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THETwO mYsTERIEs.

The young daughter of dear friend of Walt
Whitman died a few years ago; the old poet sat in
the night watch about the dead girl and wrote the
following poem, which, in addition to poetry,
combines religion and philosophy:
We know not what it is, dear, this sleep so deep
and still;
The folded hands, the awful calm, the cheek so
pale and chill;
The lids that viii not lift again, though we may
call and call;
The strange white solitude of peace that settles
over all.
We know not what it means. dear. this desolate
heart-pain;
This dread TO take our daily way, and walk in it
We know not to what other sphere the loved who
Nor why we're left to wander still, nor why we do
not know.
But this we know: Our loved and dead, if they
should come this day
Should come and ask US, what is Hfe?' not one
Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be;
Yet Oh how sweet it is to this life we live and
seel
Then might they say-these vanished ones-and
blessed is the thought
$50 death is sweet to us, beloved, though we may
tell ye naught;
We may not tell it to the quick-this mystery of
Ye may not tell US, if We would, the mystery of
breath"
The child who enters life comes not with knowl-
edge or intent;
So those who enter death must go little children
sent.
Nothing is known. But believe that God is over
head,
And as life is the living death is to the dead
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"a great bore" has usually been consid-
cred one of the most disrepHtabIe things
society could be pestered with, but with time
all things change, and just now great bores
are popular. One of them was made through
St. Gothard, another through Mount Cents,
the London Thames was bored long ago, the
st. Lawrence is to be bored opposite Mon
treal, the river ia bored in the midst of
Chicago, and an immense bore is now max
ing under the Hudson from Jersey City to
New York. In Europe more bores are pro-
jected, one under the Luckmana Pass, which
would be the shortest route between Germany
and Italy, another under the Simplon Pass,
and we have all heard of the preliminary
little bores on the French and English coasts
which we're to end in great bore under the
twenty-one miles of sea that makes "the
channel" but did not. 1t did not because
the English took it into their heads that
some night the French army would march
bodily through the tunnel and treat every
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HERE'S another case of the ''Snow, the
Saow, the Beautiful Snow," ali! 1t is a con-
test over the authorship OF Somebody's
Darling" 1t was first attributed to Miss
Lacoste, of Savannah, as written in 1868;
but Mrs. Bette E. Williams, of Mississippi,
now claims the honor tor her husband, who,
was a Confederate soldier, and died few
years ago at Macon. She says he wrote it
at Okolona in 1864. The weight OF evidence,
however, is, the New Orleans Fiedyune de-
clsres, decidedly IN favor of the Savannah
that the poem was written by Colonel W. II.
Saarks
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Russian Traits.


With the rank and file Of the Russian peo-
pie Mr.. GalleDga was not unfavorsbly i'm
pressed. They are hard working and 'the
best-natured creatures under The sun, always
merry and sociable, and never 50 friendly
and afectionate as when they have more
liquor aboard than they can carry" 1t Is
only upon the hypothesis that they had i'm
bibed deeply of vodka that the author is pre-
pared to admit the possibility of the truth Of
the more horrible forms of anti-JeWish out
RACES. He is far from backward in denounc-
ing the attitude Of the Russian government.
Good-natured as the people are, they have
no spark Of originality, no power of imita-
ton. Their stolidity and simplicity of
character is written in their faces. Mr. Gal
lenga found Russians, men and women, as a
whole, decidedly plain, though the latter had
lively eyes and a piquznt smile. But during
his stay in the two Russian capitals he only
saw one "realIy splendid creature" at St.
Petersburg, and even she IVES without tinge
of natural order. This defect, shared by
most OF her sex, Mr.. Gzllenga ascribes to Be-
clusion for one-half the year within heated
chambers, and TO bad air, water and drain
a
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mothers son of them to a bore through the
bosom with bayonet before they were awake
in the morning. So England forbid the chan
mel bore to be perpetrated, and England,
therefore, sleeps in peace. Everybody
laughed at this display OF English cautious
ness, but il appears there is more sense in it
than has been suspected. We see it stated in
the London NeWs that continental statesmen
are considering the strstegical value of the St.
Gothard tunnel, in case Italy and Germany
should combine against France. This would
be overthrowing the neutrality Of Switzer-
land, but in such affairs engagements and
treaties are disregarded. The tunnel short
ems the way TO Rome, to Egypt and to the
Suez canal, but it is te be hoped it will not
shorten the way to battle and invasion. The
French see the possible, danger, however,
and have spent millions in constructing lines
of defense to the westward of their Italian
frontier. Whatever the French may think
of the tunnel they must certainly consider
the expenditure of those millions great
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The University of Glasgow has conferred
the honorary degree of LII. D. upon Mr.. F.
]. Campbell, principal and founder of the
Royal Normal College and Academy of
Music for the Blind, at Upper Norwood,
London. DR.. Campbell is an American and
blind man. He was born in Tennessee
aud graduated at the Institution for the
Blind in Nashville. In 1868 he went TO
Germany, where he spent two years. Visit
ing London on his return, he became ac-
quainted with DR.. T. r. Armitage and other
eminent philanthropists, by whom he was
persuaded to remain and establish a school
Tor the blind on the American plan. The
result was the Royal Normal College, Of
which he was made snd still is principal.
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proprietary. Irecognize to the fullest extent
the right of body 10 formulate his own
opinions and to influence the people to fol-
low him in the direction OF those opinions,
but having regard 10 all the circumstances of
the case-the great risk of a division in
America and of the serious evils which have
always attended division in the ranks of
our people, cannot view the step lately
taken in formulating this new plan as one
likely to be justified by successful results
Correspondent-Tben 1 may take it that
you intend to adhere strictly TO the original
programme Of the Land Leagfe and recon-
mend no alteration
Mr.. Parnell-Most certainly.
Correspondent-Is there not serious dam
ger of division at home in Ireland in con-
sequence OF starting this new theory?
Mr.. Parnell-I scarcely think so. / be-
lieve that Mr.. Davitt Is simply DESTROYS of
testing public opinion in Ireland with re-
gard to this matter, and that when he finds,
as believe he will find, that large major
ity Of his own people are not inclined to de-
part from the old lines. he, with that public
spirit, integrity and desire for union which
have SO distinguished his career, will see
that the interests of Ireland can best be
served by working out the results TO which
we have been devoting our energies since the
beginning OF the move ment.
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CHEATING IN SCHOOL TEACHING

CHEATING IN SCHOOL TEACHING.
There is cheating in all trades, and even
in school teaching. There is a way OF
''cramming" pupils by making them commit
lessons to memory of which they have no
comprehension; by making them read the
same lessons and recite the same pieces, and
work the same problems over and over again
until all can be gone through as easily as
the iuggler losses up and catches his half
dozen balls. We once witnessed in church
class read three chapters in the most poetic
parts of Isaiah with faultless "slickness."
A clergyman who was present took the show
for reality, and proceeded to put some ques-
tions about what had been read. Not one
answer was given, though the congregation
was looking on. The pupils had learned
words, nothing but words; the sense Of the
sublime stanzas they had read was as I'M
known to them as if they had been drilled
to read them in the original and, to them'
incomprehensible Hebrew. President Steel,
of the Philadelphia Board of Education,
M de speech the other day, bitterly COM
planning of this very evil in the public
memory was overloaded, while the under
standing was neglected. To talk, or read,
or recite about Homer, or the equator, or
the binomial theorem, or acids and alkalies
is one thing; to be able to explain what
those words represent is another. such
manner of teaching is shameless robbery
on the child, who must ali Its life endure
the deprivation to which an unjust teacher
has subjected it, and upon those who pay
for the child's instruction. Intellectual de-
velopment, moral disci pline, the formation
of character are all neglected; and the irk-
some task of endless repetitions and toll
come memorizings have too often implanted
disgust for books and hatred for learn
ing a whole lifetime will not er adicate. 1t
is to be hoped our Memphis schools are free
of this automatism, and the pupils can an
swer, when why? and what for? is asked re-
speeding their work.
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ANOTHER NATIONAL EXHIBITION

ANOTHER NATIONAL EXHIBITION.
1t has been suggested to commemorate the
four hundredth anniversary of the discovery
of America by grand national exhibition
Washington. The plan as sketched by the
National Former is TO purchase the ground
adjoining that of the Soldiers Home, 1000,
or perhaps 1000 acres, for a national park,
to be cultivated, stocked with fish ponds,
planted and pruned; both the latter, how
ever, as little as possible, for nature has
made it altogether lovely as it Is. Then to
construct such buildings as a worlds fair, to
be held ten years hence, in 1892, and rep
resenting 1OO,OOO,OOO people, would re-
quire. Following 80 far the plan of
the Centennial, let every State erect its
own peculiar building as the dwelling of its
permanent representative and for the trans
action OF its own business, leaving the great
central building az the scene of the greatest
worlds fair ever known; place of perma-
nent exhibit for the whole United States, of
every resource and production peculiar to
each; its agricultural, mineral, natural and
acquired features, with complete maps of
the topography of every foot of land in all
the States.
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SIeamshinS unk.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20.-The pilot that
took out the steamer Escambia says that the
water-ballast tanks had been pumped out 10
render the ship lighter for the carriage OF her
cargo, and that the coal wss slowed on deck
as high as her bridge. While going down
the harbor the machinery was stopped for a
few moments, and the ship falling off into the
trough of the sea rolled, with her scuppers
under. The pilot expressed the opinion that
she was unsafe, and believes the catastrophe
might have been expected in open water.
The disaster was seen from the signal, but it
ia impossible to say whether any one was
saved. The ships complement consisted of
about twenty-five men, all told. She was
loaded by Dresback & Co., and it is believed
the cargo was fully insured. The Escambia
was about 1000 tons, and came here from
Hong Kong, ria Victoria, with Chinese pas
sengers.
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One of the most distinguished matthew att
clans, second Mrs. Somerville, lives in New
York city, where she has for over thirty
years instructed captains and officers in the
naval, revenue and merchant service in their
mathematical and nautical studies. The
daughter of a wealthy ship-owner, she sailed
in her fathers vessels with her husband, who
was captain. She thus acquired thorough
knowledge of practical mathematics, and
has done more to make life safe at sea than
any other one individual
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DYNAMoGEN is the name of new ex-
plosive invented by NJ. Petri, Vienna en-
gineer. If the enthusiastic claims of the in
ventor are not an exaggeration of its merits
it will certainly prove dangerous rival of
gunpowder. According 10 his description it
contains neither sulphuric acid, nitric acid
nor nitro-glycerine, and cannot injure in any
way either gun or cartridge. 1t is also said
that the manufacture of dynamogen is sim
pie and without danger, that it preserves its
qualities in the coolest or hottest weather,
and that it can be made at forty per cent.
less cost than sunpowder.
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THE CROPS.
The Farmers OF Tennessee and Arkan-
sas ReveIing I'm the Fatness
of 6Iadness.

Greenville Era, 18th: "This county has
the best wheat crop she has had for many
| years. There being so much rain it is feared
| ii can't be saved"
Chattanooga Times, 10Th: "The heavy rains
| cannot injure wheat in this section: il is now
almost ali threshed. They will, on the con-
trary, greatly benefit corn"
Knoxville Telegram, 18th: "The wheat crop
of East Tennessee is nearly harvested, and is
| the best crop grown in East Tennessee in ten
years. The oat crop will be the best ever
produced. Corn is yet small, but in fine
condition. The acreage is tour per cent.
above the average"
Alamo Sentinel 10th: 1.-THE weather is
very W arm and crops have grown more in
the past week than they have before for
month. A Gadsden correspondent writes:
Wheat in threshing turns ont we'll. Corn is
growing finely. Cotton seems to be conun-
drum that no m an can guess; il will not live,
and it will not die"
LInnville, Giles county: Last year the
people made a comparative failure in their
crops. This season, however, the whole
country is in the highest state of prosperity.
An overwhelming wheat crop Is now being
gathered. Corn, though rather tsrdy, is rap
idly improving. The cotton has been some
what injured by the damp, cool mornings Of
May, but under the rays Of the June sun Is
oeFelOplng Win nOpeIul promise. Inc Oat
crop has been great success.
ARKANSAS.
Augusta Videfte: THE warm westher and
a splendid rain are making farming pros
poets better"
Forrest City Times, 18th: "The wheat crop
OF this county is turning out far above an
average crop. The average of corn is very
large and the crop is looking we'll"
Van Buren, Press, 18th: Farmers are
smiling The late rain and the warm
weather have made the crops fairly Jump
Cotton is almost miraculous in its growth"
About Mulberry crops are looking we'll,
but there was not enough wheat put in. At
Athens corn and cotton are growing rapidly,
especially the latter. Oats are maturing
uell-the yield will be quite heavy.
Searcy Record, 18th: "Reports from all
parts Of the county are that crop prospects
are much improved since the warm weather.
.-..-...-Last Monday, about 1 o'clock m,
while the thermometer stood at 100, a
shower fell in Searcy from a cloudless sky.
This strange phenomenon was witnessed by
number of our citizer7."
Batesville Guard, 10th: "The Greenbrisr
country has Gown seventy-fve per cent. more
grain than last season. The yield of wheat
has not been surpassed by any crop sown in
the country since its settlement; the quality
is A No. j, the -four from it proving very
rich IA gluten, with a fine body. Corn is
doing very we'll. Cotton Is disposed TO look
up since summer set in"
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A SINGULAR literary treasure has just
turned up in London, in the shape OF pre-
face by Thackeray for the second edition of
his Irish Sketch Book 1t was suppressed by
the publishers as too outspoken, and will
shortly be published IN magazine. Thack-
cray strongly supports not only the dis
establishment of the Irish Church, but the
repeal of the Union.
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If THE lessees OF the Western and Atlantic
railroad OF Georgia, owned by the State, and
running from Atlanta TO Chattanooga, do not
file new bond, the State will proceed to for
felt the lease in the court. Senator Joseph
E. Brown is the president of the leasing COM
pany, and the lease has row more than eight
years to run. The Western and Atlantic is
one of the most valuable railroad properties
in the country
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Don,, want CHARLEY Pardoned,

DENVER, June 20.-Mrs. Dunnore, Gui-
teau's divorced wife, writes 10 the LeadvilIe
Ereniao Chronicle in reply to an article based
ON a letter alleged to have been written by
her to c. h Reed, counsel for the assassin,
authorizing the use of her name in petition
for his pardon, in which she repudiates the
letter and adds: with reference to my seek
ing pardon for Guiteau, l have never en-
tertained such a thought. ASH am still in
possession of an average degree of common
sense and ordinary intelligence, l could not
reasonably or honestly entertain such an
idea"
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Criminal Careiessnes..

day Joe Snyder, living near Georgetown,
nine miles from this city, having some wet
powder, placed it in the oven of bis stove to
dry, and apparently forgot it, as an explo-
sion occurred soon after, which blew things
in ali directions. His two children, who were
in the room at the time, were struck BY
pieces Of the stove and fatally wounded. the
Oldest dying in ten hours after. The younger
ia still alive, bat recovery il almost imPos-
sible.
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THE Ancient Order of Hibernians Of
Cleveland indorses Bishop Giimour's conduct
in denouncing and defaming the women of
his diocese who are members of the Ladies'
Land League. The Ancient Order is too
ancient to live any longer. 1t is time for it
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ANENT the defeated resolution of Senator
Brown, of Georgia, to supply every senator
and representative with private secretary,
the Washington Capital says: "The average
member of Congress is so dishonest that he
would work in a son or mistress on the al
loWance If he could"
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IT is said that excessive travel is killing
actors off faster than they have ever died be-
fore. The exposure to which they are sub
iected by reason Of the necessity of making
quick Jumps" ETC., is spreading pneumonia
and other diseases among them almost like
q IN anidaD,io
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The Reed system of railroads in Florida
comprises 73l miles, and the Jacksonville
Union says there is an alliance existing be-
tween it and the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia system which includes 2l90
miles more, in which the Charleston railroad
is comprised. A short line is contemplated
between Jacksonville and Macon, Ga.
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in front OF the Waidrsu Block premises. between
the hours Of 70 O'Clock an and 2 O'Clock . m .
sell az public auction. n The highest bidder. Tor
cash, the following described tracts parcels
OF land, with the improvements thereon, lying,
being and situated IN fheClty Of Memphis, county
OF shelby and state Of TenuesSss and bounded
As follows. tD-Wit: Beginning On the east side
OF Main street one hundred and fifty $50 fest
north Of Linden street; running thence east
WErdly, para lei with Linden street one hund ed
and sesenty-ye 90 feet TO the west side OF Null
berry street. thence north sardly with Mulberry
street seVeutlT-eight and one-hzlf CSC feet %
stake; thence NestEsrdiy. parallel win Linden
street. one HUNDRED and seFeDty-fTe (l75) feet TO
the east side Of Main street; thence sOuthWardly
with the east side Of Main street seFentyeght and
half (7s5z) feet % the Oeginuing-the same be-
ing the lot upon which the WsldFan Block Is sit
u2ted. including all the improvements and appuT-
tenazees thereunto belonging.
The equltyof REDEEM ptiOu j. expressly waived In
the trust deed; all taxes ff any duel other en-
cum DrAnces VIII be paid out Of the proceeds Of the
sale The utefs believed 70 be perfect, bot sell
ana convey only a. trustee.
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THE Rome (Ga.) Courier says the best evil
dence that the South presents the best field for
cotton manufactures, is the fact that South
ern mills run pro6tably on full time while
Northern mills have to curtail their pro-
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A NEW work by Father Ryan, the poet
priest, is TO make its appearance shortly.
His secretary. Miss Louise Bigger, of Biloxi,
Miss, is now in Baltimore revising the proof
al eetz
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A SCOTCH woman residing in Salem, Mass,
not yet quite forty years of age, has borne
sixteen children in sixteen years, in no case
twins. Thirteen are still living. She ought
70 uaar the haIf
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SENATOR BAYARD, of Delaware, is to de-
liver the address at the Daniel Webster GEN.
tennial celebration at Hanover, N. H, on
the 18th OF this month. Thus Time makes
all things even
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4. Physical Perfection worth Striving

Do you wish to be perfect in mind and
body? Do you wish TO be nealIhv aud strong in
ali your partz7 Inen lay all other remedies aside
and use Browns Iron Bit "a. Il Will surely in
fuse new life and new vigor ip.o the whole human
system II gives perfection o every part increases
the muscles and strengthens lie nerves.
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The Hon. w. l. MCFARLAND, of Hum
boldt, is candidate for Congress in the
Ninth district.
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IT is said that six New York publishers
are ravenous for Walt Whitman's Leaves of
Grass, which has been interdicted in Massa-
chusetts
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MEMPHIS APPEAL

SE Entered AT the POsiOmee az Men,
pbIs, Tenn, as SecOaG-Eiass Matter.
WEDNESDAY, ;: JCNE 81, 1882