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SMITH, ATTOENET-AT-LAW, H:I:II Clenrueld, Pa. J. J.TlNGLE, ATTORN KT-AT-LAW, 1:11 Phlllpeaura;, Centre Cm Pi. ' y:pd Q. R. & W. BARRETT, ATTORNEYS AMD COUNSELORS AT Law, CLEARFIELD, PA. January St. 1871. ISRAEL TEST, TTORN RY AT LAW, Clearfield, Pn. jay-ogtee l the Court Home, jyll.'t? W. C. ARNOLD, LAW ft COLLECTION OFFICE, CUkWINHVILLE, III Cleerlleld Couau. Pena'a. TS; s, T. BROCKBANK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CLEARFIELD, PA. Oflot la Court Houm. p ilJ.TMy V. WILSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Offico ooo door Hit of Wsitora Ilolil boililio, oppoiilo Court IIoom. Mt.t,'rr. CLEARPIKLD, PA. FRANK FIELDING, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, lleirtleld. Pa. Will Bttond to all buiiooii lotraitod to biui ptompllj and faltbfutljr. Janl'T WILLUH A. WALLACE. ART r. WALL ACS. DAVID i. limit. Joan w. imiaLBr. WALLACE & KREBS, (8aioann to Wallaoo A rioldiof,) ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, JaBl'Tf tloarHold, Pa. MURRAY & GORDON, ATTORNE Y8 AT LA W, CLEARFIELD, PA. "Offloo la Pio'a Opera Uouio, loooad floor. :M7 CHARLES 0. LEIDY, ATTORNEY-AT LAW, Oiortla Mtlll, Uk.ro.ld Co ., Pa. Legal builooM of all blodi attended to. Pa r. tloular atUBtiua paid to tbo proourmg if bonatiei, pemlona, Ae. Nor 11, l'?r ly. roaira a. a bau.t. aaaiBL w. a ctraor. ' MoENALLT & MoCUEDT, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, ClMiileld. P tT"Lg bviloMi Attndtd to prompt. v withj jdcllty. Otte oa flwoond atratt, mbofi ! Pint Nttio&tl BAok. Jad:1:7 Wst M. ttecDLLvusa. HcClLLOlIG rttRD. o'u IUCK & BUCK. ATTORN KYS-AT-LAW, Clearfield. Pa. All legal buiiaoll promptly attenjed to. Ofleo oa Heoaad atrMt, lu tbo Maionlo building. Joit107T A. G. KRAMER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Real Kiteto and Collootloa'AgeBt, t'LBARCIICLI,, PA., WUI promptly attead ta all legal baaiaoM aa trnitod to bla aaro. r-OBM la Pio'i Opera II Jaalll. JOHN L. CUTTLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW lad Real Batata Agut, Clearleld. Pa. OSeo aa Tblrd street, bel.Cborrj A Walnut. naReeBeetfally offers bis sertleei la aelllng aad baylag laadi la Clearfield aad adjelalag years as a tarooyor, flatten himself tbat he oaa reader satlsfaotioa. rob lS:r3:tf, DR. W. A. MEANS, PHYSICIAN k SURGEON, LL'TIIKRBIIURU, PA. Will attead profMsioaal oalli promptly. auglt'Tt DR. T. J. BOYER, PHYSICIAN AND SDROBON. Ofioe aa Idarkat 8treet, Clearfield. Pa. flfOSea hoars: I to II a. ., and 1 to I p. JJR E. M. 8CHEURER, ROMOIOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, Ofieo la resldtaeo aa First si. April 14, 1871. Clearleld, Pa. DR. H. B. VAN VALZAH, CLEARFIELD, PENN'A. OFFICE IN MASONIC BUILDING pm- OBoe koaro-Prom II to I P. M. May II, 187. DR. J. P. BURC H FIELD. Lata BirgMt f lh 3d EdcIbiii, PvbaijIvadIa V )!. AATiBg ritatrntd fros Ikt ktmj. ifrProfilo.lAlU prafUr KtUidvdt. OAa SMUtt itri, fovrlMepid fcy 17ILLIAM M HKNKY, Juhticb 1 T Or TBI PAJCi AlDflmiTAJtll,LUIIBIH CITT. ColtaMtlOnta aVCt Ad BONI rBptT tt.id rrw. ArttalM of BgrfMrntat ud 44$ ) oABtM ttflMtiJ ei.4 o4 wAirta ear REED & UAGEKTY, VBALBH II HARDWARE, FARM IMfLEMLNTS, Tiuwara, nbUb,c. Ml77 0m ad StrMl, CLvrfiM, Pa, JAME8 H. LYTLE, la krataer'a naUdlBf. ClcaraVrld, Pa, Dealer la OrooetUe, Prorliloas, VegetoblM, rralti, N..or, reed, ole., eta. aprU'tttf H ARRY SNYDER, BARBER AND BAIRDREHSER t Sbup oa Wsrket St, OppoiHe Court Hoaas. ' ' I A eleaa (owol for orery euitomer. Also maauraelarer of All KlBds a ArtklOT la Uaaaaa Hair. Clearleld, Pa. may It, '7t. JOHN A. 8TADLER, BASER, Market St. CWn.fi.ld, Pa. Preek Bnaat Rusk, Roils, Pies aad OakM oa band or made la order. A general BeMrtmeat of ConMoUoaartoa, traloe aad NoU la Meek. lea Cream aad Oyetiis as siasia. Ralooa aoarly oppoelM Its PootvfvM. Ptioee moaVrolo. Meek l-tt. liLUAttf GEO. E.' G00DLU72E2, fnpneltx.- PRINCIPLF-8, NOT MEN. TEEMS-$2 per snnnn in Advance. , ' " : ' ' . VOL. 52-WHOLE NO. 2,565. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1878. NEW SERIES-VOL. 19, NO. 13. BmmmWmmmaaBnmBmmnBmmnammmwammmmmmmBmmmmnBWamm JOHN D.THOMPSON, Jut tie of (ht Pum ud Bert'totr, t,Collct.oni rattd and boo.f promptly pi nfir. WMS (in RICHARD HUGHES, justice or tub peace -roa Itttatur Towuthip, Oiooola Nllli P. a ll offifllol bailnofi ontraitod to bfra will bo promptly atlondod to. nob29, '7A. THOMAS H . FORCEE, DBALBB in GENERAL MERCHANDISE, ;rahamtiin. Pa. Alio, oitoailvo aiaoufMtnror and dialor Ib Sqaaro Tlmbor aod Bawod Lumber ol all llodl. afOrdwa 101101104 aad oil UIU ,rovll REUBEN HACKMAN, House and Sign Painter and Paper Hanger, ClearHcld. Pciin'a. svWill axoouu )obi la bil Hal proroptl; and io a workmanliki mannir. arro.tT G. H. HALL, PRACTICAL PUMP MAKER, NEAR CLEARFIELD, PENN'A. Pumpi alwayl oa baad and mad to ordir on abort notico. Pipoi borod on reaionable tonal Ail work warranted to render latiifaetloB. and dollrorod Ifdellred. ' rojJiiljpd E. A. BIGLER & CO., SQUARE TIMBER, tod mtautttotartn of AI L kINIlSOV SAWKD I t'MHLK, 8-7'73 CI.EARFIKLD. PENN'A. JAS. B. GRAHAM, dealer la Real Estate, Square Timber, Boards, SIIINOLES, LATH, A PICKET8, t:IO'7 Clrarfield, Ta, WARREN THORN, ROOT AND SHOE MAKER, Market St., Clearfield, Pa. la the ahup lately ooeutiisd by Frank Short, ouo door weit of Alleghany Uouie. ASHLEY THORN, ARCHITECT. CONTRACTOR aod Bl'ILDBR. Plaoi And SoeclflefttiODB Furnlfhed for mil kindi or baildifiKi. All work Srft-olAii. Bulr build oDC a ipwilstltT, r. u. Aaureii. uieArniat ri ju.iri i JAMES MITCHELL, DBAI.BB IR Square Timber & Timber Lands, Jell'ri CLEARFIRLD, PA. J. Re M'MURUAY WILL BUPrLY YOll WITH ANY ARTICLE OF MKRCHANDIHE AT THE VERY L0WKHT PRlt'E. COME AND BEE. l:t:7Sy: NEW WASHINGTON. WEAVER & BETTS, DKALEM IS Real Esta'e, Square Timb r,Saw Legs, AND LUMBER OF ALL KINDS. V0(Hfit on ttoaond rtrMt. is mat of Btort room of (iMrgo Weirw A 00. f J ml. 78tf. BLAKE WALTERS, REAL ESTATE BROKER, ABB BBALBB I Haw Lop and Liuuilior, CLEARFIELD, PA. Offlee Ib Ornbam's Row. 1:11:71 S. I. SNYDER, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER ABD DBAI.BB IB Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, 0raiaWs Aon, Marhtt Sir I, CLRAREIELI). PA. All kindi of rapelring la my llae promptly at. nded to. April I. 1871. NEW BOOT ANDSHOE SHOP. Tho Bdtrt tgnrd would Uforn lb pabllo tbt ho baa rrmoTpd bia Root And Rhoo Hhop to th r'am lotrlf oooapettd b Ion. Dv.rit&. im ibaw'a Row. liarlset straat, wbin ba la praporod to Bl tend to tho tv.au of all who aood an-ibtug io bla I.Bf. All work dono by km will be of tba btit BiAUrial.and guAraatead tw bo flrM-claaa Ib arary mpeet. KepAirinx promptly at landed to. All kiDda of Lcalbsir and ISbua Fin din kp f-.r aala JOHN 8CIIIKPER. Clean. lid, P t Jnly 19, lR77-tlm. Clearfield Nursery. ENCOURAGE HOME INDUSTRY. THE andarriftned. halnn oatAMlttiei! a Nnr aery on the 'Pike, aliout half way bat warn Clearleld and Corwrnarlllr, la prepared to for nub all klnda of PKUIT TKKEH, (standard aod dwarf,) Evergreen a, Shrobbery, Orape Vintl, aod Raapbarry Viaea. A io, Bibt-riAO Crab Treea. promptly Attended to. Addreni, l. u. w K1III.T, aepJO ") Carwenillle, Pa. ANDREW HARWICK, Market Street, Clearfield. Pa., AKCrACITBtt AUD MALtB II HARNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES. COLLARS, aid all klnda of HOH&K FVHSISIUSQ GOODS. A fall flock of Paddlarf Hardware, Drviboa, Combi, Blanket. Robea, ota., alwaya oa band and for aalo at tba low eat aaab prieet. All kind of rebatrkag promptly Atunded to. All kinda nf b.dea taken In exchange for bar bam and repairing. All kinda of barneaa leathtr kept oa hand, and for Bale at a rtaall profit. CleBtleld, Jan. IV, H7 E. WARING'S LAW BLANKS for aale Bt the Clearflald RirtBLiCAR oBoe, The mont i ompltte SerU$ fLc Blank pubilthed. Thete BlAtiht are fottaa Bp Ib an per (or alyle, are of bbUotb aiao, and farntabwd at rtry low Bfwree for eaab. Call at the ttwvltLtcAii tBre aad aiAUla them. Ordora by Mail promptly tiled. Addroae, UOUDLANDEH A LER, JBly , li-77 U. Ckarloid Pa. JOHN TROUTMAN, DEALER IN FURNITURE, 91 ATTItENHKN, AND Improved Spring Beds, If AREET STREET, NEAR P.O. fke aadenignod hep lear. to Inform Ike eltl seai of Cloerfield, and the public geoorelly, that be bar oa bead a flae assortmrnt of Furnliera, aarb as Walaut, Cbestaat aad Palatod Chamber dolus, Parlor Bultos, Roellnlng and Retention Cbalrs, LadW aad floats' Easy Cbalra, the Per forsted Dlatag aad Perlor Chain, Oaao Sean aad Wiadaer Cbalrs, Clelbes lars, Btf and Ritea aloa Udders, tint Raeks, Sorakblag Drasbes, As MOULDISa AND PICTVRI FRAMES, aoktng Olasaea, Ckroma, Is., ahlok would saltaaes W rlolUiay vroseale. doeM'tfl fUUH TROUTMAN. 11 IN MEMOKIAM. lues Wrllten on Hradins; an Account of Mies Aiiule Harrett'a Death. Tba writer Is o'or eighty yean of ago, aud upa reading the obituary In tke Rart'SllCAB, drtw from kim tbs Uaos below. For aoarly half a oentury ha followed tho profeiilon of school tsaebing, and taught tho first school atteoded by tbo lals Mrs. 0. R. Berr.lt. lis Is well knowa to tho Interior of tho State, end while be has re tired from the dutloe which ha as long honored, this poem will show tbat at a rips' old age he It well preferred and retains the full vigtr of his mind. Wkilo It, no doubt, is plsasanl to blio, orea la sadness, to bo oarried bask Io the early hlitory of bil arentfal life, It affordi as pl.aiure ta giro publleity to these thought! from bis gift od peB. Editob Rbposuoas. Tho ludden death of one so deeply lorod i Oh I way tlod soothe her fetber's lorrowjnjg Mourning a wife, io honored, lo eiteemed, And now compelled Irom Ibis dear ebtld to part Aod the lupplied her noble mother's plaoa, 1 bois wertls eoarry m-ire honor to ber nam. Tbea any record of heroic deeds, H hlcb, Ib past ages filled the trump of Fame. Her mother's place I And sbe lo young and gay 1 I et qoiok ibe hiteoi to bigb ituty s call , Domains labors, and doiueatic Carol, With true, brave heart, thil girl aooepti tbom all. Ilor molbrr'l teaobing had Informed ber mind t Her mother'! Ipirit had Inipired ber aoul , And tbat dear b-uai hold wae her realm of peace, So calm, 10 Iraoquli, under Lore's control. The noble wnmrn of tbll CbrlitUo land! 'Ill Cbri.tiaa truth that inskei them what tbey are, to many a bleiied Christian homo, behold Tlic hallowed light ot many a moral liar. Dear Annie Barrett I we'll remember tbie Aod we'll rrmetnher thy dear mother, too And wbrn lome .kvplio alien bli low sneer, We'll my, "Urb Id abal Ihrliliaa truth oaa do " Eindrod and frleodi, who mourn J our honored dead, Let Cbriitian faith make clear your mental sight, 1 bo good, Ibe lovely, let a. pny to meet in Ibe pure realms of avorlaiiing light. D.sr Annle'l molbor was my pupil onosi And I am told she always was my lri.nl t That .ball eons'lr an old man', lonely heart, in weal or woo, till Ibis short life shall and. Lkwirbuho, I'a., February SSih, I87S. WASHER WOMEN A A'7) ORXA MENTAL HUSBANDS. Porkapa no worker of tho iruntlur sex hus bardcr Ittlior limn tho wnnhur woman or L'etg butter pay fur her work. Tbo reuntiii fur her kooU lurlune doubt load lien in tbo tbi t tbttt nbe duals di rectly with tbo poofilo who need ber HurvieeB, and therefore no part ot ber earning is taken by middlemen. Sbe keens bor own accounts by tho rou'h arithmetic of the lullystick period, and murks the vurious articles of her customers by strange hieroglyphics in wbita, red and blue thread, bhebruiirs back tho clean clothes hurselt and takes away the work-banket. 11 or bu siness is small, but such as it is she is miaircHs ot all the details of it, and owner of the small fixed cupitul in the shape of a washboard, a tub and a lew flat-irons wnicn It employs. Mi a has no rival among men except tbo Chi nese, who do not in this city as yet vnstituto a class large enough to muke their influence lelt. Un the whole, therefore, the washerwoman should be comfortable in a moderate way, and that most ol them are not so is due to their own extravagant propensities. Strange to ray, three-lourlhs of the washerwomen in Now York are the victims nl a passion for expensive lux uries. They do not indulge in s ilka or satins or wines ; they do not set up a last homo or sport diamond rings; but tbey are very apt to undertake the more useless and ruinous tusk of sup porting an idle husband, a piece of tol ly as disastrous to a woman in bumble lilb as the keeping of a fast home usu ally is to young man in business. It is well known that an ornauientul hus hand is a ctvuturo prized mainly tor bis lur.y and luxurious bubits, incapa ble of profitable employment, proud ol bis position of elegant leisure and disposed to regard his proprietor as designed especially to toko care of him. He is like a hip-dog or a parrot or any other pet, and the more exacting be becomes tbo more bis ownor is dispos ed to pamper him. As a natural con sequence tho demands of tbo ornamen tal husband, evon in upper lite, for One clothes, costly liquors, last horses and indulgences til every description gen erally surpass the ability of the wile to supply them, and the result is infi delity or cruelly, ending in divorce. It is no exaggeration, therefore, to say that only women of great wealth and liberal disposition should attempt to set up an ornamentul husband. None ol horn can afford the luxury; and some means should be adnplod to pre vent Inconsiderate lemales tncapublo of meeting the responsibility of an ex pensive establishment Irom entering into wedlock with a male sybarito un der the false pretense, expressed or im plied, that sho will support him in idle ness ana extravagance. Ibe present Legislature, which has distinguished itself by assuming to settle everything else, should frame a law on this sub ject, wherein A monoy limit might bo estaulisbeu below wbicn no ono should be allowed to attempt the mainte nance of an ornamental husband The line could be drawn safely perhaps at an income ol l-'O.OOO a year as a mini mum, since a woman might support an idle husband on that sum in good style Ithout doing violence to any of tho finer instincts ot his luxurious and po etic nature if she was herself capable ot reasonable sacrifices in regard to dress, jowelry and social entertainment. vi by should women possessed of a less amount ol money marry tender and delicate men accustomed to the Indul- Jonces of bachelorhood, and drag them own to a life of self-denial and penu ry f Why are they not content with the ordinary working husband of com merce, tbe faithtul, uncomplaining on- exacting drudge who will earn with out a murmur mora than bis brilliant counterpart could squander? The man who loves horses and lacks means will be glad to own an honest back when an Arabian courser is out of the question ; the girl who cannot bay rare exotics will cherish a common rose in the flower-pot set upon her window-sill; why, then, should poor working women indulge in a fancy, for a gay and festive husband, who. though he confine his lipplo to beer and whisky and restrain bis tasto for Display to brass rings and imitation diamonds, ran nevertheless spend more of the dollars ol our fathers I ban the most Industrials wife can rub out of the friction of soiled linen and a wash board T Ol all the vices of high hie transplanted among the poor for their destruction, we think this habit of at tempting to sustain a purely ornamen tal lamily tjgiire-head la tbe worst, All tho evils flowing from such a state of things were illustrated In the Hthroidt case, the details ol which con stitutes a pitiable revelation of the re- suits ol woman's weak propensity tor tne useless, the luxurious and the or namtntal. Jtseetas that lire. Schmidt la a washerwoman uq VfOiibt tnk. n ii emnmai&im: for herself a vory comfortable living, but she has undertaken the task of maintaining by her labors an able bodied busband in idlonoss. The re sult bos boon that Schmidt, notwith standing the fact that ho bos captured every oent ol bis wile's earnings and the pension of bis mollier-iu-law, has still been sadly pinched for tho full quantity of bour which is considered the perquisite ot every well-kept wash erwoman's husband. Tbo women have worked early and lato, have pinched themselves in tboir victuals and have worn shabby clothes, but all to no pur pose. Tbe proud soul of Schmidt has been repeatedly bumiliatud by impo cuniosity and enforced thirst, and this creature of luxury and ease, whose natural elemont is the sunshino of prosperity and enjoyment, hus been obliged to recoil from more than one saloon amid the jeers of bis compan ions. His sensitive spirit cbalod under such trials until gradually a feeling of settled resentment against the woman who betrayed him into matrimony took possession of his mind. He en deavored to satisfy bis vengeance by beating ber occasionally, but finally whon she so fur forgot herself as to conceal ber paltry earnings from him and retaliated for bis abuse with tongue and tongs be endeavored to I put an end to his bondage by mingling poison with tho family conve. it is no exaggeration to say that there aro thousands of washerwoman in New York enduring all the inconveniences and Indignities to which Schmidt had to submit, through tbo ill-advised ac tion of their wives in assuming matri monial responsibilities which they could not discharge. It is a matter of regret that there is no law we say so in tbe fuco of our long record against sumptuary legislation to authorize the police to visit the homes ol the washerwomen of the city, and wher ever they find cribbed, cabined and confined within tboso narrow limits that thing of sweetness and light, an ornamental husband, lead tho victim of misplaced confidence gonily down to the front cntrunco of tho tenement- house and dismiss him with a perpen dicular kick to seek tor somebody bet tor able to support him. JVfw J'orri )om. THIRTY-THREE YEARS AGO. Mrs. Ix-Preeldent Tyler. ASSISTING MR8. HAYES IN RECEIVING AT THE WHITE HOUSE Threo weeks ago the Washington correspondent ot tbe Boston Post, do- tailed, among other capital ideas, the following : At the last public reception at the White House, Mrs. Hayes was assist ed in her duties by Mrs. ex-Prosident Tylor. Mrs. Hayes was dressed in tuny velvet, Un. Tyler in rich sable robes. Tbe two ladies resemble each other enough to be sistura; aro near the sumo height, each bus fresh com plexion, dark eyes, black hair arrang ed in bands over the ears; and their elegant tortoise shell combs were al most duplicates. I here Is probably not over ten or twelve years difference in their ages, although it has been many yearn since President Tyler fill ed the Presidential chair, and Mrs. Tyler has been a widow fifteen years. Mrs. Tyler was her husband's second wife, and came in the While House a very young and beautiful bride, some where near thirty yearn ago. Presi dent Tyler's first wife, who died a year aflor bis inauguration, bad been dead about two years, and tbe widower bad walked in solitary grief under his crape-handed but about Washington all tbat time, giving not a glance at tho many blooming maidens who long ed lor tbe Whito House. But a grief stricken girl, in mourning heavy as his own, worn for a father who had been killed in an awlul accident on the Potomac, touched his pity, and love frolicked close upon the heels of sym pathy, and one lair (.pring day, Wash ingion was startled by the announce ment that a quiet service in New York had transferred Miss Gardner into a President's wife. The negro torvunt was the only one to whom tho bride groom told bis intontions, and the sub ject was broached upon the eve of his departure tor New York. lie in structed tbe darkey to have his house in readiness for Mrs. Tyler. "She's very young and beautiful. She'll boa splendid woman in her prime," said Ibe Itnulitalod lover. "Yes, Massa John; but wliar you be when she's in dat primeT Of tho ninny years, and their sad changes since that lime, there is am ple evidence. Mrs. Tyler, yet beauti ful, appeared Saturday again in tho White House, and saw a few old peo ple in the throng, greeting Mrs. Hayes as kindly as they in younger days had greeted her, but the greater part of the crowd that in olden days wore wont to gather in these spacious rooms woro gono, and tho spring grass is green over the bones ot the crowd tbat thirty years ago were in their prime. "The furniture is all changed, but tbe grand old rooms are just as tbey used to be, and I reel more at home hero than any place on earth," said Mrs. Tylor. Then the crowd swept us along away from tbe Presidential parly, through aisles of green foliage that banked tbo walls, through tbe whole suite of rooms to the great east room where once Polly Mudison hung her clothes to dry in the early days, whon only two rooms of tho While House were finished, and when all around was a marsh dotted by a fuw half erect ed buildings to mark tbe present site of tbe Capitol of America. Now tho east room is velvet caretod, lined hy mirrors and panels of while and gold ; it is as big as a church, and affords a splendid promenade down its mirror doubled length. turtIuTIa B Y." There was a Connecticut lady from one of those interior village of tho State which have become celebrated for their innocence and garden seeds, who, being ignorant of the dangerous nature of heated steam radiators, re cently learned by sad experience that they are devices of the Adversary. She bad reached tbe city of Provi dence, Rhode Island, on her way to Boston, and was compelled to wait for some time in the railway station lor the arrival of tho Boston express. She was accompanied by ber bah)-, a valu able infant nf about eighteen months of age, and aa she desired to explore tho recesses of her traveling hag in search ol the key of her trunk, con cerning which she had an awful fear tbat she had lelt it at home, she look ed about her for a place to temporarily doKjBit ber baby Her eye caught a large sU'sm radiator, wilb a handsome marble top, which she mistook, a she subsequently explained, for a 'mantle-tree-piece." Upon this delusive slab she deposited too baby, placing it In (sittips; position, and proping it up with bundles, and then retired into the corner whero sbe could search her bag in quiet. Instantly that unhappy infant lilted up its voice anif'jiowlod. Tho mother was annoyed at its untimely expres sion or dissutifaction, but determined to lut it cry for lew moments until hor search should be completed. It took her about five minutes to find tho desired key, and sho then was ready to give ber attention to hor offspring. She addressed It In tho most winning of nursery jargoiij but it declined to oeaso its wailing. Then she juggled before its eyes her bunch ot keys, and evon went so far as to suggest that an examination of the works of bor wntcb might bo granted to a really good ba by who would sign a pledgo to abstain from pins and volio in every form. This also failing of the desired effect, she offered bribes In tbe shape of can dy and gingerbread, all ot which, to ber great astonishment, were neglect ed, liy this lime she mudo up bur mind that a pin must bo at the bottom of the trouble, and she therefore took up tbe Infant and instituted a brief search for tho supposed instrument of torture. Finding all the child's pins in precisely the localities where nature had placed them, she grow somewhat indignant at its causeless outcry, and, after threatening it with tho aeverest form of nursery punishment in case of further persistence in crime, sho re placed it on tbe radiator, and inform ed it that it must remain in that posi tion until it was ready to be a good and quiet baby. Just at this point a man of appar ently fifty years of ago, whoso appear ance unmistakably indicated that the hand of female affection had never but toned bis collar or adjusted his necktie, looked up from his newspaper, and re marked to the exasperated mother: ".Madam I permit mo to suggest that it is timo to turn that child." The mother, startled at this addross from an entire struiger, who, as an obvious old bachelor, instantly incurred her righteous contempt, asked him sharp ly what be meant. "Merely this," re plied the monster, "your infant must Lo entirely baked on one sido, and you had bettor turn It over and cook the other side a little." Filled witb as tonishment and horror, she seixed bor intunt, and at the same time huppuhing to touch the slab with her hand, dis covered that it was extremely hot. Further examination proved the trtilh of the unmarried miscreant's remark. Tbe infant was not only baked, but was overdone to such an extent as to partially spoil it. The railway company has refused to pny damages, for, although it is not denied that, by means of tho steam radiator, a valuable baby was nearly ruined and was rendered wholly unfit for any infantile purpose, it wascluim ed that the mother and not tho com pany was at fault. This claim will doubtless bo sustained by the courts, although bubius in Connecticut are so scarce as to be quoted at an unusually high figure. Tbs incident may be of use to tho Connecticut mothers aa a warning that a steam radiator is not a mantle-piece, and that inluiits spoiled in tho baking will not bo paid lor by railroad companies. THE DEFEVrOF AMERICAN ART. What, thus far, has been tbe radical detect of American art? for certainly we do possess a national art as truly as does France or England. Although the nuturo nf our art is varied, yet, as Professor Weir, of Yalo College, re cently said, it is quite possible to dis criminate between that which is dis tinctly American, which bears the un mistakablo stump of originality, and that which is either the work of art ists of foreign birth residing in this country, or of Americuns residing abroad, and adopting the manners ol foreign schools. Mr. Story has taken tho trouble to come all tbe way from Rome to lull us that our principal fault is ' Ittorulness ," but it by that word bo means that the most ot our pictures aro merely literal transt riplions from nature, ho is misinformed. To make any ihinjr approaching to a literal transcription from naturo requires an amount ot technical skill which few of our artists possess. Tho severest and most protracted training is necessary to tho production of such work, und tho trouble with too many ot our painters is that they aro deficient in academic learning. They can not draw accurately; they can nut Color skill fully. They are nnntleiirs, tyros, school-boys, so tar as education in thu resources of the pencil and the brush is cont-uued. If, on the other hand, by litorulncBfl Mr. Story means nnimugi nulivonoNH, his critcism will apply with equal force to many artists in every European centre. Only geniuses are truly imaginative, and not ulluven of them. The great doloet of Ameri can art to speak in thu spirit of self examination and soberness is ignor ance. American artists, with a few conspicuous exceptions, have not mus tered the iclonco of their profession. They did not loarn early enough how to draw ; they have not practiced drawing persistently enough or long enough. I'huy are not deeply read in the philosophy of color. They have not clear ideas nf what art is and what art demands. They are not scholars. The spirit is willing, indeed, but tbo flesh is weak.--G. W. Sheldon, in Har per' i Magazine for April. , WHAT ENor.ASD FEARS IX THE EASTERN QUESTION Considerable comment has been ex cited by an arlicleon European politics which appeared In tho last number of tbe Nineteenth Century, tbo author of which is Sirtiarnet Wolsefny, a Major liuneral in the British army, who lias seen murb service, and is regarded as one of the most brilliant and promising officers in that establishment. This distinguished authority holds that it is not Russia so much as (iurmany that England has to fear in the present crisis. It ifl not tho military strength ol (termany that England has to dread, for in reality the expense ot her army is a greater strain than the country tan bear, and the consequent taxation weighs so heavily that industry and trade suffer great depression. But the restlessness of tbe taxpayer is regard ed as a source of danger to England, inasmnch as it Impresses upon the (ierman government tho necessity of opening in some way new channels of commerce. Whaluerinany wants more than anything else is a more extended and convenient seaboard, and this might be obtained by annexing the prosperous little countries up n its frontier, Urlgum and Holland. Il is not likely that this "belt" of Germany a "belt" Dot liirmoil, however, from the outgrowth of (iurmany would be permitted to vote upon the question ol annexation, but It has become a fixed Idea In Gorman policy which fa only waiting an opportunity for realisation. TI.IjIOTT If Great Britain had become embroiled in the present Turco Russian war it is considered more than probable that Germany would have bailed the cir cumstance as the opportunity wailed for. Il is bet'oved Unit Great Britain could bolter afford to have Russia in permanent occupation ol Constantino ple than to have Belgium and Holland turned into Gei mun provinces. British commerce could not safely stand tho brunt of the fresh competition it would havo to meet if Antwerp and Amster dam were made the ports of Germany. In tho day of sailing vessels tbe su perior nautical aptitude of England enabled ber to bold ber own on tbe ocean aguinst tbe world, but these are tho days ol steam and machinery, and the German steamships engaged in tbe American trado aro as well handled and manned as the English, as those coming to this port bear witness. If Germany ever gets a commercial sea board there is nothing to prevent her from becoming a great commercial und nuvul as well as military power. Sir Garnet Wolseley tukea it for granted tbat England would fight before per mitting Belgium and Holland to be conie (ierman provinces. A a she could not accomplish much to prevent this result without a European ally Sir Gurnet assumes that she would be able to obtain tbe co-operation of France, and enters into details of that coun try's military strength, which, coming from such high athority, are ot great interest. According to his statistics, the French regular army, including officers. numbers 715,000, behind which is a disciplined reserve of BOO, 000 men, and also a territorial army 500,000 strong, all mora or less drilled. In 1870, whon Franco dcclured war aguinst Germany, sho bad scarcely moro than 300,000 soldiers available for field operations. Tbe great detect of her military organisation then was the inefficiency of ber commissarial and supply departments, which, dur ing tho lust seven years, are repre sented to buve been thoroughly over hauled and reconstructed. With eigh teen hundred thousand mun to send into tho Held, and tbe most systematic arrangements for thu commissariat, France would bean ally worth having. But why France should fight for Eng lish iiiLorusts. usneciallv as Enitund did not help France in her lata strug gle with Germany lor cxistenco, and us Franco must still require years ot peuce betore she can fully recuperate irom tbe results ot that contest, does no fully appear. Baltimore Sun. THAT WHIRLPOOL. Tbo Washington correspondent of Chicago Tribune, remarks: It is amusing to seo how many "Mrs. Proudies" there are in Washington. And it is not amusing to seo bow many nice little wires, and good, plain mothers are spoiled by a tusto ol gay ety in our Republican Cupitul. Ono member's wife, when sho camo hero first, a few months ago, wss reully homesick for her little village.- But after the curds came iu to bor, and she began to fully realize that sho was the wile ot a member of Congress, what airs tbe country wife took on herself. Ladies whose claim to dis tinction rested upon their innate re finement and intelligence, and not up on the accidental position ot their hus bands, were passed unnoticed save by tho luinlest smilingless inclination; and tbe grado or rank of a lady's hus band could have been told by a looker-on, by tho warmth or coolness witb which the wife of the now member welcomed them. The change in tbo toilet ot the ludy was marked. Her eye eagerly ran over tbe dresses of her acquaintance. From a modest lady in a plain black silk and smooth brown locks sbo burst into tbo less distingue style of light satin and bare shoulders, and pyara-mid-shaped head with the surrounding thatch of fringes which hides the broad und beautiful brow and makes every woman look like an idiot. Tbo lady now trips to bor hired cab every day, and gives ber orders to the coachman with an icy, fault-finding tone, which she, poor soul, does not knew indicates her newness to the luxury of a hired team and livery. Her days are a round nf cuusclciM, meaningless toadyism ; bor nights wild revels, where neither sense nor comfort ever shows its plain, old-lushioncd luces. This woman, be fore her husband's election, would bavo set up wilb her neighbor's sick child. She would have msda its liny gravo clothes and put flowers in its dead hands, tho whilo bor eyes were misty with sympathy. But now she is spoiled for everything. She will fly bor round, fritter away her day, drop out bur life, and not a ripple on tbe tidu of fashionable society will show whero she has gone down. The wheels of folly roll round forever hero. There' are half-naked women crushed in the cram with simi-respectablo people, mon and women. There are champagne, and punch, and lobsters, and flowers; ruined toilets, lost tempers, and finally bitter disappointment and remorse, NEW ENGLAND PHOTO GRAPHED. The Springfield, Muss, correspondent of tho Plaltshurg N. Y, Newt, bna evi dently swallowed a irlion ot "the land ot steady habits," and In a recent letter to the Newt, draws this pen pic ture of the decendeiits of the Plymouth Rockers as follows. Dear Sir: We like tho New England people. It wore hard to find, in our w hole country, a more frugal, enterprising, money lov ing, and money making class of men, than thoso who inhabit the bills and valleys of New England. The people of New England are very pious; every thing they do has a piety in il, and you can get along very well among them it you are albo pious, and believe just what they do. . They do not like oilier suctions ol our country to pros per as much as theirown ; tbey would muko laws for the nation, with an rye to their own interests ; they desire everyone, no mailer how dissimilarly situated in life, lo tbllow in tbuir wake, laugh when tbey laugh, and bo lachry mulwben they aro out Of sorts. Now England, of all sections, ot our country was resMinsiblo for our war. Not that of 1812 that sho opposed but that of 61 65 Into which she went with all the enthusiasm of a philanthropist, the piety ot a Christian, the business saga city ol a tradesman. And sbo made a great deal nf money out of the war. Her manufactories made moro shoddy than all else North combined ; she hud mora army contractors, more sutlers, more hangers on, more Statesmen, more ol a"homegnard,"tban any other section. Her territory, not much larg er Ibnn New York, was brimful! of pa triotism and merchandise, and there was enough of both to have run the war twenty years, with both to spare for our (tovsrnment. Indeed, the war should have been allowed to go on tor a longer period thao it did, to bayo ex DTI hausted the patriotism and tbo goods on band which the New England peo ple bad to sell. But a bcup ot money was mude, and United Slates bonus havo accumulated in banks, insurance enterprises, and in the pockets of our shrewd New bnglanduis, not to be ap proached in magnitude, save in Wall street, iow lorn. 1 lie wur closed al most loo soon. Tho General Govern ment ought to have notified New Eng land as to the end thereof in advance ; still Now Kngland has been tolerably satisfied with the finuncial result, al though pure patriotism when at so high a pressure must still continue to bubble, and it will bubble for years to come. , Now England seemod to have over looked tbo tact that ber manufacturing interests would be effected by tbe war, and particularly the production of her cottons must bo' lesscric'd' yVar after year, Sho does not like to aeo tho Re bel Stales taking from her this indus try, and who witb the "staple" at the door, will in timo control the manufac turer of cotten goods. But New Eng land, while she may unwittingly have lost this industry, and having no agri cultural resources to full back upon, nevertheless she has the money and the bonds. Tho latter relievos her from tho onerous taxation under the accumulated weight of which our coun try groans, so tbut while tbo war has impoverished other sections, it bus en riched this. And New England to day desires to make tbe laws and shape tbe destinies of our States, as has al ways boon her wont. She il was that made bonds payable not in currency, but in coin. - It was her shrowed statesmen who, by a "catch," demone tised silver in 1873. Sho, it is who now yells tho loudest for resumption, denounces the silver bill, despises green backs, and makos fitcos at "repudia tion," as sbo likos it. Why? Because bur interests set that way. Sho wants gold to be tho only coin, because sho has the securities. Sbo don't euro wbtit kind ot money tho rest of tho country has, so long as her kind coin, mauds a premium, and as for "labor," why I thin is the cheap talk ol cheap people, "we are all capitalists in New England." In New England, we bavo scarcely no population of hard work ing, honest farmers Wo bavo many laborers, workingmon, in our manu fucturies, (not bo many as formerly,) who now recoivo from 11.00 to $1.50a day to support their families, and the residue who were with us, are seeking employment elsewhere, or are "tramp ing" ''Tnuip, tramp, iDhbnyaare marching," around our country. As our manu facture grow less and Jess, our people will turn their attention to tbe life and fire insurance business, and very many of them emhurk in savings banks ven tures. Indeed, the shrewdest men among us, as Statesmen and politicians, alter tbey have done all they can in a patriotic. way "to aave the country," "prevent repudiation," and cry down "silver," aro bettor qualified for tbo "insurance, "or "savings bunk business," than thev are for any other vocation, in life. No wonder that all ot our peo ple should love New England ; land of piety, etoady habits, gold, lite insur ance and pumpkin pies. Where labor is honorable (ut f 1.00 a day), where merit is tho criterion of Worth, it you have it in bonds 'whore the poor pay the taxes wealth is exempt; and whore the prayer is not for "daily bread," but lor "gold," and a "deliver onco from repudiation." Wo want our next President from New England, and Vice President, and "Cabinet," because Mr. Howe, you people West and South don't know what is good for the coun try, and are too loose on the financial question. Major. THE GIRL ASA TRAMP. THE HTKEKT WALKINO HABITS OF THE OIRL Of THE PERIOD The wholo drift of moral reform is toward young mon. They have sei ilions and lectures and home adriea, and there is no end of pains to mako them better. But tho girl is less for tunate. She is not expected to drink or swear or play billiards, or be enticed into gambling bells. It is lobe presumed thulsheisvirtuous,us Dr. Tbos. Arnold presumed that his school boys were in nocent till they were proved to bo guilty. The girl is supposed to be sheltered from gruss evil, ami partly because of tho delicate application of moral teach ing togirls and partly because almost no one thinks about il. There is very lit tle said about girls on their way to the undertow of society, and yet it is clear to. every observer of lite in our crowded tenement bouses, in our suburban towns, in our crowded village and hum-! lets, that a great cbango has come over the girls in our New England commu nities; thoy havo turned tramps. No sooner is the sun gono down than the young women let loose from the facto ries deck themselves out with finer' and go out upon tho street for exorcise or parade. They go by twosorsingly. They meet (heir assoclcates ol the shop or fuctory in their evening excursions. Il is tho most natural thing in the world lo walk out together, and asso cittlions once formed easily shape them selves Into character. Tho girl doesn't mean lo bo a tramp, but before she is aware of it tho excitemont of her lite ia found on the street, and hor asaoci ates under cover of darkness becomo her associates for lifo. No ono who is not litmilinr with tho facts can under stand whrit yonng women have to put up with in tho. shoe shops and other factories, wheru they are engaged at daily labor in company with the other sex,and,wben the coarseness oflhcshop is exchanged at night for tbo Immor alities of tho street, il'can easily be un derstood wlint tbe position of girls as tramps ia iirour closely iiopulaled com munities. Wirtitho confiduuee of tbe uulortunatca in our. dons of prostitu tion fur enough to gel at tho truth ol thoir history, and you will find in nine cases nut of ten that they have been brought np at our very doors, and have taken lb final step lioin virtue under cover of Ireedom assumed when they were out as evening tramps. The po sillon of the working girls in this re spect is nurseling the attention of those who think ot social ana puono morals and the damror. ia acknowiedL'- lod on all sides.. To put the matter plumy, most girls Ot the middle class uxncft to meet roane1 men on- the street and mako all their arrangement for matrimony while ontnn the public thoroughfare. - The girl who stay At Loma run tbe risk ol beiiif neglected hy their males of tbo other sex, and compelled in selfdelcnco (o become tramps of the virtuous sort. Only those who have watched the out goings of the relation ol the saxes in our lo o and villages can realise the extent to which the practice of street-walking i carried, or the mischievous results which it brings upon society. W live in a new age, and in gin oi in perroo ia a tramo. . - .. . . . . . Tba causo of this itato ol things Is XJfTTtt not far off. The boys are on the street because there is not sufficient attrac tion at borne ; the home is barren be cause the parents are too busy to muke it what it ought to bo ; tbe strain up on them for making a living exhausts their vitality ; the mothers begin lite too young and aro exhausted too early; and home life, the homes which we ull remember, are not what they were twenty-five years ago. Hero is the root of the trouble. The homos of our working people are not bright enough to resist the counter attractions of the street. Tho amusements are curtailed or ignored. Tbo whist parties are neg lected lor tne theater, the jolly plays for the negro minstrels, the fun and frolic in which older one engage for tno aouoiiui issues ol clandestine ex cursions. Wo put tbo blame tor tbe gin as a trump upon the parties to whom It belongs. The parents in these days have the responsibility of tboir children, and unless tbe homes are pleasant and cboerful and virtuous the young lives can hardly be sheltered Irom vice and keep within thu pule of virtue. But wisdom ia shown in tho adaptation of right rules for existing circumstances. It is a day of misrulu, of breaking away from restraints ; and there are so many homes where there is not the slightest effort made to train young people to right views of lite that it seems almost nopeless to begin any where. It is at just this point that so ciety at Ibis moment has mostatstuko. the danger is tbat tho girls who are to be the mothers ot the next genera tion sbull be vitiated in character by the thoughtless and careless conduct ot to-day and sbull be unequal to ibe task of making tho homes ot tho next gen eration what ihey should bo. Our preachers scorn tbe weakest in reach ing women at inis point ; t be preBs can ouly speak in a general way, and noth ing short ot personal influence and ox- ample seems effective in awakening in young women the ambition lo nieel tbe higher duties of lite. You can reach men and win them to what is right much easier than you can influ ence women, and cspec'ully women ol tne cms wuo inciino to bo tramps. women olten bavo religion without morality, and men frequently bave morality without religion. The point ot anxiety is bow to induce the girls of to day to exorcise the restraint upon tboir social freedom which shall make them safe from tboir impulses and feel ings when moral convictions are not rooted into principles. of conduct. Il is a point on which tbo publio wonts light, and we beg the authorized teach ers of religion lo givo the subject at tomion. Tbo babit ot street-walking is so much a part of social life wilb young people who are engaged in manual la bor during tbo day, and there is so much to be said for it on the sid,o of exerciso and health, tbat it ia not easy to institute a reform, and yet the prac tice is attended with a steady decrease of moral tone and sell-respect Tbe old religious restraints' have beon so muoli removed in oonntloon hnmea that the downward tendency in our girls is not suiticiently noted, and ia readily excused when tbey are too much on the street.' We may be prudists, but we cannot change tho conviction that tbe most serious danger to our social and family life ia to be feared from tbe present excessive tendencies to immor ality in young women. If tho girls aro pure and upright the young men can be saved ; and if they are not, where is the backstay of society to be found f We do not believe that girls can be tramps, and still bo women of unturn ished character. The brightness and fineness ol the moral tone will be im paired, if nothing moro is done, and this keenness ot feeling in regard to morals, tbe purity ol a heart tbat thinks no evil because il is innocent of evil, is worth moro than gold or rubies'. Il is a prize which makes women attractive even in tho eyes of men who are bad. It needs lo be brought home to par ents, to guardians, to well. meaning girls themselves, what character is worth, and how it may carelessly and thoughtlessly be lost, and by unceas ingly and personally working to amend a social evil it may be somewhat aba tod. Boston Herald. a solemn Warning. to TOUNO WOMEN WHO MARRY OLD MEN FOR TUE1R WEALTH LONOEV1TY OFTEN INTERVENgS. When a young woman who has mar ried an elderly gentleman of means in the hopo that be will soon die and leave hor his money, finds that he lives on and on, in total disregard of his im plied contract, it is hut natural that sbo should look upon horself with that pity which sho would bestow upon any other neglected and ill-used wile. Tbo promise nf bib hacking cough is still untulfilled. (jninsy will not carry him off any moro than a toothache could have , destroyed ihaiaba, ocptimius r ultou or tho old Abasuorus. lender. ly sbo watches the progress of his rheu matism, and whilo ho is sleeping sho lovlnulv opens the window to give it air, but the hnrsecheatnuta which he carries in bis trousers pocket during tbo day counteract tbo draughts ot niu-lit, and the disooso fails to thrive according to her wish. Ago cannot wither him nor nostrums cut Ins inn- nito longevity; and if the young wife grows pale and wan with We try watch ings at bis bedside through tho sorry midnight hours, waiting and longing for the chuuge that will not come, what human heart can wonder II at lust she become exasperated and resolves in her sore straits to resort to harsher measures than slow nature yields T As ono thinks of tho blighted promiso of her years and ol bow the gnawing teeth of timo seem to have been filed for ber husband's benefit and ber despair, ad jectives flow from tbe pen as fust as the Arabian troo drops medicinal gum. On on side youth and beamy and ca- Iiacity tor tho enjoyments ol widow, inod ; arrayed aguinst them are crab bed age selfishness, unyielding tenaci ty of lite and a leathery frame, hack ing away at which Time only blunts his sickle. Tho sympathies of any do. cent man, especially if be be young poor, unmarried and ease loving, inevi tably gush out for the weaker in tbe struggle lor life, liberty and tho pur suit ot happiness. And yet wo cannot Wholly recom mend that a weak woman, thus brought to unworthy wretchedness, should try to bang the enthor of her misery Worn dowa by ber vigils, aha may not bav strength enough to accomplish bor purHrs and bis end, and tho coo scooence of failure are shocking as Mrs. Rachel II. Whinn. of Medina. O.. has jimt found oat' I bra unfortunate lady married a wealthy and promising sep tuagenarian who, when be cam wooing to her bower, ambled into ber presence with wrinkle on his brow and laid at her feet his bald head, bla rheumatism, his whecie and all the chalky promise oi year. "All these, be said, "are yours, aad t lor you. i bring noun ly stitcbo to tho lido which lure while thoy doooive ; 1 have no ebronio hoed, icbo to offer my bride, which pretends to be but ie not what it soems. No lite Insurniico (gent would give me a policy. I m genuine ; I m old old as the hill) or tho ridgo Tadco Gaddl more than ton year at tho furth t, and when 1 diu my monoy and my lands are your. Dearest Dulcinea 11. Robinson, will you be mine ?" Betrayed by ibis false glare, the lady yielded and becamo a brido. As year rolled on thoy kept rolling on, but brought no ripened sheaves of guidon grain. Mr. V hippo years sal as com fortaWy r Wm as an old coat, and he coughed heartless coughs and be wheezed sneering wheeze day and night to mock the lady's misery. Sho endured hi abuse as long as possible, but as the trodden worm will turn when it hus not been trodden on hard enough, ber nature at last asserted it self, aud one night, much to Mr. Whipp's surprlso, he fountl himself roused from slumber and rapidly rising to the ceiling. A ropo was around hi neck, a stuplu in thu be.im ub.ivu hi head ; the rope run through the staple and at thu bitter end thereof ihe be trayed and hrokon-heurted wile was pulling witb all the agony of despair. Mr. Whipp extricated himself from bis predicament witb much calmness, and then tottered around the head board with all the rune of a tortoise iles mina in his eyes, and, grasping his throut, satdownonacbairand began lo wheeze in so ferocious a manner that the poor wife's heart suuk within her, feeling, as she must have felt, that she was in bor tyrant's power. Even during the trial, which soon followed, tbe man coughed in open Court, and rubbed his bald head till a heart ot stono might have bon moved lo tears. An unjust Judge sentenced Mrs. Whipp to tho Stalo prison for seven years, and whnt will her sisters do about it ? Let women bowaro ol thu Undying Ones, and spurn thoir treachery aud their wiles, THE FA MINE IN CHINA. Tho terrible tamino In tho northern provinces of China is a sufficiently se rious visitation, but it is not the only sweeping disaster with which the Chinese have to contend. Great floods have devastated the southern parts of tbe empire, and in tbe central provin ces tbe plague of locusts bas filled up the measure of calamity by destroying every green thing. Tbo Government is powerless to grapple with this great tide ol trouble. Though the famine in northern China has raged for threo years with terrible intensity, it is only lately that the facts concerning it bave reached the knowledge ot tho outer world. Tba sceno of the famine is tho vast delta plain which includes the provinces ot Cliihlo,shanse, shenseand Hnnan. This plateau covers an area of 210,721 square miles, and is inhabi ted by a population of 70,000,000. Tbo soil is very productive when watered by seasonable rains ; but, as it is easi ly percolated by water, it requires tro qucnt wetting; afew days' dry weather converts the surface into dust. Of lato years, owing to the wholesale destruc tion ot lorests, ruins have been less frequent and consequently crops bavo boon less sure. As tbe people are rare ly able to indulge in the luxury of meat or salt fish, a failure of tbo vege table crops ia the source of great dis tress. Owing to the mountain bar riers, which cut off these provinces from easy communication witb other parts ot tho Empire, it is not easy, even if the authorities were disposed to do so, to minister to tbe necessities nf such a swarmi.ig hive ol misery. When it is considered that tor three years past thu crops have tuilod, in a country thus isolated and filled with people subsis ting from year to year on the product of the land wilhot any surplus accu mulation, some dim idea of tbe terrible nature of tho situation may be con ceived. Foreign journals furnish a tearful picture ot bouses tenanted only by tho starved dead ; of thousands of emaoiatod corpses lying by tbo road side and in tbe streets of villages ; of the franlio efforts mude by some to gain nourishment from the bark of trees, the lhalcb from the roofs of bouse and even from earth and slate atone. This is tho overwhelming infliction that has fallen upon a population nearly twice as largo as tbut of the United States. All ihe tics of kindred appear to be molted away in the fierce strug gle tor cxislenco now going on. Hus bands sell their wives and parents their children. A traveller, recently return ed from China, writes: "When I lelt the country a respectable married wo man could bo easily bought for six dollars and a littlo girl tor two. In cases where it was found impossible to sell thoir children parents bave been known to kill them rather than wit ness their prolonged sufferings, in ma ny instances throwing themselves after ward down wells or committing suicide by arsenic" Thousands of ablebodied men are daily emigrating from the tumino-stricken districts to Mongolia and elsewhere, leaving tbe old men, women and children to die of hunger or to struggle through aa beat thoy may. It is supposed that nine million.! of these peoplo are now actually starv ing. Tbe Chinese Government is mak ing extraordinary exertions lor the ro lie! ot tbe famine-stricken districts. Large stores of rio bave boon sent for ward and considerable contributions of money mado from the public treasury as well as from privato sources. But tho utmost that can be dono will bo very littlo whon it is compared witb what remains undone. It is a groat pity that tbe money honestly belong ing to tbo Government of China, lying idle in iho Treasury of the United Slates, could not bo appropriated for tho purpose of assisting in tho task of alleviation. St'NSET IN THE HaBTZ MOUNTAINS. Standing on tho cliff, eight hundred feet above tho valley, we looked down into its quiet shadows, whore tiny cas cade went leaping over the stones to swell tho stream, and across to Huxen tanzplttta a broad open plateau still higher than the Rosetrappe and far away we raw tho weird form of the Brockon, dimly visible behind it misty veil. Meadows and green pastures lay now in sunshine, now in shade Irom the light clouds flouting abovo; level plains studded with cities and villages stretched away, and woro lost in vapor. We were hemmed In by mountains, someot which were so gaunt and stony that no smallest plant could grow thereon, while others were gay with blossom and rich with foliage. Sud denly one peak after another was lost in rein ; showers were tailing all about us, the drops glistening like gem in tbe sunshine. The valley lay in dark est gloom, and we were in tho midst ot clear rays from tbe selling son. Soon the tops of tbe tree;. tho pale lurch, and dark green firs, pine, oak, and beech were brightly defined against tbe sky, where the clouds burst into a sudden glory ot red and gold ; a rain bow rested on tbe mountain tops, span ned the valley, crept down the sides, and was lost in night far far below. Elsewhere in the world there are loltier heights, softer landscapes, grand er water lulls ; but in variety of tint and doplh of color, none of them can surpass a sunset on the Rosslrappe. Marion Mitchell, in Harper't Maga zine for April. A Michigan paper says, tramp out this way llvo on tbo choicest meats. Every one ol them gels warm tongue at moat every house. A drunken man In Boston choked to death Ibe other day witb a quid ol tobacco.
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