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VOL. XXIX.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., APRIL 21, 1875.
NO. 16.
POITBT.
('rilvsroot PlaalN.
BT JOKX nxt.
What's this I bear.
My Moll; dear.
About the Dew carnivora?
Can liUie plants
Kat bugs and ants.
Why bleat my eyes !
Who is the great diskiverrr ?
Not Itarwiu, lore,
; For that would prove
A sort of retroradiug ;
Surely tbe fare
Of flowere ia air,
Dr sunshine sweet.
Tlwy shouldn't eat
Or do augbt so degrading!
Alas twould be
fiad news to me.
To liear your own dear Fido, p-t.
Had lout bin breath
. In cruel death,
because, one day
In thonghUemi play.
He went too near a violet!
Or, horror ! what
If, heeding not.
Some cruel plant carnivorous
We ventured near
Yea wv, my dear
And swallowed were,
W ith no one there
To suooor or deliver us.
And yet to die
liy blossoms, I
Would call a doom chromatic.
For one might wait
A harder fate
Thau have a rose
End all his woes
Iu paiu called aromatic.
Ah. science knows
Each flower that blows
And all its wicked habits
'Tis uot for as
To make a fuss ;
For auht we know;
The lillies row
From dining on Welsh rabbits !
frTilmrr'a Monthly.
IM'KI.LtY.
The Bttm Urawtr.
I saw my wife pull out the bottom
drawer of the old family bureau this
evening, and went softly oat and
wandered up and down, until I knew
that sue bad aunt it ap and gone to her
aewing. We have some things laid away
in that drawer which the gold of kings
could not bny, and yet they are relics
which grieve ns nntil both onr hearts
are sore. I baven t dared look at them
for a Tear, bnt I remember eaca article,
There are two worn shoes, a little chip
hat with part of the brim gone, some
stockings, pants, a coat, two or three
spools, bits of broken crockery, whip
aud several toys. Wife poor thing
go-js to that drawer every day of ner
life an J prays over it, and lets her tears
fall npon the precious artichs, bat I
dare Dot go. Sometimes we speak of
little Jack, bnt not often. It has been
a loll? time, bnt somehow we can't get
over grieving. lis was snch burnt of
sunshine into onr lives, that his going
awav was like covering our everyday
existence with a pall. Sometimes, when
we sit alone of an evening, I writing
and Fhe sewing, a child' on the street
will call ont as our boy used to, aud we
wiil both start up with beating hearts
and wild hope, only to find the darkness
more of a burden than ever. It is still
and quiet now. I looa up at the window
where his blue eyes used to sparkle at
mv coming, but he is not there. I
lii-ten for his pattering feet, his merry
ahout and ringing laugh, but there is
no sound. There is no one to climb
upon my knees, no one to search my
pockets and tease for presents, and I
never Hud the chairs turned over, tbe
broom down, or ropes tied to the door
knob. I want some one to tease me
for my knife, to ride on my shoulder,
to lone my ax, to follow me to tbe gate
when I go, aud be there to meet me
when I come, and to call "good night
from the little bed. now empty. And
wife, she misses him still more ; there
are no little feet to wash, no prayers to
say, no voice teasing for lumps of sugar
or sobbing with tbe pain of a hurt toe ;
and she weuld give her own life, almost,
to awake at midnight and look across
at the crib and see our boy there as he
used to be. So we preserve onr relics,
and when we are dead we hope that
strangers will handle them tenderly,
even if they shed no tears over them.
How l Eitver Oil ia Made.
A correspondent of the "New York
Tribune who has examined distillery
for the manufacture of this article, at
St. John's Newfoundland, gives the
following : During one of our rambles
on shore, we inspected a cod liver oil
distillery, and the mode of manufacture
is so simple and interesting that I Ten
tare to insert a description of it for the
beuebt of consumers ol tbe beverage.
The livers are first washed with fresh
water, and great care is taken to cleanse
them of all traces of gall, the gall not
only discoloring the oil, but giving it a
disagreeable, bitter taste. They are
then placed in a vat and heated by
steam, from a loiler underneath, to a
temperature of Hi iahr., which raises
tbe exuded oil to the surface, whence
it is skimmed off carefully, it is then
filtered three times; first, through
three bags, one within the other, the
inner one made of flannel, and the two
outer ones of muslin ; then through
three others similarly placed one inside
the other, bat nuvbs of stun resembling
Canton flannel ; from these last bags it
drips into a large tin trough, and is
drawn off into puncheons through a
faucet, over the mouth of which is
placed screen of the finest muslin,
which excludes every trace of sediment
and dirt. It is then ready for the market
and iu color and general appearance,
cloecW resembles Sauterne wine. Our
polite bnt flshv host pressed me to drink
a glasi of it, but I declined with all the
polite less I could command. He
evideutly looked upon my refusal to
drink, as a slight upon his oil, and
brought every argument in his power
to bear, to induce me to alter my de
cision. .At last he was successful, for
after informing me that out of the ssme
glass offered to ns, the Trinoe of Wales
and the Duke of Newcastle had drunk
of it, I could hardly refuse. I found
its flavor not unpalatable, but it was al
most tasteless, with barely a vestige of
the rjansetting, rancid odor of the
"Pure Cod Ldver UU sold in .lew j or
drug stores. From being extracted at
a low temperature it is said not to re
tain its purity longer than fifteen
months, after which -period it is mixed
with inirredients to preserve its taste,
or rather to prevent its rancid flavor
from becoming too apparent.
When a man can look upon the
simple wild rose and feel no pleasure.
Lis taste has been corrupted.
SIRS. HADF.LIXE WEBB.
BT EVA EDEff.
WASnro. An elderly lade as a emmanlon for
an invalid. Must be uitelafffnt, refluAl, a o xi
r-d.-r, jtiwi com wt-11 recoiunieiMled. Apply imms
dialW at Mo. baa, Oraud avenue."
This beaded the long column of
"wants" in the morning paper, and
though Ethel Yanghan read the entire
list, her mind and eyes would wander
back to the first, and wishes and plans
would till her imagination for the place.
She had been sick for many weeks, and
now, upon her convalescence, found
herself almost without money, aud a
wanlrolie so iueatrre aa to lie alarming.
She had lieen a uiusie teacher, but the
strain u)mn her had been too great, and
had resulted in a prostration fearfully
low, bnt with the aid of a good, stroug
constitution and the care of an excel
lent physician, she had fought the
struggle through, and was again ready
for work. She was alone, there had
never lieen any brothers or sisters, and
so vt lieu her parents had died, she was
thrown completely npon herself. As
long as she was well she did not mind
the work, but weak, and nervous, she
knew full well it would only be death
to try again the arduous hibois of a
music teacher, and then her pupils
were all gone. She had been sick a
louir while aud iinimtient ot delay they
had obtained other teachers. She could
not be a seamstress or a clerk, she was
not strong enough. What then could
she do t
Now if she were only elderly, there
would le no trouble. She knew herself
well enough to be certain that she was
intelligent and refined enonirh for such
a position, and she had always been
commended for her reading. i)r. Scott
would gladly recommend her, for he
had knowu her for years, and his posi
tion was such in the ciiy that the
influence of his name would be poten
tial in securing anything she might
covet.
Hut the age. She was not elderly.
There was nost retching the imagination
into lielieving her over twenty-five,
though she was iu reality bnt twenty,
aud lor once iu her life Ethel Yaughau
wished herself as old and wrinkled as
her nurse. There was another reason
why she wished to be agaiu at work.
Though she had saved money to pay
all the exH-nses of her illness, yet she
found herself indebted to Dr. Scott lor
many delicacies and dainties that she
had craved, and she knew that he was
beginning to love her. aud the thought
was intolerable that she should have
to give Imu pain by retusiug his prof
fered care aud atl'cction.
She leaned back among the cushions,
weary with projects. Her way seemed
hedged about, and try as she would,
there seemed no escae. When just as
she was beginning to despair, a plan,
venturesome and doubtful, dawned
upon her. She would assume the attire
ol an elderly widow aud make an appli
cation for the place. She grew strong
with the thoHght, aud when the doctor
came for his evening visit he fouud her
more animated than for a long time.
To hint she confided her plan, never
allowing him time to interpose an
objectiou or a remark as to his own
feelings. After they had talked the
matter over, and arranged the disguise,
or rather the garb of concealment, the
doctor asked where the place was, and
the moment his eye rested on the street
and numlKT, he exclaimed, "Why,
Kthcl, it is old Mrs. Whitney : I kuow
her well. She has been a patient of
mine for years. Jt will le just the
place for you, for your duties will lie
only nominal, and your salary ample
and secure. The old lady has weak
eyes, and she is oinx lied to keep them
constantly shaded. This, added to
her bad health, makes her indeed an
invalid "
"How large is her family, DctorP
enquired Ethel. "Herself and one son,
who is now and has been, for alxiut a
year, away from home. He is traveling,
aud 1 understand from his mother, is
not to return for attout three years.
They live elegantly, though very
retired, have a host of servants, a tine
mansion, aud almost nulimited wealth.
You will see very little company that
you will proltably like, as you need
not fear detection. It would ut-ver do
for you to go as you are, for the old
lady imagines every girl. has designs
upon her sou, and cannot tolerate one
iu her presence."
Ethel Vaughan or Mrs. Madeline
Webb, looked every inch a widow lady
of about thirty-five or forty, with her
false black hair sprinkled with grav in
lieu of her own goldcu curls. The
widow'scap was lec'ming,and matched
well the plain old-fashioned dress. She
played her part to perfection, and had
no difficulty; armed with a note from
the Doctor, in winning Mrs. Whitney's
favor, and In-fore the end of the week
she was- installed reader and com
panion. The invalid was gentle aud
kind, and her duties light. She read
for an hour or two, wastheamanuensis,
talked entertainingly, and then after
taking tea with the old lady, was at
liberty to do what she chose, but
generally she passed the evening with
her sew ing or conversing, finding the
grand old house dull enough with only
the servants for company, outside the
sick room. Thus for weeks and months
the quiet stream of her life rippled on
uneventful, unexcited, undisturbed,
only broken by the letters from the
absent son. These she read to the
mother, gradually becoming so inter
ested in them that she watched aud
waited their coming with impatience.
After a few messages Mrs. Whitney
would intrust the answer entirely to
her, and the young girl wrote out hei
pent up feelings to this stranger, secure
in the mother's name affixed, aud she
read iu his letters the replies that only
she understood and appreciated. At
last one day a letter came that he was
coming home, and that they might
expect him immediately. Mrs. Whitney
was overjoyed, and talked incessantly
of her hoy. content that her coinpauiou
silently listened. His room was ele
gantly arranged, all the care devolving
UHn .the v. iduw," whrr was careful
that every detail should lie just what
she imagined he would like.
When he came, she met him in his
mothers room, with an odd throbbing
of her heart, but returned his how, as
"My friend ami companion, Mrs. Webb,
Edgar, my son,"1 introduced them, and
though he scrutinized her closely, she
was outwardly calm, and after a few
remarks, left mother aud son together.
Hut her duties brought her constantly
into direct communication with Mr.
Whitney, aud as he rarely left his
mother, there were but few hours that
the "widow and the heir" were apart.
He joined in the reading, and the dull
pages grew interesting and entertaining
as he would read hour by hour, letting
her rest, and then he would talk of his
travels, and she would half forget her
position, and in question or listening,
prove herself to lie well informed, and
he would watch for the glow of interest
that would flush lier cheek.
He became very attractive to her,
and though she received his care and
politeness half patrotiiingly as became
Iht age, yet often she would surrender
herself to the feelings of the moment,
and neither rebuke or repulse.
Hut one 1v came for which she was
not in the slightest degree prepared.
"Mrs. Webb, mav I have a little talk
with you in the library V he asked, as
they arose from their dinner, which
they ate in the irreat dining-room alone.
She silentlv assented, and they passed
iuto that apartment, when, drawing an
easy chair before the fire, he tenderly
seated her, and taking her hand in his,
said:
"Mrs. Webb, I love yon. Ever since
I came home I have been attracted to
you more and more every day, and I
could not refrain from to-night telling
you this. You have known me but a
short time, but have not our letters
been a means of acquaintance that
compensates for the brevity of my stay
with yon?' In yours I recognized a
woman's lieart, loving and pare, and
when I returned home and found yon
here, I rejoiced, for I knew that yon
were the woman of all the world 1
should mish to marry. Do you not love
met I cannot wait longer for a reply."
Mrs. Webb's voice quivered as she
spike. "Mr. Whitney, have you
thought of the disparity in our agesf
Why, 1 am almost old enough for your
mother, and am failing, while you are
young and just starting in life. Yon
are rich and I must labor tor my living.
Have you thought what tbe world
would say if you were to marry vour
mother's companion, old and wrinkled
Is not this a mere flitting fancy ; will it
not fade away before the smiles of
some of the beautiful yonng girls you
may meetf The tears would come,
but the spectacles hid the bright eyes,
and the firm lips trembled only a little
as she paused.
"No, Madeline, if you will let me have
the right to call you so, nothing will
change me. Think you I have Eot had
ample opportunity to try my love
among the fair women I have met in
my travels, and I tell you now, old as
you call yourself, you are my choice.
I care not what the world says ; I am
independent enough to manage my
own affairs, and I plead with you not to
let that keep ns apart. Try me by
what test you will, but give me a hope.
You may be old enough to be my
mother for that does not alllict me
but you are yonng and beautiful to me,
aud I claim you for my own by my
great love for von."
His pleading prevailed and they were
betrothed, but she asked for silence,
and so their engagement was known to
none. She continued to till he accus
tomed place iu the invalid's chamber,
and listened to the mother's praise of
her boy with deeper interest than ever
befoie. After two or three months she
asked Mrs. Whitney to allow her a few
weeks to go away to arrange some
affairs and to recuperate, as she was
quite exhausted, and after a few days
she was ready to depart, auI
promising to write regularly to Edgar,
who clung to her and regretted her
absence, she left.
The davs wore on lonesome enough
in the Whitney mansion, after the
"widow's" departure; and so Edgar
commenced rescinding to the numerous
invitations that poured in upon him
from the best families in tbe city. At
one of these parties lie met a beautiful
girl, fair and accomplished, with
exquisitely moulded features and form.
She sang divinely, and her motions
were the embodiment of grace; she was
more bewitching to him than to any of
the other gentlemen who crowded
about her, reserving for him her
brightest smiles and most winning
ways. She strove to gain his praise,
and would turn from the gay crowd
about her to him, to walk with him, or
sing or talk to him. She constantly
reminded him of some one, and w hen
she was reading or conversing, he would
watch her with a puzzled air, that seeing
she would remark, but he evaded her
questions. When accidentally her
lingers met his, as he turned her
sheets of music, he thrilled with the
delicate touch, and bent low to speak
to her, nntil he inhaled the sweet
breath of the white verU iias in the
golden curls. Hut in a moment, as she
raised her eyes to his, the sudden
passion was passed, and he remembered
the woman whom he had wou ; the
pure noble lieart which he had so
prized, aud he scorned himself for even
the brief forgetfulness. It was strange
that, that morning there should have
come a letter from her "telling him if
he ever repented the engagement she
would absolve bim from a vow that
must never fetter ; that if he ever found
another that was nearer his own age
tiiat he was free to woo her, only to lie
honorable enough to first tell her of the
change."
He pondered the matter well. If he
had nover met Madeline Webb, if he
were absolutely free, would he marry
this girl ; did he regret hisengagement;
was the burden more than he could
bear; hail the thought of marriage
grown intolerable to him ? These were
questions that he considered well, and
his heart seemed to be divided. When
memory recalled the gentle face and
sweet voice of the little form clothed
in black, the smooth hair, with the
gray lying like threads of silver across
its bands, tbe many happy moments in
the sick room, his whole soul would
thrill with love for the absent one.
But when the syren voice of the fairy-'
like woman at his side called his name
and the long curls swept bis sleeve,
and the white, fingers toyed with his
flowers, the past, with its promises aud
affections, were swept apart by the flood
of the preseut moments.
One day, as the rain dashed against
the windows, as they stood side by side,
she said to him, 'I am so lonely to-day.
It seems to me sometimes that I would
not care to live if the future be as,
gloomy as the past. The present is all
there is of my life that has aught of joy
iu it, and for tlutt I have to thank yon.
Do you know I am going away next
week and 1 suppose then I shall never
see you again. U ! how dreary and sad
tbe world looks to-night,' and she
shivered, and with eyes clouded with
tears looked up into his face.
He took her hand, cold and clammy,
in his, and would have drawn her to
him, while words, burning with love
and passion trembled on his lips, bnt
though the blood fled from cheek aud
brow, with an effort he cruslied them
back, and stood silent before her.
"Do not sav yon do not care to live,
my friend. There is much of beauty
and love in this world, and there's
many a true heart."
It was impossible to say more, and
raising the slender fingers to his bps,
lie pressed a kiss npon them, and then
abruptly left her.
The next morning there came a note
bidding her good-bye, saying it would
be out of his power to call npon her
ere she left the city. The same mail
bore to Mrs. Webb a letter, pleading
with her to return, and telling her all
that had occurred in the past few
weeks, bnt assuring her that his love
had withstood the test, and that he
could lie separated from her no longer.
The answer caaie speedily, ."Meet me
at I r. Scott's," who had lieen married,
and at whose home Edgar Whitney had
met the fair young girl at whose side
he had whiied away so many pleasant
hours.
He could scarce await the arrival of
his betrothed, but was at the rendezvous
hours lie fore she came, and met hex
with the tenderest greeting. "Ol my
darling. Heaven bless you; I am so
glad to have you with me again, vou
shall never leave nie, so long as I live.
I have been sorely tempted, Madeline,
but I am all your own for ever and ever.'
"Did you not regret, Edgar, our
engagement j would you not, if yon
had lieen free, chosen differently. It
so, believe me, though it shonld wring
my heart, 1 would say farewell, and
leave vou to win a younger and fairer
bride.
His arm encircled her with love and
tenderness, and his kind words reas
sured her ; but after a brief while she
seemed down-hearted, and kept asking
him, "Are you sure yon love me,
Edgar P but he never wearied of
repeating his words of affection, and
she grew gay and happy.
"Let me lay one hand over your eyes,
dear. Now keep them tight shut;
don't yon look," and she placed her
outstretched palm to shut out the light.
A quick motion and the widow's cap,
the spectacles, the false gray hair were
at her feet, aud the waterproof thrown
back revealed the young, fresh face
and lithe form of Ethel Vaughan.
"Now. Edgar V
"Why. Miss Ethel, is it possible you
are here, Mrs. Webb, Madeline," a look
of blank amaze oieut, then a cry so
happv, so rapturous, that it spoke a
world of tender love, "All mine, what
shall I call you, Madeline or Ethel, both
are dear, but I won you by tbe first, and
that you shall ever be. Hut were yon
afraid to trust me, darling, unless you
tried met No wuuderso often I caught
glimpses of your old self in the pretty
young girl. But why did you ever
assume this!" touching tbe widow's
garb. She explained all, which Dr.
Scott enjoyed especially bis telling how
often he had been on tbe point of
revealing the secret, and Sirs. Webb
insisted that she was still jealous of her
rival, her "other self," Ethel Vaughan.
They never told Mrs. Whitney, for
Edgar knew it wonld only excite and
confuse her, and when he introduced
"my wife, Ethel, or mother, as I call
her most, Madeline," the old lady only
remarked, "how familiar your voice is,"
but many a hearty laugh have the
young folks bad over the "false front
and specs," though Edgaroften declares
they were the most becoming things
his wife ever wore.
Coloaial .Haaalactare rSUk.
From the very first, nnder the popu
lar impression probably that the coun
try was particularly adapted to the
production of silk, special efforts were
made in nearly all the colonies to direct
and divert the attention of the people
to this particular industry ; and it is
recorded that tbe first Assembly that
convened in Virginia nnder a written
constitution, in 1621, especially occu
pied itself with considering "how best
to eneonrage the silk culture." In 1662
also tbe Virginia Assembly, with a view
of encouraging manufacturers, offered
prizes for tbe beet specimens of linen
and woolen cloth, and a special prize of
fifty pounds of tobacco, for each pound
of wound silk produced in the colony ;
and it was also enjoined that for every
hundred acres of land held in fee, the
proprietor should be required to plant
and fence twelve mulberry-trees. Silk
culture in Georgia also so largely occu
pied the attention of the first colonists
that a public seal was adopted bearing
as a device silk-worms engaged in their
labors ; while bounties for the encour
agement of the same industry were re
peatedly oiTered by the colonies of
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
North aud South Carolina. It is a most
interesting and suggestive circumstance
that this specialty of employment
which from the first settlement of the
country was particularly selected as
worthy of attention, and as such did
receive for nearly two hundred years
from the various colonial and State
authorities an amount of encourge
ment, throngh special legislation,
greater than was bestowed on any other
interest, is the ot ' one of the great
industries which has never been able to
attain to a healthy couditionof existence
on the North American continent, and
to-day only exists in the United States
in virtue of a degree of legislative en
couragement far in excess of that de
manded and received by anv other in
dustrial interest. JIarper't Magazine.
('oniaitdorn Vaaderblll's Krrs
Oisrernuieat.
One day, before Cornelius Vander
bilt obtained possession of the Hudson
River Hail way, he was traveling, it is
said from here to Albany, and, consid
ering himself a privileged character,
went into the baggage car to smoke.
He had been enjoying his cigar but two
or three minutes when the conductor
came along, and informed him politely
that he mast not smoke there. Van
derbilt said that it did not make any
difference that it was all right, Ac,
but the conductor was of a different
opinion, declaring that it was contrary
to the rules of the road.
"Yon don't know me," said the
smoker. "My name is Vanderbilt. I
am sometimes called Commodore. I
generally do about as I please." '
"I don't know, nor do I care who
you are Mr. Vanderbilt I intend to
obey the rules. '. It yon were ten times
a Commodore I could not permit yon
to smoke here, and yon must go else
where to finish yonr cigar."
The loyalty to duty displayed by the
conductor pleased the ancient Corne
lius, and be went ont, though not be
fore he had said to the conductor :
"Yon are a right kind of a man for
yonr place. Yon don't respect persons.
I think of b tiring this road, and if I
do, yon can stay on it aa long as yon
like,"
Vanderbilt did bay the road and re
tained tfce conductor. He frequently
remarked that that man could be trus
ted ; that he was never mistaken in
judging of character ; and that he knew
from the first that the conductor was
sound.
The conductor stayed on the road
for five years, and in that time, as tbe
story goes, stole himself into a pecu
niary independence. 1 ! ' "' '
So much for Vanderbilt's knowledge
of character. Evidently the conductor
knew Vanderbilt better than Vander
bilt knew the conductor.
Dictiaarlea.
The earliest dictionary of which any
record remains is one in the Chinese
language, compiled by Pa-out-sbe,
about B. C. 1100. Marcns TerentiAs
Varro who flourished B. C. 11628,
was one of the first classic authors who
turned his attention to lexicography ;
but the most celebrated dictionary of
antiquity is the Onomasticon of Julius
Pollux, which wss completed early in
the third century. The earliest Latin
dictionary of modern times was pub
lished by John Hal hi, of Genoa, in
1460, bat that of Calepio, published in
1502, is much superior. Sebastian
Monster's Chalde Dictionary appeared
in 1527; Pagninus' Lexicon of the
Hebrew lsngnage in 1529; Robert
Stephens' Thesaurus in 1585 ; Krpenins'
Arabic Dictionary in ibM ; Sbmdlers
Lexicon Pantagiottum in 1612 ; Ed
mund Castell's Lexicon Heptaglotton
in 16C9 : and Phillips' New World of
Words m 1658. Moren published bis
Biographical, Historical, and Geogra
phical Dictionary in 1673, Elisha Cole's
English Dictionary appeared in lbw.
and Bayle's Historical and Critical Dic
tionary, and the Dictionary of the
French A-ademy in 1694. Dr. Johnson's
English inctionary was completed in
May, 1755, Walker's Dictionary ap
peared in 1791, and Francis Grose's
Dictionary ol the Vulgar Tongue in
17S5.
Old time rocks rocking the cradle.
Cariosities r Hh1i(.
. In olden times it was the fashion for
a suitor to go down on his knees to a
lady, when he asked her to become his
wife which, with very stout gentlemen,
was an nnoomfortable proceeding. The
way in which Daniel Webster proposed
to Miss Fletcher was more modern,
being at the same time neat and poetic.
Like many other lovers, he was caught
holding a skein of thread or wool,
which the lady had been unraveling.
"Grace 1" said he, "we have been un
tying knots. Let ns see if we cannot
tie one which will not untie in a life
time 1" With a piece of tape he fash
ioned half a true lover's knot ; Miss
Fletcher perfected it ; and a kiss put
the seal to the symbolical bargain.
Most men, when they "pop" b7 writing,
are more straightforward and matter-of-fact.
Richard Steele wrote to the lady
of his heart : "Dear Mrs. Scurlock I
(there was no misses in those days) "I
am tired of calling you by that name ;
therefore, say a day when yon will take
that of 'madam." Your devoted humble
servant, Richard Steele." She fixed
the day accordingly, and Steeled her
name, instead of her heart, to the
suitor. The celebrated preacher,
Whitefield, proposed marriage to a
young lady in a very cool manner as
though Whitefield meant a field of ice.
He addressed a letter to her parents,
without consulting the maiden, in
which he said they need not be at a
afraid of offending him by a refusal, as
he thanked God he was quite free from
the passion called "love I" . Of course
the lady did not conclude that this
field, however white, was the field for
ner. The well-known brothers, Jacob
and William Grimm, were exceedingly
attached to each other, and had no de
sire to be married. But it was thought
proper by their friends that one of
them should become a husband ; and,
Jacob being tbe elder, it was agreed
that he shonld be the one to enter the
bonds of matrimony. A suitable lady
was found ; bnt Jacob declined to do
the conrting requesting William to
act aa his agent, - William consented
bnt soon found that he was in love.
and wauted the lady for himself. He
could not think, however, of depriving
his brother of snch a treasure, and
knew not bow to act. An aunt kindly
relieved him in his difficulty by telling
Jacob, who willingly resigned the dam
sel to his brother, and went out of the
way nntil she had been made Mrs.
William Grimm. A Scotch beadle was
the one who popped the question in
the grimmest manner. He took his
sweetheart into the graveyard, and,
showing her - a dark corner, said :
"Mary ! my folks be there. Would
yon bke to lie there, Mary?" Mary
was a sensible lassie, and expressed ber
willingness to obtain the right to be
buried near the beadle's relations by
uniting herself to him in wedlock. A
similar nnromantic view of the subject
was taken by another Hootch maiden.
Upon her lover remarking, "I think 111
marry thee Jean," she replied : "Man
Jock I 1 wonld be muckle obleeged to
ye if ye would.
Ninnggllng Before the Kevo-
lution.
It is most important and instructive
to diverge for a moment at this point
from tracing tbe development of Ameri
can manufactures, and briefly notice
tbe effect of tbe long-continued restric
tive legislation of Great Britain on
political and commercial morality. The
mnltitude of arbitrary laws enacted to
force the industry and commerce of the
colonies and the British people into
artificial and unnatural channels created
a mnltitude of new crimes ; and trans
actions which appeared necessary for
the general warfare, and were no way
repugnant to the moral sense of good
men, were forbidden by law nnder
heavy penalties. The colonists became
thenceforth a nation of law-breakers.
Nine-tenths of the colonial merchants
were smugglers. One-qoarter of the
whole number of the signers of tbe
Declaration of Independence were bred
to commerce, to the command of ships,
and the contraband trade. John Han
cock was the prince of contraband
traders, and, with John Adams as bis
counsel, was on trial before the Ad
miralty Court in Boston at the exact
honr of the shedding of blood at Lex
ington, to answer for half a milUon
dollars' penslties alleged to bave been
by him incurred as a smuggler. And
if good old Governor Jonathan Trum
bull, of Connecticut (Brother Jonathan)
did not walk in the same ways aa his
brother patriot in Massachusetts, then
tradition, if not reoord, has done him
very great injustice. There is also on
reoord a letter of Alexander Hamilton,
written in 1771, at tha time be was in
mercantile business, giving instructions
to the master of a vessel in his employ
how to avoid the customs regulations
on entering porta in the West Indies.
Bat men like Hancock and Trumbull
bad been made to feel that government
was their enemy ; that it deprived them
of their natural rights ; that in enacting
laws to restrain them from laboring
freely, and freely exchanging the fruits
of their labors, it at the same time
enacted the principle of slavery, and
that therefore every evasion of snch
laws was a gain to liberty. JIarper't
Uaffazine.
now I hey Caleb. Maslaaga.
The editor of the Pleasanton Stock
Journal gives the modns operandi of
capturing wild horses in Texas, which
will no doubt prove instructive to
many. It will be perceived that all
the popular notions in which the lasso
and fleet-footed charger play an im
portant part, bave little foundation in
reality.
As soon as a herd of horses is discov
ered, the party af hunters divide, one
portion striking camp while the others
set off in pursuit of the herd. The
frightened animals go bounding across
the prairie throngh the prickly pear
and dense chapparel, leaving a trail
which the hunters steadily pursue at
an easy gait nntil they come in sight of
the herd which scampers off as before.
These tactics are kept up by pursuers
and pursued for days, the mustangs
returning to their first starting point
which they are sure to do when the
camping party takes the place of the
tired pursuers, and thus follow the
herd until the poor, wearied, and half
starved creatures, with swollen and
bloodshot eyes, give np the straggle
and submit to be driven anywhere.
The object of the hunters has been
merely to keep close enough to the
mustangs to prevent them from grat
ing. Starvation soon brings them to
terms, and the prairie monarch, with
dropping crest and dejected look,
leaves his native wilds henceforth to
become the slave of man. This is what
hunters call "walking mustangs down.
When Agassis was pressed to deliver
a lecture for pay, he repliad, "I can
not afford to waste my time for money.
Aaaerlcaa Callare.
Few, persons, I suppose, will deny
that during onr own century tbe .aro
peans have surpassed ns in the fine arts.
Even within onr own memory, what
poems, dramas, and novels have they
given ns ; what statues, symphonies,
operas, and what men of science ! It
ia a great list of names, theirs of this
century : Goethe, Byron, Wordsworth
Beethoven, Wagner, Mendelssohn,
Tborwaldsen, Delarnehe, Turner, Bal
zac, George Eliot, Humboldt, Darwin
familiar names like these flow from
the pen. Not that I wonld disparage
oar great men ; I make tha trite com
parison only to point ont a reason,
which may not be trite, for the fact
that each of the leading nations of
Europe surpasses ns in the amount of
its higher intelligence. I cannot hope
that the explanation will be received
with much favor, for it is not a pleasant
one ; it is, namel. that we are lacking
as a people, in sensitiveness to the
things of the mind, and in consequence
that we are not full heritors of tbe past
culture of Europe. On the contrary,
we are ont of sympathy with the past
culture of Europe with its thoughts,
creeds, method of working, ideals, and
mental temper : nor will any mere
growth in age give these to ns any
more than it will give ns gothie cathe
drals. What we may do in art is to be
done in a different spirit from them if
done at at. Our atsthetio temper was
not formed under a benign star. Even
onr most eminent publio men in some
instances bated art, and said that they
hated it. Here is an interesting case.
In 1818 a French sculptor, M. Binon,
wrote to John Adams, requesting per
mission to take his portrait in marble.
This waa the famous ex-President's
answer : "The age of sculptor and
painting has not yet arrived in this
country, and 1 hope it will be lone be
fore it does so. I wonld not give a six
pence for a picture by Raphael, or a
statue by l'hidias.
It ia easy to think that a civilized
person wrote these words t It they are
reported rightly, they imply defect in
humanity ; certainly no educated Euro
pean would have uttered them. It was
sayings like these that led Lamartine
and other civilized foreigners to com
plain of "la brutalite Americaine." If
the ex-President of the United States
"would not give a sixpence" for Raffa
elle or Phidias, need we wonder that
bis country shows something of tbe
same feebng? Ihe (ataxy for April.
The laflueace or Climate apoa
1.1 le.
An interesting article appears in the
Gazette dn Mfdiral L' Alger ie on the
influence exerted by climates in regard
to health and bfe of foreigners. In that
article we are reminded that the ne
groes of Senaar recruited by Mehemet
Ali for his army, speedily succumbed
after arriving in Egypt ; that negroes
of Central Africa rapidly die if trans
ported to Arabia, and that if sent to
Europe they perish by phthisis. Of
1,8I0 negroes sent to garrison Gibralter
in 1817, nearly all are said to have been
destroyed by pulmonary consumption
in fifteen months, and of tbe negro con
victs sent from the French colonies to
the hoiks at Brest, one-fifth die each
year. In Mexico, tbe Egyptian contin
gent Buffered by disease and death in
larger proportion than did tbe regular
troops from France ; whereas Algerians
and Arabs in France enjoy relatively
better health than in their native coun
tries. During the Russian War the
Zouaves and Tnrcos resisted the cli
mate of the Crimea better then the
men of the French heavy cavalry and it
is said that on the same occasion the
Algerian horses withstood the severe
winter even better than those of the
English cavalry. With regard to the
power of resistance of Arabs, as illus
trated in the war of 1870-71, it is ob
served that if in battle they become ex
cited to paroxysms of fury, once
wounded, or taken prisoners, they find
in their complete belief in fatalism a
source of moral calm and resignation.
The Arab moreover is leu sensitive to
pain than the European : hence, in a
great measure, the principal cause of
the facility with which wounds received
by the former heaL
In the question asked then : Is man
cosmopolitan ; Certainly not 1 Man
does not perpetuate bis species in all
climates. He may live, if transported
after have attained adult age. but he
often becomes sterile, or if he has
children they do not attain manhood.
Michael Lievy rightly observed that
,kTo change the climate is to be born
to a new bfe."
The t'awrllten aide ! Great Jlea.
We always think of great men as in
the act of performing deeds which give
them renown, or else in stately repose,
grand, silent and majestic. And yet,
this is hardly fair, because the most
gracious and magnificent of the human
beings have to bother themselves with
the little things of life which engsge
the attention of ns smaller people. M o
doubt Moses snarled and got angry
hen he had a severe cold in his head,
and if a fly bit his leg while he was in
the desert, why shonld we not jump
and use violent language and rub the
sore place f And Csstar isn't it toler
able certain he used to become furious
when he went np stairs to get his slip
pers in the dark and found that the
Calphnrnia had shoved them nnder tbe
bed so that he had to sweep around
them wildly with a broom handle?
And when Solomon cracked his crazy
bone is it unreasonable to suppose that
he ran around the room and felt aa if
he wanted to cry? Imagine George
Washington sitting on the edge of the
bed and putting on a clean shirt, aud
growling at Martha because the but
tons were off ; or St Augustine with an
apron round his neck, having his hair
cut ; or Joan or Are holding her front
hair in her month as women do, while
she fixed np her back hair ; or Napo
leon jumping ont of bed in a frenzy to
chase a mosquito around the room with
a pillow ; or Martin Luther in a night
shirt, trying to put tbe baby to sleep
at 2 o'clock in the morniug ; or Alexan
der the Great, with hiccoughs ; or
Thomas Jefferson getting sudJenly
over a fence to avoid a dog ; or the
Duke of Wellington with the mumps ;
or Daniel Webster abusing his wife be
cause she hadn't tucked the covers in
at the foot of the bed ; or Benjamin
Franklin paring his corns with a razor;
or Jonathan Edwards at the dinner j
table, wanting to sneeze just as he got j
his month full of hot beef ; or Noah j
standing at his window throwing ;
bricks at a eat. ' j
Tlje new green, bine, violet and
prune silks are so dark as to be almost ,
black, and the new black failles are j
coal black, instead of bine black. !
These, like tbe colored silks, are of
fine make. They are no longer heavily
corded or repped, and are decidedly
more lnstrous than those worn for the
past few years.
Tonwr col.
The Beaatlfal Mprlag.
vr aaoaos oooram.
"IwaasmSntasldtbeiaMMnlrnp: "look!"
N4 before nit '" obuk id -ulvrr brmtk.
"-Why, cnm ltiirTM.Ml'M S- asra Wk f
"bo AAV 1, liear, Miched a i
TlktM-t BUMS,
-Well." ptprd a Mi-wMrd. mt Ira-ra 1
coat!
i 1 we -ui-m was lay pwmi ac-out.-
fS." thin-ed snowbird, "thai Wkmf bs true ;
But I'm tatu a all lbs tuamk wiater lanmcD."
! caaie bHirnn." sang tbe snotbwlDd, "I !
"After me, love I epake tae deep Mse sky.
"Woo t u caiea?" cliMB44 the crirfcete nJF : -ow
70a are bars, lot us bopo yoa'U atay."
Wbut doea it mattt r wboa ana or last
acj, brouaa, aixi a-an, lad bird lea (hat
AU brlp to atako up too iM-autiful apram.n
How a House Hklpkd His Nkiokbob.
Not long since, I visited a friend,
who lives on a fine farm, in a pleasant
town in Southern New Hampshire.
While there, one evening, we rode to
the village to attend a meeting, and on
our way back my friend told me the
following anecdote about the noble
horse he waa driving. A few years ago
this horse was kept, during autumn, in
a field close by the farm house, and in
an adjoining pasture a flock of sheep
was also kept.
One day while my friend was talking
with a gentleman by the roadside, the
nurse eame running toward him from
the lower part of the field, next to the
sheep pasture, and, pntting his bead
over the wall near him, whinnied, aa if
to attract attention.
He took however, no special notice
of this ; and presently the horse turned
and ran back to the lower aide of the
field.
But very soon he was again seen
rapidly approaching, and, on reaching
his master, he again spoke to him, as
horses usually speak.
It was observed that the horse was
acting in a very unusual manner ; bnt
still no steps were taken yet to ascer
tain the cause of the strange running
back and forth. So the pony again
wheeled and galloped away once more
towards the sheep pasture. And now,
very soon, for the third time, ia he
seen swiftly returning.
It seems that the intelligent creature,
having failed in two attempts to secure
the help he was seeking, determined to
try elsewhere this time : and so, instead
of going again to his master, he went to
the farm-bouse, that stood near by, and
putting his head through an open win
dow in the kitchen, he again whinnied.
My friend's wife, who, it seems, had
noticed the strange restlessness of the
animal, now felt quite sure there must
be some trouble in the field or pasture,
and that the horse was trying to tell
them of this, that they might go to the
rescue.
So she went ont where the horse was.
He seemed pleased that it had attracted
attention at last, and, trotting on be
fore the lady, he led her down to the
pasture, and, putting his head over the
fence, seemed to say : "Look, look I"
The lady did look, and there she dis
covered that a savage dog had caught a
sheep, and was holding it by the throat,
in spite of all the poor creature's efforts
to escape.
I hope my young readers will always
try to help those whom they see in
trouble, and that they will be as perse
vering in their efforts to do good as was
this noble animal.
Too Much to Believe. One day.
Farmer Kobson's old hen came scratch
ing about in my meadow, and just then
the pretty schooluia'am tripped by with
two of her children. She was talking
to them about the fish called the stur
geon. 1 ta mv ilAara did mtam bbvitit I
reaa it mis very morning in tne l om
lar Science Monthly. Nine hundred
and twenty-one thousand six hundred
eggs have been found in a single stur
geon." "My I what a lot." exclaimed one of
the children, "and if every egg gets to
be a sturgeon, and every one of tbe new
sturgeons lays just aa many, just think
what heaps and heaps of grandchildren
a sturgeon must hava."
The teacher laughed. They walked
on ; and suddenly I heard a sort of
gulp.
it was the old hen. I never in mv
life saw any living creature in snch a
state. She was so mad she could
hardly keep inside of her feathers.
"Nine hundred thousand tatnV she
exclaimed (yon would bave thought she
was only trying to cluck her bead off,
but Jack understood every word), "nine
hundred thousand eg-gag-gng-gega !
Don't believe a word of it I - Never was
such a thing since the world begaa '
sturgeon, indeed I Never even heard of
such a bird. What '11 school teachers
say next I wonder? Nine hundred
thousand egg-gug gug-eggs indeed I" '
The last 1 saw of that hen. she was
strutting off indignantly toward the
tarn-yard to tell the other hena all
about it St. Xichola.
A Remark aBU Doo Stout. This
story ia told by a gentleman who says
its truth is vouched for by witnessea of
undoubted veracity : Some years ago.
anile -ur. Hamilton was Ashing near
tbe lower rapids of tbe Mississippi, just
above the Keokuk, he observed below
him a man bailing out a canoe, prepara
tory to taking himself, wife, and baby
across the river. At the same time Mr.
Hamilton saw that his Newfoundland
dog waa watching the proceedings of
tbe party. Seeming to com pre hen!
their intention, the dog uttered a pecu
liar bowl, and passing rapidly np the
river for some distance, plunged into
the water and swam diagonally down,
landing on a large rock standing out of
the water about midway of tha stream.
After shaking the water from his shaggy
coat, he again watched the party, who
in tbe meantime had embarked in tbe
canoe. Just as tbe little boat passed
the rock, it was caught in the rapidly
descending current, and instantly cap
sized. The woman, in falling into the
water, loosed her hold on the child,
which floated down the stream. The
man caught his wife and waded with
her to tbe rock. The instant the child
fell into the water, the dog leaped in,
and in a short time was seen in the still
water below swimming with the child
in his mouth, which be carried in safety
to the shore. Firziil; FrieniL.
Lived it Dow. An honest black
smith was once grossly insulted and his
character infamously defamed. Friends
advised him to seek redress by means
of law, but to one and all he replied.
"No, I will go to my forge and there in
six months I will have worked out such
a name as all the jndRes, law courts and
lawyers in the world could not give me."
He was right. It ia by honest labor,
manly courage, and a conscience void
of offence that we assert onr true
dignity and prove onr honesty and
respectability.
Teach children to love everything
that ia beautiful, and yon will teach
them to be useful and good.
TttiKTin.
A matter of form Fitting a dress.
The lady who took everybody's eye
must a lot of them.
Pickles in glazed pans, erosa dogs,
and delays, are dangerous.
A statistician estimates; that court
ships average three tons of coal each.
Thp coat of a horse ia the gift of
nature. That of an ass is often the
work of a tailor.
Some heartless person has remarked
that, however strenuously a teetotaller
may resist the use of fermented drinks,
he will certainly come to his bier at
last.
Too many people embrace religion
from the same motives that they take a
companion ia wedlock not from true
love of the person bnt because of a
large dowry.
How easy it ia to please and be
pleased if one will take the fragrance
of the rose instead of the thorns, and
hold the knife by the handle and not
by the edge.
The foundation of domestic happi
ness is faith ia the virtue of woman ;
the foundation of political happiness,
temporal and eternal, ia reliance on the
goodness of Providence.
A Baltimore yonng woman skated
benanlf thmno-h thai i Knk aa IK.
water waa only four feet deep and abe
Waa five) ftfMlt Lin 7 atia atswi.1 nn a.n.1
informed a young man of what had
happened, and he courageously passed
her a board.
Out of 241,926 packages of stamps.
etc, tranmitted throngh the Post Office
in tbe United States daring the year
i3i j- i. only lour packages valued at
7.45, were lost : and of the 2,000,(H
ol regularly registered letters, only 313
were actually lost or stolen.
"A human skull, covered and filled
with oysters, was dredged np in New
uaven naroor not long since. A man
mnst be awfully fond of oysters when
he "sets" bis skull to catch them. But
perhaps, after all, the owner of that
trap didn't know how it waa being
used.
A yard-stick is very nseful in a store:
a stick on the stage ia of no use what
ever ; a stick in a tumbler is sometimes
in danger of making the sidewalk un
even to pedestrians ; a stick of a hus
band or wife is apt to be much longer
than is desired, and a stickful of matter
is the commonest thing read in news
papers. The Sultan of Turkey employs in his
palace 6.00U servants of both sexes.
He pays and feeds 300 cooks, 300 gar
deners, 500 coachmen, and 600 more to
do odds and ends about the house.
To feed these people and their hangffrs
on 1.200 sheep and 2.000 fowls are killed
every day, and 60.000 francs for Ughts
are expended. No wonder they call
him the sick man of Europe.
Let onr love be firm, constant and
inseparable ; not coming and returning
like the tide, but descending bke a
never failing river, ever running into
the ocean of divine excellency, passing
on in the channels of duty and a con
stant obedience, as never ceasing to be
what it is till it comes to be what it de
sires to be ; still being a river nntil it
be turned into sea and vastness, eveu
the immensity of a blessed eternity.
A neat confidence game, but very
mean, was practiced on two young
ladies in a Jersey City car the other
day. A fashionably-dressed man en
tered the ear in Jersey City, and two
ladies got on at the same time. Oue
of the ladies took a dollar bill from her
purse to pay the fare with, when the
gentleman pobtely offered to pass it to
the driver, but instead of doing that
he lifted his hat to the ladies and left
the car.
Every year a pastry cook in Dresden
cooks np a lot of pan-cake, ia one of
which a ducat ia placed, and advertises
tbe same, whereupon all the good
people of that city rush to invest five
pienninga in one of the cakes, ia tbe
hope of being the lucky winner of the
prize. Bat the cook doesn't "scale
down" the drawing in the Louisville
fashion, so that the ducat ia changed
to a groschen, while the pan-cake ia
made of sawdust.
This is the way an impecunious Pa
risian dandy managed : He kept at
his residence a costume of a groom.
When offering an attention to the
fair sex he used to say : - "Permit me
to send yon a bouquet by my black
servant. He then repaired to his
garret, took his blacking bottle, pol
iahed his face and hands, - pnt on his
livery and knocked at the lady'a door.
"Here," said he, "are some flowers
from master to madame. He had
spent his last frano in the purchase.
Madame was so delighted with tbe
present that she presented the bearer
with a Ionia. This is a elevar pocket
ing of three dollars, and a lady'a favor
into the bargain.
A Bangor fruit dealer has been pay
ing a bet recently, with the making of
which he had nothing to do. Two well
known gentleman stepped in, and be
ginning to eat oranges, informed the
proprietor that they had made a bet of
the oranges on a certain question, and
after the bet waa decided tha loser
would pay for those which they were
eating. To this the dealer of tbe fruit
was agreed, and the customers ate all
they desired. The next time they were
in the store he enquired which one was
to piy for the oranges. "Don't know
yet," waa the reply ; "I bet that when
the Brewer bridge is carried away, tbe
Brewer end will go first, and Smith bet
that the Bangor end will go first"
The oranges were immediately charged
to profit and loss.
The practice of clipping horses in
winter is regarded in a great many dif
ferent views ; bnt there ia no mistaking
tbe sentiments of a contributor to tbe
New York Evening Post, who gives ex
pression to the following bit of sarcasm :
"I admire tbe horse-shaving process,
not so much for its conspicuous pro
priety aud usefulness, as for its showing
what a high order of intellect can ac
complish when it seriously lays itself
out for work. What ordinary man
could, by any possible stretch of his
inventive faculties, compass the notion
ot basing the social position npon tbe
brevity of his horses' trials, or the
stripping the hair off the animals'
oouies in winter t Any man mignt
think of the latter operation in summer
but who but men of genius could think
of doing such a thing in our Arctic
winter ? Such men wonld have been
saints in Loyola's time ; and I am not
altogether sure bnt what eanonizing
would be the best thing for them- now.
If comfort and ease are enhanced by
contrast, I can easily imagine the ex
quisite satisfaction felt by the occu
pants of a vehicle drawn by clipped
horses. In the terrible winter just
passed away the amount of enjoyment
so received mnst have been immense."
But horses will still be clipped, never
thelei a, be tha practice cruel or net.
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