THE ~:MONTROSE • DEMOCRAM
VOLUME XXX.
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little urchins
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A tremendous roar.
l i nty don't you I eep quiet?
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Bless me I this is pleasant,
Keeping public school.
Eighty little pilgrims?
On the road to fame!
If they fall to reach it,
Who will be to blame?
nigh and lowly etationt,
Birds of every leather,
On a common level, •
Here are brought together.
Dirty little faces,
Luring little Mewls.
Dyes brituNl of mischief,
Skilled In all the arta,.
That's a precioas darling!
What arc you about?
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()tilers cutting didoes,
' What a bothenttlon
Nu wonder we grow crusty
Front such association.
Anxious parent dmps in,
Merely to inquire
Why his olive branches
Do not shoot up higher?
Says he wantslits children
To mind their p's and q's,
And hopes their brilliant talents
Will net be abused.
Institute attending.
Making our reports,
Giving object lessons.
Class drills of all aorta;
Reading dissertations
Feeling like a fool—.
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Of keeping public schooL
Ehe ffitorg
THE PHILOSOPHT OF LOVE
In the last instalment of Mr. Ilerbert
Spencer's exposition of the phdosophiiml
system which is to give us un ex plait.
non—so far as an explanat wn can he
given—of the whole universe, we meet
with an interesting passage upon the pas
sions of love. The advocates of the evo
lution hypothesis are sometimes ca led
materialists. That word is too often t sed
as "atheist" is used in theological, or a
good roand oath in popn'ar dismission,
simply to indicate disagreemmt coupled
with moral disapproval. The fallacy
which it involves in this ease might be
easily exhibited. The gin Mite material
ists of the last century, were in tact game
to main Mining Oast onrhiftiest sentiments
were in •rely modifications of the most
earthly instincts.
Ltistlansursumo =talc& stns' nest well reeved
Is g awk,
ucciatdin,ta-Popa; and some very equi
vocal salamis lisve been preached uent
his tell. Sup:rtiehtl read,rs ha e fancied
that, because Mr..lsarwin or Mr. Herbert
helieves-thitt' man has Wen en
volved by incoiMt..iv.ifily minute chaiiir. s
from some inferior organism, therd - ate
our emotions and thouelits are nothing
but transformations of the blind see:a
te:ins of the lowest forms of I.fe.
misconception is pat pahle. Seine= might
conceivably thaw under what conditions
intellect first manifested itself, but it
would not be one step the nearer to dis
covering a hat was the essence of intel •
lect. It might explain the how, hut can
throw no light upon the whit. Thus We
Mid that Mr. Herbert Splqicer's descrip
tion of the passion called love has noth
ing in it c.slculitted to shock the must
ep ritual philosopher. It is, he says, an
emotion of the highest complexity and
consequently of the greatest strength.—
Around the purely physical elements
; gather all varieties Of powerlul emotions
I which blend and unite in the closest
harmony. First come all the impressions
which are. produced by the beautiful, the
explanation of which would involve a
l u ng and most difficult analysis. Then
we have the sentiment of affection, which
ay exist between persons of the same
sex, but which undergoes a special exal
tatien when existing between lovers.—
' Next come the sentiments of admiration
or reference; and, beyond them again,
the love of approbation, which is keenly
excited by the knowledge that we are
preferred to all the world, and preferred
14 one *Lem we admire beyond all others
Allied to this is the sentiment of self-ap
proial, when- we are flattered by the sense
of the great merit to which we owe so
great a triumph. Beyond this is the
"proprietary feeling," or the pleasure of
mutual possession. And, finally, there is
an exaltation. of the sympathies when
our pleasures are heightened by the close
participation' of another person in all
our enjoyments, We need not ingoire
whether the analysis is complete or cc
curate; at any rate it illustrates pretty
fairly the amaziu,g complexity .et a pas
sion which. we are apt to describe" as sim
ple. When a young gentleman at a ball
sees the young lady WIIO is above all other
young ladies that enter the room, he is
conscious only of a keen thrill of emo
tion, so vivid and powerful as to displace
every other sentiment for the time, If Mr.
Herbert Spencer were standing by • him
and were to propose to give him a lecture
on the constituent elements of his pits
slop, we fear, though we mean no dare
sited to Mr. Spencer, that he would con
sider the philosopher to be a bore. But
perhaps a few years afterward, or possi
bly on the next_ day, if his suit should
hate come to an untimely catastrophe,
he might be _inclined to to take his pas•
sinen - to pieces, and he would recognize
the justice of the most of, the moar.ks
which we have summarized. In that
case he Would perhaps find the oxplana,
Lion ofsome phenomena which are a
littiolmating to bystanders, tharighthe
loverAtimseif . hai not the leisure. to at.
tend to them.
ITl:3==!
Thus, fiw, example; everybody is finA ,
sled . by the extraordinary caprices of love.
making. 'rue ladies who say in 'novels
that tbeyr 'cannot. understand "what he
conld see in her" are generally held- up
"TRUTH AND RIGHT : GOD AND OUR COUNTRY."
MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1873.
to ridicule as obviously blinded by jeal
ousy. And yet their want of perception
is not only sincere, but is shared by per
fectly impartial spectators. When we
see the way in which marriages are
brought about in the world, we wonder
that fife pursuit of matchmaking should
be found so interesting by amiable per
sons. Of course match-making as a varie
ty of fortune-hunting is only too intel
ligible; but there is a match-making of a
much less sordid variety. All amiable
women take the keenest delight in. at
tempting to pair off their friends and
relations according to their own views of
the fitness of things. And yet they are
always meeting with the strangest, and,
at first sight, the most unaccountable
disappointments. The man of intellect
has ar. extraordinary taste for stupid wo
men ; the handsome man of fashion is
carried off by a poor, ugly. and common
ptacewoman ten years older than him
self; the pompous prig secures the bright
est and liveliest of her sex; fox-bunters
attract poetesses, and poets marry wives
who can do nothing but mend their
shirts,
Such strange contrasts have led to the
developement of the plausible theory
that people are attracted rather by quali
ties complementary than by qualittes simi
lar to their own. This doctrine, how
ever, fails by being too comprehensive.—
We must often admit that like often at
tracts like; and if we add that like also
attracts unlike, we have a theory which
explains nothing, because it explains ev
erything. Every match that ever was or
ever will be made may be brought under
one category or the other; but until we
can give some reason for telling before.
hand which set of closes is likely to be
operative in a given case, we are no near
er an explanation than we were before--
The only general rule at which we have
been enabled to arrive by experience is
the rather discouraging one that people
whom we like always marry people whom
we dislike. Friends seem to have a per
verse delight in forming new combina
tions which may be as discordant as pos
sible with their ancient ties.
We do not, however, see our way to
erecting any philosophical theory upon
this,exaerience, unless as it goes to tis
trati Artemus Ward's doctrine of the
"cussedness," of things in general.
Mr. Herbert Spencer's analysis may
parhaps help us to understand some of the
conditions of the problem, though the
philosopher has yet to arise who will be
able to tell us from the inspection of a
young lady or gen:lemon what. will be
the character of his or her future part
ner. In the first Owe, it is to be remark
ed than some of the elements which he
describes du not cutter into the passion in
many cases, or at least do not en er into
it; earlier stages. Self-est-em, for exam.
pie, is the reward for ancceesful love-mak
ing. and strengthens the passion when it
has once been formed; but it can not b•
the primary cause. Mere contiguity is
very often a sufficient explanation of the
phenomenon. A man and woman brought
together is Robinson Crusoe's is!and
would almost inevitably tall in love, how
ever unpromising their characters might
be. And, though London is very unlike
a desert island, there are freqpently El 1.11:1,
tions, even in the most crowckd societies,
where conditions subitant ially are repro
duced. There are cirenuPtances tinder
which it would he almost a breach of good
manners not to indulge in a little flirta
tion. A human being has such a variety
of strtng feelings in a state of solution
that any object will be sufficient to d e ter.
mine their crystalization. This is, indeed,
.he primary axiom on the subject. We
have all a vast amount of disposable emu
lion ; we all tong to admire am) be ad
mired; we are grateful for compliments;
we wish to have something to tall our
own ; we want our sentiments to be con
firmed by sympathy; and therefore, when
once any accident has, so to Speak,
drawn the slnicer,a whole torrent of emo
tion rushes into the channel provided for
it, and we attribute to the one externid
and assignable cause what really results
from our state of feeling. Besides a par
ticular match has exploded the magazine
we absurdly argue that nn other match
would have time eqnally well. We set up
the first idol that comes to hand,nnd sup
pose that its perfections are the sole cause
of our worship something has prepared
us to prostrate oniselyes before uny other
shrine that offers itself. Love being a
compound of sa many forces, any one
which is set in action draws all the rest
after it by the principle of association.
But all this does not answer the question
as to how our choice is first determined.
Ayoung gentlemen in London may see
some hundreds of young ladies before he
is brought down by one who •is perhaps
amongst the least apparently attractive of
the whole number. That is the pnzzle
which is constantly reclining; and a so
lution of it would be of immense value
to all match makers, whether of the loft
ier or .the baser variety. What is the'
most promishig method of attack?
Which of all vanies that may precipitate
the passion is the most generally -availa
ble? If philosophers could tell us that,
they would have taken the first step to
wards
placing an occupation ; now pur
sued on purely empirical principles, - upon
true scientific grounds. •
Iu such•a question we can of course
give no satisfactory answer.
It they be observed, however, that it
has been very much obscured by the 4a
bore of novelists. Novels are supposed.
to be the• embodiment of the author's
knowledge of human nature; a suppo
sition to which there is the trifling objec
tion that very few novelists know ;any
thing at humane nature, and that at
most they are familiar with particular in
stances and not with general. principles.
They of course go upon the general as
sumption that their hero.andleroine are
to be a3•attmctive as possible. and ; they
lay particular stress upon the meritmost
easily described—that of personal beauty.
"June Bryon for a time set the fashion of
ugly heroines, but we have long since re
verted to the old system, Accordingly
an exaggerated estimate is placed upon
the charms of beauty, and upon the emir
able gallitica of plod and person which
form paet.oP- theordinary ideal of remit*
the merit The error involved in this
doctrine is that itlortfar too moot ere=
on the objective as distinguished from
the sullied( ive causes of falling in love.—
It assumes that the passion is determined
by the external rather than by the inter
nal Impulses ; that a person falls in love
because an attractive object is presented
to him or het, and not because he 6r she
is' prepared lor• a passion of some kind.
When the true principle is firmly grasped,
it is obvious that the most successful
match-makers must be those who adopt a
different line of attack. Amongst the
passions, for example, which go to form
the aggregate, is the desire for sympathy.
Suppose then, that a young gentleman;
has a taste for political economy, or pig
eon shooting. tie may be assailed more
effectively by a plain young woman who
will submit to hear him lecturing on the
theory of rent and the incidence of taxa
tion, or wbo will applaud his successful
slaughter of birds, than by the most
beautiful girl who will not condescend to
take an interest in his pursuits.' The
great art of flattery provides the most ef
ficient instruments for bringing down
game of this kind. A clever man often
prefers a fool to a clever woman, because
the fool has the one talent of listening,
and the clever woman may have the van
ity to keep opinions of her own. The
brilliant man of fashion is attracted by
the apparently uninteresting old maid,
because nothing is more flattering than
that humble adoration which other wo
men are too proud to bestow. Almost alt
cases of perverse matches may be explain
ed after the event by the skill or the acci
dental felicity with which a commerce of
reciprocal flattery has been established.
Once put two people in that minden, and
all the associated emotions may easily be
introduced. It is as easy to produce an
aesthetic admiration by working upon the
desire for sympathy as to proceed iu the
inverse method; and the assumption that
we should always begin with what is sup
posed to tie the natural beginning is the
cause of half our perplexities. But
though these seem to be the first princi
ples of the science, we admit that its
complexity baffles all attempts at a syste
matic deduction of its remoter doctrines.
Luckily or otherwise. some people bave
developed so much practical skill in ap
plying the most efficient methods that a
philosophy of the art seems to be super
fluous us well as chimercial.
Florence's Promise.
——o—
On a Saturday morning„ about the mid
dle of last December, might have been
seen getting into a second-class carriage
at Oxford a num with a bag, a gun-ease.
and a bull-terrior. That was myself,
Claude Henniker.
Use of my guardians was my nncle,
Guy Henniker, my father's younger and
only brother, who had inherited all the
family prverty, to tho exclusion of my
fat her.
My uncle Guy was childless.; acid dur
ing the four and a half years I had been
at Oxford he had continually written to
me, asking about my peognosa, and ad
ding each time that,if I did well, I should
never have cause to regret it. A fort•
night Ir fore I went in form lust examina
tion, 1 had the following laconic epistle
from the old man :
"My DEAR 13Jr: Write and. tell me
when you can come to me. House near
ly full. I have kept some presents for
you. Mrs. lietterton and her daughters
are h.-re. Don't forget to do well in your
examination to please your old
Dane) L at getting aw.ty from examina
tion rooms and examiners, sorrow at
leaving Oxford, were mingled with anx
ious thoughts of Florence Betterton and
surmises us to the terms ou which we
should meet.
During my first long vacation I had
met Florence Betterton down in Devon
shire, at a lovely seaside place near the
Chase, where uncle Guy lived. The Bet
terton family had since that time struck
up an acquaintenance with my uncie,and
how they were living with him. Flor
ence and I had gone through all the
stages of s rigorous flirtation in that
happy month at the seaside, when I came
down avowedly to study Thucydides, but
really to read Tennyson aloud to my
goldenhaired beauty. When we partifi
there was a clear understanding between
us that we were all in all to each other,
backed by a distinct promise of mutual
eons'ancy. Six months afterward I re
ceived a verbal message through a mutu
al friend that she had ceased to care for
me. , So much for the cause of my troub
led looks when I stepped into the train at
Oxford.
At Exeter I got out, I strolled to the
refreshment saloon. Hardly had I enter
ed the room when my attention was at
tracted by two strangers, one of whom
was telling the other that he knew the
way horn Broadbeach 'to Chase quite
well. Tlearuig the. man speaking of go
ing to my uncle's place, I yentnred to
ask if ho knew my relative. He said
that he did, and immediately introduced
himself to me as Clement Vinning. His
companion was a brother officer, Charles
Dawkins.
During the journey I had 'established
myself on a, tolerably intimate footing
with my no w acquaintancSs. Vinning
told me that there were to be dances and
dinners. shooting parties and other gaie
ties at the Chase, and that he intended to
enjoy himself immensely, "especially as
those derive girls, the Bettertons, are go
ing to be in the home' No sooner had
the train stopped ut the station of Broad
beach, than we saw my uncle ou the plat
form with Mrs. Betterton and all thegirls
—Florence, Mary and Milly. Mary was
the eldest—a fine, handsome .woman •of
25. She always had been a great friend in
the old days when f had been infatuated
about Flo. Next came Milly ; she was a
sweet-tempered, pretty little thing, aul
as unlike her handsome elder sister as
possible. Last, bnt not least, was my
Florence. I used to think her• perfect in
those &:p, and young men's impressions
often last them till old age. Golden hair,
dark.eye-lashes, and a divine figure.
Sunday was an aneventicul day. Flor
ence kept her room all day, and Mary
stayed with her.
,Monday wasthe day for
commencing, the.serions - work of the day
doing". We—that Is, the mea—were to
ellook After diluter ere were 01 to gb to
a dance given by a Mrs. Hughes, at
Broadinach, in honor of our party. 1
shot badly all the morning, and so did
Vinning. We ccmpared, and each con
fessed to being a little down In the
month. He brightened up about lunch
time, when the girls were expected to
come. Then it flushed across me for the
first time—Florence threw me over for
Vinning. Ho certainly looked ,pleased
when the girls arrived.
We walked home with the ladies. Again
I failed to get au opportunity of speaking
to Mary or Florence by themselves. Vin
ning took off the latter, and I had to
walk with Mary and ?Silly.
In the evening, however, I was deter
mined that I would speak and find out
from Mary, or even from Florence herself,
the mystery of her sudden change of
mind toward me. How lovely the three
eisters looked as they came into the rooml
lint Florence, despite an air of sadness
which had hardly left her face since I had
been at the Chase, was the handsomest
picture I ever saw. I naked her for the
lirst waltz and got it. My first words to
her, after we had ,retired to that lovely
conservatory were :
"Florence, have you forgotton four years
ago ?"
She never answered me, and I thought
I would not press the subleet then. The
next dunce was a quadrille, nod I was too
sad to do anything; so I went up to Mary
and asked her if she would not sit it out
with me. I did not hesitate a moment
when we were mono to ask her if she
knew anything of Florence's reason for
throwing me over so coldly and so sud
denly. She said no; it so remained a
mystery to her es to me—the only pos
sible clue she could give being that she
might have i heardthat I bad been flirt
ing with somebody else.
"No, Mary," I said, "you know me too
well for that."
I then asked Mary it Vinning was not
engaged to Florence, and it the did not
care for him.
"Why," said she, "don't you know that
he is engaged to Milly, and is only wait
ing for his father's consent to get mar.
tied at once ?—only they bad a little miff
to-day, because be thought you were pay
ing attention to Milly—that's all"
The next dance I had with Florence
was the seventh. The very words she
said to me were:
"Mr. Henniker, I am sorry for your
disappointment."
I answered nothing to this, but in a
moment I said to her:
"Florence, why did yon send me that
cruel message?"
She looked at me with her frank blue
eyes and said :
"Claude, I heard that you were engaged
to Mary."
Then I said :
"-Now it is too late; you seem to hare
ceased to care fur me."
The blue eyes tilled with tears; the
lips said nothing.
As bad luck would have it, the music
struck up fur another dance, and I saw
Charles Dawkins coming out of the den•
vine room to look for Florence.his partner.
"Don't leave me Florence ;I am so very
wretched."
"What for? Why are you wretched?'
"Because yen bate me.
Then the blue eyes looked bright again,
and she said :
"Tlwri you'd better he happy."
She was wearing a white midis in her
dross, and I said :
"Give it to me."
"I will only give it to the one I love."
Charles Dawkins came up, claimed her
hand, and left me in misery. to walk up
and down.ou the'lawn distractedly till it
was time for mo to claim the next dance
with her. time came at last. I went
into the room. Charles Dawkins was
again talking to ber,with the white came
ha n Ins hand. Ther whole thing was
plain enough now—she loved him. I was
in agony, and without a word•l turned on
my heel and strode out o! thb room. - To
put on my hat and coat was bat the work
of a moment; and then, scarcely know
ing what I was abour, I started to walk
home to the_Chase, three miles off.-
I slept for 'an hour or two, then rose,
packed all my things, and at daybreak got
a fly to take all my things down to the
station. A note on my dressing-table
told my uncle the reason of my going,
and adding that I had sustained a fearful
disappointment about my class. I meant
that my hard-won honors wens nothing
to me without Florence's love to spread a
halo of sunlight over them; bat try words
were ambiguous.
The train was just starting that was go
ing to take me to London en route for
anywhere, when the little pony carriage
drove up,Florenceind my uncle inside
"Stop him! Stop him!" exclaimed the
good natured old, gentleman, all radiant
with smiles.
I turned apanild in surprise at seeing
Florence holding in her hand the white
camilia of the preceding evening, and
uncle'Gny, with a sly grin, said
"I know all about it, you young rascal;
yon made a precious mistake.".
I !air that I had, but couldn't help it.
"Now, my boy," said uncle Guy, "you
two can walk home by the ktues together
and I ' ll drive the carriage by the road."
What a happy walk that was! Flor
ence told me that it was all a mistake
about the camelia.
"Mr. Dawkins wanted to exchange his
for mine; but, you know, I wanted mine
for a particular purpose."
When we reached home—looking very
guilty, but very happy—everything was
satisfactorily'explained; but luncheon
had been wailing for some time. Uncle
Guy forgave us, and told me I wasn't
such a fool after all, and added that he
thought far more of my sense in getting
Florence to promise to:be my wife. One
thing he stipulated for with Mrs. Better
ton was that he should have a wedding
breakfast at his Own old Chase, and that
he should put "that rascal of a nephew
of mine" in a position to mary the love
ly Florence. 1 have the white camelia
still, and before long. I shall be
. going
down to Broadbeach b claim the fulfill.
merit of the promisif T reedited with it.—
MillY is going out to India with 'her hui
band Vinhingi but we—Florence and
myself are to live In the old phase, and
take care of Orq twee Guy. •
Terms IF POT DOLLAfI PER rs t
4117.aritcra.
EPIGRAMS BY HERALD MASSEY.
•
(MOWER° OLD
The stream of Life that brimmed its banks of
old,
We drain to gather Wisdom's grans of gold ;
And u often as we count the . richet's o'er,
Half wish our wealth were drown'd In it once
more t
Ab, never is tho Almighty Artist's plan
Crown'd and completed in the life of man
At least a broken fragment we up-rear
Over the tomb, that like • visible prayer
Pleads on and ever. with the Infinite
Poi angel hands to reach and finish it,
And far the eternal temple make it fit,
About my feet, with all your thorns, you cling,
Poor gala! It Is that wben I WI tha wing
Toward Mayen, It may uplift the creeping
thing.
Neu the warm been of God's own brooding
blue ?
But Heaven is only to be grown Into
By upward living! •
True, the very dust
May climb the euubeam—ride the wind; yet
mud
Fall back to earth agalu,•and oust to duet,
And where you are rooted you must rot Adieu.
I prick you out, I shake you oft! I acorn
To carry you with me, even a tangle thorn l
But tho you clutched and could not hold me
last,
Poor Briar! there's my Grave to embrace at
but
NIGHTINGALE AND CTICZOO.
The Nightingale and Cuckoo° sang their best;
A Jackass was the judge-7 addressed
Himself to listen—said that Pkulorael,
Though Somewhat wildly, warhled pretty well,
Bat, far a good plain song, In a single word—
Like what himself might sing—why, be preferred
The Cuckoo! such a common-sense like bird.
H 0 Ng E.
--o
When daily tasks are Alone, end tired hands'
Lle still and folded on the resting knee,
When loving thoughts have lmve to loose
their buds,
And wonder over past and future tree;
When visions bright of love and hope fulfilled,
Bring weary eyes a spark of olden fire;
One mile fairer than thereat we build,
One blessing more than others we desire;
A home, our home, wherein all waiting past,
We two may stand together, alone;
Our Patient task work finished, and at last
Love's perfect blessedness and peace our own.
Some little nest of safety and delight,
guarded by God's angels day and night
We canna' guess if this dear home shad lie
In some green* spot embowered with arching
trees,.
Where birds notesjoined with brook notes glid
ing by, "
Shall make ns MU* as .we sit at ease,
Or if amid the city's bury din
Is built the rest for which we took and long,
No - sound without shall mar the, peace within,
The calm of love that time has proved rosining
Or if--eh, Edema thought I—this home of owe
Doth lie beyond the world's confusing noise
And if the nest be hat in Eden's bowers,
What do we still, but silently rejoice?
We nave a borne, but of its happy state
We *now not yet. We are content to wail
Accetter 01 the Stove Pipe Sat.
--o
The ancestor from which oar present
thimney-pot but +tikes most of its
characteristics is the broad brimmed,
low-crowned bat, with an immense plume
falling, down on to the shoulder, which
was worn during the reign of Charles
11. At the end of the seventeenth, and
during the eighteenb century,this hat was
varied by the onstnision of the plume, and
by giving the brim variona 4 cocks." That
these "cocks"•were , formerly merely tem
temporary is shown by Howarth's picture
or fludibtai beating Sidropbel acid his
man Whaoum, where there 'is a hat the
brim of which is buttoned- up in front to
the crown with three buttons. This
would be a hat of the- seventeenth cen
tury.. Afterwards, during the eighteenth
century,.the brim was bent np in two or
three places. and, notwithstanding" that
these "cocks" became permanent, yet the
hate still retain the marks of their origin
in the button and strap on the right. side.
The cockade, I imagine, took its name
from its being a badge worn ou one of the
"cocks."
The modern cocked bat, apparently of
such an anomalous shape,' proves, on ex
amination, to be merely a hat of the
shape above referred to; it appears, fur
ther, that the right side was bent up at
an earlier date than the left, for the hat
is not symmetrical, and the ' , cock" on
the right side forms a straight, crease in
the (quondam) brim and that on the left
is bent rather over the crown,lhns mak
ing the - right side of the hat rather
straighter that the left. The hat-bend
here remains in the shape of two 'gold
tassels which are just visible within the
two points of the' cocked hat.
A bishop's bat shows the transition
from the three-cocked bat to our present
chimney-pots, and because sixty years
ago beaver fur . was the • fashionable
material for hats, •we must now
needs wear a silken imitation; which
could deceive no one into thinking it fur,
and which is bad 'to resist, the effecte.of
weather. .Even in- a..ladfs bonnet the
element of brim, a• Crown and hat band
mhy be traced.—Popular &fence Monthly
for It-overnlier.
War Against Railroads.
The Illinois fanners are wagicg a fierce
war againit" the railroads in that State.—
They have established. an orgunization
known as the "Sons of Husbandry," uud.
in one, case 'have called Upon the Judges
or the Supreme Court, who rendered a
recent'decision denying the validity of
the Freight Tariff law, to resign .at once.
What will be their; doom in default of
noncompliance does not appear; butit is
time some steps were taken to check the
enormous strides our railroad coirrat ions
are takine to rule ur ruin the entire inter
nal trade—commerce,. agricultural and
otherwise—of the oonntry. It would
not be surprising if other Interests he.
sides these 'represented by the "Sons of
Husbandry" should adopt , similar meas
ures to 'secure the reform demanded. 7
Nolo York Herald.
Row bard it is to feel that the power
of life is to be found inside, not outside;
in the heart and,thonghte t not in the vii.
ibis tuitions and show; in the living , seed.
not in the plant which has no root! now
often do men cultivate the garden of their
slink just the other,way
SrourtiTail.the man for the:times,
.He has disposed Or fon," mothers in•law,
and isbnos Toe the scalp of the fifth. • Re
lectfor 450 6 6181/t4'
NUMBER 1 5.
VarleUes.
A stionizr has been traveling in.Sen
tucky, announcipg the destruction of , the
world in 1878, lie pays his' own expen
ses and seeks for no contribritations.
A PASIILY consists of man and wish
and two daughters,' all of whom •traffer
from an obliquity of visions, are popu
larly known as the "squin4tte."
THE word of God is the foundation
and standard of all true whidoni;itis the
pearl of great priee, and prcelons in the
Christian's eyes. •
A youxo man in Salem, Ohio.. lately
killed himself because big ladylove 110C.IIs.
ed him of writing her a vile letter, which
proved to have been sent by some young
rascal who considered it a funny thing to
A anstr,boy New . Haven made. a
sensation fora short time boqiiietly trans•
ferring a card bearing, the words • "Take
one," from a lot of hand-bills - in front of
a store, to a basket of oranges.
A FAMILY Or: flee persons residing
at Reedsbnrg Wisconsin, were at
tacked by the small-pox a few weeks
since, and through cowardly , neglect and
inhumanity of the people of that vicinity
were allowed to be frozen to death.
AN honest, hard working,man in New
port started on a "spree" the. other day,
and, to obtain material, went to tbe,sav
ings bank and withdrew $1,500; the
earnings of years. The spree came to an
end simultaneously with the money.
TN Upper Sandusky, 0, ti few. days
ago, a young man tried to urea balky
horse by tying his whiplash to the hmee's
tongue. The horse- reared ands !melted,
and the tongue.was torn from its :dots.—
The horse was then killed to end his mis
ery.
'Neoax* kept at Muscatine show that
during the last thirty-eight years the av
erne length of time for which the ,
siseippi has been closed'hy the ice at that
point is sixty-seven days. This winter
it has already been closed more than eigh
ty days.
ONE of the most celebrated phyalciana
of Philadelphia, it is said, eats two saw
apples every evening before. he t'etires to
rest, and thinks they not only. supply
food to his brain, but keeplfie - whiale sys
tern in a healthy-condition.
IN TAZEWELL COt,rET, Ill.,'great dam
age has been done to ' frnit trees hi the
hard freezing, particularly patch and pear
trees; it is feared that the wood Of both,
if not killed is severely injured.).; Apple
trees in some localities hare bursted so
that yon can see through them,others have
split the length of the trunkcin OM, aide.
A Non fir Housekeeper* Whin
poultry is fresh the eyes are' full Mad
bright, the feet are moist and liinber.—
When it is stale the eyes are sunken; and
the feet and legs dry and stilL When the
flesh is part colored it is not ft to ept,-. ?
Stale poultry is often "made ov,erl by be-
ing soaked in alum water. nit ,will
restore the flesh to a comparatively fresh
color.
A Drrnorr fornitura dealer recently
found among a mass of old papers' iti. a
desk a will bequeathing property 'Worth
nearly 1130,000 to a . lady in Missouri.—
He wrote to the lady, • and subserenrtly
sent ber the will, which was admitted - to
probate, and the lad! 'put irk p9ssesslon
of the property. Tlie will wait nine years
old, and the furniture deateislaa no idea
how it oima into his pusseasion.
IT was a good thing oarvintri • a menage
rie went.to ashes. The other mailer in
stitutions should go the same way,: HO;
mar it has long enough been shocked. by
the wilted 'specimens of anhnallt.,;the
store beasts—that have so long, trilitersed
the country, with their bald 'angles,. de
cayed teeth, sunken eyes,' end' slinking
tails. An old fashioned hair-trunk with
a paint-brush tuit and a braett-eye wculd
put the whole to ignominious fight.
•
A WOOD famine in Vermont. would bea
most novel event, but thero..ja a, strong
possibility that many villages will, stiffer, /
as the supply is effectually cut off ,fjtba
deep snow. Many farmers are alsolhort;
and-some are cutting down •aliade-.,trees
and others burning fence rails. There, IS
five Irk of snow in the woods, with..wp
frost in-the ground.
A Privet: min man who
,turspeCted
servant girl of using kerevietie oil
dle the fire with, thought •ho 'Weald try
her, ono night, so he oral the oil tout
and tilled the can with water. 'When hts
landed iii the diningloom next nrorni4g
there was no breakfaskand no fire to cook
it with—nothing - but a stove full of Soak
ed wood and a very foolish 'looking- girt
A Ltrnn ROCK, Ark.; girl died a few'
days ago, of -what was supposed to. .be,
cerebra spinal meningitis. The -Gazette
says: "Dr. Gni tor, doubting . the eanse of
her death, obtained permission to 'make
a post enortent examination. •The: ex.
aminatioli'disclosed the: fact .that
little girl's stomach was loaded with boiled.
cabbage, which had worked itself intoont
hard solid mass, distending - the gotta*
and ceasing death, the victim dying-pi' ,
convulsions... • „..-
Tntirrar.N . years ago thts winter, Lewis
Mason and Sainuel , Clarnes ought a large'
gray rox.• near Lowell, iu Washingtocti
county, 0.; they tied 'him with,a tupe l o
first having placed a leather strap 4itiuno4
his luck. This rope, the fox gpawed'Ot
and made hi& escape: This- winter the
same parties recaptured Reyuard and,
strange, to state, he hail -on , his nick the.
same identical strap which they placed
there'thirterM ears before! They slaugh
tered their gams this time 'to mesa: suz
of him:
IL nor 7 tears odd arrited in Rarrishiirgv
the other day, from Northern Texas, him
ing traveled the entire distance by him:
self. His' mother had died, and hisfather
wanted to vlacz him with some friends.
hitt coda not came with him,
so ha par.
chased•r2 throngh ticket, -pinned it to the
tappel.othls eoat. and started him 'Mills
bong journey. ' The - Torino condnotOra ,
took asreat tuterert , in .hint, whoa_
at the end, of tbOr. t roPte idol -
over to tha)fext °VP., ge "Tea
sound,watil' tuici 144 bOa tilinftrVak •
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