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By R. S. HOWARD.
VOLUME VI.
The Country Life.
*j o t what we would, but what we must,
Makes up the sum ot living;
Unveil 1 9 bot h more and less than j ust
In taking and in giving.
Swords cleave to hands that sought the plow,
And laurels miss the soldier’s brow.
Me, whom the city holds, whose teet]
Have worn its stony highways,
Familiar with its loneliest street—
Its ways were never my ways.
My cradle was beside the sea,
And there, I hope, my grave will be.
Old homestead'—in that old gray town,
Thy vane is seaward blowing;
Thy slip of garden stretches down
To where the tide is flowing;
Below they lie, their sails all lurled,
Th# ships that go about the world.
Dearer that little country honse,
Inland with pines beside it;
Some peach trees, with unlruittul boughs,
A well, with weeds to hide it;
}io flowers, or only such as rise
Seli-sown-poor things!—which all despise.
Dear country home! can I forget
The least ol thy sweet trifles ?
The window- vines that clamber yet,
Whose blooms the bee still rifles ?
The road side blackberries, growing ripe,
And in the w cods the Indian pipe ?
Happy the man who tills the field,
C ntent with rustic labor;
Eaith does to him her fullness yield,
Hap what may to his neighbor.
Well days, sound nights oh, can there be
A life more rational and tree ?
Dear country life ol child and man!
For both the best, tbe strongest,
That with tbe earliest race began,
And hast outlived the longest;
Their cities perished long ago;
Who the first farmers were we know.
Perhaps our Babels, too, will fall;
If so, no lamentations,
For mother earth will shelter al!,
And teed the unborn nations!
Tee, and the swords that menace now
Will then be beaten to the plow.
—-R. H. Stoddard.
KATE’S ADVENTURE
I am Kate.
Of course 1 can tell my own adven
tures a deal better than any one can
tell them for me. That stands to nature
I'm not a practictd writer, and I don’t
know how to produce what the fashion
ab!e authors call “grand pen-effects,’’
but 1 believe I can make you under
stand how it was. And that is all that
is necessary. _
Leeman had sprained his ankle—thatV
my brother—and he could not go to
town with the load of russet apples that
was already piled into barrels, and
stood waiting under the big red shed.
“ It’s too bad!” said he. “ Those
russet apples are worth a deal at this
time of yar—and we shaft miss the
market day ”
' Car t y u ask Neighbor Hutton to
take ilieiu . y ” said my mother.
“Neighbor Hutton is a deal too sharp
a practitioner tor me,” said Leeman.
h’a a hard thing to say about a neigh
bor; but I can’t trust his honesty.”
“Mr. Hall?”
“ Hall would be! casting it up in my
face, lor the next six months, that I had
a favor of him,” said Leeman.
No, Id rather lose the apples than lose
ffly independence. But it is too provok
ing that 1 must needs, have slipped on
that piece of orange-peel, now, of all
times in the world. I have been saving
up these apples ail the winter with a
special eye to this particular market
day.”
“ Leeman,” said I, “ I’ll go.”
Nonsense!” said Leeman.
. “ Lut why not ?” said I. “ Old Pomp
15 as as a kitten, and I know
every inch of the way.”
Hut there are the Red Swamp
woods—that desolate stretch of three
mhfc3 never a house on either side
°i the way, except the deserted cabin
where the old negro hanged himself,
‘Wcnty years ago,” argued my mother.
ho carts lor the lied Swamp
woods.- said I, valiantly I never was
, u :aie. °f J rogs and whip-poor-wills, and
not going to begin now. Lil, will
i° u go out and help me harness early in
the morning, and—”
Oil, I wish I was going too! Can’t
S°. Kate?” cried Lil, my hoiden
younger sister, with her blue eyes
Entering with delight at the idea of
a &ything unusual.
tried I, imperiously. “Of
you can’t. Hasn’t Pomp a heavy
11 enough, without your ninety
Pounds cl mischief loaded on? Be-
M es< - Vou must stay at home and take
fr- ' 1 mother and Leeman, and finish
e chintz curtains for the big west
' Gruber; lor Colonel Hay may come
at a ny time now.”
llay was our city boarder—
gentleman who had been recom
enoed by his..physician to try the
u > pine-scented breezes of the
‘ mountains, and whom
rector had recommended to the Icy
b P r *ng farm.
* Were tot rich, although mother
* Iceman had managed the farm
and well since father’s
. a. and the weekly addition to our
come would be something worth con
-Bl(lering.
Ti
_ idea of a city boarder was very
k ' uit, too, and Icy Spring farm was
a Vu - °vely spot, although we seldom
“owed ourselves to think of that,
j °’ aiter a little, I coaxed mother and
t;> consent, and the next morn
-1,,* f were up long before day
' k, harnessing old Pomp, and getting
ioT \ho day’s journey.
y l * ie time the red, level light of the
- p un touched old Pomp’s gray
THE FOREST NEWS.
with radiance, I was driving
ir o U g . the Red swamp, where the
were a l °” "!,' ich “ 10011 its B!,me
Md thn ,l °T Wlth Crimso " besoms,
and the thrashes and robins called to
w’* n ° t^r With flut -like notes.
Well, I managed splendidly. I knew
where I was going when I started. I
sold the six barrels of russets to the man
who kept the Park hotel for four dol
ars apiece, and that was more than Lee
man himself anticipated.
“Be careful you don’t get robbed,
now,” said the man, as he watched me
put the bills into my little leather port
monnaie.
said I, With a laugh
Why, who should rob meP”
“ Oh, I don’t know,” said the land
lord. “ There’s always tramps and bur
£s*® aiOU nd. They’re a drtfp that dorft
belong to any particular season of the
year.”
As I turned away—l did not notice it
at the time, but it came back to me after
ward, as things do come back, like a sud
den flash across the dark shield ol mem
ory —a man who was lounging on the
steps looked hard at me.
I colored a little, and thought to my
self: “ Well, he will know me the next
time he sees me,” and then forgot all
about it; for I had mother’s black bom
bazine to mat°h and Lil’s spring hat to
buy, and some dinner china to select,
and the doctor’s prescription for Lee
man to fill out at the druggist’s, so that
it was well on to seven when I turned
old Pomp’s head homeward in the su
burbs of the town, with a feeling of ela
tion which was quite pardonable, when
one considers my inexperience in the
marketing line, and my exceptionally
good success.
The sunshine was warm and still on
the highroad, and I was rather glad
when at last we came to the cool shad
ows of the R9d swamp, where the birds
were all silent in the noon-heats, and the
sweetest of oders came floating up from
:he t ingled recesses of fern and cowslip
on either side of the solitary, railed-in
road.
All at once old Pomp gave a sidewise
start —his ancient idea of snyiug—and
then I saw a man, pale, dusty and
tired-looking, silting on a fallen log,just
outside the road. I felt sorry for him; I
was like mother—who never would let
ihe shabbiest or meanest looking vaga
bond go pa t our house w ithout a
draught of milk, or a pie >3 ot fresh
baked pie, or a slice of her famous home
made bread-cake—and withouts.oppiug
to think, I drew in oid Pomp’s rein.
“ s Aie you going toward Lenox cross
roads,” said I. “Yes?” “Then jump in;
Pm going in that direction, too, and l’l
give you a lift.”
He thanked me in a silent, drooping
sort of way, and seated himself on tLe
board at the back of the wagon, toward
which I pointed with the handle of my
whip.
“ You look ill,” said I.
“ I am not ill,” he said, with a smoth
ered cough. “Only tired with my long
walk. I didn’t know it was so far to
Lenox.”
“ 1 suppose you are going for work?”
said I. “Deacon Brierley has a good
many hands just now, in Lis tobacco
factory.”
“No,” said he; “ I am not going to
work.”
I asked no more questions. I did not
like the idea of a man’s shrouding him
self in mystery in that sort ot way; and,
as I glanced around once more, a sudden
revelation came across me, like a blaze
of light.
It was the same man who had eyad
me so keenly on~the k steps of the Park
hotel.
Then I remembered my mother’s
words of caution, Leeman’s reiterated
exhortations, the landlord’s friendly
words of warning.
And, in spite of it all, I had deliber
ately thrust my silly head into the jaws
of danger. There was only one thing
remaining for me to do—to get out of
the scrape as well as I could.
I cast about in my mind how to do
this; and presently, with beating heart,
I dropped a little paper parcel oi blue
ribbon into the road.
“Oh!” 1 cried, checking up Pomp,
“I’ve dropped my parcel. Would—
would you mind getting out after itP”
“ Not in the least,” said the stranger,
and he climbed laboriously out of the
wagon.
He had scarcely set his feet on the
ground before I laid the whip on old
Pomp with a will, and rattled away
over the long straight road at a pace
taat seemed positively marvelous to me
and Pomp both.
So we left our passenger behind, in
*he middle of the Red swamp. I could
see him standing there, blank and
astounded, the sole figure in the long
perspective, as I ventured to look back;
but I onlv whipped Pomp the harder,
and never let him ’bate his pace until
we were well out of the Red swamp.
•* i’ye out-generaled him,” said I, <o
myself, “and I’ve saveu Leeman’s
twenty-four dollars. I’m sorry about
the blue ribbon; but it was only a yard
and a quarter, after all, and I can trim
Lii’s hat with something else.”
They were delighted at my prowess
when I related my adventure at home.
Leeman declared I was a capital little
market-woman; mother shuddered at
the idea of the desperate tramp alone
with me in the tangled wilderness of the
Red swamp; Lil declared that I was a
heroine.
“ Wan’t it a good idea for Kate to
drop the blue ribbon, and send him
after it ?” said she.
“Kate was a goose ever to let him
get into the wagon ?” said Leeman,
knitting his brow.
JEFFERSON, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1880.
“ Kate mustn’t go by herseif such a
long distance again,” said mother.
And I drank my cup of tea, and rest
ed myself, and went out nft-rward to
see the new brood ot darling little yel
low chicks, which old Speckle had
brought off the nest during my absence.
I was on my knees in the henhouse,
feeding them with scalded meal from the
palm of my hand, when I heard mother
calling me from the house.
“ Kate! Kate* come up at once! Colo
nel Hay has arrived,”
“Colonel Hay?”
I started up, looking with blank dis
may at my calico dress and the meal
stains on'my hands.
However, there was nothing for it but
to obey the’ summons; so I went up to
the house. A sort of blur seemed to
come before my eyes as 1 entered lU e
sitting-room, and heard mother saying:
“ Colonel Hay, this is my eldest
daughter, Kate.”
And then the blur cleared away, and
I knew the man I had twice before seen
that day—the pale, tired traveler, whom
I had so recklesely abandoned in the
middle of the Red swamp.
“ I—l beg your pardon, Colonel Hay!”
I cried out, immediately. “ I though*
you were a thiel!”
The burst of laughter that followed
from every inmate of the room effec
tually scattered every embrassment.
That was my adventure. And Colo
nel Hay has long since forgiven me that
unkind desertion of him. In fact-this
is quite private and confidential, mind—
we are to be married soon, and I am
going with him to Florida, to try the
effect of a Southern climate on his
health. That is all. Isn’t it enough?
The Composition of Dust.
The composition of dust is far more
complex than most imagine. Even as
we find it in the country, when placed
under the microscope or subjected to
chemical tests, it is found to consist of
various decaying, as well as mineral
substances, in a fine state of division.
Beside the mechanical irritation of tbe
panicles, there is aLo that evil which
arises from decay. When we come to
add to this the still more complex ma
terial furnished in city or household ol
factory life, it is easy to see how breath
ing may be impeded or the apparatus be
made to work under disadvantages
vSmoke, for instance, is not merely in
jurious by the gases it may contain, but
because of the noxious floating particles
of which it is often the vehicle. The
common Household sweeping is illy en
dured by those ot weak lungs; and, in
the absence of active outdoor exercise
is a relief, is badly borne by many
women. As we come to examine into
the diseases of the wage classes, or of
lactory life, it is found that some of the
most serious and chronic impairments
to health result from this cause. The
constant exposure to the dust enfeebles
the air vesicles, and often leads to de
posits, which become a serious embar
rassment later in life. In the case of
millers, evidence of their vocation is
often found in their lungs, and many a
man can have his occupation determined
by the mechanical particles in his lungs
long years after he has retired from the
trade of his early or middle life. We
recently attended the proprietor of a
drug mill, who, although he had left
his work ten years before, in his sputa
bore the marks of his business. It is
well worth while, in the interest of
health, to pay some attention to the pro
tection ot the breathing apparatus where
there is necessary exposure to such
causes of disease. Dust is too often
dirt, and aerial sewerage or any form of
aerial foulness get into the system
through the lungs as easily as do more
palpable substances through the stom
ach. The lungs, as well as the stomach,
receive and elaborate what is equivalem
to food. Their structure is more deli
cate than that of the stomach; the
access to the blood and to the life more
direct. W e must see to it that the solid
and particulate matter of air is not taken
or deposited to a disturbing extent, and
that, if there are unavoidable expos
ures, we provide ourselves with
methods of protection.
ills Honor and Bijah.
The morning sun was dancing over
the floor in double-shuffles as his honor
fell into the station, his face flushed, his
hair wet, and his general look one ot
goneness.
“Bjah, did you ever see such a
scorcher?” he faintly inquired, as he
fanned himself with his hat.
“ This ’ere weather,” replied the old
janitor, as he stood his* broom in the
corner, “is freezing compared to some
that I experienced in Mexico. Why,
judge, I’ve seen it so hot in Santa Fe
that ink boiled in the inkstand while I
was trying to write a letter to my
mother. I was sunstruck seven times
in one day while driving an ice wagon.”
“Mi. Joy.” said his honor, as he rose
up and moved to his desk. “I was in
hopes your late illness would be taken
by you as a solemn warning, and I am
grieved to fand you still treading that
same old path.”
“Wasn’t I ever in Mexico?” demanded
the old man, as his face grew red.
“We won’t argue the case. I am
sorry for you.”
A bootblack behind the stove here
began to grin. Bijah walked over and
seized his hair, and gave him a lift in
the world and whispered in his ear:
“Boy, I want you to understand that
I’ve been in more Mexicoes than you’ve
got hairs on you scalp, and any more
grins around here will lose you the top
of your head!” —Detroit Free Press.
FOB THE PEOPLE.
A Remarkable Sect.
Almost everybody at all interested in
irregular theology, of which there has
been and still is so much in civilization,
says a New York paper, has heard of
the Agapemone, or abode of love, a queer
conventual establishment,founded tnirty
odd years ago, by Henry James Prince,
at Chariynch, near Bridgewater, Eng
land. The inmates cf the Agapemone
belong to a sect sometimes called Lam
peter brethren, from the place where
Prince was educated, and where, while
a student, he formed a revival society.
Adherents of the sect, of whom there
are many in the southwestern counties
of England, are generally known as
Princeites or Starkeyites. after a clergy
man Samuel Starkey, who co-operated
with Prince in inventing this peculiar
form of religion. Prince was born At
Bath, and studied medicine, but being
of an evangelico-mystical turn, soon de
cided to be a preacher. At Lampeter,
where his reputation for piety and
learning was high, he began to talk of
himself as inspired, showing the ten
dency of his erratic mind. After quit
ting college he became curate of Char
iynch, and preached so extraordinary
sermons as al armed his bishop, where
upon he went to Stoke, in Suffolk. The
promulgation of his fantastic opinions
there created a tumult and led to his
dismissal. He and Starkey and other
Lampeter brothers withdrew from the
church and set up a creed of their own.
Their sermons drew crowds, many peo
ple, especially farmers, accepting their
doctrines and bringing their wealth, as
in apostolic times, to Brother Prince
and for the benefit of the holy cause.
Money rapidly accumulated, and Prince
and two of the brethern married three
handsome and accomplished sisters,
daughters of a rich widow, who had
become infatuated with their teachings.
Prince purchased a fine property near
Chariynch, where the brethern and sis
ters have lived in luxury for the last
twenty years. Prince pretends (he is
alive, or was at last accounts, although
seventy-eight yeirs old) that his errand
is to redeem the body, while Jesus’ mis
sion was to redeem the soul; that Christ
had selected him to conclude the day of
grice and introduce the day of judg
ment. Letters addressed to him as “The
Lord ” pass tbrough the post, and many
of his followers call him their
creator. He has driven about Lon
don and through the parks attended
constantly by outriders going bare
headed because they believe themselves
in the presence of the Lord. The in
mates of the Agapemone, although mar
ried, bear no offspring. They hoidthat
the population of the world should not
be increased ; that any such increase is
a crime against God, because the per
fection of the human family is, para
doxically enough, to come through its
absolute extinction. The sect is re
ported to be growing.
“The Captain’s Daughter,”
In 1859 the Caliiornia clipper ship
Grayfeatner went on a voyage up the
coast for a cargo ot ice, under the com
mand of Captain Worrell. Miss Wor
rell, a niece of the captain and daughter
of another captain, sailed with him. At
one time, while sailing among the South
ern islands of the Pacific. Captain Wor
rell had been poisoned by some vege
table poison, and when he got into cold
weather he almost invariably felt the
effects of it. The Gray feather had not
proceeded far up the coast when Captain
Worrell's old trouble overtook him, and
he was rendered entirely unfit for work.
The first mate gave out, too. Storms
arose and everybody gave up the ship.
Miss Worrell then took command, and
with great dexterity and skill navigated
. he ship until she brought it safely maid e
the cove at Codiac island. She was the
first white woman to make her appear
ance in that region, and the few Ameri
cans there made much of her. Alter
that she Bailed with her uncle and her
father to almo3t all quarters of the
globe. Then she married Captain Du
bois. In 1866 he was lost at sea. Her
father, uncle and brother soon followed,
until she had no relative save a little
daughter, now thirteen years of age
What little property was left her has
disappeared, and with the loss came
failing health. To-day she is entirely
penniless. No carpet on the floor, no
bed, no furniture, no money. J ler littie
daughter and she were trying to fix
some work yesterday for a store for
which they hoped to realize one dollar.
Mrs. Dubois appeared to be exceedingly
intelligent and well informed. The dis
ease from which she is suffering pre
vents her doing any manual labor or
working on a sewing machine.— New
York Herald.
Bayard Taylor’s Rules.
These are the rules I have always ac
cepted: First, labor. Nothing can be
had for nothing; whatever a man
achieves he must pay for; and no favor
for fortune can absolve him from duty.
Secondly, patience and forbearance,
which are simply dependent on the slow
justice of time. Thirdly, and most im
portant, faith. Unless a man believe
in something far higher than bimself,
something infinitely grander and purer
than he can ever become—unless he has
an instinct of an order beyond his
dreams, of beauty and goodness and
justice, besides which his own ideas are
dark, he will fail in every loftier for
of ambition, and ought to fail.
The revenue of the imperial family of
Russia is $12,500,000. About $2 500,000
is set aside for charities, schools, etc.,
under thedirection of the family.
Drink for the Sick.
In speaking of the arnoying thirst of
fever patients, Dr. H. H. Kane in nis
“ Sick Room ” says: Thirst is a very
prominent and annoying symptom ot
fever, and one that requires a little con
sideration. Plain water when taken
beyond a certain amount is very apt to
disorder the stomach and bowels, es
pecially in fevers where much fluid and
but little solid food is taken. Enough
water to quench the thirst would cer
tainly be enough in most cases to dis
order digestion, or, rather, further dis
order it, and so important is the little
that remains of this function that we
cannot aflord to abuse it. Small pieces
of ice held in the mouth and allowed to
dissolve sometimes answer the purpose,
but not in the majority of cases. Up to
a certain point, the action of water
taken inlernally, in fevers, is excellent;
aside from allaying irritation by quench
ing thirst, it flushes the kidneys, carry
ing off much of the effete material
produced by the high temperature. It
has been found that the addition of
certain substances to water greatly
increases its powers to quench thirst.
This is especially the case with acids.
One drachm of hydrochloric acid added
to a quart cf water will give it sufficient
acidity to accomplish the desired pur
pose, while at the same time it adds to
its pleasantness, and sometimes relieves
nausea. The use oi acids in levers is
highly commended by some authors,
and this is, I think, the best way in
which to administer them. The same
amount of sulphurous acid may be
added to a quart of water when the
bowels are loose or there is a tendency
that way. In these cases acidulated
barley water is'pleasant and nourishing.
The same may be said of toast water.
In constipation, oatmeal water may be
used in the same manner. A few tar
marinds added to a glass of water will
often assuage thirst and open the bowels
gently.
Dr. Ringer, speaking on this subject,
says: Although, perhaps, not strictly
relevant to our present subject, a few
remarks may be made here conveniently
on the drinks best suited to fever
patients. To ’hem, thirst is most
important and distressing, often cause
ug much restlessness and irritability,
these in their turn often increasing the
fever. The urgent thirst must
therefore be allayed; but il left to
themselves to satiate their craving,
patients will always drink to excess,
which is very liable to disarrange the
tomach, impair digestion, produces
flatulence and even diarrhea. Theory
and experience both show that drinks
made lightly bitter and somewhat ac ; d
slake thirst most effectually. A weak
infusion of cascarilla or orange peel,
acidulated slightly with hydrochloric
acid, was with Graves, of Dublin, a
favorite thirst-allaying drink for fever
patients. Raspberry vinegar is a useful
drink. Sucking ice is very grateful.
Sweet fruits, althought at first agree
able and refreshing, must be taken with
care and moderation, for they often give
rise to a disagreeable taste, and are apt
to produce flatulence and diarrhea.
Blind Bog’s Buff.
Says the Carson (Nev.) Appeal-. The
Indian and Chinese boys have dis
covered a curious way to utilize dogs in
their games. They frequently play ball
and make a dog do the fielding. Their
last trick is to cover a dog’s head with a
gunny sack and make him play the lead
ing role in a game of blind man’s buff.
The and, g enjoys the sport as much as
anybody, and allows the youngsters to
tie the sack over his head without pro
test. They then scatter with a wild
shout, and the dog, singling out one of
the crowd, runs him down, following
him by the scent alone. In one instance
the writer saw the dog pick his way
across a plank which bridged a stream,
and on one occasion when a boy took to
water, the dog lost the scent and de
clined to trust himself to the stream.
Tne dog will sometimes chase a boy five
minutes before catching him. The
white boys have tried to utilize a dog
in this manner, but seem unable to make
the animal see where the fun comes in,
ann all efforts to hoodwink dcgs with
gunny sacks have been fruitless.
Doubtless the reason of this is that dogs
have learned to mistrust the advances
of the white boys, having in their minds
vivid recollections of tin pans appended
o their tails.
“ Census."
The word census had its origin from
the office of censor in Rome, one of the
duties of which was to estimate (cen
sere) the number of citizens and the
value of their property, and apportion
taxes accordingly. In the middle ages
the word was applied principally, if not
wholly, to the practical work of taxa
tion, but in modern times it has lost this
meaning. The enumeration of the peo
ple of the United Stab- s provided for in
the Constitution is the first modern in
stance of an undertaking of the kind.
The first United States census was
(exclusive then of Ireland) not until
1810. In the United States, the census
serves chiefly a political purpose, afford
g the basis of representation in the
lower house. In Great Britain its ob
ujectis entirely statistical and eoonomi
cal.
The golden oriole devours the potato
beetle with relish. A pair of these
beautiful birds have taken charge of a
potato patch near Rochester, and are
keeping it free from beetles. The young
orioles that have been raised in the
nest in the elm tree near the patch have
grown fat on this tender food.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Mr. Harry Blythe, in his “ Scraps from
an Epicure’s Tab'\” as-erts that tea
should never be used at the same time
with animal food, asthe tannin impedes
the assimilation of muscular fiber, al
though it is useful a couple of heuts
after eating, as then it assists the later
processes of digestion.
It has always been understood that
tropical races enjoyed earlier de
velopment and earlier decay than
those of more northern latitudes, and
the fact has seldom received better illus
tration than in the suicide of Geronimo
Grenado, a Mexican boy, fifteen years
old, living in San Antonio, Texas, be
cause poverty and parents prevented
his marriage to a young lady of thir
teen summers.
On the recent sixth anniversary of the
abduction of Charley Ross, his father
remarked: I have now absolutely
no clew. I was not aided in my search
by any detective, public or private.
Every clew that has proved of service
I worked out myself. When the com
bined detective talent lound itself at
fault, it turned its skill toward proving
the father the author of the abduc
tion.
The results of soundings over the bed
of the Atlantic have made clear, it is
believed, the existence through the
middle of the ocean, extending from
north to south, of a sunken ridge, often
less than 1 000 fathoms from the sur
face, while on either sice the water Ims
a depth of from 3,000 to more than 3,450
fathoms; so that the elevation of the
ocean’s bottom required to make these
depths dry land would bring up be
tween them a mountain range from
9,000 to 15 000 feet in height. The
higher points ot this sunken ridge now
form the islands of the Azores.
The steamer Gulnare, which is to con
vey the Ho wgate expedition party to the
Polar regions, will proceed to Greenland.
After landing the permanent colony cn
Lady Franklin hay the steamer will re
turn to the United States and be loaded
with supplies and such other articles as
may be needed, and will then sail again
for the bay with another land party to
take the place of the one now sent out,
which will explore the interior of the
Arctic country. An abundance of and oes
and sleighs have been provided, together
with experienced guides, who will be
employed in the advance toward the
Pole.
The census makes striking changes in
he table of cities. New York, Phila
delphia and Brooklyn retain their places
at the head of the list. St. Louis which
was iourtli in 1870, has changed places
with Chicago, whieu was then fifth.
Bo ton is now sixth, having gained a
point at the expensed Baltimore. Cin
cinnati remains where it was. San
Francisco has also gained, New Orleans
receding to the tenth place. Washing
ton, Cleveland, and Pittsburg have gone
ahead of Buffalo, which had the eleventh
place in 1870, but which now drops to
the fourteenth place. Newark comes
next, and is followed by Milwaukee,
Detroit, Louisville and Providence.
Lead vide, Col., now has a population
of from 25,000 to 30,000, and with regu
lar streets and substantial buildings.
The city government was organized
April 14, 1879. Already it has estab
lished a fire department, introducing a
fire-alarm telegraph, and created a good
police force. A system of graded schools
has been adopted, affording instruction
for about 1,500 pupils; and anew school
house, to co3t $30,000, is soon to be
built. There are thirty two street lamps
lighted by gas, and the principal public
and private edifices have the luxury of
gaslight. The city, in its work, has
gone on the pay-as-you-go principle.
The rate of taxation has been t \ o cents
on a dollar.
Marvels Performed by a Blind Mad.
There recently died at Burlington,
Conn., one James Goodsell, who, from
his birth, during a life of nearly ninety
years, has been totally blind. In spit
of his misfortune, he wou.d swing an
axe with dexterity, and leiled trees; he
was an accomplished grain thresher,
and would frequently go a.one a dis
tance of two miles to thresh for the farm
ers, climbing the mows to throw down
the grain; he could hoe corn or garden
stuffs as well as anybody, having no
trouble to distinguish the weeds; he
would set 100 bean poles with more ac
curacy than most people who can sec;
would load hay; and was so good a
mechanic that he manufactured yokes
and other articles with success. He had
an excellent memory, and was in au
thority on facts and dates. He could
generally tell the time of day or night
within a few minutes. One instance is
given when he siept over one day and
awoke at evening, thinking it was mo ■n
ing. For once ne ate supper for break
fast, but when informed of his mistake,
slept another twelve hours in order to
get straight again. He waa familiar
with forest trees, and knew just where
to go for any timber desired. He could
direct men where to find a chestnut, a
maple, or an oak, and the children
where to go for berries. He was a good
mathematician, and could compute ac
curately and rapidly. In olden days he
was quite mmically inclined, and, like
most blind people, he had a genius in
that dirt ction. He was at one time
leader of the Presbyterian choir. To
crown aii, he possessed one of the hip
piest dis positions, aad was ever genial
and cheerful. To this end his generally
excellent health largely contributed,
PRICE-3 1.50 PER ANNUM.
NUMBER 10.
The Rain.
My very soul smiles ns l listen to
The low, mysterious lmtghier < 1 the rain,
Poured musically ov*r heart and brain
Till weary care, soaked with it through and
through,
Sinks, and, with wings wet with it as with
dew,
My spirit flutters up, with every stain
Wasi ed Irom its plumage and as white
again
As when the old laugh ol the rain was new.
Then laugh on, happy rain! laugh louder yet;
Laugh out in torrent bursts of watery mirth;
Unlock thy lips of purple cloud nd let
Thy liquid merriment baptize the earth;
And wash the saJ face of he woild, and set
The universe to music dr.pping wet.
James W. Rtley.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The German army has now a war
strength of 2,000 000 of men.
There were 40,000 cars builfc in the
United State last year, and there will
be about 50,000 built this year.
The Honorable R. G. Horr quaintly
describes operatic singing as that sort
of music where “ they squeal and go up
and then choke and come down.”
The foTty-two designs sent in for an
equestrian statue of Victor Emmanuel,
in Venice, have provoked “ more laugh
t< r than anything else.” The Venetians
call them “a horse show.”
A Denver man has had a horse stolen,
and, in a busine-s-like manner, offers
three rewards—sso for the thief, SIOO
for the horse and thief, and S2OO tor the
dead body of the thief.
‘‘What! only live policemen for a
town like this?” exclaimed a traveler.
“ Oh,”replied the native, calmly, “ they
have no difficulty in keeping what little
peace we have.”— Boston Transcrijt
The New York Baptist city mission
havedecided to conduct a tent campaign
this summer. A tent capable of seating
2,000 people has been secured and set
up at Second avenue and Twentieth
street.
One of the life convicts in the peni
tentiary at Lincoln, Neb., is given the
free lorn ot ihe city, and the prison
officials think he cannot be driven
away from the residence the State has
provided for him.
A troublesome dispute as to whether
the wa ( er ol a thermal spring, discov
ered in the St. Gothard tunnel, belonged
to the Canton of Uri or to the Confeder
ation, lias been peaceably settled by
he almost complete disappearance of
he water.
A farmer who lately died near
Springfield, Id , bequeathed SI,OOO each
to four churches in that city, the inter
est only to be used to pay for an annual
sermon in each church, on the goodness,
greatness, mercy and unbounded love
of Jesus as the redeemer of tue world.
Chinese Contrariness.
In alettei from Soo-chow, China. Rev.
H. C. Du Bose gives some amusing ex
amples of Chinese contrariness:
“D t-Secn-San, will you let me ask i
any member of your family is deadP’
was the question when I came out in a
suit of linen last summer. Black with
us is mourning, and they have the oppo
site color. In foreign lands green and
blue, brown and red silks % are lor ladies;
here a gentleman may have a red bon
net, a black satin jacket, a blue silk
robe, green trousers and embroidered
slices. Our shoe soles are black, a
Chinaman’s white. sTou run your arms
in the sleeves and then draw on your
coat, our friends first put on the gar
ment and then run their arms in. We
wear hats in summei and John goes
bareheaded; we take off our hats in the
house, and he keeps it on as a mark of
x'espect.
You go to see a friend, and in the
corners of his reception hall stand two
big black coffins; you shudder, but he
looks with a smile upon the big red
chaiacter. “ happiness,” stamped upon
them. To take this method of being a
dutiful son, you think, suits the coun
try where the magnetic i eedle points
to the Bouth. “ Good-morning, Mr.
John Smith,” and you grasp his friend
ly hand. While you are speaking, up
walks a Celestial friend. “Smith John
Mister, nave you eaten rice,” and shakes
his own two hands at him. What if
men fly kites and boys look on, and
boys play with dolls and girls look on?
It is all just as you look at it. Ii a
man wants to eat his dessert of candy
and watermelon seeds nrst, and then
rice and greens, why it is only
a matter of taste I To locate
knowledge in the brain will do for
foreigners who have only twenty-six
fetters, but they keep these 10,000 char
whaeters Coichnfucius made in the
‘ dobee,” or large central portion of the
body. For certain m iladies a physician
prescribes vermifuge; here the lemale
dentist cures toothache by extracting
worms from tbe teeth.
In America, lightning kills; in China,
thunder. You pat a frieud on the shoul
der; here it means calling a man a thief.
That little girl in Sunday-school with
blue eyes and golden curls—it is no use
to say vhat you think. This black
haired race think her eyes are white and
hair uncombed. How merry a dining
with the gentlemen and ladies at sepa
rate tables in different rooms! Our
streets are filled with pack-mules aud
drays; in the middle kingdom “ m-n
are beasts of burden.” You know you
have never seen a city, for a city c mrot
be a city without a city wall.