Whole No, 2585,
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/ 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 <
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| 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
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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
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