MINISTER HEARS A LOUDER CALL.
"Beloved flock," the parson said, thon paußod
and wiped hisoyea;
"AH pastor and as people we mast sever tender
ties;
I've u cull to go to Blanktown to be their chosou
pastor;
A call ho loud to disobey, I foar would grieve
the Mastoi-."
Replied the spokesman of the flock : "Though
loud the call may be,
We'll call you louder to remain; an X for ov
ory V .
Those Blanktown people offer you, we'll gi vo to
keep you hero; ...
Wo trust you'll hear a voice divine, our call s BO
loud and clear."
With sobbing voico tbo parson said: "My duty s
clearer now: . „
I'll stay with you, beloved ones; to Heavens
Boletus sing! 'Blest be the Tie," and sing it
clear and strong, .. , ~.
To leave you when you coll so loud, would be
exceeding wrong."
Then in liis study ho sat down a letter to iiulito
Unto the church at Blanktown. Thus did tlio
parson write:
"I've wrestled o'er your call with prayer; tho
Lord bids 1110 to stay.
And rated to his work, I daro not dis
obey. "
—Richmond Telegram.
COURTING A SCHOOL MA'M.
BY OLIVER KIMBALL.
Setli Squires was in love with tlio
District School Ma'm, and desired
to escort her to the Fourth of July cele
bration at the corners, but ho hatod to
face the battery of those roguish brown
eyes, somehow, as he told his espocial
friend and confidant, "they took all the
grit" out of him.
Bert advised him to write.
Setli was not wholly pleased with the
idea, for—although he was tho owner of
a rich and beautiful farm, and other
property besides, that amounted to
$20,000, which had been left him by his
father, and as much more in prospect at
liis mother's death—ho was deplorably
ignorant. Ilis intellectual attainments
Were confined to a little reading and :
writing, and a knowledge of arithmetic
which barely enabled him to do his i
business.
In nice and form lie was anything but
beautiful, being of a tall, ungainly,
shambling form, and possessing a face
adorned with whitish, watery blue eyes;
uncouth features; a dark rod com
plexion and numerous freckles,combined
with firoy red hair and mustache; and
on which was written, in imperishable
characters, the sordidpess and miserli
ness of his mean little soul.
Beth had never been hardly out of
sight of his own chimney, and, of
course, knew nothing of the ways of the
world, for what was the use of spend
ing money for traveling when it was so
much better to keep it to spend to as
tonish the neighborhood, as* for in
stance, for a carriage and a span of
horses which would make all the
boys wild with envy, and the girls
crazy to go with him.
Seth enjoyed his reputation for being
the richest young man for miles around
—and nothing delighted his dear little
&oul more than to go first with one
country lass and then another, and then
tell, to anyone and everyone that would
listen to him, of their great anxiety to
gobble him up," as he expressed it.
Said he to Bert:
"Belli' she's a school-marm she's up to
all tli durn stuff you git out o' books,
giamma* and such. It does well
null lu • a poor feller to study and learn
—but tain't no benefit to a rich man—l
don't have to!"
Bert promised to help him, said
In;: "If we can't git up betwixt us
a letter chuck full of polite grammar
and such then you can eat mo fur a
skunk, durned if you can't."
"Wall, you should oughter git up a
letter better'n I, fur you ben four weeks
to the 'cademy."
The more Setli thought of the idea of
writing the letter he liked it; therefore
the consequence was, that that after
noon found them closeted in Seth's
room with the door locked, and with
the sweat pouring down their heated
faces, as in an agony of inspiration,
they sought disparingly to clotho their
letter in proper garb, witli the aid of
"Fox's Book of Martyrs," and Herriok's
"Albenic," all the books that the house
contained.
They wasted ink and paper with a
reckless abandon, which showed at
once that Seth "meant business," as
Bert said, regardless of expense.
Both (lid the writing, as he could
write the better hand, and Bert did the
composing.
Beth commonced: "Miss Nora
Witlierspoon," by Bert's direction, then
lie wrote "Dear Miss."
"No, I won't; it sounds too durn
fresh!"
"Wall, then, dear friend."
"I don't like that there neither; it
don't sound jest right," declared Both.
"Wall, let her go as she is then," re
plied the sorely puzzeled helper.
"No, that sounds as if I felt so durn
big; I won't do that," still complained
the rich man.
"Wall, put what you mind to, I'm
tired o' tellin' you what to write; you'ro
so (lurnod particular. I guess I'll go
bum."
"Now, now, Bert don't git mad and
leave, fur then I should go crazy sure,
an'l ain't fur from it this minute! I
should think you'd have some pity fur
me; here I am covered with sweat an'
my head hoppin' like blazes! an'the
durned letter has got to be writ some
how. I tell you what I'll do, you help
mo git this here up in good stylo an' I'll
givo you a dollar, clean cash; come,
that's fair. You can't say it hain't!"
Being thus adjured, combined with
the potency of the dollar, caused Bert
to melt.
Once more he tried his tactics at
composition.
"Why don't you put it 'Dear Miss
Nora Witlierspoon?'" he said.
"You've hit the nail on the head at
last!" cried Beth, joyfully. "That
sounds something like, so highfalutin'
an' grand." And he very laborously
put that down.
"Wall, now, I've got so fur; Miss
Nora Witlierspoon, dear Miss Nora
Witherspoon. Now, what next?"
"Wall, less see, hum, wall, T take my
pen in hand fur to—fur to', less seo,
yes, 'fur to ask you fur the honor an
pleasure of your honorable company to
the Fourth o' July celebration to the
corners'. There, how's that?" he asked,
with conscious pride in his voice.
"That sounds all proper. Quick, tell
it off slow'fore you forgit it, an' let mo
put it down."
After much patient labor, both as to
writing and to spelling, and after spoil
ing two blieets moro of paper, he
finally penned it down on a third, and
then was ready for the next.
"Wall," said Bert, "I s'poso you want
an answer right away, don't you?"
"Yes, yes."
"Wall, (hen, 'please, answer by re
turn mail.' You see there won't be any
return mail as both will be drop letters,
bui is sounds big. Less see, what did I
h. VJ? Oh, yes, 'please answer by re
turn mail, and oblige yours forever
more, anxiously, Squires*. There I
how's that suit you "
"That's good, but I want a P. 8.; in
all highfalutin'ietters they alters have
'em."
"Wall, write down what I've got, an'
then I'll go fur your P. 5.," said the
perplexed composer, striving to earii
the dollar.
After destroying another sheet of
paper and commencing and going all
over again, Setli was ready for the P. S.
"Why not put in a piece of poetry,
something like this, for instance? 'The
rose is red, the violet's blue; Honey is
I sweet, an' so are you.'"
I "The very thing!" exclaimed Setli,
enthusiastically. "Bert your a trump!
and I shan't furgit this right away," ho
said, fervently.
! After writing down this dainty little
' stanza, Setli, very complacently, read
over his lotter, and said he: "That
sounds as if purty school-marms had
writ it; sho can't find any fault with
that air."
But in searching for an envelope to
enclose his precious missive in, lie in
advertently overturned half the con
tents of tho ink bottlo over it.
"By gee! what cussed luck I'm bavin'!
Now, I'll have to go all over her agin,
an' I'd ruther give five dollars then do
it," lie groaned.
"Wall, do you suppose she'll bite?"
asked Bert, after the letter had been
completed again, and was at last ready
to mail.
"Yes, I s'poso sho will, Bert Jones,
she'll go fast enough. I've got to see
the girl that 'ud refuse to ride in my
carriage, behind my blacks."
"\\ all, I guess there hain't no danger
but she'll go quick enough, but gin us
that dollar. I've earnt it fair enough
by tho looks of tho paper around.
Durned if it don't look as if you'd been
writin' up a sermon!"
"Wall, here's your dollar, and I don't
begrudge it a mite. I say, Bert, don't
you wish you was a goiiT to marry such
a darn little handsome high-flier as I
be?" smirked Setli.
"Why, hello, I didn't know as you
was goin' to git married; it generally
takes two to make a bargin."
"Oli, wall, who won't refuse. Money
is king. She'd be a darn fool to; there
hain't everybody as rich as I bo that 'ud
take up with a poor school-marm, not
wuth a cent, an' don't know a livin'
thing about dairy work. But I don't
care, she jest suits me, an' the ole lady
can learn her."
"Why, I used to think you an'Mol
Jackson would step off."
"He, he, Mol 'ud be only too glad to
git me, but I never meant to marry her.
1 shouldn't if Nora hadn't never come
here. 1 was only bavin' a little fan,
you understand, nothin' more on my
part. It used to tickle me nigh to death
to hear tho ole lady tell what a rusher
Mol was at makin' butter, an' how she'd
play oil tho wash-board. I jest said
to myself, 'not, you don't all boss,' I
liairit catched so easy. How mad Mol
'll be when she see's me round with the
little daisy; an' all you fellers 'll bo
lookin' glum enough, lie, he."
A few days alter Setli encountered
Bert in tho road, and drawing a letter
from his pocket, ho showed it to Bert
with the following remark: "Bead that
there, an' see if you can make head or
tail of it, an' tell mo what it means, any
how. "
Bert took it and read:
"Mis. Studies: —Your kind invitation is ro
ceivod. for wlihdi please accept my thanks,
and also my regrets, for. owiim to a former
engagement., 1 am const rained to decline,
"liespeetfully,
"Nou.v WITHER SPOON."
"Wall, don't he so 'tarnel slow, what
the nlo Harry does she mean, any
how ?"
"Mean? Why, she's engaged to go
with some other feller?"
"Sure? she says 'accept her thanks,"'
said Setli, anxiously.
"Yes, yes," replied Bert, impatiently,
"but that's only a polite way of tellin'
you, you've got tho mitten!"
Setli looked like unto a boiled lob
ster, and foolish enough to sink into
the earth, and could find nothing to
say to Bert's rude peals of laughter,
finally, however, he recovered enough
to say, very sheepishly: "Wall, you
give me your word you wouldn't tell a
livin' soul, so I reckon no one'll he the
wiser. Bert, here's another dollar for
you, jest as a present, you know, an'
mark my words," rushing into a violent
rage, "it won't lie healthy fur the feller
that takes her. I'll light him as true
as I'm alive, an' cut him out, an' bring
her hum, I swar it!" ho cried, emphasiz
ing liis remarks with many an oath.
And as Setli was a powerful fellow,
and "had tlio money," as lie said, Bert
didn't doubt that lie would do all ho
said.
"Wall, Setli, I'll be darned if I should
wanter stand in his boots, if you git him
once."
"I'll bet you wouldn't," returned
Setli, smelling around like an en
ranged turkey gobbler which has
sighted a red rag.
Setli drove to the corners early on the
Fourth and kept an eye out far Nora
and her "follei"—but in vain. He saw
her not and to all his anxious inquiries
when ho met Bert he received the same
answer: "Ain't soon liido nor hair of
her." What could it mean, anyhow?
He couldn't tell, and so concluded to
take Mol Jackson, who, by the way,was
very willing to be taken, aud drive
around by old Calkins, where she
boarded, and just let her sec that ho
didn't ask any "darn odds" of her any
way. So he did, Mollie, resplendent iu
a pink gown, and a brass necklace,look
ing like a full-blown peony. Ho drove
by and saw Nora, as he told
Bert, "not dressed up a durned
bit, but with some common light thing
on with a lot of weeds an' stuff in her
belt, but lookin' dura handsome- tho
jado! out under the trees with an awful
dandified lookin' feller with a black
mustache. We come on 'em so all-flred
quick that I seed him take his arm
away from round her waist—durn him!
an' 1 guess he'd been a kissin' of her,
fur lie was a bendin' over her, but
drawed liis mug back as we come 'long,
an' Nora she was red as fire, but her
eyes shone jest as devilish as ever an'
don't you believe sho'd the imperdence
to bow and grin at me!"
Something less than a week after
wards, as Seih was very busy mowing,
Bert came along aud, as Setli checked
his horses, he asked with a mysterious
look whether he "hud heard the news?"
"Naw, what news?"
4 About Nora?"
"No, What is it?" said Setli. with visi
ble uneasiness; for lie bad not entirely
relinquished his hopes yet.
"Why, she wa'n't Nora Witherspoon
none the time!"
"She wa'n't?" echoed Setli, open
mouthed.
"No," returned Bert, picking a timo
thy and proceeding leisurely to chew it.
"Wall, what was she, then, for tho
Lord's sake?"
"I don't jest know her right name, fur
she was married when sho come here;
and that there feller you seen with her
j was her man. She got married a week
lor so 'fore she come here to teach, an'
j she 'lowed it would bo better to keep it
! secret while she was teachin'; but her
! school's out next week an' so sho up an'
j tole when he come up tho Fourth from
tho city. So you writ an' wanted to go
with a married woman! A purty good
thing on you, 1 take it! ha! ha!
For once the man of wealth (?) had
nothing to say, and, in spite of Bert's
protestation of eternal secrecy, and
sundry bribes, which he accepted, it got
out, and many was the treats which
poor Setli had to stand, as well as tho
rude jibes and jokes from the envious
boys whom he had heretofore most
cruelly "cut out."
Setli was fain to let pooplo under
stand that he didn't care a "darn." So
in order to do so, he amnrried the
bouncing Mollie ofl'-haud, much to her
elation, contenting himself with swear
ing eternal enmity to all schooi-ma-ms
i'orevermore.
The F.ag Protected.
Some three or four weeks ago C. G.
Goutant, of Lamar, arrivod at the Hotel
Bamona, at Cascade, says tho Denver
News. Col. Derby, tho manager,
shook him by the hand, scanned his
features earnestly for a moment, and
inquired: "Mr. Coutaut, were you ever
in London, Ontario?"
"I was there ouco," replied Coutant,
about 1867, I think."
"Was pretty certain it was you," said
Col. Derby, "You were at the Tecum
seh House tho night it was attacked by
the mob."
The two men shook hands and the
recognition brought out tho following
story:
Col. Derby was a nativo of Mont
gomery, Ala., and was an ardent and
enthusiastic Confederate. After the
close of the war lie drifted into Canada
and became manager of a prominent
hotel in London. During tho excite
ment of tho Fenian invasion a very bit
ter feeling, as will bo remembered,
existed all over Canada against the
United States, and one evening a mob
assembled about Col. Derby's hotel, in
London, and demanded that he pull
down tho stars and stripes which ho
had floating over tho 1 louse. Tlio
Colonel very politely but very firmly
declined to comply with tho demand.
Then the excited Canadians proposod
to take them down: and Col. Derby be
gan vigorous measures for defense.
The street was packed with an angry
crowd, and its leaders were evidently
bent on raiding tho hotel. One Hug
hung outside just above tho door, and
this the mob succeeded in pulling down
by driving nails into a largo polo and
forming a hook with which they tore
down tho stars and stripes. But when
they attempted to enter tho hotel to
reach the flag on the dome of the build
ing they were met by Col. Derby and
the few Americans who happened to be
stopping at the hotel, who swore they
would kill the first man who offered a
further insult to tho national flag.
There was a dangerous glitter in tho
ej'e of tlio ex-Confederate Colonel as
with his revolvers lie faced the Canadian
mob and warned them back. The
American spirit conquered; tlio mob
hesitated, fell back and dispersed, and
tlio old flag continued to float over the
hotel so long as Col. Derby remained
its manager. Tlio incident lias its les
son and illustrates not only tho per
sonal bravery of tho man. but also tho
lovo of tlio American for tho flag, no
matter what uniform ho may havo worn
during the civil war.
The Ilml Old Times.
For a change, how does the foregoing
caption look? Wo havo long been ac
customed to tho other phrase, "tho good
old times;" let us change it. There
were the bad old times of the French
revolution, when blood flowed like water
and tho greatest murderer was the best
fellow. There were worse old times
before tho French revolution; times of
tyranny and royal caprice and unutter
able debauchery in high places; times
that could only be purified las by fire.
There wero tho bad old times of tho
middle ages in Europe, when children
wero allowed to havo their feelings
wrought up so that they would enlist
by tho 10,000 in a hopeless crusado
against the Moslems, only to die by tho
10,000.
There were the bad old times in En
gland when it was a perfectly respecta
ble tiling for a gentleman to get drunk
once in a while, and when no ono was
read out of good society because ho was
a gambler, and when women labored
half-naked in tho coal mines, worse
treated than tho donkeys themselves.
There were tho times when only the
few could obtain an education, and tlio
masses could scarcely hope to get abovo
tlie condition of their fathers.
There wero the had old times in our
own land when there was only one pro
fessing Christian to every fourteen of
the population, instead of one in five as
at present; when our rulers were pro
nounced atheists and our scholars were
pronounced skeptics. There wero tlio
had old times of slavery and disunion
and Civil War and carpetbagism. There
were the bad old times when no one
voice, even of one crying in the wilder
ness, was raised against tho curse of
rum-selling; when some ministers of the
Gospel themselves tippled at each house
on their round of pastoral calls, and
the members of tlio flock wore not slow
to follow their cxamplo.
Let us thank God that the bad old
times have gone never to return, as we
bopg. Tlio new times are not as good
as those that are coming, but they are
better than tho past, and the custom
sky is brightening.— (l allien 'Hide.
Nome Other (lame.
A man with his left arm in a sling
was telling a passenger on a Fort-street
car what ailed him and how it happoned.
Said he:
"My boy Henry likes to go hunting,
und so last Soonday I takes my g n
und goes oudt by del* Norris road mit
him to kill some squirrels. Booty soon
wo vhas separated, und i goes along by
a thicket und Henry shoots me mit his
shotgun."
"Accidentally, of course?"
"Of course. Ho sees mo creepitig
along, und takes me for a wolf."
"A wolf! Why, there isn't a wolt in
500 miles of Detroit."
"Dot vhas so, but Henry doaiT know
it until we comes back-home. He feels
worry bad aboudt it. Henry vhas a
good boy, und next time ho doan' make
sooch a mistake—he shoots me for a
woodclinck !"— Detroit Free Press.
THE trouble is that before marriage
the young man thinks that when she
becomes his wife she will be as unwil
ling that he should spend money for her
as she is now, and that she thinks ho
will be as generous when ho is her hus
band as she finds him now that ho is in
love.— Sonierrilh' Journal,
CONFIDING Son— Mother, what's tho
best way to propose to a girl ? Mother-
When tho right girl comes along, my
son, you won't need any advice.
1 WOULD ASK HIM TO COME AGAIN.
| Uow JK>v. Mr. IVnleOOHt Would ileraivo a
IStn-Klar in UIN House.
I People often amuse themselves by
! 'binking and saying what they believe
hey would do if a burglar broke into
lie house at night. Of course they
viiow very little about it, and fortun
itoly very few persons are called upon
;o put their professions to the test of '
ictual experience. In discussions on j
mch subjects, however, it is usual for
iacli speaker to assume and assert that
le would act with ordinary common
,ense, if not with some degree of cour
ige. Very seldom, indeed, can a man
| be found who will admit that he would
jonduct himself like a miserable weak
ling in the presence of a thief. Some j
clergymen, however, appear to enter
lain different ideas from common people
in reference to matters of this sort.
Hugh O. Pentecost, a missionary
preacher, made a remarkable statement
i in the course of a sermon at Newark as
lo what he would do in case a thief got
into his dwelling, "If I knew a burg
lar was in my house at night," he said,
'I would go to him with a light, un
armed, and talk to him as I would a j
Friend whom I desired to help. If he
llicn desired to take my goods I would
make no protest, nor would I cause his
arrest. 1 would follow him to the door
ind invito him to call again." And the
reverend gentleman went on to say that
if Mr. Lnca, the Brooklyn grocer, had
acted in this manner, he would be liv
ing to-day and his assailant would not
be in jail.
It is very difficult to arguo with a
man who talks like this, says the Sun,
because there is 110 common ground of
agreement upon wlncli the discussion
can begin. But a few questions and
illustrations may serve to show tlio folly
of such wishy-washy utterances. Sup
pose Mr. Pentecost was living in India,
and ho wake up some tine night and
found a tiger in his dwelling. Would
be take a light, like Lady Macbeth,
and go up to the tiger unarmed, and
begin then and there to try to tame and
domesticate the beast? There are
thousands of good people who think it
is just as wrong to be cruel to animals
as it is to be cruel to men; and doubt
less they are right, if the cruel treat
ment is needlessly inflicted. But
when a man meets a rattlesnake in his
path ho does not give the reptile an op
portunity to strike, in order to ascer
tain whether the creature may not be
good enough to run away if let alone,
if he is a man of sense he takes effect
ive measures at once to avert the possi
bility of evil, just as Marshal Nagle
did in the case of the assault upon
•Judge Field. The time to argue with
a burglar or would-be murderer is
when we have rendered liini powerless
to do evil, and the place to reform him
is in prison. This missionary clergy
man declares that he would let his im
aginary burglar take his property with
out making any protest. Well, suppose
a burglar, instead of coming after his
property, came after one of his children,
like the California bandit Morales,
whose abduction of a beautiful young
girl from her father's house near San
Diego was reported recently? If he
• would let the burglar go so readily, or
rather with an invitation to call again,
in the one case, why not in the other?
We have no patience with so-called
Christian teaching of this kind. There
cannot bo too much Christianity, but
give us the manly sort, such as Charles
Kingslev taught, and no more of this
. sentimental nonsense.
How to Get Good Claret.
Whilst vast quantities of wine in the
Medoc are bottled at the end of tlio
second year, the fine wines are kept in
casks until the third or fourth year.
Once in bottle, well corked, the mind
oi man may be at rest about his wine,
which, up to a certain limit of time,
goes on improving. Where occasion
for care again presents itself is in
getting the wine out of the bottle with
out shaking. Most wine pantries are
furnished with a small basket, in which
the wine bottle may rest whilst the wine
is drawn into the decanter.
Wine merchants, wine tasters atnl
experienced wine drinkers in the Me
doc do not trouble themselves about
these contrivances. They carefully
lift the bottlo from a horizontal to an
upright position some three or four
; hours before it is wanted for the table.
At the same time they carefully mark
the side of the bottle that has lain up
permost, and in decanting pour out the
wine from that, as it is sure to be free j
i from dust. With steady hand they
draw from a bottle a maximum quantity j
of absolutely clear, bright Any
one who desires to drink a good glass
of Medoo or Bergundy will not decant
1 it till almost the moment it is required,
thus preserving the freshness of the
aroma. Good wine needs no bush: but
in our climate (which, by the way, the
experts of the Medoc declared to be the
best possible for storing line wines) it is
better for a little warmth. Bather than
drink red wine in the winter months
drawn from a celler in which the tem
perature has not, been maintained at, a
desirable pitch, it is better to put the
wine where it may feel the tire. A
better way still still is to leave it on the
mantlepiece of the dining-room for four
or six hours before it is to be decanted,
when it will have an opportunity of ac
quiring something like the temperature
of the room. It is well worth while
warming the decanter beforo pouring
in tlio wine, so that it may not receive
the shook of contact with the cold glass.
A Grave-Digger Passes a Had Night.
j A few nights ago, whilo a party of
I .young men and women were walking
under the shade-trees skirting the
Lafayette cemetery, they were startled
by a number of wild cries issuing from
the center of that buring ground. The
hour was about 9, and, although there
were twenty persons about, none of
them at first, could muster enough cour
age to go in. Then some of them,
guided by the sound, made their way
between the graves to a vault near the
. center of the cemetery. The vault top
rises only a few inches above the
ground, but there area number of holes
piercing the sides, and tlio investiga
tors threw themselves prone beforo this.
For a time they could see nothing.
Then one of the watchers discovered
the outline of a human form, and an
other piercing cry rent the air. Satis
fied now that the thing within was a
ghost the men sprang to their feet and
ran like mad to the streets. The mys
tery was not explained until Officer
Smith passed that way. Just as he
reached the vault in question he noticed
the white face of a man who was lying
on the floor inside. lie promptly
broke in the door and found Jas. N.
Clarke, one of the grave-diggers, in a
half unconscious condition, leaning
against tlio side of the vault. It was
some minutes before he could talk.
I Then he Haid:
"I came into the vault yesterday af
ternoon to do some work. There are
I seventeen bodies here. As I entered
' the door closed with a bang, and I saw
| that I was caught. The lock is a spring
lock, and opens only from the outside.
| At first I laughed, but as no one came
to my relief 1 soon quit that. When
night came I was thoroughly frightened.
There was no fun in the prospect of
passing a whole night in a narrow vault
j with seventeen corpses. Then I
I shrieked for help, but no one came. I
must have fainted, for when I woke the
! sun was shining. I knew no one until
you came. I'm going into some other
business now."
flow Rockets Are Made.
ltockets are made for three purposes:
I for signaling, for decorations or cele
brations, or as projectiles in war. For
signals, the charge consists of twelve
parts of niter, two of sulphur, and three
of charcoal. The ornamental or deco
rative rocket is the one we see used on
the Fourth of July, and the composition
of which it is made comprises 122 parts
of mealed or finely pulverized powder,
eighty of niter, forty of sulphur, and
forty of cast-iron fillings.
The main part of the rocket is a case,
I made by rolling stout paper, covered
on one side with paste, around a wooden
form, at the same time applying con
siderable pressure. The end is then
"choked," or brought tightly together,
with twine. The paper case thus made
is next placed in a copper mould, so
that a conical copper spindle will pass
up through the choke, and the composi
tion is then poured in and packed by
blows of a mallet on a copper drift or
packing tool made to lit over the
spindle. The top of the case is now
closed with a layer of moist plaster of
paris one inch thick, perforated with a
small hole for the passage of the flame
to the upper part, or "pot." The pot is
formed of another paper cylinder
slipped over and pasted to the top of
the case, and surmounted by a paper
cone filled with tow. The "decorations"
are placed in the pot and are scattered
through the air when the ttame, having
passed through the aperture of the
plaster, reaches a small charge of mealed
powder, placed in the pot. The stick
is a piece of pine wood, tapering, and
about nine times the length of the
rocket. It is to guide the rocket in its
flight. The decorations in the pot may
be "stars," "serpents," "marrows," "gold
rain," and so on. "Marrous" are small
paper shells filled with grained powder
and pinned with quick match. "Ser
pents" are small cases about one-half
inch in diameter, in which is a com
position of three parts niter, three sul
phur, sixteen meal powder, one-half
charcoal. This composition is driven
in the case, the top of which is closed by
plaster of paris, having a small aperture
through which passes a piece of quick
match.
Disease in Lower Animals.
The theory is hold that some of the
lower animals suffer from disease in
duced by the same family of germs that
cause typhoid fever in the human spe
cies, and that they may, bv means of
their secretions and excretions and
slaughtered carcasses, convey the dis
ease back to man. Many instances are
recorded where outbreaks of what ap
peared to be typhoid have been traced
to the eating of meat of animals known
to have been diseased when killed. One
authority relates the following: A
butcher refused to buy n calf, because
it was manifestly ill; the family, there
fore, to whom it belonged killed and
ate it themselves, and six of their num
ber were attacked with typhoid fever.
Dr. Crawford tells of another instance
of this sort. At Kloten, a place seven
miles north of Zurich, on the 80th of
.Tune, 1878, a festal board was spread,
and 690 persons partook of the viands,
of whom 290 fell ill with typhoid fever,
and 878 others who had eaten at the
inn whoso landlord had furnished the
collation, making in all 008 persons af
fected with the disease from the effects
of the same feast. There were 49 oth
ers affected secondarily, making 717
cases directly and indirectly from the
feast. The cause of the outbreak was
traced directly to a sick calf furnished
the innkeeper by a butcher, as it was
clearly shown that only those who par
took of the veal thus furnished were at
tacked. This veal had been procured
of a dealer at Seebach, who had sold tlio
liver of the same uuimal to a fellow
townsman, who was in like manner at
tacked with typhoid fever. The brain
of the same animal was sent to the par
sonage at Seebach, and all the family
were attacked with the saiuo disease.
The calf was ascertained to havo been
almost dead when receiving the dis
patching blow from the butcher. Not
withstanding the largo number of in
stances which appear to support the
theory that typhoid fever is communi
cated by animals to man, it is by no
means settled that such is possible. In
fact, there are gravo doubts if the
disease caused by eating moat believed
to be infected was actually typhoid fe
ver.
A Vine of the Dead.
In the beautiful cemetery at Athens
stands an old tomb of a family once
prominent, not only in the Classic City,
but in other cities and throughout the
State. In it are laid at rest the bodies
|of several ancestors who once played
prominent parts in the history of Athens
and the state. Death slights no family,
though for a time he may pass it by.
A few years after the war the door ol
the last cold resting place of the family
yawned for awhile and closed again on
the increased dead who slept within its
dark, cold recesses. For somo years
there wore no deaths, and the Rilence
of the tomb was unbroken, save for the
visits of loved onos who knelt without
and offered prayer for the dead or pain
loving tribute to their virtues. At las!
death came once more. The good old
grandmother bowed to the will of time,
and dear ones gathered to pay their last
. respects. The solemn procession wound
I its slow way to the cemetery. The
i door of the vault moved heavily on it*
hinges as it swung back to receive it*
dead. A Hood of golden sunlight filled
the tomb, dispelling the gloom and re.
vealiug a strange sight. There, creep-
I ing along the walls and over the coffins,
was a white vine. Pure and pearly i!
stood in bold relief against the darh
background and glistened in the sun
light. Put what most [astonished tli 4 >s(
i who saw it was its urn-shaped wind
I ings. There was no mistaking the re
j semblance. It was almost a perfect
urn. But the wonder did not stop here.
Curling further on it formed] a 1)., tin
family initial. Astonishment coasec
not here. It was a trip story, am?
the climax was .tto be I led. The
minister offered upt.be j i or, "Ashe*
to ashes, dust fo du t Those wlu
were looking at the whih sine saw r
tremble, then it li •1* -,il 11 in frag
men Is, scattering over the dins of th
dead. — Augusta Chronicle.
THE potato bug issjinl to be doterio
ating but it made manv a mash in it
j better days.—
A Chaplain's Opinion of the Guil
lotine.
The Abbe Faure, chaplain of the Ro
qnette, lias just sent to the Minister of
1 the Interior a report on his six years'
work as prison chaplain, during which
time lie has accompanied thirteen crim
inals to the guillotine. It may seem ,
strange at first sight that a priest,whose
duty it is to speak tenderly and lovingly
and pray with the dying murderer, to con
sole and abs >lve him, and at the last mo
ment to kiss him on both cheeks, should
bo an advocate of capital punish- j
ment. The abbo defends it on the
ground that criminals are really fright
ened by no other penalty. To convince ]
oneself of this, he says one need only |
compare the behavior of the prisoner 011 1
the ovo and 011 tho morrow of tho an
nouncement of a respite. Before it ho
is ill, feverish, and unable to ait or
sloop; but after he at once recovers his
spirits, talks even jocosely of his trip to
New Caledonia, and begins to look fur
ward to a free pardon. The abbe does
not answer the objection that murderers
I seldom consider con so | nonces before-
I hand, but lie nevertheless believes in
tho deterrent olVcet of the scutl'old.—
[Pall Mall Gazette.
No Cure No Fay.
1 It Is a pretty eevcro tost of any doctor's sit ill
when tho payment of his fee io made coiuli
; ttoiial upon his curing his patient. Wt after
having, for many years, observed tho thou
sands of marvelous cures effected In liver,
I K°2? diseases,by Dr. Pierce's Golden
Aledlcal I)i covery, its manufacturers feel
warranted in sol ing it iu- t icy are now doing,
tbrough all druggists, the world over, under a
certificate of pfxiUv* guarantee line it will
cither benefit or euro in every case of di-eiwo
for which they ro ommend it. if taken in time
and iven a fair trJal, or money paid for it will
bo promptly refunded. Torpid liver, or "bil- |
iousnosa," fmpuro blond, skin eruptions, scrof
ul us o esahd swoilings, consumption (which
1 8 c;*-la of tho lungsl, all yield to this won
derful medicine, it is both tonic or strength
r. soring, JJT b o-'d-cleaiising.
Chronic Nasal Catarrh positively cured by
Dr. .Sago's Itemedy. oO oento, by dru
GF.OUOTA is $24,2517,710 richer than
one your ngo. Tlmt is tho amount of
tho increase in her tax assessments, and
tho gain has boon vory general all over
the State. Other Southern States aro
pressing along in the same lino with
great vigor.
America's finest.-— I "Tumuli's Bunch " Cigar.
Tho Irish police have been ordered not. to
"shadow " l-iUglish members of i'urliumcut
traveling in Ireland.
To-Mghr mill Toiilorrotf Night.
And each day and night during this week yon
can get at all drnggsts' Kemp's Hal am for
the Throat and I.tings, acknowledged to be thu
most successful remedy over sold for tho cure
of Coughs, ('roup, bronchitis. Whooping
Cough, Asthma and Consumption. Get a bot
tle to-day and keep It always in the house, so
you can check your cold at once. Price 6CO.
and sl. Sample bottles free.
The annual returns show that. 78,084 per
sons emigrated from Ireland during the past
Any article that lias outlived 24 years of com
pcntiosi and imitation, and sells more and
more each year, must have merit. Dohbins's
Electric Soap first made in 18d. is just that arti.
. Ask your grocer for it. lio has it, or will
get it.
The Em press Ercderiek of Germany will
pay a visit lo llio Vatican during her sojourn
iu Italy.
If afflicted Willi aorn eyes u*e Or Isaac Thornp
ion's Eye Water OniKgistH sell ZSo per bottle
The skeleton of a man was found low down
in an old hollow sycamore stump hy work
men engaged in blowing up slumps, near
Tiflin. Ii;io.
Sick Headache
Is a very distressing affection, generally arising from
stomach troubles, biliousness and dyspepsia, and
we frequently Had persons of both sexes subject to
periodic headaches for which they can ascribe no
direct cause. Hut the hcnducho is'n sure indication
that thcro Is something wrong somewhere, and
Whatever the cause Hood's Sarsaparlila is a reliable
remedy for headache, and for all troubles which
seem to require a corrective and regulator. It cures
dyspepsia, biliousness, malaria, tones the stomach,
creates an appetite, and gives strength to the nerves.
N. B. He sure to get
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