1 HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL, DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. XII'. MDGrWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THU11SDAY, MAHCH 30. 1882 NO. 6. In Future. It scorns to niptlio bud of expectation Has not yet swollen to (ho perfect flower That with its wondrous exhalation The world of faith will dower. The lamps we light are but the. stars of promise The faintest reflex of a distant snn That wakes an eager salutation from us 'Till nobler heights aro won. The past was but tho preface of the story In which tho romance of our lives is wrought; The deeds that win imperishable glory Live scarcely in our thought. Whato'er wo do falls short of onr intending; The structure lacks tho boanty we dosign; And tortured angel, to their home ascending, Depart and leave no sign. By all the doubts anil trials that so vex us, By all the falls and failures that annoy, By all tho strange delusions that perplex u, And yield no fruits of joy. Wo know that unto mortals m not iWvnn The ttiength of knowledgo that is yet in store For us, ero yet wo walk tho strcets'of heaven, And dream of heaven no more. Tho hear of earth has secrets yet witholden, That wait tho dawning ofsomo futuro day, When angel hands from sepulchre bo golden Shall roll the stone a way. Man has not touched the zenith of creation; The godlike thought that filled Jehovah's mind Has had in Ilim but feeblo revelation, I'ncertaiu, nndvliued. The dayB where'h time reaches its fruition, With moments wtightod with no vain regret, Thoxo days of which the soul has Bweot pro vision, Draw nigh, but aro not yet. Josephine Pollard. THE QUAKER ARTIST. "I till thee now, Richard, that thee'll never get a cent of my money if thee keeps on with this devii's work." The speaker was Friend Joseph Har ris, and he held at aim's length a small picture in water colore, tho features of which were hardly discerniblo in tho .l J 1 , . ... giuoni oi ine winter morning. I rieud Joseph had been at the barn, as was his custom, to fodder the cattle and feed the horses before breakfast, and Wl discovered this humble bit of art in a nook m the granary. He did not have to be told that it was his son Richard's work, whose inclination to such ungodly pursuits had been the distress of his parents' lives. Full of suppressed wrath Joseph burst into the kitchen where the family were waiting breakfast, and without preface ed ireasf d his son with the threat which he considered tho most dreadful he could use that of disinheritance. It meant something, too, for in spile of hid plain snn onndingH Joseph Harris owned nearly two hucdred a-i-es of land worth easily a hundred uiid fifty dollars an acre and his visit to the county town on the ttrht of April of each year were not to pay interest but to receive it. A tall, i-traipht figure, he was Dealing sixty year of a?e, but as vigorous as a youth, with quick nicionaand barp blank eves, indicating a violent, nature chained for life by the strict discipline of the SicMy of Friends. Eis sen Richard, now turner! of twtn-ty-two, was of a different mold, short and stoutly buLt. His face at first sight seemed heavy and vacant, but this was in fact the abstraction of the dreamer. His soft blown eyes, and hair clustering iu thicK cnrls over Li low but broad forehead, made Hmends for his somewhat commonplace feat ures. The moment L13 father entered the kitchen Richard felt th a his secret labor hud been dircovered. but his nrtxSety was more for it than for him self. He rarely dured face his father's anger, for Joseph Harris, like many of his sect, made up in severity at home for the tmooth r.nd passionless exterior he nmintaiued abroad. " Wil thee give it to me, father?" said Richard, advancing toward the outstretched hand which held the sketch, while tho hand's owner contem plated it with unspeakable disgust. I'oor little painting ! It was a frag ment of an autnmu afternoon, during which Richard had been husking corn in "the hill field" and which had abided in his memory clothed with the halo of a hundred day-dreams. There was a corner of a woods, the foliage half green, half shading into tints of brown and red. A rivulet leaving a piece of meadow still gay with autumn flow ers and green with lato grass, flowed rippling and sparkling out of the sun light into the shade of the dying leaves. What courage and hope it inusthavel Richard followed in thought its waters a3 they flowed on to Chester creek and then to the stately Delaware river, and far out till they met tho mighty ocean which washes the shores of all the world. And asho mechanically plunged his husking knife into the shucks and turned out the golden ears one after the other, he humbly took this lesson to himself, as was his wont, and said: "I, too, must have more courage, firmer hopo. Why should not I go ior ward in my study cf ait with greater faith ? I mutt, I will." And to fasten the vow he had painted two studies of this little piece of meadow as a constant reminder, matching the time on First days and Fifth days, when his father and mother were at meeting, and he and Mose Riddle, the colored man, were left to look after the stock. One copy he had sent on a venture to a com mission house in New York, the other he had hidden in the barn. It had acquired a kind of sanctity to him, and each tree had become a sym bol of some rebuff or danger he was fated to encounter in his future life. He had, moreover, described it to Sib billa Vernon, and had promised this sole confidante of his aspirations that he would bring it over some time and let her see it. But Bibbilla lived two miles away, and as her parents were also strict members of meeting, who regarded every work of art as profanity, this would have to be managed with due caution. Richard's first impulse, therefore, was to secure the picture. But his father had a double cuse of displeas ure, and his anger was deep. He had agreed to give Richard a fourth share in the profits of the farm this year, and not omy was this painting business an ungodly amusement, but also a waste of precious time and a loss of money. It mnst be stopped. " I'll put it where it deserves to so, and where thee will follow unless thee turns thy steps from the world and its follies. But the fire that thou wilt meet will be that which is not quenched, end where the worm dieth not." With those words, which Friend Harris spoke slowly and with that slight chanting intonation which char acterizes the utterances of the speakers in meeting, the solemnity of which was further increased by the use of the formal "thou" instead of the tisuul 'thee," ho stepped to the kitchen fireplace, where a goodly wood fire was burning under the crane, and striking the picture against the corner of the mantelpiece tore a rugged split through its center and throw the whole into the flames. In a moment it was a shriveled cinder. There are certain natures whose in herent strength can only be developed by a violent shock. Full of latent power, their weakness comes from a native humility. They distrust themselves through a genuine admiration of others. Such was Richard Harris. But the ur cessary shock had come. He gazed a moment at the cinder, his face crim soned, but the severe discipline of tho Society and the family exercised tho sway that it usually does even on the very young among Friends. " Father," he said, in a low and even tone, " I repeat what I have often told thee; I have no light that there is evil in painting; but as thee thinks there is, I shall bid thee and mother farewell to-day, and seek employment else where. I shall not ask thee for any share in thy estate." Taking his hat from the wiudow-sill he passed out of the kitchen door, leav ing his father speechless with amaze ment at this rebellious utterance, and his mother a poor weak woman, con stantly in misery between carrying out the severe rule of her husband whom hho feared, and yielding to her tender ness for her boy whom she loved wiping her tears without emitting any sound, either word or sob. As for his two sisters they sat demure and motion less through the whole scene, at heart rather pleased at it, as they had no sympathy with their brother's taste for forbidden arts, and thought him a queer, wasteful, uncomfortable member of tho household. Moreover, though younger than he, they were not too young to see at once the pecuniary advantage to them of his renunciation of his share of the estate. Kich-vd went toward the barn and took a seat in a nook of thocorn-fodder stack that was built along the side ot the barnyard. He did not feel the cold raw air of the early morning. His mind was too full of the stpp he was about to take and what had led up to it. Now nr never he must quit tho farm, ro nruDce the teachings of the Society, 'brow aside the coat with standing col lar and tho quaint broad-brimmed black hat, give up the plain language, reject the counsels of the venerable facers of meeting who would surely be appointed t.o visit hisa, and prove a recreant to the revered precept3 of Fox and Barclay. All this was meant by a pursuit of his strong bias for art. Why was he born with it? Whence came it? These quostions he had often asked himself. For six generations his uncestors had never touched a brush or palette; not a painting nor a statue nor a musical instrument nor, any drama or work of fiction had been allowed in their houses. How had he been creatod with u passion for color and form, with a love of poesy and music, which neither t he dreary farm work nor the colorless life, nor all the frigid, deadening dis cipline cf the Society could quench? uomg DacK to His earliest memory he could recall that when four venr's old he was left for a few hours at the house of Mike Wallis, an Irish tenant on a neighboring farm, and that Mike's wife had kept him in tho utmost bliss by showing him a colored print of the Viigin and the Infant, and telling him the pathetic history as it had pictured itself iu her warm Ii iah heart. But what was the horror of his parents next dav when he toddled into the room when they were at dinner and called : " Jluducr, mudder, come see God." His narent.s ran to the H nor in nun what this strange appeal meant, and lo! there, on the floor of the front porch, chalked in rude but faithful outline, were the Child, with rajs' of glory around his head, and the Mother, by his sidiB, holding a cross. He could etill recall the scowl that carco over his father's face and his mother's impetu ous rush for a bucket of water and sembbiag-brush. Nor had he forgotten the violent shake and immediato spank ing be himself received lor ma artistio endeavor. His memory leapt till he was a boy of ten, and to his intense delight at effecting a trade of a Barlow knife for a box of paints. Many an hour of joy had they given him, hiding himself m the garret of the old house, in the back part of the hay-mow near the dustv gable window, or in a Jittle hut ho hud built in tho woods. But his prying little sister betrayed him one day, and not only was his treasure confiscated but he himself was tied to the bedpost by his mother and given 6uch a whip ping as would Lave discouraged most youthful artists. Later in life, when he was too old for such vigorous measures, many lec tures had he received on the frivolity of such tastes and the wickedness of min istering to them. - These scenes passing through his memory convinced him that it was vain to battle with such inflexible rules, and that to be free he must leave the farm and all its associations. There was but one which had really held him. This was Bibbilla Vernon. The daughter of rigid parents, her mother even a " public friend," whose voioe at monthly and quarterly meet ings was familiar to all members of the Society, Bibbilla was a not unusual type of the advanced thought of her sect. Calm, self-possessed, clear-headed, she had announced when but fifteen to her family that her own conscience was her guide, and that in all essential matters she should follow it. From childhood she and Richard Harris had delighted to play and talk together ; and though no word of love, no kiss and no caress had ever passed between them, both their families and themselves considered- their union merely a matter of time and money. Nor did this absence of the usual pas sages of lovo seem to any one concerned a strange circumstance. They were accustomed to the repression of all outward show of feeling. In neither household had the children ever seen a kiss exchanged among its inombors, young or old. Though devoid of any passion for art herself, Bibbilla understood and re- speoted the forbidden tastes of her lover. She looked upon his peculiar abilities as guts ot Uocl for use in life. and she quietly but firmly put aside tho traditions of tier sect, winch condemn them indiscriminately. "Wilt thou presume to deny the many testimonies of Friends, both in England and America, against these sinful arts ?" her mother would ask ; being a " publio friend " of considera ble local fame she never employed the incorrect nominative "thee," even in family life. "Mother," replied the daughter, " they spoke for their day. I must act in mine by the light I have, not by theirs." . Her mother wisely avoided argument, trusting that the Spirit would enlighten her daughter in time. Leaving the fodder staok Richard walked across the bare fields toward the plain brick house which was Sib billa's home. His mind was made up. He would go to New York and devote himself to the study of art. He had saved since his majority about three hundred dollars. He had youth, strength, talent, love was not that enough? Would Sibbilla approve of it ? Would slo make the serious sacri fice it involved ? As he approached the house it was about 10 o'clock, and all the males were out at work. He knocked at the front door, instead of the side door as usual, r.nd Sibbilla herself opened it and gazed at him with considerable surprise iu her hazel eyes, quickly changing to an expression of pleasure, which Rich ard did not fail to note, and which filled him with both joy and anxiety. " Why, Richard, what brings thee here at this Lour?" was her exclama tion. "Sibbilla," he said, "I wish to see thee," and stepping in he.closcd the door, and they both stood in the wide hall. obscurely lighted by the trpnsoms at each end. He paused a moment to re cover his control, and then spoke in a low, vibrating tone: " 1 am going to leave tho farm in order to study art. I thall havo to give up my membership in the Society, as thee knows. Father says he will leave me nothing if I do, acid I know thy mother agrees with him. But I am not afraid. All I ask n that thee approve of my decision and will become my wife as soon as I am able to offer thee a home." At that supreme moment cf resolve a'l the strength which for generation Had been nurtured by tho noble Quaker theories of seK-reliance, all the passion lucli for generations had been mulllod and smothered under the narrow Quaker st stein of formality and repression, burst forth and were expressed in the face cf bibbilla Vernon. She seemed to rise in stature, and looking him full ia the eyes, laying one hand ou his arm and passing the other round his neck. she said: " Kicliurd, 1 will come to thee then. or I will go with thee now." The tone was low and the words with out haste, but he who heard it felt in his inmost soul that no oath could be stronger. " Thank Ood and thee," ho uttered. and for the first time in their lives each felt the magic meaning of a kiss of lovo. Seated on the woodon "settee." which is the common furnituro of the country hall, he told her his father's words and action and his own unaltera ble determination to seek lis future iu art. It was agreed that they should bo married by a magistrate as soon as Rich ard should have au income of seven hundred dollars a year. r ull oi ouiet ioy be went homo, an nounced his intended marriage and im mediate departure, packed his trunk, and told Moo to have the dearborn ready at 0 o'clock in the evening to take him to the station. After tho 5 o'clock supper the members of the family maintained almost entire silence, his mo'.her quietly crying, his father reading tho "Book of Discipline," his favorite literature. The dearborn drove up with Mose. who had been to tho station with the milk, and stopping at tho country store, which was also the posfoffioe, had brought a letter for Richard. It was rather unusual for any member of the houtehold to reeeive a letter, therefore Mose announced it with considerable emphasis, addressing his master by his first name as is the custom in strict families: "Joseph, by'ur's a letter for Rich ard. Hiram sez it's a letter from York, and 'peats as if it mout be on biznees." Joseph took the letter, and resisting a strong inclination to open it passed it to his son. It was from the firm in New York to whom lie had sent a copy ot his picture, and it read: Kew loKK, January 18, . Dear Bib: We have tho gratification of informing you that the study you sent us on sale has attracted tho atten tion of one of our patrons, to whom we have parted with it for $500. Deduct ing comm., stor'ge, iusur'oe. del'y. etc.. as per inciosea statement, leaves a net bal. of $372. C2, for whioh find our o'k herewith. You mention a duplicate of the study yet in your possesion. We will take that at the same figure, cash on deliv try, and will give you an order for five more studies to be completed withiu a year. itespectruuy, Smiles, Wiles & Co. As be read tins letter the check fell from his band on the table. The sight of the colored and stamped paper was too much for his father. Glanoing at the large amount, as much as he received for the best wheat crop his farm could raise, he snatched the letter from his eon's hand and eagerly read it. Richard stood by in silence. " What does ho mean by the dupli cate study ?" said his father, in an un certain voice. " He means," said Richard, quietly " the pioturo jou threw in the fire this morning." A new light dawned on his father's mind. Bo long as his son's taste seemed nothing but a titne-and-money. wasting form of idlenessithad no redeeming fea ures; but ithe incredible fact that there were people willing to pay hundreds of dollars apiece for such vain images now stood right before him. He was too shrewd to misunderstand it and its re sults. ' "Richard," 1b said, with a softened voice, "I desire that thee would post pone leaving us for a few days. Thy mother and I will acoompany thee t the city, and will be present at the cer mony. I think Bibbilla's parents will also not refuse to attend." As he went out ho said to Mose, who was waiting with the dearborn : " Mose, theeshould always be slow to anger, and avoid tho committal of rash actions when oulof temper." Our Con- ttatnt. Dniicnhower'sLiro In Yakutsk. Mrs. Danenhower has received a long letter irom ner sot, lieutenant Dan enhower, of the; Jeannette explor ing expedition, dated Yakutsk. Siberia, December 30, 1881. It contains no news which has not been anticipated by telegraphio dispatches, but it gives some interesting details with regard to the life of the Jeannette survivors at lakutsk. In the letter Lieutenant Danenhower says: We are passing the time quietly but impatiently. It is daylight here at about 8 a. m. We get tp and have breakfast at a little hotel that is handy. Tne forenoon I spend leading a little, writing a little and in attending to any busi ness I may happen to have on hand. About 2 p. M. General Tschernieff's sleigh arrives, andl go to dine with him; generally return about 4pm., and if I do not have visitors I take a nap and kill time as well ai I can until 9 p. st., when we have supper at the little hotel, and then go to bet. As I have told you before, I have fcund nice people in every part of the world that I have visited, and this place is by no means on exception. Lastovening, for instance, wo spent very pleasantly at tho house of a Mr. Oorreikoff, an Irkutsk merchant, who entertained us very well. His wife is a charming lidy, and it was very pleasant to see tie three beautiful chil dren. They ha?) u fine piano, the first one we have Bten (since leaving San Francisco. Yakutsk is a city of 5,000 inhabitants. Tho houses are hiilt of wood, and are not painted. Tin streets are very wide and each house has a large yard or court. The principal trade is in furs. In fcummer a grait deal of fresh meat n sent up tho river During nine months of the year snow and ice abound. In tho winter the tliermometer falls to sev enty degrees bwlow, zero Since our arrival it has beta sixty eiht degree1 below, and to-day It only thirty-five de erees, or thereabout. In tho summei the temperature ises as high as ninety five degrees Fabruheit, but tho nights are cold. There a-e many horse3 and cows in this vicintt. The natives, the Yakutzs, eat horse meat, but the Rus sians eat beef and venison. Potatoes, cabbage and a fowither vegetables, s fow berries. whJ if A ij grown in this vicinity There are a few sheep and poultry also. Dr. Kipjllolmexaorned my left eye and he says that a very ordinary opera tion is required to make it a very effi cierit cyf- What is called ou 'artificial pupil" will have to be cut in the mem brane that now clouds the vision. He advises me to wait until I get home, for after the operation I will have to remain iu a dark room for a month or two. My goneral health is excellent. I am stout and hearty. Of course there very little Ameri can news in this far-away place, but 1 have been able to pick up a few bits of it here and there. The death of Gar field is a topio often mentioned, and from the accounts here I learn that he wa3 shot by Guiott on the train near tiong Branch. A great deal of interest and sympathy is manifested by the liussiuns. LiaBt evening 1 sa a Tomsk newspaper, which said that the Alliance had mado a cruise in search of the Jean nette.and had reached latitude eighty degrees fifty-five minutes north on the weft coast of Spitzbergon. Had our ship held together ten (two?) years she would probably have drifted out in that vi cinity. About 900 miles south of this place there lives an Englishman named Lee, and from him I hope to learn a great deal of news. Creamy Gold, According to the statistics of the Northwestern Dairymen's association there are 12,4.42,137 cows in the United States, which yield their owners an an nual profit of $35. Strange as it may seem, says one writer, the poultry in terests oi the oountry, and tne poultry and dairy, which go together generally. though separated in this figuring, is greater than the beet trade. l:y refer enoe to the figures of the New York produce exchange it will be found, and may astonish 6omo, that six thousand barrels of eggs are sold there every week, which, at 812 per barrel, makes a total of $72,000, or for the year in one city. 83,744,000 paid lor eggs alone. Then think ot tne chieaens. the tur keys, the geese and other fowls sold there, and tho eggs and fowl sold in Chicago and throughout the country, This, however, is nothing compared to tne dairy interest since tne creamery ana co-operative system nas been iutro auced, and wnicn is now in vogue cvetysvhoio ia Illinois, Iowa and Wis consin. It seems curious but it is a fact that tuere are 10,000 more men than women TT. 1 iu wtan, EARTHQUAKES. Some ol the Shock Ihnt Have Vlxlteil Ihn Western Hemlvpherc. The last great earthquake which visited Central America was on March 19, 1873, when San Salvador was ut terly destroyed. That part of the world is peculiarly exposed to these convul sions, but the disaster of 1873 was not so fatal as that just reported, for, though three successive shocks wero felt, the inhabitants, warned by previous noises, were able to find places of safety, and only about 500 perished. Earth quakes have been so frequent in the Central American States that the In dians are accustomed to say that it is " the land that swings like a hammock." The city of Caracas was entirely de stroyed in fifty-six seconds on. March 26, 1812. Quito, in Ecuador, was almost destroyed on March 22, 185!. In Peru, Oaliao was destroyed in 1580, and the acoompanying Rea wave was ninety feet high. It was agaiu destroyed in 174G. An earthquake which will be readily recalled was that of August 13 and 14, 1808, in which Arica suffered severely. The tidal wave carriod a number of ships inland, among them the United States steamer " Wateree." A United States storeship was also lost by it. In Chili destructive earthquakes have oc curred. One in 1S22 caused a perma nent elevation to an extent of from two to seven feet of fully 100,000 square miles of land lying between tho Andes and the coast. February 20, 1835, the city of Oonoepoion was destroyed for tho fourth time; there were felt over 300 successive shocks within two weeks. April 2, 1851, a severe shock was felt at Santiago. In the United States have been many severe shocks. The most severe which ever visited the Eastern and Middle States was that of November 18, 1755. The shock felt in New England was undoubtedly promulgated from either the same center which emanated the disturbance that had destroyed Lisbon on the first day of the month, when 60,000 persons perished in six minutes. or from a center whose activity had been stimulated by the continual quaking that then prevailed from Iceland to the Mediterranean. The earthquako of the 18th began in Massachusetts with a rearing noise like that of thunder. After a minute's continuance of this there came a first severe shock with a swell like that of a rolling sea a swell so great that men in tho open fields ran to seize something by which to hold on lest they should be thrown down. After two or three lesser shocks then carao the most violent of all, pro ducing a quick horizontal tremor with sudden jerks and wrenches; this con tinued two minutes, and after a short revival died away. Numerous other shocks followed in the course of a month. In Boston many buildings were thrown down and twisted out of shape. On October 19, 1870, occurred the most considerable shock that has been observed in the Middle and East ern States during the present century. The source of this disturbance has been traced, with some probability, to the volcanic region fifty to 100 miles north east of Quebec. From this rogion the shock sprc-ud to 8t. Johns, N. B., and thence was felt westward 'o Chicago and southward to Now York. The velocity of the wave or shock was about 14,000 feet per second. Tho occurrence of the shock felt at Qtiebeo was telegraphed to Montreal by the operators of the Montreal Telegraph company in time to call the attention of those at the latter city to the phe nomena, about thirty second before the shock reached he.pv T- vue tituiuquuue cfiaol destroyed one of the Southern missions. That of March 26, 1872. was tho most severe that has occurred there during many years. Special damage was done in San Fran cisco by the cracking of the walls of fine public buildings. In Nevada the miuiug regions suffered in 1871 by the destruction of Lone Pine and other settlements. Wonders of the Brain. Dr. n. W. Mitchell, of New York, ia a lecture on the " Brain and Its Won ders," said that tho cerebellum of tha brain presided over the or?an of motion, anl that it could be removed from ani mals without taking away their intelli gence. Tho effect, however, would bo that they could not move. The same symptoms, ho said, could be observed in man under the influence of alcohol. If the lattor takoH too much of the stimulant his cerebellum and the little cells of which it is composed rofnso to do their work and tne man staggers. He claimed that a person learning to ulay ou the piano and a lady threading a needle were regulated by their cere bellum, and without its assistance could do neither. He said that the medulla oblongata was the most vital part of the whole system, and if run through with a knife life would be destroyed in an instant. Advantage has been taken of this in the process of hanging people, and the garrote had beeu introduced on the same principal. He claimed that the brain could not get along without nerves and that it had twelve pairs of them. The first three nerves were of special sense olfactory, optio and au ditory. The olfactory nerve was not very well denned in man, as it was not necessary, but it reached its highett development in dogs, cats and rats. It was more perceptible in the rat than in any other animal, and the bloodhound came next in order. After describing tho optio nerve the lecturer said that the sense of hearing was less developed in man than in the animal. He con tended that if either of the three nerves mentioned were cut there would be no sense of pain and that the only result would be the destruction of the sense of smell, sight or bearing The fifth nerve, he said, confers sensibility on the face, and when irritated gives rise to intense pain. He insisted that the pneumo-gastrio nerve was the great vital nerve of the whole body, and said that if it were divided our respiration would cease at onoe. He then explained the workings of the spinal cord and its connection with the brain, and con eluded by reciting the effects ot alcohol chloroform, opium and strychnine on mat organ oi tne Doay. FACTS JLSD COMMENTS. 'I ho ttfal losses by firo in the United estates last year aggregate 881,280,900, of which the insurance companies paid M,Oil,UUU. Tne savings bauks of the State of New York represent financial resources of $443,000,000. The savings banks of inow ingiana represent as much more. In June, 1783, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier sent up the first balloon. To commomorate the centenary of the event, it is proposed thnt an interna tional exhibition of " serial arts ' bo held at Paris next year. The "rcrial arts" are to include every industry, science of art, relating to gas or the a'mosphere, which is supposed to have any connection directly or indirectly with rcronautio experiments, Our Continent quote from Barcn Nordenskjold's sciantifio reports that tho only tong-bird he found in the rx trome north was the snow bunting. Its merry twitter was often heard near heaps of stones and craggy cliffs, where it builds its nest of grass, feathers and down. Delighting in cold and snow, this cheerful songster enlivens the gloomy shores of northermost Spitzber gen with its lively notes, and defies tho rigor of tho Arctio winter. The superintendent of the New York Central railroad denies that it is econ omy or oldfoginess that prevents the heating of cars by steam. It is imprac ticability. If the Bteam is not returned to the engine which has not yet been successfully done the locomotive can not afford the waste. If it comes from a separato boiler, say in the baggage car, and on account of a broken wheel or other trouble the baggage car has to be cut out, then the heat supply has gone, and any single car which had to be side-tracked or left waiting for another train on another road would leave no heat as soon as reparated from tho train. Every car must have its own source of beat, iests are now going on for heating the trains by a small boiler under each car, which, in case of collision, would tumble off and not set tho car on firo. The superintendent claims that the road has spent 512,000 in experiments on heating cars, but the subject is surrounded with many diflicultics. Tho proportions ia which foreign countries have contributed to Mormon ism are shown in the following figures, which are compiled from the censuses of 1870 and 1880: 1870. Rom in England 10,073 liorn in Scotland 2,391 Horn in Wales 1,783 Horn in Ireland 502 1880. lO.fi.M 3,201 2,3!IG 1,321 7,7111 3,750 1,214 1,040 Horn in Denmark.. 4,957 1,790 I torn in Sweden Horn in Norway , Horn in Switzerland.., Horn in Oormauy England, it will chief contribution (13 509 353 885 be seen, makes the to Mormonism. and next to England come thoSfc Scandina vian countries to whoso people the Anlo-S.ixon stock is close akin. Tho infrequency of Irish or German Mor mons i3 very remarkable, and the Latin i;ices cf Enropo never have been hos pitable to Mormon missionaries. The rnumber of proselytes ma-Je amono Americans during tha last twenty years is very small. They are few and fm between, Tho recruiting ground is Great Britain and Scandinavia. Professor Morse in one of his recent lectures beforo the LdwgII Institute, in irje'JijafieSS mVmarjncr calculated to lill the minds of ie?thetio people who have been living np to their pottery with sincere grief. From his statement it appears that the Satsuma pottery, to be worthy of which soulful aesthetes in- ensely strive, is held in no esteem in Japan. Thoro is no such thing as an cient Matsuma pottery, and, more than his, plates with heavy rims, cups with handles aud eaucei s and pitchers have r.o exifctcuco at all as genuine pottery. ust what it is that33thctes are worship- ng Prof ersor Morso told his audience as follows: The large articles sold as an cient Sitsuma are from two to four ears old, are principally manufactured in Tokio and are rubbed with charcoal dnst to give them an appearance ot age. have myself stood besido an agent of au American hrm winch, deals in " oat- soma ' ware, and heard him give an order for a great quantity of this "an cient " pottery, directing tho designs and telling tho maker to put on plenty of decorations, no matter what. These large pieces are regarded by the Japan ese as abominable paraphrases, aud a name is applied to them which signifies that they are made saiely to be exported. They are for the most part not Satsuma at ail, but Awata, aud the decoration is performed by children and cheap work men of all kinds. 1 know that 1 am breaking many hearts in this audience aud I am sorry for it, but I must speak to save other hearts from being broken. rffectof Heat ou the Nerves. Dr. William A. Hammond, the dis tinguished neurologist, in an article in Our Continent with the takinir title, " How to Esospe Nervousness," warns auainst overheated apartments. He says: An overheated apartment al ways enervates its occupants. It is no uncommon thing to nna rooms nested n winter bv an underground furnace up to ninety degrees, tients and murders are more numerous in hot than in cold weather, and the arti ficially heated air that rushes into our rooms, deprived as it is oi its natural moiBturo by tho baking it has under gone, is even more productive cf vicious passions. It is no surprising circumstauoe, iherefore, to find the woman who swelters all day in such a temperature, and adds to it at night by superfluous ' bedclothing, cross and disagreeable from little everv-day troubles that would scarcely ruflla hex temper it the kept her room at sixty degrees and Opened tho windows ever y now ana men. minted v -shaped waistcoats appear n imported costumes. The poiut of tne v is at or near tne waist line. THE JEAXXEITE'S t'OMMASDER. The Scorch for I.lroiennnt De Lone and Ilia Men. Tim United States seoretary of the navy has rocoived an official report from Engineer Mel villo of the Jeannolto, dated Yakutsk. Jannary 6, and containing a narrative of his adventures and his search f r Lieutenant De Long eince the dispersion of the Jeannette's boats on the night of September 12, 1881. At that time the throe boats containing the crew of the aban doned ship were only fifty miles northeast of Donkin, their destination. A gale arose, blowing from the northeast, and the boat were separated.' ,The atory of Melville's land ing on September 19, and hia search for De Long and his party, has been told at dif ferent times in the newspapers,' and S3 the report does not contain a great deil that is new. He transmits furious records left by Lieutenant De Long in hnts at places where he and his party stopped in their searoh for a settlement. From these records ho is able to trace the course of Lieutenant De Long np to October 9. A let ter vim found in a hut near the month of the Lona, whore Lieutenant Do Long landed on September 19. .Various articles left by tho missing party were found in the lint, including cant-ofT clothing, two broken rilles, a box of specimens from Uou nett Inland, two cook stoves, four log books, and other things. The letter is signed by Lieutenant De Long and the thirtoen other members of the party, and is copied in six lan guages, with a request that the tinder will for ward it to the secretary of the navy at Washing ton. Afler speaking of the separation of tho boats on the night of September 12, Lieutenant De Long says : " My boit made the land on the morning of tho Kith instant., and I suppose we are at the Lena delta. I have had no chance to get sight lor position sinco I left Himonatki Island. After trying for two days to get in shore with out grounding, or to reach one of the river mouthi, 1 abandom d my boat and waded 1 miles, carrying our provisions and outfit with us. We must now try. with Ood's help, to waik to a settlemoot, which I believe to be niaety-fivo miles distant. We are all well; havo four days' provisions, arms and ammunition, and aio carrying with us only ship's book and paper?, and blankets, tents aud somo medicines; there fore our chance of getting through seems good." A Boeind letter was found in a hut on the Lena delta, twelve miles from the head of the delta, by a Yakut hunter. It was dated Sep tember 26, and recorded the arrival of Lieuten ant DcLong and bis party there and their de parture for the southward. Another record left by Lieutenant DcLong was subsequently found by a Yakut hunter in a but on the Lena delta, and datod September 62. A request, copied in fix languages, that it be forwarded to Washington, was found with it. In this letter Lieutenant De Long sayBt " My boat, having weathorcd tho gale, mado tho land on the morniug of the lGth distant, and after trying to get in shore for two days, and being prevented by shoal water, we aban doned tho boat and waded to the beach, carry ing our arms, provisions and records, at a point about twelve miles to tbo north and cast if this place. Wo had all suffered somewhat from cold, wot and exposure, and three of one men were badly lamod; but having only four .luys' p:oviiions loft, reducod rations, we were forded to proceed to tho southward. On Mon day, September 19, we left a pilo of our effocts near mo ueacn, erosiing a long poie wuere win ba found everything valuable, chronometer, ship's log books for two years, tent, cto., which we wore ausoiutoiy nnaoio to carry, it toon us forty-o ght hours to make these twelve miles. owing to our disabled men, and those two huts seemed to mo a good place to stop while I pushed forward with the surgeon and Ninder inau to got relief for us. But last night we shot t wo reiudocr, whioh gives us abundance of food for the present, and we havo seen eo manv more that anxiety for the future is relieved. As scon as our three sick men can walk we ."hall resumo our march for a sottlomtnt on the Lena river. ' Saturday. Septcm bcr 21. 8 a.m.- Our three lame men being now able to walk, we aro about to resume our Iourney with two days' rations doer meat and two days' rations pemmican and uiree pouivis lea. " I iio latest record found was datod October 1. A Yakut hunter discovered it in a hut on tho Lena. At this timo all of Lieutenant De .one's party were yet alivo. Thev had two lys' supply of provisions, hut had no fear of Ihn future, as thoy had all along been able to got gme. Lrickscin's toos bad beeu ampu tated iu consequence ot frost bite. The paity was about to cross to the west side of the Lf na. From the two men sent ahoad by Liou- tenant De Long on October 9 Melville learned something of tho wanderings of the lost men vtib j-A-riK tii mU west bank at a summer hnntius lodae called Usterda. Erickson was carried iu an improvised bed drawn by his comrades. They proceeded south slowly for two days, and dossed a small branch of tho Lena, which they had to wade. On October 6 thev stopped at' a small hut, where Erickson died the next day, and was buried in the Lena. Ily iliia time they wero in a clepiorauie con dition, having eaten thoir last allowance of dog meat, aud being on an allowance of three ounces of alcohol per man per day. Th v pr.mieu soutli until uctoDcr a, wnon l.isnteiiant De Ling decided to send two men uii -a I to tcck relief. Tho feet of Ninderman m l Nui os wero hotter than those of the others. aod they were supplied with their blankets and llnmiiigton ritles, fortv vonnas or ammuni tion aud six ounoes of alcohol, which was a per capita division ot the whole stock or tne lat ter. 'J'hey were ordered to proceed sonth on the went Lank of tho Lena, and to send re lief ii fonud, being told that the others would lo:iov their lootsteps. vwicn tne two men started tho .party was at a halt on the north bmk of a larga western branch of the Lena. The two men ascended that bi-anch iibout live inilus to make a crossing, and then tiaveled east to shut situated on the Lena bank. After fourteen days of intense suffering and slow progress thoy reached Iielcour an t wore found by three natives, who supplied them with food and transported them to Ueluu by deer s'.e.ls, arriving at that place on Sep- tembor27. Mel- ille visited the place where De Lonsf crossed the Lena in November. His party suf fered g'eatly, and got back to Belumon No. vcuiucrz in nearly exnausiea conumuu. Concerning the further search for Lieutenant De 1jng, Melville says: "From my knowledge of the country," and from the ovidence of Noros and Ninderman, I am Ouuviuced that Lieutenant De Long and party are somewhere to the westward or tne Una. and between Sixteraneck and Belcour, which aro s parattd by an extent of about 150 versts of barren ana desolate region devoid ot sub tance. To reach that region a large force will 'e required, with proper authority from tho IUiseian official. I therefore came lo this place to communicate with the Uni ted States, and immediately, with' tha aid of the authorities, to organuee searching parties. In the meantime the commandant of Belun is (carchiug with all the force his small town af fords. The governor of this province has sent a general order throughout the entire region Irom the Lena to Kolyma, to search for and render assistance to both parties that aro misninz. I am now completing my arrange- meats, and will start north iu a few days." A Useful Table. In laying off small lots the following measurements will be found to be both accurate and complete : 52 ft. tq. or 2,722 sq. ft. is 1-16 of an acre 74! ft. so. or 5,415 sq. ft. ia of an acre 104' ft. sq. or 10,8'JO sq. ft. is of au aera 120 ft. sq. or 14,520 147'J ft. sq. or 21,780 onriu? ft m , la Kan sq. I', is fi oi an acra sq. i t. la y, ol au acre 208 ft. hi. or 43,560 sq. ft. is 1 A very severe case : Tommy. " Oh 1 oh ! oh I mamma, I've rund a great big splinter in my hand, and it nnrts so oflul I can t go to school." Mamma. 'But, my dear, mamma doesn't see any thing tho matter." Tommy. " Oh I oh I Zeu 1 guess it must be re uzzer hand." V ' i
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