Whole No, 2585, DJ-J ja iiiiJil-S) *2J JZI *<J? zj: .mej -o? ® / AiT'ICK uri K.tst M;ii kot street, Lewis town, '/adjoining E H tranciseus' Hardware £tre. 1' b. Br. Locke wil 1,0 ;,t his office .he first M ndiy r f each njunt! to spend the sreek. uiyvll US. A, J. ATKSiNfSOLV, I | AViXij permanently located in Lewi* | I town, nfl'Ts iiis professional servi es ittii citizens ii tmvu and country. Office W-t Market S*., opposite Eisenbise's Hotel. •Li'siiiciire one door east of (Jt>'pge Blvniyer. Lewis'.' wn, July 12, lf<GO-!f' Dr, Samuel L, Alexander. ') !I i- permanently lo;*ntod at Mil'roy, ay ami :* prepared to practice a!! the branch £Bes i"i ' h l'ruf.-si'u. Olliee at Swinc i,art's li t,iv3rlj EDWARD FRYSINGER, IfHOLIAiI.L Dl ALLIt &. Si.lf FAtTl'llEft &C., &c., Orders promptly ai tended to. y. it> aam W ▼▼ • wmJ Ac Aa/ oui .. . Attorney at Law, office Market Square, i.ewistown, will at tend to business in Aillijin. v'-ntre and Hunting- J.,:, counties. r;2ti Sfeigrrivt's eld £tnd, 'i'iir the Canal Bridge, Lewistown, Pa. S i Beer, Lager [Jeer, Lindt-nhcrger *n.t Swi'ser Cheese—all of the best omtliiv ?: :: - * ir ; t , y on litiid, ft.:- tale wholesale or re -1:1c. "i ■ ,-t to be had daily during summer. njtM-yr KcALISTERyiLLE ACADEMY Janiata focntjr. Pa, CEO r. die FBJtI.YD, p>i;v#al A Prcpridor. J.ICOl! MILLER, I'i'J■ 'J -V ilktmuticr, t\ c .Vi.-- J.\ A7£ ( RIS T. Ttachtr of .Music, S^c. ihe nest session of t!..s lest: lotion com metiers on the 2?31h of July, to continue 22 Students admitted at ary lime. A Normal Department will be formed which will afford Teachers the it opportunity of preparing for fall eramma !:• -n** VK'A AI'PARATjL'e? has been purchased, Lfetuieis engaged, lie. i Kt;ii-—Boarding, Room und Tuilien, per *c>,ion, ? asto §6'J. Tuition alone at usual rales, v.jr't ireuiars sent free on application. SILVER PLATED WARE, BY HARVEY FiJ.LtY, Nc. l.Ti Murkel Mraf, j'liihdeljiiin, 11 A.SC FACT LEEK Of ' Xi- '.rl Stirer, and Siifcr Plater of Forks, Spmmi, Ladies, Butler Knifes, Castors, fta St Li Cms, Kettles, H 'alters. But ter Dishes, Ice Pitchers, Cake Baskets, Communion H are, Cups. Muf/s, GubUts, Ac. ''ith a-isortir.ent, comprising tu-ne but the ■'*' s .. I-!.t...• of thv best MiitertaU heavily p.'- 's- ■ -ut : . vin a *t-rvi< s-.ible and durable article .If. Ms. So-urnboats and I'rirate Families. Old Ware plated in f.ie tt,: yiannrr. febiiS-iv WILLIAM LIN®, has now opeja A NEW STOCK OF Cloths. Cassimeres AND V E S T I NCS, * eh will 1,6 made up to order in the ncat fst and ni„£t fashionable sty lea. np!9 LEWISTOWN ACADEMY. Tilh lull Session will commence on MOX x I'AY. SEPTEMBER 3d. We are happy announce to those desiring instruction in *o'>i •, tii : t \V6 have secured the services of g' S t>. £ Yuoduser for another year. We ave also employed Miss Nettie Stray as Pre up'ress, a successful teacher, who comes to u s -with the best recommendations. " shall aim to make tiiia institution equal a: - respects to any in this section oi" the S.ate. lhankful for past patronage, we rebpect 'J solicit a continuance of the same. ndes of Tuition, *3.00, $4.50, <O.OO per IQarter. Incidentals 25c per quarter. * ri " la >'y Department. —A Primary Depart vfl' " " opened in this Academy on the 1 ' October, for all grades of small echul out her of scholars limited to twenty, t* i j and Painting —An excellent ■ i-r oi lira wing and-Painting luih been • n tt, i w ' ,(l will commence giving lessons in " s ranches October 10th. Specimens can je at the Academy. tr further particulars inquire of M. d. SMITH, Principal. UIi.LINLiIS will take notice that our A Mock of bard boxes, wire ribbon. and j 'i ,i.-r goods in their line will he sold be y J ' St, for we are determined to clear out the Ck - TO UN KENNEDY & Co. f lEh and Tea Pots if the most fash lon.tble styles. Also, Cream Hugs, Mo in*?! , r s - Kitehers.jJbc., Ac., &c., all of the ftnu latest Htyles, at < JOHN KENNED}' & <*''■ IPlEsHSSira® ASS® JPtsnKUKSSISIB WS ©K&E-®I2 ff2maEJ®32B ESWES-BSWa wiHwwr.irß ©jgssrOT:) 3>A | lORSM BEMGIOOS | U l'l LE lici Tti 11 IMB1). I asn all alone in :r.y ; hamber now. And the hour i> ih* r. s '■. .-aid the eloak's dull ticl:. Are the on.y souads I hc-ur; And over my"- il :n -••:iiu i->. S'v-. e: ieel.ags of si in -s trade; . for my iieari and my eyes arj full when I think Of the littl-j boy that died. I went one night to n.v faiuer . h .u-e, V. ent homo to mv dear umA ail; And softly 1 opened ih.- garden gate, And soltly tlie door of the hall, j My i lorht-r cams out to meet her son, she kissed uie arid then .-lit- sighed; | r or Iter he- ; fell on my neck and she wept 1' or the little boy th_: died. I - m ! ) n ;ss iiim - i *ii the flowers corns ; la the garden w : re lie played: I • ail miss h.iini in >re bj tnj dre.-ide, A lion the flowers are all decayed ; .• i;- toys and la** empty eliair, .■"-(i ! !;!•• |(t>isi lie used to rule," A::*i y.< ;1 spvhk .villi a silent speech, Oi tin littlt boy that died. Aw shall go home t*. our I'ather'f house— { To onr i .ttlu r's li .rise in the ska W here the hope of s.*ui- 3 shall have no blight, I Or love no brok* i ties : i We shall ream - i tin hanks of tiro river of • a .**. And bailie in its b*!i :-fal i;,l -: ! At- ' of t-ic* j of life ska!! he 'J'lie little boy "that died. The 3eau£y cf the Family. We leave it tuy<u, reader, il ilie bcau |ty uf l bc family don t invariably turn out ; the worst of the lot? Jf she don't euiti ! vile the outside oi i;cr bead to tile •>{. 1 j ibrg'-tjulncss of the inside f If she is not petted, and fondled, u.i*i fluttered, and -liowu o i till selli-lino-s is written all over * hei ! If she i.s not sure to marry some la | z i' fellow who will bruise her body toajel j ly, and be glad to come, with her forlorn ! children, for u lai.usci of bread, to tlioC"i;i --j i'ortablc home of that snubbed member of" jibe family who was only our 'John or Martha, and who never, by any possibili ty, was supposed capable by them of iTdng or being anything? We leave it to you ii tiie • beauty of the family,' be he a boy, if he don't grow up an ass '? If he be not sure to disgust every body with i.is con eeit and affectation, while he fancies he : s the admired o! all ii he don't squan • tier awaV ail the money ho can lay Ti> j hands on, and dm in the gutter? We ucv ! er see a very handsome child ol ei'hcrs x. j set up on the faiiitiy pedestal, to be admir ; cd 1-y that family and ir.ciids -to fhoexclu si'u of the other chi' ircu, tliat we do not feel like patting these children on the back and saying-—* IjLatik I'i viueiicc, my deals, that you were riot born beauties.' Quit Thiit! Quit what? Quit telling your innocent, confiding, trenibluig cbiidien about <gb tests and hobgoblins. You arc throwing a sor row upon young hearts that will cling there through life. How many mothers there arc who .quiet tin ir children by saving. • tfie bug-a boos will come and take you off' —'come old nigger; couie and—well, will you hush this minute?' The poor child believes ali its own moth er says, and why shouldn't it? It ought to believe. That ia its filial duty. The sobbing, fluttering heart is quieted, but not ! composed. Those tearful t-yes close in a sleep of terror ; a weary broken rest fol lows ; the tdiild dreams—but oil! who can j teil the sadness of a child while it drtaais n a sLep frightened upon it by alarms of ail that is terrible and repulsive ? S'uch ; inhuman treatment endangers the mind— the intellect. .Mothers, beware!— And see that no nurse or servant, or oider brother 1 or sister, drive arrows of grief to the veiy sou! of your child. A sorrow early plaut i ed and watered by tears will bring forth a i harvest of bitterness and despair. How common a habit is this to teach j children to fear unseen dangers at night- I fall !—1 he peaceful i-KLt; so f ail of swect ; ness, and the night that Lings the l.Oioy | ed drops of dew to bless the flowers and re j fresh the leaves, the night that brings rest ' to the weary, this deuie.it time of all, is to Ihe made terrible to children. What wiek i cdness! Why, it is bbsfuteuiy to make I the little ones believe that God forgets I them, and sends tormentors to trouble tlieia : in the silent watches of tire night. Parents, think of this. See that your ! children hear no ghostly lessons. See that ; they are taught to love the ever present | Saviour, and to honor his ever blessed name. How heavenly the teachings of that fa miliar hymn, wfrea bieathed from a true mother's soul over u sleeping child : 1 Hush my babe, lie still and hlumber, Holy xuigels guard :by bed I' A WINTER UNDERGROUND. The short but glorious summer of Lap land was drawing to a close, and 1 remem bered with regret that the hour of my de paiture from Kublitz was at hand. Still 1 lingered, lor 1 hud spent several of the happiest weeks ol uiy lile in that fairy spot oi earth so far remote from the track u the bustling British tourist. I had grown attached to my simple-hearted hosts; and their constant kindness, their gay goud humor, ami the freshness and novelty of the holyday life, liad indescribable charms for me Kublitz is a place little known, it lie-do Swedish Lapland, about a hundred and fifty miles beyond the extreme limits of Nor way; and its silver river and emerald pas tures are surrounded by the far stretching j THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1880. moorlands, of which by far the greater pmt oi' the country consists. Far a.vav to south might to seen, on a clear <!av. vising dimly a ov- the vast purple moors, i line of blue peaks that fairly doited the distant horizon. These are the Kohl Mountains, the mighty Scandinavian Alps which divide Norway ir on Sweden, ami whose northernmost summits have of - u seemed to me, as [ thus gazed on them from the Lap land wastes, the very outposts of European civilization. To the north, a line of low hills broke the distaiij sky-line —the last range, i was told, between bur Kuplit". and the grim icebergs of the ion-.- ly Arctic Sea. There, among those Tills, tlie northern bear roamed unmolested in liis shaggy strength, the u.ihunted wolf howled aiong the deep ravines, the marten clung to the pine branch, and „i.e elk rang ed the brakes, free from any fear of inten sive man. Nothing would have tempted my kindly Lapland hosts to explore-'that mountain-range, guarded by a thousand superstitious legend--, and named in their figurative t'ii<jue, the WiteLrs' Hills. i>ut let me try to describe Kublitz itself, as i saw it first, Li.-king in •he she-vt-tiVed simies ot the arctic summer, v. oco nature .-••urns to compensate by a wondrous iav -si- -t love uiit, care tor Liio enht-mer at character u, the enjoyment. Ail that rocky glen where the village nestled, alt those verdant prairies that encircled it, those shrubby yvoods that belted the meadows, and were bound, d in their Uun by the trackless moors, hud blossomed like a gar den m fairy land, fruit and flowers! every w here fruit anu flower- . Jhe gray rocks tiiat rose-above the houses blushed literally crimson with the wild strawberries—those wondrous strawberries that spring up ev erywhere in Lapland, whose prolusion is such that they statu the hoots of the rein deer auu t:ie sledge of the tiavcler, yet are so delicious and matchless in flavor, that the Czar hiuisolt sends for them, by ntaj'-t(e.<, all the forig, long way to the summer palace of F arttkey-Chols. Rut strawbci nes are not the only gifts that bounteous summer flings with full hands ! upon Lapland. The crags, the meadows, ! the thickets, glow and blossom with a | thousand many hued flowers; the meres ' and pools arc white with lilies; the woods j are full of strange fruits, and joyous songs j ol birds ; the grass springs up luxuriantly; I the ferns, mosses, lichens, have ail their ; varied tints of deeper or brighter green ; j the moors up- carpeted with red and pur- ! pie heaths j and even the dangerous <juag- ' mires are ruddy with the tempting fruit of ( the cranberry. One never knurrs what a summer really is, never knows with what exuberant mirth the world can rejoice at bursting I'roni tlito chains of winter, until one has seen Lap land. And the people! Well, all I can say is, L liked them and they me. I nev er met a young lace or an old one among these simple folks that had not a pleasant smile for the stranger: f never went info a Lapland hut without finding a kindly wel come, for my worthy little hosts would bustle to fili the biggest bowl with milk, and the largest basket- with berries, and to produce great piles of 4 stnolke' and dried fish from the sea coast, and luxury unpar alleled, perhaps, even a great black loaf brought all the way from Norway (lbr Lap laud iias no bread) to do honor to the for eign guest. How could 1 help growing fond of these queer, elfin looking, soli hearted people? I iiad heard ugly stories o' them a uong the Swedes and Norwegian-, they were called savagea, idolaters, enchan ters, even canniba.s; but I can only say that they oniy did not Cat me, but even abstain ed from fleecing me, as nations inuc-li more polished and accomplished are in the hab it of doing to wayfarers. The village of Kublitz was built ol green boughs and wattles, the po.-t.? alone which supported each cottage being of pine timber. In fact, the huts were riot cotta ges, they were leafy booths, such as the roving Tartar somelimes constructs; and these summer palaces of living verdure ad ded to the holy day air of the place, and were suggestive of a perpetual picnic. But the -true houses were under the earth, not above its surface. The green tents I have !>•< n describing were mere temporary pav ilions; 4.1111 beneath them, with only a low 7 chimney, iike a magnified mole hill, peep ing above ground, were the true homes of the Laplanders, the cav<roed store-houses for all their worldly wealth and their own dwellings for more than nine months of the year. And now the time was coming when tie green booths were to be deserted, and the sun to vanish, and the strange underground life, iike a mole's, was to begin again for the long iron bound arctic winter. Peter Wow, the chief uiau of the village, in whose wigwam 1 dwelt, warned me that the d-! V light would speedily cease, and that he iiao etter ,iQp:t:e U.e boat to convey ine down the river southwards, so lhat I might reach Norway 'hefm'i it got dark.' A strange idea seized me—v.'iiut if I were to stop behind ! L have been here through the daylight, the long three month-' day, that puzzled me so terribly at fi- t...ri" : bed tie of my sleet), and uade me • on* like an owl at the ntiwcar v;rg sun in n would .shine at midnight, and which upset ail the habits ol my previous hie. i rec ollected what a strange sensation that bad ; be n, how new, fresh, and piquant ! and ii . is not often, let mc tell you. t!i t a some what world worn and world-wearied man, who has passed his grand climacteric, can ' discover a -eiisation that shall be at once new, fresh, and pivuant. I had pr-.miseu to spend Christina 3 with my sister in (I lots cos ter-hire, to b* Mire: V at 'pshaw!' thought [, ' 1 can go next- summer. Marin Jane busn t seen me these eighteen vears and move, so she can probably wait tiil Easter ; I and my nephews and nieces wont i'ret t< o much, ! dare say, about the non-appearance i.i an uncle they never set juvenile eves up- n. My mi mi is made up. I'll stay all night/ A pretty long night, too, reader —a night that begins in early October and ends its June. Having tried perpetual daylight, 1 was going t * essay how 1 liked its anti po*. I'cter Y. oiv tried to dissuade me: i uiii not know what it was like, ho said; but 1 told h:m that was toy exact reason for going through th experience. Peter shrugged his moulders ; Madam Wow, er more correctly sneaking, Huswife Wow (for Lapland is not a land of titles, and there is but one class, that f the yeoman ry, with tlt< a* dependants and servants) lifted up her astonished eyes and hands ; all the diiuglners tittered and all the Stated at tin-- remarkable dee.sioli en ; •>" part. Rut as 1 not only paid Peter for my board and lodging at the unpreeedetitedly liberal rate of tour silver rix-dollars a week, but could speak and stng en occasion i.i iswedi.-h auu Norse, knew a little of the Lapponic tongue, and played the violin ami liute, besides being the owner of a mu-ieai box, 1 was quite a popular character among my worthy cutcrtaiuers. and my dctcrmiu a".un to ruug't it out t! rough the hng win ter with theui was takaa as a compliment by the entirecommuniT v. Accordingly v • moved into our winter quarters. A Lapland winter hut Ims generally tw > drawbacks el a nature almost unbearable to Europeans —it is too crowded, and it is shockingly smoky. But Peter Wow, chief oi the village, was a rich man in his way, and had a roomy and commodious set of caverns iur his dwelling, with furs and ei der-down quilts in plenty, as became the owner ol iiv'u hundred reindeer. Thelara ily s-lej.-t in a quaint tier of little boil-beds, about tiie usual length of mignonette troughs, which were .sunk into the clav walls like a. row el sleeping-berths on board a packet-ship. JJut 1, as a distinguished foreigner, had a den to my sell, such as a hermit of especially austere and self mor tifying tendencies might have constructed, for it was without a window of any kind, and air was admitted by means of the hol low trunk of an alder tree, which had been thrust through the roof of the* cave and made a sort ol wooden shaft overhead. The floor was carpeted, however, with soft dried moss, suiter and more luxurious than the most costly three piled velvet that ever loom tvu'i : the bed was a pile ol' dressed deer-skins, as suple and pliant as siik ; a copper lamp hung by a chain from the roof; I had pillows and leisters stuffed with the plumage of the eider duck and wild swan, two bear-skin coverlets, and at least a doz en quilts ol yielding eider down; and. crowning magnificence ! there was an old fashioned chest of oaken drawers, with nruss handles and key-plates, to whiv.ii l'e ter \\ o\v pointed proudly as to a proof ol iuteicourse with the civilized world of mod ern TjUrope. it was evidently some relic ola wreck oil the North Cape, and had been dragged many a weary mile by the patient deer that drew the sledges. 1 fan cied the scent of the sea hung about if still. Scarcely were we sntv. !v established in our underground quarters when one tine eve mug i was summoned to join a solemn procession which annually, according to Im memorial custom, ascended a neighboring | hill to sec the last of the sun for that year, ! and bid the orb of day • good by!' It" was a strangely picturesque sight, and not with out its touching j. a thus, that assemblage oi Villagers oi e\ci\ ..go, from the wrinkled granusue, who tottered on his staff, and with a palsy shaken hand shaded his aged eyes us he watched the last declining sun watch was setting, not lor a night, hut !m a drear winter, mid which .he might so- i ce iy hope to mark again, down to ihe child whose wondering eyes noted the scene for the first time since its reason began to dawn. Ail were there—the maidens and young men, the reverend elders and the feeble crones, who shivered already in the strange ominous chill that pervaded the air, the hardy hunters, the no less hardy shepherds, or rather deerlierus; old and young were gazing with a common purpose and a corn moil' iutciisiky of feeling upon tiie sinking luminary. Aii kinds of wild imaginings, all manner oi poetic memories rushed in upon my mind as the s,un approached tiio horizon, and prepared f w the final plunge. „In wild and my-tu verses of'! rer. per liaps suggested t.y that very spectacle oi tin death of the ucrthern sun, recurred to me with boding clearness. I begun to wonder whether I had not been very rash and ab surd in wishing-to stop a winter in Lap ! d like a mole in its burrow. 1 began t> sigh after Gloueestersnrre, where the *un would shine out., many a day, on the t :sp snow and frost-si I vered boughs, when I should be left in Gimmeriau darkness. Plunge! the red ouu hud Hashed down be !u\v the horizon. A heavy twilight settled as i. iy magic, over the fair landscape. stiii gilded by the smiles of summer. AAs ! the ioo<l fairy, so beneficent, so bright in her rainbow robe simided with flowers was gone, end king frost was to ivign ovr ! .;■ devastated realm-. liatk 1 the long wailing cadences of the sweet sad chant— an old, old In atbon chant oftiieuays wlieu •• ivy a was worshipped, Freya, at once Ye nus and summer oi this far remote race, in which the Laplanders lewaii the parting da v. Mow for the long, long night! Already, as we turned to nuiL the hill, aiu . strain ing our eyes until the last faint g.ow had died away too, an icy breeze had sprung up hum the dim northwest, and ishivi u a ami wrapped my cloak around me at tlie sud : den sensation ol cold. 'lt is the snow wind, said an old Laplander, as wi paced down to the village : • no more iio.vms 1.1 the lasses to braid in their hair this year." I must ton Jess that 1 felt uncommonly like a Lightened child ielt alone in the dark, ami v- g rotter I my whim lot slaying Km. r.g the i 11 -s. May, but tor very shame, 1 te net e ! should have uior.iosed to hire Peter Wi w'< boat, before tli i ice should --.•••> up ncro and river, and start like a bird oi • as sage, in pursuit oi the sun. Ihe country i t- i to me to cUancc in the unwoi ted I twilightj the familiar rocks oi the g mi, the far-away moorlands, the pine thickets, assumed a weird aspect; even the faces oi to." ' nleetaiio rs looked strange and vro te- i e, ami their piguiy figures in:] isii, i.i tie deep shadow, Then, too, th- siugnlai feeling that all this vu.s not a dream , ,i.. t it v.;.s ; t a!, waking life; that Iha I actual ly seen the sun go down into an obscurity that was to lust for the better pari uk a c: ... J that ! was gtdug ,to try a:id while a v.-ay a winter night that would have given time to h'cdierazade herself to exhaust a quarter if in r budget ul stories—uii this t 4 inc. Uut that night tliere were high revels held auioug the dwellers in caw.. Peter Wow, a> chief of the village, entertained all the beauty and wealth (all the ngline - and poverty as well) of Kubiitz in his !im pitablc halls underground. Torches bl.i zcii and sputtered ; lamps, fed by seal-oil and deer's fat. were lighted, and hung to ev iy and projection through a!! the . übterranea-n dwelling; and at a very early hour the monotonous but impatient beating of the Lapland drum summoned I lSi a guests. Ail Kubiitz was there, young ' and old, in holyday garb. There were games and sweetmeats fir the children, [ dancing for the lads and lasses, and alun- 1 danee of tobacco, gos-ip, and strong liquors 1 for the seniors of the village. A pet rein- j deer —a lovely milk-white creature, almost hidden by the flowers with which it was ' garlanded —was led through the room by a ' rope of roses held by six young maidens. Six young hunters followed, each with a ! drawn sword, with which they were prcs j ently to figure in the ancient sword-dance ; oi Scandinavia. The orchestra, composed of tire strangest-look Lag instruments, still | managed—for the Lap* are a very musical i people—to discourse sweet sounds, now of wild pathos, now almost maddeningly gay and exciting. Such hearty, vigorous, agile dancing 1 never beheld. Eve nin the gay est circle of Stockholm, a primitive capi tal, in which the elegatit world lias not yet become too languid for enjoyment, those Lapland dancers would have been wonders, and yet there was nothing boisterous or ungainly in their movements. Indeed, j these \vere as uprightly and almost as small j as fairies, and had something of the fawn- ! Lko elasticity and grace of childhood in all i ! their motions. J felt the tin ill of the uiu ; sic awake forgotten sympathies, and I hail j wished to dance too, and regretted that ! i was too mature and too bulky to he a fitting ! partner for one of these lithe, small lirnhc ! eltins of Lapland, ivk were sweeping <<• i trippingly past me. Peter Wow did oik-: I to procure me a partner; hut I saw, by tht twinkle of his eye, that he meant nothing I more than a jest, and I should have felt. ; like Gulliver, afraid of crushing the whole | Lilliputian company. Indeed, it was a i marvelsus sight, that assembly of small i bulks under the level id' the earth, and it | put me in mind of what. I had heard of the ! L'aione Sheah of the .Scottish legunds, and ! their revelry within some haunted hill, i j could hardly help fancying I was really a | captive or a guest of a truupe of ea ousing ! gnomes, or that, like the lihymer, i haii j been borne away to fairy-land, and had but ; a faint prospect of revisiting the real dav j light world again. I Peter Wow, the tallest man in the com I munity, had attained the gigantic stature ■ of five feet four, and with his high red cat ■set jauntily upon his gray locks, his enor i mous white beard and mustaches flowing ■ lowu like a frozen river, and his uniform ! costume of reddish-brown cloth, looked uu ' commonly like the King of the I rows or ' moinee, as Norse superstitions describe him. The stiil more dwarfish assemblage j presented every variety, from the grotesque I and witchlike ugliness of the old women to | the infantine aud diminutive beauty ol | some of the young girL. The children were almost all pretty and ros} of complex ion ; but age, it seems, comes :■ v. ;. tor ! rioly swift strides among these dwellers rh j the frozen world, as we!! as with the sun | scorched Asiatio; aud I looked in vain for New Series—Vol. XV, No. 3. tli*' pleasant matron; v hives never f.ii to meet the eye in a temperate climate, i h .'Vi seemed t > he a qu ck trats-it >u f" m delicaU y>>Utll to vveiru ape. Some ot the to.-a were line a.five littL AT•*-. w..a ei lully . : vug, ■" -pita T ; ._my • •., ami full of life am! lire it h..s been <s s.iy. 1 HI re than ence to ; t •} - tm g toe Laplander;- hot in vain, K>r the lit' e vvarri r- cannot end me the ridicule of their big comrade < ot Swe-.i1.-h or Norse sb ek, and < : -'lt:-- quarrels ate .-'.ire to h oj g:t rison its ii.! Water i! a Lap i„ eri'-rr-d. Tilde ii the Svvedi.-h-Lapland corps of sharp-hnotcts, who serve uc snow -hoes, a id 1 i:u a teiiitia uu the he: Tr: and thpsc sensitive !.,;!• heroes ate less i x posed to be eleridod lec*;.v.-e their heads cats hardy i ech the sixty inch standard. The pluhe-s to ties] i?e ui 1 Sttcu' 0. - n.-. . ; h u'heme's generally, as a boat y a". •>' t:ec. wh se largo liulst'"i f'oims are given them as a couipensa; }'•>!• ti eir 'carry .j, v ktha ir s Arid it. deed the J or --men : Ivvavs say. "1. wi o deal.-, with a Lap the worst ot the i ar gait; ; lot the t'nast i ih- have WoiuJi rfiil aeateni s.- r with all their simple 1 c:.i I'et 1 believe tli.it in th. or see re. b, .is I the tiny tribe value size and hcutht above tbl things, i fcun? Inter \\\-.Y w- j t<. ..I 1 ;■ •:-!y vain lee n.-e Ins head was wi,: an ot Leij g level v ith my ■!* u let . and i think many young fellot* would have bartered his youth lot* my six tv < t ol ]r v divular elevation, which never gain ed i' s owner any remarkable popular:ty elseu here. The next morning I had a surprise in deed. A shout from the upper eatth aroused me, and scrambling to the outer air, i beheld the neks, the black | .ne copse, the illimitable moorlands, o'.e nuz zling. aii-j reading sheet otldiiuling > u. All gone', the lair flowers, the song birds, the uncultun d fruits that offered ill; ir pro fusion everywhere, blooming heather, and green giass. all gone I buried, until.MX t summer brought h .d. the daylight, LcncuUi a spotless, unvarying shroud ol" virgin snow. To my great rt lief, it warn tas dark as 1 had expected. A sort of hazy, shimmering light j rvaded, like moon beams through a mi.-t. The northern wind blew keen j and even ug 1 gazed around, the blin ling snow flakes came whirling down again, and sc.-med to bury the d -ad summer deeper at every instant. ' They are plucking the wild geese finely up there, north, said i'eter Wow, unconscious that 'lis vuo'Arb was a LrilLh as well as a Lapland one. We all laid by our summer clothes, put on our manifold wraps of lur and Woolen, and betook us to winter avocations And uovv eatue a strange season, when it was hard to say wether it was day or night, or both, or either. 'J he limps were never sntfcrer! to go out; the fiddles and drums, ! • the tunc {lute and the musk-ox s liorn, were ! never silent lor three consecutive hums; • i and there seemed no regular tigi > for meals, : ! or sleep, or work, or recreation. On the ' ' contrary, music, and such .-simple labors ;;s ' 1 could to performed underground, and danc ing and cooking, to say nothing tif eating dunl.ing, and gossiping, went into a pro. miscuous hidden through the twenty lour hours of what would tkw*i io.gtli, have ' been a legal day. It any one went tired or sleepy he or she went to sleep ; the bur. | gry ate, and the thirsty drank ; the perpct j ual fires constantly covT - i JJ m6st. out t ! iiiui-.h iuessos; the fiddles and drums wen?. ; 0:1 as if self-acting; the reindeer was fed, | tended, and tanked ; hireli- n howls were carved, horn trinkets chiseled, and storms related to gaping listeners, all at once, and ail forever. I lclt oh looking at m\ watcii at all, except uu ehnnicaily. 1 ,v.gnt ji out as a sleepwalker unglit ; 1 d i tin <1 ing. I passed great pat' ol hit wo : w. : tut winter nut unpieu-a it. iut ,i. a-• Tol i nightinaie. Ol enuise i >.w j newspapers; the world imght w.-g a.-, it : ,, leased. It w.iS in the daylight— i in i the dark. Of course 1 received m letter;;, ! the post courier was shut, up along with i the sun, and i was the tenant of a strange • lamp lit, uioon shiny worid. \VJ were not always underground. 1 N ' the fine weather the reindeer were driven out to browse uu the i.clo us and tiiovse**, i fmni v.hch they scattered away the sDow i with their lute lect. There were h.Hiring i parties, too, when we chased .1 slew the j white wolves, the witiu* hares, the inarten | ilie deer, tiie birds, all and every una iu i their winter livery of white There 5 i the eruuiie chase, and ti c clia-e el .1.-J j white lux, and a great ban I: v. • g ant at a bear, who prMSutucd on -ui; rsti uous respect the Laps Lave ihr 'OM 111 ml lather \\ iaard.' as ilny call hiiu, 1. r..;- bod the store houses, until ins tineats : v cams unbearable, i lie woli hunts were ratb.er dangerous; -but ti-c- <>r.jr was a tei rible fellow j he wounde i four of our '• -r •' hunters, Cowed the dogs With. b s nr.- ii 2 I' hugs, and nearly beat the whole enntuniry when a lucky shot laid iiini low. And , then there were the glorious drives! Ob. j the wild excitement of sweeping over •the frozen snow in . :cr drawn >lv-._e, | swi.'t as a hawk < it the wing, e\cy l td] j jingling, end the wild driver singing .- s he ! cheers on his aot.ered tr-m. tba' liy iike the wind over the dazzling white rnoor iauds! The worst of it is, it takes away (£BE J-JU I'UI
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