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Women and Wine.
Pop l went the gay cork flying,
Sparkled the gay champagne,
By the light of day that was dying,
Be filled up their goblets again.
Let the last, best toast be to women,
"Women, dear women," said he,
"Empty your glass, my darling,
When you drink to your sex with me."
But she caught his strong brown fingers,
And held them tight as in fear,
And through the gathering twilight,
Iler fond voice fell on his ear :
"Nay, ere you drink, I implore you,
By all that you hold divine,
Pledge a woman in tear drops,
Rather by far than wine.
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By the children that begged for bread,
By the face of her whose beloved one
Looks on the wine when 'tis red,
L'y the kisses changed to curses,
By the tears more bitter than brine,
By many a sad heart broken,
Pledge no women in wine.
What has wine brought to women?
Nothing but tears and pain,
It has torn from her heart her lover,
And proven her prayers in vain,
And her household goods all scattered,
Lie tangled up in the vine,
Oh 1 I prithee pledge no woman
In the curse of so many—WlNE."
El2t ,s)tori-trtiter.
THE LION TAMER.
"That lioness will be the death of you
yet, Joe."
"Pshaw !" said Joe Amberly, "the Lion
Tamer" of a large travelling circus, laugh
ing at the predictions of his assistant.
"You may laugh as much as you please,
but some day you will find I aro right, and
that to your sorrow, though then it will
be too late."
"I have performed with all the animals
for some years, and never had any diffi
culty." _ ..
"Irou forgot the one at Longtown."
"That didn't amount to much. I soon
brought them to subjection."
"But the trouble commenced with this
same lioness."
"Yes, though it wouldn't have been so
bad if those cats or hunting leopards had
not set up a yell, and drawn the black
tiger into the affray."
"She has a devil of a temper when it is
up—is the most treacherous beast I ever
fed or had anything to do with. I have
been watching her close for a couple of
days," continued the assistant, "and know
she is mighty cross-grained. So, depend
upon it, you are going to have trouble."
•"I don't see why more than at any other
time."
"'1 hare are times—and you know it, if
you will only reflect—and this is one of
them. If I was in your place, I wouldn't
try to show off to-day with any extras, but
just give a common performance, and get
out of the cage as quick as I could."
"You know what we advertised, and
what a crowd has gathered."
"Yes"—with a laugh ; "and I know we
never have or do one half there is in the
bills. Paper is cheap, Joe, but human
life is precious. Think how poorly off
you would leave your wife and child if any
thing should happen to you, and what
would become of your wife if anything
should happen to the child ?"
. "Do not mention it."
The man who had handled and tamed
and toyed with the savage beasts as if they
had been harmless kittens, groaned aloud
at the thought. A man of the most ar
dent, even passionate nature, be bowed
down in worship to his wife and little girl.
And that day it had been advertised that
he would: take his child and a pail of
blood into the cage with him.
It was a very daring, foolhardy project
at the best; but how much more so when
the beasts were doubly savage and out of
temper—when the slightest thing might
arouse them to all their pristine fury, and
the force blood of the wilderness assert
itself in all its tempestuous wrath.
But the husbandly and fatherly emotion
was soon conquered. The habit of years
and his natural strength gave him self
reliance ; and it would take more than idle
words to turn him from his purpose, no
matter how dangerous it might appear to
others. To this must be added the esprit
de corps that would make him take the
most desperate chances before having even
the shadow of cowardice attached to his
name.
Still lie could not help thinking more
deeply, perhaps, than ever before. Was
there in reality any danger? He could
not convince himself of it, argue the mat
ter as he would.
The old lion in the cage, .tbough a
monster in size, was inoffensive, tame and
obedient. In the language of the keepers,
he was "good for nothing bat to make a
show and sit back in the corner, grind his
teeth, and growl." Resides, he was his
friend. and upon more than one occasion
had acted the part of a peacemaker. The
leopards—a pair of spotted cheetahs—were
scarcely to be taken into consideration.—
The black tiger, the most rare and stri
kingly beautiful animal in any collection,
was ordinarily quiet, though when fatly
aroused not to be trifled with.
But the lioness was the special one to
be dreaded and watched. She was a beast
of uncommon power, with massive arms,
long curving claws, tail lithe and nervous
as a serpent, teeth sharp as needles, flex
ible, treacherous, smooth, tawny skin and
yellow eyes that ever flashed fiercely.—
Never, even in her best moods, had she
been submissive, and her mildest play was
rough in the extreme.
The Lion Tamer turned from his com
panion to go and dress for his attractive
but dangerous performance; but before
doing so, he visited the double cage, and
made a critical examination of the beasts,
who any instant might be to him as fate.
There was nothing to especially awaken
fear..; and, half vexed with himself for
having been needlessly disturbed, he passed
from e great canvas into a smaller com
partment, and found his wife and child
waiting for him—the one a young and
beautiful women, and the other a very
fairy of a child, whose hair hung down
upon her back, as the finest and brightest
of spun silk.
"I am sorry, Joe," said the wife and
mother, as her husband entered, "that you
have consented to so foolish a performance
as the one advertised for to-day.
"Why, May ?" and he looked most
earnestly at her.
"Because the ordinary performance is
hazardous enough:"
"Then you think this more so?"
"I don't know that it is," she replied,
having the most perfect confidence in her
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husband's ability; "but somehow I don't
altogether fancy having Inez taken into
the cage."
"You know my reason for consenting,
and that it would never have been given
had your assent not first been obtained."
"Certainly ; and it was very good of
you, Joe."
"That it was promised on account of my
salary being raised."
"Yes."
"And that it was to secure the rise of
salary, so as the sooner to accumulate
enough to buy a little home against the
rainy days that may come."
"Yes, my dear Joe ; but"—with a smile
—"had not pride something to do with
it ? That's the curse of the profession.—
Each one is always trying to outdo the
other—running risks on that account they
would not otherwise attempt."
"Well, May, I only gave my promise to
do the act once, but even now will give it
up if you say the word. I had rather
disappoint all the managers and be called
coward by all the rabble in the world, than
cause your heart to beat with fear or to
bring tears into your eyes:"
"No, no, Joe. Don't think I have lost
confidence and pride in you. No, don's
think of giving it up. I suppose I am
foolishly nervous. But you will be care
ful, and not run any unnecessary risks ?"
"My own heart would have to be torn
out before anything should happen to our
darling;" and he stooped, raised the child,
tossed hr up, caught, kissed her, and
hugged her to his bosom.
"But yourself, Joe ?"
"Oh !I'll look out for Lumber one."
The conversation did not tend to ease
his mind, and before dressing he went out
and held another conversation with his
particular attendant, and took another look
into the performing cage.
The animals were more quiet than when
he had seen them previously, the lioness
especially appeared in a playful mood, and
with something of the load lifted from his
heart he returned, with but little time re
maining before he would be called upon
to prove his right to the proud title of
Lion Tamer.
And every inch he looked one as he
stepped in view of the densely crowded
assembly. Gorgeous in his new costume,
and with a look of calmness and determi
nation upon his face—looked, with his
tall and sinewy form, fit to grapple with
and overcome the fiercest beasts that ever
prowled amid the jungles of Asia and
Africa, and made night terrible with their
roaring.
A burst of applause—a perfect tempest
of buzzas and clapping of hands—greeted
him as he swung his little girl, dressed in
silver tissue, and with the gossamer wings
and tiara of sparkli❑g jewels around her
golden curls, that represent the traditional
fairy, upon his shoulder. While looking
at his stalwart proportions, the men thought
what a dangerous antagonist he would be,
and the mothers shuddered at so beautiful
a child being taken into a den of savage
animals.
With a graceful bow and the dignity of
a Roman conqueror, the Lion Tamer strode
through the circle, disappeared behind the
cage, and with such rapidity as to astonish
the audience, stood within the compart
ment where the huge lion was lying and
the agile leopards leaping about, and
had placed his child between the claws of
the greater brute, and she was playfully
toying with its shaggy mane.
For a time he made the leopards leap
about him as kittens, jumping from corner
to corner, resting upon his broad shoulders,
bounding lightly over his extended whip.
Then he gave his attention to the monster
lion ; opened his immense jaws, placed his
arm and thrust his head between them,
raised his fairylike child upon his back
and made it march around with her. Then
he prepared to throw the two cages into
one.
"Let Inez come out, now," whispered
the attenean.t, uneasily. You have done
enougl' , i..eady to keep your promise, and
the audi-Aiee won't know the difference."
"No, I will go through. Mind what I
told you, and have things ready in case
there should be trouble, though I don't
fancy any." Then he continued aloud,
and so as to be plainly heard by every one,
"Hand me the nail of blood."
A cold shiver, a supernatural awe ap
peared to pass through the frame of all as
the vessel, dripping with crimson drops,
was given to him, and more than once
asked themselves if the man was mad to
thus not only risk his own life, but that of
his beautiful child. And when be loosened
and thrust aside the partition, and the
fierce lioness and sleek tiger came bound
ing in, their breath was absolutely sus
pended, and their hearts momentarily
ceased to beat.
"Down I"
The tiger obeyed, and the foot of the
Lion Tamer was upon his neck.
"tip !"
And the leopards were purring like great
cats upon his shoulders, while the lionees
lay crouched with her tawny paws thrust
through the bars, and growling severely.
"For mercy's sake, let her alone,"
whispered his attendant, "and mind not to
kick over that pail. If the blood should
be spilled, it would be all over with you
both. All the men in the world couldn't
save you."
"Stand ready, but keep still. The brute
shall mind."
His child was sittinc , b on the back of the
lion, and smiling in that den or horrors.
Her confidence in her father ;var sublime
—was as perfect as her love. She never
dreamt of fear when he was near to pro
tect, and while the lookers-on shuddered,
she innocently aeemcd it a pleasant pastime.
"Down !"
The leopards leaped to either corner and
crouched down.
"Come !"
The lioness grumblingly arose, crawled
suddenly to his feet, rose and laid her great
claws upon his shoulders, making him
swerve with her weight, and raising her
terrible head upon a level with his own.
Slowly and slowly they turned round as
if waltzing, the low mutterings of the beast
becoming more plainly audible every mo
ment, and her yellow feline eyes snapping
with hidden fires.
With an amazing exhibition of strength,
he wrestled with, tripped and threw her
from him, and the canvas tent rang again.
But instantly she was upon her feet, lash
ing her sides with her prehensile tail,
drawing back her lips so as to show her
teeth, and uttering the deepest and fiercest
of growls.
"For the love of mercy, hand out your,
child, Joe," said his attendant.
"Wait a moment. I shall be done very
quickly."
lie stepped to the corner, led the monster
lion forth into the centre of the cage,
made him lie (town, placed the little girl
upon him, and stood astride. Then a shrill
whistle brought the cheetah leopards
bounding upon his shoulders and standing
up with paws crossed above his head, and
and the black tiger erect upon his left,
and throttled with his hand. But the
lioness failed to do his bidding and take
her place at his right. She lay in the act
of springing, and at but a little distance.
"Come."
There was no niovernent, and the whip
was raised and fell heavily upon her bead.
That was all that was needed to awaken
her latent ire, and with a roar like that
given in her native forest, she sprang with
almost resistless force towards him. A
sharp, stinging blow on the bridge of the
nose for a moment .cowed her, and she
might have been conquered, bad she not
partially fell upon and upset the pail and
deluged the floor of the cage in blood !
Then all became the wildest commotion
—the most terrible and savage sounds.—
Every beast sprung down, lapped the
blood, and then turned upon him. Even
the veteran lion appeared to forget the
long years of training,and something of his
young forest life blazed forth.
Amberly comprehended all in an instant,
and the father triumphed over the actor.
He snatched up the now terrified and
screaming child, sprang with her to the
door, thrust her into the hands of the
watchful attendant, and would have fol
lowed, had not the lioness grappled and
drawn him back, rending his shoulders
with her sharp claws, and causing the
blood to flow over his rich dress.
He was fighting against most desperate
odds, he knew it, and backed into a corner,
and called for his irons. One, red-hot at
the end, was handed to him, but at the
first stroke the lioness sent it whirling, and
her sharp teeth almost met for a moment
in his thigh.
"Hand me something sharp with which
I can brain the brute !"
Everything upon which hands could be
laid was thrust to him, but he failed to
reach them, and the danger was becoming
more and more imminent. The blood had
been lapped up cyan—all were mad with
desire; the tiger and the leopard crouching
upon him. Then the majesty of command
asserted itself.
"Come, Samson."
The old lion came forward at the words,
lie seemed to comprehend that something
was wrong, thrust himself between his
master and his raging mate, and, when she
turned upon him, sent her rolling with a
blow of his great paw.
The Lion Tamer might have escaped ;
but bleeding, wounded as he was, he would
not retreat, and turned his attention to
separate the now tangled mass of fighting
animals. Picking up one leopard after
another, he drew them into a farther cor
ner of the cage, dragging the tiger with
the lioness clinging to it and tearing its
glossy hide, thither, tore open its paws by
main strength, hurled it back and shut
the partition, turned, reeled to the door,
fell upon it, and was dragged through to
safety, even with the lioness rattling be
him as it was closing.
A few steps taken, and the Lion Tamer
fell fainting by the side of his already in
sensible wife, who lay with her affrighted
child hugged closely to her scarcely beat
ing heart.
Then the silence that had been as death
was broken by- the most tumultous shoats,
and breath was drawn again, and half
fainting women and fear palsied men felt
as if a mountain had been lifted from their
hearts.
Lame, torn and beak the Lion Tamer
entered the cage the next day before the
most unprecedented crowd, it having been
advertised that he would do so in his
bloody clothes, but never again could he
be tempted to take child or pail of blood
behind the bars.
(stfert Pis celiang.
Hints on the Care of the Eyes.
There are, perhaps, more individuals
who ascribe their weakness of sight to a
use of their eyes under an insufficient arti
ficial illumination than to any other one
cause. In a great many instances this
may not bb strictly true, but there can be
no doubt that faulty artificial light is one
of the most productive causes of a certain
class of injuries, to which the eye can be
exposed. The two sources of trouble with
the ordinary artificial lights are—first,
that they are not pure white, and secondly,
that they are unsteady. The first defect
is found in all artificial lights except the
lime, electric and magnesium lights ; the
second especially in candles and gas. The
yellowness is, in a measure, counteracted
by using, in the ease of lamps and gas,
chimneys of a violet or blue tint, and the
flickering of the gas may be obviated large
ly by employing an Argand burner. All
things considered, a German student-lamp
furnishes the most satisfactory light. The
next best is gas with an Argand burner.
The chimneys of both may, as above sug
gested, be advantageously of a light-blue
tint.
The position of the light in relation to
the body is of great importance. If a
shade is used on the lamp or burner (it
should, by preference, be of ground or
"milk" glass, never of colored glass), the
light may stand directly in front of the
body and the work be allowed to lie in the
light under the shade, which will protect
the eyes from the glare of the flame. If
no shade is used the back should be turn
ed to the source of light which ought to
fall over the left shoulder. The same rule
applies in the management of daylight.
In this case the light should come from
behind and slightly above, and fall direct
ly on the work, whence it is reflected to
the eye. It should never fall directly in
the face.
The light in the room during sleep is
also not without its influence. As a rule,
the room during sleeping hours should be
dark ; and, in particular, care should be
taken to avoid sleeping opposite a window
where on opening the eyes in the morning
a flood of strong light will fall ou them.
Even the strongest eyes are, after the rt..-
pose of the night, more or less sensitive to
the impression of intense light. The eyes'
must have time to accustom themselves to
the stimulus.
Attention should be called to the injuri•
ons efiects that sometimes follow reading
on railroad cars. On account of the un
steadiness of the page, reading under
these circumstances is exceedingly trying
,to the eyes, and should never be persisted
in for any considerable length of time.
During convalescence from severe illness
the eyes are generally the last to regain
their lost power. Especially is this the
case with women after child-birth, and too
much care cannot be taken to put as little
strain upon the eyes as possible at this time.
—Dr. S. M. Burnett ; Scribner for Sept.
Letter from Scranton.
SCRANTON, PA., August 29, 1877.
ED. JOURNAL : —Scranton seems to be
now and has been for some weeks one of
the centres of interest in the great labor
question which is agitating the minds of
the people, so much so that the New York
and Philadelphia dailies have each a car
respondent stationed here who write lengthy
letters giving in detail the situation of af
fairs between the coal companies and the
miners.
Leaving Alexandria on Saturday morn
ing last, and stopping at Lewistown,
where
I was obliged to wait several hours for the
train on the Sunbury division of the road,
I found the usual quiet county seat of
Mifflin county crowded with visitors, not
only from the country round about, but
from neighboring cities and towns. The
cause of ail this was soon ascertained to be
a trial of steam fire engines by the differ
ent manufacturers, preparatory to the pur
chase of the best one by the authorities of
Lewistown.
Several of the denizens of "ye Ancient
Borough" were noticed among the throng,
who seemed to be taking a lively interest
in the result of the contest. Passing on
through Selinsgrove, Sunbury and North
umberland, the Lackawana & Bloomsburg
R. R. was soon speeding us up the North
Branch of the Susquehanna, through Dan
ville, Bloomsburg and Kingston to Scran
ton, our destination, at the terminus of the
road. The evening was grand, and the
historic river along our pathway, the rich
and peaceful farms on either side, with the
lovely mountains hemming them in, the
neat and tasteful villages and towns, with
the gorgeous hues with which the setting
sun glorified the western horizon 'ere it
dropped down into the night, altogether
formed a scene of loveliness rarely to be met
with even in our own beautiful State.
As the eye delighted itself with all this
beauty, and the mind pondered the
thoughts awakened thereby, and contrasted
the peace and quiet with which the Crea
tor has clothed the world, with the turmoil
and strike upon its bosom, the words of
the wise man came up unconsciously :
"God created man upright, but he bath
sought out many inventions," and that
couplet of a hymn so often sung, referring
to a heathen country, but applieable with
equal force too often alas to our own land—
"Where every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile."
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How sadly the pure face of nature is
marred and disfigured, and how disastrous
ly the harmony of natural laws is changed
into discord and confusion by the ignorance
and malice of men.
The glory and beauty of nature's handi
work seemed in pathetic contrast to the
turbulence and bad passion and strife that
all the upper anthracite region hath wit
nessed during the days just past. At.Nan
ticnke, twenty-four miles south of this city,
the first encampment of soldiers was ob•
served, a company of Pittsburgh
then at Arondale, Plymouth, Kingston,
and at nearly all the depots of the compa
ny and important mining points the white
tents of the soldiers were plainly to be
seen, and the bayonets of sentries on guard
over depots, round-houses and bridges were
gleaming brightly in the moonlight.
Several regiments of soldiers, regulars
and militia, are stationed at differet points
throughout the valley. Those at this city
consist of the Third Regiment U. S. Reg
ulars and several companies of militia from
Pittsburgh. The regulars are encamped
on a hill, just outside the city, and they
form quite an attraction. They have dress
parade every morning at 6 o'clock, which
is witnessed by hundreds of citizens of all
classes. But this is merely the surface
views and impressions.
There is a labor revolt in the Lackawanna
and Wyoming Valleys of greater magni
tude than this region, accustomed as it is
to strikes and labor troubles, has ever
known. It began with the railroad strike,
but it did not end there. Your readers
are familiar with the principal facts, es
pecially the events of the memorable
Wednesday, the Ist of August, how a large
crowd of strikers and others collected ; how
they held a meeting in a grove below the
city, at which inflammatory speeches were
made, where also an anonymous letter was
read purporting to come from the manager
of one of the large companies in which it
was alleged that the men should be brought
to his own terms; how thus inflamed the
crowd started up town compelling all who
were at work in the shops on their way to
stop; how they were met by the mayor
and a priest, the mayor receiving a broken
jaw and barely escaping with his life ; how
the crowd increased and became a mob,
cleaning out several small stores on their
way, and continuing on with threats of
treating the stores on the principal busi
ness avenue in the same way; at the cross
ing of this avenue they were met by a res
olute company of volunteers, who fired up
on them, when the mob scattered and fled
in every direction leaving three of their
number dead on the side walk and two
more wounded so as to disable them from
retreating.
Thus terminated the only overt and
combined riotous demonstration of the
present strike. Since then it has been
quiet, oppressively quiet. Immediately
afterward, measures were taken to form a
battalion,to be drilled and armed, to act in
case of emergency in the defence of the
city. An organization was effected, four
companies were formed and uniforms and
arms for them will be received in a few
days. The best, men of the city, doctors,
lawyers, bankert business men and me
chanics belong to this battalion,and I ven
ture to say, that there is not an organiza
tion in the Uuited States composed of bet
ter material than this body *of citizen sol
diers of Scranton. And they are in earn
est, and mean just this, that mob law shall
not gain the supremacy in this city as long
as they have strength to shoot a rioter and
protect their homes from fire and pillage.
Do not then entertain the idea that this
part of the State is in a state of insurrec
tion or anarchy. Good citizens are not
quaking in their beds at night with fear of
an outbreak, and the laws are executed
just as promptly and fully in the valley of
the Lackawanna as in the valley of the
Juniata. We have a large, turbulent ele
ment, it is true, but they are powerless to
do permanent mischief. The streets of
Scranton are just as quiet to-night as are
the streets of Pittsburgh, and her people
and civil authorities have shown themselves
far more capable of measuring up to the
requirements of an emergency than were
tha authorities and people of Pittsburgh.
What is more and better, the respectable
portion of the people are united in their
determination that this good order, and
peace and quiet and respect fer kw shall
continue. Here there is no dissentient voice
among good citizens. At present, howev
er, there seems to be no immediate pros
pect of a resumption of work in the mines.
At the present price of coal, ($2.00 deliv-
erect here and about $2.50 in New York
at wholesale,) it is hard to see how the
companies can pay the advance demanded,
and, on the other hand, the miners de
clare that they cannot live on the wages
they were receiving; that if they are to
starve it is better to starve idle than at work.
None can forsee what the result will be,
but if work is resumed the condition of the
laboring class will be better, even with the
low wages now ruling, than it was during
the last season, on account of the large de
cline in flour and potatoes. If the pres
ent status continues, there will be much
destitution and want and large drafts upon
the charitabie, who, to the honor of their
humanity be it said, are not slow to honor
these drafts, as the large contributions to
the relief fund of last winter abundantly
shows. But there is a way out of all these
complications, and patience, temperance,
industry, frugality and the natural laws
will yet open the door to a substantial and
abiding prosperity for us and for the peo
ple of the whole land ; but the time is not
yet, and it is for the educators of public
opinion, and especially the newspapers of
the land, to see to it that no poison is ming
led in the remedies prescribed. MAC.
The Prophet Dead.
DEATH OF THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH OF
JESUS CHRIST OF THE LATTER DAY
SAINTS-HIS WONDERFUL CAREER.
SKETCH OF THE SECT OF JOSEPH SMITH
Brigham Young died at his residence,
in Salt Lakd City, on Wednesday of last
week, from an attack of cholera morbus.
For the following obituary of the dead
Prophet we are indebted to the Philadel
phia Times of the 30th ultimo :
The renowned ruler of the Mormons of
Utah, who died yesterday, was born in
Whitingham, Vermont, June 1, 1801.
His father was a farmer, and the boy re
ceived but little education, being put at an
early age to the trade of a painter and
glazier. After arriving at years of matu
rity he became connected with the Babtist
Church as a member, and tradition has it
that he preached occasionally. In 1832
he joined the Mormons at Kirkland, Ohio,
was ordained as an elder, and was number
ed as one of the twelve ipostlea. As sech
he was sent to the Eastern States in 1835
to make proselytes and met with great
success. After Joseph Smith's death in
1844 Young was one of the four who
aspired to the presidency, to which office
he was unanimously elected by the Apos-
tles. The choice was generally ratified by
the sect, and his chief opponent, Sidney
Rigdon, was soon afterward excommuni
cated. After the revocation of the charter
of Nauvoo and the bombardment of the
city, Young set out in 1816, accompanied
by his followers, and after a fatiguing
march over the plains arrived at Great
Salt Lake valley, which he induced them
to believe was the promised land. Here,
in July ,
1847, he foundered Salt Lake city,
managed to become the supreme ruler of
the colony, aad iu 1819 organized the
State of I)eseret,which soon after sought to
be admitted to the Union. Congress re
fused to grant the request, but in 1850 the
Territory of Utah was organized and
Young appointed Governor for a term of
four years. Beipg succeeded in 1854 by
a Governor who was not a Mormon he
began to bid defiance to federal authority
and the laws. Matters came to a crisis in
1857, when President Buchanan appointed
Alfred Cumming Governor of Utah Terri
tory giving him a military force of 2,500
men, to whom the Mormons peaceably sub
mitted. On August 29, 1852,Young pro
mulgated the "celestial law of marriage,"
which, it was predicted, had been reveal
ed to Joseph Smith in July, 1843, and
which sanctioned polygamy. This was
immediately denounced as a forgery by
Smith's widow and four sons, who be
came the heads of a schism in the church.
Although the imputation of either the
doctrine or the practice of polygamy was
several times emphatically and explicitly
denied by the Mormon apostles Brigham
Young's personal power was so great as to
enable him to make it an institution of the
church without much difficulty. He took
to himself a considerable number of wives,
most of whom resided in the building call
ed the "lion house," from an immense lion,
carved in stone, standing on the portico.
His fifteenth wife left him in 1847, peti
tioning the United States Court for a di
vorce. Besides his Ace of president of
the Church, Yonng occupied that of Grand
Archee of the Order of Danites, a secret
society within the Church, and derived
therefrom no considerable part of his abso
lute power. By managing to direct the
trade and industry of the community prin
cipally to his own advantage he I?ecame,solue
years before his death, immensely wealthy.
The Mormons, or, as they call them•
selves, the Church of Jesus Christ of the
Latter Day Saints, whose leader died yes
terday, founded in 1830 .by Joseph Smith,
at Manchester, N. Y., have, since 1847,
been settled in the Territory of Utah, now
number about 200,000 souls, The pecu
liarities of the sect are in religious respects,
the belief in a continual divine revelation
through the inspired medium of the proph
et at the head of the Church ; in moral
respects the practice of polygamy,and in so
cial respects a complete hierarchical ovgan
ization. The government of the Mormons
is a pure theocracy, its officers forming a
perfect priesthood. The supremg power,
spiritual and temporal, rests with the first
presidency elected by the whole body of
the church, and until yesterday composed
of Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and
Daniel C. Wells. Then follow the office of
Patriach, at present held by the nephew
of Joseph Smith; then the Council of
Twelve Apostles and of the Seventy Disci
ples ; then the Orders of High Priests,
bishops, elders, priests, teachers and dea
cons. Of the first presidency, two mem
bers are only coadjutors, one alone being
the head of the organization—the prophet,
the seer, who alone has the right of re•
ceiving revelations and working miracles.
The belief in the continual revelation en
joins an absolute obedience to all its com
mands on the persons who accept it, and is
the corner stone of the Church.
The Mormons accept both the Bible and
the Book of Mormon as revelations, but
hold them subject to the explanations and
corrections of the prophet. Thus polygamy
was originally condemned by the Book of
Mormon, but Joseph Smith, who was a
gross sensualist received a revelation in
1843, according to which it was not only
permitted but recommended. The Book
of Mormon was the legitimation by which
Joseph Smith first ;ntroduced himself to
the world, pretending that an angel from
heaven' appeared to him and told him
where it could be found, and Smith after
wards produced a numb°, of gold plates
with hierogriphic incriptiors, which he
asserted he had found at the spot indicated
by the angel, and upon them he erected a
mass of superstitious nonsense and idolatry.
The Modern Wonder. -1
A TALK THROUGH THE TELEPRON! AN
A DESCRIPTION OF BELL'S INSTRIY:
MENT.
On a bracket in the private office of Mr.
T. B. A. David, of the Central District
Telegraph Company, corner Fifth avenue
and Wood street, there stands a queet
tie walnut-wood box, about 10 inches long,
six high and eight wide. On a desk, in
the o ffi ce of the Western Irod Asses:4llon;
Hostetter's new block, Fourth avenue, the
twin brother of the little box is reposing.
Near each box is a device like a hen/
stamp, flaring at one end and attached to
loose wires at the other. These devices
are the first specimens of Prof Boll's tel
ephone—that marvellous machine WITA
must do for telegraphy what the spectro
scope has done for astronomy, or the loco
motive for inter-communication. From
the end of each box projects what appear
ed to be the mouth of a speaking tube,
and from the opposite end, two connecting
wires emerge, joining the two boxes,wh ich,
in this case, were less than one-fourth of a
mile apart. The movable device described,
as resembling a hand stamp, is for placing
against the ear in receiving messages, anti
the speaking tube in the box must receive
the words to be transmitted. In this 1111
chine, however, the voice can be applied
to the ear-machine and the ear to the
mouth piece of the box, and message§
transmitted nearly as well. Yesterday.af
ternoon, a Chronicle representative being
at either end of the wires—one at each of
the above described boxes—communication
was established. The word "Hello" Wild.
called into the Fourth avenue box,
and di
rectly a still, small voice answered at the
ear, "Hello, what do you want ?" The
tones came as though the speaker was at.
the remote end of a very long tube, and,
after the ear had become somewhat famil
iar with the unwonted sounds, they were
very distinct and satisfactory. Even the
different. qualities in the voices of different
persons could be noted. The whistling of
an air was also transmitted clearly.
speaking, all that was necessary was ar
clearness of utterance, and in listening, as
alertness of the ear was requisite. The
mechanism of this wonderful nitehitie t • is
simple in its construction, but the wanner
in which the telephone does its work re-
quires some familiarity with the electri
cian's profession to clearly comprehend..
In the Bell telephone, the vibmtleos of
the air caused by the voice, agitate or vi
brate a disk of thin iron, precisely as sound
waves vibrate the tympanum of the eke'
In the latter organ, back of the tympanum,
lay the complicated organs of bearing. Itt
the Bell telephone, just back of the iroat,
disk there lies, at right angles to it, a mag
netized bar of steel, or permanent magnet,
whose ends project to within a very small
distance of the metal disk. When the lat
ter is vibrated by the air waves produced
by the speaker's voice, this small distanoe
is increased and decreased in rapid woes
sion. But at no time does the disk aboe•
lutely touch the magnetized bar. This
vibration of the disk, causes electrical Cc-
Lion • "tension," electrically epeakie?'
which quality is that which reproduces tie
voice at the other end of the wire audja.
the other disk or aphragm. No be4grziff,
brought into use, but the agitation oftiett
receiving disk, acting as deseribeditilicitt:
bination with the magnetic quality of,*
bar of steel, produces the results ;Wiled
by the instrument.
Through its infancy, this matvellons
inveation can be made available is the
most practical manner, and all who desire s
to inspect the device and test its powers,
are invited by Mr. David to step into his
office in the First National Bank building
and take the evidence of their own senses!:
With the Bell telephone, distance virtually ,
amounts to nothing. The manufacturer,
in his office can issue verbal orders to the .
foreman or manager at his mills away as
readily as though the two were oar opposite
sides of a desk. In fact, this device gives
miles of slender wire the capacity and
communicative power of a few feet of :
speaking tube, and its applicability to.
business purposes seems almost endless.
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
A Terrible Experience.
•
AWFUL CONDITION OF A YOUNG MAI 4,
FROM THE USE OF OPIUM
In the New York Tombs there is a ter:
rible example of the use of'bpium. Henry'
L. Sanford is now twenty-eight years old;
and began to take morphine about seven(
years ago, because whisky did not satialy,
"That," said he to a reporter of the INV;
"had a splendid effect on me, ma4b „me
lively and ambitions, and gave me an
I
amount of happiness cannot express id
you. It transformed me at owe. I be.
came strong and independent.. Neratina
was too bard for me to undertake.. I
speculated and made lots of money. A. 4
the end of two years my sufferings began?'
He went to the lunatic asylum, but cosh
not be cured. He soon west up to 4is
grains a day, and began taking it by .iO4
jection, for it bad oozed to have any ofi
feet if taken through the mouth. He hat
used a hypodermic syringe, but losing thli
got a common syringe, which he mild IA
insert into the flesh without first eutting
a hole. He used to take a razor and eni
a gash in his thigh and then with thi
scissors bore a hole into the flesh, into
which he would insert the syringe and
ject the morphine. During the last two
years he has taken over sixty grains a day,
and has often taken over one drachm,
which is equal to five hundred grains of
opium. He is in jail for stealing sgsginai
instruments, which he disposed of to...gut ;
chase the poisonous drug, and he /esciiVp
his sufferings thus : "If I wasnsteO l hOpt
leas I'd soon be out of this hell Psi io. I
have no fear of the next world. • Time* if
nothing in this for me. For over ty.9
years I have been dead. There is no blood
in inc. I can eat nothing, and that which
would keep life in me I cannot get. Even
when asleep I have no rest. lam eon.
stoutly dreaming of being thrown iw amoag
a lot of dead and being compelled to ea,
their flesh. I know when I wake be,
covered as I am with cold persPiritioff,
that it is but a dream, bat the effect of lit
makes my desire for morphine a tartars.
I would kill my owe father in a minste if
I could get enough for one dose. Mei
the desire comes on me I would not 44„-
change the morphine for Heaven. Givb
me the dose and then hang me-if you like.
I don't care what they do with me after at
get the morphine." Imagination eag
hardly picture a more awful condition sf
body and mind than this.
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AT a recent revival meeting held at Bad
Az, Mich., a young man concluded a fer
vent address by saying, "I wish to bea
friend of the friendless, a
the
to the
fatherless, and a widow to the widowleEs."
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