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GREEN MOUNTAIN FREEMAN. MOSTPELIIR.YT. ,.11,-e in thr Brich Block, Head of HUUHtrwt. 4 ! if i'fcid In i1tidm , athrwiM,$i.t(i. ! vu, cut may l mdc by mil) or otherwise to H R. WHEELUCX, Editor &dPropr.tcr H.tlnN.uudrr lb rereut liw of Couinren ,, ,t- ir.-f hi wshmrtiB County. On all paira .- i-hH,ton County, the poiue U paid .t,c i i 1 'iitiT t The ftVio MnDtpM?r. TERMS FOR A DV ERTISIJTG. Fornnita'itiaretf llllnsarlMaaf Watatrp. oa lnartln. fun: forftadmabs-niut inartlon, IL eta Tnleas the umber of iuaerti'm, ara marifrt on toe ai ertuwroent it will be CJUtiaavl until ordered out trwral -li--i'int uvie. to laercoanu aud utberaadver alna- br Lba rear. Probateatidaomailaaloaara'Notlcaa.tl.ooeach. For Notirea of Liberation, Eatrar Formation and MiRR-iliittoQ of Co-tArtneruii-i. . 41 iSea-ti!or tiirae inaartiotm. If aant b maitine inooa? muat ao compaur thai ettar. NotloealD nawa eolrjmna, I1en-t per lineeaeh! ta aruon, but no ebarirea maiia of laa than iu canta . yotlreaof Deatbaand Marrlaa-eatnaerteda-ratfabnt extended JDituarr N nicea of t lelrf will be charred altnrataof nvecenta perllha. VOL. XXXVIII. MONTPELIElt, VT., WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1881. NO. 19. MJNTI'ELER.VT. WEDNESDAY. NAT 11. 1881. Letter from Milwaukee. Milwaukee, April 29, 1881. Leaving Xorthfield and its eastern hills with iheir wnite crowns of snow, on Mon d u ' afternoon express, at Richmond we 1. It tli' last snow bank, until we were ahuiit t JT"iity miles north from Chicago, w hi n we began to find them not fnfre . ( i.-n 1 ! v : and in this city to day I came :u-m5 several lying with a south-eastern , posnie in the full heat of the sun. It w;is not until we reached the western put of Michigan that we saw much h i;li water, and then nothing serious; but when half way to this city from Chicago we liegan to come across newly formed lakes, ranging from a few inches to several feet in depth, and covering thousands of acres of land. We reached Milwaukee Wednesday evening, and came to the Newhall House, an East side hotel on Broadway, and oppo site the chamber of commerce building. It is a will kept hostelry, with moderate charges. Since that evening, I have been doing the city, and have derived much )ersonal satisfaction froru my efforts. The contrast between its clean houses, tidy streets, broad stone walks and parked streets, and Chicago's smoke-stained walls, lilthy streets and dirty walks is so marked as to cause an immediate affection to spring up between it and the visitor which grows rather than weakens on more thorough acquaintance, I!y the courtesy of old-time residents I have been enabled in a brief time to see .au'l to know quite a good deal of the city. Tile city is divided into three parts and -' ts upon three hills overlooking the lake. All that portion lying between the Mil waukee river which flows through the oily, parallel with the lake and the lake is called the Ea9t side. This is the origin al city. All that portion lying west of the Milwaukee river and the Menomonee river, which joins the Milwaukee in the city, is called the West side. All south of the Menomonee is known as the Walker's l'oint division. The Ivist siuc has the best business blocks, and its residences are usually first class. The northern part of the West side is the home of the employes of the different manufacturing establishments. The East side has until recently looked down upon the West side, and jeeringly calli d it " Canada." But a ride up Grand avenue discloses now liner private resi dences than any the East side can boast of. Here we find the home of Alexander Mitchell, president of the Chicago, Mil waukee and St. Paul railroad, president of the North-western national insurance rnmpany, (lire and marine), president of a National hank and owner of the new Mitchell block, and withal the richest man in Milwaukee. His residence is a marvel or elegance and his grounds are charming beyond description. The lot occupies one whole block between North and Keith streets, and besMes the elegant house has a beautiful lawn, a rich pavilion, costly conservatories and green houses. On this avenue also is the home of John Plankinson, owner of the Plankinson Hotel, West side. lie commenced life as a pork butcher ; killed his one pig at a time and peddled it out by 6lices; grew -ti p 1 iv siep in the business until his is the grea'e't pork packing business in the city. Thinking to try a little speculation this winter he went into the corner on pork and in a few days made .$0,000,000. Since that lie has tried a corner on coffee, but failing to control the market he is now losing a' out three cents a pound on the millions of pounds he owns. Grand avenue followed leads to the soldiers' home, which stands in the centre of a beautiful and attractive park, which is kept in prime order by the disabled soldiers intuntesof the home. Sometimes there are at a time over eight hundred of the disabled and wounded veterans of our late war in this home. The park is open to the public and is much visited in warm weather, especially on Sunday. To be in Milwaukee and not speak of its breweries would mortally offend the average Milwaukceite. This business employs thousands of men nnd is the controlling interest in city politics. The citv was carried bv the republicans at the In asi election by attracting to that ticket the great bulk of the German voting element, but it is now thought by many sincere temperance people that the disgust of the German citizen will be so intense at the anti-treating law recently passed by the republican legislature that it wi re-ult in throwing the city into the hands of the democrats at the next election. This fact makes the act seem a not unmixed good to many of the temperance people of Milwaukee, who sue in tho return of the democratic party to power evil and evil only. It is feared that even the Milwaukee lager liecr which has stood among beers as purity itself is beginning now to be adulterated. To those who see in the free use of lager beer the sure inaugural of a temperance millennium this fact is a sum co of union annoyance, and as one gentleman said to inn, " It will make us all teeiolalers, I fear, for of course we cannot countenance whisky." Milwaukee us a port of entry and de parture lacks only a million tons of equaling Chicago, and it is claimed that Chicago and Milwaukee together excel in tonnage the ports of Philadelphia, Boston and N, w York, such is our commerce on Uicse inland seas. Milwaukee does not expect to rival Chicago as a commercial city, but does "xpect to lead in tnanufactnres, and ex pects to control the movement of all the A No, l wheat in the north west, and this because of the superior and established hnnesiy of the grain inspectors of this city, who have become world-wide in fame in this regard; so much so that at Liverpool, Eng., this grade of wheat with the Mil waukee, stamp upon it sells for a cent a bushel higher than the same grade from any other port. Another and striking proof that the old adage of " Honesty is the best policy," has not quite outlived its usefulness or proven false to its preten sions. In my next I will give you tho lcnelit of my continued researche-, in this city after the stern facts connected with its his tory and its growth. i To Small Investors. You hive a little money laid up, say rive hundred dol Inrs; you are questioning what to do with it. We do not propose to tell you. but we propose to give you general principles which may aid you in coming to a wise decision. You may do one of three things with it: you may hoard it; you may invest it, or you may speculate with it. You may put it In a strong box, nnd put the strong box in your safe or in that of a safe deposit company; in which case, at the end of twenty years, your live hundred dollars will not have gained a single dollar. It will be like the talent which the unprofit able servant wrapped in a napkin. lou may buy five acres of land with it, and begin to cultivate them, in which case, if yon buy wisely and cultivatcskillfully and industriously, at the end of livo years your five hundred dollars will have become a thousand; or you may buy a thousand bushels of oats at fifty cents a bushel, in the expectation that oats :iro going to be higher next week, leave them at the mill or in the store house for a luriiiiuht, and at the end ol that time sell them to some one at sixty cents or forty cents a bushel; in which case you may make or lose, accord ing as the market happens to rise or fall. In the first case you simply attempt to keep your money; in the second vou attempt to set it to useful work; in the third ease you simply use it to get money out of your neighbor's pocket. To hoard money is simply to put it where you think it will be safe; to invest money is to put it where you think it will be useful; to speculate with money is simp!) to make a s:ake of it with a fellow gambler; tho whole to lie lost or 'ion on the turn of the dice or the shift of the market. Now you ought to have a c lear and defi nite understanding of what you want to do with your money; do vou want to hoard it, to invest it, or to speculate with it? If you want to speculate with it we have no advice to give you. The sooner you lose it the better; and it probably will not be long. An amateur gambler who at tempts to beat a faro bank is cautious in comparison with an amateur speculator who imagines he can send his five hundred dollars to Wall street and make it taku five hundred more out from the pockets of men whose life is devoted to studying the market, and whose whole earnings are made by plucking amateur speculators. Christian Union. What Makes a House Heactikui.. It is an excellent thing to have a well kept house, and a beautifully appointed table, but after all the best cheer of every home must comer from the heart and ruanno' of the home mother. If that is cold, and this ungracious, all the wealth of India cannot make the home pleasant or inviting. In telligence, too, must lend its charm if we would have home an Eden. Tins severe style of house, order, neatness seldom leave much margin for intellectual culture. Even general reading is considered as out of the question for a woman so hurried and worried with her scrubbing and polishing, and making up garments. A simpler style of living and house furnishing would set' many a bonded slave til libertv, and add vastly to the comfort of all the house. Hospitality rarely prevails in these sp t less, linc-and-letter houses. Company dis arranges the books, and disorders the house, which had work enough in itbefore. The mother cannot throw oil' her carking cares and sit down for a real heart-to-heart converse with the old friend ot her child hood. Still less can she enter into the joys and pleasures, right and delightful to her own children, because of the extra work of clearing away it will bo likely to make. With all your toils to make a house beautiful, do iiol neglect the first element of all, to beautify yourself, body and soul. A sweet, loving word, and a warm clasp of the hand, are far more to a guest than the most elaborately embroidered lambrequins at your windows, or the most exquisite damask on your table. There are hare cabin homes that have been remembered ever with pleasure, because of the beauti ful, loving presence there; and stately palaces, which leave the impressions of an iceberg in the mind. The Gkeat Wall of China. Tl great wall of China was measured in many places oy Mr. UntliaiiK, an Ameri can enginoer. lately engaged on a survey lor a Chinese railway. 1 1 is measurements give the height at 18 feet and a width on lop of li feet Every lew hundred yards there is a lower 24 feet .square and from 20 to 2i feet high. -The foundation of the wall is solid granite. Mr. L'nthank brought a brick from the wall, which Is supposed to have been made 200 years lielore the time ot Cnrist. In bunding this immense stone fence to keep oul the tartars, the builders never attempted to avoid mountains or chasms to save expense, tor 1,300 miles tnat wall goes over plain and mountain, and every loot of the foundation is in solid eranite and the rest of the structure in solid masonry. In some places the wall is built smooth up against the bank, or canyons, or prec ipices, where there is a sheer descent of 1000 feet. Small streams are arched over, but in the larger streams the wall runs to the water's edge, and a tower is built on each side. On the top of the wall are breastworks or defences, facing in and out, so the defending forces can pass from one tower to another without lieing exposed to the enemy from either side. To calculate tho time of building or cost of this wall is beyond human skill. So far as the mag nitude of the work is concerned, it sur passes anythinc in ancient or modern times of which there is any trace. The pyramids of Egypt are nothing compared to it London News. Who Shall Bow First? Shall the man or the woman bow first when they meat in the street? This is the question. In France it is the custom for the gentle man to bow first; in England, for the lady. Americans have usually imitated the English mode, but there are some in Jicaliohs that a change has begun, and that, henceforth, it will be considered proper for neither to wait for the other, bul for cither to take the initiative accord idg to which sees the other first. If the lady does not wish to recognize the gentle man at all, she need no', of course, In cither case; so that hor preference has the same protection, whichever is authorized to bow first. The truo rule in America would seem to be a union of the French and English code; neither gentleman nor lady to have precedence but either to bow first, according to convenience. American Queen. A live years-old little girl was taught to close her evening prayer, during the tem porary absence of her father, wilhi "And please watch over my papa." It sounded very sweet but the mother's nmuiiement maybe imagined when the child added: "And you had belter keep an eye on mamma, too." YONDER ! No abadowe yooder ! All lurbt and aon-; Each day I wander. And sy. how lonir Shall time me lunder From that doar throng , No weeping yonder 1 Ail fled away; While here I wander Each weary day. And aira ae I ponder My lontr, lonir atay. No partiniri yonder ! Time and space never Araiu ahallaunder; Hearta cannot aerer: Dearer and fonder Hauila claap forever. None wanting yonder, Bomrbt by the Lamb ! All gathered ander The evergreen palm: Loud aa nigbt'a thunder Aaceudl the glad psalm. Horatiiu Btitutr. Duly Done. BY SARAH K BOLTON. Hadassah Granger bat alone by the grate her hands crossed, her head bent, her brown eyes filled with tears, her mouth firmly closed. To night she had said "no" to the great wish and hope of her life, be cause she believed duty demanded it. She bad known Ralph Guernsey as a school hoy, a college youth, a manly man; and there had been a half-fell but never expressed belief that in the years to come ttiey would walk together. Hadassah had not said, like many girls, because I shall probably marry, therefore I shall not need, I like Ralph, a college education. There will be no place to use it in the quiet routine of home-life. Bul she said, rath er, just as thousands of men say who go through college, but take up no profes sion : An education is a development thai makes one appreciale life better, get more happiness out of it, stand on an equality with one's fellows, and be fitted for any sphere to which circumstanci s may cali. The best educated woman finds need for every particle of knowledge she has ever acquired. Socially it gives power, with her ehildren it begets honor and confi dence as well as love, nnd with her hus band it makes her a companion, and her judgment so broad and wise that she is something more than a creature of intui tions, swayed by fitful feeling. Hadassah bad laid the foundation broad and well for a useful life. She had stu died Latin and Greek with mathematics under the best teachers; and, while she had lost none of her feminine graces, she had gained strength, such as one neads in a world where each life has to bear its own burdens and give its own individual account to its Maker. Mutual dependence the world needs, but it has no place nor us) for helpless or Idle women. And, now that Ralph's college life was over, he had come to tell Hadassah of what each so well knew, that the life of one was essential to that of the other. And, with beating heart and intense joy, Hadassah had listened, as we do to a sweet song that we know that we shall never hear again, or give ourselves up to a rapturous hour that we are sure can never come but onoe. There is an unde tinable joy in knowing that you are more than all the world beside to some waiting soul, that your presence makes all the days sunshiny, that your love completes the ciicte of human needs. And this hour had oome and gone, and was only a memory, as Hadassah looked into tho firelight of the grate. Ralph was her ideal. Perhaps we rarely ff ever, see that person but once in life, and that early. We either become more practical as we grow older, or we are more fastidious in taste or keener in judgment. But, with all her love, she had told her heart and him that her first duty was to her father and mother, both aged, the latter of whom, an invalid, could not give her up. A brqther was also at home, but he could not fill tho daughter's place. For weeks and months, she had been coming to this decision; but to-night il had taken all the courage and all the prayer of a trusting, devoted heart to say, " I will let nothing come between my mother and myself, while she lives and wishes it. ' Ralph Guernsey was benumbed at first by her refusal a man's plans are more a part of his life than he knows then he pleaded his cause with all the earnestness of one whose destiny is bound up in that of another, and then he promised to wait and see what the years would bring. Business called him away to a distant citv. Twice he crossed the ocean and journeyed in foreign lands; and finally. lor a man needs a home with all its tender and delightful associations perhaps even more than a woman, Ralph's heart almost unconsciously went searching for its counterpart. Had he forgotten Hadassah? Far from it; but he rarely saw her, and when he did, it only added bitterness to his life. It was the old story. A gentle woman cared (or him in sickness, loved him. and he was grateful for the care and the affection, and married her. Meantime, Hadassah's father had lost his properly ; and she had become our teacher, a noble, self-possessed woman whom we all loved and reverenced. Her (ace had grown more beautiful with that sort ol m a ble fixedness that stern duty gives; while the face of a young mother, even though it gets lines of care in it, grows more mobile and tender, with its changeful expression wrought by the sweet surprises and restlul joy in the love of husband and children. To Mrs Granger, growing more and more like a child in her need of care and consideratcness, Hadassah was indeed a ministering angel. The mother seemed never to comprehend the sacrifice mule for her sake, if, indeed, it be ever a sacri fice, in the highest sense, to do one's duty. Hadassah was certainly happy in hei work. She was moulding the characters of a hundred young women, whose power in the world, whether married or single, would be very great. She was making her own home a centre of refinement and Christian labor. She was a constant in centive to all her friends to live for some thing other than mere personal happiness. Sometimes, people said, VVhat a pily Mi-s Granger isn't married! She would make such a noble wife." But some one always answered, "Who could fill hor place? Is she not doing more good where she is?" But after both the aged father and mother had died, and Hadassah was quite alone, tho good people of the village who knew her heart-history though; it was very sad indeed that Ralph was not free now. Novels almost always end wilh the lovers coming together, but tilings are not always in real life as they are in books. At least the neighbors hoped that she would marry somebody. Probably, Hadassah had uever seen any other man whom she loved; but she did her duty, and left results with God. A telegram came one morning. In a fearful railroad accident at the west that all the country read about, Ralph Guern sey nnd his wife were among those of whom no word was ever heard. The blackened heap of ashes and iron girders in the stream into which the train bad plunged told no names or last words or wishes. The telegram spoke only of little Mabel Guernsey, a child of four, left motherless and fatherless. Hadassah at once started for the west, and in a few days returned with the fair haired creature wilh eyes as brown as her own. Perhaps said the good people, if she bad children of ber own, she couldn't have cared for this little thing, and maybe God's way is best, after all. She seemed to nave new lite come into tier heart. 1 he marble-like look faded out of her face. arm uie oiuuwr-iuuw crop. a. Ann line w iin.,.u s cum., u BB" again Hnnramrw.iril. aolirMit initios mart easier; for a baby s arms twined about her neck every night, and little hands gathered daisies and buttercups for her every day. As years passed, bow thankful she grew for the gift of that precious child! She has Ralph's mind, thought Hadassah; anil its lliifn.lilino' wti mnrfl hpnilt Ifnl tnnn : . ... .-- .. .. -- - that nf tiiA H.inhoal rn.a With ilnn 1 Inua i ........ ... '""""perfect independence of action and estab- the genlleneas and devotion of be,' mother, hes Ue ,ic(J and he;lltn offlcerg Rg she had the strength and nobility of her I bout the censoof oowiuei or father. A child at four easily forgets Us sorrows, and to Mabel, uadassah soon became both father and mother in one. Their walks and talks together were blest to each other. One grew toward maturity, and the other grew toward childhood again. Miss Granger's influence in life almost doubled, if that were possible, for the new cheer and hope she gave to all about her. Life seemed a satisfaction, a rounding out of early purposes. Duty done had brought its fulness of blessing. And now word has lust come that Had assah Granger, ministered unto by Mabel Guernsey, grown to girlhood, has gone oul of life in the midst of her work. Most of us go that way, hut what matter if somebody takes up the work where we lay "?7 luc T" ",v God does not lead us all in one - me pathway. Sometimes we it downr nnd the same walk alone sometimes the wav shadowed; but if we do our duty where He puts us, in some future light we shall read the wisdom of His planning. The scientific papers, among them the London Engineer, the American Minutuc frrer,nind the Illustrated Scientific A'civs. have been aroused to an unusual spasm of speculative energy by a certain little in strument, styled the fusing disk, in use in large iron and steel establishments in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, whose operation raises a new and diffiult question in molec ular physics that il will require accurate experiments to solve. The losing disk is described as an instrument tor cutting cold steel by a current of air, and although at first glance resembling the cold saw has nothing in common with it in its mode of operation. It is, of course, a familiar tact among engineers that a disk ol soft iron revolving at high velocity will sever a bar of the hardest steel in a few seconds, pro vided that the contact and pressure are properly regulated. The fusing disk, al though it might he mistaken for the cold saw in external appearance, operates upon an altogether different principle, undone whose efficiency is not readily explained i iiuiu iiiiuviiu aseei liiuicu iws lespeeimj; i the fusion of metals. There is no actual cunuici oetweeu me uuc in mu uian aim the bar lo be severed, and I lie work is done entirely by a local fusion of the latter with oul material elevation ol the temperature of the disk, which consists of a thin cir cle of soft steel almost feel in diameter, making 230 revolutions a minute equiva lent to (:Six3.141o9'2x2:10) an angular ve locity of 2528 9X156 feet The bar to be cut must be round, and firmly secured in front of the disk, revolved at the rate of about 200 revolutions per minute in the same direction. Thus arranged, without actual contact, a bar of steel i inches in diameter may be severed in from 2 to II) seconds by lusion. he groove fused in the bar as the disk kdvauces is usually about once and a half the actual thickness uf the disk, and its bottom is nlwavs in advance of the margin about the same distance. If the bar is not in revolution the disk cuts its way through after the manner of the cold saw, and the debris which drops from the incision is a finely divided iron oxide; while, on tho other j hunrl urhon iho h-ir ia in motion lliodroti.i uin?s consist of small clobules of metallic iron, thus showing that molecular tension ' make the most durable crucibles, one day is the only agent concerned in the work. I found he had made porcelaiu. The pow I'he uuzzlinir Question, if heat is to be re- ler of lenses, as applied tu the telescope. garded as the agent of fusion, is to explain a generation ol heat sullieient to luse a bar of steel in 2 to 10 seconds by the sim ple revolution in the same direction, at no extraordinry velocity of the fusing disk and the contiguous bar. The disk never becomes sensibly heated in the operation, and while tho ends of the bar are percepti bly raised in temperature tho molten metal that drops from the cut, though sensibly fluid in its texture, can be caught in the palm of the naked hand of the operator without detecting any rise that is in the least inconvenient. It will be obvious, therefore, that there is a question of molec ular physics raised by this simple inven tion which cannot be solved by reference to hitherto ascertained laws of physics. Engineers and physicists in the journals named have exhausted all the received doctrines of occluded heat, molecular ten sion, etc., in trying to account for this remarkable phenomenon, hut it has not apparently occurred to any of the parties to the discussion that the probable cause of the fusion is to be sought in the gene ration of a powerful electrical current by the revolution of the disk and bar in the same direction, and the foundation of a voltaic are at the point of fusion, pruduo ing intense local molecular tension. New York Times. The Cross of Shouting. I want to tell you a story. Years ago, at the Round Lake camp meeting, a company of these "full-cup" Christians were talking upon this subject. One lady, whoso face looked like the Sea of Galilee after it hoard the " Peace, be still," of Jesus, arose and said: " Friends, I have had to bear this cross of shouting all my Christian life. When I was converted God saved mo wonderfully. I could not restrain my shouts of praise. My father was a presiding elder. He used to lake me with him on his district. I would shout under my own father's preach ing. Several times he reproved me sharp ly. He Baid lo me one day, as we were riding home together, ' Not so fast. Susan ; not so fast,' and inlimated that my conduct was not pleasing to many Christians who had been long in the way. I tried to re form, bul failed to do so; and afler a time mv father became reconciled lo my ways. Years sped on, and my father came on lo die. When he saw his sickness was unto death he began to examine carefully the foundations of his laith. A strange gloom hung over his mind. It was so ditl'erent from what he had expected. He prayed much, but found no relief. At last he said, 'Please let all retire from the room but Susan.' My mother, brothers and sisters went out, and I was left alone wilh my dvina father. I prayed with him. The struggle was severe, but victory came His soul was tilled with Joy unspeanaoie, Call them in now, he said, bul, ausan stand by me wbeh I am dying and shout me througn.' i nan to do it, anu tne last thing I ever heard my father say was Go ahead, ausan; go ahead: u. o. McCabt. An ingenious yankee has lately invented an illuminated oil can. It is so arranged that the can holds the light and the oil and is adapted for oiling machinery In the dark, and when in use, tho light, which is made after the bull's eye pattern, strikes upon the point of the tube that ejects the oil, and enables the oiler to see just what he is doing. Its usefulness to locomotive engineers for oiling engines In the dark should make it a valuable tool for them. The oil cannot harden or Become sun as the light in the can furnishes heat enough to keep it warm, ana It can easily be car ried In one band. Different sizes, intend ed for all kinds of work, will be made. Life and Death in a Great City. The most striking features of New York life, perhaps, is the utter lack of social ,rn.,... lh d in,rnollr9a rersons live for vars in a street without knowing the J ... names of even their neighbors, and think little more of visiting each other, merely through neighborly instinct, than you would of oalling on the transient who oc cupied the room next to you at a hotel. There is not a trace of the fellowship and sympathy that dwellers in smaller cities ..... are accustomed to. Ut course, tins has its advantages, and in that ll gives every one " . - individual behavior, and enables one to live in perfect qniet nnd seclusion, if it is desired. But it seems to me that it tends to selfishness, coldness and lovclessness. Just next door to where I am located, for instance, I saw yesterday a little coffin taken in at the door. No one in the house in which I live knows the name of the next door neighbors. Inquiry developed the belief that a bright eyed little boy, who had been missed from the sidewalk and the little yard for a few davs, was dead, and that the coflin was intended for hiin. Bul none of us were permitted Ut offer sympathy or assistance in that house ot mourning. We bad nothing to ilo but to look out of the window upon a veloci- pede standing idle in the yard, and a boy s aimies,ly about. And vet knew thati little child was dead in the adjoining house that a little form was lying still and pulseless in a coifin a mother's heart was breaking in that silent and desolate house. Of course, any inter ference might havo been worse than use less, but it seined strange to people com- j ing from a town where the death of a little . child started the tears in hundreds of eyes, I i .i . u.. u. ............ i r.. : I V u wrappeuLUO orie.tveu lailliijl iu ucm i felt and universal sympathy, thai it should be made so much a matter of fact. There were no friends that called at the house that could be noticed. The little coflin was taken to the door the door opeued the casket was passed in the messenger departed the slreet car swept noiselessly by the newsboys cried the evening pa pers the rag picker passed in the alley way without lifting his eyes the door closed the parents were left alone with the dead. To-day, Sunday, the funeral took place. There was the same dearth of sympathy and tenderness that we had noted before. There were a dozen persons present, but the most of them had the loruiat looK ot ; mere acquaintances. The little co-tun was ! put in a carnage aiiu mo iiukotiuu h- i tell )U oushlt uu uie ucmcicii. u .n hour nr two one carriage returned, bearing mu paienLs iii.n a nine sisvci oi me imm boy. T'bey got out of the carriage, the ; uoor was oiHJlieu uy a seivam aim mv . wenl ill alone with their grief, lo master it !4S jls tensiH slr,.D2th is about double that as best they could. Of course, this is the j of Wl)0() The mlu,.e wjH introduce a custom of cities and city people. They eoln,,.t, change in building material, doubtless feci as deeply and are as full of , Tleat) wjl ;ncaic ,aper for door and win tenderness and sympathy as provincials, i dow framuSi Aoon, moulding and roofs, but the death of that little child, the deso- i gl.li(1 for porches and pillars, cornices and lation ui the house in which the corpse ; .on for bu.llu5i joi9l3 lln,i rafters, was laid, and the stiff formality of the i1 with nol 9uiimer f woo, ;n lne whole funeral, has saddened a .little colony of ..,..,,.,.,: whieh will h renhieed with Georgians this Sunday afternoon, and sent i thuir hearts wistfully back to Georgia witu its warm sympathies, its nttectionate friends and its impulsive kindness. I hope never to see Atlanta grow so laige that a misfortune to any one of its citizens will not kindle regrets in the hearts of Ihe peo ple, and bereavement not to be tempered by common frimullinoss and sympathy. AtinUn Uuiiditution. Accidental Discoveiues. Valuable discoveries have been made and valuable inventions suggested oy tne veriest acci- lout An :llchcmist. while. Seekillo to i discover a mixture of earth, that would was discovered by a watchmaker's appreo-aj ticc. While holding spectacle-glasses between his thumb and linger, lie was startled at tho suddenly enlarged appear ance of a neighboring church spire. The art of etching upon glass was discovered hy a .Mueiunerg giass-cuuer. uyacoiiiuui, lew drops ol aquaionis ieit upon uis sM)ctacles. Ho noticed that the glass became corroded and soilcneii wnere uie icid had touched it That was hint enough. He drew figures iiron glass wilh varnish. applied the corroding fluid, then cut away the glass around the drawing. When the varnish was;removed, the figures appeared raised uoon a dark ground, .viezzotinlo owed its invedlion to the simple accident of the gnn-barrol of a sentry becoming rusied with dew. Ihe swaying to and fro of chandelier in a cathedral suggested to Galileo the application of the pendulnui. Ihe art of litlirograptnng was ieriecieii through suggestions made by accident. A poor musician was curious to Know whether music could not be etched un stone as wi ll as upon copper. After he had prepared his slab, his mother asked him 10 make a memorandum of such clothes a3 he proposed to send away to be wi shed. JNol having pen anu iiik anu paper convenient, he wrote the list on tho stone wilh the etching preparation, in tending lo make a copy of it at leisure. A few days later, when about to clean the stone, he wondered what effect aquafortis would have uKn it. He applied the acid, and in a lew minutes saw the writing slanding out in relief. The next step was simply to ink the stone and take oil an impression. The composition of which printing-rollers are made was discovered by a Salopian printer. Not being able to find the pelt ball, he inked the type with a piece of soft glue which had fallen out of a glue-pot. It was such an excellent sulratttutc that, afler mixing molasses with the glue, to give the mass proper consist ency, the old pelt-ball was entirely dis carded. Tho shop of a Dublin tobaccon ist by the name of Lundy was destroyed by tire. While he was gazing dolefully into the smouldering ruins, be noticed that his poorer neighbors were gathering the snuff from the canisters, lie tested Ibe snuff for himself, and discovered that the fire had largely improved its pungency and aroma. Il was a hint worth profiting by. He secured another shop, built a lot of ovens, subjected the snuff lo a heating process, gave the brand a particular name, and in a lew years became rich through an accident which he at first thought had completely ruined him. Edward, aged three and a half, asks for more cookies. " Have you an appetite, Kdward?"says his father. Edward, re flecting that if he answers " yes " he will be given graham bread, and that if he says " no" he will be told he does not want anything more, replies to his father (a ministor), " Well, pa, God has given me an appetite for cookies and not for graham bread." He got the cookies What is the world ? A dream within a dream, as we grow older, each step is an inward wakening. The youth awakes, as he thinks, fiom childhood; the full grown man despises the pursuits of youth as vis ionary ; the old man looks on manhood as a feverish dream. Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening. if you want knowledge you must toil for it . nd if pleasure, vou muat toil lor it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self-indulgence and indo lence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy oat. Jitukin. How Thet Teach Little Children in Gekmant. The lowest classes are de tained in school through two sessions a day, each session being two hours long, and even this broken by recess. It is long enough; and the memory of my primary school life of six hours a day. half nf which was the refinement of misery, makes me shudder at this late day. The Germans have discovered how to make a primary school a pleasure for the children. They come at eight o'clock, are kept continual ly busy until 10, come again at 2, and leave at 4. No lessons are studied In school, very few, indeed, at home. Hardly any text books are used, and these of the very simplest nature. Not a book is ever opened for silent study during school hours, and not a minute is lost in either sessions by teacher or pnpil. Most of the instruction is oral or by meansof a black board Those scholars of six summers had no writing books, yet they were all good writers; they had no grammar yet even at this age they were learning to con struct their language properly and build words into sentences; they bad no singing books, yet they sang the songs of Moz.irt and Mendelssohn. And the most striking feature of the whole system is that from the minute a scholar enters the school room until he leaves it, he finds himself reciting. If the lessons are such that they cannot be learned at home then study ami ' "" "y- 18 l('1ul1 e'j n t all be done out ol 8ehool, and the result is that every mo- recitation aie combined in one. ff study- ment uf school hours is consumed in reci tation, and consequently the one great source of idleness and weariness at once removed Letter from Germany. Substitutes kok Wood. The lumber 0f ,he future is to be made of straw. It is t coml)ele wu that of the better class, as 1 .... there stems to be no necessity of introduc ing knots and shakes into Ibe artificial material. It is manufactured in any de sired length from twelve feet upward, and as much as thirty-two inches in width Tlie cost is such as to compete with better or finisliin;' grades of pine, and the locality of competition cannot vary much, for straw is usually aheap where lumber is cheap, the sample made by a man in Kansas holds a nail as well as wood, is susceptible of high finish, and can be polished to any extent desirable. It is waterproof, and therefore must be durable as pine or oak. while it Is as well adapted for roofing purposes as for fine interior work. It is susceptible of being worked by llK, 01.uj,.u.v t0ols of the carpenter, and on0l) uttt.d fl)r..-jls ()aoei wi not he apt to shrink or swell. Samples resemble hard w.,.-,. ,, ,nnl HirU nA nnlr. hut niorp ti(.nsi, jn texture, with a specific gravity of rne-lifth mote than tlioroulilv seasoned b.lt.K walnut. For finishing "it will not r.,n ra i uH u th ek as oril narv lumber gt,..iw lumber if needed. Facings and trimmings of buildings in Cliicaga are now h(,in m,,i of ,,,r,... cotta So it will be seen that the period of actual wood re quirement in construction is rapidly pass ing away. The uneasiest bead that wears a crown Is. unquestionably, that of the czar of all the Russian. A St. Petersburg letter gives a gloomily interesting account of his mode of living and one of the extraordinary pre cautions taken to insure his safety. Hfs present residence, the castle of Gatcoina, is thirty miles from the capital. Before j the court removed thither, several hundred artisans were sent to make the necessary alterations. At midnight they assembled in the church atGatchina, and were sworn seeretoly to silence, death or Siberia being the penalty of the infraction of their oath. Somebody, however, loosened the tongues of the workmen, and the following is a description of tho precautions agaiust assassination made in the palace of the czar : A subterranean passage leads from the czar's room to the stables, where a number of horses are kept saddled and bridled day nnd night. Sentinels are posted at intervals of twenty yards all around the building. The imperial bedroom has two windows, protected at night by massive iron shutters, which can only be reached from the outside by passing through three spacious ante-chambers, in which are posted eighty Cossacks, armed to the teeth. They are allowed to speak and to move about in the two outer rooms, but in the hall adjoining the czar's bedroom, perfect silence is maintained nil night. The general on duty for the day sits in an easy chair, his Cossacks silting on the divan which runs around the whole room. At the general's right hand is the knob of an electric apparatus, which rings a bell in every guard house within the palace grounds. When the emperor is about to retire to rest before shuttinu the door he removes the outer handles so that no en trance can he effected until he himself personally opens ihe door from the inside A MrSTEKY ABOUT AltTEMAS WARD. Among the mysteries of his life, and they are many, none was grea.er than that in volving tho total disappearance of his property at the time ot his death. Mr. Maxlield, his administrator, who knew much of bis affairs, says that while he did not have us much money as was generally supuosed, yet, being in his room in Water ford, one day, just before his departure for Kngland, and while he was arranging his affairs, " so that," as Charles said, " if anything should happen, mother will be all right," he saw a pile of notes on the table amounting to about twelve thousand dollars, which he thought was all the money Charles had. He had a valuable gold watch and chain. The chain was ol solid gold, a present from the California miners, vory heavy, though plainly wrought, and worth alone several thou sand dollars. He had also a diamond pin of considerable value, and two diamond rings. Besides, his last season in London was very successful ; tor some six weeks he netted three hundred dollars a night. He was also liberally paid for his contribu tions to " PumJi." Hut of all this his mother never received a cent, and not so much as a single relic Previous to his dealh he had cleared the old homestead of debt, and had willed to his mother a small properly at Yonkers, N. Y. What became of the rest? Scribner for ,1uy. Use of Lemons For all people, in sickness or in health, lemonade is a safe drink. It corrects biliousness. It is a specific against worms and skin com plaints. The pippins crushed may also be mixed with water and sngar and used as a drink. Lemon juice is the best anil-scorbutic remedy known. It not only cures the disease but prevents it. Sailors make a daily use of it for this purpose. A phy sician suggests rubbing of the gums daily with lemon juice to keep them iu health. The hands and nails are also kept clean, white, soft and supple by the daily nse of lemon Instead of soap. It also prevents ohilhlains. Imon nsed in intermittent fevers is mixed with strong, hot black tea or coffee, without sugar. Neuralgia may be cured by rubbing the part affected with a lemon. Il is valuable also to cure warte and to destroy dandruff on the bead, by rubbing ibe roots of the hair with it. In fact, its uses are manifold, and the more we employ it externally the better we shall find ourselves. It is claimed by some medical men that smoking weakens the eyesight. May be it does, but just see now it strengthens the breath. Burlxnqton Uawktye. Feelings come and go like light troops following the victory of the present; but prinoiples, like troops of the line, are un disturbed nnd stand fast. Whatever our place alloted to us by providence, that, for us. is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we nil It. 1. bdwards. A meddlesome old woman was sneering at a young mother s awkwardness with her Infant, and said : " l declare, a woman never ought to have a baby unless she knows how to hold it. "Nor a tongue either," was the quiet rejoinder. Fresh young man to lady he had iust escorted to the dining room nt a literary gathering " Are you partial to ' Lamb s iales: ' Indignant young ladv, after exhibiting much uncalled-for surprise No, nor ' mutton heads, either ! A Vermont shoemaker being asked if he had any religion, made answer, " Just enough to make good shoes, glory to God !" and wilh an extra pull, he drew the wax ed thread firmly to its place. Let us endow his bench as a new chair in the divinity school. Christina Register. Teacher, to a small boy in the natural history class: " Johnnie, you may give a description of the bat." Johnnie instantly responded in breathless haste : " A ball a bat! it's a little thins; about as big as a stopple, with India rubber wings and a kind of a shoe stung tail; sees the best with its eves shut ui and bites like thun der." The members of a young ladies' debat ing societv in Harlem have decided in favor of long courtships. Level-headed girls! Observation his taught them that there is a wonderful falling off of confec tions, balls, carriages, rides and opera when courtship ends and the stern realities of married life begin. Burlington Itnvk- eye. Industrv, Skill, Patience. The man who combines industry with skill is the world's savior. His patience will in time. level mountains or nil up valleys, it was patienoe that reared the pyramids, and it was that, combined with skill, which built the railways, excavated cannals, construct ed steamships, made tho lightning speak, and laid thousands of miles of slender cable in the deep bed of the stormy ocean, unit tng tne hemispheres. 1'atience is genius skill i9 knowledge. Be industrious and you will master them both, making them your willing servitors. A produce dealer, who was a witness before a New York committee, testified I have vistied the oleomargarine factorv of the American dairy company, at Broome and Hudson Btrects, and it was in a vcrv filthy condition. The men at work were dirty, wore no clothes excepting a bag around them, and handled the material with filthy hands. The fl)or was covered with filth composed of dust, milk and grease. I would not eat any of the pro luct after seeing it made. I do not think one-fifth of the consumers who use olea- margarine know it to be such. I never saw moro than one retailer who sold oleo margarine as such." The Wounded Horse. In tho y 1870, during the sad war between France and Germany, a newspaper correspondent was visiting the town of mzeilles, in France, which had just then been the scene of a battle. Among many other distress ing sights, suggestive of the miseries of war, which were to bo found on every hand, he particularly mentions the follow ing interesting story, which teaches its own lesson : In the fields, iust outside the citv. there was a miserable looking horse, standing motionless, with his off fore leg poised in air. We went up to him, when, without moving in the least, the poor beast turned his great blue orbs from one to the other of us, saying, as plainly as looks could do: "tor mercy s saKe, gentlemen, help me it you can." One of us examined the leg, and soon found that a bullet had lodged in the crown of the hoof, which was very much swelled and sore, and tne dies had been dreadfully bnsy with it. Of course, to cut it, and remove the cause of a month's agony, was but th,e work of a few minutes; and if you had seen how grateful the old fellow was when he put his hoof to the ground, and found that he could once more limp along, you would have believed as I do, that horses can speak with their eyes almost as well as human beings. Do we nol restrict our sympathies too closely when we feel only for wounded men? It is terrible to think of what that wretched animal must have suffered during his long days and nights of agony since first that stinging throb came to his foot, and he was left all alone in his misery. Militahy Duess. In the armies of an tiquity regular uniforms do not seem to have been worn, though the warriors dressed more or less alike, and in many cases wore distinctive badges. The Spartan soldier was known by his chlamys of red, that sanguinary hue having been adopted in order, according to some authorities, that he might not become faint-hearted at the sight of his blood or the blood of bis fellow soldiers; though other writers of weight hold that tho ohjoot in concealing the flow of blood was to deprive the enemy of the triumphant feeling with which, if visible, it might have inspired him. Amony the Gauls the favorite military dress was the skin of a wild beast, whose head acted as a helmet, and whose open mouth and teeth gave to the warrior a very unfriendly appearanoe. The com panies and squadrons of the crusaders were distinguished by certain visible signs, such as plumes and scarfs; but throughout the middle ages the ordinary dress of such warriors as could afford a special fignting- costume was a helmet and a coats ot mail. In France it wns not until 1570, when the soldiers were for the first time equipped at the expense of the king, that regular uni forms were worn ; and this custom was gradually adopted in ihe other European countries. Governing a Boy. Got hold of the boy's heart. Yonder locomotive with its thundering train comes like a whirlwind down the track, and a regiment of armed men might seek to arrest it in vain. It would crush them, and plunge unheeding on. But there is a little lever in its mech anism that, at the pressure of a maa's hand, will slacken its speed, and in a mo ment or two bring it panting and still, like a whipped spaniel, at your feet. By the same little lever the vast steamship is guided hither and yon upon the sea in spite of adverse wind or current. That sensitive and responsive spot by which a boy's life is controlled is his heart. With your grasp gentle and firm on that helm you can pilot him whitber yon will. Never doubt that be has a heart. Bad and wilful boys very often have the tenderest heart hidden awav somewhere beneath in crustations of sin", or behind barricades of pride. And it is your business to get at that heart, get hold of that heart, keep hold of it by sympathy, confiding in him, manifestly working, only for his good, by littte indirect kindness to his mother or sister, or even his pet dog. See him at his home, or invite him into yours. Provide him some little pleasure, Bet him to do some little service of trust for you; love him; love him practically. Any way and every way rale him through bis heart Ztmytxzntt. UPWARD rLncr We bb BayaH la reported to have aald: 'No where liu wine ft wed mora freely than in the homea of the rulert of the earth; Ood helping ma I will atop the flow in one anch borne." We know that auch wai the lanraie of her nobl deed.) We are tremblinir for the future, But the riirut will aurelr win : Good la Btronirer far than evil, RiK Uteoueneee outtiveth Bin. Yet the Jeweled hands of women Demoua hold, without afriirbt. In the wine they offer manhood, Knowimr it can curse and blbrut. But one diamond 4ah of duty LlKhia aome patua un lit before, And the atrorurer ones icrow atrouter, With new courage evermore. We are surely climbioir upward! More of man and less of beast. We demand in home and uatlon No more poigous at our feast filtmiityn crown tht nobl. woman Whose irreat heart could fl isu the lUht Turoub the world, to bid all vaod men Stand up bravely for the riirut. Uentns, power and beauty, ever. I Can cominaud but passing heed: Nothir.it enrthie Uvea forever Have a brave and noble deed. She shall live iu hearta she re'i!el: Live, in miud-t Hiiejeaved frini bitlit; Hiieuk, tliroiuf h poets, prophets, aairea. Till thaU:dav,-u millennial litflit. For her diaitumd Atuh nf dutu Liirhts some paths all dark before. And sntne tempted ones are stronger. And are brave forevermore. -LidiaH. yVloH, Waishiwn, V. C. March '!. The CltY by the Sea. MISS WILLAKD'S VISIT TO CHARLESTON. For weeks we had been expecting this listinguished guest, and again and again been disappointed. First, the illness of Miss Gordon, tne private secretary, and then a death in Mrs. McLcod'a family prevented; but now they wure hern, the entire party of four, and wo delightedly welcomed tnem to neart anu nome. A woman's speaking in public, except on the stage," was a new departure in this old conservative city of ours. We ire strangely inconsistent, for the very persons who go into raptures over a wom- n s acting, singing or dancing with head. neck and arms uncovered and exposed, under the blazing gaslight, to the publio g'.ze, will shudder at the indelicacy of a modest and refined Christian lady pleading as only a woman can plead, for the pro tection of ber home and her dear ones. I knew that Miss Willard's reputmion would command for her, in the land of the Huguenot and Cavalier, all the attention and respect that could be paid, but I was hardly prepared for the immense andience which filled to oversowing Irinitv, the largest church in the citv, or the number of distinguished ministers, who to do honor to the gifted stranger, occupied the chancel. Every denomination was repre sented by its best, and Miss Willard walk ed in with and was introduced to the audi ence by an Episcopal bishop, a native of the city. A minister, who came in rather late, said: " I expected to find aeropped-haired, masculine-looking individual, with hands in pocket and voice keyed us to high C, and could scarcely believe my eyes when I saw a graceful, beautiful woman, simply and yet tastily dressed, standing modestly in front of the pulpit, and in soft, 9weet tones pleading for thnao who ecmtd not plead for themselves. I had not listened two minutes before I surrendered, and I could now no more doubt her call to the work she is engaged in than I could question my own call to the ministry." 'The first utterances that fell from her lips enchained our attention, and made us conscious that a mind of the very highest order was claiming our consideration. She was listened to, not only with respect, but with reverence. And from the seaboard to the old Palmetto state, there has yet to be spoken or written the first word of unfavorable criticism. Miss Willard is an especial creation, and I believe her work in this stato has been blessed of God to the good of very many. She has won all hearts, and takes wilh her our best wishes. Rev. Dr. Ved- der, ot the Huguenot church, in speaking of the symbolistic letters, W. C. T. U.. interpreted them, in Miss Wiilard's case, to mean, " We come to unite," " We come lo upturn." We cannot close this letter without thanking the Baltimore unions for sending their gifted, gentle-spirited secretary to us. She was not a stranger, but by her kindness had won a place in the hearts of many of our southern girls, who were in debted lo her for the education they would otherwise h3ve been unable to obtain immediately after the war. Miss Anna Gordon is improved in health, nnd I am sure no one made the acquaintance of the interesting invalid " who does not earnestly desire her speedy restoration to health and the duties whioh her devoted sister so faithfully and loving ly performs for her now. S. F. Chapin. Charleston, S. C. Speaking of the prevalent custom of lifting reformed men at once to ihe plat form, the Slandn'd says: But to our mind the most crying evil is the exhibi tion that is made of reformed men. As soon as a I'runkard reforms he is dragged out of the privacy that would seem most fitting for him, and made a show of. If he is voluble and has a knack of speaking, he is encouraged to rehearse his past life. He draws pictures of himself reeking with gutter mud and bound hand and foot bv filthy habits. He takes his hearers into low groggeries. and invites them to roll and grovel with him in the streets. The ranks of temperance spoukcrs need weed ing out, and societies everywhere should refuse to listen to any man who has noth ing better to offer than the picture of a corrupt past: a picture drawn with a miserable self-satisfaction because the speaker has, at a very late hour, done a simple duty that should never have be come necessary to him at Selected. The Oldest City in the World. Damascus is the oldest city in the world. Tyre and Sidom have crumbled on the shore. Baal bee is a ruin; Palmyra is hurled in a desert; Nineveh and Babylon have disappeared from the Tigris and the Euphrates. Damascus remains what it was before the days of Abraham a center of trade and travel an island of verdure in the desert; a "presidential capital" with martial and sacred associations ex tending through thirty centuries. It was near Damascus that Saul of Tarsus saw the light above the brightness of the sun ; the street, which is called Strait, in which it wassaid "he prayed," still runs through the city. The oaravan comes and goes as it did a thousand years ago; there is still the sheik, the ass, and the water-wheel; the merchants of the Euphrates and the Mediterranean still "occupy " these " with their wares." The oity which Mohammed surveyed from a neighboring height, and was afraid to enter, " beoauseit was given to man to have but one paradise, and for his part, he was resolved not to have it in this world," is to-day what Julian called the " eye of tbe East," a il was. In the lime ol Isaiah, " the head of Syria." It is still a oily of flowers; tbe streams of Lebanon and the " silk of gold " still mur mur and sparkle in tbe wilderness of the Syrian gardens. " Will a gin sling do a man any good" asks a oorrespondont, Yet, if be flings the gin far enough.