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VOL. V.--NO. 9.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Q ne of the most successful cotton
growers in Alabama is a negro.
Texas will have over 200 new distil
leriesby the close of the present year.
The colored Baptists in Tennessee
number 60,000 and have 150 churches.
Work on the jetties in harbor at
Charleston, South Carolina, has been
resumed.
In spite of the overflow, probably in
consequence of it, the Louisiana sugar
crop is the beet since the war.
Jack Butler, who burned his little
child tG death at Florance, Ala., has
been sent to the penitentiary for life.
The Nickle church, to be built at Pal
estine, Tex., is t® be paid for by not less
than 200,000 persons contributing a
nickle a piece.
Para grass grows to an enormous
length in Florida. Near Orange City
some is growing that is eighteen feet
and a half long.
A terrapin farm has its existence at
Waveland, Miss., and last week 900 lit
tie turtles were hatched. They will be
full grown in three years.
In Heard eountv, Georgia, resides a
family of eight persons, named Ray, all
[of whom are deaf mutes. Nevertheless,
they are all industrious and happy.
The average corn crop in Tennessee is
60,006,000 buehels, but it will reach
100,000,000 bushels this year. The
'wheat crop will reach nearly 12,000,000.
The Farmer’s Co operative Union, of
[Florida, are said to have secured a sim
pie but effectual plan for preparing or
anges for market in such a manner that
they will keep for months.
The monument to be erected at Vicks
burg, Miss., to the memory of Gari
baldi, will be surmounted by a life sized
statue of that personage, and will be one
of the finest in the United States.
A large shot-tower is to be erected in
New Orleans by a local company who
I have abundant means and plenty of ex
[perience. The tower will be the eleventh
in the I nited States when completed.
The o f railroad building and
>ailroad business in the South last year
was unprecedented. About 1,500 miles
of road were put in operation, and the
gW's earnirgs amounted to $63,000,000
i Roberts & Salter, ‘of Bullock county,
Ala., had twenty-six acres of heavy
t'ml < rt<l oottom land which they want
e * Hca.eft. In ten hours 106 axmen
200 log rollers and brush pilen
•ooipleted the job.
* he H()t Springs creek on the Gov
mment reservation at Hot Springs,
. 1810 be strengthened and protect
' r °“ Bewa ? e and refuse, and
generally to have $127,000 worth of im
provements puj & n it.
reu. J'™ es ‘ D K emocrat ’ in an article on
e heahh o f New Orleans, claims that
JJere r Cno|egß
eighteenth',7t- IXly ° f age Or one ‘
h -e passed WhHe 19&
grave yard <7 be buiU ° Ver a
s>x years , . maßtodon8 > an 'l for five or
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bones Al’ t 0 >nng up their
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mous size. f1 Xe b ° nes were of enor -
F?th ( f t tbe P r nee ’ Stonewa, l
Nation's i a Chief Ml rria g e
fined $ 2 Ark ” h -e
ordinance whiel " ' ['•[ Vlola, . lD g a cit y
Prises being <•« \ liroblbit s “gift’ enter
8t «t* Gazette i U 7 Cd ‘ n that City> The
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heen oioained i, a . c,lorad man has
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° al - v a fe W , ,b server : It has
E Hid 'ien, a „ p " ths einc e Prof. W
'h'tingui,] ied eleeirr 6 ° f Edißon > the
at tenno n o f the
Ulic Dalton
world the now far famed hiddenite. 11°
has now discovered atoothcr stone only
a little lew Valuable, if any, than the
gem which bears his name. He beliWves
it to be a new mineral, Unknown to sci
entific geologists, perfectly transparent,
resembling the diamond, but belonging
to a different geological! amily. It is one
degree softer than quarto) ot higher lus
ter, complex fbfm, and he propo es to
on!' it Edisonite. It is found in the
neighborhood of the place in Alexander
eounty where he discovered the hidden
ite. ___________
The Probable Wheat Yield.
The only statistics which have yet
been given for the yield per acre of the
present crop are those of Illinois, where
the official report places the yield at 181
bushels per acre, against 17-7 in 1880.
It is. of course, not assumed that the
yield per acre in Illinois is to be ac
cepted as the average for the United
States. But there are some reasons
why the yield per acre in Illinois may
be accepted as an index to the average
yield of the United States, in preference
to accepting the yield of almost any
other one State as such an index: First
—lllinois is the largest wheat-raising
Slate in tho Union, and in the three
years from 1879 to 1881 inclusive pro
duced about twelve per cent, of all the
wheat raised in the United States.
Second—lllinois lies nearly in the center
o. the group of ten States comprising
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consin, Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska,
Kansas and Missouri, which produced
in 1880 about three-fourths of the Wheat
crop of the United States. Illinois may
therefore be presumed to represent the
average of the meteorological experience
and crop conditions of this group of
States. In 1880 the average; yield pet
acre in Illinois was 16*7 bushels, while
that of the United States was 13-1
bushels per acre. Illinois was therefore
22 per cent, above the general average.
It is an established fact that the average
yield of wheat per acre in different sec
tions of the United States con
tinues at about the same rela
tive difference, as, for instance,
the average in the Southern States is
always only about half as much per acre
as in the group of States above men
tioned while in the far Northwest the
yield is always greater per acre than in
the ten States mentioned. There seems
no objection, therefore, to assuming that
certain States are always above and oth
ers always below the general average of
the United States. Now, if wD may as
sume that the present yield of 181
bu-hels in Illinois is also about 22 per
cent, above the average, it would make
for the United States say
14 43-100 bushels per aero, or just about
10 per cent, over 188i>, Which, upon an
area of 37,000,000 acres, would be 533,-
910,000 bushels, a result which differs
less than the hilf of one per cent, from
our previous estimate, which was made
W’thout any such calculation as produces
the present figures.
Some argument will of course be made
against assuming an increased average
yield per acre of ten per cent, over the
crop of 1880. But it will be remember
ed that there has been no year before
this when the crops of spring wheat ami
v :nt "’heat were both good—except
possibly 1877, when the average crop of
wheat throughout the United States was
13 86-100 bushels peracre, or onlyaoout
four per cent, less than we have as
sumed as the average yield per acre for
the present crop to produce an aggre
gate of 533,910,000 bushels on 37,000,-
000 acres.— N. K Evening Post.
Chines* Infanticid".
Wo have all heard the Chinsse
charged with infanticide. We believe
that crime to be less prevalent wit h t hem
than it is with us. If children are over
exposed, as has been seen on a wayside
a tar near llonam, we believe that bitter
want and a hope that charity would
provide for the child better than the
mother could have been the moving
causes. As a general rule, self-interest
acts as the strongest bar to this vice.
That the life of the male children should
be preserved is most important, as the
Chinese law will compel the sons to
maintain their parents, and in the event
of all the sons dying no one would be
able to offer that worship at the tomb of
ihe father and mother on which their
happiness in another state is supposed
to depend. With the girls preservation
is almost as important, and they are a
marketable commodity either as wives
or as servants. Indeed, it is no very rare
thing to see a basketful of babies sent
down from Canton to Hong Kong for
sale at prices ranging from $2 to $5.
These are all girls. In denying the ex
istence of infanticide it is necessary to
make one exception. This is among the
Tan-kia, or boat population. These are
a race of people of different descent and
religion from the Chinese, governed by
their own magistrates, and so looked
down upon by the other classes that no
child of a boat-woman can compete in
the literary examinations, or, whatever
his ability may be, become an aspirant
for office. This class is excessively su
perstitious, and we have heard it stated
by missionaries that when a child be
longing to people of this class suffers
from any lingering malady, and recovery
becomes hopeless, they will put it to
death with circumstances of great cruel
ty, believing it not to be their child but
a changeling, and fancy that a demon
ha- taken the place of their offspring for
the purpose of entailing on them expense
and trouble for which they could never
gel any return.—Tenure bar.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAI.
A young Boston widow this sbasoti
wore a bathing suit of full mourning.
Senator Pendleton’s new home in
Washington has large gdded sunflowers
at the top of the lightning rods)
A French artist has represented Time
as a woman instead of a man. He ar
gues that women have more of it than
anybody else.
The centeunary of Bolivar is to be cel
ebrated on July 24, 1883, at Caraccas,
Venezuela, by the dedication of a statue
of Washington.
The Flathead Indians have agreed to
allow a railroad to be built across their
reservation in Montana, upon the pay
ment of $23,000. The price asked was
$1,000,000.
The $1,000,000 bequeathed by Mr.
Lewis, of New Jersey, to the govern
ment, to be applied towards extinguish
ing the national debt, will make its ap
pearance in the next monthly statement.
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Robert T. Lincoln has shipped from
Springfield, Illinois, to Washington
sixty-two trunks belonging to hifi
n other, which Weke filled with dress
goods ahd trinkets purchased in Europe.
* * — II
Mr. Burnham, a scientic Connect!
cut farmer, recently sold One of his young
cow-3 for $4,800. This animal, in 372
days, has given in milk ten times her
own weight—lo,ooo pounds—and 1,000
pounds of bttttef,
A Californian has invented a sheep
counting machine. It counts up to
10,000, registers the number, then gives
a snap, jumps back, and begins count
ing again. It never misses a sheep, old
or young, f it or lean.
Fifty young ladies from six counties
of North Cal’oliua, took part in breaking
ground for the Clinton and Point Cas
well Railroad, near Raleigh, recently.
They plied their shovels with great
vigor, and were applauded by 5,000
spectators,
Mrs. Langtry, according to the latest
rumor, will be accompanied to this
country by a band of male admirers,
something after the style of the lovesick
maidens in “Patience.” An English
nobleman, it is said, will be the leader
of the party.
♦ ♦ «
President Barrios, of Guatemala, re
ceives a salary of SI,OOO a month. He
has been in office twelve years, and is
worth $8,000,000. The debt of bis
country is $9,000,000 and growing,
which would seem to indicate that he
does not allow any one else to take
much.
• ——
Acting on the suggestion that letter
postage be reduced to two cents a half
ounce, a Post office Department official
has figured out that on that basis the
deficit of last year, one of the most pros
perous in. the history of the service,
would be $10,600,000, instead of a sur
plus of $1,500,000.
Kings and Princes are getting down
nowadays to the same prosaic, business
like ways of thinking and doing as other
mortals. . Oscar 11., sovereign of Swe
den and-Norway, being about to under
take a journey to the latter country, has
had liis life insured in favor of his fam
ily for the sum of 6,000 crowns.
A training school for servants has
just been established at St. Louis under
the management of leading ladies < f
that city. Practical housekeeping in all
its departments will comprise the course
of training, and a nursery for poor chil
dren, where they shall also be taught to
"sew and sweep aud spin, is to be at
tached.
It is proposed to perform an operation
on the eyes of Thurlow Weed, who has
been blind for five years, with the hope
of restoring his sight. It is intended to
cut away the double cataract over his
eyes and fit a double convex lens of glass
accurately in front of the eye, so focussed
as to properly cast an image upon the
retina. If the retina has not lost its
sensitiveness, it is thought that he will
De able to see.
The sealskin clothes worn by Engi
neer Melville during his terrible experi
ences in the Arctic regions are objects of
much inti rest at the Navy Department,
Washington. Among the relics is a
brilliantly Colored foxskin cap belonging
to Lieut. Berry, which was presented to
him by an Esquimaux damsel. She con
fiscated his old cap because it was not
pretty, and gave him oue she had made
herself in return.
A new use has been discovered for
potatoes. They can be converted into »
substance resembling celluloid by peel
ing theffi, and, after soaking in water,
impregnated with eight parts of sulph
uric acid, drying aud pressing between
sheets of blotting paper. In France,
pipes are made of this substance, scarce
ly distinguishable from meerschaum. By
subjecting the mass to great pressure
billiard balls can be made of it rivaling
ivory in hardness.
A Rfew style of car is aboitt id bfe in
troduced on the Southern Pacific Rail
road, destined to be run from California
to the gulf as wheat cars, and on their
return as emigrant cars. The interior
will be like other freight cars. Along
thb sides will 1)0 Sleeping blinks, lowered
and suspended by an iron rod and hinge,
but capable of being closed up flush
when fri ight is Carried. There are win
dows, of course, and it is said the cars
will be as Comfortable and warm as tne
most luxurious Pullman sleeping cat.
At the marriage of Mr. and Mrs.
George Hafris, at Mount Meridian. Vir
ginia, the bride refused to say “Yes” to
the question whether she would obey
her husband. She said that she saw’ no
reason in such a promise, and he con
cluded that no harm would be done by
omitting it, pinee be intended to “make
her rand anyhow.” Two years elapsed,
and a few days ago the unsettled ques
tion arose again, George ordered his
wife to fry a chicken for dinner, and she
insisted dn fdasting it. He brought in a
horsewhip and declared that he would
flog her until she obeyed. She shot and
killed him.
A UrenCh savant, has called in the aid
of Darwin’s theory of evolution to ex
plain the graceful gait of the Parisian
ladies. According to his reasoning the
streets of Pas s Were tot rt long time af
ter the foundation of the city in a very
poor condition, as is indeed apparent
from its original name—Lutetia, or the
“City of Mud.” The Parisian ladies, in
order not to soil their shoes, were forced
to walk on tip-toe, which in due time re
sulted in high heels, and finally in that
charming gait which is the admiration
and envy of all the women of the civil
ized worlds
Heining a Horst!*
One of the most senseless, and yet a
very common habit of the American
people, is the reining of driving horses
SO tight Us to Inflict iipofi tliein ti great
deal of pain, under the mistaken idea
that it adds to the stylish appearance of
the animal. When people see a horse’s
head drawn up by the bearing rein, and
see him stepping short and champing
the bit, tossing his head and rattling tho
harness, they assume that he is acting
In the pride of liis strength and fullness
of spirit, whereas the animal is really
suffering agonies of pain, and is trying
to gain by these movements momentary
friele. To our view, a horse looks bet
ter, and we know he feels better, when
pursuing a natural, leisurely, swinging
gait. It is as necessary for his head to
oscillate in response to the motions of
his body as it is for a man’s hands to do
the same tiling. A horse allowed his
head will work easier and last longer
than one on which a check is used.
Blinds are another popular absurdity
in the use of horses. They collect dust,
pound the eye and are in every way a
nuisance. A horse that cannot be driven
With safety without them should be sold
to a railroad grader. No colt should be
broken to them.—Lincoln (Neb) Jour
nal.
Beans as Food.
The nutritive value of beans is very
great—greater than almost any other
article of food in common use. Consid
ering their richness they are probably
the cheapest food we have, but some
what difficult of digestion, probably
owing to the fact that we rarely cook
them enough and masticate them in
sufficiently. In preparing beans for the i
table they- should first be well soaked
in cold water and then thrown into boil
ing v. ater and cooked until of a medium
consistency between a fluid and a
solid--neither too thick nor too thin.
They require some acid on them when
eat?n, and a sufficient amount of salt to
render them palatable. They may be
ea'en with potatoes or other vegetables
which contain more starch and less albu
men rather than with too much bread
or meat. In Germany there is a process
patented, by which beans and all legu
minous seeds are reduced to a very line
Hour and rendered capable of being
used as food by the most delicate per
sons. We have samples of this four,
which equal in fineness the best wheat
flour, and it is used extensively for
m 'king soup for invalids. These soups
are worth a hundred times as much us
beef tea. There is a fortune awaiting
any one who will prepare a flour from
beans as perfect as this flour from Ger
many. Bean soup, rightly made, is ex
ceedingly delicious and wholesome, ami
ought to be used more extensively than
it is. — Sanitarian.
—Sage and other herbs which you
wish to keep for use in the winter should
be gathered on a dry day. If they are
perfectly dry when gathered you can
sift them at once, and with very little
trouble. But them away in tin cans
(the cans in which prepared coeoanut
comes are nice for this purpose); keep
them where it is dry. Herbs which you
do not care to sift can be tied m bundtes
and lung up after the fashion ot our/
grandmothers. —A’. oge -
The Piano.
The old idea was that a piano was
bought and brought to the house with
much bruising of its beautiful legs and
much mtlfflea profanity on the part of
the draymen, to be played on. What
superlative nonsense! What a stale and
preposterous suggestion! What a relic
Os barbaric ignorance! A piano to be
played on! Go tO.
Thank the stars the days of atlch stu
pidity are over, and the true, sole and
hatiiral use of a piano is becoming
generally understood. A piano is put
into a house sos these simple pur
poses and none other. Its top is de
signed as a place for a photograph al
burn, a brilliant lamp-mat and a vase of
flowers. Its rack is intended as a rest
for an open book—an open book cov
eted with pictures of farm, and fences,
upofi Which are perched innumerable
black birds. Its stool is placed there
for the nervous young man In company
to sit on and whirl, and writhe and
wriggle. Its richly carved legs are
Sprawled out for near sighted and awk
ward people to run against, and upon
being solicitously asked by the hostess
if they are hurt, to reply, with the hot
tears of anguish gushing into their
eves: “Not in the least; only just grazed
it.”
Such are the legitimate uses of an
able bodied and well-limbed piano in
its various parts and proportions. As a
Whole the piano serves two other and
holder purposes. The one is it imparts
character, Stateliness and an air of
affluence to a household establishment.
The proud-spirited host points to the
rosewood instrument and seems to say
to his assembled guests: "You behold
that majestic in-tfurtlefiL It is grand,
square and upright. Is it not symbolic
of its owner—is he not grand, square
and upright?” Os course nobody can
play on it—not one of his quartet of
daughters—but it Is to be remembered
that it was not put there to play on, and
who would ask its owner to put it to per
verse use?
But after all the real mission of a
piano in the house is this—a place for a
Young lady to sit and idly turn the
leaves of ti blackbird book, and a some
thing for a young gentleman to hang
over aud now and then breathe softly
in the young lady’s ear to let her know
that he is growing weak, but he still
lives. It iS ail affecting sight to observe
a young man hang over rt piano. Few
young men know how to bang over a
piano ill good form. One must not
bend too low, as if he were looking for a
lost sleeve button or a nickel, nor yet
be too rigid and inllexib'e, like a wood
en soldier oil a weather vane. A com
promise of these attitudes with a little ob
lique leaning toward the stool and its
Occupant is about the correct thing in
piano hanging.
Now and then byway of novelty an
attempt is made on a grand social occa
sion to actually play the piano. A dis
mal young man leads an exhaustive
young lady to the piano. An awful
silence pervades the drawing room.
The somber young man slowly lifts the
lid, as if he was about to view the re
mains of the last relative he had on
earth. The young lady wildly runs her
fingers over the keys —there is a sob, a
wail, a vociferation of violent grief, a
cry of comfortless despair and ail is
over. The young lady sinks upon Lia
nearest so f a. The young man lowers
the lid, turns away his head and is seen
no more.
Verily, the day of superstition and
mistaken ideas is over, and piano play
ing has passed away with the many fol
lies and foibles of our purblind and un
cultured ancestry. — New London Tele
gram.
Wanted to Move Slowly.
Last fall, when one of the small towns
out West got the manufacturing fever,
the citizens held a meeting to see what
inducements should be held out for cap
italists to come there and invest. One
speaker said they could afford to donate
ten acres of ground for a factory. An
other said the town could add 500,000
brick. A third moved that the citizens
turn out and give 100 days’ work on the
building. A fourth said he could prom
ise a house for the superintendent to
live in, and a fifth would start a sub
scription paper to buy the machinery
and boilers for the factory. During a
break in the popular enthusiasm an old
tanner arose and solemnly said: “Gen
tlemen, I think the enterprise of our
town will build the chair factory, fur
nish houses, rent free, for all the oper
atives, and buy a year’s supply of lum
ber to work on, but when we go beyond
that let’s move slowly. We don’t want
to promise to buy the foreman any hair
oil or hair dye until we know whether
he is bald-headed or not!”— Wall Street
News.
A Chase for a Baby.
There was a funny chase for a baby
at Plainville, Conn., on Wednesday
morning. A woman stepped from a
train a moment to question the agent,
and the train pulled out suddenly with
out her, carrying off her baby. Her
frenzy moved the good ticket agent to
telegraph to Bristol and order tlfe baby
returned. The train dropped the infant
at Forestville, and a good man footed
it thither and lugged the baby back to
Plainville. The mother, meantime
grown impatient, had gone to Forest
ville on the engine of a grave ‘
back went the good man with h h.‘bv
lo Forestville, there to learn ,
frantic mother 'W'.nod to the I
TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—Ben Hill’s last words were spoken
to his pastor, Rev. C. A. Evans, and
were: “ Almost home.”
—Secretary Folger, of the Treasury,
is called a perfect picture of Benjamin
Franklin, and with good reason, for
Franklin’s mother was a Folder.
o I
—Says F. J. Furnivall, the Shakespe
rian critic: "Shakespeare’s own five
signatures prove that the most authentic
form of spelling his name is • Shaks
pere.’ ”
—Roza Bonheur is sixty-two years old
and has quit wearing pantaloons and
dresses like any other woman. This
leaves Mary Walker in the full enjoy
ment of a dangerous monopoly.—
Hawkeye
—Hans Von Bulow, the pianist, is go
ing to marry a woman named Maria
Amalia Katharina Josepha Schauzer.
When she adds Von Bulow she will
have a real seven-octave name.— Lowell
(ottrii r.
-Berlioz, the composer, when he
was in love, said to the adored one:
"Ariel, I adore you, I bless you; in a
word, 1 love you more than the weak
1 ranch tongue can say; give me an or
chestra of 100 performers and a chorus
of 150 voices and I can tell you. ”
—The best prose sentence ever writ
ten on this side of the Atlantic, accord
ing to Mr. E. P. Whipple, is this from
Emerson’s lecture on Shakespeare:
“The recitation begins; one golden
word leaps out immortal from sul this
painted pedantry, and sweetly torments
us with invitations to its own inaccessi
ble homes.”
- Some Sanscrit manuscripts of parts
of the bible of the Buddhists have been
foltnd in Japan. It is thought that
many relics in Sanscrit of great value
may yet be discovered in China and
Japan, though probably' not any that
will have any important bearing upon
the religion either of the Jews or of the
Christians. — Chicago Journal.
—Antoine Gerin-Lajoie, who recent
ly died at Ottawa, will be long remem
bered by his countrymen in Canada, for
he wrote their national song. "Le Ca-’
nadien Errant.” There is hardly a man,
Woman or child in Canada who does
not know the simple song by heart, and
it can be heard almost any evening
among the Canadians of New England
factory towns and in the French settle
ments of the far West. — N. Y. Sun.
—A correspondent relates the follow
ing incident in the life of the Rev. Will
iam Arthur, father of the President:
"While presiding over the Baptist
Church in West Troy, his choir drawled
out the hymn with variations, which did
not please him, so he took his text and
preached two hours and forty minutes.
His head deacon grew impatient and
consulted his watch. ‘ Keep your watch
in vour pocket, Deacon Jones,’ said he,
‘you hail a long sing, and now I am go
ing to preach till 1 get through.
Chicago Herald.
Harmony in Human Life.
Our surroundings should be harmoni
ous with our life. It is not necessary
to sound the same notes to produce
harmony. The word implies blending,
but it almost forbids repetition. Nat
ure is the great teacher. Her means
aii<l ends are consistent with each other.
Nature understands too well the art of
harmony to attempt impossibilities. She
is always up to the mark, but she does
not overstep herself. Where the soil
will not grow lilies and roses, she con
tents herself with daisies, but left t<
herself, she will always cover man s
mistakes with a carefully spun shroud.
It is to learn this lesson more perfect’ Q
that in later life we m e drawn
from mankind to live with Na'ur ( '
fuller growth takes place L. 'TT
ourselves in unigofi'with all we see,
when intercourse with nature restores ill
us th<j balance that human conflict has 3
destroyed. Life in great cities is in
imical to harmony. The clash of interests
is too tierce, and those who live much
in great centers of human effort cannot
bus ain the sense of harmony, unless
■tljey ®btne away for a time. Ihe form
and manner of modern soc etv increase
the difficulty. The multitude of ac
quaintances, and the little time given
(6 each, make intercourse necessarily
broken-and unharmonious. Conversa
tion takes the form of epigram, and
each .sentence must be cast into such a
form as not necessarily to demand a
second for its completion. By degrees,
our thoughts follow our words, and
each opinion becomes rounded and
finished oft to fit into each question that
mav arise. Nothing can be viewed as
a whole—we are too near to its de
tails. So near are we in great cities
that it is almost impossible not to take
each detail for the whole. Then arises
irritation, from the sense of the un
fitness of each separate opinion ex
pressed to bear the structure of our
whole, line of thought. We have
uttered an epigram, but we have not
slated our judgment as it really is. To
do that requires time and opportunity,
which society, neglectful of the in
dividual in its care for the whole, can
not afford to any one of its members.
The utterance, unfathered and without
offspring, must stand or fall by itself,
while we may be thankful if we are not
through it 'labeled and placed in a
\ pigeon-hole to which we are as
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