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About The Conyers weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 18??-1888 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1883)
The Chance for Small Industries in the South. While cotton mills and iron furnaces vield a handsome profit in the south, yet it ' » large capital i j construct * j requires a to ^ operate them, so that i. is onh here and there that, one can be started; but there A no such limit to many smaller industries that need comparative ly little capital. Then, are thousands of openings throughout ah parts of .he soulh for various kinds o» smaller industries that will pay well-better in proportion, probably, than the Mg mill or furnace, In our manufacturing note we mention the fact that a fruit-canning factory is to be started in a certain village in Virginia. Now this village, we person¬ ally know, is in a splendid fruit growing section; tint, laving no near-by markets, the farmers, many of whom have magnifi cent orchards of the finest vaviety of pears, peaches, appies, eherieg, etc., use only what they need for their owd wants, generally feeding the balance to the hogs. Of berries there is almost an endless profusion grow¬ ing wild. Thus this factory will secure its raw material fresh, and in good condition at prices that would look ridiculously low to our city packers. Labor in tbat, section is. very abundant and cheap', while trams portation rates to Baltimore and other markets are moderate. With these tages this factory has every chance for making unusually large profits, and the same opportunities for success offered in tl at particular locality and to tbat lar trade are offered to almost innumerable other factories of this, as well as of many other kinds, by thousands of other villages and towns throughout the south. At present the south buys almost every thing.from ihe north, and a southern paper could well say lately that “ we tricep onyan fcee beds, we walk on yankee carpets and i matting, wash in yankee basins with water pourrd from ayankeo pitcher, drawn from a welLby a yankee bucket; wipe our bands j »ud face on a yankee towel, eomh our hair before a yankee look mg glass with a yankee comb and brush, eat from yankee plates, and run our farm or whop with yankee im¬ plements and tools.” This is alt true, and even more might be added to it. As yet the south makes very few of these things needed in daily life; but she has advan— I tages aad falicilies tor doing so that must j he improved in the enterprising men with small capital, to him who has plenty, the ; southern stutes extends invitation to j come and occupy with e\ y assurance of! success.—Mauulecturers’ Record. j i ■ ; Where Birds Eat the Dead, l J he towers of silence five number , i are tn and , stand , within . , enclosure , . an measuring i abuut eighty . , thousand , square yards. , J here | are also within the enclosure a house of j prayer lor persons attending a funeral, . temple id winch the sacred lire, is kept a I- j J ways burning and Irom which its rays encap iug through apertures io tbe wall, fall upon j the towers, and a well laid out and a well | cared for garden. In the garden is an i excellent model of a tower, which is | explained to visitors by the attendants, j Tbe corpse ol a deceased Parsec, clothed in i white, is carried up the hill in an open bier covered with white cloth ; the male relatives and friends all clothed in white, following in pairs, each pair holding a handke cbie between them. Some prayers having been said in the rest house, the bier is again taken up and tbe body conveyed to one of the towers. These towers are round, massive ! looking buildings, with white plastered wails, ,be circumference of the largest o them being 276 feet and the height of the wall 2b feet. At a distance of three feet from the ground.there is a door ,n the wall, t hrough winch tbe corpse bearers push the corpse and then, entering themselves, place it in its appointed place. The interior of the ered, tower, height which of is 26 open feet to from the sky, the ground, is cov- j at a with a circular flooring, which slopes downward on all sides to the center, and contains mini, rone open grooves or recep tacles for dead bodies. The outer ring of this flooring is sei apart tor the bodies of men, a second ring fer those of women and the third or nine... most ring tor those of children. At regular distances, radiating channels intersect these rings. The body having been depos tied in its place, the hearers retire and immediately a swarm of vultures, which birds of prey may always be seen sitting in dozens on tin tups of the walls, swoop down and strip the body ot every particle ot flesh in les* than two hours. After a few days, the corpse bearers return, and collect mg the hones, which are then perfectly dried, place then, in the Central well, -to feet wide, where they remain to he decomposed by the air and rain. L he moisture runs off into the ground through filters of charcoal and sand, and leaves nothing of tbe. human body iu the inside of the tower but the dry, crumbling bones.—Bombay Correspond - euce Pfiila. Press A Simple Medicine. A young man who was supposed to be breaking down wiih consumption, and tor years battled for life with very little of recovery, was encountered recently in a ■ city restaurant 1 pee. he said, that you seemed surprised ut rov improved appear ance. No doubt you wonder what could have caused such a change. *6 ell, it was a very simple remedy-nothing but hot water As a last resort I consulted a physician who had paid -peeial often ion to this hot-water cure, aud was using it aim many Patien c He sad: "There ism thing, you mow that is more difficult than u- introduce a new remedy into meo • ,. practice par. malar* ifit .SH very siinp'e on- and at, .fees at .he root o: erroneous views auf prejudice* that Wr-ioug enmr: u, -d Nowheonl. rational, xuimu: u ‘ .....aomptrm .sthat t result-!. .,„ iefe-.— v ,n. It - ... way accompanied by mai aa-om-mum food. 1„ nearly every case 'he fromac h i the s-ai (.i a term* ut irion hsi u'cepsari y prevents proper c?*« t on. The first thing todu „ toiammc tiw, frro.enta: u, am put l be stou* adi w a cmdition tor* tern loou a,.« u'-pos. o-r iffjperly. Th-s !• eT .ected t.j taking wae>r Into th- stomach »s not as it can borne, an hour befor- meat, llus Laves the stomach clean aud pare, Lke a boiler that Lag beeu washed out ; Then put into the stomach food that is in i the highest degree nutritions and the least I ■ di ®P® eed t° fermentation. No food answers < h '* des ™l" ,on be » e [ ,han tend< * bp ’ : f ; f , little stale bread J be with . Drink r . I may J oaten it. ! noth,n , . « bm ‘ iur, ‘ wafer asb f Ie of tba * ; ftt T**' 1 **’ « ^J ^ hh - and ^tables, alcohohc pastry, drquor : sb ulrt be avo,d L P,U tendpr benf a!one j " « I in '° a cl ‘* ao and P u ™ ^mach three rimes' 8 bo51t ^ u,iul l ba Sy8tem w;istin be ^ thflt T th * i “P * * ,s i ch,ef of^oasumpt.on, ceases, and : recuperation sets in. So impressed was I by this reasoning that I resolved to try this simple remedy at once. I began by taking one cup of hot Water an hour before each meal, and gradually increased to three cups. At first it was unpleasant to take, but now I drink it with a relish. I gained ground rapidly, and now fee 1 that T am on the sure road to recovery. 1 am convinced, from my own experience and what I have gleaned from others, that almost any disturbance of the human system that results from disor¬ ders of the stomach can be alleviated, and, ■' in most instances, cured in the same way." j Who Kissed Away the Tear ? . L- any iking stranger than the human heart ? Nature sends a frail, green vine creeping across the earth to reach a grim wa ‘* a, 'd cover its ugliness, to reach a read branch and cover it with life. We bless nature as we see these things, and yet we do not realize that months ago, a rosy faced child looking from a window, saw a queer old man go limping by, It tapped on the pane, and the.oM man looked up. The sight of that sweet face opened his old heart, aud he went on his way feeling richer than for many a month past. Tie was the grim wall —the child was the green vine. He passed again, and again the child was at the window, and for days and weeks they never missed seeing each other. At each meeting the vine crept nearar to the wall the wall appeared less grim and forbidding. One day the “wall” laid aside his old hat for a better one Another day he had a new coat,. Again he was clean shaved, and the “vine” scarcely recognized him, No one knew the old man, but all knew tbat, be was ‘deling the influence of the vine. As the old man passed one day he missed the face at the window Was he too early or too late ( He lingered and looked and seemed lost. It was the same next, day, but a kind heart pitied "him and sent out word that the child was sick. I he green vine had reached the wall only to be blighted. Iwo days more and there was crape ob the door. The child was dead. It had fallen asleep in death without a struggle, knowing nothing of the grand , hereafter, , , , but having tear. „ On „ . its no pale , cheek , , tear—a single ... tear which ... was a gJiatonud like a diaaiond. No band dared w , It seemed a tie between , H „ d tbc past _ t he living and 1 '|>|,, a g e can J g<s0 it—the child ?” It was the old man—the grim wall— knocked timidly at the door and spoke thus. They knew him by sight, and they led him into the room where the vine lay dead. He stood over the coffin fora mo meet, Ups quivering and eyes full of tears, and then lie bent over and kissed the. face that would wait for him no more. When he had gone they looked for the tear. He had kissed it away. Old and poor and unknown he had reaped a treasure such as all the millions o! the world could not buy. SUBJECTS FOR THOUGHT. Very much of the. wrong doing of the xyorld arises from ignorance and thought lessness. Temptations arc- strong, debires are ardent, inclinations are imperious and he weak and undisciplined judgment is easily led to concede that there is no great harm in yielding. Gradually this yieldiog comes to be a habit, and the character is formed, or rather wrecked by self indulgence where it might have been saved, elevated, and strengthened by more knowledge and a wiser training. Bow many wrong acts are directly traceable to the common ph-a, | didn’t think!” And, while we condemn the plea itself, and count it a part of the wrong, we must aLn condemn the defect iye education that ha.‘j failed to develop right thinking a.a the mainspring of right action. It is generally supposed that our vital activities are sometimes either to be res¬ trained or let alone. When they run to excess and destroy the balance of our nature, every voice proclaims the duty of governing and curbing them, otherwise we are content to let what we suppose to be “well enough” alone. Life, however, is positive, not negative It is the perform attce of every duty ...id the exercise of every function in the fullest manner that constitutes a happy aud valuable life Duty requires us to carry on all our vita activities—to let none languish or decay. Earn your own bread, and see how sweet it will taste! Work, and see how well you will bej? Work, and see bow cheerful you will be! Work, and see how independent you wili be! Work and see how happy your family will he! Work and see how religious you will be!—for, before you know where you are, instead of re¬ pining at Providence, you will find your¬ self offering up thanks for all the numer¬ ous blessings you enjoy. To think clearly and well is the first step toward knowing anything, until that has been taken, all others are useless. Equally in the work we perform, in the bus inesa we manage, in the vrrious duties o, domestic, social, and political life, and in the knowledge we gain or the opinions we hold, is the art of thinking well essential. Peace is better than joy. Joy is a very uneasy guest, and is always on tip toe to depart. It tires and wears us out, and yet keeps us ever fearing that the next moment it, will be gone. Peace is not so, It comes more quietly, it stays more contentedly, and it never exhausts our strength, nor gives us one anxious forecasting thought. The best way to discover the manifold uses of friendship is to cast about and see how many things there are which a man cannot do for himself, and then it wili appear that it was a sparing speech of the ancients to say that “a friend is auother himself," for a friend is more tbau himself Sunlit rooms* ^ fnrniture Bhould be. used ^ ^ Mt 8tsnd sun i ight) f or ove ry room in a dwolH ghould h[lV0 the windows so thfcUome time during the day the hl wiu be in the apartments. The importauce 0 f admitting the light of the sun ^ ^ of our , !we l]„, g cannot be too bigbiy e8 u m(Ue d. Indeed, perfect health is ^ . a: . much dependem ou sunlight as ^ ^ pure air Sunlight should never he, excluded exoept when it is so very bright as (0 be uaconifortable to the eyes; and walks gh(m)d be iu bngbt 8un l igbt , so that the e y<»a are protected by a veil or a sunshade when very intense. A sun bath is of more imporlanco ; u pregurv i n g a healthful con¬ diu()n tbe bo(]y tha „ ig gone rally suppos ed. A sun bath is cheap, and that is a misfortune, for people are deluded with the tW , hoad thiugs only can be usefu i wW{h C(Jg{ raoney . llut remember <bat plm , wa((?r fresh alr and gunlit home8 kept ^ ^ dampne8a vlU Becure you .from w11b o{ tbe doctors aud g ; ve health m4 viKor which no money can ft , g # wd , egtabligbed , a „, tbat lbe , e who )ise much in the snn are Mwa „ m and more heaUby than (bose whogp omipall0n deprives them of ^ ^ jft nothing sirange in the result, since .the same law applies with equal force to nearly every ; auimote thing in nature. It is easy to I arrange an isolated dwelling so that, every apartment may be filled with sunlight Borne ! time in the day, and it is possible that many houses eould be so built as to admit more i light, ih«u they now receive. Reform in Funerals. A very considerable aud laudable agita j tI0n ig sweeping over the country lookingto a re f onn ; n tbe manner of conducting ' f uri p ra! .- - Iu the first place rt not thought that they should be so conducted as to j produce other funerals—that attendants, m other wordgj shoaM be no longer expect . -g a nd, with uncovered heads, in stormy , W( ,, 4lber Respect for the dead-does not j d , mand any TO ch disregard ot the health of : tbt UvinK N ,ther does respect for the , e ^ ,,„.,. and an immeQse f ucera3 that j D I „;,, e ca8eg ont „f , en entails debt and ! gufftn ,,,, npoB the livin|I Such funsrals havt brought actual and extreme want upon , famiJies IK ,arfy every community The 2, di r ,„i. „ r 5g generally at the bottom of expensive funerals Tbe greater th e . pen?n (h . greater are his chances p , „ fi , and tho bneiness has been pushed to sues a iiaii: that many a funeral is a s.^ei tov’*'nstead of a hear: cl: tribute to: tb9d ,. p , rted H» need oTfunernls cen- j du< , :ed itt H simple and unostentatious maancr is everywhere in" felt and demanded, ' Jfce leferm funeral sitoeld customs he thorough and sweeping : and first of ail, the exp e >s ive undertakers should he sat dovyu up-'u.—Atiauta Coustitutiou. A Wind so Strong it Steais a Team “Do it blow hard here?” answered “Bowie Bill.” “Well, stranger, I should say it did. I was a skinnin’ tnule for Uncle Sam at Camp Bowie in 78. and havin' an easy time. One evenin’ the waggin boss come ’round and says, “Bill you hook up in the mornin’ an' go over to Bayard.” “I went right off and doped my wsggin and got everything ready to move soon in the mornin,’ I had twenty miles to make the first day, and I came la the spring bout an hour by sun. I turned in early that evenin’ so’s to git a good rest and be rollin before sun up next mornin.’ I d bin grin din’ through the sand 'bout two hours the second day, when happenin' to look to the south I see a whirlwind a coinin’ bigger’n any I see afore, and tnakin’ a noise like a hundred buzz saws. I see it were a cornin’ my way, so I put the buckskin into the mules an’ nearly set em’afire. Twan’t no use. I could't git away from the thing, so I stopped the mules aud looked at it a comin.’ “Goodness 1 stranger, it makes me have rattle snakes and centipedes every time 1 think of tbat night. There a floatin’ round in the whirlin’sand was horses an’ cattle an’ doby bucks, not to speak of jack rabbits kiotes, an' small trash. It were gittin’ tol a’ble close by this time, an’ I says to myself, ‘William, are you prepared to ascend ? ‘No, says I ; ‘I ain’t,’ an”jumped ofl’e’r my mule, grabbed a big soap weed and fastened on with a death grip.’ “I went none too soon, stranger, for in a minait up went my whole body, my arms an - legs twistin’ round like rope. I heerd’ tbe soap weed crackin' an’ tearin,’ but it didn’t let go, and down I come. The very first thing I looked for the team, and I see it. Ther’ they was swingin' round an’ round an’ goiu’ up, and they kept swingin’ round aud goin’ up, til! they didn’t look biggeriu’ log, an’ then they went out o’ sight. I ered myself up an’ footed it back to Bowie, The very first man I met were the boss. Says he, ‘Helio, Bill, what’s the mat ter ?’ I set right down au' told him how 1 come so near goin’ to Heaven alive, airi I was done he says, ‘Bill, what kind of Rinecaboo play are you tryin’ to run on you’ve sold that team,’ I told ’em the was a dead open an' shut fact, but talked so strong about sendin' me to rence that I hulled out an’ come here..” Re-Vaccination. - '‘ h’ London papers have len S‘ b lhe y esu,t3 of at ' on aa ex htbited in the ease of b® - ,ween * en ‘ eleven thousand persons fiermently employed in the postal service, •» of whom were required to undergo \ re-vaccination unless that on admission to the performed service, operatiou had been j ’* itbin seven years previously. Among ! tl*** Persons, according to the data now 1 cfficiaUy published; dmreha* sot occurred a • m P le fatal c^e ot smallpox, and in only ten Pi “ s noiv-fatal attacks, all of these be n * 01 * *ery character. On the « her faan<i - '» appears that iu the telegraph depart me nt, where the enforcement ol re vecioation wa- not carried out with the same cqtnpletenqi- twelve cases occurred in the same period, among a staff averaging fifteen hundred. e.gbt of these auacks were of persons not re vaccinated, and one proved fatal - wbile tbe remaining four were of re Tac 0' nate ® persons, who all perfectly rev to ered without pitting A Pretty Home Toilet. Husband and children delight in seeing “mother” look neat and nice. Nevertheless, many women dress at home in such a style that they are always ashamed to be seen by anybody but borne (oiks. If a knock at the front door is heard, they ran and hide, or wait till they have "primped up” before opening it In their creed anything is good enough for home-folks; all nice things—nice clothes, food, dainties-—must be saved for company. A ny old calico or woollen dress is good enough to do housework in, any old worn out shoes good enough to wear round i be house. Asa natural result of this theory the parlor is always shut up save on great occasions, the sitting-room i» rarely used, and the family life is passed entirely in the kitchen. It is no unusual thing for women who hold such theories and carry them out in practice, to find no time to comb their ba r till after dinner work is done, and go round with it in a frowee two-thirds of the day. As a natural consequence, she forfeits much of the respect and aomiration which is her due. To antidote this unfortunate result, a pietty and tasteful home toilet will be found very efficient. Calico of fair quality can be purchased at eight cents a yard, and with a clean calico dress on and a nice calico apron the housewife may be always dressed up while at her work. 11 she unvaryingly combs hei hair before en¬ gaging in any morning task, her hair will be in order for the day, and a lesron of value will be set her entire household. A bit of edging may take the place of a collar, if the collar is too much trouble; and neatly attired in fresh calico and whole shoes she need not run and hide if there comes a knock at the doov. The laboring man' wife who is careful of her own appearance while at her work will have a better oppor¬ tunity for and more influence in pertusiding her husband to look no worse than he need to while at his work, than she who cares for none of these .things. A reasonable atten¬ tion to externals not only fortifies our own self respect., but gains the respect of others. Forms ol Lightning. A flash of lightning is a very large spark of electricy, just the same thing that one sees given by an electric machine in a lecture on natural phileso phy, the only difference being that the best machine will not give a spark more than a yard long, while some flashes of lightning have been estimated to be several miles in length. According to their appearance various names have been given these sparks’in the sky, though in reality all the several kinds are one and the same thing. On a warm summer evening one often sees the clouds on the horizon lit up with brilliant, glows of lightning, unaccom¬ panied by any sound of thunder. To this appearance the name of “heat lightning” has been given, and the warm weather is often assigned as it cause. In point of fact, the heat lightning is ouly that of a thunder shower so far off that, that while the ob¬ server can see (he flash, no sound ol the thunder reaches him, and the entervening clouds veil and reflect the flash until it be¬ comes a glow, instead of the sharp streak usually seen. Where the flash, starting from one point, branches out and divides into several parts, it has received the name of “forked lightning,” This is usually seen when the discharge it near the observer. Single flashes bearing a zigzag or crinkled aspect are denominated “chain lightning,” probably from their resemblance to a chain thrjwn loosely ou the ground. Again, when several discharges occur from about the same place at the same time, and are screened by rain or clouds so as to light up | the heavens with a broad, bright glow, the title of “sheet lightning” is applied. These four comprise all the common forms. There is, however, one manifestation called “ball lightning.” Iu this phenomena a .small globe or half of apparent fire rolls slowly along the ground, and after a time suddenly explodes, scattering destruction around. These are few instances of this on record, and no very satisfactiory explanation has ever acecounted for the curious appear ance. Lovers’ Wooing "Probably there is no instance,” said Sir Arthur Helps, “in which any two lovers have made love exactly in the same way as any two other lovers, since .the world be¬ gan.” True] Barkis insinuated. Vivien charmed Merlin. Alexander made a bonfire for Thais. Cassanic soft-soldered Portia with a leaden casket. The garrulous female in the Arabian Niykls told her husband stories. Hippomenes had a close race for Atlanta, but he played the apple-game on her In the Polynesian Islands they win their hearts by beating their heads with a shillelauh. Harry the English and Llue beared were off with the head of tbe old j lov,! ton poked before down th “y « the r « tobbcco on with in the his new. pipe New¬ with his sweetheart’s finger—a warm token of affection. Tristram did it mostly with a harp, and was likewise a good liar. His two Isoldes were too many for him. Both weil was inclined to Mary, and locked her up in his castle, Cobbett's wife caught him by the grace with which she used her wash tnb—she was never known to use it after the wedding. Sam Romilly, the famous lawyer, killed himself because his wife died, wbde a g 0od many others kill themselves beeause tbey will not dia Nicholas Russia wanted to “pop” at a dinner-table, bnt didn’t like to be caught at it, so he im beded a bring in a lump of bread and hand ed it t0 ber Charlemagne’s secretary was c<maht br a SB0wet0rm “sparking” the em ppror - 3 daughter at midright, and she car ried him home on her back, so that his {ootsleps shouldn't be traced. The Emperor beard of it. and saddled him on her for the balance of her life _ “ rm going to a masquerade ball nex week a baldheaded man to his friend - and { would like to have you advise me in regard to choosing a costume Gian ring a , the shinuing pate before him. the adviser obseCTel . “You want, something simple, yet appropr;a . e i suppose?'" * Yes, that's i « xact i y . What would you suggest ?” “Well aH is R ;Jrefin dr(g3 and a wej vartisned fiead, and youfll b -» pertuut egg p-aut- —Now York Advertiser. Tombstone Madness. The men who patrol the cemeteries after the sun has gone down are armed with pis¬ tols and clubs, and are generally aeeompan iedby trained and savage bioodhounds. In addition to these, externa! and tangible means of defense they , must be gifted with rare and peculiar mental organization. So many men have lost their reason through watching graves at night that persons in that position have come to believe that, they risk lapsing into a state of melancholia per fectly distinct from any other form of in sanity. Sextons ami grave-diggers cal this affection “tombstone madness ” A startling realization of this fact was tele¬ graphed throughout the country yesterday. It was announced that several of the soldiers who do sentry duty day and night at the tomb of Garfield, amid the dreary solitude of Lakeview cemetery, near Cleavelaud, have become insane Anything or any device is used by the men to get away from this ghostly muster of tombstones or the dar.k array of mounds. An old watchman at G'enwood cemetery explained this to a Times reporter yester¬ day by saying that in all probability the soldiers detailed at the graves were not picked. “Take half a dozen men from any walk of life,” he continued, “and place them at night, to watch graveyards, and the chances are that in a short time five of the six will feel like retiring permanently to a lunatic asylum. “if a man wants to enter this profession and be a succees at it, he must be about as impressible as brick and mortar. If lie has the last bit of imsgaination he had better abandon the business, for when the moon is obscured by clouds and he is walking about a cemetery, shivering from his heels upward, he will mistake tombstones for ghosts. He will think that the owls, as they whiz past his ears with their mournful hoots, are un¬ quiet spirits come to haunt the receptables of the bodies which they once permeated When the noise of his footsteps makes the rats disappear with rustling sounds into lit¬ tle thickets of evergreens ha wili start and grasp his weapon. The very whine of his dog will make him feel nervous, and bit by bit his reason would become impaired.’’ “I could give you some sad reminiscen¬ ces of people who watch graveyards," said one of the oldest watchmen at Laurel Hill cemetery, in a strange, solemn tone. Then, half jestingly, he added: “But they’re buried in the past, and it’s my business to let what’s buried remains so.” He did not mind telling one story, however. “I used to work in a Brooklyn cemetery before I came to this city,” he began “It was then that the terrible scene I shall speak of occured. We wanted an assistant night watchman very badly, but none o! the persons who presented themselves could en dure staying up with the graves for more than two or three nights each. At last there came an unfortunate man whose health seemed shattered by overwork an( l j privation. It was his last venture. He had j tried to get employment everywhere without result, and his wife and children were suf¬ fering. We took him on. I don’t think T shall ever forget his face the morning after his first night in the graveyard. He said he had unheard of agony, but was hopeful of getting over it in time. The following night was dark and windy. Rain came down iu torrents, and there were flashes of light ning every few minutes. At about ten o’clock the head watchman heard a loud cry; there was a souud of running feet, followed by the report of a pistol. A search was made, and the unfortunate man found lying on his back across a grave, dead. There was a small hole in his temple, and his own revolver, one barrel of which was empty, lay three feet from away, where he had flung it, imbeded iu the ground. It was certain tbat some fearful creation of the imagina¬ tion had so terrified him that he took his life to escape from it.” When the old man had finished this nar tive he was silent for many minutes. He sat perfectly still, with a vacant look, and allowed bright, tears to chase each other down his cheek. Suddenly.he.made a brisk motion and forcibly forgot the subject on his narative. “There are amusing things sometimes,” he said speak”ng at first with an effort. “A short time ago a man was put to work at night in a cemetery not far from here.- He strolled around in an effec¬ ted, indifferent way, whistling tunes dear to his countrymen. In the course of Iris rant bling he tumbled bodily into a newly-made grave and a lot of loose earth fell on him when he reached the bottom. He struggled wildly, and in about an hour and three quarters managed to get out, screaming lustly that the devil had dug a grave and tried to bury him in it. With a single bound he cleared a four-loot, fence, rolled down a forty foot hill, and that's the last of him, for no one about here ever set eyes on him again, dead or alive. He must have gone back to Ireland, for he wasn't hurt at all. Some practical jokers once tried to scare a watchman, a friend of mine. It was immense fun—for the watchman. They got into the cemetery disguised as body snatchers, and pretended to be opening gravi s. There were three individual. One got seven buckshot in him, the second re¬ ceived five in his leg, and 1 forget what happened to the third. The only thing that is more dangerous than watching graves is j robbing them.” the'dreadfnl “What is it produces melan j chola?” asked the reporter, The old man looked around him myster j iously and added, as he moved away: “I'm not a doctor uor a scholar, but I have my belief that its the miasma’frora the grave ' that poisons the blood and warps the brain, Just see, cool as it is this evening, the vapor is rising-rising.” And the old watchman j pointed toward the setting sun, against ' which blazing background a filmy mist could be seen ascending from the ground like the ! gen i from the fisherman's box in the A ra bian tale-—Philadelphia Times. - j BiLiousness. - - 1 Almost every person is familiar with this ailment, eirther as experienced iu himself or as seen iu others. Yet the best medical 1 experts do not certainly know its nature or seat. Pecple do cot die of billiousness, ! however long or much they tuay suffer from it, and for this reason post-mortem exami nation do not certainly reveal its origin Probably, however, it is a mild sort of jaun dice, due to some disturbance of the live -1 The liver is the largest gland in the body and one of its offices is to strain the Moor It cannot, therefore, be even slightly de¬ ranged without disturbing more or les ihe entire system. All persons are not eqnally liable to at¬ tacks of bdliousness. They are often the result of a certain inherited tendomy, Sav Sir Lionel Beale: “The biilious habit seemea to be due to an unusually sensitive, irritable stomach and liver, which will dis¬ charge their functions fairly in a moderafi degree, but which cannot be made to de more than this moderate amouut of wort: without getting much out of order. Most of the organs taking part in the digestion and assimilation of food seem to strike work when the biilious attack comes on. If food be taken, the suffering becomes greater t he fact seems to be that the digestive or¬ gans require rest for a time, and if, when at attack comes on, this rest is gi^en the bill ious state passes off, and then the patient feels extremely well perhaps for a consid¬ erable time." The same high authority condemns for persons suffering from biliousness, rich foods, fatty soups, fried dishes and most forms of alcohol. He advises but little meat; commends vegetables, fruits and vegetable acids, particuarlv lemon juice, and plenty of bread. Severe cases require medicines for the liver. , r> A Daring Bide. The most conspicuous act of courage I ever saw displayed oa any field during our great civil war occurred the second battle of vf anassas on the of August, 1862. It was performed by Federal artillerist in the presence of armies, and was witnessed by at least men, many of whom are still living arid can readily recall the incident when reminded of the circumstances, Just as Hood’s men charged down the hill near the Heury House upon the first Federal line, and became evident he would capture the tery stationed there, a Federal artilleryman determined to save one of the cannon, possible, and to do so he had to take it the side of the ditch in front ot the Confed erates for half a mile. The ditch was fou, feet wide aud as many deep, and could not be crossed with the car non. How he goi his horses hitched or wbelher they had re ally ever been taken from the piece I never have known, but the first I saw of him he was coming up our front, in a sweeping gal¬ lop from the cloud of smoke and Hood’s men were firing at him. As soon as he es¬ caped irom that volley he came in front of our brigade and under range of our muskets on the left and as he swept on up the line a file fire was opened up on him. Our line was approaching the ditch at a doubh quick and the lane between us and the ditch wa getting narrower each second, buttheariil ieryman seemed determined to save his aui, !rom cap t ure aad he flew along his cours: a ! a tremendous speed. He had jfour large gray or white horses to the cannon and they came up the valley in splendid style. The man sat erect and kept his team well in hand, while his whip seemed to play upon (be q :lubs 0 f ( be leaders aud all four horses appeared to leap together in regular time. The ground was very dry and a cloud of dust rolled out from under the horses' feet and from the wheels of tbe cannon as they came thundering along. Three regiments of our brigade had al¬ ready tired at him as he rushed along their front and as he approached the left of another I ran down the rear rank shouting to the men: “Shoot at the horses 1 Let the man alone and shoot at the horses! You are firing too high!” At this I saw a noted marksman in Company F drop upon one knee and sight along the barrel of his mus¬ ket and lire, but on came the man and the gallop of his team unbroken. Ramming in lioiber cartridge tie n arksman was teady again in a minute and just as the cannonier swept across his front within 100 yards, he kneeled down and taking deliberate aim a the foremost horse fired again, but on went the team as before. Thus he passed along the whole front, ot our regiment and then along another on our right and escap'd around the head of the ditch and across the field aud up the hill beyond. As far off as we could see him his team was still going in and taking off his hat, waved it around his head several times and some of the Con federates cheered him At least 600 men fired at that Yankee gunner, and I have often wondered if he escaped death in tbe subsequent battle of the war and lives to tell of the fearful gaunc let he ran along the front of a whole brigade of Confederates firing at him,—[Capt. H. T. Owen iu Philadelphia Times. Freezing a Corpse ■ Every corpse that is . taken , to , Paris morgue is now quickly ed into a block almost as hard as a stone. This result is obtained by Carre’s chemical refrigerator, which is capable of reducing the temperature of the conserva tory, where each body is laid out in thing closely resemeb'ing a camp bedstead in stone, to fifteen degrees below zero cen tigrade. At the back of this room is a row of stove like compartments, in which the corpses are boxed up and lrozen hard being exposed to public view. As an ilius tration of the intense cold thus secured, a Paris journalist, in a recent visit to the morgue, sa • th-t in opening one of the compartments the atten dant took the precaution to wear a lest his “hand should oe burnt by contact with the cold iron.” The corpse, which taken out of its receptacle, had been j nine hours. The doctor who accompanied | :he visitor struck the deal man on the breas ! with a stick, and the sound was just as if j he had struck a store. * ~ . , A Sonth End man, who is preparing ,o defend a breach of promise suit, says broke his engagement to Miss Knapp cause he could not stand having people, who thought themselves funny, ask him if he was going to take a krapp. —Boston Post How Perfume is Extracted. __ Oath and strained. 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