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USEFUL HINTS.
<:Rru Wash for Bricks.— To remove*
the green that gathers on bricks pour
over them boiling water in which any
vegi tallies not greasy have been boiled!.
Repeat disappear. for a few days, and green will
For the red wash melt one
ounce of gluo in one gallon water ; while
hot add alum size of egg, onc-half pom id
. -.Venetian red, one pound Spanish brow: a.
‘ *Tryit; if too light, add more red ar*l
: , brown. If too dark, water it.
I To Paint an Old House.— Take
jjSpecd jytju'ee gallons boil half water hour and 011 take c it pint off flilix- and
; an ;
«-■*®(lil water enough to make four gallon h ;
Kn ^®let it pail, stand and to put settle in ; enough pour off of tho Spanish watrr
a
V white to make it as thick as whitewash ;
then add ono-lialf pint iinseed oil; star
l||;it Kjwhiting well and duos apply not mix with readily a brush. add If the
more
‘joil, /Water. Flaxseed, linving tlie nature of
is better tliau glue, and will not
■wash off as readily.
To Soften the Hands.— One can have
Sythe hands in soapsuds with soft soap
^without injury to tlio skin, if the hands
Hfabdiately •-“lire dipped in vinegar or lemon juice im
after. The acids destroy the
corrosive effects of tlio alkali, and make
the hands soft and white. Indian meal
and vinegar or lemon juice used on
when roughened by cold or labor
“will heal and soften them. Rub the
& hands in this; then wash off thoroughly
and rub in glycerine. Those who suffer
from chapped hands will find this com
P forting.
Staining Wood. —Apple, pear, and
gl' p walnut stained wood, black by if tho line-grained, following may be
B Boil in glazed enamelled process. •
a or iron vessel
with water four ounces of ground gall¬
nuts, one ounce of logwood chips, and
half an ounce each of green vitriol and
1' crystals of verdigris. Filter while,
warm, and brush the wood over with
this rapidly. Dry and brash over with
strong cold solution of acetate of iron,
and dry. Repeat this, several times,
«nd finally dry in an oven at 'a moder
ate temperature, and oil or varnish.
To Wash White Lace Edging. —
Have a quart bottle covered with linen,
r stitched smoothly to fit tho shape. Be
I giu at the bottom and wind the lace
about it, basting fast at both, edges,
It even tlie minutest point, to the linen.
Wi sh on the bottle, soaping it well,
rinse by plunging in a pail of clear
"water, handkerchief, and boil as you would a white
bottle and all. Set in
the hot sun to dry. When quite dry,
■ clip tlio basting-threads and use the
lace without ironing. If neatly basted
f o' 1 it will look nearly as well
if , quite. as now_
not
Washing Made Easy.—I soak mv
clothes over night; in the morning I fill
my washboiler half full of water, and
place it on the stove to heat, throwing in
a handful of soft soap, or about two
soaked ounces of clothes, hard; I then wring out the
soap the dirty parts, and
by this time the water is libt ; put them
in and let them boil fifteen minutes,
stirring often; I now take out and put
! Wem 111 cold water, wash out the suds;
if any dirt remains, give it a few rubs
j audit is gone; I rinse them good'in
| plenty wliita of water, and my clothes are its
and clean as those that have gone
have through a long proeoss of rubbing. .1
washed my clothes this yvay for
ten years, and they have never turned
. yellow, ■■ .
: I
They stood at the gate beneath the
s l ,u 'bgfit. In a few hours lie would be
'whirled away across tho prairies, and
I she would return alone to wauder wearily
* * Thousand t u< ‘ B;l dly amid scenes, endeared by a
tender recollections — if it
hadn’t been that she wasn’t that sort of
a girl. “One last kiss,” he murmured
fondly, shall “one last look—-one last word_
what it be ?” She gave him the
kiss, she gave him the look, and she
gave him these last words, “Remember
your promise to me not to eat any
onions. ”
Oscar Kinsman, of I’oultney, Vt., re¬
ceived a cut on the thumb.
it of little importance, he continued
w ork of drawing slate. Having
aud scratched the wound, he caught
in it, and the thumb began to swell.
Three weeks after receiving the
a physician was called, and the sick man
said, “I nm glad yon have come; I am
feeling tired.” The doctor felt Kins
man’s pulse and it was still, and in a few
minutes he was dead. The young man
bail been married only a short time.
The Con L rs Ex % f. £ % •f r ©
0 ijltzage 0 Tis a figure the redistricting will
o
-eqt-on the Congressional map.
Hap Oscar Wilde come to this country
in otditlary citizen’s clothes, there tire
"\pty . few people who would have-ever
b&itd of him. The secret of his £an
®Cial success has been in the extensive
' advertising he received as a result of liis
outlandish way of dressing. His ideas,
•while they are pronounced “fair to
i good,” are not new, and decidedly cpm
mon-place for the times.
‘ ‘ Bette and the BABy ” constitute
Sergeant Mason’s family, -and in several
eastern cities contribution boxes with
these words upon them are located in
prominent thoroughfares for the recep¬
tion of nickels.. Such a box in the
Baltimore American office received,’’ 450
nickels in one day. It seems that
“Botty and the Baby” will be taken
care of, whatever may be the fate of the
bad marksman.
Excessive drink and malaria are said
to be very similar in their effects upon
the human system in Washington, and a
Congressman who does not 5 hare iii oc¬
casional attack of malaria is looked upon
as a very fortunate person. If the
Potomac flats are drained as a means of
abating malarial influences, statesmen
who get sick from one cause, and doctor
for the. other, will have a delightful time
explaining matters.
'----—-W.--—
“Monaco, whose 10,000 inhabitants
live entirely on the profits of the gaming
tables, has 161 priests to look after its
spiritual welfare.” That statement sounds
unreasonable, and we should refuse to
believe it had it come from any qther
source than the Cincinnati Gazette.
One hundred and sixty-four priests to
the 10,000 inhabitants is a fraction ovei
one priest to each sixty persons. And
let all these people — excepting the
priests—are gamblers ! Impossible !
Anthony Comstock is making a new
move against the lottery companies, and
lie says he will make a test case against
two Brooklyn men who have drawn the
$30,000 prize in the Louisiana lottery.
He is said to have discovered a section
of the New York revised statute#, pro¬
viding that all money so won shall be
forfeited to the poor in the county where
the money is deposited. The money was
in bank, but the lucky ones took fright,
drew it out, and one of them is already
on his way to Europe,
TOPICS OF TOE DAT.
The President has approved the Anti
Polygamy _J—----- bill.
Congress will probably not adjourn
before the 1st of July.
Congress b*is decided that the China¬
man can be kicked out.
Ex-Be.?at»b Conkung is to retire
from poli iVis for the present.
Jay G ould is tired of business annoy¬
ances, send is thinking seriously of re¬
tiring.
The, President is said to look favorably
upon the matter of pardoning Sergeaiit
Mas'on. ;■
I tow, then, if the President has no
ob jection, the Chinese will quit discov¬
er ing us.
*»
The first snow blockade of the winter,
in the Northwest, occurred on the 22d
«of March. - • j
Guiteau has refused $350 for the suit
of clothes he wore when he shot the
President.
President Arthur entertained Gen¬
eral and Mrs. Grant at a grand dinner a
few days ago.
The wheat crop in Indiana is reported
to be 20 per cent, above that of an'
average year.
Cadet Whittaker may go free, and
now perhaps lie will make it a point to
take better care of his ears.
England likes Moody and Sankey so
well that she has invited them to a year’s
engagement in the evangelical work.
The press of Chili thinks that country
eould bounce the United States. Yes,
bounce like a rubber ball, just about.
Fashion is doing away with the long
string of bridesmaids at weddings, for
which many a fond papa will thank his
stars.
The good people of Chicago are still
fighting the Sunday theatricals. Mean¬
while theatrical performances on Sunday
move right along
We observe by our exchanges that
contributions for Sergeant Mason’s
“Betty and the Baby” have become
general throughout the country.
Both the political parties in Cincin¬
nati have nominated Judge Force for
Judge of tho Superior Court. This is
forcing matters with a vengeance.
Cincinnati carpenters have laid out
to strike the 1st of May, if their de¬
mand for an increase of wages is not ac
ceded to. The carpenters are a striking
set.
Cardinal Manning’s doctor ordered
him to drink wine, and the Cardinal re¬
fuses to do so. It now stands the Cardi¬
nal in hand to bounce the family
physician.
Statistics show that Mor toons,inci' &ase
their numbers, annually by immigration,
2,000. Add to this the increase by births
and you have something frightful to
think about.
brought The New tho York prize ring says into riulliv&u diswpute. has (
Good! Will somebody now effect a
momument to Sullivan? His act should
be ennobled.
Speaker Keifeb has removed Mr.
Henry S. Hayes, one of the official sten¬
ographers of the National. House, and
appointed a Mr. Dawson, of Iowa. This
change has caused general surprise, as
Mr. Hayes was one of the best sten
ographors in the country, and his work in
committees and elsewhere about the
Capitol for years past has always giver:
great satisfaction. His synopses of de¬
bates in Congress were unequaled, and
his removal will prove a loss to Congrels
and the public.
The escape of Nihilists from Siberia
is becoming quite a common thing. Tjje
telegraph announces that a fresh Ibt
have recently escaped. As the gedg
rapliy of tho intervening country be¬
comes better understood, tlie liumbeitof
escapes left for will the increase, and the alternative
Russian Government, if it
desire to keep persons banished con
ffimd on a territory, will be to secure
some great island large enough for rite
purpose and build a great wall around it,
upon which sentries may be placed.
The Sanitary Engineer says the dan¬
ger that a midwife may carry contagious
disease from one bedside to another M r as
the subject recently of some remarks', by.
a physician to the Cleveland Board of
Health, He stated thai recently, inrhis
practice, a German wife had conveyed
puerperal fever to three patients, all of
whom had djed. The physician had
cautioned the women when she was at¬
tending the original case of the fever,
telling her she might be the means of
conveying it to others, but his word was
disregarded, and three lives, he believes,
sacrified in consequence. The Board of
Health were sufficiently impressed bv
the statement to instruct the Health
officer to cause her arrest under a law
governing the conveyance of contagious
diseases.
The “rush for Texas” of a -' ear n K°
. uis now, .merged itself into
Dakota.” a “rush for
This is doubtless owning to
climatic influences. The incoesant warm
temperature of the drinkimr'hArhnf^ Lone Star State un
fits its wate,- ft*
the immigrant—while the soil is not nn
iversaJly good fanning land by a/long
shot. It is, in point of fact, a grazW
ol Dakota 13 cool—duCidedly cool usu,
ally—but the winter just past it has been
unusually mild in that section of the
country. Farming there is prosecu ed
with the greatest success, and rlnnUlJf taking * ali
thine-s things toe-ether together, there there is is doubtless no
better section of country for general
purposes. Let the “rush” go on. Da
kota is a vast Territory and there is
plenty of room in it.
A drum manufactory in Massachusetts,
established in 1853, has converted dur¬
ing that time 30,000 sheep skins into
drumheads,
Fathionable uwells in the East now
wear but one eye-glass, as do the snobs
of London. Well, w® are glad the idea
of wearing eye-glasses is at least half
discarded, anyhow.
Whittaker’s ultimate Sum is to be
come an officer in the army, whether
permitted to finish his course at West
Point or not. He will apply for the
of Second Lieutenant.
The War Department lias provided
for issuing 600.000 rations for the suffer¬
ers from the Mississippi overflow. Aid
can not come too soon to the distressed
people of that desolated valley.
The House Appropriation Committee
cut the tail off of the Tostoffice appro¬
priation bill—tho franking privilege—
and it is now a question whether it will
get back on again. The members of
the House must feel pretty bad about it.
The remarkable feature of Nicodemus,
a negro colony of 367 families, in Gra-.
ham County, Kansas, is the entire ab¬
sence of money. There are churches,
school-houses, and stores, but the trad¬
ing has to be done by bartering the pro¬
duce of the farms.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says
“ an Ohio man died after drinking a glass
of water.” We are glad to know he
didn’t die before clrinkiug the water, be¬
cause in the latter case he’d failed to
carry ont the traditional Ohio idea—■
success. Better always to drink before
you die.
The apportionment bill requires most
of the States to redistrict, and the thing
that is most irritating to both political
p. ir q e8 j n the several States is, how it
can i >e done to the best political advant
age. There little scruple as to how
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT."
CONYERS, GA„ FRIDAY APRIL 7, 1882.
DILI’S BLOOMS.
Mr. Arp Laments the Frost Nipping
of His Peaches.
HE ALSO -CONTINUES HIS LAMENTA¬
TIONS AND TALKS WISER THAN USUAL
—HE TELLS SOME GOOD STORIES,
TOO, ABOUT JUDGE .LOCHRANE,
TEXAS RANGER AND THE
INDEPENDENTS.
■ [From the Atlanta Constitution.]
Nipped in the bud. It looks like there
is no security from anything. Ours was
no seconcbliand orchard: we planted it
and the blooms for three years have
looked so sweet and promising, and now
this is the third year the fruit has been
killed. I suppose we could have built
little fires all about, but who knows
when-to build ’em ? It is poor comfort
to build ’em when there is no danger.
Reckon we will just have to keep the
orchard for the flowers, like we do a
crab-apple tree, for they are mighty
pretty. One of my neighbors lives un¬
der the western slope of a mountain and
his fruit is never killed. He had plenty
last year, but the sun don’t rise at his
house till it’s about two hours high, and
that wouldn’t suit my folks at all. Well,
it might suit the folks but it wouldn’t
suit my business. It would be dinner¬
time before breakfast. The peach crop
is very uncertain among these Cherokee
hills hut around most the everybody house can have a few
trees where they are
protected. We can’t expect to have all
the good things in our place. My Irish
potatoes were killed down the other
morning, and that hurt my feelings, for
I was a little proud that I was ahead of
my nabors. and (here But they is will come out
again, good so deal some comfort left
and, a of hope. Hope says
the peaches are not all killed] for a man
can’t examine all the blooms, and may
be there will be enough for the children.
That is the main thing after all; enough
for the children is what the world is
working for; enough money, or land, or
food and clothing; enough pleasure and
happiness. How by we do love ’em and
worry over ’em night and by day.
If we had no children 1 think I would
just quit work and toil right suddenly
and—-go a fishing. frolic But there is not
much time to on a farm at this
season of the year, for my almanac says,
“About this time plant corn,” and we
are doing it all around these parts. I
can sit on my piazzer and look into five
farms and see the darkies and the mules
and hear ’em, too, and its gee and haw,
and git along Pete, and wharyou gwine,
Nell, come round dar, I tell you; and
there’s no end to th ; s kind of affection¬
ate, one-sided discourse until the horn
blows for dirsnor, «md then the most
knowing Its' mules give a bray all round
and astonishing made .how much they do know
can be to understand. I had
a big mule who would never give but
one pull at a root unless the darkey who
plowed him hollered o*t Rotten root,
I tell you!” and then lie would break
that root or something else, for he had
confidence in the nigger. It always did
seem like there w r as a kind of confiden¬
tial relation between niggers and mules—
a sort of treaty of peace ana equality,
for there is no other animal can stand
the darkey, and there’s no other human
can When get along in alone peace with- a mule.
field they long are together in a big
with rows, the darkey talks to
him all along the line, and th« mule
listens in respectful silence, but if two
darlri^s are plowing together th<>y talk
another, and the '
one mu are
snubbed. There is a power of corn be¬
ing planted this spring and not. 5 much
more than half a crop of cotton^ so far
my observation goes. I hope ‘pe can
make enough do with food less for clothing the counify, than for
we can better
oi be stinted in vittels. There is a.power
folks dependent upon the farn«rs and
*a great responsibility upon us. Politics
raises a mighty rumpus and takies up a
sight of room in I he newspapers, but
when you compare it with fanning, it all
seems sorter like a monkey show that is
going on for amusement, and the farmers
feel like doing like Stewart’s Texan Ran
ger, who went to see an amateur musical
performance in Rome one night; during
the war. He was a rough specimen,
six feet and two inches, and a hat like
an umbrella and boots like stove pipes,
and spurs that jingled like trace-chains,
a couple of navy pistols to set off his
beard, and he paid his half a dollar and
.tooka stand behind an empty bench in the
iear, and looked off with" a lofty con¬
tempt, and whenever the performers
closed a piece and the cheering began
the ranger rattled the bench most alarm¬
ingly and exclaimed, “souy, sony, souv,”
like he was driving bogs, and he kept it
up until he monopolized the show and
had it all to himself. These premature
candidates for governor, and so forth,
reminded me of Judge Lochrane’s story
of the Irishman who thought he had a
fast horse, and so he put him in the
races- and bet on him. He run pretty
well, hut seemed to run better behind
than before, and the Irishman clapped
his hands with delight and exclaimed,
■'Faith and St, Patrick, just look how
he drives ’gm.” But its all right. I’m
glad to see the independents good the waking up.
Its all for the of people and
will keep the old democracy on its good
beil avi° r - There’s nothing like having
• senl ' ine,s on tlie watchtowers. Some
the party goes too .fash and these
Tinny Rut-fcAiisij/eRrling, boy (dr, they say when
was a he tried for an hour to
a yearling out of the pasture, and
somebody hollowed to him and said:
“ You can’t hold that yearling, Tinny ;
wliat.are hold you trying to do ?” “ I know
I can’t him. ’ said Tinny, “hut i can
ma Jesso. ^ e Tnat S J°Y- is all ’ these independents .
are after have . They don’t expect office, but
they more abounding, patriotism
than anybody, and are holding on to
the tail of the concern, just to make it go
slow. Some of em, I reckon, are a little
disappointed and because the train went off
left ’em, and it don’t do any good
to laugh at ’em no matter whether they
didifijiui fast enough or started too
late. Let’s be, tender with ’em. for may
; b# their turn will come after while, and
they will be tender with us. There are
a power of ups and downs in this world,
and in politics they are mostly downs—
especially down south. Bill Amp.
The Duke’s Death.
“Kneel here by my side, Lurline,”
and in obedience to the summons, a
beautiful girl flung herself in an aban¬
don of grief near the bed on which lay
the eighth Duke of Twenty-second street,
Rupert Rollingstone, Rupert was dying
—dying cold away out on the West Side. A
had developed into a quick con¬
sumption. Tim dreaded disease had
made known its presence while Rupert
was at the house of a friend on Laflin
street. “ You can not live more than a
week,” the doctor had said. “But my
people,” cried the sick man, Twenty-second in an agony
of fear; “they are on
street, and too poor to hire a carriage.
How shall I see them?” and ho wrung
his hands in an agony of despair.
* ■k
“It cannot be done, my lass,” said
the street-railway superintendent, look¬
ing down kindly into Lurline’s face.
“I would gladly do auglit that might
ease the last moments of a dying man,
but I can not accomplish impossibilities.
A car from Twenty-second street to the
corner of Laflin and Van Buren in five
ly,” days? By my halidom, you jest brave¬
and, picking up a pair of shears, lie
again resumed his occupation of cutting
coupons from government bonds. When
Lurline had knelt by the dying man, he
turned to her and spoke: “Lurline, my
darling,” he said, “lam dying down.
I shall soon be in the sweet pretty quick.
But ere I start, I want you to m ake
one promise—a sacred one, that you
will keep forever.” “Name it,” said
the girl, in a sob-choked voice. “ When
ever you are in a hurry, avoid the street
car. ” “I promise,” the reply.
was
Rupert’s face lit up with a sweet, peace¬
ful smile. “Good-bye, my angel.”
“ Bung soir,” was the faint response, as
the girl’s head fell on liis breast amid a
storm of sobs. “I see heaven,” mur¬
mured the dying man. “I know it is
heaven, because there are lots of street
cars, and they run every three minutes.”
Rupert was dead .—Chicago Tribune.
A New Church Beneficiary.
A new scheme has broken out among
the Eastern churches to provide for
“ God’s poor.” Each church is buying
a farm, to which poor people are sent to
out their salvation in fear and tur¬
patches. This combination of re¬
and ruta bagas is certainly a happy
one, and ought to come into general
practice. Steady work on a farm cannot
but be far more preferable to the poor
of a. olmroh tliau good advxoo and fino
conversation, that is now lavished upon
them regardless of cost, There is
always something on a farm that any¬
body can do, and do well, and that will
be wca-th good wages, if the laborer is
fairly remunerated, and a church society
would be sure to do this. Then, in the
fall, when the golden harvest was gath¬
ered, the church members would of
course give their patronage to their own
farm aad lay in their winter supply of
potatoes, carrots, beets, onions, etc.,
from their own vines and figtrees, so to
speak. The report of the Superintend¬
ent would show whither the farm was
drifting financially, and if it needed any
fertilizing top-dressing in the way of a
mortgage. Ministers whose health is
poor, from hard study and overwork,
instead of being sent on an expensive
tour to the Holy Land, could be trans¬
planted from the stifling atmosphere of
the study to the beautiful air of the
balmy, breezy country, and set to rais¬
ing cucumbers on the farm. The exer¬
cise would do them good, even if they
did not raise enough cucumbers for a
mess, and what the church lost on cu¬
cumbers it would more than save on
traveling expenses. It seems salvation to us as
though the true plan of has
been struck at last. It is not through
any of the five hundred different plans
advocated by the five hundred different
churches, but through the modest cauli¬
flower, the lowly onion and the golden
crookneck summer squash.— Peek's
Sun.
A Romance of British High Life,
Many years ago a young man made his
appearance in Stratford, and passed a
few weeks at the tavern which then
existed to afford shelter to stage-coach
travelers. Whence he came, and what
was his business, none could guess.
Directly opposite the tavern stood the
small cottage and forge of a blacksmith
named Folsom. He had a daughter
who was the beauty of the village, and
it was her fortune to captivate the heart
of the young stranger. He told his love,
said he was traveling incog.; but, in con¬
fidence, gave her his real name, saying
that he was heir to a large fortune. She
returned his love, and they were married
a few weeks after. The stranger told his
wife that lie must visit New Orleans.
He did so, and the gossips of the town
made the young wife unhappy by dis¬
agreeable hints and jeers. In a few
months the husband returned; but before
a week had elapsed he received a large
budget of letters, and told his wife that
he must at' once return to England, and
must go alone. He took his departure,
and the gossips had another glorious op¬
portunity to make a confiding woman
wretched. To all but herself it was a
clear case of desertion. The wife be¬
came a mother, and and for two years lived
on iii silence hope. By the end of
that time' a letter was received by the
Stratford beauty from her husband,
directing with her to go at once to New York
her child, taking nothing with her
but the clothes she wore, and embark in
rival a ship for home in England. On her ar¬
in New York she found a vessel
venience splendidly furnished with every con¬
and luxury for her comfort, and
two servants ready to obey every wish
that she might express. The ship duly
arrived in England, and the Stratford
girl became mistress of a mansion, and,
as the wife of a baronet, was saluted by
the aristocracy as Lady Samuel Stirling.
On the death of her husband, many
years ago, the Stratford boy succeeded
to the title and wealth of his father; and
in the last edition of “Peerage and
Baronetage,” of “Miss he is spoken Stratford, of as the North issue
America Folsom, of Globe.
.”—Toronto (Ont.)
The Spartan Law-Giver, Lycurgus.
The history and legislation of Lycur
gus are involved in considerable obsenr
SU< ‘E a n extent that many
of the leading scholars of modern times
e viewed them with no little sus
. ,
Pi c !? n - ■ I ^ le generally accepted account
of the celebrated Spartan law-giver is to
the effect that Lycurgus lived about 880
years before our era, or, according to
others, about the year 1100 B. O., and
was descended from the Doric family of
Die 1 roclidae. Po'ydectes, his brother,
King of Sparta, died, and to Iris widow
was born a posthumous son. The widow
and mother proposed to Lycurgus to
ried destroy the unborn babe if he mar¬
her. Lycurgus was shocked,
but pretended partially to consent
by saying it was as easy to make
way with an infant after as before it
oame into the world. When the child
was born Lycur gus at ; once proclaimed
him King, an d his uncle became his
guardian. The! it is recorded that Ly«
curgus traveled hi many lands in Asia
Minor, Crete, Egypt, and even India, but
as to the latter it is decidedly uncertain
and unlikely. He studied tlie constitu¬
tions of the nations he traveled among,
and finally, after many long joumeyings,
he returned to Sparta. During liis ab¬
sence affairs had become disordered in
Sparta, tire and on his arrival almost the en¬
community constitution requested him to draw
up a for them, to which ho
•onsented. Then lie induced them to
change solemnly swear that they would make no
in the laws till he came back,
and he left Sparta, and it was never
known exactly whither lie went or where
he died. By his departure and failure to
return lie had hoped to make the Spartan
Constitution eternal; and the people
saw ho was a god, and worshipped^ him.
Probably isted, such a person as Lycurgus ex¬
who, at some remote time and
eritical juncture in Spartan affairs, may
have been selected, perhaps, on account
rf his wisdom and reputation, to prepare
a. code of laws for the better govern¬
ment of the State. It can not be im¬
agined Sparta that the entire legislation of
was first invented by Lycurgus
and imposed upon the people all at
once ; it is reasonable to suppose, how¬
larged ever, that the he previously collected, modified, and en¬
tions of Sparta. It existing institu¬
is related by Plu¬
tarch that Lycurgus “commanded that
all gold and silver coin should be called
in, and that only a sort of money made
of iron should be current, a great weight
and quantity of which was of but very
little worth ; so that to lay up twenty or
thirty pounds there was required a
pretty large closet, and, to remove it,
nothing less than a yoke of oxen. With
the diffusion of this money, at once a
number of vices were banished from
Eaceasemon; ior wno wouia roo anotner
of such a coin? Who would unjustly
detain or take by force, or accept as a
bribe, a thing which is not easy to hide
nor a credit to have, nor, indeed, of any
use to cut in pieces ? For when it was
just red hot, they quenched it in vinegar,
and by that means spoiled it, and made
it almost incapable of being worked.—•
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The British Soldier,
The British soldier always presents
the appearance of scrupulous cleanliness.
He is scoured, brushed and scrubbed
beyond reproach. His hair is enriched
with pomat-um ami his shoes are radiantly
polished. His little cap is worn in a
manner determined by considerations
purely {esthetic. He carries a little cane
in one hand and a pair of white gloves in
tlie other. He holds up his head and
expands his chest portentously, and
bears himself generally like a person
who has reason to invite rather than to
evade the fierce light of modern criticism.
He is the darling of the appreciating and
housemaids of the West End, on
this ground considerable ill-feeling exists
betw-ehn policeman, him and Susan bis rival, sometimes “the favoring bobby,”
or
the one, sometimes the other, and some¬
times—horrible dictu!—both. On the
other hand, when on parade, the extreme
perfection of his appointments makes
him look very well, and anyone who sees
the big parade for the Queen’s birthday
or a general review at Aldershot, will
have no hesitation in saying to himself
that these are the handsomest troops in
the world. The long squadrons and of
cavalry and horse artillery shining
shifting, the dragoons, hiissars and
lancers, the beautiful horses and ac¬
coutrements, the capital riders, the
handsome faces, the wonderful wagons
and guns, seem even more theatrical
than military. But the interior aspect
of one of these brilliant regiments is
quite a different thing. To see the man
carrying their coal, cleaning their bar¬
rack rooms and breakfasting on dry
bread, is not suggestive of heroism or
romance. It is distressing to shining see a
splendid life guardsman, in
cuirass and plumed helm, jack boots,
long spurs and clanking sword, carrying
a basin of weak tea and a piece of bread,
which he is about to consume, with the
aid of a savelogy or a pennyworth of
butter from the canteen, for his evening
meal. Ho ought, according to his ap¬
pearance, to sup on a chine of beef and
a flagon of nut brown ale, as in such days
of yore, when a soldier w r as not a
mere regulated part of a machine, and
was better paid in proportion to the
earnings of the community. Thera is
one word which affords a kind of magic
key to the whole existence of the soldiers
of the British army. That word is re¬
gulations. Whether on or off duty,
whether on parade or in his barrack taking'
room, whether sick in hospital or
his walks abroad, the soldier must be¬
have according to regulation. The guide
to his daily course of life is to be found
in a red book entitled, “The Queen’s
Regulations and Orders for the Army. ”
Not only must a private soldier be dressed
and accoutred exactly according to rule
when he appears on parade, but even
when he walks out of barracks in pursuit
of recreation. He may or may not have
a. chilly habit of body, or be partial or
not to carrying a slender cane in his
band; but the wearing of will a great depend, coat or
the carrying of a cine not
upon his own notions, but upon the re¬
gulations issued by his commanding
officer.
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A man used to vicissitudes is not
easily dejected.
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HUMORS OF THE DAT.
. . loaf ... better
. ^ , HAnr is than % whole
oa er
Never t 6 o late to mend—A torn ten*
dollar note.
A real estate transfer—moving g a cart
load of dirt.
b *\ Ij h VER t mS qualities a lius
A fool and an accordeon are both
easily drawn out.
What is sauce for the turkey is cran
berry for the dinner guests,
Man wants but little here below, and
that’s just about what he gets.
Bank cashiers are generally smart fel¬
lows, but they are frequently flighty.
reliable. Of all shares, They plow shares are the most
t hi always turn out some
ng.
There are people who will buy any¬
thing on sight if they can be allowed to
pay for it on ti me.—Hew Orleans Pica¬
yune.
“Its scold day when I get left,” Zan
tippe remarked when Socrates went of!
to the. circus without her.— Burlington,
Hawkeye.
A Derby doctor killed a fox, and the
Derby “The Transcript sardonically remarks:
doctor means business when ho
gets after ’em.”
“My daughter,” exclaimed a fashion¬
able mother, “ is innocence itself. You
can’t say anything in her presence that
will make her blush.”
Solomon is said to have had some nine
hundred wives of all sorts. What it
must have cost him for fries in boxes
when he stayed out late.
Hens scratch up flower beds only when
they are barefooted. That’s why women
run out and “shoo” the hens to keep
them from doing damage.
Kail to th© thief who in triumph advances,
The more he steals the more renown,
The bigger his pile the more he prances,
And cash keeps him up, while others g< 0 down.
—La n ipton.
If some religious people we know
would prey on their neighbors less and
their knees more, the world would be
better off .—Baltimore Every Saturday.
“ Mamie,” said he, and his voice was
Will singularly low, “will you be my wife?
clings you the--” cling to me as the tender vine
to “Yes, I eatoh on,”
said she.
A New York tourist who ate an alli¬
gator for a beefsteak in Florida didn’t
get the taste out of his mouth until he
had eaten half a peck of onions and four
dozen herrings.
A preacher who had turned specu¬
lator and bought a lot of hogs on a ris¬
ing market, telegraphed his agent:
“Hold the pork, for I am coming.”—•
S!fp. ?/. hp.n\vil]j>. ITpvnlcI
Shakespeare asks, ‘
“What’s in a
name?” Well, it is a good thing, some¬
times. Not necessarily for publica¬
tion, but merely as a guarantee of good
faith .—Detroit Free Press.
“I call that very rare,” said Jones to
a workman who had done some work for
him. “Ah?” answered the workman,
highly tickled. “ Yes,” went on Jones,
“rare, very rare—not half done.” That
cooked the workman, and he retired.—
Steubenville Herald.
A fashionable lady witness fainted
dead away while giving her testimony,
and the doctor who fvas summoned said
it resulted from her corset being too
tight. The incident was very properly
entered upon the minutes of the case as
“a stay in the proceedings.”
A prominent citizen, whose idiosyn¬
crasy is that of becoming intoxicated and
going to bed with his clothes on,- was
surprised with the following the other
morning, from his wife : “You were not
as drunk as usual last night, Henry,
dear, know,” were said he; you?” “Well, I don’t
“ what makes you think
so?” “Why,” she replied, “I see you
took your overshoes off before you went
to bed. ” -
The Cannibals’ Good Points.
Since everybody, including Judas and
Nero, have their apologists, the Feejeo
cannibals are now declared not to be so
black as they aie painted. In thefiist
place, they had, in the way of flesh,
nothing but each other to eat. Except
flying foxes and rats, there were do four
footed animals on the islands. The pres¬
ent names of their domestic animals be¬
tray a European origin, collie, for dog ;
pussi, for cat; use, for horse ; seepi, for
mutton; ’poti, for goat; and bullarna
koiv, for beef. The wooden spoons for
human broth, and cannibal forks, eight¬
een inches long, with four or five prongs,
are still in existence. A berry, resem
bling a tomato in shape and color, was
the special and proper vegetable to be
eaten with “long pig.” One of ths
chieftains lately said lie would like to
see a woman who would not eat her full
share* and declared that human flesh
was ever so much better. than pork
“ Long pig” was sometimes made into
puddings. When a friendly neighbor¬
ing tribe visited another, the chief of
the latter would make a raid among liis
enemies, and bring back women enough
to make a feast for his visitors. Fifty
and eighty people were served at some
of these feasts. Formerly, when one
sneezed, they said, “May you club
somebody.” Now they say, “Bless
you,” or “May you live long !” Chief¬
tains were distinguished by the hnmbei
of persons they had eaten. Before he
was converted' to Christianity, one ol
these had devoured forty-three of his
fellows. __
Composition on an Egg.
In the hen’s egg the composition of
the albumen (the white of the egg) is :
Water, 88 part; pure albumen, 12;
mucus, 2.7, and salive matter, 0.3, in¬
cluding soda with traces of sulphur ; 80; or,
according to Dr. Thomson, water,
albumen, 15.5 ; mucus, 4.5; asli, 0.475,
Tho yolk consists of a variety of con
stituents : Water, 41.486 ; a form of al¬
bumen called vitelline, 15.76; margarine
potassium and sulphate o po as. ,
0.277; phosphates of ' ime “ d “f S
1 022 animal extracts, 0.4 , and fl 0 . and
; traces of iron, lactre
of coloring matter,
acid, etc,