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•OCKD ADUCR
IT FARMENAS MIX.
•* You wish to be a lawyer, John—well, I’d not Bay
a word
Unless I felt quite certain that your longings are
absurd:
I don’t wish 10 discourage you, but then I can’t con
To board sent, I’d hev to do, and
you as pay your office
rent.
'‘You’ve got a lusty set o’ limbs, aod ordinary
head,
And you were meant by common toil to earn youi
But daily thri vine bread; farm and
a and ire pleasmt home where man
w agTee
Beat any one-horse lawyer’s luck as far as you can
“ If you’d been born with talent, John, you’d lone
Rgo hev shown
That you had gifts by stealing off to study books
Now, alone;
if you’ve ever read a book, I r’ally don’t know
when.
Though, come to think, I b’lieve you sling a some*
what, legal pen.
“ Be wise, my b^y, the legal ranks than
are more
crowded now.
And half of them who starve therein was cut out xor
the plow,
But they mistook pure laziness for Uleut, under¬
stand,
And helped to fill a big supply where there was no
demand.
“ Are they not educated? Yes, but here let me ex
That plain.
seed that’s grown in shaky soil brings forth hut
little grain;
And this higher education to an ordinary mind
Is like a pair of big gold spec’s upon a man that’s
blind.
“ There is no prouder place than ’twixt tlie handles
of the plow
(Though stumpy land lias humbled me at times, I
And must for human allow),
as greatness, 1 should think I had
my share
If I could take the prize for hogs at our next county
“ Just^eraulate your sire, my son, and just
as lure as
You’ll live to be respected, though perhaps you
won’t be great;
But enter law and five short years will clean you out
so bad
You’lHiev no recollection of the last square meal you
A HANDKERCHIEF FLIRTATION.
CHAPTER L
A lovely evening in early antnmn, un¬
der toe thick trees which shade a quiet
street in the suburbs of one of our East¬
slowly, ern cities, two persons were walking
matched conversing in low tones. Au ill
school girl couple sixteen, they were. One a
of with dimpled,
rosy cheeks, and clear, innocent brown
eyes; the other, a man who might have
been handsome but for toe marks of
dissipation and that indescribable mix¬
ture of boldness and knavery which
stamps on every feature of this class of
men toe words “gambler and “roue.”
There is a ring of mocking insincerity
in the very tones of his voice which
contrasts playfully with the air of child¬
ish trust and admiration with which his
companion regards him.
“No, my angel, the time has not yet
come in which .we are at liberty to de¬
clare our love openly. For myself, I do
not fear, but your stem father, taking
into consideration the way in which we
met, might separate ns forever. ”
“Yes, indeed !” replied the angel,with
true school girl slang, “he’d just rave !
he is down on handkerchief flirtations;
and there is John Riley; do you know,
Alphonse, I more than half believe he
suspects something?”
There was a start of genuine emotion
of some kind from the ardent lover, and
the carefully modulated voice muttered
something which commenced with d—,
but which was modified to “ darling.”
“Who is John Riley?”
“Only a cousin who lives with us, and
that day when I first met you he saw me
flirting, and took me home and scolded
every step of the way like a savage. Of
course I promised never to do so again;
but he looks at me so queer, and to-night,
when I told mother I was going over to
Ailie’s to study, he asked me if Allie and
I did not do a great deal of studying of
furiously. evenings lately. I know I blushed
He is always meddling. I
hate him.
Belle’s heart smote her even as she ut¬
tered these kind words against the g<Jod
old bachelor cousin who had petted and
spoiled scolded her her all her life, and had never
but once. A fortnight pre¬
vious to this evening he had been horri¬
fied at seeing Belle oh her way home
from school in company with two other
romantic young ladies, flirting her hand¬
kerchief at some flashily-dressed young
men on the street, in a way that gave
evidence of long experience. To step
out of the store, take Belle’s arm, and
walk her home to the unwelcome music
of a severe scolding, was the work of a
moment. Since then Cousin John had
rested calmly, conscious of have done his
entire duty. If he had only known!
For since that time Belle’s companion of
to-night bad thrown himself iu her way
so persistently, had and protested excited her such imagina¬ love
ana admiration, pictures wealth
tion with such glowing only wanted of her
and splendor that girl’s silly little head ac¬
ceptance, that the
was completely turned. She was envied
and looked upon as a heroine by her will¬ girl
confidantes at school, and they lent
ing aid to plan the meetings which took
place daily. Meanwhile, toe two are
conversing softly—in fact, the whole con¬
versation has been so exceedingly soft
that I will spare the reader a repetition He
of all except the closing sentences.
holds her dimpled hand tenderly as she
turns to leave him:
“To-morrow at four o’clock, then,
dearest, you will come?”
“Yes, Alphonse, but”—an uneasy look
clouding the fair face—“are you sure if
is quite right?”
“Right, my love! What -wrong can
there be in cheering the loneliness of my
invalided aunt by a visit from one whom
she has long wanted to know? You will
see no one else, and I toll conduct yon
to your friend’s house before your ab¬
sence is noticed. ”
“Dear miss.'W Alphonse’” hard sighed the sent.’
mental it is that yon
dare not speak to my father now!”
"Cruel!" exclamd the adorer, a spasm
passing over his fac. which to an ex
perienced ranDresw-d olwerver grin Perhaps cicely the rambles thong!
be decidedly harder int him if he did.
“But time, aw-t one. will remove all
°^i^wer.heaHappw»hing,ar Pootstepa w«e i
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Si'll t/cm<<rwwa» foar
' loft ta dalifhtfri!
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The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
dream. She saw herself the bride of Mr.
A. Sartoris, heir to his aged aunt’s im
mense fortune—the center of an admiring
circle of friends, when even cousin John
would be compelled to treat her with
the respect due her mature years and
elevated position. I am not telling the
story of an exception ably foolish or reck
less girl, reader; it is only a repetition
ttsttpsp&is: of boardmg-scho<5l experiences and sen
sational novels, fell an easy prey to the
mond wild beasts that wait in every life
path. Sad-eyed, hopeless outcasts now,
whose feet are swiftly treading the down
ward path from which society says
If sternly, the “Thou shalt never turn back.”
mothers of our land would pause
and consider the pitfalls in our cities,
which, artfully wreathed in flowers, await
the unexperienced feet of their darlings,
they would devote less time to fashion
and frivolity, and think only of fighting
every yeM .l.ay ViW.i.l. V'i'li'V.'nt
ones down to infamy and shame.
chapter it !
TT,vm f* th rou S i h her i lessons the .,
next day is only known v to herself and
the long-suffering and patient teacher,
For was she not soon to see ttie magnifi
queen? mafw^ vouneladvofZr iatto 6 ^
and French verbs to a
m-and grand exnectations? expectations 2 At At last last the the clock eloel
wi m J f riT g! “L 1 !- 6 tl, ThnuZ dfn-or nf toe
«enfmr , n,I -1
TTZ? itotofr^ +h« She toft toe school
v> she e-ntererl n street «r cninc
very heart of the city. The streets which
Belie, they presently what enter schoo l are gtol unfamiliar iateen^i. to
bnt .t B
toaned calmly back hi the seat ami
watched the changing panorama in the
street oneliut It was Tcncrthlmr” a tong ndo a very long
at ves brtotocal
looking “listed old gentleman to“ stormed too car
and S.gr^efiTuttlebowandZito her toht She thanked
him “kedTX i?r ’
scanning^ eveiw^ZusfZsolv to a S Thnnfto
fhf cJ-2. owt.o off V y '« 6 + ‘. re< g ; i
' dej by^ «fnd Ximv
tookingtorowiTstone on both s and
h uts Before one
t)X“TX d a»r™ b 0MMa"w' i , r S
who looked at her curiously as she tmi
thi's was the name of the aged aunt for
The girl hesitated for a moment and Hum
with a peculiar smile on her unntoasaut
countenance threw open the door of a
magnificent aTto rAPonttor. r-nm !
seeing her seated door’after^bev the ter] toft
closing the The mnm
was assured that Alphonse luuf not ex
aggerated when he described his magnifi
ceiit surroundings. A carpet thick and
soft as moss covered the floor; rich cur
tarns were draped so as to conceal the
plate-glass windows, and here and there,
from out the darkness, gleamed beautiful
statuary aU She had ampto leisure to oh
servo began this, then as no one came, she
to grow indignant. “ Why was
not d!d Alphonse here to receive her? Why
Suddenly they keep her waking so long ?”
a voice so near that it made
her start, exclaimed ;
.....Hello, She looked sis!---- around with Rtartled
a cry;
she had thought herself alone; but near
by, partly hidden by the window-draping,
sat a man, who was gazing at her with
an impudent stare. He was adorned by
a red necktie and a profusion of flashy
jewelry; he sat astride a chair with his
arms folded over the back, and a look
in the bold black e^-es which made Belle s
cheeks blaae with mihgnation. She did
not deign to reply. Her silence seemed
to amuse hun. He caressed his mustache
with a smile of mtense enjoyment, then
“You came to call on me, I suppose?
This was probably an impudent serv
would Alphonse never come? She
“I wish coldly:
to see Mr. Sartoris.”
“Any relation to the Grant family?”
“I wish to see Mr. Alphonse Sarto
“Ah!” with a gesture of mock surprise;
“I thought you were inquiring for Al
he arose, and bringing his
chair to her side, peered into her face
“hut as Algyis notin at
and the other gentleman is en
unknown tome—won’t I?-”
Belie sprang to her feet, the blood
over cheek and brow; a dim
of, she knew not what, filling
her with one idea-she must get away
from this house, out of the presence of
this terrible man; aa she reached the
door it was opened from without, but the
glad exclamation, “Alphonse!” was
checked by the appearance of the woman
who entered. Richly, but flashily
dressed, crime her repulsive, was stamped red on every
feature of face; its ap
pearance was not at all improved by a
large scar which ran zig zag across the
forehead She closed the d^r and kept
her hand upon the ateh as she looked
keenly at the shrinking figure of
girl. . . .. , „
sheSjifa . “arse vEk£7‘ ! Wdit, what’s
the rumpus?”
“Walt” laughed brutally. But Belle,
her heart beating with terror, said
gently: “Madame, I I mistaken;
fear am
does not Mr. Alphonse Sartoris live
here?”
The woman and man exchanged sig
nifleant “Anotberoneof glances, then they laughed
Larkey “All ’h fancy names,”
wid tbe woman. right, my girl,
you’ll sUy.”
n m,,, „„
g question time, lady,”
J.. at Wy,' a 7 young UlL
^ WW ”!
k C ‘' rtMBto po f 1 . ^ Hunt, **“*?>* prineipid of this unrivaled Mader.^
hetitotirm far girls. %^-UI sttiurtam
Uj motni* vA *<»
I* have 1 ?. Tl. faaard .j of this plan# ^ batore? f ' m
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 14, 1880.
J!“hTL < S?£d"£SSd
rf
horrors too terrible to be named some
thing too dark and awful to ever come iu
contact with her fresh young life like a
flash of light a complete understimdintr
0 f the plot to entrap her came to Belle
Alone, unprotected, not even her parents
dreaming of her peril. Alone m this
sis*sjrsuBasta pushed violently back
xnadame was J by J the
-None of that, my girl; you’re bound
to star here, and might as well make the
best of it . f TOU may gi ve me gome o{ that
extra jewe ry wb fle V e are on this sub
j e ct too.”
\ faint hope sprang up in the poor
child’s heart. She began tearing off her
small supply .10/ of iewelrv with feverish
. . f t„L.T .11 ”
’
, MU ® v nin-^even n „ „«• ^nintv
- miB tlm
L.' 1 "’ "' JD1,UI ^ ® ttt ‘
stretched hand You may have them
all and my father will give you more;
e m 0 g ° me g0 ‘
mi. t ‘ ie i i words rose to a wail . the
as
woman turned deliberately to leave the
room. “take Commanding her, the man angrily to
care of and stop that infernal
noise, Madame Corallie left the room
^ed the door after her.
Belle ^imed the _ __
to man who had
watc hed the whole scene with calm en
• ment
“ 0h - sir! P lease shnw ™ a wav out of
thi mother’s s dreadful sake,” place! she implored have pity!'for with my
a suf
foRatin g Bob - “ let me ”
“Take care,” replied rf.ta.nU■«yo. her jailer, warn
know {«*. when you re well off. ”
sa ’'.k into a «“• chair, “» her sobs *
“That’s right,” lighting said her tormentor ap
provingly, hack comfortably, a cigar and leaning
what can’t “always help; make the best
of you you’ll like us
Belle shuddered, hut made no reply;
abl >ough silly and thoughtless she wasno
fool ‘ an ' 1 sho had set a11 her "' ite ^ork
to d6vi8e a P la " b y which to e*®ape **<>m
this place before ifwastoo late. Shading
her face from the gaze of “Walt” she
glanced keenly ^“t-ened; around the room; the
one door the only other
communication with the outer world
iS^iaUS & >lm5 Of o.,e o!
them, where the curtains were parted
Bli e CO uld seetheglimmer of a
street lamp on the opposite corner, and
room nnlform w-as ‘ getting B " tho WBB very “ dark; "JV- she looked ^
at be r jailer despairingly; he was watch
mg the blue wreaths of smoke that curled
upward from around his the cigar; as they Belle’s fell eyes
room upon
one of those for large white sea-shells lying so
often used ornaments, on a
silken mat near her chair.
With one bound shei has matched np
tho shell and reached the window; there
«.acrash of shattered glass, a torrent
of horrible oaths from the villaiu who
gnp 8 her 81111 but cruelly agonized and tries to rings drag
her away, the cry
loud and tight: clear, and the bleeding hands
cling
There is the quick sharp sound erf a
policeman’s rattle; another and another
and another answers, and the cruel hand
leaves her arm; a passer-by looks up at
the pale face at the window; he joins the
and Belle as throws they rush herself into fainting tiie house, into
the arms of her horrified cousin John,
When she recovers she finds herself sur
rounded by blue-coated men, and an
swers the stern, business-like questions
of learns one enough. of them, tremblingly, bnt he
“ Larkey O Connor, alias Alphonse
said he, “Iknowhim; this
of is getting enticing young girls and into will these
common, be so
long as girls are allowed to walk the
at all hours unprotected.”
. “B-tt»er.‘y," re^ondedC ou mbJ oh n,
as long encouraged as such places ss
are licensed and to ruin
innocent ones, body and soul; as
as our law-makers deliberately make
it unsafe for the helpless ones to walk
our streets unprotected. This little
one,” escaped. gently caressing Think the sobbing thousands girl,
“has of the
of ill-fated ones who do not.”
And the policeman assented with a
sigh. That evening, with the poor, torn
hands carefully bound up, Belle sobbed
out the whole story to her affrighted
parents. It was a bitter lesson, and
whenever her schoolmates spoke of flirta
tions of any kind, a vision of the hard,
wicked face of Mme. Corallie and
» Walt ” rose before her.
Don’t do it, girls, for though you may
never have Belle’s experience, still
it ha* brushed from the grape Us reft blue,
Pron tbe mebud^u shaken the tremnious -tew,
and you can t afford it. This unfortun
»te gn-1 escaped the whSewe trap which was laid
for her feet. But thank our
guardian angel that she did, a wail comes
np from all parts of our fair land—hear
it, you who would deny mothers the right
of making laws to protect their spotless
ones; “ tlnnk of the thou^nd. of ill
fated ones who do not. _
a Trap to Catch a Polar Bear.
Tlie natives of the polar regions have
> ™* Tu™™Z SI
tb ‘“, “ d S?, P 'T f
f^So^TbJrTdoubir ’ mfieT ,\
.. . Rta ,“ , J *° m m ? , P le008 .?* 0 { blubber r ar arc '
wrapped ar/^d it and , the oontnvanc4,
^ lb !^ Xd
l^ws aml ^, arMWi, B and token teken tb, tb.
toxe of their »' »« prey, ’ andassoon 1 “w, " ‘J
charges an arrow at it. ^The me bear, 1. «
, fSgtS droDDeJxxpressly S for it swal
IJsideYoon »»
()f y.,, causa Urn dissolution
, ( n,,, idabls-r. The wlisleteme, thus
,| from encumbram,. auilm spring* »*.■‘k .0
.u -hi pnaitfan, and aucli havwi
»•'» » iutestinsa that ti.. beast diaaou
upusa tea aUaaa. mu 4 ao« dfaa.
1S40 ’
l hose °* '« who have hved our ‘ ‘three
score and teu ” bftve many changes
nnd great progress m every department
hum!u 1 “ e ; Iu material tilings the
c 8 e ? have , beeu ve3 7 decided, and
a
nter . -Mppincott's
'', m sums up some of
“*? m° st striking of them as follows:
» the decade of 1840-1850 has appeared
m the past thirty years. In that period
if Burred 0 “°" “S” 1 development of
manufacturers applications of chemistry to
and agriculture; au enor
XST*!. 01 commerce by means
or lailroads and ocean-steamships; the
either; and the perfection
a . of tbe 8t
some m ° P 1 ®’
- contributions made to , the wel
® 10U8 ever
fare of mankind. In 1835 only 984 miles
bad been completed in the
^imted States; m . 1840 they had been
52 , SS , «5ia“SU l t
1SJ5 Boeton w.u. oeuueoted vith Wor
cester, and Baltimore with Washington;
from Philadelphia the traveler could go
no father west by rail than the Susque
hanna at Columbia. In 1839, Ericsson
brought pitable over thepropellor to these hos
shores. In 1840 tho Cunord line
of cxiean-steamers was established, but
for a tolerated. longtime only Lt “side-wheelers”
were The regular ship,
«>e Britannia, reached Boston after a
fourteen days and eight hours.
Morse’s telegraph, after vam offers on
bo th «fdes of the Atlantic, was at last
subsidized , . by our own government, an.l
ui 1844 communication was opened bo
and Washington,
What t hath God wrought! signaled
pre^Celec^tetoffrS teLcranh” ^ ot “bvma^ ^whife
„IZ were meatrer ft
of the day mode fun of a delighted
blt her in Baltimore who wired the
news the birth of a grandson to a
I^stoffice official at the Capital-“as if
an nour. in April, i»4u, uoouyuir whs
111 tbe ,f. ebt °» P nsou (» 1( >dgmg almost
as famJl f “ *“ J™ “ bl “ °. wa b «me) m
I ostol i; he had the year before found the
® bl ° to the vulcanizing of rubber, but
the process was not reduced to a cer
tuinty till 1844. the At about the same
wufirnuM (1845-17) the McCormick reaper
was independence of the
P-rtoa mtoll'oCiiiW State torn Port,,
Ral and the Baltic.) The sewing-ma
chine dewed by Elias Howem T84.! was
patented in 1810, but, the importance of
da-moireotype naguen’eoi.ype dates aaies 'f“m nom V iooj, 1, ana m
l ‘ U(U1 g niu.nesstts ijosum witn 'small small
” BB f ?J B< ?“? months live years
la ter his galleries were to be found
notoffiym Philadelphia that Baltimore/ city, but toNew Washington, York,
6 ^ n ™tom% F^inaU y
'f ()1 .^ oe ^ hghtomg°pross“ with its^im
pro8sion J, circular cylinder” bed) (the prLting type revolving capacity on
and a
0 f ten to twenty thousand impressions
per honr
------
A Fire-Red Aurora.
On the morning of Nov. 13, 1837,
there occurred one of the periodic re
turnB of the me to„rio showers, such us
had been annually witnessed for the six
preceding years. The next day a fall of
snow at the north covered the face of
tho country with a mantle of the purest
white. In the evening, about 6 o'clock,
while sky was yet thick with the fall
jng snow, all things suddenly entire* appeared
us if dyed in blood The atrnos
phere, the surface of the earth, the
trees, the tops of the houses, etc., were
tinged alarm of with fire the same given, scarlet and hue. vigilant Tlie
was onr
firemen were seen parading tho streets
in their uniforms, which, assuming the
general £ tint, seemed in excellent keeping
ith the phenomenon. Such was the a P
pearance exhibited over a largo portion
of the fcj country Z, where the clouds were
„ to U»,-»1
display. The false alarm of and fire was
not confined to one place, super
stitious conflagration fears of generally some impending prevailed
ftwfu]
among the ignorant throughout the
conntry. It is remarkable of this great
heavenly exhibition that it was observed
over the whole eastern portion Onlloden, of the in
country as far south as
Georgia, and also in North, Ohio and St. observed Louis,
Mo. At the as
particularly in New York, the exhibition
,,ased after having been seen for an
hour, again appeared half at half-past and 7
and lasted more than an hour,
returned a little before 9 o’clock in in
numerable bright arches, shooting up
from the northern horizon, of the most
bnlliant-colored light resting around the
horizon upon an obscure bank, all the
more dark and mysterious from the
vivid display above. At half-past 10 all
this disappeared; of but the phenomenon, after 1 there last- was
another return
in g for more than an hour. At Htaten
island, in New York harbor, the spectar
cle is described as the most magnificent
ever beheld. The illumination was so
great flock that the objects clearly outside at of midday. Sandy
And the were£en city of as New York ■ » appeared to
only a mfie or two distant—CAm
tian “*
__________
1 Smoking in Germany.
It api/eMs that the German Govern
® Bnt h “* tok h , <!n ,jd tbe “ h attcr C °l Hmf vT» ' kin 8
“ “ ’. '"
<Hrrl '; d b ' h ‘ J great an e - y’\
youth of that nation that it ha* been
considered to liave damaged their con
*>»«“ ft *»**o
p )Wn * of /’[ Cksrmany, thelr therefor*, Vl the <<Sr police ^ in
c'"* f der *, to forl,1 d ttU lu,d ." r
HI years of age to smoke 1 in thestreets, .
T to ‘’“‘T* T 1
imprisonment. Moreover, a Belgian
SSTSl !nt
p.bsoooTa the inam cause of has color
blindness Te’ry an «Zhfaral.U affection which noca
anxiety, te-tb in
ta Belginm and Oormeny, fmm it*
ib.eu.. up,,, railway and nU.er aoddeota,
«nd also tmm fea atUitary poiat td vlaw,
Courting All of Them.
“I don’t want to make any trouble,
but there is one man in this city who
ought to be gibbeted!” began a blunt
spoken woman of forty-five as bIio stood
before the officials of the police station.
When they inquired tho particulars she
handed out a letter and said:
“Observe the envelope. That letter
is addressed to me. Yon will see that
writer calls me his jessamine, and he
wants me to set an early day for the
wedding!” When tlie Captain
had finished the
letter, ing: she was ready with another, add¬
“And this is addressed to my daugli
ter Lucretia. You will see that he calls
llcr his rosy angel, and he says he can’t
livo if she doesn’t marry him. It’s tlio
sameman.”
So it was, and his letter was as ten
der as a spring chicken. That finished,
£° -
'Thi. ie directed to my deogliter
Helen. It’s the very same man, and in
it he calls her ins pansy, and savs ho
dreams of her.”
“Whv ? remar^dthe lie seemed (tpU.u to love the whole
family’ “That’s
daughters iust it I’m a widow with two ai
aml he « comUmi us all
EFSgtl once and engaged to three of us at the
are in this worldl”
him “Yes, indeed. It’s lucky you found
out ”
“Yes, it is. If I hadn’t he might have
married tho whole caboodle of us. If
Lucretia hadn’t opened one of my lct
ters, and if I hadn’t searched tho girls’
pockets to„*h while htu»iL|„ they were »o.4 asleep, we'd
T r ”
y want him arrested? ;
<• tF°’t n t ^ Kll 't S ” 1 ^ Wl ^ 4bls
TK.
sitting up with me Sunday night Helen Lucre
tia on Wednesday night, and on
Friday night, and calling each one of us
his climbing rose! Oh, sir, the women
man is!
“Yes, he’s pretty tough.” alesson,”
“It has learned mo she said
„ she was ready sparking to go. around “The next house man
that comes my
has got to oomo right out girls and I say which
he’s after. H it’s the won’t say
nothing, and if it’s melt won’t do ’em a
bit of good to slam things around and
<Jb«,r,atlo..
No line can lie drawn between oommon
knowk , a goof things and scicnUfi-tonowl
e,jg e no t between common reasoning and
curate knowledge is science, and all exact
rcaBOmn g 18 scientifio reasonmg. The
mot hod of observation and experiment
ln whioh suoh identically great results are obtained
lu sciorice is the same as that
wiflefl day of ig liis employed life, but refined by every and one rendered every
X n child acquires a new toy,
{ a expe&
1C obBerve8 its characters and
SfconKtontiVVakteg^bso^atioM ami
BTEwhXveTev^titodtoob
serve Berv e accurately, accuratelv will win be Do surprised surpnsea to w find nua
how difficult a business it is. There is
not one person in a hundred who can de
evei^aSpi^SS°to^!e^SSTIffiaT^k
^rdch *. Bav eitlier Sur he Ldlhteh will omit something
did is
aT ce or be w ji[ irrirrlv or suggest fie the oc
currence of something which did not
actually observe hut which he unoon
sc j OU( dv infers must have happened.
when two truthful witnesses contradict
one anot her ir,. a court of justice other" it usually
turns ™ out that rXrffoimding one or the tkeU or some
X! wh a teter
from wliM thev saw with tliat
w hieh tl»«v aettiallv saw A swears that
B nicked Iris Docket It turns out that
a ]Hhat A knows is that he felt a hand in
b that*!! : g wben 3 was e ] oge b j m an d
was not the thief but C "observers whom he
did J not observe Untrained hfferencT
,L. g theh from
w] sec^in V t| ia t wb j 0 ), they act
uallv the most wonderful wav and
; n Hoietftiflc danger of fall mi/ into the
gam „ ,, rror .1....... {..ji observation is
? lteus nl*S£-£oll2 al ,d f r „ M
,X,L' „ m.eo mference.-7'ro/essor
Recording I he Motion of Trains.
It would be a cim/ms cafAloone that
would Sltharo set WanD^d forth the number to^2lrol^ of inventions
of pen^vento^^1“.^’^,1" a izreat, rnanv contrivances and have
... youlre —j palal
Th „ next time on a * drawl
_ (ir H i- Vr 1 k
von arra,'Lcm.-nte 1 trv to take mMwonnt nf
L,tribute that are
to your ’ comfort or tend
your v»rak#.« gafety {r om UTlll** the Westinghouse
<*W1 f u
]j U j ( . catcb tbttt b ]d g tlie wmdow cur
tain at vour side One of the latest in
ventions and one that utf,r^ seems to ^ltedtee us could
“Wvtbe J •“JL Hneed Reenr/W ' ” Tt is named
t r(l w)l .. •_ tl „ v .
] ■
miu 1 , * t„ rtnnea
tio TheSSiiSfffli A b k OWM iudSpSE t[ ii B mb
«
ble reoord of the Blovwnen ts of a train,
end this record could be used In evidence
in cases of collisions and accidents. It
axlcmwes a^olter^r whic^Xlr® T™
cU is adjusted «i to the surface of this
pc 8 when tlie axle turns, the
w moved under its point and receives
k j This ^ nencil has two movemci si” to
distanceXd orj() ellKtllW1 of the orCwise pa , >( . r ,
a second on the
^ P 8 I«t, showing B time. When the train ism
U(m tb( , noil I1Jlirk |H at^wt
acr.ms the sqnares, and when the
mark is upand down soroas the squares
instniment recorts sbqw,
■ ,, ll)0 |io«s of the truin It
'»''»« is made, and in case* at Ling
-idence would do much tewar-h,
J l,hl how loS long £ the toiftundi train ‘^ds at iur ^
L"te; 'lo-AVn^' 1 Almira Pr* Pratt.
Thehm is one uioe thing about otemar
Y«»« doa’t have to milk tha cow,
NUMBER ‘28.
What Is Nickel f
Since the convenient five oent ooin
which in common talk is called “a
nickel,” has come into general oircula
tion, the question above is asked, either
mentally or orally, hundreds of times
sss answer .afS&wSWE: y Tn n ri!bi feW Ft T
known and has been extensively used
both there and in Europe for counterfeit¬
ing silver coin. About the year 1700 a
peculiar ore was discovered in the copper
mines of Saxony which had tlie appear
ance of boing very rich, but in smelting,
it called yielded no copper, and tho miners
it kupfer-nickel, or false copper.
In 1754, Cronstodt announced the dis
covery of a new metal in kupfer-nickel,
to which he gave tlie name of nickel. It
was in combination witii arsenic from
which he could relievo it only in part.
Tho alloy of nickel and arsenic which lie
obtained was white, brittle, very hard
and had a melting point nearly as high
as cast-iron. It was not until 1828 that
pure nickel was obtained by analysis of
German silver which had for a number
staaetrissiSfM
rsrs l :,rX“i"V‘^”bS
polish, but becomes too brittle iuul hard
to bo hammered or rolled, and can be
worked only by easting. Pure nickel is
a white metal with a tarnish readily in
the air. Unliko silver, it is not acted on
l.y the vapor of sulphur, and even
strong mineral acids attract it but
iron slightly. Nickel has tho hardness of
and like it, lias strong magnetic
propertiea, soldered but cannot be welded and is
lias heretofore with difficulty. been used Pure chiefly nickel for
plating, for which purpose its hardness
and power to resist atmospheric influ
last ences, admirably the French adapt it. Within the
year, have succeeded in
rolling tho metal into plates from which
spoons and other table furniture may be
pressed. Nickel bronze, which consists
of equal parts of copper and nickel, with
a little tin, may be cast into very delicate
forms, arid is susceptible of a high polish.
Mines of nickel are worked at Chatham,
Conn. »ndLancaster, Pa., and it is said
to be found at Mine Lo Motto, Mo., and
at several points m Colorado, and New
Mexico, where but little attention is paid
arid kj, m It Sweden, is extensively but the mined late in discovery Saxony
of a new ore (a silicate of nickel} in New
-m pro bably .^1 «to u«, ,.t .h,
”rsz’‘stiasv£' ooin silver, ? t;
1852, made a ot German
wliion is identical in composition with
our nickel ooin. The United States
made nickel cent* in 1856, and eight
Belgium years later, coined the five cent pieces.
and Germany adopted nickel coinage m 1860
in 1873. England has
but lately ooined home nickel pennies for Jamaica,
at she and France adhere to
the clumsy copper small change.
Illg Figure*.
Mr. 8. 0. Olarke, of too Treasury De¬
partment, has, beyond a doubt, an eye
for figures. Ho has prepared some re¬
markable tables, taking a cent of our
money as a basis. He says that one cent
at simple interest, at 6 per cent, per an¬
num, from tho commencement of the
Christian era to the end of toe current
year, A. D. 1880, would amount to only
one dollar and fourteen cents ($1.14).
Accepting for tho present purpose the
common of the Gregoria understanding of toe adaptation
calendar of the whole
period of the Christian era, the same one
cent at compound interest, for the same
period of time and at the same rate of in
terest, compounded annually, fractions
excepted, deciilion, would amount to three quadri
ion, 560 midecillion, 735 tredecillion, 963 duodeciU
nonitlion, 427 deciilion, 120
169 sextillion, 584 octillion, quintillion, 668 septillion,
853 630 quad
rillion, !K)8 trillion, 468 billion, 995 mill
ion, 477 thousand and 562 dollars and 98
cents. ($8,735,968,660,427,120,584,658,
Clarke 169,353,630,998,468,995,477,562.98). continues tho Mr.
and says that cur
rent value of a globe of fine gold of the
magnitude of this earth is $11,116,503,-
641,581,635,112.643,097,947.14, number each and the
of golden globes of the
dimensions of this planet, contained in
tlie amount of the cent at interest, as
aforesaid would be $264,652,180,921,303,-
226. The maximum estimate of tlie en
tire population of the world, including
every tuau, woman and child of all races
mid creeds and conditions of men on toe
earth is fifteen hundred millions (1,500,
000,000). If said amount therefore were
equally divided among all of the inhabit
ants of tlie earth each and every human
being would he entitled to 176,434,791 of
said globes of fine gold as his proportion
ate inheritance; and each and every one
of them, living exclusively further on the princi
pal, income, without might any spend accumulation
or one of said
globes and of gold every for minute ot time—
night day three hundred and
thirty-five patrimony. years But without if this exhausting his
of toe stupendous ag
gregato amount compounded ac
cumulations of said cent for nearly nine
teen centuries be again invested as a new
principal, the simple interest thereon at
per oeni, for the single year 1880
ould be $224,167,881,625,627,236,079,-
4!K), each 161,217,859,908,139,728,653.78, of the 866 days said $612,- orfor
of year
4 5 3,042,6 9 2, 970,687,648,880,221,906,-
721,060,491,061.89. This vast sum pro
portiouately hundred hundred distributed millions millions among people the would flf
teen teen of of neonlt
give to each and every inhabitant, as his
or her own proper portion ot said inter¬
est, one of said globes, containing more
than two hundred and sixty-four billions
of cubic miles of pure gold every three
seconds during toe year,or twenty of said
golden worlds every minute.— Washing
ton Republic.
GmOAOO Is going to make
the use of amoke-consuming apparatus
on all locomotives, steamboats and lac
teries. If Chicago will extend this wine
provision to cover the men who
Jive oent Cigar. Chicago will earn
world's gratitude.
A man can get along without a stitch
In bit side, but a |»tah on bis pants
often a stern uaceealty.
^Irc_MalWnsmlU Q&rnitt.
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MIIKIUI, TERHB FOR MORE KPAOK
STAGE AND ROSTRUM.
_
Ella Wesner is advertised in London
a* the “Idol of Now York.”
Bxndman has gone to Australia to see
how his acting will take there.
M ‘ B <H>Om>H E MODJZBKA, the SOU of
xris**'- 8 ■ “ «■**«
An Italian says of the works of the Ger¬
man composer Wagner that he puts sour
krout on his mnccaroni.
Mlss A«nes Leonarb, the new star, is
lbe daughter of the late sewing machine
millionaire, Isaac M. Singer,
Clara Morris opens her season in
Philadelphia play on September 13. She will
there three weeks,
Edwin Booth, after visiting Germany,
Italy and France, will return to London
in September, lie has not as yet made
any definite English engagements,
Mus. Zelda Sequin, well known as an
actress and contralto, was married a few
days Wallace, ago, at Baltimore, to Mr. David
of Indianapolis, and brother of
Q e n Lew Wallace
jr,. c ......*r
1 ® '. orl ' ba y ’
T . ® x P‘ . 8lne . d Hi fl t the production , of
of , a 8 18 delayed because he
® 8nnB . ^ lu 8b J ranee find an actress capa
ble «! performing, at least to his satiamc
tlon - tbe reahstl ° role of theherome.
A oabuiqbam announces that the king
| high-kickers, brothers, Emerson, Clark and Daly
have made an immense hit in
London, and have offers from managers
sufficient to keep them abroad a year,
The municipal governments of St.
Petersburg the and Moscow are, on the plea
of verge of bankruptcy, trying to get.'
off being compelled to contribute to the
opera in those cities, but it is doubtful
If they succeed.
Ladv managers are becoming the rule
rather than toe exception in England,
Drury Lane, the Olympic, the Strand,
tlie new Sadlers’ Wells, the Britannia, in
London, and the Theater Royal, Brighton,
are all under women’s control.
Miss Rose Eytingb will star through
the oountry under the management of
the Mr. dates H. J. made Sargent, filling, in many places,
for Mme. Modjeska, who,
as haa been announced, 1ms broken her
contract with Mr. Sargent and will not
return to this country this season.
“
*.rr «Md to ? ,,s ;
in making it
'
Mb ,, and Mrs. Oapowsju, known among
UH 88 Mmo - Modjeska, will not visit this
? OUntl 7 next Bea80 ?> 88 report'd, but
b, .’P® ^ renew next season the brilliant
triumpa Mme. Modjeska has won mEng
’ and - Bho w Passing the summer m
Cornwall. Mme. Modjeska was an
nounced a* Countess here, but she does
not claim that title m England.
A obitio says that, while Patti sing*
ballads, pronouncing each word clearly,
her notes are so distinct and round that
the hearer feels as if lie could pick up
each one and put itiu his pocket. Rossini
once told Mme. Nilsson to be careful
that she did not use her high notes too
much, and there are people who believe
that she suffers now because she did not
follow his advice.
A . strange suit . going
Bather is now on
, Harrisburg, Pa., there thirteen
as are
toeaters , a* the defendant*. They all
are
Philadelphia places of amusement, and
ba T? r « U8ed b ' P a / their Htute tax of
*500. If toe present suit is decided in
favor “ tbe 8tabj > Bmt wiI * be com
menccd to recover license fees for the
P. 8 ** Jot years. The State expects to get
»«wt f 50 - 000 from these theaters. If
tlie Htate succeeds, the State can never
expect to be deadheaded mto any of their
* boWB -
The New York Mirror prints Carrie
Swain’s picture, and says this about her:
“ We present this weak a portrait of
Miss Carrie Swain, one of the brightest
“ n< i most talented young women iu the
profession. Francisco, Miss and Swain is a native of
Han has just passed her
twentieth birthday. Her voice is a
mezzo-soprano of remarkable compass
and power. She is also a splendid
dancer. As an athlete in rowing, swim
ming, etc., she has few equals among la
dies. Oue of the greatest swimming
feats of ever accomplished by a lady was
that Miss Hwain last summer at De¬
troit, Mich. 8he swam from Detroit to
Windsor, Canada, and returned without
resting—-a distance of over three miles,
If iz Miss Swain’s intention, during the
present season, to swim from the iron
Pjer. Beach Coney Hotel. Island, Miss Swain to Breslin’s will be Brighton
a mem
bRr Smith & Mestayer’s Tourists the
coming season. She the is undoubtedly a
great acquisition to company.
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Not an Uncommon torn* of Heroism*
Quite a number of darkies, young
^nd 0 jd, were fishing down on Kuhn’s
whsrf when a boy of about twelve fell
0 ff and would have met with a watery
j been for the and
gravo had it not energy
presence of mind of old Uncle Mose.
After the boy was safely landed a by
stauder took occasion to praise old Mose
for tlie heroism he had displayed, asked the
] “Is the boy your son?” sym
pathetic 1 spectator. ^-----.....- he jess well
1 ..... “ Jio, boss, ’ bnt " mout as a
been. He had all de bait in his pocket.”
—Qalveaton Newt.
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Thh striped bug that infest* cucum
hers, squashes and melons a* soon as
they appear above tlie ground is one of
the greatest obstacles in the way of a
• profitable cultivation prevention of is these place crops,
The surest to over
each hill a frame covered with mosquito
Dotting. applied A treatment plants of ashes and plas
ter, to the when the dew
i* on, serves to make tlie vines less pal
stable to tlie pests, though this is by no
a gurB remedy. y
f or ^“S£ttoroooS^ fa'tuiSlS
b ', v *ry easy for a porter to become an
«.porter.