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VOL. X. MDQWAY, ELK COUNTY, Pi., THURSDAY, SEFTEMBEE 30, 1880. 32'
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Tbe following remarkable compilation is a
contribution to tbflSan Francisco Times lrom
the pen ol Mrs. H. K. Doming. The reader
will notice that eaoh line is a quotation lrom
some oi the BtAtidnrd authors ot England and
America. Tuin is the result ol a year's labori
ous search among the leading pouts ot the
past and present time.
Why all this toil for triumphs ot an hour T
Young.
Lite's a short summer, man a flower.
Dr. Johnson.
By turnB we catch the vital breath and die
Pope.
The cradle and the tomb, alas t so sigh.
Prior.
To be, is better than not to be.
Sewell.
Though all man's lire may seem a tragedy;
Spenetr.
But 1 ght cares speak when mighty griela aro
dumb, DMiiell.
The bottom is but shallow whonce they come,
Raleigh.
Your la'.o is but the common late ot all ;
Longfellow.
Unminglod joys here to no man belall .
Southwell.
Nature to each allots his proper sphere
Congreve.
Fortune make lolly her peculiar care;
Churchill.
Custom does oltcn reason overrule,
Rochester.
And throw a cool sunshine on a tool,
Armstrong.
Live well; how long or short, permit to
hcivcn; Miliox.
They who forgive most shall be most toigiven.
Bailey.
Sin may be clnsped so dope we cannot bpc its
fnco, Trench.
Vile intercourse v here virtue has no place.
Somervill.
Toon keep each passion down, however dea r
Tnomton.
Thou pendulum betwixt n smile and tear.
Baron.
He rsensual fnaiea let Inithkss plfnure lay,
Smolirit.
With craft and skill to ruin and botray.
Crabbe.
O ir not too high to lull, but stoop to rise;
Messenger.
Wo innate! 8 grow ol all that we despise.
Cowley.
Thui I ic i. nrcc tl at imj ions sell-esteem;
Beatlie.
Itiches have wingo, and grandeur is a dream.
Cowper.
Think not ambition wife because 'tis brave;
Davenant.
The p I'hfi ot plory loud but to the grave.
Gray.
What i.i ninl.iti.ui ? ' 1 is a glorious cheat !
H Wit.
Only destructive to the brave and great.
A Idison.
Wliat's nil tbe nn ly g-ittor ol a crown t
Dryden.
Tho way to bliss lies not on beds ol down.
Quart's.
How long we live, not years but actions tell;
Watkint.
Thut man lives twice who lives the first lil
we'l. Herrick.
Make then, while yet we may, your God your
lriend, Mason.
h i a U hristi ans worship, yet not compre-
hmd. Hill.
The trust that's given guard, and to yourseli
be just, Dana.
For, live we how we can, yet die we must.
Shakespeare.
IOTA WALLINGFORD.
" Who is that little girl, Walter?" I
Fa'd, carelessly, Httle tlr.nking the im
portant role that jittle girl was to nlay
in my life dramn. She came from Z tu
rner No. !, of the Conversatorium for
Musis at S , and her face was flushed
witli an indignant, half-pitiful look in
her proud eyes which attracted my at
tention. Room No. 0, I thought, as leaving
Wnltcr Griffith, my chum, I sauntered
ol to my lesson. That's where old
Professor Z. tortures his pupils; he is
little better than a ruillan, if he has
such a reputation in his profession; and
they say he thumbs tho ugly girls with
his baton and kisses the pretty ones in
what he calls musical enthusiasm.
However the arrival of my teacher put
an end to reflection of any kind, and
we were soon deep in a sonata which 1
had prepared by hours of steady work.
I was a young and enthusiastic
student of both the piuno and organ,
nnd my future fortune and career de
pended on my own industry. I was
struggling with all my heart and soul,
and, although I met any number of nice
girls aim gated women at the different
clubs and soirees which I frequented
lor the sjfce of tbe good music, I had
given a second thought to none of them.
Now a chance nu cling with Professor Z.
brought that look of the little girl back
to my mind, and my heart gave a nicst
unaccountable throb.
That evening I drummed like an ante
mntou over the fugue that had been tLa
center of all my highest hopes and
aspirations for weeks. Scales and
exercises refused to bo played, and I
strayed off into tender littlo German
love soDgs, until, disgusted with myself,
I tumbled into bed. There I took myself
bternly to task, and reflected that a poor
art student, with only just enough
money to live without begging until
ime should bring the susce-'s he must
work hard for that, in fact, just such a
man as I was the biggest fool in Christ
endom to look at, or think twice of,
anybody or anything but a long-haired
professor of a lnusio scoie. With these
wise reflections I finally fell asleep ; but
for two or three days after a pair of eyes
peeped from behind the keyboard, and
those eyes were not adorned with spec
lacier; cr the thought of a flushed
cheek lured me for a moment from that
deep consideration of the harmony
book that should have been my most
edifying mental food, and that flushed
cheek was not graced with an unshorn
beard. Still I worked on with only a
scant word of encouragement lrom my
taciturn professor for months, till the
spring sun on a certain saint's day
tenanted me to take a much-needed holi
day, and I strayed at random out into
the woods, climbed aruinea tower and
lastly took in the landscape about me.
I wondered if the little stone cell on an
island in tin lake that lay below had
sheltered and Immortal hermit whose
memory had blessed us pupils with a
day'srtst. I wondered if he wa hol
lowed -eyed, dirty-6ngered and toothless ;
if, in his youth, he too had loved and
been loved and seeing at that moment
a little boat at the foot oi the Schloss
berg, I ran down, and, taking posses
sion of it, brought myself shortly to the
island, nnd forthwith entered the her
mit's deserted cell.
On a rock near the entrance lay a
dainty, lace-trimmed parasol, a pair of
gloves, some wild flowers and a sketch
bookqueer things for a hermit to leave
behind him, indeed; and, as I stood
smiling at the odd contrasting ideas
called up, a cry for help reached me on
the breeze.
" Please, sir, could you come tome?
I have lost my oar," repeated the voice,
as I emerged, and at a distance in a
boat sat a little girl I recognised at
once.
She was drifting slowly further and
further off into the lake, and her situa
tion, although by no means dangerous,
was embarrassing enough.
"I am quite ashamed of myself," she
said, as my last strokes brought me near
her. " It was very stupid of me to lose
my oar, and the thought of drifting
about in this lonely place all night was
not a cheerful one."
" You might have drifted for weeks,
as this is an out-of-the-way place, and I
am very glad to have been the fortunate
person who spared you a great deal of
possible discomfort."
"And 1 am glari," sue replied, "that
it lias been you who rescued me."
The slight and gtactful accent on the
you was indescribably pleasing tome.
Our chat that day was but the beginning
df a friendship that quickly ripened;
ehvumstances favored it. We were
both Anitricans in a foreign land, both
inteiested in tbe same studies, and our
fureuits threw us constantly together,
t was not long before I acknowierlgtd
myself to be deeply in love with Nina
WaiJingtord. now mucii brighter the
world lookrd to me at that time! Mv
ev ry-rtay occupationsseomed one routd
of delight, and study was play ; even my
to ieent leather complimented me ofttn
oa my progress. 1 made great strides in
a concerto I was composintr, and when
it was finished and played before the
arbiteis of the conservatory, a prize was
unanimously awarded me.
A glare of shimmering lig'its. per
fume of flowers, the gleam of statues
from their leafy bowers. In honor of
the birthday of her mavstv. tho auetn.
a special musical performance was be
ing conducted, nnl my concerto was the
original feature of the evning. I felt
pale lrom suspense, while each familiar
note sounded through the hall, nd at
last it was over. Royalty itself crn-
descer,(ird to applaud warmly, connois
seur fhook me by the hand, and, giddy
lrom triumph, I went out into the night
to take deep draughts of the calming air.
Everything fc med tossible to me in
thij ih ;iirt flu h of my youthful suc
cess nnl .N ma Wallincioid had loosel
down from her io at me and smiled!
To-morrow 1 would go to her and t 11
her that my triumph waj nothing with
ouf. hr love.
Walter Griffith's friendly voice almost
jarred upon me.
"Hallo! old fellow!" he called out
linking his arm in mine. "You are
ahead of us all ! By jove, I am proud of
vou! flow 1 used to deride all our
dreams ol ambition when sou and I and
poor Harry talked of the future ; all the
poor old chap prophesied of you has
come true. Do you remember he al
ways said you would be a great success?
How thororgbly the dear boy believed
in vou !"
" Yes," I replied, " I would give a fair
share of to-night's triumph to bring
Archer back asrain." And we talked of
him ns we sauntered homeward. He
had been almost a brother to me, and
the thought of his generous, trusting
nature, and the loss he had been to us,
brought tears to my eyes. He had had
genius , but an erratic and unstable will ;
lie worked only by fits and starts, and
seempd at the last to have some deep
trouble that took all ambition from
him. Busy myself, I have often re.
proached myself sineo that I did not
urge him to spak openly to me about
it. Then one day I found him in an
alley of the royal park with the cruel
sun glaring down on his dead face. He
had shot himself, and I never knew the
secret of his terrible death. I had been
his sole mourner, and be lay in the little
English cemetery among strangers.
He had had jgreat faith in me, and had
cheered many a lagging moment in mv
musical carter. "Yes," I said, "Archer
would have rejoiced to-night."
" As usual," said Walter, lightly, "e
woman was at the bottom of his de
Btruetion."
"A woman?" I said. "Curse her!
But, Walter, how did you knosv of
this?"
" Whv. Archer wrote it to me when I
was'.in Leipzig wrote me of his despair
when tho gin tie naa tovea so long jutea
him. To tea the truth, old mend, 1
have often wondered at your intimacy
with that girl. Can it be possible vou
are trying to avenge Arcnerf"
" Walter Griffith, what in heaven's
name do you mean? ' my agitation mas
tenng me "oi wnoin are you speak,
ing?"
"Nina Wallingford," was the fatal
answer.
"Good-ni?ht," I said, abruptly, and.
turning up a dark side street, stumbled
on and on, i never Knew where or now
long. I only remember to have reached
the country, and to have felt the cold
dawn creeping ovei a hazy earth, and
the smell of grass and trees, and the
sounds of morning. I fell asleep from
sheer weariness of the flesh, and awoke
late in the day stiff and wretched.
When I had dragged myself back to mv
rooms, the familiar sights brought all
my eriel more keenly to my mind; there
lay Nina Wailingford's photograph, and
on tne wail above it hung Hurry Arch'
er s dainty, embroidered student s cap
a Dair of Nina's gloves, the very pair .
had seen in the hermit's cell, and had
stolen as a souvenir ot our first meeting.
the nistol Harry's trembling hand had
raised to the true, loving heart, lay aide
by side in my cabinet.
There must be some terrible mistake
Borne explanation that Nina can give;JI
determined to ask, and as soon as I could
collect mv thoughts. 1 went to her.
She met me with frank congratula
lions on the success my concerto had
met with. "I heard every note,
she said: and what would have mad
me happy to intoxication before, fell
now upon my ear like blows on a naked
nerve.
" You are quite pale," she said, look,
ins at me wintlullv. and the tone for i
moment tempted ine to lorget ail I had
heard, but Harry's face, as it lay that
day in the sunlight, came up to cnecs:
mv hot words.
Miss Wa linirtord." I said. I have
come- " but how to ask her? It seemed
such an insult to speak of dishonor
while that calm, steady glance rested on
me. "Did you" I stammered, "did
you know poor Harry Archer?"
The girl's face blanched with a look
ol horror that went, alas ! far to con
vince me of the truth ot waiter's story.
I was his dearest friend, and I loved
him," I added, with what must have
seemed wanton cruelty; but Nine's face
flushed, and, seeming like a flash to
divine my thoughts, she said, with a
proud glance of contempt at me :
" May I ask why you wish to learn
the fact of me having known your
friend?" she said.
" Oh. Nina!" I cried, "tell me it is all
a horrible, torturing mistake !"
" 1 am at a loss to understand you,"
she replied, rising. " I knew your friend
tiarry Arcner, and having now answered
vour only lucid remark, you will, no
doubt, excuse me if I retire."
With a stately bow and a steady step
she left me, while I reeled drunk with
despair to my rooms.
For several days I was ill; a low,
obstinate sort of fever kept me, after the
reaction of so much excitement, weak
and depressed. Then, after hasty pre
parations, 1 sailed lor home.
That time I had so often looked for
ward to, that day that was to bring me
back with a record of work done and
reputation established, brought me no
happiness. More work I sighed for,
and it alone gave me rest. I slaved and
spared no nerve or muscle. A penalty
must be paid sooner or later for such
overtaxing of brain and body. I fell ill,
and all was blank.
A placid, kindly old fane, in a Quaker
cap, looked at me when I awoke from a
long, feverish dream; ot course 1 tried
to speak, but my voice failed me, and
the lady laid her plump hands on my
head and said : " Wait a little, you will
grow stronger, and then we will do a
vast amount of gossiping."
1 let myseit be potted and soothed
like a babv. and before many days I
could ask how I happened to be in what
seemed to be a hospital.
" This is not quite like a hospital,"
the kindly old lady said, " but a house
to which Doctor S , who was called
in to you when vou fell so very ill, sends
his patients."
" But you are not a hired nurse, I am
sure."
"No." answered the lady, smiling.
" I am Mrs. Penthwick. an idle old bodv
who amuses herself by looking in now
and then on the sick people. I can help
them a little, too, occasionally; I have
brought you these flowers, and can
write for vou. if vou wish, to vour
friends, when the doctor allows you to
dictate."
" There is no one who would care par
ticularly to hear of my welfare." I said.
sadly, "although since fortune has fa
vored me a little, there are miny who
call themselves by that much abused
title of friend."
Good Mrs. Penthwick seemed to set
herself from this time to the task ot
cheering me. " When you are able,"
she said, " I will take you for a little
jaunt to my quiet old house in the coun
try. I have taken a lancj to you, so
don't protest; I am able, thank God, to
do a good turn now and then to my fellow-creatures.
I have inquired about vou
you will neither steal my spoons nor
run away with the pretty girl who is
now mv one guest. Here is your beef-
tea; drink every drop of it, and get
strong as soon as you can."
1 began to take pleasure in seeing the
wrinkled face which so often bent over
me, looking pleased at my improvement;
and when we went by slow stages to
Penthwick cottage, I found myself be
ginning to hope and long for the battle
ot me again.
luc second day, alter a siesta In a
cozy, chintz-hung room, I went, leaning
on Mrn. Penth wick's arm, to be pre
sented to the guest whom she spoke of
as "my daughter," but wa3 really only
a much-loved friend.
" My daughter " arose from a dim
corner, came into the light, and .Nina
Wallingford was before me!
X was sil l so weak that the surprise
overcame me, and x sank back in a
chair, for a moment unable to speak.
and I dare say looking half dead. Nina
Ihought so, and the mistake was for me
the happiest one in tha world. She
sprang to my side with tears rolling
down her cheeks, and x miraculously
recovered myself sufficiently to catch
her hands and cover them with kisses
"Oh. Nina!" I cried. "I have oiten
been convinced that you could explain
awav mv despicable doubts of you."
"ies," she answered. " My still
more despicable pride prevented my
tet inz you oi tne one sad mistake
made in my life; but my punishment
has been suivly out of all pronorticn to
my iault Your lack of trust in me that
day wounded me a l tbe more that I had
brooded over the affair and grown mor
bidly sensitive; but I will tell you all
about it now. Harry Archer loved me
when I was quita young too young to
know if the feeling that prompted me to
accept him was love or giauhed vanity,
lie was. vou Know. or. so peouiiar a tern
neraraeni that by decrees I found mvse.f
utterly aisenciiantea; amines unreason
ably jealous of me, and but I will not
say more of this, fur he is dead. He
would not listen to my doubts of the
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wis lorn of cur engagement, and gave me
no peace besause I postponed from time
to time the wedding day. I know I
was weak, but 1 was young and all
alone ; my one friend, Mrs. Penthwick,
was ill. When she was Buflicientlv re
covered to allow ot it, I wrjte to her,
confiding all of mv great wretchedness
ot the certainty that, if I ever had, I no
lonjer loved liarrv Archer."
" Poor child! What adilemma it was
for vou !"
" At the same time I wrote in reply
to a reproachful letter from Archie a
friendly but non-committal one, 1 so
foolishly hoped something would inter
vene to induce him to lorget me. Fate
would have it that I misdirected each
letter, and Harry learned the true state
of my feelings. You know the rest. Of
course I was misjudged, and my weak'
ness brought, God knows, a bitter fruit.
That you, too, believed the current
opinion hurt me deeply. Can you ever
forgive me'"
But my head was already leaning very
close to a rosy cheek wnen Mrs. renth
wick, who had gone in search of a phy
sician, entered the room. The good
dame's face was bo utterly ridiculous in
its bewilderment, that we were both
leigh to liugu and relieve our over
strained feelings.
Later, as we all sat on the ine-cov
ered veranda, a happy family picture,
for Mrs. Penthwick adopted me tX once,
she said, laughingly:
" I have been mistaken in you. You
are going to run away with my daugh
ter; you shall have the spoons as well
for a wedding present."
Cariosities or Speculation.
It is curious to note what men will do
to make money. Some months ago
there was quite a brisk speculation in
hops, there being as usual two parties
the bulls and the bears composed in
this case of the farmers, who naturally
wished prices to go up, and of the brew
ers, who just as naturally wished prices
to decline. The contest raged furiously
this city and elsewhere for many
weeks, as there was really a large
amount of money involved. A well-
known circular, publishing the quota
tions of hops here, gave great dissatis
faction to the bulls, because its prices
were not up to their ideas; and, as tbe
commercial reporters had been in the
habit of Diiblishing circulars, it was re
solved, at a mass-meeting of the farmers,
not to subscribe lor any paper mat pub
lished the obnoxious quotations, and a
printed notice to this effect was actually
sent to all the great dailies oi tins city.
With the right or the wrong of this con
troversy it is not our purpose here to
speak. Suffice it to say that hops can
stir up a tempest in more than one way
Then again, some years ago, when it
was DroDosed to DUt duties on tea and
coffee, there arose a mighty speculation
in these articles. One speculator was
credited with holding about 60,000 bags
of coffee; and the speculation in tea was
equally important. At the time of the
inline in ttengai, uinooostan, some
years since, there was great speculative
activity here in rice, and some heavy
losses as well as handsome gains were
scored. It was trading on the distress
edness of others, for the inhabitants of
Bengal depend almost entirely on rice to
sustain life, and it wa assumed that,
when the crop failed in that region and
famine ensued, there would be a great
demand for rice; but this wa no worse
than speculating in breadstuff's, whereby
the poor are oiten tue cmei suuerers.
Aeain. at the time of the Russo-
Turkish war, when Turkey was invaded.
it was the signal for immense transac
tions in opium, which now comes
mainly from that country. And even
now there is a large speculation in this
n progress, baied on an anticipated
falling-off in tho next crop. A number
of large drug houses here and in
Smyrna,
of the
realized
venture.
Turkey, control the bulk
Btock, and have already
large profits on their
Turkish prunes, at the
the war alluded to. were
time of
also bought up largely by speculators,
and for awhile proved profitable; but.
ultimately this article ot -speculation,
which few would think ot in such a
connection, proved the ruin of move than
one 6trong bouse. Fortunes have been
made and lost m indigo speculations;
and, for that matter, this article has far
more commercial importance than
might at first be imagined. Then a few
years ago, when we had the potato-bug
invasion, there was a large speculation
in paris green, and the market advance 1
materially, partly owing to the large
demand and partly through the exer
tions of speculators. Another curious
speculation was that in canary seed,
two or three years since, when it was
supposed that the crop would prove a
failure, a speculator, wuu a Ki-mui
for statistics, actually prepared an esti
mate of the number of canary-birds in
the United States, and the quantity of
seed consumed per day, and consider
able money was really made in this
strange venture. And yet the cases
cited here are but a lew among many
thut might be named where what would
be called curious sorts of speculations
really pay better than hall the railroad
or mining stocks that are toisted on a
credulous public Frank Leslie's lllus
rale I N ewspapcr. '
Women's Rights in Mississippi.
The new code of Mississippi has cut
up by the roots all the ancient disabili
ties of married women, and they are
now free and equal in every respect to
their husbands. It is the most radical
legislation vet had upon the subiect.
Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. Meriwether
should at once move to that Sta' e and
not cease this agitation till th ight to
vote has been secured as thon. jghly as
tho rights of property have been.
"Section 1167. The common law, as to
the msabilitics of married women, and
itn effect on the lights of property of the
wife, is totally abrogated, and marriage
shall not be held to impose any disability
or mcaDacitv on a woman as to the
ownership, acquisition or disposition of
property oi any sort, oi as iu ucr capacity
to make contracts, and do all acts in
reference to property which she could
l r..n : - - : I .
mwiuuy uu il duo wcie uuu luuiucu,
but everv woman now married, or here
after to be married, shall have the same
capacity to acquire, hold, manage, con.
,.-.! , i . n anmv an.1 lifinABO rf fill nrin.
erty, real and personal, in possession or
exoectancv. and to make any contract in
refeience to it, and to bind herself per
sonally, and to sue and be sued, with all
the rights and liabilities incident thereto,
as if she was not married."
" Sec. 1108. Husband and wife can sue
each other."
"Seo. 1169. A married woman mav
dispose other esra.e, real and personal,
by last wilt and testament, in the same
manner as ii she was not marrieu.
"Seo. 1170. Dower and courtesy, as
heretofore known, are abolished."
Other sections conform the general
laws to these radical changes. Husband
and wife inherit from cell other all
their respective property if there be no
children, andeacu acnuu'apartn there
be children or tbe descendants ol cbil
dren. They may dissent from each other's
wills and take ot each other s estates ac
cording to law, except that if there be
no children, in case of such dissent the
dissentient gets only half of the estate if
be or she has no estate of his or her
own. If the dissentient has property of
his own or her own, equal to one-fifth
of what he or she would bo entitled to
in the others's estate, then the deficiency
ts to be made up out oi tue other s es
tate. Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche.
Size of New England.
The following table shows the area of
the New England btates and the number
ol miles ol railroad in each :
Sq. Miles.
Maine 35,000
Vermont 9,612
New Hampshire.. 9,280
Massachusetts.... 7,800
Rhode Island 1,306
Connecticut 4,750
SR
Miles.
988
873 43
1,009.13
1,872.3a
208.13
932.01
TUE CARE OF THE EYES.
Some Useful Directions Concerning Prei
rvatlon. f the BrcCght.
A really healthy eye possesses in a
wonderful degree the power of adjust
ing itself to the viewing of objeots at
different distances; if, for example, you
hold up in front of you between your
eye and the distant horizon any small
object, such as a penholder, you will
find that no effort of yours will enable
?'ou to see both well at the same time ;
f you gaze at the one, the other imme
diately becomes indistinct. This is
called the power of accommodation, and
depends upon the elasticity of the crys
talline lens. Its convexity is increased
when we fix our eyes and attention on
a near object, and diminished when we
look at something further off. In old
age there is considerable curtailment of
this power ot accommodation, acpena
ine ution a hardening of the crystalline
lens. Things close at hand can then not
be discerned so wen as tnose lariuer.
This state is called presbyopia, or long.
sightedness. It usually commencor,
from tha fortv-fifth to the fiftieth year.
and I would here strongly urge those
who are only even slightly presbyopic
to commence the use of suitable specta
cles forthwith, and not to forget that the
classes must be strong enough to be
nnitft pft'entllftl.
You need hardlv be afraid of getting
too strong ones, they cannot be so if
thev suit the sight. And again, in
course ot time, wuen even more power
is needed, stronger ones must be worn
lthoucrh for some time at nrst tne old
ones will be found powerful enough in
the daytime.
There is a condition ot me eyes irom
which many people suffer, generally
known by the name of weak sight; it
mav have been produced from overstudy
or fatigue. There is entire inability to
read or write lor any iengt.ii oi time, ann
the trying to do so produces giddiness,
and oven headache, wilnitation. etc. In
such cases attention to the health and a
duo Dortion ol rest may do good, but it
cannot be too wen Known inai uunurens
of people who have been sufferers from
weakness ol Eight have not only been
relieved, but even cured, bvthe wearing
of rrroner spectacles. But let me here
remind sufferers from this complaint
that even the cleverest opticians are not
as a rule the men to be advised by as to
the kind of spectacles to be worn. A
cure is never immediate, but indeed
often tedious, and the advice of the best
oculist or ophthalmic surgeon should, if
Dossible. be obtained
Short-sightedness is oiten hereditary,
and tbe worst ot it is that it has
lendencv. if its influence be not qutcklv
counteracted, to increase as the child
gets older. A case of thi3 kind should
never be neglected, and spectacles should
be worn, especially when reading, writ
ing, etc. The apartment, too, in wlncu
studies are conducted should bo airy.
well lighted, and clean, and the desks
high enough to prevent a stooping posi
tion being at all necessary. Plenty of
out-door exercise, by strengthening the
bodv. will tend to prevent the increase
of the ailment, and if these instructions
are followed to the letter, it is not a1
all unlikely that upon attaining the ng
of twenty, or a liHle over, spectacles
mav be gradually dispensed witn
very great care should be taken oi
the eves of infants and children. From
its birth the eves of a baby should bs
the first Dart washed or cleaned; the wati r
should be solt and gently warm, the bit
of sDonge used of the finest quality
Never exDose an intant to a bright or
dazzling light, nor allow it to sleep in
such a light. Exposure to draughts and
cold, on the other hand, is nigtny oetn
mental to the sight, and so is impure air
from whatever cause
Purulent CDhthalnaia in children is
very likely permanently to injure or
even entirely destroy the sight. Medical
aid should be obtained at once : no do
mestic remedies should be tried ; simply
keen the little sunerer in a quiet, warm
very clean, and moderately darkened
room. A often as any discharge
gathers it is to be carefully washed
away with lukewarm water, poured
from a small soft sponge. Alter tue eyes
are softly dried, a folded linen rag dip
Ded in cold water mav ba laid over eaeh
and changed when it gets warm. Tiie
nurse should take care not to touch uer
own eyes until she has well washed hei
hands.
Parents ought to nut themselves to
some little trouble wita regard totnei
children's eyesight. Never overtask
them, and see that thev do not sit
at
their tasks with beads falling forward
If signs of any weakness of Eight or ah
normal vision be noticed, surgical advice
should immediately be had. The hand
writing children are taught ought to be
large, tho books they read to have a
wide margin and clear good type, and
the light be amply sufficient. Again,
the tasks they have to perform should
not be of a kind to distress the eyes.
nor should, in my opinion, they be pun
ished by having work impose! upon
them such as lengthy writing exercises
which strain both brain and eye. "All
work and no play makes Jack a dull
boy." So runs the proverb, but it might
have gone tun her, ana added, "ana a
pale, feeble, weakly, and often half-blind
boy."
Grown-up people should bo careful of
their eyesight if they would liv3 long
and be happy. We should all remem
ber the things whicn are likely to cause
injury to the eyes, such ts working or
reading in bad light. Daylight is an
eye-tonic; it is as necessary to the eye
as food to the organs ot digestion, ex
posure to cold is hurtful, or to impure
air and to atmospheres impregnated
with dust or vapor. Anything that
tends to weaken the general health will
also prove in jurious to the eyesight, or
anything that causes a determination of
blood to tbe brain.
But while, on the one hand, the exes
should never be strained, or worked to
the verge of fatigue, on the other, exer
cise is just us beneficial to them as to
any other part of the bid v. The habit
should be cultivated ot studying small
objects carefully, keenness ot sight ce
pending bo much upon the mental atten
tion one is in the habit of paying to
visual impressions. Excesses of every
kind tend to tbe injury of the eyesight,
and so in a very great degree does tho
want ot good and proper spectacles,
when such helps to the eyes are really
needed. And they really are needed by
very many who do not. through mis
taken pride or some such folly, now use
them. It is the greatest mistake in the
world to despise the friendly aid of a
pair of spectacles till we can no longer
by hook or by crook do without them.
In choosing glasses or spectacles re
member that the eyes should look
through the centers of the lenses: the
spectacle frame ought therefor to bs
the proper width, and no more. Spec
tacles to fasten behind the ear nre more
generelly useful than tho pince-nez
which is balanced on the nose, x lie I
latter, however, is less liable to be lost,
as it is usually worn attached by a very
tight chain or cord to the dress, and can
be used in a moment; but for reading or
writing, or any kind of work that takes
up time, spectacles are infinitely to be
preferred. In purchasing spectacles a
guarantee should be had lrom the op
tician that they are mODer v ' cen
tered;" that is, that the thickest
or thinnest (as the case may be;
portion of the lens is really in the cen
ter. If they then ht your sight,
you can try them on in iront oi a
mirror; if your pupils are right in tho
center, the glasses are properly framed,
it tor distant sight. XI only meant ior
reading, the pupils should be a little
nearer the nose than tne center oi tue
lens. The frames themselves should
always, when the wearer can afford it,
be made of gold. Pebbles wear better
than glass: thfiv mav. ton. be simply
wiped with the handkerchief, but a bit
of wash-leather must be kept for glass
lenses. Spectacles, if you have man-1
aecd to rjrocurea reallv irood and useful
pair, should be taken the utmost care of;
they should, when not in use, be put in
their case, and the case in the pocket.
Spectacles with colored lenses should
never be used unless under the advice of
a medical man. Harper's Weekly.
Results of Thrashing Editors.
Mr. Flood. Jr.. of San Francisco, has
thrashed an editor for publishing a re
port of the rupture ot a mariiage en
gagement between his sister and Mr.
Ulvsses lirant, Jr., as wen as the whys
and wherefores of such rupture. In
(liia nnir-iiif thnia tto a nntliinrr ark fur
a rstA ;0.dr,ii me ananHoinna I
rLlatinir to Miss Flood. The news
seems to have been current gossip in
San Francisco. To bu consistent young
Mr. Flood should set to work and thrash
every man who verbally spread this re
port. What is gained by this thrashing?
Five thousand papers which might
otherwise have never noticed the matter
will now publish it with every style of
comment. Five hundred paragraphcrs
will let themselves loose on Ulysses and
the young lady. Five hundred thousand
tongues which wagged over tho occur
rence will now wag the more, and o.ouo,-
000 tongues will wag which never wag-
ged before. Such are some ot the results
of thrashing editors.
The great gain in thrashing editors is
notoriety of all parties concerned. Usu
ally such notoriety, if properly handled,
benefits the editor. It gives his paper
an enormous advertisement gratis, ex
tending through all the States and Terri
tories and sometimes to other kingdom
and countries. It sometimes causes
the name of the editor to bo published
in French, German, Spanish, Italian
and Russian journals and read in all the
capitals of Europe. This is another re
sult of trashing an editor.
Then it seldom redresses the evil for
which the thrashing is done. It bruits
it abroad anew; it distorts, magnifies
and misrepresents it.
The murder of the editor of the San
Francisco Bu'htin by a ruliian twenty
four years ago placed that paper on a
firm foundation of repute and prosperity.
Such are other results from thrashing
editors. If young Mr. Flood's aim in
thrashing an obscure editor was no
toriety. he has attained it for himsell
and family. Or if it was intended as a
blessing in disguise, to lift the obscure
editor to tho public gaze, he has attained
that. For these are certain results ol
thrashing editors. Hew York Graphic.
Elegant Journalism.
The Boston Globe replies as follows to
a young man ambitious of becoming a
journalist: It is hard to tell from this
distance whether jou arc titled for the
hard life of a newspaper writer or not.
That is the only question to be decided,
for qualification is quite immaterial.
You must be prepared to rise from your
bed as early as 10 A. M., in order that you
may have finished reading your private
mail by noon. Lunch is always paid
for by the office, hut you have got to
accustom yourself to but five courses
and only two kinds of wine some
papers stand three, including cham
pagne, but they are the exceptions
rather than the rule. At 2 l'.M you
are expected to re. id the morning papers;
and, if you are not too much exhausted
by the effort, you can have a game oi
billiards, ior no well-regulated news
paper office is without a well-appointed
billiard room. At 7 p.m. you are
expected to tell the city editor where
you will spend the evening, so that he
can send lor you in case your friends
call, and then you can go to the theater,
opera, ball or dog-tight, to which
tickets and carriage will be provided.
if vou think vou can stand such labori
ous work, come on and wo will seo what
we can do with you; but you must un
derstand that there is none of the luxury
to which you have been accustomed in a
newspaper office. Plain velvet carpets
are good enough tor this class of
laborers: lounging chairs are, of course,
indispensable, but t'jey are upholstered
in plain satin, with no tidies. Only one
roll-top desk and four gold pens are fur
nished by the ofhee; if you need any
more you will be expected to buy them
yourself. Only one sofa and one silver
drinking cup aro allowed to each man.
so you can Bee fiat there are some dis
comforts to be put up wuu.
How Andre Looked.
The Continental officer who had
charge of Major Andre after he was
brought to south aiem, near tne Con
necticut line, by an adjutant and lour
miitiamen, described the prisoner's ap
pearance as follows in a letter written
in 1817: He looked somewhat like a
reduced gentleman. His small clothes
were nankeen, with long white top
boots, in part his undress military suit
His coat, purple with gold lace, worn
somewhat threadbare, with a small
brimmed tarnished beaver on his head.
He wore h:s hair in a queue, with long,
black band, and his clothes somewhat
dirty. In this garb I took charge of
mm. Alter break last my Daroer came
in t j shave me, after which I requested
him to undergo the same operation,
which he did. When the ribbon was
taken lrom the hair I observed it was
lull of powder. This circumstance with
others that occurred induced me to be
lieve that I had no ordinary person in
charge. He requested permission to
lake the bed while his shirt and small
ulothes could be washed I told him
t hut. was Tieerileflfl. for a. chantrR whi at
of fc service, which h accepted.
Gloaming.
TtriliRht downward sottly floateth;
All, once near, eeems dim and far j
High aloft now fnintly gleamotb,
Pale and clear, the evening star.
Alt In doubtful shadow quavers;
Up and up the slow mists creep;
Down the lake, 'mid deepest darkness,
Mirroring darknos", lies asleep.
On the eastern sky appearing,
Lo ! the moon, bright, pure and clear;
Slender willows' waving branohos
Sport upon the water near.
Through the playlul, flitting shadows,
Quivers Luna's magio shine;
Through the eye this lre9hnes (stealing,
Steals into this heart oi mine.
From, the German of Goethe.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.'
A thief steals in a fit of abstraction.
Great hoax from little falsehoods
grow.
It was the man that fell downstairs
who spoke of his extended trip. States
man. It is better to have loved a short eirl
than never to have loved a tall. Jlfod
ern Argo.
The tramp question: Madam, will
you please give me some old clothes? I
am so hungry I don't know w hero I
shall s'cep to-night."
Iowa has 4.0C0 school districts, 10,000
schools, 21,000 teachers, 365,000 scholars
in average attendance, and a school
fund of over $3,500,000.
Several undergraduates of the German
iiti.versit.v of Marbureh have been sen-
tenced to three months' imprisonment
in a fortress for dueling.
The burnineof widows has not wholly
ceased in India. Recently, a case oc
curred in Bamra, although tho parties
abetting it were fined by the authorities.
"Life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness," is an American's inalienable
birthright. He keeps up the pursuit of
happiness, but very seldom catches him.
Keokuk Gale Ciiy.
A little daughter of W. V. Stoy, of
Lafayette, tied a balloon to the $18 neck
lace she wore. The jewelry slipped
over her head and the toy sailed away
with it, and it was seen no more.
Captain Gerard de Nisme, of the royal
Irish hussara, wa3 killed in India by a
stone, dislodged by a goat on a hillside,
striking him on tho head while he was
taking his afternoon ride on horseback.
Tho Swiss government is to send as its
contribution to Washington's monument
a suitablv inscribed stone from tho
chapel built on the spot where William
Tell escaped from the tryant Gessler.
A citizen of Stafford county. Kansas,
has made a record of 600 rattlesnakes
killed by him within three years. Tho
largest one was killed recently, and
measured six feet four inches long and
flo irished sixteen large rattles.
Sir Alexander T. Gait, the Canadian
statesman, surprised London recently
by registering at a hotel as "Sir A. T.
Gait, and fifteen children," tho latter,
mostly girls, creating a sensation in tho
dining-room when ushered in by their
governess.
American advertising agents in Italy
havo made it necess iry to put up no
tices to "post no bills" on the very
walls of the remains of Pompeii, and
when a tourist sees one of these notices
the chances are that he'll exclaim:
"Things in those days were about as
they are now."
More than 125,000 children die in
France before reaching the end of their
first year. One-fifth of the entire num
ber are in Paris. In the arondissemcnt
of Nogent-le-Rol,where mercenary baby
farming is common, there are fifty-two
deaths in every 10J children under one
year of age.
A ruralistcamo into Tallahassee. Fla.,
and finding a news stand ordered a lot
of papers, which he took from the clerk
with profuse thauk?. He was aston
ished though when tho clerk asked pay
ment, as he "never heard of charging
for newspapers before." IIo had been
reading his neighbor's paper for nothing
and never knew they cost money.
If a man ever realizes tho inequalities
of this world and feeis like joining the
communists, it is when he goes home
to dinner with a good appetite and is
encouraged on the way by pleasant
odors of roast beef, broiled shad, chicken,
beefsteak, chops and broiled dinners,
wafted to him from aromatic kitchens,
and finds when he sits down to his own
repast that it consists of yesterday's
meat pie warmed over. Rome Sentinel.
One of the home missionaries on
Puget sound, holding a meeting in a
mixed neighborhood ot whiles and In
dians, observed thut tho Indian women,
carrying their babies acsording to their
usual custom, were surprised to seo that
among the whites tho meu carried tho
babies. At next appointment the
power of example was seen, as the In
dian men came carrying the bab':es for
the first time.
Poison to be palatable
Must be sugared till it's nice,
For poison, taken natural,
Never would entice.
And tuu9 It u with people,
When they get soawlnl sweet,
Von may tot it dowu with salety,
'ihey're sugaring tlieir ilece t.
SI ubenvillt Herald.
Words ot Wisdom.
It is no vanity tor a man
a man to priae
himself on vrbat he
has honestly got
and prudently uses.
Proud hearts and lofty mountains are
always barren.
With the wicked, as with a bad do;,
silence is more formidable than noise.
The desire of power in excess caused
the angels to fall ; the desire of knowl
edge in excess caused man to fall ; but
in charity there is no excess.
In taking revenge a man Is tut even
with his enemy; but in passing it over
he is supei ior, for it is a prince's part to
pardon.
True courage is cool and calm. Tbe
bravest of men havo the least ol a
brutal, bullying insolence, and in tho
very lime ol danger are found the most
serene and free.
There are habits contracted by bad
example or bad management, before we
have judgement to discern their ap
proaches, or because the eye of reaon U
laid asleep, or has not compass oi view
sufficient to look around on every quarter.
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