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VOL. XII. .JUDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PAV, THURSDAY, -AUGUST 17. 1882 - JiO. 26.
Tlio Wffltlirr Tune.
To what eli all I compare
The vo ring mind I bear?
Ton minion ol the air,
Ton gilded abaft, my cIiobou emblem I declare
I turn about, about;
Controlled by every rout
That trains with Hope or Doubt;
Who smiles, I smile again, or answer flout with
flout.
Within the draft I'm canght
Of all prevailing tbought;
By many masters taught,
Their varying precepts I coufuso and bring to
naught.
A changoling me tbey call;
I have no stiy, in all
No shield, no rampart-wall;
I safely drift about let others stand or fall 1
T hrn T rlo nni brpnlr
1 HKL
light obeisance make
To ecouruinff Mtorms that rulm
The harvest from the field and shattered forosts
take.
Since nothing hero I see
Savo mutability,
With it I will agreo;
Tea, T on Change's cap the nodding plume will
be!
Some good remains behind;
Tho cloar-porceiving mind
In mo, at Ica-'t, shall find
An index true of all tho tempers of the wind
Edith JA Thomaf, in Augvst Atlantic.
MARY'S BLUNDERS.
"Dear me! Aunt Sad ie, is Mr. Co
vert ill? Yts? Then I cannot take
my musio lesson to thy."
" You seem to feel happy for that re
lief."
''Oh, dear, no! I rather prefer tat
in ? my lesson."
Aunt Sarlie glanced 6hrply at bea
nie ce, bat tlut young lady's face was
calm enougu.
"It strikes wo," observed the old
lady, "that, you do not di-like Mr. Co
vert, as lunch ta jqu i-ecm to."
"I never expret-sed nnv aversion ti
h'tn." r. t'lii rl Ct'rip, demmvly. "In
fact," she added, as she molded the bis
cuits she was making with deft finger
"I think T ike Mr. Covert very much."
"Humph 1" sniffed Aunt Sadie, con
temptnously. " He is only a poor mnsie
teacher, and you cannot afford to marr .
a poor man with no prospentB."
"Well, I declare 1" flared Carrie
"Do yon think it follows as a conse
quence that I must marry a man I like
Aunt Sadie, I am surprised at you I"
And Carrie took up the nan contain
ing the dozen little round balls o'
dough and pDNbed it into tbn ovei
with HUi-b a bang that, the old Jad-
dropped her lmitting and almost fel
from her chair by the ranee. Thei
Carrie flounced ont of the room inditt
nantly and went upstairs tj dress. Tet
minutes later she came fly in back t
the kitchen, and her pretty little fao
. wore a look of greut const) mation.
"Lind snkes alive 1 What's th(
matter, child ?" cried Aunt Sidie.
" 1 have lost my garnet ring, Ann
badie."
Perhaps you left it on the table be
fore kneading your bisouit dough,
suggested the old lady.
No," tearfully replied the nnhapp
little cook, "I am sure I did not; and
have searched all over my room, J
was a present from papa when he go
the pastorate of his new churoh; and
am donbly anxious to find it becaus
Mr. Covert wished it on mv finger "
" There, now, you are goinp off at s
tangont about that man again !" ex
claimed Aunt Kadie, in an impatien
tone. -
" I don't care; he's real nice, and h
is good, and he is handsome, and I lik
him, and you are adverse to him. Ann'
Sadie, because you thought he wa
coming nei e to carry away your daughte
Mamie for his wife, and he undeceived
you."
" There, there 1 That will do, miss!"
cried the old lady, starting up angrily.
"I vow, this is nice tulltfora min-'ster's
daughter! You should respect your
elders."
" I am sorry," retorted Carrie, "that
pool papa's teaching does not make a
deeper impression on yonr mind at
leafct enough so to teach your cotscience
the fault ol looking down on Mr. Covert
because of your disappointment."
' " Well I" gasped Aunt Sadie, with an
incredulous stare at Carrie over the
tops of her spectacles, "I'd always
neara tnat as a general tiling ministers
wives and daughters ain't the most ex
emplary of mortals; and now I believe
it. The very idea of yon you, Carrie
Itay, talking to me in this way! It
beats anything I ever heard of before !
What my religions principles are is
none of your business do you under
Btand? and when my sister Pally your
mother married Parson Hay, I kinder
suspeoted some such goings on as this
here, twenty years ago ''
The ring was forgotten now, but the
biscuits in the oven began to burn, and
scenting them, with a scream of dismay
Carrie turned from her angry aunt,
opened the oven door and took out the
pan. There were a dozen beautifully
browned biscuits in it one or two
slightly scorched, but not enough so to
spoil them.
" I s'pose those things are for your
father's supper ?"
"Half are," returned Carrie, "the
balance for Mr. Covert."
" Good land sakes alive I" commenced
Aunt Sadie.
" Here, Mary." called Carrie to the
servant in the dining-room, "take these
half dozen biscuits I have wrapped up
in a napkin to Mr. Covert, down the
street, number fifty-four "
" Yes, ma'am ; an' will I say who
they're from, ma'am?"
"Leave word,' whispered Carrie,
"that they are from Aunt Sadie Hall,"
"All right, ma'am!" rtj lined Mary,
who suspected a joke. And taking the
bisoaits off she went.
"I feel so sorry I quarreled with
Aunt Siflie," thought Carrie, shortly
afterward, "tot she is good and kind
to me, and h is almost taken the place
mamma held in my heart before she
died. But hor prejudice against Mr.
Covert is sadly misplaced. Poor fellow
I must ask papa to call on him. And
oh, won't he be surprised when he re
ceives those biscuits, with the message
they are from Aunt Sadie? I will not
say anything about it to any one, and
when he is well enough to call there
will be such fun 1"
Yes, there was to be fan, but a differ
ent kind from that which Carrie ex
pected. That evening she asked her
father to call on Launoe Covert, explain
ing that he was ill.
" Hum I Number fifty-four did you
say ?" asked the stout minister. " That
is right on my way, as I was about to
drop in en our new neighbor."
" In number forty-five?" askod Carrie.
"Yes, my dear, an old bachelor, I
think," replied her father. " Isawhim
in my church Sunday night, and I think
I have seen him somewhere before, too,
but where I cannot recall to mind."
When hr father had Wt.
Aunt Sadie entered.
"I hope," she said, frigidly, "you are
a little less combative to-night, Carrie;"
and she sat down in a chair and stared
at the girl in a most uncomfortable man
ner. "Oh, A ant Sadie, forgive my rude
ness this morning," cried Carrie, re
pentantly, as she sat on a low ottoman
at her aunt's feet, "for I was very
angry "
"You should learn to control your
temper," replied the old lady, severely;
' but we will forget it, dear."
She kissed her nieoe fondly. The
door burst open at this juncture, and in
rushed Mamie Hall, her daughter, quite
out of breath from running. She was a
tall, angular girl yet lu her teens.
and had a somewhat pretty face and
runrming manners.
"My graoions, what's the matter?"
oiled Aunt Hadie.
"Oh, dear me!" canted Mamie.
'' The funfiiest thing happened to me
just now 1 1 was returning from Ada
Gray's house, and passing No. 45 ol
this street, ata'l, thin gentleman in a
long white duster ran out after me,
saving his arms frantically, and called
or me to stop He looked so stran.e
'hat I became frightened and ran, and,
iviuld y u believe it? the wretch had
'UdDd y enough to chase me. I passed
Uncle Benjamin, who was going bv on
the other side of the street, but as I
did not wish to implicate him in any
rouble I did not stop him. And now
hark I what is that? Some one a
he door I Oh, good gracious I I real!
lo beliavt) that old monster is there !''
There came the so-ind of a vigorous
uang r at the door, and then the ve
hement voice of Mary in stormy alter-
M'-ion wn n tome one. Then they heard
1 tremendous crash, and with simnlia-
leous shrieks of terror the three
..rted. Cunie dove under the bed
ant Sadie bounced into a closet ano
osed the door, while Mamie sough'
efutio in flight upstairs.
-'It's a lunat.o!" was Aunt SadieV
jonized thought, while horrid visioDs
f dire tragedies floated through Car
e's mind.
They heard noises below stairs which
ilainlv indicated a scuflle of some sort :
hen shortly after there sounded foot-
teps on the stairs
" He has killed Miry, and is comin.
tp here to butcher us I" thought the
enabling old lady, as she crone hec
anher l ack in the darkest corner ('1
he closet, while Carrie kept very quiet,
Ithnugh she was on tie verge o
crenming.
Putter, patter, patter, sounded the
ipproaobing footsteps, nearer eaoh mo
nent; then there was a pause, and tbe
listinotly heard heavy, labored breath
ng. The suspense was beoomiog in
tolerable to the two ladies, and dm.
honghts crossed Mrs. Hall's mind of
hreaking from her concealment, of
usning valiantly out, confronting the
intruder with a poker, or some other
mplementof sell defense, and by star
rig at him danntlessly drive him from
the room; she had beard maniacs could
be subdaed by unflinching courage, and
a stare as nnwavering and giant-like as
that of an owl. But before the could
put her theory into practice the door
opened; then Aunt Sadie sprang out, a
tow cry escaped ner lips, and she sank
feebly bacE into a chair. For the ter
son in the room was Mary. That female
was in a stormy frame of mind, and
there was a vicious lookonher eenerallv
good-humored face."
Ocb, ma m I ' she cried. " I've had
such a ruction wid the aould feller az
got thim biscuits this verv blessed
mornin', down at the dhure, that I'm
nearly dead now, so I am I"
What does all this mean? ' demanded
Aunt Sadie.
Shure, ma'am," returned Marv. in
perylexity, "I don't know meself. Whin
1 tuk him Miss Carrie s biscuits this
mowm' wid your compliments "
" With my compliments?" echoed the
bewildered old lady. " Why, yon are
bereft of your senses, girl ! Who did
you give biscuits to this morning with
my compliments?"
W hy. tne aould man az kern to tne
dhure jist now, axin' for yonr blessed
self an' Mii-s Mamie, shore. Faith, he
was that wild I wouldn't let the likes av
him in, an' bedad we had a tussle which
same ended in meself pivin' him ther
fut an landin' him in the airy, whin I
schlammed the dhure inhisonmannerly
face, so I did, or jez moight arl 'ave
been kilt! If ht'da kem daointly an'
axed ter see yez, graiious only knows
txrViaf. 'ml a tiartrtinail I
" W bo was that man r asked the old
lady, in bewilderment
" I don t know, ma'am, for he's on'v
moved into this titrate: he lives be van t
in that ellegant house, number forty
five, an' a more deoeivin man I never
see. It's moighty onare he is. for this
mornin' he was all schmoiles an' graces,
an' this avening he saamed to be claae
gam in his upper story."
At this interesting juncture Carrie
emerged from her retreat, looking very
foolish. That Maty had carried her
present to the wrong house she had no
doubt Number forty-five and number
fifty four are numbers widely different.
and by not paying attention to what was
said the girl evidently had gotten the
numbers transposed in her mind, and 00
made the blunder.
"Well, I declare!" exclaimed the
old lady. " I am at a loes to understand
what this all means,"
"Aunt Sadie," interposed Carrie,
gently, "it is partly my fanlt. This
morning I sent Mary with that half
dozen of my biccuits to Mr. Covert, and
told her to say they were from yon; but
she carried them to the wrong house,
and the man who followed Mamie was
the recipient of them, and probably
wished to ask her why they were sent."
" Well, I never I" gasped the old lady.
" That aocounts for it."
Though she said nothing about it,
she appreciated her niece's kind act in
saying she had sent the biscuits; al
though, ooupled with this intended
kindness, Carrie had intended perpe
trating a j ike. The explanation seemed
satisfactory enough, too, but the little
shadow of mystery surrounding that
day's doings was only just developing,
and the following day they were to be
very much more surprised.
"It's octet yonr fa tho ban not returned
for tea," observed Aunt Sadie, after all
the dishes, save one for the absent min
ister, had been cleared away.
"He said he was going to make seve
ral calls," replied Carrie.
"He is always late," grnmbled the
old lady.
" Aunt Sadie," said Carrie, " what is
tne matter witn you to-day you are so
out 01 temper r
For answer, her aunt burst into tears.
Carrie looked at her in surprise.
" Dear Aunt Sadie, have I offended
you?'' she asked with a troubled look,
as she kis-ed her affectionately.
" No, Crr e, that i not it. Iknowl
am a burdensome old creature, but I
nave oeen Harassed oy so many doubts
and fears since my husband went awav
that I have often wished for the peace
01 neaven. xou aon t Know what I
mean ?"
" No, I do not." replied Carrie.
"Why, mamma," said Mamie, "is
pana not dead. You always led me to
believe so."
"No that is, I do not know," said
the old lady. He left me to travl fr
the firm he was connected with in busi
ness, and went ont West. A month
after be bad gone I received intelli
gonce that he was thought to be dead.
They said he was in a train which had
been wrecked by falling through a
bridge. It was a frightful aocident, and
the papers were full of the news at the
time. Mamie was a little child then,
about three years o'd. They did not
rind his body, nor have I ever heard
rom him since, and it was supposed
that his corpse was carried away by the
river. To day was the fifteenth anni
vorsary of the frightful event, and
bearing on my mind so all day it has
made me exceedingly peevish and disa
greeable.'' It was late that night when the Rev
Benjamin Bay returned home, and he
ru.-hod off to his library in grea' haste,
and sat there neaily the whole nijth'
through, smiling benignly, and polish
ing his bald head with his handkerchief
intil it shone again. No one in the
'louse knew the occasion of his joy. noi
bdhedivulge it until the succeeding
day.
Carrie," said he, at the breakfast
'able, "did you send Mr. Covert a nap
'UDful of biscuits yesterday?'
The girl bluBhingly admitted thatsbt
tiad done so.
Well, my dear," t aid the old gentle
nan, "I am glad y-u did, for it has al
ost enred him of his illness, and he i
ooming here to day to thank you foi
hem; you know I called on him."
O.irtie looked at Aunt Sadie in per
oiexity, aud the old lady returned her a
glance of the same sort.
"But, papa," she stammered, "Mary
lelivered them to some one else, anil
'he old mid man who got them chafed
Mamie last niht, giving ns all such a
-oare that we did not know what to
do."
"Eh?" said hr father, glancing over
his epeotaoles at her. "The wronp
partv got them, did he? Oh, I guess
not!"
Carrie and Aunt Sadie gazed at him,
more bewildered now than before.
"But Mary said so," began Carrie.
Before she finished speaking there
name a " bang!" at the door; it flew
back on its hinges, and in rushed the
old fellow who had pursued Mamie.
They all started to their feet and the
ladies would have fled had he not
barred their exit by standinar in tb
doorway. Then there sauntered other
footsteps in the ball, and before Aunt
Sadie could resist . the stranger had her
in iiis arms and was crying:
"Sadie! Sadie! At last I have von
again !''
My hu-band 1" she cried. Oh,
thank God I"
Yes. it was Annt Sadie's husband. and
the old lady clung to him, weeping for
joy-
"And, William, here is your little
Mamie."
There was no fear of the Bnrjrosnd
madman now, and Mamie fond herself
clasped in a loving pair of arms aud
ten her father a tender kisses with hap
piness indescribable, while Carrie
look d on in astonishment.
" So you thought me dead, eh?' said
Mr. Hall. " Well, it was all a mistake.
I received severe icjiries in that rail
road accident, but soon recovered,
owing to the good care I reoeived at the
hands of the miners' wives to whom I
was carried. They persuaded me to
stake out a claim in their mining re
gions, and I did bo. 1 was not rich.
yon know, Sadie, and 1 saw prospects
of sudden wtalth in mining, and my
hope was realized after years of work.
Once the gold fever was on me I could
not leave thereuntil I accomplished
wnat 1 meant to 00. 1 would have
written yon, but resolved not to dc bo
until I could return and say lam rich,'
or I am a beggar.' The surprise to yon
now is more delightful, isn't it. my
dear?'
" But the suspense von keot me in ?"
she remonstrated.
"I thought that, too but I knew
yon would not remarry during my ab
sence." "But that isn't what I mean," she
:o08tulated. " '
He laughed and kissed her. savin o- be
knew it was not -
" I was at the sate of mv new hnns.
and was making up my mind to come
after you," he continued ; " for I learned
you place of residence by seeing Ben
here at his church, and inviting him to
call on me, and he not knowing me the
while, either, when Mamie passed by.
I knew who she was, despite her growth
into yonng ladyhood while I was away
for she is the image of yon and I ran
after her with what result you know."
At this junoture Mr., Covert w Iked
in. He was young and handsome, but
somewhat pale.
"Ah! Covert," cried Mr. Kay, "yon
are np?"
"Yes, Carrie's biscuits half cured
me," he said, laughing.
"This, then, is the gentleman," said
Mr. Hall, ' for whom the biscuits were
intended? You Bee, sir, your name was
written in pencil on the napkin, with
yonr address, and I paw there was a
blunder on the servant's part in deliver
ing them to me. And when Mr. Hall
came to my house I showed it to him
and he took tbn parcel to yon; bo it
went all right, after all,"
" Then Mary must have told him they
were from me," thought Carrie.
Bat half an hour later she was unde
ceived; for, on finding herself alone in
the parlor with Mr Covert, that gentle
man explained the mystery by handing
her a little parcel. It contained the
rinar she had missed when making the
biscuits.
"I found it in one of the biscuits,
where it must ha-a slipped from your
finger," explained he; then taking it,
he added: "And will you let me re
place it on yonr finger to bind the ac
ceptance of my love for you, Carrie ?"
She did not say no, for she had
learned that she loved him; and Mamie
suffered nothing, for Aunt Sadie was
mistaken in supposing shu cared for
Mr. Covert, as another man soon after
made her his brido.
Martin Van Ilnren.
Probably no cuarao'er in our history
is so hard to analyze as that of Mania
Van Buren. The secret of his power
seems to have died with him. He was
not renowned as an orator, aud yet
must have possessed great powers as an
advocate. He is not nsually credited
with having devised any great public
measures, yet, duiing the most impor
tant epoch of his party's history, every
measure to which it owtd success not
only required his approval, but showed
h;s shaping or modifying touch. He was
not eminent in debate, but was always a
leader of bis party in legislation. He is
said to have been personally calm, self
poised and nnoon tiding Hoheaid every
one's opinion, bnt took no one's advice.
Be was accounted shrewd and cunning,
hut never was accused of personal
treachery. He was cautious to the very
verge of timidity, and at the sam) time,
confident to the verge of rashness. He
ever exulted over victory nor whim
pered at defeat. He had few personal
frioiids, but an amazing popular follow
ing. In theory he was the broadest ot
democrats ; in practice the most exclu
sive of aristocrats. None of his aso
mates seem to have regarded him with
tllection, and few of his opponents
looked upon bim with animosity. Per
' aps no political life in our history
hows so few mistakes. In no single
instance did he fail to make the best
of the occasion, viewing it from his
-vn standpoint ; unless it were the last
ind greatest of his life the oppor
tunity to lead the movement that eventu
ally transformed the nation. He seems
to have had all men's regard, but to
have given noue his trust By his 1 p
ponents he was called cunning ; by hi.
tolJowers sugu'ious. More justly than
almost any other politician he may be
aid to have achieved his own successes
Living, he was the envy of all who
would succeed ; dead, he has been the
nodel of unnumbered failures. Few
statesmen would covet his fame ; fewer
'ill do not envy his success. Be is the
Sphinx of our his'ory -the bidden hand
n rnaoy great events a man in whom
the elements were so deftly mixed that
no friend knew his heart and no enemy
eve-. came within 'his guard. Our
Continent.
That Beautllul Gift.
One of onr young clerks last Sunday
night bought a cut-glass bottle of
cologne, with a glass stopper and pink
ribbon, to present to a yonng lady he
is keeping company with; but, ou
reching the house he felt a little em
barrassed for fdar there were members
of the family present, aud so left the
beautiful gift oa the stoop and passed
in, The movement was perceived by a
graceless brother of the yonng lady,
who appropriated the cologne for his
own use and refilled the bottle with
hartshorn from the family jar, aud then
hnng around to observe the result.
In a little while the yonng man
slipped ont to the ttoop, and, securing
the spleiid d gift, slippt d back again
into the parlor, where, with a few ap
propriate words, he pressed it upon the
blushing girl. L''ke the good and
faithful daughter that she was, she a
onoe hurried into the presence 1 1 her
mother, and the old lady was chaimed
They d dn't put np scent stuff like that
when she was a girl; it was kept in a
china teacup, and it was held together
by samples of the family's hair.
She was very much pleased with it.
She drew out the stopper, laid the
beautiful petals of her nostrils over the
aperture, and fetched a pull at the con
tents that I airly mad them bubble.
Then i-he laid the bottle down, and pick
ing up a brass mounted fire shovel in
stead, said as soon as she could say
anything:
"Where is that miserable brat ?"
He, all unconsoions ot what had hap
pened, was in front of a mirror adjust
ing his necktie and smiling at himself.
Here she found him, and said to him:
"Ob, yon are laughing at the trick on
an old woman, are yon ? '
And then she gave him one on the
ear. And he, being by nature more
eloquent with bis legs than his tongne,
hastened from thence, howling "like
mad." and accompanied to the irate bv
that brass mounted shovel. He says
he would give everything on earth if he
could shake off the impression that a
mistake had Deen made. Boston Cour
ier. Twisted magnetio wire loses its
power by being twisted in the opposite
clireption.
FACTS AND COMMENTS.
The Methodists have made arrange
ments to celebrate the one hundredth
anniversary of the organization of their
first conference by a general conference
in Baltimore in December, 1884. In
honor of the occasion they will raise a
fund of $2,009,000 to be applied equally
to churoh extension, eduoation and
foreign missions.
The chances are that Amorioa will
have to supply the whole of the Egyp
tian deficiency in ootton. The old
stock of cotton ia very light in Giea'
Bri'a'n, while East India cotton cannot
come in'o thn English market before
the end of January, even should the
Suez canal remain open. When the
East India cotton does come, it requires
an admixture of sixty per cent, of
American cotton to be made available
for the English machint ry. Altogether,
the outlook is very promising for re
munerative prices for the American cot
ton crop of the current year.
The silk association of America re
ports the products of the year ending
June 30. wbiob amounted in value to
about $35,00ti,000, are triple the value
ot the products of the factories ten
yeirs ago. Since 1870 the product and
the productive capacity of the industry
have vety greatly inoreased. Within
the decade the number of factories en
gaged in silk manufacture has inoreased
from eighty-six to 388, while the looms
increased froji 1,500 to 8,000, and the
hands employed from 6.CU0 to 81,800.
Tbn waees paid r se in ten years from
82.000 000 to S9,00(i 00U, and many new
Htates not previously engaged in the
industry began to manufacture Bilk and
now have factor's at work. These
S ates are Maine. Rhode Inland, Cali
fornia, Illinois, Kansas and Missouri.
The 13 h day of next December will
be the fiftieth anniversary of the first
election of Mr. Gladstone, England's
prime minister, to parliament, and
soma of the more enthusiastic admirers
of " the grand old man" propose to hold
a jubilee on that occasion Mr. Glad
stone was then as rabid a tory as he is
now an uncompromising liberal. His
address to the electors was dated from
the Clinton Arms, Newark, on the 9 oh
of October, 1832, and the nomination
took place on the following 11th of
December. Two days afterward Mr.
Gladstone was returned at the head of
he poll, and from that day to this no
parliament has met in which he has not
had a seat. .It was in 1845 that he
changed his politics, at the time of the
corn laws. The liberals wish to make
'he celebration a national affair, one
enthusiast describing Mr. Gladstone as
tho member for ' all England."
The salmon fisheries of the United
States have increased more than twenty
fold within ten years, and last year's
produot was nearly a million cases,
worth five million dollars. Bat the
result of this vast business is that the
sout herly and more accessible rivers are
becoming fished out, as the greed of
die fishermen has extended to the cap
ture of the salmon which are on the
way to their spawning places. The
Sacramento and even the seemingly in
exhaustible Columbia are sufi riau
om this cane. The more distant
vaters of British Columbia and Alaska
ire still bountiful, but they will be
Tiined in their turn by such methods ot
fishing. The experience of the Atlantic
i ast should te&oh the Pacific to
nurd its treasures by appropriate law
regnlating the time and manner of fish
ng, lest it be compelled to go through
the process of restocking.
In the Revue d Anthropologic Dr. Be-renger-Ferand
describes in a paper
entitled "Les Griots" those peculiar
itinerant mnsioians who wander all over
Central Africa .from shore to shore.
They belong to different low castes,
ou are under one chief of great power,
who takes what he needs from the gen
et al reoeipts. "Griots" is a French
corruption of the Onolove word
"Gwewonal." This nuild is both feared
and hated by the natives. The members
f it are considered impnre. The bodies
of the dead are thought to make sterile
the land in which they may be interred
Bat it seems these people are skilled in
composing without previons study, and
in piaying on the gnitar and the violin
I he least gifted among them beat the
tam-tam or operate on some other rude
instrument. They carry news from
place to place, and it is said they also
exoite wars. Bnt whether there is
peace or war in a locality, they have
the peculiar privilege of coming and
going as they please.
A gentleman who has recently taken
np his residence in Salt Lake City writes
of one of the means employed by the
Mormons to recruit their ranks with
emigrants from Europe. He Bays : We
bad quite a sight here last week 900
emigrants from Denmark and Sweden
arriving in one day. I went to "the
ffion" to see them. Those who have
friends are cared for, bnt those having
none stay in "the offloe" until they find
emploment. Tbey know nothing about
polygamy until they gut here, and are
made to believe that it tbey will come
and be good Mormons they will be
healed, physically as well as spiritually.
There are a great many cripples among
them, bnt I have not seen any "healed"
physically yet. There is one poor fel
low among their number who is minus
a leg. Tbey told him in tbeold country
they could give him another good leg
if be would just oome to Salt Lake ; so
he came full of hope. Now that he is
here, they tell him they can give him
another sound limb, but if they do he
will have three legs in the next world,
and as he cannot live very long in this
world would it not be best for him 10
oontinne as he is, rather than go stump
ing around paradise with an extra limb ?
- The Chinese colony of Boston per
formed a strange and elaborate funeral
ceremony over the body of Moy Dick
Gam, who died of pneumonia. Thirty
or forty mourners olad in fnll native
costume and wearing the white Bilk
aprons of the Chinese Masonic order,
with band of musio tix bead'
marohed through the principal streets
to Ashburton place a quiet and retired
locality. There on two stools in the
middle of the street was placed the
coffin, and at each end of it was a table
covered with a white cloth. On ona
table were a roa it pig and the carcass
of a sheep and a bowl of rice containing
a number of small lighted torches, and
on the other a large bowl of rice and
several small cups with chopsticks. Six
Chinese priests appeared and chanted
prayers and the tables were loaded with
other viands. The prayers were thot
resumed, and lasted nearly half an
hour. Afterward the company, two by
two, knelt and bowed their heads to
the ground several times The proces
sion then marched to Mount Hope
oemetery, where the burial took place.
The grave was covered wi'h the viands
used at the funeral and with countless
slips of paper containing prayers for
the dead.
Lawyer John H B. La'robe, Jr., of
Baltimore, was drowned in the Patapsco
river recently. He was scarcely thirty
five years old, but his career has been
a romantio one, aud it recalls an inter
esting performance of Grant's adminis
tration. Soon after gradnatint from
the University of Maryland, in 1873
Latrobe went with B. Steinberger on
that famous expedition to the Ssraoan
or Navigator's Islands in the South
Pacific ocean, intending to consolidate
the islands into one government, under
the protectorate of this conntry. Some
sanotion had been given to the scheme
at Washington. Each island was raled
by a single chief, and they all wel
corned the expedition and agreed to
the plans. Latrobn had drafted a
constitution and code of laws on the
voyage, and they were at once adopted.
Tin government was reorganized, wi- h
the chi f who hud thn largest following
bb king. Hi was crowned Hwaii I.,
king of the Saraoan Islands, an I mid 4
Steinberger pi ime minister ai d yonng
Latrobe minixter of war in corun and of
the army, which was soon uniformed in
whi'e pints, blue coats nnd good rifles
while Latrobe far outshone the king in
tho splendor of his raiment. The king
was made a mere fiVu-e-head, being
unable to sanotion a law or enforce an
order without his prime minister's con
sent, while Latrobe controlled the
treasury. Things went on smoothly
until Sir Edward Thornton.
British minister to the United
States, had a little oorrespoudenoe with
his noite government, and as a result :i
British man-of-war anchored one dav
off the Samoan group, landed a noat.
load of men and assumed control of af
fairs. Steinberger put the captain in
irons, but when, a few hours later, a
second man-of-war sailed np, the prime
minister saw that he had been rath' r
haBty and accordingly surrendered
Latrobe was finally sent back to th
United States, and Steinberger was left,
against his will, on one of the many
islands of the South Pacific Sa end.-d
the kingdom of Stmoa, which was
making too much progress to suit the
government of England, and Latrobe
returned to the practice of law in his
uative city.
WISE WOKDS."
What makes life decay is the want of
motive.
The first and worst of all frauds is
to cheat one's self.
Vouch for vonr neln-liVioi-'s Thnnentv
not f jr payment of his debts.
The manners of nature make a man ;
the manners of art unmake him.
There's not a string attuned to mirth
Dutha'h its chord in melancholy.
Everywhere in life the true question
is not what we gain but what we do.
Have yon a beautiful home? If you
have, keep it so ; if not, make it so.
Much of the charity that begins at
home is too feeble to get ont of doors.
There are few occasions when core
mony may not be dispensed with ;
kindness never.
The talent of success is nothing more
than doing what you can well without
a thought of fame.
In seeking converts it is always well
to make sure that they are worth con
verting. A cause may be injured by th
character of its adherents.
Pope said that narrow sonled peopU
and narrow-necked bottles are aliko, foi
the less they have in tbem the more
noise they make in pouring it out.
Whether perfect happiness would b
procured by perfect goodness this word
will never affird an onrvortnnitv nf tu
oiding, bat this, at least, may be main-
iaiueu, mm weuo not niwajsnna vihu i
happiness in proportion to visibu
virtue.
. Forget the evil. Why dwell on lh.
evil side of lite ? It is the. good tha
hould be eui hiizod and portraved
In all our poetry and art, in all our lit
erature, let the b st and high.
thoughts and imaginations be brongb
to the front, and the inferior ha rl
out of sight. In all our busii.e-8. in a
onr social intercourse, in all our amu
ments, lot the good be made prominm'
let heroic deals and generous lives In
known and admired, and those of a
opposite kind be buried in the silence
they deserve.
England's Iron-Clals ami Big Gnn.
England mittht have bombarded th.
Alexandria forts with thirty iron-olad.
bnt she used only eight. Tbe.e eigb
carried four tightv-ton guns, hoe
projeotilea weigh 1 700 pounds each,
ten twenty-five ton guns, whose projec
tiles weigh 600 pounds each; twenty- ii
eighteen ton guns, who-e projectile
weigh 400 pounds eaoh; twelve twelve
ton guns, whose projectiles weigh 115
ponnds eaoh. Bat were the whol
available fleet of thirty vessels used
224 heavy guns would have been brouith'
to bear on Alexandria, the least of whioL
can pierce a plate of iron seven and
X .111 ....
seveb-ienms inoues inioK at a distano
of 500 yards. The heaviest guns pent
trate iron twenty-seven and a ha 1
inches at the same distance, their pr -j-o
tiles being driven by a charge of 870
poundj of powder.
There may be only one man in tt e
moon but it baa four phases any how,
FOR THE LADIES,
Wearing the Ilntr.
The styles of wearing the hair are
variuu, und indiouto a desire on the
part of the h-ti'drefsers to do away
with the graceful simplicity that l as
been in vogue for some time past.
Looped braids falling on the neck re
place the compact Grecian knot The
old-fashioned "French twist" of onr
mothers' 'itys has been revived ; also
the large bows formed of hair, which
were fashionable some twenty years ago,
and which preceded the chignon. Fin
ger puffs on the top of the head are
also worn ; so too are the two long
drooping ringlets, falling on the neck,
which the Princess of Wales brought
into favor at the time of her marriage.
An Earpt nn Indr.
She wore, first a eternise of some
thin white material, with loose sleeves,
embroidered round the edge, hanging
over her hands; then a large pair of
crimson eilk trousers, so long and wide
that they entirely concealed her bare
feet; then came a garment like the
Turkish anteree, dtscending to the feet
before, banging in a tram behind and
opening at the sides, with long sleeves
open from the wrist to the elbjw and
falling back bo as to expose those of
the chemise beneath. The dress was
made of crimson damask and embroid
ered all round the edge with black
braiding, and was c nflned not at the
waist, but over the hips with an In
dian shawl wound two or three times
round and knotted bef. re. The last gar
ment was a jacket, reaching only to the
waist, with half sleeves, made of an
ejceedintly rich stuff of dark blue
silk, embroidered all over in running
pattern with gold and el. ed with gold
braiding and buttons Three large sil
ver amulet cases, containing charms,
w-re hung over the t-hawl gird Id. The
h-a dress ii the profiet part of the
Egyptian costume ami S nas was ex
ceedingly rich. Her hair was divided
into twenty or thirty small braids hang
ing e ver her shoulders, to the end or
each of which was affixed three silk
c-irils strung with gold coins of various
sizes. Two rows of gold coins, aa
large as a half crown piece, laid olose
together, encircled her forehead; and at .
each temple depended a cluster 01 small
er ones, with an Hgate ornament in the
middle. The back of her head was cov
ered with a small Egyptian fez, orna
mented with a large piece of solid gold
and bound on by a handkerchief of
embroidered era. e. She wore two
necklaces of gold coins, thickly strung
together, and each individual piece of
money depending from a massive orna
ment in the form of a fish; one of these
necklaces was lon-i, and the other jnst
n circled her throat; and between them
was a string of beads of Egyptian
agates, as large as birds' egs, and
stiung together witti poldeo links. Her
earrings were of gold filigree in the
bape of flowers, and her bracelets, of
which she worn several of massive gold
and silver. W computed that she
carried about 350 on her person in coin
alone, without inolnding other orna
ments. Mrs, Fomn s Pilgrimage,
Fashion Note
Woolen dresses, to be tasteful, should
be made as plain as possible.
Chemises are made with a V front, to
ie worn with V front dres bodies,
The lace fichu bo popular this sum
mer will be reauced to a full rnohe by
fall.
Lace and embroidery remain the
vorite trimming for all kinds of
Iressee.
Ficelle net will cover the collars
nd ouffj of many dressy costumes in
he fall.
The wraps adopted by young Ameri
can girls abroad are of masculine cnt
ind tailor finish.
Pompons and ostrich feathers form
he trimmings of the largest number of
ummer dress hats.
White blouse waists are worn under
long, loose jackets for seaside and
mountain fatigue costumes.
Immense hats of drawn or shirred
irape, mull and veiling are worn at
European seaside resorts.
The half fitting princesse dress, with
ts superimposed draperies, flounces
and trimmings, holds its ground for
children's toilets.
Tulle and other soft, gauzy stuffs
howing chenille dots on the surface
tre fashionable matetial for ball-dresses
vorn at watering places this .season.
Bonnets made of india rubber and
-rimmed with flowets, recently intro
diced by Paris mo listes, resemble wil
iow baskets filled with flowers.
Seaside hats are many of them lined
vith d irk blue mull or Turkey re 1 calico
.nd trimmed on the outside with a gay
ainlkerobief.
Old-fashioned palm-leaf fans, orna
en'ed with hand-paiuting in showy
esigns in oil or water colors, are in
'emand.
'Ye costliest cottumes are invariably
- mbinaticns of two or more materials,
vith laue, eatbroidnry and oiher trim
mugs thrown in ad libitum.
The favorite linings for seaside hats
f manila and palmetto straws are of
lark blue mull or Turkey red oalioo,
f Lile a gay handkerchief trims the out
ide. The daughters of the Prince of Wales
ear wash prints for morning and white
nnslin for evening toilet in summer,
!id plain gray aerge for day dress in
vinter.
The present simple and becoming
tvle of hair dressing is made to look
-harming by the addition of diamond
pins stuck here aud there in the low
ohignon and amid the iuffy waves.
Moire this season very seldom forma
he whole of a costume. It is only
used in combination with other ma
erials, suob as satin, foulard, taffetas,
-twn bilk or cashmere. It quite ire
inently forms the skirt or bodioe alone,
be other portions ot the toilet being
f a contrasting material, or it is tre
liently employed for facings, collar,
ash, pelerine, cuff and vest, in the
ormation cf a new costume or the reno
vation of one pt ft past season,