ww risas— 1 ail be =| Longlellow. It was only a glad “good-morning,” As she a the way; i But it 1 the morning's glory Uver livelong po / Perry Ove She shanatnlng and down by the sea dear old mot. er waiting for me, Williag for ma, waiting for me-— A deur old mot er sits waitin for me. And walting long, and ob, waiting late, 1 a sweet ince irl at the garden gate; Over the wountains and down by the sea A sweel-face! gil is waiting for me. ~{Joaquin Miller, hupowible=tibe 's flight! A body Lif itself in air? Yet seo, he soars away from Sigh) Can martald win the imm sharel To answer it were worldly strife, Lite only is the proof of life. Duration, cl: cumstances, things — These measure not the eternal state; Ab, cede from thy vain questionings Whether an after life await! Rise thou {rom elf to God, and see That inunortality must be! ~ [Lucy Larcom. LITTLE INDIANS IN SCHOOL. The Exeellent Work Being Done-Capt. Pratt's “Planting Out.” { Washington Cor. Minnsapolis Tribune ] The fsecal yor just past, bas been a re.uarkable one in its developments in the possibilities and practicabilities of inaan education. The school year just ap oning sees nearly 15,000 little Indians in school. The report of the commis souer of In dan affairs shows that be. tween 12,000 and 13,000 were in schools lust year, two-thirds of the number ruroagh governmental aid, and the re muinder by church, state, and private assistance. The limite appropriation: tor indian education by the last con gress are such as to render any con- siderable increase in the number impos sible, but it is hoped the growth of the system may be such asto bring the num- 3 up to the sum total mentioned HOOVE, Few people reali e the excellent work being done by the department of the interior in this regard, the active workers in the cause being the missioner of Indian affairs, the Hon. Hiram Price, and the head of the Indian school, Capt. Pratt, Fo quietly yet effectually has the educational experi ment been carried on by these officials and those who have assisted them, that it is considered no onger an experiment bit a true soluton of the “Indian problem.” “Experience education is what they need,” said Capt head of the Carlisle school, to your correspondent a few days since. “We have tried theory education for more than a century, and it does not reach the need.” Capt. Pratt has reserted to a system which he calls “planting out,” and which may perhaps “rove the last re. quirement in the so ulion of the prob. lem which congressional inertia has de- veloped. He sends out from the school daring a part of the year the young In dians who have sufficiently progressed in the use of the language, hiring them out to farmers, blacksmiths, tinners, or whatever their trades may be, the girls being sent into families who will teach them household work. They are thus made not only self-supporting while they are getting practical knowledge of civilized life, but are also enabled to learn the pleasures of earning and owning money of their own. Some of these also are to attend the public schools instead of returning to Carlisle school. These experiments have been success. ful io a high degree. And why nay this not prove the true solution of the Indian problem? There are school accom modations for 10,000, where they can be tanght the rudiments of language, ete, to fit them to go into families and public schools. Why might not the 10,000 who have already this experience be transferred to families throughout the country, and when another 10,000 can be so prepared let them be transfer red, and so on until within a very few years the 350,000 Indians of school age be distributed among the 50,000, 000 1n- habitants of this country to learn the lessons of the schools and the customs of civilized life as well! The “No™ of Family Flaanee, [Carl Protz ['s Weekly.) Ask yourself if some of the debts pressing you could not have been avoided had you said no at the proper time and place? In fact, look for mis takes made in the past, and try to avoid a repetition of them in the future. For get or become totally blind to what your neighbor may be doing in the way of fine horses, carriages, harness, furni- ture or other luxuries and conveniences, until you cansay: “Iam out of debt, and there is money in my pocket or de- posited in the to pay for what | want,” and by that time your wants will be limited to the amount of spare cash on haud. re in self-deiial ch our people never ex and it Ale most aloriossly. and is extremely satisfactory to the one it when he ean say, “1 owe no and at the same time has $100 but wanting some article refuses to pu L requires some caurage a system of living and has this as recom. com- | Pratt, the | Gardening in Alaxka, [Ritka Cor, Ban Francisco Chronicle.) Socially and from an agricultural point of view alaska at present a particularly attractive appear- ance. Not only are its towns few in number, but they are far from being at- tractive or thickly populated, and one cannot but feel that a prolonged exist ence at any of the settlements would be a hardship com any other would mmount to nothing. As for agriculture, an honest statement must be that there is none now, while an equally honest opinion must admit that there may be farms and gardeus and products if land is ever properly tilled and if proper attention is ever given the business. Talking with the different inhabitants, one cannot dis- cover that the soil of Alaska is at fault for the non-productivencss, but rather that proper attention has never been given the question of gardening. At Wrangell there are a few tracts of {land which have been cultivated and | which yield the more common { hardy vegetables, and one farm in par ticular, which has been worked by the mission-school Indians, has made a most creditable showing. At Tunecau, a new and very fagged looking village around which are the largest and most promising mines in the territory, there are several small gardens surrounding the different houses, in which such yeg- etables as cabbage, beans, and potatoes erable abundance. The greatest diffi- culty, so far, hus been that the under- | ground carrots, absorb too much of the | moisture which the soil contains. But i this trouble, as I have often been as | sured, can easily be obviated by a sys | tem of drainage. | At Sitka one sees more gardens, small | to be sure, and carclessly “attended to, { but in which there is a good and large | assortment of ‘vegetables, evincing a {growth which, although not L. is | surely encouraging to those who believe that Alaska can grow enough products to more than meet the demands of its possible population. That the country will ever become noted as an agricu tural region in particular, or that it will even become a distributing center of cereals, fruits and vegetables, no one éx pects and no one really hopes. The jucstion is whether anything will grow, and the answer really must be in the af | firmative, Alaska has natural wealtl { enough in its fisheries and mines, so it seems now, and has no need to trouble itself about its agriculture more than to see that enough can be raised to keep starvation from the door independently | of outside aid. The Hisck Man's Handicraft (Joaquin's Miller's New Orleans Letter. | | Another strikingly mew feature of | this exposition will Be the exhibit of the [black man's bandicraft. {man has a depariment; ample, too, | spacious and compl te, all his own. The negro aspires to be an artisan, | something above and better than eter inal bhewers of wood and deawers of !water. And here Le puts in his claim | for popular consideration, { tion by the side of tle silk-weaver, the | cotton-spinner, the maker of fine fabrics lor coarse fabrics of all kinds and fall classes. Here for the first { time ia the world's {so far as we are certain of {children of Ethiopia and of ancient { Egypt are itted to eall in the in- terest of their work, Others have | claimed and have lived off their handi- taraft for all the years past; had the 'honor of it and the profit of it; some- thing pathetic in this, I think? And it {was with especial pride that I looked in {upon the earnest and intelligent col lored men im the arrangement {iad the ordering of their department. i lhey claim, and the man at the whole | : | i | { stupendous work bere claims for them, | Ithat they areas cunning as old Tubal [Cain in every kind of craft. Their dis- play here is nt to carry them forward {and upward. Millions of these black | men ean and are to do better work than field work, and that right soon. eds for the Sek Room. (Dio Lewin} Two narrow beds with fresh hair or straw mattresses are the best. These beds are easily moved, and thus the pa- tient will not be compelled to look con: stantly at the same cracks in the wall, porner. You can move him, now into a shaded corner, now to the western win- dow to see the sun go down, again in front of the fire, that he may look at the sleep. All this is an immense gain, and is sure not only to comfort the patient, but to shorten his sickness. No matior what the malady may be, there is more or less fever, and, in every possible case, the emanations from t skin render the bed foul through and through. All the emanations should be got rid of as soon as possible. The only way to manage is to have two beds, and lift the patent from one to the other. When the bed which has been in use from four to six hours is released, the toovaghiy. med Ad, it practicable thorou aired, X y , Shotiagh is will not only shorten and mitigate the graver stages of the malady, but will greatly hasten the convales- present does no, | with which almost | and | are raised with more or less case in consid- | The colored | for competi | history, | it, il or count the same three spots in the | cheerful blaze, and anon into the most | seclmled corner that he may rest and | { THE LABRADOR COAST. | | A Barren Wasts Given Up to the Wild | 1 Animals~The Esquimaux. . (“C. ¥. 1.” in New York Post.) i One feature of the Labrador coast | strikes every obsorver—the absence of human beings; and not only are they not | here, but the back country is a barren | | waste, given up to the wild animals, and | probably never destined, from the rig orous nature of its winters, to become the permanent home of a white population, The occasional vis: | itor is a hunter or scaler. In some of the | bays Esquimaux live permanently. There | are supposed to be about 4,000 in all Lab- rador, but they are fast dying off. At) Battle harbor there is a town, and the | place is a famous shelter for the fisher men who venture inte this northern | country. The houses are all small and | rude, and everything is given up to the | | fishing interest, every available bit of | i ground being devoted to racks and | | stages for drying fish. In the southeast | portion of the place an Episcopal church | was consecrated mbout thirty years ago, | and had for its first pastor a nephew of Wordsworth, the t, There is another church at Fox Pe or, and here the visitor from the south finds a genuine Esquimau hamlet with its kayaks, igloes, and all The nearest mail station from here is Batteau harbor, and from here the fish- ermen can start in any direction and find all the sport desirable. On Fand- wich bay there is a mountain about | 1,500 feet high, from which a fine view | of the surrounding country can be had. | Two rivers, West and Eagle, empty near | here, provide salmon that would | make the Restigouehe country fisher. | | man open their eyes, The trout attain | large size, and sea trout are extremely | plentiful. Speaking of the sea trout, a | well-known salmon and trout fisherman | whom 1 met a few weeks ago on the St, | { Lawrence told me that in fishing for | sea trout near the mouth of the river he | | found that they would rise to live mouse- | | tail, and. that out of twenty-five fish | | over half had mice m their stomachs, | and some bad two or three. When | left him he was trying to get his guide to some mice Lo bass. The presence of mice water was coplained by the they are known to dive after sp At the head of what the native | Natsbuctoke bay are the Narrows | body of water surrounded by hig | walls, forming a perfect galeway, gloomy, and impressive. On the rows is the Hudson's Pay company's post of Rigolitte, and about 150 miles from here is the famous port known as Northwest, where it is said the Cree | nation, that have been such terrible | | enemies to the Esquimaux, first began to trade with the whites The Mora vians deserve credit for most of the | | missionary work done here. They have | { established a number of missions, eon- | verted nearly all the natives, made | them give up polygamy and marry ina | | Christian way. As in many other cases, | | however, this refining process is dearly | bought, since it seems that from the time of the Moravians the uatives have | been gradually growing less, and are in | | a fair way of disappearing altogether, It is probably not just to lay the de | terioration of races to religious advisers, but betwegn the missionaries, the | | traders, students of ethnology. and what | { not, native races have a hard time, In Labrador the natives gather about | the missdons in winter, and are educated | in the mechanical arts, and carry on & regular bosiness with the Moraviavs, | | furs being the principal article of trade. | | These are stored in the mission houses, | and once or twice a year a mission ship | brings a supply of stores, and carries off | the furs. The chief mission is Hope- { dale, about 200 miles northwest of the {| Demon islands. It was founded nearly 100 years ago, and is quite a town for | this part of the world, having about | forty houses and about 300 inhabitants. | Other missions ard at Nain, Okkak, and | Hebron, all having about the same num | ber of inhabitants, and all living by | choice in one of the dresriest spots on | the globe. There isa good deal of truth | in the old song. One of the young men i of Nain was asked how it was he could | live there (as he had received a good | education), and his answer was, “It's my home.”’ Nain is not only homely, but the mercury gets down so low that the | Brothers sometimes think it is gone. | Thirty three degrees below zero ix a fair | sample of winter weather, and when the | thermometer gives 75 degroes in sam. | mer it is considered extremely warm. cateh Statistion of Ear Disease, : (Exchange } | Ina recent number of The Archiv. | fur Obrenheilkunde, Dr. Buskner gives an interesting result of inquiries made by himself and other aural surgeons as to the statistics of ear disease. They may be summed up as follows: One | out of every three persons in middle | life does not hear so well with one ear | as the other. An examination was | made of 5,905 school children, of whom 23 per cent. presented symptoms of ear disease, and 32 per cont. a diminution of hearing power. The liability to dis in the ear increases from 40th year of age, from thence to old age. Kem are more subject to ear affections than women, in the pro portion of three to two. The external 3 | frigid northwest to the mild waters | . | Was cent he i : other Cit ' | found i would reach in a continuous line from | paper were made fast at Cape Flattery, | actually voted | the state of Missouri | enough to reach from The Post-Dispatch | BALLOTS CAST FOR PRESIDENT. ! Queer Facts and Figures as to Length, Breadih, Dopth, and Cost. i {8t. Louis Post- 1 Over a stretch of of 8,605, 884 square miles reac from the fro zen straits of Behring in the far and which lap the tropical sof Florida in the far southeast, and stretching from the boisterous bay of Fundy to where Pacific tides roll high on Lon Lon Cle mente, a ruler was recently chosen. Throughout this great empire, which if ou cut off ths Iberian peninsula would be as large as Europe, a gentle rain of ballots wis falling, nlling) falling, fall ing, amid the pines of Maine and amid the cactus plants of Texas, falling where the great grain fields of the northwest yellow richly in the summer; like a tre mendous snow storm this downpour of | votes were piling higher and higher as | the hours of that day went by. The | millions of ballots that were dropping in every town and hamlet, had an interest in themselves, aside from the gigantic conseguences they are achieving. These little bits of paper, that a breath of wind would whirl away—that are so cheap, and coarse, and rough-represent the very soul anc genius of the American idea. They make very inmost mental process whereby the race determines its future, What is it that sways the whole desti- nies of America, that decides by an arbitrament as high as Providence it sell, the policy, the history, the desting of the republic! Simply some 65,000 pounds of paper; simply some $10,000 worth of manufactured rags, trans | figured by words, baptized into a new life by printer's ink, Have you ever wondered how many ballots went tc | make the grand total of an election! | What was the material part of this en tirely supra-material ceremony solemn ized throughout America ? Here are facts and figures not usually avpended to election returns. The history of past elections teaches that his vote of the nation advances from president to president by steps measured in numbers by 10 per cent The total vote of was 5.724.604; of i872, | 6.445 802; of 1876, was ¥,412,788 was 9,210,870. Add to this last the estimate for the vo I NR of 1880 10 pear i i and total and » going into the ballot boxes on Hay be 10.312 preside atial election day will 087, approximation bor i Ma ih ulations, and which will be | far out the result, A ballot is a piece of paper averaging four i inches wide and ten and a half | hundred and fifty ballots will weigh about a pound. Two hundred and fifty ballots laid oh each other will measure | about an inch. To prepare these bits | of paper at a reasonable profit costs 90 | per cents 1,000 If the ballots cast the i other day were placed end to end they | Ri by fio of ug. One | Washington, DD. C., wv El Paso, in Texas, or they would streteh from Fast port, Me. to New Orleans, as tle crow fies. If one end of the long line of the extreme northwestern promontory of Washington territory, the other end would pass Kansas City. This has to do only with the ballots The number of ballols sprinted, of course, is tremendously rger than the amount voted. In St Louis, for instance, the Democrats have had 600,000, the other parties in all 700.000, making for this one town # total of 1,300,000, It is generally ad mitted, however, that the vole of St Louis will not, at the outside, make | more than 50,000, Here, then, is a sur plus of twenty-six ballota for each one cast. This makes the total of ballots offered to the people throughout Amer bea at this election 260,000,000, it would require eighty-five freight ears to move this joall of wr, whom weight is 1,716,000 pounds. The white | paper and the printing of the mass has cost $234,000. Pasted end to end there would be paper enough to go entirely around the globe, leaving 18,000 miles to spare for a gigantic double bow-knot, which would cover the greatest part of the two Americas, or if one preferred fo keep the string in the United States, there would be miles enough to wrap the streamer thirsy-nine times around | and still leave building to Governor Cleveland's private | office in the state house at Albany. Rothsehild's Chef de Calsine. {The Argonaut.) It is told of Baron Rothschild, in Paris, that when his chef de oulsine died, and had been interred with honors alinost equal to the queen's John, be ad- viertised for a chef to fill the place of the dear departed, and required, among other accomplishments, that the aspirant for the place should be able to concoct 365 different soups, To such a paragon the baron or Son an annual stipend of 50,000 francs, Incredible as it may ap- pear, the right man was found, and the great millionaire enjoyed a different soup every day in the year, until he had to pay a well-merite! penaity to offended nature with Lis life, Raecilll in Defos’s Time, [Chieago Journal) In Defoe's “History of the Plague’ it is statad that the breath of the plague to contain mi. “CENTRE DEMOCRAT,” The LARGEST and CHEAPEST Paper in Bellefonte.
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