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TOL. XXX. MIFFLDOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. MAY 24. 1876. NO. 21.
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OCa CENTENNIAL. .
BY OEOBOE B. HEBBEKT.
From Russia's barren snowy steppe
India's sultry dim ;
from
From empires whose proud record dates from
infancy of time ;
From islands e'en now barely wean'd from rode
barbaric aloth ;
From cultar'd nationa where the arte hare
reacb'd gigantic growth ;
From all the world, of ev'ryrece, of sv'ry
tongue and creed.
Fjubasxadora are hast'ning here, with almost
lightning speed ;
Are bearing with them prieelee gems the
treasure of the loom
Kara works of sit, by patient men wrought
mid dark ages' gloom
Ensamples of all modern skill ; the triumphs
of to-day
The proofs that natore'a mysteries men's in
tellects obey.
Aud kings and emp'rora come to greet with
friendly ontstretch'd hand
The nation which a century ainee was bat s
proscribed band
Of ao-called rebel ; men who dared 'nealh ty
rant rule to plan
The dawn of freedom human rights the
aov'reignty of man.
One little hundred
peck
ink-
stain on the scroll
Which holds the records of the years that cy
cling ceaseless roll
Into the dim commenceless past and now
Colombia stands
A nation self created free peer of all other
lands!
By patient, earnest, plodding work ; by cour
age, faith and skill
This Great Republic onward preas'd, its mis
eion to fulfil :
And sweeping, like a cobweb, off its fabric'a
massive wall
The etain of elav'ry. half redeem'd the corse
which mark'd "the Fall ;"
For Crt since that dread fiat placed on men
the ban of toil.
To wring, by brow aweat, daily bread from half
reluctant soil,
A nation thrives whose ey'ry son whatever
his degree
la equal of his fellow man and, bein houest
free.
M APRIL SUNRISE AND SUNSET.
BT OLIVER BELL.
CUAPTER I.
"Lucy, have you forgotten who is
coming to-night r said Mrs. Gordon,
Itli a reproving glance at her youthful
curly-headed daughter, who stood in
the doorway of the old-fashioned farm
Liu-hen. in an unbecoming wrapper,
curls flying about her fresh, but dis
contented face, aud a Iretrul pout on
her full red lips.
"Xo!" gloomilv replied Lucy, with
out turning her head, her hazel eyes
roaming over the distant meadows.
w here green blades of timothy were
just showing themselves among the
russet brownness of the withered grass
"Are you not going to dress?" her
mother went on, a little sharply.
"Xo."
"Lucv." her mother's face flashed
angrilv. "You ought to be ashamed of
yourself. You treat John Apple ton
outrageously. One day you smile on
him. and the next you won't speak to
him. lie's worth a dozen of that Lnm-
Ix-rt, that you've been flirting with
lately."
Lui-v walked out into the little porch
where John and she had so often talked
the twilight hours away, and muttered,
with a toss of her curly head, "John is
a bear; 1 11 do as I please."
"Verv well," coolly replied her mo
ther, "but take care you don't go too
far."
Luev leaned against a pillar and
watched a tall, straight figure coming
at a swinging pace across the meadow,
with sullen eyes. She knew it was
John, and she did wish John would
star away for a few weeks at least. Not
that she did not love him, for Lucy
cared more for one of John's horny,
brown fingers than she did for the
whole of Gilbert Lambert's perfumed
body, and she meant to marry him some
time in the happy future. But Lucy
was pretty, and with a pretty woman's
vanitv. could not rive up the admira
tion that made her girlhood so bright
and enchanting.
He had shown such a decided repug
nance at her Intimacy with Gerald
I-ambert, that she felt unusually piqued
at him. Yet a feeling of remorseful
pity came into her heart, as the honest
face came nearer and she saw the shadow
on it. She half regretted her careless
toilet, but it was too late to improve it.
for John's keen gray eyes were scanning
her from head to foot.
"Good-evening. Lucy," he said, as he
reached the porch, "what a beautiful
evening!"
He removed his hat and gazed rever
ently ud at the sapphire April sky, and
Lucy aroused out of the sullenness
that bad been nana to Deauiy vi au
kinds, looked around her and grew
suddenly softened at the splendor of
nature's glory.
"What a elorious sunset, Lucy." said
John's solemn voice for John was a
lover of all grand or lovely scenes.
"Lovely!" echoed Lucy, riling her
hazel eyes on the bank of golden clouds
in the western sky, where the sun was
just slipping down behind purple hill
tops, like a lall of ruby flame. Tiny
bits of foam-like clouds flecked the lim
pid blue of the heavens, a warm, golden
glow gilded the earth, freshened and
vivified with April showers. The mu
sical twitter of birds filled the wood
lands, and a strange feeling of awe stole
into Lucy's heart for the glory that
surrounded her seemed more than
earl hi v.
Won't you come in, John," Lucy
said, in a softened voice, with a glance
at the pleasant kitchen her mother had
wisely vacated.
"Xo, Lucy," replied John, seating
himself t,n the porch steps at Lucy's
feet- "What I have to say I will say
here."
Lucy flushed to the roots of her curly
nut-brown hair, and moved a step or
two away from John.
"Look!" she cried, pointing to the
blazing western sky, "that bank of
golden clouds is changing to crimson.'
John looked at the gorgeous panorama
absently.
"Yes, Lucy ; it is a glorious sunset.
We may never see another like it this
side of eternity," he said, dreamily,
sreming to lose himself in some solemn
thought.
"Pooh !" Lucy laughed a little, mu
sical laugh that always set John's pulses
to beating wildly. "You are always
looking at the dark side of things, John.
We w ill watch many a sunset together."
John bounced to his feet and stood
before Lucy, blushing like a girl for
John loved Lucy with no common love,
and the slightest word of encouragement
was eagerly caught at.
"Oh, Lucy," there was a quiver in
his manly voice, "do you think so ?"
"Of course I do," asserted practical
Lucy, edging farther away from him ;
we are not going to die'yet awhile."
"But but you flirt so with Gerald
Lambert," stammered John.
"Jealous ! Fie, John !" laughed Lucy,
with a saucy twinkle in her hazel eyes.
i am not." John suddenly grew
grave and stern. "But vou know I
love you, Lucy, and I cannot stand idly
by and watch another man win you
irom me."
Lucy's face whitened, as it alwavs
did when she was angry, and the soft
ness laaed out or her heart, even as the
goiu was lading out or the western sky.
''You must think I am easily won."
she said, drily. "Gerald Lambert is
ouly a friend.
"He claims to be more than that."
John fixed his steady eyes on Lucy's
confused race. "lam not angry. Lucy.
he went on, steadily, '"but the time has
come when I must speak my mind on a
subject that concerns us both."
John paused and Lucy glanced ner
vously at her faded wrapper, and won
dered if John was really going to pop
the question. She hoped he bad more
sense, for just fancy a man going down
on his knees to a woman so untidily
dressed, thought romantic Lucy.
But John's heart was too full of pure
honest love for the little girl whose
curly head he hoped might nestle on
his bosom for many a year, to notice the
unbecoming toilet, aud his gray eyes
grew tender and loving as be gazed at
the pretty, dimpled lace.
"Lucy," his voice was wonderfully
soft. "I have known you from child
hood, l have loved you all my lire.
Sometimes I have thought you loved
me; at others you have tilled my heart
with cruel rears. Uh, Lucy, love,
cannot bear it a dav longer. You must
choose between Gerald Lambert and
me."
The sullen look came back into Lucy's
eyes. Why could not John let her
alone? She meant to marry him some
day, but not just yet. She loved fun
and frolic, and John was so wise and
steady he grew alarmed at trifles, she
thought, pulling vigorously at a stray
lock of hair that would curl up into a
kink in spite or her.
"What do vou sav. Lucy?" ques
tioned John, " HI you give up Gen
Lambert?"
Lucy's eyes blazed. If he wanted
her love, why could he not leave Gerald
Lambert out of the question.
"Xo !" she replied, sullenly, although
in the same breath she mentally wished
Gerald at the bottom of the sea. She
never lifted her eyes to John's sad face.
"And vou will never marry me, Lucy
never love me as I have loved you r
I here was such passionate fervor,
such heartfelt sorrow in the manly
voice, that Lucy did not dare to look
at him.
"Xo!"
What inward spirit of evil prompted
Lucy to speak that short, sullen word,
Lucy never knew. But it was spoken,
and she lifted her hazel eyes to the sap
phire sky with as placid a gaze as if her
heart was deeply thankful, instead of
being torn by a thousand rebeuous
thoughts.
"Very well."
Years after, the pain and pathos In
those two short words haunted her like
a wail from the grave. John stood be
fore her, calm and self-possessed.
"I will never trouble you again,
Lucy," he said, quietly. "Will you
kiss me once ?"
Lucyfea little awed at the stern
ness of his voice, and trembled at the
thought of losing him forever. But she
was too proud and wilful to take back
her answer unasked, so she playfully
held up her red lips, while John kissed
her with a long, lingering kiss, such as
we give the dead, whose face we shall
never see again.
"Good-bye," he said huskily, as he
strode away, leaving Lucy standing in
the ruby glow of the sunset, with a
wild, scared look on her young race.
"He will come back," she whispered,
"surely surely for I could not bear
to lose John."
She stood in the little porch until the
gold had changed to crimson, the crim
son to purple, that spread itself like a
roval mantle over the western bills, and
white mists settled down on the brooks
that but a moment ago had reflected
the gorgeous rays of the setting sun,
and crept up to her own room with a
strange sense of loss at her heart,
"I will make it up with him to-mor
row," sighed Lucy, as she laid her beau
on the pillow.
But. alas! for all human to morrows,
she knew not what that April sunrise
would bring forth.
CHAPTER II.
Lucy, who had passed a restless night,
was un at the break of day. her glossy
nut-brown hair neatly combed and curl
ed, and attired in a clean wrapper that
set off her plump figure to perfection.
She went out on the lawn, and the
sun coming up in the east tinted her
cheeks with the rose-reu ugnt ot eariy
morning, and down on the meadows
came floods of golden light that bathed
the low green lands in a yellow glow,
and the songs of thrushes and meadow
larks broke out in every hedge and cop
pice. Lucy but vaguely realized the beauty
around her. She bad sorely wounded
the heart of one she loved, but was too
obstinate to own it. and now eagerly
longed for a glance at the honest face
that had been the dearest face in the
world to her.
"Lucy!" called her mother.
Lucy went into the house, to be con
fronted by John Appleton'saged father.
"Where is John?" demanded her
mother.
"John !" echoed Lucy, with a whiten
ing face; "what do I know about John ?
lie went home last night,"
"At what hour?" inquired his father.
"Before dark," replied Lucy, turning
from white to red, as she saw the anger
and astonishment In her mother's face.
"Which path did he take?" said his
father in a cold voice, for Lucy's flirta
tions had often angered him.
"The path across the meadow."
"He never reached home."
"What! screamed Lucy "what can
have happened him ?"
"God knows!" fervently replied far
mer Appleton, as he turned out of the
house in search of his boy.
"Lucy I" Mrs. Gordon went and took
her daughter's ice-cold hands in hers.
"What passed between John and you
last night?" -
"Don't ask me. Let me go in search
of him !" cried Lucy, struggling to free
herself.
"Not one step, said her motner,
firmly, "until you tell me what was
aid." ...
"He asked me to give up ue raid Lam
bert," sobbed Lucy.
"And you reluseu r-
T I did. I'd like to know if I
can't have as many beaux as I please."
Lucy attempted to screen uerseii oj
w bat eise uiu m
u nt1 to imow if I never meant
to marry him, and I said no, though I
didn't mean it a bit."
"You foolish child I
TTr mother threw her from her. and
Lucy dashed out of the house, and the
..m instant was flrinc across the mea
dow Uke one poiiseied. Sha passed Mr.
Appleton, who was wearily trudging
homeward.
"Hoi Lucy," he cried out; "he might
nave lauen over tne crags yonder."
"Heaven forbid t" elaculated Lucv.
But a strange stillness came over her
as she reached a thick coppice of hazel
bushes that divided the meadows from
a ravine, whose steep sides were set
with lagged rocks and clumps of ferns,
The path terminated abruptly on the
euge or this coppice, and another com
menced. a narrow, dangerous oath
winding along the crags, where a mls-
bwjj was ceruuu ueaw.
When Lucy reached the edge of the
ravine, a cloud of foam-like, golden
hued vapor was slowly curling up from
its dark depths and oh, horror! on a
little shelf of rocks, not ten feet from
where she stood, lay John Appleton.
his white, rigid face upturned to the
oiue April sky.
"John !" Lucy cried, standing on the
edge of the crags, with clasped hands
"John, speax to me!"
But John neither spoke nor moved.
ine voice tnat bad never spoken un
kindly to her was silent forever. The
nean sne naa grieved would never
throb in joy or sorrow again.
-ueaii:" sne shrieked out, In an
agony of grief and terror.
The aged father heard the words, and
tottered on n is start, out no murmur
against the justice of this blow inflicted
by His Divine band escaped his lips as
his eyes fell on the dead face of his son.
Lucy's cries had brought Mr.Gordon's
farm bands to the spot, and very ten-
forty they raised the dead body and
bore it homeward. They found a sharp
wound on the temple, where a jagged
point or rocK baa pierced bis Drain,
How he happened to fall no one ever
knew, but Lucy, sitting in her darkened
chamber, weeping bitter, bitter tears,
felt that she had driven him to his
death, and that through the blindness
or grier be bad fallen over the crags.
For months Lucy Gordon hovered be
tween life and death. Some said it was
the shock, others that she had loved
John, but no one but her mother knew
that the memory of her last interview
was killing her. She came to reason,
with death pictured on every lineament
ot ner while lase.
"Carry me down to the little porch,"
she said one April evening, a year after.
And they carried her down, where
she met Gerald Lambert, his almost
boyish face truly sorrowful.
"Lucy," he said, when they were left
alone, "you will get well."
"Xo." Lucy shook her head sadly.
then pointed to the glowing west, where
the sun shone like molten gold. "Do
you see yon beautiful scene, Gerald
the west ail barred with amethyst and
gold the blue sky above us, flecked
with pinks r
"Yes," breathed Gerald, gazing at
the awestruck, spiritual race.
"Well, John and I watched the sun
go down one year ago. 1 was young
and foolish. I refused his love for your
Dovish admiration. And tne sun arose,
aud its rays kissed his dead face, even
as to-morrow morning they will kiss
mine."
She laid her head back exhausted,
while Gerald stroked her thin hands.
"Lucy, are you afraid to die?"
She smiled faintly.
"I drove him to bis death unprepared,
i go punned by sunering."
They carried her back to her couch.
and Gerald watched at her bedside until
the breath left her body. They had
been friends, heedless, thoughtless
mends, and ne sincerely mourned her,
"Bury me beside John" had been her
dying words; and the two who should
bave walked hand in hand through lire.
now rest side dv side in death.
eereta T Iks Tea Trade.
In a tea suit, before Judge Larremore
of Xew York, it was shown that tea
merchants employ "lea-tasters" to
make purchases; that in the export of
teas Irom China the external marks on
the packages are merely fancy, to at
tract the eye, as the custom or the mar
ket here may be, and that often they
mark on the'outside better than the tea
really is. It by no means describes ac
curately the quality or grade of the tea
contained in the box, as, for instance,
the tea marked on the outside, ''English
Breakfast Tea." Such a name is not
known in reality in the trade, and such
a tea as that, as a tea, does not exist; it
is either a Congou or Souchong, or some
such class of tea. The American taste
for teas, it was said, differs entirely
from that of English, and Japan teas
are much more in favor here than in
England. Teas are known and dealt
in China by "chop" names; thus, a
chop of Foochow, Aloyune, or Fychow
will each contain various kinds of tea,
such as those named here: Imperial,
Young Hyson, Gunpowder and Twan-
key. Among the "chop" names are:
Foo Hing. Suly. Hing, Qui Fun, Pun
Fong, Ee Long and ring Tal, the last
named being the most celebrated of the
green teas. A cargo or tea costing on
board ship in China $35,000 had cost
$72,000 on arrival here, and then yield
ed a net profit of $23,000 by the cargo.
Ctlllslaa; Black Bawd.
The Washington correspondent of the
San Francisco Post has this to say about
a certain kind of black sand which is
plentiful on the PacWc coast :
Another industry appears to be about
to spring up whereby a heretofore use
less element of our virgin soil will en
ter largely into the commerce and
manufactures of the Pacific. It ap
pears that there is a peculiar black sand
deposit on the beach at and near the
Oceau House. San Francisco; Gold
Bluff. Mendocino County, and many
other points on the coast, containing
about 80 per cent, of magnetic iron.
This is easily manipulated into first
quality steel, and a razor made by Mr.
Elisba Kice from this sand has been ex
hibited in Washington for some time.
An iudustry of this kind U prosperously
conducted in Xew Foundland, where
large deposits of sand exist, lo have a
treasure like this lying at our door,
where there is so much boasted wealth,
looks like an unhealthy condition of
public investment. It should be looked
into, for "there's millions in it."
tlltx.
fl. in r lirtw mnph hinntnMI rml mn-
vey to each other by kindly notice and
a cheerful conversation. Think how
much sunshine such sociability lets
back Into your own soul. Who does
not feel more cheerful and contented
or receiving a polite now. anu a geniai
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of the hand ? Who does not make him
self happier by these little expressions
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of
ieilOW leeilllg MIU gWN W 111
and a stiff, unbending reserve, are es-
iillv ulHah ami mil trar. The raner-
ous and polite man has pleasant recogni-
i i r..t 1 s.. - .11 L.
tion ana cnwriui wuiu w u
meets. He scatters sunbeams wherever
heroes. He paves the path of others
with smiles. He makes society seem
genial, and the world delightful to
those who would else find them cold,
selfish and forlorn. And what he gives
is but a tithe of what he receives. Be
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lightest words in 'tones that are sweet
and a spirit ma gvuuu. ,
It is conferring a kindness to deny a
favor which you intend to refuse.
jmlat Pvrisn, or the City a the e.
tie.
Xine tenths of our readers will, we
feel pretty sure, be as unconscious as
we ourselves, till recently, were of the
existence close to fans or an lnstitu
tion as peculiar in its object as valuable
in its results, which has been unobtru
sively carrying on its benificent work
during the greater part of a century,
within the reach or thousands or eoun
trymen whose footsteps must have pas
sed Its gates. The building is exten
sive and imposing, at the same that it
is elegant in external elevation and
commodious in internal construction
and arrangements. It stands within
its own pleasure-grounds of seven or
eight acres in extent, tastefully laid out
around the house In gravel walks, gay
flower-borders, and soft lawns; while
the various gradients It offers are taken
advantage of to form sloping turf-banks
down to a beautiful bit or rorest-land
intersected by well-kept paths and
winding streamlets ; arbors and summer
houses and shaded seats, tempting re
treats, whether during noonday heat or
the cool or summer evenings. The
bouse consists of a double semi-quadrangle,
one side of each square garden
thus rormed being open to the sun. but
sheltered from the road by a thick plan
tation. All round these gardens runs
a verandaed terrace, the roof supported
by light columns, up which luxuriant
creepers are trained and festooned
Wide, light, and well-ventilated corri
dors paved with tiles, and like every
part of the institution shining with
cleanliness, give access to the ground
floor rooms. One side is appropriated
to the refractory, a handsome hall fitted
with five and twenty tables, each to ac
commodate ten guests; aud another to
the talon de conversation, or drawing-
room, i here are also a library and
reading-room, a chapel, two infirma
ries, hot and cold baths, a dispensary.
and an admirable suite of household of
fices. On the floor above are more pri
vate rooms, the house being construc
ted to receive 250 inhabitants. These
rooms are contrived with much thought
and taste, and are arranged so as to
form bedroom and sitting-room in one,
the bed and washing apparatus being
shut off within an alcove by folding
doors. The originator, or rather origl
natrix, of this valuable institution was
the Empress Josephine, who in 1303 de
voted a fund for the purpose of subsi
dizing a bouse which should provide
an honorable and attractive retreat for
persons of the higher class fallen into
comparative poverty vauvres konteux,
as they are untranslatably termed but
principally those who had held unpen
sioned offices in the civil service of the
country, comprising, therefore, mem
bers of the haute bourgeosie and of the
noblesse. The entree was to be limited
to persons (of either sex) who had at
tained sixty years, and who had resided
during two consecutive years in Paris.
To soften as much as possible the idea
of charitable support, the inmates are
required to prove themselves in a post
tion to meet the stipulated annual pay,
ment, which was originally nxed at
io0 rrancs, but has now been Increased
to 950. The advantage of this united
expenditure is immeuse, as it would be
quite impossible for the individuals
who thus contribute to a common rund
to live even respectably on the separate
incomes which, thus combined and sub
sidized, provide an almost luxurious
existence, exonerating those who en
joy it from all the labor, thought, vex
tion, and responsibility or housekeep
ing, iuvery detail or lire is provided
for on their behalf, and of its cares they
know nothing but the name. The ser
vice of the house is included in their
payment; and if, through Illness or in
firmity, they require extra personal at
tendance, it is supplied to them, whe
ther by day or by night; even the doc
tor (for there is one residing on the
premises) bestows his care, his vigi
lance, and bis advice, and they have
not so much as the trouble of handing
him his fee. This blessed immunity
alone should add ten years to the lives.
They are gently roused in the morning
by the chirping or birds ana the scent
of Summer flowers. They are not tor
mented for orders; every detail of life
has its established time and place. The
fragrant cup of early coffee awaits their
wakirg moments; at twelve the more
substantial drjeuner; at seven the well
served dinner is announced in the ele-
antly-appointed dining-room ; flowers
ecorate the table and the damask is
snowy white.' The guests, born and
bred amid the refinements of their class,
and faithful to the prestige of their tra
ditions, are by no means neglectful
either of their appearance or their man
ners ; and their regard for their ante
cedents bespeaks itself in their toilet as
well as in the reciprocation or peuts mint
which marks their intercourse.
Liberty complete and unrestricted is.
of course, the order of the day, and they
cannot only receive their mends,
whether during the day or in the even
ing, but can, and often do, absent them
selves on visits during any period they
please, though, it they return home at
night, it must or course be within a
given hour. In the Summer evenings
it is the wont of the little - wor Id of
Sainte Perine to spend the time be
tween dinner and bed on the lawns and
in the bosqueti of the beautiful grounds
at their disposal. In the Winter the so
cial meetings In their common salon re
call the soirees of the best society in the
larger world. eraser t Magazine.
Mil EewMsatea.
When money is put aside to be saved.
it should be put in some place where it
cannnot be directly got at, The very
fact that a little trouble and formula
has to be used prevents it being spent
many a time when it most certainly
would be if it were close at hand.
I said just now that what was spent
for the household was generally a ne
cessary outlay, and yet there are two
or three ways in which money can be
saved I should like to mention here.
The first is by buying in large quan
tities. Of course the danger is that
when there is a stock of things to "run
at," as servants say, they will be more
extravagantly used. All I can say on
this point is that they must not be 'run
at." A proper quantity must be por
tioned out and the rest put away. Then
it will be found that articles may be
bought both cheaper and better in large
quantities than in small ones.
Another way to save expense is to
pay for everything as you get it, If yon
do this you will avoid overcharge, and
will buy far less. If the money had to
be put down at the ' moment many an
unnecessary purchase would be avoided.
People who bave limited incomes are
those who can least afford to live on
credit, and unfortunately they do it
more than any others.
I heard of a workingman the other
day who was very desirous to save, and
yet in looking over his expenditures
he could not detect any extravagance
in any part of it, He came to the con
clusion that the only way in which be
could possibly economize was to walk
to his work instead of .riding, andjto
take his dinner with him from home
instead of baying it in the city. He did
this, and put away the money he thus
saved, and in a few years he found he
had in his possession enough to buy
the cottage in which he lived. He was
besides much better in health for the
regular exercise he had taken.
Speaking of dinner reminds me to say
tnat it is no economy to live poorly, ai
ture requires a certain amount of nonr
ishment, and will have it or be re
venged, and the revenge will, In all
probability, take the form of a long
doctor's bill, or diminished working
power. This sort or saving Is "penny
wise and pound foolish." The things
to save out or are shams, raise appear
ances, and self indulgences, not really
necessaries. Where is the caving in
working in a dim light, to save candles
or gas, and injuring the sight? In
wearing boots that take in water, and
bring on rheumatic fever? Or in living
on poor rood, and lowering the system ?
Far better wear a shabby nat a week or
two longer than usual, or dispense al
together with that piece or finery you
were contemplating. The worst of it
is, however, that generally people are
much more willing to dispense with
necessaries that make no show, rather
than with useless extravagances that
afford an opportunity for display which
everyone sees through. CapelVs Maga
zine.
r. Cfcoat aaad tlx A wlti is Boy.
A great many boys mistake their cal
Ing; but all such are not so fortunate to
find It out in as good season as this one
did. It U said that Rufus Choate, the
great lawyer, was once in Xew Hamp
shire, making a plea, when a boy, the
son of a farmer, resolved to leave the
plow and become a lawyer like Kufua
Choate. He accordingly went to Boston
and called on Mr. Choate, and said to
him :
'I heard your plea up in our town,
and 1 desire to become a lawyer like
you. Will you teach me how?"
"As well as I can," said the great
lawyer. "Come in and set down."
taking down a copy of itlackstone he
said : "Keaa this until I come back, and
I will see how you get on."
The poor boy began. An hour passed.
His back ached; his head and legs
ached, lie knew not how to study.
Every moment became a torture. He
Wanted air. Another hour passed, and
Mr. Choate came and asked : "How do
you get on ?"
"Get on l w by, do you bave to read
such stuff at this?"
"Yes."
"How much of it?"
"All there is on these shelves, and
more !" looking around the great libra-
now long will It take?"
"Well, it has taken me more than
twenty-five years."
"How much do you get?"
"My board and clothes."
"Is that all?"
"Well, that is about all I have gained
as yet,"
"Then," said the boy, "I will go
back to the plowing. The work is not
so bard, and it pays better."
The Eitatlairi Love ifHwai,
At all events, for the Engadiners
themselves, the charm of the valley is
irresistible. Their intense love of
home may serve to explain a peculiarity
which has often been noticed. When
one considers their land and climate,
one fancies that nature has done her
very best to keep the inhabitants in pe
nury. Yet, on entering their houses,
one almost always observes signs of
easy circumstances, sometimes even of
affluence. In fact, it may almost be
said that, of Alpine valleys, the Edga
dine is at once the poorest and richest.
Xo doubt, this general well-being is
partly a result, because a condition, of
a successful struggle with nature; those
only can live and bring up families in
the cold climate who can afford the
comfort which the cold climate requires.
Something also is probably due to
the fitringent rule which existed till
within the last few years, restraining
from marriage persons who bad not
means for the support of a family. But
a similar regulation is said to have pre
vailed in other parts of Switzerland, and
therefore does not account for the pre
eminent prosperity of the Engadine.
That prosperity is commonly ascribed
to the fortunes which the Engadiners
throughout Europe bave made as pastry
cooks. The strange thing, however, is
that these fortunes, having been made
out of tbe Engadine, should ever find
their way into it. Of the wealth ac
quired by Irishmen in America, only a
small part Is brought to Ireland; aud
even patriotic coolies enrich their na
tive land, not with their money but
with their bones. But the emigrant
Engadiners are still of the Engadine,
and unto the Engadine they return;
and tbe only reason they give for their
so returning is that, from their beloved
mountains, they cannot permanently
keep away'. They come back to the
heights from which they went forth
bound, so to say, by a mechanical law,
like that which raises water to its own
level. Xatives of the Engadine and of
the adjacent vail jys use touching lan
guage on this subject, Xot long ago,
at Tiefenkasten, attention was drawn
to two sisters by reason of the marked
difference between them in point of ed
ucation. It was found that both had
been to school at Munich, but that there
the elder of them became ill and melan
choly. The doctor pronounced the ill
ness to be SeiinteeK m recognized and
not uncommon - malady of the Swiss.
The poor girl grew worse and worse,
and drooped as if disappointed in love,
till, at last, she was told to go home,
and to save her life at the expense or
her education. It is probable that her I
case was an extreme one. But of all
the Engadiners, even of those who suc
ceed bast abroad, it may be said that,
like the fallen angels, they count them
selves strangers iu the low country, and
that their one hope is in after years
"To naacend
Self -taitwd, and tuyiiMii Uxtr native Mat,"
Hence, by comparison, it may be judged
how strong a fascination this delightful
valley exercises over the delicate people
whom it exactly suits, particularly over
those who can enjoy tolerable health by
spending season after season in it, and
who can enjoy such beaitn in no other
way. ForUughtlif fieriew.
mtmj mm same.
In learning, concentrate the energy
of the mind principally on oue study;
tbe attention divided among several
studies is weakened by the division;
besides, it is not given to man to excel
in many things. But while one study
claims your main attention, make occa
sional excursions into the fields of liter
ature and science, and collect materials
for the improvement of your favorite
pursuit,
The union of contemplative habits
constructs the most useful and perfect
character; contemplation gives relief to
action ; action gives relief to contempla
tion. A man unaccustomed to spec
ulation is confined to a narrow
routine of action ; a man of mere specu
lation constructs visionary theories,
which bave no practical utility.
Excellence in a profession and suc
cess in business are to be obtained only
by persevering industry. Xone who
thinks himself above his vocation can
succeed in it, for we cannot give our at
tention to what our self-importance de
spises, Xone can be eminent in his vo
cation who devotes his mental energy
to a pursuit foreign to It, for success in
what we love is failure in what we neglect,
As to the style or the hat actually
worn by Penn, it was simply that of the
period. An anecdote has been pre
served or him that sumciently indicates
this. When asked by King James II
the differences between the Catholic
and the Quaker religions, he made a
comparison between tbe hat worn by
the King, which was adorned bv fea
thers and ribbons, and his own, which
was plain. "Tbe only difference," re
plied Penn, "lies in the ornaments
which have been added to thine." Thus
the cut, shape and material of his hat
coum not have varied from the stan
dard of his day; nor would it have
been in keeping with his known char
acter to adopt any peculiarity (of shape
or color) in dress to attract attention.
His practice, and that of Friends of his
day, was in conformity with the rules
of their Society, at that time sufficient
ly evidenced from an original manu
script volume of "Advices by the Year
ly meeting or riends" in my posses
sion. Under date of 1695 is this entry :
"Advised, that all that profess the truth
keep to plainness in apitarel. as becomes
the truth, and that none wear long-lap-
pea sieeves, or coats gathered at the
sides, or superfluous buttons, or broad
nooons about their bats, or long curled
periwigs." This volume of advices be
gins in 1681. In 18V2, the first refer
ence to dress, Friends advised "to take
heed that they be not found in wearing
svperjiuitir ot apparel ;" aud again, in
ibi: -we tenderly advise all both old
and young, to keep out of the world's
corrupt language, manners, and vain,
needless customs and fashions in ap
parel;" while similar cautions are reit
erated "not to launch into the vain cus
toms and fashions too prevalent among
tne proiessors or Christianity." Down
to tbe very middle of the last century
no directions are to be found as to drab
colors or any especial cut of coat. It
was not till about 1760 that the then ex
isting style seems to bave become crvs-
talized iuto a uniform for those profes
sing r nends' principles, and probably
at the same time that the bat-on-head
theory was made an essential indication
of their adherance to "the Truth."
Scribner.
Prises la Schawls.
The practice of giving prizes In schools
is vicious as substituting spurious and
unworthy motives to exertion, where
the very object is to form the character
by bringing generous and ennobling
ucitements into habitual and control
ling exercise. To beat an antagonist.
and win a medal or a purse, is a vulgar
and sordid Inducement to study, and
convicts the school that resorts to it of
inefficiency in its legitimate and most
essential work. It is. moreover, an in
jurious agency in education, as it is
constantly used to stimulate students in
false directions, and to the excessive
cultivation of unimportant subjects.
Our education is in a state of chaos In
regard to the relative values of different
kinds of knowledge. The waste of time
and effort over comparatively worthless
studies is something quite appalling,
and it is everywhere aggravated by
plying scholars with premiums for spe
cial attainments. Rich blockheads, with
narrow notions and tenacious crotchets,
smitten with the vanity of becoming
public benefactors, go into the schools
and found prizes and medals which set
the students to racing In any direction
which the whim or caprice of the donor
mav indicate. This evil is confessed.
and has become so glaring that some
institutions have wisely put a stop to
such interference. But, as It is driven
from the schools, it is taken up by out
siders, as we have seen in the intercol
legiate contests that bave lately come
into vogue. Against this whole system
the Philadelphia policy, as presented in
Mr. Beckwith's report, Is a tacit but
powerful protest. To get things upon
their real merits is a victory anywhere
to do this upon a great, unprecedented
national occasion is a triumph but
there is no reason for adopting the
principle in an exhibition of the pro
ducts of manufacture that will not ap
ply with increasing force to the man
agement of educational establishments.
The Klfht r Llvlaa-.
"To love and to labor is the sum of
living; and yet how many think they
live wno neither labor nor love."
What a gem of thought it is. set in
this quaint, old Saxon ! The first part
of the sentence is a beautiful text for
one's life, while the other is an equally
sad commentary on the "living" of a
great portion or humanity.
And are not these twain, the loving
and the laboring, the one "royal law"
or tne isibier and do they not bring
with them their "own exceeding great
reward ?"
"Ye who seek happiness, be
hold, here is the key '
ine sitting down, rot ling one's hands
and moping away one's life In vain
yearning after affection, will never do
you any good.
Just step out of yourself and live for
and in others. Go out with a brave
spirit into the world and minister to
the wants or humanity. Everywhere
hearts are reaching out to you for help;
everywhere bleeding hearts are needing
tne baim or sympathy anu tenderness.
The little children want your smile.
the old people want some comforting
word; ana the strongest and tbe best
bave their hours of weakness and of
need !"
So, don't sit still, we pray you. for
this is not living. But "whatsoever
your hand fiudeth to do, do it with
your might," with a true, honest heart
and purpose, and no matter how heavy
may oe tne darkness of tbe ntgbt through
which you are walking, the morning
will rise, the flowers will blossom, and
the birds sing about you. Arthur's
Magazine.
Attic Salt.
Thackeray, on sitting down to one of
Delmonico's consummate spreads, ex
claimed, "Xow, boys, don't let us say a
word." ibis showed, undoubtedly, a
nice appreciation of the good things
before bim, and a general sense of the
requirements for the satisfactory dispo
sition of a choice feast. Though serious
discourse of any kind, involving the
m rangle of argument or the tediousness
of long narrative and stolid sermoni
zing, should be banished from the table
and be relegated to the political hall,
the bar, the newspaper-office, and the
pulpit, whence they usually come, en
tire silence while eating is by no means
desirable. "Chatted food," says tbe
old proverb, "is half digested," and
there is no doubt that quiet and agree
ble conversation at meals increases en
joyment and facilitates digestion. The
crisp remark, the brisk banter, the
tart gossip, the spicy anecdote, tbe
sparkling wit and bubbling humor,
when served up iu tbe intervals be
tween the various courses of a meal,
have all the exhilarating effect of wine
without its dangers, prevent dull pau
ses, and sustain that lively flow of the
animal spirits so favorable to the due
performance of every function, especi
ally that of the stomach and its associa
ted organs. The intrusion, however,
of serious discourse and topics of busi
ness requiring deep thought and awake
ning grave reflections or anxious emo
tion is fatal to good digestion.
EnTEMlU AL NOTES.
The United States ship Congress,
has been ordered to Philadelphia, to re
main during the Exhibition.
Iowa plants will be represented by
about 1,500 specimens, collected by
Joseph Arthur, of Charles City, Minn
Among the additions made to Bel
mont Mansion is a large dining room
capable of seating 1,000 persons; five
small ones, each 40 feet square, and a
commodious cafe.
The Iowa Coal Company has for
warded a 4,000-pound lump of coal, cut
in the form of a monument, four feet
square at the base and two at the top,
It was taken from the mines near Os-
kaloosa,
Everything is Centennial red,
white, and blue, or star-spangled ban'
, "Maria !" screams Flora McFlim-
sey, "hand me down that Centennial
pink silk of mine that with the Revo
lutionary bias cut on the John Quincy
Adams ruffle !"
Fredrik M. Wallen, representing
the Bergedt-Posten, the Dramensblad, and
other Swedish papers, has arrived, au
thorized by the Swedish and Xorwegi
an governments to examine the condi
tion of the fisheries of the United States,
and also those of Its geology, meterol-
ogy and topography, and to make a re
port of the same to those governments.
Another chair, which was in Inde
pendence Hall during the session of the
Continental Congress that passed the
Declaration of Independence, has been
presented to the Xational Museum. It
was purchased from the late Edward D.
Ingraham, of this city, by Charles S.
Ogden, who now places it under the
charge of the committee on restoration
of Independence Hall.
An immense chandelier, 24 feet in
length, having a spread of 14 feet, and
weighing 4,000 pounds, has been hung
in the Art Gallery. It is the work of
Messrs. Cornelius A Sons, and is man
ufactured of crystal and gilt in the Ren
naissance style, of a special design, to
accord with the interior design of the
building. Twenty large four light
brackets, of a style to match this chan
delier, are being put up by the same
firm.
A badge of beautiful design has
been adopted by the commission to be
worn by each of its members. It is
made of gold, and consists of an Amer
ican eagle grasping in its talons a hori
zontal bar, upon which are tbe letters
S. C. C. . An escutcheon is suspen
ded from the bar, and the badge is worn
In tbe centre of a blue silk ribbon, at
the top of which is the name in gilt let
ters of the State to which the commis
sioner belongs.
In the display of Tiffany & Co.,
Xew York, will be a number of ele
gant presentation swords, comprising
one voted to Gen. Grant at the Xew
York Sanitary Fair when General Mc
Clellan was his competitor; also, a
sword presented to Admiral Farragut,
one of General Hancock's and many
others belonging to officers of greater
or less celebrity. AU of these have
seen service, and each is associated with
some leading incident of the civil war.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany and tbe Philadelphia River Steam
boat Company bave perfected arrange
ments for the carriage in steamboats of
passengers from the towns and land
ings along the Delaware river, between
this city and Trenton, direct to the Ex
hibition grounds. The transfer from
boat to car will be made at Tacony,
where four boats will arrive daily, the
hours being 8.35 A. M., 12.23, 3.40 and
6.40 P. M. Trains will arrive at Taco
ny from the Centennial grounds at the
hours of 7.40 and 11.50 A. M., and 3.20
and 6.1S P. M.
Xew Jersey will posseess two ob
jects of special interest at the Centen
tennial. One of these is now in the
possession of Mr. E. Bishop, of Boon
ton, and is the original commission, in
a state of perfect preservation, issued
by Congress, October 10, 1776. appoint
ing John Paul Jones a captain in the
United States Xavy. It is signed by
John Hancock, President, and Charles
Thompson. Secretary. The other is the
original deed transferring a portion of
of Xew Jersey from William Penn,
Gauen Laurie, and Xicholas Lucas,
trustees, to John Fenton. It is dated
in the year 1676, is very much worn
and contains three immense seals of
the members of the first part. It is in
the possession of Col. Frank M. Etting,
of Philadelphia.
It is in the United States Building
and nowhere else on the grounds, that
tbe American visitor feels that he is re
ally at home. Here everything that
has contributed to make his country
great and interesting Is thoroughly rep
resented, and no other nation is per
mitted to show its nose anywhere with
in it, The building is filled with ma
chinery and models representing the
workings of every department of the
government, and of departmental
branches, to their minutest ramifica
tions. Important and well organized
as the political display is, it is far ex
ceeded in interest by the representation
of the antiquities of the country and of
its mineral wealth and geological won
ders. Just outside the building work
men are engaged in arranging the par
aphernalia of the "Light-house estab
lishment." A fog-bell, weighing 3,000
pounds, has been hung. It Is operated
by clock-work which, when once
wouud up, is self-working, causing the
immense hammer to ding-dong until
the machinery is either stopped by an
operator or is worn out. Immense af
fairs, made of boiler-iron and looking
like balloons, the lieutenant in charge
says are buoys. A steam-whistle or
fog-signal, which can be heard for a
distance of thirty miles, will be exhib
ited, as will be also everything adopted
in an American light-house of the most
approved kind.
nws nr mn
The Odd Fellows of Memphis pro
pose to establish a public library.
Ex Governor Ames will probably
go into the lumber business in Minne
sota. There is a barber shoo in Atlanta.
ua. in which ail tne barbers are young
women. .
The first Governor of Iowa, Anse
Briggs, is still alive, but in limited cir
cumstances. Major Henry Fulton of the Ameri
can Ride Team, has joined the Massa
chusetts Rifle Association.
During the last ten years 60,000
tramps have been furnished with lodg
ings iu the station-house at Elizabeth,
X.J.
A Xew Jersey boy ten years old is
getting up a company and going to play
"Hamlet' on the stage. Give the boys
a chance.
There has just been woven at Far-
mington, Utah, the first silk handker
chief ever produced in that territory
Irom native silk.
A citizen of Dallas. Texas, has in
his possession ac inkstand once used
by the Empress Eugenie, and he only
wants $350 for it.
The Government life-saving service
to be introduced on the lakes the pres
ent season, promises to become as effi
cient as on the seaboard.
Tbe Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company announces that it owns 30,000
miles of wire, that its assets are $313.-
300, and liabilities $279,204.
A Pittsburg cutlery manufacturer
says, tbe Georgia and Alabama ore is as
valuable for making cutlery as the
Swedish ore, hitherto exclusively used.
A Texas court recently sentenced
one man to six months' imprisonment
for burglary and attempted arson, and
another to fifteen years for stealing a
horse.
FiveThundred boys are educated at
Girard College, Philadelphia, but the
legacy has so largely increased that
room is being made for two thousand
pupils.
The principal band-masters of Xew
York are a Spaniard, an American, an
Lngushman, an Irishman, and an Ital
ian. Xine-tenths of the musicians are
Germans.
Peoria, Illinois, is the largest dis
tilling point in tbe United States, and
will pay this fiscal year over $7,500,000
revenue to the Government on distilled
spirits alone.
The Ohio Legislature has passed a
bill providing for the punishment, by
fine and imprisonment, of all persons
who get on and off railroad trains that
are in motion.
The Xew Jersey legislature has
passed a bill fining whoever cheats
pis and water companies $100 and fin
ing gas and water companies that know
ingly use poor meters $500.
Dr. J. S. Sylvester, one of the most
distinguished mathematicians of Eng
land, has been appointed to the chair
of advanced mathematics in the John
Hopkins university at Baltimore.
The Centennial Committee of the
Philadelphia Councils nave decided not
to have the crack in the old indepen
dence Bell repaired, believing that it Is
too precious a relic to be meddled with.
Grace Greenwood repudiated her
husband. Leander Lippincott, wbo has
just been repudiated at Washington,
many years ago. She found out he was
bad before the democratic investigators
did.
The third annual report of the
stockholders of the United States Cen
tennial Exposition, says there will be a
deficiency in the funds of $1,500,000,
which must be made up by admission
fees.
A Rochester gentleman proposes to
give to the University of Virginia, a
cabinet of minerals worth $25,000, and
$13,000 for a building, provided $12,00
is subscribed for its preparation and
care.
The Speaker of tbe English House
of Commons has to invite each and
every member to dine with him once
during the session, and as there are 654
members, this demands a good deal of
hospitality.
Vienna Deinorest, daughter of the
Xew York milliner and dressmaker ban
abandoned her intention of making a
career as a public singer. The quality
of her voice is unimpaired, but it has
lost all power.
Boston, the colored cashier of the
Freed man 'a Savings Institution in
Washington, accused of tampering with
the funds of that institution, looked be
hind bis desk the very personilicatioii
of respectable freedom.
Mme. Bonaparte Patterson of Bal
timore is recovering. She long ago ex
pressed the belief that she would reach
the age of one hundred years, and al
though over ninety, is remarkable for
her tenacity of will and physical endu
rance. .
The most costly private residence
at the West is that just completed by
George M. Pullman, of Chicago, of pal
ace car fame. It is built of massive
blocks of brown stone, and the build
ings, grounds, and furnishing cost, it is
stated $300,000.
The hitherto unknown giver of $25
000 toward the Centennial endow nment
fund of $500,000 for the Wesleyan Uni
versity in Middletown, Conn., proves
to be Oliver Hoyt, of Stamford, 4 onn.,
who some years ago gave $25,01 i) to the
same institution.
Mrs. Marshall of Chicago can out
walk Mrs. Hudson of St. Louis. She
did it at Fort Wayne, Ind., the other
day, walking one hundred and fifty
miles while the latter only made one
hundred and forty-seven miles. They
are going at it again for $150 a side.
A blast of one thousand kegs of
powder was recently fired in a mine in
Nevada county, Cal. It loosened up
ready for washing, about 200,000 cubic
yards of earth. The bank was over
200 feet in height, and the mass was
raised bodily tour feet. The explosion
was a complete success.
The Xew Jersey courts bave de
ciden that bets on election are void, and
that the stake-holder is bound to return
the loser his money. There will prob
ably be more betting hereafter in New
Jersey than there has been heretofore.
The people of that State are fond of
economical excitement.
John nail, of Xorth Troy, Vt,, has
I seven children, four of whom, under
fourteen years oi age weign pounds
each. The youngest are twin girls,
ten years of age.healthy and intelligent.
These children have each ten well
formed fingers, two thumbs and twelve
toes. Mr. Hall has done his duty for
the centennial year.
It is said that the oldest church ed
ifice in America, excepting a Romish
church in St. Augustine, is St. Luke's,
Isle of Wight county, Va., about five
miles from Smith field. It was built as
early as 1U35, and after being roofless
for a century, the present roof was put
on somewhere between 1S30 and 1S35.
It is now used for worship, and the
grounds around it are used for burial.
Its thick walls and high tower are still
strong.
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