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AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTI
TUTION OF PENNSYLVANIA.
reopaitm an amendment to the Conetitution of
Re It Rro,l it! Bir the .9,1111te 111141 110.0 If RePrearll•
(titters if IF.. commonwealth of Pennsylronla in Dell•
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• Spoaker of the Boone of Repre.outative..
WILLIAM A. WALLACE,
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Approved tilo Ilftevoth day of June, Arm° Domini on:
thousand eight hundred nut seventy-one.
JOHN W. GEARY.
' Preraml an' csallied for publication pursuant to the
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Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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JAMES 11. WEBB,
F. JORDAN,
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CORN GONG.
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Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard;
Heap high the golden corn ;
No richer gift has Autumn poured
From out her lavish born.
Let other lands, exulting, glean
The apple from the pine,
The orange from Its glossy green,
The clubler floin the vine.
We better love the hardy gift
Our rugged vales bestow,
To cheer us when the storm shall drift
Our harvest fields with snow.
Through vales of grass and flowers
Our ploughs their furrows made,
While, on the hills, the sun and showers
Of c hangefull April played.
We dropped the seed o'er hill and plain
Beneath the sun of , May,
And frightened from our sprouting grain
The robber crows away.
All through the long bright days of June
Its leaves grew green and fair,
And waved In hot midsummer noon
•Its soft and yellow hair.
And now, with Autumn's moonlit eyes,
Its harvest time Is conic ;
We pluck away Ito frosty leaves,
Aril bear Its treasures home..
Then; richer than the fabled gifts
Apollo showered of old.
Fair hands the broken grains shall sift,
And knead its meal of gold.
Let vapid idlers 101 l In silk
Around the costly board ;
dive us the bowl of lump and milk
By homespun beauty poured.
Then shame on all the proud and vain
Whose folly laughs.to scorn
The blessings of our hardy grain—
Our wealth of golden earn.
Let earth withhold her goodly root ;
Let mildew blight the rye ;
Give to the worm the orchard's fruit,
And wheat fields to the fly.
But let the good old crop adorn
The hills our fathers trod ;
Still let us, for Ills golden corn,
Send up our thanks to God !
JOAQUIN MILLER
Shc Story of the Strange Career of
the new California Poet.
111,. rend We nn the Pacific Plains—Extent of his
Filarial''n on the Paelfic Eilrope—
LOllflitlfpl and limruery of Life it, London
Rel !Mom Repnblicaninin mot Character
—Testimony of London Celtics.
From the Neu, 1 - “rklErf ntng
I have letters by me which tell the story of
the strange and romantic life of Joaquin Mil
ler, the newest of the California poets who
have so recently come suddenly to the surface
and nt once been ranked with the geniuses of
the country, and'which pleasantly sketch his
short but remarkable career in Ldndon, and
give altogether the most perfect idea of the
man that can be got without seeing and study
ing him. Of these, the fullest and the best,
the most interesting and satisfactory, and the
most critical, is by George Francis Armstrong,
of Dublin, a man of fine culture, a critic of I
ability and reputation, and a contributor to the
leading English magazines and literary pa
pers. It was written to a friend in answer to
inquiries concerning the personal history of
Miller, with ii.dfom he became, It seems, quite
intima'e during his stay in London. Of his
origin, Mr. Arthstrong says ;
" When the earliest of the numerous favor
able notices of his works appeared in London,
he said to me, with an enthusiasM which lie
did not care to hide, 'This is worth more to
me than gold ; I will send it to my parents' ;
and when I asked him where his parents were
lie said, 'They have herds of horses and cattle,
and dwell on the Willamette, in Oregon.
They are dear, pious old people, and have
never believed in me, but they will now.'
Once he stepped me oppos!U the window of
an old printshop in Museum Street, and point
`ed out a portrait of Witt, a famous lender of
German peasant insurgents in a former centu
ry. Ile said this Witt was an ancestor of his
on his mother's side. His grandfather on the
other side fell In the last war with . Great Bri
tain, a private soldier."
Concerning his life in the wilds of the West,
Mr. Armstrong writes :--
. " has fought on the frontier, and is
lame of a left leg and a right arm from bullet
wounds. He has told me of his having con
ducted a vast party from the South Pacific to
the North Pacific mines, and of having found
ed a colony in the wilderness, hundreds of
miles from any settlements. Here they were
attacked be the Indians, against whom he led
the fighting-men, and was defeated. Defeated,
but not, it appears, disgraced ; for, as soon as
the State was formed, he was chosen Judge of
the district. This office he held four years,
during which time he wrote his earlier poems.
Ile tells of planting an orchard, and of turning
the attention of the colony to farming and
stock raising, after the gold mines were ex-
handed."
Another friend, and an earlier, writes more
in detail of this life, and accordingly adds con
siderably to the story. He says :
"I first saw Miller in the mountains of Nor
thern California, in 1851. He was then a
mere boy, and could not have been more than
thirteen or fourteen years of age. He was
with an old man called " Mountain Joe," who
had been one of Fremont's guides, and who
treated him as his own boy. He had taught
him the use of the pistol, with which he after
wards made himself famous in that country.
Miller's home was somewhere in what was
then Oregon Territory, and it was said he had
run away from it. The summer following
"Mountain Joe" led a party of miners against
the Indians, and in the fight which ensued,
Miller was shot in the face with an arrow,
,and nearly lost his life. Not long after, he
originated, with "Mountain Joe" and Mc-
Dougal, the great gold excitement known es
" The Lost Cabin," which many CalifOrnians
will remember with regret. This McDougal
was a famous character. lie was a brother of
Governor McDougal, of California, one of the
finest looking men in, the mountains, and
known about the country as "Prince George."
Whether the " Lost Cabin" was a reality or a
myth, and there are many who believe it was
not all a myth, the company alwayahad bags
of gold dust, although they were_ never seen
to be engaged in mining. They rode the finest
horses,were armed with the choicest weapons,
and wore the most splendid accoutrements ;
" Prince George" especially being noted for
the magnificence of his dress. Every few
months they would 'drop down' to San Fran
cisco, put up at the best hotels, and attract the
attention of the whole, town by their lavish
expenditure of money. Then, as suddenly as
they came, they disappeared, and all attempts
to follow them, or trace the sources of their
wealth, were utterly futile. In time the Lost
Cabiners disappeared, and It was said they had
joined the filibuster Walker, in Mexico. Mc-
Dougal never returned, and it is believed that
he is at this moment a chief of the Patagoni
ans ; and all trace of 'Mountain Joe' bas been
lost." '
" Miller next turned up with the Indians
near Mount Shasta, leading them in their fight
with varied success. About this time the Pitt
River massacre occurred, when the wholevalley
was retaken by the Indians, and the settlers
either killed or captured. Whether Miller
WIP or waTnot engaged in this affair Is not
known, or was not at tlui time ; nevertheless,
a reward was offered for his body, dead or
alive. He was captured one morning with a
small Indian camp while sleeping after a bard
ride for the settlement, and while the Indians
taken with him were shot, he was carried to
Shasta City and put into irons to await exe
cution; but fortunately, just in the nick of
time, another party of Indians broke into his
prison and rentted him.
ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1871.
"Tiring of this border weirfare,Miller, after
a while,changed his mode of life. For n time
he rode a pony express to and from a gold
mining camp in the interior through an Indi
an country where' no other man could ,or
would go, making friends wherever he went.
He wrote quite a number of songs about this,
period, for the miners, which, to this day,
may be heard In the camps of the Pacific. Re
linquishing the 'express business,' Miner mist
hoisted his shingle as 'attorney-at-law,' and
was elected a judge by the people, which
office he hem for some two or three years with
an honorable record, both as a judge and as a
citizen. It is hardly possible he could have
edited a paper, as report has it, for his educa
tion had been quite meagre, extending only to
a few months' schooling in a log hut. When
lie became 'attorney,' lie had literally no book
education."
Miller went to Europe over a year ago. Ho
roamed for some months through various parts
of the continent, through England and Scot
land. At the commencement of the Franco-
Prussian war he was taken prisoner on sus-
picion by the French, and kept iu durance
about three weeks. His manuscripts and
money were taken from him, but subsequently
all hie property, with the exception of some
fragments of a poem, mislaid by the officials,
was returned, and he was liberated. Ile then
proceeded by some circuitous route to London.
Mr. Armstrong writes of his first meeting
with him, one evening in the early part of the
present yearjust after the publication of his
poems :
" I was introduced to Miller for the first
time at his own lodgings. Ile was already
acquainted with several eminent men and
women ; yet he has often told me since that
when he came to London first, a few months
previously, lie had not in the wile city one
stogie friend, and he came without introduc
tions, and lie had no literary reputation to
stand upon. Ilow in so short a time lie
gathered about him so many persons distin-
guished in so many professions and pursuits,
I knew not. I have never asked him. * "
* More have sought him than he has
ever sought. Some natural sympathy made
him partial to the Rossettis, Swinburnes, and
their school ; hut not to that school or to any
other had he attached himself."
Of his lodgings and manner of living, the
following is written :
"His lodgings consisted of two small
rooms, in a small house on Remmingford
Road, Barnsbury —a neighborhood sufficiently
dingy, depressing, and unprosperous, away
from wealthy and successful men. A wor
shipper of rank and respectability once asked
him, 'How in the world he was led to live in
such a part of London?' and his reply was
characteristic in more ways than one : Weil I I
said he, it happened this way. I was tiroa
of Victoria Street ; they were too still' and
stately there ; and I wanted a new place. I
wandered out here, and walking up the street
one rainy day I saw a sweet-faced little girl
at the window. I conic in ; told the old lady
I wanted a home ; they let me stay ; and here
I've been ever since.' Here he remained
pursuing a very plain and simple life, wheli
Fame had emptied both her hands upon him,
when friends were thronging in to see him,
and strangers to court his acquaintance.
"Previously to his taking this lodging he
had lived in almost all the poorer quarters of
London, and in a few months he learned the
city more thoroughly than one less curious
and less observant of the walks and ways of
men would do in so manyyears. I remember
once, when we were rambling together through
the streets of an old country town; he pointed
out a house which lie said was like one which
he had occupied nt Mile End. It seemed to
me not to have many months more to hang
together. And his motive in selecting such
Places to dwell in was neither parsimony nor
eccentricity. I believe he prefers to live
among the poor, whom he considers the real
people of the country, threnigh wlp - m it is best
to be taught. Like his compatriot, Walt
Whitman, he loves the outside of an omnibus,
travels third class, and gives the superflux to
the poor, lie enjoys a chat with news-boys,
shoe-blacks, and such poor toilers for bread:
Nor Is he without hopes and plsns of his own
for bettering the condition of the poor."
Regarding his sentiments and politics, Mr.
Armstrong writes:—
" He is a sincere and devout republican in
passion and politics,and he expresses his remit)•
licanhun persistently in the outward symbols
of dress and manner. To these symbols he
attaches so much significance that the mere
thought of being obliged to put, on evening
dress has often driven him to refuse invita
tions to places where even the attractions of.
intellect were not slight. With republican
Prance, I know his sympathies were active
until the surrender of Paris. Then he could
not tollerate the world's loud babble about
French valor; condemned the Parisians as
cowards, who had shrunk and yielded before
half their number, and seemed to lose all Inter
est in the nation."
And of his region :
" Holding great breadth of opinion on pies
tions of laith, Miller is one of those wiser men
who eledve fast to the loftiest doctrines of Chris
Baldly, and would not destroy it. He handed
me a letter, one day, from a Pacific member
of Congress, informing hint of the death of his
only sister. Death," said he, promotion in
life. Ido not believe in putting on apparel
that makes a display of grief. Therefore I will
not go into mourning. If Christ is truth she is
happier now, and my grief is only selfish—and
Christ is not a mistake.' I have heard him
plead earnestly on the side of Christ among
those who mocked at his name,and doubted his
having existed. •lle would fain hare the dead
burned, and the ashes of a family preserved in
a single urn. lle urged the advisability of the
custom on the grounds of health, economy,
good taste.' As he stood with Professor Dote
den at the corner of a street in Barnsbury, one
day, waiting for an omnibus, he said : ' Look
at these vast grave-yards here in London.
They keep the people in terror from their mag
nitude and desolation, and cast a gloom over
w hole districts. Let them be ploughed and
planted, and there would be beautiful gelds to
look upon.. Besides, they would yield enough
bread to feed half the pour of London.' He
has desired, In his will, tliat his own body
shall be burned."
• Ills education, Mr. Armstrong also confes
ses, has been exceeding meagre:—
" I am bound to say that Miller is-uneduca
ted—his book-lore and intellectual training
being of the smallest. Ile Is particularly fa
miliar with the Bible, and he has no doubt
read and absorded Byron, and perhaps one or
two other poets. I furnished him with the
first copies of ethelley and Carlyle he had ever
seen. The English critics (who cannot help
finding resemblances in every new poet to
some great one living) have detected some
thing in common between him and Mr. Brown
ing. Genuine poets, in certain good qualities
always resemble one another. I know that
the-first poem of Browning's Miller ever read ,
was the Ballad of Nerve Biel, which appeared
some months ago in the Cornitlll Magazine.
What he has miblished Is written with care t ,
and displays, on the whole, but little lack of
cultivation. But he boasts no education such
as schools can give. Ills letters and his con
versation exhibit little evidence of any ; and
the former; partly owing to the wound in his
right arm, are scarcely Intelligible to any one
unfamiliar with his peculiar spelling and his
doleful callgraphy. But he bas read men and
Nature, and his own soul, writhe watchful and
remembering eye."
His character and nature arc thus delicately
sketched:—
" lie is a man of strict honor; pasionste with
the violence of a warm and sensitive nature ;
brave and independent in speaking and act
ing : tender to all men ; full of large allowan
ces for faults and charitable readings of nit°.
lives and def2ds; in many pursuits and likings
almost infantile ; in his dealings with a world
far-sighted, shrewd as Jacob ; very calm in
his general out warfl hearings, the calm huhu!.
cd by persistent self restraint; ever busking
out with irresistible humor, which in gait and
go is unmistakably American, lint looked at
nearer is the veritable child of his own rich
nature: half dust., half deity;' a man who
would subdue his chagrin at defeat with the
same doggedness as he would any flame of
vanity kindled by success; a man whom none
could ever hate, and whom .1t would he hard
for most not to love; a remarkable man, whose
first words in a crowd are the signal of many
eyes to turn Ills way, and many ears to strain
towards him with attention."
And, adds Mr. Armstrong:—
"Maus I think of . this singular history I
cannot help feeling that it exhibits something
more than a literary success. Here is an
American citizen, a patriot in soul and aspi
ration, who, with faith in the kinship and in
ner unity of two great nations, comes with
it gift, which does his own country honor, to
a country which honors itself in accepting it
with sincere and outspoken praise. Poets, not
iioliticians, are the representatives of a nation's
heart. Despite the clamor of dishonest dem
agogues and crafty place-hunters, whom we
shall some day trample into the ground and
have done with, there is but one pu`sa of life
between England and America. One in blood
one in aspiration, one In the love of truth,
justice, hunianity, liberty; one in the best In
heritances of the past, and best hopes of the
future, America has nothing which is not
England's, and England nothing which isnot
America's. And here is one more golden
ring in the chain."
Bosco c, July 20, 1971.
SLEEP-WALKERS' FREAKS.
Nome Curious luostainees
bulisin
A correspondent of the Columbus, 0., Din.
patch, narrates the following curious case of
somnambulism :
About ten years ago several young men
boarded together and kept a bachelors' hall.
One of their number was a young artist of ex
traordinaryigenius. One day he had on his
easel the outlines and first touches of a large
picture of a dear friend (dynother, I believe),
and occupied his whole time and attention.
On returning on the evening of this day
spoken of, his thoughts were full of this pain
ling, but he soon fell asleep. About midnight
his fellow-boarders were disturbed by a noise
on his part. The light burning dimly, they
observed that he was arising in his sleep, and
they cautiously watched his movements. aer
ting up,he proceeded immediately to his easel;
sat down, mixed the colors, and began to
point
here his friends got around him and noticed
that his eyes were open, though he neither
saw them or other objects in the room. But
the most remarkable thing was that he paint
ed
es good or even better then he did when
awake. Not one touch was out of place, and
the shading and mixing of his paint was un
exceptional. Ile finished his picture and re• :
tiw-d, and, of course, on his auaking In the
morning, he was astounded. In this circum
stance, as you will see, neither a part of his
hearing or sight was used.
Another remarkable incident is as follows
Several young men were boarding together,
and every other morning it was the duty of
one to rise early and prepare breakfast. One
of tile party was a notorious sleepwalker, and
several mornings arose about three or four
o'clock, built the fire, cooked breakfast,- and
did several necessary things—and all this time
was asleep !
He would then go back to bed again, and
would again arise at the proper time to pre
pare the break fitst, as lie thought, and lo be.
hold, lie would find it alread ycooked and cold.
Of course this soon caused a good deal of trou
ble, but the only way it was stopped was by
one of the others arising about that time every
morning, with the help of an alarm clock, and
send him back to bed again.
Another circumstance that I am acquainted
with Is more remarkable and wonderful than
the two preceeding : A. farmer had a boy me
lds care who was a great night walker, aid
performed the most incredible deeds. Near
the farmer's house was a large stream, and on
this day In question, it had risen to a terrible
height, overflowing Its banks and carrying
away every bridge or any thing in its grasp.
Towards night it began to rain, the wind
was high, and altogether the night had a most
dreary aspect; but in the eniddle of this dark
and stormy night this boy arose—in his sleep
—put on his clothes, found his way out of the
house, went to the barn, unlitiched the horse,
gut on his back, and amid the rain and wind
drove down to the stream ; this he forded, and
the water reached up to both the horse's and
boy's neck. but he did not awake.
Arriving on the other side, be pursued his
way for a long way ir the woods, turned
around, and came back again and crossed the
stream, put his horse in the born and went up
stairs, and woke up just as he was pulling off
his wet and muddy clothes ; and the way it
was found out was on account of the dirtiness
of the borne, and the tracks discovered, and,
of course, as the boy _I I
nd been up to those
" night walkings" before, ft was finally de
cided•it was him. A somnambulist is gener
ally a very sensitive person, and one who is
particularly nervous.
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP
Grapes are so plentifill this year that they
arc likely to be within the financial reach of
all classes.
Ladies at the White Mountains sleep under
coverlets of newspapers, as there are not blan
kets ensugh to go round.
In eighteen years the nine Eastern Shore
counties of Maryland have increased only
about fifty per cent., from 106,589 to 180,317.
A four-handed game was played at Cedar
Raids between Mr. Baum and arsenic on one
side, and Dr. Smith and a stomach pump on
the other. The latter were victorious by a
"close squeak."
One of the Milwaukee lamplighters is a lit•
tle girl ten years old. She makes her rounds
in all kinds of weather, and runs up the ladder
like a squirrel, while her mother stands below
to catch her if she falls.
It is stated that a fond papa, by way of
comforting his daughter, whose marriage lie
opposed, gave her $3OO on leaving her at a
watering•place. She sent the money to her
lover, who came on immediately and married
her.
An old gentleman took a huge volume of
history of a thousand pages, with maps and
illustrations, into a bookstore, a few days ago,
and saying lie wished another copy, offered
to lend it to them as long as they needed it to
print another by.
A darkey prisoner in Georgia ingeniously
remarked to the jailer, "Oh, look at dat snake
dar I"—and ran Ilko the bright-eyed gazelle.
Neither shake nor prisoner has been seen
since.
A Few Words About Cholera
With the possible advent among us of that
Mal malady, the cholera, a tnief account of its
mstore, as showimj its mricin, its means of
ransnik.iiiti :tom to emmiry to another, the
wculiar conditiuns which are 'favorable to Its
levelopmen I, and above all, the simple reme
lies that may be applied, at least to check its
wogress, if not to cure or eradicate it, will, we
hink, be of peculiar interest at Um present
ime. A noire intimate knowt dge of its char-
acteristies will dispel half its terrors, and thus
prove a great safeguard against Its ravages ; for
fear and the consequent mental depression
have, as Is known, killed more than the disease
itself.
The East is the habitat of cholera, and lie
first appearance in Europe was in the year
1820. As an epidemic it spread with great
rapidity and with terrible results, for its symp
toms were a novelty at that time to the medl-
cal profession, and its treatment but little no
derstood.
Much doubt then existed in the minds of the
leading physicians of the day as to whether the
development of this pestilence arose from con
tagion, or whether it was an atmospheric, and
herelbre an unavoidable scourge. But as sci
entifie research has since led to the conviction
hat it partakes more of the former character
stic, and may thus be considered as a prevent
tible disease, it has tended to reassure many
and thus to save life. The true sense of the
term contagious is "communicable," implying
that a person attacked with the cholera may
ransinit it under certain conditions to others,
and in this way the disease may be carried any
distance. But when a distinct neighborhood
is infected, experience has shown that the at-
mospliere itself becomes tainted
nation of this is that the excreta aro chirged
with the germs of the disease, which:are easily
disseminated if proper sanitary regulations are
not adopted to carry off the sources of its dif
fusion by proper drainage and ventilation.
, or an explanation of thoso conditions which
nre favorable to the development 'of au epi•
demic, we have only to turn to the little regard
paid to .public health iu the towns anl cities
of inediteval Europe. Crowded within a nar-
row compass, hemmed in by high walls, all
sanitary laws neglected in the unsettled and
disorganized condition of society then existing,
the masses were decimated by constantly re-
curring plagues, fevers and famines. Profes
sor Parkes says: " Whoever considers care
fully the record of the mediteval epidemics,
and seeks to interpret them by our present
knowledge of the causes of the diseases, will,
I believe, become convinced that one great rea
son why those epidemic diseases were so fre
quent and so fatal was the compression of the
population in faulty habitations. 111-contrived
and closely packed houses, with narrow streets,
Men made winding for the purpose of defence;
a very poor supply of water, and therefore a
universal uncleanni as ; n want of all appliances
for the removal of excreta; ii. population of
rude, careless and gross habits, living often on
innutritious food, and frequently exposed to
famine from their imperfect system of tillage;
such were the conditions which almost
throughout the whole of Europe enabled dis•
eases to attain a range, and to display a viru
lence, of which we have now scarcely a con
ception. The more these matters are exam
teed, the more, I believe, shall we be Comm
vineed that we must look, not to grand cosmi
cal conditions, not to earthquakes, comets, or
mysterious waves of an unseen and poisonous
air, net to recondite epidemic constitutions,
but to simple, familiar, and household condi
tions, to explain the spread and fatality of the
mediteval plagues."
It is by causes such as these that epidemics
are fostered, and, indeed, may have their ori
gin. The " black death" has its startling
point and permanent habitat in Egypt, where
the Arab, his wives, children, servants and
domestic animals, exist huddled together in a
state which the distinguished observer Clot
Aey has described in the words, " Unheard of
filth reigns in their infected haunts." Their
strength is destroyed by their precarious sup
ply of food, which they cook over fires made
with dried manure.
We now draw these conclusions: First,
that the cholera is not atmospheric and there
fore unavoidable, but simply a disease com
municable either by contact through the me
dium of the excreta, or by a special charging
of the atmosphere with the miasma arising
therefrom. Secondly, that want of personal
cleanliness, improper and insufficient food,
close and badly ventilated apartments, imper
fect drainage and want of a supply of fresh
untainted water, Intemperance which enfee
bles and deranges the whole system, are what
aggravates the disease and lead to the fatal
propprtlons It assumes. Thirdly, that with a
properobservancc of these sanitary lows which
arc today so well understood, by a judicious
use of such medicinal remedies ns will check
the earliest symptoms of diarrhoea, a careful
diet, temperate habits, and an abundant out
ward application of cold water, while living
in a properly drained neighborhood, the ap
proach of this pest may be regarded almost
with indifference.
Pettenkofer has asserted that the germ is
formed by and in the excreta of the patient,
and by and in those persons who may not
have been actually siezed with the complaint,
but have been living within the• sphere of its
devastations, wheresoever such excreta are
left neglected. This is a strong argument in
favor of the strictest quarantine, and of the
disinfection of all contagions matter. In n
published address In 1849, Mr Kirby, an emi
nent English authority on these matters, saps:
" If in the dispensations of Providence it be
so ruled that my house shall be visited with
cholera, I purpose to act upon the conviction
of its contagious character. As in typhus the
sick rhall be insulated front the rest of the
family, due ventilation, cleanliness, and quiet
shall be observed, while nothing shall be giv
en either in diet or in medicine save as skill
directs, and under the administration of prop
er nursing attendants."
No wiser precautions can be used, and It is
undoubtodly the proper course to pursue In
acting on the possibility of the disease being
communicable or spreading from person to
person.
The importance of pure water is illustrated
by two instances given in the researches of
the late Dr. Snow, who originated the idea
that cholera was spread by the water used for
drinking. The one shows the decrease of
cholera following improped water supply; the
other Its Increase when the quality of that
necessary element is deteriorated. The cases
of cholera in Exeter, England, id 1832 exceed
ed 1,000. The water was supplied by carriers
from the river into which all the sewage
flowed. Before the next visitation which
devastated the country, the water was taken
from a spot two miles above the town, and as
a result In 1849 but forty-four cases occurred,
and in 1854 hardly one. On the other hand,
England, In 1832 was supplied with pure
pipe water, but so scantily that the poor had
to resort to other means to procure It; 800
of its Inbabliants, mainly the poorest, died of
cholera in that year. In 1844 an abundant
supply was procured for all classes, but from
the river Into which the sewage flowed; and
accordingly in 1840 1,834 persons from all
ranks fell victims to this ignorance or negli
gence of the poisonous effects of contaminated
water.
"As yet," says the London Lancet, "we
have no certain information that the malady
has become actively migratory s and that it has
extended across the Russian frontier into
West and Centeral Europe. But that this
danger Is imminent, and has been imminent
at any period since the winter of 1869, is cer
tain; and it is well that the daily press should
have raised the question of the state of our
defence against the epidemic. Upon this ques
tion we do not propose now to dwell, further
than to remark that it is one upon .which no
doubt can rest as to tliC duties of the local au
thorities who aro responsible for the !Wolin's.
tration of the sanitary laws."
This statement should Induce the authori
ties of every city in the Union to bestir them
selves in such n time as this, when we may
at any liniment have a pestilence upon us
that needs only proper precaution to render it
comparatively harmless.
Jenkins goes to a Pic-Nie.
Maria Ann recently determined to go to a
picnic. '
Maria Ann is my wife—unfortunately she
had planed to go alone, so far as I was con
cerned, on that pie-nic excursion ; but when
I heard about it I determined to assist. She
pretended to be very glad, but I don't be
lieve she was.
" It will do you good to get away from
your work a day, poor fellow," she said "and
wo shall so much enjoy a cool morning ride
on the cars and dinner in the woods."
On the morning of that memorable day,
Marla Ann got up at fivd o'clock. About a
minute later she disturbed my slumber, and
told me to come to breakfast. I told her I
wasn't hungry, but it didn't make a bit of
difference, I had to get up. The sun was up;
I had no idea the sun began business so early
in the morning, but there he was.
" Now," said Maria Ann, "we must fly
around for the cars start at half past six. Eat
all the breakfast you can, for you won't get any
more before noon."
The expla
I could not eat anything a' that time in the
morning, and it was Just as well that I could
not, for I had all I could do. There was the
ice to be pounded to go around the pail of ice
cream, and sandwiches to be cut, and I thought
I never should get the legs of chickens fixed
so that I could get the cover on the big basket.
Maria Ann flew around and piled up groceries
for me to pack, and gave the directions to the
girl about taking care of the house, and was
putting on her dress all at once. There is a
great deal of energy in that woman—perhaps
a trifle too much.
At twenty minutes past sit: I stood on the
front steps with a basket on one arm and Maria
Ann's waterproof on the other, and a pail in
each hand, and a bottle of vinegar in my coat
skirt pocket. There was a camp chair hung
on me somewhere, too, but I forget jest
where.
"Now," said Marla Ann,
we shall not catch the train."
"Maria," said I, "tint is not a reasonable
idea. How do you suppose I can run with all
this freight ?"
" You must, you brute. - Yoh always try to
teach me. If you'don't want a scene on the
street you will start, too."
So I ran.
I had one comfort at least, Maria Ann fell
down and broke her parasol. She called me
a brute again because I laughed. Maria drove
me all the way to the depot on a brisk trot,
and we got on the cars; but neither of us could
get a seat, and I could not find a place where
I could set the things down, so I stood there
and held them.
Marla,'l said, In winning accents, 'bow Is
this for a cool morning ride ?'
Said she, 'you are a brute, Jenkins!'
Said I, "my love, you have made that ob
servation before."
I kept my courage up, yet I knew there
would be an hour of wrath when we got
home. While we were getting out of the cars
the bottle In my pocket got broke, and conse
quently I had one boot half full of vinegar all
day. That kept me pretty quiet, and Maria
Ann ran off with the big whiskered music
teacher, and lost her fan, and get her feet wet,
and tore her dress, and enjoyed heyself much
after the fashion of pic-nic goers. I thought
it would never come dinner time, and Maria
called me a pig, because I wanted to open our
basket before the rest of the baskets were
Opened.
At last dinner time came—the 'nice dinner
in the woods,' you know. Ovtr three thousand
little red ants had got into our dinner, and
they were worse to pick out than fish-bones.
The ice cream had melted, and there was no
vinegar for the cold meat except what was In
my boot, and of course that was of no imme
diate use. The music teacher spilled a cup or
hot coffee on Mafia's head, and pulled the
frizzles out trying to wipe off the coffee with
his hankerchief. Then I sat on a piece amp=
berry pie, and spoiled my white pants, and
concluded I didn't want anything more, I had
to stand up against a tree the rest of the after
noon. The day afforded considerable variety,
compared to everyday life, but there were so
many little drawbacks that I did not enjoy it
so much as I might have done. .
LATE NEWS ITEMS
The 'Mariposa estate is advertised for sale on
October 12, by the Trustees, fur thd benefit of
c certificate holders
The son and daughter of MN. Paul Schisler
of lowa township, lowa, were drowned in a
pond near their mother's house, on Saturday.
Morgan L. Fllkins had a leg broken and was
otherwise seriously injured by a fall down a
flight of stairs in his residence in Albany, on
Tuesday.
James McManus, a notorious desperado and
burglar, rscaped from the Albany Penitentiary
on Tuesday night. This is the first escape
that has taken place frbm that prison.
George Roberts died in Philadelphia, yester•
day, in consequence of being knocked down
by George Farnwcll, nt the corner of Front
and Spruce streets. The latter wns arrested
and the case will be investigated.
St. Paul's Methodist Church was dedicated
in Providence, yesterday. The Bev. Dr.
Tinny of New• Jersey preached the sermon.
Five deths from yellow fever have been
reported in a Charleston in the last 24 hours.
The cool weather is having an unfavorable
effect on the sick, but there are hardly any new
cases.
Some 100 eelegntes, representing the Na
Tonal Division of the Sons of Temperance, are
holding meetings in Boston, this week, which
are largely attended by the temperance brother
hood. Among the delegates are the Rev. J.
C. Stoughton of Illinois; Judge S. 13. Ransom.
New. Jersey; Robert Foust, Pennsylvania; Dr.
Hamilton, Nova Scotia; Miss Julia Coleman,
Brooklyn, N. Y.; A. H. Benedict; Connecti
cut; William Wells Brown, Massachuetts, and
other prominent members of the order. A
colored organization from Maryland was ad
mitted to the convention yesterday.
Parties are now engaged in dragging in the
Anacostia river, off the Navy Yard at Wash
ington, for the recovery, of chains; anchors,.
&c., which were deposited for safe keeping in
the bed of the rivers in 1814 when the British
Invaded the city. A considerable amount of
chain and a large anchor have thus far been
recovered, which will be renovated at the
yard.
lion. 11. S. Evans, of West Chester, has
obtained a patent for an automatic railroad
signal.
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NARROW-GAUGE RAILROADS
The following sensible comments upon this
question, from the U. B. Railroad and Mining
Register, Is worthy of attention :
The extraordinary fervor with which many
engineers and projectors of now lines of rail
way favor a reduction in the width of the
gauge is certainly very remarkable. All' the
arguments, mechanical and financial, with
which we, with others, have combated the
use of tho 6-feet gunge in this country, are
now brought In use to show that,the 4 feet
inches gauge is wasteful and extravagant,
both In construction and operation ; and the
new lights in railway engineering are now
engaged in showing that the true gauge should
be anywhere from two feet to three and one
half, feet, and those who favor uniformity of
gauge, or a continuation of the present ruling
one, of 4 feet 8,3 inches, are looked upon as
belonging to the old-fogy or conservative
class. Now, under certain conditions, we
have no doubt that extremely narrow gauges
can be used with profit, as they can be built
with less money, and operated with less cost
per mile of operation, than the ruling now is;
but these narrow-gauge lines must of neces
sity be isolated, and having no direct connec
tion, for the interchange of traffic, with the
general system, they must be operated under
great disadvantages. As mere feeders to main
lines, bringing sparsely populated sections
into connection with the great lines of traffic,
they will resemble lines of stages and baggage
wagons, more than railway lines; and while
their value as feeders must be acknowledged,
it must not be - forgotten that they will form no
portion of the regular system of the country.
Whenever the business and population of time
section through which these narrow-gauge
lines may run increases to any extent, the
line must of necessity be widened and recon
structed at an Increased cost. The great argu
ment in favor of the narrow-gauge line is the
decreased cost of construction, the lighter and
cheaper diameter of the rolling-stock, and
therefore the cheaper cost of operation. This
may apply to certain sections of the country;
but men who have been practically engaged
In railway operations In the eastern, northern
and western sections of the country, well
know of the disadvantages of attempting to
run with light rolling•stock in the winter
months. Every attempt to rust with light
locomotives in snow storms proved a failure;
and so even light passeng. r trams are now
seldom run w ith engines of less than twenty
two tons weight, and more often with those
weighing twenty•eighttons. Engines weigh
ing eight, ten, or twelve tons each, are practi
cally useless at certain seasons of the year ; and
we take it that no company can afford to keep
two sets of equipment, one for the winter and
the other fur summer. Practical railway men
will understand this matter, even if the nar
row-gauge theorists do not. Whet we arc
now saying is-a mere word or two of caution;
but of the comparative cost of construction,
carrying capacity and general efficacy of the
of the medium or 4 feet 83 inch gauge, and
the extremely narrow-gauge, we intend to
consider more of length hereafter.
"we limit run or
THE CUTTING OF GLASS
The glazier's diamond is an angle of a crys
tal, the extreme point of which (may lie re
garded as a single atom, which, when pressed
upon the glass, acts like n wedge, entering be
tween two particles of glass, and producing a
,minute fracture. When drawn over the glass
it produces an infinite number of minute frac
tures, extending sometimes quite through the
glass. A sharp point of iron or lead will not
cut glass because it is too soft. The extreme
point or atom yields When pressed upon the
glass, allowing two or more atoms to touch
the glass, which act no longer as a wedge,
but as a weight, and if sufficient force lie ap
plied, a large and irregular fracture will re
sult.
A. sharp point of hardened steel will cut
glass nearly as well as a diamond. Take an
old worn nut three-cornered file, grind the
end to a three centered point, heat it red hot,
and immediately plunge it into a mixture of
snow and salt. lietouch it on the stone to re
move the scale, and it Is reedy for use. If
rightly done it will give very good satisfac
tion. In using it bold the file nearly perpen
dicular, slightly inclined forward, and with
a gentle pressure draw it rapidly over the
glass wit limit changing its inclination to the
surface. In cutting thick glass it is safer to
cut in both sides before attempting to sepa
rate the pieces, but thin glass may be cut with
the greatest facility. When the point be
comes dull from use it will produce only a
'ragged sot ffice—scratch—Mut will not cut. It
then needs regrinding. „A single turn of the
stone Is sufficient to put it into working order
again. Such a glass cuttkr is very serviceable
for preparing glass fur various purposes.
What our Sermit girls Do
The amount of money sent across the water
by immigrants to friends left behind, princi
pally to pay their passage to Amerlca,ls rather
surprising. From the official returns of the
Emigration Commissioners of England, it np.
pears that in 1870 there was sent from this
country to Ireland principally, $3,690,000 in
gold, of which $1,663,100 was for prepaid
passages. In the twenty-three years froM
1848 to 1870, inclusive, it was upward of 184., - -
670,000 in gold, being an average of about
$3,880,047 yearly. But this amount Is prob•
ably somewhat below the actual amount sent,
as it only includes what has been sent through
banks and commercial houses. Of whatever
may have been sent through private channels
there is no knowledge. And then these suing
large as they are, are made up by careful say
ings from the wages of servant girls and day
laborers. •
A Mon congregation was In search of a min
ister.. One of the elders came to us for aid in
finding the right man for the place.
" What sort of a non do you want 4" we
asked.
" Well," said he, ''our church is.vcry much
run down at present ; we have been without
pastor for a year or more, and we must have
somebody that will make n noise ; the fact is,
we must have one who is great or eccentric!
Great or eccentric I One or the other is the
demand of the hour. Perhaps it was always
so ; but it is more so now than ever. But let
no minister be discouraged, or provoked by this
popular taste. The fearful, earnest man, who
does his duty patiently and in the fear of God,
wins the esteem of the wise and good, does
the work which is given him to . do, and will
not fall of his reward. Churches that are built
up on the greatness or the eccentricities 'of a
particular preacher, are no nurseries for
heaven ; they are more apt to be paly•houses
for time than training scltools for eternity.—
! Here York Observer.
An enormous woman, one Carolina Ileum,
is now. on exhibition In London. Her age is
said to be twenty-two years, and weight GGO
pounds. She measures seven feet around the
body, twenty.six inches around the arm, and
three feet six Inches across the shoUlders. It
is added that, unlike most fat people, this large
lacy is able to' sustain great physical exertion,
is "handsome and pleasing," and "highly In
tellegent," not in the least "drowsy," nor Is
her face "fat and greasy."
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