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Special Correspondence to the Tom
iili'iwk.
Omaha, Nil)., May 1. I have
written a good ileal about the coun
ti v, hut as vet have said little of the
lu tiple. To do so is a more difficult
ia: k, since, in a community where is
iviresented every nation under the
sun.it would he as easy to describe un
di-r the general head of "birds" the
thousand different species that build
in the same forest. Though enjoy
in:; like freedom and sharing equal
ly' the public benefits, they are as
videlv distinct as the feathered
tribes that lift their wings to one
breeze, sun their plumage on the
s:ime Lou Like the birds, they
11 v at a rate and elevation proper
tionate witli their strength and
Wild" their nests on relatively high
w branches, as nature and the
, in mnstances of the case will admit
V.iu i-an in fact, find any class or
,.n!e of society that you desire, and
oatside of vour own circle, nothing
is . pected of vou. If, for instance,
v.uir next door neighbor should con
elude that life was not worth living
ami take, in consequence, an over
do.-e of laudanum, you would not
feel called upon to undertake the
task of reviving him unless you hap
pened to be on terms of intimate
friendship. This is a community in
which freedom of thought and law
ful action enjoy the wildest possible
range, manners and customs, creeds
and opinions being regulated by ab
solutely no system, law or code. Ev
ery individual does as he or she
pleases, and no one thinks of criti
cising. The strange and unexpect
ed has become so common that it
has long since ceased to excite com
ment. The people in the West are all
iKe;sarily more or lesa traveled,
laving almost without exception,
ivine from somewhere else. They
have all, in a measure, "seen life,"
ar.'l have known belter or worse
days, as the case may be. They seem
to have congregated here from every
iiua.ur under heaven, and to have
lost l.ohe of their national eccentiic
in'es iu ilie trausit The German
uhd IiL-h e'l-nients form a large and
iii!li;ei !ial part of the population.
The. i ue have English and Scotch
;.ml French, Welsh, Swedes, Danes.
Ital;.ms, Bohemians, Hungarians,
Chinese and last, but not least, the
"Afrs. American," who comes in for
his share of houorable recognition.
The laundry business is extensively
carried on by the Chinese, and the
numerous signs along the business
streets bearing the names of "Gee
Lee, Hong Ho, Sing Hi, Pe Wing"
&.c, iic., suggest the immediate pres
ence and unique figure of the Celes
tial starch sprinkler. We have
again the typical New England Yan
kee, who operates on the principal
that "a penny saved is a penny made,'
and the warm-hearted, genial, luxury
loving Southerner, who ha3 brought
his convivialty, chivalry and pride
along with his fair hands and empty
pocket book. A Southerner i3 im
mediately recognized by every one
with whom he comes in contact
His dialect betrays him, and his
sociability leaves no doubt as to his
identity. He moves through the
seething sea of humanity like a
warm current in the ocean, and
needs no outward badge to be
known of his countrymen A3
an instance, I have only to mention
m v own reception into Omaha,
u hieh. if not true Southern hospi
tality. I have yet to learn the mean
ingofthe word. I arrived in the
veiling. ;md the house having been
put in readiness before my depart
ure from Lincoln, thither I was at
once taken. Imagine our surprise,
when, on reaching our new home, we
found our next door neighbor mak
ing himself quite free in our kitchen,
having conn-m with his own key,
and warning himself before a roaring
tire to which be was devoting his
best cnergit s. He demanded imper
atively that we go with him home
for tea, which we finally did. Then
he insisted that the house was not
well heated and that we should re
main until morning. Supper over
liis wife entertained us with a series
"1 jolly old Virginia uirs, such as
h-iv wont to How from the nimble
digits of Mrs. Joe Person, and
which made me feel at home at once.
Kvery time I would say any thing
they would exclaim, "Now isn't that
Southern?" and really I felt that I
was among old friends.
In this country you cannot judge
people by the style in which they
live, since you will often find the
broadest culture in a cottage and
vulgarity in a palace. It is a place
where the Wheel of Fortune revolves
with unusual rapidity, lauding pig
mies in vale3. It is a place where
t
peculation is the leading game and
VOL. III. NO. 17.
where reverse are most common.
An Eastern lady told me, that hav
ing sustained losses at home, they
were caught by the homestead fever
and took a section in Western Ne
braska when the county in which
they located was quityoung. They
lived for three years in a sod house
with only two rooms, without do
mestic help of any description.
Reios naturally of a bright, cheer
ful disposition, she resolved to get
all the fun out of it she could.
She says that sometimes tho neigh
bors would "storm" them, on which
occasions tnev would move the
furniture out in the yard, tune up
their instruments and dance until
four o'clock in the morning. She
declares that there was more genu
ine, unadulterated "fun" at one of
these semi-barbaric revels than at a
full dress ball.
The truth is, that apart from
having a dry atmosphere and pro
ductive soil, this country has no
natural advantages. It is not nature
but human toil that has converted a
howling wilderness into a smiling
landscape, dotted with pictu rescue
farm?, splendid ranches and liaud
some cities. Some have come for
health, some for profit, and have
staid because they liked it. Rut the
majority are those who were first
drawn hither by the visions of im
mediate wealth iu the form of a
quarter section of government laud
and have never had money enough
ti ret awav. Manv nersous have an I
insane Me that thov can ret some- 1
thing for nothing, and that it is so
much clear money out of their pock
, - 0
ets not to swallow every such hart
that is thrown out to them. They
leave their old, established, reliable
merchant who sells honest goods at
a small uniform profit, and empty
their hard earned dollars into the
greedy pockets of transient auction
house which happens to be "over
stocked" and offers to "give away"
goods, said goods are generally of
such style and grade that the pur
chaser should be paid for storage,
but that astute individual has only
paid one dollar for a half dollar ar
ticle and received a twenty-five cent
free gift" besides. Having abso
lutely "made" the present, he is de
lighted with his bargain and shrewd
ly concludes himself a Napoltan
of finance. And so with the lands.
Let a go fern men t or cyndicate ad
vertise to give away lands in the re
motest and inexcessible corner of
the globe, and there is always a dis
contented, migratory element that
will rush madly to the scene without
stopping to count the cost, or to
consider that the money necessary
to move their families and commence
operations would buy a good tract !
at home, where a moderate compe
tence was assured; If an enterpri
sing company should propose to give
away lots in the middle of the Pa.
cific ocean, there would be fool3
enough to attempt to build a town.
Mamie Hatch ett Fairbrother.
The Tragedy nt I.rxlugf m, H. V.
Greenville News.
Coixmhia, S. C. May 8. Matters
in the Lexington tragedy have taken
a new turn. Fresh developments oc
cur almost hourly and more are ex
pected. Attorney-General Earle went
to Lexington last night, and as a re
sult this morning warrants were
sworn ont for the arrest of F. (Y
Caughman, Pcarce Taylor and A.
Marks being concerned in the lynch
ing of Willie Leaphart. The parties
have not yet been arrested as they
were not in the village. Caughman
swore out a warrant for the arrest of
Attorney Graham, charging him
with forgery and subornation of per
jury. Graham was arrested here to
day and his attorney, John Rauskett
sued out a writ of habeas corpus be
fore the Supreme court this evening
Rail was granted in the sum of
$1,000. Miller has made an affida
vit in which he denies having made
the original affidavit whereupon the
respite was granted. He stated to
the Attorney General that he was
drunk at the time and that Graham
wrote and he (Miller) signed it una
wares.
Governor Richardson, however,
states that Miller brought the affida
vit to him and affirmed its genuine
ness. The governor said that Miller
was perfectly sober at the time. The
other parties alleged to have
written the remaining affidavits
swearing that those attributed to
them are forgeries. F. C. Caugh
man stated here today that he would
swear out a warrant for the arrest of
Governor Richardson for being ac
cessory before the fact.
At one time iu a man's life he is
too young to know what he says,
and at another time he is too old to
say what he knows.
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All Nort of Paragraphs.
About the only pleasure some
men take in knowing a thing is
laughing at the ignorance of a man
who does not know it
When Cleveland .went out of
office he left a surplus of $100,000,
000 in the treasury. When Harri
son goes out there will be only a
hole in the ground.
A Georgia editor says: "In re
mitting your subscription, do not
say, 'Please find enclosed one dollar.'
We are bound to be pleased without
asking."
Do you ever think, when you are
wasting your money, that unless
you reform, the men you hate the
worst may be called upon to help
bur) you ?
The cosmopolitan character of
our population is illustrated by the
the fact that it is necessary to dis
tribute the Rible in twenty-nine
languages in Pennsylvania alone.
"My frien's," said a colored
preacher, "a man's character is like
a fence you Gan't strengthen it by
whitewash, though you can cover
np the places where it is worm eat
en." One who has probably had experi
ence remarks: "The man who f-ays
to his wife, 'give me the baby dear
and I will try to put it to sleep,,
is greater than he who taketh a
city."
The extreme length of the citv of
CllicilK i twenty-four miles, its ex
treme width is ten miles, its area
is one hundred and seventy-four
square miles, and its estimated pop
ulation is one million, one hundred
thousand.
A young lady was recently admit
ted to the Massachusetts bar and
married her first client She lacked
experience. A lawyer of the other
sex would hive got all the client's
money without marrying him.
A Philadelphia man says that the
.last time his wife said "yes" willing
ly to anything he was interested in,
was wheu he proposed to marry her.
She would, no doubt, be happier to
day if she had not made an exception
on that occasion.
A bishop was at a dinner party
one night, and a waiter carelessly up
set into his lap a bowl of hot soup.
He glanced around with an agoni
zing look upon his features, and then
exclaimed,"Will some layman make
a remark appropriate to the occa
sion ?"
Two Florida men cut down a bee
tree and secured 700 pounds of hon
ey. When they finished gathering
the honey they commenced to inves
tigate the top of the tree, and found
where cranes had built their nests.
They gathered up 140 dozen of eggs.
It is supposed the gentlemen will
buy an incubator and start a cran
e'y. The decay of the farming interests
in the West during the last twenty
years is illustrated by the report of
farm mortgages in Tipton county,
Indiana. Tipton is one of the best
farming counties in that State.
In 1876 its farm mortgages amount
ed to $607,000 in value; in 1880 to
$802,148, and m 1890 to $2,287,435,
or fifty per cent of the market value
of the real estate in the county.
Does your cow make milk or beef
out of her food ? If you do not
know, the sooner you will find out,
the better it will be. If she makes
milk out of it, she is a dairy cow
and may be kept If she makes
beef, sell her to the butcher at first
opportunity. " No cow can profitably
make both milk and beef out of her
food at the same time, any more
than a man can satisfactorily serve
two masters. Northwestern Agri
culturalist DavlriHon Colletre Commencement.
The commencement of the class of
'90 of Davidson College will be held
on Thursday, June 12th. The
prominent features of the commence
ment exercises of the college are as
follows: June 8th, baccalaureate ser
mon by Rev. G. A. Strickler, D. D.,
of Georgia, a Y. M. C. A. sermon by
Rev. John S. Watkins, D. D., of
North Carolina. Monday, June 9th,
is class day. On Tuesday will be the
reunion of literary societies. On
Wednesday, June 11th, the annual
oration will be delivered by Hon. D.
A. Townsend, of South Carolina, and
the alumni oratiou by Rev. W. S.
Lacy, P. D., of Virginia. Thursday
at 10 a. m. the graduating exercises
will take" place and at 8:30 p. m. the
reception by the literary societies.
On Wednesday night, June 11th,
will occur the oratorical contest,
when A. A. McGeachy, R. S. Cooper
and J. A. Tillingast will represeut
the Phi. Society, and W. A. Gillon,
J. B. Townsend, and J. R. Minter
the Eu.
C. N. Wharton, of North Caro
lina, is the chief marshal for the
c mmencement. The salem Orches
tra will f Arnish the music.
CONCORD, N. C, FllIDAY, MAY 16, 1890.
Don't I.Ike III Style.
Charlotte News-
In the last issue of Charity and
Children, a paper published at the
Baptist Orphanage at Thomas ville
Rev. Dr. T. II. Pritchard, of Wil
mington, e xpressea his opinion of
Sam Jones as follows:
I must confess that I have been
really pained in reading the sermons
of this Aery celebrated Methodist
preacher recently delivered in Char
otte, N. C. They abound in wit
and humor, it is true; but the wit is
exceedingly coarse and the humor
often low and vulgar, unbecoming a
Christian minister in any circle, and
in my humble judgment, a gross and
grievous desecration of tlw pulpit I
grant that Mr. Jones has rare pow
ers as an orator; that lie often preach
es the gospel with wonderful plain
ness and effect, and I hope that he
does good; but there can 1 no ques
tion with all right-thinking people
that he is degrading his sacred call
ing and doing a vast amount of harm
by using language which, in the na
ture of things, must demoralize so
ciety. I am no prude, as every one
acquainted with me, knows, nor
have I any prejudice against Mr.
Jones as a Methodist, or an evanjre
list; but as a public journalist and a
Christian minister, I feel lwund to
protest against his manners in the
pulpit No matter what a man's
gifts may be there can be no excuse
or apology for his being a black
guard or a bully in the pulpit, and
it really seems to be a reflection in
this age and country that such a
vulgarian h tolerated by decent peo
ple. . I have heard that the cause of
relegion had been set back for years
in some towns where he had been,
and if his sermons in Charlotte are
a fair specimen of his work, I am
prepared to believe it. He seems to
make immense use of Sam Jones in
his preeching; but the Rible plays a
very insignificant part in his perfor
mances. What a contrast between this man
and Mr. R. G. Pearson, in style, in
spirit and in matter. Elijah the
Tishbite and John the Baptist were
not bolder or braver in denouncing
sin than Mr. Pearson, but there was
no vulgarity and smutty attemps at
wit in his preaching.
They say that the rude, rough
things he says do not seem so bad
when you hear him, but for the life
of me, I cannot see how a man's
manner of saying a low and dirty
thing can make it anything else than
filthy and impure.
Depend upon it, every religious
excitement is not a revival of reli
gion, and I hereby publicly express
my want of confidence in Sam's
converts. If there is any place on
earth from which slang, vulgarity
and blackguarding ottght to be ex
cluded, it is the pulpit, and to listen
to such a harrange as Sam Jones
delivered in Charlotte last Sunday
Beems to be a desecration of the
Sabbath. I siucerely hope he won't
come to Wilmington in my day.
lovu on Jones.
Greensboro "Workman.
The Gazette, published at Raleigh,
in the interest of the colored race, is
much displeased with Sam Jones,
whom it characterizes as "the great
humbug preacher," for practicing on
the colored people of Charlotte what
it calls "deception." The specifica
tion of the Gazette is that the
preacher requested that all who in
tend to stop stealing, lying and do
ing other mean things should rise
up that the whole body present
rose up.
"This," says the Gazette, "was
not an admission that they were
guilty of the things which Sam
Jones indicated, for the reason that
the colored people .... in their
religious zeal at once, not thinking
that a trick had been practical on
them by this man Sam Jones."
The Gazette will agree, however,
in the opinion that if all the colored
people had sat still and not risen up,
it might have been taken to mean
that they intended to keep on at the
business of stealing, lying, etc. Evi
dently that congregation was in a
predicament, a little worse than that
in which the brethren found them
selves who professed to have read
the book of "Hezekiah.' Our ad
vice to every one is to be on the
alert when Sam Jones is around.
A Two-Headed Tortoise.
A curiosity fit for a place in a
dime museum passed through Hick
ory last Monday. It wa3 a "high
land terrapin" with two heads and
six feet Each head was perfect and
both of tbe same size. The shells
were joined together at the side and
the scallops showing the shape of
each turtle's shell. The two heads
pointed at an angle of 45 from each
other and but for the absence of a
hind foot from each it would have
looked like two complete turtles
under one connected shell. The
specimen was found near Lenoir and
was being expressed to Messrs. Whi
ting Brothers, of Raleigh.--Press
T AND ARB.
Tbe 51. K. Clmrcli South.
St. Louis Mo., May 8. The
Methodist Episcopal Conference
met again this morning with a full
attendance. About an hour and a
half was consumed in calling and
perfecting the roll. When comple
ted it showed that there are 147
clerical and 14G lay delegates pres
ent. Several unimportant commit
tees were then appointed. The
quadrennial report of the board of
missions was submitted by Rev. J. G,
Johns. It shows that four years
ago there was a debt of $100,000,
which has been reduced to $14,000.
The report as to the Mexican mis
sion shows an apparent falling off of
members from 1,978 to 1,033, which
is explained to be due to the increas
ed care in preparing the report.
Some of the special commitees were
then appointed.
St. Louis, Mo., May 7. The
opening session of the Eleventh
Quadrennial Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of the
South commenced in Centenary
Church, this city, at 9 o'clock this
morning.
Rev. Dr. Matthews, pastor of the
church, delivered the address of
welcome to the lay and clerical mem
bers of the conference.
Bishop Aphonso W. Wilson, of
Maryland, made the opening prayer,
which was followed by a song of
praise by the entire assemblage.
Bishop Keener, of Xew orleaus,
addressed the assembly on behalf of
the bishop. But little other than
routine work was transacted at to
day's session.
Gov. Seay, of Alabama, heads the
list of lay delegates from his State;
Ex-Gov. E. Jackson, of Maryland, is
among the delegates from the Vir
ginia Conference; Ex-Gov. Shands
comes from tbe Mississippi Confer
ence; Mr. J. T. Ijanham is a delegate
j from Virginia; Judge II. Clay Ew
j ing and Judge Xenapoon Rylandare
! among the lav delegates from Mis-
sour i.
Mr. I). Lornton, of Versailles, and
J. W. Proctor, of Danville, the
President of the Bunkers' Associa
tion, are of the Baukers' Association,
are of the Kentucky delegation. Mr.
Walter B. Hill, of Georgia, is one of
the delegates from that State. Mr.
J. R. Hind man, ex-Speaker of the
Kentucky Legislature, is a Kentucky
delegate.
M ton's Wonderful Tree.
The Raleigh correspondent of the
Wilmington Messenger, referring to
the mulberry tree at Newton, which
has attracted considerable attention
by emitting puffs of smoke at irreg
ular intervals, says: Any child at all
observant has witnessed the same
thing. The tree is the Otaheite
mulberry, and when its flower is
perfectly ripe it discharges the poll
en with an explosion, if so it may be
termed. In front of your corres
pondent's house is one of these trees
and when it is abloom the little puffs,
as of dust, can be observed at any
hour of the day.
There is a quick spurt of the dust,
which then floats away, making a
pretty sight. If people would ob
serve nature more closely snch oc
currences as" these or the alleged
"constantly falling rain under trees"
would not be mysterious in the
least The so-called rain is simply
the exudation of moisture from tiny
insects, which in myriads get upon
the leave3 of certain trees.
A at4 Fatal Kite.
Danville, Va., May 9. A special
to the Register from Ruffin, N. O,
s:ivs: David Stokes, a colored man,
attempted to drive a house-cat from
the room, and poked it with a stick
The animal became enraged, flew
upon Stokes, and buried her teeth in
his arm. The animal held on with
such tenacity that it was necessary
to sever her head from the body be
fore friends could release the. man
from from the clinched teeth.
Stokes w as taken ill, and though he
showed no symptoms of hydrophobia,
he died in twenty-four hours.
News and Observer: Tho State
Librarian asks us to call the atten
tion of the press to the fact that the
Roll of Honor of North Carolina
soldiers, in which is inscribed the
names of all the Confederate soldiers
from this State, is deposited in the
State library, and there i3 a blank
space opposite each name for the in
sertion of the date of death.
If the newspapers iu noting the
death of any old soldier will men
tion the company and regiment of
which he was a member, Mr. Bird
song, the librarian, will note the
date of death " in the proper place,
and thus the record will be kept as
perfect as possible. The press of
the State will kindly bear this in
mind.
The sum and substance of all
the preparations needed for eternity
is to believe what the Bible tells us
and do what the Bible bids us do.
IHrge for a Soldier.
"Or alibis work." says the Springfield
ItepuUican, in its notice of the death of
George 11. Boker. "his 'Dirge for a Sol
dier.' written tor General Phillip Kear
ney, has seized most firmly upon the
popular memory. " Here it is :
Close lils eyes ; his work is done !
V.'liat to him is friend or foeman,
Rise of moon or set of sua.
Hand of man, or kiss of woman?
Luj- him low, lay him low.
In the clover or the snow !
'What cares he ? He cannot know;
Lay him low.
As man may, he fought the fight.
Proved the truth by his endeavor;
Let him sleep in solemn night.
Sleep forever and forever.
Lay him low, lay him low.
In the clover or the snow !
What cares he? He cannot know;
Lay him low.
Fold bim in his country's stars.
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars
What, but death beuiockiug folly!
Lay him low, lay him low,
In the clover or the snow 1
Whut cares he? He cannot know;
Lay him low.
In Dangerous Quarters.
"We were all seated around the open
Btove one night telling stories one after
another. Some of the boys had been
through wonderful experiences, in which,
of course, they came out as great heroes.
I am inclined to think that some of them,
did not stick wholly to facts, but they
were interesting, if wonderful.
There was Abner Jackson with an im
possible adventure with a black bear,
and Doll Young with a ridiculous tale
about a madman. George P. Jones had
told the biggest whopper of all, thus far,
when Uncle Abner Smith rare old Ab
ner ! said he would tell a little thing
that happened while lie was prospect
ing through a cotton region of Texas.
""Tisu't much of a story," he said;
" but it hast his one advantage over a good
many stories one hears nowadays it's
true ! In the summer of 'forty-six I was
stopping with my old friend, Sabine, in
Case county, Texas. I had gone down
there with some thought of buying a
plantation, if I found things to suit. My
friend's home plantation bordere '. on
Caddo Luke, and as there were quite a
number of good places or, they were
said to be good in that region for sale,
I concluded to prospect, and Sabine went
with me as companion and guide.
"One bright morning we started off
toward Muddy Creek to look at a planta
tion there for sale. We reached the
dwelling of the master before noon, and
after an early lunch we set out on foot
to explore. By and by we struck tiie
bank of a dark silent stream probably
a branch of the creek and being some
what tired we looked for a place where
we could sit down. Ah ! I found a seat
seemingly arranged on purpose for us
a huge log, which we fancied a recent
flood had brought down from the timber
and land d there. The bark was rough
and uneven, but as the wood beaeath
seemed pliable from age tho seat was
very comfortable.
Wfl filled and lighted our pipes, and
then talked of the lay of the laud around
us. uiid its susceptibility to improve
ment. My pipe bothered me, and I op
ened a blade of my pocket-knife, and
lifted and loosened the tobaoco ; and
then, when the pipe was clear, I jabbed
the point of the knife blade beneath the
edge of a section of the rough bark near
my seat. I had given a strong, vigorous
stab, and was trying to lift a piece of
the bark when
Heavens and earth, the log on which
we sat started as though lifted by the
shock of an earthquake, ami in a moment
it took a sudden shoot, endwise, for the
water! Whew! You can fiincy whether
we got up an got or not! Sam Sabine
struck a bee-line for the first knoll,
and 1 was close upon his heels. But we
needn't have been frightened. The ali
gator was as skeery as we were, and as
eager to find a place of safety. You see,
that jab of my knife had woke him
out of a sound sleep, and I doubt if he
ever knew what had hurt bim.
"We reached the little hillock, and
turned just in time to see the aligator
plunge into the creek; and as we
wended our way back to the house you
may laelieve that we made up our minds
the pair of us that the next time we
took a scat on the shore of Cass County
Creek we'd be kind o' careful that we
weren't deceived by a sleeping alligator. "
The Mistletoe Bongh.
ATI the well known traditions about tho
mistletoe, such as kiasing under it ot
Druidic rites, belong to the English mis
tletoe, which is not the same as the
American. The two are closely allied
and resemble each other, but they are
distinct genera. The American mistletoe
is botitBically known as phoradendran,
the English, viscuui. The name of the
English genus is derived from viscum,
meaning bird lime, because of the muci
laginous juice of the berries. The name
of the American literally means "thief
on'a tree, " which is certainly more pic
turesque than the designation of its rel
ative, as well as scientifically correct.
The mistletoes form a distinct family
or order by themselves, including only
the two principal genera, English and
American
Mistletoe is only used in home decora
tion. It is considered inartistic, even
irreverent, to arrange a piece in church,
because the employment of the mistletoe
at all is a relic of Druidism and thus a
sui v ival of Paganism. At be3t, the pres
ent respict for the mistletoe is but a
pleasant superstition, like that for the
wishbone or four-leaved clover.
It takes a prodigious amount of vege
table matter to forma layer of coal, it
being estimated that 'the present growth
of the world would make a layer less
than one-eighth of air. inch in thickness
and that it would take a million years of
vegetable growths to 1 bi m a coal bed ten
feet in thickness. ' rhe United State
has an area of more tJ Ian 440,000 square
miles of coal fields, ai ad more than 100,
000,000 tons of coal ere mined in the
country last year, eno wgh to run a ring;
around the earth at t he center five and
one-half feet wide anu? equally as thick
Competent scientists Bay that there is
enough ooal in the U:nited States to sup
ply the world for the (next 2,000 years.
The Larces t Oysters.
The biggest edibl 6 oysters in tho
found at I Port Lincoln, in
South Australia. Tl ley are as large as a
dinner plate and the same shape. They
are sometimes more than a foot '.across
the shell, and the oj ster fit3 hia shell so
veil he does not lea re much margin. It
is a new sensation, when a friend asks
you to lunch at .Adelaide, to have one
oyster set before jtou fried in butter,
eggs, tor bread crtu nbs. But it is a very
p!uas:infc sensation, !for the flavor and del
icacy of ' the Port , Lincoln mammoths
are proverbial in t'&at land of luxtiriafc
WHOLE NO. 121.
WOMAN' S WORK AND AIMS.
Mrs. Wallace, tho mother of Cien"ral
Lew Wallace, declares tVt Adam
and Eve fell upward, as it tho ie.st
thing that could happen to tiiein, to
e:vis them to labor for their bread; and
ehe U-lieves it would be a fall upward if
many a woman, who now has amplj
time to complain to and about her ser
vants, should be obliged to take hold
earnestly of some real work, and to keep
at it.
Hie latest applicant for favor is tha
New York woman who washes dog
Slio has a long list of regular patrons, to
whose homes she got twice or thrice a
week, or CTen every day, if required, to
make the toilet of the blessed poodle or
pn who reigm therein. She gives him
hio perfumed bath, combs and drossea
his hair, selects with scrupulous care
his most becoming collar, and then, if
Ve is not to drive out with his jnistress,
takes him out for his constitutional.
The youngest daughter of the Em
peror and Empress of Austria, the Arch
duchess Talerie, is a rival of "Carmen
Sylva," queen of Roumania, as a royal
poetess. The beautiful and accomplished
princess, who has endeared herself to
both Austrians and Ilungariaiu by her
literary talent, her devotion to her parent-!,
her kindness, graciousnesi and gen
erosity, is little more than 20 years of
a-.re, and hits written a volume of poenu
remarkable for deep poetic feeling, con
ceji;ion and expression.
Forty-seven girls of Plymouth, Penn.,
liave formed a young ladies Proleclivo
Uniou. When a young man pays atten
tion to one of the members, acommit'ea
of three is appointed to find out hij
standing moralfy a.id financially. IT tho
lover is all right, hi) good qualities aro
reported to the young lady iu the pre
sence of the club. If not, she is in
formed of it in private. If he is found
to be a black sheep, and she continues tu
receive his attention, she is dropped
from the club.
"When Edison had given two weeks
of his valuable time to going up and
do n u the New York elevated railway, try
iii; 1 lo discover what caused its noise and a
cu for it, he g:wo lp the task. Then a
wo.uan to ik it. biie rode on the cara
thrve days, was de.iied a place on tho
rear platform, laughed at for her
curiity, and politely snubbed by con
ductors and passengers. But she dis
covered what caused the noise and in
vented a remedy, which was patented,
a id 6lie was paid the sum of $10,003
aiul a royalty forever. Her name u
Mrs. Mary Walton, and she lives in New
York c-ity.
One of tho .most interesting explorers
of the day i:; a French la ly, Madam la
Kay, mther of the Due d'Abrantes. who
has been for several months engaged in
Eastem'travel. After visiting Nineveh
and Babylon, sae traversed the Persian
deserts, amid ter; iulo privations, in
order to reacii India. For five days her
Iktle caravan hal to encamp in tho
wilds without meeting a living soul, or
rvendiicovcrrng the sl'ghtest trace of a
human being. Daring all this time tlu
roi 1 was so intense timt Madam 1j
Itay's fingers were frost-bitten, and l;er
j.uiths-i !casne seriously ill. She ma-i-ag-'d
at la-it to reach tlu Tersiau Gulf,
vherejsheembarkel for India.
Two "women of Pasadena, Cal.. liava
constructed a:i ingenious bath in which
almost any i"d of medicated baths can
be given. Dr. Ella Whipple invented
it. and Mrs. If. T. Marshall made it Tiio
Pasadena S a-lard says: It is con
structed of red wood, with various (-alliums,
panels, doors, brackets, etc.,
turned, fliitcJ. carved, mortised, put t'
geilier in detachable .sections, and all
exqusitely polished by band. It is aj
large as a cottage parlor organ-case bed
stead; is as well made an i as elaborately
on ameiuod as a line piece of furniture
nu. Join the regular factories, and every
iiu'h of it was made by Mrs. Marshall
from lutiilx-r in the Tough state.
It is gravely said that tho girls nho;dJ
not study the higlner mathematics and
thr severer sciences, becausj their oppor
tunities for counteracting ti. elects of
mental work by vi w.us mus :ular ex
ertion ar j fewer than ihose of tho b r. s.
This is like telling a man that ho had
better a!ay in b.'d because he Las r.o
food to eat Would it not b3 better
ti tell him to get up ami work and ea- n
iiuiey and buy fool, and then to enjoy
lif ? Why sit down in despairing ac
quieicenco with the fact that many
wo-aen must forego tho highest pleamro
of jiving, baeausa they have neglected
to s:cure for themselves a good circula
tion? Would it not be wiser to con
junct public playgrounds, gymnasiums
mid swimming baths, and to urge girU
to use them? Is there anything mora
de arable iu a State than that both man
an I women should be tho very best? 11a
wh should invent a new romp.vng gama
for girls would do them more g"id than
ma iv a preacher who preaches to them
a yniient acceptance of a stunted mol-luok-like
existence.
VMtl'S Or IX FOlWATtOSi
It is sometimes Baid that the branches
of very old trses are, properly speaking,
roots, and that if planted upside down
would flourish. Herr Kny, a German
botanist, has recently investigated the
m:iiter by planting vines and ivy with
both ends in the ground, and subse
queiftly cutting them at the arch. The
experiments were fairly successful,
though not in every instance, and Herr
Knvintends to continue them with
other plants and trees, such as willows.
poplars, ana roses.
Ia two respects Greece stands at the
head of all Europeau nations, viz., the
number of her clergy and the number of
her suicides. According to the latest
ecclesiastical statistic there are no less
tlian 5,600 orthodox priests, the number
of inhabitants of Hmj whole kingdom be
ing 2,000.000, thus making one priest for
eery 400. During the summer months
of the past year the suicides in Athens
alone amonnted to five daily. Since the
colder months this number has decreased
lo two per diem.
Professor von Bergmann, of Berlin, is
reported to have -performed a wonderful
surgical operation. Two patients were
simultaneously brought to him for oper
ations, one requiring amputation of the
thigh at the hip joint, the other needing
portion of the humerii removed on ac
count of tlie lone being extensively dis
eased. Tu-j lirst operation was the am
putation, and then the surgeon pro
ceeded to excise the diseased portion of
the humerus. This made a gap in the
bone, but a piece of the thigh bone was
taken from the limb which had just been
amputated and fitted in the gap. Ly
which the continuity of the humerus
was completely restored. Perfect union
took place, and the patient recovered
with a useful arm.
THE ST< D&RD.
T "WE DO ALL lUXns OF
JOB "WOEK
IX T1IK
XEA TES T MAXXER
AND AT
THE LOWEST HATES.
KELir.lOfS NK'.VS.
Spnrgeoa has 500 children in his or
phanages. Charles Kingsley's sermons have jus
been published in a Genna-i tran -l -.livni.
Colonel Elliott F. Shepard has been
re-elected president of tho American
Sabha'h Union.
The German Methodists have 7 churchc?9
in New York, 11 in Chicago, a inCi'io:!!
tia'i, 3 ia Milwaukee, 4 in li.ilia'o. 4 i'i
S;. Louis, 4 iu Brooklyn, 3 iu l'liddol
plii.i and 1 in Boston.
The city of New York has GOO Sunday
schools, with a total of 15T.0O.J scholars
and teachers ; Philadelphia has 01(5 Sun
day schools, with a total of 193, SlO
teachers and scholars.
The constitution of the Society oj
Christian Endeavor has boon translated"
Into German, French, Tamil. Cainese,
Lr nue.se, Zulu. Turkish and into various
dialects of Southern India.
Along tho valley of tho Nile, fiv".i
Alexandria to the first cataract, aro
70 mission stations and 7i) S.ibb.r'i
schools, numbering 4,017 scliohrs, while
the day and boarding school;; have over
5,200 pupils.
Tho Baptist Missionary. Society '
En-land is trying tho experiment "
Bending out unmarried men to In-li.!.
who will remain unmarried, and will
devot their timo to personal iutercour.jiJ
witli the natives.
Two representatives of the American
Baptist Missionary Union, who have ro
sea :Iy gono 1,500 miles up tho Yanglia
river, have deemed it best to adopt tha
native costume, ii order to e.;capo the
curiosity and hostility of tho native i.
The Norwegian Lutherans iu t!io in
terior of Madagascar ia 181 bapiizd
1..721 persons, and received 21 iloma:i
Catholics and Gi Independents and
Friends into their congregation, making
the entire number of their members now
G.44G.
Thomas Houston, tho blind Scotch
evangelist, has been' receive 1 as a can
didate for tha ministry by tho Jeis;y
Citv Presbytery, lie has been an evan
gel wt ton years, and is now taking a fall
c .urse of 6ludy at Union Theological
Seminary.
In one of tho London churcho3 women
who have received tlie benefit of choir
rehearsals are seated iu twos and threes)
throughout tho congragation to guidj
tho singing, which is joined in much
more readily for the presence of tlica
as sured leaders. .
In the choir of Rev. Dr. VandcrvaJcr,
an Episcopal clergyman of Brooklyn,
the men and boy singers are surpliccd.
Hereafter tha ladie3 aro also to wear tha
choral surplice. A dressing room is
provided, whero they can remove their
wraps and robe thomsolvcs in tho long,
snow-whito robes, with tho regulation
neck-band and deep, Ioo30-hangin3
eleeves.
One Chicago clergyman preached on a
recent Sunday on gambling. Another
paid his respects to tho sraolw nuisance.
A third gave a di.co'.ii'io on Socialism,
and a fourth on the Sunday-closing
question. A fifth aired hii viuvvsou the
existence of the davil. "There is room
here, " remarks tho Evening Journal,
"for a preacher who will ocension-dly
tell the worshipers something about tho
Kingdom of Heaven. "
Calnrnct.
Tlie crystalline lens of the eye is situ
ated just behind the pupil, and lies be
tween two fuiid.s, the aqueous in front,
and the vitreous behind. Its object is to
focus the rays of light which pass
through the pupil upon the retina bo
hind, where they act upon the terminal
ends of the optic nerve and give vision.
This lens seem to get i!s substance from
the fluids in which it is immersed, and
when disease of its structure occurs, it
probably arises from some lack of proper
nutrition from these sources.
Perfect transparency of tho lens is es
sential to good vision. When any por
tion of it becomes opaque, the cntrancu
of light is obstructed or it passes through
in an irrigular manner, and loss of vision
more or less complete results. This con
dition of opaqueness constitutes what is
known as a cataract. It may effect only
a portion of the lens, or tho whole may
be so dense as to prevent tho perception
of any object, though it can never of
itself le so complete as to bhut o(I en
tirely the sensation of light.
Cataract may be congenital, or it may
come on in youth" or in adult life, but
by far the majority of cases occur I:i per
sons over fifty years of age, in whom it
takes tho name of senile cataract. Gen
erally there is found some embarrass-
ment in tho use of the eyis f. r a longer
or shorter period before tho opacity is
visible to tlie eye.
The cloudiness usually has a definllo
6tarting-point, and from that place it
may progress until tho whole lens is in
volved, or it may bo arrested spontan
eously in any part of its course. Such
cases of arrest have given'ri ;e t. tho be
lief that certain nostrums will prevent
the formation of a cataract, or will re
move it.
In reality no means is known of stay
ing or preventing it. Tho only h e lie
in removing the mechanical obstruction
by surgical methods.
The form of cataract which follows an
injury is explained by tho fact that tho
capsule which surro'.i n Is the 1 .-ns is r up
tured, and a portion of tho fluid enters
the lens and produces a sodden condition
at oiiO point, from which. tho disintegra
tion may continue.
The. e seems to bo a predisposition to
the formation of cataract in some ieo
ple, for in elderly persons, wheu one eye
has become aiTected, tho other is very
likely to pass through tho same experi
ence. While it is be t, in order to get tho
most satisfactory res-ilt, to delay tiio op
eration until the cataract is "ripe," that
period being th ; time when it is nio.it
easily removed, cue sht.ul 1 never wait
until thought is entirely lost, for there
Ls danger that tl;c process may go so
far as to render aay operation entirely
fruitless.
A Hog' Ilebut in "Fuun tleroy.
II. S. Hyde's fine mast it! will probably
never forget Lis dolut on tho stage in
"Little Lord Fauntleroy" Monday eve
ning. Tho first tableau culminated in
tlie attempt of doggy to carry Fauntleroy
off tho stage ; in the second the animal
made a precipitous exit, but in the third
he had to stay, for he was secured to
tho table leg, upon which was nn oil
lamp. This lamp had an equilibrium to
maintain, and Mr. Hyde'.-; coachman vva
wrapped up in a rus under the- table to
assist in keeping tlie dcg-acU.r within
Lounds. Springfield Republican.
The Prince of Naples, heir to tin
throne of Italy, i not .quite 21, Lut his
royal father lately appointed bint to U
senator of tha kingdom.