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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher,
NIL DESPEItANDTJM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
NO. 13.
VOL. II.
MDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1873.
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A Song of Spring.
Baby Spring Ib growing fast
Into maiden beauty.
Summer's sweotnoss will not last j
Autumn, ripe and fruity,
Dies in Winter's freezing blast
As love chills to duty.
Lovo the baby, sweet, sweet Spring ;
Tet her, kiss her, woo her j
Summor's larger graces bring
Larger homage to her j
And ripe Autumn, proud, doth fling
Bounties richer, never.
What for Winter can wo Bay ?
Bitter, blustering Wintor!
How ho lingers, day by day.
Wearing, weary Wilder !
O sad comrade 1 g awar.
lH-oory, a?'0(l Winter.
Emily IS. Fonu.
MOSEY.
Miriam Leslie was likening to n
' word of advice," from her step-father,
Mr. 1 aimer. She was a very beautiful
woman, of twenty-two, with a face that
was a rare combination of sweetness
and strength. Just now the resolute
month mid expression of the brown eyes
showed that firmness in her character
predominate, though no look of tem
per marred her amiability.
I have no power over your move
ments, Miriam," said the gentleman,
kindly. " You nre of age, and the
wealth you inherited from your father
is entirely under your own control ; but
I am afraid you are committing a grave
error if you accept Wilton Seymour's
offer. I am afraid he is a man to marry
powers of money."
"Why? I pass over the implied
slight to my attractions ; but tell me
why you think Mr. Seymour marries me
for my money ?"
"I don't know that I mean that exact
ly. I know that you are young, beauti
ful, and tuiented ; but I think if you
had bn poor you would not have hid
this offer."
" Again I ask why do you think so ?"
" Wilton Seymour is one of that un
fortunate class a young man who has
lived upon expectations. He has been
educated and supported by an eccentric
uncle, who was supposed to be enor
mously wealthy. Wilton has been
raised in complete idleness, passing
through college with moderate credit,
nnd since that, moving in society, re
ceived everywhere as the heir to his
uncle's money. Six months ago his
uncle died, leaving his money much
less than was supposed to a hospital.
Wilton accepted the situation graceful ly
euough, applied for a situation as clerk
in tho wlioloonlo lionno of J.Iyc i Cu.,
and courted an heiress."
"You are bitter. I believe Wilton
Seymour to bo an honorable, upright
man, who loves me, who is trying to
earn a support for himself, and who
does not look upon my money either as
a stimulus to his affection, or an im
pediment in the way of it."
" I see you are determined to marry
him. Well, I will see that your money
is settled upon yourself."
" I love my future husband too well
to oiler him an insult. My money will
purchase him a junior partnership with
Myers & Co."
"He has told you that ?"
"No. Mr. Myers informed ino that
lie could be admitted into the firm if
he had a capital of ten thousand pounds
only a small portion of my money.
The remainder may still remain where
it is, subject to Wilton's check and con
trol." " This is sheer insanity. I never
heard of such folly!"
Miriam's face grew very sweet, as a
look came into her brown soft eyes of
devotion and trust.
" If I am willing to trust myself, my
whole future happiness in Wilton's
hands, my money is of little conse
quence. If he cannot win my confi
dence sufficiently to control my fortune,
do you think he can win my love my
self?" Mr. Palmer moved uneasily in his
chair.
" I wish you would listen to reason,"
lie replied. "I am truly speaking for
your own good."
" I know that. After nine years of
such love as my own father would have
given me had ho lived ; after seeing
your severe grief for my mother's death,
your affection for my little step-sisters
your own children never surpassing
that showed to me, do you think that I
do not appreciate your motives ? I
thank you from my heart for your ad
vice ; but my whole future happiness is
involved in this decision, and I believe
I am deciding to secure it."
"I sincerely hope so. If in the fu
ture you find I was right, remember I
claim a father's right to comfort you,
and this father's home to receive you."
Too much moved by the old man's
solemn tone to reply in words, Miriam
pressed her lips upon the kind eyes that
looked into her own.
" There, my dear," he said gently,
" I have spoken as I felt it my duty to
speak. Now we will write to Mr. Sey
mour, who will become my son when he
becomes your husband. Get your iinery
ready, and we will have a happy wed
ding. God bless Miriam !"
Two hours later Wilson Seymour
came to put the engagement ring on
Miriam's finger, to thank her for his
promised happiness. Looking at this
man, as he held the hand so soon to be
his own, no one could doubt his love
for the fair woman who stood befoie
him.
They had spoken of many subject?,
when Le said, suddenly :
" Mr. Palmer has told me your gen
erous wishes, Miriam, with regard to
money. I cannot consent to this. It is
true we must have waited long before I
could offer you a home, but I will win
to fortune vet."
He lifted his young, noble head, as
be spoke, tossing the dark curls from
such a frank, manly face, so full of
brave, bright resolution, that Miriam
wondered in her heart how any one
could look into his eyes and suspect
him of one mercenary desire.
SIia said nothing in answer to his mi
petuous speech, only smiled and nestled
W hand in his. She was not a caress
ing woman rather coy in her sweet
maiden dignity; but where she gave
love and confidence, she gave them fully J
and freely.
The days of betrothal sped rapidly.
During the day Wilton stood at his
desk, fingering over massivo ledgers,
and dreaming of future happiness, and
Miriam selected her house, furnished it,
and kept dressmakers, seamstresses and
milliners busy. She had no objection
to her Btep-fatlier's wish to have house
and furniture settled upon herself, but
was resolute about the remnmdorof her
large fortune being left subject to the
control of her, future husband.
Busy i1;,yS R-ere followed by happy
evings. The young people were fa
vorites m society, and friends would
insist upon social festivities to celebrate
the betrothal. The quiet home evenings
were pleasant beyond these, when two
loving hearts learned to read each other.
While Wilton loved more deeply every
day, Miriam was giving such respect to
his worth aud manliness as made her
future look brighter every day.
But the days of the betrothal were
short. A gay wedding, a happy tour,
and the young people came home to
settle down in the handsome new house
as quiet married folks.
Two years of happiness followed.
Wilton was rapidly rising in the esteem
of business men having purchased his
position as junior partner in the firm of
Myers Sc Go., at Miriam's earnest re
quest. But, although attentive to his
business, ho was no mere drudge, seek
ing money as tho only end and aim of
life.
Miriam found him ever a willing es
cort to party, ball, or opera ; and the
home evenings were given to music, or
reading, or such bright intellectual in
tercourse as had its power of mutual at
traction before their marriage.
There were sage people who shock
their heads over the young wife's ex
travagance : but Wilton seemed most
happy when she was gratifying some
new whim or desire ; and she had never
known the need of economy. Money
id always been at her command, and
there was no new restraint upon her ex-
lenditures. or hno dress she cared
ut little, though she was tasteful, and
her cestumes were always rich and ap
propriate ; but she was generous and
charitable, loved to collect trifles of ex
quisite art around her, patronized rising
artists, and found no difficulty in ex
hausting her liberal income each year.
it was during the third year ot her
married life that Miriam began to find
h cloud upon the former bright happi.
ness of her life. Wilton was changed-
In these three words the loving heart
of the young wife summed up all her
forbodings. Ho had been the sunlight
of her lite, loving, tender, and thought-
j ni ; but it became evident to her that
unp nlmnrhintr infiiToof wna rfn,lnnllTr
winning him more and more from her
side.
Evening after evening ho left her, on
one pretext or another, oftentimes stay
ing away trom her till long alter mid
night. 'His sleep became restless and
broken, and some absorbing care kept
his face pale, his eyes clouded, his man
ner grave. There was no unkindness to
complain of. Miriam met ever a tender
caress, a loving word. She missed the
pleasant home intercourse and a strange
dull fear crept into her heart. Wilton
was becoming miserly !
He denied her nothing, but would
sometimes sigh heavily if she chal
lenged his admiration of some uewvlress
or ornament, and it was evident that he
was curtailing his personal expenses to
the merest necessities. Too proud to
complain, Miriam suilered silently,
praying that she might not learn to de
spise her husband as a mere money-
making machine. At first she endeav
ored to win his confidence, but he kind
ly evaded her inquiries, and she made
no further effort.
But her home grew distasteful, mis
sing the companionship that had made
the hours fly so swiftly. She had
never felt household cares, trusting
everything to an experienced house
keeper. She had no children to awaken
mother love and care, so she plunged
into fashionable follies, and tried to for
get her loneliness. Never had her toilet
been chosen with more faultless taste
never had her beauty been more marked
than it now became ; and she sought
for excitement as she had never done
in the first happy years of her married
life.
And while Mis. Seymour was thus
seeking for happiness abroad that could
not be found at home, her husband's
face grew paler and thinner, and ho be
came more absorbed in business cares.
One year more passed, and the hearts
that had been so firmly bound together
seemed to be uniting entirely apart.
Miriam was sitting sadly in her draw
ing-room, one evening, waiting for the
carriage which was to convey her to a
large social gathering at a fashionable
meliu s. She was dressed m costly lace
over rich silks, and every detail of her
elegant costume was faultless in finish
aud of the choicest quality. Her face
was pale, and her eyes very sad.
She lookod up as the door opened,
hoping to seo Wilton, though it was
long since he had spent an evening in
her society. Instead of his tall, grace
ful figure, the portly form of her step
father entered the room.
Miriam sprang forward with a glad
smile.
" I am so glad to see you," she ex
claimed warmly.
" But you were going out ?"
" Only to be rid of my loneliness and
myself. I shall bo happier here with
you."
" Truly, Miriam, will you treat mo as
your father to-night ? I have come here
on a painful and delicate errand and I
want your confidence."
She was silent a moment and then
said, "You shall have it."
" You love your husband, Miriam ?"
Great tears answered him.
" Do you love society, dress, and ex
citement better than you do Wilton ?"
"No, no ! A thousand times, no!"
" Could you give all these up for his
sake ?"
"You have some motive fot asking
this ?"
"I have, indeed.. I lore your hus
band also, Miriam. I have learned to
respect him, to trust him, and I was
wrong, when you decided to trust your
happiness in his hands."
" But, father, some great change has
come over Wilton. He seems absorbed
in money-making."
" One year ago your husband asked
me to keep a secret from yott. Believ
ing he was increasing your happiness
by so doing, I consented, but I am con
vinced now that the deceit is wrong. He
has assumed a burden that Is too heavy
lor mm to near, and you are not hap
pier than J'on were a year ago."
"Happier!" cried Miriam, impuls
ively. " I am wretched I" wretched in
losing my husband's society and confi
dence,
You Bhall not complain of that
again. 1 am breaking my promise, but
you will soon understand my motive.
A year ago, tho bank in which, every
guinea of your private fortune was ill
vested failed, and everything was lost.
This house, and the money Wilton had
paid to securo his business position,
were all that was left of your father s
wealth. Convinced that luxury, society,
and extravagance wero necessary for
your happiness, Wilton implored me to
keep the fact a secret from you and
braced himself for a tussle with fortune,
resolved to regain by his own exertions
what was swept away by the failure be
fore you could discover the loss. But,
Miriam, he is overtasking his strength ;
nnd you ore becoming a butt tor severe
censure on your extravagance. My bo
eret has burdened mo too long, and" you
must now yourself bo the judge of the
right course to pursue."
Miriam was weeping, but tho tears
were not all bitter. She gave its full
meed of gratitude to tho lovo that
would have shielded her from the know-
edge of poverty and pain; and yet she
could scarcely forgive the want of confi-
lence in her own ability to bear the
sacrifice that the deceit implied.
It was Jong before she spoke, but
when she did, her eyes were bright and
her voice clear and firm.
"The house is mine?" she asked.
"Certainly. But it needs a large in
come to sustain such on establishment."
"Tell me what stylo of house does
Wilton's income warrant? I mean the
income ho had two years ago?"
"A smaller houe,Uear, no carriage;
no housekeeper; two servants, but cer
tainly no footmau in livery; no con
servatory "
"Stop, stop! l understand you. lou
will see, father, if I am made unhappy
by your kind frankness. Wilton is in
the library absorbed in business. Will
you wait here while I speak to him?"
1 will come again soon, lie said
kindly. "Good night, Miriam. Heaven
grant Ihave judged your heart rightly."
But Miriam did not seek her husband
at once. It seemed a mockery to go to
him with diamonds flashing from her
rich dress; so she sought her own room,
and putting aside her pveiiirif tpilpt
dressed herself plainly and carefully,
and then kneeling down prayed with
earnest fervor before she left the apart
ment.
"Wilton!"
The harassed weary man looked up.
"Wilton, you should have trusted
me. Oive me your neart, your conn-
dence, my dear husband.
He bowed his head upon her out
stretched hands.
"Can you bear it, Miriam?"
"I can. bear anything if you are be-
side me. it you love and trust me.
What I cannot bear is to believe that my
husband loves money better than his
wile!
"No. no!"
"I understand that now. But there
must be confidence between us, Wilton;
I must be your true wife, bearing your
sorrows and your reverses.
"My own brave darling!"
He was standing beside her now, and
for the first time in that long weary
year the old bright look was on his
weary face and the old clear ring was in
his voice. His arm was around her and
she leaned upon his breast.
"Forgive me," he said earnestly, for
doubting your courage, never your
love, Miriam.
She laughed, a merry, bright laugh
and as she playfully closed his desk she
drew him to a seat beside her and
sketched a burlesque picture of thei
future home, with Mrs. Seymour frying
onions, in a crimson dress, while Mr
Seymour milked the cow in tho garden
It is four years since Mr. Palmer
broke his promise. A happier home, a
more thrifty housekeeper or proude
husband cannot be found than in the
pretty house of the Seymours, where
love, confidence and happiness will not
yield the first place to money.
Boarding-llouso Life.
Thus writes Mr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes: "To think of it! Not even
dog to lick his hand, or a cat to purr or
rub her fur against him! Oh! these
boarding-houses! What forlorn people
one sees stranded on their desolate
shores! Decayed gentlewomen, with
the poor wrecks of what onco made
their households beautiful dispose
around them in narrow chambers as they
best may be, coming down, day alte
day, poor souls, to sit at the board with
strangers ; their hearts lull ot sail mem
ories which have no language but a sigh
no record but the lines of sorrow on
their features ; orphans, creatures with
growing tendrils and nothing to cling
to : lonely rich men, casting about them
what to do with the wealth they never
knew how to enjoy, when they shall no
longer worry over Keeping and in
creasing it ; young men and young wo
men left to their instincts, unguarded
save by malicious eyes, which are sur
to be found, and to find occupation in
these miscellaneous oulleetious of hu
man beings, and now and then a shred
of humanity like this little specialist
with just the resources needed to keep
the ' radical moisture from entirely ex
haling from his attenuated organism
and busying himself over a point of
science, or compiling a hymn, or edi
ting a grammar or dictionary such are
the tenants of boarding-houses, whom
we cannot think of without feeling how
sad it is when the wind is not tempered
to the shorn lamb, when the solitary
whose hearts are shrivelling, are not set
in families.
The old practice of prescribing medl
cated bacon for lung diseases is begin
ning to come into favor again, which
will give the graceful pig a chance to
root out the prejudice under which he
has so long suaered,
The Drowned at Dixon Bridge.
Among those who were rescued from
e river after the bridge at Dixon, 111.,
ad fallen, was Dr. Hoffman, of that
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ator and insensible, liis sensations
hilo undergoing the process of drown-
iiiir mnlro n ciivinns and lnterpstincr nar-
ative. He tells his story as follown
y us loiiuwu; ,
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My wife aud I went to see the baptism
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up a position
UU LUW UllUgO liyuiin mijtj
first pier, and between it and the abut
ment. Wo wero surrounded by people
men, women and children. 'Sudden
ly, while Mr. Pratt was entering the
water with n female, I heard a report
similar to that mado by a small cannon,
and in an instant the water closed over
me, aud I felt that something was press
ing mo down. A heavy weight appeared
to be over me. I did not sink to the
bottom. I was perfectly conscious, and
immediately thought of getting out if
possible. My hands came in contact
lth tho trestle-work, and crawling up
as if ascending a ladder, I was fortunate
in finding an opening, through which I
crawled and immediately came to the
surface. I was then, as near as I can
t
I
judge, about seventy or eighty fe
rom the shore. I swam towards tho
bank, but when near it my strength gave
out and I sank. While swimming, some
person, who must have been under the
ater, caught hold ot my lett leg, and
grasped tight for a minute, preventing
me from going forward, llie person let
go as suddenly as ho had taken hold,
nd I gave a stroke or two, when 1 en
countered a dress. Thinking it was my
te, who was standing beside me when
the span fell, I grabbed it, but having
become enervated, 1 was obliged to let
it go.
W hen I sank I wos still sensible of
the surroundings. I went apparently
ery close to tho bottom. The current
oiled mo over and over, ami my hands
frequently came in contact with the
gravel. I could feel the water running
down my throat and in my ears, and all
at once experienced tho most delightful
sensation. I seemed to be at peace with
vervthing. and perfectly hapi'V. Mv
whole life passed before mo like a flush
of lightning, tho events appearing in
enuence. the most prominent appear
ing to be indelibly impressed upon my
mind. Circumstances I had forgotten
ppeared vividly, and I did not want to
be disturbed. I should have preferred
to remain where I was. While in the
midst of a beatific reverie, thinking
what my wife would do if she were
saved, and I drowned, I felt a hand on
my shoulder. I was pulled out and
placed on a rock. I was almost insensi-
ile, but gradually came to myself. Oh,
how sick and wretched I felt
leiuuiliinu Jit tile luutt lluimu nil
hour, I was taken to my home. Here I
commenced vomiting, and frequently
ejected water and 1 artially-digested food
until four o clock in tho afternoon, i
was very thirsty after vomiting, and
tried to drink some water, but the taste
was so disagreeable that I could not
bear it. The ouly way I could quench
mv thirst was by putting vinegar into
the water, about an ounce and a half to
a quarter of a pint. I was greatly as
tonished at the number of events that
passed through my mind while under
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me waier. iouuijg luhi ucciuiuu uu-
mg childhood was evident, but every
thing since I was about nineteen years
old appeared betore me as it photo
graphed. The sensation 1 experienced
while the water was going down my
throat was not unpleasant. It seemed
as if I was going on a journey, and was
surrounded by all kinds of beautitul
thinsrs. The corpse of mv wife was
tound alter she had been in the water
about three hours. It is said that Mrs
Hoffman's countenance was lighted up
with a life-like smile, so peaceful and
suggestive of such pleasant thoughts
when dying, that everybody's attention
was attracted to her
Wanted a Fortnight's Sotice.
Some thirty years ago more or less
there flourished in Dracut, or an ad
joining town, a quaint old individual
who was called fhurston. One fall he
was lucky enough to have occasion to
employ a carpenter ; and the job "held
on like the toothache." All winter long
tho iudustrious carpenter sawed and
hammered away never idle, never
without something to do. In the spring,
however, the good man finished the
last piece of work that seemed required,
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and one day he said, approaching his
mi . . . t
employer. "Mr. lnurston. l believe x
have got through. " Uot through!
exclaimed Thurston ; "what do you
mean?" "I mean I believe there is
nothing more in my line I can do for
you ; there is no more work here for me. "
Jh W hat s that if jno more work .'
Do you think I'm going to let you off
so, after keeping you all winter? Guess
not ! I want at least a fortnight's no
tice before you quit ! But this was
Thurston's joke on the carpenter, with
whom of course he gladly settled, with'
out exacting the usual notice that em
ployers require before their workmen
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icuvo mem. j-iiulbluu sliii lives,
The Dancing Fish.
A man-of-war or frigate pelican is a
peculiar fisherman. He descends upon
his prey like a bullet from a height of
three hundred feet. He seizes the fish
in his beak, and soars aloft into the sky.
His mates gather about him, while the
lucky fisherman tosses his tidbit into
the air so as to catch it by the head, and
swallow it, as it comes down. His throat
is so small that he can gut it in his
stomach in no other way. There is a
wild swoop, and another hawk seizes
the fish, and again it is tossed in the
air, and tossed up indefinitely until one
of the birds is so fortunate as to catch
it headfirst, wheu it disappears. I have
seen a dozen frigate pelicans keep a fish
dancing in the air fifteen minutes be-
fore it was swallowed.
The most wonderful fisherman on the
Tndian river is a native named Stewart,
He seems to be amphibious. It is no
uncommon thing for him to jump into
the water and run down a fat mullet,
catching it in his hands. The Futch
family have two dogs so starved that I
have seen them dash into a school of
mullet and reappear with fish in their
mouths,
Tho Genus Landlord.
How He AVorlti IIU Caret.
That amusing writer, Anna Bracket
says this genus is very peculiar,
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not "Kat P". auJ L. u,T
it am
as soon as a demand is made for it, the
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laUUIOTU 18 HOI qUUB BlUU suraira, vu.
, , . . , ., him(,cl.
or would not rather let it be idle than
, r uj.nii.
luu not riuner ieii ih im 11.110 uiuu
only two per cent on his invest'
.!,
ment. Pending the settlement of this
unimportant question, however, ho in
quires; 1 . . , . ., ..... ft
' What security can you oner ior ino
payment ot the rent neierences
f .. . 1 - 1 i il n .i
oeing given .uuii, lie notes liiciij. tin, uuu
immediately after leaving you secures
the written guarantee of four wealthy
for the payment of your modest
rent of $ 1,800. But he proceeds to in
terrogate;
How many in the family I
" Five," answered E.
"Five! Too few. So few people in
a large house have too much room, and
move round so much they really do
much more damage than more. I al-
ways pack a portmanteau full if I don't
want things spoiled. Five. Any child
ren ?
"Three," answered E., apologetically.
"Can't think of it. I want to let it
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only to a strictly aduic iamny.
"Very well," said E., promptly.
" Good day, sir."
"Stop one moment, inree, uiu you
say? All girls?"
" Iso ; all boys.
" Three boys! Grown up, did
you
say ?"
"Probably not, answered
' as
we wero talking of children."
" Oh! vcs. Excuse mo. 1 was think
ing of something else, vvnui orojter
did you say offered yon the house ?"
"Smith," answered t'J., wno reauy
did wont the house, and besides was
amused at the man.
" Very strange! I only asked for my
own protection, l uiu not give me
house to Smith at all. You lire sure it
was Smith ?"
"Quito sure." said E. "I rather
think we had better look elsewhere."
One moment. I trust those boys
of yours never play ball. I have had
walls spoiled by having balls thrown
against them, and I could on no account
think of letting my house to a family
who allowed ball playing.
I assured him that the halls were
made of white leather, and thoroughly
washed every night.
" That alters the case, said he
Perhaps that might do. I must go to
Philadelphia to consult my sister, who
owns the house with me, and will teie
not. day after to-morrow. I shall
consider you in honor bound to take it
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it 1 telegrapn. ion win nuuersuum
the rent is to be paid monthly in ad
vance.
Without waiting reply, he moved
maiesticallv away ; and we, having
seen that play played ofit sutliciently,
turned into another broker s oince to
consult other lists and start again.
A special messenger met us at our
hotel, as we re-entered it, tnat evening,
direct from the Jersey City ferry, with
a note from the landlord above referred
to, written just as the cars were about
to start. It ran thus:
" Dkar Sin In the event of my tele
graphing that you can take my house, I
shall renuire a written stipulation to
the effect that no company shall ever
be invited to stay more than six hours
at a time, lours, truly,
John Stein
P. S. You will, of course, not ob
ject to inserting in the lease this clause
' All pastry to be eaten in me Kueuen
and not in the dining-room.' J. S."
If there is one thing I like to see
in a man. said to me the next uay
" it is care for his property. It is that
thrift that makes the Tuetouic element
whether German, Swedish or Norwe
chin, so valuable to American citizens
The observation seemeu to me a vai-
uablo one. I therefore note it down,
though irrelevant.
Protection of Iron from Rust.
The experiments of Dr. Grace Calvert
have shown that the oxydation ot iron
is due as much to the presence oi car
bonic acid as to moisture, this gas act
ing in some unknown mannertoiucrease
the affinity of the oxygen of the air for
the metal. To prevent this action is the
I . .
object of painting or coloring the sur
f.irm ,-ifl. ar.inn i rmie vvi mi s Riinst.nnee
face with some impervious substance.
For many purposes, as in the iron work
of agricultural implements exposed to
wear, aud requiring a temporary cover
ing frequently renewed, parathne, a per
fectly neutral material, is found of
great utility, lint lor permanence, reu
lead paint has been acknowledged the
only durable kind, and the question of
whether any substitute could be found
of equal value has been, by innumer
able experiments, ueciueu in tne nega
tive. But some tests made in Holland seem
to show that a puint of native bxyd of
iron may bo made nearly as durable as
red lead, provided the iron be thor
oughly cleaned before its application.
This latter is accomplished by placing
the metal in diluted hydro-chloric acid
for several hours, the acid being after
wards neutralized by milk of lime, and
the surfaces subsequently washed with
hot water, dried and rubbed with oil.
Tho iron oxyd paint gave results quite
as good as red lead on plates prepared
in this manner, whereas on those
cleaned Simply with the scratching
brush the same paint proved of little
worth.
Lucky Johnny. A nice little bit of
luck is reported in the St. Joe Oazctle,
A few days since a lad named John
Mosman, whose father was executed for
desertion at Fort Leavenworth when
Johnny was a baby, being hired by a
farmer near St. Joe, went out one day
for the cows. In digging for a piece of
sassafras root he hit upon a kettle and
found that it contained money. He
lugged his treasure home, and a count
being made it was found that the kettle
contained the neat little sum of 86,000,
all in silver and gold. Johnny must be
a sensible lad, for he has taken his
money up to Omaha, proposing to edu-
cate himself with a part of it and go into
1 business with the remawaer,
The Journalist.
Who otitl What He Is.
There is a man who sits far into the
night with paste pot and scissors before
. . 1 M 1 1 l.,'1 ,.,il
Uiu, anu pencil in nuiiu, mmim
ii'.ri rfl ruled newspapers of oil grades,
sizes, colofS aud political proclivities,
and from almost every conceivable lo
cality. He rapidly cuts, pastes and
writes, instinctively ne rejects
is bad. nnd his eve detects all that i?
od in tho nooks and corners oi tne
scores ot exchanges which pass
through his hands in ft few hours. If
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he remembered one-tenth of all ne reaus
ho would bo a prodigy of varied learn
ing, and by and by he would probably
find his place in a lunatic asymm.
Then ho varies the wearisome routine
v writing : not slowly and laboriously,
but rapidly, discursively and sometimes
brilliantly. What he does, he does not
just as he pleases, but as u daily and
unending task. Ji.very nignt, us ue
creeps homeward in tho small hours,
the subject of the next " leader " creeps
through his tired brain, and in the
morning the necessity for immense ac
tion stares him in the face. Why these
late hours and this silent, careful, a)
? This man is the editor
of a daily paper, nnd every night, ho and
his companions are preparing the liter
arv breakfast for a sleeping World. It
is a strange me ne icaus, anu u wiuij,
world he works in. He wields a power
in the land, but contrary to general rule
ho is almost an unknown man. As a
general statement neither great pecun
iary reward or lame await mm. fie
does work which only the man born to
tho task can successfully perform. In
him are necessary the qualities of skill,
tact, judgment, fair scholarship, a large
fund of current intelligence, coolness,
the capacity for rapid work with few
errors, and lastly, that indefinable
talent for pleasing the many ami ouenu
ing the few, and yet accomplishing a
specific and often a partisan purpose.
Journalism is a profession, and the
editor is strictly a professional man.
To him belongs only the kind of fame
which pertains to protessional skill,
even if he be famous at all. After years
of skillful toil he is almost unknown
upon the street, and has the credit he
leserves only among his equally un
known brethren of the press. Indeed,
the great majority of the workers in the
world s most potent and evanescent lit
erature are not known at all. Scarcely
a man in all England knows to a cer
tainty who is the cont rolling Bpirt of the
Loudon Times, and there are few who
i. In less remarkable instances than
that, a newspaper becomes popular, in
creases in circulation, makes ltsen a
pecuuiary success and a political power
its twenty, or'fiityjoflmmTred" thousand
readers ever gives a thought to the per
vading unknown personality that made
it all it is. From these facts it is plain
that journalism is something still more
than a profession ; it is also a passion.
Ihe kind of men who mukeanewspaper
success where it is one are not apt to
work for money alone, even if amply
paid pecuniarily. There is a reward in
it somewhere, a hope, a gratincation ;
and that reward must bo in a personal
pleasure in the peculiar work. It is true
that the projectors and proprietors oi
newspapers have generally a pecuniary
object in view, but we are speaking of
the men who daily make the newspaper
all it is in the popular mind who ac
tually give it its character and that
wealth which fire cannot destroy, and
which is entirely unique in the com
mercial, value-estimating world.
Curiosities of the Sea.
Among the curious works of the sea,
on the shore, are the excavations made
by stones, washed into depressions on a
rocky shore, and there, by the continual
motion imparted by the waves, grociu
ally wearing holes in the rock. Such
holes are known on the coasts of Europe
as " giants cauldrons, and they are
often several yards in depth.
When a large wave is swallowed up in
one of the fissured caverns on the coast,
its force is sometimes so great that the
rock resounds as with the discharge of
artillery. The mass of water drives the
air ueiore it, iiuu nut uiiiini m wit
walls that surround and compress it a
largo enough space to develop itself,
springs through the crevices oi the
vault. Most ot these nssures, grauuany
sculptured anew by the waters which
escape from them, at length assume the
appearance of real wells, where each
return of the wave is signalized by a
sort of geyser of variable dimensions.
There are some which spring several
yards high, and can be seen at a great
distance, like the jet of water by which
the whale betrays himself afar off;
hence arises t he name of blowers, given
many countries by sailors to these
phenomena on tho shore.
One of the most singular, ana1 at first
sight puzzling, x,'ienomena f a sandy
shore is the rise and tall oi the water in
fresh-water wells. This is occasioned
by the salt water percolating the sand,
and pushing back or damming the
streams of fresh water from which the
wells are supplied. On tho shores of
Capo Cod there are numerous wells
which are dry at low tide, but fill up
with fresh water as the tide rises.
Bad Sews for Baidheaded Men.
Dr. J. M. Toner, of Washington, a
physician of large experience and a close
observer of facts, says that according
to his observations nearly all persons
of both sexes who lived to the age of
eighty years and over retained a consid
erable if not a complete suit of hair at
the time of their deaths. He concedes
that there are exceptions to this rule,
but insists that a large majority of per
sons living at the age of eighty or up
ward retain a comparatively good suit
of hair, or are not bald. His hypothesis
is that a person who retains his hair
past the age of sixty-five has a good
prospect of living to be over eighty.
The rule may be tested by any one call
ing to mind the ages and condition of
the hair of persons of his acquaintance
of the ages indicated, the condition of
whose hair is known to him. The vast
majority of persons who become bald,
or lose their hair, do bo between
thirty-five and forty-five, and these
rarely live to be over sixty-five or seven
ty years pi age,
Facts and Fancies.
Draw not thy bow before thy arrow
be fixed.
Expect nothing from him who promi
ses a great deal. .
A baby has been bom in Georgia
without any eyes.
Cholera is not now prevalent in cither
Austria or Turkey.
Love is to the mortal nature what tho
sun is to tho earth.
TIipv-.o is probability of war between
Russia and Bokhara.
A man was lately strangled to ueatn
by horse radish at Uicr, Mien.
Visitors to tho Vienna
number from 12,00t to 10,000 .'laily.
The chiefs of the conservative pmty
in Cuba are denounced by the press.
A clergyman at Wreatherford, Texas,
was lately mistaken for a turkey and
shot. . .
There is quito a falling oft in im
portations of dry goods into the United
States.
Three car loads of lunatics were lately
taken from Madison, Wis., to Mil
waukee. A man at Milwaukee was lately scald
ed to death by falling into a vat of hot
whisky.
Tho authorities of Huntington, Ind.,
estimate tho value of a liquor license at
r a day.
A rivPi" 300 feet under ground was
lately struck by a mining shaft at
Pioche, Nev.
The police of Chicago ore preparing
to have the liquor saloons closed in ac
cordance with law.
Taylor Shonder, colored, who killed
his wife in Wheeling, W. Ya., 1ms been
sentenced to death.
The police of the City of Mexico have
been ordered to prohibit Jesuits living
in societies in Ajaca.
A Maine mother discovered her three-year-old
hoy striving to shave himself
with his father's razor.
All the nominations made by Mayor
Ilavemeyer, of New York, have been
confirmed by tho Board.
An official inquiry into the cause of
the loss of the steamer Atlantic is to be
opened soon at Liverpool.
A child in New Orleans, supposed to
be dead, was recently brought to life
by a terrible clap of thunder.
Hubert P. Blenkley, the murderer of
his niece, in New lurk, has been, sen
tenced to Stato prison for life.
It is suggested that on tho coming
Decoration Day a barrel of flour bo
sent to every poor soldier's widow.
A crazy man at Minneapolis lately
service, with a sword in each hand.
The Spanish Government is reported
as preparing a vast amount of paper
currency to be forced into circulation.
A Springfield woman has invented a
dinner pot in which four articles can bo
cooked at once, without interfering with
each other.
The failure of a leading firm caused it
" wild panic " on the Yienna Bourse,
during which Bothschild and Schey wero
publicly insulted.
A lady ot Madison, Iowa, has brought
suit for SO.00O because she was ejected
from church for stopping her ears when
an obnoxious person was praying.
Eight dead bodies have been found
under a house in Labette County, Kan.,
near where the dead brother of Senator
York was found soino time since.
The severest snow-storm ever known
has prevailed all along the El Paso
and Santa Fe sections of tho Bio
Grande. All fruit crops are destroyed.
One of the nickel counterfeiter
brought to Little Bock, Ark., has turn
.i t!i..4-..i ..;.i iivmlirMit.inp- mnm
ed State's evidence, implicating many .
persons in tho southern part of that
State.
Among those of tho Polaris' crew
rescrued from the land of ice and snow
are Hans Christian and his wife and
four children, the youngest eight
months old. That youngest must have
met with a cold reception on his advent
in this breathing world.
An intelligent traveler, whohas lately
been among us, puts down, as the tho
result of his observations, that " when a
great man dies in the United States, the
first thing done is to propose a fino
statue in his honor ; next, to forget to
order any statue ; and last, to wonder
what became of the money."
No proposition is plainer than that
" nothing should be sent anonymously
to a newspaper." Equally certain is it
that anything thus sent should bo"
promptly committed to the waste
basket. The writer who will not trust
an editor with his name, does not de
serve to be trusted in return.
Seven thousand Yankee clocks were
recently shipped to Japan, and now
every daimio in the country that can
raise the stamps wears one of theso
neat and reliable, but not gaudy, time
pieces, strapped on his breast, and
when the clock strikes he darws a larger
crowd around him than a monkey at a
circus.
The most novel accident recorded
lately is one happening from a kick
by a hog at Durham's Corner, Bureau
county. Illinois. Mr. Durham was
putting a hog in a wagon, wheu it kick
ed him in the eye, tilling it with tho
broken glass of his spectacles. .The hog
was dropped so suddenly as to break
its back.
A new law has just gone into effect in
Pennsylvania regulating the sale of '
burning oils. It forbids the sale of
any product of petroleum to be used in
lamps as a burning oil which is of a
lower fire-test than HOdeg. Fahrenheit.
Violations of the law are punishable by
a fine of not less thun 250, or imprison
ment not less than one year, or both.
There has been some discussion as to
the injurious effect of beer, but there is
ample evidence that in some cases it is
fatal. A man was killed in St. Louis
lately by the explosion of a cask of this
dangerous liquid, and leaves a wife aud
two children to mourn his loss, and
many fellow-citizens to mourn the loss
of the beer. The article is'to be classed
with dangerous explosives, but, luckily,
it explodes only before it has been
swallowed,