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A Song or Lore.
The love of the Great for the Less
Is the Sun’s free way;
The love of the Like for the Like
■k Is the Day's glad love of the Da
‘*But atom and mote can tell
's&. Of a nobler love,
In glory and beauty beyond,
In blessedness far above.
ft
’Tis the love of the Less for the Great,
„>The yearning desire
Of the Poor to attain the Complete,
> Of the Low to embrace the Higher;
The longing and love of the year
. For the Spring unborn,
The love of the Brook for the Sea,
The love of the Night for the Morn.
—[Robertson Trowbridge in Independent.
THE LOST SPECTACLES.
BY EMMA A. OrrEß.
*1 laid 'em right down here,” said
Mr. Bennett; “and now they’re gone."
Myra looked up from the long sup
per-tablo she was clearing, with a sur
prising lack of agitation. She had not
kept house for Mr. Bennett for the two
years since his wife had died without
learning that he was very probably the
most absent-minded old gentleman in
the world.
“Laid ’em right down here," Mr.
Bennett repeated, fumbling about on
the kitchen window-sill; “and now
they ain’t here. Funny!”
He spoke querulously; and after a
long, hard day with the thrashers it
was not much to be wondered at.
“Aro you sure you left them there? ’
said Myra. She had put the same question
on a hundred previous occasions; but
she spoke patiently. She had had a
hard day, too, —getting dinner and sup
per for eleven men was no light task,
but Myra’s sweetness was never ruffled.
You could have guessed that with one
look into her soft, calm, pretty blue
eyes.
“Am I sure?" said Mr. Bennett,
sharply, dropping into a chair and wip
ing his face with a red handkerchief.
“Mow, what’s the use of saying that,
Myry? Don’t I always know where I
lay my spectacles? I recollect putting
’em down there, jest after supper; and
then I stepped out to settlo up with
Yarick, and fussed ’round the barn a
Mttle, and now I come back and they’re
gone. I recollect it,’’said Mr. Bennett,
as though his recollection was a thing
not to be disputed. “And they’re my
best gold-bowed glasses; I don’t wear
’em common. I don’t know what I put
them on today for. Jest to get ’em
stole, Is’pose.”
“Stole?’’ said Myra, in shocked re
monstrance.
“Wal, I’ve got my * suspicions," Mr.
Bennett responded, crossing his legs
with a jerk. “I've got ’em. What
do you think, anyhow, o’ folks that
hire out to Varick to thrash for a dol
lar a day, a-wearing white shirts and
collars, and having hands just as white
as that plate? What do you think of it?”
Mr. Bennett demanded, conclusively.
Myra’s gentle face, bent over the
butter-dish she was scraping, flushed
warmly.
“Do you mean Mr. Goodwin?” she
faltered.
“How'd you know him?" said Mr.
Bennett, suspiciously.
“Oh, I—l’ve met him!” said Myra,
timidly. “He’s staying with the Blacks,
next door to Aunt Mary’s. Hu’s Mr.
Black’s nephew; and he’s in Aunt
Mary’s sometimes. I’ve met him there.’
“H’ml hev —hev you?" said Mr.
Bennett, with a contemptuous grunt.
“Wal, you better let him alone; that’s
my advice. If I ain’t loosing my guess,
he ain’t fit for nobody to meet!”
Myra, rod-cheeked, and brushing the
table-cloth with fluttering hands, was
silent.
“Does it look jest right," said Mr.
Bennett, sternly, “for a young man—
a slick and good-looking feller though
he be—to be going around with Varick's
thrashers, with them citified ways—”
“He’s doing it on account his
health,” said Myra, bravely interrupt
ing. “He came away from the city tor
country air and exercise, and he’s inde
pendent enough to take the exercise in
a way that will bring him a little
money. He isn’t rich.”
“How do you come to kliow so
much!’ said Mr. Bennett, acridly.
‘•Told you, elf Wal, it’s my advice
not to let him tell you any more. Won’t
no good come of it. I tell ye I’ve got
my suspicions. It ain’t jest ri ht,
eon’t care what you say; something
wrong about it. For a teller like that
to go round thrashing, in them
clothes —■’’
“I suppose they’re all the clothes ho
has with him,” said Myra, patient y.
“In them clothes, and with that air
o’hi". You need’t tell me! ’ Mr. Ben
nett ended, vaguely but immovably.
“Yes, his manners are better than
Byd Young’s, or Varick’s,” said Myra,
looking ruefully at the stained cloth
where Varick had eaten. “But is that
anything against him, Mr. Bennett?"
“Wnl, 1 know jest as well as I want
to where them glasses hev gono to,"
aaid Mr. B.nnett, with stubborn irato
ness.
“Do yru seriously think that M*.
Goodwin has taken then !” sail Myra,
her pretty eyes remonstrantiy wide.
“Pretty clear seems to me,*
said Mr. Bennett, doggedly. “There
wouldn’t another one o’them men’a
done it; I know ’em aIL I wan’t over
pleased with him fust minute •! see
him."
Myra put the goblets into the dish
pan silently.
“I can gener’ly tell when a man ain’t
honest," Mr. Bennett proceeded, with
growing confidence, “dnd that feller
ain’t. He see them glasses and he took
’em; ho didn’t s’pose ho’d be suspi
cioned. He’s calc’l&ting to soli ’em
soon as ho gits back to the city. Clear
case, I consider. He’ll git come up
with, though. He won’t git out o
town with them glasses.’’
“Ho couldn’t have taken them, Mr.
Bennett, said Myra. “He didn’t go
near the window-silL”
“How do you know ho didn’t?” Mr.
Bennett domanded, tartly. “Wal, yis,
come to recollect—hanging round you
after supper, wan’t he?”
Myra’s cheeks flamed, and her lips
trembled; Mr. Bennett’s tone was gruff.
“Yis!” Mr. Bennett got up and
went rambling about the room, agi
tatedly. “And I don’t s’pose you’ll
hear to reason no more’n most gals will.
You’re took with a good-looking face
and smart ways, and you don’t sec the
rascality behind ’em, nor you won’t be
madß to. You’re jost like the hull
tarnal set of ’em 1”
"Mr. Bennett!” cried Myra, her tears
dropping into the <• ish-water.
“Wal, I liain’t nc.hing to say about
it. You’ll hev to go your own way, ’
said Mr. Bennett, sternly. “All I bev
got to say is, he don’t git out o' this
town with them glasses. I’ll hev the
law—”
A tall, bowing form and a handsome,
smiling face wero at the door. Mr.
Goodwin looked in pleasantly at Mr.
Bennett and Myra.
“Ohl" Myra faltered, hurriedly dry
ing her and smiling hack at him.
“I must apologize for bursting in in
this way," scid the young man; but bis
quiet, gentlemanly entrance could hard
ly be called a burst. “And my errand
is hardly of enough importance. I could
have waited—•’*
He looked at Myra, shyly.* It was
plain that his errand was the lessor at- 4
traction.
Mr. Bennett stood with folded arms
and hostile eyes. Myra, tremulous with
apprehension, placed a chair for the
young man.
“I am sorry to bother you,” sail Mr.
Goodwin, in a pleasant apology, “but I
have lo3t my scarf-pin somewhere here*
about?. Of course there is every chance
of its having fallen out while I was at
work. Feeding bundles of wheat to a
threshing machine is pretty well cal
culated to loosen scarf-pins," he said,
laughing. “But possibly I
dropped it here, either at the dinner or
supper I enjoyed so hugely." Ho
smiled at Myra. “I am so sorry to
trouble youl Just a glance tho
floor will discover it, if it is here.”
“Certainly I” said Myra, and opened
the west window-blinds for more light.
Mr. Bennett eyed the young man
sternly.
“Seems to me its a pretty good joke
you a-comlng here after something
you’ve missed 1” he snapped.
Mr. Goodwin betrayed his astonish
ment at the remark only by his sileoce.
Myra gazed at Mr. Bennett in plead
ing misery.
“What I should call a good joke,"
Mr. Bennett repeated, with a chuckle,
“b’pose you want to search the house?”
“My dear sir," tho young min ejacu
lated in shocked amazement, “is it pos
sible that you suspect me of suspecting
you? Believe me, nothing could be
further from my thoughts! How can I
persuade you —
“Like to look through my pockets,
wouldn’t you?” Mr. Bennett pursued,
with grim irony. “Wal, I’ll give you
a chance if you’ll let me look through
yours fust."
“Mr. Bennett!” cried Myra, implor
ingly.
Mr. Goodwin wasdistresscdly speech
less.
‘‘Guess we’d better do it. Guess I’d
better go after the constable and hev it
done souaro,” said Mr. 8.-nnctt.
And he reached up to the clock-shelf
and took down his second-best hat
which lay there.
And then they all saw —tho little
gold scarf-pin, lying on the spot which
the hat bad covered. And Myra and
Mr. Bennett saw, al o the shining,gold
bowed spectacles, shoved to tho back of
the sh-'lf.
Mr. Bennett gasped. His honest old
face turned from red to white, and his
L sees trembled so that he sank to a
chair.
“Wal," he mutterod tremulously, and
w is weakly silent.
Mr. Goodwin went across the room to
him hastily.
“I hope you don’t think, Mr. Bon
nett, that I attach any meaning to this
c rcumstaice —that it has roused a y
sU'picion? Please don’t. Indeodithas
not. lam certain—of course—it can
be explained.”
Mr. Bennett looked at Myra confus
ed.y.
“Fust,” he said faintly, “I want to
call your aiteution to them glasses,
Myry; I recollect pitting l em ttp the Eft.
Yis, I put’em there."
Myra stared at them, looked at Mr
Bennett and at Mr. Goodwin, smiled
and ended with a somewhat hysterical
laugh.
Mr. Bonnet looked up at his visitor.
“Wal, you won’t believe what I say,
young min,’’ ho said, gloomily, “anc
’tain’t to be expected."
“Believo you?’ said Mr. Goodwin,
earnestly. “Don’t pain me by repeat
ing that, sirl lam not so foolish as to
be misled by a mere incident of this
sort. I know your explanation will
make it clear."
Mr. Bennett winced.
“Charity’s a good thing," he con
fessed, humbly “and I can’t never toll
you how grateful lam to you. voune
man. Them was noble words in this
here case. Wal, that pin of yours—l'm
considor’ble absent-minded, Mr. Good
win—l picked It off tho floor jest aftei
dinner; I recollect it now. And not
knowing whose ’twas, nor where it be
longed, I jest put it up there under
that hat; thought’twould ba safe till
I found out who it belonged to; and it
went clean out o’ my head, jost as
things do.”
“Don’t say another word, sir,” said
the young man, eagerly, with sympa
thetic, admiring eyes on Myra— “don’t, ,
for my sake!’
But it was for Myra’s sake.
“I’m an old fool, Myry," said Mr. '
Bennett, an hour and a half later, when
Mr. Goodwin had gone down the path
with light-hearted brisknos3, and Myra
was finishing the dishes, her eyes shin
ing and her checks flu.-hoJ. “I'm an
old fool, and I’vo been a trial to you,
and you’ve stood it like a mnior, and so
did he, and I shan’t forget it. When
you go to keeping house for him, stid
o’ me—”
“Mr. Bennett I” said Myra, shily.
“Oh, wal, that’s coming; I can see it
plain; and when it does come you shan’t
want for a setting-out as good as I’d
give a girl o’ my own. You deservo it,
and so does he, said Mr. Bmnett, cle*
voutly.—[Saturday Ni ;ht.
A Suigical Marvel.
A startling advance in surgical scienco
has boon mado by Dr. Maximilian Klein,
a German military surgeon. The par
ticulars aro given by tne professional
journal Memorabilien. A man acci- !
dentally cut off his loft great too in tho
middle of tho first joint. The severed I
piece remained hanging to the foot, but
the connecting skin was scarcely thicker
than a thread. Dr. Klein sowed on tho
fragment, dresselit with iodoform, and
had the satisfaction, in twenty-two
dayj, of finding tho wound healed and
tho too perfectly sound and flexible.
Encouraged by tho unexpected result in
this case, Dr. K ein was induced to ap
ply tho same treatment again. A re
cruit, in erder to disable himself and so
escape from military service, delib
erately cut off hisU ore finger with an axe
at the second "oint. The finger end
was lost, and could not be found until
half-an-hour had elapsed. It was then
cold and blue. Nevertheless, Dr. Klein
sowed it to the stump and applied a
bandage of iodoform gauze. As early
as the second day it was evident, that
circulation had been partially re-estab
lished throughout tho finger, and in nix
weeks tho man had not only left hos
pital, but was doing tho very rifle drill
which he had hoped to shirk. The
fi ger was, in fact, as serviceable as it
had ever been. These stories read al
most like extracts from tho ex
ploits of Baron Munchhausen. That
they aro chronicled in Memora
biien is, however, evidence of
their truth. E iglish surgeons will not
ba so unwilling to credit them as they
would have been in tho days beforo tho
discovery of tho m rv illou < properties
of iodoiorm. —[St. Janus’Gazette.
Rear Flew of a Rainbow.
Rainbows are seen ia tho east when
tho sun has passed the merit ian, and ia
the west in tho morning; but we have
never heard of a rainbow or any seg
ment of one being soAi in tho west ox
to tho westward in tho evening,says the
Wyomi g E terprise. List eveniig,
howev r, at 5.50 o’clock a considerable
segment of a rainbow was visible fox
nearly three minutes in tho southwest.
The only c<lor of the spectrum that
showed at all was red, aed it was very
bright. The cloud th it produced the
rail bow was suspended over M'uni
Dvi l9on. P rsons in Washoe valley
di übtlcss saw the rainbow in the full
glory oi its natural hues, hut a real
view of it gave only the red belt. Such
a phenomenon miy have been observed
before. bu‘, if so, we have never eithei
heard nor roa 1 ot it.
It Had the Strength.
Capt. Salihorse ( o landlady): “Mrs.
Hashetter, can you tell me wh ;ra I can
pun base a largo qu ntity ol thij but
ter?”
Mrs. n isbetter “Nov
my dear captain! What can you want
of a quantity of that excellent butter?'
Capt. S. : “I intended arming nj
marines with it in place of cutlasses, at
my experience with it hero convincei
mi it's a great thing to rep.l boarders.’'
-[Judje.
DISMAL SWAMP.
A Strangely Constructed Canal
That Penetrates Its Depths.
A Lake That Was Dug by a
Flash of Lightning.
Half a century ago, says the Balti
more Sun, the Dismal Swamp Canal ia
Virginia was one of the most important
artificial waterways in the United
States. In these days of rapid railroad
transportation, however, and owing to
the competition of the Albemarle and
Chesapeake canal, which parallels it, it
has dropped somewhat out of sight,
though it is still considerably patron
ized. it is one of the oldest canals in
the country, and its management is
probably the oldest imeorported com
pany of its kind. George Washington
was prominently connected with it, and
he found it a very available means of
obtaining supplies when he was con
tending with Cornwallis at Yorktown.
Thero was no Eastern Virginian of
prominence and wealth until the begin
-Sag of the century to the beginning of
Into war who was not in some way
or other identified with it.
Mr. Marshall Parks, the Supervising
Inspector General of Steamboats, whoso
early days were passed in canal con
struction in Virginia, tolls an interest
ing and remarkable coincidental story
of tho building of the canal. Nearly
two centurios ago the large land owners
of Virginia began to penotrate the dark
and gloomy wild 3 of the Dismal Swamp
in search of juniper and cypress shin
gles. The greatest difficulty with which
they had to contend, however, was the
soggy condition of the soil, in which
the wheels of their carts sank to the
hubs. Tho further they penetrated the
swamps this difficulty became greater,
and at last they resorted to tho expedi
ent of digging a narrow and ill-shapen
ditch just deep enough to float a small
flat boat. Down this canal the timber
was floated to Deep Creek, a tributary
of the Elizabeth River and thence to
the market at Norfolk. Year by year
the timber was cut away along the
banks of the ditch and each year, as
the demand for junipor and cypress
shingles becamo greater, it was extended
further into tho almost impenetrable
wilds of the forest.
The work was done altogether by
slaves, with shovels and pickaxes. The
use of steam shovels was the* '»nknowi\
and unthought of. The towering cy
press trees were also felled and split into
shingles by slaves, who were given
tasks each day by their overseers, and
for all shingles they made over the re
quired amount they were paid extra.
One Sunday afternoon they wore visited
by their overseer, who was much sur
prised to hoar several voices singing
away off ia the swamp. Their voices
sounded liko faint echoes. Ho asked
the slaves who lived constantly in the
swamp if they knew the men who were
singing, and was told that they were
North Carolina slaves. An investiga
tion ot their unexpected and rather in
truding presence was made, and the
fact was discovered that tho North
Carolina landowners, liko those of Vir
ginia, about twenty miles away, had
experienced the same difficulties of
hauling lumber in the soggy and treacher
ous swamp, and had sent their slaves
into the wilds to dig a ditch to
them in their transportation of shingles
and lumber.
For years these two forces worked
independently of each other, and each,
strange to say, was digging unawares
towards the other. Tne two sections
of tho canal were joined, and the point
of cpnneption is marked by an angle.
The government and the state of
Virginia finally became interested in
the work, and the waters of Lake
Drummond wero brought into requisi
tion for feeding the canal. This lake i 3
situated in the centre of the swamp, and
the depression ia which the placid
water sparkle’s was made by a firo cen
turies, perhaps thousands of years, ago.
The whole swamp, in fact, represents
in a modern age the coal-forming epochs
of millions ot years back in the geologi
cal history ot tho giobo, aid during an
exceeding y dry season—so dry, indeed,
that the ooggy soil wis parched and
transformed into an ii fiunmablo clay,
a flash of lightning became the origin of
a big fire. Towering trees were felled,
the scrubby ui lerbrush was laid low,
and then the fl imes ate their way, foot
alter foot, into the iifl.inmabio soil,
*nd a hollow rirc’.e was formed in the
g.'ound. Wh n tho ruins came this de
pression becamo a ba-in lor the innuir
er;blo itrw which trickled through
tho fore*.', and wub soon transtormed
into a lake.
Tie almost t'sck ess sw imp throv.gh
which tho canal netrutes is still ’/alu
aoie on account ot its cypress and juni
per, the latter article b coming year by
year more and more scare j and exceed
ingly valuat l•. At one time a single
shar of stock ot tb Dismal Sw.mo
Lmd C'miany was w rth as n uch as
$32 000. The tract oruinallv taken up
surv yed embraces GO,COO rqmre
acres. About half a- many additions’
square lci » wo now embraced in the
forest, Bears wander unmolesita
its trackless depths, and the deadly
rattler basks himself in tho sun without
fear of man. Bird 3 of brilliant plumage
fly frora limb to limb of tho huge and
high cypress trees, and sing their carols
from dawn to dark unseen, visible to
day in the course of the canal.
Traits of Native Australians.
“Our blacks," said Mrs. J. It. Iteid, a
native of New South Wales, to a Chi
cago ncrald man, “are different in type
from the African. Their hair stands up
wiry and bushy like that of the Circas
sian women in your dime museums. The
blacks find an abundance of food, and
there i 3 no incentive for them to accept
civilization and learn to work. The
country swarms with kangaroos, wai
ver bies (an animal similar to tho kan
garoo),' rabbits and birds. Then th«
blacks make a large part of their diet
of snakes and worms. Worms they eat
raw just as they dig them from the
earth. They eat snakes of all kinds
Tho women, of course, aro brutally
abused by the males and kept in the
most degraded state of servitude. When
a black wants a wife ho falls upon some
young woman, chokes her so she cannot
cry out, and runs with her into the
bush. There ho must lceop her for
three or four months. He cannot re
turn to his own tribe until the expira
tion of this period. When ho does take
her back, if she utters no complaint of
hunger against him—that is,if she does
not show that ho has utterly failed to
supply her with sufficient worms, kan*
garoo meat and snakes—he can kec,*
her. But for a year ho must stay out of
the way of her tribe, for if they catch
him they will kill him and take the
young woman back. The sign of the
married state adopted by the women is
tho pulling out of one front tooth. When
the male becomes a Benedict he indi
cates tho joyful fact by cutting oil the
little finger of his right hand at the first
joint. They live in low, skin-covered
huts, and I think are in every respect
beneath the North American Indian in
intelligence.
llow Coiners are Punished in China
Frf A a recent trial reported in th*
Pekin gazette it appears that in China
coiners aro punished with even more
than the severity of our old savago
penal code. Two coppersmiths out of
employment in Hankow privately
formed a little company to make copper
cash, and began their operations for
som"> reason by melting down about
eight pounds of imperial copper coins.
The band had male but little progress
in their secret trade, having only manu
factured altogether some 10,000 coins,
equivalent to little moro than £3, when
they were captured, tried and con
demned. According to tho report the
ringleader was sentenced to immediate
decapitation for molting down coin of
the realm; tho next, who had assisted
in tho work of coining, was sentenced
to decapitation after imprisonment;
while two others, who had polished tho
spurious coin 3, and the last who actod
as bookkeeper, were treated not as
principals, but as accessories, liable to
transportation to Turkestan and em
ployment as slaves to the troops there .
—a fate believed to be worse than im
mediate decapitation. Some other men,
who seem to have had nothing to do
with the coining itself, but acted as d #•
inestic servants to tho principals, ie
ceived sentences of three years’ baaiiih
ment and a hundred blows each.
Glass Cloth.
Mr. Dabus Bonnet of Lille, Franco,
has invented a process of spinning and
weaving glass into cloth. The warp is
composed of silk, forming the body and
groundwork, on which tho pattern in
glass appears, as effected by the weft.
The requisite flexibility of glass thread
for manufacturing purposes is to be as
cribed to its extreme fineness, as not
less than from 50 to 60 of the original
strands are required to form one thread
of the weft. The process is slow, for
no more than a yard of cloth can be
produced ia twe ve hours. Tho work,
however, is extremely beautiful and
comparator ly cheap. A French paper,
commenting on tho ditcovery, says:
“When wo figure to ourselves an
apartment decorated with cloth of
glass and resplenient with light, we
must bo convinced that it will cquil in
Lrilliincy all that the imagination can
conceive and realizo; in a word, the
wonders of the enchanted palaces men
tioned in the Arabian tales.”
Cnctns Fodder.
The much-despised cactus of our des
erts is, nec >rding to the Now York In
dependent, being found a blessing in
disguise. In the old vroild they use
the very prickly gorse as cattle food, 1 j
putting it ia a crusher so as to rend.';
the thorns harmless. By drawing tha
Kan ric in cactuses over fL me, the thorm
are ea>ily destroyed. Sc re peel them
Tuc-y are filled nutritioui and very hi
cepta le tc stock when digested of tt s
natural armor. C ushing as the gone
is cru-hed ia E iropo has not yet been
introduced, but this is proposed, and
when successful ca'.'trt fodder will be
as popular on the ( at ut as bar// rth'/
cast.
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