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The Sylvania Telephone. C. H. MEDLOCK, Editor and Publisher. YOU. I. Going Home. Kiss me when my spirit llies. * Let the beauty of yonr eyes Beam ulpng the waves ol death While I draw my parting breath, And am borne to yonder shore Where the billows beat no moro, And tho notes of endless spring Through the groves immortal ring. I am going home to-night, Out of blindness into sight, Out of weakness, war und pain Into power, peaoo and gain; Out of winter, gale and gloom, Into summer breath and bloom! From t he wand’rings of V past I am o.'.in,. bx Kiss m3' lips and let me go, Nearer swells the solemn flow 01 the wond’rous stream that rolls By the border-land of souls— I can catch sweet strains of songs Floating down from distant throngs, And can leel the touch of hands Reaching out from angel bands. Anger’s frown and envy’s thrust, Friendship chilled by cold distrust, Sleepless night and weary morn, Toil in fruitless land forlorn, Aching head and breaking heart, Love destroyed by slander’s dart, Drilling ship and darkened sea, Over there will righted be, Sing in numbers low and sweet, Let the songs of two worlds meet— We shall not be sundered long— Like the fragments of a song, Like the brancees of a rill Parted by the rock or hill, We shall blond in tune and time, Loving on in perfect rhyme. When the noon-tide of your day's Yields to twilight’s silver haze, Ere the world recedes in space, Heavenward lift j'our tender face, Let your dear eyes homeward shine, Let your spirit call for mine. And my own will answer you From the deep and boundless blue. S witter than the sunbeam’s flight I viill cleave the doom of night, And will guide yon to the land Where our loved ones waiting stand, *■ ftL–s is ol the blest, —They will km%jome you to rest- . On the isle 01 VS yoiU'i «ves When - ^ the parted streams of life Join beyond all jarring strife, And the flowers that withered lay Blossom in immortal May— When the voices hushed and dear Thrill orce more the raptured eer, We shall te> 1 and know and see God knew bettor lar than we. —Ja m es 6r. Clark. A GIRL’S TRIAL. “ My darling, this makes me realize that in only two weeks’ time you will be married, and I shall be without my granddaughter.” “Yes,” but you will have coined a noble grandson,” softly whispered Eleanor's sweet voice. Mrs. Hamilton bent her gray head fondly and kissed the speaker’s soft cheek. The old lady and her grandchild stood before a lounge upon whose crimson cushions lay Eleanor’s wedding dress, which had just arrived, a delicate mar vel of satin and hice. Of course it must be tried on, and with the assistance of Margaret, Elea nor’s maid’s deft fingers, the young girl soon stood before the mirror, blushing at her own loveliness. Just then a knock came upon the door. It wag a servant with a letter. Eleanor glanced at the superscription without recognizing the writing. “It is not from Ralph,” site said, in reply to her grandmother’s questioning look. After the bridal costume had been pronounced a perfect fit and entrusted to Margaret to be replaced in its cedar chest, Eleanor took up the letter and broke the seal. She read the first few lines carelessly; then into the brown eyes a look of un speakab’e horror sprang. “What is it, Eleanor?” exclaimed Mrs. Hamilton, as she saw her agita tion, but, without speaking, the young girl rapidly read on to the end. Then, with a sobbing, long-drawn breath, she threw herself into her grandmotlier ’3 arms. “ Read !” she cried. ‘‘la this true that is written here, or is it the plot of some enemy to crush out my happiness ?” As Mrs. Hamilton perused the letter a polk” settled over her features. What she had always dreaded had come at last! Oh, ifit might have been only two weeks latex! One glance at Eleanor’s imploring face, and she saw that the truth could be withheld no longer. “Grandma, speak! Ami Randolph’s promised bride—the child of-. 6h! for pity’s sake, tell me I am dreaming!” Then Mrs. Hamilton spoke. Eleanor, try and be calm, and I will tell you the truth. You know that your mother, my only child, died at the early age of twenty; but you have not heard that she died of a broken heart! When SYLYANIA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1879. the man whom she married against her parent’s wishes abused ner, she bore it without complaint, never letting us dream of her unhappiness; but when, after being his wife only three years, she discovered that her husband was a criminal—living upon ill-gotten gains— then she left him, fleeing with her babe to our protection. Not long after, your father was arrested for a bank robbery, and imprisoned. The shock was too much for your mother’s frail strength, and after lingering a short time she - passed away, After her death your grandpa saw your father and obtained from iiim a promise never to disclose himself to you. But alas', he has broken it. Do not blame us, Eleanor, for thus keeping you in ignorance of what would have always clouded your life. We thought we did it for the best.” The young girl listened with bent head and tightly-clasped hands. As her grandmother paused, she looked up. A woeful change had come into the round, blooming face. “ Grandma,’’ she said, and her voice was low and strained, “ does any one know of this?” “ Only one—your friend Mr. Stearns, your grandfather’s lawyer.” “And Ralph—does he not know?” “ I do not think he does.” i ( Oil! (the young voice was very pite ous) it was a cruel kindness to keep it from me. Now I shall never be Ralph Ogden’s wife.” “Eleanor,” expostulated her grand mother, winding her arms around the drooping figure, “heneed never know. You can go and see your father. He says it will be the last time he will ever send for you.” Drawing herself away, Eleanor looked firmly into the tearful face near her own. “Grandma, I will not bring a tainted name to him I love. I can never marry •Ralph Ogden.” That evening Airs. Hamilton sent for Mr. Stearns, and the two old friends tiad a long consultation together. The kind lawyer’s eyes moistened as he heard of Eleanor’s grief. ‘ The- scoundrel ! ” he ejaculated, “after ruining one life, could he not tave held Iris pee.te-aud refrained from £ mT'-M" he>*Ni, “ I have fought against the longing to •see you, my daughter, but I can no longer restrain myself. I promise you t hat if you come to me this once it will be the last time you shall ever hear from your poor wretched father.’ This looks to me as if lie must be very sick—per haps dying.” “ So Eleanor thinks, and the noble child persists in saying that she will go at once to him. She declares it is her duty. Poor, poor girl, I see now that this concealment has been very wrong!” “ Do not fret.jmy friend, you and your good husband could not look into the future. You did as you thought for the best. So Eleanor has written about it to Mr. Ogden? She is a noble cveatnre, and if he is what he ought to be, it will bring him on the wings of the wind.” The next day a heavily-veiled, girlish figure and an old gray-haired gentleman were lead through a gloomy corridor, and into a prison cell. Eleanor moved as one in a dream. She was dimly aware of a long, narrow, iron bedstead upon which lay a prostrate, quiet form. Two gentlemen, a doctor and a cler gyman, were the only other occupants of the room. The latter rose as she en tered and came forward. “Is this Miss Moore?” he said gravely. “ My child, I fear you are too late—your father has been in this un conscious state for hours.” Eleanor gave one long, earnest look into the pale, drawn face with its closed eyes. This then was her father! An icy hand seemed to clutch her heart. Her father! and dying thus! “Courage! my brave little Eleanor,” whispered Mr. Stearns. With an effort the girl looked up into her old friend’s face, as if to gain strength from his sym pathy; then she went steadily forward to the bedside. As Eleanor gazed down at the face which still retained many traces of the manly beauty. which had won her mother’s love, and realized that she was indeed his daughter, all the strength and nobility of her soul rose to the sur face. Stooping she laid her soft hand upon his cold forehead. “ Father!” The pitying tone pronoun cing that word so sacred, and so wound around the tenderest fibers of our human natures, forced tears into all eyes. “ Father, it is Eleanor!—your daughter! —can you not speak to her?” The call pierced the apathy of death. The dying man’s eyes opened and fast ened upon her face. A wave of con sciousness swept over his features. “ My child!” he exclaimed, brokenly, “ then you did come. God will—bless —you!” His voice sank, while into his eyes sprang a look of entreaty as he tried to finish, but with the words, “My child—forgive—” his breath failed, and, with a long, fluttering sigh, all was over/ Tender hands led Eleanor from the sad scene. Several days passed, and no re- “ONWARD AND UPWARD.” ply had as yet come from llalpli Ogden to the letter Eleanor had written, and in which she had disclosed the story, the knowledge of which had brought her such sorrow. In it she had told him in few but tender words the pain it gave her to look forward to a life unshared by his pres ence; but though in her ignorance of the disgrace upon her name, she had promised to be his wife, she could not, knowing all, expect him to take to his home a convict’s child. Still another trouble wrung the poor, girl’s heart. Before long the invitations to the wed ding would have to be countermanded, and then the broken engagement would be the comment of ail. She heard in imagination the remarks which would be passed, and shrank from the curious words and looks she knew would follow her wherever she went. “Had I not you, grandma, and my Bible,” she said, despairingly. “I should surely die. It is almost more than I can bear.” Mrs. Hamilton kissed the quivering lips; she knew caresses would help where words might only wound. Thursday morning arrived, and with it Ralph Ogden. Instead of the expected letter he had come himself. Eleanor received his card, and read the penciled request that she would see him, and for a moment a film came before her eyes, and all grew dark before her; then, white as death, but very calm, she went down into the library, where he awaited her. She had always known the intense love of family which filled the hearts of all the Ogden race, and of their pride in a name which had never been sullied by aught dishonor able; and till only a short time before she had thought she bore a name as stainless as theirs. Now she knew dif ferently. The library door swung back on its hinge* to give entrance to the slender, black-robed figure which lalteringly went forward. A moment passed, and the nexj F. lea nor found herself clasped in a close cm b ace. “My precious Eleanor!” Ralph exclaimed; in a low ifflee. Ob.;; with rv . .... — ,, . SHe ioj| I ’ c " ln ? I wor-hip you know. Wi-sn letter I lost no time in coming you; as if anything could make you less dear tome! and beside, my darling, all that ”011 wrote in that letter I knew long age.” Then Eleanor found her voice: “You knew long ago ?” “Yes, when your grandfather first sur mised that I loved you, he told me all under promise of secrecy. Now, is my Eleanor content?” With a long sigh of perfect happiness, Eleanor suffered herself to be diawn once more into her lover’s arms, and in Iter lustrous eyes, uplifted to his face, lie could read the depth of the love which filled her heart, and which had only been intensified by the trials she had undergone. Although Eleanor’s sensitive nature shrank from the idea of a joyful wedding festivity so soon after the sad death scene she had witnessed, she could not with stand Ralph’s lovirg entreaties; and no one ever guessed that the sweet face be neath the bridal vail (withal it was a lit tle pale), had lately been clouded by a depth of anguish such as few in a long lifetime ever know. “ Did I not tell you, Mrs. Hamilton,” said old Mr. Stearns, “ that if young Ogden was what he ought to be, how it would end? I see he is of the right stuff. Let me congratulate you, my dear friend, on the surety of your grand daughter’s future happiness.” The Longevity of icebergs. Karl Weyprecht, in his work on the Polar sea, discusses the longevity of ice bergs. Icebergs are subjected to disin tegration after somewhat the same man ner as rocks. They are full of crevasses, into which the water formed by melting penetrates; in winter this water freezes, and by its expansion all through l the glacier a rupture of the mass cm sues. “ It is highly probable,” he says, “ that most of the icebergs afloat in winter are in such a condition that a very slight cause is sufficient to make them burst because of their state of internal tension. Every polar traveler can tell how a shot, the driving in of an ice-anchor, or any other sudden vibration has brought about the catastrophe; cases have even occurred in which the sound of the voice alone was sufficient. An iceberg is always an un pleasant neighbor.” So many are the causes which tend to destroy icebergs that the author concludes that “no berg exists which could withstand them more than ten years, and that commonly the life of a berg is much shorter." How ever this may be, doubtless the much larger Antartic bergs last very much longer, as must necessarily occur be cause of the greater uniformity of the climate to which they are exposed. The ice >erg into which the Arizona ran re cently must have been an unusually solid one. TIMELY TOPICS. 'The difference, says the Philadelphia Ledger, between the condition of the trade of Great Britain and that of tho United States during the first half of the present year is remarkable. There the failures have largely increased, wages {have been 'reduced in many in stances twenty per cent., and in other cases more hours of work have been re established; food has advanced, the foreign trade has decreased, and the times have been decidedly hard. With us, on the other hand, the first half of the year has been noticeable for a gen era 1 improvement in business and prices and a decrease of failures. So intimate are our connections with Groat Britain that our interests are in a great measure mutual, and it is to be hoped that the mother country will soon revive from her present depressed condition, for, notwithstanding all the talk concerning the decay of England’s greatness, it is for our interest that she should con tinue not only a great manufacturing nation, but our best customer, as she is at present, so that any revival of her prosperity can but react favorably upon our own. General Francis A. Walker, superin tendent of the census, reports to the secretary of the interior that special in vestigations have been instituted into the numbers and condition of the deaf and dumb, the blind, insane and idiotic, the paupers and the criminals, with ref erence to the institutions established for their confinement, relief or restora tion;'into the social, industrial and san itary condition of cities: into the min ing operations of the country; into the fishing industries and fishing popula tions; into the character and extent of the power and machinery employed in manufactures; into certain branches of manufactures, such as cotton, wool, iron, glass, and the lumber and .quarry ing industries and the forest wealth of the United States. Mr. Alexander, of riencoe, Missouri, who wrote an essay t.i prove that Homer ^j^ruxisted, liadjjti ox converted into on Kansas J’acitii .1 :t violations of tin __ loeomotiv whistle s to on crossing a road. Thirty-seven injunc tions were issued against the company and as many judgments of $20 each ob tained. Half of the penalty going to the inf inner, Mr. Alexander was naturally well pleased at the price he got for his ox. The judge decided that the suits could have all been embraced in a single suit, an (Tthat the gentleman was liable for the costs in all but one of them. These amounted to $360, leaving him $10 profit. The ox was worth $50; his time watching the trains, $10; his scr vices in the court, $100; leaving him out of pocket, $150. Charles Cartwright, who recently died in Chorlton workhouse, England, had run through two fortunes, one of $200, 000 and one of $400,000. He was an educated man of refined tastes, had no vulgar vices, did not go in for style, and kept no expensive establishment. He simpiy couldn’t refrain from spending money when he had it. His friends tried every method to help, him keep his money, and again and again paid his debts after he had run through his prop erty. But it was of no use, and lie was allowed to spend the last of his sixty four years quietly and contentedly in the workhouse, where lie supplied him self with little luxuries by writing ser mons for clergymen and contributing to country newspapers. Notwithstanding his occasional de feats, Parole may be said to have scored a brilliant season on the English turf. Out of eleven starts he won five—the Newmarket handicap, City and Sub urban, Great Metropolitan, Cheshire handicap and the Epsom gold cup— and the net value of his earnings is put at 4,000 English pounds, or about $20, 000. As Geraldine also captured one stake and ran second lor another, mak ing her earnings 1,080 pounds, and Pap poose had a place in three races, with earnings amounting to 387 pounds, Pierre Lorillard’s first season abroad must be set down as extremely fortunate. A musical bed has been produced in Germany. It is so constructed that by means of a concealed piece of mechanism the pressure of the body produces the softest harmony, which lasts long enough to lull one to sleep. At the head of the bed is a dial with a hand which can be placed at whatever hour a person wishes to awake; and at the time fixed the bed plays a march of Spontini, with drums and cymbals loud enough to awake the soundest sleeper. It is estimated that Dr. II. J. Glenn, of California, has this year raised 65,000 tons of grain on his ranche in Colusa county. The crop is worth about $2, 210,000, X Baity Officeholder who Became a Governor. Wo find in an exchange tho following interesting sketch of one New York’s earlier governors: During Lite admin istration of Governor Clinton, Colonel Charles Clinto.n, a respectable farmer re siding in the precinct of Little Britain, in the then county of Ulster (now Orange), had occasion to call on his ex cellency to receive his directions in re gard to some oflicial matter, he then be ing governor-general of the colony. The governor being pleased with his intelligence and gentlemanly deport ment, detained him after the business on which lie had called was dispatched, to converse with him on general subjects relating to the county and precinct (such the towns were then called) inarmed in which the colonel resided. Being by the colonel that he had a son named George the governor expressed much pleasure in the information and, de claring that he would do something for his namesake, immediately conferred upon him by patent under the great seal of the State the office of clerk of the county of Ulster; and (as George was then a child, not more than four or live years of age) appointed a deputy to discharge the duties of the office until George should be educated and of suffi cient age to attend to them in person. George grew up a fine, sturdy, en terprising boy, receiving such education as he could get in the common school of the neighborhood and from the instruc tion of his father, until he reached the age of thirteen or fourteen, when his father inrodueed into his family as an instructor lor his children an Irish insurgent, a man of classical learning, who, being too poor to pay his passage from Ireland to New York, was sold for a limited time as a servant by the captain of the vessel in which he came, either in pursuance of some colonial regulation then in force or under a contract made with the captain before embarking. George was put under the tuition of this servant. Under his instruction he acquired a pretty good knowledge of the Latin language and mathematics, and this completed all the school learning he ever received. He remained with Lixefather, laboiing £.‘2! •ti'flj, I,| j nf 1 j j|» fi tro iron the fr-i-rr, be Wii.o-g?xte< 2 Of j vat 8 of age, when, becoming uneasy ani dis contented, he resolved to seek his for tune, and, without the consent or knowledge of his father, left his home in Little Britain found his way to New York and went to sea as a common hand. How long he pursued this busi ness or was absent I do not recollect, but in process of time lie got back to Now York, and landed without a penny in his pocket, and. as he supposed, with out a friend there to afford him succor. Providence, however, had provided for him. The first person he saw on the wharf when he landed was a house car penter and joiner by the name of Parks, who, a little older than George, had served iiis apprenticeship in Little Britain, and had been hi* playmate and intimate friend from childhood. From him he borrowed a small sum of money sufficient to take him to Esopus, where the office was of which he was made clerk, as before stated, was located. Thither he immediately went, took pos session of his office, and continued in the performance of its duties and in re ceipt of its emoluments a number of years. lie become very popular in Ulster county, was appointed a brigadier-gen eral in the revolutionary war, and un der the constitution of 1777 was elected governor of the State, holding the office for five successive terms. X (lure for Beer Drinking. Dr. Duncan, of Chicago, writes the following ietter to the Inter-Ocean of that city: Knowing your deep interest in anything that benefits humanity, I send you a fact. A man to whom I gave medicine to Help him break off his to bacco habit came in to-day and said: “ What was that medicine yougave me? It has taken away all my appetite for beer and whiskey. I have no more han kering after beer than I have after milk, and not so much; and as for whiskey or alcohol, it is simply disgusting to me.” 1 have known this man for over twenty-five years (in fact he was for merly my school teacher, but not what he once was through this weakness), and I have no occasion to doubt his word. The remedy is a hommpathic preparation from nicis v. saech alb. (glob. 30 3 deg. zjj.). I hasten to tell you of this fact, for it is something I have been seeking for years for the bene fit of the temperance cause. With it we may control the ante-natal, involuntary hankering for liquors, especially beer. Under such circumstances it is a disease, and should be, and is, amenable to treat ment. I have given this fact to the temper ance women, and hope it will be wide spread. ___ The organ rolled its notes from tho growling diapason to the gentle flute; and the congre gation accompanied by deep sepulchral ooughs to conghs scarcely audible, because they had rot yet heard ot the wonderful efficacy of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. TERMS— 1 1 60 per Year. NO. 22. ITEMS OP INTEREST. Httrd w ar—Tight boots. Does the maternal codfish call its voutig wit It a codfish bawl? Seven students out of .’125 in Yale Col lege were found to be color blind. There are in California 150,000 goats and in the Pacific territories 50,000, making a total of 200,000 on the Pacific slope. In Westphalia, apples and potatoes arc separately boiled, afterward drained and then mashed together, with butter and salt. Late carriage manufacturing statistics show that there is a carriage for every thirty-eight persons in the United States. A butcher in York county, l’a., while cutting rounds from a slaughtered steer, recently, found in the beef a gold dollar, dated 1852. “ If I punish you,” said mamma to her little girl, “ you don’t suppose I do so for my pleasure, do you?” “Then whose pleasure is it for, mamma?” Mr. Dwight Whiting, a citizen of Bos ton, has gone to South Africa to pur chase one hundred ostriches for his farm in the San Joaquin valley in California. The St. Gothavd tunnel through the Alps makes steady progress, no less than 3,000 workmen being engaged upon it. Nearly ten tons of dynamite are used per month. The baby of the mayor of Stafford, England, is rocked to sleep in a solid silver cradle, but it wakes in the night, kicks off the covers, rattles the old man with his howls, and makes him take up his son and patrol the floor with him until 2 a. m., all the same as though it went to rest in an old trunk-lid on slab rockers. A Lyons (la.) lawyer, interrogating a sharp young juroa at the district court tlie other day, made the remark, in re ply to something the young man had said, that “ chickens always come home to roost.” T he young man retorted that the chickens taken by the interrogator from his father’s roost had never turned. The lords jythe Br.'t, M u.„‘ raity have Win' titters ing of a g«°n o ifnisnj . * ■ - - c~ timbers of the old Aiytfc exploring *mp Resolute for presentation to Mis. Grin nell, the widow of the late Henry Grin neli, of New York, who fitted out at his own expense two expeditions for the search of Sir John Franklin. Supply in the United States of Gold and Silver. Tlio recent report of Hon. II. C. Bur chard, director of the United States mint, contains some very interesting figures at the present moment, It in the first place shows a largely increased coinage for the year, aggregating over $68 000, 000 in gold and silver. It also shows that the stock of coin in the treasury had increased $100,000,060 during the year, or $142,000,000 within the two last years. In regard to the yield of the precious tnetaft in the country for the past year, the following comparative table will show a large decrease for 1879. Domestic production of gold andsilver, 1871 to 1879: Gold. Silver. Total 1874.. $33,490,902 #37,324,594 $70,815,496 1875.. 33,407.356 31,727,530 65 195,416 1876.. 39.929,166 38 783,016 78,712,182 1877.. 46,897,380- 39,793,573 86,690,903 1878.. 51,25.1,360 45,281,385 96,487,744 1879.. 38,899,858 40,812,132 79,711,990 $243,891,532 $233,722,260 $497,613,792 The decrease in last year’s production of gold and silver is attributable to the falling off in the yield of the Nevada mines, whicli are placed at $28,000,000 leas than the year previous. The Com stock min"g are now at a great depth, and the question of their future yield is an economic probing of no mall im portance. The increase in the yield of the newly discovered mines in Colorado and Dakota, have in a measure compen sated for the smaller productions of the mines of Nevada. Mr. Burchard estimates that the an nual consumption of gold and silver in the arts, sciences and manufactures is from five to six millions of dollars. It is otherwise estimated that the annual consumption for the above purposes is full $10,000,000 in this country, and $50, 000,000 in all other countries, excepting Asia. The actual amount of gold and silver in the country, Nov. 1,1879, is estimated at $427,205,852, of which $305,750,497 is gold and $121,456,358 silver. In addition to the above there were in the mints apd at the assay office awaiting coinage $4,555?l£ 931,035 in gold bullion and 82 silver bullion. This makes a total of coin and bullion in t^e country, Nov. 1, 1879, $481,691,000 or $88,000,000 in ex cess of any former period. The director of the mint estimates that if the present inflow of gold and silver continues to the end oi the present fiscal year, the total amount of metallic currency in the United States will reach the enormous figures of $600,000,000; but such arc suit is not anticipated.