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TfSGr” not ohoow l,ut love brr. At her foot
I lout my hourt and life—an offering - meet.
And when with sweet ament
►he let me kid* her trembling lips ,Hvln\
1 thought that none could part us—She was
mine!
Alan, poor hope! Stern words
sterner parent oamo: ** 1 cannot yield:
thou and light iu Llfo s great battlefield.
i• “ Fro * h ,urt>l win. Wbon rings
JSl2sl"°® e * Kt to with thy great fame,
t>jm< then Hildas!*. tnetnsyshe bear thy name?”
" ith weary heart* and sad.
a..T. th . n “)nw star* wo bid srootl-bye,
-* D< * *° ve throuifh wool or wot*, for
... . Year after year passed on,
Andyet, alas! Htitl flowed the ehanitme salt
Monret ii no heart's desiru-my liftfs one love
—and me.
At last, with willl,i K feet
Iloie- 1,1,,11< W, "'<l turned. My task was
Once inoro wit bln my arms I held her—won I
White-robe,], like anttol ptiro,
I t ,r *de to Cladden oil my life.
1 wit,. .. Tht ‘ y esnnot purl us now, sweet
The k.a.l. n "' Joy-bells nintt o erbead.
1ni1.i.,.. 11 5® fts baud 111 ha,id arc passed
Into a strange aweehUfe—love-crowned at Inst.
—Owin'.’iV Journal.
THE MISSINU WITNESS.
“I’m afraid it’s a bail case,” I said to
Myself, as I laid down my brief after
reading it over for the third or fourth
time, and leaned back in my chair to re
consider it for about the twentieth. ** A
•ad case, and I am sorry for it."
’ was a barrister, young both in years
ami in professional standing, and this
was the first brief of any importance I
had ever held. My client was an Ital
ian sailor named Bernini, atul the
crime of which he was accused was rob
bery; the plunder being a life long sav
ings of a woman upwards of eighty years
of age, which the poor creature kept
hidden in bhe thatch of her little cabin.
The witnesses were the old woman
herself, who hail been stunned by a
severe blow from the perpetrator of the
theft, ami a neighbor who deposed to
having met the prisoner in the immedi
ate vicinity of the cabin. When Berni
ni " its arrested some days later, a curi
ous foreign coin, identified as a part of
the stolen hoard, was found in his pock
et. This, however, he accounted for,
by saying that he hail picked it up on
the road. The weak point in the chain
of evidence was a scarcely perceptible
hesitation on the part of one of the wit
nesses. She had at first declared posi
tively that the prisoner was the man
whom she hail seen going towards o'd
Joan’s cabin, and had afterwards ad
hered to this statement, with what aft
erwards appeared to be dogged obsti
nacy, rather than real conviction.
Tito prisoner himself positively de
nied having been in the neighborhoo I at
all on tlie day of flic robbery, but un
fortunately ho could not speak with
certainty as to his whereabouts. 11c
had been lately dismissed from the hos
pital, scarcely convalescent, after a lmd
fever; his own ship had left the port,
and lie had been rejected by the Capt
ains to whom he had offered his ser
vices, as not being sufficiently robust for
a sailor’s work. He had a little money
left, and therefore took to wandering
aimlessly about the country, intending,
as soon as the Columbia returned, to
ship aboard of her again. His mind
had Iteen weakened and confused by
his illness, and although he knew that
for several days preceding ami follow
ing that of the robbery, ho had been in
a part of the country fully twenty miles
distant, he could not possibly say
where he had been, or to whom iie had
spoken on the day in question. Many
inquiries had been made, and many
persons interviewed who remembered
“the poor foreign chap,” but no accu
rate information as to dales was forth
coming. As the testimony of a person
who hail extended her hospitality to
him, “either of a Tuesday or a Thurs
day.” she couldn’t rightly say which,
would not, unfortunately, carrv much
weight in a Court of Justice, 1 had to
trust for a defease to the cross-exami
nation of the witnesses, whose char
acter for veracity I hoped, by judicious
management of the usual forensic
weapons, to compel them to annihilate
with their own ,'ips. I much regretted
this want of evidence, as I was stro ,g
--lv prepossessed in favor of tho prisoner;
something trank and nonest in his faeo
making it difficult for me to believe him
guilty of the cowardly crime of which
he was accused. Besides, it was, as 1
have said, my tirst important case, and
self-interest and professional instinct
alike prompted me to desire its success
ful issue. But or this l had little hone.
I laid rs ile my brief at leugtb. ana
went up to the drawing room, where I
was greeted by my cousin and hostess
with a somewhat petulant reproof for
having lingered so long over those
musty law papers.
Alite and I had been children to
gether—a big girl and a little boy—we
had grown from play fellow s into friends,
ands nee her raarr age her house in
Carrigarvan had been mv rest'ng-plaee
in assize times. X was at no loss to under
stand the cause of her ve .at on at mv
tardy appe-ranee. She was somewhat
a match-maker, and having no one but
myself on whom to exercise her
talents, she had devoted them ex
clusively to mv service. She had al
ready decide'! upon a suitable
wife for me, and was now exerting her
self to the utmost to bring about the
marr age. The chosen young lady was
present, and 1 knew that Alice was
much annoyed witli me for devot ng
the evening to my brief instead of to
l)ora Lyne. The latter was the daugh
ter of a solicitor in good practice, and
was herself a very pretty, bright look
ing girl. who would, I was comoelled to
admit, be a most desirable wife for a
young unknown barrister.
I was thoroughly fond of Alice, and
she was my chosen confidante whenever
I needed one; but I could not tell her
even that the true reason which t>vc
vented Dora I-yne's brown eyes and
sweet voice making their due im
pression on me was the remembrance of
a face seen but during a three-hours’
railway journey, a face with dark gray
eves and quiet, thoughtful expression,
and ot a voice heard at somewhat rare
intervals in th>* space of time, whose
Mill, low-pitched tones still vibrated in
my imagination. Alice wo dd have
been too good natured to laugh at me.
but I felt sure that, had she known the
state of the case, she would have enter
tained. and probably expressed, fears
that overstudv hail adectcd my brain
an opinion that would probably have
been shared by all persons * whose
characteristic was common-sense.
Miss I-yne, perceiving that Alice was
vexed with me. and wishing, I think to
show that she did not share the feeling,
called me over to look at some prints
and photographs which she was examin
ing.
“Alice.” said Miss Lyne. at length,
“did you show Mr. Lestrange the sketch
you found in that book?”
“No,” said Alice; “I forgot it. You
will find it in that volume ot the -Stones
of Venice’ on my table. Richard. It is
ready a beautiful sketch. I wonder how
It came to be forgotten in tlie book," ,
£!)c it in utcr ui lie alette.
VOL IX.
1 brought the book to Dora Lyne, who
turned over tho leaves until she found
tho drawing, which she put into my
hands. The moment I saw it 1 uttered
an exclamation of surprise, which
brought my cons'll at once to my side.
It was a spirited water-colored sketch
of a man's head--a dark, foreign look-
; ng face surmounted by a red cap. It
was, however, noither the skill of the
artist nor the picturesque beauty of the
model that attracted my attention; it
was the fact that in the somewhat pe
culiar features of the latter 1 recognized
those of my client, Luigi Bernini.
“What an od</ eoincidence!” said
Alice, when 1 had explained. “1 won
der who could have taken the sketch—
some one who knows how to handle a
brush,” she added, looking critically at
it. “See, here are initials and a date,
but they are so faint that I cannot make
them out.”
“Let, me try.” said Dora; “I have
good sight,” She took the sketch over
to the lamp anil scrutinized it closely.
“W. M. D., but I cannot make out the
date. Stay. I have it. May loth. Id
“May 10th—why. that was the very
day of tlie robbery.” I said. Then the
full significance of this d,te flashed sud
denly upon me, and 1 absolutely turned
giddy. “The alibi!” I gasped “if
we could find the man who did that
sketch, we miirht succeed in proving lho
alibi.” Dora Lyne grasped my meaning
with ready quickness.
“ Morrison’s Library that book came
from, was it not, Alice. They ought to
be able to toll you there who had it on.
or immediately after, the lot Ii of May.”
“ And the person, whoever she or ho
is, will have to bo hunted up,” 1 said,
“and there's so little time. This is
Monday, ami the tr'al is fixed for
Wednesday. I suppose Morrison’s is
closed bv iliis, Alice'”
“Indeed, it is,” she answered. “You
would find no one there now but a care
taker. You must just wait patiently
until to-morrow, Richard.”
I had pei-force to wait; as to the pa
tience with which I did so, tho less said
the better.
The following morning found me at
Morrison's Library. On explaining iuv
business, I was rcterred to the clerk in
charge of the library department, from
whom I totally failed to obtain the re
quired informal ion. Tho young man
who usually attended to that part of the
business was away; if I could call next
week—”
1 intimated with what appeared to mo,
at the time, most praiseworthy self-con
trol, that next week would not do, giv
ing a part ial explanation of tlie circum
stances. But the clerk, although appar
ently willingto help me, professed him
self quite tillable to do so.
“You see. sir,” hesaid, “if you want
ed to know what book any subscriber
had out at a given time I could proba
bly tell you, but as for ascertaining tlie
whereabouts of a special book—it’s an
impossibility. If you like to look over
our entries for yourself, you are wel
come to do so.”
I accepted this offer, and spent agooil
part of the day turning over tlie blotted
pages wherein were inscribed the names
and course of reading of the subsor.bers
to Morrison’s. And an unprofitable
morning’s work it was. The record
was to all appearance imperfectly kept,
and I failed to trace the second volume
of the “Stones of Venice” through a
per od longer than three weeks, during
which it had twice changed hands.
Some hours more wore spent in imut
ing up the persons in whose possession
it hail been for that length of lime,
neither of whom could give any infoi
malion concerning tlie sketch. An an
plication to Bernini himself was equally
fruitless. He remembered that a lady
and gentleman whom he had met dur
ing his wanderings had asked him to
it to them, but lie did not know who
they were, nor could lie even make it
clear where the incident had occurred.
I returned home at dinner time, tired
and baffled, to report my failure to Al
ice and Iter husband, from whom I re
ceived much sympathy but no sugges
tion o' any practical value. I had giv
en up hope, and was endeavoring to dis
miss the subject from my thoughts,
when late in the evening the hall door
bell sounded and a message came up
that a person wanted to speak to Mr.
Lesf range. Going down, I found wait
ing for me a bright looking boy, one of
the shop as istanls at Morrison’s, who
bad been for a short time aiding in my
invest gathm of the entries.
“I think I have what you want, sir,”
he said, as i ont.rcu -he room, “it
was in my mind all that day that I had
given out tiiat book to someone, I
couldn’t think who, and a chance word
that l heard this evening brought it all
back to me like a flash. It was to Mrs.
French, of Redconrt, that I gave it, and
it must have been on the 3d or 4th of
May. Here is the lacy's name and ad
dress, sir;” and lie handed,ifie a slip of
aper on which was written “ Mrs.
Ficnch, Kedeourt, Kilcarran.” It v.-as
in Ki’earrar. or the neighborhood that,
according to Bernini's own statement,
he bad spent the day of the robbery.
Thanking and dismissing Die lad, I
returned to the drawing room with my
prize. The next step was to communi
cate with Mrs. French. Kilcarran was
fully fifteen miles from Carrigarvan,
and the trial was to begin the following
morning.
“Hand me over that railway guide,
Dick,” said Alice's husband. “1 thought
so—no train before ten. There s no.'h
ing for it but for mo to drive to Kilcar
ran tlie first thing :n the morning -the
mare eau easily do it in two hours -an l
if 1 Jind tiiat any one there can give evi
dence worth having. I’ll bring them
back with me, ami have them in court
before the case tor tne defense opens. ’
The trial began next morning, pro
ceeding at an unusually rapid rate. It
seemed to me that the learned counsel
for the prosecution had never before
put forth his wisdom and legal knowl
edge in so condensed form. The cross
examination of the witness's was o
course in mv hands, and I did my best
o make it as tedious as possible, totally
ail.ng. however, in my attempts to con
use them or cause them to contradict
themselves. Mv only hope lay now in
he uuknown witness,' and of him there
were no tidings. The case for the
rnsecution closed and the court 'ad
ourned for lunch; I was standing in the
ar-room. thinking over my speech for
i e do enie. and mentally re-arranging
m sentences after tho manner of the!
most prosy member of the circuit, when 1
a pots wm handed to me; “All right—
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER fi. 1882.
the witness is in the Sheriff’s room.”
Going into tho Sheriff's room, I found
my cousin, accompanied by n strange
lady and gentleman.
“This is the prisoner’s counsel,” said
tho former, ns 1 entered. “Allow mo
to Introduce Mr. Lest range—Miss
Darcy, Mr. French.” I turned to tho
lady as her name was pronounced, and,
1 am afraid, forgot to bow, in my sur
prise and delight at recognizing in the
tall, fair-lmired girl before mo mv dream
of the last six months; my unknown
love, another glimpse of whom had boon
my chief desire ever since 1 lost sight of
her as she stood on the platform of tho
little roadside station where she had
alighted.
“ It was Miss Darcy who did that
sketch,” said mv cousin, “and she ro
members all about it.”
“Yes,” said the girl, “ thoskotoh was
taken at Kilearrnn, on the loth of May.
I remember all tho circumstances per
fectly, and should have no difficulty in
identifying tho original.”
Having by a few hurried questions
convinced myself of the value of Miss
Darcy’s testimony, I took her and her
brother-in law, plneingtlmm whorethey
had a full view of tho prisoner. Miss
Dflrcy looked attentively at tlie latter
for a minute or two, and then said, de
cidedly;
“ Yes, that is the man.”
1 opened the case for the defense in
as few words as possible, and then
called up my witness—Winifred Darcy.
Nbc gave her evidence very well, in
grave, concise language, without irrele
vance or circumlocution She staled
tiiat she lived at. Redcourt with her sis
ter, Mrs. French, and that on the loth
of May she and her cousin had spent
the greater part of the day sketching by
the river-side at Kilcarran. At about
two o’clock a gust of wind hail carried
her hat into (he stream, whence il was
recovered, by the prisoner, who hap
pened to pass by nt the moment. In
terested by something in his appear
ance, they tried to enter into conversa
tion with him. but without much suo
eess, his English being very imperfect.
They, however, managed to make him
understand that they wished to employ
him as a model, and lie sat to them
patiently for more than an hour, at tho
end of which time ho wont away with
many expressions of gratitude for the
money they gave him. Miss Darcy
would have been certain as to the date,
even if it had not been affixed to tho
drawing (which was produced ineourt),
as her cousin had arrived til Kilcarran
on the 9th of May, and left on tho 11th.
Cross-examination failed to east any
doubt on the accuracy of Miss Darcy’s
evidence, while her veracity was of
course above suspicion.
The jury professed themselves satis
fied with the evidence, and, deoliningk)
hear counsel for the defense, returned
a verdict of “Not Guilty.” The pris
oher was seized upon by some of his
compatriots, who were serving on tho
mixed jury, and carried off in triumph,
somewhat dazed by the change in Ids
prospects.
Some jnouths afterward, a man, dy
ing from the effects of a hurt received
in adrnnken brawl, acknowledged him
self guilty of the crime of which Bernini
hail neon accused, lie also was an Ital
ian, and boro sufficient, resemblance to
his countryman in height and complex
ion to account in some degree for the
mistake of the witnesses.
As for me. I date the beginning of
both my professional success and of my
life’s happiness from the day of Berni
ni's trial. —English paver.
Rushing Into Print.
Those who read tlie “ woman’s
column” of a weekly paper mnt be im
pressed by one curious fact : tlio fair
writers are far too fond of confiding their
domestic troubles to the general public.
One asks for sympathy because her hus
band abuses tier, and another deplores
her husband’s profanity. Others at
tempt to be witty and smart at the cx
ponsiyif “old maids.” Then the “old
maid* retaliate ; and so it goes until
wiser people are disgusted. What com
fort ean be in bringing - one’s family
woes before the public through the me
dium of the newspapers is to us incom
prehensible. Nothing is gained by so
doing, tho troubles are none the loss
grievous, and little sympathy is given to
people who havo not sufficient fortitude
to endure them without murmuring.
These are the women who complain that
they do not havo their “rights.” But
when they say their literary work is not
treated with as much consideration as
that of men, they say what is not true.
Any one, by glancing at the list of
contributors to our ablest and most popu
lar periodicals, will find nearly, and in
some cases, quite one-half, the names
those of women. There are said to bo
in tlie United States sixty lady editors,
while maiiy others have positions on edi
torial staffs, No one will deny that a
book written by a woman gains recogni
tion and commendation ns readily as ono
written by a man. Ladies no longer find
it necessary to assume masculine no ms
dr:s plumes, in order to receive attention
from tlie world. But there is a vast dif
ference between honest, meritorious
literary work and querulous complain
ing. and ill-advised scribblers must ex
pect the fact to bo recognized.— Chicago
Ledger. _
Late Plowing.
F'all and winter plowing has many
advantages. Among them may be men
tioned pulverization of the soil and de
struction of insect and vegetable life.
The turning up of the earth in the fall
affords an opportunity tor the frost to
work through the soil. This, as every
one knows, loosens the ground by sep
arating clods and hard places. It raises
tlie ground up. How often have farm
ers in clay soils seen their wheat roots
raised out of the earth and when dried
blown away. The atmosphere does
good to the winter plowing. It tempers
it, so to speak, and makes it better for
the spring crop. And then grass and
weed seeds and roots are destroyed and
turned into mold instead of pests the
coming year. Eggs of insects, also,
and larvae are destroyed by myriads in
-,he freezing cold. — Kansas Farmer.
—The Phrenological Journal declares
that whistling is good for the lungs, and
we know a hundred boys in Detroit who
are lungs clear down to thejr boots, -
Detroit Frto Prm,
Peculiarities of the Cigar Trade.
“ Yos, our trado has its peculiarities,”
said a Broadway tobacconist to a Trib
ute reporter a fow days ago, “and dur
ing an experience of forty-six years I
have had a chance to become pretty
woll acquainted with those peculiarities,
too. Tlie publio taste in the matter of
uigurs changes more rapidly than is
generally supposed. It is not a very
long time ago when cheroots wore all
the rage. A cheroot, yon understand,
is a cigar cut at both ends. These were
made in all grades from the Havana
down. Then ctme tho famous “spot
ted” cigar. No one was considered
quite up to tho times who did not smoke
those leopard cigars. As it was impos
sible to obtain enough naturally spotted
tobacco to supply the demand manufac
turers wore obliged to spot the leaves
artificially. You never seo a spotted
cigar nowadays. People wouldn’t buy
them if they were offered for sale. Tlie
cigars sold to-day are classed in a gen
eral manner according to color. The
light cigars are supposed by tho public
to be mild, and the dark strong. These
distinctions do not always hold true,
however. For, as you well know, alight
wrapper is sometimes usod for a strong
Ailing, and vice versa. Still those man
ufacturers who havo acquired a reputa
tion of making a given brand of cigars
usually endeavor to keep the external as
well as tlie internal characteristic of
these cigars always the same. This en
ables the customer to know just wliatho
is going to got when he buys them.”
“ When do you sell the most cigars,
summer or winter?” asked the reporter.
“In the winter. I know that it is gen
erally supposed that summer is our best
season, but it is not. There are several
reasons .or this. In tho first place,
many of our regular customers are out
of town during the hot weather, and tho
floating trado is not hoavv enough to
mako up the difference. Then, again,
people don’t feel as much like smoking
when tho temperature is among tho
nineties as they do when it is below the
freezing point. During the heated term
our sales are chiefly confined to the
light, mild -flavored cigars. But lot tho
air become sharp and bracing, and men
begin to ask for dark, strong cigars.”
“ How do prices now compare with
those of twenty or thirty years ago?”
asked the reporter.
“ When I was a boy fair cigars could
be bought two for a cent, and the best
home-made cigars at four cents each.
Havanas now worth $lO were then sold
at $lO. The best cigars, Havanas, now
sell at $233 per thousand; ‘mediums
from $65 to SIOO per thousand. The
best grades of nativo tobacco used in
the manufacture of cigars are grown in
Connecticut. There is, a wide differ
ence between the tobacco raised in Con
necticut and that grown in Massachu
setts, a fow miles distant. From a com
mercial point of view tho former is
worth nearly twice as much as the lat
ter.”
“Do your regular customers confine
themselves to tho same brands of
cigars?”
“Oh, no. They smoke one brand
until they get, tired of it and then try
another. When I first wont into the
cigar business I manufactured my own
goods. One day there dropped into
my store an old sea captain, who, I
have been told, never smoked any but
the very best imported cigars. He pur
chased one of my modest cigars, anil sat
down on a stool and proceeded leisurely
to smoke it. Ho did the same thing for
several days, until I, feeling somewhat
flattered that this man who knew what
tine cigars were should find so much
comfort in smoking cigars of my make,
made bold to speak of it in his pres
ence. ‘Well, you see,’ lie remarked,
with a smile,‘after 1 have been down
here and smoked several of your cigars,
I can go home and enjoy a really de
cent cigar.’ When a man is well be
may like one brand; when ho is out of
sorts or a little sick, another pleases him
best. ’'
“ Are not people easily deceived in t he
quality of the cigars they smoko?” asked
the reporter.
“ Perhaps they are in the small cities,
but not here. Broadway smokers can
not be cheated so easily. The most of
them have been brought up on first-class
goods, and therefore whenever a dealer
tries to palm off an inferior article they
can tell the difference in a minute. They
not only recognizo the quality of the
cigars, but ean even tell the price of al
most any brand submitted to their in
spection.
“ The cigarette business done in this
city is enormous,” said the dealer, as ho
passed a couple of bunches to a young
customer. “One of the leading manu
facturers can’t make them fast enough
to keep up with the orders. Our sales
are confined almost exclusively to young
men and boys. Little fellows not more
than six or seven years of age come in
here to buy cigarettes for themselves.
Tlie average smoker uses two bunches
daily. I have known some smokers to
uso as many as four bundles. ’
Sf. Patrick’s Prayer.
The following is part of a hymn still
extant in the Irish language which is
attributed to St. Patrick, and boars his
name. It is said to have been used by
him a a prayer when about to attempt
tlio conversion of tho Irish monarch
Laogharie :
I bind to myself to-day,
The power of God to guide me,
The Might of God to uphold me,
The Wisdom of God to teach me,
The Eye of God to watoh over me,
The Ear of God to hear me,
The Word of God to give me speech,
The Hand of God to protect me,
The Way of God to be before me,
The Shield of God to shelter me,
The Host of God to defend me,
Agalriftt the snare* of demons,
Against the temptations of vices,
Against the lusts of nature.
Agalnateverymanwbo meditates injury tome,
Whether far or near,
With few or with many.
—An unusual accident occurred at
Poplar Bluffs, Mo., a few days ago. A
man named O. Edwards started on a
turkey hunt. He was an expert in giv
ing the cry of a turkey, and while malt
ing the peculiar noise a neighbor named
White thought a turkey had settled in
his field ana started fo the spot from
whence the cry came with a double
bandedshotgun. Theory was repeated;
White tired, kiiliiig Edwards.— Courier,
Journal,
Statistics of Immigration.
TTp to 1820 no statistics of immigra
tion into this country were kept officially,
but the numliers were trivial, only 8,386
foreign immigrants being reported for
that year. Iu 1830 the number was 23,-
300; in 1840, 84,800; 1H42, 104.5(H); 1850,
869,900; 1854, 427,800. That was tlm
maximum number for nearly 20 years.
In 1855 and 1858, the number was but
about 200,000 each; it rose to 251,000 in
1857; 153,640 in 1860; in 1861 and 1862,
for tlie obvious reason that our war was
a deterrent, fell to 91,000; the labor
demand so far ovorcame this that tlie
number arose to 176,000 in 1863, 193,100
in 1864, and 249,000 in 1865. From 1865
to 1873, during the term of post-war pa
per prosperity, when labor was im
mensely in demand, immigration was
heavy, reaching tho highest figure in
1873—459,800. It fell to 313,000 in 1874,
227,000 in 1875,170,000 in 1876, 142,000
in 1877, 138,000 in 1878, but rose to 178,-
000 in 1879, anil was, of course, very
much increased in 1880. England and
Ireland ( taking 187IJ as n standard) send
about one-third—ls2,ooo out of 460,000.
11 may surprise most readers, however,
to know that those two countries send
about an equal number, and tiiat in 1872,
1875, and 1876-9 England sent more than
Ireland. Thus, for 1879 24,000 immi
grants were of English nationality, ami
20,000 were Irish. Scotland contributed
13.000 in 1873. Germany sends nearly
< manv as England anil Ireland com
ined 150,000 iii 1873, against 152,000,
and 34,000 in 1879, against 44,000.
Among tlie other European countries
Sweden stands next, then Norway, then
France, Italy, and Austria. Not China
alone, but nil Asia, overwhelm us with
such hordes as 20,000 in 1873 and 9,800
in 1879. In tho twenty-three years 1855-
77, almost 209,000 Chinamen came in, of
whom not more than one-lialf have since
gone hack, it would be interesting if
tlie outward ns well ns tlie inward move
ment were recorded. In 1876, according
to British statistics, 54,554 persons went
from the United Kingdom to this coun
try, and 54,697 wont thither from this
country; to Canada, 9,335, and 6,223
from Canaria; to Australia, 32,196, and
2,579 from Australia; total emigration,
109,469, and 71,404 total immigration.
The total movement of Irish from May,
1851, to the end of 1876, according to
these reports, was 2,415,000 leaving Ire
land direct, of whom nineteen-twentieths
came to this country; 07 per cent, of the
whole number leaving tho United King
dom from 1853 to 1876 also came here.
It is perhaps a hopeful symptom that
the human tide which will yet for many
years set to these western shores con
tains a larger proportion of skilled or
half-skilled laborers, and a smaller pro
portion of tlio least desirable cluss that
used to I™ tliu case.
The Discomforts of Fame.
“I should think,” remarked a lady at
the lunch-table of the Baldwin, “that
poor Adelaide Neilson ought to have
faced death with a sense of relief.” Home
surprise at tlie remark having been ex
pressed, tlie lady who had known Miss
Neilson intimately, proceeded to recount
the petty troubles of tho great actress'
life.
“She was tlm victim of ceaseless per
secution,” said the regretful friend.
“Every day of her lifo was made misera
ble by the attempts of all kinds of people
to interview her on all kinds of subjects.
I had the fact brought forcibly to my
notice one afternoon of the. last week of
her stay here. I called on her invitation
and found her nervous and greatly dis
pirited. ‘ I have already had sixteen
visitors,’ said she, and expect so many
more tiiat I’ve positively notified my
maid that I'm not in to any person hut
an old musician whom I’ve known for
years and who is kind enough to play for
me.’
“White she was speaking the musician
onb-iwl, and before lie had finished the
first, selection, how many callers do you
think put in an appearance? Hix? Yes,
a whole dozen. I don’t remember half of
them. I know, though, there was a card
from Burton Hill, who wished to see
Miss Neilson about a benefit. Then Fred
Lyster called in it journalistic capacity.
Then an ambitious young dramatic
writer sept up word that ho had kindly
prepared and brought witli him a five
act play for her perusal. A young lady
from Sutter street craved an audience
for some purpose not given, but supposed
to lie the fell one of confessing that her
mission was to elevate the stage. A
proud mother brought an ambitious
daughter to read some Sbakspeareau
passages and show Miss Neilson that she
had formidable rivals outside tlio pro
fession. Two ladies came to inquire what
preparation Miss Neilson used that made
tier so lovely on the stage; money was no
object to them in acquiring the secret.
But they didn’t obtain an audience any
more than the many others. Such were
the ceaseless persecutions to which tlie
unfortunate actress was subjected, and
pestered, pursued, and villified, sin
ought to have coveted the" eternal peace
of death.” —San FranqUoo Chronicle.
Onr Bodies After DeAth.
Within a very near approach to truth,
the human family inhabiting the eartli
lias been estimated at 1,000,000,000; tho
annual lohs by death is 18,000,000. Now,
the weight of the animal matter of this
immense body cast into the grave is no
less than 634,000 tons, and its decom
position produces 98,000,000 cubic
feet of matter. The vegetable produc
tions of the earth clear away from tlie
earth tlie gases thus generated, and de
composing and assimilating them for
their own increase. This circle of changes
lias been going on ever since rnjui be
came an occupier of the earth. He feeds
on the lower animals and on the seeds of
plants, which in due time become a part
of himself. The lower animals feed upon
the herbs and grasses, which in their
turn become the animal; then, by its
death again pass into the atmosphore,
and are ready once more to be assimil
ated by plants, the earth or bone sub
itaiice alone remaining where it is de
posited.
—Mr. Hiram Sibley, of Rochester,
who is said tobethe largest owner of
cultivated land iu America, and
who was formerly President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
will erect in Chicago the largest seed
warehouse in the world.—iV. f. Pott,
NO. 46.
Mocha and Mocha Coffee.
No Arabian town has so fragrant an
odor around its name as Mocha, which
for so many years was known as tlie
port from which most of the coffee of
Yemen was shipped. That Mo ha ilsclf
does not, lie in a coffee region is proba
bly known to few of those who honor
the noble beverage. Indeed, it lias
long been known that those beans,
which enjoy a world-wide reputation,
reach the Western markets in increas
ingly small quantities, for the product
ive region of Yemen is comparatively
limited in area, and the crop scarcely
suffices to supply the demand in tho
East itself. Certain it is that a consid
erable part of the crop finds its way by
land over the Hodjaz, anil only a frac
tion reaches the export harbors-. The
most important of these, according
to the Austrian Monatsehrift fur <5
Orient, at tho present time is undoubt
edly Aden. In former timos it was
qu te otherwise. After tho introduction
of coffee-culture and the taste for coffee
into Arabia, an ovent by no means of
ancient date, Moeha was certainly tho
only port from which it was shipped.
At tlio beginning of the sixteenth cen
tury only one hut stood on the site of
Mocha, that of the Slioik Nliadeli, who
on account of his honest dealings was
much sought alter by tlio skippers. lie
was an honorable and hospitable man,
who regaled his guests with a cup of
the beverage which he himself greatly
loved and commended. This drink was
no other than coffee, a knowledge of tho
virtues of which soon spread through
tlio whole of Yemen. The Sheik had
many visitors, and out of his hospitality
a profitable business was developed; the
settler’s hut soon expanded into a vil
lage, and the village into a town, which
in a short time was crowded with spec
ulators and rich merchants.
Such is the legend of the founding and
growth of Moeha. In what year the
event took place there is no means of as
certaining, for tlio Turkish and Arabic
chroniclers are shy of figures and dates,
and leave to their successors Hie filling
in of Hie blanks. But no doubt Hie
story is essentially authentic, for after
Moeha became a flourishing town Sheik
Shadeli was honored with a sepulchral
mosque, which is to-day pointed out
with pride, and the principal wells of
tlio existing town anti also the land-gate
bear the name of its worthy benefactor.
“By Sheik Shadeli” the people of
Moelia swear moro than by the Prophet
himself, who receives scarcely more
honor than is paid to the patron of tho
town and of all tho coll'co farmers of
Yemen. Coffee could not he Jfrown at
all, as we have said, in tlie region around
Mocha, itself, which is known as tlio
“Tehama,” a low, flat, sandy district,
with sparse vegetation. The climate is
necessarily hot, fever is endemic, and
water scarce. No coffee could be grown
in such a region, although it contains
Hie chief warehouses and export harbors
for tlie product of Yemen. For a whole
century Moeha was the leading coffee
port, but about the middle of the seven
teenth century Hodeida, to the north of
Mocha, took Us place. Latterly, how
ever, for various reasons connected with
Turco-Egyptlan politics, Hodeida has
declined. So long as it was the chief
export harbor, the inland town of Boit
el-Fakhi was the chief transit center,
the leading port of which was and is
still (rhalofka, which sent out almost as
much coffee as Hodeida itself. After
the Ttirco-Egyptian domestic politics
had ruined these ports the coffee trado
sought another outlet, by Aden, which
now is Hie leading center and place of
export for the colleo of Yemen.
Tho coffee tree is no wild plant in
Yemen, its successful growth depend
ing on a great variety of natural and
artificial conditions. In terraces among
Hie mountain ravines, carefully protect
ed from Ihe chilly mountain breezes, on
a soil composed of clay, porphyry and
tiap. is tho cultivation of tlie best sorts
carried on. Tlius it is only certain fa
vored spoils that are suited for the
growth of coffee in Yemen, and tho
culture is essentially that of compara
tively small gardens. Tho best coffee
garden of Yemen is tiiat of Uddein, in
the northeast of Mocha; it yields tlie
Uddein bean, the finest coffee bean Ihe
world produces. This estate lies in Ihe
Valley of the Zebid, and ill area is by
no means extensive. Tlie second most
important district is that of Beit ol-
Fakhi, in which are Buljos, Hadie and
Kusmai, estates on the mountain ter
races, whicli stretch from tho Tehama
to tlie mountains of Central Yemen;
many of the hamlots which used to nes
tle in the midst ol' the coffee plantations
looking out from the hill-sides on the
sterile plain below are now in ruins. In
the direction of Hodeida lies the third
of the great coffee gardens, I hat of Mof
liak, and llarraz, on tho flanks of tho
Yemen Mountains, which inclose the
Wadi Scielian. Smaller and less pro
ductive gardens are found at Jonaad,
on the i.orth foot of tlie Saber Mount
ain to the east of Mocha. Others of
less importance aro scattered about in
various parts of the region, as far as tlie
eastern plateau of Yemen, tho heights
varying from 1,200 to 4,(XX) feet above
ihe sea. The entire productive region
is, after all, only a comparatively small
section of Yemen, and even in this sec
tion itself there are many unproductive
gaps—gaps whicli aro much moro ex
tensive than are the coffee gardens
themselves.— London Times.
—A singular fatality seems to have
compassed tho lives of a part of Richard
Bailey’s family of ten children, who
were born and have generally lived at
Townshend, VI. Henry, aged ninety
three, dropped dead in his own yard at
that place a few days ago; Hubbard,
seventy-nine, dropped dead in Mont
gomery; Dana, seventv-four, fell from
a load of com and broke his back; Abi
sha, seventy-two, fell from a load of
corn at Saratoga and broke his neck;
and Mrs. Polly Bailey Franklin was
taken suddenly ill and died before the
doctor could be summoned.
—The eity of Vienna has granted the
right to an English company to build an
elevated railway.
—The “super” of a Melbourne thea
ter died friendless and alone recently,
and then it was learned that he was a
son of Mark Lemon, tbq famous sgtjjtQrf
of London Punch, -
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—Within the last twonty-flvo years the
steam pressures of looomotives havo
boon Increased from 60 pounds to over
160 pounds to tho square Inch.
—Miss Bottle Groon, of Forsyth Coun
ty, Ga., has two silk drosses which she
made liersolf, having raisod tho worms,
spun tlio silk, colored and woven it with
her own hands.
—A gontloman In England has in his
bedroom au olootrlc bell which warns of
any burglarious approach, and an indi
cator showing whether tlio garden gate,
the hall door or that of tlio kitchen, or
any one of tho windows of the house is
the point of attack.— N. F. Tribune.
—With a now apparatus for ascertain
ing tlie velooity of railway trains, a train
weighing 125 tons and traveling at a
spood of forty-tivo miles an hour has
been found to run a few foot moro than
live miles after steam had boon shut off.
Tlio track was lovol and tho day oalni.
— St. Louis Globe.
—Paper is mado in Belgium whioh
vory elosoly resembles satin. Common
paper is covered with a suitable size,
and while tho surface is moist asbestos
dyed to any desired shado Is sprinkled
over it. Any superfluous matter Is
easily shaken off when the size is dry.
Fine affects are sometimes produced
with aniline colors.
—Tho gathering of fir oonos to obtain
tho seed for export is quite an industry
in Puyallup Valley, Washington Terri
tory. Tho cones aro dried in the hop
furnaces until the seed fall out, when it
is packod up and sold for export. Large
quantities of this seed are planted in Eu
rope. Tho fir seeds bring from $5 to $8
per pound. —Chicago Times.
—A French writer estimates tho mini
mum annual consumption of nickel in
England at 500 tons, and places Ger
many second with 300 tons, the United
States third with 200, and Franco fourth
with 100. Tho Engineering and Mining
Journal says that, in view of the fact
that in this country nickel-plating has
reached an extensive uso nowhere elso
approached, not to mention the con
sumption for coinage, this estimate is
probably far below? the actual figures.
—A writer in tho Industrial Review
advises the introduction of the bamboo
in the Southern States. Though capa
ble of growing on the uplands, it is said
to be especially suited to marshy re
gions, such as fringe the South Atlantia
and Gulf States. Its usos are numor
ous. Asa timber for building and con
struction purposes, for tools, imple
ments, etc., it is well known. As an
jrticlo of food its young shoots servo as
substitutes for vegetables, and are pro
nouncod delicious. Bamboo curry and
chow-chow are excellent. The growing
plant is invaluable also as a defonso
against malaria, sweeping fires, and
cyclones.
—At the Sanitary Congress in Eng
land the other day tho Hon. F. A. Russell
said that it was found that at a height
about equal to that of the upper rooms
in a high houso a drier climate prevailed
than at lower levels, and with a daily
range not much greater, and much less
cold on the coldest and on foggy nights
than down below. The practical con
clusions seemed to be that invalids and
delicate porsons should generally bo
placed in high, sheltered situations, in
the highest rooms of a houso, and by no
means on a ground floor; that every
house ought to be built on arches, or
thoroughly ventilated below, and raised
on piers above the ground level.
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
Tub Spanish Armada numbered 180
ships, to which tlio English could op-'
pose but eighty vessels, and these so
small that four of them only equaled in
tonnage tlie smallest of tlie galleons.
The Armada carried 8,000 seamon anil
20,000 soldiers. The English fleet was
manned by 8,000 sailors.
Nutmegs grow upon a tree from
twenty-five to thirty feet high, which
bears a fruit resembling in form and
size tlio seekle pear. When ripo the
outer shell of this fruit breaks, revealing
an inner case of bright rod, known to
commerce as mace. This in its turn is
removed, and tho nutmeg is found in
closed iu a third shell harder than
either of the otliors.
The Parsecs of India are fire-worship
ers, and reverence tlie sun, moon and
stars. Upon tlie altars of their temples
the priests keep fire continually burn
ing, and declare that it has never been
extinguished. When engaged in their
duties these devotees wear masks over
tlio lower part of their faces, lest their
breath should pollute tlie sacred flame.
Conducting tlie British Government
by a Ministry chosen from the strongest
party in tlio House of Commons dates
from the time of William 111. f in 1689.
Previous to that all the Ministers had
been independent of each other, and re
sponsible to tlio sovereign alone, who
might dismiss one great officer of state
and retain tlie rest. The idea of a ho
mogeneous Ministry was first carriod
out by Uoliort, Earl of Sunderland, who
successively held office under Charles
11., James 11. and William of Orange.
The needle-gun is the invention of
John Nicholas Droyse, a Prussian lock
smith. He was 19 years old when the
battle of Jena was fought, and picked
up a musket upon the field, an examina
tion of which convinced him that his
countrymen were the worst-armed sol
diers in Europe. Droyse made his way
to Paris, and entered the employ of a
Swiss gunmaker, whom Napoleon com
missioned to mako a breech-loading
musket. The young apprentice took up
the idea and worked at it for many years
until, in 1835, he succeeded in making a
breech-loading needlo-gun. The Prus
sian Government tried and adopted tlia
weapon, and supplied the inventor with
means tor carrying on the manufacture
of tlie gun now used in Kaiser Wilhelm’s
army. __________
Let the Light In.
There aro few farm-houses in whioh
at least one room—often one of the best
—is not kept shut up most of the time;
and the spare-room intended for vis
itors in city homes seldom fares much
better, so far as the admission of light
and air are concerned. Then we put
blinds on our windows to keep out the
heat in summer and let tbom keep out
the light all the year; we hang up cur
tains for purposes of household deco
ration, and regard the resulting gloom
as a necessity of modem life; we evefl
devise all fantastic forms of colored
glass for our dwellings in order to mod
ify what little light docs get in.
No house ean be clean that is dark;
and no house that is not clean oan ba
healthy. Pure light ia a purifier. It
destroys the poison of organic disease.
Its efficacy in this respect may be illus
trated by tho fact that the poison of
that most dangerous of serpents, the
cobra, which will retain its fatal power
indefinitely if kept in the dark, becomes
innocuous after continuous exposure to
the action of sunlight, last the light
.into every room, then, every dav-~w ? '' J