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B. F. SCHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION TH1 TJKIOIf AKD TH1 ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. gdltor and PTOprtlOlV
YQL. XXX. MITFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. MAY 10. 1876. NO. 19.
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AUTUMN DATS.
bt wnxux bowttt.
K1 springs the rye
Aa autumn days decline.
And from the brilliant sky
Leas florid aplendora shine.
Ita air; lustrous line,
Tbe goaamer displays.
And faintly breathes tbe pine
In aotnmn days.
And solemn is the hush
That on the earth doth fall :
And of all birds the thrash
Alone is musical.
Tbe sparrow on the wall
Shivers in pallid raya.
And the frog has ceased its call
In autumn daya.
But oh! the life, the life
That summer poured around !
Tbe merry, ringing strife
And jocundry of sound
In wood and sky and ground
What a chorus ! what a maze
Of beauty there was found
In summer days.
Tia gone ! you hear no more
Tbe bee hum in the flower ;
Nor see the swallow soar
Around the hoary tower ;
Tior the shrieking swifts devour
Tbe distance in their plays.
Tia now the voiceless hour
Of autumn days.
Atlantic Monthly.
For My Sake, John."
"Miss Cameron!" Leniiie Cameron,
lazily looking out of a bow window
tiiMiii a garden flaming with autumn
tints ami a sunset slow, lifted a pair of
soft eyes to Mrs. I oilman a race. Just
at that moment the anxiety was very
apparent to Leonie. So, after tier first
careless glance, she straightened in tier
low chair, and said quietly yet with
every appearance of interest:
"What is the matter?"
An awkward pause followed that
question. Mrs. Tollman fidgeted under
the inquiring glance of the dark eyes,
elf a red her '.hroat twice, and finally
said, with nervous emphasis:
"John Furber:"
M iss Cameron's face seamed to freeze.
It was a very beautiful face, with pride
for a leading? expression. Sweetness
lurked in the tinely-shaed mouth, and
i ntellect beamed from the radiant eye,
hut pride shadowed all. It carried the
small head gracefully erect, it swept
the folds of her rich dresses with a re
gal motion, it touched the small, patri
cian hands, and was evident in the
well-modulated tones of the refined
voice.
'There!" Mrs. Tollman said despair
ingly, "I've made you mad already and
haven't said anything!"
"I'm not mad," Leonie answered and
there certainly lurked a smile in her
mouth at the good woman's consterna
tion. "But you have not told me yet
what troubles you."
"It's John, Miss Cameron, and"
then, rapidly, as if the words were
forced by fear of her ability to finish
her self-appointed task, she hurried on :
"He's my nephew, miss, as you know,
though iiis father is a rich man, very
rich, aud John is above his mother's
place in life. She's dead and John was
spoiled somewhere between the year
she died and two rears ago. I don't
know where, but he was brought up an
idler upon his father's money, and from
idleness to drinking, gambling, and bad
ways is an easy road.
'His father is a hard man, and he
thrust him out near a year ago. Disin
herited him ! He came here, for I love
him. I've nothing else to love; hus
band and children are in the graveyard,
so I love John."
There was a piteous pleading in the
woman's face, but Leonie's was blank,
save for an air of polite interest.
"He was 'most desperate when he
came here, but I coaxed him up a little.
But but O Miss Cameron, you know
hat I want to say. You are beautiful,
rich ; a lady far above me in education
and position, and only boarding here
for country quiet. I've no right to find
lault but but don't flirt with John.
He is in trouble, despondent, disinheri
ted, and he's falling in love with you as
last as he can. 1 believe if you play
with him he will kill himself, body and
soul."
Fairly out of breath with her own
earnest utterance, Mrs. Tollman paused
looking pleadingly into Leonie Came
ron's face. The expression of polite in
terest never wavered as the young lady
said :
"It I miderstand you aright, you
wish me to ignore your nephew. It is
not easy, as he is iu your House; so l
had lietter leave it."
"Goodness!" cried the widow aghast
at this interpretation of her words, "1
never meant that ! Where could you
find another boarding-place near here?
"I can return to the city."
"I've put my foot in it; John will
never forgive me!" said Mrs. Toll man
disconsolately. But there was no sym-
nailiv in Leonie's face, and she turned
away at last more perplexed and more
anxious than ever. And Leonie, sink
ing into a chair, looked at the sunset
clouds aud variegated foliage, ana
thought iH-rhaps it was time to go back
to the city. She had come to Scranford
weary with a round of fashionable life,
tired of flattery, dancing, flirting, and
she found rest and quiet under Mrs.
Tollman's motherly care. She was rich
richer far than the landlady had any
idea of; but she had no relatives, hiring
a second cousin to keep her lonely home
and play propriety. Society constitu
ted itself her amateur guardian ; and
laying back in her cushioned chair, in
the sunset glow, she wondered indo
lently what society would say alxmt
John Furber.
It would grant trim a rare perfection
of manly beauty of face and form, and
forgive the evident traces of dissipation
if it was known that he was the son of
a rich man, educated at college, idle by
profession. But in what noly horror it
would turn away with uplifted hands
when it was known that he was disin
herited, with no home but a room in
the house of a widow ed aunt who was
eking out her narrow income by taking
boarders! It would smile at his biting
sarcasu.s, his brilliant conversation,
his cynical sneers, if lie were reinsta
ted in his father's favor, but how rude
those would be in a poor man
Ionie, from thinking of society's
opinion, quite unconsciously glided
into considering her own. This dark
lirowued man had made a fair portion
of her summer pleasure for three
months; had been her cavalier In many
country drives, walks, and sails, had
quoted poetry under shade trees, sung
in a suiM-rb baritone upon murmuring
waters, looked into her eyes on a moon
light jmrch, aud whispered delicate
words of flattery no more than many
other men had done. A beauty aud
rich, Miss Cameron had looked upon
more than one languishing suitor, had
forgotten hlui when her amusement
w earied her. Scarcely A flirt, or she
encouraged no downright love making,
but a beautiful, fascinating young wo
man, who wounded hearts with merely
careless grace.
Musing in the sunset it was impressed
iilion her heart that she had poisoned a
lite already sinking. There were capa
bilities for better tilings than dissipa
tion and suicide in John Furber, and
she shivered at the thought that he
might be upon a precipice, waiting for
the clasp of her hand to draw him back
or iu repulse to throw him over. She
passed in review iter male friends and
found none who had awakened such
keen pleasure aa he had given her. She
tried to recall one to mind whose grasp
or intellect equalled bis, or who had
met her fairly in so many arguments
and worsted her; and she could only
remember soft flattery of her "wonder
ful mind." Finally lifting her eyes
with a soft sigh, she aaw him leaning
against a tree opposite the low window
looking at her. A vivid flash stained
her cheeks as he saiu :
"What can you be thinking of? Tou
have not stirred for half an hour. Only
that your eyes were open I should have
thought you were asleep."
"our powers of observation are
marvellous," she answered lightly. i
was dreaming."
"Ofwhat?T1
"The world in general, my world In
particular. It is almost time I returned
there."
She was prepared for some polite
show or regret, but not lor the gtiastiy
change in his face. She shuddered re
membering his aunt's words.
"Going away ? Why, of course yon
would soon." he said, trying to speak
carelessly, while his eyes hungrily de
voured her face, and Ins white parched
lips were drawn as if in sharp, physi
cal pain.
"1 have been here three months,"
she said, feeling iier own heart ache at
his misery.
"Yes, yes! You will go certainly."
"And you," she said very gently
"you w ill be in the city, I presume, i
shall le glad to welcome you at my
house."
"Xo," he said harshly, "I w ill not
take such advantage of your kindness.
I am a man your friends will tell you
to shun. Miss Cameron a man who has
wasted his life till it is too late to take
up the threads again. You do not know,
perhaps, that my auut keeps me here
from charity."
"I know you have offended your
father," 6he answered, "but you are a
man scarcely thirty, and it is cowardly
to talk of despair at your age."
Her words cut him like a whiplash.
The dark blood mounted to his forehead
as he replied :
"I might fight the world yet, but,"
and here his tones was bitter and
strangely pathetic, "the battle is
scarcely worth winning. What would
I gain ? Money ? 1 do not value it.
Position? 1 have thrown it behind me.
I have played the fool, and I must take
the fool's wages."
"I will not have you say so," she
said, roused to an earnestness she never
intended to betray. "You shall not
throw your life away."
A hope sprang to his eyes.new there,
lighting them to dazzling radiance.
"Miss Cameron Leonie," he cried,
"were there a prize to win, were ones
heart's hopes centered ntion me, I
would trample down these demons of
temptation. 1 would prove myseu a
man if I had a motive.
There was no mistaking the prayer in
his voice. Only for one moment, close
now to the window, before a hand like
a snow-flake fell Uon his shoulder and
a voice low and sweet murmured low
in his ear : "Be a man for my sake."
She was gone before he spoke again,
and he wandered off to the woods to
muse upon the possibility of his new
life. The next day Mrs. Tollman lost
her summer boarder.
Society, languidly contemplating Miss
Cameron for the next three years lound
her eccentric. She was gay and grave
by flashes, fascinating in either mood,
but she was mysteriously unapproacha
ble. The bravest suitor found himself
met at the poiut where attentions merge
into lover's devotion by a wall of icy
reserve that was impassable. She never
flirted, but she had the reputation of
being a flirt, because she was popular
and admired and remained single until
she was twenty-seven. She was known
to be truthful, and she had distinctly
told several curious lady friends that
she was not engaged, so that there was
not even the spice of romance in the
gossip. Surely she was not "disap
pointed," for never had the bright se
renity of her beauty been more un
clouded. Scranford knew her not in those
three years, but Mrs. Tollman was the
recipient of various hampers of city
delicacies from her city boarder, and
acknowledged the same by letters. One
of these, dated three years after the
beautiful Miss Camerou left Scranford,
after elaborately thanking that young
lady for a hamper of dainties, said :
"Io vou rememlier my nephew John
Furber"? He left the day after you did
and 1 fretted more than a little. But
he took a turn for the good, Heaven be
thanked ! and went to New York to
look for a situation. He worked him
self up for he's smart, John is and
to-day he has made friends with his
father again, and is to be taken partner
in a big commercial house, his father
to buy it; but John's earned a place,
too, by hard honest work. O my dear,
I'm happier than ever I thought to be.
I'erhaps you've heard of the house John
is in Collins Hayes & Co. John is to
be part of the Co. But I'll tire you
writing about my own affairs. 1
wouldn't only I thought you'd remem
ber John."
"In New York," Leonie murmured,
"so near me all these years, and yet
never seeking me? Was I too bold?
lid I drive him away, showing my
heart too plainly? Well, even so, I
gave him the first start toward an hon
orable manhood, llemcmber him? Yes
Mrs. Tollman, I do rememlier John."
She folded the letter and was dress
ing for the ocra when the servant an
nounced a caller.
"What a barbarous hour!" she mur
mured, not looking at the card. "In a
few moments. Jane."
She was robed in her fleecy dress of
white lace over blue silk, and clasped
diamonds on throat and wrists and in
the little ears; when she took her opera
cloak from her maid's hand she looked
at the card "John Furber."
A preat heart-throb sent the blood
over her face and neck; then it faded.
leaving only a soft tint upon the dark
eyes, a light of happiness harmonizing
well with the smiling lips, one iookpu
like some visitant from another world,
in the radiance of her beauty as she
came across the drawing room to the
w indow w here lie stood. He had not
heard her light step, but, when she was
near, turned, show ing the stamp of his
better life in his noble face,
lie held out his hand, looking earn
estly into her face, and seeing she
soke only a happy truiu, as imhS il,
fchesaid:
"I am glad to see you."
"Leonie." he said, "you gave me a
hope, three years ago, that has borne
me above temptation and suffering to a
position where I am not ashamed to
look any man in the face. Leonie you
bade me
"Be a man for my sake, John I"
'And I obeyed you my darling. I
have come for my reward, Leonie, lov
ing you with all my heart, daring now
to ask for your love in return."
Society had a ripple of sensation in a
fashionable wedding when the son of
Israel Furber, the millionaire (so the
newspapers said and they know every
thing) married Miss Leonie Cameron.
But only you and I, reader, know the
romance of that summer In Scranford,
or how John Furber redeemed his
manhood for Leonie's sake.
LaaBartlaea Werka.
In this kind of gentle strain, whether
it be pros or poetry, he is beyond a
rivalry. When all other inspiration
fails, tbe inspiration of home never
fails him. Whatever he may be else
where, at Milly he is ever a true poet.
This la the highest praise we can give
to Lamartine. His longer poems are
monotonous and cloying; Ins poetical
romances of a mawkish and unwhole
some sweetness. But on his native
soil, in the homely house of his mother,
all objectionable qualities disappear.
He loves the skies which overarch that
dear bit of country ; he loves the hills
aud the fields because they snrronnd
that center of all associations ; and in
his companionship with nature he is
always tender and natural, seldom ex
aggerated, and scarcely ever morbid.
His shorter strains are full of tbe fresh
atmosphere of tbe country he loved,
and the seutiment of pensive eveuings
and still nights, soft-breath ing, full of
stars and darkness, is to be ioaud
everywhere in the gentle melodious
verse ; not lofty or all absorbing, like
the nature-worship of Wordsworth,
but more within the range of the ordi
nary mind, and quite as genuine and
true. Had he been content with this,
and not aspired to represent passion,
of which he knew nothing, his fame
would have been more real and more
lasting. He was such a port as the
quieter intellertnalist. the pensive
Ibiuker, loves. He could not touch the
greater spriugs of human feeling ; but
lie could so play upon the milder stops
of that great instinct as to fill his au
dience with a soft enthusiasm. Some
of his prose works reach to a profoun
der inllueiice : and those readers who
remember, when it came out, the His
tory of the Girondists, will not refuse
to the poet a certain power of moving
and exciting the mind; but this work
and the many others which preceded
and followed it. have little to do w ith
onr argument. They are poetical and
exaggerated prose, and have no claim
to the higher tide of poetry. JiLick
tcootl'g Magazine.
Hons Eceeatrleitlea ml Caartskla.
"Probably there is no instance in
which any "two lovers have made love
exactly iii the same way as any two
other lovers, since the world began.
Sir Arthur Helps.
Barkis insinuated.
Vivien charmed Merlin.
Alexander made a bonfire for Thais.
Hildergarde took the bull by the
horns.
The Merchant of Venice soft-soldered
Portia with a lead casket.
The garrulous female in the Arabian
Nights told her husband stories.
Victoria sent for Prince Albert and
told him she wanted him. She was vic
torious. In the Polynesian Islands they win
their hearts by beating their heads with
a shillelah.
Harry the Eighth and Bluebeard were
off with the head of the old love before
they were on with the new.
Dr. Johnson poked the tobacco in his
piie down with bis sweetheart's finger
a warm token of affection.
Tristram did it mostly with a harp,
and was also a good "liar. His two
Isoldes were too many for him.
Bothwell was inclined to Marie, and
locked her up in his castle. It worked
as well as Peter's pumpkin shell.
Cobbett's wife caught him by the
grace with which she used her wash
tub. She never was known to use it
after the wedding.
Sam. Komily, the famous lawyer,
killed himself because his wife died,
while a good many others kill them
selves because they won't die.
- Nicholas of Kusssia wanted to pop at
a dinner table, but didn't like to be
caught at it, so he imbedded a ring in a
lump of bread and handed it to her.
Charlemagne's secretary was caught
by a snow storm sparking the Empe
ror's daughter at miduight, and she
carried him home on her back, so that
his footsteps shouldn't be traced. The
Emperor heard of it, and saddled him
on to her for the rest of her life.
T Tea Driakera.
Green tea is Dothing more nor less
than a poisonous humbug, manufac
tured to meet the demands of a vitia
ted taste. Black tea is the leaf in its
natural state. Most of tbe varieties
are, however, too mild to satisfy a pal
ate used to pickles and mustard, and
pepper-saaces and like condiments.
The dealers, therefore, kindly poison
the leaf and prodiico what they are
pleased to advertise as "a snperior
quality of green tea." At otie time ten
pounds of green tea were sold in the
American market for every pound im
(Mirted. The process of adulteration
was jMTformed at the ea-loard. A
long cylinder, turning slowly over a
lire, was halt-tilled with black tea.
Then liandsfull of turmeric, indigo
and other poisonous matters, were
tli row ii in. After the whole had been
cooked together the stuff came out as
green tea. Each leaf was perhaps coa
ted with copper ! Since then 'Chinese
cheap labor" has supplanted Caucasian
cunning. The Mongolian shiut the tea
already greened, aud so saves the im
Mr ter trouble. I'nfortunately for ns,
the almond-eyed Mongolian, who sur
passes his Christian brethren in so
many things, excels in the art of adul
teration ; the coloring matter used by
him is a filthy compound of silicate of
magnesium. Prussian blue and other
dirt, and the leaves colored are faded
and old, and mixed with leaves of a
plant bearing the suggestive name of
"lie tea." The "lie tea," we may add,
nourishes in New Jersey, and is care
fully cultivated there it is notdiflicult
to surmise why. There is such a thing
as Dure green tea. but it is much wea
ker than the artificial stuff', aud has to
lie prepared by a process ot drying that
is long and costly. His rarefy expor
ted from China. Xo wonder that ex
cessive tea-drinking does almost as
much harm as excessive liquor drink
ing. People are not apt to thrive on
poisons.'
Hesse.
Think of what is meant by a happy
home. It is the best likeness of heaven
a home where husband and wife,
father and mother, brother and sister,
child and parents, each in their several
ways, help each the other forwards, in
their different course, as no other human
being can; for none else outside the
circle of our own home has the same
opportunities, none else has known so
the character of any other, none else
has such an interest at stake in tbe wel
fare, the fame, and the grace and the
goodness of anyone else, as we have in
the welfare of those who are bone of
our bone and flesh of our flesh, in whose
misery we become miserable by whose
selfishness, or weakness, or worldliness
we are decoyed down to earth, by whose
nnrit v and nobleness and strength we
are raised up to duty, to heaveu, and to
God.
mall way algaals aad Blarka.
The Highland Railway of Scotland
has introduced upon its road what tbe
English journals describe aa a novel and
ingenious combined block and signal
system, the invention of L)r. Whyte,
who has devoted several years to the
work of Improving the mechanical ar
rangements for ope rating railway trains,
The system is entirely self-acting, and
its operations are performed with the
agency of an electro-magnetic machine
of simple contruction. An engine run
ning past, say two stations, blocks the
line at the first by raising a semaphore;
places an automatic check against the
passing of a second engine by the ring
ing of an alarm bell ou tbe second en
gine Itseir, should it attempt to ioiiow ;
announces its approach to- the second
station, or can be stopped bv the station-
master there; while on reaching that
station, it clears the line at the previous
one of both semaphore aud alarm bell,
so as to leave it free for any approach
ing train. The apparatus Itseir may te
divided into two parts, one being on the
engine and the other connected with the
line. Four wire brushes, each pair me
tallically connected, are suspended from
tbe engine, one pair having a battery
and bell in circuit, and the other a bell.
A wheel descends alongside these brush
es. On the line, between the rails, at
such distances as may be thought re
quisite, or in close proximity to each
station, a series of insulated metallic
plates, In an air-tight box, are laid
down, each plate being from five to ten
feet long. By the side of each pair of
plates, the ends or which are connected
bv wires, is placed an electro-magnet.
with wires from a battery attached. The
keeper of the magnet is fixed to a lever
by means of a pully, and as the engine
travels past, this lever Is pressed iiikiii
by the wheel above mentioned, and the
keeper is forced up against the poles of
the magnet. 1 bus the semaphore arm
is raised and the line effectually block
ed. With the view, however, to guard
against a possible inattention on the
Part of the driver of an engine approach
ing the apparatus, the box is left in
such a position that should his engine
pass over it while the signal is up the
alarm bell on the engine itself Is Iu
stantly rung. The first engine having
successfully blocked the line in the rear,
proceeds to the next station or signal
post, where the line is again blocked;
aud by means of wires to the last box
and mechanism similar to that above
descrllied. the electro-magnet at the
former station is released, the semaphore
lowered, and the way left clear between
these two sections. Thus it is clear
that each train protects its rear for the
distance between each pair of plates.
The line being, as it were, divided into
sections, each train as it enters a section
instantly blocks it so that no other train
can follow until the first has proceeded,
without the bell being rung as a warn
ing. Connected with this automatic
electrical block system is an arrange
ment by which each train can announce
Its approach to any station, and another
for giving the station-master the power
to stop a train by causing the bell on
the engine to ring. The brushes on the
engine are the means by which this is
accomplished ; a powerful battery placed
at one station, or smaller batteries placed
in suitable positions along the line,
being the agency by which the appara
tus is operated. As these batteries are
never in circuit except when a train
works them, the waste is reduced to a
minimum. The advantages claimed for
this system are that, being self-acting,
it entirely dispenses with manual labor,
which at some critical moment is apt to
be at fault; that its certainty of instan
taneous action is secured by the con
cealment of its working parts, and their
protection from wet and dust, and
finally that the expense of application
is comparatively small.
A Ceeoa Plaatatloa la Datek Galaaa.
To enter Commeweyne River we
were first obliged to retrace a portion
of the rout by which I had arrived three
days before, and to follow the down
ward course of the Surinam Kiver for
about eight miles, passing the same ob
jects, no more wholly new, but now
more interesting man neiore, Because
nearer and better understood. Here is
a plantation, seen by glimpses through
the mangrove scrub that borders tbe
river's bank; a narrow creek, at the
mouth of which several moored barges
and half-submerged corialsare gathered,
gives admittance to the heart of the es
tate. It is a vast cocoa-grove where
you may wander at will under XV)
continuous acres of green canopy that
is if you are willing to jump over any
number of small brimming ditches, and
to cross the wider irrigation trenches
on bridges, the best of which is simply
a round and slippery tree trunk, excel
lently adapted, no doubt, to the naked
feet of a negro laborer, but upon which
no European boot or shoe can hope to
maintain an instant's hold. Huge poles,
some yellow, some red the former
color is, I am told, indicative of bet
ter quality dangle in your face and
dispel the illusion by which you might,
at the first sight of growth aud foliage
around you, have fancied yourself in
the midst of a remarkably fine alder
tree thicket; - while from distance to
distance broad-boughed trees of the
kind called by the negroes 'coffee-mamma,"
from the shelter they afford the
plantations of that bush, spread their
thick shade high aloft and protect , the
cocoa-bushes and their fruit from the
direct actions of the burning sun.
Moisture, warmth, and shade these
are the primary and most essential con
ditions for the well-doings of a cocoa
estate. Innumerable trenches, dug
with mathematical exactitude of alter
nate line and intersiacet supply the
first requisite; a tenierature that, in
in a wind-fenced situation like this,
bears a close resemblence for humid
warmth to that of an accurately shut
hot-house, assures the second ; and the
'coffee mamma.' a dense-leaved tree, not
unlike our beech, guarantees the third.
Thus favored, a Surinam cocoa crop
is pretty sure to be an abundant one.
Ever and anon, where the green laby
rynth is at its thickest, you come
across a burley Creole negro, busily
engaged plucking the large pods from
the boughs with his left hand, and hold
ing it in so, w hile with a sharp cutlass
held in his right he dexterously cuts
the upter part of the thick outer cover
ing, then shakes the slimy agglouiera.
tion of seed and white burr clinging
to it into a basket set close to him on
the ground. A single laborer will in
this fashion collect nearly four hundred
pounds' weight of seed iu the course of
adav. When full, tbe baskets are car
ried off on the heads of the assistant
field-women, or, if taken from the re
moter parts of the plantation, are floated
down in boats or corials to the brick
paved court-yard adjoiningthe planter's
dwelling-house, where the nuts are
cleansed and dryed by simple and inex
pensive processes, not uullke those in
use for the coffee berry; after which
nothing remains but to fill the sacks
and send them off to their market
across the seas. A Guiana cocoa plan
tation is an excelleut investment. The
first outlay is not heavy, nor is tbe
maintenance of the plantation expen
sivethe number of laborers bearing an
average proportion of one to nine to
that of the acres under cultivation. The
work required is a kind that negroes,
who even now are not unfrequently
prejudiced by the memory of the slave
days against the cane-field and sugar
factories, undertake willingly enough ;
and to judge by their stout limbs and
evident good condition, they find it
not unsuitable to their capabilities.
More than four million pounds weight
of cocoa are yearly produced in Suri
nam, 'which Is a consideration,' as a
negro remarked to me, laboriously at
tempting to put his ideas into English,
instead of the Creole mixture of every
known language that they use among
themselves. Neither Coolies or Chinese
are employed at these cocoa estates,
much to the satisfaction of the Creoles,
who, though tolerant of, or clinging to,
European mastership, have little sim-
pathy with other colored or semi-civii-
Ized races.
Keewlwa- at It.
A man who inherits wealth mar be
gin and worry through threescore
years and ten without any very definite
object. In driving, in foreign travel,
in hunting and fishing, in club-houses
and society, he may manage to pass
away his time; but he will hardly be
happy. It seems to be necessary to
health that the powers of a man be
trained upon some object, and steadily
held there day after day, year after
year, while vitality lasts. There may
come a time in old age when the fund
of vitality will have sunk so low that
he can follow no consecutive labor
without such a draft upon his forces
that sleep cannot restore them. 1 hen,
and not before, he should stop work.
But. so long as a man has vitality to
spare upon work, it must be used, or it
will become a source of grievous, ha
rassing discontent. The man will not
know what to do with himself; and
when he has reached such a point as
that, he is unconsciously digging a
grave for himself, and fashioning his
own eotlin. Life needs a steady chan
nel to run in regular habits of work
and of sleep. It needs a steady, stim
ulating aim a trend towards some
thing. An aimless life can never be
happy, or. for a long period, healthy,
Said a rich widow to a gentleman, still
laboring beyond his needs; "Don't
stop ; keep at it." The words that
were in her heart were: "If my hus
band bad not stopped, he would be
alive to-day ." Ami what she thought
was doubtless true. A greater shock
can hardly befall a man who has been
active than that which he experiences
when, having relinquished his pursuits,
he finds unused time and unused vital
ity hanging upon his idle hands and
mind. The current of his life is thus
thrown into eddies, or settled into a
sluggish pool, aud he begins to die.
J'r.J. V. Holland. . .
Laanarrk aa Ike Orlgla af Raeele.
A man of keen and powerful intellect,
who. had he but lived in our time,
would have attained the summit of
fame, with marvelous acumen anticipa
ted a doctrine which is steadily tend
ing to become a received scientific dis
covery, viz., that the changes which
have occurred in Nature are the effects
of constant natural laws. Applying
this idea to the natural groups of the
animal kingdom, he rejected the hy
pothesis which ascribed to geological
catastrophes the destruction of entire
faunae, and the preparation of the
earth's surface for a fresh special crea
tion. The transformation of lower or
ganisms into higher he referred to the
action of modifications which, though
in themselves inconsiderable, became
important from repetition and long ac
cumulation, under the influence of for
ces whose powers he exaggerated. Spe
cies and varieties he regarded as artifi
cial groups. According to him the
very simplest organisms are derived, by
way of spontaneous generation, from
naturally-produced plastic substances;
then they mutually diverge by imper
ceptible differences, so as to constitute
a linear series, which, but for the gaps
caused here and there by lost species,
would present to us the aspect of a con
tinuous system. Under favoring circum
stances this divergence by imperceptible
differences causes changes in the struc
ture of tbe individuals belonging to a
Seciefi, and is the starting-point for
the formation of a new secies. Cross
ing, by producing hybrids, still further
multiplies the number of species. And
species appear to be fixed, simply be
cause the circumstances appear to be
similarly fixed during the brief period
embraced in our observations. Trans
formation is the rule, and in the regu
lar course which it runs we can dis
cover no indications of plan or purpose.
Viijiutur Science MuHthly.
Am Eagllsk Iss.
A pleasant traveler gives ns the fol
lowing bit of experience: "Taking
mine ease at mine inn," has a real sig
nificance in England. You can take
your ease and more; you can take real
solid comfort. In the first place there
is no bar-room, and consequently no
loafers; no fumes of tobacco or whisky.
The host (if there be such a person) has
a way of keeping himself in the back
ground, or out of sight, that is entirely
admirable. The pilgrim is in no dan
ger of having the poetical atmosphere
dispelled, but rather enhanced, espec
ially If he has the luck to hud few other
guests, and to fall into the hands of one
of those simple, strawberry-like En
glish housemaids, who gives him a co
zy, snug little parlor all to himself.
who answers his every summons and
looks into his eyes with the simplicity
and directness of a child ; who puts the
coals ". on your grate with her own
hands, and when you ask for a "lunch,'
spreads the cloth on one end of the ta
ble, while you sit reading or writing at
the other, and places before you a
whole haunch of delicious cold mutton,
with bread, and home-brewed ale, and
requests you to help yourself; who,
when bed-time arives, lights you up to
a clean, sweet chamber, with a high
canopied bed, hung with snow-white
curtains; who calls you in the morning,
makes ready your breakfast, while you
sit with your feet on the fender before
the blazing grate; and to whom you
pay your reckoning on leaving, having
escaed all the publicity of hotel life,
and had all the privacy and quiet or
home, without any of its cares or in
terruptions.
Waste aa Tlase.
Time lost can- never be regained. Af
ter allowing yourself proper time for rest
don't live a single hour of your life with
out doing exactly what is to be done in
it, and going straight through with it
from beginning to end. Work, play,
study, whatever it is, take hold of it at
once,and finish It up squarely and clean
ly; then to the next thing without let
ting any moments drop out between. It
is wonderful to see how many hours
these prompt people make out of a
day; it is as if they picked up the mo
ments that the dawdlers lost. And if
you ever find yourself where you have
so many things pressed upon you that
you hardly know where to begin, let
me tell you a secret. Take hold of the
very first one that comes to hand, and
you will find the rest all fall into file
and follow after like a company of well
drilled soldiers, and though work may
be hard to meet when it charges you in
a squad it is easily vanquished if you
can bring it into line.
Berne Sterlea af Bea Skarka.
A large life boat crossing the bar of
the San Juan Kiver upset, precipitating
tne crew consisting or two omcers
(white) and tea colored men, into the
water, the boat being turned upside
down. "I felt," said the narrator,
"that my life was not worth hair an
hour's purchase. Tbe coxwain to the
boat, a weakly black man, rose along
side of me after the plunge; he was in
great terror ,and I felt that if the sharks
did not harm him he could scarcely
reach the shore without help; so I en
couraged him by telling him 1 would
swim by him, and give him a hand if
lie lelt urea. o tired, massa; neoer
live to be tired; look at dem round us.'
I felt that he was as near to the truth as
possible, for we were literally in the
centre of a shoal of sharks, whose black
triangular fins we could see on all sides
sailing round us. As the beach was
quite close, we first endeavored to make
that, but soon discovered that the cur
rent was so strong that we made no
headway and we were forced to turn to
ward the boat, which was 150 yards
away, drifting out to sea, turned upside
down, with the rest of the crew astride
on her keel. There was nothing, how
ever, for it but to swim to her, and, aided
by the strong current, we soon short
ened the distance. All this time the
sharks were around us, making, I fan
cied, smaller circles, and once or twice
I thought I felt something touch my
feet with a rush, as these horrid brutes
do before they bite; if it was my im
agination, it was not a great stretch,
however, for we had not got twenty
yards ahead of the spot, when my com
panion shrieked, threw up his arms ami
disappeared beneath the waves. A rush
of black tins, and their sudden disaiear
ance under the water, was tbe last thing
1 remembered until 1 found myself
alongside our ship in the stern-sheets of
the cutter which had been sent to the
rescue."
Considering the foolhardy rashness of
the negroes in bathing, it Is surprising
how comparatively few accidents hap
pen. "Dive for six-pence, massa," in
to the water where sharks have been
seen the same morning. However he
will never venture in after dark.
Sharks, like many other fish, bite more
freely at night; in fact, sharky waters
where the fish are shy, and bathing is
comparatively free from danger during
the day, cannot be entered after night
fall without very great risk, the more
especially as at night sharks will, like
trout, prowl aboutshallow water barely
sulllcient to cover them. The writer
recollects at Colon two stokers of the
mail steamer Tyne taking forecastle
leave one night. The ship was warped
alongside the wharf.and these two men
crept along one of the hawsers, hand
over foot, to reach the wharf. The first
got over safely, but the second sliped
and fell into the water. Not at all
frightened, in a low voice he told his
companion to lower him a rope from
the wharf, but he had scarcely spoken
when he disapeared and did not rise
again. A shark's stomach to a sailor is
a matter of extreme interest. "Let's
see what's inside of him,'' is Jack's
hrst thought when the monster lies
dead on deck ; though Jack is invariably
disapointed of rinding treasure, a silver
watch for example, would fill bis soul
with pleasure. .
Tke Witckerjr af Xaaaer.
Almost every man can recall scores
of cases, within his own knowledge,
here Dleasihg manners have made the
fortunes of lawyers, doctors, divines.
merchants, and in short, men in every
walk of life. Kaleurh iliine down his
laced coat into the mud for Elizabeth
to walk on. and got, for his reward, a
proud queen's favor. The politician
who has this advantage easily distan
ces all rival candidates, for every vo
ter he speaks with becomes instantly
his friend. The very tones in which he
asks for snuff are often more potent
than a Webster or a Clay. Polished
manners have often made scoundrels
successful, whilst the best of men, by
their harduess and coldness, have done
themselves incalculable injury: the
shell being so rough that the world
could not believe there was a precious
kernel within. Civility is to a man
what beauty is to a woman. It creates
an instantaneous impression in his be
half, while the opposite quality excites
as quick a prejudice against turn. It is
a real ornament, the most beautiful
dress that a man or women can wear.
and worth more as a means of winning
favor than the finest clothes and jewels
ever worn. 1 he gruffest roan loves to
be appreciated ; and it is oftener the
sweet smile ot a woman, which we
think intended for us alone, than a pair
of Juno-like eyes, or "lips that seem
on roses fed," that bewitches onr heart,
and lays us low at the feet of her whom
we alter wards marrv.
A Hease-Jtaile Carpet.
An Eastern lady says: Have any of
you a spare bedchamber, seldom used,
which you would like to carpet at little
expense? Go to the pajier-hanger's
store and select a paper looking as much
like a carpet as you can find. Having
taken it home, first paper the floor of
your bed room with brown paper, or
newspaiers. Then over this or these
put down your wall paper. A good
way to do this will be to put a good coat
of paste upon the width of the roll of
paper and the length or the room, and
then lay down, unrolling and smooth
ing at the same time, n hen the floor
is all covered, then size and varnish,
only dark glue and common furniture
varnish may be used, and the floor will
look all the better for the darkening
these will give It. n hen it Is dry, put
down a few rugs by the bedside and be
fore the toiletltable, and you have as
pretty a carpet as you could wish. A
carpet, too, that will last for years, if
not subject to constant wear, and at a
trifling expense. 1 myself used a room
one entire Summer prepared in this
way used it constantly; and when
the house was sold in the Fall, the pur
chaser asked me to take up the oilcloth,
as he wished to make some alterations
which woidd be sure to inliire it.
Tke Wertk af Ballle-flelde.
Men do fight, no doubt, from mere
recklessness, from hope of plunder or
glory; and sometimes they have been
whipped to it. But more often, when
they go where one out of every four or
five is likely to fall, it is with the nobler
motive uppermost, and felt with a burn
ing earnestness, too, which only the
breath of the near-at-hand death can fan
up. No! there is reason enough why
battle-fields should be, as they are,
places of pilgrimage. The remoteness of
the struggle hardly diminishes the iiv
terest with which we visit its scene;
Marathon is as sacred as if the Greeks
conquered there last year. Nor, on the
other hand, do we need poetic haze from
a century or two or Intervening time;
Gettysburg was a consecrated spot to all
the world before its dead were buried.
There need be no charm of nature; there
are tracts of mere sand in dreary Bran
denburg, where old Frederick, with
rrussia in his hand, supple and tougn as
if plaited into a nation out of whip-cord,
scourged the world ; and these tracts are
precious. On the other hand, the grand
est natural features seem almost dwarfed
and paltry beside this overmastering in
terest April Atlantic .
Eggs in some tiarts of Nebraska
are selling for three cent a dozen.
tocra coLtxa.
On tke Dinde. At last, the boys
reached the spring of which they had
beard. They approached it with a cer
tain feeling of awe. It was on the di
viding ridge of the continent. It was
a boggy pool, rising out of a mass of
rock and turf, trampled by many feet
and spreading out into a considerable
space. Some wayfarer had set up a
rude sign-board, on which was in
scribed the name "Pacific Spring."
Stepping from rock to rock, the boys
made their way to the fountain neau,
and silently gazed on the source of a
stream which soon divided itself be
tween the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Here the emigrant train pitched ab
ruptly down a rocky canon to the west.
The water flowing from the spring and
saturating the grassy soil, was parted
by a low, sharp ledge of rock. From
this, two little rivulets crept away, one
to the east, one to the west. One gur
gled down into the canon, was joined
by numberless runnels from the enow
Deaks above, meandered away for ma
ny miles, sunk into Green Kiver. Mowed
south and west to the Colorado, en
tered the Gnlf of California, and was
lost in the Pacific. 1 he other supped
silently down the long slope by which
the boy emiirrants had come, joined it
self to other tiny streams, and so, fin
ding the far-off Missouri, by the way of
the lellowstone. reached the Missis
sippi, the Gulf of Mexico, and the At
lantic. "Go. little stream," said Mont, "and
tell the folks at home that we have
left the old world. Boys! this is a new
world before us now."
"We are on the down-hill grade."
added Hi. " e ran scoot to Call lorn y
uow. vi est ward it is, and we are agoiu
with the stream. '
Barney turned and looked back
"We aie on the ridtre. Shall we go
down on the other side, Arty I '
But Arty said : "I should be elad if I
could send a mettsage Itack to the folks
at Sugar Grove. It would belike a
message out of the sea. As long as we
can't do that, suooose we follow the
other stream to the Pacific.
" e cannot be sentimental over this
spring, my boy," said Mont, laughing.
But. as Hi says, we are going with
the current now. That's it! Westward
is the word !"
"Come on, boys!" shouted Captain
Rose, troni the down-hill road. "Its a
rough drive yet to Sunset Canon."
So the vonng fellows followed the
stream, and turned their faces again
to the west. bt - ichola for A pril.
Ilunor. Mother was writing a letter
at her desk, and I was sewing on a low
bench at her side. Presently she was
called out, and laying aside her pen,
she said, "It will be a good chance,
while I am onr. for von to rntir vonr
composition. Mary. Vou may sit here
at my desk."
She left her letter open npon her
desk. 1 seem to see it now, the large
square sheet, inscribed with her fair,
plain handwriting. I always liked to
read what my mother had written ; but
would I have looked at this! Not for
niv right hand.
By and by mother came in. "Well,
Mary," said she, "have you read my
letter to auut Susie f"
"No mother, of conrse I haven't," I
said, feeling a little hurt that she
should have asked me.
"But why not, daughter T It was
open, and there is nothing in it 1 would
not lie wtlliiiir for you to read."
"W hy mother, it wouldn't have been
right ; you know it wouldn't. I would
n't read one of yonr letters, or anybo
dy else's, for the world, unless the wri
ter said 1 might."
I never shall forget my mother's
happy, loving look at that moment.
"Oh, my dear child," she said, "you
can't tell how much good that does me.
That I can rely on your honor makes
me feel truly glad and thankful. That
is the very foundation of a truthful
character ; and a truthful, sincere cha
racter is so lovely."
I never wanted after that to be any
thing but truthful and sincere. To be
without guile in word or deed has al
ways been a delight.
JIurre Eijijk. The Murreisa qneer
bird. It is of about the size of a small
dnck, and it sits on only one leg at a
time. If her nest is robbed, the mo
ther murre lays another egg and sits
again. The strangest part of the story
is that the eggs are not alike ; in fact,
it would be almost impossible, among
thousands of them, to find a single pair
that matched iu color. They are
brown, green, white, blue, or gray, as
the case may be, with streaks or spots
of Idi'e, black, green, olive, or brown.
But all these fancy styles are only shell
deep. The little mm res that come out
of the eggs are all after tbe same pat
tern, and in time they take after their
parents in a way that is beautiful to
behold.
If yon want to see them, go to the
Farallone Islands, in the Pacific Ocean.
Climb the first cliff yon come to, and
turn to the right. HI. A'knuUufor May.
Mum I'-axket. I suppose the chil
dren of the red school-house will lie
bringing May baskets to the little
schoolnia'aui and to each other this
year as they did last season. It's a
pretty custom, but the birds tell me it
in not as common as it should be. A
May basket is the sweetest and freshest
thiug 1 know of, always excepting the
little schoolma'am. Sometimes it is
hardly more than a tiny white paper
box with ribbon handles, tilled with
violets, bat it is always lovely, with its
white or bine ribbon streamers, and its
moss and early wild flowers. 1 hope
all little lame children, who can't go
out and play, and children in hospitals,
will have May baskets sent them this
year. May baskets are such simple
little things, they can be made and
tilled in any way one pleases and,
what is more, they grow like a liower,
right out of loving hearts ! St. Airio
lat. Jfotc Strange. "It is astonishing,"
said Deacon Green, "how sensitive
persons are in some ways and how dull
in others. I knew a lady once who
went about in high spirits gossiping
and telling tales, thereby openly pro
claiming herself a gossip and a tale
bearer, and yet she was furious when
told that she bad not a good ear for
music ; and I've known men who could
tell a lie without a pang, but to have
any one 'doubt their word' was more
than they could stand."S7. AickoUuor
April.
A teacher in a Snnday school was ex
plaining to his class of hoys the mean
ing of "Jacob's ladder." when one of
the nnmher, more inquisitive than at
tentive, inquired : "If tbe angels had
wings, what was the need of a ladder
for them t" This was a poser, and
while he was meditating a reply and
unable to answer, another boy ex
claimed "I'll bet I can tell what they
nsed the ladder for." "Ont with it,
then," said tbe teacher. "Oh, I guess
they were moulting."
A Recollection of A. T. SteKart.
While yet a young man, Mr. Stewart
made the boast that he would have.a
store uion which there shonld be no
sign. He kept his word. There was,
however, this one sign npon the doors
of his establishment, "Push." It was
a significant word.
Many farmers in Monroe couiaty,
N. Y., have contracted for help the
coming season at about $"JU a month.
im Bf BSHT
Missouri has paid this year $3,322
as bounty for wolf scalps.
The ice factory at Augusta, Ga.,
turns out 3,300 pounds daily.
The people of Paris consumed over
six thousand horses last year.
Florida has 3,000 white men who
have not voted since the downfall of
the Confederacy.
Nilsson demands $1,000 a night and
Strakosch is iu search of another prima
donna for next year.
Thirty new papers have been started
in Mississippi since January 1. The
death list has not yet transpired.
An American flag made of silk and
costing $3,000, will float over the main
entrance to the Centennial Exhibition.
Philadelphia's population as shown
by the census of April 1st, is 817,448.
This shows an increase of 143,420 since
the census of 1870.
Houston proposes to exhibit at the
Texas State Fair a woman who is only
uitrty years old and Is the mother of
eighteen children.
Carrie Howard, formerly an actress
of some note, has become blind, and
now lives in an attic in Indianapolis de
pendent on charity.
About 60,000 pounds Chicago corn
beef are sold in Philadelphia every
week, and the consumption of the arti
cle is rapidly increasing.
A Liverpool firm the other day di
vided among those of their employes
who had been with them five years aud
upward a sum of $200,000.
Tbe monument to John and Charles
Wesley has been placed in Westminis
ter Abbey near that of Isaac Watts. It
will be uncovered in June.
John Ackerman. a veteran of the
war of 1812. and said to be the last sur
viving witness of the Burr-Hamilton
duel, died at Scipio, lnd 87 years old.
Some funny Democrats have made
a ticket w ith the names of Thomas A .
Hendricks and Jeremiah S. Black. The
battle-cry will be "Tom and Jerry."
E. L. Kenyon, of Hartford, who re
cently killed himself on account of fi
nancial troubles is found to have hail
$50,000 assets over liabilities after all.
The spirit or chivalry is reviving.
A man in Onondaga, New York, has
just been mulcted in $.",000 damages.
ror calling a lady "a withered-up old
maid."
It Is Edwin Booth's intention to re
tire to his country seat at Stamford,
Conn., in June, and not to resume his
professional engagements until Sep
tember.
In the six principal markets of this
country the number of hogs packed
this season amounts to 3.200,000 a de
crease of nearly 300,000 as compared
witn last year.
The money lost bv a recent fire in
Charleston, S. C, would have covere l
three-rourths or the cost of the water
works for which the city has longed for
half a century.
The Seth Thomas clock company of
Thomastown have completed the mam
moth clock for the centennial building.
It is the largest portable clock ever
made in the world.
A gold medal, valued at $200 has
been prepared for the New York
Seventh Regiment by the ex-members
of that Regiment in San Francisco as a
prize ror marksmanship.
The Freshman crew of Harvard
College declare that If thev row the
proposed match with Yale it shall be
on Saratoga Lake. They positively re-
tuse to row It elsewhere.
Any Iowa woman who gets votes
enough can hold any office connected
with the public schools. There s no
salary, no chance to save the country,
and no fear of a rebellion.
The Hon. John W. Johnson, of
Madison, Minn., has given $."i,000to the
State University, the income of which
is to be used in aiding students who
speak the Scandinavian language.
The Light Guard, of Green Bay.
Wis., are going to walk all the way to
the Centennial, 1,03! miles. They may
oe a light guard when they start, but
they will be heavy foot when they ar
rive.
There are G2,.V2 churches In the
United States, with sittings for 11,3:.V-
342 people, the Methodist being the
strongest denomination. The total value
of church property is placed at $34'J,
611), 780.
The Continental Mills at Lewiston
have sold in the English market four
hundred thousand yards of their goods
and are now filling another large order.
The production of these mills is all sold
out and goods are ordered ahead.
A vast bed of marl, covering an
area of 1,000 square miles, from twelve
to thirty feet deep, and very rich in
potash, soda and phosphorus, has been
discovered in Kentucky. This is of
great importance to tobacco regions.
Boston has the only gong and cym
bal factory in the country which pro
duces from 300 to 400 gongs and ."00
pairs or cymbals yearly. L ntil within
a few years these instruments were im
ported entirely from China and turkey.
A crevasse at "Itevil's Elbow," on
the Mississippi, has shortened the dis
tance between Memphis and Cairo eigh
teen miles. One ot the islands twenty-
live miles above Memphis is disapear
ing rapidly, and another is being
formed.
There is a camel ranche near Elgin,
Texas. The animals were imported at
the opening of the Mormon war in ex
pectation of a contract with the United -
States Government for transportation,
and they have considerably multiplied
since that time.
The colossal statue of Washington
(twelve feet high) belonging to Mr.
Mablon lhckerson, American banker.
residing in Florence. Italy, has been
shipped to Philadelphia in an American
merchant vessel, the bold or the United
States ship Supply not being deep
enough to accommodate it.
Dr. Mudd. who set the shattered
leg of J. Wilkes Booth, has been elected
to the Maryland Senate as a Republi
can. It will be remembered that Booth
took refuge on Dr. Mudd's farm, and
was killed in his barn. Mudd was sent
to the Dry Tortngas for harboring the
assassin, bnt was afterward released.
The laziest family in the Western
Hemisphere live in Elgin County Out.
There are eight of them ; they own a
one farm 01 JUO acres, with a plentiful
supply of valuable timber. With abund
ance staring tbem in tbe face they are
absolutely dying of want. The elder
son, a grown man, lies a naked skeleton
in a heap of straw, without a rag to
cover him. The authorities have very
properly taken the case in hand.
The London publisher of Punrk
will exhibit a magnificent book case of
gigantic dimensions at the Centennial
exhibition. It is of exquisite work
manship in wood, 12 feet square by 22
feet high, and will contain the princi
pal publications of the exhibitors, who
invite inspection and perusal by plac
ing over the entrance Shakspeare's
motto : "Come and take choice of all
my library, and so beguile thy sorrow.
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