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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-22
HELIOTROPE.
From AM me Year Kound.l

How strong they are, those subtle spells
That Turk in leaves and fiower-bells,
Rising from faint perfumes
Or mingliug with some oldeh stIa al lin
strike through the music shaIus OF PAIN
And people empty rooms.
They come upon us unaware,
In crowded halls and open air.
And in our chambers stilli
A song, an OdOr, or Dlrut
Evokss the spell, and strikes the chofd'
And all our pulses thrill.
/ loitered but an hour ago,
With tagging footsteps tired and SLOW
Along the garden walk;
The Summer twilight wrapped me round,
Through open windows came the sound,
OF song and pleasant talk
The odor-stealing dews lay wet
a nd heavy ON tue mignonette
That crept about the feet;
loon the folded messy vest
That clothed the ruby rose s breast
II fell ia droppingS sweet
1t fell on beds of purple bloom,
From whence arose the rare perfume
which smote my heart with sudden power
MY favorite scent, my favorite flower,
In olden days of hope!
An. mel the years have come and gone,
Each with its melody or moan,
Since rat sunshiny hour,
A nd for the lesson sweet IT taught
/ chose it for my flower.
Faint-scented blossoms long ago
Your purple clusters came TO snow
Ny Hfo.had wider ScOpei
They spoke of love that day-to-nlsat
l stand apart from loves delight,
And wear no heliotrope.
Between tonight and that far day,
Lie LIES bright noon and twilight gray
But have lived through botn;
And If before my paling face
The midnight shadows fall apace,
! see them, nothing 10th.
Only tonight that faint perfume
Reminds me OF the lonely gloom
Oflife OUTLYING hope;
! wish had been far tonight,
What time the dew fell, silver white
Upon the heliotrope!
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-22

Col. Forney has sent 10 Col Etting, one of
the managers of the centennial exhibition.
three notable historic curiosities and relics
Of the past, which will be regarded as objec
of peculiar interest to our national museum.
They are, first, photograph OF a portion of
the DoOmsday Book, containing descriptions
of the landholders of Berkshire county 500
years ago; second, a copy of the great seal of
Britain, with the head OF the present queep,
and third, an original portrait of Charles H.,
the property of Mr.. Thompson. nited
States consul at Southampton.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-22

The little Hartford girl that gave utter
ance to the following idea was puzzli1g her
mind with problem that has bothered the
world for ages. She was reproved for some
childish act, and seating herself on the floor
at her mothers feet reflected for loug time
and then looking up said: "Ma! why is it
that naughty things are so nicer"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-22

Albert Rhodes, in his book about the
French, says that when at forty the Eng
lish woman has become heavy necked and
frowsy. and the American society belle pale,
dried up and withered, the French woman
glides into an embonpoint with an un-
wrinkled face and good complexion. He
attributes this to the extremes of American
life, its fastness and its asceticism, both of
which are unfavorsble to healthy growth,
and laments that, with all der knowledge
and intellectual activity, the American
woman lacks that which made the Greeks
what they were and the French what they
are-organic cultivation.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-22

1dhEE Blu ChENo-
Dartmouth and Princeton and Bowdoin-are
fighting the first of the triangular duels into
which the race is fast resolving itself. Yale,
left behind in the scurry and rush of the
start, is pulling an unnoticed 81, fast forcing
her nm from the rear. At the other end
Amherst forges ahead, past white-shirted
Bowdoin and her fatal and futile armand
arm push and thrust. The thin curving
crescent goes to pieces in the waving and
uncertain line of a poor start. The crews
ara together again-the wings leading, lead
log ever so little, but still leading. One
line of buoys is passed, and then another
Swimming heads and dumping hearts go =
calmer. The race is fairly started. fast
Diminishing perspective OF spars and guidons
opens behind each bow oar. The crews set
tie to steady work. Cornell breezy and
fresh on the end of the line, goes back to "a
TO the minute. Williams, beyond her,
pulling hard all, presses the unknown
WINNER. Brown has made good its
loss, Tapped Yale and passed her.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-05-07

nourishmcnt it needed. After day or
two it was hoped that the old man would
get better, but he kept sinking and grow
ing fceblcr, So long as his eyes were
open he would watch the rose and when he
slept he seemed to dream of it. One day
when the nurse found an opening bud he
rejoiced as heartily as if his pardon pa
pers had arrived. The bud was larger
next day, and the rose could be seen
bursting through. The fowcr-pot was
placed on the bed, near the old mans
face, that he might watch the bud bios
som into rose, and he was so quiet that
the nurse did not approach him again
for hours. The warm spring sun glided
through the opening bars and kissed the
opening bud, and then fell off in show
ers over the old mans pale face, erasng
every line of guilt and ugliness which had
ever been raised.
AT noon the nurse saw that the rose
had blossomed, and she whispered in the
old mans ear:
Greg, Greg, the rose has blossomed
wake up"
He did not move. She felt his cheek
and it was cold
Ugly Greg was dead
One hand rested under his gray locks,
while the other clasped the fower-pot.
and the newborn rose bent down until
it almost touched his cold face. His life
had gone out just when his weeks of
weary watching for a blossom were to be
repaid, but the losc-tree's mission was
accomplished
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-05-07
Seletted Misfellanp,
UGLY GREG.
Iron the Detroit Free Press. /

From the Detroit Free Press.
At the Detroit House of Correction, a
year or so ago, the high whte-washed
walls of the corridors were furnished
with brackets and fower-pots to relieve
the monotony and take away some Of the
gloom. One would scarcely think that
the gh-looking, wicked men sent
there for robbery, burglary, arson, and
graver crimes, would have cared for the
change, but they gladly welcomed it
A rose, or gcranium, or tulip, or pink,
seemed to bring liberty and sunshine a
little nearer, and to drive the evil out of
their hearts, and it was a strange sight
to see hardened criminals watering and
nourishing the tender plants and watch
ing their daily growth.
Two or three months before the brack-
cts were hung up prisoner came from
one of the Territories an old sullen-
looking. bad-tempercd man, convicted Of
robbing the mails. They called him
Greg" as short for Gregory, and it
wasn't long before they made it "Ugly
Greg" He was ugly. He refused to
work, cared nothing for rules and regu-
lations, and twenty-eight days out of his
first month were spent in the solitary"
for bad behavior He was expostulatcd
with, threatened and punished, but he
had will as hard as iron He hadn't
friend in the prison, and the knowledge
of it seemed to make him more ugly and
desperate. When the brackets were
hung up there was one to spare, and it
was placed near the door of Ugly Greg's
cell until another spot could be found.
No one had any hope that the old mans
heart could be softened, and some said
he would dash the flower. pot to the floor
When he came in from the shops his
face expressed surprise at sight of the
little green rosebud so close to the door
of his cell He scented it, carefully
placed it back, and it was noticed that
the hard lines melted out Of his face for
a time. No one said anything to him,
but the next morning, before he vent to
work, he carefully watered the rose, and
his eyes lost something of their snllen
look. Would you believe that the little
rose bush proved more powerful than all
the arguments and threats Of the keep
ers 1t did, strangely enough As
the days went by the old man lost
his obstinacy and his gloomincss, and he
obeded orders as well and as cheerfully |
as the best man in the prison.
His face took new look, his whole
bearing changed, and the keepers looked
at him and wondered if he could be the
man Greg Of four or FIVE months before
He watched the rose as mother would
watch a child, and it came to be under
stood that it was his. While some Of the I
other flowers died from want Of care, the
grew and thrived and made the
old man proud. He carried it into his cell
at night and replaced it in the morning,
and sometimes he would talk to it as if 1
it were human being Its presence
opened his lonesome heart and planted
good seed there. and from the day the
bracket was hung up no keeper had the
east trouble with Ugly Greg.
A few weeks ago he was taken sick,
md when he went to the hospital the
went with him. and was placed
where the warm gun could give it the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-05-07

y oct / al.
DRIFTING"

Perhaps the pretiest thing the late Buchan
an Read ever wrote, was the following poem
which was written after the poet return from
Naples and Vesuvins:
Ny soul to-day is far away
| Saling the Nesuvian Bay;
| My winged boat, like bird afioat
Swims round the purple peaks remote,
Round purple peaks il sails, and seeks
Blue inlets and their crystal creeks,
Where high rocks throw, through deeps below
A duplicated golden glow.
Far, vague. and dim the mountains swim:
While on Vesuvins' misty brim,
With outstreched hands, the gray smok,
stands
O'erlooking the volcanic lands.
Here Ischia smiles DER liquid miles;
And yonder bluest of the isles,
Calm Capri waits, her sapphire gates
Beguiling to her bright estate
| heed not if my ripping skff
Float swift or slow from cliff to cliff
With dreamful eyes my spirit lies
Under the walls of Paradise.
Under the walls where swels and falls
The Bays deep breast al intervals
AT peace | lie, blown softly by,
cloud upon this liquid sky.
The day, so mild, is Heavens own child,
With Earth and Ocean ieconcied
| The airs feel around me steal
Are murmuring to the murmurng keel.
Over the rail my hand trail
| Within the shadow of the sail,
A joy intense, the cooling sense
Glides down my orowsy Incidence.
\ II u
Her children, hid the cliffs amid,
Are gamboling with the gambolling kid
Or down the walls, with tipsy calls,
Laugh on the rocks like waterfalls.
The fishers child, with tresses wild.
Unto the smooth, bright sand beguiled
With glowing lips sings as she skps,
! Or gazes at the far-oH ships
Yon deep bark goes where Traffic blows,
From lands OF sun TO lands OF snows
| This happier one, its course is run
| From lands of snow to lands Of sun;
| Q happy ship, to rise and dip,
With the blue crystals al your ipl
q happy crew my heart vi th you
Sails, and sails, and sings anew
No more, no more the the worldly shore
| Upbraids me with its lond uproar
With dreanful eyes my spirit lies
| Under the walls of Paradise
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-05-07

No. stops at Rockville Germantown and
,rnesville. Nos AZ and Sc stop at Rockville
only. Nos. %, 90 aud 30 make no stops No.
26 will stop at Rockville oa Sunday. Other
trains stop at all stations.
TIDS. r. SHARP,
S, SPENCER, Master of Transportation.
Supervisor Of Trains. (ian -
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-05-07
Plain Speaking.

You may have heard the anccdote of
the old negro in Newark, ~ j., who
went to hear the celebrated DR.. Thorn
ton preach. Upon returning home his
master asked
Well, Sambo, how did you like
the minister p
81 like him fuss rate, mas'r; but
don't t'ink he is so berry smart after all"
''Why not %
Why bekase l could understand
cherry word he said; and / amt smart
in larnin', any way"
This was told to the doctor, who de-
cared that he considered it one of tho.
finest compliments he had ever received.
And he then told his friends how he had
come to adopt a simple method of speech
in his preaching
One day he overheard two laboring
men in store, conversing upon the sub
ject of sermon which he had delivered
on the previous Sabbath They had no
doubt that it was good.
g But, said one of them, - you and
|. Tom, have not got learning enough
to see through the doctors preaching.
Them big words always knock me-"
The doctor went home deeply i'm
pressed with what he had heard
Was he doing his duty as a minister
to TIE people, when the very class who
most needed instruction from his lips,
gained only the husks Of ambiguity in
place Of the bread of life =?
Upon the table, in his study. lay
half written sermon, in which he intend
ed to give brief history of the progress
Of Christianity He had written Of the
sweeping down upon Rome of the Pagan
hordes Of the North, and Of the gradual
adoption by the savage conquerors of
Roman habits and Roman ideas.
The last clause he had written was as
follows:
:" And through this concatenation of
events the introgression Of Christianity
in Northern Europe was brought about. .
II seemed very plain and simple to
him; but how might it seem to others
He called his gardencr---an indus
trious, honest, and really intelligent man
to his study.
Thomas" said he, can you tell me
what concentration Of eeents il :"
. Really, sir" stalnmered the poor
man, scratching his head II don't ex-
actly know but think it must be some
thing pretty bad p
The doctor next summoned his house
servant.
Mary, can you tell me what intro
gesston means y
Mercy! sir" cried the pert and
ready tongued domestic, +" how should |
know You never told me to fix any
thing that way"
The doctor dismissed Mary, and then
returned to his manuscript, from which
he erased all ambiguous words and
phrases, substituting language simple
and effective, and easily comprchended
by the common understanding
And from that time he carefully pur-
sued this sensible course, the result of
which was that he finally came to preach
so that even poor Sambo could listen and
understand.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-05-07
Metals More Valuabl than Gold.

There are eight metals more valuable
than gold, as the following will show
| 1t may be worth while to mention that
the first four are never sold by the
pound, but their value is quoted for the
sake of comparison Indium, 81. 522
vanadinm, ~ $40; rutbenium, 81 400;
rhodium. 500 palladium 1858 ; urani-
UNI, 1915; osmium, 1925; iridium,
$31744; gold, 1901 As. Indium,
which was only discovered in 1868, is
found only in the zinc-blendes Of Frei-
burg, and is a white metal Of rare brill
iancy, but practically Of little value
| Vanadium is native Of Mexico and
Peru, where it exists 10 lead ores under
the name Of vanadiate Of lead Rutheni-
um, rhodium, palladium aud iri4ium are
all precipitatcs Of platinum, and all very
hard metals, the last being insolubIc in
acids, except when oxidized None of
these metals arc found in quantity or
free from other metals; nor are they
useful in The arts, like gold and silver
nor could they be coined into money, for
that matter. without infinite trouble; so
that there is very little danger Of their
saperscding gold and silver for any use
full purpose
No manners are 50 fine as the most
awkward manifestations of good will
toward men
1T isn't loud praying which counts 50
much with The Lord as giving four
quarts for every gallon. says an Arkan-
sas circuit rider.
An obituary notice in a Western paper
contained the touching intelligence that
the deceased chad accumulated little
money and ten children"
A man may forget his business. bis
family, and all the sacred obligations of
life, but he always remembers where he
got that counterfeit bill
Mr.. Stocking, speaking Of the good
qualities Of women says bis wife is the
most even tempered woman he even saw
she's always mad
Our experience. and the history of the
past eighteen centuries. incline US to the
belief that no matter how we'll you treat
a shot gun. nor how you bring it up. it
will bang the stnffing out Of you the first
time it gets chance
IF you have talents, industry will i'm
prove them; If moderate abilities, indus
try will supply the Deficiencies. Moth
ing is denied to well directed labor
nothing Is ever to be obtained without it.
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The door between us aud Heaven
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our fellow men be shut.
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Professional curtis.

h9ICH'D Nj. WILLIAMS,
Ia ATTORNEY AT LAW
ROCKVILLE, MD.
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lT II curious TO note that Alfonso
XII h only tho ninth In linen dc,
scent from and including Louis
Nil Of France, u period of 27l
years, M follows % Louis XIII,
born 1901 died 1913, leaving lhe
throne 10 his eldest ron CD Louis
XIV (surnamod 10 Grand, born
1885, king, 1915 died l7l5i CD
Louis Le Grand Dauphin (son Of
Louis XIV, born 1861 died I'LL f;
(D Philip of Anjou (sccoud ron
OF Louis the dauphln), born 1853 (;
assembled tho throne as Philip V Of
Spain, 1905 recognize by tho
treaty Of Utrecht, 1873 died 1906
(6) Charles III (sccoud son Of
Philip W, born l7lGi king Of tho
two Sicilics (Naplos) 1884 king Of
Spain 1869 died l7ss CD Charles
~ Second son Of Charles I'D, born
l7isi king 1885, resigned the
throne In 1905 died 1872 "a
Ferdinand VII (son of Charles IV),
born 1884 restored BY Napoleon
in 1913 TO tho throne which Joseph
Bonaparto found IL impossible to
retain died 1898 (S) Isabella II
daughter Of Fordinant YID, born
1880 queen 1888; dcposed 1868 ;
(s) Alfonso XII (son Of Isabella I'D,
born November 2S 1857. Don
Carlos (Alionso's second cousin),
is tho grandson Of Carlos, count of
Molina, who (being tho brother of
Ferdinant VII and the second son
Of Charles lV) claimed tho throne
in 1888 Gin preference TO lsabeIIa),
by virtue Of the Sale law (Which
excludes females from tho thronc),
and whose claim has been trans
mittcd through his son Carlos to his
grandson, the'prcscnt prctcnder
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