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SANDERSVILLE, GA„ TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 21. 1883.
NUMBER 33.
GENERAL NEWS.
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA„
Will practice in the countlea of Washington,
Jefferson, Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkinson,
»ud In the U. 8. Court* for the Southern Dls-
trlctof Georgia.
Will act a* agent* In buying, selling or
reining Real Estate,
office on West aide of Pabllo Square,
Octll-tf
G. W. H- WHITAKER,
DENTIST,
Bandersvllle, G*.
i’BRils CASH.
Office at hla Residence, on Harris street.
Awll 3d. 18*0.
flow Diamonds arc Cut.
"Tliero are three processes necessary
to he (roue, through with between the
Vou (?li stone and the diamond as you boo
>t liere," replied a jewoler. "“First, a
1'ioco of stone the required size must he
cut oft. To do this wo use a circnlni
Juw made of slieot iron and without
teeth. It is worked like a woodworker’s
and two men stand tit the treadle.
Due man holds the stone to be cut
I'Khtly against the edgo of the saw,
''.'lo tlio other, using a small leather
•upped in oil, applies diamond dust te
j edge of tho saw. Tho saw is made
of very ductile metal, and tho particles
?,* diamond dust becoming firmly set iu
t, soon wear through tho hardest stono.
V 10 ''. Hie piece of diamond passes to tho
utting table, upon which is strapped n
t'nl I 1 ",","' ng to tLo top of tho
able. The stone is fastened by cement
In’ “ lu pnd of a stick six inches long.
i 10 lapidary takes the stick in his riglit
aim and holds the stono firmly against
ry® wheel until one facet is ground down.
dust aud water aro constantly
1 plied to tho wheel. The tfiblo and
u 'd’ er facets of the stono are cut this
r,n,i am M he H,ono >s then removed from
.^adjusted to the stick before the
,.f' . *7 cuts the under sides, callets and
ill.,,' 11 ! 11 ?, 8 f aceta - The stouo is manip-
in‘ e ‘‘ die same in the third or polisli-
’flie l"i° Ce f a ‘ W ‘ y cutting process,
of ti,, H < dowover, iR composed mainly
, )(J „,; ft ''d tripoli and rotten sfnpe aro
di the polishing process,’*
Sixty bushels of poach stones were
reeeivod at Ilawthorno, Fla., lust week,
which will he planted out for a nursery.
A new hotel, costing $500,000, is to be
built in New Orleans before tho Exposi
tion opens.
During tho year no less than 18,080
homesteads have been entered in Florida.
Tur, oldest man in Piko County, Ala.,
is said to bo Thomas Grimes, of Spring
Hill. He is 100 yoars old.
Ho seldom lives frugally, who lives by
ihanee IIopo is always liberal, and
they thattruathcr promises make little
temple of revelling to-day on tho profits
if to-morrow.—Johnson.
It is estimated, so says the Falatka
Heridd, that flvo hundred thousand alli
gators wero killed in Florida last year.
By the census of 1880 tliero were in
Alabama 1,885 physicians and surgeons,
708 lawyers, 1,214 clergymen, and 74
journalists.
A deposit of marl has boon discover
ed on tho Conecuh rivor, in Alnbama,
which promises to ho vnlunble for com
pounding with other elements as a ferti
lizer.
Two cypress trees have recontly been
cut in Sumpter county, Fla. From ono
83,000 shingles wero made, and from the
other 37,000 shingles and 0,100 clap
boards wero made.
Wolves are so plentiful in tho Block
Mountains of North Carolina that they
aro poisoned with strychnine, and their
deprodationB render farming aud sheep-
raising very uncertain.
A Gum tree in Florida was fired the
other day, and tho occupants summarily
evicted wero a swarm of hats, followed
by flying-squirrels, scroecli-owls, various
other night birds, two coons and one
'opossum.
It is probable that a telegraph lino will
bo built from tho cnhlo of tho Western
Union Company through tho Everglades
to Jupiter Inlet, on tho eastern coast of
Florida. A survey of the country is to
bo made as oorly as possible.
Pensacola Commercial: Tho moss
crop of thisStato is worth more than the
cotton, and can ho put on tho market
with very littlo expense. Tho demand
oxceeds the supply, and there is not a
county in tho Stnto in which tho product
is not now going to [waste.
TnE dogs at tho Louisvillo bench show
wero valued at $250,000. Fortunately
for Iho dog raising industry, they aro
exempted from taxation. Tho same
value in sheep would bo annually taxed
about $2,500. Yerily, tho dogs aro hav
ing their day.
Leeds is spoken of as the next mining
and manufacturing town in Alabama. Its
situation is excellent, being in the bosom
of tho great mineral sources, with plenty
of water power around, and a fino brnc-
ing climate. Several wideawake mon
aro already at work developing the plaoo.
Mississhti hns $7,000,000 invested in
manufacturing industries, a gain of 100
por cent, in fivo years, and Alabama has
$5,000,000 in tho iron production. Tho
lastSouth Carolina legislature chartered
nine now cotton factories with an aggre
gate capital of $1,725,000, and in three
years 275,139 spindles have boon added
to tho manufacturing capacity of the
Carolinas, Alabama and Georgia.
A Machine for picking cotton has,
tho Charleston News says, boon satisfac
torily tested in Sumpture, South Carolina-
Its capacity is two hundred pounds pot
hour. The cost of picking tho late crop
by hand was $50,000,000, or at the rate
of $7 por halo. The cost of picking by
machine will he $1 per hale. It is esti
mated that a third of the crop has been
left in tho field in seasons past because of
lack of hands. Tho machine will remedy
this.
Montgomery Advertiser and Mail:
Tho number of persons who emigrated
to Texas and other portions of the West
and aro returning home is astonishing,
On one of the north-bound trains of the
M. and M. road a fow nights ago, eighty
of tho passengers, and on another suc
ceeding, sixty wore returning from Texas
to their former homes in Alabama and
adjoining States. Most of them wore
former citizens of this State.
The original seal of the Confederate
States, which is of massive silver, is still
in the bonds of an ex-Confederate sol
dier, who treasures it carefully. It con
sists of a device representing an eques
trian portrait of Washington (after the
statue which surmounts his monument
in the Capital Square at Richmond), sur
rounded with a wreath composed of tho
principal agricultural products of tho
Confederacy (cotton, tobacco, sugai-
cano, corn, wheat), and having around it
the words, “Tho Confederate States of
America, Twenty-second February,
Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-two,” with
tho following motto: “Deo Vindice.”—
Tho Confederate monument at Magnolia
Cemetery to file memory of the dead
I who fell in defense of Charleston bears
on one of its faces an enlarged ropresen-
tatien of the groat seal of the Coufedq-
J rate States,
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Germany has 500 mills for tho manu
facture of wood pulp. Such a degree of
perfection lias been attained in the treat
ment that evon for tho better qualities
ot paper ttio wood pulp is substituted
for pulp made from raRs. It constiiutos
75 per cent of the paper stock usad
throughout Germany,
The Methodist Episcopal Mission at
New York, appropriated $15,482 for mis
sionary work in Bulgaria and Turkey,
$34,000 for Mexico,., iuuI $85,048 far J*.
pan. The total appropriations for for
eign rnhsions is $370,898. Tho appro
priations for domestio missions are •
Arizona, $8,000; Block Hills, $3,000,'
and Dakota $13,525.
Large fortunes aro rare in Switzerland
and tho salaries of public functionaries
aro very modest. Tho president of the
confederation rccoivcs for his sorvicos
only $3,000 a year: few judges receive
more than $1,250, and tliero is probably
no hank manager iu ho country with n
salary of more than twice that amount.
A man with an income of $2,500 is con
sidered very well off indeed, and to have
$5,000 a year is to bo “passing rich.”
General Wright, chief of onginecs,
wants in tho noxt fiscal year $36,730,485,
for use on the rivers nnd harbors. And
even this sum does not include the work
under tho direction of the Misaisgipp
river commission. He proposes to ex
pend $90,000 in Charleston harbor,
$135,000 on the Savonnan river, and
(50,000 in Cumberland sound. The es
timates for tho Atlantio cost are for car
rying on operations on 145 of the 151
improvements in progress. They pro
vide for the completion within the com
ing fiscal year of 75 of them.
While the men nnd boys of Amerios
were drinking eight gallons apiece of
boor nnd whiskoy lost year they did not
exhaust tho stock of the manufacturers
in this country. They exported over
5,000,000 gallons of spirits and supplied
Europe with 285,000,000 pounds of to
bacco. Tho tobacco wont nlmost entirely
to England, France aud Germany, wliilo
tho liquor found its way over almost the
entire arcs of tho civilized world. In
spite of the fact thrt wo used 75,000,000
gallons of our own whiskoy in tho post
yoar, thoro wero imported 8,000,000 gal
lons of spirits of various sorts, which,
by tho way, is moro than wo exported in
tho yoar. It is proper to odd, that Iho
internal rovonuo tax collected upon this
whisky, boor and tobacco during tho
past fiscal year was $140,000,000. and
that tho internal revenuo system, since
its inception in 1863, has brought into
the treasury a total of $3,087,376,125,05.
An adroit roasoncr onco wrote an essay
on tea as a cause of cri i o in which ho
contended that this mild beverage wrick
ed moro nerves and ruined moro consti
tutions than all tho various forms of
alcohol combined. Tho consumption of
toa is increasing rapidly and tea drinking
is becoming moro nnd more of a social
custome in England and America. Sugar
is going out of favor at fashionable Amo-
rican tea parties, and cream is losing
ground. The French drink their tea
very sweet aud help themselves to sugar
with their fingers. Tho Russians, who
set many of our social customs for us,
prefer lemon with both hot and cold tea
and seldom uso sugar. The luxury of
tea drinking is said to ho offered in its
most tempting form in Russia. Their
best brand costs ten dollar* a pound aid
its proper preparation for tho table is one
of tho national fino arts.
AT THE MILL.
What did yon mo, my fspnor?
Gray will* of wood and stono,
A mill wheel turning to grind your grist)
Aud turning for that alone.
You hear tho miil-stnno'i tnurtmir,
■ The Kplaxli of the tumhllig rill,
A* yon plod with your oxfn slowly down
i of tiiil
Tho sunny slopos i
(LIU.
Tho lioavcnB are blue above ypu,
There's sun and shade on tho road;
You touch tho brlndlo backs of your team
And rockon tho bags In tho load.
You clip tho heads of tho daisios,
And woiulor that God should ncod
To litter tho Holds with tho staring blooms
Of s stubborn snd worthless wood.
, You're honest snd troo and sturdy;
More give mo your brawny hand— •■
A singei of idle songs, I groet
Tho farmer who tills the land,
Plod homo with your grist in tho gloaming;
Tho baby crows at the gate,
And over tho hill by tho pasture bars
Tlio lowing cattlo wait.
Wliot do I soo, my farmer?
Tho mill and tho rill nnd the whoel,
The moss on tho shingles, the mould on th»
stones,
And tho floating mists of moaL
But tho poet's vision is cicaror,
Revealing tho hidden things;
I sco the rivulot flow to tho sea
From cool, oloar, woodland springs.
I mo tho brown Holds quicken
With tho green of the growing wheat,
When tho bwaUow's a-tllt at the bending
caves,
And tho brcatli of tho morn Is sweet.
I soo tlio swaying reapers
Iu Uelils of tho golden grain;
And oxon that pant In tho summer sun
Yoked to a loadod wain
I soo white sails oarconlng
On tho opal-tinted seas,
When tho silvory sunlight glints the waves.
That aro etlrrod by fresnoning brooze,
I mo tho storm-rack gathor,
Hint blots out tlio evening star;
And flung in tho foam of a billow's orost,
A drowned man lashed to a spar.
I soo in tho olty's shadows
A flguro that creops amUscrawls
“Give blood or broad,” wliilo the wine flows
rod
And thoro's mirth in the city halls.
I sco a rich man's darlings,
As fresh as tho rose's bloom,
And tho gaunt, whito face of a little child,
Dead, in a barren room.
Plod homo with your grist;my farmer.
Nor liccd how tlio wido world faros;
Tho oyes that aro clearest aro Baddcst alway,
With their burden of alien caros,
Hushed is tho miU-Btone's murmur,
Tlio dripping wheel is still;
And over tho dusky valo I hoar
Tho aong of tho whip-poor-will.
— Boston Tranteripl.
OTHER PEOPLE’S EYES.
Some startling facts ore disclosed in
tho report of tho commissioners of
internal revenuo. Lost year tho tobacco
factories in this country used 11,653,339
pounds of licorice in fixing their goods
for tho market. Besides this they used
11,257,100 pounds of sugar to make tho
stuff tasto good. The total amount of
tobacco manufactured in tho United
States last year was 110,000,000 pounds.
So that it is fair to conclude that ten per
cont. of the tobacco chewed by free
American citilens, is licorice and another
ten per cent, sugar. New Jersey takes
tlieleadin the manufacture of tobacco,
with Missouri a close second. North
Carolina third, and New York fourth.
In the manufacture of cigars New York
leads tho list, having 3,893 factories and
making a miilion cigars a year, The to
bacco factories and importers supply for
every male person in the country ten
pounds of chewing tobacco, three and a
half pounds of smoking tobacco, two
hundred and fifty cigars, and half a
pound of snuff. The whiskey showing
is still worse. Every male person in the
country coHld have had six gallons
piece lost year if the quantity cconsum
ed had been ebually divided, while there
was enough malt liquor destroyed to
furnish every man, woman and child
with ton gallons each, The delightful
luxuries, while they regaled tho Amcri
am YQtqr, paid the treasury $140,000,00(1
Slowly Alice Austin onme back from
(he garden gate, where she hod just
parted with her young husband. Tlio
Juno sunshino was os golden as when
they had left tho door, arm in arm; the
roses glowed os brightly upon tho trellis
over the gate; tho birds sung as blithely
among the apple-blossoms; but her face
bore a shadow tlint it had not carried
wheu slio left tho sunny bre'nkfnst-room,
and her eyes had not a glance for bird
or bloom.
Entering tho house, she wont to the
bay-window overlooking tho pretty
garden, and stood looking idly out a few
moments, thou taking up a pair of scis
sors, began impatiently to clip tho dead
leaves and blossoms from the pants
growing in the window.
All this was observed by qui6t Aunt
Ruth, sitting by tho opposite window,
who filially said, in her soft voice :
Alice, I think I heor Bess calling 1”
Ob 1 yes; I suppose so 1" answered
Alice. “I nover get a moment for my
self 1 I don’t see why she can’t sleep
this morning; I wanted to do a little
writing in time for tho morning post.
But I suppose 1 must give it up, as I
have to everything else I Now there is
Mrs. Mars ton—tlio never sees her baby
until he is all washed and dressed' and
brought in by the nurse in the morning,
and never has to be kept awake nights
or deprived of any pleasure days by tho
care of him. She always keeps a nurse
lor him, and only lias him with herself
wheu she feels like it; hut I am just tied
to my baby day and night 1”
“Why, Alice 1” said Aunt Ruth, sur
prised at this outburst, “I’m sure you
iave tho best little blessing of a baby
that ever lived 1 She’s os good as gold,
tho darling 1” and she arose and went
into tho next room, from which slio
presently returned with a plump baby,
seven or eight months old, who looked
at her mother with placid violet eyes
and contentedly sucked her thumb.
“There, now 1” said Aunt Ruth, as Blie
tumbled and rolled the laughing infant
into its mother’s lap. “Look at tun
blossom of a baby and then talk to me
of Mrs. Marston’s poor little starveling!
I feel os if I should cry every timo I see
that child ! Turned off, starved on a
bottle, cared for or neglected, nobody
knows which, by a hired nurse—why, it
may just as well bo a hospital foundling
and be done with it! What tho good
Lord permits some folks to have children
for I’m sure I don’t see, nor what some
mothers’ hearts are made of 1” with
which vigorous remarks Aunt Ruth sub-
ward and John Marston, hi means and
businoss position, wero eqnal. But now,
at the end of three years, we are living
just os when we begsn our married lire,
while they liavo moved into a fine house
and she lins—well, you have been there,
anutio, and yon know how her house is
furnished, and she scorns to have no
moro household enre than if she were
boarding, and does very littlo of her sow
ing, either.”
“And so I suppose she is a great deal
happier than you are, isn’t she?" in
quired Aunt Ruth.
“Oh 1 1 don’t moan that,” said Alice:
“that conldn’t very well be. No,” she
continued, thoughtfully, “she does no!
seem very hnppy, with all her luxuries.
You know slio looks fretted almost nl
ways, and it is said that her husband h
not very devoted to his home. Bonn
say he drinks heavily. I’m sure I don’t
know about that; I seldom see him when
wo go there, but I think ho seems mo
rose nnd unsocial.”
“Is that what you envy her? Or is it
her puny baby or her idleness,?” quiet I3
queried Aunt Ruth.
“Oh 1 no, no, nol” laughed Alice,
now lier merry self again, “I don’t sup
pose I really envy her at all I But i’ll
confess the whole truth, auntie: I’ve
lieen feeling rather shabby for quite n
while, in house nnd dross, and this morn
ing I asked Edward to lot mo refurnish
the parlors and take tho presold furni
ture for other rooms, aud I10 looked
sober and said he was afraid not, lit
would think of it, nnd, somehow, it dis
appointed me. I tnought wo conld af
ford it ns well ns our neighbors onn af
ford their luxuries or I wouldn’t have
asked it."
Aunt Bath’s keen eye ran over the
pretty room nnd glnnccd through the
open door into tho parlors beyond. They
wero not expensively furnished, nnd yoi
Aunt Ruth thought she had never seen
rooms moro taBtoful or attractive.
“Yes, I know, auntie," said Alice, an
swering tho look, “our rooms nre cozy,
and usually I feel quite satisfied with
them. But”—here slio paused a mo
ment and then, with a blush aud a hall
sTiy look at Aunt Ruth, she continued,
“well, 1 will juBt toll the truth to you,
nuutie; I’m afraid I see too often with
other peoplo’s eyes I Usually, my little
home, with its sunny rooms and neat
furnishing, looks pleasant and pretty to
mo, nnd I feel ns content as a bird in its
nest; but ns soon ns Mrs. DeLong 01
Mrs. Morins or any of our wealthy lad>
friends eome in, I at once begin to coii
frost niy homo with theirs and see how
cheap and shabby it must look to them,
just coming from their elegant sur
roundings, until I Awl as inferior as mj
home looks. 1 suppose it seems silly ti
you, Aunt Ruth, but it is true ?”
Here she paused a moment, but at
Aunt Ruth only looked at her ns if slit
expected her to go on, she continued:
“And when Jennie Marston none
hore, with her baby all dressed in lace
and embroidery, looking so white and
dainty, like n lily, nnd Jennie looks
around with that grand, languid air she
has, ns if Bhe pitied me for having to
look after my own homo and bnby, it
makes mo feel as if I wouldn’t do it an
other day 1 and yet I am angry with my
self for lotting her make mo fool so.
“Tho other day, when she was iu and
Bessy was sleepy ns I hold her, she snid:
“ ‘Dear mol whataslavo you make
of yourself to your baby, don’t yon,
Alice ? I’m suro I couldn’t stand it I
Why don’t you get a nurse-girl? It
would save you a world of worry.’ ”
Savo worry 1” interjooted Aunt Rutli.
“Poor littlo follow I I promised him
that slio would soon go away, nnd when
my friend returned I told her tho whole
story.
At first tho girl denied it nil and snid
that Fred was a tcrriblo liar; but when I
told her what I hod seen, she dropped
her mask and showed herself iu lur real
ohnracter.
She hated tho
said, and wished sho
"I should worry myself to (Joatli if you
had 0110 ! Only tho other day I saw Mrs.
Marstou’s uurso out with tho baby in its
littlo carriage, aud she was talking and
laughing with a bold-looking fellow at
her sido, pushing tho carriage along
without looking, when baby’s long dress
the wheel in some way
sqnnlling brat, she
1 had shaken its life
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sided into her chair again and begau to
count the stitches in the little wool shoe
destined to cover the fnt foot of baby
Bess,
“Well, auntie, I didn’t mean that 1
don’t love my baby," said Alice, with a
moro cheerful face, “nor that I don t
like to care for her. But then, you know,
there aro times when even the best ol
mothers got weary and the best of ba
bies a little exacting. And sometime!-
when I think of Jennie Marston, with
nothing to do but to enjoy herself, and
see her baby, bo beautifully dressed, oni
with its nurse in its costly carriage, I'm
afraid 1 feel a little bit envious, espe
cially, Aunt Ruth, as I don’t see why 1
should not bo able to have os much ni
she; for we were married at about tin
same time, i»nd everybody Hwt
got caught in t« D 1 iu nuuiu tthij 1
nnd tho next moment ho was draggec
forward over the side and would have
had his head dashed agninst the stone
pavement if I had not sprung forward
and caught him. The girl wna very
much frightened aud begged mo so earn
estly not to toll Mrs. Marston that ‘1
E remised not to mention it if she would
e more careful in the future. But
toll you, Alice, I don’t believe in tho
whole nurse-girl system. I’ve seen too
much of it 1 It is unnatural and unmer
ciful I Why, mothers act nowadays as
if they were ashamed of their children,
instead of being proud of them and es
teeming them as tho best gifts of God 1”
“Neither do I believe in the common
practice of giving a girl, or even, a wo
man, entire charge of a child,’’ replied
Alice, “but only as a relief to mothers
at times.”
“That may do,” said Aunt Ruth, “if
they can be trusted; but how is one to
know? A lady friend of mine had a
nurse-girl for her baby—a sickly little
thing that couldn’t hold its head up
alone—aud she was never done telling
what a jewel that girl wns—so kind to
liahy, so devoted, so willing, and loved
baby so much 1 And she paid hor extra
wages for hor services. One day I went
in there and found my friend was out,
hut was told that she would soon return,
so I waited for her. In tho back parloi*
the baby fretted and moaned in tho arms
of the nurse. This lasted some time,
when I heard it make a peculiar sound
or two and stop crying. I leaned for
ward in ny chair and looked through
tho folding-doors. There sat the nurse-
girl, with set teeth, shaking that poor,
feeble little baby till it lay back hushed
aud gasping, too weak and breathless to
cry, while its little brother, four years
old, stood by with a frightened look, but
not saying n word.
“For a moment I was speechless and
bewildered. Then I called, in a quiet
voico, ‘Freddie, come hero and soo me a
littlo while, until mamma comes.’ He
came to my side, and, going to the far
ther side of the room, where the nurse
could see, but not hear, me, I took him
upon my lap, and said, in a low voice,
‘Freddie, does Annie often treat baby
like that?’
“He looked np at me, and then, with
a frightened glance over his shoulder,
whispered, ‘Yep, ma’am; lots of times 1
She shakes him awful—till he gets white
and she has to put water in his face I
Air! she slaps and pinches me, too, but
she said if I ever told mamma she would
kill me and baby, too. O dear ! I wish
she would gq fiivay, I d°h’t HHll
<ircoAful f
out long ago, nnd said slio would lmv*
douo it, too, if it hadn't been for keeping
her big wages.”
On 1 oh 1 how dreadful!” cried Alice,
catching baby Bess np from tho carpet,
where she lay kicking and cooing, amj
cuddling her dose to her bosom, as if In
shield her from impending danger. “O
my baby, my birdling 1" sbo murmured,
"you shall novof go from your mother’s
loving care 1 No ono shall ever have tho
lower to harm you while your mother
ivosl"
“Of courso, all oases ore not so bnd as
this was,” continued Aunt Ruth, “but I
cannot toll you bow many instances I
have known of evils arising from moth
ers trusting their young children to the
care of ovil or careless nurses. One Indy
that I know has a beautiful little daugh
ter who will bo a cripplo for life boenuso
of a fall from the arms of a careless
uurso. Another was scalded in n bath
until it died. But, my doar, I did not
menu to rolnto a chapter of horrors to
you; I only wanted to impress it upon
fou that it should be tho pleasure, as it
,s the duty, of every healthy mother to
look after the safety and welfare of her
ohildrcn with her own eyes, and give
them freely of her ir. vo and caro.
“I liavo'loved you tho moro dearly for
the devotion you have manifested toward
your husband and child.
“ I'm afraid you will think me a prosy
old thing, but I moan to have my talk
out while ‘ the spirit moves mo.' You
were spenkiug of seeing with other peo
ple’s eyes. Now, lot mo tell yon wlint
other peoplo’s eyes see I You know
Edward was like my own son, nnd it was
S o that 1 should feel a koon in
is ohoice of n wife. Bo it was
with n mixture of hope aud fear tlint I
left my distant homo for my visitto you.
Of courso, I knew something of his cir
cumstances. I had helped him start in
business, and ho had been like a good
son in keeping me in his now life. But
I wondered how his now wifi would turn
tho tide of his future. I know Edward
was a young man of good judgment, hut
love, you know, is blind, nnd I did not
know what folly tho little god might
liavo led him into. So I kept question
ing all along my journey whether I
should find you idlo and fino and
extravagant, spending os fast ns
your husband can earn, or whether you
would bo a good, loyal little partner iu
the business that would one day muko
yon independent.
“You didn’t know yon stood under
tho oyes of a grim old critio that day.
little Alice, when yon como out to wel
come the old motlier-aunt 1 But I took
you all in, husband, wife, baby, and
home, and had my verdiot all ready in
fifteen minutes. 1 said to myself. ‘ The
heart of her husband may safely trust iu
her I ’ and, my door, I have seen no rea
son to change my mind during my thros
months’ visit in your homo I ”
“ What 1 not after all I liavo told yon
this morning ? ” asked Alico, laughing
ns sho kissed Aunt Ruth’s rosy cheek.
"No, not oven after that 1 ” exclaimed
Aunt Ruth. “You nre only a human
littlo girl. And if Edward can afford it,
it is quite right that you should make
your homo just as pretty as you can.
But, after all, it is not rich furniture
that makes a homo pleasant, though it
may help. And Mrs. DeLong, who in
your imagination was scorning your
homo, looked around enviously tho last
timo sho was hero and said, ‘ Mrs. Aus
tin has the pleasantest house in the
place. It is just like stepping into fairy
land to como into her rooms. They are
just as dainty as herself.’ And Mis.
Hnrland replied, ‘They aro not much
iiko tlioso stiff parlors of Mrs. Marston'h
—nevor a flower or liook or bit of work
iround. I always feel as if a funeral
had just moved out of them.’ They did
uot say this to me, but I was in the buck
parlor and benrd them talking while
they were waiting for you.”
Alico turned and looked ovor tho
rooms in silence. The flowers bloomed
brightly in the window, her canary
trilled softly in his gilded engo, fine pic
tures adorned tho walls, and between
the windows, whose soft curtnius were
lifted by the soft June wind, stood tho
fine piano that was Alice’s delight.
“lama very foolish little woman,”
she said at last; “ my home is quite
good enough—at least until we aro rich
er. So Edward needn’t look sober over
new furniture to-night.”
At night as Edward came up I he gar-
len walk with Alice’s arm in his, and
■‘Queen Bess” occupying her usual
perch on his shoulder, he said :
“ Yon can liavo your new furniture,
littlo wife, os soon as you like.”
How is that?” asked Alice. “I
thought you said this morning that you
did not think we could not afford to fur
nish just yet.”
So I did," he answered, “but
going to have tho worry tff toartng
everything up in our homo again this
spring, now that it iB all settled for the
Biimiuer, so you can use your moneyM
you intended, and I’ll tako it—with in
terest, rememnor, sir—by and by,"
“ Thank you, my good littlo wifo I
Yon slinll hnvo your interest, n»d * it
shall be compound interest, too l” was
her reword , .
A few nights after, Edward oame
homo with a troubled faoo. "Wliot is
it, Edward ?” cried Alice, quick to road
his every look.
“I liavo dreadful nows for yon," ho
answered. “ A torriblo thing has hap
pened. It becamo known to-dny that
John Marston was ruined. Ho has lost
every dollar lie owned in the world, and
forged a check for five hundred dollars.
His creditors came pi and swept every
thing out of his hands, and in less Hinn
two hours afterward the offiqers wero
after him on a charge of forgeiy, Alice,
an hour ago I helped carry my old friehd
home, dead by his own hand I ” ' “
At thoso words Alico dropped into, a
chnir, pole and speechless.
“And Jennie—poor Jennio?” .sho
said at last. “ Oh ! I must help her | ”
iod. " I left
“ Poor woman I ” ho replied. ' “ I left
her, perfectly insane with iior grief,
screaming, lamenting, and declaring
tlint sho alone was to blame for his death.
It was a torriblo scor.c—ono that I shall
nover forget. And only two or three
years ago liis future locked so fair ; and
lie wns such ft good-hearted, kindly-
poor John I poor John I ” And Edward
turned away, overcomo by old memories.
Erring John Marston was laid away
with more pity Ilian blame. His wifo
nover recovered her reason after tho
shook of liis death, aud Edwnrd and
Alico Austin nover allowed themsolves
to indulge in any extravagances be
cause they fear wlint might bo seen by
other people’s eyos.—Arthur’* Maga
zine.
thought it over and concluded that you
deserved to have your wishes gratified.
You are not a very extravagant littlo
woman 1” ,
“ But how do you manage to have the
money to spare to-night when you did
not have it this morning ? ” persisted
Alice.
“Well, Madam Curiosity," laughed
Edward, “ I have been plotting a little
extension of my business, and had laid
by a little sum for that purpose. But i
have mode up my mind to wait another
year instead of making you wait. Now,
are you satisfied with my acoount ?”
“ Have you made any change in your
arrangements to-day ? ’ asked Alico.
“ Oh I I told Harland that I must de
cline his offer, that’s all 1 ” replied her
husband.
“ Well, then, to morrow you oan tell
him that you accept it,” said Alice.
“ What’s the matter?” cried Edward,
in surprise. “Do you tliink I’m not
willing to do what you ask? It is all
right, my darling, and the mouey is ns
free to you as water 1 ”
“I know it, Edward,” replied Alice,
“but I’ve changed my mind; that is
WPfna»’p privilege, V°U l*»QW, l’«J »o4
Deluged Willi Molten Iron.
A recent English paper gives the fol-
inwing account of tho tcrriblo accident
which oconrrod at tho time of tho moot
ing of the Iron and Steel Institute, at
Middlesbrough: “Several well-known
members visited tho Northeastern Steel
Company’s works in tho marshe". This
company is a now oue and tlieir works
by tlieir magnitude at onco attract tho
attention of tho visitors to tho Tecs.
“Tho gentlemen wore watching tho
emptying of a Bcssenior converter,
which contained over ten tons of molten
iron. In duo course tho red-hot liquid
was poured into a hullo and thou riusod
by moans of an hydraulio lift ou _ to a
‘bogey,’ or railway wagon, to which a
small locomotive was attached. When
backing, in order to couplo with the
bogey, the engine jerked wlint is colled
a ‘clutch’ from its place, and thus threw
the ladlo with its tcrriblo molten con
tents out of balance. In n moment tho
whole of the burning liquid on fell upon
tho platform like a thunder-shower.
There wero fivo or six visitors standing
close to tho ladlo, together with about a
dozen workmen, and it is stated that
their lives wero barely preserved by tlio
loud warning shouts raised as soon ns it
was soon that tho clutch was parting.
“Among those standing noar at tho
time wns Mr. Samuel Davison, owner of
tho Horliury Iron and Stoel works, near
Wakefield. Ho wns apparently one of
the most interested of tho observers iu
tho operations, for, remarking to n
friend, ‘I should liko to sec. tills,’ ho
stepped to within a few feet of the ladle.
When tho shout nroso, Mr. Green, of
Monmouthshire, who was by-tlio sido of
Mr. Davison, rushed along tho platform
calling on tlio other to follow. Instead
of running, Mr. Davison endeavored to
escape by jumping on one of the lower
gii’dors—other reports say by springing
at a lift tlint was close at hand. How
ever this might bo, before he conld ex
tricate himself tho molton mctnl closed
around his legs liko a sea-wavo on 11
shore.- His clothes wero burnt from his
body, liis face was charred so os to ho
unrecognizable, his hair and whiskers
hail disappeared, nnd, says tho dreadful
account, ‘liis whole body bore marks of
fearful injury.’
“The doctors could do nothing for tho
unfortunate gentleman, and ho died that
night, after many hours of anguish too
tcrriblo to think of. Several workmen
wero also seriously injured nnd among
them a lad who hod oqly just recovered
from a fraoturo of the skill!. ' Tho
clothos of many of the gentlemen wero
completely riddled by the molton shower
us if by hi -1 lets.”
now to Stuff Tomatoes.
Julia Corzon says:—Fry quarter of n
pound of sausages or sausage-meat; wash
b dozen ripe, firm tomatoes of medium
size, cut a small slice from the stem end
of encli one, nnd scoop out tlio interior
with a tea-spoon; chop this part of the
tomatoes flue, mix it thoroughly with
the fried sausago, season tho force-meat
thus made highly with salt and pepper,
and then use it to stuff tho tomatoes; sot
the stuffed tomatoes iu a dripping-pan
just large enough to hold them, dust
cracker or bread crumbs over the. tops,
put a very small bit of butter on each
one, and then hake them for half au
hour in d hot oven; remove them from
tho dripping-pan to allot platter, without
breaking them, and serve them hot, with
a gravy made as follows: After dishing
the tomatoes, set tho dripping-pan iu
which they were baked over the tiro,
stir into it a fable-spoonful of dry flour,
aud let it brown; then stir in a pint of
boiling water; season the gravy -highly
with salt nnd pepper, let it boil for a
minute, aud thou serve it with tho atulled
tomatoes.
Plantation Pleasantries - -Dero’s a
limit to poverty in dis country. No man
gits too po’ ter keep a dog. I liavo
know’d whisky ter make a plain, dull
speaker ’pear eloquent an’ witty, but it
was tho listeners had drunk it. Do man
dat thinks cast-iron pistols can’t hurt
nobody sutinly uebber fired oft inanv or
’em. De agricultural colleges must be
er long way off, ’cause heap er farmer
boys goes off ter ’em an’ uebber gits
back ter de farms ngin.—Texas Siftings.
One ungrateful man does an injury tq
nlj who stand ifi iteei} of gill