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Western & Atlantic Railroad.
DAY TASSENGER TRAIN —OUTWARD.
Leave Atlanta 40 A ‘ M
Airive Calhoun r. m
• Chattanooga. 3oU p. m
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN —INWARD.
Leave Chattanooga r. m.
Arrive Calhoun Yo.qa t'
“ Atlanta p. M.
night passenger train—outward.
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Arrive Calhoun - 9 ; 41 *
• Chattanooga a. m.
ntgiit passenger train —inward.
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Arrive Calhoun -6.38 r. m.
Atlanta
ACCOMMObAfIoS URAiit — OtJTWARb.
Leave Atlanta p m
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“ Dalton p> M#
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Leave Dalton A ’
Arrive Calhoun *
.. Atlanta 10;08 A - M
Change of Schedule.
ON THE GEORGIA AND MAGON AND
AUGUSTA RAILROADS.
ON AND AFTER -SUNDAY, JUNE 28th,
1874, the Passenger Trains on the Georgia
and Macon and Augusta Railroads will run
as follows:
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Passenger Train Will
Leave Augusta at a m
Leave Atlanta at “60 a m
Arrive in Augusta at P 111
Arrive in Atlanta at • ,J P 111
Niggt Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta at P m
Leave Atlanta at ™:ZO p m
Arrive in Augusta at ° oo a m
Arrive in Atlanta at 6:— a m
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Macon. Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta at a m
Leave Camak at P m
Arrive at Macon at 6 ; 40 p m
Leave Macon at a m
Arrive at Camak at o.nn 111
Arrive at Augusta at pm
BERZELLI P.4SSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 4;lo p m
Leave Bcrzelia at 8:30 a m
Arrive in .Augusta at 1-2 a m
Arrive in Berzelia at 5:o0 p m
Passengers from Athens, Washington, At
lanta, or any point on the Georgia Rail
road and Branches, by taking the Day 1 as
senger Train, will make close connection
at Camak with trains for Macon and all
points beyond.
Pullman’s (First-Class) Palace sleeping
Cars on all Night Fassenger Trams on the
Georgia Railroad.
S. K. JOHNSON i Superintendent.
Superintendent’s Office Georgia and Macon
and Augusta Railroads, Augusta, June
29, 1874,
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r attorneys at law,
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TRUE GREATNESS.
BY CHARLES DICKENS.
Say, where does greatness dwell ? In courts,
On throLes of glory seated,
’Mid glittering ranks of bright cohorts,
By pomp and grandeur greeted ?
A crown, indeed, may make a king,
Our crowns true greatness cannot bring,
Or shall we find on battle field,
By victory attended,
The truly great, unless the shield
The cause of light defend ?
For oft hath might the battle gained,
While nations wept th’ escutcheons stained.
Shall horded richiless grant
Where mortal worth is needed,
What times the sons of woe and want
In vain their sorrows pleaded ?
True greatness surely must be more
Than misers seek or fools adore,
But he who feels another’s woe,
And strives to sooth his sorrow,
Whose sympathies spontaneously flow
To brighten his to-morrow,
Shall be esteemed both good and great,
And heaven shall bless his last estate.
Good service makes the meanest great,
Zeal purest shines, and brightest;
Devotional smiles at frowning fate,
Love’s labor is the lightest;
What lives to purpose lives indeed;
And good words best adorn his creed.
Then say not wealth, or rank, or power,
Or crowns, confer true glory j
’Tis goodness that survives the hour. .
And reads the best in story ;
And though obscure the good man’s name,
’Tis glorious still* though lost to fame.
Lindley Hurray.
As many spoke of Roben Hood who
never shot with his bow, so many hear
of Lindley Murray who know noth
ing of him but he composed a book
of English grammar. He was an
American—native of Pennsylvania—
and realized a competency at New York,
partly as a barrister and partly as a mer
chant. The necessities of health
obliged him to remove to England,
where he spent the last forty years of
his protracted life at Holdgate, near
York, a feeble invalid, but resigned and
happy. Besides his well-known Gram
mar, he wrote a hook on The Power of
Religion on the Mind. He was a man
of mild and temperate nature, entirely
beloved by all connected with him. In
a sei ies of autobiographical letters, he
gives a statement as to the moderation
of his desires, well worthy of being
brought under general notice :
“My views and wishes with regard to
property were, in every period of my
life, contained within a very moderate
compass. I was early persuaded that,
though ‘ a competence is vital to con
tent.’ I ought not to annex to that term
the idea of much property. I deter
mined that when I should acquire
enough to maintain and provide for my
family, in a respectable and moderate
manner, and this according to real ra
tional, not imaginary aod fantastic
wants, and a little to share for the ne
cessities of others, I would decline the
pursuit of property, and devote a great
part of my time, in some way or other,
to the benefit of my fellow creatures,
within the sphere of my ability to serve
them. I perceived that the desire of
great possessions greatly expanded with
the gradual acquisition and full attain
ment of them; and I imagined that
charity and a generous application do
not sufficiently correspond with the in
crease of property. I thought, too,
that procuring great wealth has a ten
dency to produce an elated independence
of mind, little connected whith the hu
mility which is the ground of all our
virtues ; that a busy and anxious pur
suit of it often excludes views and re
flections of infinite importance, and
leaves but little time to acquire that
treasure which would make us rich in*
deed.
* * * I was persuaded that a truly sin
cere mind could be at no loss to discern
the just limit between a safe and com
petent portion and a dangerous profu
sion of the good things of life. These
views of the subject I reduced to prac
tice ; and terminated my mercantile
concerns when I had acquired a mod
erate competency.” —-Booh of Days.
The World in Epitome.
The number of languages spoken in
the world amounts to 3,064 ; 587 in
Europe; 896 in Asia; 276 in Africa,
and 264 in America.
The inhabitants of tho globe pro
fess more than 1,000 different relig
ions.
The number of men is about eqttal to
the number of women.
The average of human life is about
thirty years ; one-fourth die previuus to
th<j age of seven years, and one-half be
fore reaching seventeen. In every one
thousand persons, only one reaches one
hundred years. In every hundred only
six reach the age of sfixtyffive, and not
more than one in five hundred reaches
the age of eighty.
There are on the earth one thousand
millions of inhabitants. Ot these 333,-
333,333 die every year ; 91.324 every
day; 3,870 every hour; 60 every min
ute, and one in every second. These
losses are balanced by about an equal
number of births.
The married live longer than the sin
gle, and above all, those who observe
a sober and industrious life. Women
have more changes of life in their favor
than men previous to the age of fifty
years, but fewer afterwards.
—
The Chromo Business —Our im
pression was that only those who sub
scribed for papers received chromos;
but we are just informed that an enter
prising young clergyman, in the west,
is presenting the inducement of a sev
enty-five ceut chromo, “ neatly hamed,
to every couple coming to him to be
married.
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 2G, 1875.
Modes of Dying.
The brain, the heart, and the lungs,
may be called the three great centra)
wheels of the living machine. Mu
tually dependent, and derangement of
the functions of the one is felt by each
of the others. Should the action of
one entirely cease, all would stand still.
Accordingly, as one or the other is first
to feel the approach of death, it is said
that death begins at the brain, or the
heart.
As an example of death beginning at
the brain, we mention apoplexy, in
which tho pressure from distended
blood vessels, or from the presence of
blood from a ruptured vessel, so great
ly interfere with the action of the brain
as to causeideath. The same result fol
lows from the pressure of a depressed
fragment of bone in a fractured skull.
Opium and other narflotifl drugs act
specifically on the brain ; and when ta
ken in poisonous quantities, death be*
gins ill that ofgati.
In the operation of hanging, if the
neck is broken, the pressure of the frac
tured portion of the cervical vertebra
upon the medulla oblongata which is
but a continuation of the brain from the
flranial davity, produces death instant
ly. But if the neck is not broken, and
the victim dies from strangulation, we
have an example of death beginning at
the lungs. Any obstruction of the
lungs, whether the peculiar exudation
of croup which fills the larynx, and is
known as the false membrane , or any
other which prevents the access of air,
causes death by strangulation. In ex
tensive pulmonary congestion, and in
solidification of the lungs from inflam
mation, the natural spongy tissue is ren
dered impervious to air, and death be
gins at the lungs. Drowning, and suf
focation by any means, as well as the
inhalation of poisonous gas, are other
examples of this mode of dying.—
Death beginning at the heart may be
sudden or gradual. The opposite con
ditions of paralysis and spasm may be
produced by the same cause, such as
wounds of the heart, shock from exten
sive injury, as the crushing of a limb,
or a violent blow on the pit of the
stomach. If; from paralysis, the heart
ceases to contract, and is found disten
ded with blood. If from spasm, the
organ is powerful contracted, its cavi
ties are emptied and almost obliterated.
Sudden death from drinking ice-water
when the body is overheated is by some
supposed to be caused by “ cramp in
the stomach.” But it is spasm, or
“ cramp ”of the heart, which is the
immediate cause of death in those cases.
The violent shock of the cold liquid on
the nerves of the stomach is transmit
ted to the heart by reflex action, and
produces the powerful and fatal con
traction.
Many fatal cases of sunstroke are ex
amples ot death from paralysis of the
heart. Exhausted by the heat and
over-exertion, the patient faints, and
never revives. The heart loses its pow
er to contract; and, in a state of com
plete relaxation, its cavities loaded with
blood, motion ceases.
The example mentioned will serve as
a type of cases of sudden death from
paralysis of the heart. A person pros
trated by loss of blood is suddenly
raised up in bed —he falls hack and is
dead. The heart weakened in common
with the whole muscular system, is un
able to perform the extra labor forced
upon it by the change of position.
Death begining at the heart is not al
ways sudden. In fevers and other con
tinued diseases, which gradually ex
haust the vital powers, the action of
the heart becomes by degrees irregular
and feeble, until at last it flutters and
die®.
For practical purposes, it is sufficient
to recognize but two modes of dying,
viz., death from asthenia , or want -of
strength, and from apnaea , or want of
breath. The common saying that a
man died “ for the want of breath ” is
not always correct. His breathing ap
paratus may have been in perfect con
dition, and no lack of pure air, still he
dies from want of strength—his heart
has the strength to continue its labor,
and there death begins. Or, he is in
good strength, but some of the. condi
tions above mentioned interfere with
respiration, and he dies from apnaea ,
want of breath. — Hall’s Journal of
Health.
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Gen. Jfacksfon’s Walking Stick.
Andrew Jackson Wilcox, a clerk in
the Navy Department, and a great
grandson of “ Old Hickory,” has in
his possession a cane that was pre
sented to General Jackson, by a com
mittee representing the citizens of Ten
nessee, and which is one of the most
unique, and at the same time intricate
pieces of workmanship that the writer
has seen for many a day. It is of the
finest hickory wood, and was taken
from a tree in the front garden of Gen.
Jackson’s plantation, the “ Hermitage,”
a short distance from Nashville, Tenn.
The top is surmounted with a cap of
solid silver, upon which is engraved the
names of all the Presidents of this
country, from 1776 to 1841, commenc
ing with John Hancock, the first Pres
ident really, and ending with John Ty
ler. Each of the prongs or knots is
tipped with silver, upon which is en
graved the names of the donors. There
is also a whistle made in one of the
knots, which was used by Gen. Jack
sou in calling his hounds. Upon the
side is engraved the following beautiful
liues:
“ And may at last my weary aye
Finn out my peaceful Hermitage,”
A Friend.
General Jackson carried this stick
continually, and ’tis said was more fund
of it than any article he possessed.
Tlic Man v, he Disappoints.
The man who h always ready to make
j promise and always failing to fulfil it
s one of the most exasperating of soci
al trials. A state of disappointment,
even over trivial things, is thoronghly
uncomfortable.
Our own plans are so mixed with
those of others that we must rely on
them to some extent. Our work anc
our amusements are devotional into
theirs. In everything we do we de
pend somewhat on what another does.
His doings fits into ours like parts in a
machine. We are always mortising
our own affairs with another’s implied
promises. The tacit confidence that he
will meet our expectations is the basis
of our plans and labor. When a man
continually disapoiuts this confidence
everything goes awry. After a little
experience we learn that he cannot be
depended upon, and set him aside in all
matters of moment; bnt thrown in con
tact in our social relation, we heedless
fasten a peg upon his word, arranged
some plan on his proffered service or
make an engagement depending upon
his promptness, only to be fretted and
disappointed in finding that he did not
think of keeping his word, was too bu
sy to perform the proffered, service and
forgot the engagement.
The man who disappoints is not inten
tionally a false man. There is no de
liberate cheating in his failures to meet
your expectations. He does mean to lie.
At the time he premises he will do as
he says. He miscalculates on himself.
He attempts too much, and lacks the
forethought, judgement, and will to ac
complish what he could reasonably under
take. He is full of intentions but care
less of bringing things to pass. His
affairs are in a tangle. He drops some
present duty in the effort to pick
up a past neglected one. He crowds
out the work of to-day in finishing
something that should have been done
yesterday, or in anticipating that of to
morrow. He makes blunders and in
creases the mischief in trying too late
to remedy them. He forgets his en
gagements and puts yours aside as of no
consequence- What he has agreed to do
to to day he thinks will do just as well
next Week. He feels no moral obliga
tion to meet the expectations he has
raised. When he forgets or neglects
to do as he had promised he will laugh
over it as an amusing thing, and tell
over as good jokes his dilemmas when
people depended on him, or their vexa
tion at his failures. If you attempt to
hold him to his promise you never resolve
to make a crooked thing straight. If
he does keep an engagement he makes
you feel as if he had moved heaven and
earth to do you a favor, and gives you
an uncomfortable sense of obligation
because he has for once been trust
worthy.
The man who disappoints is not an
unkind one in temper, nor a conscious
ly selfish one. lie is full of good im
pulses. He has quick perceptions and
generous feeling. He is always ready
to offer services to friends, putting him
self to great inconvenience to help
them. He does more : he proffers kind
nesses to those who have no claim on
him and no expectations from him. He
will urge his offers on you when you hes
itate to accept from delicacy or unwil
lingness to make him trouble, and will
take upon himself what really belongs
to another to do. If you are so inju
dicious as to accept that offer you will
find that he had previous engagements
and prior promises which made it im
possible for him to perform what he so
freely pressed on you, or he accumula
ted so many new obligations that what
he voluntarily incurred to you are soon
crowded out.
The annoyance and disappointment
which such a character continually
leaves with all who have relations with
him infuse a bitter taste into the kind
ly deed and generous courtesies he of
fers. Forgetfulness and unpunctilality
in most are forgiven to the really gen
erous, kind hearted man ; but though
he may count them as small delinquens
cies, and we, too, may speak of them a>
such, yet the woild soon learns to ac
cept a man for what he is really worth,
and an Untrustworthy man must he
counted at a low value. Men find their
level in due time, and the man who dis
appoints must be contented to he left
out in all matters of importance and in
all relations of trust and responsibility.
—
The Ears of Wheat.
Ages upon ages ago, when the an*
gels used to wander on earth, the fruit
fulness of the ground was much greater
than it is now. Them the ears of
wheat bore, hot fifty or sixty-fold, but
four times five hundred fold. Then the
corn grew from the bottom of the stalk
to the top ; and so long as the stalk was,
so long were the ears. But as men al-.
ways do in the midst of their abund
ance, they forgot the blessing which
came from God, and became idle and
selfish.
One day a woman went to a corn
field, and her little child who accompa
nied her fell into a puddle and soiled
her frock. The mother tore off a hand
ful of wheat ears and cleaned her
daughter’s dress with them. Just then
an angel passed by and saw her. He
became very angry, and declared to her
that henceforth the wheat-stalks should
no longer produce ears, for, said he,
“ you mortals are not worthy of heav
en’s gifts.” The bystanders who heard
him fell on their knees, weeping and
praying for him to leave the wheat
sta’ks alone, if not for themselves, yet
for the poor fowls, who must otherwise
perish with hunger. The angel pitied
their distress and graDted part of their
prayer; and from that day tfib ears of
wheat have grown as they do now.
Choose Wisely Your Wife.
Said an eastern sage to his son :
“ Go forth, my 6on, to the world; be
wise in the accumulation of riches ; be
wise in the choice of friends; yet little
will all this avail thee, if thou choose
not wisely the wife of thy bosom.
When the rulers of the earth echo
thy sayings, aud the trumpet of fame
sounds thy name abroad and among the
nations, more beautiful will the sun of
thy glory set if one bright cloud re
flects its brightness, and sullied forever
ffill be the splendor of its rays, if like
a dark spot she crosses the surface.
Consider this, then, my son, and look
well to her ways whom thou wouldst
love ; for little will all else avail thee if
thou choose not wisely the companion
of thy bosom. See yonder the maid
ens of Tinge; they deck themselves
with the gems of Golcondd Add tlifl
roses of Kashmir, themselves itidre
brilliant and beautiful; but ah ! take
them not to thy bosom, for the gems
will grow dim, and the roses wither;
and naught remain to thee of all thou
didst woo and win.
“Neither turn thyself to the proud
one who vaunts herself of having scan
ned the pages of Vedas, and fathomed
the mysteries of the holy temple.—
Woman was not born to wield the scep
tre or direct the council; to rival the
mandates of Brahma, or expound the
sacred versus of Medu. Rather let her
support thee in thy grief and soothe
thee in sickness ; to rejoice in thy pros
perity and cling to thee in adversity.—
Reflect, then my son, ere thou choose,
and look well to her whom thou wouldst
make the wife of thy bosom.
“ A wife ! what a sacred name, what
a responsible office ! she must be the
unspotted sanctuary to which wearied
men flee from the crimes of the world,
and feel that no sin dare enter there.— j
A wife ! she must be as pure as spirits
round the everlasting throne, that men
may kneel to her in admiration and feel ,
no abasement. A wife! she must be ,
the guardian angel of his footsteps on ,
earth, and guide them to heaven; so ,
firm in virtue that shoilld he for a mo
ment water, she Cdn yield him support 1
and replace him upon its foundation ; (
so happy in conscious innocence, that ,
when from the perplexities of the world ,
he turns to his home, he may never find ■
a frown where he sought a smile. Such, (
my son, thou seekest iu a wife; reflect ]
well ere thou choose. ,
“ Open not tlly bosom to the trifler,
repose not the head on the breast which
nurseth envy, and folly, and vanity;
hope not for obedience where t’ne pas
sions are untamed; and except no hon
or from her who honoreth not the God
who made her.
Though thy place be next to the
throne of princes, and the countenance
of royalty beam upon thee—though thy 1
riches be as the pearls of Omar, and
thy name be honored from the east to
the west, very little will it avail thee, if
darkness and disappointments and strife
oe in thine own habitation. There
must be passed thine hours of solitude
and sickness; and there must thou die.
Reflect, then, my son, ere thou choose,
and look well to her ways whom thou
wouldst love ; for though thou be wise
in other things little will it avail thee if
thou choose not wisely the wife of thy
josom.”
The Woman who Lived Loo Long.
The legend says there once dwelt on
the island of Falster a lady of rank who
was extremely rich, but had neither
son nor daughter to inherit her wealth.
She therefore resolved to dedicate it to
a pious use, and caused a church to be
built which was both spacious and mag
nificent. When it was completed, she
had the altar candles lighted, and go
ing through the"choir to the altar she
cast herself on her knees and prayed to
God that in reward for her pious gift
he would add as many years to her life
as her church should stand. Fftnfl
time to time her relatives and servants
died, but she who had made so foolish a
prayer lived ou. At length she had no
longef relative or friend. She saw
children grow up, become aged and die,
and their children grow oil, while she
herself was wasting through extreme
age, so that she gradually lost the use
of her senses. Sometimes, however,
she recovered her voice, though for an
hour only, at midnight on Christmas. —
On one of these nights she desired to
be laid in an oaken coffin, and placed in
the church, that she might there die,
but that the priest should attend her,
every Christmas night to receive her
commands. From that time her coffin
was stood in the church, but she has
not been permitted to die. Every
Christmas night, the priest goes to her,
lifts the lid of the coffin, and she raises
slowly up. When sitting she asks, “is
my church yet standing ?” And when
the priest answers, “ Yes,” she sighs
and says:
“Ah! God grant that my church were
burnt;
For then only would my affietion be ended.”
She then sinks back into the coffin,
the priest lets the lid fall, and comes not
again until the next Christmas midnight
o e>
tolls from the high church tower. —
Home and School, Louisville, Ken
tucky.
<; ♦
Spectacles.— When spectacles were
first introduced it was fashionable to
wear them, even by people who were
not in the least near-sighted. In Spain
they forme- 1 part of the costumes of ev
ery we’l bred person. This absurd use
of glasses was meant to increase the
gravity of the appearance, and conse
quently the veneration with which the
wearer of them was regarded. The
glasses of spectacles were proportioned
in size to the rank of the wearer.—
Those worn by the Spanish nobles were
as large as one’s hand.
Rum aul Cheese,
In his address at the late anniversa
ry of the National Temperance Society.
John B. Gough relatod the following
anecdote, illustrating the absurdity of
some of the objections made to the
measures taken to suppress the eviable
intemperance:
A gentleman was dining at the table
of a lady who refused to tolerate one
drop of wine or spirits at her table, and
who, when asked to entertain one of the
British nobility, replied, “ I can ; but
it must be understood that neither
wine, ale, ’ nor spirits are offered in
my house.” This gentlemen referred
to, as at her dinner table said, “ I en
j°y a glass of wine, and I have got in
the habit of using it. By-and-by you
will take from us all our luxuries. I
think wine promotes digestion. Did
you ever hear of a man who could not
eat cheese without hurting him ? Then
I suppose you would deny me cheese.”
She replied, “ Did you ever hear a man
standing under a gallows, and saying to
the witnesses of the execution, ‘ Now
my friends, take warning by me and
never eat any cheese V Or did you ev
er read in the newspapers when a man
is murdered in our streets that ‘ those
men had been eating cheese V ” Show
to me that cheese produces tilUe-tenths
of the crime seven-eights of the pau..
perism, one-half of the lunacy ; show
to me that cheese produces the result
that drink does, and by the grace of
God I will battle the cheese just as hard
as the wine.
Frightening Children.
Nothing can be worse for a child
than to bo frightened. The effect of
the scare it is slow to recover from ; it
remains sometimes until maturity, as is
shown by many instances of morbid
sensitiveness and excessive nervousness.
Not unfrequently, fear is employed as a
means of discipline. Children are con
trolled by being made to believe that
something terrible will happen to them
and punished by being shut up in dark
rooms, or by being put in places they
stand in dread of. No one, without
vivid memory of his own childhood,
can comprehend how entirely cruel
such things are. We have often heard
grown persons the suffering they
have endured, as children, under like
circumstances, and recount the irrepa
rable injury which they are sure they
then received. No parent, do nurse,
capable of alarming the young, is fitted
for her position. Children as near as
possible, should be trained not to know
the sense of fear, which, above every
thing else, is to be feared in their edu
cation, early and late. — N. Y. Free
man’s Journal.
“ Cutting n Dido.”
This is a phrase older than most peo
ple imagine. Do you call to mind the
story of Dido, princess of Tyre ? Her
husband, Aeerbas, priests of Hercules,
was murdered for his - aalth, by the
King Pygmalion, brother to Dido The
widowed princess was enabled to escape
from Tyre, bearing with her the wealth
of her husband, and accompanied a
number of disaffected nobles.
After a variety of adventures they
landed on the coast ef Africa, where
Dido bargained with the natives for as
much land as she could enclose in a
bull’s hide. Selecting a large tough
hide, she caused it to be cut into the
smallest possible threads, with which
she enclosed a large tfact of country,
on which the city of Carthage soon be*
gan to rise.
The natives were bound by the let
ter of their bargain, and allowed the
cunning queen to have her way; and
after that, when any one had played off
a sharp trick, they said he had “ cut a
Dido.” That was almost three thousand
years ago, and the saying has come down
to our day.
flow it Was Done. — J. S. Perrin,
lately a Pepublican member of the Al
abama Legislature, testified on Wednes
day before the Spencer investigating
committee at Montgomery. He sai l
that troops were retained in Alabama
before the election on a requisition of
himself and others, it having been un
derstood that Spencer “ had arranged
for troops to be put at the disposal of
the Mayor and other revenue officers
wherever intimidation was necessary.”
He stated further that these troop, ac -
companied by an U. S. Marshal, wbo
had fictitious warrants against citizens,
were paraded in different counties. Per
rin, himself, shot a hole in his hat, re
ported that he had been attacked by
Ku-Klux,’ and sent troops to arrest the
mythical assailants. He kept the troops
as long as he could use them as a politi
cal machine. The purpose was to se
cure the Legislature at all hazards and
elect Spencer. Other witnesses testi
fied that money had been used for the
same purpose.
~
A Heroic Act. —At Alymer, Cana
da, a few days ago, an act was perform
ed bj a girl seventeen years old which
was as heroic as its result was mourn
ful. Her little brother who was left in
ber care during the absence of ther
mother, fell through the ice into a deep
creek, near the shore of which he had
been playing. She plunged in after
hiui, and getting him to the surface,
thrust him by main strength into a po
sition of safety, although by so doing
she knew that she was losing her only
chance of escape. When bis hands had
grasped something on the tank by
which he could draw himself out, she
calmly bade him brace his feet against
her and clamber up. The frightened
boy did so, and the pressure thus
brought to bear upon his sister pushed
her beneath the ice, where her body
was afterwards found.
VOL. V. —NO. 4 3i
The i‘ar.
Moore, was sitting in his office one
afternoon, some years ago, when a tann
er friend came m and saij ;
Mi. Moore, L like your paper, bit
times aic so hard that 1 cannot pay lor
it." 1 J
“Is that so, Iriend Jones 't I niff
very sorry to hear that you a- e so poor
if you aie so hard run 1 will give vou
uiy paper." & J
•*Ou, no ! I cau’t take it as a gift."
. thou lets see how we can fix
it. Yourais chickens I believe.”
u \es, a few, but they dou’t bring
anything hardly."
Dou t they '{ Neither does my pa
per cost anything hardly. Now L have
a proposition to make to you. I will
coutiuue your paper, aud when you go
home you may select from the lot UUH
chicken and call her mine. Take good
care of her and bring me the proceeds
whether in eggs or chickcus, aud we
Will call it square."
‘‘ All right, Brother Moore," and thd
fellow chuckled at what he thought and
capital bargain. lie kept the contract
stiictly, and at the cud of the year
found that he had paid four prices for
Ins paper. He often tells the joke him
self and says lie never had the face to
say that he was too poor to take a a
per from that day.
Jelly From Old Roots.
The reader may stare, hut science
smiles supreme and asserts very em
phatically that a toothsome delicacy can
be made from a dilapidated foot cover
feome time ago, says (lie ibeient'f
ic American, i)r. Vnnder Wevde re.
iraled some friends not only with boot
jelly, but with shirt coffee, and the re
past was pronounced by all partakers
excellent. 'J lie Doctor tells us that he
made the jelly by first cleaning the
boot, and subsequently boiling it with
soda, under a pressure of about two at
mospheres. The tannic acid in the
leather, combiued with salt, made tan
into of soda, and the gelatine rose to
the top, whence it was removed and
dried From this last, with suitable
flavoring material, the jelly was readily
concocted. The shirt coflee, incident
ally mentioned above, was sweetened
with cuff and collar sugar, both coffee
and sugar being produced in 'he same
way. The linen (after, of course, wash
ing)) wasj treated with nitric acid,
which, acting on the lignite contained
in the fibre, produced glucose or grape
sugar. J his roasted, made an excellent
imitation of coffee, which . an addition
of unroasted glucose readily sweetened.
—London Medical Press and (iircit
lar.
Who are Rich.—The man with
good, firm hea th is rich.
So is the man with a clear coli-.
science.
So is the parent with vigorous chil
dren.
So is an editor of a good paper with
a big subscription list.
So is a clergyman whose coat the
children piuck when he passes them in
their play.
So is the wife who has the whole of
the heart of a good husband.
So is the chi'd who goes t > sleep with
a kiss on his lips and for w’hose waking
a blessing awaits.
So is the maiden whoso horizon is not
bounded by the coming man, but who
his a purpose in life, whether she meets
him or not.
So is the young man who, laying his
hand on his heart can say : ‘ l I have
treated every woman I ever met as I
should wish my sister treated by other
men.
-•H 4
A Look Around the World.—
T.he latest and best authority gives tha
population of the globe at 1,350,300,-
000. In America, 72,800,000. In Eu
rope, 587,000,000. In Asia, 708,000,-
000. In Africa, 188,000,000. In
Australia and Polynesia, 5,300,000.—*
These people speak about 3,000 differ
ent languages, and are cut up into 1,-
000 different religious sects. The acL
herants of the principal seeks, recount
ing the whole popu’ation, are supposed
to be nearly thus : Roman Catholics,
105,000,00). Protestants, 57,130,-
000. Mubomuiedans, 400,000,000.
Buddhists, 340,000. The six other
oriental churches. 6,500,000. Other
Asiatic religions, 260,000,000. Pagans
200,000,000. Jews, 6,000,000.
A Good Rule.—A man who is veiy
rich now, was very poor when lie was a
boy. When asked how he got his rich
es he replied : “My father taught me
never to play until my work was finish
ed, and never to spend my money until
I had earned it. If I had but one
hour’s work in a day, I must do that
the first tiling, and in an hour, and after
this I was allowed to play, and then I
could play with much more pleasure
than if I had the thought of an unfin
ished task before my mind. I early
formed the habit of doing everythin**
in time, and it soon became perfectly
easy to do so. It is to this that I owe
my prosperity.’’
Maturity in Grace.—Maturity in
grace makes U3 willing to part wiib
worldly goods ; the green a{ pie needs
a sharp twist to separate it from the
bough ; but the ripe fruit paris readily
fiOm the wood. Maturity in grace
makes it easier to part with life itself;
the uuripe pear is scarcely beat; n dowu
with much labor, while its mellow com
panion drops readily into the hand with
the slightest shake. Rest assured that
love to the things of this life, and cleav
ing to this present state, are sure indi
cations of immaturity in the divine life.
Spurgeon.