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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.
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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
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