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Newspaper Page TextEli WIN 3XA.I4TI1V, Proprietor. 3 Devoted to Home Interests and Culture. TWO DO^jLjUES A Year in Ad'vatfct, VOLUME IX, PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 31, IS79. DUMBER 30. THE KODEBNDAUGHTER. A REVERSAL OF THE OLD STOET. BX MABX.teYIiE DALLAS. “Father,” said Ida Du Bois, “Mr. Rockwell is waiting for you in the parlor.” “Mr. Rockwell! What on earth does old Rockwell want of me?” said Mr. Du Bois, folding up his newspaper. “Hap pily I owe no man money. I suppose if I did I should tremble at old Rock well’s name. He is fond of buying . up bad debts, and he is the cruellest of usurers. He harassed poor Moseley into his grave.” “Perhaps Mr. ; Rockwell’s prudence bos been the foundation of his largo fertune,” said Miss Ida scornfully.— “I never knew a generous man who left his family in comfortable circumstan ces.” “Left his family!” repeated Mrs. Du Bois. “Ob, Ida, and.you really seem ed to mean to twit your father with his generosity. If poor David should die I’m sure I should be too broken-heart ed to care if I went to the poor-hoa3e.” “I hate sentiment, mamma,” said Ida. “I’m practical.” “If your father were like Mr. Rock well,’’ continued Mrs. Da Bois, “I donbt if you would be half so liberally treated as you are now. I hear that he allows his widowed sister to suffer pri vations, when he would not miss what would make her comfortable.” * ‘But there are such things as settle ments,” said tho daughter, “and a wire would be a fool to forget them, what ever a sister is obliged to endure.” “But Mr. Rockwell bns no wife,” said Mrs. Du Bois. •‘He wants one, though,” replied Miss Ida; “he wants me. He has asked to see papa that he may go through the form of asking him.” “Ida!” cried Mrs. Du Bois. “That old miser! Does he think your father can force you to accept him?” “Oh, no, mamma,’’ responded Ida.-- “It is merely a sort cf oid-fnsbioned compliment to papa. I have accepted him.” “You ouly want to frighten me, Ida,” said Mrs. Du Bois. “Frighten you 1” cried Ida. “I prom ise you*a sou-iu law worth three mil lions.” “And seventy years old,” said Mrs. Bn Bois. “Who will give me a palace to reside In, diamonds, a carriage, a position amongst the best people,” said Ida. “A man of mean disposition, cruel, hard-hearted, uncultivated,” responded the mother. “Oh, as for uncultivated,- I’m tired of musty old books, aud cases of bugs, and hideous mineralogical cabinetB, and rubbish altogether. I like a boose that is not a museum, aud handsome things about me. I shall go to balls, the op era—everywhere. And if I have books they shall be well-hound ones put away in a library to themselves. ‘ Cultivation' is a thing that always seems to be pos sessed by people in ‘moderate circums stances.’ Oh, how I hate, that expres sion and that state!” “But you do not really mean it,” sobbed the mother—“you, who are only eighteen, and who—or—I thought so—I Oh, I really feel sure that you are teasing me.” “I am in deadly earnest,” said Ida, coolly. “I’ve accepted Mr. Bockwell; »nd what did you think, mamma?” “That yon loved Louis Grey,” said Jlrs. Du Bois. -• “Well, mamma,” said Ida, “I did like Louis; but if I had accepted him, what lay before me.? Poverty—at the best moderate circumstances. Ho! I have seen what must come of imprudence in worldly affairs, and, after all, every one tells-me that romance can’t last—that no man is in love with his wife after tne first year, and that decided me. What is the use of throwing away the sub stance for the shadow?” ' “Ycur papa loves me better than ho did when we were married,” said Mrs. Bu Bois, “and I. have more romance in Sty heart now, when I think of all his goodness, than I had When he courted toe. -Some people never love, Ida. A passing passion is all they ever feel; hut ue loved—nav husband and I—aud *e love stilL” . “And grandpa wanted you to marry a uch man} and papa’s mother had an heiress selected for him,” said Ida, ‘and yon mu away. Do yon know, ^ith all due respect, feel obliged to to y that I think yon were very foolish, Specially when I see the estate you lost, or kdir of the millions papa aefused. 1 couldn’t do it. Besides a husband four ■toes one’s own age is apt- to die before is old, and a rich widow may do What she likes.” Horrible!’ - ' ejaculated Mrs. Du Bois; nt Ida laughed aud ran oat of the room. i Meanwhile Mr. Du Bois held audience ffltk Mil Mr. Rockwell. Well, 6ir, ” he had said, after sbak- »g hands- ‘'well, sir, to what do, I e his visit?” I fancy, from what - T daughter said, that it is hot simply * *°cial adt” ‘f?’ sir > n °!” replied old Mr. Rock- ”Xot 1U latIlel ' u r :llrorii ring manner. • merely 4 social call. X can’t call 1 Rockwell.” it business—yet, between ns, it is busi ness, after all. I have met yonr daugh ter, Miss Ida, very often at my frieDd Mr, Goldbag’s, and I find she has made a deep impression upon me. She is a very beautiful young lady—very beau tiful indeed—and my business ‘ is to .make an offer of my hand—to ask yon to give her to me. Her sentiments, I rejoice to say, are favorable. I am pret ty well known. I can giye her every luxury, and—ahem!—settlements shall be liberal.” “Sir, there is no donbt that yon in tend a compliment,” said Mr, Du Bois, stiffly. “A man always intends that by an offer of marriage. Therefore I thank you for it, even while I decline it.” “Decline it!” cried Mr. Rockwell. ‘‘Emphatically 1” i eplied Mr. Dn Bois. “I certainly did not expect such a reception,” cried the suitor. “What have yon against me?” “Yon are rather too sharp a busmens man to suit me,” said Mr. Du Bois; “but if you mart have the truth, Ida ia eighteen, and yon four times her age. You might be her grandfather—my father. We all grow old, hut there is such a thing as suitability of years to be,'considered.” “Pooh-pooh, the thing is done every day,” said Mr. Rockwell. “But what do you mean—too shaip? Have I any of your paper, or—” “I have a weekly salary, which I gen erally spend. Never have any ‘paper.’ Never had. No mortgage to be fore closed. I own.no property. You never hurt me personally, and it’s none of my business, I suppose, that you should have made a fortuue by the ruin of oth ers, but I wouldn’t want you to marry my daughter if you were the man yon are and her own age; and being your age, it would be impossible if you were all I admire,” said Mr. Du Bois. “You insult me,” said the millionaire, rising. “I speak plainly,” said Air. Du Bois “And I have your daughter’s prom ise,” continued the suitor. “After all, it was simply as a matter of form that I consulted you.” “Ida never meant it,” said Mr. Du Bois—“never. Besides, she is fpnd of Louis Grey, who adores her.” “Who is he?” asked the millionaire. “An excellent young man, whose sal ary is fifteen dollars a week,” ' replied the father. “Quite enough for an econ omical couple.” “I believe you are insane, sir,” said Mr. Rockwell; quite sincerely, “and I bear no malice to one who is out of his senses. Good afternoon. I shall marry Ida, with or without your per mission.’’ When the house was clear of its guest Mr. Du Bois sought his daughter. “Ida, the old idiot faucies you accept ed him.” he said. “So I did,” said Ida. “Papa, this is my very best dress, and it has been made over. This is what comes of moderate means. I shall be a million airess, if there is such a word. Of course you said yes, or that you’d con sider it.” ‘:I refused him,” said Mr. Du Bois, “I shall write to him and tell him that don’t matter,” responded Ida. ‘“My daughter shall not marry an old wretch for his money if I am obliged to lock her up in the garret,” said Mr, Dn Bois. “We’ll save you from that awful fate even against your will,” said, the moth er. “Think of poor Louis, who loves you so.” The evening was passed in tears and wrath. Ida retired early without her usual adieux to her parents. And, when she had gone, tho mother drew her chair close to b.er husband’s, and he entwined his arm about her waist. “Our daughter must know the happi ness we have felt. She must marry for love,” declared the middle-aged woman. “At least, if she is incapable of love, she shall never make a mercenary match,said" the pnsband. They sat late beside the fire, and re tired sadlv to their pillows. 'Mean while, the one servant of the household had stolen softly up-stairs with a little pink-tinted note hidden under her apron. Mr. Rockwell had feed the girl to take it secretly to Miss Ida. After the parents had retired, and the house was still, some one in a cloak and dark hat and vail softly opened the front door and stole out. It was Miss Ida. A carriage waited for her at the corner; from it hobbled the enraptured Mr. Rockwell. “The hotel,” ha said to the eoachmun, as he handed his lady-love to her seat. Money will do anything. It brought into one of the private parlors of the landlord and his spouse in evening dress, and a most complacent clergy 1 man, who never asked why the celebra ted millionaire, who 'was certainly of age, chose to be married at midnight, For once, at least, Mr. Rockwell was generous. The clergyman’s fee was five hundred dollars. In those early hours when the parents of Ida were wont io_ arise they found their daughter’s room empty, and a slip of paper pinned to.keE-pilloVp'enwhich was written; “J cannot sacrifice my prospects in life to your romantic notions. Before vou read this I shall he married to Mr. The parents wept in eaoh other’s arms. They forgave their daughter; but the bridegroom would never forgive them, and they never see her now. Old Mr. Rockwell seems likely to live for many years. His wife has every, luxury that wealth can give, but her husband is jealous and seldom allows her to leave home. He has made bis will, so that when he dies she will have but a mere pittance. Therefore she does not feel qnite so anxious for his depar ture for a better world as sho otherwise would. Sho would, however, be very glad to relieve the tedium of her life by a flirtation with Louis Grey, hut he long ago married some one else, and wonders that he ever admired her. In fact, affairs are so entirely reversed in this family that a novelist would simp ly give them up in despair: he could make nothing of them.—New York Ledger. ARE THE POLAR REGIONS HABITABLE? At the reception recently given by the San Francisco Academy of Science to the members of tbeBennet exploring expedition to .the North Pole, Mr. Charles Wolcott Brooks discussed the question of the existence of an arctic continent, and the -probability of its being inhabited. If we carefully ex amine, gays Mr. Brooks, the almost uni versal features of all land known to us, we find a prevailing form wherever we turn. Each territorial area of - magni tude seems to have an appendage trend ing southward. If we apply this rule, by turning the north pole of a globe to wards us, we readily gee at a glance that Greenland, which is known to us, may bear to an unknown arctic continent the same relation that South America does to North America, or Africa to Europe. Hence it is perfectly logical to infer, by the great analogy of nature that an arc tic continent does exist beneath the north pole, extending three and a half to four degrees south from the north ern axis of the earth; As previous arc tic expeditions have advanced to 83 de grees 26 minutes north latitude—or with in 394 miles of the pole—the distance tLence to such a continent would not exceed 150 to 180 .miles. This inter vening space, however, is difficult to traverse, as it presents a very, rough surface. If the sea during the height of a gale, when the waves ran mountains high, were instantly frozen, it would present much the appearance here en countered. For ethnologists, the ques tion is: Can an arctic continent be in habited, should oneexist? This may he met by the well known fact, that the latitude of 78 degrees is about the point of lowest mean temperature. The earth is about 37 miles less iu diameter at the equator than from pole to pole; having enlarged at one point and flattened at another, because of the revolving mo tion. Now, it is well known that the lower temperatures aie encountered as we ascenc the high latitudes, and the depression at the poles may be lessen ing the distance of the surface from the earth’s center, afford a warmer temper ature, which will enable the hardy Es quimaux, Athos, or some hyperborean race, to exist upon an Arctic conti nent. Twenty Thousand Dollars an Ague. —The Standard Oil Company of New York has purchased a farm of twenty- one acres at Bergen Point, New Jersey, paying therefor an aggregate price of §420.000,- or §20,000 an acre, which is the highest price ever paid for unim proved farm land in the vicinity of New York. There is no dock, street or im provement of any-kind upon the prop erty. The company will erect a refiner, •tanks, stills and necessary buildings, which will be occnpied in addition to extensive works now at Hunter’s Point. They were compelled to purchase the property to secure a shipping point be low the east river bridge, ns the Cap tains of the large vessels which carry their oils to foreign lands object to pas sing mider the East River bridge, as each time they do so they obliged to boose their top-gallant masts to prevent a collision with the cables. The farm for which the fabulous sum has been paid was purchased from T. &S. White, sulphur manufacturers at Burlington Slip. Tea tasters are well aware of the dangers, to which they are subject, and few of them can carry on the business for many.years - without mining their health. Moderate draughts of tea may produce an agreeable exhilaration of mind and body, with no noticeable reac tion; but the effects of its excessive use are declared by doctors to be , palpita tion of the heart, an absence of exhila ration, severeheadache, dimness of vis ion, and dullness-and 'confusion of mind. Cases of severe neuralgia are frequently the result of overrmuch tea. —— - Moee than one-half of the glass used in the United States is produced in Plitsbnrg, Pa., where over 5,000 hands are employed in Making it; 12.110 tons of soda ash were used in the business during last- year, and the value of the glassware am'otmted to nearly $7,COO,GCQ. SIR TITUS SALT. | tion speech, delivered by a workman, ; best illustrates the relation existing be- An English Manufaoiubeb Gbapples ! tween {htm , we ^ a porfion of it en . wtth THE Pbobleh and Fixes It- : tjre> After to the motives Saltaire and^Management. whicb impelled the * m to make the pres . x , tJH , , , , , , ent, as a token of their “affection and In one of Dickens pleasant sketches, ’ „ , , ., _ which he occasionally wrote for “House- ^gard. khe speaker ^said: “We are hold Words,” he tells of an amiable lu natic who stepped into a warehouse in Liverpool, and curiously examined some bales of long, silky wool, which had so long been unsold that they had become q nuisance. All the sane business men were sure that it was of no service, and the energy of the' merchant was db directed to the best means of getting rid of the undesirable and unsalable commodity. The crazy man took a handful of it home, and, his mania in creasing, came ne$t day and begged a basketful, in company with which he shut himself np in a room for many days. He tried to inoculate liis business partners with the same disease, but they were too shrewd; and, like all lu natics, being very self-opinionated, he tried to utilize this long, silky wool. The result was that lie bought the whole 3tock, altered machinery for the pur pose of manufacture, and finally intro duced into England and made known to the world, the merits of alpacca wool. The “crazy loon,” became one of the most successful manufacturers of the present" century; made a princely fortune, and spent a portion of it like a “prince,” the manner of which it is our present purpose to relate. There was a method iu his madness that few rich men’s lunacy has been streaked with. Bradford, in the West Riding, of Yorkshire .England, was the home of the merchant who is thus pleasantly al luded to. The business so greatly in creased, and so grew, in point .if popu lation, that it sought to be incorpora ted. Mr. Salt the “lucky” alpaeca ma ker,.became its second mayor. Daring his administration the Chartist insur rection was in full blast; a time of un precedented business depression came; side by side with which, the cholera swept over the land. Tho ‘-'amiable lu natic,” though losing £10,000 per month by running his mills, hired help, and kept his mills over-full, taking 100 ex tra hands on as his share of the relief to the unemployed. CONSIDERING THAT DBAQOONS COULD HAVE BEEN HAD FOB THE ASKING, this method of dealing with unemploy ed workmen seems more foolish than his original folly in Liverpool. The trouble was that Titus Salt lived before his time; as, for instance, years before the outoc world thought of it, he es tablished the Saturday half-holiday sv;/fem. At fifty years of age with an ample fortune, that even his most abun dant charity failed-to injure, lie deter mined to retire from business. But, used all his life to hard woik, he chang ed his mind, and instead of vegitatiug in luxurious idleness stnrted on a new scheme. Bradford was over crowded. The painful evidences were apparent in the miserable homes'of the operatives and the sickness and death t-bqt kept company with them. He determined to remove his mills from the town, and where theie was breathing-room lay the foundations of a new to yd; and being accustomed to do things when he start ed them, be suceeded. On the hanks of the little river Aire, a few miles from Bradford,, he bought a suitable site and immediately began erecting his mills. Built with great care for proper ventilation and the comfort of the operatives, the new mill cost him jnst §500,000. Now, it became neces sary to house the workers, and for this thetown w.-«s projected; twenty-two streets were laid out, on which he built 850 houses, costing about §590 each, or §502.800, exclusive of lands; schools for the children, §35,000; a church, §80," 000; besides giving sites to other relig ions bodies than ths Congregational, to which he belonged.' The sects tbus favored with building sites were the Baptists, Wes'eyans; Roman Catholics and Swedqnborgians. He also contri buted to the erection of buildings thereon. Foi saniiary purposes he erected public baths at a cost of §35,000, and disliking the sight of clothes hang ing ont to dry, added thereto wash houses, laundries, etc., at a cost of an other §35,000. For the aged and in* firm he built forty-five neat alms-lious- not unmindful sir, that the physical welfare of your workmen has been well provided for, and we appreciate yonr efforts for the mental improvement of those in your employ”—the new Libra ry and institute, cost'ng §125,000, hav ing been just opened. Again: “Sir, if we look back at the; season of commer cial depression which have from time to time'swept the "West Riding, entailing heavy loss upon the manufacturer and distress upon the work people, we are not unmindful that yon have nearly coun teracted the effect of such seasons of distress upon yonr own workpeople by keeping them fully emyloped; for, how ever long the storm has lasten, a di minution in the hours of work and .loss to the operatives have never occurred.” The address concluded with expressions of “gratidude and love” to the manu facturer. Seconding'a motion of thanks, an old Yorkshireman said in his broad dialect: “Ah’ve wrout for sixteen yeear for Mister Salt, an’ ah can say that ah am weel pleeased and satisfied wi’ un, and ah second the moation wi’ abl my hart, an’ sit ma daan.” Indeed, the whole story is a repeti tion of the same. A just and consider ate man, Titus Salt valued the inde pendence of the workers, and was fore most in every political movement for their benefit. Long before tile ten hour law came iu force he had adopted it. and he worked hard for the passage of the bill. A Liberal iu politics, his in fluence in Yorkshire, as a chairman of the Liberal Committee, was heavily thrown in favor of the extension of suf frage and the l allot. In 1866 the French imperial commission offered prizes for the best evidences of an at tempt to benefit the workers by manu facturers, and the best evidence of good feeling between the employer and employed. Titus Salt, though re fusing to become a competitor for the prize, was persuaded by the English commissioner to send a detailed ac count of his new town, and received an autograph letter from the French emperor with the cross of the Legion of Honor. The medical report which ac companied this statement said: DISEASES PECULIAB TO POVEBTX ABE UN KNOWN IN SALTAIRE; cholera, though epidemic in Bradford, had left Saltaire untouched; typhoid fe ver, owing to excellent sanitary condi tions, was almost unknown.” No beer house was allowed on the grounds. - A fire brigade, horticultural society, crick et club, brass, string, and reed bauds, glee and madrigal societies, co-opera tive and industrial societies, coal clubs, funeral and sick benefit societies had all been formed amoDg the male and fe male operatives. In 1869 Mr. Glad stone, acting as ho said, by special de sire of the qiieen, conferred on Mr. Salt the title of baronet. The year of his accession to this dignity was signalized by the gift of a recreation ground of fourteen acres to the people; and an en thusiastic movement which resulted in the statue of Sir Titus being erected in front of the Town Hall, Bradford, one of the rare instances of such an honor being paid to a living man. He repre sented Bradiord for a short time in Parliament. When he died, full of years and honors, 46,000 workmen fol lowed his remains from the town to Salt aire, and, borne by twelve of the men who had been longest in his employ, THE DEAD PBINCE WAS LAID TO HIS BEST, amid the heartfelt sorrow of the whole country. One conspicuous feature of his generosity was that he was jnst. Tho wages paid by the firm were al- ways-as good as the best; and Sir Titus was not gniity ' of the mean ness of squeezing employes’ wages to get money for phil mthropic purposes. The workmen thoroughly appreciated his manly character, and we fail to hear of any labor troubles in that d'striet. The only one he had was settled satisfactorily to the men, who, not quite understanding his character, went the wrong way to get righted.— They straek, and a deputation waited on Mr. Salt to get “their rights.” He heard them attentively, and then said quietly that he did not see bow the question affected them; they had left bis employ. If they had remained in KEW ESTIMATE OF 4 .WORLD’S AGE. THE j BREASTPLATES IN THE Akirfc Mr. Millard, of Liverpool, has read a paper before the Royal Society, in which he endeavors to grapple with the ques tion of the antiquity of the earth, by employing the limestone rocks of the earth’s crust os an index of geological time. The very extensive deposition of carbonate of lime over wide areas of the ocean bottom, ,is attested at the present day by the recent soundings of the Challenger. According to- Mr Reade’s estimates the sedimentary crust of the earth is at least one mile in av- erege actual thickness, of which proba bly one-tenth consists of calcareous matter. In seeking the origin of ibe calcareous matter, it is assumed that- the primitive) rocks of the original crust W r: of the nature of granite or basal tic rocks. By the disintegrations of such’rocks, calcareous and other sedi mentary deposits have been formed. The amount of lime salts in water which drain districts made of granates basalts is found, by a comparison of analyses, to be on an average about 3.73 parts in 100,000 parts of water. It is further assumed that tho exposed areas of igneous rocks, taking an average throughout all geological time, will bear to the exposture of sedimentary rocks a ratio of about one to nine. From these and other data Mr. Rcude concludes that the elimination of the calcareous matter now found in the sedimentary strata must have occnpied at least six hundred millions of years. This, there fore, represents the minimum age of the world. The author infers that the foundation of the Lanrentian, Cambri an and Silurian strata must have ocu- pied about. two hundred mi lions of years; the old red sandstone, the carbo niferous and the poikilitic systems an other two hundred-millions and the other strata the remaindiusr Jwo hun dred mil.ions. Mr. Eeade is, therefore, led to believe that geological time bas. been eroneonsly in excess of the limits urged by certain physicists, and that it has been ample to nilow for all the changes which, on the . hypothesis of evolution, have occurred in the organic world. THE EXODUS, So little Las been heard of the negro exodns of lute that most people sup posed the black tide np the Mississippi into Kansas had entirely ceased, - But a communication which Mayor Over- stolz, oi' St-Louis, has just received from the the Pieshlcut of W» s ren San itary Commission shows that this im pression is very wide of the fact. The Commi.-.sion was organized soon after the immigrants begau to arrive in’ St, Louis to ltlieve the city of theburdip of caring for them ajid make suets pro vision for their aid as humanity requir ed, and suitable buildings and yards were fitted up, where each week two or three hundred have been decently shel tered and provided for until they could be sent forward to their chosen destina tions. Thus far the commission have found no unexpected difficulty in ful filling their engagements, but the Pres ident now informs the Mayor that “to our surprise aad regret the number of immigrants, instead of diminishing as might have been reasonably expected at this season, is as large as ever, and threatens to increase,” while tho pro portion of those who are nnable to help themselves is also becoming greater. Meanwhile the funds have become so nearly exhausted that the commission cannot continue their work, and accord ingly notice was served that they would give up the buildings and cease all id- attempts to care for the refugees after the 20th instant. It it understood that the city authorities will take no other action in the matter than to seenre proper sanitary conditions, and the qnestion what shall be done with the unrfelcoma immigrants is one which no body seems able to answer. The reemt investigation by two French doctors of the influence of mental labor on the growth of the brain and skull- was full of interest. They measured the.heads of persons of many difiVrent pnrsuits, educated as well as illiterate. The results were in favor of edneated men leading an intellectual I life;, that is to say, ibe heads of - these men were much more fully developed than those of other men. Jt w.is found that both sides of'the beafl were not al-1 ways symmetrically developed. In stn dents, for example, the development of Editor Morning Neirsi— The breastplate referred to by the R»tr eigb Observer, whose article you repub lished in yonr paper this morning, un der the caption, “Gen. Taylor's accura cy questioned,” were introduced into? ihe United States army by Major Cteqv eral Irvin McLowell. of tho United? States army, when Major and Assistant Adjutant General, for the protection of’ our officers and men in Indian fighting^ rgjiipst lances, arrows and ctrmes blam«■• dies generally. The Major had visited Europe, and inspected its armies and 1 brought back from Franqe this breast-’ p)aie or cuirass for introduction into’ our service for the purpose above men-- tioued. This was shortly before the* war. I was, at the time, in charge of thq ! Bureau of Clothing, Equipage adfil Equipment in the Quartermaster Gen-- tral’s office of the United States SriHjy and Major McDo veil exhibited and'ex plained to me officially the use and inan-- ner of using,the plates. Their intro-.’ duction was approved and sanctioned* by the authorities; and having been' adopted as incidental equipment, were’ no dpnbt used in the civil war, I lieard 1 during the war of their pse, and that- their utility, extia weight considered}’ was a matter of discussion. The famous Cuirassiers of France' wear steel breast plates and back pieces 1 outside over their clothing, and assur edly their, record is not one to be - - ashamed of. The change from one ! heavy piece outside to. two light; flexi-- ble aud tough steel plates, conveniently, pocketed, when desired in the breast off the ordinary military coat of other ayma* of service, was an improvement in- ac cordance with tin progress of the pe-- riod. They, were recognized in Europe > as legitimate protectors,- and so : worn,, aud were equally legitimate itp America. We- had none. If we had 1 possessed them those who believed up their protection wonld no donbt have- carried them as iu France, sans peur ?fc sans reproche. Yery truly yrvurs Henbt C. Wayn$x 1 widows. When the mills were opened I 0Dce more approached him. The gnev-1 frontal roj [ 3750 guests partook of the.liberal ban- ance ’ for ifc was oue > was promptly set- I f jqnet -provided by tbe princely enter-1 ^ut •‘■fter that date no strike took.c j miner. Starting out under such auspi- l’* oce > f° r there was full confidence in I cis, and acting on the principle of se- j tfae inst character of their employer. ' j curing high-class workers, for whose the left frontal region was fuller than es; ornate in design and fitted with I it, he might have seen what the griev-j that ot the right; fant ia ilHt-.’rate sub- gardens, into which he placed seventy- ance was. This was anew idea; the jeets, the right occipital region was lar- five old and infirm operatives or their | strikers went back to their work, and j ger than the left. Iu tbe students the on was mote developed than tie occipital; m illiterate subjects the occipital region was the largest. So it seems there are rings in the j Democratic party down here iu Goor- | gia- This fact does not call -for white- calls for investigation, ex- services HE GAVE GOOD WAGES, it is no wonder that the well-lodged! j workers appreciated the munificence of : j their employer. Three years after the j Do not sit at an open window dnriu, a thunderstorm, been kiiled in this way. mon was killed at Poiismontb, Ya.’ last * week by thus exposing herself. Keep 1 sconj n , r , . ; wash. I x..ny peop ave ; IlosurC( alu ; punishment We haw . A negro wo- J denounced fraud among Radical ofii-1 ave been hold up to the j — r Ji COlltflQpt of tiifc pGtJr | inauguration of the new town of'rid-1 out of ccnenJs - « better to bear i p!o * Vi:mocr:i ' 1 " wrong-doers shouid ! taire, the workers presented him with a : a little temporary inconvenience born ? ami iaru SVol;ie - 1 ;i; = l‘ ‘ve j lmlf-way ; measures.— ^wla bust oi himself, and us the preseuta-1 heat than to tempt the lightning. THE SPELLING F-EFORSU The matter of spelling reform' lias - . been qnite thoroughly discussed, for - and against-, before the State Edncq-.- tionul Association of Virginia, in session) last week at Halbptop. The report of a • committee appointed to consider the-- subject was presented on: Wednesday. The history oi the movement in Eng*.- land and in this country was given, and it was stated that memorials, had been * sent to tho British Parliament and ta> the United States Congress, asking for govorniueutal.aclion in its behalf. PrQf... Gildarsleve, of the Jphfi Hopkins Uni- • versity, of Baltimore, and Dr. M. A. Newell, Superintendent cf the Publip..- Education for Maryland, argued stren-. uonsly against it. Other piominent, educationalists favored the move*, ment. As an entering wedge towards : the gradual ndortion of the pho-. netic system, the American Phil* . osopbicaj Association suggests, tho. following slight changes in spell-., ing. * First, Drop all. silent letters,. espe cially silent e after a, short vowel, as iq- have, give, genuine, and a in ea when, pronounced e short, as in head, wealth. Second, Write/'for as: in such; words as alphabet, philosopher. Third, Iu words ending m l doubled;, like shall, omit the last l, Fourth, Change ed when it has tho, round of t, as in lashed. There is reason to suspect, says the. Philadelphia Record, that one of the. most potent inspirations of the phonet ic movement, which is evidently net, longer in tbe hands of the shallow scR. olists who started it, is to be. found ip, the general discomfiture of the "divines, lawyers, aDd other gentlemen of litera ry pursiiits. all over the countiy, during, she eras of ihe “spdling bees,” which wi re so popular a few.years ago. "While, that epidemic raged many a learned, college professor was vanquished by a. common schoolboy in tbe orthographic. tournament. The amazing fact—long, known however, to editors and;compos-_ itors—was revealed to an astonished, world that not a few of the really goq-4, and great spholars of the country were, to put it mihly, very iDdificreht spel lers. In these encounters little snips of boys would go np head, aiuRthq big men who had forgotten how to. spell, would shrink away chagrined. It is very probable that to the mortification. <*f tkes.- influential persons is due mncli of the vigor of tbe. current formidable crusade against tbe lexicographers. How is This fob Goons?—Mr. John Lossy, living iu the aejgUtcuhood of the Augusta Factory, i. 1 : the champion coon hunter this season, In company with several gentlemen, he captured twenty six-of these depredators ia six half day hunts. They were aii found in DeLaigie’s swamp, smith of the city..--*. AnysUl Lining News.