A LONRLY BTATION. (UNION PACIFIC Wm. R. 1880.) An empty bench, a sky of grayest etching, A bare, bleak shed in bisckest silhouette, Fwalve Yards of platform, sud, beyond them ¥ % Twelve Tier ot prairie glimmering through the wet. North, south, east snd west—the same dull persistence, vapors of & vanished train, The narrowing rails that meet to pierce the distangs: Or break te columns of the far-off raln, Naught = myself—nor form nor figure waking The long hushed level and stark shin- ing waste Nothing that moves to fill the vision aching W here the last shadow fell in sullen haste. Nothing beyond. Ah, yes! From out the station A stiff gaunt re thrown against the sky, Beckoning me with some wooden salutation Caught from his si nals as the train flashed ¥i Yielding me place beside him with dumb ges- ture Born of that reticence of sky and air. We sit apart, yet wrapped in that one ges ture Of silence, sadness, and unspoken care; Each following his own thought—around us darkening, The rain-washed boundaries and stretching TACK | Each following those dim parallels and heark- ening For long lost voices that will not come ok; Until, unasked—I knew not why nor where. for: — He yielded, bit by bit, his dreary past, Like gathered clouds that seemed to thicken there for Some dull down-dropping of their care at ast, ‘Long had he lived there. started As a boy had face: Heard the wolves’ howl the wearying waste that parted His father’s hut from the place, last camping the reaping With soythe of fire of lands he once had 5.wWn; Sept the tornado - heaping Rafter , dead faces, that were like his own. round his hearthstone “Then came the war time. beckoned He had walked dumbly where the flag had ed When its shadow praised, unreckoned-— To famine, fever, and s prison bed; “Till the storm passed, and the slow tide re- turning Cast him a wreck, beneath his native sky; At this lone watch gave him the chance of earning Scant means to live—who won the right te die.” All this I beard—or seemed to hear— half blending With the low murmur of the coming breeze And ceaseless sobbing of those grassy seas. nti] at last the spell of desolation Broke with a trembling star and far-off ery. The edtulag train! I glance around the sta on. All is empty as the upper sky! Nasughkt but myseif—nor form nor figure wakin The long hushed level and stark shining ww ante Naught but myself, that cry, and the dull shaking Of wheel and axle, stopped in breathless haste | ‘““Now, then—jook sharp! Eb, what? station master? Thar's none We stopped hereof our own The The sccord. got killed in that down-train dis- ter This time last evening. Right there! : aboard I" London, England. All r ~Bret Harte. and as he opened the door cautiously, I noticed that he had a cocked pistol in his hand. Seeing the pistol I said: civilization.” After the little man with the big pistol had surveyed my famished face and tired horse, he opened the door a little wider, und then, swinging it back, with a smile somewhat apologetic in its character, invited me in. «How far to Manganetus?" I asked. He looked at me in a rather queer way, and then bit his under lip, as it nipping a smile in the bud. «It is far from here? it to-night?” «Hardly think you can make it to- night.” he replied with a tone that puzzled me somewhat; can’t you stay all night?” he added. ‘Better stay; you can’t possibly make Manganetus to-night.” I accepted the invitation with slacri- ty. My horse being provided for I was soon absorbing the heat of » cheery tire and listening to the con- versation of my new acquaintance. He was a man of very fluent expres- sion, and possessed a wonderful fund of informa 'g ~ scores of topics not ordinarily c.evussed by men who occu- pied log cabins in the mountains. While wondering who this odd char- acter could be I heard a monotonous noise in the next room, and I certainly thought I heard the familiar sound of some one rapidly folding newspapers. My ear did not deceive me, for in a few moments a pleasant.faced little girl appeared and handed my compan. ¢‘Here is Can | reach {over to me. It was damp from the | press, and I read the titl:: “THE MANGANETUS INDEX.” “By industry we thrive.” Devoted to the { tion $5.00 per annum, payable in advance. | My host smiled as he handed me the | paper. “Then the town is here,” I said, | “Let me go to the hotel; the Slavin | House, I believe. | trespass upon the hospitality of a | stranger.” | “You will remain here, sir,” | plied. {is the town of Manganetns, and this { cabin is the only habitation for twenty | miles.” " | I stared at the man in astonishment. «You may well be puzzled,” he con- { tinued, ‘But I will explain. There | is a group of mines near here which | certai | anxious to place upon the London mar- | ket. They have hired me to advocate { these mines, and it is part of my bar- | gain to run my paper in such a way | that the London readers will think | that a large town is flourishing here. } See?” I nodded vaguely and he went on: I the i and so I manufacture all I write. | leave no stone unturned to make | bustling town. You will find in this | issue a public meeting called to discuss | stream that exists only in the columns of the index. rominent mining superintendent loping with a member of the City here is as runaway team, | cigar-store. DONT LIKE TWINS HOW THE AFRICAN MOTHERS MUST SUFFER. A Disgrace to Have More Than One Child at » Time. Few things are more mysterious than the undefinable sympathy which often exists between two human be- ings who came into the world together. There can be no doubt that this sym- pathy is real, and not the effect of the imaginaticn, as some have supposed. So far as is known it does not alwave develop itself, and when it is present its cause is mol by any meaus ander stood. A very real affection generally axists between twins, and often seems to show itself in the earliest days of infancy. It is no uncommon thing for a twin who has lost his or her counterpart to pine away, dropping gradually into the clutches of the de- stroyer, who, in taking away the oth- sr, has deprived life of all its joy. But though intense fondness is no doubt to a great extent the cause of such sad occurrences, the sympathy which twins have for one another shows itself here, With many savage races twins are hurried out of the world immediately they have entered it; others allow them to live, but only under certain condi- tons. In Western Africa, a little be- low the equator, between ten degrees and twelve degrees eas: longitude, lives he Ishogo. They An idea seems that no woman nate as to bear them. | care of themselves. This is held to be people that a proper balance between life and death has again and they do not deem any further pre- canlious necessary. Immediately the birth of twins takes place, the hut in which the event hap- pened is marked in some manner which will render it readily distinguishable from all others in the village. Those who have read accounts of African travel will probably remember the unanimous testimony which explorers of the dark continent bear to the ex- ate members of her family. go into the forest for She may trewood, and | by a Coroner's jury. | ulous richness. | other portion of the paper, a legal The most extraordinary newspaper I | have ever had any knowledge of was published up in the Sierra range about fifteen years ago, The Manganetus In- dex. e pub'ication alluded to had mys- teriously fallen into my mail-box in | San Francisco for over a year, and it wee always a welcome arrival. It was neatly printed, carried several always gave me a very favorable im- pression of Manganetus, as well as of the man who edited the paper. current topics of the day, and in every- thing transpiring his paper was published he carried candor to the verge of bewildering rashness. I never saw a paper edited with such absolute fearlessness, and I often won- dered why it was that the editor was not some time mobbed or murdered. At last my business took me in the vicinity of Manganetus and I decided to make the editor a call. It was fast coming on nightfall as 1 neared thespot where the town was lo- cated, and 1 spurred my horse up the steep mountain, thinking of the warm bed and excellent supper I should soon b> enjoying. My mind was full of the Slavin house, a hotel of very superior accom- modations, which advertised liberally in the Index, and whose royal pro- vender and home comtorts the little paper was never weary of describing. “Only a mile more,” I ssid to my- self, as | thumped my weary breast with » -sized stick, and after another mile I repeated my observation, snd so the poor horse wont on check- ing off miles and niles, while I per- susded myself that each mile was the Tale, 1 thought, that I could see no ahead. [I strained my eyes for the welcome twinkle from cottage windows that in darkness tell the trav- eller of the town, bat the night cre on, s little faster perhaps than horse, and still I was alone. Presently I came to a log cabin and my heart rose as I saw the ight gleam- ing threugh the chinks. Dismounting 1 walked, stiff and ‘ame, to the cabin and hammered on the door. A little, bent-up man, with a wrin: kled, leathery face, came to answer, Mi A i owner (one of the principles in the af. lose his interes’... All my work dove- | shows no flaw, yet it ' mad: from whole cloth.” «This is the most «This country is full of extrs- ordinary things,” he quietly replied. «Where does this edition go?” asked. «Clara, bring me the mailing list.” I glanced over the list, and saw that it embraced the leading banking houses of London and New York, as well as the centres of finance and mining. My own name was oddly enough on | tre list. About a hundred copies were mailed, and every one went where it would do the most good. I found that my friend edited the paper and did the typesetting, and his daughter was learning the art. «“] have no companions except my little daughter—and the town of Man- ganetus,” he adde”, with a smile. I passed a very comfortable night. The roar of the wind through the pines and the rocking of the cabin had a de- liclously soothing effect, and I lay in the warm bed thinking and resting un- til morning before I slept. My friend, the editor, was very talk- ative nt breakfast. He never alluded to his name, but he told me more of the paper and the enjoyment he had in building up a town in the clouds from a purely imaginative basis. “Tomorrow,” said he, “I start out on horseback to the nearest mail sta- tion, and leave my bundle of papers in the hollow of a tree until the mail buckboard comes along to take them. “In a few weeks they are being read in London and New York, and the arties in each of these cities who are ndling the sale of these mining prop- ertios are backed up handsomely by my editorial statements.” ——— I ST : From the foundation of the world mankind, in one form of exertion or another, has sought to acquire the art of creating something from nothing. ———————— Even since wood was made to float on water and sustain some human freight, sailors during storms have been *‘pitying those on land In danger from falling trees and buildings.” a for the existence of herself and her children, but it must be all done in strict silence, unless she finds her self near one of her close and nothing irritates s newly married woman more than to tell is sure to become the mother of two When the mx years of probation have dragged out their weary length, a grand ceremony is held to celebrate At « aybreak all the village is aronsed by a proclamation made in the principal street, and the mother and whitened their legs and faces, The rest of the inhabitants of at a given signal the white legged i the friend beating a lusty tattoo upon a drum and singing a song appropriate to the occasion. After this procession hes gone the round of the villave there is a general dance. Then every one sits down to a great feast, and eating, drinking, and dancing are car- ried on for the rest of the day and all trough the night. As soon as the next day dawns all restrictions upon the mother and her offspring are held to be removed. This ‘ceremony is known as «M’paza,” a word which signifies both the twins and the rite by virtue of which they and their mother are ad- mitted to the eompani_nship of their kind. of twins has felt a disturbing influence at work within him when evil was be- falling his other self are numerous. As with all matters of the kind, the instances rela'ed are apt to border upon the land of fiction, but there are many which are perfectly well authen- ticated. Though twins are usually alike in form and feature, this is not invariably the case. The writer knows twin brothers who can scarcely be said to bear even a family likeness to one another and whose complexions go to the very extremes of darkness and fair- ness, But though unlike bodily they so resemble each other mentally that they passed from the bottom to the top of one of oar great public schools side by side American Cattle in European Marketa, A short time ago the attention of the Department of Agriculture was called to a recent shipment of American cattle So m— “lhe quality of those oxen ws good, but too fat, which, however, can be remedied. The price obtained per 17) pounds of the dressed ment, that is, exclusive of the head. hide, feet wind entails, which fall to the butcher, wis Marks 7. ($16.80), being the same p ice paid for the home stock. Therefore, American cattle can com- pete with the home production. “There is a difference among oxen fattened on pastares and those fattened in stables, The latter are preferred here, especially the red and white shwsk od oues, which might oommaad s higher price, say Marks 72 per '0v pounds. Bo:h kinds are readily mar- keted here. There being rather a scarcity of cattle here this year and a consequent rie in the price of beef meat, it is thought that a considerable number of American cattle can be sold here, and I am informed that anothe- large shipment is on its way from America for the German market.” In order to be able to give to our American stock raise s full information on this subject, the Secretary of Agri- culture addressed a communication to the Department of State, requesting information in regard to the laws now in force in Germany with reference to cattle imported from the United States, ‘and in a recent communica'ion from Le Department of State, enclosing the report on this subject of the American Consul at Hamburg, the Secretary of | formation which shall include the law | on the subject of the exclusion of pork {and sny efforts that may have bees made recently to secure its repeal, {allusion to which was made in | American papers in the form of a | press dispatch, purporting te have | been sent from Berlin, under date of | November 20. | In the meantime, for the informa- of the correspondence between the De- | partment of State and the American Consuls at the points referred to, is here given report of the Consul at Hamburg and | the enclosures forwarded with his communication, that cattle imported into any of the German states and | provinces from the U. ited States, South America or (reat { subject to a four week's quarantine, and furthermore, that there is no like- | lihood of such quarantine being either abolished or modified. It should also be stated, that the cattle sold in Co- logne formed part of a shipment of 160 head sold in the Rhenish Provinces, and that the data in regard to them was obtained from Messrs. Salm & | Whil, one of the largest cattle dealing firms in Cologne. It appears further, that daring the | early part of last fall, some six or | seven hundred head of cattle were landed in the port of Toenning, from the United States, and that these were subjected to only five or six days quarantine, but that this was doe to & special permit from the Imperial Chancellor, which was granted in view of the fact that the persons interested | had entered into contracts for the de- | livery of said cattle, without a knowl- edge of the existence of the quarantine | | regulations, and would consequently | have sustained heavy pecuniary loss | | had the cattle been subjected to the | regular four weeks’ quarantine. At the same time, however, strict orders were issued, that henceforth the | | regulations must be rigidly enforced. | { The Consul st Hamburg siso informs | the Department of State, that until re- | cently large quantities of American | beer have been used in the province of | Schleswig in Prussia for the consump- | tion of the German army. An order | has sinee been issued, however, pro- | | hibiting its further use for that pur- | i pose. | The above is substantially all the in- | formation the Department of Agricul- | | ture has been able to procure on this | subject up to date. so AGIA AS i A Village That Is Some Pumpkins, | A special from Knoxville, Teun. | says—The village of Rogersville, in| Hawkins County, has several things of | which it can boast. The town itself is | just one hundred years old. It has the | oldest Jasonde lodge in the State, and | the house which sheltered General | Jackson for months still stands in a! state of almost perfeet preservation. | A huge hearth in a front room, which | he laid with his own hands, shows searcely a trace of wear. The first pewspaper published in the State was jssucd from Rogersville. Within the corporate mits of the town are the graves of the parents of Davy Crockett. The ouly ebbing spring im the United States is bat a short distance from the public square. It has regular tides, and ebbe and flows every two hours with anvarying uniformity. The water is always intensely cold, but never freezes, even in the coldest weather. The oldest woman in the State gets her mail at the post office there, and a few miles in the country is the oldest organ- jzed church in the State, the New Providence Church, at Stony point. ——————— “ The Queen-Regent of Spain. Dona Christine, who is so affection. ately watching by day and by night at the bedside of her sick child, is a slim woiran, rather above the medium height, a daughter of the Arch- duke Ferdinand and Archduchess Elizabeth of Austria, and is the completion of her Bikes evap year, strain, physical mental, caused by the youthful Monarch's illness, is Joayisg bia om n on hut Appearance, at of times not o the healthiest—a very pale comp exion, large eyes, and golden hair. isan intellectual woman, can freely converse in Spanish, French, German snd lish, loves music and society. an artiste of note visits the city withe out being invited by the widowed It some never had sny oth INSECT EATERS. rRERE'S NO DISPUTING ABOUT TASTES. Locusts, Ants, Slugs, Worms and Spi- ders Estesmed Delicacies. It is difficult to imagine what would { have been the result if the reader had dined with & German gentleman who is said to have eaten spiders, spreading them, like butter, upon his bread! This, it past be admitted, was a most depraved 3 je; for the ordinary prey- ing spiders one of the foulest feeders in the insect world. But the eating of even cleanly and plessant.-looking insects is regarded by most people with sbhorrence. We are told in Clarke's Travels, that the Arabs ‘‘are as sston- ished ai our eating crabs, lobsters and oysters, ss we are at their eating lo- cust.” Jtshould be borne in mind that insects chiefly feed on vegetable matter, and are, therefore, much more cleanly than, for instance, swine or dacks. Examples of the eating of in- sects, as a staple item of food, can be bromght from almost every part of the in anclent and modern times. Locusts have been eaten from the remotest antiquity, and some Ethiorian tribes, from this circumstance, received The Arabs, when there is a | mills, or pound them in mortars, and They and afierwards stew them with butter the appearance of a swarm of locusts, although the destructive insects devour all the verdure in the district. The natives eat them in such quantities that they soon grow perceptibly fatter. They also gather the eggs, and make of them » kind of brown, or coffee- colored soup. Wagon loads of locn ts are taken into the markets of Fez, as a country, people preserve them in salt, and in some parts of Africa they are Large quantities are used as food in Jackson, & traveller of the were generally served up in Barbary with other dishes, and were esteemed a great delicacy. They were preferred by the Moors io pigeon; smd it is said that a person might ests piste of about two or three hundred without feeling auy ill effect. The following was the method of cooking adopted : the heads, wings, and legs were thrown away, and the bodies boiled for half an hour. They were then sprinkled with salt and pepper, and fried, a little vinegar being added. An English clergyman, the Rev. R. Sheppard, cooked the common grasshopper in this way, serving with butter instead of vinegar, and found it excellent. lo doing this he was really follow- Ivaust after his kind, and the grass. hopper after his kind.” Loeusts are in Crimea, India, Asis, Persia, Africa and Mada- gascar. The Chinese, who are noted for their economy, eat the chrysalis of the silkworms, after they have un- wound the silk from the eocoons. the yolks of eggs, and season with pepper, salt and vinegar. A mission this food both refreshing sand strength- ening. White ants are much prized as food in various parts of Africa. The Hot- tentots eat them both raw and eooked, One traveller says that the matives parch them in pots over a fire, and eat them by handfuls as comfits. He as- serta that he several times ate them prepared in this way, and foumd them to be of delicate flavor, nourishing and whalesome ; resembling in taste sugar. ed cream or sweet almond paste. Slugs are not so frequently eaten as snails. Mr. Vincent M. Holt tells of two gardeners who were in the habit of eating them. One of these said he ate them because he thought his chest was weak; the other, because he liked them: lian speaks of an Indian king who set before his guests a quantity of roasted worms, of which he said In- dians were very fond, for desert. Some Greeks, who tasted them, are said to have pronounced their flavor most delicious. Humboldt mentions that the Arabs of Fezzan ate some kinds of worms. The wire-worm, the larve of & small beetle, is eaten in large quantities by Turkish women, snd the Chinese also eat some species of worms. Spiders nearly an inch in length are roasted over the fire and eaten by the natives of New Caledonia. Even educated Europeans have been known to est them. Resumur tells of a young lady who, when walking in her unds, never sav a spider which she did not pick up and eat. The celebrated Anna Maria Schurman, also, used to eat them, and said they tasted like nuts. She used jestingly to remark that sho was born under the sign Scorpio. Round the World in Less Than a Second. A French savant has calculated the Jme required for a journey round the earth, and has obtained the follow results: A man, night without A ke vs FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Few suffer uninvited insult, Truth is a merciless iconoclast. Ala) For those advanced in years only. (Generosity serves others better than itse 1, A little world always makes a little man, Danger and security are close neigh bors, Head love never sheds any of its own blood A poor lock 18 8 good friend to the burglar. We cannot own anything that we do not enjoy. To seek the truth is better than to dig for gold. T1ove can only be measured by what it will suffer, The way to make a man right is to make his heart right. man who is looking for faults in others will be kept busy. If there is good in us it will be sure to inspire good in oth. rs, One of life's richest possessions is the memory of a good mother. Lions are never so big as we think they are from their roaring. You can’t make a guilty man happy. He must first lose his gaiit, The love that never goes away from home had better dle and be buried, The easiest thing in all creation to be- lieve is a pleasing lie about ourselves. An enemy is an enemy, no matter whether he carries a flag or a musket. To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue, When a man knows, and knows not that he knows, he is asleep; wake him, De quick. You can’t use a minute but once--make the most of it, If there wasn’t any gold in the world there wouldn't be so much brass, Some people are afraid to do right for fear they will lose money by it. A mean man must keep at it, bu honesty will float without any paddling. The heart is so large that it takes | more than the visible universe to fll it. The man who desires only to be a sounding brass will never be anything else, The man who grumbles at the qual- ity of a gift would get tired sitling down. If two persons could ethically agree they could talk and smilie contin. ually. Burdens will grow heavier by trying to shift them upon the shoulders of others, One of the most powerful elements in every suceess is the determination to sucosed, Those who are honest and earnest in their honesty have no need to proclaim the fact. A beautiful person 1s like a fountain, ho the ground and spreading fer- tility. A man is vain just in proportion to his folly, and wise just in propertion to his humility. You cannot hire a man to be honest, He will want bis wages raised every | morning. | The world is full of people who are | right In their hearts and wrong in their | heads, | The man who takes everything for | granted will fs! through a geod many | bridges, | Fire is always saying, | and to doubt its word is to reap | penalty, | Alife’s happiness iseasily lung away, | and hardly found again when you have | parted with it He whom the good praise and the | wicked hate, ought to be satisfied with | his reputation. You just bring a couple of little quarrels into your family and they'il | byeed like sparrows. Unhappy people abuse themselves by looking sour at everybody who dis- agrees with them, Maral traning is impossible, for it depends upon the individual sense to determine good from evil. The happiest man 1s he whe, being above tie trouble which money brings, has the fullest of work, The man who thinks he is wise should not waste his opportunity to learn by telling what he knows, There is no beautifier of compiexions or form of bebavior like the wish to scatter joy and oot pain around us. We murtaur because we are in want, and, therefore, want because we mur- mur. When a man is as polite to men as he is to women he is entitled to be known as a gentleman. The best cook stove ever made will not bake a biscuit unless there is a good fire in it. ’ Some persons have plenty of genuine diamond ornaments, bat only glass-bead “I"m hot.’ the Children and plants turn instinetively toward 3he lgot, Lat us emulate their Those who go hunting for trouble are very poor sportsmen, though they gener- ally bag the game,
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