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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NIT, DESPEltANDUM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. XI.
KIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1881.
NO. 17.
The Golden Wedding.
Wake up, wife! the black cloak of Night bo
gins to fade,
And far in tho cant the Morning his kitchen
lire lins made;
And ho is heating red-hot his stove of iron
gray. And stars are winking and blinking before tho
light o' day.
Mind you what I was doin', jiiBt fifty years
ftgoue?
Brushiu' my Sunday raiment, an' puttin' my
best looks on;
Clothin' myself in courage, so none my fright
could sec;
An my coward heart within, tho while, was
pounding to get froo.
Ton mile wood an' bramble, an' three mile field
an' dew,
In tho cold smile of morning I walked to
marry you;
No horse had I but niy wishes- no pilot but a
mar;
But my lmyish licarv it fancied it heard you
from afar.
Bo through the woods I hurried, an' through
tho grass an' dew,
An' little I thought o' tiring, the whole of my
journey through;
Things ne'er before nor after do so a man re
joice, As on tho day ho marries the woman of his
choice.
And then our country wedding brimful o
grief an' glee,
With every one a-pettin' an" jokin' you an' me;
The good cheer went and enme, wife, as it Bomo-
i in os has done
When clouds have chased each other across tho
summer sun.
There was your good old father, dressed up in
weddiu' shape,
With all tho homespun finery that he could
rake an' scrape;
And your dear-hearted mother, the sunlight of
whose smilo
Bbono through tho showers of toar-dropB that
Btormed her face the while;
Also your Bisters an' brothers, who hardly
seemed to know
How they could Bcaro up courage to let their
sister go;
An' cousins an' school-house comrades, dressed
up in niectin' trim,
With one of them a-sulkin' because it wasn't
him;
An' there was the good old parson, his neck all
dressed in white,
A biUK'h o' texts in his left eye, a hymn-book in
his right ;
An' Hie parson's virgin daughter, plain and se
V' rely pnro,
Who hoped we should be happy, but wasn't ex
actly sure.
An 1 tlicro was the victuals, seasoned with kind
regards an' love,
And holly wreaths villi breastpins of rubies.
up above;
Au' thrro was my heart a-wonderin' as how such
tilings could be,
An' there was the world beforo ub, an' there
was you and me.
Wako up, wifo I that gold bird, the sun, has
come in Bight
And on a tree-top perches to take his daily
flight.
Ho is not old and feeble, an' ho will Bail away,
As ho has done so often since fifty years to-duy.
You know there's company coming our daugh
ters an' our sons ;
There's John, and James, and Lucy, an' all
their littlo ones ;
And Jennie, she will bo here, who in her grave
doth lie
Provided company ever can como from out
the sky);
And Sam I am not certain as he will come,
or not ;
They say ho is a black sheep the wildest of
the lot.
Beforo a sou's dishonor, a father's loves stands
dumb ;
But still, somehow or other, I hope that Sam
will come;
Tho tree bends down its branches to its chil
dren from above
Tho son is lord of tho father, and rules him
with his Iovo ;
And he will e'er bo longed for, though far they
be apart,
For the drop of blood he carries, that came
from the father's heart.
Wako you, wife ! the loud sun has roused tho
sweet daylight,
And she has dressed herself up in red and yel
low and white;
She has dressed hersolf for us, wifo for our
woddin' d"-y once more
And my soul to-day is younger than ever it was
before.
Will Carleton, in Harper's Weekly.
The Handsome Artist.
Grrerne McDonald was a young High
lander come to Florence to study the
old masters. He was an athletic, whole
some, handsome fellow. Ho painted in
the palace or wiped his forehead on a
warm day with equally small care, to all
appearance, and he had brought his
mother and two sisters to Italy, and
Bup2orted them by a most heroio econ
omy and industry. Indeed, the more I
knew McDonald the more I became
convinced that there was another man
built over him.
Perhaps you have been in Florence,
dear reader, and know by what royal
liberality artists are permitted to bring
their easels into the splendid apart
ments of the palace and cojy from the
priceless pictures on the walls. At the
time I have my eye upon (some few
years ago), McDonald was making a
beginning of a copy of " Titian's Bella,"
and near him stood the easel of a female
artist who was copying from the glorious
picture of "Judith and Holofornes," iu
the same apartment. Mademoiselle
Folio (so she was called by the elderly
lady who always accompanied her) was
a small and very gracefully-formed
creature, with the plainest face in which
attraction could possibly reside.
McDonald was her nearest neighbor,
aud they frequently looked over each
other's pictures; but, as they were both
foreigners lu Florence' (she of Polish
birth, as he understood), their conver
sation was in French or Italian, neither
of which languages were fluently famil
iar to Grimm, nnd it. li
ally to expressions of courtesy or brief
Criticisms nf ftanVi nflini'n Inlutv'a
As I Rftld Iwfm'P. it. ffu a nfnnf im
pression " of a celestial summer's morn
ing, and the thermometer stood at
heavenly idleness. McDonald stood
with Lis maul-stick across his knees.
drinking from Titian's picture. An
artist, who had lounged in from the
next room, had hung himself by the
crook of his arm over a high peg, on his
comrade's easel, and every now and
then he volunteered an observation
to which he expected no particular
UUBWBl.
" When I remember how littlo beauty
I have seen in the world," said Ingarde
(this artist), "I am inclined to believe
witn baturmnus, that there is no resur
rection of bodies, end that only the
spirits of the good return into the body
of the Godhead for what is ugliness
to do in heaven V"
McDonald only eaid: ' Hm hm 1"
"How will this little plain woman look
in the streets of the New Jersusalem,
for example I Yet she expects, as we
all do, to be recognizable by her friends
in heaven, and of course, so have the
same irredeemably plain face. Does
she understand English, by the way
for she might not be altogether pleased
with my theory ?"
" I have spoken to her very often,"
raid McDonald, " and I think English
is Hebrew to her but my theory of
beauty crosses at least one corner of
your argument, my friend 1 I believe
that the original type of every human
being could be made beautiful without
in any essential particular destroying
tho visible identity."
" And you think that little woman's
face could be made beautiful ? "
"I know it."
" Try it, then. Hero is your copy of
Titian's 'Bella,' all finished but the
face. Make an apothesis portrait of
your neighbor, and while it harmonizes
with tho body of Titian's beauty, still
leave it recognizable as the portrait, and
I'll give in to your theories believing
in all other miracles, if you like, at the
same time!
Ingarde laughed as he went back to
liis own picture, and McDonald, after
sitting a few minutes lost in reverie,
turned his easel so as to get a painter's
view of his female neighbor. He thought
she colored slightly as he fixed his eyes
upon her; but if so, she apparently be
came very soon unconscious of his gaze,
and he was soon absorbed himself in
the task to which his friend had eo
mockingly challenged him.
Excuse me, dear reader, while with
two epistles I build a bridge over which
you can cross a chasm of a month in my
story.J '
"To Gnajjus McDonald: Sir: lam in
trusted with a delicate commission,
which I kkow not how to broach to you
except by simple proposal. Will you
forgive my abrupt brevity, if I inform
you, without fnrther preface, that the
Countess Nyschriem, a Polish lady of
high birth and ample fortune, does you
the honor to propose for your hand. If
you are disengaged and your affections
are not irrevocably given to another, I
can conceive no suflicient obstacle to
your acceptance of tho biilliant connec
tion. The countess is twenty-two, and
not beautiful, it must in fairness be
said; but she has high qualities both of
head aud heart, and is worthy any man's
respect and affection.
" An answer is requested in the course
of to-morrow, addressed to ' The Count
Hanswald, minister of his majesty, the
king of Prussia.' I have the honor,
etc., etc. Hanswald."
McDonald's answer was as follows:
"To His Excellency, Hanswald. Etc..
Etc.: You will pardon mo that I have
taken two days to consider the extra
ordinary proposition made me in your
letter. The subject, since it is to be en
tertained a moment, requires, perhaps,
still farther reflection but mv reply
shall bo definite and as prompt as I can
bring myself to be in a matter so impor
tant. " My first impulse was to return your
letter, declining the honor you would
do me, and thanking the lady for the
ct mpliment of her choice. My first re
flection was the relief and happiness
which an independence would bring to
a mother and two sisters dependent now
on the precarious profits of ray pencil.
And I first consented to ponder the
matter with this view, and I now con
sent to marry (frankly) for this advan
tage. But still 1 have a condition to
propose.
" In the studies 1 have had tne oppor
tunity to make of the happiness of
imaginative men in matrimony, I have
observed that their two worlds of fact
and fancy were seldom under the con
trol of one mistress. It must be a very
extraordinary woman, of course, who,
with the sweet domestio qualities
needed for common life, possesses at
the same time the elevation and spiritu
ality requisite for the ideal of the poet
and painter. And I am not certain in
any case whether the romance of some
secret passion, fed and pursued in the
imagination only, be not the insepara
ble necessity of a poetical nature. For
the imagination is incapable of being
chained, and it is at once disenchanted
and set roaming by the very position
ana certainty which are the charms of
matrimony. Whether exclusive de
votion ot all the faculties of mind and
body be the fidelity exacted in marriage
is a question every woman should con
sider before making a husband of an
imaginative man. As I have not seen
the countess I can generalize on the
subject without offense; and she is the
best judge whether she can chain my
fancy as well as my affections, or yield
to an imaginative mistress the devotion
of so predominant a quality of my na
ture. 1 can only promise her the con
stancy of a husband.
" This inevitable license is allowed
my ideal world and its devotions, that is
to say, left entirely to myself I am
ready to accept the honor of the coun
tess' hand.
" Your excellency may command my
time and presence. . With high consid-1
eration, etc, Gbmb McDonald."
Rather agitated than surprised
seemed Mile. Folle when, the next day,
as she arranged her brushes upon the
shelf of her easel, her handsome neigh
bor commenced in the most fluent Ital
ian he could command to invite her to
his wedding. Very much surprised was
McDonald when she in'errap'ed h-m in
English and begged him to use his na
tive tongue, as madam, her attendant,
would not then understand him. He
went on delightedly in his own honest
language, and explained to her his im
aginative admiration, though he felt
compunctious, somewhat, that so un
real a sentiment should bring the vis
ible blood to her cheek. She thanked
him drew the cloth from the upper
part of her own picture and showed him
au admirable portrait of his handsome
features, substituted for the mascuine
head of Judith, in the original frlom
which she copied and promised to.be
at his wedding, and to listen sharply "for
her murmured name in his vow at, the
alter. lie chanced to wear at the mo
mnt a ring of red carnelian, and he
agreed with her that she should stand
where he could see her, and at the mo
ment of his putting the marriage ring
upon his bride's finger that she should
put on this, and forever after wear it as
a token of having received his spiritual
vows of devotion.
The flflV ramn nnd HinsmlnnrliM onnln.
age of the countess dashed into the
square of the Santa Maria, with a veiled
bride and a cold bridegroom, and de
posited them at tho steps of the church.
They were followed by other core
neted equipages, and gayly dressed peo
ple dismounted from each the mother
and sisters of the brideerroom. eavlv
dressed, among them, but looking pale
with incertitude and dread.
The veiled bride was small, but she
moved gracefully up the aisle, and met
her future husband at the altar with a
low courtesy, and made a sign to the
priest to proceed with the ceremony.
McDonald was colorless but firm, and
indeed showed but littlo interest, ex
cept by an anxious look now and then
among the crowd of spectators at the
sides of the altar. He pronounced his
vows with a steady voice, but when the
ring was to be put on he looked around
lor an instant, and then suddenly, and
to the great scandal of all present,
clasped hisbride with a passionate ejacu
lation to his bosom. The carnelian ring
was on her finger and the Countess
Xyschriem and Mademoiselle Folie
his bride and his fancy aueen were
one !
This curious event happened in Flor
ence some years since as all people
then there will remember and it was
prophesied of the countess that she
would have but a short lease of her
handsome and gay husband. But time
does not say so. A more constant hus
band than McDonald to his plain and
titled wife, and one more continuously
in love, does not travel and buy pic
tures and patronize artists though few,
except yourself, dear reader, know the
philosophy of it I
Freaks or Lightning.
Lightning struck a book iu the pocket
of John B. Junek, of Refugio, Texas,
and tore its pages in a singularly irregu
lar manner. Junek was knocked sense
less. William Alsford and his son-in-law.
Norton Orr, of East Hannibal. Mo..
were struck by a bolt and the former
was killed. Orr will be totally deaf the
rest of his da'vs.
At Springfield, Mass., lightning ripped
up the floors of the house of Morris
A. Cooley, tore out the ceiliners. nut out
the lights, and created a general shak
ing up. None of the inmates was hurt.
.Lightning struck a cherry tree in tho
court yard of N. H. McCracken, of Ful
ton, Js. 1., and killed the canary in the
cage that Mrs. McCracken was holding
in her hand. Mrs. McCracken was not
hurt.
Thehome of Mrs. Catharine Welch.
of Kit ery, Me., was completely wrecked
by lightning. Mrs. Welch' son was
hurled from his bed against the wall,
and Mrs. Welch herself was stunned.
At Harrodsburg, Ky., licrhtninK shat
tered every window pane in the house
of Isaac Terhune, and demolished a
tree measuring thirty inches socom
pletely that largo pieces of wood were
thrown 100 feet and the trunk split into
ordinary cord wood.
A policeman in the Central police sta
tion of Philadelphia had just finished
combing and dressing his hair in a re
cent thunder-storm when the electricity
scon unmade it by drawing every hair
on end so that it looked as if milled by
a rake, but his body suffered no injury.
In a recent storm in Philadelphia a
ball of white fire resembling a flicker-
; 1 . t - 1-1 1 ; ., 1 ,i
uiecinu iigui was visiuie on tne very
top of a tall telegraph pole on Fourth
street, below Chestnut. In a few sec
onds it darted among one of the wires
and was lost in the darkness. Another
and another followed in rapid succes
sion until the wire resembled a strincr
of dancing red-hot balls.
Lightning did terrible work at Cedar-
town, Ga., recently. In a double log
house occupied by a family named
Prince and another named Brazier, the
bolt entered the roof and struck dead
Mrs. Brazier, who was standing by the
fire roasting coffee. Her neck was bro
ken and her head split open by a piece
of the mantel that was torn off by the
lightning and hurled at her with terrifio
force. Mr. Powell, who was holding
Mrs. Biazier's infant, was knocked
senseless. Jeff Vancy, who was in the
(ame room, was struck dead. Mrs.
Prince, who stood in the liallway be
tween the two rooms, was instantly
killed, and a hole was made in the floor
under her feet as if a rifle ball had
pierced it.
By estimate the surface of an averacn.
sized man contains about sixteen and
a-half square feet, or 95,000 inches. Al
lowing 2,800 pores or openings to each
inch, we have the aggregate of 7,000,000
for the whole bndv. Connected witli
these there are about twenty-eight miles
of tubiner. throuerh which the deenvinw
and waste matters of the body ever
dying, particle by particle, while life
remains pass off. freeing the body of
putrid matter. This waste is gathered
up in all parts of the body and hurried
out of the system as an important means
cf avoiding disease and death.
FACTS ASD C0MMEXTS.
Utah is just now the! chosen field for
considerable Christian missionary work.
Thero are forty-four Presbyterian mis
sionaries in the Territory, maintained at
an annual cost of $30,000, the Congre
gationalists are spending $30,000 in new
school-houses and churches, the Metho
dists have twenty missionaries on the
ground, and other denominations are
represented. These tremendous on
slaughts have incited the Mormons to
renewed zeal.
Noam Lord, a resident of Friendship,
N. Y., is a man who has undergone
more suffering than is usually allotted
to man. For several years past Mr.
Lord has been a victim of rheumatism,
and he has lingered along on the banks
of death with one foot in the grave for
a long time. For about three years he
has been blind, ileal ana speechless.
Before ho became speechless he used to
moan and plead for death to relieve
him from his agony; He is so deformed
that the only position which he now
rests in, or in fact survives, is a sitting
one, with his head between his knees,
nearly meeting his feet. It is strange
that some people have to endure so
much suffering, while young men are
often cut down and taken from us in
their best and apparently healthiest
days.
A Detroit (Mich.) doctor, who has vac
cinated over 500 persons, reports many
odd experiences with subjects under
the lancet. Not more than two men
out of ten have it done in a straightfor
ward way. They hesitate, make in
quiries, and postpone it a few days.
One insisted upon being strapped fast
to his chair while the operation was
performed. Another wanted to take
chloroform. A negro was one day seen
to walk past the office several times,
and the doctor finally stepped to the
door and asked him if he wanted to bo
vaccinated. " 'Deed, sah, dat's what I
cum for," he replied, "but de worry
minnit I turned dat comer de blamed
thing quit aching 1" As a rule the men,
when they feel the lancet, cry "Wooshl"
or "Thunder!" The women cry
"Ouch 1" generally, but now and then
one screams "Oh, Lerdyl" Children
have to be flattered, coaxed or scared
into submission.
Details of the fate of that portion of
the Flatters expedition which remained
in the Sahara under the command of
Sergeant Pobequin present a scene of
unsurpassed horror. The natives hav
ing stolen all the camels which bore the
water, the twenty-nine men made their
way afoot to the caravan route in hope
of meeting with 'succor. But no caravan
came in sight. Without either food or
drink tho men endured unspeakable
agonies for a "time, but were at last
driven to the fearful resort of cannibal
ism. Fifteen men were devoured in
turn, Pobequin being the fifteenth.
Then help came. A caravan arrived,
and provided the half-insane survivors
with a small supply of food and water,
but only in return for money. When
at last they were rescued by tho Me
haris from Uargla, only twelve of them
remained alive, and their minds and
bodies were almost fatally wrecked by
the hardships they had undergone.
Herr Heinrich Waldner, well known
as the author of an exhaustive volume
on the ferns of Central Europe, has
made an interesting contribution to the
literature of sun spots in their relation
to good and bad vintages. He has con
structed a scries of tables showing that
the minimum of the sun spots corre
sponds with the good years, the maxi
mum of the sun spots with the wet and
bad years, when great inundations and
hailstorms have occurred. Thus the
years 1810, 1823, 1834, 1844, 1850, 1807
and 187G, in which the 6un was almost
entirely clear from spots, concur ex
actly or nearly with those years of this
century which have been most famous
as the good wine years, namely, 1811,
1822, 1834, 1840, 1857, 1808 and 1875.
Herr Waldner calculates that the next
exceptionally good year will be 1887 or
1888. The wine growers of Switzerland
have afforded an opportunity for doc
tors to disagree by inviting Professor
Rudolf Wolf, director of the Zurich
observatory, to give his opinion of
Herr Waldner's theory and prediction.
That the Russian peasantry are not
wholly unreasonable in their present
wish for agrarian reform, one example
out of many will suilico to show. A
peasant in one of the eastern provinces,
whose crops had failed, having with dif
ficulty maintained his household dur
ing the winter, found himself absolutely
without resources in the spring. After
vainly asking help from his neighbors,
he at length applied to a wealthy money
lender who had more than once profited
by his distress, and offered to work for
him during the whole summer as a com
mon laborer. The other named a sum
so far below even the meager market
rate of twenty cents a day, that the peas
ant saw at once that it would barely
suffice to keep his wife and children
from starvation, leaving absolutely
nothing for himself. " Have pity upon
me, your honor," he pleaded; " I must
starve if you won't give me more than
that." "Starve, then, and be cursed
to you," retorted the heartless usurer;
" it's no affair of mine." Driven to des-
E eration, tho poor fellow sat down at
is hard-hearted employer's door and
cut his own throat.
An extensive and novel form of land
lordism has been established in Iowa.
Mr. Close, representing some English
capitalists, bought 10,000 acres of land,
divided it into farms of 100 acres each,
brought tenants from England and now
has it all under tillage. " Our system,"
Mr. Close says, " is not to hold virgin
land on the chance of a rise in value.
but, by building houses and plowing
the sod, to improve the property we buy
and make it productive of income,
wherein we-conceive lies the distinction
between legitimate business and specu
lation in land. Each 100 acres is let,
as a rule, to one tenant, who provides
labor and machinery, paying us rent for
wheat lands in kind, on the half-share
system, and for Indian corn lands a
about 82 per acre. The tenant's own
labor, with one assistant, usually a son,
is enough, except at harvest-time, tc
cultivate 100 acres, if divided between
wheat and Indian corn. Thus our
liborers are directly interested in the
yield, and we think we combine the
economy of large buildings with the
efficiency and productiveness of small.
In 1880 and for 1881 we could have let
our farms twice over. Every forty
farms or thereabouts are placed tinder
the superintendence of a steward, who
is controlled directly by ourselves."
James D. Rhymus was a patient in a
private mad-house. Mrs. Bigelow, wife
of tho physician in charge, took a deep
interest in his case. She believed that
insanity could best be cured by moral
suasion and generally mild treatment,
and she chose Rhymus as a subject on
whom to test her system. He steadily
improved, until at last sanity was re
established. In the meantime Mrs.
Bigelow became a widow. She soon
afterward married Rhymus, and he be
came a physician. That was twenty
years ago. Dr. Rhymus made insanity
a specialty in his prnctice, and had
charge successively of many asylums.
He adhered to the theory of mild treat
ment, which had proved efficacious in
his own case, and for the purpose of
putting it into thorough practice he
leased, a few weeks ago, the Grand
View hotel, near Denver, turning it into
an asylum. In order to train his keepers
by degrees ho at first admitted only
three patients, and these were supposed
to be only slightly deranged. But he
was mistaken in one of these, and one
morning found himself attacked by a
furious madman, who choked him iu
sonsible, and would have killed him if
his wife had not fought heroically to
free him. During the commotion caused
by the struggle the two other patients
escaped, and one of them drowned him
self. This bad beginning of the enter
prise drove Dr. Rhymus insane again,
and while out of his mind he slew his
wife.
Snowhnlliiiff a Fire.
In some reminiscences of Montreal,
given in the Star of that city, we find
the following: One morning in January,
1826, after a heavy fall of damp snow
the day before, a firo broke out in a
large wooden warehouse at Point a Cal
liere, occupied by D. W. Eager, iu
which were stored 000 barrels of pork
and several hundred barrels of flour. It
evidently caught near the top, for in a
few minutes the roof of the building,
which was of great length, was almost
wreathed in smoke and flames, while
the walls remained intact. A large
crowd of men and boys rapidly col
lected until nearly 500 were present, but
the engine for some reason not arriving,
and the river, the only source of water
supply, being covered with thick ice,
and above all the crowd being without
a leader and utterly confused, nothing
of importance was done to stop the fire,
and the building seemed doomed to
complete destruction. Just as this idea
had settled into a conviction in the
minds of those present, Henry Corse
came rushing over to the scene from his
factory, Bhouting at the top of his voice:
" What are you thinking of,
men? Why don't you snowball
that firo out?" and suiting the
action to the word he caught up a
Landfill of the damp snow and flung it
upward. The crowd caught the idea on
the instant, as all they wanted was a
leader, and, making a solid rush for
ward, they caught up the snow at their
feet, and a moment later a thousand
snowballs were mounting fireward and
falling with a hiss on the blazing tim
bers. Never was such a sight seen be
fore ; the immense crowd surrounded
and stormed the fire-fiend with a will,
cheering and shouting in their excite
ment; the snow-missiles flew upward
thicker than hail falls in December;
the great snow fight of Napoleon and
his fellows at Brienne school was noth
ing in comparison to it. Almost after
the first half-dozen volleys the fire
seemed to pause as if astonished at the
novel mode of attack; before it could
recover another and another storm of
balls fell upon it until beaten and bat
tered down at one point and flaming
out at another, assailed by a moving
wall of icy missiles wherever it burst
out with renewed violence, in an hour's
time it was completely battled and under
control, and in another hour entirely
subdued. The only loss to the build
ing was its roof, badly burned, while
the stores of pork and flour inside were
comparatively undamaged. The crowd
dispersed in the highest good spirits,
and the affair was talked of and laughed
over for many a day afterward.
How to liaiu Health.
What is more charming in all Nature's
dominion than a thoroughly healthy
woman a bright-eyed, rosy, happy girl
who finds keen pleasure in merely liv
ing ? There is nothing charming in ill
ness. An invalid wife and mother fur
nishes a constant spectacle of sadness
and misery to her family and friends,
and a subject of unlimited expense to
her husband. In such a home the great
est of all blessings that could bo hoped
for would be the health of the mistress
restored ; but too often it is the one
blessing that never comes. American
homes, more than any other, perhaps, in
the world, have been saddened by sickly
women. If this shall be so no longer,
it will be a great blessing to the nation.
And the remedy is simple. American
men are as strong and healthy as those
of other nations ;,there is no good reason
why American women should not be.
All that.is needed is proper attention to
dress and exercise. Let women dress,
as men'do, so.that their bodies shall not
be squeezed and pressed together, but
have free room for motion, and let.them
go out into the air ana sunshine, as men
do, and exercise their bodies, and the
race of American women will not be
come extinct, but be improved, built up
and beautified fit to become the moth
ers of a growing race.
The Portuguese government have
made primary education compulsory
for children between 7 and 12 years of
age living within a radius of two miles
from any government school, exempt
ing the very poor.
FOR THE LADIES.
An Incident nt a Koj-nl Weddlne.
There was one picturesque incident
about the wedding of Princess Hteplia
nie in Vienna. No sooner was the core
emony concluded then the high master
of ceremonies, stepping forward, re
quested all the Belgians in waiting on
the princess the stewards, chamber
lains and ladies to follow him, and led
them away; their duties were at an end,
for Princess Stephanie was now an Aus
trian. Next instant the master of cer
emonies appeared at the head of a new
cortege of ladies and gentlemen in wait
ing accredited to the crown princess
this time Austrians and Hungarians. This
part of the ceremony was, perhaps, tho
most impressive of all, and the crown
princess was deeply moved.
The Simplicity of lre lllnMrnlrd.
Simple costumes, as well as rich and
gorgeous ones, being the order of tho
day, one can dress in the style or man
ner most becoming to them, spending
hundreds of dollars or as many cents,
according to their purse or inclination.
Apropos of this simplicity that is so
much admired, and which often costs
more than an elaborate toilet, is the fol
lowing: A number of ladies at a large
party were wondering why all young
ladies did not dress in the plain, simplo
style of a young belle present, whose
toilet they greatly admired. The dress
was of white surah, covered with tiny
ruffles of the same goods. Tho over
dress was of nun's veiling, with frills
and cascades of cream-white lace, and
caught up with clusters of white snow
drops covered with crystals. Upon her
head was a wreath of snowdrops glitter
ing with white jets. She wore no jewels,
but carried in her hand a largo antique
fan of white feathers spangled with
crystals. After the party was over the
wearer of tho dress, who had enjoyed
the compliments poured in upon her
for the exquisite simplicity of her dross,
told her doting old uncle, who had been
most profuse in his exclamations over
her simple style of dress, that this com
pound of veiling, surah and lace had
cost her over S200. All the uncle did
was to hand the young lady his new
spring hat with a bow of acknowledg
ment, that women were to him incom
prehensible, and that he would never
again praise the simplicity of a 200
dross.
Fimliton Notes.
Watered silks are worn again.
Steel appears on the straps of the ow
shoes.
Painted French mull is a novelty for
dresses.
Capes made entirely of jetted tulle aro
stylish.
Littlo golden cats are suspended from
tho bracelet. .
Velvet is sparingly used on the sum
mer costumes.
Pink and ruby shades are combined
in French toilettes.
Overskirts are not worn, the drapery
being fastened to the skirt.
Spanish laco is used for trimming
parasols instead of fringe.
Folded stocks of illusions aro worn
with high-necked white gowns.
Bonnet strings should be tied in
enormous bows under the chin.
Bonnets are shown, covered with cur
rants, grapes, and other small fruits.
Young ladies still wear the plain
round skirt and waist, with sash at the
side.
Some of the littlo bonnets have exact
ly the curves of a horse-shoo over the
forehead.
Children wear coachman's drab frocks
and they soil almost as easily as if they
were whito.
The coral pink roses, lately introduc
ed, damage any complexion but one ex
ceptionally fine.
"A bonnet of wild oats, lined with
scarlet satin" is the description in a
New York paper.
Buckles will be very fashionable,
worn with sashes, and they match the
buttons worn on the dress.
"Mountain bunting" is used for trav
eling costumes. It is stiff and wiry and
comes in gray and brown.
Riding skiits are cut quite short, with
knee gores, adapted to the jjosition 0f
the rider when she is in the saddle.
Beetles in colored glass aro used to
fasten French neckties. Hope it will
stay in France ; it's an ugly fashion.
Duchess, Dot, Dimple, Charmer,
Flirtation, Carey, Gerster and Bern
hardt are tho names of some of tho new
bonnets.
Spiders with bodies made of humming-bird
feathers, and gilt legs, are
used to fasten the strings on new bon
nets. Wide collars edged with lace three
inches deep will be the fashionable col
lar for morning wear with summer
dresses.
With high-necked dresses flowers are
worn at the belt ; with low dresses, on
the shoulder ; with square neck, at the
corsage.
The long lace pins should be put
through the material cross-wise, and so
lightly that they are visible almost
from point to head.
Pretty aprons are made of plush, with
bibs and pockets, and finished off with
satin ribbon. An apron of red plush is
mmmea with Spanish lace.
"Robin's egg" and "gendarme blue"
will be much worn by young ladies, and
a new blue, or blue-green, called "duck's
breast," is shown in rich satins.
Olive green is the favorite color for
the embroideries and satin bows of whito
muslin gowns, and next to olive green
the tints most used are blue and pink
in many shades.
m reaths or delicate roses, ending in
fine sprays of rose leaves and moss buds.
are worn under the oddly curved brims
of the stylish and picturesque Spaniuh
round hats.
The Palmetto Manufacturing Com
pany of Charleston has applied to the
clerk of the court for a charter. Over
$70,000 has been subscribed to the cap-
1W1 BIOCK.
Cheer Up.
Never go gloomily, man with a mind,
Hope in a hotter companion than fear; " J
Providence, ever benignant and kind,
Gives with a smile what you take with a tear;
All will be right,
Look to the light. . .
Morning was ever the daughter of night; 1
All that was black will be all that is bright.
Cheerily, cheerily, then cheer up.
Many a foo its a friend in disguise,
Many a trouble a blessing most true,
Helping tho heart to be happy and wiae,
AYith love ever precious and Joy ever new.
Stand in the van,
Strive lilto a man I
This is the bravest and cleverest plan;
Trusting in God while you dc what you can,
Cheerily, cheerily, then cheor up.
HUMOR OF THE DAT
Current topics usually run to seed.
Did you ever see a lemon-aide-decamp
?
One half the world doesn't know how
the other half lies about it.
Of all the attachments of a sewing
machine the feller is most pleasing to
the girls;
Haman must have had a very quick
temper. At least we read that he was
very high strung. Rome Sentinel.
Root of all evil: "You aro not fond
of money for itself ?" " Oh, no," said
Johnssonburg; " I am fond of it for my
self." It begins to look as though the next
world's fair would have to be held in the
next world if anywhere. Philadelphia
Chronicle.
A suspicious package, addressea to
Alexander III., was opened and found
to contain an American cigarette.
Loicell Journal.
The man who can see sermons in run
ning brooks is most apt to go and look
for them on Sundays when trout are
biting. Picoyune.
Ono artist claims to have got 640
different positions from the same model
a man. Presume the model had a
boil. Boston Post.
A lady who drew a gentleman's dressing-gown
at a recent church fair now
wishes to draw a good-looking young
man to put in it.
In Russia "hello" is rendered "Tzi
jakanfitkrajanjanaski;" hence the tele
phone can never bo introduced into that
country. Modern Argo.
Ought not a picture dealer t , be a
man of picturesque appearance, iiave a
fine frame and be able to canvass suc
cessfully ? Philadelphia Rem.
The difference between a cat and a
comma is that one has the claws at the
end of the paws, while the other has
the pause at tho end of the clause.
A tree iu this neighborhood has thir
teen rings around it, and yet it is only
six months old. An urchin did it with
his little hatchet. New York Disjjatch.
A New York paper says that in that
city crying at weddings has'gono out of
fashion. In Chicago the father of the
brido does the crying when he comes to
settle the bills. New York Graphic
An intelligent lady asked a sculptor
who was about completing tho figure of
a lramb: " Did you cut out that animal ?"
" Oh, no," said tho artist, "tho lamb
has been there all tho time; I only took
tho marble from around him."
Thero are not more than 300 profes
sional burglars in America, and yet to
keep them out of our homes wo pay
5,000,000 per year for locks, bolts and
fasteners. Ten thousand dollars apiece
per year would hire them to bo good.
Free Press.
At twenty a man is sure that he
knows everything; at thirty ho begins
to have grave doubts; at forty he knows
thai tnero are some t limp's he don t
know; at fifty he is certain that he will
never again know as much as he once
knew.
" Yes, your Anmistua is a fraud!"
Haul Sue to Arabella.
" A fraud!" said Hello, " I can't afTord
To hear that of my feller!
He's true and tried and good beside,
And delicate and dainty "
"Ah, yes! but then," Miss 8uc replied,
" He's sort of bcau-Gus. ain't he?"
Yunker Gatette.
When a boy sees a big hornet's nest
depending from the branch of a tree he
is not satisfied that it is loaded until he
hits it with a stone. He would rather
heave a rock at it than to have five dol
lars. In a few seconds he would rather
five dollars that he hadn't heaved the
rock. Nwristoicn Herald.
Politeness : Gilhooly tied his pony to
a fence railing on Austin avenue. The
owner of the premises came np to him
and said: "You freckle-faced fraud, if
you don't untie that horse I'll fan the
air with your ungainly carcass." " You
must excuse mo, sir," responded Uil
hcoly, " but I am a stranger and did
net know there would bo any objec
tion." " You addle-pated outcast, don't
you suppose I know you are a stranger ?
That's why I talk politely to you, you
goggle-eyed outcast ; that's why I don't
talk rough to you." Galceston News.
Long Courtships.
Beyond a certain point there is no
progress in courtship. When the parties
to the anair have arrived at tho convic
tion that they were "made for each
other," aud cannot be happy apart, the
sooner they become "one and insepar- .
able" the better. Antenuptial affection
is as mobile as quicksilver, and when it
has reached its highest point, the safest
policy is to merge it in matrimonial
bliss. Otherwise, it may retrograde.
Very long courtships often end in a back
out on one side or the other the retiring
party being in most cases "inconstant
man. Ana we would hint to that un
reliable being that he has no right to
dangle after an estimable woman for
years without any fixed intention of
marrying her. The best thing a lady
can do under such circumstances
is to bring matters to a focus, by asking
the point-no-point 'gentleman what he
means, and f She can either do
that or dismiss him altogether. Perhaps
the latter plan would in moBt instances
be the better one ; for a man who is
slow to matrimony is generally slow iu
all the concerns of lif e.