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! NOTES ON THE DIAMOND FIELD.
Tlfe AuguBtflH have released Corrigan and
Nash. They go to Toledo, Ohio, and join
tlicflWestewi League.
j The Augustas have engaged Andrews,
{who played with the St. Louis reserves and
jMihneapolis Clubs last season. He is a
good batter and. base runner.
The catch that Heard and Esterday made
! in Wednesday’s game was equal to any on
any ball field in the'wdrld.
The, Augustas have a fine ball park;
everything corufoVtnble and convenient.
Just win tvyo games from Atlanta and you
'willljo soml.
j It is predicted that the largest crowd
ever known to visit a hall game in this
city will see the Augusta and Atlanta cross
bats on Wednesday next.
At the Nashville and Indianapolis game
there were two thousand people on the
•ground.
Nashville was beaten by Chattanooga by
(> to 5; Memphis by Cleveland 11 to 5;
Cleveland by Birmingham 8 to 3; the Clip
pers by Columbus 15 to 4; Montgomery by
Atlanta 17 to 0; Montgomery by Augusta
15 to 6. f
The uniforms of the Nashville Club will
bo gray suits with red trimmings, with the
;word Nashville across the breast in black
.letters.
Birmingham has signed a pitcher by the
name of Phinney; he is left-handed. He
(played with the Springfield (Mass.) Club
■ last season.
Leary has made the longest hit on the
Augustas’ grounds. Scanlon, of last sea
sons Clinch, hit a ball in the same place,
but’it fell twenty.feet short of Leary’s ball.
Look outTTdf Esterday. We said he would
beat the League in fielding at s. s., and
ivliSn he gets down to business you will
nee : that lie does.
j Some one said Sixsmitb couldn’t catch
. Hofl'ord. We will go one that he will stand
• second to none in the League in filling his
{oosition.
i How-i« this for pitching ? Three men on
' bates and no one out; six balls on the
jpitjrher and strike the butter out and retire
j the side without a run.- Hofford did this
• in Thursday’s game.
Cahill, of Atlaptu, has made the longest
,hitj ever jnmdo on the Atlantas grounds.
‘Hq d^-Qvo' a ball over deop left field fence,
i Manager llart of the Louisville Club, in
jan-interview with a reporter in Louisvillo,
a few days ago, says the Southern League
?ClubB ajre much stronger than the Northern
(Clubs give them credit for. He says, if the
j other clubs in the Southern League aro no
strpnger,jtlian those ho has already playod
.with, Atlanta has the championship already
i wop. He complains bitterly of the umpire;
says in the game with the Augustas, with
Roccius pitching, in three innings, ho only
ipitjched 13 balls and put the side out. He
Isays Columbus will be a good second.
Well,- we wtH see hrrw much, Mr. Hart is a
'prophet. I wonder if he can tell how his
own nine will cOme out?
The Providence Club had some difficulty
-in defeating the Norfolk Club last week by
a score of 5 to 4. They were afterwards
beaten by the Virginias t\vice; in the first
ga$ie the score stood 3 to 0, second game
7 to 3.
' The New York League team will contain
the two champion batters of the world;
they arv Jaites O’Rourke of the League
and Xi J. Esberhrook, from the Mctropoli-
; tads of last season.
; Croldsby, of the Atlantas, led the Amori-
;ca4 Association in batting last season for
(the number of games he playod.
Clark, of Atlanta, is the most promising
catcher in the country to-day. So Atlanta
says.
Indianapolis beat Louisville on Tuesday
last in Indianopolis Jjby 7 to 3. Louisvillo
hnd beaten them twice in Louisville.
Sullivan and Cahill, of the Atlantas,
' wore fined twenty-five dollars apiece, in
tlip last game with the Clippers, for poor
pitying. Cahill didn’t accept a chance at
; sliiirt stop.
’ Cleveland, of Atlanta, is oredited with
{ four home runs this season.
J.)ooley and O’Neil, of Columbus, have
I asked for their relt^so.
The Clevelands beat the Macons on Wed-
• mtdny last, by a score of 11 to 9. Augusta
bait Montgomery by 17 to 0. Hofford and
\ Siksraith played a magnificent game.
Bam Landis, one of the pitchers of the
1 Cqlulnous Club, left for Philadelphia a few
(day sago. His child is lying very ill. He
} will get baak in time for the opening game.
Sinby Anson is confident that the Chioa-
[ gqes will win the pennant this seuson. If
‘ tli-y play a little bit it will bo an easy mat-
i til for them to achieve victory.
I ll'he Only Nolan commenced the season
of isft-i u-Liii the Wilmingtons of Wilming
ton, Hoi. His compensation then was one
hoibuni, I’* 31 ’ month. After the
l wilhHngtoti Club joined the Union Assooi-
i at gbn Jus salary was increased to three
' hitudril and seventy-live dollars por
j month. 1 la is now receiving throe hundred
J and fifty dollars with the Philadelphia
; Club.
There will be sevon distinct professional
(itions this season. Eanh association
lposed pi eight clubs and the average
jet- of players to a club is fourteen,
iig seven hundred and eighty-four
ho ifta^to a living by playing base
I’nh, MorriltSf pitcher of the Birming-
nine, f in sliding to a base in New
ns, on BundayUast, broke his leg.
•amo Htoqd-Etpbsitions (1, Birmiug-
[ii. "
ville beat Chattanooga by 12 to 3.
[the moving of the arbitration cout-
I, 1 iv IA in Philadelphia, on April 3d,
fi and’JPulmo'r, of last season’s Peoria
“Baldwins of the Quincy Club, Blais-
■ dell ol'the Lynn Club, were reinstated. It
Wl y id id Ihown that, Levis, of the Maeon
j Club was placed on the hlaek list through
clerical error. And ho was made a bona
fide member again. In reforenoe to the
'disqualified players of the League no
i action.'taken, X e oouuuittee claimed
(>| that tnw hjMPiio (lower lo act, but it was
necessa% for each olub to oast two nega-
4 tive vot%* iiroventing their eligibility to
lilav- witlu-either association. As Dunlap,
N-sHtl’er, Cllyuson and Weaver, who have
J always been -an ornament to tile profession,
“ wore not returned, the public would like
d o know which clubs voted against them,
id they sliottld not bo supported, as the
'® *ls did nothing to prevent their playing.
BARBED WIRE FENCE.
The question of a secure and cheap in-
oloeuro for his fields is becoming a more and
more difficult one for the farmer. Timber is
becoming scarce for rails, and there is a very
targe section of this country where there is
no wood at all. Besides, if there is one thing
In this world more hideously ugly than an
other, it is the old-fashioned zigzag or “worm”
fence. A worm would be ashamed to own it.
It is time American agriculturists were be
ginning to care for the looks of their farms.
In the matter we are talking of, undoubt
edly the barbed Iron wire fence is the best
that can be made. It is true that at present
cost it is one of the most shameful extortions
ever put upon a long-suffering public. It in
an extortion, too, practiced upon one who
least of all men should be subjected to it—
the farmer. Between the grasping “royalty”
which greed exacts on the patent and the war
tariff on iron, the fanner stands liko a man
who is bound and plundered on two sides.
Nevertheless, at present ho cannot help
himself. Wire fencing is the best, oven at
the exorbitant cost at which it comes. We
give above illustration* of some of the best
styles. They do not need much explanation.
The first is for fields in which only large
stock are confined- Bet strong posts in the
ground, about twenty-five feet apart. For
the wires use three barbed and one tablet,
putting tho tablet second from the top. Bet
three posts at each end of your fence, ten feet
apart, and sec that they are securely braced.
Stretch the wire as tight as you can. Do not
buy painted wire, but be careful to get that
which has been thoroughly galvanized.
The socond fence shown is one that will
turn hogs and large stock both. Fences can
be made of wire also that will bo secure
against hogs. But tho one in our illustration
has three boards at the bottom, topped off
with two barbed wires. A short post reaches
to the top of the boards in the middle of each
panel.
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ATJGREUROER FENCE.
Where timber is plenty and cheaper than
wire, tho abovo fonce of wood is a very good
one. The patent on it has expired, so that
here is one thing the much fleeced farmer con
use without paying for the privilege. It is
not a very beautiful fence, the panels being
set upon the ground zigzag, to brace the thing
like a rail fence, but still it is handsomer than
that ancient nightmare and a great improve
ment on it. The panels are made as lightly
as possible, because this is a movable fence,
made to be transported from one field to
another, as it is wanted. The posts at the
corners aro of unequal length, and are con
nected by flvo rails, with a brace, either verti
cal or diagonal, about the middle of each
panel. One post is only of sufficient length
for the attachment of the rails; but the
Other post is longer, leaving a rest to support
the panels above the ground.
The top, bottom, and center rails of each
panel extend at each end beyond the posts,
and aro gained out for half their width, the
gains being in the upper side at the end hav
ing the supporting-rest and in the under side
at tho other end.
As will be seen, the niche cut out of one
board fits into the next, and so the corners are
held together. To keep animals from dhoving
or lifting the rails apart, one or two of them
havo tongues alternately upon their upper
and lower edges. A block of wood is fas
tened to the foot of each long post, to stay
It when the fence is intended to remain in
one place. In this case, the long post is
given somewhat greater length, and the
block goes into the ground.
' c. c. c.
The Chautauqua Literary Circle is known
to all our readers. It has done a world of
good. It is now about to enlarge its sphere of
usef^ncss. A most important feature has
been oddoil to it.
A gentleman of wealth, who doe* not care
to have his nmne known in the matter, has
mode a free gift of a magnificent farm to tho
Chautauqua Literary Circle, and they have
accopted it. In brief, this groat society has
started an agricultural experimental station.
The association, as it now is, has a member
ship of 511,000. The new movement is to be a
circle within the Circle, so to speak. It will, of
course, lie patronized especially by young
folks all over the country, but membership
will not bo limited to these. Iu tho words of
those who have founded the now club, “any
one can join who wishes to know something
and do something and be something.” Any
child ablo to road can join.
Tho farm is a very large one, comprising
within its limits mountain and valley
and forest and flell It is covered with
orchards, fruit and Vegetable gardens, grain
fields and vast greenhouses. There will also
be a poultry yard, and accommodations for
sheep, horses, hogs and cattle. Whatever
animal or vegetable can be raised in tho lati
tude of Now York will be token iu hand and
experimented with on this farm. Its owner
is a man who has no money to get out of it,
threfore it will be nm purely in the
interests of tho advancement of agriculture.
The plan of Instruction adopted will be
similar to that already in use by the Chau
tauqua Literary Circle. The work and study
will bo directed from headquarters, which
will be the farm itself. Here there will be
what is called a question box. Any member
may write to headquarters for instructions
and gut mi answer. Email clubs or circles
can Ixi formed hi towns or country noighbor-
hixx'ls of persons working together. It will be
liest for them to combine and ask for instruc
tion for tho whole club at once.
There are somo 250 topics or branches of
instruotiou. A* soon as the organization is
properly started, small pamphlets or tracts,
calks 1 "Leaflets," will he printed, giving in-
formatiuu on all these subjects. They are
arranged for already, and will be written in
such entertaining stylh that thay will baas
retulable as a story.
Young ixxjple in city and country will bo
deeply interested in this new movomont. It
opens up measureless vistas of fascinating
work and study for them. It will accomplish
several objects. Its first one is to teach the
young people of America the dignity of labor,
especially of that oldest and grandest of all
branches of labor, agriculture. The country
boy and girl will have their rod or two of
earth, forming a real garden. They will be
taught to plant such a thing at such a time,
and note down the day of planting, watch
tho sprouting* record whon the first green
leaf jx-eps through the ground, watch how
long it takes the plant to mature, record that
on such a day the vegetables were eaten, and
report all at headquarters in due time. The
city child will have perhaps nothing more
than a window garden, but that will lie a
perpetual source of delight to him. An ordi
nary flower-pot will raise ton tender scarlet
radishes, of the flat or tui nip-sha|ied variety.
The town boy and girl will plant seed of this
or something else in fkrwer-pots, put it in a
sunny window, and watch and make a record
of sprouting, growth and maturity in tho
same manner. Tho culture of vegetables will
be taken up, especially at first, lx-cause it
will bo a novelty and will combine uso with
entertainment. Doubtless in two or three
years we shall have a raco of such promising
young gardeners,, of both sexes, as never
were known before. Fruit and grain culture
and tho care of young animals will likowise
be included in the course.
Another aim to bo attained by this new
branch of home study will be tho teaching of
pupils to oliservo and make a recon 1 of their
observations. Ono will take perhaps a new
born lamb, and measure its girth and longth,
and write them down. Books of record must
be neatly and regularly kept. At a week old,
perhaps, Mr. Lamb may bo measured once
more, and again when he is a month old, and
so on. In the breeding and hatching of
chickens like records will bo made of growth
and inodes of feeding and treatment.
We have thus enlarged at some length on
this now enterprise, because we have full
faith that it is going to be what the boys and
girls call a “big thing." At tho headquarters
itself, when a question is received, instead of
going to a book for answer, and perhaps get
ting a wrong answer, for farm books are very
far from infallible, the inquiry will bo handed
to tho poulterer, or vineyard man, or vege
table gardener, as the caso may be. The an
swer given will be tho result of his actual
experience on the farm. Bee keeping, which
may be made so profitable and fascinating an
occupation, will also be one of the industries
pursued at the farm.
The superintendent of Instruction win be
Mr. Charles Barnard, so well and favorably
known both in literary and industrial circles.
He is as industrious as the hardest working
farmer in America, an observer and Blinker,
and a man of groat versatility of talent.
Tho farm itself is one of the fertilo home
steads in the famous old Orange county,
New York state. The mystical letters at the
head of this article are the initials of the
came of tho new society. C. C. C. means
“Chautauqua Cultivators’ Circle." Make a
note of it. The organization is already re
ceiving members. Inquiries for information
are to be addressed to the Question Box,
Houghton Farm, Mountainville, Orange
county, New York.
But applications for membership must not
be made here. The payment of 25 cents enti
ties one to be a membor for two years. If
you wish to join (as who does not?) inclose 25
centB to the Circle’s business office, Mrs K. F.
Kimball, Plainfield, N. J.
Fashion in Flowers.
Tulips, Japan lilies and Jacqueminot roses
have alike had their day of fashion and fabu
lous prices. We import our styles in flowers,
as in manners and tailor costumes, from Eng
land. The London craze is now for the cul
ture of tho marvelous orchid family of
plants. Both flowers and plants bring enor
mous prices. Thero was an auction of or
chids in Loudon not long since. One plant
alone of a very raro variety, snow white,
with seven flower spikes, was sold to a Mr.
Bull, of Chelsea, for $030. This is equal to
the tulip craze of a century ago. Baron de
Rothschild gave a dinner last week at which
the table was wholly decorated with orchid
flowers. They were in one solVl hank, and
covered all the tahlo except the edge which
was required for tho plates. They cost thou
sands of dollars. Baron Ferdinand de Roths
child has tho finest collection of these plants
in Great Britain. In the present orchido-
mania which is raging, a single root of a rare
kind frequently brings as much* as $300 to
$400. Florists havo searched the equatorial
regions over for new varieties. Orchid cul
ture is a fancy which may woll absorb tho at
tention. The rarest specimens need a moist
hot-house atmosphere. Somo are air-plants,
and grow without u particle of earth. There
are one or two hardy ones growing native in
this country. Thero aro not more than two
or three fine general collections in America.
An orchid house would bo a fascinating at
traction to a country homo. Thoro are many
varieties of the family. Tfie flowers come in
such beautiful aud fantastic shapes as almost
to baiUo description.
Health Kxcrcises.
One is pleased to note that gymnastio exer
cises and gymnasiums for Indies and children
are quito tho fashion in Now York. Both
young and married women are regular at
tendants, uigl derive great boueflt therefrom.
The right kind of calisthonics strengthens
weak and crooked spines aud limbs, gives
plump, pretty chests, strong muscles, bright
eyes and dancing, red blood. It drives away
dysjiepsia. But in practicing tho exercises
the limits must lie absolutely unencumbered
by dross. The Season presents some pretty
and convenient gymnastic costumes, both for
ladies and children, as follows: “Gymnastic
costumes for children aro mostly composed of
short trousers anil a blouse of gray linen,
either ornamented with rows of stitching or
embroidered tastefully with border of bright-
colored cotton, and drawn in at tho waist
with a broad belt and buckle or clasps; for
young and married ladies flannel robes are
particularly recommonded, although dainty
arrangomeuts are made up in soft woolen
materials, aud above all dark jersey stuffs;
the pan tab ions, going down to tho middle of
tho log, are biAtouixl below, and tho blouse,
which is high and closed before, completed
by a short plaited skirt, trimmed with col
ored braid; ft colored plaited frill gexys
around tho nock opening and e- circles the
wrists; a hand, with sash how lxihliul, maki
the costume fit well to the figure, yet with
out pressure.”
Th* Schoolmaster at Home.
An international educational congress to-
called lately held a meeting in Now Orleans.
At the close the members passed the resolu
tion below. As a specimen of cloar, bril
liant, short sentence making and of under
standable English its equal will be hard to
find. It shows those "educators” to Ixi tho
light of tly', wejld. Fancy our innocent
ha!»ix learning English composition ou such
a model as tins: “We unanimously hear
testimony "to ths fact tluit tho world’s indus
trial and cotton centennial exposition is not
only more extensive in its buildings and the
space occupied, but may claim precixloneo on
tho far more just grounds that It Ims applied
tho skill gaiueil by former «W|X'ri< nee in sim
ilar exiiositloiis in such a way as lo bring to
gether all the valuable devices heretofore
discovered for showing to the eye at a glance
tho resources of a country, or tho quality and
peculiarities of the mechanical construction
end tlie uiulunless of gocxls.ainl machinery,
oll’oring in tlil* respect an exliihition of new
phases and aspects of the national wealth not
heretofore thought possible to make the ol>-
M at tiunlaw."
Notes From Athens:
IN ye, in N. Y. Mercury.]
Wo entered Athens last evening about sun
set without attracting any attention. "Wher
ever we have gone heretofore, xve have re
ceived ono continued ovation; but here in
Athens, a city that was duly iucorporuted
and supplied with city officials, fire depart
ment and floating debt, over a thousand
years Ixifore Christ, tho people showed the 1
most pitiable ignorance in relation to our
party. Here whore Palto taught school,
Aristotle presided over tho Lyceum, aud
where people are supposed to know some-
tiling, no one knew who we were.
Lm V
The people showed the most pitiable igno
rance in relation to our party.
Athens is situated in latitude 37 deg. 60
min. N.; longitude 23 deg. 38 min. E. It has
a population of about 50,000, I estimated,
though my figures may lie imperfect and
several people may have been counted twice
in making the estimate Athens lies in .the
lap of a beautiful ai dtheatre, and has
done so ever since I cai member. I do not
know whether her pare, -s are aware of it or
not.
Athens Is bounded on three sides by beauti
ful mountains and faces toward the dimpling
sea. The air is beautiful. Many years ago
when tho old-fashioned Athenians were hore,
i,000 years or more before Christ, and who
aro now no more, they used to wear their
summer clothos till late in the fall. It didn’t
cost $2.50 to feed a hard coal furnace and $5
for underclothes and overshoes and hot whisky
in Athens. Who, thon, can speak harshly of
Athens? I am sure I don’t blame her. If I
could lie in tho lap of a beautiful amphithea
tre with my little hare, pink foet in the swell
ing tide for 8,000 years, I would do it, and 1
wouldn’t care how much talk it occasioned,
either. Three thousand years is a long while
to lie, but I would be almost willing to try it.
In 404 Lysander captured Athons and abol
ished the democracy, but the democracy
couldn’t have been so powerful 404 years be
fore Christ as it was lust fall.
I wish I had more room to give the history
of Athens. I could go on for hours telling
about the beauty of tho landscape, the won
derful history of the city and the mighty
work accomplished by her orators, artists,
sculptors and statesmen, but I have not the
time or spaco to do it. I have spoken mainly
of Athens prior to the Christian ora, knowing
that my readers will most of them easily re
member what has since occurred.
Tlio Demoralizing Base Burnnr,
(Chicago Ledger.]
In our opinion the base burner has had
much to do with the increase iu devilment.,
and burning coal has been thu main cause of
the widespread of baduess. When the base
burner came on to the carpet tho bucksaw
went bonce, and tho viciousness of youth
immediately gathered headway that had pre
viously been kept und< by that wholesome
and energetic restraint . Tho modern base
burner is a thing of beauty, but it
will not be a joy forever. . It is a nickel-
plated deinoralizor of the basest kind. In the
good old times when a boy was at the wood
pile you could bo sure he wasn’t anywhere
else, and as long as you could hear the wheezy
old saw keep ng t mo to his puffing you felt
an absolute certainty your child w..s not
In the good old times, when a boy was at the
woodpile.
wearing out slux) leather on tho road to pert
ditiou. Tho saw was seldom sharpened for
fear of wearing out the teeth and making it
easior for the boy, and thero was a soothing
consolation in knowing that the amount of
exercise hi bo drawn out of a cord of wcxxl
under tlicso conditions would lie fully up
to tho maximum. The longer it took to
dissever the . ticks tho longer tho boy would
Ixi out of mischief, and families able to keep
up more than one fire hod a moderately sure
tiling iu rearing their boys to manhood in
moral safety aud muscular soundness. No
effeminate dudes in those times. While the
boy wus wrestiing with tho woodpile, cursing
his fate and resolving in his gloomy soul to
bo a pirate, you could fixil sure that ho wasn’t
robbing somebody’s orchard, and learning to
lx> n politician, if we would bask in tho sun
shine of absolute true gooiluuss tbe good old
cordwood days must lie restored.
It Will Not Work In Clilougo.
* | Philadelphia Times. I
Tho managers of roller skating rinks iu
Chicago, reCogniziug tho evils of tlioir estab
lishments, have undertaken to lay down
rules for governing the associations of
tho sexes. Among them Is one that
young men shall not speak to or skate
with young women without a formal intro
duction. But tile Chicago girl hus Ires
ingenuity than she gets credit for if slio will
not aver, when a bold young man is brought
up for flirting with her, that site hus known
him from that infaiitilu poriixl when mud
pics were the principal amusement. The
Chicago girl cannot Ixi robbed of a lover by
any such little game as this.
New York Grupldc: A Georgia lady has a
squuHh 115 years old, which Is valued at $100.
This himws how* much wiser it is to keep
your squashes 2iK) or 800 years instead of
working them up into pumpkin pios. It pays
Inti tor iu the long run.
Boston Post: It’s a wise hull who knows
her own egg ufter it has been decorated for
Easter.
BILL ARP ON FARMING.
JL Place for Freedom, I.atltudo and m
High Gra le of Happiness.
[Atlanta Constitution.!
It’s a v nder to me that everybod y don’t
go to farming. Lawyers und doctors have
to set about town and p’ay checkers, and
talk politics and wait for somebody to quar
rel or tight, or got sick; clerks and book
keepers figure and multiply and count until
they get to counting stars, and the flies on
the ceiling, and the peas in the dish, aud the
flowers on the papering; the jeweler sits by
bis window all tho year round, working on
little wheels, aud thu mechanic strikes tho
same kind of a lick every day. These peo
ple do not belong to themselves; they are
all penned up like convicts in a chain gang;
they can’t taku a day nor an hour for recre
ation, for they ore the servants of their em
ployers. Thero is no profession that gives a
man such freedom, such latitudo, and such
a variety of employment as farming.
There’s no monotony upon the farm.
There’s something new every day, and ths
changing work brings into action evory
muscle in tho human frame. We plow and
hoe, and liarrow and sow, and gather it iu
at harvest time. We look after tho horses
and cows, tho pigs and sows, and the rams
aud the lambs, and tho chickens and tho
turkeys, and geese. We cut our own wood,
and raise our own bread und meat, and don’t
have to bo stingy of it like city folks. A
friend, who visited us not long ago, wrote
back from the town that his grate don't
seem bigger than the crown of his hat since
he sat by our great big friendly fire-place.
I may bo mistaken, but it seems to me a
little higher grade of happiness to look out
upon the green fields of wheat and the leaf
ing trees and blue mountains in the distance
and hear the dove cooing to her mate, and
the whippoorwill sing a welcome to the
night, and hunt flowers and bubby blossoms
with tho children, and make whistles for ’em
and hear ’em blow, ami see ’em got after a
jumpin’ frog or a gai t r snake, aud hunt
hens’ nests, aud paddle iu tho branch and
get dirty and wet all ovor, and watch their
penitent aud subdued expression whun they
go borne, os Mra Arp looks at ’em
with amusomeut and exclaims:
“Mercy on me; did ever a poor mother have
such a set! Will I ever get done making
clothes ? Put these on right clean this morn
ing, and not another clean rag in the house I
Go get me a switch, right straight, go I I
will not stand it!” But she will stand it, and
they know it—especially if I remark. “Yes,
they ought to lie whipped.” That saves ’em,
and by tho time the switch conies the
tempest is over, aud some dry clothes are
found, a d if there is any cake in the house
they get it. Blessed motherl fortunate
children 1 What would they do without her?
Why her very scolding is music in their
tender ears. I’m thankful that there are
some things that corner in the domestic
oircle that Wall street cannot buy nor money
kings depress.
Danger from California.
[.Inter Ocean.]
Dr. Charles H. Purdy, of Chicago, whs
returned from a four month’s trip to
France, was seen by a reporter, and th*
status of tho cL lera now existing in France
was learned. The doctor also made some
predictions concerning the probability of
that terrible epidemic being made mani
fest in this country the coming summer. He
said the cholera began to exist in France
last summer. Last autumn tho mortality
from the disease was about eighty deaths •
week.
In Paris, from Jan. 1 to Jan.- 20, this year,
when he was there, there were from four to
eight deuths a week. People as a general
thing would deny that cholera existed in the
city, but Dr. Purdy says he took particular
pains to investigate, and the official records
conclusively proved that the mortality was
as above stated. During the month of Jan
uary the weather was very cold; there was
Bnow every day, and when he left there was a
foot of snow on the ground. “If," says Dr.
Purdy, “such weather cannot stamp out
cholera, who can bay what form tho disease
will assume and what will be the extent ol
its ravages when warm weather eoineo!”
The doctor thought choleru would rage in
France this summer and go north to Eng
land, and as this was tbe third year of tbe
epidemic it would very likely cross the
Atlantic and prevail iu American oities un
less sharp quarantine regulations were en
forced. He thought it woll for the profes
sion in American to be on its guard, and to
take every precaution to keep the disease
out
A Writer of XVHI’ Ballads.
[Cincinnati Enquirer.]
The writer pur excellence of war ballads
was Henry Clay Work, who died in June,
1884. To enumerate and comment on his
pieces only would make an ordinary news
paper article. The titles alone would cover
those that are most familiar, i. e.: After
naming “Marching Through Georgia,”
"Kingdom Coming,” "Babylon Is Fallen,”
and “Wake, Nicodemus,” let the reader pro
pose to himself from other equally popular
pieces during the war. Work himself wrote
besides “Corporal Bohnapps,” “Brave Boys
Aro They,” “Little Major,” “Bong of a Thou
sand Years,’’ “Our Last Grand Camping
Ground,” nnd many others loss known.
Of all those “Marching Through Georgia”
stands without a poor. It is tho only one
that has stood the test of years, and it is as
readily recognized to-day as “Yankee
Doodle.” More than 400,000 copies of the
song were sold by tho publishers. It has
been sung in every state in the Union. No
Grai d Army camp-fire is duly opened till
the boys havo fairly raised the roof with
its resounding mulody. I once saw Gen.
Bherman himself attempt to Ring the words
with ovor 4,000 school children guthered to
do him honor; but the magnitude of the
scene, tho impressiveness of tbe children’s
reverence, overcame him; his voice faltered,
and with reddened eyes he passed through
the crowded lines, grasping us many as h*
oould of thu oagerly outstretched hands.
How Bhe’d Puzzle Him.
IChroalcle "Undertones.”]
I have often wondered if there are any
secrets in a women’s secret society. 1 have
known several men’s secret societies where
there was really nothing to find out, but the
impression went abroad that the proceedings
were something ingeniously awful. I think
tills must be tho case with the women’s as
sociations. But in any case such an organi
zation is unsuited to ladies of open and hon-
eet, straight! irward dispositions. I know a
lady who belongs to an order. She was
duly initiated, but she was so little impressed
that sho forgot all about its being secret
She went to one of the meetings.
“Now, my dear,” said her lady friend
going heme, “you must ho careful that you
don’t toll your husband about this."
"Oh, VII bo careful. I’ll toll him nothing."
“Be »are you don’t.”
“1 don’t mean to toll him anything; but
I’ll puzzle him—I’ll give him the sign.’’
Buying u Bargain.
ITlie Omnibus.]
“See, dear husband, hore have I Just upon
an auetlon un album brought for only 8
murks, that costs o very where 15 marks
Thus havo I 7 marks suveo." “But was
then the album necessary been?” “That upt;
but if 1 it not bought hud. so had 1 uotuiug
saved I”
SOME REGENT APPOINTMENTS.
Portraits of Men XVllO TViil Fill Important
Federal Positions.
JOHN D. O. ATKINS.
Mr Atkins, llie nciv Indian commissioner,
will Ixi 00 years old iu June. Hois a native
of Tennessee, received a collegiate education,
and began business life at the profession of
law. When 24 years old he wus a member
of the Tennessee house of representatives,
aud at 30 a member of the state senate. In
1857 ho was elected to congress. During the
war ho was a member of tho confederate
congress. Ho was again a membor of the
United States congress from 1873 to 1877.
He has always taken pleasure in fanning, at
wbicli occupation lie lias s|xuit his time dur
ing the intervals from public duties, and
whore the call from tho president found him.
The I.line Kiln Club Prospers.
[ Detroit Free Press ]
“Qem’leu," said the president as the cash
box was about to be passed, “I want to re
mark a few observasbuus. Somebody has
bin frowin’ buttons, nails an’ punched nickels
into de contribushun box. De aiverage re
ceipts hev also steadily decreased fur do past
three mouths. I am gwino tor feller dut box
wid bouf my eyes to-night, au’ de fust but
ton drapped inter it will bo de signal fur dis
floah to settle threo inches. I doan’ ax you
to rob yourselves, but I want it distinctly
understood dat at least a dozen of us kiu de
tect do difference between do chink of a
nickel and a qu irtor.”
The box was thc|j passed in a slow and im
pressive manner by S.r Isaac Walpolo, and
the receipts counted up over $13—being a
clear gain of $7 over tlio previous meeting.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
HENRY LOWNDES MHLDROW.
Henry Lowndes Muldrow, the assistant
secretary of the interior, and acting secre
tary aud member of the cabinet during the
sickness or absence of the secretary, was born
in Lowndes county, Miss., und is close on to
50 years of age. He graduated at the Mis
sissippi university, at Oxford, and received
the degree of A.B. In 1850 and L.B. iu 1858.
He was admitted to the bar in 1859. Ho en
tered tho confederate army in 1801, and sur
rendered as a colonel of cavalry at Forsyth,
Ga, iu 1805. He was elected district at
torney for tho Sixth judicial district of Mis
sissippi, and h Id tho office from 1809 to 1871;
was elected to the state legislature iu 1875,
and to the Forty-fifth national congress from
the First (Miss.) district as a Democrat, and
re-elocted to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh
and Forty-eighth congresses.
Not Necessarily for Publication.
[Hartford (Conn.) Times. ]
Tho Now lxmdon Day, which lias twice re
cently erred in announcing the death of
people, gives notice that hereafter any young
man.bringing news of a death at an hour so
late as lo make verification impracticable,
must l>a accompanied by the r> mains, not
necessarily for publication, but as a guaran
tee of go<xl faith.
Appointment Clerk of the Treasury.
KUOKNE HIGGINS.
Though the position which Mr. Higgins hav
been chosen to fill is a com;iurativsly unim
portant one, his appointment has attractejl a-
lnuoh at tention through the discussion of hi-
past record that his portrait, which is sup
posed to be an index of character, may eu
able the reader to form his own opinion in
regard to his. Mr. Higgins is just 60 yeai>
old,and was bornand raised In Baltimore,Md ,
graduating from Georgetown college with
the highest honors. He early entered a inoi
cantile life, and is said to be one of the most
expart accountants in the country. He ha-
served as a member of tho Baltimqi o citv
council, and Inn been a member of the legis
luturu of Maryland, anil lutor was secretary
of the minute of that state.
He Found Ills Nose Out of Joint,
(South Clinton Gazette.|
^ oung Blubhilt hus boon making culli at
stated intervals for some timo. Last Sunday
night be called, us usual, und ufter waiting
an horn- iu the purl or tho gild’s little bro(lnr
cuiue in and In a rather sheepish maimer
utked to see Blaliliitt’s nose.
u, y UOMII" exclaimed lilahbitl
” do you Want to see tny nose for?”
“Will, lMummir Plunkitt wus ever la t
night and Maria promised to many him ui d
nm suit she thought you’d find your nose
out of Joml when you culled uguiu."