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VOL. V.-NO. 3.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Florida has made an immense crop of
corn.
There arc between 1,500 and 1,800
blind persons in Tennessee.
Richmond, Va., is shipping large
quantities of grain to Italy.
The Southern Presbyterian Church
has 6,000 elders and 4,000 deacons.
The prohibition law prevails in forty
two counties in the State of Georgia.
A Southern scientist has discovered
that alcohol can be produced from
acorns.
George W. Swepson, with a property
worth $2,000,000, is the richest man in
North. Carolina.
Richmond, Va., has a debt of $4,741,~
707 65, on which she pays an annual in
terest of $303,1.34 43. *
The celebrated Dummett orange grove
has, according to the Florida Dispatch,
been sold for SIOO,OOO.
The public library at Knoxville, Tenn,
lias 1,500 new books, is out of debt, and
has $2,000 in the treasury.
A young Virginian has invented a ma
chine which turns out 150 cigarettes per
minute. It is on exhibition at Lynch
burg.
In 1833-34 the railroad from Charles
ton, 8. C., to Augusta, Ga., 130 miles,
was the longest railroad then in the
world.
The gum of the palmetto, which is
found in abundance in Florida, makes
as good if not better mucilage than gum
arabic.
It is calculated that the splendid
grain crops of the South will save that
section $100,000,000 hitherto diverted
Northward.
A mortal enemy of the cotton worm
has turned Kp in Mississippi. It is a red
dish looking spider, and attacks and
kills large numbers of the worms.
As early as 1/33 the sale and con
sumption of whisky was prohibited in
Georgia, then a colony under British
rule. The act, however, was repealed
in 1742.
The Rugby colony in Tennessee, in
stead of being on the wane, is said to be
growing nicely. A large number of peo
Pie from Michigan will cast, their luck
with the colonists this fall.
I b-' State Democratic ticket of Texas
contains the name of but one native
exan. Os the other nominees three are
natives of Kentucky, one of Georgia
one of South Carolina and one of Ten
nessee.
Ibe New Orleans Times-Democrat
rom carefully gathered information,
earn that the present condition of the
«ce crop i n Louisiana is good and the
Prospects for a large and good crop most
favorable.
Tbe locomotive “General,” which was
he one that pulled the train that was
s olen by the Mitchell raiders in 1861, is
\V f . i' nUSe iW a frei £ht engine on the
yrn and Atlantic road, and is in
good condition.
Jhe Process of articulating Guiteau’s
is nearly completed at the Ar
fui in M i ed ‘ cal mUßeum - rt doubt
nl >f the bones will make a first-class
Many were found to be po-
US ’ re< l ulnn S care to mount.
wlm hT rt ?” ey ’ Ga ->
mals io’ 1 *” 6 * 1 hIS chi,dren after ani
conse/iup '"V that tlle y will in
arefom Xu ' Ve t 0 " ld agc ' There
respectfi ii* < 7° <UKI tlley are namcd
’Possum. ‘ bt ’ C ’ Fox aild
nahi' h ' 11le ’ 1,1 ' ts Craze for marital and
the clirnTby < '° ,npani< ‘ S has ca PP ed
Twin a • y or & auizin g “The Natal
WhiC ” Wi " Pay
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the "'I .land
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' ’’ BCV<mt y* nln ® Democrat.
wnsi,t, L°‘” "PP 0 ” 1 ' 0 ”- The latter
GreenhnoV .. eiglt Ite P ubli cans, four
e P end ent
>"'»r3*X’J th . lhe
mills show ' " and ’ Southern
‘hcirfaC a "ondcrful difference, in
overd ° Carn ’ n 8 8 > but the thing is
Prove to the'" '’ h" 1 to ° many mills will
" ear Apalachicola, Fla.,
ft w w 7 , ’-r nilneilSe size was captured.
’'V " ieet > B ix inches long,
CEljc 'Halton
forty-two inches across the body, the
saw forty-one inches long and seven
across the center between the points of
the teeth, weighing 500 pounds.
Near Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, an
elm tree, said to be the large it in the
United States, if not in the world, is
growing. It is 105 feet in diameter and
329 feet in circumference from tip to tip
of its branches. The size of the trunk
and height of the tree are not given.
J. H. Lester,-who lives near McDon
ough, Ga., is 113 years old, having been
born in Rockingham, N. C., December
7, 1769. He distinctly remembers the
Revolutionary war, and when eleven
years old was detailed with other boys
to defend the women from the Tories.
He served under Gen. Floyd during the
war of 1812.
A horrible condition of affairs has
been developed in the “Saviour’s Home,”
an institution in Little Rock, Ark.,
which is supposed to be a charitable one.
From insufficient nourishment many of
the child inmates have been starved
nearly to death, and many of them will
die. The institution is conducted by
fanatics of the worst kind.
About Roses.
All roses flower more profusely if vig
orously pruned. It is best to cut the
old wood with an unsparing hand, for
the handsomest blossoms will spring
from fresh growth and young shoots
from the roots will bear the largest
cluster of buds. Hybrid perpetuals re
quire to be pruned as soon as their first
flowers have faded so as to produce a
•rood display of buds and blossoms in
September. They have no claims to the
title “perpetual” as they never bloom
but tw.ee in the -year and rarely that,
unless they are highly fertilized and
closely cut back when they have ceased
to bloom in early summer. They are
the most desirable of summer roses be
cause they have so luxuriant a growth
and possess the charms of brilliant col
orings and fragrance. Great advance
has been made during the past few
years in their varieties, which are now'
numbered by hundreds in the English
and French floral catalogues, and our
own florists <<-r them in large numbers
and at very low prices. Ten cents will
often buy a flourishing young plant
which, in two or three years if properly
treated, will become a large bush.
“Gen. Jacquemont” is a perpetual
whoso flowers are known to all lovers
of ro es and are in much demand for
winter bouquets. Among other desir
able varieties are “Arma Slexieft,”
“Beauty of Waltham,” “Boule de
Nieze,” “Coupe d’Hibe,” “Edward
Morreu,” “Jules Magottin,” “La-
F rance,” “Mabel Morrison,” “Mme.
Lacharme.” “Mme. Charles Wood,”
“Mar c Baumann,” “Bnronnede Roths
child,” and “Reynold’s Hole.” The
la-t n entione I was named for the
famous English rusarian who cultivates
some of the finest roses in England and
takes the prizes at all the rose exhibi
tions in his vicinity, and it is a rose of
remarkable beauty. None of this cla<s
of roses require protection during the
winter, but they will do better another
year if they are covered about the roots
with manure which can be dug into the
ground early in the spring. Large
bushes of roses should be lied up to
stakes made cither of small pine-trees
or of wood painted green. Watering
with liquid manure will increase the
beauty of roses at this season. That
made from the horse stable or the hen
roost will be more fertilizing than any
other. Do not put it on too str mg,
dse it will do more harm than good. It
is a goo I plan to fill a half-barrel one
quarter full with manure and add a
pound of copperas to it to keep the
worms awav; fill it up with waiter and
put i on the [/hints twice a week, tak
ing care not to touch the leaves. Make
the water the color of weak coffee if
ho: sc manure is used, the color of weak
tea if hen manure is [/referred. — Sprmg
field (Mass.) Republican.
Only One Life.
Too many farmers appear to be only
skirmishing around during the. present
life without any of the real enjoyments
which this world offers to everyone who
will gat her them. In the first place, if
he does not marry a good wife (and
there are a plenty of them running around
loose) the fatal mistake is made which
can never be remedied. If a man in
tends to be a farmer, and through that
channel of industry enjoy all of the
comforts and pleasures of life, he should
surround himself and family with as
many of the conveniences of life as his
means and industry can command. He
should keep in mind that on his farm
and with his family is the best place for
contentment and happiness. And the
best way to be happy is to make tils
family happy and his home pleasant.
Every hour needlessly spent away from
the home of domestic happiness is just
so much lost in the great sum of life's
comforts. One life—one home—one
wife —one aim—and one end to all of
life’s struggles and hopes. Without
happiness all work is a burthen, and
life a failure. — lowa State Register.
—The Imperial Gazette, a Chinese
newspaper, has the reputation of hav
ing been printed in consecutive series
for fifteen centuries.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1883.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Edison is still obtaining patents at the
rate of twenty-one a week,
■
Garibaldi, the Liberator, is to have
a monument in Baltimore.
The Treasury last week received 82
conscience money from Germany.
Os the 1,518 cases of smallpox in
Chicago last year 1,116 proved fatal.
——— > » ———
Retorts from Matamoras state that
many persons sick of yellow fever die of
fright.
Postmasters in Texas have been
ordered to fumigate the mails before
forwarding.
The Texas cattle Tever lias appeared
at Auburn, New York, and street ped
dling of beef has been stopped for six
weeks.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge is to
visit the United States this autumn.
He is the peer of Gladstone in elo
quence.
Susan B. Anthony finds much en
couragement for the woman suffrage
movement, and urges the Suffragists to
persevere.
The Lady Burdett-Coutts-Bartlett hae
arranged for the dispatch to Egypt of »
small staff of nurses, with all nursing
appliances, the moment their service®
are needed.
The Egyptian debt is £98,398,020,
of which £72,000,000 is held in England.
This and the commerce of Egypt and
the road to India are what England is
fighting for.
The United States is not likely to be
asked to send a delagate to the confer
ence of the Suez Canal question, and
the United States doesn’t care so very
much about it, either.
Having taken a solemn pledge not to
drink at a public bar, a young man of
Toronto has his favorite tipple brought
out by the bartender, and drinks it
standing on the sidewalk.
Cetywayo has learned to eat with a
knife and fork, and his favorite dish to
begin breakfast with is a mess of por
ridge and a bottle of whisky. The Zulu
King is becoming rapidly civilized.
The Philosophers of Concord, who
were duped by a Western sharper, have
several things to learn yet; among oth
ers, that of not placing too much confi
dence in a glib-tongued, prepossessing
stranger.
The Boston Transcript thinks it was
not surprising that Rev. Mr. Miln had
doubts of the existence of bell after liv
ing a year or two in Chicago. He looked
upon such belief as the rankest kind ■
tautology.
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Oscar Wilde has announced his in
tention to visit Japan. Every heart will
bound with joy at this news. America
is anxious to get rid of all the cranks she
can, and will bid Oscar an eternal adie«
with a smile on her lip.
London Truth astonishes the English
with the statement that “in some of the
smaller Western cities of America there
are more telephones than there are at
present in England.” The ordinary
Englishman, however, would not liko w
admit that.
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Fifteen thousand men and five thou
sand horses have been sent to Egypt
from England, and about ten thousand
men from India. Wolseley will proba
bly be able to muster for -the march or
Cairo, about fifteen thousand infantry
and five thousand cavalry.
Some one writes to the
Maine, Journal that “ cider drinking has
become a great evil among the rural
population of the State, as many labor
ing men will not work unless it is fur
nished them by the farmer, and many
farmers and farmers’ sons are too muck
addicted to its use.”
The Langtrys found the friendship
the Prince of Wales expensive, and l/fr
tween giving entertainments at which he
was present and the Irish land
their income of 815,000 a year melted
away. So Mr. Langtry was forced U
be contented with about a tenth of hit
original income, to supplement which
his wife took to the stage.
In Admiral Frederick de Lutke, Rue
sia loses one of her oldest sailors and
scientists. Born in 1797, he made the
voyage around the world with Captain
Julownin in 1817-19, and soon after be
gan that service of remarkable Arctic
explorations which got him the ear aud
the applause of the scientific world.
♦
Herbert Spencer is paying thi*
country a visit, the chief object of the
I visit being that of the recovery of his
health. No doubt part of his purpose 1
in coming was to learn something which
would be useful to him in the division of '
the great work on Sociology on which
he is now engaged—The Industrial De
velopment of Society—having finished
and published volumes on the Ceremo
nial and Political Development.
The celebration at Ogden’s Grove,
Chicago, for the purpose of raising
funds to erect a monument to the mem
ory of John Brown was one of the worst
managed and completes! failures of th*
century. Letters of regret were read
from many distinguished men, aud
nobody was there but a few of the
neighbors, aggregating 300 persons
The widow of John Brown, who lives
in California, was there, and delivered i
sl-*rt address.
The men of commerce, art and in
dustry who have given character an*,
tone to the Industrial Exposition of Cin
cinnati deserve well, not only of thei)
fellow-citizens, but of all who take ai
interest in the manufacturing industries
of the nation. There have been evi
dences of commendable improvement in
every succeeding exhibition, and the
public have good grounds to anticipate
for the tenth a perfection of order, dis
play aud excellence not previously at
tained. The classifications are a model
of fullness and elaboration. Its scenic
departments embrace everything in ma
chinery, manufactures and products,
and these are classified under eighty
five heads. Gold, eilver and bronze
medals and cash premiums are offered
in the different classes. The Exposition
opens September 6, aud closes October
7. The industrial parade on the day of
the opening will be the biggest thing
ever spen in Cincinnati, aud a spectacle
wonderfully interesting, instructive and
picturesque. The cars of seventeen
wards, already organized and at work,
will extend seventeen squares. As for
the Exposition itself, there is more
space now engaged than was occupied
by the last Exposition when it opened,
and the interest aroused is extraordina
ry and universal. All railroads center
ing in Cincinnati will sell tickets at re
duced prices.
Traveling by Hand-Car.
For several days past railroad men
on the Buffalo division have been both
ering their heads over a strange charac
ter whom they have seen running a
hand-car all by himself, and behaving
in a singular manner. Monday night
train No. 12 was stopped to avoid run
ning over him. Other trains have come
close upon him within the past few
days before he got his “special” off the
track. Yesterday Officer Mahar found
him near Dalton with his car. He was
brought to Hornellsville, and now oc
cupies a cell in the lockup, where he
was interviewed by a Times reporter.
He is a young man apparently not over
twenty-five years of age, of medium
size, with black hair and eyes and dark
complexion. He said that his name
was Martin Kastel, and that his home
was in Omaha, from which place he had
come on a first-class passenger-car.
Somewhere between Hunt’s and Dalton
he purchased his hand-car of a young
man, whose mother ratified the bargain.
On being asked what his plan was, he
replied that he thought that a nice way
to spend the summer would be to travel
around by himself on a hand-ear. He
had intended to move gradually along
to New York, gathering curious stones
and weeds by the way, and having a
quiet, restful time all by himself. He
said he had no idea of this trouble
when he started, and now he was will
ing to trade his hand-car for some prop
erty in this town if he could. On being
asked if he did not know that it was dan
gerous to travel as he had been doing,
he replied that, there was no danger at
all. “Why,” said he, “I never let a train
get within half a mile of me unless I hap
pen to meet one on a curve. Then I
just lift my ear off in two seconds. If I
had some chairs in here 1 would show
you how Ido it. lam safe if a train
gets within half a block of me before I
see it, and it is easy to get out of the
way if a train is two blocks off.” '1 he
young man asked the reporter how soon
the examination would take place, say
ing: “ I want to get out of this place
as’soon as possible.” — Hornellsville (N.
Y.) Tinies.
Superstition in Massachusetts.
There is a great deal of superstition
yet remaining in the most civilized
States of the world. < >ne of the most
recent illustrations of this comes from
Massachusetts. At Fall River, about a
year ago a house belonging to an aged
blind woman was sold under a foreclos
ure of mortage, and the old woman
cursed the parties concerned in the sale
and prayed that whoever took the house
might become blind. lhe purchaser,
another old lady, was deeply grieved by
her threats, and was never happy in the
house. Her health rapidly declined and
she took to her bed. For several weeks
before her death she was blind, and
some of her friends have thought that
the agitation caused by the old woman’s
curses worked upon her imagination and
finally caused her death. -Ex.
A man generally dislikes a girl
baby at two years, just her a
ten,’and worships her at eighteen.
Good Things Cost.
Yes, indeed, they do. Generally that
which we admire and which seems to
Us, perhaps, to be done so easily has
cost all that it is worth. And the rea
son why it does not seem so to us is be
cause we do not see when and where
and how the work is put in.
We are riding along and looking out
tq/on a beautiful landscape. We admire
the skillful arrangement of trees, and
shrubbery, and flowers, or the smooth
and gently sloping grounds. This is,
indeed, lovely, we say. How fortunate
the owner was to find such a place. But
some one replies, could you have seen
all this years and years ago, when it
was in a natural state, you might never
have dreamed of this. It has taken
much thought and hard work and great
expense to bring these grounds to their
present condition. Tell a man how a
thing has been done and he says:
“That’s easy to do.” Very possible,
now that you have been shown how to
do it, but could you have done it in the
first place? That is the real test. You
listen to a man wh »se mind is richly
stored with facts and thoughts and fruit
ful in combinations of these varied
stores, and as he expi .'sses the thought
which needed expression, perhaps you
say: how easy that wa» done. 1 could
have said it. Could yoil? Whydidyou
not then, before he did? Why not go
one step farther and give expression to
the next thought which, so soon as ex
pressed, the orator and all the people
shall say that was the right word right
ly spoken. That is the very word we
were waiting to hear. When the light
ning flashes you can see very clearly.
And, if you act quickly, you may take
all your bearings by its instantaneous
light. And such a flash of thought may
prove to you an apple k of gold.
But we want more than fitful gleams.
Ste idy lights are best. And he is the
true speaker whose light shines on clear
and true while it is at the same time
able to throw a great flood of radiance
on the dark spot when the right moment
comes.
Never say such things do not cost. I
tell you, if such a light blazes before
you and does not cost him who gives it,
then it is an ignis fatuis and will lure
him and you, too, on to destruction.
Great men are hard-working men.
Genius means a great capacity for work,
“Genius will work.” The men emi
nent in all the noble walks of life have
been, are now, great workers. They
are trained to endure, and when occa
sion requires, can. and do, labor tre
mendously.
You see a train fly down the track.
It goes easily, does it not? Swift and
strong, without friction and without
sign of labor, it shoots along. You
simply see the results. But what leads
to and insures these results?
So you look upon the outside appear
ances of great lives and see no signs of
heat, and noise, and worry, and weari
ness, and you state your proposition
that they lead easy, charmed lives.
Try it and see. Try to grapple with
the labors of some great legislator,
merchant, writer, or divine, lor even
one day. He who puts off the harness
makes the wisest statements. A truly
great man bears a great load easjly.
To do this enves the right to bear the
name.
Are you dazzled by the lives of Gen
erals, Senators, millionaires, or great
men of letters? Consider the cross
well ere looking at the crown. It is a
grand thing to win the crown. Try for
it. Try with all the manhood there is
in you. You are worth little if you do
not make the trial. But remember that
you only reach the high seats and wear
the crown after long, arduous, unre
mitting labors. Let no word of mine
discourage you. But try no short cuts.
Count the cost and then do valiant bat
tle. Determine to win all these good
things, but win them legitimately.
Great and good work merits and will in
due time receive a great reward.—
Golden Rule.
What the Ancients Believed.
Arrian, who flourished about the mid
dle of the second century of the Chris
tian era, was of a skeptical frame of
mind and had a who'esome distrust of
the evidence of eye-witnesses. He rid
iculed the old stories about ants that
dug up gold, and griffins that guarded
the precious metals, and declared that
none were to be found in those parts
of India that were visited by Alexander
and his officers. He describes, howev
er, a learned, or rather a musical ele
phant which “beat upon a cymbal while
several others danced to his music.
Two cymbals were hung between his
forelegs, and one tied to his proboscis
or trunk. He then striking the cymbal
which was tied to his trunk against the
others between his forelegs alternately,
the rest of the elephants moved round
him as in a dance, and lifted up or
bowed their bodies as fitly and justly
as the measure and reason of the sound
seemed to require, or as he who played
upon the instrument directed.'’ He
also speaks, though from hearsay, of
an elephant dying of grief because it
had killed its keeper in a moment of
frenzy. Nearchus, it seems, had ] ro
tested that he once saw the skin of a
tiger, and that the natives averred that
the animal, when alive, was as big as a
full-grown horse, and further, that it
would leap upon an elephant, and
strangk* it. Thereupon Arrian remarks
that those he saw were like speckled
wolves, only a little larger, so that he
never saw a tiger at all, but only a leop
ard. —All the lear Round.
-One lowa farmer on the bne ot the
Beven different bureau®.
TERMS; SI.OO A YEAR.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
—Ohio manufactured over four mill
ion pounds of plug tobacco last year.
—There are fifty-two breweries in
Brooklyn which produce 4,000,000 kegs
of lager annually, and paid a revenue
of $1,000,000. — N. F. Times.
—The corn crop of Texas this year is
estimated at 140,000,000 bushels. The
value of the agricultural products of that
State is $94,071,9^. — Chicago Tribune.
—Ninety-three thousands acres have
been planted under the new arboricul
ture act in Kansas. Preference is given
to the cotton tree on account of its rapid
growth.
—Two ninety-foot lathes, said to be
the largest in the world, have been
made for their own use by the South
Boston Iron-works. Each lathe con
tains 600,000 pounds of iron, and is in
tended for boring out cannon.— Boston
Post.
—The crop of Indian corn is one of
the most important and valuable in the
United States. The crop of 1880 was
estimated at 1,717,000,000 bushels; the
wheat crop of the same year was esti
mated at 498,000,000 bushels. It must
be considered the staple crop of the
Western and Southwestern States. In
1380, Illinois produced 240,000,000
bushels, as against 60,000,000 bushels
of wheat. The acreage of corn in Kan
sas the same year was 2,995,070 acres,
and the product 108,704.927 bushels,
against an acreage of 1,520,659 acres of
winter wheat, with a product of 17,560,-
259 bushels.
—lt is estimated that nearly 2,000,-
000,000 pounds of paper are produced
annually; one-half of which is used for
printing, a sixth for writing and the
remainder is coarse paper for packing
and other purposes. The United States
alone produces yearly 200,000 tons of
paper, averaging seventeen pounds per
head for its population. The English
man comes next with about twelve
pounds per head; the educated German
takes eight pounds; the Frenchman
seven pounds, whilst the Italian, Span
iard and Russian take respectively three
pounds, one-half pound and one pound
annually.— N. Y. Sun.
—The English are the best customers
for American canned salmon. Most of
the Sacramento River salmon go to the
Atlantic cities, but Liverpool draws the
bulk of its supply from Oregon, either
direct from the Columbia River or
through San Francisco. The Fraser
River salmon all go to England direct
from Victoria. Last season the Fraser
River sent 146,000 cases to Europe. It
is expected that as many more will be
canned there this season for the same
market. ThetColumbia River sent 380,-
700 cases direct to Europe for the year
ended March 31. Thus far this season
three cargoes have been cleared direct
from the Columbia River for England,
with 98,480 eases. < 'hicaao Times.
As Sensible as Most Duels.
Sheep’s-head, although hardly a flat
tering epithet or term of endearment/
is not regarded between man and man
in this country as an insult of so deep a
dye that the stain inflicted upon the
honor of a gentleman to whom this
compound noun may happen to be ad
dressed can only be washed out in blood.
That such, however, is the view taken
of its German equivalent, “Schafskopf,
in the Fatherland is conclusively demon
strated by the following lamentable oc
currence: A few days ago, in the an
cient City of Oldenburg, one Herr Jan
sen, an elderly barrister. Called upon an
acquaintance, the upper story of whose
dwelling was occupied by a r '"•’try
Lieutenant named
tor of a handsome point<«e and supe
he had sportively bestow ly -
Scharfskopf. The ■
stretched on the door 3 ,
came up to the door,
ment the Licutenant.jl, , (1
out of his second-floienusta. I*racti9»
at the top of his voic ,ute - J * lß —•
come up, will you?’ INr , s
summons to himself,
entering the house, '■'Sul’geOll,
unt l Fischer made 1 °
when, exclaiming: >
yourself,” he lent the ,
hearty box on the ear. F isener'’** /. — -
was in mufti, retorted with a walking
stick. and the result of this misunder
standing was a hostile meeting. Jansen
tired first, inflicting a slight flesh wound
upon his adversary, whereupon Fischer,
in no way ruffled by his hurt, stretched
the too-hasty advocate dead upon the
ground with a bullet through his heart.
—London Telegraph.
Odd Moments.
It is often the odd moments that are
the most valuable and offer the best
privileges for acquiring knowledge, or
doing some little act of charity. It was
Schliemann, whose books on Troy and
Myceme are much sought by the learned,
who said that he never went on his er
rands, even in the rain, without having
his book in his hand and learning some
thing by heart, and he never waited at
the post-office without reading. Some
who read this may complain of their
odd moments being so few, and seem to
look upon half an hour as a trifling thing
to gain any knowledge; but it is these
odd moments and half hours that are so
valuable, and give such rare opportuni
ties for improving the mind and heart.
The odd moments of most men are, in
reality, the only time that they can call
their own. All the working hours are
occupied in making a l even
belong to their employers, and
ings and an occasional
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great things can be mm
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