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GRIAT KPKTATIOirg.
BT JOEL STACT.
VwVt little rrspa dear that cling unto a vine
Ziptcu mm day to ripen iu nul drop of
win.
vyrr little pit think, expect in tis to be
Jikrbsr ova i -as gnat a
west and tree !"''.
Vrt little boy woo haa a pocket of tarn on
gjprcte to h tt Digest bu the world baa
erir koo.ii.
Cr'rr title nigm-wis that makes ila little well.
Expect to t a great big pi with a very onrij
iau j
Er'rj ktt e lambkin, too, that friaka upon the
f:r-n.
Expect to be tha finest cheap that erer vat
Er'rr little baby eoH expect to be a bor ;
Er'r? Htue pop expects to be a dog, of eoane.
yyiy little k tun pet ao Iradi r and ao Bice.
ExpecU to be a gro-np oat and lire on rata
aod mice.
Et'rr little fluffy chirk, in downy yellow dreat,
Ex, ecu boom day to crow and atrat, or oaokJe
at iu bn
Ey'rj bttle baby-bird that peep from ont it
neat
Expeo eome day to croaa the aky from glow
ing East and West.
Row er'ry hope I've mentioned here will bring
it mire event.
fiondrd nothing happens, dear, to hinder or
pre Tent.
-jr. jucAaVu.
Aiilumr. Blossoms.
How was It that I came to be an old
bachelor? Not because of hating wo
men, ! am sure, tor I liked them very
much, and never could have spoken to
one rudely or discourteously for my
life. As nearly as 1 know, it was iu
this wise:
My father died, leaving a family of
children, a wife, and an old father and
mother, of whom only myself was able
to earn a shilling, lie had never saved
anything.
So, after the first great grief, when we
hal calmed down and were able to look
matters quietly iu the face, there was a
wretched sort of prospect for us. I was
only an accountant, and had a young
fellow's habit of wasting my small sal
ary in a thousand different ways. 1 had
been "paying attention," too, to Elsie
Hall, who, young and childish as she
wa. bad a way that some girls do have
of leading their admirers into extrava
gance. Uf all the trials of that never-to-be-forgotten
time, I think the great
est was appearing niggardly in those
baby blue eyes, 1 did not mind wear
ing plain suit, discarding kid gloves
aud renouncing the opera; but uot to
lay those bouquets, and books, ami
music, and dainty bits of jewelry, and
multitudinous trifles at Elsie's feet, wss
a very terrible ordeal. 1 passed it,
though ; aud if ever man had reason to
be thanklul I had, for the acquisitive
little beauty jilted me in a month for
Tom Tandem, who was rich, ami lavish
of gifts, and who ran away from her
aXuer a marriage of teu tuou ihs.
I worked day and night, and managed
to keep the wolf from the door.
Sometime 1 used to think how well
it waa for Elsie that she bad not really
ing but a dismal prospect of wearing out
her youth in a dreary, hopeless engage
ment to one too poor to marry. That
was until Tom ran off. Then 1 thought
it would have beeu even better for her
t have shared our humble home and
poor fare and the love I could have
fiven her than to De deserted so. Ana
pitied her. as if she had not proven
herself heartless. But I never v.eut
near her, of course; and I never even
(poke of her to my mother.
1 grew no younger all this while, and
every year seemed to add five to my
looks. "l had never been very hand
some or very merry, and soon I became
conscious or a peculiar muiuie-ageu
look, which settles down upon some
people very early. '
Strangers, too, began to take toe for
the head of the family; and once, in a
new neighborhood, the butcher alluded
to "my wile." I found out that he
meant my mother, and only wondered
that it was uot dear old grannie.
She was eighty, grandfather ninety,
and they died one bright autumn day,
before prosperity came to us. died within
an hourot each'other for grannie just
said : "I think I'll lie down a bit, now
Lemuel don't need me. I'm very tired."
Then she kissed me, aud said:
"You've been a good boy to your
grandpa, Edward. You'll have that to
thins of." ' ' ' '
And when next we looked at her she
was dead, with her cheek upon her haud
like a sleeping child.
So two were gone, and we were sad
der than before. And then Jean, my
eldest sister, married at sixteen a phy
sician, who carried her off to UiudosUu
in her honeymoon.
And we could none of us feel the
wedding a happy thing.
But prosperity did come at last. I
had worked hard for it, and anything a
man makes bis sole object iu this lite he
is very sure to attain.
We were comfortable easy. Ah,
what a word that is after years of strug
gle! At last we were rich. But by
that time I was five-and-forty a large,
dark, middle-aired man, with a face thai
looked to myself iu the glass as though
it were perpetually intent on figures.
The girls were married. Dick had
taken to the sea, and we saw him once
a year or so, aud Ashion was at home
with mother aud myself the only
really handsome member of our family,
and just two-and-tweiity. And it was
on his birthday, I remember, that that
letter came to me from poor 11 u liter
the letter which began : "When these
line reach you, Neu Sanford, I shall
have my six feet of earth all I ever
owned or would if I had lived to be a
hundred."
We had been young together, though
he was really older than I ; and we had
been close frieuds once, but a roving tit
had seized him, aud we had not met for
years. I knew be had married a young
Kentish girl, aud knew uo mure; bui
now he told me that she was dead, an. I
that his death would leave a daughter
au orphan.
"She is not quite penniless," he
wrote; "for her mother had a little in
come, whit h, poor as I was, 1 was never
biuie enough to meddle with, and il has
descended to her. But 1 have been a
rolling stone, gathering nu moss, all my
life, and we never suid long enough
iu one place to make friends. Will you
be her guardian? it is a dying inau's
last request"
Aud then he wrote some words, com
ing from his heart, 1 kuew, which,
b-ing of myself, 1 cannot quote even
here 1 could uot think that 1 deserved
Uieiu.
And the result of that letter, and of
an her from the lawyer who had A mile
Hunter's little fortune in charge, was
that one aolt spring dny found uie on
board of a steamer which lay at rest
after her to v age in the protecting arms
of Liverpool, with two little bauds in
aloe, aud a pair of great brown eyes
lifted to toy face, and a sweet voice
Cboked with sobs saying something of
poor nana." and nfw ,.. v v..t
spoken of me, and of the lovely voyage,
aud the green graves left behind: and
i, who had gone to meet a child and
found a woman, looking at her and
feeling toward her as 1 had never looked
upon nor felt to any other. -
A WkJt wU tux. the
uu love uream come again.
Analysing the emotion. 1 found ml.
a great longing to i rotoct and com tort
iier io guard ner rrera everv pain and
ill ; aud 1 said to myself: "This is a a
father must feel to a daughter; lean be
a parent to George Hunter's child In
every truth." And 1 took her borne to
wo out tinuse and to my old mother,
thought only of those; somehow,
never thought of Ashton.
Shall 1 ever forget how she bright-
cumiwiuiiiare rooms I now, as tier
wine wore away, sue aang to us In
me iwuignti now strangely a some
thing which made the retu-u home, and
the long hiurs of the evening seem so
uiuun uriguu-r man mey nau ever been
before, .tote into my life! I never went
to sleep in church uow ; I kept awake to
look at Olive Hunter to listen to her
pure contralto as she joiued in the sing-
k. ooiiirumr, i nuxiii ner eye. ner
great unfathomable brown eye, for she
had a habit ol looking at roe. Was she
wondering how a face i-ould be ao stern
aud grim f 1 used to ask myself.
ash ion useu to look at her also, lie
had been away when she first came to
us, and when he returned she waa a
grand surprise to him.
"Oh, how lovely she is!" he had said
to me.
"She is verv pretty," I replied,
Ashton laughed.
"May 1 never be an eld bachelor If It
brings me to calling such a girl 'very
pretty," he said; and I felt conscious
that my cheek flushed, and I felt angry
that he should have spoken of me thus,
though I never cared before.
They' liked each other very much
those two young things. They were
together a great deal. A pretty picture
they made in the Venetian window in
the sunset. He a fair-head d. blue-
eyed, Saxon-looking youth : she so ex
quisitely iiark and glowing.
Every one liked her. Even my old
clerk, Stephen liadley, used to say her
presence lit the office more than a dozen
lamps, the nearest approach to a poetical
speech of which old Stephen was ever
known to be guilty ; and 1 never kuew
how much she was to me until one even
ing, when, coining home earlier than
usual, 1 saw iu that Venetian window
where Ashton and Olive had made ao
many pleasant pictures for me, one that
1 never forgot that I never shall forget
as long as 1 live.
She stood with her back to me. Ash
ton was kneeling at her teet. The sound
of the opening door dissolved the pic
ture; but 1 had Beeu it, aud 1 stole away
to hide the sub that it bad given me.
I s it down in my own room and bid
my fat in mr bauds, aud mould have
oeeu giau to uiue il. oeueaui my corau-
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Hunter: that I loved her not as an old
man might love a child, but as a young
man might love the woman who ought
to lie his wile belter than I had loved
Elsie Hall ; lor it was not boyub. pas
sion, but earnest, bearttelt love.
I in love! I arose aud looked in the
mirror, and my bruati-stioultiered re tlec
springtime of my life had flown, and
my summer had come and gone, and in
the autumn 1 had dreamt or love's bud
aud blossom.
1 knelt beside my bed and prayed that
I might not hate my brother that I
might not even envy him. His touch
upon my door startled me. He came in
with something in his manner not usual
to him, and sat down opposite me. For
a few momeits we were silent. Then
he said, speaking rapidly and blushing
like a girl: "Ned, eld fellow, you
you saw me making a fool of myself
just now, l suppose r
"I saw you on your knees' I said.
"And thought me a silly fellow, eh?
But you don't know, Ned. You can't
understand you've been so calm and
cool all your'life through, you know.
She's driving me mad. Ned, I do be
lieve she likes me, but she won't say
yes. I'd give my right hand for her
love. I nxt have i and I think y
can help me, Ned. From something
she Mid. I believe she thinks you would
disaiiurove; perhaps you are one of
those old fellows who want every one
to marry for money. Tell her you're
not. Ned dear old fellow tell her
you have no objection, and I'll never
lorget it indeed. 1 wou't!"
"Tell her I have uo objection," I re
peated, mechanically.
"You know you are master here, and
as much my father as if you really were
one instead" of a brother," said Ashton.
"If I did not kuow how kindly you had
always felt to us both, I shouldn't con
fide iu you, for it's a serious thing to be
in love, Ned, and you may thank
Ueavtn you kuow nothing about it."
Know nothing almut it- Ah, if he
could have read my bes.t just then!
"I'll do what I can, Ashton," I said
at last. "I'll try my best."
And he flung his arm about me In his
own boyish rashion, and left me alone
alone with my own thoughts.
He had said truly; I had been like a
father to him. I was old enough to be
hers, and no one should know my silly
dream. I wouM hide it while T lived.
As 1 had said once: "I've oulv the old
folks and the children uow." I said
then; "1 will only think of mother and
ofAshtou. Let mv own life be as noth
ing; I have lived for them if ueeds be,
1 will die for them."
But 1 would not see or speak to Olive
that nliflit, nor until the next day was
quite done. Then, in the twilight, I sat
beside her and took ner hand.
"Olive," 1 said, "1 think you know
that Ashton loves you. 1 am sure he
has told you so. Aud you can you not
love him ?"
She drew her hand from mine, and
said not one word.
"I should rejoice In my brotl.er's
happiness. I should think blm hsppicr
in having your love than anything else
could make him. I told him I would
tell you so."
And then she spoke.
"You wish me to marry Ashton?"
Reproach was in the tone reproach
and sorrow."
"If you can love him, Olive," I said.
She arose. She seemed to shrink
from me, though iu the dark 1 could uot
see her face.
"1 do uot love him," she said.
And we were still as death Then
suddenly Olive Hunter began to sob.
"You have beeu very kind to me. I
love you all," she said ; "but I cannot
stay here now, l'lease to let me go
some w here else. 1 ni ust I can uot li ve
here."
"Go from us, Olive?" I said. "Xay,
we are not tyrants; and ouce assured
you do not love him, Asbton will"
"Hush!" she pleaded "hush! Please
let me go away! Please let me go
away !"
The moon was rising. Her new-born
light fell upon Ol.ve's face. Perhaps it
whiteness made her look pale.
She leaned against the wall with her
little haud upon her heart, her unfath
omable eves full of pain. How had 1
hurt her so? A new tbougut struck me.
"Perhaps you lore some ewe else,
OUre?"
And at that she turned her face from
me, and hid it in her hands.
"Too much too much. Ton might
have aaved me that." sne said. "Let
me go away. I wish you had ue
brought me here." ..-
And I arose and went to her. I bent
r Jt osti liars. Xeclnither
with my hand; her soft hair brushed
my cheek.
"Olive." I said, "if coming here has
orougntpain upon you, I wish I had
not. I would have died to make you
happy."
Aud my voice trembled, and mv hand
shook, and she turned her face towards
me again and looked Into my eyes.
What ahe saw in mine I do not know
the truth. I think. In hers 1 read this
I was not old to her; not too old to be
loted.
-1 stole my arm about her. she did not
uiitwineit, I uttered her name, "Olive.
huskily. Afterwards I told her of my
struggle with myself, not then. I said :
"Olive, I love you, but it cannot be that
you care for me. I am old euough to
oe your lamer."
And again I saw In her eyes the happy
truth and took her to my heart.
But we kept our secret tor a while,
for we both loved Ashton, and both
knew that this wound was not too deep
to nnu a oaim ; and within a year, when
the boy brought home a bride, a pretty
creature whom he loved, and who loved
htm, I claimed Olive.
And she is mine uow; and the autumn
blossoms of my heart will only fade ou
earth to bloom agaiu through all eternity
iu parsuise.
re.
To those unhappy American women
who. when they visit their shoemaker.
are obliged to call, though In faint, mor
ticed loues, for os or os, letter C. . Mr.
Burroughs, author of "Winter-Sun
shine," admlnsters generous comfort.
Ue says. In commenting upon our na
tional vanity in "a small, trim toot, well
booted or gaitcred," that "a truly large
and royal nature is never stunted in the
extremities; a little foot never suppor
ted a great character." He also adds:
It Is said that Lnielishmeu. when thev
flist come to this country, are tor some
time uuJcr the impression that Ameri
can women all have deformed feet, they
are so coy of them, aud so studiously
careful to keep them hid."
Again, while discussing, In the same
connection, on the pleasure and
benefits of walking, Mr. Bu trough re
marks:
When you see an English country
church withdrawn, secluded, out of the
revel of wheels, standing amid grassy
graves, aud surrounded by noble trees,
approached by paths and shaded lanes,
you appreciate more than ever thia beau
tiful habit of the iieople. Only a race
who know how to use their feet, and
holds foot-imths sacred, could put such
a charm of privacy and humility into
such a structure. I think 1 should be
tempted to go to church myself it I saw
. my Meikhbors starting off .cross th
iielils or long
paths that led t such
charmed siiot. and was sure that I
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rival chariots of the worshippers at the
temple doors. I think this is what ails
our religion; humility ami devoted ness
of heart leave oue when he lays off his
walking ahoes ami walking clothes aud
sets out for church drawn bv aotue
thing. lutieed, I think K would be tanta
mount to an astonishing revival of re
ligion if the people would all walk to
church on Sunday and walk home
again. Think how the stones would
preach to them by the wayside; bow
their humbled minds would warm up
beneath the friction of the gravel ; how
their vain and foolish thoughts, their
desponding thoughts, their besetting
demons of one kind and-another, would
drop behind them, unable to keep up or
to endure the rresh air. 1 bey would
walk away from their ennui, their
wordly cares, their uncharitableness.
their pride of dress; for these devils al
ways want to ride, while the simple vir
tues are never so happy as when on foot.
Let us wslk by all means; but, if we
will ride, get an ass.
Jefferson, of all our early statesmen,
was the most efficient master ol the
pen, aud the most "advanced' political
thinker. Iu one sense, as the authorof
the Declaration of Independence, he
may be called the greatest, or at least,
the most generally known, cf Ameri
can authors. But in his private cor
respondence his literary talent is most
displayed, for by bis letters he built up
a party which ruled the United States
tor nearly half a century, and which
was. perhaps, only overturned because
its opponents cited the best portions of
Jefferson's writings against conclusions
derived from the worst. In executive
capacity he was relatively weak ; but
his mistakes in policy and his feeble
uess in administration, which would
have ruined an ordiuary statesman at
the head of so turbulent a combination
of Irascible individuals a the Demo
cratic party of the United Mates, were
all condoned by those minor leaders of
faction who, yielding to the magic per
suasiveness of his pen, assured their
followers that the great man could do
uo wrong. Read iu connection with
the event of his time, Jefferson's writ
ings must be considered of permameut
vslue and interest. As a political leader
he was literally a mau of letters; and
his letters are masterpieces, if viewed
as illustrations or the arts by which po
litical leadership may be attained. In
his private correspondence he was a
model of urbanity aud geniality. The
whole impression derived from his
works is that he was a better mau than
bis enemies would admit him to be, aud
not so great a man as his partisans de
clared him to be.
Tate Toasts; Cew Bile's rrleadL
At the best,love is fatal to friendship;
the most that friendship can do is to
listen to love's talk of itself and be the
confidant of its rapturous joys, iu
transports 01 despsir. The lover fan
cies himself all the fonder of his friend
because of his paasiou for his mistress,
but in reality he has no longer any
need of the old comrade. They cannot
talk sanely and frankly any more;
there is something uow thst they can
not share ; even if the lover desired to
mantain tlie old affectionate relation,
the mistress could not suffer it- The
spectre of friendship is sometimes in
vited to haunt the borne of the lovers
after marriage; but when their bappi
ness lias been flaunted iu its face, wiien
it has been shown the new house, the
new china, -the new carpets, the new
garden. It is tidily exorcised, and is
uot always called back again except to
be showu tne new bah v. The young
spouses are ever so willing to have the
poor gnost remain; Ihe wife learns
whether It takes two or three lumps of
sugar iu its tea; the husband bids it
smoke anywhere it likes, and the wire
smiles a menacing acquiescence; but
all the same ibey turn it out-of-doors.
They praise it when It is gone, and they
feel so much more comfortable to be
alone. IK. D. UutetW Prisatc Theatri
cal fa AUaktie.
Wendell Philips nominates Grant
for a third Una, and Fred. Douglas for
the Vice Presidency.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA -
IeUclB la
1
Ebers. the German archaeologist, 1
made an interesting discovery of w
is said to be a portion of one efthe.
Hermetic books of medtotu. X..1wr
all attempt to trave UMor"' -
pated Hermetic writing Y . . r i , (
It has been assumed that the great
"Hermes" was a mythological person
age invented by the earlier alchemists
to credit the acquired knowledge with
the authority of antiquity. The manu
script, wheu thorougly deciphered, mar
P DAM I,. JIM iTl . .LA..Kf.Bl ! n
but, eveu if it fails to do so, the lacl thai
a fragment of the lost leaniiiijr of the
Egyptians has been recovered Is a mat
ter otscieiitino Interest.'- Ihe manu
script was discovered among the bo tin
of a mummy some years ago by an Arab,
aiiu ou his deatn It was ottered to lrr.
Ebers, who eventually purchased it at
a considerable price. It consist of a
single sheet papyrus, about aixtv feet
iu length,, aud the characters are la
red and black iuk. - Judging from tit)
characters, the date or me manuscript
may be placed about 1.500 year B. C.
making il over 3,300 years old ; and, 1(1
wnneu in me earner part ot ine ceutu
ly, it would have been contemporane
ous with the period of Moses' resilience
a the Court or Pharaoh. O.ily a por
tion of the document has at present been
translated by Ebers, iucludiug some of
tne headings or the various chapters,
such a "the secret book of the physi
cians." "the science of the beating of
the heart," ' the knowledire of the heart
as taught by the priest-pnyslclan Keb
sceht," "medicines for atleviaiiuit ac
cumulation of urine aud of the abdo
men." There is every reason to sup
pose that the Egyptians attained a blirh
degree of scieuulic knowledge at a very
early period of their history. At the
present day It is sii.l called, we believe.
by the Copts the Laud of Kend. Lindas
has suggested that a know
art was introduced into Eu1
Argouats, ho sailed to Cole li is to carrv
off the Golden Fleece. The Colehlaua,
according to Herodotus, were an Egyp
tian colouy, and Lindas supposes the
Goldeu Fleece to hsve been s book writ
ten ou sheepskin, teaching the method
of making gold by the chemical art.
l lie date or the Argouautic expeditiob
was. according to most chronograuhers.
1250 B. C. or 300 vear later than the
supposeed date of Kbera' manuscript. It
Is to be hoped that future researches
may bring to light f urther evideuce of
tne cienunc history or the past, aud to
i. . . - . i j
8t"u,e ine dteKn
civilization and flfTiHiiitfii attainment
re Belied by the early races of mankind.
Londtm Lancrt.
M)tsetr attMM Be Evirated.
The care of children's health during
the school period devolves mainly upon
the mother, and it makes an iiumense
difference iu the success of the wlnxij
nei ner I lie cuiiiiren come in tne eiorii-1
ing Inula and fiesh from the long
man' irr. tut- uiti: ihiik am ami lira
simple oiesatssr, eaten lei-urriy ana
ith the t-niovment that seen res gtntd
digestion; or wbetlHr tin- child is a I-
waya allow, d to sit np late for exciting
P'TJ JTfc2,i0 ""!.
, !J '?.". J&:X
and rats its lHekfat
should le lite
tor schiMil.aud arrives there with jaded
body and mind to undertake, tasks
which ate U itle for Ms healthier cum-!
raile. while he or she breaks down ni-
krr thea. tn asUI Mihwotlie liwfa)
list ol invalids accredited to the public '
school system, l o accomplish even to tne arenas apfeaodrfes. being pa rt ten
th U simple home duty tnwvda the . Inrized by zoologist as aptenodyte
great nati.-mal work of public tduca
tioo, a woman needs more than merely
mot holly love and good intention. She
needs educated intelligence herself and
a careful preparation for the work.
She must have an aquaintance with
school life, aa well as home life, aud a
kno le Ige of their mutual relations.
It is oiten lamented that the female
teachers in our punlic schools change
so often because they leaveacliooltobe
married. We believe that tins is tar
from being an unmixed evil, but that
on the contrary this fresh young ele
ment has its valne in the schools, if it
worka under competent direction aud
supervision, and whatever evil arises
is more than compensated by the
know ledge of the schools which is thus
gained by the future mothets of the
community, who can exercise so power
ful an iutiuencr nrjoo education. Even
the physical inheritance of children is
inipioved by the t-ducaliou of the mo
ther, and her three years of teaching
are often the most valuable pieparaio
ry years of her lite. Au Euglisli wri
ter on statistics shows that 24 87 per
cent, of the children of the illiterate
mothers die in the first year, while on
ly 14 65 of the cliildreu of mothers hav
iiig some ed ileal ion die dariuglhe same
period. In considering these numbers
we must allow for the fact that the il
literate class includes the pauper class
who actually suffer from physical want,
still the large ditterenceof ten percent,
is very suggestive.
. "ArtlMIe" MeBtaea.
Ths curious chaos and confusion into
which the age is plunged in respect to
all the principles of the arts of orna
mentation, anil its incapacity either to
originate anything, or even to see the
necessity or working 1th lis own ma
tc rials for its owu uses, instead of mak
ing clumsy adaptations of things out of
date, which were made for habits en
tirely different, is nowhere better ex
emplified than iu those last new modes
of furnishing which hurry the ignorant
from auction to auction lit search or the
novelties of the old-fashioned. The
amount of absolute falsity involved,
the uewlr-fabricated old china, wilh
all its marks and evidences more con
vincing than reality, aud the newly-made-up
old furuiture, sticky with glue
and Varnish, Is almost less offensive
than the fundamental fictitiousuess of
the attempt to make a room of Queeu
Victoria's time look like a room of
Queeu Anne's, if not heaven save the
mark of Queen Elizabeth's. The ages in
which art has reached its highest have
always been those In which she hss
worked with the materials nearest to
her hand, and in order to supply the
natural requirements of existing lite,
with uothiug more than a just respect
for the past, but no servility of defer
ence to its example or over regard for
tradition. But the very idea of any.
thing go d or original to be produced
among ourselves ceases to be enter
tained by thi superior classes. Our
rooms are becoming museums, aud
Wardour street is a sort of Mecca to
which the devout continually turn
their faces. The man who sets forth
innocently to pay a round of visits to
haif a dozeu recently married friends
may calculate on a sweeping gi.o across
two or three centuries, through medieval
Germany and flowery Kenaissaiice
r ranee, with a flight into the East, all
iu the course of au afternoon. In one
house old oak will frown on him from
every side; in another delicate mar
quetry will thrust its curved legs In bis
way; In another he will have a Chip
pendale chair to sit down iu, and a tiled
fireplace to contemplate, and will uot
be able to move without brushing up
against some collection of cracked lea-
puts or array of old plates against the
wall; while, last of all perhans. he will
reach a drawiug-room decorated like an
rtasteru tent, with Arab rugs ou l be
floor, and cool mattings aud sea-green
draperies to keen out the lbrht of a
Aovemoer uav eacn one or them being .
v. . . : " . .
a bra and token of the absolute uncer-1
.OUI. PEIWA., MARCH 8. 1876.
loral aUa as t? what
" as t raibM or Its
i T li 1 are the safe
- or other,
' 'f (tsnlf
r par -
. , st
iM M MievM W M f for those who
can afford the luxury) the ambition of
furnishing a house in some altogether!
astheticaT and exquisite way, with
iterfectlon which no one has attained
before. Jfovelty, indeed, is very rarely
at'ained, or if attained lasts but a very
shurt time, so eager are the next batch
of neophytes to emulate and excel their
predecessors But oddity aud Inappro-
prtatenesa are easily attained: aud as
houses unfortunately cannot be ordered
In character, the contrast of the four
square London Victorian walls, looking
down cynically and sturdily upoii the
outlandish garnishing to which they
are subject, gives a point to the joke
which nothing can surpass. And i; is
worth noticing that these elaborate and
painful attempts to make the domestic
circle "artistic," seem to be gradually
pushing out altogether from tie decora
tion of the English house the higher
developments of art. , Old plates which
one time in a hundred may be worth
preserving In a collection, and perhaps
one time In a dosen (which is liberal)
might be an ornament to the dinner-
table, are uow strung up upon the walls
where pictures once hung; or what is
still worse than plates, gaudy Japanese
tans made for the cheap use or celestial
peasants, but which English ladies and
gentlemen arrange with simple pride
upon their walls, and look upon with a
deitgntrui modest consciousness of su
perior taste. ' If. Derhaus. those flimsy
decorations take the place here aud
there of the staring portraits wilh which
we were once familiar, there Is a cer
tain compensation iu them ; but surely
rrrT.r. a pietty watei-cotor drawing or a good
,tHS. S!fP- higher and more refined kind
ope By the dr!Con,,r, M w r.. -Iul din
ner plab-s? We have nothing to say
against a dainty glimmer of pretty old
china in a comer, or the use of s Japan
ese fan when it may happeu to serve a
purpose, and give a quaint nttie touch
or color to a wall ea attendant the mo
ment wheu it may shield a lady's face
from the fire, or even hide her yawn in
a dull interview, or help a pleasaut
flirtation. Such legitimate and reason
able uses give a sanction to anything;
but "the artistic feeling" which sub
stitutes this kind of foolish ornament
i ior picture i sureiy auiiiiinif out an
Improvement upon the old traditions of
1 . . . '
for pictures is surely au thing but an
denotation. Photographs are the only
pictures popular iu such aesthetic house
holds, and particularly those dubiously
successful ones which are "taken direct"
from laiuous pictures; and ate, there-
fore, with curious matter-of-fact coin-
placency. assumed to be more "true'
, U an any other rendering just as some
unhappy critics will assert in face of
reason that a horrible black libel on a
lovely face "must be like, you kuow"
as it is done by the suu himself.
The rajs)la rasBllv.
The penguins are a fa ail y of web-
looted buds, with very imperfectly
developed wings; they are. found la
InHwnu Rnm n .hinitH tht nirb
ouaaia of the Southern Pacific Ocean.
and oa the shore) of the Cape of Good
lluiw. Thg kiua; ponTuin la of the)
bet known nf ihe species; it he lours
Ptnnantii. The bill is sleuder and
curved at the noiote, which are acute :
and the wings are very small, resemb
ling fius in appearance, and having no
quill ieatners or piames; they are
therefore unfit for purposes of flight.
Indeed, it would appear that this sin
gular tribe is entirely nfitled for tra
velling through the air, as the hones
have uo air chambers, are filled with
marrow, and are very heavy. The feet
are very far back, and the posterior
snrtace loaches the ground as the bird
walks.
Great numbers of these birds were
found in Kergaelen's Island, a rocky
island in the Indian Ocean, by the ex
pedition which travelled thither to ob
serve the transit of Venos, which took
place on December 9. 1874. At a dis
lane thev aDoear as white stationary
bodies; bnt on approaching, they are
seen to be wsddliug along with an in
describably ludicroas ait, which is
made still more absurd by the turned
beads, as the birds look back distrust
fully at their pursuers. As the body
sways from side to side, the bird looks
like an animated mat with empty,
swinging sleeves. When attacked at
close quarters, the penguins will nse
tneir beaks with eomuiieranie effect;
but their sense of helplessness is strong,
si d they soon take tw running away.
Being clumsy and slow in walking, they
frequently fall on their breasts, and
move their wings (aa if they were in
the water like fins. When congrega
ted in numbers, they will nuite to resist
an attack, and will form a close pha
lanx. They are frequently killed for
the sake of their skius, which are cov
eted on -the breast with flue, close
feathers of rental kahle Boftuesa. and
are used, in place of fara, tor wearing
appaiei. They are generally slaugh
tered by being knocked on the head
with a club; but sometimes they are
taken alive with a lasso thrown over
the head. If they can reach the water,
they can usually elude the pursuer, as
they swim and dive with astonishing
rapidity, remaining under water tor
some time and leappeariug at arou
sideiable distance from the place of
first immersion.
The king penguin, the largest of the
species, has au orange tiuU-d breast,
which becomes wuite near the abdo
men. The back is gray ish black, and
the front aud back are separated by a
sharply definitive line of a steel gray
color. They stand about 3 feet 9 inches
high, and their plumpness gives them
considerable weight. Their diet cau
ses the flesh to tie rank and fishy, but
it is eaten by the natives of some coun
tries. OsSetal WaaAher S gaa.
In response to a circular sent to all
Ihe station observers by the chief sig
nal officer, asking for the signs preced
ing storms. Signal Service Observer
Dumout has recently sent to Washing
ton a report for his locality, based upon
his own observations, aud the weather
notes which Msjor Ingersoll has kept
for several years, and Foreman Alliu's
record. After detailing the action of
the instruments before storms, the re
port gives the weather signs by which
the approach of a storm Is heralded.
and these by the way, are considered
more reliable than the instrumental
signs. Old weather prophets will be
interested in comparing these rules
with the maxims which they have
drawn from their own obsetvations.
We anpend the signs:
1. As a rule if the wind touches north
east or east for two or three days, it is a
sure indication of rain.
S. Dense smoke and hate In early
morning portend falling weather.
3. Summer showers of light charac
ter often follow two or three days of
suioke or haze.
4. Fog, frost, and dew precede rain
twenty-four to forty-eight hours, ex
cept fog at the close of storms.
a. Wind veering from north or west
to south and southeast precede falling
.
wsatner
t. Hslos, lunar and solar, also fairly
Is defined and brilliant auroras, preced
. rata twenty-lour to sixty hoars.
7. Barometer rising or tailing con
slderably- away from its means, fore-
codes railing weather, subject to modi-
., fylT Influences of too- neighboring
ra ot mountains ana hiluu
i : Prwstpuatloti generally follows
rapid Influx or reflux of atmosphere,
9. If wind is iu the southwest and
a rain sets in, the rsln is of short dura
tion and light yield.
10. Banks of water clouds or heavy
naze on the south and southeastern bori
son indicate rain.
II. An area of low barometer at or
near Fort Monroe and running up the
coast surely reaches here as a north'
easter. .
Tfte Jai
a IM Ceatasistlal.
Few persons know, and still less ap
preciate, tlie resource of Jpan. fcver
si ute the famous Perry expedition ami
the subsequent opening of some portions
or the country to "foreigners," the land
has been almost a myth to the civilized
word. Even encyclopedias of a recent
aate lau to give the products or the
country. Thanks to the Centennial
Exhibition we are about to increase
our knowledge of the capabilities of this
peculiar people. Iu mechanism espe
cially we are learning something, by an
inspection ot tne nuiiiiing now in the
course of erection Uon the Centennial
grounds. No cabinet work by the
most expert joiner hss ever excelled
the structure which Is now going up
under the exclusive control of Japanese
mechanics. Their tools excite derision
iu some quarters, but that they are ef
fective is shown by the character and
finish or the work. Outside of this the
general exhibitors will reveal some of
the wonders of Japan. No less than
ninety contributors have already entered
their goods, and these embrace articles
which will cause amazement to our
people.
In agricultural products there will be
displays of plums, peaches, quinces,
pears, spricots, persimmons and all the
other delicate fruit of which we thought
we had a monopoly. In minerals the
display will be especially noticeable,
and will iuclude specimens of iron,
lead, silver, coal,steel. plumbago, bleml ;
and in chemicals, copperas, vitriol, su
phur, ami, indeed, all the articles
known to our owu laboratories. Textile
fabrics will make a flue show. Silk,
cotton aud woollen goods are among the
alleles. Ol course there is an ex?cta
tion of seeing specimens of Japanese
wood work, especially the wll known
lacquered ware. There wilt bt no dis
appointment iu this direction. Nearly
every exhibitor aud the ninety re
present nearly every province in Japan
sends bamboo work, writing desks.
vases, trays, bowls, glove boxes and
vessels for holding sweetmeats. Incense
cups are also largely represented.
Iu bronze ware there will be several
braziers for "warming hands,' together
wit n vases, travs ami other articles.
Strange as it may sound, there will
even be an exhibit of beer glasses. This
win ne supplemental ny china ware.
wicker work, all in the form of domestic
articles. Paper and straw work will
also form oue of their exhibit, and al
togvtlier, arglauce at tlie ninety invoices.
indicate that a greatsurprUe is iu store
for those who may be fortunate enough
to witness the goods wheu exhibited.
aacet SiaXIMtea.
In 17S2 the caterpillars of the brown
tail moth were so numerous as to defo
liate the trees of a very large part of
the South of England. The alarm was
so great that public prayers were offered
In the churches that the calamity might
be stayed. The poor were paid oue
shilling per bushel for collecting cater
pillars' webs to be burned under the in
spection of the overseer of the parish ;
aud four score bushels were collected
daily in some parishes. But on the
other hand, the benefits derived from
the labor of some insects should not be
overlooked ; some species feed ouly on J
noxious weeds, and others prey on still
more noxious insects. One of tlie great
est friends of the agriculturist is the
family of the ichneumon flies, which
lay their eggs iu the bodies of living
caterpillars, in which they are hatched,
thus destroying them; although the
caterpillar, after beiiig,"ichneumoned"
has still a voracious appetite. The ca.-
erpillars which teed on Ihe cabbage eat
twice their weight iu a day ; the larvie
of some of the tiesh flies eat a much
much larger proportion than this. The
productive powers or Insects vsry very
much. Some lay only two egg; others
such as the white ant, 40,000,ou0, laying
them at the rate of sixty a minute. The
queen of the beehive is capable of lay-
ng bo.io lu a season : the female waso
30,000. - The majority of insects how
ever, lay but one hundred; in general.
the larger the insect, the fewer eggs It
lays. Most inserts have two genera
tions in a year; some have twenty;
others lake seven years from the time
the egg is laid until their death in a
perfect state. But probably not above
five per cent of the eggs laid become
iterfect Insects. Our insectivorous birds
are diligent in destroying the larvae of
Insects, but they will not do all that is
required ; hard labor, b also needed.
London Timet..
Colllaleasof aw a d a tar.
When we duly take all these things
iuto the accout, the case of our solar
system will appear as ouly one of a
thousand cases or evolution and disso
lution with which the heavens furnish
us. Other stars, like our suu. have un
doubtedly started as vaKrous masses,
aud have thrown off planets in contract
ing. The Inference may seem a bold
one, but it alter all involves no other
assumption than that of the continuity
of natural phenomena. It is not likely
therefore that the solar system will for
ever be left to Itself. Stars which
strongly gravitate toward each other,
while moving through the perennially
resisting met'ium, must in time be
drawn together. The collision of our
extinct suu with one of the Pleiades,
after this manner, would very likely
suffice to generate even a grander neb
ula than the oue with which we started.
Possibly the entire galactic system may,
in an inconceivably remote fature, re
model Itself in this way; and possibly
the nebula from which our own group
of planets has been formed may have
owed its origin to the disintregation of
systems which had accomplished their
career in the depths of the bygone eter
nity. Atlantic.
A Heat ladta Harrfeaae.
In the vear 1866, occurred the most
terrible Hurricane experienced in the
t est India Islands, during the present
centurv.
The ocean rolled completely over Hog
Island Iuto the harbor of Na-sau, iu
surges so enormous, that the crest was
even with the gallery of the lighthouse,
sixty feet above the sea.
Houses aud forests went down before
the wind like reeds; many which with
stood it force when it blew from north
east collapsed wheu it shifted to south
west. Iu twenty-tour hours the city
was like a town sacked and burned by
the enemy, and a large part of the
wealth accumulated during the war
had disappeared Into thin air. The
islands hare never entirely recovered
from the blow.
Tl- H.-rr. Tm Km mm wait,
In g in the bank for their tan to go out
into the world. Oa was a little bill,
only ooe dollar t the either
waa a
bill, a tbnoaajMl dollar bilL
V, .e Isvm there sUe by skia, they
ten a raising aimai weir nseuinn
. ii ,. V . . i i 1
The dollar bill marmured oat
"Ah ! if I were as big as you. what
good I won Id do ! 1 could move in each
high Dlac. and Deoole would be so
careful of me. wherever I should go !
Everybody would admire me. and want
to take mo home with tb-m: but.
mall as I am, what good can I do f
Nobody cares much for me. lam too
little to lie nf any use."
"Ah. res! that is so." said the thnn-
sand dollar bill i and it gathered np its
well ti immeji edge that waa lying next
the little bill iu conscious superiority,
Tlmt n in It iMvuitinL "If ran war
as great as I am. a thousand times big-
a-er than vou. then voa might hone to
do some good in the world." and its!
face smiled a wnnkle of contempt fori
the little dollar bill.
Just then the cashier comes, takes!
the little mm muring bilL aud kindly
gives it to a poor widow.
"God bless you !" she cries, as with
a smiling face she receives it. "My
dear hongrv children can now have
some bread.
A thrill of jov ran through the little
bill as it was folded np in the widow's
band, and it wbi-Dered. "I mar do
some giMtd; if I am small. And when
it saw tba bright faces of her father
less children, it was very glad that it
could do a little good
Then the little dollar bill began its
journey t usefulness. It went first to
tlie baker's fur bread, then to the mil
ler s, then to the farmer a, then to the
laborers, then to tbeMoctors, then to
the minister's, and wherever it went it
gave pleasure, adding something to
their com fort and ioy.
At last, after a long, long nflgi image
oi nsetniness among every sort ol peo
ple, it came back to tne bank again.
crumpled, defaced, ragged, softened bv
its daily use. Seeing the thousand dol
lar bill lying there, with scarcely
wrinkle or hnger-maik nponit.it ex
claims:
Pi ay. sir. and what has been your
mission ot usefulness! '
The big bill replies: I have been
from safe to safe among the rich, where
few could see, and they were afraid to
et me go out far lest I should be lost.
Few indeed are they whom I have
made happier by my mission."
Then the little dollar bill said : It is
better to be small and go among the
multitude doing good, than to be so
great as to be imprisoned in the safes
of the few." And it rested satisfied
with its lot,
The Chine Hew- year. It is not the
first day ot January, nor January at
II. but (be sii'h day of churv that
ushers in tne Chinese New-Year. The
grandest festival iu all thecalendir;
so think the Celestitls; and thev cele
brate it with the most imposing cere
monies. Not a man. waituan or child
that does uot take part in its festivi
ties ; Neither the lufaut of days nor the
man of a century, the millionaire nr
the beggar noue may be excused from
donning his beat, aud going out holi-
ilayiug on ev tear, .from the bin-
Peiiir in bis gorgeous palace, surroun
ded with pomp and luxury, down to his
uwHioMMw ewojufc. -iivioa; u vwanng
hi family perhaps in a boat, where
kitcheu. laundiy. uarsery and bedroom
an an encompassed wnbin the narrow
limits of a space of about twelve feet
square e very ooe .according to his rank
and ability, euters with heart and band
into thev festivities of the season. All
business is suspended, and for three I
days at least, mirth, jollity and feast-
lug role the realm, while some of the
wealthy keep up. for a much longer
time, the routine of gaveties. All who
ran possibly procure it don on New-
l ear's Morn an entire new suit, no ar
icle of which has ever been worn be
fore ; but even the poor are sure to be
arrayed in at least oue new garment a
cheap bat, fan or handkerchief, if no
thing more costly can be afforded. St.
JMckoku.
J$ much Alike a Antexn A Hill. I
dou't kuow what the I idv was talking I
about. I merely heard the above re- I
mark as she was pa-sing through my
wood. Ila! ha! thought I to myself,
why, there is as much difference be
tween ants as between people ! I'll tell
yon bow I know it : The little school
ma'am has a turn for experiments, aod
I've seen l er make one or two ou this
very point. One day she picked np
several ants from one ant-hill aod car
ried them to another ant-hill, where
there appeared to be thousands of in
habitants all looking just like the new
comers. But it seems the an U could
see the difference, for the unfortunate
strangers were recognized as intruders
and were ios'antly set upon and killed.
Another time the little lady took
some ants fiom a large hill, and shut
them up in a l-ottle with some very ill
smelling stuff called Ksafti'tida. The
next day she n turned, bringing the
bottle with the imprisoned ants. Of
course the poor things smelled very
stmogly of the asiftrrida, and tbeii
nearest relations could hardlv he
blamed for refusing to know them. So
i felt nnilM friirhrened for their aaku
when the scool ma'am returned them to 1
iheir home. But uo. Though they
were at brat threatened by their fel
lows, they were soon recognized aud
allowed to p iss. "Blood" w ts stronger
than asalietiua. bt. a tcholat.
Watehino Oae's Self. "When I was a
nov," said ao oto mau, we nad a
schoolmaster who h til an odd way of
catt-hiug the bovs idle. One dav be
called out to us:'Biys, I most have
closer attention t-t yonr b -oka. The
nrst one tnat sees another idle I waut
you to inform me.'
"Ah.' I thought to mvself. 'there is
Joe Simmons, that I don't like. Ill
watch In n, and if I see him look off his
books, I'll tell.'
"It was not long before I saw Joe
look off his booK, and immediately 1
informed the m utter."
"Indeed.' snid he, 'how did you know
be was idle P
" l saw him,' said I."
"'You did! nd were yonr eves on
yonr book when yon saw Lim T
"l was caught, and 1 never watched
for idle boys again."
If we are sufficiently watchful over
oar own conduct we shall have no time
to hnd fault with the conduct of
others.
Little Bob begged bard, when some
friends were dining with us, to be al
lowed to come to the table daring des
sert, which I told him he might do,
provided he neither talked nor annoved
people bv askiug fur fruit. He readilv
agreed to the conditions, which be
honestly fulfilled to the letter. At last
I heard the Dour little fellow errinir
and sobbing most, nitifullr. "What is
tne matter, ttobt ' 1 asked, "Why, pa."
ne replied, n-re l am. asking for no
thing, aud getting it."
We are born in hope; we pass our
childhood In hope; we are governed by
nope turoiign me wnoie course or our
lives; and iu our last moments hope is
fiattering to us, and uot till the beating
of the heart shall cease will lu benign
influence leave us.
When spring unlocks the flowers It
paints the laughing solL J5r6rr.
NO. 10.
IXW8 a BSSF
i
I Mount Helena, CaL is snow covered
I for the first time iu two year.
btgt St. Louis ha 4 a dime leceure course
the tickets to which, are. twenty cents
Ninety million postal cards have
been sold by the government since the
30th of June last.
There are 21.799 Granger lodges in
the United States, with a membership
ot aoout i.ouv.wu.
The mackerel catch of Massachu
setts Sure last year was 130,014 barrels,
against zaovssu in tori.
The President signed the Centen-
n"" bill with a quill made from the
wing of an American eagle.
There are upwards of 500 florists In
v, Vork and vi. tnit .i.k ...
I . , . ... iV.
-
l tne rennsylvama coal comnanv
has not suspended miuing operations.
but will continue workou tbree-ouarter
time.
The Hudson River has this winter
yielded not over 100,000 tons of ice.
where the average crop should be two
million tons.
Owing to the tardy collection of
taxes, the payment of interest on South
Carolina Mate bonds and stocks is post
poned until April 1-t.
Somebody has stolen from the New
York Metropolian Museum of Art. an
old flint-lock pistol, a Spauish relic of
the eighteenth century.
The Minnesota Republican State
Convention to elect delegates to the
national uonveution at Cincinnati has
been called to meet on May 34.
The boot and shoe factories of San
Francisco produced last year goods
valued at $1,800,000. aud the Unneries
produced leather valued at $1,000,000.
The public charitable institutions
of Chicago are supplied with bread at
$3.20 per 100 pounds and meat at 6 cents
a pound, and paupers are buried at the
price or $i.4l each.
George B McClellan. Ambrose E-
Burnside and Fits Hugh Lee will be
the field officers of the New England
Middle and Southern battalions of the
Centennial Legion.
A writer in a Denver. Col., news-
per complains that the grave of Kit
Carson, the noted scout, who died in
southern Colorado in IS6S is uu marked
and almost unknown.
Sodom and Gomorrah are the names
of two promising settlements in the
uortnern part of Clare co'iutv. Wis..
and you can't scare 'em by recalling
Bible Incidents either.
The Idaho Avalanche asserts that
within a circuit of 5 miles around Silver
City, money enough might be extracted
from the bowels of ihe earth to pay off
the national debt 20 times over.
The annual report of the State
Anditor nf Kentucky has an item of
$11,5)9.25 paid for scalps, but whether
for scalps of wolves, bears, foxes or
Ku-Klux is not definitely set forth.
The New Haven Countv. Conn.
Historical Society has fallen in posses
sion of several letters written by Bene
dict Arnold and Aaron Burr, together
with some business paper of the former.
National conventions have alreadr
been called as follows: Aoril 5th. Col
ored men, Nashville, Tenn.; May 16th.
Prohibition, Cleveland; May I7th. Soft
Money, Indianapolis; June 14th. Re
publican, Cincinnati.
A number of citizens of Sorins-field
amount of over $2,500,000. have signed
.ua.-w., representing property to the
a pennon io tne Legislature praying
for a repeal of the law which exempts
churches from taxation.
The new route from Philadelphia
to New York via the Central Railroad
of New Jersey, the Delaware and
Bound Brook, and North Pennsylva
nia roads will be opened with through
cars on the first of April.
A set of scales has been set un at
the Mint, at Carson, Nev., by which
the difference between two aonarentlv
eaual human hairs can be readilv s-
certained, aud a difference in weight of
a millionth of a grain can be measured.
Mr. Thomas Liveridge (who died
recently in M.tssachusetis), after mak
ing various bequests to servants and
friends, gives the rem tinder of his es
tate, valued at over $400,00J. to an in
stitution for the education of poor
youth.
The White Star steamer Germanic.
from New York February 5, made the
voyage to Queenstown in seven days,
fourteen hours, forty minutes, actual
time, which is claimed to be tlie quick
est passage across the Atlantic that has
ever been made.
G. W. Sherman of Newport. L. I.
Is said to have the largest dog in the
United States. It weighs two hundred
aud ten pounds, and measures four aud
a half feet around the body. It is a
cross between the St. Bernard aud New
foundland breeds.
The "privileges" of the Centennial
hsve been sold for $450,000. The pub
lisher of the official catalogue pais $100-
000; the restaurant and beer rights pay
$123,000; soda water priviliges, $52 000
tobacco, 21,000; milk, bread, chocolate
and can.lv, $11,000.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany recently ail vert wed that they
would receive applications for the posi
tion of conductor, to be employed to
the number of 150 during the Centen
nial season. I hey had teu thousand re
sponses In ten days.
The North Carolina Conference of
the Methodist church has refused by a
vote of 2 to 1 to concur in the proposed
convention of 1877, which has been
called for ihe purpose of consummating
the union between the Methodist Pro
testant and the Methodist churches.
Emanu 1 Swedeuborg has scarcely
a follower or believer in all Sweden,
and at Stockholm, his home, be was
looked upon as a half-crazy charlatiu.
The house in which he lived is occupied
by tenants of the poorer class of people.
and is not easily found, so little is his
memory cherished.
Congressman Piper, of California, t9
said to own two hundred acres within
the city limits of San Franc' sco. He is
of pure Swedish descent, wis a carpen
ter by trade, and caught the Call tortus
fever by reading a speech of Daniel
Webster. In which the future of San
Francisco was described iu glowing
terms.
A Yuba county (Cal.) man intends
to set out a grove of 1,000 orange trees
this spring, and others in Butte, Yolo.
Colusa, Salano and Sacramento are con
templating going extensively into the
o range-growing business, as experi
ments show that the rruit ran be raised
as well in that section as in other parts
of the sure.
Prof. Seelye has been studying the
Indian problem, and find that each
Indian costs the government about
$2,000 a year to keep him alive, b it it
would bankrupt the country to attempt
to kill them off, for that seems to cost
about $1,000,000 for every Indian. It
only costs $2.50 a day to board them in
nasbiugtou. so that it looks almost as
If it would be economical to bring then
all there.
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