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YOL. XII. HIDGWAY, ELK COUTpA., THUllSDAY. MAY 11. 1882 NO. 12.
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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.
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