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VOLUME I. BROOKIIAVEN. MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1884. NUMBER 4(i.
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IN A QUANDARY.
I’m half in love with her. T vow.
For thmuyh tills crowded city .
A whole day misht. a fellow yo
And meet no yti l us pretty.
Hi i eyes are limpid as the lirnok
That down the hill side danees.
And lolly and dark the lashes a-n
That \ ell her sunny ylam e«.
And when I look at nor I think
That I am hers Most truly:
tint when I don't the thonyht will come:
•• -he's sueli a little foolle."
ji„w low I how at beauty’s shrine,
’ And ii wouldhrive me pleasure
'J o see it in a home of mine,
\n l know I owned the treasure.
Hut. ah! I tear a lovely mouth,
Thoiiyh sweet as ripest pearlies.
Would lose Itschann, if doomed to make
Forever Silly speeches
And limpid, soulless eyes would drive
A man to thouyhts unruly.
Oh, "Ini is she so pretty when
She's such a little foolie?
—Ilnriirr'* linzur.
KOBIUNN THE STACK.
The four horse mud wagon, called by
riiminon consent a stage, which ran be
tween Hokey's and l.ogtow n, was craw 1
iii,r up the long grade which cork
screwed around to the summit of Pilot !
Knob. It was necessary to do this in
order that a good preparatory start
might he had for the succeeding rattling
plunge down the other corkscrew road
which led to Logtown.
My the side of black Pete, the driver.
Frit an Eastern importation of the genus
••drummer.” Pete rolled his 'tobacco
into his cheek, snapped a liy off the ear j
of his nigh leader and said:
••No. sir, I don’t g’t no pay for fight- i
in', an' 1 don't do uo tisrlitin’ for ther
Company. If ary galo >t stops this hyer
slice and perlitcly lile asks for the
i a-ii 1">\, lie's :t gwine ter git it. Tain’t
n i ii-e. no ways, to light them tellers,
tlu v always hov ther ilrttp on ye.”
••l!i*t," said the drummer, ‘‘were you i
eier robbed on ties route?”
•\V:il. no, but I've seed fellers a loaf
in’ r mud beer e/. I thought niotight do
it -ntue time er other.”
•‘And if they did stop you, you wonlil
gi'.e them the express box and drive on, I
eh?”
"Yerliot! If ther Jk\press Company
w.nits to perfect ther box they must send
r me si nger along.”
I he stage crawled tt|) slowly to the
1 iii of ti e hill, and Hla k Pete settled
11- foot tirmly on the brake-strap, and
with :t ••scat 'im, hoys,” the sweating j
It'’fses started to investigate the myster
ies of the almost invisible road below j
front on a keen gallop.
Hound and round the rapidly-varying
I'm 1 the stage and the passengers
whirle I. s' mutinies losing s'ght of the ;
Imrses around the sharp turns and again
Flexing sharply outward toward the
dangerous euge of tho canyon which
y it" tied 1 elow t hem.
I lie sun was down and the moon was
painting weird and restless shadows on
the powdered dust of tin: crude.
It was just the time for 1the imagina
tion to picture scenes of violence, rob
1 cry and blood. Suddenly the chapar
ral I ashes by the roadside si ghtly part
id. and a long shining black object was
v aved over them toward the stage A
shadowy figure rose in the moonlight j
among the bushes and ffom behind a
black \cil, which smothered the voice j
somewhat, came the hoanc command of 1
‘‘stop, stop! ’
black 1 etc hurriedly pushed ins foot
heavily down upon the brake, reached
down into the bottom of the stage, pull
ing out the express box and muttering, |
‘a uss yer, take it,” threw the box into I
the road. The restless Ubrses immedi
ately plunged aw ay into the shadows of
the forest.
‘•Wa-w as that a highwayman?” gasp- j
ed the drummer.
.“In course it was,” answered Pete,
‘■didn't yer see tlier snootin’ iron? |
'1 liar goes a cool thousand dollars, as I ;
knows on. You 1 et therboys ’ll be out ]
nrler; him to-night, i shouldn't wonder |
if that war o!d Hart himself. He's a i
< ool one, he is. He always shoots his j
month off in some potry. Leaves it in
ihebi'-X when he gets through with it. j
1 ain't yer notice how level he held that ;
thar sliootiu’ iron right towards me?” !
The lights of Loglown/now glistened
below them, and a few turns of the -
i ork.-erew brought the stage up to the
hotel porch where it stopped with a loud
' whoa! ' from Black Petg. Not many
murntes elapsed before the prophecy of
of l’ete was realized, for as soon a^s the
Mery of the bold robbery *»f Wells
l argo’s box was related a dozen or so
ready miners volunteered to search the
woo ls for the road agent. After half
tin hour's swearing and drinking over
the matter they saddled their horses and
darted for the.scene of the robbery.
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It was a little, cramped-up helter
fM'ltPr mining town among the Sierras.
One need not rise early in Scar's Hole to
sunrise, W lie will not see it if
be does. Old Sol is never visible there
until ten in the morning. Thorough,
P <nurescue cabins looking for all the
w,’Wd like dilapidated dice thrown at
random from the box, and built deep
down in a hole let ween the surrounding
I ' aks. And yet they actually had a
telephone connecting •them with the
< Uettde world. 'J lie denizens of Soar’s
II 'In Were nut given to an indulgence in
business communications with the great
commercial centers, but their telephone
"as the means of preventing many of
b e inhabitants from spending tlie re
mainder of their earthly days at the in
sane asylum. Kvery morning when the
echoing of the booming blasts and the
’ut^dthe pick had ceased in the half
d'drflNuining claims surrounding the
camp Lhe wearied,lonely miners gather
ed a; the little cabin in which was
placed the telephone, and gave vent to
’beir pent-up feelings by, not a free
fight, but by a free interchange of gos
81P with the residents of the camps
almva-and below them on the line of the
'yire.
8ueh was their inborn detestation of
uuy man who followed any pursuit
" liicJv^ d not requite active labor with
f heir hands and such was their chivalric
dsvuUon to the fair sex, that the man
agement of their part of the telephone
"'a'given to a young lady by the name
®f Frances Goldsmith.
On the afternoon of June ‘20th 1880.
■Miss Frank, as she was usually cal.led,
jat in the little telephone office waiting
for the nightly crowd of manly gossip
ers to come in.
I he little rocking-chair in which she
Bat went bumping to and fro noisily
&nd nervously upon the pine floor, and
the tiny slippered font heat a nervous
tattoo in unison with its
••It’s too bad,” she cried, impetu
ously, “it’s too bail for ('barley to work
down in that old hole in the ground all
the winter and then sell out tor it pal
try thousand. And he’s doing it just
so he ran he married this summer, too.” j
— and a pretty little wave of blood
swept over the swe -t neck anil face.
••lie shan’t do it. Charley don't I
know anything about a mine and he
might have a little bonanza and not
know it, just hear the dear simpleton.” I
I.ootowx/Cai..
My I'KEi iors Fhank:—Bonn is m-irotiatinK
wit li me I’ur my rlttim, uml In- offers $l.(nm
rash. 1 have not yet an eplisl it. but I have
about inaili-iip my mitul that I had hotter do i
so. Voti know it I had that milch cash. I
i-ould have the fare to ask you hasten that
|oiik hoped-for happy day. For jour sake.
darliiiK, I bi-lii-ve it will 1- • la-st for me to take
ttiisiiffer. If I do, you may look for nit-down
early next week.
Yours forever,
I iiaui.es Moti.ky.
“Hello, Frank." shouted a smothered
voice close to her ear, “are you there
yet ?”
Frances jumped to her feet and ran
to the telephone.
“Dear me, I left the receiver hang
ing down, and they could not ring the
hell."
She put it to her car and shouted
back through the transmitter:
“Yes, I'm here: what is it?”
“1’on’t you forget to send that thou
sand up on the stage to-night to Fog
town. Tom says there's at least >lo,
mio in sight. Motley is a school-marm,
and don't know it. Don't forget now.
(lood-hy.”
Frank's pretty eyes and mouth spread
wider and wider as these words came
out of the wonderful little instrument.
“For goodness sake! who is lie tHik
ing to'.’ Oh-h-h y-e-os! why it must be
to Frank Downey, the express agent at
Hokcy. They've been talking together,
ami Dow ney has stoppi d and switched
my end on. Motley is a school-marm,
is he? There’s *lti.Oi)ti in sight and
Charley don't know it. and the money
is going up there on tllfe stage from
Hokcy to-night. Oh dear, what shall I
do? I’ll go up there. 1 w ill. It’s only
eight miles, and it's twenty from Ho
kcy. It’s live o’clock and the stage
gets there at II lie.”
Frank w as a Californiagirl, and there
were no perils to her on the eight mile
trail to Logtowu, and if there had been,
the slur east upon Charley's keenness, ,
and the eager desire to save that “*10,
000 in sight” for him would have been
sufficient incentives to induce her to
dare them, though she knew they awaited
her. Running over to the post-olliee,
she hurriedly engaged the young clerk
to take care of the instrument lor her, j
and, dashing back to her room, she soon |
appeared ready for her eight-mile walk
to l.ogtown. A little silk cap surmount- |
ed her head and over it was stretched a j
black veil to protect her face from the !
sun and from the evening breeze after !
dark. Spreading her jaunty parasol
she threaded her way a’ong the narrow j
trail which led through the chaparral j
into the dark woods.
1 he sun was yet very hot, although]
almost down behind tlie hills, and the !
trail was steep ami rocky; but Frank
pushed on, muttering to herself, when
she felt so tired she was tempted to sit
down and rest: “Charley’s a school
marm, is he? Ten thousand dollars iu
sight and lie don’t know it, eh? Well,
he shall know it, and haveall the credit j
of the discovery, too, there now?” I'p
up, down, down, around and around ]
wound the mountain trail, and Frank
Wound with it, until tired, dusty, breath- j
loss, hoarse and a’roost crying, she saw
the county highway in the somber
moonlight, just below her.
Just as she reached the roadside and j
was about to push through the chupar- |
ral w hich here reached to her shoulders
she heard the rumbling old stage coach
coming round a bend close to her.
With a despairing resolve to go in at
least with the stage if she could not be
fore it, she pushed her closed parasol
| through the bushes and waved it to the
driver, shouting at the same time,
hoarse from her exeitement: “ Stop!
| Stop!”
But to her astonishment and dismay,
j instead of stopping the driver reached
down into the boot, and, with a “cuss
i \ er, take it!” threw a heavy box into
it he road, and, lashing his four-in-hand
into a run, disappeared down the can
yon.
Poor Frank crouched down into the
chaparral in despair.
“Oh, dear! I haven’t walked there
and I’ve lost the stage and poor Charley
—oh, dear meV’
The spirit of a genuine California girl
is not easily overcome with despair, and
1 Frank was a genuine California girl
i and she was not to be beaten until she
: was.
She got up, pulled her blaek veil
I tighter o'er her moist face and bravely
I started on again to l.oglown. It was
I not far, and not a half hour elapsed be
fore she saw the lights of the little camp
I scattered.around in the canyon below
her.
breathless and panting she hurried to
the tavern. A great crowd of men were
excitedly swearing and threatening on
the porch. Some were in the street,
i clinching saddles on to their horses, and
i iu their midst stood black Pete, the stage
driver.
“Don't 1 know?” he was angrily
shouting, "I tell yer twar only a mile !
back, an’ ther cuss shoved his shootin* j
iron right under my nose! Why didn't 1
run fer it?*Thar war two uv ’em thar as i
sure as tightin’.” I
Pretty soon, with a yell and a whoop, I
| twenty men galloped up the road with a [
! suggestive-looking rope dangling from
| one of the saddles.
Poor Frank hastened to lind Charley.
She found him sitting disconsolately on
the back porch.
“Why, Frank, what in the world are
you doing here?”
"Oh, Charley, have you sold that mine
yet? Am I too" late?”
“Too late for what? Sold it? No, and
don’t believe I can. That man Bonn
sent the money up by express and a road
agent got away with the stage to-night,
and the money went with it. I don't
believe he’ll risk another thousand on a
played-out mine.”
“Oh, goodie!”cried Frank, "I'vegot i
here in tune. Koad agent? Oh, that is
too rich. Ob, dear, oh dear, I shall die”
_and Frank's voice ended in a high
squeak of laughter. I
“Frank, Frank! what is tin* matter?
What do you know about the road
agent?”
Frank was holding to Iter sides in
despair of stopping Iter irrepressible
laugh.
“ Koad agent? There wasn't any
road ngi nt at all: I stopped the stage to
get on. and the driver threw a box at
ui-e-e!"
“ What does this mean, Frank. Tell
me. \\ hat were you doing on the road
at this time of night, all alone?”
It took her a long time to get the
story out, but she did, while Charley
stood with his mouth open wide enough
to represent his played-out claim with
“¥lO,uoO in s gbt.’
No sooner had Frank told her story
than he caught her in his arms with a
wild shout: “You litt'e darling, you
shall have every cent of it.”
About two hours afterward a file ot
disc'insulate, disgusted horsemen wend
ed their way up to the tavern, with a
“suggest :\ e rope dangling from one of
the saddles" and a box containing
¥ 1.000.
It is suflieient to relate that Charley
did not sell his ¥lo,0 in sight, hut on
the contrary received a much larger
sum: suflieient, in fa t, to make him a
happier man financially and mstri
m uiially. When enough of the story
had been told in the har-romn to ac
count for the stopping of the stage,
Black l’efe had to provide for a smile
all round, with a continuendo.—Los
Ani/i los !{• < nation.
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llighlanilic Siirns.
T was dressing one morning at a
shepherd's house and was putting on
my shoes as the mnu came in w.th a
basin of water. Me stood stock still as
soon as he saw me anil exclaimed, in a
tone of warning: “Are you going to
do thatf' I looked up in surprise. I
was doing nothing but putting on my
shoes. Neither of them was on, but I
bad t lie left one in my band and was
putt'ng my foot into it “You’re not
going to put that one on first?-’ “That
one or the other,” I replied: “whichever
conies handy; it makes no difference to
me.” "Well,” said the man, “I
wouldna like to begin the day with the
like o’ that.”
Another source of bad luck almost as
dangerous as putting on the left shoe
tirst is to hear the cuckoo in the morn
ing before you have bad a mouthful to
eat. This is a capital stimulus to early
rising. “Many’s the time,” says
t-amly, “when i was a lump of a boy,
I've seen me jumping out of bed and
swallowing a bit oat cake for fear l
would be hearing the cuckoo before I
would get mv meat.”
< n morning at breakfast the sister
of tin- man at whose house 1 was, has
tened to oiler me some butter. “This
will be a gi od day for you,” he said, at
once. “\\ In?” “1 am sure you know
it is good luck to get butter without
asking for it.” ‘‘I never heard (hat be
fore.” “Well,” said he, “there was a
man in Mull and he was going to the
wars, and when he was leaving his
home his mother said to him: ‘If you
will gel butter without asking for it on
the morning of the lighting you will tie
sure to come baek to me alive.’- ><:
when the day came for the t attle lie
was taking his meat in a house, but he
would not ask for any butter, and at
last the wife ottered him some, and
the i he knew he would come out alive.”
It i- considered \cry bad luck in Jura
to start for any place and then turn
baek. A woman one day stopped a
the house where I was living, oil he
way to the lower end of the island. Hie
was suffering from a bad toothache, but
it was thought there was nothingin the
house to give her relief. Just as she
had got three steps away from the do <r
some brandy was fom d and she was
called hack. But she would rather have
suffered fr« m th rty-two toothaches
than turn baek after starting, and the
brandy had to be carried out to her.
When a boat that has been drawn
ashore for safety has to be launched
again, it must, of course, bt shoved into
the water stern foremost. Its bow will
then face the shore, and it must he
turned around before starting. The
way in which this turn is made is full of
omen in Jura. “I would lie getting a
tine hearing,” said a man to me one
day, “if old Archie saw me do the like
of "that.” We were pushing off from
shore, and he had merely turned the
boat’s head around from west to east.
The rule is that the boat shall turn with
the sun, never against it.
When Spring comes, with its new
sights and s« unds, there are various
, signs by which Jura people determine
whether or not the year will be lu -ky
for them. “Oh, this will be a good
year for me,” I heard a woman
exclaim one dat at Lagg, as a number
of persons .were walking down to the
boats; and si e stopped and gazed down
at a snail crawling over the grass. It
was the lirst snail she had seen that
year, but if it had been crawling over
bare ground or a stone it would have
meant bad luck. “Is that the lirst foal
you have seen this year?” asked the
postman of me as we drove past a field
in his gig. I said it was. Well, then,
there's good luck coming to you, for he
is looking straight in your face.” It is
also said of a lamb, as well as a foal,
that to see the lirst one turned away
from you is a sign of ill omen. 1 was
sitting one day with some shepherds on
the top of a hillock, waiting for the
sheep around us to get dry enough to
be shorn, when one of the men said to
me: ‘ See the spider. You will s< on
be getting new clothes, sir.” A spider
was crawling over me. In Gaelic the
words for spider and weaver are the
same.— Cur. San Francisco Examiner.
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—Little do the readers of American
papers know of the pains and perils of
their English friends who have to con
sume Loudon editorial articles. The
Ti l 'irn/ih devoted one column and a
(juarter of its editorial page to an arti
cle on Secretary Lincoln s order that
the old mule Mestqua should be fed for
life. The article obtained fully 3,001
words.—Indianapolis Journal.
—“ Washington,”- remarks a promi
nent society leader at the national cap
ital. “is every year growing more at
tractive to persons of means, and it will
soon be the center of American art, sci
ence, literature and fashion, as it now
is the political center.”
Bill Nje’s Letter of Resignation.
The following is alleged to lie the
only exact copy of Bill Nye’s official
letter in whicn he resigned the l’ost
offiee at Laramie City, VVy. T.:
To the Preside^ or the United
States: Sik— I beg leave at this time
to officially tender mv resignation as
Postmaster at tin’s place, and in due
form to deliver the great seal and tiie
key to the front dour of the office. The
safe combination is set on the numbers
SM, lib and '.»!*, though 1 do not remem
l>er at this moment which comes first or
how many times you revolve the knob,
or which direction yen should turn it at
tirst in order to make it operate.
There is some mining stock in my
private drawer in the safe, which I have
not yet removed. The stock you may
have, if you desire it. It is a luxtuy,
but you may have it. I have decided
to keep a ho:se instia I of this mining
stock. The horse may not be so p etty,
but it will cost less to keep him.
You will find the postal ca ds that
have not been used under the dist ibut
ing table, and the coal down in the cel
la". if the stove diaws too ha d close
the damper in the pipe and shut the gen- ,
e al delivery window.
Looking o\er my stormy and eventful
administration as Postmaster her, 1
tind abundant cause for thanksgiving.
At the time 1 onto e l upon the duties of
my office the depa tment was not yet
on a paying basis. It was not even self
sustaining. Since that time, with the
active co-opeiat'on of the Chief Execu- j
tive and the heads of the depa tment, I
hare been able to make otv postal sys
tem a paying one, and on top of that I
am now able to reduce the taiitV on
ave;aged-sized lette s f om tlree cents
to two. 1 might add that this is rather
too too. but I will not say anything that
luight seem undignified in an official
tes gnation which is to become a matter
ol lilsto: y.
Thiough nil the vicissitudes of a tem
pestuous te in of office 1 have safely
passed. 1 am able to tu n over the of
liee to-day in a highly imp oved condi
tion. and to p'esent a pit died and ren
otated institution to my successor.
Acting unde.' the advice of Oenetal
Hatton a year ago, I remme t the
featherbed with which my p edeccssor |
Deacon Havford, had bolste ed lip his
adm nist -ation by smiling the window,
and substituted glass, finding nothing
in the book of inst notions to postmas
ters which made the feathe • bed a part
of my official duties, I tiled it awav in
an obseute place and burned it in effigy,
also, in the gloaming. Ties act mad- I
dened my p edeccssor to such a deg ee
that he then and the e became a candi
date fo • justice of the peace on the !'em
oc atic ticket. The Democrats pat\
was able, howeve”, with what aid it sc- '
cured f om the Republicans, to jdow the
old man under to a gif a* degee.
It was not long after I had taken my,
official oath before ail era of unex
ampled prosperity opened for the
American people. The price of beef
rose to n remarkable altitude, and other
vegetables commanded a good figure
and a ready market. We then began j
to make active preparations for the in- j
traduction of the strawberry, roan two- j
cent stamps, and llie blaek-and-tan |
postal note. One reform lias crowded i
upon the heels of another until the j
country is to-dav upon the foam-crested j
wave of a permanent prosperity.
Mr. rrcsidi nt, l can not-close this
letter without thankingyourself and the
heads of departments at Washington
for your act ve, cheery and prompt co
operation in these matters. You can
do as you sec lit. of course, about in
corporating this idea into your Thanks
giving proclamat'on, but rest assured it
would not be ill-timed or inopportune.
It is not alone a credit to myself. It re
flects credit upon the Administration
also.
I need not say that I herewith trans
mit my resignation with great sorrow
and genuine regret. We have toiled on
together month after month asking for
no reward except the innate conscious
ness of rectitude and the salary as lixed
bylaw. N ow we are to sepai a e. Here
the roads seem to fork, as it were, and
you and 1 and the Cabinet, must leave
each other at this point.
You will find the key under the door
mat, and you had better turn the cat
out at night when you close the office.
If she does not go readily you can make
it clearer to her mind by throwing the
canceling stamp at her.
If Deacon llayford does not pay up
his box rent, you might as well put his
mail in the general delivery, and when
Hob Head gets d link and insists on a
letter from one of his wives every day
in the week, you can salute him through
the box delivery with an old tjueun
Anne tomakawk which you will find
near the Etruscan water-pail. This will
not in any manner surprise either of
these parties.
tears are unavailing. J once more
become a private citizen, clothed only
with the right to read such postal cards
as may be addressed to me personally,
and to curse the inellicieuey of the Post
olfice Department. I may be in error
as to the attributes of an American citi
zen, but I believe the above to be the
most prominent. I believe the voting
class to 1 e divided into two parties, viz:
Those who are in the postal service and
those who are mad be ause they can not
receive a registered letter every fifteen
minutes of each day, including Sunday.
Mr. President, as an otli dal of this
Government I now retire. My term of
office would not expire until 18s<>. I
must therefore beg pardon for my ec
centricity in resigning. It will be best,
perhaps, to keep the heart-breaking
news from the ears of European pow
ers until the dangers of a financial panic
are fully past. Then hurl it broadcast
with a sickening thud. Very respect
ully yours, Bill Nye.
—In 1877, while boarding at the St.
Cloud Hotel, New York, General Han
cock’s wife’s and daughter lost their
watches, jewelry and some clothing by
theft, the value amounting to $760. The
General sued the proprietors of the ho
tel, and has carried the ease through
three courts, getting a verdict each time
in his favor.—N. Y. Herald.
--
—Mattresses made of needles from
South Carolina pine boughs are said to
cure lung and rheumatic complaints,
and an active trade in them is establish
ed.— Southern Trade Journal.
MCIENCE AM) ISDISTHY.
—A groat number of poach orchards
have liccti set out on the Maryland pen
insula this fall.
— A number of capitalists have pur
cha-oil eight hundred acres of land in
1’iekens County Georgia, for the pur
pose of quarrying marble.— Chicajo
ikrald.
—The lumber business in the swamps
of the Yazoo and Tallahatchie Hivers
in Mississippi is assuming immense pro- !
portions.
—A Philadelphia scientist claims that '
he can tell, on exam ning a hair pin,
the color of the owner’s ha.r, and read!- !
lv detects in the same way a woman
who wears false liair.—Pidade/p/ua j
Press.
—An illustration of the activity in J
cotton manufa turing in the South is j
afforded by the mill in Koine, Ga.,
which has doubled its machinery since
its start, eighteen months ago. It is
running night and day.
—'J he prospect now is that only
about two-thirds as much lumber will
be cut on the Kennebec and its tributar
ies tic coming winter as usual, says the
Augusta JuHrnni, owing to the low
prices which operators have received
for the r lumber. A leading Augusta I
operate r in lumber says that, practical
ly lumbermen received nothing for the
stum page of last year’s cut.
A method of washing butter has been
patented in Germany. It consists in
taking tie small particles out of the
churn when ah mt a tenth of an inch in
diamet T, and placing them in a cen
trifugal machine w hose drum is pierced
with small holes and lined wi ll strong
linen cloth. Pure water is added from
time to time till tha' which is thrown
out contains no butter-milk.
—Some of the conclusions of science
would indeed he appalling but for their
practical harmlessness. Thus, geolo
gists assert that if the continents and
the bottom of the ocean were graded
down to a uniform level the whole
world would be eove ed with water a |
mile deep, so much greater is the de- |
pression of the ocean bed than the ele
ction of the existing land.—N. I'.
/1 mrx.
— In Arkansas the counties lying con
tiguous to the Mississippi or any navi
gable stream, are rapidly tilling up with
Northern, W estern ami foreign immi
grants. They are building saw-mills,
and many have already begun cutting
timber. * l and is >tili eh ap in most
places, yet the advance lias been mar
velous within a few years That which
now commands from one dollar to live
dollars per acre was at that date posi
tively unsalable.—Troy T m >•.
—The exceedingly delicate photo
graphs colored on glass which have re
cently come into fashion arc produced
by fixing a paper photograph upon a
cushion-shaped glass with tran-parent
cement and when it is dry rubbing
away two-thirds of the photograph w ith
sandpaper. The thin film left is then
rendered transparent—by soaking in
melted paralline wax, after which trans
parent colors are applied, which appear
softened down looked at from the front.
— Chicago Journal.
Pirn AM) POINT.
—The ancients could beat us to death
pa inting pictures; but look at our frames!
- -Baptist Weekly.
- \\ hen a poor widow finds a load ot
wood left g atuitously at the. door, site
can conclude that she has struck a ten
der cho d somewhere.
—“Yes,” he said, “it’s easy enough
to see that it's a lie. But the” difficulty
is to dete mine whether it was intended
to be believed or m t.”—Octroi' l‘ost.
■—A t hicago philosopher has been
asking what is the most generous ol
creatures. The oyster, of course. It
shells out well and pans out delightful
ly.— -V. Y. /Iraki.
—“Conte, little one, you’ve only ful
filled half your contract —you promised
to play four tunes and you have played
but two." “Which fills the bill, my
cavalier, for tune two are four, you
know. ’ ’—Exchange.
■—A young woman who was married
three months ago was asked how she
was getting along with the mysteries
of housekeeping. “Oh, I'm learning
verv fast. Why, would you believe it?”
she" exclaimed, “I hemmed a whole
towel myself in six hours yesterday.”—
lo stoil /‘ost.
— A man makes an awful row if his
wife takes his razor to trim a little maize
on her little toe, or sharpen a lead pen
cil; but he thinks it is all right aud
seofl's at her if she shrieks her feeble
protests when he takes her little em
broidery scissors to cut a copper tele
phone wire.—A'. lr. Mail.
—"How much do you think you can
get along on. my son? I want to allow
you enough to make a decent appear
ance in society, but yet I will not eouu
•tenance ext avaganee.” “Just my
idea, dad: I think, say, about •'•do.OOO a
year and er - expenses, you know,
would be about the thing.”—Boston
Transcript.
“Let me see, sunt the young man
Saturday evening as he was going home
from his work: “my wages is $6. I ken
get a horse and buggy to-morrow and
take my girl out r.din’ for $1. That
leaves I ken get along with $1.50
for spendin’ money and will have fifty
cents left to give mother for board. 1’il
go. ’ ’— Chicago herald.
—The old saw about the folly of wis
dom when ignorance is bliss has just
been enforced by an old lady, who,
speaking of a young man rather defi
cient in brains, who had just reached
his twenty-first birthday, said: “Oh,
dear; how bad poor Ceorge would feel,
if he were bright, to think that he doesn't
know any more than he does.”—N. Y.
Graphic.
—“Beg yer pardon, but do yer think
I can find buffalo in New York?” in
quired a Nath l Winkle looking-got-up
Englishman of an American fellow pas
senger on the steamship. “Buffalo in
New York? Certainly, only about 400
miles from the city at the end of the
Central Haiiroad.’ “Ah, yes! thank
yer; feller down in the cabin just now
said there wasn't one ’thin two thou
sand miles New York, yer know. Can’t
fool an o!d sportsman, yer know, with
that sort Qf gammon, Y. tfwi.
Temperance.
~ A Lim I STM AS vvw.
*Twas the l>lo«s d I Jay made holy
’By th« birth of Him who gave us
Hi* dear life, an I meek mii I lowly
Died upon the cro * to save us.
In h bar room In the city.
With much laughter and much clinking
Of their glasses -more * the pity—
Many reckless in n a ere dr nking.
And the air was foul with srn thing.
And it tremble I with binsdieming,
An I with coarse and ribald joking.
While without 'h«- him was gleaming
On the snow-drifts'da/./.l n/ whiteness.
And the mimic rainbow* showing
Tha* imprisoned in the I rightness
• it the icicles, were glowing.
And upon the bar was •mated.
Listening to the C lri-tnm* greeting
Al around Idm. oft rep a e I
At each “treat ' or friendly meeting,
A ehiid. scarce more than baby.
With a face like bud unfol ling:
Bad that he should < n this day bo
Bueh a dreary sight Iveholling!
There he sat in patient waiting,
To his father closely e'inging.
Wl on. the mdse somewhat abalng.
In a voice clear, sweet and ringing.
44 Papa,’’ nsketl he. * what is i hristmas?
Te I me why they all keep sav in'
4 Merry Christmas; 1 Me. ry.t hri*tmns!*
Js't a game that they are playin'?”
Ak though struck, the father started.
What if she wen* lingering near them— ,
Blic. the good and tender-hearte I—
And eou d look upon and hear them?
How sh • d grieve—ay. grieve in Heaven—
(Endless is th love of mother •>
O'er the art-ess <|»iestioii given
On that d tv above all ethers.
In that place! And close he caught him
In his arms—her tw»v and thinking
Badly ol the lost, he biought him.
From the cursing and tl e d*inking.
Out w here th<; sun was glow.ng
On tne snow-driit*’ da'./.ling whiteness.
And the m mi • ramb- ws showing,
Pris -ned in the icy brdghtne s.
And lie vowed, his child caressing.
From that hour to mingle nev er
In -uch scenes. An I. with find s blessing.
He will keep that vow for ver!
—Marjurct KJnjc.
THE DEMON AECOHOE.
“Total abstinence from all that can
intoxicate,” is a watchword as ancient
as creation, and was once as broad as ■
the universe. \V1ipii Led created the j
world and rested from His work, He
pronounced it “very good:” each thing
good in itself and good in its connec
tions; the light good for the eyes: the
air good for tin: lungs; the food good
for the stomach; water good for quench
ing thirst.
Had each been made differently from
what it was, or bad either not been
made, man could not have existed.
Light, whose particles luul been of a
size that was even visible, would have
destroyed the eves; air, whose compo- j
nent parts varied only in ils proper- j
lions, would have been death to the I
lungs: ten thousand fields of poisonous
grain would not have been food for a
single stomach: and oceans of brandy, 1
gin or rum would n t have quenched
thirst in matt or beast. He who made
man and beast knew what was best for
them; and therefore for thousands of
years, millions after millions in suc
cession, of tish, fowl and beast, have j
been blessed in His dominions: all, in
observing the laws of their physical
nature: and from rippling streams and
gushing springs, issuing from nature's
own fountain, man could drink the j
“beverage prepared by Hod himself to *
nourish and invigorate llis creatures
and beautify His footstool.” without
dethroning his reason, destroying his
health, or by slow but certain degrees
eomiimung suicide.
Happy hail it been for the race ha«l
man continued in this state of primeval
temperance, llut, alas! man. tempted
to evil, withstood not the attack, but,
basely yielding, became corrupt in
heart, and speculative in thought and i
desire, and, according to the Apostle, I
“ vain in his imaginations and his fool- |
isli heart was darkened.” “ Professing
themselves to lie wise they became
fools, who changed the truth of God
into a lie, and worshiped and served
the creature more than the Creator.”
Here began the ravages of sin and
misery, and as “vain man would be
wise,” age after age has been toiling
for sonu-tiiing better than that which
has been so bountifully provided by his j
All-wise Creator, and so would fain i
lind happiness by inverting the order >
of nature iu the gratification of his j
evil lusts, passions and appetites by in
ventions of his own.
This spirit of speculation has spread
everywhere, and the cursed lust for
gold has-taken advantage of the mor
bid cravings of this most unhallowed
appetite, and men with unholy, specu
lative designs have invented that which
is often represented as a “ sovereign
panacea” for the world’s evils, and
have presented their proposed remedy
in the form of alcoholic drinks.
But instead of removing tiie world's
evils it has increased them in both num
bers and magnitude; feeding this
strange, unnatural appetite, causing it
to rage with more malignant fury, idl
ing the earth with sorrow and misery,
lamentations and woe. as facts and our
daily observations abundantly prove.
From our best information, the lirst
alcoholic manufactory by distillation
was erected in Arabia, in the form of a
chemical laboratory: but long before
this, the baneful principle was obtained
by fermentation, and was essentially
tne same as that obtained by distilla
tion. Alter the secret of the speedy
transformation was discovered the work
of intemperance seemed to take a new
impetus; and wherever this principle
has spread, everything lovely and of
good report has withered under its in
uueuce.
The history of the old world is full of
painful facts testifying to the baueful
effects of alcoholic drinks, and the
“history of our beloved country is no ex
ception to those facts. During the
years of the late rebellion intemperance
made more widows and orphans than
were made by the direct stroke of war.
But why refer to the past for facts while
these proofs are brought to our very
doors every day? We scarcely take up
a public journal but our eyes are
greeted with revolting aud heart-sick
ening details of robberies and murders
committed by men, aye, and women,
too, while in a state of intoxication.
Neither are these revolting crimes con
lined to men and women, but even chil
dren of tender years are drawn into the
whirlpool of strong drink, and our
sensibilities are shocked while reading
accounts of crimes and murders perpe
trated by boys not yet in their teens.—
Rev. W. H. ihonuon, in Union Signal.
Thomas V. Hyde ended a three years’
drunk at Philadelphia by falling dead
with a glass of liquor iu his hamf
•
What Led llim to Ite'-irm.
“Yon must excuse me, gentlemen,
for 1. cannot drink anything,’’ said »
tnan who was known to the entire town
as a drunkard.
“This is th- first time yon ever re
fused a drink,” said aij acquaintance.
“The other day you were hustling
around after a cocktail, and, in fact,
you even asked me to set 'em up.”
“That's very true, but I am a very
different man now.”
“Preachers had a hold of you?"
“No, -ir: no one has said anything to
me.”
"Well, what has caused the reforma
tion
••I'll tell you. After leaving you tho
other day, I kept on hustling for a
cocktail, as you term it, until I met a
party of friends. When I left them I
was about half drunk. I would not
have stopped at this, but my friends bad
to hurry away to catch a train. To a
man of my temperament, a half drunk
is ,i miserable condition, for the desire
for more is so strong that he forgets
his self-respect in his ellorts to get
more drink. Failing at the saloons, I
remembered that there was a half pint
of whisky at home, which ha<^ been
purchased for medical purposes. Just
before reaching the gate I heard a voice
in tiie garden, and looking over the
fence I saw my little sou and daughter
playing. 'No, you be ma,' said the
boy ‘an’ I'll be pa. Now you sit here
an I'll come in drunk. Wait now till
I till my bottle.’ He took a bottle
and ran away and filled it with
water. Pretty soon he returned, and
entering the play-house, nodded idiotic
ally at the little girl and sat down
without saying anything. Then the
girl looked up from her work and said:
“ ‘James, why will you do this way?*
“ 'Whiz/er way?’ he replied.
“ ‘Gettin’ drunk.’
“ “Who’s drunk?’
•• ‘You are, an’ you promised when
the baby died you wouldn’t drink any
more. The children are almost ragged
an' we haven't anything to eat hardly,
but you still throw your money away.
Don't you know vou are breakin" my
hi art?’
“I hurried away. The acting was
too life-like. 1 could think of nothing
during the day but those little children
playing in the garden, and l vowed
that I would never take another drink,
and I will not, so help me God.”—
.1 rkan■'‘ittv Travdcr.
Essential aril Non-Essential.
Water is essential to all forms of life.
No other fluid can I e found in a healthy
human organization. It is the only
drink which can be used without doing
violence, in some degree, to man's best
physical welfare.
Tea and coffee, in moderate quanti
ties, do not, in any marked degree, in
fluence vital activity unfavorably. The
feeble and nervous, however, can not
use either of these beverages without se
rious discomfort or injury.
•• As to alcohol, it would be better for
the world if the art of producing it
should suddenly he lost, and the process
be forever classed among the lost arts.
We do not need it in any of its forms;
neither the physician, chenrst. nor ar
tisan absolutely needs it in any depart
ment of his calling; and this statement
we make advisedly, after full delibera
tion, taking into view our present knowl
edge of the medicine and the arts.”
Ft is probable that very many rigid
observers of hygienic laws do not use
water freely enough. It is possible that
we may, by habit, so modify the seusa
tion of thirst that it, in a large degree,
ceases to be a safe guide of our need.
We have seen many instances of illness
which were cured by resorting to the
freer use of water. It supplies to the
sy-tem the needed amount of liquid to
maintain normal processes, and assist
in repairing tissue-waste. It is con
stantly passing out. of the svsteni
through the lungs, skin and kidneys,
and if the supply is inadequate to the
demand, morbid conditions ensue.
Constipation often results from such
deficiency, and a remedy in many cases
would be the drinking of one half pint
of tepid water before breakfast.
Much ice-water taken at meal-time is
in jurious. It arrests prompt digestion,
the latter requiring increased heat.
Iced-water should at all times be used
with moderation.—Journal of Chemis
try.
Temperance Items.
A ten-year-old boy, so drunk that
he could not walk, was oue of the dis
graceful sights to be witnessed Thanks
giving Day on Tine street, Nevada City,*
Cal.
A significant fact comes from Liv
erpool, Eng.,* in the announcement that
shares of the Cocoa Temperance rooms
opened there in 1875 are now at a 100
per cent, premium.
Mr. Neal Dow says that in more
than three-fourths of Maine the liijuor
traffic has been swept away, no spirits
being distilled nor beer brewed. There
are low, secret lhpior-shops.in the large
towns, and in Bangor the law is not rec
ognized nor obeyed.
Samuel K Jones, a noted enm'n.M
lawyer of Hartford, Conn., announced to
the Police Court the other day that he
would never again defend a violation
of the Liquor law, as there was no more
general or decided feeling in the State,
he says, than that something must be
done to stay the ravages of intemper
ance that exists to-day.
Fifteen glasses of whisky in fifteen
minutes. A German made a wager to
I perform that feat in Cleveland recently.
The exhibition took place on the Sab
bath and quite as appropriately m a sa
i loon. It was a success. It was iinpos
i sible for it to be anything else. The
j German drank his whisky, won his
j wager, apd then died “as a fool dieth.”
— Chicago Standard
Dr. Martin, of the Salpclrierie,
Paris, has made a series of observations
stretching over a period of years, on
nervous affections among the children
of alcoholic drinkers. In eighty-three
families in which one or more members
showed nervous excitability, traceable
; to alcoholic origin, there were 410 chil
dren. Of these 108, more than a quar
ter, had convulsions, and in the vear
: 1874 169 were dead. 241 were still alive,
but 84, more than one-third of the sur
1 vivots. were epileptic.