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Littell's -LiTing Age.
ABLEST LIVING WRITERS
Literature
WE TWAIN.
Oh, Earth and Heaven are far apart !
. But what if they were one,
And neither you nor I, Sweethear4
Had anyway mladone P
When we, like laughing rivers fleet, •
That cannot choose but flow,
Among rbe goiters should meet and greet,
- _ Shoul d meet and mine° to,
Sweetheart— • , •
That would be sweet, I know. '
No need to swerve and.drift apart,
Or any bliss resign p
Then I should all be yours, Sweetheart,.
• And you would all be mine.' •
But sh, to rust:, defied and brown, •
From thaw of 'smirched snow,
To rpoll the corn, beat down and drown
Tim rail', red lilies loci
Sweetheart,
Ido not %rcpt you se. •
• .
For yoU and r are far apart
Ahd Dover may wo meet. •
Till you are glad and Frain!,
.Siveetheart,
Till I am fair and sweet.
Till morning light his kis e Sed 'tit white
Ax highest AlOtto snow,
Till Loth are brave and bright of sight Z
- wander high or low,
.6,- _
s;weetheitrt
For G*;il havu It So
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Oh, Bear .n and Earth aro far apart
IJ:youarc hoed or true,
re - Arittlf4l4siiii or crawl, Sweetheart,
- Can no way binder me. - • •
• But st"e . Yliil come In lordly state,
With mountain' winds aglow,
When I, by dazzling gate shill wait,
To meet and. Mre you so,
Sweephe'art * ,
That will he hearers, I know.
,r4Fri;in" 2 ke Mezatitt? f,,/ Poeta."
SCO4CM:NG . SOL.
Scientific Theories of Heist, Interpret
ell in the Language cok Common
Life. '
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4.n article in - a recent number of
The Popular -Science ' Monthly is of
'such-rare interest to' .those who are
at all interested in scientific inquir
ies that; for the benefit of those who
will not be likely to read it there„we
cendense r 'and put in;i little simpler
form for the{ benefit of,. the readers
Of: THE REPORTER some Of: the_ new
facts that-have 'been .termined 'and
theories advanced, usl4g ns much as
possible the languageiof the author,,
and drawing a littisl. from other
works that treat uponithis subject.
lIEAT OF . '4.IE SUN
has itlways been a pu4iling problem
for scientific investigiqors to solve.
-There are so many thitigsto . be taken
into consideration, theltitude of the
sun, the Condition of the'air; thQah•
sorption of the earth's atnrsphere,
the metcorlogical conditions, especial
ly-. the• moisture in . tile aiiirinir. these
and many others, have caused a wide
variance in the views of experiment
on and it is only.Or late years we
, ,
see4tO arrive at" some rational eon . -
elusion—uusatisfazitory- at the best—
as to. the *Mount of_ heat,that the
?).
rth"rccei ves or the sun tranmits.
Tl' re has been • a prevailing, but
false idea th&.t,the temperature of the
sun, was. vastly greaterlhan the latest
experiments have proved. - .kast
certainly far beyond anything w.e
can p-oiliice artlticially,- but when
Secihi placed it 'it: I ~ . ',11)00,000 degrees
Fahrenheit, Errtesson .nt 4,1:4)0,000
or 5ti,0ut.,4100 degrees, and we rf!col
lect 'that the *intensest artificial heat
does not reaelt:over -4vo degrees at
most, it wit! be seen how much be
yond the boutids of` eyen probability
the best scientists - are often led. , The
etfective.temperature of the sun is
probably . not over It-;,00) degrees,
and ma3 l / 4 ,reaeh :aS, low as-10,0U0 de
grees. Fahrettbeiti intense enough
when we consider that molten iron is
.but 2,7i-:6 degrees Palirenheit.
Theamotint of heat received on
theearth'' . 4 surface, , with the sun at
would melt an inch-thick
ness-of ice in two hntirS and thirteen
niinutes_Since there is every reason
to believ4 that the 'sun ,iturs forth I
the same amount of heat in all.direc
tionS, it'follo*s that if the sun were
surrounded 'by a' great'shell of Ice
one 'inch thick,. and the, fliarneiffr . Of
the earth's orbit (1 ti6,0t0.,600Vmi16)
its •eys would just 'melt the Whole' in
the same time. sopposing this
shell to shrink in diameter; still e-On
taining the same quantity, of ice by
increasing its thickness, until its in-
ner surface touclic4Jthe outer surface
of the sun, it would fie a sheet of ice
. •
more than mile J an thickness, and:
the sun, would thA j ii, its way out-in,
the same two hours and thirteen Min-
Utes:,• •If this ice were formed into a
rod forty-fiVe miles' in diameter and
darted toward tfiejsun with the speed
of, light' (more than eleven millions .
of miles a minute), its Advancing'
poin*votild be melted off as fast .as
it approached, if by any, means ; the.
whote`of the solar.rays could be con
centrated uponf it. • Or, put-it a little .
' ditferentlY, if ire could, build • up.a
solid column-cif ice, to the sun, two
',and one-quarter -miles in diameter,
spanning this inconceivable abyss of
ninety-three millions of miles, and if
the sun should concentrate his whole
Power upon it, it would dissolve-and
melt, notiin an hour or minute, but
' in a single second-; one swing of the
pendulum • and it would be water ;•
seven Mo'reand it . would be naught
but vapor.'
Every'square
,foot of. thesun's Bur
face•gives but. heat enough, to
seven engines of' a' thousand horse
' power cad)._ It has been shown that,
j if the stint were- composed of a:solid
mass' of the best' anthracite 'coal,
and produced its heathy comfit stion,
' it would burn J out in less than cis.
thousand years, while' we reckmilits
age, by millons. :
OF .- THIS ENORMOUS OUTFLOW -
of heat, the earth only receives about
a two millionth part,:- and the, Whole
solar system of planets and. their at
tendant satellites only about One
three-thousandth. But this minute
fraction received by : the earth is
enough to melt yearly, at the equator,
a layer of ice •somethiOg .(iver,ose
hundred and ten feet thick,and.eYery
thirty square feet of the earth's sur
face receives an average energy' or
heat enough to run a one-horse pow
er etigine contiluously. Most of this;„
of course, is
.expended merely in
maintaining the earth's temperature;
but a 'small portion, perhaps :one
thousandth of "the whole, is stored
away by. plants and animals, and con
.atitutesttu abtirldkut reveuue of pow-
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ler for the whole human race. Now,
lwlicti such a large proportion of the
suns heat and light passes.off into
space, it, seems a terrible waste. But
as Epee is full of isolated , particles
of matter, which we'encounter from
time to time as meteorites, we can
see that, scow or later, each solar
ray reaches i resting place. Some
I ;:tve thought that the-sun sends heat
only towards its planets; that the
action of radiant
,heat, like that of
gravitation, is only between masses.
But all scientific investigation so far
shows that this ii.not the case. The
energy radiated from a heated globe,
is found, to be. alike in all directions,
and, wholly independent of the liodies
that receive it ; nor_ is there, 'the
slightest-reason to auppose that the
sun is any, way different in_this re
spect from every other incandescent
Tess. _
Ordrabout one-half of the 'sun's
rays projected toward ( the earth reach
its.crust, the other - half being inter
cepted and absorbed in its atuio7
sphere,. even when . - there are no
'clOuds. But it does . not follow that
the heat thuscabsorbed is 104 to' our
earth,for the i ait itself becomes Warm
ed and comniunfcateS' its.heat to the
earth . ; ,awl :Since she atmosphere in
tereepts„ also a • large proportion of
thelteat :which the earth 'would radi
ate into spaeis, if thus not blanketed,
the temperature of the 'earth is.kept:
much" .higher`, and above all, more
uniform than it would be if there
were no air. .•, • '
When the lays'of the sun irte con
centrated by means of a burning- .
glass we have a very direct.eviderce
of their poiver. Like the telescope;:
the lens moves the object at its focus
virtually nearer the sun, so that the
temperature at the focns is what the
direct rays Of the sun would be at
the assumed distance,-mzking allow
ance for loss of heat by transmission
through the glasses. • The missViiow
erfullens yet. constructed virtually
transtivrts the ,object at its focus to
within about v:59,006 miles :of the
sun'6surface, and the most refractory
substances—platinum, fire-clay. the
diamOnd itself—in tbis- focus are
eithefinstetly melted oi flashed irk;
to vapor, There is no 'doubt . that if
the sun Were to Come as near as the
moon,
THE SOLID EARTH WOULD MELT
ALIKE. WAX
. ,
And nod' we come to questions
like these : 116%; is such a t he,at Mir*
tained? How long • has it lasted al
ready how long will it continue to
last; are there any, signs Of increase
or diminution ? Questions.to which,
in the present _ state of science;
only vague and unsatisfactory replies
are possible. 'Here is no evidence of
progressive changes in the aillountof
solar heat s ince the beginning of au
thentic records. There have been no
such changes in the distribution of
plants' and animals. Within the .last
two thousand years as must have oc
'currecl if -there • had been within this
period any appreciable alteration in
the beat rewired from the snn. So
lar as can be' made out, the vine
and 'the olive, the cereal§ and the
forest trees, grow . just Where they
did in classic days. . But
,two thou
sand years is 'btu, the, breadth of a
• I
moteln•the life of the sun, and in
the remoter part them have,been
'great tehanges in the earth's tempera
ture; evidenced by. gelogica.l records;
caboniferpus epoch 'when the teM
perature was tropical in,almiist Arc
tic latitudes; glacial periods when
our teMperate zones were. eased - in
sheets Of solid' ice as: Greenland is
now l3ut'it is not yet Certain wheth
er theF;e, changes are to be traced to
variations in the amount of .
.heat
emittol by the sun, or to changes in
the earth. herself or in her orbit. We
tan only say that, so, far as odr ob
'servation goes, the outpouring of so
•la'r heat,eatnazing as is, appears to
have gone on unchanged .throngh all .
.the centuries of h ritna9 history.
.
What,. then, maintains' this fire? j
In the first place it is quite certaih
that it, is not a case of mere-Combus
tion. As has been said, even if the •
sun were made 41;61M Coal, burning
in 'pure oxygen, it could, dilly last
about six thousand years.-it would
have been nearly one-third consum
ed since the beginning a the Christ
,ian era. Neither- can . the 'source of
its heat lie simply cooling of
its incandescent mass.. Huge• as it
is, its temperature must have fallen
more than perceptibly within tiro
thousand years if this were - the
1. Ammo. many theories, two plansi
,
-ble 'ones have been proposed One
of, these finds the chief Bonito of the
solar heat in the impact of meteoric
matter, the other, in the slow contrac
tion of the sun. AS to the first, it is
quite certain - that some of the solar
heat is , produced in ' this way; but
whether the supply of meteoric ,Mat
ter is sufficient. to account for a great
proportion, is a question. :As to the
second, there 'is n 0,.. doubt . that the
'contraction of the sun's mass could
pioduce the whole supply of its heat,
but there is as yet no direct evidence
that the 'sun is really shrinking A
'quantity of matter 'equal to Only
about the one-hundreth part of the
. mass of the earth, • falling annually'
upon the solar surfaCe, would
((MAI:NITAIN ITS 'HEAT INDEFINITELY.
•
Of course, this increase of 'tbe sun's
mass Would cause `.an acceleration of
,the motion of 'all the planets and
shorten their periods of -revOlution,
but!as the mass of the sun is '330,000
times that of the earth, its annual in
crease would-be only one tbirty.three
millionth of
. the ,Whole; and it-would
require centuriesj to, make the - effect
sensible. • - '
The only question then is whether
any such quantity of. matter can, be
supposed to reach the sun. On the
.whole, it seems improbable
,for as
tronomical reasons. there were
:near the sue any considerabLiquan
tity of meteoric matter it ought to
produce avery Observable effect upon
the motion of the planet Mercury—
an effect not yet detected, or but in a
slight degree. So,
,while conceding
that a portion and probably a consid
erable fraction of the solar heat may
be accounted for. by this hypothesis,
we must look farther for the priced
, pal revenue of solar energy. Astrono
-1 mere find it, in' the probable slow eon
t . \
( ,
REGARDLESS OP DENUNCIATION FROM - ANY QUARTER.
V
traction of the suit's diameter, and
the, gradual liquefaction and Solidifi
cation of the gaseous mast If the
sun does Contract r heat is necessarily
produced by the proeess, and phut in
enormous quantityots the power of
gravity is twenty-seven times 'as
great as, at the earth's surface, and
the contracting , mass jail° immense.
Helmholtz has shown 'that, unfavor
able suppositions, a, Contraction of
about 250 feet a year in the sun's
diameter—a mile in 21. years--would
account for its whole annual beat
emission. This contraction is so low
,that it would be finite imperceptible
to astronomers. It would require
9,500 years to reduce the . diameter a
single second of arc, and nothing less
would be certainly detectable. -
I f,this theory of the source of the
sour heat is et:trivet, it "follow that
the' time must come when it sill end;
and, looking backwhrd, we see that
there must. also have been -a- begin
ning; time 'was when there was no
'such solar heat as new, anti the time
must comewhen it will cease., To
calculhte the future duration of the.
sun is a daring conception. Yet, ae
tiprding to Newcomb, if the sun main
tains . its present radiation, 'it will
have, shrunk to half its present di
amet;er in abont, five millions of years.
at the longest. In- can'haidly, then,
continue to be mainly gaseous, and
its-temperature must haye begun to
fall. Newcomb's copelusion, there
fore, is that, it is hardly likely that
the sun can continue to give sufficient
heat to support life On the earth
(such life as we are now acquainted
'with at leaSt) for ten millions .of
,years froni the present time.
We can com Pete the past of
THE SOLAR RISTORY
somewhat more definitely than the
future. Knrisvinif id the present amount
radiaron and the mass of the sun,
we can compute how long the solar
fire has been maintained at its pres
ent intensity by the process. of con
densation. No conclusion of geome
try is more certain than that o the_
contraction of the sun from a r tame=
ter many times larger than the Orbit
of Neptune to its present dimen
- sions-Lif such , a , contraction has act
ually taken • place has) furnished
about 18,000,0U0 times as much heat
as the sun now supplies! in a year,
and therefogethe sun can not have
been -ernittinCheat at the present ,
rate for nicire than that length of
time, irits' heat has been generated
hi this manner
If the - hypiithesi's be true, as -it
probably is in the'Main, we are inex
orably shut up to the:conclusion that
the total, life of the solar system
from RS birth to its death is included
in some such space of f.itne as 30,-
009,0 A of year ;.• no reasonable al
loWance foy the, fall of meteoric mat
ter, .based on what we now observe,
'or, for the development- of heat by
liquefaction, solidification, and churl;
ical combination . of the gaseous va
pors in the original or Present state
of the sun, could raise it to 60,000,-
00. •
•
. Yet what. is our perception of the
knoWnetirtipared to what, we'kno:iy
not? 4.t.i4 impossibl4 . 3. to assert that
there Nis been no catastrophe in the
past, no !collision -with some wander
ing star, ended, as Croli.has suppos
ed, like some ofl thoSe'•we know of
now. in the heatens,. with a Kelocity,
fir sarpasSing thal to he acquired by
a fall,.even from infinity, producing a
'shock which might, in a few - - hours or
moments even, restore the wasted eti
ergies of ages. -
.•
Neither caa'we assume that-there
may not be wayS of which we have
,yet no conelitionby which the enor
mours energy Apparently lost in
space may' be returned; 'and burneit
outsuns. and run-down systems re
stored. If, as we believe! there has
been no loss of 'energy or matter
since the dOvn of creation, some
such thing Must take placeond if
our suns and; planets are not them
selves restored they will:be made the
germs and material 'of new ones to
replace the ' J. M. B.
LOVELY PHILOSOPHY.
How a Boston Girl Just 'Adores the
- Concord Sch•ol. .
A few days ago a Thiston girl who
hail been attending the School of
`Philosophy at
.Concord arrived - in
Brooklyn gm a visit to a seminary
chum. After canvassing thbruughly,
the fun and gumArops that made up
their ediicatiori in the seat of •learn
ing at which ..their early scholastic
efforts were made, the Brooklyn girl
began, to inquire into the :nature'of
the ,CpUeord entertainment.
' Ail& so . you' are taking lessons in,
philosophy. ;I.low'do you i iike it ?"
"Oh I it's 'perfectly ,
about science, you know, and we all
just dote on science.". .
" It, must be nice. . :Whit is it
about?"
. . .
"It's about molectilesi much as
anything else, and molecules are just
too . awfully nice for . anything. If
.there's anything I really. enjoy - it's
polecules: " .
" Tell • me .about theni, my dear.
` hatA are moleCules ?". • •
".Oh I molecules. - , They are little
wee things, and it takes ever so many
of, them. They are splendid :things! -
Do'you know, there Ain't anything
but what's got moleculeS'in And
Mr. doolcis just, .as sweet as:be - can
be; and Mr. Emerson too: . They es
plain _everythin,.(7'.so beautifully."
• " like to go there!". .said
th? BroOklyn girl, enviously.
You'd enjoy it ever' so' much.
They .teach protoplasm,:; too, and if
'them is one thing perfectly. heavenly,
.protoplasm or molecules." •
" Tell me about .protoplasm ; 1
knot t I should adore it." 1 -
" Deed you would. F's just too
sweet to live, Tou know it's about
s
how things got tarted, or something
of that kind. YOu ought tp hear Mr.
Emerson tell about it. It would , stir
your very soul. The first time he
explained about protoplasm there
wasn't a dry eye in the hotise. We,
named our hats after him. This is
au Emerson hat. YOu §ee the ribbon
is drawn over the crow n and caught
with a buckle and a bunch of flowers.
Then you turn up the aide with a
spray of forget-me-nota. 'Ain't it just
iiiNE
oo sweet? All the girls in the school
save them."
•!A How exquisitely lovely ! Tell
me some more science."
`u-Qh I I almost forgot differentia
'Can. I .m really and truly positively
in bi've . with differentiation. Its dif
ferent from molecules and proto
plasni,,but it's every bit as nice. And
Mr. Cook You should hear' him go
on about it I I rettlly believe he's .
perfectly' bound up in it. This scarf
is the Cook scarf. All the girls wear.
them, and we named them after him
just on account of the interest he
takes in differentiation.v
" What is it, anyway ?"
" This is mull; trimmed with Lan
guedoc lace-- , —" •
"I don't mean that -that other."
" Oh! differentiation ! ain't ;it
sweet ? It's
got somethiitg to- do
with species. .It's the way you tell
one hat from another, so you'll khow
Which is
,becoming. And we learn
all about ascidians, too. They are
-the divinest things. .I'm absolutely
-
enraptured with 'ascidians. ,If I only
;Had an ascidian of my own rwouldn't:
'ask anything else in the. world."
"What do. they look like, dear?
'Did you ever see one V ) asked the
Brooklyn girl, deeply interested.
" Oh, no . ; nobody - ever saw one
'exceptMr. Cook and Mr. Emerson ;
but they are sOmethinilike,an oyster
with a reticule 'Lining on its belt. A
think I,hey are just ,heavenly."
"Do you learn 'anything else be
tides all these ?"
" Oh, yes. We . learn • all about
eomße philosophy tint lOgic and
those.%ommon things like metapl-ys
ics ; but the girls don't care anything
about those. We are just in cestacies
over differentiation and molecules
and Mr. Cook and protoplasms and
ascidians. and Mr. Emerson, and I
.really don't see Why they put in those
vulgar branches. • If anybody besides
Mr. - Cook and lir, - Everson had done
it, we : should have told" him to his
!face that he was too terrible, awfully
mean." - • • •
And the Brooklyn girl scent to. bed
that - night in the dumps because
fortune had not vouchsafed her the
advantages enjoyed by her .friend,
while the Boston . _ girl dreamed "of
seeing_aff - iiscitlian chasing a Imple•
.rule over a differentiated' back, fence
with a club for : telling a.Protoplam
that his youngesCsister had So many
freckles on her nose that they made
'her cockeyed.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Climbing a Pyramid.
The business of climbing - Cheops.
is begun as early in the day ati•possi
ble ; not that•it is a long or a difficult
task, but because the sun 'Ours his
hottest .Wams in a baptism of fire
over ; the desert, and there is no ahatlei
*no breath of. fresh and fragrant
no cooling draught at had& rYOu
alight at the base of the Cheops and
are i ranted lately besieged by an army
of . tedawees, who are famous:l,hores.
For -more than . forty centurieS - ihese
gedhwees have besieged the pyratidd
.climbers from every quarter of the
earth; they have a smattering•of all
languages at . their tongue's end,;and
their hands are filled s with old coins
and new scaial.l, which they swear
are old.',Tbe sheik'is your only hope;
every village, every community, has
its sheik,-and his word is law. Pur
chase his friendship—ybu can do it
with a couple of francs you are
perfectly 6 — are. He orders three Of
his . '' howling savages" to take you
irrhand, and. conduct you to the sum
mit of CheoPs... According to the
agreement witli.the sheik, you, were
to pay so Ent;ch into his hands' upo'n
your return to earth-, after havingre--
posed-as long.aS -- you think fit at tile
top.of the pyramid: Meanwhile no
fee ; is to be giveit to the three fierce
and athletic fellows:who help,you up
and-. down, nor, are they to -414 for
-any„ l on pain of the_bastinftd4o6 case
anys complaint is made agairrst them..
This being considered satisfactory
by all parties concerned.. - you are
seized under . the arms, by two of the
Bedawees, while the third , gives you
a gentle pokean the small of the hack
from time to time. Once started .on
this novel ascent, , it. is quite imposSi
sible .to abandon it before- it is corn;
pleted to the letter. You may. repent
and• grow dizzy • and. short-winded,
but the strong 'grip oh your arms
brings you to yOur feet again, and
'you arc swung up from one terrace
to another, hurried to the right and
to the left by a..zigiag trail that bola
evidently .been i searching for low
steps and crevices in.the stories, and
found them in many eases.
table-; stone is about the Height of a table-;
it is four hundred 'told sixty perpen
dicular feet. to the top. of the pyra
mid, and you are permitted to rest
about three times on the way up. •
.At first the Bedawee touches your
right arm, and aslcs you if you would
like to rest. YOu scorn the, idea, and;
•leap like a chamois from rock to rock,•
to show , him how , :very fari you are
from feeling• fatigued. lie praises.
your 'Towers of . endurance, feels of
your muscleS, Had says your legs are
splendid. YOU realize thakthey Must
:be,
.fOr you have evidently astonished'
• ,him with your strength and.agility.
'By and by he insists upon your rest- .
jag for a moment 'only. • You, rest
'for . big sake! as - much as,your own,
for you itie ajlittle out of breath, and
fear that be, that all three of the at
tendantsonult Seel fatigued. At this
momen!, a small .'boy makes his alt.
.pearance with a - jug of brackishAvater
in. his hand. . lie climbs like a cat,
and he is so little that bis. head is
• loSt below,theedge of . ettedt Muir as
he climbs towards you. 'The boy fol
lows you to the top and pours water
over your head and hands, arid gives
you a drink at the Oightest provoca”
tion, and all. for a laalf dozen sous.
He. is gettir. 0, his. mugcleg i lp-training
for . the ascent be •Itopes to make in
ylars to dome, - for be is, barn under
the pyramid,{ and he .will ie under it
some -day. ;:unless he 'happens to.
breathe his last at the top of
Before yott are quite ready to start
afresh the Bedawees clutch,you, and
'you go bounding frOm skep.to step,
sometimes finding foothold for your
self, but oftener dangling in mid-air,
with
,the fellow behind
: clinging to
you instead of lenditig liksigiP„W
,When
you' 'propose a second restli
1
I L .r.
L.
L , .
M=
put off with the promise of one a
tie farther,up, and you nearly perish
before you come to the spot. There
is no pride of muscle, no ambition,
no wind left; in you now 1 - You sink
into a corner of the rock and shut
your eyes, for you have caught a
glimpsoof the sandy'sea that is all
aglow in the fierce sunshine; and
away down at the foot of the -pyra
mid there are 'muctitudes - of black
objects creeping about like ants, and
you know these are men and women,
and then you" feel
top
if you could
never get to the top of Cheops; and
if you did, you know you Could nev
er get to: the bottom again, unless
you were -to tumble head foremost
down all 'those frightful stairs,oral
you grosv faint,and„call on the water
boy, and find life a good deal of a
bore. - You don't look dOwn after
that. You hum fragments of that
unforgetabh3 song, with its highly
moral refrain " Excelsior," and begin,
to perspire profusely, and to feel as
if you would probably lay your bones
°lithe top stair and give up the ghost'
on the spot. ,Resignation or despair,
you hardly know which, has eowed
you. When you rest the third time
one ,of the Bedawees kindly chafes
your legs,:straightens out the kinks
in your muscles, and says pleasant
things to you about the remainder of
the kintney.. Ile pOints you to the
top,_ which, sure enough, is only a
little farther up, and you be.kin to
wonder if it will . be large enough to
stand on, or if you will have togstrad
dle -it, and perhaps roll down kar. the
other side. It is lairge enough to
build a house on. I ached for a shel
ter of some sort while I was up there,
an'd having looked over all the world
of sand, with the blue Nile flowing
thidugh it between shores of emerald
and fields of corn and groves of palm,
was glad to slide down into the
narrow shadow under - the highest
step, and there rest.--Char/es War
ren Stoddard.
Old Men in Politics.-
• filiandfather Licksbingle and Dea
con Radspinner, two patriOtin this
community, were walkiUg down street
.together yesterday. It/was remarked
that, two, such venerable
.men•were
not often seen together, and people
raised their 'bats to them as they
passed along and spoke to them rev
erently.
"There's . entirely too much bitter
ness in this campaign, de:aeon," said
Mr. I . ..;ieli.shinzl - e, "'and 1
. regret it
exceedingly. .Now, *hen we wuz
young 'Men we took. an interest in
politics, we had none of this 'ere
eVerlastin'"catzhaulin'." • • -
. ,
Indeed we hadn't," acquiesced
Peaeori • Radspi pner. " Take • J ack
son's -campaign,
,for . instance. There
wuz a 'lively interest taken by both
parties, .but there wuz none
,Of your
bully-raggin' like we see nowadays:"
" That's a fact, deacon," said ,old
Litkshingle ; "but between me an'
you, I never thought tnuch . of, ;Jack
_son." • ' .
"He was a, miglity gooth. - man,
Lickshingle."
" Ile' was small potatoes compared
to some men we have now, deacon."
" Who d'ye mean ?" de4anded the
deacon.
" W ell, there's Garfield," - said
I;ickShingle. •
, "Garfield be clanged. You know
mighty well, Lickshingle, he couldn't
have•been 'lected hog-riye in la hill
town - in Jackson's day." •
" He's a darn sight better man
than ancock."
"Go slow...Lickshinglc, go Slow T."
said the deacon, somewhat agitated.,
• " 011, I...knoW,..what Pm. talking
aix•tit, 1" retorted Lickshingle as the
stabired-the pavement spitefully with
his. hickory. 'cane. " f i lancoek's.'
stonghtori bottle, that's What he is."
"An' what's Garfield? Great
guns; what'S Garfield•?l Didn't he
lay . a cheap-John sortbf a pavement
ontirid the Capitolland charge the
government a million dollars for it?"-
andithe deacon's:e3 es. blazed with in
dignation. .
" t see here, deacon, look at your
man Hancock's ,letter to Sherman.
Didn't he. try to blow' up Washington .
with glycerine? Say; didn't he?-Oh,l
read the papers, old man, an' know
what's going on." • • -
" Hancoek's a good an' pure-man.
Didn't he fight like a bulltdrig in the
war of the rebellion ? Where was
Garfield skulkin'.in the time of dis
aster.? In- Canaily, by thunder, in
Cauady
" What was Hancock doin' with a
stiletto in his boot the night Lincoln
wuz murdered? Answer me that.
If: Wilkes. Booth had failed, this
Hancock was ready to finish the job.
Don't talk to me!- Don't talk te me!"
.It's a lie," howled the old deacon,
a4,,lie whirled around and faced Lick
shingle on the street.
" It's as true;as holy writ, an' any
man's a 'liar that days so," retorted
Lickshingle, too much wrought Up to
be particular co his. phraseology.
"You're a bald-headed old scdut
drel,"lyelled the deacon.
_ L. :
"You're an old Wei:, an'' I can
wipe,,the ground with `you," howled
Lickshingle, gripping his cane -and
advancing.
Friends jumped in, and the two
-furious- old men were dragged away
in opposite dire'ctions. The deacon
:squirmed around in the arms of his
captofs, shook 'his cane at Lickship.
gle and hisied I
" Your man Garfield would never
nave got into the army if he hadn't
been drafted, and he wouldn't went
then : only he thought he would be
able to . desert—the ornery son of a
gun l'll'etrolquet World.
hi a iwbo'refuses justice to the defeiicet
less 'wilt make every concession to the
powerful.
PRESERVE thei piivacy of your house,
marriage state awl heart from relatives
and all the world. t .
Tnr. (ire-fiy only shines when on the
wing ; Bo Kis with the mind ; when •we
rest, wp darkeli.
IF l MEActions of men are like the index
of a book. , They, point out what is most
agreeable in them.
31E:4 are born with two eyes and one
tongue, as though they should see Wee
as much as they say. •
He: who puts:a bad construction on a
good act reveals his own wickedness 'of
heart.,
$l.OO per Annum In. Advance.
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THY WILL BE DONE.
I did net ask thee, Lord, to etre . .
Thh racking pin, time aching eves,
This feeble fleshflit. torture's grasp,
This absence - 144m the sunny skies:
I prayed for health, for bounding„blood„
For joy bineatkthe glancing suh ;
-And thou has answered with this woe :
Thy will be 'done.
I did not pray, 0 Lord, for this . ;
That friends should leave me lune and . lrear,
That poverty Fheuld hedge me in, •
That I should work In care and fear,
I-prayed.for home and wealth and bliss;
Thatwhat ',tolled for might be won ;
Thou bast denied the blessing still
• Th — will be done. • ,
I did not seek, 0 Lord, for night
And sorrow darkening o'er tny way,
That I-should look Into the grave
I prayed for light, that faces dear :
Might greet we as the days went on,
And they have vanished lige a cloud—
Thy will be done.
Thy 4111 be dtiee ; thy will be done;
I trust thee, Rather, Mother, God t•
I trust thee though my flesh grows faint
Though I ani,bur.ed 'neath the sod ;
Stllltrtnit thee, for In death's cold arms
Thy prpsetme: is a beaming eun, -
'All that is lost in the aye shines: •
will be done.
. . •
A friend. of minc had a python = paCked ready to go to the Calcutta .
Zoological Gardens . (this - 1 - g a very
large snake of the boa-constrictor spe- .
cies). It was put in a small box.with
batonS nailed over the top. But the
.snake objected to the imprisonment ;
and whilst the box was in the veran
da, preparatory to its going . to 'Cal-.
etitta, it put its strength against the
batons and
. raised them from their
holdings. Hearing the cracking, uy
Mold went . to see. what was up. and
the snake reaied. its huge head and
bit him on the hand. 'Here was a
pretty go. It .was c.ommonly report
ed that pythons Were not•venomous,
but one is• apt to question the itecura
cy of such statements when smarting
from the bite ot one. •My friend was
not long in deciding to help himself.
He sent do;rn to one of„the manufac
turing houses for a small piece of
live charcoal. He tied his wrist to
post of the veranda, and- put the
charcoat.On the wound.. When -en
durance,b&lanie longer impossible he
took the charcoaroll. It is no dis ,
grace to my -friend to say he felt ill.
The - excitement of being !bitten IT a
possibly venomous snake is silificient
to upset one,., witliont- the immense
strain - upon the nervous System caus
ed by endea.voiing to bui n the poison
out ' 111 v friend's hand remained in
bad '
siate • for a long while, but
eventually healed; so I have adopted.
the belief that python bites-are not
fatal.' Gunpowder is sometimes em
ployed , 4 ” a-curative agent; a little
being Ny'prinkled in the wound and
exploded.: It is soppbsed that- 'this
acts aS'doe§ chaiecial- in burning °tit
the poison, only Much more . expedi
tiously: And the idea of exploding
gunpowder in a wounded linibis not
pleasant and is apt to make one - won.
der bow One's bead vonld'feel atllie
shock... -
'The fearfatilenoin of snake bitd.is
fully seen in the deaths which occa
sionally occur amongst elephants:At
is the general •practice td - fetter ele
phant's forefeet.at night and let-them
loose in - the jungle. When lying-down
asleep they are. sometimes bitteri,nd
a little pCiison from a small snake
soon circulates through. the massive
beast and results in death. • . .
As I was passing thrdugh the jun
gle on one occasion a fearful'odof
assailed - me, and I 'told the natives
with me to make search for it. After
awhile they eanne.acrdss a python iii
a state - of coma. The r: stenchLwas
caused 'by the decomposing head of 'a
small deer which was in the• snake's
mouths I should here mention that
when largelthings of this. kind •have
to be swallowed the jaWboifes in a.
Snakes head diSlocate, and make
•
room, for a far larger Substanee than
the size of the reptile would lead it
to be interred could be taken in .the
wouth. • This deer had small horns,
and had evidently been swallowed
from behind, others Vise the - horns
would have somewhat' impeded, the
'passage. .•
The neighbors said that probably
the python had caught- hold of the
deer as it was feeding, wound itself
round the body; crushing the bones
and causing'deatih, then straightened
out the fore - iind hind legs, and ss.ral-
lowed it. It was marvellous to think
'of VAS : being done; and the python .
gaining the victory: over a fleet and
active.deer. The snake -scarcely gave
any Sign of life, and one of the peo
ple:with- me killed it, With an axe.
Then we cut , the .bodr - open, and
found the deer, which was rapidly
decompoiing. - . : • -
Narrating the occiiirence`afterafard
to a mahout (elephant driver), I . was
told that that was nothing .in com
pariSon with what snakes were able'
to.do.' I might remark heri UM if a.
European in Ind' a'expressesiurprise
at, anything to a miive; he is invari
ably given to. understand that lie has
•had.but a glimpse Of the'remarkable
occurrences which take Lila& in the
country. The mahout 1 mentioned
said. , it was: nothing for a snake to
swallow a deer,. and then entertained.
me with .the following veracious nar
native F A herd of wild elephants was
roaming the country
. once, and after
staying some while at a Bait spring
began to pass on. One, however, a
very large aninial,:iitayed a little be;
hind, being h in . fact,•the last to leave
I the spring. As he was hastening to
join the others, a snake (who had
been watching in an adjacent tree)
threw its body out as the elephant
passed by, and, keeping.tiold of .the
trunk of the tree with its extremity,
caught bold of the elephant's hind
lea. The monster stopped and turn- .
around to see what was the matter,:
and by this the snake got - a better
hold, and wound itself about the ele
phant's :Then commenced-the
\tug•of war. The:elephant saw what :
was . the matter and began to pull.
But it could not disconneekthe snake
Oom the :tree: Neith'er gave way,
and the pulling continued with fear
ful vigor, until a cracking was heard.
Suddenly the great tree around which
,the snake hid fixed its hold was seen
to sway . and gradually its lateral
roots . IZgan appehr ahOve . the
earth, the truck to totter, and finally
ma
lank4i3 *RI
Tales of Snakes.
the topmost branches crashed to the
ground. But the inost marvellous
part was that the trunk, having Wide
spreading branches - Which rested on
the ground, was raised a great dia. •
tance from -the earth. The snake, -
which still maintained its hold both
on• it and the elephant, was hoisted
up with the trunk and took the ele
phant with IL Next day a party of
villagers out for firewood, when
short distancefrom the tree, saw the
novel_ sight-of an elephant suspended
(apparently). in mid-air. Upon closer
inspection they : Aland kenake was
the connection with the.tree, and one
man got through thebianchis on to
the trunk, cut through 'the snake,
which immediatelY fell to the ground.
with the elephant and was crushed in
the. fall; The liindoo le&nd needs
no comment.,
Snakes do not get on .stall where
pigs are' kept; in. fact; thA former are_
almost strangers in itief)resence of
the latter. Pigs are sometimes ba r , -
ten, but, do not seem to die ; they
bite - at and eat snakes withciut much
ado upon. coming across them.
Whether the sluggish circulation of
a swine's blood prevents the poison
frona'taking.visible effect; or whether
the thick coating of fat .which-gener
ally finds place upodthe frame of a
pig prevents the snake poison' frora
reaching the'illood veisels, I do not -
know; at, all - events pigs attack snakes
_with impunity. ,
: ;An obi-fashioned' weather •iiidica
tor •in England- was.a bunch of Sea
weed hhng upon the walls of a house
to tell whether fair or wet weather
-'would be ie order o „the-day. I
have seen snake skins answer the
same purpose, being . stiff . and city
whei? the- sun was out„ nd gradually
.becoluino• limp upon an approaching
storm, • . 1.1
.
Snakes lay their eggs in clusters
of-Seven or eight. ThOsei have seen
have been rather Smaller, than pig :
eons! eggs, and stuck togelher as
though they had run one into - the
other I .have heard of .Sonthailis
eating them, but cannot saywhether
this is so. I. should think it highly
piobable.-Ifrgiiford ((England) Ob
eerver. . .
A Clergyman's Experiende.
A country. clergyman says in the •
Tr6y Times : "There are great
many , unwritten chaPters,of a Clergy- .
man's life in the country which would
read like romance to the uninitiated.
There are chapters of hard facts at
well as happy fancies . . In :my -first
year in the ministry my salary' was
just $5OO, .With which I boarded my
self and team, had the lung fever,.-
was married, paying-the minister a
$7, fee—and so my (ieadheadism be
gan. My first wedding at the par
sonage was a' great event. It was on -
a cold winter day. The extra fire
was,made Cn the parlor, and'Yhen the
couple arrived .1 fecrtheir horse with
hay and bats, the bride
,and groom
ate benitily of a good steak dinner,
obtained a certificate which cost fif
ty cents ; and I received one dollar
for the entire entertainment: There ,
are of course profitable marriage oc
casions-.--L.oasis in the scorching sands e
of ministerial . .. pathways. I -know of
an-ex-presiding elder of the Troy
Conference who was called on to ofli 7 •
date at a contemplated wedding four
miles froth a •Vermont village. A. '
horse atil buggy were sent to. :take
him to the place, and On his arrival
he found that a . farriily row had 0115. 7 •
ed :mindefinite postponement of the
Redding.: Ile Was,-,not :eten asked
in, but Was allowed to foot it, home,
-in the mud 'without 'ffee or thanks.
Funerals -in the country call for great /
grace on the - part of the . "parson, l• ,
have - officiated :it three funerals in
.one day in families . outside of my
own congregation without thanks or
fee. I have even paid a livery hire, -
receiving nothing in' remuneration,
to attenditineral3.' Still, I am call
ed a "dead head,”l.because. I some-.
times ride on railroads Mr half-fare
when on ministerial. duties. I have.
attended two pauper funerals in-one
day, for . which the toWn paid the
overseer for.h:s time, the doctor- for
his visits, the grave•digger and the
undertaker,. but- I received
,nothing .
for my services. Thin I have attend
ed -other funerals in all kinds of
weather, where interested patties,
upon •my taking leave,-. have said :
" see ycku alai n some other day.."
One Man Who proMised .to see me•
sonie'Other day; saw me sooner than
he expected. At a- carnp-me.Cting
_a,
few months later , he was t. converted,
.and when 1 saw.the tears inhiS eyes
1 - mentally prayed., Loid;li - Ve mer
cy-on that man's souL'' • When. the
meetitg'elOsecl: he • warmly grasped
me_wita his right hand,-and with his
left, -handed -me a . *'..4 -bill, saying':
—, feel as though I ought
to pay you for attending, my wife's
funeral
funeral last June." Well, for once,
I felt the Lord -had- answered
prayer."
Thotlghtfut Thoughts.
.• A t.i, the world may forsake an author,
but vanity will never forsake him.
.11.kvt: the, courage to :mkncrwledge your
ignorance rather than appear - a liar.;
MonEsTv seldom resides in a breast
that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
I.7OLINSS and b'auty depend upon I.e•
caprice add the, imagination of men.
, &NOBLE part of every true life is to
learn 'to undo what has been wrongly
done. - • , -
Tun flist ingredient in conversation is
truth, the next good sen.v, the third good
humor, and the fourth wit.
IN this great iheatre of life it is permit
ted to God and the angels to be specta
tors, but all - inen must be, actors.
BE thou ever so amiable and disinter
ested, twine hatchet,faced misanthrope
will swear thou haat an axe to grind. -
Ir. is not the fincinber of promises a man
makes, but the niimber he keeps, which
gives him a position among respectable
people.
TuE greatest. heresy 'that can deceive
the human mind is the, heresy that - makes .
a man believe that he can meet with i mer
cy while he lives in sin. '
Hiors never hurt any one—never yet
interfered with duty ; nay, always'strug
gles to the performance of duty, . gives
'courage - and clears thejudgment.
IN all good things' give the eye and ear
full scope, for they let into the mind 're
strain the tongue,, for if is a.spender ;few .
men haVetepepted of silence.
A t.k.knix6 elocutionist once said to a
sow preacher : " I can do nothing mote
for you. .All that yon need now to make
you a power i 4 some greksorrow."
Witir every ex . ertiori•the . best man.can
do only a nasierate amount of good ; but
it seems in tho power of the moat cnn:
temptiblo jedividual to do incalculable
mischief.'
ArFt.it-yloss are the • medicine -or tho
mind. If they aid ,-uot tooth,wme !eV- it
Sullice that they_ard wholesome. It is not
required in physic that it should, please,
but heal.
HE who goes into his garden to loci
for cobwebs and spiders will, no doubt,
find them ; while he who limiks for a dower
may retu,in to his house. with•one bloom."
ing in his' hOsoni,
DEctstox awl • promptitude, croft
though a mot - soteetivnes may err Gar
want. of due deliberatiuts, 7 114 in the Lug
:Tan, more ofren coruluem to success. th4l4
slog jird,oue(A, that rumen too late.