HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NILi DESPE 11 ANDXJM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. XI.
UIDGWAY, ELK. COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1881.
NO. 3.
My Rights. I
Yen, God hits liindc mo a woman,
Ami I inn content to lie
Just what He mount, not reaching out
For other things, sinee Ho
Who knowB me best and loves mo most has or
dered tliii for me.
A woman, to live my life out
In quiet womanly ways,.
HoariiiK the fur-off hottlc,
Seeing as through a hazo
The crowding, Htiuggling world of men fight
through their busy diun.
I am not strong nor valiant,
I would not join the fight
Or jostle with crowds in the highways
To Huliy'iny garments white;
Hut I have rights as a woman, and here I claim
my right.
The right of a rose to bloom
In it owii sweet. ; nnicte way, '
With ii'Mir H quest'' 11 the ; Humed pink
And not to titter a nay
If it roaches a root or points a thorn, as even a
rose tree may.
The right of the lady-birch to grow,
To grow as the Lord shall please,
By never a sturdy oak rebuked,
Honied nor sun nor bivczc,
For all its j1 iimt sk-ml'-rmss, kin to the stronger
trees.
The right to a life of my own--
Not merely a casual bit
Of somebody else's life, tiling out
That taking hold of it,
I mav stand as a cipher does alter a numeral
writ.
The right to gather and gh an
What food I need and can
In mi the garnered store of knowledge
Which man 1ms heiqied for man.
Taking with free hands freely and alter nil
ordered Jilan.
The right -ah. ! st and sw-ctcs: '.
To stand all dismayed
Whenever sorrow or want of sin
Call for a woman's aid.
Wita noiie to cavil or question, by in.
gainsaid.
1 do not as for a ballot :
r a look
Though very life wer
I would beg for the ii"bh
That men ftir.iuanh"'
Should give ungrudgingly,
ar .;;ii;e,
J..-iie;
.d's s:de-
wi'hold til!
must light uud take.
The fleet foot and the feeble !'
Until sei k the self-sane- goal.
Tli" wenk'-st sollier's name i- writ
On thegr. at anuy-r.ill.
An 1 (iod. who made man's bod rtronu', in:
too the woman's soul.
IX I.A.
TUP ST'lllY OK AN O'.T.AN" VoTAOK.
1 v.i.-t loimev iiil-lnuiii(l from one of
niv various excursions across the ocean,
by which I had for many yours beguiled
the tedium of my monotonous bachelor
existence, niul having settled my belong
ings in my stateroom, I turned out to take
n survey of my fellow-passengers. It was
a ituiiin mid tin' lust of the summer tour
ists wore returning-, and both saloons
mid decks were crowded with animated
groups. Evorv one seemed cheerful and
gay, and already several embryo flirta
tions could bo detected anions the young;
people, of whom the passengers were
largely composed. Being an outsider j
myself, traveling alone, and having left i
such tender pursuits fur back in the j
vii'-nieness of tlie oast, I amused mvself I
with merely watching and listening, and
i is perhaps not surprising that I soon
found myself wearied. It was for the
most part such senseless chatter, such
arrant frivolity that I heard, such con
scious posing and airy fluttering that I
saw. Of course after a while I found ex
ceptions to this tendency, but the quiet
and sensible people on board, as usual,
occupied the background.
railing to find myself interested then
in these surroundings, I began n leis
urely inspection of the vessel, wandering
about its nooks and crannies, and famil
iarizing myself with my little island
home. And so strolling along, I came
upon a small, quiet, gray-clad figure
seated alone ami looking wistfully over
the waters. As she was quite unconscious
of my proximity, I stepped a few paees
ofl'ainl examined her closely. She looked
almost a child, so small and slight she
was, and yet one would not have dared
to treat her as a child. There was a self
reliance and sen ility about her entirely
uuehildlike, but, ull the same, very
pretty to see. Jler compltxion was dark
and very rich, and her cheeks charm
ingly rounded and curved, and her
eyes, turned seaward, were the largest
and darkest 1 ever remembered to
have seen. Indeed, so uncom
mon was their size that, when some
sound aroused her and she turned them
slowly on me, I was dazzled' by them
they gave her face such a strange aspect,
and yet it was a peculiarity fur from
being unlovely. She was Spanish I
had seen that at a glance and the
mute, uncertain way in hich she looked
at me prompted the conviction that she
felt herself, even at the outset of this
voyage, hampered by the fact that she
knew no other tongue. After that one
long, steady glance, she turned her face
away again and I heard her sigh gently.
After a moment's hesitation I moved just
a step nearer ami addressed her in her
ow n language, asking if it was her lirst
voyage.
She turned with a swift impulsive
smile and looked at me again. The great
eyes were radiant with pleasure, and,
with an ex-piisitoutterance that made my
own Spanish seem a harsh brogue, she
answered fearlessly and naturally that she
was going to America for the lirst time,
and, indeed, was for the first time at sea.
" You will be seasick almost certainly,
then," I said. "Are von prepared for
that ?" " 1 1
"Oh, yes," die answered. 11 1 have
hoped that perhaps I might uot be, but I
Kin prepared for anytluug."
There was a patient resolution in her
tones that piqued my curiosity, espe
cially as she presently informed 'me she
was all alone and going simply under the
captain's care. She was full of joy at
meeting some one who bpoke her lan
ttage, and constantly intermingled with
her talk little ejaculatory expressions of
thanks, which seemed to have ' no
application beside the geueral one
of mv knowing Spanish.
W'iien the bell sounded for dinner, I
took her down. My arm, which was
rather timidly offered, being promptly
and gratefully accepted. After that I
used to seek her always before meals
and take her in with me, and once, when
something detained me and I was a little
late, I found her waiting for me. I think
the people of the vessel thought that we
were companions from the start, and some
one alluded to her once as my daughter,
aud although I hastily corrected this, I
willingly let it be supposed that she was
traveling under my care. In the sim
plest aud most natural fashion she
learned to defer to mo and lean on my
decisions, and, by-and-byo, to confide in
me.
It was one evening that we had been
sitting together a long time, idlv talking
about the weather and the snip, anil
wondering how long wo should have it
so fair, when she turned to me, in her
soft Spanish speech, that loses so incal
culably by translation, and said :
" I want you to tell me about your
people and your home."
I felt as if her little, soft, plump hand
had dealt a blow upon my bare heart;
but I answered, simply :
" I have no home, and my people are
all dead or gone from me that is, my
parents and sisters and brothers, for I
never had a wife or a child, which is
what you meant, perhaps."
" Yes ; I meant that. It is so sad. I
thought, perhaps, you might have a
daughter like me, and that made you so
kind."
"No, I have no daughter," I said
slowly ; " though I am, in truth, old
enough to Vie vour father."
" And you have never loved any one
never wanted to be married to some one
who was good and beautiful and kind'
How strange 1
These questions were scarcely marked
1 iy any interrogat ive accent. She seemed
to be 'merely stating them as facts, with
u gentle reluctance. But, though she
expected no answer from me, I was irre
i sistibly prompted toeonfession.
I "es. Lolu. I said, "I knew some
one like that once, and I loved her. But
it was long ago, and we were parted
"Oh, whv did von part?'" she said,
1 lassionatelv. " Whv did vou sutler any
tiling to part you? Was she not willing
to give up all) to leave home and friends
and country and everything to follow
love, as I have done?
Urged on by a deep excitement, she
had revealed her secret, and I half feared
she would repent and try to retract it,
but she did not. She seemed either
to be unconscious that anything had been
divnlired. or unconscious of the fact
that had not known it all the time.
'You do well," I said, fervently. "It
is worth the suerihee. l.nl grant you
do not repent it."
" I have no fear," she said, confidently
rear could not live in my heart, which
holds a perfect lov
Then, so simply and' naturally, she
told me her storv. She had become c n-
L'nued to a vouncf American sent out to
Spain as agent for some New York husi
ness hrm. and he had L'one home a lew-
months auo. expecting to return; but
his superiors hud made other arrant
niciits, and he had written that ulthoii
he would be stationary in New Yoi-1
thereafter, he was coming back to marry
her and bring her to her home in tl
new world. At the time set for his ar
rival, however, ho had sent a letter in
stead, saving an attack of illness pre
vented his coming, but he was now con
valescent, though the physicians said he
must not take the voyage for some time.
"When I got that' letter," said Lola,
" I could do nothing but cry and fret for
the first two or three days. I did not eat
or sleep, and my aunt, whom I lived
with, said I would die, and was very
hard and cross. I was utterly wretched,
until one night as I lay thinking it all
over I resolved that I would go to him.
He had once, half-hesitatingly, suggested
it, saying it would save so much expense,
and he is not at all well oil'; but it had
frightened me so that he gave it up, say
ing he would spend all he hud, sooner
than give me the anxiety and trouble of
such a voyage. But now now that he
was ill and alone I could think no
longer of my dread ; indeed, it was gone,
and all I thought of was to go to him,
and comfort and nurse and tako care of
him. So I got my aunt's consent, though
she would not give it at first, and I took
the very next steamer. And see how
easy and pleasant it has been ! He need
not have been afraid for me; but, then,
he could not know, and neither could I,
that I should find you !"
Her ardent tone and look, as she said
these last words, thrilled me strangely.
It was a spontaneous, affectionate out
burst that pained while it caressed me.
And beside my own personal feeling, a
dreadful misgiving ubout her weighed
on my heart. She was so confident, so
full of trust what if she should be de
ceived in this man ? What if the attack
of illness were a mere subterfuge? Such
things had been. I turned cold and then
hot at the mere suggestion. I asked her
lover's name, but it was unknown to me,
though the name of the house he repre
sented was familiar. But that went for
nothing as to the man's personal charac
ter, and the fear that this might be
treacherous made me sick with dread.
What would be the end, if my appre
hensions proved correct? What would
become of the poor child? A wild
thought suggested itself. It was a
strange mixture of deep pity for her and
deep joy, tempered with pain aud yet
sweet with hope, for myself.
At last the voyage was over, and the
realization of this fact made me unac
countably sad. For Lola was dearer to
me every day. In her little attacks of
illness, which bhe had not altogether
escaped, I had canied her about in my
arms, like a child, and she had leaned
on ine and looked up to me with a child
ihh confidence and trust thut was un
speakably sweet to the lonely old
bachelor whose attitude toward this
young girl had seemed to touch his age
and world-weariness with a niagio wand
that had made them drop from him like
a garment.
Lola and I stood together on deck, all
our bags and parcels strapped and ready
for moving. She had not told her lover
she was coming, and of course he would
not meet her. I reproached her for not
having telegraphed, feeling a strange re
luctance to go and hunt him up; but she
answered simply that she could not af
ford it. All her money was required for
the voyage, and, " Besides," she added,
quickly, blushing like a rose, "I wanted
to give him the joy of the surprise."
"And if, I said, reluctantly, "if lie
should not be here, or anything, have
you not money to return ?"
" But he is bound to be here; nothing
like that could happen. And if he were
awav I should wait till he returned. I
have no money to go home if I should
want to, but there's not much danger of
my wanting."
Heavens! what trust, wbot exquisite
feeling, what beautiful belief in lovo I
And if he .should prove unworthy 1
When wo stepped ashore, kola and I
got into a carriage, which I ordered to
take us to a hotel. She let me arrange
everything just as I chose, and we had
agreed to go together to the hotel, and
then I was to find her lover anil send
him to her.
I saw her sofelv seated in her little
parlor, and then, as it was early morning,
I ordered a dainty breakfast there and we
ate it tete-a-tete. I don't think either
had much appetite, though I taxed mv
wits to the uttermost on the menu and
had even given a lavish order for flowers.
tried to think of everytlung that
could give her pleasure, for I
felt almost certain of a impending
calamity and I looked again and
again into her sweet face trying to
fix its look ot happiness m my mind.
And she was happv ! Her voice was joy
ous as a link's and her face as radiant as
dav. I would fain have lingered awhile
to bask iu this bright sunshine, but she
was feverishly impatient and eager that
I should be gone. I think she grudged
me the boon of seeing hjm first, for she
made mo promise that I would not tell
him of her presence, but briug him back
with me under some pretext if I found
him well, nud return ana take her to him
if he was ill. In either event, she had
settled it in her mind that they were to
be married that very day.
When I was ready to go I went up to
her and took her hands in mine. "Lola,"
said, "whatever lies before you,
whether joy or sorrow, remember that
you have me always for your friend. You
must relv upon me as you would upon
vour" I paused and then said "father.
It was nn effort, but I forced myself to
snv it. Then, before leaving, I stooped
mid kissed her sweet lips. It was the
first time and would probably be the last,
and I v alued it as people do value what
can come to them but once.
When 1 reached the house, the address
of w hich Lola had given me, I inquired
for her lover he was gone, lhe woman
who kept the House couui give no infor
mation except that she thought he had
gone West.
I was unfeiguedly distressed. In that
moment I rose above self ami thought
only of Lola. 1 low shall I describe the
scene that followed my announcement to
the little creature? The heart-rending
grief, the wild denial of her lover's
faithlessness! She utterly refused to
believe it. She would far sooner, she
said, think that he was dead. After her
tirst outburst of passionate grief was
over, she calmed herself aud said, stand
ing up: "I must go away; I must not
stav here."
The sight of her agony almost killed
me.
"Oh. Lola," I said, "where?"
She thing herself back on the lounge
with a motion of utter despair. I went
to her and threw mvself on mv knees
beside her and folded both her tremb
ling hands in mine.
" Lola, bo brave," I said. "Face th
worst. It is a bitter thing to sav, but 1
believe he is false to you. 1 believe the
illness was a leuit, ami J believe lie is
willfully lost to you. Mv little darling,
it is hard I know, but not so bad as if you
had married him and found it out alter
ward. But do uot despair. I will no!
leave you, and you shall tell me just w hat
vou would have me do. I will take you
back to Spain if you want to go."
" I cannot ! I could not bear it ! And
I have no money."
"Nevermind that " I said. "I have
plenty, more far more than I want. 1
would give my life to comfort you. 1
will go now, if you say so, and take pas
sage on the next returning ship."
- " I could not bear it. I never will go
back," she snid; "no one loves me there
I am only a useless little burden. J never
will go back !"
" Then stay," I said, passionately
"stav with me. Let me love and com
fort you. Stav with me always, Lola.
No one can love vou as I will."
At first I think she did not understand
my meaning, but when she did she
wrenched her hands from mine and
sprang to the middle of the room.
"How can you? How can yon be so
cruel ?" she said. " Do you think I could
ever love any one else after having given
my love to him ? No; I have loved him
only I have given him all my love and
worthy or unworthy, he has it still.
"Lola, my little child," I said, "you
must face the truth. Y'ou cannot live
iu this strango country all alone. Y'ou
have neither friends nor money. Y'ou
cannot work, and if you could you must
not be alone. I cannot help you and
maintain you unless vrr take my name
and occupy the hoifbrable position of
my wite. Hut I will no! force it on vou.
For the present I will find some safe place
to put you in, and we will see what
can be done. At all events, whether you
can love me or not, I love you und will
always love you."
" Do you love me ?" she said, facing
me unu speaking witu eager vehemence
" Uli, 1 do, 1 do !" Isnid.
" Then find him for me 1"
I could not speak at once. For one
moment a wild hope had budded in my
breast, and it would not die without a
struggle. Then I looked at her and
said, calmly;
." I will try. I will do my utmost
will give it my most conscientious of-
forts. But, Lola, if If ail?"
"If you fail to find him," she said
" or if you findhiinto be false, then
will give you the reward you wish,
will marry you."
It wus uot a rapturous consent, but
lomia a wonderful satisfaction iu it,
despite my fond sympathy for her. I
was not being selfishly hnppy at her ex
pense, for, on my own part,' I entirely
believed in her lover's treacheronsuess,
though there was nothing that could go
for real proof. It was n foregone con
clusion with me, and it was, therefore,
only its issue I rejoiced ot.
In my present state of feeling it was
easy to fall into hopeful dreams of the
future ; it was impossiulo not to. And
now, as she sat meekly on the sofa, after
all her passionate struggles word over, I
felt convinced. that, if i could win her
hand in the way we had agreed upon, I
could also, wit u time, win her pure
heart for my own. It was a glorious
goal. Something to live for, something
to work and struggle for. My life and
utmost energies had found the incentive
they had lacked so It ng.
Wo fell now into a composed and
quiet talk, and she listened patiently
While I unfolded my plans for her. But
there rested on her lovely face such a
look of unutterable sorrow that I had to
turn my eyes away. How blessed it
would be to smooth away this look to
recall the gay vivacity of mv own bright
Lola 1 What a happy task ! In spite of
an, 1 ten 1 snouui succeed.
A long silence had fallen upon us
both. The room was warm, and I had
set open the door leading into the hall.
I was glad of an excuse to do so, as it
took away some of the air of privacy
which I feared she might find irksome.
She did not seem to notice my action,
but sat facing the door, with her drooped
eyes resting on the little hands clasped
iu her lap. Presently a footstep was
heard coming along the hall, and she
listlessly looked up. As she did so,
the light of a great, ecstatic joy rushed
over her face. She sprang to her feet,
with the glad cry:
" Richard !" and flung herself into his
arms. He clasped her tight to his heart,
and drew her into the room. Was he
tine or false ? I knew that I need only
see his face to tell. In that moment of
extreme excitement ho would forget to
don Ins mask. He stooped above her
and covered her neck and face with
kisses. Then, after thut moment's rap
ture, he looked at me. It was a noble
face honest, manly and kind.
I ought to have been glad, but I heard
myself groan.
1 would have left the! room, but Lola
detained me, telling her lover in en
thusiastic terms how kind I had been,
and begging him to thank me, which he
did in such terms as onlv a good and
honorable mau could have used. I had
to listen, loo, to his explanation. He
had, indeed, gone West, having accepted
promising appointment which would
give nun permanent aud remunerative
employment. Having settled matters
there, he had obtained leave, and was
now on his way to Spain and Lola. It
was all as clear ns dav.
That very evening they were married,
was the only witness besides the cler
gyman, and 1 never will iorgot the radi
ance of her fur-o as T watched it during
the service. 1 rather feared her jov
might be dimmed by some remember
ing thought of me, but it was not so.
don t think she ever comprehended
my fooling for her, and, of course, it
pleased her to fancy now thnt it had
en chiefly pity lor her loneliness.
The service ended, there' remained
nothing but to take Lola to a jeweler's
shop near-bv and let her choose a pres
old, lrom me, which
slie muuilieentlv
paid for with a kiss.
It was, indeed, tho last :
The Tower. of Silence.
These towers, which are built in u
compound on tho top ot .Mainour Hill,
in the Island of Bombay, are six iu
number, und overlook the sen, the oldest
being 300 years. The internal arrange
ments of the towers are as follows, The
bodies a.te placed in three separate cir
cles the outer and larger one for men,
the middle one for women, and the
smallest for children. There is a pit in
the centre, into which tho boiios are
thrown after the flesh is stripped off,
and paths to allow the priest to move
about. The flooring gradually sinks to
the centre to let the rain into the pits
from which it filters into the earth,
The towers vttry in size from about
thirty to fifty feet in diameter, and eight
to fourteen in height.
This l'arseo mode of disposing of the
dead seems to European minds very re
volting. The body, after the religious
ceremony is performed in the temple
where the friends ore assembled, is car
ried out and placed in one of the towers,
wheje it remains exposed to the elements
until the flesh is entirely eaten off, by
the crowds of vultures which frequent
the place, iu about one hour. When
the skeleton becomes dry, it is thrown
into the pit in tho centre ; thus the rich
and poor meet together on one level of
equality after death. When the pit be
comes full of bones, they aTo taken out
and thrown into the sea, thus fulfilling
one of the principal tenets of the Zoro
aster religion, "That the mother earth
shall not bo defiled."
She raid a Commission.
A Chicago merchant accompanied n
Milwaukee gentleman an old friend
to his home, where ho had been many
times a guest before. In a conversa
tion with tho charming daughter of
his host, he rallied her on her contin
uance in a state of single blessedness.
Sho replied that none of tho Milwau
kee beaux were to her taste, and in
an indifferent way inquired if Chicago
had any nice young men disengaged.
Receiving an affirmative reply she re
mained a minute or two in a brown
study, und then brightening up said
iu a bantering tone, "Well, you are a
commission merchant; send me down a
nice young man aud I will allow you
a commission of ten cents a pound.'
Tho Milwaukee girl got her nice young
miui iu duo time. Tho commission
charges were just 19.50.
Guihallard recently reproved a friend
for his too liberal useof absinthe. "Bah!"
said the Litter, "I've drank of it sinco I
was a boy, and I'm sixty." "Very like
ly," replied Guiballard, "but if you had
never drunk of it perhaps you would
now be seventy." This is French, of
course.
ItORS ON WHEELS.
A Child Knti'i-4 thUHIuful World nt Ihr II Klo
of KlRlitwn Mile, mi Hour.
When the Little Rock train which left
Memphis at 4 p. m. Saturday had passed
Edmunson, a tall, lank male specimen
of the Sequatchie valley product ap
proached Conductor Charley McDonald
and whispered inhis off ear.
"I say, mister, you're the conductor
man?" '
The addressed individual "reckoned"
ho was that interesting party.
. "Wall, I'll tell ye"-rcoming nearer
and growing more confidential "my
old woman over thar's about to add to
the population of these here steaiv
keers."
"Wh-wh-wha-a-t's that?" replied Con
ductor Charlie, suddenly seized with the
idea that ho was facing an escaped luna
tic. "Why, don't you understand?" this
with a 'knowing' shrug of tho broad,
round shoulders "Manor's going to be
confined, and I guess you'd better put
us off at the next station. My. name's
Oufiin."
"Oh, oh," said the conductor, at last
comprehending the old man's meaning.
"T ins is somcilung new m my une. uui
I can't put you oil' in the woods. You'd
all freeze to death. Better arrange for
a little episode right here in the car."
"All right, cap," returned the expect
ant father. " 'Sposo you'd have no
objection to using that little room in the
comer over thar?"
"None in the world. In fact, I'd
rather prefer it," was the reply.
The old man and his wife retired to
the place mentioned, and a half hour
later the ears of the passengers in the
car were greeted with the feeble wail of
a new-born infant, which had entered
this valo of tears at the ralo of eighteen
miles an hour.
Some time afterward Mrs. (.tufhn
removed to a hastily improvised
comfortable bed in the car, where
was
but
she
the
her
the
rested very comfortably during
night. The infant slumbered at
side, and far into the night, when
train was thundering through the Cache
river bottom, the woman's voice shrilly
pined out: "John you John! git me a
toddy; I feel's if I want one, bad:"
The delighted parent for the seventh
time, he had observed incidentally
dived into the recesses of an ancient
looking gripsack, brought forth a black
bottle, a spoon and a little package of
sugar in brown paper, aud began on the
desired toddy. While doing so he im
parted to a little group of passengers the
fact that they were "movers" from the
Sequatchie Valley, East Tennessee, ami
were "gwine" to Texas somewhat' near
Corsieana, whar ven body gitsric h nvity
sndilent.
Meanwhile the ancient "Muriei-V eyes
bi ightoirod at the prospect of the stimu
lant in the little tin cup, the infimt
slumbered peacefully as if its advent had
taken place iu a palace, und tho drowsy
passengers indulged iu reveries on the
viscit tides of life. .VcwzAs Ariilmnin.
Traveling on lhe Bicycle.
Mr. John A. Poult, of Worcester,
j Mass., traveling agent for a manufac
j tnreis' supplies firm, has adopted a
i unique mode of locomotion the bicycle
i -in his business tours. Mr. Dean
! started from Worcester early in the
I summer, visiting moct of tho miiinifue-
' .fin iiig villages of Northern Massachu
setts, -crossing over into -New Hamp
shire, and canvassing tho manufactur
ing districts south of tho White moun
tains. He then went through Western
Maine, back into New Hampshire, north
of the White mountains ; through
Northern Vermont down the western
siil.', crossing over to tho Connecticut
river, down the river valley, through
Massachusetts to Hartford, Conn., and
lack to Worcester via Springfield.
These journey ings occupied five months,
out of which about twenty days must
be taken for delays on the road, "leaving
about 110 days of actual travel, averaging
at least thirty miles per day, making a
total of il.oOO miles. Even in the
mountainous districts it was seldom
that tiny number of miles of impassable
roads was found, l'erhaps one mile in
fifteen, on an average, had to be walked,
and frequent runs of ten miles were
made without a dismount. From tho
small 'number of days lost out of the
live months it will bo seen that some
traveling must have, been done in
stormy weather, and only when the
roads became very muddy from a pro
tracted storm was a halt made uecessarj .
All necessary samples and baggage were
carried on the machine, tho most oi trio
baggage being sent on ahead by rail,
however. Mr. Dean proposes to start
out again on similar trips next season.
He regards this means of travel as en
tirely practical, even in the rough re
gion's he passed through. He reached
places that would.not have been discov
ered from a railroad, and actually ac
complished the distance iu less time
than could have been done by mil over
the same sections of country. The ac
quaintance with tho districts visited
obtained by this means of travel is val
uable also, and not the least of its ad
vantages is the healthful effect of the
exercise and air. A marked change in
Mr. Dean's appearance resulted from
this trip, and he states that he gained
twenty pounds in weight.
Charity is a first mortgage on every
human being's possession-). Opportu
nities are very sensitive things ; if vou
slight them on their first visit, you sel
dom see them again. The more virtu
ous a man is, the more virtue does he
see in others. He who loves to read
and knows how to reflect has laid bv a
perpetual feast for his old ago.
Soma people think that justice au
plies exclusively r almost exclusivelr
to money transactions and dealings in
business. Jiut that is a very rcstrictec'
and imperfect view of what constitute?
justice. It lies quite as much iu tin.
habit and manner of speech as in the
mating ana luintiment of contracts.
During the last ten venrs tho rovnl
lottery has yielded the Italian govern
ment Qizi,vw,vw from l,78t5,l3,77
tickets issued.
China had coin in circulation centuries
peiore England- had.
TIMELY TOriCS.
Dr. Buseh, who has risen to the high
est rank in the German foreign office,
has no noble birth to recommend him.
He began life as a dragoman to the
Prussian consulate at Constantinople,
and thero thoroughly mastered the in
tricacies of tho Eastern imbroglio. Ho
studied politics with equal success
when attached to tho legations at Stam
boul and St. Petersburg; and when the
last Turco-Russian War began Bismarck
summoned him to Berlin, aud relied
upon him for information on the chang
ing phases of the Eastern question. Be
fore Bismarck's rde only aristocrats
were permitted to enter the Prussian
diplomatic corns. Now there are many
commoners holding the highest offices.
The desirability of having immediate
and absolute control of telegraphic fa
cilities in certain emergencies has led to
the leasing of telegraph wires by news
papers. The London limns lias some
short ones; the New York Tritium has a
wire between New Y'ork and Washing
ton; the leading papers of Cincinnati are
similarly connected with Washington;
and recently the Chicago Inter-Oceun
has taken w hat -is probably tho longest
wire leased by any newspaper, connect
ing its editorial rooms with its news
bureau in Washington. All messages
are sent direct, the paper having exclu
sive use of the wire and employing its
own operators.
Prof. Bernbech, writing to the Merit
cnl Press, calls attention to tho probable
danger arising from the use of ultrama
rine wall papers. Ho slates that a room
hung with an ultramarine colored pa
per gave out a most, disagreeable smell
of sulphuretted hydrogen, lhe source of
which for some time escaped detection.
Eventually, however, a close examina
tion was made of the paper, which led
to the conclusion that tho deep blue
wall paper was blowly undergoing a pro
cess of decomposition under the influ
ence of the nluni in the paste used in
hanging. This appeared to be confirm
ed, for on steeping a pieco of tho paper
in a very dilute solution of alum it gavo
otl sufficient sulpherefed hydrogen to
bo quite percept il do to the nose, and to
blacken lead paper.
Pennsylvania avenue, in Washington,
w hich now runs through the heart of the
city, so forming and connecting the capi
tol of the United States with the official
home of the nation's chief magistrate,
has in the comparatively few years of its
existence been the scene of many grand,
peculiar and most interesting occurren
ces. A dozen years after the commence
ment of the present century, over the
mud which then formed ils road-bed,
the British armies moved. Over Penn
sylvania avenue has passed to his inau
guration nearly every president of the
United States. Washington, the first,
as it is almost needless to say, was not
inaugurated here. He took the oath of
olllee on the iittth of April, 177'J, in the
New York city hall, then called the Fed
eral building, and situated where the
custom house now stands. Upon Penn
sylvania avenue almost any day during
the winter,' may be seen most of the
men distinguished in the politics of this
country. It is tho habit of all the peo
ple of Washington to walk ou tin
line during the hours from 4 to 5
(i o'clock in tho evening.
ave
iO or
The Life of un Actress,
Mr. Labouchere recently said in an
article in Truth on tho London stage :
Actresses live iu u world of their own.
They generally exaggerate every senti
ment. Their real life is tinged with
their theatrical life, find high-wrought
melodrama becomes n second nature
to them. Few of them have a perfectly
sunn r.of ion rf exii-f er.ee : thev exist in
tho feeling of the moment. 'Thev : re
generally iueapablo of taking nn inter- I
est in the ordinary occupations ot t Ileu
ses ; at one monv-nl thev are in the
wildest spirits, at another in tho depth
of despair, aud those with whom they
come in contact are alternately either
melodramatic villains plotting their
.lestruction, or angelic beings that have i
no existence out ot plays. If thev aro
asked why they love or hale, they insist
that tuoy are endowed with a pecunai
instinct, and this instinct thoy exalt as
something far superior to practical in
telligence, and glory in being its sub
missive slaves. There are certain qual
ities which go to make an actress, and
most of them go to make a lunatic.
All actresses are, of course, not neceg-
farily jpad, but if I were on a jury im
paneled to try au actress for murder, I
should approach the inquiry with the
feeling thut nature had probably not
been lavish to her in that harmony of
intellectual powers vihich produce
moral responsibility.
Power of Habit.
It is related of Queen Louise, of Prus
sia, mother of the present Emperor Wil
liam, that one of her frequent visitors, a
special menu of her husband, was an old
general called Kockeritz. This old sol
dier, after having dined with his rovul
friends, always manifested at a certain
time a peculiar nervousness and restless
ness, as if wishing to depart, while at ot her
hours of the day ho was only too glad to
stav and have a friendly chat. But
after dinner ho always showed this great
anxiety to go home. Louise was puz
zled at tho old man's strange behavior,
and resolved to find out the cause.
She made inquiry of his steward, who,
after a few questions, explained that the
old general had indulged for so many
long years in the habit of smoking a
long pipe after dinner that ho could not
possibly do without it. The next time
the old general came to dine he exhibited
after the repast the same nervous
restlessness, und roso to take leuve.
Whereupon Louise rose, too, and
said: " Wait a little, general; I want to
show you something." She went into
tho next room. On her return she held
a long pipe already filled in one hand
and a burning waxlight and a "spill" in.
the other. Handing the pipe to the as
tonished old man and lighting tho spill,
she said: " There, my old general, make
yourself comfortable; this time yon shall
not desert us." " ' -.
HUMOK OF THE DAY.
I'l'hroe
periods of life: Youth
mumps ;
middle nge, bumps ; old age,
dumps.
A sick man is considered out of
danger when the doctor discontinues
his visits;
A mttsic1 teacher fell from a third
story window, aud found the pitch un
comfortably high.
A lady friend says thnt bachelors are
i i . i ...I i . . i.
line oatcu oi mscuiis, gooo. euougu
after they are mixed.
Tho ordinary Jife of a locomotive is
thirty years. " Possibly it would lire
longer if it didn't smoke.
The cremationists have at last dis
covered that Washington, Pa., is that
country from whose burn no traveler
returns.
Bernhardt dies so realistically that it
I is said a coroner, who saw her, ran
around to the stago door and wanted to
hold an inquest.
" It is harder to get ahead in this
world," said Clorinda's young man, as
Iter father assisted him out of the door
with his boot, " than it is to get a
foot."
" Don't you think," said a husband,
mildly rebuking his wife, " that women
ore possessed by Satan?" "Yes, as
soon as they are married," was the quick
reply.
Y'oung lady, examiuing some bridal
veils: "Can you really recommend
this one?" Over-zealous shopman:
" Oh, yes, miss ! It may be used sev
eral times."
Gladstone goes (o church with a pin
holding his shirt- cuffs together in place
of a button, but if all waited for buttons
there would be no sermons. Hang a
statesman who can't make a shingle nail
ans wet for a suspender button. Ikfit
"Do you realize it, Angelica,"
whispered Clarence to his betrothed ;
" only'two weeks more and we wiil bo
one ; but, remember, darling, I am to
ba that one." And then the angelic
creature silently stole to the piano
and touchingly warbled: "Oh, to bo
Nothing 1"
Room in Heaven.
" And the eilylieth fmir.j
iuim umt tlto
ho liieiemvd
leiiuth I
as Ihi-ko to tie tii-eailth, iiiul
w ith the iveil l'J.otio lut'lMiiyc. i'ltc length aiul the
breadth ami the height ol il are i-'iual." Kcv. 2: 10.
tin- oily
There are some who never think of
heaven. In their mind a thought of the
better country would starve for every
loneliness. Others think of it occasion
ally, when the voice of sweet nmsie steals
upon their ear, or Providence or the
preacher lifts them above earth. But
when they do think of it, how poor and
meagre their thoughts; to them it is a
narrow, circumscribed spot in the uni
verse, a small place just large enough for
I heir church, but too small to admit
w ithin its pearly enclosure, even the good
beyond their communion. Such were
not the views entertained by John when,
on the lonely isle, he saw, in grand pano
ramic view, tho heavenly city.
John wus in Hie spirit on the mountain
of holy contemplation, ami he hud a de
lightful conversation with one of the
royul surveyors of the heavenly country,
lie says, verse 15, "And he that talked
with me hail a golden reed to measure
tho city, and the gates thereof, and the
walls thereof." The idea he gives to us
i--, that there was solidity, firmness, du
rability and strength all combined with
indescribable beauty, surpassing gran
deur and infinite glory.
The city, as he saw it, was in the form
of a magnificent cube, of vast dimen
sions. The surveyor had the golden
reed, and he measured the city in the
presence of his visitor. It was 12,(1(10
furlongs I'stadii) long, and 12,000 fur-
! 1,Hlffs hroad, ""'I l'-M-l"' furlongs high.
I'he length, and tho bivadth, and the
height of it are equal.
In this view of the great city wo arc
quite in harmony with the rabineal book.
1 need not occupy room with quotations.
In almost every other theory proposed
great violence is done to the Greek text.
Iu this interpretation the sense is natu
ral ami grammatical construction re
spected. We take the passage as it reads, "12,
000 furlongs," which, when reduced to
feet ami cubed, is !-fiH,!):its,000,000,000,
000,000,000 cubic, feet, the half of which
we reserve for tho throne of glory und
the heavenly court. Half of the remain
der 1 reserve for the angel's thrones, do
minions, principalities and powers. Half
of the remainder I reserve for celestial
gardens of heavenly fruits ami flowers.
Half of the remainder for shady bowers
and lovely parks. Half of tho remain
der for the golden streets and walks, and
the remainder, or one thirty-second of
the whole, I divide into rooms of 20 feet
Square, and 10 feet high. Of rooms we
have 7,-113,578,l2.",0(:0)000,00O,0OO.
Then I suppose that this world was
populated as at present, with say 000,
000,000 of human beings, andth'tt three
generations passed away every hundred
years, that is allowing iw and one-third
years for each generation, and that at the
close of the seven thousandth year tho
trumpet of heaven would proclaim that
"time would bo no longer," and that
earth's population would all bo brought
homo to the city of God.
I also suppose that in the universe of
our Father there are 800,000 worlds like
ours existing under the same number
term of year as ours; each having the
same inunlor of inhabitants as our own,
ami each inhabitant obedient to the uni
versal "come."
Take all these multitudes of human or
created beings, und the heavenly homo
the angel measured for John aud for u:i,
dear reader, would afford -40 such rooms
as are measured above for each inhabi
taut of all tho Ki.H),000 world and leave
more than 4,000,0i0 cubic yet unsurvey
ed. "Aud yet thero is room." Oh, hov.
true it is that "in my Father's house
thero are many mansions." W.H.Poote.
The only cure for in Jo.eiiee is w ork
the only oure for f elfibbness is sacrifice ;
tho only cure for nubeUef is to shake off
tho ague of doubt by doing your cou
seienoe's bidding; Iba only cure for
timidity is tp plunge into some dreaded
duty KefbVe Ine'sKilf comes, on.