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*8 fcb 1 67 TV THE AIKEN RECORDER. BY FORD & McCRACKEX. AIRES, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1888. ESTABLISHED IN 1881. AIKEN INSTITUTE, AIK EX, 8. C. FRANK H. CURTISS. President. D esigned for uiehighercmiucu- tion of young ladies and young gentlemen. Course of study thorough and exhaustive, covering a period of eight years exclusive of collegiate course of f.»uryears. Each department complete in itself—Primary, Inter mediate, Grammar, Preparatory Aca demic. Academic and Collegiate. UATKS OF TUITIOX. Pen Mo.n'vh. Primary $1 50 Intermediate ^50 Grammar 3 00 Prep. Academic,) . ^ Academic, ) Collegiate 5 UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN. Until tt-e meet tu?ala, dear, thou and I, God tiiec tn his care! the ni^ht draws nigh And I must go my way: its path Is wide Aud long, j et as 1 linger hy thj - side, Tbus-lcoking, loving, on thy peaceful face," I.ovo teaches me the patience of its grace! L'ntil we meet again—soon come or late— Tiiough I may j-earn for tliee with hope elate, (>r grieve, my true heart knows the secret way To i hive; far <’ ui::t j'et or near, this day, Ti;gt pu!- ; wastes in shadows of the night, Ilr.'.h f ! ■. s'd for thoe and mo each morning's Uglit. L’l.tli we ir.*-ei again no joy or rest t’au e.sue to us idee calm that love knows best; I. e. e |. • s the gentle speech that makes thco And i:k.!;i s Not I.mg I so— liach day s' rui i German and French, each 1 Instrumental Music Mpecial Drawing Lessons 2 50 Painting, Oil, Water Color, Chi na, Lustra 2 50 For any desired information con cerning catalogues, rates of board, or any other matters connected with the Institute address the President. A limited number of students de siring board may Hnd a pleasant home in the familv of the President. FRANK H. CURTI8K, Feb. I. 18S8.-ly President. Absoksteh rest M ^ure* This powder never purity, .-tr.engtii and \ eeoiiondcal ilian the cannot be s.iid in multitude of l.w te- or phosphate powders itoVi Capital paid in, - - $50,000* Aiken 4'oiiuly Loan and Savings zb^-Hstk: Does a General Ranking and Collec tion Business. Savinpi Dcpartiiiciit. Interest Allowed on Deposits on Most Liberal Terms. W. W. Woolsky, I W. M. Hutson, President. | Vice-President. J. W. Ashiiukkt, Cashier. DIRECTORS. vanes A marvel of vh«Mooineness. More ordinary kinds, and iinpetition with tiie t, short weight, alum , Sol.n OXI.Y I X • ‘ANS. liAklNC I'OWKKit ( O., Jo<; Wall street, New York. For sale by COL iM’NEV Ac Aiken. S. Professional Advertisements, IJ. K. IIkxkkuson. E. P. IIkxdkkson. Hcmlersoii Brotlicrs, Attouxeys at Law, Aikkx, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. James Ai.tmicu Wai.tki: Arui.KY. W. W. Woolsey, H. F. Warneke, W. M. Hutson, O. H. Phinizy, H. H. Hall. 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Gray, angry looking clouds obscured the bine sky, a cold east wind blow tiny particles of snow into the faces of those persons who were so unfortunate as to be exposed to the cutting blast. A warm fire and comfortable easy chair were things to be appreciated, and so thought the Laurence family as they stood or sat around the great blazing logs of hickory in the open fireplace of the luxurious sitting room at Pleasant Park, the old homestead of the Laureticcs. Harry, the eldest boy, a tall, bright eyed lad of I f, went to the window that looked out upon the highway. It was nearly school time, and troops of boys and girls were passing swiftly along in the direction of the huge brick edifice, the pride of Fairmouut. “Lizzie, Johnny, come here,” cried Harry, and his handsome countenance beamed with merriment as ho gazed upon the scene without. A lady not muca taller than Lizzie, the 12-year-old sister of the merry youth at the window, was '•.dicing, or rather trying to, for the slight figure swayed from one side of the road to the other, beaten and blown by the high winds; and the umbrella she carried was turned inside cut, while her long gray her was floating like a banner in the wintry breeze. The girl and boy ran to the pretty alcove, with its snowy lace curtains looped back, showing the stand of plants bright with bloom, and joining in tho laughter caused Mr. and Mrs. Laurence to look up from their read ing to inquire tho cause of so much mirth. “Oh, mother you ought to see the capers little Miss Prim is cutting; old Boreas makes her move lively,’’said Mas ter Harry, and even his parents could hardly suppress a smile as they taw the ludicrous figure the poor dressmaker made in her vain endeavors to keep her feet and avoid tho rude embrace of the northeast gale. “Jiminy, but she is a scarecrow,” said little Johnny. “Won der what she goes out such stormy da vs for?” “Why, my son, Miss8?rim is poor and is obliged to earn her own Ih ing. She ftss no fcffid papa to give her mce-NvarnY clothes, or provide her with food, as you have. It is not right to laugh at tho lit tle woman, for she has a hard life of it, and is so patient and kind in every trial,” and Mrs. Laurence patted the soft curls * s i is E n i A o T T tarance ami Real Estate Apnt, AIKKX, S. C. Tornado, Cyclone and Windstorm POLICIES! ISSUED BY HUTSON k CO., AsPiits, i x PHCENIX INS. CO. of Brooklyn. ASSETS, - - - $5,000,000. Augusta, Georgia. IfF.ST $2.00 HOUSE IX THK SOUTH. Headquarters for Commercial Men. Centrally located nearR. II. Crossing. L. E. DOOLITTLE, Proprietor, Formerly of Tontine Hotel, Xew Haven, Conn. Also, West End Hotel, IsOny liranch, J. X. PAVILION HOTEL. Charleston. S. C PASSENGER ELEVATOR AND ELECTRIC BELLS. House fresh and clean throughout. Table best in the South. Pavilion Transfer Coaches aad Boats. Rates giving your Wagons at all trains and reduced. Beware of Check to any one on Rates Train. $2 Oil (a $2 50. Wright’s Hotel! 8. L. WRIGHT & SON, Prop’rs., COLUMBIA. - - . S. C. T ABLE supplied with the BEST. 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Comfortable and well furnished Rooms and table supplied with the best. Terms reasonable. Mrs. X. E. SENX. r i; a x c i s j <»i; i» a x Manufacturers, 20!) X. Til I UP STUKl.T, I'l! IA HKI.I’ll I A FOR A I.K COURTNEY £ CO., Aiken, S. C. Augusta Book Store. We have a nice line of school books, pens, ink, paper and all kinds of stationery. Also a nice line of novels, base balls. Special attention is panl to school supplies. Old books bought and sold. All orders V*y mail will re ceive prompt attention, R. L. DUVAL, 11 BroadISiivct, Augusta, Ga . of her G-year-old boy, mentally thanking God she aud her dear ones were free from the curse of poverty. “It is nearly 9 o’clock,” cried Lizzie, glancing at the huge old fashioned time piece that ticked away so musically in tho corner of the room. “I will take Johnny with me, mother, and then one umbrella will shelter us; Harry is large enough to take care of himself.” So saying Lizzie arrayed herself in her warm cloak, hood and furs, looking like the pictures of Lit tle Bed Biding Hood, with brown eyes shining and cheeks rosy with health. Just as li.e three children derconded tho steps to the garden tho huge iron gate clanged to, and Miss Prim met them cu the broad graveled walk. “Mamina at home. Blossom?” said the little lady in a cheerful tone to Lizzie, and at the same time laughing, as she saw the half concealed smile on the faces of the children. “You rogues! you might just :us well shout and laugh at the funny figure I cut. I shall not feel at all hurt. I know I am a perfect scarecrow, but no matter, my beauty will not suffer.” And with a nod and a “Good-by, dearies,” not waiting for an answer to her question, Mbs Prim van ished within the open doorway, and the children hastened to school. Miss Charity Prim—or Miss Chatty, as she was called—was the village dress maker. She was a maiden lady, thirty- five or forty years of age, small and delicate in appearance, but always in good health. Her face was always smiling, her toft, blue eyes mild aud pure as those of a child; hi r abundant hair, long and silken, crowned her head as with a coronet of silver. “I thought I would come and finish that dress of yours, Mrs. Laurence,” said Miss Chatty, as she entered the firelighted room, the warmth and glow making such a contrast to the gloom without. “I am a little late, but I had a hard time of it, fighting the wind all the way from the cottage. My umbrella is a wreck, and I look as though I had been in a gale, and was flying the flag of distress,” laughing merrily and showing firm, white teeth that hud never known the torture of a dnitist’s art; “however, ‘all’s well that ends well,’ ” and, with a sigh of content, Miss Chatty followed the stately but kind hearted mistress of Pleasant Park to tiie sewing room, where, in a low rocker, with a huge pile of work before her, the little dressmaker was soon busy as -a bee. “Miss Chatty,” said a servant, enter ing with a tray on which were muffins, steak and a steaming cup of coffee, “here is something warm for you.” “Well I declare, all this trouble on my account. It is too bad, but I do be lieve I am hungry,” and putting her work aside, tho little woman soon mado sad havoc with the dainties before her. She w as proud in her way, was this poor, hard working sewing woman. She would not own that on this cold and dreary morn ing she had dressed in her chilly room, aud sparingly of bread and oat meal, with a small cup of milk to satisfy her thirst, but never a complaint, never a cross look from the noble woman who had no luxuries and few comforts, but who ever looked on the bright side of life. Before night tho storm became so fu rious, tiie snow so deep, the dressmaker was urged to remain until the next day, and to tell tho truth she was nothing loath, for her humble room in the cot tage of the widow Green was not a very attractive one, although clean and neat, yet a rag carpet, paj>er shades, a cot bed and a small stove, with scanty food for a dainty appetite, was all the dressmaker couid earn for herself in the small village of Fairmount. Evening, with her sable curtain, en folded the snowy earth. The wind sighed and moaned around the warmly draped windows of Pleasant Park. The Laurence family were wealthy and liigh born, MV. Laurence being from one of the oldest and proudest families in Bos ton, and his wife, tiie handsome Kate C:uleton before marriage, was of F-tigliAi birth, with noble blood in her veins, yet they acknowledged the goodness and worth of their humble seamstress; and although she did not join them at the table, having her meals sent into the sew ing room, she was invited into the sitting room when the family met together for the pleasant chat before bedtime, and in her modest brown dress, with snowy col lar and culls, her sweet, pale face, soft voice and charming smile, Miss Chatty did not look out of place even In the par lor of the high bora Laurence family. “Miss Chatty, I wish you would tell me a story. I do vo like to hear them.” This from Master Johnny, who was basking on tho snow white rug of bear skin, the glow from the lire lighting up' his curls until they l«>okcd like a mass of I gold, and his round, dimpled face as rosy ! as tho sunny side of a peach. i “Oh, do, dear Miss Prim, tell us some-} thing nice,” exclaimed Lizzie, shutting, up the entertaining fairy book, and conw ing forward to tiie easy chair whereitn nights, j sat the tiny lady, her small hands busa^. : with some tatting she wished to finiahj : for Mrs. Laurence. ‘T never told a story in all my lifi | my dears. Then I am afraid, even if I could tell you anything that would In terest you, I should disturb your faihek and mother in their reading.” “Not at all,” they L+tit cried, with a 1 the courtesy they could have shown l lady of wealth, and putting away the paper and look, they begged her, if si p felt iso disposed, to entertain the childrei * “I will go to the smoking room fer an hour or so,” said Sir. Laurence, ard putting on his silk embroidered jack A and cap he left the room. “I will fini ih this piece of ruffling,” Mrs. Laurence smilingly answered as she turned the p is higher, ami soon her white jeweled gers were plying the shining U while Miss Prim with a thoughtful ooi tonance commenced the story of her 1: “A true story, Blossom, and I In will interest you, but it is the first timj have ever spoken of my past, co you forgive mo”—turning to the Jpdy .of mansion—“if I shed a few tears past joys and sorrows.” “Indeed, Miss Chatty, I ce: would overlook anything in one amiable as you are, but do not la-in, memories that will cause you grief, will tell the children a fairy talo and fc'ou can go on with your work.” “Oh, no, indeed, not for tho w would I disappoint the dear little 1; and it will do me good to relate to hearted ones tho story of my ratbertfull life. “My father kept the lighthouse had no brothers or sisters, and whe i 14 I lost my dear mother, you can agine how lonely I was. It was she taught me to sew and to cut my clothes and dresses, she who taughj all I know. Mother was a govern* fore marriage and was finely educ: so I became interested In books study. I loved the ocean, loved it its moods. When the sky was and angry waves were crested creamy foam, I would sit on tiie ■and, ailmira, or-whon were serene and smooth ! would little boat and sail on its mi T having known "Widow Green hen she lived on the island with her usband. I left word with the fishermen here I had gone, so that my letters from ie could be sent, but alas! no mes- iger ever came, and probably my lover ps beneath tho waves.” June, with her sunny skies and wealth buds and blossoms, had come. The co family had gone to Long :h to their summer cottage. Miss JPrim was with them, for Mrs. Laurence, ■going into a great deal of hociety, had to iiave much sewing done. One day Harry, Iwlio bad a pretty boat named the Star- Tigfat, wanted Johnny and Lizzie to go with him sailing. Mrs. Laurence gavo her consent, but said Miss Prim must ac company them. They had a merry time, . and, crossing to a small island, ate their > Hindi on the rocks and hunted for shells. Returning, a sudden squall came up, and it little Miss Prim had not been well versed in the art of sailing all would have gone to the bottom. After that event tho dressmaker was doubly dear to all, and Mm. Laurence would not hear of her leaving her. So slie stayed and was treated as one of the family. September, with her gorgeous sunsets, her ripened fruits and soft moonlight came. It was Miss Chatty’s birthday. Dressed in white, with pale E ink blossoms in her silver hair and on er bosom, the little dressmaker looked as pretty and smiling as a girl. She had received rich gifts from the Lau rences and many other friends, for every one loved The gentle woman. Sitting in tho twilight, alone m the great garden at Pleasant Park, for the family had callers, and tiie little woman, thinking over tho past, was glad to be in the solitude of the shadowy park, with nothing to dis turb her reveries but the sighing of wind or tho twitter of a sleepy bird, suddenly a step approached, then a man appeared, and standing before her, repeated her name, saying very softly: “Charity, little darling Chatty! Do you know me?” For a moment tho startled woman thought a visitor from the other world confronted her, but whoa she felt the clasp of the warm hand, and heard the almost forgotten tones, she knew her long lost lover was before her and she nearly faulted with joy. He told her of his voyago to Africa, of the ship being taken by pirates, how he was sold to a chief of a tribe in tho interior of Africa, of tho long years of bondage, of Ids saving the life of the principal wife of his master, and when the dusky warrior died Ackla, the grateful widow, gave her slave his freedom, also a bag of diamonds, and after twenty years he had returned to thejlpve of his youth. He soon found out where his gentle betrothed was, and the once humble little * -wing woman be came Mm. William Moms, the wife of one of the richest men in Fairmount, and tho future will be bright for little Miss Prim.—Sollie A. Smith in Boston Bud get. PECULIARITIES OF MEMORY. bosom for hours. Then I loved der on the beach and gather sea- and tiny shells. After mother di was housekeeper, and helped fi the care of the lamp, and when hojwas sick many and many a night have I sat alone tending the great glowing that shone like a blood red ruby fi on the glistening waters. I grieved mother's death, but father was so kim tender, he took her place in man; spects. So we lived until I was 17. “One night in January—slmll J forget that fearful night?—father ha light burning brightly. Wo were in cheerful kitchen with a great fire In , he stove, plenty of hot water, blank ts, whisky and other things in readiness anything that might happen. I darning stockings, father was dozingjjn his easy chair, when the sullen boom, of guns was heard. The wil shrieked and howled, rocking the Hi house like a cradle. The waves their spray against the w and snow blinded and blurred the whifle heavens. Father sprang from his cl wide awake in a moment. I too, though pale aud trembling from frig] for I feared a hundred dangers in such 1 tempest, was ready to assist father, was a large, strong man, and I, altho i, small and slight, had const den. strength and a great deal of courage. “ ‘Come, my girl,’ cried father, pu ting on his sou’wester and wrappin, himself well up. ‘Come, we must what assistance we can render. Soirn poor sailors will meet their fate to-night, I fear, for no boat can live iu this gale, and bidding me follow him went dowi; to tiie beach. I put on waterproof an hood, and with a lantern soon joined] father and a number of fishermen wb lived on the island, but we were power less. No man could risk his life on such a night, no boat could outride such a storm; so boom, boom, went the guns on that ill fated ship, that was fast going toji her doom on the huge rocks. I cried to*! God to have mercy on those i»oor, fated ones. Fainter and fainter grew the firing and at last ceased. Vv T o waited and watched to see if any Louies would float ashore. Only one came, a man lashed :o a limber. * “Father and old Jo, a fisherman, car ried the inanimate form to our house. 1 ran before. Tho man was about 25, tall Facts Concerning Cabinet Woods. A handler of veneers thinks tliat birch is not appreciated at its real merit. For veneers he considers birch nearly, and ho can almost say quite, as good as cherry. Birch is coming to be more highly ap preciated than it was, and may not be surprised to see a boom in it before long. When birch becomes fashionable every- trill wa»Mt it. .. _ Efie foreign wood trade prima vera, the fashion^ole light mahogany, is very scarce all over the country. The princi pal foreign wood house in Chicago has a stock of only 3,000 feet on hand, and out of this New York orders are being sup plied with the prospect that shortly not a plank will be left in the sheds. It is a curious fact that mahogany is being shipped from the depository in Chi cago to New York right along, when the same stock was brought from the same seaboard city. A> carload of ma hogany was lately shipped from that city to Germany.—Boston Budget. Xot-Oue Ol ly but Many Memories in Koch Mind. It is manifest that there is not one memory only, but many memories, in each mind, and that one kind of memory is pre-eminently developed in one person, and another in another. “Memory,” says Ribot, “may be resolved into mem ories, just as the life of an organism may lie resolved into the lives of the organs, tho tissues, the anatomical elements which compose it.” Referring exclu sively to tho perceptive faculties, we need only mention a few thoroughly recognized facts in proof of this statement. Persons having a strongly developed organ cf what the phrenologists call “individu ality” receive peculiarly distinct impres sions of external objects, and, therefore, of persons; lienee they immediately re cognize them on seeing them again, and easily picture them to themselves from memory. Persons abundantly endowed with the organ of “locality” exhibit an astonish- ing yiower of finding their \vay in regions previously unknown to them, and of re membering the character of those they have visited. Persons thus endowed, when strongly impressed by the contents of a passage in a book they have read, re member exactly the part of the page in which the passage occurs,and whether tho page itself be a left hand or a right hand page. The number of degrees of capa city of perception and recollection of col ors is scarcely less remarkable—the power of recollection of them being always proportionate to the power of perceiving them and signalizing their differences. Similarly, he who possesses tiie musical faculty in an eminent degree possesses in a like degree tho power < learning and remembering the pieces of musio to which his attention is directed. A striking proof of the distinctively individualized character of our various faculties and memories is presented in the otten observed fact that tho percep tion of musical sounds and the per ception of time, though both alike essen tial in the mental constitution of a good musician, differ greatly in their relative strength in different individuals—so that while* one may be a skillful musician he may be an indifferent timist, and vice versa. In tho former case the orderly succession of notes of a musical passage is easily remembered, but the time in tervals, which are a distinctive feature of it, are remembered less easily; whereas in tho latter case the memory of time is stronger than is that of tune. Equally notable is the fact that persons who are especially able as calculators recollect numbers with peculiar facility. Moreover, persons especially gifted with the faculty of language have a propor tionate facility of recalling words, and of quoting from memory long passages which they have previously heard or read: “Cardinal Mezzofanti, who is said to have known moro than 100 different languages, used to declare that he never forgot a .vord that he had once learnt. ”—Westminster Review. How Forests Aro Destroyed. A good authority on our American forests writes that ho has seen over $1,- 000,000 worth of lumber burned by the careless fire of a gang of railroad work men. Such fires are constantly raging somewhere, and the enormous loss can hardly be estimated. He urges that only by making such carelessness criminal can there be put 'an end to it. What wc ion Id learn is to preserve the forests we have by proper legislation, by educating and appointing foresters of intelligence to care for them; by publishing informa tion on the subject, such as fanners and timbermcn can easily understand and apply.—Globe-Democrat. and fine looking. Father and Jo rubbed ] him, put him in blankets, gave him hot j drinks, and in an hour he lovived. His name was William Morris, second mate ; of the ill fated ship Monarch. It was : weeks before the man was able to leave our island home. When, after two months stay, he returaed to the city, we were betrothed lovers. Father had been to the owners of the vessel, and they liad given William one of the best of charac ters. hi another mouth William cani'3 ; to bid good-by. He was going to Africa as first nL«ite. ‘P >r one year, darling, he said, as we sat together by the kitchen fire, ‘only one shoit yestr, then we will : never part again. I shall be captain then, and you shall go with me on every voy age.’ Wo parted. That was twenty years ago this month, and I have never heard from or seen my sailor since,’’and crying softly to herself, poor Chatty for a moment ceased talking. AH three of the children wiped their eyes when they witnessed the grief of the little dress- ; maker, and Mrs. Laurence patted her softly on the shoulder, saying in low tones, “Earth has no sorrows heaven can not heal.” “You are right, and I am very foolish to weep and mourn, when God lias been so good to me in all these years,” and j trying to smile Miss Chatty continued her story. “In six months after William sailed father died. He was never well after the fearful night of the storm. I gave up the lighthouse, and with the few hun dred dollars my parents had saved, and my small stock of furniture. I came to Dr. Nansen’s Exploring Expedition. News has come of the Greenland ex pedition under Dr. Nansen. It appears that he and his six companions landed on the east coast of Greenland on the .. 18th ultimo, in latitude Co degs. 30 min. This is nearly two degrees south of the tic circle, and will imply* a journey some 300 miles across to tho west coast. The two Laplanders who accom panied Norden.sk j old in his se' >nd unsuc cessful attempt to cross Greenland (in a higher latitude and from the west side) managed to advance eastward some 140 miles and attained a height of over 0,500 feet, whence they got a view of what ap peared to be an endless snow field. Should Dr. Nansen’s party reach this jSnovT fi«id, their chances of success will great, as they are all famous snowshoe walkers, and have frequently crossed tho Norwegian mountains in tho depth of winter. They could not have landed in Greenland at a better time; for they escape tho short and thorouglily dis- eoable sub-arctic summer. What has been described as an endless snow field is no doubt the water shed of the innum erable Greenland glacier streams, the [terminations of which form such a strik- feature of the Greenland coast. Should til is prove to bo the case, the lltimate discovery of a vast inland sea or teries of great lakes is not improbable.— it. James’ Gazette. Ragging at tho Kuocs. The subject of trousers bagging at tho knees is one of general and widespread interest. More widespread and general than is commonly supposed, for the rea son that a great many who have given Time CHd thought tO thc consideration of it will not frankly acknowledge that they have done so. But, all the same, there are rich bankers, mercliants, poets and statesmen, who will to-night, before they retire, carefully’ fold up their trousers, lay them on a chair and place a heavy Bible or a file of patent office reports on them, so that in tho morning they will not be compelled to walk abroad with two bay windows located prominently at their knees. There are politicians who stop thinking of the tariff several times a week to give a little thought to this detail of dress, and attempt for the hun dredth time to solve tho harassing prob lem involved. There are poets who will pause in tho midst of making rhymes to take this absorbing theme into considera tion. The same thing is true through all tho ranks and professions of life.—Boston llc-rald. Value of Industrial Drawing. Interest in the manufactured products (ft manual training schools and the inci dental courses of instruction in tho use of tools seems to have taken attention away from industrial drawing as an indispensable factor to their success; but its great importance in de veloping the skill of the hand and the eye in obtaining and express ing knowledge should not be lost sight of. In every manual school the thoughts to be expressed in wood, metal, etc., are first expressed by drawing. If, there fore, manual exercises are to be intro duced into schools, the first thing as a prep;u‘ation for them is to introduce in dustrial drawing. This should be so taught that pupils may be led to express their thought not only by drawing but by making it—that is, by constructing tho object of the thought. The extent to which this method may be carried can not lie determined at this time, when our experience with it is still in the fh-st stages. That it is possible to do some thing, however, has already been fully demonstrated by the excellent results ob tained by the pioneers in this movement in such cities as St. Louis, Chicago, St. Paul, Columbus, Worcester and Quincy*. —Charles M. Carter in The Century. frequently either plowed under or otner- wise used on tho crops. Privy waste is safe nowhere, except when thoroughly and daily mingled with dry dirt—very dry—anil then either use as land fertil izer to be plowed in or else cremated, burned to a roast. Tho danger from sewage when run Into brooks and streams is imminent. We have above all to guard against polluting tho water supply of our families or our neighbocs. Most of the large streams that seem too large to seriously be affected with tho waste from above aro found to bo alive with bacteria, that even do not die with freezing. The water in summer, and the ice in winter, of our large rivers is unsafe. But it must even be borne in mind that our soils ore underneath us, out of sight, full of small water courses running everywhere, and carrying what is allowed to saturate tho soil.—M. Mau rice, M. D., in Globe-Democrat. Nightly Cooling of tho Earth. During the day, when the sun is shin ing, it communicates its heat to the earth and the latter becomes warm. When night comes, however, tho earth gives off the heat which it has stored up during tho day, and consequently be comes colder. This cooling commences at sundown, and increases every minute until the sun rises again, when the low est degree of cold is reached. That is tho time when most of us feel, even in bed, after the hottest night, a chilliness which causes us to cover ourselves more closely wit>v the blankets, which were rejected at the beginning of tho night. This fact will also explain the cause of ‘taking cold” in midsummer, which has seemed such a mystery to many. Going to bed on a hot evening, the win dows are left open and all covering is thrown off. Now, when from neglect, or through failure to waken, tho body is not covered as morning approaches, it is exposed to the same conditions as in the depth of winter—a sudden lowering of temperature—and a “cold” is the nat ural result. This nightly cooling of the earth is not so much noticed in cities as it is in the country. In the former tho many large buildings of brick, stone and iron have become reservoirs of heat during the day, and at night they add so much more of the amount of heat to be given off. As a cou sequence, the air is not cooled to such a degree as it is in the country, and very frequently in the hottest weather the whole night is intensely op pressive. —Boston Herald. Chicago’s Building Associations. “I suppose there must be a constantly rolling and moving capital of $60,000,- 000, engaged in the 800 building and loan associations in this city,” said the manager of a big sewing machine con cern on State street. “And it is this fact which interferes more and more with collections in our business. For a year I could not imagine what the growing dif ficulty in coUecting moneys due arose from. Then at last I found it was be cause the spare cash of many thousands in this town goes into these building as sociations. And their number is con- stantly increasing. Safe? Well, so far as I can see the money invested in these concerns is perfectly safe unless there is reckless management. But there is less cliance of that than in almost any other concern.”—Chicago. Herald. Inefficiency of t'mttci t Filters. An agent has just left my rooms after wasting a half hour of time in vain at tempts to persuade me into purcliasing faucet filter—mado iu some new fan- gled way. There is really no such tiling as a filter for water that can be used at tached to house faucets. At best, they lave never been anything else but strain ers, and recent experiments prove them to lie worse even than that, for they are shown to be nests for propagation of just such impurities as they aro calculated to remove. Far better take chances on Croton or Cochituate direct than to have tho already laden water made a breeding ilaco for bacteria by so called filters. They are not to bo trusted. This water question continues to be of the utmost public importance, and it seems extraordinary that typhoid fever and other filth diseases should not rage to f->r greater extent than reports show, if our drink is as foul as it is said to be. I suspect that the truth is this bacteria scare has been very much overworked. There are leaders in the medical profes sion who say directly that modern prac tice of medicine has actually nothing to show in the way of better results than ancient, and that no greater percentage of patients recover in palatial hospitals than in tho rough shanties where sick were kept a hundred years ago; and cer tainly the past heated term, with its ac companying immense consumption of water, has not shown any increased death rate—slightly the reverse. If one’s water supply bo distinctly and sensibly impure, I try some other source; otherwise, it is a question if it bo not unwise to disturb one’s mind about microscopal bacilli, that have been swimming about ever since Adam.—William F. Hutchinson, M. D.. in American Magazine. The chemical relations of matter are mt imperfect types of the delicacy, the ] aultiplicity and the inclusiveness of l aoral relations. All things which men tyuch through any sense, by any thought, i$ any act, distfil some moral quality and react either for good or ill. We are played upon by influences too many for ■ our comprehension, too delicate for our observation, too far reaching for our foresight. When we seem to be sacri ficing things most precious to us wo are i receiving them back in some finer imperishable form; when wc seem working solely for others, wo aro serving ourselves in the highest noblest way.—Boston Budget. Now Material for Paper Pulp. The discovery of a new’ use of the cot ton stalk, for paper pulp, is followed by the discovery of a method of utilizing the tops of pine and spruce trees for the same purpose. This at onco makes mar ketable a vast mass of hitherto waste material. It is a sort of waste tliat has led to untold mischief in lumbering regions, because, having become dry, it has been the originating place of nearly all forest fires in lumber districts. Here after the tops and branches of all ever greens will be gathered, and being steamed to extract the resinous matter, will be ground into dry pulp. Tins is portable to any distance, when it can be used in paj>er manufacture. The effect of the two discoveries on paper produc tion wiU be enormous, and for the ad vantage of the press and people. It is impossible to avoid ihe conviction that in due time we shall discover that noth ing need be wasted, but that all things are useful when properly understood.- Globe-Democrat. Not Iiijurious to Her Health. In the face of facts like these and of many more that might bo adduced, we cannot believe that nature has placed liefore woman any constitutional harrier to the collegiate life, but that so far as physical reasons aro concerned, she may enter upon it with no moro fear than a man may. That an increasing number of women will do this, and tliat it is best for tho state tliat all should do it who aro destined to be instructors of the youth of tho republic, is iu my mind not at all doubtful. What is to bo the result? That is tho crucial question. On tho physical health of tho educated woman it will be bene ficial. Observation, so far as it is now* possible, shows that tho work of the full college course is favorable to bodily health. Tho regularity of life, tho satis faction of attainment, tho pleasant com panionship, tho general broadening of tho girl nature, tend in that direction. Speak ing of “nervous or neuropathic” j*oung women. Dr. Charles Follen Folsom, of the department of nervous diseases in tho Boston hospital, writes that it his opinion that “the higher education is a conservative rather than a destructive force.”—Arthur Gilman in Tho Cen- turv. Bm Waited Dons Enough. ie representatives of the negus of at the celebration of the 900th iversary of the introduction of Christi- r in Russia, have been commissioned to iscertain whether the gold cross sent negus to Alexander II ten years had been received by that monarch, i negus asserts that he has received no ’ from the Russian government to . inquiries, and it is reported i he has threatened to kill his emis- i should they return without the de formation.—Boston Transcript. Disposing; of Hous« Waste. City sewage should be burned to be got rid of. There is no other safe method. I fchall startle country people by adding ' that they, too, must come to the same ! method. Ordinary kitchen slops should be caught in pails and canned out at once, to be poured into gardens or about trees, and not repeatedly in or about one place or tree. But the garbage that ani mals will not eat should be promptly , cremated. Burn all decaying substances, , even old weed heaps, unless they can be used iu small quantities as mulching ! about trees. A house drain to carry off impure water and slops is unnecessary : and dangerous in the country, i A certain amount of house waste may safely lie composted with the ashes, and Tho Boundary Lino Post*. The iron posts that mark the northern boundary line between the United States and eastern Canada are at every cross road that leads into Canada, and desig nate, as the inhabitants there say, “Lino 45. ” They stand above tho ground about threo feet, and have four sides, on which appear the following inscriptions: 1. “Boundary, Aug. 9, 1842.” 2. “Albert Smith, United States Commissioner.” 8. “Treaty of Washington.” 4. “Lieut. Col. I. B. B. Estcourt, H. B. M. Com missioner.”—Frank Leslie’s. A Competent Nurse. Mistress (to applicant)—Yes, I have advertised for a nurse. Aro you compe tent to take care of young children? Applicant—Ob, yis, mum. Mistress—You never give them pare goric to quiet them? Applicant—Niver, mum. I alien pre fers laudanum.—Once a Week, THE USE PERFUMES. Over la- A Delightful Practice, If Not dulged In—A Pitiable Mistake. The refinements of the ancients varied in almost every way from those of a modern age, except, perhaps, in some of the uses appertaining to tiie toilet, and the Scriptures, as well as other records of ancient customs, bear testimony that baths and clean linen, perfumes atyj sweet odors were regarded quite as much of a luxury then as now. Few are, per haps, aware that tho origin of the use of manufactured perfumes had a sacred character, yet they were an invention of the priests who officiated at the unrrifleial altars in the olden temples, and, doubt less, great necessity must have been the mother of invention, for from the slaughtered beasts must have arisen meet noxious emanations, which all the water in the land would i.ot have washed clean without the aid of the perfumes of Ara bia. Moses leaves a record of the exact perfumes and incense which were used iu the temples, although in biblical days the latter was termed frankincense, and was, moreover, with myrrh and gold, the most valued article of oommkroe. The incense which contained myrrh was especially reserved for the purifica tion of the body after sacrifice and used by both men and women, though, of course, the latter were only anointed by the former. It has a very aroma tic odor. For other purposes frankincense was mixed with cliarcoal and a little, saltpeter. The same burning of incense continues to this day to be a part of the ceremonious rites in certain religions. Morever, the sale of pastiles (or little cones or sticks of incense) for burning in private houses is growing largely, and many of our rich families live in an mosphero as heavily laden with subtle odors as Cardinal Richelieu of Pompey. Moses is also said to have in- ’ structed the Egyptian priests in the. science of extracting scents, and they' grew most proficient in tiie art of per-. fumery and invented a most extraordi nary variety. In fart, to this day has descended the custom of declaring any faint, sweet, strange odor to be like on Egyptian perfume. • Opinions differ about the use and abuse of sweet scents. Certainly there is an incongraity in their use by men, but a' woman who leaves behind her a subtle sense of redolence curries always a double charm. Strong, active, energetic natures are apt to scorn an indulgence ih what is so grateful to their opposites—lang luxury loving people. Yet the nat odor of flowers about the house are grate ful to all for their sweetness, os well as for their beauty, and to those flowers to : which Mother Earth lias refused a fra grance wc give but lialf tim care which is showered upon those tliat * can gratify a double sense. To some floor unfortu nates the scent of certain odors, and even of flowers, is distasteful, and not always.' from association. _ Even further than] that, tiie disliked odors remici* some per sons quite ill. With age the sense of smell is affected, and, like tho other senses, grows weak, and some elderly ladies, especially those who have been beautiful, worldly women, much flattered and admired, absolutely reek with the strong bouquet of some' perfumery. Their unconsciousness is pitiable, their vanity deplorable, for it would vvoitpd them too greatly to gest a lessening of thefarfndi ‘ they must be allowed to~ olfactory nerves are capridotifiT tilings, and the aroma wliich makes' them dilate, with pleasure at one time is quite disa greeable at another. They easily surfeited with an overdose. Women generaUy have a habit of tuck ing little bags of sachet powder in their bureau drawers and pinning them in their dresses, but they os generally are indiscriminate in choosing the odors, sometimes buying heliotrope, sometimes violet, and again rose. There is much more refinement and daintiness of feel ing, beside a quaint, and certainly sweet, coquetry, in keeping always a perfume of one’s own; it liecomes then always a part of one’s being. If one is fond of tho flagrance of the rose an investment in a few of the long peculiar vials con taining attar of rose end keeping them in various places amid the possessions is a much more enduring way of jierfuminj than uring sachet (Hiwda*.—“8. 8. M.” in Chicago Herald iguid.: atural ‘riieifjjpj^ The iriciotfS tiiii % A Bevolutlor in Dress When tho sewing machine first came into general use it was feared that it would do away with the means of sup port of the sewing girls, making it a sim ple maUer for every household to com pass all its own sewing in comparatively no time at all. But, contrary to con jecture, precisely the opposite has been the result; for the sewing machine mado plain work so easy that tucks, ruffles, in- sortings, ai d all the finer fancies of the needle, done by its aid, came to be as much a matter of course os the plain seam used to be. so that work accumu lated beyond aU expectation, and Ute class of sewing girls found more to do than they had ever dreamed of having; and those who had worn the simplest sort of clothes suffered from a prevalent feeling which made plain clothes seem to manifest a want of taste and.elegance and care for appearances. With aU this superabundance, then, of fanciful cutting out and putting together again, of stitching and trimming with bands and edgings, that came in for tiie white underwear with the sewing ma chine, the outside wear presently could not fail to correspond in intricacy; and thus embroideries, furbelows, pieatings, draperies, and all the rest of the insignia of fashion belonging to the gown, iiave come in their turn. The consequence of this raising of the straight seam to its highest power is that she who once dressed herself with simplicity would now be out of the world in her old style and manner, and finds it best to sacrifice her tastes and deck herself out like a doll, as it seems to her, and she who used to tie the French doll incarnate has to worry her brains and her modistes to invent something that shall exceed all previous bambinos, and be an impossibility to her imitators till it is time for something else. And thus the innocent looking little sewing machine has brought about * complete revolution in fine attire; has raised dressmakers’ prices from $5 to $40, with the intermediate grades, and those far exceeding the larger figure; has made it necessary for tiie women who used to buy her best black silk for a dollar and ninepence a yard, and when cut and basted for “two and three pence,” make it up herself in three or four afternoons, now to hire a inautuamaker with skill at the old and a knock for the last new wrinkle, and to pay for one gown wliat would Iiave supplied horwhole wardrobe twenty-five years ago.—Har per’s Bazar. India Babbar In CaMfomla. The Ficus Elastica, from the milk of which the India rubber of coznmproe it made, grows well in southern California, and preparations are making to cultivate the trees. A great many wul be phinied next winter.—New York Sun. Immigration into Canada from Europe thus far tins year has reached 54,000. Of this number 40.000 Iiave proceeded direct to the United States. Km *4