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Give us an order . ;;;;;;;; JOB DEPARTMENT ..:. (~;. D. D ,ci ce m la. 0 17i m Cr OD L - CD cl,_ ;,- td 0 0 Ir. .22 A SP PRI. COLO ser All letters should be addressed to J. A. NASA. Huntingdon, Pa. Ely TMS' (*incr. READ BEFORE THE PENNSYLVANIA EDITORIAL AS SOCIATION, AT CRESSON SPRINGS, JUNE 19, IS7S, BY EUGENE 11. MUNDAY. Four hundred years have passed since she Was duchess of proud Burgundy, When brightest glowed its coronet On England's daughter, Margaret ; White rose of York, from parent stem— When faetion rent the island gem— Transplanted hither to uphold And grace the Court of Charles the Bold. Wit, beauty, graciousness of mien Were hers; and, rarer still, were seen A love of letters; care for art Whose use might bounteously impart Breadth to the brain, warmth to the heart. Bred 'mid fierce strifes, she sought surcease Of reckless wars in deeds of peace; And much she feared, and half abhorred The wild ambitions of her lord ; Not caitiff fear—for Margaret Was Neville and Plantagenet ; Noble in thought as blood and name ; In all she was a royal dame— Margaret of Burgundy. Among her train, by Edward sent, Was Caxton, from the Weald of Kent; A mercer, versed in arts of trade, And wary of his ventures made; But yet not wholly sordid; ho Had quaffed deep draughts of minstrelsy From Chaucer's full, untainted well, Had bowed before old Gower's spell, And liberal-minded he had grown, Traversing countries not his own. Thus trained, his ripened mind he bent To master the Ne'v Art, which sent The glorious message to mankind, That knowledge, hence no more confined To schoolmen's cells, was free as wind. That learned, his talent to employ, The brave old Histories of Troy He turned from French to English, so The first work of his hands might glow With generous thoughts, and thus incite The yeoman stout and gallant knight To worthiness, and deeds of might Few pages writ, his work he set Before his mistress, Margaret, Who, pleased his cunning to evoke, Her faithful servitor bespoke: "'Tie well begun, straightway proceed, Complete it with thy utmost speed; Amend thy English, Caxton, we Ourselves will aid and counsel thee; Then print the noble histories, so Our youth may learn the worth they show; And, for thy pains, the charge be mine, The honor, laud, and profit thine." With patient skill the mercer wrought, The finished book to Margaret brought; The book whose highest praise is sung— " First in our glorious mother-tongue!" His gracious mistress joyed at heart, To view the triumph of his art, And glowing spoke her fair command, For honer of her native land : "Home, Claxton, hie thee home, and teach The mastery of our English speech ; Gold thou shalt have; and, for thy zeal, The richer guerdon—England's weal !" Thus charged and cheered, with great content The silver-bearded printer went, And soon the echoes of his press Rang through Westminister's loftiness. Such debt as song and history tell Columbus owed to Isabel— Joining their names in proud acclaim— Owed Caxton to the generous dame— Margaret of Burgundy. Four hundred years have paid their toll To warden Time; and now they roll, Unchallenged, o'er that mystic sea— Inscrutable eternity. Full-fed was Time when on they passed ; And garnered in his wallet vast Are alms whose richness may appease The greed of coming centuries. These gifts, the fruits of quickened thought, Will last for aye, with blessings fraught. Foremost in time, highmost in worth, The Art of Printing had its birth ; Weakling at first, it grandly grew, O'er other arts its tegis threw— Defying old Oblivion's call— As great conservator of all. Honor and laud for him whose mind Conceives great gifts for humankind, For ell who patient skill have brought To realize the master thought ; Honor and laud for all who stand As sponsors for the working band, And aid them with a liberal hand ! Then, while the busy echoes await Columbus' debt to Isabel, Let Justice from the throne proclaim, In Honor's court, "Place for the dame— Margaret of Burgundy !" Four hundred years have passed, but yet The meed of praise to Margaret No poet's lyre has sung, No pealing bells have rung ; And save for Caxton's grateful rare, Scarce lives her name on history's page. Then, since HO defter hands essay, Nor truer poet twines the bay, Take ye the strong ill-fashioned chain, Wrought by my insufficient strain, And firmly link with Caxton's fame, A memory of the noble dame— Margaret of Burgundy. Ely (toivErlitr. A FLOWER'S MISSION ; The Story that the Wood Rose Told. I am a simple, unpretending Rose of the woods. lam old now and faded, but I have a little history and I wish to tell it. If you could fully understand the language of flowers, which lam told are God's messengers, my story might be prettier reading, but as you cannot, I must use the language of people, and trust that yon will remember that I am uncultivated. All that I have learned, has been picked up, as it were. Much that I have seen and heard I know not now whether I un derstand. My first recollection is of solitude. A spot of green sward, under a leafy canopy, a dreamy atmosphere, and the gnarled and knotted trunks of aged trees, made up my surroundings. My first question to my self was, "What was I made for ? No one came to tend me, and I did not then know of nature's God. I often wondered how I came to be alone beneath the great spreading oaks. That I was pretty I knew —for I could not help seeing my face oc casionally in the dew on the grass, and I practiced grace in coquetting with the wind and in courting the kisses of the sunbeams that glinted through the forest leaves. After a while I became conscious of sound, and began to notice the music of the birds, and the hum of the insects, and then at times the faint, far-off chime of what I learned afterwards were bells. The song of the birds seemed natural, for I thought they were singing to me, but the other harmony puzzled me. It gave me a vague shadowy idea that there was some thing beyond my little sphere and I longed to know more of it. When I heard of Heaven, I remember, I concluded that this sound came from there, as did the dawn. Later I learned better, but that it should have impressed me in my wood lawn home shows that the happenings even in the life of a flower may not be accidental. I must have been nearly in full bloom— certainly my color was never prettier, as the dew told me—when I first came to know what people were like. I shall never forget the day, for from it dates my knowledge of the world, of human pas sions, and of the existence of anything save myself, the birds, the trees, the grass and the insects. There were only two people that came to my home, a man and a woman. You may imagine how strange they looked to me, yct I recall that I had no feeling of fear. Something seemed to whisper to me that I had only to watch and listen to be wise. My heart beat quicker and I drooped my head as the woman sat down with her face opposite to me and the man stretched himself at her feet, but after the first surprise wore off I cr . • UC ^cl K a> "1:1 ti. .-. et, tt. , t -I o oci 9 7' , o CCD CIALTY, Margaret of Burgundy. - OR, - HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1878. did not feel that they were intruding upon my bower. They were a pretty picture, and I could but nod approvingly. If they saw me at all they ignored my presence, but my heart warmed towards them both. Presently the man began to read what I knew instinctively was poetry. It was a story of elfs, and gnomes and fairies that peopled the woods, but I lost the thread of it in watching the woman's face. I have seen many faces since then, but none so beautiful, so sweet, and Po gentle. It was fair and pure, like my cousins' the lilies' ; yet at times a color flushed in that I in my innocence thought. was reflected from mine. When the reading was done, the man talked a poem of his heart that thrilled even me, flower that I was. I knew that what he said to her was in tended fur no other ears, but I did not feel like an eaves dropper. Something kept repeating to me that I had a destiny, and that it was connected with theirs. I wanted to creep nearer to them in the gloaming of the eventide, and ask them to take me with them. When they left me I understodd the bitterness of desolation, and what the man meant when he spoke of yearning. I looked for the elfs and gnomes and fairies he had read of,but they came not, and the night was the longest of my life. Nor did the morning bring hap piness. The birds were no longer com panions, and I shrank from both the wind and the sunbeams. In the evening the man came to my home alone. I think he must have seen plead ing in my face, f)r he carried me away, and I bade good bye forever to the great oaks that had shielded me from so many storms. I was not ungrateful. nor did I part from them without a sigh ; yet my heart bounded at the prospect of meeting the woman again. lie gave me to her, as I foresaw he would, and told her I was the emblem of love. And then it dawned upon me as a glad, satisfying thought must come to a child, that after all I was made for something. Love, love, I kept repeating to myself un til the word seemed graven on my heart and I understood that I was the type of all that he had spoken to her. I did not pause to reason, how I, a 14ttle obscure rose, could be the means of expressing so much. Perhaps I was too proud in the conviction that it was so. Perhaps it would have been beyond me to reason had I tried. I was content to trust what he said as the woman seemed to trust. That night my mistress, as I shall after wards call her, wore me on her breast and to the ball. It was a scene of fair women and handsome men, of bright raiment and flowers, that dazzled me for a while, and I thought it must be fairy land. My sisters were there in all their beauty and culture, yet I could but notice how they seemed proud of their long names and partook of the human arrogance around them. I had been introduced into society. What a mockery ! What a whirl ! How factitious and soulless is the thing they call society ! What a spirit of unrest seems to pervade it ! Masks and faces and deception is the sum of it all. How the dancers swayed in harmony with the music; how the heart gave the lie to the tongue ; how the jewels flashed beneath the artificial light, and how the whole air seemed to quiver with a merriment that was meaningless. Even now the remembrance of that night makes my poor head dizzy. But with all I was happy. I was learning human nature. I knew that I was unobserved, but I cared not to be seen. There was joy and con tent in the thought that my mistress pre ferred me to my showy and confident sisters. I only wanted to creep closer to her. Her voice was sweeter thau all the rest of the music to me, and every breath of hers that fanned my cheek was like a caress. I could not help feeling that she was as much out of place there as I would have been in a boquct out of a garden.— When out under the starlight, after the ball, he that gave me to her spoke another poem of his heart, and I became still more conscious of my value and the full defini tion of love. For some time after this there was a blank in my life, and when I knew any thing again it seemed that I was in prison. The air was close and suflocatine• from my own perfume, and I could hardly breathe. I could hear my mistress' voice at times, and I longed to go to her, but I could not. Gradually, however, I realized that I was in a book. I think I must have been stunned when I was placed there. I was crushed and misshapen, and my color was gone, but I still had a heart. At times I thought I had been cruelly treated, and longed for the oaks and the bir Is. They would not have done so, I said. This was wrong and ungrateful. I did not know then that if I had been left in my wood land home I would long since have been dead and forgotten. One day she opened the book and kissed me with a kiss that lingers on my cheek to this hour. I saw tears in her eyes, but they were not the tears of sorrow. No, her pure soul shone through them with a soft, gladsome light that was like the sun on the dew drops, and since I come to think of it, I wonder if nature's tears of joy are not the dew, and her tears of sorrow the rain that comes in the storm. Yes, she opened the book and kissed me, and I saw her tears. But I saw some thing else. My book prison was a book of poems, and I had lain with my face pressed to these : So gathering up the dreams of.years, Thy luve doth to its destined scat Rise sovereign thro' the light of tears Achieved, accomplished, and complete." You ask how a litttle untutored rose could understand this. Perhaps you asked how it was I could know a poem when I heard it in my bower. Poor humanity'. Do you not know that God has established a sympathy between poetry and flowers ? I understood more than these lines—that I was bringing back to her his heart-poems of the wood, and the night after the ball, and that they found each in all her loving nature. To tell you how often I was taken out and kissed and her sweet voice poured ca ressing words in my ear would bn to re peat the same story over and over again. It is sufficient that I strove to answer her and let her know that I was in sympathy with her. I talked to her of him in the language of flowers (for I did not then speak the language of people), and I be lieve she knew all I said, Why should she not have known ? Was she not a human flower transplanted from God's garden ? At last she changed me to another book prison and bade me go as a messenger to him. I was sad, very sad, in parting, but my heart told me it was in the way of ac complishing my mission. I was in the Book of Books. It is said that its pages are illumed with a divine light. It must be so, for I no longer seemed in darkness, and could read what was around use. On my long journey this was the sentence that was ever before me, and this was the toes• sage I knew I was to bear to him—" Search the Scriptures." I came to him in the evening tide, and I knew by his glad smile that he recognized me, and his memory was wandering back to the day when lie bore me from my home. Like my mistress, gently and al most reverently he touched me, and I could see that I gave him another message be sides that which was in the book. His eyes read one—the other crept into his heart.. ; ,lie, too, kissed me, and I remember I felt rebellious. I asked myself if he was not trying to rob me of her kisses.— Perhaps he was, but I do not begrudge them to him now, for we became great friends—aye, more, we became companions. We searched the scriptures together. I say together, for did lie not keep changing my place ? Night after night, when his work was done, he would turn to the page where I had been all day, and begin read ing, and when he had finished he would leave me where he had left• off to think and wonder. It is a grand thing to see a strong man strugglinc , for faith—striving to become as a little child. c Sometimes I would think that it was a sad thing to be learned and wise and capable. Had he been as untutored and ignorant.as I was, peahaps he would have found comfort in a few lines. I remember that after I read that not a sparrow falleth without the knowledge of the Father, and that even the hairs of the head are numbered, I needed no other consolation. If, I said, I can typify the love of this woman and this man, the one so pure, and the other labor ing to achieve purity, can I be less than the sparrow or a hair? I do not know how long we searched together, but it was for some time. Then I took another journey. I went back to my mistress to be greeted with more kisses, more caressing words, more glad tears. I was vain enough to think that they were all for me alone until I bethought me that I bore another message, which was in these words : "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens, and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness." It was his way of telling her that he had found what she bade him seek, and that in his heart-poems of the future there should be mingled with love of her a love of Him that watches over the sparrows and even the flowers. There is little more to tell. The man and the woman are together now, never more to be separated, and I am with them. Sometimes they talk of me and my wood land home, and sometimes, when the bells that used to puzzle me so are chiming, I go with them to be thrilled by the deep toned music of the organ, and hear their voices blend in a song of praise. I would not go back to my woodland home if I could. Freedom, and the air, the com panionship of birds are, I know, very sweet, but sweeter still is the knowledge that I have not been useless—sweeter still is the faith that is in me. Ido not say that these two would not have become one but for me, but something in my heart tells me that I have been the means of making their love more perfect. In typify ing an earthly love had I not led to a love that is greater? I believe I have; and as I watch them in their happiness and trust, I also believe that it is by no accident I find my heart resting upon these words : "Whereof I am made a minister accord ing to the dispensation of God." If I am wrong there is no harm in the conceit. If lam right, my life may be a lesson to the humblest, bidding them to be of good cheer. Faded as I am, I would rather be myself with my fancies than the freshest abd most beautiful of my sisters, who are conscious of having done no good. I have never seen it in my Book of Books, but I cannot believe that the heart of 'the flower that doeth good can ever die.—From the Richmond (Va.) State. cfflisttliang. Rocky Mountain Avalanches. The 26th of February, was a .day of avalanches in South Western Colorado.— Snow began to fall before daylight, and continued during the day. Seven inches fell. The day was mild, thermometer 34 at 2P. 31. The old snow had become granulated in the form of small hail, and was very loose, so much so that in walkinc , through it where it was untrodden the feet sunk to the ground at every step. I judged it to be in weight about four times that of newly fallen snow. The snow of Tuesday, together with the mildness of the day, had the effect of starting avalanches all along the mountains on both si'les of the river. At short intervals they could be heard thundering down during the en tire day. As the snow continued to fall it was impossible to see clearly even to the mountain on the opposite side of the river, so that I saw but one during the day.— That, however, was one of the largest, and came from the top of. or at least high up on the mountain. I was standing at the inner end of the tunnel, 150 feet from the mouth, when I heard a rumbling sound which seemed to come from out through the rock. Suspecting the, cause, I ran to the mouth and reached it lust as the ava lanche got down. For above a quarter of a minute the snow poured over the shed (built over the mouth of the tunnel in a line corresponding with the flee of the mountain) which we have for the purpose of protecting the mouth from filling, and from drifting snow. It was like a water fall, and counseled me to remain inside until this was passed. The tunnel being on a ridge between two small gulches, after the first rush the ridge divided the ava lanche, and it no longer flowed over the mouth of the tunnel. As soon as it ceased pouring over the shedi although still coming upon it, I got out and was in the middle of a river of snow, which was rushing down with the speed of a railway train, and the roar of a heavy storm, or of a waterfall, mingled with a crashing of rocks which were being carried clown by it. At the point where I stood the face of the mountain is depressed, so that the flow was here con tracted in breadth, yet was about two hun dred yards in width. In tN_deepest gulch, which is narrow, and was full and overflowing, its depth was about twenty feet. The bulk of' the snow rushed on until it struck in the river and against the mountain on the opposite side. But just besore reaching the river, for a breadth of from 25 to 50 yards, where the incline is less steep, the snow is left hard packed to a depth of several feet. WAS it ever a subject of wonder to you why those persons who have the most de sirable boxes in the post office never give them up, nor die, nor move away, nor break up, nor do anythinz,? FIE is not rich who lays up much, but who lays out much. Phisilogical Effects of Thirst. Last summer a company of the 10th U. S. Cavalry nearly perished of thirst du ring a four days' march without water, among the arid sand hills of the Staked Plain of Texas. They set out in pursuit of a band of marauding Indians, and to wards sunset of the first day the trail they had followed broke up into a multitude of ill-defined tracks, making further pursuit useless. By this time their canteens were dry, and the men were so exhausted by the intense sun heat that many fell from their saddles. All the afternoon their guide .had searched in vain for water among the hills, and now the horses were suffering from thirst scarcely less than their riders. The captaies private horse, the toughest of the party, was given to the guide, who set out in search of water, but was never seen again. The next day an attempt was made to fall back upon "Double Lakes," where water was expected, but having no guide they lost their way, and wandered for three days among hills before water was found. During this time their suffering from heat and thirst was terrible. The salivary and mucous secretions were dried up, and the sensibility of the mucous membranes of the mouth was so much impaired that they could neither swallow nor even per ceive when anything was in the mouth. Their voices became weak and strange; all were deaf, and appeared stupid to each other, questions having to be repeated sev eral times before they could be understood. Vertigo and dimness of vision affected all. Many were deliriqus and all tottered on with feeble and stumbling gait. What little sleep they could get was disturbed by dreams of banqueting, with visions of ev ery imaginable dainty to eat and drink. At this stage all would probably have perished had they not resorted to horses' blood. As the animals gave out the men cut them open and drank their blood, al most fighting for the little moisture con tained in their viscera. Later the horses' blood became so thick from lack of drink that it could not bo swallowed. It coagu• lated instantly, and had to he broken up between the teeth and slowly forced down the parched throats. And when swallowed it gave nq relief, quickly passing through the bowels, developing diarrahoe. Their own scanty urine was sweetened with sugar and thankfully drunk, and a few drank horses' urine. Usually, however, it was caught in cups and given to the suffering animals. To avoid the terrible mid-day heat they traveled as much as they could by night. As they toiled on they suffered severely from tightness of breath and a sense of suffocation. It seemed as though the sides of the trachea were adhering. To mitigate the consequent distress they breathed through the nose with closed mouth, Fro• longing the time between the breaths as much as possible. At this stage the lips were covered with a whitish dry froth, and presented a ghastly aspect. The fingers and palms were shriveled and pale ; and some who bad removed their boots suffered from swollen feet and legs. As the situation became more desperate, mental tortures were added to the purely physical. The feeling of despair was made worse by suspicion and loss of confidence in each other. Toward the end persistent wakefulness aggravated the mental anguish though they tried to sleep at every halt. At last, on the morning of July 30th, a part of the company succeeded in reaching Double Lakes, and a supply of water was sent back to those along the road. The fortunate arrival of a detachment of Yon koway scouts at this moment helped to save many. On reaching water the desire for drink was irresistible. They could not refrain from pouring down water, though it was immediately rejected by the stomach. Warm coffee was the only thing that re vived them at all. Assistant Surgeon King, from whose report this, account has been condensed, remarks that the failure of water to as suage the thirst, though drunk again to repletion, seems to show that the sense of thirst, like that of hunger, resides not in the stomach, but in the general system, and could not be removed until the re mote tissues were supplied. And the ac tivity of the regenerating process was pre vented by the deficiency of water in the absorbent vessels themselves. The same condition explains the over-powering dyspncel which threatened the ex istence of the company. Their lungs were filled with the purest air, yet the lining membranes were so dry that the free passaage of the oxygen to the blood was prevented. It is a noteworthy circumstance that while the horses suffered as much as the men did, and many gave out completely, the mules suffered little, and were able to graze at every halt. The total loss on this disastrous scout was two men dead and two missing, probably dead, out of twenty six privates and two commissioned officers. —Scientific .nmerican. Small Means. We think that the power of money is, on the whole, over estimated. The greatest things ;which have been done fbr the world have not been accomplished by rich men, or by subscription list, but by men gen erally of small pecuniary means. The greatest thinkers, discoverers, inventors and artists have been men of moderate wealth, many of them little raised above the condition of manual laborers in point of worldly circumstances. And it will al ways be so. Riches are oftener an im pediment than a stimulus to action, and in many cases they are quite as much a mis fortune as a blessing. The youth who in herits wealth is apt to have life made too easy for him, and so grows sated with it because he has nothing left to desire.— Having no special object to struggle for, he finds time too heavy on his hands, re mains mentally and morally asleep, and his position in society is often no higher than that of a polypos over which the tide flows AN erring husband, who had exhausted all explanations for late hours, and had no apology ready, recently slipped into the house about one o'clock very softly, de nuded himself gently, and began rocking the cradle by the bedside, as if he had been awakened out of a sound sleep by in fantile cries. He had rocked away for Eve minutes, when Mary Jane, who had silently observed the whole manoeuvre, said, -Come to bed, you fool, you the baby ain't there." THE Sultan of Turkey, we are told, never wears an article of dress twice. He keeps it on until it is "worn out." He would make a good Missouri editor. .Wrru love, the heart becomes a fair and fertile garden, glowing with sunshine and warm hues, and exhaling sweet odors. Hunting Wild Horses. The wild horse can run away from a man; but this protection fails at times. The horse catchers—or "vaqueros," as they are called—are famous riders, and to see them capture a wild mustang is better than to go to a circus. The vaquero puts a Spanish saddle on a tame horse, and starts out to see what he can find. In front on the high pommel of the saddle, he hangs in large coils a leather rope, about a hundred feet long, and called a lasso. It is made of strips of raw hide, braided by hand into a smooth, hard and very pretty rope.. One end is secured to the saddle, and the other end has a slip knot making a sliding noose. The vaquero has not long to wait, fur there are droves of horses cantering or walking about over the swells and hollows of the prairie, with here and there a small er group looking on, or watching a battle between two horses who wish to be captains of their bands or companies. Presently, there is a strange sound of tramping hoofs, like the sound of a squadron of cavalry, except that it has a grand, wild rush and swing such as no cavalry ever had, and a cloud of dark heads rises over a swell of land. The leader sees the vaquero, and he halts suddenly, and the others pull up in a confused crowd, and toss their heads, and sniff the air, as if they scented danger near. The leader does not like the looks of things, and turns and slowly canters away, fbllowed by all the rest, tramping in confusion through the yellow grass and wild barley. Presently they become frightened, and away they fly in a dusty throng. The vaquero's horse seems to think his chance has come, and he pricks up his ears, and is eager for the glorious fun of a dash after the mustangs. Away they go pell-mell, in a panic, and the tame horse galloping swiftly after them. Down they tumble—some knocked over in the con fusion, snorting and flinging great flecks of foam from their dilated nostrils, tramp ling over each other in mad haste, each for himself, and the Ainerican horse sweeping after them. Now the vaquero stands up in his saddle, and the lasso swings round and round in a circle over his head. Swish ! It sings through the air with a whirring sound, and opens out in great rings, while the loop spreads wider and wider, and at last drops plump over the head of a mus tang. The vaquero's horse pulls up with a sudden halt, and sinks back on his haunches, and braces his fore feet out in front. Ah! How the dust flies ! The mustang is fast, held by the slip knot, and he rears up and plunges in wild and frantic terror. The rope strains terribly, but the vaquero watches his chances and takes in the rope every time it slackens. It is of no use ! The poor mustang is hard and fast. Perhaps another rider comes up and flings another lasso over his head. Then they ride round him, and the mustang is twisted and tangled in the ropes till he can hardly move. He falls, and kicks furiously, and all in vain. Panting, ex hausted and conquered, he at last submits to his fate. Ells free days are over, and he seems to know it. A few more strug gles, and he recognizes that man is his master, and, perhaps, in one or two days he submits to a bit in his mouth, and be comes a tame horse for the rest of his life. If, by any chance, he escapes before be is broken in, and runs away to join his wild companions, he seems never to forget that terrible lasso, and if he sees the vaquero again, he will stand, trembling and fright ened, too much terrified to even run away. —From "The Wild Mustang," by Charles Barnard, St. Nicholas for April. Golden Rules. The person who first sent these rules to be printed says truly if any . boy or girl thinks it would be hard work .to keep so many of them in mind all the time, just think also what a happy place it would make of home if you only could. 1. Shut every door afcer.you, and with out slamming it. 2. Nevcr shout, jump or run in the house. 3. Never call to persons up stairs, or in the next room ; it' you wish to speak to them, go quietly where they are. 4. Always speak kindly and politely to servants if' you would have them do the same to you. 5. When told to do, or not to do, a thing by either parent, never ask why you should not do it. C. Tell of your own faults and niisdoings, not of those of your brothers and sisters. 7. Carefully clean the mud or snow off your boots before entering the house. 8. Be prompt at every meal hour. 9. Never sit down at the table, or in the parlor, with dirty hinds or tumbled hair. 10. Never interrupt any conversation, but wait patiently pur turn to speak. 11. Never reserve your goad manners for company, but be equally polite at borne and abroad. 12. Let your first, last and best friend be your mother. Cheap Girls. A girl who makes herself too cheap is one to be avoided. No young man, not even the worst, excepting for a base pur pose, wants anything to do with a cheap young lady. For a wife, none but a fool or rascal will approach such a woman. Cheap jewelry nobody will touch if he can get any better. Cheap girls are nothing but a refuse; and the young men know it, and they look in every other direction for a lite-long friend and companion before they will give a glance at the pinchbeck stuff that twinkles at every turn for fusel natin,, the eye of any that will look. You think it quite the "correct thing" to talk loudly and coarsely, be boisterous and hoy denish in all public places; to make your self so bold, and forward, and common place, everywhere, that people wonder if you ever had a mother, or home, or any thing to do. So be it. You will probably be taken fi.r what you are worth, and one of these years, if you do not make worse than a shipwreck of yourself, you will be gin to wonder where the charms are that once you thought yourself possessed of, and what evil spirit could have befooled you. Go on, but remember, that cheap girls attract nobody but fools and rascals. A BIT OF SARCASM.—This sarcastic notice was recently evolved from the brain of some one whose life has been soured by dealings with the class to whom the notice is addressed : "Office hours for listening to commercial travelers, seven to eleven ; solicitors of church subscriptions, eleven to one ; book agents, one to three ; adver• tising men, stationery peddlers and insur ance men all day. We attend to our own business at night. SUBSCRIBE for the JOURNAL. Relics of an Unknown Race. The Wilmington, N. C., Star of the 22d ult., records the following : The atten tion of scientists has recently been attract ed to the vicinity of the residence of A. R. Black, upon Middle Sound, some ten miles east of this city, by the discovery there of large quantities of human remains of an unknown race and period, scattered at intervals along the ocean front of the plantation. Recently a party of gentle men, consisting of Rev. Dr. Wilson, Ed ward Kidder, and Col. Edward Cantwell, of the Historical Society, attended Mr. Black, at his request, upon the opening of two mounds he had discovered, and which, he conjectured, some memorials of the aboriginal inhabitants. The party first proceeded to examine the remains, of which two specimen skulls had been exhibited to the Historical So ciety. Dr. M. J. De Rosset, of New York, pronounced them of European origin. These bones appear to have been originally deposited in square pits about twelve feet in diameter, and to consist of fragments, some perfect and some fractured, mingled together confusedly apd covered with heaps of oyster and clam shells, apparently deposited there a long time ago. The plantation has been in the possess. ion of the present owner and the Moore family fur more than one hundred years. There is not the slightest record or tradi tion which explains the presence of these interesting European remains, probably centuries old, in this locality. Proceeding up the creek, a little over a mile, Mr. Black carried his visitors to a field near his house, in the corner of which the land rose some twelve or fifteen feet into broken knolls or ridges, covered with a thick forest growth, and consisting of the usual sandy soil, underlaid with clay and marl. In the neighborhood there is a large lake, some four or five hundred yards across, covered with water lilies of unusu al size. There is also, as is nenally the -- case in the vicinity of Indian remains. a fine spring of cool, delicious water. The mounds are situated at the terminus of one of the ridges we have- described, and elevated some twelve or fifteen feet above the level of the adjoining fields. Follow ing the instructions of the Bmithsonitin Institute for the opening and examination of these tumuli; Mr. Black first caused a trench to be dug from the circumference to the centre of the first mound, some twelve or fifteen feet long and about four deep, without result, except in the ex humation of a few fragments of charred bones, which from their great age could not be positively located. _ _ The examination of the second resulted in a very interesting discovery. Digging a circular well in the centre of the mound, at a depth of six it seven feet, there was round a circular deposit of charred coals, mingled with fragments of human bones, which had evidently lain there undisturb ed for a long period of time, and in their original deposit. The gentleman employ ed verified portions belonging to the human cranium, vertebrate, the clavicle, humerus, ulna and phalangus. These fragments were, however, too minute for more particular identification. Among the bones they discovered a black, glitter ing and unknown substance resembling mica, which they reserved for farther examination, and a fine specimen of brown and transparent quarts. The persons to whom these bones be longed wire evidently fastened together and burned at this spot, and afterwards covered with soil. Who they were, or what the occasion of their fate, is of course, a matter of conjecture. Possibly we may be on the eve of a solution of the history of the sufferings and the fate of that party of Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists whose only monunaPnt has hitherto been the word "Croatan," carved upon one of the trees of the forest of Albemarle and around whose subsequent fate there is such a glow of romantic and melancholy interest. The Galleys. It was by a revival of classical strategy that England was, in the l'ith century, put into extremest peril. Louis the Mag. nificent's galleys in Torbay were a more real danger than the fleet with which De Ruyter had burned our ships in the Med way. For however great the alarm caused in London by the sullen roar of the Dutch guns, the Hollanders had not a single reg iment to disembark, whereas the French King had sent to the Devon coast a form idable force of white-coated grenadiers, to co operate with the expected Jacobite ris ing. The galleys were an especially French as they had been an especially Roman in stitution. The force had been patronized by several Kings, nor was it until the reign of Louis XIII , that the general of the galleys was made subordinate to the high Admiral of France. For harassing an enemy's coast, and for the transport of troops, this fair-weather flotilla was unsur passed. But a galley of Louis XlV.'s time, rowed by wretches chained to the oar, the vilest felons mingled with runa way Protestants, whose sole crime was their attempt to escape to Holland or Eng land, was the nearest approach to a float ing pandemonium ever devised. To every tea convicts was allotted a Turkish or Moorish prisoner of 'war, whose knotted cord fell on the bare shoulders of all who flinched, while boatswain and officers patrolled the narrow space between the row-benches, and plied rattan and lash unsparingly. It was by sheer fear of phy sical suffering that the chained rowers were urged to keep the great oars rising and falling with such mechanical regular ity. The galley slaves were not expected to fight ; they were soldiers on board to do that. But they were expected to row, and no plea of illness or exhaustion was admitted. So far from the sick or weary being sent to an infirmary, they were de liberately beaten to death. Fainting, bleeding, the miserable wretches were to the last regarded as sa much mechanism to be stimulated by cuts of the whip, and when they died, their bodies were unchain ed from bench and oar, and tossed into the sea.—.lll the Year Round. A STORY is told of Ben. Wade's inter view with a lank resident of the alkali re' gion at a railroad station. The man was peddling cakes ou the train while it stop ped at the station. Wade asked the cake vender what sort of a country it was around there. The man said it was as fine a patch of country as could be found in America, they lacked but two things—water and good society. Wade replied : "Humph ! That's all hell needs," and the train start ed, to get out of the alkali country as quick *as possible. THE largest college library in the Uni ted States is that of Harvard, containing 160,000 volumes. 01 the 356 American colleges only 16 have libraries of over 25,- 000 volumes. NO. 29.
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