IT (fife oil HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NllPESPEHANPUM. Two Dollars per Annum. YOL. XII. HIDGWAY, ELK COUTpA., THUllSDAY. MAY 11. 1882 NO. 12. I i : . . . The Light of Stars. The night is come, but not too soon; And sinking silently, Ail silently, tho littlo moon Drops down behind the sky. Thero is no light in earth or heaven Hut tho cold light of stars; And tho first watch of night is given To the red planet liars. it the tender star of love ? Tho star of lovo and dreams ? Oh, no ! from that blue tent above A hero's armor gleams. And earnest thoughts within mo rise, When I behold afar, Suspended iu the evening skies, The shield of that red star. Oh, star of strength 1 I see thee stand And smile upon my pain; Thou beckoncst with thy mailort hand, And I am strong again. Within my breast thero is no light But the cold light of stars; I give tho first watch of the night To the red planet Mars. Tho star of tho unconquered will, Ho rines in my breast. Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm and self-possessed. And thou, too, whoso'cr thou art, That readest this brief paalm, As ono by one thy hopes depart, Ho rcseluto and calm. Oh, fear not in a world lil;o this, And thou shalt know ero long, Know how sublime a thing it is To sulfur and be strong. LnnoftUoin. patching the Banner. "I never was ro disappointed iu my life," eaid old Miss lieokJey, letting her eyeglasses drop hopelessly at her Bide Are you quite sura, Bsliult ?' "I've been everywhere," Raid Miss Belinda Beckloy, the younger of the two ancient maiden ladies. "Every where! And there's nothing that corre sponds with it in the least degree." The two Misses Beckley looked at eaoh other despairingly- And if one had been gifted with a fertile imagina tion, it would have been easy to fanc them a pair of elderly enchantresses irj the midst of a tnagio palace. For thi quaint, low-ceiled drawing rooms werf filled with jointed bamboo screens, carved masses of ivory, hideous paintec" ware, and tiny cups and saucers a transparent as so many egg shell And, by way of finishing ui the ha monious whole, they had hung thei walls with draperies and banners i wrinkled crape moirclod with gol thread, lustrous catin, brocaded t ape try, hvou strips of gil 'ed paper, whei Oiientul plants l-l(H?oroed, and pin norcennl birds set all one's preconceivp ideas of perspective at defiance. Ain a flint p-'ifunie cf teak and sandal woo hung on the air, and dingy mgs blotte. out the hut vest roses and tulips of tin carpet, which had been pood euotipi for the hulf pa? captain who had one been nne'e to the two Misses Becklei and it only required a coffee colore native with wooden shoes audabraide queue to moke one believe one's self ii the Flowery Land. ' Japanese, yon see," the two old la dies wovld say, looking complacent! at the astonished puest who had Btum bled from an atmosphere of newly fallen snow and New York sunshin into this half -lighted, strangely ic?nte mosaic of the East " entirely Jap an'se." But life is not without its shadows and upon this esppcidl evening, as the nephew and heir-apparent of the old ladies, one Frak Franklyn, sauntered in, just as the daffodil gold of tho Feb ruavy twilight was turning to hazy pur. pie, he found both his aunts plunged in the deepest abysses of gloom. Mr. Franklyn looked from one to the other of the weird and agitated faces He knew that Aunt Miranda's cap was never tipped at that particular angle over her f also front except when mat ters were very bad indeed ; and Aunt Belinda leaned against the mantel in an attitude cf limp despair. "What is the matter?" he asked, setting his hat on a lacquered tripod in one corner, and balancing his cane in the angle of the wall behind a stuffed ibis, whose speculative eyes seemed to glare at h'm from the partial shadow after a most uncomfortable fashion. "Look there, Frank?" solemnly uttered Miss Beckley, pointingwith her crooked gold-headed cane to the opposite wall. "Beautiful !" said Frank Franklyn, at a venture. For he saw only a long and narrow parallelogram of black satin mounted in a border of glimmering gold brocade, with a roller of cream white ivory, and a background on which a pensive stork wandered through waves cf lead-colored silk embroidery, and beneath the silver green shadow of sacred palms. "Isn't it ?" said Miss Belinda, her venerable face lighting up with mo mentary satisfaction, only to darken again into gloom. "But, oh ! Ft auk, we haven't got a match for it." "Not got a match for it ?, "Ihere's nothing nothing," cried Miss Beckley, tragically lifting her bands, "in all this room that is fit to hang on the other side of my dear grandfather's portrait." J" Why," said this reckless Iconoclast, I should think that almost anything would do." Tho two old ladies uttered a simul taneous cry of dismay and horror. " Frank," reasoned mild Miss Beck ley, "you don't understand high art." "You're u dear, good-hearted fel low," added Misa Belinda, with that degree of charity wherewith a mission ary may be supposed to regard a well- intentioned cannibal, "and in a knotty point of law I don't suppose you have your equal. But, you see, you are not testneuo. "N no," confessed Mr. Franklyn, rubbing his nose; "pernaps i am not, But why don't you and Auut Miranda go down to the stores and match the thing?" " We have tried," said Misa Beckley. " It can't be dono," added Miss Be linda, with a sigh. " Give it to me," said Franh.who was groat at au emergency. " I'll take it downtown with me to-morrow. There's a new place opened near the docks where they pretend to import novelties. Tado 'Vnoko, I believe, is tho name painted up over the door. Probably the concern is kept by an Irishman, with a staff of German clerks. But I've seen some nice things out at the door. Perhaps I can obtain something to suit yon there." "Oh, Frank, if you only could 1" cried Miss Belinda, clasping her mit tened hands. "At all events, it is worth the trial," said Misa Beckley, cheering up a little. " Tado Anoko I That is quite a new name." fc'o Mr. Franklyn, on his way to tho legal Mecca of Messrs. Waitatill & Lin gering tho next day, stopped at the newly painted and friUled establishment of Tado Anoko, whore a plump, red whiskered man who spoke excellent English (with perhap3 a redundancy of h's) promptly placed himself at his ser vice. Together they unrolled the ivory mounted banner and viewed the stork and the palm3 of tho wonderful needle work wares of the Kyust river. "Vary sorry," said the superinten dent, as ho culled himself, of Tado Anoko's bazaar, "but I don't suppose, sir I don't, indeed as you'll find hany tlting to correspond with this 'ere piece of 'ih hart. There never was but a few of 'cm himpoited. And they'ie all bought hup. Law bless you, sir, the gentry they will 'ave 'em, sir, at hany price." A plump, fresh-colorod old woman, the salesman'o aunt, who had been ar ranging palm leaf faus on a gigantic re volving screen at the back of the store, now cumo forward, peeping at the satin scroll over her nephew's shoulder. " It's quite true, sir, what Simpson s:iys," pronounced she. " I know those banners. There ain't ono to bo had in the city. P'raps our houso may import sumo more for the next holidays ; but" "Call Alta Graves," imperiously in hrrnp'.rd Mr. Simpson. "She knows a deal about the stock. She can tell U3." Alta Graves was summoned a pretty pink cheeked littla dumsel, with hair iiron and shining like a newly-ripened chestnut, and dark eyei which sho scarcely ventured to lift from the floor. ' Oh, yes," she assented, in an innocent, bird-like sort of voice, " she had seen those banners. But thero were none at present remaining in Tado Anoko's store f imported novelties. Unless, indeed, lie geutleman would take a line quality jt paper, mounted on linen " But Mr. Franklyn shook his head, Riper would not meet tho views of the KUes iu whoso behalf he was nondnofc ia the investigation, he said. The unner must be of satin, of tho same 'ilick color, embroidered in a corre sponding pattern. He was sorry foi jiving so much trouble; and he went 'it, leaving his card, so that ia case any iftv vein of banners or decorations -ihould be ttrnek at tho eleventh hour, tie might perchance gtt the benefit of it. Time days afterward, just an the ".anils of the office regulator were con--ot'dnting tuttmiolred at the figure reive, and the bells of Old Trinity !re pealing tlu-ir musical noon jangle, bora Cam? t!io smallest of tup taps at lie outer door of the firm of Waitatill & Linserlonr, in which Mr. Frank Franklyn wr.s a silent partner. And there stocd Alta Graves, rosy and pal pitating. " Why," exclaimed Mr. Franklyn, trying to locate the fresh blooming faci m his mind, and associating it oddly with Chinese monsters, mammoth chests f tea, and a curious odor of fresh matting and randalwood fans, "it's tho young ludy from Tado Anoko's plaoe, isn t it V And Alta made a little courtesy, and answered, breathlessly, "Yes, please." Mr IVanklyn graciously bade her enter. Mr. Waitstill was at his lunch, and Mr. Lingerlong was iu the back oilise arguing with a dusty old client who bolieved himself a better judge of law than Blackstono, so that the coast was clear. What on earth did she want with him? he asked himself. Had the firm got into a lawsuit, and had she been sent to bid his immediate pres ence on the scone ? Or was she herself about to sue her principals for breach of contract? " Can I be of any servico to you ? ' he courteously asked, as she stood there, still breathless, and changing from pink to pale. "Would you please look at this, sir, and see how you like it V" said she, hurriedly unrolling a little parcel which until now sho had carried in her hand. It was a long strip of black satin, with a scarlet-plumed ibis wading through white silk deeps of water, with the Bacred Mountain Fusiyatna rearing its peak beyond, while in the foreground waved a piereresquo laDgie oi reeus ana rushes. "Th every thing P exciaimed Frank lyn. "But 'it isn't mounted." "Almost any store will do that for you, hir," said Alta, her cheek brighten ing into still deeper carmine at his evidont satisfaction. "But why didn't you show me this the other day V" ho questioned. "I I hadn't found it then," answered Alta, in some confusion. " And what is the price ?" Mr. Frank lyn asked, putting his hand in a business-like way into his pocket. Here again pretty Alta seemed to bo puzzled. She didn't know, she said. Could tLe gentleman tell her the price of the other one? It was ten dollars, Mr. Franklyn be lieved. " Then," said Alta, speaking with an evident .effort, "would you think this too dear at eiaht dollars, seeing that it isn't mounted ?'' ' I should consider it a very fair price," said Mr. Franklyn, kindly. And be paid her the money, a gold half eagle and three crisp, clean one-dollar bills; and she vanished away down the long hall like a gray shadow. "What ft fool I was," thought Mr. Franklyn, suddenly rousing himself from a reverie, " not to ask her to take it to Anoko's to be mounted on ivory 1 And now I shall have to go around there myself. Very senpid of me; bt then I often am stupid. But how pleased my aunts will bo, bless their dear old heart3 I And what a wonderful pair of limpid hazel eyes that little girl has got?" And all day long Alta Graves' sweet pea face came between him and the dusty pages of his prosy law-books, like a vague dream of what might have been, had she not been a shop-girl and he a bachelor close on the forties. He went home early, and on his way he stopped at the establishment of Tado Anoko. Mr. Simpson uttered an exclamation of amazement at the sight of the ibis and the sacred peak Fusiyama. " Well, never 1" cried he. "Aunt Sarah, look 'ere. Where on hearth did you get this 'ere, sir, if I may make bo bold as to ask? Fori didn't know, I give you my word of honor, as there was one iike it in tho city." It was now Mr. Frauklyn's turn to open his eyes. " The young lady whom you call'Alta Graves brought it to mo," said he ; " and I supposed, of course, that you had sent it." " Alta Gravos 1" repeatod Mr. Simp son. "Our Altai" shortly spoke Aunt Sarah, " Then as true as my name is Sarah Simpson she have stole it and out of our very stock. And she knowod of it all tho timo, the ungrateful minx, while we was a-tuming over heverything to find a match for the banner that you brought here. And vou paid her, you say, sir? Her?" "Certainly I did," said Mr. Franklyn, becoming more and more puzzled and uncomfortable, For as to the oval faced little maid with the liquid brown eyes being a thief, he did not believe a word of it. "Very well," asserted Simpson; "this settles tho 'ole haffair. There can't be no doubt about it now; for she 'ave never paid us the cash for this 'ere satin banner." "I always suspected she wasn't relia ble,'' said Aunt Sarah, slowly wagging her head to and fro. " She's a deal too good-looking. I never had no faith in good-looking shop-girls myself. Didn't I tell you so, Simpson ?'' And Alta Graves, who was unpacking a large hamper of cups and saucers and fantastically pattern plates down in the moldy basement, was promptly sum moned up by mouth of an eager, panting little errand-boy. She came, coloring and a little abashed, but prettier thun es'er. " Young woman," uttered Simpson, l injesticilly, " what does this meanV" "Confess at once, you base, unprin cipled girl 1" said his aunt. "Look here, Miss Graves," spoke franklyn, "I'm awful sorry to startle Tun so, l.ul thero seems to be something ;rong about your sale of this banner to " There is nothing wrong," said Alta, quiotly. " I did sell it to you." "And v. hero did you get it?" sternly demanded Aunt Sarah. " Confess, base irl, that you stole it. Prevarications won't do here.'' Alta' cheeks crimsoned; her eyes blazed into sudden brilliance. "I never stole it," she cried ' Dj you think I am a thief? Oh. Mrs. Simpson, how can you, a woman, be so hard upon me, a friendless p.irl ? I made the bp.ncer avself. I bought tho satin and the embroidery silk, and tho golc". thread nut of my savings, and I s.it up two lights to embroider it, so that I could orn a little more money than the poor wages you pay me, to buv fruit for mv mother, who lies at home dying of consumption. There I If that is being a thief, then I stand condemned." And here poor Alta's diqnifled bear ing gave way all at once and she burtt out crying like a child. "Don't fret, my dear," soothed Aunt U.irati, who was a kind-hearted woman in the main. " It's a misunderstanding, that s all. JJ.:n't fret." "It's a very good himitation of the espane;e style very," remarked Mr. Simpson, closely scrutinizing the gleam ing lines of embroidery. "Really, Alta Graves, 1 think you are genius." " Pray forgivo mo for my blundering awewavrtcess," said JUr. j?ranKlyn. And Alta tried to smile through her tep.rs and said she would. "She was ashamed of having made such a scene. The whole thing was a matter of no con sequence whatever. The satin banner was lined and mounted and Mr. Franklyn took it to his aunts, who could scaroely be ecstatic enough in its praise. It was a gem, a beauty, a marvel of art. Such a thing could uever, never be gotten up any where but m Japau. And it was so good of Frank to find it for them, after they themselves had scoured tho highways and by-ways in vain. That love of an ibis! And that exquisite sasred mountain 1 They never could thank their nephew sufficiently. r. Franklyn went the next day to seo Alta Graves' mother, on the dreary ton floor of the tenement house, where the uncompromising sunshine that poured through tho curtainless window revealed every flaw in the plastering. every mildewed stain on the ceiling. Ho came home grave ana reflective. " Aunt Belinda," he observed, "you said the other day that you were not intending to use your seaside cottage at Asoury rarK tms year f "Not if we go to the mountains," said Aunt Belinda, looking up in some surprise; "and I believe that that is our plan." " May I borrow it of you ?" asked 1'ianK. "Borrow it ?" repeated Aunt Belinda, And then Frank cpened his heart. and told them all about pretty Alta with the limpid eyes; about the pale invalid, with the two little girls who played at cat's-eradle bo quietly at the foot of the bed, and hushed their baby laugnier so as not to ciisturo mamma about tho hand-to-hand contest with want and disease, in which the sick woman was getting so sorely worsted. "She shall have the cottage." said Aunt Belinda, enthusiastically. " And I will send my own maid down to help make it all comfortable for her as soon as the month of May comes," added Miss Beckley. And so, perhaps, the old ladies were not so much amazed in the autumn when they heard that their nephew Frank had engaged himself to marry Alta Gravei. She was very pretty, that was certain, and men like pretty faces, and also they knew that she had been very good and dutiful to the poor mother who had just been laid under the yellowing autumn leaves. And if Frank was determined to . inarrv. he couldn't do better, they thought, than to marry Alta Graves. But there was one thing which Frank never told them, nor did Alta, his wife. And that was the secret of the embroid ered banner. And to this day the old ladies point it out to their sestheticallv- minded visitors with consoious exulta lion, and Buy, with many twists and wags of their venerable cap strings: " imported, my dear. Mo; of course you can't got anything like it, because it came direct from Japan." " Oughtn't we to tell them. Frank dear?" whispers Alia. And her hus band answers: ' No, dear, no. It would only be breaking an illusion. Don't you see how much happier they are in believ ing that it came 'direct from Japan ?' " JJazar. Value of tho Cow. The following interesting faets con- corning cows are from Colonel Littler's address before tho Northwestorn Dairy men s convention : 1 he first cows were imported to this country by adventurers from Europe in 1609. They were mostly of Spanish and Swedish breeds. Tho first cows in the West were im ported to Cahokia, 111. , in 1800, They were largely used in place of horses for drawing plows, eto. In 1850 the first cuttle were driven across the plains to California, It was then thought that the nature of tho country was such that it could not sus tain cattle, but this was afterward found to be a mistake, the dairy interest of California being now Pelf-supporting. In 188U tnare were 35,877,731 horned cat tle in the United States, which, esti mated at S25 a head, would represent a value of 87,J(i,a-ia,775. This was an in crease over the figures of 1870 of fifty per cent, The census showed that in 1880 thero were 12,442,137 milch cows in tho country, which will probably be in ereasod in 1882 to 13,000,000. Calculat ing the value of the milk flow at $40 per cow per year, the milk of these kine would bo worth 50,000,000. An in ease of ten per cent, during the next year means an addition of 1,000,000 per week to the wealth of the country, I'ho btate of Iowa in 1870 had but 800.- 811 cattle, and no creameries. In 1880 t had 8,521,000 cattle and 500 cream- i.'i'ies, whoso number is constantly in creasing, Estimating the aimud butto Tield oi' a com at 100 pounds, these cows produce aa annual butter product of 85,409,700 pounds, which, at twenty- live cents per pound, is a value of 21,282,425, one-half of which is ex ported. The dairy interest of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin has increased sixty-six per cent, during the last ten i ears, white the increase in JNew loru S'ato was but six per cent. The daily interests cf the Slates of Kansas, Ne braska, Dauola and Minnesota are also l ushing forward with rapid strides. A Burning Lake. It is raid that from ono of the chief -.tit:. a wells of Russia tho liquid hoots up as from a fountain, and has ;oi raeil a lake lour miles long and one d a quarter wide. Its depth is how ever, only two lcet. This enormous surface o iuflammablo liquid recently Iwamo ignited, and presented an im posing spectacle, the i hick black clouds (f smoke being lighted up by the lurid glaro of tho central column of flame, whieh rose to a great height. The smoke and heat were such as to render a nearer approach than one thousand yards' distance impracticable. Suitable means for extinguishing tiie are were not at hand, and. it was feared that the coiiflatrration would Spread under ground in such a manner as to cause an explosion. This supposition led many inhabitants of the immediate vicinity to removo to a rafer distanca. The quantily of naphtha on fire was esti mated at four and a half million cubic feet. Tho trees and buildings within three miles' distance were covered with thick soot, and this unpleasant deposit appeared on porsons ciotnes, and even on the food in the adjacent houses. .Not only wa3 the naphtha itself burn ing, but the earth which was saturated with it was also on fire, and ten large establishments, founded at great ex pense for the development of the trade iu the article, were destroyed. Overheat. ng Houses. Vick's Floral Guide advises against overheating plants, it says the tem perature of tho room should not be allowed to go above seventy degrees, aud sixty-five degiees would be better, Give a little fresh air every day and all the sunlight attainable. Au effort should be mado to give moisture to the atmosphere, for our own good as well as for the life of the plants." The ad. vice hero given iu regard to tempera ture, fresh uir and sunlight is just as essential to human Deings as to plants Sensitive plants dry up and wither away and die if the surroundings are not favorable. So sensitive individuals sicken, get headaches and depressed feelings when tha room is carelessly allowed to be heated to seventy-six and eighty degrees, when ventilation never thought of, and sunlight almost wholly excluded. Especially in winter do we find sickness lroru these causes. for the overheating of furnaces and stoves is not as readily borne as the summer heat, and ventilation is pre vented not only by shut windows and doors but by weather strips, and the sunlight is absent a larger portion of the time than in summer. Therefore if you find that no plants will live in your own living rooms may it not be that it is too great a tax upon your own consti tution to maintain existence in suoh place Dr. footc't Health Monthly. SIBERIA. Interesting Factn About a Country LI til Known. Mr. C. H. Eden, a membor of tho Royal Geographical society of England, has recently published a book on Sibe ria entitled "Frozen Asia," From it wo gather the following facts: The area of Siberia is about five mil lion square miles, aud in this vast terri tory there are less than three and a half millions of inhabitants. It is divided politically into Western and Eastern Siberia, each presided over by a gover nor-general, and each further divided into districts whose officials receive all orders from their governor-general, and can only apply to the court of St. Pe tersburg through him. Ihd religion of the people is of a mixed kind, partly that of tho Greek church alternating with a form of Christianity called Shamanism, and partly that of Buddhists. The native races are variously do6ig ated as Voguls, Ostiaks, Euriates, Tungoases, Gilaks, etc., nearly twenty in all. Many of them present interest ing points of study to the ethnologist. They are small in stature, with the round, read face and prominent cheek bones cf tho Mongols. They rarely build houses, but content themselves withyurts, or huts, constructed of a few poles stuck in the ground or the snow. and coverod with reindeer skins or birch bark. The men and women dress nearly aliko and their garments are clapted to the rigorous climate in which they live. Many odd superstitions exist among the various tribes. When a Gilak dies and is buried a small wooden house is rected over his ashes by his sorrowing relatives ; ond as they believe that the soul after death takes up its abode in tho body of a favorite dog, that unhappy animal is sacrificed at. the giave of his late master after having been fattened or the occasion. Again, a Uilak will feel himself dreadfully aggrieved if you ask permission to light your pipe at his hre, fully believing that a simple spark taken from his habitation will occasion some great disaster, such as the death of a near friend, or u total failure in fish ing and hunting. The reindeer holds deservedly prominent place iu the esteem aud affection of the Siberians. Some tribes, although they have large herds of reindeer, betray the great est aversion to killing them for food. Tho members of a family, unless rich, never think of slaught ering a reindeer until they have been eight davs without food. Tho Kariaks and Tschuktscbis will, neither lor love, money or uranciy, part with a deer so long as life remains in his body, uut win sell a traveler as many dead animals as he likes to buy. A live indeer will not be given for five hundred pounds of tokiceo, but they will eoll a carcass 'or u siring of glass This same tribe have tLe conviction that all men are equal, and they refuse to show a porsonal respect to any indi vidual on the ground of superior rank. But these races with their curious cus toms are a decaying people. "Broad," hays the author, " though that inhos pitable area of steepo and tundra may be, it is too circumscribed for the conquerors and the conquered to dv.'eil siuo by side, xears may elapse before it comes to pass, but the aboriginal r.iees are doomed ultimately to perieh." The cnief minerals of Siberia fire malachite, porphyry, jasper and apate. iho labor required to cut a solid eolumn is enormous, and the woikmcn have recourse to a very clever expedient which lightens their toil. Havin" selected tho portion of jasper ihat they wish to separate, they proceed to drill holes a few inches apart along tho whole length of tho block to the depth required. When this operation is completed, they drive into the holes thoroughly dried birch wood reenails, on whih they then pour a quantity of water. This the thirsty wood Hoaks up, which causes it to swell; and the lateral strength thus exerted throughout tho wholo end of the line simultaneously, rises the stubborn rock from its bed to be lowered down in tn umph by its ingenious assailants. The jasper thus obtained is of a dark green color, and the enormous vases some times seen of this raatorial are mado at K-alyvan." The quarries of Siberia also produce mica aud plumbago, Trade ia fossil ivory is conducted at Yakutsk. Since 1674 it has been known that steamers iu summer may pass from London to the mouths of tho Obi, Yen isei and Lena rivors whieh empty into tho Arctic ocean from Siboria. This fact has as yet caused but very little in crease of trade because of the scarcity of population. As the northern part of Siberia is frozen to great depths and only thaws out in summer to the depth of a foot or less, the country 13 not very inviting to now settlers, and it must be many years before it will be densely in habited. In the meantime it will con tinue to be used as the penal colony of the political offenders of the Russian empire, In the Cradle of the Race. Railroad building has begun in the far East. The next quarter cf a century will see Nineveh, Babylon, Damascus and the cities familiar to us through the most ancient of aneient history. within easy communication of the rest of the modern world by a complete sys tem of railways. A road 500 miles long is now underway from the Black to the Caspian sea. It runs along the valley of the river of Cyrus, south of the Caucasus, and from a portion of it Mount Ararat is in sight. It seems in credible that there should be business to justify railroads iu these graves of old nations, but wherever human beings live they must travel, and food and clothing must be transported from one point to another. The steel rails will soon girdle Mesopotamia, Central Asia and Arabia. Unless a man can link his written thoughts with tha everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw from them as from wells, there is no more immor tality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and the bones. A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. Lord Cavondiiih and Under Secretary Buruc'a Aaaasnlnntlon In Dublin. Lord Frctlorick C&vendish. the new ehicf secretary for Ireland, and Mr. Thomas Henry Burko, tho under secretary, were assassinated early in tho evening while walking in riranix arls, miulin. At VI O'clock noon ixra uaven- isli roito tbrougn tue streets ot unuiin in me ain of Earl Spencer, the new lord lieutenant, mid the entliusiautio shouts and cheers of lousauds of snectutors. At 1 o'clock he stood in tho council chamber of Dublin castle, re pealing slowly and solemnly after the clerk tho words of the official oath. He kissed the Testament and signed tho register. Under Secretary Burke was there in court costume, and his dutv was to read the queen's letttr rccting the sword of state to be handod to Earl Spencer. After the ceremony the chief secretary went to his apartment aud remained there till 6 o'clock. After dinner Lord Fred crick Cavendi-h and Under Secretary Burko went for a walk in Phrenix park. Thoy were Btrolling along about half a mile from the city gato and a quarter of a mile from the chief secretary's lodge, when a car drove up con taining lonr men, two or wnom jumpea aown from tho car aud attacked them, tabbing them both several times the tnroat ana ureast. une nc- glo became separated, their bodies being found about ten paces apart. The tragedy occurred about ten minutes after 7 o'clock in tho evening, and in broad daylight. The bodies were first iscovereJ uy two young gentlemen, wuo were riding bicvcles through the park, and who immediately gave tho alarm to the police. Surgeons soon reached the spot, hut tho police were already conveying Mr. Burke's body away to tue town, where an examination showed life to be extinct. Tue upper part ot tne ooay was perforated in a shocking manner and pre sented a ghastly sight. Proceeding further, the medical men reached the body of Lord roderiek Cavendish, which was being con- evtd awav from the park ori a strotchor. The bodv of the chief secretary displayed the same dreadful wounds, in addition to which his left rm was also broken and torn, as It be had put it up to protect his breast. Lord Frederick Cavendish was quite dead. The bodies were alien to Stevens nospitai, wnere tuey win re main until an inquest is hold. Tne locality ot tno outrage was terrmiy marked with blood. Tho spot where the body of Lord Frederick Cavendish was found was absolutely deluged, while Mr. Burke's body lay in a pool of blood. It is f aid that after the act tho murderers immediately drove oft. A large quantity of notes aud gold eoin, bosides their gold watches, were found in the pockets of the victims, which showed that the object of tne crime was not robbery, ureal excitement prevailed throughout Dublin, and widespread indignation was expressed over the event. iurther details ol tue tragedy are as follows: A boy named Jacob statos that while bir.lsnest ing in tho park ho saw, about two hundred yards from whore ho was and close to the road, a group of men as if wrestling. He thought they wero roughs and did not pay attontion to them. lie then saw two men fall to the ground and four others jump on a car and drive off toward LuapUlzotl, which lies in a direction opposite to the city. They drove at a rapid pace, aud ho could not give any description of the appearance of '.tho men. A gentleman named Maguire and a friend, who were on tri cycles, shortly before had passed Mr. Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish, when on their wav along through the main road in the park, nu on their return journey tney round tho iiief secretary lying in tho center of tho car- iage-way and Mr. liurke prostrate upon the pathway. .Both gentlemen were lying in large p.i.ils ot blood. Thoy informod th police at l aru gate station ot what they had seen. The police at once proceeded to the scene of the liurtlcr and convoyod tho bodies to the hospi- jiuko nau reci-ivi-u uu . . ...c ,1 fin a v n yi i.in f ,m. n a rn.n.rl fli.t HI tho region of his boart, and his throat had been cut almost completely across. His clothes were absolutely saturated with blood and the hemorrhage must have been tremendous. Ilia clothes wero also torn. His gloves had been torn in many places and his hands bore marks suggestive of a fierce ncountor with his assailant. Lord rrederick lid not wear gloves. Ho had been stabbed iu several places about the chest. One wound was tuiougn tne ngnt mug anu penetrated ueepiy At the time of the dreadful occurrence tha park, as might be expected on a lovely evening, was crowuoa in many places wnn people, it is a remarkable fact and one suggesting that the niuruerous onslaught must have been snort, tuniblo and decisive, that many persons sit ting and walking within a few hundred yards of where the bodies were found heard nothing of tho iVitir. Tho post-mortem examination of the bodies at tue ch:ei secretary s lodge showed i ven wounds on Mr. Buriie and eight on Lord i-rcdorick cavendish. The Assassins' Victims. Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish, Becond ton of the Duke of Dovonehirs, and one of tho two vounzer brothers of the Martinis of Hart ington, was nearly forty-six years old, and had been for seventeen years in public life without attaining prominence, tie was born at uoinp. ton I'lace. tne Sussex seat oi tue lumny, on November 30. lbJii. In June, 1861, he married Lucv Caroline, the scond daugh i er of Lord Lyttleton, and a maid of honor. Since lsiij he had reuresented in par liament tho north division of the West l'.iilng of Yorkshire until his appointment to clue! secret. ry lor Ireland, fctiuce the lor- m itiuu of Gladstone's present administration he has been tecretarv of the tioasury. His ler brother, Lord Harliugton, the leader of the Liberals uunug .Mr. Uladatonos temporary ire-incur, was chief secretary lor lit-Unc himeclf from 1871 to 1874; and the youugeBt brother, Lord Edward, has been in the houso of commons einco 18G5. The estates of the Duke of Devon! hire ure 193,000 acres in extent, ilitrihnti.,1 in fourteen counties. Tho motto of tho family arms Is "Cavendo tutus" "Safe by caution." Tho news of Lord Cavendish's selection to succeed AT,. TWatn- xu a suioriso to every body. It was generally expected that tho Uight Hon. Joseph Chamborlain, president of the board of trade, would ho chosen. Then it was reported that Mr. Chauiboilain urged the ap- rwiintiriKnt nf an Irishman. When Lord Uaven dish's appointment was announced the English press professed their inability to understand it, and the theory was put forth that be was merolv .put over as a clerk for Mr. Gladstone, so that the carrying out of the premier's policy ininht tin entirely iu his own hands. The Pti'l Mull (iaietie reported that the Irish, Scottish and provincial press for once agreed with the London papers in expressing surprise and dis tnnv at so weak an appointment. Mr. Thomas Haviland Burke Biiococded Sir Thomas Larcom as under secretary for Ireland about twenty years ago. The under secretary does not retire from otlice on a change of mm irttrv un thnt tha rttlipA ia considered a Derma nt. una. It in an ntliea of much DOWCr and influence, and the holder, except in times ef great political excitement like the present, is to all intents ana purposes tne governor ui houuu, The Place ol the Murder. Thoenix park is to Dublin what Hyde park 1b to London and Central park is to New York. It is essentially the " people' paric, wnere mo citizens of Dublin, without any regard to class distinctions, meet upon an equal footing, the uiilenrlid onuinaues of the aristocracy mingling with the general throng of the populace. It is generally regarded as one of tue finest parks in F.uroDe. aud covers an area or 1.700 acres. It is well planted with timber, and at various points along the main drive affords nicttiresnue views of the aurrounding countrv and tho neihboring hills. It is fcil- niLted nn the northwest side of the city, and among other attractions it is the seat cf the viceregal lodge and of the official residence of the chief secretary, which are situated at some distance from the principal entrance from the n.1 - I. f.. ..lt lrl..na City. 1UO para IS lull UI am bum uii.go, lined with bushes and trees, where men could easily conceal themselves, and as easily escape pursuit. There are large open lawnf, one of them called " Fifteen acres, where the land league has been holding meetings every Sun day. Manifest of the Irish Land Leatue News of the terrible event caused a universal feeling of horror. Telegrams rrora ail parts of Ireland donounced the assassination in words of the strongoet indignation. The following manilesto was adopted on the next afternoon at a hurriedly-summoned meeting at the W est ruinster l'alace hotel, London : To lh,rerpU of Ireland: ,......,.,,.. On the eve oi wnai seemeu f... n,,.mnri that evil destiny whicli has ap- parentiv pursued us for centuries has struck at our hopes another blow which cannot be exag gerated In ItS disastrous CUlleiluuiiv;i.-r. an this hour of Borrow hil gloom we venture lo give expression to our protonndest sympathy with tUo people of Ireland in the calamity that um Waiion our cause tbroufih this horrible deed aud with those who determined, at tno last hour, that a policy oi conciliation inoum sup plant that of terrorism and national distrust. WnMmestlv hone that the attitude and action of the Irish people will show to tho worul that an aas"iuation sucn a nan tmm us i:uum to the abandonment of hope of our country's future, is deeply and religiously abuorrent to their every feeling and instinct. Wo appeal to vou to Show uy every iniuiutr ui ciin.uu that, amid the universal feeling of horror which the Bssabsinaticn has excited, no people foel deep a detestation ot its atrocity or so doep a fvmpathy with those whose ncarts must be soared by it. as the nation upon whoso prosperity and reviving hopes it may entail consequences nioro rninouBthan thrsd tuat have fallen to the lot of unhappy Ireland durins the present generation. We foel that no Ret that has ever been perpetrated in onr cnun'.ry during tho exciting struggles ot tne past navjnia u so stained the name of hospitable Ireland as this cowardly and unprovoked assassination ol a friendlv stranger, and that until the murderers of Cavendish and Burke are brought to justice that stain will sully our country s name. CHARLES O. rARNELfc, John Dillon, Michael Davitt. American La ml I.ennue Mnnlfcsto. Several of the most prominent members of the Irish National. laud luague, living in Buf falo, N. Y., were seen relative to the assassina tion ot Lotd Cavendish and Under Secretary Burko in Ireland. Tiiere was a general ex pression of execration for the actors in tha horriblo crime and of hope that the perpe trators may be speedily brought to justice. It is considered as a direct blow at the interests and rising hopes of Ireland, and as particularly deplorable at this time. James Mooney, ai President of the Irish National Land League of America, issued the following proclamation: Tn tlte Land League of America : The execrable and cowardly assassination oi Lord Frederick Cavendish, the newly-appointed chief secretary for Ireland, and Under-Sccre-tarv Burke has horrified tho world, and is es pecially painful and abhorrent to every true irienti oi ireiauu. a ucliuhu ui rwuu crime, and exhort our uretureu in ircianu iq uso evi ry effort to bring its perpetrators to jus. tice, and to enow tlicir detestation oi tne nenu. iuli act, whieh only an arch enemy of our race, or some li res ponsible idiot, could have con ceived or exec uted. The CHy of Roses. I don't believe thore is any region on eai th where roses grow in such abund ance, variety, beauty sr,d pwcotueas cs they do in this (NVw Orleaus) country. A Mississippi gentleman to whom I have been indebted for information on various subject", tells me that there is growing and in bloom at his home this moment a Lamarqno rose vine eighty feet long. The stem is eight inches throueh in the thickest viort. Tfc was plnnted seventeen iir ii. ht,pn years ago. in ia twined around a veianda, and its gorgeous clusters of cream-tinted roses are splendid to behold. At New Or'euns tho Marc-ehal Neil rosea catito the Northerner to stare in speech- Idps wonder. I saw one of the plants that must have been fifty feet long. I huve seen vines of the same roso that long in the North, but they were scraggy and mean-looking, and in the florists greenhouses. At Now Orleans thoy run wild aud revel like a midsum mer nights dream. 'iho blossoms grow in gorgoous clusters of half a dozen cr more, and the flowers are so lai't e that they would more than cover tne ton of a large-sizea collee cup. A single oi.e of the pale gold beauties tyill fill a room with perfume. They aie as plenty down here as " white top" in a Northern meadow. And they sell f )r ono dollar a bud up North I In some of the private citizens yards in Now Orleans there are as many as a hundred different kinds of roses in blontn at once. They do not require vroteetion from cold at any time cither. Thi-y all stand outdoors in the open ground, nnd many varieties bloom more or less all the winter through. ' The roso is a favorite flower at New Or leans. At tho Jockey Club races we i-aw dcEans of handsomely-dressed ladies with exquisite bunches of rose buds at their belts auu elsewhere in their ilresses tho sweet, lovely flower that nature made, none of your abominable artificial things. Tho rose the French inhabitants of New Orleans are fondest of for decora tion is called tho "Gold of Ophir." Northern florists have it, but it is not common. The bnd is especially prized for its beauty. It is a small rose of a very pale pink, shading off toward the heart in a deep, rich gold color. Faint streaks of crimson touch the outer petulp. It ia one of the loveliest roses I ever saw. New Orleans Corwpond ni. WISE AVOItDS. Prudery is a perfume that conceals vitiated air. Nothing overcomes passion more than silence. Fuith and hops cure more diseases tnun medicine. It is not wise to reject benefits when they may be refused. Happiness is like the eoho; it answers you, but it does not come. A man without secrecy is an open letter fcreveiy one to read. Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. When duty seems to clash, "tho moral law always has the right cf way." From the manner in which praise and bluxm are dealt out in this world, on honest man ought to o net defamation. Iu life it ia difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst inteUiouu or friends with the le3t. Blessings ma appear under the shape of pains, losses imd disappointments, but let Lim have patience and ' he Mill see them in their proper figure. The gold that is refined in the hottest furnace comes out the purest, as the canary bird sings sweetest the longer it bas been trained iu daikened cage. i
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