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B. F. SCHWEIER,
THE C0XSTITCTI05 THE C5I0X AXD THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXVIII.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., JUNE 24, 1S74.
NO. 25.
Poetry.
THE ROSE W THE WALL.
BY MBS. COHME-LAW ST. JoHX.
Loet in tlie pray, tangled shadows,
Lilack in the morning of years,
Loet in the dust of wild ruin.
And dim through the hazing of tears.
Lo-4, O thou Queen of spent seasons !
One Summer, the crown of them ail.
That called the dumb fields into flowers.
And the rose from the mold of the wall.
The days, for one rose's bright blooming.
Through the f aintness of distant years seem
Lake sunny hills, far off and golden
Thy nights, like cool valleys between.
Lot, save thy mcmoried beauty.
That lays on my heart, soft and sweet.
Like the pure, tender palm of an Angel,
That stilleth its hot, fevered beat
Thou gav'st me one gift, gentle Summer
The brightest that Woman may wear;
Thon gathered it back from my bosom
When the wall of its roses was bare.
I hold the Crown-Saint of all Summers,
Icuse of that tender love-flow
That fell 'mid my heart's rugged r s.
And bloomed for one life-giving hour.
Kut the gift was too bright for my wearing:
I forgive thee its gentle recall:
For perhaps 'mid the harshness of ruin,
Twonld have died like the rose on the wall.
Caring Insanity br irritating the
retain.
There are many cases published in
the medical journals, relating to insan
ity, says Dr. Brown-Sequard, showing
that a large number of patients have
been cured suddenly by means of irri
tation of the skin, that was either acci
dental or employed by a physician.
There are other means more curious
and equally effective, as in the case I
am about to mention. A patient in a
lunatic asylum met another one who
struck his head and broke the cranium
on the right side. The brain oozed
out; a good deal of it was lost, and the
pitient was cured of his insanity and
epilepsy. This is rather a dangerous
means of treatment, however, and of
course 1 speak of it only to show thai
an irritation brought to the brain may
often cure. It is in that way that bold
sugeons as many there were in this
country in the period from 1823 to 1859
who have brought their instruments
to the cranium and made an opening
there, in cases of epilepsy, in search of
a disease at that place that did not ex
ist, have very frequently cured their
j'Hticnts. But not because they have
taken away the disease that they Fup-l-osed
existed there, but because they
have produced aa irritation which has
done it. But I may add that it is not
necessary to open the cranium, though
it has been done, to my knowledge,
more than fifty times in this country.
All that is called for is an irritation of
the skin of the cranium and of the
('.'irons band that covers the bone be
tween the skin and brain. Irritation
there has a very good chance of cnriDg
t pilepsy in many very obstinate cases.
'1 uere are many cases on record show
ing that an inflammation in almost any
of the organs of the body is sufficient to
.heck insanity. In the same way other
alTectiona of the brain, such as aman
rosis or paralysis, may be cured sud
denly sometimes without any cause that
we can find, but with good ground cer
tainly to believe that irritation has
urted which has produced a change in
the cells of the brain and diminished
their morbid activity. For there are
c;ear cases in which those affections
h ive been cured by such irritation.
Tiiose alterations of cells that were pro
ducing an arrest of the power of sight
r paralysis have been submitted to an
irritation of parts of the skin or of
home viscus, and this irritation going
to the morbid part and producing
change ic the activity of those cells,has
cured the disease. So that a double
mechanism of arrest may take place in
atl these cases. There is in the brain
an irritation starting from the place
where there is disease. That we can
see after death. That irritation goes to
parts at a distance and acts on cells to
t-top their activity; but another irrita
tion starting from some parts of the
body goes to the parts that are diseased
audthere acts on the morbidly active
cAla and stops their activity, so that
the effect that resulted from the disease
ceARed. So one phenomenon of arrest
produced the cessation of another.
Alxintnf.
The Swiss Timet gives the following
account of absinthe and its history :
In the Canton of Nenchatel, in the
long, broad, wild Val de Travers, fa
mous for its asphalt mines, is the seat
of the manufacture of absinthe. The
manufacture of this pernicious drink
dates back to the last decades of the
eighteenth century. A French exile
bud doctor is credited with the first in
vention of absinthe, which he employed
as a medicine, and at his death, left his
n ceipt to his servant girl, Mile. Grand
pierre. She sold it to the daughters of
Lieutenant Henriod, who at the begin
ning of this century, sold toM. Per
nod of Couvet, and from that period
the "Extrait d' Absinthe" appears in
commerce. The quantity of absinthe
manufactured at the present day is
estimated at about 370,000 litres. The
herb (Artemisia absinthium) of which
the absynthe is first prepared is plant
- - i, i, t f Imn two to four
feet It is found throughout Central
y.urcpe on stony hills and also in gar
dens. Consumers of absinthe are
principally found in France, England.
Vm-th America and Switzerland al
though the hurtful effect of the liquor
on the nervous system nas oeen repent
ed ly pointed out ny meaicai men.
The F.dilor.
iwinU natimnta the nbilitv of n
CUIUV J' . ' . . ......
newspaper and the talent of its editor
l.y the quantity oi unniuui wanw. n
is comparatively an easy task for a
irothy writer to pour rui
of words words upon any aud all sub
jects. Jus ideas niay now in our ,
washv, everlasting flood, and the com
mand of his language may enable him
to string theni together like bunches ot
uioD8,and vet his paper may lie a mea
gre and poor coucern. Indeed the mere
writing part of editing a paper is but a
small portion of the work. The care,
the time employed in selecting, is far
more important, and the tact of a good
editor is better shown by his selections
than anything else; and that, we know,
is halt the battle. But, aa we have
said, an editor onglit to U estimated,
iii,d hi laiKir understood and aPPJ
, luted by the general conduct of his
ilter its tone, its uniform, consistent
t-ourse, its aims, its management, us
dignity, and its propriety. To preserve
llu-seaa they fcbonld be preserved is
t-nough to occupy fully the time and
attention of anv mad. If. to this be
added the general supervision of the
newspaper establishment, which most
editors have to encounter, the wonder
U how they find time to write at alL
Ot'B MAY PARTY.
BI H AHMET K. B&BB.
"You have so many charming spots
around your village, dear Mrs. H.,
which seem just made for May Parties;
do you never have any of those delight
ful celebrations here ?"
"Only among the juveniles of the
community. The school children, I
believe, choose a queen every year, and
go out into the woods to spend a day
in crowning her, and in feasting, and
go home at night and give their mothers
some practice in the art of nursing, in
consequence of the heavy colds they
have taken, sitting on damp ground in
their muslin dresses, and the vast
quantities of cake and confections they
have managed to swallow during the
day."
'O Mrs. H., how yon do strip the
scene of all its romance,! But I should
think the young ladies and gentlemen
of the town would have may parties,
there are generally so many things
going on in the neighborhood of a
college !"
"O, we did once have a May party
among the young ladies, which I be
lieve proved enough for all concerned
in it, as I have never heard of any at
tempts to get up another."
"Did you attend it ? What was it
like, that they never should have wished
for another'"
"O yes, I was there, as everybody
both married and single for miles
around, was invited; and it was a bril
liant affair, I assure you, though there
there was one person there whom its
brilliancy seemed a heartless mockery,
and wlio still regrets that May party.
"O do tell ns about it," we both
pleaded.
"Willingly. Ton remember the gen
tleman whom you pronounce a 'crab
bed and confirmed old bachelor to
whom there was no sort of use in play
ing the agreeable ?
"What, Mr. C? But what had he to
do with the May party ?"
He was younger then than he is
now, and much more interesting "
"liut, Jlrs. ll., he must have always
been peculiar," broke in Alie, who had
resolved to uislfce him.
''He mny have had a slight touch of
eccentricity before, but listen and judge
if that May party was not sufficient to
sour the sweetest temper, and render
peculiar even a fascinating man.
"O I am all attention for I am dying
to know what harm the party could have
done him !"
' It was the means of making him an
old bachelor ! Before it was talked of
he had been attentive to one of our
prettiest girls Lizzie Fith and she
t-eemed so well satisfied with monopo
lizing his attentions that all lookers-on
agreed it woald be a match. A short
time before the party was thought of,
he had proposed to her and she had
neither accepted or declined him, but
li ft Lira in that state of uncertainty in
w hich a man feels there is more to hope
than fear a dangerous tiling, by the
way, girls. Take an old woman's ad
vice and don't keep a man in suspense
a moment longer than is necessary. If
he really loves you suspense is cruelty,
and in either case you lay yourself open
to imputations which must diminish
your resDect
"Lizzie was a sweet girl; but rather
weak. Her life hitherto had been so
qr.ii t that she was herself unaware of
the love of admiration that slumbered
in hrr breast; and she would probably
have liecome the wife of Mr. C, and
been perfectly happy in that position
bad t-lie not just then been chosen for
the 'May Queen. This opened a new
phase in her existence, and all the dor
mant vanitv in her nature was thor
oughly aroused. She was canvassed so
publicly, her claims to beauty set forth
and discanted upon so freely, that a
steadier brain than hers might have
whir'ed a little. Her father with a
father's pride, resolved that every thing
pertaining to her dress should be truly
queenly; and be therefore ordered all
her things to be senton Irom .ew xorx
without any regard to cost: and their
elegance and richness was such as had
never beiore been seen in our primitive
country town.
"SarflMl rrr.r: (loTiion frnm Cincinnati
were expected to honor our festival with
their presence, and through ljizzie s
Kmin thoro flnuted indistinct hnt hriirht
pictures of conqnest, and city hearts,
and city establishments wmcn io a
country maid seemed so attractive,
laid at ner iceu it was certainty un
wise in Mr. C. to renew his suit just at
such a crisis, and try to draw irom ner
lips a promise that should bind her to
him; but the iminent danger of losing
her caused an anxiety which deprived
him of his usual wisdom. Of course
oliA vafnuwl nndpT thA rorenmstances.
to bind herself to him, and he went
away feeling that all the sunsnine oi
his life was enveloped in very dark
Omnia f'lianrino- to srtend the next
evening in the society of good old Miss
Snapp he perfectly agreed witn ner
that May parties were ridiculous affairs
and that it was indelicate in a young
female to set herself up as a public
gazing stock. He talked so eloquently
alunt tViA .tnla arming to a vonnir lad v
from such publicity; that Miss Snapp,
afterward remarnea, a most eiiioie
man that Mr. C. is. There was a talk
at one time that he wanted Lizzie Fitch
but his judgement is too good to choose
a little nirt of a thing like her I'
"The morning of May-day rose with
out a cloud, and the unusual stir
throughout the town would have told
nv riMsitiff ntranper that somethinff
more than ordinary was about to hap
pen. .
"That beantifnl grove you visited
yesterday had been chosen for the
scene of the fete and the throne was
erected with more than usual care and
"At an early hour of the day tables
. . . , , i j
were spread witn snowy u amass piaceu
under the shade trees.and covered with
articles of refresh
ment, while floweis everywhere met the
eye, here arranged in vases and mere
piled np in baskets, to be scattered on
the green turf as soon as the Queen
.kAnM liov armparance. But oh.
how manv pretty gardens had been ri
aA r ih.r luxintv to furnish this
charming profusion ! Who knows how
many of those fancied dew-drops were
tears of regret which their fair owners
let fall over the roses while cutting
them ! . . , -
"No wonder that a burst of admira
tion arose from a hundred lips when
the Queen appeared ! 'How lovely she
is r was the universal feeling. IKht
well did the rich satin and blonde, and
pearls become her; and if being gazed
at by so many people deepened the
color on her cheeks, it only heightened
her charms; and if her eye flashed
proudiy.and her head drawn up haught
ily as she caught sight of the disconsolate-looking
Mr. C. why that made her
all the more queenly !
"He had come there to see her
crowned, though the sight was torture
to him, because it would make such a
talk if he staid away ; and those who
are at all familiar with the customs of
our country Tillages, know that to be
the subject of public gossip is as annoy
ing as the cherishing of an unrequited
attachment must be painful The
would-be indifferent air he sought to
assume feelings which, in spite of his
efforts left their impress upon bis
features rendered him a ludicrious ob
ject to many present, especially to the
city beaux, who with their white kid
gloves and carefully cultivated mus
tachois, were making fearful inroads
that day upon the peace of certain
members oi our community. The cor-
nation speech had been delivered and
the Queen had returned thanks for the
honor lavished upon her. and verr rra
ciously given ns privilege to render
homage to her as our sovereign. The
congratulations were duly offered, and
then a few moments of awkward silence
followed because each one was at a loss
what to say or do next That awful
stillness was suddenly broken by a
strange sort of snuffling noise. Every
one looked in the direction whence it
came, expecting to see some animal
that had recognised the remains of some
slaughtered cousin in the nicely glazed
hams on the table : but beheld instead
poor Mr. C. in his agonizing attempt to
wear the lll-htting nonchalent air.
snuffling audibly at an immense red
peony he held in his hand I The deli
cious perfume of that delicate flower
must of course, have been very cheer
ing, as in his eagerness to take it he
had drawn upon himself the notice of
the whole company.
"The order and decorum which the
presence of royalty generally imposes
was sadly disturbed by the laughter
which could not be repressed, till the
welcome call for dinner turned their
thoughts into a harmless channel."
"And poor Mr. C?"
"Oh he was too wretched to attempt
to eat or he might have derived some
consolation from the delicate "bivands"
as old Mr. J arris called our refresh
ments. He was soon reported among
the missing, and the next news we had
of him. was that he had gone to bed
with an ague chill, caught by standing
so long on the damp grass. Some of
the city gentlemen were flirting most
vigorously with her Majesty when he
left and this picture before his minds
eye did not tend to render his sickroom
any more cheerful."
"And what else about the May Party ?"
"O nothing else ! After Mr. C. had
gone, everything had gone as usual ;
people ate and drank, talked a great
deal of nonsense, and laughed often
and loudly at nothing. The young
gentlemen passed mottoes to the young
ladies, who read them, blushed, sim
pered and flung them back with 'Did I
ever?' or'Aintyon ashamed of your
self!" while the elderly ladies filled
their pockets and reticules with cake
and candy; and when everybody got
tired everybody went home, except a
few of ns married ladies, who had to
stay to count the spoons and forks, and
see that each one had her full number
of plates and table cloths returned to
her."
"And what of the Queen?"
O, she took off her queenly robes,
and went to bed, declaring she was
tired to death, but three months after,
there was another great excitement in
our village when the handsome Mr. M.,
from Cincinnati, came to bear away his
bride, having, as she told her intimate
friends, the day of the May Party laid
his hand and fortune at her Xeet, and
besought her to become an equal pos
sessor of them with himself."
"Did she do well ?"
"Yon shall Judge, The hand was a
pretty one small, fair and soft ; and it
moved in obedience to the dictates of a
brain equally soft One evidence of
this was, that he shrank with more
loathing from any labor that might
harden or blacken that hand than for
sin, which would produce the same
effect upon his heart This second
article named in his inventory of pos
sessions, I am told she found but little
avail when her beauty had faded, which
took place soon after her marriage. We
leave you to judge how much this was
hastened by the mortification of having
to draw constantly on her father for
money to supply her necessary wants,
and the annoyance to which she was
subject from the rudely presented claims
of his creditors, who having waited
long, rushed eagerly in as soon as it was
rumored he had married a rich wife.
As for his fortune, the rich inheritance
of debts contracted by his reckless style
of living, was all he had to settle upon
her while the marriage portion placed
in his hands by her father, was speedily
swallowed np without procuring either
the home or the furniture for which it
had been intended.
"Two years ago she came back to her
father's house on a visit it was first
supposed but she has remained ever
since, secluding herself from society,
and forbearing to mention her husbands
name even to her mother. hat she
has endured from him, her changed
appearance alone will telL Tis said
that when first Mr. C caught a glimpse
of her face in church the tears sprang
to his eyes at the fearful change, and
he bowed bis head upon the back of the
pew before him, and did not raise it
once during the service."
"How he must have loved her I And
I suppose the moral of your tale is, that
she would have been happier as the
wife of the awkward eocentoc but reli
able Mr. C. than of the handsome and
flattering but heartless Mr. M. Is it
not so?"
"I had not deigned to draw a moral
from it ; but I will at least express my
conviction that young girls should be
taught both by precept and example,
to think more of that inner adornment
of mind and heart than arraying the
outward form, however lovely it may
be, in satins and jewels. Then settling
the perplexing question 'Wilt thon have
this man for thy wedded husband' or
that one ? they shall be l'xl to prefer
one possessed of sterling virtues rather
than a fascinating exterior."
A Large Bnneh f Grapes.
The English grape cultivators have
thus far excelled all others in the pro
duction of enormous bunches of grapes.
The latest wonder of the kind was a
bunch of Black Hamburgh grapes
weighing 13 pounds 4 ounces. It was
raised at Lnmbton Castle, the seat of
the Earl of Durham, and was exhibited
at Manchester in September last It
may b considered the most extraor
dinary bunch of grapes, for siae, even
in England, nor exempting Speechly's
twenty-pounds Syrian, and those im
mense Syrians of more recent date pro
duced at the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Internationals. This bunch was the
product of a rine struck from an eye in
1869. The vina was cropped the second
year and carried six bunches, one of
which gained a prize at Glasgow in
1872 This last year the Tine bore
seven bunches besides the one men
tioned above, the lightest of the eight
weighing oyer four pounds.
Old Hickory's Pistols.
"D.." who has been writing some in
teresting reminiscences for the Frank
lin Kj.) Patriot, contributes this to the
last issue :
I saw some time ago a brace of duel
ling pistols, in the possession of
Thomas Butherford.of Sumner county,
Tennessee. They were steel barrels,
fluted within, and highly ornamented
with silver.
The history I received of them was as
follows:
Many years before the brilliant tri
umphs of the war had lifted General
Jackson high above all competitors into
the Presidential chair as the Chief Ex
ecutive of the nation, it was his cus
tom to have some one to take his place
in the dirty street broils which might
come up.
At the time to which I refer, one
Ferguson was the man a regular
knock-down-and-drag out sort of a
fellow, dreaded by all who were ever so
unfortunate as to come in contact with
him.
An uncle of Colonel Rutherford, by
the same name, visited Nashville to sell
a fine pair of match horses. Ferguson
offered to purchase them on a short
credit and to give General Jackson as
security. This arrangement was made
and the horses were his.
Before Mr. K. left Nashville he
learned the character of the man with
whom he had traded, was told that if
he ever asked for the money or the note
which he had received for the horses
Ferguson would whip him.
It happened that Itutherford was a
rough customer nothing suited him
better than a ground scuffle in defense
of his rights, and so he was impatient
for the day of the coming conflict
Early on the morning the note fell
due Butherford visited Nashville, saw
the same man F., presented his note
for payment telling him at the same
time what he had heard of him, and
further said to him that, if he didn't
pay the money right away, he would
thrash him like a dog.
A word and the blow followed. Never
was a man more soundly thrashed than
Ferguson was on that occasion.; in fact,
he was supposed to le dead for a time.
This aroused the General's sympathies
for his man who had received such a
cudgeling, and to resent it was his first
impulse, but in a fisticuff he would be
only a child in B.'s hands, and so chal
lenged him to fight a duel next morn
ing, distance ten paces.
Though R. had no experience with
firearms, he instantly accepted the
challenge.
At the appointed hour all parties
were at the place of rendezvous. All
. ......
preliminaries made, the distance mea
sured, the positions taken, the words
one two at this juncture Jackson,
who was a dead shot, having eved his
antagonist closely, saw there was no
flinching in him, but that he was as
cool and deliberate as if nothing was
occurring, stepped forward and ad
dressed Butherford : "By the Eternal,
sir, I would despise myself to sacrifice
such noble material as you are made
of. Sir.please accept these pistols from
one who ever admires true courage and
pluck, such as you have to-day demon
strated, and accept them from me as an
evidence of my high appreciation of
yon as a man who dares to defend his
rights.
General Jackson paid the money due
on r erguson s note. Lver afterward
the Butherford family have been Jack
son's warmest supporters, and none
lamented his death more than they.
The pistols will be kept in the family
forever as priceless souvenirs.
Lamarline's Generosity.
"Like all Frenchmen." says a writer
on Lamartine, "intense egotism was
one of the prominent errors of his char
acter. This fault was redeemed, how
ever, by so many noble and shining
qualities that it almost disappears in
their lustre. He was the soul of honor,
the bravest of the brave, the most gene
rous of men. Pages could be filled with
anecdotes of his gentleness of heart and
boundless charity. I he emoluments
hich he derived as a member of the
rro visional government he distributed
freely and unasked among the poor
authors of Paris, and the letters which
accompanied these gifts doubled the
obligation. Sunday, his only holiday,
was devoted to charity ; his doors were
open to all who suffered, who were in
want All who came, whether known
or unknown, he greeted with extended
hand, with kindly smiles and words, to
soften the bitterness and humiliation of
their position. 'I am dying of hunger,'
one day wrote laconically an unknown.
1 have five hundred francs ; they are
yours with all my heart,' wrote back
Lamartine. 'If I had a hundred francs
I should be truly happy !" exclaimed a
poor author in his presence. "Here are
a thousand, answered Lamartine, giv
ing him the money.
Only the revenues
of a prince could sustain such ,nunifi-
cence, t or years before his death he
was overwhelmed with debts and re
duced to comparative indigence, but
the divine impulse of charity remained
as active as ever. He was saving np to
bny himself a little pony-chaise to take
the air in. He had gathered just a
thousand francs, when a poor woman
who lived in the neighborhood came to
him with a piteous tale ; her goods had
been seizad by a hard-hearted creditor,
and homeless destitution stared her in
the face. "How much do you require ?"
he asked. 'A thousand francs,' was the
answer. There was a momentary
struggle, and then he went away,
fetched his little board, and placed it
in her hand.
The Tomb of Marshal Key,
There is in the city of Metz a hand
some statne of Marshal Ney. and his
name certainly lives in history. But
according to a correspondent in Xote
and Queries, his grave is sadly neglec
ted. It is in Pere la Chaise, in the
principal avenue, and close to that in
which Beranger and Manuel, the ora
tor, lie together, surrounded by the
sumptuous tombs of his brother mar
shals, and in sight of those of the Gen
erals Foy and Gobert, and that of Ba
ron Laney, the surgeon of Napoleon
L "He has no cenotaph, or simple
headstone even, to tell the passer-by
who it is that lies within the lichen
covered rusty iron -railing; and few
there are who recognize it unless
prompted by individual interest in the
intrepid and unfortunate soldier, or by
curiosity at the wildness of the neglect
ed, uncared-for place. Years ago some
body laid out the enclosure as a small
garden, but no one since has ever tended
it and weeds have choked all but a few
small wild flowers. There is no slab or
inscription such as was described as
existing in 1827, or if there is it is com
pletely hidden beneath the ground and
tangled briar."
Another correspondent says he visited
Marshal Nev's crave in 1861. and it was
iust in the condition described, the
rank grass glowing all oyer the grave.
The Old Ax or a Martinet.
A Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don 1'rhijrapii remarks that the Em
peror William no longer rides on horse
back, but has to review his troois from
bis carriage. He is now in his TStli
year. "It is true," adds this writer,
"that Count Wrangel, who is nearly
thirteen years his senior, may still be
seen from time to time threading the
paths of the Thiergarten uinm a steady
going hack, to the saddle of which lie
is carefully strapped; and that the
grandfather of the Prussian army
promenades the Linden with feeble
jauntiness, chucking servant-girls under
the chin, returning eagerly all the salu
tations paid to him, and distributing
new silbergroschen to the little boys
and girls who follow Lira in gleeful
groups, and look u;on 'Papaclien'
Wrangel as a certain, though irregular
source of revenue. This lively and
simple-hearted old gentleman has a trag
ical iKtst behind him, too, and was a
very terrible fellow in his day; besides j
which, he has lieen wounded a dozen !
times more than once severely and i
has achieved as many victories in the j
boudoir as in the field: yet he bears
himself as though the idea of death I
never crossed his mind, and even defied !
the hi ws of nature so utterly as to re-
cover entirely from a sharp stroke of j
paralysis at eighty-eight years of age. i
But the cares and responsibilities that
oppress crowned heads has been un-1
known to him. He has ever been a sol
dier, pure and unadulterate; r.o poli-!
tics, literature, or other puzzling matter
of that sort lias he ever allowed to
bother his brains. As a sulxrdinate,to
carry ont to the letter his orders as a '
chief, to see that his own commands ;
were accurately fulfilled these have !
lieen the sole cares and preoccupations ;
of his public life. Private griefs of the
most tremendous and crushing nature
lie has met with the stoical courage of ,
a hero, and has dealt with them invari
ably in a manner dictated by the honor !
of a soldier more than once with the j
most tragical results, but in such sort
that one's admiration for him, though a !
slight shudder may ieruieate it, can (
never for a moment be qualified by the ;
remembrance of any word or action of
his in the least out of keeping with the j
maintenance in unsullied brightness of 1
his personal and professional honor; a !
regimental cadet when King William '
was bom; a tlecm-e, for valor in the j
field, of tlie first days of the present
century; a colonel at Waterloo, and
general htty-one years ago. it is very
liossible that this extraordinary veteran.
of whom the lierliners sav that 'he has
! forgotten the way how to die.' may out-!
; i: i.:, : i i. 1:1.1 l
live his sovereign, whom he little less
than worshii lie has already outlived ;
four Prussian Kings !"' I
The Cienlle Life.
This is the beautiful heritage of the
well-born man and the gentle woman.
They may be poor or rich to-uay, they
may be living a life of leisure or toiling
for their bread all the same they carry
with them the grace, the cure, the gen
tleness, the consideration, the knowl
edge which we call intuition or instinct,
which comes from generations of cut- j
ture and a thousand qualities of mind
and heart which win social recogni- j
tion and bring happiness to the pos- j
sessor.
The accumulation of more money as ;
an inheritance for children is often !
worse than nothing in their hands; it ;
deprives them of all incentive to per
sonal effort and nnfrequently proves
the means by which they ride fast to ,
destruction. Money is worse than ,
nothing if the lives of the past and !
associations of the present have not ',
taught us how to put it to its noblest !
uses.
But the order, the training, the cxpe- ;
rience of a life are invaluable. They j
form, with education, a key that un-
locks the recesses of the world, and be-'
comes a power that no loss in stocks or :
bonds or bouses or lands can deprive j
the fortunate possessor of. Tiiry make
him the eqnal of the best, and there
lore at ease with all men. Deprived of
leisure and of resources which he would
know how to appreciate, he still finds ,
within himself more than others find
outside of themselves. Outwardly, his j
life is isolated; inwardly, he holds com-
mumon with all that is lest and finest
in art and society and literature. His
gracious and kindly manners, which he
retains in spite of poverty or wealth,
show that be consorts only with the
noblest whether his dwelling hero be
a hut or a palace.
A Cnrions Ntory of Kerovcrlnj a
L.ot Voire.
The Springfield Jirpuhlican tells a
curious story of the way in which A. B.
Leonard, a dumb man, at Southbridge,
Massachusetts, recently recovered his
lff, n at.tank of or).rn-aiiinal mt-iii.
ritig. A few mornings ago he was
awakened about four o clock by a sense
of oppression and faintness. He be
came conscious, enough to understand
that gas was escaping from a coal stove,
and that he would soon die unless he
could get to fresh air; so, after many
falls and tumbles he gained the outside
door, when he fainted, but was soon
aroused by the lapping and tugging of
a faithful Newfoundland dog. Then
the thought came to him that his wife
and child were in the house.and though
he had not spoken for months he called
loudly for help, his cries, united with
the howls of the dog, soon rousing a
neighbor, to whom he told his troubles,
and again fainted and was insensible for
two hours. On recovering he was un
able to talk, but the doctor, on hearing
the case ordered him to visit the gas
house and breathe the air in the puri
fying room. After spending an hour
and a half there he could talk in a
whisper, and since then has gained the
perfect use of his voice.
IIomming-Birdt' Courtthip.
When catching the ephemeridse that
play above the water, the tail is not ex
panded; it is reserved for times of
courtship. I have seen the female sit
ting quietly on a branch, and two males
displaying their charms in front of her.
One would shoot up, then suddenly
expanding the snow-white tail like an
inverted parachute, slowly descend in
front of her, turning round gradually
to show off both back and front The
effect was heightened by the wings
being invisible from a distance of a few
yards, both from their great velocity of
movement and from not having the
rnetallio lustre of the rest of the body.
The expanded white tail covered more
space than all the rest of the bird, and
was evidently the grand feature in the
performance. While one was descend
ing the other would shoot np and come
alowly down expanded. The entertain
ment would end in a fight between the
two performers; but whether the most
beautiful or the most pugnacious was
the accepted suitor, I know not. The
Naturalist in Nicaragua.
Bnddhlatic Hoopitalily.
The honji or ecclesiastical residence
of the chief priest of the Nichiren sect
in Echizen was a temple-like structure
of the kind peculiar to Japan, and so
well fitted for a country in which the
chief concern is rather about subter
ranean "probabilities" than those in
regard to the weather. The first duty
of a good house in Japan is not so much
to look beautiful as to keep on its legs.
I have seen some poorly-built houses
made giddy, reel, and fall into a flat
ness that makes a flounder round by
comparison. In a well built Japanese
house, however, one is aa safe during
an earthquake as on a Cunarder in an
Atlantie gale. My clerical friend's
house was evidently earthquake-proof.
From one massive crest swept down on
either side the heavy roof of black tiles,
making two colossal gables on each
side. To snppott this awful weight of
tiles, the roof timbers are whole trunks
of trees, so joined together as to rock
easily in an earthquake. The uprights
rest in sockets in boulders set in the
earth, so that when an earthquake
comes, the continuity of the shock is
broken by the joints and not too tight
transoms, while the inertia of the heavy
roof preserves stability until the shock
has passed. That the Japanese under
stand the science of earthquake proof
architecture is most evident, since
scores of their pagodas, temples, and
towers have withstood the shocks of
hundreds of years. Any one knows
how he can balance a gold headed cane
on his finger-tip, and move the base a
foot or more from the perpendicular
while the heavy head scarcely changes
position. The supports of a Japanese
house seem frail and the roof danger
ously heavy, but the house is c gold
headed cane, and the earth the moving
hands. In the earthquakes which we
have in Yeddo about twice or oftener a
month, the foreigner prefers to be in a
Japanese house.
Our host meets us in the soft-matted
room, with glistening skull freshly
shaven, and clad in new robes of finest
Quaker-colored silk and gorgeous collar
of gold-embroidered brocade, but
having bare feet The mutual saluta
tions consume several minutes. An
acolyte brings us cups of tea, then con
versation for an hour or mora ensues,
during which the dinner is served.
Thongh in a priest's and abbot's dwell
ing, it was no anchorite's fare that was
set before ns. I would not insinuate
that all Japanese bonzes live as luxu
riantly as his Reverence Kan, but I
doubt whether any class of men in
Japan will average heavier in the scales,
or illustrate better the laws of gravity
if they should happen to fall outside a
vacuum. Fasting is, of course, often
practised, and some of the yonng bonzes
look as pale and spiritual as those
among our own students of theology
who cultivate dyspepsia as a means of
grace. Indeed, there is a very pale and
handsome, dark-eyed young bonze, who
performs the part of warden to the
tombs of the taiknus at Uyeno in Yed
do, and acts as cicerone to visitors, of
whom one of a party of young mission
ary ladies that visited tbetonibs a short
time ago naively remarked, "What a
splendid convert he would make I"
Lippincotfa Magazine.
The Euealyplnft Plantations oi
Algeria.
A correspondent writes to the Pall
Mall Uazt tte as follows : The Eucal
yptus, a tree of the myrtle family, was
introduced from Australia into Algeria
about eleven years ago, and flourished
surprisingly. It was not, however,
until within the last seven years that
any extensive plantations were made.
A few days since we made an excursion
to visit those on the estates of M. Trot
tier, M. Bimcl and M. Cordier.
On M. Trottier's estate at Hussein
Dey we walked under tall trees, the
Eucalyptus globules (blue gum trees),
on an average fifty feet high, which
seven years ago were planted with seeds
not so big as a mustard seed; this par
ticular plantation was on bad soil, and
had not had very experienced care, yet
the growth of the trees was marvelous.
In this evergreen wood all round us
were tall reddish smooth stems, with
the bark hanging down in a ragged,
untidy manner, for the tree sheds its
bark in winter, and grey willow-like
leaves were waving on flexible boughs.
For about twenty-five feet the stems of
tbe trees in the inner part of the plan
tation rose np with no branches at all,
but on the skirts of the wood the trees
sent ont branches in the light and air
nearly to the ground. It produced a
curious impression to walk in the dim
twilight of this Australian-African for
est, and to think that this was also a
wood of the miocene period. Beautiful
is not the word I should apply to its
appearance, but, in exchange for bare
sun-baked earth or deadly swamps, I
must say these Encalyptio forests are
most grateful, and the smell delight
fully resinous, warm and gummy. The
multitude of birds in the branches and
their busy twitterings added much to
the pleisant impression. I measured
these trees as I walked along, and
found them forty to forty-five inches in
circumference, those on the borders of
the wood always, of course.a few inches
larger.
Many village communities in the
plain have planted scores of gum trees
in this neighborhood, and feel the
1enefit, but at present there is certain
ly an exaggerated manner of speaking
of the Eucalyptus. It is praised as a
scent, as cigars, as a medicine, as a
tonic, as a throat lozenge, and, above
all, as a bath. Branches and leaves
are pnt into hot water, and I am as
sured by those who have tried it that
baths remove rhenmatie pains, neural
gia and the debility left by the malaria
incidental to the country. The flower
of the Eucalyptus tribe is very like the
myrtle flower; it is very full of honey,
and attracts a multitude of flies and
bees, and the birds naturally follow.for
they find not only food but thick. warm,
leafy cover in winter, and shelter from
the burning sun in summer. Some
species of Eucalyptus have large and
very beautiful flowers.
Finally, our opinion is that the Eu
calyptns tree may prove the most pow
erful element of civilization as yet put
in force on the coast of North Africa;
that in a very few years it will be self
sowing, and thus take its place as a
naturalized subject, there is very little
reason to doubt This year the seed
ripens plentifully on the seven-year-old
trees. Thus in a few years we may see
the one thing most longed for on the
Barbary coast that is, shade from the
fierce sun.
Debt is a word of Latin origin, with
a perfectly well denned meaning, though
all sorts of expedients have been started
for disguising its meaning. Debt is
what one owes. What one owes one
ought to pay. Tliis is plain and well
settled. Doubt only seems to mean
with some men the amount they have
had the lock to be able to borrow.
Youths Column.
Lollaby.
Baby, what do the Moosnm oay
lwn in tue garden walk ?
Th-y nod and luey bw in the twilight gray :
Fray, can yttn Dear thm tai t
Thry say : "U darling- Daby b-ight.
w e are going to ata-u : g od oiglit 1 wned night !
Tnr the luilaby brear bavr MD to aiug
Hww Ov d take care "i everything."
bleep 1 alevp !
Babv. what doc the robin fay?
lo you hear laa evening aong 1
He .i:a an alnffB taut auiteet lay
U ilh a heart all bitue and .tromr
Be aingit : "d nicbt, my tviby dear.
Sleep euft, aleep well, aud ii not fear ;
l'ur omebow I know aa 1 ait and aiug.
That Oodtakea care t everjUtuig "
bleep! aleept
Baby, what doen the cricket ny t
1j yon hear hia meaaured voice
He mo a : " l'be auu baa g.ue away,
Aud lve come out to rejoice ;
For tbe cold dew talla upou the gram
And tbe nretiiea wbmer aa tbey paea,
1.'rtcker, cricaet, come out aud aiug.
llow uod takea care i every thing.' "
bleep ! eleep !
Baby, what are your mother word,
Aa you uetl - upou her breaat 7
She eay : c'ome hither, nty sweetest of blrua,
1'or you moat eeek your UeHt.
Tbe dowers and tbe robins have gone to sleep,
Tbe c rickets aud glow-worms their watches keep ;
And your mother will sit by your cradle aud slug
'lhat tsod taAee care of everything.'
blieep! sleep!
A Trus Stobt. Some time ago a
child ill with hip disease was brought
into a certain asylum in New York a
little girl of five years old, who, from
fright or weakness, cried bitterly on
her admission. Another girl, a little
Swede of about nine, heard her. "Is
she crying because she has left her
mother she asked the matron, ao.
She has no mother ; she is an orphan."
"Her friends then, may be ?" "She has
no friends. She has nobody in the
world to take care of her, unless she
finds one here." Jennie, the little
Swede, stood for a minute or two
soberly looking at the stranger. She
was not a pretty child, nor attractive
in any way, being homely, diseased and
ill-tempered. "1 think I will take care
of her," said Jennie, gravely. "I'll be
a friend to her ;" and she went over to
the stranger, then and there, and began
to soothe and humor her. The matron,
thinking it only a passing childish out
burst paid no attention to it, even
when she found that Jennie had secured
a seat at table next to the child, and
had managed to have her placed in the
bed next her own in the dormitory.
But when the story was told to ns, a
year afterwards, the little girl had
never failed once in her self-imposed
trust. As far as was practicable she
took the place of a mother or elder
sister to the child who, still lame and
suffering, needed a constant attention
and care which the matron and nurses
could not give. She cut and prepared
her food at meals, humored her peevish
fancies during the day, and at night
was in the habit of lying down half
dressed, to be ready to spring np at a
moment's warning, and she passed many
a night, it was discovered, holding the
child's head in her arms or soothing
her. On any holiday or when visitors
came, Jenny's first anxiety was to make
her little charge presentable, just aa a
fond mother would do ; and when the
children were once given an excursion,
or an afternoon's romp in the grounds,
Jenny had an excuse to account for her
not going, and actually, although her
tears choked her, she being a child,
would have stayed, patient and cheer
ful, beside the lame child, who could
not go, if her deception had not been
found out The singular part of the
story wa3, too, that the child was not a
lovable nor grateful one ; but peevish,
jealous and tyrannical towards her poor
little nurse, who apologized for and
made the best of htr to others, after
the habit of mothers. There were many
other children in the asviuni prettier
and m .16 winnir.g ; bui. jnny was true
to the one whose only recommendation
was that "she Iiad no friends."
Tub Doctor's Visit. Rachel was a
good little girl, but apt to be heedless.
tier father had been lost at sea when a
great steamship, filled with passengers.
was struck by a sailing-ship, and went
down. Bat Kachel had a darling mother
and a sister Sn9an.
IUchel had been told that she mast
never go with wet feet Suu forgot
this, like other good rules ; and one day
she was so ill that her mother was
obliged to send for the doctor.
The doctor came, and took the little
girl's hands in his, felt of her pulse,
and asked what she had been doing.
She said she had been out in the wet
snow without her overshoes.
"That was a great mistake, my dear,"
said the doctor. "There is no more
certain way of taking a cold than to go
with wet leet Will you remember
this?"
lUchel promised that she would re
member. But good resolutions will not
cure a cold. The little girl was soon
confined to her bed by a lever ; and for
several days she was in great danger.
At last she was well enough to play
with her doll, and to read her volumes
of The Suriery. By and by, on sunny
days, she could take a little walk on the
piazza ; and roon she could take a ride.
One bright spring day Rachel was
quite well, well enough to come down
stairs and sit at the dinner-table. Her
mother and sister Sasan were very glad
indeed to see her. Rachel climbed into
her mother's lap, kissed her, and said
she would never walk with damp, wet
shoes again, if she could help it
"That's right, my dear, and never sit
on the damp ground, even in summer,"
said mamma : "I have known many
little girls to take bad colds in this
way."
"I will try and think," said RacheL
"That is what is wanted, thought,"
said mamma. "We must learn to think
if we would do right" Dora llunuide.
Do s't be a grumbler. Some people
contrive to get hold of the prickly side
of everything, to run against all the
sharp corners, and find out all the dis
agreeable things. Half the strength
spent in growling would often set things
right You may as well make np your
mind, to begin with, that no one ever
found the world quite as he would like
it ; but you are to take your share of
tbe troubles, and bear it bravely, lou
will be very sure to have burdens laid
upon yon that belong to other people,
unless you are a shirk yourself ; but
do n't grumble. If the work needs do
ing, and you can do it never mind
about the other boy who ought to have
done it and didn't Those workers who
fill up the gaps, and smooth away the
rongh spots, and finish np the job that
others leave undone, they are the true
peace-makers, and worth a whole regi
ment of growlers.
A collection of Chinese coins in the
Museum of the Paris Mint consists of
nearly 800 specimens, some of gold and
silver. One of the pieces dates from
1.700 vears before Jesus Christ A fact
worthy of notice is that the Chinese ob
serve the decimal system in me division
of their money. There are gold and
silver ignots, covered with regular con
trol marks.
"Vnrietles.
A sure recipe to remove stains from
character Get rich.
Emerson says: "We do not count a
man's years until he has nothing els)
to count"
John-xt assures ns that a rail fo 1 con
ductor punches a hole in your ticket to
let you pass through.
Ax English wag asserts that ma
chinery is the most modest of all things,
since it almost always travels in cog.
The proposition to introduce ladies
as railroad conductors is frowned upon
in view of the fact that their trains are
always behind.
The independent wrappings worn with
all kinds of dresses, dark or bght, are
little mantelets, double-breasted jackets
small capes, and small Dolmans.
To be bodily tranquil, to speak little
aud digest without effort, are absolutely
necessary to grandeur of the mind or of
presence, or to proper development of
genius.
The borne of the cactus family appears
to be in southern Arizona. Here the
grand cictus, vermin girtantevt, is from
thirty feet to forty leet high, and from
three feet to f.iur feet in diame'r.
About a million's worth of one and
two frano pieces will be coined in
Switzerland during this year. The re
verse will be unchanged ; for the ob
verse of the new coins a standing Hel
vetia, with lance and shield, surrounded
by twenty two stars, has been pro
posed. A citizen of Detroit, who moved to
Lone Tree, Nebraska, several yeais
ago, writes to a tobacco house in the
former city to send him five ponnds of
"fine cut" by express, adding: "I am a
candidate for Sheriff of this county,
and I think by judicious use of five
pounds of good tobacco 1 can secure two
hundred majority."
King Kalakana, of the Sandwich
Islands, has requested an old woman
named Kalai, who sent him a mat into
which she had woven a petition praying
for the removal of taxes on animals, to
weave two mats, one with the American
and the other with the English coat-of-arms,
to lie exhibited at our Centennial
Exhibition as specimens of Hawaiian
handiwork.
The rapid growth of cities is not con
fined to this country. Berlin, in 1690,
had 21,0)0 inhabitants ; in 182$, 220,000
inhabitants ; to 1S57 the number had
increased to -t'iO.O'X), and the last census
of 1873 established a population of very
nearly 1,000,000. Vienna has also risen
from a citv of 175,000 inhabitants in
1754, and 476,000 in 1857, to 1,000,000
in the present Tear.
Eight Russian lady singers, who have
lately attracted considerable attention
in Paris, are now in England, and have
appeared before a select audience. They
sing in Russian, Swedish, Dauisi;, and
the Viennese dialect The airs are said
to be very quaint, and are rendered in
such a superior manner that they were
specially retained to sing before the
Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh at the
wedding festivities at St Petersburg.
The Swedish navy, by the new ar
rangements just made, will include the
whole of the male nautical population
of Sweden, who are to be liable for
twelve years' service after attaining the
age of twenty-one. The establishment
of the fleet is to consist for the present
of 228 officers, 270 su'wifll er and
2.400 sailors; h ;i tu. n vd urma
inriiU now in ptor -jjolete 1,
it will ot increased ! 321 ffi?ers, 371
sub oilier, and aboin o.OjJ sailors,
besides a corps of artisans of 525 men.
The yearly contingent of men liable for
service is calculated at 1,500 men in
time of peace, and about 9,000 in time
of war.
The most wonderful pictures at the
Paris Exhibition are the celebrated
'Kettle of Fish, which would deceive
a dime de la Halle ; the picture of a
lady, with a curtain background, which
would deceive all the great painters of
antiquity ; the picture of a Cjootte,
which would deceive a Gommenx, so
naturally is she painted ; and the pic
ture of a monk, in gray, with a bit of
sunlight on it, which deceives every
body. On the whole, the Salon is very
good, though there are too many por
traits of alphabetical letters. It is pro
posed to affix the real name and age to
every lady's portrait next year. That
will no doubt reduce the number.
Some months ago, says the Sin Fran
cisco Jiallclin, seven male Indians and
a young Indian woman started to cross
Clear Lake, near the north end, in a
small boat, which was capsized three
miles from land. They righted it, but
as the lake was rough, they could not
bad it ont, and while full of water it
woald not support more than one per
son. The men pnt the girl in, and held
on the edges of the boat, supporting
themselves by swimming till exhausted
and chilled through by the cold water,
and then dropping off and sinking one
by one. Tu-y showed no thought of
disputing tn toting woman's exclusive
right to tii it-nt. Sae was saved by
their seLf-Saeria x.
Besides milk dairies, butter dairies,
and cheese dairies, there is one other
way of utilizing milk, adapted for lo
cations where neither of the other are
practicable, and this is in the manu
facture of condensed milk. The de
mand for this is steadily increasing,
and it affords one way, at least by
which the difficulties between producers
of milk and the dealers in our large
cities can be overcome. In New York
city, where the people have suffered
most from watered and diseased milk,
condensed milk is greatly preferred in
many families, as it is known to be pure
and clean. Tbe exports of condensed
milk from the United States during the
twelve months, ending September 30th,
1870, amounted, in custom house valu
ation, to about two hundred thousand
dollars.
Private letters to the friends of one
of the young American students
drowned in Like Geneva, Switzerland,
give details of the accident One of
the brothers was found sitting upright
in the boat, nearly submenred, wrapped
in the sail and frozen stiff, his hands
clntching tho sides of the boat so hard
that the skin was torn from his fingers.
As the two days intervening between
the departure of the boys and the dis
covery of the one body had been stormy
and cold, it is supposed that the boys
discovered the approach of the storm,
and os attempting to lower the sail the
smaller of the Crane brothers fell over
board, and that William Woodbury,
who was an excellent swimmer, sprang
into the water to save him. but that
both were drowned. The remaining
boy, it is supposed, wrapped himself
in the sad for protection, but became
drenched and froze to death in lha
long-sontinued storm.
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