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EDWIN MARTIN, Proprietor.
Devoted to Dome Interests and Culture.
TWO DOLLARS A Yeartu Adva/.ef,
| VOLUME IX.
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1879.
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NUMBKR 2&
the great god.
Tjttl. boy, with unghing eye.
Bright end bine ss yonder sky,
JLrne, and I will teach you, lore,
' fbo HI* that lire* above,
it l> God who made the earth,
gave my darling birth,
Sed who sees each sparrow fall,
God who reign* great King of all.
nod who send* the pleasant breeze.
Sowing sweet through flowers and trees,
“id Who gives yon ever? jo; ;
God who love* you, little boy.
He i* beautiful and bright,
living in eternal light;
Would you not, my little love,
Like to live with him above?
Ask Him. then, my child, to show.
How to please Him hcie below;
Ask Him grace and help to send;
Pmv to Him, your kindest Friend.
You must learn to read and look
Often in Hi* Holy Book:
There, my darling, you will Anil
God 1* very good and kind.
WHAT JOHN HARDING THOUGHT.
BT MART GRACE HALPINE.
"In some things women are so silly
»nd ridiculous!”
Here John Harding laid down the
magazine article he had been reading,
and which hid for its theme the appa
rently inexhaustible one—the follies and
shortcomings of the sex to which he had
alluded.
Mrs. Harding glanced up from
the bow she was fashioning to the sol
emn face of the speaker.
"In some things? That is encoarag-
ing, surely! I’ve known such quanti
ties of men that were silly and ridicu
lous in so many. What is it now, I
wonder?”
Loftily oblivious to the quiet sarcasm
in these words, Mr. Harding contin
ued:
“Just look at the way they dress, for
instance."
"Oh!”
‘‘.Not only devoid of common sense,
but of all artistic elegance and benu-
ty.”
"Beelly, John,” retorted Mrs. Hard
ing, drawing ber needle through her
work with so much energy as to snap
the thread, “however silly womtji may
be in your estimation, I think they
know how and iu what style to dress.”
"They might, I suppose,” was the
cool response; “but that they don’t is
very evident. Have you read: “Dress
as it relates to Health and Beauty' in the
last Monthly?”
‘No,” responded Mrs. Harding, with
*toM of the head. “It was written by
some man* I suppose.”
"No matter who it was written by; it
is sound sense, every word of it. I wish
you would study that article, Mwy; it-
would do you an immense deal of good,
I don’t mean to say that you haven’t
sense in a good many things, which
surprises me all the more that you
should show so little in the way you
dress.
Mrs. Harding’s cheeks grew still red
der.
"John "arding!”
"There, now, Mary, don’t fly into a
passion because I tell you the truth,
and all for your own good. Just look
at the trimming on the skirt of your
drees, for instance; according to all ar
tistic rule, the line should be unbro
ken from the waist to the feet, and here
it is cut up aud destroyed in half a doz
en different places!”
"Have you ever seen me in a dress
whose skirt was entirely plain, or, as
you term it, with the line unbroken
from waist to feet?”
"No; but I should be glad to do so.”
"You would? Have yon any further
complaint to make? If yon have, I beg
that you won’t be at all backward about
stating it.”
‘ *1 don’t mean to be. There’s the
hat yon rear. That is what yon call it,
I suppose, though for any use it per
forms it might as well be called most
anything else; a mass of ribbons, feath
ers and flowers, piled up as high as
possible, and worn upon the back of
the head."
“Anything further?”
"Yes. Look at the way that the
hair is worn by nine-tenths of the wo
men—yours among ’em. Part of it in
snarl on the forehead, and the rest
braided and festooned at the back of the
head.”
"How v/ould yon have me arrange
it?” .
• "Why simply drawn back from the
forehead and coiled low at the back of
the head so as to preserve its classic
outline, something the way it is in.that
picture,”
Mrs, Harding glanced at the picture
o which her husband pointed, that of
a yery lovely girl, with small, regular
features, and whose wavy hair was loose
ly knotted at the back.
‘Tes, I Bee. But I don’t think
you aver saw ffry hair dressed in that
stylo.
"It wonl.l be an immense improve;
meat if you would dress it so; you’d
look like quite another person. ”
"I think I should. But have you
no further suggestions to make? Tour
idsas are so original that they interest
me.”
"Not at present,” returned Mr. Hard
ing, biting off the end of a cigar he in
tended to light as soon as he got out on
the steps.
A few minutes later, he put his head
hack into the room where his wife was
Bitting:
“I shall be around'with the ponies
at three, Mary. Don’t keep me wait
ing.”
Mrs.* Harding belonged to that large
class of ladies whose attractions depend
more or less upon their style of dress,
and no one understood this more clear
ly than she. She knew her strong and
weak points, and how to bring out the
one and conceal the other.. Por in
stance, her features were rather irregu
lar; she had fine eyes, hair and com
plexion, but her forehead was especial
ly out of proportion with the reat-of-—“I assdfiied it to please you—don’t
her face, and the form wanting
roundness of outline. But so skillfully
were these defects remedied by the ad
justment of the hair and dress that
they were scarcely noticed, and she
was considered by all who knew her—
her husband not excepted—to be an
attractive and very charming woman
Mrs. Harding spent the greater part
of the merning in the attic overhaul
ing a chest that had belonged to her
husband’s aunt; apparently well paid
for her trouble by thajjaraaents fished
out of its dark depths, and which she
carried to her own room, Out -of one
of these she fashioned a dress very sim
ilar in style to the one foi which ber
husband expressed so much admira
tion.
"I hate to disfigure myself so!” she
thought, as the straight folds fell lankly
around her tall, thin form, making it
look still more thin and tall; "but noth
ing else will cure John; and if he keeps
on, he’ll drive me franticl”
Then she proceeded to take down the
heavy braids oi hair, and combing it
smoothly from the forehead over the
ear, arrangeed iu a pug low at the back
of the head.
"Goqd gracious! I jjidn’t think any
thing could make me l»olt*go much like
a fool!" ejaculated Mrs. Harding, as she
noted the change it made In her appear
ance* “Bat no matter; it’s only for
once, and I guess I can stand it, if he
can.
Taking a round, flat hat, very much
in vogne a few years ago, and whose
only ornament was a ribbon around the
crown, Mrs. Harding went down into
the parlor.
She did not have long to wait. Ten
minutes later John came up to the door,
iu an open phaeton, drawn by the well-
matched grays that were the pride of
his heart
Banning up the steps be opened the
door of the room where his wife sat.
He stared at her a moment, in dumb
amazement
“Heaven and earth! Mary, is that
youl I thought it was—I don’t know
'what! Wh«t have you been doing to
yourself?
"I have been trying to carry out the
bints yon gave me this morning in re,
gard to dress* I hope it suits you and
that- you admire its effect?”
"Well, no,” responded Mr. Harding,
taking a critical survey of the odd-look
ing figure before him, "I can’t say that-
1 do. To speak plainly, yon look like a
fright.”
“I must say, John,’’retorted his wife,
with un injured air, “that you are very
hard to suit and very unreasonable. I
have spent the greater part of the morn
ing in following the suggestions you
gave me at breakfast, and still yon find
fault. What is it now, I’d like to
know? Here is the unbroken sweep of
skirt; the classic outline of the head—
I think that is what yon call it. And
yon surely cannot say that this hat is
too high, or that its elegant simplicity
—I quote yonr own words—is destroy
ed by the superabundance of feathers,
flowers and ribbons.”
Mr. Harding turned very red.”
“That’s all nonsense, Mary. I had
only three honrs at my disposal, and it’s
now half-past three, I thought to find
yon all ready,”
"I shall be ready in half a minnte,”
replied the wife, tying on her hat.
Mr. Harding looked at her in horri
fied astonishment.
"Do you think that I am going to
take yon out in snch a dress as that?
Why yon look like on escaped luna
tic!”
Just here the doorsbell rang.
"It’s Judge Howe," said Mr. Hard
ing, as he listened to the voice, in reply
to the servant who answered it. "He’s
come expressly to see you, for pity’s
sake, go np-stoirs and pat on something
decent- I'wouldn't have him see yon
in that dowdy thing for any considera
tion!”
"WilLyou promise—”
“I’ll promise an j thing,” interposed
Mr. Harding, drawing his wife towards
the door which opened into the back
parlor, and through which she disap
peared just as their visitor was announc
ed.
In an almost incredibly short space of
time Mrs. Harding entered the parlor
where her husband and their gnest were
seated, looking so different, that no one
not intimately acquainted with her
would have recognized her.
Mr. Hr. Harding drew a long sigh
of relief as he looked at the pretty, tas
tily-attired woman of whom he bad of
ten spoken to his old friend Judge
Howe, and to whom he-was so prond to
present her.
In the gay and animated conversa
tion that followed, and all the pleasant
thoughts to which it gay* rise, he for-
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PARSON CONWAYS’S PLAN.
got everything else; not so Mrs: Hard-1
ing. As soon as the door closed after i
their visitor, she turned her langbing: _ , . .. . „
eyes full upon her husband’s face D ; Last evening the reporter saw Gen.
“Now, John, let us have a fair and] Conw ^’ |g found him a quie^, deter-
v w . t T , mined looking man, not inclined to be
elear understanding: I want to suit you, ? -. , . , ,,
•t -x . ^ % . U1 - wi • u t ‘ over communicative, but approachable,
if it is a possible thing. Which ot these TU , i&i
two styles of dressing do yon wish me
to adopt?”
"I shouldn’t suppose you’d ask' snch
a question, Mary. Seeing yotr once in
the peculiar costame yon assumed is
quite enough for me, I assure yon.”
forget that.
“You failed in yonr object, then. To
speak frankly, I didn’t suppose it pos
sible for you to look so downright ugly
in any thing.”
“Yon are not over complimentary,
laughed Mrs. Harding. “But no mat
ter; if you’re satisfied, I am. Don’t
look so crestfallen, John; you are not a
bit more inconsistent than the rest of
yonr sex who give ours so much sage
advice in regard to matters they know
nothing abont. If the wives and
daughters of these modern Solomons
should dress as they advise other peo
pie’s wives and daughters to do, they
wouldn’t be seen in the streets with
them.”—New York Ledger.
How the Bible Circulates.
Very few people have any distinct
idea in regard to the circulation of the
Bible in the world in these Inter days.
Probably not one in a hundred could
make anything bnt the most vague
guess if asked to state in numbers how
many copies have been pnt in circula
tion within the years of the present
centnry. The English Printing Times
gives the following figures:
American Bible Society 33,000,000
British and Fcreign BibleSocicty 82,000,000
Scottish National Biblo Society 1,708,000
Hibernian BibleSocicty ...4,189,000
Danish*Bible Society 37,000
Swedish Bible S iciety 1,000,000
Norwegian Bible Society 250,0( 0
Bible Translation Society 3,200,000
Trinitarian Bible Society 1,200,000
German Bible Society 8,500,000
SwissBible Societies .........2,000,000
French Bible Societies 1,000,000
Netherlands Bible Societies ......1,287,000
Oth^r Societies, estimated.'. 3.000,000
147,481.000
If we include with the above* the is
sues of the various missionary societies,
and of private publishers, we shall have,
perhaps, not less than 160,000,000 as
the total for the centnry thus far.
The figures are large enough to show
that a great work is going on. Its im
portance we can scarcely over-esiimate.
Would it n>>t be well to offer special
prayer at our misriouary prayer meet
ings and at other times, that the bles
sing of God may attend his own truil;
thus sent out?
His Fate-
A New Otleans judge, riding in the
cars recently, from a single glance at
the conntcnancs of a lady by his side,
imagined he knew her, and ventured to
remark that the day was pleasant.
She only answered ‘Yes.’
‘Why do yon wear a veil?
‘Lest I attract attention.
‘It is a province of gentlemen to ad
mire,’ replied the gallant man of law.
‘Not when they are married.
‘But I am not,
Indeed!
‘Oh, no; I am-a bachelor.
The lady quietly removed her veil
and disclosed to the astonished magis
trate the face of his mother-in law.
He has been a raving maniac ever
since.
A French paper advocating the new
divorce laws, offers the following as the
marriage vdw of the future: “I sol
emnly and sincerely promise to love you
as long as you are lovable, to honor you
as long as you are honorable, and to
live with yon and cleave to yon as long
as 70a are trathfol, faithful, and devo
ted, in sickness and iD health, in sor
row and in joy, in "poverty or riches,
through good report and evil report,
until death.” This, says the writer, is
a reasonable vow to make, and ■ one
quite possible to keep. When broken
on either side, the merciful law of di
vorce should afford prompt relief, and
for the same reasons to either party,
with full liberty to marry again. Grime
divorces a man from the holy fellowship
of the Church—why not from the sacred
communion of matrimony?
F-liziu- Frear, aged sixteen, plunged
into the river at Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl;
vania, Friday, but was rescued by a po
liceman. She said her mother was in an
insane asylum and she was without a
home: that a life of shame had been
urged upon her but she had steadily re
sisted temptation, and in her condition
of destitution preferred io die.
Saturday afternoon, a violent thun
der storm passed over Wilmington, Del
aware^ Several houses were struck by
lightning, which stnnned at least a doz
en persons in different parts of the town.
In two cases the parties did not recover
for some hours.
The General gained his title in the Fed
eral service, and after the war resided
in Louisiana several years, where, as
President of the State Board of Educa
tion, he says he became thoroughly
well acquainted with tbe negro ques
tion. He is now a citizen of New
Jersey,
“I came-out here,” he said to the re
porter, “of the request of a gentlemen
of means in the East who take a hu
manitarian view of this negro emigra
tion, and who desire to exercise their
charity in some practical manner. At
present matters have hardly taken defi
nite form. Iu a few days I expect to
have'an office and get plans in opera
tiofi.”
“You have information that the ne
groes are denied transportation North?
“Yes, sir. I have ascertained that
since I came here. The steamboat
companies refuse to bring these peo
ple. They have been intimidated. The
Southern white men threaten to take
their business away from them if they
cany the colored people North: and so
they refuse to come. There can be no
question of the right of these poor peo
ple to go where they please, and if they
want to come the gentlemen lam act
ing for say they shall come.”
“You propose to bring a boat down
and bring them np, it is said?”
“Yes; that is the proposition now. I
have sent several telegrams, and shall
know in a few honrs.”
“Shall you start from St. Louis?l’
“Probably n6t. An Ohio river boat
will, I think, be selected for the pur
pose, and the start will be made over
there.”
“Do yon anticipate trouble—opposi
tion from the whites in going down
there on snch a mission?”
General Conway answered this ques
tion rather slowly and with a serious
look. “No, I think not. It will be
political death for them to attempt any
interference with ns when we had the
right entire ly on out side. Their lead
ers will advise them surely and restrain
them from it.” The General added, as
if his real seutimeuts belied his words,
“We shall go prepared, however, and if
assailed shall defend ourselves.”
•‘You mean to carry arms—muskets
and cannon?”
“Yes.”
“Aud if fired into fire back?”
“Yes; we shall be fully justified in
such action. We shall have the law en
tirely on our side. We shall have a
picked crew of brave men. I appre
hend there will be no difficulty in se
curing all the force.we shall need.”
“It is not a political matter,” he said,
as if willing to argue the question. “It
is a labor problem. The planters
should pay these negroes for their work
in money, weekly or monthly. The
sjsti m of credit is all wrong. It keeps
the negro in a bondage of debt, which
is the next thing to si ,very. The ne
groes themselves have seen for a lotg
time that the relations between them
selves and their old masters were not
what they should be, and many have
despaired of ever seeing then! righted,
’lhe txocns has been of slow growth, it
has been looked forward to a long time.
Even in 1868 the negroes formed their
secret organizations and began to dis
cuss this matter, many concluding that
there, was no hope for them bat to leave
the South.”
“To what extent have you informa
tion that negroes are on the river banks
awaiting transportation?”
Two colored men, whom I believe
to be trustworthy, arrived here to-day-
from Vidalia. When they left Natcli-
there were seventy-five refugees
who tried to come on the boat and of
fered the money for their transporta
tion. They were refused permission
to come on board. I learn there ar two
hundred at Yidalia, 300 at Good Hope,
500 at Butterwood bayon, 500 at Bass
bayon, 250 at Bonant, 500 at two other
landings, and 300 at New Carthage'
There are also bodies of refugees in va
rying numbers at many other places.
Some of these people, despairing of
obtaining transportation, have even
started to walk northward.”
‘Have yon fixed any date for the de
parture of yonr expedition kmthward?”
“Not yet. Ishall.have to visit Cin
cinnati first and shall await reports
from the two Quaker gentlemen who
left for the South this morning. I" an
ticipate mnch good as the result of their
visit—much in fact to both the negroes
and the planters. They do not pro
pose to encourage the exodus. Where
it appears for the mutual advantage of
the employer and employe that the
colored people should remain, these
gentlemen will act as mediators, and ad
vise a continuance cf the relations there
at least:until the present season is over.
Bnt where tnese people have left the
plantations and are bent upon coming
North, it is proposed that they shall
come. When I hear from these gentler
General Conway said he had an ar
rangement made by which considerable
numbers of these negroes would be
Eent to New York, Ohio and Wisconsin.
He would commence sending them to
their destinations within a short time.
—St. Louis Times, MoylS.
QAIIFOKNIA’S NEW CONSTITU
TION.
A Y onng Gir*s Ian! Assassin.
As a specimen of the work that is be
ing done by and for the Bussian Vehm-
gericht, we will cite the fate which
overtook young Bairascheffsky in Mos
cow recently, The victim is believed
to have fallen under ban on suspicion
that he had made compromising disclo
sures to the authorities, ever an un
pardonable crime in the eye of secret
law. M. Bairascheffsky was twenty-two
years of age, and the son of very
wealthy parents. He came from Wilna
in Western Bussia, and was studying
at- the school of technology in Mos
cow.
On the night of doom he attended
an evening party at the house of M.
Bartynsky. A little after nine o’clock
a young lady of exceeding beauty came
to the door, asked to see the hostess,
and was ushered into the drawing-room.
She scrutinized the company for a mo
ment, walked towards young Bairas-
sclieffeky, drew a revolver from her
pocket and shot him through the head.
He fell dead at ber feet. The murder
ess offered neither resistance nor ex
planation* She gave up her revolver
and declared that she "accepted her
fate.”
All that conld be drawn from her in
regard to the deed was that it had been
planned long beforehand. She is de
scribed as M’lle Katchka. nineteen years
of age. and a resident of Orenburg, on
the border of Asia. The police ascer
tained that she had gone from Oren
burg to St.. Petersburg, and from St.
Petersburg bad been sent to Moscow;
that she had walked straight from the
railroad depot to the scene of assassina
tion. Thus evidently she had carried
out the bloody instructions given ber
without the slightest hesitation or fal
tering.
“Respectable Bogues.” — Several
times within the last few months re
spectable ladies have been arrested in
dry goods stores in New York charged
with shop-lifting. Their actions were
suspicions and the private detectives
took them in. This was unfortunate,
and the papers have been very severe
on the stupid shop-keepers. Still, very
few, not in the business, have any idea
to what an alarming extent the dry
goods man is preyed upon by the
seemingly respectable thief. Last week
two well dressed young ladies called at
the silk counter at Stewart’s, in New
York. The floor-walker was convinced
that they were shop-lifters. On being
followed and charged with theft, one
with a large cloak gave np a roll con
taining seventy-six yards of silk, which
she had managed to hide while the oth
er talked to the clerk.
Way a Letter Don’t Go.
"Well Robert, how mnch did yonr [ menih e ^ stahls ofa2airsth ° n tLe
pig weigh?” "It didn’t weigh as mnch; date of tlie expedition will be fixed np
as I expected and I always thought it: on. We shall make no secret of it.”
The Cincinnati Saturday Night pub
lishes the following reasons why a let
ter don’t go.
Because you forgot to address it.
Because you forgot to stamp it.
Because yon forgot to write the town
or state on the envelope.
Because yon don’t write the number
and street plainly.
Because yon didn’t put three cents
on the letter for every half ounce or
fractional part thereof.
Because yon cut an envelope Btamp
and pasted it on your letter
Because you used internal revenue
stamps instead of postage stamps.
Because you nsetit, old out of date
stamps.
Because you'used a foreign stamp.
Because you wrote the address so
badly that no one conld read it.
Because yon wrote the address on
the top of the envelope and it was sure
ly obliterated by the posi-office dating,
rec jiving and canceling stamps.
And because yon put your letter in a
blank envelope, and sealed it and for
warded it to—the dead-letetter office,
where thousands upon thousands of val
uable letters are daily destroyed, be
cause the peopleware either careless or
ignorant of the postal laws.
California has recently adopted anew
constitution, which the Savannah Morn
ing News says is an innovation on all
previons forms of organic law designed
for the government of civilized commn
nities. It revolutionizes, ail the previ
ously established relations of property.
It aims to expel the Chinese by making
their employment a punitive offense.
It alters the jury system, by substitu-
the Scotch plan for the English. It
restricts the Legislature, the Represen
tatives of the people, to a line of par
ticular actions, within the radius circle
It makes wars upon “corporations” ot
all sorts, and holds the associative prim
pie in abhorrence as the fountain of all
the evils of society. It remodels the
State Judiciary, and attempts to meas
ure the efficiency of decisions by the
decree of haste with which they are to
be rendered. As for the transporta
tion interests, it prohibits these compa-
neis from issneing Lee pusses, and
they can only utter excursion and com
mutation tickets under especial regul
ations. It ordains that no discrimina
tions in charges or facilities for trans
portation shall be made by the rail
road or other transportation company
between places or persons, or in the fa
cilities for the transportation of the
same classes of freight or passengers
within the state, or coming from or
going to any other State. Persons and
property transported over any railroad,
or by any other transpoitation- compa
ny or individual, shall be delivered at
any station, landing, or port, at char
ges not exceeding the charges for the
transportation of persons or property of
the same class, in the same direction,
to any moro distant station, port or
landing, A'Sta'te board of railroad com
missioners is provided to enforce these
impossible regulations, aud they are
given autocratic powers. They may
send for petsons and papers, adminis
ter oaths, take testimony; ann punish
for contempt in the same manner as
conrts of record, and may call upon the
regular coarts to enforce their decis
ions, The.regulations of this new con
stitution in regard to taxation aie upon
the infiuitesmol plan— every separate
object songht to be taxed, in the place
of a general and rational plan of taxa
tion; “fiat” property is assumed to be
one of the sonrees of revenne, and, in
fact, this Instrument flies in the face of
every precedent which has hitherto
been regarded in the construction of
organic laws for the States. Naturally
mnch bitterness is felt by the defeated
party, bnt as the dispatches indicate
ers ithe a determination to make the
best of what is believed to be an unfor
tunate issue of an important ques
tion.”
It is thought that some of the provis
ions of the new constitution will not
stand the test of a decisson ol the Uni
ted States Snpreme Court. It is be
lieved that the sweeping proscription of
the Chinese will at once attract the at
tention of the Federal Government,
which is in lioror bound to secure to
that class of persons the same rights
and communities that are guaranteed
by treaty to Americans in China.
The communists of Ne.w York and
Chicago are in ecstncies over the tri-
nmph of the Kearueyites, and were to
bold mass meeting yesterday the express
their satisfaction at the adoption of the
new constiution.
CITY OF BENARES.
What a singular spot is this sacred city
of the Hindoos! From all parts of In
dia pious Hindoos come to spetid their
last daymnd die, sure of thus obtaining
their pecuilar form of salvation. All
daylong, froni the earliest dawn till
sunset, thousands cf people bathe oh
the steps of the ghauts, which ran along
the river’s bank for nearly two miles, id
the sure and certain hope that by such
abulition their sins are washed Clfeati
John Bbown, the royal and imperial
flunkey of her majesty the qneen of
England, has again stepped into pub
lic notice. As the qneen arrived in
Paris.frcm Clierbougg, daring her re
cent jonrney to the continent, she slip
ped and fell as she alighted from her
railway carriage. Lord Lyons, the
the British minister essayed to catch
her, but recoiled from the blow which
the somewhat compact and heavy body
oi the qneen gave him. He reeled and
swayed wildly for a moment, and the
qneen of Great Britain and Ireland, em
press of India, and her Britannic maj
esty’s embassador to the court of France
would inevitably gone sprawling, had
not the trusty John Brown roshed to
the resene and seized and supported
them both.
Gladstone is the only English ex-pre
mier living.
wouldn’t.
Congressman Carlisle’s star is in the
In lhe conversation which followe ascendant,
Progress At Jerusalem-
Recent letter writers tell ns that there
are more signs of business and social
activity at Jerusalem now than at any
time since the days when it was the cap
ital of Israel’s king. In and about the
city many new buildings are going np
and this naturally calls for an increase
oi agricultural and "manufacturing in
terest in the neighborhood, ’i he nnm-
her of workers is growing and the idlers
ore pnshed to the wall—as they shonld
be.
This result is due not to the efforts of
our co-religionists in Palestine and their
friends in other countries but to the ac
tivity of Russia and Germany as anti
quarians and colonists. Russia espe
cially seems bent upon colonizing in ti e
Holy Land, probably with a view to
a supposed ponderating influence on
the part of England. The czar
looks with a jealous eye on that por
tion of the world, and quietly encour
ages a religious fanaticism on the part
of the Greek Church in that direction.
The lower classestin Bussia are igno
rant and superstitious—and the same
may be said o£ mauy of the wealthier
aud more aristocratic inhabitants of
that country. Their adorations of cer
tain localities in Jerusalem is blind but
it is real and a large expenditure of
money in the way of pilgrimages and
shrines is a natural consequence. This
tends, of course, towards building up
business interest and the people of Pal
estine will gather the harvest of gold
that will follow.—[Hebrew Leader.
Why is an auctioneer like old Fa-
th er Time? Because he is forever goin g
aud forever gone.
k? s'-M|Sl§
away.
It is an extraordinary sight to set iti
a boat and qnietly drift with the stream
alongside the whole length of this great
city, and watch the bathers who fill up
almost the entire line. Men and womefi
ore thus piously engaged, and the usual
plan is to bring down a plain white
robe which they deposit on the stone
steps, whilst they descend into thC wa
ter in their robe, and there perform tlie
necessary abolitions.
Whilst the bathers stand up to their
waists in water, dev notedly folding
their hands in prayer, or shedding offer
ings of leaves into the running stream
from large baskets, the priests are sqriat-
ing on the shore by scores, each under
an enormous umbrella of plated bamboo'
some ten or.twelve feet in diameter; fihrf
each with a continually-increasing heap’
of small coin presented by the bathers
—piesented for what purpose we do not
know.
One of tbe ghauts is called the "burn
ing ghauts.” where are stacked great
piles of wood, and where the boats jorf
see coming down the riTer with enor
mous stacks of wood upon them unlialc^
their burdens. Here, in the midst of
tbe bathers, the dead are Aurnt by thCf
sorrowing friends. The body is brought 1
down lashed upon a small band-bier.*
If a man, it is wound tightly in whiter
robes, so every part is covens#/
if a woman, the robes are red.
The body is plunged in the stream;
and then left lying in the water half
snbmerged, while the friends bnild the'
funeral pyre. When the pyre is half’
built, the body is laid on, and tfi’Cff
more wood, and then tbe torch is ap-‘
plied, and the smoke of the hunting-
soon pours forth in thick, murky vol
umes. When the wood is burned, all
the parts of the body that are left no-*
consumed are thrown into the Ganges,-
down which they float till the birds and!
fishes finish what the firs has left tin-
done, This cremation gees on daily
and during one short visit before
breakfast we saw six funeral fire3 lit
bnt did not feel called upon to watch
the several pyres;
This strange city in the religions eap^
ital of the Hindoos, and stands on the'
left bank of the sacred river Ganges,-
nearly fonr hundred miles from Calient-'
ts. Benares stands on high ground!
by a steep ascent from the river sider
the series of steps being the ghants to 1
which we have already referred.
Above there rise the palaces, the -
mosques, towers, and temples, present
ing a grand appearance from the river.-
Bat once you pass and enter the townv
where 200,000 people are crowded, the"
cabins of drit d mud and narrow streets
repel yon.
One of the strangest sights in the c’ty
is the Doorgh Khond, orTemple of the
Saored Monkeys; where swarms of largo
yellow apes hover, carefully tended by’
the Brahmins:
The city is not altogether Hindoo aa?
there is not less than three hundred Mo-"
hammedan morqnes.
The Hindoos believe that tlie city was*
built at the creation of world, which-
is claiming a pretty good old uge;-
Retributive Justice,
A clear case of retributive justice of
the specially providential sort is report-
el in Sheffield, England. A gang of
burglars bad ineffectually tried to break-
in a pawnbroker’s shop, by door and
window. One of the number at length
ascended to the roof and proposed to-
go down the chimney and let the others
in. Hejdescended the cnimney till the
floes forked— one branch going into the
pawn broker’s shop, and the other into-
an adjoining bake house. He was with-"
in six feet of the fire place of one house
and the bake oven of the other, and he- -
6tack. He could neither get down tho
narrow fluea nor ascend . the smooth
walls of the chimney. In the morning
the people came and built fires. The
noise the burglar made was not under
stood for some time, and not until at
tention was called to the fact that the
fines did not draw properly. When
the burglar was hauled up cut of the
chimney he was dead
roasted. The chimney app »
noti
New York after the
A seventy,two hour pon
Saturday evening with
Noille in tbe lea<
five hundred miles, with
with fonr linndred— 1
to his credit.
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