The Greensboro patriot [April 28, 1885]

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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT.
•.licit IN ISS3. „|| s. NO. H.T.. GREENSBORO,N.C, TUESDAY, APRIL.28, 1885.
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I'l II MII.MI>.
l..o<li-n ol lilt' l.ortl.
drew u parallel be-
. n and a garden, as
• ,:i ins opening sen-comfort
of those
lie dusty shaking
i liurcb history."
I .tan.nil ami in
, tl i burcb isthe garden
ol the i ace ami
- they are illus-
„ | Itible l»\ Hebrew
',',.,„■ ; V garden, and
t', ,,, iilj lit, therefore, thai
, ; regarded as the type
(| I ,,. I|I ui HI the Christian
.it large God is
churches, as yon
garden, and there
ind the linal fruits of
ulti\ ati'il—not in an
■ win 111 : Inn the
■ - to separate it-
, , prj other influence in
aiay cultivate the
spirit, and the fruit of
i joj . peace, long
■ idueas,
iiitl gelf-governinent.
plants thai are to be
I , | ; - garden."
bid ding lias been one ol
liitectural inspirations
i , mil. and fence building
II up yet. Many people
i think that the strength
iwer of the Church con-
■ • walls that separate ii
ything else, and when
no high enough in
Id the plant8 from the winds.
hi them higher. When
keeps out the wild beast,
build mi and on, and the
, the controversy, the point
bouI it is fenced. It
i d that yon cannot gi-t
lie Itaptisi Church except by
fenced that you
• into the Presbyterian
Church except by one way: it is
I that you cannot get into
: .man Church except accord-
;. le methods in which they
themselves off. Every church
. ti nee t ark the line he-it
and its neighbor; and
I as four rails would do, they
put on sis ami a rider, with a
uth oil top nl that, and they
fly quarrelling as to
i is the highest, the strongest,
or the earliest IcilCC. They are so
particular that I sometimes think
these spiritual gardeners envy the
birds because they can fly over the
i nee."
••II MHI have nut a church that
you have got a market
- garden. Its members
thin respectable. -Why,'
they say, 'you ain't going to that
church :' all'sorts ol things tumble
in there. Ours is a fashionable
church; select families only come
as it was natural and simple—a
graceful motion of the body, ad-justed
and regulated by science,
and responsive to musical sounds,
DO objection could be taken to it.
There was no harm suiely in cross-ing
and recrossing the room in
graceful motion and in obedience
to sweet sounds. It was as natu-ral
for young people to dance as to
sing. It furnished a convenient
outlet to exuberant spirits; and
God would not have given young
people exuberance of spirits if
there had been any sin in giving
them expression. Hut in every
age dancing had been carried to
excess, and had been associated
with the basest vices. It had be-come
depraved when Christianity
began to be preached to the Ro-man
world, and it was therefore
condemned by the apostles. It
was made the special subject of
condemnation by the early fathers,
by whom it was regarded as the
devil's special property. And as it
had been depraved and associated
with evil in the past it was deprav-ed
and associated with evil now.
And that it was so I»r. Talinage
was willing to leave to the verdict
of every man's heart. Some forms
of the dance were harmless. But
the round dance was evil, anil only-evil
continually.
Was it or was it not true that
too much time was given to danc-ing
.' It had come to the preacher's
knowledge that it was no uncom-mon
tiling for would-be society
people to give up housekeeping in
order to be able to give themselves
inimitably to dissipation. He knew
of one family who bad adopted this
course. And what was the conse-quence
1 The general ruin of the
family. The homeless father broke
down and died : the sou became a
wreck : the daughter ran off with
a French dancing master—(laugh-ter)—
and the mother f She eon-gentleness,
tinned to figure as an old tlirt—a
Restraints. Carts and substitute* for ' tablished, and which were due eri-
Drink. | ginally to chance, like the stripes
I Austin HUrUwer. in l.iu-riry Lifo-1 Oil 11 barbel's pole. SOUIC Of these
The temperance question,always \ customs are social, others political,
important,islastbecomiiig,througli and there is no real demand or
its entrance into politics in nearly I necessary temptation for cither,
every State, the leading question I Drinking as a form of fun is super-of
the day. In the absence of any fluous. Youth on a carousal can
great issue between the parties, it as easily be satisfied with harmless
is in a fair way to take the promi 1 amusement—music, hunting, fish
the things he
poor, miserable butterfly without
wings. (Laughter.)
The Wan*- ofChlrftlrj-t
The Rev. Dr. De Costa preached
on "Chivalry, the Needed Element
in the American Character,'" choos
ing as his text 11. Samuel, x., 12—
"Be of good courage and let us
play the men for our people and for
the cities of our God."
"These words," said the preach
er, ''were spoken by a man cast in
the heroic mould, Joab, the nephew
of King David, and the command
er of his military forces. Though
not a perfect man when viewed in
connection with his age, he stands
rery high. He possessed the cour-age
though not the stern principles
and unvarying consistency of Gen.
Gordon, and his brilliant and ad-venturous
career bears a striking
analogy to that of the Soudan hero.
Gordon fell in Khartoum, murder-ed
by men who had sworn to de
fend him, while Joab was basely
assassinated HI the sanctuary where
he had taken refuge, and where
life was esteemed secure.
••The subject which I have chos
en—the wane of chivalry—is in
deed a pertinent one, for although
here and there we may notice signs
of lofty devotion, upon the whole
there is among us a lack of those
chivalrous qualities which should
distinguish and adorn the charac-ter
of an intelligent people, and in
deed a general and deplorable ab-sence
ol high ideals and lofty cou-
■ oeptions is the most marked char-
; acteristic of the present age. So-ciety
of the day refuses to take up
a work that will not pay. All
things are measured by a commer-cial
standard, and we need must
nence of the anti-slavery contro
versy, with which it was at first
associated, but to which it gave
way for a time. It is about the
only question great enough to en-gage
the moral and reformatory
forces which have become a fixed
factor in our politics. I propose
here to indicate some of the alter-natives
under which this question
can be raised, rather than to
champion any particular one. The
possible remedies for intemperance
are as numerous as the varieties of
evils under which it appears, which
makes its abolition a more compli
catcd problem than was the aboli
lion of slavery.
The remedies for intemperance
are either restraints, cures or sub
stitutes.
The restraints may take many
forms. We may restrain the seller,
restrain the drinker, restrain the
youth, restrain the people general-ly
(in their customs), and restrain
the manufacturer and wholesale
trade.
As to restraining the sellers, this
may be done by prohibition; by
local option, which is partial re
straint; by high license, which re-moves
the temptation engendered
by excessive competition for drink
era : by laws against selling to
minors ; by laws against selling on
Sundays, election days, and other
special occasions of danger; by
closing saloons at night, and by
suppressing concert saloons, anil
other more objectionable forms of
liquor selling. The tendency of
legislation is now to some of these
partial remedies, rather than the
complete prohibition advocated a
few years ago. This is both be-cause
laws of partial restraint are
more easily obtained, and because
they are more, easily enforced. Al-most
every State has temperance
laws, which, it rigidly executed,
would remove Jhe principal evils ol
intemperance.
Restraints upon the drinker are
now coming more into favor. It
has been too much the fashion to
deal with the selller, as if the buyer
had no responsibility. It is quite
as practicable to punish drunken-ness
as to punish liquor-selling. If
drunkards were imprisoned till
sober, it might have a salutary ef
feet, or if they were lined tor be-coming
drunk (and imprisoned if
they did not pay the line.) Habit-ual
drunkenness might be benefici-ally
affected by sending the victims
to an asylum till cured, as is con-templated
in some States, and by
appointingeonscrvatorsof their pro
petty, as in still other Slates.
Something might also be done in
the way of requiring a license to
drink. " There is no reason why all
the license should be on the side of
the seller. 1.ice uses issued to
drinkers under like terms and
i guarrantees as to sellers, might
, work a great change. The appli-
! cant might be required to have the
written consent of his wife and of
! his children over twelve years of
age : or, if he has no wife, then of
his parents and sisters, who are as
much affected by bis drinking us
himself. It might also be advisa-
. ble to issue him a license only on
the petition of a majority of bis
neighbors, and upon satisfactory
evidence of his good moral charac
ing, and games of skill. "Bloods"
can find diversions equally as en-tertaining
as drinking without its
danger. Treating, an American
peculiarity, without sense or pleas
urc, is a practice in which men
drink who don't want todiink, and
pay who don't want to pay - a sac i profitable form
rifice of both pleasure and fortune ] work up our
to custom, and wholly in the inter
est of the saloon keepers, who
thereby sell almost as much to those
who don't want to drink as those
who do. It might profitably be
prohibited by law until the treaters
and treatecs gain sufficient power
of self government to do as they
please. But custom can do more
than law in this matter and every
pledge should contain a clause
against treating. It is bad enough
to drink when you want to, but to
drink when you don't want to is
without excuse. It is this kind of
drinking that in all cases makes
drunkards, since every one com-mences
to drink when lie does not
yet like liquors, "and it is the re-peated
drinking against desire
that develops the appetite. By
preventing men from doing what
they don't want to. they need not
be prevented so much from doing
what they want to.
Drinking St parties, banquets,
and New Years' calls is mainly a
form of desiicl-ss drinking, which
might all be abolished without in-convenience.
The custom can be
superseded by the leaders of fash
ion, whom the rest ot the world will
follow as readily in a harmless as
iu a harmful matter. If we abol-ished
drinking when it is not want
ed, we would have little to do in
abolishing it when it is wanted.
Drinking at£the table, where par
cuts train their own children to
weakness, is a most inexcusable
vice. No one knows whether one
yet a child is capable of learning to
drink without drinking to excess,
and hecannot tell to what he is train-ing
him. All who become drunk-exclusive
for none. There must be
a substitute for the saloons as a
social center, if the people are to
be got out of them—something as
attractive for the same class, with
all their advantages and none of
their dangers. These substitutes
may bo found in variety ot public
libraries, clubs, political meetings,
labor unions, secret aud other socie-ties,
church sociables, and popular
amusements.
We can promote temperance also
by substituting something for the
liquor business. It pays to make
liquor as well as to sell it, and so
it is made. Whisky is the most
in which we cau
corn. We want,
therefore, a substitute for this in-dustry.
We have a partial sub-stitute
in the manufacture of glu-cose,
although men cannot eat as
much corn in sweets as they cau
drink in whisky and the glucose
market is drugged before our corn
is used up. Perhaps the best
use to which we can put corn
is to turn it into hogs instead
of whiskey. Every hog repre
sents a barrel of whiskey, and is
a drunkard's scape-goat. We
must find, also, a greater for-eign
market for our coru. While
ether people are coming here to
teach us to drink their drinks, we
must go abroad to teach them to
eat our corn. In other words, a
good substitute tor drinking whis-ky
is to eat it.
We have said that the remedies
for drunkenness are. restraints, sub-stitutes
and cures. It remains to
say a word about cures. Intem-perance
may be treated as a dis-ease.
Many medicines are pre
scribed to take away the taste for
liquor. How far they are efficaci-ous
is an open question. Dieting
often removes the craving for
strong drink. The seclusion of an
asylum, which forcibly deprives
men ofstimulants fora time, teaches
many their ability to do without
them. Some have been cured of
drunkenness by a term in the pen-itentiary
; some, by taking a pledge
for six months, which they could
not have kept if taken for a life-time,
have learned in those six
months that they could abstain
from drink, and on the expiration
of that term have not returned to
their cups. This temporary absti-nence
is oneot the chief advantages
Ijni one Should Walk.
ry healthy person, man or
'""'• '. ,"'",1 sous and daugh;t'e' rs'.•"nIhefdchiuSrcSh jJo_in with Bu, rke i.ni.«la.m.i enti:n."g„w„h..a..ti
might not to represent a market
garden, where one thing only is
cultivated for sale."
lie lamiU is to the church as j
lurch a- ibe glass conserva-tory
to the garden. There the
plants are prepared to bear the
open air of the church. So modern
gardening still holds a parallel to
the Christian Church iu its rela-tions
to the household."
Hi. Talinage mi the Dance.
I lie announcement that Dr. Tal
mage was to dJSCUSS the subject of
dancing gathered even a larger'
urn than usual at the
lily if Tabernacle. After the
preliminary services the Doctor
read for his text Matt, xiv., G:
"Bill when llerod's birthday was
kept, the daughter of llerndias
danced before them, and pleased
I Icroil " It was Herod's birthday.
Dr. Talmage. The King's
hear: was glad. "Let Salome be
brought in," said Herod; "and let
h.-i dance before me." The grace
ful and suggestive niovemeuts of
the maiden—the poetry of motion
much lor Herod. He
d—bewildered. His
blood was stirred; and he lost his
sell command, As the dancing
ted, II* the tinkling of the c> in
bals ceased, as the thunders of ap-plause
died away, the King ex-
Hied with an oath that he would
Sal e » hatever she ask-ed,
even to the half of his kingdom.
The question, said Di Talinage,
to In- discussed this morning is not
tber dancing is right or wrong
in itself. That lias long since been
I'd. The question is, Does
dau Iocs it not, oee upy too
much time in modern society 1 It
crowded out from many a brilliant
al gathering all intellectual
conversation. It was an iuconve-ind
an annoyance to many
—to some who could r.ot dance,
and to some who would not dance
because the) were opposed to it in
principle. It was oftentimes ear
to excess, iml it had occasion
ally a ridiculous aspect One did
not much wonder at the remark of
a Chinese magnate when on one
asioil present at a magnificent
court ball, "Why don't you make
your servants do this for you t"
Dr. Talinage was not opposed to
we cannot deny, that there is a real
decay of the spirit of' chivalry
among the English speaking peo
pie. once so renowned, and justly
SO, for their chivalrous carriage.
The shopkeeping spirit is every-where
rampant.
•■The requisites of chivalry are
mercy, courage, justice, temper
ancc, humility, purity and faith,
for no true kioght was an infidel.
Let us beware of the Ingersolls
claiming to be ichauipioiis of hu
inanity, for the friend of humanity
was never the enemy of Coil. 'We
poor downtrodden beasts of bur-den
cannot be expected to be chiv-alrous,'
said a workingman to me
last week in niy vestry and I con-tradicted
him. A laboring man is
still a man, and chivalry is a gift
to mankind aud to no class or
caste. If properly cultivated the
spirit of chivalry would emancipate
the workingman within a decade.
Legislation is demanded, but the
gieat missing quantity is charac
ter based on integrity. Self preser-vation
is not the first law of nature
and the so called law of supply
aud demand is a fiction. The men
we read of daily giving up their
lives for others prove the first a
falsehood and the story of the
Good Samaritan brands the other
as a half truth. Christianity, if it
be worth anything, must rise to a
broader outlook and the so called
law of supply and demand should
be placed on a shelf iu the anti-quarian
department of political
economy and labelled as one of the
effete lies. To accomplish this we
must show that same indomitable
spirit exhibited by Gordon in the
far oft" Soudan."
aids start out to become moderate
drinkers,and the parents who start of inebriate asylums
them take great risks. There is so
little pleasure in drinking before it
becomes a vice, that the moderate
drinker might give it up without
loss; ami all the pleasure that (In-judicious
drinkers get out of the
cups would be a small sacrifice to
make to save others from becoming
excessive drinkers.
Our political customs bearing on
drinking might ill be abolished
without inconvenience to anybody
—the customs of saloon campaign
ing—of making the saloons politi
coil headquarters, holding meetings
and election there; of organizing
the saloon influence and of treating
as an electioneering practice. < liv-ing
liquor for votes should be pun
ished like giving money. The sa-loon
now enters politics as about
the only move of which it is capa-ble
as a whole. Drunkenness and
polities have conic largely to be as
sociated together, and the saloon
is fast becoming our National bust
ii.gs.
Temperance may be promoted
also by restraining the liquor trade.
The restraint may be put on the
manufacture, the importation or
the sale of drink. All these forms
of prohibition or regulation are in
vogue in different States. The Ii
ter, or assurances that he is not i quor business can also be taxed out increase the exertion, and we
inclined to drunkenness. The If• I of existence or out of much of its Into regions of purer air ana tresn
cense he might be required to re- danger : or a like effect can be pro er breeze at the same time, vv ha
new every six months, and to (ires duced by withdrawing legal pro may be considered as the weal
ent when ordering a drink ; and it | tectiou in all or some of its forms, point in walking as a modem exer
should be revoked for drunkenness, as by prohibiting insurance on in
The liquor trad
Bv
woman, should be a good walker.
able at any time to walk six to
twelve miles a day at least, and
double t hat when gradually brought |
up to it. The points to be attend I bed, lying under the equator, about
How Continents Form and Disappear.
The student of history reads of
the great sea fight with King Ed-ward
III. fought with the French
off Sluys ; how in those days the
merchant vessels came up to the
walls ot that flourishing seaport by
every tide, and,-a century later, a
Portuguese fleet conveyed Isabella-la,
from Libson, and an English
fleet brought Margaret of York
from the Thames to marry succes-sive
dukes of Burgundy at the port
of Sluys. In our time if a modern
traveler drives twelve miles out of
Hinges, across the Dutch frontier
he will find a small agricultural
town surrounded by cornfields and
meadows and clumps of trees,
whence the sea is not in sight from
the top of the town-hall steeple.
This is Sluys.
We turn now to the great Hale
till Mont St. Michel, between Nor-mandy
and Brittany. In Roman
authors we read of the vast forest
called "Setiaeum Nemus," in the
center of which an isolated rock
arose, surmounted by a temple of
Jupiter, once a college of Druidcs-ses.
Now, the same rock, with its
glorious pile dedicated to St. Mich
ael, is surrounded by the sea at
high tides. The story of this trans-formation
is even more striking
than that of Sluys, and its adequate
narration justly earned for M.
Manet the gold medal of the French
Geographical society in 1828.
Let us turn for a moment to the
Mediterranean shores of Spain and
the mountains of Murcia. Those
rocky heights, whose peaks stand
out against the deep blue sky,
scarcely support a blade of vegeta
tion. The algarobas and olives at
their bases are artificially supplied
with soil. It is scarcely credible
that these are the same mountains
which, according to the forest book
of King Alfronso el Sabio, wire
once clothed to their summits with
pines and other forest trees, while
soft c'.oiinds and mist hung over a
rounded, shaggy outline of wood
where now the naked rocks make a
hard line against the burnished
sky. Hut Arab and Spanish chron-iclers
alike record the facts, and
geographical science explains the
cause. There is scarcely a district
in the whole range iu the civilized
world where some equally interest-ing
geographical story has not been
recorded, and where the same val-uable
lessons u,ay not be taught.
This is comparative geography.
('apt. L. !.'. lleraudeen, who has
spent years iu sailing the Pacific,
relates facts that he had observed,
which tend to prove the theory set
forth by Dana that there is an im-mense
area of the Pacific ocean
ed are to see that the walk be brisk
and vigorous, not of a loitering Or
dangling kind; that there be some
Object in tlm walk besides it being
a routine constitutional, and, if
possible, iu pleasant company;
that there be no tight clothing,
whether for the feet or the body,
which will constrain or impede the
natural movements of the limbs
and trunk, and that the walk be-taken
as far as possible in the
fresh country air. In regard to
the latter particular, although
tow in are increasing so rapidly as
to make it almost a journey to get
out of them on foot, still we have
so many suburban tramways aud
railway' lines that iu a few minutes
we cm find ourselves in the coun
try. where the air is fresh and pure.
Whenever an opportunity presents
itself for a little climbing in the
course of a walk it should be
taken advantage of. We gain varie-ty
ot muscular action, as well as
et
It might be advisable to make the
licensed drinker carry a bell punch,
which it should be the duty of the
sah keeper to sound on selling
him a drink ; and when his drinks
exceed a proper number for the six
months,say live hundred, he should
be entitled to no more for that
time, but his license should instead
be then taken up, like a used-up
railroad ticket.
Hut. seriously, the best work
that can be done against intemper
ance is iu'reatraining the youth be-fore
they' become drinkers. It is
easier to prevent than to cure aw
appetite for liquor, and all persons
must be made drinkers before they
are such. People are born teetota-lers,
and-are on the right side till
won to wrong. No remedies are
too severe for youths' protection,
and the State owes every child a
manhood without a ruinous appe
tite. Minors should be forbidden
the saloons, and when found there
should themselves be punished as
well as the saloon keepers. Parents
toxicants. trad- is as
much stimulated by dealers as by
drinkers, the desire for money be-ing
as strong iu it as the desire for
drink—avarice as appetite.
Much can also be done for tern
pel ance by furnishing substitutes
b r drink." There may be substi-tutes
for drink, for saloons and for
the business. As substitutes for
the drink, coffee, tea, chocolate,
and other exhilarating and pungent
beverages already satisfy most
persons, and may lie made to satis
fy more. Soda water, lemonade,
and like drinks will satisfy many
others: butter milk has all the ad
vantages usually claimed for beer,
and is fast becoming a popular
American beverage. There is no
end of harmless drinks that might
be made to suit the American taste.
Many reformers, acting on this
idea'of substitute, have proposed
to eheek whisky-drinking by en-couraging
beer anil wine. Themis-fortune,
however, is that these lat-ter
naturally induce to excess iii
who will not protect their i dldren themselves, and to stronger drinks
from drunkenness should forfeit than themselves. Americans have
their guardianship to a house of not. like Germans, learned to drink
correction; aud should they give beer iu moderation, or, like the
them strong drink before their ma French, to drink wine in modera
joritv, they should be punished tion, and they do not seem capable
like the saloon keeper. For though ; ot the lesson. The excess is what
a parent claims the right to do as men usually want m drinking, l'o
he pleases with his children, the bacco and perhaps other compare,
law whisb restrains him from lively harmless stimulants, may
cruelty or giving them poisou, can, supply all the excitation desired,
on the same principle, restrain him and there is no end of the methods
from any other injury. Restraint
is need mainly in early lift, when
the danger is; for, if one grows to
manhood without appetite, he will
rarely acquire it afterward, when
Ids taste is fixed and his character
hardened. It takes much more
The Doctor* are Well.
N V.Suu.t
•■How are things to day !" whis-pered
a voting man to a friend who
had just'come from lien. Qrant's drinking to make a drunkard of a tious appetite
of training by which one may get
in harmless agents and occupations
what the drinker usually wants in
his cups. Those who never become
drinkers never feel the need of
drink, so that it does not satisfy a
natural need, but only an adventi
hall door, where he had been speak
ing to the servant.
"Better," replied the friend, in
the same cautious tone. "Douglas
has eaten his breakfast with some
relish, and Dr. Shrady is resting
comfortably.''
■•Hut how is Gen. Grant Vasked
the first speaker.
"Grantf was the answer. "Oh,
I didn't ask about him. I was
merely anxious how the doctors
man than of a child, a fact to be
recognized in temperance work; so
that those who will not sign the
pledge for life may often bridge
the chasm by signing for their
minority. It is those who come to
age drunkards that it is sodillicult
to cure.
Restraints against drunkenness
w
loons
need also a substitute for sa
The saloons are oftei as
else is the comparatively small
play which it gives to the muscles
of the shoulders and chest, while
it is stili less tor those of the arm.
This should tie compensated for by
the use of light dumb bells or In
diau clubs, or some other form of
exercise which brings in play the
arms and shoulders. One of the
forms of exercise which requires
the action of the muscles of the
arms and shoulders, as well as
those of the trunk and legs, is
swimming. This, however, for
many reasons, cannot be used as a
means of exercise except bj a few,
and at certain seasons of the year,
but where possible it should al
ways be practiced. The great pity
is that boys and girls do not learn
h. while at school. Every large
town should be well supplied with
swimming baths, and if it could be
made compulsory for scholars at a
certain age, say twelve, to leain to
swim, it would be a great advan
tage to all, and also be the means
of saving many lives.
Odelct on Spring.
.Brooklyn Baghkl
Hail, Aperial 1
Iu severial
Stanzas, hail! O month imperial
Ah, well.
The brush pile in my neighbor's
dull -.
1 greet
The sweet
Scent of the burning boots in bonfire
in the street.
I glans
Askans
At the empty cans
Flunginto myyard by the neighbor-ing
clans.
Old bones,
Which nobody owns;
Anil wcraps of till,
And shattered barrels with heads
cave in,
Viid castoff garments, vile as sin,
ready for transportation. The na-tives'
have no tradition touching
the quarry. Thero is uo doubt
that the island was once inhabited
by an intelligent race of people,
who built the temples and forts ot
heavy masonry on the high bluffs
of the island, aud that as the land
gradually subsided these bluffs be-came
islands."
Situations for Women.
It is with pleasure that we daily-read
of the success of women in
tilliug various offices of trust and
responsibility. Throughout the
South this feeling of interest seems
to be strengthened, aud we hope
the day is not far distant when the
talent and energy of the sex will
have a fair field for its full scope
of action.
Virginia presents as yet but one
instance of a lady clerk in a State
department, and the duties ol that
office have been discharged to the
highest satisfaction of all interest-ed.
Women are tired of the needle;
give them the pen awhile, aud see
it their efficiency in this line of ac-tion
will not reflect greater credit
upon their performances.
In Georgia a portion of the work
of preparing bills for the Legisla-ture
is discharged mostly by wo-men,
and improvement is already
apparent. Arkansas employs this
sex as legislative clerks, and the
State library is in charge of a lady
elected by the Legislature in a true
spirit of chivalry. And now the
"I.oi.e SUr'' State compels the
heads of the departments to em-ploy
women to transact half the
business of their respective offices.
Four girls are pages m the Kansas
House of Representatives, and one
of the same sex fills the position of
docket clerk. Give our women
more work of this kind, and let the
young, strong, healthy men seek
more robust employment.
The havoc of war left so many
widows and orphans in our laud,
whose bard struggle for a liveli-hood
has been scantily repaid, and
and it is time we arouse ourselves
to a sense of justice, and see that
there is some amelioration of the
wrong. As a rule, women are more
accommodating, patient, faithful
aud conscientious in the perfor-mance
of duty, and it cannot be for
a moment imagined that their
scruples of honesty are not nicer
and quicker.
Thousands of Southern women
are now in a state of comparative
destitution, who are ready and
anxious to engage in any species
of honorable employment, that will
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—Mo, ■
—The mi'ir>ht« oii-Mind.
—The march cPd.—Zoroaster,
is slow.—Bion. -Tyrtojus.
—A great mind become.-^,jU(j
fortune. Seneca.
—A vacant mind is an invitation
to vice.—It. Gilpin.
—We live not in body bnt in
mind.—Speusippus.
—A good mind is a kingdom in
itself.—It. LeigUton.
—The mind only is true wealth.
—Adolph of Nassau.
—The best empire is the empire
of the mind.—Julian.
—It is the mind that ennobles,
not the blood.—Vega.
—The mind to the soul is as the
eye to the body.—Bias.
—It is through the mind the man
knoweth God.—Theurgis.
—As sight is in the eye, so is the
mind in the soul.—Sophocles.
—He that doubts the existence
of mind, by doubting, proves it.—
Colton.
—The beauty of the mind is more
lovely than that of the body.—
Socrates.
—Wise men are chiefly captivat-ed
with the charms of the mind.—
S. Croxall.
—Judge not the mind by the
shape of the body.—Antoinette
Hourignon.
—The mind grows narrow in pro-portion
as the soul grows corrupt.
—Houssoaii.
—The sufferings of the mind are
more severe than the pains of the
body.—Cicero.
—A man may know his own
mind, and still not know a great
deal.—E. P. Day.
—The mind wears tho colors of
the soul, as a valet those of his
master.—Mine. Swetchine.
—The mind is its own place, and
in itself can make heaven of hell,
a hell of heaven.—Milton.
—In a firm mind there is always
found an unchanged countenance
for good and evil.—Calderou.
—We measure minds by their
stature; it would be better to es-teem
them by their beauty.—Jou-bert.
—The common mind is the true
Parian marble, fit to be wrought
into likeness to a god.—(i. Han-croft.
Ol llonoi.ioic em on n men i. i ii.ii mil . . —Great, minds . lowe, r,* ins.te.ad ol
enable them to administer to the flcVil e> """* "''.' Uo "ot.k™"
how to support them.-—ltoclielou-eauld.
G,OOU miles in length and about |
3.000 iu breadth, that has been
gradually sinking lower aud lower
lor thousands of years. The first
thing that called the attention of
scientific men to this fact was the
formation of the innumerable atolls
and barrier reel iu that part of the
Pacific ocean. They found on the
outskirts of this area that there
were islands fringed with coral
reel's.
•'As they sailed p ist these beau
tiful islands they saw other islands
with a barrier circling them. A I
coral reef a few feet below the sur-face
of the water girdled the island
at a distance from it varying from
a half to thirty miles, and whose
presence was marked by a ling of
snowy foam made by the breakers.
As they penetrated farther into the '
region of the sea they came upon
atolls, which are formed by circles
of coral enclosing a smooth sheet of
water. These lagoons were found
to vary in diameter from thirty
miles or more to only a few feet,
but corals do not build their reefs
at a greater depth than a hundred
feet, and yet by sounding these
singular reefs in the Pacific ocean
it was found that the coral reached
as far as the lathom line went.
The conclusion of scientific men
was I hat the bed of the ocean was
gradually sinking, aud that the
corals began to build fringing reefs
on the islands, and as the land
sank, the corals kept steadily at
work building up as fast as the
laud went down. As the laud tlis
appeared,Hie flinging reefs became
atolls or circles of coral enclosing a
calm lagoon It was found that
the reefs belo.v a hundred feet are
dead, and it is inferred that at a
lower depth than that the corals
were killed by cold. This is the
the generally accepted theory in
regard to the subsidence of the
j Pacific. A few years ago I stopped
at Pouynipete Island, iu the Pa-cific,
in" east longitude 158° L'^', and
north latitude till3 50*. The island
is surrounded by a reef, with a
broadship channel between it and
the island.
••At places in the ret f there were
natural breaks, that served as en-trances
to the harbors. Iu these
ship channels there were a number
of islands, many of which were sur
rounded by a wall of stone five or
six feet high, anil on these islands
e stood a
needs of their helpless families
Where domestic labor, sewing
and sc'iool teaching were formerly
Ihe only employments open to wo-men,
thero now hundreds of honor-able
vocations available to them,
all of which they are capable of
filling most acceptably.
Poisons ami Antidote*.
[I'tiaiiiinT.-* Jonraal.1
Under the head of corrosives,
corrosive sublimate stands foremost
in importance, being the most typi
cal of this class. The effects are
rapid iu their development, being
well marked by a burning sensa
tion felt in the mouth and throat,
followed by agonizing pain in the
stomach. The tongue and throat
have a white appearance, and ex-cessive
tenderness and swelling of
the abdomen is noticeable. All
authorities agree iu recommending
—A mind, by knowing itself, and
its own proper powers and values,
becomes free and independent.—S.
Deaue.
—We iu vain .summon the mind
to intense application, when the
bods is in a languid state.—Corne-lius
Callus.
—The mind does not know what
tliet it can feed on until it has been
brought to the starvation point.—
O. W. Holmes.
—The mind is nothing less than
a garden of inestimable value
which man should strive to culti-vate.—
Downey.
—Every great mimLseeks to la-bor
for eternity, and alone is ex-cited
by the prospect of distant
good.—Schiller.
—Old minds are like old horses;
albumen in the form of raw eggs— you must exercise them if you wish
both yelk and white—switched up
with ii little water, as the best an-tidote
iu cases of acute poisoning
from corrosive sublimate. The al-bumen
combines with the corrosive
sublimate to form an insoluble and
comparatively inert compound.
Should eggs not be immediately
obtainable, gluten obtain from
flour, or wheat flour alone mixed
with milk or water, may be given
until the more reliable antidote is
ready. The chief ot the corrosive
poisons are the mineral aeids. sul-phuric,
nitric and hydrochloric;
the vegetable acids, oxalic, binoxa
late of potash, (commonly called
salt of lemon and salt of sorrel,)
and occasionally in large doses tar-taric
acid; the alkalies, potash,
soda and ammonia, with certain of
their salts, such as pearl ash,(com
moilly called salt of tartar,) carbon-ate
of ammonia; also various me-talllic
compounds, including salts
to keep them.in working order..
John Adams.
—The mind and memory are more
sharply exercised iu comprehend-ing
another man's tilings than our
own.—Hen Johnson.
—As the miud must govern the
hands, so in every society the man
of intelligence must direct the man
of labor.—Dr. Johnson.
—Mind is the brightness of the
body—lights it, when strength, its
proper but less subtle fire, begins
to fall.—J. S. Knowles.
of zinc,, tin, silver ami antimony,
la Eye for llHalneu.
<),;■'.,- ■ ll.-ntM.l
"Wife," said a Chicago business
man, "pack up my grip—I'm going
to Washington."
"Not after an office, I hope.
James P
"No, indeed. Life is too short.
Hut I've read iu the paper that
next fall the administration ex-by
oxalic acid is a pects another grand rush of office-seekers.'"
"What have you got to do with
that."
"Everything. You know that
barbed wire that I'm handling. It's
just the thing for Washington.
Every cabinet officer, Senator and
Congressman will want some ot it
around his yard so that the office
hunters can't sit on the fence early
in the morning waiting for'em to
get up. Bet von a fiver that I sell
a train-load of No. 1. wire in three
days."
&C. I'oisonin.
very common method chosen by
would be suicides, probably owing
to the fact that it is a substance
much used in household operations,
and therefore readily obtainable by
any one bent on committing sui
cide. In speaking of the action of
this poison, that renowned author
ity, the late Sir Uobert Christison,
observes in Ids splendid work on
toxicology: '"If a person immedi-ately,
after swallowing a solution
of a crystalline salt which tasted
purely and strongly acid, is atUck-ed
with burning in the throat, then
with burning iu the stomach, vom
there great many low iting, particularly of blooded mat-houses,
built of the srtme kind of ter imperceptible pulse, and ex
cessive languor, and dies in half an
hour or 2d minutes, or still more in
attractive as the drink. Many go These lines my path with a nameless
fear—
Things you can see with your nose ;
loud smell that you can hear ;
there more to enjoy the associations
than to drink, and many drink
solely because they arc in the sa
loons. The saloons are part of the
drunkard's appetite. They are of-ten
the only places where strangers
stone as the walls about them
These BtrUCtureS seem to have
been used us temples and forts.
The singular feature of these
islands is that the walls are a foot
or more below the water. When
they were budt they were evident-ly
above the water and connected
with the main land, but they have
gradually sunk until the sea has
risen a foot or more around them.
The natives on the island do not
know when these works were built;
it is so far back m the past that
they have even uo tradition of the
structures. Yet tiie works sho v
signs of great skill, and certainly
prove that whoever built them
knew thoroughly bow to transport
and lift heavy blocks of stone. Up
lOorlo minutes, 1 do not know
any fallacy which can interfere
with the conclusion that oxalic acid
was the cause of death."
How a Woman l»la>» Card-
"Whose play is it!"
•'Who took that trick P
"What's trumps'"
"What was the lead?"'
"Whose ace is that!"
"Did 1 take that!"
•What's trumps f"
"Is it my play !"
••That's the left bower, isn't it!"
••Is that mine !"
-Haven't you got a club ?"
"What's trumps !"
••Did they euchre us !"
••How may did we make f"
••Whose deal is it!"
Tell me. in numbers more or less jn (hi, mmllltajns0f the island there
dancing in all its forms. In so far , were getting along.
might also be profitably laid on our can find eompany, and where one
customs. We have customs of can always find company. They
drink which do not spring from de- are some people's only entrance
sire, but prevail merely because es- I into society, being too high and too
clear,
That Spring is here,
Bight on thij mudane sphere.
—A fair skiu very often covers a
crooked mind.—Olaus Von Dalin.
is a quarry of the same kind of
stone that was used in building the
wall about the islands, and iu that
quarry to day there are great blocks
of stone thai have been hewn out
BOUgh lo llr;in V* llll.
ETawSiftiac*.]
Wilson Candless, one of the most
poverty striken young men of Gal-veston,
applied to Col. Hichley for
the hand of ids daughter.
"In the first place I've sent in my
application to President Cleveland
for a position in one of the depart
incuts."
••Have you any other resources!" you think is the happiest one for
ked the prospective father-in lovers?
(ieorge (ot a thrifty nature)—
May is the happiest because it is
the cheapest
Clara—Cheapest ! How !
George—It is too late in the sea-son
for oysters aiid tooeaily for ice
cream.
The Month lor Lo»er«.
Clara (shyly)—<>f all the mouths
of the year, (ieorge, dear, which do
ask
law.
"You bet I have. I'm seriously
thinking about giving up smok-ing."
"Pa !" exclaimed the young lady,
"that's enough for us to begin with,
ain't it !"