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YQL- x- EIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, TA-THURSDAY, SEPTEMBEK 2, 1880. NO 28.
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The Conduct of Life.
Be It good that we do, let us do it,
Giving soul and our strength to the deed;
Lot U8 pierce the hard rock and pass through
it,
And compass the thins; that we need.
Does late, as a dark cloud, hang over,
And cover our heads Irom the light T
Does hate mock the heart of the lover ?
Must wrong be the victor of right T
Yat in late there is iroedoom lor each one
To make or to" mar, bb ho willj
Aud the bolts ol ill fortune that reach one
May maim, but they never shall kill.
Ever onward and upward pursuing
The aim that is thine toi the day,
Adding strength to thy strength by thy doing,
Thou ebiilt gain it, nor laint by the way.
And though thou art buried with small things
Though menial thy labor may be,
Do thy utmost in that and in all things,
Thou still slmlt be noble and tree.
Dost thou love ? let it be with lull moasurej
Nor mingle with coldness or hate
Of others the joy of thy pleasure,
Tho passion that crowns thy estate.
Bojto every man Just ; and to women
Be gentle, and lender and true;
Fo: thy own do thy best j but lor no man
Do loss lhau a brother should do.
S ) In ig thy days full to number,
In peace thou shilt pass to tho grave;
T.iou ehult lie down and rest thee, and s'um-be-,
Beloved by tho good and tho brave.
Tintlcy' s Ma g izit.e.
A Romanc3 of Avenue A.
Tli? scene of my story is laid in the
American metropolis, aud most of the
mtion takes place in a tenement house
situated on that great sti eet of tenement
nous, s, Avenue A. All the characters
and the historian lived together; occu
pying between tliem one Uat of a tene
ment house nine stories high. Our llat
was the seventh Irom the ground, and
being the only lodgers on that floor we
speedily became well acquainted. Being
a bichelorl occupied the front room,
which was study, reception-room,
kitchen, dining-room and sleeping apart
ment. My next door neighbors were
an elderly Irish woman with her two
sons, Patsy and Teddy Horley. The
occupied three rooms. Tue two back
rooms had as an occupant one of the
liveliest little maidens it was ever my
good fortune to meet. I think she came
originally from Massachusetts. She
worked at shirt making in a large C um',
street establishment and her name wa
written on tlie pay roll as Alice Layne.
The Ilorieys and Miss Layne had been
neighbors some time when 1 became an
inmate of I lie house, and were already
quite intimate.
Patsy Horley was the oldest of the
brothers, lavge-formed, red-headed and
with irregular homely features. He was
heavily frerkled, and I never saw him
during a tix months' acquaintance time
that he didn't have a three days' growth
of red stubble on his face. He had large,
gray eyes, and these were tne most strik
ing ot his facial organs. They had but
one expression unswerving honesty in
their every flash. Patsy was a membpr
of the corner " gang," and frequently
came home much the worse for liquor,
which grieved his old mother soreiy.
She was a blunt, plain-spoken woman,
sixty odd years old, fat and much given
to a "weakness" in all parts of her
body, which prevented the possibility
of labor. So she was content to sit by
the window all day long knitting at a
never finished blue woolen stocking.
Her "byes" were very good to her.
Teddy gave her all his earnings. Patsy
most all. Teddy was the reverse of his
brother. Hp was six feet in his socks,
finely proportioned, handsome. His
eyes were black, his hair and mustache
dark brown, tut curly. He was consider
able of a dandy and " dressed up " every
night after work. There was a deep
affection existing between these broth
ers. They loved each other, and this
djvotion was apparent in every act of
taeir lives.
Miss Alice Layue was, as I have be
fore stated, a lonely little maiden,
pretty, and with a tender heart, sus
ceptible to the slightest variation of
life's compass. Lss3 than a ween alter
taking up my quarters in the front
room I made a discovery. Alice Layne
was in Jove with Patsy Horley and
Teddy Horley whs in love with Alice
Lay no. Is was an interesting study to
watch the various phases ot this cross
passion, and I never tired of it. It was
very evident to me that Patsy Horley
nduiircd tho little shirtmaker, but h
kept the secret safely locked in his great
big heart, and only took it out at odd
moments when bethought no one would
notice the treasure to gloat over it and
worship it as his mother did the figure
of the Virgin at the head of her bed.
I don't suppose the honest lellow ever
dreamed that his love was returned.
How could he when he so blindly wor
shiped the superior physical gifts of
his younger brother. For Patsy was
very proud of handsome Teddy, and
never tired ol praising him. Alice,
witli a woman s intuition, saw the noble
in Patsy's character, and although
Teddy's good looks and line dress uud
"flowers" made an impression upon
her it was oniy a transitory one. which
vanished as soon as she caught eight of
Patsy s Dig, nomeiy lace una honest
gray eyes. Like all good-looking men,
Teddy Horley was just the least bit con
ceited, and he imagined that it was only
necessary to declare his passion to find
himself in undisturbed possession of
Alice's heart.
One warm alterncon 1 was lying on a
lounge in mv room, endeavoring to in
(erest ravseif in "The Light of Asia."
Mrs. Horley was downstairs visiting a
neighbor, und I was nodding over the
poem, when Alice Liyne tripped up the
stairs and entered her apartments. 1
heard her singing softly to herself as she
made preparations lor supper, ana. mis
anihrope that I am, envied her that
bird-like lightness of heart which trilled
through every measure of the song. I
was brooding over the melancholy nast.
when a heuvy footstep sounded on the
the stairs and Patsey Horley, in his
rough working clothes, and a little
under the influence of liquor, opened
the door ot the room adjoining mine
and threw himself heavilv on tli hurt.
He got up directly, opened a little win
do ovei the door which neparated the
two rooms, took a drink of wtiter and
lay dvwn again, it may be well
to mention that this chamber wns a dark
room, and was occupied by the brothers
ns a sleeping apartment. A few minutes
after this Teddy Horley bounded up the
steps and entered the living-room, which
was between tho dark chamber and his
mother's bedroom. Finding his mother
absent, he crossed the hall and knocked
at Miss Layne'g door. The little maiden
hushed her song and opened it.
"Oh, Teddy, it's you, is itP" she
said.
" Sure it is, s wateness. Who else could
it beP"
"I thought it was Patsy," she said,
tantalizingly.
Then there was a struggle, a stifled
scream, and a smack, smack of lips.
The noise disturbed tipsy Patsy, and he
rose from his bed and opened the door
entering into the hallway. The sculle
outside continued and tfiere was more
smacking. Presently Alice cried :
"Oil, Teddy Horley, you're perfectly
horrid, and 1 don't like you one bit,
there!"
" Now, darlint!" began Teddy.
"Don't darlint me, I don't like you.
You are better looking and finer dressed
than Patsy, but he i3 a thousand times
better than you."
"Perhaps ye're in airnest." said Teddy,
a little passionately. " There's many a
thrue word spoken in jest."
"Well, I am in earnest. I do like
Patsy, and if he'd ask me to marry him
this day, I'd jump at the chance. So
there, now, you have the truth."
Then the door was slammed, and I
heard Teddy walking slowly back into
his mother's room. Presently there
came a knock at my door, and when I
cried "come in," Patsy's freckled lace
appeared on the threshold. I spoke to
liim kindly and invited him to have a
chair. He sat down, and I saw that
what ho had heard had sobered liim.
Alter a moment's silence he cleared his
throat and began :
"Did ye hear whatshe saidP"
" Yes, Patsy," I replied.
" An' do ye belaive she manc3 HP" he
continued, eagerly.
" I have no doubt of it."
" God bles3 her swate soul! I'm not
the man for her, an' I niver to't she
cared for me. If I could only bring me
self to belaive it's thrue, I'd bo a differ
ent man."
He sat in silence for some time and
then rose to go. When he reached the
door he turned and said :
" I was a bit dhrunk when I come
home to-night. It's hard work beyont
there in the tunnel, out I sware to ye
that afther to-night there'll never a drap
of pwhisky pass my lips."
I bade him good-night and God speed
in this new-formed resolution, and he
shook my hand warmly. Mrs. Horley
came home) and she and Patsy had sup
per together. Teddy was .out. I took
a short walk that evening," and coming
home passed Patsy and Alice on one of
the cross-streets walking together, arm
in arm. I did not hear what they wre
saying, but felt convinced Patsy had de
clared his love and been made happy
witli Aliee's acknowledgment that tho
passion wns reciprocated.
The next morning Patsy came to my
room before ho went to his work. Ho
seized my hand, and a look of supreme
happiness shot from his gray eyes.
" She sez she'll have me, sor," lie said,
"an' we'll bo married ez soon ez f got
through work on the tunnel. I'm n
happy man, but for wan thing it's
Teddy. Poor bye, ho t ikes it to heart,
an' is not himself at all. God knows
I'm his brother, an' would rather lose
me roight hand than bring harm to
liim."
"Oh, that will be all right. He'll get
over his disappointment in a few days,"
I. said, to console him.
" I wish I could think so," he said,
moving toward the door, an 1 these
were the last words I ever heard the
poor fellow utter.
Every reader has heard of the terrible
tunnel disaster, tho details of which
electrified the whole country. Teddy
and Patsy Horley were employed in the
tunnel as laborers, and worked side by
side in the same relief. The morning ot
mv last interview with poor Patsy, they
went to their work as usual, and for the
first time in their lives spoke never a
word of kindly cheer or brotherly badin
age as they walked swiftly through the
streets. The better to make plain what
follows, it will bo necessary to say that
the entrance to tho tunnel proper, on
the New York side, is through a circu
lar, perpendicular shaft, thirty feet in
diameter, and about sixty feet deep.
This is a working siiatt, tue bottom ot
which is used for the reception of waste
matter, as it is excavated, and before it
is taken away. Thirty feet below the
surface of the ground is an " air lock,"
which is the sole means ot communica
tion between the tunnel and the outer
air. It is necessary to keep the air in
side the tunnel sufficiently compressed
to maintain a pressure of seventy pounds
to the square inch, and the " air lock "
serves a similar purpose to the lock of a
ranal. equalizing the pressure of the air
to those passing in or out, as a canal
lock balances the level ot the water. As
n. mutter of course, there are two doors.
one at each end of this lock, only one of
which can be opened at once, while the
lnck itself is fifteen feet long by six feet
and six inches wide, allowing for the
passage, in case of necessity, of thirty
men at once.
A thev were preparing to go down tho
shaft that morning Patsy turned to his
hrother and whispered :
" It's a auaro feelin' I have in me this
mornin', Teddy. May the blissed Vor-
ein Drotect us iroia harm."
Teddy laughed. " It's the pwhisky,"
he said, and turned awav. not so auick
that his eye didn't meet the reproachful
flash that tell irom his brother s great
gray orbs. Afterward that look haunted
him, and made the misery of life all the
hareter to Dear
Twenty-eight men composed a relief.
and the work of excavation movpd
ulong smoothly until noon. Then the
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squuu was tuviueu. rouri.ecn men went
to lunch; tho remainder worked on
In halt tin Hour the hrst squad was heard
advancing, and the otheis threw
their toots and prepared to leave the
tunnei. ratsy was in ine nrst squad,
Teddy in the second. The men return
ing had passed inside through the air
lock and the others had quit their posts
preparatory to leaving . It is probable
thai if they had delayed this lor even
a minute the accident would not have
happened, lor the leak, wnicn was dis
coveted just too late, might easily have
been stopped if discovered in time. As
the two squads met just at the moment
ol shifting, a peculiar hissing sound was
heard, with which all were familiar. It
meant a leak, and a leak meant death!
"back and stop the leak!" shouted
the superintendent, and the order was
obeyed almost before it was given.
As many as could get there jumped
for the place, where all knew tho danger
was greatest. The brothers worked
side by side.
" It's the mnneing of the quare feelin',
Teddy," cried Patsy, as they both plied
pick and shovel. "May the Vorgin
save usl"
The joining of the temporary roof of
the tur.nel with the wall of the shaft
was necessarily imperfect. It was in
tended to make all secure with a three
foot wall of brick and cement, but it
was impossible to set the foundation of
the brickwork until after the circle of
the tunnel should be completed, so that
this imperfect jointure was continually
watched. With reasonable diligence it
was easily to keep it closed, and the
material to close was plenty and at
hand. The chink were stopped with
the silt, of wh' li the river bottom is
largely compo; nl a clayey mud, of the
consistency of i n y and a man should
have been at this part watching the
chink.
No pen can describe the terrible
struggle which followed. It lasted
scarcely two minutes. The men were
nerved by a full knowledge of the great
danger of their position. Not a man
but knew that he carried his life in his
hands wherever he wet to work, and
not a man failed to know that the
supreme moment had come All
worked well. The brothers did the
work of ten men.
It was too late!
The leak that one man could have
stopped if ho bad been there at the right
moment was now wide enough for the
foul current of corruption and death to
flow in from the river bottom, and
the only safety lay in flight. Be
tween the spot where they were and the
open air there were two locked doors,
only one ot which could be opened at
once. The little rift above their heads
became a chasm. The compressed air
escaped until there was no longer pres
sure enough from within to maintain
the portion of unfinished work. The
electric light by which they worked
was extinguished, and darkness added
its terrors to their great misery.
In the confusion the brothers, who
had instinctively clasped hands when
the water and mud poured in upon them
were separated. Patsy reached oat his
hand nnd it was clutched by some one
in the darkness.
" To the caisson !" shouted the superin
tendent, nnd the men rushed pell mell
toward thi3 only avenue of escape. He
was standing by the inner door of the
air lock, and threw it open for the men
to pass through.
" Quick, boy s !" he cried. " Get into
the Jock!" And instead of passing in
among the first he stood by the door
helping one after another in.
Six men passed, among them Patsy
Horley. He looked around and called
loudly for Teddy. There was no re-
ponse. The seventh man was passing
through. He pushed by him into the
tunnei.
"Teddy bye!" he cried.
" Here !" shouted a vo'ce at his side.
"Get, through auick!" he said, and
pushed his brother through.
lie would nave toliowcd him. but an
other of the men stepped in front of
nm, and he helped him into the lock.
This man was almost through when
the awful weislit of the mud and water
tell against the door, pinning him so
ist that nothing could have freed him
iu time.
The door was fast. One man was
fastened in the doorw.iv between the
other nineteen and their last chance of
ife. Tho eight in the lock were thus
almo3t lost, for there was no longer a
chance to close tho inner door, and tite
Hood was closing on them. Swiftly the
water rushed into the lock; it rose km e
deep where tliey stood, and the air was
compressed by all tho pressure of tho
air above them in tho little chamber,
the door of which wa3 securely fastened
against tliem. They c juld not open this
door, nor could they brenk it from the
inside. But in the lock were two dead
lights of massive glass, eight inches in
diameter, and these the men knew were
to be broken as a last resort.
"My God! tho water is training on
us," said one; " what shall we do?"
Kapo cool, men, kape cool," an
swered a voice from tho river side of
tne tunnel. Tiddy rushed to the bull's
eye and looked through. There stood
Patsy and the superintendent side by
fide, their faces white as death.
" Keen cool." cried the superintendent
through the crack of the door; "noth
ing can be gained by excitement."
" But shure, sor, the wather is galnm'
on us, and we can't open the door into
the shalt."
The water is covering mo up."
moaned the poor fellow who was
crushed by the door. " Can't you get
me out of this?"
Teddy caught him by the neck, and
several others sprang to hi assistance.
They pulled and tugged, but it was no
use. fcvery moment wa9 agony to tho
poor man, and he would beg piteously
to do let aiono. xne water got higher
and higher.
They'll have to sthop the crack.
sor," said Patsy, and the superintendent.
his white lips moving in prayer, nodded
his head.
" Take ou your clothes, men. and stop
the crack ot the door," he added.
borne one said that that would cut off
what little communication there was
between them.
Niver moind U3, mm," said brave
Patsv: "it s your only chance."
But then" began leddy, who was
in tears.
" Do as you are ordered." cried the
superintendent, snarpiy.
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The men sprang lor ward, and Patsy
reached his great freckled hand through
the crack.
Good-bye, Teddy," he said choking
ly. "Tell tno motuer i aiea loike a
brave man. An' Alice "
He could say no more, and in a mo
ment the men had patched the crack of
the door with their clothss, and the
rapid increase of the water was checked
"Uan you prayr" wnispered tne su
perintendent, as his hand tightened on
Patsy's.
" Blessed Mary, save us!" sobbed the
Irishman.
Teddy ran to the bull's-eye and lookel
through. He saw the superintendent
and his brother standing side by sido
peering in at him. The faces of both
men were pale, and were only a few feet
above the water that gurgled about
them. He heard Patsy's muttered
prayer, and a deep groan burst from his
lips.
" Patsy, brother!" he shouted.
Patsy smiled and nodded his head.
' Be kind to Alice," he said, and then.
raising his voice, shouted; "Break
open the outside bull's-eye !"
" Yes, knock out the bull's-eye; knock
it out, I say," commanded the
stern
voice ot the superintendent.
The men in the air lock knew that to
obey this order meant sudden and sure
death to their companions, and they
hesitated. Again it come :
" Knock out the bull's-eye!" and then
the stern voice of the superintendent
faltered a little as it added, " and do
what you can for the rest of ns!"
Blow upon blow fell upon the thick
glass, and was answered from the out
side by two men who had by this time
arrived with crowbars. The glass flew
out nnd the cold air rushed in.
" God take us to him and protect our
wife and babies I" muttered the superin
tendent, and his hand closed tighter on
" Poor Alice!" was all the latter could
articulate through his sobs. Instinc
tively the eyes of both men met, and
their souls stood side by side.
The outside door was started a little,
and suddenly flew open. With the rush
of air came the rush of water. The door
behind gave wav, and the living, the
dead, and the dying were hauled out
toward the working shaft. The bodies
of all in the inner tunnel must have
caught in the outer door. Only Patsy
Horley's como out with the rush of
water. Two of the men seized his body,
and the whole party hurried up the lad
der to the ground.
Then, and only then, had the two men
an opportunity to pause and reflect that
behind them, beneath the water that
boiled and seethed in the dim light of
the tunnel, were the bodies of their dead
comrades and the brave superintendent.
Professional business called me to
Brooklyn the day of the accident, and
when I returned to the tenement house
in Avenue A, they were making prepar
ations to wake poor Patsy Horley's
body.
He was terribly crushed nnd
mangled by the rapid rush
of water, and only lived two
hours after he was taken out of the
shaft. He was conscious, and his fellow-workmen
carried him tenderly
home. Teddy followed, weeping bit
terly. They laid the wounded man upon
the bed, and a doctor ministered to his
sufferings. The wails of the poor
mother were heartrending. Patsy had
heen laying with his eye3 closed, but he
finally opened them and asked for
Teddy. The brother knelt by the bed
side and great sobs shook his frame.
" Bo a nion, Toddy," whispered Patsy.
" Sind for Alice and the praiste! '
When the little shirt-maker was led
weeping into the room, Patsy asked
that they bo loft alone, and over that
last interview let us draw a veil. Finally
some one stole into the room and found
tliem clasped in each other's arms.
Patsy was sinking fast, and the priest
approached the bedside and adminis
tered to him the last rites of the church.
Then tho dying man was propped up in
bed. lie called Teddy and Alice to tho
bedside and made them join hands.
" I'm a dead mon," he said huskily.
" Promise me, both ov yees, that ye'll
be thrue to aich ovher i"
Both bowed their heads. He beckoned
for tho priest and whispered a few words
in his ear.
A smile of thankfulness beautified the
homely face of Patsy as the last words
of the impressive service fell from tho
pries','s lips, and stretching out his hands
died betore any could reach him
Detroit Free Press.
How it Happen?.
Day by day we are more and more
impressed with tne fact that Burlington
i3 a city of original ideas, broad judg
ment, profound views and unparalleled
activity. It only needs a brief review
of the chronicles of local events which
are daily placed before the interested
public bv our painstaking and industri
OU3 colleague on the fourth page of this
paper to convince any one that Burling.
ton is a city of unusual merit and orig
inal peculiarities. During the eight
months past, the local records show
that in one department alone, that of
original accidents, tno city ol tue 111113
has more than distinguished herself.
Tiiev will show that
A South Hill bitby swallowed a glass
button with a brass eye. liabv now
weighs twenty-eight pounds and doesn't
cry once a week, and has the cheek of a
peddler.
A Pond street girl tabbed a hairpin
through her ear twice in the sama
week, each time in a new place, aud
now she can wear a double-barrel ear
ring.
A North Mam street man dropped a
spoonful of red-hot sawder in his shoe
while mending a teakettle, and success-
ully burned ut a soit corn that two
professional chiropodists had chiro
dopped in vain.
A Worth inn gin ieu into the river
and was rescued with both stockings
full of fish.
A Happy Hollow boy fell off a C. B.
& Q. box car, near the Fourth street
crossing, and knocked a pebble out of
his ear that had destroyed his hearing
three years ago. And before ha could
scramble to his feet he heard Mr. Pum-
phrey spanking a boy.
A J cnerson street merchant stepped on
a banana peel and fell over a dry goods
box. knocking out the onlv unsound
tooth in his head, only fifteen minutes
after Doctor Wilson had pounded eislit
dollars' worth of gold into it.
A Vine street man swallowed a coun
terfeit quarter, and a long-haired,
"slapping" doctor and an Ottumwa
"healer" knocked seventy-eight dollars
of good money out of him trj ing to find
it. ine man assayed oetter than a
Leadviile silver claim, as long as his
pile last: d.
A woman on Columbia street acci
dentally dropped a nine-year-old cen
tury plant, pot and all, out of a second
story window, the projectile striking
her husband in the back, the shock dis
lodging from his windpipe an obstruc
tion that had kept him coughing every
nigut ior a wees.
A tramp from Illinois slipped thro.tgh
an open grating in the dark, fell through
into the sewer and lit right smack on a
silver watch and a two-dollar bill. The
watch will stand repairing at Watson's,
as usual, but tne iwo-aonar bill is in
tact, wherever it is.
An Eighth-street man suddenly
threw out his arm as he tossed in rest.
less slumber about midnight and broke
his wife's no30 with his fist. Her
frightful howls, the baby's terrified
screams and the wondering, wrathful,
profane vociferations of the man
frightened away two burglars who were
just on their way up ine iront stairway,
leaving on the stairs in their terrified
and hasty night thirty-nine dollars
worth of solid silver, two silk dresses
and a neek chain they had stolen in
some other house, vurlvnyton Euivk
eye,
TIMELY TOPICS.
The proof that petroleum sources are
almost world-wide appears to be abund
ant, and Us use would also seem well
nigh coeval with civilization. In one
of the Ionian islands there is a spring
which has yielded petroleum more than
3.000 years. The wells of Armenia, on the
banks of the Zaro.were lormerly used for
lighting the city of Genoa. In Persia,
too, near the Caspian sea at Baku, nu
merous springs of petroleum have been
known from tho earliest times; and
those of Kaneoon. on the Irawaddy. are
said to have yielded before the general
introduction of petroleum among civil
ized nations, some 400,000 hogsheads of
oil per annum.
Among the patents recentlv taken out
is one which claims to be a "new and
useful mode of producing rain, or pre
cipitating rain-falls from rain-clouds,"
as a protection against drought. The
invention consists in sending balloons
into the cloud regions, carrying torpe
does and cartridges charged with explo
sives, and to explode them mere by
electric force. It is also claimed by the
inventor that not only can rain be pre
cipitated when it is needed, but that too
great a quantity can be checked in any
given locality by causing the rain-clouds
to be disctiargcd betore tney have
reached that place. Harper's Weekly
suggests that this novel plan, if practi
cable anyl successful, might equalize the
etrougnts and eczcb in our land.
A London periodical gives some re
markable railway statistics in the yearly
return by tho board of trade for 1879. In
the United Kingdom the trains have
traveled 322, 000,000 miles, and hnvecar
ried more than 565,000,000 passengers.
With the exception of the Tav bridire
disaster in Scotland, by which seventy
three persons were killed, this enormous
amount of work lias been done with the
lo3s of onlv two lives bv accidents. And
the number of persons injured was much
les3 man in previous years. This speaks
highly for the carefulness of the em
ployees on the railroads; but the report
adds that, owing to the negligence and
misconduct of the passengers, eighty
live must be added to the bill of mor
tality. Some of the most eminent scientific
men now accept the view taken by Ad
hemar, namely, that continents have
not been depressed, but overflowed by
the ocean. Owing to the precession of
the equinoxes, the mass of water is
transferred from one hemisphere to the
other once in 10,500 years, and the sun
remains eight days longer in one hemi
sphere tlmn in the other. At the present
time the winters of the southern pole are
eight days longer than with us; the ice
continent has consequently formed
there, and the mass of ocean is to be
found in the southern hemisphere, and
the ice covers tho space upon and around
the south pole more than twice the area
of all Europe. The extreme of cold at
the Antarctic pole was reached about
600 years ago, since which time the cli
mate has been becoming milder, while
tuat norm oi tue equator has been grow
ing colder.
Almost any man cun stand adversity,
but it takes a strong mind to grapple
with sudden piosperity. An instance of
that conies from Washington. Augus
tin J. Ambler passed Friday night in
jail, sleeping off the effects of a big
spree. He was a man of rare ability,
and invented many useful things. One
device lor smelling ore had a fortune in
it. But Ambler had no money, and lie
took in company a couple of St. Louis
men, and they in turn took him in.
They patented the invention in their
own names and let Ambler amble out in
the cold. He sued them and for years
the suit went on. Resolutely for vears
the determined man fought the weal hy
swindlers from one court to another.
Suddenly, last June, to hi3 own aston
ishment, he won the case, being awarded
l.Ja sliare3 in tho company and S677,
434 in cash. The success turned his
head, and he went on a prolonged spree
ne was sent to jail lor twenty days.
There is a British eoat society, and
from the report of a meetinz of the as
sociation which was held recentlv. we
learn mat the Earl of Uossl vn is presi
dent, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts is a
patrones3 and the Duke of Westminster
and me n,arl ot Shattsburv are vice.
presidents. We learn, further, that tho
obiect ot the societv is to direct attention
to me importance ol me goat as a source
of milk supply. In Ireland the goat is
regarded as the poor man's cow, and one
goat could supply milk enough for tho
requirements of an ordinary household
during me greater part ot tue year. The
expense ior keep would be almost nomi
nal, for the goat ate every kind of herb
or vegetable, me nesu ol me kid is oe
clared also to be very delicious eating,
and the society resolved to give a kid
dinner in tne Agricultural hall during
thedatry snow in October. The eoat
bias fair to become a popular and useful
animal.
Mr. Beecuer on Elocntion.
I had from childhood a thickness of
speech arising from a large palate, so
that wtien a boy 1 used to be laughed at
for talking as it 1 had pudding in my
mouth. When I went to Amherst. I
was fortunate in passing into the hands
of John Lovell, a teacher of elocution.
and a better teacher lor my purpose I
cannot conceive. His system consisted
in drill, or the thorough practice in
flexions by the voice, of gesture, posture
and articulation. Sometimes I was a
wnoie nour practicing my voice on a
word like justice. I would have to
take a posture, frequently at a mark
chalked on the floor. Then we would
eo through all the gestures: exercisinor
each movement of the arm and throw
ing open the hand. All gestures except
those of precision go in curves, the arm
rising from the side, coming to the front,
turning to tue lcit or right. 1 was
drilled as to how far the arm should
come forward, where it should Btart
from, how far go back and under what
circumstance. these movements should
be made. It was drill, drill, drill, until
the motions almost became a second na
ture. Now. I never know what move
ments I shall make. My gestures are
natural because this drill made them
natural to me. The onlv method of ao
quiring effective elocution is by prac
tice, of not less than an hour a day.
until the student has his voice and him-
sell thoroughly subdued and trained, tA
rigrit expression. (jhrtsluin unun.
FOB THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion IVotrs.
Short redingotes are again worn.
High back combs are no longer worn.
None but Derby hats are of plain
felt.
Polka-dcttcd stockings are much
worn.
Bead embroideries retain their popu
larity. Cardinal and old gold remain fash
ionable. Gold and tinsel will be as fashionable
as ever.
Crown braids and puffs have gone out
of date.
The new coiffures are all very flat and
smooth.
French and India costumes will again
be worn.
Short dresses are worn on all sorts of
occasions.
Dotted fabrics are growing in fashion
able favor.
Fancy feathers will be worn only on
Derby hats.
English and French styles are not at
all alike this fall.
Anchorite hats will be worn with Pil
grim suits.
Jersey webbing is found among the
fall importations.
Crimped and fluffy hairdreasing- has
gone out of fashion.
New laces are embroidered with gold
and silver threads.
Fifteen yard-square handkerchiefs aro
sold for a costume.
Strings of pearls in the coils of the hair
are again fashionable .
Plush will take the place of velvet in
millinery.
Jet ornaments are used to excess on
fall hats and bonnets.
Tho Hermit polonaise is the novelty
in fall garments.
Ostrich tips and plumes will be more
worn than fancy leathers.
Plush and satin will be used together
in trimming costumes.
Side comb3 of coral, celluloid, ivorv.
shell and jot are much worn.
The new plaid mixtures embrace clan
tartan, Madras and French plaids.
Polonaises, basques, round waists and
pointed bodicc3 are all in vogue.
Petticoats are much wiler. to fill out
the wider skirts of the new dresses.
New cheviot checks show the same
mixtures of color that the gentlemen's
cueviots do.
Buttons on fancy boots now match
those on the costumes on which they
are worn.
Cords play an important part in the
trimming ot dresses ana wraps.
Derby nnd jockey hats will bo covered
with plaids and checks to match cos
tumes.
Piush and satin will take the placo of
Surah suk and lace lor millinery pu
poses this season.
Natural or very fine artificial flower3
aro worn in the hair, to match the bou
quets of the corsage.
Trains are still worn for full dre.ss.
but short dresses aro also admissible on
ceremoniou3 occasions.
The fashionable coiffure i3 now low
in the nape ot the nsck, but short
women cling to the hi'h hairdrcss-
ing.
Gold brocalod, and plain gold rib-
bous, and gold cord braids and laces
appear among the new millinery goods.
Combination garments, uniting the
chemise, corset cover, and fhort petti
coat in one, are touna among new lin
gerie. Amone importations of curly lul
goods are quantities of fine, ail-wool
plaids, in bright colors on plain, dark
grounds.
The infinite variety which ha3 pro
vailed in lastiion lor several seasons
past, is repeated in the new autumn
styles.
Wide belts ol saddle girth canvas,
fastened with straps of leather and
buckles, are worn with all sorts of
deini-toilet costumes.
Ladles' Co-Operative nreis Association of
New York.
Subscriptions are still being received
for the stock of the Ladies' Co-Opera-
tive Dress association of New York, the
sum of $100,000, which was tho amount
stipulated as being necessary to obtain
belore tho association should commence
operations, not yet having been paid in
Miss Kate field, the lady who has been
the leading spirit in this movement to
obtain for wou.en the benefits of co
operation in buying dress material, etc ,
is now in Europe where sue lias devoted
herself to acquiring information as to
the workings of Bimilar organizations
there and in forming connections which
will be useful to the proposed associa
tion in this country. She has induced
Mr. Tulbrook, a distinguished solicitor
of London, who has organized several
similar associations in England, to visit
the United States with a view of aiding
in the formation of the association in
New York. A number of well-known
New York ladies and gentlemen are
named as trustees, and have not only
civen their services gratuitously but
have also contributed liberally toward
the preliminary expenses. The shares
of the association are twenty-five dollars
each, and it is thought that the amount
required to begin operations will bo
subscribed in a sUort time.
She Felt Poorly.
An odd case is reported from Carlisle,
England. A doctor was called one even
ing at seven o'clock to visit a laay aged
about fifty-five, who had. as she de
scribed it, being feeling poorly all day,
but could give no detinue symptoms and
complained of no pain. During the ex
amination he noticed a change in her
speech. This led him to an investiga
tion ol the throat, uutwaroiy me nccu
appeared normal, and nothing could be
felt to indicate an obstruction : he men
examined the pharynx, but no foreign
body could be seen there, nnd the ex
animation only brougtit on vomiting
nd straining. However, he determined
to look a second time, and judge of his
surprise to Una bedded low back in the
pharynx a set ot laise teem, which he
extracted with little trouble, upon in
quiry the woman said she had missed
uer teem aooui nine o uiuck in me
morning, but had no idea she had swal
lowed them, it Is remarkable that they
l fead been in the pharynx without caus
; ing her any pata lor over tea Hours
Parting.
t( thou dost bid thy Iriond (arewoll,
But for one night though that farewell may
be,
Press thou his hand in thine;
How canst thou tell how far from thee
Fate or caprice may lead bis steps, ere that
to-morrow comes T
Men have been known lightly to turn the
corner ol a street,
And days have grown to months,
And months to lagging years, ere they have
Looked in loving eyes again .
Yen, find thou always time to say someearnes
word
Between tho idle talk, lost with thee hence
forth,
Night and day, regret should walk.
ITEMS OF INTEItEST."
A man of morbid tastes The auc
tioneer.
It takes fifteen large, all-wool plaid
handkerchiefs to make a Paris handker
chief suit.
It is a ereat deal easier and much
safer to take time by the forelock than
to take a mule by the fetlock. Borne
Sentinel.
An Arkansas man was offered a plate
of macaroni soup, but declined it, de
claring that they " couldn't play off any
biled pipe-stems on him."
Whv is " a babe in the house " like
wheat? It is first cradled then
thrashed," and finally becomes the
flour" of the family.
A smart American girl calls a young
fellow of her acauaintance "Honey
suckle," because he's always hanging
over tho iront fence in the evening.
A merchant who always was " blurtin' "
" Advertising is use'os?, uncertain,"
Good matiagcmcnt Inckcf,
For on the last aot
Tho sheiilTrang down the drop curtain.
Modern Jirqo.
An nFSOciation in Berlin takes children
from the streets and sends them, with
teachers into " holiday colonies " in the
woods and among the hills. The crown
princess has taken a great interest in the
work.
Tho late Dr. Bethune asked a morose
and miserable man how he was getting
along. The man replied : " What busi
ness isthatol yours!" baid tne doctor:
"Oh, sir, I am one of those who take an
interest even in the meanest ol uod's
creatures."
An eminent physician says that women
are now aiming to do everytning tuat
men do. He is mistaken, we have
never heard of one undertaking to drink
thirty glasses of lager in thirty minutes,
for a wager of five dollars. NorriAown
Herald.
Old Brin is an enormous old grizzly
bear living in Nevada. He lost two
toes in a trap, several years ago, and his
tracks are, therclore, easily recognized.
Ho has killed three men, tho last being
an Italian, whom he shook from a tree
and devoured.
The concussion of the first shot in a
Leadviile bar-room iisht extinguished
the liehts; but that did not stop the
hostilities, and all the chambers of four
revolvers were emptied in the darkness.
Two of tho combatants were dead when
the lamps were relighted.
" The man with a cork log can snap
his firgers at a steamboat accident."
Not unles3 he can quickly remove his
cork leg and tie it around his neck.
When a man with a cork leg is thrown
into the water ho floats with that leg
up and Ills head down, and that is very
unhealthy. The water runs into his
ears.
About tho year 1S35, a very old gen
tleman called on a well-known firm of
Parisian music publishers nnd offered
for sale a collection of forty national
songs, ot which he stated ho was the
sole author. One of the partners looked
through them and recognized a song
beginning "Allous, Enfunts da la Pa
trie." "Are you aware." he asked,
satirically, of the old gentleman, "that
this song litis been published before, that
it iscaiied La Marseillaise,' and tliatits
author is Rouget de 1'IsleP" "Bnt,"
replied the elderlv gentleman, quietly,
"I am Rouget de l'lslo."
Words of Wisdom.
No man can ask honestly or hopetully
to be delivered from temptation unless
he has himself honestly nnd firmly de
termined to do the best he can to keep
out of it.
Whoever look3 for a friend without
imperfections will never find what he
seeks. We love ourselves with nil our
faults, nnd we ought to love our friends
iu like manner.
The winter's fro3t must rend the burr
of the nut before the fruit is seen. So
adversity tempers the human heart to
discover its veal worth.
The goo l things whih belong to
prosperity may bo wHn'd; the good
things whi ;h belong to adversity are to
be admired.
Such is the constitution of things that
unwillingness to goodness may ripen
into eternal voluntary opposition to it.
A mv.n of truo genius is generally as
simple as a child, and as unconscious of
his power as an elephant.
Wo promise according to our hopes,
but perform according to our fears.
Good, honest, faithful work, steadily
persevered in, seconded by good habits,
never yet went long unrewarded.
Gain the confidence of vour children
in their younger years, and they will not
be alraid to trust you later in life.
Happy is he who has learned this one
thing to do tho plain duty of the
moment quickly and cheerfully, what
ever it may be.
The Escarlal.
The Escurial is the palace of the
kings of Spain, one of the largest
and most magmheent in the world. It
was begun by Philip ll. in me year
1502, and the hrst cost ol its erection
was 6,000,01)0 ducats. It forms a vast
square of polished stone, paved with
marble, it may give some notion i mo
surprising grandeur of this place
to say that, according to me com
putation of Francisco delos Santes,
it would take more than four
days to go through all the rooms and
apartments, the length of the way
being reckoned thirty-three Spanish
leagues, which is above 120 English
miles. There are 14 000 doors and
11,000 windows belonging to the edifice,