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>- W. VUnRK Bailee Sk Pabltsher. ) Mai A. ihiUM, Fre»rme“ VOLUME I. 4 SAX tTA KT ITRLL. Perhaps the must noticeable feature of Lincoln, Neb., is ita artesian well, sunk in the crnkcr of a large square ad joining the poetoffice. It is about 1,300 feet deep, and its waters are strongly impregnated with salt and magnesia. In appearance, smell and taste, the water strongly resembles brine. The citizens make much of the fountain. They regard i| as a panacea for all ill* They use it for chills, for colds, for rt>ffnn»t.ispi, for constipation and its oppcaile, and nearly *□ the ills that tieah is. bear to. They drink it and I lathe in ft—in short, they would be liedly off without it. Os an evening, after a warm and sultry day, you can see hundreds of people carrying off the pre cious liquid in sundry small jars and vessels, as if the real fountain of life had been found. This water is taken in pipes to the principal hotels, and many invalids are, no doubt, boned ted by its use. In various spots" around Lincoln ars numerous salt basins, which, in the distance, look like pools of water glisten ing and shimmering in the sunlight, but which, on near approach, prove to be dry, barren wastes of salt; and some de posits are almost as pure and white as the refined salt of commerce. These salt-basins will, at no distant day, be a great source of wealth to the country. "As mad as a hatter” is a phrase whose origin is lost in the dim recesses of antiquity. Why a hatter should be madder than any other class of trades men has never been satisfactorily ex plained, but the fact has remained that hatters are considered mail by the adage, Perhaps the phrase libels a worthy company of men just as the gravediggers in “ Hamlet” lumped the people of England and called .them all mail. It would seem that in thia coun try there is nothing for a hatter to be mad about, especially as elections come around so frequently. Yet it ia, also, too true that American hatters are very mad at present, and whether the phrase held good before, it certainly holds good now. There are 1,000 mud hatters in New Jersey alone, and at Orange, in that State, they have nearly had an Orange riot The cause is a new hat finishing machine that will do the work of five hatters. The hatters are re solved not to allow three machines to be introduced; henee the trouble. Thus the ancient phrase "as mad as a hatter" has new life infused into it THK COST OK WAR. M. de Foville, a distinguished French 'ixmomist, has ciphered up the bills »Inch France has had to pay for the Franco-German war, and the devasta tions of the Commune. The total amounts to $2,900,000,000, which is pret ty heavy for a war of such short dura tion. Among the items given, twenty seven in number, are $1,000,000,000 for the indemnity paid to Germany, $125,- 000,000 for cost of borrowing money, $300,000,000 capitalization of the lost revenue of the ceded provinces, etc. lie net <Joet of revictualing Pans was $15,000,000; to rebuild the structures burned by the Commune cost $10,000,- 000 ; to bury the dead soldiers, $450,000; the Commune stole $2,000,000 in money, beside $3,300,000 which they ‘•drew” from the bank, and the trials and trans portation of the captured insurgents coat $2,400,000; the re-establishment of roads required $18,000,000, and it cost $375,000 to restore the registers of births and mamagee wantonly destroyed by the Oocitnnnista. tnrrvnvcrtMX rk orris. The lack of punctuality brings innu merable evils in its train. It is the can ker spot of successful business. Many are the instances in which the neglect to renew an insurance punctually has led to serious loss. With sound policy do the banks insist, under the penalty of a protest, on the punctual payment of notes, for were they to do otherwise, commercial transactions would fall into inextricable confusion. Many and many a time has the failure of one man to meet his obligations brought on the ruin of a score of others, just as the toppling down in a line of bricks of the master brink causes the fall of all the rest. Thousands remain poor all their L>ves who, if they were more faithful in their word, would secure a large run of so make their fortunes. Be punctual if yon would succeed. Let everything in the way of amusement be negleMS* ts yaa he* a bustness en gagement to keep. “Yaa,” said an affectionate mother, " the first year of my daughter’s mar riage I thought her husband was an angel, and I’m sure that every year since I’ve wished be was one." Cfltamh ia 3ni it Wiser. A SitaAS «r user Tkmwh IS. ton of STai, evwtnre itesiwsaissA Sad M<Uala« Um »ol>oZ thy stshlns Moves It still in • mu antanotM, An J wUM thou dost ssy In thy Osn shlsld Uk> sshstksr trans Sara. Whlspnr still OytM Uss Mill oa tay Mk*. mul I* esra. TH ths bssoth oT ths brsslh <rf -that morataf - Wbm, tjrta* with Ums by ths sss. w * kssw that tbs brt<bi nm ease wuus< or s storm thst s tsmpsst should bs. Thou vast tur tn thy f rsnklsa, tay dsHlns la th« U<hl ourilac rM st thy hslr. And thy nnos, Ills ths votes <4 a startla*. Bttmd op all my soars rsest Saseair. I have lived; I have loved, sod thoo«h eves As tone ss 1 Mrs 1 shall love, Tet the mice of thy micths sever A*sln be sa that of ths dm. Thon eleepeet and alone *bou ever Till the soiled of the still snr*ln< sea Shall, dyln< sway, sink till hover It sounds like thy saocth« to um. The sound of s snortny sonorous Is not MAS the tones of the era; And soon t>e<oiues utterly borons As Um bnuluf of bees cm the lea. 1 had toved—l hail loved—bat Um a usee Thou rosiest In dreams are no droarn. If thou dreamrat of ma, those wild voices Must bo what they are sod they seam. To thee, than, my freckled and dearest. I'm now a bob<<>blin and sjrcta. And the form Urat now gra*|*ilh thee nearest la au<ht but a dream of delight. Good-by, though I still hold thy neck fMt, And dream of ths days that are gone. To-morrow, I know, at the breakfast. I’ll meet ths am muslin and lawn. 1 » 1 agSSHBB A SUMMER'S PASTIME. Buch a tiny, pearl-tinted glove it wtut fitting faultlessly the white, dimpled hand, and reaching far up, with ita in numerable little white buttons on the round, fair arm, that it wan small won der, spite of its almoet-infiniteaimal size, that it filled the scope of John Raleigh’s vision, as he somewhat awkwardly en tered the plain country parlor, where the owner of both hand and glove awaited him. “ Won’t you help me?” she said, in a very helpless way, and held out to him the little fiffgera a* she spoke. He saw, then, that the task of button ing was atQl incomplete. A dark red flush mounted to hw face as he under took the duty,assigned him. He gpnU not see the little mocking smile about the beautiful mouth, an it puckered itself into a tiny rnouc at his uncouth efforts, or the laughing malice in the hazel eyes. He only felt beneath his touch the cool, firm fleeh of the exquisite arm, and thought, with a sort of unconscious reasoning, how great a pity it was to hide away any part of it, even beneath a thing so dainty as the pearl-tinted glove. “ Thanks,” she said, carelessly, when he had finished his task. “Are the horses ready?” “ Yes,” he answered, and, handing her into the light wagon as though she were a queen, he sprang in beside her, and, drawing up the reins, soon went speed ing down the country lane. Two short weeks before, Adelaide Armon had come down from the gay city to the quiet farm-house, to regain, if might bo, some of her faded roses. Later m the summer, she was to under go the nsual watering-place ordeal; but, as a little respite between the now and then, she had chosen to spend ths month of June buned among ita fra grance. Os course she should tie unut terably bored, she prophesied with mute resignation, and, equally of course there would ba no neceaaity for m<ws than one “Saratoga” of frightful dimen sions ; therefore it was with mingled pleasure and disdain that, on the first evening of her-arrival, she was formally presented to Jchn Raleigh, and, looking anxiously up into his six feet of stature, decided that, after all, even in this rural spot, a few toilets might be necessary, ami the hours would not prove so heavy as she had feared. Mr. Raleigh was a farmer himself, ol good family, she learned, but one who scorned not to till his own soil, and who had evidently tilled it to some purpose. He had a college education, too, but had, singularly enough, supposed the years he had spent in acquiring an education were years to lie devoted to that purpose, therefore he returned homo almost as ignorant of the social world as before going into it. All women he venerated. To bear a man speak lightly of a woman always brought a flush to his cheek. To him, womanhood and motherhood were inalienably and sacredly intenninglad. Miss Armon was to him a revelation. He hail known her for two weeks ; she hail accomplished her purpose—he was des perately in love with her. That ahe might not love him in return was an easy matter for his mmd, in ita humil ity, to grasp ; that ahe should try to win hia love for pastime and conquest—that she should inflict upon him, with dsllber- Devoted to the Interests of Columbia County and the State of Georgia. HARLEM. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. MARCH 8, 1881 ate intent, a wound whose sear might heal would have been by biai re ceived as gruss calumny. In his eyes, was a pure, innocent, beautiful child. Ad through their drive the touch of her arm still ttuiltai him, until, when they had returned and he lilted her dawn geatly to the ground, an insoudhto tm pulse caused him to whisper : “I gm coming over thia evsuiag, I want to speak with you.” '• Ftxflfrii boy f* the said to htreakf, i she drew off the dainty gloves within her morn. “My visit ia but half done, and already he wants to bring matters to a blimax. It must not be. I need him yet a little longer.” Therefore, when, true to hia promise, he returned and begged her to go out with him for a little walk in the moon light, she refused, and petulantly shook her head. She was tired, aha said, bnt rattled on gayly or every theme, until he could not speak the words he had meant to utter. That night he west away with a strange, new pain in his heart, yet loving her more madly than ever. She had gone out for a stroll the next morning, when she suddenly encoun tered him. He had scarcely slept since he had left her the night previous. She read his purpose in his eyes, and strove to divert it As well attempt to stem Niagara. “Miss Armon,” he began, “I love you ! I should not have had the cour age, pexlia]>6, to tell you, but that I have dared hope my love might not be unwel come to you. I know how bright and beautiful you are, and how I lack in all that you {xjnaewi. But, oh, my darling I my darling 1 what I have not the courage for is to live out my life without you. Will you shore it, Adelaide, and mold it as you will ?’’ The words were out now. Bho might no longer hope to avert them. It re mained for her but to punish his pre sumption. “ Bir,” she said, “you forget yourtelf, and presume greatly upon my having been thrown ujion your society 1” The muu'ii face paled with a sudden pallor. A hauteur and a dignity equal to her own sublied him of the humdity a moment lie fore apparent. “Did I understand you to use the word presume, Alikh Armon ?” he ques tioned. “ May I ask you in what lay presumption ?” Silently ho awaited her reply. It was her turn to be embarrassed and ill at ease. She had meant to play with a harm 1 oks tool. Already ahe discovered her mistake. “ Tho difference in our stations— ” aha began, hesitatingly. He stopped her halting sentence with uplifted hand. “ I understand,” he interrupted, a sort of white, repressed wrath shining in his eyes. “Because lam not one of fash ion's fops you gauged the gulf between us. At least, Miss Armon, I offered you an honest man's honest love. It was yours to reject or accept—there was no need to insult it” And, turning on his heel, he left her. Was it only the humiliation she had meant to inflict, but which had reacted upon herself, which caused the hot blood to dye her face, and the smarting tears to rush to her eye* ? Bho watched him out of sight, holding himself proudly ereet, and tho sunlight falling full on bis fa r hair (closely cropped) as he held his Btraw hat in his hand, to let the Kummer breeze play alxiut bis bare temples. Could it be that something was going out of her life ahe would fain have kept there ? Once she started forward, his name upon her lips, bnt she did not nt ter it The man was mad. What destiny did ho effer her ? Only a farm er’s wife! Then she aoblied, but checked it, wondering why she wept. In a week's time she had gone back to her home and the old gay life awaiting her. Bhe hail not rivxwmd her roses, her friends said. Bhe thought to amuse them by relating her rustic flirtation, bnt somehow they never heard the story. Her lips were dumb. Bhe had gone back to her old life, and, of course, ths old amusement of playing with hearts, but it bail lost ita zest. Os all the men who had flocked about her standard (and, as ahe was rich and young and beautiful, there were many), there was not one, held np in silent and unacknowledged oomponaon with that other, but failed in the test. How grandly he had rebuked her—how scathing had been his scorn I Was it for thia he lived so constantly in her thought that neither by night nor day could she drive him out ? Pshaw I sho hated herself for her pitiful wee bn sei. When October earns she determined she would go abroad, but, one morning, when September had not half sped, sit- ting alone in her loxurieus non, a let ter was brought her. It was from John Raleigh's mother, and it told her that her eon was dying. The letter ran thus: He had a mnatraka last wsek, and has teen Mrtou ever tex*. The doctors say U was M tte climax to tataoae nwvons strata, otlwr it would not have proved ratal. HU da- Miu> has reveals! all k> sw, and I write that toonld know that my boy aigtat kw if life ware «weet to him t bat. when m— umosei ootam, it wfl> only bo to the old trouble, sad ho will sink under it Re way my all and row will have killed him, for your summer poe- Uau. Hicy were orne', words, and the girl sat reading and re-reading them with widely-staring eyes, which seemed to pray for blindness, that she might shut them out At last she arose, and mechanic ally prepared for a journey, as though earn ing out the studied intention of months rather than tho half-formed im pulse of a uiament Bhe was as ret scarce oonsclous of her purpose, whan, at nightfall, she stood a suppliant far admittance at John Raleigh’s door. A sad, weary-faced woman softly opened it, and stood as though mutely asking her errand. “John?” This was all the white lips could utter. “Ho is sinking fast” answered the mother. “ You knew my boy ? ” For as yet she had not divined the truth. The woman her son loved was cold, and cruel, and hoartlcM, Not even the knowledge that ho was dying would bring her here. Bo ahe liad rea soned, when, with a low, choking eob, the girl before her fell on her knees, with outstretched, imploring hands “You said," she wailed, “ that he would not hve, because Ids was no lon ger sweet to him—let me tell him how dearly I love him, and how cruelly I have suffered 1 Let me ask him to live for me !" Then two gentle hands liftol her face, a kiss foil on her brow, a voice mur mured : "Oh, my child I give him back to me I” and then she found herself within tho sick-room, and alone with that still, quiet form lying upon the lied How white and won ho looked. “John,” ahe moaned—“ John 1" opened his eyes and saw her. *Yotf have cumol" he whispered. “This ia kind. It will bo for a little time only. I can no longer presume upon it" “Husli I" she commanded. "Oh, do not make iny task harder I You will forgive me, dear, I know. Only grow strung and well agaui for me I" “ No," ho said, faintly. "1 am con tent now to die. You have wiped out the Imrnlini HS of your words—” But she interrupted him with a kum “ You asked me once to beyour wife," she "aid. "I did not know my own heart then.; but now—oh, John, live for mu, or take mo with yon, for I have li i.rned that I cannot live without you I" Two hours later, with her hand clasped m his, John Raleigh fell into a quiet hl'xVp—a sleep which lasted through long hours, while still she sat motion less, fearing to stir ; but when the dawn bi oke she knew that with it had van ished the dark night of their unhappi ness in Hie dawn of an all-potuiible fu tam ~, u -n AMTIDOTK tM CHl.'iajl., Prof. Htuemmi, of Gottingen, has made some interesting investigations re luting to tho antagonistic and antidotal action of certain drugs, and especially in respect to chloral hydrate. He confirms what was previously known of the lat ter—namely : that it is an antidote to strychnine, irescuing the spasm, and even preventing death. Ho finds that it has a similar action in the case of the mixture of strychnine bases sold under the name of brucin, and also against the opium ■ alkaloid, thebala, which simul taneously tetanizea and lessens senu bility. The spasms produced by chlorife of ammonia diminish under the employ-f went of non-fatal doses of chloral hy drate, and can, indeed, be completely •topped. Nevertheless, death oocu*| probably from the paralyzing effect of txfih substances on the reapiratory cen ter. Bnt tho antidotal effect of chloral oil the action of the poisons which cause convulsions by their action on the brain is not the same for all theec subetancea. It is not economy to have too few brooms. One for the sleeping rooms up stairs, one for parlor and sitting-roan, ami onefor the kite hen are not too masy. As they are worn they may be passed down a grade at a time, tho new one al ways being reserved for the parlor. If the new broom is allowed to stand in cold water for twelve bonrs, afterward drying it, it will last much knger. A nrootn should never be permitted to stead on ita brush, as it makes it one aided and >ll shapes. Hang it up by a loop in the handle. m MOTOJtr Os TKK SA TOM KT. Ths history of the bayonet is thus sot forth in the catalogue of Gen. Pitt R>v •re’ anthropological collection, which the British Government will probably buy for ths public benefit and place on snhUahfon tn the 8o«th Kensington mu seum. la the early part of the seven teeath eotury it was found ueoeaaary to retain the uee of pikamen ia the infantry an account of the dafeaaaleas position of the firelockmen when the enamy ap proached to cluee quartern To remedy thia defect they were accustomed about the middle of the century to stick the handles of their daggers in ths muzzles of their guns in order to use them as pikes. Os course, when the dagger wae so fixed the gun aould not be fired. But as many of the daggers had rings at the guard, the mon saw the ex]X‘diency of fastening ths dag ger to the munis of the pieoo by means of ths ring. Boon the dagger or plug bayonet was so secured to tho outride of the barrel that tho firelock oould bo loaded and discharged although tho bay onets were fixed. The British had their first experience of what may be called the compound pike and gun in the time of William ILL, in the Flanders cam paigns, and they " swore terribly,” no doubt, when they found their opponents oould fire at them with fixed bayonets. Rivers' collection shows all tho transition stages of ths bayonet from the plug handle to tho modern tnbo-and catch attachment. This is only a sample brick, so to speak, of the civil and warlike groping* of man from precedent to precedent to Lis pres ent condition. We have a fine oppor tunity es doing something of the same kind on thio continent, and tho marvel is why oorao men of wealth do not em brace it, and so secure the perpetuity of their own name tlirongh the advance ment of an important department of scianoe. ” TOKTVKK OK HORAKS. Among the every-day torments to which the horse is subjected we will enu merate the following: 1. Abraded breast. 2. Inflamed back from defec tive saddle or . haruees pad. g. Boro mouth from too tight gag rein, a revive bit, or both. 4. A sore tail from too tight or illy-made crupper. 5, An obra mon under the liody, caused by a too tight or badly-fitted belly bund. 6. Ir ritation of tho eyes from blinders being strapped too close together, or, on tho i ilbar hand, iieing allowed to swing around, first striking one eyo and then tlio other. 7. Ears chafed by tho brow liand being placed too high, or by metallic rosettes with a sharp outer rim, the base of tho ear presHing across thia at every motion. 8. The excessive fatigue of all tho struc- ture of tho ntx k under the influence of tho tearing rein. The bearing rein, if made tout and kept so for any consider able length of fiiae, is w souroe of dis comfort to all horses, and an insuffer able torment to many. A taut rein can lie used with entire propriety on horsee of fine, easy, up carnage, especially while in motion, but, if themnscles and temy structure of the neck extend for ward horizontally from an upright •Lonlder rather than strung out from a slanting shoulder, then the most intense suffering will be inflicted by straining the neck up to aa-ofigto « ntiro>y unnatu ral to the animal, eepecialiy if this •train be long kept np. To strain a cul prit up by tho thumbs till only his toes touch the ground is certainly one of the severest admismbie punishments that can be inflicted upon mortal, and the check rein is undoubtedly akin to it in its extreme application. New Yorh Hrrald. ' JWUH IM -OLD** r/ar.” 1 * In the filea kncrn meat al impend waa more Tita*... 1 than h m now, th* paaae «f proeii ■ « ’*“ 't<Fwkua by MtWhi In 1278 « “beat Umb" wae to ba weld for aix- I>euoo from Chrialmaa to Lent, and for fonn*n<* at other tfmaa. AMa waa to I* Ixinght for threepence half-penny, and a pullet for a penny three fartliinga. Tn 1802 the vain* of a hull waa eeven ahiUinga and aixpenoa, and that of a fat aheep one ehilling. Twelve yean after ward wo find a gxaak adutmx. *nd an edict waa iaau*d tn regulate the naing pncee. A ‘beit gfta» fed ax" waa fixed at six teen ahil toga; a “fgnin-fod” one at twenty four. A aheep roe* tn one ahilling and fourpenoe , but a hen waa cheaper, being only three half penw, •nd egga were twenty for a penny. In 1572 th* hen waa ainopen< *, and a j>enny would only procure five egga. Old truth* art? aiwaye new to ua if they come with the ameU of heaven up- I on them. —JbAn Bunyan. ia-sree pee *■••■ !■ amvTscb. NUMBER 12 m tkoaak *oa» But nevertheless Troy was to rsmata impregnable so long as it retained th* Palladium, which, as wo hare botae said, had been given by Zeus to ths founder of the dty, Due. Ulyoaee, how ever, having diaguised his person with miserable clothes and oslf-inflioted wounds, introduced himself into the city and found means to carry away the Palladium by stealth. Ho was reoog uized only by Helen, who oonoertod with him means for the capture of tho town- A final stratagem was resorted to. At the suggestion of Athene, Epelu* and Ptmopeua constructed a hollow wooden horse, capacious enough to eon tain 100 men. In this horse the most eminent ol the Greek heroes conoestert themselves, while the whole Greek army, having burned their teuta and pretended to give up the siege, sailed away with their ships, which they anchored behind Tcnedos. Overjoyed to see theaaeelres finally relieved, the Trojans issued tatm tho city and wondered at tho •tupemfoua horse, on which was written, that it was dedicated to Athena by tho iiyrt ing Greeks. They were not long at a loos what to do with it; and the anxious heroes from within heard their oontoha tious, as well as the voice of EMan, when she pronounced the name of each hero, counterfeiting the accent of his wife's voice. Home desired to bring it into the city and dedicate ft to the gods; others advised distrust at the enemy's legacy. Laoooon, the priest of Pose idon, came with his two sons, and, in his indignation, thrust hia spear sgauist the horse. The sound revealed that the Lorre whh hollow, but st the sama mo ment Laocoon and one of hia sous per ished miserably, two monstrous serpents lisnug Ixwi rent by Here out of the ses to destroy them. The Trojans, terriflwl by this spectacle, and persuaded by the jHirflilious counsels of the traitor Bimon —who luul been expressly left behind by the Greeks to give them false Infor niHtion —were induced to drag the fatal fabric into their city ; and, as the gate wuh not large enough to admit it, they even made a breach in their own wall. Thus the horse was introduced into the Acroplis, and placed in the Agora before Pnom's palace. But even now opinions were divided ; many demanding that the horse should tx> cut in pieces, others ad vising that it should be dragged to the lughMt point of tho Acropolis and thrown thence on the rocks below. The strongest party, however, insisted on ita being dedicated to tho gods us a token of gratitude for their deliverance After sunset the Greek fleet return*! to the shore of tho plain of Troy and •waited the preconcerted signal. While the Trojans uululgod in notous fastivi ties Bimou kindled the tire-signal and as xistol tlie concealed heroes to open the HOi-ret door in the horse'* belly, out of which they descended. The city was now aesailed from within and without, and was completely nackeil and de stroyed, nearly the whole population lining slain. Priam, who had vainly nought shelter at the altar of Zens Her ketea, wss kilted by Nooptolemns. His son, Delpbobus, who, after the death of his brother Paris, had become the hus iiaml of Helen, was attacked l>y Ulysses ami Menelaus. He defended hie house desperately, but wss finally ovsroome ami alain. Thus Menelaus st length won buck tea wife.—Dr. Schliemann't " nVTTKK AKD OLKOMAK9AKTKK. 7 here is a movement on foot to dis criminate between the butter and the oleomargarine which the United States Hhi[>* to Europe. There was a time when butter was plentiful everywhere, ’for the agricultural and working classes never thought of using any except on fi'rtive days. The English peasant still rots bread and dripping, or bread and lard, when he can gel it. But the dwellers in the towns, down to tho very poorest, insist upon having bread and butter, and the street children begin to conrirter this a staple article of food. Tho yearly consumptwn of butter in London has been estimated at ten jxiunds per head of the populatam, or 40,000,000 pounds per year, without in cluding earns 8,000 toes neceeserv tor victualing ships leaving port. Keeping in view that the price of all ether pro visions has bean steadily anhaneed, and that meat has doubled in price within the last twenty-five years, white butter hsa made hut a elicit advance, it be comes evident that acme substitata has taken the ptecc <rf real butter.— Eaghth paper. Whkn you say that a girl'* hair is black as a coal, it is just as well to speexly that you do not atean a red-hot coal.