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THE HOME AMONG THE HILLS.
BY HARRIET M'EWEN KIMBALL,
Midway between these towering hills
One lonely human dwelling;
The circling acres, culture swept,
Its little history teJliDg!
On either hand the meadow land
Make fair the mountain spaces
With golden reach of buttercups
And silver drift of daisies.
Behind, the massive forest wall;
Before, the river running:
And close about the little, cot
The signs of human cunning :
The signs so homely and so sweet
That draw us to each other.
And make the daily life of man
Familiar to his brother.
We know the hand at early morn
That cottage hearth-fire kindling :
We watched the dropping of th s corn;
We wait its purple spiudliug 1
A part have we in all the toils
Os these our mountain neighbors ;
A portion iu the precious gain
Heaven winnows from their labors.
We taste their trials, share their feasts,
And, with a passing wonder,
We linger even while we go,
Their choice, their lot to ponder.
Amid the graudeur and the gloom
Ou every hand abiding.
A flower of human blossoiniug
This little home is hiding.
What tender wind of Providence
The small seed hither drifted,
Where yet these shadows vast may fall
On village spires uplifted ?
Less awful s->eni those hills august,
Less lone the valleys glooming,
Si»>ce in this wilderness the rose
Os human life is blooming !
DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE.
BY ANNIE RORERTSON NOXON.
“ It' there is anything in the world
distasteful to me, it is a sudden railroad
journey,” says Jasper Longwortby, con
fidential clerk in the house of Lemon
Bros., cutlers, Bradbury street, to his
wife, who very carefully packed his
portmanteau with a clrai ge of linen,
one extra pair of grey tweed trousers, a
fancy checked waistcoat, a box of fine
paper collars, a neck tie made of a
piece of Mrs. Longworthy’s wedding
dress, made the night before stealthily,
and designed by the good lady as a sort
of talisman or amulet by wh'ch her hus
band might, or ought to be preserved
through untold, undreampt-of dangers.
That Mr. Lungworthy failed to evince
sudden emotions a' sight of the ever to
be-remembered puce-colored silk, with
its white diamond fi ure, was simply an
evidence of the ntter heartlessness of
men, for it is not to bo presumed that
any man could forget the dress in which
his wife was married. The packing con
tinued until six tiers and a small flask
of brandy and peppermint had been
squeezed in and the lid screwed dowD,
whereon a maiden iu a scarlet riding
habit with yellow buttons pranced gaily
over an orange meadow on a purple
horse, and Mrs. Longworthy came for
ward to procure Jasper’s assistance
about strapping the portmanteau, her
hands trembled so.
“Shan’t I put un a nice lunch, dear—
a half of cold chicken, two or three
slices of ham, some toDgue, pickles, and
a quarter ijf whortleberry pie—”
“Mercy, woman,” says Mr. Longwor
thy with fine disdain of this wifely so
licitude, “ as if there were nothing eat
able between this andTibury ! Lunch,
certainly not. What a figure I should
cut, like that troublesome man of Dick
ens’, always going about with a huge
white-brown parcel in a chronic state of
falling to pieces. Now if I were going
for pleasure, my dear Harriet—but it is
a nasty piece of business my love, and
I shall have plenty to think of besides
whortleberry pie.”
Snatching a mouthful of cake, a gulp
of coffee, and a hasty kiss, Mr. Jasper
Longworthy and his portmanteau went
down the front steps two at a bonnd,
and Mrs. Longworthv was left in a very
desolate house, with odds and ends to
pick up, soiled linen to count and put
up for the wash, the day before’s mut
ton to hash and—oh yes—Jasper's cast
off pockets to go through.
This is a business at which every
woman goes with expectancy at half
cock—a kind of sickening dread that
she will find that which the pitying gods
should snatch from her by a sudden
alarm of fire, or the tumbling of a
neighbor’s child into the cistern—any
thing to take her mind off the inter
dicted and forbidden regions of the
waistcoat and coat, where men insist
only duns and disagreeable mems are
kept, telegrams, life insuranco policies
ami price records.
“ Poor Jasper ; he does hate to be
sent off in this way, without hardly a
moment’s warning, and the cars make
him so sick. I remember the summer
we were married, when we went down
to Woodstock to visit Aunt Calimy
Ann—”
The investigation had been briskly
going onward, and with a deadly palor
in her cheeks, and her hrart beating
like a trip-hammer, Mrs. Longworthy
turned over and over, before daring to
unfold it, a delicate looking letter, ruled
in water-lines and smelling of hedyos
mia.
“They never scent price-lists nor
policies, I’m sure,” swinging the abject
semblance of the deceitful Jasper under
her left arm by the skirts, and sitting
down on a couple of tomato cans.
Slowly the reading began, every let
ter seemed reeling away in a mad sort
of jig, until tho little woman’s eves
burnt in their sockets as if thev had
been roasted peanuts. If dear Jasper
could have seen her then :
“ My Own Dari imi : In spite of everything,
my dearest. I think I shall he able t > quit
town earlv Monday, aid will meet yon at the
little station on the E. and B. road. Paxton,
where I will wait for yon, if you are not there
when I arrive. Soon, my own, we shall he be
yond them all. Ever yours until death,
“Susie.”
“Ob, the deeply-dyed villain!” said
little Mrs. Jasper, feeling at first that
the proper thing would be to faint dead
away on the sitting-room floor, with this
evidence of perfidy locked in her band.
Visions of having died in this state,
with her crnel and heartless husband
chafing her clay-cold hands, repenting
of his misdeeds, alas ! too late, and wet
ting the white fluted frock they would,
of course, lay her out with his tears,
passed through her mind with other
agreeable reflections, such as that he
would lose the confidence of his fellow
men, and become prematurely bald.
But what was the use off ainting, or
dying? She was all alone in that dread
ful house ; the house maid had gone
home with the toothache, and the cook
had gone to the green-grocer’s for the
illi'Puftic ItLckti) iiounnil.
VOLUME IV. NUMBER 35.
tomatoes to can, and if she came back
and found her mistress insensible, she
would perhaps donee her with nasty
cold water, or take the color ant of her
new morning gown with ammonia.
Flinging the hateful letter from her
as if it smelled of brimstone instead of
hedyosmia, Mrs. Longworthy, who was
a practical little body, albeit a trifle
romantic, got up from her uncomforta
ble position and wished that Jasper
Longworthy were there so that she
might sciatch his eyes out. But he
should see she was not to be trampled
on. Was she not a Wimbledon? And
were they not characterized by aminal
courage and noted for spirit?
“ I shall go back to mother’s this very
night, and never look on his deceitful
face again. Brother Tom shall make
him repent of the way he has used me.
Susie indeed ! The artful minx—calls
him her own darling! Well, she can
have him now, I’m sure.” And at this
dreadful signing over, mentally, of all
right to Mr. Jasper Longworthy, five
feet seven in his stockings, thinking of
his general appearance as if ca led on
to make out a passport, Mrs Jasper
staggered to her big cane-seat rooking
chair, fell into it, and burst into a vio
lent fit of weeping, sobbing as if her
heart would break.
“ Halloo ! halloo'!” says a big bass
voice in the sitting-room, and Bure
enough there was brother Tom, in his
usual creaky boots, coming in unex
pectedly to make Hattie the usual quar
terly visit, just to see how tilings were.
“ What’s tho row, old girl, and
where’s Jasper—not dead, I hope.”
“Oh, don't mention him, brother
Tom ; I wish I were dead, I do. I
can’t bear to stay here, Tom. You must
take mo back home immediately ; we
must never look on his face again.” A
fresh bust of sobs and tears.
“Take you back home—never look
on his face aeain. If lie has been
abusing my sister to this extent I’ll
break every bone in Mr. Jasper Long
worthy’s unmanly carcass; that’s what
I’ll do,” said Tom, bluntly, and mean
ing every word of it, too.
“No ; let him go, Tom. He’ll get
his deserts”—this iu a dramatio tone,
very touching. “He never beat me,
yon know, and I wouldn’t kill him if I
were you.” Tom growled like a mastiff
and began opening cupboards recklessly
and poking down spider webs as if Mr.
Longworthy was concealed in a pickle
closet.
Between sobs and tears Tom’s abused
sister threw her things into a trunk, as
! Tom had decided to take her home first
: and go on an animated hunt for Long
worthy afterwards, whom he shouldpro
occd to annihilate on sight. He had
j already pitched Longworthy’s tale-tell-
I iDg coat and waist coat into the back
! yard, when that unsuspected gentleman,
I having left by the train, arrived on the
[ scene in a high state of excitement and
j perspiration.
I “ Good gracious ! What’s the mat-
I ter, Mrs. Longfellow ? Howdy, Tom —”
| “ You’re a nice one, now arent you,”
said Tom, promptly knocking Long
j worthy down, portmnnteau and all;
j “ now then, sir, explain yourself ; what.
' does this mean ?”
j “ I’ll be hanged if I know,” said Mr.
Longworthy, picking himself up, with
| very much the expression of a man who
[ has suddenly broken in on lunatics. He
i ought, in the absence of an argument,
i have knocked brother Tom down, but
I the fact of it was that Tom was a
; deuced big fellow, with mußcles like
whip-cord, and it wouldn’t do.
i “ Only to think of that cravat, too,
Mr. Longworthy. Oh, what a deluded
woman I have been ; what would you
care for my wedding dress so long as
yon had your own over till death Susie.
I know all about it; look at that letter;
I have read every word of it. Can you
face me after this ? ”
Here Mr. Longworthy had tho bad
taste to laugb, iong ar.d loud, an evi
dence that the humor of the place was
catching, since no man in his sober
senses, who bad just received a black
eye from his wife’s brother, would have
I laughed like this.
j “ This is too good, by George ! Come
, here, Tom, I’ll tell you wliat. this is;
it’s no use to explain to Harriet, she
wouldn’t believe me. This letter was
sent to young Bigelow, onr clerk, who
absconded with two thonsand dollars
three days ago. The firm intercepted it,
or rather, with the sanction of the law,
used this' as a means of detecting tho
chap, who had made arrangements to
elope with old Barker’s daughter, it is
supposed. I was sent on with an officer
to Paxton to help bring him back. But,
coniound it, I got left, as usual.”
“And yon don’t lovo any other
woman, Jasper ? ”
This very penitently.
“ Not that I know of,” said Jasper,
wondering if his eye would sweli
much.
“I don’t think I’ll ever marry, old
boy,” said Tom. rather sheepishly ; he
and Jasper ha* always been such
ftiends.
“If yon find a woman who isn’t
curious in the least, marry her, Tom,
but always burn yonr letters, or any
body else’s which yon happen to get
into yonr possession.” By this time
the cook had let the tomatoes spoil,
the dinner was late, and poor Long
worthy cursed young Bigelow from the
bottom of his soul, and taking a half
holiday went out of town with brother
To a.
Bailey in Westminster Abbey.
Right this wav, Mr. Bailey. Now
tell the people just how a man feels
who visits Westminister Abbey. “You
are rushed about from point to point,
and from trying to store your mind
with impressions yon fall to looking out
for yonr legs. You are up to yonr neck
in romance, over your head in history;
and your whole performance is a reckless
and aimleess effort to claw your way out.
The impressions which you receive are
but transitory;jthey come and go like
a flash, and after you are bowed out of
doors you feel as if you hail taken a pro
minent part in a boiler explosion, and
are just about as clear as to the de
tails. I passed by scores of kings and
queens and peers entombed, I walked
over acres of others, and wondered how
they could be so careless with their
dead. I got up from the service which
I witnessed on entering the building,
and found I had been sitting on an
entire family.”
THOMSON, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 2, 1574.
BLACK HILLS WONDERS.
A Veritable Kcten— Discoveries of Gold)
Lead, and Indications ot Silver.
The following is part of the official
report of Gen. G. A. Custar to the as
sistant adjutant general of the depart
ment of Dakota :
On the evening of the ‘22nd wo halted
and encamped east of and w ithin four
miles of the base of Inyan Kara. De
siring to ascend that peak the following
day, it being highest in the western
range of the Black Hills, I did not move
camp the next day, but taking a small
party with me, proceeded to the high
est point of this prominent landmark,
whoso height is* given as C.GOO feet.
The day was not favorable for obtain
ing distant views, but I decided on the
following morning to move due east
and attempt the passage of the hills.
We experienced considerable delay
from fallen timber which lay in our
pathway. With this exception, and a
vory little digging, rendered necessary
descending into a valley, the pioneers
prepared the way for the train and we
reached camp by 2 o’clock, having
marched eleven miles. Wo bore found
grass, water aud wood of the best qual
ity and in great abundance.
On the following day we resumed our
marchp u tho valley, which I had ex
plored several miles the preceding even
ing, and which led us by an easy ascent
almost southeast. After marching near
ly twelve miles we encamped nt an ear
ly hour in tho same valley. This val
ley, iu one respect, presented the most
wonderful as well as beautiful aspect.
Its equal I have never seen ; aud such,
too was tho testimony of all who be
held it. Iu no publio or private park
have I ever seen such a profuse display
of flowers of the most exquisite colors
and perfume. So luxuriant in growth
were they that men plucked them with
out dismounting from tho saddle. Some
belonged to new or unclassified spe
cies. It was a strange sight to glance
baok at the advancing columns of cav
alry, and behold the men with beauti
fnl boquets in their hands, while the
head gear of their horses was decorated
with wreaths of flowers fit to crown a
queen of May. Deeming it a most fit
ting appellation, I named this Floral
valley. Gen. Forsyth, at one ol' our
haltingplacos, chosen at random, pluck
ed seventeen beautiful flowers belonging
to different species, an l within a spaoo of
twenty feet square. Tho same evening,
while seated at the mess table, one ot
the officers called attention to the car-
pet of flowers strewn under onr feet,
and it was suggested that it be deter
mined how many different flowers could
be plucked without leaving our seat at
the dinner table. S veil beautiful vari
eties were thus gathered. Prof. Don
aldson, the botanist of tho expedition,
estimated the number of flowers in
bloom in Floral valley at fifty, while an
equal number of varieties had bloomed
or were yet to bloom. Tho number of
trees, shrubs, and grasses were twenty
five, making the total flora of the valley
embrace 125 pieces.
Through this beautiful valley mean
ders a stream of crystal water so cold as
to render ice undesirable even at noon
day. The temperature of two of the
many springs found flowing into it was
taken, and ascertained to bo 43 and 445-
degrees respectively.
As there are scientific parties accom
panying the expedition, who are exam
ining into the mineral resources of this
region, the result of whoso researches
will accompany my detailed report, I
omit all present reference to that por
tion of our explorations until the return
of tho expedition, except to state what
will appear in any event in the public
prints—that gold has been found at sev
i ral places, and it is the belief of those
who arc giving their attention to this
subject that it will be found in paying
quantities. I have upon mv table forty
or fifty small particles of pure gold,
in size averaging that of a small pin
head, and most of it obtained to-day
from one panful of earth. As we have
never remained longer at one camp than
one day, it will be readily understood
that there is no opportnuiiy to make a
satisfactory examination in regard to
deposits of valuable minerals. Veins
of lead and strong indications of the
existence of silver have been found.
Until further examination is made re
garding tho richness of the gold no
opinion should be formed. Veins of
what the geologists term gold-bearing
quartz crop out on almost every hill
side. All existing geological and geo
graphical maps of tins region have been
formed incorrect. This will not seem
surprising when it is remembered that
both have been compiled by guess-work
and without entering the country at
tempted to be represented.
Robinson Crusoe’s Island.
Crusoe’s island is to-day a little para
dise. Lord planted there, on one of
his voyages, apples, peaches, grapes,
plums, strawberries, and several kinds
of vegetables. The number of the lat
ter was increased by a Scotchman,
David Douglas, who had lauded on the
island in 1825. He was not a little as
t nished to find a hermit there, who
had been on the island five years. On
the second day he was not a little sur
prised to see a man suddenly emerge
from a clump of bnshes and approach
him. He looked upon himself as Cru
soe’s successor, although he did not
occupy the historical cave, having built
himself a hut of stones and sods, roof
ing it with the i traw of wild-oats. As
cooking utensils, he possessed only a
single ir@n pot, the bottom of which,
one unfortunate day, had fallen out.
This damage he had, however, the
ingenuity to repair with a wooden bot
tom ; but now he was compelled to
place his pot in the ground and build a
fire around it. This man’s name was
William Clark, aud he came from Lon
don. He had a few books, and among
them there was a copy of Robinson
Crusoe’s adventnres and of Cowper’s
poems. He called Douglas’ attention
especially to the well-known poem be
ginning :
“ I sin monarch of all I survey.
My right there is none to dispute,” etc.
Nevertheless, he did not seem to be
happy. There was one wish, bis great
est, that he could not gratify—he could
get no roast beef !
At present, this island is in the pos
session of a colony of Germans. Sixty
or seventy, under the leadership of an
engineer named Robert Wehrhahn, set
tled there in 1863. They describe the
island as being in the highest degree
s lnbrious and fruitful. wDu their arri
val they found large flocks of goats,
about thirty half-wild horses, and some
sixty asses. They brought with them
oows, hogs, fowls, farming utensils,
smali boats, and fishing-tackle.
Egyptian Lore.
Great must have been thS wisdom of
that ancient land, for oken of in
the book of sacred truth plthe volume
of wisdom. But of the ffiimerous parch
ments, and vast librarieS, alas ! but few
pages have come down to ufcj There are
three or four manuscripts} on papyrus
still extant that were taken from the
tombs ; they are of great iaiercst to all,
aud especially to biMfetl students, as
they are coroborative of Bible history.
The most interesting and the largest of
these is now iu the British museum.
Besides these, we have a few pages of
Mauetho, the Egyptian historian. Os
the forty-three sacred books they once
possessed, but one remains; it was
called the book of tho dead, aud con
tains a description of the trial of a de
parted soul. It is represented on its
long journey, as occupied with prayers
and confessions. Forty-two gods occupy
tho judgment seat. Os rus presides,
and before him are the scales, in one of
which the statue of perfect justice is
placed, in the other the heart of tbe de
ceased. The soul of the dead stands
watching tho balance, while Hornns ex
amines the plummet indicating which
way the beam preponderates, and truth,
tho justifier," records the sentence. If
this is favorablo tho soul receives a
mark or seal “Justified.”
Some of tho ancient inspired writers
appear to have been familiar with this
book. Lycurgus went to Egypt to learn,
and there many a sage of Greece learned
his first lessons in philoso
phy. Classic limners, sculptors, aud
historians smirched for knowledge iu
tho land of Lotus.
The land of iho wonderful pyramids,
and mystio hieroglyphics is tho birth
place of tho alphabet. There the won
ders of astronomy wore studied, and
was not that little apartment, that
crowns you colossal temple au observa
tory bv which the heavens were swopt
by optical instruments? In tho arts,
their knowledge was great. Tho manu
facture of glass was well understood;
they made coflius. Paintings have been
discovered, showing machinery whoso
motivo power couldn’t have been any
thing elso but steam. An obelisk
brought from Egypt to Napoleon, and
erected at Paris, was found to have been
polished by the sand-blast process. Mon
skilled in the art of stone-dressing
could not effect a polish with their steel
instruments on that granite shaft; it
would crumble aud break beneath the
plastic hand; but by tho sand-blast
proocss recently discovered in America,
they could wear smooth the crumbling
stone. The process consists in putting
in motion a stream of sand by a current
of steam or heated air. They made
steel, aud were skilled in metallurgy.
Their paintings still remain, and are
wonderful for beauty, though thousands
of years hnvo elapsed since those strokos
were made. In the science of medicine
they wore proficient; in embalming they
could see tho effect of disease. To this
day tho characters used by apothecaries
to denote drachms and grains are E iyp
tian ciphers as adopted by tho Arab 3.
Washington Republican.
The Steamer Elephant.
Mr. Thomas Harlshorn is still able
to thow a little light on tho annuls of
the steamer “ Elephant,” Oapta-n Jim
Homer remembers the “ Elephant,” and
boars witness to her speed. He ro
mombois that she had a tiD elephant on
her jackstaff, and one painted on each
wheel-house. All questions as to tho
existence of such a boat are thm put at
rest. Mr. Hartshorn says, by way of
further recording the expioits of the
Elephant: “She was cornin’ np from
Orleans on one of her trips, and struck
a wood-yard just below Shirt-tail Bond.
The wood-yard was about a mile long,
and the current set strong agin the shore
that tho yard was on. The Elephant
pulled up at tho lower end of the yard
and wooded. She started agin the cur
rent, and dura me if she didn’t wood
three times at that yard. She was the
broadest boat across the stern, I reckon,
that you ever saw. She had two rud
ders, one at each side, and when she
was moving she made a sort of suction
or eddy behind her so strong that if a
man fell overboard he wonld follow the
boat all day. When a man tumbled off
they used to look at the books to see if
his passage was paid. If it rvas paid
they pulled him aboard, and if it wasn’t
they let him slide.”
“ The Elephant,” continued Mr.
Hartshorn, “ made one trip to St. Louis
just after she was built. She was in
sight of the town about two days be
fore she got there. All the steamboat
people were out lookin’ at her chimneys
and pilot-house, and trying to tell what
boat she was. Finally one of the pilots
on a Cincinnati packet, who’d passed
her two or three times on her way round,
sez, ‘ I’ll bet, by gad, she’s the Ele
phant.’ And sure enough she was.”
—A naturalistic physician in France
thinks it worth while to protest against
that mistaken effort of self-control by
which people repress groans, cries and
tears under pain. Telling of a man
who, while suffering under a trying op
eration, reduced his pulse from 126 to
60 in two hours by crying heartily, he
maintains that tears are a beneficent re
lief provided by nature for anguished
adults as well as children, for men as
well as women, and that to check them
is to concentrate upon the whole nerv
ous system a restraint that may some
times be fatal.
-—The editor of the Burlington (la.)
Hawkeye has discovered a woman who
will get up at six o’clock, kindle the
fire, get breakfast, rout out the family,
wash the dishes and six children, sew
a button on the neck of her husband’s
shirt, and hunt his hat, go to a mission
Sunday-school and teach a class, attend
church, rush home and have dinner
over and the things cleared away in time
for afternoon Sunday-school, read the
Sunday-school papers to the children,
go to church at night, and talk on her
way home about Sunday as a “day of
rest.”
TERMS—Two Dollars, in Advance,
AMERICAN INCIVILITY.
What Dr. J . Holland Has to Nay on
- the Subject.
There is, most undoubtedly, some
thing in the political equality estab
lished by American institutions which
interferes with the development of civ
ility among those who occupy what are
denominated the lower walks of life.
It is hard to see why this should be so.
One would naturally suppose that polit
ical equality would breed reciprocal re
spect among all classes and individuals,
no less than self-respect. Certainly
there could hardly be a better basis of
good manners than self-iespeot and re
spect for others; yet, with everything
in our institutions to develop these, to
gether with a respect for women which
is' entertained in no other country with
which we are acquainted, it is not to
be denied that among the workers of
the nation politeness is little known and
less practiced. A man who steps into
Washington market, with a good coat
on, looking for his dinner, will receive
the utmost politeness of which the stall
keeper is capable, and this will consist
in calling him “ boss “ —a boorish con
cession to civility for tho sake of trade.
The courteous greeting, the “ Sir,” and
the “Madam,” the civil answer, the
thousand indescribable deferences and
at entions, equally without servility or
arrogance, which reveal good manners,
are wanting.
It all comes, wo suppose, of the fear
of those who find themselves engaged
in humble employments, that they shall
virtually concede that somebody some
where is better than themselves. It is
singular that they should voluntarily
take a course that, proves the fact that
they are so unwilling to admit to them
selves and others. The man who un
dertakes to prove that ho is as good as
a gentleman, by behaving like a boor,
volunteers a decision against himself ;
while he who treats all men politely
builds for himself a position which se
cures the respect of all whoso conduct
is not condemned by his own. The
American is a kinder man than the
Frenchman, and better natured than the
Englishman, but the humble American
is less polite than either. One of the
charms of Paris to the traveling Ameri
can grows out of tho fact that it is one
of the first places ho visits, and that
then, for the first time in his life, he
comes into contact with a class of hum
ble people who have thoroughly good
manners. He is not called “ boss,” or
“hoss.” Hois himself put upon his
good behavior, by the thoroughly cour
teous treatment he receives among rail
way officials, shop-keepers, waiters at
case and hotel, cab-drivers, etc. The
“ bien ! Monsieur," and “ bien ! Mad
ame,” which responds to one’s requests
in Paris, is certainly very sweot and sat
isfactory after : “All right, boss ; you
can bet on’t.”
Where tbe enre for our national trou
ble is coming from, it is hard to tell.
There was a timo, fifty years afjo, when
there was a degree of reverence m Amer
ican children, and at least a show of
good manners. Groat respect to those
of superior ago and culture was then
inenlcated, and at least formal courtesy
exacted. Those of country breeding
who aro old enough remember the
strings of Bchool children at the road
side, who arrayed themselves for the
formal exhibitions of courtesy to the
passenger. Certainly all this training
is done with, and such a sight as this
we presume has not been witnessed in
America within twenty-five years.
Even the men and women—fathers,
mothers, and teachers of fifty years ago,
had receded from the courteous habits
of previous generations. In the old,
colonial and evon later days, great re
speot was paid to dignities. The
clergyman was reverenced bcause he
was a clergyman, and occupied the su
preme position of teacher of the people.
Ho was reverenced not only because of
his holy calling, but because he was a
scholar. All this has gone by. The
clergyman, if ho is a good fellow, is
very much liked and petted, bnt the
old reverence for him, and universal
courtesy toward him, are unknown.
Are the people any better for all this
change? We think not, and we do not
doubt that the change itself has much
to do with the habits of incivility of
which wo complain. Men must have
some principle of reverence in them, as
a basis of good manners, and this princi
ple of reverence in the modern Ameri
can child has very little development.
He comes forward early, and the first,
thing he does in multitudes of instances
is to lo3§ his respect for his parents.
Indeed, conrtesv toward parents is in
no way exacted. Poor men and woman
try to give their children better chances
than they had themselves, and the
children grow up with contempt for
those whose sacrifices have raised them
to a higher plane of culture. They call
the teacher “Old Hnooks,” or “Old
Bumble,” or whatever his name may
happen to be. It is not unjust to de
clare that there is in America to-day no
attempt distinctly a r td definitely made,
to cultivate a spirit of reverence in
children.
We acknowledge that we have no faith
in any attempt to reform the manners
of the adnlt population of the country.
Our efforts to make sober men out of
drunkards, and total-abstinence men
out of moderate drinkers, are failures.
Our temperance armies are to be made
entirely out of children. We can raise
more Christians by juvenile Christian
culture, than by adult conversion, a
thousand to one. So it will be in this
matter of national politeness. The
parents and teachers of the country can
give us a polite people, and this by the
cultivation of the principle of rever
ence not only, but by instruction in all
the form of polite address. With a
number of things greatly needed to
day in home culture and school study,
this matter of training in good manners
is not the least. Indeed wo are inclined
to think it is of paramount importance.
It should become a matter of textbooks
at once. A thorough gentleman or
lady, who has brains enough to compre
bend principles, while proficient in
practice, could hardly do a better ser
vice to the country than by preparing a
book for parents and teachers, as at
once a guide to them and to those who
are under them. Children must be
1 rained to politeness, or they will never
be polite. They must drink politeness
in with their mother’s milk ; it must be
exacted in the family and neighborhood
relations, and boys and girls must grow
up gentlemen and ladies in their de
portment, or our nation can never
be a thoroughly polite one—polite in
soul as well as in ceremony, and kind in
manner as well as kind in heart.
The Sonorous Sand of Kunai.
W. H. Frink, of Honolulu, has sent
some strange sand, taken from a bank
on the island of Kauai, to the Academy
cf Sciences of San Francisco. In his
letter he thus describes its peculiarity:
“ The bank, which is composed of this
sand, commences at a perpendicular
bluff at the southwest of the island,
and extends one and a half miles almost
due south, parallel with the beach,
which is about 100 yards distant from
the base of the sand bank. This sand
drift is about sixty feet highland at the
extreme south end the angle preserved
is as steep as the nature of the sand
will permit. The bank is constant
ly extending to the south. It is said by
the natives that at the bluff' and along
the middle of the bank the sand is not
sonorous. But at the extreme south
end and for a half-mile north, if you
slap two handfuls together there is a
sound produced like the low hooting of
an owl—more or less sharp according as
the motion is quick or slow. Sit down
upon the sand and give one hand a
quick circular motion, and the sound is
like the heavy bass of a melodeon.
Kneel upon the steep incline, extend
the two hands and clasp as much sand
as possible, slide rapidly down, carry
ing all the sand you can, and the sound
accumulates as you descend nutil it is
like distant thunder. In this experi
ment the sound was sufficient to frighten
our horses, fastened a short distance
from the base of the drift. But the
greatest sound wo produced was by
having one native lie upon his belly and
another taking him by the feet and
dragging him rapidly down the incline,
carrying as much sand as possible with
them. With this experiment the sound
was terrific, and could have been heard
many hundred yards distant. With all
the experiments that were made, it
seemed the sound was in proportion to
the amount of sand put in motion with
a proportionate velocity. Another con
sideration seems requisite—that is, its
perfect dryners. The dry sand would
sound on the surface where six inches
beneath it was wet; but if any of the
wet sand became mingled with the dry,
its proporty of sounding ceased at once.
The sand appears to the eye like ordi
nary beach sand, but ordinary beach
sand will not produce the sounds. It
has been said that it lost its sonorous
properties when taken away from the
bank. But I can discover no diminish
ing of its sonorous qualities, even with
the bottle uncorked, and we have had
rain frequently and an atmosphere more
than ordinarrily moist for this time of
year. Perhaps if exposed to a very
damp atmosphere it might absorb mois
ture enough to prevent its sounding. ”
The Formation of Diamonds.
Two specimens of diamonds found by
Agassiz imbedded in the itacolumite or
elastic sandstone of Brazil settled the
long mooted questien of the matrix or
natural origin of that jewel. Diamonds
are particles of pure carbon crystalized
at a certain temperature, caused by the
volcanic action which has upheaved all
the ledges of itacolumite or elastic sand
stone found on the face of the globe.
If this precise degree of heat should by
any irruption or convulsion of nature
be applied to those vast storehouses of
carbon, the coal fields of the west,
there is no telling the amount of dia
mond cryttals that might be produced.
But it stems that this exact amount of
heat is never attained save in the ita
columite formation, and whenever loose
diamonds are found in sands or in con
glomerate formation they prove the ex
istence of larger quantities imbedded
in itacolumite in the neighborhood.
Wherever that formation is upheaved,
therefore, we may look for diamond de
posits here. As yet no efforts have been
made to bore into the itacolumite for
mation itself for these gems. But as it
is a granular silicious rock of laminated
structure distinguished by its peculiar
flexibility, sheets of it bending back and
forth as if jointed, there is no reason
why it should not be worked to advan
tage in searching for diamonds. Ledges
of it are found in Georgia, and North
and South Carolina, and diamonds of
great value have been picked up in the
first named i tate.
Vanderbilt and His Son.
A Saratoga letter says : This morn
ing I watched Commodore Vanderbilt
as he walked down the balcony to join
a whist party in the elegant private
clnb room built by the United States
hotel for its guests. The old railroad
king leans heavily on his cane, and
walks as if this was his last summer at
Saratoga. His weight goes heavily on
one foot, the foot slides forward slowly,
the cane feels its way ahead, and then
the body moves heavily and slowly
along. When the octogenarian sits
down his silver head leans forward, one
hand rests on his cane and the other
falls on his knees. As he thus sits a
great crowd pass by with reverential
look.
Near the commodore is the oldest
and favorite son, William H. Vander
bilt, on whose shoulders all the cares
and responsibilities of a revered father
will rest. Wm. H. Vanderbilt has been
schooled to take his father’s place, and
when the commodore dies he will suc
ceed to the presidency of the New
York Central and to the pesses
sion of the bulk of his father’s
fortune, ranging from fifteen to fifty
millions. W. H. Vanderbilt is a sturdy,
strong man, about fifty years old. He
has a broad brow, strong, individual
features, large month, and is a man of
power and character, and when his mind
has full scope he will make combina
tions and carry out gigantic plans which
will astonish the admirers of the old
commodore. His habits are good, he
likes hard work, and has all the power
of his great father.
—A Hartford man was drowned, and
friends brought home the dead body to
his afflicted wife. As they oame to the
front door with the corpse the new
made widow appeared and sadly re
marked : “ I gness you had better
take him around to the back door, so he
won’t drip on the parlor carpets! ”
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FACTS AND FANCIES.
—Nine thousand bushels of peanuts
from Africa arrived in Boston the other
day.
—How Patrick proposes to get over
his single blessedness—By proposing to
Bridge it.
—ln Boone, lowa, the young ladies of
the period meander through the streets
playfully kicking over dry goods boxes
and punching one another’s hats off with
their parasols.
—Gent (calling at the house of a lady
friend) —“ Is your mistress in ? ” Mary
—“She is, sur.” Gent—“ls she en
gaged?” Mary—“ Faith, she’s more
nor that; she’s married. ”
—The reason an' urchin gave lately
for being so late at school was, that the
boy in the next house was going to have
a dressing down by his daddy, and he
waited to hear him “ howl.’’
—lt was “darling Gweorge” when a
bridal party left Omaha ; it was “ dear
George ” at Chicago ; at Detroit' it was
“George,” and when they reached
Niagara Falls it was “Say, you.”
—“ I don’t want to make any sacrifices
uselessly,” said her husband, as he
rolled up his sleeves and stood over the
wash-tub, while his wife executed a
pas seul around him with a potato
masher.
—People talk about the Christian
spirit of forgiveness to be met with in
America, but let a young man sit down
on anew plug hat at a Sunday-school
excursion and it mars the harmony of
the whole assembly.
—lt may not be generally known,
says a Chicago paper that the enormous
arches which support the Chicago and
St. Louis bridge were copied from a
oast taken from the instep of a promi
nent St. Louis belle.
—First drunkard —“ I live far away.
I am not like you, a rich man, who can
afford to live in the centre of the city.”
Second drunkard—“ Never mind, rich !
Os what use is it to me ? Even if I was
a millionaire I couldn’t be more drunk
than I am.”
“ What dainty note of long-drawn n elody
Athwart our dreamless sleep rings sweet and
clear, . , , .
Till all the fumes of slumber are brushed by.
And with awakened consciousness we hear
The pipe of birds. Look forth. The same
white day
Blesses the hill-tops, and the sun is near;
All misty phantoms slowly roll away
With the night’s vapors toward the western
•The Reafenchants us, the fresh breath of hay
Blows toward us ; soft the meadow grasses he.
Boarded with dew ; the air is a caress;
The sudden sun overtaps the bonndary
Os eastern hills, the morning joyousness _
Thrills tingling through the frame; hfe s
pulse heats strong ;
Night's fancies molt like dew. So ends the
song!”
—Each farm hand in New York pro
duced $670 in crops in 1870 or the year
before, as shown by the census. In
Pennsylvania the return was $715 ; and
$39 more than in New York. In North
Carolina the yield per laborer s2ll, in
Tennessee $3lO. These figures are very
suggestive.
—ln London a prospectus has been is
sued for a Canadian meat and produce
company, with a capital of $1,000,000,
in 20,000 shares ol SSO each. The com
pany is formed, it is mentioned, “ for
purchasing and slaughtering in Canada
or elsewheie cattle or other stock, and
exporting meat to Great Britain or else
where.”
—“ Missus Snowdrop,” said a gentle
man of color the other afternoon during
a shower, to a lady of bis acquaint
ance, “ as de wedder is somewhat am
phibious, will you do me de honor to
step under my umbreller an form a
quorum?” “Thank you, Mr. Billups,
I will. In dis wedder an umbreller is
rather cosmopolitan.”
—Mr. Alfred Organ, of Sumpter,
Wisconsin, has an acre of teasles that
are now in the burr, and are looking re
markably fine. Teasles aie extensively
used in woolen factories for raising the
nap on cloth, and owing to the small
production of them in this country, the
market is seldom, if ever, overstocked,
particularly in the west.
—Swinburne has put on his war
paint, and is skirmishing around de
manding justice. When told, the other
day, that his ten-mile poem, “Bothwell,”
would]have to be cut down for the stage,
he went on worse than Dr. Johnson, and
threatened to emigrate to America. Al
gernon is a child of impulse, and won t
bo anything else until he gets* married.
—The latest novelty in earrings is
probably the singular pair which were
sported by a dashing Parisian belle at a
recent wedding. From each ear hung a
small gold gridiron, on which was laid
a heart formed of garnets, the idea t®
be conveyed, says a gushing corres
pondent, being that of a bleeding heart
upon the fiery coals of love !
—The death rate in London, England,
is only half as great in proportion to
population as it is in New York. This
indicates that there is something wrong
in the habits of our people and in their
sanitary management. Poverty and
crime,! the great accessories of death
must be far greater among the crowded
millions of the British than the Ameri
can metropolis.
—A young husband took his wife to a
soda fountain last evening, and, look
ing solemuly at the man who askeu
them “what syrup?” said he would
take “crusade.” Imagine his horror
when she said she would try some too.
He laughed feebly, but the cold sweat
stood in great drops on his clammy
brow; but, fortunately, the soda man
never lost his presence of mind, and,
while the husband threw in an extra
do3e of “crusade,” his wife made a very
wry face over ginger. She will never
try “ crusade” again.
—The Founder’s medal of the Royal
Geographical society was granted to Dr.
Schweiafurtb, and the Victoria medal
to Major Warburton, who has lately
crossed the interior of Western Austra
lia from the M'Dowell ranges to the
coast north of Nicol Bay, passing over
eight or nine hundred miles of territory
never before trodden by the foot of : a
white man. The country traversed
proves to be eminently barren and un
interesting in an agricultural point of
view. For three months the expedition
I had nothing to live upon but dried
camel’s flesh and such roots and bulbs
as they could gather.