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YFERUAY2, 1882. VOL. XI. NO. 20.
o ,#lue of prodnetions in MIss.
9 a ' ~i aas 70was $8,1d54 8 in 181),
few days ago Oolumbs Miss., In.
ested $8000 in a cotton faotory, and
UoW the capital amounts to $1,250,000.
A Van Buren, Ark., man has a con
tract to dIl000 persimmon roots to be
shipped to a Angelos, Cal.
A four story hotel, with all modern
Improvements, and to cost $75t000, Is a
probability at Birmingham, Ala. .
Atlanta's arst grain elevator is com
pleted. It cost $88,000, and has a stor.
age capacity of 200,0L0 bushels.
Georgia' raised less than 2,0000
bushels of oats in 1870, and in 188 the
production was over 5,000,000 bushels.
Pensacela, Fla., has voted against re
pudiating her aute-bellum debt, and re
cently paid $800,000 of it.
Bix hundred and one convicts in the
Arkansas penitentiary. Over 100 of the
number are murderers..
The individual deposits in the four
national banks at Nashville amount to
$3,702,881.62.
Shad are becoming numerous in the
Alabama, aud are old in the Montgom
ery markets.
Birmingham, Ala taxes retail whisky
dealers $850, while 4ulton charges only
~ $20.
Grandison Harris, Jr., was convicted
of bodyasnatching at Augusta, Ga., and
sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 or work
in the chain-gang for twelve months.
A stick of yellow pine timber at Way
cross railroad, Fla., measures fourteen
inches at the Emall end, and is 94 feet
long.
A company will cnmmence work at
Atlanta on the 1st of March on a facto
ry for the manufacture of stationary
engines.
A large portion of Arkansas has been
v'arried by the late three-mile local op
tion law, and hundreds of saloone were
closed with the close of the year.
A factory will be established at New
Orleans to prepare cotton-seed oil for
cooking, illuminating and -lubricating
- purposes.
In the Green county, Tenn., poor8
h uase the -daily expense of each pauperi
averages four and a half cents. Thie bll;
- of fare ought to be printed for the sake
of curiosity.
Alabama has 51,540 square miles, is
divided into six ty-six counties, eleven ol
them being 1,00(Izsquare miles or more in
dimension--the largest, Baldwin, being
1,620 mquiare miles. The smallest are
Green and Etowah, being each 520 Equare
miles.
Twelve tramps visited Columbus, Ga.,
a few days ago, and a few hours after
ward. they were beginning a thirty days
sentence on the rock. pile. This treat
ment generally and vigorously applied
will reach the very marrow of the tramp
nuisance.
The Little Rock Democrat says that a
great many people in that country do
not understand that It is a greater crime
to kill a human being than it is to steal
a Choctaw pny, with flax mane and
tail, worth $14.7-5.
4 ~ The Florida Southern railroad projects
an extension to Perry, Ga., which will
* pass through one of the richest undevel
oped sections of the State. The corn
pany is composed of Boston capitalists
said to represent $40,000,000. A heavy
force is at work on the Georgria line.
Atlanta Constitution: If one of the
productsof the cotton plant is to run
hog'sa fat out of the South, this remark
able weed will heireafter be regarded as
the author of a new and higher civili
iation. We are all the victims of dis
eased hog's fat and a too frequent use of
the frying pan.
Fort Smith (A rk.) Independent: It is
no lornger Old Arkansas, but Now A r
kansae. The flint lock rifle, the coon
skin cap,4he yellow dog, the belied spurs
and the quirt are only remembered as
the past, and good stock, good farms,
good schools, education and retinement
4 have taken their place. *
~Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: With the in
crease of our industries comes also the
* demand for skilled laborers. The South
has not got them. A 11 our bo' s have
been tramned to be lawyers and doctors.
Georgia has not an institution for train
ing youngzmen as skilled mechanics. She
has several so-called military kttach
ments, but not an institution devoted to
practical kr~owled ge In mechanism and
manufacturing, which is now her great
est need.
Shze Fetched Hi1m..
Women sometimes have great pres
ence of mind. A 'ailor's wife saw that
a prisoner had got btween her husband
and the unlocked door and was going
for it like a Scotch terrier for a rat hole.
She knew she hadn't the sen gh to
seize and hold him, and beside he had
a knife, so she 'didn't try. But she
stepped into a side corridor near the head
of a fig t of stairs the pisoner had aot
to descond, yanked. o her hioopskirt,
and, as lie passed, finng it before him.
The way he turned handsprings and
somersaults down those stairs was a can
tion ,to cats, and his frantic struggles
aftet he teao'hed the bottotn would have
attracted folks from) dog fght. When
~~ ~ the jallor came up, teflow had got
~himself so entangled that be was abso
Imty helpless, was doubled up~ In tori
uncomfortable ways and was ohok
K nlg to death, and so otapletely woid
~ ~ p that the jallor had to est him out
avt hat ~, .a it took half a yard of
90ns se qaria to
TOPINS OF TRDIY. .
Soovoy has one faculty. He 0at
Pae's baggage consists of twenty
-Thu long-heired Wild's first leatur(
netted him $1,400,
Ooiwaaxt to report, Annie Louis
Cary is not to be married.
Ozm hundred newspapers in this coun.
try are edited by colored men.
A nmanmT of Belfast, Ohio, has been
put under bonds for opening his wife',
letters.
TwM project for the World's Fair in
Boston has been abandoned for want ol
money.
IT w" be a great relief wlhen we shall
be able to announce the close of the
Guiteau trial.
Tum Boston University has come into
Possession of $2,000,000 bequeathed to
It by Mr. Rich.
A SAII LAx Gentile states that it
would require an army of 80,000 men to
put the Normons down.
A oommwPonAny suggeits that Guiteau
will have an opportunity to deliver his
speech from the gallows.
THE Boston Co-operative store, after
several years' trial, has proved a failure,
and will wind up its affairs.
BoTa the new Senators eledted from
Iowa are natives of Ohio. Men born in
Ohio get into office everywhere.
A RAxON-UERPEn, at Blanchester, Ohio,
has been required to pay a woman $1,200
for selling her husband liquor.
ExPRnsUirs made with sugar beets in
Whitman County, Oregon, relnIt in a
yield of 5,000 pounds to the acre.
WHAT a remarkable contrast the pres
ent winter is with that of one year ago.
Everything seems to go to extremes.
T"u Garfield monument fund now
smounts to about $90,000, of which the
oity of Cleveland contributed $68,000.
A o=r, at Wentworth, Ont., was sent
to jail for forty-eight hours for contempt
of court because she refused to take an
*Ah.
MAssAcavaaUs' entire representation
n Congress--two Senators and eleven
Represexatatives-.-are in favor of woman
lufiage. .___ _ __- _ _
Miss ANNA DIoxIwsoN has scored a
meocess in male character, as ."Hamlet."
Eer determination to wear tights has
prevailed.__________
Tini Boston Globe believes the methetic
ggle, which fashionable women have
pted as a manner of locomotion, will
mure rheumatism.
IT is said that of 72,000,000 bushels of
grain sent from America to Europe last
rear, not a single bushel was carried by
in American ship..
A Nuw YOnK paper advertised for
riginal short stories, and received over
100 responses. The world has an abund
moce of literary talent.
Tiiunu is one thing the Land Act has
lone in Ireland; it has filled the prisons,
)ut what other benefit has been derived
kom it would be hard to say.
ThAT inilnitesimal specimen of human
ty, Tom Thumb, has become a convert
o spiritualism, and believes in almost
sverything of a ghostily nature.
IT 15 in order to announce that Secre
~ary Folger nas no one to do the honors
f his palatial home but a grown daugh
or. In other words, he is a solitaire,
THa amsthetio knee-breeches have, one
great advantage - they do not bag at
the knee, and they have this great disad
vantage-they betray an unshapely calf.
RosSrA goes steadily nearer bank.
ruptoy each year, and last Decembez
raised with difficulty the gold to pay the
semi-annual interest due foreign debtors.
OOA1n WIrLnE says that in all England
there is not an actress so "powerfulIy
intense" as Clara Morris. Thia remarke
is supposedl to be a compliment to Mist
Morris. ______
IN BAr/rIvoau teachers are required te
report twice a week the number of 'whip.
pings administered, and those who re
port the fewest whippings have the
smoothest sailing.
It is claimed that og account of the
beans they est Boston women look
younger at forty than Chicago womer
do at thirty yeats of age. Still, it i
pretty hard to believe.
SAYs the Detroit ree Press.: "Tb<
-war of 1812 ended sixty-seven years ago
and yet ove 20:000 widows are drawini
penalosas granted on accountf it. That'
hibits to the Atlanta oltIon, but so
many were sold that were sumoient
to take away those which r4alnnA they
being nearly'all of them machinery.
RMTUoXY does' not naturally take to
holidays and believes there are too many
of them on the calendar. In the House.
a few days ago, a bill was passed to
Abchh Ne* Year's day as a holiday.
OswzGo, New York, is decidedly a
healthly town. Rev. Simon Parmalee,
on th'e 15th of January, celebrated his
centennial birthday. Anotker Oswegoan
died recently aged 108 years and a ?4r.
Clark, of the same town, claims to have
passed his 110th year.
IT Is gratifying to know that a titie
bill for murder in the first degree has
been found against' the iurerer3 o0
yennie Cramer, at New Haven, Conn.,
the,5th of August last. Walter E. Med
ley, James Malley and Blanchn Douglasa
are the persons indicted.
THE National Board of Health is con
sidering the pressing demand for better
quarantine regulations at New York and
other ports, in order to prevent emi
grants infected with smallpox landing
and proceeding on t'eir journey inland,
spreading the foul disease aQl over the
country.
A RAnMoAD disaster is a pretty serious
thing for the company which owns the
road. It is said that the Ashtabula dis
aster five years age has cost the Lake
Shore $2,000,000, and some of the suits
for damages are not ended yet. The
Spuyten Duyvil disaster will cost the
Central a tremendous sum.
A WEST VmGIN.IA-railroad company has
agreed to stop at least one of its traine
each way-on being flagged-for passen
gers and freight at every farm where
right of way is given. The good times
hoped for when every farmaer shonld
have a railroad in his own dxr yard,
seems to have come, in West Virginia.
A -mzARtKAnLE u-0 is being made of
potatoes. The- clear peeled tuber is
macerated in a solution of sulphuric
acid. The result is dried between sheets
of blotting papor, and then pressed. Of
this all manner of small articles are
made, from combs to collars, and even
billiard balls, for which the hard, bril
liantly white material is well fitted.
A FORRIGN letter says all Vienna thea
ters are well nigh bankrupt. Nobody
frequents them. The largest amount of
money received by an one of them is $200;
others take in about $50 a night. The
police have forbidden all day perform
ances, and have lessened the num
ber of seats in each. For instance, the
the Ander Wien Theater, which held 2,
540 seats, has now only 1,270.
MAYOR HAnnISON, of Chicago, has
just had a streak of luck. A few days
ago he received a letter from .a lady in
Boston, who said that she lived hn Shaw
mut avenue, was cultivated, had a taste
for the masthetic literature and art, had a
cool $100,000 in bank, was but thirty
eight years old, and anxious to be made
a Mayor's kride. The Mayor perhaps
understands the drift of her argument.
THE annual product of the precious
metals in the 'States and Territories west
of the Missouri River, including British
Columbia, are as follows : Receipts at
San Francisco from the west coast of
Mexico and reported to Wells-Fargo :
Gold, 981,869,686 ; silver, $45,077,829.
California shows an increase in silver
and a decrease in gold. Nevadai shows a
falling off, and Utah, Colorado, and Ari
zona, an increase.
A~CORDING to all accounts Mrs. in
coin is in a pretty bad condition, physi.,
cally and mentally. She is aittending
Miller's Water Cure, New York, and is
barely able to walk about lier room.
Cataracts are forming on both eyes. She
is troubled with spinal troubles and has
-Bright's disease. When told that the
Pension Committee had decided to give
her $15,000, which amount was duo her
under arrears of pension, she manifested
great satisfaction. She will remain in
New York for the winter.
Muuoxa of bares of crude oil,
onough to supply the world for years,
are said to be stored away in the oil re
gions. The discovery of oil in Europe
and the sinking of wells there threaten
to affect the foreign ma'rket, though sta
tistics as yet show no decrease of the
amount of oil expected from this couD try.
Our oil men have turned tlair attendon
to South America as a market, but in
some parts of that section of the world
there are large deposits of petroleum ol
good quality, which can be procured ini
abundance without boring for it.
A (omfNicXA'rION In the Charlestom
News and Courier calls attention to the
statute which makes the non-payment ol
a poll tax of $1 a misdemeanor. It says:
"What prompts me to write to you al
this time is that arrests are now being
made and prisoners are conflned in om
' aIl charged with no other crime thai
PTO noth o in iswng,
And ay 01 aaeltlnkl f dnythius,
pu , tthen I ti
wso ' Pefr and aftk;
asas nPntu"..
e s e r b b a A 'p ,s m y o ny e x u s e - "
the numbr of ths F have been in love;
ex qtly how often I've lost a VlovoI
the people rve met and the ople I've missed;
t how many ils In my life Is ve kissedi
Of how many ntre I couldn't get:
Of how many times I've been ia delt.
And then to y pi pause
And think of wi wt smoking for cause.
Ihink of what I've done and se;
Of the man I would be aud the man I have been;
Of an aimless man linking into life's shade.
I think of all I have studied and read#'
And I think of a blind man, a cripple in bed;
I think of an idle and purposeless youth,
And I think " Have I found out the meaning of
truth?'
fow oft I was angry, ill-humored and swore;
Of how many pebles are washed on the shore;
Of how many actious I',e done that are good;
Of how many herridgas you'll find In a wood;
Of things that bore me; of things that I hate
Of an afternoon dance which breaks up-at eiglt;
Of how many times I have wasted my cash,
And spent lots of money on nothing but trashI
Of how many times I hiave wished you were here;
Of how many wishes I've wished la a year.
I was smokiing a pipe, unless I mistake;
Efow long have I slept and when did I wake?
--Lodon ,ociese.
The Commands of the Empress.
A Stos.y of u.a.s D.sp.as.
BY MAUY KYLE DALLAs.
To believe the following story, which
is recouuted by a French historiani Oile
must remvmber that the word of a Rus
sian Emperor or Empress has always
been a vory different thing from the
word of an English King or Queen; and
that where-as in this case-the British
cabinet would decide that her majesty
was temporarily insane, the Russian
lady .would be considered only a little
more severe than her predecessors.
In the time of Catherine the Second,
there dwelt in Russia a gentleman
uamed Sonderland, who, though English
by birth, had become a Russian subject,
and also a great favorite with the Em
press. She loaded him with favors ;
made him immensely wealthy; gave him
a palace to live in, and embrced him
publiciv.
What more could a sovereign do to
show her affection for a subject? -
Her partiality was so well-known thaut
the greatest people at Court sought his
favor and feared his frown ; but he was
a very pleasant and good-hearted per
son, whd thought more of his dress ap
pearance, and the effect he produced on
Lhofair sex, than anything else ; and it
was rather a benefit to the community
than otherwise that he should have the
-eai of the Empress. He, himself, was
perfectly happy, and spent a great deal
of his time in writing verses expressive
of the charms of the Empress, her good
ness, and the amiability of her disposi
tion.
One morning he had just finished a
most flattering poem in several cantoes,
setting forth the story of her condescen
sion to a poor old soldier to whom she
had really been kind, and was reading it'
to a select audi-ance, when a servant
entering the room, announced to him
that the Chief of the Police, whose
name was Reliew, desired to speak with
him, having a .message from the Em
press.
The poet instantly threw down hi.
paper, and. delighted with this proof of
confidence on the part of the sovereign,
,excused Almself to his friends, and hur
ried to the room where Reliew was wait
ing for him.
The Chief of Police sat leaning back
in his chair, with a very grave face, and
saluted the Englishman as a jailer might
salute a prisoner whom he was about to
lead to execution.
" What can T do for you, Reliew ?"
asked Sonderland, with a condescending
twist of his mustache. "I see you are
in trouble, and it was well to come to me
ait once. The Empress was kinder than
~usual yesterday, and expressed herself
more anxious to take my advice than she
has over done before; so haveno fears. I
esteem you, peliew. I conside: you my
best friend."
"Ah!I" said the Chief of Police, doubt
fully. "And 1 am very sure I have a true
friendship for you; but I regret to say I
have terrible news for you. You have
utterly lost the favor which has been
yours so long. Indeed, though I may
not question the loyal mandate, Isuffer
terribly in bringing you the news. See
how pale I am. Look how I tremble.
Oh, how can I tell you ?'
"But how have I offended ?" asked
Sonderland. "Assuredly you are mis.
t aken. The Emp~ress kissed me on my
forehead last evenmng before the whole
Court."
"So one loses the favor of royalty,"
sighed Reliew. " Perhaps you have ad
mniredl a pretty woman."
" No, no," replied Sonderland.
*" The Empress told me nothing," said
Reliew; "nothing whatever. She gave
me her commands, and bade me accom
p1 ish them at once. But they are too
horrible? toobhorrible 1"'
" Am I to be sent away ?" askedj*Son
:lerland.
" You .could be very happy in some
')ther country. I should not dread giv
~ng you that news," replied Reliew.
" Am I to be exiled to Siberia ?" asked
Sonderland.
"In that case there might be some
hope of your coming back," replied Re
" Then, good heavens ! I am te be
vhipped with the knout," sighed t mn
herland.
" You might get over that ; It seldom
kills." answered the Ru~ssia~n, moodily.
"'Then she wants wy lifo," said Son
lierland. "TBnt I know her better than
von do. I will fling myaelf at her feet
mua implore her pardon. And, at all
av"ents, one can die~ but once."
" Oh, my poor fri mad 1" moaned Re
'i'ew, bursting into tears, "it is worse
than anything you can imagine. The
E~mpress has orderedl me to have you
abnffad."
" What?" oried Sonderland.
" To have you stuffed," replied the
agitated Bellow. " LIatoumypo
friend, This Miorning sient b rme
kertand4-and plafsl upon a stand in
my private apartment. Let the stand
be elegant and bear his name with these
words: " The Favorite of -the Em
pressp.,"'
" 'Your majesty is good enough to
lest.' I said humbly. L
"She 1lasied a fievoe glance at me. i,
"'I am in io Jesting humor. I valued
him,'shesaid. 'took, Ihave even shed
tears; but I do not Wish to see hii s
again. Tae hin to the taxidermist this at
morning. I will write my orders for
him;' and she gave me this paper ;" and
he handed to poor Sonderland a paper
on which were written these wor Is: fe
"Stuff Sonderland very carefully and ti
set him upon moss in the attitude of P
begging. Begin your work within the it
hour. Great as was my affection for 11
poor Sonderland, .his beauty was his e
greatest charm. There are others as
faithful and as affectionate, and I shall sc
now alwayd have him to look at: he is li
certainly a spleodid dreature, Go and je
make all speed possible. lrave the words
'The Favorite of the Empress,' in letters
of gold on a black pedestal three feet in
height." tl
" There, my poor Sonderland, you til
see," said the Chief of Police, "it is not t1
I who have gone mad." ni
" Then it is the Empress," said Sonder- cl
land. "Unhappy sovereign, she has lost b
her mind." a
&All the worse for us," sighed the go
vkretched Itussian.
"As soon as I felt sure of her real &
meaning, I fell on my knees and begged tI
her not to intra4t the terrible news to t1
me; to reconsider her intention. I hardly f<
knew what I said. For answer sh' tl
pointed to the door. al
"'If Sonderland is not taken to the
taxidermist within an hour, you shall be v
knouted and sent to Siberia,' she said. i4
" Wretch that I am, I am here with the h,
news." ti
"bet me see the Empress; let me ji
know what I have done. Let me write. b
Take 4 note to her from me." IV
"I dare not," said the Chief of Volice. 1
"I have a wife and seven children. You n
are dear, but they are dearer to me." n
Sonderland began to hope that the f
Empress only wished to play a practical a
joke upon them, and pitying his friend g
for his terror and the grief he suffered, r
after a few moments more, arose and 8
offered to go with him at once. Wrap- r
r ing themselves in their furs, both men
umped into the sleigh at the door.
Ideanwhile he had written a letter to,
the tampress, and calling a servant, dis
patched it by him. As yet no one
guessed at the reason of this visit from
the OUief of Police, and the servant had
no fears concerning the safety of his er
rand.
Meanwhile the two getlernen- pro
ceeded together to the house of the tax
idermist. Gottschekoff. Sonddrlaud yet
-hopeful-for an Englishman oould not
believe that such a command could be
given in earnest-the Russian half mad
with horror. In fact, in delivering the C
command of the Empress he lost conm
mand of his voice and fainted away.
The taxidermist himself grew pale.
" This is my sentence of death, as a
well as yours,"' he said to Sonderl and, ai
" for I do not know how to stuff a man, | 1
and I know what Empresses are. I -12
shall have to try, of comae, but I don't d
think it can b)e do""t
"I am wire it is only a jest of our t
sovereign's," said Sonderland.
The Russians shook their heads. But a
at this instant a loud tramping Was e
heard, and armed men entered, seized a
upon the Chief of Police, Sonderland and o
the taxidermist, forced them into a b
sleigh and drove madly away to the Roy- a
al Palace,.e
Bonderland still kept his courage. A
man knows well enough when a woman tl
really likes him, but the Russians knewv L1
that if the Empress had lost her senses, a
her maddest mandate must be obeyved. (O
Perhaps they would now be all stuffed.
Led into the royal presence, they
found Catherine furiously pacing the
dloor. i
" Wretched madman," she shrieked 5
to the poor Chief of Police, " what havey
you been about?" "2
The poor follow fell upon his knees.
" My Empress," lhe cried, "endeavor- A
ing to obey you, though it broke my '
heart."
" And you, beast ?" she cried to the
taxidermist,
The taxidermist also prostratoel him- 'a
self with -his teeth chatterinig in his -
" MLy Empress," said Sonderland, of
fering her the paper she had written,
"here is. your royal mandate. There
were some difficulties (purely profes
sional) in the way of stufling me.
Otherwise I should have been already
in an attitude of supplication on a black
marble pedestal, I make no doubt."
"Great Heaven 1" crIed Catherine.
" My friend-my most faithful and mfost
earnest friend-hiow dared you lielieve
me capable of such a thing ? And you,
Idiots, get up." And she spurned the
crouching mon with her royal foot. " It
was my dog, my favorite spaniel-whom
I had named after this dear Sonderluad
because he was so handsome-that I
ordered you to stuff. lie died lasit nigh t.
The whole palace knew that. Good
heavent 1"
The absurdity of the mistake forced
itself upon the royal mind at this instant.
Catherine, in the midst of her rage, be
gan to laugh, and ended by growmng
good-natured.
" Amusing idiots," she said, " go, and
always obey me as well as you have
done to-day. I see, at least, that you
meant well. '
And thereupon the Chief of Police and
the taxidermist crept away, thankfnl for
their lives, to convey the dead dog to its
destination. And E~ 'erland went to
lunch with the Empress, who leant upo n
his shoulder as they walked toget 1ert
through the Palace. b,
e.Remember, Yening Men.
Young men who are intending to be1
farmers should reamber that agricult
ure is both a scienee and an art, to be
carefully studied, and then prctically -1
cauine out Tha'Aavhasanabhywhen .
Ingersol on Whiskey..
We publish this week a beautiful ex
act from a late volume of Ingersoll's
'it, Wisdom and Eloquence by Mo
ure, on the subject of Alcohol and its
)rrors. Mr. Ingersoll is an avowed in
1elybut what Christian priest has done
much as he for the cause of temper
ice?
I am aware there is a prejudice
;ainst any man engaged in the manu
cture of alcohol. I believe that from
ec time it issues from the coiled and
)isonous. worm into the distillery until
empties into the hell of death, dis
nor and crime, that it demoralizes
Oerybody that touches it from its
urce to where it ends. I do not be
eve anybody can contemplate the sub
ct without becoming prejudiced against
ie liquor crime.
All we have to do gentleman is to
Oink of the wrecks on either bank of
ke stream of death; of the suicides, of
te insanity, of the poverty, of the i g
rance, of the destitution, of the little
Aildren tugging at the faded and weary
reastsof weeping and despAitin g wives,
king for bread, of the talented men ot
hieds it has wrecked, the men strug
ing with imagirary serpents, produced
r this devilish thing; and when you
tink of the jails, the ahinshouses, of
ie asylum@, of the )risons, of the qcaf
>ids, upon either bank I do not wonder
tat every thoughtful man is prejudiced
gainst this stuficalled alcohol.
Intemperance cuts down youth in its
igor, manhood in its strength and : ge
its weakness. It breaks the fathers
mart, bereaves the darling mother, ex
nguishes natuiral affection, erases con
igal love, blots out filial attachments,
lights parental hope and brings down
iourning age in sorrow to the grave.
produces weakness, not strength, sick
ess, not health, death, not life. It
ikces wives widows, children orphans;
ithers fiends -and all of them paupers
nd beggars. Feeds rheumatism, nurses
out, welcomes epidemics, invites chole
1, imports pestilence and embraces con
umption. It covers the land with idle
ess, misery and crime. It fills your
tils, supplies your ahinshouses and sup
les your asy lums. It engenders contro
erses, fosters quarrels and cherishes
iots. It crowds your penitentiaries
.nd furnishes victims to your scaffolds.
t is the life blood of the gdnibler, the
lement of the burglar, the prop of the
Lighwayman and the support of the
nidnight incendiary. It countenances
he, liar, respects the thief, esteems the
ilasphemer. It violates obligations,
everences fraud and honors infamy. It
lefames benevolence h scorns
,irtue and slanders innocence. ft n
ites the father to butcher his helpless
fM pring, helps the husband massacre
is wife and the child to grind the par
::idal axe. It burns up men, it con
uimes women, detesta life, curses God
nd despises heaven. It stuborns wit
ess, curses perjury, defiles the jury
ox, and stains the judicial ermine. It
egrades the citizen, debases the legisla
>r, dlishonlors statesmen, and (disarms
ie patriot. Is brings shame not honor;
3rror, not safety; despair, happiness;
nid with the vntal1ovence of a fiend,' it
ilmly surveys its frightful desolati
1(1 unlsatisfied with its havoc, it pois
as felicity, kills peace, ruins mnorale',
lights confidences, slays reputation
ad wip~es out nationasl honors. It curs
the world and laughs at its ruin.
I 1 does all that and more-it murders
ie soul. It is. the son of villainies,
Ie rather of all crimes, the mother of
J(Iminations; the dev'ils best friend, and
ods worst enemy.
A Punishment Worse Than Death.
An execution to which more than pass
ig interest attaches will take place in
Vindsor, Vermont. The condemned
erson is Emueline M. Meaker, of Water
ury, who was convicted of the murder
C an orphan girl thirteen years old,
lice Meaker by name, April 2'2, 1880.
he wretched woman protested her in,.
ocence on the occasion to set aside the
erdict, as Bile has always done, but was
entenced to be hanged in the prison at
Vindsor on the last I'riday of May,
883. The crime, for which a son of
Irs. Meaker, Almon Meaker, is already
tude'r sentence of death, was one of the
nost horrible in even the criminal lisa
ory of Vermont. The child was a half
iister to E. 0. Meaker, husband of
[Cmeline, anid was an inmate of their
iouseho~ld, where she was ueverly abused
md nmaltreated, being treated, ind~eed,
is a slave by Mrs. Meaker andl Almon.
lmion was a half-witted, pliant tool in
h1e hands of his mnothe'r. Mr. Meaker ie
>)elieved to be innoent of all complicity
n1 e'itherA the abusei or the murder of the
shilhd. The child was taken from bed
md dressed, a sack was tied over her
icad, and she was takog~ in a wagon to) a
onely sp)ot in the woods, whore a dose
> trychn ine was gi ven her, and she was
cft to die ifl a swamp. The crime was
'on olnsiviely fixed upon the two wretched
>risoners, and nothing can now save
~hem from the terrible consequences.
L'he time allowed the condemnod to pre
>are for death is so long that the execu
ion will undoubtedly be welcomed as a
ermination of the feeling of terror that
vill possess thenm,
flow ('an V{on Tell a Ghood Cigar I
rTey usedl to say that a good cigar
ould be known by the light brown
p~ecks on it. Thmese were made b~y
gorms, the story was and the worms
rere epicures Intob~acco and would
ouch only the best. But the chemists
oon found a way of simulating the~sc
vorm sp)eckq. So that spoiled the test.
LChen there was no other guide but the
shes. If theso burned white the cigar
vas rood ; if not, bad. But the enter
>rising tobacconists soon found a way to
n~ake the vilest cabbagenia burn as spot
essly white as the best Havana. An
ther test gone. Finally the wakers of
thea
The
oa1
place- o
read as follows
I send thee back
Does it wakea m
Didst thou thipk *s
That I could waa,
Thal to another
Nay-'twould
"That'll do.
self?"
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"It's tough,"
man. "I can
pItches around
m not a oonnDOos
she doesn't rh
For instanoe,a
That to another was
Nay-'twodld wrong
"Now, ' troth' -
rhyme. We'll hav
would this do:
That to another wad
Thy love's more
" That kind of
doesn't it ?" an
smiled affably 1h
the girl.
" o you think:
Sund f" asked
bewita ' gly r
"O0h, You -I
into a bang up
you grind out som -
to me, and I-"
At this int the'
in, and e young
doing so much
girl by a series of
new arrival was the
to see. Ex ainin e
handed him or
it carefully, and the
"Ireadily pen.1
(emof poetic fire 1n
it noeds only time a :
forth into a lower Qf
The effort whichs
crude. It lacks t e
and experience alofl
reconstruct the fir's
with the ideas just 1
After writing for a
literary editor read as.
Take back, Oyruvedih
No longer a IIshine on
To depths so low I novetcuI
This astonishing heart.s~k
Another has your lofe, IU
Be not afraid . fo scomn s ti 7
"You see thaf~~~tII
and somewhat im ~i -i
uaidt e literary elw
"Mid will you p Uu
"Oertain , and n
tiontoo. ow,
poetry just bring I$tiAZ
" Never mtinc e lq
the trotting-horse w
the room at this
boy that takes aork
three-em dash
schooner.~ Wheneei
you just brin yourven
But the g'r wasg~
bune.
A Better
The wasteful 4raoi
otherwise destroyifl
been brought into si
lady in Iowa, who hap
in the form of an al
turns out for the4
tainment of her viuitor
wearied of praising her
the family photograpl.
The device, econoqs
that aspect praisewot~4e
backs. To visitors h hiv
the phrase is-"with~ 4dwol
the sight of such a cIb.
harrowing in the xr 7
would be the adi
some guest would fin~
sives one from some
believed she bad a sp
sight, in such a case, of -
addressed to another might t
tive of unpleasantnose4al
of tearsapr, worse still,*sce
hair-puT~ing.
3 These possibiities awet&
Tortunately they ca be
recurring to the old
fuli method of burna e
missives contain-or -
to contain-a go
Some of themaeb
the glowng imap-4
" just too sweetoiaz
is undoubtedly hypebl
however, to be sweet o
if there is any semb --
about them. Let .
abandoned then a2nd 1*
love letters of the
glutose factories. Te
neighborhood of su~ is
object. But they do
Ana Outlaw's rwh
The rol%ers used.
at targets in oomptfii
hearts, in the shotj.ti
sometimes almost gi4
men, and the yells
air as one's favorit
bullet on the half
ward to thegou
justice to a border
young ladies
ism, Miss Ryan, -a
boaating that shecod
as often in the race as
It may be propeh~t
modus operandS of -
A itkel or other sneill
the forks of a re
from the ground t
would be wehile of
p arty has one shot
his horse at full s
their regular -
been known to
qoot of five
I at balniq
ats by