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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05
The British Soldier.

Tho British soldier always presents
the appearance of scrupulous cleanliness.
He is secured, brushed and scrubbed
beyond reproach His hair is enriched
with pomatum and his shoes arc radiantly
polished. His little cap is worn in
manner determined by considerations
purely aesthetic. He carries little cane
in one hand ard pair Of white gloves in
tho other. He holds up his head and
expands his chest portentously, and
bears himself generally like person
who has reason TO invite rather than to
eyade the fierce light of modern criticism.
He is the darling Of the approaching
bousemaids of the West End, and on
this ground considerable ill-feeling exists
between him and his rival, "tho bobby"
or policeman, Susan sometimes favoring
the one, sometimes the other, and some
times-horrible dictu!-both On the
other hand, when on parade, the extreme
perfection of his appointments makes
him look very well, and anyone who secs
the big parade for the Queens birthday
or a general review at Aldershot, will
have no hesitation in saying to himself
that these are the handsomest troops in
the world. The long squadrons Of
cavalry and horse artillery shining and
shifting, the Dragons, hussars and
lancers, tho beautiful horses and ac-
coutrements, the capital riders, the
handsome faces, the wonderful wagons
and guns, seem even more theatrical
than military. But the interior aspect
of one Of these brilliant regiments is
quite different thing To see the man
carrying their coal, cleaning their bar
rack rooms and breakfasting on dry
bread, is not suggestive Of heroism or
romance. 1t is distressing to see a
splendid life guardsman, in shining
cuirass and plumod helm, jack boots,
long spurs and clanking sword, carrying
basin of weak tea and piece of bread,
which he is about to consume, with the
aid of n savelogy or a pennyworth Of
butter from the canteen, for his evening
meal. He ought, according to his ap.
pcarance, to sup on chine of beef and
n tlagon of nut brown ale, as in days
of yorc, when soldier was not such a
mere regulated part of machine, and
was better paid in proportion to the
earnings of the community. There is
one word which affords n kind of magic
key TO the whole existence of the soldiers
of tho British army. That word is re-
| gulations. Whether on or off duty,
whether on parade or in his barracl
room, whether sick in hospital or taking
his walks abroad, the soldier must he
have according to regulation. The guide
to his daily course of life is to be found
in n red book entitled, "Thc Queens
Regulations and Orders for the Army.
Not onlymusta private soldier be dresset
and accoutrcd exactly according to rul
when he appears on parade, but cycl
when he walks out Of barracks in pursui
of recreation. He may or may not hav
n chilly habit of body, or he partial o
not to carrying slender cane in hi
hand; but the wearing of great coat q
the carrying of ctne will depend, nc
upon his own notions, but upon the re
gulOtons issued by his commandin
officer.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

The crush for Texas" of n year ago
has now merged itself into crush for
Dakota" This is doubtless owning to
climatic influences. The incessant warm
temperature of the Lone Star State I'M
fits its water for drinking purposes-a
most important item to be considered by
the immigrant--while tho soil is not I'M
iversally good farming land by long
shot. 1t is. in roint of fact. grazing
country. On the other hand the climate
Of Dakota is cool-decidedly cool usu.
slly-but the winter just past it has been
unusually mild in that section of the
country. Farming there is prosecuted
with the greatest success, and taking oil
things together, there is doubtless NJ
better section of country for genera
purposes. Let the "rush" go on. Da
kota is vast Territory and there i
plenty Of room in it.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05
A Romance of British High Life.

Many years ago young man made his |
appearance in Stratford, and passed II
few weeks Mt the tavern which then
existed to afford shelter to stagc-coach
travellers. Whence he came, and what
was his business, none could guess.
Directly opposite the tavern stood the
small cottage and forge of u blacksmith
named Folsom. He had q daughter
who was the beauty of the village, and
1t was her fortune to captivate the heart
of the young stranger. He told his love,
said he was travelling iacog.;' but, i'll con-
fidence, gave her his real name, saying
that he was heir to large fortune. She
returned his love, and they were married
few weeks after The stranger told his
wife that he must visit New Orleans.
He did so, and the gossips of the town
made tho young wife unhappy by dis
agreeable hints and jeers. In q few
months the husband returned; but before
week had elapsed he received q large
budget of letters, and told his wife that
he must ct once return to England, and
must go alone. He took his departure,
and the gossips had another glorious OPP
portunity to make confiding woman
wretched. To all but herself it was a
clear case of dcsertion. The wife be,
came mother, and for two years lived
on in silence and hope. BY the end Of
that time letter was received by tho
Stratford beauty from her husband
directing her to 60 at once to New Yorl
with her child, taking nothing with he
but the clothes she wore, and embark IL
q ship for home in England. On her ar
rival in New York she found vesse
splendidly furnished with every con
venience and luxury for her comfort, an
two servants ready to obey every wis
, that she might express. The ship dull
arrived in England, and the Stratior
girl became mistress of n mansion, nnt
as the wife of baronet, was salited b
the aristocracy as Lady Samuel Stirling
= On the death of her husband, man
! years ago, the Stratford boy succeede
to the title and wealth of his father; an
in the last edition of "PeeraSe an
. Baronetagc," he is spoken OF as the lssvl
OF "Miss Folsom, Of Stratford, Mort
l America, Toronto (Onkl Globe,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05
The CannIbals' Good Points,

Since everybody, including Judas and
Nero, have their apologists, the Feejeo
cannibals are now declared not to be SO
black rs they are painted. In the first
place, they had, in the way of flesh,
nothing but each other to eat. Except
flying foxes and rats, there were no four
footed animals on the islands. Thepres-
emit names of their domestic animals be-
tray European origin, collie, for dog,
pussi, for cat; ose, for horse secp,, for
mutton; goti, for goat and billldma
! ko,u, for beef. The wooden spoons for
human broth, and cannibal forks, eight
cen inches long, with four or five prongs,
are still in existence. A berry, resem-
bling n tomato in shape and color, was
the special and proper vegetable to DO
eaten with "long pig" One Of the
chieftains lately said he would like to
see q woman who would not eat her full
share, and declared that human flesh
was ever so much better than pork
"Long pig" was sometimes made into
buildings. When q friendly neighbor.
ing tribe visited another, the chief OF
the latter would make raid among his
enemies, and bring back women enough
to mako feast for his visitors. Fifty
and eighty people were served at some
of these feasts. Formerly, when one
sneezed, they said, "May you club
somebody" Now they say, "Blesa
YOU" or "May you live longp Chief
tains were distinguished by the number
of persons they had eaten. Before III
was converted to Christianity, one Q
these had devoured forty-thrae Of hi
fellows.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

THE Sanitary Engineer says the dan.
ger that midwife may carry contagious
disease from one bedside to another was
the subject recently of some remarks BY
a physician to the Cleveland Board of
Health. He stated that recently, in his
practice, n German wife had conveyed
puerperal fever to three patients, all of
whom had died. The physician had
cautioned the women when she was at.
tending the original case of the fever,
telling her she might be the means o.
conveying it to others, but his word was
disrogarded, and three lives, he believes
sacrificed i'll consequence. The Board o
Health were sufficiently impressed b,
tho statement to instruct the Health
officer to cause her arrest under Law
governing the conveyance of contagiou
diseases.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

SPEAKER KEIFER has removed Mr..
Henry $. Hayes, one of the official stem
ographers of the National House, and
appointed Mr.. Dawson, of Iowa, This
change has caused general surprise, as
Mr.. Hayes was one of the best stew
ographers in thecountry, and his work in
committees and elsewhere about the
Capitol for years past has always given
great satisfaction. His synopscs Of de-
bates in Congress were unequalcd, and
his removal will prove loss to Congress
and the public.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05
The Spartan Iaw.Giycr, Lycurgus

The history and legislation of Lycur-
gus are involved in considerable obscnr-
ity indeed, to such an cxtcnt that many
Of the leading scholars of modern times
have viewed them with no little sus-
picion. Tho generally accepted account
Of the celebrated Spartan law-givcr Is to
the effect that Lycurgus lived about $50
years before our era, or, according to
others, about the year 100 Il. O., and
was descended from the Doric family OF
the Proclidae. Polydectes, his brother,
King of Sparta, died, and to his widow
was born posthumous son. The widow
and mother proposed to Lycurgus to
destroy the unborn babe If he mar
ried her. Lycurgus was shocked,
but pretended partially to consent
by saying it was as easy to make
way with IN infant after rs before it
came into the world. When the child
was born Lycurgus ut once proclaimed
him King, and his uncle became his
guardian. Then it is recorded that Ly-
curgus travelled in many lands in Asia
Minor, Crete, Egypt, and even India, but
MS to the latter it is decidedly uncertain
and unlikely. He studied the constitu-
tons of the nations he travelled among,
and finally, after many long journeyings,
he returned to Sparta. During his alb
sence affairs had become disordered IN
Sparta, and on his arrival almost the en-
tire community requested him to draw
up constitution for them, to which he
consented Then he induced them to
solemnly swear that they would make nc
change in the laws till he came back
and he left Sparta, and it was nevel
known exactly whittier he went or where
he died. BY his departure and failure t'
return he had hoped to make the Spartan
Constitution eternal and the peopl
saw he was god, and worshippcd him
Probably such person as 1ycurgus ex
listed, who, at some remote time ant
critical juncture in Spartan affairs, ma.
have been selected, perhaps, on accoun
of his wisdom and reputation, to prepar
q code of laws for the better govern
, ment of the State. 1t can not DO i'm
! apined that the entire Legislation o
i Sparta was first invented by Iycurgul
and imposed upon the people oil q
once it is reasonable to suppose, how
ever, that he collected, modified, and On
larged the previously existing instltu
tions of Sparta. 1t is related by Plu
| tarch that Lycurgus commanded this
+ all gold and silver coin should be Gale
q in, and that only sort Of money mad
of iron should be current, q great weigl
|, and quantity Of which was OF but vel
r little worth so that to lay up twenty
n thirty pounds there was required
r. pretty large closet, and, to remove
Al nothing less than yoke of oxen. Wi
y the diffusion of this money, at once
a number of vices were banished fro
h Lacedemon for who would rob anoth
Iv of such coin? Who would unjust
Il detain or take by force, or accept a!
/ bride, thing which is not easy to hi
" nor credit to have, nor, indeed, OF a
:. use to cut in pieces? For when it v
" Just red hot, they quenched it in yineg
ii and by that means spoiled it, and mi
ID it almost incapable of being worked
id Chicago Inter Ocean.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

ANTHONY CoMsTocK is making new
move against the lottery companies, and
he says he will make test case against
two Brooklyn men who have drawn the
$4,000 prize in the Louisiana lottery.
He is said to have discovered section
of tho New York revised statutes, pro-
yiding that oil money so won shall be
forfeited to the poor in the county where
the money is deposited. The money was
in bank, but the lucky ones took fright,
drew it out, and one of them is already
on his way to Europe.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

The escape of Nihilists from Siberia
is becoming quite common thing. The
telegraph announces that fresh lot
have recently escaped. As tho geog-
raphy of the intervening country be-
comes better understood, the number Of
escapes will increase, and the alternative
left for the Russian Government, if it
desire to keep persons banished con-
fined on territory, will be to secure
some great island large enough for the
purpose and build n great wall around it,
upon which santries may be placed.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

EXCESSIVE drink and malaria are said
to be very similar in their effects upon
the human system in Washington, and a
Congressman who does not have an oc-
casional attack OF malaria is looked upon
as a very fortunate person. If the
Potomac flats are drained as means Of
abating malarial influences, statesmen
who get sick from one cause, and doctor
for tho other, will have delightful time
explaining matters.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

Monaco, whose 10000 inhabitants
live entirely on the profits of the gaming
tables, has 1Gi priests to look after its
spiritual welfare" That statement sounds
unreasonable, and We should refuse to
believe it had it come from any other
source than the Cincinnati Gascte.
One hundred and sixty.four priests to
the 10, 600 inhabitants is fraction over
one priest to each sixty persons. And
yet all these people excepting the
priests-are gamblers Impossible
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

The superintendent bill requires most
of the States to redistrict, and the thing
that is most irritating to both political
parties in the several States is, how IL
can be done to the best political advant'
age, There is little acrupie as 70 how
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05
NEWS GLEANINGS.

The oat crop of Alabama isimmense.
Nashville is to have electric lights
soon.
Texas is shipping cotton to San Fran,
cisco.
Knoxville, Tenn, has n good public
library.
Georgia has seventy odd gold mills at
work, one giving a monthly product of
about $500.
One thousand men are employed at
the Cherokee iron works, st. Clair
county, Ala.
2 Columbus, Ga, has 10000 inhabitants,
and wants the government to build
a fine postofiice.
In population of about 1000, Oar
lington, S. c., has fifteen barrooms and
no temperance organization.
Mississippi ranks first in the union as
cotton growing State, third IN the
4 South as to the entire product of her
soil, Texas and Tennessee only outrank
ing her.
The Sumac trade of Virginia is in.
creasing. The Sumac manufacturers
now have an organization with a presi-
dent and other officers. The grinding
of 5000 tons of leaf Sumac is now the
annual business, representing about
s250OO0.
The Alice blast furnace of Birming-
ham, Ala, cleared $4,000 during the
month of January. The investment
cost $25O,0OO, yielding net income to
its proprietors of $4,000 per annum.
Several bales of cotton were brought
to Augusta last week from the estate of
recently-deceased planter, which had
been raised before the war. Some of it
was in good condition, but the bagging
had decayed and dropped from the bales.
A great deal of cotton which comes
into Rome, Ga, is damaged on account
of having been allowed to stand in the
rain by the planters after it is baled.
The outside layers have TO be picked of,
and every bale which has gotten wet
Doses from so to 175 pounds.
There alighted from the Piedmont
Air Line railroad, at Gainesville, few
days since, 900 people, who came to set
tie on 5000 acres of land near there,
purchased by them through the inhu-
ence of Gen. Iongstreet. They are
Germans and Swiss from New York SUI
burbs.
The Columbus Inquirer says: A coun-
try papa writes that his two daughters
have been spoiled by newspaper putting
in the town where they went to school,
'They have come home" he says, "with
three or four notices of the charming
Misses-- in their scrap books, and
they han't been worth a TO penny bit
Bince."
In neglected spot in Athens, Geor-
which marks the location where once
existed the botanical garden of the
State university, stands weeping will
low, grown from sprout cut from the
famous tree over Napoleon's grave in
st. Helena, an elm from the noted ell 3
n Boston common, and an oak which
grew from an acorn brought from Eng
land by DR.. Ward.
On Sunday night in the valley of the
Tyron mountain, near the dividing line
between North and South Carolina
Grace Mills went to the house Of Jane
Jackson, rival for the attentions of {
young farmer of the ne;ghborhood, ant
called her out in the road. The mex
morning the body of the latter wa
found, and indications showed that ;
desperate fight had taken place, in which
pne had losther life. 1t issupposed tina
she was struck on the head by NAL
assistant of her rival, who is unknown
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

The Louisville Co,uier-Jomrnat says
"an Ohio man died after drinking aglass
of water" We are glad to know he
didn't die before drinking the water, be-
cause in the latter case he'd failed to
carry out the traditional Ohio idea
success. Better always to drink before
yo,, 1ia
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05
A New Church Beneficiary.

A new scheme has broken ont among
the Eastern churches to provide for
Gods poor" Each church is buying
a farm, to which poor people are sent TO
work out their salvation i'll fear and tur-
nip patches. This combination of re-
ligion and ruta bagas is certainlya happy
one, and ought to come into general
practice. Steady work on farm cannot
but be far more preferable to the poor
of n church than good advice and fine
conversation, that is now layished upon
them regardless of cost. There is
always something on farm that any
body can do, aud do well, and that will
be worth good wages, if the laborer is
fairly rcmunerated, and a church society
would be sure to do this. Then, in the
fall, when the golden harvest was gath
cred, the church members would Of
course give their patronage to their own
farm aad lay in their winter supply of
potatoes, carrots, beets, onions, etc,
from their own vines and figtrces, so to
speak. The report of the Superintend-
ent would show whittier the farm was
drifting financially, and if it needed ayy
fertilizing top dressing in the way of n
mortgage. Ministers whose health is
poor, from hard study and overwork,
instead of being sent on an expensive
tour to the Holy Land, could be trans.
planted from the sitting atmosphere OF
the study to the beautiful air of the
balmy, breezy country, and set to rails
ing cucumbors on the farm. Tho cxer-
else would do them good, even if they
did not raise enough cucumbers for a
mess, and what the church lost Oh GU
cumbers it would more than save on
travelling expenses. 1t seems to us as
though the true plan Of salvation has
been struck at last 1t is not through
any of the five hundred different plans
advocated by the five hundred different
churches, but through the modest canli-
flower, the lowly onion and the golden
crookneck summer squash. PCck'S
Gam
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

THE remarkable feature of Nicodemus,
a negro colony of 367 families, in Gra'
ham County, Kansas, is tho entire abb
senoe of money. There are churches,
school-housos, md stores, but the trad
ing has to he done by bartering the pro
duce OF the farms.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

TIE House Appropriation Committee
cut the tail off of the postofiice appro'
priation bill-the ranking privilege
and it is now question whether it will
get back on again. The members OF
the Honse must feel pretty bad about it.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

CARDINAL MANNINd's doctor ordered
him to drink wine, and the Cardinal re.
fuses to do SO. Itnow stands the Cardi-
nal in hand to bounce the family
physician.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

STATISTICS show that Mormons increase
their numbers, annually by immigration,
1000. Add to this the increase by births
and you have something frightfnl to
think about,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

THE New York Sun says Sullivan has
brought tho prize ring into disreputc.
Good Will somebody now erect a
monument to Sullivan2 His net should
be ennobled.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

FATmoNABLE vwells in the East now
wear but one eyc-glass, rs do the snobs
of London. Well, we are glad the idea
of wearing eyeglasses is at least half
discarded, anyhow.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

THE War Department has provided
for issuing 100000 rations for the suffer-
ers from the Mississippi overflow. Aid
can not come too soon TO tho distressed
people of that dcsolated valley.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

THEY stood at the gate beneath the
starlight. In few hours he would DO
whirled away across the prairies, and
she would return alone to wander YEARLY
and sadly amid scenes endeared by q
thousand tender recollections it
hadn't been that she wasn't that sort OF
a girl. "One last kiss" he murmured
fondly, "one last look--one last word
what shall it be?" She gave him the
kiss, she gave him the look, and she
gave him these last words, Remember
your promise to me NOT to eat any
onions" AZ
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

WHITTAKER's ultimate aim is to be-
come an officer in the army, whether
permitted to finish his course at West
Point or not. He will apply Tor the
position of Second Lieutenant.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

"BETrY AND THE BABY" constitute
Sergeant Mason's family, and in several
eastern cities contribution boxes with
these words upon them are located in
prominent thoroughiarcs for the recep.
ton Of nickels. Such a box in the
Baltimore american office received 45O
nickels in one day. 1t seems that
"Betty and the Baby" will be taken
care Of, whatever may be the fate Of the
bad marksman,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

FASHION is doing away with tho long
string Of bridesmaids at weddings, for
which many fond papa will thank his
stars.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

CINCINNATI carpenters have laid out
to strike the LIST Of May, if their de-
mand for an increase Of wages is not nc
coded to. The carpenters are striking
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

BorH the political parties in Cincin.
natl have nominated Judge Force for
Judge of the Superior Court. This is
forcing matters with vengeance.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

The good people of Chicago are still
fighting the Sunday theatricals. Mean
while theatrical performances on Sunday
moye right along.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

VIZ OBSERVE by our exchanges that
contributions for Sergeant Mason's
"Betty and the Baby" have become
general throughout the country.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

CADET WHITAKER may go free, and
now perhaps he will make it q point to
take better care of his ears.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

ENGLAND likes Moody and Sankey so
we'll that she has invited them to a years
engagement in the evangelical work.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05

THE press of Chill thinks that country
could bounce the United States. Yes,
bounce like rubber ball, just about.