1
B. F. SCHWEIER,
TEE OOVSTmmOV-TSE innOl-AID THE EBTOSOZXEIT OP TEE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXVI.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER IS. 1SS2.
NO. 4-2
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WHAT IS BEST.
We do not know ! Toon kuowes
As children In the dark
We lift oar beans, our nana to Tbe,
AnJ find a red, an ark :
We tnul Thee In our Ignorance.
O Wise, O UooJ, O Mroni;
Aid thoogn the shade encompass us
We Oud Thee with our sung.
We do not know the best for as.
And so we strive In Tain,
And lor our sowing often reap
A harvest dire of pain ;
We fall and fail, and then at Uat
We cry to I bee for aid.
And on!j rest when Thou drat sa t,
Tis 1, be not afraid."
O God, we would be wiser jet.
And only pray, '-Choose Thou r
Lrsri as one leals the little onea.
We are Thy children now.
And day by day, and step by step.
We need the guiding hand;
O let us cling to Thee, oulil
We reach the safe Home Un.l.
And then, let days be fair or dark.
The journey short or long.
Our hearts will rest In comfort.
And we will sing our song;
since Thou dost know, our ignorance
And weakness matter not,
we trust in Thy great love, O God,
And Thon dost choose onr lot.
11 VUANCING ACCOUNTS.
Fred, cant you let me have a littl money
this morning ?"
Frederick Wharton, polling on his
boots to the store, after breakfast, paused,
one boot in his hand, the other on his
foot, and looking at his wife, as well as
men do look now and then, when their
better halves ask for money.
Ladies know the expression very well.
"Money ! why, Nell, what have you
done with a!l 1 gave you last quarter
day r
"Used it, Fred. Not extravagantly
either."
And there was a bit of a sparkle
coming into Mrs. Ellen's bright eyes.
"Well. I don't know," quoth Mr.
Fred slowly "I gave you one hundred
ast Quarter, and the next isn't up for a
week vet Seems to me that one hun
dred, for a small family like ours, ought
to go a good way.
Mrs. Ellen marched to a drawer, took
out a little morocco expense-book, and
opened it under her lord and master's
nose.
'Iiol for vourself." she said. Every
mentis down here. Butcher, baker,
groceries, coal, washerwoman's bill, pay
pay for niendng the wardrobe, for a
boiler added to the kitchen stove and
vervthine else. Any extravagance
there, Fred ?"
"Well, no, I don't see that there l.
But it seems to me, out of twenty pounds
you ought to sav9 something.
Mr. Fred's eyes fell on the velvet
slippers he had" just dropped off, hslast
birthday present from Ellen, and his
f ace brightened.
"Here are these slippers now. lou
told me that you gave three dollars for
them. Wouldn't a cheaper pair have
done just as well ?"
He look up, as much as to say :
"Hey. Mrs. Ellen, I've got you there.
But Ellen was ready for him.
Her pretty face flushed, for she didn't
like her gilt found fault with.
Do von think I gave you a present
paid for with your own money?" she
retorted. "I tell you women don't like
to do that I made that rooaey braid
ing a cloak for Mrs. Hammond,"
"Oh, did you ?"
Mr. Fiederick look a little foolish.
"Yes, I did. I'm willing to account
for all my expenses, but I won't becalled
extravagant," says the little woinm,
with some spirit. "Now, Mr. Fred, it's
your turn. You gave me one hundred
and kept two hundred and fifty
vnnrw.if I've paid all our bring
for
ex-
penses txcept the house rent.
Xow if
you expected me to ao tan
thintr. whv of course,
and save
oat of so
much more, yon have saved a pretty
good sum. How much is it
It was Fred's turn to
crimson under
Ellen's bright eyes.
"Ioh, well, that's another thing,
you see, Nelly. I have paid ".he rent,
you know."
"Fifteen dollars a month for three
months. A pretty good balance left yet,"
promptly answered Mrs. Ellen.
"Oh, well, men have a good many
expenses, you know." said Fred uncasi-
lv. ...
-I've heard so,"ob9ervetl Ellen drily.
"Such as cigars, a glass of wine or beer,
and a few other small items.
"Oh. I spent little on those things I
,1, rammed Fred. "Ami, you
see, 1 didn't eay I had spent it all.
l, mneh about me. but I nave
. l f f l.a Bfjira. Will t
illue HI me naio "
do if I bring you some at noon Y
Y. verv well." answered Ellen.
1.,1,1,.,,'lllr. Ned. with a hasty
OUU -s ' . ,
good-bye to her, hurried off, just
ati omnibus.
When he got to the store he exanimed
the little balance he had put in the safe
for security, and found there uut t.cui,
.w-ii ,11 lrnva to be pretty saving,
. f vs Fred. "Somebody
Uiat m v ,
w. . little extravagant, or
i.w, lw, so short Let's ace now if
W lllllll
-i.
z i t vnnt as IMuu. ma,
v. t, r.ur on his mind for the items.
. 11 T mnV abOUt five
"Cigars
. .. "
Cay-let a try uo, . ,ations
tie made booio
.S.s-w .ib'e?-ten dollar
and twenty-two cenu. a
4 nflrter as our house rentl
rnreTcTuld haTe beheved it Then
of wine now ana uieu,
.dTh of outers, and aak. friend or
L7Ln mI dare say I 1J as
i"vr'""7-those two items. And
muou juo , lva
. . t with some of the boys
B1,U """T-.ftan par the
pay for all the recreation she's had a
share of in this quarter.
"Oh, we'l now, this won't do ! Fred,
boy, you can't have that little wo
man's eyes flash at you that way again.
aoi wuile Bue holds that provoking lit
tle red book under yonr note, anyhow.
We'll make different arrangement about
this thing at once.'
pje went home at noon, and divided
the remainiug money with Ellen.
"I find it's all I have left this time "
he said. "But if you can mae it ans
wer until next week thero will be a new
quiirterday."
"I can make it do, Fred," sa'd Ellen
good-naturediy.
"Then I think well try a new plan,
says Fred.
"I'll giye you one hundred, an 1 I'll
keep one hundred and fifty, and we'll
put the rest in the bank, for a drawing
fund in case of need?
"What Co you say ?"
"I think it's an excellent plan, Fred.
"Perhaps we can save enough to buv
us a little home, some day." said Ellen,
with her yes sparkling again, .but not
with temper this time.
"Maybe we can," return Fred with a
laugh.
But this plan did not prove a laugh
ing matter.
They perseveringly tried it, and lound
thet with the aid of a little economy,
they did not have to touch their draw
log fund at alL
And at the end of three years Fred
was surprised to find himself in posses-
bion of euou.h money to buy a small
home, and pay two thirds of the price
cash down, all saved from little extrava
gances of his own, which he was quite
as well off without
FlLares of F.cjptlan Commerce.
Mr. Cookson'a report on the trade
and commerce of Egypt has just been
published, and it shows that the total
value of exports from Egypt m 1881 was
very nearly the same as that in 188(1.
with the exception that the proportion
of trade with Great Britain fell off 1
per cent The trade with Russia in
creased, while that with France fell oil
from 9 per cent of the total exports in
1879 to 7 per cent, in 188L The value
of exports from all the Egyp1""1 VTts
inlSSl was JC13.2G7.634. In cotton,
out of a total of i,112,002, England
took 5,513,619, and in cotton-seeds.
out of a total of 1.544.248. tugianu
took 1,453.025. The principal item of
import was cotton and linen manufac
ture, of which England sent 1.581,816,
out of a total of $1,645,178. England
sent nearly all the coal, the next most
important item, but in clothing both
France and Austria sent more than
vtoin Aut The total value of
incut
the imports was 7.110,868 of which
3 707,831. came from England. Tne
import trade in Egypt has sprung
to the figures above mentioned it
irki from 54.845.030 in the year 1878.
Mr. Cookson concludes his report which,
; .WJ. Mav 20. 18S2, with tncloiiow
, remarks: "Though the financial
.n.lition of Ejpt continued tole very
prosperous, ana me auumi.uu.0
forms to produce their natural results,
yet the vicious habit of borrowing con
. t,i ; f,.rm..r times by the fella-
H JM.- ILU
been has neariv neutralized ad these
l.uefita. Xo sooner did tue peasant
find himself in better circumstances
thmi he soent all his ready money in
feasts and marriages, and borrowed
more largely than ever because hecoui.i
wt the money on easier Unas; auu.
.. ..,.,fl- fr luro. Hist at una
llliiuiiuuawij y
moment came the military revolution,
rn-.rl.fmi.l &U the banks and
land mortcace companies that they con
UltU BW J "
tracted their credits. The peasant has
thus been thrown back on the local
usurer, who lias exacted during the lat
few mouths his old rate of interest, an.l
from 20 per cent to 40 per cent,
lvt. hn nriee of money on good
curity. But if the agriculturist has
suffered from the effects of the political
trouble he has not been completely
;p.1 l.v them, as have been hundreds
.a-iJianta and brokers
Ui IttlHi'" v
i, tl.A financial crisis which they pro-
j i ti. fit Exchange. This
auccu
crwis disclosed such reckless system
of speculation in stock of all kinds as
could hardly be equalled in the annals
, mr A fall of three or four
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- Bnffimtn tO mHiO Uixriv
the brokers in Alexandria bankrupt, and
I..-:- WHnn of the Americau bj o
LI1U XXIU. .
. . I,,. BAitlfth
torn of 'cornenng' on a vc.j ."5 -
i. ml.,ted the ruin oi mau,
t. . !. crisis for which specu
. .. i it ros i ons ible. Alto-
lation was yiu j
of the year lbti
8""" .. . ,,.h leas
jtrvpl in a . ,
. . i,.l.t have bfn ex
saUslaciory man ""i.
pected when it opened.
Ten Ttioosand Acres or Outers.
u..,t,l miles of oyster-beus.
thirt7to"ty miles wide-that to
tuiiijr i. w -1,i.,11(i1j oysters
M7. "Tr: " 7f British coast
deitu oi : --, -
thA urevalent idoa
posini
tlmt o
fully iu Bhallo
f..iiv in shallow water, -i""
tue niau t- : ,
SfmechSSubt whether oysters
will be cheaper in consequence.
tion.
Ulrtd tfca Atteuttoa.
One of the common ways in which
the trouble arises is the mischievous
practice of trying to do several things
at ouce, or to " divide the attention."
A pcuolar will insist on having several
books open on his table before him, and
he unconsciously forms the habit of
spreading first his mental perceptioi.8
and then his thoughts over a wide field,
and of taking in the largest possible
number of objects. At the outset this
is a habit of physicomental sight, then
it becomes a habit of the intellectual or
ganism; or it may begin as an intel
lectual exercise, and afterwards come to
lie. in a purely physical way, sensory.
Literary men often establish the dis
tressing condition described, by work
which requires continual reference to
books or papers, and the " bearing in
mind" of a large number of data for
the purpose of collation. It is probable
that Dr. Johnson, the great lexicogra
pher, formed his habit of poet-touching
in this way. Men whose mental work
consists in "managing," may contract
the same habit if they are themselves
stationary sitting in a chair at a par
ticular desk, while books, papers or per
sons crowd in upon them. Another
and very diisimihtr clan of minds,
which, instead of being worried by a
multiplicity of brain work, have so little
to occupy their attention that their cou-
sciousntss forms a habit of dallviucr
with the details of every little tuing
that falls in its way, suffers the same
malady. So long as the habit is purely
meutal it exerts a mischievous effect on
the mind and lowers the tone of its in
tellectuality ; but it does not generally
attract attention nutil, or uniess, it ex
tends to the senses ; theii the evidences
of doubt declare themselves, and the
mental state, finding expression in acts.
rapidly confirmed, Tho evidence of
one sense is no longer sufficient to con
vince the consciousness. What is felt
must be seen, what is seen must be felt
what has bt-en done with one form of
attention, acting through a particular
sense, must be repeated with another
form and sense. The victim of this
habit is not sure he has turned the key
properly in the lock unless he hears it
click, or he must see it turn or carefully
examine the door to convince himself
that it is really shut Alter a time he
has to do this several it mav be a num
ber of times, e. g., three, seven, or
nine. ro it is with everything. As he
walks along the streets he must touch
the posts or railings, because tho evi
dence of sight alone is not sufficient to
convince him of their tangibility. To
cenfirm visual impression of Eeparate
stones in the paving of the footpath, ho
must tread on the centre of each. If he
misses one he must go back, or if the
process has not been properly performed
will have to be repeated. Cases differ
idely in the particular manucstation
of this peculiarity, and it may occur in
any degree, ranging from a mere hesi
tancy about leaving things to the eccen
tric acts I have enumerated. The trou
ble is, however, the same under all its
divers forms and varieties. I do not
mean to imply that the consciousness
knowingly reasons to the proposition
that corroborative evidence must be pro
cured by the application of additional
sensory tests, but that is the method in
stinctively taken to remove the donbt,
and it throws light on the nature of the
the neurosis. The consciousness is
doing work for which it is unfitted, aud
it ds it in a fussy and clumsy fasuion.
which occasioned much needless effort
and is in itself distressing.
The Coca."
T1i house itself we know to have
been in existence in Charles IT, "a reign,
fr.r it was here that Pepvs came in the
year 1668 with companions both male
aud letaale ana nau s louoter uu mou
aud made merry till midnight. And
we fancy that in point ol antiquity it
took precedence of all its contempora
ries. Mr. Pepys, however, describes it
as an "ale-house," and it does not
seem or some ti-ne to have stood on
ii.a fontiutr of a retrular tavern, line tue
'Krmr or the "Grecian." A coffee
house, in the proper sense of the term,
novor WAR. lieilOe. IIO UOUUi, Jt MB
1 i . a. .
that we find no mention of it among me
m Al
taverns and coffee houses which were
fr.-aueuted by templars and men oi
letters in the days when taverns were
clubs. Steele dates his "j.aii:er
Will is " from the ol. James,
from the "Grecian." He takes his
friends from the country, who told him
they never drank tea in tne moruiug,
arlT draueut at Dick's,
i . - . ,. .
But he never mentions me -vyoc.
The name never occurs in Bos well's
i.iniiinn" nor. lor tue mauer oi iuv,
does the "Cheshire uneese, uioujju
: . ,,mnnlT asserted. 1 Know not ou
ta w.". j ,
what authority, mat jounsou mwu w
sit there with Ooldsmith. It does not
occur to the best of my recollection in
any of the most popular plays, novels,
or essavs of the eighteenth ceutury; nor
does Mr. Thackeray, to wnoni uio u
ern life of the last century and of tue
present was actually known, uc j -the
characters to the "Cock." Harry
Warrington's solicitor oigraw
i..,,, ith the younK gentleman s
Datrouizing airs ovtr a bottle of port at
7n "lirecian." Capt Strong, in "Pen-
dennis," when he can elude his duns,
,f. J7 u.. "Albion" and "Koes to the
X?.nftward. When the 7 Pall Mall
. Js, in Kir,r iimiocted. Mr. Uuugftv
irOwcccv an-& x j
TTi.:- i....ar friends "to come and
iKmnttoii with him at Dicks,
from which plaee also fXl
youth in "Jeanies' Diary" has that hot
.(...i .ntnn to him which led to
..7 But not. word of the "Cock,
IZi . nould doubt if it was ever
. . j ; l.toi-itin-e till it foimd a
Ce LY; The Laureate, whose wit
wul hand it down to posterity in com
ply with the "Mermaid," the "Deyil.
P1"1' 7. ti..a .ithr renowned
the
,tablisuments-"ita elders and its bet-
es
ters.
r.d offers to every muid its choice
. . nth .Till reULOCk
v . . T.t.v urn
peiweeu - - , . . hrttk
Cnarles O'Couor.
After that long terrible illness, when
Mr. O'Conor's life was despaired of by
the whole couucil of physicians, and
his well-written obituary waited for a
fortnight iu all the New York newspaper
offices, he came to Kautucket for recu
peration and a quiet summer's rest. He
returned to his city. office in tho fall
restored and ready to resume his lega'
drudgery, but began to fail so rapidly
that his physicians summarily ordered
him ba"k to Xaatu ket It was then
that he abandoned his practice and
regu'arly retired from the bar, settling
himself for the rest of his days in Kan
tucket The O'Conor castle is a large
gabled fame house, with broad porches
on its seaward front, and, standing on
the very edge of the bare and breezy
cliff, is one of the most conppuuous ob
jects as one approaches the island from
the sea. Over 30.000 were spent in
the construction, snd, although the ex
terior is plain and simple, the interior
is most completely appointed aud ele
gantly furuihhed. Furnaces aud fire
places defy the inter blast, and polished
floors with India rugs and rattan furni
ture make it the most delightful of sum
mer homes. This crim old bachelor.
whom the gossips persistently tried to
marry to Mrs. Hiciig-Liord, is as much
a character as any of the Nantucket na
tives, and inhabits the great maston in
solitary state, save when his nephews
and nitces oouie down upon him during
the summer mouths. He rambles about
the cliffs and the town with his hat on
the back of his head and both hands in
his pockets, and is seen with one hand
out only when he has to carry a bundle
or an umbrella. Possessed of a large
fortune, and with a great aud honorable
career to look back upon, he takes life
easily in these years past his threescore
and ten, and devotes himself to length
ening out his vacation part of his hfe.
Lawyers still appoal to him for decisions.
and he acta as referee in many knotty
cases, writing out his opinions in his
own snug library, within sight and sound
of the sea. At present he is busying
himself with a fire proof brick and iron
building, in which to store hia books,
and this new library is removed a good
distance from the mansion to prevent
any chance of conflagration. It is solid
and substantial enough to defy the ele
ments far centuries, and may fitly serve
as a vault when ho ceases to le the
living occupant. His law library, com
prising several thousand volumes, is re
garded as one of the mobt complete aud
valuable collections in the profession,
and with the additioa of his volumes
of eeneial literature, will make an im
posing show when properly arranged in
their new hom.
The Last ot tba Sotiie.klt.
That a legitimate scion of a royal
house should be laboriously earning
her bread by the weaving handicraft is,
to say the leabt of it, a startling illustra
tion of human vicissitude. Such, h w-
ever, is the humble employment by
which a poor woman, the descendant ol
a renowned European monarch, is main
taining herself at the present time in
the Saxon manufacturing town of Xeu-
gersdorf. The strange, sad story oi
this high-loru weaveress may oe ioiu
in a few words. In tho yeaj 1831. when
the storms of the great ToUsli revolu
tion had somewhat abated, many har
matian magnates quitted their native
land forever, seeking new homes be
yond its frontiers. Among them was
Count Jacob Sobieski, whose estate had
been confiscated by the Russian govern
ment Despite his direct and unbroken
descent from the heroic savior of Vien
na. King John Sobieski, the Count was
a verv ioor man when he settled uown
in Tragus with his only son, at that
time a 11. Young Sobiedii grew np to
manhood in straitened circumstances,
and married a young lady no better off
then himself. The sole offspring ol this
marriace was the "factory hand" above
nllnded to. whose childhood and early
adolescence were embitted by privation,
and who. having lost her parents some
years ago, his ever since gained her
livelihood by manual labor. .Lake me
Veronese cobler Marquis, lio diea me
other day in abject poverty, Countess
sL.L.ui i th last of an illustrious
race that has played in its time an uu
portant part iu European nisiorj.
The vast distance of Uranus, , ex
.,ro,l bv some 1.755,000,000 miles'
though insignificant when compared
with the enormous interval by which
we are sejarated from the nearest fixed
tr i vet bevond our conception, and
the completiou ot a revolution rouuu
, - - - . . i
the sun must necessarily occupy ine
plantta veiy long period. o less
than 30.687. of our days, or fully eighty
four years, are, iu fact, expenueu in
this single journey
! It becomes ot-
nni. in contidering these questions,
ti.at the amount of sunlight received by
the surface of Crauus must be extremely
mall Situated as it is at such a re
mnte distance frm the centre o. light
and heat we cannot help wondering,
should the planet be inhabited, how
animal hfe can be sustained under sucn
,wr influences. The sun mutt
OUVWawv
necessarily appear with a comparative.y
minute disc, wholly incapable ot impart
ing life giving elements, except in a
vry feeble measure; audit is evident
that if this plane't is the abode of ani-
mr rrf atures. they have to rely upon
different circumstances from those which
control life upon our own planet, isut
this is also true of each individual mem
ber of the planetary scries, which, ac
cording to it distance from the nun,
mnRt have a special arrangement of sur-
f.e phenomena : in fact, the orbits of
, nlaaeta. being so vastly dissimi
lar as regards their solar distances, are
liable influences which destroy the anal-
ogy we might otherwise expect on their j
surf ices.
We are referring to the large planets
of onr system, and not to the numerous
class of minor planets between Mars
ani Jupiter, many of which are situ
ated at nearly equal distances from the
sun, and are therefore, all affected by
circumstances of close affinity so that
the individual member may not present
any anomalous details but rather lie-
long to a common order or family of
bodies showing the same characteristic
phenomena. From the surface ot
Uranus it would be impossible to dis
tinguish the Intra-Jovian planets, Mer
cury, Venus, the Earth and Mars, but
Jupiter and Saturn would no doubt be
distinguished, though with far less el-
. . . . . .1. T'l. r.
feet than from thd earth, 'lhe sun
would not offer much impediment to
such observations, in consequence of
bis comparative feebleness.
Braia Farmluc.
Too many farmers work on at their
regular routines without looking at how
things are going beyond their own
fences. It is the tendency to this course
that makes farm life seem dull plodding,
as in too many cases it really is. Of
course the tasks of the farm are tasks to
be executed. Farming is a business
that yields no profit without labor, but
it does not follow that profit bears
steady and direct relations to lalior
according to its extent There must be
intelligence to direct effort, or the re
sult will be very uncertain. Broader
information, wider scope of knowledge,
extended acquaintance with methods
and capabilities are the fitting for suc
cessful effort In this view it is quite
necessary that every farmer should
know what his neighbors do, how they
manage their fields, what new and in
structive lessons are recorded in thrir
practices. Aud no farmer can expect to
develop ad this by trial restricted to his
own powers nor is there need that he
should attempt the task by a method so
hopeless. Ho can avail himself of what
wisdom his neighbors have if he will
observe. Let him go among them
seeking aid. There is none so poor in
intelligence that he may tot instruct the
wisest, for the farmer of the smallest
attainments is sure to have, iu the wile
rauge of his labor, some sngges'ion cf
gain worthy of use by his most mtelli
gent neighbor. There is profit, there
fore, iu extended observation, Almn
dant opportunities of time are available
to the farmer who would make uih
gent quest for knowledge, and the
fields of his neighbor are always open
for gleaning. We learn by seeiug, and
in seme branches of knowledge the
most rapid progress can be madeohly in
this way. This is true foaming, within
certain limits. Then let farmers who
seek progress mike special efforts to spy
out the useful lessons spread to their
view in all the fields of their neighbors.
The ellort is cheap, easily made and
vcrv sure in its reward. Let it be re
peated as often as interest impels, iu
summer and in winter, in spring and in
autumn, for it can never be out of sea
son. It is not prying impertinence ; on
the contrary, it is gratilying to every
farmer to impart knowledge, and etqe
ially so, when the worthy object may
be accomplished oy tne exuiouion ot
nee-ens visibly marked iu the excellence
of his methods.
How to Train a colt to llarne s.
Put on him an easy collar, having a
pair of reins attached, or add two pieces
to lentrthen the traces, and let a strong
man walk behind him, holding these.
After a few minutes the leader may
order the man to pull the traces very
geutlv, so as to press the collar but
ii(?htlv at first. In a little time ho may
pull tighter, while me leauer Keeps uis
eye on tue con, auu u u us uuj
sign of flinching, let him order the
traces to be slacken eu, ana men gruuu-
ually draw again untd the colt is seen to
lean into his collar, when the man who
holds the traces nay use his whole force
for a ehort time only. '1 be traces must
now be slackened, aud the same course
eeue over repeatedly, but stopping the
colt occasionally to soothe him, taking
care, however, to slack the traces ju.it
as he stops, and to turn a nine to one
kuIa when sart in 2 each time, while the
man nulls the opposite trace.
Alter this exercise let mm oe iacu w
the cart or other vehicle lor which he
m intended: allow him to smell aud ex
amine it; then push it away aua uraw
it up to him several tunes, raising anu
lowering the snails unui ne takes uuira,
of its noise, or ot the different appeik
anoe when raised and lowered. Nice
turn him around and put him between
the shalts, rub them against his sidar
push back and draw up the cart, strow
ing him behind and on the sides with it,
UUUl IIO ailOW 9 Uiuvj
about by it," so to speak. Tlds will do
f.w n dav'a lesson. Next day let all
his harness be put on hini, leavuigcnaius
or straps to hang and strike against him,
while the whole ot tue previous uav a
i-uum is crone through bUi by step.
Same on the third and fourth days. He
mav thon be yoked or hitched to the
cart, aud should have at least one hour's
exercise iu going up and down hill.
turning, etc. First start on level grouuiu
If these directions are carried ont, the
colt learns that the cart he draws is not
meant to hart him, and he will never
trr to "kick it away" or "run off" from
it.
rvulesfor training: 1. Never try to
l.t m mlt into doinur a thing, or. if
nervous'be may turn out a vicious horse,
n,1 if RtnniJ be may become stubborn.
Remember that by patience and gentle
ness he can be Kt to do any thing that
sill not hurt him.
iVfcnn the horse shows signs ol
ibvinsr at an object do not beat him,
but lead him up to it, allowing him to
stand and look, as he comes closer; anu
aftr l. examine It a lew limes ne win
not fear any thing of the kind again. In
nonius- bv hedirea with a colt, throw in
stones and stop him until he takes no
notice of the noise.
3. Before putting on any article of
harness, let your colt smell it, and then
rub it against tua head, neca, anu uouy.
A Al wavs start a horse with the voice,
not with the cut of the whip. In start
. rnrn a little to one side, and in
stopping when going np lull , do the
same.
Womea Wa'er.
"there's ao end to all fishia' for this
seasjo t" sighed the old man dismally.
Perch was just bitin' good and bass was
coromencm fer to run, out it s an up now
for good 1"
Why so I"
See them three girls out then; in a
boat t When three girls goes rowio' the
ugh just pack up and slip out.
"How do you account lor that :
"Cause frirls makes such a splash iu' and
fuss and slam around ao that even, a whale
couldn't stand it. Hear 'em now I
There's a rood deal in the propoait ion
that girls "slam around" some under the
conditions nominated, and a man who
takes any interest in human nature can
hoard a great deal of information by
watcbine three women get into a small
boat. I iFirst there is a series ot squeals.
supplemented by an edition of yells, clos
ing with ao abrupt hve ana tnen an enon
to sit on the same seat, and prolonged
falsetto inquiries as to wny the thing tips
over so. To the average woman the cen
ter of gravity is always over in tbe next
county hen she wsnts to get into a boat,
the idea of equilibrium never e nters into
her calculation, untU tbe keel po(s up above
the surface to see what's going on iuside.
As for rowing, the girl of the penoi re
gards it from a standpoint peculiar to her
self, and inclines to the opiuion that the
oar blades were maae tnarp oeciuse tne
water is hard and digging the order of the
day.
'1 cuim that no women can row a ooal,
continued the old man. "You see that
girl shove one oar in the wa'er while she
holds the other in the air and abuses the
other two for not Bleering straight. But
they get come up with, he chuckled.
"Tne other day that same party was out
fishin and tbey caindit one crab. Tbe
crab know'd they was girls as soon as he
got into tbe boat, and he Just opened his
nirpers and them girls walked ashore. I
ke'ehed their b"at about a mile below and
that crab was sitting up on the midships
thwart winking at himself for his luck and
enterprise."
"No, sir," continued the old man.
elaccioe out on the river, "girls has no
business in a boat, unless it's palled up
out of the water. I'd as (ruck trut a
baoy with a gun as a girl wi.h a boa'., if I
bad my way. There they go I" and he
pointed to the disaster beyond. When
the want to change places they always
try to walk past each other on the same
side and that fetches 'em 1 The waiter is
night on two feet deep there, and they are
satisfied they ate drowned !"
Did you ever see a woman fish i
Primarily she catches the hook in her
dress, drops her hands in her lap aud
says. "1'shaw !" Next she denounces the
bait as "nasty," refuses to toich it, anj
then wonders why somebody does not
"suing it" on her hook for her. If ,ty
any mistake she gets her line into the i
water, she is sure that something is wrong i
ailh the sinker, and if she gets a nibble
she throws the whole business overboard,
fulls bnckward into the boltinn of the boat
and squtals for help.
Ocuioually you will find one who bclds
on and caDtures her prey. Look out for
uch a woman. Intoxicated with her
success she will swing her line around her
bead tear a man's jiw out with a book,
and ah the time pity the fish.
The Clnlf Stream,
it has been asked whether the cutting
of a sea-level canal at Panama would
not tend to turn the Gulf (stream into
the Pacific ccean, and thn- have a
damagiug effect ou the climate of North- '
era Europe. Prof. Geike has called in
science to answer this important ques
tion in the negative. He cays the
effect on the Guif Stream and the cli
mate of the regions whose temperature
it raises would be a i .out as great as me
POUTIUIT a lenlJUilul Ul I JUUix niiia
1 - ... ... i
it.
iii nriinr to aivert the liu li a'ream
to the south the Isthmus ot Panama ! Uae ot tie most remarkaui i super
would have to be depressed some bOO, I stitious juce universal among the
or possibly 1000 feet. Nevertheless, it natives aad not yet wholly extiuct is
is known that Northern Europe has
lu.im at .hia I11110 tt-nrnir ami ut fuiotlii-r
i;m.. ...l i..f it ih ti-.lav. and 1
changes hi the flow ot the Golf current death who may bj selected for that uu
are supposed to have occasioned the 1 pleasant operation. It is a fact too
differences. The influence of the warm j perfectly well establisued to admit of a
waters from the Gull ot Mexico in
modifyiug the climate ol the iiritisu
islauiU, of Scandinavia, and even of.
France, is well understood. A compari
son of mean temperature of the hit 11 11 Je
ou the opposite sides cf the cceau tells
the story. On one ude are Nova Scotia,
Newfoundland and Labrador; on the
other are France, England and Ireland.
At Bordeaux the mean summer temper
ature is 0U deg., at Halifax it is rU .leg.,
at Bordeaux the winter heat is 45 deg.,
at Halifax it ia !1 deg. A between
Scotland aud correspoudiug puints in
Labrador the difference is even more
striking. It is estimated that the Guif
stream gives to the North Atlantic
about one-half as much hdat as it re
ceives from the sun. If, by any eoavul-
sion of nature, it should be turned from
its course, the upper part of the British
islands would be rendenjd alshdutoiy
nuinlmliitable.
A nnlthlin Dnfce.
The Duke of Hamilton, having already,
long before he has reached mi idle hie,
run through with a large portion of his
plendld heritage, may perhaps com
plete the havoc wune siui uawug a
good many years before him. Iu that
case, however, this unworthy scion of a
famous bouse, born, ngnraliveiy, witu
diamond hilted eoleu spoou iu his
mouth, wi 1 yet have a digurhcd haveu
of retuge. As Hereditary iveeper 01
Uolvrood heenjojsa suit of spacious
apartments in that palace. These are
not generally shown, out mey are weu
worth a visit to see me supero auiiyaes
possibly now scattered with the
treasures of Hamilton. A privilege,
peculiarly valuable to the impecuuious,
attaches to these apartments in common
with others at Holyrood that palace
still retains its privilege aj a place of
exemption from arrest lor civil delt.
This privilege arose in the uays 01 me
Abbey, mtiuuei when, after the
formation, the place liecame a roya!
pa!a.e, and has oeeu recojjuizuii iy tne
Scottish and 1 111 penal 1'arilaoieuts.
lhe ii-jriadicUou of .rlie Bailie of Holy-
rood (appointed by the Duke) is both
civd aua crmi'-ii'1, lie Rioue can grant
warrants aiaicst persons witaia his
jurisdiction (which comprises not only
the palace but aa extensive nnge arouu 1
it), and his iudorsemeut is necessary to
the civil warrant of oth.r judges.
Off: "Toh will find the painting
looks better a little way off," said the
artist And Fogg asked, quite innocent
lv. "Would halt a mile be far enough
off, do you think?"
t
Church-gotnsT m Hawaii.
Tbe people of Hawaii go to church
not however, from anything approach
ing what long-established civilization
call religious fervor. That element is
totally lacking iu the native character.
I speak, of course, from my own obser
vations, which, although limited to a
couple of months time, have been var
ied and persisteutly pursued. I considir
the canatanly repeated assertion that
these people the common people, al
ways are Christians to be observed,
and that makes their great church-going
predilection all the more curious. A hen
one of the Kamehamehas "broke the
kapu," which ia the way history expresses
the circumstance that pagan worship
was abolished, he also royally ordered all
natives to become Christians. Most of
the natives had at that time become im
pressed with the advantages of Christi
anity over the worship of idols and my
thological gods as had Kamehameba L,
and that was in this way : When Van
couver showed the first king of all
Havaiians the difference between a mus
ket and a spear for purposes of warfare,
and the difference between sharp steel
carpenters' tools and stone axe, for
purposes of cinoe building,)andteld h;m
of the difference between a European
cottage and a native grass hut, he im
pressed him that all the advantages re
sulted from Christianity. Being anxious
to convert the the old heathen, he said
Christianity, mind you, not civilization
and Bceince, brought the advantages he
pointed out Promptly, and upon that
idea,' Christianity was proclaimed and
adopted, not with a change of heart, but
from a conviction that a Christian mus
ket would kill an enemy at a greater
distance than a native spear, aud that a
rharp steel adze would hollow ont a
canoe quicker than a stone ax. Conse
quently the idols were broken, the mL
sionaryies wi re welcomed, churches were
built, and the strong, hearty nation of
4l H), GOO happy people dwindled to 45,000
diseased servitors of the people who
christianized them.
How deep the Christian ethics tuey
pretend to believe aud doubtless think
they do believe are rooted iu the hearts
of this simple people, was illustrated
by an incident that occurred wlulo we
were in the volcano, which I purposely
refruiued from mentioning iu my last
letter, because I can make better use ol
it here. Our party, was accompanied
into the volcano by auative servant of
Col. Macfurlane. When we stood on
thebnukof tho burning lake, iu speechles
admiratiou of the terrific phenomenon,
that native withdrew to one side and
with a simple earnest dyoutness we
could nt but p-spect. took fioni his belt
a piece of tobacco aud a half -dollar silver
piece, both of whlt-h he threw into the
tos?iug Java an offering to Pele, goddess
of vulcauoes, the worship of whom was
still stronger in the heart of that man
than the Christian lielief which his su
ctstors ha 1 adopted by royal edict Yet
that native will go to church on every
pojble opportunity because he meetsa
croad of other natives there aud he is
intensely gregarious, because it pleases
his vanity to le thought of sufficient
importance to be talked to aud prayed
fur by a fori.i nler Sp -akuig native, an 1
singing
.
.11.1 In It i r, t 1 1 1 . i a ..--1 1 '
-- ....,
. . .... , , , ..-.; ntivA
priests to pray any man
or woman to
question that it was once not an uncom
mon occurrence for a mau's euemy to
employ a priest (the cuff happened to be
wash on whi.'h I had writteu the native
name of the priest to pray the man to
death, and that the victim, heariug of
this, would certainly die on the day the
priest hail apiouited for that consum
mation ot th r bargain. I have talked
with old white rcsiden's who have en
deavored to reason with natives supposed
to be under the death-spell. No amount
of ridicule of argument could convince
the natives that they might just as well
eoutiune to live as die for all the priest
could do. The natives always wire, ami
still are, absolute fatalists, and they
demonstrated the extent of their inliorn
U licf that certain men were jriven the
1 lower to hoodoo to death, by dying in
compliance with the exercises of that
power.
!hort-IJTi rallforaltas.
The number of men wbo.die in Califor
nia in what may be called the prime of
t heir vears occasionally arrest's attention.
Tue proportion of these sudden deaths
appears to be large. They occur not
among men born on the sod, but among
those ho have been transplanted, and
have lieeu subjected to the varying con-
.1 tioim of tKjvertv and aflliieuce. It is
not climate that kills them, since the
1 i mat.- is favi ral le to longevity. Native
Cali oruians live to an extreme old age.
The centenarians are numerous. But
these men have lived out of doors nearly
all their Uvea. They have hved cu sim
ple food ; have been ou horseliai k a
good deal. Indeed the uative Califor
man never walks if he can get a mustang
to c rry hioi. He lives out of doors,
never dies of apoplexy or hart disease,
hut ceuendly of old k j. Tue nij rity
f th. me who immigrate do not reach
extreme age. Tue pioueers drop off
early. They have bad checkered lives
for the ni.xl prt. L'ps aud downs lull
great many people. The excitement
is not eo-jJ for them, it is ne ther
cool on the score of longevity to meet
with suuuen losses nor vj uuu
rapidly. The exceptions are those
where great equanimity 01 leiujnji u
leen preserved. Q likers generally
have jsreat longevity. They are not
subj n;t to great excitemeuts. I he se
rene hie is the one most iavoraoie i
longev .ty.
Although it is still unfiui-died the
Brooklyn bridge has already cost $ 14,
000.01X1.
NEWS IS BUIKF
Washington City owes a per capiU
debt of $127.
The land of the free is divided into
20,000 townships.
Pennsylvania's colored vot j is esti
mated at about 2t,000
There are over 1,700 licensed dojs
in Pat-rson.
Macon is making carriages for a
house in Connecticut.
There are 311 cities of over 7,500
inhabitants in this con itry.
Iudian canoes and Jiht gou lolas
are popular ou thj Thames.
A lady iu Sau Autouio, Texas, has
40,000 silkworms at work ia hoc yard.
Cadet Whittakr has returned t
Camden, S. C, after a long season of
notoriety.
The asesstnont of MiuntapoiM this
year is 951,455, l'Jl, against fcil.lSS. IS.;
last year.
A Seneca squaw. 114 years of a?e.
is said to be living ou the Totiawauda
reservation.
Virginia has 172 tobacco fu-torics,
which consume 4S,btl0.iHk pjuuus ot
tne weed annually.
C. W. DePaw. of New Albany, fud.,
proposes to give $1,000,OJO to Asoury
University at G.-eeuoaaU--, i;i thai I-i.atJ.
Mrs. John Pratt, oi Mich,, is over
one hundred aua two yeari, and her
husband is living, ut the age of ninety
three, The Post Office Department will
turn 31,000,000 into tae t reasury. th
amonut of its earnings ovr exunses f tr
the past fiscal year
The insane population of t'.o L'aitl
States in 1H7J uuuiiK rcd .?7,412. or om
to each 1.10J. In ISS J it was estimated
at 8!,00t, or one to each 570 of fa... en
lire population.
Toronto pajwrs say that much com
plaint of extortions iy hackm.-u ls
uelug nuule by American visitors t.
that city, ani they atvi.-e tUatstra.ig.-rs
consult a policeman before m.iiiu lar
gains wiJ them.
It is claimed iu Bostou that everv
building iu the city available ft r u aau-
tacturaig purposes is now ocju wd,
aud that suitable site fjr ttaer ni 11111
tactones are in demand.
The deaths of two veterans of Tra
falgar have just been announced in
England--Jonu Crawford, of Duudee,
aged 95, and Charles Williams, 01
Twickenham, aged, lul.
Sojourner Tnitii, now lOS years
old, leetureti iu Decatur, .Miuu., tin
other evening, and devoted tiia jro
ceeils to furiueiiug th j wjuia i sit.tiae
campaign in Nebraskii.
Captain E.sdale, of the K jyal tu
giueers, a practicid badoouUt cf the
Briti-h V..r Dej-ai tuieiit. is ia Il.Uaax,
exiierimentiii. iu a scries of inveutiouJ
iu balloouing lor war juirposes.
The Priucess of Wales, now in hvr
ininy-eigiuu year, is .loscnbcd aslo k
uig scarcely a day older tiiaa ii-ju, on
March 10, niiK-teeii years a-M.s:iesto hi
at the altar by the side of her yo:ui"
htlsban.t
General Gcoriru B. M.-Ci, ILi i h
sous and the sons of General II .re
porter, Mural Hal, tea. I snd ex-Gvcr-uor
Bowi.', of Mary laud, have entered
their names ou the roll of the enh-rino
class at Pruiivton
The New Orleans Tiim -l. i rtt
estimates that the llxd of liSJ cist the
Southwest over 92ri,iNN),lkM, 01 whicu
Liouisiaua a sliitro was$I.,UiK),0;li. To
replace this loss will require bOd,IHM)
Males of cotton.
Tife Princess of Wales an 1 li r.-'iil-
dreu, unil their suite, and tho King aud
yueeu of Denmark ami their suite.
nave all beeu living together like one
large family party, at W.esb iden, aud
uavo rarely apeurej in public taere.
Lieutenant Damieiiowvr was tin-
first to greet Ciuef Eagiueer Milville
upon the hitter's arrival iu Washington.
Pushing forward, he grasjed ins ha:id
aud aiud : "Hello tieoro." to w.iiuli
Melville resjiomled : "Hello, Dau."
Father Smpictte. au mred priest.
who has a cougreiration of Ohoctaw In
dians in SL Tammany paiisii, Loiiisi
ana, says that the ludiau will accept
Christianity, but that uli efforts to in
duce him to adopt the manners of civili
zation are 1 utile.
Investigation into the death rat i of
English watering places k'vo a verv
satisfactory result. Forty-six of t.icso
resortscoutaiuiu l,0m,UiJ iuhabitauts.
gave au average rate of only 1 tj. JJ deaths
per J.UUO, the zymotic ratd lieing but
1.7 per 1,UV,
Landed pn.iuietors iu Hungary
still hold alwoiute coutrol over tho h-
pior traffic on their estates. Tnis is
uow to cease. The jxiwer is to p.isa
into the hands of tha Utc&l trover, nueut
authentiert, aud the laud-owners will
receive 925,000,0) K), cjmpeusatiou.
Under the patronage of tho King of
Italy an association has lieeu formed at
L'rbiuo to celebrate tho four-h'iniredtli
anniversary of the birth of p, ipiiael.
It is proHwed to erect his statue, in
Carrara luarbh, upon a peilcst d bear
ing bas-reliefs illustrative of his in t
famous works.
Mr. Porter, of the census bureau,
says the census report will cost 95, Oil) 1,
00)1. The work was begun iu lTJ and
will be finished iu 11-iJ. alt-r live
years of solid work. It will be thu
eouipletcst work of thd kind ever dune.
The EuglL-ih census cost only '-lO.oOH,
and was betrun aud completed 1:1 one
night
The children of I.n:d Lson, the
lost aeronaut, are at prcseut hvieg iii
Kjchester, N. 1'., with Mr. KueiVr.
l'hey were boarding wi:ii him at t.ie
time of their fnher's trai-5 death, ail
since tlien he has cure I for tlieal us
his own. There are t wo of the ji, a boy
and a girl, aged re-pectively tea au 1
tweive years.
The annual prolusion of Civiili
malt is aliout tio.OOO.OOl) poumls O:'
this nearly 2'J,)")0.0JU poll ids are ex
ported to the Laitel bcattis. liw lai
ports almoot wholly eoutijedtolintiah
Columbia baiely exceed 15J.0VJ
pounds. lalorutr aloud t.ure are
1 800,00)J gallons of beer breweJ. wliiU
the capital empl yei am 111 its to 9-3,-000,0A.
Statistics have beeu codeeteJsh w
rag that the number of bliud pera wis iu
Prussia hascousiilerably decrease 1 witli
in ten years, iu spit j of an increne of
10 per ceut. in population ''In failing
off was from 22,97 in 171 to 22,ti77 ia
1880. It is declared that this improve
ment has been due to tae progress of
scientific nietho.ls ia th treatment of
chUdrtin,
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