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YOL. IY. NO. 9. ' BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1876. $2.00 per Aim. Single Copy 5 tab.
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" They Say."
They say?ah ! wel), suppose they do,
Bat can they prove the story true ?
Suspicions may arise from naught
But malice, envy, want of thought:
Why count yourself among the "they "
Who whisper what they dare not say ?
They say?but why the tale rehearse,
And help to make the matter worse ?
No good can possibly accrue
From telling what may be untrue ;
And is it not a nobler plan
To speak of all the beet you can ?
They say?well, if it should be so,
Why need you tell the tale of woe ?
Will it the better work redress,
Or make one pang of sorrow less ?
Will it the erring restore
Henceforth to " go and sin no more?"
Tbev say?oh ! pause and look within;
S ee how thy heart inclines to eiD,
Watch, lest in dark temptation's hour,
Thon, too, should sink beneath its power:
Pity the frail, weep o'er their fall,
But speak of good, or not at all.
LEGALIZED ROBBERY.
A Lectwre the Crimes of the Day. aad
Striking Analysis of Them.
Rev. David 0. Mears, of Cambridge,
Mass., gave a lecture upon Yital Prob
lems, the subject for the evening being
Legalized Robbery. There are twc
standards, he said, in every Christiar
oommunity by which the acts of each
citizen are measured?the moral and the
legal. The one is the expression of the
Divine will, the other the expression ol
the principle of the State or nation.
The one is never altered to snit the in
clinatious of the community ; the othei
varies with public opinion. Our civi1
code has been written by imperfect, fal
lible meD, and it by no means follow*
that because theso imperfect, fallible
men are not condemned by the laws o)
their own making, therefore they arc
without reproach. Inquiring into the
validity of the legal standard, we notice
first, the uncertainty of right and justice
in framing the laws. Lobbyists crowd
our legislatures, and votes are boughl
and sold and traded on the most important
questions. Second, we notice the
uncertainty of the laws as to their exe
cntion. The same influences that wori
against right and justice in framing oui
laws work against their execution. IJ
bribes are powerless in defeating the
expression of strict justice, they are
often powerful iu defeating the execu
tion of justice. We have laws againsl
gambling, yet under guard of tho police
we may enter every gambling house ir
Boston. In the third place, we notice
the uncertainty of the standard of law.
What seems right in thTs generation
may be overruled iu the next; thus the
legal standard as to the question ol
slavery has been reversed ; and on the
greatest question of to-day, the suppression
of intemperance, the legal standardf
vary. From each of these points we are
driven to the irresistible conclusion thai
it is morally wrong for as to rest satis
lied in an appeal to the legal standard a;
gaugiug our conduct. Yet men almost
without exception act according to the
legal standard ; members of the same
church, sitting at Christ's table together,
arc never sure of a business transactor
until the papers are passed; n^t one
mau in a thousand, becoming prosper
ous after mice failing in basiness, tvei
pays the old debts which the law liat
canceled.
The highwayman who plunders lih
?- ~l: ? A n Aflioi* m?n fa
Victim 19 U AVJUA/CA. AUVSVUV*. uuu., .V
specteu in society, under cover of tli(
law defrauds his neighbor of thousands,
and because it is legally done, he holdf
his position as before ; the transaction if
a legalized robbery. A moral wrong
committed lawlessly or lawfully, is 8
moral wrong still.
We live iu an age of great financial
temptatious. Wealth can build cities
and whiten the ocean with the sails oi
commerce. It can erect palaces ami
bring to homes many a comfort aud joy.
It is a power, yet it cannot purchase
contentment or love; cannot bny bach
the virtue ouce trampled in the dust;
cannot bribe death or win neaven. ii
would ring counteifeit-like on the pavement
of heaven ; its mansions would
look gross and mean beside those which
Christ has gone to prepare. Yet men ic
their haste to be rich stiflo the convictions
of conscience by saying their trans
actions are legal.
We notice, first, fraud at home. W<
refer to the very common transaction oi
deeding property to the wife or childrer
in time of approaching disaster. A mac
has $25,000, but borrows enough to givt
1 one t/w liia nnrnosi^s. TTf
IllLLi IWj VVV ivi ^ ~ .
takes $15,000 and builds a house anc
deeds it to bis wife, and this is a lega
transaction. As a matter of fact, he i;
doing business to the extent of $85,00(
on $10,000 capital, and as a matter o:
necessity, the odds are against him
What right has this business pretendei
?what moral right, to the house he ha;
built ? What moral right has he to hole
it from his creditors in case of hisalmos
inevitable failure? Yet the law allow;
it. " Woo unto him 4hat buildeth hi;
house by unrighteousness and his cham
bers by wrong; that usetli his neigh
bor's service without wages, and givetl
him not for his work ; that saitb, I wil
build me a wide house and large oham
bers, and cutteth him out windows ; an<
it is ceiled with cedar, and painted witl
vermilion. Shalt thou reign becaus
thou closest thyself in cedar ?"
Secondly, the credit system. Th
tendency observable in the last fifteei
years is alarming. Men borrow in orde
to carry on business, and if we are fc
trust the results, it is but a poor invest
m- nt for the lender. Corpo^itions ad
vance a part and borrow the rest
and eventually fail. Towns hold thei
meetings and vote to construct a rail
road or build a schoolhpuse, and borrow
the money. Cities do the same. Churcl:
es vote to build houses of worship, an
do as every other organization, mortgag
the building for the amount above wlif
they have raised. If the words of th
sacred book are true, " The borrower i
servant to the lender," we are in a stat
of bondage indeed. From such a bom
age the doctrines of reputation and ii
flation have sprung up. Leav ug out <
account all persons fifteen years of b$
and under, every person in this oountr;
| male and female, above that limit won]
be compelled to pay over $100 to liqn
cate the national debt. On the san
] basis $60 wonld be required from eve:
i person to liquidate our State debt. Ac
j to these the debts of counties and towi
[ and the amount would be appalling
yet we go on carelessly adding burd<
j to burden. The whole system is pure
legal, but it can scarcely be term*
either scriptural or moral.
Following this, we notice the syste
of bankruptcy. It has few terrors f
men of business. The bankrupt to 1
places his property mostly out of 1
hands legally, and then takes up wi
the legal process ; and when his aff&i
are settled he is congratulated upon tl
result. Corporations pay their dividen
and double salaries, while the ownei
certificate of stock is so much was
paper. And what corporations do i
dividuals do under cover of the law.
jase just entered in New York is
point: liabilities, $143,000; assel
$125 worth of wearing apparel, claim*
to be exempted under the law. O:
man can legally carry on business un
his assets cover only five cents on eve
dollar of liabilities. Another can leg*
ly borrow thousands of dollars to-mc
row and fail just after. In the sight
God a thief is a thief; it matters n
1 jow, it matters now where or whoi
Thou shalt not steal!
, Fourthly, speculation or stock gar
- bling. Speculation, robbery, despai
r prison^ these are the steps on the dow
1 mi - rr.\
) vara roaa. ine muuiu icouucd mn
i of Wall street. Respectablo papers a
\ vertise the names of brokers who
> advice can clear $1,200 apon every $li
) invested, subject to call upon the Stcx
t Exchange. The terrible scenes of "Bla<
.Friday" did not break the fascination
the ten thousand dreamers of wealtl
: nor did it put a stop to the spurioi
I companies, legally equipped but pu
- frauds. The number of men who, du
i iug the last few years, have gain*
> wealth on 'Change, approximating
f their expectations, we are told could 1
> counted on one's fingers. But the enc
> mity of the evil leading to poverty a
i hardly be appreciated. The par vali
? of the sales at the New York Stock E
[ change reache s considerably above twe
; ty-two thousand million dollars annuall
Speculations which in former tim
) swept over the street like a monsoi
now produce mere ripples. But all th
: is legal, and the vultures sometimes a
among the seemingly devout worshipe
f of Christ, that Christ who, twice
> his lifetime, cleared His Father's hou
> of the men of traffic as heartless as the
followers of to-day. Honest busine
t men need our heartiest sympathy sin
> they have to cope with the dishone
i who are shielded by the law.
But what of the man who is in has
to be rich ? The crown he aspires for
i of gold, and can be won only here,
f must be left with the body. The rac
J is born for two worlds; yet as he hurri
> forward he gauges his acts by hum*
statues. He keeps the gains legally gc
5 ten from those whom God will defen
> He hears the curses of those whom 1
t has defrauded, but whoso only appeal
to a God of eternal justice, and not
i the tribunal of man. He hasteth
t be rich, but poverty shall come up<
) him. What though he gain the crov
) and wear it for a few hours ? When 1
, shall lay it one side and enter anoth
i existence, where shall be his hop*
> "The love of money is the root of t
- evil, which while some have covet*
after, they have erred from the fail
? and pierced themselves through wii
many sorrows,
j We must come back to the old tim
- We are to bo judged by our motive
) Fraud is a sin; neglect of the Divii
, law is a sin; and it is high time that tl
j Christian church shall recognize th
j fact. We need a firmer public sen time;
r which, being stronger than the law, sh?'
i keep back from destruction those wl
unwittingly are tempted thither.
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United States Navy.
f
In the United States navy there a
forty rear-admirals on* the retired lif
who receive $4,500 per year salary. F<
! lowing the list of rear-admirals there a
' pears a list of thirty-eight commodore
! Thirty-five of these commodores are <
the retired list and receive $3,750 p
[ year each.
L j There are thirty oaptains and coi
11 manders on the retired or pension li
. { who receive an average of $3,000 a ye
. j each.
After the captains and commando
5 j come the lieutenants, lieutenant ooi
i' ; manders, masters, ensigns, and ev<
i I midshipmen. A "starred," or retire
l lieutenaut-commander receives $2,25(
) j year, a lieutenant $1,950, a master $1,5C
,! an ensign $1,150, and a midshipm
[ i $750. After these come the staff ol
1 cers, and the exhibit is somthing appa
. | iug. There are twenty-five medical i
) reactors at $3,300 each, thirteen otb
f medical officers at an average of $2,0
each, fifteen pay officers at an average
r $2,000 each, and thirty-eight engines
, | at about the same average.
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The Use of Fallen Leaves.
5 1
s I In the GardenerMonthly a wrif
. | says: These have to be gathered u
- S They are excellent to mix with lrot-b<
! material, and, where practicable, shou
1 be saved for this purpose. They do n
. ; heat so rapidly as stable manure, and
1 [ this have an advantage; as temperii
! the violence makes manure last lon^
0 and maintain a more regular heat. Th
a PTpoll<Ant material to put round cc
e frames to protect half-hardy plants,
a ; board is put up to the height of t
r frame boards, aud about a foot or mc
o from them, and the leaves tilled in I
r 1 tween. If the plants are somewhat U
[.' der, the bottom of the frames may
,t filled in a few feet with the leav
r These leaves, after having been two
I- three years decaying, make admiral
[v stuff for potting plants and for flow<
i-; in general.
e | Cold Winters.?The coldest winfc
it on record in the United States witl
ie the past one hundred years were th<
is of 1780, 1836 and 1856. In 1780 1
e Delaware river, bay of New York a
1- j Long Island sound were so completely
l- bound as to be crossed with horses h
">f sleighs. The coldest year was that
je | 1816, in which there wu ice in ev<
y, mouth of the year.
Id The Trenton Battle Anniversary.
L*~ The Trenton (N. J.) State Gazette
10 thus sketches the mock capture of the 1
^ Hessians in that city. It says: The
troops, having taken their several posia8
tions, began to move about nine o'clock.
>? The first division began to move down 1
;n Greene street, in the direction of the <
x Assanpink. The second division com- *
menced the attack on the Hessians on *
West Hanover street, and drove them to 2
m Willow, through Willow to State. Gen- 1
or eral Sullivan followed closely to Front c
. street, through Front to Warren, down 2
j18 Warren to Factory, and through Factory *
to Greene, where they entrapped the
5s enemy. The first brigade drove the *
ae enemy through State street to Green to J
, the Assanpink creek. While these move- *
r 8 ments were going on the streets were *
packed with people. The firing was 2
rapid and exciting. The division that c
. came down Greene street; when at the c
m city hall, became greatly excited. Shouts T
rent the air. The poor Hessians were 1
3 making very excellent time down Greene 2
a? street, when a volley from the advancing 1
Americans started them on a run, while
Y the crowds that filled the streets shouted *
u" at the top of their voices. It was really 1
,r" an exciting scene. Isaac Bonner, aid to c
?f General Washington, rode directly 1
ot through the enemy's line, amidst great ^
n* applause, on Greene, where they took a I
stand. There were many laughable 2
f1" scenes in the odd movements of the ad- 1
Lr? vancing and retreating soldiers. There 2
J1" were some comical looking uniforms as 2
ae well as faces. Some of the Continentals c
tried to make themselves as forlorn look- 1
88 ing as possible. The grand surrender *
v; took place at the Assanpink bridge. The 2
Ijf swords of the Hessian officers were sur- 2
j rendered, and the Hessian troopsrevers- t
?* ed arms as an evidence of their capture. 2
1' They were then marched up Greene ?
a8 street, between Hanover and Perry, i
re where the orders were read. The troops ^
^r" were then taken to the State arsenal, <
3 where they handed over their arms and '
IO on/1 Trrtrfl thftn marnhfld ^
UVAA/UVC1 iUUUVUj ?? "w w ?MV?.
30 to Washington Hall, where a grand din- c
,r" ner was in readinets, and of which they <
^ partook with great relish. j
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n- Retnrning Home. r
Whatever may have been the original j
68 numbers of the projected colony of ^
\n Americans in South Ameiica, it has 6
fniled, and for two reasons. The coun- ^
re try is not adapted to the activity of our i
,rs people ; and there never was any good t
in reason why these immigrants should ^
86 have left their native land. There is an 1
!ir urgent demand in Brazil for industrial t
88 immigration. The government has, by j
00 liberal and enlightened legislation, en- 1
:St deavored to attract colonies and individ- a
ual agaiculfcurists and laborers. But, \
. after various experiments with Europe- a
~8 ans and Americans, it seems settled that 1
" the Chinese are the only foreigners who t
er take kindly to the country. To Ameri- 1
es cans, accustomed as they are to facile I
means of transportation, quick sales of t
products, and reasonably short credits, 1
the primitive business habits of the Bra- t
a.e zilians seem excessively wasteful and c
18 dilatory. The mines, like most mines, t
require'a great deal of money to work 1
them. Farming, which was held out as v
a profitable industry without serious t
rn labor, proved to be a delusion to the en i
10 ergetic American. Buckle has succinct c
ly summed up the case when he says of c
' Brazil that: "The progress of agricul- r
| ture is stopped by impassable forests, ci
. and the harvests are devoured by innu- J
merable insects. The mountains are too t
high to scale?the rivers too wide to c
bridge." If the American colonist was 1
e" ambitious and hard-working, he eventu- t
8 ally became discouraged and ceased to c
16 contend with the forces of nature arrayed
a.e against him. If he was indolent and c
llf fond of his ease, he readily fell into the i
n,, negligent ways of the country, and fail- 1
ed to make a living from a soil to which 1
J0 he brought neither his own labor nor t
that of hired servants. So, in 1869, f
about one hundred of the refugees took f
passage on two United States men-of- 1
re war which had been ordered to give 1
it them this opportunity. The frigate 1
5l' Swatara has brought back the last in- <
p. stallment?about seventy-five, all told.
>8# A few others have returned by pritate
5n conveyance from time to time.
er j
Wliv she Should Ho West. ,
:8f According to the last census Massa- i
iar chusetts had, in 1870, 49,993 females !
more than males. The Boston Advtr- I
ir8 finer discards many theories in regard to I
this excess, such as the migration of i
P11 men to Western States, some occult law
(j governing births, etc,, and attributes it
I solely to the incoming of women from
10 other States to work in the factories, i
aiJ particularly from Miiino and Vermont. )
g_ This seems a some what plausible theory, J
g. yet every State in New Euglaud, except- ]
jj. ing Vermont, has a large excess of *fe,er
males. Maine has the smallest, viz.: :
00 700; New Hampshiro and Rhode Isl nd .1
0f about 7,000 each, and Connecticut 6,914. ' <
ts Vermont in 1870 had an excess of about j \
1,000 males. New York State has an ; i
excess of 56,301 females, and the District
of Columbia 7,316 more females
than males. A proportionate excess of i
females over males is found' in almost i
every Eastern and Middle State, and yet \1
the census of 1870 shows an excess of j
328,757 males over females in the i<g0j.
gregate population of the States and | i
^ Territories. This excess is mainly found i
in the Western States and Territories, J
as, for instance, in California, where it1
reaches 138,000. The intuitive faculty
^ of the female mind will readily comprea
hend why the "Go West" injunction of ;
jie the late Mr. Greeley is especially appli- i
. cable to such of the sex as are unprovided j
je for in the East.
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be He Duiim n.
B9. The following story is told of a mem-;
or ber of the English Parliament who,
wishing to conciliate an old neighbor, p. '
3rs voter, sent him a pineapple from the j
hothouse. "I hope yon liked it," he
said to the old man, when he met him a
era few days afterward. " Well, yes, |
lin thankee, pretty well. Rnt I suppose
we we sort of people are not used to them
:ke fine things and didn't know how to eat |
.nd 'em." "How did you eat it, then ?" j
ice asked the M. P. "Well," said the man, j
,nd we boiled'em." "Boiled it!" sighed (
of the M. P., thinking of his pineapple, j
irv "Yes, we boiled 'em with a leg of taut- ;
ton." I
HEROIC WOMEN.
Encounter of a Mother and Daughter with
a Bear?A Terrific Htrnccle, Ending in
Victory for the lleroinen*
Two women, mother and daughter,
lamed Butler, living on the spur of the
3atskills of which Mount Prospect is
he termination, recently had anencoun,er
with a bear, in which was manifested
i heroism worthy of those early days of
American history when the settlers were
sompelled to be continally on the alert
igainst ferocious beasts and still more
erocious Indians.
Mrs. Butler is a woman about thirtyive,
and her daughter Jennie is sixteen,
it is the custom of the father and husband
to be absent in the woods someiines
two or three days, leaving his wife
rnd daughter alone with a good watch
log and rifle in the cabin. About five
>'clock one day, the daughter, Jennie,
ras preparing the evening meal for the
logs, which were squealing in the pen,
i log in closure a short distance from the
louse. A sudden change in the cries
jmitted from the sty, and the furious
larking of the dog, Joe, caused both
nother and daughter to run to the door
>f the cabin and look out. What was
heir surprise to see a large black bear
rith a shote weighing sixty or seventy
jounds, tucked in under one fore leg
md trying to climb out of the inclosire.
The Butlers had lost three hogs
dready by the inroads of bears or other
mimais, and the women resolved to ressue
this one if possible. The dog was
naking a great fuss on the outside of
he pen but was afraid to jump inside
ind attack the bear. Mrs. Butler seized
i heavy manl, used in driving wedges in
he logs, and her daughter snatched the
tx from the woodpile and the two moved
it onoe to the pen. They both jumped
nside the inclosure, emboldened by
vhich the cog also leaped over and
5ommenced harrassiDg bruin in the rear.
Che women rained blows heavy and
luick on the bear, which presently
Iropped the pig, and, turning on the
log, had him in his embrace in a twinking
and crushed him to death. The eforts
of the women to dispatch the bear
vere redoubled. The bear was now
aging with fury, and advanced with his
aws distended upon the girl, who was
vielding the ax unmercifully. With one
iweep of his great paw he struck the
veapon from her hands, and the next
nstant had pressed her into a corner of
he pen; but the terrible blows that
vere showered upon him by Mrs. Bnter
with the maid forced him to leave
he girl before doing her any great inury.
He rushed furiously upon Mrs.
Sutler, who managed to elude his grasp
ind retained possession of her weapon,
ehich she used to good advantage. She
houted to Jennie to hasten to the
louse and bring the rifle and shoot the
>ear. The girl jumped from the pen,
ler clothing nearly all torn from her
>erson, and hurried after the gun. The
flood from the wounds inflicted on the
>ear by the ax and maul poured on tho
loor of the pen and over the shaggy
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!Oft[ OI (Q6 zuuiiaucr xwuuu ojliu JLv/uuu
he inclosure the -contest waged, until at
ast the bear struck the woman's weapon
rith his paw and sent it flying out on
he ground. He pressed Mrs. Buttlor
nto a corner, where she dropped in a
Touching position and placed her hands
>ver her eyes, expecting to be torn to*
>ieccs the next instant. Jpst then her
laughter returned with the rifle. She
mshed the barrel through a chink in
he log and fired. The bear staggered
>n his liaunches and fell back dead. The
>all had entered and passed clean
hrongh his heart, as was afterwards
iscertained.
With the removal of the great tension
>n her nerves, Jennie fell lifeless to the
'round, and it was a long time before
ler mother could summon strength suficient
to climb out of the pen to her
lid. She finally got her into the cabin
ind succeeded in restoring her to coniciousne88.
Neither of the women were
lurt to any great extent, the daughter
laving the flesh torn under her arm
ivbere the bear seized her, and being
.'Considerably scratched about the body.
A Canadian Romance.
A curious romance lias just come to
light in Canada, with a girl and $400,J00
to make it sufficiently spicy. An
ulvertisement lately appeared in the
London (Canada) Free Press, offering a
handsome reward for the disclosure of
the whereabouts of one Hannah Dutton,
1 woman now thirty-four years of age.
When a pretty girl of fifteen, it seems
Miss Dutton was either kidnapped or
induced to leave her home in Canada,
iiud, a diligent search failing to find her,
the parents subsequently removed to
England. Recently this woman, if
living, has fallen heir to an estate of
?80,000, and, under this stimulus, 'the
father lias returned to Canada, and is
mfikinc another strenuous effort to dis
cover his daughter, and thus incorporate
the handsome fortune descended to her
into his family.
A Costly Republic.
"When the insurrection in the island of
Uuba broke out in October, 1868, there
were on the island :
Regular* of all arms v 15,200
The annual arrivals from Spain since
that date, as per figures from books of
consignees in Havana, have been as
follows:
In 1869 20.450
lu 1870 11.283
In 1871 15,899
In 1872 9.260
lu 1873 12,536
Iu 1874 8,112
lu 1875 (as above) 27,940
Total to Doc, 20, 1875 120,689
Racing Statistics,
During the year 1875 eight hundred
and eighty races have been run for
stakes which reach the aggregate value
of $390,000. These stakes have been divided
between two or three hundred
owners of race horses, but the greater
portion of the money went into comparatively
few hands. Mr. McGrath alone
netted over thirty-three thousand dollars
as his share of the year's stakes; eight of
the leading stables will account for over
a third of the whole amount; twenty
stables for more than half, and fortv for
over two-thirds of the winnings of tht
year,
Qnestions and Answers.
How can I cement emery together?
Answer. Use the best glue.
How can I make a good washing fluid ?
Answer. Make a strong solution of (
washing soda, and render it caustic by
the addition of quicklime.
How can I make a good baking powder?
Answer. Take tartaric acid five J
parts, sesquicarbonato of soda eight
parts, and potato flour sixteen parts.
Dry them perfectly, mix, pass through a :
sieve, and keep free from moisture. i
Is it healthy to keep plants in a sleeping
room? Answer. Plants in a sleep
ing apartment are not considered as
conducting to health, and some of the
medical authorities claim that they are (
very injurio .s.
Can you give a good cure for cracks i
in the skin or hands? The points of i
my fingers and thumbs are badly crack- j
ed, and although kept as clean as possible,
glycerine being applied, they will i
not heal. Answer. Try spermaceti oint- ]
ment. i
Please give me a recipe for making oil 1
paste shoe blacking for shoes? Answer. 1
Take ivory black sixteen parts, treacle 1
eight parts, oil of vitriol four parts, 1
diluted with water two parts, oil iwo *!
parts, gum arabic one part, soft water
(for final dilution) sixty-four parts. Mix j
well. j
Am I running any risk in using tubs .
made of old petroleum barrels for wash- ,
ing underclothes in, or can I in any way
make them fit for such use ? Answer. ,
In a short space of time, by the use of
soap, the barrels will become deodorized
and will suit your purpose perfectly.
By what means can I detect petroleum J
or cotton seed oil in so-called linseed ]
oil? Answer. Petroleum may be de- !
tected by its property of imparting a 1
fluoresence to animal or vegetable oils, i
and by its aromatic odor en burning. :
An oleometer may be used to distinguish ]
cotton seed oil from linseed oil.
I am very much troubled with my \
hands becoming very rough from con- j
stant use of copperas water. Can you ,
suggest a remedy? Answer. You may
avoid this by wearing a pair of india '
rubber gloves, so as to avoid contact (
with the iron solution. Use a little good ,
glycerine or glycerine soap as a remedy. '
A pane of window glass may be out i
into pieces, by being rubbed by a small <
portion of the white ash obtained from <
the ignition of certain woods in contact i
with air. The ash is to be placed on ]
the glass and briskly rubbed ovor it with 1
a flat piece of wood. Are the cutting :
particles crystallized carbon, and can i
they be utilized ? Answer. When plants,
etc., are burned, a portion of the silicic :
acid (sand) and soda, lime or potash be- 1
come fluxed together by the heat to i
form minute particles of hard glass. <
I am straining my eyes by working in 1
whito wood and reading by lamplight. 1
I want to uso spectacles, but I am told '
that if I once use them I must always
use them. Is this so? Answer. Spec
tacles of the proper kind may be used to ;
assist the eyes to see indistinct objects ; ,
but if there is not light enough to see
well without them, their use would cer- !
tainly be injurious.?Scientific Ameri- 1
can.
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A Noble Example. j
According to the Savannah (Ga.) ;
Neivs, a very unusual scene occurred j
in the supreme court at that city. Upon ,
the opening of the court, after the usual j
preliminaries, Colonel Albert R. Ramar,
the soliciter-general, arose and said:
May it please the court: Before the ,
grand jury retires I desire, in my place (
and as the first officer of this court, to .
make the following statement: As I j
left the court-room during a recess, 1 \
was assaulted on account of official action ,
by Philip M. Russell, Jr., Isaac Russell,
Waring Russell, Jr., Waring Russell, i
Sr., R. Wayne Russell, Philip M. Russell,
Sr., and Thomas J. Sheftall. I
was followed by these parties from th?
court-room and accosted on the street
1 TP
just at tlio court iiouse aoor. 1 was
abused by Philjp M. Russell, Jr., iu
the most opprobnous terms, aud struck
in the face^by the same man, while the
rest stood around with their hands upon
their arms. If I had attempted to use
the privilege that the law accorded me
on this occasion I had not been here
now to make this statement to the court.
If I had yielded to the impulses of a
man and of the moment I would not
now bo here. If the premeditated attempt
to assassinate me had been successful
it would have been only accomplished
in order that crime and criminals
might go unwhipped of^justice. If
I had yieled to the impulses of a man I
would have been arraigned at the bar of
this court for the violation of that law
which I have solemnly sworn to maintain
and uphold. I have.determined, if your
honor please, at my own instance, and by
the advice .of wiser and cooler heads than
my own, to ask that the majesty of the
law be vindicated in its officer rather
than that an officer of the law should attempt
to vindicate the sanctity of his
own person.
The grand jury being promptly
charged, found indictments against the
Rnssells, and they were all held for trhd.
Knowing People,
There are almost always some people
in every community who imagine them>
elves, to use a common phrase, *1 very
smart," and they are generally of the
busybody kind. One of these can do
more harm in a town or neighborhood
I than a dozen good people can set at!
rights. Wo minister ever comes iuw a
place but what these "smart" ones can
pick any amount of flaws in his everyday
walk, or his sermons are always too
long or too short, too soft or too hard,
or "he wm't preach," and a hundred
other imaginary imperfections which the
less pretentious never think of mentioning.
But these knowing ones do not
stop here ; for no enterprise was ever
started but what is entirely contrary to
their views. Other folks never build a
pigpen, a smokehouse, a corncrib, a
barn, a dwelling, a schoolhouse, or a
church, to suit these babblers; and no
newspaper ever was "run " according to
: their ideas of the busineea, "and I won't
! have nothing to do wilit it, and I'll k*ep
i ?very body el?a from it that I can,"
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A Si'UKI run rnc Mill iTiin,
A Lire Plctnre Carefully Drawn and Clasely
Flfired up.
The brief account of a life which ended
in 1875 may prove a suggestive story
with much direct bearing on these
motives and plans of ours. It was hardly
what you could call an obscure life;
the man from his earliest boyhood had
both the purpose and knack of keeping
himself before the public. He was by
no means, be it understood, a fraud or
dissembler; he had a keen sense of justice
and of human rights, and never
espoused a cause which did not advance
both. He first made himself known as
the advocate of the public school system
in one of the border slave States, where
education was at its lowest ebb. He was
a young fellow?not eighteen at the
time?working at the anvil by day, and
studying Latin, and Constitution, and
Dugald Stewart, at night. In a New
England village he could have run easily
in the ordinary groove up the hill of
knowledge; the track is there ready
laid; the laziest passenger is dragged up
almost against his will. But in this
neighborhood of well-fed planters, whose
stables were filled with the best racing
stock in the State, and whose bookshelves
with the Spectator, Burke,
Beaumont and Fletcher, he was not likely
to find much help from outside, or to
have any clear idea of how best to help
himself. The one thing he did know
was that he meant to win fame, power,
and money. His only capital wa? brains. ,
As for those colonels and majors |
whose horses he shod, who loaned him
books, who patronized and boasted of
him as a species of Blind Tom or learned
pig, he hated them all with the virulence
and force which a heavy-jawed,
fat, lymphatic man puts into his hate,
[f he had been one of them, he would
have been a conservative, holding to every
atom of his power ; as it was, he was a
radical, a believer in public schools,
newspapers, abolitionism ? anything
which should turn the wheel, lift him
and his congeners, and grind his patrons
in the dust. His articles (in behalf of
the public schools) roused a fury of debate
in the country, but they somehow
did not help the cause a whit.
The war gave him a chance to reach
the surface. He was a member of the
3tate Legislature, spoke often and
vehemently ; nobody denied his weight
and force, but somehow his own party
distrusted him. It was a time when
3very man became a judge, his own life
and property being in the balance;
leaders were put to sharp, decisive trial;
there was something rotten, everybody
felt, beneath all of this man's courage
and love of liberty. The measures
which he urged were the best measures ;
nobody brought such logic or eloquence
to their defence; yet when they were
adopted, he was left in the lurch, withnffice
or emolument. He went into the
army; became captain, colonel, brigadier-general.
Titles were cheap. He
deserved them too, probably. No volunteer
officer had a better knowledge of
tactics, or cooler conrage in tne lieid.
But liia men did not follow him readily.
There was no sense of kinship between
him and them; he lacked the magnetism
Df a generous purpose ; of any purpose,
indeed, outside of himself.
It was soon discovered that he was not
efficient in the field,and he was shelved;
md after the war was overhi3 brief mili- i
tary record was forgotten. He came to
New York, went into Wall street with
but little capital, but a keenness of judgment
and foresight that approached intuition.
He made money hand over
hand, and then suddenly withdrew from
the market. His aims were not to be a
3implyjdch man. He became a member
of a lelmng Christian sect; his name
was forever blazoned in the papers as
foremostan every good word and work,
and there can be no doubt that the man
was faithful to the doctrines he professed
as far as he understood them.
The trouble was that he understood
them solely by the light of his own tremendous
egotism. Christianity was a
fitting completion?a polish to his publio
character; ho adopted it, therefore,
just as he would have done Mohammedanism.
For the same reason he was
known as an eminent humanitarian; ho
founded libraries, endowed a female
school for the blacks in a Southern city,
used the Sunday-school, missionary and
Christian works and enginery for his
own advancement and success as he had
used Wall street or his military office.
Now comes the odd part of the story.
He never advanced or achieved any success
beyond that glare of puffery of
which everybody knows the worthlessness.
His library and college were conducted
not in the mode to help the
beneficiaries, but as advertisements of !
the "public-spirited donor." People |
looked suspiciously at every benevolent
society ?or undertaking which carried
his name as a dag of triumph. Quiet,
devout believers reminded each other
that the Great Master did not sound a
trumpet in the streets. Meanwhile this
great philanthropist had no personal
friends. Intolerant selfishness always
throws off the cloak of religion by the
hearth at home or at the table. One
child after another left his roof to shift
for themselves with a sense of indignant
wrong, his wife subdued into a
dull, sileut woman, perplexed perhaps
with the strange aspect which horyor and
life, and even God himself put on,
through the medium of thi3 man's influence.
One day he di$d. Suddenly,
without time torconsider that dying he
could point to no goo^ work which
should serve as -his monument, nor to
one human being who would shed a
tear over his grave. He has time to 1
think of these things now, wherever he j
has gone.
Iu our own little plans for the New ;
Year, it would be well for us to take the j
time to consider that it is the motive of
a life which gives it not only real mean- j
ing but success; and that the selfish
man, no matter how sound his principles
or fair his professions, is seen
through, and labeled at his small value
by the very men who praise and puff
him.?Neiv York Tribune.
Mayor Fulton, of Galveston, Texas,
writes to Mayor Cobb, ot Boston, that j
the latter city gave ifeore money to aid
tho sufferers from the Texas floods than
all the other cities of the "onntry eembinedt
J lie JUUU VI IUV BV Wftf
A candle in its socket lying,
Flickering, fading, brightening, dying ;
The antnmn leaf fast rustling by,
A strain of music's latest sigh,
The summer wind's last, failing breath?
A mournful tone which tells of death ;
A fire whose embers scarce are burning?
A spirit to its God returning;
A enu extinguished from its place,
A system vanishing in spaes?
Thus all things end save God !
Thus all things end! ah! said we so ?
Can anght have end that lives below ?
Is nothingness the end of strife ?.
And void the crowning point of life !
Annihilation ! is there aught
Save madness in the monstrous thought ?
We boldly say a tiling is ending?
We mean some change is o'er it pending;
For matter changed, and changed most be
Forever, like eome changing sea;
Thus all things change save God !
The year is ending, quickly flying,
Tet lingering still amongfe, dying;
With faltering footsteps, failing fast,
A few more days and then the last.
His books are closed; each broken tow
Recorded there against as now,
In fearfal sameness there most stay ;
Each thought, each scene, now passed away;
Aye, past and ended though they be, The
end of all things we shall see;
Bat that end is not yet.
Where goee the candle when it dies?
The leaf, the mmic, summer's sighs ?
A finish'd though t, a world, a death,
Where is the home of parted breath ?
Where goes a year, an age, nay, thine ?
Where is the end, the great sublime ? .
All, all but center round their Being,
The Great, Omnipotent, All-eeeing!
Unending, and unchanged forever \ ,
In vain the end from Him we sever*?
All ends are hid in God!
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Items of Interest.
It requires less philosophy to take
things as they come than it does to )fert
with them as they go. *
"If there is anything which will
ir ake my mouth water," said an old
tnnflr. "I don*6 want to see it."
"T 9 ? ?
Mrs. One-Wlto-Holds-the-Lodge-PoleWith-Hands
was before a Dakota grand
jury as a witness the other day. '
A schoolmaster said: '" I am like a
hone?I sharpen a number of blades,
bnfc wear myself out in doing it."
An Indianai>olis witness testified the
other day that he kept a fire burning in
his stove all night to save matches. .
A girl of San Lnfe, Mexico, struggled
with a burglar and .assaulter for three
hours, at the end of which time ahe
killed him.
The lady who fell back on her dignity
came near breaking it; and the man
who couldn't stand it has taken a seat,
and is now quite comfortable. ' 1
A nice point for casuists has just been
nised in Montreal. Two men were
quarreling on St Francis Xavier street,
and A knocked B down, whereupon a
horse, alarmed at the straggle, kicked
B on the head and killed him. What is
A guilty off .
A simple looking country lad, to whose
lot fell the leading questions in the
catechism, "What is your name!" replied:
"Carrots!" " Who gave you
that name?" "All the bqya in the
parish, sir," wliiningly replied the redhaired
urchin.
" Charles," said a youug wife to her
husband, as they sat at the window
watching the fashionables on their way
to church, " when yon die and I get
hold of the insurance money I intend to
have a fur capo and muff just like that
lady has on over there."
In Germany there is popular hostility
to Americans because toe latter are sup
posed to have favored France in the lite
war, and because American travelers
make hotel living dear. The German
government and its newspapers, however,
try to cultivate friendly relations
with us.
To all whom it may concern. A philosopher
says: I never vet heard a man
or woman much abused that I was not
inclined to think the better of them, and
transfer any suspicion or dislike to the
person who appeared to take a delight
in pointing out the defeets of a fellow
creature.
An enthusiastic young produce dealer,
a few evenings ago, in a serenade to his
inamorata thus recorded his high resolves:
' I'll chase the antelope over the plain, and
the wild spring chicken I'll bind witn a
c jain; and the cauliflower, so fierce and
neat, I'll give thee for a nosegay sweet"
It is over six years since the terrible
disaster at the Avondale coal m'nes in
Pennsylvania, which resulted in death
of 110 men by suffocation. The sum of
?155,146.11 was subscribed throughout
the country as a relief fund for the
families of the victims, and this sum wm
increased to $174,222 by interest The
fund has just been exhausted.
The Baltimore dealers in terrapins
keep them in nearly air-right chests,
packed layer upon layer, and deprive
them of food. They grow fat under
this treatment, although the fatness
doubtless is the result of disease. They
must each measure seven inches across
the under shell before thev are considered
fit for the table, and are then
sold at $24 a dozen.
According to a recent calculation,
Lowell, in Massachusetts, now manufactures
forty miles of cloth per hour, and
fifty pairs of hose pec minute! The.
beginning of this enormous business
dates back to 1813, when the first attempt
was made in America to manufacture
cotton by machinery. la that
year Major Josiah Fletcher erected a
wooden factory in that place.
He came back to his mother looking
very forlornly, with a big red swelling
uuder his left eye, and four of fire
handfnls of torn shirt boiling over his
breeches-band, " Why, where on earth
have yon been t" she asked. "Me and
Johnny's been playin'. He played he
was a pirate, and I played I was a duke.
Then he put on airs and I got mad,
and"? "Yes, yes," interrupted his
mother, her eye flashing, " and you
didn't flinch ?" " No'inTD^ the pirate
i Laked."