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ENGLISH KINGS.
A friend writes inc tliut recently
hearing a discussion among several
proiuineut divines regarding the suc
cessions of some of the English kings,
ami they being unable to decide or
agree upon what the line was, she gave
them the proper order of the succes
sion, and quoted as her method of
recollection the following rhyme, long
familiar to her but entirely new to
them. They were surprised as well as
delighted at its simplicity, and com
pleteness, and one editor of a well
known religious journal secured a
copy for publication:
First "William the Normun,
Then William his son ;
Henry, Stephen ami llenry,
Then* Richard an<l John.
Next Henry the Third,
Kdwards one, two, and three,
Ami again, after ltichard,
Three Henrys we sue.
Two Kdwards, third ltichard,
If rightly 1 guess ;
Two Ilenrvs, sixth Kdward,
queen Mary, queen Hess.
Next Jamie, the Scotsman,
And Chatl s whom they slew;
Yet received after Cromwell
Another Charles, too.
Next James the Second
Ascended the throne,
And good William and Mary
Together canto on ;
Till Anne, George Four,
And fourth William all past.
God sent us Victoria,
May she long ho the last 1
KISSIA'S (01,H CI.IMF.
A writer in the Loudon Pall Mall
Gazette says: The Russians have a
great knack for makiug their winters
pleasant. You feel nothing of the
cold in those tightly built houses
where all the doors and windows are
double and where the rooms arc kept
warm by big stoves hidden in the walls.
There is no damp in a Russian house;
and the inmates may dress indoors
in the lightest of garbs, which
contrast oddly with the mass of furs
and wraps which they don w hen going
out. A Russian can atl'ord to run no
risks of exposure when he leaves his
house for a walk or a drive. He
covers his head and ears with a fur
bonnet, his feet and legs with felt
boots lined with wool or fur, which
are drawn o.i over the ordiuary hoots
and trousers and reach up to the
knees ; he next cloaks himself iu an
ampfe top coat with fur collar, lining
ami cuffs ; and he buries his hands iu
a pair of fiugerlcss gloves of seal or
bearskin. Thus equi|*ed, and with
the collnr of his coat raises! all around
so that it muttles him up to the eves,
the Russian expoaes only his nose to
the cold air, and he takes care fre
quently to give that a little rub
to keep the circulation going. A
stranger, who is apt to forget that
precaution, would often get his nose
frozen if it were not for the courtesy
of the Russians, who will always warn
him if they see his uose "whiteuing,"
and will unhidden, help him to chafe it
vigorously with snow.
In Russiur. cities walking is just pos
sible for men during winter, hut hard
ly st>for ladies. The women of the
lower order wear knee boots ; those of
the shopkeoping classes seldom venture
out at all ; those of the aristocracy go
out in sleighs. These sleighs are by
no means ph'asant vehicles for nervous
people, for the Kalmuck coachmen
drive thetn at such a terrific pace that
they frequently enpsize, but persons
not destitute of pluck find their mo
tion most enjoyable. It must he add
ed, that to be spilled out of a Russian
sleigh is tantamount only to getting a
rough tumble on a soft mattress, for
the very thick furs iu which the vic
tim is sure to be wrapped will be
enough to break the fall.
The houses and hovels of the Rus
sian working clofmw are as well warm
ed as those of the aristocracy. A
stove is always the principal item of
furniture in them ; and these contri
vances are used to sleep ou as well as
to cook in. The mujik, having no
bed, curls himself up ou his stove at
his time for going to rest; sometimes
he may be found creeping right into
the stove and enjoying the delights of
a good vapor bath. The amount of
heat which a Russian will stand is
amazing, and his carelessness in facing
the cold afterward not less so. On n
Saturday, which is washing day all
over Russia, you may see in a village
a mujik, who has been cooking him
self in his stove till he is of a color
like a boiled lobster, rush naked into
the snow* aul roll himself in it like a
dog till lie glistens all over to his sat
isfaction. It seems monstrous that
one of the Russian's principal protec
tions against the cold —his heard—was
laitl under penalty hy Peter the Great,
and subsequently by Elizabeth and
Catharine 11., when they were trying
to civilize their subjects acoofding to
the custom of the west. These three
sovereigns all laitl a tax ou beards;
entering cities on market
tiays were required to exhibit in proof
that they hatl paid their tax a brass
coin stamped with a bearded face autl
the words "boroda liguaia tiagnta"
(the beard tax has been settled). This
absurd impost was abolished by Paul;
but the effect of it still survives in a
manner; for the beard is still consitl
cred "bad form" in aristocratic cir
cles. Military officers wear only mus
tache and whiskers; diplomatists and
other civil servant* eschew the whisk
er*, and generally reap their laces al
together. A Russian with a heard is
pretty sure to be either u "pope" or a
member of one of the classes below
the upper middle.
#
THE TMAIMNG OF UIIM.S. •
The Rev. W. (hidden, of Spring
field, Mas.-., recently sent out circulars
to mothers in that city asking, 1.
W hat arc the, most common defects in
the training of our girls? 2. What
principles of conduct are most impor
tant, and what habits are essential to
the development of noble and useful
womanhood? At a public meeting
the results of his inquiries have been
given. Female habits of dress were
referred as more injurious than male
habits. Most women, too, take much
less out door exercise than is good for
them. The lack of exercise is largely
caused by foolish dress, which makes
active exertion impossible. It is gen
erally of improper nature and unsuita
bly adjusted, and creates many of the
nervous diseases of woman. Another
mistake on the part of many girls is
in passing their time out of school
hours in idleness and frivolous amuse
ments, doing aud learning nothing.
The speaker thought that more is done
in wealthy families to teach the daugh
ters habits of industry than in those of
moderate circumstances. A corres
ponilcnt referred to one woman who
says that she is proud that her daugh
ter never did any sweeping ; another
would not let her child do any kitchen
work. Another mistake is to make
dress the main business of life. One
letter referred to a woman who said
over her young infant, "I am so glad
it is a girl, I can dress her so much
finer than I could a boy," ami Mr.
Gladden added, "(>, woman, to what
depths of degredatiou you have fallen
when you can look in the face of a
baby and have such a thought as that
find lodgment for an instant in your
mind ! What can such a woman do
but destroy the soul of her children.
Still, lie thought the woman not wholly
to blame, because their vanity is stim
ulated by the foolish admiration of
men ; the girl that catches a husband
only by line dress too often finds that
the prize she has won is a broken
heart. The uext mistake is devoting
too much time to novel reading, which
exercises morbid and unreal ideas of
life and a craving that can never be
gratified. It is mental dissipation of
a dangerous character —scarcely less
so than that of drink. Another mis
take is to early initiation into the
frivolities of society. The average
young lndy of Springfield, according
to the lecturer, imikca her debut at
three, when she begins to go to the
children's jiarties, in dress elaborate
enough for a fancy ball, and is in
structed iu the acts of vanity and co
quetry. At six or eight she is a mem
ber of clubs, and enioys frequent
evenings out. One good woman wrote
that she had the heartache for the un
natural, unhealthy and stimulating
excitement of the roller skating rink,
which has none of the advantages of
out-door skating. The last error al
luded to is the neglect to honor, and
obey parents. Some sad instances
were brought forward to show that too
often a girl of thirteen regards herself
as her own mistress, and passes her
time at parties, sociables, etc., or on
the street, instead of studying. A
correspondent narrated the facts about
four respectable families in one con
gregation in the city, in throe of which
there was one daughter each and in
the other there were three. Kacli of
the first three left school when she
wanted to, jiosscd as much time-on
the street as she pleased, and is now a
by-word and a reproach. The other
three likewise went to ruin while their
parents were attending the prayer
meeting, and professed to know noth
ing of their daughters' habits.
WHY PEOPLE ARE POOR.
It is stated on excellent authority,
that "poor hnve ye with you always."
The remark was true when uttered,
and it has been true ever since, and,
from appearance, ever will be. There
are those who have no disposition to
save ; who "live from hand to mouth,"
so to speak ; who take no thought of
Having enough for the
[iresent hour, they arc content, ami
eave the future to take care of itself.
If property were to be equally divided
Monday morning, before Saturday
night the majority would he in desti
tute circumstances, dead broke, while
the prudeut and saving would be on
the road to pecuniary independence.
One class of people spend whatever
money they can get hold of, and as
fast as they can get it, while others
with the same means coming into their
hands, judiciously invest it, and become
rich. There are those who not only
do not know how to save, hut they
do not know how to spend. If they
get anything it goes for what they do
not need ; tor articles that could be
dispensed with. Those who arc desti
tute of the comforts of life, as a rule,
may blame only themselves therefore.
If they have anything they do not
take care of it They buy articles
that peoplo in better circumstances
would tbiuk they could not afford. So
they are always poor. Relieve their
wants to-day and they are no better off*
to-morrow. They are bound not to
save —to have nothing, and are gen-
crnlly bound to be in debt if they can
find anybody that will trust them.
Of course we understand that people
are soimtimei unfortunate. They get
sick, or those dependeut on them be
come so. We know that people ure
sometime* overtake/! by misfortune;
but vyherc there i* one case of this kind
there are fifty in which the entire
trouble may be found in the .lack of
disposition to save.
Mcttcriilcli oil Ta I ley ru ii U and Fouclk .
From I'rliin* Metier lilt li'n Memoir*.
Talleyrand possessed unusual intel
lectual ability. My long-continued re
lations with him made nie aware that
his whole character more adapted hiin
to destroy than to create. A priest,
his temperament led him to irreligious
courses. Of noble birth, "lie pleaded
for the uprooting of his class ; under
the Republican rule lie forswore, the
Republic ; under the Empire lie was
constantly inclined to conspire against
the Emperor; under the Bourbon*,
lastly, he labored for the overthrow ot
the legitimate dynasty. To hinder
uuy definite course from being taken—
for that Talleyrand was ulwuys ready.
In the contrary direction 1 could nev
er discover equal ability. Napoleon
so estimated him, and with justice.
In one of our couversations, which
took place in consequence of one of
the many withdrawals of Talleyrand
from the Ministry, the Emperor said
to me, "If I want anything done I do
not employ the Prince of Benevento.
I turn to him when I want a thing not
to be done which I wish to ajqu-ar to
want."
I'ouche was a complete contrast to
Talleyrand. lii consequence of the
contradictory character of the two
men, the word "rivalry" was not ap
plicable to them. Their opposition
was radical, for it had its source iu
difference of character. Foucbe had
been a priest, like Talleyrand, and had
stained himself with blood aud mire ;
while Talleyrand lost himself in the
theories of that school culled the Eng
lish school, l-'ouchc was an enemy to
all theories ; he wa* a practical man,
deterred by no obstacles. Thorough
ly acquainted with the French mind,
he went forward with the time, but
always in extremes, convinced a* he
was that in this manner only an ex
treme end could bo attained. Never
had these two meu any [mints of con
tact, unless their paths crossed in fol
lowing out some conspiracy aguiust
the existing order of thiugs.
The Czar or Twenty-five Years.
The present year is to be celebrated
in Russia a* completing twenty-five
years of the Czar's reign, aud tbe In
dustral Exhibition which is to be held
at Moscow iu the coming May will
. doubtless be as |>opiilar with the Rus
i sians a* even that of 1872. But such
an anniversary brings with it an omin
; ous suggestion of the grim old proverb,
] "Evil awaits the Czar of twenty-five
years," which Russian history has so
1 strangely verified. Ivau the Terrible*
first twenty-five years were brilliantly
successful, but after 1588 caiue the
i loss of all bis Western conquests, the
| successive death of three wives, the
; murder of his sou and heir, and the
fastening of a frightful disease upon
himself. Peter the (ireat's Turkish
reverses, and the deplorable death of
his son Alexis, came after the twentv
! fifth year of his reign. The twenty-sixth
j of Alexander I.'s ravaged St. Teters
| burg with n fearful inundation, while
a formidable plot against himself aud
his own death came a year later. In
the twenty-sixth year of Nicholas be
| gun the intrigues which led to the
; < 'rimenn war ; and the present Czar,
now just about to pans the perilous
limit, sees his wife dying by inches,
his tliroue undermined by rebellion,
ami a foreign war looming ou the ho
! rizon.
44 Heath's Boor."
'Death's door' is a significant name.
A correspondent lias been at 'Port du
Mort,' as the French call it, and has a
rather sensational and tragic story to
tell regarding the little green hay and
Lake Michigan strait. This occurred,
he says, in February, 1877, and has
never before been published. Mention
ing that nearly the whole tribe of Pot
tawatomie Indians were drowned in
trying to cross the strait, the corres
pondent says that two winters ago an
old fisherman and his sou sailed from
Detroit harbor oji their return UrSister
Bay, where they lived. They disap
|H-ared aud were uot seen again for
forty days. One day about tbe middle
of March the lighthouse keeper ou ('-
na island saw two men driftiug down
with the ice out of Death's Door. They
snt upright in*thc stern of the boat,
side by side. The old man sat with
his arms folded, slightly bent forward,
resting thetn on his knees. The son
was bolt upright. As the boat passed
with the swift, curreut and cracking
ice the keeper scrutinized them witn
his spy-glass. To his surprise neither
of the men moved. He adjusted his
glass again, bringing them nearer.
Then he saw that they were both dead
and frozen stiff. Icicles were hanging
from the old man's beard. On his hat
was frozen snow. His face wore the
expression of a man in the deepest ag
ony. Tbe sou's features were at rest
aud bis eyes glassy in their stare. The
boat swept by, and neither boat nor
occupant* were ever seen afterward.
Gixjby clutches the empty air when
ambition ceases to breathe.
From the Atlantic Monthly.
HELEN OF TYRE.
nv iiKsnr w. Lotioykllow.
\Vhut phantom is this that appears
Through tho purplo mists of tn* years,
Itself hut a mist like these?
A woman of cloud and of lire ;
It is she j it is Helen of Tyre,
The town in the midst of the seas V
O Tyre ! in thy crowded streets
The phantom appears and retreats,
Arid the Israelites, that sell
Thy lilies arid lions of brass,
Look up as they see her pass,
And murmur "Jezebel ! "
Ttien another phantom is seen
At her side, in a gray gerbadine,
With beard that flouts to his waist ;
It is Uinion Magus, the seer ; ,
He speaks, and she pauses to hear
The words he utters in hasth.
He says: "From this evil fame,
From this life of sorrow and shame,
I will lift thee arid make thee mine!
Thou hast been (Jueeri Caridoce,
Arid Helen of Troy, arid siialt be
The Intelligence Divine! "
Oh, sweet as tho breath of rnorn,
To the fallen ""d forlorn
Are whispered words of pfaise,
For the famished heart believes
The falsehood that tempts and deceives,
And the promise that betrays.
So she follow" from land to land
The wizard's beckoning hand,
as a leaf is blown by the gust,
Till she vanishes into niglii!
O reader, stoop'down ami write
With thy linger in the dust.
O town in the midst of the seas,
With thy rafts of cedar trees,
Thy merchandise arid thy ships,
Thou too art become as naught,
A phantom, u shadow, a thought,
A name upon men's lips.
THE IMPORTATION OF VOTEKS.
CONCLTSIVE EVIDENCE SHOWING BADKAL
TRICKERY WITH THE NEGROES.
The Kxodug committee occupied
one of the Court of Claim's room* on
the ground floor of the Capitol yester
day, and will in future hold it* sit
ting* there. Owing to the interrup
tion caused by imperative committee
call* on Senator* Vance and Pendleton,
the session was confined to the exami
nation of Mr. K. 11. Borden, a land
owner and bank president of Golds-
Iniro, N. C., and T. C. Groom*, of
(reenca*tle, lud., the testimony of the
latter being ouly just beguu when an
adjournment occurred at noon. Mr.
Borden, who sub-rents portion* of bis
farm to negro tenants, and employs
others a* laborers, was examined a* to
the condition, labor, profits and future
prospects of both of these classes, and
in explaining the "landlord and tenant
act" of the State. The sub-farmers, he
said, are not restricted in their land
productions, but are permitted to raise
garden truck and anything else they
choose, and to keep hogs, etc., for sub
sistence. Their main efforts are di
rected to raising corn and cottOn, and
where the owner furnishes equipments
he gets usually one-third of the crop ;
when the renter owns his stock and
implements the landlords gets one
fourth of the crop as rent. The crop,
which means only the cotton and
corn, is mortgaged to the landlord, un
der the landlord and tenant act, for
security. The act applies to whites
and blacks alike, and was passed to
protect the laud from dishonest or ir
responsible renters. In many instan
ces the landlord would not get his
money otherwise. The colored labor
ing element, which is ahoOt seventy
five {>cr centum of the whole, is, as a
general tbiug, composed of thriftless
negroes who do not appear to care to
accumulate money, am! only desire to
lire and eat. The laborers can aver
age from $8 to 110 a month and found
from January t<> September, and then
to the latter jiartof December, if skill
ful and industrious, can earn $1 to
81,50 per day pickiug cotton. Any
disposed to save money could do so.
The most kindly feeling exists be
tween the rnoes, and there are never
any race difficulties. Election days
are generally the most quiet of the
year, aud the negroes generally vote
first.
Gov. Vance —And are good voters?
Mr. Borden—Yes, sir; they are
good voters and all vote one way.
Mr. Blair took charge of Mr. Bor
den aud cross-questioned him closely
on the landlord arfd tenant act. The
crops are divided and the tenant
markets his own share. When the
tenant desires credit which he cannot
get he obtains orders from the land
lord on the merchant against his crop.
This, Mr. Blair tried to make appear,
was a combination between the land
lord and merchant to cheat the negro
tenant, but reckoned without his host,
Mr. Borden replying that the prices
charged were no higher than under
any other circumstances, and tbe land
lord was doing the negro a favor, for
it always occurred when the latter
could not obtain store credit. Mr.
Blair also tried to make the witness
express the sentiment that the negroes
oomplaiued of tbe act, but Mr. Borden
replied that he bad never heard of
any general complaiat, although jpoli
ticians tried to make capital of it.
The act enabled the tenant to secure
laud without money, and was rather in
his interest. Mr. "Blair endeavored to
secure an acknowledgment that the
act was to be regarded as implying
that the negroes were universally con
sidered to be dishonest This enabled
Gov. Vance to get in a good back
stroke at bis Republican colleague by
stating that there was a law in New
Hampshire against stealing, but that
did not imply that all of Mr. BUir's
constituent* were thieve*. Mr. Groom*
the Indiana witness, ha* been a resi
dent of Greencustle for forty-three
years, and brought a file of the Green
eastlc Winner with him. Ile testified
that George Langsdalc, its editor, ha*
beeft postmaster of Grecncastle for
two term* and is a stalwart Republi
eau, while hi* paper, the Manner, i*
the Republican organ for I'utnam
county. After the election of (tetobcr,
I*7B, when all of the Democratic,
county candidate* except one were
elected by twelve to fifteen thousand
majority, and the Democratic State
ticket by it large overplus, the Jinn
| ner, of November 2*, 1878, pub
i lished the following italicised editorial:
: "Since the negroes of the South have
j been deprived of their civil rights, we.
j suggest that thev move to this side of
the Oh io, and assist in making a solid
North in 1880. Come to Indiana."
And the leading editorial published in
t lie same paper, December 12, I*7*.
appealing to the negroes again to come
to Indiana and make a solid North in
I*Bo, was also put in evidence. It
said it was the duty of the negroes to
do so before the new census should in
crease the number of enemies of their
race in Congress, while their coining
would increase their friends in that
body, and keep the party which was
•their friend in power. At' this )M>int
the committee adjourned until Friday
morning at 10 o'clock.
Napoleon at the I'lay.
The Metternich and Remusat mem
oirs have revived interest in Napoleon.
Here is a description of the conqueror
at Krfurt, in 1807, when the Ojmedie-
Francaise was sent on from France to
play before an audience of kings and
princes: "Facing the stage had been
| placed two arm-chairs for the two Fhu
perors (Napoleon and Alexander), ou
either side of which were ordinary
' chair for kings and princes. A roll
jof drums was heard without. 'lt is the
! Emperor,' ran through the audience.
I' You fools,' cried a French officer
| angrily to his drummers,'what are you
i doing ! That is only a king.' A < ier
; man sovereign entered; three others
j followed him at a little distance. It
1 was thus without noise or ostentation
1 that the Kings of Saxony, Bavaria aud
| Wurtcmberg apjeared.
"Finally a louder roll of drums was
| heard. All eyes were directed with
! uneasy curiosity toward the entrance,
jAt last he appeared, that most in*
| comprehensible man of that meet iu
| concievable time. Clad as usual in
: the most simple of costumes, he made
a very slight how to the sovereigns
present who had been waiting so long
and took his arm-chair on the right of
the Emperor of Russia, his stout and
not very shapelv figure contrasting
with the spleudid stature of Alexander.
"The four kings took their seats and
the play began—the '(Edipus' of Vol
taire. Vainly, Talma and Raucourt
| displayed all their art, exerted all
their talent; none of us had eyes or
attention for the stage. The gendar
: raes'at the door of our box, it should be
1 said, spared no effort to complete our
j defective education and in the inter
| missions between the acts gave us les
| sous in etiquette to be observed in the
presence of the master of the world.
•'Put down your opera-glass; the Em
j peror doesn't want to be stared at,'
cried one. Another'added 'Sit straight;
don't crane your necks ; the Emperor
won't have it,' The impertinence was
supreme, hut wc followed the example
j of the kings and princes before us and
j put up with it.
"Immediately afterwards Napoleon,
who had seen the play a hundred times
in all probability, settled himself cozily
in his arm-chair and went to sleep. •
To us it was singular to see sleeping
thus soundly the terrible man whose
plaus involved the happiness or suffer
ing of half the world. We could not
grow weary of gazing with wonder
blent with awe upon that profile like
a fine autique medallion, seen against
the background of Alexander's dark
uniform."
A Russian Story,
Mr. Rarry in his work, "Russia iu
70," tells of the time when slavery
was an institution iu that couutry. A
certain ironmaster caused a man who
hail offended him to be locked up in
an iron cage, and kept him confiued in
it for a certain length of time. At
last when he was absent on a journey,
the case of the wretched prisoner came
to the knowledge of the governor of
the province. The governor caused
the man, cage and all, to be brought
to the government town, aud invited
the tyrannical ironmaster to dinner.
After the diuuer was over the govern
or sent for a quail in a wooden cage,
and offered to sell it for 10,000 roubles. •
The offer being treated as a joke, the
Eovernor said he had a more valuable
ird to sell, and told his servant to
bring it iu. Folding doors flew open,
and the iron cage with its miserable
captive was set dowu before the aston
ished great.
"Now," said the governor, "what do
you think of that for a quail ? But
this is a very cxpeusive bird, I want
20,000 roubles for him."
"All right," said the alarmed pro-
Erietor, "1 will buy this one; semi
iiu down to my works without the
cage, aud your 'roeasengfer shall bring
you the amount."
The matter was thus pleasautly set
tled, and the oompany adjourned iu
undisturbed harmony to their coffe.\