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HEN 11 Y A. 1WUSOXM, Jr., Editor nnd Fnbllfthcr.
ELK COUNTY THE - REPUBLICAN PAIITY.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOLUME III.
IlIDGW AY, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1873.
NUMBER 7.
Miscellaneous Selections.
OUT OF THE DEPTHS.
BY HAUTON GHBY.
I wiide my soul a nong for her Blncln,
" uie gioHiiiinK w mellow Willi May,
And the whispering
rlnirinir.
eweuea
lmrcbellB, their curfew
till, lllffrtt nrtl.n ..In. .In.. .
Ana ouOol the depths of the spirit's passion
Love the great ninster, touched the keys,
And the rhyme came forth in the old, old fash
ion.
Half fear,
these:
away on mo," thought Emily Impatient- will be Millburn Instead of May, why Death of A Noted Woman,
ly. "But it's never worth while to pity should I refuse?" And then It crossed v
men very much. They mostly get over her mind that a widow's can would be Oxh of the strangest careers of modern
their troubles very easily, if there is no very becoming to her, and she hated her- times has just terminated in the death of
money lost." From which it may bo in- self because this silly notion had come to Lady Ellenborough at Damascus. Forty
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Emily Miy lived With her mother, clenrvnmn In her nlil hlnr.k mohnir. which I tlin Tf.not hoa lnnir honn a anrr. of scnnrla.
in an inland town in New York, had become r-nnsldernblv snot ted down I Imn rnmnnno 'l'h rlmiorhtor of the lute
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oho unit u huh uronertv oi ncr tne iront in cue course 01 ner nursing.
The rite was made as short as possible,
and then Mrs. Millburn sent every one
half hope and the words were
Come, my soul, let ns reason together!
Come, for the shadows darken ahead!
Care and sorrow tighten the tether,
Life's sun through the mists glows dim and
red.
Come, ere the lonjr, low light of the summer
Fade to the brown of the autumn leaf;
Come, lest the foot of the careless comer
Lay weary in paths made rough with grief.
Soul, where thoughts like the white-winged
an gels
Brood in the hush of this dim, dusk eve,
Whisper to me thy sweet evangels,
Whisper and sigh, but do not grieve)
Out of the depths of thy charmed chambers
Raise me a song that shall thrill afar;
Kindle thy fires, blow bright thine embers,
Gleam on An- soul like the gleam of a star.
Soul, mv soul, that hast walked thy Journey,
Through winsome valleys, byheightandscaur,
Whose shield is dark from a noble tourney,
Whose lance droops low with the weight of
war.
took past yon hills, whose crest bright sunned is
own, and, with what she could earn by
her pen, she managed to dress herself, pay
tor a summer's journey now ana men,
and keep her own house" over her head.
it was her way to iook atter ner sick
neighbors, poor or not: to visit, now and
then, at the hospital and the county house,
and do what her hand found to do. She
made no fuss, and laid down no rules, and
was under no ecclesiastical "direction"
in particular ; but I am inclined to think
si.e was as useful, and far more agreeable,
Uian if she had made herself hideous in a
poke bonnet, and committed mental
suicMe.
When her holiday was over that sum
mer, she came home, and settled auictlv
uown to ner worK
Admiral Sir Ilenrv Digby. beautltul, wit
ty, and rich, she married in 1824 the Earl
of Ellenborough, who was afterward
Governor-General of India, and who at
that time was one of the most brilliant
men of the day. She was about seventeen
) patient en- years of aire at tho time of her marrinffo.
tircly, and censed to do anything ; and, and Ellenborough, who was a widower,
as sometimes happens in like cases, he was thirty-four. They lived together
took a turn for the better ; and slowly some six years, and her dissolute conduct
the bnlance trembled, the scale inclined, was a cause of scandal for some time pre-
and life had won. vious to the catastrophe of her elopement
I'll tell you what It is," said the doc- with Prince Felix Schwarzenberg, a cele-
tor. " your wile has saved your life." brated roue, then Austrian Minister in
away, and for two days the bride stood
over the bridegroom, and fought against
death till she was ready to faint.
The doctor gave up the patient en-
Evert turned his head on the pillow,
and looked for Emily, hut she had
slipped away into the next room, where
she sat down, feeling, for the first time,
with a strange snocK. tnat sne was actual
She was busy at her desk, one day in ly married. What should she do? What
couiu sue say r now couiu sue wu revert,
after all, that she had only come to him as
she would have gone to Pat Murphy, if
he had sent lor her, ana consented to tnat
marriage rite as she had lent her silver
candlesticks to hold Father Flanagan's
October, when a carriage drove rapidly
up the street, and stopped at the door, and
Dick Bush jumped hurriedly out, and
rang the bell. Emily went to the door
herself, upon which Uick 8 hurry seemed
suddenly to subside ; and when he came
London. The event caused an immense
scnsatio.t in the world of aristocracy and
fashion. Ellenborough procured a di
vorce f rom Parliament and never married
again ; but his runaway wife soon sepa
rated from Schwarzenberg, and in 18:12
married Baron Venningcn, a Bavarian.
Tiring of him presently, and with her
great wealth and personal fascinations
having little difficulty in procuring di
vorces under the easy laws of Germany,
she was married in succession to five other
look past yon hills, whose crest bright sunned is f J 0 moimrai i.c unn, 1 caiiuivvucM) iu huiu rmnci riiums"" snewas marneuinBUCCCBSion luuve umcr
With the lost fond glance that the dead day nto the parlor, he appeared to find great blessed candles when Judy Murphy died ? Individuals ; but as none of these unions
srives 1
Up! let the voice of thy Te Prnfundii
Thrill to those courts where no sorrow lives I
Soul, wilt thou love, where to love is losing?
Long wilt thou wander in ways that errj
Dally with hopes, that thy barren choosing
Finds fleeting as stops of a wayfarer.
Wilt thou not turn and say to her spirit,
Lo I I that love thee will love no more?
This is a hard thing that we inherit:
To love and to weep, lo, this is sore!
Out of the depths of the heart's despairing
Comes the long, passionate cry of lovej
Ah, Uodl but the cross is hard tor the bearing!
Ah, Uodl for the rest and the wings of the
dovel
Ah! tlyit in that pure, fnlthful bosom
The dim, lost half of my life might lie!
Ah! that the bud might lather the blossom!
Shall these things be? Who knows? Not I.
Out of the depths of the starlit distnnce
A pale gleam shows where the moon comes up,
Ana nere in me aregs 01 mis strange existence
May lurk the sweetness that crowns the cup,
And faith and hope and the spirit's patience
Strengthen the heart nnd liehten the eves.
Ah, soul! my soul! there is hope for the nations,
Anu boti is noiy, mm iusi, nnu wise.
Go, then, my song, speak swiftly to hers
Sing to her, plead with her lute and long;
Hover around her. and centlv woo her:
Perhaps she will hear thee some day, O Song!
Out of the depths of the soul comes sorrow,
But out of the depths of these davs that cease,
May come, like ligm rounu tne ieti 01 me mor
row, Love's soft glory, our love's calm pence.
Applctoni' Journal,
"I WILL IF YOU WILL.
The Kay House is a pleasant little hotel,
Standing halt way up tue siue 01 a mount,
nin iii New llamnshirc.
In the parlor there, one July evening,
were four people Mrs. St. John and her
flanchter Ellv. Miss Emily May and Mr
Millburn. As Elly St. John went to the
piano, these two last slipped out on the
balcony, and stood listening as JMiy sung:
"Gould we forget, couiu we lorgctl
Oh that Lelhe were running yet,
The past should fade like a morning dream
In a single drop of the holy strcum.
Ah! we Know what you would say,
Hut we arc too tired to hope or pray j
For, hurt with ceaseless Jar and fret,
Body and soul cannot forget.
dilllculty in expressing himself, and Emi
ly, greatly wondering, asxed alter his
friend jvir. Aiuiourn.
Dick's tongue was loosed.
" Oh. Miss May." he said. With a shak
ing voice, " Evert is dying."
" Where? How? said'Emily startled, and
sincerely sorry.
Now Dick had been rather melodramat
ically inclined. He had meant to act like
the hero of a lnrlv's novel, nnd nrlminiRtpr
a severely inflexible reproof to the woman
who had trilled with Evert ; but in Miss
May's.presence he found this plan Imprac
ticable, and wisely refrained.
" He went out shooting with a fool of a
boy, and he, the boy, fired wild, and
avert was oacuy nurt, ana lever set in ;
and, oh 1 Miss May, he keeps asking for
you, ana ne won't do quiet; ana the doc
tor said, if you could you ought to come,
for it might make a difference. There's
his note, and Mrs. Millburn's."
The doctor wrote, succinctly, that, con
sidering the state of the case, Miss Ma's
presence might possibly keep the patient
quieter, which was all important. Mrs.
Millburn's note was an incoherent blotted
epistle, begging this unknown young lady
to come anu save ner Doy.
Emilv could not refuse: her mother
hurried her off, and in two hours she was
seated beside Dick, on her way to Spring
field. Her reflections were not pleasant.
Every one would talk, and suppose there
was a romance. JUiy &t. Jonn would De
sure to know about it, and Elly was such
a little chatter-box ; and to try to make a
mystery of the matter would be still
worse.
Then she had "nothing to wear." And
The doctor went down stairs : and
presently Mrs. Millburn and Hatty came
to her. and overwhelmed her with em
braces and gratitude, and a point applique
set, and fragmentary talk about ner
met her expectations, thev were nil dis
solved after a short duration. In 1818 she
was living in Athens with her eighth hus
band, a Greek colonel. Count Theodokl ;
but without waiting -to become a widow
" things," and proposals to send for her she had this marriage also dissolved, and
mother, all mingled together. Emily
resolutely put away thought lor tne time,
but she could not help feeling, in an odd
surprised way, that sho was not unhappy,
and despised herself for having a sort of
ashamed, furtive interest in those "things"
which Mrs. Millburn and Hatty were
longing to provide.
A week after that day, Evert was al
lowed to sit up in his easy chair, white and
wan enough, but with a look of returning
health and life. Emily was sitting almost
with her back to him, looking out into
the tossing leafless branches of the great
elm.
" Emily," said Mr. Millburn at last.
' Yes," she answered quietly, but she
did not turn her head.
" Emily, I did not mean to get well."
No answer from Mrs. Millburn.
" I know how much you must feel what
has happened. Believe me, I will take no
advantage of your goodness ; I will set
you free as soon as I c in. My only wish
is to spare you trouble ; I will take all
blame on myself. I know you are long
ing to be away ; and why should I delay
what must come at last? 1 dare say uick
and Mrs. Macy, the nurse, can do all I
need now."
Oh. if vou prefer Mrs. Macv's attend
ance, I am sure it is nothing to me," said
Emily, in a remarkably cross manner.
"You arc angry with me, but there
need be no dilllculty, dear. You came
how should she get along with E vert's away from home so hurriedly that it would
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run lliev forn-et. will thev forget
When they shall reach the boundary set,
When with the llnul pang anu strain
They arc parted never to meet again?
Ever to them shall rest be given,
Senseless in earth, or huppy in lleuvcn?
That whleh has been it might be yet
If we could only learn to forget
Jtut the stars shall cease to rise and set,
And fall from Heaven ere we forget."
Elly sung with an intensity ai.d pathos
which borrowed none of Its force from
within, for she was a eood-natured, in
consequent sort of a girl, who had
never had a trouble in her life. The
mother and sisters ? And who would
take her Bible class on Sunday? And
what was to become of her little book
promised for "the snriiiff trade ?"
"1 dare say it's all nonsense his want
ing me." sho thought. "People never
mean what thev sny in a fever. I remem
Dor rat murpny insisting mat ne wouict
have a hippopotamus 'handy in the house;'
and if Mr. Millburn comes to himself how
horribly embarrassing it will be 1"
On the whole, Miss May's feelings were
rather those of vexation than romance.
They rode all night, and when Emily
reached the door of the handsome old
fitshioued house in Springlleld, she was
conscious of "looking like a fright," and
wished herself anywhere else.
The door was no sooner opened than
she was embraced bv a little old lady in
black, and a pretty girl in an elegant
mornins dress. Botli were in tears, and
had evidently been for some time on the
verge of hysterics ; and Emily at once set
gift of musical expression is often quite them down as "the sort of women who
independent 01 iceung or experience. are never of any use
Elly s music hurt Emily cruelly, and
stirred and roused the old sorrow whicn
had but just begun to fall asleep for a lit
tle. She had loved deeply and fondly a
man who had grown tired of her and left
her, because he was greatly her inferior.
Much as she 6unereu, 1 rejoicea wnen
"Oh, my dear I It is so good of you ! So
very good of you!" said Mrs. Millburn.
"1 am sure you wm pe nis guaruian an
gel," said sentimental natty.
JSot at all. Mr. MiUDurn ana 1 were
very good friends, and I shall be very
glad if I can do him any good," eaid
her engagement with Lewis Leijhton Emily, in a very matter-of-course tone ;
Was DrOKen. J. iiuu miunn utwu uuiu
his earliest childhood, and I had always
disliked him as a selllsh, conceited prig.
Had Miss Mary married him. her disap
pointment would have been unspeakably
greater man n was. ja euo icmieu uvei
thahnlcnnv while Ellv sun?, and looked
nut into Bhadows and starlight, her heart
was wrung as with tho first anguish of
and then the doctor made his appearance,
and begged her to come up stairs.
" If he could be kept quiet, there might
be a chance tor him,' said the doctor ;
but so much depends on nursing'-
and tho doctor ended with an expressive
silence. Evert was moaning and Bob
bin", and beffirine that some one would
send Emilv May with "one drop of
set out for the Levant. During a journey
from Beyrout to Damascus sue found a
new affinity in the person of an Arab
camel-driver, known as Sheikh Abdul,
whom she married after the Arab fashion,
and who was the ninth and last of her
conjugal partners. For a whole vear she
accompanied him on his journeys between
Beyrout and Babylon, faithfully fulfilling
all the duties of a camel-driver's wife,
even to milking the camels. Tiring of
this nomadic life, she built for herself a
charming palace In Damascus, where she
has since lived in her own style, a great
object of curiosity to all European travel
ers. Abdul, continuing in business as a
camel-driver, was always hospitably en
tertained by her whenever he came to the
place. And now she is dead, having com
pleted nearly three score and ten years,
leaving a colossal fortune to her relatives
of the Digby family in England, and a
memory of warning and of shame. N.
r. Sun.
Contagious and Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Svmes Thompson, a well known
English phvsician. recently lectured on
the above topic in London ; and from his
discourse we glean tne following :
It is considered a settled fact that dis
eases of a contagious nature are caused
and spread by influences largely within
the sphere of human government and
control. Every form of infectious fever
has its Idiosyncrasy. Enteric fever and
cholera tend chiefly to disseminate them
selves tnrougu water, passing into 111c
wells and fountains of daily supply, and
at times traveling irom nouse to nouse in
tho milk cans of easy consclenced dairy
men. Scarlet fever hitftrnates In a drawer
and, after long months, comes forth with
some old anu cast aside garment, to be
thrown with it around the throat or head
of some new victim, and so start thence
upon a fresh career. Typhus fever crawls
sluggishly from hand to hand and mouth
to mouth, and is immensely fociablo ill
its spirit, languishing away when con
demned to solitary confinement. Typhoid
fever generates itself where filth, over
crowding and impure habits of life pre
vail ; and relapsing fever glides in tho
track of privation and misery.
The means now known of controlling
these evil ministrants are, in the main,
careful Isolation of the sick, the preser
vation of the water from which daily sup
plies are derived in uncontaminating
purity, the uninterrupted ventilation
alike of hospitals and dwelling houses,
the immediate removal from the vicinity
of active human life of all excretions of
flip sick, nnd the deRrriiption nf t.lipir nirtr-
tx rs are, we might try to make the best of bific influence by mixing them with an
it." she said in the faintest whisper, while r.ittpntic nnd riifiiiift'Ctiiior acrpnta fflunti an
the color ran to her fingers' ends. carbolic acid, sulphuric acid, chlorides of
"You will?" , . lime and zinc, permanganate of potash,
"I will if VOU will." Said Mr8. Millburn, nnil clinrcnnll. temnerate livino- avoid.
with a sweet, shy stnile. I ance of any kind of excesses, and above
And she kept her word. from the Air au the cultivation of an intelligent famili-
be perfectly natural for you to return to
your mother now."
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iltL llUl t;, IU lVClt a UlPUlilJ , .J'JIUlljr Hill
her face, and began to cry in quite a pas
sionate and distressful fashion. Hvert
rose with dilllculty, and went to her, It
was not more than three steps.
"Do you want to kill yourself ?" she
said through her sobs, and ghe took hold
of him and made him sit down, and then
turned away, and laid her head on the
window seat.
What can I do ?" he said, distressed.
"It's too bad 1 Oh. it's too bad !" she
said in the most unreasonable way.
"I know it, Emily. You are as free as
though no word had ever passed between
Do you want to go to-day r 1 win
make if easy for you with mother and
Hatty," he said, with a pang.
She went on crying, and then in a min
ute she said, in a most Incoherent fashion,
"I I didn't think 1 was so very disa
greeable." The words dropped out one
by one between her sobs. "But, of
course, if you don't want me"
"Emily! What do you mean? iFIiiyou
stay ? Will you really try to care for me ?"
he asked, with a suuuen ngm in uis eyes.
I don t know. 1 did think as imu
prevalont forms of belief are sometimes
held up somewhat rudely to the light,and
shown to be here and there but thread
bare spiritual raiment, it is without preju
dice to tho living body of truth which
tney are nnvnuea to ciotne. niacicioooa.
The Story of Two Lovers.
Twenty-six years ago James Sanderson,
a respectable person residing in the Scot-
tisn iieDriues, men verging on ju years,
made court to a girl some 1G years of age,
and was accepted; but a rival much
younger Interfered, and bore off the prize.
This made Sanderson feel revengeful ; and
the girl's new lover having been engaged
in smuggling, Sanderson inforoied upon
him, and ho had to leave the islands, to
which he never came back. The people
were so violent against Sanderson that he,
too, was forced to leave, but had married
before doing so, his wife being taken to
spite nis out mistress, who had not got
married.
Arriving on the American Pacific coast
in safety, he bought a latge tract of land
a few miles north of Fort Langley, and
devoted himself to its agricultural devel
opment with so much energy and skill
that a few years made him comparatively
wealthy. "Better than this, however, the
new life brought with it such endearment
of the woman whom he had wedded with
out other love than he had been able to
simulate for her deception, that the in
crease of their children was his conversion
into the fondest of husbands ; and when, in
18(11, he became a widower, he remained
so ten years, when he sent home to a sis
ter in the Hebrides, to engage a wife for
him. His old flame was selected, and
said she was willing to go to him whom
she had jilted twenty-five years before.
From the time of her second lover's
hasty flight under the denunciation of his
enemy, the smuggler's sweetheart had
never heard of that individual again; and
the lapse of time nnd the increasing bur
dens of her lowly estate made her much
less imperious at forty than she was at
sixteen. The wealthy farmer of British
Columbia sent her ample means for her
outfit and voyage, and the long voyage
was accomplished without incident as far
as San Francisco. From the latter city
she was to proceed up the coast to her
destination on a steamer in which a pas
sage was specially secured for her, and
while awaiting this vessel she was seen
and recognized at a hotel by the accented
lover 01 ner youtn, wno nad Deen in Cali
fornia ever since his untimely departure
from the Hebrides. There was a dramatic
meeting, a long story on either side, and
alas, for the waiting widower a full re
vival of the old love.
Both lovers, however, were much so
bered by the discipline of maturer years ;
and the lady having explained by whose
wish and means she was in America, de
clared that she must go onward as she hao
promised, and fulfil her engagement If it
was still exacted. She would faithfully
tell all to him who awaited her at the end
of her journey, confess that she could
never love him now as she had lately
thought possible, and abide by his own
decision. If he yet claimed her he must
be obeyed ; if not she would return to
Saa Francisco. As the story ends with
her reappearance in the Californian city a
few duvsaoo. and auiet marriatre there to
the former smuggler, it may oe interred
that the Columbian widower was at once
sensible and magnanimous under his last
disappointment, and finally proved him
self the friend of the woman with whom
fate had twice denied him a nearer, dearer
relationship. Concord (N. H.) Patriot.
Gnshlng.
dine for April.
loss, the sickening sense of her own blind
infatuation. "UBUuai ne saia ro ner- Tm m wh tQ Emily.g crltical
sen, "wnen win uit " eyes, looked Miy thing but capable, was
death be past?" Then shccarae con- fsg.; over h?m , way ptUat ' wa8
Bcious that Mr. Millburn was speaking ni,n itgelf to uriv0 a' rergon
to her; but he had more than naunnisneu mn., imi1 nn,,reA nut. a o-nhipt. nf
what he had to 8ay before she realized ta witft a'Btrdv. hand, and as the ice
that he was asking her to be his wife. tiukled a.illnst the side of the glass she
He spoke at a -very unfortunate mo
ment. He and Emily had been very
crnnd friends tiwt summer. They had
wandered in the woods, ascended Mount
Washlnerton. and been to Glen Ellis to-
held it to his lips.
" There is water," sne said, in ner ordi
nary sweet cheery voice. Now it you
will try to he quiet, 1 win stay with you
The Value ot Time.
Snrlnsr is nomlnany here. The field la
bors of the year will soon commence, and
we should see that everything is ready for
energetic, systematic work. How to make
money by farming is the great question.
There are two ways of getting rich. One
is to spend less than you earn ; anu tue
other is to earn more than you spend. It
may be thought that this is a distinction
without a difference ; but such is not the
case. T he farmer wno aims to save ou
cents out of every dollar he gets is a very
different man from the farmer who aims
to set $1.50 Instead of 1.00. One saves
She could not tell whether he recognized just as much money as the other. But
arity with natural laws,
In regard to antiseptics and disinfec
tants. Dr. Thompson states that It should
bo understood that agents of the
character of carbolic acid are properly
autiseptics, and operate mainly Dy arrest
ing tho process 01 lermcntation and de
composition, while agents of the nature
ot Condy's liuid (permanganate ot
potash) chloride of lime, and especially
charcoal, are disinfectants, and act by ab
sorbing the noxious products ot decom
position. This he showed by experiment,
a few drops of carbolic acid causing a
cessation in the evolution of gas bubbles
from a fermenting solution ot sugar ; and
the vlolunt color of Condy's fluid was in
stantly discharged when combined with
water in which was a trace of sulphureted
Ratio of Lire Stock to Population.
gether. She had liked him, but she had her or t but the nervous feverish dis- the latter has just twice as much to spend hydrogen. The lecturer also exhibited
never dreamed oi nun as a lover, anu
when he presented himself in that light
she was snockeu, anu siaruuu, uuu a ut
ile nrovoked.
"Oh hush!" she said sharply. "It
never can be never !"
" Do vou then dislike me so much ?"
Eaid Evert Millburn, trying very hard to
sneak ouietlv.
" No," she said, making an effort to
collect ner thoughts. " I nave liked you
vou have been erood to me ; but all the
love I had to give is dead and buried, and
there is no resurrection."
He maile no answer ; but she felt that
the had hurt him.
" I am very sorry," Bhe faltered ; I nev
er meant "
" I understand." he said ouickly. " It
Ig no one's fault but my own. Good
night." And they touched hands and
Tnrr.ed.
Evert went up to his room, where his
friend. Dick Bush, was sitting in the dark.
Dick was a boy of nineteen. He had been
trvlnsr to work his way through college.
and had worn himself out in the effort,
and Mr. Millburn had brought him to the
mountains for his vacation. Dick made a
tress and excitement seemed in some
measure to subside ; and, after a time, he
was completely quiet,
Now nursing a wounded man in a fever
sounds very romantic in a novel ; out, in
its real details, it is anything but a ro
mantic business.
Emilv May. at Evert Millburn's bed
side, felt herself in an entirely false po
sition ; but she took care of him, for there
was notnimreiae to be done, ine nurse
went off in a huff with Miss May and the
doctor: Mrs. Millburn and Hatty couiu
only cry and rustle about, and overset
things with their dresses. Evert would
grow restless as soon as Emily left him,
so tt
into
Happily Mrs. Millburn and Hatty were
not jealous. On the contrary, they ad
mired Emily exceedingly, and were very
grateful and affectionate.
rseiore tae ena oi tne weeK, .avert came
to himself. " l have dreamed you were
here," he said, with a taint smile,
l see it is you. ana no nnantom."
The delirium had cone, but the doctor
said nothing encouraging. Evert insisted
as the former. And it will make quite a
difference to a farmer and to his family,
and to thecommunity in "which he lives,
whether he spends Souo or ai.uuu a year ;
or still more whether he spends $2,000 in
stead of $1,000. The distinction we make,
therefore, is one worth considering. We
believe iu i conomv. but we believe still
more in work. TV Uen John Johnson was
plowing one hot day in his summer fal
low, a butcher came to buy seme cattle.
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MX. J. toia Him nis price uuu men suuitu
the horses, and the butcher walked by his
side, lie was very fat, ana tne iana was
soft and mellow, and the perspiration soon
burst from every pore. By the time lie
remains of a rat which had been placed in
a jar of charcoal six years ago. Only the
bones and a few hairs were to be seen ;
and although the jar had been covered
with but a piece of paper, throughout the
lengthened period of decomposition, no
trace of disagreeable smell was at any
time emitted.
Religion In Novels.
Prof. Thkkold Rogers, of Oxford
University. England, has compiled a curi
ous table showing the proportion of do
mesticated live stock to population in tne
chief countries in the world. It shows the
following results :
Great Britain : one cow to every 12 per
sons; one sheep to every person ; and one
pig to every 10 persons.
S'rance lias a cow to every C persons ; a
sheep to every person, and a pig to every
II ncrsons.
1 . . i . n i n
Sweden nas a cow to every o l-a per
sons ; a sheep to every a-i persons ; anu
a ni2 to every 13 persons.
Norway has a cow to 2 1-2 a sheep to 1
and a niar to 18 persons.
Denmark has a cow to 2 a sheep to 1
and a ma to 42 persons
Prussia has a cow to 5 a sheep to 1
nnd a na to 5 persons
Wurtemburg has a cow to 4 a sheep to
2 3-4 and a pig to 7 persons.
Bavaria has a cow to 3 a sheep to 2 1-2
and a pig to 5 persons.
Saxony has a cow to G a sheep to 8
and a pig to 8 persons.
Holland has a cow to 4 a sheep to 4
and a pig to 12 persons.
Belgium has a cow to 7 a sheep to 9
and a pig to 8 persons.
Austria has a cow to 6 a sheep to 2
and a pig to 5 persons.
Switzerland has a cow to a i-a a sneep
to 5 and a pi r to 7 1-2 persons.
The United States has a cow to 4 persons
a elieep to each person and a pig to
1 1-a persons.
House Cleaning.
Cleaning is a subject by itself. Its
miseries have been learned in suffering.
and rhymed in song. It is the dread of
masculine humanity, and is one of the
things that periodically transfer some
amiable women into iretiui anu iauiv-uuu-Inir
ones, and make hannv homes tempor
arily distressing. Now there is no need of
halt the discomiort ana inconvenience, me
Wk all agree to consider " gush" un
worthy: "cushinff people." whether in
parlors or periodicals, are accepted ob
jects for satire. Now, as we have known
someaeciaeaiv gusning people in society
and inthepublicprints to speak of "gush"
with derision, we infer that there must
be some ambiguity as to tho meaning of
tho term. It is, perhaps, worth while to
ask, " What is 4 gush,' and in what does
its inferiority inhere?" Usually, though
not necessarily, persons who gush, ad
mire rather than criticise; but whatever
they do, they do with profusion. The
voice is commonly in a nigh key ; but it
Is not Wrong or unworthy to admire.
" Gush" is not objectionable because it is
pitched in a high key. There is very
genuine and exquisite admiration. Much
in literature In which the key is high has
value and truth.
The objectionable quality of "gush"
is, not that it possesses these
qualities, but that it professes
them, and possesses them not. Ad
mire all you choose ; you are but one lit
tle being in this boundless universe, and
you have all outside of you to admire.
The higher your ecstacies, the deeper
your worship, the greater you are un
questionably ; only be sure you don't lay
claim by written word, or speech or gest
ure, to ecstacies which you do not feel.
If you love your kind, and are "human,"
there is in tno boundless expanse of his
tory, in the experiences of the people
among whom you move, sufficient oppor
tunity for all the " sympathy" you can
command. Your sympathies, and appre
ciations, and subtleties about your friends
may be never so superfine, they may be
quite beyond the reach of plain people,
but If you are sure of their truth, you can
never be justly accused of " gush." It Is
only when you follow some loose fashion,
when you take some half-formed, superficially-felt
impression, and in some
modish way profess a depth or an eleva
tion which you do not possess it is only
then that you may be said to "gush."
Fancy, spirituality, love, joy fii the per
ception of beauty, all these are true :
"gush" Is false. Now, it may often hap
pen that a young person, or for that mat
ter an old one, may not have sufficient in
tellectual power, or sufficient depth of ex
perience, to test the truth of any cfl'usion
of the mind. George Eliot somewhere re
marks how much easier it is to be eloquent
than to oe true, xrutn lor the writer, es-
Eecially when he attempts the more am
Itlous walks of literature and endeavors
to be original, demands a power of int-1-lect
which few can command. The writer
who professes spirituality, and believes
himself,able out of his own experience to
say something which is worth the atten
tion of men, must, of course, first, himself
believe that he is truthful. Sometimes
he is mistaken, he often is; but,
after all, the only consent which is
worth anything is the writer's own
certainty 'that he is right. Ho must
take upon himself the responsibility of be
ing mistaken ; but in most of the " gush,"
wo see there is no such even mistaken
consent of the intellect and conscience.
Really, the writer half knows he (very
often she) is talkiug nonsense; if he
prized truth sufficiently, ho would not
speak so. "Gush." we think, therelore.
is oiten tne result or a teeuie intellect, nut
oftener the result of a lack of dignity and
the want of en instinctive love of truth.
Wo doubt if many persons write "gush"
for the love of it ; but people who make a
living by writing, and who have at sCated
times to cover so much spaco with ink,
even when they are capable of better
things, do too often acquire a way of
writing from the hand instead of the head
.or the heart, and of approaching the deep
er themes or lite with levity and insinceri
ty. This is the " gush " which is utterly
objectionable, whether it be written for
the public or spoken in the ear of friend
ship. Hearth and Home.
Marital Responsibility.
A nrmiotTS nuestlon repardintf the re
sponsibility of a husband for the acts of
his wife has recently been decided In the
Supreme Court of Illinois, and in deliver
ing the opinion of the Court J trtlge Thorn
ton took occasion to make an elaborate re
view of the changes which recent legisla
tion has made In the legal relations be
tween man and wife. The case in ques
tion was one of slander. Janet Robson
had sued one John Martin for slanderous
words used respecting her by Margaret
Martin, John's wife, and the case had
come to the Supreme Court on appeal.
The decision was that the husband was
not liable. The Court held that a liability
which has for its consideration rights con
ferred should no longer exist when tho
consideration has failed. If the relations
of husband and wife have so changed as
to deprive him ot au rights to ner prop
erty and to the control of her per
son and her time, every pnncipio oi rignt
would bo violated by holding him still
responsible for her conduct. So long as
the husband was entitled to the property
of the wife and to her industry, so long as
he had power to direct and control her,
and thus prevent her from the commission
of tort, there was some reason for his lia
bility. The reason has now ceased. The
ancient landmarks are gone. The maxims
and authority and adjudications of tho
East have faded away. The unity of hus
and and wife has been severed. They are
now distinct persons, and may have sepa
rate legal estates, ontracts, debts, and
injuries. The chains of the past have been
broken by the progression of the present,
and the wife can now enter upon tno stern
conflicts of life untrammeled. She no
longer clings to and depends upon man,
but has the legal right to battle with him
In the contests of the forum, to outvie
him in the healing art, and to climb with
him the steps of fame. And as her brain
and hands and tongue are her own, in
the judgment of the Court she alono
should be held responsible for any slan
ders she may utter. New York Sun.
Stupidities.
It is very noteworthy how many of the
best novels of the present day touch with
more or less distinctiveness upon ques
tions of religious belief. We set aside, of
jw reuueus as boou as x.umy nai iami -. , -f j. fi M -h willing course, tnose many stones some excel
that the charge, in spite of herself, fell tld told, wjs mUtag kindotherg the verie8t
o her hands. f? . Vifwh. -7 ,iTS bish-which are confessedly stories with
in v , 1 1 . miii. iiiii ill. .111.1 ... . ij i i ...
r-. ' I . . r : r. , , , , -
his side. When they got back to the
starting point, Mr. J. put in the plow
again and started the horses. "Hold on
Johnson," exclaimed the butcher. "I'll
take 'em ; 1 wouia not warn up ana aown
ri" f ir..,..t- .n ha hart hen mnrrniiw on hearing the exact truth; and learned
r irm'iio at last that he might possibly live a few
' TiniM, "aairt Mr. Millburn. aftera little, days, but no longer.
" we will go over to the Gleu to-mor- Then, to Emily's wonder and dismay,
Evert entreated that, for the little time
And then Dick understood the case, and there was remaining, she would take his
mentally abused Miss May as a "cold- name. His heart was set on this idea,
a purpose, written to advocate some
favorite view, in which the Illustration of
certain theological tenets is of the very
essence of the book. In these, if we only
know the name of the writer sometimes
:r z o.i j- i J...V1. .v. .,., it i a miriv accurate iruess mav De arrived at
"Now Tmn by V
knew what his cattle were worth; ana " ,? if T JJZA rZ.
above all he knew the value of time He cast the kind of fare which is provided for
knew that a man ana nis team were worm .""". V? m. ,""r,
30 cents an hour. He knew that if he rd according as his Was may ncllne
1 1 JJUll CVQU IU U1UOC TtlULU BOOUU1D
such didactio office, and whose writers
would fairly repudiate any such design as
headache and pneumonia and neuralgia,
that come in the train of cleaning. There
Under this head, Dr. Hall, In his Jour
nal of Health, humorously uiscourses on
the tendency of tho times, as follows :
It is reallv a great wonder that every
body is not dead and buried, and the
world itself used up entirely, if the thous
andth part of what is told us about micro
scopical and other "discoveries," so called,
is true. One man will have it that the
glorious Union over which the stripes and
stars float so proudly will soon become
depopulated, because respectable people
don't have children ; another has discov
ered myriads of bugs hi tho chatelaines
and waterfalls of the ladles, boring into
their skulls and sucking out all the re
maining brains of the dear delightfuls
A German savan now tells us that every
sip of tea we take is full of oily globules
which get into the lungs direct, weaken
them, set up a cough, and the person dies
of consumption. Another man has found
that the purest spring water, clear as
crystal to all appearance, if let alono will
deposit a sediment which generates ty
phoid lever ; hence he proposes that ev
erybody shall quit drinking water. An-
oiner says tnat oreau nas so muca lime
in it that it is turning us all to bone, and
makes us stilt la the joints, that being the
reason we have no lithe, snri&rhtlv old
men now-a-days ; hence we are full of
limns and rheumatics long before our
time, therefore we had better quit eating
Dreau aitogetner, anu live uu rice anu ta
ero and tapioca. The water cure folk as
sure us that pork and beans and ham and
eggs are full of abominable trichina, and
that, it one is swallowed and gets tainy
nestled into the system, he, she or it will
breed a million more in a snort time, ana
that roast beef has juvenile tape worms In
It. And here come rom, uick, anu tiar-
ry, all in a row, loaded down with micro
scopes ana soy glasses wnicn siiuw as
plain as day that the air is swarming with
llviiiEr monsters and putrid poisons, which
ny into the moutn anu crawi up tne nose
Paganinl.
An English paper has given an inter
esting and curious account ef Psganini,
wnicn it would oe worth the wnue ot any
one interested, as so many people are
nowadays, in questions of "temperament"
to read. It is common to talk about the
artistic or poetic temperament as if there
ere no differences between one poet,
painter, architect, or musician and an-
other the fact being that the differences
of resthetic temperament inter sese are
almost as great as the difletences between
these again and all others. The tempera
ment of a man, for instance, on whom
physical causes act oddly and instantly at
times, at others not at all ; who travels
ith the greatest speed lrom place to
place, taking care in tho hottest weather
to have tho carriage windows closed ; who
delights to talk loudly while rattling over
the roads; wno resents being spoke to wnuo
waiting at inns to change horses; who, on
arrival at his hotel throws all the
doors and windows open to take an
air-bath :" who is very fond of money.
but carries papers of immense value in ti
pocket-book, mixed with concert tickets
and letters ; wno seldom notices scenery
or cares lor the sights ot foreign towns ;
wno cares little where he sleeps or what
he eats or drinks, but when he goes out
to dine generally eatB so much as to bring
on illness ; who is In the habit of remain
ing taciturn for days, at other times
however, of joining in conversation "free
ly ;" who, after dinner, habitually sits
in his room in total darkness till half-past
ten, when he goes to bed ; who is continu
ally mixing witlt men, but has no friends;
who is laithtut to both his parents, is at
times very generous, and who, if any one
mentions music in conversation, relapses
Into sullen silence or goes off into some
other part of the room what sort of a
tempermcnt is this, poetic, artistic, archi
tectural, dramatic, or lunatic? It is none
of these, it is the musical temperament,
the traits having all been manifested Dy
Paganini himself. N. Y. Nation.
proseiytism, tne great problems or reiig-
stopped and went home with the butcher
tne men in tne neia wouia De uiteiy to uu
less work while he was gone. An hour's
111.. ... 1 1 . ,11 nwAKiKln V10..A nrtot- lilm RO
UCUUS. lltl TVaO UBICIIIIILIGU W OHIO VJ 1 i " , , , "
,.,.fU omi nm ti, rUk nf th hnMier not. disguised in vague generalities, are as-
fli.t iiwhicii nithir. aha did not and h nlpjiilnd. for what seemed such a I ,.,th a nA I Butued as having a momentous influence
IieHIWU uu., 1 ",- - ! .1., u lil Thcr oro nnf K-rrV,t
iii rim est deserve. useless ooon, wiui a yeiieuicm! this a lords one reason w-hv Mr. Johnson I "!'"' "u?"."io'
, i xi . I .... i l i i . - v. .. . .1, I ... .11 -i . I . .... mAm nanlln Intif no mrpffrnilnn norhiiiia
Evert and U1CK went, away eariy ill iiic beeiueu iineiy iw uuavcu wc uw. nas UVed 111 great COmiort, brought UP a I " e r-i
morning. Himuy nearu uie iago unve men is. mrs. niiiiuuiii nuu bow- large
away, and turned her face to her pillow,
and tnOUgnt Ullieriy Vl mo uuniumya-
of thing's in this world.
fiha knw that Evert, was good and
o.,w. snd sensihie. He was in a fair
way to win reputation at the bar, and, if
onded the petition with tears, and were
sure that " darling Emily" would not re
fuse dear E vert's last request.
Emily did what nine women out oi
ten would have done, and consented.
VCU 111 KldV WUUUll, U1UUX11. UU I . . - . , , fc . ' 1 1 . l
familyf and made over one hundred but they are evidently present to the mind
and dollars by farnfing.-uru;. ?f the writer as elements of grave impor
ultutUt I tance. If our generation be indeed so ir-
thousand
Agriculturist
reverent and irreligious as it is said to be.
the traces of character are not to be found
In our highest works of fiction. If there
A New England paper describes a
H tavA n rw maim " urhfua AnnnnmiAal
11 wuuiu uave uuiic, anu uuuscuicu. I -.'"r vw.,u. i m .. -
(1 What liortn nan ir rin9i elm thnncrht. I tendencies lead her to dace her boardera I la Akenticism in them, it is BKepticism in
WAV LO Will If UU I UUIU 11 av Uv Lai i nuuj I ' ' mw v 0 w I -7 f . . ' - , ,
rmt lust handsome, was attractive and " It la only a mere form, but it gives me upon an allowance of matches. Every the better sense of the word. T he doubts
nolJ.-T fh rtaht tn h with n.im tn fh end. and evening at tea she goes round and places are those of the honest doubter; the
o' that wnnlrf Iw nroiid will prevent anv talk : and he is so good, a single match at the plate or eacn board- questioning is not 01 a sneering or cap-
id happy to accept his love : and noth- and has loved me so well ; and if it com- er, and should that match fail, there is no floua kind, but has the earnest tone of the
g wOT do buT that h 1 mil i throw it I fort Wm now to think' that my name appeal to the majch safe. inquirer who Beelui an answer, Eyen if
is urgent necessity that once a year, at
lest, and perhaps twice, most parts of the
house should undergo the most thorough
andsw and creep into the ear; hence it is death
IddWw5uWriflta Wei!; tobreatkPesuchpestiletUUalr .and that
7." "L.j i m., ni rin. the best wav is to keep the mouth shut.
posit Their UeET in "ceU Tnd sofitl plug up the nose, and ram cotton into the
I. ...:n r,f:.. ,1 1 -n .n noilincra ha- ears.
come g mtd witolrn'okeT ButWt fl Ever .0 many learned professional gen-
wuio 6.mi-v. ...v I Homnn ho v hppn tirr.nrincr nnnr ncrurea
?oon?arnd weTaTdo 'without fires gti.tap
. . , , ji. I Hh lliiif avorvhiviv la either travv nr annn
ante v. The verv neat nouseaeeper uw """ j --
likes to kindle the fire in the grate, when will be : that tne annual increase is ten
the parlor is shining in Its freshness ! and, P"Jgy. J'
if it lie a Medo-Persian law in ner family, ZttZXiiStr k
that cleaning is always to be done at 1 1,uo 'al "T "UD !Ti"D 4 r"
" 1 ' I; K v, f o f n.. wt.hr. their time hatching out these tomfooleries,
there will be days when not to have fire LLVnT1!6!,
Is to be very uncomiortaDie, pernaps - "
IT.,, w . woinii. nova been pretty well taken care of for some
Bli;. fUf, M UU1 ureuu mJ I .1 -.. j.. I ! 1 mV,f
. 1 i 1. . Vi 11 nMniicno 1 Luuuaaiiua ui vcais. muicajiiK iu wuiiwi.
th.Sn5wiaTDIcta..ndlt U and wealth an'd life, the average length of
almost fatal r, at least, it is to invite dis- which last has aoiiDieu witnm two centu
"v. r.vr ' r j,- h ries. and the population perhaps increased
eUStt, W 1 All 11 lilts UUUH uuu v avv uuu I . , ' - . . r", la that
WWl. .t h Grelt k"aker of all will sTarrangeTli
ucKiu ni turj tuy buu "v v v . . . - - mc -v.
a time. Kest between. Get Fanny's and anutgouisuc iurc ui
Mary's room done first; then lie upon " ; aTwIaZT
you oars for two or three days, and come and solitary place to be glad, and the 1 des
Sown to mother's and the guest-chamber, ert to rejoice and blossom as the rose,"
Leave stairways and halls till you nave " "
finished the parlor floor. Oidv clean on
bright sunny days and when you feel
well. Bv extending over three weeks
what is usually accomplished in one, you
end
lng
Rubies.
The ruby ranks third in hardness among
precious stones. Its color varies from tho
ghtcst pink of rose tint to the deepest
carmine. Specimens are oiten lounu 111
which blue is exhibited in one part and
red in another ; sometimes the two colors
are more or less intermingled, producing
purple shades, and even greater variega
tions are occasionally Seen from the pres
ence of additional colors. A ruby, either
too light or too dark, is not as desirable as
one of an intermediate shade. Tho most
highly prized are those of tho ''pigeon's
blood" color, a pure deep red, flee from
the casts of either blue or yellow. This
shade exactly agrees with that of the fresh
blood ot a pigeon as seen wnen aroppeu
on white paper. The best rubies are al
ways set transparent, but those deficient
in color are Dackeuuy amuoi ajiuiini im
shade. In buying a stone set with foil tho
Eurchaser will naturally be on his guard ;
ut where it is without a back it may be
supposed that its real color is apparent at
a glance. Not so. Some swindling jewel
ers succeeded in tne pian 01 iinnijj uie in
side of the band made to encircle the stone
with crimson enamel of such a shade as to
lend a proper hue to a faulty gem. Ex.
A Willful Woman.
A female argonaut of fearful vitality, a
tall and extremely ugly female, called at
the postofflce yesterday, tendered ninety
nine coppers to the urbane clerk, and
asked in lieu thereof three cent stamps.
The official remarked that he could only
receive four coppers as a legal tender, and
at the expense of a deal of precious time
endeavored to convince the female that he
was guided by certain rules, and had no
latitude in tne matter, one waxeu wroin,
and remarked that when in the course of
human events it became apparent that
United states coin was to De remsea Dy a
United States official, she thought her
forefathers had died in vain, and consid
ered it her duty to bring the Government
to account. T hen she paced the corridor
of the postofflce until she had made thir-
ty-tnrce separate tenaers 01 tne coppem
and obtained thirty-three three cent
stamps. During her transaction witn tne
clerk she gave him much unsolicited ad
vice, and otherwise contributed to tho
enjoyment of spectators. Son Francisco
jsuiiettn.
Four thousand English ministers urge
the Archbishop of Canterbury to support
in the House of Lords the bill to legalize
will save time, temper, and health, for it marriage with a deceased wife's sister.
is not work that hurts, but worrying over Why should the parsons be so partial to
WOK. tuann ana, name, 1 uicu oioKu-ui-ian i
Detroit. Minn., aspires to be a health
resort, and won't hear of having such a
thing as a regular grave-yara ,iest 11 snouia
deter invalids from going thither.
A co-operative communion called the
Ebenezers, of German extraction, long
established near Buffalo, are attracting at
tention.
The taxes in California State, county
and municipal range from three to four
per cent, on the value of property.
There is a farm in Essex county, Mas
sachusetts, which has been in the posses
sion of the same family for 237 years.
Bharp blades norse-ralscra.