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COHTKXTMEXT.
BT •romoa UAODOBALB.
I tm eonUnt In triomph’i tons
My aong l«t peopla know 1
And mnny • mighty man, with throne
-- And Keptor, la not *o;
And If ha la, why then I cry,
Tba man la Juat the aama aa I.
Tha Mogul’, gold, tha Bnltan’a ahow,
The hero’, bllaa, who, aexad
To find no more of tba world below,
Kaleed hi. eyea moon ward next—
I would not have It; thinga like that
Are only fit for laughing at
_ > J "i ,
My motto la-content with thla;
Gold -rank—I pnxa not aach.
That which I hare, my measure la;
Wise men desire not much,
Man wish and wlah and here thatrwU,
And wt.h again—aa‘ hungry allU.
And gold or honor, though It rlnga,
I* but aa brittle glaa. ;
Tba fluctuating oouraa of thing*
Show* that aa It doth paaa.
Oft changing many Into none,
And firing honor aahurt I an.
To do right to be good and clear,
la more than rank or geM;
Then are then el way. of good
And bUaaaa hast an told;
Than art than with thyeelf at ana,
I am content. In triumph's ton*.
My song Ml people know.
And many a mfthty man, with throne
And tartar, le not w;
Aad If he In, why then I ary.
The man M )«at the aame aa L
A RISE IS KIOMATIA.
Mr bemitJb making it nrrr—rj for me
togire uj. id y clerkship, I obUiacd n
■itiutioa an wngoo dr.rer to Hpeoccr
Thm, one of the two havdiBg-wbooU
of the ChorUw nnboa, is sittuOnd in u, #
b^wrt of the woods, shout tweaty five
miles north of Rsd nrwr, sad fifty from
the rulrasd.
To reach Pan*, Texss—the Imss of
■upptass—it is nsnnssry to cross two
news—Bed near aad KjotaaUa—is ti>s
Tamtory. Tbess nrews sre sometimes
hwdsWc, but mors frequently mnai Im
erossnal by s ferry.
They both-bat psrtseuisriy Kiomstts
-sra«hgsrt la eaddsa new proUWy
ta the mouatataa. Thawa rwas, JTfL
qweatly slteuded with loas of Ids aad
day ballet
wmy TW load
hqasly, gp that it is SOO yarde
M cars (lows into the to w|
wtth high, atwwp
Midway of the rirar, when U is low,
b s fist, asady blend I proposed to
Black that ws would stop bars to lunch,
p the watsr would ha (
“No," said he. “I triad that once,
and will usTsr do it i
Thru, seeing my look of inquiry, he
" Wait until ws get os the other
bank, where there is s good ^ring,
sod, while our teams era sating, I will
tall you why I hers such a dread of that
So, while our mules were lingering
orer their fodder, he gars ms the fol
lowing story of his experience with Kio-
“Two yean ago I first began driving
for Spencer. I had been in the Nation
for aeTarml yean, and knew the country
pretty well, but wag not aware of the
sudden changes in this river. It was, I
hink, my third trip to Paris. Kiomatia
tad bean low all nuaiiier, and no one
bought of a rise. A young lady—Miss
Ellen Cotter—had been to Spencer on a
visit, and was 1 desirous of returning
0 Imine. As her home lay directly on my
road, I offered her a seat in my wagon,
which she accepted. I was in love with
her then—she is my wife now—and o[
course was glad of the opportunity of a
long ride and talk with her.
“ We started out on much auch a day
a^ this, jnst cool enongh to make the
■nn pleasant. When we reached Kio-
mntia v J stopped on that island to lunch.
I loosened the traces of my team, threw
the males a bundle of fodder apiece,
and then helped Ellen out of the wagon.
“We sat there chatting and eating
for a half-hoar, and then began (o get
ready to atari It seemed to me that the
island was considerably larger when
we stopped. On looking more'closely,
I found that the river was rising rapidly.
Still I was not alarmed, but a little un
easy. But I loti no time. I put Ellen
into the wagoM, hitched up tha traces
and got oo my saddle-mole.
“ By this time, tha water began to
come down in waves, and before we Wt
the island it waa hntxieep, With a
of encouragement to Elies, I
■ted to my teem ami plunged ta. I
■y Mies all I staid, but tha
ad It was
mat I ke
tomato
• ;. .1. vL-. • -»
the hank, and I thought wa would maka
it all righi
“Just *s my leader* were beginning
to go out of the pater, a scream from
Ellen startled me. I looked around and
taw to my terror that the water had
lifted the wagon-bed out of the stand
ards, and it was rapidly drifting down
stream.
“ Giving a parting shout to my team,
I plunged into the river, thinking I
could easily catch tlie bed and guide it
to the bank ; bnt I had underestimated
both the depth and the force hf the
stream. I was swept off my feet in a
j moment and had to swim for it.
' “ I triad to push the wagon-bad along,
swimming behind it; bnt neither was
this possible, the force of the stream waa
too great I soon found I waa getting
exhausted, and climbed into the wagon-
bed. Ellen was much frightened, but
calm. I reaasured her to some extent,
by telling her there was no danger,
though far from feeling safe myself.
44 Two principal dangers presented
themselves. First, that we would sink;
secondly, that the drift which by this
time was coming down in oonaiderabl#
quantities, would crush tha frail wagon-
bad.
“On the first acora I thought there
waa but little danger, as tha wagon was
alnxwt water-tight Tba aeoond danger
seemed mors mrioqft Thera waa a stiff
breexa blowing up stream, which kept
to back, whila large logs, having tma
surf are t^k posed and running deeper,
drifted faster, and kspt running against
aad then gave a ee-
I a pole which was
to keep off boom of
ttomgh not all I also triad to
to tha bank. Juat Mat of raarh
«rf tha hrasches which baag down so
Wmptiagty.
•’ I knew there was a tarry about thir
ty aulas below an, a here wa would be
ill wa
11 Thera
akmg tha bank, but too tar off for my
“I was hat a poor swimmer ; Bleu
could not swim at all, or I would have
•■era tempted la leave the wagon bed,
aad maka aa ■Ham pi to ruach tbo bank.
Naturally, ton, wa wished to etey in the
wagvm as long aa possible It m rms 1 a
liamrr, thoagh a trad ana, brt’
tng ta murk faster than before. The
blows of tha dnft had o| rued the senma,
out. To do this, I had nothing but my
hat, and it kept me bony, as I van often
obliged to stop and ward off autos large
log a loch threatened to swamp aa.
“ Whila thus engaged, my eyea fall
npnu aomeUiing which gave me a gleam
of bops. •This was the rope which I al
ways carried in the wagon in case of me-
cidanto
“ Too know I used to be a good hand
■t throwing the isseo, aad my knack
lied sot entirely left me. I thought I
might be able to throw the rope around
some limb or log, and by that means
draw the boat to the bank. Ellen,
meanwhile, had been standing in one
end of the wagon-bed—it was too wet to
make sitting comfortable—and, os I
could see from her earnest face and
folded hands, praying, I hoped for me
as well as herself.
“ Giving my hid to her and asking her
to continue bailing, I made the rope into
a lasso. As soon as the current carried
us near enough to the bank, I began
throwing. My first attempt was to
throw it on a cottonwood limb. In this
I waa successful, and, as the rope tight
ened in my hands, I felt a wild thrill of
exultation. I thought we were saved ;
bnt, just as we began to near the bank,
an enormons log came floating down the
stream, which wo both failed to see. It
came down with such force that, as I
held on with the grip of despair, tho
brittle limb parted and dropped into the
water. I waa discouraged, bnt thought
I could easily throw the rope over an
other. But my expectation* were in
vain. I threw again and again, trying
sometimes the end of a limb, sometime*
a sapling, sometimes a stamp ; but the
swiftness of the stream, with the force
of the wind, rendered all my efforts in
effectual. Probably, too, the peril we
were in confused my brain.
“Again were we whirled into the
middle of the stream, and -1 ^retak to
hailing. Tha last shock had been al
most too much for tha frail craft, and
bailing ant with the. hat could ftp
longer keep down the water. Woman’s
wit came to our aid. Ellen, taking off
the short cloak she wore, contrived to
pin it into a shape which would hold
bly be need, with advantage. This was
where there waa an old olearing on the
bank of the stream, thickly studded
with stump*. The river had eaten into
the bank, until some of these stood
quite at tha water’s .edgh; ~though
at low water considerably above the
stream. ' ^ ■
“ I knew wo must be nearly level with
them now. I thought that here we
would be swept near the bank, and de
termined to make my last trial there.
Should it fail I would take Ellen in my
arms, and make a desperate effort to
reach the bank. —-
“Soon we eame in sight of tha
clearing, and I prepared again to throw.
But tha current had changed since I
had been there, and the stfr^tm swept na
out of reach of the bank. My roj>o was
long enongh ; but heavy at any time, its
weight was doubled by its being wet,
and my utmost efforts could not throw
it far enough.
“ I threw time and again, nearly
throwing it over a stomp sometimes, but
alwitya falling a little abort We soon
ran by the clearing, and but one chance
seemed left to ns. The wagon-bed was
fa-t filling and would soon sink, whether
we left it or not
“ I looked at Ellen, and In that au-
preme moment each read in the other’s
eyea (lie lov# aa yet unspoken between
us. With the whispered words, ’ Dar
ling, if I cannot save you I will di* with
▼OO,’ 1 rlaaped her in my arms, and was
jnat |>rrparing to plunga ifito the river
when her dear voice said:
“•Waitr
“Aa ahe spoke she pointed et e large
cottonwood tree, which was drifting rap
idly down stream at
current and nearly <
*’ This only esensed to me a
greater haste, perttoularty aa
Itiff craft had been caught to an eddy of*
Us*
1 started to plunge to, and
an angle with £1*
trared w*
But. hefura it
Iwauchra began to
and it (am* as«*e slowly,
the wagun-bod, and bore
atoadtly.
na slowly, bnt
la a few
the tree
This
my way up the
“Sol a amend ton i
were we eut on dry land
U cans dislodged am
river, carrying our boat with it
• eat barely fifty yards before H sank,
juet aa ws turned at the top of the bank
to get a leal glimpse of it
“ Wa mads our way to a boos* a lew
sales distant, where we obtained dry
clothing. I hired a harm and went
after my team. The mules wars wall
trained and bad kept tha road, until
peering e house, where the owner knew
them, they had been stopped. The peo
ple were just organising a search for ms
when I rode up
“ Htnoa then, whenever I have to croea
deep water, I have always tied down the
wagon-bed; and I never stopped on the
island in Kiomatia again.’*
TUB DECOMATIOX OE A BOOM.
Crude white is to favor with house,
wivee for ceilings—“it looks so clean."
That is juat its fault It looks so clean,
even when it is not, that it makes all
else look dirty, even though it may be
clean. .To paint the flat ceding of a
moderately-sized room by hand is simply
a waste of labor. It is only at great
personal inconvenience that one can
look long at it, while as a matter of fact
no one cares to do so.' You see it ooca-
tion&lly, by accident, and for a moment,
and, that that casual glimpse should not
be a shock to the eye, it is well to tint
it in accordance with the room, or even
cover it with a diapered paper, which
will to some extent withdraw the atten
tion from the cracks that frequently dis
figure the ceilings of modern houses.
What bond-painting we can afford may
best be reserved for the panels or doors,
window-shutters and the like, where it
can be seen—them doom and the other
wood-work being painted in two or three
shades of color*, flat or varnished, ac
cording aa w* prefer eoftnem of tone or
durability of surface. Perhape it will
be beet in this instance that the wood
work should (all in with the ton* of tha
dado; but this is not a point on which
any ml* can be laid down. Tha decora
tion ri the panels should be in keeping
with the wall-paper patterns. It may be
much more pronounced than they, but
still it must not smart, itself. One great
point to
MANUAL EDUCATION.
•' *
Whmt Jmmm T. Field* Would Do Wmro Ho •
Boy Aymin.
[From th« 81 Lout* Republican.]
I think I would learn to urn my left
hand aa freely as my right one, so that
if anything happened to either of ther.
the other would be all ready to write
and “ handle things,” just aa if nothing
had occurred. There is no reason in
the world why both hand* should not be
educated alike. A little praotioa would
soon render one set of fingers aa expert
as the other; and I have known people
who never thought, when a thing was to
be done, which particular hand ought to
do it) bat the one nearest tha object
took hold of it and did tha office re
quired.
I would learn tba art of using tools of
various sorts. I think I would insist on
learning some trade, even if I knew
(here would be no occasion for m* to
follow it when I grew ap. What a pleas-
ore it it in after life to b* able to make
something, aa the saying is—to con
struct a neat box to hold one's pans and
paper ; or a pretty cabinet for a sister’s
library ; or to frame a favorite engraving
for a Christmas prasent to a kinA t dear
mother. What a leas not to know how
to mend a chair that refuses to stand up
f*rong, only baoauae it Deads a tow took*
and a bit of leather her* aad ther*.
Some of us mnnot area drive a nail
•tonight, and should wa attempt to aaw
off an obtrusive piece of wood, lea to
•o* we should loss a finger la tha opsr-
I» is s pleasant
to leave books and
hour or two to n
farm to his boyhood,
at a torn tor
the carnage broke
If I were a boy again
bow to row a beat
oa tha road
handle a sad.
c a ml tie's loett cotrvarr.
Carlyle, in his reaaimaoenoe*, ears
Thaokaray inspired him with no emotion ;
“What la ha, ar mch mhaf* Okarlm
Lamb's talk hedescribaa aa “ ecu ternpti-
bly small, indicating wondrous ignorance
and shallowness, * * • screwed into
frosty artificialities, ghastly make-be
lieve of wit.” De Quinoey waa “a
pretty little creature, full of overdrawn
ingenuities, bankrupt enthusiasms,
bankrupt pride, • • • a bright*
ready and melodious talker, but in the
end conclusive and long-winded. His
fate, owing to opium, etc., was hard and
•ore, poor, fine-strung, weak creature,
launched so into the literary career of
'ambition and mother of dead dogs.' ”
Washington Irving's books he “some
what esteemed.” Jeffrey “waa by no
moans the supreme in criticism or in
anything else.”’ Shelley waa “ a kind of
ghastly object, colorless, pallid, without
health or warmth or vigor; the sound
of him shrieky, frosty, aa if n ghost
were trying to‘sing to na.’" Words
worth was “a rather dull, hard-tem
pered, unproductive and almost weari
some kind of man." Mr. Carlyle, in
his own conceit, was the only man in
the world, and all literary greatness
must die with him; but the world will
find that long after he had ceased to live,
Thackeray, Shelley, De Qninoey, George
Eliot, Harriet Martineau, Irving and the
real still survived the shafts of his cruel
Irony. ’
PauasM arid remains for a considera
ble time in tha bodies of animals poisoned
with it, nod arrest* their decay. M.
Brame killed a rabbit and n cat by ad-
ministonng to aaoh a gramme af this
acid. • A month afterward tha bodies
were found perfectly preserved, tha does
King •affietont to
and to bneom*
MULTIFLK7Anon MY MAOUIXEET.
Nothing seems more paradoxical than
to perform tha arithmetical operations,
which appear., to belong exclusively to
the mind, by a combination of metallic
pieces. Pop* Sylvester II., to whom
the world is indebted for the system of
Arabic figures, tried to make a calculat
ing machine. Pascal and Leibnits spent
/ears in vain attempts to solve the prob
lem of mechanical mathematical calcu
lation, and others worked at the aama
task until Thai, da Colmar, tha French
mathematician, discovered a method in
1822. Elaborations of the principle*
contained in his machine have baen nu
merous; but all results have only soo-
oeeded in perfecting a way to add and
subtract. This toads multiplication pos
sible by adding on* factor to itaalf as
many times aa there were units in the
other footok, tltt th* process was long
and tedious.
Mr. Bamon Tana, a Spanish resident
of New York, has bean devoting his
Maura hours for several veare to devel
oping a machine that will multiply and
divide, and has finally —tost dad. It
will produce a product having fifteen
figures and the footota may b* of nine
or leas than nine and six or less than sis
figures. A turn of a mall crank once
for each figure in the multiplier displays
the product on a disk. The work is al
most instantaneous and the aeoureoy of
it nntmpeaohahlq Tha machine con
sists of tan circular plates placed verti
-By,
from 1 to • inclusive and aero. On
of
ItipliaatioB-tabi
plats tana six ninths of a revolntton
and a point an tha fourth ocneantrie (to
ll in* mniaptM* wars a
double number, say M by 17,
turn of th
To
a button
throw* into gear a new set of wheels,
and a tun of tha orank rad ocas all tho
nom bars to th* product box to aero.
Should aaro not at one* appear it would
prove the original operation waa wrong.
—Now York UtrmUL
ram rvmcm or mamit.
Some yean ago th* manager of a wall-
regulated theater, in a wall-known town
in the Midland*, engaged a young lady
as a supernumerary. It happened that
th* young lady had formerly officiated
in soma capacity as a “ hand " on board
a canal boat, a fact which she was anx
ious to conceal. She waa duly promo
ted, and to time became a general favor
ite. One night, when ahe was to appear
in a favorite part, % couple of boatmen
found their way into the pit near the
footlights, anxious to see toe famous
comedienne. Th* house waa crowded
and, after the subsidence of the general
applause which greeted her appearance,
one of the boatmen slapped his com
panion on the shoulder and exclaimed,
loud enough to be heard over half the
house: “ Bill, I know that girl 1"
“ Pshaw T said BUI. “ Bat I'm sore I
do, Bill It’s Sal Flukina, as sore as
anything. She’a old Flukina’ daughter,
that used to run the Pretty Polly, and
she used to aail with him." “Tom,”
said Bill, “you’re a goose." Tom was
silenced,but not convinced. He watched
the aotrem in all her motions with in
tense interest, and ere long broke out
again: ‘' I tell ye, BUI, that’s her; I
know ‘tia. Tm can't fool me Too
juat wait; keep your eye on ma." Bure
enough, he did settle the point Watch
ing hia opportunity, when the aotrem
was deeply absorbed in her part, ha
sung out i® a voice which rung through
the gantries, “Low bridge P From
ef habit tha aotrem instantly and
to voluntarily into ad bar head to avoid
WASTE or EUML.
In domestic economy th* waste of fuel
is exceedingly great but it is not eaay
to give precise figures representing the
lom of effect owing to the manifold pur
poses to be accomplished, including
cooking and tha (eating and ventilation
of apartmeata. If ventilation could b*
neglected, close stores, auch aa are need
in Basel*, would unquestionably furnish
the most economical mode of beating
our apartments; but health and comfort
are, after ill, of greater importance than
economy, and them are beet secured by
means of an open chimney. Not only
does an open chimney give rise to an
active circulation of ail through the
room, which is a neeeasity ef ' our well
being, but heat is supplied to the room
by radiation from the incandescent ma
terial instead of oond action from stove
« -i. • ■ “
surfaces. In the one oaae the walls and
furniture of th* room absorb the lumin
ous hast rays and yield them back to the
air, whereas, in tha latter
th* air ia tha first recipient of th*
stove beet, and the walla of the room
remain comparatively cold and damp,
giving rim to an unpleasant musty at
mosphere and to dry rot or ether moldy
growth. The adversaries of tha opes
fireplace my that it warms you on only
one aids, but this one sided radiant hast
fit Mi
all onprejudioe.1 people, a
Ovntnct advartWog is ptfUMk *
days alter first innrUon, uoleia olhsr
wise stipulated.
No comaualcatkto will In pUbiiffMl.
unltM ftfHKHMrtiiiyt tty Lho dim# And Ad*
dram of the writ*, not aecmminy lbf
publication, but as a guaiaatf of feed
i&billl, TJE PEOPLE,
kn rVfi
Barnwell 0. H., 9 C.
PLEASANTRIES.
■ri. jvh
ts Mhto"
Tn syllable “leo" fat oliwaigsri— s'
means that it is stroug m a BoU. > *
Txn follow who was much struck by a '**'
joung lady wasted to retant a ktosioa
the blow. r.;:i 4}i«‘ '?sw» vU
Fxaxklzx has Ben tamin his ' '"'•w
ophy into everybody ever since W# can
q Ofcfcll* foft'riCr-
Tn evening had been j ooavivfoi - ,: U b
And now, gentlemen,” said tha Chair* -«ew »T
man, " I’ll pretose a poet" ■ < a o
Wxr does tha new meow remind oo*
ti a giddy girl? Because aha to loo
young to ahow much reflection. if-,*.
Motto of tbs good oojlq^tqr—Never
put off until to-Mrow what can ha
dunned to-day. —PhUrndklphim Chron- , f
fotok , --
Bxvxxa fed tha prophet Elijah to aa- -*•
dent day*, btft golden eagles toad th* 1 '
prophets of the present day.— WhUchalt * ‘
■ays, “ We pray too rnaefc.’* I
This explain* why th* average MW*- **
• breeches always ba»*t (he ’ ‘ ~
A Baoou.ni fashion
“maiden’s blush” was a
eolor, and none of Urn readers had any
id** what it was lik*
. j
Tia
Sidduoa remarked, sympathetically, to
th* badgered waiter, who was gathering
up th* gnat Bum’s dishes.
The waiter looked up with the fire of
revenge glittering in hia eyea.
“Oh, data aU right, ash,” he said,
meekly, “ he didn't get much ahead of
me, sah. I dona spit in hia tea, ash.”
“ Brethren,” said the tot passenger,
solemnly, “ be very oereful how you cum
the waiter.”—Bo* BurdetU.
StMOVLAM COIffCIDMMCX.
Quite a sensation was created in the
Galveston Recorder’s Court by a notori
ous colored chickeu-thief accusing his
Honor, by implication at least, of being
in with him in stealing chickens. The
charge is not regarded aa reliabl# by the
friends of the official.
On Jim Webster being brought up,
the Recorder asked him :
“ If you did not intend to steal thorn
chickens, what was your motive in tak
ing them f "
“ Jedge, I has been up here before
you so often tost I has come to lub and
reepeo’ you, and foah God, Jftdge^Tin-
tended to make you a present of dai pa’r
ob pallets.” - - ■~-r—«——-
“ I don’t believe anything of the kind.
Policeman, wh*t did this man my whan
he was arrested?” —
Policeman — “ Your Honor, when I
caught him he told me that he had a
partner, but I did not know who it waa
at the time.’’
Hia Honor fined the policeman for
contempt, and had Jim Webster locked
up for ainaty days.—OmlvtMon Sews.
“ Dead com !" tfas
at the ax tost of hie
AWOi
When Ban Franklin, a grimy
printer, wa* carrying hia forma 1
th* streak aa* day, ha mat ayougg fol
low of hia own age, to* sou of aa aristo
cratic family, who wm an poor as to want
Franklin offered to find work for Mbs
to a neighboring shop, but received flto
haughty rebuff: .
“Th* G '• are not fallen so low as
to become mechanics 1”
When Franklin wm Minister to Vtomee,
this man died a pauper in th* Philadel
phia slmshous*.
Family pride of another kind was
shown by a sturdy former in Congress,
who, when an attempt wm mad* to buy
his vote off a certain question, replied:
“Sir, every one of my kin m the old
graveyard at horn* would rim if I should
touch that money I I would not dare to
doit."
In oeuntrim where social rank, aetata
and titla, all solid realities, descend In
an unbroken line, there fo some apolofey
for family pride, and even in America it
is natural for a man to taka a keen in
terest in those whom bleed and character
he inherits. As long as thn knowledge
that hk ancestors have ban truthful,
heart, manly man, helpers la God’s
world, makes him more anxious to be
tomily pride is a hatp in hto Ilia.
But whan, mis mare often th* mas,
w* sm a tomily dawdl* weakly through
die, unwilling t* engage in (reds or
honest work, jaatifying their right to ho
•live by their tor-off kmahip to
r rich dead man. erida of birth ia