Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

VOL. X. THE PRINTING PRESS. THE REVOLUTION WHICH TOOK PLACE SEVENTY YEARS AGO. An Account of the First Printing Done by Steam—The Triumph Achieved by Koenig, of Saxony —l,lOO Copies an Hour. I Nineteenth Century.] At the beginning of the century The Times was at the bottom of the list of London morning journals as regards the numbers sold, its contemporaries being ranked as follows in proportion to their circulation: T The Morning Chronicle, (2) The Morning I‘ost, (3) The Morning Herald, 4 The Morning Advertiser. The circulation of The Times did not then ex ceed I.WO copies daily. Seven years earlier the daily circula tion of The Morning Lost was but 85 1 copies, and its progress had l*en rapid, yet that of The Times was even more marvelous during the ten following years. From having the smallest circu lation of any London contemporary, the circulation of The Times became so much Ist ger than that of any of them that the ordinary printing appliances proved in adequate to provide the copies for which there was a demand. When the uutnber bought was 1,000 it was easy enough to suppl- them with a press which turned out between 300 and 400 copies an hour; but when many thousands were caller! for such a press proved wholly inadequate. Mr Waller Lari matte several attempts to effect improvements in the printing press. He consulted Marclsambard Bru nel. one of the great meehanicso' his day, who gave his best attention to the matter and then intimated bis li ability to execute what was required. Mr Waiter ad vi i< d tr. ,net 'O Thonrnr ':u !\n v.' > th ugut he had made an important Uia covet)’. hut the ideas of Martyn were not realized in practice W hile engaged in seeking for a person who could give s ope and effect to his wishes, Friedrich Koenig, a German, who was born at Lislelen, in Sax ny, in 1774, was laboring to effect improvements in the printing press, was confident of substituting steam for manual labor in his new press, and was anxiously waiting for an opportunity to give scope to his views and for a patron to counte nance and advance them lie had visited England !; the hope of finding there the opening and the support which he could not obtain in his native couulrv. lie found a sympathizer in Thotnuu i ensiey, witei whci-t he entered into an agreement in H,. Two yer-rs later, when a working model of Koenig’s improved press had been com pleted, Tensity brought the matter be fore Mr. Walter, who. f- r the moment, was so fully occupied with other engage menu that he could not entertain a new scheme, in 1812 Koenig hud finished om of his new printing presses, ami the con ductors of the principal London journal ! were invited to see it in ojieration. Mr Perry, of The Morning Chronicle, a very shrewd man. and the editor of a most suc cessful newspaper,, would noteven accept the invitation, declaring that, in his opin ion. no newspaper was worth so ma y year’ purchase as would equal the cost of the new machine. Mr Waltei accepted the invitation, carefully ex amin'd Koenigs improved press, and at once ordered two double pn .-ses on the same model. Two yearn elapsed liefore the presses were constructed and at work. Humors of the new i , vention were <-ir u lated, despite the secrecy to which ail co: cerned had been pledged, and The Times pressmen, who fs ieved that their means of a livelihood would be at an end when st'-atn was applied to printing, vowed vengeance upon the inventor The new presses were erected in rooms adjoin ing tin se wherein the old presses were in operation At S o'clock in the morning of the <Tith of November, 1814. Mr Walter entered the 0.l ce with several damp printed sheets in his hand, and informed the startled pressman at work there that the “Times was already printed b. steam! that if they attempted violence there was a force ready to suppress it. but that if they were peaceable their wages should be cm linued to every one of them till similar employment could be pro cured. ” In proof of his statement he handed to them copies of the 1 rst newspaper which had issued from a steam press. The readers of that day’s Tinies were informed of the revolution of which it. was a visible token. Trilling though the speed may now seem, it wits then thought a-> ouud ng that a press could throw off. as Koenig's aid, 1 lirf copies an hour, and th s beginning is memorable as the first step in a series of improvements still more remarkable than that wh ch was pronounced at the time to be the greatest ’hat had been effected in the art of printing since the discovery of the art itself. Splendora of StambonP* T®in pie*. (New York S n.| A French traveler lias just returned from S.tamboul with a wonderful story of the sights he saw. He is elo pieni about two thio -es of enameled gold with incrusta tions of pearls, rubies and emeralds. In another room he saw two caskets, even more magnificent, studded with rubies and diamonds, in which the hairs from the proph it’s beard are jealously pre served. 1 here are also several curiou. in struments made of gold and thickly stmklod with gems on the bark which were used as portable “scralching posts. ’’ Anothei room was h ng with armor and scepters, caske-s and escritoires lay on the table '1 he old escritoires are all shaped like a pistol the inkstand is placed at the spot occupied by the trigger, and the reeds and a penknife are in the barrel There are also inkstands in the shape of trays, each containing five sau cers, for ink, dying powder and other odds and ends used by the writers In another room are the costumes of all the sultans down to Mahmoud II Tach of the costumes has a silk scarf attached, to gether with a magnificently chased dag ger and a diamond aigrett-. Then, heaped pell-mell, are the keys of the fort resses of the empire, and finall. comes the sacred treasure, consisting of the relics of Islam: the mantel and standard of the prophet, his sword and bow; the sw-ords of the first caliphs, and the oldest manu scripts of the Koran. New Orleans Girls Made Happy. [New Orleans Picayune.) On New Tear’s Day a Boston lady, who is now in New Orleans, went byway of the river to the exposition. On the boat was a party of four young gir s and a ma tron, al: strangers. One of the young girls gazed earnest y at the Boston lady and then said “Flease excuse me. madom. but wuat is the name of the shawl you have on?" “it is an India shawl." “And what did it cost?” “About *2,01’0?” “.Madam, wi.l you be so kind as to let me show it to my companions? Neither thev nor I have ever seen an India shawl before.” The lady kindly agreed and the girls were made happy. <Ti t w W' wMHk OT X J? AN ACTOR OF EXPERIENCE Gives His Views of the Profession Stage Fright Social Life—Salaries. [New York Graphic Interview.) “1 may be very conservative in my no tions as to how a man or woman should enter the profession, but in spile of schools, lessons or coaching it is the same opinion w ith experienced actors that a be ginner must begin on the stage itself, with ah its surroundings as they are at ihe bot.om of the ladder. There have been of course some exceptional < uses. b t they are indeed very rare. Why, my dear sir, 1 could name some actoie who are on the stage now who bad neither money nor time t<> waste, thus began the profession by going on as supers, for by this means they got used to facing an audience, and could see the curious methods adopt d by old s agers " “ \\ hat is the feeling a man experiences when he first speak.-, before an -ludience? ” “Were you ever seasick? Well, if you remember Hat ei.cation, ust before you are absolutely ill, yotf may form some idea of the fear that comes over the aver age actor on his first appearance be ore any audience There s the same cold per spiration, the mist before the sight, the same parched lips and tongue, the sinking feeling in the breast and palpitating heart, t ome of course suffer more than otli rs It is called stage fright, ami there’s many a man and woman Inal could not go through the same ordeal a second t ine. Il: all xery well lor a young man to recite liefore bis friends or play at any amateur entertainment; but when he comes before a large assembly q | eople who have paid their admissio i fee io be enter ained, with all the g nre glitter and bustie of genuine show life around him, t's a vastly different mat ter. What may appear strange to you is th; turn a man, as a rule, plays bett-t when In- w slightly nervous-not. about the audience, but his lines. It is per! ;> better explaned by anxiety as to whelm' he » correct, a d the vety doubt h li nb.m it throws a degree of fire into hi acting ’ “What about the actor’s social life?’ asked the journalist “ ’ ell, sale those few engaged at tin houses that have a stock company, the h.-i-e n i sue’: >1 comfort or at >east nir.ii the season. Ihe m ijority of Thespi : sigh sot it. They go from railroad < - hotel, .from hole, to theatre, a ui so v ; ’i ou canm t form any conception of In a num o woman feeis when they arrive : some town a: say 5 in the afternoon This is barely time to bolt some sup,» wbeu they have to burry off to the theat:>. —perhaps a s ranee on* to them —div and go on. Then p-e haps the train tec ■ them aw iy to the next st-.nd at multi ;,i t . say nothing of wintry weather, 'i m only time they get is oil Sunday, if lh<’> happen to be staying in town on that du;, then the want of a brine is impie.s upon their minds. ” “Lui tins receive good pay during th. season ’’suggested the reporter “That’s another exaggerated idea. ” avowed the actor, will- a grave shake o his ,ead. “In the first, place actor, •!- not in very many cases recei c the :alai i put down to them in many newspaper and pcnrml gc««ip Tlidn you must ■ i in mind that half the year they are nil- There is always some.hi.ig to buy Io every piece or someth g o repla e , instance, if an actor is playing in a |.ie., that requires every day clothing nothing is found by the num.gers, and if its n fancy dress piece t.,. re are tigh s. feath era, shoes, wigs, and other thing - lie ha to find, or if you have to travel llc-r • a , ozens < f ways for the money to go, t e details of which cannot always be counted for. A e'. for all it is a mis'aae to suppose that actors .ire a very improi. dent cla-s. A great number have mom and there is a very good plan they now adopt to place their earnings in safe keei ing while on their travels that is, o 'tie., ury day,’ after k-e ing wiiatthm might need for running expenses tin get a post order for I lie ba'ance payab e to themselves, if they have no family, in New York cit ', or any other p ace they may think ot making for when the sea sun is O', er. ” A Milage In the Sahara. [New D'.ngo a Cor Nev. v o rk World.] It was a few days ago th.it a place down the ri-.er, near . ew Dongola was -ecm ingly encompassed by an imponderable mirror. 1 n the distance we thought we ►aw rocks moumains, a 4 ohl mimosa trees, where we knew that all was sand. In the afternoon the rwss and moui.tains had gone and a g eat sheet of motionless wat'-r was ni .rro ed before us. We thought we could at times see the waves rippled by some pass'n - breeze. I p to wiihin .00 yaidsofu- we thought we saw a regi ment of red coated soldiers marching nt ease where we knew no soldiers could be Wegthought we saw camels ladeu with munitii ns of war, on the horizon. It wasa mirage, and none of u. were de ceived by it. But en route we saw more than that. < nly yesterday I witnessed a sub ime ph nomenon. It was not a ntfrage, but a reality 1 saw three saml spo'.i s rising perjiendicuiar y to a great height Their beads were lost in swelling capitals, which appeared to reach the clouds. They looked like co unis which had the sky as their vault It looked ike the rui ,s of some su, ernatural pantheon, i tier sand-spouts ooked lie balloons dragging their curs over the plains. ' n the desert these sand-spouts are dangerous, but we will know bow to guard agai st them as well as our Beduoin or Arab guides. Practical Value of “Science.” Detroit Fr e Press.] While the anti vaccinati >n “cranks”are protesting againnt tiie meth dos protect ing the public from the small-pox, the process has actually stomped out the p.ague in localities where it had taken Bohl. And while Luskin and other vivi section “cranks” were declaiming in one part of London against experiments on live anima s, a man was haring his life taved in a London hospital by a surgical operation that depended upon vivisection. Jor I rofessors harrier and Teo, by experiments upon the brains of live animals discovered, that certain symp toms w re the result of pressure upon a particular part of the brain, bo when a patient Iv-tra ed these symptoms they b diy cut into the r ght place in his brain and removed a tumor which they found there. Its growth would ine itably have killed the man. Its removal saved his life, it was the first operation of the kind ever performed, and would never have been possible but for he experiments upon the bra.ns of live animals £nglish Co-Ojieratlve Associations. i Chicago Herald. I In England there are 1,180 co-operative associ itions. with 100.000 members, which d alt in merchandise last year to the extent of SII7,<XW,OO ». They were first organized in England in 1877, and last year the members -aved on go sis bought over $3,000.000, which, l-eing re duced to an individual average, is equal to one fifteenth of the annual income of each member. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7. 18S5. Where Inactivity Is Deemed KnnobHng, (New York Cor. Inter Ocean.] There are various views of ancestry, by the way, in that happily small circle of our society where inactivity is deemed ennobling. 1 overheard a 16-year old dandy say to still younger belle: “1 am glad that my lamily got out of trade fifty years ago. My father wan never in busi ness. but devoted himself to science as a hobby. He made several discoveries, you know, that have got a permanent place in books. ” Then he looked into the girl’s face for admiring wonder, but saw only gentle commiseration. “So y- ur poor papa bad employment?” she said, and then a weak tincture of proud discia n be came visible as she added: “My lather never, never did anything at ail Nor was the further conversation of this dainty bud of exotic culture less interest ing. She dwelt upon the artistic laws of harmony in colors, as she deemed them obeyed or violated in the hangings of the drawingroom. Anything inharmonious ma le her positively ill. The sight of ill contras ed hues sent a sharp pain through her eyes She really didn’t know how her sense of propriety in color bad be come so abnoimally developed, but she suspected that it was partly through the inh< riiance of a sensitive nature. She was sure that the peculiarity went out from her and pervaded all of her belong ings. “Why, do you know,” she murmured, “my horse shied so dreadfully at a bon net in ventral park yesterday that 1 was nearly thrown from the saddle. ’’ “It was too bright, I suppose ” “Oh. no; but the combination was aw ful. Why, there was a blue feather on green velvet Could I expect to get my horse past that?" Fascinated by a < hanioi*. [Clinton Dent.] We made good progress, when of a sud den Franz gave a loud whistle and then fell flat down. The other two guides im mediately followed bis example and beck oned to us with excited g sticulations to behave in a similarly foolish manner. Thereupon we, too, sat down and in quired what the purport of this perform ance might be It turned out that there was a very little chamois about half a mile off. Knowing that it w-ould be im possible to induce the guides to move on until the animal had disappeared, we si zed the opportunity of taking an early breakfast. The guides meanwhile wrig gled about on the.r stomachs, with eyes staring out of their heads, possessed by an extra' rdinary desire to miss no single movement of the < b ect of their attention. “See, it moves," said Franz in a whis per. “Himmel! it is feeding. ” said Bur gener. “It must be the same that Joha in saw three weeks ago,” “Ach! no, that was but a little one” mo true chamoi ! hunter will ever allow that a brother sporsman cun possibly have set eyes on a larger animal than himself). “Truly it is fine. ” “Thun derweather! it moies its head.” In their excitement I regretted that 1 could not share, not bring well versed in hunting era t; my own experience of sport in the Alps being limited to missing one marm->1 that was sitting on a road licking its paws. in due course the chamois walked away. Apparently mn li relieved by there being no further neces sity to continue in their former uncoin iortable attitudes, the guides sat up and fell to a warm discussion as to the size of the animal Wall of a Cant-Writer. (New York Tribune.] “I am $l5O out this year, ’’ said a well known writer of New Year s visiting curds who occupies :» portion of tlie en trance to one of the Broadway hotels “ How du you acC' unt for it?" “There has been no falling off in the number of cards written, ” he continued. “I have executed quite ns ninny as in previous years, but people won t buy good Curds now. Times are hard and money is short. Where I formerly sold half a dozen packs of the best fringed and fancy cards 1 don’t sell more than one now. All the run this year has been upon p ain white cards, and the more expensive cards have been left on my hands " Pointing to a pile of handsomely fringed cards, many of exquisite design, the card writer continued: “Those are a dead loss to me. 1 -asl year they would have all been sold, but now people can’t afford to pay for them I am off to New Orleans to the exposition in a few days, and shall return to my old stand at Coney island in the summer. ” Th® Pug of th® Period. [New York Sun.] The pug of the passing moment must be of a de icate fawn color, with a black mask extending to a line just almve the eyes, black lips, and one or two black moles on the sides of its face. It must carry its head up when in action, and its tail well curlod over its back, to right or left, according to sex. It may have a little, but only a little, smut on its head, down the spine to the tip of the tail, and may have a slightly smutted saddle, but no smut on the rest of its body. It must wear a c oak of Napoleon blue trico cloth, lined and bound with red, and a harness (never a collar) of yellow leather decorated with silver, gilt, or steel Ixisses and s eigh bells, and lined with pinked-ont red cloth. It shou d Wear a i e.low, red, or blue ribbon bow on its left shoulder. Its ears should not be cropped, and it should not weigh over fifteen nor under seven pounds. With Thumb and Finger. [Chicago Herald.] The Japanese dentist performs all his operations of tooth-drawing with the thumb and fore finger of one hand, and thus he never terrifies his patients with an array of steel instruments. The skill necessary to do this is only acquired by long practice, but once it is obtained the operator is able to extract about a half dozen teeth in thirty seconds without once removing his fingers from the patient’s mouth. The dentist's education com meaces with the pulling out of pegs that have been pressed into soft wood it e. ds with the drawing of hard pegs which have been driven into an oak plank with amallet. It is said that no human ;aw can resist the delicate but power, ul man ipulation of the Japanese dentist. A Pl* Albnm. The album can be easily made by cut ting several pieces of card-board or stiff paper, twelve inches long and five wide. Fold them together, run a ribbon through the back, and tie Hie ends in a bow on the outside, l.et each one in lurn draw a pig and write bis or her name, with the eves closed, upon a page in the album. The strange figures thus marie will furnish abundant amusemeut among a gathering of young folks. Hereditary Di tease. A Boston physician advises everybody to ascertain what diseases have earned off his ancestors, with a view to guarding himself against inherited tendencies by adopting the requisite manner of life, place of residence, and general seli lreat taeut. AHAB LOVE SONG. [Sydney Herbert Pierson.l The love tii,.- gluter in the sky. The earth is tide i with dreamy light, Oh, come to me, for 1 am nigh! Oh, come to me, my soul’s delight! The earth i < filled with dreamy light. The night wind scatters odors sweet Oh, come o me, my soul’s delightl Lol I am waiting at thy feet! The night wmd scatters odors sweet, It wake - the liunber-ladoii flowers, Ix'l 1 am Woii itig at thy feet— Ob. lea; -: thy jasmine-scented bowers! It wakes the -lumber-laden flowers. The n;-rhtin.-:ilo breaks forth in song, Oh. leave thy jasmine-scented bowers! My heart, why tamest thou so long# The nightingale breaks forth in song, The roses sway above the gate. My heart, why tarriest thou so long? M lieu they awake wilt thou still wait? The roses sway above the gate, Thy sister blossoms, red and white. When they awake wilt thou still wait# Oh, cmns to me. mv soul's delight! The “Virgin of the Napkin.” [Clara Erskine Clement in St. Nicholas.] When painting the pictures for the Capuchins, Murillo dwelt in their convent nearly three years, it is said, without once leaving it. He painted for the monks twenty pictures with life size figures, and several small works. Seventeen of these are now in the museum of Seville, for the monks had the wisdom to serd their pictures to Cadiz for safe keeping before “ Plunder master-general of Napoleon,” as Soult has been called, could reach them. When the French wars were ended, Hie pictures were returned to Seville I cannot speak of them separ ately, but will say that the Madonna ealled “La Virgen tie la Hcrville a ” or the ViiT.inof the Napkin,now in the museum, has this pretty story connected with it. The legend is that the cook of the con vent grew very fond of Murillo during his long service to the artist, and Wirnn the lime came for them to be separated the cook licggi'd the painter for a keep sake. The painter said he had no canvas left; the cook quickly gave him a napkin and asked him to use that. iVilh his u ual good nature, Murillo assented, and soon painted this picture, which is now one of the famous art treasures of the w rid. It is not large and represents the virgin with the child Jesus, who leans forward, almost out of the picture, as if to welcome anyone who approaches it II has a briilia it color, and so a reels one that it is not easy to lurn away from it. Supreme Court ICtiquotle. [dor. Chicago Tribune.] The etiquette of the supreme court-room is very rigid. Lawyers appearing liefore the court are given just so much time in which to present their arguments and not one minute more is nil wed them. No one is (.ermihed to take notes of the pro cecdiiigs outside of the law ers inside the bar. This is particularly true upon de cision day. If a spectator takes out a piece of payer to make a note ce is in stautly warned by a m -avenger that he must desist or leii-e -be c mrt ro >m. The reason of this is to uvoiii the sending out of incorrect statements about the position of tiie court. There have been several propos tions before the court to have its proceedings rep irted verbatim for the benefit of the legal publications, but the court has al ways been against auyth ng of tiie sort. They have held that it would be a needless waste of expense with mt any compensat ing advantages to the legal profession. Even where decisions are actually deliv ered they are o ten bold beck for weeks for polishing before publication. Theeti < uette of the court has been so rigidly n>a ntsined during its history that 1 am in’ormed that there lias only been one case of contempt of court since ite estab; lislnii.-nt. ’l ids was a case where a man before the court was ordered to do some thing lie could not do. He was lined $: >O. This is the only sum that the court lias derived from this source in its history. A Valuable Bride. [Tucson Star.] Mrs. Jesus Castro, an aged Mexican lady, now r. siding at American Flag, in the Lanta < atnlimi mountains, is |>erhaps the only woman who, literally speakiu” ever cost her husband her weight in gold. It is said that in the early gold digging days of California she wa» a resident of Sonora, in which stale she was born and grew to womanhood. When about the age of 17, a paternal uncle, but a few years her senior, returned with his com panions, gold-laden, from the El Dorado of the west, and became desperately enamored of her. He sought her hand in marriage, and was accepted, but the church refused, because of the near rela tionship existing between them, to sol emnize the marriage. Persuasion being in vain he tried the power of gold to win the church his way, and succeeded only by the payment of her weight in gold, bhe at Hie lime weighed 117 pounds, and against her in the scales the glittering dust was shoveled. Her affianced husband still bad sufficient of this world s goods to provide a com fortable home and they were married. They lived happily together and she bore to her h sbaud eleven children. In the course of years he died, and she married again, Mr. (astro being her second hue bund. '1 he above is a fact and not fiction, as living witnesses can prove. Not Altogether a I’ara'li*®. [(Jhi ag > Time®, j A correspondent who does not wish to be guilty of terming Florida a paradise, saistliat Jacksonville is the largest and best place in the state, and that a worse excuse di es not exist on the American continent. There is not a paved street in the place; the sidewalks are wood and mud; the atmosphere hot by day and awfully damp by night More unti es die of consumption than any other com plaint. A young married lady said: “i ou need not doubt the s atement made by father, for I have lost three sis ters and two brolhers by consumption, and all of in were born in St. Augustine. " From a Letter of IS-’S. ■ C'incin mti Enquir r.) The meals in America are served with amazing dispatch. We were generally first and last at lable, ye only fifteen min utes by any watch elapsed between our sit: ing down and rising up. Within that time 150 persons bad crammed down a breakfast. “You Europeans,” said an American, “eat as if y u a tnally enjoyed your food.” ■'Assuredly wu do; and vou Americans will never e;ca;»e fro n dys pepsia and headaches until you also learn to enjoy your meate ” Not at All Dangerous. Chicago Herald.] An analysis of railroad accidents com pared with the amount of travel tends to show that if a person were to travel ten hours a<liy at a spee 1 of ten miles an hour during every day in the year ho would probably be killed at the end of 1,8if5 years. A FOLLOWER OF JOE SMITH. An Anti-l’olygainy Mormon —The ('reed “Healing by Faith.’* [Cor. Philadelphia Times.] Later in the day we talked with an in telligent young man, who was, as he said, a born and baptized .Mormon, lie was bitter against polygamy and spoke freely -f the greed and tyranny of the elders during and since the lime of Brigham Young. He was a follower of Joseph ; Smith. In speaking of polygamy he said: “Bt. I’aul said to st. Timothy in the Bible, ‘A bishop shall be the husband of one wife,’ but St. Joseph, in our revela tion, said: ’A man shall be the busband of one woman.’ When Brigham Young taught plurality he had to go against bold. ” “ Will you kindly tell what is the faith of the Latter-Lay : aints?" “Ask me what you want to know and I will try to answer. Yes, we believe God is the creator of everything and tiie Heavenly balder of us all, and that Jesus Christ, His son. died that He might redeem all who would believe in 11 m. We believe in baptism and regeneration and that this is the reign of the Holy Spirit ou the earth, among the elect. We know the Bible is God s word and we believe th U Ho sent another revelation to St. Joseph to prepare a place and a people, who are called the : after-Day taints, and who are set apart from the world’s people to re ceive Christ at His coining. We have an other belief, which 1 know the Gentiles do not receive. It is healing by faith. W hen any one is sick among us who are true Mormons wo send for the elders, woo pray and anoint with oil, as St, James and" St. Joseph taught us. ” "How does it work, practically?" “I have heard of the blind receiving sight and the deaf made to hear, but I haven't seen it myself. 1 have seen many raised from fevers and other sick beds, but what 1 know happened in my own house. ” He threw great intensity into the words “I know. “Our baby, the only one wc had, was taken very ill. We sent for the elders, b it after praying and anointing, they told my wife it was 1 borne in upon them by the Spirit that the child would die. My wife was well nigh crazy and wanted to send fora Gen tile doctor. The baby was lying all cold, its eyes turned up in d its head and only just oreiithing fainty. 1 determined to go and wrestle wtih the Lord myself. 1 could n it bear to give up my faith in the I.oitf and 11 ved llaniiiih and the baby I better than anything on earth. Said I: ’ •Hanuali. give me one hour to prevail I with God, and then if 1 fail 1 will give over the child to you.’ I remem I tiered David and cast myself along ! the floor and cried to iny Heavenly Father | for the life of our child. 1 rose and went ' into the room, and there it lay as cold as | ever and ite mother reproaching me out of | her eyes. Again I went before the Lord j aid prayed to Him with strong crying I Iris own prayer in Gethsemane: ‘Oh, | 1 atlier, if it be .pi ssili e. let this cup pass from me.’ Again 1 went to the child, but there was no change, only- it Breathed and uannah hid her face in tho lied clotuue and wm ed. i lie third time 1 iay before my God the burden of niy sorrow siiddi nly lifted, and it seemed almost as if a voice ha I said to me, ’Thy prayer is heard.’ I just sprang to my feet ai d went into Hannahs n om an,i there she was looking with nil her eyes and pointing with her finger to tiie baby. The pink had come back to its little bands and feet, its eyes had grown natural like, it was looking right up in ite mamma s face I and trying to iaueh. 1 tell yon before I God. lady, an hour after it was sitting up i playing with ite toj s, just as well us ever. ” 111® Thisi® 11’b. [Labour® here.] When I consider how very few things there are in this world really worth know ing, and Hint most of these can tie picked i U|> in convei sation; that reading, writing and arithmetic Kre all that a man wants to start with in life, and that the largest fortunes have been made by men setting out with no other equipment, I can t e lieve that it is necessary to catch a child from his mo her s arms at 5 (the legal age) and keep him in school all day long till he is 13, and thereby ruin his health and destroy his happiness, at the expense of tin- ratepayers, in order to give him a fair chance of earning his living. Vhluabln Deposit*. [Philadel phla I ledger. ] In Norway and Sweden accumulations of moss, often more than a foot thick and half decomposed, serve to make paper and mill board as hard as wood, blocks of will' ll formed by the hydrau.ic press may even be turned in the lathe and polished. This substance is said to possess the good qualities of wood without the defects, such as warping and splitting, so tiiat it is suitable for making doors and windows. Flant has, it is said, been laid down in Sweden for working up these deposits of a hitherto waste substance into a useful material. The Actress of Geniu*. [Burnand in \ he Fortnightly Review.] If a young lady of attractive personal appearance posi-essea histrionic talent, then in proportion to her talent will iajber temperament. She will be impulsive, pas- ; sion.ite, impressionable, self-wilieil. imps tient of control, simple, confiding and vain, but artistically vain, and desirous of applause. She will lie illogical, incon sistent, full of contradictions, fond of va riety, anti unable to exist without excite meiik It only requires her to be a genius to lie duped by the first schemer who throws himself in her way. A Pointed Epitaph. [Exchange.] Genius, eccentricity or an ambition to be heard from after death, puts some an ular inscriptions upon the grave stones in almost every i hurchvar lof the land Cp in New Jersey the following is found i upon the headstone of a crabbed old man who did not care very much foi mankind when he was living: Reader, pa s on—l .n’ -vagte your time On bad bio.raphyai I bitt rrhym-; F r what I am, this erainblin? clay icsures, And what I was is no affair of yours! i The More Gradual Way. [Alex. E. Sweet in Texas Slftlngs.l Some people prefer to sit down on the ice more gradually. One foot slides out The unllap >y man endeavors by spasmodic contor -ons to re-establish his equilibrium, I He assumes a “ha! is this a dagger 1 see before me?" expression, clutches the air, as if flgnting unseen foes and collapses into a pile of legs and arms on the side walk. Cayenne Instead of Club*. [Exchange.] The Norwich, Conn., "watch"of many years ago did not carry the clubs which are now part of a policeman’s outfit but had a handful of cuvenne pepper to throw in the eyes ol roughs who resisted ar rest J. A. Macon: ’Tis hard to make clo’ea fit a miserbul man. CAPITAL HANGERS-ON. BROKEN-DOWN EX-OFFIC’ALS AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS. The Respectable Deadbeats Which One Is Likely to Meet in Washington—- KcauPs of Drink and Chronic Ottce-Seeking. [Washington Cor. Cleveland Leader.] It is a wonder how many respectable deadbeats one meets in \v ashiugton. Tua leading dveryman of the city told me the other day that lie had been asked for 25 cents to buy a drink by the son of a former president not long ago. and every day 1 see anout the hotels here great men’s Soin, whose fathers are dead, leading the lives of .> cent adventurers. One had a father who long stood at tho head ot the bar of the country, and another’s father was in the seuat i and had a place in <ach Taylors cabinet. That little old man there, who goes about with Ills shou.ders stooping and his small form clad in the mustiest of threadbare clothes, was at the beginning of tho war one of the beaux of At ashing ton, and he has been the second in due.a in which senators fought senators. L uce fortunate and wealthy, he was a necessity at any big social gathering; now ho is gad to take a drink with a messe iger, and. like ileuu Hickman, lives by his wits. There, on the opposite scat in the hotel lobby, is a well-dressed man who has the title of judge, and who once held an important o.i.ce in our diplomatic service, fie has hobnobbed with states men and presidents, but he will borrow a dollar of you if you let him. and is iar from adverse to drinking without ask ng the pedigree of the man who treats. Last night I asked him how he liked the climate of the country in which he was located as minister. I was sitting ou the sofa beside him, and, though J was not much acquainted with him. wp dropped into conversation. In reply to the above, e said, with the most winning smile imaginable: “Ah. the climate? It was delightful. lam not very particular about the climate. I can live in anv country, and I always eu oy myself. There are many pleasant things every where. 1 always find them. len joy life. 1 ca ■ do anything, in fact," and here he looked me straight in the eye—“l can take a drink!” I received his gaze without flinching, and my eye did not give a res: ouse, and after fully thirty seconds he said, in a sad tone "Ah! i.ut you don’t drink?" “No, ” I replied; "it does not agree wi h me. ” There was an awkward pause, and then the talk went on as though nothing had happened. The same judge was at the White House one day during the Hayes adm’nis tration, and he was beseiging the mess -ti ger for admittance to the president. Tue messenger said; “But the president is en gaged, judge, and he has given orders thal he will see no one. ” “Yes, he will,” was the judge’s reply. “Tell him that Judge Blank wants to see h tn. " “The president said, ‘No one’ " was the reply. "I know he will sec me, ” continued the judge. “In (act. 1 have an appointm nt withhim. Tell him Judgeß , of K is at the door. ” In this way he finally tired the messen ger out, und he consented to announce him. In a moment he returned and said he had not seen the president but he had seen the president’s private secretary, and the pi irate secretary bad told him to tell Judge B. he could go to tiie devil. The samo judge was once appointed as consul to an African is.and. He cruised about for a long time through tiie Indian ocean, and then came back to Hie state department, saying “he could noi find the darned place. ” He is, howe er, only one of a type. There are numliers of them, some belter and some worse than ho. Borne of them pretend to be lobbyists, some have big cotton claims, and are all millionaires in prospectu. I know of men who have claims against the government aggregat ing hundreds of thousands of dollars, who board nt restaurants where ratals cost 25 cents apiece, and I see every day a white whiskered old man wearing a coat which a street-car driver would be ashamed to put on, and I know ho is trying to collect from I ncle Lam S3OO i(X) which was taken from him during the war. (in the other hand 1 have seen standing by this man s side one who has grown wealthy in the government service and is now worlll his tens of thousands, but whom the star route jury failed to convict. Truly, for tune is blind! Commercial IntelliKciico. [Texas H-ftinx*. ] There is a commercial college at Aus tin. Tho students have a balik. and every effort is made to give the pupils a practi cal business education. The professor, for instance, instructed the boys to write a letter to a delinquent country customer. There was a sound of scribbling on slates, then the voice of Mose Schanmburg, Jr., who is one of the pupils, was heard. “I shay, Mishler Professor, shall I write dot tetter in, dot ven he don’t bay up, I closes him out mit dor sheriff?” To Wake the Engineer. (Detroit Erne Preus. [ In spite of the noise and motion of the locomotive, overworked engineers will oc casionally fall asleep or become inatten tive To remedy this, the management of one western road requires the engineer to answer a red signal for stopping by a bS't from the whistle Failing that, the signal man is instructed to throw a lan tern or whatever may be convenient through the window of the locomotive cab The rule has already prevented ac cidents AHlcatoni tn Nevada. (Chicago Herald.) Near the mouth of the Sntro tunnel. In Nevada, there is a small lake, the water in which is kept continuously warm by tiie hot water which flows into it from the mines. Recently the mine superin tendent sent to Morida for two alligators. When they arrived the temperature of the place was 12 degrees below zero and the alligators were barely alive. Upon being put into the warm lake, however, ihey re vived and are now growing rapidly. Colfax in tho Chair. [lnter Ocean ] “The model presiding o fleers of this day and generation, ” said an Indianian, “were Colfax, Blaine, and Lanka Blaine could do <ne thing that Colfax couldn’t. He could look past a man and « the fellow believe he didn’t see him. Colfax never tried that He erred on the side of j sympathy if at all, and Jlds fair-minded-1 neas was so apparent that he controlled the house easily. ” Accoiding to the decision of a debating club then- is more pleasure in seeing a man thread a needle than a woman driving • nail. NO. 245 , CELEBRATED A BTOLIACM _ «itteß s By th- u«» »t Hottriter’a B torn eh Bitter* ths htegsred *ipu*->Lce ci tho coainen>i>m and Bsno-n*‘aoi djapiptca aia auppianto* by a b> a thh'r look, ana >a the lood la *atlmi>a:ed, tbe bod> acqu re* *ut*l*ree. sypitt* la ro r cored, «ud tue uerv ua qiUm i*'h* bed v'th ui'o neece a uali*r, ih oils he ear of thia iLOdic'ne, vhico 1* * e o« tic floral t-- pi r»< ca of a rbeuiua.lc tend i oy, ano an if «a imable pro t*uve o I ver ana *gne. For »>e by all fifn.pieia and Dea’eta »*n*vall-, I'th.bl I'llAhll Hl.Eßllt Bure cure lot Bn, a, Bleeding atfl Itch log Ptire. One box tiae cured tbe worst earee of 20 yeaib‘standing. No one need suffer five minutes after ueiug William's Indluii Fite Ointment. Il absorbs ttimots, ailaye Itching, acts as poultice, gives In- Blunt reller. Prepared only lor I’llee. Itching oi the private parts, notblng i Ise. Li op. 4. !1. Ceffenbury, ot Cleveland, says; "1 have Used eccres oi Fili- cures, and it affords me pleasan* to say that 1 have nevei louuU anything which gives eueh immedtete stifl pmiueneut reliet as Dr. Wtilluu/B iualbti Pile Olntrm.nL" Bold by (li ugglbte and mulled of receipt ol price, sl. Foi eale by Brann-'n A Oarsoti, IL Carter, John F. Tpruer and Geo, A. Brad lord. Columbus. Ga. Dr. Frailer’* Knot Bluer Fruiter's Kiel Bitters ale. not a dram shop beverage, but at e strictly medicinal tn rveiy ett.ee. J hey act strongly upon i fit- Livei and Kidneys, keep the bowels open and regular, make tbe we»k strong, beiti me lunge, buiia up the nerves, and cli arise tiie blood and system ot rivet> Im purity, bold by druggists. JI.OO, For rule by BrannoD <t Oar eon and Jno. 1. Tui Her, Columbus, ua. Dr. Frailer'* Magic Olntmeßt A rule cure 10l Llllit Oiur-B in the.bkln, Bough bkm, etc. it will remove that lought'eer Horn the bm ds and lace and make you bi-Hutnui. Price floe, bent by inuli. Foi sale l y Bistuiun 4 Carson and John F. 'I urnei, coiumbue, tea. Chip. E G.cver, Utrmorsello, M'X’co. July 16 IHB3 >ayr; ‘1 tike piearui’ tn -dCinb’i gy.u <u e aon, or ,i>u tiava been Vi steal bet-Stl' ip hie. 1 a Kite to you Hh< u> ole aid oti-h-jf vim ego, ’Mtn Arisctm, lot Dr. Wiliirm’s Irdlan e 1 0 n m* i t. J IK elvru II BI d It < un-d me<-nt i. ,y. 1 e’lli tied e< me Oteimint cmil Ing. wlu wi hb 1 have (lords, ven or eight mine. Il is wotideriui. Nurutogu High Boek Bpring Watrr for «tlr bv *»!> iiroocfF-io. r: t» MALI AI.D FINaIT AMOY. CUbSVI’A, MEUBOIA. The wo kof this Sei oo will begin again JAMAID 6 IBHBfflre' Mtmdu>) Till, nsl 30 SZ 30 anil S 3 60, According to gtad . Board never more Tltnn SB. Prr Month. musk; peh moatd, LOlAiluN til AuTH. UL W.E. Ju DBF HET, Innltrjr.pnilwS Principal. OR, JOHN NOhWOOD. OFFICE AT BREEDLOVE & J'JHHtOh’S Drug Stora. Randolph btrest. Residence with H. L. WOODHOFF, Ortwlord. briaien Trcup and fctejU ►!><*! *UtLiai k. b. t, minis, Ptiydcian and Surgecn. OFflCBt T. H. EVANb 4 CO. 8 Drug Store. Htmidtnce, Jackaon 8t„ East Loan Hoqh. DnjMy ' W. A.TICNER7jr7 Attorney At Law. OiFICB IN GALKAHD ICILDJNG COIUMFUH, - - . GEOE GIA Ureal B.rgalb* , At Phllllpe’ New btioe Btote, M Broad et, Uulutnbus, Ga. Stock all n> w, tine and <i»np IMPORTANT TO Farmers, Trucksttrs and Gardeners. ——o 1 will furt.teh on boatd tbe Care it Flora, Alabama, a very Rich Marl V'F J.IX tiOLLA ’tS PUiCTO.V CLASH I And a Very Low Rate of Freight te offer*d by the JU- bls 4 Girard B. B By euabsteof me State Grologtet this HAUL cob tn ice troin 6 to 8 per cent, of Ftiorpbate with nth’ r >ei Uliziu« qualities. For ccmpoetii g and brc’ndcusritig for giaiti fields, uicnaids and lawns it will be teuniL ' -., A Valuable Stimulator. Tele. lc not a Gup uv, but a IxiUU MABL —o— Anycrden orwstded to K. J. OHR, Agent, Flora, Ala., M. bile 4 Glratd B> nrosd, will meet with nr<-mr>t ottartten. deoil-W NOTICE I CX EOKGU Mrsocohe < UVS7Y.—I iMteb j Broe*. hu’b.rZ or Ko.* Brod*, *1 raid . mil) «ud Bute. I.reij »'v>n<tlr. to lb a pnbl o ol ny ct-i »«nt tl a. niy *ald vIN. > os* bro-*, rbo'i re ,td breor,, from are alter tot* date a public or lr.< trader, otth *ll o| ige right* aad privilege* under the tlat- te Is each Mae* made and provtdM. JACOB BhQDA, ..Joaaaiy fl, UN*.., hahe-la ‘ . • f- tw /iMrig ,». u adUlu