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Tho Priceless Things.
Those are vulgar things wo pay for. be they
tones for crowns of king;;
While the precious anil tho pcpil-ps arena
pricod symbolic things.
Common debts are scored and canceled,
weighed and measured or.t for gold;
But the debts from men to ages, thoir account
is never told.
Always see, the noblest nations keop their high-
est prize unknown;
Oiajronea'g marble lion frowned above nnlct-
tored stone.
Ualaklava Marathon andwho shall mete the
worth of these ?
Bhall we huckster with our lifeboats that defy
the leaping seas ?
Ah. the Greeks knew 1 Came their victors
honored from the sacred games,
Under arches red with roses, flnshod to hear
thoir shouted names;
Bee their native citios take them, breach the
wall to make a gate I
What supreme reward is theirs who bring such
nonors to their State ?
In thor forum stand they proudly, tako their
prizes from the priest:
Little wreaths of pine and parsley on their
naked temples pressed I
We in lator days are lower ? Ay I a manful
stroke is made.
And we raieo a puree to pay it-making manlt
ness a trado
Baerifice itself grows venal surely Midas will
subscribe;
And the shallow souls are satisfied when worth
ncccpts the bribe 1
But c'n here, amid the markets, there
things they dare prize;
Dollars hido their sordid faces when they meet
anointed eyes.
Lovonj do not seek with jewels; flowers alono
can plead for them;
And one fragrant memory cherished is far
deirer than a gem.
Statesmen stoer the nation safely; artists pas
tho unning test,
And their coimtry pays them proudly- with
ribbon at the breast.
nnen the soldier saves the battle, wraps the
flag around his heart.
Who shall desecrate his honor with the values
of the mart ?
From his guns of bronze we hew "a piece, and
carvolt as a cross;
For the gain he gavo was priceless, as unpriced
- would be the loss.
When the poet Biugs the love song, and the
song of life and deatli,
Making millions ccno their weary toil and
wan with wondormg breath;
mien he gilds the null mid mine, inspires the
slave to rise and daro;
Lighta with love th l.opele.s carro, toU 11k
tyraut to beware;
When he steals the pang from poverty, with
meanings new and clear,
Reconciling pain and peace, and bringing
blessed visions near;
His reward? Nor cross nor ribbon, but all
others high above,
They may wear their splendid symbols he has
earned the people's love I
John Beyle (TlleiUy.
Mrs, Symington's Bargain.
All women we are told have their
weaknesses, end Mrs. Stanhope Sym-
iugton was a china maniao, as are most
pe.ple to sortie degrpe in this rostbetic
nineteenth csntury i.f the world. Bat
Mrs. Symington excelled in tho matter.
She would prowl in second-hand stores,
penetrate into the cavernous recesses of
tenement-houses, drive Jong distances
into the country to old homesteads
where fcho had heard vague rumors con
cerning 'flaring blue," "old green
Blaze," "butterfly yellow" and "genuine
old India wares." Bhe would remorse
lessly turn the choicest pieces of mod
ern bric-a'-broo from her tables to make
way for spoutless tea-pots, cracked
bowls and noseless jags. She crowded
herdra wing-room with brackets, shelves
and cabinets for the accommodation of
ancient plates, which she called
"plaques," and piteheis, which the re
christened "vases."
Mr. Symington, a meek little man
with limp yellow-white hair, a flat noso
and colorless eyes like dim glass mar
bles, began to fiud it no slight task to
make his way through his own house
without breakage or misfortune.
"I wish there was not such a thing as
old china in the world." he lamented
upon one particular occasion, after he
had knocked a handlfless cup from a
tripod draped in olive velvet.
" Stanhope," reproved his wife, not
without severity, "would you retard
the progress of modern civilization?
This cup, fragile as it may seem, repre
sents an era in decorative history."
."Well, it won't represent it much
longer," observed Mr. Symington, as
he gathered up the fragments with
something very like .vindictiveness in
his faded eyes.
"But, Stanhope," cried his wife,
" what are you going to do with those
pieceB?"
" Throw 'em into tho ash barrel, jo
course," said Mr. Stanhope, spiritlessly.
But Mrs. Symington rescued them
from his grasp with a shriek of appre
hension. "Are you mad, my dear?" she ejacu
lated. ' I can mend them with a little
cement and a gret deal of time; and
even then I wouldn't take twenty dol
lars for this exquisite cup. And I have
been thinking, Stanhope "
"Well, my dear," said the luckless
iconoclast, looking dolefully at his
finger which had been cut with one of
the pieces of broken crockery, ' what
have you been thinking?"
" That I should like to go up into
Maine next week," said the lady, in
Binuatingly. "
"Into Maine? In midwinter?"
. eenced her amaaed spouse, openiug the
dim eyes very wide indeed.
To eee Aunt Grizzel," explained
Mrs. Symington "my Aunt Grizzel
Gr.inipton, you know, at Wild River."
" Humph " remarked Mr. Syming-
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tcn, bandaging his finger with his
pocket handkerchief. "I didn't know
that you cared so verv particularly
about j onr Aunt Grizzef."
"My dear," said Mrs. Symington,
merging her speech into a mysterious
whisper, " I've just remembered, all of
a sudden as it were, that she has set
of very old flaring blue china. She
must have. It belonged to her mother
before her; and how I've forgotten it all
these years I'm sure I can'i imagine.
Even now I shouldn't have recalled it
to my memory, I suppose, if I hadn't
chanced to see, at Mrs, Ilepburn's
afternoon tea yesterday, the darlingist
little egg-shell cups, with bridges and
pagodas and willow trees all over 'em,
exactly such as Aunt Grizzel's mother
used to have. Then it came to me like
a flash of lightning Aunt Grizzel's
china I'
"Probably it's all broken by this
time," gloomily suggested her hus
band. "Nonsense I" said Mrs, Symington,
briskly. "Aunt Grizzy never broke
anything in her life. She is careful
ness itself; and rip there in Maine, you
know, they don't have clumsy waitresses
to fling things about. No, no ; you
may depend that she has it all safe and
buuuu iu one oi mose oaa little three
cornered cupboards of hers. A treasure,
Stanhope, a perfect treasure. Money
wouldn't bny such a set as that; a
hundred years old, if it's a day. So, if
yon won't mind, my dear, I'll just run
up to Maine, und see about it."
"Do as you please, Arabella," said
Mr. Symington, resignedly. He knew
that Mrs. Symington generally did as
she pleased, and he saw no especial ad
vantage in debating the question.
"Thanks, dear; so kind of you I"
uttered Mrs. Symington. "And of
course I can't go to the polar regions
entirely unprotected, so I'll order
one of those comfortoblo seal dol
mans that evervbodv is Wnrino nnip
and a new plush hat with a cluster of
ostncli tips. One must go dressed like
ether people; and if you can give me
twenty-five or thirty;dollars 1 dare say
Aunt Grizzy will let mo have the set
fo tbwt (she don't know the value of
old chinn. nnnr thinorll nn,t ftm
ney won't be more than thirty dollars
noiu ways, n l go by sea, including a
M.iu ruom,
" It appears to me," said Mr. Syming
lun, uihcouragingiv, "tnat this is a
good deul of a wild gooee chase, going
liunninir up to tbrt north
of Maino at this timo of year for an old
sei oi trumpery china which probably
uiuu l cubii uii uuuars 10 stait witn .
" Oh, Stanhope, it did I" cried the
iatiy, indignantly. " It was real India
Ware, imported, without, iiniini a rlnllur
Of dutV. bv nn old spa nniitain in flit.
India trade, expressly for my grand
muiiier orumpton. Ana besides vou
ere so crovplinsr and prosaio in vnnr
ideas. As if the luioinnl crmk nf atliinrr
of this nature signifies 1 It s the tcathetic
vaine tnat wo look at, don t you see?"
"Ah I" Buid Mr. Svminirtnn. ' Wnll
if yon must go. you must go, I suppose;
una oi course j. snail nave to give you a
check for what money you are likely to
mini.
And Mr. Svmincton siwhed ,loor,l.
ana went upstairs to get a piece of
court-plaster for his cut finger.
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jurs. Symington went to Wild Hive -,
in the northern br.iinflnripH r,f Mnin
where the pine forests were thatched
with snow, und tho iVielce tinting in
the woods of a moonlight night like po
many castanets gone mad. She made
tho ereater nart nf tli vnvnom lw con
and was comcquently very seasick, for
the water was rough and the gale tem
peetous, " I will Corof liable liv lntiil " wb
to herself, as she sat in the little hotel
at Portland, and viewed her green and
yellow complexion with a thuddfr.
" Money wouldn't induce me to risk my
life again in that horrid steamer, where
one is Dunetea ana seesawed about on
waves that are as hieh nn n. hnnca Tl.u
palace-car fare will be something of an
c-xira expense, ana iKiiai l lose my re
turn ticket bv itearutr. but I'm mm thv
Symington won't grudge it to me when
uo nears now i vo Deen pitched and
tumbled about on the ocean in peril of
my life."
Andshe"nnt on her KlnMr limpan
tilk, her new plumed hat, and the seal
dolman, and took the northsrnr1-Vimirwi
train, resolved to present an imposing
annenrfinnA t.n Annf. rivi'.
ton when she should rearli Wild Tti mr
station.
It WaS VerV Cold adnll. biftn laoHnn
cold with the ground frozen like a
rock, the ttreams bonml in
tky gray and bitter, with an ineffable
gloom. Aunt (inzzel Grumpton lived
in a little one-storied house on tho top
of an uncompromising hill, where a
solitary cedar tree was twisted around
like a corkscrew with the force of the
east wind, and the few lean sheep
huddled behind tho rocks in shivering
groups, picturesque, but far from com
fortable. And even after they had
come in sight of the old building whose
one coat of red paint had long ago been
worn away by the 6uns and rains of
well-nigh a century, Mrs. Symington
had serious doubts whether the one
horse Bleigh in which she was jerked
and jolted up tho incline would not be
blown Rheer away by the rush of the
torn pest before they could reach their
destination.
However, it wasn't. And once in
Aunt Grizzy's cottage things were very
comfortable. There was no wido
throated chimney, filled with moss
fringed logs, such as the fancy of city
dwellers is apt to depict in the solitary
farmhouse. People in Maine know
bettor than that. But there was an im
mense cook stove, which heated the
room to an atmosphere of eighty odd
degrees; the cracks in the window
sashes were pasted over with brown
paper, and sand bags were laid on the
top ledges, while a double rag carpet
covered the floor, and a wood-box,
heaped to the very top, stood in the
angle of the chimney piece. Aunt
Grizzy's dress was of blue homespun
flannel, and she wore a worsted hood
pulled over her ears, and a little plaid
shawl folded over her breast, and she
was addicted to the use of snuff, and
said "Hey?" whenever any one ad
dressed, her, I
"My cheeny?" said Aunt Grizzy.
weii, i m iree to own that I think a
deal of that cheeny. But I don't know,
Nn co Arabella, how you came to hearof
" It ia an heirloom in our family.
Aunt Grizzel," said Mrs. Symington,
eXertinrr tlAtHAlf in anoalr Inmllv
" ney ?" said Aunt Grizzy, with her
hand placed sounding-board fashion
behind her ear.
" Every one must have heard of it,"
said Mrs. Symington, at the risk of
breaking a blood-vessel in her throat
Aunt Grizzy's wrinkled face fairlv
i 3 t. i. ... . y.
ueameu. wen, i calculate it ain't
absolutely ugly," said she. " But still,
if you've really set vour heart on it.
Niece Arabella But it ain't unpacked. I
aiways put it away this time o' year when
iiiciw m l no tea parties given.
Oh. TIPTPf lYtinfl fliof aalA Xf.
VUMIVf UOUl 4111 eit
Symington, her heart leaping within her
us mis easy conquest oi the lort. It
will be all the more convenient for m
to carry it. People always keep such
treasures put away in secret places."
" Hey ?" said Aunt Grizzy, and Mrs
Svminrztnn rnfintif1 hpr wnrdo
" Oh, there ain't no secret about it !"
Faia aunt unzzy.as she turned the hiss
ing sausages in the pan. " Only I hain't
had timo to overhaul it since you've
uuuii nere.
"Naturally?" interrupted Mrs. Svm
ington. "But I suppose it is all in
good condition ? '
"Sartinly, eartinly," said Aunt
Grizzy. Yon can look at it yourself
ii you nae, xvioce Arabella."
" Oh, that is not at all necessary,"
said Mrs Symington. " But now as to
the prico, Aunt Grizzy ?"
"I ain't one to haggle with my rela
tions." said Aunt Orizzv. crivinDr tlm t,.
, n - O "J
m (3 pan a shake over thn blaring ctiWo
" Set your own price, Arabella, and if I
uon use it i u mase Doia to say so."
' Do you think, Aunt Grizzy," hesi
tated the city lady, "that twenty-five
uouura wouia oe a reasonable compen
sation for it V
"Well, yes," said Aunt Grizzy. "It
never cost me that, because"
"No, of conrse not," hurriedly inter
posed Mrs. Symington, and she pro
duced the twftntv.firn flnllnva oil Jn
gold half eagles, with the exultant feel
ing oi one wno nas picKea a precious
diamond out cf thn rlimt. Tint T
should wish you to feci that I had dealt
lainy with you in a matter like this."
" Well, I hain't no reason to com
plain," said Aunt Grizzy. " Some folks
fancies cheeny. I don't. A plate's a
plate to me, and a cup's a cup, and
you re kindly welcome to my set if
yon ve took a notion to it."
Mrs. Symington went home the next
uay, inrougn a Whirlwind oi snow, bavins-
been fed unon pork
sausages and pork, at every meal since
hit arrival, ana retaining a very vivid
recollection ..of the Maine winds und
tempests.
" I don't think I'd go back then?
again, even for a set of old china," said
Mrs. Svmincton. as shn nentrd li-colf
on tho velvet cushions cf the palace-car
ana enrans sinveringly inside of her
seal dolman and fleece-lined fur gloves.
" Aunt Grizzel will never die a natural
death; ehe'il be blown away, like
Mother Hubbard."
But nil these petty trihnint inns Ttcra
forgotten as a thing'out of mind on the
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uruiiauc January morning on which, in
frojt of the sea-cnnl firn in br.i- rr.n
cozy drawing-room, she unpacked the
coarse wooden box wherein were con
cealed the Pricplpss treasure nf Aunt
Grizzy Grumpton's china.
"Don't touch them. StnnhnnA " naid
she, with a small shriek of dismay.
"Men are so dreadful r.irpWs. nii
here they are on the top, all wrapped
in separate pieces of paper,"
"i;h?"id Mr Nvmirvrrfrm ct.1.
J - .'fl-j.vyi.j
lnor by with a hammer mid Knmr.,Trii,r.r
brandished in either hand. " Are these
antiques?"
"Good gracious rue!" gasped Mrs.
Symington. " What can this possibly
mean 'i"
For the china which nlm
from its coverings of coarse brown pa
per was a cheap and common style.
such as is associated in the mind with
tea chromos, gaudy lithographs and
salesmen of the Hebraic persiir n'nn
white, with a band of imitation gold
around each piece, end a coarse flower
sprawliner below, as if it bad been lnid
on with a miniature whitewash bmsh.
This is never rov frrAndmntrm.
Grumpton's old china," said Mrs.
Symington, bursting into tears, and
pushing the hideous atrocitios away
with a force which cracked two plates.
" I'll write to Aunt flrizzv nt. iouu uni
this misunderstanding shall be cleared
In the course of time an answer came
from Wild River, stiiBy written in pale
ink, and conveying in its tout ensemble
tho gentral impression thatAuut Grizzy
had wrestled with it. ni if it. had l,n
fit of the Asiatic cholera.
"Deab Neice" (it said), "With
Love and duty I take up my Pen to in
form You that the Chinn ia nil Hl,t
Bo't from Snefly & Pipkin, in Boston,
last November, at E'ght (8) the Set,
to be transported at my own Dammnco
As for my Mother's old Hut. xeit-h
Captain Babcock bro't from Calcutta in
the Year 1796, 1 Gave it to his Neioe
Helen Hosmer two Yerea no-n Inr n Pa
of Gold Speotackles and a Fur Muff,
being so Cracked and Old-fashioned
that it wasn't worth nnmnm P.nt Tom
told that she puts it on Ebbony Shelves
m nor xjttnxi .rarior. uut Helen never
was more than Half-Witted, and your
Sot witch you took homo with you is
worth a Deal the most Monney. So
you have the Best Bargain. With love,
I remain, Your Aunt to Command,
" UBIZZEL GltCMPTON."
"Ah!" said Mr. Svminotnn nrlm l.o
been listening intently to the contents
of this much blotted and besmeared
piece of manuscript, sealed with Aunt
Grizzy's thimble top, and still rotainiug
a subtle odor of fried fin.nflfl.o'AA mid twid
dle cakes. "A seal dolman at thrAA
hundred dollars, a thirteen-dollar hat,
a pair of fifteea-dnllnr fnv rrlntroD .
fifty-dollar journey and a twenty-fl've-dollar
investment, all for a set of china
wmcn you oan buy anywhere on the
Bowery or Grand street fnr
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How does that look, my dear, as viewed
m ine iigut oi political economy?"
And Mrs. Symington answered only
oy ner tears.
"There, there, Bella, don't fret," said
her husband, kindly. ' Let the thiug
go for what r. is worth. Forget it."
" But I enn't help f-f fretting," sobbed
Mrs. Symington. " One thing is quite
certain, however I never will be such
a fool again. I will nut spend another
cent for ceramics until I have econo
mized enough to pay for this outrageous
swindle."
" Gently, my dear, gently," said her
husband. " Now von are going too far.
Aunt Grizzel was honest enough. You
said you wanted her china, and she sold
you her ckina at your own terms."
" But I didn't mean this china," said
Mrs. Symington.
"How was she to know what yon
meant?" said Mr. Symington. " China
is china, and to me one piece is as good
as another."
And Mrs. Symington was too broken
down and spiritless even to argue tho
point with him. liatar.
Coral Reefs.
Coral reefs, said Professor LeConie,
of California, in a recent lecture, are
peculiarly dangerous to navigation be
cause of their rising abruptly, so that
though the sounding line may show
6,000 feet of water within half a mile,
the reef may rear its perpendicular
wall for the ship's destruction. The
most dangerous point for navigation
upon the face of the earth is the reefs
of Florida. There are more wrecks
upon that coast than in any other por
tion of the world. The largest town in
Florida, Key West, is built upon a coral
roef, on account of the frequency of
wrecks upon tho coast. If it was not
for tho wrecking business the town
woUd net exist. With the exception of
cocoanuts there is absolutely nothing
raised upon the reef. The wreckers
came hrst to prey upon the wrecks.
then came merchants to prey unon
the wreckers, next lawyers and doctors
to prey upon both classes, and
finally the clergymen to pray for nil.
The subject of corals was, also, the
professor said, of scientific interest, be
cause in theso coral reefs wo hold the
proofs of the vast oscillations and vari
ations in the earth's crust, on a scale
of which we have no other evidences at
all.
A very wldebpread misunderstanding
exists as to the manner in which reefs
are formed, one which has entered into
the public mind, and of which it is al
most impossible to dispossess thj pub
lic mind. The idea is that these ani
mals aro little insects ; that they build
liko ants and bees do, and when they
aro alarmed they disappear into their
little burrows, and these reefs are ac
cumulations of millions of those little
insects in generation after generation.
I shall show that t' ernisnoi tho sem
blance of truth in this idea.
1'he professor then explained thattbn
coral animal is a polyp belonging to the
group oi raaiaia ; mat it consists of
limestone deposits in the shape of a
hollow cylinder with top and bottom
disks, surmounted with tentacles, con
taining a stomach and enveloped with
gelatinous organio matter. The tent
acles or arms aro provided each with a
month for tho absorption of food. The
coral is cjralino limestone alter the
gelatinous organic envelope is decayed
and removed. The animals which build
reefs are not much larger thmpinheads
mo development and crowth cf the
coral tree and head coral was clearly ex
plained. showiDg it to be analogous to
the same process in vegetation. It was
further expluined that coral formed and
threw off eggs, which floated to some
suitable place, and there began the pro
cess of development independently,
forming new colonies, which in time
connect and form reefs, upon which are
deposited accretions, in timo building
up keys and islands
Keef-building coials will not crow at
a depth of over 100 to 120 feet. There
have been reef-building corals found
at a depth of 1,000 feet, but they were
doad drowned by being carried beyond
their depth. This confines them to
coast lines and submarine banks.
Corals will not grow where the temper
ature is lower than Bixty-eight degrees
at any time, that is the ocean, not the
air. Therefore t!iey are confined to
the. tropical regions. They will not
grow except in clear salt water: hence
there is always a break in reefs opposite
the mouth of a river Finally, they
demand free exposure to the beating of
the waves. Tho more violently the
waves beat the more rapidly the corals
grow, because the agitation gives tliem
ventilation. Corals will grow in the
face of waves whose beatings would
gradually wear away a wall of eranito.
The four kinds of coral reefs found in
the Pacific ocean aro fringe roefs, bar
rier reefs, circular reefs, inclosin?
lagoons in the ocean, and small lagoon
less coral islands, The explanation of
the formation of the three last named
will form the subject of the next lec
ture. Graves in China. -In
every direction, as far as the eve
can reach, little hillocks of earth, from
three to six feet high, are scattered
promiscuously over the country. These
emg covered wun grass, now dried bv
tho autumn and scattered as they are
over the cultivated fields, makes one
think of haycocks after a harvest of
timothy or red-top iu America. They
are the tombs or graves of past genera
tions of Chinese. And, as the leading
religion or superstition of the country
is ancestral worship, these mounds are
never disturbed or plowed over, bnt
stand for indefinite ages. It would
seem to a stranger that this sentiment
over the resting place of the dead must,
to a material extent, reduce the pro
ductiveness of the land. For there seems
to be no system of cemeteries as in
other countries, but the owner of the
field at death is buried, as have been
his ancestors before him, in his own
soil at some spot at a respectful dis
tance frors the graves of his predeces
sor. And thus these tumuli go on in
creasing in number and closeness of
proximity till it would seem to be only
a question of time when the dead will
possess all the soil and starve out the
entire Mtion. Utter from China.
The Klg&MVlnd.
Once, whon the night-wLnd clapped its wings,
And shook the window-bar , and roof, -I
hoard the souls of battle-kings
Drivo by in clashing proof I
Somctimos a runic strife it kept,
Of winter nights, in sleeted trees;
Or underneath the eaves H crept
A swarm of murmuring bees.
Or, now, wild huntsmen of ths air
In hollow chase their bugles blew,
Whllo swift o'er wood and hilltop bare
The shrill-voioed quarry flew.
Sometimes I heard of lovers flown,
Safe, under ward of storm and night,
To where, in sylvan lodge, there shone
A taper kind and bright.
These things the night-wind used to tell,
And still would tell, if I might hear;
But sorrow sleeps too sound and well
To lend a dreamful ear.
Edith M. Thomas, in tlte Century.
HU3I0R OF THE DAY.
A good prophet One hundred pel
cent.
" The simple utterance of joy is poe
try." f ays Oscar Wilde. That settles it.
We shall allow no joy in our family. It
wm be tossed into the waste-basket.
New Haven Register.
A fashion writer says "raised figures"
produce excellent effect. Well, that
depends ; if they are on a check they
sometimes produce the effect of send
ing tbe raiser to State prison.
" The difference between a marriage
and hanging," said an old bachelor, "is
that in the former a man's troubles
commence, while with the latter they
end." Philadelphia Chronicle.
It is safd that the only obstacle in tho
way of transporting live hogs from this
country to England is the difficulty of
leeaing mem on tne passage, w hy not
feed thorn from the trough of tho sea?
Somerville Journal.
Siid Mrs. Itaobap : "Att.nhln Tpl.ilo
the servants are preRpnt. Mr. Ttiohoc
and myself always talk of tho large
amount everyinmg coets us, it gives
the neighbors such an'excellent impres
sion oi onr liberality." Boston I'ost,
Minps and Shopping in Mexico.
Shops and shopping, of the upper
sort, in Mexico follow French or Eu
ropean traditions more than American.
Fanciful titles over the doorway are
adopted instead cf a firm name. A
dry goods store is " The Surprise,"
"The Springtime," " The Explosion;"
a jeweler's the " Pearl" or "Emerald;''
a shoe store, "Tho Azure Boot," and
" The Foot of Venus." The windows
are tastefully draped and a large force
of clerks is seen shoulder to shoulder
within. These clerks aro more demo
cratic in their manners than Americans
would venture to be. They shake
bauds with their patrons if they have
enjoyed a slight previous acquaintance
Hiid inquire after tho health of Miss
Lolita and Miss Soledad. There are
thoso of superior social position among
thtm, however some who are mot
with at tho bulls of tho Guatemala
minister, for instance. Tho explana
tion may perhaps bo found in the limit
edehoioa of occupations open, which
leavos to many who desire to work no
moro important places.
Until tf late it has not been eti
quette for laiies of standing to (-hop
except from their carriages a consid
erable part of tho e hopping, as for f urni
ture and other household gcods, is still
conducted by the men of tho family
just as it was not etiquette for ladies to
be sevu walking in tho streets. The
change in both theso respects is as
cribed to the horse-cars. The point of
ceremony, it appears, was lonudcd
somewhat upon the difficulty of getting
about. The American touch appears in
the etreots with increasing frequency,
in signs of deulers in arms, sowing ma
chines, and other of our useful inven
tions, and of tho insurance companies,
a novel 'idea, to which the Mexicans
seem to take with much readiness. The
I rincipal shopping hours are from 4
to 6 o'clcck in the afternoon. From
1 till 3, or even 4, little is
done. There is a general stoppage of
affairs for dinner. .It is but a bhoit
timo since that interesting person, the
commercial traveler, has been known in
the country. The profits of favorably
situated houses, in the absence of keen
competition, have been very large, and
methods of doing business in some in
starters correspondingly loose, The
Mexican merchant does not necessarily
go into a fine calculation of the pro
portionate value cf each detail of a for
eign invoice, but "lumps" the profit
he things he ought to receive on tho
whole Some articles, in consequence,
can bo bought at less than their real
value, while others, in compensation,
are exorbitantly advanced.
It is the smaller trade, however, and
that most removed from metropolitan
influences, that is the gayest and most
entertaining as a spectacle. How many
picturesque market scenes does one
linger in ! Ecch population has its
own market-day, net to interfero with
any other. The stone flags of the plaza
or the market-houses, which are plenti
ful and well built, aro hidden under a
complication of fruits, grains, cocoa
sacks and mats, striped blankets and
rebozos, sprawling brown limbs, em
broidered bodices and kirtles, as if
with an excessively thick, richly col
orcd rug. A grade above this is the
Parian, as at Puebla, a bazar of email
shops, in which goods, sales-people and
customers are all to be put upon the can
vas with the most vivid hues. The
leading ruerceria (dry goods shop) of
the same important city of Puebla,
called "The City of Mexico," has a
facade antirely in glazed tiles upon an
nnglazed gronnd cf red, with allegor
ical figures larger than life between the
pilasters as part of the pattern, Hur
pm't Magazine.
Fight aeainst a hasty temnnr. A no-er
will come, bnt resist it stoutly. A spark
may set a house on are, A fit of pas
sion may give you cause to mourn all
the days of your life. Never revenge an
jary.
JTAMIXO THE FATAL DAY.
Itiiilena Senioiioed by J mite Cox Receiving
His Hentence with t'inn,
A comparatively small orowd was present Id
the Washington criminal court to hear Judge
viu a uuiisiuu iu me application oi uuileau'f
eonnsol for a now trial. Guiteau came in
quietly and took hi seat at tho trial tablo.
Judge Cox refused the application for a new
trial, saying in effect tiiat no significance was
attached to the finding of the newspaper in
the room occupied bv the jury, as any friend
of the prisoner could havo put it there: that
the affidavit of John W. Guiteau as to the auto
graphs of Jurors found on the newspaper was
v uujubiui uvmputuuey, inasmucn as ma
knowledge of their wriiing must have been
acquiroa specially lor tne purpose of qualify,
iuff him as an affiant: that even wir it ad.
mitted that the paper had been found in the
Jury-room with writing on it actually done by
Jurors, the only effeot of that would bo to
raise a suspicion or a nrobabla infarnnnn that
the contents of the paper were brought to the
mm ui me jury, oui mat was a siiKpieion and
an inference that might be repelled: that new
Bviuuuua wuiuu d meroiy cumulative and
woma not aitect tne verdict. In conclusion,
Judge Oox said: "From all tho
sen ted I am unable to find any roason to grant
the motion, which is therefore overruled."
Mr. Boovillo I would like to note an excop-
uuu vu tuu ruling ui tue court.
Colonel Corkuill Your honor, it now bo
comes mv dutv
Mr. Bcovillo One moment, please; I would
ime 10 nio in uno lorm tne motion which I re
ferred to yeitorday.
Guiteau called out: "If your honor please, I
desire to ask if there is any motion that I ought
to make to reserve my rights."
Mr. Bcovillo tried to prevent his speaking,
bnt Guiteau was violent and uncontrollable. !
am going to talk, too," he Bhouted. "I am
here, and I don't propose to leave this matter to
vou. I have my opinion of yon as a lawyer.
You have been doing well, but your theory is
wrong. Your theory ii too small. You con
victed me with your jackass theories and con
summated nonsense. I don't propose to have
your theory prevail. (To the bailiffs, who
were endeavoring to suppress hiui)l willnot
bo Rtill for you nor for anybody elRe."
While Judge Cox was informing Mr. Bcovillo
as to the rulis of practice applicable to tho
filing of his exceptions, Guiteau broke ont in
wild abuse. " Yon keep your mouth still," he
screamed. " I am doing this matter myself.
You convicted me by your wild theory and con
summate asinine character all through."
Colonel Corkhill It is now my duty to ask
for tho sentonco of tho court.
Judgo Cox (to tho prisoner) Stand up.
Ilave you anything to say why sentence should
not now be paseed upon you ?
Guiteau (still sitting) I ask your honor to
postpone tho tontence as Ions? as possible.
Judge Cox Stand up. Have you anything
to say why sentence should not now be pro
nounced upon you '
The prisoner then aroeo, palo, but with lipe
compressed, aud desperate resolution in his
expression. In a low and deliberate tone he
began, but soon his manner became wild nnd
violent, and pounding upon the table, he do-
nvurfii muiseii oi toe loiiowing Harangue:
"I am not gnilty of the charge set forth in the
indictment. It was God's act. not mine, ami
God will take care of it, and don't let tho Amorr
cin people forget it. lie will take care of it, and
every ofiicer of this government from the ex
ecutive down to that marshal, taking in every
inuu on mat jury anu every member or tins
beuch, will pay for it: and the American nnlinn
will roll in blood if my body goes into the
ruimu auu x am nung.
"The Jowsput ths despised Galilean into tho
grave. For the time they triumphed, but at
lite destruction of Jerusalem, fortvvears after
ward, tho Almighty got even with them. I am
not afraid or death. I am hero as God's man.
Kill mo to-morrow if yon want, I am God's
man, and I have been from the start."
Judge Cox then proceeded to nana scnlmi.'iv
addressing the prisoner as follows:
" You have been convicted of a crime to terri
ble in its circumstances and so far-reaching in
its results that it has drawn upon you the hor
ror of tho whole world and the execrations ol
your countrymen.
" The excitement produced by snch an offense
made it no eaHy task to secure for you a lair
and impartial trial, hut you havo had the
power of tho United States treasury and of the
gov ninient in your service to protect vonr per
son from violence, and to procure evidence from
all parta of tho country. Yon have had as fail
and impartial a Jury as ever asaemblod in a
court of justice. You have been defended by
counsel with a zeal and devotion that merits
tho highest encomium, and I cortainly have
ilono my best to secure a fair presentation of
vonr defense. Notwithstanding all this von
havo been found guilty. It would havo been a
comfort to many people if tho verdict of the
jmy had established the fact that your act was
that of an irroaponaiblo man. It "would havo
left tho peoplo the satisfying beliof that the
crimo of political assassination was something
entirely foreign to the institutions and civiliza
tion of our country; hut tho result has denied
them that comfort. Tho country will accept it
as a fact that that crime can be committed, and
the court will have to deal with it with the
highest ponalty known to the criuiiual code, to
servo as an example to others. Your career has
been so extraordinary that peoplo miiiht welt
at times have doubted your sanity. But one
cannot but .believe that when tho crimo was
committed you thoroughly understood tho na
ture of tbo crime and its consequences Guiteau
1 was acting as God'sman, and that you had
moral sense and conscience enough to recog
nize the moral iuiquityof such an act."
Trisoner That's a maitcr of opinion.
''Your own testimony ehowstliat you recoiled
with horror from the idea. You say that you
prayed against it. You say that you thought
it might be prevented. This shows that your
conscience warned yon against it ; but by tho
wretched sophistry of your own mind you
worked yourself up against the protest of your
own conscience.
'What motive could have induced yon to this
act must be a matter of conjecture. Probably
men will think that some fanaticism or a
morbid desire for self-exaltation wag the real
inspiration for the. act.
"Your own testimony seems to controvert the
theories of your counsel. They have main
tained end thought honestly, I believe, that
you were driven against your will by an insane
impulse to commit tho act, but your testimony
showed that you deliberately rosolved to do it,
and that a deliberate and miBguided will was
the sole iniptil-e. 7 his may seem insanity to
some persons, but the law looks upon it as a
willful crime.
" You will have due opportunity of having any
errors I may havo committed during the course
of tbe trial passed upon by tho court in bane;
bnt meanwhile it is uccetsary for me to pro
nounce the sentence of the law, that you be
taken hence to the common Jail of the District
from whence you came, and there be kept in
confinement, and on Friday, tho 80th day of
Juno, 1882, you be taken to the place prepared
for the execution within the waits of said jail,
and there, between the hours of 12 M. aud 2
p. M., you be bangod by the neck until you are
dead, and may tho Lord have mercy on your
sonl."
During the reading Guiteau Btood apparently
unmoved, and with his gaze rivetod upon the
judge, but when the final words were spoken he
struck the table violently and shouted:
'And mar the Lord have mercy on your soul.
I'd rather stand where I do than where that
jury docs. I'm not afraid to die. I Btand hero
as God's man, aud God Almighty will curse
every man who has had a part iu procuring this
unrighteous verdict. Nothing but good has
eomo from Garfield's removal, and tiiat will be
tbe verdict of posterity on my iuspiiation. I
don't care a snap for the verdict of this genera
tion. I would rather a thousand times be in
my position than that of those who hav
hounded ine to death. I shall have a glorious
flight to glory, but that miserable scoundrel
Corkhilt will have a permanent job down below,
where the devil is preparing for him."
The prisoner for some momenta continued to
shout his anathema upon the court and coun
sel for the prosecution. In order to silence
him Deputy Marshal Williams clapped Ma
hand over his mouth, an action which the lat
ter would have resented with a blow had not
the police officers grabbed his bauds and
Plwued the handcuffs unon hW wrmts.
TEe prisoner then turned to his brother, and
without the slightest trace of excitement con
versed for some minutes before being taken
from the court-room.
'1 he van in which Guiteau was taken from
the oourt-house to tho jail reached its destina
tion without accident or incident. The prisoner
remarked, as he stepped out: "This is a reg
ular Wostern snow storm : it reminds me of
Chicago."
He was taken at once to his cell, and a guard
was placed over lain. This precaution Is
always obsorvod in tho case of prisoners under
sentence of death, aud will be rigidly adhered
to in Gultcau's case, both by night and day.
National leverages.
A sketch of "intoxicants," in a vol
ume on drinks, by R. V. Rogers, just
published, gives entertaining informa
tion of the multitude of sources from
which in various lands the peoplo have
sought stimulants. Ancient Egypt had a
f pooies of wine, and also a liquor called
eythos, drawn from bailey bv fermen
tation, resembling brer. That tho
people did not escape drunkenness is
shown by drawings which have been
preserved of 'slaves carrying drunken
masters homo, and the liko; bnt the
effects of the two drinks wore noticed
to be different. Grecians used wine
from the eorlirst period, and history
gives many tokens that they did eo to
excess. But the statement that they
were fond of pouring salt water into it
to improve tho flavor raises a eentle
suspicion that it differed from modern
wine. Tne like inference is sti trees ted
by reading that among tho Romans the
lower-priced grades of wine sold at
tnrce pence for ten gallons, and that the
magnates drank it by tho gallon
Mazimim six gallons per day, Tor
quatus two gallons at a draught
without beenmieg drunk But both
the Grecians and tho Romans imported
wine from Egypt; who knows but this
may h-ive been tho chief causo of
drunkenness among them? Julius
Cfosar's troops soeni to have carried, per
haps not tho original idea of wine and
malt liquor, but improved ways of mak
ing them, to Uaul ana Biitain; and
grape culture and wine making throve
iu l' ranee because natural to the soil
and climate, while ale and beer were so
suited to Euglish conditions aud were
so easily made by a people raising
abundance of grain that they soon be
came tho national beverage in prefer
ence to the mead and ider with which
tho ancient Britons had beeu wont to
regale themselves. Barley is the basis'
of several drinks made in differentparts
ot tne world py processes analogous to
modern brewing, but they are totally
different in their intoxicating effects.
ine dis covercisct America found maize
in use among tho native tribes
in making a species of beer called chica;
and history indicates that the na
tives would have suffered less from in
temperance if they had clung to their
own diink than they have sinco adopt
ing tho stroncr Honors introduced bv
the whites. There are some unexpected
sources of these beverages. In Eng
land, spruce, fir, birch, mcplo and ash
trees have in former years been tapped
and the sap fermented for a drink. The
willow, poplar, sycamore and walnut
aro said to yield palatable beverages.
Konniips, of which descriptions were
published during President Garfield's
illness, is fermented milk, and is the
bteis of what may be called the koumiss
cure, administered to invalids at estab
lishments maintained amonrj the Tar
tars; bnt doctors differ as to whether
the treatment when tried by Americans
or Englishmen effects a radical cure or
only causes a temporary fattening.
The drick is a favorito one among
tho Turtars ar,d Circassians, and they
have a legend that the angel who
succored Hnptar in tho- desert
showed her how to make it, and that
tho reeipo has been handed down from
tlmt time. The CLinese make liauors.
and mischievous ones to indulge them
friely in their native drinks would not
oo a liopoful experiment from rice.
freni the palm, and even from mutton.
Sake is a beer which has been long and
widely used in Japan, and, though
strong, is called wholesome: and tho
Japanese make other drinks from
plums, from the juice of tho plum or
the birch, and from the flowers of the
motherwort and the reach. The
Russians delight in qnass made from
barley and rye flour. Several varieties
of grasps, herbs or flowers", roots of
sundry'plants, tho juices of the sugar
cane, the aloe or the cuvisea, and even
of the potato and beet aro used among
various tribes or nations as tho basis
of some favorite drink.
How Wtbater Looked.
Daniel Webster vim Inm inn
BflTO on the eighteenth of .Tannar.
Nobody who once saw him ever fornot
i.: rt .ii t , .
mux. vi un Americans lie was proD
ably the most imposing in his appear
ance. Others have had a finer, loftier,
more refined, more spiritual aspect, as
there have been Americans of a far higher
essential greatness. lint tlmra ni a
certain grandeur in Webster's look
which, was incomparable. His Olym
pian presence gave an air of significance
and disnitv to whatevrr Iia nn'.V W
have heard him deliver the most aston-
isning commonplace m such a way that
tho audience seemed tn hn liotonin fn
new rovelation of great truths. He had
ine instinct wnicu assur u him that the
prosperity of the oration is in the eye
and ear of the hearer. Of iha cinnnl',..
charm of his private intercourse there
areecores oi puuiibned records. But
the private circle of friendii cnemwi tn
be always a little oppressed by the con-
BviuuuutuiH oi u is greainesa. uis man
ners were those of what is called the old
school. His dress upon great occasions
was that of the English whigs, blue and
buff a yellow waistcoat and a blue
dressooat with brass buttons. Hamper's
Weekly. 1
" Well, my son," said a father to his
eight-year-old boy the other day, "what
have you done that mav be set down
as a good deed?" " Gave a poor boy
five cents," replied the hopeful " Oh,
ot! that was charity, and charity ia
always light. He was an orphan, was
he?" "I didn't stop to ask," replied
the boy. " I gave him the money for
licking a boy wb.o '.upset my dinner
basket,"