The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, March 28, 1882, Image 1
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BY DRAYTON & MoCRAOKEN.
AIKEN, S. C., TUE
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Tte Shadowed Crow.
In voddod lore our lire* bad twined
One year—one c&releea, golden year—
And then be died, my darling died;
And, forjhe Joy that harbored there.
My heart %aa filled with dark despair.
I traced the hannte he loved the beat
In dear, loet dye—alas, so brief I.
And mem’ry’a breathings, once so sweet,
But fanned the furnace of my grief:
They brought no tears to my relief.
At early dawn I sought his grave,
'Mid qv.aint-carved stones, o’ergrown with
moss, 1
And loj hallowed mound—
Iifseeming emblem of my loss—
There fell the shadow of a Cross.
And, kneeling there in tearless woe,
Metbought I heard my darling say:
"Oh, levs 1 thy grief a shadow is,
Which as a dream, shaH past away,
Where shadows melt in cloudless i
Then found my anguish vent i
Strange tears of hear'n-
“torn poor thingP* laughed Fan.
“ If won had only had a nice competent
filter, as 1 hare, to take all the worry
off yoor mind, then yon oonld hare
resigned everything to her good provi
dence, aa I do, and have dalmly awaited
yonr fate with folded hands.'*
“Tea) if I had had sotne one to rely
npon I might have given my thoughts
to more serious matters. Or if Charlie
had been more conservative in his
ideas, more punctilious in matters $t
etiquette, he might have helped tne out;
but he did just as every one else does,
left everything to me, and I had the sat
isfaction of making a grand fiasco of it
all. But I will do better by you, Fan.
You are not to be married until Jtrae;
that will give us plenty of time to com
plete the arrafigements. The ceremony
shall be at St. Andrew’s, aod I will give
yon the fhost recherche of receptions.
I am very glad the professor h
to spend, his vacation abroad; it is
jost the thing for a bridal tour. You
18 only *ke background to the pio- can have your selection of the young
peac% tha We had no city caterers to pro- men from the graduating class, with
And
►my calm:
' / jee, thus coruforM,
vrom the grars had fled.
—Qoi-d Words,
^nJlGcereml
"One thing I am determined upon,”
remarked Mrs. Sne Hathaway, deci*
sively. “ You, Fan, shall have a de
cency ceremonious wedding. When I
think of the harum-scarum way in which
Charley and I wore thrown at o ne an
other, the wonder is not that we haven’t
^ quarreled since* bat that we were ever
really married at all."
me all abeqt it, Sue dear,”
coaxed Mrs. Hathaway’s youngest and
pet sister, kb she folded and replaced-
in their boxos the dainty articles which
she was preparing for her own trous
seau. ” You have always spoken of
your wedding day as the most un
happy day of your life; but I cannot
conceive how that can be, when you
and Charlie love one another so dearly.”
“And if we had not loved each other
beyond all possibility of quarreling, we
would certainly have broken our en
gagement an hour before the ceremony
was really performed. I sincerely trust,
dear Fan, that your married life may be
as happy as mine has proved, and that
heaven may defend you from a wedding
day chaotic as mine.”
**My remembrancer of the affair is
that it was a perfect success. Yon are
such a manager, Sue, you are always in
request for tableaux and private theat
ricals. I never knew an occasion which
yon were not equal to, from a charity
oasear to the state dinner the ladies gave
ihe foreign deputation. I was only
eight years old when you were married;
but I remember that I was your bride-
maid, and that I wore a puffed mull,
Witn pink kid gloves. They were the
first kid gloves I ever had, and I was as
' as a peaet ck of them. I wouldn’t
carry a bouquet for fear of soiling and
hiding them, but inarched in, arm in
arm with Isabel’s oldest boy, with my
hands displayed as conspicuously as
possible.”
"And do you happea to remember
what a scamp that boy was ? Ho was
the cause of more than half mv tribu
lation. He was a regular little Ishmael
,—‘ his* hand against every man, and
every man’s hand against him.’ And
When I think what a Bohemian Isabel
has been all her life, and of the wildly
preposterous way in which she was mar
ried, I don’t wonder. She was study
ing abroad when she met her hus
band. They had both gono to Europe
for a number of years, and they con
cluded to be married at the Ameri
can consul’s, and continue their foreign
residence, instead of coming home for
4he ceremony. They were married in
e i evening and took a steamer immo-
tely after for some Mediterranean
port. Isabel's* tiunks had been sent
on board during the afternoon, but
when they drove down to the wharf at
night they found that the ship had
moved 'from its anchorage, and they
were obliged ter hire a waterman to row
them out. The water was very rough,
and in a sudden lurch of the little
boat Isabel was thrown overboard. She
• was promptly rescued by her husband
an 1 got safelv on board, but in a com
pletely drenched condition. Now comes
the ridiculous part. It was a cargo
steamer which only carried a limited
number of passengers, and it so hap
pened that there were no other ladies
on board. Isabel’s trucks were buried
in the hold where it was impossible to
get at them, and the valise whnk had
fallen into the water with her, had gone
to the bottom, and Isabel retired to
her stateroom to improvise a toilet out
of some flannel underclothing of the
captain’s and two Marseilles bed
spreads.”
"How very dreadful!” exclaimed
Fan, choking with laughter.
“She succeeded, too ; she basted up
a wrapper of the bedspreads with a
Watteau plait in the back, trimming
the front with a Turkish towel torn in
strips, and breakfasted next mor. ing
in that costume. Her husband told me
he never saw her dressed so becom
ingly."
••x always thought Isabel was a ge
nius,” Fan remarked, admiringly.
“ Yes, but what a very singular pro
ceeding 1 Isabel is five years older
than I am, and I look up to her for cer
tain qualities. But she has no idea of
ceremony or etiquette, and she utterly
abhors convention. Now I say that
getting married at all is a concession to
conventionality, and if you are going
to acknowledge the claims of society so
far as that, you might as well do the
thing respectably and in good form. I
am a manager, as you say, and it was
for that vtry reason that the ertire
arrangement of wedding was left to
me. We were living in the old family
mansion in the country, two miles from
the church, and of course the wedding
had to be at the house. This troubled
me from the first, for the ceremony is
always so much more solemn and im
pressive before the altar, and I
wanted to think of it as a
sacrament,, to really feel the saoredness
of the vows I was taking upon myself.
Instead of this, I knew perfectly' well
that I should be distracted by
people whispering and giggling dur
ing the minister’s very prayer. What
restraint can there be in parlors where
one has danced the German a score of
rimes, and where one expects to danoe
again in a few moments ? Besides, the
house was to be crammed with oom-
and I was morally certain that
ing would be in confusion,
family were coming; they are
and I was more afraid
of them then than I am now, especially
of his sister Adelaide. She is the most
envious and spiteful creature in the
world, did tdl sne oould to spoil the
match, Wanted Charlie to marry some
particular friend of hers, Then there
was Aunt Sue Stockstill, for whom I
was named. We were all very fond of
her, and our love was tempered with a
respectful admiration which amounted
almost to fear.
The entire second floor was given
up to guests, and we were huddled in
the little bedrooms under the mansard
loot. You and I had Bridget’s room,
and she slept on a pallet in the kitchen.
Oharlia had a cot bed in the hall. All
of our boys slept in the stable loft.
Father swung himself np in the ham
mock on the back veranda; it was July,
but he took a horrid cold all the same
Mptber hgithft trunk room until Isabel
iveu with her two boys, when it was
saa up to her, and mother camped on
* ? Un ® 0 * n hack parlor. Now
.-n&t is only the background to the pio
vide the banquet. Mother made every
cake, and had her - hands quite fall
enough to provide a handsome table
daily fer her guests. I had loads of
benutifiiUipwera sent me, and Isabel
took *ha; decorating of the parlors off
roy hands. That was really a great
fcglprvor she has exquisite taste and
are inventive genius. She rigged a su
perb wedding bell out of an old hoop
skirt, and turned the old rooms into
bowers of beauty. But I had all of the
receiving and entertaining of the gnests
upon my hands, and all the little ar
rangements to make which are al
ways left to the last moment. Yonr
dress came, and hadtjbe altered; I sat
up late into the night to do it. Then
you and your tiny groomsman had to
rehearse your entree, and your young
nephew did behave abominably. He
caught your dress out of my hands and
raced with j,k -dnw^tai rs into the par
lots. Ho got himsa.
moment like a wild Indian, instead of
dressing as he should ha\e done. He
left the water running until it soaked
through the ceiling below; he hung the
cat over the balustrade, and made a
bonfire in the wood-honse; he sifted a
quart of salt into the ice cream as it was
being frozen in the cellar. There was
no end to the pranks that fellow per
petrated. The wedding presents were
displayed in the library. They were
superb. I had not expected anything so
beautiful. But Adelaide whispered
about that with the exception of one
dozen spoons it was all plated ware, and
that half of the porcelain and bric-a-brac
was hired for the occasion.
“ Isabel repeated her remarks to me
just in time to raise my angry passions
to a white heat, and to send me down
stairs inwardly raging on my wedding
morn. We were to be married at noon
precisely, in order to take the 3 o’clock
train for the city. I had a very elabor
ate hoaotniatf Sniveling costume,
which I had decided to wear, with the
a4iiirionof a real white Spanish lace
mantillfi arranged as a veil. Aunt Sue
met me at breakfast. ‘ My dear child,’
she said, * I can’t bear to think of yonr
not being married in white. Nothing
else is suitable for a bride. Wear the
India muslin in which you looked so
lovely at your graduation.’
“ 1 did not dare displease Aunt Sue;
but the muslin was crumpled and yel
low; it would look dreadfully by day
light. Thero was still time, and I de
termined to have shutters closed, cur
tains drawn, and the rooms lighted as
for evening. Brother Ned helped me
arrange font dozen wax eandles on
brackets amoug the flowers. When they
were lighted, the rooms made me think of
Victor Hugo’s description of the mar
riage of Corinne, It was as brilliant
and sparkling as fairyland, and the
tumbled muslin would look very well.
I ran npstairs to dress. But first I had
your hair to curl and gloves to fit, and
then I must need wash the vermilion
from the face of that boy. Then
Charlio, who was vainly trying to tie bis
cravat without a glass (he had dressed
in the bath-room), came to me for assist
ance, and I saw the minister drive up
to the door before I had begun my
toilet. I was half dressed when Char
lie tapped at the door. ‘Sue—Sue,
dear ! they are having a council of war
downstairs, and they don’t like the idea
of our being married by artificial light
in the daytime. The majority think it
an affectation, and it father strikes me
so, too. Isabel - asked me to ask you
to let her take down the candies. She
didn't dare to speak to you about it
herself; she said you had so much to
fret you.’
“ ‘ Tell her to take them down,’ I re
plied, in a choked voice, and then I
burst into tears. It was the last straw,
and Charlie and I came nearer to quar
reling then and there than we ever did
in our lives. I hadn’t the heart to go
on with my dressing, but sat and boo-
hooed until Charlie came to the door
again to sav that the company was wait
ing. Then I dashed into my clothes.
I had no time to comb my hair, but
Charlie pinned the lace veil oyer it
rather awkwardly, so that we deluded
ourselves into the idea that it did not
show, and I stood up in my creased and,
second-hand gown, witlj unkempt hair, s
and face and eyes swollen with weeping,^
»u<i w*c min i 'I il jrlnr" of noon-J ways o* trav<
day displaying all defects. They say ^She still sat
that the consciousness of being well-
dressed gives a peace of mind which
even religion cannot impart. Imagine,
then, mv torture to be a gazing-stoek at
such a time before all those people 1 I
had it in my heart to murder them ail aud
then kill myself. Then afterward. We.
had thought, of course, that the com
pany wonld remain and dine with
our* family, and then take
the evening train for the city.
Bnt no. Adelaide thought it would be
so jolly for all to go down en masse.
Ned had to drive like mad to the livery-
stable to get conveyances for them all,
and Charlie and I got to the station in
separate carriages. The engine was
decorated with evergreen and flags in
my honor, bnt the conductor thought
Adelaide was! the bride, and gave her
my seat, and I was very nearly left, for
Ned came driving me up with our slow
old Pilgrim just as the conductor had
given the signal for starting. Charlie
was on the rear platform waiting for me.
He pulled the cord violently, and jerked
me on, while Ned gave me a parting
push. My elegant traveling costume
was torn half off me. How every one
laughed 1 and Aunt Sue made a spec* was a
tacle of me by producing her housewife
aud sewing me up before the assembled
multitude. Then half of the party went
to the same hotel that we did, and it
leaked out that we were a newly mar
ried couple, and altogether it was the
most completely mortifying and dis
heartening day of my life.”
whom yon flirted so unconscionably, for
your ushers. To think of your receive
ing all that attention from the nuder-
gradnates, and then marvying a grave
professor I It does seem so funny.”
“ But he is ngt grave at all, Sue; and
he is very young for his honors. Only
thirty, and I am twenty-three, a real
old girl. Yon don’t realize how time
flies.”
“ Well, if he is not old, he is at least
dignified and formal—good material to
work with at the start. He would give
a certain prestige to any occasion. I
shall have the satisfaction of seeing yon
married in good style. You will re
deem the family.”
Mrs. Hathaway left the room with a
flutter of drapery, and Fan fell into a
muse. Her father and mother lived
alone now in the old family mansion,
Isabel was in Europe again, Ned and
the other boys were out West, whilst
Whiling away—
Sue’s beautiful home m the citjB "he
was weary of society, and sheV'^ied
that summer was nearer, whenH rn on
oould leave his college duties an
her. She cared as little for ceremony
as her Bohemian sister Isabel; she
wished it all over, and herself settled
in a home of her own. Home! What
a delightful sound! Should she ever
realize the word ?
There was a ring at the door. The
postman had brought her letters from
her professor and from her m. ther.
“DAMiiNO Fanny’’ (wrote the first),—
“I can’t wait. Jnne is a long, long
way off, for the winter is only just
begun. Moreover, there is no need of
waiting. We were idiots to think of it.
Mrs. Delaney has gone South for the
winter and has advertised he/ lovely
home to let, furnished. Yon remember
it, do you not? It was at a sociable
there, behind the garnet plash curtains
in the bow-window, that you told me—
The house has had its associations for
me ever since. I never go by it ip the
evening and see the light streaming '
through the stained glass over the hall
door without fancying that it says to
me : ‘ I know yonr secret; I’ve a weak
ness for lovers.’ That house is to let,
or, rather, it was; it is so no longer,
for I have ^rented it. Don’t' start and
drop this paper. The house awaits
its mistress. I’ve told the kitchen girl
that you will appear Monday morn
ing. Now don’t say yon can’t, for
I have just received a letter from yonr
mother, and the thing is to be. She
thinks it decidedly the most sensible
plan she has heard of lately. Why
should I spend my evenings in a board
ing-house for six months longer, when I
might toast my toes instead at my ain
fireside? The thing is preposterous.
I inclose yonr mother’s letter to me, in
which yon will see that she proposes
that I bring you to her next Saturday
evening. We can then be quietly mar
ried at church after the regular Sunday
service, and can start for our own home
by the early train Monday morning,
which will land me at the college in
time to attend to my regular classes. I
know that your sister very kindly in
tended to make a social event of our
marriage; but I have a horror of
‘ events,’ and, besides, I can’t wait.
She must come with you and see the
knot properly tied. T will meet yon
both at the depot at half past four
Saturday p. m.”
The letter from Fan’s mother re
enforced the professor’s plea, and gave
a maternal sanction to the hasty mar
riage. Fan ran to her sister’s room,
only to ascertain that she had gone oat
in the carriage, the maid did not knpw
whither. It was Saturday, and half
past 3 in the afternoon ; and scribbling
a hasty note of explanation, which she
left upon her sister’? dressing;table,
Fan packed a hand-bag and departed.
She reached the station a little too
early, and sat in a corner of the wait
ing-room, enjoying watching the peo
ple come and go, trying to imagine
their histories, and wondering whether
they were going on errands like her
own. At last the tredn trundle^ in.
There was the nsual hubbub ofj em
bracing friends, importunate cab-
drivers, and hurrying travelers. She ea
gerly scanned each passenger who
emerged from the cars. Her professor
bad not come. Inexperienced in the
travel, she bejiau to be nervous,
in the corner of the big
room, outwardly calm, but inwardly
quaking. A i old gentleman by het
side, who, like her, had watched the
crowd with meditative _ interest, his
stubby chin resting pensively on the
horn handle of his umbrella, turned to
her and remarked, “Such a power of
people!—such a power of people! Nary
two on ’em alike; nary one on ’em yon
ever see afore I”
At last she stepped to the ticket-of
fice and inquired the last train from the
college station. Yes, one would be in
at 8 o clock, but no train went out after
that to Edgecliff, her mother’s home.
Could she not go out at 9 o'clock to
Junction and catch the night express
at that point? “Yes,* that was pos
sible;” and Fan sat down again^and
waited. The 8 o’clock—train-br^fcit
the professor, weary and anxious."' He
had lost the earlierxrain, and feared all
would go wrong in consequence. The'
idea of the express at Junction
raised his spirits at once. They set out
in high glee, only to be decayed by
the heavy drifting storm sufficiently for
their train to reach the junction five
minutes after the express had left. Here
predicament 1 They stood to
gether upon the platform, stranded,
upon a stormy Saturday night, in a
strange town, the last train left for
everywhere, and the station-master
locking his door for dver Sunday.
There were no carriages in waiting; and
inquiring the way for the nearest par-
they set out for a tramp to
gether through the storm. “Coutage
Fan,” said the professor; “ there.is ni
way out of the mess but to get marrie '
as quickly as we can.”
A meek-eyed minister’s wife an-f]
swered their summons. Her. husband
was at home and sick in
ill, however, but she tl;
marry them, though b«.
What delirious durinf]
might follow her int
she was sure no lie
And so the profess]
flecked ulster (Fan tk.
of her sister’s werdf
would give prestige
and Fan in her
proof stood together
the good man’s beds'
him a little incoherenl
professor promise to obj
to nujij]£U~t tha pi fTTr^nTi
fTTfdy were soundly and
tied, and the minister’s toUTwa9^
to smile by a crumpl’d bill of
amount pressed into her thin hand, j
telegram announcing tbs event
its way to Fan’s motheh, and a
sleighride of twerily^mYcnjailctB ac
the country earned Wh the next da|
her new home. But Mrs. Sue
way never, never forgave them
unceremonious wedding. — Sa
Bazar,
Amateur Writers,
All editors are always glad to
any olass of communications for
journals, and they can ffilly appre
the following by the “ Autocrat of
Breakfast Table”:
Sometimes very young persons’
me communications, whiet
forwarded to editors, and th?
persons do not always seem to hai
light conceptions of these same editors]
and of the public and of themselves.]
Here is a letter I wrote to one of thesei
young folks, but, on the whole, though]
it best not to send:
Dean Sir—You seem” t<r _
what, bnt not a great deal, wjseF ths
I was at your age. I don’t wffh to M
understood as saying too much, for
think without committing myself toj
to any opinion on my present state, [
that I was not a Solomon at that stage
of development. You long to “1 ap
at a single bound into celebrity.” i
Nothing is so commonplace as to wish
to be remarkable. Fame usually come
to those who are thinking about sol
thing else—very rarely to those whi
say to themselves: “ Go to, now, let
us be a celebrated individual I” The
straggle for fame, as such, commonly
ends in notoriety; that ladder is easy
to climb, bnt it leads to the pillory,
which is crowded with fools who could
not hold ihoir tongues, and rogues who
could not hide their tricks.
Lave the consciousness of g<
something to show it. The ^
pretty quick nowadays to catclT
flavor of true originality; if you
anything remarkable the magazines
newspapers —■ - ~ J
Fchoolboyv
apples and peters are. Produce any
thing really good, and an intelligenf
editorwill jumpatit. Don’t flatter yoi
self that any article of yours is reject
because you are unknown to
Nothing pleases an editor mo:
get anything worth having
hand.
There is always a dearth of really finei
articles for a first-class journal; for of]
a hundred pieces received, ninety an
at or below the sea-level; some hav
head enough, but no water; onl;
two or three are from full reservoirs,
high up that hill which is so hard t.|
climb. You may have genius. Tl
contrary is of course probable, but it
not demonstrated. If you have, tl
world wants you more than you want it.|
It has not only a desire, but a passion,
for every spark of genius that showi
itself among us; there is not a bull
calf in our national pasture that
can b.eat a rhyme but it is tei
to one amo ng his friends,
takers, that ho the real,
no mistake, Osiris. “Qi
fait?” What has he
Napoleon’s test. W.
Tarn np the faces of yonr pi<
my boy ! You need not make moutHi
at the public because it has not accept
ed you at your own fancy valuation,
Do the prettiest thing yon can, and
wait your time. For the verses you
send me I will not say they are hopo-
less; and dare not affirm that they show,
promise. I am not an editor, bat I
know the standard of some editors.
Yon must not expect to “leap at a single
bound ” into the society of those whom
it is not flattsry to call your betters.
When the Pactolian has paid you for
a copy of verses (t can furnish you
with a list of alliterative signatures,
beginning with Annie Aureole and end
ing with Zoo Zenith)—when the rag
bag has stolen yonr piece, after care
fully scratching your name out—when
the nut-cracker has thought you worth
shelling, and strong the kernel of your
cleverest poem—then, aud not till then,
you may consider the presumption
against you, from the fact of yi
rhyming fendenov, fli oaHofl
question, and let < oar friends
hear from you, if/ yon think it
worth while. You mafr possibly think
me too candid, and even accuse me of
incivility, bnt lei me assure you thi
I am not half so plain spoken as na
ture, nor half so rude as time. If
you prefer the long jolting of public
opinion to the gentle touch of friend
ship, try it like a man. Only remem
ber this, that if a bushel of potatoes
is shaken in a market-cart withont
springs to it, the small potatoes al
ways get to the bottom.
and nc
genuine;
oe quite
turo
His Manners.
“ Say, old man 1” said a street arab
to a passing citizen of rather more than
the average respectability and a glisten
ing plug hat; “ what’s the matter with
your hat ?’’
No answer.
“ I say I What’s the matter with your
hat?”
Still no answer.
. “ Well, if you’re so particular about
l it, what’s the matter with your headT*->
rf^/The citizen turned abruptly about,
end with a look which was Intel
overawe the youngster, s
marked: “ Young man I where
learn your manners ?”
“ Same place that you
We was both to the sami
night—but you came
hat-rack was fun, and I
till there’d been encm^gdE^cs of
politeness showed take
my pick from.”—.
The cotton
ed to have a
the wheat
!H 28, 1882.
YOL. I. NO. 24.
>R THE LADIES.
sve and Idsht Heart.
Squired of a maiden of thirt y
e, healthy aud fair to look
young-looking,
scarce twenty. She re-
I have, besides my
and sisters, and their
^hest of friends and
HSave no time to mope
itifuL” And I’ve
loved more,
ey did they
and hand-
do. But
aie deep and
a so crowded
have time for
direction. In
Feven love, un
little lives
it they arc
>ngs and kisses
to lighten the
2 back bends under
HteKnf breaking,
and happy wife and mother
ume and healthy one, nen-
'ld age overtakes her* she
be lovelight in her eye, Tor
e habitual to her, and th e
er family. The husband
daily cares lightened il
affection as of old,
ot forget to be the
be a better and a
ust imagine the
[new-married conple,
such love and life
d children perpetu-
Jring dimples aud roses to the
ighter makes work easy, and
a the bones, and nneelfish-
to the owner that
thieves rob you of.
le houses our souls
ler it be a palace or a
|on ourselves as Jjuild-
_ wa noOeacL
t the?, to build wisely
|nltivate purity, cheerful-
r, charity and love ? How
[each these things than
je glorious example ?—
Agriculturist.
No tea.
I d are revived,
ns are striped.
i avlSBut of style.
Iks ate coining into favor,
is are noW worn by ladies.
bon is seen on new bonets.
kn bows are worn at the
the bo*
L
{-e.
idwood.
riter says that the red-
demand there for un-
what is known by the
lack-heart redwood It
tolor when cut with a
portion only being sea-
. ecies of redwood is ex-
. r y—too heavy to float,
ibserved schooners load-
coast assures the writer
this wood which plunges
ler rises, and a boards
\ surface a moment and
pea down into its depths.
\ which iii sought for in
of boildidra, and under
r ed to be imperish-
it i* interest-
fact concerning the
of redwood. Shoots
have grown to three
imeter in forty years.
>3 restorative powers
s which would in-
‘Pfely of the timber.
SUNDAY READING.
A Well-Ballt Christian.
A well-built Christian is harmonious
in all his parte. No one trait shames
another. He is not a jumble of incon
sistencies, to-day liberal to one cause,
to-morrow niggardly toward another;
to-da^-Csect in prayer, and to-morrow
fluent in polite falsehoods. He does
not keep the fourth commandment on
Sunday and break the eighth on Mon
day. He does not shirk an honest debt
to make a huge donation. He is not in
favor of temperance for other folks and
a glass of triddy fox himself. He does
not exhort or pray at each of the few
meetings he attends, to make up arrear
ages for the more which he neglects.
He does not so consume his spirtual fuel
during revival seasons that he is as oold
as Nova Zembla during all the rest cf the
time; nor do his spiritual fervor^ ever
outrun his well-ordered conversation.—
Cuyltr.
HISE WORDS.
Rellcfon* News anil Notes.
of the disestablish-
of Scotland have
ly in Abeideen, Edin-
and other - cities of
j'e jewelry is worn in the
of velvet or moire are
&n bonnets have pale-blue
garnet bonnets have pink
ies for the house
pimple and
iats, with gloves and
latch, are announced for next
, vellow, with brown, is a
Doination for dresses and
jrden lives again in a new
novel neckerchief, and a
dancing shoe.
‘■jstumes there is a tenden-
ithwise tacks in clusters in
[ kilt plaitings and shirrings
I silks oire combined with
th/ and plush in the
imported for misses
leel, aud Kensington
in Hamburg edgings and
)rm the bosom trimmings of
white dresses,
ffeari accessories, form
evening toilet for young la-
fashion.
ihffbt 6nt with a laoe
'of the irr-iit, which is now
battened np.
red India muslin ball-
worn over bright satin
(the Camargo waist of t~e
as-the skirt.
re gloves are the most
l ladies of good taste wear
1 laced gloves, if more be-
^eir hands and arms.
i and lemon-colored pocket
Ifs of sheer linen, embroi-
pntrastiagcolors,are among
novelties lately imported,
most fashionable, as well
Slegant and most econom-
for all costumes, wraps
j;ht enongh to admit of its
i profusely trimmed with
(lowers, resembling the
it bgnds that border the
igs, ginghams and ba
nka, are inexpensive
„ sn homespun ciotns,
colors, with red threads
\else of green cloth with
" reads.
rents the style is en-
£ViQg all the trimming
■wise, both in front and
than to shorten the ap-
i wearer by a crosswise
breadth.
grinds with colored
trimming, bnt
* Iness of their
grenat with olive
bronze, Tilleul
blue with rose and
Meetings in
meat of the
been held i
burgh, Glasgow
Scotland.
The population of Toronto, Canada,
numbers 86,445. The chnrohes can ac
commodate 49,860, and the attendance
on a recent Sunday showed 38,796, or a
percentage of worshipers of 44 92.
The Philadelphia Baptist association
was organised 175 years ago. It has
eighty-two chnrohes with a membership
of 23,444; 104 Sunday-schools, with
2,016 teachers and 20.431 scholars.
In the first decade of ths Methodist
Episcopal church there v. as one minis
ter to every 194 members; in the fifth
decade the proportion was one to 284;
the present proportion is one minister
to 147 members, against 142 in the
ninth and tenth decade.
Of the 12,142 ministers of the Metho
dist Episcopal church, 2,808 are not in
pastoral work. Upward of 2,000 are
superannates and supernumeraries, 204
are connected with colleges, eightj-
eight are editors, agents, secretaries,
etc., and 445 are presiding elders.
The total strength of the Methodist
EpiscopalOhnrchSonth,in the Louisiana
conference is 14,901; in New Orleans,
1,886 members.- Value of church prop
erty in New Orleans, $366,710. Num-^
ber of Snnday-school scholars anA'
teachers, 1,050; total number in con
ference, 7,130.
The Sonth India Methodist mission
conference, embracing 2,040 members,
raised last year 107,836 rupees, or
about $53,918, which is upward of an
average of twenty-six dollars per mem
ber. The gain in member j was nine
teen. The work is chiefly among Eu
ropeans and Enrasians, thongh increased
attention is being given to the heathen.
An emperor of Germany coming by
chance, on a Sunday, into a church,
found there a most misshapen priest,
insomuch as the emperor scorned and
condemned him. But when he heard
him read these words: “ For it is he that
made us, and not we ourselves,” the
emperor checked > his own prond
thought, and made inquiry into the
condition and quality of the man; and
finding him, on- examination, most earn
est and devout, he made him Arch
bishop of Colon, which place he did ex
cellently discharge.—Fuller's Holy State.
The Mexican Boy.
Jin many ways, writes a correspond
ent, the Mexican small boy sets an
excellent example to his young cousins
across the Bio Grande. Growing np
in this placid, social organization, his
disposition natnrally is mild, and he
has as his birthright an allowance of
good manners so abundant that it might
be divided among a whole boarding-
school of United States boys aud make
quite a showing iu each* One day at
San Pedro—it was the saint’s day of tbe
little town, and the place was in a fer-
a small chap w!
across the plaza and asked him to get
me a drink of water. The average
American boy, if so addressed under
similar conditions—say by a Frenchman
on the Fourth of July—pretty certainly
would refuse to comply with the re
quest, and very likely would couch hi%
refusal in some such phrase aa: “Just
you hold your left ear while I get it!"
or, “You go boil the back of your
head I” But this little Mexican, not
having enjoyed the advantages of a
higher civilization, polled np short
when I hailed him and promptly went
into the house and brought me the
water that I asked for. As he handed
me the mug he took off his ragged lit
tle cap and held it in his hand while I
drank, and he bowed very prettily,
this gentle lad, as I handed back the
empty mug, with a “ gracias” that came
from the heart. Water fresh t.nd cool
is a pleasant drink in this thirsty land;
but it is all the sweeter for being so
charmingly served. Aud these children
are courteous to each other as well as
to adults. Oat in tne suburbs of the
town I saw two little chaps sitting to
gether beside an aceqnia — dabbling
their bare feet in the running water-
while they played very contentedly
with a dead bird they had picked up
somewhere. There was no quarreling
as to which should h^ve the bird. One
of them was plucking out the feather i
while the other was looking on. They
were talking very earnestly, and seemed
to be full of the quiet happiness that,
with their gentle natures, is bom in
them.
Gorillas,
The gorillas are the terror of Africa.
In the gorilla country no lion will live.
They are man-haters, and kill them for
the love of it, leaving the body, never
eating them. When they spy a native
they come down from a tree, hit him on
the head with a club, which they wield
with their hind claw, or carry him np
into the tree, there to murder him.
Their strength is so great that they will
bend the barrel of a rifle. Only one
live one was ever brought to England,
and that soon died. Several hate been
shot, but they are tough customers, and
the natives dread them more than any
animal of the African forests. The go
rilla makes a bed like a hammock, and
swings in tfce trees. The gorilla is the
sworn enemy of the elephant, because
each derives its subsistence from, the
same source. When he sees an ele
phant palling down and wrenching off
the branches of a favorite tree the go
rilla steals along the bough, strikes the
sensitive proboscis of the elephant %
violent blow with his dab, and drives
off the clumsy and startled giant,
shrilly trumpeting his path and rage
through ths jungles nf ths forest.
Character is the diamondthat scratches
every other stone.
Pride is the ffesdoueuess of what
one is withont contempt for others.
Conning pays no regard to virtue
and is but the low mimic of wisdom
Every absurdity has a champion to
defend it—for error is always talkative.
When respiration oeaaes our educa
tion is finished, and not a moment
sooner.
More than half of all the thanks that
have been thought of and planned for
since the world began have been lost
forever by being left over night.
Goodnees, on whatever way we look
at it, never sleeps. It is holy life, beat
ing inarch with the heavenly tunes;
singing always the divine psalm of love.
As a man’s life, so are his studies. I
think it is the most beautiful and hu
mane thing in the world' so to mingle
gravity with pleasure that the one may
uot sink into melancholy nor the other
rise np into wantonness.
To make the canning artless, taipe
the rude, subdue the hanghty, shake
the undaunted sonl; yea, pat a bridle
in the lion’s mouth and lead him forth
as a domestic cur; these are.the tri
umphs of all-powerful beauty.
The every-day cares aud duties which
men call drudgery are the weights and
counterpoises cf the clock of time,
giving its pendulum a true vibration
and its hands a regular motion, and
when tlyw cease to hang upon the
wheels fc^'scndulum no longer swings,
the hands longer move, the clock
stands still.
Yf your chare indicates a flaw,
tl At is, if you find what at first seemed
innocent desire, under indulgence is
fast developing into a habit which may
seriously affect yonr character and life,
eradicate it at once; for nothing is so
hard to uproot as a bad habit, and noth
ing is so essential to advancement or
serves us so faithfully as a good char
acter.
Keep a firm grip on good temper,
and don’t lose yonr hold unless it pays.
Many a man has lost his place and
friend, many a lover his sweetheart,
many a house is broken up, hearts that
loved divided, children scattered and
lives wrecked, crimes committed even
i p the extent of murder, just by losing
e • grip discretion bids ns keep
on this best of all good edmpamons—
good temper.
Knowledge in a Nats hell.
A cubit is two feet.
A space is three fefct.
A fathom is six feet.
A span la ten and one-half inches. :
A palm is three inches.
A league is three miles.
A great cubit is eleven feet
There are 2,759 languages.
Oats, thirty-five pounds per bushel.
Bran, thirty-five pounds per bushel.
Ba’-Tey, forty-eight pounds per
busheh re
A days’s Journey is thirty-two andpne-
half miles.
Two persons die every second.
Sound moves 743 miles per hour.
A square mile contains 640 acres.
A storm blows thirty-six miles per
honr.
Coarse salt, eighty-five pounds per
bushel.
Buckwheat, fifty-two pounds per
bnshel.
The average of human life is thirty-
one years.
A barrel, of rice weighs 600 poands.
A barrel of pork weighs 300 pounds.
An acre contains 4,840 square yards.
A bhrrel of flour weighs 300 pounds.
Slow rivers flow five miles per hour.
A firkin of butter weighs fifty-six
pounds.
Timothy seed, forty-five pounds per
bushel.
A hand (horse measure) is four
inches.
A hurricane moves eighty miles per
hour.
moves 1,000 miles per
Bapid riverem?
hour.
The first lucirer match was made in
1829.
Gold was discovered in California in
1848.
Electricity moves 228,000 miles per
honr.
The first horse railroad was built in
1826.
A moderate wind blows seven miles
per hour.
The first steatnooat plied the Hudson
in 1807.
A mile is 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards in
length.
Bowing In Holland.
Everybody bows—nobody nods, and
touching of the hat is unknown. Yon
bow to every one you may have met
when calling on a friend, for callers
meeting are introduced. You give an
order to a gardner or a workman, and
he takes off his hat - mikb^a bow which
wonld not bring/oiscredit on a duke.
Every one bowy on passing a house
where they visit. I often used toamnse
myself by watching behind a curtain to
see every second jnan take off his hat
to the window, it being quite imma
terial whether any of the family are
visible or net; 'and every second lady
make a polite bend of the whole body,
not a» mere inclination oi thoAead as
onr ladies do. Everbody bows. Men
take off their hats to each other; trades
men do the same to all their customer:*.
A well known lady is bowed to by all
her father’s, husband’s or brother’s
friends, and any gentleman knowing a
lady is staying, at a house where he
visits will bow to her.
I even had a bowing acquaintance
with a student whom I never met, and
did not know from Adam. I oonld not
imagine what made the boy bow so pro
foundly, until I got some one to ask if
he knew me. I found I had once met
his father somewhere, and that was the
—shall I say excuse? I should if he
had been English. Well, after an ab
sence of three years, I returned to the
town where he lived, and there he was,
grown into a man, bowing stilL For
some months we had quite a lively bow
ing acquaintance, and there it ended, as
aforetime. I must, however, include
“compliments” with bo wing in the Dutch
idea of politeness. Every parcel is
sent home with the sender’s compli
ments, and I once heard this message
delivered at the door of a homo where
I was calling: “ My compliments to the
mevrouw, and has she any dust?” It
was the dustman! —Leisure Hour.
Poland China pigs are being sent
from Illinois to Germany for breeding
purposes.
The Largest Cave on Earth.
The great cave lately discovered be re ,
ysthe Grayson (Kr.) Advoc.te, has
sen visited by a multitude of peop la.
by a multitude of peop la.
us points of the United State s.
that Leitcbfield is destined o
says
been
from various
We think thu , _
become the great 4 ‘Mecca” of the wor d
—for the Masonic fraternity and so icn-
ists generally. *
For the last two weeks no one has
been admitted to the cave except u pen
presenting a written permit from Mr.
Bogers, and those who have .been lor-
innate enough to obtain admission hare
been principally scientists from abroad,
who journeyed here to tee tbe great
wonder for themselves. It was necessary
to take this step, as the cave was rapidly
being despoiled of its contents. Indeed,
several of the mummies and some of
the Masonio emblems were carried off
before. Mr Bogers—or in fact any of
onr citizens—realized the importance
of the discovery, and cf preserving
consents of the cave intact. The sul
terranean river has been so swollen j|rom
the excessive rains of the last month
.that no explorations have been made in
the avenues beyond it. Excavations
have been made, however, in the cham
bers or catacombs where the mammies
and Masonic emblems were found, and
in the vicinity of the pyramid, and
several tablets with queer hieroglyphios
have been dngup.Mso some bronze and
copper vases and pieces of pottery. A
mound was opened and found tb contain
six well-preserved mummies, reposing
in regular order with feet radia^pg
from the center. . wi
In the discovery of this cave the ke£
is nndonbtedly found that
or! be pre-bistorio
will uni
the mystery oPlhe pre-bistorio race of
America, and also prove their identity
with the ancient Egyptian race, who
nndonbtedly crossed over aud peopled
this continent, built temples, and flour
isbed in a high degree of civilization
until wiped out of existence by the
ruthless hand of the spvage. The oaves
of Kentucky undoubtedly afforded them
shelter and protection, and were used
as a sort of catacon^b for the storage of
all that was near and dear to them, in
cluding their illustrious dead. Such*at
least seems to have been the case in
this instance, whether this theory will
apply to the other oaves of Kentucky
or not.
Many beautiful formations have been
discovered during the past week. The
stalactites and stalagmites glisten like
so many million diamonds. The pillars
and column# of alabaster are beautiful
beyond deecription, and its wonders
will have to be seen to be fully appre
ciated.
Origin of the Pansy.
This modest little flower, one of the
favorites of the florist, that dons the
purple almost unaware, has very appro
priately been called the Cinderella of
the sisterhood. Lilies may wave and
smile in their stately grace, roees beckon
by their flame and fragrance; but “them
flowers that have faces”—pansies for-
thoughts—are the admiration of the
country. ; ''
From the humble heartfc-ease, or
three-eolored violet, has sprang up one
of the most popular flowers known in
floriculture. Half a century ago there
flourished, on a bank of the Thames, a
lovely garden; the owner of it, seeing
the interest his daughter manifested in
the work, gave her a share of the grounds
for her own. One of the heart-shaped
flower beds this lady of the Thames
filled with pansies, wisely selecting the
choicest plants from other parts of the
garden mr her especial onleure. ’
Soon this little monad oi the purple
heart began to attract the attention of
professional florists, and the pansy, no r
longer an humble forget-me not, blos
somed into royal favor. No flowers
arc more companionable and life-like,
and none perform their part more
worthily in work of floral ministration.
Its simple legend, You occupy my
thoughts, is one of the most beautiful
testimonials of love or friendship in the
langnsge of flowers.
While in Europe Professor Silliman *
called on Madame Agassiz, the mother
1 the great naturalist. His account of
- - - ■ closes with this
ou«
“She was grieve
that onr stay was very brief, and woi
hardly be denied that we should become
gneets at her honse, or at least that 4he
senior of the party should accept ber
hospitality. The next morning she
came walking alone, a long distance in
the rain, to bid us farewell, and we
parted, evidently with deep emotion
and not concealed, for we had brought
the image of her favorite son near to
her mental vision again. She brought
for Mr. Sillimau a little bouquet of
pansies, and bid us tell ber son her
pensees weie all for him 1”
Thus our thoughts go forth in mes
sages of love and gratitude through the
heart-reaching dialegt of flowers.
Ihe Michigan Fires.
The part of lower Michigan scourged
1 y the forest fires of last September
■■jBiiiflBrfii grciUj fl
by the fearful visitation. Land that
before was worth but $5 an ajre, since
.the fire sells at 815, the dewn timber
ami brash having been swept away and
the land left clear for farming purposes.
A railroad is being constracted in Huron
county, and several others are project
ed. Since the fire has cleared the land
speculators have discovered it to be of
great value, and many of the stricken
and discouraged settlers are selling out
to new occupants, who will improve
and make the country very different
from what it was before the fire. Here
is where the law of compensation sug
gests itself.
Tbe Bank of England.
Some idea of the greatness of the
work done in the Bank of Eng
land may be formed from the
facts that there are no less than 236,500
accounts open in the public funds; that
the number of bank notes issued during
last year were 15,250,000, representing
a sum of £338,000,000, and that there
was a similar, number canceled. The
paper from which we glean these figure*
adds: “ An accurate register of eveiy
operation is kept, so that any note paid
into the bank during the last fire years
can be produced within a minute, with
information as to the ehannel through
which it had found its way back to the
bank, and this notwithstanding that tha
register represented 77,000,000 pf note*
stowed away in 14,500 boxes.”
•' i ’— 1
A man seeing a boa-eon itrletor at a
zoological garden, asked what the beast
had tiedJ^aelf np in a hard knot like ‘ 4
that forfBF’Qb,” said a man who'
history, “(hat’s 4
all about
mind himself
wakes up.”
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