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X-THIRD SERIES
SALISBUEY; IT.
AUGUST 1 28, 1879.
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ine or Hand Use.
V fCLL ASSOKTMENT OF,
jiKuinbers and Colors,
1 HOLESALE AND KETAIL,
vlbtx and nendleman, 1
Outward Bound.
T ANSON D. F. RAXDOU'II.
'T jf' and Rtci me bhii
flitoltbewideniiigea; .
'Hu7oue by one, in shimmenug bud,
rSey WiH Bail away from me! -
tt to what lauds tlreraail,
i Sor irbat freigbts tbey lear j
!lonly they outward go,
f Vni ail the wiuds are fair.
J&feaithe iowiliprizoV line '
rl4 ny 8lovt sight must fail,
fSoit&er ey& a watch Kill keep,
1 TbereVr thebiiw uiay sail ;
JByt,Vay or far,
i "Olriarrbw 6eas or wide,
tTheie 4!low still, at love's sweet will,
I Whatever may betide.
Igo liiA the world the ships will sail,
I Tl dreary lauds or fair:
I 'f ivnb tlicra go for weal or woe,
Soy de ir oues everywhere ; ;
I Aid these will speed each laggiug keel
SWhca homeward it is laid,
!iOrlatt will keep, o'er surges deep,
r If there a grave be made.
oilffltlove, 60 kind so true
f Tkt.ktiow8 nor mete or Uund,
5iit follows with uu wearied watch
I 0$ daily ch:uigiug rouud : '
f0lve?DivineO Love Supreme,
1 What matter where I sail,
:ISf tbut know, where'er. I go
I Thy pvattli wjll uever fail !
f I TREATMENT T)F INDIANS.
m
TWOnUSnKED- TEARS" "AGO AND NOW
i'reflaU8," in' his -letter from New
Euglaud which we publish this week,
makes iiien tion of an instance of treachery
' 'amlcrfehv to the aborigines of thecouu-
itpttha occurred two hundred yejj-rs ago,
ifjjna Suggests that it might almost be
from
modern history. Some
: pliil4uUiropic gentlemen are uow visiting
fMEaiteru States to obtain funds to en-
Poncu i Indians of Nebraska to
Up au appeal to the United States
ilufbiieme Court "for the redress of wrongs
liltarl not. only almost but altogether
al to anything that occurred two ceu
.tuieg go. Kead the following, story ot
treatment by white men, as told by
M Tjlbles of, Omaha, at Boston, last
; : i'Thl Poncas owned the reservation on
qh pey had j always resided as far
a any history goes, and" it had been
; coddled to (them by three separate
j treaties of the United States. They were
; eacable tribe, who had never been at
I V with the United States. Thev wert
aaned iuxiiliz;itiou, and had church
e schools, good ; houses aiid cultivated
i iue Indian ring saw a chance to make
iiri.lL .. ! -i i - ' - ' !
t orMiree handredlhousand dollars by
i Roving the tribe to the Indian Terri
jad robbing them. They got an or
jferfrdm someauthority at Washington
fcr conimisrtoners to go out there and iu
m the tribe to give np their lands and
9JW Indian Territory, The Poncas
lhniely fused. They said the reser-
aoiijTras their land j tlie government
JJJf fit to them by treaties, and
TO pad neyer violated the T; treaties.
ioallV the riug proposed to take the ten
ffhU see the country which it was
fPrPP0edtliivLtl..i-i Aw rri.
?1 efs there, aud wlien they saw the
iinrf among th tribes that had been
herefrom the North' (they were
i djhlffl. thev ttofnanftX KiJ IS.
lr-whereupon the commission
? fr.1 to gve the cliiefs passports or
iPreters su that they might return,
them -. .i
' di fIi : vvulv e Micro uuu
;:'?fpey would not sign this paper;
'i Jf-if?4' never Set backer they would
' jn on ho way, not Jbeing able to
1 WfagUsli; and being found off their
j rrjation witliAnt t..-ao.vo' 'ii, T.:r
it would be better that ten
lie than the whole tribe shonld
et, would sign a paper to bring their
j ..uum tuajr mere, uui uiey
fy.rr ""dren down thereto die of
iCTrWr: Then the chiefs under
Nalfever. j!
tO fnnf U U.
home, a . distance --' of one
13?T4ohandred niiles.-In
" "
n. fnw
lyr peyere worn oat their moccasins
tn tat tn I ' .:-, -. . .
m V alVaid of the" white j
Ik Jpr almost dying of si
men, and
starvation.
UC rca?n.ed tbe Otoa agency in
aQd were informed that an or
I received , fromWashingti
I in:; ,
mm l
V7l- ' . i
J I -I
nlJ'
to drive them off if they came
give them nothing ; for thev"
there ; to
were bad
and rebellious. But the agent! took Jpity
on them, and sent a , telegram j to Washr
iugton protesting against this treatmeut.
The Otoas gave "them horses, laBd ! Ithey
went on back to their reservation.; When
they arrived they found that these scoun
drels badltdd the tribe thatltheir Jcirffcfs
had signed the treaty and bad the people
ready to marchiT ' ' " :
Every scheme having failed. th0 (next
recourse of these fellows was : to call on
the government for troops. All the Iu
dian ring lias to do: j when they want to
rob a tribe aud get their landi is to send
word to Washington that the tribe s re
bellious and ready to brake out iuto war,
and the troops are. sent there andertbeir
command. In that way , the fudianj riug
uses UieTnny,as-a force to iob the In
dians, against the continual protest of the
a rmy officers, who are obliged to j obey
orders. But at last they got them down
to the lodiaii Territory by military force.
Whan dv u-i,.t L.. 1
huudred and fifteen of them. 1 After thev
had been there two years over two hun
dred had died nnd they are dying now.
"As soon as they got them off the res
ervation the ring went to work aud col
lected all the horses, cattle, wheat, grain,
household furniture, mowers, reapers,
threshers, plows everything they had,
and sold it by auction and put the money
iu their pockets. The houses were torn
down and sold for lumber. Tuen they
got a heavy appropriation from Wash
ington for taking the Indians down to the
Indian Territory. Of the $25,000 appro
priated for this purpose probably $20,
000 was a clean steal. ""
."Last winter, one of these. Standing
Bear, after having Inst all ofhis family
except his wife and one child, ran off aud
started back to the land which th i gov
ernment had ceded to him,! aud which
was his yet; They all nearly died of
starvation. He went down ! to Omaha
reservation on invitation of that
tribe.
As 6oon as he got there the agent feent a
telegram to Washington that; the; runa
way Poncas were there. A squad of sol
diers came to retain them to the Indian
Territory. Staudiug Bear simply said
that if the government ordered hiai to go
back and die he would have to goi But
it would be better for his people if they
were all ordered out -to be shot ai once
rather than stay where they were. j They
brought Standing Bear to Omaha, and
when they gothere I sued out a Writ of
habeas corpus, aud this proved to be the
first time in the history of this nation that
an luuian was allowed to i come into
court. Judge Dandy, after fully hearing
the case, said that he had been on the
bench seventeen years -aud nothing had
ever before appealed to his sy mpalthy as
this case had done. He ordered the ab
solute discharge from military custody of
Standing Bear and those with hiinj about
thirty in all. Now, then, it is thought
that a suit brought to recover this Ponca
reservation ''tqjhat tribe will, without
the slightest doubt, be successful if car
ried to the Supreme Coiirt.-4-New York
Observer.
The Sand Blast, j ' i
Among the wouderful and useful in
ventions of the times is the common sand
blast. Suppose you desire to letter a
piece of marble j you cover the stone
with' a Bheet of wax no thicker than a
wafer, then cut in the wax the inscription
desired.- Now pass it under the blast and
the wax will not be injured at all, but
the sand will cut the letters deep into the
gtoue. . Or.if you desire raised letters, a
flower or other emblem, cut the letters,
flowers, etc., in wax and stick them upon
the stone ; then pass the stone tinder the
blast, and the. sand will cut it away.
Remove the wax and you have the raised
letters. Or take a piece of French plate
glass, say two feet by six, and" cover it
with fine lace ; pass it under the blast,
andliot a thread will be injured, but the
sand will cut deep into the glass, wher
ever it is not covered by the; lace. Now
remove the lace and you have every
delicate and beautiful figure j raised upon
the glass. ! In this way beautiful figures
of all kiuds are cut in glass, aud at a
small expense.- The workmen can . hold
their hands under the blast Without
harm, even when it is rapidly catting
away the hardest glass, iron or stone, but
they must look out for finger nails, for
they will be whittled away right hastily.
Wlap a piece of 4 soft cotton around the
nails, and they are safe. The sand whit
tles away and destroys auy ; hard sub
stance, even glass, but does not affect
substances that ae 60ft and yielding, like
wax. cotton or fine lace, or even the hu
man hand - ! .
Thev seem to make nothing of tunnel-
ins the mountains in Europe. The Mont
Ceuis tunnel, nearly eight miles long, has
been ..in nseseVeral years, and the St.
Gothard tunnel, nearly as long, id almost
completed. Last week we had accounts
of n projected tunnel under the Simplon
Pass of the Alps, and this week a dis
patch states that the Emperor Francis
Joseph, as well as the Austrian govern
tneut,. has expressed approval of the
scheme for connecting the Austrian and
Swiss railways by a tunnel through
Mount Arlberg, Rhetian Alps,; - - ;
How Business Is Now Done.
" The old methods of doing business are
fast passing away, and whether the
change is for the better or not,
those who
wish to achieve success must
abandon
the old and fall into the new.
A revolu-
tion has been wrought in such matters,
and the bid methods are daily becoming
obsolete. One hundred thousand coni-
raercial agents or drummers are now em
ployed to travel the length, and breadth
of the country in the interest of their em
ployers, and in this fast age no one, un
less ho holds a monopoly of isome good
thing, can afford to wait for customers,
so great is the competition in every line
or branch of business. The Boston Post
says : "The ways of traffic are not the
old ways ; wooden ships are going out of
date, and sailing vessels- are giving place
to ; steam j currency is superseded by
commercial credits ; the cable and tele
graph have brought markets close to-
Igetherj railroads derive their freight
prontstrom the peiiectness or their ter-
mmal Acuities j men buy and sell by
sample before products and manufactured
stocks are moved ; prices aud rates change
uow ot'tener iu a day than they used , to
do in a week or a month j everything
tends to economy of business friction, to
bringing things down to the finest point
by the shortest way, to the performance
of the most work by the least machinery."
Remarkable Accident to a Hosse!
Yesterday afternoon a heavy fall and a
great racket was heard in the livery sta
bles of G. W. Zecher. Mr. Zecher and
some of his men ran to ascertain what
was the matter, and were not a little as
tonished to find one of the horses belong-
ing to the Adams Express Company lying
down with one of its hind feet wedged iu
its mouth. It required the united strength
of several men, using levers,
to pry the
horse's mouth opeu wide enough to get
the foot out, aud before they
doing it two of the horse's
sncceed in
teeth were
knocked out. The brute Would have
strangled to death had he not been
promply relieved ; aud it Was
an hour before he could rise
nearly halt
to his feet.
It is supposed that the horse threw his
foot forward in striking at the flies, and
at the same time threw his ! head back
ward, biting at them, thus iopeuing his
mouth, aud iputtiong his foot in it." The
entire hoof was in the horse's! mouth, the
teeth being sunk into the flesji above the
hoof almost, if not altogether,! to t he bone.
Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer, July 28th.
The erection of Hickory's fifth tobacco
factory will soon commence.
It is a great piece of folly for a man to be
always ready to meet trouble half way. If
he would put all the journey on trouble, be
might never meet it at all.
A mixture eomposed of one part of pow
dered borax and two parts ' of powdered
sugar spriukled upon the floor where cock
roaches frequent, will soon eradicate them.
Christianity, means to the merchant
that he should be honest; to the judge it
means that he should be just; to the ser
vant, that he should be faithful ; to the
school-boy, that he should be diligent; to
the street-sweeper, that he should sweep
clean; to every worker, that his work
shall be well done.
The cross of Bhrist is divided through
out the world. To each his portion ever
comes. Thou, therefore, 0 my soul, cast
not thy portion from thee, but rather
take it to thee as thy most precious relic,
and lay it up, not iu goid and silver
shrine! but in in a golden heart a heart
clothed with gentle charity, with pa
tience, (and suffering submission. Lu-
ther. I
!
.The Roman Catholic hierarchy: of
France do not succeed so well in govern
ing the government under the Republic
as under a monarchy or the Empire. The
French Senate having hesitated to pass
the anti-Jesuit clause of the new Ednca
tion bill, the majority in tho Chamber of
Depnties-abstaiued from voting-ou the
estimate for the salaries of the bishops,
leaving the house without a quorum. The
majority of the French Legislature really
appears disposed to make trial of dispen
sing with Jesuit control.
The Fall River, Mass., Xetcs relates the
following as a fact : Two men were con
versing about the 6trife the other day,
w lieu one of them, a mule-spin uer, re
marked that he had been in twenty-six
strikes during his lifetime. "Well," said
the other, "did you ever make anything
by it !" "Not once," was the reply : "lost
every time." And yet the meu who have
regular employment and reasonable! wa
ges are willing to follow the advice of in
terested leaders and throw away a
certainty and get nothing in its place.
The Scandal "Now that the scan
dal is made public, or thousand incidents
of the relations of Mrs. Sprague and Sen
ator Coukihig are told. That they fre
quently rode out together until very late
hours, is pretty well known to many.
family driving toward Edge wood, just
after the extra; session, stopped a runa
way; horse hitched to a coap. Within
sliQrt time Senator Conkling appeared on
the road and claiineu the horse ana ye
hide. -It had already been recognised as
the property of Mrs. Sprague, and the
family discovered that the hrsei bad
broken away fronj its fejlfer wheij ii nq.tr
tended,
THE HEART OF A STRANGER.'
BY MB8. j!i Idv CBAPilK. -
'There's some sort of a furrin body
at the door wantin ye;f ma'am' said
an
Irish'glrlj to her mistress.
There had been nlreadv hnlf a
dozen 'furrin' and other sort of 'bodies J
askjng favors' that day ; and the Jit
tie lad y of the h6rise was wearv . and
hadj lain down onja lounge in her own
room with a new ! book in her hand.
Tell her I am lying down and bring;
up her message she . said without
takng her eyes from her book, '
The girl soon , returned, . saying,
It'a work she's wantin like i all the
rest uv 'em ma'am j but" I can't re
pat half the gibberish she tould
me to.' I U .
'Tell her I have no work, and
know of none elsewhere was the ans
wer. I ; !
The door closed heavily under the
hand of thej heartless girl ; and the
lady felt that she; " had done wrong,'
and almost heard the words, 'For ye
yourself know tb heart of a stran
ger And the days , came back to
her: with strange power, when she, a
young and beautiful orphan, had
crossed the sea from England to gain
herj bread by her accomplishments ;
and she remembered how, after only
one year of toil and loneliness, when
a kind wordiwasas a jewel to her, she
became mistress of this beautiful home.
and the mother of the lonely little
ones who had been her pupils before.
She wished she had seen this 'furrin
sort of a body' and listened to her
story, if nothing more, and cheered
'the heart of a stranger.'
As the poor applicant descended
the steps, after receiving the cool
message, mad cooler by the ser
vant's heartless tone, she looked up
thej street and then down, as if not
knowing which way to go; and then
moved otT in: an aimless sort of way,
and was soon lost to sight.
She went up one street and down
another, occassional ly ringing at a
bell, ouly to; be told that the lady was
out; qr that she could not be seen.
She; was a stranger in the city, and
soon got confused iu her wanderings ;
but
she kuew the street and number
of her temporary home. She was
weary at last with her ringing and
inquiring, and asked a boy the way
to H sjrect. He directed her,
and she turned her face thither,
when she was seized with a sudden
impulse to ring one more bell.
Ascending the long flight of stone
steps before her, she did so, and was
not: a little surprised to seethe same
stern, cold woman who had repulsed
her an hour ago- miles away as she
thought. .1
Before she could framt a question,
she was saluted with 'What! are ye
back agaiu,i after the lady tellin' ye
to be gone, that she had neither work
nor charity for ye! Aud I tell
'Catherine,' called the lady, who
had heard j the heartless words, I
want to see that woman in my room.
Send her up.'
SheV the very same furriner ye
sent away an hour ago, ma'am ; she's
lust nersistiu on ver helpin her
whether veiwillor no, said the wo-
man.
'Send her un. Catherine.' was the
: .. '
soft reply from above.
And, not a little crestfallen, Cathe
rine pointedj the way upstairs without a
word.
The lady was surprisied to see, in
place of the ! rough creature she had
pictured to herself, a well-developed
girl of twenty ; years, with cheeks like
roses, teeth; like pearls, and with
flood of golden hair which the proudf
est belle might euvy a buxom, rus
tic beauty. ; j
Well, my girl, what can I do for
you ?' asked the lady kindly.
You irives me vork : I does it
good for small moneys. J valk, valk
all days, (bur veek, and ask much
lady yWl she giye rae vork. But no
vork yet ! Wheu assage is paid, A
has twelve: dollars, and I pays lyud
vir Andersdn wife two dollars veek,
and vash and irons and seys for my
borne till I has vork. Now six veek
gjone, mopey gone, sleep gone ; Ludr
vig sick, and must vork hard for his
yife, and J can no more eat his bread
for no. pay. I talcs some very good
Anglish, cause I know girl in Sveden
who had been five years in 'Merica;
and ooore I . learn on ship, and of
'Aterican, family in home vith Lud vig
Anderson ; so ladies have no trouble
with my Svede talk;
I 'What can you do ? asked the
lady. ; ;-.' - .1
'All things. I spins and weaves this
gown and shawl and all my clothes.
A can sew for queeus ; I can kit stock-
in', vash good, makes" breads, cooks
dinner, all, all things for few money's.
I good to little childs i and always
smiles !' I do all the crv nmhi.
f o
when f lone ;' and her voice broke
as if she was breaking this rule for
once. f
'Bui why do you ever cry, my good
girl Y asked the lady. i
'Oh, lady, Sveden so far, far away;
my von brother so long gone
to sea ; my mother so sick, and so
hopes I vill send her money and some
days bring her to me. But I get no
vork, aud moneys all gone. My moth
er: pray, pray to God, and myself pray
all the time ; but no vork, and no
friend ouly Ludvig from my place,
and he sick and poor. Sveden minis
ter here, give me good paper for hon
est, God-loving girl.' ;
And she handed hen recommenda
tions from a clean envelope, which
was wrapped carefully in a snowy
handkerchief.
'You may come to me to-morrow
and stay for a week, and if you are a
good seamstress I will get you all the
work you can do,' replied the lady
kindly, after reading the 'good paper.'
Selma droped a low courtesy, kiss
ing the lady's hand, and said solemn
ly : 'God He thank you ; my sick
mother, she thank you ; and myself
thank you.'
'How strange,' thought the lady,
after Selma had gone to tell her joy
to Ludvig's wife, "that no one en
gaged her before I saw her. Who
could withstand her innocence and
her beauty ?' ,
There was good reason why no one
had lightened the poor girl's burden
before. No lady had seen her 1 All
had left it to the judgment of weary
or tliotiffh tless servants to decide whom
they should see, and who they, should
not!
When Selma had been a week in
this house she was found to be a
necessity there. No one could sew
and darn like her; no one could so
gently and teuderly wash and dress
the poor little invalid boy of the
house ; no one could charm away a
headache or sing a baby to sleep as
she could. Another helper had not
been dreamt of in the house; but
once Selma was there, life took on new
charms for the whole family. Home
grew brighter for the father, because
he saw more of his wife ; she was re
lieved of much care, and had time to
read and make herself interesting ;
the children were entertained, and
instructed, and loved, by the girl who
served them so faithfully.
No work was sought for Selma else
where.
When she had been two months in
the house her friend Ludwig appear-
pd one dav witlLa letter from her
j
mother in Sweden.
After laughing and crying over it
and kissing it tenderly many times,
Selma gave this English version of it
to her mistress : ;
'Wheu you go away from me, child
beloved, my heart was dark like
nicht-lime. You on the great sea,
and many days the sky black, aud wind
loud ; and rae lone and with pain
Neighbors come aud talk kind, but I
want only God then. When yon get
to land I say in heart, My child no
home, no money ; maybe Ludwig
dead, and she be with bad stranger,
Man v dav, many week, I cry and
pray, and then come letter you safe
with Ludwig,.but hard times and no
work. I want wings to fly over the
sea to ray child, but I have no wings
so I must sit still. My heart breaksj
All davs I thinks and all nights I
dreams of only Selma, Selma. My heart
be a' great, load and my tears a foun
tain like King David, and I know not
how I will live cut in two from youi
my child beloved.
One day. I sit, knit, knit, knit, for
my bread, and sudden fell on my soul
a great peace from God About yon. J
hear 0 voice. 1 sees no light ; bnt
only tod's peace ! Then I know it is
! 11: L ...1 ? . - - . : .
well, with you j thatyou have friends,
and workJ and his smile on vnn Mno
AlL wlre go to the winds, and I have
nowjWingi for fly up to God's home.
and t lank Him, for he has hide my
Selma, beloved, under his wing. That
ie blessed day of all days. Its sun
never set, and all the time I am han-
py for my child.' v V
Here Selma paused, and looking at
her mistress, said f Perhaps that day I :
come two times to your door, and God
say to you, 'Take her in." . J
'No
matter whether it was that
very
day or not, Selma. He sent you
andj I thank him for it. That
was my work to comfort the heart of
a stringer, and yours to relieve me of
a load of care and of work which I
could only lay off on common hands.
Be hopeful and faithful, and before
ong we will bring the dear mother
o v er j the sea ; and she can trust and
pray, and knit, knit, here as well as
there," said the ladv.
Let us be careful how we send the
stranger, or any applicant for honest
work, from our door. We may thus
thrust away both the 'work and the
blessing which God designs for us.
The Christian.
White Africans.
Major Pinto, the Portuguese ex
plorer, who has just crossed Africa,
from Benguella southwest ward to
Natal, describes a race of white men,
found by him near the headquarters
of the Zambezi. He says:
"I on e day noticed that one of the
carriers was a white man. He De-
longed to a race entirely unknown up
to' the present day. A great white
people exist in South Africa. Their
name is Cassequer ; they are whiter
than the Caucasians, and in place of
hair they have their heads covered
with small turfts of very short "wool.
Their cheek bones are prominent,
their eyes like those of the Chinese.
Theso men are extremely robust.
When they discharge an arrow at an
elephant the shaft is completetely
buried in the animal's body. They
live on roots and the chase, and it is
only when these supplies fail them
that they hold relations with the
neighboring race, the Ambuelas, from
whom they obtain food in exchange
for ivory". .The Cassequeres are an en
tirely nomadic race, and never sleep
two nights in the same encampment.
They are; the only people in Africa
that do not cook their food iu pots.
They wander about in groups of from
four to six families, over all the terri
tory lying between the Cuchi and the
Cumbango. It would seem that from
a crossing of the Cassequeres with
the negroes of other races sprang those
mulattoes of the south, whom the
English call Bushmen. The latter
are, however, better off than the Cas
sequc-res, and use pots in cooking their
food, while their dispositions are good
though quite opposite to civiliza
tion."
Another Juvenile Prodigy
The latest addition to the long list
of juvenile prodigies, in respect to
memory aud mathematical accuracy,
is reported from Maine. He is, says
the Bangor Commercialt the son of a
former postmaster of that place, and
is now ten years of age. He is untaught,-save
in the art of reading, to
which he appears to give more at
tention than wiser parents would al
low. His strong point is memory.
He lesollecls not only everything
that he reads, but everything that he
does, remembers on what day he did
ir. ! where he was at the time, and
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what were the circumstances that led
him to do it. For instance, he will
tell where he was on any day within
the past'two years, and what he , was
doing. Further, he remembers and
can tell everything that his friends
have done, provided he has seen
them do it, and can tell on what date
and on what day of the week they
did it. ;
The first that his fjiends uoticed
of his precocity was about a year ago,
when tlicy accidenttaly discovered
that he was almost infallable on any
date he had ever seen or heard.
Walking in company with some rela
tives in a'cemetery it was observed
that he would look, at alomhstonp.
read the date of the death recorded.
and the exact age of the person bu
ried there, then glance np and telit
?nwha da of theSeek heidead .5
person wasrn. ThU happened oar
several occasions, and but little attenV
tion was paid f it. Finally one off
his relatives; took pains to look in-an
old almanack covering some of the!
dates he had mentioned, and found
thaMbe dajr of the week r bcea
given correctly in every t-instance ;
Anw causea mem to ask him .1 ones"' !
wvu, huwj it was uiscovcrca urn La:
could almost instantly tell the '6srl
oi uie; wees: ot any date within thj last i
i o years. ', i niJuutil
-In a sesries of testa made by a Cbs." 1
menial writfer he gare' the day of;
tne week corresponding to 1 a "large
nnmoer or dates between 181 .and
1840,ave H correctly, in every Tn-.i I
stance and averaged five seconds Son
each test The lonerest time rennirpd
was eight seconds His habits-are -
described ai wpeculia.,, 11: ' 4 1
He never plays with other boys...
but is continually busy - In reading.
Oftentimes the takes an unabridged1
dictionary and studies it boar after7 :
hour, never seembg taconsider It any-;
thing but a pleasure to do it. ? In fact-,
he takes no comfort unless busying,
his brain about s something. . If there
is anything he does not underitanoVi
he deeps at till he does understand1
it and then; it is next to impossible
for him to forcret iL One would nati i
nraiiy suppose that a child with sncb,
unusual powers would gradually fail,
and fade away, but, , singularly . en-
ough'he is constantly growing stron
ger and more healthy."( : '
It is to be hoped , that the last as-f
sermon is strictly trueand. . thattjwfy
precocious youngster will not exhaust;
his brain : power in infancy. Tbe
chances, however, are heavily against
him. His name is Charles Fuller,
Those are the best Christians who
are more careful to reform themselves
than to censure others.-7-JWZer, ; J
The only cure for indolence is
work; the only cure- for selfishness j
is sacrifice; the only cure for unbelief
is to shake off the ague of doubt by
dotnjr Christ's biddings; the only'cure
for timidity is to plunge into some
dreaded duty before the chill comes
As it is not putting on a gown thair .
makes the scholar, but the inward
habits of the mind, so it is not putting
on an outward walk of profession,
that makes a Christian, but the in
ward grace of the heart. -r i rki-
A zealous soul without meekness
is like a ship in a storm, in danger of
wrecks. A; meek soul without zeal
is like a ship in a calrn that ' moves,
not as fast as it ought Ifaion. . t u
God makes the earth bloom with'
roses that we-may not be discontent-'
ed wit Ifour sojourn here; he makes
it bear thorns that we ; may learn to;
look for something better beyond.
Prayer in the morning is the key.
that opens to ns Cod's mercies : and.
blessings. Prayer in the evening is
the key that shuts us n plunder his
protection and safegoarcl.;
A Jackboro (Texas) dispatchL to tho St.
Louis Globe says : Miss- Walkerj-aged 11
living with her father, & C. Walker, retired
to bed and slept all Bight with a tremend
ous rattlesnake, seven feet long, whichr
crept into' the bed. About daylight MUs
Walker turned upon her pillow, when "the-J
snake struck her in the forehead with hit
fangs, and iotUatly coiled; around her
throat. She ; screamed and fainted. The
reptile was fiaally killed, but it U beliered
Miss Walker cannot lire. f ,
Florida, says the Sampler Advance like
every other Bute, has iU proportion of good
and bad land. The soil is divided info ,
what is called hammocky high pine,; lo w
pine, and swamp IsjmL On the hammock
land jou find the oak, hickory, hay, mag
nolia, gum, beech and many trees familiar j
to northern eyes, and whose existence' with j
them always proclaimed a good oiL The j
same rule applies with equal force here. .
The swamp lands are very rich, and, when
drained, are the best sugar and rice lands in
the State. . . ' j; " p-;
! A Georgia negro girl wheTwent to Lipe
ria inl8?7, has returned. She does not j
give a very cheerful account of her ex pet i- ;
enccs in that free republic Among other j
things, she says that nhenativee aeason
everything very highly with peppevnd
When a child is bom among . them, they
stuff its mouth with red pepper and gruel, i
and lav it in the son for an hour. : They !
Uay it will make it strong and heahhjr.! j
Also sue says "tne naiiverare Teiy mm no
our people when they commit crime, bh is
mentions the case of one Rvnben Bayltu,
who stole something from ote of them, and
they caught him. tied a big rock around his
neck, and threw blnj ia the r ver.
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