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jvlia;clkk chase.
' vv noart tl jiimlVe opened,
WheVver he approaches.
M- lion-hearted knishU
I beiwl to hira in worship. -
X? other blossoms re-h
Vnto the in in homage.
Su.h a the heart may teach.
I irh for hii fare,
la. ! he cannot know ; ;-,
lie dv me lorely.
A ii of w n,ay rroW
H. cannot read my secret.
Thouifh bu I learned so soon ;
if,. Irtves a winsome maiden
W ith eye? like skiee in Juno.
r,,r biui site careth nothing;.
' His heart Bhedoth not prise;
'While I would die to bless him
Whom she can dare despite.
An-M am but a lily.
' When woman I would be ;
I hear her jlly wishing
That he' were fair, like me.
-'? P- Iri.PIT THEMES. -I
The Church the Garden of the Iord.
i Heeclier drew a parallel be
tUelii tbe Church and a garden, as
j..!ej,resel it in his opening sen.
'n e' u(0T the comfort of those
Ik are tired of the dasty shaking
' Jit'iie old rug of church history,"
TiLse were ainoug the things he
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t iifn t ie uiu
Testament and in
Le 'ew, the Church is the garden
ikit .Lord." t . . -
m
if he beginning
of the' race and
so lar as uiey are uius-
a . a
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tUtixl in the
Bible by Hebrew
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'i , w - ..uu
V Fv? . ..i l r
it js-i'iiiineiiii "-, luciciuio, .tutb
if klioultl be regarded as the type
If ' :uiI emblem
M (iwi i.
U I ' M-Out of 8QCI
h y t0 selCl
emblem oi tue iunsiian
society at large God is
select churches, as you
Would select a garden, and there
:fgs ; tj, blossoms ana me nnai rruics oi
tH oul are cUItlvatea not in an
taoiii.sin to ( the world ; but the
'lairi'li undertakes to separate it-
4? tii?ljr fi:oin every other influence in
4 ; ohk'if that; H may cultivate the
" fruit juf the spirit, and the fruit of
; r tjic spirit is love, joypeace, long
s'ufl'eringt' goodness, gentleness,
i lAectiess and self-government.
r:, Xoose are the plants that are to be'
i found in (iod's garden."
i 1 Fieuce building has been one of
f the great architectural inspirations
J or be Church, and fence building
ii not given up yet. Many people
I seem- to think that the strength
! aiid tbe power of the Church con-
I sisk in the walls , that separate it
5 j froni everything else, and when
i tbcyl have gone high enough to
I I shield the plants from the winds,
!' tbey-build them higher. When
tlie fence keeps out the wild beast,
f. they build on and on, : and the
f I glory,4 the controversy, the point
ft of bragging about it is fenced., It
I- is so lenced' that you cannot get
I iptio the Baptist Church except by
1 . due gate; it is so fenced that you
cannot get into the Presbyterian
. j Church except by one way; it is
I so! fenced that you cannot get into
I I th Homan Church except accord-
ing to the methods in which they
f fence themselves off. Every church
I lias a ftnee to mark th linerfie-
I : tweeu it land its -1 neighbor j and
I I whereas four fails would do, they
I ; put on six and a rider, with a
i seventh on1 top of that, and they
I are; everlastingly quarrelling as to
': which is the highest, the strongest,
cir; the earliest ience. They are so
; particular that I sometimes I think
p these spiritual gardeners envy the
l: ; birds because they can fly over the
)' highest fence." '
; 1 , 'If you have got a church that
is select you have got a market
:. gardener's1 garden. Its members
. tUink it is respectable. AVhy,'
tney sayryou ain't going to tnai
Church; all sorts of things tumble
jii i there. Ours is a fashionable
church; select families only come
hjere. It will be better for your
sons and daughters.7 The church
ought not to represent a market
garden, where one tnmg only is
cultivated for sale." j
i I fThe family is -to the church as
the church as the glass conserva
tory to the garden.- There the
plants are prepared , to bear the
open air of the church..- So modern
gardening still holds a parallel to
the Christian Church in its rela
tions to the household'
i ' Ir. Talinage oa the Dauce.
i The announcement that Dr. Tal
mage was to discuss the subject of
- dancing gathered even a larger
: congregation than usual at the
Brooklyn Tabernacle. After the
preliminary ! services the Doctor
read for; his text Matt, xir., C:
L"ijut wneu iieroa s Dirtnaay was
kept, the -daughter of Ilerodias
danced before them, and pleased
Jlerod." It was Herod's birthday,
said Dr, Tal mage. The King's
( heart was glad.' "Let Salome be
brought in," said Ilerod ; "and let
f her dance before me." The grace
' ful aud I suggestive movements of
' the maiden the poetrv of motion
were
too much lor Ilerod. He
-was
Switched bewildered. Dis
blood- was stirred ; and he lost his
scjlf cbnitnand. As the dancing
closed, a? the tinkliug of the cym-
pais ceased, as the thuuders of ap
nlauSe I died awav. tliA Kinn- at
claimed with an oath that he would
give to Salome whatever she ask
ed, even to the half of his kingdom.
The question, said Dr, Talmaere.
to be discussed this morning is not
wnetuer tiancuig is right or wrouc
in itself. That has long since been
settled v The question is, Does
tlaucing, or does it not, occupy too
much time in modern society f It
; crowded out from many a brilliant
social j gatheriug all intellectual
conversation.; It was an iucouve
uitsnce anu an annoyance to many
-to some who could ifot dance.
aim to some wno would not dance
because they were opposed to it in
principle. It was oftentimes car--ried
to excess, and it bad occasion
ally a ridiculous aspect. One did
not much wonder at the remark of
a Chinese magnatewhen on one
occasion present at a magnificent
court ball, "Why don't you make
your servauts do this for you f"
I Dr.' Talinage was not opposed to
dancing in all its forms. In so far
as it was natural and simple a
graceful motion of the body, ad
justed and regulated by science,
and responsive to j musical sounds,
no objection could be taken to it.
There was no harm surely in cross
ing and recrossiug the room in
graceful motion and in obedience
to sweet sounds, j It was as natu
ral for young people to dance as to
sing. It furnished a convenient
outlet to exuberant spirits ; f and
God would not hare given young
people exuberance of spirits if
there had been any sin in giving
them expression! But in every
age dancing had been carried to
excess, and had been associated
with the basest , vices. It had be
come depraved when Christianity
began to be preached to . the Ro
man world, and it was therefore
condemned by the anostles. It
was made the special subject of
condemnation by the early fathers,
by whom it was regarded as the
devil's special property. And as it
had been depraved and associated
with evil in the past it was deprav
ed and associated with evil now.
And that it was so Dr. Talmage
was. willing to leave to the verdict
of every man's heart. Some forms
of tbe dance were harmless. I But
the round dance was evi). and only
evil continually. I j j
Was it or was it not true that
too much time was given to danc
ing f It had come to the preacher's
knowledge that it was no uncom
mon thing for would-be - society
people to give np housekeeping in
order to be able to give themselves
inimitably to dissipation. He knew
of one family who had adopted this
course. And what was tbe conse
quence f The general ruin of the
family. The homeless father broke
down and died ; the son became a
wreck ; the daughter ran off with
a French dancing master (laugh
ter) and the mother! She con
tinued to figure as an old flirt a
poor, miserable butterfly without
wmgs. (Laughter.) i
The Wane of Chivalry.
The Kev. Dr. De Costa preached
on "Chiy&lry, the Needed Element
in tbe American Character,77 cboos
ing as his text II. Samuel, 12
"Be of good courage and let us
play the men for our people and for
the cities of our God.77
.
"These words," said the preach.
er, "were spoken by a man cast in
the heroic mould. Joab. the nephew
of King David, and the command
er of his military forces. Though
not a perfect man when viewed in
connection with his age, he stands
rery high. He possessed the cour
age though not the stern principles
and unvarying consistency of Geu.
Gordon, and his brilliant and ad
venturous career bears a striking
analogy to that of the Soudan hero.
Gordon fell in Khartoum, murder
ed by men who had sworn to de-'
fend him, while Joab was basely
assassinated iu the sanctuary where
he had taken refuge, and where
life was esteemed secure. ,
"The subject which I have chos-
. j a m
en tne wane oi cmvairy is in
deed a pertinent one, for although
here and there we may notice signs
of lofty devotion, upon the whole
there is among us a lack of those
chivalrous qualities which should
distinguish and adorn the charac
ter of an intelligent people, and in
deed a general and deplorable ab
sence otiiigh ideals and lofty con
ceptions is the most marked char
acteristic of the present age. So
ciety of the day refuses to take np
a work that will not pay. All
things are. measured by a commer
cial standard, and we need must
join with Burke in lamenting what
we cannot deny, that there is a real
decay of the spirit of ' chivalry
among the English speaking peo
ple, once so renowned, and justly
so, for their chivalrous, carriage.
The shopkeeping spirit is every
where rampant. j
"The requisites of chivalry are
mercy, courage, justice, temper
ance, humility, purity and faith,
for no true kmght was an infidel.
Let us beware of the Iugersolls
claiming to beachampions of hu
inanity, for the friend of humanity
was never the enemy of God. W e
poor downtrodden beasts of bur
den cannot be expected to be chiv
alrous,7 said a workingman to me
last week in avy vestry and I cou
tradicted him. A laboring man is
still a man, and chivalry is a gift
to mankind and to no class or
caste. If properly cultivated the
spirit of chivalry would emancipate
the workingihan within a decade.
Legislation is demanded, but the
great missing quantity is charac
ter based on integrity. Self preser
vation is not the first law of nature
and the so called law of supply
and demand is a fiction. The men
we read of daily giving up their
lives for others prove the first a
falsehood and the story of tbe
Good Samaritan brands the other
as a half truth. Christianity, if it
be worth anything, must rise to a
broader outlook aud the so called
law of supply and demand should
be placed ou a shelf in the anti-
aquarian department of - political
economy and labelled as one of the
effete lies. To accomplish this we
must show that same indomitable
spirit exhibited by Gordon in the
far off Soudan."
The Doctors are Well.
N.Y.Sun.1 .?
"How are things to day T" whis
pered a young mau to a friend who
had juste come from Gen. Grant's
hall door, where he had been speak
ing to the servant.
"Better," replied the- friend, in
the same cautious tone. "Douglas
has eaten his breakfast with some
relish, and Dr. Shrady is resting
comfortably." ! ,
"But how -is Gen. Grant t" asked
the first speaker.
"Grant !" was the answer. "Oh,
I didu't ask about him. s 1 was
merely anxious how the doctors
were getting along." j j
Restraints, Cares a4 Bubstltates for
" ; .- . Drink. '"" ' ' ' r
Aastia Bierbower. ia Literary Life- '
The temperance question, al way g
important, is fast becomiug,through
its entrance into politics in nearly
every State, the leading question
of the day. In the absence of any
great issue between the parties, it
is in a fair way to take tbe promi
nence of the anti-slavery contro
versy, with which it was at first
associated, but to which it gave
way .for a time. It is about the
only question great enough to en
gage the moral and reformatory
forces which have become a fixed
factor in our politics. I propose
here to indicate some of the alter
natives under which this question
can I be raised, rather , thau to
champion any particular one. The
possible remedies for intemperance
are as numerous as the varieties of
evils nnder which it appears, which
makes its abolition a more com pit
cated problem than was the aboli
tion of slavery. j
The remedies for intemperance
are either restraints, cures 1 or sub
stitutes. :
The restraints may take many
forms. We may restrain the seller,
restraiu the drinker, restrain the
youth, restrain the people general
ly (in their customs), and restrain
the manufacturer and wholesale
trade. I
As to restraining the sellers, this
may be done by prohibition ; by
local option, which is partial re1
strain t ; by high license, which re
moves the temptation engendered
by excessive competition for drink
ers ; by laws against selling to
minors ; by laws against selling on
Sundays, election days, and other
special occasions of danger ; by
closing saloons at uight, and by
suppressing concert saloons, and
other more objectionable forms of
liquor selling. The tendency of
legislation is now to some of these
partial remedies, rather than the
complete prohibition advocated a
few years, ago. This is both be
cause laws of partial restraint are
more easily obtained, and because
they are more easily enforced. Al
most every State has temperance
laws, which, ; it rigidly executed,
would remove Ihe principal evils ot
intemperance, -
Restraints upou the driuker. are
now coming more into favor. It
has been too much the fashiou to
deal with the selller,as if the buyer
had no responsibility. It is quite
as practicable to punish drunken
ness as to punish liquor-selling. If
drunkards were imprisoned till
sober, it might have a salutary ef
fect, or if they were fined for be
coming, drunk (and imprisoned if
they did not pay the fine.) Habit
ual drunkenness might be benefici
ally affected by sending the victims
to an asylum till cured, as is cou
templated iu some States, and by
appoiutiugcouservators of their pro
pert, as in, still other States.
Something might also be done iu
the way of requiring a license to
drink. There is no reason why all
the license should be on the side of
the seller. Licenses issued to
drinkers uuder like! terms and
guarantees as to sellers, might
work a great change, r The appli
cant might be required to have tho
written consent of his wife and of
his children over twelve years of
age ; or, if he has no wife, then of
his parents and sisters, who are as
much affected by his drinking as
himself. - It might also be advisa
ble to issue him a license only on
the petition of a majority of his
neighbors, and upon satisfactory
evidence of bis good moral charac
ter, or assurances that he is not
inclined to drunkenness. The li
cense, he might lie required to re
new every six months, and to pres
ent when ordering a drink ; and it
should be revoked for drunkenness.
It might be advisable to make the
licensed drinker carry a bell punch,
which it should be the duty of the
saloon keeper to sound, on selling
him a drink ; and when his drinks
exceed a proper number for the six
months, say five hundred, he should
be entitled to no more for that
time, but his license should instead
be then taken up,' like a used-up
railroad ticket. j .!
But, seriously, j the best work
that can be done against iutemper
auce is iu'restraining tbe youth be
fore they become drinkers. It is
easier to prevent than to cure af?
appetite for liquor, and all persons
must be made drinkers before they
are such. People are born teetota
lers, and -are on tbe right side till
won to wrong. No remedies are
too severe for youths7 protection,
and the State owes every child a
manhood without a ruinous appe
tite. Minors should be forbidden
the saloons, and when found there
should themselves be punished as
well as the saloon keepers. Parents
who will not protect their children,
from drunkenness should forfeit
their guardianship to a house of
correction ; and should they give
them strong drink before their ma
jority, they should be punished
like the saloon keeper. For though
a parent claims the right to do as
tie pleases with- his children, tbe
law whieh restrains him from
cruelty or giving them poisou,can,
on the same principle, restrain him
from any other injury; Restraint
is need mainly in early lire, when
the danger is; for, if one grows to
manhood without appetite, he will
ta rely acquire it afterward, when
his taste is fixed and his character
hardened. It takes much more
drinking to make a drunkard of a
ban than of a child, a fact to be
recognized in temperance work ; so
that those who will not; sign the
pledge for life may often bridge
the chasm by signing for their
minority. It is those who come to
'age drunkards that it is so difficult
to enre. . ; .; ... .
Restraints against drunkenness
might also be profitably laid on our
customs. We have customs of
drink- which do not spring from de
sire, but prevail merely because es
GREENSBORO, N. C, TUESDAY, APRIL .28, 1885.
tablished, and which were due ori
ginally to chance, 1 like the stripes
on a. barbei pole Some of these
customs are social,! others political,
and there is no . real demand or
necessary temptation for . either.
Drinking as a form of fun is super
fluous. t Youth on a carousal can
as easily be satisfied with harmless
amusement music,' hunting, fish
ing, and games of skill. "Bloods"
can find diversions equally as en
tertaining ns drinking without its
danger. Treating, an American
peculiarity, without sense or pleas
ure, l is a practice in which men
drink who don't want to drink, and
pay who don't waut to pay a sac
rifice of both pleasure and fortune
to custom, and wholly in the inter
est of the saloon keepers, who
thereby sell almost as much to those
who don't want to drink as those
who! do. It might profitably be
prohibited by law, until the treaters
and treatees gain sufficient power
of self-go vernmen t to do as they
please.; . But custom can do more
than law in this , matter and every
pledge should contain a clause
against treating.- It is bad enough
to drink when you want to, but to
drink when yon j don't want to is
without excused jit is this kind of
drinking that in all cases makes
drunkards, - since every , one com
mences to drink when he does not
yet like liquors, and it is the re
peated drinking against desire
that develops j the . appetite. By
preventing men from doing what
they don't want to, they need not
be prevented so much from doing
what they want to. ;
Drinking t i parties, banquets,
and New Years' calls is mainly a
form of desireless drinking, which
might all be abolished without in
convenience. The custom can be
superseded by tbe leaders of fash
ion,' whom the rest of the world will
follow as readily, in a harmless as
in a harmful matter. If we abol
ished drinking when it is not want
ed, we. would have little to do in
abolishing it when it is wanted.
Drinking atthe table, where par
ents train their own obildren to
weakness, . is a . most inexcusable
vice. - - No one, know 8 whether one
yet a child is capable of learning to
drink without drinking to excess,
and he cannot tell to what he is train
ing him. All who . become druuk
ards start out to become moderate
drinkers,and the parents who start
them take great risks. There is so
little pleasure in drinkiug before it
becomes a vice, that the moderate
driuker might give it up without
loss ; and all the pleasure that the
judicious drinkers get out of the
cups would be; u small sacrifice to
make to save others from becoming
excessive drinkers.
Our political customs beariug on
drinking might! .all be abolished
without inconvenience to anybody
the customs of saloon campaign
ing of making the saloons politi
cal headquarters, holding meetings
and election there ; of orgauizing
the saloon influence and of treating
as an electioneering practice. Giv
ing liquor for votes should be pun
ished like giving money. The sa
loon now enters politics as about
tbe only move of which it is capa
ble as a whole, j Drunkenness and
politics have come largely to be as
sociated together, and the saloon
is fast becoming our National hust
ings. '; . j ' ' ' I
Temperance may be promoted
also by restraining the liquor trade.
The restraint' may be put on the
manufacture,! the importation or
the sale of drink. All these forms
of prohibition or regulation re in
vogue in different States. Tbe li
quor business can also be taxed out
of existence or out of much of its
danger ; or a like effect can be pro
duced by withdrawing legal pro
tection in all or some of its forms,
as by prohibiting , insurance on in
toxicants. The liquor trade is as
much stimulated by dealers as by
drinkers, the desire for money be
ing as stroug in it as the desire for
drink avarice as appetite.
Much can also be done for tem
perance by furnishing substitutes
for drink. There may be substi
tutes for drink j fur saloons and for
the business. As substitutes for
the drink, coffee, tea, chocolate,
and other exhilarating aud pungent
beverages already . satisfy most
persons, and may be made to satis
fy more. Soda rater, lemonade,
aud like drinks will satisfy roauy
others ; buttermilk has all the ad
vantages usually claimed for beer,
and is fast; becoming 'a popular
American beverage. There is no
end of harmless drinks that might
be made to suit the American taste.
Many' reformers,, acting ' on this
idea of substitute, have proposed
to check whiskj'-driuking by en
couraging beer and wine. The mis
fortune, however, is that these lat
ter naturally induce to excess iu
themselves, and to strouger drinks
than themselves. Americans have
not, like Germain, learned to drink
beer in moderation, or, like! tbe
French, to drink wine . in modera
tion, and they do not seem capable
ot the lesson. Tile excess is what
men usually want in drinking.! To
bacco and perhaps other compara
tively ; harmless stimulants, may
supply all the excitation desired,
and. there is no end of the methods
of tfaiuing by which one may get
in harmless agents and occupations
what the drinker; usually wants in
his cups. .Those who never become
drinkers never feel the need of
drink, so that it does hot satisfy a
natural need,' but only an adventi
tious appetite. i
We need also a substitute for sa
loons ; The saloons are oftei as
attractive as: the drink. Many go
there more to enjoy the associations
than to drink, and many drink
solely because) they are iu the sa
loons. Tbe saloons are part of the
drunkard's appetite. .They are of
ten the only places where strangers
can find , company, and" where one
can always find company . They
are some people's only entrance
into society, (being too high and too
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exclusive for none. There must be
a substitute for the saloons as a
social center, if the people are to
be got out of them something as
attractive lor tne same class, with
all their -advantages and none of
their dangers. These substitutes
may be found in , variety of public
libraries, clubs, political meetings,
labor unions, secret and other socie
ties, church sociables, and popular
amusements. - s
We can promote temperance also
by substituting something for the
liquor business. It pays to make
liquor as well as to sell it, and so
it is made. Whisky is the most
profitable form in which we can
work up our corn. .We want,
therefore, a substitute for this in
dustry. : We have a partial sub
stitute in the manufacture of glu
cose, although men ; cannot eat as
much corn in sweets as they can
drink in whisky and tbe glucose
market is drugged before our corn
is used up. Perhaps the best
use to which we can put corn
is to turn it into hogs instead
of whiskey. Every hog repre
sents a barrel of whiskey, and! is
a drunkard's scape-goat. We
must find, also, a greater for
eign market for our corn. While
ether people are coming here' to
teach us to tlrink their drinks, we
must go abroad to teach them to
eat our corn. In other words, a
good substitute lor drinking whis
ky is to eat it. j i. !
We have said that the remedies
for drunkenness are restraints, sub
stitutes and cures. It remains1 to
say a word about cures. Intern
perauce may. be treated as a dis
ease. Many medicines ' are pre
scribed to take away the taste for
liquor. How far they are efficaci
ous is an open question. Dieting
often removes the. craving for
strong drink. The seclusion of an
asylum, which forcibly deprives
men o'f stimulants for a time, teaches
many their ability to do without
them. Some have been cured of
drunkenness by a term in the pen
itentiary ; some, by taking a pledge
for six mouth 8, which they could
not have kept if taken for a life
time, have learned in those six
months that they could abstain
from drink, and on the expiration
of that term have not returned to
their cupsi This temporary absti
nence is one ot the chief advantages
of inebriate asylums, j ; j
Evxry One Should Walk.
Every healthy person, man or
woman, should be a good walker,
able at any time to walk six to
twelve 'miles, a day at least, and
doublethatwhengraduallybroughtrfinen.se area of the
up to it.- iue points 10 ue atteuu
ed are to see that the Walk be brisk
and vigorous, not of a loitering or
dangling kind ; that there tie some
object in the walk besides it being
a routine constitutional, and, if
possible, in pleasant company ;
that there be no tight clothing,
whether for the feet or the body,
which will constrain or impede the
natural movements of the! limbs
and trunk, and that tkfe walk be
taken as far as possible in -the
fresh country air. In regard to
the latter particular,' although
towns are increasing so rapidly as
to make it almost a journey to get
out of them on foot, ! still we have
so many suburban tramways and
railway lines that in a few miuutes
we can find ourselves in the coun
try, where the air is fresh and pure.
Whenever an opportunity presents
itself for a little climbing in the
course of a" walk it should be
taken advantage of. We gain varie
ty of muscular action, as well as
increase the exertion, and we get
into regions of purer air and fresh
er breeze at the same time, j What
may be considered ! as the weak
point in walking as a 'mode of exer
cise is the comparatively small
play which it gives to the muscles
of the shoulders and chest, while
it is still less for those of the arm.
This should be compensated for by
the use of light dumb bells or In
dian clubs, I or some other form of
exercise which brings in play the
arms and shoulders. One "of the
forms of exercise which requires
the action ! of the muscles of the
arms and shoulders, as well as
those of tho trunk and legs, is
swimming. This, I however, for
many reasons, cannot be used as a
'means of exercise except b) a few,
and at certain seasons of tbe year,
but where possible it should al
ways be practiced. ( The great pity
is that boys and girls do not learn
it while at school. Every large
town should be well supplied with
swimming baths, and if it could be
made compulsory for scholars at a
certain age, say twelve, to leain to
swim, it would be a great advan
tage to all,1 and also be the means
of saving many lives. ,
Odelet on Spring.
IBrooklya Earfa.
' Hail, Aperial! i
In severial
Stanzas J hail ! O month imperial
TAh. well.
The brush pile in my neighbor's
dell ; !
I greet -The
sweet '
Scent of the burning boots in bonfire
iq the street.
Iglans
A8kans
At the empty cans -Flunginto
my yard by tbe neighbor
. ingclans.
Old bones,
Which nobody owns ;
And ucraps of tin,
: And shattered barrels with heads
I cave in, . j; .
I And cast off garments, vile'as sin,
These lines my path with a nameless
I ., fear. - - ;
-Things you can see with your nose ;
loud smell that you can hear ; -1
- Tell me, in numbers more or less
; clear, .; r : .j'
That Spring is here,' j j
" Right on thi) mudane sphere.
A fair akin very often covers a
crooked mind. Olaus Von Dalin.
How Continents Form and Disappear.
The student of history reads of
the great sea fight with King Ed
ward III. fought with the French
off Slays; bow in those days the
merchant vessels came up to the
walls ot that flourishing seaport by
every title,: and. a century later, a
Portuguese fleet conveyed Isabella
la, from Libson, and an English
fleet brought Margaret of York
from the Thames ;. to marry succes
si ve dukes of Burgundy at the port
of aiuys. - In our time if a modern
traveler drives twelve miles out of
B urges, across the Dutch frontier
he will find a small agricultural
town surrounded by cornfields and
meadows and clumps of trees,
whence tbe sea is not in sight from
the top of the town-hail steeple.
This is Sluys. ;
We turn now to the great Bale
du Mont St. Michel, between Nor
mandy and Brittanj'. In Roman
authors we read of the vast forest
called "Setiacum Nemus," in the
center of which an isolated rock
arose, surmounted by a temple of
Jupiter, ouce a college of Druides
ses. Now, the same rock, with : its
glorious pile dedicated to St. Mich
ael, is surrounded , by the sea at
high tides.. The story of this trans
formation is even more striking
than that of Sluys, and its adequate
narration justly earned for M.
Manet the gold medal of the French
Geographical society in 1828.
Let us turn for a -moment to the
Mediterranean shores of Spain and
the mountains of. Murcia. Those
rocky heights, whose peaks stand
out against the deep blue sky.
scarcely support a blade of vegeta
tiou. The algarobas and olives at
tl'eir bases are artificially supplied
with sou. It is scarcely credible
that these are the same mountains
which, according to the forest book
of King Alfronso el Sabio, were
once clothed to their summits with
pines and other forest trees, while
soft clounds aud mist hung over ' a
rounOed, j shaggy outline of wood
where now the naked rocks make a
bard line agaiust the, burnished
sky. Bat Arab and Spanish! chron
iclers alike record the - facts, and,
geographical science explains the
cause. 'There is scarcely a district
in the whole range in the civilized
world where some equally interest
ing geographical story has riot been
recorded: and where the same val
uable lessons may not be taught.
This is comparative geography.
Capt. L. U. Herandeen, who has
spent years in sailing the Pacific,
relates facts that he had observed.
which tend to prove the theory set
forth by Dana that there is! an im-
Pacific ocean
bed, lying under tbe equator, about
6,000 miles iu length and about
3,000 in breadth, that ! has been
gradually sinking lower and lower
for thousands of years.; The first
thing that called the : attention of
scientific men to this fact was the
formation of the innumerable atolls
and barrier reef in that part of the
Pacific oceaui They found on the
outskirts of this area that there
were islands fringed with coral
reefs. - ' " ' " 'i
As they sailed p-ist these beau
tiful islands they Raw other islands
with a barrier circling-them. A
coral reef a few feet below the sur
face of the water girdled the island
at a distance from it varying from
a half to thirty miles, and whose
presence was marked by a ring of
suowy loam inaue by tue breakers.
As they penetrated farther into the
region of the sea they came upon
atolls, which are formed by circles
of coral enclosing a smooth sheet of
water. These lagoons were found
to vary in diameter from thirty
miles or more to only a few feet,
but corals do not build their reefs
at a greater; depth than a hundred
feet, and yet by sounding these
singular reefs in the Pacific ocean
it was found that the coral reached
as far as the fathom line went.
The conclusion of scientific men
was that the bed of the ocean-was
gradually sinking, aud- thatJ the
corals begau to build fringing reefs
on the islands, and as tbe land
sank, the corals kept steadily at
work building up as fast as; the
land went down. As the land dis
appeared, the fringing reefs became
atolls or circles of coral nuclosiiig a
calm lagoon It was found that
the reefs below a hundred feet are
dead, and it is inferred that at a
lower depth than that the corals
were killed by cold. This is the
tho generally accepted theory in
regard to the subsidence of; the
Pacific. - A few'years ago I stopped
at Pouynipete Island, in the; Pa
cific, in east longitude 158 22', and
north latitude CO3 50'. Tbe island
is surrounded by a reef, with a
broadship channel between it and
the island. j ' ; i
"At places in the reef there were
natural breaks, that served as en
trances to ' the harbors. . In these
ship channels there were a number
of islands, niauy of which were sur
rouuded by a wall . of stone five or
six feet high, and on these islands
there stood a great many low
houses, built of tbe sifme kind of
stone as-the walls about them.
These structures -seem to have
been used as temples and forts.
The ! singular feature of these
islands is that the walls are a foot
or more below the water. When
they were built they were evident
ly above the water and connected
with the main land, but they have
gradnally sunk until the ; sea has
risen a foot or more around them.
The natives on the island do not
know when these works were built ;'
it is so far back in the past that
they have even no tradition of the
structures. Yet the works anov
signs of great, skill, and certainly
Erove that whoever built them;
new thoroughly how to transport
and lift heavy blocks of stone. Up
in the mountains of the island there
is a auarrv of the same kind of
stone that was used in building the
wall about the islands, and in that
quarry to day there are great blocks
of stone that have been hevn out
ready for transportation. ; The na
fives have! no tradition touching
the! quarry. There is no doubt
that the island was once inhabited
by an intelligent race of people.
who built the temples : and forts ot
heavy masonry on , the high bluffs
of the island, and that as the land
gradually subsided these bluffs be
came islands." ... :.
V- f-f;. Msitnatlous for Women.
; " It is with pleasure thatfwo daily
read of tho success of women in
tilling various offices of trust land
responsibility. Throughout I the
South this feeling of interest seems
to be strengthened,- and we hope
the day is not far distant when the
talent and. energy of the sexwill
have ajfair field, for its full scope
of action. ; ' -'' ' r
Virginia presents as yet but one
instance of a lady clerk in. a State
department, and the duties of that
office have been discharged to the
highest satisfaction of all interest
ed.; Women ate tired of the needle;
give them the pen awhile, and: see
if thefr efficiency in this line of ac
tion will not reflect greater credit
upon their performances. .
In Georgia a portion of the work
of preparing bills" for the Legisla
ture is discharged mostly by, wo
men, and improvement is already
apparent. Arkansas employs' this
sex as! legislative clerks, ' and the
State library is in charge of a lady
elected by the Legislature in a true
spirit bf chivalry. And now the
Loiie! SUr7 State compels; the
heads (of the departments to em
ploy women to transact half the
business of their respective offices.
Four girls are pages in the Kausas
Honse; of Representatives, and one
of the same set fills the position of
docket clerk. Give our women
more work of this kind, and let the
young, strong, healthy men 1 seek
more robust employment.
The havoc of . war left so many
widows and orphans in our land,
whose! hard struggle for a liveli
hood lias tteen scantily repaid, and
and itBs time we arouse ourselves
to a sense of justice, and see that
there is some amelioration of tho
wrong. ' b rule, women are more
accommodating, . patient, faithful
and conscientious in the perfor
mance! of duty, and it can not be for
a ! moment imagined that their
scruples of honesty are not nicer
and quicker. I
Thousands of Southern women
are now in a state of comparative
destitution, who -are ready and
anxious to engage in any species
of, honorable employment, that will
enable them to administer to the
needs !of their helpless families.
Where; domestic labor, sewing
and sc'iool teaching were formerly
the only employments open to wo
men, there now hundreds of honor
able locations available to them,
all of! which they are capable of
filling; most acceptably. I
Poisons and Antidotes, i
I Chambers' Journal. 1
Umler the head of corrosives,
corrosive sublimate stands foremost
in importance, beiug the most ty pi
cal of this class. The .effects are
rapid; in their development! being
well marked by a burning sensa
tiou felt in the month and throat,
followed by agonizing pain in the
stomach. The tongue aud throat
have fa white appearance, and ex
cessive tenderness and swelling of
at fLl l ? A? Llj All
tue aouomen is noticeaoie. ah
authorities agree in recommending
albumen in the form of raw eggs
both yelk and ; white switched "up
with a little water, as the best an
tidote in cases of acute poisoning
from fcorrosive sublimate. The al
bumen combines with the corrosive
sublimate to form an insoluble and
comparatively : inert compound.
Should eggs not be . immediately
obtainable, gluten obtain' from
flouri or wheat flour alone mixed
withfmilk or water, may be given
until the more reliable antidote is
ready. (The chief ot the corrosive
poisons are the mineral acids, sul
phuric, j nitric and hydrochloric ;
the vegetable acids, oxalic, binoxa
late I of I potash, (couimonlyj called
salt of lemon and salt of sorrel,)
and occasionally in large doses tar
taric acid; the alkalies, tpotasb,
soda and ammonia, with certain of
their salts, such as pearl ash, (com
monly called salt of tartar,) carbon
ate bf ammonia: also various me
talllie compounds, including salts
of zjnc,, tin, silver aud antimony,
;&c. Poisoning by oxalic acid is a
very common method chosen by
would-be suicides, probably owing
to the fact that it is a substance
much used iu household operations,
aht therefore readily obtainable by
any one bent on committing sui
cide. In speaking of the action of
thi poison, that renowned author
ity the late Sir Robert Christisou,
observes in his splendid work on
toxicology : "'If a person immedi
ately, after swallowing af solution
of n crystalline salt which tasted
purely and strongly acid, is attack
ed, with burning in tbe throat, then
with burning in the stomach, vom
iting, particularly of blooded mat
tef, imperceptible : pulse,'; and ex
cessive languor, and dies iu half an
hour or 20 minutes, or still more iu
10 or 15 minutes, I do not know
any. fallacy which can ; interfere
with the conclusion that oxalic acid
was iue cause oi ueatu. f - .
. a .
Enough to Begin With.
Texas Siftings.- !
Wilson Candless, one of the most
no vertv striken vounsr men of Gal
veston, applied to Col. Richley for
the hand of his daughter.!;
f In the first place I've sent in my
application to President Cleveland
for a position in one of the depart
ments.". V.: , . ?.';:
I "Have you any other resources!"
asked the. prospective fatherin
law. - '. ; . I -
I "You bet I have. I'm seriously
thinking about giving np sin ok-
ihg." - .... . -. -
?Pa !" exclaimed the young lady,
"that's enough for us to begin with,
ain't it T - ' r .
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Edit,
i to.
i The mffl&ts nJUnd,
r The march Spd. Zoroaster
is slow-Bion. Tyrto3a.;
A great mind becomejn j
fortune. Seneca. ;
, A vacant mind is an invitation
to vice. 1 Gilpn.1 ; : ; : W r
We live not in body bat in
mind.' Speusippas. v ' - - !
' A good mind is a kingdom in
itself. B." Leigh ton. ,-4 i .
i Tbe mind only. is true wealth.
Adolph of Nassan. . , , J
''The best empire is the empire
of the mind. Julian. , i
It is the mind that ennoblesL
not the blood. Vega. '
The mind to the soul' is as the
eye to the body. Bias. ' , . ; i
It is through the mind the man
knoweth God. Theurgis. ' :-l
As sight ia in the eye. so is the
mind in the soul. Sophocles. " , .J
lie that doubts the. existence
of mind, by doubting, proves it.
Coltonr r '
1 The beauty of the mind is more
lovely : than that " of l- the body,--Socrate8..
.j -a: hi- ku ,i:
t r
Wise men are chiefly captivat
ed with the. charms of the mind.
S. Croxall. !'.,r '.. "' 1 :
Judge not- the mind" by the
shape of the ' body. Antoinette
Bourignom : ' ' ' I.
The mind grows narrow in pro
portion as the soul grows corrupt.
Rousseau. ! j
The sufferings of the mind are
more severe than the pains of the
body. CiceroT U-7-- ' r-f ' f '' :'Tf
A man may know his own :
mind, and still not know a great
deal. E. P. Day. , ; ;
The mindi wears the colors of :
he soul, as a. valet those, of .his
master. Mme. S wetchine. . " y ' i !
in itself can -make heaven Of hell
hell of heaven.-Milton. - ' .-;
In a firm mind there is always
bund an nnchanged , countcoauce t
for good and evil. Calderon. . I . i
We measure minds by their
stature ; it would be better to es :
teem them by their beauty. Jou
bert. : ' ' . " VT:Tf '
The common mind is the true V
Parian marblei fit to be wrought
into likeness to a god-G. Ban
croft. ....41; .- -.'' . . .1
Great minds lower, instead
of
elevate, those who do not know
bow to support them. Itochefou-
cauld. . -: !'---::.
A mind, by knowing itself, and
its own proper powers and values,
becomes free ana independent. o.
Deane. T: ! .1 ' '.. i
We in vaiii summon the mind
to intense application, when the
bod is in a languid state. Corne-
ms Gallus. I ,,): Ai-i ;
The mind does not know what
diet it can feed on until it has been
brought to the starvation point
O. W. Holmes. . ! ..If
The mind is nothing less thau
gardeu of I iuestimable value
which man should strive to culti
vate. Downey, ,, j j :
Every great mi nil, seeks to j la
bor for eternity, ana alone is ex
cited by the j-prospect of distant
good. Schiller. .
Old minds are like old horses;
yon must exercise them if yon wish
to keep them in working order.
John Adams. fi r; !
The mind and memory are more
sharply exercised in comprehend
ing another man's things than oar
own. Ben Johnson.;. , . . , !i f ;
As the minds must govern :tle
hand8,-80 in every society the man!
1 A. 'u 'a. 11:1
oi intelligence must uirect tue man i
of labor. Dr. Johnson., ; : "
Mind is the brightness of the;
body lights it, when strength: its
proper but less subtle fire, begins
tn fall T -S: ITtinwrltiu. iff
S. Kuowles.
w a. a a a
An Eye for Basiness.
Ohicago Herald.
"Wife," said a Chicago basiness
man, "pack up my grip I'm going
to Washington." , " ri ; i
"Not after an office. I hope:
James!" 1 VV'' '! ;: u -A
"No, indeed. Life isj too shortij
But I've read - in , the 'paper, that
next fall the administration ex-'
pects another grand rash of office
seekers."' ). f ji
"What hate you got to do-; with"
that."
J'
"Everything. You know , that
barbed wire that I'm handling.' It's
just ' the thing for', Washington.
Every cabinet officer,' Senator and
Congressman will want some of it
around his yard so that the office
hunters can't sit on the fence early
in the morning. -waiting for 'em to
get up. Bet you a fiver that' I sell
a train-load of No. 1. - wire in three
days." . 1 t , ' f ; -.j; j
How a Woman Plays Cards.
- Who8e play is itV I
Whetook that trick !" j)
"What's trumps !" 1 !
! "What was the lead !"
"Whose fee is that T"
Did I take that!"
What's trumps r
"Is it my play !"
That'8 the left bower,-isn't It !7?.
"Is that mine T77 -M
"Haven't you got a club !"
"What's trumps!" "
"Did they euchre us !"
"Whose deal is it !"
j
, - The Month for IVovers.
Clara (sliyly) Of all the months
of the yeari George, dear, which do
you think is the happiest one for
lovers!. ' j ' II ""-j; '
George ot a thrifty nature)-r
May is the; happiest because it is
tbe cheapest. .. :- ! - -:":'4 .- H; '
' Clara Cheapest ! How ! I !
Georges-It is too late in the sea
son for oysters add too early. for ice
cream.:- i, ''1- v!;r
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