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The Sylvania Telephone. C. H. MEDLOCK, Editor and Publishkb. VOL. II. Why Must It Be ? A dream—as lrail as sweet, A sad inrowell— A laded rose—cast under feet, Love’s dying knell; A promise never kept, Made in spring-bloom— Then when tho winds ol autumn swept, Best— in the tomb. Can God's love bo so groat That tiny things Fall not unsoon—yet leave to late Life’s hidden springs ? .Must tender, loving hearts Fado ’neath tiro breath Ol wicked wiles, insensate arts Tiiat end in death? Must love, whoso home is heaven, Wreck life lor age ? And she, whose sins her soul has shriven, Be cast away ? Nay, question not—He knows! Let that suffice. Through ’wildering roads a saint oit goes To Paradise. —Lilia JV. Cushman. A WOMAN, AFTER ALL. “ Take off tiiat hideous bonnet, Doro thy. I want to see your sweet little face without it.” “ Thoushouidst not speak so Charles. It is very wrong.” “Why, little Dorothy? Tell me why.” “ Thou knowest favor is deceitful and beauty vain. We ought to bear testi mony against the vanity of personal looks.” “Ought wc? Then tell me why it pleased Providence to make you so beautiful, my small cousin.” “Hush, Chail s. I will not permit thee to speak to me in this manner.” And little Dorothy Hicks, the Quaker ess, put on the gravest air and strug gled valiantly to turn the corners of her mouth down when they wanted to turn up. “Don't look so serious, little girl. You positively alarm me,” And Charles Maynard burst into a hearty laugh that echoed though the poplar trees in the old garden. “ Now tell me, Dorothy— I insist upon knowing, as a member of your family, I consider that I have the iigiit u'l oe 1 !?rariu»-d- # sre"v f tflr going a > marry Broadbrim?” “ Friend Ephraim is an estimable man, Charles; thou must not speak of him thus.” “Look Dorothy. There he is. Iwil quote no proverbs, but the rim of his li^t just turned the corner as I spoke, don’t look as if you intended to go back to the house, for you are not going. I’ll tell you a secret. When I was down to the river this morning I found a boat with a tempting pair of oars lying in it, aDd I made up my mind that Dorothy Hicks and her wicked, worldly cousin from the populous city of New York, were going for a row in that very boat this | evening. It is ^neighbor Han cock’s boat.” “ Y-e-s. But, Charta, I fear it is my duty—” “No, it isn’t. You know you don’t want to spend this lovely evening in the house entertaining Broadbrim, and you want to go with me and watch the sun set on the river.” Dorothy looks doubtfully toward the house and wistfully toward the river. “Femme qui hesiteestperdue,” Doro thy, which means “if we don’t hurry, Graycoat will come out and catch us.” Charles takes Dorothy’s hand in his,and in a moment they are on their way to the shore. “ But, Charles, see that cloud in the south. If there were to be a storm?” “But there will not; come, jump in.” The oars were lifted into the row-locks, Dorothy takes the management of the rudder in her hands, and soon they are gliding over the smooth surface of the water, leaving a track of silvery bub bles behind them. It is a lovely even ing. The misty shadows of twilight are gathering in the east and the west; the clouds, blood-red and purple, are cast ing a rosy light all over the broad river; a fresh breeze is blowing round their faces, and waves splash against the sides of their boat, like low, monotonous music. Caarles is talking about his home, telling Dorothy about his aunts and cousins he has not seen for », long time, and amusing her with stories of his college days, and his efforts to make his way in Lis profession, which were so unsuccessiul at first. Neither of them notices that the breeze grows fresher, and that the dark cloitd in the south has spread over the horizon, and is covering it with darkness. Presently a low, muttering growl of thunder startles them from the dream into which they had fallen. “Turn back, Charles, turn back!” screamed Dorothy, “ the storm is upon us!” They had been rowing with the tide. The river is very wide, and the increasing force of the waves and the wind together is so strong that when they attempt to turn about the water ushes into the tiny boat. Both faces grow pale in the murky light as they see the danger. SYLVANIA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1880. : It is impossible; you can’t do it!” - Tell mo, Dorothy, what is that dark object just ahead P” “ It is a ledge of rocks, but when the tide comes in from the sea it will be covered,” and with a low moan Dorothy sank from her seat and covered her face with her hands. “We will try and land there. The tide will not turn for an hour.” The effort was successful. The ledge is reached, and Charles carries Dorothy to the very highest rock and lays her gently down." “My love, my little love,” he cried kissing her helpless hands, “I have killed you?” “Stop!” she exclaimed. “Listen There is a boat! It is coming this way.’ Dorothy is upon her knees, and a wild cry of thanksgiving comes from her lips. Ephriam Ford had followed them The heavy boat with its single occu pant is strong enough to resist the waves, and as he nears them, they go down to meet him. “Back!” he cries, “I will not take but one of you; it is not saf!.” The grim Quaker, with his stern emotionless face, wrenches away the slender hands that cling to Charles, and clasping Dbrothv tightly in his arms, lays her at his own feet in the bottom of the boat. Not a word is spoken unti[ they reach the opposite shore. Then he takes her up again and carries her to the nearest fisher’s hut up the beach. As they stand within the shelter of the little cabin, Dorothy looks at him with wild eyes, and a cry of torture issues from her white lips. “Go back, go back! You will go back for him?” “ Go back for your elegant city lover, whose ignorant carelessness would have cost you your life but for me?” Dorothy falls on her knees and grasps his cold hands in agony of en treaty. “Go back, go back!” “Promise me first that you will not marry him. Swear it as the world’s people do.” He takes her hand and holds it up to heaven, and waits for the oath. Dorothy’s lips move, Dorothy but no sound come from them. had Fainted The fisherman’s wife takes the uncon scious girl and lays her on her own bed, and Ephraim Ford goes upon Lis errand of mercy with murder in his heart. The storm has lulled for a moment. It comes on so gradually, stopping every now and then, as if to make the earth believe that it were doubtful of its power, and can afford to wait. Ephraim looks at the sky. It is still red in the west; the waves are rising steadily, but his stout built boat, di rected by his powerful strength, can yet make its way through Diem. There is plenty of time; the tide will not turn for half an hour. Ephraim lights his battle with temp tation and wins the victory; for, twenty minutes later the siurdy boat plows its way back to the shore, and two silent men struggled against the wind up the beach to the fisherman’s hut. Dorothy is waiting for them. Her outstretched arms would wind them selves about both, but the stern, fixed look in Ephraim’s eyes restrained her, and Charles turns from her and fixes his eyes upon the ground. It is aterrible moment for Dorothy. She knows they both love her, and she shivers at the suffering in both faces. Then she remembers the oath she did not speak, and a wild sort of terror takes possession of her soul. She speaks at last, and tries to thank Ephraim for the service he had done them. “Spare me thy gratitude, Dorothy,” he commands, in a slow, solemn tone, peculiar to his people. “ I know I have done thee a service. I would not hear of it again. I tried to make thee swear an oath. Dorothy, I am glad it was not spoken. Tell me now, though, dost thou love this young man? Wilt thou forswear thy religion, forsake the faith of thy forefathers’s and become one of the world’s people?” Dorothy’s eye3 looked toward Charles with a mute appeal. “ He ha3 saved both our lives, dear,’ answers the young man, in reply to her glance, “ and he’s worthy of your love.” Then his eyes seek the floor again. He lias received his life from this man’s hands, and now he will speak no word to rob him oi his treasure. “Speak, Dorothy,” Ephraim repeats. “ It is for you to choose.” Dorothy’s voice is choked with tears and her breast shaken with sobs, as she answers : “It is very, very wicked of me, Eph raim, but I love him so!” Then she stretched out her helpless hands, and the sweet lips whisper, “ Charles.” Only a single word, but it decides her life. In a moment she is in her lover’s arms, and for the second time that night unconscious. The nobler man of the two goes un heeded out in the storm to conquer his heartache alone. “ ONWARD AND UPWARD.” CATCHING COD. An IntereHtiiiK Description of tile Way in which Coil are Caught. The able craft Juliette, Captain Ed ward Fitch, is one of the favorite smacks for health eaters, and taking our trap3 on board we sail out of tlio q iet harbor through the fleet of fishing craft on a sunny Monday morning for a cod cruise on Nantucket shoals. The vessel has just returned from the sale of her last load of fish, and now, with fresh stores and her capacious ice houses filled, her crew refreshed by a Sunday at home, enter upon the perils of another voyage with light spirits. By Tuesday night we have “iced down” enough hnenbaden bait from the fish traps at wild, romantic and isolated Martha’s Vineyard for our trip, and on the fol lowing morni ng we “ tide in” over Nan tucket bar to wait for a goodly supply of sea claims, which are a favorite bait for deep sea cod. The crew enjoy a night maphap in the giddy ballroom of some wonderful rattletrap of a hall n this dilapidated old town, and Thurs day morning leave regretfully for the pleasures and discomforts of the fishing ground. At sundown we anchor within sou nd of the steam whistle on the South Shore lightboat, and on the following day iisl’ing commences. Mayhap the fo 2 dears up for a fow hours, but steam is always kept up at this time ot the year on the able and storm-defying light boat, so some of the keepers inform us is they board us in search of reading matter. Cod fishing is carried on at this season of the year by means of hand lines, each man tending two, the vessel being suffered to drive or drift with the tide. The sawings of our lines have already gashed the rails, yet we have not taken as much as a dinner, for be it known, cunners are just as much of a nuisance here as they are under the old wharf at home. By-and-bye we strike a school of dog-fish, half reptile, and after half an hour’s combat with these creatures, Captain Ed. gives up in dis gust, tli3 helm is put up and we square away and run a mile or so off and then heave to again. By-and-bye the captain feels a strong "pull and speedily begins to sway ! n on his line. All h; says is, “I’ve got ’im, ’ and plfcSCdfijy ' iiwtfops a Hill„ f Iin'C...' men oi a speckled steak cod on deck, a genuine thirty pound white-bellied and grey-backed school fish. None of your Montauk Point giblets about this one. Soon another is caught, and at length we take the school with us. and each man is busy baiting gear and unhook ing fish. The clean lee side of the ves sel speedily takes on a fishy appearance, and by-and-bye the hatches are thrown off and the fish thrown into the hold to prevent them from rolling overboard off the pile we have already taken, After the first dozen pulls on these gusty fish the hands begin to object. “Finger stalls” go on, but despite these yarn coverings, long before we leave the school the skin of our finsers is worn through in places and we wish the nibbiers would go, but it is such fun to pull them that we wouldn’t desist f 0 worlds. By-and-bye the fish stop biting all at once. “ Halibut,” says Captain Ed., meaning that a halibut has been attracted to our hooks and the cod are frightened away by him. It i3 so, and the monster flat fish strikes our line. He gives just one yank, and although we attempt to hold him it is useless, for as soon as he feels the hook he turns, plucks and darts off. “ Snub him easy!” yells the captain, as we attempt to check the progress of the fish through fear of losing our line, “ Snub him easy, or you’ll make him tear out!” The fish finally stops and we gather in line slowly. When half way up he darts down again only to bo once more drawn almost to the surface of the water, when the eaplain takes our line, loth to trust the capture of a $25 fish in the hands of a greeny. We look over the rail and see the monster, which, through the clear green water, seems almost as broad as our vessel, and quite as long. Two of the crew stand on either side of the captain with gaft hooks, and the instant the fish’s head is drawn up to a level with the top of the water the cruel hooks seize its head, and the three men, after a severe struggle, land it upon the deck, where its brain is “ muddled,” its throat cut, and it i3 speedily packed away in ice, a coveted prize. The codfish again thicken and the slaughter continues till dark when, after casting anchor, we discuss a rare supper of coffee and delicious fried cod fish tongue, such as one can never en joy away from Nantucket shoals, and then repairing to the deck the catch of the day is headed, gutted and washed, and the ice beirg broken out of the house, is packed away in its cooling arms. Perhaps by midnight the labor is completed, and wet and tired and dis gusted with fog, we crawl into our berths and sleep soundly till four o’clock next morning, when the day’s labor is repeated, doubtless with poorer luck.— Detroit Fre e Press■ _ Bueno3 Ayres, South America, has 51,000,000 sheep. CURRENT NOTES. Mr. Fambro, of Sandersville, Ky.,hns a larguirattlesnake, about five feet long, which he captured last October, and which he lias kept in a bob with a wire net first ever since that time. Though he has had it ten months, the snake has never eaten anything at all since it was captured. It “lives on air,” and if it could be converted into the genus homo, retaining its natural habits, it would make a splendid newspaper man. A F -nchman, who resides on a farm near Paris,and has a fancy for picking up old animals, has a mule aged seventy three,-., gcrDse aged thirty-seven, a cow aged thirty-six, a hog aged twenty seven. a bullfinch aged twenty-eight, and a sparrow aged thirty-one. This last accounts for the millions of spar rows in the world. A couple of healthy sparrows, producing twenty or thirty young a year for thirty years, is some thing sad to contemplate. State elections will occur this year as follows; Alabama, first Monday in August; Arkansas, first Monday in September; Vermont, first Tuesday in September; Maine, second Monday in September; Colorado, first Tuesdsy in October; Indiana, Ohio and West Vir ginia, second Tuesday in October; Cali fornia, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Iowa., Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ne braska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ten nessee, Texas and Virginia, November 2; Georgia, November 3. The Detroit Free Press remarks that when 200 people are killed or wounded in a railroad disaster, the community shudders. If ten such should happen during a twelve, month in anyone State, the world would be shocked and hor rified at the slaughter. The difference, however, between calamities which come “ as single spies,” and those which come “in battalions” is illustrated by the fact that on the Pennsylvania rail roads 2,000 persons were killed or \' v l ded during the year 1879, and, ex - jfept outside ofithe families Stfl fnemA tuus bereaved or afflicted, nota pang or emotion ot any sort is felt from one end of the continent to the other. Turkish officers do not enjoy the con sideration at home en joyed by their pro fession elsewhere in Europe, A Turkish captain is regarded by his senior offi cers with but little more respect than a private, and is sometimes struck by colonel or general in a moment of anger. Even a major is barely secure from such treatment. The pay of an officer under the rank of general is very inadequate and irregularly received. The families of officers in garrisoned towns are generally with them, and the latter are often sorely pushed to feed their charges. They may be seen daily with baskets returning from market, seedy and partially buttonless. John Dye,the expert in counterfeiting, says that a close study of good notes is necessary for those who would readily detect bad one3. Some of the latter are fully as fine as the former in workman ship, and it is only by the variations that they can be distinguished. He repre sents counterfeiting as having greatly increased of late, and the operators as backed by plenty of capital. In ^he case of base coinage, he says that some of their product eo3ts more than half its apparent value to make. He showed a coin that had exactly the weight, sizs and touch of a genuine iive-dollar gold piecei but a cut into the edges showed that it was a shell of gold with a plati num filling. The actual value of the metal in it was two dollars and a half, and ithe making must have cost half a dcdlar more._ Curing the Biie of a Copperhead, A little daughter of John Telford, of Moon township, I’a , was bitten by a copperhead snake. Her mother tock her to a grocery store near by, where a j salt mackerel was applied to the wound, and a pint of whisky forced down the child’s throat. In the meantime a chicken was caught and ripped open alive; the mackerel was taken off; the wound and the poison, had turned it green; the warm entrails of the chicken were then nppfied, and another chicken killed, and subsequently placed on the wound; the entrails of both were turn ed green. By this time the child was stupefied in consequence of the liquor she had drank, but seemed to suffer no pain. She was taken home, and the leg that had been' bitten was placed in salt and water. These prompt remedies had the desired effect, and the child was con sidered out of danger. The army worm perchance is very subtle, but there have been things con nected with the army that were sutler. —Marathon Independent. THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. A Nouml Agricultural Creed, The agriculturists of Canada, in con vention assemble', lately adopted a creed good enough to be subscribed to by their brethren all over the continent. Listen : We believe in small farms and thorough cultivation; we believe that the soil lives to eat, as well as the owner, and ought therefore to be well manured; voe believe in going to the bottom of things, and therefore deep plowing, and enough of it, all the better ! ir it be a subsoil plow; wc believe in large crops which leave the land better than they found it, making both the farm and the farmer rich at once; we believe that every farm should own a good farmer; we believe that the fer tilizer of any soil is a spirit of ind ustry, enterprise and intelligence; without these, lime, gypsum and guano would be of little use; we believe in good fences, good farmhouses, good orchards, and good children enough to gather the fruit; we believe in a clean kitchen, a neat wife in it, a clean cupboard, a clean dairy, and a clear conscience; we believe that to ask a man’s advice is not stoop ing, but of much benefit; we believe that to keep a place for everything, raid everything in its place, saves many a step, and is pretty sure to lead to good tools and to keeping them in order; wc believe that kindness to stock, like good shelter, is saving of fodder; we believe that it is a good thing to keep an eye on experiments, and note all, good and bad; we believe that it is a good rule to sell grain when it is ready; wc believe in producing the best butter and cheese, and m arketing it when it is ready. Carbaiic Acid In the 4«ur<!en. The genera! employment of carbolic acid for sanitary purposes induced a correspondent, who relates his experi ences, to try whether it might not be applied with equal advantage in some of the many diseases to which vegeta bles, as well as flesh, arc heirs. He lirst experimented with a solution of one part of the acid in twenty parts of water, which was allowed to stand for twenty-four hours before being used. By that time a layer of tb' fat or oil appeared on the surface, •' contact or which with plants speedily destroyed them. This was subsequently with drawn by means of a pipette, and the clear fluid below aione used. This proved an equally dangerous applica tion, for some beds of savoys and rad ishes, which were watered with it in order to free them from ground fleas with which they were infested, were totally destroyed by it. A weaker solu tion, consisting of one part of acid in fifty of water, proved scarcely less in jurious to vegetation. The application was now tried in the still more diluted form of one part in a hundred, the supernatant oil being carefully removed before use. In these proportions it answered admirably as an insecticide, without causing the slightest injury to even the tenderest plants. A single ap plication effectually freed the beds from ground lice arid similar destructive ver min. A very small quantity introduced into an ant hill so disturbed its busy occupants that, contrary to all the habits of these insects, they abandoned their cupro in their hurried flight. A cherry tree, whose ripe fruit afforded a favorite hunting ground for these ants, was at once protected from their visits by a slight application of the solution to its stem, though they returned to the attack in four or five days when the pungent sme.l of the acid was lost. Their further depredations were once for all checked, however, by a girdle of cottonwood impregnated with the strong acid being bound round the trunk. Many other varieties of inserts were kept at bay or driven from their haunts by the same means, which also formed a most valuab’e protection against mildew, -with which the rose and peaeli trees in the garden were sadly troubled. In one instance, a rose tree which had borne no flowers for five previous years in consequence of mil dew attacking the young stems of the buds immediately they were formed, was observed to bear a magnificent crop the first season that a timely appli cation of the solution was made .—The Farmer. Teachers. Senator Bayard, in an address to the Wilmington high school, said: There is not a nobler or more useful profes sion than that of instructing young minds and educating their faculties. I should be glad to see an higher encour agement and recognition given these men and women in our midst who de vote themselves to this lofty calling. Were it in my power I would make the names of schoolmaster and schoolmis tress terms of public as well as private honor, audl would affix such just and proportionate compensation to their services as would make their positions not only those of honor in society, but profit, so that every induoement should be offered to embark in the profession of instuction of the young. TERMS— $1 50 i’eh Year. NO. 3. The Grocer Boy. Mike Miller was a grocer’s boy, We” up in currant nonsense; Hut when his wiath was raisin’ high Ho was devoid oi conscience. Ho went to aoo a girl nanus! Sid— Let soap he loved her true; For, oh, she was the sweetest Hour That ever Miller kuow. Though true as steel Miss Sallie was. Like steel she had a temper, And thought when Miller tried to teas A grocer salt was meant her. Then Mike his courage mustard up; He'd shout and storm and stutter, And strivo to cracker on the head— Though none he wanted butter. Then she would scratch, and pull his hair With all her Strength and vim, The while she madly would exclaim: “ Whoe’er cinnamon like hunt” And thus they quarreled olt; Their love was not all spice, But when in making up they clovo Together—oh, ’twas nice! — Norristown Her Aid. MISCELLANEOUS. Cutting a swell—Lancing a boil.— Rome Sentinel. A person bom this year cannot vote in the nineteenth century. Sixfeen Waterloo officers are living. In France there are at least 500,000 wolves, who kill about 1,000 men every year. The census of Berlin, taken at the close of 1S79, shows a population of 1,081,23. One-half of the household, says a critic, does not know how the other half livc3. The number of living models employed in Paris, by painters, sculptors and photographers is 671. An Ohio sheriff who lately assisted at a wedding-snapped his fingers and called out: “The condemned will now step his way.” Talented individuals who have won 'cflsugmg golden opinions are never averse to ex tiicra tor gr««.fcuacKs, or •rsea for trade dollars. The other night, in a Missouri town, a thief, being caught in a man’s cellar, explained tiiat lie was there to get out of the way of a cyclone. The mean diameter of the earth i 7 912 miles; that of the moon, 2,162 miles. The density of the moon is five eighths that of the earth. King Stanley, the ruler of all the gyp sies in this country, lives in the midst of a settlement of his people near Dayton, Ohio. His daughter, who was to be come queen at his death, has lost her heritage by eloping witli a man not a gypsy. A miner was accidently thrown out of a bucket at the top of a California shaft, lie clutched wildly at the jagged rock and by chance his wrist caught in a crack. During ten minutes he was thus precariously suspended at a height of 200 feet. A Strange Scene In Ihe House of Commons. The London Telegraph describes the scene in the bouse of commons when Mr. Bradlaugh “ affirmed ” as follows: For a little while Mr. Bradlaugh stand ing quite alone, uneheered by a smile or sound of welcome, seemed in doubt as to what next it would be right for him to do. Presently he came slowly, very slowly up the floor, looking neither to right nor to left, halted near to the crown of the mace at the corner of the table on the ministerial side, and stood looking constrained and anxious for at least a minute. Then Sir Erskine May rose from the opposite end of the table, and holding the printed form of affir ma ticn in his right hand, went up to wlieie Mr. Bradlaugh stood, and repeated the prescribed lorm of words to him, but in a voice inaudible to a majority of those present. Bowing somewhat stiffly to the clerk of the house, the no-Jongcr disputed junior member for Northamp ton, with much deliberation, signed the roll of parliament; whereupon Sir Ers kine May preceded him a few steps to the speaker’s chair, saying: “Mr. Bradlaugh, member for Northampton.” The speaker, as in duty bound, held out his hand; Mr. Bradlaugh touched it formally, and still with the downcast look upon his face, passed out behind the chair, amid the same unbroken silence which had reigned during the very few minutes occupied by the pro ceeding. Allowing’liimself but sufficient time to traverse the corridor, which runs parallel with the house, Mr. Brad laugh came boldly into the chamber, looking now well pleased, hurriedly mounted to the end of the bench on the third row from the floor on the liberal side below the gangway, and, without a friendly hand held out to welcome him, realized his triumph over parlia ment, and took his seat for North ampton.