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Scuotcb ta politics, Citcraturc, Igricnlturc, Science, Ittoralitii, and iScueral ihi.clligcucc.
VOL. 30.
STROUDSBURGr, MONROE COUNTY, PA., APRIL 10, 1873.
NO. 48
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Published by Tarodore Schoth
TSl -tS r till irs a yea rin advitio-e nnd if not
pi I tief rc the en I of the year, two dollars mii1 fifty
tents vtill be charged.
! ii ti-iir.i itinuH I u :i til all trrearages arc paid,
Except at the o li.iu o the Bailor.
Iveriise neiits 'f 'ne "vre of (ciglit lines) or
tens. oie etc i:ii--o m-Tlicis $1 50. Each additional
h.iili :i, 51 cent. Lonjer ones in proportion.
JOX? lIJI1iT2 JiG,
OF ALL KINDS,
fixecnlei in the hiahest style of the Art, and on the
most i eason itile terms.
ygMnmwm gum i v ii i i. Mm
" DR. J. LANTZ,
Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist,
Still his Ins office on Main street, in the second
tory of ur. S. W.dl.i.i's !nck hunting, nf-miy tippo
nite the Siroiidslnirx House, and lie fl itters himself
that hy ciijiitfeii years i:.nlaut iii-arln-e and the iinit
arnet an I c oH'ul alti-iiM n to all matters -rtaining
to his proivsMnii, that lie i fully allt to p-rf-riu -ill
wperHtions in the ilf n'al line lit the mo.-l c.icful. t;mle
lul in I s'i!itil inani'tv.
S;ir:i.il attention given to saving the Natura Teeth ;
also, to the ia-iTti-Mi d Aitllii-ial fei-lh on Hntier,
G iM. Silver or i'oiiii;iiious Gums, and perleit fits In
stll ca-es insured.
M .st ners.iis ka-nv the greut f.illv and danger of en
trustins their umk to t!ic inexp.rieiireil. iirtn those
living at a u?t nice. A l ll 13, 1 S7 1 . ly
WILLIAM S. REEST
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Estate Agent.
Farms, Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
Office next door aliove S. Kees' news Depot
nnd II J door below the Corner Jitore.
March 20, l7o-tf.
D
it. gi:o. W. J.tCI&SOX
PHYSICIAN. SURGEON & ACCOUCHER.
In the old office of Dr. A. Keeves Jackson,
residence in Wyckou"'s building.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
August 8, lB7"J-ti:
JR. II. J. I' i'iTERSO.V,
OPERATING AND SECIIASICAL DEMIST,
Having located in East Stroudsbnrg, Pa., an
nounces that he is now prepared to insert arti
ficial teeth in ihe most beautiful and life-like
manner. Also, great attention given to tilling
and preserving the natural teeth. Teelli ex
tracted without pain hy use of Nitrous Oxide
(r.u. All other work incident to the profession
dons In tns most skillful anil approved style.
AH work attended to promptly and warranted.
Charge- reasonable. Patronage of the public
H;!lt'iled.
Oilk-e in A. V. Loder's new handing, rp-
Jn.-its Analomink House, V.:it Jrtroudsbiirg,
July 11, 1S72 ly.
DR. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist,
Announce ih it ha vi:ig jus' retnrred from
Dental Co!lgs, h? is folly prepared lontake
artificial tet!i in lue most beautiful and bte
i!e manner, and to fiU decayed tceih according-
to the most i n proved method.
Teeih extract d with 't pain, when de
sired, Ly the use of Nitrous Oxide (!-..
which is entirely harmless. Repairing o
all kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Cbnrges reasonable.
Office in .1. tl Keller' new Brick build
in. Mai- Street, Stroti Jsburg-, Pa.
nug; 3l-lf
WouM re-iiyctl'ullv announce to the
public that he has roinovcJ Ins rtliiee Ironi
Oakland to CauudeTisis, Monroe Countj-, I'u.
Trusting that riany yt;irs of consecutive
practice of -Medicine ami htirgen' will re a
friSbicnt Lruarante3 for the jmblicconSilcncc.
February :., 1S70. tf.
JA.1IKS U. WAMOX,
AlJorney at Iiiv,
OIHee in t!ie liuil'ling formerly occupied
by L. M. Iiirson, an.l op)tosite the trouds
burg Hank. Muia street, Stroud.-burg, Pa.
jan 13-tf
Trivial!
HONESDALE, PA.
Mot central location of any Hotel in town.
II. W. KIPLE k SOX,
J f.9 Main strcrt. Proprietors.
January 9, IK73. ly.
LACK41V.4.A IICt'SK.
ori'osriE the depot,
Kast Stroud-sburg, Pa.
13. J. VAN COTT, Ioprietor.
The BAH contains the chotest Liquor and
the TACLK is suplied with the best the market
afford. Charges moderate. may 3 1872-tf.
WATSOX'S
Mount Vernon House,
117 and 119 Horth Second St.
ABOVE ARCH,
PHILADELPHIA.
May 3D, 1S72- ly.
"gARTOXSVIIJLE IEOTEL.
Thi old established Hotel, having recently
hanged hands, and been throughlv overhauled
and repaired, will reopen, for the reception of
f guests on Tuesday, Mav 27th.
The public will always "find this houe a de
sirable place of resort. " Every department will
le managed in the best possiide manner. The
table will be supplied withthe best the Market
affords, and connoisure will always find none
but the best wines and liquors at the bar.
Good stabling beloning to the Hotel, will be
found at all times under the care of careful and
obliging attandantp.
may 23, 1872. ANTHONY H. IIOEMER.
BLANK LKASKS
For Sa!o at this Offico.
TEltRIBLE DISASTER.
LOSS OF A WHITE STAR STEAMER
The "Atlantic" Wrecked off Nova Scotia
SEVEX IILTDREI LIVES LOST
The Supply of Coal Exhausted
SHE STRIKES A ROCK AND GOES TO PIECES
All the Women and Children Drowned
THE CAFTAN AND THIRD OFflCER SAVED
IIailfax. N. April 1 This after
noon a report was circulated l hat a sfeam
er bad beeu wrecked on the coast, and
everal lives lot. It was at first regard
ed as a ctucl April Tool hoax, but to night
the Cunard agent here received news that
it was all true, and only a little of the
truih had been told, the lact being that
ihe White Starslcatncr Atlantic, Captain
Williams, fiotn Liverpool lor New York,
while coa;ing to this part lor coal, (-truck
oh Meagher's Hock, oear Prospect, tweo
ty two miles west ol Halifax, and became
a total wreck. Of about one thousand
souls on boaid upward ol seven hundred
were drowned. Third Officer Brady ar
rived here to night, and sajs the Atlantic
left Liverpool on March 20, with up
wa.ds ol nine hundred steerage and about
City cabin passengers.
She experienced rough weather during
the passage, but all went well until noon
Monday, March 81. when her supply of
coal became exhauted. The captain de
tertuincd to put into Halifax, and the
captain and third officer were on deck un
til midnight. Her position was then
judged to be S tmbro light bearing N.
N. W. thirty. uiue miles.
The captain wtut so o bis chart room,
leaving orders to be called if there was
any change in the ship's position. Brady
went to bed about the same time as the
capt: in.
Ti e next thing he remembers is that
he was thrown out of his buuk, and llt
t lie ship strike t-everal times. He then
lushed on t'eck, and found the captain
and ofii-ers there, and the deck lull of
passcu.crs.
lie get an axe an l commenced to clear
away the boats The captain and other
ftS-ers were busy doiug the same thiug.
Brady got bis boat out. and put two womeu
in it. A number ot men attempted to
get into it, and about a dozen succeeded
Just at that moment the steamer tell over
on her leaui ends tnd hank.
On'y one t oat had been got out and
that as carried down by the steamer, and
all in it lost. Brady scrambled into the
unzzen rigging, which was above the wa
ter, atid. seeing he could d'j nothing there,
weut lotward and unwove the halyards.,
tieing ar-sivid by Quartermasters Speak
man and Owen.
He t! en took the halyards and all
three waui to the rock The line was
hauled ashore an 1 a nu til er of passen
gers landed by it. A number bad got
on if, but as the tide was rising, their
situation was uu better than on the ves
sel.
Just then fishermen on pbore came out
in boats and rescued those on the rock
and a large number from the rigging.
Brady remained at the scene until noon
to-day, when all who were alive on board
had been saved, except Chiel Officer Mr.
Firth, who was iu the rigging fchoutiug
for help.
Brady says be tried to get a crew fo go
to Firth's rescue, but the sea was so heavy
that nobody would volunteer. Altogether
about persons were paved, including
Captain Williams, also Fourth Officer
Brown, the doctor aud several of the en
gineers and sailors.
Not a single woman or child was saved
Most of them, as well as hundreds ot
meu. were drowned in their berths. The
ship struck about two A. 31 . the weather
at the tiu e being dark but nut thick,
with a rough sea.
Steamers are poing down to night to
render what assistance ibey possibly cau
All the people saved from the wreck, ex
cept Brady, are still at Prospect, where
ihe fishermen are giving them all possible
attention.
New York, April 1. Among the
cabin passengers lost on the Atlantic, the
only ones now known, are William II
Merrittaod wife of New York, Miss Mer
ritt his sister, and Miss Soreymser, his
nister in law. No list of the passengers
cau be obtained to night.
THE CHIEF OFFICR'S STORY.
FIGHTING THE WAVES RESCUED BY A
GALLANT CLERGYMAN AFTER TEN
IIOUHS IN THE RIGGING A WOMAN'S
GHASTLY FATE.
Halifax, April 2. J. W. Firth,
chief officer of the Atlaulic, in reply to
the reporter's questions, tuade a Mate
meat iu substance as lollows :
My watch ended at 'Z o'clock on Mon
day night. The second aud fourth of
ficerb took charge, aud I weut to my berth
1 was aroused by the shock of the vessel
Nuking. The second officer tame down
to uiy room, and said the ship was ashore
and he was afraid .she was goue. I put
ou a few articles ol clothing, got an ax,
ud weut on deck to clear the boats
The ship had careened over before I
reached tbe deck. 1 cleared tbe twoetar
board boats. Just then a heavy seal
swept the boats away. 1 was holding fast
fo the tnizzentnast rigging imj now climb
ed higher for safety. The night, was so
dark and the spray blew so thickly that
we could not see well what was going on
around us. I saw men on the rocks, but
did not. know bow they got there. All
who were alive on board were in the rig
,-ing. When daylight came I counted
82 persons in the uiizzeumast rigging
with me. including one woman. Wheo
these saw that there were lines between
the ship aud the shore, many of theui at
tempted to go forward to the lines, and
in doing so were washed overboard and
drowned Many reached the shore by
the aid of the lines, aud the fishermen's
boats rescued many more At last all
had either been washed off or rescued ex
cept myself, the woman, and a boy The
sea had become so rough that the boats
rould not venture near us. Soon the boy
was washed off. but be swam gallantly
and reached one of the boats in safety
I got a flint hold of the woman and se
cured her in the rigging. I could sec
the people on shore and in the boats, and
could hail them, but they were uuable to
help us.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, after we
had been in the rigging ten hours, the
Rev. Mr. Ancient, a Church of England
clergyman, whose noble conduct I can
never forget while I live, got a crew ol
four men to row hiui out to the wreck
He got into the main rigging and pro
cured a line, then advanced as far as he
could toward me aud thiew it to me. I
caught it, made it last around my body
and then jumped clear. A sea swept me
off the wreck, but Mr Ancient held fast
to the line, pulled me back and got me
salely in the boat. I was then soexhaus
ted and benumbed that I was hardly able
to do anything fur myself, and but for
the clergyman's gallant conduct I must
have pcrishpd soon. " The woman, after
hearing up with remarkable -strength uo
der her great trials, had died two hours
before Mr. Ancient arrived. Her half
nude body was still fast in the rigging,
her eyes protruding, her mouth foaming
a terribly ghastly spectacle reudcred
more ghastly by the contrast with the
numerous jewels which sparkled on her
hands. We had tu leave her body there,
and it is probably there yet. The eeue
at the wreck was an awlul one, such as I
hnd never before witnessed and hope
never to witness again. Comparatively
lew bodies drifted ashore ; most of them,
with such articles as came out of the ship
while I was ou her, were carried to sea
OUR PAST AND FUTURE.
Every four years . the nation meets
together to renew the consciousness that
it is a community bound by a common
interest and laboring for the common
good ; nor as President Grant cauie for
ward upon the platform at Washington,
the representative of this principle of
unity, as the telegraph bore the record
of his oath aud of bis clear and suggestive
address to uearly forty millions ot people,
was there anything but satisfaction with
the great majoity that the choice of the
nation bad lalleo on one no worthy and
so trusted. A sense of security passed
over the intelligent and toiling throngs
from tbe shores of tbe Colurubi to the
waters of the Hudson. They felt that
the community was safe aud entire ; that
tbe jirring clash of warring parties has
been converted into rare unanimity ; that
the period of civil discord was over, and
the country entering upon a new career
of unequaled prospeiity. Some on Inatigu
ration day, touched by the communal feel
ing, looked far back to the dawn of the
infant community; saw Washington,
surrounded by Adams and Hamilton.
Livingston. Steuben, sherman, repeat the
first oath to the new Constitution which
he had labored to construct, and address
in tender, truthful words his divided and
feeble countrymen. The burden ol
Washington's addresses was always Union.
The Constitution had been adopted with
difficulty, and was singularly popular iu
many districts The fate of generations
aud of a continent, Washington and his
wise advisejs saw, rested upon the blend
ing of the feeble, war worn and divided
colonies in a compact body, and with
wonderful patience, forbarance, resolu
tion. they succeeded in attaining it The
Union was perfected, and Washington
for eight years mantained with vigor and
decision the government which had been
accepted by the majority agaiust domestic
or foreign foes
Nor on Inauguration day is it possible
to purvey without gratelul satisfaction
the long line of excellent and patriotic
men who have renewed tbe oath taken
by Washington, and kept if so faithfully
Contrasted with the series of European
rulers, they prove the general good sense
and discretion with which our people
have selected their Chief Magistrates
The kings and priest, the despots and
the constitutional monarchs ot the Old
World have usually been inferior to the
better classes of their subjects in morals
and public virtue. Often stained by
gross vices, they have corrupted genera
tions by their example, have wasted the
resources of the industrious in useless
extravagance, or, torn by n evil ambi
tion, have racked aud decimated the
people with endless war. A 'dissolute
George IV and William, the two Na
poleons. Isabella of Spain, a throng ol
petty potentate iu Ituly and Germany,
the coa temporaries of our Presidents,
have dishonored human nature by their
vice, and oppressed mankind by their
crimes. The successors of Washington,
if they have not equaled, have, iu some
measure at least, inherited the calm sense
and patriotism of their founder. Adams
honest, pure,' passionate, ambitious ; Jef
lerson, the keen, subtile friend of man
kind ; Madison, Monroe, or the second
Adams, with some human failings, were
nil worthy the republic they administered,
and not inferior to the people they ruled
The rude yet honest patriotism of Jackson
is remembered by ail parties with sincere
respect ; and if the careers of some of hi
successors were tainted by the demoraliz
ing influences of dying slavery, yet the
record of our Presidential rulers brighten
toward the close. We have had no
George IV. nor any Napoleon. Tbe
meek, unbending, faithtul Lincoln, purest
ot statesmen, almost a second Washing
ton. gave his life to the cause of union,
and the nation named as the worthy sue
cessor of Lincoln the man who had duue
aiost to preserve it.
The last three Presidential terms have
witnessed the origin, progress aud close
of a remarkable revolution, necessary to
complete the union which Washington
enforced, and which Grant and Lincoln
founded anew. So long as slavery existed
there could be no hope of domestic peace
A slave oligarchy ruling a community of
freemen could only maintain its power
by . coar-eless aggressions. At length
insane with an evil ambition, it plotted
its own destruction The slave holders
became the most effective abolitionists
Hated by their own people for their
tyranny and pride conscious that, the
colored population was planning its own
emancipation, they jet ventured to rebel
It was the signal lor the emancipation ol
the nation. Slavery fell with a fierce
convulsion ; the triumph of universal
freedom was perfected by the labors ot
Lincoln and Grant. During the last
three Presidential terms our country
has been made the fitting home of the
working man, of industry, of self respect ;
aud the vast tide of immigration that is
pouring in upon us from Germany and
Scandinavia show with what joy the in
telligent laborers of Europe avail them
selvps of tin: oilers of freedon Our com
munity is being rapidly swelled by the
friends of liberty and equality; the in
dusirious and the frugal are no longer
frightened from our shores by the horrors
of human bondage ; and within the next
decade it is probxble that every section
of the of the Union will be peopled anew
troin the most worthy portiuu of the
European population.
Thus the new Presidential term opens
iu union and peace. One or two ot the
Southeru States may yet be disturbed by
the lingering resentments of the lallen
faction. But the majority ot their people
have no desire to recall thetr former op
pressors, and the whole mercantile and
(arming interest of the South is laboring
for a stable government. If has no desire
to be ruled by the Ku Klux. or to drive
away capital and trade With other
nations it is the happy lot of our govern
ment to have no complications and uo op
posing interests. Toward our weaker
neighbors we need show only tbe tender
n ess of an elder brother; toward Euro
peao governments moderation and good
will. The barbaric passion for military
glory which has destroyed so often the
hopes of the laboring throngs of Europe
we have never shared. Our wars have
always been defensive. Wc may trust
that our last battle has been fought, and
that the victories of the new Presidential
term will be won by the hardy strokes of
labor iu the wilderness, aud, by the rapid
progress of mental reform.
The next four years will probably wit
ness the most rapid advance known to
our country's history. The immcnese
influx of emigrants and the wonderful
increase of trade cannot fail to build up
our commerce, and revive the ancient su
premacy of the American flag The ports
of South America ami the Mediterranean,
of China and Japan, are inviting our
merchants and ouTshipping. The rail
roads that cross the continent connect
Asia with Europe. Every section of the
country is busy with the labors of peace,
and the industrious throng of active
citizens are t-ue to the republic aud to
each other. The consciousness that we
are a united commuuity, founded by
Washington, and saved from destruction
by the devotion of Lincoln and Grant
will deepen iu strength with each I'resi
dential term ; aud in union wc shall find
prosperity and peace. Harper's Weekly.
STREET LIFE IN EUROPE.
A LECTURE BY WEN DEL nilLLITS.
Wendell Phillips lectured in Chicago
a few nights since on ''Street Life iu
Europe " He introduced his lecture
with the story of the Vermont stage
driver, who, approaching a gentleman in
a tavern, said : "If you're the man that
wants to ride in this here stage, I'm the
man that's going to drive the coach."
'If you have come to hear a lecture on
"Street Life in Europe,'" said Mr.
Phillips, "I'm the man that going to
deliver it." Laughter and upjrbuise
The first thing that strikes an American
abroad i the great amount of individual
independence. In this country we think
we produce independent individuality,
but here, the lecturer thought, we make
a mistake. The republic tends to create
a herd of raenr while a monarchy tends
to create the individual One phase of
this individuality was illustrate J by a
story of Napoleon I. Once, while in
Italy, he said that no Italian could make
a boot. This remaik coming to the cars
of ati Italian boot maker., the son of Si.
Crispin sat down and manufactured a
magnificent b o", which he presented to
the Emperor. "Ah, exclaimed Napiueou.
a he stamped his foot upon the floor.
this is a boot. Make me another
No." replied the artist in leather, ou
said no Italian boot make, could make a
hoot. I have shown you I cau make one :
I won't make another 1"
The American is governed to a great
excut by the opinions of those about ttm
In Europe the contrary h the case. The
America'u bides his claws in the velvet.
and feels around before he expresses him
self; the Luglisbman is like a rough bit
of granite broken ofl with a hammer ; the
American is like a smooth pebble trom
tne beach so slippery that you cannot
boll him In Europe men carry the
signs of their vocations in their clothing
In Paris, some years ago," the lecture
was refused admission by a sentinel to a
public building because he wore a cap
which, in France, was only worn by ser
vants He finally convinced the sentry
that he had another cap at home, and
was permitted to go in
Americans think it is an evidence of
manhood to repress their emotions
Homer made bis go Is whine an I howl,
aud did not imagine that he was detract
ing I rom the dignity of the god. much
less that ol a man This is the sentiment
in Europe After oue of the sessions id
tbe French Assembly. Jules Favre and
ihe orator Berryer fell upon each other's
necks and kised and wept Imagine
Sunset Cox and Ben Butler kissing each
other! Laughter One thing that
forcibly strikes an American in Europe
is the lack of what he would call enter
prise, that is, the application of brains to
work. Ralph Waldo Emersou says: "A
ankee has as much brains in bis hands
as a Eurojean has in bis skull" We
harness, steam, and send the lightning on
errands. A genuine Yankee babv looks
over the side of his cradle, plans a new
one, gets nut a patent for it before he is
nine mouths oil. Laughter Thedif
ference between the Yankee and the
European is illustrated by the above, iu
connection with an anecdote of Horace
Greeley. Mr. Greeley, when in France.
once said to a Frenchman, who be saw
mowing with a rusty oi l knife : "Why
don't you get a good, sharp modern
scythe? it will do hr'e times as much
woik." The Frenchman's reply was fuller
than the Tribune ever was: "Ah.
Monsieur. I haven't three times tbe work
to do." Iu Europe wood is sold bv the
pound, ami bread by the yard The
Italian wood sawyer places the saw be
tween his knees, and rubs the wood on
the saw. This, according to the lecturer,
was the dead low tide of the application
of brains to wjok. The high tide of ihe
application of brains to labor is found iu
the operation of one id' our grain elevators
which the lecturer characterized as an
instance of the Yankee skulking the
final curse of getting his liviug by the
sweat of his brow."
The Europeans, he said, were nvtch
more polite than Americans Ask a New
1 orker the way to Wall street, and he
will send yon to a place hotter than the
-Lh July. Laughter Ask an Eoglih
man and it is a chance if he don't send
you to the same place. Ak a French
man the way to salon, and he will direct
you with the greatest patficuhirify Ask
a German the way to a place and he will
go with you. In America everybody
travels. In Europe the man who travels
is a curiosity. This fact explains Mon
tesquicu's remark that "Paris is France "
Paris pulls down a King, and the matter
is accomplished before Marseilles hears
of it. Iu Europe almost everything is
economy. The lecturer was once in
siructcd in Italy by an officer of the
English navy how to save a cent. The
next place where we see Europeans is at
church, the doors of which are always
open. In the churches there is no
hateful aristocracy of pews. He hail
seen the blood of royal Naples kneeling
side by side with the ragged hizzirotii
both equal before God.
In the matter of alms giving the Euro
j eans ate far superior to us. In America
we waste more than the Italians cat. and
yet in that country he bad never sceri a
beggar turned away f rom a house or store
without having something given him as
a testimony that better off owes: some
thing to worse off. Women's work iu
Europe is somewhat multifarious. They
do two thirds of the work draw wagons,
propel boats, dig, plow, and, in fact,
perform all kinds of labor. A brother
of the last Emperor of Autiia. who
married his wife in Tyrol, married her
because she harnessed horses so well It
has been said that the word home is not
to be found in the French language, and
consequerictly we imagine thpy have riot
homes there. The lecturer has seen
houses in France in which might he
found five or six generations of the same
family.
The prejudice against color, so strong
hi America, has no place among Euro
peans. At St. Peter's, in Koine, Mr.
I'hilliys heard a sermon dcliverd in a
most melodious voice, and when be
moved toward the. priest to- note his
personal - appearance, be was afonisbed
to discover that the speaker was ti negro
Thi struck hiru so forcibly that he
exclaimed, "I must be 4UUU miles from
Bcstoa."
Italian Children and Their Masters.
The Italian street musicians' masters,
says a New York paper, are ever can
tions, running., suspicious, an I on ihe
alert for an evidence of di itioTachou or
treachery on the part of the child r. n i
They watch them by night while' asleep ;
they exercise a strict surveillance no r
l hem by day. In every well orusniir.fi
family there is at tea-f one tein ile. a eno e'
of the utmost brutality of expreesion. who',
conveniently disguished, peran.bul.itt y
the city, unrecognized by the children'.
and at night has a pretty heavy sore'
i
against tne uuusptctiug w mdcrers. Not
only the masters, but the feui iles. in ad
ditioii to iliLMr other self iu.po-ed dunes.
make daily forages uon th mnLiu i.i
food
"What." was asked of an informant.,
do you consider the gieatest cause of
complaint V
"It is the food, sir. It's bad- in qua!
iry, the worst that can te cooked' up. arid
it is not hall enough lor the hungry oues."
"Where does it cou.e from
"Every dirty place You see, while
we are out playing, the niastenr iq.eiid
the day about the markets, wharves and
grocery stores. With their honks au l
nags i hey gather all the cabbage Icax e
they can find thrown away ; then the po
tatoes that have rotted, and the apples',
aud all ouch things, with which tu make
soup "
"Where does the meat come from ?"
"The same places. They have fo buy
meat sometimes, but they generally ptck
up the old livers, ha-lets. dirty fief, ainf
heads, that have been thrown away
They make uioney out of everything!
ashes, rags, scraps of iron au J old p
pers."
"How about the cooking V
"That is very simple. You've seen
the big pots and kettles iii' the rooms,
haven't you ? Well, the old women woik
all this stuff into soup, because it's cheaj
and easily fixed Occasionally we have'
macaroni, but this tasteless, sickening
.soup is the principal nourisbtnent.-unless
you call dry bread and cold water good."'
"I). the boys complain much i.ftho
insufficiency or bad quality of their b-od?"
"Very seldom ; they dare not I've
Known some poor fellows so hungry that?
they'd spend five or leu cents lor buns,
or peanuts or apples, to eat ; and when
they came home short of money, the mas
ters bad given'them stud to" make tbeic
stomachs Mk. and then Watched tor what
they had eaten."
"What is the result of such an inhu
man course '!"
"Why a fl iggiog, or application of the
bastinado."
"Can't the boys evade pnishment ?"
"Only for a little while They mayv
stay out all night, thinking they'll make"
up the sum the next day ; but no matter'
where they hide, in ash boxes, coal bins,
empty wagons, wood sheds, any u here, t be
boss'll niiely find ibetli out. and ihetv
they're treated worse than if they fan. a'
home at once Sometimes the mm and1
women will travel about wilh a child too
young to go out playing, and beg money,
after telling all sorts of bad stories Be
sides using the children so themst-lv
they olten hire ihe feeblest I .(. king u
prolesiii(al beggars al so much a' day..
Then the old rascals blister I heir eyes-,,
and think they ran get noire money by
calliug the children their own."
Raising Giants,
King Frederick William, of PnissiV,
father ol Frederick the Great, dctermiu
ed fo raise to order sol liers whose statue
should meet l is views of what grendier
to serve loyalty should be. The army
was his hobby, and tall men his sprv)
admiration. He had a regiment at I".f
daui that was the talk of the World, on
account of their heals an I shoulders be
ing far above ordinaty humanity. There
were three battalions ol 00 each. 2.4;iD
in all. perfect Anaks, flic shortest ot the
men being seven feet and the tallest nine.
Such lofty beings were piocured lion, all
countries in Europe without regard to
cost. James Kit k man. an lrih recruit.
could not be ha t till $(i,00 were paid
Tall men were decoyed and put into ser
vice at all hazards. Next be compelled
tjieui to marry unusually tall women,
whether they consented or not Prui
is rich in very tall subjects, the dc-cen I
ants of these gigantic grenadiers; these
are far taller than the lull blooded Ken
tui-kians.
Iii spite of the eecenrric Majesty's ef
forts, however. Nature would have her
own way. and the children ol such paieu
lage were xvA all tall at niaturi y Then
again, until her law come into operation p. .
thwart the mon iclr's ambit-ton to develop
a race of monster meu Short in- n very
generally prefer tall wives, and till w oneu
dapper liite. husbands Of course there'
is no very philosophical way of iiccounf
f ir taste, but such is ihe fact There is
a growth limitation to j l ints and un'r
m ils. On reaching the predestine- di v
mensinsv ih..sr avtive attizan ihtt bnild
up the body, as far the law of limita
tion requites, cease la oritg. an I a per
manent type of H2e. is thus established
It is iirtpo-sihlo t go counter to:hoe
laws and raise giants (f JMiy kin. I A f w
individuals, transcending their kiiidi-.f
in altitude, are apparently accidental, or
at least are beyond explanation but
anomalies in I bat respect, like m .n.vtr.i.-i -ties,
cannot be perpetuated through geu
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