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A White Day.
The air was thick with flails of winnowing bees.
The honey harvesters.
A gold green shiver touched the trembling trees;
The murmurous firs
Spent their sad, odorous sighs for you and me.
Do you remember, sweet ?
The meadow-turf spread soft and fragrantly
Under our feet
On the gray polities surface lightly thrown
Fern-shadows quivering lay,
As when fern-substance settled into stone,
That earlier day.
We took the home path through the hazel copse.
Beset with crimsoned briers.
Low in the west gleamed o'er the far liill-tops
The sun's l;ist fires.
I put vain questions—talked of scene and sky;
You answered "aye" and "no!"
Witn face averted—answered randomly—
Till, all aglow,
T he open field lay once again in sun,
And on your lashes' curve
The tell-tale, happy tears stood one by one;
Your sweet reserve
Vanished lefore my pleading, and for aye
Your hand was clasped in mine.
You blushed, and mutely gave, on that white day,
Love's countersign.
—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
From the Keystone Good Templar.
MALT LIQUORS. —Their Nature
and Effect.
There is consumed annually in the
United States not less than 44,572,188
gallons of the strongest alcohol that 1
can be made, of which 12,014,953
gallons are drank in the form of malt
1 iquors.
It is not the alcohol alone in ale
and beer that makes them hurtful,
for the malt liquors of this country
do not undergo perfect fermentation,
so that after they are drank a slight
fermentation takes place, which in
jures the stomach, especially of per
sons having weak digestive organs.
Again, beer, ale, and particularly por
ter, have their narcotic power greatly
increased by the bitters, that are ne
cessary to their preservation, which
by long usage injures the nerves of
the stomach, causing dyspepsia, etc.
Malt liquor drinkers aic prone to apo
plexy and palsy.
In health the nervous system is!
neither too active nor depressed—the
circulation of the blood is in the con
dition b st adapted for carrying on
the process of waste and nutrition.
.Malt liquors act directly upou the
circulation and nervous system by un-!
duly stimulating and then depressing
it, which is decidedly injurious. Ev- j
ery physician of much experiencei
among the laboring classes, or those
who drink large quantities of malt'
1
liquors, such as teamsters and other
out-door workers, must have observed :
that, though they may be large men.
and capable of great physical exer
tions while in open air, yet they arc
not in a condition of real vigor, for
they break before they are far ad
vanced in years, even if they do not
fall victims to diseases and injuries,
that appeared at first of the most
trifling character. The regular users
of malt liquorsare themost unhealthy
class of drinkers, for a very slight
injury or a simple disease often
proves fatal. "A conspicuous Lon
don beer-drinker," says Dr. Grinrod,
"is all one vital part. He wears his
heart upon his sleeve bare to a death
wound, even from a rusty nail or the
claw of a cat " The worst patients in
the Metropolitan hospital are the
London draymen. Though they are
apparently models of health and
strength, yet if one of them receives
a serious injury, it is nearly always
ncce-sary to amputate in order to
give him the most distant chance of
life. The draymen have the unlimit
ed privilege of the brewery cellar.
Fir Ashley Cooper was called to a
drayman. He was a powerful, fresh
colored, hearty-looking man, who
had suffered an injury in his finger
from a small splinter of a stave.
The wound, though trifling, suppur
ated. He opened the small abcess
with his lancet. He found, on retir
ing, he had left his lancet. Return
ing for it, he found the man in a dy
ing condition. The man died in a
short time.
Dr. Gordon says, "The moment
beer-drinkers are attacked with acute
diseases, they are not able to bear
depletion, and die." Dr. Edwards
says of beer-drinkers, "Their diseases
are always of a dangerous character
and in case of accident they can
never undergo even the most trifling
operation with the security of the
temperate. They most invariably
die under it." Dr. Bachan says,
■ "Malt liquors render the blood sizy
I and unfit for circulation; hence pro-
COUDERSPORT, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1873.
ceeds obstructions and inflammation
jof the lungs. There are few great
j beer-drinkers who are not phthisical,
brought on b}- the glutinous and in
digestible nature of ale and porter.
• ——
Scotland.
MELROSB, Scotland, Ai-g. 13, 1571.
Dear G : I do not know
whether I have written you or not.
I have intended to do it, at the least.
J - rom Gal under we took stage for
J the first time, riding nine miles
through the Trcssachs, very celebra
ted in Scotch history and song, to
Lake Katrine, where we embarked
on a small steamer and sailed to the
other end of the lake. This, you
know, is the scene of Walter Scott's
Lady of-the Lake. It is but ten
miles in length, and is more beauti
-Inl than Seneea Lake only because
of the rugged mountain upon either
side. The city of Glasgow is sup
plied with water from this lake, con
ducted through the highlands for six
ty miles. Every mountain glen and
cave in its vicinity has its legends of
romance or real history. From Lake
Katrine we rode live miles to Lake,
or, as it is called in Scotland, Loch
Lomond, taking another boat at In-
versnaid. A little way above is the
; celebrated cave of Rob Roy, a bandit
chief, who was leader of the clan of
McGregors, and ruled this part of
the Highlands and defied the King's
armies for years. The government
outlawed the whole clan and at
tempted several times their entire ex
termination. Last Sunday 1 heard
in Edinburgh, from the pulpit of the
Tron church, a powerful and spirit
ual sermon from one of these out
laws, Rev. Dr. McGregor. I'resby
terianism never amounts to much in
valleys, but it is the church of the
mountains. Loch Lomond is about i
thirty miles in length. We sailed i
down it for eight or ten miles and I
landed at the Rowanlcnnan Hotel, at
the foot of Ben Lomond, the father
of the Highlands. It was a clear
day, and seizing the opportunity, we
started at once for the summit, with
a guide, up a live-mile ascent, nearly J
every foot of which is as steep, 1
judge, as the roof of your house.
Neither one of 11s would have dared
undertake it if we had foreseen the
real difficulty of the ascent, and 1 '
suspect that before we were halfway
to the top each one taxed his strate
gy to get from the other the first of
fer to back out. By the time we
were half-way up, a storm had burst
upon the highlands to the west of us,
while for fifty miles to the east the
magnificent landscape was reposing
in sunshine. Upon the top of 011 c of
the mountains below us, there was
just the end (apparently straight and
about two feet in length) of a rain
bow, the most brilliant, by far, in
color, either we or our guide had ev
er seen. With Ben Lomond stand
ing before, as the officiating high
priest, wearing a breast-plate of,
quartz-rock and flowering heather,
and Ben Voirlich, Ben Cruaehan,
Benmore, Ben Lawers and the Cob
bler and Grampian Hills gathered
behind and around as attendant
priests, solemn and with uncovered
heads, this piece of rainbow seemed
like the flame of a praise-offering up
! on a great altar of unhewn stones.
We stood in almost speechless awe
till the storm overwhelmed us also.
But we had seen too much to stop
now and toiled on in the rain, dis
covering that the rocky crests of the
"Cobbler and his wife" had torn the
clouds asunder and the sun was com
ing to our relief. We reached the
summit in about three hours and a
half, wet completely through with
rain and perspiration, and more dead
than alive. The sotrm had passed
and the sky was almost clear. The
view from the summit is altogether
indescribable. Any attempt to pic
ture it would seem to you like high
falutin. The crest of the mountain
is not so large as the floor of your
sitting-room. Upon one side of it
there is a perpendicular rock. I
should judge five or six hundred feet
in height. Directly at the foot of
the mountain rises the Forth, which
we could follow with the eye, till it
becomes navigable and widens into
the Frith of Forth, and becomes a
part of the German Ocean. On the
| south-west we could follow the Clyde
I till it reaches the Frith of Clyde and
reaches the Irish Sea. We could
dimly see Ireland and the Atlantic
to the north. Loch Katrine seemed
almost at our feet. Loch Long and
several smaller lakes, the country of
Rcb Roy, Arthur's Seat, the Sault
bury ('rags, Dumbarton Castle, Ster
ling Castle, with the fields of Sterling
bridge, Falkirk and Bannockburn,
the Wallace monument cn Abbey
Craig were plainly in view. Glas
gow and Edinburgh castles were only
hidden by smoke. Cloud 3 to the
north hid Ben Ne.is, which may i
sometimes be seen,'but al! the other
noted highlands answered to roll-call.
All around them till the view was in
tercepted by clouds on ths north and
the sea on the west, arose a thousand
loft}* craigs, some of the most beau
tiful symmetry cf outline and some
in most fantastic shapes, until we
realized the meaning of the expres
sion that Scotland was made "of the
remains of a former world." Direct
ly at our foot lay Loch Lomond, the
most beautiful of Scottish lakes, the
northern half pent up by the high
lands, the southern widening into a
broad expanse, with twenty-foilr isl
ands of surpassing loveliness with
the ivy-clad ruins of six castles upon
its islands and shores. I enclose
some heather from the side of Ben
Lomond. I would send you some
of his "top-knot" but for the fact that
like other old gentlemen he parts
his hair very wide in the middle.
How we got down the mountain and
what of fainting and cramps before
morning, never ask nic. it paid
nevertheless. We had a fine view
of Dumbarton castle from the cars.
It is like Edinburgh and Sterling
Castles, upon the summit of a rock
which seems inaccessible. It is said
to contain the two-handed sword of
William \\ allace. The Doctor has |
timed our visit to Melrose to "see
the Abbey, right by the pale moon
light." Leaving here in the after
noon we went to the keeper's lodge
and arranged for admission and a
guide when the moon arose, and
drove to Dry burgh A LVy, about
five miles distant. Southern Scot
land surpasses in fertility and beauty
any part of England I have seen.—
Adjoining the village and in a fer
tile plain reaching to the Cheviot
hills there are within the distance of
a mile, and in a straight row. three
hills a little higher than East hill,
symmetrical in shape and uniform in
shape, height and intervening dis
tance. They are strikingly beauti
ful, owned by the Duke of Buccleuch,
whose country palace is at their base.
From these hills the Romans called
this place Tremoutium. Dryburgli
Abbey is on the Tweed, a largo river
even here 30 or 40 miles from the
sea. It is a noble ruin—the cathe
dral and monastery, covering, I
should think, more than an acre of
ground, perhaps two. Some of the
rooms are perfect, most of them un
roofed, and in some places the walls
are entirely gone. In the centre
of the room, called the Abbot's room,
there is a great tree, which may be
four or five hundred years old. 1
send you a sprig from the celebrated
Yew tree by the entrance, known to
be eight hundred years old. Walter
Scott, yon know, is buried within
the ruins of the cathedral, near the
high altar, with his mother's family.
The idea prevails that these English
and Scotch ruins are sadly "out of
repair." The fact is quite otherwise.
They all belong to noblemen, and
are kept, with lawns and walks with
in and without, with as much care as
Eldridgo Park. What a burthen
these monasteries must have been to
the country (although richly endow
ed) one may judge from the fact that
Melrose Abbey and Dryburgli Abbey
are less than five miles apart, and
Dry burgh Abbey, I judge, would ac
commodate one hundred monks. Its
chapter house still contains stone
benches for more than one hundred.
A Perilous Cance Voyage.
A party of six armed men arrived
at this place yesterday from Fort
Benton, making the trip in canoes in
ten days. The simple announcement
of such nn exploit conveys very little
idea to the general reader of what the
journey really is. The distance is!
some twelve hundred miles, through
an unbroken, wild and hostile couir
| try, and the way is beeet with dan-'
I ger3 from the outset to the close.
( Just before the party left Benton,
; news was brought to that fort that
British troops had entered the
I' hoop-up" country, and that trou
ble with the American trap]>ers there
was imminent. Old trappers here
are conversant with the fact that this
section lies upon what is known as
the disputed country, and any en
roachment upon their tramping
ground by the red eoais will stir up
the bad blood among the American
hunters, who are men inclined to
fight first and run afterwards. Fears
were entertained cf serious difficul
ties.
The little party met a thousand
Indians sixty miles below Benton,
but further than following the whites
clown the river for some distance
and improving their lungs by yell
ing, there was no disturbance. Cur
informant, John McKinney, who
don't look like a man cn the scare,
says the affair caused a very airy
sensation in the vicinity of his scalp -
lock.
(From the Evening Post.]
A Ramble in D&uphiny.
PKOVENCF, France, July 12. 1873. 1
' I have a splendid dressmaker
here," said 0 pretty young American
lady to me, "and I mean to keep her
so by not introducing her to Yan
kees." I am tempted to apply the
principle to a beautiful district of
country through which I have lately
passed, remarkable for fine scenery,
honest landladies and reasonable ho
tel charges. Jlow can such a condi
tion of things be maintained except
by keeping it secret? Americans with
full purses, coupled with their liberal
dispositions, prove so demoralizing!
But I will be generous. There are
some Americans, with purses not so
full, who love nature for it 3 own
sake; who are satisfied with a toler
able degree of comfort; who are, in
short, neither exacting nor extrava
gant; it would be a pity not to make
known to them an unhackneyed re
gion like this, in which their tastes
can be gratified without peril either
to their pockets or their habits. Let
me, however, caution ladies. Those
who expect rooms with elegant cur
ttbns, carpets, gas and large wash
bowls, had better not visit it. It is
at present conditioned only for those
who are strong enough to walk, and,
when fatigued, to enjoy stone floors,
fair beds, ordinary bougies and a
pint of water to wash with in the
morning.
The country I refer to is Daupliiny
and the upper part of Provence, or,
according to the administrative di
visions of French territory, the de
partments of Isere, Drome and Yau
cluse. It includes the western slopes
of the Alps and the intermediate pla
teau between them and the river
Rhone, forming the eastern division
of this section of its valley. The
Isei'e and the Drome, two important
tributaries to the Rhone, have their
sources in the Alps, and, flowing
down through gorges of remarkable
grandeur, irrigate and enrich the
country through which they pass.
Everywhere there is great beauty of
landscape, snow peaks, crags and
precipices, lovely mountain sides,
cascades, picturesque ruins and hab
itations, and extensive prospects.
The country abounds with remains
of antiquity and of mediaeval and re
naissance life. Some of the finest of
Roman ruins are found here. Its
towns contain vast theatres and am
phitheatres. with temples, aqueducts
and triumphal arches. The great
theatre at Orange, constructed
against the side of a hill, conveys
almost as good an idea of the archi
tectural genius of the Romans as the
Coliseum at Rome. Nearly every
hill and crag is crowned with the ru
in of a castle or fortress, some of
them indicating structures as exten
sive as those of Warwick and Wind
sor. Occasionally a castle has es
caped the devastating rage of reform
ers and is still occupied. This region
is the land of the fierce strife be
tween Huguenot and Catholic, as
well as the triumph of Richelieu,
the great Unionist, the Bismarck of
lis age. who, in suppressing the pow
er of the nobles for the benefit of the
i people and the monarchy, established
centralization, which is not deemed
such an objectionable political fen
ture. Every square mile of its sur
face bears some important monument
of interest in connection with the
civilization of France. In traveling
through this region one sees at a
glance the source of the immense
wealth of France. In the Valley of
the I sere, for instance, the hoyer or
j Madeira-nut tree is found, and grow
ing so thickly as to make the valley
look like an immense forest ; no
where else, I am told, does the fruit
grow so large. Between the rows of
trees the vine is trained on trellises,
while the intermediate areas are
planted with grain. In addition to
these crops there 13 the mulberry
tree, which is cultivated to feed silk
worms. And again, farther south,
the garance or madder is produced, I
and likewise the olive. All these
crops, nuts, wine, silk, madder aud
the olive, to say nothing of grain,
bring higher prices in the world's
commerce than any other staple pro
ducts. The income from them is
probably greater, considering the la
bor bestowed on them, and the
ground devoted to their cultivation,
than that derived from staple pro
ducts in other lands. How much
greater may be estimated J>y the fact
of a small estate of forty acres bring
ing in a revenue of fifteen or twenty
thousand dollars per annum. When
one considers that the soil is largely
owned by peasant proprietors, and
that they all raise these valuable
crops, it is easy to account for the
ready payment of our immense war
indemnity. It is said that Bismarck,
familiar as he was with French re
sources, looks back upou his oppor
tunity somewhat like Warren Hast
ings, who, considering the chance he
had to plunder the treasures of In
dia, was astonished at his own mod
eration.
Some of the picturesque and social
features of this region can be im
agined through a sketch of two or
tiiree pleasant excursions. The first
one is a picnic. The scene a crag
crowned with a medi.eval ruin, situ
ated 011 an amphitheatre of mount
ains, with an outlook on more level
country. A village of low gray
houses is built on the lower slope of
the crag, while the square walls of a
roofless tower grow out of the preci
pice facing the mountains; various
walls, arches and vaults with a green
sward, once a courtyard, connect the
tower with a high rock on which
stands the chapel now serving as the
village church. Cll our way to this
place we bought a gigot and roasted
it at the village cafe. As soon as it j
was done it was brought up to the
top of the crag, where our tabic was
spread beneath the dilapidated win
dows of the old banqueting hall. At
this moment a boy appeared with
several bottles of wine and a message
from the cure conveying his compli
ments. We of course accepted both
and in turn invited the cure to join j
us. He came in about twenty min
utes. I was surprised to find him
young, good-looking and wearing a
full black beard, presenting such a
contrast to his clean-shaved brethren
of Paris. lie was very polite. He
talked politics with us and discussed
other topics. He told us the history J
of the ruin, took us to various inter
esting points of view and showed us
into his chapel perched 011 the neigh
boring rock and commanding an ex
quisite prospect. The chateau had
belonged to the Montauban family
and was last besieged and taken by
Lesdignieres in the wars of religion.
Until the revolution of 1789 it was
complete. At that time it was pur
chased by two of the villagers for a
mere trifle and soon afterwards burnt
by the rest out of jealousy of their
ownership. One cannot avoid asso
ciating this historical incident with
others of the same sort in our gener
ation, illustrative of th<s sentiment of
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite.
"This ruin," said the cure, "can
now be bought for two hundred
francs, (forty dollars,) subject to an
annual tax of four sous." To any
one fond of solitude, scenery and a
good companion in the cure, who, it
may bo mentioned, is fond, of hunt
ing, it is a good opportunity.
I
WRONG-DOING is a road that may
open fair but it leads to trouble anil
i danger. Well-doing, however rough
i and thorny at first, surely loads to pleas
ant places.
$1.75 A YEAR
Sunshine.
Seclusion from sunshine is one of
the misfortunes of our civilized life.
The same cause which makes potato
l \'- ics '.i'hite and sickly when grown
| in dark cellars operates to province
i the pale, sickly girl 3 that are reared
in our parlors. Expose either to the
: direct rays o? the sun, and they be
gin to show color, life and strength.
\\ hen in London some years ago,
I visited an establishment which hail
acquired a wide reputation for the
cure of those maladies in which
prostration and nervous derange
ments Were prominent features. 1
found in the use made of sunshine
the secret of success. The slate
root had been removed anil a glass
one substituted. The upper story
had been divided into sixteen small
rooms, each one provided with a
lounge, washing apparatus, etc. The
patient, on entering his little apart
ment, removed all clothing, and ex
posed himself to the direct rays of
the sun. Lying on the lounge, and
turning over, from time to time, each
and every part of the body was thus
exposed to the life-giving rays of
the sun. Several London physicians
confessed to mc that many cases
which seemed waiting for the shroud
were galvanized into life and health
by tins baptism of blessed sunshine.
Many years ago a clergyman who
had for years been a victim of dys
depsia, and who had prayed for
death as the only door of escape, at
length, through the advice of a mu
tual friend, came to consult me. I
advised the disuse of all medicines,
the generous use of cracked wheat
and good beef and much exposure
to the sun.
To secure the last-mentioned influ
ence, I directed him to build a close
fence, covering a space twenty feet
square in his garden, and plant the
earth within with something to oc
cupy his mind. Then, when the
weather was warm, he was to busy
himself quite nude with the cultiva
tion of his vegetables from t el , to
sixty minutes each day, always in
dulging in a thorough bath and vig
orous friction before leaving. lie
was radically cured.
I was practicing my profession in
Buffalo, N. Y., during ltf-RJ and 1851,
those memorable cholera seasons. 1
saw- five cases of cholera on the shady
side of the street and houses to one
on the sunny side. One eminent
physician in New Orleans reports
from his own practice eight cases of
yellow fever on the shady side of the
street to one on the sunny side.
Who has not read Florence Night
ingale s observations in the Crimea
concerning the shad}' and sunny side
of the hospitals? In St. Petersburg
the shady side of the hospitals was
so notoriously unfavorable to the
sick soldier that the Czar decreed it
into disuse.
The shade trees about our dwell
ings have done much to make our
wives and daughters pale, feeble and
neuralgic. Trees ought never to
stand near enough to our dwellings
to cast a shade upon them; and if
the blinds were removed and nothing
hut a curtain within with whieli to
lessen on the hottest days the inten
sity of the heat, it would add greatly
to the tone of our nerves and our
general vigor. The piazza which
projects over the lower story always
makes that less healthy than the up
per story, especially for sleeping pur
poses. lam sure that I have cured
a great many cases of rheumatism by
advising patients to leave bedrooms
shaded by trees or piazza and sleep
in a room and bed which were con
stantly dried and purified in the di
rect rays of the sun To-Day.
FAMILIARITY with American geog
raphy, remarks the Baltimore Gazette,
is not the strongest point of the literary
Briton, and particularly of Lady Geor
gians Fullerton. In her romance, "Too
Strange not to le True," Charlotte of
Brunswick, early in the last century,
settled on the Lower Mississippi, where
tiie Rocky Mountains are visible from
her windows and where, amid the gam
bolings of monkeys and the tumbling of
buffaloes, she gathers the lotus flowers
from out the tropical luxuriance, and
in the twilight rows her canoe to the
falls of Minnehaha, narrowly escaping
the alligators but returning in time for
tea and to amuse herself quoting Long-
I fellow's song, "Hiawatha," which she
had heard the Indians chanting in tho
[ forest palaces.