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B. F. SCHWEIER,
THI COH3TTTBTI03 THI USION AlfD THJ E5F0RCEMEST OF THI LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXX.
MIFFLINTOAVN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER- 15. 1S76.
NO. 46.
RARITY.
In dr nw I f onnd a wondrooa land
rudiant with roses od each band.
No prasses. trees, nar shrubs were there,
lint roses blossoming event-where.
Crest velvet peUled blooms were these ;
lied millions trembled in each breeze.
Tiiey swept toward the borizoo'a verge
In many a splendid ample surge ;
Tliev spread on all aidea one hit use
Mouct.my of niayaiflceoce.
Then suddenly, where my pathway ran,
Ixxuiied the vague preaenoe of a man.
And in bis clasp, with strange delight,
I saw oue daisy, glimmering white.
Such daisies bloom in slender sprays
l'.v throngs among J ane's meaJowed ways.
Vet all my soul at tbia weird boor.
Issued out to that oue simple flower.
For chanteJy, delicately fair,
Aud. better still, supremely rare,
It wore a pastoral charm so sweet.
This lovely lissom Marguerite,
That seein it was like dear repose
Tj me. whose whole heart loathed a rose.
Harper' Magazine.
The Sacrifice.
I TiV (IK TUE SEVENTEENTH CENTfRY
It was in the year 1001 that a young
man sat at a table in the front room of
a house in the town of Nordhausen, and
1 1 in time to time passed his fingers
nervously through his long yellow hair,
as he perused a pamphlet entitled "Fama
vutcrhiMU laztUiMii orduut Eus&cnt-
The windows of his chamber looked
out upon the square, and it beiug mar-
k. t day, there was the sound of many
voices and the incessant tread of wooden
hoes in the street below.
Karl Stolberg, however, heeded not
the noise of busy tongues or the tinkle
of coats' hells, but passed his hand
slowly across his brow, and throwing
himself in his seat, gazed vacantly at
I lie smoky ceiling.
As he thus sat, there came a faint tap
:.l the door, and without waiting for
l-rmissiou to enter, a young girl, ap
parently eighteen years of age, game
i:ito the chamber and stood beside the
l.alf-iincouscioiis mau who still retained
his Mture. Laying her hand lightly
i. kmi his shoulder, she said: "Day
dreams and castle building will never
make one rich enough to wed."
At the sound of her voice Stolberg
started, and looked upon her with a
pleasant hut sad smile.
"Ah! 'tis you, Sophie, he replied,
taking her hand and drawing her af
fectionately to his side.
"Wht have you here?" asked the
girl, picking up the pamphlet and gaz
ing on the title-patre. Then she added,
"What a pity 1 cannot read it. I per
ceive it is written in a dead language."
" Tis Latin, my dear girl, and, of
course, you cannot read it; but even
could you do so, I fear it would benefit
you nothing. 'Tis not a book to interest
women. Sometimes I fear subjects like
this will drive me mad. I think and
think and think, my mind becoming
so imbued with the mysterious, that I
scarce know what I say or do. Yester
day I did not eat at all; forgetting that
there was such a thing as food. in the
or Id ; or that I required it."
"You shall not read such things
then," exclaimed the girl, reaching
forth to lay hold of the book. "I will
not have you go crazy, because you are
to he my husband, and I have a right
to protect you, even against yourself."
Stolberg smiled as he stayed Sophie's
hand, and taking the pamphlet, he
plai-ed it in a drawer, and locking it,
put the key in his pocket,
"I was going to market," said the
girl, so I merely stop for a moment to
w ish you good morning, and "
"Give me a kisss," exclaimed Stol
berg, suitingthe action to the word.
Sophie betrayed no anger at the young
man's boldness. She merely laughed,
and pushing him gently aside, said:
'I must be gone. Will you come
with me to the market place?"
"Alas ! Sophie, I cannot," replied her
lover, glancing at the clock with its
two long weights reaching nearly to
the floor. "1 cannot, my dear, I am
expecting llerr Moeller here every in
stant." "I dou't like that man," said Sophie,
"I never shall like him, and I don't
w ish to either," and she tried to uiske
her pretty little mouth look stern.
Karl only laughed.
"Tut, tut," be answered. You must
not indulge in such prejudices. Moel
ler is a very learned person, and I tell
you there are few like him in our coun
try; perhaps not In all Europe."
"But he talks so strangely," replied
Sophie; don't seem to live in the world
like other people. One would think to
hear him converse that he came from
another planet. I dontlikehim.Isay."
Just as she uttered this last sentence
Herr Moeller stood directly before her.J
having ascended the stairway so noise
lessly that Sophie was not aware of his
approach, lie bowed stiffly to her, and
passing into the room the girl hastened
away to conceal her confusion.
Herr Moeller was about fifty-five
years of age ; his hair, which originally
was black, now was thickly streaked
with white, and worn long, falling
ujou his shoulders. His eyes were
dark and piercing, deep set, and shaded
by bushy brows. His teeth were as
white as pearls, and very regular. He
ws smooth shaven, and his face, though
full, was sallow.
When he entered Karl Stolherg's room
he dropjied quietly into a chair, and fell
into a reverie. Stolberg, who knew
-Mueller's peculiarities, did not inter
rupt him for a few minutes, but at
length remarked: "Well, my friend,
1 have been studying your book, and
"Mifess 'tis a wonderful subject for
"lie's thoughts."
Herr Moeller raised his eyes and re
plied: "Truth is always consistent
:th itself, and needs nothing to assist
!-" Then abruptly changing the sub
jt he said : "Your marriage day ap
proaches, I believe; at least you told
me so."
"Two months from to-dav. I wed
Sophie," replied Stolberg.
Herr Moeller gazed compassionately
at the speaker. "You. of coure, expect
to be happy with your wife?" he said.
"I hope so, certainly," responded
Stolberg.
"You told me the other day," con
tinued Herr Moeller, without appear
ing to notice Stolherg's answer to this
question ; "you told me the other day
there was nothing you desired so much
as knowledge. Can you balance fifty
or sixty years for I suppose that's
about the time your married life will
last) against centuries of enjoyment
that knowledge will bestow? Believe
me, if your marriage be happy, joy will
make you grieve for the brevity of life.
But suppose it should not be happy,
then sorrow will cause you to be weary
of its length.
Stolberg shook his head.
"Sophie is beautiful; she is good,
likewise," be replied.
"In fifty years," replied MoeUer."the
beauty at whose altar you are about to
sacrifice combined youth, health, and
surpassing know ledge will have passed
away forever."
"But Sophie's mind will remain,"
quickly retorted Stolberg.
Herr Moeller gave a short, dry laugh ;
there was no merriment in it.
"Your happiness willl be like a pol
ished steel," he replied, "spoiled by a
breath."
'Love is all of life worth living for,"
said Stolbarg. "If I were to enter your
fraternity there would be a picture in
my memory that would forever haunt
me, and I should always curse the hour
in which I bartered love for knowledge.
Think you I could forget Sophie?"
Without noticing Stolherg's question,
Herr Moeller remarked In an abstracted
way:
"Rosencrux lived for two hundred
years after his reported decease."
Stolberg started.
"You surely do not mean that !" he
exclaimed.
"I surely do," replied Moeller. "Ro
sencrux was supposed to have died in
1-148, and for reasons which those of
our fraternity well understand, our so
ciety fostered the Idea. But he really
lived for two centuries after. The way
of prolonging life is one of our Secrets,
and can only be communicated to the
initiated. I can only say to you that
its duration depends on the influence of
the stars. Paracelsus was oue of our
fraternity, and it is to him we are in
debted for the elixir of life."
"Suppose, for instance, some member
of your fraternity should violate his
obligation and expose the secret?"
asked Stolberg.
Herr Moeller's white teeth were
plainly visible by the smile that played
on his lips.
"The members of our society," he re
plied, "bind themselves by an oath so
extraordinary that even a mere attempt
to violate it is prevented by death."
"Your conditions are doubtless very
severe," (aid Stolberg.
"You could easily fulfil them," re
plied Moeller. "You must be free from
crime you must separate yourself from
the world aud all In it, and take a vow
of celibacy. This is all."
"That I could never do while I so
love Sophie," exclaimed Stolberg.
"You will do it, nevertheless, re
sponded Moeller. Ills words almost
caused Stolberg to tremble, for there
was a certain positiveness about them
that almost sounded like a prophecy.
"I will see you again ere long," he
said. "Now adieu; 1 am to meet one of
our most venerated members from Ara
bia; he Is three hundred years old."
Karl Stolberg gazed after the speaker
in a sort of dumb wonder.
"Three hundred years old, he mur
mured. "Can this be true?"
Stolberg graduated at the University
when he was twenty years of age. Now
he was twenty-four. Deeply immersed
in science, he had already established
for himself a brilliant name. His fu
ture promised to make that name illus
trious. He bad peculiar notions on
cei tain subjects. One of them was that
a man should never marry until he was
twenty-five and never after he was
forty. He was possessed of a moderate
fortune, which he could have augmented
at any moment by accepting the differ
ent professorships which were offered
him, but preferred rather to live quietly
and pursue his studies, until he mar
ried, when it was his intention to con
nect himself with some of the institu
tions of the country. He had accident
ally met Sophie Krummach when he
was out botanizing on the mountains
one day, and became so impressed with
her beauty and guileless manners that
he never afterward lost sight of her,
ard she finally became his betrothed.
Her father was a poor man with a large
family to support, and his business was
that of a carver of wooden figures.
Often would Karl Stolberg sit for hours
and watch Krummach at his work, and
wonder at the man's extraordinary ge
nius, while the wood-carver would, on
his part, wonder how a man like the
great Karl Stolberg could find amuse
ment iu watching bira make chips. Be
tween these two men sprang up a
strange sympathy. Widely separated I
in intellect, they were closely knit in
the bond of communion and friendship.
Stolberg at one time endeavored to im
prove Krummach's mind by imparting
some elementary principles of science,
but the man of wooden figures sho3k
his head and declared it impossible to
comprehend the scientist. From that
day Karl Stolberg was satisfied to watch
Krummach at his work, aud refrain
from introducing subjects which dis
tracted the old man's mind.
Something like two weeks from the
date of Herr Moeller's last visit, Stol
berg was sitting ir. his room engaged in
study, when one of the younger child
ren of Krummach came to announce
htm that Soohie had oeen laaeu sud
denly ill with a dangerous sickness,
and that she desireu nis present.
snatch up his hat and cane was the
f a moment only, and he was
quickly on the street, walking with long
strides toward the resiuenuo . u. -loved
Sophie. He directed the best
medical advice to be summoned, and his
distress of mind was very great.
For three weeks the uownuniw .
lay delirious, aud the physicians de
clared that she must die, as everything
possible to be done to save her had been
tried, aud notwithstanding, she was
hourly sinking.
A sickening despair took possession
of Stolherg's mind, and he rarely ever
left Krummach's house, except to wan
der out and take air by a short walk.
It was on oue of these occasions that
he spied Herr Moeller ahead of him,
and he hastened to overtake him to re
late his grief.
"I would sacrifice all I possess to save
Sophie's life !" he exclaimed.
"You know how to do it," replied
Moeller.
"You are certain of it?" asked Stol-bc"g-
...
"Perfectly," answered the other.
"I accept," said Karl, with a deep
sigh.
Linking his arm in that of Stolherg's
Moeller took him to a large old build
ing, the interior of which was so dark
that it was necessary to light it with
lamps. It was nearly midnight when
Karl emerged from the dark portals of
the door. What passed in those four
hours was alone known to himself and
those concerned. But he hastened to
the Krummach dwelling, and was met
at the door by the wood-carver.
"She's dying," was the man's reply
to Stolherg's question.
He rapidly entered the house. The
physician was sitting by the bed with
his finger on the girl's pulse.
'She will not live twenty minutes,"
said the doctor.
"She will live many year9," cried
Stolberg, placing a small phial to the
girl's lips and pouring a green liquid
down her throat. "I say she will live!'
shouted Karl.
The physician gazed at him with as
tonishment, and thought his grief had
crazed him; but an hour later So
phie slept quietly, and when morning
came she arose from her bed and went
about her domestic duties as if she had
never been ill at all. Her recovery was
regarded in the light of a miracle, and
was the talk cf the town, while the
medical men looked at Karl Stolberg
with curious eyes.
It wanted but a short time of the day
appointed for Stolherg's marriage, and
he was walking with Sophie, when she
asked him something in relation to the
event.
Then he told her when she lay upon
her bed of sickness and mortal aid
seemed unavailing, he joined the "Fra
ternity of the Kosy Cross" in order to
save her from death.
Sophie heard him in silence. Her
face grew pale, but she never spoke
until she took his band at parting.
Then she simply said, "Farewell !"
Stolberg watched her as she walked
away from his sight; then he sought
the dismal old building w here he bad
taken up his abode, and gave himself
up to his own reflections.
One hundred years passed away, and
Sophie Krummach had long been dead.
Her grave was among the willows in
the churchyard at Nordhausen. None
of the Krummachs lived in the old
town. Their very name was scarcely to
be read on the tombstones, which were
crumbling away. But often at nights,
when the moon had climbed Iier high
est, and the low, plaintive wind swept
the willows, Karl Stolberg, still as
young and inspired as ever, would
walk from the dark portals of the old
building and seek Sophie's grave, where
he would linger forever. At last, how
ever, his visits ceased altogether, for
Stolberg and Herr Moeller went to Ara
bia, to live in the company of the
greatest 6cer on earth, who was in the
four hundredth year of his age.
- It was believed that Stolberg lived for
several hundred years, and finally died
iu the East. . The credulous people have
a legend that twice a year Karl's ghost
journeys to Nordhausen and seeks the
resting-place of Sophie Krummach's
dust at night, where it performs strange
mysteries over her grave.
Little Tbia.
It is only a little thing only a sacri
fice therefore it is not appreciated.
How many admirable actions are over
looked because they are little and com
mon ! Take, for instance, the mother,
who has had broken slumber, if any at
all, with the nursing babe, whose
wants must not be disregarded; she
would fain sleep awhile when breakfast
hour comes, but patiently and uncom
plainingly bikes her timely seat at the
table. Though exhausted and weak,
she serves all wiUi a refreshing cup of
coflee or tea before she nil it herself;
and often the cup is handed back before
she has time to sip her own. Do you
hear her complain the weary mother
that her breakfast is cold before she
has had time to eat it? And this is not
for one, but for every morning, perhaps,
through the year. Do yon call this a
small thing? Try it and see. Oh!
how woman does shame us by her for
bearance and fortitude in what are
called little things! Ah! it is these lit
tie things that are testa of character; it
is by these "little," denials, borne with
such self-forgotten gentlem, the hum
blest home is made beautiful, though
we fail to see it, alas! unVil the chair is
vacant, and the baud that kept in mo
tion all this domestic machinery U
powerless and cold.
Oae Way ta Get Rich.
Vniiilnop Is more easv than to grow
rich. It Is only to ti ust nobody, to be
friend none, to sret everything and save
all you can get. to stint ourselves and
everybody belonging to us, to be the
friend of no man and have no man for
your friend, to heap interest upon in
t..mt r-ent uiMin cent: to be mean, mis
erable and despised, for some twenty
or thirty years, and riches will come as
sure as disease. and disappointment.
And w hen prettf nearly enough wealth
ta .wtiwteri bv a disreeard of all the
charities of the human heart, and at the
excuse of every enjoyment save that
of wallowing in filthy meanness, death
comes to finish the work; the body is
buried in a hole, the heirs dance over
it, aud the spirit goes where?
tJotale Fa ra I tare.
The reader will easily understand that
in order to build his modern bouse and
furnish it accurately in the Gothic, If
that Is the style chosen and unless ac
curately, best not at all it as necessary
for him to understand something of the
origin, the genesis, and method of use
of each article as it is for him to know
how to count in order to cast up a sum
in addition. It is. indeed, impossible
for him, with all the new requirements
of life, to furnish it in specimens of the
ancient Gothic alone. Nothing Is so
absurd as your ''Middle Age mannners
adapter," who does not take the differ
ence in time into account, who attempts
to reproduce the ancient, and leavea the
modern out of his consideration. The
best that can be done, the only thing
that should be done, Is not to reproduce
the ancient simply, but to adapt the an
cient to the modern, and In order to do
that, one needs some archaeological
knowledge, a tolerably definite idea of
the way affairs were ordered In the days
that are gone.
It would be idle to Ignore the allevia
tions of existence that modern times
have compassed, in order to produce a
perfect picture in our dwelling of the
ancient, with Its struggle for conveni
ence and its result of incoveuience; to
forego the illumination of our rooms
with great sheets of mirrors, for in
stance, because Aregonde looked at her
beauty ou ly in a hand-mirror; to re
fuse the use of gas, because in the me
diaeval rooms pitchy torches hung In
hooks upon the wall, oil burned In cups,
and wax la the great-chain swung cop
per circles ; to drop piano, book-case,
pipes, photographs, wall-paper, because
the mediaeval never heard of them ; to
Insist upon a coin forties chair, because
the Gothic spine was made of steel. One
might as well refuse to read a poem of
Tennyson's because It was not written
in black-letter. And thus nobody pro
poses to do It.
The way to furnish our houses accor
ding to the Gothic style would seem to
be to violate no generally accepted mod
ern custom in adhering to mediaeval
form. We are not going back to medi
aeval life; we are bringing the Gothic
to add beauty to our life our life, which
is confessedly loftier than the medixval
In every purpose and atttainment, with
the single exception of invention in art.
If we take the Gothic where our ances
tors left it, and apply its principles to
the exigencies of the present, we shall
avoid the great danger that threatens
the age of crystallizing where we are,
and becoming nothing but Chinese copy
ists. We shall certainly have to make
new combinations of old forms; In mak
ing those combinations we may possibly
alight upon new forms.
Haw a Haeea Baa Away.
A long time, more than seven hun
dred years ago, and three centuries at
least before Colnmbus discovered
America, there was born in England
a little girl to whom they gave the
name of Matilda. Her father was the
king, Henry I., suriinmed Beauclerc,
because he was a good scholar, though
I rather fancy our high-school boys
could beat his learning without trouble.
When little Matilda was five years
old she became married to the Emperor
of Germany.
The little Empress Matilda was the
only child left to the King, and he set
his heart on bequeathing to her the
crown of England. Before his death,
in 112S, he called the nobles of his
kingdom together, and made them
swear allegiance to her as a queen.
The Emperor, Matilda's husband, had
died before this, and Matilda was mar
ried again to the French Earl of Anjou.
After her father's death she came to
England and was crowned at Winches
ter. All her lifelong whether as princess,
queen, o'' empress, Matilda showed
herself vain, passionate, vindictive,
hasty, arrogant, and inconsiderate of
other people.
She exasperated the common people
by imosing heavy taxes and making op
pressive laws, just when she should have
conciliated and soothe them. England
had never been ruled by a Queen be
fore. Both nobles and people disliked
the idea of a queen, and Matilda did
nothing to make her sex popular. She
w as ungenerous also. Her cousin and
rival, Stephen, who afterward became
king in her stead, once surprised and
captured her in Arundel Castle, and In
stead of detaining her, courteously let
her go, and even furnished her with an
escort to her friends. Later, she in
turn, captured Stephen, but, far from
remembering his kind treatment and re
ciprocating it, she loaded him with
chains and threw him into the dudgeon
of Bristol Castle.
A little longer and It was again
Stephen's turn. He made his escape
from Bristol, gained one battle after
another, and pursued Matilda so hotly,
that more than once she slipped through
his fingers as if by a miracle. These
escapes of Queen Matilda arc celebrated
in history. Whole volumes of romances
might be written about them, so strange
and picturesque and astonishing are
they.
Once, when the citizens of Loudon
rose suddenly against her, she got oil
by jumping on her horse and galloping
out of the city only five minutes before
the gates of her palace were battered
down. Another time she fled from
Gloucester in the same way, the Earl of
Gloucester and a few gallant knights
remaiug behind to keep the pursuers
at bay. Again it is said she feigned
death, and was carried in a hearse with
a long train of mourners all the way
from Gloucester to Devizes. But, most
romantic of all, and most adventurous,
was her escape from Oxford.
Oxford boasted a strong castle in
those 'days. Into this the empress
queen had thrown herself, and for three
months had defended it bravely. Then
provisions gave out, and tncre was no
hope but flight. But how to fly? Ste
phens army lay on every side like cats
round a mouse-hole.
It was in this extremity that an un
expected ally came to the rescue of
Queen Matilda. This ally was no other
than that doer cf good turns, Jack
Frost. One December night he silently
went down, laid a cold hard floor across
the river Thames wrapped all the
world hi fleecy snow, and then, flying
to the castle windows, tapped with his
crackling icy knuckles, sang, and made
many sorts of odd noises, as much as to
say, "All Is ready, come out and take a
walk."
Matilda heard, and a bright plan
popped into her-daring head. She
called four trusty knights, bade them
wrap themselves in white, put on her
self a white dress aud cloak, covered
her black hair with a white hood, and,
like spirits, all five set forth on foot.
Their steps made no noise as they crept
along and their white figures cast hard
ly a shadow on the whiter snow.
Through the beseiging camp they
crept, and across the frozen river. No
sentinel spied them, not even a dog
barked. If any lonely peasant woke
up and caught a glimpse of the dim
shapes gliding by he probably took
them for ghosts, and bid bis head under
the bedclothes again as fast as possible.
So, sometimes ou foot, sometimes on
horseback, but always un pursued and
in safety, the fugitives sped on, until
they reached Wallingford, where Ma
tilda's army lay, and were secure.
"Caeaaa III
The greatest ammunition that we
have heard of lately was used by the
celebrated Com. Coe, of the Montevldl
an navy, who in an engagement with
Admiral Brown, of the Buenos Ayres
service, fired every shot from his lock
er.
"What shall I do, sir?" asked the
first lieutenant; "we've not a single
shot aboard round, grape, canister,
and double headed all gone."
"Powder gone, eh?" asked Coe.
"No, sir got lots of that."
"We had confounded hard cheese a
round Dutch one for desert at dinner
to-day, don't you remember it?" asked
Coe.
"I ought to; I broke the carving-
knife iu trying to cut it, sir."
"Are there any on board?"
"About two dozen took 'em from a
drover."
"Will they go in the IS pounders?"
"By thunder, Commodore, that's the
idea; I'll try em," cried the first luff.
And in a few minutes the fire of the
old Santa Maria (Coe's ship), which
had ceased entirely, was opened and
Admiral Brown found more shot flying
over his head. Directly one of them
struck his mainmast, and as it did so
it scattered in every direction.
"By Jove, this is too much; this is
some Paixham or other I don't like
'em at all?" cried Brown. And then as
four or five more of them came slap
through his sails, he gave the orders to
fill away, and actually backed out of
sight, receiving a parting broadside of
Dutch cheese.
A .rva Aetreea.
Laferriere, says a French journal,
has been playing "The Poor Idiot" iu
the provinces. At one small town the
stock company was very nervous about
playing with the great star, especially
a hapless woman who was cast for the
mother, and with whom Laferriere has
the crack scene of the piece. It is in
the fifth act, at the moment that the
idiot begins to recogouize and distin
guish the persons that surround him;
then she rushes to him and, folding him
lii her arms, shrieks: "My sou, lam
your mother !" At every rehearsel La
ferriere encouraged her. "Don't be
nervous," he would say ; "keep cool.
All you have to do is to cry, "My son,
I am your mother, and embrace me."
"Oh yes, but, M. Laferriere, I am too
frightened to play with you." All went
well through the first four acts, and in
the wait before the fifth Laferriere went
to the actress' dressing-room to cheer
her. "Keep up a stiff upper lip," he
said, cheerfully; "you know what you
have to do. The whole play leads up
to that scene. I reckon on you. "My
son, I am your mother!' aud embrace
me." "Yes, yes; 'my son, I am your
mother !' I shall not forget." The cur
tain rose. Laferriere was playing with
even more than his furious vigor." The
crisis comes and the lady clasps him to
her bosom. "Now, then," he whis
pered encouragingly ; then, taking np
his part, yelled: "Who is this woman?
Who is she ?" "My mother 1 1 am your
son!" gasped the actress; then she
shrieked. Laferriere had made his teeth
meet in her arm !
The Falser.
He is the appointed head of the fam
ily. He may rule by love, but it is his
right and duty to rule; and to him, as
the monarch of that little state, must
be the last apjteal. Hence he appears
before his children invested with au
thority the divinely appointed repre
sentative of law; and If he worthily
sways the sceptre over his little realm,
he develops in his children some of the
most desirable traits of character. If
love is one of the traits of family hap
piness, order is another; and it is his,
in the last appeal, to support order. If
the sympathies and affections of child
ren should be developed, so should their
spirit of obedience to rightful author
ity. It is undoubtedly desirable to
raise the mother's authority to the hluh-
est degree; and when the father is what
he should be, and does what be should
do, she stands invested, in the eyes of
her children, with a power combining
an indirect reverence for the father,
who appears ouly to sustain the mater
nal rule, w ith direct obedience to her
own gentleness.
Slaw wad Sars. -
The danger of early eminence has
been extended by some, even to the
gifts of nature; and an opinion has
been long conceived that quickness of
invention, accuracy of judgement or
extent of knowledge, appearing before
the usual time presagi-s a short life.
Even those who are less inclined to
form eeneral conclusions from instanc
es which by their own nature must be
rare have yet been inclined to prognos
ticate no suitable progress from the first
sallies of rapid wits ; but have observed.
that alter a short enort tney eitner
loiter or faint, and suffer themselves to
be surpassed by the even and regular
perseverance of slower understandings.
Lr. Johnton.
Nine persons are still living who
have been Governors of Rhode Island.
Mcarette HbmblIbs;.
The smoking of cigarettes has become
so common that it has made very seri
ous Inroads upon the business of the
cigar makers. According to the report
of the commissioner of internal revenue
for 1875, the number of cigarettes manu
factured in this country, taxed at $1.50
per thousand, was 27,311.500; and of a
larger sort, taxed at $ 1.75, there were
13.98C.373 in that year. In addition to
this large quantity of cigarettes of he aie
production large quantities are brought
from Havana. Cigarettes that cost only
twenty-eight dollars per thousand pac
kages in Havana, or from forty to forty
five dollars In bond gold understood,
of course cost, after duties are paid,
one hundred and forty live dollars, gold,
or, say, from one hundred and sixty
five to one hundred and seventy dollars,
currency. The explanation of this ex
orbitant price is, that whereas prior to
1374 each bundle of cigarettes was
counted as a single piece and so taxed,
now each cigarette in tbe bundle is held
to be an independent piece, and ia taxed
as much as should be taxed for the
whole bundle. About five months ago so
many smuggled goods were In the mar
ket, underselling the honest importa
tions and still paying enormous profits
to the smugglers, that there was rcarcely
any sale for the duty-paid articles. It
is so easy to throw overboard from an
incoming steamer, to a confederate in a
boat, a few thousand packages of ci
garettes, neatly wrapped up in sheet
rubber or oiled silk ; and the profit on
tbe transaction four hundred or five
hundred per cent. is so tempting, that
tbe wonder really is, not that cigarettes
are smuggled, but that we have any
from Havana that are not. The best
Cuban cigarettes are the Uanradez, Ha
bana, Astrea, Chorito, Garcia and Hen
riquez. They are made of the scraps
from the cigar factories and wrapped
In the thick, coarse, white or light
brown Spani.-b paper, that burns with a
smell. The delicate French paper, on
the other hand such as Papier Fer
san, Sans Norn, Job, or Riz la Croix,
made of rice straw or hulls is very
much thinner, burns without any smell,
if the genuine artice, and is so pure that
if a lighted sheet of it is thrown into
the air, it is almost so entirely consumed
that the eye can scarcely discern the
delicate film of snowy ash it leaves; all
cigarette smokers agree that the purest
and most delicious wrapper is tbe thin,
inner husk of Indian corn. The primi
tive wrapper used by the natives of San
Salvador, as first seen by Columbus,
was a palm leaf in a sort of small fun
nel, in which the dried leaves of the to
bacco were placed. Fire was applied to
it. and the smoke was inhaled. No true
cigarette smoker puffs his clouds from
his mouth, as he would in smoking a
cigar or pipe; but he Inhales it, draw
ing It in to his lungs, often holding it
there w bile he eats, or drinks, or speaks,
then expelling it through the nostrils.
Ilaw Wards Change.
The philological student of the first
translation of the whole Bible into En
glish finds his labors very much facili
tated In consequence of the attention
which the version has received during
the past quarter of a century. It was
in 1850 that the Rev. Josiah Forshall
and Sir Frederic Madden issued their
edition of WicklifTs Version in four fo
lio volumes, which has been the basis of
much subsequent study. In It tney
printed, side by side.twotextsof theen
tire work made by Wickliff and his fol
lower. They Included also an exhaus
tive preface, the prologues to the sev
eral books, a list of 170 manuscript cop
ies which they collated, and the table
of Lessons with which the earlier copies
were furnished, and a very valuable
glossary. Thests editors occupied much
of their time during twenty-two years
in accomplishing their most important
task, laboring with enthusiastic and pa
triotic love, believing that the English
nation had long been disgraced by the
neglect which the Version had suffered
in being allowed to remain in manu
script only for nearly 500 years. They
considered that it Illustrated the history
and structure of the English language
a view which subsequent scholars
have confirmed.
The independence and vigor of the
style would of themselves give impor
tance to this version, but it derives ad
ditional interest from the fact that it
contains some words which are intro
duced because Wickliff translated from
the Latin Vulgate, and did not scruple
occasionally holdly to set over a Latin
or Greek word in its original form.
Another interesting publication is
Bags era "Hexapala," which contains
the New Testament in Greek and six
English versions, including, of course,
that of WicklifT. This version of Wickliff
is not equal to that of Forshall and Mad
den in accuracy of scholarship, but the
comparison of versions which the "Hex-
apla" renders possible, makes it a very
useful and interesting aid to the stu
dent.
One more help tothe study of WicklifTs
Bible will be found in the two versions
of his Gospel of St. John that are given
in Matzner'a "Altenglische Sprachpro
ben," published In Berlin in 1369, w ith
voluminous notes.
In selecting words from WicklifTs Bi
ble for study the only embarrassment Is
found in the large number which pos
sess great interest. An amusing in
stance of his transferring words with
out translating them is found at St.
Matthew xiv., 20, where it is said that
the disciples collected twelve "cot'yns"
full of the fragments left after tbe feed
ing of the thousand (Latin, ophirtus a
wicker basket). At St. Matthew vi., 6,
we are counseled not to cast our "mar-
gar itas" before swine (Latin, margiritn.
a pearl). A caterpillar is an "eruke"
(Latin, smco); a sea-gull is a "lare"
(Latin, lam); a little book is "libel"
(Latin, libellus) murdering is "morti-
fyyne" (Latin, utortijicatio) ; certain mu
sical Instruments are "uablis" (Latin,
uablum) ; a roebuck is a "flgarde" (Lati n,
pygarjjus) ; a straw is a "festu" (Latin,
ftituea) ; and, not to extend the list far
ther, a bird is a "volatile" (Latin, vola
tilis). Another interesting feature is the ex
pressive compound words, which are,
however, not characteristic of Wlclif
only. Among these we find, "above
praisable," very worthy of praise;
"about-waiters," spiers about; "agen
goyng," a meeting, a going against;
"agenshine," to reflect; "agen rise," to
rise from the dead ;"bifore-shewynge,
foretelling; "evene-knygt," fellow-sol
dier. Phi. li. 25; "erthe-tilt:ie, agri
cul ture ; "erthe- movy nge," earthquake ;
"for-thenky nge," repentance ; "f ul-out-
gladen, to rejDice greatly; "nose
thirlU," nostrils; "ere-herted," weak-
minded; "sour dough." leaven; "un
derdelve," to undermine; 'vndur-wex-y
uge," growing gradually ; " with-elre,'
co-heir; "with-folweris," companions;
"with preisen," to praise together;
"wort-yerd." herb-garden ; and "can
del quenchers," snuffers.
For the present we shall add only
some of the more noteworthy feminities
which are freely used by Wickliff, but
have since fallen into desuetude.
"Spouse" is used in the sense of husband,
or, as at Matthew xxv. 1, bridegroom,
while "spousesse" stands tor wife. We
find also "teacheresse," "cozzyness" (a
female cousin), "choseresse" (a female
chooser); "devooresse" (a female de
vourer), "dlscipllsse," "lefieresse" (a
female dancer), "servantesse" (a maid
servant), "singsteresse" (a female sin
ger), "sleeresse" (a female murderer),
"thrallesse" (a female slave), and "ty m
panystris" (female players on timbrels.)
In these cases the sex of the person re
feired to is more directly indicated than
it is by the circumlocutions that obtain
at present, though tbe sound of the sib
ilants is so little admired that most of
us, doubtless, will not care to return to
the earlier usage. The Churchman.
"Orders- far Waaaea.
The London .Veir says : "French wo
men are so far less fortunate than their
sisters in most other Continental coun
tries that there is no 'order' or 'decora
tion' for women in France, and it is a
very rare thing for a luily to be awarded
the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor.
At the present there are not more than
four or five ladies who possess this dis
tinction, and one of them is an English
woman, Lady Pigott, who tended the
French wounded during the late war.
Tbe ladies who care for these outward
and visible signs of social distinction
must regret that they did not live 200
years ago, when, if they had been lucky
enough to win the good graces of the
Duchesse de Maine, they would have
been able to sport the order of the 'Honey
Fly.' The witty Duchess, a grand'
daughter of the great Conde, and wife
of the Due de Maine, the natural son of
Louis XIV. and Madame de Moutespan,
held a literary court of her own at
Sceaux, and exercised with her cour
tiers all her ingenuity in inventing from
time to time some new diversion. It
occurred to her one day that she would
institute an order of Chivalry for both
sexes, and call It the 'Honey Fly
Jlouch-a-miel). The Idea was taken from
Tasso's line 'She is tiny, but she can
inflict severe wounds' which had been
applied to her on account of her dimin
utive stature and great powers of repar
tee. The distinciive mark of the order
was a gold medal with the etHgy of the
foundress, and upon the reverse tbe line
quoted above. The members of the or
der had to take the following oath : '1
swear by the bees of Mount Hyiuettus
obedience and fidelity to the foundress
of the order. I swear that all my life
long I will wear the order of the Honey
Fly, and obey the statutes. If I am false
to my oath, may the honey become g.t 1
in my mouth, the wax tallow, the flow
ers nettles, and in iv wasps and hornets
sting me.' The costume of the order
was a coat in cloth of gold, spangled
with bees for the chevaliers, and the
ladies wore a robe of green satin, em
broidered with silver bees, and a dia
dem of flies in emeralds. The institu
tion of the order was a great success,
and the fetes in celebration of it lasted
many days at the Chateux de Sceaux,
which was the residence of the Due and
Duchessede Maine; but the order did
not outlive its foundress, whose latter
years were passed in curious etudy, and
who hail loug ceased to wear her deco
ration."
Am Cadergraaad Palace.
A remarkable story comes from Hun
gary. It seems that two peasants,
while digging in the woods skirting the
village of Ivan Egergez, near Pesth,
suddenly came upon what apieared to
bfc a square structure of brick walls,
with a stone covering the aperture. Re
moving this stone, they found that these
walls Inclosed an opening in the earth,
and they resolved to explore the shaft.
Accordingly, they prepared a rope lad
der of the requisite length, secured sev
eral lanterns, aud then one of them let
himself down. At the bottom he stood
in wonderment as he gazed upon alarge
square hall, the wall covered with faded
paintings, ehairs, benches and tables
standing around, ornamented with gold
and ivory, and large, heavy doors, hung
with golden binges, leadiug to other
rooms. The shepherd climbed the lad
der and told his companion of his dis
covery. Both of them went down to
gether and found themselves in a suc
cession of rooms which abounded with
elaborately carved furniture, of a style
they had never seen before. In some
of them were low, large sttnds, evident
ly once used for beds, there were also
closets, bureaus containing armlets,
rings, medals, coins, daggers, chains,
swords, shields and helmets. There
were also breastplates of leather cev
ered with ornaments in gold Some of
the armlets they took away, broke them
up, and carried them to 1'esth for sale,
iu which transaction they were arres
ted, aud the officers of the Hungarian
Ministry of the Interior began official
investigations. Their researches clear
ly established it as a fact that this sub
terranean structure was undoubtedly
an old Roman castle, built many centu
ries before the Huns and Mtgyars left
their Asiatic homes to invade this part
of Europe. But how this vast structure,
which U said to cover two acres, and
built two stories high, witn massive
walls of stone and brick, was covered
with earth to tfie depth of more than
sixtv feet, over which a forest of heavy
timber had grown up a forest, too,
that is mentioned as existing in the old
est preserved chronicles of the kingdom
the otlicers have so far found is impos
sible to account far. The shaft through
which the first discovery was made is
supposed to beachimney or observatory.
A Tear Among the Magyars.
A vounff ladles' rifle club has been
started in ilkesbarre. Pa.
Dl BRIE?.
A California man has cleared $6,
000 this year from eight acres of black
beiTies. Miss Braddon, the novelist, has be-gii'-
her t ur as au actress la the small
cities ot E.. gland.
The authorities of Davenport Iowa
have built a hospital t be conducted
by the Sisters of Mercy.
According to a recent estimate
there ar? Ul,000 insane In the United
States :.:e present time.
r S. G !more has concluded a new
engaKBii'-u- for life years as leader of
the Ntw York Regiment band.
During the past year 700 men
were employed upon the restoration
and completion of the Cathedral at
Cologne.
The landlord of a house In Salem,
Mass., built two hundred and sixteen
years ago, has at length concluded to
repair it.
Thousands of bushels of apple?, fls
only for cider, are rotting on the
ground In the vicinity of Clarkson,
Oakland county, Mich.
The claim of Mary Ann Foster
upon the Singer estate has been com
promised for 75,000. The whole value
of the proerty is 14,0oo,000.
Courtney, the famous oarsman of
Union Springs. N. Y., has become a
professional oarsmau in the world to a
race for either $3,000 or $10,000.
A farmer of Champaign county, Il
linois, planted 4G acres of potatoes last
spring. At present market rates he
will realize $4,000 from the specula
tion. The largest monastery In England
is in course of erection near Horsham,
Sussex. The style is severe Norman,
aud it is being built for the Carthusian
monks.
A resident of Madison, Wis. sues
the city to recover damages caused by a
runaway, the horses being frightened
by a performing bear ou exhibition in
the streets.
There will be no pews in the new
Roman Catholic Cathedral ou Fifth
avenue. New York. Chairs will be
placed in groups about its many altars
and chapels.
The political canvas has absorbed
so much heat that early frosts are re
ported iu various sections ot the South.
At Columbia. S. C, there was a heavy
frost on Oct. 1
A remarkable flight of swans, a
flock fully a mile and a half long, and
lumbering not less than 10,0 io. was
seen to pa.-s over La Salle, a.oug the
Illinois River valley, recently.
A girl at St. Peter, Minn., has, In
male attire, been serving asabrakeman
on a railroad. She has now relinquished
the brakes, but still handles the switch
and occasionally manages a train.
The people of South and Central
America are buying arms in large
quantities. The Remington works at
llion, N. Y., have been m.iKiug very
heavy shipments by the Pacinc Mail.
A membei of the Humboldt county
pioneers has a beard five feet in length.
It has been growing ten years, and had
it not been lor an attack of sickness it
would have beeu several inches longer.
The amount of meat consumed an
nually per head in Spain is 25 p-junds;
in Italy, 33; Sweden, 51; Prussia, 5j;
Austria, 58; Belgium. 7; France, i'l;
South Germany, 77; Mecklenburg, 85;
Euglaud, 205.
Mystic. Conn., is $100,000 richer,
the government having paid over that
sum. which was awarde I by the Ala
bama Conimi-'sioiiers to tlio owners of
the ship U.K. Hoxie, burned by tii.
rebel cruiser Florida.
A skter ot the late Ex-President
Polk died a few days ago at Columbia,
feuo. She was the last surviving
member of her immediate family which
consisted of nine brothers and sisters,
President Polk being the eldest.
The Caribou silver mine, in Colo
rado, which was once sold to a Dutch
C Miipany for $:t,l)i 10,000, has been pur
ch ied by Congressman Chaffee for
$ i.O-H), including nulls and reduction
w rks t lat cost double that amount.
A hotel keeper in St. Louis has re
covered $50'J from the estate of a man
who committed suicide iu his house,
f he money was for damages caused the
lurni ture, and hurting the business of
the hotel by hav:ug the inquest held
there.
Ground has been broken at nart
fordforanew Catholic cathedral of
Gothic architecture, 251 feet long with
a spire of 2."i feet high, which U to be
one of the best ornamented and most
imposing church buildings in New
Eugland.
The fast train, called the Great
Western Flying Dutchman, over the
Bristol (England) railway was lately
noticed to emit streams of sparks from
the wheels, and it was necessary to
stop it for a while until things got
cooled off.
A national convention of bankers
is to be held at Washington on the 18th
of January. l-77, "to Like iu consider
ation end fully comer concerning the
national and Suite taxes now imposed
upon banks aud banker) throughout
the country."
According to the special report of
the Bureau ot Education upon the pub
lic libraries in the Unite 1 States, the
number of such libr tries containing
300 volumes and upward, exclusive of
those belonging to district a-id Sunday
schools. Is J,tW7, with l2,27i,'.H;i vol
umes. The September or lers filled at the
postal card factory in Springlield Mass.
tmouuted to 9,315,500 cards, and for
the quarter just ended 37.534,000,
again.-! 30,847,500 for tbe correspond
ing quarter la-t year. The presses are
now running until nine o'clock every
night.
The sale of "Daniel Deronda" in this
country has reached 60,000 copies,
which fact may tend to reconcile George
Eliot to the judgment of certain re
viewers that she doesn't know how a
novel should be written. But the re
viewers accept Carlyle's phrase, ami
say that the tiO.OOO are "mostly fwls."
Silver iu Nevada was discovered
very strangely. A woman picked up
a stone to throw at her husband. It
was so heavy that she examined r, aim
it proved to be a lump of silver; $50.-
000.000 was the result of this to the
country. The women must remember
Uiat there is no silver in this State, so
no experiments.
When Prince Albert died, an edi
torial in the London Ttleyroph so grati
fied the queen that she ordered a copy
of the paper to be sent daily to each of
the royal pal-tces. Ever since then a
royal editiou of twenty-five copies ha
been daily printed in the highest stvle
of the art and duly forwarded. No
payment has ever been asked or oflcrel.
Cornell University has 215 new
students. Six of these, are ladies, 23
are from other colleges and universi
ties, 53 enter the scientific course, 17
the same in literature, 22 the course iu
art", IS in engineering, and the re
mainder are distributed among the
minor courses or are optional students.
And for all that a saloon artificer there
has over hi door "sweat Sider."
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