ELK COUNTY THE REPUBLICAN VA IiTY.
Two Dollars -br AkhtjIc.' '
VOL. II.
RIDGWAY, PAM THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1872.
NO. 15.
HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Ptjblibiier,
roiSTizr.
'i'HK SMI.(m5 MUD.
BY CnAHI.KS II, WOODMAX.
- . I met a tnaidon, lithe-limbed, fair,
' Vpon tho haril, wavc-beaten tranl
, With all hor cloud of golden hair
Floating above th'o golden fand i
She seemed a lily, rich and ram,
' A light of glory in that land,
And Milling pweet maiden can.
Ever tho low ho art burden ran :
0 crnul eca
O wasteful sea,
With thy fur-streaming wild waves wan
Bring back my true love unto me.
lh ( foam that on tho phore did Ho,
M'as not ro while as hor fair feot ;
f Tho warm wa.4 wind that hastened by
Was not more nob-eluss nor more fleet
Tho tender light of hor bluo eyo
U'vted where wave and welkin moefc;
. . And singing Pad a? maidens do
JV Ever the pea oho pang unto :
6 bitter eim,
O rcftlofp sea,
1 With thy fan-swelling waters blue,
liring back my pailor boy to me.
Sho stopped to reach a flower thero
Th'it yearned thro' green waves tor the ll:;ht ;
t Ttio Hood caroused her streaming hair
. And mixed it with foam-petal? bright,
I The siiii looked down on clufclers raro,
I Or golden Hlmn and of white ;
'And tinging ?oft, a maidens may,
Ever f-he charmed tlic ecu alway :
U loving ea,
0 pitying sea,
Viill thy i'av-llowlng waters gi'cy,
, , fit-in:; back my true-love unto mo.
V;it c!on& and dread, tho watea, worn,
Low-Jying gnu were cnmbci lug,
. Thq diowy .ua, with wild wind'.' tone,
Woke ft om its noon tide slumbering ;
Afar, pale rdiip., until the morn
Tho darkling hour. wore numbering ;
Anl ringing tlorco as maiden dare-
Ever cho poured forth her despair :
O fearful sea,
O hungry tea.
Snared In tlie coils of thy green hair
Sly sailor boy lies hid iVom me,
I met her when the glowing East
Urdkeuto radlanco on the coa-t;
lli:r tye- were eyes of those that feast
On loVo returned which once was lo.-t;
I ween were she in heaven the h at.
Her leauty Ktill would lead the host ;
And siniriny glad for maidens meet
Ever her pulses raptures boat ;
0 fair, bright tua,
O sls-ter pea,
On thy s-horc-seeking waters f-weet
My lost love ha-- come back to me.
Boston (llhbe.
TUB STO li Y-TJSLLlSli.
Orlirinal.l
THE HUSBAND'S LESSOX.
liY CELI-V 8AXFOHD.
' What a distressingly hot morning !
the thermometer at niuety in tho shade,
and not a breath of air. I think that
wo must certainly havo showers before
night," and Robert Graham removed his
broad-brimmed palm-loaf from his head,
and wiped his face vigorously with his
handkerchief.
" Just tho right kind of weather to
mako hay eh, Bob 'f"
" Yes, I supposo so, but I wish thero
could bo a machine invented to cut, cure,
and deposit the hay in tho barn without
its ever being touched by human hands.
Come, boys, let us sit down in tho shade
of this maple and rest a bit. Don't you
think, Mr. Lane, that thero might' bo
such a machine contrived ? Tho inven
tive genius of tho Yankee is supposed
to bo ulmost unlimited."
" I was thinking," returned tho per
son addressed, " of tho improvements
which havo already been made in this
direction. What with tho mower, horsc
rako, and pitchfork, tho labor of making
hay is very much reducod. When your
father and I wero boys, wo used to start
out with our old-fashioned scythes, mow
all tho morning, and then stir out, and
rako and pitch by hand all day, and I
don't remember that it seemed much of
a hardship."
" I suppose not, but I am not in the
lea:t sorry that those days are past. At
any vato I wish it was so contrived that
wo could work under cover, this mid
summer Rim is so scorching. Wouldn't
it bo jolly, boys, if wo woro only women Y
Such easy times as they must have, with
nothing to do all day but to sit in their
cool, shaded parlors, and road and enjoy
themselves. There's Louisa, now. (She
always looks as fresh and neat as if sho
had just como out of a baud-box. I
don't suppose sho knows what it is to be
tired."
" Sho does all her own house-work,
doesn't sho Y"
" Yes, of course; but then it is noth
ing but fun. I'm suro sha thinks so too,
for she is always so merry and contented,
and as apparently freo from care as hor
pet maltose."
" I should think it was anything but
fun to broil over tho hot tiro all day in
the kitchen, to cook for three or four
men, this weather," said red-hoadad Pat,
who had boarded occasionally in the
family, as a day laborer, " and if I might
be allowed to speak, Misthor Graham, I
should say that yo are not sufficiently
appreciative of tho servioes that she
renders yo, and that if yo were more ob
serving, ye would see that it is some
thing besides mere play to do the wrk
that Misthrcss Graham does. Iudade
and I think that sho does quite too
much, though of courso yo are not aware
uf it. Pardon me boulduess, but I think
tsho is too slender a little body to b
oblised to carry wither forty rods, and
her delicate little wrists aro not sthout
enough to lift tho heavy axe to chop her
own wood, as I've seen her do many a
morning."
" O !" said Graham, a little impatiently,
"she don't carry much water, only a
pailful now and then when I am par
ticularly busy ; and as tor the wood, she
fenly picks up an armful once in a wh;lo,
when I happen to forget it. She never
complains, and I am sure sho don't think
me negloctful of her comfort or happi
ness. On the contrary, she likes to do
anything that she can to help me along
when I am in a hurry. I think it is a
real ilensuro to her to have mu forget
the wood and water sometimes, so that
sho can have mi opportunity to show
me how handy she is, and as her house
work don't occupy much of her time,
sho always has plenty of leisure."
"I should judge that it is no aisy
matthor to keep tho house tidy from top
to botthom, your meals ready to a inin
nte, and your clothes in such perfect
ordher. It's the sumo thing over and
over ivery day, and I should think any
woman would' tire of it, and I suppose
she manages to havo timo for leisure
when ye como in if sho is iver so busy,
and ns for tho water, I've seen her go
throe times across the lots to tho spring
in the woods this blissed morning, and
it would cost but a thriflo to put down
a well close by the door. Ye could get
living water by digging twelve or fif
teen feet, and it's uiesolf twould bo glad
to tke tho job."
Let us take a peep at the little woman
who has been the subject of conversa
tion, and at tho cosy home of which sho
is tho gentle mistress. How trim and
tidy every thing looks about the door.
The yard in front is gay with bright
colored flowers, and the pretty bouquet
in tho open window is filling tho room
with a Bolt fragrance. A rustic stand of
house plants, half hidden by a climbing
honeysuckle, occupies ono side of the
little porch, and above it a silver-voiced
canary hangs, trilling his song fitfully
now pausing and peeping out at tho
beautiful landscape, then throwing out
floods of clear, sweet melody, until it
seemed us though he would pour out his
little life in song.
Within everything is as neat as a
fairy's hand could make it. Tho furni
ture is plain and inexpensive, but well
kept and neatly arranged. Tho bed in
the recess is covered with a white coun
terpane, on which the snowy pillows
aro renting, and thero is an easy, careless
grace about the folds of tho muslin cur
tains. You could almost seo your face
in thn surface of the stove, and in the
bright tinware which peeps out upon
you from tho open door of the pnntry,
and little Mrs. Graham herself, how tidy
sho looks in her fresh pink wrapper and
linen collar, her sleeves tucked up, re
vealing a snowy pair of arms, and hor
slight girlish form almost covered up
with a clean checked apron, as she flits
hither and thither, doing so many things
with her ono pair of busy hands.
Now the morning's work is all done
up, the vegetables for dinner are soak
ing in cold water, tho mutton steaks aro
nicely sliced, laid in tho frying-pan,
sprinkled with salt and pepper, and
closely covered till time for use, the
pudding is- ready for tho oven, and
Louia with a weary sigh takes a pail
from tho shelf, and after standing hesi
tatingly for a moment, says : " I must
take two pails, for one will not hold
enough, and I cannot go twice. O dear I
it tires mo so. I do wish we had a well.
Robert says that I use so much water,
but I cannot do with less. It is half
past ten," she said, as sho set her pails of
water upon tho shelf, ''I shall havo
just fifteen minutes to rest before I build
a fire. O dear ! what if there should be
no wood Y I asked Robert to cut some,
but now I think of it I don't believe ho
did. Ho must havo forgotten it. Yes,
ho has, and thero isn't even a stick at
tho door to cut from, and I must go
clear to tho woods to pick up some. I
do wish he would get tho wood when
wo have ' work folks, if ho don't any
other time," and off she went to gather
wood in her slender arms.
Sho was tired, and not feeling quite
well that morning, and tho heat was so
oppressive, and, ere sho was aware of it,
she found herself, for tho first time since
her marriage, feeling almost bitter
toward her husband. Sho remembered
that six months after her marriage an
aunt of hers had spent a week with her,
and had lectured her upon this very
thing.
" You havo begun wrong, my child,"
she said, "you are not strong enough to
carry water as far as you do, nor to
chop wood, milk cows, or any such
thing."
Sho had resented it then and answer
ed indignantly, " Robert doesn't mean
mo to carry water, aunt, and I only do
so sometimes when he is very busy. It
isn't his fault at all that I do, but I
like to help him, and savo him all the
steps that I can, ho works so hard."
" He oughtn't to work so hard as to
bo obliged over to throw such burdens
upon you. You aro too slender, my
child."
" But he don't mean mo to do it,
aunt !"
"I supposo not now, my dear, but if
you voluntarily tuito sucu imng.i upuii
yourself, ho may como to thiuk that it
is all right, and your futuro life may bo
more burdened than you think. It is
all right, and praiseworthy, for a woman
to do all she can to lighten her hus
band's cares, and make life ploasant
and easy for him, and all true womon
will do bo, but you oughtn't to take up
on vour shoulders hi work. It is no
kindness to him, but a great wrong to
vourself. Men aro not nearly so apt to
over-tusk their Towors as women. If
they need help they hire, whilo a weary
woman goes plodding on her tircsomo
round of labor, moro tiresome becauso
of its monotony, and no ono seems to
think that it is anything worth men
tionin". My heart has often ached for
overburdened women, whoso unceasing
labor and cares had driven every spark
of brightness out of their lives, and
they so little appreciated. I have seen
them hurry and toil for hours that they
might have a little timo to bestow upon
thoir husbands, ana wuen inose Hus
bands came in I have watched with al
most breathless interest to see if there
was one encouraging look or word, for
the eager, expectant face, upturned so
pleadingly, but they would only say as
they glanced listlessly around, 'How
delightfully cool and comfortable it is
here; you must havo an tasy time,
wife. I wish I was a woman.'
' " Didn't I wish so, too 'i We should
hear them sing a different song after a
few years' experience. But after all,
my dear, I think that women are most
to blame ; they begin wrong."
The tired little woman thought of all
this now, and sho realized more plainly
than ever before tho truth of her aunt's
words. "You wrro right, auntie," sho
said to herself, as sho stooped to lift up
a basket of chips with one hand, whilo
sho carried an armful of wood on tho
other arm. " It is all my own fault, I
began so ; but it is growing worse. He
don't seem to think anything now of
my getting wood day after day, though
ho used to ecold me, if ho saw me touch
the axe. I wonder if there is any way
to change matters without letting him
know that I havo thought about it. He
has never spoken unkindly to me, and I
would not offend him for the world, but
I must put a stop to this somehow. It
would have been better, as auntie said,
if I had begun different."
When tho men came in to dinner,
Louita's face' woro a flushed, wearied
look, which Robert noticed, and Pat's
words came rushing through his mind,
and he remembered that ho had forgot
ten the wood which sho had spoken
about in the morning, and ho resolved
to make amends by splitting up enough
to last tho day, and bringing a turn of
water before ho went back to work;
but dinner over, he forgot it as us
ual. In tho afternoon as Louisa busied
herself with clearing off the table, and
making numberless little journeys to tho
sink, and pantry, and back again to the
table, her thoughts wero busy in plan
ning ways to escape- her trouble. One
plan after another was formed, and
abandoned as impracticable. Presently
one of tho neighbor's boys came along
with a load of wood, which ho was tak
ing to the next town. In a moment
her resolution was taken, and tripping
down to the gate she asked :
" Fred, would you sell me tlm load of
wood '"
" I was taking it to town," he replied,
" but I can let you havo it, and still
havo time to take a load to town to-
duy" .
" A hat is your price r
" I get four dollars in town, but I
can afford to sell it here for three."
" Pitch it oft', then. You need not
mind to cord it up, as I shall use it right
along."
That night when Mr. Graham went
to pay soiuo money to his hands, he ask
ed, " Have you had my pocket-book to
day, Louisa 'f"
Louisa looked up innocently from her
sewing, and replied with . calmness,
" Yes, I paid Fred Howard three dol
lars for a load of wood, this afternoon."
" A load of wood !" and Robert Gra
ham opened his eyes wide in astonish
ment. " Why, Louisa, .vo have acres and
acres of wood !"
." Yes, but it isn't always at hand, you
know," sho replied quietly, whilo, with
her clear hazel eyes, she looked straight
into his.
He bit hi3 lip and went out, and his
wife could not help feeling a little anx
ious lest sho had displeased him. It
was well, perhaps, that Pat's faithful
words had preceded this act.
It was later than usual that night
when Mr. Graham camo in, and if thero
had been a shadow upon his faco it had
passed away, and he was more than
usually kind and attentive. After somo
conversation his wife remarked to him,
in her quiet way :
" I did not liko to uso tho money,
Robert, to buy wood, but, you see, it
is too hard for mo to gather so much."
" It is all right, my love," he answer
ed, " as ho stooped to kiss her, "you havo
learned mo a lesson. It shall not need
to bo repeated. If I forget sometimes,
you will only havo to jog my memory
by a word."
Tho next morning, to Mrs. Graham's
surprise, another laborer was set to work
in Pat's place, and Pat's hearty viico
was heard in the back yard calling her
name. Sho opened tho door and was
greeted with
" Misthross Graham, will yo bo afther
removing tho linen from the grass-plat '
Here's where the mast her wants mo to
bo digging the well."
All Shi at His Old Tricks.
A California paper publishes the fol
io win s :
The littlo card transaction between
Ah Sin and Mr. 'William Nye, which has
trained so much celebrity, owinir to tho
eniTjhio manner in which it has been do
scribed by Bret Harte, may possibly
have been an actual occurrence. Gam
bling is a passion with tho Chinese.
For thousands of years they have
studied and tracticid pll manner of
sinful games, and they aro adepts at the
tricks by which gamesters ciicumvent
the laws ot clianoe. In tno umneso
quarter of a town on tho Pacific slope,
a couple of smart young men recently
encountered some Mongolians engaged
in tho 'Melican came of draw poker.
Tho boys asked if they could como into
tho irame, and received a cordial wel
come. Presently tho innocent-looking
Chinamen began to sweep iu tliuir coin
at an alarming rate.
This did not meet their views at all,
so they tried on the simple heathen two
or threo of tho sharpest tricks known to
American gamblers. The Celestials ap
poared to bo entirely oblivious to the
advantages tliey wero taking, and per
mitted them to bet on their sure thing
to the extent of their funds, when, on a
call, the American sharpers found that
they wero nowhere, and had tho mortih.
cation of seeing their antagonists rake
in their stakes with a most aggravating
expression of artless liidlflerence. The
Chinamen had seen through their tricks
at a glance, and beat them by methods
vet unnaturalized in this country. As
the outwitted visitors withdrew, ono of
the Chinamen, with a smile of sweet
sininlicitv. invited them to call asraiu,
Said John, " S'pose you next time like
play more pokee, you como see." But
tho invitation was not accepted, and at
at the present time there aro not to be
found on the Pacifio coast any moro
ardent opponents of Chinese emigration
than the young men who undertook to
show poor John some new wrinkles in
tho popular American game, which thoy
supposed ho aid not understand.
Ask thy purso what thou should'st buy,
Jefferson ns a Farmer.
Thomas Jefferson possessed a facility
with note-books and memoranda which
farmers, great and small, might 'study
and imitate with positive advantage.
James Parton tells us, iu The Atlantic
Monthly, that when young man the
coining President took hold of his busi
ness of husbandry in a manner which
showed that the genuino culture of tho
mind is tho best preparation lor tho
common as well as for the higher du
ties of life. Iu everything he did ho
was tho educated Doing. was tnnre
ever a mortal so exact, so punctual, so
indefatigablo as ho m recording and
tabularizing details f lxo may Do said
to have lived pen in hand. Ho kept a
garden-book, a farm-book, a weather
book, a receipt book, a pocket-expendi-turo
book, and, later, a feo-book ; and
thero was nothing too trivial to bo en
tered iu ono of them, provided it really
nut any relation to matters ot impor
tance. In tho small, neat hand, then
common in Virginia, ho would record in
his garden-book such entries as theso :
"March .'SO, Bowed a patch of later
peas;" "July Id, planted out celery;"
' July 22, had tho last disli ot our spring
peas ; March al, gratteu o u reuch
chestnuts, into two stocks ot common
chestnut." His garden-book shows that
ho was a bold and constantexporimontor,
ulwnys eager to try foreign seeds and
roots, of which ho introduced a great
number in tho course ot his life, ihey
show, also, that ho was a close observer
and calculator. His weather-book is a
wonder of neatness and minuteness 59
days' weather history on one small page.
This is ono day s record : " March 2 1.
at (.:i0 A. M., ther. 2T ; barom. 2" ;
wind N. W. ; force of wind (not stated) ;
weather, clear after rain, Bluo Ridge
and higher parts of S. W. mountain
covtrt-d with snow. No snow here, but
much ice ; black frost." Multiply this
by 5S, and you have the contents of one
pago of his weather-book, every word
of which, after the lapso of a century, is
as clear and legible as diamond type.
It is ruled in ten columns, ono for each
class of entries. This practico of min
ute record, which remained with him to
tho end of his days, he began while ho
was still a student. Nor did ho ever
content himself with the mere record of
items. These wore regularly reviewed,
added, compared, and utilized in every
possible way.
A Coming: English Colony.
A remarkable company of emigrants
left England recently on the steamer
Nestorian, bound for Baltimore. They
aro exclusively English, and a majority
of them from the farming class that is
to say farmers, their sons and relatives ;
not agricultural laborers, but men hav
ing practical experience, and tho means
to apply it. Unable to obtain farms, or
farms large enough in England, they
determined to seek them in the Now
World. The section of tho colony which
embarked, nuinberods145 persons, with
a capital of 10,000. Tho colony in
cludes a small number of mechanics,
particularly wheelwrights, blacksmiths,
men who can shoo horses, and a few
handicraftsmen. It is accompanied by
clergyman, who, with is family, in
tend to settle with the colony. Nearly
all the emigrants havo made arrange
ments for tho purchase of land, and their
lots are as nearly as possible contiguous,
and all are situated at Lincoln, tho cap
ital ot Nebraska, and aro intersected by
the Burlington and Missouri River
Railroad, whose agents wero in tho ag
ricultural districts of England during
tho winter, talking up tho advantages
of the Central Western States, and tho
benefit which would arise from the settle
ment therein of British farmers' sons.
When tho colonists arrive at Lincoln,
they will be lodged, frpe of cost, except
for food, in an emigrant home, and
thero remain until they can commence
the duties and life of an American farm-
Tho British farming class has often
been derided as incapable of forming or
receiving new ideas. A good deal has
chanced, however, sinco tho days of
steam threshing-machines, nnduow there
are few men more ready to adopt a "no
tion," if ho can afford it, than tho Brit
ish farmer. At all events, ho seems to
bo seizing tho idea that it is better for
him or his sons to become landlords in
tho Western States of America than to
havo to sue for renewals of leases, or to
bo always in hot water about game.
A Message from the Dead.
The Bangor Commercial prints tho
following; ns a fact :
A lormer resident ot this city somo
years ago moved to Cincinnati and went
into business thero. Some timo sinco as
ho was on his way to his place of busi
ness at his usual early hour in the morn
ing, when going past a sido street, ono
which he never had occasion to use, ho
distinctly heard a voice which said, " Go
down this street ; but not being ot a
superstitious turn of mind, he contin
ued on his way for a few blocks, when
the impression grow so strong that ho
retraced his steps and went down the
strett indicated by tho voice. Ho had
gono but a few rods, when the voice
again said, " Go in there," ho looked and
found himself opposite a small third-rate
hotel. Going into tho bar-room, which
opened on tho street, the first sight that
met his astonished eyes was the bar
keeper holding up a coat of peculiar
cloth and color for tho examination of a
small knot of idlers. He at once rccog
nizod the coat as belonging to a friend
of his whom he had last seen in Maine
during his visit homo. Upon making
inquiries, he found that his friend lay
dead in the house, and finding that
thero was an evident disposition to
plunder the valuables and clothing of
his dead friend, he took charge of the
body and saw it properly buried, and
tho property sent home to his mother.
Had it not been for his iomarkable warn
ing, the dead man, dying among stran
gers, might ha gone to the dissecting
room of the medical college, and his ef
fects to hourtloss thieves. What makes
the story the more wonderful is that
this gentleman . had no idea that his
mend wag in tlie city.
A Marvelous Machine.
Mr. Thompson, a well-known Edin
burgh civil engineer, has for many years
paid special attention to tho properties
and capabilities of india-rubber. Ho
was tho first, some twenty years ago, t
apply tires of this substance to tho
whoels of trucks, etc., at railway stations,
in order to deaden the sound j and to
him wo aro also indebted for tho more
recent discovery that india-rubber, when
in a great mass, flattens on a road or
floor, and, by presenting a greater ex
tent of boaring surface, causes any su
perincumbent weight to bo distributed
over a much larger area. Hence he con
ceived and carried out tho idea of pro
viding the whoels of a steam-engine, to
run on common roads, with india-rubber
tires of an immense thickness. In con
sequent of tho soft, elastic proporty of
such tiros, tho wheel-surface may, ac
cording to tho condition of the road over
which it passes " present tho broad, quiet
tramp of tho foot of the elephant, tho
gentle step of the feline race, or tho web
footed effect of tho aquatic animal when
walking on tho morass."
When tho first patent road-steamer
was tried, some three years ago, its suc
cess was complete, and far exceeded Mr.
Thompson's- expectations. In tho bo
ginning of 1870, the War Department
having hoard of somo of its performances,
commissioned Mr. Anderson to proceed
to Edinburgh and examine it personally,
and to report upon its capabilities for
military purposes of various kinds ; and
it is from this report, dated tho 8th of
April, 1870, and signed conjointly by
Mr. Anderson and Mr. Bailey, Assistant
Controller, that wo have obtained most
of our information regarding this mar
velous machine.
Tho wheels of this road-steamer ore
throe in number namely, two driving
wheels, about fivo feet in diameter, on
which almost tho whole weight of tho
cngino rests ; and a smaller wheel in
front, which is for steering purposes, and
is so completely under control as to
answer the slightest touch of tho hand.
Each wheel has a broad iron tire, with
narrow flanges, upon which is placed a
soft vulcanized india-rubber ring, about
twelve inches in width and five in thick
ness, the flanges keeping it in its place.
Over the india-rubber there is placed an
er.dless chain of stool plates, three-and-a-half
inches wide, which form the por
tion of the wheel that comes in contact
with the rough road ; and this reticulat
ed chain is connected with what may be
called vertebra) at each side of the wheel.
Tho india-rubber tire and tho ringed
steel plates havo no rigid connection,
and aro at perfect liberty to movo
round independently of each other, or
even without tho concurrence of tho in
ner ring of tho wheel which they both
inclose. This remarkable combination
contributes materially to tho great suc
cess of the wheel. Small tubes aro per
forated in tho tiro of tho wheel, to admit
tho atmosphoro under tho india-rubber
ring. V ithout such holes, it was found
that " tho weight of tho lead was suffi
cient to exclude the atmosphere, so that
ono sido of the india-rubber would thus
bo made to adhere to the iron with the
atmosphere pressure, while tho other
sido would havo to stretch and bag out
ward." An ordinary wheel, if it is a
rigid structure, presents to the road only
a small surface ; but this wheel conforms
to every irregularity for a space of nearly
two feet, by the weight of tho cngino
causing tho india-rubber to collapso, and
thus producing so great a change of
form.
Arabian Mode of Perfuming.
Hew tho Arab ladies perfunio them
selves is thus described by Sir Samuel
Baker in his work on the Nile : " In
the floor of the hut or tent, as it may
chance to be, a small holo 13 excavated
sufficiently largo to contain a cham-
pagno bottlo. A firo of charcoal or sim-
Ely glowing embers is mado within the
olo, into which the woman about to bo
scented throws a handful of drugs. Sho
then takes off the clothes, Cr robes which
form her dress, and crouches over tho
fumes, whilo sho arranges her robo to
fall as a mantle from her neck to tho
ground liko a tent. Sho now begins to
perspire freely in tho hot bath, and tho
pores ot tno skin being open and moist,
tho volatilo oil from the smoko of the
burning perfumes is immediately ab
sorbed. By tho time tho firo has ex
pired, tho scenting process is completed,
and both her pe rson and her robe are so
reuoleut with incense, Willi which, they
are thoroughly impregnated that! havo
frequently smelt a party ot women
strongly at full a hundred yards dis
tance, when tho wind has boon blowing
from their direction. The scent, which
is supposed to bo very attractive to gen
tlemen, is composed of ginger, cloves,
cinnamon, frankincense, and myrrh, a
species of sea wood brought from tho
lied Sea, and lastly tho horny disc which
covers tho aperture when the shell fish
withdraws itself within its shell. Tho
proportion? of theso ingredients in this
mixture are according to taste.
Popular Orators.
Who aro the speakors that uibvo tho
crowd men after tho pattern of Whit
field, what aro they Y They are almost
always men ot very largo physical de
velopment, men of very strong digestivo
powers, and whoso luugs havo great
aerating capacity. They are men- of
great vitality and recuperative foroo,
Thoy are men who, while they have a
sufficient thought-power to create all
tho material noeded, have preeminently
the explosivo power by which they can
thrust their materials out at men. They
are catapults, and mon go down before
them. Of course you wdl find men now
and thou, thin and shrill-voiced, who are
popular epealiers. bometimes men are
organized with a compact nervous tem
perament and are slender-framed, while
they have a certain concentrated ear
nestness, and, in narrow lines, they
movo with groat intensity. John Ran
dolph was such a man. 11. W. Bcether
Galesburg, 111., has a " Classic Nine."
It is a base ball club and has nothing to
do with tho muses.
Fish Farming.
Tho authorities assert that wlicro fa
cilities aro available, as they are in ft
majority of cases, moro annual food can
be taken from an aero of water, or its
quivalont, than from twice this area of
land, no matter hw well it is tilled.
It thoro is a trout stream running
through the farm, in which are still left
even a small number of the speckled
beauties, nothing more may bo needed
than to Btop the fishing tor two or three
years, but if tho waters are entirely bar
ren, ot courso tresh supplies trom out
side sources must bo introduced. Tho
development of the ova, thoir care and
cloansing, their hatching and feeding,
their treatment in the nursery and in
ponds until they aro largo enough to
bo lot loose, is a somewhat complicated
process requiring apparatus, and above
all patience. Most people proler to
leave this art to tho professional brooders
and pay them tor their pains by pur
chasing their stock.
It is always best to deal generously
with a brook when putting in tho seed.
Givo the waters a tair start even it it
costs a good round sum. Ono hundred
dollars will buy, at present prices, from
5,000 to 20,000 fry or 200 yearling
trout. The multiplication is rapid and
sure, but for tho first thrco or four years
the boys in that neighborhood should
bo discouraged from pursuit of tho noble
art of angling.
m. (Jhtt, some ot whoso statements
we borrow, savs in tho I'hrenoloqical
Journal, that tho black bass is ono ot
the best fish for private enterprise to
handle. It will thrivo in ponds that
in bo mado and controlled on ulmost
any farm whero thero is flowing water,
and in quality it is good enough to
satisfy oven an epicure, ranking second
only to tho salmon and trOut, and by
many considered even superior to them.
n bizo tho black bass attains an average
weight or tour or five pounds, and one
was lately taken which weighed seven
and a half pounds. Dr. W. M. Hudson.
ono of tho Connecticut Commissioners,
savs of him :
" Ho is exceedingly hardy, and adapt
ed to our waters, boing a native of the
Northern lakes. Any pond of clear
water having a variety of mud and
gravel bottom, and ono or more deep
holes, is suitablo for him. Ho is a great
breeder, and is ono of tho very few fishes
that perlect their spawning bods and
young fry. He is tho only fish suitablo
for our waters able to defend himself
against tho ravenous pickerel or pike.
Nearly all our ponds aro infested with
this pirate among fishes. Ho is ablo to
conquer all his enemies. Finally, ho is
as sumo as the salmon, and in compari
son with his size furnishes as much sport
to tho angler. He readily takes a live
minnow or a fly, and when he feels the
hrst prick ot the hook frequently rises
threo teet out ot tho water m his strug
gles to treo himselt, and it requires a
quick eye and steady nerve to land him
ately."
lhe cost ot theso fish tor stocking pur
poses, is trom $1 to $J each according
to sizo and number taken, the expenso
ot transportation being added. .With
an attendant thoy can be Bafely sent
four or five days' journey by rail.
All tho efforts at stocking ponds with
tho black bass have been successful, so
far as our information extends. Tuns
are taken every year from ponds of a
few hundred acres, furnishing a very
appreciable amount of food to the peo
ple in the vicinity. A pond of 40
acres, stocked two years ago at an ex
pense of 300, is now valued at $10,000
by its proprietors, and will probably
pay tho interest on that sum. Ono of
tho excellencies of tho black bass is, that
ho absolutely requires no care after ho
is put in his new homo among the
coarser kinds of fish. Ho caters for him
self, living upon varieties that aro of
littlo value for human food. You have
nothing to do but to catch him when ho
is full grown. A' pond should bo kept
closed for four or fivo years after it is
stocked, and then it will bear the strain
of iifhing with tho hook, probably as
long as water runs.
Fish also can bo raised iu ponds that
haveno outlet, or in those that aro sup
plied by running water only part ot tho
year, if they do notjget so low as to de
stroy tho fish by tlio execssivo heat in
tho summer. Eels and mud pout aro
frequently found in theso stagnant
pools, but carp would bo u better fish,
and furnish a large amount ot food. In
tho abundant distribution of water in
our Northern States there are few owners
of largo farms that cannot command a
valuable fish pond. On many tho pond
is already made. Un others, nothins: is
wanting but a dam, which will bo none
tho less valuable for fish because it fur
nishes water power for a mill.
lo those who havo facilities such as
tho above, wo would recommend at least
a trial ot fish culture on a small scalo.
Insect InsTlnct.
A correspondent of a Now York
pa-
paper relates a touching instance of in
sect instinct as follows :
" I found a cockroach struggling in a
bowl of water. I took a half peanut
shell for a boat. I put him into it and
gave him two wooden toothpicks for
oars, and leu mm. Tho next morning
I visited him, and ho had a piece of
white cotten thread on ono of the tooth
picks, and set tho toothpick up on end
us a signal of distress. Ho had a hair
on tho other toothpick, and there the
cockroach sat a fishing. Tho cockroach,
exhausted, had gone to sleep. The
sight melted me to tears. I never had
to chow leather to get a soul. I was
born with one. I took tho cockroach
out, gavo him a spoonful of gruel, and
ho left. That animal never forgot that
act, and now tuy house is chuck full of
cockroaches.
A Minnesota paper tells of the mar
riage of a Swede who could not speak a
word ot liinglish with an American wo
man who could not speak a word of
Swedish. Thero certainly ought to be
no quarrelling or disputing betweon
them, though there may be plenty of
misunderstanding. The speaking eye
must in their case liave a deal to do.
Facts and Fig tires.
Extensive lead mines arobeinfr opened
in Utah, i -t t ' ' , , .
Ono man and his son in Winneconno,
Wis., havo slaughtered 3,301 muskrata
in two months. -
A man at Bloomington, 111., scalped
another the other day -merely to show
how it was done.'
Thousands of Korea of sugar beets aro
being planted in the vicinity of. Free-
JJUl t, All., bLUO UlU.
Tho Duluth TTerahl says that Dan
Shumway, a notorious tough, killed - at
Moorhead two weeks ago, was buried
faco downward, with a pack of cards in
his hand. " '
An aged gentleman, at CharitSn, Iowa;
attempted suicide by hanging, but his
family cut him down ; whereupon ho
took tho ropo and administered a goiu
oral flagellation. r - S
Somo of tho Indian olergymon in the
civilized tribes of tho West havo, queer
names. Among them are Rev. Mr.
Black Fox, Rev. Mr. Mmkrat, Kov. Mr.
Walking Stick, and Rev. Mr. Johnny
Jumper.
A skull 20 inches in circumfemuco
above tho ears has been dug up fit Du
buque, Iowa. This seems to indicate
that " in those days " there were men
with a mighty deal of intellect above
their ears. . ' .
Brigham Young's quiet little family
circle consists of thirty-two wives and
sixty-eight children, and when they all
gather around tho herirth ei a wintoV
evening the effect is said to bo indo.scrib-
ably cosy.
J ulia E. Yallett, a poor Providence
girl of twenty-two, has sued Thomas
Grace, ot Cranston, un old bachelor of
seventy-five, worth a round half million,
for !f:JO,0()0, the price of her blighted
affections. ' "
A wedding that was to have taken
placo in St. Paul, a day or two Bince,
was indefinitely postponed by tho dis
appearance of tho bride that was to bo
on the wedding morning. Sho eloped
with a former lover.
An English law compels a married
woman, if sho has money or the moans
of making it and her lord has none, to
support him, bo he ever so worthless,
that tho expense of his keeping may not
come upon the parish. ' ;
A lady in Clinton, Iowa, gave a bur
glar a very severe flogging with a dust
brush tho other night. Sho said sho
wouldn't havo dono it if she hadn't been
under tho impression that it was her
husband just getting home.
A gold mino his been discovered in
Stearns county, near New Richmond,
Minnesota. Tho St. Cloud Journal says :
Though it is found at a depth of 113
feot, tho gold is so pure and tho nuggets
so large that borings will pay well.
Tho commission recently appointed to
lay out a now highway in Wethorsfield,
Ct., have found it very difficult to obtain
precedents for assessing damages, as
there has been no highway openod in
that town sinco tho Revolutionary war.
At -Provincotown, Mass, more than
one-fourth of tho entire population aro
Portugueso. They settlod thoro somo .
years ago, when the whale fisheries wero
at their height, and are represented as
being a hardy and daring set of fisher
men. Thero was once what was known as a
rainless region in tho Territory of Col
orado, but for two or threo years past
that tract has been favored with fre
quent and abundant showers, and it is
thought that soon irrigation will bo no
longer necessary. The Denver' papers
are trying to account for this climate
change Wo should suggest that it
might bo ono of the effects of civiliza
tion, if wo felt quito sure there .was
enough of it there to have any appreci
able effect. ;
A Missouri judge has decidod that
newspapers in that Stato cannot collect
payment for advertisements printed on
Sunday, becauso a contract for work on
Sunday is void under tho statutes. Tho
case has been appealed, and a final de
cision has not been rendered as yet, but
whichever way tho caso is decided there
can be only ono opinion regarding tho
character of a man who will got adver
tising dono on Sunday, af' ofter hav
ing obtained tho benefit of it refuse pay
ment on ouch grounds.
A very curious business enterprise has
been recently discovered in Austria, car
ried on by insurance companies which
unuertako to pay certain sums to policy
holders on their getting married. "Of
course it was a swindle, but that was no
reason why it should not flourish until
tho projoctors had lined their pockets.
Thero weio policies enough issued, but
tho members ot tho company did most
of the marrying, and the officers received
largo fees, and then there was little left
for outsiders, and they didn't get even
that. - '
A Dutchman died lately in Holland
who had thoroughly tested tho destruc
tive powers of tobacco and beer. -,Ho
had in his timo Binoked about KkOOO
i . . i- ii... i, i i ,i ' i
puuuus ui ura Buouung wouu Him iirumt
000,000 quarts ot the composing liquor,
and yet by reason of strength or somo
other cause he reached the ago cf four
score years. Of courso tho experiment
is not altogether satisfactory, because if
he had not indulged in tobacco and beer
ho might havo lived to bo 100, and on
the other hand ho might neve have
passed sixty. iJ l r- a
. A London correspondent gives mi ac
count of an " office for ;uarriage9 " which
has been established for somo time in
that metropolis and is in a very flourish
ing condition. It undertakes to obtain
matrimonial partners with any desirable
qualifications for all applioantg.' i The
matches produced by this concern claim
to bo moro satisfactory than those said
to bo mado in heaven, and, aro doubtless
hotter than the general run of thoso
patchod up by parents and friends. In
fact, a general office for this kind of
business has its advantages, as it en
larges the market for both parties to the
bargain and gives a wider opportunity
for the entire satisfaction of all tastes.