ami com
piled by 200 of the most distinguished
scholars and professors of the north
ern colleges—the sketches of General
Lee and Stonewall Jackson are all
that we could ask for.
That of Lee closes with this para
graph: “In person he was one of the
noblest types of manly beauty. Tall,
broad-shouldered, erect, with a digni
ty as impressive as that of Washing
ton, yet not so cold. Of habits as
pure as Washington, but more warm
ly religious and always maintaining
a calm, confident and kindly manner
that no disaster could disturb or
change.” The world knows him now
and venerates his memory and the
people he fought against have given
him a place in their hall of fame.
\ erily, old Father Time is a good
doctor and Anno Domini the softening
solvent of all malignant passions. But
this is enough from me concerning the
great commander. It was the sublime
Christian faith of Lee and Jackson
that made their characters complete
und added luster to their military
fame. They were men of prayer.
For a little while I would ask you?
kind attention to those whom since
1892 have called themselves the
Daughters of the Confederacy. Their
mission has been and still is and we
trust long will be as declared in Arti
cle 2 of their constitution: “Educa
ticnal, memorial, social and benevo
lent—to collect and preserve the ma
terial for a truthful history of the
war between the states—to honor the
memory of those who fell in our ser
vice and to record the part taken by
southern women during the war and
its aftermath, their patient endurance
of hardship, their patriotic devotion
during the struggle and to fulfill the
duties of sacred charity to the sur
vivors.” All of these are noble ob
jects but the greatest of all is the
establishing of the truth and preserv
lng it. The poet salth that “Truth
crushed to earth will rise again,” and
it has risen and will continue to rise,
Even that popular magazine, Frank
Mummy's Monthly, in its last num
ber, has forever blotted out the malig
nant and fanatical of Barbara
Freitchie, and only the last week the
ladies of Lexington, Kv., put under
the ban the drama of “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin.” It was the Daughters of the
Confederacy who did it and to their
widespread and influential organiza
tion the south must look for the
maintenance of the truth. Just think
of it. Within the past nine years
twenty-two states have been chartered
as grand divisions, including Califor
nia, New York, the District Columbia,
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory.
In all these there have been chartered
in aggregate of over three hundred
•hapters with a membership of 26,000
good, loyal soutnern 'women. The
largest federation of women in the
world. Of this membership, Texas
aas tile largest number, 2,425. Geor
gia comes next with 1,750 members,
But my friends, this great army of
laughters and mothers who, whether
ilive or now dead, instilled this love
jf truth and unstained confederate
iionor in the hearts of their children.
Fhey are the ones who sacrificed and
•uffered and still were strong. For
more than fifteen years I have ob
served a trait in woman's nature that
,s lacking in most men. She never
up. The sad results of the
that wrecked the fortunes of
men hastened thousands of
to untimely graves, but their
still dot the land from Vir
to Texas. The mothers of
daughters endured more hard
and privations than their bus
and sons who were in the
but they never complained.
Goldsmith wrote:
“Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.”
But some cynical old bachelor para
it:
wants but little here below,
For so the poets say,
But woman wants it all, you know,
And wants It right away.”
Well, she does want all she can get,
wants it as soon as she can get
if not sooner, but if she can’t have
she surrenders cheerfully and ac
herself to the situation.
the war they actually smiled
their own pitiful and distres-seed
They boiled down the dirt
the smokehouse that had long
saturated with the drippings ol
hanging meat and made pretty
salt out of it and divided with
neighbors. They parched rye
gubbers for coffee and sweetened
with sorghum and bragged how
it was. They cut up their old
and made clothes for tueir
Indeed, it is always an
entertainment to listen to
good old mothers as they ree
their makeshifts and their trials
Sherman had passed through on
march to the sea. Not long ago
or five of these matrons by chance
at our house and it was nip and
between them as they told of
most amusing experiences. One
how her two hoys and a little
had worn out their shoes, until
would not hold shucks much less
and she found an old calf skin
had long been hanging in the
and she soaked it in lime and
oak bark and got about half the
off and took it to an old shoe
.and he made three pair of
that would hold shucks, and they
the children pretty well, but the
hair stuck out in little patches
over them, and she laughed and
until the children did not want
wear them, because she laughed so
That was the origin of tan
though these were made of un
tanned leather. Another told how two
her children never saw a raisin un
tll they were 5 and 7 years old. and
were afraid to eat them, and said they
were bugs. Another told how she and
her boys built a fence around the gar
den by boring holes in the plank and
the posts with an old brace and bit
her husband left when he went
And they made pegs and drove
them in, for there wasn’t a nail i> the
country. But good old Mother Akin,
everybody loves and likes to lis
ten to. told hom three of her neigh
hors got out of meal and had some
how got hold of three bushels of corn.
and they rigged up a little rikety wag
0 n and a blind army mule and all three
started to the nearest mill, which was
7 miles away. They started early and
g 0 t to the creek, and the creek was
up. but they " drove in, and sure
enough the wagon came uncoupled
right in the middle of it and let them
a u down where it was knee-deep, and
let the corn down. too. and the mule
went on with the foree-wheels and
6 topped when he got over. But they
never gave up the ship, nor the corn,
It took them about an hour to get
the corn and the wagon together
again, and with dripping garments
they hurried on to the min. a photo
graph of the scene would sell as the
champion picture of the women of the
war. The good miller gave them dry
meal for the wet corn, and by sundown
they were all at home again and
laughed over It, and everybody laugh
ed who heard of it. Almost every
family within Sherman s belt have
fireside stories to tell that would fill
a book. They are a curious medley
of the sad. the pathetic and the amus
lng, and excite more fun than sor
row. How blessed are they who stil!
live, and how sweet are the memories
of those who are dead, for it is the
mothers of the confederacy who have
perpetuated the love of truth and the
love of southern patriotism in the
hearts of the children and inspired
those principles that have in recen!
years developed that grand organiza
tion known as the Daughters of the
Confederacy. Our northern bretiirer.
may boast of the Grand Army of the
Republic, but our mothers smile and
say, “I don’t see where the grand
comes in, for all who came this way
were low Dutch and hungry Irish
who feared not God nor regarded
women.” Well, it is all over now,
and we are at that blessed
peace that hath her victories more re
nowned than war. And thrice blessed
Is the woman whom the dark ages
kept subdued for centuries, but has
come to the front and now stands side
by side with man and is always first
in every good word and work. For
two thousand years she was called by
name hut twice in the Bible. Mother
Eve, and next came Sarah, the wife
of Abraham, and for another two thou
sand years was mentioned by name
only a few times, but at - last she was
honored as the mother of our Savior
and was “last at the cross and earliest
at, the grave.”
Within the last half century she
made more progress in establishing
iter natural and God-given rights than
in all preceding time. She is the ac
knowledged head of all religious, mis
sionary and charitable institutions.
She is the school teacher of the world
and in these United States constitutes
ninetenths of all the public school
school teachers in the land. In sever
al states she has the right of suffrage
and is eligible to office on the school
boards. Time was when she was al
most a dead letter in literature and
haidly ever noticed in the press of
the country, but now a great metro
politan paper or magazine could not
exist without a large space being de
voted to her service and her fairy pic
tures made to adorn the columns of
every issue. Woman in this south
land is a power and woe be to the
men who scorn it, for they are always
cn the side of religion and good nun
als and purity in private life. With
cut them, the -church, the prayer
meetings, the Sabbath-schools and
even the home would speedily decline
into that state that Grover Cleveland
called an “inocuous desuetude.” In
truth, she is the hope of the world and
her progress the best sign of the com
ing millennium. As to her influence
for all -that is good in educating and
refining mankind, no man ever wrote
a more beautiful setence than that of
Sir Richard Steele, when he penned
that: “To look upon and love a fair
and virtuous woman and be loved by
her is a liberal education.” And so
let me say to the young men, these
sons of confederacy, don’t despair;
don’t grieve for a college education;
don’t lament your poverty; but get
Married and your education will be
gin. Sometimes the course is long,
but it is happy. My own has been
running for nearly fifty-three years and
is not completed, for I have not yet
received a diploma nor taken the first
honor. I am ssill a school boy.—Bill
Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
UNIQUE PARDON GRANTED.
Man Is Relieved of Prison Sentence
In Order to Be Hanged.
J. L. Craft, a convict at the state pen
itentiary, was hanged in the county
jail at Jefferson City, Mo., for the mur
der of Henry Speiker a member of a
posse who tried to arrest him after he
had escaped from prison.
Craft was sent to the Missouri peni
tentiary in 1896 for train robbery. At
the time of his arrest he was a fugi
tive from justice in Texas, where he
had committed train robbery. On Sat
urday, May 9. 1S99, he escaped from
the Missouri penitentiary. At a farm
house he stole a winchester rifle and
when Henry Speiker, a member of the
posse, came suddenly upon him Craft
shot and fatally wounded him.
Craft was finally shot and recap
tured. He wa.s formally tried and con
victed of murder in Cole county court
and sentenced to hang. Tuesday morn
ing Governor Dockery pardoned Craft
of his prison sentence in order that
he might be hanged,
DEMOCRATS ARE INVITED.
I £y Manhattan Club to Attend a Social
: Gathering In New York,
j ! The Manhattan Club, of New York,
issued invitations to quite a num
’ her of distinguished democrats
throughout the United States to be
j present at a reception of the club in
j New York to be given to its non-resi
dent members on Saturday evening,
' February 22 next.
| It will be a social gathering of dem
ocrats to discuss the differences be
' tween members of the party for the
purpose of trying to get together for
the next presidential campaign.
(jCOr^lS**»CtlHin^S ®
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grief Bnt Interesting ^ Summary
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01 U3ppCflIDgS in tuC MulB.
To Oppose Commissioner Glenn.
Rev. A. J. Beck, county school com
raissione r of DeKalb county, Saturday
g ave out, his announcement as a candi
aate for the office of state school com
missioner before tne coming demo
cratic primary.
• *
Two Governors Attended.
Governor Candler and state house
officials of Georgia and Governor Mc
Sweeney, accompanied by members of
the South Carolina legislature, attend
ed the good roads convention in Au
gusta the past week.
Howling Over Dispensary.
As time goes on the dispensary cam
peign in Rome grows more heated and
personal in its phases. Fierce person
alities between W. A. Knowles, editor
of The Tribune, and Seaborn Wright,
editor of the Southern Times and man
ager of the dispensary campaign, fill
every issue of their respective papers
Others are being drawn into the wid
ening circle of discussion and feeling
is intense.
• •
Coulter Goes to Philippines.
Emory college is again without a
professor of biology. Dr. J. G. Coulter,
Jr., who has held the chair of biology
since the opening of the year, tender
ed his resignation Saturday to Presi
dent Dowman and left Oxford.
He goes to New York to report for
duty to the United States government,
having been given a position in the
government service. He will go to the
Philippines, where he will hold the
chair of botany in the Manila Normal
school.
* * *
Contest Is Open to All.
The telegraphers of Atlanta have de
cided that the tournament which they
were arranging for March 1 shall be
national in scope, instead of being
limited to the country south of the
Ohio river. This step was decided
upon a day or two ago at a meeting of
the executive committee having the ar
rangements of the contest in hand.
During the past three days the re
sponses to the invitations sent
throughout the south have been so
generous and the interest in the event
so widespread that the committee de
cided that every telegrapher in the
United States shall be permitted
enter the lists.
* * *
Rev. Cooke Should “Vamoose.”
The committee appointed by Atlan
ta camp. No. 159, United Confederate
Veterans, to prepare resolutions relat
ing to the slanderous attack of R. J.
Cooke, of Chattanooga, upon the
Daughters of the Confederacy, com
pleted their work a day or two ago.
Rev. Cooke, it will be remembered,
compared members of the Daughters
of the Confederacy to Emma Goldman,
the anarchist agitator.
The committee of Atlanta camp, af
ter speaking of the noble work and
deeds of the Daughters of the Confed
eracy, expresses surprise that any one,
especially a minister of the gospel,
should so far forget himself, and con
cludes with the statement that Rev.
Cooke should leave a community
which he considers so treasonable,
“whether of his own volition or not.”
* * •
Eook Is Sent to Libraries.
Copies o fthe new book just issued
by the state agricultural department,
entitled “Georgia, Historical and In
dustrial,” are now being sent to ev :
ery library of any consequence in the
United States.
Commissioner Stevens secured a list
of all the leading libraries and has be
gun the shipment of the books. He
will probably send out 10,000 copies
to the libraries in the various states.
The book is said to be the most val
uable ever issued about the state and
its resources and is in great demand.
It thoroughly advertises the state and
will be an addition to any library mak
ing a specialty of such volumes.
Requests for the new book come in
every day from every part of Georgia
and from the south.
* *
Three Governors Invited.
Three governors will attend the an
nual dinner of the Hibernian Society
of Savannah, to be held at the DeSoto
the night of March 17. Governor .
„ on
Candler, of Georgia; Governor Me- |
Sweeney, Jennings, of South Carolina, and Gov- j
eernor of Florida ’ will re- \ !
spond ____- to . toasts , , having . reference to :
their respective states. |
It is the intention of President P. W. :
Meldrim and , ,, ihe committee in charge :
of the banquet that the speeches shall i
exceed in character those of previous
years. The stereotyped toasts will be j
largely done away with and subjects
having immediate reference to the ■
needs and interests of this section and j
the questions of the day will be fa
vored. j
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Unique Letter of Invitation. j
Adjutant General Robertson has no- ■
tilled the members of the governor’s ®
staff of the invitation ,, .. to the Charles- _.
ton exposition on February 9th with !
the following letter: j
To the Staff: You are invited to the !
flower show at Charleston, S. C. The i
governor leaves February 9, 1902. 1
on
You will see one hundred maids of
honor to the queen of flowers. We will
carry one flower girl as an honor to
the governor and staff. Do you want
to go? Answer yes or no. Wear uni
form. Respectfully,
JAMES W. ROBERTSON,
Adjutant General.
Charleston, so it is said, has great
things in store for the Georgians when
they visit that city, and it Is believed
that every member of the staff will ac
cept the invitation.
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Prison Will Open "February 4.
The new federal prison at Atlanta
will open for business on February 4
On the afternoon of that day prisoners,
will begin coming in from five prls
ons in the north, and by February 5 or
6 there will be 150 of them in new
quarters. made
These arrangements were as
the result of Warden Hawk’s latest
trip to Washington. A commission has
been appointed to visit tKe United
States prisons at Columbus, Ohio;
Moundsville, W. Va., and at three
places in New York state, and tlfe 150
prisoners for Atlanta will be selected
from these places. It is expected they
will be principally convicts sent to the
penitentiary from southern states.
Prisoners will also be sent from all
of the United States courts fci the
south. There can be 750 prisoners ac
commodated .
Georgia fared pretty well in the ap
pointments to positions at the federal
taken an interest in this feature, is
much gratified that this is so. Out of
the twenty-nine appointments made so
far, Georgia has received thirteen, or
nearly half.
*
Fight on Albany Postmaster.
A Washington dispatch says: Judge
Griggs, at the instance of Jesse Wal
ters and other citizens of Albany, Ga.,
filed with the postmaster general cer
tain papers bearing upon the Albany
postoffice fight. Included in these is
a transcript of the record in a divorce
case in Thomasville with which Ma
jor Brimberry’s name has been cou
pled.
There is also filed a letter from offi
cers of the Presbyterian church of
Albany, withdrawing the indorsement
of Major Brimberry, which they gave
last December.
The prominence of Major Brimberry,
both as a citizen and a republican
leader, is recognized throughout Geor
gia, and that a charge of a character
as this should be made against him ere
ates much surprise among Georgians
in Washington.
* * *
A Compliment to Atlanta.
The headquarters of the Postal Tele
graph-Cable Company’s southern divis
ion will be moved from Richmond to
Atlanta on March 1 .
In the circular issued by the com
pany announcing the removal it is
stated that the reason for the change
is that it has be/-; ascertained that
the change, will tend to conserve the
business interests of the company, as
its service can be greatly improved
with Atlanta as headquarters.
This is only another of the many
compliments that have been paid to
Atlanta in the last few years, and it is
an excellent indication of what the
year 1902 lias in store for the Gate
City of the South.
As the healquarters of the southern
division, the Atlanta office of the Pos
tal Company will be an important one.
Official reports from all offices in the
southern states will be handled
through it and all interests of the com
pany in this section will be controlled
from Atlanta.
For eleven years past the headquar
ters of the southern division have been
located at Richmond.
Atlanta Germans Invite Henry.
The prominent Germans of Atlanta,
Ga., are making strenuous efforts to
have Prince Henry of Prussia visit the
Georgia capital during his visit to this
country. The Freudschaftsbund held
a meeting Sunday afternoon and adopt
ed a resolution extending an invitation.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
COBBECTED WEEKLV. — 5
Groceries..
boasted coffee, per 100 pounds, Arbuckle
$10.80. Green coffee, choice 10 cents;
fair 5 cents; prime 7 cents. Su
gar. standard granulated, 5. Syrup,
New Orleans open kettle 80* 45c;
mixed, choice, 20 * 28c. South Geor
gia cane syrup, 35@38 cents. Salt, dairy
clicks $1.30 @ @1.40; do obis, bulk $2.60;
ice cream $1.25; common 60®>70. Cheese,
i'nnoy. full cream 12}£ ®> 13 cents,
date lies, 06“ 45%@55c; 200s $1.50(5)1.75.
Soda, Arm – Hammer, $3.00. crack
ers, soda cream 7j£c: gingersnaps 6
Candy, Oysters. common stica 5j^c; 41.25. fancy 7<S>i0’. Fancy
F. W $2.00: L. \V.
head rice, 7 c; head rice, 6 c.
Flour, Grain and Meal.
Flour,Diamond, first patent, 45.00: second
P" ten t, 44.60; straight, 44.10; extra fancy
43.90; fancy. $3.70: extra family, 43.40.
First pa -eut spring wheat, 45 . 01 .
Corn, choice, white, C0c ; No. 2 do,
8 i ,c i No - 2 mixod - 880,lts * ' T,dt “
60-•; mixed 53'*: Texas rustproof /5c.
Kansas 70 cents. Hay, No. 1 timothy,
<nrge bales, 41 .10; No. 1 small halos, 41;
No. 2, 90c. Heal, plain, 82c; boited meal 75e.
Bran, small sacks 41.25. Shorts' 41.30.
stook meal, 41.35 per one hundred
pounds. Cotton seed meal 41.20 per 100
pounds. Hudnut’s grits, 42.15.
Country Pro<lu««.
Egg?, 22kj@23c. Butter, fancy choice,
18»20c; ‘f.uicy Jersey butter, 20®
22Jrfc; Georgia, fancy, 15@17c, good
sale. Live poultry, hens, 28®t(>c; fries,
large, 18@20c, dull. Ducks, puddle,
22}<j«. Dressed poultry and game—Turkeys, 10®12Lc;
pound, 12J£o; chickens, hens, 8@10c;
™ c ! ters > frl e B,14@l5c; geese,
ducks, 12® 13; rai/btts, each, 8®10c;
squirrels, each, 7@8c; birds, each, ll®l’;c.
Onions $1.75 @ 2.00 per bushel.
Irish potatoes. 41.25 per bushel. Peas,
white 41.60® 1.75; lady, 42.25 *2.50;
field 41.15@1.25. Celery 30@50c dozen.
Provisions.
Clear rib sides, boxed SJi'e; riba
9%e; rib bellies 10c; ice-cured bel
lies 10)^c. Sugar-cured bams 10@14.
Lord, lOJi'c; compound 8Xc.
Cotton.
Market closed quiet, middling 7 15-16c.
f
s J,
Medical men have noted the inim
oils effect of the Philippine di Wiu !
wounds. The time for healing j s mu ,
longer than here. In South Africa it
is shorter.
The internal heat of the earth is a
survival of the lime when it "’as a
glowing hall and was turning 0 u its
axis with a velocity four times a
great at present. It »
as was slowed
down principally by the action of th e
tides, internal and external, these be
ing one of the results of the moon's
attraction.
The rotation of the moon in such a
way that is shows shown to us always' file
same face was to be the const;.
quence of the tides in the molten rnoou
due to the attraction of tin earth.
The earth has not surrendered itself
to the tides caused by the moon be
cause they are relatively so feeble.
It will, however, without doubt, ulti
mately present always the same face
to the moon.
A French scientist, says the Pali
Mall Gazette, has just drawn public
attention to certain phenomena which
show that the truism “extremes
meet” applies with as much force to
physical nature as to human character.
He relates that in the mountains near
Pontgibaud, in Auvergue, there is
formed in the hottest part of every
summer a most singular ice deposit
which has no existence in winter. The
local peasantry have never evinced
any acute interest in the scientific ex
planation of this remarkable natural
peculiarity, but they have always,
from the first, turned it to practical
advantage by using the spot for cold
storage for the cheese which is the
staple product of the district.
No weather belief is more absurd
than tliat of a “wet moon’’ and a “dry
moon.” There is no connection be
tween the position of the moon’s
horns and the rainfall, unless the
same weather recurs ar the same time
each year, for, as A. K. Bartlett has
lately taken the trouble to explain,
the crescent moon always appears
“upon its back” in spring, near the
vernal equinox, and “upon its end” in
autumn, near the autumnal equinox.
The change of direction in which the
horns are turned depends upon the
difference in declination of the sun
and moon. If the moon be farther
north than the sun after the new, tue
sunlight strikes under her, and she
appears with her horns upturned; but
jf she appears south the light reaches
around her disk to the northward, and
her horns appear nearly vertical. The
line joining the two horns is always
at right angles to a line joining the
sun and the moon.
Sonie fresh water fishes can live in
salt water, but others cannot, The
carp, for example, is found in the
Caspian Sea as well us its affluents,
but the fresh water eel dies in salt
water. Experiments have recently
been made by M. Cololliau, and
brought before the Society of Biology,
France, with carp and tench in water
artificially salted by the addition ot
ten to twelve grammes of common
salt per litre, that is to say, about
half the proportion of sea water. A
fish which can live for twenty-four
hours in salt water is considered able
to bear it permanently and he found
that his tench and carp could stand
ten grammes per litre but not twelve
or thirteen grammes. Another experi
menter, M. Larbaletier, found that
fresh water fish could live in a strong
er solution of salt if they were first
accustomed to it by degrees. By in
creasing the proportion of salt from
five grammes to fourteen per litre
in the course of twenty-seveu days, he
kept them alive.
The Keel Hunting Coat.
The origin of the red coat is a mys
tery. There is a story told “that one
of the early Henrys was so enamored
with the sport of fox hunting as to or
dain it to be a royal sport, and the red
coat was worn in consequence.” This,
however, has been pointed at as ab
surd, as in those days scarlet was not
a royal livery at all. One thing there
can be uo doubt about, and that is that
the scarlet coat is very popular for
those who hunt regularly, And it
must be confessed that it adds pictur
esqueness to the scene. The question
of color seems to be very much a mat
ter of taste; it is looked upon as an in
dication of social position. In the ab
stract any one can don the pink, if
desired, but it is considered out of
taste for any one to adopt that color
if he does not liberally subscribe to
the hunt fund. The black coat is con
sidered to come next in social position,
and the ordinary mufti garment for
those whose subscription is very smafi
indeed.—Tailor and Cutter.
Bos: Slide in Ireland.
Following a phenomenal rainfall a
terrible bog slip occurred the other
day near Liscannor, 011 the west
coast of Clare, and within a quarter
of a mile of the scene of last year s
slide, when two lives were lost. The
slip began on the Carhudiff FiiB,
says the London Graphic, and tne
immense mass of semi-fluid bog flowed
four miles through the country untd
it discharged itself into Derry River.
The moving mass swept away hay
ricks, peat stacks, and a number of
cows and pigs, which were lost. A
farming family, named Killougbry,
were compelled to escape by the UP'
per windows, and this they did with
difficulty. Several people are practical
ly ruined by their land and crops be
ing covered with the peaty moisture.