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VOL. XLVI.
THE LESSON.
if the Life of Prvidenl James A'-ram Garfield,
BT ROBERT V. HUMS.
"Youn. Americans are too apt to dem that
he rewards of life are ih results of chance,
ither than the rightful returns of arnest
fork, probity, and steaily attention to duty,
the incident in the early lile of Grandma
SarlielJ, and mrt rt-peelalty those which il
iistratetl the careir of her renowned son,
lamrs Abrain tiaineid. ought to go far to dis
11 ih.it di lusion. For the above mentioned
iraons, the fnllowliiir poem is commended to
Ibe earnest attention of our youthful readers.
1STRODCCTIOS.
I -i Lt-:tun of a Life! Tbat Is the theme,,
I olcli yet remains, a blessing- to our laad ;
L guide and pattern l or aspiring youth,
s stu ly for all axes and nil time.
a uoble lire, in all its parts completo,
!u every phase serene snd beautiful;
fssoo, as lovi r, husband, father, friend,
'tuu rounded, perfect, and harmonious whole.
riBsT SCINB.
a rude log hut; around it rings the axe
i f the stout woodman. On all sides the trees,
I be grand old mnr.archs of the sturdy groves,
I all crashlnr to the ground. Under Its roof
I he careful mother tends her children dear,
I oree little prai tiers playing on the ground,
Sod one, a babe in arms: whose Angers now
Tun scarcely clasp the biuble la its bands.
trace we that infant's course, for Fate decree.
I'nat child, la the uear future, shall obtain,
Lot by the accident of birth, nor yet
Uy Fortune's sp:c-t I favors: but t.y toil,
l:y patient peiererjnce to the end;
lly duty well performed: by constancy;
Hy hard earne I wis lorn, and by gallantry
lu war's stern Bel Is, the highest of rewards
iiur country ciuld bettow. Leaving to us
4 bright example for all future time.
SECOND SCENE.
hut from the balls of literary lore,
uut deeply rea I in Nature's open book,
the babe has grown Into the stalwart youth,
a gymnast or the fltlds. In school the weak
l.ook up to him for aid, nor look In vain!
at sixteen years be travels forth for work,
a 3d asks man's waires, and obtains them too,
after good proof they would be fairly earned.
Uut dreams of foreign climes perplex his
brain.
Visions of coral grots and sea-girt isles.
9o, to that end, despis njr not the means,
To learn the mysteries of a sailor's life
He seeks a chance to drive on the canal.
Prom that, still prompt at duty, he's advanced
To All the steerinan's post. Hut Fate decree,
ills fortune lies on 1 ind. That cruel pest
The ague seizes him and drives falm borne.
THIRD SCENE.
Now see bU Mother bending o ver bit couob
Instilling her sage precepts In bis ear,
I'ointlng his future ci ursi with loving hand
and driving bis sea-fnnclts far away.
1 beo soon his thoughts, from wild adventures
freed.
Turn to the paths of learning Not for him
The smooth and easy path up Science' mount,
liut toll by day, and harder toll at eve
To purchase kn wledge he so much desire..
Bt bo'd him now behind the teacher's desk,
' here physical as well as moral force
la needed to restrain th' unruly boys
No longer "Jim" but ' Mr. Garfield" now
jHls uncle's prophecy has proved correct)
He rices steadily, through every gradel
FOURTH SCENE.
'uoioifT for study, winter. In his school
Learning and teaching now be spends hli
days;
For 3clei.ee' mount Is high and bard to climb,
Ind noue can say they have Its summit
reached.
ki school, at Hiram, now be Citsar reals
Ind studiee, In that tome, the art of war;
But as a tutor, soon we find hfm there
a willing captive to all-conquering Love!
Hot such as Ovid pictures: but that true
and tender sympathy between two souls
I bat la not sundered even by the grave!
it Williams College next o'er books he pores
and, to the wisdom of tb ancient world
He adds the knowledge of the present time.
Schiller and Goethe now attract his mind,
and Tennyson's wild dreams of Artbur'a court
Ipangled with knightly jousts on tented fields
Ifet Is not be from Truth by Fiction led,
For Piety o'er blm keeps constant guard.
So passes be his youth in Learning a halls,
The glory and the grace of tbls our land.
FIFTH SCENE.
With mind well stored now to bis task be
bends,
and for the platform leaves the teacher's desk
But first he pl'ghts bis true and constant
faith
To one well worthy of his fondest love,
and to tbe altar leads his beauteous bride.
Thus doubly armed with wisdom and wits
love,
The noblest stimulants to virtuous deeds,
He enters boldly In the lis's for fame.
And though for four long years be stood .loot
Watching tbe factions flght with listless eye,
When be beholds fair Liberty's bright sua
Kiting to sbln- upon a shadowed land.
He dona his harness and he joins tbe fray.
Ohio's plains ring with his loud appeals
Por Freedom's champion; and Fremont's nam
Heads the first ballot that by blm Is thrown.
But vain his efforts then ; yet undismayed,
Our hero to the law attention turns,
And, In Ohio's Senate, under Chase
J Uli fights tbe battle there for buman right.
FIXTH SCENE.
Now through the welkin rings the trump ol
war.
For Lincoln calls our people to the Held,
And, "mong the first enrolled, stands Gar.
field's name
Behold him now, In that dark nluht of woe
That followed the disaster of Bull Run,
Voung as he was, a novice In war's art,
Hatched with a veteran to the hostile rank.
But, from hla front see Humphrey Marsha'
reel,
Ant?, having burnt bis equipage and stores,
Ket rest to safer ground at Abingdon.
Thus, the true teaching of bis early life,
Which practice had with theory combined.
Stood Garfield In good stead. Tbe hardy lad
Who, at sixteen, amid the golden grain,
Had written with bis scythe hie name as men.
Stood fearless In the cruel game of war.
Thus, steadily, bis merits gained their meed
And after Cblckamauga's well fought field,
For gallantry and valiant conduct there
He gains a Major General's rank and fame.
SEVENTH SCENE.
Behold him now beneath the Capitol,
A statesman among statesmen. From the first,
A leader noted, and, ere many months,
A leader owned. At length, all stations passed.
His worth and manliness In all approved,
Among a host of candidates, his na ne
Stands forth pre-eminent. Tbe lot Is cast:
It points blm out as worthiest to rule
The millions In our land. The people vote, fj
The last and greatest victory Is gained.
The end's achieved, and Garfield's work 1
done! ....
fet no thi re Is another task for blm.
His life baa taught us well the way to lire,
And, In bis death, we'll learn the way to dlel
CONCLUSION.
Such la the lesson of the noble lire
Of James A. Garfield. In It we behold
Struggles and triumphs. Very arduous toll!
Most cheerfully accomplished. Through the
whole
Of bis life's march tbe footprints are tbe same,
The scenes may vary much, but not the man.
Whether at school, or at the tearhcr's desk,
r pon the platform or in war'a red field,
In James A. Garfield can be seen no change.
As farmer, student, soldier, citizen.
Or statesman in our legislative balls.
Mis hard-earned skill to perse erance joined
W as equal to all tasks. To tl at we add
His social virtues. An obedient son,
Ever respectful to bis parent dear;
A bu9band tender, loving and beloved;
A careful father and a faithful friend.
No wonder that our people's hearts wers
moved
At lose of such a ruler, such a manl
No wonder that from every continent
Tbe stream of sympathy continuous poured
i o testify tbe world's respeci for blm
Wi.ose actions dignified the human race.
Women can vote in Canada, Italy,
Finland, Delmatia, Sweden and Wale.
1. .. c.i.i that thev are not allowed full
t.aD hise in these places, bat can at
babt exercisa some voico m s
the affair of the country.
Tbs moaei m uuucj
.i o half f.vt from Bucser to
sting has been received by the biolog
ical del artment of the University of
Pennsylvania. It was received fror
Pari,ni is for the use of tndento
lad i perfect in every part
THE BABY.
Tbs little tottaring baby feat.
With faltering steps and slow.
With pattering eenoos soft aad swaat.
Into my heart they go;
Tfa.y 4o go, In grimy plays.
In mnuuy pools and dnsty ways,
3 ben through the honse in trackfol max.
Iti.y wander to and fro.
Tbs baby bands that elasp my neck
With touches dear to me
Ara the same hands that smash and wreck
The inkstand fool to see ;
Thay pound the mirror with a cane,
Tbay read the manuscript in twain.
Widespread destruction tbay ordain.
la wasteful jubllaa.
The dreamy, murm'ring baby voioe
That coos its little tune.
That makes my listening heart rejoice
Like birds in leafy June,
Can wake at midnight dark and still.
And all tbe air with howling fill .
That splits the air with echoes shrill, .'
L4ke cornets out of tone.
1
NAPOLEON'S WOOING.
Cooking his own supperover a blaz
ing wood Are one hot evening In July,
Napoleon Crowe felt that he was in
deed born to misfortune like the
6 parks that flew upward.
For forty years he had tilled the
stony, stubby little farm which at its
best bad never yielded Its owner more
than a precarious living, and now at
the age of 60 he was alone in the
world, having a few months pre
viously buried his third wife.
Whether it was owing to an Inher
ent delicacy of constitution, a lack ot
appreciation and tenderness on his
part, or a too continuous diet of
stewed yellow -eyed Deans and pork,
we are unable to determine, but for
some mysterious reason Napoleon's
wives refused to thrive on his hands,
and drooped and pined away, one
after another, until he was almost
convinced that In his case marriage
was a failure.
That he had been his own house
keeper for a period of seven mouths,
every room and closet in the dreary
old farmhouse bore evidence, and the
numerous scars on his hands and arms,
testified to the burns and scalds he
had received during his cooking open
ations.
For Napoleon was peculiarly un
fortunate in his culinary experiments.
If after serious reflection, he decided
that he could afford a small roast tor
the Sunday dinner, to which he in
variably Invited his old crony, Jotham
Sparks, that roast so tenderly
watched and Jealously guarded for
hours was in the end temporarily
forgotten, while Napoleon was grap
pling with the biscuit problem, and
burned to a blackened crisp.
He baked beans without pork, for
got to put the meat in his soups, or
the salt and pepper in his vegetable
hash; left out the sweetening from
his apple pies, the salt from his but
ter, the engs from his custards, and
wondered why he had no appetite.
After a multitude of disastrous fail
ures similar to the ones we have re
corded, Napoleon resolved he would,
from motives of economy and other
wise, confine himself exclusively to a
diet of flour biscuit hot from the oven,
alternating with such relishes as mo
lasses, fried pork fat, and the un
savory production which once in four
weeks he churned, and spanked and
patted with his bit;, hairy hands, and
designated as, "butter."
Three times a dav regularly, Napo
leon produced a small wooden dough
dish, and after mixing together sour i
milk, saleratus and flour, toiled and 1
sweated over the sticky mass until it
went into the oven huge, unsightly
lumps of spotted dough, and came
out the same.
It might have been tbe legitimate
result of eating his own hot biscuit,
but within a few weeks he had devel
oped Into a gloomy pessimist He
neglected the poultry and stock, al
lowed the weeds to flourish in the
garden, and seemed to have lost all
Interest in life.
Everything went wrong with Napo
leon. The old cow went dry threa
months earlier than usual, and thej
two-year-old heifer choked to death in;
her stall. As a natural sequence, hia
groans and sighs became louder and
more frequent. '
Thirty hensand two roosters cackled
shrilly from morn to till night, and
though he crawled under the barn on
his hand9 and knee9 at the risk of a
personal Introduction to a skunk who
made his headquarters there, and
climbed ladders to the highest scaf
folds at the risk of breaking bis neck,'
not a solitary egg gladdened his anx
ious eyes.
One morning his friend and sym
pathizer, Uncle Jotham Sparks,called
before breakfast to borrow a rake.
"Jest hevin' a bite, hey?" ot
served Uncle Jotham, his eyes wan
dering to the bare pine table adorned
by a tin of steaming yellow biscuit.
"Ya-a-a," answered Napoleon in a
dissatisfied tone, "I'm tryin' to heat
a drop o' water to make a cup o' tea
to go with them ere biscuits. Won't
you hev a biscuit, Jotham?" i
"N-no-no," responded Jotham with
alacrity. "Thanky, I've been to
breakfast an hour ago."
"I know It's late," sighed Napoleon,
but I've had a regular tussle to heat
this dipper o' water. I broke my tea
kettle by ponrin' cold water in it
when It was red hot, and I hain't had
any tea-kettle to use all summer. It's
tcr'ble hard for a man that hain't
never been used to putterin' round
the house to do tholr own cookin' and
bousework."
It must be, I vum," saia jotnam,
and he edged away to an open win.
flow to avoid an offensive odor that
arose from a bean pot on the stove
hearth.
"Jotham," said he solemnly,
"Jotham, ain't you seen, can't yon
see that I'm fallin' from the crust?"
Jotham shook his bead mournfully
u be stopped to light his pipe.
'Yes, .Napoleon, I've seen all sum
mer tnat you ve oecu iaiun, you v
grown old, and thin, and gray, and
Dent over, ana aon 1 iook mucu ii
the man you was a year ago."
"Do you think I'm pinted for ta
grave, Jotham?" be groaned.
"No;" said he bluntly, "but you
won't live six months unless you get
woman here to cook your vlttles,'
and do your wasnln.i and keep tne
I house wholesome. Why don't you
Hire a woman, ana pay ner so mucn a
rveek.
"I couldn't afford it, all the income
I git from the farm wouldn't pay her
iwages. I think myself, not relishln'
my Tittles has something to do with
MIFFLINTOWN.
-J.UU mignc git married,- rug- j
(tested Jotham. I
"Ya-a-s, I've thought o' that. I
know or a smart imeiy woman mats
wirth some prupputty that I think
would Jump at the chance to get
me to-day. She's a widder that I
courted some when I was young, and
lives on a farm somewhere in S tough
ton. I'd slick up a little, and go up
and see if she would like to change
her condition, If 'twasn't for neigh
bors talk Id. You know I hain't been
a widderer this last time only about
6even months.'
'I know, but circumstances alters,
cases, and if you can't afford to hire
a housekeeper, you had better hunt
up a wife lively. Let folks talk if
they want to. You hev a smart woman
come here, and scrub and scour, and
brighten up things, and cook you
three good temptin meals every day,'
and you'd soon begin to fat up, and
be as strong and ambitious to work
as ever you was in your life. Now, I
do hope Napoleon, you realize Jest
how slim and peaked you are look in',
and if you don't want to slip your
wind afore the snow flies, take my
advice, and merry that 'ere widder
Jest as soon as she'll hev you," and;
taking his rake, Jotham departed, 1
leaving Napoleon
to his thoughts
pleasant by any
which were not
means.
For several days after, Napoleonj
wandered around in a discontented,
absent-minded way, as though he was
uncertain whether to take Jotham's
advice or not.
At length, on this hot July evening
when we introduce him to our readers.
having nearly caused a conflagration
by upsetting a kerosene lamp which
exploded in the flour-barrel, Napoleon
gnashed his teeth, as he tore around
the room in his efforts to extinguish
the flames, and vowed he would have
a wife to cook his suppers before the
week was out.
"Ain't this a pooty way for a man
y my years to be livin." he muttered
savagely, as he vainly tried so make
the lantern wick burn. "There the
danged thing has gone out, and 1 1
might as well give up I've got to
get here in the dark, or else crawl to
bed without a solitary nibble in my
poor sturamock, and I'm ready to
faint. S'pose I'll put up with this
any longer? not by a Jugful! If the
sun rises to-morrow mornln', It'll see
me streakin' for the Widder Spooners! j
Let the neighbors taiK lr tney want
to, what they say don't put slab-jacks
Into my mouth, or mend the big holes
in my stockin's. Yes-sir-ee," and he
snapped his rJnirers defiantly, "let
'em talk; I don't give a dang if
Eunice Spooner will have me; we'll
be merried short-off; that's flat."
The Widow Spooner was In her
strawberry-patch, pulling up the
. weeds, and she was about" to throw
J them over the fence, as little Kittie
Henderson came rushing round the
corner.
"O, Aunt Eunice!'f she exclaimed
breathlessly; "Mamma sent me over I
S to borrow some cream of tartar, and
' don't you think the awfulest looking
old tramp has followed me way
through the woods, and he's sitting
down on the big rock in the lane
nowl Oh. dear! I dar'st go home,
what shall I do?" and Kittie began
to cry.
"Tramp, hey?" said the widow
xlly, "that's nothin, new. I've
been jest pestered to death with
tramps this summer. There was two
called here last night, and they was
jest as sassy as a lord, and wanted
me to give em some supper, but they
didn't git any. Jest the same. You
wait a minute till I can look after my
bakin', and I'll go home through the
woods with you, Kitty. I never see
the tramp yet I was afraid of."
With Kittie following close at her
heels, Mrs. Spooner proceeded to the
kitchen, where, throwing open the
oven doors, she displayed a pair of beau
tifully browned chickens which sent
forth a most appetizing odor.
"There, Kittie, jest look at my
fowls, ain't they doin' lovely? I've
been doin' lots of cookin to-day, and
I do wish some lnterestin' company
would happen along. I've had signs
of a stranger all the afternoon; two
chairbacks got together, and I
bumped my elbow ag'ln the pump
handle "
At that moment there came a loud
knocking at the door. Kittie gave a
little shriek.
"It's it's him, auntie!" she
gasped, "It's the old tramp."
"Is it?" said the widow brusquely.
"Jest let me git my weapons ready,
and I'll soon start him goin'."
, With a saucepan of boiling hot
water in one hand and a fire shovel in
ths other, Mrs. Spooner advanced
boldly to the door.
In the semi-twilight stood a seedy
looking individual, wearing a slouch
hat covered with dust.
"Could you ahem give me'' he
began in a hesitating manner, then
hastily retreated a few steps as he
caught a glimpse of the war-like im
plements in the hands of the widow.
"Yes, I'll give you." cried the
widow, "a good whackln' with my
shovel, and a scaldin' to boot, If you
ain't off my premises before I can
count ten. You great, lazy loafer.
Ain't you ashamed round trampin'
and becgin' your livin'? Why hain't
you workiu' on some railroad, dlggln'
ditches, vou shifless hulks?"
'il hain't round beffrfn
rid
livin'," stammered the man, his eyws
firmly riveted on the widow'
I weapon's. "I ain't no tramp neither
I'll have you to know I "
"Oh, no, you're no tramp, none of
em' is, you're a bank president most
likely. Come, git; put yourself!"
I "I won't stir a blarsted peg," he
i spluttered. "You can't drive me
till I've had a chance to tell you
wno
4.j aa 1?
We'll see about
that, you wretch. Follow me with
the tea-kettle, Kittie, I'll scald him
to death."
Mrs. Spooner's appearance as sho
screamed out these words was more
that of a modern Amazon, than a
staid elderly widow, and with a
smothered shriek, the man fled pre
cipitately before her, never pausing
until he lgnominously tumbled over a
rock-heap by the roadside.
There, Kitty," exclaimed Mrs
Spooner, as she come into the kitchen
Bushed and triumphant, "I've sent
him about bU bntlneat. Tit learned
JUNIATA COUNTY.
Dy experience Ilia soft words don't
count with tbe tramp gentry, and I
guess this pertickler one won't visit
rae air'in."
"Why, auntie," said Kittie, star
ing hard out of the window,, "he ain't
gone; he's sitting down by the barn
now."
"Why, how you talk. Has he had
the impudence to come back here?
Well, now you Jest wait; I'll start him
out of my door-yard, or I'll know the
reason why!"
With hurried and determined steps
she took her way down to the spot
where a lorelorn looking ilgure was
seated on a huge bowlder, sorrowfully
rubbing his knee-joints.
"Come," said she, "what In th
world do you mean by hangln' round
here? Why don't bless my soul this
ain't it can't be Napoleon Crowe?"
"Yes," It's me," said Napoleon
plaintively.
"Took to trampin' round the coun
try, and scarin' little girls? You!"
"It's a danged mistake," said he.
"I hain't trampin' round no country,
nor scarin' no little girls either. I
wasn't never in this place before, and
I didn't know fur certain which house
you lived in, and so I was goln' to in
quire if you could give me any idee
where the idder Spooner lived, ana
you come at me with a Are shovel and
i a bucket o'bilen water."
j "Why didn't you tell your name?"
I "You didn't give me no chance.did
you? I tried to tell you my name,
but I couldn't get a word in edge-
ways. I expected a different wel
come from you, Eunice, bein'9 we
w;n alius sech good friends, and I'd
walked fifteen miles to ask you to
merry me."
A warm flush rose to the widow's
junburned cheeks. If there was a
person on earth who had always held
a warm corner In her heart, It was
. Napoleon Crowe.
"Napoleon," hazarded she, "it was
a dretful misunderstanding."
"I should hope it was, I swan,"
sighed Napoleon, still rubbing his
bruised knees.
"It wa9 Kittie's fault; she told me
there was a tramp at the door, and I
was that mad and excited I never took
a good look. You've no idee how I've
been pestered with thievln, sassy
tramps, Napoleon."
"I don't doubt it, Eunice. You
hadn't ought to be livin' here alone."
"You hain't goin', Napoleon?
Do
stop and have some supper"
, i.D0 y0U really want me-to Eunice?"
j "Of course I do, Napoleon, and
we'll have roast chicken and cream
biscuits "
i "And you'll hev me, Eunice?"
..j shouldn't wonder, Napoleon "
So Napoleon stayed to supper, and
' after partaking of the roast chicken
and cream biscuit, was, in such ex
cellent spirit that he tossed Kittle
up and dori in his arms, and pre
sented her with a nickel and two
pennies, a freak of generosity on his
part without precedent. Y'ankeo
Blade.
Magle Ula.s.
One of tbe most curious inventions
of this inventive age is what is called
platinized glass. A piece of glass is
coated with an exceedingly thin
layer of a liquid charged with plati
num, and is then raised to a red
heat. The platinum becomes united to
the glass in such a way as to form a
very odd kind of mirror.
The glass has not lost its transpar.
ency, and yet if one places it against
a wall and looks at It he sees his
image as in an ordinary looking-glass.
uut wnen i,Knl is auoeu to coiue ,
through the glass from the other!
side, as when it is placed in a window
it appears perfectly transparent like
ordinary glass.
By constructing a window of pla
tinized glass one could stand close
behind the panes, a an unilluminated
room, and behold clearly everything
going on outside, while passers-by
looking at the window Would behold
only a fine mirror or set of mirrors,
in which their own figures would be
reflected, while the person inside re
mained invisible.
In France various tricks have beea
contrived with the aid of this glass.
In one a person seeing what appears
to be an ordinary mirror, approaches
to look at himself. A sudden chango
in the mechanism sends light
through the glass from the back,
whereupon it instantly becomes
transparent, and the startled specta
tor finds himself confronted by some
t-rotesoue figure which has been bid
den behind the magic glass.
What
wonders mlirht not a magician of tbe
'dark ages have wrought if be cctild
bave had a piece of plantlnlzcd glass?
.
Th Dil His Existence Dmled.
A new book on the devil has just
been published in Germany by a learn -
ed Protestant theoloeian.Georee Lan-
ir n. under the tit e. "Biblical Teach-
ins as to the Devil.
." The author ex -
amines all those passages of tbe He
brew Bible and the Christian Kew
Testament in which reference is made,
to existence and action or the '
devil, or of an infernal spirit of evlL I
He strives to trace tbe genesis and
history of the belief in such a spirit,
and to determine wheather the belief
in bis personal existence forms a
necessary part of the Christian faith.
He makes a critical study of all
scriptural allusions to the deviL study-
ing them seriatim, placing them as far
as possible in chronological order, and
taking account of the influences that
acted upon Jewish thought at the
period of their composition. Special
attention is devoted to those gospel
l narratives in which Satan and tbe
"possessed" are spoken of. He at- J
temps to show that mauv of the scrip-
, turai passages which are quoted aa
proof of the common notion of such a
being, lie argues that the concep-
slans.
I The outcome of Dr. Langln's his
torical and exegetical study of his sub
ject is that there is nothing in scrip
( ture that really Justifies the promin
' ence given in religion to a personal
I devil; that this devil is. in short, an
' alien to tbe primitive faith of both
Jews and Christians, and that h
owes position to an early confusion of
thought, to misreading of scriptural
passages, and to a wrongful lnterpre-
tation of some of the words of tht
gospel.
tion of such an evil spirit as we des- , V " h V If 1 . . , giciai inswunienw wm toeu aixomir uu.u...s
lunate by the term devil was not K 1 ,n' 1 lihed, and the wonderful capacitiea shoe our pride. But we must die;
orleinal to the Jewish faith, and h ferior "e,- H.or?h'de for V1'" T f tnls strange new product began to we must converse with earth and
traces itV Introduction to the Per- Ppse 86 !.fr.om.,2:50.to 4 eal?' 88 V! ' U known, and the commercial world worms."
PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 30. 1892.
A rise rrliM
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria,
as arrested at Munich recently, for
he first time in his life, while visit,
ng his daughter, Archduchess Gisela,
rho is married to Prince Leopold of
Bavaria, and who resides in thatcity.
ills Majesty, who was not in uniform,
lappened to walk on the grass while
irossing the garden to the palace,
hen he heard a gruff voice cry:
"Are you goitig to get off of that
tr not?"
The Emperor, not supposing that
the remark was addressed to him,
salked on until he was roughly
telzed by the arm by a one-armed
tark guard.
"Am I to speak twice?" the guard
lemanded furiously. "You're ar.
tested. Come right along to tht
luard-house!"
The Emperor, with an Inward
Iraile. accompanied his captor. As
iliey passed along, the spectators, as- which destroys at once the body aod
lonished at the extraordinary specta-. the soul.
tie, uncovered their heads; but the The unrestricted sale of opium is
ld guard was too angry to notice permitted in Java, with its 20,ooo,
Ihls, and it was not until they met j io0 of population. It is also permitted
ilaron Malsen, one of the dignitaries m the French possessions of 8,000,
f the Bavarian Court, that the stub-, 600 or 10,000,000. The vice is also
torn old fellow lealized what he had . tarried by the Chinese immigrants
lone.
"Your Majesty," exclaimed
the
tlaron, "what does this mean?"
On hearing the word
the guard dropped the
"majesty,"
x.mperor a
irm and began to tremble from head
lo feet.
"That's all right," said the Era
Jteror, laughingly. "You have only
lone your duty, though not in a very!
tentle way. Have you been a sol
lier?"
"For forty years, Your Majesty,"
Hammered the guard, "and I have
been wounded in three campaigns."
"You are too old for a park guard,"
rejoined the Emperor. "If you will
present yourself to the master of the
household to-morrow, I wil? see that
rou receive a more comfortaile berth
is one of the doorkeepers of ti.e pal
ice." The old fullow's eyes filled with
tears as be saluted and withdrew,
muttering:
"Mercy, what a fine piisoner!"
Hollar, vs. Burr. In Floor Mllllag.
The radical change in the method
f reducing wheat to flour seems to
nave been largel.- the outgrowth ol
necessity; one of the dema. ds of a
progressive age. Of all mechanical
appliances for performing useful work
the millstone is probably the most
antiquated; it having been in use. Id
one form or another, for thousands ol
rears. That it is an effective appli
ance there is no denying, but it had
liecome somewhat awkt.ard md trou
blesome by comparison, and alto
gether out of harmony with the drift
and spirit ot the times. The produc
tion of the roll was a rather happj
conception, in that it so much sim
plified the process of reducing, as
well as laying the corner-stone of a
modernized system, the whole struc.
lure of which Is simple, yet grand.
The roller mill is not only simp!e as a
device, but also in action. It merelj
touches the pr uct as it passe
twiftly through, while the millstone
keeps it wallowing in grooves and
Bver a large surface, for a measurabU
period, during which there are alwayj
chances for more or less injury bj
heat and chemical changes. The
burrs are continually changing theii
condition, thus requiring much skill
nnd tedious labor to keep them in
perfect working order, while the rolls,
if properly and well constructed, re-
- - attention, other than to kee,
' ,, ... ,M A
them acjusted, until wear renders it
necessary to send them back to the
shop for repairs. Altogether, it has
been a change that was very much
needed to bring flour manufacturing
upon a par with other industries,
and to a state of greater perfection,
.Many otner innovations auu ciiuuci-i
have been contemplated, looking tt
methods radically different from th
present, but it seems extremely doubt
ful if anything else will be accepted
for a long time to come. True, modi
fication will follow, but the mall
features are certainly of a permanenl
character.
Whan Travallna;.
Everv Russian nassencer carries tea
and sugar, usually in a little calico
bag. Bread and lemons are bought ter than the ramous wiuabaus or Las
I at the stopping places and everj ' tile.
Steamer keeps a lubberly, unwillinji Torquemada, writing nearly a ceu
' sort of youth, whose duty is to pro-, tury later, also speaks of rubber,
tide nlentv of hot water. Teatxil
s . V
and glasses are obtained from th! tives in cases or hemorrnage and for
steward, and the Russian family bj various other diseases. Mixed and
means of t hese inirredients manage tfl taken with cocoa, it made an excel
pass no small share of their tim! lent healing emollient for the lungs,
drinking tea and sweetened water. ' and applied externally it possessed
Th Russian would nrobablv rebel properties of special value iu remov-
' against the Insinuation of sweetened
water, but the straw-colored fluid
that. i viplded hv the unw l nir leave!
' after the teapot has been replenished
over and over agal J with hot watei
is not to be converted into tea by 1
' mere politeness of the tongue.
Th. D cm fx p.rt shota.
Engineers of- railroad trains it
Texas and most of the Western Statet tained.
carry revolvers, and often rifles U .Nevertheless, rubber remained
the cab for various contingencies thai practically unknown, save at- a curi
mlght arise. They amuse themselvei1 cwity, for many years after that, and
by shooting at the telegraph poles 01 it was near the close of the eight-
any other mark while running at full
speed and attain a wonderful ski4 in
marksmanship. A few days &ko ac
engineer on the Denver and Rit
Grande railway shot and killed t
wildcat near Newcastle from the cat
of his locomotive. New York Sun
Has-Ball conn.
There are two factories
in 1'hlla
delphia that use up in the season 10C
horse hides a week eac.'. to cover bass
balls. They are alum-tanned Ont
nize. Kips are also used. They sell
at 14 cents a foot and sheepskin!
83.50 to $3 a dozen. The best regu
lation balls sell at 1 . 2.1 to tl.50
each. A piece of rubber forms the
center, around which yarn U wound
by hand. Then they are covered.
They are "dead trfUs and won't
bounce."
"
Out of fierce and persistent avpation
have come the great reforms that bav
lifted humanity higher, as out of o -
low tbe iweetett recitation has cone.
IS ill O fir 11 1 fiiFnlaih pavan fi tan flron I . . . . . w il n 1 r... tfittKatViav
England's shame. i
Response bl for the of Oplune Amoaf
6TO.OUO.OOO Peopla.
Americans do not realize the ex
tent of the terrible curse of the opium
vice in Asia. In China alone 125,
I .'0,000 out of a population of be
lw.ee 300,000, OuO and 400,000,000 use
it.
i And now the British Government
In India, to increase its revenue, has
authorized the licensing of shops
throughout in lia and Murruah for the
free sale of opium. These licenses are
issued in very unusual form. Those
who take the license come under obli-
ration to sell a stipulated amount, or
lo pay a forfeit! Thus the Govern
ment almost compels the holders of
the license to stimulate Its subjects
I lo consume a deadly poison! The
door is thrown wide open for all the
Inhabitants of India to take that
Into Siam and all the islands of the
Eastern Archipelago. If the popula
tions of the various countries in
Asia, in which free sale of opium is
iktiiuilicu, auuru mcnici iuc ag
gregate number is more than boo,
000,000! In Europe and America the
lale is restricted to medical use, by the
direction of physicians, and the vials
and boxes containing it, when thus
(riven out by druggists, are carefully
labeled, "Poison!"
The laws of China once prohibited
the sale and use of opium, the viola-
lion of which was punished by death.
Ij earnest were the Chinese to pre
vent its introduction into the coun
try that the Government became in
volved in a costly war with England
about it, at the close of which a
treaty was made, in which England
iccognized China's right to prohibit
the introduction of opium, but left It
with China to seize the vessels that
smuggled it In and confiscate the
vessel and cargo! But as the smug
piers were Englishmen and the ships
English ships the Chinese were afraid
to execute the law, and so opium
Was brought in English bottoms from
India to China from 1842 to 1800.
The Chinese Government finding it
rould not stop the smuggling of
opium into the country by British
Ships finally determined to legalize
the horrible trartic It could not de
stroy. Shops were opened in every
Village and town in the country and
the cultivation of the poppy was be
gun. To such an extent has the use
f opium been extended that mis
sionaries have said that seventy out
of every 100 people are more or loss
opium eaters.
To slim up: The population ot
India and Buriuah, according to the
census taken last year. Is 285,000,000;
that of China Is 350,000,000, some
make it 400,000,000. The Island of
Java counts its 20,000,000, to which
the French possessions in Southeast
ern Asia add at least 10,000,000 more,
'ihe Eastern Archipelago lias
lay 5,000,000, making altogether a
total of 670,000,000! The curse of
Asia has been saddled ujion that con
tinent by Christian Europe. For
this terrible blight cast upon the
greatest of the four-quarters of the
globe, the British government is
chiefly responsible A hundred years
ago the East India Company com
menced to monopolize the production
of opium for sale in China, and the
government at home gave to the com
pauy the protection of the British
flag. Since 1858 the British Govern
. meut has had a monopoly of the pro-
duction and sale of opium. Great
I Britain is thus directly responsible
j f0r the prevalence of theopium plague
amongtne 6iO,uuu,ooo people in Asia;
Discovery of Indla-Rubber.
The existence of rubber and some
knowledge of its properties must.bave
been known to the Mexican Indians a
long time before it was discovered by
the whites. The first mention of it
was made by llerrera in his account
of the second voyage of Columbus,
when he speaks of a ball used by the
Indians made from the gum of a tree,
; which was lighter and bounced far bet-
which he found was used by the na-
Ing tightness of the chest
I The first accurate information
re
earaing mis wonaerrui piani was
furnished Dy L,a umoaiuu
ine, a irench
scientist, who was sent in 1735 by the
goverment of France to measure an
arc of the meridian near Quito. This
brought him to the heart of the rub-
ber-growing country, and mnch val-
uable Information was thus ob-
eenth century when Doctor Priestley,
in a perface to his work on Perspec
tive, called attention to rubber as "a
novelty for erasing pencil marks,"
stating that "it is sold in cubical
pieces of half an Inch for three shill
ings each.
For this nuruuse it was imported
' into England, but it was little used,
.,..,,1 kw artUta until nhnut 1S20.
1 neari. the hundred years after I tfl
, flrst introduction to civilization,
Th successful manufacture of sur-
realized the tact that anew force had
entered the Industrial field, which
was destined to play an Important
part in the arts and manufactures of
the nineteenth century.
1
out to the
Cl rcsisii ihfta
Jones You didn't get
meeting last night?
Brown No. Circumstances over
which I had no control prevented me.
That so? What were tboy?"
"Twins-" Exchange. -'
AMONG THOSE WHO TOIL !
ITEMS
PERTAINING TO LABOR
AND LABORERS.
A Colnmn of I'artlenlar lst.ml to Those
Who Earn Tholr Dallv ftresd What
Jbor la luing aod W hat la loms for
la bor.
LI vine onit Labor la Oih reentries,
Onaqa, Kan., hasn't a lawyer.
Chicago has 30,000 unemployed.
India has forty women doctors.
Chicago has a woman's baking
company.
Labor bureaus are in twenty-eight
States.
Denver has a Builders' and La
borers' Union.
Gerva.vicm Is worth sixty times
Us weight in gold.
TnK English Government is con
structing steel plants in India.
Immense bituminous deposits re
cently have been found in Alsace.
A light steel telegraph pole has
oeen patented bv a Wisconsin man.
Osly citizens who can read and
write are allowed to vote in Bolivia.
A home for aged tailors is talked of
by the International Home of Tailors.
Kansas City freight brakemen
won a strike for extra pay for extra
switching.
There are 20,000 women in the
United Kingdom who earn their liv
ing by nursing.
The profits of the Thomson-Hous.
ton Company for the past ten months
were $1,700,000, it is stated.
TnE Pope's way, in part, of cele
brating Christman was to bestow $10,
000 for distribution among the poor
of Rome.
Recently at Amador. Cal., a
block of marble weighting 100 tons
was quarried and cut up into columns
for a new theater.
Siberia is soon to have a railroad
from the Ural Mountains to the Sea
of Japan, a distance of 4,785 miles,
costing $183,825,000.
A sugar fifteen times sweeter than
cane sugar and twenty times sweeter
than beet sugar has been extracted
from cotton seed meal by a German
chemist.
The approximate cost of all the
rolling stock on all the railroads in the
United States foots up $1,600,000,000,
a sum much more than enough to
pay the national debt.
The postal card factory in Shelton,
Conn., is turning out 2,500,000 carls
a day. The biggest day's output so
far is one or a tew days ago, when 3 g0ld piece or a o bill he iuiue
2,800,000 were printed. dtely tiades it lot silver, having no
The Lancashire miners have now faith in gold or paper money.
In their union between 41,000 and J The exports of Canadian applob,
42,000 miners. The union miner which have leeu to favorably received
wears a medal, hence the coiupara- In England tins season, amount ta
lively few goats are easily picked out. aliout 0 l0,0ti) Pa-rels, as ag linU 123,-
In Waterbury, Conn., an engine y,irt l!lst reason,
which stands on the space of seven-1 An effort Is lieiug 111 ule to foullJ u.
sixteenths of an inch square and a big India rubber industry in Mexico,
reaches a height of live-eighths of an and a company has teen oriiaulzed to
inch has been made. It has 14S part9 plant loo.ooo rubber trees in the Slate
held toeethcr bv flftv-two screws. 1 of Slnaloa.
The diamerof cylinder is one-twenty-sixth
of an inch and the whole weighs
three grains
Steam and II -
Of late years a number of liears
have made a practice of living about
the hotels and camps in the park.
They are becoming "parasites'' or
bruin tramps, taking what they
want, making no effort for self-support,
and living on the table waste.
They are "hog-robbers," no longer
worthy a sportsman's attention. One
very large bear at the Upper Geyser
Basin Hotel is as regular about com-j
ing to his meals as a "star boarder." (
Once, when the yard man was taking
a large piece of waste meat to the
pig-pcu, Bruin met him in the trail.!
The man, not at all frightened, held
out the meat. The bear walked up,
took it from his baud, went to one
aide a short distance, and ate the grub
as unconcerned as though it was the
pi-oner thintr to have his meal?
brought to hi 111. a surplus or 8 j.OU.ti'Ki, auJ a loau ac-
The bears get in the pens, eat with .count of S22,J08.COO. The shares are
the pigs, or rather drive them to one ' worth $45 .0 each, and pay the annual
side and eat what they want I d.vidend of 150 per cent,
believe but one hog has been killed By the will of the Lite General M.
by them the past summer. At the C. Meigs a lirge collection of plate,
slaughter house in Swan Lake Basin, 1 coins, uie hils and other objects ol lut
at least nine liears live on the refuse torical Interest is to be presented to tu
which ;s thrown to the hogs. They National Museum in Washington,
get into the pen, quarrel with the Marblo Ins "the call" on all othei
pigs, cuff them ont of the way, often stones for architectural purposes. The
maVinr thejii snneal with nain. and next twe:ity live yeais. a noted archi
flght each other, the big ones driving
the others off. So far they have not
attempted to kill any of the pigs or
sheep that are corraled near by every
night The herder and butcher have
become so used to the bears that they
do not fear them much, except when
,iri..th.nti
LiJCj lAitrci inciu abii buv.u vuvj
are willing to give half the road.
There are about twenty-five bears
who are living about this way during
th aonannr thev are in color black.
brown, grizzly-gray and cinnamon.
KBoarsKSmsst
People are often afraid to interest
themselves In the religious welfare
of others, lest such concern should
not be well received. I believe, how
ever, that thoughtful persons seldom
resent it as an impertinence when
seen to be sincere. Even the terma
gant Duchess of Marlborough did not
turn a deaf ear to Selina, Countes9 of
Huntingdon, whin spoken to bv that
lad,v about religion. She thus wrote
to her: "Your concern for my 1m-,
provement in religious knowledge
is very obliging, and I do
hope I shall be the better fur ,
all your excellent advice. God
knows we all need mendiilg, and
none more than myself! Women of
wit beauty and quality cannot hear
"Why, Mr. Ardent, how ungallant
of you to say you thought I was 32!
"Well, it certainly struck me that
you were somewhere near the freezing
point"
, Is 1S67 the Empress of Brazil gave
Q 'een Victoria a dress woven entirely
of seder web. It ia so fine and beau
tiful that it surpasses the most splendid
silk. The Queen has it among her
priceless) possession.
Some of the elevator boys in New
Yoik city kotels wear dress suits.
I
NO. 15.
NJtW' IX RRIEy-
There are ovei'13'JO Kuisnu Terns
l&r In Ireland.
Colorado Is developing her mineral
resources rapiil'.y.
A floiiat in Sin Mateo, Cal.. has 18-
000 ctiryrantlieiuum plants.
The paper tree of t':e South Seas it
a apec'.es ot the mulberry.
Latest Xew Zealand cenut return!
tves the output, of butter at 10,0J0,10C
pounds.
Kino, the Bummer lesort at Moose
head Lake in Miiii, is In winter a
great fur depot.
The attempt to liruotiate a treaty
of commerce between Italy and Switzer
land lias failed.
B oi!e, IdiiLo, is now heated witt
water frtni a hot spring mar the
city.
Thero are only 75,000 people in Ice
land, but they piiut elht newspaper!
ou the Island.
Queen Victoria firmly believes that
objects made by blind persous bring
luck.
The letUr "1" in the Chinese lan
guage lias 145 ways of be.ng pro
nounced. The attendance tit the British Mu
Benin, EonOon, last year fell off aboul
f oriy-five per cent.
The extension of the canniDg Indus
try has been veiy rapid during a com
paratively short period.
It Ihe population of Idaho wert
evenly distributid over the state, ecli
perfon world have a square mile ol
room.
The uie of teak wood has largely
increased or late yea s, and there are
fears of a diminution in the supply.
St. Louis, Mo., censumes IWu.OOO
tons of sa't every year for packing a"d
other pnrp ses nearly 1000 tons daily.
In England the acreage and crop ol
hops is large, lu the AVorcee'er dis
tiict it is 50.01)0 to 55,000 hundred
weight.
Oleomargarine sells in the opeo
market of Cape Town, S mth Africa,
as butter, at thirty-one centa pei
pound.
The New- York Commissioners ot
Fisheries distributed l ist year to stock
the water of the state 39,930.783 frj
ana eggi.
In. line the last three years mors
I than 23.090 fx 0 acres of laud have been
opened to settlement. Most of this U
In ihe new territory of Oklahoma.
Two Connecticut farmeis settlec
their claim? to the affections of a belit
by a skating iratch, the pirl accepting
tlie winner.
I Aaovnuau ,.ittva A little All l.tJ4 k
A syndicate of British capltniisU
have marie an a plication to the Gov
ernmeiit of the Argentine Republic for
the privilr-ce of exploring the Patugou
ian ci asl for minerals.
X. AV. Toby, wl oriie.! al liurutt,
Texas, a few d tys ago, lias beeu mar
ried four limes and was the father ot
twonty-eight children.
The oldtst living lawsuit is on foi
this term of Ihe United S utcs Suprerua
Court. It involves the pas session ol
$18,702, and was first tried lu May,
1X14.
There were f.5 Hdpartuieuts in
Frunze iu whLh the population do
creased between 1SS'-. and 1 -11 1 . The
greatest derreasewas lu the Iiepartmeut
of the I. o', 17,G2'J.
Filer cul'ivatiuu appears to be well
established iu the itnlMuias. Thei
are over 00( 0 acres under cultivation
and tin maturity or the sisal plant
takes four years.
-The Chemlc.il Bank of Xew Yoik
has a canital of onlv S:0J.u0J. but
tect says, is 1,) 110 inn ai 01 uj.ti ihc
for teauty, tie: ul ness and durability-
There are more duoks ,u the Chiu
ese l'.uipire than m all the outsi le world.
They are kept on every tarm, 011 tbe
pupllc and private too. H, in City street,
nl 011 lakes, ixmJs, stiearc9 au I
I11
1,1 h9-
The six Shields brothers of Colin,
Couuty, Texas, have an average beighi
1 of six feet njht Indies and Colone!
nenry Aiii:riou 01 uius . uuiuy,
Texas, towers up to the height 01 eight
feet five inches.
A Jtiw lia Tauatit th Uvatilet.
A story of the smokimr-salou of a
sleeping-car by a commercial traveler:
I was in a Southern town not long
ago, and, having occasion to con
gratulate one of the citizens on the
prosperity of his place, said it had
grown considerably, and that the
town owed its prosperity to a Jew.
He said that for many years, in fart
from the time the town had bei-oiinJ
one, the business men had been in tlxi
habit of clOMiiif their stores at rj
o'clock. Even the drug stores closed
at that hour, and they had no niht
Im-Us either. If a mau was taken
sick an the night he staid without
medicine unless the doctor gave it to
him. One day a Jew came that way,
and opened a store. There was no
such a thing as a store lamp in the
town, and never had been, so the Jew
got some candles and stuck them
along the counter and lighted them
and kept -his place open at nlvht.
The people of the town used to go to
his place as a matter of curiosity.
They had never seen a store open
after dark before. He tegan to pick
up an after-dark trade, and as soon as
this Rot out the other merchants fol
lowed, and now they are all at it, and
all are doing well. I am not a Jew
myself, but I take pleasure in citing
this case for the benefit of any Rua
slans who may be present
a V
laSLojxbasiff feluasv'
!