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* AI-L AT THE
RAILROAD RESTAURANT.
•'Under the Car Shed,)
ATLANTA, OA.
Where all the delicacies of the season
v ill be furnisqed in the best of style and
is cheap as any establishment in the city
W Meals furnished at allbours of the
dir. BALLARD & DURAND. unej.2
Protection for the Hands.
It hands is exceedingly swollen disagreeable to havo
the rough, and sore, es
penally if one wishes to write cr sew;
yet I never could wear gloves success
tally about my house-work, as many
house-keepers rough work do. Even when doing
col J, in which mittens or
gloves inyself seem indispensable, them I often find
casting myself impatiently aside
as 1 murmur to the time-worn
proverb clumsy about and a cat in the in gloves. Neither They
seem way.
can I spare my hands by use of tho
“dish mop” so lauded by an oc asional
pen. lorce So may long-continued possibly be owing habit to that. the I
ran not wasli my dishes satisfaetori’v
with other than a linen or other soli.
easily wrung anil easily-kept clean dish¬
cloth.
There are a few tasks in whi ii I find
mittens or gloves a veritable neccssil
anil one £ these is the black’ ng of
stoves. Qot only is the blacking ' itsel
(liiiie’lt to re mo c, but it actually seems
tojioison the flesh. Old. cast-off; g to es
Pill not answer, as they are always
more or less out at the 1 nger eiuli, as
well as short in the wrist. Glo es or
mittens about as good as any for this
purpose may be made of coarse, tliiek
lotion elo.h; or camon tiannel may be
wed, but this does not wash so easil jasuy.
They should be made to fit the hands
comfortably, well with long wrist Th o ome
up over the sleeves. 'L'lius pre
pared, thick with a big apron from ha.r, top to brush toe,
a turban over your a
for putting on the blacking, and another
long-handled blacking one is for polishing, (hemostdis- this
of stoves not
azreeable work in the world. Still, it
is better to turn it over to the men of
your lie seh >'d if you can. They will
do it in half the time, and, the proba¬
bilities are, with more satisfactory re¬
sults.
Another thing for wh'eh mittens or
gloves clothes are important is the hanging weatli out. 1
of in cold or frosty cr,
The. will save much aching of ling* ers.
if not, indeed, some colds and s ore
throats also. A pair should' be kept ex¬
clusively for this purpose, for if allowed
to be used in other ways they are sure
when wanted to be so so led as to snot
and blacken the clot es. If you can
knit or crochet, gl oes or mittens o fine
white yarn are 1 err desirable, though real a
pair made either of fine canton or
flannel will answer every purpose, The
scams should be stitched on the ms
chine; then pressed op- en, and “cat
stitched” down by hand.
Rat most important of all are gloves
pr mittens for handling wood and keep¬
ing winter fires, and°especially chunks when
stoves are used for burning or
big wood, which often has to go in at
the top. If the hands are at all delicate
be or sensitive they will, unless protected, only
from continually rough and rough sore, wood, not but
contact with the
also from the action of the undue heat
upon the ile3h. Mittens of yarn, crane
woolen material, scorch too easily and
are not suitabl Alittens of stout can
ton flannel will answer, though a pair
of small-sized men’s gloves of some soft,
stout leather, with deepgauntlet wrists,
are best. The expense is not great, and
they will more than pay for themselves
>n one season, if you have many tires to
build, in the greater comfortabl eness
and smoothness of your hands.— Cor.
Country (Jentleman.
Proverbs for These Days.
Beware of false prophets and patent
toothache drops. and
Look not upon the horse race ;
Monkey with the pool seller, for it is not
wise to bet unless you can win.
Try not to guy the stranger who
so ournetli in thy land and seemeth
Meek and sad: for of such are three-card
Monte men made. fire
A wise woman will not light the
with kerosene, but vvill invite the servant
girl to whom she owes three months’
wages to do the same. right
If a man smites thee on the
cheek, turn also to him thy left cheek,
and l peradventure thou canst with g re at
ease plant a kick that will cause him to
become discouraged and repent of his
foil TV*
The young man who drinketh too
copiously of tire-water and triethto “run
a town,” will surely come to grief, hath
when in the fullness of time he
everlastingly hammered the stubborn
limestone. school
Experience thorough, is a tutWfree-but high-grade in
course
cidental expenses enormous. himself,
The foolish man sayeth to empty
“I blow m the muzzle of this
? nn,” and the wise coroner will say m
his report: “Accidentally Mowed to
the hereafter Detroit Free Dress.
The Examiner
the fallow field
.
pmSmpSSS. S 5 SSS 5 S 3 ^r
1 but a fallow field;
«HSE 2 ESEL
fSjjp
Ami as one in a <trenttl 1 seem To f 4f
h K ram P thcil ' w ‘™Lv«m mo golden
Th' Our iwbon mother eve^nJngSeyowpraiwte’l Nature Is kind to oud.
And 1 am beloved bv bird me.
And never child mid bee.
nut turns a that passes by
upon me a grateful eye.
Over my head the skies arc blue;
I nave my share of the rain and d-w;
J 'V linsk hen the like Ions you brisrtat in tho days summer sun by
Ana calm as yours is pass, repose,* one one,
Wrapped my sweet
in the warmth of the winter snows.
res
ri °fi 1 8 - ripening wheat,
Which with the violet's breath is sweet.
Which is red with the clover bloom,
Or which for the wild sweet-fern makes room.
L s less under the summer shy
Year after year men say l lie.
Little they know what strength of mlno 1
j Little give the}- totho know trailing how blackberry the wild vine;
Or how life-blood (lushes grap! g rows,
my throse.
Little th-y think o r the cups I (til
For tho m 89 >s crcop ng under the hill
Little they t ink of the least I spread
i-or the wild wee o,reaturos that must bo t foil;
Squirrel and I uttorfly, bird and bee,
Aud tho creeping things that n o eye raiy see.
Lord of the harvest, Thou dos t know
How the su turners and winters go.
Never a ship sails east or west
Laden with treasures at my behost,
Yet my being th ills to the voice of God
When I give my gold to the goldon-rod.
—Julia C. It. Dorr in Hamer's d aja.inc.
WHY QUIMBY SWORE OFF.
Jack Ctfimby awoke with a bad head¬
ache. This was no new sensation to
Air. Quimby. It was old as the eternal
hills, for . ack was proportionate a bibulous soul, and
Ills head was not to his
inclination for strong waters. He loved
drink, not for its own sake, but for the
mad merriment the bowl anecdote, provoked, tho the
song, the est. and the
maudlin fraternal embrace, and the
pledges occupied of everlasting friendship, in He
a responsible despite position deep a
Front street o : ce—tor his
and insatiable thirst, Quimby was an
excellent man o f business.
“1 look,” said Air. Quimby,-as he rue
full Jy surveyed his crimson countenance
in a hand-glass "I look like abiled owl.
Or the last run of shad. Or tho break¬
ing up of a hard win'er. This won’t
do; I’l 1 ha e to swear off, or the cold
and silent grave wdl soon claim this
manly orm for its own,” and Jack’s
oyes suffused with tears, for the fum -s
of the last dissipated. round of night-caps were by j j
no means
"There never was a better Christian i
ruined by drink than tile undersigned,” his lit j
he continued, and then, as eves ;
on a bottle on the bureau, he said, witii
a deep sigh of giatjtude: “Thank
Heaven, there is a snifter- to brace up
on .”
Alr. Quimby’s toilet was slow and
painful this morning- He looked at the
cold water with a shudder, but finally
worked himself up to the washing point. collar
He was a long time in getting his
buttoned, he dared not shave, though
he usually performed that office every
day, and he marked with agroan that a
ne'w pimple had taken its place on his
fo eheadf
“Clearly,” said Quimby, “I must
swear off. There are only five days and left
of December. Then the new year
piety,” and much consoled by the self
promised reform, lie left his room to
make a feeble apology for a breakfast.
A few hours later and Air. Quimby was
himself again. It hail taken much arti¬
ficial aid to bring his restoration about,
but Mr. Quimby played tlic t good
Samaritan to himself with the lllOS t lib
eral chesrieiness. “A hair of the dog, ’
was one of his most cherished maxims.
The trouble was that he boga n with I he
hair, and usually concluded with the
W '‘‘ > If,” he often remarked to his con¬
fidants, “I could keep cold sober for
twenty-four hours together, much trouble i uo in
think I wo dd find
swearing off.” And then he d recite
“The Vagabonds” with tears stream¬
ing down nis cheeks, and dwell with in¬
finite pat thos on the lines: featr
* You pho aid have seen these classic
Despite his potations he was hand¬
and the burning libel part of the
some, he concerned, was
poem, so far as was
purely imaginary* *
I^waT 'Two young and ■ p r„%!tornia1treeL
UrLrtx* riotottob Hill but near atmosphere enough
Ihe aristocratic blonde,
of that locality. One, a was
making a mouehoir_ case for a No
**
‘^flannoi imagine how you endure
hemusfexfston “He never*comes^’ear^e without^ re-,
loves, andcinuamom
st-angely, S and one night he began mid- a
song, and buist out crying in the
die of it Bob had to take him into
the hall. He could hardly wait Bob
nissssffiAj: ifsoSly string
Jack th-mr affects him. Jack that is a the dear > leg* lei
"Perhaos so” rejoined her friend,
-utit must“toke ajortune^to kitep
downtown°tomatchthat natty little £nd
wth one of those
for-your-mro Eessm Monruisinpj^ skipped away.
change, lhe curl of
Alice pu ^ t i c ally. Then
the J, andand ci fell
she sighed put her "ora " Jack
mto a fit ot deyecteu m &
error ceases to be dangerous while tRuTH is left free to combat it."
CONYERS. GA„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Id. 1833.
does dfihk horribly,” she said; “1 1 wish
I Was not so fond' Of him.” i\ hen, re>
ptmtantly, hjr Itself: her "That ivdmah’s loyally assert
could is. I mean ] wish I
cure him. Yet he has so often
promised me to swear off, as he calls it;
hut 1 tear swear o.T and swear on are
all the same to poor Jack. I am nm
toatfymg nm-r a tearful him. risk, But what they tell ine, in
not can I do? 1
can d. give him up. 1 would not if I
con And I can not reform him."
Anil Alice, in true feminine fashion, be¬
gan to cry.
“Tears, Idle tears, 1 know not what
ye mean,’’ cried a merry voii ce in her
ear. and a tall, manly young fellow
caught heartily away her hands,‘and laughed
at her look of distress. “II ow
now, eoz,” lie said soothingly, ‘ what
has calls gone this wrong? Are there' to be no
year? Does the stern papa
legislate that the basket shall be hung
on the outer wall, and no beau allowe 1
to taste our cake and wine? Out with it.
Tell me all, and by yonder drowsy po¬
liceman on the corner, I swear to right
our wrongs.” Oh,
all “ about Charley,” Jack. You said his cousin, “it is
know his irregular
habits—that’s what you men ca 11 it, i
believe. 1 must make him stop drinking.
Charley, dear, advice.” you are a man; do give
me some
“You Charley grow grave in a moment. “We
are right, heads Alice," he said.
Jack must Quimby. put our And if togetl ier to sake save
lor your
alone, dear girl, I shall sit awake all
night Give thinking twelve how hours it to can concoct be done.
me some
scheme that shall bring Jack out of the
mire, and make his fre nont -swear-oils’
of some permanent value. Now, don’t
fret any more. Finish that pretty thing
and semi it to him. X must away to
seek counsel. Farewell, and -joy be
with you.” And he rushed away in
time of (leat to h spring mutilation. on a dummy at the risk
or
“If it can be done, Charley will do
it,” said Alice, cheerfu ly. ‘‘O Jack,
Jack, if you could but understand how
much trouble you are giving us.”
J ack Quimby saw the old year cut
and the new year in according to the
usual fashion of such ceremonies. And
he awoke with the same old head, only
intensilied by deeper and more varied
potations. While he was deliberating
whether it was worth while gett ng up
at all or not, a knock came at his door,
immediately followed by dressed a couple of
young fellows, faultlessly in the
regulation visiting Jack! costume. You’re nice
•‘Come, come, a
fellow for a calling chnm. Over forty
v'sits to make to-day, and you not up
yet,” and they dragged the r.nfortu nate
roysterer from his bed and watched llis
hurried efforts at dressing with upvoar
ious mirth.
"Deuce take you both,” said Jack;
“ didn’t you bring an eye-opener to help
a fellow out?” The eye-opener w s
produced,in the shape of a p.o -.'kot-llu
and under its cheering iufll uenec Ju ■
Quimby was soon ready for the road,
We shall not follow him to the various
houses he favored with his presence. He,
was conse cutions about drinking individually the
health of h s fair hostesses,
and collectively, and it was quite late
in tho evening before tlio (. nimby car
riage halted before anxiously Judge Benton s
door. Alice had been expept
ing him ail day, but when a gusli of
cloves preceded his entrance her heart
sank within her. Jack felt the impor- his
tance of a so or appearance, and
bow was cold, almost stern, aud full of
the most wish preternatural Miss Benton, gravity, tlieconi
“I you.
pliments of the season.” lie said, in
slow and deliberate accents, there
was not a solitary "r” in this sentence,
for Mr. 1 .nimby knew from past exper
ienee the danger surrounding that ra so
nant at this stage delighted of the proceedings. look
“J. dge, I am to see you
ing so well,” an I this time the bow wrs
directed to a stiff', high-backed chair,
an heir-loom in the Fenton family. silly,
“Sit down, Jack, and don’t he
whispered Alice, a-ter greeting h's
friends. “Ob. you wicked boy! wli t's
the matter with your eves? And y
necktie has slipped up under your ear.
How your gloves are stained with clar
et!”
Mr. Quimby, with a pronpun ed hic¬
cough. “ ‘ And he qua ed off the cold,
bla^k wine’—but excuse me. am 1 mis¬
taken in supposing tli it you asked me
for a song?” do be Jack, and non , ,, t
“Now, pushed quiet, casy-chair to¬
sing,” and she an who sank
ward her demoralized visitor, declared
into it with a deep gro tn, and
in a sepulcl lral voice that if her lather,
the Judge, would step th s wav, lie
should 1 ke to make his will, as he felt
.
the ch li of (lie tomb stealing over him,
and dwelt in the shadow of the dark
ann-el’s wings. Half an hour later Air.
Qiumby was supported to his c-arr age.
and Alice registered a solemn vow that
unless her cousin’s plan was conclusive¬
ly and permanently effective, she won.d
never be Airs. f. uimbv, if she had to
“ontoem^^Mn Quimby’s together calls.
half a dozen young fellows sat
in the private rooms ot a well-known
re tamant. Alice lu-nton s cousin "•«
chnjrmam .. we nmst all of
^ed hu^and ^^^"tffifrtakerf’rom
borrowed
whom^hecoln by
termmed Pf ; t [,e sh ape J of heavy
country for ress e»s n “
damages. Ihe cilice groui U1 nore -
be ^ se ' ira) agre-d, and Charley
, ors
the ii f tbem^eeny ^ Titu
a 0 n ih' Von to
, a serious matter, as tendm e
j iMk^b^M., said Elmo ro
a ud
never dance at Alice Benton■
^.ed.” wedding, so far as .'a--!: Qmm*” iso they
Aud the - all swore
i do their level \ ■ Mi*
I ftwas a bold , lan. but among
Quimby’s many failings they Vnew that
^
forgetfulness Was oho of the mo t
pi-omitleht, and that he seldom remom
be red in the morning the occurrences
that When took Jack place Quimby over night. awoke * the *
on
second day of the year he had a vaguo
idea that lie was on the threshold o;
spontaneous combustion, “Never,” he
groaned, “were my ’ eoppei rs so in
lernally hot before. If 1 do D0 t i° in
nperance lost man.” legion ore ,, the day . is
over, reflections l am a Air. Quimby Despite dressed these
him¬
self, and abler a good round of stiff
cocktails, walked to his office aud
into the regular business groove.
"Great, bcott, Quimby!” said one of
the clerks, “what a head you’ve got on
you i. nell, you must have been going
the pace, ^esterda}'. I say, old man,
ought to blv get to bed just as soon as
poss can. ’ But Quimby
vied at iho junior, and went on add
up figures and as if he lelt as fresh as the
morning, even tried a popular air
in a subdued whistle to prove to the
crowd that the preceding day had been
one ot undisturbed virtue.
he "Quimby "I said the senior partner of
firm. want that invoice made out
oy ten o clock.
"All right, sir; am at work on it
D0 ^;
“Somebody , , for Mr. Qwmbv. ~ . . ,,
you.
cried the messenger boy, bursting into
the private office.
“-howhira in,” said Quimby. A tall,
gaunt individual followed the hoy, and
fixing a cha stony glance on Jack, took a
vacant r.
"Of course you know who I am. Air.
Qumby? “I'm blessed ’ if I do,” replied Jack,
after a close life scrutiny; “never remember.” saw you
before in my that I can
“My name,” said the visitor, “.'s
opius Brown, and I have brought
you the coffin you ordered last evening.
If you show me to the deceased. Air.
Quimby, I will arrange everything with¬
out marked further delay. 1 had believe you ro
the corpse already been
two days on looked ice.” his and
Quimby at visitor,
then darted to the window, Sure
enough, there stood a black wagon out¬
side the door.
“My dear sir,” lie said, “there is 110
body dead in this house. This is a busi¬
ness house, and you are quite mis¬
taken about the address. 1 never or¬
dered a coffin from you. I’ve got no
one to bury, and—and it strikes me,”
added Jack, growing desperate, “that
you are altogether in error right — in in fact,
that mind.” you are not quite youi
“ s not your name John Quimby?” heav¬
“It is; I ni Quimby; but, undertaker.” great
ens, 1 have no use for an
Then why," “why said did Brown, in an last ex
c ted voice, you come
night to my establishment and ring tho
night bull? Why dul you tell the me to
bring along, the first thing in morn¬
ing. the nobbiest casket in the shop?
Ho you think this is fair treatment for
a decent undertaker. Mr. Quimby? Do
you think--”
“l’or the Lord’s sako, be quiet,” dollars
gasped Jack. “Here are five
for a New Year’s present. Say no aud more I
about it. Take your casket back,
will call on you this afternoon and
sque are up - the balance. when Don’t-you spoke see
that 1 was not myself interment? I Now. to
you about tha t go
away like a goad follow,” and Jack
pu shed Air. 1 Irown out, and sat down
again to his invoices with a heavy
heart
“How full I must have been,” he
muttered. “To order a coffin; why.
that’s the worst I ever did. I wish 1
could remember something about what
happened after I left Benton's. But I
can’t; ’tis no use; Tin" a wretched
swine, and not long for this world.
I’m” —
“ Gentleman wants to see Mr. Quim
by,” shrieked the messenger.
“Don’t disturb yourself, Mr. Qnim
by,” cried a short, stout man, with a
bull neck. “Jus- ten-thirty. Come to
give 3 ’ou your .esson as per contract,”
and swinging a sack from his back, ho
took on t a set of boxin ig-gloves, amt
smiled complacently at t lie astonis bed
Quimby. the dickens doing
* ‘What are you
here?” ejaculated that individual, as
soon as he recovered his breath.
“Your boxing-lesson, Mr. Quimby.
Contract drawn up, sir, la-t Elmore, night.
Signed in the pre scnce of Mr.
Hours from ten U o twelve every day. And at
this office. See for • Jack yourself.”
the pugil st handed a paper on
which his own signature appe ared, w 111
Elmore and several others as witnesses.
to an agreement between Sam Slogem
of the first part, and John Quimby, of
the second part, wherein it was agreed said
that said Slogem should instruct
Cu’mby in the manly art of self-de¬
fense. between the hours of ten and
twelve at his Front street office, at $3.50
a lesson. .. said ., Quimby; _ . .
“ Here’s five dollars,
“take it for your trouble, Mr. Slogem,
and come about the latter end of i
week.” And as the pugilist pm
gloves away and walked on Jack clasped
his hands about his bead and fell into a
train of serious thought. said, “but
"I’ve ^ been off,” lie never and
^ M j wag yesterday. A coffin
boxinglessons-where the deuce could
lha b n n ?r ? ’
Ut me im st see him! Curse
dr™} toaulS the cowardly I seoun- let
He my. wife! say
“dThe^cuffro were outside MrVifim
^“Impossible, sir, impossible. Mr.
This was quite enough for Jack. He
f e it a cold chill all over, and, seizing Ins
ca ne and hat, shot down a sideentran CO.
“ Where are you going, Mr. Qmm
vs*Cr co^nsTand b^n^ov^^nd
insulted
wives. I m crazy—plum crazy. Out
sorano-into a hack, and fell back on
the ^at in a condition of complete ex
ic.' - B*" 1 ®" w« «« i"d™ce toWd John
Q of her
Dbv.^acK, jack, how no pale you arc. and
^ 0 x
rKimed a c Mr Zw, Quimby made her a
very numm and cast on her a
glance full of the most imploring penl
teuce.
-■ Alice,” lie said, “do you.remember
New Year's day?” 1
" Of course do.”
“I called onyo.i, 1, Alice.” Alice.
“Certainly yon did. Jack; and sang a
son ng, too. 1 'on't y 011 remember?”
“ Remember: r yes, yes. quite well—at least,
I think I do. But after that, Alice, aft
or that that” ->
—
.
“Come, Jack, don't look so horror
stricken. What occurred after t hat ?”
“ Heaven atone knows. I only hundred know
about half, and there must be a
precincts yet to hear from. I went to
an undertaker and ordered a coffin; tin; 1 1
invited invited a bruiser t > cull at my ollico
during business hours anil spar with me;
I insulted somebody’s wife; I borrowed
money from every one in town, and
thereWere thirty-two creditors wait ng
to see me in the hall yesterday; 1 have
sev0 „ „‘ , )a ; rs of boots making for me in
v . irio , arts of the town; 1 have bought
land clothfis shil)s ' in co-partnerships, fl Alice. I find g that, ain,
KU ns „ ic t,
begging ?g your pardon. Satan has got
su a mortgage on me that he look
possession 0 f this poor carcass on Now
Year’s night, and I have come to swear
c ff. onco and forever ”
‘ On what will you swear, Jack?
>r £ m . r i n » ‘'^kn this . is a serious matter,
’
novor iowledg d I cforo that
, necessity existed. Shall I get tho
1
“ I’ll swear on your Ups. sweetheart.”
said Mr, Quimby, gallantly, and “ft’s right high
lustily did I 10 ta 0 tho oath,
time, darling,” he continued, “when a
man mistakes an un terta or shop for a
saloon—it’s high time to turn over a
new leaf.”
And Charley the Elmore was Quimby’s
best man at weaiun , but from that
day to this Jack never suspected that
ho was the victim of a reformatory con¬
spiracy. Argonaut.
Human SncHfiees In Greece.
The tourist among the temples would
find that, e eii where human sacrifices
were disused, they had once been
customary, and ceremonies existed precisely by
way ot commutation. This is
what we find in Vedic religion, in which
the empty form of sacrificing a man of was the
gone through, and the origin god
u orlil was traced to fragments of a
sacrificed by gods. In Sparta was an
altar of Artemis Orthia and a wooden
image of great rudeness aud antiquity, though
so rude, indeed, that Pausanius,
accustomed to Greek fetish-stones,
tho iglit it must le of barbaric origin. of
The story was that certain sacrificing people tho
different toons, when at
altar, were seiz d with frenzy and slo.v
caoli other. The oracle commanded that
the altar should be sprinkled with
liiimai 'cli Wood. Men were there¬
fore chosen by lot to bo saori
fic. d, till Lycurgus commuted tho
offering, and sprinkled the altar with
the blood of bn toys who w wore Hogged
before the go oddess The priestess during
holds the statue and of the goddess of tho hoys
the flogging, if any are
but lightly 1 scourged the inw ige becomes
too h eavv for her t o bear. Those rites
are on a par with the initiatory Mandans cere¬ and
monies of Hottentots,
Austral an natives. They lasted till the
time of Fausanias, and perhaps we may
some day find the rude figure of tho
goddess' shrub into which which was it held thrust. upright At by l a- a
was
tr e was a temple of Artemis, called
“ the Implacable,” and to her it had
been customary to sacrifice transcendent yearly a
youth and maiden of
beauty. In Fausanias’s time the human
sacrifice was commuted. He himself
beheld the strange sp eetaole of living
beasts and birds being driven into tho
fire to Aitemis, and ha I seen bears
refuse t > face tlio fire and rush back
anion n the ministranls. But there was no
record that any one o had ever been hurt
by tiie wild beasts on these sacred occa
s ons. Tlio bear was a beast closely
connected with Artemis, and there is
even reason to suppose she-bearin that the the goddess
had herself been a d deal morn¬
ing of time. There is a go of
mystic speculation about tl 10 idea of
motherhood as symbolized in the she
bear in Baehofen’s bur Baer in den lb -
Hgionen ties AUerthunu. But, as n all
savage religions, beasts were the first
gods of which we find a trace, and as
they slowly develop in anthropomorphic regard he
beings, it seems simpler survivals to period i
bear s of Artemis as or a
of barbarous thought. Among tho
Thespians, Zeus at one time demanded
that human sacrifices should be offered
to a “dragon.” This legend, probably like refers the
sacrifice of Andromeda,
to some such custom as that which of¬
fers human victims to sacred .-barks on
the African coast .—Saturday Review.
An Intelligent Wolf or a Lie,
A stran go story is related by some
persons who reside near Lemoore. It
is vouched for by several parties of
known veracity. It relates to > the fore
sbriit and invention manifested by a
large wolf that infests that district. The
parties in question had been missing
poultry for some time. The decimation
bad proceeded to that extent it aroused
to activity the defensive faculty of the
poultry owners. While one of them, a
Mr. Stark Hill, was looking about for
some traces of the depredator lie came
across a duck that had been raised by
\V. II. Massmeyer. It* bead was all
that was i isible. '1'hc body had been
burled with ihe wings spread out, and
tho ground had been tramped down.
The duck was still alive although it had
been missing for three days, it is evi¬
dent that the wolf had Liken this plan
to sup; ly its future wants, and had
managed to keep the fowl alive so that
it wo old not spoil before he should want
it. Th us, it is evi 'ent that animals
think a nd reason and manifest some of
the faculties usually supposed to be the
exclusive prerogative of the animal
man. — Tulare (Cal.) Times.
girls should play billiards. Ihere s a
^ h ^' n Reason'?or excluding the
^^Ex-Chietolustice Pennsyfvania, recently retiredfrom Stars wood, the of
state supreme Bench, afterthirty-seven enough
seVvice, feels vigorous for pri\ate
vet to ojien a law office prae
iice.
Victoria.
From Tort Townsend it is a three
hour’s run, across the Straits of De
Fuca, to Victoria on Vancouver’s Isl¬
and; and here, at one's first stop, he
realizes that ho is on British soil. It is
strange that two peoples speaking the
same language, holding in the main the
same or similar beliefs, can have in their
daily living do so the utterly Americans dissimilar and the atmos¬ En¬
pheres as 'Ill's sharp contrast nowhere
glish. vividly than in can goingfrom
be more seen Vancouver’s
Washington Territory to which would
Island. isnu Victoria is a town
well repay a careful study', Even in the
most cursory glances at it, one sees
s mptoms of reticent life, a flavor of
m story and leisure, and backgrounds hereditary of
traditionary such dignity might and
squalor, down the whole as one Pacific coast, go from up San
Diego to Portland, and not find. When
Victoria is, as it is sure to become,
soonoror later, a wide-known summer¬
ing place, no doubt its by-ways and
highways, its by-gone ways and days,
will, prove mines ! S of treasure tc
the imagination o f some dreaming
stori-'eller. The business par. of the
town, if one speaking may bo pavdouod of its sleepy su li streets, a mis¬
nomer in
is ttibbishy and littered. The I uildingi
shabby, unadorne I, with no pretense
of dos des'gu or harmonv. They re i?ine)
one of the inferior porti ns of second
class com meroial towns in England, sh awl
the men a Mid women in the ops. Oil
doorsteps and in a 1 ley-way s look as it
they might have just st i 01110 from Hull.
But once outside this part of the town,
all is changed: meadow delightful, picturesque full ol
lanes; great bowlde spaces old
oaks; knols of mossy rs;
(roes swatl lied in ivy; cottages In tried
in roses and h no ,-suckle; c nnfortablo table
SOS, with lawns and hedges, sun-dials
and quaint iveather-v ines; castlo-likc
houses of stone, with lodges and complete ligh
walls and drive-ways; and, to
tho picture, sauntering down tho lanes,
or driving at st ;telv paces along the par
feet re ads nonchalant men anil leisurely
wo-nen, whose n imbalance and leisure
could not be out don 0 or outstarod in
Hyde Park.
At every turn Is a new view of (he
sea, sea, or or a a sud suu eii en glimi glinil so so of of some some half* half
hidden hidden inlet inlet or or bay. bav. Those Those bursts bursts and and
surprises of beautiful bits of water are
the Hie greatest greatest charm 1 narm of the pla e. Driv
iug westward from the town one has
tho superb erb Royal Royal Roads li harbor on the
left for miles; then, turning to the
right, through woods that meet o or
head, past fields full of tossing fringes
of brakes an I till kefs of spire a twenty
feet high, he comes suddenly on
another exquisite land-locked, unsus
pecto I harbor—the Esquimau)! hamlet. Skirting harbor,
with its own little
around this, and boaring book toward
the town again, b v a road farther in¬
land, lie finds that to reach the town he
must cross inlet after inlet. Woo led,
dark, silent, amber-colore I, they are n
very para iise for lovers of rowi ng; 01
for lovers of wooing, either, wo
tlio iglit, as we came again and again
on a tiny craft, in which two 1 at with
idlo oars At other times, as we wore
crossing some picturesque stone bridge, living,
a pleasure barge, with maidens gay Hags singing,
and young men and
would slmot out from under it, and dis
appear around a leafy corner. •From
every higher ground wo could see tho
majestic wall of tho Olympic day will range
rising in the south. The como
when some painter will win tamo fot
himself by painiing this rang of e as seen
Irom Victoria; a solid wall turquoise
blue, with its sky-line fretted and tur
retied in silver snow, rising abrupt and
perpendicular out of a dark green and
purple sea. I do not know any mount¬
ain range so beautiful or so white grandly mists, set.
Often its base is if wrapped in crystallized
which look as they wore
in ripples and ridges, like a field of ice
floes. Rising out of these, the blue
wall and sno wy summits seem lifted in¬
to the skies: to have no connection with
ea th except by tho ice-tloc bolt.— Al¬
alnlic Monthly.
A Comedy of Errors.
A ludicrous incident recently took
place in Liverpool. There are two
broth rs who parted many going years to Amer- ago
when boys, one of them
I. a to seek his fortune and the other
remaining in Liverpool to make it.
They have both been eminently success
the brother in England. The time of
the visit wus settled by correspondence, English
and the American set sail. The
man is a notorious wag, and arranged
that an acquaintance should meet the
American ash's brother and conduct
w.,om“ Ss »SS» O' -hip »|»r
senate him for a few hours. The ac
quaintai.ee entered into the spirit of
the ioke and when the vessel arrived
at Liverpool was loun.l by the person
atorof the English brother and driven
to the hotel. The real American broth
sstnrz w&ara
BLfJsrsfJSS-rsa:
greeted each other; and then, as they
sonated them, ami wboweie now, a-8
sisfiaria*iy-Ks S&ti rsrsttsss
other when they met. The first pa r of
brothers hurried up to their parlor, and
after the situation had been explained
all around, the comedy of old-fashioned errors was
pleasantly ended by an
English d inner —London Trut h.
—The Passat willow will grow well
around the mili-ponds and along the
margins of the water-courses. It it an
article which ij ai ways saiabio, and
should be made to take the place of the
unsightly briars and bushes that often
prove so troublesome in such places.—
Exchange.
$1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 3.
WIT AND WISDOM.
—Tf you are willing to work like the
ant, and to persevere like the spider,
your success in life is certain.— N. Y.
Herald.
—Every flower about the house certi¬
fies to the refinement of somebody.
Every tells of vine, love and climbing joy. and blossoming.
. —Many with a truth, professional thief may well
claim, that he has been
brought up—that is to say, brought up
for trial. The bringing up was all right,
but had he been right lie would never
have been brought up.
— “Oh, dear!” oxclaimed Mrs. Fen
derson, when slie road of the disaster
of the City of Brussels; “and I was
going to and buy a now carpet will in make the
spring, I supposo this
them awfully high.”— Boston Fast.
—Little Willie, having hunted in all
the corners for his shoes, at last gave
them up, and climbing on a chair, be¬
took himsolf to a dictionary. “Papa and
always looks in it to find things,
I’m looking in it to find my shoes.”
—Inquisitiveness rebuked: Alistross
(to “Why applicant did leave-your for cook’s last position): place?”
Applicant;* you “You’re inquisitive,
very
niarm. I didn’t ax you what for yer
last cook loft you?”— Chicago Tributte.
—Madame Labouchere, just before
sailing for Europe, lost a trunk contain¬
ing fourteen bonnets, four silk sacques
and other property. bonnets Fortunately In her
other twenty-five she were compelled an¬
other trank, so was not
to go homo bareheaded.— Norristown
Herald.
—A little girl recently went to visit
her grandfather in tho country, She is
foiu lot milk, but without firmly refused todrink
any while there, giving any rea¬
son. When she returned sho was asked:
“ You hud nice milk there to drink,
didn'tyou?” of that milk,” “1 guess sho indignantly l didn't drink
any re¬
plied. “Ho yon know where grandpa of
got it? 1 saw him .squeeze it out an
old cow!"— H. )’. Times.
—It was just before the curtain had
gone lip for the third act when Smith,
who hud been out to “see a man,"
noticed Brown seated a few rows in
front of him. u. “ Do you see that fellow
over there? " ho said tp his wife. She
nodded assent "Well,” ho continued.
“ I hate that follow like a cat hates hot
bo up. and if I ever got a chance i’ll
•paralyze’ him.’ ’ Then liis wife asked:
“Are you going out to see another man
after this act?” ■Smith “Well, hiccou I ghingly tell
allowed that lie was. you
what to do, dear; when you como back
you go over to Mr. Brown and breathe
on him; that will ‘paralyz e 1 him. **>
Social Condition of Colonial Maryland.
At first the economic circumstances
of Maryland were precisely the same as
those which determined the character of
society in the Southern colonies. 'J o
bacco playod as important a part as in
Virginia. The land was parcelled out
in vust estates, and all the people be¬
came planters. Negro slaves re i :u
cordiiigly introduced in groat numbers, nbo
but they never came, as they did in Vir
ginia, beginning to outnumber of the the Reyolu while tion people. tho
At the 2.W
population of the colony was about
000, of whom less than 100,000 were
negr As in Virginia, the slaves had
.
no legal rights, Convicted but wore felons in general and
mildly treated.
kidnapped pauper children were
brougnt from tho mother country to
Maryland, of and hound and to servico they made for
a term years; class of
the beginnings of exactly a pariah they did in
“mean whiles,” as long time
the Southern colonies. For a
the exclusive cultivation of tobacco pre
vented the growth of towns, and tlie
life of the people was as isolated as in
Virginia. Tlio roads wore few and bad,
and travel, whether for business or for
pleasure, was mostly confined to the
rivers. Crime was more frequent than
in any of tho Northern colonies, Edu
cation was at a low ebb, for, although 1738,
public schools were established in
they were conducted.entirely in^ thein
terests of the deprived Uiuroh of England, and
being thus of popular sympa.
thy and support they made but little
headway. Xnerewas no unlversi^ and
no literary activity, and there were but
few private libranos, and no newspapers
u
little to distinguish r the state of r society
in Maryland from that 'n Vii'gmia. B
before the Hevolution. under the inhu¬
ence, perhaps, of the example of
sylvania, a remarkable change h»l set
in. A sucecssron,of bad tobacco crops,
very ol impo^nt ™. ;« changes 0 . in »»■' the sochd
structure of the colony Fhe wheat crop
soon became so cons durable that wheat
and quantities; flour began and to b« though e^tedjn great
port trafie the town of Baltimore,
s? A s S
t /"'*^ ) u was also g timiilate<rby these
* ' itas; Northern
K—SLer . , .*| and
Magazine.
Lioht wisdko young thing, in a bath¬
ing suit—" Surely Aunt Margaret, you’re
not going to wear your M—“Indeed spectacles I in tho
water?” Aunt am.
Nothing shall induce me to take off an¬
other thing. ”
Robinson, fafte r , long whist bout at
the c :Iub)—“It’s ub) awfully late, Brown.
What ; will triU yon say to yttnr wife?" Drown,
(in a whisper)— Oh I shan't say much,
you know—‘Good morning dear,’ or
something of that sort. She’ll say the
rest.”