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Alabama's total 'indebtedness is $9,
Texas haa 4,600,000 sheep, j valued a
$13,800,000. ' j
The jailor at Treason, -county, Tenn ,
Is paid $100 a year.
It i probable theJVirginia legislature
will abolish cbauTgangs and the v. hip-ping-post.
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U V " " mwv mm u. r. .rap., . w
ly, a plantationjcbntaining ifeoo acres
brough t only 12,225.
Out of ninety convicts hanged in the
United States In 181 4 rkabsas head
the list with fifteen. It-'
There are nine colored men. in the
. Mississippi . legislature, " eigHjt in the
lK)e and one in the senate. '
The cotton- mill at Wesson, Miss.,
pays twenty-six per cent livideud, and
the stock is worth over $800. ;
A two-inch carp put in a "pond near
a '
Atlanta, two yarsago, was caught a few
days since, and weighed sevenj pounds.
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The 'Mississippi press alarmed at the
recent heavy sales of land to speculators
in that state, is urging that jihe state
lands should be, withdrawn from the
. market until they are explored, classi-
fied and appraised, and then thev should
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be sold in Buch a wav aa to swell the
school revenues of the state.
" Ausrusta, (Ga.) News: A Pennsylva-
nia firm is manufacturing pajper at Sa
vannah, .from what is called thejf'saw pal
metto' a material heretofore;regarded
a nearly useless. The paper lis said to
be of superior quality, and especially
useful as a transfer paper, which has
heretofore been imported. j
Messrs; Mertz, Finley & Purdy, leave
Ixauled the Mertz gold mine! situated
two miles northwest of Gainesville, Ga.,
to Eastern, capitalists for 10,lj00. Tire
ore Ls quartzite, with liberal showing of
fic-e gold. Both walls are argilite. A
ten ton of the ore will besbipx)d' East
this week; j
Winston, (N. C.) Sentinel. A man
by the name of Woods committed suicide
at Xiaural' Springs Ashe county. He
came in from hunting and aked hi
wife to piillhie, boots off. She refused
to do soj which so wounded hij feelings
tliHt he caught up his gun and by the
use cf his foot, discharged .tbe contents
iiito bis body, killing himrelf instantly.
They wer- both young and hi d beeD
marrietl only about a year. ;
Atlanta Constitution Florida letter:
"he !r?peer grove, with- 600 trees,
would bring perhaps $50,00P, and this is
the best in Florida; This is pbout $8,
500 per acre, for six acres, lit is the
best 'because it iB the oldest. ifThe 'lar
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gf st yield ever known .from one tree
came from the oldest tree in the state,
at St. Augustine, ' whicb bore. 14,80Cf
orxngep. lnis is ne,la to prove that up
to 70 or 100 years the yield of a tree will
improve. There are several, trees that
have yi lded 7.0(0 and 8,000 jj -anges.
Florida Key of the Gulf.- !A friend
describes to us a remarkable 4cene wit
nessed by him at a religious meeting on
Whidby Island. W. T. A., k memcer
of the church, while praying, called
upon God to stritce him dead if ascertain
. statement made by him in the strongest
and most junequivocal manner was not
exactly true. He bad hardly uttered
the las t word when he fell dea!'. . Com
ing as this did, in tie church, fend upon
. a leading member, the effect ppon the
congregation can. only be imagned.
"I believe," says Gov. Bigelow, of
Connecticut, in his message, of his trip
"South, "that the visit gave a large body
of Connecticut citizens new and truer
idea) of the South in feelings' and mo
tives.,. We hope that these Southern
citizens whom me met,. and to jjrhom we
are indebted for such a fraternal wel
come, gained truer conceptions of the
temper of- our people toward them. It
has certainly given r.n added t?jrdiality
and heartiness to the good fefling be
weii Connecticut and South Carolina)
Atlanta Constitution Florida letter:
"The only newspaper railroad in
the country, is .the South Flor
ida, running out from Sanfordjto Tam
pa. This road; was built and js owned
and operated by the Boston! Herald.
It is now in operation twenty-three
miles and is being extended rapidly. It
wui oe ninety mues long wnen tne pre?
en t contracts are finished, and, may be
pushed to Punta Bossa. The? Herald
peopW a doing tbe work- themselves,
and as a'Floridan said: 'They are talk
ing lee and doing more work jfchan any
pt -our developers The road pis paying
hat.dsomely and runs two train a dav "
lhe American Cultivator ' savjj that
"the scarcity of heavy Texas hides
getting to be a Bource of anxiety
tanners, who want to get ojut heavy
leather to answer the prevailing demand
The improvement of herds has been
going on some tune on the cattle ranches,
and tbeOTong-nomed,? 'scraJfey Texas
6teers are gutter . scarcer' evlery
year,
. -There Jaittore systein puriu'ed p Raising
cattle. , growing the brd give
v"qp.'s lua .iw w give nrer
stock andbetriejit, it, Je Hspense of
the hide. whichin the !eM in?
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Another large consolidation of iron
interests is nearly affected at j Birming
ham, which will unite the Alice and
Eureka furnaces dow in operation, the
great SIofs furnaces now building, snd
two more yet to be con trucited. The
capital of the company will be $10,0( 0,
000. The leading movers in ithe scheme
are T)e Barledeben, who recently sold
the Pratt mines to New1 York capitalists
for $1,0;0,000, the Hilmans and Col.
Sloss This would practically consoli
date all the iron producing interests of
Central Alabama, except the! charcoal
furnaces The six furnaces would have
a capacity of 150,000 tons annually.
The Bane of JIabit.
.' Habits in little things exercise a petty
tyranny which is most degrading. A man
cannot do anything without observing a
lot of preliminary forms ; he must have
slept just so many hours, have risen at a
regular tirne, have breakfasted on beaf
steak and coffee, have read one particu
lar newspaper, have walked a certain
number of blocks, before he can make
his great Bpeech, or write bis brilliant
editorial. He cannot rise to a great oc
casion. He becomes a machine. His
'work may'be regular and neat,' but it is
soulless, cold, touoh'edwith no charm of
individuality. ; Such a man may serve
well, bat be is not fit to rule!
. If, at home, he is frequently respecta
ble, abroad he is always insufferable.
He is made so miserable by th disturb
ance of his habits in the exigencies of
travel;' that he can enjoy neither scenery,
pictures nor people. Yet he prides him
self on the " good habits". by which he
has blunted his sensibilities, and limited
his enjoyment of everything intended by
Providence to elevate and inspire a fallen
race. ; f
But there is a worse danger yet. This
subject has so long been misunderstood,
and that which is really a vice las so of
ten been upheld aB a virtue, that people
have come to regard it with actual satis
faction. This unworthy contemtment is
death to intellectual growth The mind
is hampered in thought and expression
by mental mannerisms which if is never
taught to shake off.
In speaking of the typical habitual
person I have said "a man", advisedly.
Women are more, rarely subject; to this
vice. I do not put their superiority in
this matter on the ground, of a stronger
moral sense. I do not wish to iexalt my '
own sex undeservedly. Women are
gifted by nature with greater flexibility;
and, doubtless, 'the ordinary)! circum
stances of their lives offer feweir tempta
tions toward habits. We must wait till
a woman's outward life becomes as nearly
like that of a man as it will soon become,
before we should boast of heij superior -moral
nature. We must seel whether
her freedom of soul will stand the crucial
test of men's unnatural "regular occu
pations." j
If a woman would be. ch arming, let
her shun habit like pestilence and death.
When Enobarbus said of Cleopatra : j
V Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Ber infinite variety, " j
he meant that .she was one of those de
lightfully spontaneous creatures who
have no habits at all. Some days, : I
fancy, she was very silent, and on others
overflowing with talk. Whenj Antony
marched home late in the evening be
might be perfectly sure that the Queen
would not be upset by having her dmner
at nine instead of at six and that she
would be pleased to sit up tbo ; rest of '
the night to listen to his exploits,, .t She
probably rose one day at noon, and on
the next viewed the sunrise from her
garden. ;
As I have, said, one who has; habits,
may be a good servant, but lone who
wishes to do more, must get rid of hem.
A soldier, a-mother, a frontiersman, a
physician, or any one who has' to meet
nature face to face, and work with her.
forces, has nothing to do with habits.
Such a one must learn to bear! fatigue,
heat and cold, broken sleep, irregular
and insufficient food, days of arduous
work, and days of enforced idleness.
Claritsa in Indianapolis, Herald.
the Talne of Study.1 "
Increase of strength is called "ac
quired habit." Our moral and intellec
tual virtues are acquired habits. The)
acquired power to study is a moral vir
tue; inasmuch as its exercise forces back
the lower propensities and tirpres forward
the Vbigher facultieSJ CHence i'Ke hairdJ
Btuaenis 01 a scnooi are Always gentler
men ind the yoiing man whose pear1
anoe show him to be a rougb is never a
bard student. Hence also, men eminent .
for great learning are generally eminent,
for moral virtues. -j. j I
Self-re8rjeci"i also armoral virtue; and
it has been'eaKHhftt slf-respexA'is at the .
root of all the virtues.. ,- - Hope, ; which is
the companion of energy and mother of
success, springs from self-respecfi j Hope,
which, as Carlyle says, "gives a man a
world of btrength wherewith to front a
world of difficulty." The value of repu
tation springs from self-respect, i When
Pythagoras admonished his pupils, " De
malista paion aitchuneo seauion
' But especially of all things reverence
yourself,' and when tbe apostle reminds
us that our bodies are temples of the
Holy Ghost, they botb iriculcate this1
same virtue of self-respect. If is the vir
tue of self-respect that has determined
you to cultivate, inJprove an'5 'develop
your mental faculties to'the highest de
gree of which they are capable; to make
of yourselves, as Richter expressed it
"the most that can be made; of the ma
terials. " You are accom plisbing the end
when engaged in the business of educat'
lng yourself at schooL
What He Thought.'
A pleasant faced; countryman on. a
train the-ther day, politely aakeda styl
ish and -haughty lady a question, and
she answered him with only-:, 'a frozen
stare. It staggered him for a minute,
i th'RTi fiftf ftlmflri midrwmrfc . bflhk to hia
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aLkud aviwoo uio zmL auu v uioci ska.
Jlsay;Eht what is it? Itiioiight it was
a lady." . Moral : All is not cold that.
glitters, and fine feather don
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.PUBLISilEI) AT RUTIIERFORDTON, NlG;! EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
What has become of Ben Butler, any
way? 1; ' - i
Sax Fbakoisoo granted 864 divorces
I last year. Si
It seems that the country is about to
devote itself to paying pensions.
It is stated thai Mrs. Garfield took no
interest whatever in the Guiteau trial.
. Thk Cincinnati Commercial says the
English of SpuytenDuyvil is "Spitting
Devil." :l , ; . j
In Congress are eight Irishmen, four
Scotchmen, five linglishmen, and three
Germans. i' "
' GtrrrBATT will now await the "divine
pressure " irresistible in its very nature
, of the hangman's rope. i
Edwabd S. StokeIj, Fisk's rhurderer,
lives in a house in Kew York fpr which
he pays a rental of $4,000 a year.
The Photographers' Association of
America will hold t their next annual
meeting at Indianapolis, August 8, 1882.
The leading London .newspapers ex
press satisfaction ovej; the conviction of
Guiteau, but, they all criticise the con
duct of the trial;
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The shipping north of Florida straw
berries will begin in a few days. The
cream and sugar accompaniments are
ripe and ready whenever they come. .
The compulsory education); law of
Sonora, Mexico requiring . children be
tween six and, sixteen , years toattend
school six months in the year, is being
enforced. j '
' The jurors in the Guiteau case say
that during the trial they talked with no
outsiders and read no newspapers. They
were virtually shut out from the world
seventy days.
A bumor, almost too weak to stand
alone, sajs Dennis Kearney is about to
start an anti-monopoly party in Califor
nia. So then, Dennis is still in the land
cf the living, j
There is onej person displeased with
the verdict rendered inithe case of the
assassin of President Garfield and that
person is Charles J. Guiteau, " the little
giant of the West."
Congbess, as5 usual, is full of men who
are afraid to follow the ghost of what
conscience they have. " What is needed
is a little hard, earnest work, and fewer
grand dinners, receptions, etc.
Ehthtsiastio anti-polygamy meetings
are being held in many parts of the
country. The Mormon question seems
to be about the next thing .of any con
siderable impdrtance' for the country to
grapple witly : ...
The people up in the Northeast have
been taking too many icebergs in their
weather. . Thirty-five degrees below zero
must have been more disagreeable than
anything Mother Vennor, in her palmy
days', could have given us.
It is the thing, now to be a "boy
preacher." The third "boy preacher
of the country tas popped to the surface
in Baltimore, who, it is said, is saving
more souls than all the old gospel
'pounders of that city put together.
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The murderers of Jennie Cramer, the
New Haven belle, are having a delightful
time of it in -i jail. . Blanche Douglass
divides her time between, sewing and
reading the bible, Jim Malley reads
hovels, and Walter sketches and plays
the .zither. j;
Baltimore extended a reception to
Oscar Wilde and Oscar forgot all about
if and went on to Washington, and now
Baltimore is so mad that they want to
rotten-egg the long-haired youth. It
seems that Baltimore forgot that Mr.
'Wilde charges i$200 to attend a public re
ception, j -1
Footpads have become so bold in and
about Indianipolis that the citizens
threaten to organize vigilant committees.
The footpads hit their victims with a bag
.of sand, knocking them insensible, and
then rob them of their valuables. ;. Of a
number who have been' thus assaulted,
one died of hisl injuries. ,
The Ohio State Temperance Conven
tion the other day adopted a resolution
asking that an amendment to the Con
stitution be submitted to a vote of the
people, prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of alcohol for drinking purposes ;
also, protesting against tax license, or
.any . restrictiohfe or regulations .whatever.
; The stock of flour at the principal
points in the United States and Canada,
actual and estimated, is placed at about
2.200.000 barrels.- 'The annual manufac
ture 'of flour in the country is about 55,
000,000 to 60,000,000 barrels. Thestock
of 2,200,000 ik no more than about two
weeks' consumption of the whole popu
lation. I
! The Boston JJeraW thinks that if Wil
j liam Penn, who was a good old Quaker,
i were to-day nominated for Governor of
j Massachusetts he would be snubbed,
because he drank wine. The Boston
' Herald seems to forget that the longer
i a man has beejoin the ground the better
he is thoughl of. If Peas were, alive
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1 RINCE Bismarcx is i(vrdly; going
down hilt He lately wriw tr t rtAmtn
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" uimappiiy, ipp notalways
j uij wue, mu noi as Bii 01 myself,
I hunt no mora, anrl mreivi rirt t I
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am iou weax. ana u 1 aa lot Rmn
rest my vital forces will be vrorn but."
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The Washington ar refers 'to the
singular and suggestive 'fajt that Mr.
Webster Wagner, who waS burked to
death in one of his own ,HtUce cars on
the Hudson Kiver Railroad;, & few days
ago, was Chairman of the Catmmiitee on
Railroads in the New York'Sate I Senate
which a year ago smothered and sup
pressed a bill introduced i& that body
for the better protection olfftfe on rail
ways.,
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JMlle. Khea, a KussiaS.3otre8s who
was interviewed by the ClevsJjaid litader
on Nihilism, said: " Thej majority of
tne jn inuists are young tSejn between
eighteen and twenty -two. ftfiny of them
are girls of the same age; guT with short
iimr ana speciacies wnq iiim.K tney are
divinely inspired to throw tombs. It's
queer tnat women always g-lo ettremes
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in everything.' Yes, it is ujtittle; queer,
but they do. Perhaps thej-jfetreas went
just a little to the extrem lathis:- state
ment oiners. ;T i
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Senator Blair says he bts received
numerous letters from men' pvominently
identified with public educitidu in the
South, indorsing his bill to, Appropriate
money from the National Treasury to
aid the cause of general edudationl The
bill proposes to appropriate:15,000,000
the first year, $ 14,000,000 the "second
year, and so on for ten yetys, the sum
to be diminished $1,000,000 facb; Tear,
the money to be distributediStates and
Territories in proportion tfrttje illiterate
population in each.
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A LouisvttLE
reporter 4 has -gotten
himself into a nice
mm He tele-
graptied over4he country tiLomsville
had thirteen caseB of 8malli(o, vrhereas J
an investigation proved th there was
no smallpox in that city whatever. For
his enterprise, according: toal citT ordin
ance, he will be compelled tojay $50 for
each case, an aggregate if 1 $650. As
everybody knows that ii4,i somewhat
larger than the average rewrters pile,
there is nothing left for the reporter to
do but to elope with his bod.y.
The imports of Germani and Italian
beans at New York htve iispaounted to
about 45,000 bushels thus fOT'anci some
8,000 to 10,000 are in trans t Foreign
markets are said to liavVi advanced
slightly tinder this large calljfrom Amer
ica, but there seems to I te' sufficient
margin at present cost to.en courage im
porters. A large proportion of these
beans have gone West, whvre they can
be used in place of home-gr(;jwn stock at
a lower price. Most of the titles ; are at
$2.75 to $3; some of the bei i have been
worked off in place of State ynediums.
The coming Opera Festival at'Musio
Hall, Cincinnati, which ocf iurs on the
13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, lTtland 18th of
February, will, beyond doiibt, b0 the
most successful, both m pcit of ; musi
cal excellence and nnanciaJy, that has
ever been held in this country. Patti,
whom at all other points inHhe country
it oosts $5 to hear, will sing upph this
occasion, and to the entire agries 6f per
formances, eight in nuuil&r, a season
ticket can be had for $14, wiich ismade
transferrable, and can be, 'divided up
among several persons ah4 ' thus still
further reduce the price cjf; admission.
Those in distant towns de?iiringt5hoice
seats can get them by applying in ad
vance of the occasion forl ytplatof the
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auditorium oi tne nail.
Aberdeen, Ohio
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scene of many romantic mintages,
licenses are required and intaonsequence
persons of anv age or cilac may be
united in wedlock without oftiolat
ing the law. An unusuijlly exciting
event is reported as taking lace there a
few davs afiro. The candidalB formatn
mony were from Kentucky, Whr in num
ber, named Mr. R. Smit.and Miss
Alice E. Garrison and MriyWillard F
Qarrison and Miss Maggie Nsal. . They
were in a very great htMy, having
traveled all night and part f Tithe .'day to
reach the place, as the fcjwe of Mr.
Garrison was being pura (A by her
parents, who objected topper getting
married on account of her,fap, she be
ing only thirteen years olc J But they
managed to beat the old yolks, and
all were married by tSoie' Massie
Beasly, in his usual gracefUfVtyle.' The
thirteen-year-old girl, it is liaid, was so
excited that she did not krW her right
hand from her left. ' . i
There are poets and thtire are poets
i-poets honored by a natioa. and poets
who, for the sake of humanity, should
be hurried pell-mell to the nearest pile
driver and there annihilated for all time
and ;eternity. From a' lav copy of a
farm journal, which, in ai;; agricultural
point of view perhaps is oeurpassed in
excellence, we find some vtises ,writtn
to "Sweet Madoline." Aaf f sample of
the whole we print this one! r ; -'f
Oh she's as sweat u the lily of! the TsUej,
Her equal ne'er was seen ; lf " ' :
How lightly she tripa along thvalley
Her nama is Madoline.
It savori somewhat of ritJmsM to pio
and General Sews
tore in yow mind a sweet maiden ; trip
ping along aa alley. There are some
alleys in whieh we fear sweet Madoline
would wish aha never bad gone. The
tenoh of the refuse would overcome all
steuuu ui wm rerus
ever did have and:
itor could see in such doggerel to merit
its publication is beyond human concep
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driver, it will he high time to visit that
editor's sanctum and hit him in the head
with a stuffed club.
Too Much Talk.
.There Is probablv too much talkinc
in the world, too much writing, too mucbj
liiatixig. x ii cio im iuuvu luure sum tutui
is well said, much more written than is
well written. As a nation we are too
noisy. We talk and write at random . !
all of US talk and write on all manner of
subjects, whether we know anything
about them or not. We are getting to
be worse than the French. We ought
to act more and talk less all of us that
are writing and talking ought to,
w.i!
multiply words continually. There is.
too much sad too little done. But who:
amongst us is going to commence the
needed reform by holdiner his ton sue
and going to work ? ,
A proposed reform sets everybody's
pen and tongue to running, till the thing
is talked and written to death, and ! all
become heartily disgusted with thewhclO
matter.
Free speech is a tine thing in theory.
but a rather poor thing in practical use.
Speech is so cheapened bv being free
that no value is set upon if. The Amer
ican people are persistent talkers, but
impatient listeners. Speakers are more
numerous thau listeners, 'l ite issue of
books and papers in all shapes and
forms anil upon all possible quvsstious, is
simply immense. No man need now
wish in vain for his enemy to write a
book, or print a newspaper,, - or niuke a-
speech, to the di-gnst of his neighbors
and his own demolition. It is the brq ot
peaking and printing-. And in tLe con
flict and clash of words we lose si"ht of
deeds. We talk much and act bnt'Jittle.
whereas we should act much and talk but
little. We . shall have to reform our
ways. Our prattle is out of all propor
tion to our performance. Thousands are
wieldine pen and tontr-H! v. ho are
better
"adapted to the putting of, wee 's
hoeiug of corn. Almost ev. r-
or th
free
American citizen who can reiul raid write
feels himself competent to instruct his
fellow-beings. But it is a free country,
and free speech must prevail. Every
man must talk and write all he wants to,
and make people listen aiid read if he
can. Seymour Times.
Hornet
How many pleasant recollections are
called into being .by that one word?
Home ! that sweet word has caused tears
to flow unbidden to the eyes of a
hardened criminal, or calmed his grosser
passions. 'Tis the one haven of earthly
rest. Should the outside world buffet
one around, if he haa a home now I
must be understood to mean a home
where there is unison and sympathy
among the inmates, not a mere place
to eat, drink and Bleep when he goes
home, heart-sore and weary from his
contact with the world; how soon he will
be refreshed I His spirits will be reani
mated; he will feel, let come what may,
that he may retire to the bosom of his fam
ily ' and there find rest and contentment.
Cannot one toil manfully all day with
his hard duties, if he has a home 1 in
view ? Will he not feel abundantly re
paid for all his preseverance, to meet, on
returning home, his wife, .or sister, who
is waiting and watching for him? Ah !
now sweet to mm will do uie tenaer
smile and loving kiss of welcome t They
will be doubly sweet to him now, and he.
will thank heaven: for giving him such
love and tenderness.
Now to make . home attractive and
cheerful is woman's work. No home
can be a home unless woman's presence
can be discerned in the neatness and
coziness of everything around. Some
females may rave about politics and all
such subjects, but if they could have
their way they would put themselves
where, God Almighty never intended they
ever should be placed.
'lis man s duty to go forth and battle
with the world;, woman's work to govern
that realm of bliss home. When woman
is raving about female suffrage, does she
think she is wiser than man ? No ; she
does not think any such thing. She is
one of those masculine women who are
too idolent and hardened to have a soft
pot left in her bosom for such duties as
are required to be done for "home.
sweet home." Some women should not
be allowed to invade the sanctum: of
those lovable women who rightly appre
ciate domestic felicity.
A modest, sensitive woman will find
her heart expanding around the family
hearth, instead of growing contracted
like those of worldly-minded women who
think they have a call to go forth and
govern the outside world, and let her
own little world be governed by servants
or by chance. Now, as home should be
the dearest place on earth, it is the duty
of every member of the family to make
home as agreeable as possible, so thai
each of the inmates of that loved place
may say with the poet :
Be it erer so humble, there's no place like home.
E. D. B.
The Yanltles of Teaching.
The desire to push a boy ahead to de
velop precocious tendencies, to uava
have bright pupils, "is among ' the
vanities of teaching. The surest
growths are the slowest., ne wna
makes haste slowly will generally win in
the long run win at least all that is
worth 1 laving in the prizes ol we. -ima
truth will come to general acceptance
with education. A- Goethe, a Hugo, a
Carlisle and , an . Emerson living on to
green old age are of more value to the
world than the corruscatiug careers of
Bums and Byron and Poe, going out m
an hour as it were, and leaving behind
them not.so much the work they did as
the sorrow of mankind that they did not
do the great work that was in them.
tffw York Sirald,
TEBHS $2.00 Vn Annnm.
A WonderfiU Tree.
Why men occasionally see sea serpent
and other 6nakes is plain enough ; but
what, is there in a Jersey cedar to ac
count for the following from the Clinton,
N. J., correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times. He says :
" A farmer living near Schooley Moun
tain has greatly excited his neighbors
by an account of a wonderful tree whicb
he discovered several years ago, and
which he has been M atching ever since.
He says for three years it has gone
through "the cold weather without shed
ding a leaf. It is a maple tree, and its
sap makes very good maple sugar.
" The farmer noticed it first while fol
lowing the trail of a fox up over the
mountain early in December, 1878. All
the other trees, even of the same species,
were entirely bare, while this tree had
not, to all appearances, lost a single leaf.
There were no dried leaves underneath
it, and theeaves on the branches were
all green. It was with great difficulty
that a leaf could be pulled from the
! twig to which "it was fastened, and a
' strong breeze,' which was blowiug at the
j time, had no effect upon the leaves. So
i astonished wai the discoverer at the
phenomenon that he forgot all about the
lie was auer a:iu uie com cnaracier
of the day, and spant several hours ex
amining the tree.
" He went home greatly puzzled, and
returned several days later with a clergy
man living in the vicinity. They de
termined to nif.rk several of the leaves
and see how long tfcey remained where
they were. They also resolved to keep
the thing a secret and watch its progress
until spring. This they did. When
April arrived the leaves which they had
marked were just as green and fresh as
in December, and the tree itself was not
affected in the least by the severity of
the weather and the many windy blasts.
." The bark was tapped every week and
yielded a plentiful supply of sap;
enough to keep both the farmer's and min
ister's families in syrup all winter long.
The same has been tried ever since ; not
a leaf has fallen, to the best of their be
lief, since the day the tre4 was first
noticed, and the sap has flowed with the
same regularity and profusion.
"As far as can be ascertained, there is
no cause for the mysterious vitality of
that particular maple. There is nothing
in the Bod or sub-soil to render growth
more available or make the trunk and
branches better able to stand the storms
and cold weather.
"A number of people have lately vis
ited the curiosity, but-each one comes
away perfectly mystified. At the pres
ent time not another tree on the whole
mountain, .with the exception of several
evergreens near the hotels, has a leaf on
it, and-the trunks and branches stand out
bleak and bare. .This maple is in an
exposed spot, , unprotected from the
winds and surrounded by rocks. Just
why it is as it is baffie3 the ingenuity of
all beholders. Even the regular Decem
ber fox hunt is cast in the shade by this
perpetually green maple tree. "
LETT IE OP GEORGE ELIOT.
To m Critic of Her "Daniel Deronda.'
From ths Athenwum.
We owe the opportunity of publishing
the following letter to the courtesy oi
Professor D. Svufman, to whom it
was addressed. Profefcsor Kauffman is
well knovn -by his remarks on " Daniel
Deronda, and it will oe seen mat iu
criticisms attracted the notice oi me
novelist, and led her to writing to him :
The'Peiokt, 21 North Ba.sk, )
May 31, 1877. )
My Deab Sir Hardly, since I lscatne an
.Urnr- v T hnrt s. rieener sawsiacuou, x
mn anv a. i ire hftaruell liv,
than you have
given me in vour eBtmiaie
of "D&oiel Ve-
ronda.f
I nJuat tell vou that is my ruie, very
strictly observed, not to read the critjcwms on
my writings, rot. years l nave xuuuu ui
stinence necessary to preserve me from that
discouragement as an artisi which ill-jwlgea
praise, no less than ui-juageu umuo, rf
prod uce in me. For far worse than any verdict
as to the proportion of good and evil in our
work is the painful impression that we write
for a public which has no discernment oi goou
and evil. ' . . .
My husband reads any notices oi me uiai
'refrains from reporting) the general character
Mm wfnr him ana reVHHTB IU ma iui
of the notice, or somemms m pi uus ,
strikes him as showing either an exceptional
insight or an obtuseness that is gross enougn
to be amusing. Verr rarely, when he has read
a critique of me, he has handed it to me, say
ing, '-You munt read thin." And your eati
(nateof " Daniel Deronda"' made one of these
fare instances. . , .
i Certainly, if I had heen asked to onoo.e wuai
,v,i.i hi. ..,.;.,.. .limit mi book! and who
Should write it, I shotild have sketched well,
Dot anything so good as what you have writ
ten, but an-article which must be written by
Jew who showed not merely svnip-ithy with the
best aspirations of his race, 'but a remarkable,
insight into the nature of art and the processes
of the artistic mind. Believe me -I .should not
have cared to devour even ardent praise if t
had not come from one who showed tbediji
fcrimiuating seusibilitv, the perfect response to
the artists' intention, which must make the
fullest, rarest joy to one who works from in
ward conviction, and not in compliance witn
current fashions. Such a response holds lor
an author not onlv what is best in " the life
that now is," but the promise of that which
is to come." I mean that the usual aPI0X1
mative, narrow perception of what one hi been
intending and professedly feeling in ones
work, impresses one with the sens that it must
be poor, perishable stuff without roots, to take
any lasting hold in the minds of men ; while
anv instance of complete comprehension en
courages one to hope that the creative prompt
ing has foreshadowed, and will continue to at
isfv. a need in other minds.
. Excuse me that I write imperfectly, and per
i haps dimlv, what I have felt in reading your
Jticle. It haa affected me deeply, and though
the prejudice nd ignorant obtuseness which
k.. , effort tn contribute something to
the ennobling of Judafsm in the conception of
the Christian community and in the conscious
ness of the Jewish community, hss never for a
moment made me repent my choice, but rather
has been added proof to me that the effort w
needed yet I confess that I had an unsatisfied
hunger for certain signs of sympathetic dis
cernment, which you only have given. I may
mention aa one instance your clear perception
of the relation between the presentation of th
Jewish element and those of English social
life. .
Iiwork under the pressure of small humes ;
for we are Just moving into the country for the
tunimer and all things are. in a vagrant condi
tion around me. oai x wian noi w uein u-
wering your letter to an uncertain oppurm-
nity
My husband has said more than once that he
feel! grateful to you. For he ia more sensitive .
on my behalf than on his own.
Hence he unites with me in the assurance of
the high regard with which I remain always
yours faithfully. - M. E. Lewis.
13k graceful if you can; but if you
can't be graceful, M UiW.'
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HUMORS OF THE DAT'.
" Abidance, like want, ruin many ;"
however, let us risk it on the abundance.
"Don't give me a weigh," pleaded
the fat girl when invited to step on the
scales.
When a girl rejects an offer of mar
riage she goes through a sleight of hand
performance.
The end to be attained in the invest
ment of money is the divid end. SUt
benville Herald.
If George Washington cannot have a
monument he has had a pie named for
him, and that is better.
An old negro says : "Sass is power
ful good in everything but children.
Dey need some other kind of dressing."
Thx editor who called Chicago a Chna
tian country ought to be better posted
in re.igioua geography. Boston Times.
"Pride goes before a fall." True
enough, but a pint of corn whisky can
give pride a hundred and beat it every
time.
An editor wrote a personal about a
voung man going to spark his girL
When it was printed he was horrified to
seethe letter- "n" substituted for the
"r" in the word spark. Whitehall
Times.
"Have a place for everything ami
every tiling in its place." Somehow or
other tliis won't work ; we have a bur
plaue for our wealth, but we'll be hanged
if we can put it there ; we,-haven't it !
Evansville Argus.
"Does our talk disturb you?" said
one cf a company of talkative ladies to
an old gentleman sitting in a railroad
station the ' other afternoon. "No,
ma'am," was the naive reply, "I've been
married night on to forty years." Hart
.ford Times.
"When I die let me be buried in the
stove, so that my ashes may mingle with
the grate," 6ays the paragrapher of the
Boston Star. In the stove the gentle
dan's ashes will scarcely mingle with
the grate ; the chances are he will gently
simmer aa a bas9 burner.
. A miller in Peru, Ind., fell asleep in ..
bis mill and bent forward till his hair
got caught in some machinery and was
yanked out ; and, of course, it awakened
him, and his first bewildering exclama
tion was: " Durn.it, " wife, what's the
matter now ?" Boston Jost.
A vert gushing young lady turned to
Mr. Snap and asked him in passionate
tones: "Oh ah Mr. bnap, tell me!
What what is your idea of real happi
ness?" Mr. Snap "Jtever reached the
full meaning of the word, yet, but I
guess pork and beans would cover the
ground."
"You are on the wrong tack," said the
pilot's wife, when the hardy bou of the
loud-sounding sea sat down on it and
arose with the usual exclamations.
"No," he replied, after a critical exami
nation, " I'm on the right tack, but shoot
me dead if I aiu't on the wrong end of
it." Burlington Hawkey e.
" Have some more of the pie," urged
Mrs. Slobson to her boarders, who ob
stinately refused. Again she urged
them, adding : " If you don't eat it I'll
have to throw it away. It won't keep
much longer." Strange to say, their
appetites departed. This is one of the
amenities of boarding-house life.
When you are coming up the cellar
atairs with a bucket of coal in one hand,
two pies and a plate of butter in the
other, and a loaf of bread under each
arm, it is . exceedingly trying to your
Christian fortitude to have a woman yell
down and caution you not to forget the
preserves on the swinging shelf in the
corner of the cellar, next to the current
jelly. .Been there, haven't you? W'if
lianisport Breakfast Table.
Walter Scott on the Literary Profes
sion. The following characteristic postoript
to an unpublished letter of Sir Walter
Scott's has been placed at our disposal
by the eourtesy of the correspondent to
whom it was addressed. It gives in a
forcible form Scott's well-known opinion'
of literature as a profession. It is dated
February 2, 1828, when Scott was hard
at work on " The Fair Maid of Perth :"
"Will you excuse my offering a piece
of serious advice? Whatever pleasure
you may find in literature, beware of
looking to it as a profession, but seek
that independence to which everyone
hopes to attain : by studying the branch
of industry which lies most within your
reach. Irj this case you may pursue
your literary amusements honorably and
happily, but if ever you have to look to
literature for an absolute and necessary
support you must be degraded by the
necessity of writing whether you feel in
clined ,or not, and besides, must suffer
all the miseries of a precarious and de
pendent existence."
This letter was addressed to the Bev.
Charles Room, under the impression that
Mr. Room, then a young man, proposed
making literature a profession; This,
however, was not the case, as Mr. Room
was at that time preparing to enter the
Christian ministry. Academy.
Can this be an extract from the diary
of that astounding commercial traveler,
Smnp! Plaatrick. of Posen ?"
Miles traveled- -2,500
Hats, ordered -
Suits of clothes made 2
Number of trunks..
2
Shown samples.-...
Sold goods
Been' asked the
news
Told the news
Lied
Didn't know
Been asked to drink
Drank
Changed politics.-.
Changed religion...
Daily expenses al
lowed by "bouse..
Daily expenses, act-
ttftl mwmW
Been to church
Accompanied girls
horaefromchurch
Girls flirted with."
Agreed to marry...
Expected trouble
. with
61
84
50
3
33
Ooodi sold for otber
firms..- 3,600
Commissions from
rival firms...... SZSO
Salary, 6 per day
lor 40 aays
20
Saved from daily ex
11
11
penses
Money put in sav
ings bank.....- S500
Cash on liand - S70
Got drunk.... 1
Badly broken op 3
Slipped oat on hotel
keepers. - 4
Cigars smoked ... 500
Cigars given away .. 3
17
S
S9
6
0
17
42
?i umber aays acioat
work
2
Numbers dayscaarg-
ed arm . w
Light wagons stove
Kicked out of the
house .
Left by back door
Dodged fair on .
railroad
Number of persons
cheated
Tried to cheat
up -
Attended hone races 11
Made on bets . 980
Lost on beta... tof
My -actual profit for
forty days $640
84 Firm's actual profit
I for forty days... $61
Yotr can't make good out of evil any
more than yon can skim the cream off
the top of a pan of milk and then turn it
oyer and slim it off the bottom.
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