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6E jf E BAL NEWS.
Rectory puts the
^■0 ft* k at 23,763.
little boom in Win
jjjSAFBAS > root is on a
where a niill has been star
* county, Ga, voted on the
J ^Monday, "no fence,” and gave amajonty
en iy for
the southern part of Louisiana
» tations will yield this year one
hogsheads of sugar per acre.
8 yard has
w Pensacola, Fla., navy
L virtually clcaed. Only enough
Wt to lock after the property.
[ gloves - registered
ftfTr-TWO stu. -s are at
I i]ored National School at the Liii
^cademy, O at Tallahassee. of Tennessee, has
H m l 1o Kir-LEBKEW, mines.
Mexico to work the Polk
■£vs they are worth Atlanta .§3,000,000. that Atlanta
■ fjIsdaiineJ in
■sjtexico, I at least twenty silver mines
all believed to be vervpro
■jji’tiw. I Bnaley mining and
T® Lady manu
■jetnrirr BjrtPmvs company have purchased 75
..f orejlau.l in Franklin.Colbert
HfcHarion counties, Ala,
I p , v ijl require feuw cars to bring the
Ijfcsmbia, r-unnty, Exposition. Ala., big It is tree 117 to feet the
■toiis villc
■ K aid will be used ns a flag pole in
, building.
of the exposition
Hjj.,] 1 Jus for building the new Navy Hos
at Hot Springs, Ark, are rapidly
B ^ing iu. There is an appropriation of
■ $100,000 for this purpose. Work is to
■ tepnhv the 20tli of August.
1 R a portion of Lake and Attala coun
H ties, Ala., a worm resembling the cotton
■ woim lias made its appearance. Several
I head of mules have been killed recently
■ beating oafs with the insects on them.
I A herd of 4,000 cattle, mostly cows
■ «d heifers, passed through Fort Worth
I Tesas, the other day, for the New Mex
Ijw Land and Cattle Company, a Boston
I grp,ration.
I A company organized in Washington,
| I D. C„ lately has purchased six thousand
acres of land in Polk county, Fla., and
I rill raise oranges, limes, lemons and
I other tropical fruits.
The total number of failures in South
| Carolina the past six months is forty-
1 eight, with liabilities amounting to $657,
755. The number of failures for the
corresponding period of -1882 was sixty
eight, and the liabilities amounted to
(626,517.
The Foard of Health have issued a
procla Tarnation that all vessels from in
Msd ports arriving at Pensacola with
jrllow fever on board shall remain at the
fiaranteen station until frost. The re¬
gret is general that Ship Island station
for infected vessels has been closed.
At the United States Land Office at
Gainesville, Fla., during the month
emlmg Jund 30, 134 homestead entries
W“C made, embracing 17,704.08 acres.
Forty-six final proofs were made, con¬
taining 4,977.96 acres. The total re
<T‘Pts of the office for the month were
515.018,27.
The Peters place at Enterprise, Fla.,
tos said recently, under foreclosure of
mortgage for $12,000, bought by Fred¬
erick de Bary. The mortgagor had be¬
fore refused $19,000 for it. It is said
lord Peters spent too much time and
money in Jacksonville to make an orange
grove successful.
A circular giving an exhibit of the
trade in crude and manufactured phos¬
phates in South Carolina shows the
shipments of fertilizers to have increased
from 22,589 in 1871 to 130,000 tons in
1S83. The shipments of crude phos
Phates rose from 132,626 tons in 1876 to
355,333 tons in 1883. Much of it goes
abroad.
T. G. Bush,’ of Mobile, has bought the
plantation of W. F. Higgins, one mile
from Oxford, Ala., for $15,000 cash, and
"ill remove his fine herd of Jersey cattle
to it. He has one of the finest herds in
tbe South and has bought some of the
finest land in North Alabama. It is un¬
derstood that he will improve the place
Pi' a summer resort.
Sallie Parmer, of Kosse, Tex., about
ten years old, an adopted daughter of M.
F Jackson, while climbing in the door
of the crib, accidentally stuck a needle
■"hich was sticking in the bosom of her
dress against the door, running the nee¬
dle about an inch and a quarter into her
feast, striking the base of the heart.
Medical attention was procured iinmedi
atel y 1 but she died in about an hour
after the accident.
The Arkansas sheriffs have been in¬
formed by Gov. Berry that the sup-said
sion of the lawlessness now prevailing in
that State must be affected by their own
efforts and those of law abiding citizens
°f their respective .counties. The Gov
nor sees no necessity for calling out
he malitia to arrest outlaws at a heavy
expense to the State, when the sheriffs
hai e authority to summon as many per¬
sons as may be needed to take despera¬
does into custody.
Florida Times-Union: One of the
-est things that has been done by the
eorgia Railroad Commission is the re-
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VOLUME VI.
cent adoption of an order requiring the
i aili oads of that State to furnish means
for protecting merchandise offered for
shipment from damage by the weather.
A Northern or Western railroad which
failed to do this would be considered
behind the times, but in the South it is
common to leave cotton, for instance,
exposed to rain and dust while awaiting
shipment, of course greatly to its injury.
By such regulations as this, the commis¬
sion is justifying its existence.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
In an elaborate review of the pros¬
pects of the cotton crop, the New York
Financial Chronicle puts the total acreage
this year at 17,449,000 acres, against 16
590,000 a ires last year—an increase of
5.18 per cent. Texas comes first with
3,102,000 acres, and Georgia comes next
with 2,977,000. As to maturity, the
plant is backward, but of late the growth
has been rapid.
Tub postoffice department has issued
A circular notifying postmasters of the
proposed reduction in rates, which goes
into effect on the first of October. The
object of the department is to have the
present stock of material reduced to as
low a point as possible. The new tw'o
cent stamps will be ready for delivery on
the fifteenth of September.
The Cremation Society, of Philadel¬
phia, is gradually growing, and now has
a membership of over forty. The offi¬
cers say that the prejudice against cre¬
mation is daily growing less bitter, and
express the hope that with time and
patience they may at length succeed in
establishing a crematory in Philadelphia.
The directors of the Suez Cana] Com¬
pany unanimously approved the agree¬
ment relating to a second canal arrived
at between DeLesseps and the English
government, but the scheme grows in
unpopularity in England
The South American War.
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A Cliili correspondent says that if Ca
ceres’ bands had been put out of the way
earlier. peace between Chili and Peru
would have been drawn much nearer,
He has kept the whole of the depart
ments of Junin and Huarochiri in an
archv during the past two years. He
has plundered for himself and officers,
while exposing the poor docile Indian
troops, with slings Gatling and shotguns, and to the
withering fire of guns re
peating rifles. He has allowed his men
to commit atrocities on wounded Chil
eans which have led to reprisals and and to
whole villages being burned down
their inhabitants scattered. In fact, if
he had never had command of a soldier
thousands of lives uselessly sacrificed
would have been saved. One instance
of his manner of fighting was afforded at
Cbancay, where he made a fair bolt, and
by the instructions he gave the few
poor wretches he left to guard the
mouths of the valleys leading to the in
terior. They strewed the road with tor
pedoes and waited to see tlie Chileans
blown up who were going to attack them,
Soldiers who see their comrades blown
in the air by these torpedoes are not in
clined as a rule to give quarter. They used
are the same torpedoes which were
in the defense of San Juan, where they
killed more Peruvians than Chileans.
The Young Men.
In a letter from Mississippi, M. Quad tlie
savs *_“I want to speak a word for
men of Grenada, they are enter
prising, reliant and full of energy,
There are no idlers among them. They
run neither to drink nor cards nor
They have accepted the situa
tion and taken tho only way to better it.
And what is true of that town is true oi
all towns in the State. I did not see
one case of intoxication among the I
men of Mississippi in a two weeks
tour. It was rare to find oue out of em¬
ploy men t. it was an exception to find
dissatisfied. On the contrary, it is
young man who lakes the most
view, who bothers the least with
and who is the most ready to
off his coat and give the wagon a
out of the rut. ”
The Birch.
A Judge in St. Louis has discharge!
a, master of a public school who was
prosecuted for whipping a boy aftei
minor punishment had been of no avail.
The Court found that, in order topre
serve discipline, the teacher must deter
mine the necessity, the nature, the extern
of punishment, his acts, like those of a
parent, being subject to judicial review.
The Judge also said: “Four years’ex¬
perience in the administration of crim¬
inal law convinces me that boys who
become criminals are boys who don’t get
whipped; and when it is remembered
that a large percentage of the bolder
crimes known to the law is committed
; )V youths ranging in age from 14 to 20
years, the question arises, Is it; better
to whip first or imprison afterward?
A “POCKET GUIDE” for instruction iu
the art ©f swimming has been published
iu New York. When you fall overboard
and don’t know how to swim, all yon
have to do is to tread water and read
your guide.
CONYERS, GA., JULY 27, 1883.
Corona ca.
He is gone to the mountain,
He is lost to the forest,
Like a summer-dried fountain,
When our need is the sorest.
The fount re-appearing
From the rain-drops shall borrow |
But to us comes no cheering,
To Duncan no morrow!
The hand of the reaper
Takes the ears that are hoary,
But the voice of the weeper
Wails manhood in glory.
The autumn winds rushing,
Waft the leaves that are searest,
But our flower was in flushing,
When blighting was nearest
Fleet foot on the correi,
Sage counsel in cumber,
Bed hand in the foray,
How sound is thy slumber?
Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou are gone, and forever.
Walter Scott.
Ralph Terrill’s Courtship.
In front a moonlit, dimpling sea; on
either hand a stretch of level beach,
ghostly black-browned and dim; behind, the mighty,
cliffs, with here and
there a tree leaning f ir out, as though
half tempted to try the fearful leap
toward the sea beneath; and between
sea and cliff a pair of lovers.
Happy, yet trembling; dreading trusting all to
the rosy god, yet to dare pater
familias!
“ It won’t do, Nell. He’ll never con¬
sent ! You remember he told me last
spring that he did not care for money,
but that the man who won his daughter
'mist have performed some valorous deed
to prove his worthiness notion, of the precious
trust. It’s a queer pet. Why,
my beloved, it is an insult to talk of
winning you! I love you, but to win
yon I never hope, except by the power
of that love!”
The handsome fellow bent bis faci
toward the girl at his side and a suspi¬
cious sound danced out across the glim
mering waves. Ralph dear, perhaps father
“But,
will—”
“No, Nell no; ho never will,” inter
rnpted her lover, again drawing her
c1ose kirn. “ 1 k now w kat you would
say—that he may change. . ut i s 1 m
possible. Dari.ng we must either wad,
wait indefinitely, or be else— bent oward the
A second time
sweet cheek and whispered a few words
hstemng ear.
The started,
“ Oh, Ralph! don’t—don’t! You know
that I could never do ta.it! What! run
away—elope? Oh, my oarhng, do not
speak of such a flung! I shall love yon
for ever, but this I cannot no?”
The young man soothed his corn
nanion with low words and tender, and
plead bis love and longing as a reason
for the proposal, but when the moon,
whose blushing face had been bidden
behind a great rift of cloud, peeped forth
again, the lovers had risen and were
moving along the beach toward the
more frequented pa only it of the shore, lawyer
Ralph Terrill was a young
struggling into practice while Nellie
Trevillion was the beautiful daughter oi
old Jeremiah Trevillion, one of the
wealthiest men m the State.
By chance the young people had met,
md meeting had oved ; but bow liope
lessly those only knew who had learned
the foibles of old Jeremy, when over 1113
wine his tongue was loosened. As Ter
f Hl had said, he cared little for money
with a son-in-law; but for some unknown
reason he had fixed upon a hero for his
daughter’s husband. To win Nellie
Trevillion a man must first prove him
self a knight of “ye olden time; and
the chances of attaining such fame were
few enough m the nineteenth centmj
Nevertheless so rau the edict; and al
though Terrill liau, by his gentlemanly
hearing and successful pleading of cer
tain cases, gamed the esteem of his de
ured father-in-law, yet he knew too well
that any hint of his affection for Nellie
would at once turn him from the door.
so it was that the young people
as yet, only love and hope, but
marry. they had in Nellie’s
One ally, however, merchant aud old
a retired an
“bach”—Dwight Trevillion—and to
they confided ail their troubles.
This sage old party listened and advised,
but as yet no result had been reached
and the future remained dim enough,
were it not for the light of glowing and wait. trust
and love. They would watch
Early morning on the coast; and as
the bright beams of the happy bright¬ sun
kissed all the little waves awake,
ening the face of the smooth beach, two
stalwart figures were seen to emerge
from a cottage and turn toward the sea.
It was Jeremy and Dwight Trevillion,
the brothers, bound for a day s fishing.
They entered their boat, spread then
canvas, and were seen sailing gentb
away before the light land breeze—alone
for these gentlemen were thorough
sportsmen, and desired no third party in
their trips. This morning, however, ere
they embarked, Dwight Trevillion hail
expressed a half hope that some man
might be stirring, whose services they
could engage, “to attend to the boat
while they fished.”
But his brother laughed him to scorn.
“Bosh, Dwi! Why should we need
a bothering ignoramus with us to-day
more than on Tuesday last, when we
went crabbing?” reason,” replied the other,
“Oh no thought if
hesitatingly, “ only I we
wanted to go far from our boat it would
be better.”
“ Listen! Some one comes ! Heaven
be thanked!”
The old man was trembling from his
terrible fright. Another call brought a
second answer, and then, as the cries of
the two men continued, the souul of
oars was heard near and still nearer, un¬
til a small boat containing tw^ men could
be distinguished in the gloom. It stopped
outside the surf, which was now break¬
ing with a heavy roar rising upon higher the low sand
janks each instant about
the Trevillions.
“Boat ahoy !” cried Dwight; “come
in and take us off! Our craft has drifted
away and we shall drown !”
“ All right, sir J” responded a cheery
voice, “we’ll be there headed directly!” and
again the craft was toward
them.
“ That’s young Terrill! I know his
voice,” said Jeremy.
“A fine fellow, too,” replied. Dwight,
“ Hell save us now, surely. Ho is brave
—Look out! Ah !”
The rescuers’ boat had been caught
by the tumbling surf and overturned.
Its occupants were seen clinging to the
side as it rolled and tossed in the break¬
ers.
There was a moment of wild strug
gling, and then, borne upon the crest of a
coming wave, boat and men were hurlet
into the sea of foam that frothed about
the Trevil'ions and four half-drowned
adventurers stood knee deep in the rising
ocean.
“Great heavens !” cried the fair Nel¬
lie’s father, as he strove to keep his feet,
and grasped the arm of his would-be
son-in-law. “Great heavens ! now we
are lost!”
“Not so, sir !” cried young Terrill,
peering across the white line of breaker!
into the night beyond—“not so, sir.
Deputed by your fair daughter to row
here and see that you were safe, I em
ployed this honest boatman and came—
came to find you in danger and to seek
to save the lifo of one precious to liei
whom Hove better than life itself ( And,
sir, my mission shall not be in vain !
Stand here, Owen,” he continued to his
boatman, “and assist these gentlemen,
As for me, I will swim to yonder boat,
which I can see tossing beyond these
cruel waves, aud return with it or perish
in the attempt! Not a word, sir,” hi
went on, as Jermev Trevillion would have
spoken. “I love your daughter. Lei
me show how much love can do for love’s
sake. Because I love her I will risk my
life for yours, sir! I will gain that boat
and save yon, or die I”
And with these tragic words, Ralph
plunged into tlie sea.
“Brave hoy !—bravo boy!” sobbed Mr.
Trevi llion, as the dauntless rescuer dis¬
is appeared, “Oh, Dwight!—such worthy Nellie, a man
a hero ! Such a man is of
and she shall marry him if she will, do
we but live to see tlio shore again. ”
His brother only stood pressed silent, his braced hand,
and the three figures
against the hurrying waves that each
moment burst against them, rising
higher and higher. Suddenly a shout
rang in their ears, then another, and al¬
most before they could believe it, the
boat loomed through the night before
them.
“Men ahoy ! Stand by to take hold of
this line!”
“Ay, ay, sir!”
A rope whirled through the air. The
boatman caught it, a little craft plunged
into the surf close at hand, there was a
general scramble, a flap of sails, and
then the Seagull bore away with four
drenched but happy men aboard, and
breakers tossed alone upon the shal¬
low.
Ralph had won his bride. The praise
of his prospective father-in-law knew no
bounds; nor did he offer a word of objec¬
tion to the proposal of the longing lover the
that their nuptials be celebrated on
earliest possible day.
1 ‘Take her, my boy. You have won
her,” said the happy old gentleman, on
the following morning, when the two
young people stood before liim.
But to this day Uncle Dwight 1ms
kept silent as to his part in Ralph’s
courtship, and his brothel will never
know that ho purposely tripped, the
anchor short, so that, the Seagull might
drift away; that Terrill was to be on
hand for a rescue, and that the tide
never covers the sandbank to a greater
depth than four feet, except in the most
furious storms.
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A Man With a Movable Interior.
A man who was brought into the mu¬
nicipal court recently by Officer McCar¬
thy is fearfully and wonderfully made,
surely enough, says the Minnesota 1 ri
burn. The different parts of his internal
anatomy are so pliable and the ligaments that
that hold them together so elastic,
Se can, when not satisfied with nature’s
arrangement of his internal organs, re
arrange them apparently to suit himself.
Ho looks like an ordinary seal browi
negro, but claims to be a Zulu, and 1
descendant of King Oetawayo. Before
the horrified magistrate tie exhibits
si >me wonderful feats. His heart he
brought up to a position just in front of
his right shoulder blade. He exhibited
a double set of ribs, the ordinary anothe. one to
cover bis pectoral region and
for the protection of his abdomen. He
was just going to pull his diaphragm
over his head like a nightcap, when the
terrified Judge thought he had
enough, and wisely determining that he
was a dangerous citizen to have around
St, Paul, sent him to the workhouse for
twenty-five days on the charge of drunk
aud disorderly, but remitted the penalty
on condition of the poor fellow’s leaving
town.
“Well, we can toss her anchor over,”
replied Jeremy, “and she’ll wait for us.
Don’t let us have a mam”
Just as the chimes of the far away
village clock raug across the smooth water
for six o’clock the Seagull ground her
forefoot upon tlio fine white sand of a
small sandbank, perceptible at low tide,
and the Trevillion brothers embarked.
“ Now for a jolly day,” said Jeremy,
as he prepared his tackle, undisturbed.
“ Stick that little anchor in the beach,
Dwi, and we’ll go to the lower point,”
The other obeyed, and with rods au<
lines the gentlemen strolled away to¬
ward their destination.
A little later two young people met
upon the cool piazza of the. Trevillion
cottage,
Terrill, “My stealing darling!” whispered bright Ralph
a kiss; “your
sweet face pales the beauty of this
glorious morning, even ! ”
“ Oh, Ralph ! ” compliment! cried Nell, laughing ;
“ what a Persian And, my
love, may I not say that the brightest
morning is dull until I have seen your
face ? ”
lover, “My his queen!” dancing. ejaculated “But, the dearest! young
eyes
this day more than all others will, 1
trust, be a bright one to us. Come,
sweetheart, sit here a moment and I will
tell yon.” And he drew a chair to her
side. “I have a plan. If it succeeds
your father will have given his consent
to our marriage before another morning
brightens the earth !”
And with Nellie’s hand clasped in his,
Ralph half whispered the modus oper
andi in her ear.
“Splendid!—splendid! darling !” Oh, Ralph,
vou And her white, plump
•.rms wereabout his neck and two soft,
ripe lips repaid the recital i ■' Oh, my
she love, then yon will be with me always !”
continued, wiM a charming blush.
“ And Uncle Dwight helped to contrive
ill this ?”
“ Yes, sVeet, it was his plan. I am
>ut a factor in it. But it will be sure to
succeed if the weather remains fair,
tnrf now, silence. Not a word of it until
the end comes. Once safely wedded, if
your father must know, we can tell him.
But a hint of any conspiracy now would
’one the day forever.”
With mutual promises of secrecy the
lovers parted.
Slowly the day wore and on. proud The morn¬ his
ing sun grew older, the earth beneath of
strength, beat upon
with noon-day beams ; then regretting
his passion as the horns flew by, lie drove
rapidly down the western heavens—half
iu sorrow—fleecy clouds attending him,
in til just as the crickets began to chirrup,
and the tide come in, he sank to rest in
a bank of rose-colored vapors fa? in the
distant horizon.
All day long Jeremy and Dwight Tre
villion had fished, lunching beneath the
shadow of the single point of rock that
tlio sand-hank boasted, and continuing
their sport until tho shadows of the
coming night and the swift-rising tide
warned them to desist. had Once during the
afternoon Jeremy this proposed return¬
ing to the boat, but to Dwight ob¬
jected. There’s need. It’s high and dry
“ no
now, and will be until the tide turns.
Let us improve our time while we may.’
And so, the fishing being good, they had
remained.
Now, however, they had waited too
long. Night was at hand and the tide
too. They must need hurry.
“We must walk fast,” said Dwight,
as they packed up their tackle shoulders and fast¬
ened their creels upon their ;
“ the tide is higher than I thought. ”
“But you fastened the boat?” said the
other, in some trepidation. “You
dropped the anchor?”
“Yes,” replied the brother, “but it
was tripped, you know, and when the
water swings it clear there’s nothing to
keep the boat at her moorings.” there’s
“ You don’t mean to say that a
chance of such a thing happening?”
said Mr. Trevillion the elder.
“Indeed, I do!” replied the other,
hurrying onward “ for the sea is com¬
ing up rapidly. You know the tide cov¬
ers this place entirely. We must get to
the boat!”
“ Good heavens J” cried Jeremy; “this
is horrible ! Are we to drown, then?”
The surf was now breaking upon the
little bank in long, steady waves;
each moment the strip of sand grew more
narrow, and behind there could be heard
the roar of the ocean among the rocks
where they had oaten dinner. Retreat
was no longer possible.
“ I mean to say this,” said the youngei
man; “ we are in a trap, and unless we
gain our boat, or succor comes from the
shore, within twenty minutes the sea will
be upon us.”
“My poor Nellie I” groaned Jeremy;
and together they ran onward.
Suddenly Dwight, who was in advance,
stopped with a sharp, “ Look!”
Through the night they could see be¬
fore them the outline of their boat. She
was twenty rods away, rocking upon the
swells and drifting from them !
Trevillion uttered a long, hoarse cry,
and threw up his arms in groaned; despair.
“We are lost!” he “ we
shall both be drowned!” And the waves
lapped their very feet,
« Hold on !” said the brother; “ we re
no t. lost yet. Can you swim ?”
“ No !”
“ Neither can L We must shout. Per
haps some fishing smack or passing boat
may hear us. Come, together—now and loud !
Their ’oices rang out long surf about
over the growing roar of the
them. No answer,
“ Again !” whispered Dwight, gathe: -
ing his breath.
A second shout went blindly out faintly into
the darkness. This time it was
answered. Jeremy seized his brother s
arm.
NUMBER 18 .
A Little Money.
A woman ought to have her own purse,
great or small, whichever it may be ;—
lars, ten, fifty, a hundred, or a thousand dol¬
according to circumstances, but her
own, for which she accounts only to her¬
self.
Would you know “ why”—you gentle¬
men who make your wives render an ac¬
count of pins and farthings ?
down Well, then ; A maid-servant knocks
suddenly n teacup, a servant breaks a glass;
or fall in teapot, pieces, cup, and and glass all at
once nobody has
broken them, and so on. The wife who
has not her own purse, goes to her hus¬
band, relates ber misfortune, and begs
for a little to make good the damage.
He scolds the servants, his wife, who
ought to look after the servants.
Money “Money, indeed! A little money!
does not grow out of the ground,
nor yet is it rained down from heaven.
and Many small brooks make a great river.”
such like.
At last he gives a little money, anc
remains often, in a very ill humor.
Again, if the wife has her own little
purse, then such little vexations never
come misfortune, near him. Children, servants,
remain the same, but nodis¬
order is remarked—all is made right, as
at first—all is in order, and the head of
the house—who perhaps with tho great¬
est ease could lay down a thousand doi
las at once—need not for u few pence,
squeezed out at different times, lose the.
equipoise of his temper, which is as
invaluable to the whole house as to him¬
self.
And dost tbou reckon as nothing, thou
unfeeling little nabob, those little surprises—
those birth-day and name-day
pleasures with which thy wife can give
herself the delight of surprising thee—
those thousand small pleasures which,
unexpected them as heaven falling stars, gleam like
on the of home, and which
must all come to thee from the affection
of thy wife through a little money, which
thou must give to her in the gross in
order to receive again in the small, with
rich interest of comfort and happiness.
To every true woman’s heart it is in¬
describably delightful to give —to feel
itself alive in the satisfaction and happi¬
ness of others ; it is the sunshine of the
heart. Besides this, a little freedom is
so refreshing.
Forced Labor In Egypt.
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The conditions of forced labor do not
seem to differ much in the different parts
of the country. Nowhere do the labor
e rs receive any pay, or food, or shelter,
while their treatment be by simply their task-mas- brutal,
ters would seem to
Mr. Stuart describes the system as he
it in operation in the province of
Keneh, in Upper excavated. Egypt, where a new of
canal was being A cut
about eighteen feet in depth had been
made through a conglomerate flanked right of sand and
and gravel; this was
by high embankments constructed of
the material removed from the trench,
along the bottom and on the slopes,
“men swarmed thickly, like bees on a
honey-comb, for a distance of about a
mile in length.” Tho entire strength of
impressable labor in the province,
to about 40,000 men, The was
on this work. men
toiled from sunrise to sunset, with the
thermometer at 82 degrees in the shade,
having only a brief soaked interval in at midday filtered
for a meal of bread mi
water. This, with a similar meal
beginning and after leaving off,
the day’s dietary. baskets The la¬
provided their own for
the excavated soil, and their
tools, when they used any, but most
their fingers. Overseers walked
among them armed with sticks,
which they struck the men while
were carrying loads upon their
often without any apparent rea¬ the
At night they slept clothing upon and
almost without
without shelter, though the has air
often very cold. Mr. Stuart
negro slaves at work in the cotton
of Cuba, and the convicts at
and both were to be envied, in
opinion, by the Egyptian fellahs.
A Western Experiment.
“It is stated that the Chicago, Burling¬
ton and Quincy management has rented
pews in the various churches of the sev¬
worship eral western in,” cities for exchange. its employees This to is
says an
doubt a move in the right direction,
probably before another year is over
railroad in the country will either
pews in the towns along their lines,
build churches for the accommodation
their employees. This will give the
a place to go on Sunday where they
be at home, and instead of going
on Sunday, when they lay “waste” over
a town, or sitting on a pile day of Sunday
the “round-house” all
talking of the management of the road,
playing draw poker, they will each
be found in their accustomed
at the church, absorbing during religion the
trying to forget how,
week before, they had made the air
along the track blue with red-bot excla¬
mations about their work. The conduc¬
tor will sit in his seat at church, and re¬
pent for having mauled a tramp the day
before, or for having “accidentally” miles
punched out three hundred from
an editor’s ticket, who he knew was only will
going forty miles. The brakeman
repent for having sassed the switch
tender at the junction, and the engineer
will, as the preacher warms up to his
work, feel sorry that he run over the
poor Irish woman’s geese and killed them,
and the boys will all go down in their
pockets and “put up” liberally will for well. pay¬
ing the minister, and all go
The experiment of the Chicago, Burling¬
ton & Quincy road, will be watched with
i good deal of iutercst by railroad men.
-Milwaukee Sun.
Tobacco.— Although the Scotch are
greater smokers than the English, yet
toss tobacco is smoked in Scotland than
in England. This is due, according to
the London Truth, to the canny char¬
acter of Scotchmen. Owing to the large
quantity of water iu the ordinary tobacco
sold, a pipe goes out before the tobacco
in it is smoked out. The Englishman the
throws away this damp tobacco;
Scotchman carefully extracts it from his
nipe, and then, when it has dried, re¬
places it.