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Thou'rt bearing hence thy roses,
Glad Summer; fare thee well!
. .
Thou'rt singing thy last melodies
In every wood and dell;
But ere the golden sunset
Of thy latest lingering day,
O I tell me o'er this checkered earth
How host thou passed away?
Brightly, sweet Summer! brightly
Thine hours have floated by
To the joyous birds of the woodland boughs,
The ranges of the sky ;
And brightly 'midst the garden flowers,
To the happy, murmuring bee;
But how to human bosoms,
With all their hopes and fears,
And thoughts that make them eagle wings
To pierce the unbors years'!
Sweet Summer 1 to the captive
Thou host flown in burning dreams
Of the woods with all their hopes and leaves
And the blue, rejoicing streams.
To the wasted and the weary,
On the bed of sickness bound;
In sweet, delirious fantasies,
That changed with every sound;
To the sailor on the billows,
In longings wild and vain
For the gushing founts, and breezy hills,
And the homes of earth again.
And unto me glad Summer!
How bast thou flown to me ?
My ehainless footsteps naught have kept
From thy haunts of song and glee.
Thou haat flown iu wayward visions, •
In memories of the dead—
In shadows from a troubled heart,
O'er a sunny pathway shed ;
In brief and sudden strivings
To fling a weight aside ;
'Midst these my melodies have ceased,
And all thy roses died
But oh, thou gentle Summer!
If I greet thy flowers once more,
Bring me again thy buoyancy,
Wherewith my soul should soar.
Give me to hail thy sunshine
With song and spirit free;
Or in a purer land than this
May our next meeting be.
"Tlio StrailEost Aqyfilittiro."
"YEs, I could tell you plenty of stories
like that; I have seen a few adventures in
my time."
"You have indeed, but won't you give
me a few more ? It is early yet."
We were sitting in the half-demolished
summer-house of a little village inn on the
coast of Brittany—in all probability the
only wakeful inhabitants of the whole place,
for sitting up until eleven o'clock, P. at., is
an enormity unknown in that primitive
region. My companion's swarthy and
tangled beard, seen beneath the uncertain
light of the rising moon, might have made
him appear to any person of unsteady
nerves rather an "uncanny" comrade for a
midnight tete a-tete, but in spite of his re
pellent manner and miner-like roughness
of speech, the.re was an indeseribabh, some
thing in his tone and bearing which con
vinced me that, however he might have
fallen, or been forced into his present non
descript way of life, he had (to use a com
mon phrase) "been a gentleman once."—
This, however, was a mere conjecture on
ray part; for in all the marvelous diorama
of personal adventure which he had spread
before me—the riotous revels in Australian
taverns succeeded by days of deadly peril
in the Antarctic seas; fights with pirates
in the Straits of Malacca, following upon
weeks of luxurious indolence amid the
lotus-eaters of Brazil; sledge drives across
Russian steeps, and bear-hunts in Ameri
can forests—there was not the slightest
hint at his early life or station in society.
It was at the close of a vivid description of
a hurricane off Cape Horn that my Ulyssue
paused in his narrative, and I now reitera
ted my request for another page from this
eventful autobiography.
"What ! not tired yet ? It's not every
one that could stand hearing a fellow talk
so long about himself."
"Well," said I, "111 only ask for one
more; tell me the strangest adventure you
ever had."
The wanderer started slightly, and then
said in an altered voice : "You've made a
better bargain than you think, for I will
tell you the strangest of all, and let us see
how you like it. I don't ask you to believe
it, because I know when you put these sort
of things in books, people laugh, and talk
of Baron Munchausen, and all that. I've
read the Baron," he went on, noticing my
look of surprise, "and many other books
that you'd never give me credit for; but
in a book, this story I'm going to tell you,
would be impossible—and it is just because
it seems impossible that it is true."
"So says Byron," interrupted I, speaking
lightly, in order to dissipate the effect in
voluntarily produced upon me by the ter
rible emphasis of the man's tone and man
ner.
WITH
"I've read Byron, too," he replied,
"though you mayn't think it. That de
scription of tlre4sunset in Greece was always
a favorite bit of mine."
BUSINESS CARDS,
"But I must get to my story. You re
member how these two follows robbed my
tent, and how I fired all the six barrels of
my revolver into them as they ran off ?
Well, it was just after that job that I shift
ed my tent away from the rest, thinking
I'd be more comfortable by myself for a
bit. You'll say that was very venturesome
after I'd been 'robbed once alrealy ; but,
then you see, these beauties that I fired at
thought they'd fairly cleaned me out.—
Nobody knew that I'd got a lot buried un
der a big gum tree some fifty yards off; so
the whole camp thought I was dry, and
you may be sure that I did not undeceive
them. Well, I moved my tent up to the
tree where the gold was, and there I stay
ed; but I still stuck to my digging to make
up for what I'd lost. I got a middling lot
of dust every day, but I took care to let
nobody see more of it than I could help ;
so folks got to think that I was down on
my luck, and left off minding me at all.—
One night I'd been working pretty late,
and got chilled through; and though I
rolled my blanket well round me after
turning into my hammock, I couldn't get
warm any how ; so I shivered away till I
fell asleep. Then I fell to dreaming that
I was in a trance like some man I read
about in America, and that they thought
me dead, and were going to bury me. I
tried my hardest to move or scream out,
or something, but no good; and I heard
the coffin lid slap to, and the first spadeful
of earth fall on it, and then I awoke. It
was a fine bright morning, and through the
opening of the tent I could see the sun
shining, and hear the picks and cradles
getting ready for work as usual. But my
dream wasn't all fancy, for I felt as though
I was bound down and couldn't move an
inch ; and yet it was not that either—it
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HUNTING-DON, PA., OCTOBER 18, 1871
was more as if I had no substance left, but
was all air and shadow. If ever a man felt
like a ghost, I did then.
'Well, I didn't think of being frighten
ed just at first; I felt more put out and
foolish, like a man who's had a tumble or
been splashed over with a mud cart. It
seemed so queer for a great strong fellow
like me to be laid by the heels that way,
and at first the thought made me laugh;
so there I lay like a log for ever so long,
listening to the sounds from the camp, till
at last (about noon it must have been) I
began to feel hungry, and commenced to
look very hard at my 'damper' and cola
mutton, which lay upon a log t'other side
of the tent. Well, thought I, it's a queer
thin.. ' for a man to be starved this way
with food before his eyes ! But the moment
I thought it something cold seemed to
clutch my heart and squeeze it all together.
I tried to put it away by saying to myself,
'This'll go off soon, of course it will ; but
at that moment it flashed across Inc, as if
some one had written it in letters of fire
all over the tent, 'And supposing it doesn't
go off—what then ?'
"It was then that I began to feel fright
ened for the first time. I turned sick all
at once, as if I was going to die, and like
enough I may have fainted, for the next
thing I remember there was a groat silence
over the camp ; and by that I knew the
men were having their dinner, and that it
must be late in the afternoon. As night
came on I began to feel bad every way.—
So long as the sun was shining, and the
sound of the picking and shoveling went
on, the light and the noise and the feeling
of having lots of people close to me, kept
we up a bit; but when the sounds died
away little by little, and the darkness came
all round as if it were locking me in, I felt
as cast down and helpless as a child lost. in
a great city. However, my hunger made
me savage-like, -and that held me up; for
as long as there is strength enough for
anger in a man, he's got a chanee. It's
when he can't feel savage that his heart is
broken. Only I kept wishing that some
thing would break the silence; and at last
something did with a vengeance—for a lot
of the terrible dingoes commenced howling.
And so they kept on, and worked me up
that I felt as if I'd give anything to have
had one blow at them no matter what came
of it ; for what with the hunger, and the
lying still so long, and the howling of these
dingoes, I'd got so mad that I'd have liked
to do something no matter what it was.—
And sa the night wore away—a dreary
night for me !"
While he was speaking the moon had
become•gradually obscured, and we were
wrapped in a shadowy recital, to which
the deepening sombreness of his tone lent
additional horror.
"The sun rose at last, but it brought no
bright morning hope with it, only the same
weary helplessness, which seemed as if it
had lasted for days and days—for I had
lost all count of time. When the noise of
the digging began again, I almost wished
for it before; for it sent a kind of horror
through me to think of the hundreds of
men so near me any one of whom would
have run like lightning to help me, if he'd
only kuvnu of apt: I
I lay dumb and dying close by. Ah, dy
ing
it was no shamming hopeful any ion. ,
erfor now I began to feel a gnawing and
tugging in my insides, as if the teeth of a
wolf were tearing it; and I knew what
that meant, for I had felt it before, only
not so bad. I wouldn't have minded it so
much if I could only have screamed, or
flung myself about, or anything to show
what I felt ; but lie there stockstill and
speechless, it was horrible.
A shudder, which I could see in the
uncertain light, shook his strong frame as
he proceeded.
"As the sun grew hotter, the flies began
to swarm, and as I watched them, it struck
me all of a sudden, what a way I would be
in, supposing they attacked me ; for, as I
was then, they might have sucked every
drop of my blood before I could have
stirred a finger. I knew something of
what Australian bushflies could do, for I'd
once stumbled on the body of a shepherd
who had been tied to a tree by the bush
rangers, and left. However, luckily for
me there was something else in the tent
that tempted them more, and that was the
food I had left lying on - the log. In a
second they were down on it; all the meat
turned black at once as a shower of soot,
and their buzzing was like the wind blow
ing through a row of wires. You'd laugh
at me stranger if I were to tell you how
savage that right made me; for of course
you'll say I ought to have been mighty
glad to get off so cheap; but, oh ! to see
those accursed vermin gorging themselves
before my eyes, while I, a man, lay starv
ing ! I tell you, all I felt before was noth
ing t 3 it
"Toward afternoon, there began a kind
of whispering and humming in my ears,
getting louder bit by bit. It wasn't the
flies, for they were all gone; it was what
comes to one on the second or third day of
starving to death, and "I knew it. Some
of my mates that were starved up in the
country used to keep putting their hands
to their ears for a while before they died,
Faying they heard something whispering
to them. It got stronger and stronger,
till the sound seemed to shape itself into
an old song that a man I was with in Bra
zil kept croning over just before he died.
The song was all about a party going across
the desert to look for a party that were
lost; but the verse that rang in my head
then was this :
"But never a man, and never a beast
They met on their desolate way ;
But the bleaching bones in the hungry sand
Said all that a tongue could say."
"And so it kept going over and over,
till at last I fairly went off—half slept and
half fainted.
"•It was late when I awoke, and I can't
tell how I felt at seeing the sun setting
again. As the light faded I felt as if my
life was going out with it, and when it
dipped below the horizon I was ready to
start up and stretch out my arms to hold
it back, if I'd the strength. And such a
night as that second night was, good Heav
ens! This time there was no howling din
goes, no noise of any sort; all was deadly
still, as if the world itself, with all that
lived and breathed in it were dead, and I
alone kept living—living on. I suppose 1
must have been getting light-hearted with
hunger and weakness, because I began to
fancy all sorts of queer things. First I
thought I was nailed down in a coffin, and
that if I could only move or scream, or
even speak, the lid would fy open ; but I
couldn't. Then it seemed as if I were at
the bottom of the sea, and the weight of
the water above pressed me down until I
could hardly breath. All at once I was
startled out of my fancies by a sound close
besides me, the like of which I had never
heard before or since—a low moaning cry,
that sounded like 'All alone ! all alone !'
over and over again. I can't tell to this
day whether I heard it or only fancied it;
but at the time it gave me such a horror
that I nearly went mad. _ _ _
"The thiid morninc , came, and found
me nearly my last. The gnawing pain was
gone, and instead of it had come a pleasant
drowsiness, what a man feels when he falls
down to sleep in the snow. All the morn
ing I lay in a kind of a dream thinking of
nothing, fearing nothing—as quiet as a
child at its mother's breast; till all at once
I saw something that roused me in good
earnest—a black shining thing, like a long
strip of velvet, coming gliding into the
tent. I knew it directly as one of the
deadliest snakes in Australia. The next
moment I heard the rustle of its coils upon
the tent pole to which my hammock was
slung, and then I saw its flat head and
black, deadly eyes hanging over me, and
lookinc , right down ito my face to see if I
were dead or not. I suppose it thought I
was, for the next moment it slid down over
my face, and to and fro along the ham
mock, till at last it went to the other pole,
and then it glided off, and I saw no more
of it. Any body watching me then would
have called me a brave fellow, but I dare
say it's not the first time that a man has
been thought brave because he couldn't
run away.
"I don't know how long it was after that
—it may have been an hour, or a day, or
a weak, for all I could tell—that a shadow
fell across my face, and I heard a voice
calling out, 'Halloo., mate! can you give
us a firestick ? I've let my fire go out.'
With the sound of that voice all my love
of life came back again, and I gathered up
all my strength to try and speak.
"Seeing me lying there so white and
still, the fellow must have thought me
dead; and for a ma:tent—the bitterest
moment I ever had—l thought he was
going to turn and go out again; but, al
though I couldn't speak, I managed just
to move my eyelids and be saw it. He said
nothing, but raised my head on his arm
and took out his flask to pour some rum
into my mouth ; and then I knew that I
was saved, and with the shock of the reac
tion I fainted in real earnest."
Here my strange companion suddenly
ceased, and raising from his chair, said to
me : "You've bad your story stranger and
now I am going to bid you good-night, for
I haven't spoke of' this business since it
befel me, and it rather upsets me think
ing of it. You tell you're off early to
morrow morning, so it's a hundred to one
if we ever meet again ; but in any case I
wish you success in your travels, and may
you end better than I have done."
Then grasping my hand with a force
that made it tingle to the wrist, he de
parted.
His parting words were true, for we
never met since that night; but should
these lines ever meet his eye, it may grati
fy him to know that there is one man in
the world who fully believes his story, even
though it be (as he styled it) "the strangest
adventure of all."
Feaditig ffir flu 41 illiou.
enntstitutinhal Reform .
Important Correspondence Thereon—Views
of Secretary Jordan—Wrongs Existing
and Remedies Suggested.
The following is the substance of an in
teresting correspondence which has taken
place relative tea "Constitutional Reform :"
PHILADELPHIA, September 18, 1871.
Hon. Francis Jordan, Secretary of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:—DEAß
SIR : It occurs to us, that in the discharge
of your official duties as Secretary of the
Commonwealth, during a period of five
years, you must have witnessed 'many in
stances of public abuses of power, both
Legislative and administrative, that can be
remedied only by the radical process of
constitutional revision.
A statement of some of the most notori
ous cases of official irregularity, of which
you are cognizant, would be potent argu
ments in favor of calling a convention of
revision. 'We, therefore, take the liberty
to solicit from you such a statement E r
publication as, in your judgment, will best
serve the purpose. Very respectfully,
N. B. Browne. Charles Gibbons,
Morton MI I
lichael, John 0. James,
I Riuhard Yalu,
D. M. Fox
Henry C. Lea, 'George W. Biddle,
R. Rundle Smith, Henry M. Philips,
Thomas Webster, Frederick Fraley,
L. P. Ashmead, James Page,
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James L. Claihorn,l.T. R. Sypler,
THE ANSWER GIVEN
In answer, Mr. Jordan says
GENTLEMAN : Your very - kind and com
plimentary letter of the 25th inst., is duly
received, soliciting my views and opinions
in writing, and for publication, on the
important subject of a Constitutional Con
vention, now a pending issue in the elec
tion just at hand. It affords much gratifi
cation to find men of your standing and
character interesting yourselves in this
matter, and it will afford me pleasure to
co-operate with you.
It is greatly feared sufficient prominence
in the canvass has not been given to this
question of constitutional reform, and I
therefore cheerfully comply with your re
quest, in the hope of contributing some
thing to an intelligent and proper verdict
on the approaching 10th of October, and
to appropriate action thereafter. The fact
that I recognize the names of prominent
democrats as well as rep. blicans, to your
request, contributes largely to my willing
ness to comply; for constitutional reform
is no party question, and no real friend of
the movement will low it to become such
if he can prevent it.
Your communication opens a wide field;
and many grave questions which suggest
themselves there are likely to be honest
differences of opinion amongst patriotic
men of all parties, while on many others
we may resonably expect substantial unan
imity of sentiment when the facts are fully
understood. Of the former class I will
suggest and enumerate, without discussion,
but as proper subjects for present reflec
tion, and for the consideration of any con
vention which may be called, the following
points.
1. An increase of the number of sena
tors and representatives in the general as
sembly.
. . . .
2. 'biennial session of the legislature.
3. The election by the people of sundry
State officers now otherwise chosen.
4, Manority representation.
5. Modifications of the pardoning pow
er.
6. A change in the tenure and mode of
choosing the tenure.
7. A change in the date of our annual
fall election to the time of the presidential
election, to prevent what is called coloni
zation from surrounding states, and to dis
pense with one election every fourth year.
8. Further restrictions upon the powers
of corporations.
We have outgrown our constitution as
amended and adopted in 1838. The clothes
of the boy do not fit the man. We live
in a fast progressive age, in which govern
ments, science, art, discovery, invention,
material and intellectual development, and
all things about us are developing and ex
panding, and it is but reasonable to expect
that state constitutions,
and national con
stitutions also, should have to be altered,
amended and enlarged, so as to conform to
the great and general progress of our age.
HOW TO BRING ABOUT A CHANGE,
Since the adoption of the present con
stitution no less than seventeen amend
ments have been added at sundry times by ,
joint resolutions of the legislature and ap
proved by the popular vote. Most of
these are important and valuable; but they
have been so injected into the body of the
original framework of the constitution as
to mar its symmetry, and give the charac
ter of patch-work to that which should
thoroughly harmonize and be without blem
ish.
Let competent men be carefully selected
for the sole purpose of thorough revision,
to retain and systematize everything valu
able, and to incorporate such additional
provisions as shall be dictated by the wis
dom and patriotism of this enlightened
age ; and when the work of these our rep
resentatives shall be completed, let it all
be fairly submitted to a vote of the people,
whose intelligent verdict through the bal
lot-box shall breathe into it the breath of
life.
THE STATE TREASURER.
Our present organic law requires the
State treasurer to be elected annually by a
joint vote of both branches of the legisla
ture. Experience has demonstrated this
to be a most unwise provision, and it
should be so changed as to make the office
elective by the people.
THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL.
Our constitution should be so amended,
also, as to prohibit appropriations in what
is known as the general appropriation bill,
except for purposes previously prescribed
by law.
THE EVIL OF SPECIAL LEGISLATION
But the great and gigantic evil of the
day is special legislation, and to a consid
eration of this I invoke the most earnest
attention, while I endeavor to point out
some of its pernicious and alarming results.
Look first at the magnitude of this legisla
tion for the last five years, compared with
the general legislation for the same period :
In 1866 the whole number of general
laws passed and published was 50.
In 1866 the whole number of private
laws, 1,096.
In 1867 the whole number of public
laws, 86.
In 1867 the whole number of private
laws, 1,392.
In 1868 the whole number of public
laws, 73.
In 1868 the whole number cf private
laws, 1,150.
In 1869 the whole number of public
laws, 77.
In 1869 the whole number of private
laws, 1,276.
14i74.4.40.
laws, 54.
In 1870 the whole number of private
laws, 1.276.
Totals in five years, 340 public and 6,-
170 private acts, and besides these there
were 956 additional private acts not pub
lished, by reason of the non-payment of
the enrollment tax thereon, making the
total of private laws in five years 7,126,
or about twenty-one times as many private
as public laws. The printed pages of the
statute books covered by these laws bear
almost as great a disproportion.
,In the whole five years only 546 pages
are public laws, and the remaining 6,523
are private laws, and the total number of
large octavo pages, exclusive of indexes, is
6,969, or an annual average of about 1,-
394 pages.
_ _
The volume of State laws for 1871 is
but another specimen of this evil, in a more
aggravated form. During the last session
the public laws passed were 82, covering
94 pages; the private laws were 1,240,
covering 1,317 pages. The whole volume,
including the index, exhibits 2,670 pages,
and makes the largest annual book of stat
ues ever published in the State. It is thus
demonstrated too, that the evil is a grow
ing one ; and that the fact of each politi
cal party having a majority iu one branch
of the legislature affords no remedy or
mitigation of the evil.
The very magnitude of this statute law
is itself a great evil ; but nut so great as
the character of it. And I here affirm
that, as a general rule, there is no longer
any such thing as legislation in Pennsyl
vania, according to any just conception of
the meaning of that term, according to
the true theory of republican government,
or as the framers of our constitution in
tended it should be.
THE GENERAL TAX LAWS.
of our State are a subject of universal in
terest to our whole people; and it is con
ceded by all who know anything about
them that they greatly need revision and
simplification.
Efforts to this end have been frequently
made within the last ten years, but with
little or no practical results. Nearly four
years ago the legislature, impressed with
the necessity for some decided action, but
too busy with private bills to undertake
the task themselves, appointed three com
missioners to "revise, collate and digest"
the tax laws of the state, and make report
to the next legislature. This commission
performed the duty assigned it and, with
great labor, prepared and reported a bill,
entitled "an act to revise, amend and con
solidate existing laws for the assessment
and collection of state taxes, and county
and township rates and levies."
It proposed nothing new, or untried,
but consolidated into the one act all the
fifty-eight existing laws, extending from
1780 to 1867, striking out all incongruities
and obscurities and arranging the whole
systematically into one intelligible and
harmonious whole, properly divided into
chapters and sections, and repealing all
prior laws on that subject. Here was a
most valuable public and general law, care
fully prepared for legislative action, on a
subject of great magnitude and importance;
and against which no plausible objection
has ever been, or can be urged. It has
been under consideration in both houses of
our legislature for the last three annual
sessions, and yet it has. not been passed,
and to all appearances never will be passed.
BRIBERY-THE "THIRD HOUSE.
Another giant evil, growing out of, and
inseparably connected with special legisla
tion, is bribery, or the buying and selling
of votes for a price. General laws regu
late only general interests, and yon never
hear of men paying others for that which
only affects them in common with their
fellow men. But selfish and mercenary
men and associations of men, want special
privileges granted, and valuable rights con-
ferred, over and beyond those held and
enjoyed by others, and rather than not se
cure them they will pay for them, and
hence the mercenary traffic in legislation.
Here the lobby, and what is known in
legislative parlance as the "third house,"
find their occupation, and conduct their
corrupt and nefarious schemes to the dis
graceful demoralization of the people's
representatives and to the scandals and re
proach of republican government itself. I
charge the party with corruption, and no
legislator with crime, for all parties are in
like condemnation ; but this is a sad his
tory, and these are lamentable facts,
"known and read of 'all men," and unless
something can be done for redress they
threaten to subvert and overthrow our
whole social fabric. Let us then, while
we may, make vigorous war upon and de
stroy this wicked system, lest theday come
when we shall find ourselves destroyed by
it.
For these wrongs our only adequate
remedy lies in constitutional amendments,
requiring the legislature to enact general
and uniform laws on-all subjects which can
be so regulated ; and absolutely prohibit
ing local and special legislation in all cases
where the same ends can be attained by
general laws.
VIE GREAT NEED OF REFORM
I cordially and earnestly unite with you
in an appeal for constitutional reform, and
demand it at as early a day as is consistent
with a respectful regard for the due forms
of law. The evils o which we complain
are palpable and alarming , are becoming
more and more aggravated every year, are
inflicting great wrong and injustice upon
our people, and are fast eating out the
vitals of the republic, and unless speedily
and effectually arrested may yet kindle the
firos of revolution and involve us in untold
calamities, as the outgrowth of erroneous
principles imbedded in our organic law.
I am strong in the faith that the gener
ation which conquered the late rebellion,
which abolished slavery, and which has
placed all men upon an equality, before the
law, will prove themselves equal b the new
duties and grave responsibilities now de
volving upon them.
The — naiion and our sister states have
given us noble examples of progress and
reform, and surely the people of this great
commonwealth, who so signally aided in
saving the national government from the
perils of anarchy and disunion, to be band
ed down to future geherations with increase
of power, benificence and renown, will
demonstrate themselves able to achieve
equal triumphs in the arts of peace and the
science of government, and, by the bless
ing of God, to re establish the political
foundations of our grand old state upon
the indestructible and everlasting princi
ples of equality and justice, "virtue, liber
ty and independence."
Protection and Democracy.
The great rule in good government is
wonderfully simple, and is expressed in
three words—Protect Native Industry. A
thorough observance of this maxim built
up the once,s9kgal_greatuessatErr-'
no long as rrotection was rigidly _Acre.
to, England had the best of it in her deal
ings with other nations. For example :
she imported our cotton, manufactured it
into various textile fabrics, and then
sent the product—Calicoes, muslins, lace,
stockings—across the Atlantic, with the
price swelled up by the profits of impor
ters, brokers, manufacturers, and agents,
besides the charges of double freight and
insurance, and made us pay from fifty to
seventy-five per cent. more than we could
have produced the same for at home. This
pretty game of 'heads I win, tails you lose,'
went on for a century, until at last we got
the idea that it would be as well to give
American enterprise, capital, and labor a
chance at home. The result is, we have
become great manufacturers, making what
we used to import. Mr. Gladstone, the
actual ruler of England, may think that it
is "sad, very sad" (as he said in his speech
at Wakefield the other day), for a nation
to adopt the principle of protection, because
their doing so ,could be bad fbr England—
these are his very words—but he did not, or
would not see, that if bad for England it
must be good for the other country. M.
Thiers, the present ruler of France, throw
ing free trade overboard, has hoisted in his
country a flag on which "Protection" is in
scribed in letters ofgold. Other nations have
done the same. here the only persons
who oppose Protection(which means plenty
of work at good wages, and the profits of
production realized and expended among
ourselves, and not handed over to foreign
capitalists and factory-men),are the Demo
crats. Whether Protection to native in
dustry and employment of home capital be
maintatued depends mainly en voting
the Republican ticket. The Democratic
party, be it remembred, are strongly op
posed to Protection of native industry.—
Phila. Press.
The new style of -wedding cards are
marked with one letter only, instead of a
T
monogram, and are plainly engraved on
19..§§12.1-greatni.g,p.f Fl aw ] , thick white paper.
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How Rain is Formed
To understand the philosophy of this
phenomenon, essential to the very exis
tence of plants and animals, a few facts
derived from observations and a long train
of experiments, must be remembered.—
Were the atmosphere at all times of uni
form temperature, we should never have
rain, hail or snow. The water absorbed
by it in evaporation from the sea and the
earth's surface, would descend in an im
perceptible vapor, or cease to be absorbed
by the air when it is fully saturated. The
absorbing power of the atmosphere, and
consequently its capability to retain hu
midity, is much greater in cold than in
warm air. The air near the surface of the
earth is warmer than it is in the region of
the clouds.
The higher we ascend from the earth
the colder we find the atmosphere. Hence
the perpetual snow on very high moun
tains in the very hottest climates. Now,
when, from evaporation, the air is highly
saturated with vapor—though it be invisi
ble—if its temperature is suddenly redu
ced by cold currents descending from
above, or rushing from a higher to a low
er latitude, its capacity to retain moisture
is diminished, clouds are formed and the
result is rain. Air condenses, as its di
minished capacity cannot hold. How
singular, yet how simple, an arrangement
for watering the earth.
An Irishman who was recently run over
by a whole train of cars got up and asked
for his cap, and said he "would not run
another such risk as that for tin dollars."
A Missouri girl set out to earn her own
living as a telegraph operator, and in two
years accumulated $200,000. It was left
her by a rich uncle.
Business is improving in Utah, and mi
ning transactions are unusually heavy. The
Silver Cloud mine, in Camp Floyd, has
been sold for $350,000.
NO. 41.
Latest Fashion Notes.
The chignon's rein is ended.
Turban hats are more in vogue than
ever.
Trimming on the front of dresses is re
vived.
Bonnet strings are wider and very much
longer.
ehatelaine braids will not be worn much
longer.
Sack overcoats with capes will be the
style for boys.
The plaited Garibaldi waists continue to
grow in favor.
Double and single round caps are to be
worn for early fall.
Short curls - and frizettes on the forehead
are still in vogue.
The hair on the temples continues to be
worn high and smooth.
Plait;d and twisted coronets of hair are
to supersede and Pompadour roll.
Shoulder seams are still high and short,
following the line of the shoulder.
Not 'inch change in bonnets, but they
an) larger and more cottage shaped.
Felt bonnets are to be worn for weather
suits by those who do not like hats.
'he short skirt for walking costume is
still to be retained by sensible women.
Many ladies have become really crippled
by wearing the French high heels.
Aprons to overskirts are much wiper,
and the side loopings are drawn very far
back.
Camel's hair scarfs will be worn neat
season for the neck instead of fur tippets
or boas.
Very long coat-shaped postilions are to
be worn and demi-train skirts for in-door
toilets.
The general effect in the new style of
hair dressing is Grecian but as rough and
frowsy as ever.
Satin and velvet striped silks will be very
much worn next season, with plain silk or
cashmere overdresses.
Large jet or tortoise shell butterfliea,with
gilt edges, are worn in the center of a large
bow on the top of the head.
Demi-trains are to be adjusted for street
wear by means of tapes to loop them up to
the waist at the back seams.
Deep flounces are more in favor than
narrow ones. When both are used in
combination, the narrow one is under
neath.
The double cape of bright Scotch plaid
is a very fashionable and stylish street
garment for young girls of from ten to fif
teen.
A polonaise or close cut paletot, with
pelerine caps or large cellar, will be the
fashionable garment for girls for early fall
wear.
Gray and light brown Melton cloth is
the most approved material for boys' snits,
comprising jacket, vest, and trousers.
The style of arranging the back hair
for the next season will be a French twist
surrounded by a twisted coil or heavy
braid.
at — RF" velvet lauulLe3 reaching'
nearly to the bottom of the dress, with
long circular capes, are to be very fash
ionable next Winter.
Low-necked dresses are now entirely a
thing of the past, all evening dresses being
cut a la Pompadour, heart-shaped, or
square over the shoulders.
In-door dresses are made up much
plainer than last season. Overskirts are
frequently omitted, the plain demi-train
and stylish basque being deemed suffici
ent.
Solid colored silks and rich poplins will
be most fashionable for street costumes :
darkgreen, brown, black, maroon and navy
blue will be the most fashionable colors.
Discontent,
The immediate causes of discontent are
numberless. Some of those who seem to
have all that earth can bestow—wealth,
station, education, friends, and talent, are
the least satisfied. Trifles discontent them.
A wet day, an ill-fitting garment, a broken
engagement, a slight disappointment, are
sufficient to destroy their peace of mind,
and render them slaves to vexation and
chagrin. The main cause of discontent,
however, is always to be found within. It
has its origin in selfishness. Directly we
forget ourselves in our efforts for others,
we strike at the root of all discontent. The
truly benevolent, loving wan is seldom tor
mented by vain regrets at his own circum
stances, and he who inwardly repines and
chafes at his situation, and who is harms
ed by the spirit of discontent, can in no
surer way free himself from the chains
that enslave him, than by turning his
thoughts and energies to sonic good work
for others. There are no blessings, how
ever rich, that discontent will not convert
into evils, and no trials, however severe,
that serenity and virtue may not transform
into blessings.
News Items,
Venison is eight cents a pound in Wis-
cousin
Enfield, Connecticut, has voted, 171 to
169, not to build a new high school.
The yellow fever is prevalent at Tampa,
Fla., in an epidemic form.
Only sixteen persons intend to lecture
on the Yo Semite next winter.
Five young ladies have been admitted to
the University of Vermont.
The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is in
the market. Price $500,000.
Bangor, Maine, had one hundred deaths
between March 1 and October 1.
A three acre field of Bananas in Florida
produced $125 per month all the year
round.
Cincinnati records four hundred and
thirty-two deaths for the month of Sep
tember.
lowa is troubled with a superabundance
of grapes. They only bring three cents a
bushel.
The 'Heights" at Narragansett are to
be made beautiful before another "season"
by an expenditure of $lOO,OOO.
Henry Wolfe, aged 108, of Waldesboro',
Ky., who had never known a sick day in
his life, lay down in a cornfield the other
day and cut his throat.
Deadman, the convict, who risked his
life to defend the Lieutenant Governor of
Nevada during the recent outbreak at
Carson, has been pardoned.
The Spanish Democrats are making de
monstrations in favor of Senor Zorrilla..
Twenty-two govenors of provinces have
tendered their resignations on account of
their opposition to the new ministry.