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Your patronage in solicited.
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OOUDERSPORT PA.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28; 187 J.
[i'loin the Ciiu-iouati Monthly.]
HEARTSEASE.
Of all Ui> hoiiny Hufs that i>!o\v
In bright or cloudy weather,
Of all the fluwers that conic and tto
Tiie whole twelve moons together.
This iittie purple pansy brings
Thoughts of the sweetest, satlilCS't thliigs.
!
1 h:wl a little lover once,
Who used to give me posies.
His eyes were blue us Hyacinths,
His lips were red as roses,
And cverbody loved to praise
His pretty looks and winsome ways.
The gins that went hi school with me
Made little jealous speeches.
Because he brought me royally
His biggest pi urns and peaches.
And always at tiie door w nu.d wait
To carry home my books and slate.
"They couldn't see"—with pout and tling—
"The mighty tasciu.ui >n
About iia.t i .le -nui- n- -ed thing
To win sucii admiration;
As It there werec I \ a ■ en girls
With nicer eyes and longer curLs!"
And tills I knew as well as they,
And never could see clearly
Why more than Marion or May
I slfffld be loved so deal ly.
tin once 1 askt-d iiim, wny was this'.'
He ou.y atisweitd with a kis...
Until I teased him—"Teil me why—
I want to ku.iw the ieason,'
W iieh from the garden-bed close by
(TIP. p tnsio.J we.c in .V-j •n)
lit- pir kcti <ui gav h i'owei t sue,
With w ■ .ii .imp " / amy.
"i ■ ■ m Idoosr.,' he .id,
"\V ith dries pale and .slender.
With loses and vei Peli: is red,
Uicle-iai purp e .-ii.elldor,*
But over and above tiie resi.
This dftle hearts •:*■ v.tits ine besl."
1 asked v-. it blushing easur*-:
He miswc td, >f ■ 1 and yes again- -
iit.ti ". ea ilid di-auot l e mur. :
1 nit the round wotht an.! a,i tiie -ea
Ili-ld i.oiiiiug had .-'sweei as me
I i .•.•net! li j a proud de.ie.ht
o.i , ; f.-, wniit- !o••aj'ture,
> ! pi.riii ii .*-i v..udilcii I ight
V;" ie ' i.:i tii ei.n- my rapi-.ae.
• • ; ai.•an - . iU •' ' Mti'.
I ii. ho ds ill- ... p I ipeiieace,
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THE fO\. ■ RONS —A L". ii*
th :r Hidory
■ if; •• pi m- ay t'u i" a ere in th
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iwho • ii lav s often ap
iaV.
Yi •• V Ml: C 1 W JtM '"ill * g li -if tel.
1
:;it -' ti •>•.. '1 i. idolt .-i t iV: - Ini
llllg 'lit V. 0 ill fit i h Ovl ,* • 11 1 1 Ir.p < hi -
ci'iue one of tin ni.tiiv princesses ,n
i uroj.o nh.'tr w .o-e It; tiro 111, r*i g.
rumor busied it-elf. Tiie other v. : -
eight vcass older. Both were bean
tifui and gi fUs ; both educates! ac
cording to their mi k. high-bred, ac
complished, ambitious am? five from
all taint in tiie blue blood that
flowed in their veins. To make u-<
of a common phrase, both the young
ladies were in the market for a royal
marriage aliianee. After receiving
ami declining various proposals, Car
oline. the elder, was wedded to the
Duke de Berri, heir to the throne of
France, ami became the motiiei >t
the Count de C'hambord, present pre
tendcr to the kitigdoiu as suecessoi
of the great monarch. Alter soim
years Maria Christum; the younger,
was espoused to Ferdinand VII. of
Spain, and ga\ebi th to Isabella 11..
tiie exiled (jueen of Spain, and to her
sister, the Duchess of Montpensicr.
Let lis take both Caroline and Maria
Christina for the text of our re
marks.
The former left the theatre in I' -
rts on the evening of February 14.
18*20, to drive home. Her hn-band.
the Duke, was assassinsted the mo
ment after he had sent her off. Seven
months and more afterwards she gaw
birth to a male child, whosa advent
into the wori't was hailed by the
Boui bonists with dv 1* ions joy. Tho\
calh d liim the of" fio'l,-" gavc
him at the baptismal font the title ot
Dieu-Donna , styled him in their a- -
'Tresses **' the throne—since Bona
parte bad just died at St. Helena—
the "Child of Europe," and recorded
(heir satisfaction by the purchase and
presentation of an estate that has
ever since given him the name of tiie
Count de C'hambord. Caroline, his
mother, when Charles X-. i.*i I Stiff,
abdicating the crown in this boy -
favor; riiVi holding biT b\ Hicham
left F: m- bv -fated lnar-. he .esco t
cd by the iiouselsoM troops, fled t'-
La v endee, and endeavored to excite
liie j.e;,sautrv to ii-i- in favor of her i
still. She failed, wa- impri-Oi etl,
gave birth to f. child, and then c m
ft s.sed that she had been privately
married to Count LnehcSsi Ibtli:.
'This destroyed every *eutinieut of
chivalrous compassion which the
struggle of a brave woman for the
rights of her son naturally produced
and she returned to her hushaitd lien
or atterwards to appear in political
alfairs. Her escutcheon was blotted.
Maria Christina, who married Fer
dinand \ 1 i of Spain, prevailed on
her husband, to whom she had borne
two children, both females, to an ul
the salic law, which prevailed in
Spain as in France, and to bequeath
his sceptre to his eldest daughter,
Isabella,; and failing her to her sister,
I'on a Louisa, the Infanta, now the
wife of the Due tie Montpensier.
Louis Philippe's youngest son. This
was done, and the ancient Cortes of
the kingdom were summoned to rec
jognize and swar fealty to the heir
ess ot the throne By the same in
| strmnent Maria Christina was ap
; {Htinted governing queen, or regent,
i in the ctejit ot !• erdinaud dying bo
| fore Isabella bad attainel her majori
i ty. Fho Corte-, a merely ceremori
|al body, possessing tio deliberative
functions whatever, gan- a formal as
| sent to the arrangement; and on he
| death of her husband in ls:J3 Chri -
j tina assumed the direction o tin
government, which she successfully
held—with the exception ot the brief
i interval when Lspartero s star wa- in
| the ascendant—nil l.S4<>. when Isu
j Ha was declared of age.
From May, 1841, till August, 1543,
j Lspartero governed Spain. During
this time Christina took refuge in
1 Paris, and was courteously enter
jiaiiied by the King of the Frencii—a
: •lisliiictli.n tjj no means entirely diit
jto her Ihairboii blood. Iler children,
j over whom she was known to have
'and natuirilly, unbounded influence,
were tin Queen an 1 Infanli of Spain ;
and Lotus Philippe was far too
-hrewd a personage to neglect show
ing civilities to a lady w:Pn whom
the choice of husbands for tho'se ih
t< retsting young princes would be
> re to r . Christina ncv< r cat
-i end h r .struggle with L-partero
party to be hopeless. She publisheii
.i long manifesto to tin Spanish peu
; le, whose charade! at that da\ sin
, . , .
-i-. hum! to tmoersfand j-erteetiy. it
-•ontaiino just the right words at the
•it tins . bile was declared a jn-t rial
; ne. Nt Uue-'U, her i'oi.- were biaml-
I, . .
ed as traitors to bpam, Lie treatim lit
; she hail received was pronounced to
scaiidalou L ungrateful, and she was
it once recalled by acclamation. The
; power of L-partero un ited awav like
-now ti fore a summer's sun, and he
owed it to the speei of Ins horse tnat
! e got safe on board a British ship.
Christina's return to Madrid was
a triumph from coast to i apital. But
: i spot on her escutcheon, like that
whic.i doomed her sister, could not
lie etfaCed. Witiiiu less than three
months after the de-atli of her hus
band, Ferdinand \ IL.-he had been
privately married t > Ferdinand Mun
•z, a common soldier, guardsman at
the palace. recommended for nothing
but his youth and handsome person.
Although this marriage was not pub
licly acknowledged until ten yeai
after wards, when,in 1844, the guards
man was created Due de Bean zeros,
yet it was pcrlectly understood in
court circles. From the moment
that this misalliance was known
Queen Christina's moral force depart
ed; Immoralities are forgiven in
Spain; taint of blood never. Noote&se
itbieje i- a rule which admits of no
exceptions.- Though the daughter
of a monarch, sister of a king and
mother of a sovereign, though the
widow of Ferdinand VlLand Queen
regent of the kingdom, her claim to
In- enrolled in the royal list where
tiie great Isabella's name is inscribed
was gone. She might exercise pow
er, but never command respect. She
might die in the very odor of sancti
ty, but her remains could never re
pose in the solemn shadows of the
Escorial;
Ii hns been ssid of the present
Queen Of Portugal, who, though
bardl \ thirty years of age. is so OIK se
rial .-I— eiAarfs h'er husband, the
spiiidie-tdrnTiked and treble-voiced
Luiz L, ;nto insignificance, that she
1 never had a woman's chance te b<
m st. Whether the .scutitl i lie true
•ir not regarding MAIIA Pia.il might
ci.itainl\ be fail Iv urged a- an excuse
f !' Quecu Isaln.Ha il. She came of
,b d stock, lier father and mot. er
we're more remarkable for dissimula
tiori, falsehood and prurieuev than
anything else, and her grand-parents
on both sides, particularly the Nea
politan, were even worse. In the
sculpture gallery of the British Mus
eum-on the right hand as you enter;
are a series of busts of the I toman
emperors, which, as a physiognomic
al study, are without a rival. A dis
colored one of these, which, when
the light falls in a proper direction,
iias a wonderful simulance of life, is
a remarkable representation of Fran
cis I. of Naples, Isabella's maternal
grandfather. It is the bust of the
Emperor Nero, and i- one of those
marvellous instances of the presence
of the same face reappearing after
hundreds of years. More lustful and
avaricious than his prototype, he was
also a more perfect dissembler. "Qui
neurit di'ssimulure rcynare*'
was the motto handed down to the
Queen of Spain when die began her
feign in lS4:j at tlie age <>f thirteen
years and one month. But site in
herited from the ancestral stock
worse vices than dissimulation, and
from the flat - of her marriage she has
always had, like her mother and
grandfather, her favorite.
1 kuow that Spaniards have s'o
much of tne orient t! about them that
they are prone to exasperate their
enemies by availing the fair fame of
their wives and daughters; but. ala>!
Queen Isabella for seven and twenty
years has had no fair fame to sully.
There was never a revolution or an
outbreak which called troops into the
tie-Id during iter reign, when from hill
to hi'l an-d from fortress to battlement
,s •■!<!■;■{ lie id pi-la war, not scornful
ly shouted a iter her soldiers. That
iil-.-sort. d betrothal into Which she
was t ntrnppcd during the orgies of a
midnight ball on August, 23, IS4(>;
the indeeen' baste in which public
announcement -of it v-.-.s made tin
nixt morning; in wicked speed into
which events v ere spurred on by
licit cunning old fox : : t the Teileries;
t!.c m-srri ige un b r jiersonal potest*
fioifl il.c enraged :u 1 disgusted girl
on the 10th of October, ami the utter
loathing with wiiich sic regarded
the vile transaction that had made
merchandise oi tier in.tterir 1 instinct -
and iratlic-ked witn her ua uiv. have
been urged always by iier friends as
her excuse. it was indeed—tiii.-
murriage—the turning point of l*a
bella's career, the saddest inozfii fit of
her 'iie. She r igned twenty-two
>e 11 - after that, but ever filling low
er in the affection and respect of her
people.
In Spain there are always two
governments: one ostensible and re
sponsible, the other hidden and irre
sponsible; one in front of the Cor
tes, the other behind the throne; one
making laws, the other preparing
hindrances, I'he former is the Cabi
n lit; the latter the Caniai ilia. They
are the chronic diseases of Spain,
these Camarillas. Their movements
ate occnl!; their intercourse with the
crown illicit, their action on the na
tion criminal. But they have exist
ed ever since the Bourbons first en
tered Spain, and Isabella's of Mar
fori, her favorite, the Archbishop of
Trianaopolis (Father ('lavet), her
confessor—for the ex-Queen is very
devotional, and always when at the
E scoria! heard midnight mass within
the horrid chamber, < I Pudridero. of
dead sovereigns—and Sister Patro
cinio, the bleeding nun. If the Queen
in 18(>8, would have returned to Mad
rip without Marfori, her ministers
would have guarantied '-.the situa
tion." She was at her watering
place. Her five living children—she
has given birth t< nine—were with
her. >he had Vvpg he-sitaling all
day. To Madrid without her favor
ite; to Paris with him. So great
was her indecision that at live i\ m.
part of the royal luggage was mark
ed -'lie d iye" a id part "Pamplona.'
The A rciibishop was restive (he had
with him church property valued at
51,000,000, stolen from the Kscoriul);
Mil fori cross—arrogance and hat
red bursting IY< in his visage; thi
i;u:i weeping and praying;"an ' i-a
bella contemptuous, a look of fallen
grand- ur visible on iiei face. Love
f power triumphed at last. She de
cided to banish Camarilla, return to
Madrid, throw the Prince of Austria
nto the arms of Fspartero, and ap
peal to him f■ > ave hr,. It was t. o
late. Sho had been deposed. That
very night, :it the Zarziiela Theatre,
a IJimno, of which the following is a
translated vetsc, was sung amidst
wild applause, in Madrid:
"Down wjth the Bourbons, down!
The very stones do cry:
From end to end of Spain they shout,
'We'll courtlier or we'll die.'
Without a home shall wande.%
As the scorned Hebrew race,
As an outcast from Iter country,
She of the si tameless lace.''
The ex-Queen has severs! times
attempted during tin e l ist 11 w
years to recover her hold upon the
{Spanish people. It has been useless.
Instead ofwa-hing the "li/ige sale" 1
of her household, all her explana
tions befoul it still more. So much
for the value of moral character, even
among the great.
Of the young Don Carlos this can
be truly said: lie is a man of un
blemished morals. Maria Beatrix,
his mother, a Catholic indeed and
wedded to her creed. It a. - a charac
ter not only without a stain, bat tuat
commands respect even from her
enemies. Maria Tercet: of 11 ria- Ids
grandmother,long an exile, but never
doubling for a moment the ultimate
success of the Carli-t. cause, is a he
roine of the old Roman stamp. .Mar
garet of Parma; adopted eliibi of the
Duke of Chamljord and grand
daughter of his pe'seeutcd sister,
is the young Pretender's wife. About
her even the calumnies of Spain need
not fall harmless, for they have nevei
arisen. And if the t!;vg of Charles
V . I. should ever be unfurled within
sight of the snow-capped .anges of
the Guaderrania. wo may be sure
tliat those whom its folds protect will
hear 110 cry of <*'• la prla from its
bitterest foe.-.
[l'roin til** Fulls lo Expires.}
"Modem Theory of Force."
I.asL evening Professor Youmaus.
the di.-tingished scientist and editor
ofliie i'opular St irrc Mtmthl;/. de
livered his lecture ou "The Modern
'theory oi Force," at St. •liun< s llall,
before one of the largest audiences
of the season." I'roli -sor Youmans
illustrated and explained his subject
throughout by the aid of several dia
gram-. and although ihe lecture v.ns
in the highest degree interesting and
instruct ive, tiie general opinion seem
ed to be that at times it w as altogeth
er to difficult to follow the t a read of
argument.
The professor be era n his lecture by
stating that the first grand step to
ward establishing the unity of the
universe was taken about two centu
ries ago when Newton lirst discover
ed the law of gravitation.
The second advance was made
about a century later by the new in
sight into the developments of ani
mal life, and the third and last siep
was taken in our Cwn generation by
the establishment of the doctrine of
forces. In dealing with the subject
of forces it is neeessa- y to begin our
investigation from the first and -ini
ple-i manner in which force is exert
ed, and also to furnish some general
illustration of the same. The true
and only -tailing point then is the
force evolved in the rising and fall
ing of any body of matter. One of
the best exemplifications is the work
ing of a trip hammer operated by wa
ter. To lift the hammer a required
height necessitates a certain rise or
exertion of the motive power, and
when it descends the water falls, o>
the force is reproduced in the effect
with which the hammer strikes the
underlying substance. The time, as
well as the force expended, must also
be taken into consideration. The
great principal of force is that, no
matter to what exertion it is subject
ed, not one particle is destroyed, but
there are equivalents all arouud.Thus.
take a locomotive, for instance; a
certain degree of heat is expended to
produce the molecular motion of
combustion, but the force thus ex
pended receives an equivalent in the
solid motion which it gi?es the en
gine. Force is as indestructible as
mat tor,-the great foundation on which
all science rests. Djify a 6entury
ago it was tir-t fully recognise d that
matter changes, but i- never destroy
ed. To arrive at an intelligent
knowledge of the actions of force,
we are bound to go back wln re it be
gins and follow it closely when it
e-capes.
Percuss on and friction* ari pro
ductive of heat; but in order to ap
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preciate how one force is converted
into another, two questions must lw;
asked and answered.
First what dte flie charg ■*? and,'
i second, the amount of the same,
i The mathematical law, accordin r
i to which one force is transferred into
j another, was first brought to light in
1850, and is one of the greatest dis
coveries of the age. Here he de
scribed the clilferent kinds offeree,
and stated that energy of force was
i classed under .wo general headings,
j first, potential force, illu.-trate I by
the dormant power in a ball at rest;
and second, aetud force, or that
; volved in the falling of the bail.
The doctrine of indestructibility,
!continued the speaker, is that the
j amount or sum of the potential and
1 Actual forces remains the saw >.
; throughout the universe. At t! s
point >f the lecture, from a diagram,
; .Mr. Younians de.-crilsl rules relat
ive to the proper unit of force, and
explained the means i.'v fbii/h it was
accomplished. The unit of foce is
1 lb. avordupois falling through a
space of one foot; the unit of heat is
1 lb. oi waver raised one degree Fail.
! and oi>* j unit of lieu* equals 7-72 units
of force. Tiic same .tile wiil hold
good in rcgaid to electricity, gai
vuiii.sin and all other fo"ces. The
lecture then treated ligar a force,
illustrating his remarks fv>m -pee
trum upon a chart before him, and
described the beautiful experiment
>! Dr. (J ivy bar, which showed eon
'elnsively that heat and light lie at
the bottom of one and the same force.
He then gave hi- audi' nee an intelli
gent idea of TyndallV the >ry of the
storing power of for.-e in matter, >l
- rating hi* e a;]. • t. r mgiionb
i.il'e in its various forms was in xt
treated through its many stages,
from a simple leaf up to man", the
iighcst order of \ital dovolopiueu'.
In every leaf, said Mr. Yonmuns,
lalure is earn ing on a -y-lm of dv.
ironies that no man can ever hope to
imitate. Each day tin sun acts up
on it. and n quantity of chc-niicai
matt *r is stored up. thus causing the
leaf to live and flourish. In a seed
the prone--, though at fi. -t :h"gltt
seeming entirely different, i- aim st
exactly similar. It requires heat
and moisture to eifeet germination
nd fermentation, and one part of
the send, in giving life to the plant,
rots and fails back into mineral se
cretion, ir o'der that a vital force
might be deveiope !. Such is the
process in incubation, in the develop
ment of butterflies and other insects
from the chrysalis, and the every
other development of life; both ani
mal and vegetable. The nervous
system of animals rises gradually ii v
; c f c ion from the imperfiot and
embryo nerves in the radiat.?t to the
highest and most perfect form of ce
phalic development in man.
The earth has gone through the
onne stages, beginning with seaweed
and other like plants in the Azoic
age, an 1 gradually devcloj n g thro'
the .Silurian, Devonian and oth*r
ages until it finally reached the high
est point of perfection in the present
age, or the age of man. The lectur
er then gave a comparative state
ment of the reasoning power ana
size o " brain in tire dilhreni order < f
animals, lieginning with that of tlte
radiata, the lowest order, and ending
with that of man. which was ivj r<_-
-ente 1 as one to 30. These forces,
declared Professor You nans, which
have accomplished such g refit
changes, have been working on
through time and elorni v. through
sunshine and through storm, and in
every vicissitude to which the world
lias been subjected.
In conclusion, he asserted that
science was full of the thought of
nature, and should be studied more
than it really is.
If you once get a new diess or a
new dictionary, or a new convenience
of any kind, did yen ever notice that
yon immediately have occasions that
prove that you could not have lived
another foiimte without it?
—117) itney.
When T find any one hard upon
doubters I always doubt the quality
of his faith. I have known people
whose power of believing chiefly
consisted in their incapacity to see
difficulties. — Macdonald.