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, m ;■ . , y$: HI T - - ~' . '■:m ,. -i ' ■ - m 485 v/ J: I ■ • H - ■ . GE03GI ‘ V*- H m m pig .11 & -» - si ** ' ' Q „.• • ..■: £ Martin, j ®<Mtor s arn« Proprietors. UTM SEEKERS. youth is poshing upward still! la the load lighter from the toil of ages ? Does it get near the summit of the hill ? And will ye toil on ever, oh, ye sages ? When to the top the giant mass is ta’en. Will it faU back and crush you? nay to know Perchance were worse than this sad work t and pain. Pash on! Push on! Oh, mortals onward l?o! Immortal love is watching o’er each pang— Though ye are blind—from life’s ob¬ scurity— When on the verge the quivering mass doth hang. Lore will appear and your poor hearts be free! ■ What do we know—if’tig not love is near? What hope have we—but that love will awake The sullen surges of life’s ocean drear, A glorious sunrise ? Break, oh, morning, break! WASHINGTON AND TELL. inr HABBIET B. WATERMAN. Louis Gran ton was the son of a Swiss watchmaker who, with his family, had lived for a year in America, which coun¬ try Mr. Gran ton liked, because he was paid much more for his work than at home. Granton was very homesick Wfcfit of the time, and Louis did not like Jnerica at alL To begin with, it was Provoking to be obliged to speak broken when be could talk faster than ®ny of the boys, only they were too 6tupid to know French, which was not clumsy as English, and was, besides his native language. Then, too, the boys called him \ “Polesky,” which made him very mad. ■ colony of Poles lived in poor little tents near the river. From the sound of 1 ‘sky,” which ends many of their words, the boys had contrived this nickname, which it was the oustom of the school apply to any foreigner. But Louis had objected to It more fa riously than any of the others, and, in consequence, the name had staved his. after he had a great many times ex¬ plained the immense superiority of the Swiss over all the other people of the earth, it was very provoking to have them continue to call him “Polesky,” simply for the sake of teasing him. At the end of the year he had quite mastered the language, which at first seemed so difficult; but with the boys he was still at enmity, and, therefore, still wretched and unhappy. At noon of February 22d the boys ol the Madison school were assembled on the playground'in solemn conclave. They wei;e just out of school; for the Board of Managers had broken the laws of the United States, at least so John Drew, whose father was a lawyer, de¬ clared; they had only allowed the after¬ noon of Washington’s Birthday for s holiday. The boys hod seriously thought ol playing truant in a body; and nothing but the assurance of John Drew, who seemed to have inherited a great deal of law, that they would lose the whole of the next Saturday, which was not s a national holiday, had prevented. As they talked, Louis Granton joined them. “For your great Washington,” he said, scornfully, “a half-holiday suffices. He is worth but as little. In Switzer land we have so many great men that we have whole holidays all the time.” “You better mention Switzerland in the same day with America!” said Archie Emerson, whom the boys called the “Speaking Trumpet,” because he was always ready first witii a remark. Louis looked quite like a prize-fighter, as he jammed his cap a little tighter on his head, End said: “America in the same day with Switzerland! I think not * indeed.” “^Switzerland in the same day with America, I said,” responded Archie. “Switzerland wonld be hardly big enough to piece out a State with over here. We wouldn’t take the whole country as a gift” about itl” said "Yon know nothing Louis, still more angrily. “You have no Alps, no waterfalls, no ohamois. Your country has nothing but bigness.” “Yes, we have,” asserted "The Trum¬ pet,” "the highest mountains and big¬ gest waterfalls; and just because the country around here happens to be rather flat, you think it all is. You don’tknow.” “I have seen Switzerland, and I have seen America,” said Lonis, with a very grand air. “You have not seen Switzer¬ land at all; then you cannot talk of it. The people there are braver than any others, of coarse. I have heard it told many times, and you will find it in the books written, how all the world once fought age inst the Swiss, and tried to conquer thorn; but the Swiss killed them ail, except those that ran away.” SPRING PLACE. GEOR V 1 A. THURSDAY. APRIL 9. 1885. “Sot the Americans,” said Archie. ‘Nobody ever beat the Americans.” “No, not the Amerioahs,” repeated Louis, in a scornful tone. “There were no Americans big enough to pay us for the trouble. The Swiss do not fight babies. Whom have you like William Tell ? Who in America can use a bow like that, to shoot the apple from the head of his son? Who,” getting more excited, “who that could stem a boat on Lake Geneva,in.sBohfi**««rie,‘Wid then dare to jump ashore—who—Ah i there are none in America,” “Now you just take that baokl” screamed “The Trumpet,” whose rage was also rising. “You don’t know what you’re talking about. I guess you nevei heard about Washington crossing the Delaware, in a little bit of a boat, with bis whole army, when it was just full ol floating ice, where your old Tell darsn’t stir, and cold as anything, lots eolder’n Switzerland ever is; and standing up every step of the way, with his hat off.” In his haste Archie was drawing his facts from the engraving of Washington crossing the Delaware, which he had seen at home, rather than from the pages of history. However, as Louis prided himself upon his ignorance of all American heroes and heroisms, he was not prepared to deny one statement more than another. At this instant John Drew spoke: “There’s Professor Wilson motioning us out of the yard, boys,” he said. “I’ll tell you what,” and heturned to Louis: “We’re going to skate down to Brandon Point this afternoon, and you can come, too; and down there you fellows can fight it out. If you lick we’ll give three cheers for William Tell, and, if the ‘Trumpet’ does, we’ll cheer for Gsrrge Washington; only you fellows must cheer, too, whichever wsy it is; and we'll see fair play.” This arrangement being satisfactory, tho boys separated. Louis walked horns feeling sure that William Toll's reputa¬ tion would lose nothing in his hands. He attacked his dinner as savagely as he meant to attaok George Washington, and subdued it as thoroughly as be hoped to subdue him. He did not mention his intention to liis mother; for, being a woman, she had queer prejudices against fights; but he kissed her good-by with a tragical air which nearly told the whole story. He said only that he was going on the river to skate, and she, woman-like again, kissed htm and said: “Ah t that river is so wide and big; I do not love it; but have a good time with the rest, ray child," for Louis had been too proud ever to speak at home of his school troubles, and, of course, she never im* agined him as other than a favorite. When he reached the river bank he found the boys all ready to start, and he quiokly put on hia skates and joined l^ em< As was fitting, the representatives of the Swiss and American heroes led the way, Louis a little ahead of Archie. They had passed the fine houses, and were just opposite the miserable Polish quarter, when Louis skated into a large air hole, and immediately after him Archie Emeraon. The Upper Mississippi is frozen dur¬ ing five months of most years, and the ice is so strong that the river becomes a regular highway for teams and bur¬ dens of the heaviest kind. But, how¬ ever cold th8 weather may be, and how¬ ever clear and thick the ice may be, there is at all times danger from air holes as they are oalled—sometimes real holes in the ice, but more frequently places which only skim over with a thin covering of ice which never hardens. The air hole into which these boys plunged, however, was due to the holes whioh the neighboring Foies had cut to serve as wells. There were so many of these that the ice between was much weakened, so much so that when Louis skated upon it, it was very much as if he had skated into open water. Alas! The swift-running mountain stream in his Swiss home, for whose sake he so despised the Blnggmhness of American rivers, had been no swimming sohool, and Louis in the water bad been perfectly helpless but for Archie, who, though not far enough behind to keep himself from going in, had seen in the instant before that the hole extended nearly to the shore. Otherwise the situ¬ ation wonld have been quite hopeless, for, once under the strong ioe on the other side, the beet swimmer oonld not escape. The other boys oonld only look on in horrified silence; for to approach the thin ioe meant only danger for them¬ selves, and added danger for the two. How he did it, Archie never knew; but he seized Louis, and made away with him to the shallow water, from which the two freezing, trembling champions were taken, more dead than alive. An old woman ( in the nearest cabin called to them to come in by the fire, and the whole shating party crowded into the little room. Loais eat a little apart from the others, though near the fire. He and Archie looked very absurd; for the woman had insisted on olothing theta in some of her hnsband’s garments, while their own were drying, But Louis’s face, even above the funny coat was very sober. At last he said, slowly, “Three cheers for George Washington f It was much to cross the Delaware; as you say, your* rivers are very big.” “Three cheers for William Tell and and the Swiss 1” yelled the boys, in re Louis oould hardly believe that he heard rightly. When they told the old woman of their dispute she straightened her form until it wits tall and imposing, and her eyes flashed until she was no longer old, only terrible, as she said: “You boys, yon do not know what courage is. It is my people who have taught the world that. “To fight and keep your high snow mountains, as did your little Swiss peo¬ ple, that is well; and to fight for your bigland, and win it, as you Americans did, that too, is well; bat to fight and lose, and still to fight for the right be¬ cause it is right, though never to be won, so my Poles have dons, and they are brave.” And the boys looking at each other, did not deny her. On the way home Louis said: “Boys, you can call me ‘Polesky’ every day in the week, if you like”; but “The Trumpet” said: “No, I shall call you William Tell” ; and the rest joined in with his, “Three cheers for Billy Tell I Hurrah 1 Hurrah 1 Hurrah 1” by which name they call him to this day. El Hahdi’s French Lieutenant. Oliver Fain, the Frenchman now in the Mahdi’s camp, and to whose coun¬ sels muoh of the falBe prophet’s reoent success is credited, is a brilliant Bo¬ hemian. He is about forty-five years old, was born in or new: Paris and was educated in the schools of tb^ -thy. .ft. 1869-70 he was pi-omujesi m that Oow mnne and the attempts to overthrow Napoleon III, writing for the papers Kid taking part in the street-fighting, He was tall, dashing and handsome, During the Franoo-Prussian war he was a captain in the French army and at the same time newspaper correspondent, Later, in 1873, Marshal MaoMahon sent him with Rochefort, editor of La Lan tome, and other Communists, to the penal oolony at) New Caledonia. He was one of the little band that escaped from there in 1875 and came to this country. Then he went to London and Geneva, following a journalist’s career until the breaking out of the Russo Turkish war. Pain was among the first correspondents on the ground, but soon began to take an active part on behalf of the latter country, both by counsel and arms. He was taken prisoner by the Russians, suspected of being a spy, and condemned to be shot; but there being great doubt that he was one and the fact that he was a Frenchman saved him. After a severe imprisonment he returned to Paris on the granting of a general amnesty to the Communists and wrote for several of the leading news¬ papers, On the breaking out of the war in Egypt he was sent there as a corre¬ spondent at his own request, as he seemed never to be so happy as when in the midst of turmoil and excitement. While there he changed his mission and formed the brilliant idea of penetrating to the camp of the Mahdi, which he alone succeeded in doing of all the cor¬ respondents sent to Egypt, and this in the face of almost insnrmonntable ob¬ stacles and in spite of hardships and terrors which wonld have appalled the heart of any other man but Pain.— Boston Pilot. Two Heroes. The Portland (Ore.) Nexus says: There are some interesting side points relative to Funk’s poor, starving babies, who wandered away in the hills of Mebama Sunday morning. They were not found till Monday noon. A shepherd dog which was a household favorite followed and guarded them during the long, dark hours when the rain came unoeas ingly down. No doubt the faithful crea¬ ture protected them from the many wild animals in the deep woods. But the heroic act of the older child, whioh the wires failed to correctly record, remains to be added. He took his own little coat from his shivering body and put it on his weaker bfother, saving him from freezing, while he endured, in a cotton shirt, hours after hours, the keen blasts of that mountain storm. Think of this, from a child bnt six years old, and let any who can say he is not as muoh of a hero as any of the full-grown Spartans of old of whom the classics so eloquently tell, ' " ” ' • ■- ' Ti SILYER QUESTION. HOW THE members of congress STAND CONCERNING IT. The Vote Analyzed and the Featured It *ir Brought to I.laht. - I IFrom the New York Tribune.] In the vote of the House on the silver question some curious features are found. Counting the pairs announced, 285 taembere were recorded, 125 for Mr, Randall's motion, and 159 against it, while the Speaker did not vote and 40 meittbers were absent, 20 of whom were elected by Repnblican and 20 by Demo¬ cratic votes. Though no pairs were specially announced for those, probably most of them were paired on political questions, but not on the silver bill. Two of the Republican absentees were from'Massachusetts and 3 from Ohio, with 6 others from the West and 7 from tiw Sonin, Tho absence of Mr. Dor aheimer of New York State, Curtin of Pennsylvania, Hurd, Jordan and Paige of Ohio, and Morrison and two other members from Illinois, was noticed among the Democrats. Reckoning Maryland and Delaware with the Eastern States, their vote was thus divided: For Mr. Randall’s motion, 48 Republicans, 38 Democrats and Mr. Lyman; total, 87. Against It, 2 Re¬ publicans and 8 Demoorats, includ¬ ing M t. Bayard’s representative from Delaware; total, 5. The other Southern States, including Missouri, voted as fol¬ lows: For the motion, 4 Republicans and 10 Democrats; total, 14. Against it, 7 Republicans and 77 Demoorats ; total, 84. The vote of the Solid South was thus oast almost unitedly against Mr. Cleveland’s first expressed - desire." In this computation, Messrs. York and Ochiltree, who were elected mainly 6y Republican votes, are reckoned with the Republicans. Tlia Western vote shows ourions streaks. The entire vote of the Paoifio Stated 7 Democrats and 1 Republican, was recorded for the coinage of silver and agr-imst the motion. Kansas/ Ne brwfefc and. Colorado voted solid iy against the motion, and 6 out of the 7 Republicans of Iowa, with 3 Demoorats, voted the same way. Bat in the north¬ ernmost States a different division pre¬ vailed; In Miohigan 3 Republicans voted for the motion, and only 1 voted with 6 Demoorats against it; in Minnesota 3 Republicans voted for the motion and only one against it. But, cu¬ riously enough, in Wisconsin Demo¬ cratic confidence in Mr. Cleveland seems to have been developed, possibly by Cabinet hopes, for 5 Democrats from that State voted for the motion and only 1 against it, while 2 out of 3 Republi¬ cans voted against it. In Ohio, 10 out 12 Demoorats voted against the motion, ail the Democrat! of Indiana and all bat one of the Democrats of Illinois. Thus the vote cf the West, including the Pa¬ cific States, stood as follows: For the motion—15 Republicans and 9 Demo¬ crats; total, 24. Against it—28 Repub¬ licans and 42 Derqpcrats; total, 70. Thus with the immense preponderance of sil¬ ver worshiping Democrats at the South the majority against the motion was 34, Speaker Carlisle not voting. It will interest many to know that of 122 Demoorats who were paired or voted against Mr. Randall’s motion, 78 have been re-elected, and 44 have not. But of the 58 Democrats who voted, or were paired for the motion, only 20 have been re-elected, and 38 were not. The Re¬ publicans who have been re-elegted were more equally divided, 38 for the motion and 24 against it, while 11 Republicans and 12 Demoorats (including Mr. Carlisle) who were absent without de¬ clared pairs were re-elected. Of the members of the next House, therefore, 23 did not vote, 102 voted against Mr. Randall’s motion, and only 58 voted for it. But some of the Republicans who voted against Mr. Randall’s motion would have supported a direct and straightforward proposition to suspend the coinage. The Rev. Elijah Kellogg, the distin¬ guished author and preacher, spent, says the Boston Courier, his early life on Harpawell Island in Casco Bay, where he still has a beautiful summer residence. Instead of spending his time in play with his companions when a boy, he devoted every leisure moment to the somewhat arduous task of drag¬ ging a heavy ox chain all over the island to hear its musical rattle on the stones and its soft “chink” in the grass. * It is said that owing to the wat among druggists and patent medicine men, tho people will soon get pills at their own value. There are pills and pills; aad when people get a certain brand at theiz cwm value, a man may go to the drug store with ten cents and a market basket and return home laden down | with the pellets .—Norristown Fferalc VOL. V. New Series. No. 9. THE FACE OF THE GLOBE. How Much of It la Water and Hew Mach l,aod—Interesting Notes. It i« estimated that the proportion ol the surface of the globe covered by water is to the land surface as 278 to 100, and that the average height of land or continents over the world above sea-level is somewhat less than 1,000 feet. The great mountain chains by which the continents are more or less traversed form mere narrow ridges, which rise in no case more than 29,000 feet, or about miles above sea-level, and add but comparatively little to the mass of ground above the sea-level. On the other hand the contour lines of the oceanio basin tells a very different tale of the great submarine depressions. Soundings recently made in the North Pacific Ocean have shown that its mean depth » not less than 15,000 feet, and that of the Sonth Pacific about 12,000 feet, while the mean depth of the North Atlantic is found to be 14,000 feet, and of the South Atiantio 13,000 feet. It is only in high northern latitudes, in the North Atlantic and North Paoifio, that the soundings give evidence of shallow¬ er seas—of a mean depth of abont 8,000 feet. Thus it is seen how small the mass of land projecting above the sea-level is, compared to the mass of water filling the depressions below that level. Taking the average depth of the seas and ocean at 10,000 feet, and the height of the land at 1,000 feet, the mass of the laud above water compared to the mass of waters filling the ocean troughs is nearly in the proportion of 1 to 30. It is ourions that the deepest sound¬ ing recorded in the Northwest Paoifio registered a depth of about five miles and a quarter—a depth which closely corresponds with the elevation above sea level of the loftiest known point of ldnd, namely, the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, which is 29,000 feet, or very nearly five mites and a quarteh We must remember, however, that the one measurement is that of a mere the depth of an extended trough. We may thus realize how irregular are the contour lines of the globe, and how deep the depressions and abysses concealed from our view by seas and oceans. Oould all these waters be drained off from the surface, our earth would present the aspect of a solid sphere, everywhere wrinkled and deep¬ ly pitted. Nevertheless, its actual di¬ mensions are so great that mountains five miles high and ocean troughs five miles deep bear no greater relation to the bulk of the globe than the irregu¬ larities on the skin of an orange. A Parisian Newspaper. When the late M. Villemessant, the proprietor of the Paris Figaro, died he left the paper to the three men who had dono the most to aid him. But there were many old contributors on the pa¬ per-men with well-known names, who made an outcry at this division of the property. They insisted that they ought to have been consulted, and they threatened to found an opposition Figaro. This alarmed the three prin¬ cipals, and they made a proposition to the effect that they themselves should take each $35,000 out of the concern yearly, and that the other men should each have a salary of $7,500 for the work they were to do, and at the end of the year draw a like sum otit of the profits, thus insuring them $15,000 a year each. Yet these men do not write an average of more than half a column a day each—if, indeed that mnch, so that they have a very easy time of it. It is one of the conditions that when any one of them dies his share goes to the others, so that the last survivor wifi have an enormous income. A Single Term. —Representative Mil¬ lard, of New York, said to a Washington correspondent that he had no doubt that in time a constitutional amendment would be adopted limiting the Presi¬ dential term. He is not very hopeful that a resolution offered by him on the 12fch inst. will pass at this session. This resolution proposes au amend¬ ment to the constitution whioh provides (hat the President shall hold his office for six years, that he shall not be re eligible, aad that during the residue of his life, after the expiration of his • •fHml term, ha shall rooaive $10,000 ,M>r year as a pension. £s-8enator Bcokalbw, of Pennsyl¬ vania, relates that he once heard the famous Governor Ritner calling over the roll of prothonotaries by eounties in alphabetical order. He had gone through the A’s and was among the B’s yhea an impatient man from Centre county wanted to know how long he would have to wait. * ‘Zen ter gounty ?” replied the governor; “vy vay down et de ent of de list, of gourse, mit de zets.” STRAY BITS OF HUMOR FOUND IN THE COLUMNS OF OUB EXCHANGES. The Fireman Rodeoed — On the Roller *kaie»-Pat an Reeord-He woo IwU« nnnt - Found hid Hoes. Ele. 'kAiA- " A FIREMAN WHO RESIGNED. “What caused you to leave the fire department, Jimt” “Oh, I got sick of it” “What was the trouble?” “Well, I’ll tell you. I worked four yean to get op, and then I got right oil again. It wasn’t what I thought it was. I’d watohed the boys working lots of times, and I’d been around visiting them at their houses. I kinder thought I’d like it. When I got my appointment I felt that I was fixed for life. The sec¬ ond night after that an alarm came in for ns abont eleven o’clock, and out we went When we got to the fire, which was in the cellar, the captain made xae go down and hold a lantern. The ther¬ mometer was abont twenty-five below zero, and just as I started to go up the back stairs a stream hit me in the month and knocked me down so quick that I couldn’t tell what struck me. I lay there senseless with tire hose playing on me for a little while—long enough for me to freeze fast, any way, and when I tried to get up I couldn’t. I was all covered with icicles, and the whiskers of me were frozen so stiff that I couldn’t get my mouth open to yell. I began to think I was done for, when one of tho boys stumbled over me, and getting a lantern, found out who I was. They had to chop me out with axes, and when I walked, off I looked like a snow man, That sickened me of the fire department, and Iresigued the next day Chicago Herald. FARES OF THE FAIR. When two lady friends enter a street XWSK / J - o{ eaol other . 8 oredit im gemsrosity . ’ rally. “Now a for I've*got ai>pearanc e8 geBe mind, Wl tho change,”says om as they the car. “Have you? Well, so have I. I can pay the fare, , a answers the other. By this time the* ladies are seated, and both begin to fumble leisurely in their satchels for . that ohange. “Now, I’ll pay,” exclaims one, and she fishes ont a dollar bill and looks helplessly around for some man to . pass it up. “I want change, anyhow.” The money is passed up to the box, and, in the meantime the other lady quietly deposits two nickels in the box. “Oh, yon mean thing!” cries the street-oar guest. "Never mind, I’ll pay ooming home,” and then they fall to talking of some absent one .—New Orleans Pie oyune. 0!f THZ SKlTJES. I want to be a skater, And with the skaters glide, A pair of rolleVs on my feet, A sweet girl by mj^side. He tried to be a skater, And bravely he struck out . Tbe doctor says: "In three months Again he’ll be about.” ’ —Rorristoum Herald. QUAIttTIES OF SOUND. Mrs. Minks—The nurse seems to have trouble with tbe baby to-night. He is crying yet. Mr. Minks—Yes, bless his little heort I wonder what ails him ? Mrs. Minks—Oh! nothing serious. How sweetly shrill his voice is! So clear and musical. Mr. Minks—Yes I—but hark! Those sounds do not corns from our nursery. They come through ihe walls of the next house. Mrs. Minks—Mercy 1 So they do. Why cau’t people have sense enough to give their squalling brats paregoric or something, instead of letting them yell like soreeoh owls .—Philadelphia Call. HE IS PBEFARBD, “I understand your son is about- to enter college, Mr, Derrick 1” “Yes, oh, yes; Arthur will take a col¬ legiate course.” “Is he prepared ?” “Well, I should remark 1 He’s been a captain of his home club for over a year, and they tell me that he’s as good a foot-ball kicker nearly os a profes¬ sional. He may be a little backward in rowing and climbing greased poles, but be’U soon pick up, you know.’’— Pitt* burg Chronicle. ANGTHUB ONE POT ON RECORD. When I was at Washington P said to tho engineer of the little bnilding at the foot of the Monument: “You have a mighty tall ohimney for such a small factory. ” jM He silently chalked a mark on board wall behind him. “What’s “You that the 176th for f I inquired. who iH Mg are person that Free remark,” Press. was his answer. — DwEllf