HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. Y. MDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AP1UL 1, 1875. NO. C.
The Rose's rromisc.
J. an tho violet, darling,
And aHk it news of thee.
'Tin mute but the rose-bush nearest
Cries, " Wait till the Bpriug shall be.
" She'll come on the sunbeam's pathway
King Summar for her will spread
Slie'll eome when mv crowning blossom
Rhall tosa its purplo head.
" H'ie'11 come on the wings of Summer,
With a brow as bright as June,
And a voice like the bird in April
When it sings its plighting tune."
Oh, many a gift has Summer
From his golden gate sent mo j
Eut this, thou rose of roses,
Is a gift for eternity.
TANEO.
"Wilt thou have thin woman to be
thy wedded wife t"
"Harry, Anne, hurry! There's a
wedding going on in the kitchen I" cried
Nolly Howe, running before her cousin
up the garden walk.
" There seems to be one there every
day," languidly replied Anno. "I
should think your father would find his
duties as Squiro' too heavy for him."
"Its only pmeq tlio wr that they
crowd in so fast. The negroes are
obliged to marry properly now. But
these are Indians. Papa brings the law
to bear on red as well as black skins."
" Indiaus in this State ?"
" O, yes; about a thousand Cherokees.
It is they who live in the mountain
range that you thought so terrible yes
terday. It is solitary and savage enough.
The Indians live in their huts very much
as they did in their wigwams two hun
dred years ago, and fish, and hunt doer
and bears. This is the chief's daughter,
Taneo, who lias come to be married.
She's a Christian iu her way, and a good
girl Taneo."
"Come, I'll look at her. I'm thank
ful she's not civilized. It's so nice to
compare a creature of that sort with
ourselves."
Miss Parr hurried to the kitchen door,
and stood looking iu at the tall, straight
Indiau girl, with her bare feet and head,
and her wedding garment, which was a
petticoat and short gown of blue flannel.
The white girl was conscious as never
before of her civilization; which in her
case meant live years of training in fash
ionable accomplishments, and trunks
full of silks and muslins.
Nelly, who was a square, solid, down
right little body, eyed her critically
mentally commented upon her chalked
skin, false hair and teeth and then
turned to the Indian.
"We haven't gained all that wo might
out of civilization, Nan," she whispered.
" Look at Taneo's feet not a corn !
And how strong and delicate her shape
is J ho carries IieraclC liko oneboj."!"
the purple."
"Shape! Her waist is two feet
round, if it's an inch."
"Join your right hands!" The
squire's bass voice drowned the whispers
of tho girls.
Hokus, the groom, a big, slouching,
copper-colored fellow, grunted as he
thrust out his hand.
" Hokus thinks this is making entirely
too mu;li fuss about a woman," laughed
Nelly.
" He's but a shabby-looking fellow,"
whiuiered Miss Parr. "A chief's
daughter ought to make a better match
than that."
"Taneo has loved him along time.
Did you ever seo a more shy and wistful
look than hers just now ' She is not
civilized enough to think of the advan
tages of a good match."
"I pronounce you man and wife,"
said Squire Howe, taking off his specta
cles. 'And now, Hokus, my lad, I've a
word for you. Things are going to work
differently hyur in North Carolina, now
that the war's over; for whites, and
blacks, and the redskins muHt change
with the rest. You've been savages long
enough whilo perfessin' to be Christians.
For a man to sit smoking his pipe while
his wifo plows and hoes the corn, and
butchers the pig, is not Christianity, to
my notion. Hell '"
"No," grunted Hokus.
"It's not what I'll allow, at any rate.
You Indians are going to change with
the rest, I tell you, and you are the man
I've pitched ou to set the example.
You're to work out of doors, and Taneo
will keep tho house clean. Hey, Ta
neo? Pig must not sleep iu the
kitchen."
Taneo dropped her head and laughed
shyly.
' ' Well, now, that's settled. The law's
going to bo strict. Hokus, I give you
warning. You're married like a white
man, and you're to have but one wifo,
and you're to work for her. The boys
call you lazy red nigger, and it's a name
you've got to clear yourself of."
Tho new-made .wife lifted her head,
the angry blood rushing to her cheek at
tho name; but Hokus only slouched and
laughed.
" Now I pronounce you man and wife;
and keep clear of the whisky still on
your way home."
Tho squire (or colonel, for titles hung
thickly on his broad shoulders) watched
the two Indians go slowly up the moun
tain p.ith, Hokus in advance.
"I'd like to better the condition of
thoso savages," he said. " Anne, you're
full of book-learning just now, and have
nothing to do. You might give them a
powerful lift."
" Thanks. I don't feel as if my voca
tion was that of a missionary," with a
contemptuous smile.
" Missionary !" she thought, bitterly.
She a type of the cultured girls of New
York to settle down into a teacher of
barefooted redskins iu their flea-iu-fested
cabins ! It might be very well
in somo cases to follow Christ's example,
who taught the poor Galileans ; but an
Indian wa3 an exceptional case, hardly
in her estimation to be considered one of
the creatures for whom He died. Anne
had heard that they " were a race im
possible to civilize, and destined to ex
termination," aud accepted the theory
as the easiest way of getting rid of the
matter.
As for her uncle, with his bad gram
mar, and energetic kindness, and per
petual enthusiasm about the beauty and
frandeur of nature in North Carolina,
e was beginning to be an intolerable
bri Nature was a worse bore than he,
for Anne's reputation for culture called
or admiration of every landscape. Sho
was sick of hearing her own ascending
"O.O.O!" If the doctors could only
have devised any other cure for her
cold than this mountain air of North
Carolina sho would have been glad.
"Come and look at Mt. Pisgah,
Nancy," called her uncle, "ypuder, in
front of tho setting suu. And there are
the great Black Brothers, wrapped in the
shadow, aud that peak rising out of the
red mist is the highest laud on tho At
lantic slope. "
It was all so tiresome ! Tho other
girls of her Bet were on the hotel piazzas
at Long Branch, with a dozen beaux
around them. Very different companions
from this Pisgah and the Black Brothers !
Then he called her to look at tho horri
ble shadow of a chasm, or the yellow
light in the balsam range, or the flying
colors ou the mist that was blown from
tho far horizon across the hillsides.
Miss Parr made some trivial excuse to
go to her own chamber. What earthly
use was there in finding tints in mist ?
If it were the colors iu her new neckties,
now, or a box of Jouvin's best !
Just a year passed since Miss Parr's
first visit to North Carolina, when she
found herself again mounted with Nelly
on two low mules, climbing the mountainside.
The doctors had ordered her to the
balsam regions again. Her cough was
troublesome. The winter's campaign
had proved a failure, too. She had
danced and dressed untiringly, but tho
" good match " had not been made. She
began to look soured and weary, and to
sing songs iu the minor key about the
emptiness of life.
"We are going to Taneo's cabin,"
said Nelly.
" Did Hokus prove an example to his
people, as your father commanded ?"
.Nelly laughed. "Example, indeed!
A week after his wedding, when the
time for hoeing tho corn arrived, ho
' heard of a bear,' and set off post-haste
for tho animal. He pursued that vision
of a bear for a mouth, and came back to
find the corn hoed.
"When it was ready to gather in,' he
thought it necessary to consult the con
jurer on the other side of tho mountain
as to the chances for rain, and only
finished his consultation When tho work
was done.
" It was tho same story again this
spring with the plowing and planting.
He sits and smokes, and poor little Taneo
drudges on, aud grows thinner and
merrier every day, and is more and more
convinced that ilokus is tho best and
wisest of men. The most affectionate,
blindest little soul ! She has just finish
ed working up the corn this month, dur
ing which time Hokus made a fishing
tour iu the next county."
" He is at home now," said Anne. " I
see him at the door of tho hut. "
" And hr comes Taneo. with a ban
of potatoes on one shoulder, aud the pap-
poose on tho other, and, as I live, with
out a smile on her face, for the first time
in her life! Who is sick, Taneo? Ho
kus ? Little pappoose here ?"
Taneo shook her head aud gave a
laugh, which ended in a miserable quiv
er of the chin and tears in her eyes.
" You come to Hokus' house, Nelly ?"
" Yes. Go on before us. I want to
show this lady how clean Taneo's floor is,
and how white she makes the little cur
tains. " Now what has that fellow done to
bring her to tears ?" lowering her voice.
" Work and even beating she takes as a
matter of course, and laughs about it as
soon as it is over."
Taneo passed on before them, stop
ping humbly to hear some grumbled re
proof from her lord aud master. Hokus,
on seeing the girls, shuffled uneasily on
his seat, aud glanced hastily down tho
road, as if meditating flight.
" What has he done ?" muttered Nelly.
The floor of the little hut was clean.
Two or three boards ou tho wall were
rilled with deft plates, arrauged for show.
A certain air of comfort and coziues3
reigned over the big fire, tho dean
hearth, wooden chairs and tho neat bed.
" Taneo's house is a palace compared to
the other Indian huts," whispered
Nelly. " But who is this, Taneo ?" as a
fat, overgrown figure appeared, squatted
on the floor by the fire, munching a cake
of corn and beans. "Who is this
woman ?"
The Indiau girl stood without a word
for a moment. Then she unsluug her
baby, and took it iu her arms, looking
into its face.
" That is Hokus' new wife. He
brought her homo to-day."
Nelly turned on him her black eyes
dangerously bright. "What do you
mean by this, Hokus?"
" Married woman down at Lufty," he
grunted. " Gave horso and two blow
guns for her. All right!"
"Right? And Taneo?"
" O, she hoe my corn better than
Taneo. She bigger.
"Ah-h!" cried Nelly, iu speecldess
disgust. " Tako up your pappoose,
Taneo, and come with me. You shall
not stay here one hour not one !"
Taneo submissively picked up her
baby, and stood still, tho tears rolling
down her cheeks, her eyes on tho
ground.
Hokus grunted uncomfortably, and
finally waved his pipe with an air of
command.
"If tho women want mo to have ono
wife, they can fight for me," he said.
" That is all right. Hokus willing to
live like Christian."
Nelly vouchsafed no reply, but started
down the lull, sweeping Taneo with her
in her righteous indignation.
Miss Parr, having reached home and
gone back to her novel, speedily forgot
poor Taneo and her misery. It rained
heavily that day, the clouds settling
down over the mountain peaks towards
evening, and the rain increasing to a
torrent.
After sup'er, as they still lingered
about the brightly-lighted table, Taneo
suddenly appeared at tho door without
her baby. Some strong emotion had
banished the habitual reserve and shy
ness of the Indian woman.
" I go back to Hokus," she said. " I
hear the river. Oconalufty kill many
people when he up iu a storm."
"Nonsense!" said the Squire. "Go
back to your bod. Hokus hai legs to
save hunselt if the Lufty is up.
"He got no legs, nor eyes, nor ears
when night comes, tie always tU'unx,
said Taneo, gravely.
"His new wife is sober, I suppose.
You Rhall not go, Taneo."
"What is it she fears?" asked Miss
Parr, when she was gone.
" Their hut is built in a hollow on the
edge of the Oconalufty a river that rises
with great rapidity aud force, in a singu
lar sort of tidal wave. But Hokus cau
take caro of himself," and tho Squire
took up his paper.
An hour later, Aunt Rubj" the cook,
came to tho door.
" Dat fool, Taneo, dono gone, baby
aud all," she said.
But littlo could be dono. The Squire,
with ono or two colored men, started iu
pursuit, but tho mountain roads at night
through tho driving storm proved im
passable. They woro forced to come
back.
Tho morning dawned clear. Nelly
was up by daybreak, and away on her
sure-footed mule. Miss Parr to her sur
prise, went with her. Tho road was
through the defiles of tho mountain,
through which tho swollen streams dash
ed fiercely. The girls crept slowly and
careiuiiy along tneu" edge. jNeiiy wasd
grave ana silent.
"You don't think any harm could
have come to tho Indiau?" asked Anne.
" She has always lived in the woods."
" The floods of tho Lufty are different
from those of other rivers. Five streams
run into it near its source, and below
that it is walled behind high banks. The
rise, when there is one, comes down iu a
solid wall of water several feet in height.
O, Anne, what is that ?"
She sprang to the gronud and ran
forward. They had reached the banks
of the Oconalufty. The river ran over
the spot where Hokus hut had stood.
On this side they saw the Indian
standing by a tree, looking down at a
dark body which lay at his feet. His
pipe was in his mouth, but it had gono
out.
"It is Taneo ! O, Anne, it is Taneo !
And the ioor littlo pappooso on her
breast!"
Nelly threw herself on her knees and
lifted the cloth off of the still face.
"O, Hokfts, she is dead!"
"Yes," Hokus nodded, solemnly.
" She forded tho river last night. She
woke me up and tried to pull me through
tho water ; but Hokus and the river was
too much tor Taneo. Big log strike her
on the head."
" And you ?"
"I was'drnnk," calmly. "That other
woman ran off aud left me. She shall
not hoe corn for Hokus. Taueo good
wife," looking down at the quiet face.
with somo trace of genuine feeling in his
sordid face.
Tho girls rodo slowly home. Nellv
crying quietly as she wont.
"1 was very fond of Taneo. It is
shameful to see a woman's life so wasted!"
she cried.
"It does not seem wasted to me." said
she knew. Hokus is little better than
a beast, but her love for him was good
and beautiful. Some women livo only
for themselves, and love or work for no
body." She drew rem, and, falling behind,
rodesadlyaud thoughtfully on. Youth's
Companion.
Selling Ills Eights.
A good story used to bo told of tho old
fashioned relations between masters and
servauts in colonial times in New Eng
land. A gentleman in the neighborhood
of Bostou hired a farm servant, to whom
ho became much attached because of his
fidelity and thoroughness in all kinds of
work. But ono habit of tho servant
was very offensive. He kept his hat on
iu the house, and even in his master's
room.
The gentleman, after long annoyance,
determined to correct the habit.
" John," said he, kindly, one day,
" you always keep your hat oa when you
come into the house."
"Well, sir, haven't I a right to?"
"Yes, I supposo you have," was the
reluctant reply.
"Well, then, why shouldn't I ?"
This tlio gentleman was not prepared
to answer, so ho determined on another
line of attack.
' ' Now, John, what will you take how
much more wages will you ask to tako
your hat off when you come in ?"
" Well, that requires consideration, I
guess."
" Take it into consideration, then, and
tell mo to-morrow morning."
In tho morning John presented him
self promptly.
" Well, John, have you considered?"
"Yes, sir ; I guess it's worth a dollar
a month."
" It's settled, then, John. You shall
have another dollar a month."
Johu was satisfied. He had maintain
ed his rights, waving their exercise for a
consideration.
The gentleman was also satisfied. Ho
retained a good servant, who reformed
his only bad habit.
More Postal Changes.
The new United States postal law
doubles the price of third-class matter,
making it one cent an ounce, or fraction
thereof, instead of one cent for two
ounces, as heretofore. This is tho kind
of matter which relates to merchandise,
and which the express companies sought
to have excluded from the mails. The
express companies can now go bock to
their exhorbitant rates, and will no doubt
do so.
Transient newspapers aro to pay as
much per ounce as heretofore for two
ounces.
Public doenments, and all called such,
aro to be sent free to the governors of
States aud Territories franked by the
clerk of tho House until December
first. '
Agricultural reports, seeds from the
Agricultural department, and whatever
is printed by order of Congress, go free
for nine months, or until the meeting of
the next Congress. This includes the
C'onfjresnio)ial liccord, all the speeches
delivered iu Congress or authorized to bo
printed.
The Cherokee Advocate asserts that
the Indian Territory has suffered pro
portionately greater losses, and has, pro
portionately, more destitute families
from drought and grasshoppers, thou
either Kansas or Nebraska,
CRIME IN NEW YORK.
A Year's ExhibitAn InterentlnH Study to
riillniitliropinls and Others.
Between November 12, 1873, and Oc
tober 31, 1874, 8-1,821 prisoners were ar
raigued before the eleven police justices
presiding over the six police courts in the
city of New York. Tho number is nearly
identical with that in 1871. These pris
oners consisted of 00,213 males and 24,
C08 females. The number summarily dis
charged, either from alleged blunders
made by the police failing to obtain evi
dence, or from complainants neglecting
to prosecute, was 35,565.
Of tho total of 49,251 held upon somo
charge, after deducting five eases pend
ing when tho year closed, 10,345 were
males and 32,908 were females. The ex
cess of females over males is accounted
for by the fact that by far the larger
number of females arrested were charged
with intoxication and disorderly con
duct, involving offenses against public
decency.
. The evil spirit of intoxication ac
counts for 40,777, nearly half tho total
number of arrests. Over 2,000 of these
were also charged with " disorderly con
duct." Of the total number arrested
for being drunk, 27,208 were males and
13,574 females. These figures, however,
do not represent accurately the city's in
temperance, because "intoxication, un
der the law, is not an offenso unless the
person is arrested in an intoxicated state,
under circumstances amounting to a vio
lation of public decency. " Of those ar
rested for intoxication, 17,004 were dis
charged and 23,113 14,183 males and
8,927 females were convicted.
The charge of disorderly conduct ac
counts for 20,093 arrests of whom 13,
568 were males, and 7,125 females. Thus
intoxication and disorderly conduct
formed the occasion of 61,470 arrests,
or seventy-two and one-half per cent, of
the entire criminal calendar of the year.
Of those arrested for disorderly conduct,
9,000 were discharged, and theremaindor
furnishing bonds for good behavior, pay
ing a fine, or in' default of tho latter,
going to prison. The convictions on
the two charges of intoxication aud dis
orderly conduct represent about seventy
one per cent, of the entire convictions.
The nationalities of persons convicted is
somewhat imperfectly known, as out of
thoso convicted of intoxication 9,120 are
credited to Ireland, 1,157 to Germany,
and 3,331 to tho United States, and 0,840
are under the head of "not given."
Again, under convictions for disorderly
conduct, 4,050 are credited to Ireland,
3,072 to tho United States, and 1,189 to
Germany, but 3,015 come under the head
' ' not given. " Taking the offenses which
rank next to those cited for arrests, nr
sault and battery accounts for 6,254,
more than half of whom were discharged;
petit larceny, 4,319 cases, 1,074 dis
missed; vagrancy, 3,139 persons, 274 be
"arrests, of whom 599 were dis
charged. Tailing the two general divis
ions of crimes ranking as felonies and
those classed as misdemeanors, the
former accounts for 4,021 arrests, 4,131
being males and 490 females. Charges
of misdemeanor, 12,420 arrests, 10,579
males and 1,847 females."
Vivisection of a Horse.
A contemporary, says the London
Echo, contains a description from an
eye-witness which exceeds in pitifuhiess
even Bewick's well known woodcut of
the old horso "Waiting for Death."
This is what Mr. James says ho saw in
New York: Having managed, by the
help of a bribe to the negro attendant,
to obtain au inspection of au under
ground place where cats and other ani
mals were subjected to all sorts of ex
periments, a rustling of straw in tho
furthest compartment attracted my at
tention. Scarce ono ray of light pierced
the gloom of that horrible place, but I
thought I eoukl distinguish the huge
form of some large quadruped restlessly
treading the straw under its leet.
" Why, boss, what have you got there ?"
said I. "Oh, that's poor old Uncle
Sam; never mind him," replied the jani
tor. " But I do mind him, and I mean
to see him," I answered; and ho opened
a large shutter, and let in the light of
the closing evening upon tho gaunt and
bony form of a poor horse, quite seven
teen hands high, which stood with
drooping head and closed eyes, munch
ing tho straw of its bed. He was scarred
all over, aud I could trace upon his skin
where arteries had been taken up and
tied again; where the nerves had been
brought to the surface and the wounds
sewn up ; and the delicato nostrils were
sloughing sores. Tho hoofs, containing
the most delicate and sensitive mechan
ism, had been perforated in many places.
And this is vivisection !
We must say that Mr. Hart's efforts to
clear American physiologists from what
he styled tho "cruel calumnies" con
tained in a recent memorial, have hardly
proved altogether successful. Mr. Rog
ers (the eminent dentist, and one of the
governors of St. Bartholomew's Hos
pital) has written to the Spectator
quoting two " annual announcements "
of colleges in New York and Philadel
phia, promising vivisections as an attrac
tion to students, and now a recent visitor
to the country gives us a glimpse of what
he has seen there with his own eyes.
Mr. Hart's argument that American
physiologists cannot possibly be sup
posed to practice any cruel experiments.
because thev vehemently deprecate legal
interference, was scarcely to be estimated
as finally conclusive.
How to Fix tho Clock.
When the clock stops, do not take it
in to the repair shop till you have tried
as follows: Take off the pointers and
tho face; take off the pendulum and its
wire. Remove tho ratchet from the
"tick" wheel, and tho clock will run
down with great velocity; let it go; the
increasing speed wears away tho gum
and dust from the pinions tho clock
cleans itself. If vou Lave any sporm oil,
put the least bit on the axles. Put the
machine together, and nine times in ten
it will run just as well as if it had been
taken to tho shop. In fact, this is the
wav most shopmen clean clocks, If, in
stead of a pendulum, the clock has a
watch escapement, the latter can be taken
out iu au instant, without taking the
work apart, aifd the result is the same.
It takes about twenty minutes to eleaa
feraei clock, and saves a dollar.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.
The Qnestlon In the Vlltnf iu Compared
With It In lite City.
A correspondent from New Jersey in
quired recently as to the duty of villages
and small towns in regard to the execu
tion of tho law for universal education.
This writer stated that in his own vil
lage and in many others, there aro no
" night-schools," or "industrial schools"
for the truant and semi-vagrant class of
children, and that if such children were
arrested the authorities would not know
what to do with them.
We need not inform the residents of
villages and small towns, in New Jer
sey, New York, Pennsylvania, or iu any
other State, says the New York 'Times,
that compulsory education is a more im
portant question for them than it is even
for this city. There is little police au
thority in our small communities, aud if
a number of poor children grow up,
neglected and uneducated, they at once
begin to prey upon property, degrade
morals, aud threaten even the security
ot Me. A striking instance was given
of this result of public neglect iu tho
condition of a number of villages and
towns on the lower Hudson during the
early part of the past winter. The chil
dren of the poor and working classes
had been suffered in these localities to
grow up without education or moral
training, except such as tho public
school imparted to those who chose to
attend. The boys were utterly without
education or moral discipline. They
only worked occasionally, never at
steady occupation. Their livelihood was
picked up by such employments as
tending cows, watching goats, thieving,
and chance errands. When they be
came older, tho bolder among them
joined the ranks of thieves and burglars.
At last, with other more accomplished
associates, they began a thieving cam
paign through the whole country-side.
There was scarcely a comfortable villa or
conuty house, from Tarrytown to Hast
ings, which was not either visited or
tlueatened by these young ruffians. The
houses whose families were resident iu
tho city iu the winter, were of course
those preferred. Others, however, were
not spared. Even country stores were
opened. No one seemed able either to
detect or arrest these nimble thieves.
There is no police- worth speaking of
iu this happy and idyllic rural district.
The consequence was that the young
vagabonds had free sweep. Property
holders began to feel insecure of every
thing. Gentlemen, wearied out by the
day's business, spent the nights in pa
trolling their premises with guns and
pistols. At length, local patrols of the
citizens of these villages wero organized,
with much trouble . aud expense. But
the close of these marauding expeditions
seemed to be brought by. a horrible mur
der committed by one gang, on an inno
in Tarrytown, though the guilty person
was never discovered.
There can be little doubt that these
petty thieves and young burglars were
simply village Btreet boys, grown up
without education or moral discipline.
Many a saving supervisor and village
trustee of theso towns no doubt bitterly
regretted last winter that ho had not
permitted a little of the expense to be
paid out for prevention which ho was
now forced to pay for safeguard or for
punishment.
Under the JNew lork law, already
passed, and which will be passed by other
states, the school trustees call upon the
supervisors for au appropriation for a
small outlay on a "night school." This
for tho six months need not cost over
8250. Then all children not attending i
day school should bo warned to at once
enter this school under penalty of arrest.
Tho place of detention must bo arranged
by the school trustees. After a few
warnings, only a small number would be
obliged to bo arrested. Compulsory
attendance at school would become a
habit.
But village residents should go fur
ther. Their duty and their interest are
clearly to see to it that the poor in their
localities are educated. There Mght to
be in all townssmall " industrial schools,"
carried on in part by volunteer labor,
like these schools iu this city, designed
for tho vagraut, poor, and ragged chil
dren. Great aid could thus be given to
destituto families, whilo at tho same
time their children could bo trained iu
industrious habits, and brought under
moral discipline. Tho increaso of such
young girls as the "Margaret" of un
fortunate fame could thus be checked.
It is the experince of tho city industrial
schools that no children leave them to
become vagrants or thieves. They are
moral preventives. Each village will
thus bo the guardian of its own welfare,
and spread the benefits of education
among all classes. Influences like those
of tho visitors of the " Charities Aid,"
which are reforming the poorlouses,
would stop the increaso of pauperism
and crime among children. We should
then have a system of education which
would reach to the bottom of society.
Not With That.
A colored man entered an Alexandria
barber shop and demanded a shave.
The proprietor seated him in ordinary
chair. Being seated ho was lathered.
The barber then, after rummaging in a
chest, produced what must have been the
father of all razors, and commenced
stropping it vigorously. , The customer,
half blinded by the soap, seeing him
handling the small scythe, asked what he
was going to do with it, and when told
that he was going to shave him with it,
said he wouldn't be shaved by any such
thing, and hastily rising, seized a towel,
wiped his face and left the Bhop.
A Rich City of the Dead.
Greenwood cemetery, in Brooklyn, .s
a wealthy association. The receipts in
1874 were SaaU 810.9(5, which, with the
cash on hand the 31st of December,
1373, $39,658.53, made $372,409.49.
The expenditures for 1874 were $371,
772.01, leaving on hand on the 31st of
December, 1874, $090.88. The fund for
tho improvement and permanent care of
the cemetery is $978,190. 10. Last year
there were 403 lots sold, making the
whole number sold up to 1875 21,885
There were 3,757 interments, exactly the
same number as in 1873. The whole
number of interments up to the 1st of
January, 1875, is 172,890.
LMrOSINU ON IMMIGRANTS.
The Frauds ITseit to Induce Immigration to
Brazil A Warning.
An official notice has been issued by
the immigration commissioners of Great
Britain, acting under immediate orders
from tho Secretary of State for tho
colonies, says the New York Times,
warning intending immigrants from pro
ceeding to Brazil. The reasons for this
almost exceptional action on the part of
the English government are such an may
at any time occur in the case of other
countries besides Brazil, and although
we do not apprehend a frequent repeti
tion of them, the incident is one which
should not pass unnoticed. The govern
ments of Brazil and somo of tho South
American republics have, for two or
three years past, been making strenuous
efforts to obtain a supply of labor either
from Europe or the United States. To
that end they have represented the ad
vantages of their respective countries in
glowinar colors, and they have made
Eromises which, if genuine, ought to
ave proved a strong attraction. To
some extent the purpose was served.
Families and single men and women
migrated from here and from across the
Atlantic to Rio Janeiro, Buenos Ayres,
and in less numbers to other places in
South America, but only to find all their
expectations disappointed. Their an
ticipations as to soil, climate, and the
demand for labor wero not realized. The
promises that had sounded bo well were
not fulfilled, and, in place of the hearty
welcomo that they had been told to look
forward to, they found themselves sur
rounded with a populace prejudiced
against their nationalities, and a state of
public opinion which was neither liberal
nor tolerant. In this predicament as
many as were able returned home.
Many died of disease or starvation, and
the few who were compelled to remain
have sincerely deplored the day when
they left their native land.
Iu the case of Brazil, the government
of that country promised free grants of
laud to immigrants who would settle up
on them, together with assistance in cul
tivation. It induced some two thousand
persons to go to Bio. But no grauts
were ever made, and, although three
years have elapsed since the offer was
first put forward, and notwithstanding
the efforts of some of tho foreign
ministers in Brazil, not any assistance
has yet been given by the government in
any way to relieve the few families that
were obliged to stay iu the country. Yet,
in face of this breach of faith, a new
scheme for drawing a foreign population
has been devised. A now settlement is
proposed. It is described as in one of
the richest districts where, in a few
mouths, crops can be gathered from
virgin soil, and where there is a conve
nient market for all tho produce that can
bo grown. Besides which, a tramway is
to bo constructed "immediately" to ef-
apital. Such is the inducement "oilere'd.
But ou investigation it turns out that the
place chosen for tho settlemont is sixty
two miles from the provincial town, aud
not less than one hundred and fourteen
miles from the port, from which the city
of Rio can be reached only after a voyage
of forty hours more by steamboat.
There is at preseut no means of com
munication from the place of the settle
ment to either town,' and experience has
shown that the " immediate" construc
tion of a hundred miles of railroad in
South America is rather a vague project.
Under all these circumstances, it seems
that tho British government is perfectly
justified in the course it has pursued, and
the warning is ono which others besides
British subjects may, perhaps, usefully
take into consideration.
But their is something more to be de
rived from all this. If Brazil and the
Argentiue Republic had kept good faith
with their immigrants, it is tolerably
certain that they would have succeeded in
attracting a vcrv useful stream of popula
tion. There is no reason why they
should not. South America is wanting
in many of tho advantages which take
immicrants to other places, but this
coidd bo counterbalanced by artificial
conditions of a favorable character.
Where, however, those conditions come
short of fulfillment, more harm is done
than if they had never existed. It is
that very danger which this country has
to fear. We owe very much to immi
gration. It has been to tho United
States a source of population and of
wealth. But last year witnessed a great
falliuor off in the number of immigrants,
and the fact was undoubtedly duo to the
condition of the labor market, and to the
statements made by persons who had re
turned, disappointed, to Europe. Agents
aro now busy striving to induce laborers
and others in Great Britain and elsewhere
to come to America. What may we not
suffer from their too great zeal ? If they
are successful, and the persons they send
out to us are disappointed, we shall find
the main stream of immigration turned
elsewhere, so that when we want it we
may not be able to get it. The labor
market here is, for the moment, well
supplied in most branches. Everywhere
we hear of people out of employment
and anxious to do anything that will
bring them a livelihood. While this
state of things last3 is it wise to try and
force a current of more labor into the
country ? We think not. It would be
better to leave immigration for a time to
tako its own course, uninfluenced in any
way, and then, when employment be
comes more general, which we hope will
not bo long, the country may reasonably
expect to receive all the foreign popuia
tion that it needs.
A Conditional Precedent.
In Augusta, Maine, no provision has
been made this winter for feeding and
loderiuK tramps. A vagabond went into
a police station and wanted to sleep
there :
"We only lodge prisoners," 6aid the
sergeant behind the desk.
" You only lodge prisoners," repeated
the vagabond, meditatively.
" That's all," was the reply, you
have got to steal something, or assault
somebody, or something of that kind.'
"I've got to assault somebody, or
something of that kind," again repeated
the vacrabund. thoughtfully. Then he
reached across the desk with his right
arm. and knocked the sergeant off his
ft )ol. savins, as the officer cot up with
his hand to his eye, Give me as good
a bed as you klu, sergeant, 'cause I
don t feel very well to-night.
Items of Interest.
A boy only twelvo years of ago com
mitted suicide at Gainkirk, Scotland,
recently, on account of grief at the losi
of his situation.
Tho greatest discovery at Pompeii is
that of a woman making a fire in a cook
stove, whilo her husband is in bed and
asleep. She was a noble woman.
A Cleveland man puts waste papers
into his letters, so as to make them
weigh all that will pass for threo cents.
He does this to revenge on Undo Sam.
A witness in a Catskill law office de
scribed the poverty of a field of corn as
follows: Tho crop was so stunted ond
short that the toads could sit on their
haunches and pick bugs off the tassels.
Some boys at Bristol, Vt., poured
kerosene on a dog, and set liim on fire,
the other day. The dog ran under a
barn among a mess of hay, and the barn,
with all its contents of hay and grain,
was destroyed.
Some days ago Henry Buzzard, son of
a farmer living at Kemsell, a village on
tho border of Notts, while playing with
a strange cat was bitten by tho animal.
A short time after the boy becamo ill,
aud the surgeon who attended pro
nounced him to have hydrophobia. Tho
poor youth died in the most terriblo
agony.
"Herbert," said a perplexed mother,
"why is it that you're not o better boy t"
" Well," said the littlo fellow, soberly,
looking up into her face with his honest
blue eyes, " I suppose the real reason is
that I don't want to be !" We think the
child gave the real reason why all of us,
big as well as little, are not better than
we are.
A Boston wag once wrote to a former
President of the United States, asking
whether he would accept a carriage and
horses as a token of esteem from tho
Young Men's Christian Association of
that city. In due time an affirmative
answer was returned from Washington.
The wag thereupon sat down and wrote
back: " I thought so." It is needless
to add that the carriage and horses were
never sent.
A show exhibits in country villages,
and travels in sleighs. Whilo crossing
the Green mountains from Ludlow to
Rutland, Vermont, a short time ago, the
company were snow bound for three days
in a farm house. The baggage sleigh,
which they had preceded, did not arrivu,
and as soon as the storm had abated, a
search was made for it. The sleigh was
found overturned in a drift, and tho
driver frozen to death.
In tho Malayan peninsula largo apes
of naturally intelligent breeds are em
ployed by their masters much in the
same way that human slaves aro made
use of in somo parts of Africa. The
cocoanut palm is valuable for its fruit,
but this is very difficult to procure, so
the landlord of a tope of palms trains his
seem to delight in the work.
In a spaoo of ten years not much less
than two millions of British subjects
have left their native land. Somo went
to Australia, some to Canada, and more
the United States. Until lately the
Irish immigrants were iu excess of the
English and Scotch. Siuce 1809, how
ever, the respective ratios are reversed.
During that year Great Jintain sent
forth eighteen thousand more immigrants
thau Ireland, and in lSVZ tins excess
was even more marked.
Of two members of a well-known Bos
ton firm, one of whom possesses the
larger capital and the other the larger
business influence, tlio latter became dis
satisfied, the other day, and advertised
anonymously for a partner with )ffuu,uuo
capital. One reply was received to tho
advertisement, and a correspondence en
sued between the two parties. At last
these parties met, and tho man who
answered the advertisement proved to
be the advertiser's partner.
A Victimized Young Man.
An amusing story is told of a young
Americau gentleman who, while sojourn
ing in i'aris, invited two uemoisenes u
accompany him to the theater. He se
cured three Beats, and drove to the house
of his fair friends, half hoping that ono
was indisposed, so that his felicity might
be unbounded. The two were awaiting
him, aud their mother as well, who
kindly invited herself to chaperon tho
party, and intimated that her daughters
could under no circumstances go without
her. There was no help for it. I he
four crowded into the carriage. No
fourth seat could be obtained adjacent
to the three already' secured, or even on
the same tier, and during three long acts
the three ladies sat in a box, whilo our
young American gazed at them with feel
ings unutterable from his seat in the par
quette. The drama over, only cabs, with
room for two, cauld be obtained to con
vey the party home. Here, then, was a
dilemma which young lady should he
select as his cab companion ? They wero
both charming, and the matter was diffi
cult to decide. The old lady settled it,
however, to her satisfaction, if to the
annoyance of ounow miserable coun
tryman. ' Hortense and Sophie, you
go in this cab. Monsieur and I win fol
low you in the next." The young gen
tleman now thinks that French social
customs are barbarous.
The United States Bounty Bill.
The following are the reasons given by
President Grant for vetoing the Soldier a
Bounty bill:
First That it appropriates from the
Treasury a large sum of money at a time
when the revenue is insufficient for cur
rent wants; and this proposed further
drain on the Treasury by the issue of
bonds authorized by this bill to a very
large and indefinite amount would seri
ously embarrass the funding operations
now progressing, whereby the interest
of the bonded debt is being largely re
duced. Second I do not believe that any con
siderable portion of the ex-soldiers, who
it it supposed will be beneficiaries of
this appropriation, are applicants for it;
but ra'her it would result more iu a
measure for the relief of claim agents or
middle men, who would intervene to
collect or discount the bounties granted
by it. The passage of this bill at this
time is inconsi tent with the measures of
economy now demanded by the country.