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Light Houses,

There are six orders of lights in the
United States service, the first being
establish to give warning of the ap-
proach of land, and the others being
subsidiary, to mark headlands and
points in bays, rivers, and lakes. There
are white and red lights, fixed, revolJ-
ing, and flash lights, and the revolving
lights have different intervals, from a
minute and a half to ten seconds.
There are also fixed white lights show
ing a red flash at intervals, and in some
cases two and even three fixed white
lights mark a headland. Thus, on
Cape Cod, Chatham has two lights. and
Nausett three in q row. These differ
ences are made to enable mariners the
more readily and surely to distinguish
lights apart, and thus to be certain
what int or headland they are ap-
preaching at night. For the same rea-
son light-ships are numbered and have
their numbers painted on their sides.
Buoys, too, are set in regular order for
the better guidance OF seamen. Thus,
on entering bay or harb2r, the ship
leaves red buoys, with even numbers,
on her starboard, and black buoys, with
odd numbers, on her port side. Where
a buoy marks an obstruction in mid
channel which may be passed on either
side, it is painted with horizontal red
and black stripes but if the buoy is
striped white and black perpendicularly,
this denotes that you must pass close
to it to avoid danger. Perches with
balls and cages on buoys denote that
they are placed at turning points in the
channel. Thus it will be seen that. by
various ingenious expedients, as little
as possible is left to chance or guess
work; and the seaman who has his chart
before him, and understands these sim
pie regulations, can find his way into
any of our ports.
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Permanence of the Church.

Those who think the church may be
ignored or dispensed with probably
take a. narrow view of the matter.
Though they may be educated and cul-
tivated, the, have little real sympathy
with the great masses they are, per
haps, acute, but they are certainly shall
low. / mean, of course, shallow and
narrow as regards this point. They are
not in fellowship with that human ma
ture which, in all lands and all times,
demands a wolship of the invisible,
which rises always above the seen to
the unseen, which humbles itself be-
fore the Most High and is exaltsL
which finds itself lifted up by casting
itself PROSTATE before the eternal truth
and the infinite beauty. The church is
as permanently founded and rooted in
human nature as the state. It springs
up of itself everywhere, whenever man
begins to rise above the savage state.
ConfuciRs has his church Buddha has
his church; Zoroaster has his church.
They have all existed duting twenty OF
thirty centuries, based wholly on the
need of social worship. They rest Oh
the deep instinct which makes men feel
that they are stronger, better and wiser
for going together to worship before
God. The worst church is better thar
none, just as the worst state is better
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WEARNLONELE LERESTLESS-
HOMELESS.

Weary hearts! weary hearts by cares of life op-
Te are wandering in the shadows-ye are signing
for rest
There is darkness in the heavens and the earth is
bleak below
And the joys we taste to-day, may tomorrow turn
to woe.
Weary hearts God is rest.
Lonely hearts lonely hearts this is but land OF
grief;
Ye are pining for repose-ye longing for relief
What the world hath never given-kneel and ask of
God above,
And your grief shall turn to gladness-if you lean
upon his love!
Lonely hearts, God is love.
Restless hearts restless hearts We are toiling
night and day,
And the flowers of life all withered leave but the
thorns along your way;
Ye are waiting, ye waiting, till your toilings
here shall cease,
And your every restless throbbing, is a sad, sad
prayer for peace.
Restless. heart! God is peace.
Breaking hearts! broken hearts! ye are desolate
and lone,
And low voices from the past DER your present
ruins moan:
In the sweetest of your pleasures there was bitter
And starless night hath followed on the sunset
of our joy.
Broken hearts God is joy
Homeless heartsI homeless hearts thu Ou h the
dreary, dreary years
fe are lonely, lonely wanderers, and your way is
wet With tears;
In bright CT blighted places, wheresoever you may
roam,
Ye look away from earthland, and ye murmur,
" Where is homer"
Homeless hearts God is home
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months the stone blocks along the ur-
per part of the street, which had been
exposed to the fame, crumbled almos
entirely away, to distance of ten feet
| from the gate. The other blocks, pro-
tected by their situation, remain solid,
and promise to stand for centuries.
Finally, under Troy, there is fourth
stratum of ruin, varying from thirteen
to twenty feet in depth, as I have al
ready stated. The age of this is mat
ter of pure conjecture, since the vicissi-
tudes of the city's history-frequent
destruction and rebuilding-would lave
the same practical effect, or nearly SO,
as a long interval of time. We have
anywhere from 1000 to 5000 years be-
fore Christ-taking Egyptian, Phoeni-
clan, or Pleasgic remains as guides-as
the date of the foundation of the first
Troy.
FILLED with his Homeric enthusiasm,
Schliemann gives us, in the present
work, only fragmentary and imperfect
accounts of the characteristics of the
earliest ruins. The most remarkable
feature, perhaps, is the superiority of
the terra-cotta articles, which indicate
greater degree of taste and skill than
those In the subsequent strata. From
the beginning down to the Greek peri
cd, the evidences of gradually declin-
ing civilization are SO clear, in the dis
coverer's opinion, that they must be ac-
eepted. The early vases are OF shin
ing black, red or brown color, with Or
namental patterns, first cut into the
pottery and then filled with white
substance. Only one piece of painted
terra-coHa was found. The inhabitants
of theE city were certainly Aryans.
This fact is illustrated in their manner
of building, and also in the frequency
of the earliest Aryan religious symbols
upon the terra Gotta disks.-Bayard
Taylor IN NeaO York Tribune.
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About Gloves,

Cloves ere the unopened flowers of a
small evergreen tree that resembles in
appearance the laurel or bay. 1t is a
native of the Molucca or Spice islands,
but has been carried to all the warmer
parts of the world, and is now cultivated
in the tropical regions of America. The
flowers are small in size, and grow in
large numbers, in clusters, to the very
edges of the branches. The cloves we
use are the flowers gathered before they
are opened, and while they are stlli
green. After being gathered, they are
smoked by wood fire, and then dried
in the sun. Each Glove consists OF two
parts-of round head, which is the
fonr metals, or leaves, or flowers rolled
mn. including a number OF small stalks
ar fiIaments; the other part of the Glove
ia terminated with four points, and is,
in fact. the flower of the unripe seed
vessel. All these parts may be seen if
a few cloves are soaked for a short time
in hot water, when the leaves of the
flower soften, and readily uproll. Both
the taste and the smell of cloves depend
on the quantity of oil they contain.
Sometimes the oil is separated from
the cloves before they are sold, and the
odor and taste are in consequence much
weakened.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-20
Physiology of the Passions

The ercients, and Bichat after them,
located the various passions IN the diff
ferenG organs of the viscera. Gall
first proved that the passions affected
firsE the brain, and hence cannot have
their seat otherwise. The experiment
tai Psychologists of the present century
have at last unravelled the mystery,
and shown the complete mechanism.
Sensations strike the extremities of the
nerves, and the excitement is transmit
ted to the brain, and it is here where
the feeling is experienced. From the
brain the reused emotions strike
straight downward to the heart. The
heart responds to our emotions, as the
hands to our will" "Every agreeable
or Joyous emotion of the soul excites
the accelerator nerves of the heart. "
The phrase, the heart futters with Joy,
is a true one. Painful feelings act on
the retardor fibres of the heart, its con-
fractions become laborious and clog
ged; oppression of the heart, "the
heart is agonized, ready to burst, etc. &,
are again true phrases. "While the
heart seems to be more directly under
the influence of the feelings, the lungs
appe ar to have some connection with
thought. When absorbed in some pro-
found meditation we suspend the respi-
atory movements" Astonishment re-
lakes the muscles of the arms. Fear
causes ones leg TO fail him. Inthe play
of the fact, however, we find the best
indications of the state of the feelings.
Curious experiments have been per-
formed upon the muscles of the face.
They can be made to contract by means
of electricity, thus producing artificial
ly all the states of the soul. 1.-The
muscles of the eye are adapted to ex-
pres ions of the higher order, and those
of the mouth to expressions OF a more
gross, material kind. Every muscle of
any note has been tested, and named in
accordance with the kind of emotion
which usually plays upon ii. Thus we
have the aggressor muscle, the muscle
of suffering, the muscle of joy, of salts
faction. of sensuality, and so on. The
interesting part of it is that with a good
galvanic battery and trained hand the
operator may play upon these notes of
the human face divine to any extent
without in the least incommoding or
exciting the subject. He may put the
face through a whole opera of the pas
sions for the delight of spectators and
the advancement of science, causing all
the signs, yet without the least glim-
mer of feeling in it, thus proving from
a new point of view that ''this world is
all a tickle show. "-POJ)Uiar Science
MOnthLy,
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Brilliant Success.

II is PERMITTED TO few men or compa-
nies to achieve acknowledged SUPERIOR.
ty ia any important position or business.
The present generation has Witnessed
stupendous rivalry in several branches
OF industry, and notably the Sewing
Machine business. Amid multitude
Of competitors, steadily and surely the
Wheeler a Wilson Company held their
way from the beginning, upon fixed and
honorable principles. Long since, their
leading position in America was esiab-
lished. Abroad, at London, in 1862.
they won the highest premiums; at
Paris, in 1867, they disianOed eiRhty-two
competitors, and we're awarded tho
highest premium, the only Gold Medal
for Sewing Machines exhibited and
lastly, amid unparalleled competition.
followed the splendid triumphs at
Vienna, noted in our advertising col
umnB,
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Insanity Rare Among savagss.

eff we may rely on the observations
of travellers, says the Journal of Men
| tai Science, "there has always been
comparatively little insanity among saw
ages" Admitting this to be the case, it
is not difficult to guess at the reasons
of their comparative immunity. In civ
ilized society there are three principal
causes to which we may trace nearly
every mental, disorder, viz, hereditary
predisposition, intemperance, and men
tai anxieties. Now, savages are almost
exempt from the operation of these
three causes. They do not poison their
brain with alcohol until the white man
introduces it to them. The weak in
mind and body are not carefully attend
ed to and kept alive as among civilized
people; if they are not actually destroy
ed, by natural or artificial means they
are got rid of, so that they do not them
selves swell the numbers of insane in
their own generation, nor increase them
in the next generation by propagating
their kind. Again, savages do not in
termarry in the same family: among
them the prohibition of marriage ex
tends often to distant relatives, persons
having the most distant blood affinity
being forbidden to marry. It can
scarcely be doubted that the reason of
such prohibition was their experience of
the evils resulting from the inter-marri-
age of relatives-an experience which,
distinct as is the lesson which it teaches,
has not yet availed to check ihe inter
marriages of first cousins among civil
lied people.
Lastly, the savage has few and simple
wants spripging from his appetites, and
these he gratifies. With him there is
no eager straining beyond his strength
after social aims that are not intrinsical-
~ worth the efforts they cost, no disap-
pointed ambition from failure to COM
pass such aims, no detection from the
reaction which follows the realization
of an overrated ambitious passion, no
anxious sense of responsibility he has
no lifelong hypocricies to keep up, no
tormenting remorse of conscience, no
painful reflections of an exaggerated
self-cOnsciousness; in short, none of
the passions that constitute the chief
wear and tear of civilized life
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SAVED HIS WHPPISG.-A little urchin
seven or eight years old, in school
where Miss Blodgett was teacher, com
posed the following and wrote Il on his
slate at prayer-time, to the great amuse-
ment of the boys:
"a little mouse ran mp the stairs
To hear Miss Blodgett say her prayers.'
The teacher discovered the rhyme, and
called out the culprit. For punishment
she gave him his choice 10 make another
rhyme in five minutes or be whipped.
SO, after thinking, end scratching his
head till his time was nearly out, and
the teacher was lifting the cane in n
threatening manner, at the last moment
he exclaimed
" Here stand before Miss biodgett
She's going 10 strike and I'm going 10 dodge
IL"
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than none. A bad government is better
than anarchy. A bad church is bet
ter than to live without God in the
world, because that is sure to end in
brutality and moral death. The church
is the home of the poor, the comfort of
the sufferer, the friend of the oppressed,
the support of the dying, the hope of
the bereaved. It comes to those upon
whom society has laid heavy burdens,
and takes them by the hand to raise
them up r. Clarke.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-20

Prof. Tyndall has written a letter
in reply to Prof. Goldwin Smiths re-
cent assertion that Americans hate the
English. He says that his experience
among the people of the United States
teaches him that: "Either they do
not hate us, as alleged or, il they do,
the manner in which they suppressed
this feeling ont of consideration for a
guest, proves them to be the most cour-
teous Of nations"
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Ancient LADY, Let me drive You,
Miss Sharp. 1t is quite in my way, and
/ can't bear TO think of your walking
home all alonei" Modern ditto. -" oh
/ don't mind walking n bit, thanks,
Besides, / want 10 smoke"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-20

Precious SToNEs.-In Germany each
precious stone is invested with a SYM
bolical meaning, and every month of
the year is said to be under the influ-
ence of one of these stones. We print
the list:
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Fashionable Society.

A writer on the st. Louis Globe dis
courses thus learnedly with regard TO
fashionable society Society does not
lack heart, but it needs brains. Alb
stractedly considered, it knows simply
nothing, or if it does, its greatest care
is to Disguise the existence OF its kuowl-
edge. Society people are very pleas
ant to meet. They have no aspeTities,
no edges there are no rough corners I;
every thing is polite and charming, but
to any one hunCeripg and thirsting af-
ter information they are perfectly use
less. affolding nothing. There is a pre-
vailing impression among polite
people that social contact should he
productive OF the same effect that fol-
lows the placing of the magnet under
the paper of iron filings-a general bob
bing around. Where three or more
persons meet, under a roof, one will
evolve music, and the rest will hop up
and down, and that is-socioty. Polite
ness to-day is located in the legs, and
to him or her who cannot 'dance--that
is, Jump up and drop down, slide back
wards, forwards all side vays-theTe is
no society the world is void and with
out form. To all practical intents and
purposes the ladies and gentlemen of
the beau monde might as well be deaf
and dumb as endowed with the power
of speech. The art of conversation
seeing to have no attraction for them.
To them tits lost A gathering to them
represents so much jumping mp and
dropping down, sliding backwards, for
wards, and sideways. They don't seem
to appreciate that mutual improvement
should be an incident, if not an object,
and that they are failing in duty if
each does not do something TO bent fit at
least one of the rest"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-20

The question "Does Water Intoxi-
cate ?" says the Chicago Times, now
worries Brownstown, Ind, the argument
being based on the fact of less drunken
ness among the residents when four
saloons were in full blast than now with
none.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-20

Ten years ago, the scientiics said
the famous COmstock lode in Nevada
was about played out, and two or three
wears more would see it cease to pro-
duce ore. But a single mine, the Bslch-
er, has just made its report for 1858,
which shows that it took out of its part
of the lode nearly eleven millions of
dollars, of which over half was paid to
the stockholders in dividends. With
this sort of thing going on, it is, in
deed, not an unreasonable boast tina
Nevada alone will carry up its prOduc
tion of gold and silver, this year, to
forty millions.
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Miss DRINKS. We read in The columns
of an exchange that a young man of
Utica, being adOred Of the female sex,
attended bali a. which his glove was
much sought after in the mazy whirl.
AS the time approached for spiritual
consolation, young lady observed up
on his card the frequent repetition of
the name "Drinks." "La, me !" ex-
claimed the innocent. "Drinks What
a REGULAR name for a lady she must be
a stranger here. know all the ladies
of quality in town, but never heard of
Miss Drinks before" Strange that she
was ignorant of the equality" of a
spirit over whom the ladies of Ohio are
now exhausting the short catechism,
and ventilating the long hymn book.
1t is almost as good as Lady Bah in
"High Life Below Stairs" who does
not know who wrote "Sbakespeare," !"
but supposes it must be "Mr. Preface,
as she sees his name on the first page.
We recommend Utica as a good place
from which to choose a wife. Such
naiyete deserves 60 be rewarded.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-20

Some European humanitarians have
devised au iron mask for cattle doomed
to slaughter, with socket over the cen
ter of their forehead, into which fits a
ath-dealing nail.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW.

CID ALEXANDER,
NT Attornsy-at-Iaw and Solicitor in Chancery,
Columbia, Tennessee
once whitthorne Block. Jan'y. Is ly
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GHARLES CLEAR.
u ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Columbia, TennesaN
sosiAl attention given to the collection of oIni1as
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-10

A HaWley Caucus.

Last evening Thursday THE ARGUS
cast one Of its eyes across the street and
saw a goodly gathering Of llawleytes il
Sweeney & Jackson's office, putting then
heads together in regard to the situation,
There was Hawley, OF course, and Post
master Jackson, and Whisky Inspectors
Halves and Burgh, and ex.Clerk S. j.
Hrdges, and Lawyer L. D. Sweeney, and
Aleck Steel, and Lawyer Olsen. and Capt.
Robinson, and others. 1t was conjectured
by The ARGUS eye that the chief topic
was when to call their county convention.
Their committee is p Gregg, Rock Island /;
W. G. Bennett Moline; J. K. Glasscock,
Cordova; l.. Il. Thomas Coal Valley W,
II. Womacks, Drury-iiye. The anti
Hawleyites had succeeded in getting two
of the committee Bennett and Thomas
to sign a cali for an early convention, to be
held before the Congressional Convention
is even called, and they made desperate
but unsuccessful effort to get Gregg to sign
50 as to make a majority. The Hawley
people are in no hurry,as they believe they
are gaining every day.
To-day friday Mr.. Thomas is in town,
caucusing with both sides, and wants to
take his name off the paper,
TIE ARGUS will keep one eye on these
parties and tell the people what they are
about
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-10
Raft Beats.

Among the raft boats, the Clinton Hn'-
0jR thinks the Clinton boats can get away
with anything on the river. The lightning
voyage Of the season was made by the Ar
teuus Lamb, She arriving in Clinton last
Friday afternoon with fifteen string log
raft, having made the trip from Clinton t.
Beet Slough and back in four days and nine
hours, including stoppage at Beef Slough
to procure the raft. She ran straight
through each way without stopping, her
fuel bill during the time being but 1880.
Coming down, she passed several boats
towing RATS, including the Brother iona
than and Robert Ross.
The Lafayette Lamb made the next best
trip, going the same round in five days
and six hours. arriving On the evening of
the LIST with a twelve string raft. Her
fuel bill for the trip was only $l43.7 20.
She left for the logging regions on Thurs
day without waiting to celebrate the
Fourth.
The Chauncy Lamb made the same
round last week in FIVE days and nine
hours. with fifteen strings, her fuel bill be .
ing SlS3 Tier raft was sold in this city. /
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-10

" G very much regret to hear Of an ac-
cident to Grin leonardo deserving nung
man OF 10 OF Is years OF age, last evening.
He had been to Coal Valley on business,
with box Of samples Of a scoop he was
selling, and was returning on the Peoria
train. Ills home is with his grand faith
er, Mr.. Godfrey Kane, on Toledo street.
IN the Fifth ward. aud he thought he could
save long walk with his box if he could
get OF at Weyerhauser & Deukmaun's
NH aud 60 across the slough, lie iump-
ea from the train while it was in prettv
[alli motion, with his sample box. and
zen heayily upon the box, fracturing lis
'eit leg Just above the ankle. He was ear
i'ed 70 his grandfather's. and DIR Rsr,.
hardi reduced the frac. ure. This mr.
ing reporter for The ARGUS ella :,
!, see hlm' and found him as comeor,slIa -
4 OUio De expected-but he will n-oh.hI,.
leight weeks. ' i'' some SIX OF
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-10
E, F. Kunkers Bitter Wine OF Iron,

Il. L. kunkel's celebrated Bitter Wine
of Iron will ettectually cure liver complaint.
laundice, dyspepsia, chronic OF nervous de.
bllity, chronic diarrhGa, disease of the
kidneys, aud all diseases arising from a
disordercd liver, stomach or inteStines. such
as constipation, fatuence, inward piles.
tullness OF blood in the head, acidityo fthe
stomach, nausea, heartburn, disgust for
food, tullnesS of weight in the stomach,
swimming of the head, hurried or difficult
breathing, futtering at the heart, choking
or suftOcatlng sensations when in lying
posture, dimneSs of vision. dots or webs
before the sight, dull pain in the head, de-
hciency OF perspiration yellownesS of the
skin and eyes, pain in the side, back head,
chest, limbs, etc, sudden flushes of heat,
burning in the flesh, constant imaginlngs
of evil and great depression OF spirits.
Price 81 per bottle. Beware of counter
feitS Do not let your druggist palm of
some other preparation of iron he may say
is as good, but ask for Kunkel'S Bitter
Wine of Iron. Take no other. kunkels
Bitter wine of Iron is not sold in bulk
only in 81 bottles T. T. Kuukel, Propri
etor, No. 259 North Ninth St, philadel- |
phia, Pa.
John Bcngston agent for Rock Island.