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IV.-NO. 46.
J NEWS GLEANINGS.
■ "(The debt of Charleston, S. C., is $4,-
I 164,050.
■ Seven employes of the Atlanta, Ga.,
■ post-office are negroes.
R Pensacola, Fla., is building an opera
■ house at a cost of $50,000.
S A chair factory at Marietta, Ga., has
■ sold 108,000 chairs in the past year.
H An immense number of manufactories
■ are being built in Birmingham, Ala.
I One tannery at luka, Miss., turns out
■ SIOO,OOO worth of leather each year.
■ The census taken in Cnattanooga,
■ May 1882, gives her 17,051 population.
■ Atlanta, Ga., has eighty-seven licensed
■ saloons that take in over $1,000,000 a
■year.
■ 'An oat mill will be established as
■ Sumter, N, C. It will be the first in
■ the South.
■ The bronze statue for the Confeder
■ ate monument has been delivered at
■ Charleston.
£ Thirty bushels to the acre is a com-
■ mon yield of wheat in East Tennessee
■ this season.
■ Alabama will have 2,330,000 acres in
■cotton this season. A decrease from last
■year of 10.3 per cent.
■ Key West, Fla., is troubled with an
■epidemic of ‘’dengue” fever. Five bun '
■deed cases are reported.
S More rea[>ers have been sold in Geor
■giathis year than the entire cotton bell
■possessed one year ago
S The cotton crop of this year, so it is
■estimated from present appearances, will
■be about 5,000,000 bales.
■ The largest orchard in Nortl?Carolina
■ s owned by R, I’. I’zddison, at Moults-
■ by’s Point. It contains over 8,000 trees
■ Fortress Monroe is the largest single
■fortification in the world. It has al
■ready cost over $3,000,000 of money.
I Sixteen thousand men arc now nn
■' I '<Ayed in railroad construction in Flor
■ida. Eighty thousand people have set
■fled in the State in the past ten years.
fe The last aporopriation of $125,000 for
■constructing jetties at the mouth of the
■bt. John’s river, Fla., is nearly exhaust
■al, and it is probable the work will cease
the 4th of July.
fl The Charleston, (S.C.) News and Cou
®ier, as a proof of the growth of home
industries, mentions the building of a
■tcamer and the construction of all her
■nachinery in that city.
® Os the several Governors Alabama
■as elected, four were natives of the
■State. Gov. Patton was born in Lan
Werdaie, Gov. Winston in Madison, Gov
■Vatts in Butler, and Gov. Cobb in St.
B-lair county.
B Presley Nelms is the oldest citizen of
•lonroe county, Ga., being 104 years of
■ge. He yet chops with an ax, uses the
and can get about with surprising
■ctivity. He has a living son over sev-
years old.
i In the seven States of Georgia, Ala
ll ? a> Mississippi, J/misiana
SB” Life two Carolinas there has been an
of 361,000 in the number of cot
n spindles during (he year, represent
an addition to the manufacturing
industries of nearly $10,000,000.
■ A man at Magnolia, Ark., has some
jV. new in the potato line. In his
en about thirty potato busl ies are
an< l lb* 3 potatoes grow up
10tl g the limbs, like apples, and none
IB y attach t e '. l to tlle roots. The Pulaski
Bh!? 11 - S’’ t ’ zen bells of similar vines in
■"at vicinity.
: any onc af ' kl ’
, y „ f? ave so much money to the
B Feniale College, of Georgia,
B> ?° ni \ l Was t 0 honor my mother, to
Bl Un<er I °" e more than too
Os no 1 T len - There ftre
-Qvwh , Hllheril women not equaled
lere e ' Be on earth.”
bUt P industry in the
‘’ lns 01 or th Carolina and East
■W,/'.' thflt of collecting roots
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is .written on heavy unruled paper,
about note size, and every side is cov*
cred. There are twenty-seven pages,
all of which have Gen. Washington’s
name attached except the twenty-third,
which ended with the words “City of
Washington,” and it is supposed that in
looking over it the General mistook the
words for his signiturc, and therefore
failed to sign the page. The entire will
is in his own handwriting, and was writ
ten in 1799—the year he died.
Adulterated Tobacco.
A pamphlet has been published, show
ing that in Germany thousands of tons
of beet leaves are transformed into to
bacco. In some places chiccory and
cabbage leaves make the fragrant weed.
An English chemist found a stuff sold
for tobacco was the leaves of a diaphor
etic plant. It has been impossible to
sell the plant as a drug, and it has been
turned into tobacco to save loss.
Another writer informs everyboby, or
wants to, that chemists have an im
portant place in tobacco factories. Fif
teen factories in New’ York employ chem
ists tb “flavor” cigars. They can not
do much with the wrapper, but they can j
“heighten and develop,’’thefillings. It ;
is a relief to know on the authority of '
the writer quoted that opium is not used, j
although it used to be formerly, in Eng- :
land, but stringent laws broke the prac- |
tice. The substances used to flavor to- :
bacco are numerous. Every manu- ;
facturer has his own formula. Vanilla ,
is the most common. This is employed i
in the form of an alcoholic tincture to I
flavor fillings. It is said that few cigars i
are free from vanilla. Its effects are ;
not harmful if not used in excess. The I
tonka bean and balsam fir are used in j
the same way and for the same purpose. ’
Cedar oil is also introduced. The best ;
imitator of the tabaeco flavor is valerian. I
Valerian and vanilla are the most vain- I
able chemicals now in use by tobaccon- i
ists. By their use the poorest stems
may be converted into fair tobacco. Into
cigarettes enter not only valerian and
vanilla, but cascarilla bark. To make ■
cigars burn, ammonia is used, and they i
are soaked in saltpetre. The latter is |
injurious and makes young men old j
with dispatch. The object of its use is i
to cause the cigar to burn freely. It has
been noticed by some smokers that an
intoxicating effect has been produced by
some cigars. This is produced by dip
ping the fillings in a solution of sulphuric
ether and bromide of potassium. When
it is known that New England rum is
used with vanilla and valerian, it is
nothing to wonder at that the cigars so
treated produce intoxication. We do
not name the brand that is treated with
New England rum. If we did, the de
mand would excel the supply. To make
tobacco, or aid in its adulteration, such
other things as potato leaves, sugar,
potash, tamarinds, aniseed, gum and
various oils not heretofore mentioned are
used to a greater or lesser extent. In
New York alone, 826,666,500 cigars are
made annually, besides, 229,800,000
cigarettes, and twenty-five thousand
persons tyre employed.— Providence Jour
nal.
Rufus Hatch in the Indian Territory.
Rufus Hatch, the noted Wall street,
New York, operator, took a trip to the
Indian Territory to look after some ra.il
' road property and his newly established
cattle ranche. He writes the scenery on
this trip has been beyond description,
monstrously grand and beautiful. Sky,
laud, prairie, grass, then more sky,
shrub, grass, small creeks, sky, dust,
sand, wind, sky ; then more sky, clouds,
dust, grass, dust, only more so, sky
high; clouds, wind, dust, sky, prairie,
more prairie, prairie, one short tree,
sky, drove of cattle, horses, cowboy,
buffalo skeleton, sky, prairie, dust,
prairie dog, coyote, sky, grass, clouds,
more sky, antelope, prairie, sun, dust,
heat, sky, snake, prairie, prairie, prairie,
clouds, three or four trees, sun, sky,
sky, sky, clouds, sun, heat, wind, dried
buffalo horns, grass, prairie, more clouds,
more sky, more prairie, sky, sky, heav
ens, dust, snakes, cowboys on leave of ,
absence, wolves, sky, prairie, grass, I
sand, dust, sun, heat, prairie, only more
so when we came in full view o£»more
prairie all the time, and sky and clouds,
kept keeping over us, and more snakes,
buffalo carcasses, and horns, with con
tinuous prairies and more beautiful
scenery, until after nearly one hundred
miles of delicious driving, in a first
class open buggy, under a broiling sun,
with more sky, clouds, prairie, wind,
dust and grass, we landed at this Eldo
rado—known on the map as “ Spencer &
Drew’s Gattie Rancho,” and now, amid
the crack of rifles and Colt’s revolvers,
the singing of birds, the delicious
moaning and sighing of tho fragrant
breeze as it creeps through tho full
leaved green branches of the trees, the
piping of the mocking bird and quail,
and the thousand heads of horned cattle
gently grazing on rich meadow lands as
far as the eye can reach, the hum of in
sects, and the gentle titilation of the
unobtrusive mosquito, 1 bid you all
good-by, with the gentle remark that if
the Indians should overtake and kill me,
I never will forgive myself for coming
here !— .New Yor/c Commercial Adver
tiser.
A Hoosier youth named Gosling saw
a girl at church, courted her two hours,
and at the end of three was married to
her. A man who does up all his court
ing in two hours and then marries, misses
lots of fun. Its like stuffing himself
with peaches and cream in five minutes
and then ha ing dyspepsia the rest of
’ the year,
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
The Canadian government has begun
' issuing $4 bills.
President Arthur has decided to sum
mer at Long Branch.
The French Senate ha»> rejected the
American pork bill.
And now it appears that Billy Patter
son was struck by lightning.
A pint of whisky a day is Sitting
Bull’s government ration.
The crops in the Northwest promise
to be better than ever before.
The Kentucky wheat crop is supposed
to reach near 13,000,000 bushels.
Rutherford B. Hayes is reported as
hoeing corn and enjoying himself.
Within one week 1,000 Jews have
left Lemberg, Austria, for America.
An unusual amount of counterfeit coin
! and currency is afloat. Look out for it.
From Hayti comes a contribution of
: $225 for the Garfield Memorial Hospital.
The habit of going to Europe costs
America not less than $125,000,000 a
' year * -r
If Congress adjourns before the mid
■ die of July the country will be fortu
' nate.
The young people at Concord keep
' the grave of Emerson covered with fresh
flowers.
—.»
i A colony of 200 families of negroes
is about to leave Mississippi to settle in
Mexico.
Sewing thread is made from pine tim
ber in Sweden, and is coming into de-
' maud for export.
Four hundred and forty-one pounds
of tea has been raised on one acre of
ground in Georgia.
The losses caused by the late cyclone
in lowa are variously estimated from
$2,576,000 to $3,000,000 in amount.
England hangs murderers every time
—when she catches them ; but they
don’t seem to catch them very fast over
there.
The British police have at times ar
rested as the real Dublin assassins six
teen different men, none of whom were
within 200 miles of the city that day.
A concert at public cost is given on
Boston Common every Sunday afternoon
in summer. There was opposition by
the orthodox at first, but it has died
out.
There are seventy-two men now in
Sing Sing prison who used to exercise
great political influence in their various
stations. Where else can a politician
expect to bring up ?
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The only way to convince a Southern
negro that a farm is not waiting for him
in Kansas, is to let him make the trip.
In two or three days he gets through
asking which road it is on.
Everybody on the continent seems to
know that Don Cameron has recently
been suffering from a jumping tooth
ache—the matter going so far as even to
effect politics in Pennsylvania.
Louisiana is considering whether it
would not be good policy to stop the lot
i tery business in that ‘State.
and Kentucky are the only States in the
Union that tolerate lotteries within their
corporate limits.
Two Michigan men got into a boat
and pursued a bear. The bear climbed
into the boat and tho men climbed out.
Had they not been rescued by a tug they
wouldn’t have got home to tell this little
boar story at the family hearth.
< ♦ » ——
It is the opinion of a Philadelphia
editor that a family who don’t know
enough to go to church at the proper
hour, without hearing the clang of a bell,
wouldn’t meet a bank note unless the
cashier came and blew a horn in front of
the house.
The Helena Independent mentions
that two cowboys were arrested at
Benton, M. T., and fined $lO each for
firing a volley at the comet. If they
had killed a man it would have been
all right. The line is drawn at killing
people out there.
The cyclone w hich spread death and
destruction in lowa a few days ago, is
described as at times resembling a gi
gantic arm reaching from the heavens ;
then it took the form of a vast serpent,
and again resembled a funnel and an
hour-glass. It is notable wherever i
the storm-cloud struck a belt of timber
it was arrested and took a long jump.
—
The Detroit Free Press pays its re
spects as follows:
A young Ohio woman has been sent to the
lunatic asylum because she has “ a mania for
work.” We are a little surprised that this
should be thought a sign of lunacy in a young
Ohio woman. It would be perfectly jnstiflable
to shut up an Ohio man on that charge—unless
he was working for an office. In that respect
they are all mad there.
Ohio men still have one advantage—
they can’t be insulted by any such in
uendoes.
A remarkable case of lusus naturic is
recorded in the local columns of the Cin
cinnati Commercial of June 22, as fol
lows :
A specimen of that peculiar freak of nature,
a hermaphrodite—a human being of both
sexes—was taken to the Central Station last
night by Officers Gould and Altevers. The
person is colored, about 23 years of age, and
without the sign of a beard.' Ho or she claims
tho name of Jack Smith, and the occupation of
cook at a boarding-house on George street be
tween Race and Elm. He was dressed in maA
attire, but a genieman who happened into th«
station says he has seen the same person in
woman’s clothes. He was locked up on a gen
eral charge.
The army w’orm seems übiquitous.
We hear of his ravages in New England,
New York and Maryland, as well as in
the West. The only successful way that
has been devised to stop their march is
that of plowing a furrow, say seven
inches deep, and continuously dragging
a log, four or five feet in length, back
and forth from daylight till dark every
day,until the worms have disappeared.
By this process the ground iu the fur
row becomes thoroughly pulverized and
the' worms can not possibly cross it be
fore the return of the log passing to and
♦ro to crush them. As a rule the worms
travel eastward.
Daphne McGuire.
“ There is no more pie.”
“God help us, then,” said Daphne
McGuire, looking up to her mother with
a weary, wistful, why doesn’t-somebody
buy-me-a-seal-skin-sacque expression on
her oval face.
Mrs. McGuire did not reply. Leaning
her bangless head on a thm, white hand
—the hand that Vivian O’Rourke had
called “a dimpled treasure that one
might risk his soul to win,” that night,
so many years ago, that she had rejected
his proffered love and caused him to
wander away in wild despair and marry
Girofle Quirk —and thought of how, had
she plighted her troth to him, life would
now have been a garden in which pretty
flowers waved their bright faces, instead
of a wind-swept waste, barren alike of
flowers and venture. She remembered
how, for the first few years after their
marriage, every thing went well with
Percicles McGuire, and how, when
Daphne was a prattling infant, he had
come home full one evening and told her
in proud tones that he had reached the
summit of his ambition, and was a
policeman. All these memories of the
past—the bitter and the sweet —came
surging through her mind as she looked
out through her tears and saw the Blue
Island avenue cars going by like ghosts
in the twilight.
“Why do you weep, mamma?” said
Daphne, placing her soft West Side
arms about the neck of the mother she
loved so dearly—the only mother she
had.
“I fear me, Bridget,” said Mrs.
McGuire, using the pet name by which
Daphne was known at home, “ that our
future must indeed be a cheerless one;
that the coming days will hold for us
only sorrow and misery.”
“Do not be disheartened, mamma,”
replied the girl, kicking the dog off the
front steps and kissing her mother with
a warm, lingering, I-have-come-to-stay
all-winter-and-part-of-the-spring kiss.
“Things may not bo so bad as they
seem. We have still one hope, you
know, one resource in case all else tails. ”
“ What is it, child?” asked the mother
in hoarse, anxious tones. “ What is this
hope you speak of?”
“Doughnuts,”replied Daphne, speak-
Hlg, the word softly, and with infinite
tenderness. J? We have a jar of them
down stairs, you kilOW,”
“Then let us tackle them at once,”
said the grief-stricken parent, starting
for the pantry at a 2:20 clip.—Chicago
Tribune.
When Coal Was Discovered In America.
There is strong reason to believe that
the first discovery of coal on this conti
nent was made in Illinois, by the early
French explorers, some time between
1673 and 1680. James McFarlane,
author of the “Coal Regions of Amer
ica,” says : “It is remarkable that the
first discovery of coal in America, of
which there is any account in a printed
book, was made so far in the interior as
Illinois, by Father Hennepin, more than
two hundred yea-s ago.” Hennepin’s
map accompanying the edition of his
journal published in 1698. locates a coal
mine in the bluffs of the Illinois River,
near Ottawa, where an inferior quality
of bituminous coal comes to the surface.
Referring to this record left by Henne
pin, R. C. Taylor, another high author
ity in economic geology, says : ‘‘ This
is the earliest notice on record of the
existence of coal in America.— Chicago
Inter- Ocean-
The Paris authorities are intent just
now on measures to prevent deleterious
articles finding a sale, and have seized
American hams wrapped in a
] cloth, rendered impermeable by ehrom
r »te of lead.
How to Select a Cow.
Hon. 11. Lewis, of New York, read a
paper before a convention of dairymen
in Ontario, from which we extract :
Again, ono breed of cows will do well
on some land, where some other breed
would be almost or quite worthless.
Hence, I advice every dairyman to select
that particular cow or breed best suited
to his lands, -where she is to obtain her
food, and best adapted to that branch of
dairy fanning in wUhch he is engaged.
If, for instance, your pasture lands
are rough, or on steep side hills, select a
small, active cow, and if butter-making
is your business the Jersey or Devon and
their grades from our native cows will
prove satisfactory. But if cheese
making is your business, or the pro
duction of milk for market, the Ayr
shire is the cow. While her milk is well
adapted for cheese or for market, it is
better than the average cow’s for butter.
Again, if your pasture lands are pro
ductive and moderately level, with but
ter-making your business, select the
Holderness or the Princess family of
Short-horns, or their grades from our
native cows. But if cheese or milk only
be your object, the Holsteins will prove
satisfactory.
As the selection of individual cows,
suited to our several farms and adapted
to our various wants, would be too much
of an undertaking, and require so much
time and care, it can be done best I>y
selections from our herds of native cows,
and the use on these of a thorough-bred
bull of that breed desired. In this way,
if tho selections be carefully made, a
herd can be built up in a little while
founded on our native stock and at small
expense, iar exceeding in value any of !
our ordinary herds. It has been a •
matter of surprise to me that our intelli
gent and progressive dairymen do not
more generally adapt their cows
to their several wants by breeding
a sufficient number each year to make
good the annual loss from old age, acci
dent and disease. A cow reared on the
farm where she is to remain is al ways
more valuable to her owner than a
strange cow.
First, she is acclimated; second, she
is acquainted xvitli the herd with which
she must associate; third, she is fa
miliar with the lauds from which she
obtains her food, and can travel over it
with greater ease than a strange cow.
Napoleon’s First Abdication.
France, in the latter part of 1813 and
the beginning of 1814, was iu a very un
settled condition. Napoleon had curried 1
on brilliant but weakening campaigns, !
and even the dazzling glory of tho great
commander’s exploits in the face of all j
Europe could not dispel the shadows I
which had begun to gather about him at I
the capital and throughout France. Nor !
was the prospect beyond the realm any i
more encouraging. Bernadotte, Crown
Prince of Sweden, and late companion i
of the Emperor, was coming down from ;
the north with 100,090 men; and Murat, I
King of Naples, Napoleon’s own brother- [
in-law, had entered into a secret treaty |
with Austria for the expulsion of the
French in Italy. The gloom around Na
poleon deepened, until the allies suc
ceeded in reaching the exterior defenses
of Paris, and the capital, which for so
many years had dictated law to all other
capitals, was obliged to capitulate, and
tho allies entered Paris amid the accla
mations of the people. Tho Senate
turned their back on Napoleon and de
clared that “by arbitrary acts and vio
lations of tho constitution ” he had for
feited the throne, and absolved all
Frenchmen from their allegiance. His
own generals insisted that he ought to
abdicate, and he signed the surrender of
his power. He was allowed the sover
eignty of the Isle of Elba, with a revo
enue’of 6,000,000 francs ($1,200,000).
Ten months later he was invited to re
turn to France by a conspiracy of old
Republicans joined by Bonapartists. He
escaped from Elba February 26, 1815,
and landed at Cannes March 1 with an
escort composed of about 1,000 of his
Old Guard. And KM) days after ho had
resumed power his last act on the stage
of Europe was played out, and tho sec
ond and last abdication was signed.
Dr. Johnson’s Partiality for Tea.
In his review of Hanway’s “ Tea and
its I’ernicftnis Consequences,” Dr. John
son proclaims himself as “a hardened
and shameless tea-drinker, who has for
many years diluted his meals with only
the infusion of this facinating plant,
whose kettle has scarcely time to cool
wild with tea
tea sohtCfW -the midnight and with tea’
welcomes the morning.” Boswell says
that he supposes no one ever enjoyed
with more relish the fragrant leaf than
Johnson. The quantities ho drank of it
at all hours were so great that his nerves
must have been uncommonly strong not
to have been extremely relaxed by such
an intemperate use of it. It is related of
him, but not by Boswell, that, while on
his Scotch tour, the Dowager Lady Mac-
Leod, having repeatedly helped him un
til she had poured out sixteen cups,
then asked him if a small basin would
not be more agreeable and save him
trouble. “I wonder, madam,” he an
swered roughly, “ why all the ladies
should ask me such questions ? It is to
save themselves trouble, madam, and
not me.” On another occasion he said :
“ What a delightful beverage must that
be that pleases all palates at a time when
they can take nothing else at breakfast!’
Croker mentions tiiat the doctor’s teapot
held two quarts.
Jack Everman, a bimk-burglar, left
$5 000 at his death, in Philadelphia.
He made no will, and his natural /
refuse to touch the m« S /
the proceeds of robber g
TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The true bed-bug is said to be found
in cliff swallows’ nests.
The number of different uses for the
bamboo is estimated at 500.
The number of earthquakes in Japan
during the past 1500 years is 149.
American beer for Germany is an im
portant addition to our export trade.
Weasels hunt in couples, and some
times more than two work together.
In the course of five years, from 1779
to 1784 Mesmer magnetized 8,000 per
sons.
In Sicily the total quantity of sulphur
annually melted is estimated at 390,000
tons.
The Australian exchange names with
Europeans, as a proof of brotherly af
fection. *
Since 1865 the ratio of suicides has
been greater in the kingdom of Saxony
than any other part of Europe.
A large whale committed suicide by
hanging himself with tho telegraphic
cable laid across the Persian Gulf.
An English superstition is that if the
ear-lobe hang below the line of the
mouth, its possessor will be hanged.
A swarm of locusts observed near
Boulder City, Colorado, traveled sixty
six miles to eastern Kansas and Mis
souri.
Falcons are the swiftest of birds.
One sent from the Canaries to Spain re
turned in six hours, the distance being
780 miles.
The following sentence of only thirty
four letters contains all the letters in the
j alphabet: “John quickly extemporized
five tow bags.”,
A gentleman, having suffered a so
l ere blow on the head, found on recovery
that he had lost his knowledge of Greek,
but had not suffered any other loss of
memory.
Tigers are said to be plentiful through
out Siberia, where they remain through
1 the winter. They are said to be larger
than the Himalayan specimens, and to
have hair five inches in length.
At the present time in Spain the correct
place of dating a letter should be from
“this your house ;” one giust never say
from “ this my house,” as politeness
requires him to place it at the disposi
tion of his correspondent.
In New York and Chicago, telegraph
wires are being put under ground, and
i it is possible that the time is coming
' when the underground method of tele
graphing will be in vogue all over the
country, as it is in Germany.
Ostrich farming, is, next to wool and
i diamonds, the most important industry
1 of Southern Africa. It was not suooess
| ful until tho eggs were hatched by a
patent incubator, the parent bird not
performing her duty well in confine
ment.
| It is suggested that the derivation of
| London is from tho Celtic Luan, the
j moon, and a dun, a city on a hill. That
it was “ the city of the moon” is all the
more probable from the tradition that
the site of St. Paul’s was formerly that
of a temple of Diana.
The greatest flood ever known on the
Mississippi was that of 1814, which
swept away the levees, overflowed the
entire country, filled up the swamps and
remained at high-water mark for months.
It was due to the unscientific construc
tion of the levees.
“For four Brother’s Sake.”
A good story is told by the Providence
Journal of a gentleman’s mistake while
on the way to the inauguration at Wash
ington, in March, 1881. Between New
York and Philadelphia he took a seat
beside a portly gentleman, and conver
sation began.
Politics were mentioned, and tne
Rhode Islander said he was a Republi
cuii) uml tliouplit lust full tlmt it wonicl fcc
not’ bo well for tho country to have a
change, but that he had a brother
was a Democrat. . “ •
Soon the train stopped at a station,
and the Rhode Islander stepped to thr-Q
platform and met an acquaintance,
alter a little space, remarked:
“Gen. Hancock is on this train,
as I am acquainted with him, perhapiT2y
you would like an introduction.”
Os course he would; so they entered '
the car, and approached the portly gen
tleman just left; the Rhode Islander was
introduced to the General. With a
twinkle of the eye, Gen. Hancock said :
‘' ],»ill shake hands with you for your ’
brotiw • *-
Noble Nature.
'There are persons sufficiently enlarged
to receive blame without pain, and yet
not be able to resist the excitement of
praise. Nobility of soul, magnanimity,
wai’d off or counteract the pain that in
smaller souls results from blame; but
the same traits render their possessor
more quick to the apprehension of a
kind word, more grateful for a loving
expression, more appreciative of appre
ciation. Why should it be thought an
evidence of greatness to receive l>oth
praise and blame with equal stolidity?
Must our emotional natures die in tho
process of our upward growth ? M ill
they not rather become quickened to
keener enjoyment continually? So
would our susceptibility of pain become
correspondingly quickened, but that our
expanding reason nullifies its effect.
Helen Williams.
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