Bet WW .I II .A B. F. SCHWEIER, TEE OOt 3T1TU T10I TEE THIOI AID TEE EEFOEOEXEIT OF TEE LAVS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXX Y. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26. 1S81. NO. 42. TOICE3 OF THE SEA. Wakeful I lay, at night, and beard The polfUDc of the restless tea, The moaning surges Sounded like dirges From some Isr-back eternity, Wboae spirits from the deep are stirrM. Awaking with the morning light. Again I UHtened to the sea. Bat with its surges Were heard no dirges. But only life's activity; Morning dispelled the gloom of night. At boob I sauntered forth to view The throbbing of that living sea; Still it was surging. Bat only urging All men to be both strong and free Strong in the ssul, with conscience true. At closing day on- more I stood, .Gazing across that nighty sea ; Far ships were sailing; 1 he light was failing ; Time, lost in immortality, ' Was the reflection of my mood. It is the mind, and not the place, Otrr mood, and not a varying voire, That fllls with sadness. Or trills with gladness, A soul whose one great ruling choice Reflects in all things Its own face. A l.ONE WOMAN. "If you please, ma am won't you give me a drink of milk ?" Miss Fydget had just come in from long and bootless search throngb the pasture for a wandering brood of young turkeys, which had been missing since morning. She was warm and tired ; one boot was burst open on the side, her bonnet hung limp at the back of her head, her gray curls were in true artistic confu sion, and a vicious blackberrry briar had torn her hands, until she looked as if she might have lteeu in a skirmish with the Zulus. -'But I wouldn't have minded all that, was Miss Fydget's melancholy comment to herself, "if only I could have found my young turkeys. They do say there is a company of tramps loafing about the country, and !" Just then the mild voice of an old man, sitting on the well curb, broke in rtpou the thread of her reflections an old man in a shabby gray coat, button ed closely across the chest, shoes thiok ly coated with dust, and a rude cane.cut from the woods, upon which he rested his folded hands. Hiss Fydget stared at the old man ; the old man returned her gaze, depreca tingly. 'Perhnps you're deaf, ma'am," said the stranger, elevating liis voice to a semi-tone or so higher. "Xo more than yourself !" said Miss Fydgpt, naturally somewhat irritated. Miss Fydget bethought herself of the floating rumors she had heard. Per haps this venerable vagrant was one of the very band now marching through the vales and glens of Kochemont ; per haps even now he had a corp6 of bloody minded coadjutors hidden behind the stone wall, or under the moss roof of the anfieut smoke-house. And Miss Fydget was possessed of several pieces of an tique silver, and had forty dollars in an old toa-pot ou the nppermost closet shelf. Who are you?" curtly questioned she. "A man and a brother," the old man answered, n?t without a convert smile. "Xo you're not," said Miss Fydget, incensed at what she deemed a piece of unnecessary insolense, "You're tramp." The stranger smiled. "Is a tramp, then, destitute of all the privileges of humanity ?" he asked. "Eh?" said Miss Fydget "Tramps mnst live as well as other people," pleaded the old man. "Xow, look at me." "Yes," said MLss Fydget, "I'm look ing at yon, and a dusty, shabby-looking figure yon are, I must say." Tve walked fifteen miles since morn ing, with nothing to eat or drink." "That's what they all say," said Miss Fydget, incredulously. "Would it lie any great stretch to your hospitality to give me a slice of bread and a drink of cool milk ?" he re plied. Miss Fydget stood for a moment, pon dering the petition in her mind. "Look here, old man !" she said at last, "I know perfectly well that you're human after all. There's a pile of knot ty pine stumps under the shed ; you may split a few for my cooking stove." 'But ma'am " "I knew how it would be," slirilly interrupted Misa Fydget "You're a deal too lazy to work; you'd rather starve than do sn honest day's work any time, "I beg your pardon," said the old man mildly. "It a good many years since I split a pile of wood." "IU go bail it is," said Miss Fydget satirically. "But if y u will get me aa axe I will try and do my Inst," he added meekly. "The axe is hanging np in the wood shed, at the left hand side of the door," said Miss Fydget " And she went into the house, leaving her venerable visitor, to do as he pleased alout accepting her offer. After she was within the four yellow washed walls of her own kitchen, how ever, it occured to her that she had done a very foolished tiling. "I suppose he'd as soon split my head open as the sticks of wood," "he thought to herself. "And of course he knows that Tm alone in the world I meau ia the house. Bat it's rretty much the same tiling," with a deep sigh. "And who knows but I may be murdered with in the next five minutes ?' "Thud! Thud!" came the blows of the axe, descending with slow, regular strokes upon tho knotty stumps of yel low pine; and Miss Fydget listened with a sort of terrible fascination, wondering as she did so, what sort of relation, iu the matter of sound, the human tympa num might bear to the pine stumps, "What a fool I was I" said she to her self. And, with noiseless movements, she went across the kiteben floor and took down a rusty musket, which had hung suspended over the old brick chimney ever since she was a little child. "I don t know as I can fire it off," said she; "but IU try, if I see any signs of mis chief." It was unnecessary, however, She poured out a bowl of milk, first thriftily pausing to skim it, and then cut a good thick slice of rye bread, taking care to secrete the bread knife when she was through. And then seating herself by the win dow, her thoughts ran to the missing brood of turkeys. "He knows where they are, I'll bet anything," soliloquized Miss Fydget "And he shall tell me. Old man old man, I say I" The venerable wood-splitter paused at the sound of her summons. "Come here !" she called. j The old man obeyed. j "You ve done enough," said Miss Fydget, inwardly rejoiced that he had left the axe sticking in the last pine knot instead of coming toward her brandishing it iu the air, Powhatan fashion. "That is what I was just thinking my self," observed the old man, wiping his streaming forehead. 'And now," said Miss Fydget, tharp- ly and suddenly, as if she would fain take him by surprise, "where are my turkeys?" 'Eh r uttered the old man. "My turkeys," shrilly enunciated Miss Fydget My brood of sixteen white turkey chickens." I am sure I cannot say," said the old man, with a puzzled countenance. "That's false!" said Miss Fydget im perially. "If you don't know, your gang does; and. I insist on having my turkeys back again." - The old man looked bewildered. Miss Fydget eyed him with a gaze calculated to strike dismay into the most obdnrate heart "There's your milk," said she, "and your bread, If you eat wih a good con science, knowing my turkeys are gone, do so." Apparently, Miss Fydget's turkey chicks rested but lightly upon the con science of the wayfarer, for he ate and drank to the last mouthful, "Madanie," he said as he placed the empty bowl within the window-sill Miss Fydget had taken the precaution to bolt and bar the door. "Go," said the lady curtly. "But I wish to say to you " By way of answer, Miss Fydget tojk up the rusty gun, placed it on henf shoulder, and pointed the barrel full at her guest "If yom don't take yourself off IU fire," said Miss Fydget resolutely. And upon this unmistakable hint, the old man took up his cap and trudged away as fast as he could go. "The woman must be a maniac !" said he to himself. While Miss Fydget made haste to take a dose of valerian to settle her "per turbed senses," "I have had a narrow escape of it," said she. But I must get rested as quickly as possible ; and go to Lavina Thorpe's to tea. The Bishop is to be there and I wouldn't miss the opportun ity of meeting him for a thousand dol lars !" "And between the stimulus of the valerian, and the calm afforded by a half hour's nap. Miss Fydget managed to array herself in a stiff black dress, with a white ribbon cap, and set out for Lavina Thorpe's at a few minutes past four. As she crossed her door-yard, a slow ly winding procession met her eye, re turning down the rocky slopes of the pasture meadow the sixteen young tur keys! "There they come now," said Miss Fydget, with a momentary twinge of conscience in regard to the tramp. "However, its all over and gone now, and whet's done can't be undone !" The company was all gathered at Lavina Thorpe's ; the best china and sil ver were out and great bunches of cab bage roses decked the mantel in gilt vases, that were at least a century old. "Is he here?" nervously whispered Miss Fydget, as she removed her hat in the front chamber upstairs. "The dear man yea !" said Miss Thorpe enthusiastically clapping her hands, "Walked all the way from Sims town Station, and met with all sorts of interesting adventures. What do you think of him being taken for a " But here she was called away. When Miss Fydget descended, serene and smiling, she was led up to a smil ling old man, with gray hair and a cordial blue eye. "Miss Fydget," said Miss Thorpe fussily, "let me make you acquainted with Bishop Playfair, of Chirita Terri tory." "Bless my soul," cried Miss Fydget, dropping her fan and smelling-bottle "it's the tramp !" The Bishop smilled serenely. "MLss Fydget," said he, "you never can guess how deliriously cool that milk tasted to me. And by the way I met a brood of young turkeys in a stubble 1 field as I crossed from the highway, which I concluded must be yours." Both joined in irresistible laughter, and in five minutes Miss Fydget set at her ease by the Bishop's tact and kind ness, was chatting cheerfully away re- 1 carding the Chinta misson. "But to think," said Miss Lavina Thorpe, afterward, "that you mistook the Bishop of Chirita Territory for a trflsnn !' "And set him to splitting wood, and pointed a rusty musket at him," said Miss Fydget iflayf ! Nettie Corral went to play with her . three little brothers and two other i children on Indian HilL Monday after noon, she would have been 10 years I old next Sunday. Indian Hill ia not j high, but its top affords a fine outlook Upon JUonats pond and Kid ge wood, X. J. When the six children got tired of playing on the hill they went down to play on the trestlework. There is no I path beside them, but there is oppor tunity tor an ague person to take retuge from the single track when a train passes on the projecting ends of the ties which are only three or four feet above the shallow water beneath them, and for the moet of the way the trestlework ia built over dry ground. Mr. Wakeman, a neigh bor, saw the children, and ordered them off, and Mrs. Morris, another neighbor, sent special word to the children that the train which leaves Montolair at 5;05 o'clock would come along and kOTtheaa all unless they went away. They were near the south end of the bridge. At 5;08 the train thundered along through the cut, around the curve, and down on the bridge. The engineer saw the children, put on the brakes, and reversed his engine, but it was impossible to stop the train suddenly on such a grade. All the children except Nettie and her brother George, who is about 4 years old, scrambled out on the ends of the ties. She saw that he could not be trusted to ding to the tics, and that he must be dropped through between ties to the dry ground beneath. The little fellow was afraid and clung to the timbers. This delayed her only a few seconds, but she di 1 not have even a second to spare. It is doubtful even whether she pushed him clear through. He was found after ward alive and well on the ground be neath, but he says he touched the cars when they went over Kim. When she sprang away toward the end of a tie it was too late. Her body was beyond the track, but her left leg was severed at the thigh and the other was crushed below the knee. lhe tram -was brought to a stop a moment afterward, and the engineer, with tears in his eyes, helped pick her up. She did not lose consciousness. "Oh! I'm killed!" she exclaimed. "What will mamma say?" She died one hour after the accident Kuglista Dinner andDrink. I thought the country folk the par sons and their wived and innumerable daughters, and the provincial aristoc racy whom we saw assembled at dinner took the heat rather philosophically. I could not observe that it made the slightest difference with the consump tion of claret and champagne, of which they drank floods. Don't tell me about the 12,000,009 of bottles of Zoedonc drank in Great Britain lost year! I tell you that England is thirsty for alcohols, and that men, women and children consume them in enormous quantities, from morning to night, aad well into night How it would make a good Massachusetts Puritan who has never traveled stare to see earns which an English family of means will spend on its dinner! And then after dinner they trundle off, parsons and all, to theatres, where they have paid $2,50 each for seats at performances which begin a little before 9, and are over befere 11. And then they come home to the hotel, and have supper and lots of it. Xo ices, save now anl men at dinner; no iced teas, waters, or sparkling thinnes ses; but wines with bodies and liquors with "spirits", powerful enough to over come the will of St Anthony. It seem ed to me (hat the dinner was badly serv ed, but as the heat quite took away my appetite, I refused to be guided by my impressions of that particular occasion. The English imitate, to the outward seeming, in these days, the Continental fashion of dinners at fixed prices, served in courses, but careful inspection shows that the cooks regarded the entrees as of no consequence whatever, and concen trated all their attention on the inevi table roast beef or mutton. The fish, even at the grandest of these .London hotels, is almost always detestably serv ed; soups, divided for convenience of the waiters, I suppose, into "thick" and "clear," are rarely first-class; roasts of game only fair. And in fruit London is a century behind Paris, His Honesty of Purpose. A lawyer, who has known Judge Waldo for many years, tells the follow ing story, which many will recognize as characteristic: Soon after the narrator was called to the bar he was opposed to Judge Waldo, then well established in practice and reputation, in a case which was substantially as follows: A had been to B to ask him to sign a petition for a new highway between the town in which he lived and that next adjacent B hesitated and said he wanted the road, but did not want to run any risk of hav ing to pay if the application waa re fused. A said he would guarantee him against any logs and B signed. The application was refused and the costs assessed on the petitioners. B resisted and the case came to trial before a jus tice, with the young lawyer for the de fendant and Judge Waldo on the other side. As the gentleman who tells the story says, I had three good witnesses to prove the agreement that my client should be saved from coet, but I knew that before that justice court where I was a beginner and Judge Waldo a man of great reputation, the case would probably go according to his argument and as the best, and in fact the only way, I took the bull by the horns, and instead of making an argument, turned to Mr. Waldo and asked him if he would claim on the evidence that his client ought to win the case. He hesitated a moment. but then he turned to the court and said: " I must aay that on the evidence my client has notes takliahed his claim. W Bat will Man Training F1 rating Dogs. "What is the first step in trailing a dog. for a fight" asked a reporter of a canine trainer. "After you have found out that your dog possesses certain good Qualities, particu larly tbat ot a good stayer, and you have succeeded In matching him, you first want to put blm through a Bourse of medicine physic him lor Ave or six days," "What do you physic him with" inter rupted the reporter. "That is the secret known only to dog trainer. One trainer uses this and soother that If a trainer physics a dog success fully, be is not apt to give his method away." -What follows the physicking!" "We then commence building him up by degrees, tie is fed the first day about a quarter of a pound of the very beet of beef, and day bv day aa be increases in strength the allowance is increased ounce or two." "What exercise is he gievnt" 'Various kinds. His muscle must be developed; be must become and active,and bis wind must be made good and strong. For the dcvelopement of his muscles he is walked every day about tnree miles or so, He is strengthened by the tramp and not fatigued. To make him agili he is given the bag exercise everyday. It is very amus ing. A cat is placed in a bag and suspend ed abou' eighteen inches from the groand. The dog is muzzled so as not to d j the cat any harm. The bag is started to and fro, the cat begins to mew, which attracts the attention of the dog, and he springs at the bag. btnking it with bis front feet be pushes it away from him. which excites bis anger, and he keeps up a continual springing until he is worn out This sort of ex-reise is kept up for some time, when be ia given exercise tending to better bis wind." "What does it consist olf " "Xothingmore than placing him on an endless chain-treadle machine toe same as those used on a horse-power feed cutting machine, only on a smaller scale, lie is placed in position with a band across bis breast and traces attached, and the treadle is started, the taster the dog moves so much faster goes the treadle, ani he can't Etop until his trainer thinks he has had enocgh exercise for one day. This kind of exercise be is given until two or tnree days before the fight, when he is allowed to rest up for tbe purpose of getting him in good spirit, You talk about training horses, 1 tell you it is ten times harder to train a fighting dog properly tban it is a horse." Large Flooks of Fowls. There are those who believe that the poultry business pays alone, and no doubt it does; but much depends on the breed. My experience has always been on a farm, and there I do know it ia an important branch and bring in a largo profit. Tbe farmer can make a pound of chicken meat easier than he can make a pound of beef and the price per pound averages higrer. r owls should be colonized to be thorough ly profitable. There should be no more than 25 ii a place, Where hearded to gether in large numbers, the weaker ones suffer and aje unprofitable from being crowded. The stronger birds consume tbe larger proportions of the food, running over and soiling the remainder, so that it comes in an nnpalatable state to tbe weak er ones of the flock. Five hundred hens, even of tbe smaller breeds, would require a run of from 15 to 20 acres, at the lowest cal illation; but 600 hens in one flock could not be profitable. They should be kept in small separate flocks. They are thus easier tended. The sick or tue ail ing ones can be nursed and tbe weaker members have their Eh are. The coat of a house to accommodate 60 hens of the small laying breeds would be somewhere about $40 or $30, according to the taste or ideas of the builder. JMuch depends on breed. Where a large number of hens are to be kept, separate bouses or apartments should be erected, with separate runs or yards attached. The larger the number of fowls congregated together the greater lia bility to disease, lience the necessity of keeping the quarters thoroughly cleaned and in purity. This requires care and la bor. W ithout health there can be no pro fit and the food is expended in Tain. A bushel of any kind of grain (corn being the staple) is allowed to a fowl for a year. A singie bud of any breed will consume that quantity during the year, and more will be required by the larger breeds. If one hen requires a bushel of corn 600 fowls would take 600 bushels. mint ia Needed. The agricultural mind is naturally lade pendent, looking to the ground and the skies for support Ingrain m it is the thought of propping the State but never of bs ng supported by it It is naturally religious and its notion cf heaven is of a land kept flowing with mils: and honey by good farming. It has many enemies in na ture that it knows ot and cannot conceive of any tbat it demt know of. That it should be managed and gradually trained to this or that direction from the out side, like an ox, is alto inconceivable. That lie schooling of its children should be so con trived as to weaken their hold upon out side affairs is scarcely concivable by it In truth the government or the civilisa tion which does this long, cuts its own throat, like a bog swimming. The picture of the old man trying the virtue ot stones on the rude boy in the apple tree might well lie put back into the spelling book. Immigration will help but cam alone reinforce the State, 'lhe minds of our own young people must be bent or broken to agricultural pursuits. The few farmers wbo have kept strict agncultueal schools all their hves need not be ashamed of re ceiving help in tbat direction from revised Ivm. Mechanics have had it for a century Millions upon millions in treasure and blood have been rpent in strengthening our mechanical arm. Tariff-villes are thriving everywhere while weeds and grass are growing in the old farm barn-yard. But the pendulum which governs human action, swings both ways on a general ave rage in a long term of years. The people will not take a stone for bread. But no great progress in agriculture, morals or religion can be made until we take our life leases of agricultural laid as a sacred trust, and learn to leave our bit of the world as good as we found it All robbery, dishonesty, infidelity and wrong is built up from rob bing the land. Royal Crleket. Queen Victoria, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Wales and their daughters, by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburg. the Duke and Dncheea of Connanght, Prince Leopold and the Duke of Cambridge, were presen t re cently at a cricket match, between the servants of Her Majesty's household and those of the Prince of Wales from Aber- geldie. There are 230,000 goats ou the Is land ox Cyprus. lhe Grave of Fooahontas. t Walking np High street, Richmond, Virginia, recently, says a writer, we presently turned through two or three by-ways leading to St George's, the parish church. We found it closed, but being directed to the sexton's house, we found a genial and gentlemanly old man with white hair and side whiskers. He waa a shoemaker by trade, and had laid down his hammer and knife and leathern apron to solace the inner man. He very quickly donned his coat and walked with us to the church, into which we all entered. Mr. Robertson waa under the impression that the Virginian princess was buried in the chanceL He had reached this conclusion from reading a letter inserted in Campbell's " History of Virginia," a copy of which he had brought with him. This letter was written by C. W. Martin, of Leeds Cas tle, England, to Conway Robinson, of Virginia, and runs as follows : The parish register of burials at Gravesend, in the county of Kent, con tains the following extract: "1616, March 21 Rebecca Wroth e, wyffe of Thomas Wrothe, gent; a Virginian lady borne, was buried in the chanceL' The date, 1616, corresponds with the histori- col year 1617. It appears that there was formerly a family of the name of Wrothe resident near Gravesend. This name might, therefore, easily be con founded with that of Rolfe, the sound being similar. Xor is the name Thomas for John at all improbable. Gravesend church, in which Pocahontas was buried, was destroyed by fire in 1727, and tjo monument to her memory remains, if anyone existed. . So far, Mr. Martin. But while rocahontas, I think, was bap tized Rebecca (I am not sure, and as you have books of history at hand, cor rect me if I am wrong), yet to turn John Rolfe into Thomas Wrothe is very much like deriving Pekin from Napkin " Nap kin, Xipkin, Pipkin. Pekin." Xow, against Mr. Martin's explanation, is the tradition which has been Reported successively from age to age " in Gravesend that Pocahontas was bur ied in the northwest corner of the church yard, at a spot to which the sexton led us. It was just next to a tombstone on which we deciphered: "Wife of John Weed, July ,1329," or 1529 possibly. The day of the month is illegible, ol though we could make out a "3," which would make it the 13th or 23d of the month, since the space required two figures. This certainly establishes the antiquity of burials in thnt part of the yard, whether the date of the alove be of the fourteenth or sixteenth century. This sexton, John Turner, has been in office nine years. He received the tra dition of the spot from his predecessor, William Xetteingham, who was sexton for about twenty years, while William received it from his father, John Xet teingham, who was clerk of tho parish for fifty-two years. This carries back the account more than eighty years, for John Xetteingham told his sou William that all his life, from his boyhood, that spot had been pointed out as the one near which " or about at which" Poca hontas waa buried. In the absence, then, of all proof " upon record," this tradition comes to us as nearly an estab lished fact as possible without an exhu mation and a recovery of the remains of some relic identifying them. At all vents we accept jd it, and I gathered some buttercups that grew on the grave and plucked a few ivy leaves from the vine that clambered nearby on a wall. " Feasting where ao life is seen." I felt that I bad trodden near the last resting place of the noble princess, who, to save a human life, had lioldly risked her own, and who had only lived to feel her heart break in a strange (and. How to Pack a Trunk. The art of packing is by no means a common accomplishment, and the comic pictures which represent the girl of the period despairingly sitting on her trunk, while the maid-of -all-work vainly endea vors to lock it and the expressman clam ors at the door, are scarcely as much ex aggerated aa one might suppose. It is always disagreeable and difficult to pack in a hurry; therefore, it is wise to begin in season, say at least a day before it seems at all necessary to do so. See that your trunks are in order, and allow ample time for any repairs which are to be made, for mechanics, as many of us know to our sorrow, ore more apt to make fair promises than to keep them. After the trunks are ready, get every thing together which is to be packed, and then go quietly and systematic Jly to work. Very large trunks are an alo mination over which expressmen groan and swear not altogether without reason. Still, small ones are inconvenient, ex cept for short journeys, and multiply ex pense, as the expressage is for each piece, be it Saratoga trunk or small va lise, without regard to size. But what ever the size of the trunk, it should be filled, or at least packed full enough to prevent the contents from tossing about If you are compelled to take a trunk which is too largo for what you need to pack in it, fill it with crumpled paper, rather than leave it half empty. Even experienced travelers have only a par tial idea of the rough usage to which baggage is subjected or how remorseless ly trunks are pitched about The train stops for two minutes, perhaps, and your new Saratoga ia thrown not lifted from the baggage car down on the platform, anal then knocked around, pitched first on one end and then on an other, until it would seem as though every fastening must be wrenched out of place. In this condition of affairs, unless the trunk ia closely packed the contents will be literally churned np and down, and the clothes, which you have carefully folded, will be tumbled to a degree, even if nothing worse cornea to them. There are expressmen, and express men, and it once happened to the writ er to fall in with an accommodating one in a moment of extremity. At the last minnte it was discovered that the key of a trunk waa missing, having mysterious ly disappeared from the lock, and to this hour it has never been found. " Got a stout rope, marm?" One was produced, he proceeded to tie np the trunk across each way, knotting the cord scientific ally. " There, now, thatU hold. You see it's better to have the rope both ways, so as the top can't come off. trunk strap's pretty good but a rope's better, 'cause it goes both ways." In England baggage is always corded for long journeys. .Nothing heavy, like books, etc., should ever be put in the top of a trunk. since the more heavily it is weighted the more likely the lunges are to break. Dresses should be carefully folded with the flounces laid smooth and drawing strings let out, the waist folded but once the wrong side out, with the sleeves laid over the back and the fronts over all. Then, if absolutely necessary, the bas que may be folded again down the mid dle seam of the back but never across. Packing trunks for ball dresses come with several trays, one altove the other, each capable of holding one dress and its accessories. At the Parisian modis tes', where professional packers are em ployed, the art of dress-packing is ear ned to perfection. The dress is taken. and if it is separate from the corsage, it can be laid in the tray with only a slight fold at the top of the skirt The train is spread out first; then every puff or fold is kept up by soft wads of yellow tissue-paper, white having been found to darken white and delicately-tinted satin. This is to prevent the creasing or crush ing to which velvet and satin are parti cularly liable. Large sheets of the pa per are then placed over the whole. The waist is next taken and laid out flat, like a bat, upon the paper-covered skirt. The sleeves are filled with paper so as to retain the shape made by the arms; every button is covered with paper, and under bead fringes, etc., are laid pieces of paper to prevent discoloration or cut ting. Over the whole is tben placed a final layer. When the top tray is reach ed, and, perhaps, the next one also be side the paper a sheet of the finest cot ton batting, such as florists use, is pla ced over it, and in turn, over this a lay er of ou silk. This H a precaution against the penetration of dampness or dust A clever American notion is that of adjustable trays which may be fitted to any trunk. These are merely tray bottoms-formed of frames, with tape end pieces, which hold them firmly in place. Finding Fault. Many persons have acquired a repu tation for cleverness when they are in reality only acute fault-finders. It is true that there is power of a practical kind in being able to recognize the de fects of what we see around us; but, if we are content to snatch a little cheap credit for acumen by simply proclaim ing those faults and nothing more, the faculty is not likely to do us any lasting service. It is not thus put to an honest and thorough purpose. The gain of be ing able to diseover imperfections accrues to the power of mending or avoiding them. We do not mean mending them in the character and work of others, but in ourselves and our own doings. Most expert finders of fault know how to de claim against them and expose the weakness or worthlessness from which they spring. To "find fault" and to scold" are almost parts of the same process; but, however good the scolding may be for others, it does no good, but rather harm, to the individual by whom it ia administered. The greatest suc cesses have been gained by those who have been clever in finding faults but slow in exposing them, and who have had the wit to profit by the lessons these faults have taught them, so as to make their own character and work the more perfect The gift of fault-finding is not to be despised, bnt it should be supplemented by the gift of learning from bad examples how to make our own lives good. When we can thus apply to ourselves the experience of others we have learned life's greatest lesson. It is not wise or right to be over-eager to expose the fauUa we find. If we can help those around ns by telling them of their faults, and if we have the tact to do this discreetly, it is right to do so; but it is not good policy to seek a bub ble reputation for acuteness by para.hu the discovery of all faults given to man. Meanwhile no one really will fail t j learn something to his own advantt from even the ungracious or impetuous "fault-finder." If others detect evils or defects in our characters, we may be very certain there is something for ns to mend. The fault-finder may be "jealous," or animated by "unworthy motives," but it is certain that there must be something faulty in our nature or work if he complains of ns; so, in stead of feeling vindictive, we ought t set to work to profit by his suggestion. Society is very short-sighted to be i l- tolerant of fault finders. They are v best friends, even though it is not love that impels them to criticise its short comings. We should not busy our selves with the motives of the fault-find er. That is a matter with which we have no real concern. It is enough for us that there are faults to be found with and in us. Our business ia to mend these faults: and we ought to be thank ful to those who point them out, not being too fastidious aa to how they ac complish their work or perform their service. That the office they have chosen is a graceless exercise of ability is their affair, not ours: and theirs will be the consequent unpopularity. Colors of the Different Races. The color of the skin, that important mark of race, may be best nuderstood by looking at the darkest variety. The dark hue of the negro does not lie so deep as the innermost or true skin, which is substantia !ly alike among all races of tcankinJ. The negro, in spite of his name, is not black, but deep brown, and even this darkest hue does not appear at the beginning of life, for the ne-v-born negro child is reddish brown, soon becoming slaty-gray, and then darkening. Xor does the darkest tint ever extend over the negro's whole body, bnt his soles and palms are brown. The coloring os the dark races appears to be siiniliorin natnre to the temporary freckling and snnbnrmng of the fair white race. Ou the whole, it seems that the distinction of color, from tbe fairest Englishman to the darkest Afri can, has no hard and fast lines, but varies gradually from one tint to other. The natural hue of skin farthest from that of the negro is the complexion of the f ir race of Xorthern Euroie, of which perfect typos are to be met with in Scandinavia, Xorth Germany and England, in such fair or blonde peo ple the almost transparent skin has its pink tinge by showing the small blood vessels through it In the nations of Southern Europe, such as Italians and Spaniards, the browner complexion to some extent hides this red, which among darker peoples in other quarters of the world ceases to be discernible. Thus the difference between light and dark races is well observed in their blushing, which is caused by the rush of hot red blood into the vessels near the surface of the body. The contrary effect, pale ness, caused by retreat of blood from the surface, is hi like manner masked by dark tints of skin The range of complexion among man kind, beginning with the tint of the fair whites of Xorthern Europe and the dark-whites of Son th era Europe) passes to the brownish yellow of the Malays, and the full-brown of American tribes, the deep-brown of Australians and the black-brown of negroes. Until modern times these race-tints have generally been described with too little care. Xow, however, the traveler, by using Broca'8 set of pattern colors, records the color of any tribe he is observing, with the accuracy of a mercer matching a piece of silk. The evaporation from the human skin is accompanied by a smell whieh differs in different races. This peculiarity, which not only in dicates difference iu the secreti oils o the rkin, bnt seems connected with liability to certain fevers, etc., is a race character of some importance. An Esquiinan Hunting Camp. During tne latter port ol the mcnth of August I visited one of these hunting camps on the southern bank of Connery Kiver, above the gate-way through which the search party passed on the return from king W ilham s Land, in February, 1880. In this camp were threj tupics, containing four families, and when moving camp, which occurred tvery other day while 1 was with them, every one, old and young, men, and women, had bis load, and the loin staggered nnder burdens tbat would fill with sadness the heart of a member of tbe S. P. C. A. Even a palsied old crone bad upon ber back the skins which com prised ber bed. It was a comparatively light load, but she had to keep up with the line of march as best she could, or fall be hind and come aloDg at her leisure. Only when we forded the river, which was ac complished at a portage, over and through the stones of which the water dashed with great violence, did any one go to the assis tance of the old woman. Then two young men took her light frame in their brawny arms and carried her safely through tbe torrent, landing her upon toe opposite shorn, where she was again left to follow, or not, as she pleased. It is astonishing what burdens these fellows will carry jpon their hacks, by means of a thong which passes across the breast and just below the shoulders, sometimes supported by an ad ditional thoag over the forehead. Besides their share of the load, the women have the youngest child in their hoods or sitting up on the back-load, with their feet around their mother's neck. The men seldom ot ter to relieve their partners of the infant unless it be the heir, in which case the father will sometimes deign to take him upon his own bundle. But it always seemed to me as if the fathers would rather see their daughters left be hind to become food for wolves than lower their dignity by carrying a female child. Arrived at the spot selected for the new camp, bundles are laid aside, and ail. throwing themselves upon the ground, en joy a few moments of peaceful rest Then pipes are filled and paseed from mouth to mi-u'uh, and conversation upon the prospeot ot reindeer being seen is entered into by tbe men, while the women erect the tents, un load the dogs, and put down the bedding. If there is any meat in camp, moss is gath ered by the women, and a fire is started in the doorway of the tent to cook a potfui of meat while the men lounge abou; and smoke, or roam over the hills to look for traces of reindeer. During the day-time. while the men are hunting, the women and children generally repair to the nearest lake, and fish for tbe fine salmon which abounds in all the waters of that locality, and which are eaten either raw or cooked. Scotch Prororbo. e're n sister o' yer aln word but, snc; spoken, yer words may maimer you. tiod never sen s mouths, but lie sen s meat for them. lie that teachet himsel' has a fule for a maister. Raise nae mair deils than ye're able to lay. Aaetumg should be done in a hurry but catchin' fleas. Sharp stomachs maV short graces. There was ne'er enouch wbar nae thing was left -Bend the back to the burden. Be a fnea' to yoursel and turn will ithera. Belter be alane than in ill company. Do the likeliest an God will do the best Every man kens best whar his ain shoe binds him. Fear God at' keep out o' debt r ules make feasts, an wise men eat them. "An wise men niak' proverbs, an fules repeat them." Fair words ne'er brake a bane, foul words may. t XEWS IX BKIEF. The Bell telephone carried messages 390 miles the other day. At Pompeii, conibs have been funnd exactly like the modern fine tooth kind. The Boston Public Library con tains 291,338 volumes. Of the population of Ireland, Tli.6 per cent are Catholics. There are 10.000 anti-polygamy Mormons residing in Iowa. There are 191 J miles of sewers own ed and controlled by the city of Boston. Secretary Lincoln has a little son named Abraham, Xearly all the ice imported into Great Britain comes from Xurwav. Ex-President and Mrs. Hayes proba bly will sail for England early next month. The Emperor William is growing deaf. As he grows older he does not be come more social. The annual raisin production of California amounts to about 62,000 boxes. The Lord Mayor of Loudon iu a devout attendant at the Methodist Church. It is estimated that there reside in London, England, not less than 30,000 thieves. The average waves of workiujrinen iu France are only 60J cents a d:iy ; those ot women are 61 . The cotton factories in the Sonth have, since the war, paid an average dividend of 22 per cent The superintendent of Limps in Boston has charge of 10,2116 gas and 2.3G8 fluid lamps. A book was recently retnmed to the Boston Public Library whieh has been missing for more than 20 years. -The ex-Emprsss Eugenie was at Darmstadt on July 4, in the strictest privacy as the Marchioness lSrenues. The elephant was put uixm the coins of Caesar because that ouiniul was coiled Virzar in Mauri taniia. The late Lord Beuconsfiel 1 at twelve years of age was a compiler and editor i f a weekly school newspaper. A Connecticut woman has given her son a large comforter made of hair cnt from her own head during ten years. Kangaroo tail soup is now canned in Australia and exported in great quan tities. Thirty vears ago it cont Massachu setts $4.81 to educate each child ; now it cosU $13.55. Celluloid is a complex combina'ion formed by mixing gun-cotton aud cam- " phor. In 1779 the Br tLsh peerage contain ed 21 dukes, and in 1879 precisely the same number. It is said that in a recent canvass of 80 towns in Connecticut, 50,000 people were found who never attend church. The will of the late Dean Stanlev has been sworn under 90,000 aa to the personal estate. Fresh bnttermilk is sold on the streets of Xew York at three ceut a glass. lhe picturesque village of Keicuen- bach, in the Bernese Olierland, has been almost destroyed by a land slip. Boston in 1S0 consumed fll,G03 barrels of lager leer two barrels to every man, woman anil child. Senator Fair has resumed work ou the Comstock while the suit-rinteiident of his company's mines takes a vacation. On March 31, 1SS0, there were in Great Brittain 14,212 places where let ters could le mailed. The staff of the Pout Office is 32,000. Bituminous coal is produced in twenty-seven counties of I'eunsvlvania, and the estimated out-put of 1NM1 is over 25.OM.0OO tons. The average peach crop of the Dela ware peninsula is aixmt four million baskets ; this year it will not exceed one hundred and twenty thousand baskets. A man in Schoonberg has a vine with three thousand bnnches of TTes which when pressed will produce sixty six gallons of wine. A farmer near Bellefontaine, Q has a pig 10 months old, weighing 150 jxmuds, that was born with but two legs, a.i.l i: walks around on them. Xew Orleans has six women to even- five men. This is said to le a greater excess than in any other citv iu the Union. The people of Texas are in great glee over the discovery of cannel coal in that State, and believe it will add another to their already great resonrces. Mr. Archibald Forbes, the well- known war correspondent, arrived in Xew. York recently, by the Ctiv of Mon treal, from Liverpool, and took np bin quarters at the Union Square Hotel. One of the finest examples of crna- mentul statuay in the United States is the monnment erected in Chicago to the memory of the lato Senator Stephen A Douglas. Victoria, Princess of Baden, the voung lady who is lKut to become Crowu Princess of Sweden, is having her bridal veil made for her at a German lace factory. A conspicuous increase of sneides among the officers of the Austrian Army has led to an investigation, and it 1;. found that pecuniary embarrassment u the cause in 90 per cent, of the cases. The British flag at present controls an aggregate of 16,000.000 tons of ship ping.against 11,000,00) tons of shipsnil ingunder the combined flags of other Xa tions. Tn all the mines in Great Britain there are, it is estimated, 378,151 per sons employed, aud the length of under ground tunneling in which they work is 58,744 miles. Horatio Boss, one of the most noted stalkers in the Scottish Highlands, went out recently on his eightieth birthday and shot two stags, jlr. Koss is still hale and hearty, and is as keen a sports man as ever. The entire debt of the United States does not amount to the gross income of the people for five months in the vear. In 1865 the debt amounted t 378.25 per capita ; in 1880 it was $37.74 per capita. Saginaw, Mich,, is now the largest salt producing district in the United States. The yield for last year was 13, 000,000 bushels. The entire amount produced in the United Sautes was 29, 800,298 bushels. The total population of Anstria-IInn-gry by the recent census ia 37.741,413, or about one million larger than that of France, and two million larger than that of Great Britain. The increase in Hun gary during the decade was very small --only on vninth of one per cent I I I is
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