The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 05, 1892, Image 6
AS YOU GO THROUGH LIFE.
Don't look for the flaws as you ~o throusjh
life.
And even when you find theai
It is wise and kind to be somewhat blind.
And lock for the virtues behind thezn.
For the cloudiest night has a hint of light
Somewhere in it? shadows hiding;
tis better by far to hunt for a star.
Than the spots on the sun abiding.
The current of life runs every way
To the bosom of God's great ocesn.
Don't set you force 'gainst the river ^ ours8
And think to alter its motion.
Don't waste a curse on the universe?
Remember it lived before you;
Don't butt at the storm with your puny i
form?
But beni and let it go o'er you.
The world will never adjust itselC
To suit yoar whims to the letter;
Some things must go wrong your whole life
long.
And the so "mer you kn">:r it the better.
It is folly to fight wit'a taa iaauite.
And go under at last in the wrestle;
The wiser man shapes into Go Ts plau.
As the water saaoes into a vessel.
?Ladies' Home Journal.
TEMPER
ANDEMOXIUM
raging! Chaos
turned inside out!
What is the rea
son a man can't
be allowed to
sleep peaceably
^in the morning,
vjg^liyyf without this ever
d38& i^PMBT^ *astin? racket raised
? *^i^fi?!?'4S* i?about ears? Chi I
slamming?I will
know the reason of all this uo
roar!"
Mr. Darcy shut the door of his bed
room with considerable emphasis, and
went straight to the breakfast parlor.
All was bright, and quiet, ana pleasant
there; the anthracite snapping and spar
kling in the grate, the china and silver
neatly arranged on the spotless damask
cloth, and the green parrot drowsily
winking his yellcw eyes in the sunny
glow of the eastern window?Bedlam
plainly wasn't located just here, and
Mr. Darcy went stormily upstairs to the
nursery.
Ah ! the field of battle was reached at j
last. Mrs. Darcy sat in her little low
chair before the fire, trying to quiet the
energetic screams of an eight-months' old
scion of the house of Darcy, while an
other?a rosy boy of five years?lay on
his back, prone on the floor, kicking
and crying in an ungovernable fit of
childish passion.
"Mrs. Dar? cy!" enunciated Luke,
with slow and ominous precision, "may
I inquire what all this means? Are you
eware that it is fifteen minntes past nine
o'clock? Do you know that breakfast is
waiting?"
"I know, Luke?I know," said poor,
perplexed Mrs. Darcy, striving vainly to
lift the rebellious urchin up by one arm.
"Come, Freddy, you're going to begcod,
now, mamma is sure, aud get up to be !
washed."
4'No?o?o," roared Master Freddy,
performing a brisk tattoo on the carpet
with his heels and clawing the air
furiously.
Like an avenging vulture, Mr. Darcy
pounced abruptly down upon his sou
and heir, carried him promptly to the j
closet, and turned the key upon his
screams.
A tall, blue-eyed young lady, with a
- profusion of bright chestnut hair ' and !
cheeks like rose velvet, was already at
the table when they descended, by name
Clara Prcyn, by lineage Mrs. Darcy's
sister. She opened her biue eyes rather
wide as the two entered.
"Good gracious, Evy, what's the
matter?"
"Nothing," answered Luke, tartly, j
' Mrs. Darcy, you appear to forget that j
I have eaten no breakfast."
"Something is the matter, though,"
said Clara, shrewdly. "What is it,
Evelyn? Has Luke had one of his tan
txomsi"
Luke set down his coffee cup with a
sharp "clink."
"You use very peculiar expressions, j
Miss Pruyn." j
"Very true ones," said Clara, sauciiy. j
Evelyn smiled in spite of herself. j
" it's only Freddy, who feels a little j
cross, and?"
"A little cross!" interrupted the in
dignant husband. "I tell you, Evelyn,
it's quite time that temper was checked, j
Hang that parrot! What an intolerable j
screeching he keeps up ! Mary, take
that bird into the kitchen, or I shall
be tempted to wring its neck. Strange
that a man can't have a little peace once
in a while! What does ail tnese eg^s,
Evelyn? I thought I asked you to see
that they were boiled fit for Christians
to eat!"
Mr. Darcey gave his egg, shell and
all, a vindictive throw upon the grate.
Evelyn's brown eyes sparkled a little
dangerously as she observed the mau
ceaver, but she made no remark.
"And the piates are as cold as a stone,
when I've begged, aud entreated, and im
plored, again and again, that they might
be warmed. Well, I shad eat no break
fast this morning!"
"Whom wiil \ou punish most?" de
manded Miss Clara. "Evelyn, give me
another cup of coffee?it is perfectly de
lightful."
Luke pushed his chair back with a
vengeance and took up hi* stand with
his back to the fire, both hauu.5 under
his coat tails.
"Please, sir," said the servant, deorc
catingly advancing, "the gas bill?the
ooansays ?wouid you-settle it while?"
**Xo!"T roared Luke tempestuously.
"Ted toe man to go about his business;
I have no small bills this morning, and
I won't be so persecuted !"
Mary retreated precipitately. Clara
raise i her long brown eyelids.
"DOyou know, Luke," she said, de
murely, "I think you would feel a great
deal better if you wouid just do as
Freddy does?lie flat down on the floor
and kick your heels against the carpet
for awhile. It's an excellent escape
valve when your ch der gets the better
of you."
Luke gave his mischievous sister-in
law a s*at:ce that ought certainly to have
annihilated her, and walked out of the
room, closing tbe door behind him with
a ban_c th would bear no interpreta
tion. Then Clara came round to her
sister's side an 1 buried her pink face in
Evelvo's neck.
" Don't scol i me, Evy, please?Ikuow
I've b *n very, very naughty to tease
Luke so!"
**Y<>uhave spoken nothing but the
truth," said Evciyn, qu etly, with her
coral lins compressed, and a scarlet spot
burning on either ciree
"The re*cedy needs to be something
shorr and sharo," said 0\ ira, "and the
dark c o et system certainly combines
both requisites. Tearsand hysterics are
played out lo ?g a \o in matrimonial skir
misher \ou know, Lire."
*'v.-; >:rase!" laughed Mr*. Darcy,
rising, from the breakfas< talne m obe
dience : ? aei has >aad*s peremptory sum
:-v n* f.-om above stairs, w?*th? (har t
shrug i hr: .: j ? .-and w?u?to iooii
for her tfork hoskt?.
Lnke was standing in front of hi*
bureau drawer, flinging shirts, collars,
cravats and stockings recklessly on the
bedroom floor.
"I'd like to know where my silk hand
kerchiefs are, Mrs. Darcy!" he fumed.
"Such a state as my bureau is in! It's
enough to drive a man crazy !"
"It's enough to drive a woman crazy,
I think!" said Eveiyn, hopelessly stop
ping to pick up a few of the scattered
articles. "You were at the bureau last,
Luke. It is your own fault !"
"My fault?of course, it's my fault,"
snarled. Luke, giving Mrs. Darcy's
poodle a kick that sent It howling to its
mistress. ''Anything but a woman's re
torting, recriminating tongue. Mrs.
Darcv, I won't endure it any longer!"
"Neither will I !" said Evelyn, reso
lutely advancing, as her husband
plunged into the closet for his business
coat, and promptly shutting and locking
the door. "I think I've endured it
quite loug enough?and here's an end
to it!"
"Mrs. Darcy, open that door!" said
Luke, scarcely able to credit the evi
dence of his own senses.
"I shall do no such thing," said Mrs.
Darcy, composedly, beginning to rear
range shirts, stockings and flannel wrap
pers in their appropriate receptacles.
"Mrs. Dar?cy!" roared Luke, at a
fever heat of important rage, "what on
earth do you mean?"
"I mean to keep you in that clothes
press, Mr. Darcy, until you have made
i up your mind to come out in a moi3
amiable frame of mind. If the system
succeeds with Freddy it certainly ought
to with you; and 1 am sure your temper
is proving much more intolerable than
his!"
There was a dead silence of full sixty
seconds in the clcset, then a sudden
burst ot vocal wrath:
"Let me out, I say, Mrs. Darcy!
Madam, how dare you perpetrate this
monstrous piece of audacity?"
"My dear Luke, how strongly you do
remind me of Freddy ! You see there's
nothing I have so little tolerance for as a
bad temper. It ought to have been
checked ions: ago, only you know I'm
so ridiculously indulgent."
Mr. Darcy winced a little at the fa
miliar sound of his own words.
Tap-tap-tap came softly to the door.
Mrs. Darcy composedly opened it, and
saw her husband's little office boy.
"Please, mem, there's some gentlemen
at the office in a great hurry to see Mr.
Darcy. It's about tha Applegata will
case."
Mrs. Darcy hesitated an instant ; there
was a triumphant rustle in the closet,
and her determination was taken.
"Tell the gentlemen that your master
has a very bad headache, and won't be
down town this morning."
Luke gnashed his teeth audibly as
soon as the closing of the door admon
ished him that he might do so with
safety.
"Mrs. Darcy, do you presume to in- j
terfere with the transaction of business
that is vitally important, ma'am?vitally
important?"
Mrs. Darcy nonchalantly took up a
little opera air where she had left it,
letting the soft Italian words rippie mu
sically over her tongue.
"Evelyn, dear'"
"What is it, Luke?" she asked, mildly.
"Please let me out. My dear, this
may be a joke to you, but?"
"I assure you, Luke, it's nothing of
the kind ; it's the soberest of serious mat
ters to me. It is a question as to whether
my future shall be miserable or happy."
There was a third interval of silence.
"Evelyn," said Luke presently in a
subdued voice, "will you open the
door?"
"Oa oce condition only."
"And what condition is that?"
"Ah! ah!" thought the little lieuten
ant-general, "he's beginning to enter
tain terms of capitulation, is he? Or
condition," she added, aloud, "thai
you wiil break yourself of your habit of
speaking crossly and sharply to me, and
on ad occasions keep your te.nper."
"My temper, indeed!" sputtered
Luke.
"Just your temper," returned his
wife, serenely. "Willyou promise?"
"Never, madam!"
Mrs. Darcy quietly took up a pair ol
hose that requ-red mending, and pre
pared to ieave the apartment. As the
j door creaked on its hinges, however, s
voice came shrilly through the oppositf
I keyhole :
! "Mrs. Darcv! Evelvu! wife!"
I "Yes!"
I "You are not going down stairs tc
leave me in this ?this Black Hole ol
j Calcutta?*5
! "Iam."
"Well, look here?hold up?I prom- J
ise." j
"AU and everything that I require?"
j "Yes. all and everything that you re- !
quire _cor.fcund it ah!"
j Wisely deaf to the muttered sequel.
I Mrs. Darcy opened the door, and Luke i
stalked sullenly out, looking right over !
j the top of her shining browa hair. I
j Suddenly a Htth detaiuing hand was
j laid on his coat-sleeve:
"Luke, dear!"
"Welif"'
"Won't?woa'i you give me a kiss?"
j And Mrs. Darcy burst ou; crying on
her husband's shoulder.
"Weil!'' ejaculated the puzzled Luke,
"if you women aren't the greatest euig
j mas going. A kiss? Yes, half a dozen
of 'e.n if you want, you hn.rd-iieartei
j little turnkey. D >a't cry, pet; I'm not
I angry with you, although I suppose I
ought to be."
"And may I let Freddy out?"
"Yes?on the >a:ne terms thai his pant
was released. Evelyn, was I very intol
I ?rable?"
"if you hadn't been, Luke, I nevet
j shou'd have venture 1 on such a viole.it
remedy."
j "D.d I make you very unhappy?"
"Very."
j Luke Dirrv buttoned up hi? overcoat,
put on his hat, should*:;ed ids um>reiia,
i und went down to the Anplegate wiil
cyse, rousing a? he went upon the new
I state of affairs that had presented itself
I for his consideration,
j It i.s more than probable that he left
his stock of lud temoe* in the law
I building? that d :v. for Evelyn and Clan
; never saw any more ot it; and Freddy is
! daily getting the better of the peppery
I element in hi* infantile disposition.?
New York News.
Oueen Victoria's Banqueting Hail.
The banqueting hall at od>orn^ (Ko
of Wight), in which the dinners to the
German Emperor wen-"! given, i.=. t ? be
known as the Indian Room. It is about
sixty feet in length by thirty teet wide,
and their is a musicians' gallery a' one
cud. This apartment is connected with
the west wing of the palace by a wide
corridor. It has been sumptuously
decorated in the Hindu Sikh style,
and all t'ie hangings an i furniture aro
Oriental. Tins last additioc to 0>
oorur? has cost ihe Queen upwar3s of
?22.000. The Indian Room is to bo
used for hrge dinner parties, concerts
and theatr-ctl entertetnratmts, and pos
siolv for dances. The moulding is now
pure white, but it is to be glided. Toe
carvings, the peacoe?? ov*. the map.tie
piece, and the fndi-ia and Persian car
;>cts r.;\i au iu harmony.?London
'WorfcU
BUDGET OF FOX
KU3IOtlOUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
The Tie That Binds?Not Always
True?The Girls Have the Say
?Practical Astronomy
?Ktc, Ktc.
He held her little hand in his
"And looked into her eye.
And then he asked her if she liked
His brand new Ascot tie.
"I like it very well." she said,
"And yet. my dearest Will,
Th^re is another t:e, I think.
Would suit me better still."
?Detroit Free Press.
NOT ALWAYS TRUE.
Spatts "Dead men tell no tales."
Bunker?"I don't know about that.
I knew a man who wrote his own epi
taph."?Puck.
TLB GIRLS HAVE THE SAY.
She?"Why don't you pick out some
nice girl in your set and marry her?"
He?"Humph! You don't know the
girls in our set. They do the picking
out."?Life.
PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY.
"I ihere are people in Mars," said
he, "I don't believe they amount to
much."
"Humph!" rejoined the slangy girl.
"They are out of sight."?Washington
Star.
DODGING THE ISSUE.
Turnpike Walker?"Be careful; I
think 1 saw a dog issue from the side
gate."
Footso Runweary?"In that event,
Brother Walker, I think I shall dodge
the issue. "?Detroit Free Press.
AN EXPERIENCED ARCHITECT.
Architect?''About what size house
would you like?"
Gottrich?"It need not be large. I
have few friends."
Architect?"Ah, but you will have
plenty of friends when your new home
is done."?New York Weekly.
LINES ABOUT FISHING.
Jo?hboy?"Don't you think it fine fun
fishing. Mr. Pnilos?"
Philos?"I never like to make up my
mind until I hear both sides. From my
own point of view, it is a very enjoyable
pastime; but I do not care to venture an
opinion until I hear what the fish have to
say on their side of the question."?
Boston Transcript.
AN APPRECIATIVE MASTER.
Master?"Has anybody called to see
me?"
Man--"Yes, sir. Mr. Callergen, the
collector."
Master?"What did you say to him?"
Man?"Nothing. I kicked him out."
Master?"You did, eh? James, here's
a dollar. I can't pay my debts, but I
also can't let virtue go unrewarded."?
Yankee Blade.
CUFFS IN MOURNING.
X-was not overscrupulous about
his personal appearance. One day, in
the studio of a celebrated painter, he
was fumbling m his pockets. "What
are you looking for?" inquired the witty
artist.
"A pencil. I only wanted to jot down !
a word or two on my shirt-cuff." j
"See, here is a bit of chalk/' was the !
amiable rejoinder."?Suplement Illustre, j
FALSE PRETENSES.
Police Judge?"What is the charge j
against this man?"
Attendant?"Yerhonor, he is accused
of receiving goods under false pre- I
tenses." !
Police Judge?"Explain the case."
Attendant?"Well, yer honor. Officer
McDuffie gave him a clubbing supposing
he was another man."
Police Judge?"Ten dollars or thirty
days."?Judge.
ALL HE NEEDED.
* 'I am trying to raise $5 to send to
my sick family," said a ragged-looking
specimen to a man waiting for a Jefferson
avenue car, "and if you can help me a
i little I shall be greatly obliged."
I "You don't want me to give you the
; entire five, do you?" asked the man.
"No, sir; only enough to make out
the five. I've got a 3tart, sir."
'How much money do you need?"
The seedy one put his hand iu his
pocket a moment.
"Only $4.99, sir," he said, meekly,
and cue man broke for the car.?De
troit Free Press.
CTT OF HIS SK*HT.
He was cantankerous that morning,
and was taking it out on his pretty type
writer.
"Everything is in confusion on this
desk," he said, testily.
"It always is," she responded, meek
]y. "You insist that you don't waut any
thing disturb^ there."
"Well, I don't want my papers dis
turbed, but I doii't want this sheet of
postage stamps icft there."
"Where shall I put them?" she in
quired, demurely, as she too.v them up.
"Don't ask so many questions!" he
snapped. ''Put them anywhere out of
my sirrht."
"Very we'd, sir," she cooed as softly
as a dove; and, giving them a swipe,
fore and aft, with her pretty red tongue,
she stuck the sheet on hi- bald head,
and kV&lked oui to chase a ne v j > >.
A BAD iiRKAJC.
A doctor, who -'.as treating one of his
patients for a simple but tedious disor
der, f:>u:: 1 the man hi .such an irritable
condition that he began to cheer him up.
But bis words fell on deaf ear--, for tin
man had been housed up so long that he
was firmly convinced that it s time had
come.
"Tut, tut." said the doctor. "I'd
have you round again in a few days, i:
you'll keep quiet and Jake the medicoie.
Why, man. I suffer from the same com
ph hit as you myscK."
There was a !" >; ; of compassion h; the
?a!ictit's eyes as he reached out the h>>t
ti?- and said :
"In tba? case, Doctor. do take some
of this medicine von ore-crtbed !or me."
The man had ??r?"?.vn ahnost hopeful
under tii" influence f'? the doctor":? reas
suring words, but his hopes wen; ct uel?y
dashed the next moment :'e the medical
man drew back from the bottle with ~
shudder and replied : "No, tkauks.'
\?U< U IN A NAMK.
"o-nc. Vtou-cy." he called from the
head of the cabin stairs as 'he bon'
lande;?;
? lie passengers watched, wondering
mean while if Mouses were-a black-an
tan, or a S.cve terrier.
"The boat's nearly there. Birdie," he
Calle i aj.on.
Were there two oi them' AH eves
were s?raine i, bus n?Jim^ andere ! t >
. te call. Toe whistle of the stein:'.',
blew, and again the uraa peered anx???us
v down the cab m stV-rs ever the hen I
I the uprushiag crowd.
Ducky," he called loudly, " area'
j you coming?"
j No "Ducky" put in an appearance
; and again he called in a pleading tone:
"B-a-b-y! why don't you hurry?
We'll hi the last to get off the boat."
Then a woman weighing at least 2 50
pounds appeared on the stairway carry
ing a big luuch basket, two camp chairs
and several shawls and rugs.
"I'm coming, hubby," she said placid
ly, and everyindy who saw her coming
got out of the way as they recalled Mr.
Shakespeare's pertinent inquiry, "What's
in a name?"?Detroit Free Press.
The Bite of a Snake.
The heads of most of the venomous
snakes, including the "rattlers," bulge
jnst beynnd the neck. Without excep
tion they have ian-j>?., either always erect,
or raised and laid back at will. Those
fangs arc long, sharp pointed teeth, with
a hollow groove running their entire
length. At the root of each fang is a
little bag of poisDn. When the snake
bites, the motion presses the poison -sac,
and its contents now down through the
hollow in the tooth into the puncture or
wound. The harmlos? little forked
tongue is often spoken of by the unin
formed as the snake's "stinger." Now,
there is no propriety in the name, as the
poisonous snakes do not sting, but bite,
their victims. There is no creatur.%
even if brought from foreign countries
wdiere "rattlers" do not exist, but will
halt and tremble at the first warning
sound of the rattle.
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, with others,
has been making experiments with the
venom of different serpents. He has
found that, aside from its poisonous
qualities, it contains living germs, which
have the power of increasing enormously
fast. So you see, when an animal is
bitten, these tiny bits of life, entering
with the poison, cause harmful action
to begin almost at once. Dr. Mitchell
has found that the nervous center con
trolling the act of striking seerus to be
in the spinal cord, for if he cut off ?
snake's head, and then pinched its tail,
the stump of its neck turned back, and
would h?ve struck his hand had he beer
bold enough to hold it still.?St.
Nicholas.
A Wonderful Palm.
There seems to be an almost animal
vitality about the coco de mer p.aut,
I and the mode in which it is connected
! with the parent nut and absorbs nutri
ment therefrom bears a strong analogy
to arrangements in animal life.
A striking distinction between the
sexes ter ds to aid the illusion, if illusion
it be. The male rree is tall and stately,
rising often to a height of a hundred
feet and producing huge spathes which
contain the fertilizing element. The
female is generally twenty or thirty fee
less in height, but with a more spread
I ing plumage of fronds, and will produce,
I in suitable couditions, perhaps a hundred
! nuts in a year; and she comes to bear
I fruit in her uiuth year, and often earlier,
j and the days of her years range closely
with the Scriptural spaa allotted to man
kind.
j Yet the value of the coco de mer to
the dwellers in its native isles i; not so
much for the double nut, which, what
ever its medicinal value, is not good eat
ing, nor is the oil extrated from it equal
j to that of the ordiuary cocoatiut. But
I the grand leafage of the palm forms t is
ridging of the native huts?a hundrei
leaves wiil make a whole house, and a
single leaf makes a hencoop, as may be
i seen in the drawings of the late Miss
I Marianne North at her gallery in the
j Gardens. The down of the young foliage
j forms good stuiSng for pillows, mat
tresses, etc., and the leaf rib.s are made
into baskets and brooms?to such hum
ble uses has the royal family of palm*
descended in its latter days.?Ail tut j
Year Hound.
Hatching Silk Worin5?.
Silk worms are reared in Italy when
ever mulberry trees can grjw. Ten.liug
the worms and picking the leaves give
employment to rnauy persms. It is a
tedious and arduous labor, for the worms
are ravenous in their appetite, and muse
be watched night and day during the
entire pupa period before entering the
cocoon.
Tiie leaves arc plucked either early in the
morning or after three in the afternoon.
This work is generally done by children,
; who gather them in b.tskets aud brimr
tnem to the house.
From the time the eggs are hatched
until the moth leaves the cocoon is about
two months and if they are not con
stantly supplied with food they will
wauder away in search of their favorite
diet. Every member of the family takes
; ins or her turn as guard. All the watch
I ing, hard work and weariness are for
gotten when the cocoons are tine and a
good price paid for them. Sometimes
the silk is 'thrown" before selling, then
a higher sum is paid per pound, but few
families have tue apparatus for this
work.
In the large hatchiug establishments
j the workmen receive only 1 .V) fr a
day, and the women 0.51) fr. to 0.75.
j All hands must take their turn at night
! work, but they do not earu auy extrs
i wages for it.
The Marvelous Nile.
The Nile has a fall of but six inches tc
j the 1000 miles! The overflow com
j mences in June every year and continues
j until August, attaining an elevation ol
; from twenty-four to twenty-six feet above
J iow water mark, and flowing through the
"Valley of Egypt" in a turbulent ho?v
twelve miles wide. During the last 100U
; years there has been but one sudden rise
of the Nile, that ol 1829, when :3U,U0C
people were drowned. After the waters
rcecde each year the exhalations from the
mud are simply intolerable to ad except
J natives. This mud deposit adds about
j eight inches to the soil every century,
and throws a muddy embankment from
twelve to fifteen feet into the '.eis every
; year. This being the case, it is plain
1 that the mouth of the river is thousan is
of feet further north now than it was in
! the time of the Ptolemies, and it is only
! < - \ t- ?
a question or time wnen the seuinicnt
will make a dam entirely across the Medi
terranean Sea.?New Orleans Picayune.
Earache.
At 'ho first symptom? of earache, In
on t..e bed with the painful car u ?per
most. Fold a thick towel and tuck it
round the neck; then with a tea*poonfui
:i 1 the car with warm water. Continue
this for fifteen or twenty minutes. The
water lids the orifice of the ear but over
flows on the t r.vel. Afterward turn
vour bead, let the water run out, and
plug the :-;ir with warm glycerine on raw
cotton. Do this for an hour or t wo and
relief will be obtained. it is an invari
able cure, and will certainly prevent
acute inflammation. Lettae water bc as
warra as ; ssiblc, but by no means scald
ing hot.? V m encan Farmer.
Flies !>islikc Gera ninth?.
A suggestion comes from abroa I that
the fragrant geranium?the old fashioned
rose geraniuo. beloved by our grand
mothers?keens Mies away. A moderate
s'iied geranium shrub is said to be so
disagreeable- r/o flies that they avoid its
neighborhood, und two of the<e plants
in a room will drive them out altogether.
? New York Tribune.
SINGULAR SIGNS.
MINING ('AMI'S FURNISH ?OME
QUEER SPECIMENS.
Signboards That Ara More Expres
sive Than Artistic ? How the
Kev. Dr. Talraa^c Was
Advertised.
"YTfE second consideration with a
man who has started business in
a new mining camp is invariably
related to the easiest and best
cietnod of letting the floating populace
know wkat he sells and how he sells it.
Sten naintinsr, therefore, in a bustling
rold or silver field becomes one of the
primary evidences of enterprise. And,
according to the Colorado Suj, this
much is to be said of the mining camp
business signs?they are expressive if in
artistic. No raised gilt letters on a wal
nut background tell the wayfarer that
this place is the "Miners' Exchange," or
that that log cabin affair is "The Lost
Trail Barber Shop." Not in the "early
days" at any event. The proprietors are
amply content with plain boards and
some black paint, and not infrequently
call iuto use the thin but serviceable
shingle aud a liberal quantity of lamp
black.
If you have left your comic paper at
home or in the stage coach, on your ar
rival in oue of the wonderful settlements
of a night with which Colorado has
abounded since 1879, you will still find
fresh material for a good, broad laugh
during a walk down one of the thor
ough fares of some young but aspiring
camp. The language of signs does not
require a tutor. Like the good and bad
deeds of a political party, it speaks for
itself. Of course, with the lapse of time,
the shingles come down and are replaced
by something more elaborate, but when
this period arrives the "camp" is no
longer a camp, but a city. Lead vi lie,
Aspen, and those two latter-day marvels
of mineral, Creede and Cripple Creek,
have furnished signboards that will go
down to history. Who doe3 not remem
ber tbe famous legend of the Leadville
danca hall: "Don't shoot the pianist;
he is doing his best.'' And Aspen, at
its time, furnished one equally as inter
esting:
:KE.N'?:
: Ni<rht and Dav. :
! Church Services on Sunday. :
When Rev. T. De Witt Talmage made
his tour through Colorado in 1S79 he
was royally welcomed by the great surg
ing mass of people who thronged the
streets of the old Leadville. Rev. Mr.
Tai mage was, as might have been ex
pected, reasonably impressed with his
welcome, but no doubt was somewhat
staggered at reading a huge placard iu
front of one of the noted gambling re
sorts of the town. This placard was
"posted conspicuously," and set forth
the following:
: Come to Pop vvymaa's ToOiight :
: Free Roll at 7:4'). :
: Everything Wide Open. I
: Bible Reading by :
: T. DeWitt Talma?e of New York.
And it is a matter of history that Mr.
Talmage fulfilled his part of the con
tract. '
At a barber shop, the information was
set forth that within one could not only
get "a first class shave and hair cut,"
but might also have his teeth pulled
"without pain," and did he desire any
thing further a "good shoemaker" would
resole his shoes. An ingenious indi
vidual at Cripple Creek, who seemed to
possess a variety of trade virtue?, had
painted on the tent in which he trans
acted business: Bookn and stationery;
washiug, ironing, and meodiog; canned
fruits a specialty." Before the school
land sale at Crede there was a conspicu
ous legend in front of a small building
which was sure to attract the passerby,
whether a purchaser or not. "Coal eil
and real estate." Nor was a neighbor to
be outdone in his peculiar line of trade,
for did not he possess "choice lots m
L'pper Creede and Baths?" A purely
philanthropic saloon keeper on Battle
mountain made a touching bid for
public favor in the following terms:
:boys,':
: Come in aud write hour; to you.* :
: good old mother. P.io^r and e?:- :
I velop^s ?r?c. Raniember sha is :
I thinking of you. Bist whisky iu :
rown.
Tbe restaurant man is in his element
in a new mining camp. Evidenc-.- of his
enterprise fairly plaster the walls of his
"Djimonico of the West." This tempt
ing inducement to the hungry still stands
iu a new camp: "Eat here and get the
best meal for 35 cents. Steak, coffee,
potatoes, cucumbers and beer. Ladies
wait on the table here, boys." Another
invites patronage by reason of having
"faro after 8 p. m.," aud a third has
"soup at all hours; furniture repaired."
A lodging house keeper is apparently
satisfied that patronage will come to
him because his "sheet* are changed
once a week."
Half Way to the Moon.
The various Governments of the world
own together 860 cab'oi, having a total
length of 14,4S0 miles and containing
21,509 miles of conductors. The French
Government, which takes the le.il as to
length of cables, has '141 ) miles in fifty
four cables. As to number the Nor
wegian Government comes first with 255
cables, having a total length of 243 i
miles. Finally, as lo the length of j
conductors, tiie English Government j
comes first with 5463 miles of conductors, i
divided among 11j r tides, having a
total length of 15S8 unie-.
1 r '.ate companies to tne number of
twenty-eight own 233 rabies, having a j
lentrtb of 126,854 miles and containing j
127,632 miles of conductors. The i
Freuch companies, only two in number, !
the Campagnie Fran?aise d i Tc!c^rat)he !
de Paris a New York, and the Soci?t?
Fran?aise de? T?l?graphes Sous-Marins,
have eighteen cables, with a total length '
of 7-49 nautical nrles. The m ><r im
port mi of the private companies is the
Eastern Telegraph Company, which
operates seventy-five cables, with a total j
Icugth of 25,3 \ 7 mile5.
The total number of cables m the
world is 1168, with r> total icngth o;
I 10,341 miles, and 1 19,103 miles oi
conductors. This i* net surhci< nt to
reich to the moon, but would extend
more than half way there.?Electrical
World.
How Guatemalans Chtj C->u>?.
G-ia? em dans believe that there \~- no (
heiter colfee in the world than that raise i
on their own plantations, und Centrai
Ameri.-m offne has ol late yearn
quired a high reputation in the markets
of the world. It is usual for wealthy
G;ia!emalans to make sure of good cof
fee in traveling by taking along a store
of their own. A long glass tube, several
irvhes in diameter, but taperiug to a
tunnel at one end, is filled with ground
coi?ee, aud through the mass is pour coi l
water. A strong so?utTo'a of colfee slowly
drips from the narrow end of tfhe tube,
and this liquid i3 carefuUy put up m air
tight vessels, to be warmed in small
quantities and drunk on the jourucy.
Doos Lightning S?ur the Milk?
It is a well-known fact that milk is
especially apt to sour during the preva
lence of a thunder storm, and from this
it has been surmised that the electric dis
charge held some mysterious sway over
the lacteal fluid. An Italian experi
menter, one Professor Tolomei, ha3 been
making trials of various sorts, the object
being to throw some light on electric in
fluence over milk molecules. In his first
experience he passe 1 an electric discharge
from a EColtz machine between two balls
of platinum hanging two iuches apart in
a bottle containing a quart of fresh milk;
secondiy, by .sending a current between
two strips of platinum at the bottom of
a V tube filled with the same fluid;
thirdly, by subjecting milk in a test tube
to the action of a strong current through
a silk-covered copper wire wouud spiral
ly around the tube. In each one of these
experiments, which were as thorough as
any lover of science could wish, it was
proved that acidulation of the milk was
delayed instead of hastened, as had been
expected. Three equal portions of milk
from the same milking, thus treated,
began to grow acid on the seventh, the
ninth and tho sixth days respectively;
while other portions of it which had not
been treated with electricity was rankly
acid on the evening of the third day.
Having thus disproved the popular
theory of lightning being the direct
cause of the acidification of milk Profei
sor Tolomei tried ozone and found there
in the mystic agest of miik souring. In
his second trial of ozone he brought the
surface of a quantity of milk close to the
two balls of the machine used, and the
fiuid almost instantly became acid in con
sequence.
Here, at last, a mystery that ha?
puzzled professors and peasants alike has
been made plain. Solomon was surely
wrong when he said, "There is nothing
new under the sun."?St. Louis Republic.
An Adrentnre With Indians.
"I had one brush with Indians and
don't want another," said Major S. B.
Pillsbury to the writer. "In 1S5? I
was down in Southwestern Kansas with
a surveying party. I had been sent back
to our supply station, some thirty miles
distant, and was returning with two
well-laden pack mules and a young half
breed Indian boy, when a band of roving
Apachees swooped down upon me.
There were a dozen in the party, but I
knew that surrender meant certain death,
j so prepared to make such defense as I
could. Right in front of me were two
large cottonwood trees, about eight feet
apart. I shot the pack mules so that one
fell on one side of the trees and one on
the other, thus making a rude fort. I
had a tine rifle and a large fowling
piece, and I put a dozen bullets in each
barrel of the latter and reserved it for
the rush. The bucks were well mounted
and ann?e, and they began circling
around ine, shielding their bodies behind
their horses, and firing rapidly. My
first and second shots were fortunate, and
the survivors retired to a safe distance
and heid a pow-wow. I felt sure that
they would make a rush, and that if they
did so thev would ?et me. I must make
a bluff. In the packs were a dozen
bunches of firecrackers, intended for our
modest Fourth of July celebration. ]
secured them, cut the fuses short, and lit
a fire with twigs and dry grass. The
rush came, I led with my rifle and
threw the crackers into the fire. 3 1
pumped both barrels of buckshot intc
the Apachees and the crackers set up z
roar like a platoon of musketry. The
Indians were astounded, and, dividing tc j
the right and left, went by me like the
wind."?St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Trout From Underjrron id.
C. D. Brooke, who lives near Oak
Park, Cal., recently pumped several |
trout several inches long from a well on j
his premises. There seems little doubt
that an underground river of consider
able volume runs through that gravel
section, for a few years ago W. L. Willis,
who lived in the same neighborhood
that Mr. Brooke does, pumped up a
number of mountain trout. This stream
seems to run down toward the Cosumnes,
as trout of good size have been taken
from pumps at Sheldon many miles south
of here. This stream probably comes
from Lake Tahoe. that being the nearest
mountain lake ot sufficient capacity to
keep up the supply that is known to ex
ist beneath the surface in this vicinity, j
Scientists have long been of the belief
that there is a subterranean outlet to
Lake Tahoe, and, as none other has been
discovered, it is reasonable to suppose
that this may be it. That it is not a j
mere pond, without source or exit, is
evident from the tact that the trout that
have been pumped up were without the
peculiarities that distinguish fishes taken
from underground reservoirs or the
waters of deep caverns, and evidently
j had not long been on the journey to
this point.?New Orleans Picayune.
A New Variety of Wheat.
G. W. Copleno, of Lath, is this year
tenderly nursing a couple of stalks of ;
wheat which have a curious history. In j
the fall of 1S9J a wild goose killed in j
one of the islands near the Straits of j
Fucu was found to contain seeds resem- j
bling wiieat. These were planted and
grew profusely, Mr. Copleno securing
! two sample grains where it had grown,
j at Nelson, British Columbia. The j
! grains are nearly twice the length of j
! ordinary wheat, shaped something like a i
j grain of rye, but not much thicker. The |
I two grains germinated quickly, sent up
thirty blade-', and arc doing well. It is j
hoped that this will prove a valuable j
variety. It would seem that the bird I
from which the original grains were '
taken must have found the plant in the j
remote North, and if no grain is found !
now cultivated in the known world like I
tliis, still further color will be given to I
the supposition that there is a polar sea j
with vegetable life on its shore.?Pugut !
? - ? i
Sound (Washington) Mail.
C dor of Eyes in the Sexes.
A physiological observer ?.rs. come to !
the conclusion that women have a larger
proportion of brown eyes than men. He ;
also fin is that the color in the eyes of
children docs not berime lixed until
they have arrived at the age often years. 1
1: has been pointed out bv another in- i
vestrgator thai when both parents have '.
ejes of the same tint the chances are ;
forty to four that the eyes of the children j
will develop the same coloras they grow j
up, and then when tue parents have eye"
oi different colors the chances arc fifty-- j
five to forty-live in favor of brown as j
against blue or gray eyes in their oil- j
spring.?Argonaut.
Tan Sparrows f ount ? j
A correspondent write? to Nature: '
1 was amused some jears ago to ob
serve the feeding of the young in a :
sparrow house near an upper window I
of ray house. The old sparrow lighted i
upon the small veranda of to* sparrow
house with four living caukerworms in ;
his beak. Then the four young ones '
put out their heads with the usual noise, I
ami wert1 fed each with a caterpillar, j
The sparrow went off and returned after i
awhile with four more living worms in j
his beak, which were disposed ot in the J
same manner."
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S *U>T>??
SERMON.
Subject : ''Nature's Wonders and Heav
en's Glories"?(Faiewell Ser
mon in London.)
Text: "The spider taketh hold with her
handx and is in kings' ?;aZacrs.';?Prov*
erbs xxx., 28.
Permitted ss I was a few rlavs a*o to at
tend the meeting of the British Scientific
Association at Edinburgh, I found that no
paper read had excited more interest than
that by R=v. Dr. McCook, of American, on
tbe subject of spiders. It seems that my
talented countryman, banished fron Im
?ulpit for a short time by ill health, had in
tbe fields and forest given himself to the
study of insects- And surely if it is not be
neath the dignity of God to "make solder? it
is not beneath the dignity of man to stu Iv
them. '
We are all watching for phenomena. A
sky full of stars shining from January to
January calls out not so many remaks as the
blazing of one meteor. A v.hole flock of
robins take not so much of our attention as
one blundering bat darting into the window
on a summer eve. Things of ordinary sound
and sijht and occurrence fail to reach us.
and yet no grasshopper ever springs; upon
our path, no moth ever dashes Into the
evening candie, no mote ever floats in the
sunbeam that pours through the crack of the
window shutter, no barnacle on ship's hul!,
no burr on a chestnut, no limpet clinging to
a rock-, no rind of an artichoke but would
teach us a lesson if we were not so stupid.
God in His Bible sets forth for our consider
ation the lily, and the snowflake, and the
locust, and the stork's nest, and ;the hina's
foot, and the aurora boreaiis, and the ant
bills.
In my text inspiration opens before us the
gate of a palace, and we are inducted amid
the pomp of the throne and the courtier,
and while we are looking around upon the
magnificence inspiration points us to a
spider plying its shuttle an"* weaving its net
on the wall. Xt does not call us to regard
the grand surroundings of the palace, but to
a solemn and earnest consideration of the
fact that "The spider taketh hold with her
hands and is in kings' palaces."
It is not very certain what was the par
ticular species of insect spoken of in the text,
but I shall proceed to learn from it the ex
quisiteness of the divine mechanism. The
king's chamberlain comes into the palace
and looks around and sees the spider on the
wall and says, "Away with that intruder,"
and the servant of Solomon's palace coxes
with bis broom and dashes down the insect,
saying, "What a loathsome thing it is."
But under the microscopic inspection I fin I
it more wondrous of construction than the
embroideries on the pals ce wall and the up
holstery about the window?.
All the machinery of the earth could not
make any thing so delicate and beautiiul as
the prehensile with which that spider
clutches its prey, or as any of its eight eyes.
Wo do not have to go so far up to see the
power of God in the tapestry hanging
around the windows of heaven, or in the
horses or chariots of fira with which the
dying day departs, or to look at the moun
tain swinging out its sword arm from under
tbe mantle of darkness until it can strike
with its scimeter of the lightning.
I love better to study God in the sha^ i of
a fly's wing, in tbe formation of a fish's
scale, in the snowy whiteness of a pond lily.
I love to track His footsteps in the mount
ain moss, and to bear His voice in the hum
of the rye fields, and discover the rustle of
His robe of ligut in the south wind. Oh,
this wonder of divins power that can build a
habitation lor God in an apple blossom, and
tune a bee's voice until it is fit foi- the eter
nal orchestra, andean say to a firefly, "Let
there te light;" and from holding an ceem
in the hollow of His hand, "goes forth
to find heights and depths and length and
breadth of omnipoten- -y in a dewdrop, and
dismounts from the chariot of midnight
hurricane to cross over on the suspension
bridge of a spiders web
You may take your telescope and sweep it
across the heavens in oruer to behold the
glory of God, but I shall take the leaf hold
ing the spider and the spider's web, and I
shall bring the microscope to my eye, and
while I gaze and loo.c and study and am
confounded 1 will kneel down iu the grass
and cry, "Great and marvelous are Thy
works, .Lord God Almighty!"
Again, my text teacnes me that insignifi
cance is no excuse for inaction. This spider
that Solomon saw on the wall might have
said: "I cant weave a web worchy of tbi*
great palace; what can I do amid all this
gold embroiiery? I am not able to raaie
anything fit for so grand a place, and so I
will not work my spinning jenny." Not so
said the spider. 'The spider taketh hold
with her hands." Oh, what a lesson that is
for you and me I You say if you had some
great sermon to preacb, if you only had a
great audience to talk to, if you had a great
j army to marshal, if you only had a con
stitution to write, if there was some
tremendous thing in the world for you to do
?then you would show us. Yes, you would
show us!
What if the Levite in the ancient temple
had refused to snutl the candle because he
could not be a high priest? What if the
humming bird should refuse to sing its songs
into the ear of the honeysuckle because it
cannot, like the eagle, dash its wing into the
gun? What is the raindrop should refusa to
descend because it is not ? Niagara? What
if the spider of the text should refuse to
move its shuttle because it cannot weave a
Solomon's robe? Away with such folly 1 if
you are iazv with the one talent, you would
, be lazv with the ten talents. If Miio can
j not lift the calf h? nev^r will have strength
to lift the ox. In the Lord's armv there is
order for promotion, but you cannot be a
general until you have been a captain, a
lieutenant and a colonel. It is step by step,
[ it is inch by inch, it is stroke by stroke that
our Christian character is budded. There
fore be content to do what God commands
you to do.
God is not ashamed to do small things. He
is not ashamed to be foun 1 chiseling a grain
of sand, or helping a honeybee to construct
its cell witn mathematical accuracy, or
tingeinga shell in the surf, or shaping the
bili of a chaffinch. What Goi does, He does
well. "What you do. do well, be it a great
work or a small work. If ten talents, employ
all the ten. If five ta'onts, employ all the
five. If one talent, employ the one. If only
the thousandth p^rt of a talent, employ
that. "Be thou faithful unto death, and I
will give th?e t:ie crown of life." I tell you if
you are not faithful to God in a small sphere,
you would be indolent and insignificant in a
iar^e sphere.
Again, my text teaches me that repulsive
ness and loathsomeness will sometimes
elirnb up into very elevated places. You
wouid have tried to kill the spider that Sol
omon saw. You would have said: "This is
no place for it. If that spider is determined
to weave a web. let it do so down iu the col
lar of this palace or in some dark dungeon/'
Ah! the spider of the text could not; be dis
couraged. It clambered on an i climbed up,
higher an 1 higher and higher, until after
awhile it reached, the king's vision, and he
said. "Tha spider taketh hold with her
bands, and is in kinds' palaces." And so ib
often is now that things that are loathsome
and repulsive get up into very elevated
places.
The church of Christ, for instance, is a
palace. The King oi* heaven and earth lives
in it. According io the Bible, her beams
are of cedar, an 1 her rafters of fir, and her
windows of agafc?, and the fountains of sal
vation dash a rain of Ii :ht. It i-? a glorious
pn'.rsc '?the church oi Go I is, an i yet sosie
Mmes unseemly and loathsome things creep
up into it?evil speaking and rancor and
sdanderand backbit tig'and abuse, crawling
up on the walls of the church, spinning a
wc?b fro n :o-vi t ^ arch, an I from the top of
o::e communion tankard to t.i*? top of an
other c mammon tmkard. Glorkms pal
ace v i r; v.? ought only to OQ light
; n "i 1 eve and pardon an 1 grace; yet a spider !
in th ; palace!
rlo:ioonzhtt"?b?acist!e. It ought tob?
the : - lence of < v ?ry hing royal. Kind- |
ne--. Love, peace, i ati -a v and forbearance
ou-; - be the princ > residing there, ani
yet sometime; dissipation crawls up into
that h > n \ au 1 t'ie .; ? ?1 vis eve comes up.
an i ; . .- .! o : - e > an i plenty becomes
five s:* ; < ; .! > -1 i ivgou an i dissonance.
Yon ?ay, ' .Vint is tin matter with the
hoi:s>." 1 will tell yon what ix the matter
with =r. A s:-ider in the palace.
V v.v'! developed Christian character is a
gran i thing to look :it. You see some- man
with srreat intel] ictual and spiritual pro
p?rti >ns. Von -ay, "How useful that man
mu?! bel' But you find amid all his splen
dor ol faculties there is some prejudice. \
s >me whim, some evil habit that a great j
many people do not notic?, buc that you j
have happens 1 to notice, an 1 it is gradually
spoiling that man's character?it is grad
ually going to injure his entire influence.
Oth":rs mav not s v it, tait you are anxious
m reg ird f h:s welfare, an 1 n">w you dis
cover ;t. A -Wni d 7 in the ointment. A
s; i i t ; l th * palace.
.Again, my text teaches methat parseve- j
ranee wiil ri?oant into the king's palace. It !
inuj; : :v - o ne I a long distance for that j
spider: trc?.-nb ia So!omou*3 splendid resi- j
neue \ bu: ir started at th ? very foot of the
wall an i went up over the panels of Leba
non ce 11 ". higher an I higaer, until it stoo 1
hign ; ta-rn the highest tnrone in all tbe na
tions?the throne of Solomon. Ani so God
h is decreed it tha? many of those who are
<.<> ra in tha dust; of sin and dishonor shall
gra luaily attain to the King's palace. We
S3e it in Worldly things.
Who is that banker in Philade
-V hy, he used to be the boy that he
lories of Stephen Girard while the rr
lira went in to cohect his dividends,
vright toils oa up from a barber shop un
,ii ne gets into the palace of invention.'
Sextos V toils oa up from the cffice of at
.wmeherd until he gets into the palace of
tlome. Fletcher toils on ua from the most\
asignificant family position until he gete
into the palace of Christian eloquence, fioj
?artb, engraving pewter pots tor a Uvingvj
coils on up until he reaches the palace or
world renowned art. j
The spider crawling up the wall of Solo
mon1 s palace was not worth looking after od
considering as compared with the fact that
we, who are worms of the dust, may at last
ascend into the palace of the King Immor
tal. By the grace of God may we all reach
it. Ob. heaven is not a doll place. It ii
lot a wornout mansion, with faded curtains
ind outlandish chairs and cracked ware.
So, it is as fresh and fair and beautiful as
;hougb It were completed but yesterday :
The kings of the earth shall Dring their honor
ind glory Into it.
I do not know but that Christ referred to
:he real juice of the grape when He said that
ne should drink new wine in our Fathers
iingdom,bnt not the intoxicating stuff of
this world's brewing. I do not say it is so;
:>ut I have as much right for thinking it is
? as you have for thinking the other way.
k.t any rate, it will be a glorious banquet.
Eark ! the chariots rumbling in the distance,
[ really believe the gu?sts are coming now.
The gates swing open, the guests dismount
;he palace is filling, and all the chalices,
dashing with pearl (and amethyst and car
buncle, are lifted to the lips of the myriad
Minqueterg, while standing in robes of snowy
white they drink to the honor of our glori
ous King.
"Oh," yon say. "that is too grand a placo
tor you and me." No, it is *?ot If a spider,
according to the text, could crawl up oa the
prall of Solomon's palace, shall not oar poor
?ouIe, through the blood of Christ, mount
ap from the depths of their sin and shame,
and finally reach the palace of the eternal
King*
Years ago, with lanterns and torches and
a guide, we went down in the Mammoth
cave of Kentucky. You mav walk
fourteen miles and see no sunlight. It
is a stupendous place. Some places the
roof of the cave is a hundred feet
high. The grottoes filled with weird
echoes: cascades falling from invisible height
to invisible death. Stalagmites rising np
from the floor of the cave; salactites de
scending from the roof 3? the cave, Joining
each other and making pillars of the Al
mighty's sculpturing. There are rosettes of
amethyst in ha Lis of gypsum. As the guide
carries his lantern ahead of you tne shadows
have an appearance supernatural and spec
tral. The darkness is fearful
Two people, getting lost from their guide
only for a few hours, years ago, were de
mented, and for years sat in their insanity.
Ycu feel like holding your breath as yon
walk across the bridges that seem to spaa
the bottomless abyss, The guide throws his
calcium light down into the caverns, and
the light rolls and tosses from rock to rock
and from depth to depth, making at every
plunge a new revelation of the awful power
that could have made such a place as that. '
A sense of suffocation comes upon yon as
yon think that yon ara two hundred and
fifty feet in a straight line from the summit
surface of the earth.
The guide after awhile takes yon into what
is called the "star chamber;7' and then he
says to you, *vSit here;" audtbea he takes
the lantern and goes down under the rocks,
and it gets darker and darker until the
night is so thick that the hand an men from
the eye is unobservable. And theo, by.
kindling one of the lanterns and placing it
in a cleft of the rock there, is a reflection
case on the dome of the cave, and there are
stars coming out in constellations?a bril
liant night heavens?an'* you involuntarily'
exclaim, "Beautiful! beautifulP
Then he takes the lantern down mother
depths of the cavern and wanders on and
wanders off until he comes np from behind
the rocks gradually, and it seems Ifoe the
dawn of the morning until it gets brighter
and brighter. The guide is a skilled ven
triloquist, and he imitates the voices of the
morning, and soon the gloom is all gone and
you stand congratulating yourself over the
wondertul spectacle.
Well, there are a great many people who
look down into the grave as a great cavern.:
They think it is a thousand miles subterrnn
eous, and all the echoes seem to be the voices
of despair, and the cascades seem to be the
failing teare that always fall, and the gloom
of earth seems coming up in stalagmite,
and the gloom of the eternal world seems
descending in the stalactite, making pil
lars of indescribable horror. The grave
is no such place as that to me, thank God?
Our divine guide takes us down into too
great caverns, and we have the lamp to our
feet and the light to our path, an 1 all the
echoes in the rifts of the rock are antuems,
and all the falling waters are louatains of
salvation, and after awhile we look up, and
behold I the cavern of the tomb has become
a king's star cnamber.
And while we are looking at the pomp of
it an everlasting morning begins to rise, ani
all tae tears of earth crystaliizi into stalag
mite, rising up in a pillar oa the one side,
and ail the glories of heaven seem to be de
scending in a stalactite, making a pillar oa
the other side, an.l you push against the
gate that swings between tne two pillars,
and as that gate flashes open yon find it a*
one of the twelve gates which are twelve
pearls. Blessed be God that through thy
Gospel the mammotn cave of the sepulcber
has become the illuminated star chamber oj
the KiogI Oot the palacwsi the eternal
,palaces 1 the King's palaces!
A CLEAT! CASE.
Superintendent of Lunatic Asylum?
That, ladies, is a summer hotel clerk ~e
cently thrown out of employment.
The Ladies?Why was he brought
here ?
Superintendent?He got to thinking
he was no better than the guests of the
hotek?
SLIGHT SETBACK.
He (.trying to make an impression)?
Bo you know I think that your father is
m awfully jolly old fe?cw?
She?Yes, to every one he kaows I
wouldn't marnr.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
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Groceries.
Coffee? Boasted?Arbnckle's 21.10 $ 100 ?.
:as?s. Lion 2 !.. 10c : Leveri ng's 2 M 0c. Green-Ex
tra choice 20c; choice good 19c: fair 18c;com
mon ;6>j'c. Sugar?Granulated 5^c; o? granu
lated ?c; powdered 5??c; cut loaf 6c: white
?ctra C 4.Yc; New Orleans yellow clarified
*%c\ yehov extra C 4i Syrup?New
Orleans choice 43^50; prime 35@40c: eo nmoa
30@35c. Molasses?Genuine Cuba 3?@?8cimi
tation 22@35. Teas?Black 35@55c; green
4O@60c. Nutmegs 65<2'70e. Clove* 25<?30e.
Cinnamon 10@13%c. Allspice 10<gllc. Jamai
ca singer ISc Singapore pepper 14c; Mace
$1.00. Bice fair 7^c; good 6>?c: common
5%^6c; imported Japan 6 (?7c
Salt?Hawley'a dairy $150; Virginia 72>?c.
Cheese?Fu? cr?ant Choddar? -c; flats
12#C; White fish, half bbis.$4 00; pails <J0c
Soaps?Tallow, ICO bars, 75 lbs $3 00a 3 75;
turpentine, 60 bars, 60 lbs, $225 a 250 ;
Candles?Parafino 12c; starlO^c. Matches?
iOOs $4 00; 300s $3 00a3 75; 200s $2 (Xhi3 75; 60s,
5 gross $3 75. Soda?Kegs, bnlk 5c; do I lb pkgs
5^0; cases, 1 lb 5j?<\ do 1 and ^lbs 8c, do%\b
5lic Crackers?XXX soda 6>?c; XXX butrer
6??c; XXX pearl oysters 6c; shell and excelsior
7c: lemon cream 9c; XXX ginger snaps 9c; corn
hills 9c Candy?Assorted stick 6x^c; French
mixed 12%c. Canned goods?Condensed milk
56 OOaS 00: imitation mackerel $3 93a4 00; sal
mon $6 O0.iT 50: F. W. oysters tl 75a-; L.W.
$125: com $2 50 a 3 50; tomatoes $160.
Ball potash $3 20. Starch?Pearl 4}<c; lump
5e: nickel packages $3 50; celluloid $5 00
Tickles plain or mixed, pints $1 OOal 40; quarts
$1 50al 80. Towder?Bifle, kegs $5 00: ^ kegs
$2 75: l4 keg* $1 50. Shot $1 70 per sack.
Flonr. <?ra!n and Meal.
Fionr -First patent $5 50; second patent
f 4 75; extra fancv $3.90 ; fancy $4 00 ; family
$3 00@$400. "Corn?No. 1 white 62c.
No. 2 white 65-: mixed 6>c Oats?
Mixed 42a--c; white 44c: Kansas rust
proof 51c Har?Choice timothy, large bales,
f?0 No. 1 timothv, large bales, 85c; choice
timothv. small balesC 90c: No. 1 timothy, small
bales. 85c: N?. 2 timothv, small bales, 80c.
Meal?Plain 65c : bolted 5Sc. Wheat bran?
Large sacks 85o, email sacks 85c Cotton
seed meal?$1 10 ver cwt. Steam feed?$ 1.35
per cwt. Grits?Pearl $3.60.
Country Produce.
Eggs 18c. Butter-Western creamery
25a3 k> choic? Tennessee 20a22%c; other grades
10al3%c Live poultry-Turkeys 10@12%c pe#
lb; hens 23 and 30 young chickens
larrc 13a22%c ; small spring lOalSc Dressed
poultrv?Turkeys 18a20c; ducks I23<al5e; chick
ens 15al8. Irish potatoes, 1.75@2.00.perbbl,
sweet potatoes new?50a60 per bo. Honey?
Strained Sr.lOc ; in the comb 10al2c Onions
$2 50 per bbl.
Provisions.
Clear rib sides, boxed 8#c; ice-cured belliee
10#c. Sugar-cured hams l.Salte, according
to brand and average; California freak
fast : bacon !2al2%c Lard-Pare lea? ?e
leaf 9# ; refined none.
Cotton.
Market quit*.-Middling ft *4fo.