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ATLANTA, Ok.
Where all the delicacies of the season
ill ha furnished in the best of stylo and
k cheap as any establishment in the city
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huffish ami American Ladies’ Dress.
[Mrs. Scott-Siddons is quotted as bav¬
in g aid: "An American servant will
fe cm her veil in a natty, graceful nothing way
kit an English duchess knows
bout.” Mrs. Siddons will not be charged
ith au over-strained regard for the
^iinkee, or a wide to favor them at the
fxpouse of her the own servant countrywomen. and the duchess In
in- placing simply emphasizing
D contrast she was
truism which was less a fact at that
,
[me than it is at the present hour. For
Huiiong all civilized people ill-dressed, the English and
[omen fire the most
com to lack the natural gifts, the self
cliance and ability of choice and selec¬
tion which are the inborn attributed of
'jBAmerican women. An English nursery
g»of Minay off be against taken a nursery type in in this miniature country of
as a
Htho taste in dress and all that the term
■Revolves ■teri/.oH tho of the differences of the which two nations. charac
women
Bn this country little girls find constant
jBiinlLsfaetiou and congenial employment
dBn lap arranging and adorning their doll’s
parch Left to their own intuitions,
mm\ hampered by little cr no pupilage
their elders, it must be owned that
taste and ingenuity which they dis
■pay BEuglish are Lady often who simply passed wonderful. thirt An of
Ber litt> in her native land, y years
lived and who lias
in this city half of that time, once
paid: “Tho homes of American girls,
ko fui’ns I am familiar with them, are
fcchools of art in dress adornment, and
whether their taste and skill are natural
Igins, or acquired by observation, I do
pot Ro pretend to say, but there is nothing
compare with it in our homes in Eng
lanu Consistent with this admission
is the almost universal tone of the
|rniglish fish our press shores and from of most other travelers who
[English lands. That
provide themselves women study comfort and
[costly adornment with rich fabrics and
in dress is past dis
[pute. KJ'pous A dowager silk, or duchess arrayed in
11 tJl satin or velvet attire,
V 1 oJ :; implement of green gloves
o.nl. / heavy, mv whhons, loose-fitting and shod boots, with is
L‘J stai tly 11 recurring, P lea ®anfc, though it is a con
.picture of taste in
In ,‘Iif f; t? ffie 10 wealthy wearer has classes in idea Eug- of
L th ) of colors, any
tho dmcnmg incongruities any perception of
tout of which tho
I to Etlmil onie m ller costume presents
a TOted ! yo °thing is
’ u seen of it
eeaso ami self-satisfaction of her
W ” r ’ WM,othe remains that.
S ladhii l', 0lIi0! .*»!?• ' nre it Hie also best to dressed be
is re
majority o/,? \ w 11 6 the L with a vast
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rent l£dor eiV 8ex ’ y ield to tho cur-
1 r va ont fashion it ia not a
tbcnaT 18 ^ Lmission »
f or SU a,ul to ult ; they think
’ y ’ 011 occa -
leir individuality, • ,
refuse f«£n m own and
S T°: ,mb 10 the dictate, of
hwtnbi' 1 iodudeatimlI m lvate ot d good milliner. taste, rvhieh Their
! ® beauty, which Mr.
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d a n v d ,, 8U ® cl ® - t ifi doubt
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cesSr ‘‘SiehfhS 1 y ,and becomingly. Their
1 18 tho acclaim of a sue
ToLt K, J (ntn C ° nsummat 9 Post. ed purpose. —New
The V ^ Schoolmaster. e i -
schoolmaster^! The t,n , hed
ft Pl )roac the new
eye. T1 tn a bull-dog glare in his
“ got
cause he W after ™ my v. boy yesterday . , be- .
chair?” ur ;l bve r hornet glued to
your
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was
an
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am hio ,
Xh elmolied.
in'■' lik Hair and blood
,/‘ Elf r ' ™ tS ’J heU the *• dust q T and tei !
him to a Jittio ’ au “ the old man implored
hh Uf flUS 1 8top Poking and take
teeth that ear
ing “ tvw ' a 1 0 J’°u think - about
Yon , ? my warm-
1 “ I hi l° rn° y U du as U ked ust the ri teacher. ht d when
. teach £o home U lve him a tanning N > ai) that 11
hi. ‘
+ f OI to with his
plaints fi’qq ol 1 8tories ? e that me the schoolmaster com
can’t >>
nmref aU( i(beschoolmastermur
the worst « 1 P8bt to tackle the son of
first Nnn ° neof t ibc man in the district
others mil pester me.”
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TOPICS OF THE DAT.
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Bussi a has lost $110,000,000 by the
anti-Jewish movement.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s estate i*
estimated to be worth $100,000.
Petitions for the pardon of Sergeant
Mason contain an aggregate of 550,000
names.
The army-worm is operating in por¬
tions of Illinois doing serious damage
to wheat.
The formal openingof Garfield House,
(or working girls, in London, was a
notable event.
Mr. Gladstone condemns the revised
edition of the New Testament. He does
anything and everything to make tho
Irish dislike him,
Is Snip herd afraid or is the Commit¬
tee on Foreign Relations afraid ? The
investigation into the Peruvian affair is
long-drawn and decidedly dry. '
Number thirteen, to which so much
evil superstition is attached, has been
reclaimed to respectability by the. sur
vival of thirteen of the crew of the
•Teannette expedition.
Prosperous America must give place
to Australia, whose colonies are the
richest, per capita, in the world. Among
tiicfir possessions are 80,000,000 sheep, to
a population of only 3,000,000 souls.
The Supremo Court ol Indiana has
a decision to the effect that
ticket scalpers may sell special
whether they are half fare, or ex¬
or special in any other respect.
The 27tli of June is the day upon
the people of Iowa will vote on the
to their State Constitution
forbidding the sale of all intoxicants.
fight is said to be already waxing
warm.
It does seem strange that the assas¬
sins of Cavendish and Burke cannot be
ferreted out. Perhaps England had
better send for Pinkerton. What they
need over there is a detective that can
detect.
Chicago has sent a petition containing
over 1,500 names to Rev. Moody, now in
England, begging him to return to that
city and hold a series of revival meetings.
Mi\ Moodv can find no better field for
missionary work.
There is one thing about it, Ship
herd is getting himself disliked by Re¬
publicans, and we observe that lie is
denounced as a “lying old fraud” in
many quarters. Some years ago Ship
herd was a popular minister.
We hear of a musical prodigy in
Toronto—a girl, only fourteen years old,
whose playing of the violin is regarded
as wonderful, even by so accomplished a
judge as Remenyi. Her name is Norah
Clench, and she is the child of a violin
maker.
The last report of the Philadelphia
Home for Inebriates says that “ the free
lunch system is responsible for more
drunkards than almost anything else.”
Men will stand round and eat free lunch
until they get so drunk they can’t see.
Take out the free-limch counter.
A news item says “a Burlington (Vt.),
man who got a divorce from his wife, a
while ago, employs her as his hired girl.
She has more money and better clothes
than when she was his wife.” We do
not doubt it at all. If you ever noticed
it, a man invariably gives the hired girl
more money than he does his wife.
Miss Emma Jane Bonner, only daugh
j er 0 f Robert Bonner, the great ad
mirer of fme horses and Proprietor of
the oldest story paper m the world, the
New York Ledger , was married a few
days ago to Mr. Francis Forbes. Emma
i s a cbhd of romance, and will doubtless
now give us now editions in serial form.
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i N A note to the Cincinnati Commer
vial, under date of May 11. Professor
Vennor predicted as follows: “ I expect
a sharp period, with frosts, about the
7th or 8th of June, in Southern sections,
and a second one during the last week of
the month.” Well, we shall see what
we shall see, Lead. but we do hope the man is
Ota
_ It remarked _ , that .. , _ President Arthur
is
U the first President since Buchanan to
attend horse races. General ~ ^ Grant, ,
though very fond of horses, did not at
tend the races even at Long Branch,
during his Presidency. x>ucnanan,
Pierce, Tyler and Yan Buren were very
tend ot horae racing, and attended aU
““
uurmg the ir terms o f. office.
A la™ magazine article on dress re
form says a good tiling :
44 It is the women that the men admire, and
tho clothes for their sakes; but never the
women for the sake of their clothes. No one
ever saw men in rows in front of shop windows
admiring the dresses on stands.”
tr„ui\ortila Husbands show fl i mw thic this pa^to nnraoranh tr>
your wives, but at the same time, express
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”
CONYERS, GA.. FRIDAY JUNE 2, 1882.
a willingness to purchase an occasional
sSz:r?irZi:?“:
people and good for public decency.
The proposition of an Ohio man to take
forty car-loads of people from one section
of the State to witness the execution is
monstrous. The simple fact is, a public
execution would draw no less than a
million people together, and the result
in several particulars might be most
disastrous.
At all events James Gordon Bennett,
proprietor of the New York Herald has
.
done one handsome thing in connection
with the futile and disastrous Jeannette
Arctic Expedition. He has presented to
Mrs. DeLong, the widow of Lieutenant
De Long, who losfhis life in the expedi¬
tion, a check for $50,000. In this' con
uection a cotemporary fittingly remarks
that “if the Lieutenant had died in the
service of the Government his widow
would have received a pension of about
fifty dollars a month. ”
Astronomers in Egypt who viewed
the orb of day during its total eclipse
on the 17th. report a “fine comet ” near
that body. Its position was determined
by photography. The spectroseopio
and ocular observations just before and
after the period of totality gave most
valuable results. The darkening of lines
observed by the French astronomers
indicated a lunar atmosphere. The spec¬
trum of corona was successfully photo¬
graphed for the first time.
Another electric railway, which is the
second there, has just been constructed
in Berlin, and formally opened. It has
a grade of 1 in 30, which is, perhaps the
steepest incline in the country. The
motive power is led to tlie cars by two
thin wire ropes, about twenty-five cen
timetres apart, and attached to the tele¬
graph poles. Those wires are capable
of propelling one small eight-wheeled
carriage. Compared with the fir§t line,
tlis system used in this, while more
complex, secures greater economy in the
use of the current.
The locomotive and one car of a train
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
passed over a little child who was sitting
between the rails a few days ago. Then
the train was stopped, and the conductor
crawled under the car to collect the frag¬
ments. To the astonishment of every¬
body, he presently emerged with the
child in his arms unjured, except for a
slight bruise on tlie forehead, where the
pilot of the locomotive had struck him.
All the trainmen and passengers insisted
on hugging the little fellow before
surrendering him to his father who
stood by.
News from Dallas, Texas, tells a story
that runs up into millions. Two men
have fallen heirs to a fortune of thirty
three million dollars, held in trust for
them by the German Government, and
one of the lucky individuals is M. Bros
shis, Superintendent of the Dallas Car
Factory. The other is Samuel B. Ed
mundson, of Pennsylvania. The latter
is also heir to the property on which the
navy-yard, in Washington City, is built.
It was leased to the Government for
ninety-nine years by his great-grand¬
father, and the lease has just expired.
This is probably the last we shall ever
hear of this fairy tale.
They have a peculiar kind of justice
in Massachusetts. No sooner do we
hear of the discharge of a ruffian who
had carnally assaulted a defenseless
woman whom he had chanced to meet
on the highway, at 1 o’clock in the
morning—the dismissal being upon the
ground that the woman had no business
being out at that hour of the night—
than we learn that a Justice fined a
father $5 and costs for slapping his
fifteen-year-old daughter. The charge
was assault and battery. Although it
does not appear that the girl sustained
any injury, or anything more than felt
the sting of the blow, it was held that
the father overstepped the bounds of
law and order. Thus it appears that in
Massachusetts it is a greater crime for a
fathoi to correct his daughter than for a
ruffi&n to carnally assault the same
person.
A correspondent in the St. Louis
Republican gives the following explana¬
tion of the betrayal of Jesse James by
the Ford Brothers :
One and a half miles east of Richmond,
i 8 t he house of the Ford boys. It is dif
Lault of access ; deep ravines wind’through and
about the farm—just the location plot to hide deep away and
f t -om the haunts of men, and to
damning conspiracy. For two years Mr. How
nQ ^. ^he prince of brigands but was Bob so would near.
The Fords were not neighborly,
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tattle and Bob Ford, it is now almost fully es
tablished, charged Hite with the deed. A quar
rel ensued, and he shot Little through the leg ;
in turn, Ford put a bullet through the bvain of
Hite. Knowing full well that Jesse wc.uld re
taliata for his cousin’s leatb, Little lost no
titue in communicating with the Governor. A
mi dn.ght raid on the Ford Mansion soon after
j by officers of the law failed to bag the game.
The Fords complained at Kansas O’ity or the
unwarrantable proceedings, but were’ quickly
silenced when informed that they had slain and
buried Hite. The secrets of the banditti were
now no longer hidden, and so the Fords felt it
was sauve qui pent. Then the sister, who was
the sole woman of the household, hurried to
Jefferson City and did a tale unfold, and the
fate of Jesse James was sealed. The Fords,
guaranteed immunity, went systematically to
work the capture or death of their chief. With
a plausible story of the treachery of Tittle,
which had placed them in jeopardy at home,
they were received into the family of James.
Then the traitors waited and watched and
struck down the man they dare not capture.
Mrs. May Shannon, who accompanied
Mrs. Sergeant Mason when she went to
see the President in behalf of her bus
band, writes as follows of tlie incidents
attending the interview :
Mrs. Mason seemed to wander along as if
found “through some banquet hall deserted.” Her She
no pleasure in these attractions. )
Bpirit was far away in the prisoner’s cell, and
the burden of her heart’s song, like Grechen’s,
seemed to be,
“ My peace is gone, my heart is sore,
I lind him never, never more.”
the Having sent in our cards; we took a seat in
ing large clouds ante-room by a good fire. Threaten¬
obscured the sun and cast a gloom ;
all seemed dark and cheerless within. We were
quietly waiting for the coining interview, which
would be the harbinger of good or evil to the
sad heart. At the expiration of half an hour
the messenger came in and announced that
“ The President desired to see us.” We were
shown to his private parlor and had to wait
but a few moments when he entered from the
opposite door. The American people can well
be proud of their President for his gentle and
courtly Monarch manners. I doubt if any present
could enter the drawing-room with
such unassuming grace as President Arthur
aid when he came to take by the hand the wife
or the poor soldier. I presented Mrs. Mason
to the President- He shook- hands with her.
luo anxious moment had at last arrived ; her
bhe pent-up broke feelings could no longer be restrained,
forth in sobs : the President looked
on with compassion. When she raised her
eyes she had full faith in him, for his coun
tenauce inspired confidence. She then made a
pathetic appeal for her poor husband’s release
from prison. The President told her that he
appreciated her feelings, that he knew all the
details of the case, that he would bring the
matter before the Cabinet, and that he would
do all in his power. He said she need not dis¬
tress herself to tell him any of the details, and
thized might feel assured that he deeply sympa¬
with her. Ho again shook hands with
her, speaking in the kindest manner.
The Young Writer’s First Production.
Probably every one who has attempted
authorship will confirm Longfellow’s
experience on the appearance of his
first effusion in print. Nothing, he tells
us, which he since published gave him
such exquisite pleasure as he experienced
on opening tlie paper to which he had
timidly sent his manuscript, and to find
it there in actual type, to be read by the
multitude. This feeling comes but once,
but tlie memory of it lasts a lifetime. It
can never ue forgotten. What anticipa¬
tions it arouses—what a sense of im¬
portance it gives ! How little does the
young author suspect the cold indiffer¬
ence with which it is read, possibly not
read, by those who take the paper f As
the song says, “It’s all the world to
him,” and why not all to the world ?
It would be and is cruel to spoil tlie
delightful sensations of initial author¬
ship. They may be false, they certainly
are fleeting, but the enjoyment, while it
lasts, . is an intoxication of delight, as
first pleasant sensations are apt to be.
The hint comes soon enough to the
writer to discover how really unimpor¬
tant the event was. If he persists in
writing he will come to be as indifferent
to liis appearance in type as the world is.
If a newspaper writer, he will weary of
tlie eternal grind, and forget what he
h as written the day before in studying
what to write for the day after.
But no success, either as a newspaper
writer or book-maker, either as poet or
give essayist, however the flattering, will ever
to the author sensation of his
first appearance in print. It is, after it
passes, a lost sensation, no more to be
repeated than love’s young dream, with
freshness and fervor. It is an illusion
too exquisite to be duplicated in one’s ex¬
perience.
It is our advice, then, to young writers,
after they have succeded in getting into
print cherish once, to stop then and there, and
the sensation as long as possible
—that is to say, as long as they can
help it—and not repeat it to satiety, or
until the spirit is jaded, and the writer
ready to cry out, with the Preacher, 44 all
is vanity and vexation of spirit.”— Cin¬
cinnati Commercal.
Inventive Genius West and East.
We have always maintained the super¬
iority of the West over the East in
most of the essentials ; but there is one
branch of progress wherein the East
still takes the lead. In certain lines of
invention the people of Massachusetts
far outstrip the people of Michigan. Up
to a very recent date it has been a sad
drawback to the comfort of prison offi¬
cials in punishing convicts that the latter
could not be kept for any length of time
on tiptoe. No matter how high their
hands were fastened, the ungrateful
wretches would manage somehow, by
stretching then’ arms or some other por¬
tions of their anatomy, to get their heels
on the ground, and thereby defraud their
torturers of lawful enjoyment and the
pleasant emotions excited by the observ¬
ance of human misery.
But the inventive genius of the Yan¬
kee has come to the rescue of the abused
prison official. Some sharp-witted fel¬
low in the Reform School at Westboro,
Massachusetts, hit not long since upon
the simple device of placing sharp
pointed tacks under the heels of con¬
victs when suspended by the wrists.
They are quite willing now to stand on
tiptoe instead of meanly settling back
upon their heels ; and the keepers are
correspondingly happy. A Michigan
man would never have thought of this.
The recent investigation at Ionia showed
that the authorities there were mere
slavish imitators of the authorities in
Sfthe sjSSk« T !S 8 S
convictsupou rotten meat just as the
Eastern torturers ot couvtcts have done
for years. But they hadn t a spark of
) originality. —Detroit Free Press.
|
rp........... 1 welve thousand A SUoveiS and anon y,UUU
spades are turned out every week in the
United States,, and yet the man who
: wants to borrow one won’t believe that
| a single factory is r gpping
Dullness of Knowledge.
The fact is, the world is accumulating
too many materials for knowledge. We
do not recognize for rubbish what is
really rubbish. As each generation
leaves its fragments and postherds be¬
hind it, such will finally be the desper¬
ate conclusion of the learned.— Haw¬
thorne.
This sentiment was arrived at by
Hawthorne thirty years ago just after
he had taken an excursion through the
British Museum. He came out of the
marvelous place bewildered and de¬
pressed. His quick mind had taken in at
a glance the countless objects of knowl¬
edge spread out before it in this museum.
He could see the vast range, but knew
that he could not compass it.
There it was that he felt 4 4 life is short
and art is long.” When he went to his
room after the ramble he wrote in his
Note Book : “It is a hopeless, and to
me, through generally, a depressing business, to
show go an immense, multifarious
like this, glancing at a thousand
things, and conscious of some little titil
lation of mind from them, but really
taking in nothing.” There are minds
one often comes in contact with which
are spacious museums of knowledge.
We say they know everything. Their
minds are of the encyclopsedean order.
Every cranny of their mental storehouse
is stuffed with facts. Tlieir memory is a
scroll which never gets done unrolling.
On and on it comes. We know these
tiresome people who know everything,
and escape them when we can. Who
cares always who to be in the society of per¬
sons quired information? are perpetually exuding ac¬
It is usually the
character of these human knowledge
boxes that they possess little or do orig¬
inality. They must tell us many facts
we did not know, but they are given out
in such a dry, cheerless manner, that one
hears them without receiving them.
Here is where our system of education
has so far been a partial failure. It has
been conducted mainly on the cramming
process. from this Only as it lias broken away
has it been successful.
The mind which has learned to think
will, as Lord Bacon said, always find
plenty of “stuff” on which to exercise
its powers. Very few who know every¬
thing can do anything well. They can
accomplish a feat mechanically; but
they can give it no originality. What¬
ever Sumner they do will be in imitation. Charles
is said to have known so many
things that the immensity of his knowl¬
edge was a burden upon him. When he
eame to speak he hardly knew what to
omit from his great storehouse. He was
a man of genius, and could light up his
words. Webster knew much less than
Sumner, blit his mind was alive and
touched every subject with originality
and new life. A free, active mind tlnit
has been taught to think for itself will
create, but the mind that is dull with too
much knowledge will model and imitate.
—Indianapolis Herald.
The Timber Question.
It is not at all strange that considera
ble anxiety should be manifested as to
where the future supply of lumber shall
be obtained, when tlie great forests of
Michigan, from whence at present the
bulk of the timber is brought, shall have
been depleted. Many experienced within deal
ers think that this will occur ten
or fifteen years, and are already casting
about for a new field whence to draw
their stock. Canada is coming into the
market somewhat, at present mostly with
sycamore lumber, which is made into
packing boxes for plug tobacco, and also
with excellent ship plank. But Canada
has immense forests of pine, spruce, and
hemlock, and the Ottawa, Saguenay, and
other rivers, are the channels by which
Large amounts of lumber annually are
brought to market. Quebec, Toronto,
and Montreal are large depots for lum
ber from the forests of the Dominion,
and some of the stock is sent by water
or rail even to the ship-yards of Maine,
itself a great lumber State.
Buffalo is one of the chiefs of the lum
ber markets of our country, its water
communication with the Michigan and
the upper lake regions especially direction, favor
ing its development in this
There are upwards of sixty-five firms,
wholesale and retail, engaged in the lum
ber business in that city. Planing mills
and box factories are becoming very
numerous, ow’ing to the increased de
mand for manufactured lumber. That
this trade is in a most healthy condition
is proved by the rapidity with which
stock is turned over, as well as the fre
quent advance in prices.
In the manufacturing districts of
Michigan heavy advances have taken
place in almost all the grades of lumber,
In the vicinity of almost all navigable
streams in that section of country all the
best trees have been utilized, conse
quently lumbermen are now compelled
to go farther back for a supply, and the
cost of the pine log from the stump to
the mill has, therefore, been materially
increased.
To look at the immense rafts which
annually make their way down the Pe¬
nobscot, the Kennebec, the Merrimac,
the Connecticut, the Hudson, and the
other principal rivers which draw their
supplies from the New England States, a a
tyro would say that the Eastern States
alone can furnish all the lumber needed
for this continent; but the fact that the
center of the chief supply has gradually
moved west to the lakes, and that a
scarcity is already predicted there, indi¬
cates that in the near future all these
sources will be exhausted, and that we
must draw our supply of this great ar
ricle of commerce from still more distant
parts .—New York Reporter.
A Georgia Dog With the Toothache.
Whoever heard of a dog with the
toothache ? Well, Augusta can boast of
the novelty. The poor old fellow hat
been howling for a week with neuralgia
of the jaw, and when his master, who is
a thoughtful and considerate surgeon as
well as an artist, discovered the cause of
the canine’s grief, he set to work to ex
tract a whole row_ of decayed teeth ir
the dog’s mouth. Now, this may seen
absurd to some very ignorant people,
but it is all true, and the poor dog held
his mouth open and sat perfectly quiet
wliile the teeth were being drawn. And
yet some people think a dog has no 1
sense or appreciation .-—Augusta Newt. I
Illustrated Blackguardism.
Caricature has always been one of the
sharpest weapons of political warfare,
of lravesty, the farcical burlesque, have and all the changes
been used pitilessly
and. mercilessly from time immemorial
both in the interest of political parties
and political . blackguards. When party
lines could not be broken by the heavy
guns of argument or the fierce musketry
fire of attack in front, the caricaturist lias
been sent, like a cavalry rider to the rear,
or like a spy in the garb of a bufioon,
into the enemy’s camp.
Sometimes the work of men like Leech
and Nasthas been more effective than ar¬
gument, and has been employed in as
legitimate away. But the sense of irre¬
sponsibility, the license given to purely
personal spites and prejudices, and the
feeling of reckless jollity that at times in¬
fluence the artist, make the work of even
the best caricaturists uneven.
The temptation of the ordinary scandal¬
monger to go to extremes is limited by
the thought that he will be held responsi¬
ble for every word lie utters. But the
caricaturist labors under no such re¬
straint. Ha works in the dark or be¬
hind a veil, with all the materials at
hand to besmirch and uegi ade. If he be
a small man his powers of ridicule and
his sense of humor are given free rein on
the downward scale. He knows little
about men, less about underlying prin¬
ciples, but, guided by superficial ob¬
servation and popular clamor, he puts
his own littleness or meanness into his
conceits, and is satisfied if the black¬
guards and unscrupulous applaud.
There is no heart in burlesque, and
no conscience in travesty. Unbounded
license is the rule, and things held most
sacred are turned into ridicule without
compunction. The lowest instincts and
the vilest impulses find expression in the
name of burlesque, and th e people are ex¬
pected to forget the rankness of the of¬
fense against decency in their laughs
over absurdities.
The people have excused so many of¬
fenses of this kind that the blackguards
of caricature have found encouragement
for their most disreputable work. Many
foreign artists, without a spark of pa¬
triotism, without any sense of loyalty to
America or Americans, without any re¬
spect for American ideas, with a con¬
tempt and hatred even for the country
and its people, are employed on our il¬
lustrated papers. It is the delight of
these fellows to indulge in such vile con¬
ceits as will give Americans most annoy¬
ance and most pain, and little wonder is
it that journals which make a specialty
of such work have gone down by dozens,
or have been sustained at great outlay of
money. Little wonder is it that under
such circunstances the art that Nast
made respectable has degenerated into a
trade little above that of the blackguard.
—Chicago Inter-Ocean
Phases of the Indian (Question.
The Black Hills country was included
in the treaty of 1868, with the Sioux, by
which the territory “lying between the
northern boundary of Nebraska and the
forty-sixth parallel, and bounded on the
east by the Missouri, and w T est by the
one hundred and fourth degree of west
longitude, together with the reservations
then existing on the east side of the
Missouri, was set apart for the absolute
and undisturbed use and occupation of
the Sioux for their’permanent home.”
In 1874 General Custer’s exploring ex
pedition visited the Blnck Hills, and in
1875 a scientific expedition under Prof
fessor Walter P. Jenney, accompanied
by a military escort under Colonel Richard
I. Dodge, of the United States army,
These expeditions disclosed the fact that
the Black Hills country, rich in mines,
timber, and grazing, w as unused by the
Indians in whose reservation the territory
was situated. After them whites poured
into the country, against the orders of
General Crook, whose troops were too
few in number to keep them out, and
when once in, it was impossible to dis
lodge them. In the fall of 1875 a council
was assembled at Red Cloud Agency to
negotiate the purchase of the country,
but concluded without making any ar
rangement3 with the Indians, who be¬
came restless, depredations followed, the
disaffected left the agencies and joined
in wdiat has become known as the 4 4 Sit
ting Bull movement,” and the war of
1876, led by Crazy Horse and other
Sioux chiefs, resulted in the subduing of
the tribes then on the war-path. In the
meanwhile the Black Hills had been
rapidly settled, rich mines had been
found, towns built, counties organized,
and thousands of people had made homes
in the hills. There have been many
estimates of the number of Indians that
w'ere, in 1700, in what we now know as
the United States, but none are satis
Indeed, even now estimates of
their number vary widely, the census of
1870 placing them at about 350,000,
while others offer estimates which show
that the Indian population is about 200,
000. The more moderate place the Hum
ber in the neighborhood of 275,000 or
280,000.
Of Mr. Longfellow’s method when
Professor of Modern Literature at Har¬
vard, Dr. Edward E. Hale, one of his
pupils, has given this account: “As it
happened, the regular recitation rooms
of the college were all in use, and we
met him in a sort of parlor, carpeted,
hung with pictures, and otherwise hand¬
somely furnished, which was, I believe,
called the “corporation room.” We sat
round a mahogany table, which was re¬
ported to be meant for the dinners of the
trustees, and the whole affair had the as¬
pect of a friendly gathering in a private
house, in which the study of German
was the amusement of the occasion. He
began with familiar ballads, read them
to us, and made us read them to him.
Of course we soon committed them to
memory without meaning to, and 1
think this was probably part of his
theory. learning At the same time by we were His
the paradigms oversight rote. five
regular duty was the of 01
more instructors who were teaching
French, German, Italian, Spanish and
Portuguese to two or three hundred un
der-graduates. We never knew when he
might look in on a recitation and vir
tually conduct it. We were delighted to
have him come. We all knew he was e
poet, and weie proud to have him in the
college, but at the same time we re¬
epected him as a man of affairs.”
$1.50 FER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 22.
HEALTH INTELLIGENCE.
[From Dr. Foote’* Health .Monthly.]
Cheyasse has stated these four essen¬
tials to a baby’s well being: Plenty of
water for the skin, plenty of milk for the
stomach, plenty of fresh air for the
lungs, and plenty of sleep for the brain.
Dk. Firth, of Brooklyn, in giving his
experience as a bald-headed man, tells
how he restored the growth of hair by
persistent use of crude kerosene. And
he has a suspicion that the use of it was
really rheumatio the means of curing a chronic
tendency.
The Governor of Georgia has sanc¬
tioned a law regulating the practice of
medicine, and vetoed a bill legalizing
the dissection of dead bodies. Evidently
he desires that the inhabitants of his
State should get their medical education
and experience elsewhere.
Hr. Unna, of Hamburg, says that the
pigmentary matter which occasionally
blocks up the pores of the face, produc¬
ing black points or “flesh worms,” is
soluble in acids, and he therefore recom¬
mends tlie free use of vinegar and lemon
juice as a local application to soften and
remove them.
The use of the eyes in reading while
riding in cars or wagons has been well
compared to the effort of a person to
walk a slack rope; the strain on the
muscles that assist in vision being as
great would during the jolting of a car, as
be the strain upon the muscles of
the limbs when trying to maintain one’s
balance on a slack or even a tight rope.
Hr. J. Y. Quimby, of Jersey City, has
demonstrated by three case3 that it is
possible to chloroform a person in sleep
without first awakening the sleeper. He,
therefore, concludes that, in the hands
of a skillful criminal, it might become
an effective instrument in the accom
plishment of his nefarious designs.
Professor Jaeger, a German physiol¬
ogist, advises the wearing of undercloth¬
ing made from sheep’s wool. He under¬
takes to show that in our organism there
are certain gaseous, volatile substances
which are continually being liberated in
the acts of breathing and perspiring,
and that one kind arouses feelings of
pleasure, and the other sensations of
dislike. Wool he says attracts the sub¬
stance of pleasure, while clothing made
of plant fiber favors the accumulation of
the offensive substances of dislike.
The British Medical Journal asserts
that the local effect of tobacco on the
mucous membrane of the nose, throat,
and ears is as predisposing to catarrhal
diseases as is inefficient and insufficient
clothing in the case of women—the fact
being that such effect on the mucous
memorane or tne superior portion of the
respiratory tract causes a more perma¬
nent relaxation and congestion than any
other known agent. Therefore, as to¬
bacco depresses the system while it is
producing its pleasurable sensation, and
as it prepares the mucous membrane to
take on catarrhal inflammation from even
slight exposure to cold, the Journal
thinks it should require no further evi¬
dence to show that its use ought to be
discontinued by every catarrhal patient.
The Royal College of Physicians
(England) has “resoluted” to the effect
that its members may hold any theory
they choose in regard to the action of
remedies, and practice as they prefer,
they will only refrain from using
special designation or class name,
as homeopathistor electrician. The
ical Record (New York) regards this
a direct invitation to all dissenters
drop their special designations and
the Royal College.
A Coroner’s the jury in death Philadelphia Fred.
tributes cause of of
Miller to imagination and fear. and He
been bitten by a small dog,
presenting no symptoms of
he died of fear in the belief that he
that much dreaded disease. This is
first case we remember to have seen
such a verdict, but don’t doubt that
similar verdict ought to have been
dered in many cases which have
certified as true hydrophobia.
Why People Are so Short-Lited.
The Concord School of
having requested the assistance of
Lime Kiln Club in solving the
drum of why the people of this age
not live as long as those of earliy _ days,
the matter was given to the
on Judiciary toMnvestigate. They
express a readiness to report, as
4 4 Dis committee had no trouble to
plenty of reasons b’arin’ on the
I11 de fust place, de taxes am so high
no man kin afford to lib over a
y’ars. In olden days a man could
his wife to git ’long away if she
please him. In dis age he has to
by her ’an fight it out. Dis has an
ence to make him sigh for a change
de evergreen shores. None ob dose
chaps had a second shirt to his back, an
none dreamed of puttin’ on style. coat-tails,
about you in dis aige an’ see de
sleeve buttons, diamond pins, an’
gewgaws which bow down a man s
in sorrow to de grave ! In de time of
prophets dar was no means of scootin
aroun’ de kentry an’ takin’ in de sights.
In York, dis Washington, aige, arter a man Chicago, has bm^to an a
odder places, he am up a stump for a
change of scenery, an’ he natterly
to be pusiiin’ on to’rds de pearly dat gates.
Dis committee am ob de opinyun of
modern man who reaches de aige
hundred y’ars ought to be perfectly de
fied to hand up his ticket to
tor. He gits more trottin’ horse
s lore clothes—more alligator butes
more picnics—more ice cream an oy
ters, an’ whateber else goes to
human natur’ smile all ober in a
clay in dat little time dan Methusaler
in all his nine hundred y’ars ob life.
we’ll eber pray.” instructed to
The Secretary report was and forward
pare a verbatim
same to Concord, together with the
that the school and the club would
together in the greatest harmony
the long evening period.— Detroit
Press.
In 1878 the importation of ostrich
feathers into New York amounted m
value to $2,475,464; in 1879 to 1881
454 ; in 1880 to $4,3-54,547, and m
to $5,493,024,