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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-20
ROraInlas

The top of Roraima. perhaps the
most remarkable mountain in the
world, has at last been reached by MIR.
Edward T. i'm Thurn, who was sent TO
South America last October by three of
the leading societies of Great Britain,
to study the famous mountain and its
wonderful surroundings, and to learn
if its summit was really inaccessible,
as other travellers had reported. A
telegram from him announcing that he
has reached the top has just been re-
ceiyed in England.
Humboldt once said that no rock six
teen hundred feet in perpendicular
height had been found in the Swiss
Alps. Roraimi lifts above its sloping
sides a solid block of red sandstone
about two thousand feet high, some of
which, according to Sir Robert Schom-
burgh, are "as perpendicular as if
erected with q plumb-Ine. 1t Is the
highest and most wonderful of a group
of table-topped mountains situated in
an almost inaccessible part of British
Guiana. Its fiat top was believed to
be about seven miles square. but Mr..
i'm Thurn 5 dispatches say the nearly
level summit is twelve miles long, and
that it is covered with vegetation.
The mountains 5 sides are sloping and
wooded to height of 1850 feet above
the sea. Then rise the vertical walls
of the vast sandstone formation. Cas-
cades pour over the edge, the water
falling 1000 feet to the forests below,
forming the sources of rivers that,
starting from the same place, separate
widely aud flow to the Orinoco. the
Essequibo, and the Amazon. Other
cascades break out from the sides OF
the mountain a little way below its
summit. In the rainy season some OF
the streams thus formed are impassa-
ble. The rivers that fall from its crown
surround RoTaima with a perpetually
moist atmosphere, which explains in
part the remarkable development OF
its flora. The three botanists who
have visited the mountain found many
plants there that were new to science.
| OF about two hundred species of ferns
growing on the slopes of Roraima.
nearly one-half are peculiar to it.
From 1885 to 1882 seven white trav-
elers visited the mountain. All OF
them left it, owing to lack of proyis-
1 ions, before they had surveyed it on all
Z SIDES All out Two pIDuOuHceu Ilc
summit unattainable. Whitley said
| perhaps it was accessible from the west
side. whieh h he had not seen. Another
/ visitor refrained from expressing an
opinion. Only McTllrk and Boddan
/ Netham ever saw the west side of the
mountain They caught a glimpse oi
/ it, and thought in was a repetition o1
! the other faces. 1t was this side that
Mr. i'm Thurn hoped TO scale, though
he thought the north side would. per.
haps. offer means of ascent. He said
he would not employ a balloon in hi;
attempt to reach the top. 1t would be
highly interesting to learn how he
gained the goal that crowned his Ia
bors with perfect success. and to gel
the results of his scientific studie:
on the isolated, but verdure-crowned
tabletop, and on the slopes below,
which his latest dispatch says are so
very garden of orchids and most beau,
tiful and strange plants -"-Aeso York
/ San.
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Calm was the night ia that still antumn
weather.
'' twin i'm '''' ''.' '-''7' we're tue
Who partfng then mfght vet have Ls,t
iogethsr r
If prid. had mot l.seo str.u,ar tba, ore,
nain ''''''' ~
There were no bitter tears, uo stsus of scr
row,
And shouId thew meet gcsrs Lsrre .,' or nm
the morroq
Twill be with courteou. ease. a. friend
meet. friend.
loved madly,
Heuceior,h 10 be mere friends, not less,
D..,. IN each bc.r, , death l,,oll so,,,4i,,,,
lf..
F.r love doomed dsatl,l..s IN clad dsvs
'' 7'''''
Not more than friends the voices must not
ialter,
'''' ,-1t. g.'''" '''''' '''''y " WI" ~
A,J IN ,bl li,, tia. f,.r,el ,,,,;l. ,,,,,.t mo,
' ~, sIter t,, WIG ''' '''' 7'''''' '''' ''''
lin" Iine- are urs So, D'1'" ''''' III '7"' '''
Let them take heed. lest any word be
spoken
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faTner : SplrlUs. Inc HFlucesS over
flowed with sympathy. but she never
proposed 70 stay al home, and try to
sheer the old man. Her flial duty was
performed To her own entire saIlsfac-
tom when she had kissed her hand To
the Prince. The moment after She was
out OF the rO0Bl-eaCer TO eniov her
ride We all heard her laughing gavly
among the ladies in tue hall
| could have answered this. if cur dis
cuSsIon had not been interrupted at the
moment. The Doctor came into the
library III search OF u book. When he
aad lett us. my colleagues strong pre-
ludlce against him instantly declared
itself.
BE on your guard with that man" he
said
~Why:7 ! asked.
Haven't you noticed. he replied.
that when the Princess il talking to
sou. the Doctor always happens 10 be
II that part of the room:'
" hat does il matter where the Doe
tor fss7
My friend looked at meNith am oddly
mingled expression of doubt aud sur
prise. DO you really not understand
me- he said.
Il don L indeed
My dear Ernest, you are q rare and
admirable example ga The rest of US
you are a truly modest mu.'
Nhat did lac ue8us'
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uisapper as our meEnoas OF JeacuIug
become more perfect Ia the new edu-
cation more time is given TO the study
ot the English language and literature.
This il a distinguishing feature be-
tween the old and the new. Not that
less attention j. given 70 the ancient
and foreign languages, but the English
receives quite as much attention and Is
awarded q place OF at least equal i'm
portance with them.-Supt t. IT,,
otereHS0n, CoilHi58s. y.
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As He Was Saving.

At one of the theaters the other eve
ming man who had a seat between
his wife and daughter left it At the
close of an act for a trip down stairs
When he returned be found q vacant
seat two rows back between two wo-
men. and dropped into 1t with tho re-
mark:
s.As was saying when l went out.
it's none of your padding what other
women wear. Because some one else
makes fool of herself BY wearing cot
ton stockings in the winter. Il docsn't 3
follow that you must do the same.
..Sirl' came from both sides of him
at once. and tho way he vacated that
seat made the soles Of his hoots roSl- -Aok
-D<troif Ffse Press
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-20
Cnnrier.Jo Journal.

The sons of statesmen, of party lead
ers and of men distinguished in business
and society, should be to the other youth
Of the country examples of manly char
acter, sobrlety and virtue, not OF shame
and immortality. Statesmen party
lie ders and men or wealth and social
prominence should bring up their sons
in paths of rectitude and honor, not
leave them to wander IN ways OF dissi-
patton and vice leading to ways of efime
and infamy. If young man, born 10
better things, is scapegrace ana q
drunken and qurreIsome roue, It 10 the
FAULT Of parental laxity in his training,
and of neglect at home, where care
should be most bestowed, in regard 20
MS habits, his manners and his morals.
Iorr CT home influences will make the
sniidren of such homes an honor TO
snose who bore and reared them, not q
d;;ssappolntment to parental hope and 2
name.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-20

It is related OF .moonshinerr at
Clare, Mich, that he sold some pine
logs last fall to 4 Saginaw lumherman.
the same being cut on land owned by
the Saginaw man. Not long after he
sawed the ends of the logs so as to
erase the marks and sold the same logs
over again The thing worked 50 we'll
that he tried it again with equal sue
cess, and kept on doing so until the
logs, which were originally sixteen feet
long. were reduced % two feet
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-20

II is very desirable 10 have the ad-
yocate. Of temperance from different
parts Of the state to contribute to this
column. Let the articles be short and
crisp. Deal ia facts rather than in
homilies, and in practical arguments
rather than in fine writing.
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When arrived at my rooms. my col
league hurried to meet me the moment
| opened the door.
Il am going to surprise you.s he said;
@and there is no time TO prepare You for
it. Our chief, the Minister, has seen
the Prince this morning, and has been
officially informed of an event of inn
portanee in the life of the Princess. She
IS engaged to be married to the Grand
Duke"
Engaged to the Duke-and not a word
from her to warn me of it, Engaged
after what she had said to me no longer
ago than the past night. Had | been
made plaything to amuse a great lady?
Oh, what degradation, | was furious;
l snatched up my hat to go to the palace
to force my way to her-to oyerxhelm
her with reproaches. My friend stopped
me-. He put an official document into
my hand.
There is your leave of absence from
the legation he said: beginning from
to-day. have informed the Minister,
in strict confidence, of the critical posi-
ton in which you are placed. Heagrees
with ma that tha pripnasa'n inareusAhie
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H..

But the Princess-the gentle, gracious,
beautiful PTincess-what can | say of
her Highness? / can only say that she
enchanted me.
She honored me by speaking to me in
my own language. of which she showed
herself to be perfect mistress. | was
not only permitted, but encouraged, to
talk of my family, and to dwell on my
own tastes. amusements. and pursuits.
Even when her Highness'S attention
was claimed by other persons waiting
10 be presented. l was not forgotten.
The Baroness was instructed to invite
me for the next evening to the Princess S
tea-table: and il was limited that ] should
be especially welcome if | brought my
music with me, and sang.
On the occasion Of my second recep-
ton by the Princess. at her little even
! ing party. | detected the Baroness. more
| than once. in the act of watching her
Highness and myself, with an appear
ance OF disapproval in her manner which
puzzled me. When | had taken my
leave. she followed me cut of the room.
i have a word of advice to give you,
she said. -The best thing you can do.
sir, is to make an excuse TO your Minis
ter. and go back to England
must declare. that failed to under
stand the Baroness.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-20

A sTATisrICGAN has figured out the
expenditures for various purposes in the
United States approximately as follows
Drink, 5000 600 600; missions (home and
foreignl. So $50, 600; bread, S505, ,000,-
600; meat, S203, 900, 900; iron aud steel,
$500 600 900; wooden goods, $237 900, 600
sawed lumber, $3.50, 000, 900; cotton
goods, S2l0, 900, 900; boots and shoes,
S196. 600 900; sugar and molasses, Sl55,
GOO. 600; educational purposes, $4,000,
GOO According to these figures, drink
costs more than than bread and meat
and but little less than food and raj
ment
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-20
Why Sign Whlskey Fetitions7

/ The names Of some of our best cid
zens, aud of some oi the members Ol
| the various Christian Churches are to ot
/ found signed 10 whiskey petitions. NoI
/ All the signatures are by any means 20
r~putat le. Why is II tnat a good mar
wili put himself down iu such com pany
/ Why is it that he viii allow his name "a
/ iegalize a traffic, which without such
signatures Is outlawed. md which would
subject the person engaging iu it 10 in
dictmeut for high crime?
The statutes Of the State clearly
recognize the evil, and expressly declare
that il shall be punished unless &
majority Of the legal voters screen il
with the protection Of their names
Therefore, the better class Of citizens are
really responsible for the saloons. II
they should percmptJrily decline 10 afix
their signatures to the petitions praying
for them, there would not be left q
majority Of voters needful 70 secure q
license.
4 great many men sign their names
simply because they hate TO say no.
they really would prefer not TO sign but
for fear Of hurting feelings or arousing
opposition they yield Alas! for such
a want Of manliness. Such a spirit, if
unrestricted, would compound a felony
or connive at murder.
Some persons sign because they want
10 secure custom or patronage. 4 gen
tleman connected with a public Office
was once asked to sign a whiskey peti
ton and refused. The applicant said
"maybc YOU will be running for Office
some Of these days and youi refusal will
make against YOU "Well," was the
manly reply, IF / can't get Office with
out resorting to such methods as that. ]
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Introductory and Explanatory.

49, - N~NGASAf NAA IA PAE@A@a~bp
] have been solicited by DIR. c. B.
GALLOWAY, Chairman of the State Pro
hibition Executive Committee, and by
Col. !. /. POWER, Of TIE CLAEIoS, to
take charge Of the Temperance Depart
ment Of this paper, Mr.. HEIDELBERG,
the former editor, desiring to be relieved
accept the position, actuated solely by
she desire to be useful No cause, save
Christianity, Of which it is an important
factor, has so sacred a claim upon every
phiiauthropist as that Of Temperance
If my services can only suffice 70 reduce
the number Of the victims Of iHtemper-
auce aud can give material aid to the
grand work Of prohibiting the making,
using. buying or selling OF vinous or al
coholic liquors within the territory oi
Mississippi, nay native state, viii be
content. G. G. ANDREWS.
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Before the season came to an end. the
Court removed to the Princes country
seat. in the interests of his Highness's s
health. The members of the English
legation were among the guests invited.
To me it was a delightful visit. had
again every reason TO feel gratefully
sensible of the Princess condescending
kindness. Meeting the secretary one
day in the library, / said that | thought
her a perfect creature. Was this an
absurd remark to make2 could see
nothing absurd in it-and yet my friend
burst out laughing.
MY good fellow, nobody is a perfect
creature "a he said. The Princess has
her faults and failings, Like the rest of
U.S.
denied it positively.
Use your eyes he wenton; and you
will see, for example, that she is shall
low and frivolous. She has plenty Of
sentiment lGerman sentimentl, I grant
you, but no true feeling What happen
ed only this morning. when the Prince
was in the breakfast-room, and when
the Princess and her ladies were dress
| ed to 20 out riding? Even she noticed
the wretchedIv depressed state of her
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-20

Three members of the Sanborn fani-
", brother aud two sisters. all of
whom are over four score years of age,
and now residing at Haverhill. n. H,
were never married, neFer rode in a
railroad ear. and have never had q
stove ia their house. The old-fashion-
ed tin baker, fire crane and hooks have
always been used by them
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-20

The tower of the new city building
At PhiIadeIphia viii be higher than the
Washington monument, but the nn-
eauaI settlement Of the walls has crack
NJ and shattered the finely carved stone
work on the interior walls.
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wnlcn L nave not nynerto dared 10 an
Ticipate."
II hat DO yoU mean:-
Between this and to- o-morrew.~ - the
hould woman replied. the Princess
may end in seeing YOU with my ewes. In
that hope 1 wish you good-morHing-7
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-20

IL the YOUTHS Temperance Banner
February II, 1882, appeared an article,
addressed to girls, from the pen Of the
present mistress of the White House,
which closed as follows: Il wish some
strong, bright angel stood before you
just now, while you read, girls, to flash
before you, as ~ words Of mine can,
the power you possess to help or to
hinder the cause Of temperance; to make
you feel your responsibility, because you
are girls, in this matter; to shudder at
its weight, and to never cease tryit z to
fulfill it! Doubtless you have heard a
great deal about the value of your smiles,
but do you know the value of your
frowns? | wish | could make you feel
the value of your frowns and the imP0r-
tance of knowing just what to frown
upon. What a man must do by blow
a woman can do by frown. When the
time comes that the young man who
now shares his time in your society and
the saloon, who jokes about temperance
in your presence, aud takes glass,
socially, now and then, is made to feel
that these things cannot be if you are
/ to be his companion at party, ride, or
Church; that good society cannot toler-
ate these things in its members; In short,
/ that this kind of man is Questionable
and unpopular, then alcohol will trem-
/ BILE on its throne, and the liquor traffic
will hide its cancerous face.
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Do ! sometimes think regretfully OF
the Princess?
Permit me 10 mention circumstance,
anu 10 leave my answer 10 be inferred.
Jeanne is Lady Medhurst.
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On the second night of the opera the
applications for places were too numer-
Gus 10 be received. Among the crowd
ed audience | recognized many of nv
friends. They persisted in believing an
absurd report first circulated. as | i'm
agine, by the Doctor, which asserted
that my interest in the new singer was
something more than the interest of an
old friend.
The next morning / received note
from the Baroness expressed in these
TERMS
@More news. Ny rooms look out on
the wing of the palace IN which the Doc
tor is lodged. Half an hour since, dis
covered him at his window, giving a let
ter TO person who Is stranger TO me.
The man left the palace Immediately
afterward. Ny maid followed him, by
my directions. Instead of putting the
letter in the post, he took ticket at the
railway station-for what place the SER
want was unable to discover. Here. Fou
viii observe. is a letter important
enough to be dispatched by special mes
senger. and written at a time when we
have succeeded IN freeing ourselves
from the Doctors suspicious 1t is at
least possible that he has decided on
sending favorable report OF the Prin-
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Ne" school Rules In san Eranci-co.-Co on
trolling Children without the Exercise
OF PIH.is...l f.,rca
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A RECENT paper tells of the opening Of
a saloon in a quiet Ohio village, which has
for many wears been free from such es-
Establishments. This raises the question,
| Whose boys A saloon can no more be
run without using up boys than flour
| ing mill without wheat, or saw mill
without logs. The only question Is,
Whose boys-your boys or mine-our
boys or onr neighbor's? Win you give
your husbands and sons, or must other
women give their husbands and sons,
4 that the mill of ruin may go onl How
long will Christian people sleep over these
things?-.S. r. p. In Christian Standard
Gov. ST. JOHN, since his return to
Kansas from the South, eonfesses that
the temperance work is further advanced
in the South than in the North. Mis-
/ sissippi has $50 saloons; Minnesota,
with about the same population, has
over 5000; Arkansas has / l,344 saloons
California. with about the same popuia
ton. has 1859 saloons; Kentucky has
4.46l saloons, and Ohio 1890. In pro
portion to the population, the North has
twice as many saloons as the South.
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cess 70 the Grand Duke. II mis- * the
case, please consider whether yol- viii
not act wisely IN her uighness'> inter-
eStSi by keeping away from the con-
cert"
fIewing tins suggestion rs another
act oI lmpertnence ou the p8rl of the
Baroness. | persisted in ms intention Of
going 10 the concert. Il was for the
Princess 10 decide what course of CON
duet | Was bound Ia follow. What did
| care Tor the Doctors report 20 the
DukeI snail | own my foliy5 do
really believe Twas jealous of the Duke.
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IIVN 70 -ILD
The following points were prepared
by the writer for TIM use Of his school
Many Of them may be profitably en-
larged upon bg the teacher.
Thousands fail in ali departments Of
labor and enterprise for want Of suai-
Gently understanding the principles
which uuderlie success MANY fail, or
partly fail, in study for the same rea-
SON But nowhere else is success more
important than here.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-08
FISHING FOR WATER.
Cold Springs at the sea Bottom that
Supply the People of Babrin.
W. F...L S,.~

Did you ever hear OF place where the
people are compelled TO tisn in the ocean
lOr all the fresh water they Usep' asked
Ben Germley, q sailor who has cTulsed IN
every water on the face of the globe.
There Is such a place and Eve been
there. It's the hottest place l was ever
in. and I've been TO all the hot ones.
Rain never falls there, and the tempers-
ture never changes. think it stands at 100
degrees all the year round. You're thirsty
when YOU 20 10 sleep, YOU wake up IN the
night thirsty. You're thirsty all day. Yet
the people that live there appear TO think
they are in the garden spot of creation.
Tha.'s natural, though, for it ISN'T likely
one out OF "A hundred of them was ever in
any other place. This delightful spot is
on the Persian Gulf, at BIbrin, where
they fish tor the water they drink. had
the pleasure OF staying there three days
ten years ago.
II don't know who discovered the fact,
but there are numberless springs of ice
cold water at the bottom Of the Gulf, near
the shore, where the water is about 80
feet deep. This must have been known
when they first set up the town, OfcOurse,
or it wouldn't have been started there.
This fresh water gets to be salt enough,
though. before it gets far from the bottom,
and so they have 10 send down after It..
When mans wife calls him TO 20 after
"A pail of water and be quick about II,
over in Babrin, he grabs gOatskin bag,
wells a the FIRST neighbOr ne sees stretched
in the sand, and the two jump into boat
and row out a short distance. The man
who is after the water wraps the goat
s in about his left arm, with the mouth
Of the bag in mis- hand. Then he takes IN
his other hand heavy stone. This stone
is tied securely - the end OF long and
strong line, for stones are valuable prop
erJY there. Without them no one could
go out and fetch "A pail of water, add they
are. very scarce. With the stone firmly
clutched in his hand the mar dives into
the water, and down he goes to the bot
TOM When he reaches the cool, fresh
water gushing up from the SAND, he opens
the mouth Of his gOatskin bag, drOCs the
stone. and floats upward IN the strong
current The bag quickly ills and the
mouth is closed again. When the man
reaches the curtace his companion lifts
the bag into the boat, and the diver fol-
lows. The stone is then carefully drawn
up. and the men 20 home.
s.Tpe water Is cold and refreshing when
IL first comes up from tue depths Oh tue
sea, but Il soon gets fiat and warm. Inc
more YOU drink of it the thirstier yOu get,
but tue natives can get along on a lew
swallows of il now and then. The re-
qtlirements OF the climate keep the divers
AZ work in the submarine springs for al
they are worth, and the shore Is lined
with their boats all day long. Inc
sDriugs are said 10 be the outlet of large
natural aqueducts in q range OF noun
fains more than 500 miles from the coast.
INT / guess they would have a hard time
TO prove that theory if they were called
uDon 10 do it,"