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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
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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."
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