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A Happy Dalimou.
Tt is an old ■saying that “vvhor®
ignorance is bliss, ’tR folly to be
v.'.'so," aiul in nothing is this so
tl'fikmgiy illuitiwfcd as ill the ur
■ ‘loiit brought forth by a recent
but unknown author, •who says tint
hi> does not know and does not
car ? whether religion be true or
not.
‘•For,” says ho, “if it is a lie it is
the most beautiful one ever told,
and ouo from which truth might
lyi'.rii. Could wo exist as a sal ion
without : C France fried it. Does
i‘ u:> au/bam:’; X- l Then why
de-trov it? Don’t, It is us old a?
civilization. It was part of our
fathers’ lives. if was almost ail
oar mothers’—oil exv . pt too part
we filled. We have been sung to
elc a the use ad time; by its
hymns. Wo aro better man and
women now whenever wo hoar
thorn sang, They nro beautiful,
touching.poems. They ore joined
to tender emotions. It has made
many a man happier and better— *
more lioneat and tender and forgiv- i
ing. Many a lived man and woman ;
lias laid clown within its shade
peacefully, to awaken, nobod}'
know ? when. Don’t destroy it.
Why, idno-tenths of Ike mothers in
America believe in if, That’s suf
ficient for it. It has been growing
on our hearthstone for ages. Let
it stay there. It can’t hurt you. It
is such a loving religion. What
will you give in its stead for it?
Philosophy? What are \v
to do when tired and heartsick?
Levo? Earthly loves are so selfish,
’t is a beautiful delusion. Don’t
dostrey it Weave the silvov thread
v f* rcur.i uvVrt ,i from tne totar oi
Bethlehem info the golden roof of
your sunlight Train its climbing
tendrils about the bare wall of your
lives, and cover up the jagged cor
ners and rough, unsightly places
with this beautiful myth of Calva
ry.”
New York, April I.—M*j. J. II
Stewart, mem bar of tho bnaid of di
rectors of tiie National Confederate
Soldiers’ home, at Austin, Texas, now
in this city iu tho interest of the hyrne
ia in receipt of a telegram from the
president *f tho board of directors, at
Aastht, stating that tba Texas legisla
ture had just passed a bill leasing the
oldcapbol building at Austin tor tea
years, at five dollars per annual to tha
board of directors, and that an annual
revenue in leotala will Uiub be deriv
ed of : 500 for the home.
Dade: the state constitution the leg
nlatara not appropriate tor the
purpose, and the most it could do was
to lease cut the t Id capitol building to
the directors of the home. Msj. Stew
art says that this income will main
tain 15 ia&istea aannally, as it costa
about eight dollars per month per cap
ita. At this dais about 1 500 has bean
seat to tba treasurer, Chauacey M.
Depevr, for tha home.
A c;ood rule is, never swap off an
old friend, who hss been tried and
proven to b© Irue, for one who has
never proven himself to be a friend
in time of need .
A Chicago collector of ourioeitfsa
has two feilvt-r haTt-dcllars that, are de
clared to be tho iLameal ccins that
held down the lie’s of Abrabam Lin
er In’s Ojits ike night if hie fea h.
Fig Gambling Profits.
There never was a gambling re
sort in the world like Monte Car
lo. Uis v. mine of v/eallb to tho
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mauryers of its magnificent tiger
lairs, and a wry simple calculation
will show how princely arc tho
prof! : of the tables. Tho munage
nvufc admits that its annual pro i’-
ll u-o s|id,soo,oo0 —in lacl it is ov
e.c $5.TK),000. Nv/, inasmuch as
the chances of the table arc 1 to 30
iu favor of the bank, to gain annu
ally $3,500,000, which it professes
o do, $120,000,000 must have been
’staked on its tables—must have
b :i won and lost. Tho bank’s 1
; f —on this enormous amoum of
r i io;i which must therefore have
| been playetl, lost and won. It i:>
ii r fact of the gambler dealing
1 with large masses of money that
partly accounts for the fascination
, exercised by gambling. A careful
who begins with, say .SI,OOO capif
al, may have fingered, according to
the doctrine chances, $30,000 be
fore he loses his capital. If he plays
long enough the bank royalty of
one in thirty-six is sure to swallow
up his capital, and then he has had
all the emotion of having been al
ternately successful or the reverse,
rich or poor. At Ma>uf© Carlo tho
bank royalty must inevitably ruin
all who play long enough to have
risked their capital thirty-six times
The annual profits of tho tables ex
ceed the annual aggregate income
of all tho Vanderbilts. During the
lifetime of Mr. Blanc it was easy
enaugh to get a statement of tbs
amount. Blanc delighted in letting
it b# known what a wonderful pros
Ipercus follow he was. Ilis daugh
lAs', who married princes, are not
i proud of the source of their wealth
1 and since their father’s death have
sought to divert attention from
themselves and their affairs as
j much as possible, M. Wagathais
now the general manager of tho
Casino, and he has lately given it
out that tho net profits of the tables
last year ware only $1,250,000, or
©na-fourth of what (hev used to be.
Sentenced to the Bamboo.
This punishment is as peculi.tr as
most Chines® punishments are.
The man is seized J>y four or five
stalwarf attendants, thrown on his
face, his loose pyjamas thrown up.
He is firmly held outstretched in
this position by men at his head
and feet. Two operators then squat
down opposite one another on each
side of the victim. One takes a
3trip of seasoned bamboo about
three feet long and one inch wide,
and begins lightly spanking the
backs of the thighs. He gives twen
ty of these apparently harmless
spanks, and then hands the bam
boo to his vis-a-vis, who gives his
twenty, and them hands it back;
and so oh, turn about, until the
twohuadrsd blows are administer
ed.
At first the punishment looks ri
diculously light; but by the time
the first fifty blows are reached the
skin of the parts beaten begins io
assume the appearance of thick
wash-leather; and before the hun
dreth blow tho skin begins to fly
off iu loos® white llakes; before the
time two hundred bb v. s have been
struck, t ’vo whole of.- the back ol
both thighs looks 'like a mass of
swollen raw liver, though net a
drop of blood Hows from tho parts,
ft. sni-t that a man would eafire
under the excruciating torture of
two hundred and fifty of these
blows. I have never seen anything
like th® exquisite agony depicted
in that man’s livid, quivering fea-
Unas, when ha was carried inlo the
prison to recover.*
Gleanings.
King Otto of Bavaria, has been
proved hopelessly insane,
John Bright, the ..rent statesman
of E iglaud, has suffered anotlior re
lapse.
Four thousand men w ill he affected
by the recce ion of paddlere* wages in
the Pittsburg, Pa. iron fields.
Four more persons have been ar
rested at Gwocdore, Ireland, in con-’
nsetion with tha murder of inspector
Martin.
John Shannon, A Frenchman, who
resides at Brsdenville, Pa., committed
saicido on account of threats mads by
alleged White Caps.
The strika among the seamen at va
rious British porta is subsiding. The
men are freely signing articles at com
promise rates,■ suggested by ship own
ers.
W illiam O’Brien was arraigned at
Tralee, Ireland, a few days sgo, on
the last summons issued against him
for offences undo: the crimes act. At
extra force of police and military was
on duty to preserve order. The gov
ernment has issued a prc-cAinatior. for
bidding the asseml ling of crowds, Mr.
O’Brien looked very pale Dining the
progress of the tar-e, Mr, tiealy,
0 Brim’s counsel, called Mr. Turner
a sueak. The magulmtes demanded
that he retract the epithet. Mr. flea
ly refused to do so and was forcibly
txpellel from the court loom. The
eoart abruptly adj turned
A special cable dispatch from Lor
den to the Montreal Gazette, the Can
adian government organ, saye: ‘’Ab
surd statements have reached the jour
nals Lore through New York, that a
syndicate of leading republicans in tho
united States cunuol $500,000,000,
which they intend to use iu an effort
to secure Canadian annexation to the
autes by a system of wholesale bribery
in Canada in the event of a dissolu
tion of the Pominion parliament this
year, and a consequent general eieo
tion.’'
Burning the Dead.
Cremation rocteties ere being aug
mented in this country by women oi
tire strong minded class, who are join
ing them rapidly. la New York,
; Brooklyn, and Boston particularly,
there are a great many well-known wo
men enrolled among the crematioaists,
and tha movement is endorsed by &
still greater an tuber who Lave nottak
eo pains to become members. Mary
A Livermore, Lacy Stone, Mis
Peabody, Cl-ra Erskine, Clement Wa
ters, Edna Dean Proctor, Lillian Whit
jug, Lacy Larcom, and M.s.i Whun y
are among those in Boston who adv„
cate burning the dead, in New York
there is a yet greater cempany oi lu
er&ty and artis ie womei, and through
out country tha prominence and num
bers tremalienists are surprisingly
laige. Many members of Serous, of
the Authors’ Club, and tbo Artist
j Lefgue are cremationists, and the rank
; and file of heterodox people are its ad
'■ rotates. Among Unitarians, cremation
is generally accepted as tha best mode
oi disposing ®f dead bodies, and not a
i few orthodox Cfaiistian* favor it earn
! eetly.
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styles, from the finest to the cheapest. Also fine Diess Goods, Rib 1 ons ?ed
Laces, Kid Gloves, Embroideiies, Corsets ni all kind*. In fact a Comp!'' o
sfoek ot fancy notions. Shoes, Mats and ClothTfg. tUbacoo, Staple G;entr
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. Drugs and Patent Medicines,
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Standard and P?cific Keroccne. Machine and Castor OtU, by th * ov
gallon. Agent for Athens Factory goods, and many more. A U V*
Georgia Test and Acid Work’s Pore Bone, Fenflan’n SoluY B .*ns ami b- m
inal Gnano. The host line of guanos iu the united states, pr>c sas oh< *
the cheapest. Breeder of fifteen varieties ot fancy Buck'., Ghi .fcd. *r- 1 n Qso
Eggs for sale. 4 r *
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surpassed in Quality and Dumnility. We buy at lowest rn rh-t figures; wo
V competition in prices. We want only a living profit, on •ur sales. We
do not claim to be Vanderbilts, nor do we with <o accntnu' rto tm t' fortunes.
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