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A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
4, A Happy New Year Pi),
From hearts sincere i
Springs weleonie wish. ny loris &Woe,
- This brightest one, *
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That e'er the snn .
In ages past has shone upon:;
tiappy.?? . eit Yesir
74vlis4joy to hear
From Ilps of those weiore the best.:
From hearts most deiiz
Tinos words of cheat'
I
Att. thin we feel
Upon us steal
The sweet eonte9t of hearts poste's.
That weislone
g
The secret own '
To make their year a happy Tear.
The world might be
As glad as we,
It each would try to mate It to,
go whose the shame,
• And who's to blame
That years not always smoodily flow P
Would we success
Our !Ire should blesii
Loot_ not (lupe us, but within t
The world don't fall 4
Bat so., who sail
With ships too trail and south too thin.
Let each 'rapier_
Surplus of joy .
Ills weary neighbor's life to Cheer,
Tlll all et e long
Take up the song
And ball each year s !IPET' year.
Then all mankind ' •
-At last shall find
A very happy place of earth, •
Content to stay " •
Till called away ' • ' -
_When Heaven's glad New Tear has birth.
._ —George Ntrdsege.
Christie's New Year's Party.
I scarcely knew how to spare h
dollar. Spread out upon the little
table before me was the vast sum of
thirty-five dollars,every penny of my
savings for one long year, and the
New Year would open in two more
days. It seemed so little, that I
could scarcely make myself believe
that I could take out the crisp ten
dollar bill I had put to one side.
Nobody knew I had intended to give
Christie a New Year's gift, nobody
would blame me or feel in the least
disappointed if I failed to do so. The
time bad been' when • I could give
presents of ten times that value and
never miss the sum; now I sat look
ing, at'lbe bank note and wondering
if I could make my last winter'erbOn
net last till spring; if my boots would
look well until , my next quarterly
Payments ; and if, after . all, Christie
would enjoy the party so very much.'
And then I saw again the pretty face
with unshed tears in the large brown
eyes that perused the dainty invita
tion, and heard the quivering voice
saying :
'lt is of no use to think of it, Moth
er; I have nothing to wear.'
Pretty Christie Burgess was 'the
daughter of the widow :lady . with
whom I boarded. She - bad passed
'her seventeenth birthday, and was a
winsome, bright girl, well educated,
but without remarkable talents.
I gave herlessons on therpiano, in
singing, in French,•in part paynient
for my board ; and being the only
boarder the small house could aceom
modate, I was a confidential friend
of both mother and daughter, and
knew that, like myself, they had
known better days ; though, unlike
me, there was no bitter tragedy in
their past to rise up and haunt them.
They had lost a husband and a father
ten years before, and from sharing a
large salary he earned in a bank, they
were forced
.to earn their own sup
port, their small income just paying
the, rent of the little house.
Somewhere in California there was
an Uncle Charles, Mr. Bargees'
brother; who would keep them sure
bad he known their, circumstances,
but whose address they could not
tell; arid who knew nothing of their
having left their former happy home.
We often jested about the rich uncle
in California, 'just like a novel hero,'
as Christie said ; but I . .think they
knew bit - little of him personally, as
he bad resided in A previous to
leaving.for California, and our quiet
home was. in' Cleveland.
Some of Mrs. Burgess' former
friends still visited her, and one of
them, Mrs. Wharton, bad sent Chris
tie an invitation to 'a New Year's
party at her house. As soon as it
was positively decided that she could
not go, because a new evening dress
could not be thought of, the spirit of
the opposition took possession of me,
and I resolved upon the awful ex
travagance of presenting the pretty
girl with a dress for a New Year's
gift. I could make it myself; and,
packed away in my trunk, were a few
jewels that 1 had kept as a relict of
the happy days that I had known in
the past. '
I thought the glowing carbuncles
would suit Christie's brown curls as
well as my own, riven locks, and if
there was pain in the idea of bringing
them to light, and lending them to'
another, Christie's pleasure must bal.:
ance that pain.
New Year's day was,an anniversa
ry whose very name made me sick ;
but, perhaps, : by giving pleasure to
this innocent girl. I might lay some
of the ghosts of memory that rose up
every January to haunt me.
So, in view of all these things, I I
put the ten dollars into my purse
and started to buy. Christie's dress •
It must be a white tarleton, I decid
ed, for that was cheapest, and I could
make the, skirts full enough to dis
pease with a silk lining, and' have
enough for a• white silk waist under
the thin fabric, white gloves, a pair
of dainty slippers a cluster of white
moss roses for the hair and bosom.
I purchased,
_but found my ten dol
lars already exceeded beyond my
calculations, and so turned my steps
homeward, mentally- taking new
gloves and a few needed 'little things'
from my own list.of expenditures.
It was worth it all to see Christie
when I called her to my room on the
afternoon o f the eventful day, and
itatroduced her to the finery spread
out upon my bed. I had worked late
Intoothe night to finish the dreas,and
had taken out my carhuncles with a
fierce heartparig, but when I raw the
beaming happiness on Christie's face
I felt repaid-for hi).
She was fin dressed for the Atty
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TOiVANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, hi., THURSDAY MOiNING,- DECEMBER 29, 1881.
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and arranged every fold of her dress,
before I summoned resolutiottto take
the jewels from tie box. Then,
crushing baCk my pain with a des
perate resolte, I opened the case,
saying, as carelessly as- I could :
'I have some Jewels here, Christie,
I am going to ltind you for this eve
ning.'
'Oh, bow pretty, and bow odd I'
she cried ; 'I never saw carbuncles
set in that pattern. Were they made
to order, Miss Jena'
'Yes I - They were a New Year's
gift to. me - seven years ago, when-I
was your age, Christie. The giver
was something of an artist, and de
signed theffattern himself. I think
I shall ner lay aside mourning. and
probably never wear Jewels again,
and they will glow brilliantly on
your white dress;' and then, fearing
to be questioned, ,I cl a sped the neck-1
lace. around her throat, fastened
bracelet and brooch, let the glowing
red drops fall from her little ears,
and talked hurriedly of:the party and
pleasure . I hoped she would have, tal
-1 wrapped her in a large shawl, and
sent her mothet down to tell our ser
vant girl to get ready to aa,eseort.
She looked at me wistfull y when
we were alGne, her brown eyes ques
tioning my face, but she asked no
questions, only when she kissed me
good-night, she whispered with an
earnest emphasis:
'God grunt you a happy New Year,
dear Miss Jane,' and went down tO
her mother, softly and thoughtfully.
Alone, with the whispered blessing
for company, I fastened my door, and
then turned to my mirror to see what
Any face had betrayed to those ques
tioning, innocent eyes. I taw a small,
frail figure, a face that bad once been
beautiful, that was now white. as runt':
hie, set with hard lines of suffering
and concealed pain, and framed in a
heavy mass of let 'black hair ; eyes
large, black, and full of sadness,
and
a dress of black to add to the dark
reflection.
ta
Seven years before that night my
mirror. had, given to my gaze a form
robed in rich silk dea(white, with
flounces and bertha of rice black lace,
and gleaming on neck and arias the
blood red carbuncics—my blew Year's
gift.- It had shown me a face full
and brilliant with health and. happi
ness, cheeks and lips of crimson, eyes
radiant with hope.and
.10.
I had turned from the mirror 'a
happy maiden' ' with the knowledge
that I was beloved where I loved,
and that below in my father's spa
cious parlors where guests were al
ready assembling, one waited for me,
whose dearest hope in life was the
prospect of claiming ,me in a few
short weeks for his bride. I left the
room to be queen of a festival hostess
of a stately mansion, my father's
idol, and without one cloud upon my
heart.' I came back at midnight an
orphan, hopeless, and heart broken.
My father's partner had secre ly
appropriated the money of, the firm
in some -investment that my father
considered a stain upon his honor.
On that night he learned this for the
first time, and, smarting under the
bitterfiess of disgrace upon his com
mercial name, he c alled
. his partner
into the library • and 'charged him
with having dishonored the
High words followed, finally a blew;
pistols were called for, s4onds kound
among the guests, and an hour later
my father-lay dead with a ball throP
his heart, his partner a fugitive frqm i
'Ustice.
The next day all A— was dis
cussing the story. The use of trust
funds was found to be_added to the
list of charges ,against the firm, and
the ignoble . purposes of expenditure
having failed,r nothing was left to
meet the demands of enraged . credi
tors.
I had no mother to share the grief,
no sister or brother to lighten it. I
wasoll alone. I Was not a strong
minded girl to face the troubles, and
so shut. myself up alone until the
funeral, refusir.g to see even. Charlie.
Then I ran away at'night. I, bad one
friend in Cleveland to,whoth I-dared
to confide all; and I went to her. I
wrote to Charlie, and told him I
shouldnever ask bird to fulfill his
vows to me, releasing him from our
disgrace, and praying God io bless
him ever, I bade him farewell. '
For days after I arrived, at Cleve
land I was utterly prostrated ; but
my friend was kind, and I knew she"
would be, and when I - was able to
think, aided me in all my plans. I
had brought nothing from borne but
the one mourning suit I bad worn at
the funeral, and Charlie's carbuncles.
They were my own, bought with no
stained money, and 1 clung to them,
as one memento of the past I might
dare - to retain.
Mrs. Monroe, my dear, dear friend
was a widow, and childlesei,
upon an income that returned to her
husband's family Ivon his death ;
not wealthy, but ovcupying a good ,
pokition in society. She had been an
old :friend of my mother's and had
visited us more
.than once, always
urging me to return the, visits;.but,
unalle to win my father's consent to
part with me for so long a journey,
for it .was a three days' railing ride
from my old home. As . soon as. I
was able to undertake teaching, Mrs.
Monroe exerted herself to procure
me scholars, and I soon had a class
teat paid me sufficient for my modest
wants.
For six years I had a home in my
friend's house, she atone knowing
that Miss Jane Grey was the missing
Ella Thorne, adVcrtised by her rela
tives, more to save their own reputa
tion than 'from any interest in her
fate. I made no doubt, a nine days'
wonder in A—, and then my un
cles, aunts and cousins probably for
got my existence.
Charlie, perhaps, - was one of those
seeking me, 'but I was resolved to
never share my , fortunes with his.
Some more' fortunate bride, with
wealth and an unspotted name, I
argued, would never , grudge me my
memories anti my carbuncles.
When the death of my friend and
benefactress was added to my list of
sorrons, I was known enough in
Cleveland to retain my scholars, and
found a niw home with Airs. Burgess.•
Need I again say that New Year's
day wss'be NUMMI Of OP per I
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was still sitting with locked door,
brooding over the put, and uncon
scious that. Christie had been gone
three hours, when Mrs: Burgess came
to my room, demanding admittance
in an excited voice. I opened the
door at once.
'Oh, Miss Jane ! Miss Jane 1' she ,
cried. 'Charles has come ! Charles
bdircome I and he wants to see you!'
'Wants to see me?'
'Oh, yes ! It's the strangest thing
altogether - He has been here more
than an hour; he met Christie at the
party ; and, only think, be has been
honie over three Months; part of the
time in .A andpait here, trying
all the time. to and us, so it was no .
wonder Chilstielt - name struck him
at once at thoparty. tiettilli.ed to
her a little while and then came - to
me: But I am talking on, and for
getting we are keeping him waiting.
You will come down.?'
'But what can be possibly -wactof
me?'
'To thank you, I guess, for sending
'Christie:l to the party. Ile knois she
could not have gone but your
kindness.'
.1 'Oh, well, that will keep! Excuse
me this evening, dear .IMrs. Barges's,
and I will be introduced the next
time he calls.'
Oftly half satisfied, she went down
stairs to return in a few minutes with
the extraordinary message—
'Charles says be Must see you
Miss Grey.'
'Well, I will come then,' I said,
thinking it an old gentleman's whim,
and not worth a discussion.
It was sore moments before I was
presentable. The traces of weeping
had to be bathed _ from my eyes ; my
hair was disordered 'where I had
leaned my weary hetid against my
ci air, and I needed some moments of
quiet before Iwas fit to face a strang
er. • • •
I went down stairs very slowly; It:
was painful to me of late yearti to
meet strangers, feeling as I did_ to
some extent like :.n imposter; and I
didn't want to be thanked for Chris-
tie's dress, and I was half inclined to
turn and run away again to my own
room beforel reached the foot of the
staircase.
I went into the dining room a mo
ment first, and there heard a bristle
of arrival. Christie had come .and
wash Again welcoming her uncle.
'They will not miss me I
thought. will go up stairs again,'
and I started for the staircase. But
looking, through a half closed door,
I saw a group in the entry that ar
rested my footsteps. I could not
stir! There-was no Venerable 'white--
haired gentleman, such as I had pic
tured Uncle ,Charles, now standing
before Christie under the entry lamp.
This man was tall and handsome;
barely thirty years'of age, in the full
vigor of youth. Just as I saw him
he was saying :
could not ask you in'those crowd:
ed rooms, Christie; but if you will
unclasp that bracelet for me, and let
me see the initials engrave d
I shalt be very glad: I-isaw a set
like them once. - They are very-odd;
31.iss Grey's, you said ?'
'Yes ; she lent them to me , for this
evening.'
'She—she--bought theth of some
one, did she not ?' •
'Oh; no; they were a New Year's
gift from a friend, Who invented the
design. Here is the bracelet, Uncle
Charles.'
His hand trembled so that be could
scarcely hold it while he read the
initials 'C. R.' to E. T.'
I` could not resist any longer. Try.
ing to steady my steps, I went to
meet hid'.
'Ella! my Ella!' That was the
cry of my faithful lovEr as he clasped
,me in his arms.
'Mine 'again, mine he murmured.
And I, in a dream of bliss that was
almost delirium, could only lie there,
too happy to speak.
'But,' said cbristie, presently,
'what is it all ?' -•
'She is my betrothed wife, little
niece,' he answered in a broken voice,
'whom I have sought for seven long
years, but now will hold till ( - death
parts us,' and he strained me to him,
as if he meant the words literally.
'But why didn't you tell us, Miss
Jane?' said Christie.
'How could I dream that your Un
cle Charles was my Charlie ?' ,
'No; but my half brother's was.'
'Why, to be sure,' said :Mrs. Bur
gess, 'we never told you that Charles
was only a younger half brother.
Misname is Reynolds. Well, Charles,'
she said, half latighing, a few minutes
later, suppose Christie and I may
retire into the back growl Is again '
'Not so he answered quickly:
am a rich man, sister Mary ; and, I
know that the same generous spirit,
that took from a hard-carned pittance
the sum to purchase an 'evening of
pleasure for ray little niece, will be.
willing to share a husband's fortune
with a widowed sister and,her child.
'ls it not 50.,-Ella-P.
'You will not love them .more than
I do already,' I said, sincerely.
c I thought, my cup of joy was lull ;
but, when at last we were alone to
gether, Charlie told me that my dear,
dead father's name - was cleared.
Friends who honored and esteemed
him had thoroughly investigated the
business affairs of , the firm ; and,
after every claim vias honorably set
tled, there was still left a small sum,
carefully invested for the only child
of the merchant, should she ever re
turn to or answer the adver
tisements from time to time published
in the Journal.
We bad a quiet wedding in the
Spring. Christie was my only brides
maid ; but we returned to A—,
taking the widow and her , daughter
'with us. And, in my 'Old home,
among my old friends, I now preside
the Happy wife of my first; only love;
while on festive occasions II still wear
Charlie's carbuncles. •
' THE , Ilan, Woman or Child who can in
flict unneeded suffering on isbrute, or see
such suffering inflicted without protest,
is the brute's inferior.
EVICTIT citizen of the Republic is under
patriotic obligations to take part in pub
lic affairs, and should not be frightened
away from the obligation by the howl or
it pacipian " made by igacTat or min.
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Fairly Caught.
'YouWIU have a holiday on Thanks.
giving,!-'said Mrs. Breezy, helping
her hust4nd to applesauce.
'Yes. dear,' said ]!ilr. Breezy. 'But
I thought It would be an excellent
time to. ; look over my books at the
office. to one to come in and both-
• A suppose so,' said Mrs. Breezy,
looking* her husband with a decid
edly ske ptical' smile. 'You are such
an industrious man I should really
be' prowl to own you for a husband.
How commendable it is in you to
give up ,the pleasure of a toliday for
the sake of your business. You feel
it to bea duty yow owe us, your wife
and children, to keep your business
in ordei. What a pathetic picture
of love, and duty you will' present,
Mr. Breezy, perched up before your
desk and hard at work over long col
umns otdry figures, while all the rest
of the World is going for' pleasure
and a hOliday. Then you really think
it necefitiery to remain at, your office'
all day ?z You couldn't take a half
holiday ; 'now, could you, Mr.,Breezy ?'
'Well ; no, dear; you seer:
'Oh, of course,' said Mrs. Breezy.
'Those horrid.books, I suppose now,
Mr. Bret*, they will keep you work
ing until tear midnight, and you will
Come twine with a headache, and :all
used up after your -long day's-labor.
Poor man, how hard you do find it
-to take care of us ungrateful
n crea
tures ! f Up in the morning at seven.
and :away , to your business before
eight, and. always posting books on
holidays. Now, you couldn't make
an, exception of this Thanksgiving ,
could you, dear ? Of course, we d o
not wish to turn you from duty, but
the children and I have planned a
little excursion to some matinee—'
`I am very sorry. dear t to disap
point you,' said Mr. Breezy, hurried.
ly. 'But our _books are all mixed
up and—'
'Oh, of course; we will not urge
you Mr. Brea) , ; it would not 'be
right,' said Mrs. Breezy. 'What
would' become of your business, if
you didn't work like the poor old
slave that , you are ?_ I can see you
now, bending over your desk, and
not even taking time to glance out
of the window or eat your lunch.
You know ; dear, we have a noon
dinner on Thanksgiving." Now,„
couldn't you spare the time to run
home and take dinner?':
'l'm iafraid not,' said Mr:Breezy
'That Will take at least an hour - and
a
'To be sure, ' said Mrs. Breezy ;
'how unreasonale in me to ask you .
But I might' save your dinner for
you. Now, about what time will you
get through with those terrible books?'
'You see, - dear',' said Mr. Breezy,
looking, furtively ,st his wife. 'As'
you say, it may keep me late into
the night, and just stop on my
way home and get a few oysters—'
'As you think best, dear,' said Mrs.
Breezy. 'By the way, dear, here is a
postal card the postman left for you
just befOre you came down,' and Mr.
Berry read :
'Dear B.—l'm in for the racket on
Thanksgiving, and Many thanks.
Will join your party at the brewery
sharp at 9 . As you say, we will
doubtless have a h. o. t.--high old
time. Hope you have flied it all
right with the old girl --Burlingtoii
Hawkeye.
Ancient River-Beds.
It is a fact probably not generally
known that the whole surface of the
State ofiMaine is streaked with the
beds of rivers which flowed through
the ice during the glacial period
The river-beds or deposits now exist
in the Torm of ridges, -and are geo
logically known as horseback or
whaleb.icks. In some instances they
form a continuous embankment,
with level surfaces, on which roads
have been constructed. They are
formed of sand, gravel and pebbles -
brought down by the water or im
bedded in the ice floe. We remem
ber once in a stage ride from Brown
ville to Oldtown driving for miles
on the top of one of these trarse
back ridges. It was well defined,
being little mare than sufficient in
width for the road-bed. Our atten
tion hes been ;called to this subject
by a pampblet-by Professor George
H. Stone, •farnierly of Kent's Hill
Seminary. now of Colorado College,
Colorado Springs. He has made a
study of these ancient river-beds,
which-i are scientifically known as
ha:ma-and in the-A?liper before us
shows an intimate knowledge of the
topography of ,Maine. He traces
the kames from their sources in the
narrow gorges of the bills, through
long distances,
.until they spread out
in some instances into gravelly plains
He gives a. map of the hams of
Maine, showing - that the surface of
the State is striated with a surpris
ing number of these' ridges, which
I testify to the ice-sheet, which once
covered eastern North. America. As
the ice melted rivers were formed,
flowing between walls 'of ice and
carrying in their waters a detritus,
which in its gradual deposit formed
these now elevated river-beds. One
of these kames,' traced by Professor
Stone, and called by him the Port
land system, began with the waters
of Lake Welokennebacook, flowing
through, the narrow pass of the
Black Brook and on down the valley
of the Ellis Mier, through Runiford
and . , Woodstock, to Bryant's Pond.
Here it is known as the whaleback,
and is very distinctly . marked. It
continues on through Oxford, Po
land, New Gloucester and Gray,
reaching, with short interruptions,
to'Stevens' Plains, where another
gap occurs, and it then reappears in
gravel bars, on Bramball's hill .and
Munjory's bill in Portland. It has
an entire lerigth of about 105 miles.
Along this Course a great kame river
once flowed, forming bars, here at its,
mouth in Portland.' Prof. Stone
describes '3i of these kame systems
in Maine, of varybig length. They
frequently cross low. hills, showing
that the kame rivers were not de
flected by hills less than 200 feet
high. Flowing from north to south,
their courses are not deflected east
or woo bytbe halo otiorlf 60 mob
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as are the streams of to-day. There
are frequent gaps in them, but all lie
along continuous lines of valleys , or
Over level ground, and all - are prac
ticable lines for railroads. In many
instances they cross the bed of lakes,
sometimes for many miles, and can
be' traced under the water. It is in
teresting to consider that we have
thus in our State two river systems,
the ancient and the ;:modern, that of
the gtaeigl period and that of to-day;
the one leaving beds elevated above
the general surface, the other con
tinuing the : work of erosion below
the beneral level. The one wore
away the great ice sheet, the other is
wearing away the bills and bringing
the earth's surface to a uniform
level. --Portland (Me.) Transcript.
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Mir -often do. we hear the query,
beComes ot all the . dead
birds 7' The secret'of their myster•
ious disappearance was but just now
half told by the buzz of those brown
wings, and the Other half is welcome
to any one who wilt take the - trouble
to follow their lead. 'This beetle is
one' of man's incalculable benefac
tors„ It is his mission to keep fresh
and pure the air we breathe. He is
the sexton that takes beneath the
mould not only the fallen sparrow,
but the mice, the , squirrels, and even
meet, larger creatures that in our
woods and fields.
Beneath that clathp of yarrow I
found just what ;I had expected—a
small dead bird—and, the grave dig.
gers were in the midst of their work.
Already the rampart of fresh earth
iias raised around the body, 'and the
cavity was growing deeper with
every moment, as the busy diggers
excavated the turf beneath.
Now and then-one would - emerge
on a Tour of inspection, even rum
maging among the feathers of that
silent throat, and climbing upon the
plump breast to press down the little
body into the deepening grave.
These nature burials are by-no
means Tare, and where the listless
eye fails to discover them, the nos;-
t ils will often indicate the way, and
t any One-desirous of witnessing the'
o ration, - without the trouble of
arch4t is only necessary to place
id some convenient spot of loose
earth the carcass of some small -ani
mal. The most casual observer
could not fail !soon to. be attracted
by the orange spotted beetles. En
toinologists assert "that these insects
are attracted by the odor of decay,
but from my own humble investiga
tions I have never been able to fully
reconcile' myself to this theory. -
If it were the . question of odor
alone in this dead-bird, for instanca,
it'would be difficult to explain the
bee-line Sight( of these humming
beetles; two of which came swiftly
toward me even from the direction
of the wind, and dropped quickly
upon these feathers hidden from
sight among the grass. Perhaps in
such. an instance we might imagine
that they had- been there before, and
knew the way; that they had noted
this clump of yarrow, maybe; but I
have observed the fact before when
there was every reason 'to believe
that no such - previous visit had been
made.
I am alwayi glad of the opportu
nity to watch the progress of these
meadow buiials. And had you ac
companied me on that morning wait.,
you would have looked with interest
at those little - undertakers—seen
that feathery - body toss and heave
with strange mockery of life as the
busy sextons worked beneath it, dig
ging with • their -fs‘piked thighs,
shoVeling out the Mose earth with
their broad heads, and pulling down
the body into the deer ened cavity:—
Gibson in Har
per's Magazine.
- Although paleontology is a com.
paratively youthful scientific sped
alty, the mass of materials with
which it has to deal is already pro
digious. In the last! fifty' years the
number of known fossil remains of
invertebrated animals has been treb
led or quadrupled. The work of in
terpretation of vertebrate fossils, the
foundations of whiclr were so solidly
laid by envier, was carried on with
wonderful vigor and success by
Agassiz in •Switzerland,' by Ton
Meyer in Germany, and last but not
least, by Owen in this country, while
in later years a multitude of work
ers have labored in the same field.
In many groups of the animal king _
dom the number of fossil' forms
already known is as great. as that of
the existing species. In some cases
it is much greater; and there are en
tire orders of animals of the exiat
ence of which we should know noth
ing except for the evide_nce afforded
by fossil remains. With all this it
may be safely assumed , that at the
present moment we.are not acquaint
ed with a tithe of the fossils which
will sooner or later bediscovered.
If We may judge by the Profusion
yielded within he last few years by
the tertiary fOrrnations of North
America, there_ ;seeing to be no limit
.to the multitude of mammalian re
mains to be expected from that con
tinent, and analogy leads us to ex
pect similar riches in- Eastern Asia
whenever the tertiary - foemations of
that region are as carefully explored.
Again, we have as yet almost every
thing to learn,respectine. the terres
trial population of' the Mesozoic
epoch—and it seems .as if the west
ern Territories of the United States
were about to prove as instructive in
regard to this point as they have in
respect of tertiary life. My friend
Professor Maish informs me that,
within two years, remains of more
than one hundred sand sixty distinct
individuals of mammals, belonging
to twenty species and nine genera,
have been found in a space not lar
ger than the floor of a good-sized
room ; while beds of the same ago
have yielded three hundred reptiles,
varying in size from a length of
sixty or eighty feet to the dimen
sions of a rabbit.—Professor T. IL
Maley in Popular 'Science gonthly.-
houseman is said to be beistly,
This . ill a Oltpdim or. ti 4 WO* 1111140111
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Nature's Undertakers.
Paleontology.
1111.00 par Annum In Advance.
NUMBER 31
THE NEW YEAR:
Oyer the threshold, a pliant new-comer
SRppetb with tread_that is royal Wage ;
White as the ainter-time, rosy as slimmer,
flopcLin his eyes, and his laugh ringeth free.
in his hands there are gifts overflowing.
Promises. Proyhecles come in his train ;
07er him the dawn In his beauty is glowing.
Fleet from his presence the shadows of pain.
How shall we:welcome him? Shall we remember
this who as royally came to our doer
Twelve months ago, when the winds of December .
Moaned in the tree-tops, and raved on the shore?
He, too, had largest of bounty to offer;
He was miemlling, as (radon% of mien ;
Only the beautiful sought he to proffer,
Only such loolts is were balm and serene.
Now he has fled, mid oar hives that have perished,
Lovely ideals which sever were round
Dreams that we followed, and plans that we cher
hated,
7,1 e, llki - the autumn leaves. dead on the ground.
So wilt thoit chest us with sign and with token,
So wilt thou woo us to follow thee on,
Till thy last sigh, through a lute that is broken,
Till thy last visionis fsied and gone,
Nay l,we are thinness indeed tf we borrow
Only the weary libretto of pain ; •
Find • in the retrospect nothing tint sorrow,
Count up our year in the tones that complain.
Surely we're stronger through faith and endeavor,
Surely are richer in courage and love ;
Surely are nearer the Ittlinitp ever,
Nearer the dear ones whiNialt us aVove.
Welcome, then, New Year, , with stainless pages;
Though we may blot them ere long-with our
tears ; . .
So It has been through the long passing ages,
Worn with the',c o otprints of close-erowding
Welcome, sweet year I may thy full banded hours
Find us, like servants who waif for their Lori],
Using wittLearnest devotion our poWers, '
Looking for film and obeying fill word,
How They Missed the Masque
- ' rade. ..
'Say, my i Oear,' said Mr. Spoopen
dyke, as h kignied in hot andbreath
less, 'did you.. get me' ah fancy dress
for the masquerade to-night ?'
It's all ready,'. replied _Mrs. Spoo
pendyke, beaming. 'You go as—let
me see—l- go as a Spanish guitar
girl and 'you go as—as it's either
Louis XIV or 'Oliver Cromwell - or
Sir Robert Bens • I've forgotten
which th e man called it.'
'I do, do 11' said Mr. Spoopendyke,
glaring around. 'I go as one of 'em,
do I ? As they are all °= dead, and as
I will do for all three p'raps you got
a coin. l Fetch out the inconvertible
catafalqhe and help me on with it.'
Has it got sleeves?' -
'lt isn't a coffin,' explained Mrs.;
Spoopendyke. It's a doublet rind—'
'lt's a doublet, is; it? Well, that
relieves me Of one of 'em. I thought
from the way. you spoke, Mrs. Spoo
pendyke; it was a triplet. Is there a
trouser with it ? Got a shirt ? I
told you to get me a bandit 'suit,
didn't I? Fetch out this Cromwell
business! Show - me this Ulan Burns!
Any sword go with it?'
Mrs."Spoopendyke . brotight, forth a
worn red-velvet jacket, trimmed with
tarnished braid, and a pair of yellow
velvet knee-breeches, slashed up the
side. , This she supplemented with. a
felt hat, and a pairof jack b oots arm
ed with spurs.
'Maybe it's a bandit's snit, after
all,' sh 3 suggested.
'Which is the Louis XlV..endl of
this thing?' demanded Mr. Spoopen
dyke. ''Where does the Oliver Crom
well begin ? Show ' met the Burns
clement on this schedule! ,If I'm
going to get in_this' thing pronologi- ,
cally I must begin with the measly
king and windbff with the doggasted
poetry; whibh is the king part ?''
and Mr: Spoopendyke shot out of his
business suit and drewl'on .the velvet .
trousers. 'Where's the rest of 'em ?'
he demanded, surveying an expanse'
0 . unclothed limb. 'This wholething
is only, one leg. Where's the pair
for the other leg? Give mei some'
more trousers;' and Mr. Spoopendyke
scowled about him. -
'Don' the boot's come -'
to up meet
them?' 'said Mrs. Spoopendyke; in
sortie trepidation. ! - i
Mr. S p Pulled on the
boots, but still there was an exposed
space of nearly a foot. i
'I s'pose this - bare-legged' arrange
ment is the Burn's part,' grinned Mr.
Spoopendyke. ,'He was a L Highlan
der, and this much of me is . Mims.
Show me the' Cromwell .part now.
Is that hat it?' and Mr. Spoopendyke
put on the hat and - breathed
I liad.
'Where's the rest of me ? My bead
and legs are all right; bring out my
back and stomach r _ , / -
Mrs. Spoopendyke handed him the
jacket and he pulled into &with a
jerk. . , ,1 -
, ,
'That's what you wanted ?' be howl.
ed.—Touldn't you make' mere than
three epochs of me f Didn't i,he man
have more than three historical dates?
-Pull that jacket down 'a couple of
centuries, can't ye ? Don't you.see
the bottom of 'that dog.gasted thing
is two hundred years from touching
the waistband of the Burns breeches ?'
and Mr. Spoopendyke tugged at the
abbreviated coat and snorted with
wrath.
'Maybe that was the e
:way it, was
meant to go,' argued M rs. Spoopen
dyke. 'I saw—
'You sawed off the coat and pants,
now ii'Poie you saw off a rod of this
bat and patch 'em out again. When
did Cromwell wear that hat? , What
sort of a bet did he win that on
,?
Say, where's -the scaffold that goes
with these measly politicians ? Fetch
out - the headsman P and Mr: Spoo
pendyke _danced into , the closet and
out again. 'Where's the blouse that
goes With the Burns part ? Bring
me some Charles I. to hide illy leg !'
'"Praise God from whom all blessings
flow," for man was made to mourn
because head was chopped off,'
shrieked Mrs. Spoopendyke Cembin
ing the historical ideas he represented
in one grand yell. Fetch me three
suppers for one dodgasted old idiot
that trusted' his wife to find a suit
for him l' and Mr. Spoopendyke
thrust his arm to the -shoulder
through the Convenanter's hat, and
I split the coat off the lamented Louis
from tail to collar-band. 'Look out,
for Scotch romances ? and he ripped
I off the pants and tired them into the
grate.. 'Here comes another page'in
the annuals of crime !' and the boots
went out of the - window. .
'And we can't go—go
_to the mu
—mtis—masquerade at all ?' sobbed
Mrs. Spoopendyke. • - -
iVirrite;an eltsph on the beak of
ay nook ! rn4 I'l l go so fk t 911, 2 111
, .
atone!' ys.wped Mr. S yke.
'Put three balls in my and a
torn stair-carpet at my back, and
ho ass French fist! Discharge the
ired girl and get up a cold dinner;
and I'll go as a betiding house
But if you think I'm going 'to any
measly masquerade in bare legs like
a baby, and bare-backed like a cir
cus, just to , advertise a human-book,
a gin:mill ;and a broad-az factory,
your left, Mrs. Spoopendyke. Yoa
hear me T 1 You're left 1' and Mr.
Spoopendyke drew on his nightshirt.
'lt's tcoi. awfully mean for any
mused Mrs. Spoopendyke, as
she laid 's l imy the Spanish guitar
girl's costume, and warmed tip her•
crimping pins. trfed to get mime
thing that would suit' him, _ and he
don't appear pleased with it.
Another time: I'll get him a sheet
and a pitir of_socks so be .can be a
Roman Senator, and: if he is disap
pointed find tears 'em up, it .won't
cost him; much.' With which pro
found reflection Mrs. Spoopendyke
said her prayers, and planting her
cold feet in Mr. Spoopendybe's
-stomach sank gently to rest.
The Ages.
Prehistoric .arctueolgy advances
rapidly. It is not so very long ago
since.Worsaae's epoch-making book
first firmly ,establisbed'tbe primitive
division of the early !Inman past in
to the three ageti - of stones, of bronze
and of iron. Then clime the dis
coveries of Boucher do Perthes and
others, systematized by Lyell, which,
resulted in the recognition of that
still earlier stone Nriod described -
by 'Sir John Lubbuck as paleolithie.
Since that date the,archaeologists of
France and England have advanced
to 4 regular classifiCation in order of
time of the vast heterogeneous col
letion of human ,remains belonging
to the elder stone age but the re
sults of their researches have hardly
yet obtained sufficient general recog
nition outstde the restricted scien
tific circle- -It is probable that most
cultivated people still continue men
tally, to diviW.he prehistoric period -
into threeliges:of "stone, bronze and
iron, and tesubdivide the firitinamed
age into a paleolithic and neolithic
epoch. Iri4eality such a division,
though practically convenient, is
grotesquely /disproportionate. The
so called stone age is made to ex
tend over an' enormous lapse of time,
and to inchi de portions of the geo
logical tert i ary- period, the whole of
the quartenary, and part of the re
eent ; while the small remainder of
the recentjperiod is Landed over to
the bronie,' and' iron ages. This
scheme hi almost as absurd as a
division of English history into the
'Victorian, thb Georgian, and the
pre-Georgian dpociis, the last named
being subdivided-once more into the
Anglo-Saxon 'and Elizabethan piri
ods. F rench archaeologists have far
;more c orrectly recognized six main
'divisions of prehistoric time, the
first fire being equivalent to what we
ordinarily describe as the paleolithic
ago, and the sixth comprising neo- .
lithic, brerize.and iron ages, or the
'=recent" 'period of geologists. It is
only by such, stricter and more
chronologically accurate subdivision
that we can - properly appreciate the
great slowness of human evolution
in its earlier stages, and'the vast
lapse of time coverEd by the so-called
paleolithic period—Pall Mall Ga—
zette. -
-WHY IS IT ?—Bob Buidette, in the
Burlington Hatckeye, gives this bit
of advice : You want to know, do
you, my son, why it is that with all
your management, you can't live on
your salary and are always in debt
at the end of the year? Well, I will
tell you, Telemachus, why it is, and
it won't cost you a dollar fur the in
formation. It'S because you're try-
WO° have a $1,200 time on a $6OO
salary, and it :can't lbe [did. • Older
Men than you have tried 'it and filled
right along. A. S3OU bOarding-house
-and a $3OO livery stable just exaetly
cuts the last coupon off your salary,
and how - the man:who makes your
,clotbes expects to get ;anything out
of you is more than yoU can tell-him.
Yours is a refy simple case, my dear,
and .you can npply the remedies
/yourself, iwt.t, .r4i the necessary
I operation vkith.,o the presence of a
consulting sargebn4 'Will it hurt?'
My poor boy, yo - ii can bet your last
dollar that it will hurt,. It will make
you squirm a thousand times a day,
and 'then you'll fed as though you
were in Paradise. Begin treatment
at 'once; the longer you wait the
worse - your cage will oe and the more
you'll dread it.
Thitughtful Thoughts.
A Kim) word spoken costs nothing. and
yet it often conveys more real happiness
than - would silver or gold.
I I
A GENlAL : nature that makes the pos
sessor of it feel that the whole world' is
kin, is one Of the best gifts that can. be
bestowed upon Man or woman.
Tun conduct of many people almost
makes one/believe that it is vinegar that
their heart palpitations are sending
through theirlarteries and veins, instead
of human bloOdi,
EVEnvtintlitlidual owes something to
society aS well as to himself, and when
any opt - ) lives simply within himself, it
sugge.ts:that a mistake was made - in his
creation; and that he should have been an
oyster or a turtle.
WSALTuId the heart is more to be ad
mired thau wealth of the pa ket, bat
when the tWoare combined good works
flow, out like benedictions.
iPurnE aid vanity are indications of lu
nacy, for any one who.has at all practiced
that recommendation of the Philosopher
to " know:thYself," and has sense enough
to properly appreciate his study thereof,.-,
Will rise from his self-investigation in is_
very humble spirit -
llotinTY is the foundation of all -the
virtues. Without it, character is built
upon shifting sands, and professions are
but empty sounds,
Tart Trenton (N. J.) Q alsite, mentions
the case of Mr. John Wood, with the
Atnerican , ro•tery Co„ that city, who was
cured by St. J icobs Oil of an attack_of
rheumatism, Voit h had confined 'him to
his bed fOr sert bun necks. He praises
it urastintOiy.
IT is a gothl home education that fits
the growing getterati.in to strengthen tbe
State and s the church. Too many parenls
try to shirk parental responsibility by
throwing their children out on Me secular
and Sunday •schools.
:..A BOY Oho smokes segars in the streets
will in nine cases out of ten grow into a
rowdy and drunkard.
THE youpg Woman who resigns herself
to the parlor while her mother does the
work of the house, may be angelic in ap
pearance, but fails in the substantial qual
ity of angelic virtues.
yr is a great mistake to teach 'growing
daughters that to marry - should be their
chief object in life. They should be taught
self-reliance, and to marry, if they ma rry
at all, from other motives - than to "be
kept."
HATZBVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 11, 1880
I am very Out to say I have tried Hop
Bitters, and never took anything that did
me as much good. I only took two bot
tles, and I would not take $lOO for the
good they did me. 1 recommend them
to my pati6nts, apd get the beat MIIO
from their go,
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