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A Dream of Life.
I built me it vi-sl long yearn rro, j
And I fitted it out Ilk the galleys of old;
It khIU were um white as the frenh fallen
HIlOW,
Ami it Ihiws w-n rfh'tni nl with crimson
und gold,
It bulwarks were firm, and it uiasU strong
und tall,
And a guy colored pennon on high was
preail ;
The b-a6uty of Youth lent a clmrin to it all,
And an Image of Hoi was its proud figure
head, i
1 launched it one morn in th: Hjirlnp of the
year, ,
When the brczn were low and the sunbeams
were bright,'
And I, in the pride of my youth, had no lrar
Of the Ntruuffth of the wuveb, or the glo,m of
the night.
I dreauifed of the riches my galley would
bring
Kroin the lands were no bark had been ever
before ;
lut the hutnmer puhsi1 by, and upring wore
- round to HprliiK.
And my vchkpI returned not, ulan, to the
Hhore !
V
At length cue dark autumn it came back u
me,
Hut lu truiitH were all broken, 1U Wwh wre
bare;
Ii bulwarkh were covered with growth of th"
A nd the figure of Hop was no longer tin-re;
Willie it brought me. for freight but the drift
of he wa e,
Hie sea foam and weeds that had laid in it
' l'n; ,
And I mournfully niched aj I gazod on the
grave
of the dreams that were bright when life's
heartbeat was wtroiiK.
('iiaki.km A. CI.OSK, in London (Jraphic.
Chalk Your Owri Door."
His proper name was Jeremiah Mar
1 n ; but he had not been in the vil
lus
e a week before everybody called
n Jerry Marden, and within six 1
him
weeks he was known 'as Jerry Mud- i
dU-r. But why Muddler? Who gave I
him that name, and why was it given? '
The giver is unknown-for who ever 1
i
knows the iriver of nicknames ?-hut '
the reason for its being bestowed was
that Jerry was always muddled with
drink.
He was a very good shoemaker, but
he stood no chance with George Stev
ens, a .-.ober man, and so driftel into
becoming ii cobbler.
Merry's one idea was to get a job, and
having done it, to invest the proceeds
in drink at his favorite beer shop,
4f The Grain Arms." The consequence
was, that Jerry was seldom sober, and
had he not possessed an iron constitu
tion, two years of such a life must
have killed him; but he dragged on,
working to-day andYlling to-morrow,
and drinking whenever drink could
be got, ami finally he drifted into
debt.
His score at 44 The Oram Arms " was
a large one, and the chalks stood up
against him like tiles of soldiers, but
.Jerry ignored their existence paying
otla little now ami then, and drinking
more,' each time increasing the army
of debt against him, until one evening
Mr. Richard Rewitt, the landlord of
the aforesaid 44 Oram Arms," cried
"halt."
44 1 can't go oil any longer, Jerry,"
he said. 44 The last sum I had of you
was three, shillings, and you have paid
nothing for a fortnight."
".'Work is slack,"' 'murmured Jerry,
"but the harvest is coining on, and
then everybody will have their! soling
and heeling done, and I shall be- able
to pay you otlV
" l'erliaps so," returned Mr. Rewitt,
" but you will have as much as you
can do to square oil" what, is Hp. there.
Look at tflein. Those chalks are a
standing disgrace to any man. You
ought to be ashamed of yourself."
Jerry looked at the accusing marks,
and real,ly felt aghast at the long list
against him. No spider courtesly en
treating' a lly to enter into his parlor,
could have been more oily-tongued or
ami led a more persuasive smile -that is
presuming that spulfrs ido smile, whtch
is just jossible, but when Jerry got into
the toils, and had been well confined
in the web, mine host, put on another
face and tone.
" If you drink," he said, "voir must
expect to pay for it. My brewer would
stand no nonsense from me, and I must
have my money from you."
" Onlv one pint," pleaded KKr Jer-
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44 Not half a pint," replied the land
lord. Go home and work, ami pay
your debts like a man."
The entrance of a customer with
ready money cut short the coil versa-
tion, and Jerrv stood back a pace or
two while the other was being served.
When that was .done, and the beer
drunk, and the stranger gone, Jerry
made a final appeal. .
44 I've hecii' good customer to you,
Mr. Rewitt. Almost every penny I've
earned has e.i.i into vour till. I've
nitfh lived on beer, if living it can be
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called', and my wife and children' "Go and see him," -suggested his
have had to shift how they could for ;wife. j
bread' ; " I intend to do so. Here, give me. j
"That's nothing to me," said the ' ur Tom's boots; they want a patch j
landlord. ' on the side, and it will bean excuse forj
" Let me have one pint." i my dropping in upon him." M
44 Have you the impudence to ask i
for it with that shameful lot of chalks ;
staring you in the face?"
Tt-rrv ilirl tint renlv hut he tok a
long and earnest look at the recording i
isi ... . i i ls. i
nies, aim urawiut ms umiu aerus ins
dry mouth, hunted out of 44 The Oram ;
Arm-." j
44 Who is that you've been talking
to, Richard?" inquired Mrs. Rewitt. i
entering the bar from a room behind.
44 Jerry Muddler," was the reply. !
4 I've stopped his drink until he pays !
up.
44 Then he will go to 4 The Green
G(H)se,' and get his drink there," said I
" i .ilt j
"Thev won't trust him a oennv " i
returned ,er b,mVm,wl with crrin-l
" he's tried it on and failed, and so I've !
got him. If he does not pay up I'll !
uake him." i
O 'Pli.l-o'j tw.tl.iln t. Iw rrrt ..ill !
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that house," said Mrs. Rewitt, shaking i
her head; I've heard that there's not
a chair for them to sit down upon ; and
Jerry's wife clean and tidy manages
to keep herself looks more like a skel
eton than a woman ; and an, for the
children they look as ravenous as
wolves at the dinner coming from the
bake-house." ,
44 That's Jerry's " lookout," replied
Mr. Rewitt, eooly. 44 If he can't afford
it, he shouldn't drink."
The subject was dismissed, and Jer
ry forgotten in the noise and bustle of
the Usual evening business. About
nilie o'clock Jerry's wife, to the aston-
i"eiU of both Mr. Rewitt and his
wife- appeared in the bar; but not, as
tht.v supposed, for drink.
" MJ uad tells me," she said,
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." tt vy score nere. now
much is it?"
44 I'm almost too busy to tell you,"
replied the landlord, 44 but if it is press
ing I will reckon it up."
44 It is pressing, and I shall be very
thankful if you will let me know at
once what it is," returned the poor
woman, who was indeed wan and pale.
ami almost justified the title of 44 skel-
ton," which Mrs. Ituwitt had given
her.
The landlord went through the
chalks twice, and finally announced
that Jerry was indebted to him to the
amount of two pounds, seventeen shil
lings. and tour-pence, halfpenny. Jer
ry's wife received the announcement
with a look of quiet dismay, thanked
the landlord and left the house.
44 1 suppose she is thinking of mak
ing an effort to pay it ofT," said Mr.
Rewitt, addressing his better half,
44 and I hope she will ; but I fancy it
will be a little too much for her."
For a whole week nothing was ' seen
or heard of Jerry ; but at the end of
that time his wife appeared and put
down five shillings on the counter.
44 Will you please take that ofl" the
amount, sir,'' said she, 44 and give me
a receipts"
This was done with a gracious smile,
and Jerry's wife departed. Mr. Rewitt
announced his having hit the right
nail on tjie head. The wife of the cob
bler was making an effort to clear off
her husband's debt.
At the! end of another week a sec
ond five shilling was paid, and then
harvest came on truly a harvest to the
agricultural laborer, as at that time he
gathers in clothes, and whatever
necessaries , his harvest money will
enable, him to procure. All the little
tradesmen in the village were busy,
and rven Jerry was rejorted to be full
handed, liut he did not come near
K" The Oram Arms " for a drink.
On the third week Jerry's wife
brought ten shillings, and on the i lloi showed what I did drink, and
fourth, fifteen, to the great joy and sat- i them marks on nunc show what I
isfaction of Mr. Rewitt, whose joy, j donU drink."
however, was alloyed by the fear that I A little light had got into the land
he had lost a good customer. He re- lord's brain, and he had a pretty good
solved to look up Jerry as soon as an- idea of what was coming, but he said
other installment of this account was nthing.
paid. " That night when you spoke to me
Nothing was brought for a fortnight,'. ; about the chalks on the door being a
and the Jandlord congratulated him- standing disgrace to me, -was the night
self uiHin not having hastily sought ; of my waking,' continued Jerry,
his absent customer, who still owed " No man could have lectured me bJt
him over a pound, but the appearance ter than you did, and I thank you for it
of Jerry's wife with the balance had from the. bottom of mv heart. As I
the eflect of making him think other-
wise, mere was no display in putting
down the money it was quietly done
but the happy light in the woman's
eyes when she took the receipt, spoke
more man mere woru or actions.
"I have been --hasty with Jerry,"
said Mr. Rewitt, when another whole
moiith had elapsed without Jerry ap-
pearing ; 44 he promised to pay at" har-
vest time, and he did it; but I have
attended him, and "The Green Got we"
ha. caught his custom.
hat i"Ut much, otajobfor him,
seeing mat you give oeorge Stevens ,
the best of the work'" said Mrs. Hew- j
lU- I
"f1 'k ,bettr than Jerr' " I
renhed the husband : 44 vou can always
trust him to do his work when it is
promised, but Jerry keeps the things
. v !
for weeks together."
of loots that I want new fronts, and V
' ;
l can wait a wees or two. lake
them."
44 I'll take both," said Richard Rew
itt; 44 nothing like baiting your hook
,l"
Armed for the reconquest of Jerry
'''uu u. ...u, uu.g
tbat Tlg the slack time when he
Mt , be easiI 8retl, ,from honi;-
vuihiue were a coupie oi loaiers, wun
no money and no credit, who touched
their hats to 1 im. Mr! Rewitt fa-
vored them with a nod of loftv indif-
ference
Jerry's cottage was in the middle of
thei little village, standing back about
fifty feet from the road ;" and aUhough
its ' inside poverty had been well
known, the outside, thanks to his wife,
looked quite as well as its neighbors.
Therefore Mr. Rewitt was not in the
least surprised to see that it looked
bright and gay bn that beautiful au
tumn rnorning.
As he annroached the door, he heard ! 1
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the sound of Jerry's hammer upon the !
lapstone, and, to Iih utter amazement, 1
the voice of Jerry carolling a cheerful j
ditty, as unlike the cracked efforts he
used occasionally to come out with in
the taproom as the song of the raven, j
Raising the latch, the landlord of J
44 Tin. Oram Arms " peeped in. j
4 v Good morning, Jerry," he said.
" Ah ! is that you, Mr. Rewitt?" re
plied Jerry looking up. 44 Come in."
Jerry looked wondrous clean, and
had even been shaved that very morn
ing. His blue shirt looked clean, too, ;
and he actually had a collar oh.
Mr4 Rewitt was so overcome by the
change that he stood still with the;
boots under his arm, forgetting that !
they formed part of his mission.
44 You look very well, Jerry," he j
said at last. i
44 Never felt better in my life, 7 re- !
plied Jerry. 44 I wish, sir, I could say
tt e same of you. You look whitish." !
44 I've got a bit of a cold," replied
the other, 44 and I've been shut up a j
good deal with business lately. Trade's '
been brisk; but how is it we've not j
seen vou?" fJ
" Well the fact is, sir," said Jerry,
rubbing his chin, 44 I've been busy j
working off your score." j
44 But it is done, man," said Mr. Rew- I
i
itt, cheerfully ; 44 the door is quite
clean, as far as you are concerned."
44 I am glad of that."
44 Others have got their share," said
the landlord, facetiously ; 44 but I think
we could make room for you, .if you
look us up."
44 No, thanky, sir," returned Jerry.
44 1 've had enough of chalking on
other people's doors, and now I chalk
on my own."
44 Yes, air ; have the gbodiuss to
turn around and look behind you.
There's my door half full."
44 It's a wise thing to keep account
yourself," said the landlord, win hard
ly knew what to make of it." for mis
takes will happen ; but "
" Nonistake can happen sir; inter
rupted Jerry, "for I am the only party
as keeps that account."
44 Rut who trusts you to do that?"
''Nobody I trusts myself," replied
Jerrv. 44 The marks that were on vour
'left your house I vowed to touch or
drink no more, and I came home ami
told my wife so, ami we both joined in
earnest prayer that I might have
strength to keep my vow
The next
morning i went over to oorge Stev-
ens and aked him. how I could .go
about signing the pledge. He helped
me like a man and it was done."'
. With his eyes wandering too and fro
between Jerry and the chalks upon
the door, the amazed landlord still
remained silent. Jerry went on :
-"My wife wanted to work hen-elf.
to death to keep me," he said ; ." but I
x. You do what you can to
t:e children until my debts are
j,ai,it all(3 then I"ll keep you and the
ehil ,reii,i too.' So 1 went t. work.
paying right
and left : and when all
was pai,j
oft", I began to do wbat I
ought to have done years ago-fVe i my
wifV md children ' I 1,1 wum r, ., :
to spare, and I wuild have spent some
..i . , , ..
wun vouj Aim manv-s ineume 1 ve
been tempted to .eoine and I'm
lemnteu still, hut when the lee lmr
x
i
jy n fl tea, .uts tuojK-nce. into the
i ve got on purpose, and scores a
oox i v
chalk on the door All of them chalks
are so niahy temptations and so many
twopence saved."
"Mr. Rewitt was unable to make
a; y particular remarks; but he unir
mured in u confused manm-r,
41 You've got a lot of 'em."
44 Yes, there'
a large family," re
plied Jerry, complacently, 44 and the
more I loukes at 'em the. better I likes
'em. There's not much standing dis
grace about that lot; credit if any
thing,"
" Oh
j '
visves" returned the land- !
lord, 44 but dear me this cold in mv
head is quite distressing. You must
have a large box for all' your two
penees."
44 When r gets together T takes them
to the pqst ollice," replied Jerry ;
"There's a bank there better than any
till. They give nothing out, but banks
like that returns you more than vou
Until I began to keep my own
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cnuiKS i iitm no mea, now mn-n your
till swallowed' up. You would not
trust me for a pint ; but I can have my
money out of the bank- whenever I
want it." j
"That's something," said Mr. Re
witt, tartly.
"It is everything to a nnugwho has a
wife and children to keep,"- replied
Jerry. 44 The best of us have sickness
and trouble and rainy days, and then
it's a great thing to have something to
j fall back upon. It is better to be able
to keep yourself than to go to the par
ish. ; Ther's another thing, too, about
these chalks of mine yours went down
before my wife and children were .fed :
mine go down after that's done ; and I
think that iny chalks are the better of
the two. So I say to nil, 'Chalk your
own door.' j"
Mr. Rewitt had "nothing to say; he
could not deny and he would Hot ad
mit it, but took refuge like other beaten
nu n in flight. With the boots under
his arm he hastened home, and pre
sented himself before his wife in a
rather excited condition. -
"What is' the matter, Richard?" she
asked. j
44 Nothing particular," he replied,
"except that Jerry Muddler has joined
the temperance lot, and he seems so
firm in it that I don't believe he vill
ever touch a drop again."
Mr. Richard Rewitt, of "The Oram
Arms," was right. And Jerry, who
bears the namcef Muddler no longer.
.
strong drink from the day of his refor
mation to jthis. His 'door ha.- been
filled agaiij and again with the score,
which lie records in hisown favor; and
the beer hj- .has not drunk is every
where around him in the form of a
comfortable, home, a respectable a mount
- ' i .
in the savings bank, and goodly in ve-t-
ment in a building society. V rhinu
fiftt sf(irnti which, being freely inter
preted, means, "A word to you.my
reader, is sufficient." Chalk your own
door." 77ci llritliih Workman. .
Egypt's Scattered Obelisks.
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Thirty njn-lisks transported from
Kgypt froimtime totimeare now stand
ing in various parts of Kurope. Of
these tlurej are in Home c!fvfii, ?'
which four jure higher than the New
York obelisk. The highest of these,
and the highest in Kuroj-. being loo
feet without; the base, stands before the
Church of "St. John Lateran. Theobe
lisk in the piaza of St. Peter's is
feet 5 ilichef high. Both of these are
mounted onjhigh jedestals. Theped-
estaTof the St. John Lateran obeli-k'is
44 feet high.
making the entire height
of obeli-k ami ptl-tal l"'tfe t
The
pedestal of t
tjhe St. lVter's obeli-k i- a
trifle less than-Vfe-t high, making the
whole height of the monuim-ht 1"- feet
'1 inches. IfiComihandt-r
ornrigi ha-
brouglit with him "the entire
pedestal
on which New York obelisk -t.l
at Alexandria about the same proi-.r-
tiolis will be observed
a- 1 1 i sh tif t be
St. John Lateran
of the former beii
its oleli-:k .s. f,.t.j
whole heighi of o
the jwshtal
Lr 'T feet 1 inch, ami
I inche, making the
r obelisk L feet.
but is called by that to which he is en- or over dead animals, it prevents any
titled by right of birth, viz., that of unpleasant odor. Foul water is puri
Marden. has not touched a dni of ' tied by it. It is a great' disinfectant.
A Curious Fact about Bread.
A Paris correspondent call attention,
to a curious fact alout bread, in a letter
to a New Orleans jiaper. He siys:
" Iid you know that bread is not only
eaten, but eat.-? Darwin has told us
that some flowers eniov a iortcr-hbuse
"teak. I he discovery h interesting
dysi.ej.ties. for bread can be made to d
;pep
the work of the alimentary canal and
relieve dyspeptics 'of all lxther except
mere deglutition -and ocourse pay mg
the baker's bill, which is harder work
than digestion. Scicnceh:is since found
that several vegetable juices, or saps,
dissolve incut.' but M. S heurcr Kestner
is the fiit person who observed that in
the proctss of bread making a peculiar
fermentation takes place which pro
duces complete digestion of meat. A
beefsteak hashed fine and mixed with
doutrh' containinir veast 1 i
loutrn containinir vcasi ois ui pears en-
tin ly by the time the bread is taken
from the oven. The steak's nutritive
principles are dissolved and incorjKV
rated into the bread. Not the least cu
rious phenomenon noticed in these
cili umstances is that meat, which so
rapidlv becomes putrid, when once in-
coftporaled into bread, may kept
lonirer
than ordi-narv , bread lJread
made in IsT.'i has been shown in the
Academy of Science-; it was as sweet
and free from mold as when it first
came out of theoyen. At first "M. Seheu- '
rer Kestmr used raw meat; he mixed
one and one-tenth pounds of flour, one
pound of leaven and three-fourths of a
p'fmnd of raw beef minced fine; water
in sufficient quantiiy was added, and
.the dough was left to ferment. In two
or- three hours the meat had disap
peared. The bread was then baked as
usual. This meat bread had a disagree
alttsour taste. To remove it m . Scheu
rerlvestner first boiled the meat in just
the quantity of water necessary to wet
the flour, aiul used this water in knead
ing. The meat should be rid of all fat.
and only salt enough to season the
bread added; for if salt be added the
bread will become. humid (salt being a
great absorber of water) and spoil.
Theobjeetion to this bread is that it is
insipid. If bacon be used instead of
beef the objection is removed. Veal,
too, makes a delicious meat bread.
All these breads may be Used to make
soup. Cut into slices oife-s.ixlh of a
pound of this bread, put the slices in a
: quart of waiter, salt to taste, and boil
for twenty minutes."
Charcoal and its Uses.
The following, taken from a contem
porary, will be of inteiv-t not only to
the correspondent who inserted a query
in this journal re-pecting the Uses of
charcoal, but also to man v of our, readers.
( 'harcoal, laid flat while cold on-a burn
. causes the pain to abate immediately;
by leaving it en for an luur thexhurn
seems almost healed wheii the burn is
supeflicial. And charcoal is valuable
for many other purposes. Tainted
meat, surrounded with it, is sweetened ;
strewn over heaps of decomposed pelts.
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1 sweetens offensive air it p'aced
in
s h:ll-ow travs amund apartments. It
is fs very porous m its " minute inte
rior," it absorbs aud condenses - gases
nio-t, rapidly. One cubic inch of fresh
charcoal will absorb nearly one hundred
inches of gaseous ammonia. Gbarcoal
'forms an unrivaled poultice for Trmlig
nant wounds and sores, often croding
away dead flesh, redui ing it -to one
quarter in six hours. In eases of what
we call proud llesh it is invaluable. Jt
gives no disagreeable odor, corrodes -no
metal, hurts no texture, ii jure- no col
or, is a simple and sate swet- u ii r and
di-infect'tiit.. A tea-oonful of "char
coal, in half a glass of water often r
lievo a -ickaehe. It absorbs t!e ga-e
and" relieves the .distended stomach
pressing against the nerves, which x
tend from the stomach to the head- It
often relieve cohst i pat ion , pain, or
hartlurn.
General and Personal.
Afternoon- naps are w hat keep Bj
marck in health.
It is now denied thatcigareUe -moving
i- injuriou-.
The growing of ginger is a new in-
, dustry to be tri-d at the South.
Hartford sprtsinen are bagging r-ed
tiird-jt-y the hundred on the wiid ri' e
fiehK along the (.'onrieeticut river.
Mr. M !. told the ministers at
Northfield that one of the prime 'eviU
of 4iristiaii life in tli'fcs day i- telling
stories to raise a laugh.
A ery imj.orTaiit line of railroad is
iiou appro:i'-hi!;g completion in Hto.ja,
ojhii ting the Ca-ian S-a and the
Cauca.-us wjth Mtsew.
Dr. Samuei Klliot, Suxrriiitemlent of
the Boston Public Schools, who is in
Euro, owing to ill health, has written
home resigning his jisition.
An old salt, when asked how far
north he had ever U-en, replied that he
Imd Wvn so far north that "the cows,
when milked Inside a red-hot stove,
gave ice cream."
Black and wjiite Spanish laces are
the corieet caper for a lady to wrap her
pretty thrat in and fasten the folds on
the left side with the oddest lace pin to
j,e found in the market
The oldest living ex-memU r of Con
gress is Johii A. Cuthhert.of Mobile,
Ala., who was born in Georgia in 177s.
He pra.-tises lAw in Mobile, and is said
to be still hale ami hearty.
During forty-live days. fishing in tin
St. Lawrence river last summer ex
Lieutenant Governor Alvord, of New
York, caught .'i.iS tUlt. including ..ne
..m..;, 4ti,r.. i-u .,w.t-..r.,! i
black bassi.
Mr. Clark Davis, of New Ihche4re,
N. Y., has a portrait of Maj r Andre,
painted by himself while awaiting
trial. It represents him as of fair com
plexion, blue eves, dark-brown hair.
md smooth lace, exeentinir small
whiskers.
The Roman Forum has now been
completely excavated, with the exce
tion of a small jiortion at the entrance
near the Capitol, The shaje proves
irregular, Uing broad on the Capitol
side and narrow toward the palace oT
the Ca'sars. : f Cv
A Cincinnati firm which manufac"
tines powdered soap: tone is said-to sell
large' quantities of it to Western dairy
menund butter-packers, who mix it
with the'butter in judiciousprojiortions,
greatly increasing the. weight of the
commodity ami their profits.
An elephant travelling through In
diana in a ear next to the engine, got
his trunk out of a window,-opened. the.
tender tank, drank alb the water and
compelled the stoppage of the train.
Thisjs probably a lie, but as no names
are mentioned it will not hurt the cir
cus auk
The Jocose.
The burglar who undertook to break
into a hearty laugh the other ni b
was taken in charge by a policeman.
There is an olfu er in the army n u: fd
Harmony, and every Secretary of War
feels called uhui to promote him.
The Duke of Westminster is to be
made a K. G. If you want to know
what K. (I. stands for writ to Rard---
well Slote' ' x
The man who .sighs: "How oon
we are forgotten !" has only to leave a
hotel without paying his bill to lind
how sadly mistaken he i.
A number of barrels of salt were at
tached at Saginaw recently for a debt.
This episode, although it took place
near the Great Lakes, was not ouw of
the " unsalted seize."
Mr. S. Knapp Beans, of New Hamp
shire, will lecture as a reformed Itepub
lican. Whereupon the Klmira Fn '.
Prrm a,sks : "Is there anyl ody who
doesn't know Beans?"
A la ly says that a woman in -h ow
ing a lover, considers a good deal more
how the man will b regarded by t her
women, than whether she loves him
herself. Some women ifiay ; but the
men they smite ujkhi will le regarded
;by other women as jolly green to beta
ken in bvfthem.
Is Mars Inhabited ?
There is no other planet ff .the solar
system, siys a scientific paper, which
offers so ehse an analogy to theeart.Ii
as Mars. The feh-.coe reveals t Bm
the figures of broad tracts of land and
expanse- of s.a ujmii its t-urface. The
duration of hi- day and night almost
coincide with out" own. Ills ejrterior
experiences the alternating changes t
"the seasons. Hi- nigjits are illuminated
by two satellities, winch present all
the phenomena of our own niom, and
more frequently, owing to their greater
velocity." An atmosphere probably
surrounds this planet ; in fact, the ex
i-Unce of air i- indi-jensible to his
other features. Hence the inference
'that Mars is a habitable gloU- appear
a very obvious and fair conclusion,
and it would le inconsistent to imag
ine that thi- planet, provided aj.pa'r-
ently with ail the requisite natural
facilities to render life a necessary and
desirable feature of his surface, i h
sphere of deslation, a ma-Vof ineit
matter, which, though ohforming to
the laA of grHvitatien, i otherwi
servirg no u-eful end, u the ..tile
and sustenance' of animate creatures.
It is far more in accordance with , an
al)"gy and rational -jecula?ien to con
clude that 'Mars, is the centre of life
and activity, and tfisl his surfaced.
teeming with living being.