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GRANDMOTHER 5 SERMON.
The Bippcr 1* o’et. the hearth t®
And in i ho wood Arc’s fiow
children oluM*r to hoar e
(jfcjbttt time to loti* Rff®*
WtMm tfrMndmflHJb'dr brown,
And the warm ntoixtonnio ntifl wont
the fftey that softroe have beot
jr - tbot* ,
it' mb vootfut.
face 1* Audiriried and carp worn now.
And tho > PwjThair la irray:^
But tho htrht Uim abouo girl's
eves •
Ist ver has gone away. m
• And her needles catch the flrcßght
Ain and out they go, ,
With tho clicking music that gnindma toveo,
Shaping tho fttocklnar tnJL <
And tho waiting <’hH4rcu33jp it. t >o,
thojr know the atoolMv song
Brings many a talo to grandma’s mind
Which they shall have £>to long.
But it brings no stiwV of olden-time
To grandma's hoaid to*n ght
Only a refrain.
Is sung by tho mi*m< frht.
* Life is a stocking "
“And yours Is JnSiJ^’iUi!;
But 1 am knitting t!!w too ot ml no,
hm And my work is ain^eat v L>n -.
‘‘With merry hearts we haarin to knit.
And tho ribbing is almost pl^y;
Some arc gay colored, and som * are white,
And some are asli'rt gray.
•* But most arc made of man v hues,
With many a •dlteh #t wr mg;
And many a row to be sadly ripped
Ere the wholo is fair and strong.
“There Hre long, plain spaces, without a
brook, , *
That In Hr® are hard to '.tear;
Anduu&njr a wedry tear is dropped
%vs we fapLon with i are.
But thrygMpflt, happiest time>a that
L yet would shun.
vpon l|Er Pj r- ai only Father broils the
our work Is done."
Tho to say good-nliht. „ -
WHh t. ‘M bright *oung eyes, *
a ' Wnlip lap. u broken thread.
*—&aratooa Sun.
W JOEniIIKI!TS T'^RRY
a thoroughly disagreeable
■Bi -agMaag. ine wind bin," in
from every quarter of the
f§r° m lW?ivpy turns. It seemed to lake
’Wli delight in rushing suddenly
ni'dflhil -conii'rs an taking away 1 the
breath of anybody ; t com*catch there
coming from the opposite direction.
The dust, too, tilled people’s eyes and
noses and mouths, bile the damp, raw
March air easily fo id its way through
the best clothing, anti turned boys
into pimply goose-
It was a out as disagreeable a morn
ing for going out as can be imagined;
nnd yet everybody in t! JiUlc
ritfer town wlio get out went out
and stayed out. t
Men and women, boys and girls, and
even little children, ran*to the eiyy
bank, and once there they stayed, muS*
no thought, it seemed, of going backsfe
their homes or their .work.
, The people of the town were wild with
ejjoitement, and everybody told every
body else what hgil happened, although
everybody about it already.
Everybody, I mean, except Joe J.am
bert. and he had been so busy'ever
since daylight, sawing wood in Squire
Grisard's woodshed, that he had neither
seen nor heard anything at Ml. Joe
was the poorest person in the town.
He was the only boy there who really
had no home and nobody to care for
him. Three or four years before this
Starch morning. Joe hail been loft an
orphan, and being utterly destitute, he
should have been sent to the poor
hound Ovtl’’, lyymiuc person
as , sdWf servant; Hm Lambert
had refused to go to the poor house or
to become a bound box. He bail de
clared Ids ability to takejeare of him
self, and by forking bant at odd jobs,
sawing wood, rolling barrels on the
wharfc picking apples or weeding on
ionh as opportuufty o fibre I, he had
managed to snpgMt himself ■•after a
manner.” as thiwHUtage people said
That is to say, lie amorally got chough
to eat, and some clothes too wear. He
■shed, tlie owner
ive to do so on
and act as a sort ol
[ all the villagers
i had happened:
jUTibert and and not
. .at of ihe ay
count for aometjvllig off'll®- WjlffriiV
March flay at least.
When he finished the pile' of wood
that he had to saw, and went to the
hnusc,to get his money, he found tin
body thenjhajjjoiiig down the street he
found’ttopifewn empty, and, looking
dowff.citts:pttrgt't, he saw the crowds
that bad jjathefed on the river-bank,
thus wrnfog at fast that something un
usual had occurred. Of course he ran
to the river to learn what: it was.
When he got there he learned that
Noah Martin, the fisherman who was
also Ibe ferryman between tbe village
its neighbor on ’the other side of the
river, had been drowned during the
earlv morning in a foolish attempt to
row life ferfv-skiff across the stream.
The ice which had blocked the river for
tfo months, had begun to move mi the
day .lie ore. and Martin with his wife
amtUtobv**-*child about a year old—
the oftifer side of the rive • at
pnjtrtSroe. Early on that morning there
twSseen a temporary gorging of the
Ice iliout'a mile above the town, and.
taking advantage of the comparatively
free Martin had tried to cross
with bid wife and child, in h s b at.
ThSgorge had broken up almost im
mediately, as the river was rising rapi I
ly, and Martin’s boa' had been caught
land crushed in the ice. Martin had
been drowned, but his wife, with her
child in her arms, had clung to the
wreck of the skill', and had been carried
by the current to a little low-lying
island just in front of the town
What had happened was of less im
portance, however, than wh it people
saw must happen. The poor woman
and baby out there on the island.
drenched as they had been in the icy
water, must soon die with cold, and,
moreover, the is’and was now nearly
under water, while the great stream was
rising rapidly. It was evident that
within an hour or two the water would
sweep over the whole surface of the
island, and the great fields of ice would
of course carry the woman and child to
a terrible death.
Many wild suggestions were made for
(heir rescue, but none that gave the
least hope of success, it was simply
impossible to launch a boat. The vast
fields of ice, two or three feet in thick
ness. and from twenty leetto a hundred
yards in breadth, were crushing and
grinding down the river at the rate of
four or five miles an hour, turning and
twisting about, sometimes jamming
their edges together with so great a
force that one would lap over another,
and sometimes drifting apart awi leav
ing wide open spaces between for a
moment or two. One might as well go
upon such a river in an egg shell as in
it l)c ©alette.
VOL. X.
the stoutest row-boat ever built.
The poor woman with her babe could
be seen from the shore, standing thoie
ahum on the rapidly narrowing strip of
island! Her voice could not reach the
people on the bank, but when she held
her poor little baby toward them in
mute appeal for help, the mothers there
understood her agony.
There was nothing to bo done, how
<ver. Human sympathy was given
freely, but human help was out of the
question. Everybody on tho river-snore
was agreed in that opinion. Every
body, that is to say, except Joe Lam
bert. He had been so long in the habit
nf finding ways to help himself under
difficulties that he did not easily make
up his mind to think any case hopeless.
N o sooner did Joe clearly understand
how matters stood than he ran away
from the crowd, nobody paying any at
tention to what he did. Half an hour
later, somebody cried out: "Look
there! Who's that, and what's he go
ing to do? ’ pointing up the stream.
looking in that direction, the people
saw someone three quarters of a mile
away standing on a floating field of
ice in the river. He had a large farm
basket strapped upon his shoulders,
while in his hands he held a piank.
As the ice-field upon which he stoo l
.neared another, the youth ran forward,
threw his plank down, making a bridge
of it, and crossed to the farther tiel I.
Then picking up Ids plank, he waited
for a chance to repeat the process.
As he thus drifted down the river,
svery eye was strained in his direction.
Presently someone cried ont; "It's
Joe Lambert; and he’s trying to cross
to the Island!"
There was a shout as the people un
derstood the nature of Joe’s heroic at
tempt, and then a hush as its extreme
danger became apparent.
Joe had laid his plans wisely and well,
but it seemed impossible that he should
succeed. His purpose was, with the ad
of the plank to cros- from one ice-l.'old
to another until he should reach the
island; but as that would require a good
deal of time, and the ice was moving
down stream pretty rapidly, it was nee
e.-sary to start at a point above the
town Joe had gone about a mile up
the river before going on the iec, and
when first seen from the town he had
already reached the channel.
After that first shout a whisper might
have been heard in the crowd oil the
bank. The heroism of tho poor boy's
attempt awed the spectators, nnd the
momentary expectation that he would
disappear forever amid the crushing
ice-fields made them hold their breath
in anxiety and terror.
His greatest •lunger was fiom tho
■smaller cakes of ice. When it became
necessary for him to step upon one of
Ihese, his weight was su i'cient to make
it tilt, and his footing was very inse
cime. After awhile as he was nearing
the island, he ( ame inio a large collec
tion of these smaller ioe-ckes. For
awhile he waited, hoping that a larger
field would drift near him; but after a
minute’s delay ho saw that he was rap
idly floating past the island, and that
he must either trust himself to the
treacherous broken ice, or fail in his at
tempt to save the woman and child.
choosing the best of the foes, he laid
his plank and passed across successful
ly. In the next passage, however, the
cake tilted up, and Joe Lambert went
down into the water! A shudder passed
through the crowd on shore.
" Poor fellow!” exclaimed some ten
der-hearted spectator; "it is all over
with him now.”
"No; look, look!’ shouted another.
"He’s trying to climb upon the ice.
Hurrah! he's on his feet again!” With
that tho whole company of si ectator.s
shouted for joy.
Joe had managed to regain his plank
as well as to climb upon a cake of ice
before the fields around could crush
him, and now moving cautiously, he
made his way little by Tittle toward the
island.
"Hurrah! Hurrah! he’s there at
last!” shouted the people on the shore.
“ But, will he get back again?” was
the question each one asked himself a
moment later.
Having reached the island. Jo • very
well knew that the more difficult part
of h s task was still before him, for it
was one thing for an active boy to work
his way ovef lloating ice. and quite an
other to c irry a child and lead n woman
upon a similar journey.
But Joe Lambert was quickwitted
and ."long-headed.” as well as brave,
and he meant to do all that he could to
save these poor creatures for whom he
had risked his life so heroically. Tak
ing out his knife he nude the woman
cut her skirls o!T at the knees, so that
she might wa'k and leap more freely.
Then placing the baby in the basket
which was strapped upon his back, ho
cautioned the woman ag dost gi ing way
to fright, and instructed her carefully
about the method of crossing
On the return journey Joe was able
to avoid one great risk. As it was not
necessary to land at any part cular
point, time was of little consequence,
and hence when no large field of ice
was at hand, he could wait for one to
apnroach without attempting to make
use of the smaller ones. Leading the
woman wherever that was necessary, he
slowly made his way toward shore,
drifting down the river, of course, while
all the people of the town marched along
the bank.
When at last Joe leaped ashore in
company with the woman, and bearing
her babe in the basket on bis back, the
people seemed ready to trample upon
each other in their "eagerness to shake
hands with their hero.
Their hero was barely able to stand,
however. Drenched as he had been in
the icy water, the sharp March wind
had chilled him to to the marrow, and
one of the village doctors speedily lifted
him into his carnage, which he had
brought for that purpose, and drove
rapidly away, while the other physician
took charge of Mrs. Martin and the
baby.
Joe was a strong, healthy fellow, and
under the doctors treatment of hot
brandy and vigorous rubbing with
coarse" towels, lie soon warmed. Then
he wanted to saw enough wood for the
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24. 18813,
doctor to pay for his treatment, nnd
thereupon the doctor threatened to
poison h m if ho should over venture to
mention pay to him again.
Naturally enough the village people
talked of nothing but Joe Lambert's
heroic deed, and tho feeling was gen
eral that they had never done their
duty toward the poor orphan hoy.
There was an eager wish to help
him now, and manx offers ware made
to him; but these all took the form of
charity, and Joe would not accept
charity at all. Four years earlier, as 1
have already said, he had refused to,go
to the poor-house or to be “bound out a,’
declaring that ho could take care of
himself; and when some thoughtless
person bad said in his hearing that ho
would havo to livo on charity, Joe's re
ply had been:
“I’ll . never eat a mouthful in this
town that 1 haven't worked for if 1
starve." And ho had kopt his word.
Now that ho was fifteen years old he
was not willing to begin to receive
charity, even in the form of a reward
for his good deed.
One day when some of tho most
prominent men ot tho village wore talk
ing to him on the subject Joe said:
"l don't want anything except a
chance to work, but I'll toll you what
you may do for mo if you will. Now
that poor Martin is dead tlie ferry privi
lege will bo to lease again, and I'd like
to get it for a good long term May be I
can make something out of it by being
always ready to row people across, and
1 may ox en lie able to put. on something
bettor than a skiff after awhile. I’ll pay
tho village what Martin paid."
The gentlemen wore glad enough of a
chance to do Joe even this small favor,
and there was no difficulty in the way.
The authorities gladly granted Joe a
lease of the ferry privilege for twenty
years, at twenty dollars a year rent,
which was the rate Martin had paid.
At first Joe rowed people hack and
forth, saving what money he gol very
cnrefullx . This was all that could bo
required of him, but it occurred to Joe
that if lie had a jerry-boat big enough,
a good many horses ami cattle and a
good deal of freight would be sent
across the river, tor he was a '‘long
headed" felloxv, as I havo said.
One day a chance offered, nnd he
bought for twenty-five dollars a largo
old woo l boat, which was simply a
square harge fo ty feet long and fifteen
feet wide, with leveled how and stein,
made to hold cord wood for the steam
boats. With his own hands he laid a
stout deck on this. and. with the assist
ance of a man whom he hired for that
purpose, he constructed a pair of pad-
that time Joe was out
of money, and work on ilie boat was
suspended for a while. When lie had
accumulated a litt!o more money, he
bought a horse power, anil placed
it Mi the middle of his bo it,
connecting it with the shaft, of his
wheels. Then he made a rudder and
helm, and his horse-boat was ready for
use. It had cost him a hundred dollars
In sides his own labor upon it, but it
would carry live stock and freight as
well as passengers, and so tho business
of the ferry rapidly increased, and ,li e
began to put a lit tie money away in the
bank.
After awhile a railroad was built into
the village, and then a second one
came. A year later another railroad
was open on the other side of the river,
and all the passengers w ho came to one
village by railroad had to be. ferried
across tho river in order to continue their
journey hy tho railroads there. Tho
horse-boat was too small and too slow
for Ihe business, anil Joe I ambert had
to buy Mvo steam ferry-boats to take its
place! These cost more money than ho
had, but, as tbe owner of the ferry
privilege, his credit was good, anil tho
boats soon paid for themselves, wdiile
Joe’s bank account grew again.
Finally the railroad people determined
to run through ears for passengers
and freight, and to carry them across
the river on large boats built for that
purpose: but be ore t hey gave their or
ders to their boat builders, they were
waited upon by the attorney's of Joe
Lambert, who soon convinced them
that his ferry privileges gave him alone
the right to run any kind of ferry-boats
between the villages which had now
grown to such size that they called
themselves cities. The result xvas that
the railroads made a contract with Joe
to carry their cars across, and he had
some large boats built for that purpose.
All this occurred a good many years
ago, and Joe Lambert is not called Joe
now, but Captain Lambert. He is one
of the most prosperous men in the lit
tle river city, ami owns many large riv
er steamers besides his ferry no its.
Nobody is readier than ho to help a
poor boy or a poor man: but he lias his
own way of doing it. He, will never
toss so much as a cent to a beggar, but
he never refuses to give man or b&v a
chance to earn money by work. Ho
has an odd theory that money which
comes without work does niorc harm
than good. Geo. Cary Eggleston, in
Wide Awake.
The Upper and Lower Eyes.
“There are two pairs of eyes in rnan,
anil it is requisite that the pair which
are beneath should be closed when tlia
pair that are above them perceive, and
that wticn the pair above aro closed,
those which are beneath are opened.”
The lower eyes see only the surfaces and
effects, the upper eyes behold causes
and the connection of tilings. And when
we go alone or come into the house of
' thought and worship, we come with pnr
i pose to be disabused of appearances, to
i see realities, the great lines of our iles-
I tiny, to see that life has no caprice or
i fortune, is no hopping squib, but a
' growth after immutable laws, under
iieneficent influences tho most immense.
The church is open to great and small
in all nations, and how rare and lofty,
how unattainable, are tho aims it labors
to set before men! Wo come to educate,
come to isolate, to be abstractionists;
in fine, to open the upper eyes to the
deep mystery of cause and effect, to
know that, though ministers of justice
and power fail, justice and Power fail
never. The open secret of the world is
the art of subliming a private soul with
inspirations from the great and publio
: and divine boul from which we five.—
1 Emerton.
Help Wanted.
I arrived In the city of Portland, Ore
gon, on Saturday afternoon, Scptomber
!), at three d*clock. I wanted a ready
made suit of clothes for rough work on
the mountains near Baker City, for
which place I had to loavo at nine
o’clock Monday morning. 1 found In
ono of tho two largo merchant-tailoring
establishments something that, would do
with a little alteration in tho coat and
pantaloons. 1 returned to my hotel dis
appointed but half amused over tho vain
efforts of tho dealer to get a half-hour's
work done on the clothes in order to
mako them wearable. Ho first appealoit
to his regular tailors. They answered
from their Turk-like position on the
bench, in true Turk-like phrase, that
they wouldn’t draw a stitch more be
yond their present stints. Then tho
merchant, sent out to sundry women
who dill work for him. The answer
came back that, they would take in no
more work that day. After every re
source had bc"n exhausted he gave it
up, saying: “I must lose the sale of the
clothes; I can’t get. any ono to alter
them, and I might have known that it
would be so on tho start. You havo no
notion how independent labor is in this
country. My folks work pretty well,
but they are not regular; will lay off
without warning, and work pretty much
as they rather than as I mind when they
do work. They are all‘eultus’ [Chinook
for ‘no account’]. I havo tried as hard
as I can for the past two months to find
any fair journeyman tailor who will sit
on tho bench and bo reliable to do odd
jobs like this, and 1 ean't got any one.
I havo offered a day, and I would
give it. right along, ami steady work
every day in tho year but it’s no use. 1
can’t get anyone.”
The story of the discontented tailor
was repeated in that of the hotel pro
prietor, tho contractor, tho boss me
chanic—indeed, almost every vocation
with which I came in contact on that
coast. Tho country itself is so inviting,
and rewards so richly individual pro
prietors, that every one who goes there
is uniter constant temptation to forego
the intention with which he came, of
going into employment, and forthwith
begins to set up for himself. The con
sequence is that hired labor in all de
partments is scarce and of poor quality.
Those who hire out do so only for a
short period, until they can gel into
shape to work for themselves. The re
sult is that competition, the groat fac
tor of good service, is almost utterly
wanting. Workingmen look upon their
present service for owners as only tem
porary, and consequently are restless
and anxious to advortise tho fact that
they are really independent men, only
doing this for the bftjng. , F'or in
stance, once, after silting ii while in si
lence, waiting for tho attendant, to in
form mo what ho had for breakfast, ho
also in silence, I ventured to break tho
solemn pause.
“Well, sir, I would like my break
fast.”
“Well, so would I, too! Here I’ve
been working since six o'clock without
any.”
Again, the porter, who gets in that
country invariably twenty-live cents a
pair for blacking boots, answered my
friend’s request thus:
“Well, I guess to-morrow morning I’ll
black them. I’ve blacked enough boots
to-day.”
Indeed, ono of the most trying things
out there, a thing that would have de
stroyed my temper if I had not long
since lost it, is the perpetual struggle to
get out of the employes the service ono
has to pay so liberally for. It requires
so much ingenuity in putting your re
quest, self-depreciation anil half-apology
for making it at ali, gentle acceptance of
rebuffs, anil persistence accompanied
with the wisdom of tho serpent to get
(after a hard day’s work driving around
the country or inspecting the inohato
enterprises on every side) even u satis
factory meal or clean bed fipon one’s
return at night. The consciousness that
one pays for everything, whether ho
gets it or not, and then has to wrestle,
or, as the expression there is, “rustle,”
to got it, is in some conditions of lassi
tude, dispiriting. I remember, cross
ing the Yellowstone, I had the dismal
experience of seeing ray new wagon
sink out of sight in the water, all be
cause 1 did not have the requisite knowl
edge of Western laborers’ peculiarities
to make my ferryman load it properly.
Luckily I rcoovered"'it.
Chinese labor, now that immigration
is stopped, is so inadequate to the de
mands of the situation that important
railway extensions have been at a stand
still purely from this cause. Railroad
building, ill supplied with labor as it is,
las drained off all that is available to so
rroat an extent that farmers during
August literally went bogging for har
rest hands. I could mention many lo
salities where I know not merely pri
vate residences but business blocks
md publio structures aro waiting for
workmen. Carpenters, bricklayers and
mechanics enough can not be found.
The saw-mills and logging camps of
lered high prices for men during July
xrul August. The wages offered wore
rood—raised far beyond tho average
that has heretofore been paid—but few
workmen presented themselves, and
they would only work for a while and
,hen lay off and spend their money.
There are few drones out there, very
few men lounging about tho dopots anil
hotels, almost none for extra services,
to that every one has to wait on himself.
Ne one of either sex need be idle, indeed
can afford to be, when industry pays so
well. The need of good, serviceable
women is as great as that of men. Take
it in the mqttor of house servants. “I
have a wlte and three children, all my
family,” said a banker lo mo one day.
“I will gladly pay $35 a month and
ooara tor a goo a cook and competent
house servant.” Said another: “1
positively can not find a nurse good for
anything. I would pay $5 a week and
board if I could have my wife relieved
of the care of the children and drudg
ery of the nursery." Said a restaurant
keeper: “We can’t get women who
will superintend the kitchen, much less
waiton table.”
The proprietor of the furnished rooms
I occupied in Walla Walla was one day
at the washtub washing out the linen of
the houso. I inquired: “Can’t you
get women to do tiio washing?” “No,’
was tho answer; “1 can not got help,
and, much as the business pays, I think
j will quit. It Is wearing mo out;
making the beds, doing the chamber
work; everything myself, with tho help
ot one boy. I’ve got to quit or break
down. ' "l an'tyou got a umnamanr”
“Well, no; not one that will stay; not
one that will not get me so mad in a
day 1 can’t stand it. You know a Chi
naman will hire to do but ono thing. If
ho is chambermaid, ho won’t cook, or
cut wood, or do an errand, or oblige
ono in any way. Ami then they are so
shiftless and no-account I can’t got
along with them and their independent
ways. They come at six in tho morn
ing, Sundays at eight, and they quit at
five, and they cut a big hole out, of the
middle ot the day when they go off to
their don somewhere and smoko opium
or tobacco. Thon they ruin everything
they touch. I could not afford to have
a Chinaman do my washing. Those
flannels, for instance, would be utterly
spoiled. You should see how they rub
the buttons and ravels out of everything.
They just destroy, and don’t care.”
In Portland alone 300 industrious
girls can find employment as house
servants at wages averaging S2O to $25
per month. I read in a morning paper
this in the local column : “Agirl wants
a situation as per ad. elsewhere. Who
speaks for her first?”
Women are so universally respected
in that country that a girl could go
there anywhere from the East without a
ohaperone. The trouble is she would,
soon after she reached there, call some
chap her own, anil that is what is tho
trouble wit h female labor in that, coun
try.— Cor. N. V. Evening Post.
A Strange Race.
In lior work, “Unbeaten Tracks In
.Tajin.il,’ Mies Isabella L. Bird gives some
graphic pictures of tho Ainos, or abori
(.i e o' the 'slandof Yr/.0, Japan. “Af
ter tlio yel'ow skin, the stiff horse-hair,
tho feeble eyelids, tho elongated eyes,
the sloping oyebroxvs, the fiat noses, tiio
sunken cheeks, tho Mongolian features,
the puny physique, the shaky walk of
the men, tlie restricted totter of tiio
women, and tho general impression of
degeneracy conveyed by tho appearance
of tine Japanese, tiio Ainos,” hlio says,
“make a very singular impression.
“All but two or three that I have soon
aro tlie most ferocious-looking of savages,
with a physique vigorous enough for car
rying out the most ferocious intentions,
hut us soon as they speak tlie counte
nance brightens into a smile as gentle as
that of a woman, something xvliieh can
never he forgotten. The men are about
tliij middle height, broad-chested, broad
shouldered, ‘thick-set,’ very strongly
built, the arms and legs short, thick,
and muscular, the hands and feet large.
The bodies, and especially tlie lirnlw, of
many aro covered with short, bristly
hair. I have seen two hoys whose barliH
are covered with fur as fine and soft as
that of a eat. Tlie heads anil faces are
very striking.
“The foreheads are very high, broad,
and prominent, anil at first sight give
one tiio impression of an unusual capac
ity for intellectual development; the cars
are small and set low; the noses aro
straight but short., and iiroad at tho nos
trils; the mouths are wide but well
formed, and the lips rarely show a ten
dency to fullness. The nock is short,
the cranium rounded, the cheek bones
low, and the lower part of tlie flier is
small as compared with tho upper, tho
peculiarity called a jowl being unknown.
Tlie eyebrows are full, and form a straight
line nearly across tho face, The eyes
are large, tolerably deeply sot Hand very
beautiful, the color a rich liquid brown,
the expression singularly soft, and tlie
eyelashes long, silky, nnd abundant..
“The skin lias tlie Italian olive tint,
but in most cases is thin and light
enough to slioxv tlie changes of color ir.
the cheek. Tlie teeth are small, regular,
and very white; tlie incisors and “eye
teeth” are not disproportionately largo,
as is usually the ease among the Japa
nese; there is no tendency toward pros
natliism, awl tlie fold of integument
which conceal the upper eyelids of tlia
Japanese is never to be met with. Tbe
features, expression, anil aspect aro
European rather than Asintiit:
“The ‘ferocious savagery’ of the ap
pearance of tlie men is produced by a
profusion of thick, soft, black hair, di
vided in the middle, and falling in heavy
masses nearly to tiio shoulders. Out of
doors it is kept from falling over tlie face
by a fillet round the brow. Tho beards
are equally profuse, quite magnificent,
and generally wavy, and in tho case of
tlie old men they give a truly patriarchal
and venerable aspect, in spite of the
yellow tinge produced by smoke and want
of cleanliness. Tbe savage look pro
duced by the masses of hair and beard
and the thick eyebrows is mitigated by
tho softness in the dreamy brown eyes,
and is altogether obliterated by tho ex
ceeding sweetness of the smile, which
belongs in greater or less degree to all
the rougher sex.
“I have measured the height of thirty
of the adult men of this village, and it
ranges from five foot four inches to five
feet six and a half. The circumference
of the head averages 22.1 inches, and
the arc, from ear to ear, 18 inches. Tho
average weight of the Aino adult mascu
line brain, ascertained by measurement
of Bino skulls, is 45.90 ounces avoir
dupois, a brain weight said to excel that
of all the races, Hindoo and Mussulman,
on the Indian plains, and tiiat, of the
aboriginal races of India and Ceylon,
anil is only paralleled by that of the
races of the Himalayas, the Siamcso, and
the Chinese Burmese.”
Althongh the power of tho native
Indian Itajalis lias declined, there ap
pears to be no corresponding falling off
in tlie splendors by which they havo
been accustomed to surround them
selves. The Hindu Patriot's corre
spondent at Burilwan states that a splen
did throne of gold has just been pre
pared by two native artists of Calcutta
for his Highness the Maharajah. There
are 7,000 tollahs of gold in the throne
(the “tollah” is nearly half an ounce
Troy), anil it is exquisitely decorated
with vignette work on all sides. On tlie
top of the back there is the Maharajah’s
crest surmounted with magnificent jew
els ol great beauty.
NO. t?
Ten and Dyspepsln.
Tho word “ pure,” as applied to teas
from Japan ana China, appears to boas
nooossary to their sale as the omission
of the same word is to Indian teas, from
the simple fact that tea can only ho tea -
as, if it is not tea, ergo it is something
else, and should bo sold under another
name. The cause need not be sought
for, as it is simply duo to the simplicity
of a too confiding public. Tho middle
man and retail dealer unite in full force,
and tho sapient housowife, who would
instanter reject “ oloomargarino " or
“buttorine” for butter, will most meekly
accept a mixture of willow or other
loaves, highly faced with copporas indigo
or Prussian muo, as pure green tea, ami
this when infusion and a slight knowl
oilgo of the tea leaf would frequently
plaeo all in a position to test, the purity
for t.hemsolvos. Further cheek is at
hand in a sediment presenting an ap
pearance like its adulterant. From most
countries complaints are frequent that
“pure tea” is unprocurable at any price.
Still, pure tea is manufactured, but how
much of it. roaches tho consumer of
China and Japan teas as such is a ques
tion. By tho time it has passed from
tho bush to tiio factory, thence to mid
dleman and grocer, and finally into tho
cup of the confiding drinker, its original
identity would puzzle its manufacturer
to determine its olass, certainly as re
gards Indian teas, whose frequent “mix
ings” anil transformations often destroy
all trace of their origin. The adultera
tion of teas has been dilated upon ad
, nauseam, but a further attempt liv one
whose experience lias awakened his
interest may not now bo amiss.
In a country whore dyspeptic and
nervous complaints aro so common,
their import is enhanced by tho fact
that to impure tea can bo traced tho
germs of many such maladies, though
popular delusion ascribes them to more
remote causes. From two distinguished
professors we have tho following state
ment on tho uses and properties of tea:
(“Medicinal Hants,” by Professors
Bentley and Timon.) “Tho principal
use of tea is to form an agreeable, slight
ly stimulating, soothing and refreshing
beverage,” etc., and further, “It xvas
formerly behoved that tea, from tho
tlieine it contained, had the effect of di
minishing the waste of the body, and as
anv substanoe that does this necessarily
saves food, it was regarded as indirectly
nutritive.” Contrary opinions are ad
vanced hy equally reliable authority,
tending to show that tea, by acting as a
respiratory excitant, is conducive to
bodily waste, and both opinions are
open to credence. From the gluten
contained in toa its value as a nutritive
is also prominently advanced, while as
a nervine stimulant tea may bo taken
wit li effect in oaeei of headache, neu
ralgia or other affections sequent upon
the effects of oxhaustion or tho depres
sion of nervine power. Its effects are
said to be similar to those of quinia in
cases of intermittent fevers, asthma,
whooping-cough or other spasmodic
complaints. But these attributes essen
tially refer to tea, and not to any othor
fabrication under its name. Tea has its
votaries, but it also lias its enemies, who
ascribe tho increase in nervous diseases
to the constant and increasing uso of
tea; but investigations may tend to
show that this is due, not to tho tea
itself, but to tlie poisonous adulterants
with which it is compounded. No class
of men in India drink tea more persist
ently than do planters themselves, yet
no nervous or dyspeptic diseases pre
dominate amongst Indian planters as a
class. But, then, they only drink tea,
and no planter, or even his cooly,
would, unmixed, drink teas such as
those of the olass known as “Oolong,”
and certainly not of that known and
openly sold as “colored.”
Planters are usually very careful as to
tho teas they use, anil will select from
the lower class teas known •as
“Souchong,” or sometimes from a class
locally known as “Bed Leaf,” the latter
being almost tho refuse. This is from
no penurious economy, as every planter
is permitted to drink all the toa lie re
quires, and in most factories also yearly
to supply a few pounds to his friends.
F’ew planters will drink tea which lias
been recently manufactured, and gener
ally make during eaeli season a supply
of what is “drinkingtea” which,
by special fermentation, becomes drink
able months before Leas of ordinary
commercial manufacture could be im
bibed with comfort. The nearest ap
proach to the class of teas known as
“Oolong” is the species technically
termed "Namoonah” (Hindostanee),
in tho Indian tea districts, an unfer
mented “pannel” toa. Its value as a
mixing agent witii weaker China teas
is great and its price high, but as its
production is more cxjionsive, tho re -
sults aro frequently problematical, and
it is only in solitary oases that it is man
ufactured. No planter would drink this
tea from choice, as it would simply
“blow his head off” or unnerve him
completely, and yet it is a fact that teas
of this description are the most sought
after as a beverage in tho United States
by noli admirers of “Oolongs,” “Gun
powder,” “Caper,” etc. Personal ex
periments recently made have con
vinced the writer that those teas when
drunk alone are positively nauseous and
that a little goes a long way. Here,
then, is a ease where to the uso of pure
tea may be laid asoriesof dyspeptic and
nervous disorders. ■ lloslon Transcript.
—William Welch a young man, died
in Pittsburgh, l’a., the other morning
from the effect o! cuts inllicte I oy a
friend named William Lexvis, in a
drunken ligld a week before. The last
hours of Welch were terrible. Tho
agony from his wounds xvas intense,
but lie paid no attention to this or to
the tears of his friends. He seemed to
have but one desire, and that was to re
cover in order that ho might be avenged
on Lewis. With frightful oaths ho cursed
the fate that made the accomplishment
of his vengeance impossible, and
virtually dic'd with an oath on his lips.—
PUtsLurnh Post.
An Irishman applied to an overseer
of a ship-yard to bo put on a job. Ho
was informed that his roqtftst could not
be complied with ; but, as Pat continued
j to gaze at an anchor which xvas lying in
I tho vicinity, the foreman repeated his
! reply that there was no work for him,
and advised him to go away. “Divil •
bit will I stir, sorr, till I see the mag
j that's going to use that piok I "
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—Lord Houghton's newly-purchased
estate in Florida oomprlsns 60,000 acres.
Lord Houghton U largely interested in
sugar culture in Jamaica.
—The waste of tho wild ooooons,
gathered in the woods of China, Japan
and Australia, is made into felt one
half the size of hair felt, and is used for
the manufacture of bats and for fur
nishing purposos.
—A Wilkesbarre paper asserts that
it takes a kog of powder to mine a ton
of coal, bnt tho Scranton Republican
wants it to explain, if so, the fact that
a keg of powder oosts more than the
mine price of two tons of coal.
—Many an injured workman’s lifo has
been lost through his frightened com
rades’ inability to porform a simple
operation. An Ambulanco Assooiatfon
in Glasgow has begun a useful work by
establishing courses of plain lectures
for operatives, showing what ought to
bo done at onco with a bleeding artery,
a burned limb, a half-drowned body,
etc.
—Fourteen factories, located chiefly in
New England, supply this country with
pins, tho annual production of which for
several years past has been about seven
millions. Exportation of American pins
is confined to Cuba, South America,and
parts of Canada. England supplies al
most tho whole world outside of the
United States, although her pins aro no
better than tho American. Tho ma
chinery and material used in tho manu
facture of American pins aro entirely
tho product of American resources.
-Hard-wood blocks must now be
used by tho workmen in Dantzig to hold
the amber when they aro removing tho
outer, xveathor-worso portion of that
prized fossil gum. Formerly the crude
mass was held by the loft hand in a block
of lead. This was done f>r the puqtose
of preventing a dulling of tho odgos of
the knives. But load-poboning of tho
men and women engaged in tho industry
ensued, as cases of the peouliar oolio
caused by that metal anil othor symp
toms abundantly provod, and nil of
ficial investigation has compelled the
abandonment of lead in the dressing of
amber.
—Flour is peculiarly sensitive to the
atmospheric influences, hence it should
nover bo stored in a room with sour
liquids, nor where onions or fish are
kept, nor nny article that taints the air
of "the room in which it is stored. Any
smell perceptible to the sense will be
absorbed by tho flour. Avoid damp
cellors or lofts where a free circulation
of air can not bo obtained. Keep in a
cool, dry, airy room, and not exposed
to a freezing temperature nor to intense
summer or to artificial heat for any
length of timo above seventy deg. to
seventy-five deg. F'ahrenheit. It should
not come in contact with grain or other
substances which aro liable to heat.
Flour should bo sifted and the particles
thoroughly disintegrated and then
warmed before baking. This treatment
improves the color and baking proper
ties of tho dough. Tho spongo should
bo prepared for the oven as soon as the
yeast has performed its mission, other
wise fermentation sets in and aridity re
sults.—American Miller.
■low Plants Eat, 7.! . "'-’id Sleep.
In a work ontitled “ Movements of
Hants,” Mr. Charles Darwin gives the
results of his latest investigations into
tlie question of botanic lifo. These re
seorches are of a nature which cannot
fail to excite general interest, while tlioy
xvill be “ like an eagle in a dove-cot ” to
those who cling to tlie venerable belief
in a distinct line of demarcation between
the animal and vegetable kingdoms.
Speaking from careful experiment, the
author tolls us how plants exhibit many
of the characteristics of animal nature.
They sleep, they move, they are very
sensitive, they have appetites, they are
carnivorous, and they have radicles
which by their sensibility and their ef
fect upon other parts of the plant act a
part similar to to that of brain in lower
unimals. We are told that a leaf of a
cnrnix’oroiis plant which lias been mo
tionless for hours xvill instantly curve on
being touched in a most delicate man
ner with a piece of raw lioof. In observ
ing tlie sleeping habits of certain plants,
Mr. Darwin, by ,au ingenious contriv
ance, held down fie leaves which other
wise would havo returjd to a vertical
or sleeping position at ®ght Tiio re
sult was that those leaxres were frost
bitten in a temperature xvhich had no,
such effect on tiio loaves that were al-;
lowed freedom to sleep. Mr. Darxviffx
thence concludes that the sleeping of ,
the plant is to it n “ question of life and
death,” tlie vortical position of tlia
loaves at night protecting it from inju
rious effects of radiation and cold. Not
less instructive and suggestive are the
researches into the effects of light upon
certain forms of vegetation. Instances
are given of tho wonderful sensitiveness
of some plants to light. The seedlings
of the Phaearis canarieixsis, for exam
ple, are said to have a power of detect
ing differences in light xvliieh are inap
preciable by tlie human eye, while they
sympathetically turn to tho minutest
point of light. Nor is the constant mo
tion of plants confined to any special
state of germination, for we learn that
from year to year since the treo first be
gan to rise through the ground the tip
of each rootlet endeavors to sweep small
ellipses or circles, as far as the surround
ing earth permits. AH this would seem
to show that when wo speak of flowers
“peeping,”” smiling, and “ drinkiug
doxv,” we express something more than
a mere poetical metaphor.
An Ungallant Translator.
In a review of Professor Blackio’a
translation of Paust the Saturday He.
view says: .
“ Will it be believed that the closing
words — .
Da* Unb chreibliche
Hier Ist e* get nan:
Daft Ewig-Woiblicn*
Zoiht un hin*n—
/ire presented by him to tho English
reader thus:
Beauty immortal m
The rapt spirit nail*, 4
Where the eternally p
Female prevail*.
Of course translation is baffled here; but
only total want of sympathy could ena
ble a scholar of Professor Blackie's abil
ity to turn out such a carricaturo, oven
by way of incidental illustration, Bay
ard Taylor’s —
Tbe Indescribable,
Here it 1* done;
The Woman-Soul leadeth ua
Upward and on!—
Is at least in the right direction toward
the movement and spirit of tho original.
And it is just the finer spirit and move
ment that, even xvhere he win sympathy
with his author, Professor Blackie doi
not always preserve/’
“ CFenti.kmen of the jury,” said an Irish
barrister, “it will be for you to say
whether this defendant shall be allowed
to come into court with unblushing foot
steps, with the cloak of hypocrisy in his
mouth, and draw three bullocks ont ot
my client’s pocket with impunity. ”
—On thiTbill of fare in a restaurant
of Kie Janeiro is a dish called “Arista, ’?
■lt is Intended for Irish stew,