g]it (Cfiitw BELLEFONTE, pa. The Largest, Cheapest and Beat Paper runUSHKD IN CENTRE COUNTY. 01 K WHEAT LOU NTH Y. W. . OEOtSHECH's BI.OQUBNT SPEECH t j, a various Grant receptions, that of Hon. W. S. Groesbeck, at Cinciuuati, was the most sensible, eloquent and truthful- We publish it in full, as a ~tn in its line, and full of useful in tornistiou for voting and old, and rec ommend it* preservation by the boys mi tfirls who read the 6'wn. The (tatistics are valuable: The fir*t toast was "United States of America," which wt# responded tll hv W. S. Groesbeck, as follows : .I lr. Chairman and Gentlemen : We are at " banquet, and I suppose you ould allow me, to boast a little in .leaking of the United States of (nierica. But I shall try to avoid hoisting, believing, as I do, that a simple statement of facts will be our highest praise. In the Htatesnian s l ear Book of 1879, published in London, ami ac credited throughout Kurope, and in ' reliable publications of the Librarian ol our Congress, and others I could name, mav be found copious political ami financial statistics of all the civil ized nations of the world. What of the United States of America. What of her magnitude ? Her ter ritory is as large as the combined ter ritory of Russia-in-Lurojie, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Switzer land, Italy, Spain, l'o. tugal, France, Great Britiau and Ireland. What a magnificent possession for a great peo ple! Fronting on the two great oceans, and central between Kurope and Asia, what an opportunity for commerce with both ! Standing apart and withdrawn from the necessity of entangling alliances with other States, how safe, independent, and command ing her jM)sition. What of her resources ? You have been reading in our journals, from day today, of our great harvests of wheat, corn and cotton and other staples. If we keep on, what will they be when our population shall be dense as that of Kurope? It is enough to say that the land of the United States is fertile as that of Europe, aud under full cul tivation will yield as much as that of all the countries I have named, while underneath our soil the vast store houses of coal, irou, gold aud silver, •far surpassing theirs. In a word, in extent of territory and in material re sources on the earth aud under the earth, the United States of America mav be regarded as about equal to the whole of Kurope. What of her present condition ? Oar national debt is, say 82,2tK),t)tH),- 000. That of the nations I have named, is more than eight times as large. We are reducing ours, it may he. rapidly enough. I am not aware that this is the case with any nation in Europe. Their debts are rather in creasing. The great payment by Franco to Germany did not reduce her debt; it was only a change of cred itors. The debt of France, according to the Almanach Dc Gotha, is more than *4,(>00,000,000. The stauding armies of these coun tries occupying a much territory as we do, number nearly three millions of men. They spend their lives in watching the people, whose substance they devour, ami in fighting the hat ties of dynastic rivalries and ambition. Our standing army numbers 27,(KM) men. I>et us hoj>e it may uever be large, that we may shun wars, ami ever Ik* able to rely for safety ami order in our midst, upon an impartial, popular and constitutional adminis tration of the Government. There are in the United States, in round numbers, HO, (MM) miles of rail roads ; in the whole of Kurope, 94,(MM). 1 might go on with such comparisons. Allow me in this connection, to refer to one subject—popular education. The statistics of education in Europe am incomplete ami unsatisfactory. I will refer briefly to our own. The I nited States lias already donated for agricultural colleges, 8,098,000 acre, of land ; for literary colleges, Ufio.OOG acres, and for schools, 68,- 073,(Kit) acres. But the education of our people is in the c are of the States, "bat have the States done? I will give you but a singlo year. From the report of the Commissioners it appears that in 1877 there were enrolled in the public schools 8,942;000 pupils, and expended for their education $81,000,- 000. I>et me give you, as I find it in a table under date of 1877, the pro- of people in the leading na • bona unable to read or write. In lluwia it is 81 |>er cent., in Spain 80 per cent., in Italy 73, in Austria 49, II England 33, in France 30, in the United States 20, and in Germany 12 per cent, us make our acknowl edgements to Germany, and let these other proud old nations make their acknowledgement to us. , What shall I say of our political institutions? Surelv I need make no jximparison here. They are the best >n the world, the best that have ever What shall I say of personal rigfita and privileges here ? All have the same rights and privileges ; none 're exclusive. What shall I say of freedom here? Religion is free, tbe press is free, speech is free, and all the inhabitants are free. What shall I say ol the chances of life and comfort here? Better than anywhere else. Are any homeless ? The government is ready to donate farms of Kit) acres of land to all who will make their homes upon them. Such in the fewest words is the present standing of'the I nited States of America. What of her prospects? I have been making what nmv seem to you a very ambitious comparison. 1 have compared the United States, not with any single nation, hut with the mass of the nations in Kurope. Why not? Ix't me repeat. Our territory is about as large, our material resources richer, and our debt not one-eighth the amount of theirs, and diminishing. Not so theirs. Our standing army is small, theirs multitudinous and eat ing like a cancer. Our internal im provements are about equal to theirs ; our education more advanced ; our embarrassments fewer; our opportuni ties better. The aggregate population of these nations in Europe to which I have re ferred, is about 293,000,000. Ours by tbe last census, about 39,000,<M)0. Two hundred ami ninety-three mil lions of inhabitants are, to-day, living upon a territory not larger than ours. What that territory now holds, ours can hold, and there is a probability, I venture to say there is a certainty, that in the not distant future, the population here will be as large as that of Kurojie. What then? Shall we he one Government, with all the oconomies of administration that im plies, or shall we la* broken into many nations, wasting their energies in riv alries aud mutual strife. Shall we on that great day Ik* the United States of America, the mere continuation uud expansion of what we are ? What a consummation thnt would he. Shall these sacred, written Constitutions we now have in* preserved, administered, or shall they be thrown away ? Shall the people rule thetu as now, or shall the voice of freedom be silenced by the drums of despotism ? Shall the Federal Government ami the State Governments he as now both under limitation, with the ultimate sovereign ty in the people, or shall the one be an empire ami the other hut provinces ? S|w*akuig of myself. I would not give to the Federal Government as much additional power as I could hold in the hollow of my hand. Sinking for myself, I would not take away from the State Governments as much of their power as 1 could hold in the hollow of my hand. Secession and centralizatinn, political monsters, both of them. Secession ami centralization —Scyila and Charybdis. The chan nel of safety lies between them. May we be able to keep it, may we move watchfully, and ever take our reckon ings only from written Constitutions. GRANT ENDORSES GROESBECK. Grant being loudly called for said : "I have listened to every word the eloquent gentleman has uttered and I endorse every one of them. If the gentleman and myself have ever dif fered in [Militics it has been because we vote*l opposite tickets, for certainly our views are the same. [Laughter and applause.] Gentlemen ; I thank you lor this kind reception uud for your kindly interest in the words spoken by your eloquent speaker. Americans Through French Spectacle*. From lb* Uhiragn Inl*r-<> *•. Pifb "What queer ideas you Americana have over there !" snid a Frenchwoman to me ns we stood one day waiting for our glasses to he filled at one ol the springs of Vichy. "Such a droll j>co ple! But s it really true that you make grow the potato (sweet potato) by wetting a common potato vine with molasses and water?" "Ilcugh! those miserable, radical Americans," said an Imperialist once in my hearing. "They plant their dead fathers and mothers in tiieir vegetable gardens that thus their licans and asparagus may have more nourishing pro|>er tics." "Your American mothers seem to us mad," said a Frenchman. "They often permit their daughters to go away on traveling excursions of n week at* a time with their jinnee*. <lf course it is true, lor I read it in the Figaro." "What would your men do if your American ladies did not pro vide spittoons in their drawing-rooms? I)o you really believe they would spit upon the floor?" said nuother. "The only American woman I ever saw had a great beard," said a stout pavsanuo to me among the mountains of Au* vergne. "I saw her in a show the year I went to Lyons. 1 thought all Amer ican women were like that. But I am sure you are quite as pretty as a Frenchwoman," she added patron izingly. It was in that same village, forty "miles from a railway, and in so secluded a mountain nook that it was the site of a Trappist monastery, that I was followed by every inhabitant of the village, as I walked with my French companion through tbe main strict. "liook at tbe American," they cried to each other, "She's painted to look like a Frenchwoman !' I had not an atom of powder upon my face ami bad traveled fourteen miles since morning in an open carriage under an August sun. That I was as red as a dahlia was only proof that my natural coffee color lay deep under layers of cosmetic. For did not all those Au vergnians know well that ail Ameri cans are negroes? MEN'S muscles move better when their souls are making merry music. • ENSLAVED WOMEN. TIIK CAPTURE OK TURKMAN WOMEN IIV TIIK. I'KHMAN GOVERNORS. I lie capture of Turkman women by tbe I'orsian governors is one of the greatest crimes of Persian rule in the districts east of the Caspian sea. "An order," says Major Butler, of the British army, "is sent to one or more of the governors of those districts to the etl'eet that no presents have been forwarded to the shah by thein of late, ■ and if they do not immediately dis patch substantial gifts another gover nor will be found to replace them. The distracted governor who has al ready robbed his own people until they have nothing left to take, wistfully turns bis eyes and thoughts to his ri-li neighbors the Turkmans. Forthwith he organizes an expedition, and sends forth spies to ascertain at what point are encamped the greatest number of Turkman women and horses and the smallest number of men. This being accomplished, he starts at the dead of night, accompanied by his murder iug robbers, and swoops down upon his unfortunate victims. Those Turk mans who are able to fight, or likely to give any future trouble, are ruth lessly murdered, and the old men, the boys, wives, daughters and sisters are bound hand and foot and brought back into Persian territory. "Then commences a scene disgrace ful alike to humanity and morality. The old women and infants are sep arated from the young and beautiful (and many of the Turkman women are very beautiful); every po ; 'it of the latter is looked into and discussed by the men told oft* for this purpose, just as the intended purchaser of a horse trots out the animal to examine him. Those ]M>ssessing tbe lx*t |Mints are sent off to tbe shall and other great men at Teheran. Those with some fault or other are kept by the gov ernor himsc'l and distril uted among his favorites, high and low, his ser vants being always generously treated in the distribution of the human spoil. The horses and other stolen property are likewise disposed of. But what becomes of the o'd women and little ones? These are locked up until some Turkman relation can buy their release for twenty or twenty-five pounds each ; and if this happy ar rangement cannot be effected, they probably die of starvation. 1 could mention many startling instances of the nbove which have lately taken place. There is a regular season for these expeditions, commencing about April and ending about October. "I assert that the Turkmans never give any cause whatever to the Per sians for these barbarities, and thnt all the marauding ami kidnapping is on the part of the Persians. When any Persians fall into the hands of the Turkman it is during one of these robbing expeditions, liegun am) car ries! out bv the Persians themselves, tbe Turkmans fighting solely in their own defense. 1 know large towns in Kboraasan, in every house of which i a Turkman female slave, taken in the maimer above described, when yet young, from a loving husband or a devoted broken-hearted mother. Treading In the Dine.Press. From th* JWin Franckm Oirotikl*. Italian hHter. In the vineyards near us the girls mounted on ladders ami clipped the rich bunches, dropping them into baskets. The way these girls display ed their brown ankles might snock people on your side of the water. But, bless you, there is no evil in the eye here. With industrious workers, one day is enough to clear an average vineyard. When the grapes are all gathered in, they are carefully picked from the steins lor the pressing. I'his Iftst process is the same primitive, simple operation that was |>crformed by the patriarch Noah. 'I he grapes are thrown into an enormous vut, where the juice is trampled out of them by the hare feet of the peasants. At this stage of the viutage vou may see hundreds of the young ladies of the city of Perugia coming forth in groups in the early morning, learning with pleasant mystery and excitement. S'our ordinary tourist, whoso only in tellectual and instructive pabulum is gathered from the guide-books, has not the remotest conception of their object. Ife may think they are out for an early constitutional. But early constitutionals are not the rage with Italian ladies. Bhall I tell you the secret of all that mystery and cxcite nicut ? They are on to the country to tread in the wine-presses. It is a novel holiday for them, besides l>eing a most salutary exercise. Kven prim old dowagers are known to "wade in" and banish the rheumatism by a half day's exercise in the wine-prow. Apart from the healthful exercise of tramp ling, the new must acts as a hath to the limbs, while the uprising fumes arc considered eminently stomachic. After the treadiug performance these ladies wash themselves in hot wine, taking a moderate decoction internally for the stomach's sake. The effect is pleasant and rejuvenating, and is es|>ecially noticeable in the vim with which they participate in the dance which is the usual sequel to treading in the wine press. "MAMMA," remarked Freddie to his mother, as he came home from school one day, "I wish I was a iswt age stamp." "Why so, Freddie?' in quired his mother. "Because its first licking is sure to be its last." A KON'U OF NATIONS. I wiik mv Sonus Y,. v.. i11.1 not li-.ir, Aiml >•! I MHtiK tli*m NWff't nnl n ; I MitiK of Joy, I Hung of Morrow, Of Intra to-tiny mill *mil<-M to-morrow. Foryoii. hi\ country, wma mv Yott mhM | ' motif t lit in itoormiil lon " " K'irpwll, my imtlvf Intel ; you'll !• tr No in to my noiijfs mitl i*|*r To othnr ImitlM my |.lrl goto. v Illicitly- Ami tlioy mIiuII lifnr it* mutt hlt-e - ain^inp; Ami now my turn fnl |il|m-m el.ttll l><> Let IOOM upon fulr July." " I til 111 II iik i CM, bow fair! Ilow fall • Ilow tiitrkti! tin* |erfiimf ol tlie ir ! Oh, lovely ntinneta, (litiif lug wal'th f Ob. tilifhtlriKHlcn, him! tlurk-fyctl (faugh tor* f " "but ! No hci Ih{ in bin ate on |||.- air ' To Mpnin I'll lib-; |||oy iifftl mo there. " My Spain awake ! fle< all the Cid ; Ho o'er again the deetfa he did fietddil the blood-Mlnlfied OiiA<fa|i|iiivlr, And heme the tyrant In the river' '' Akalii of iiiiKbt wive imitHtiiif leek a. Ilo! tbtiii dont iift-tl my tln-ei liim Miogg, Land of ('/Jtriml l.tml .-f wroiipa. Aw ike ! MWHke J 'lie fi. , ;|U v , m ; 1 •. artiiM. e'er lec|Kr ill hnfalfa y„u *! " Ainu ! they only turn alkmil Ami thrmtoii with the grin-Morne knout; Where ahull Igo ?—-for ! mnut Ming—• •* Awnkf yo htmlN ' in armor Mpiing, <irt| on your loliiM tbf aword Iniglit-glfMiiiiiig, And kit not *.• m j.|i< dr< timing ! " Alan ! nut t-'.'ii my warlike bourn Can rmiMo tin* notion* to their wrotigN. Lo ! day |h dawning in the Kmt. For Yiifatan —mJi -'II hear lit least ' ** Klm* in thy might, o Y lira tan ' And "mite thy drndlifMt (,•. Ollttor in arum the laud* along Ami tin gome cre<lit to my eong ' Queen Christiiiii's First Hull Flghl. From the l/iinloii It is eatimated tlint 17,000 persons ; were closely packed in all the available space. The boxes presented a brilli ant spectacle,living filled with Indies whose toilets were exqui-itc and bc- I coining. Ihe atrhassadors and envoys , oxtraordinary were pt.wit with their 1 -tufl'-! and all the ofiieiul circle- were represented. When King Alfonso and (jueen Christina entered they were greeted with enthusiastic cheers and every demonstration of respect and loyalty was er'rbited. The (jueen was dressed in the national red cloak, white mantilla and bright bodice. I I sain lla also met with a hearty reception. Wlieti Queen < iiri-titia gave the signal for the commencement , of the display the vast assemblage re doubled their aeelaumtions. The sport was, for bull-lighting, excellent and the audience were greatly gratified. The torreroe killed eight fine an; mils, not, ! however, without many exciting inci dents. One bull _jllmj>- 1 the harrier, • knocking down several persons and tossing up a gendarme. Another ani mal injured a picador and a third I also had its victim. The |eople ex- ; pressed much satisfaction to see the j Queen remain throughout the entire performance, as well us the Austrain Archduke. The youthful Queen seem* •lnily growing in favor with all classes of society in Madrid. A New Moral Force. SIDIIIH UROWTH AND IMMENSE COWER OF TIIF CRESS. From W-o-l-ll t'liilll|' Lliir.-. It is here, it anywhere, then, that one can judge of tlie nature nn-l power of the press of pio-lcrn times. Although a ] growth of the lnt fifty or sixty year*, no man doubts >r can doubt for A moment its almost omnipotence. Upon round calculation* it is estimated at no less than 15.0tki.fx xi products of the press daily flung before tin- eyes of tlie world. It is not overestimating to say that "J5,- j •100,000 of the people are daily and hour ly subject to the government of this I great power. When you contemplate | these figure* it seems a* though there 1 i was no limit to tiie omnipotence of tlie I press. The influence of repetition, too, I can hardly he overestimated. When von think that the press, with its 15,- ] • KM),000 agents, can drop an idea into : the minds of its millions of readers, and that the next day it can repeat this idea, illustrate it witli anecdote, [mint it with sarcasm, discuss it with logic, ] make it ethical or abstract, and in fact ] put it in any form for .500 successive ' -fays, then you can see how resistless becomes this power of iteration, it wo* ralmerston who once *a ■! : "I never dare contradict a journal. For if ! I did it could make fun of me every j 1 dav in the year." The speaker then gave a rapid sketch \ of the libraries and literature of the Kn man* and other ancient nations. Sev enty years ago, he continued, the press was nothing. The battle of Waterloo was given less than five hundred words in the Imndon Time*. Nowadays a bloody street brawl would be given n column or two by the If. rah/. [ Laugh- i ter.] If we go back to the days of the battle of Waterloo we find that the ; I-ondon Times contains no opinions, no leading article, no editorials. The jour nalism, that is, the current press of to day, it almost the creation of the last fif ty or sixty y ears. I remember well when Harrison died in 1810—a critical event in party politics. Yet when the new* reached Springfield, 111., ten days after ward, and was announced to Abraham Lincoln, who was in court, he rpfused to beheve it, saying that tho news couldn't have got there so soon. To day a man may read the Queen's speech at the very hour it is uttered. Whoever reads the papers is in tele graphic communication with the world; whoever doesn't might as well tie Hob inson Crusoe upon Ins island. To mil lions tho newspaper is religion, school, college, counselor and amusement. To the influence of the press, primer ily, are due the successful development of our country, and the elevation of men above drudgery. It is the training of the mind, following party discussion, which results in discernment, sagacity, and persistment and unconquerable ef fort to subjugate nature. Why, a Yan kee babe looks over the edge of the cra dle, makes a plan end takes nut a pat ent before nine monlhs. | Laughter.] It is the oneness of intellectual life horn of this thousand headed monster, the press, that makes us a nation. I think America owes one-half, if not more, of hef material prosperity to her prese. Coi rtrsv comes from a good heart, and Is perennial. BONAPARTE. I'RESH VlKll* OF HIS AFI'FWMNf E, SAVIN'OS, A NO (IIAKAI TF.ll, The translation* from tin- memoir* of Mine, lie Hcniii'iit, now nj>ji< irrn); in tin- llcvne ties Due./: Monti. hii* ol aI mo ril ing interest n furnishing fresh insight into tlie diameter and motives of tln most extraordinary man of modern jtiriu*. Until -Josephine's divorce, Madame do Hemusat served her in the , capacity of maid companion, and a lie regularly kept, in the form of letters tn a friend, a dairy of each day's occurren ces and the impressions they made on her mind. When Napoleon returned In mi hi ha in 1810, M. do Itemusat was sent into exile, and lor fear tin: dairy if discovered would endanger his life she destroyed it. Circumstances having ! heen greatly altered, she wi nt to work in peace three ye; rs later to write out again the history ol her life at the Court of Napoleon, and it is this work which now sees the light. When Mad ame do Heuiusat had finished it her son, Charles, carefully laid it away to await the coining of better times. I mm his hands it passed to those of her grandson, at whose instance the present publication has heen undertak en. Here is what she says ol Napole on's regard lor lying: "Although very remarkable for cer tain intellectual ((Utilities, nothing was more debased, it must he confessed, than his soul. He had no generosity, no true, grandeur. I never saw him admire, and 1 never faiv hifn comprehend a noble act I <n. He always suspected sincerity, and never hesitated to say that he rec ognized a man's superiority by the de gree of ability with winch he could manage to he : on these occasions lie delighted to tell the story that, in his childhood, one of his uncles had fore told that he should govern the world, because lie had the habit of always lying. 'Metternich,' he said at another time, ■is becoming a statesman ; he lies well.' All his means of governing men were chosen by Bonaparte among those which lend to debase them. He feared Un ties of affection, fie tried to isolate every one, he only sold his favors in such a way as to awaken inquietude, thinking that the true way to attach men to him self was to compromise them, and often even disgrace them in public opinion, lie never pardoned virtue except when lie could overwhelm it with ridicule." * "B iiiaparte is of small stature and not well proportioned, the upper part of the body seeming to press upon the lower poition. He has scanty chestnut brown hair, and gray-hlue eyes. His complexion was yellow as long as he was thin, hut later it became ad-ad white, without tlie least color. The expression of his forehead, tlie setting of his eyes, tlie lines of the nose—all this is tine and reminds one of antique medallions. His rather common mouth becomes attractive when he laughs. His teeth are regular; his chin somewhat short, lie has small feet and hands, which must he noticed because he takes good care of them. In standing and walking he bends little forward. His eyes, usually dull, give to the face when in repose a melancholy expression, but when lie is angry his glance becomes suddenly sharp and threatening. His snule becomes him well; it disarms ami rejuvenates his entire person, and in such moments it is difficult to withstand his winning expression,so changed and beautiful is his countenance. His cloth ing was always simple. Usually he wore the uniform of his (iuards. Cleanliness was with him more a matter of system than of inclination. He bathed fre quently, and often in the middle of tlie night, because he thought it good for his health." • •<'J was brought up,'he said t me, 'at u military school, wpere 1 evinced a taste only for exact sciences. Everybody said to me, "There is a boy who is good for nothing but geometry." I lived apart from my comrades. I had selected a quiet retreat in the school enclosure where i dreamed at my ease, for I delighted in reverie. When my companions wished to intrude upon me, and take possession of my lit tle corner, i fought for it with all my strength, as 1 early felt that mv will was to overrule others, and that what i wanted ought to belong to me. 1 was not liked at school; it needs time to win affection, and even when 1 had nothing to do, I had a vague sort of feeling that 1 had no time to lose.' " * "'Later I learned the MeUrr of war; I went to Toulon ; tny name began to be known, tin my return 1 led an unoc cupied life. Some secret instinct warned me that it was best to beg'-- by wasting my time.' e e e • e "'My campaign fin Italy] was a glori ous one ; 1 became a personage in Eur ope. 1 sustained the revolutionary sys tem with one hand, with the other I managed the emigres in secret, allowing them to retain some vestiges of hope. It i* very eay to deceive these people because they start always not from what is, but from what they wish to be- 1 received magnificent offers in case 1 would like to follow the example of (Sen. Monk.'" * • * * • " 'ln Egypt I was free from the shack les of irksome civilization ; 1 dreamed of all sorts of things, and i saw away of executing nil that I dreamed of. 1 created a religion, and 1 saw myself on the point of penetrating Asia, seated on an elephant, with a turban upon my head and in my k*nd a new Koran, which I had com|osed according to mv own fancy. I should have gathered together for my enterprise the experi ences of two worlds. I should have attacked British power in India, and by that conquest renewed my relations with Europe. The time 1 passed in Egypt was the happiest of my life, for it was the most ideal. Hut fate decided other wise. I received letters from France, and saw (hat I had not a moment to lose. I returned to real life and to Paris—to Psris, where tlie deepest in terests of the country are discussed, in the ( ntr'acU of an opera.' " A SCHOLAR in a country school was asked, "Ilow do you parse 'Mary milk ed the cow t'" The lat word was dis posed of ss follows : "Cow, a noun, fem inine gender, third perso.n and stands for Mary." "Stands for Marv T How do you make that out I" "Ik-cause," added the intelligent pupil, "if the oow didn't stand for Mary, how could she ntilk her?" Kidney Smith's Courage mill Kindness. WIT AMI) WISDOM Ml' XIDSCV SMITH. •Subsidiary lo this personal courage 'V"" his hopeful ol looking at tho world. lie was always practicing and inculcating the 'lmposition. ".Some j very excellent people,'' he said, "tell yon they dare not hope. To rue it seems much more impious to dare to despair. ' lie had an excellent rule for the happiness and wisdom of life as to the future, not to look too far into it lor inevitable, though probably distant, disaster. "Take short view*, hope for the best, and trust in God." Inclined by temperament to anticipate coming evils—for our wit, spite of his insny jests, was a serious man—he resisted the 1 atrabilious tendency, and avoided diaw ing drafts on the misery of futurity. | "Never," he said, "give way to melan choly ; nothing encroaches more, I i fight against it vigorously. One great remedy is, to take short views of life. Aie you happy now ? Are you likely to remain so till this evening? or next week? or next month? or next year? I lien why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to • see it? for every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of thent shadows ot your own making." It is said of the happy nature of Oliver Gold smith that he had a knack at hoping; with Sidney Smith it was principle. Oieerfuliicss he made an art. He liked household illuminations of a good Eng lish coal fire, "the living thing," he -aid, "in a dead room abundance of lights, flowers on his table, prints and pictures on his walls. There is a highly characteristic anecdote of the tnan, il lustrating his habitual regard to hu man happiness and his frequent solici tude for the natural welfare of his children. The story is thus told by his daughter, I.ady Holland: "One of his little children, then in delicate health, had for some time been in the habit of waking suddenly every evening, sob bing, anticipating the death of parents, and all the sorrows of life almost before life had begun. He could not bear this unnatural union of childhood and sorrow, and tor a long period, 1 have heard rny mother say, every evening found him at the waking of his child with a toy, a picture book, a bunch of grape, or a joyous tale, mixed with a little strengthening advice and the ten derest caresses, till the habit was broken, and the child woke to joy and not to Borrow. Wooing 2111(1 tVilllll!l£ 111 Greenland, \N hen the Danish missionaries had secured the confidence of the Green landers marriage was made a religious ceremony, F-rtnerly the man married the woman by force. One of the mis sionaries writing to his journal describe# i lie present style <>W court ship as follows : The suitor coming to the missionary, said: "I should like to have a wife." "Whom? ' asked the missionary. The tnan names the woman. "Hast thou spoken to her ?" Sometimes tlie man will answer: "V es ! she is not unwilling, i lit thou knewest womankind." More frequently the answer is, "No." "Why not?' "It is difficult; girls are prud ish. Thou must Kj>eak to her." The missionary summons the girl, and after a little conversation, says, "I think it is time to have thee married." "I wont marry !" "What a pity ! 1 iiad a suitor for thee." "Whom ?" The missionary tuimes the man who lias sought bis aid. "He is good for nothing! 1 'wont have lorn !" "Hut," replies the missionary, "lie is a good provider, throws his har poon with skill, and he loves thee." i hough listening to his praise with evi dent pleasure the girl answers, "I wont have him !" "Well, I wont force thee. 1 -ball soon find a wife for such a clever fellow." The missionary remains si lent, as though he understood [' So " to have ended the matter. At last, with a -igh, she whispers, "Just as thou wilt have it. "No," replies the clergyman; "as thou wilt; I'll not persuade thee" i'hen with a deep grhan comes "Yes," * and the matter is settled." The Fort tines of the Presidents. Washington left an estate worth SBOO,OOO. John Adams died moderately •ell off. Jefferson died so jmor that if Congrem had not given $20,000 for his library he would have been bankrupt. Madison was economical und died rich. Monroe died so poor that he was buried at the expense of bis relatives. John Q"?n\v Adams left about $15,000, the resu-t ol ptudence. His son, Charles Francis Adams, gained a large fortune by marriage. Jackson died tolerably well olf. Van Buren died worth some $.100,000. It is said that during his en tire administration he never drew any portion of his salary, but on leaving took the whole SIOO 000 in a lump Folk left about $l5O 000. Tyler mar ried a lady ot wealth and accomplish ment, and died rich. Taylor left about $150,000. Fillmore was always an econ omical man, and added to his wealth by his last marriage. Pierce saved about $50,000. Buchanan left about $200,000; Lincoln, about $75,000. Johnson, about $50,000. Tint death is announced at Washing ton on Monday of one of the cleverest and most accomplished of American women, Mrs. Charoiette Brooks Wise, the widow of Cantaio Ilenry A. Wise, United States Navy, and the only daughter of the late Edwasd Everett. Mrs. Wise grew into womanhood during her distinguished father's term of ser vice as Minister to England, and while he was President of Harvard College she married Captain, then Lieutenant Henry Augustus Wise, a cousin of ex- Governor wise, of Virginia, who had distinguished himself during the Mex ican war on the Pacific Coast and had made his name favorably known in let ters by a lively book of Spanish Ameri can travel, "Los Gringos," published under the pseudonym of Harry Gringo. Lieutenant Wise carried home the first Japenese Ambassadors to this country in 1861, and after serving in the Ord nance Bureau during the eivil war re signed his ocminission and went to Europe for his health in 1868. He died at .Naples, April 1, 1809, For many years past Mrs. Wise hss resided at Washington, and her untimely death will leave a sensible void in the mot t agreeable society of the national capital.
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