The Morning,
* Who hath begotten the drops of dew
Life too hath dew-drops. "Neath the sun
Each with an eye most diamond bright,
Views gladly in the morning light
What fingers of the night have done.
n darkness faith like sight grows dim,
But when the sun drinks up each cloud
That drapes her heart with heavy shroud
Bhe sees the jewels left by him.
Who works in secret, silent ways
We cannot with our blinded eves
Behold, until a vision rise
That tenderly his love displays.
~(bitage Hearth,
YOLUME XV,
—
II
the resi she added the charm of a de. :
lightfal voice, low, clear, expressive,
and whon nhe laughed it was more de- |
lightfal still. |
‘But you will come,” he heard the
girl say, ecoaxingly. |
“I'm not sure. 1 have something to
| do this morning."
The Weather Vane,
To what shall | compare
The veering mind I bear?
Yon minion of the sir,
Yon gilded shaft, my chosen emblem I declare
I tarn about, about; i
Controlled by every rout
That trains with Hope or Doubt; “Oh, don't do it. Lat it go for this
Who smiles I smile again, or answer flout with | Oe day. We want you so much.”
+ flout. FE. Shh as 4 chaperon, surely.
{ mstef is going with you."
Within the draft Pm canght | “ No, ol ¥ chapeton. We want you
Of all provailing thought; { for yourself. Do come, Lila.”
By many masters taught,
: “So that's her name—and a pretty |
Their varying precepts I donfuse and bring to
one, too. Liliacewm, the lily genius; she |
naught,
A changeling me they call;
is rather like a golden lily,” meditated |
Master Robert, while apparently deep in |
I have nostay, in all
No shield, no rampart-wall;
| his breakfast,
{ safely drift about—lot others stand or fall!
Your
“Well, Sue, I'll consider the matter, |
| and send word over by 11 o'clock,” said |
| the flute vioce opposite.
I bend, I do not break; “You bad thing! I'm dreadfully i
I light obeisance make | sUspicious that that means you won't |
To scourging storms that rake go,” pounted the other.
The harvest from the flold and shattered forests | ‘‘No; it only means that I am not
take. sure." The two rose and went out to-
: i gether, Robert heard the rattle of the
Since nothing hers I see | bnekboard as it dashed down the street,
In Sulabiliy, {and thought, *“ At dinner she will be
1 1 Will agree; hera in
Yea, I on Change's cap the nodding plame will Hore at dinner, tea nor break-
be! fast did the fair vision appear; and when
Some good remains behind; | the backboard drove up it brought only
The dlear-perceiviog mind | @ little maid, who delivered a message,
You me, ak losst. aball find and presently drove away again with a
Ani true of al} the temuars of the wind 1 | tT0Y of breakfast. It was not till dinner
index true of all the tempers o ae wind | of the second day that he had another
~ Edith M, Thomas, in August Atlantic glimpse of the lady who had occupied
his thoughts during a considerable por-
A HAULED MEALER. tion of the interval. She wore black |
| now, which Hp her - wall as white. |
se 2 She lookec e, and Robert heard
uate t dave o oa Josfoat inoiniag something of a headache but her smile
8 8 a . was y 3 3,
the light first faintly Stirred, then ly | as § dimmed Sad her voice 43 sweet
ered into fullness ia the east, earth and | fortnight passed, and the situation
Deiliance Epona with ut wagieal | remained wnehanged. Shy by Rature
an eclipse of mist. The islands In the | “23 Stiff by habit, Robert made no ad-
: their clear forms out of the vances to the closer acquaintance of his
hoy juised the water. Beyond. the | [Mr neighbor at table. A bow when she
intents Boroneh Hills Shbrmercd in | tered the roow, another bow when
soft outlines. Close at band, like a | 1 left it—that was all ; yet gradually
bout built and decked by inirica Iay a | there grew over him a sense of inti-
% arrived since the night Lolata | mate relation with her. He knew her
er slender masts and spars hung with | dresses, her attitudes; he guessed at
strings of many-colored uttering flags, | hey Toads, nd ialiowea he light sod
outlined against the deep green of the | Mie i coy B eth : ne A im
Bar Island cliff. Even the prosaic vil- | : agrove ap (aes Bot
ev . : | suspeot i ) i
lags, with its thickly windowed barracks | IPE) TUS loge obacrration on the
sud RR COMOmn s ine te Maiated | only a gentleman-like, taciturn young
hotels, took a certain charm from the | man, absorbed in his breakfast or his
charmed light, and the iY; 3g pking dinner. “Ratheran uncommon face,”
the erfume 3 Sue 56a wii hat o she said to herself, “not quite Ameri-
Jmberloss i Beem ! can,” and then she forgot him. She
breathe fiom paradise. . | usually brought a book or newspaper
Robert Arnold strod in the doorway | with her to table, and busied herself
of Rodiok's ho el, taking in the scene. | with it when no one was sitting with
Nothing but fog had been visible on | her; but this was not often, for she
his arrival the night before, and all was | pad'a large following of young girls,
new and interesting. His eyes dwelt who were forever running across the
with delight on the plumy islands, the | room to discuss plans or whisper im
illumined yacht, theexquisite blues and | portant secrets. Several of these
ocean greens, and noted with amaze- | girly were pretty, and more than ore
ment and curiosity the singularities of hit of graceful by-play was
Bar Harbor architecture. Fresh from |gimed across Miss Musgrove's
8 long course of study in Swiss sem- | honlder at the insensible Robert, but |
inaries and German mining schools, | hg never foand this out. The * hauled |
America to him was less the land of hus | pealer” was the first woman whom he |
birth than a problem to be investigated. | hag over looked at closely, and he did
America and Americans. He had | not seem to see any face bat hers,
been at home too short a time to feel | Motherlass, sisterless, brought up in an
famil’_r with either, and his shy and | q1most conventual atmosphere of study,
—~
flatter of
to the hotel,
the frankness of an older sister, rallied
him occasionally on this peculiarity,
“I can't help it," he would say; “it
is my bringing up.”
* But you are not shy with me.”
“No; but that is differeat,
so what shall I call it ?—so simpatioa,
“Bo would these other ladies pretty
soon if vou gave them a chance.”
But Robert only shook his head.
So, lapped in a foolish paradise, un.
willing or unable to analyze the deep-
ening spell which held him, Robers,
August and into the heart of that golden
September, which is only known to
suddenly, like a frost in ripe roses,
came the blight of hope. Miss Mus-
of days—to Portland, her maid said.
People were quitting the island in
shoals by that time, the hotels were
nearly empty, and the loneliness of
those two duys was in part accounted for
rooms. But when the third morning
came, and Robert, with a sense of re-
viving life, stood ready to help his
friend from her buokboard, the appall-
ing apparition of a gentleman sitting
at her side presented itself—a broad-
shouldered, handsome, brown naval
torship about him, which was as un-
pleasant as it was unaccountable,
“ Who is that ?" Robert demanded of
the clerk, who had come out, as usual,
at the sound of the wheels.
“That ? why that's him.”
“ Her brother?’
‘No: she hain't got no brother as
ever I heard. That's him, I tell you—
Miss Musgrove's husband, He's a
lootenant or somethin’, and his ship's
been cruising down to the Isthmus
‘“ You said she was Miss Musgrove.”
“ Wa'al, so she is
And then it flashed upon Robert that
in the island vernacular married women
and girls were alike “miss ” with the
difference of a letter in orthography,
but no difference at all in pronunciation,
He saw it all now.
a ridioulous mistake as it was! But
bear.
think it over. The more he reviewed
the matter the more uanecessary his
sufferings seemed to him, and the more
Beginning
with a wrong impression, he had never
bad shrank with a foolish shyness from
people, when half an hour of tBeir com-
The girls called
Bo he had gone on and on,
{
AMONG THE LEPFRS,
i
A Ghastly Sight to be Witnessed iu the |
Sandwich Islands. {
A correspondent writes from Hono. |
lulu, Sandwioh Islands: I went with |
Dr. Fitoh to the branch settlement for |
lepers, It is an inclosure of several |
acres on what is called Fishermen's |
point, on Honolulu bay. Soattered |
over the gronnds are scores of cottages, |
some connected, others detached, and |
the «flices and buildings used by Dr. |
Fitoh's assiswants. Imagine, if you |
oan, a settlement of Anglo-Saxons, or
people of any other highly civilized |
race, all of them afflicted with, and all |
more or less deformed, by an incurable |
and horrible disease — knowing it to be |
incurable, and seeing themselves and |
each other dropping to pieces from its
dread effects, i cannot imagine such a
picture, beoanse I honestly balieve that |
suicide would make a settlement im- |
possible among any other than a people |
still barbarians, or else in the ohild. |
hood of civilization. Such was the |
settlement I visited. There were men, |
women and children living in a world |
apart from ours, having nothing worth |
living for save mere existence, a suo- |
cession of days, marked only by slow |
consummation of the death that had |
already seized upon their bodies, and |
had already deprived them of portions, |
which were already returned to dast.
There were in that strange and |
unnatural community marriages, births, |
deaths. I would not attempt to de-
soribe in detail the nnrelieved ghastli-
ness of the sights there, yet not one of
of the scene
That only served to emphasize the
darkness of the picture. I said not one;
yet there was one. On a bed in a little
cottage room, whose open door faced
the dark, cool canons back of the city,
and whose window looked out upon the
lovely bay and let in the lazy murmur
of waves breaking over the coral reefs,
lay a native woman, dying. Nearly all
in the remnants of her fingers she held
across her distorted face, to cool the
had not been
closed for months, the palsied muscles
As the doctor spoke pleasantly to her
she turned ber glaring eves toward us, |
“Her month is af. |
aside from her door to admit a cooling |
from the mountains. The swollen face |
in gratitude for the mountain breeze, |
The mountain's gentle breath had com- |
breathing ceased, too.
In one cotfage we saw a little girl |
whose fingers had been drawn up until |
her hand was half closed. She had ex. |
perimented with a novel eure by calmly
stepping on the bent fingers until she |
had straightened them out. She ex. |
SUNDAY READING,
H——
Hew He Applied It.
“How far may we go in conformity
quently ssked in men's hearts, if not in
80 many words, Have you never heard
the story of a lady who wanted a coach.
man? Two or three called to see her
about the situation, and in answer to
her inquiries, the first applicant skid :
“ Yes, madame, you could no have a
better coachman than myself.”
She replied :
‘““How near do you think you ecounld
drive to danger with ut an accident ?”
“ Madame, I conld go within a yard of
it, and yet you would be perfectly safe.”
“ Very well,” she said, ‘‘you wiil not
suit me.”
The second one had beard the ques.
tion upon which the first one had n
rejected, and therefore he was ready
with his answer :
“Danger, madame, why, I could drive
within a hair's-breadth, and yet be per.
feotly safe.”
“Then you will not suit me at all.”
When number three came in he was
asked :
‘* Are you a good driver ?
“Well,” he replied, “I am careful
and have never met with an accident.”
“But how near do you think you
could drive #0 danger?”
*‘ Madame,” be said, * that is a thing
I never tried; I always drive as far
from danger as ever I can.
The lady at onoe replied :
“You are the kind of a coschman I
want, and I will engage you at ones.”
Get such a conchman as that to guide
your own heart and lead your own
character. Do not see how near you
can go to sin, but see how far you ean
keep away from it. If you do not take
that advice, and if the spirit of God
does not work in yout purity ef life, by
and by the church will have to hold up
its hands and say :
“Who would have thought it.
These were the nice young people of
whom so much was expected ; these
were the good pedple who used to say :
‘You must not be too strict,’ and where
are they now. To avoid the worst,
keep clear of the bad.”
Religions Nows aud Notes,
Mormon mfssionaries are reported
a8 making many converts in Alabama
The work of revising the Oid Testa-
ment will not He completed for two
years,
The Catholio clergymen of London,
England, are about to inaugurate a oru-
sade among ths Iri-hmen of their flocks
against coonection with secret societies
An Indiana man who has attended
camp-meetings for half a century thinks
they have degenerated into the “rich
man's pienie, the minister's social and
The “wickedest woman in England,”
Jane Johnson, has been converted and
is preaching, although eighty-four years
Bhe has been in Leeds prison 240
times and in other jails nearly as often.
In Vicksburg and Memphis the |
*
GROWTH OF THE UNITED STATES,
As Set Forth by Michael G. Mulhall, the
Eminent English Statistician.
In the history of mankind there is no
rallel to the growth of the United
tates, which at the beginning of the
present century was not much ahead of
Portugal, and at present stands before
Great Britian, occupying, therefore, the
foremost rank among nations. First let
us consider the population and wealth,
for men and money are two of the prin.
cipal factors in all that goes to make up
national power,
Per In.
habitant,
$210
21s
200
215
230
420
530
Wealth
§ 1,110,000 000
1,560, 000,000
1,850,000, 000
2,300,000, 00
8, 900,000 600
7.400,000,000
16 800, 000 000
Population,
1800, ,,, §,800,000
1810, ,., 7,200,000
1530, ... 9,600,000
1830. ,..13 900 000
15840, . 17,100,000
1850, , 28,300 000
1860, 8),600,000
1870, ..,.95 600,000 81,200 000,000 810
1880, ,,.50,800,000 49,800,000,000 990
It is remarkable that in 1840 the share
of public wealth to each inhabitant was
not much greater than at the beginning
of the century ; but in the ensuing forty
years the increase has been more rapid
than in any country of Envope. In 1840
Great Britian stood for more than five
times the wealth of the United States
(the valuation of the former country in
that year being £4,100,000,000), but
now you are nearly six milliards of dol.
lars, or £1,200,000,000 shead of the
United Kingdom; for, while taat country
has only doubled its wealth in forty
years, you have seen yours multiply
The highest relative in-
orease in the United States, compared
with population, was between 1850 and
1870, while the decade ending 1880 has
only added twenty four per cent. to the
individual share of public capital. Be-
fore going further, it may be well to
take the chief items of wealth in the
United States :
9,615,000 000
1,850,000, 600
Furniture
Forests, mines, canals
8, 430, 00:0, 000
2,788 000,000
720,000,000
315,060,000
5,252 000 000
$48,770,000,000
The national debt, amounting to
$1,650,000,000, should not be dsducted
from the above, sinoe most of it is held
by Americans, and the same may be
said of municipal or other local debts.
Until the publication of the census re.
port for 1880 [ shall not have an exact
official statement of the various items
of wealth; but in the meantime the
sbove may be regarded in every in:
stance as approximately ocorrect—that
is, within a margin of five per cent.
either way. There can be no doubt
that the influx of emigrants
Shipping
Public works, eto, ,
to the increase of public wealth; but it
is no less certain that such a rapid rise
of population has kept down the ratio
of wealth per inhabitant, and hence
the increase per head in the decade
ending 1880 has been less than in
the preceding ones. It may be inter
SS ——
NUMBEF. 33.
FACTS AND COMMENTS,
The Methodists have made arran
ments to celebrate the one hundredth
anniversary of the organization of their
first conference by a general conference
in Baltimore in December, 1884. In
honor of the occasion they will Mise a
fund of §2,000,000 to be spplied equally
to ohurch extension, edacstion and
foreign missions.
Tha chances are that Ameriea will
have to supply the whole of the Egyp-
tisn defleiency in eotton,
stock of cotton is very light in Giest
Britain, while East India cotton cannot
come into the English market before
the end of January, even should the
Buez canal remain open. When the
East India cotton does come, it requires
an sdmix‘ure of sixty per cent. of
American cotton to be made available
for the English machinery, Al er,
the outlook is very promising for re-
munerativa prices for the American cot-
ton crop of the current year,
The silk association of America re
ports the products of the Jont ending
June 30, which amounted value to
about §35,000,000, are triple the value
of the products of the factories tem
years ago. Biace 1870 the product and
the productive capacity of the industry
have very greatly increased. Within
the decade the number of factories en~
gaged in silk manufacture bas increased
from eighty-six to o88, while the loms
increased from 1,500 to 8,000, and the
hands employed from 6,600 to 81,300,
| The wages paid rose in ten years from
| $2,000,000 to $3,000 000, and many new
Btates not previously engaged in the
industry began to manufacture silk and
| now have factories at work. These
| States are Maine. Rhode Island, Cali-
| fornia, Illinois, Kans s and Missouri.
m——_
The salmon fisheries of the United
| Btates have increased more than twenty
| fold within ten years, and last year's
product was nearly a million cases,
| worth five million dollars. Bat the
' result of this vast business is that the
| southerly and more accessible rivers are
| becoming fished out, as the greed of
the fishermen has extended to the cap-
tare of the salmon which are on the
| way to their spawning places. The
| Baoramento and even the seemingly in-
| exhaustible Columbia are suff ring
| from this cause. The more distant
| waters of British Columbia and Alaska
| are still bountiful, but they will be
| ruined in their turn by such methods of
| fishing. The experience of the Atlantic
lo'nst should tesch the Pacifie to
| guard its treasures by appropriate Jaws
| regulating the time and manner of fish-
ing, lest it be compelled to go through
| the process of restocking,
| The 13th day of next December will
| bo the fiftieth annivarsary of the first
| election of Mr. G ; d's
| prime minister, to parliament, and
| some of the more enthusiastic admirers
| of ** the grand old man” propose to hold
| a jubilee on that occasion. Mr, Glad-
| stone was then as rabid a tory es he is
| now an uncompromising liberal. His
| address to the electors was dated from
five years old, but his
ATomantio aus, and Ji
the University of d, in
Latrobe went with A, Beis
made: 8 mere being
unable to sanction & law or. enforce an
order without his prime minister's con-
sent, while Latrobe controlled the
. Things went on 0
a ce
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fingers straight and stiff, snd as useful | orously as to seriously interfero with | wealth in the decade just ended wonld
as so many wooden pegs would have | travel. The traasfer of passengers from | be sufficient to buy up the whole Aus
beams" | the trains to the boats is prohibited. | trian empire, or to pay for the aggre-
| : | gate value of Italy, Holland and Bel.
Oat on what is called the playground | Ther: are twenty ministers in the | 8 thc lo, the average of
The only comfort was that she had not
been in the least to blame. and that she
need never know his mistake or the pain
it caused him.
A little note reached the brown cot-
the Clinton Arms, Newark, on the 9th
of October, 1832, and the nomination
took place on the following 11th of
December. Two days afterward Mr.
Gladstone was returned at the head of
studious habits and lack of familiarity | ho had seen but shadows in a glass so
with society were a barrier to easy | far; now the shadows were taking sub- |
acquaintance. He lingered now, wateh- | stance, and like Philammon, the youth- |
ing with a veiled interest the crowd | fq] monk of the Laura, he was filled
descending to breakfast. Papas and | | weresome boys playing ball, one with a | [Fish Presbyterian chareh who have |
mammas, with their broods of lively, |
noisy children ; college students, brown |
with tan and muscular with oar practice;
girls innumerable, in all styles of blonde |
and brunette, but all pretty, as it |
seemed to him, marvelously pretty, |
and wonderfully well dressed, with ease |
of manner and aplomb such as no other |
girls of his limited experience had eve
possessed. There was a difficulty in
this universal prettiness, Likea bee in |
s wilderness of flowers, his eves hovered |
over the broad field of beauty, sated by |
"possibility, and puzzled whereto alight, |
while gay good-mornings were ex- |
changed, and an increasing clatter from |
the dining-room beyond showed that |
the morning meal was well under way. |
A rattling sound attracted his atten- |
tion; and looking out, he beheld a |
ost |
a broad elastio plank swung between |
four wheels, fitted = with a couple of |
seats, and drawn by a rough small |
horse—a ““buckboard,” in short, familiar |
enough to New England eyes, buta
most remarkable vehicle to those of
Robert Arnold, who had never before
seen anything like it in any quarter of
.the globe.
Its occupant, besides the boy who
drove it, wus a young lady in a careless
wrap or shawl, and a hat tied on * any-
how” over a thick knot of anburn-
chestnut hair, who descended without a
word, and floated past him without a
glance, but whose face and air produced |
sudden excitement in the breast of our
young metallargist, |
“Who was that,” he demanded -o!
the hotel clerk, a true son of the soil,
who, availing himself of a brief leisure,
bad come out to snuff the morning
gale,
“That ?—who? Ob, her, She's one
of them hauled meilers,”
“One of —what did you say #
““Mealers—haunled mealers,”
“What under heaven is a hauled
mealer ?” demanded Robert, completely |
mystified. . :
The clerk surveyed him with a eon-
fempt bus slightly tinged with pity.
“Why, where were you brought
up?’ he said. * Hain’t you never heard
before of a mealer ? Mealers sleep out
and come in for meals. When they're
hauled in buckboards like that one
they're hanled mealers. See? Guess
you ain’t one of our country people?”
“Yes, Tam. I'v: been one, at least;
but it's fifteen years since I've been in
the United States, and I never came to
Mount Desert before, and never heard
of a mealer. Do you know this lady’s
name ?”’
“Well, yes, but it's kinder slipped
my memory for the moment. Musty—
ustard—Musgrove. That's it—Miss
Musgrove. She's stayin’ over to one of
them small cottages on the bank, snd
she’s made an arrangement with Ira
Higgins’ folksto be hauled down to
Ler meals.”
By a bappy chance, as Robert con-
sidered it, he fom d himself, when he
strolled in to a belated breakfast,
seated opposite the “hanled mealer.”
She seemed to have no party with her,
but a pretty girl in a blue boating suit
nad pulled a chair close to hers and
was chattering away in girl fashion,
while Miss Musgrove trifled with her
toast and languidly stirred a cup of
ambignous soffee.
With every glance he ventured Rob-
ert found her face more and more in-
{eresting. Not beautiful exactly, not
girlish exactly, but fair with youth and
the full fairness of womanhood. There
was an arch softness in the mouth, a
sweet gravity in the beattifully set dark
brown eyes. The chestnut hair rippled
like the hair of a Greek bust. The very
turn of the elbow and curve of the
slender wrist were full of character and
grace. Her morning dress of creamy
woolen stuff, with only a knot of yellow
lace under the collar, was simple
enough. No ornament, no contrast;
put it suited her and that is all that
How
many things there were that he had no*
even suspected! Was it possible that
the world was fall of women like this
woman, 80 sweet, so noble, so entrano.
ing in all their looks and ways? And
then he told himself that this could not
be. There was but one; she was unique,
incomparable, not merely a specimen of |
a type. liow mady yonthful lovers
have thought and will think the same
as the tide of life flows on !
Accident did our shy hero a good turn
at last, as mocident sometimes will.
Walking by himself one afternoon along
the wild shore beyond Saul's Cliff he
came upon the lady of his thonghtsat a
moment of evident difficulty. Her little
dog had slipped and fallen to the bot-
tom of a rather high shelving cliff, the
tide was making in fast, and she was
evidently hesitating whether or not to
climb down to his assistance —a qnes-
tion complicated by the doubt as t:
whether once down she would be able
to climb up again. Robert grasped the
situation promptly, and proffered help
whioh was gladly accepted. To his ex-
perienced powers the eliff presented no
difficulties, and in five minutes the
rescued terrier was in his mistress’
arms, and the sweet voice which Robert
knew so well was uttering cordial
thanks.
The dog had lamed himself in his
fall, and limped and whined when set
down. Another opportunity, May I
carry him home for you?” Robert asked.
‘‘ You are quite too good. I fear you
“Oh, not at all. I like dogs.” So
the two walked on over the cliffs, with
sea vistas on one hand and mountain
glimpses on the other, and before they
reached the little brown cottage in the
field Robert's shyness had fled under
** What a beantiful view!” he said,
cottage,
“I think so. It is my favorite of all
the many beautiful views at Bar Harbor.
Yon must come and see it often, Mr.
Arnold. My little piazza is quite at
your service any afternoon if you want
a quiet place In which to study or smoke
and cannot find one to your taste at
Rodick’s. I never use it myself, except
in the morning and evening; but I hope
you will occasionally come there also to
see me. Thank yon so much for your
kindness to Tatters.”
“What a frank, charming creature I”
thought Robert, as he made his way
across the stubble fields toward the
hotel. * How few girls are capable of
such unaffected sincerity, without any
hesitations or arrieres pensees, Dear
me! if t' ev only knew what an attrae-
tion it is!” Which reflaction might
lead to a doubt as to whether Mr. Ar-
nold’s experience of the sex at Bar
Harbor had or had not been blessed to
his perceptive faculties,
“Baw you walkin’ with Miss Mus-
grove and carryin’ her dawg,” re-
marked the clerk, with a grin, as he
came in. “Didn't know you at first.
Thought maybe twas him ‘come back.”
Him?--who? Robert was too proud
Jo ask, but the pronoun rankled in his
Not for long, however. As time went
on snd acquaintance progressed with
his charmer, and no “him” appeared to
mar ths harmonious flow of events, the
cireamstance passed from his memory.
He went often tothe little brown oot-
tage in the stubble field, spending soli-
tary afternoons there with a cigar and
a mineralogical treatise, and now and
then a morning tete-a-tete with its fair
mistress. Sanset usually brought a
rush of idlers to the piazza, and thoir
appearance was his signal for flight,
Quite at his ease now with Miss Mus-
grove, he was shy and d ficult of access
as ever to all others. He invariably ve.
connoitered the premises from a point
0 ion in the flelds, and the
“Dean Mrs. Musarove—I am leav-
A chance has offered for a min-
“ Yours faithfully, R pert Arvorn.”
Mrs. Musgrove, sitting on her piazza
‘‘ He was really a nice boy,” she said,
“shy and stiff, you know, but of good
80, with an unconscious heart on
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An Extraordinary Story,
rsburg cor
the authenticity of the following facts
the Duke Viadimir, a young man de-
manded an sudience of the chief of
police at 8t. Petersburg,
to state his errand to any of the subor-
dinate cflicials, so after being cave
presence of the general,
mission on the following terms: “The
emperor is prevented from going to
Moscow thrbugh his fear of our schemes.
His dread will cease to be justified when
fe.r no conspiracy, and can go with
safety wherever he pleases. It hae
fallen to my Jot to inform “ou that if the
emperor persists in his reactionary
policy nothing can save him, Neither
my friends nor myself wish to murder
him treacherously. Alexander III.
is warned as was Alexander II, We
do not assassinate, but we render jas-
tice.” At this point of the in-
terview the police officer seemed
anxious to eall in assistance, but the
young Nihilist stopped him and added :
“Ido not wish to be subjected to the
indignity of torture. I could have
killed you, but we do not commit
murders uselessly.” With these words
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trace as to his identity.
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England’s Iron-Clads and Big Guns,
England might have bombarded the
but she used only eight.
projectiles weigh 1,700 pounds each;
ten twenty-five ton guns, whoee projec-
tiles weigh 600 pounds each; twenty-six
eighteen-ton guns, whose projectiles
weigh 400 pounds each; twelve twelve-
ton guns, whose
pounds each,
to bear on Alexandria, the least of which
their pro-
pounds of powder.
leg, another with a foot partly gone, |
and others with swollen, senseless |
faces. On the veranda of a cottage sat |
but neither of whom showed any trace
of leprosy, in face or hands. As I
one of them began
appropriate movements of his
hands. Possibly, observing the look
at me, joined in the chant, and soon
both the old lepers were chanting and
waving their hands in the sensuous
measures of the hulu huln. Itwasa
mocking a gaping tomb,
The medical profession here in Hon.
This, of course, is an old, |
with great violence by the assertion of |
amenable in a large degree to treat.
ment, and that it is not contagious from
Dr. Fitch has been here two
dogmatical contradiction of the theories
of the old and and experienced practi-
tioners has raised a dircnssion of a
However, his
practice appeals to the sympathies of
natives, and he has a large, if rather
Francisco
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That Beautiful Gift,
One of our young clerks last Sunday
ribbon, to present to a young lady he
but, on
reching the house he felt a little em-
of the family present, and so left the
beautiful gift on the stoop and passed
in. The movement was perceived by a
graceless brother of the young lady,
who appropriated the cologne for his
own use and refilled the bottle with
hartshorn from the family jar, and then
hung aroand to observe the result.
In a little while the young man
slipped out to the stoop, and, securing
the splend d gift, slipped back again
into the parlor, where, with a few ap-
propriate words, he pressed it upon the
Ding girl. Like the good and
faithful daughter that she was, she at
onee hurried into the presence of her
mother, and the old lady was charmed.
They d don’t put up scent stuff like that
when she was a girl; it was kept in a
by samples of the family’s hair,
She was very much pleased with it,
beautifal petals of her nostrils over the
aperture, and fetched a pull at the con-
tents that fairly mad: them bubble,
Then she laid the bottle down, and pick-
ing up a brass mounted fire shovel in-
stead, said as soon as she could say
thing:
Where is that miserable brat ?"
He, all unconscious of what had hap-
ned, was in front of a mirror adjust-
ng his necktie and smiling at himself.
Here she found him, and aid to him:
“Oh, you are laughing at the trick on
an old woman, are you?’
And then she gave him one on the
ear, And he, being by nature more
hastened from thence, howling * like
mad,” and accompanied to the gate by
that brass mounted shovel. He says
he would give everything on earth if he
co aes off the impression that a
mistake had been made,—Bosion Cour-
wr.
The greatest length of Lake Superior
is 830 miles; the greatest breadth is
been over fifty years in the ministry, |
The oldest is the Rev. 8. McCurdy, of |
Btewartstown, ordained in 1817, |
It is probable that the next general |
will meet in Stockholm, Sweden, in|
September, 1883 The queen of Sweden |
is warmly interested in the work of the |
alliance.
Mrs. Lansing, for twenty years a mis.
sionary in Egypt, was compelled to fly
during the bombardment of Alexandria,
and Rev. J. B. Dalos, of Philadelphia,
her brother, has gone to Europe to!
mest her.
The famous Salvation army of Eng-
land has just held its seventeenth anni.
versary. A feature of the occasion was
the reception of a letter from the queen, |
expressing gratifioation at the good
work of the army.
Rev, James Creeding, of Adair county,
Ky., is pow a septuagenarian and has |
never accepted a cent for his ministenal |
duties. “Honest men,” nn admirer of |
tha venerable clergyman says, ‘feel like |
kiseing ths ground this man walks upon,
for it 1s holy.”
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The Freezing Cure, |
By means of freezing parts may be |
rendered wholly insensible to pain, so |
that slight surgical operations may be
easily performed. When the freezing
is long condinned the frozen parts may
lose thelr vitality entirely, which will
cause them to slough away. By this
polypi, fibrous and sebaceous tumors, |
and even malignant tumors, as cancers,
may be successfully removed, Small
cancers may sometimes be cared by re-
eat: d and long continued freezing.
Their growth may certainly be imp: d «d
by this means. A convenient mode ol
application in cancer of the breast is to
suspend from the neck a rubber bag
filled with powdered ice, allowing it to
lie against tho cancerous organ. Frees.
ing may be accomplished by applying a |
spray of ether, by means [of an atom. |
izer, or by a freezing mixture composed |
of equal parts of pounded ice and salt, |
Mix quickly, put into a gauze bag, and
apply it to the parts frozen. In three
to six minutes the skin will become
white and glistening, then the 1
should be removed. Freezing should
not be continued longer than six min-
utes al a time, as the tissues may be
harmed, thon h usually no harm results
from repeated freezing, if some care is
used in thawing the frozen part, It
should be kept imo#reed in cool water,
or covered with cloths kept cool by fre-
quent wetting with cold water, until
the natural feeling is restored. Felons
may be cured, especially when they first
begin, by freezing two or three times
Lumbago and saiatica, as well as other
forms of neuralgia, are sometimes al-
most instantly relieved by freezing of
the skin immediately above the painful
part,
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Couldn’t Keep a Secret,
The keeping of a dangerous secret is
provat oly difficult for women, and
one will sometimes bubble from the
lips of stout men in spite of all efforts
to suppress it. An instance of this kind
is the caso of Thornton, who was por-
ter of a bank at Parsons, Kansas,
Three years ago the cashier's accounts
were short one thousand dollars, and,
unable to account for the deficiency, he
paid over the money and resigned his
position. Thornton was closely watched
for a time, but nothing was discovered,
and the matter was forgotten. But re-
cently a friend of the porter was in a
burst of confidence made aware of tha
fact that the missing money had been
found by the latter while cleaning out
a drawer in the bank. The friend
forced a division, and in turn confided
the secret to a man who was his tenant
on a farm. A quarrel concerning rent
arose, and the tenant lcdged an inform.
ation against both Thornton and his
confidant, and now they languish in
prison cells. But the reputation of
160 miles; mean depth, 688 feet; eleva.
tion, 627 feet ; area, b2, square
miles
that cashier was a wreck during al!
those three years.
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wealth per inhabitant is less with yon
than in Great Britain or France, ns
Per in.
Wealis, habstant,
$40,770,000,000
United Kingdom... 44, 100,000,000
France 87, 200,000,000 1,045
As regards the items that make up
to trace their growth, the first on the
list being railways. The mileage and
cost of railways have increased eos
follows:
nLaway
capilal per
inhabitant,
as
Capital
oullay,
$ 802 000,000
1, 197,000, 000 SM
2.410,000,000 63
2 98,671 5,206,000,000 104
Not only is the railway capital at
present three times gs much per head
as it was in 1860, but it bas served in a
prodigious manner to develop your
agricultural resources and enhance the
valoe of your farms and lands, The
increase of public wealth in rail ways
alone since 1870 has been over §$5,000,-
000 weekly, or very little short of
$1,000,000 a day, deducting Sundays,
It is perhaps more inagriculture than
in anything else that one can realize
the unprecedented rise of industry in
Miles,
8 020
tion, which appears by comparing the
returas of 1830 with those of 1840:
Por {nhad
Ing, Jas,
2.6 3.3
1840, 1889, .
Acres, Hllage 64,850,000 166,140,000
Oran. miiion
615
all
rope « « « S410 000,000 $1,085, 000,000
Value of al ;
cattle « « « $IT2,000,000 §1,83,000,000
Thus, while popuiation
trebled, the growth of agrienltural in.
terests has been five-fold; and, whether
we regard the value of erops or of cattle,
the ratio per inhabitant is almost
double what it was forty years ago.
Manufactures have risen five-fold in
value since 1850; but, as the protective
tariff gives an artificial increase to the
price of iron, coal and manufactured
goods, I have not here so safe a guide
to follow, v.2:
2,643 52
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$3
3s
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Per
inhab,
fit
bo
Value,
ABW. eiainnnnninian $1,019, 107,000
1860, .. 1.885 862 00
. §,231,240,000 108
5, 250,000,000 105
The most remarkable increase during
the last decade was in the production of
ron and of cotton maaufactures, the
former having risen from 10580000 to
4 160,000 tons, or nearly treblcd in ten
years, As for cotton goods, the con.
sumption of raw fiber in the United
States rose from 580,000,000 to 911,000,
000 pounds—that is, from fourteen to
eighteen pounds per inhabitant,
While recording such a gigantic
stride, it will not do to ignore one im-
portant feature in which you have gone
back, namely, shipping, the figures for
all tonnage (high seas and interual
waters) being as follows :
Tom per
Tons, 0 inhab,
1,280,000 12
+ vv 14+ 1,192,000 9
2,151,000
3 535.000
, «5,384,000
IB70. 0 nanan rans 4,146,000
: 13,000
There has been, nevertheless, a steady
increase of trade, for the walue of im.
ports and exports Las dombled since
1800, and multiplied ten-fold since
1830, viz.:
: Commerce
jr
Imports, Exprile, Total, {hab
$71,000,000 $74,000,000 $145,000,000 $11
237,000,000 13
830,000,000 14
763,000,000 24
1880, ,
1840, , 105,000,000 132,000,000
1850, , 178,000,000 152,000,000
1860. 862,000,000 404,000,000
1870. 436 600,000 898,000,000 820,000,000 22
1880. , 668,000,000 836,609,000 1,504,000,000 80
The foregoing tables suffice to show,
as in a bird's-eye view, the marvelous
growth of tho United States in less
than half a century, for the epoch of
progress can hardly be said to have
commenced before the middle of the
decade, which ended with 1850.
Annotto is a dye derived from the
ap a South OS tree.
the poll, and from that day to this no
ped ent has met in which he has not
a seat, It was in 1845 that he
changed his polities, at the time of the
{corn laws. The liberals wish to make
i the celebration a national affair, one
enthusiast describing Mr. Gladstone as
the member for “all England.”
an the Revue d’ Anthropologie Dr. Be-
renger Ferand describes mm a paper
entitled ‘Les Griots” those liar
itinerant musicians who wander all over
| Usntral Africa from shore to shore,
| They belong to different low castes,
| but are under one chief of great power,
who takes what he needs from the gen-
eral receipts, “Griots” is a French
corruption of the Ouolove word
“Gwewonal.” This guild is both feared
and hated by the natives. The members
of it sre considered impure, The bodies
of the dead are thdught to make sterile
the land in which they may be interred.
Bat it seema these people are skilled in
composing without previous study, and
in paying on the guitar and the violin.
The least gifted among them beat the
tam-tam or operate on some other rude
instrument, They carry news from
excite wars, But whether there is
peace or war in a locality, they have
the peculiar privilege of coming and
going as they please,
A gentleman who has rdeently taken
up his residence in Salt Lake City writes
of one of the means employed by the
Mormons to recruit their ranks with
emigrants from Earope., He says: We
had quite a sight here last week—900
emigrants from Denmark and Sweden
arriving in one day. I went to “the
office” to see them. Those who have
friends are cared for, but those having
none stay in *‘the office” until they find
employment. They know nothing about
polygamy until they get here, and are
made to believe that it they will come
and be good Mormons they will be
healed, physically as well as spiritually.
There are a great many cripples among
them, but I have not seen any “healed”
hysioally yet. There is oné poor fel-
ow among their number who is minus
a leg. They told him in the old country
they could give him another good leg
if he would just come to Salt Lake; so
he came fuli of hope. Now that he is
here, they tell him they can give him
another sound limb, bat if they do he
will have three legs in the next world,
and as he cannot live very long in this
world would it not be best for him to
continue as he is, rather than go stump-
ing around paradise with an extra limb?
The Chinese colony of Boston per-
formed a strange and elaborate funeral
ceremony over the body of Moy Dick
Gam, who died of pneumonia. Thirty
or forty mourners clad in full native
costume and wearing the white silk
aprons of the Chinese Masonic order,
with a band of music at their head‘
marched through the principal streets
to Ashburton place—a quiet and retired
locality, There on two stools in the
coffin, and at each end of it was a table
covered witha white cloth. On ona
table were a roast pig and the carcass
of a sheep and a bowl of rice Soutaiging
a number of small lighted torches, an
on the other a large bowl of rice and
several small cups with chopsticks. Six
Chinese priests appeared and chanted
prayers and the tables were loaded with
other viauds. The“prayers were then
resumed, and lasted nearly half an
hour, Afterward the company, two by
two, knelt and bowed their heads to
the ground several times. The proess-
sion then marched to Mount Hope
cemetery, where the burial took placs.
The grave was covered with the viands
used at the funeral and with conntless
slips of paper containing prayers for
the dead.
Lawyer John H. B. Lal
Baltimore, was drowned in the
river recently, He wus soarcely
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Rules for Riding,
In mounting, face the near side
the horse. The near side is the
nearest yourself. If you stand
right side of the horse, which
ground, lead the horse toa
climb up on the fence, say *
or three times, and jump over the
where on his neck, and will have plenty
of tims to adjust yourself while the
horse is running away. Auo her method
of mounting, lmgely practiced by
oung gentlemen from the city, is to
Pe yourself on one leg on the
fence, and point the other leg at the
horse in the general direction of the
saddle, saying ‘‘whoa” all the time
The horse, after this gestute has been
ks away, pulls
the all rider off the fence and walks
up and down the lane with him at a
rapid gallop. This gives the rider in
about teu minutes all the exercise he
ee xitlo to
some
got into the saddle, hold on with both
hands, and say Pie Taster
the horse goes the hter you mi
hold on, and the louder you must
“holler.”
If you are from New York or Phila
Selphia you will shorten the stirrups
until your knees are on a level with
your chin. Then as you ride you will
rise to your feet and stand in the atti
tude of a man peering over a fence to
look for his dog, and suddenly fall
in thesaddle like a man who has :
on a banana peel. This is the ov
cannot wear false teeth, however, and
ride in this manner.—Burlington
Hawkeye,
Quite Proper. :
Young Dibble: was telling one of his
circus-poster stories at the breakfast
teble, when Bankson, op;
with an air of disgust: “Oh. ¢
it on so thick.” The landlady.
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