HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. III. MDGWAY. ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1873. NO. 37.
The Children.
Wheu the lessons and tanks are all ouded.
And the school for the day is dismissed,
And the little Mies gather around me
To bid ma good-night and be kissed :
Oh, the little white amis that encircle
My neck in a tender embrace !
Oil, the smiles that ore halos of heaven,
Bhedding sunshine of love on my face!
And when they are gone I sit dreaming
Of my childhood too lovely to last :
Of love that my heart will romember,
I Wheu it wakes to the pulse of the pant,
Ero the world and its wickedness made mo
A partner of sorrow and sin,
When the glory of Ood was about me,
And the glory of gladness within.
Oh, my heart growB as weak as a woman's,
And the fountains of feeling will flow,
When I think of the paths, steep and stony.
Where the feet of the dear ones must go ;
Of the mountains of sin hanging o'er them ;
Of the tempest of fute blowing wild :
Oh ! there's nothing on earth half so holy
As tlw innocent heart of a child !
They are idols of hearts and of lmnsoholds ;
They are angels of God in disguise ;
And his sunlight still sleeps in their tresses.
And his glory still gleams in their eyes.
Oh ! tlioso truants from homo and from heaven,
Xhey have made me more manly and mild !
And I know hew our Saviour could liken
The kingdom of Clod to a child.
I ask not life for the dear ones,
All radiant, as others have done.
But that life may have just enough shadow
To temper tho glare of the sun :
I would pray Ood to guard them from evil,
But my prayer would bound back to myself :
Ah ! a seraph may pray for a sinnev,
lint a sinner must pray for himself.
The twig is so easily bended,
I have banisdiod the rule and tho rod :
I have taught them the goodness of know ledge,
They have tuught me the goodness of God ;
My heart is a dungeon of darkness.
Where I shut them from breaking n rule ;
My frown is siirtieiont correction ;
My love is the law of the school.
I shall leave tho old house in Hie autumn.
To traverse tho threshold no more;
Ah ! how shall I sigh for the dear ones.
That meet me each morn at tho door ;
iBhall miss the ''good nights" and the kisses.
And the gush of their innocent glee.
The group on the green, and tho (loners
That are brought every morning to me.
I shall miss them at morn and at evening.
Their song in the school and the street :
I shall miss the low hum of their voice.
And the tup of their delicate feet.
When the lesson and tasks arc all ended.
And death snys ''the school is dismissed!"
May the little ones gather around mo,
To bid me good-night and be kissed!
THE LONG PACK.
" Auntie, tell me n story," I said, as
I sat with my maiden relative in a huge
tapestried apartment in a rambling,
old-fashioned house in the country,
" What kind of a story do you want,
Harry?" she asked. "Grave or gay,
true or untrue, pleasant or sad? For
my life has been long, and my experi
ences many," she added, as she gazed
dreamily and thoughtfully into the fire
that blazed on the hearth before us.
" O, something harrowing and thrill
ing, fearful and shocking, and, above
all, true there's a dear auntie !" Jex
claimed, as I drew closer to her side,
and gazed shuddcringly around the
large gloomy room.
A little pause ensued, while auntie
gazed meditatively into the fire, and I
watched her face in eager hope of the
exciting: tale that was coming.
I was about sixteen (Aunt Betsey be
gan at last), when I was invited to go
and stay with some relatives in Sussex,
whom I had never seen. My life in
this old house where I was born and
have lived all my days was somewhat
monotonous. I was a lievly girl then,
and, wild with delight at the prospect
of a change of scene, I looked anxious
ly for my parents' permission to acc-pt
the invitation.
After some deliberation, the desired
permission was given ; so, early one
morning, accompanied by my father, I
set out in high spirits for my destina
tion, arriving there in the pleasant
twilight of an autumn evening.
Our friends gave us a cordial recep
tion. "Squire and Mrs. Oldham were
staid, pood tempered, rather elderly
people, and their two daughters girls
of eighteen and twenty as merry and
as wild I could desire. Their names
were Mildred and Janet.
The house, standing on its own
grounds, and surrounded by lofty trees,
was old and spacious, with many long
corridors and passages, and plenty of
rooms of all sizes and descriptions. I
can recall so well the great entrance
hall. It was of immense size and
gloomy, and from it ascended a wide
staircase, which led to an open gallery
above. Many merry evenings I had
spent in that old hall.
During my stay with my Sussex
friends, Mr. and Mrs. Oldham went to
spend a few days at a gentleman's
house a few miles distant from their
own, and it was while they were absent
that the alarming occurrence I am about
to relate to you took place.
The household consisted of the but
ler and four maid-servants. The coach
man, who lived in a cottage on the
grounds about a quarter of a mile dis
tant, was now absent with his master
and mistress. The butler was a pomp
ous, stately, middle-aged man, given
somewhat to patronizing, though always
respectful in his manners to us young
people ; he evidently considered the
safety of the house as his peculiar
charge, and was very particular in the
extinguishing of fires and in looking
after the safety of the fastenings of
doors and windows.
We had heard of one or two robberies
being committed in the neighborhood ;
but we did not feel nervous, and my
cousins placed great dependence on a
huge black dog which always slept at
night in the hull.
One evening I believe it was the
third after Mr. and Mrs. Oldham's de
parture my cousins and I were sitting
chatting merrily round the nre in a
large room which opened from tlie ball
I think it was about seven o'clock
when there came a pull at the front door
bell, and, after a short delay, the butler
answered it. Presently, hearing a
somewhat prolonged parley outside, we
opened our room door, and peeped out.
Two men, apparently much exhaust
ed, stood at the lower end of the- hall,
while on the ground at their feet lay a
large, long package. Opposite to them
stood the bntler and one of the maid
servants, and a stormy discussion
Feemod going on between them. Mil
dred, my elder cousin, after a few mo
ments' pause, walked forward and re
quested an explanation. One of the
men, rather a respectable-looking indi
vidual, I thought, advanced toward her,
nnd making a low bow, began to
speak.
"Madam," said he, "we have
brought this bale of goods to your
house by mistake ; we were to take it
to Mr. Needham's," mentioning a gen
tlememnn's house about five miles dis
tant, " but have carried it here instead.
We are much exhausted, for we have
walked far, and the night is tempestu
ous, and we feel that we can take it no
further. ill you kindly allow us to
leave it here till morning ?"
Mildred looked at the butler inquir
ingly before she answered. The old
servant shook his head, with a doubtful
and suspicions air, whereupon the man
who had just spoken observed, hastily :
" We do not ask for a lodging for
ourselves, madam ; we shall make our
way to the nearest public house. It is
only the pack that we wish to leave,
It is very heavy, and we will call for it
in good time to-morrow. We throw
ourselves upon your compassion."
" Let the poor men leave their large
package, 31ildred, said Janet, my
younger cousin, and nave it put away
in the ante-room until to-morrow.
Mildred assented, and in disregard of
the frowus and ominous looks of the
butler, ordered the pack to be carried
into a little room near the entrance.
This was done ; and glad and thank
fnl was I to see the door bolted and
barred behind the formidable strangers.
it seemed to me a dangerous risk, in
our thinly-peopled household, to admit
two strangers at that time of the even
ing. I had noticed, too, that they
glanced about the hall in a surreptitious
manner, ami especially eyed the dog,
which stood with us in the hall, and
had at first begun to bark, but had been
quickly silenced by a low command
from Mildred. I saw that the maid
servant, who still stood by, shared my
uncomfortable feelings, and she assist
ed very readily, after the departure of
tle men, m barring the door, and see
ing to the safety of the window-fastenings.
Later in the evening I met her ou the
stairs, aud she stopped me.
" I do not like the look of that bun
dle at all, miss," she said ; " it looks to
me alive, and twice I have fancied I
saw it move once when it was lying on
the hall floor, and again now, for I have
been in to look at it.
I smiled, and, telling Harriet " not
to be whimsical," passed on, and, re
joining my cousins, I told them what
Harriet had said to me, and proposed
going to take a look at the mysterious
package.
Taking a lamp with us, we proceeded
to the Itttle apartment wherein it was
placed. It lay on a wooden settle which
stood on one side of the room. It was
enveloped in a browu wrapper, was very
long, and thicker at the middle than at
the two extremities. Somehow I did
not like the looks of it at all ; but my
tears were of such a vague nature that
I did not like to express them. As we
crossed the hall on our return to the
sitting-room we encountered Harriet,
who was hovering about with a very
uneasy and mysterious expression on
her face.
"What is the matter, Harriet ?" ask
ed Mildred.
"O, miss, I am so frightened about
that pack. I cannot rest, and I am
sure that I cannot go to bed while it is
In the house."
"You are very ridiculous, Harriet,'
replied Janet. "I am sure the men
were very respectable-looking individu
als only two shopmen. We have just
been looking at the pack, and it did not
move, though I gave it a good squeeze,
I am sure there is nothing in it to alarm
vou.
Harriet looked very pale, aud shook
her head very warniugly.
Ten o clock came, and my cousins
and I were thinking of betuking our
selves to our sleeping apartments, when
we heard a door in the hall violently
shut aud locked. Immediately after
wards Harriet rushed in upon us, and
sank on the nearest chair in violent
hysterics. She was speedily followed
bv the butler, looking pompous and
still as ever, but with a certain express-
ion ot unquiet on his fat, grave face,
hat is the matter, Jones I asked
Mildred, starting to her feet "Tell us
quickly. Do try to be quiet, Harriet."
II II nnnlr .a nl.VTA n Olatfail I I .1
riot.
" Hush, Harriet," said Mildred, calm
ly ; let Jones tell us. I heard you lock
a door. It was that of the ante-room
in which this unfortunate pack is placed
I suppose ?
"It was, miss," replied Jones, sen
tentiously ; " and the dog is in the
hall." ho added.
"So far good," said Mildred, conv
posedly. "And how, pray, do you
know that the pack is alive t
" You see. miss." replied Jones,
"ever since that pack has been left
here, Harriet has been in a distracted
state of mind frightened out of her
senses, in fact."
" I saw the thing move when it was
laid in the hall," sobbed Harriet.
" Go on, Jones," interposed Janet,
Jones continued:
" So before we rent to bed, Miss
Harriet persuaded me to coma and take
another look at the package. You know
I did not at all approve of its being left,
miss, he added.
" Never mind that," said Mildred
"tell us what you have seen."
" Well. miss. I thought it great ron
sense, but I went. We took hold of the
bundle, and turned it about a little, but
could make nothing of it. Presently
Harriet found a small hole in the wrap
per. She pulled the rent rather more
open, and looked in. I saw her face
change, She turned and drew me out
of the room, pulled the door to, and
locked it. That is all I know at present,
ladies," and here Jones bowed to us
politely.
Harriet had become quieter, so Mii-
dred inquired:
" What did yon see, Harriet?" The
girl shivered, and covered her face with
her hands.
" Come, Harriet, speak, said Mil-
redj becoming a little pale.
" Yes, tell us, and instantly 1 cried
Janet.
Harriet took her hands from her face,
and looked up.
" It was an eye, miss, she said, in
horror-stricken tones. " such an awful-
looking eye, and it glared at me 1" she
added, with a repressed shriek.
We looked at each other m mute con
sternation.
" Was it a living eye, do you think,
Harriet ?" I asked.
Yes. it was alive, miss, I am sure,
she sobbed. " O, what shall we do ?
It looked so malignant and terrible 1"
We looked at eacli other lor a lew
moments, and then Mildred spoke.
I can scarcely believe, that you are
right, Harriet," sho said ; " I fancy
that your imagination must have been
making a goose of you.
" Still, Mildred, I ventured to say,
' Harriet may be right, and it would be
well to do something at once. This
may be a plan to rob the house when
we are all in bed."
And murder us all !" shrieked
Harriet.
Janet began to cry. and meanwhile
the butler had left the room.
" Where is Jones ?" inquired Mildred,
suddenly observing his absence. " Let
us go nnd him, and see what is best to
be done."
She passed into the hall, and we fol
lowed. Jones was rummaging in a
large closet, the door of which stood
open ; he had a lamp in his hand. The
other servants stood by, and we to
gether waited for him to emerge. He
was rather a long time, so Mildred went
close to the door and whispered :
" What are you doing there, Jones?
Jones made no reply, but came out.
armed with an old rusty-looking dagger
and two pieces of strong rope.
" ion are not going to kill him r lin
plored Janet.
"JNever fear, miss, replied Jones;
a little prick, however, will do no
hurt. I must take cave of my master's
house.
" We will come with you," whispered
Mildred.
" Very good, miss," he answered,
' Please bring tho dog to the door, and
keep him there till 1 want him.
So oli went Jones with his lamp, his
dagger, and his ropes, we and the ser-
vnnts following closely behind with
the dog, who seemed to possess a
strong consciousness of something being
amiss.
Jones opened the door of the little
room quietly, and went in and placed
his lamp on a small side-table which
stood near. Then at once, dagger and
ropes in hand, he walked towards the
pack, which still lay ou the settee; but
I now observed that there were one or
two openings in the wrapper.
ihere was a deep silence among us
for a moment or two, interrupted only
by the low growlings of the dog, who
became manifestly more and more un
easy, and was with great difficulty re
strained from rushing into the room,
Then there cume a scene of noise aud
confusion. Jones reached the pack,
and throwing the ropes over his arm.
and still clutching the dagger, stooped
to inspect the slit in the wrapper where
Harriet had asserted she had seen an
eye. At that moment one of the most
fearful and terrible yells I had ever
heard broke from between the folds of
the wrapper. The pack struggled vio
lently , then rolled over and fell heavi-
ly to the ground, while a choked voice
begged for mercy; at the same time
knife was seen endeavoring to effect an
opening. The screams of the servants,
the hysterical sobs of Janet, and the
loud howhngs and winnings of the dog.
who was still restrained by Mildred
from rushing frantically iuto the room,
made a din that I never can forget.
' 1 remember that Jones alone looked
very composed ami unmoved through
out. Before the man in the pack had
time to free himself from the wrapper,
Jones had managed, despite his oppo-
nent s struggles, to pass the ropes sev-
eral times round and round him, aud
to secure them. By the time ke had
accomplished this we. had all become
prettv auiet. The doer was silenced
and made to lie down in the hall, while
Mildred and I and two of the servants
the terrified Harriet not being one
went into the room.
The pack presented a very ludicrous
appearance. The wrapper had been
slit open from the centre upwards, and
displayed the figure ef a man, appar
ently about thirty years of age, lying
in it, the ropes wound round him. He
had a long, pale face, a brown, grizzly
beard, and eyes that glanced doubtfully
from Jones and his dagger who knelt
beside him to us, as we approached
him. tie was perfectly mute, and re
fused to answer any question.
"See, he has got a whistle," cried
one of the servants.
Jones instantly seized it, and after
few moments' consideration, beckoned
Mildred out of the room. I followed.
" xoung ladies, he said, " the man
is now quite secure, and his acconi
plices will certainly not attempt to en
ter much before midnight. I expect
the whistle was to have been the signal,
Would you be afraid, if I slipped down
to the coachman's house, aud got his
wife to send down to the village for as
sistance ? We oould then probably
secure all the villains."
" But you may be attacked by one of
them on the. way, urged Mildred.
" No fear, miss ; I can slip unseen
behind the shrubs in the darkness,
"Go, then, and quickly," said Mil
dred. " Xou are sure that the man is
miite safelv bound ?"
" Quite so, niiBS ; but perhaps you
would like to ask the consent of the
household before I leave you."
Mildred soon obtained our consent
to the plan, and Jones was cautiously
let out of a small side door. In about
twenty minutes which had seemed
like two hours to us he returned, and
his low tap was instantly answered.
" It is all right," lie paid ; I have
seen and heard nothing of tho two men.
The boy is sharp enough ; he has his
directions, and is to bring a party from
the village to this door by the same way
that I took."
More than an hour passed away :
then a low tap was again heard, and six
men appeared, accompanied by tho boy
who had been sent to bring them.
About midnight Jones opened the
shutters of a casement window in the
hall and blew a loud whistle ; the whis
tle was responded to by another, and
two men presently appeared at the open
casement. Jones drew back into the
darkness of the hall aud silently allowed
them to enter. The moment their feet
touched the hall floor they were se
cured. "And wheve were you, auntie?" I
said, "during this scene ?"
We stood in the gallery above.
The boy, who had received his direc
tions, soon brought forward a lantern,
and we also had lights at hand in the
gallery."
" were the men tried, auntie ; and
what was their punishment ?"
1 Yes ; they wero conveyed to the
county prison, and on their conviction
were sentenced to transportation. The
butler, as you may imagine, w as hand
1 .!,!
Expert Uoalmen.
There being no keel to the Esqui
maux kayak, and its bottom nearly flat,
the occupant would seem to make it top
leavv. but with the practice and nerve
of the kayuker, he does not hesitate to
brave a middling heavy sea, riding over
the waves as graeetully as a duck.
Armed with his rifle, harpoon, and bird
spear, all of which he very adroitly uses,
he shoulders his kayak, carries it to the
beach, and launches it. There is no
opening in it except a round hole mid
way between each end, just large enough
to admit the boatman as far ns his hips.
Surrounding this midship hole is a
wooden rim, with a groove around the
outside near the sealskin covering, over
which the hunter laces the lower edge
of his water-tight jacket, and thus fast
ens himself in and keeps the water out.
He then grasps his two-bladed oar in
the middle, propels himself along by
pping it in the water on each side al
ternately, and off he darts at a very as
tonishing rate of speed, until he reach
es his hunting ground. When he sights
a seal, and gete within thirty yards ot
him, he throws the harpoon, and sel
dom misses his mark. As soon as the
seal is hit, it starts off to escape. Tho
staff is then detached from the dart to
which is attached a strand of raw hide,
fastened at the other end to a buoy or
float carried on to the deck of the kayak,
eady to cast off when the line has been
all run out, but kept sight of by the
kayaker, who soon exhausts the strength
of his victim, and then captures him.
The Largest Bee Hive in the World,
' In Los Angeles county, California,
on the eastern slope of the ban r er-
nando range of mountains, and in the
immediate vicinity of the Learning
Petroleum Company's oil region,
there is the most wonderful col
lection of wild honey in existence.
The hive is located in a rift which pene
trates the rock to the depth of probably
one hundred and sixty feet. Tho orifice
is thirtv feet long and sevent'-en feet
wide ; with four passages. This rift
was discovered to be the abiding place
of a swarm of bees, that is seen to come
out in nearly a solid column, one foot
in diameter. Certain parties have en
deavored to descend to the immense
store of honey collected by the bees, but
were invariably driven back, and one
man lost his life in the effort. Others
have, at the expense of much labor and
money, built a scaffold one hundred
and twenty-five feet high, in hope of
reaching a place w here they could run a
drift into the rook and extract its well-
hoarded sweets, but finally ceased their
work. Within four years the bees have
added not less than fifteen feet of depth
to their treasure, as ascertained by
actual measurement, and it is thought
that at the present time there cannot be
less than eight or ten tons of honey in
the rock. A gentleman by the name
of B. Brophy lives in a cabin not fur
from the spot, aud obtained from the
melting f the honey by the sun's heat
more than enough for his family re
quirements. All through that region,
stores of wild honey are found in trees,
in the rocks, m nearly every place
where its industrious manufacturers
think, (for they seem to think) that it
will be secure. They consume a very
small portion, as the climate enables
them to" keep up operations nearly
every day in the year, and flowers of
some sort are always in bloom. It
must be a very severe season indeed
when the little fellows are not seen
abroad in vast numbers, busily engaged
in their mellifluous work."
Inheritance of Deformities.
The heredity of anomalies of organi
zation, says a science monthly, has
been demonstrated in 6everal instances.
One of the most singular of these is the
case of Edward Lambert, whose whole
body, except the face, the palms of his
hands, and the soles of the feet, was
covered with a sort of she!!, consisting
of horny excrescences. lie was the
father of six children, all of whom pre
sented the same anomaly at the age of
six weeks. The only one of them who
lived transmitted the peculiarity to all
his sons, and this transmission, passing
from male to male, persisted through
five generations. Mention is also made
of the Colburn family, where the
parents for four generations transmit
ted to the children what is called sex
digitism, i. e., hands and feet with six
digits each. Albinism, halting, haie
lip, and other anomalies are in like
manner reproduced in the progeny.
The Cattle Trade. Kansas towns
on the Texas borders thrive greatly
from the immense cattle trade of the
latter State. Of the 500.000 head of
Texas cattle which, at $15 a head, will
compose the " drive " of this year, only
115,000, it is said, will be sent to
butchers and feeders in other States
than Kansas. The remainder will be
killed and packed in Kansas or will bo
slaughtered for tueix hide and tallow.
A Leper's Home.
The lepers of the Sandwich Islands
occupy what is known as the Plain of
Kolanao. ilie plain contains about
16,000 acres, and looks like an absolute
flat, bounded on three sides by the blue
Pacific. It is believed to have been
the bottom of a vast crater, of
which the Pali formed one of the hills,
tho other having sunk beneath the
ocean, leaving a few traces on one side.
The whole crreat nlain is composed of
lava stones, and to one unfamiliar with
the habits of the Sandwich Islanders,
would seem to be an absolutely sterile
desert. Yet here lived, not very many
years ago, a considerable population,
who have left the marks of an almost
incredible industry in numerous fields
inclosed between walls of lava rock,
well laid up ; and in what is yet stran
ger, long rows of stones, like the wind
rows of hay in a grass field at homo,
evidently piled there in order to secure
room in the long, narrow beds partly
cleared of lava which lay between, to
plant sweet potatoes. As I rode over
the trails worn in the lava by the horses
of the old inhabitants, says a corre
spondent, I thought this plain realized
the Vermonter's saying about a piece of
particularly stony ground, mat mere
was not room in the field to pile up the
'ocks it contained. Yet on this appar-
cutly desert space, within a quarter of
a centurv. more than a thousand people
lived contentedly and prosperously, The rule should be, everywhere dur
after their fashion ; anil this though ine the Dart of the year when fires are
fresh water is so scarce that many of
them mufit have carried their drinking
water at least two or even three miles.
And here now live, among the lepers,
or rather a little apart from them at one
side of the plain, about a hundred peo
ple, the remnant of the former popula
tion, who were too much attached to
their homes to leave them, and accepted
sentence of perpetual seclusion here,
ia common with the ieper, rather than
exile to'another part of the island.
When we had discovered the cliff, a
short ride brought us to the house of a
luua, or locul overseer, a native who is
not a leper ; and of this house, being
uneontaminated, we took possession.
By a law of the Kingdom, it is made
the duty of the Minister of the Interior,
aud under him of the Board ol Health,
to arrest every ene suspected of leprosy;
and if a medical examination shows
that he has the disease, to seclude the
leper upon this part of Molokai. The
disease, when it is beyond its very
earliest stage, is held to be incurable.
He who is sent to Molokai is therefore
adjudged civilly dead. His wife, upon
application to the proper ceurt, is
granted a decree of absolute divorce,
and may marry again ; his estate is ad
mintstered upon as though he were
dead. He is incapable of suing or
being sued ; and his dealings with the
world therefore are through and with
the Board of Health alone. In order
that no doubtful cases may bo sent to
Molokai, there is a hospital at Kalihi,
near Honolulu, where the preliminary
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Trousseau, the physician of the Board
of Health, retains people about whom
ho is uncertain.
Tho Esquimaux.
To one ignorant of their style of
dress, aud the similarity of the dress of
both sexes, it would be difficult to dis
tinguish the Esquimaux man from the
woman. The man combs his hair
straight down and over his forehead,
only parting it sufficiently to enable
him to see directly ahead of him, while
the woman combs her hair in a long
plait, forming it into a knot on the top
of the head, which is elevated about
four inches from the Bcalp, and tied
with a strip of ribbon either of a black,
blue or red color the widow being dis
tinguished by a black ribbon, the wife
by the blue, and the maiden by the red
one. The complexion is coppery like
that of the Indian, their hair black, and
their nose flat, while their cheek bones
are broad and prominent, nearly hiding
the nasal appendage when the profile is
presented. The kapetah, or jumper
with hood attachment, worn by both
sexes, the hood of tho women's being
made larger in which to carry the young
babe, is of sealskin with trimmings of
dogskin. The pantaloons and boots are
also worn by both sexes, those of the
women being in most cases very elabo
rately and artistically trimmed. The
pantaloons of Jthe women reach only to
the knee, while the boots made oi tineiy
tanned sealskin, nicely crimped and
sewed with the sinews of the deer.make
them look comfortable.
Railroad Cars.
Pussengers frequently grumble be
cause they cannot ride directly from
New York to St. Louis or San Francisco
without change of cars. The reason is
that no car can be run uninterruptedly
for a long time with perfect safety.
The continual striking of the wheels on
the rails disarranges tke ultimate atoms
of iron, and the wheels require rest in
order to preserve their strength almost
as much as do horses or men. r reigut,
however, is carried directly across tne
continent without breaking bulk, since
freight trains rnn at bo slow a rate as
not to materially allect the strength ol
their iron-work, and since an accident
to a freight train is not usually attend
ed with much loss of life. The arrival
at Jersey City of forty cars laden with
tea direct from San Francisco shows
how Greatly the Pacific road has facil
itated trade between the Atlautic States
and the Pacific
The Price or Milk lu Euglaud.
A Klinrt: limn aara tliA milkman nf T.on,
don were very indignant because the
physicians had accused them of bring
ing typhoid fever into the city by adul
terating their milk with impure water;
nevertheless the fact was very clearly
proved. Since this exposure the ven
ders of lacteal fluid have been rather
honester iu their dealings with the pub
lic, and, making a virtue ol necessity,
have bragged loudly of the purity of
their wares; now finding they cannot
Bell pure milk and live in the style that
an aristocratic milkman should live in,
they have held a mass-meeting at Exe
ter Hall and unanimously decided to
advance the price of milk to 5d. per
quart,
Sleeping In a Cold Koffm.
ItalVs Journal of Health says that
cold bed-chambers always imperil
health and invite fatal diseases. Ro
bust persons may safely sleep in a
temperature of forty or under, but the
old, the infant and the frail, should
never sleep in a room where the atmos
phere is much under fifty degrees
Fahrenheit.
All know the danger of going direct
into the cold from a very warm room.
Very few rooms, churches, theatres and
the like, are ever warmer than seventy
degrees. If it is freezing out of doors
it is thirty degrees the difference be
ing forty degrees more. Persons will
be chilled by such a change in ten
minutes, although they may be active
ly walking.
But to lie still in bed, nothing to
promote the circulation, and breathe
for hours an atmosphere of forty and
even fifty degrees, when the lungs are
always at ninety-eight, is too great
a change. Many persons wake up in
tho morning with inflammation of the
lungs who went to bed well, and are
surprised that this should be the case.
The cause may often bo found in sleep
ing in a room.the window of which had
been foolishly hoisted lor venuiauon.
The water-cure journals of the country
have done an incalculable injury by
the blind and indiscrininate advice of
lioistinor the window at niaht.
kept burning, to avoid hoisting outside
windows. It is safer and better to
leave the chamber door open, as also
the fireplace then there is a draft up
the chimney, while the room is not so
likely to become cold. If there is some
fire in the room all night the window
may be opened an inch. It is safer to
sleep in a bad air all night with a tem
perature over fifty, than in a pure air
with a temperature under forty. The
bad air may sicken you but cannot kill
you ; the cold air can and does kill very
often.
Woman's Mission.
M. H. B., in writing to the MiMWiri
Republican of the recent Woman's Con
vention in New York, says : " Lucy
Stone was interrupted by the entrance
of one hundred and fifty girls, the para
sol-makers of New York. Their leader,
a modest-looking young woman, with a
hectic flush on her wan face, asked per
mission (through a gentleman) to state
her case. Now here was a splendid
chance for a stuuuiug effect. Had Mrs.
Stone called that woman upon the plat
form, saying the sufferings of woman
and the suffrage of woman was the
same thing, Bpelled differeutly, taken
this working-girl by the hand, and in
sisted that her story should be heard
first as the greatest argument the chair
had to offer, she would have made a
ten-strike. . But no. Mrs. Lucy pro
ceeded with hor Jioonrisp, bpsruu her
collection, and paid no more attention
to the suffering umbrella-maker3 than
i a- ,nnr fl w-i L, it- wna
to so manv flies. It was left for Mr.
Hi,Ken80n to accord Miss Leonard, the
umi?reiiR orfttor. the privilege of speak-
ing. The poor young woman was tu
multuously received, and spoke briefly
and simply, and to the purpose. She,
with charming naivete, said she did not
vmuathize with the object of the gather
ed convention, as she believed the ballot
was in the hands of the strongest aud
best able to takeeare of it ; that sho had
been unable to cultivate her mind for
speech-making on account of her work
ing eighteen hours a day for bread ; but
she wished to arouse some interest for
the unhappiest class of creatures on the
continent the working-women of New
York. With a few new facts concern
ing their wretched state she retired, and
not a soul connected with the great sub
ject of female emancipation uttered the
chost of an opinion or endorsement ;
but the next speaker pranced up to the
front and begged to rectify a mistake.
Some one had given her out as an Illi
nois woman. She was a no-such-thing,
aud here followed some interesting
facts concerning her nativity,
The Grape and Wine Crop of Ohio
The Sandusky (Ohio) Register says :
" The harvesting of grapes is about over
and the wine companies here and at the
islands are busy pressing out the new
wine. Growers have been far more
fortunate than they anticipated, and
many of them came out or the season
with nearly if not quite as large profits
as in former years. On the three- Bass
Islands the yield of Catawbas has, per
haps, beeu the best in this region,
The growers on North Bass have a good
average, and at the handsome price of
ten cents per pound, paid by their own
wine company on the island, have
reaped a good harvest. The same is
true of the growers of Middle Bass, the
yield in the main being half, and the
price paid double that in seasons of full
vields. On Put-in-Bay many growers
have harvested from one and a half tons
to two and over per acre, and realized
ten cents a pound from the Put-in-Bay
Wine Company. This company is
making about 40,000 gallons of wine
this season and go into the winter with
00,000 gallons of choice old. Of the
crop on Kelley's Island we are not so
well informed, but understand that
several of the growers have had a fair
yield. In this city the numerous pri
vate manufacturers are busily engaged
making what little their crop anords,
and the wine company is pressing an
amount sufficient to enable it to keep
up a supply. The price ol wine con
tinues firm at the advanced rates, and
certainly bids fair to remain bo, if, in
deed, not advance to still higher rates
in view of the unprecedented prices
which the companies have paid for
.grapes, and the general decrease in the
amount of new wine made this season,
A prominent feature of the new wine -is
the general superior quality of the
grapes. Finer catawbas were seldom
seen."
What is a Journalist ? Somebody
writes to us and wants us to give the
definition of a journalist. We will do
so with pleasure. A journalist is a
man who spends some of the best days
of his life in conferring reputation upon
others and getting none himself. Ex
changes please copy. Boston Globe,
. . r-r-
Illinois churches are raising money
by hulled-eora-aud-milk Booiables,
Facts and
What penance a man will undergo for
a pretty woman wuo cwvo
about him I
A French writer has described a
young lady as a creature that ceases to
kiss gentlemen at twelve and begins
again at twenty,
nolifnvnin. will nroduce this year, 12,-
000 gallons of wine, 2,000,000 pounds of
grapes tor tame use, uuu fj""
pounds of raisins.
It. is unkind to ridicule those items
in the papers about centenarians. It is
no easy thing to become a centenarian
several have failed.
A woman stated to a London mngis
trato recently that during her five years
of married life her husband had knock
ed her down 115 times.
Nels Neilson, Neils Nelson, Nelson
Neilson, Neilson Nelson, nnd Ncl Neils
nelson were lately fined 15 each in Dea
Moines for drunkenness.
George Halliday, an Edinburgh coal
dealer, has been sent to prison for
thirty days for fraudulently delivering
eighteen 'hundred weight as one ton of
coal.
Minnesota boasts of having the larg
est and best wheat crop ever produced
by it. It offers to sell thirty million
bushels besides what its own peoplo
want.
The history of New York under
writing for the last fifty years shows .
that the gross premium receipts are less
than the gross losses by fires sus
tained.
It is pleasant to remember that not
an hour passes in the increasing march
of time, but that there is a half dressed
man somewhere on the earth calling f or
a shirt.
It is estimated that the cost to Eng
land of the Ashantee war will be from
1,000,000, as a minimnm, to .10,000,
000, or even 12,000,000 as a possiblo
maximum.
Near tho Oreana Mine, Nut Pino
Valley, Nevada, aro three small lakes,
in one of which no bottom has been
found with any sounding line that has
yet been tried in it.
The woman who said the latest thing
out was her husband, was answered by
her neighbor, who remarked that her
husband always came home early be
fore any one was up.
This description is from the Topeka
(Kan.) Commonwealth: "Tho happy,
quiet, sleepy, yellow, spider-webby days
known as 'Indian summer aro here in
the perfection of laziness."
A female lecturer in Boston said :
Get married, young men, and bo quick
about it. Don't wait for the girls to
become angels. You would look well
beside angels, wouldn't you, you
brutes ?
There are rumors that the Mormons
for mi pxndus from the
Salt Lake region, and it is conjecture a
that they will seek their next earthly
paradise in the Sandwieh Islands or tho
isles of the South Pacific.
One of the young ladies at the Elgin
watch factory, it is said, is at work upon
a patent watch, which will have hands
A -i -i , i i . 1 1 .
so made ami aujusieu u iu nuiao uiu
wearer by the coat collar every evening
about ten o clock, and walk him oil
home.
As Bhins meet at sea, a moment to
gether, when words of greeting must bo
spoken, and then away upon the deep,
so men meet in this world; and I think
we should cross no man's path without
hailing lum, and, it he needs, giving
him supplies.
It is hardly safe, now-a.days, to name
mountain or a baby af ter a man till
he is dead. He may embezzle, or tako
back pay, or become a dreadful rail
road autocrat, or a candidate for tho
presidency ; then you 11 wish you
hadn't done it.
A man in San Francisco lately np-
plied for a divorce on rather novel
grounds. It seems that his fife's
brother, whom he had not promised to
love aud cherish, insisted on living
with him and "was eating him out ol
house and home."
Bude bovs daily collect about tho
horseguardsmen on duty at the entrance
to the Green Park, London, and make
irritating remarks, knowing that tho
statue like horsemen are forbidden to
speak. The fun continues until the ar-
i e i: .
rival oi a poiiuewau.
Sometimes we come across a few
words that do the business up com
pletely. Here, for instance, is an ex
ample : " You might as well try to
shampoo an elephant witu a immuie-
fnl of soap suds as to do business and
ignore advertising."
Tvndall. in a letter to Aalure, com
bats the theory entertained by mauy,
that the rainbow is reflected after tho
fashion of an ordinary floating clond
which emits light in all directions, aud
which, by the light thus emitted, paints
its image in the water.
Imitation ostrich feathers appear to
be quite as fashionable this autumn as
the genuine. The former are very ad
mirably made and almost defy detec
tion. Ostrich "tips" are so reasonable
in price that manufacturers say thera
is no inducement to put imitation ou
the market.
At a weekly meeting a straight-faced
and most exemplary deacon submitted
a report in writing of the destitute wid
ows who stood in need of assistanoo
from the congregation. "Are you sure,
deacon," asked another sober brother,
" that you have embraced all the wid
ows ?" He said he believed he had.
When Wilkie Collins was about to
step in front of the curtain at Syracuse,
he said to Mr. Hanchett, who was to
introduce him: " Don't introduce me
as the greatest living novelist. I have
been introduced so a number of times,
and I'd rather be simply Mr. Collins.
You know everybody is the greatest
living something. "
Extract from a private letter from
Memphis: About 1,200 have died, 400
children have been made orphans, and
many more will be before this pestilenoe
is over. God pity them. In the infect-
- ed districts I have found them Bitting
8au ana aesoiate upon the streets, and,
"pon inquiry, learned that both parents
had gone to the grave, and tbey had
wandered from tlie place i deatli,