A Farewell.
Good-bye! God speed thee on thy way
Across the waste of waters wide!
Fair winds and seas the ship betide,
With starry night and cloudless day!
Good-bye | from sight, but not from heart,
Though half the world may intervene,
In love, and hope, and trust serene,
We nevermore can be apart.
God keep thee in His tender care!
On the firm land or rolling deep
He giveth His beloved sleep,
For His strong love is everywhere,
8. 8. Conant, in Harper's Magazine,
What Is Life?
Eycs opening to the light, a feeble ory;
A fow short years, some jovs, more tears !
Eyesclosing into night; a quivering sigh;
And this is life,
Hands toiling, ne'er at rost, but more and |
more
Eager for gain; off tired in vain:
Hands folded on the breast, the battle o'er;
And this is life,
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woman's life means the speedy loss
every trace of comaliness and grace.
{ “Well, Icallit a providence!" she
{ sald, coming forward with a sort of
| silent rush as if carried by the wind.
“The first day I've ever been lone
some a mite or thought to care, but
| he's gone below three days now, an’
Of
A dauntless breast, where weak may rest; ]
eart-silent, ne'er to move; a quiet grave;
And this is life
A promise of rich harvests, sowing done; i
Bright hopes and trusts: but * Dust to dust
Is marmured sadly e'er the setting sun !
fil
A dawning fair and bright, a toil
Some passing siowers that bring forth flowers
Hoht—a heavenly ray;
And this is life.
lad day,
t even-fide
——
FOR LIFE.
Eleven days on the road. By ro
means the Union Pacifie, or any other |
line of continnous travel, where the
minimum of bounce and jerk is com-
bived with the maximum of comfort |
possible npder steady motion. A road
still unknown to surveyor or engineer,
bevond reach or thought of railroad. |
man or speculator, and but just open-
10g np its two hundred miles or more
of primeval forest, A road trodden |
only by Indians or crossed by stealthy
fox or ivnx, its length winding through |
treacherous marsh and bog, snd swift.
stream and deep, unbroken forest,
s ** blaze” here and there, indicating at
some points the coarse to be followed, |
and where too obtrusive trees were cut
away, the stumps left standing at just |
the right heicht for impaling wagon. |
bodies and stir ing upa degree or two |
only |
¢f profanity in the drivers
From Pembina to Crow Wing, and in
those two | red miles of a loneliness |
only the traveler of that region can |
know, what had not the patient oxen !
vodergpone? Twelve miles the average |
day's accomplishment, until Leech Lake |
and some suggestion of a civilized road |
had been resched. Heavy mins, swol-
; futhowless mud-holes.
wes spent in hauling |
turbid and turbulent |
le the oxen stood |
ug after their re- |
ther side, bringing
ge by package, on |
bridge could be
ing while the two |
ross with them on |
silent and calmly |
whats fate might |
as fore and background |
rer, who swore in all dialects |
English through to |
iis black beads |
fire, his small and |
legs dancing wildly |
3g his lean arms
tiwind
ion
Oi © 3 Bayo
ver
; f invective. |
ad ceased to amuse, |
h by constant rains, |
t by mosquitoes, |
ferocity bevond |
of the Eastern |
\ that remained. |
iled, and for weary |
re weary mind but one
—10 see the low stock-
* Wing ageney, and an
re & real bed, even if |
ow, wonld be hailed
where one would
us daily stage, con-
utpost of civilization |
d, eighty miles below, and
t where railroads conld be
Agein s broken bridge gave another
worning of unloading and swearing
aud, reloading, and when at last the
rushipg river was passed and the wagon
nder way, a treacheronsand
-hole suddenly swallowed
umped load
o its very depths, and
8 seemed likely to hold
Then all struggled out
while Boulanger shriaked
rage and Neddo examined pole
heels and fisked cut the provision-
basket, putting the contents on a damp
log to dry, patience at last took flight,
23d like the ancient prophet in one of
Lis very meny trials and predicaments,
“1 spake with my tongue; I opened
wile my mouth.”
** I will not stay in this nest cf mos-
quitoes and flies and wait hours for
this final catastrophe to unsnarl. I shall
march on to Galf Lake, where there is
a beach, uoless this last flood bas
turned it to water, and there I can sit
ia the sand and get dry. Of course,
now there is no reaching Crow Wing
to-night, and we must make our camp
at the lake.”
For this journey was by no means a
first or second one, and the ox-team was
simply one more experience of frontier
traveling. Canoe and flat-train and
indian pony had all been tried, and
eilber was better than this frightful
crawl, inch by iceh, a3 it were, At
Gull Lake, the first camping point the
previous year, ten miles above Crow
Wing, had been a golitary wigwam, ten-
*d by a toothless but amiable squaw,
40 gave me fresh pickerel roasted in
the scales over her fire, and affording a
pew sense of what flavor and savor
natural methods may hold, snd pota-
toes hardly bigger than walnu's, bat
dng in my honer from the field she had
planted, Perhaps she would be there
to-day. In any case, alone or with such
society as she conld give, there waited
for me the clear, still, blue water in its
setting of silvery sand, the blasted pine
with its eagle's nest, the hush and se
renity of the silent forest. Five miles
under the pines, where one was less
tormented by mosquitoes, and then
came a final one~ a wade rather than a
walk. 1 had forgotten the bog and the
corduroy had sunk gnite out of sight,
though I could feel 1t now and then
below the black mnd which held tena-
cicusly to each foot by turn and yielded
with a long, slow suck, like a smack of
evil satisfaction over my tribulations.
i could not have
and, reloading,
BOD TROT
givinae n
1 fore-wheels,
rs int
minnie
ilem ther
tocether, and
wild
and w
1
Ten thousard Lards
availed against that gray column of
mosquitoes, whose sound seemed at last
a trumpet call to other columns, and
which, in spite of headgearand leather
gloves, penetrated the unknown and
unguarded chink or crevice,
Through the swamp at last and ou!
once more under the friendly pines,
and I ran, knowing the goal was near,
and seeing soon the Hashing sunlight
on the blue water. There was a bend-
ivg figure near the lake. Along the
brook emptying into it corn aud peas
and beans were growing, and, actually,
bulsams and even sweet-peas ut the
end!
“ My squaw has been brought over to
white man’s fashions,” I say half aloud,
and then stopped short, as the figure
sprang up and turned with a subdued
‘‘my gracious!” when she saw the
mud-coated and caked, torn, and most
disreputable-looking apparition before
her. > wan a face, such watery and
faded, yet somehow intense blue “eyes,
#0 jofinitesimal a nub of hair, so
shadowy yet resolute a wraith, 1 had
uever yeu encountered, even in remotest
and most unfriended cabin, where a
| jest now, be the pond there, it was a
An’ then to think of
a white woman bain’ what I should see!
Where be you from?
I reckon it's a dry country you've left
behind you,” she added with a twinkle,
“ for you have brought all the mud with
you. Now you come straight ap along
with me, an’ U'll scrape you off some,
Where's your folks ¥
“Six miles back in a mud-hola,” 1
| answered. with the ghostly impression
still strong upon me. The voice was
only a husky whisper, and a nearer
view only intensified the bloodlessness
of the skin hardly hiding the poor bones
below. The woman laughed.
“ Youthink I'm a poor show,” she
said,
itself to what I was.
“You were not here when I went up
a year ago?
“No; I come in November. When
you're in some of my clothes an' have
had a cup of tea I'll tell you all about
it. There's the house. Aint that pretty
for Gulf Lake? Kinder comfortable #"
Comfortable! A palace eould not
have held a tenth of all the word meant !
A ‘‘but and a ben” only, but how
spotlessly neat! Morning-glories and
hops climbing over door and window,
where white curtains hung; a spnow-
white bed, shut in by moequito-bar ; a
"
and tins polished to their utmost capac-
ity — one of shining blackness, the
other of shining brightness—a dresser
holding civilized dishes ; a shelf, where
two or three books lay—the Bible,
Whittier's poems and “ David Copper-
field,” and a pile of well-worn papers;
an old-fashioned rocking-chair with
near it ; and, to complete the curious
mixture of old New England farmhouse
and frontier-cabin, a warming-pan hang-
ing between the windows, its copper
face shining like everything « Ise.
“You think that's a queer thing to
tote out West? said my hostess, who
had already spread a cloth and out on
fresh water to boil for the promised
cup of tea. “I ’lctted on it before 1
was big enough to reach it, hangin’
there in grandmother's kitehen up in
Vermont, an’ when I went West, least
ways what was West forty years ago-—
to Pennsylvany- I took it along for old
times, and thea to Illinois an’ Minne-
You'd say it wasn't much more use than
Timothy Dexter's ship-load for the
West Injies; but he made a fortune out
o' that, an’ I sort of expect good luck
from this one. Now, before that
kettle biles, you might freshen up a
mite. The heft of it we won't do
nothin’ to till you've had your tea,”
Words can never tell the delight of
that fresbening—first in cold water in
a real wash-basin, then the tea, drank
to an accompaniment of narrative
poured out as if mere speech were a
gift straight from heaven. An in-
domitable cheerfulness, a resolute
grasp of these shadowy threads of life,
seemed the strongest characteristic of
this creature in whose faded eyes quick
gleams of expression came and went,
and whose alertness and even vivacity
were miraculous testimonies to the im-
perious will that governed the frail
body, no matter what human weakness
interposed.
In the beginning, the story proved
one I had often heard—the exodus of
forty years before, when New England,
more especially its northern portion,
seemed emptying itself into the West,
the white-covered, heavily-laden wagons
passing day by day through the old
towns, gazed upon by the more con-
servative with apprehension and dis-
may.
‘I hankered after home; I do it even
now, once in a great while,” the shad-
OWy woman went on; “but I ain't
goin’ to dwell onthat. Likely's not
you've heerd forty folks say the same
thing. But what you hain’t heerd I'm
goin’ to tell yon now. He came from |
Maive, as maybe, I don’t sav—born a
lumberman, an’ his father one before
him. Av’'so, when Minnesota opened
up, it come easy to put out o' Illinois, |
where farmin' never suited him, an’
where there wasn't a stick o' timber,
except along the river-bottoms, an’ he
always half pinin’ for it. He knows his
business an’ soon fel into work, an’ we |
settled down in Minneapolis; that's |
about as folksy a place as you'll find.
But you gee I wasn’t never over strong,
an’ I'd shook in them bottoms till it's
my belief there wasn’t an inch inside
of me that kept jest the place the Lord
had laid ont to have it keep. Folks
said the trouble was your gall ran ont
into your liver; but I said your liver
ran where it was a mind to, an’ your
stomach into whatever else there ‘was, |
an’ morn’n likely interfered with your
lungs au’ kept you from having a long
breath. That's the way it looked to
me, even after I got settled in Minne-
apolis, for mine got shorter an’ shorter, |
an’ ut last, in spite of me, I was in bed,
an’ the folks sayin’ I shounldn’t never |
see spring,
** Now, the children had died as fast |
as they come almost. There wasn't |
one left ; an’ Hiram is set by natur’ on
what's his own, an’ it seemed as if he
couldn't stand it to lose me, tco. We'd
been unlucky, too—burned out once |
an’ the bank broke that had our money |
in it, snch as it wes—an’ he was pretty |
low ; an’ when time come to go up to |
camp he balf broke down, an’ he said: |
Malviny, I can’t. Supposin’ you |
shouldn't be here when I came back. |
I had better go as hand in a mill,
earn less,’
““* Hiram,’ I said, ‘you take me along |
with you.’ You never saw a man look |
more scared, for he thought I was goin’ |
out 0’ my mind. But I hadn't noticed
folks an’ ways for nothin,’ an’ I said:
‘Don’t you know jest as well as the
uext one that the doctors keep sendin’
consumptive folks up into the pineries?
an’ if your camp ain't as good .as an-
other, I'd like to know. I can’t more'n
die, anyway ; an’ I'm sick of bein’ tucked
up in bed an’ an air-tight chokin’ me
day an’ night, an’ I'm goin’ with you.
‘Malviny, you can’t,’ he said, ‘it's all
men, There ain't no place.” ‘Then
make a place,” says I. “'Tain’t fit,’
says he. ‘Women don’t know anything
about a passel of men together.’ ‘Then
the more reason for findin’ out, an’
seein’ if they can’t be made decent,’
says I, ‘if that's what ycu mean, I
feel to know I shan't die if I can git up
there; but go I will, if I have to walk
an’ can’t do more'n ten steps a day.’
“ Well, he knew I was set, an’, though
I didn’t put my foot down very often, I
had it down then, square, an’ he set
in a brown study awhile, an’ he says:
¢ Well, Malviny, ’tain’t no time to cross
you, an’ I never wanted to yet. If you
think you’ll hold out, 1’il start up the
country to-morrow an’ see about havin’
a separate cabin next to camp. They’re
fixin’ for winter now, an’ 1 kin go an’
come in a week. But I don’t see how
youw’ll stand it, an’ I don’t believe you
will.’ ‘Then I can be buried in ‘the
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an’ |
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woods,” says I; ‘I always did have a
pine trees,
* Wall, he went off; an’ I will say I
didn't see myself how I could live till
he got back, for 1 had another time of
raisin’ blood that very night, It came
pourin’ straight out; but I said: * 1
won't give in. It ean’t all run out,
| oalenlate there'll be enough left
keop me goin,’
“ Folks wouldn't believe it, but by
the time Hiram got back I could orawl
to the window, 1 sot there when he
came in sight, an' he was astonished as
you'd waat to see, But he had to lay
in an’ git picked for goin’ up, an’ the
very morning all was ready I must needs
come down again. Well, he waited a
day, an' then he says: ‘I'll go with the
load, Malviny, an’ fix up a bit, an’ then
I'll come back an' take you up on a
empty sled, so's to make room for a bed
an’ things for you to go easier,” °*
wan't to go now,” I says; ‘l shall be
dead if I don't! Well we argued some
back an’ forth, an’ at last he says: ‘It
ain't no use, Malviny. All's ready now,
an' I'm goin' now, an’ I'll come back
for you as I said;' an’ off he started for
the barn. I was up that minute an’
into my warm things in spite of Mrs,
Smith tryin’ to stop me, an’ when he
drove round an' come in I jest walked
to the door. ‘No, you don't,’ he says,
an’ jest took me up an’ laid me on the
bed an’ run.
** What got into me then 1 couldn’
tell; Lord carried me along, 1 reckon,
Anyway, I ran too, Mrs. Smith after
me, an’ Hiram jest drivin® off, an’ there
I stuek to the runner and wouldn't let
go. Hiram was pale as a ghost, an’
most eryin’, an’ he says, ‘For the Lord's
sake, back, Malviny,’ an’ |
BAYS, * For the Lord's sake 1
won't,’ an’ jest crawled up into
the buffaloes alongside o' him. * There's
one chance in a million of your gettin’
there alive,’ he says, ‘an’, if you're
bound to go on that one, we'll try it,
that's all;’ an’ off we went.
** Well, whether "twas the notion or
the air away from the air-tight, or ear
ryin’ the p'int, I couldn't tell, but I grew
more an’ more chirp with every mile,
eat quite a dinner, an’ slep’ night,
an’ Hiram he jest kept still an’ waited.
I knew he was waitin’. But we got
through at last, an’ into these very pine
woods beginnin’ Crow Wing.
sniffed "em, an’ knew life was in "em if
it was anywheres. When Hiram drove
up before the camp, sn’ Smith, the
overseer, come out, he looked a minute,
an’ then swore right out: ‘ Bo
you tarnin’ into a blamed fool at vour
time o' life, to be bringin’ a dead
woman into camp? he says. Bat I
knew I wasn't anywheres near dyin’,
an’ Smith knows it too, now. I'd
give a sight if he wasn't below. He's
80 contented to have me round again,
he says he don't care if we never stir
from here the rest of our lives: aun’ I'm
sure I don't an’ wouldn't. I walk under
them pines, an’ small "em deep in’ an’ 1
says, ‘Here's your life-elixir, an’ no
mistake: aa' if folks knew it th
wouldn't die in little close rooms, 1
come out under ‘em. I was always a
master- hand for ont-doors, an' he helps
along the house-work, so't we can gar.
den together, an’ Shahweah does what
ne an’ me ain't a mind to. Mostly as
long as daylight lasts I putter round
outside ; an’ I ain't sure but what I
shall be an old woman yet, even if 1
bain't but a piece of a lung left.’
‘As for them men, you never see
twenty fellows more set on bein’ agreea
ble than they was. For all havin’ to
whisper, I always managed to make 'em
hear, an’ I did odds an’ eads for ’em,
an’ they went in an’ out, an’ told stories,
an’ sung, an’ one night I even danced ;
an’ I never had a more sociable winter.
I thought he'd be a leetle lonesome
when they went below; but he takes a
sight of comfort in the paper—wa've
had it from the beginnin'—an' he don't
seem to mind one mite. I always read
considerable, an’ I go over an’ over the
faw books we've got, an’ find somethin’
new every time. And I expect you'll
laugh when I tell you the only thing
that ever makes me lonesome or skeery,
'Tain’t Injins; I don't see but what
they're folksy enough, when you git
It's loons, 1 say
they're the lonesomest thing in natur’,
an’ when they holler I jest crawl all
over. Bat then I can git along even
with them, An’ now I'd like to know
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Lippincott. -
How They Used to Travel,
In the sixteenth year of the reign of
the first turnpike road where toll was
taken, which intersected the connties of
Hertford, Cambridge and Huntingdon,
tury, however, most of the merchandise
perted on pack-horses through short
Between distant places a
cart was used, a pack-horse not being
able to transport a sufficient quantity
eight miles, required a fortnight for
In
1678 a coach for passengers between
forty-four miles,
completed in six days. In 1750 the
one hour and a half.
stage coach between Edinburgh and
London. They started once a month
from each of these cities. It took a
fortnight to perform the journey.
In 1835 seven coaches started daily
performed the journey in less than forty.
eight hours.
In 1763 the number of passengers by
the coaches between London and Edin-
burgh could not have exceeded about
twenty-five monthly. In 1835 the
coaches conveyed about 140 passengers
daily,
Until the close of the last century
the internul transport of goods in Eng-
land was performed by wsgon, and was
80 expensive as tu exclude every object
except manufactured articles and such
as, being of light weight and small bulk
in proportion to their value, would al-
low & high rate of transport. Thus the
charge from London to Leeds was at
the rate of £13 a ton, being 13 1.24. per
ton per mile. Between Liverpool and
Manchester it was 40s. a ton, or 156d per
ton per mile. Heavy articles, such as
coal and other materials, conld only be
available for commerce where their
position favored transport by sen, and
consequently many of the richest dis-
tricts of the kingdom remained unyro-
ductive.
General Budlong A. Morton, alias
Thomas A. Marvin, the celebrated
swindler and bigamist, has earned a
term of solitary confinement by an at-
tempt to break out of the Virginia pen-
itentiary. .
Philadelphia has an artist named
Swords hen eight years of age he
was only a little bowie,
HEALTH HINTS,
Ohio, who had rhenmatism nineteen
YEAS, says the following is wha! oured
him: ** 1 quart rye whisky, 1 oz wild
oherry bark (root), 1 prickly ash
root, 1 oz Yi How dock root, 1 oz spike
nard root, 1 ox gaenetian root, 1 oz
gum myrrh If one bottle don't cure
you, try another. Take three drinks a
day. Two bottles cured me."
White bread alone will not support
animal life,
grain will. The experiment has been
tried in France by Magendie. Dogs
were the subject of the trial, and every
care was taken to equalize all the other
conditions to proportion the quantity
of food given in each case to the
weight of the animal experimented
upon, and so forth. The result was
sufliciently marked. At the end of forty
days the dogs fed solely on white bread
died,
of the
Of,
whole grain remained vig
orons, healthy and well nourished
The habit of commencing dinner
with soup has without doubt its origin
in the fact that aliment in this fluid
form—in fact, readily digested-—soon
enters the blood and refreshes the
nungry man, who, after a considerable
fast and much activity, sits down with
a sense of exhaustion to aommence
principal meal. In two or min
utes after be has taken a plate of good
warm soup, the feeling of exhaustion
disappears and irritability gives way to
he rising good-fellowship
with the circle. The soup introduces
at onee into the system a small install
ment of ready digested food, and saves
the short pericd of time which must
be spent by the stomach in deriving
some nutriment from solid aliment, as
well indirectly strengthening the
organ of digestion itself for its forth.
coming duties,
his
\
taree
sense of
as
— AS
What the Japanese Eat,
M. T. Van Buren, United States con-
sul general at Japan, presents in a
blue book some interesting facts in
regard to the food of the Japanese peo
ple. With a population of 80,000,000
people, there to be found in the
whole country but little more than
1,000,000 head of cattle, Of these only
600,000 can be considered fit for foe i
Therefore there are but two head of
cattle for each ome hundred people,
whereas in the United Bilates we have
for one hundred mouths seventy-thre,
cattle to fill them. Japan slaoghters
however, 36,000 head of
than one-half of which is « by the
foreign population, the rest being con
sumed by the Japanese army and navy.
Mutton and pork are, outside of the
treaty ports, almost unknown,
Fish enters largely into the food of
the people. Mr. Van Buren mentions
that “ood, salmon, herring, mackerel,
salmon trout, carp, eels, skate mullet,
catfish and plaice are plentiful and
cheap.” It is known that govern
ment has {aken t: I in
regard. to fish culture, and endeavors
in every way to increase the products
of the sea, sending for all American
publications on these topics. The con
sul states that * one-half of the people
eat fish every day, one-quarter two or
three times a week, and the balance
perhaps once or twice a month.” It is
their habit to eat a great many vari
eties of fish raw. But the Japanese
are more essentially vegetarians than
even the Chinese, and all the land
marine plants, with the tubers, seem
to be placed under contribution,
Among excentional food plants Mr,
Van Buren mentions an acorn which
grows on a small bush from three
four feet high; it has less sugar than
the nut from the chestnut tree of
America, but has the merit of being
free from astringent avd bitter quali.
ties. Large quantities of these nuts
are gathered, dried and eaten by the
people in varions ways. We hear a
is
callie, more
¢ alten
the
active measures
to
anese use in large
stance which they call ame.
quantities a
the starch of the rice or mallet into
up to a bard candy
very large,
5555
Law Expenses.
Twenty-eight years ago a citizen of
dollars, which he bequeathed by will to
his son of the same name. Bat the will
favor of the heirs, the son being dead.
be worth about $35,000. All the rest
has been swallowed up in law expenses,
This is not by any means an excep
tional case, but it fairly illustrates the
rapid increase of the expenses of liti
cably adjusted by compromise,
A still more striking case has recent
courts of the Middle States. A
advantage of some legal technicality to
suits before a local magis
trate against large numbers of non-resi-
property holders and business
of money. In all these cases the par-
ties—very well knowing that they owed
no such money—neglected to appear
before the magistrate to plead in the
cases, Of course judgment was given
against them by default. Then the
game was to permit these judgments to
remain unnoticed until after the time
had expired for taking appeals. When
that was done the claims were put into
the hands of the regular judicial an-
thorities for collection, and of course
had to bo paid.
I ——— 555
Barnum and the Bunko Man,
An old gentleman strolling leisurely
up Broadway, New York, was accosted
by a well-dressed young man, who
slapped bim on the back, saying :
“Why Mr. Williams, how are you ?
How are all the friends in Scranton
“My name is not Williams,” was the
reply, “and I don’t know anything
about Seranton.” The young man in-
sisted that he could not be mistaken
and followed, talking volubly, till the
elderly gentleman turned round and
eaid : “Look here. My name is P. T,
Barnum, and unless you clear out im-
mediately I'll have you behind the bars
in the nearest police station in less
than five minutes, I was a resident of
this city before you were born. Now
go.” And he went.
Senator Fair lives in Charles Sum-
ner's old quarters at Washington. The
senator is the richest man in Congress,
and probably the richest officeholder in
the world, His leisure is devoted to the
study of finance,
SUNDAY READING,
A Peoulinry Prayer,
church, Chicago, has abandoned peti
tional prayer, and in place of saving
“Let us pray,” now says, * Let us hold
communion together.” He prefaced a
| recent sermon by the following mono
logue:
world of eare and foil, that we may
| open them upon a world of peace and
pure reflection, We would leave be
hind all sadness, all anxiety and all
gloomy thought, and take counsel at
this time of our holiest impulses and
our sercnest philosophy, We would
give freo rein to all that is best within
us—to “run and be glorified,” and
banish all that is unworthy and gross
| We come here to think, in order that
presently we may feel. May we think
clearly and honestly, May we stimu
late each other with such enthusiasm
for truth as will lift us above servile
regard for popular opinion, Oh, that
we may be at least true, and uncon.
ventional, and brave with out boust
fulness, And may the truth beget in
us its most blessed fruits, May sym.
pathy be our daily garb, and honor
the habit of our life, May charity
shine in all our sets, and modulate
with its sweet emphasis all our
conversation, May we despise all lit
tleness as unworthy of men. May we
true of heart, gentle of speech,
honest in thought, modest in utter
ance, and above all may our communioa
with each other so beget within us the
spirit of love as that we shall be above
inkind and stupid speech about each
other. May we build up in ourselves
and so also in others, true nobility of
character, being kind to the poor, gen.
tle to the sick, merciful to the fallen
and charitable to the rieh, and thus
help dispel the clouds which conceal
the dawning of humanity's ideal day.
Amen,
be
Keliglons latelligence.
There are in Kansas 200 Presbyterian
churches, with 12 044 members,
of Massa
all purposes last
churches
for
The Baptist
chusetts raised
year $024,004.
Mr. F. Wise, of Ireland, has given
$100,000 toward the restoration of the
cathedral in Cork,
Michigan has 17 Presbyterian
churches, with 16,156 communicants ;
lowa 305 churches, with 20.8512 com-
municants,
The jubilee fund of tha English Con
gregationslists now amounts to $500,
00, all of which bas been raised since
October, 1551.
The Mississippi Northern Methodist
reports 21 952 members,
2.853 probatic ners, 304 churches, val
red at $20,160, and 364 Sunday-schools
The Methodist savs it has reported
2.971 conversions in 1882 It thinks
that as an evangelistic force Methed-
ism shows no signs of weakening, but
many of Hs converts po to other
churches,
4
ot
:
conference
It is reported in Japan that the gov
ernment 1s about to re-establish Shin.
toism as the religion of the state, and
to combat by all possible means Bud.
dhism and the progress made by Chris
tianit
The total! indebtedness reported by
the M: thadist churches in Philadelphia
al the conference of 1581 was $542,967.
{ It has since been reduced to perhaps
$500,000. There are but ten churches
frea from debt,
Archdeacon Macdonald, an Episcopal
missionary in British America, has a
field of work on the confines of the
Arctic circle extending over about
twenty degrees of longitude. About
1,500 natives have been baptized, and
more than 100 are communicants,
I aa.
Hints on Calling,
On leaving, never mistake a silk um.
brella for your cotton cne. You may
be termed eccentric.
Do pot wear your muddy gums in the
parlor, and wipe them on the carpet, It
isn't msthetio,
{ If you are requested to “‘eall again”
{ sugaest that yon are willing to take
{ something on account,
Do not attract attention by consult
| ing your watch. You might be mis.
| taken for a car starter,
Do not talk too much of your valua-
{ ble jewelry, The hostess may think
| you have too much “brass.”
| Never commence a conversation by
| referring to the weather. You may be
| taken for a lightning rod agent.
| Donot ask point blank how much
| the paintings cost. Just casually in
| quire where the lady buys her tea,
{ Beware of making free with the dog.
| He may be capable of distinguishing
{ between a gentleman and a roghe.
{ the drawing-room. The odor of cab.
age may be distasteful to the hostess,
Do not make the first call if you are
a newcomer in the neighborhood. Just
wait until yon bave made several.
On entering, always let your lady pre-
cede yon
keep a bad dog you may find it health-
| ier to do ro.
may hurt its feelings.
Do not open or shut doors or win-
room. When you want to get out, climb
through the fan-light.
Do aot tattle,
from one family to another. If you have
a wife let out the job to her. She
do it more effectually,
When a lady bas called who has re
cently returned from a sojourn, do not
wult until she is taking her leave before
her back.” It may sound a little sug
gestive.— Yonkers Statesmen,
- IIs
A Touching Inc dent,
Midlothian mines, Virginia.
tendent Dodds mounted a coal ear and
and children, said:
it grieves me to have to state to yon
bodies of those you knew and loved
will have to be abandoned, You know
what fire in a coal mine means, and it
may take months of watching to sub-
due it. We will close the pit now.”
The speeker's voice quivered with
emotion. When he finished, a beanti-
ful little girl of fourteen years, Annie
Crowder, the only daughter of one of
the victims, uttered a piercing seream
and rushed to the mouth of the pit,
crying: “Oh, do not leave my dear
papa to burn down there, Let me get
into the cage to go down after him.
Let me save him.” The strong arms of
the miners held her back as the fragile
thing tried to make her way to the cage,
and more than one blackened face was
made blacker as the hand went up to
wipe away the tears. Men sobbed aloud
and turned away to conceal their emo-
tion. The little girl, finding her pro-
gress barred, swooned at the mouth of
the pit.
How Rugs Are Made,
How many who stop to admire the
carpet dealers
know how the rug is made? That it is
as it lies there warm, soft, bright with
a dozen colors, fruits, birds or figures,
history : First, the border and center
then painted in straight lines upon
paper, containing a ruled scale, and in
the proper colors that are afterward to
This paper rug is
then ent up into strips, each contain.
ing two spaces of the scale, and these
papers are the pattern that the first or
weft weaver is to follow,
In weaving weft a warp beam
say 200 threads in width and a wheep
beam of 100 threads in width are re-
quired. Two threads of the first and
one of the second pass through the
same split in the reed at regular inter.
vals of say one-third of an ineh, the
intervening splits of the reed being
empty. The paper pattern is fastened
to the middle of the work, and the
weaver follows it exnotly as it is paint.
ed; that is, the pattern may need six
hreads of crimson, two of black,
twelve of corn, ten of green olive, and
#0 on, the weaver filling the *‘spot”
exactly as to length and color. Having
woven the fall length of the papsr as
painted on the left-hand space the
paper is begun again and the painting
in the right-hand space is followed, and
when all the papers which, laid side by
side, form the rug, have been thus
ished.
The roll of weft-cloth is then run
through the cutting machine, a ten ineh
cylinder, around which a costinnous
thread of knife blades is wound, The
eylinder is revolved at a high rate of
speed, and the weft-cloth, passing within
range of the knives, is ent into strips by
them. These strips do not urravel, be-
cause in weaving the wheep thread is
twisted about the two warp-threads and
the filling is locked in. After twisting
each strip to change it from being a flat
thread into a round thread, it is wound
upon a bobbin, aud is ready for the
second weaver, who is called the setter.
The warp of the rug is black flax;
end the setter uses two shuttles, alter.
nately—a small one, containing a bob.
bin of two-ply or three-ply flax, and a
weft. A white thread on each side,
aud one in the middle of the black
Wrap are the guides to the setter, who
soos that certain parts of the weft.
thread come under those white threads
before he presees the welt in Each
bobbin of weft will weave about three
inches of the rag; so, if the rug is one
yard long it will require about twelve
bobbins, which mean twelve pieces of
weft-eloth to complete it. But these
twelve pieces, having each been
eut up into ninetysix identical
strips, will make ninety-six similar
rogs. Therefore should the weft weaver
put in, say, eight thre.ds {one-half inch
in length) of a wrong color ur shade,
that error would appear in ninety-six
rugs. The setter having finished the
ninety six sets of twelve bobhins, the
rugs are ready for finishing. The
machine throngh which they pass cuts
the surface off evenly, and brushes
them free of fragments of the materials
used. This treatment brings out every
detail of the design and heightens the
colors. Most of the rugs made here
are of flax and wool; others
are of silk and shoddy
silk. The weft for the silk rugs has
eight strips to the inch, and to ent it
requires 288 knife blades, each one of
which must have a razor edge. The
weft cloth and the blades must be set
to a picety, since the variation of
the sixteenth of an inch would make
the knives cut the 288 threads instead
of the filling between the threads.
There is a firm in Glasgow, SBootland,
who manufacture for the roval houses
of Europe such elaborate designs as the
Lord's supper, the weft-weaver, in
some oases, using 400 different shuttles,
.
bric-a-brae. The lacquer ware of Bur
mah is not so well known, and is dis-
tinguished by an extreme thinness and
flexibility. The supreme test of excel.
in until
the
be bent
breaking
varnish,
do not admit of reproduction by West-
they touch
ware or cracking the
character of the materials used. It was
onoe thought that
Japanese lacquered goods were a spe.
tree,
A Burman has farnished to an Eng-
of the mysteriesof the flexible Barmese
lacquered ware. It seems that the
smooth, polished articles of that sort
are really bamboo baskets,
mese forests grows a huge tree whose
leaves can hardly be seen for masses
of creamy white blossoms, with a fra-
grant apple odor. These blossoms
the tree is obtained a dark, thick juice
that becomes jet black upon exposure
to the air, The finely plaited bamboo
ward pastes, composed of the thit see
juice and certain wood dusts are laid
The surface is
polished by rub.
juice and bore ashes,
smoothed and
of a powdered, petrified wood.
Red is almost invariably the ground
color, but a curious checker work is
show the black wood oil through the
The colors used in
decoration of the ware are
oils, In this way the Burmese make
and strength, from small drinking cups
betel boxes up to an elaborate
structure six feet high, with
sacred spires, which the king sends
laden with food under the royal um-
brellas to a celebrated pagoda in Man-
Toe thit-see juice has many uses, Ap-
plied to marble or clay images it en-
ables them to take on gilding. Um-
brellas are always varnished with it to
make them impervious to rain, and all
the racing and war boats in the country
are aade by it more water-tight than
the best calking in the world could
effect,
se ————————
The Panama Canal,
Should the projected canals across
the Isthmus of Panama ever be com-
pleted, it will be at a terrible cost of
human life. The climate is very un
healthfal and laborers cannot; be pro-
vided with proper food.— Dr, Foote's
Health Monthly.
A rich Frenchman who had a desire
to know how a camel roast would taste,
paid $4,000 for an snimal to get his
roast from, It tasted like beef.
FOR THE LADIES.
Kpring Millinery.
{last through a season, and the fine
| straws are made as light as chip, and
are far more dursble., English split
{ ind most favor, as they come in very
{are very light in weight; these are
| and ecru, and are in all the new shapes
{both of bonnets and round hats.
{These fine straws are also colored
deep green, brown, blue, garnet
{and black for bonnets to wear with
{ special costumes, or with white or black
| dresses,
| The red hats that were so fashionable
| Inst summer are repeated in darker
| shades, and in these smooth light
{ braids as well as in the heavy looking
{rough straws. Manila
i
i
i
i
i
i
i
i
{ brimmed round hats. The porcupine
| were worn alike for dress and undress
| hats last year, Satin straw, Milan and
pote bonnets that will be chosen for
| dress, and also for the larger shapes
| for watering places,
| Theyellowish Tuscan braids are always
| liked for summer bonnets, and are now
| largely imported in plain,
prove popular. In the new bonnets
two kinds of Tuscan braids are com-
bined; the principal part of the bonnet
is the plain Tuscan, and there are in.
| sertions of the lace straw laid flat in
the crown and like a border on the
brim, Thick clusters of loops of braid
are imported in all the new shapes for
horsehair or erinoline straws known as
Neapolitan braids, but hitherto these
they cannot be commended.
The new shapes are not new, but
showing larger pokes, wider brimmed
round bats, and small eapotes. The
pokes have crowns of various shapes—
round, tapering and almost square—
while the front projects upward so high
that the fashion of trimming next the
face will have to be resorted to in onder
| to fill up this great space.
| for this purpose, stuck about irregularly
in the way seen in the bonnets of a
hundred years ago. There are also
worn just across the upper
| inside brim of pokes, and to be placed
at will, as best becomes the wearer's face,
on the pew round hats,
of dressy small bonnets, almost cover
ing one side of them, while on the
| feathers. Rather smail flowers are im-
| For medium small bonnets the corcnet
| rolled back like a corvnet. The round
hats retain the large shapes of last year
that are capable of being made so pie-
turesque and becoming. The brims
are very wide and flat, and are without
wires, 50 that they can be made into
almost any desired shape, but it is said
they will be worn quite flat on the head,
in peasant fashion, with the brim
straight all around.— Harper's Bazar,
Fashion Notes
New trains are pear-shaped.
Gold tulle trims evening dresses,
Velvet dresses need little trimming.
Yellow diamonds are in great favor,
Guipure guimps are in new dresses.
Silver gray is revived as a fashionable
| dress color.
Buttercup yellow is a fashionable
| spring color.
Bonnets grow larger and the poke
| shape prevails,
| American silks and satins are winning
[ new praise abroad.
| Flowers on dinner tables grow more
| and more in fashion.
Aisthetic dress grows more and more
in favor in England.
| Large polka dotted Spanish lace neck-
! scarfs are in high favor.
Lace will be as popular as ever for
| trimming summer toilets.
black crepe de chine are much worn.
the costliest and most elegant wraps.
Colored Spanish lace appears
spring wear.
| bons strings.
| trimming bonnets,
i
| season, and come in all the new desira-
ble shades of color,
Bonnets, muffs, pelerines, dress
trimmings and fans made of peacock
feathers are much favored.
Feather bands are considered more
elegant than fur ones as trimmings for
| the richest wraps and costumes.
Pale pink and silver are very fash
{ionably combined in toilets designed
for young ladies’ dancing parties,
{| Feathers and jeweled combs are
| more fashionable for evening coiffures
{ than flowers, eitker real or artificial,
Long haired India cashmere, just be-
cause it is uncommon and unpreten-
| tious, is nsed alongside of the richest
{ silk, velvet and plush cloaking fabrics
| for wraps of high ceremony.
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How an Alligator Eats.
An slhgator's throat is an animated
sewer, Everything which lodges in his
open month goes down. He is a lazy
dog, and instead of hunting for some-
| thing to eat he lets his victuals hunt
{for him. That is, he lies with his
mouth open, apparently dead, like the
‘possum. Soon a bug crawls into it,
then a fly, then several gnats and a
colony of mosquitoes. The alligator
don’t close his mouth yet. He is wait-
ing for a whole drove of things. He
does his eating by wholesale. A little
later a lizard will cool himself under
the shade of the upper jaw. Then a
few frogs will hop up to catch the mos-
quitoes. Then more mosquitoes and
gnats light on the fiogs. Finally a
whole village of insects and reptiles
sottle down for an atternoon pienie,
Then all at once there is an carthquake.
The big jaw falls, the alligator slyly
blinks one eye, gulps down the entire
menagerie and opens his great front
door again for more visitors.— Florida
Lastier,
.
FACTS AND COMMENTS,
It is estimated that as the result of =
persecntion of Jews in Russia, 100,. RUMOR OF £ J DAY.
A twofoot rule—Keep |
“Iomnotsobad as I am
said th» fashionable woman.
The bashful lover who can’t
bis fedlings cften sends ' them
* President ” Taylor, of the Mormon
married twenty-
eighth wife - a Massachusetts widow.
turbances with the other wives, and
discipline, that the * President ” had to
rs
“ 141 thought Iwas going te
, I know { should
AF When she turned gr
cinco,
—
” Wilson Waddingham 1s & %>w York
millionaire whose fame has not winged
itself very far away from home. He is
said to have made a million in one oper-
ation in mining stock last year. He
owns & million and half acres of land in
New Mexico, there being upon the
range 80,000 cattle, He has just built
ven.
A losomotive fireman on the Northern
Pacific road becsine insane, ov
rate of a mile a minute. The engineer
managed to get the upper hand of his
just iu time to prevent a collisior, The
isappeared on the prairie. It was a
Fishermen at Astrakban were over-
taken with a shocking calamity during
parts of Russia They are wont to go
Student (not very clear as to his lass
son) —* That's what the
gale swept over the place, b up 3
every one of uch damage was
being uprooted, and the roof of the new
exhibition building blown off.
The practice of keeping hives of bees
the prefect of poiice has issued an or-
der forbidden it for the future, except
in the case of persons who shall have
8
preamble of the decree represents the
great danger to the populstion of the
existence of so large a number of bees
to have
my face w
opinion of the council of public health | I ne'er was more infatuated
Than
for the department of the Seine con-
New York juries have givens man
$10,500 damages for having his eve put
out by the shattering of a pane of g
knee-pan got in a horse-car. In the
car told the conductor where she wished
to get out; he forgot it and went by at
a rapid rate; she motioned to him with- | dinner fell on the company
stinger in the corner said,
trust that yon sre not familiar
new ones.” —38t. Louis Hers,
This is a Fashionsble Res'sorant.
Do you not see the pi i y
Do yo the Window
bread for
car stopped suddenly. A passenger's
this with her inertia threw the woman
heavily upon the floor. The railroads
are finding out that people have rights td the
The German carp, the valuable food-
States, is making its way to all parts of
it with grest rapidity. Mr. Abel
Wright, who began with two or three
dozens of the carp three years ago,
thinks that he now has st least a mil-
lion in his pond at Griffen, Ga He
has sold more than 5,000 at twenty
dollars a hundred, and cannot keep up
they will go in, but he Wishes he :
thought of a better Lie to tell ber.—
Elevated Railway Jowrwal.
WISE WORDS,
g without
almost see the carp grow, so rapidly
Green | Everyth :
vidual that 3
that
does it increase in size. A
asserts that an acre of water can be
made as profitable as an acre of land,
and it does not cost much to make the
experiment,
The Botanical garden at Washington
bas a curious history. It has grown up
with little help from the law. When
the Wilkes exploring expedition re-
turned to the United States about forty
vears ago it brought back from the
South Pacific certain rare specimens of
flora of those regions, and Congress ap-
propriated $1,200 to have them prop-
erly cared for, and as a report of the
expedition was to be published under
the direction of the committee on li-
brary the care of the botanical speci
mens was placed under its supervision.
Of course the thing grew, till now the
Botanic garden is an ** institution”
which costs about $15,000 a year and:
upon which, first and last, nearly $600,-
Most of us know something about
the discipline of poverty, and feel
quite ready to experience.some of the
awful responsibilities of wealth.
In the voyage of life we should imi.
tate the ancient mariners, who, without
losing sight of the earth, trusted tothe
heavenly signs 1d: Shei: guidance -
Truth can iy expected to
adapt herself to the crooked policy and
wily sinuosities of worldly affairs, for
truth, like light, travels only in straight
lines.
pended. The garden appears to be use-
that respect mainly for the purpose Oupni
other qualities, It floats
tne and vice. There is scarce
. | exigency where its place
Persons holding policies of life in- per ought not, to be
surance would do well to examine them |
for the purpose of ascertaining if any of
ing, * In Cincinnati,” says the Detroit
Free Press, ‘a company recently con-
i through
the clouds, while others make you feel
58 though a sudder cast wind, with its
arms of cold fog, had caught you
with too thin clothing on.
Experience always leads to modesty
wher oh y used. It never leads to
The | boastful confidence or to self- iP
It has been too often rebaked to claim
infallibility, and too often humiliated
to set up a primacy that may not be
challenged.
There is no kind of achievement yon
could make in the world that is equal
to perfect health. What to it are nug-
gets and millions? The French finan-
cier said: “Why, is there no sleep to
be sold ?” Slecp was not in the market
at any quotation.
Picking Out the Weak Points of a Hl
The weak points of a horse ean
better discovered while standing ing th
while moving. If he is sound be
stand firmly and squarely on Lis lis
without moving any of them, with
plomb and naturally por n
TE te ar hehe
pointing o and t
ruised, or if the foot is lifted from +
round and the weight taken from it,
: ey may De Suspected, be 4
tenderness, which is a preearsor of
ease, If the horse stands 1
while
in the poliey, that she
could recover, because the proof
showed that deceased died from cramp;
but there is no cemainty that other
courts will follow the ruling, especially
in cases where death results from
bathing in a tub and not in the sea.
To persons unaccustomed to the bath
the former, like the latter, would be ‘a
voluntary exposure to obvious and un-
necessary dangers,’ and might result in
death. Wherefore, it is best to exam-
ine the policies,”
An Opium Den in New York.
A New York police captain recantly
visited an opium den in First street,
that city. The smokingaoom is a
small place in the center of a basement,
admission to which costs twenty-five
cents. Six men and ore woman, all
well-dressed Americans, ocenpied two
beds and were engaged in preparing
the drug for smoking. One of them
said he had not left the place in three
weeks, and that he had spent in that
time about §2 per day for opium. The
woman said she was a Californian, and
that she came to New York city because
the laws in California prohibited opium
smoking. Bowls of strong tea without
milk or sugar were oceasionall
brought to the smokers, and they dran
copiously of it. Oae of the attendants
sald that most of the patrons of the
place were actors and actresses, some
of whom were well «nown and very
popular,
es.
Professor Riley says that theheat and
dropght of the past sumer have killed
off the Hessian fly, and that immunity
from its attacks may be expected for | heard
some years to come. cd
-
vy
Bluish or mil
dicate moon
kin is r ugh and bard,
§