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OLD SERIES-VOL. VII-NO. 4.
THE SUGAR MAPLES.
Along the vale and o'er hill
I&ee a bine and smoky haze;
The afternoons are warm and still,
And presage longer, warmer days.
The blue jay, on the sumach' bough.
Is screaming with discordant note;
The phcebe-bird arouses now
The longing heart with trembling throat.
The hills are peeping through the snow,
And bti^ed fences greet the view;
On bare, brown knolls, squaw-berries glow,
Or tiny snow-flowers flaunt in bine.
The fresh new earth now scents the gale
As, rising from her sepulchre,
She casts aside her snowy veil
And greets her train, who wait for her.
Now stands the drowsy team asleep
Before the buoket-laden sleigh.
While, sinks the cruel steel full deep
To draw the crystal sap away j
The steady drip from wooden lip
Makes music in the soft spring air,
And soon the laden buckets tip
And waste the nectar, rich and rare.
Anon the pungent smoke-wreaths rise
Around the kettle's tossing surge ;
Hale youths attend the saoriflce,
And high the flames with faggots urge.
Ah 1 transmutation wondrous sweet!
That steals the blood of bare, brown trees,
And in the crackling flames and heat
Has power those.golden grains to seize l
O vanished youth ! O’balmy days!
The odors rise of early flowers.
I see again through smoky haze
The picture of those fleeting hours;
I hear again the wild hallo
Of boys long silent in the tomb ;
The fitful camp-fire brings to view
©lad faces from the outer gloom.
They,tell of an eternal spring
Forever bright, with springing flowers.
Where morning is an endless ring,
Existence knows not passing hours*
It may be that the flames of strife
Have stored for us some sweets sway;
Or, frozen drifts of earthly life
May yield for us a brighter day.
How Douglass Cured His Wife.
My young friend, Cora Lee, was a gay,
dashing girl, loud of dress, and looking al
ways as if, to use a common saying, just
out of a band-box. *Cora was a be(Je, of
course, and had many admirers. Among
the number was a young man named Ed
ward Douglass, who was the very “pink”
of neatness in all matters pertaining to
dress, and exceedingly particular in his
observance of the little proprieties of life.
I saw from the first that if Douglass pres
sed his suit, Cora’s heart would be an easy
conquest; and so it proved.
“How; admirably they are fitted for each
other I” I remarked to my wife on the night
of the wedding. “Their tastes are similar,
and their habits so much alike, that no vio
lence will be done to the feelings of either
in the more intimate associations that mar
riage brings. Both are neat in person and
drderly by instincts, and both have good
principles.”
“From all present appearances, the
match will be a good one,” replied my
husband.
“There was, I thought, something like
reservation in his tone.
“Do you really think so?” I said, a little
ironically; for Mr. Smith’s approval of the
marriage was hardly warm enough to suit
my fancy.
“Oh! certainly. Why not?” he replied.
I felt a little fretted at my husband’s
mode of speaking, but made no further
remark on the subject. He is never very
enthusiastic'nor sanguine! and did not
mean, in this instance, to doubt the fitness
of the parties for happiness in the married
state, as I half imagined. For myself, I
warmly approved my friend’s choice, and
called her husband a lucky fellow to secure
for his companion through life a woman so
admirably fitted to make one like him happy.
But a visit which I paid Cora one day,
about six weeks after the honeymoon had
expired, lessened my enthusiasm on the
subject, and awoke some unpleasant doubts.
It happened that I called soon after break
fast. Cora met me in the parlor, looking
like a very fright. She wore a soiled and
rumpled morning wrapper, her hair was in
papers, and she had on dirty stockings
and a pair of old slippers down at the
heels.
•THess me, Cora!” I said, “what is the
matter? Have y*u been ill?”
“No. Why do you ask? Is my disha
bille on the extreme ?”
“Candidly, I think it is, Cora,” was my
frank answer.
“Oh! well, no matter,” she carelessly
replied, “my fortune’s made.”
“I don’t clearly understand you,’’ I said.
“I’m married, you know.”
“Yes I am aware of that fact.”
“No need of being so particular in dress
now; for didn’t I just say, ’ replied Cora,
“that my fortune’s made ?
I’ve-got a husband.”
Beneath an air of jesting was apparant
and real earnestness of my friend.
“You dressed with a careful regard and
neatness in order to win Edward’s love,”
said I.
“Certainly I did.”
“And should you not do the same in
order to retain it?”
“Why, Mrs. Smith, do you think my
husband’s affection goes no deeper than my
dress ? I. shouldj be very sorry indeed to
think that. He loves me for myself.”
“No doubt of that in th,e woaMj^Jora;
but rtMBPber that we cannot see what is
in your mind, except by what you do or
say. If he admires vour dress, it is not
from any abstract appreciation of it, but
because the taste manifests itself in what
you do; and depend upon it, he will find
it a very hard matter to approve and ad
mire your correct taste in dress, for in
stance, when you appear before him day
after day in your present unattractive at
tire. If you do not dress well for your
husband’s eves, for whose eyes, pray, do
you dress ? You are as neat when abroad
as you were bqfofe your marriage.”
“As to that, Mrs. Smith, common de
cency requires me to dress well when I go
out into company; to say nothing of the
pride one naturally feels in looking well.”
“And does not the same commcn decen
cy and naturally pride argue strongly in
favor of your dressing well at home and
for the eye of your husband whose appro
val and whose admiration must be dearer
to you than the approval and admiration of
the whole world?”
“But he doesn’t w r ant to see me rigged
out in silks and satin all the time. A pretty
bill my dressmaker would have against him
in that event! Edward has more sense
than that, I flatter myself;”
“Street or ball-room attire is one thing.
Cora, and becoming home apparel another.
We look for both in their places.”
Thus I argued with the thoughtless young
wife, but my words made no impression.
When abroad, she dressed with exquisite
taste,' and was lovely to look upon ; but at
home she was careless and slovenly, and
made it almost impossible for those who
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saw her to believe that she was the brilliant
beauty they had met in company but a
short time before.
But even this did not last long. I no
ticed after a few months, that the habits of
home were not only confirming themselves,
but becoming apparent abroad. “Her for
tune was made,” and why should she not
waste time or employ her thoughts about
matters of personal appearance ?
The habits ©f Mr. Douglass on the con
trary did not change. He was as orderly
as before, and dressed with the same re
gard to neatness. He never appeared at
the breakfast table in the morning without
being shaved, nor did he lounge about in
the-evening in his shirt sleeves. The slo
venly habits into which Cora had fallen, an
noyed him senously, and still more so when
her carelessness about her appearance began
to manifest itself abroad as well as at borne.
When he hinted anything on the subject,
she did not hesitate to reply, in a jesting
manner, that “her fortune was made,” she
need not trouble herself any longer about
how she looked.
Douglass did not feel very much com
plimented, but as he had his share of good
sense, he saw that to assume a cold and
offended manner would do no good.
“If your fortune iS made, so is mine,”
he replied on one occasion, quite coolly and
indifferently. Next morning he made his
appearance at the breakfast table with a
beard of twenty-four hours’ growth.
-You haven’t shaved this morning,
dear,” said Cora, to whose eyes the dirty
looking face of her husband was particu
larly unpleasant. ”
“No,” he replied carelessly. “It is a
serious trouble to shave every day.”
“But you look much better with a clean
ly shaved face.”
“Looks are nothing—ease and comfort
everything,” paid Douglass.
“But common decency, Edward.”
“I see nothing indecent in a long beard,”
replied the husbaad.
Still Cora argued, but in vain. Her husj
band went off to liis business with his un
shaved face.
“I don’t know whether to shave or not,”
said Douglass, running over his rough face,
upon which was a beard of forty-eight
hours’ growth.
His wife had hastily thrown on a wrap
per, and with slip-shod feet and head like
a mop, was lounging in a rocking chair,
awaiting the breakfast bell.
“For mercy’s sake, Edward, don’t go
any longer with that shockingly dirty.face,”
spoke up Cora. “If you knew how dread
fully you looked!
ried it was necessary to be more particular
in these matters, but now it is of na conse
quence. ”
I turned toward Cora. Her face was
crimson. In a few moments she arose and
went quickly from the room. I followed
her, and Edward came after us pretty soon.
He found his wife in tears, and sobbing al
most hysterically.
“I’ve got a carriage at the door,” he
said to me aside, half laughing, half serious
—“So help her on with her things, and
we’ll retire in disorder.”
“But it’s too had of you, Mr. Douglass,”
replied I.
“Forgive me for making your house the
scene of this lesson,” he whispered. “It
had to be given, and I thought I could ven
ture to trespass upon your forbearance.”
“I’ll think about that,” said 1, in return.
In a few minutes Cora and her husband
retired, and in spite of the good breeding
and everything else, we all had a hearty
laugh over the matter on my return to the
parlor, where I explained the curious little
scene that had just occurred.
How Cora and her husband settled the
affair between themselves, I never inquired.
But one thing is certain, I never saw her
in a slovenly dress afterward, at home or
abroad. She was cured.
' odern Little Girl
She begins life by taking airings in a new-
fashioned baby-carriage, wrapped up in an
afghan, and propelled on her way by a
smart nurse maid, who takes this oppor
tunity of flirting with questionable ad
mirers, and making appointments for future
flirtations.
As the little girl progresses she copies
mamma, and the other ladies of her set.
She will want to wear a “pull back” by the
time she is four years old, and kid gloves at
six, certainly.
Her soft hair will be tortured with
“leads” and crimping pins by the time it
is grown long enough to wind around any
thing, and if it escapes the vile processes of
the curling iron, we may consider it a
lucky circumstance.
The modern little girl w ants to be a young
lady as soon as possible. She sighs for the
time when she can have a reception, and
wear a train, and carry' a fun, and have
hot-house bouquets sent to her by youthful
admirers.
She reads novels by gas-light, and hides
them under her pillow when older people
come in her vicinity. She lias her ideal
An Irish Yalunteer.
I done without some trick, and that I didn’t
" 7 j believe it. We had been cool and hadn’t
Perhaps the most daring deed that ever j kissed since the row. She replied that I was
won old England’s Legion of Honor was i insulting, and I answered that if her mother
that which was sucessfully performed by j said she could do “15—14,’’fair and square,
Kavanagh during the Indian mutiny. | ghe said what was not true, and that she
Lucknow was besieged, and its garrison said so. Fanny, thereat, said that she
was starving. Besides, the little band of never could have believed that I could so
devoted men, there were also women and; far forget myself. I replied to the effect
children cooped up in the residency, at the. that her mother had told a lie, and that per-
mercy of some 50,000 or 60,000 savage and haps it was not the first one.
relentless foes. Daily, nay hourly thel The next morning Fanny went to her
little garrison was growing weaker, and j mother’s and sent a note saying that until I
nearer were pressing the dusky Sepoys, un-! knew how to treat her and her mother with
til it became a matter of life and death to j respect she would not return, and she never
the heroic few that Sir Colin Campbell, f-will if I have to acknowledge first that her
who was known to be advancing to their Smother can do “15—14,” because she can’t,
relief, should at once be informed of their £ and that’s the end of it.
real state, and their utter inability to hold >
out much longer. A volunteer was called P
for, a man who would consent to be dis- i
guised of a Sepoy, and who would risk hiffj The proposed Nicaraguan Canal would
Inter-Oceanic Ship Canal*.
Between Life and Death.
Not loDg ago Louis Blanding, one of the
beat known mining experts on the coast,
passed through Nevada city on his way
from San Francisco to examine the Santa
Anita quartz-mine, which is situated near
Washington. Recently he returned, having
accomplished his object. His expienences
on the trip wereof an interesting nature,and
it is by mere chance that he was enabled to
live to relate them. After a tedious journey
through the snow, he reached the home of
one of the owners of the claim, and to
gether they forced their way for three
miles farther to the mine. Lightning
candles, they entered the mine, which has
been pushed toward the heart of the moun
tain a distance of 130 feet. Twenty-five
feet from the head of it they came to a
winze fifty-six feet deep. Over this winze
is a windlass. Mr. Blanding examined it
carefully, and, observing no weak spots in
its construction, had his companion let him
to the bottom. He inspected the ledge,
made measurements, secured a sack of spe
cimens, and, putting one foot in the bight
of the rope, shouted to the man above to
hoist away. After ascending thirty feet
he ceased to rise.
"What’s the matter?’’ he asked.
“Tlie windlass is broken,” was the re-
Exercise, to be beneficial in the highest
sense, should be for itself alone; it must Eot
be work in any sense; it should pursue its
own objects, and no other; it should be
made a pleasure and not a labor; it should
be utterly divorced from ulterior notions of
economizing expended powers; and this
should never more firmly be insisted on
than in the case of those abnormal creatures
who say they take no pleasure except in
useful work. The theory of scientific gym
nastics is direct to bring about qualities in
| the tissues. 1. Responsiveness: 2. Endur
ance; 3. .Strength. The first of these is dis
played in suppleness or agility. The mus
cle is well under the control of the will; it
responds at once, with promptness and to
the required extent. The quick blow of
the prize-fighter, the exactly graded and
lightning-like motion of the swordsman, are
examples.' - Not only is the nervous message
transmitted from the central organ to the
muscle with the utmost rapidity, but the
contraction of the muscle is just so much
and no more than the designed effect de
manded for its accomplishment. This is
what we mean by responsiveness. Endur
ance is the capacity of repetition of the
same act, the reiterated discharge of the
same amount of nerve force to produce
equal muscular contractions for an inde
finite period. It is the ‘‘staying power’
NEWS IN BRIEF.
—Slow rivers flow four miles per
hour.
life among the mutineers, in order to make I be 181 miles long; it is to haye 17 iiftlocks,
the best of this way to the advancing army, j *4 dams on the San Juan river, tfin-u short
The call was immediately responded to— j canals around the dam^, thg) diversion of
and two or three men expressed their wil-jffce mouth of the San C’artos^ivcj^and the
lingness to undertake the task. From thes#: Recessary blasting and dr«fg?ng,if> which
brave volunteers an Irishman named Ka- ($nust he added the lack of harbors on Lake
vanagh was chosen, who, to his other qua-JSTicafagiia, and both termiiffiof the canal,
lifications, added a knowledge of theFThis canal requires 82,000,990 cubic yards
enemy’s customs, and a thorough acquaint- U>f excavation and embankment, of which
ance with their language. The com-[21,000,000 cubic yards are rock on dry
mandant shook the brave man by the hand, [land and 990,000 cubic yard^are rock oii- Ply-
and frankly informed him of the dangerous j der water. The heaviest cost falls on the! “Fix it and hoist away. ”
nature of the task he had undertaken construction ,aPTTlift-locl^Tn addition to'. “I can't. The support at one side has i which the tissues must; acquire in order to
how it was more than probably that he lithe three-before named, one tide lock and broken down. One end of the drum has | do their best work. It also means the learn-
might meet his death in the attempt. BuW-artifictai harbors. Colonel George-M. Tot- dropped to the ground. My shoulder is ; n g an( j adoption of the line of least mus
the gallant follow persisted, and his skin ‘ ten’s estimate of the cost of this canal is under it, and if 1 stir the whole tiling will 1 cular force to perform a given task. This
was at once colored by the means of burneo^$l 59,044, 460. A. G. Menocal’s is $86,- gwe way, was the startling reply that i i s slowly acquired, but when once known
cork and other materials to the necessary; 000,000. Admiral Ammen’s is $52,577,718. , caille back. 1 allows of the performance of apparently
hue. He was then dressed in the regular I The time required for its construction is The candle at the top had been extin- j mos; onerous tasks with little effort
outfit as a Sepoy soldier. When night set estimated at ten years. Tnatimaarequired guished. Mr. Blanding recognized the - Strength is the third and, beyond a certain
in he started on his lonely and perilous for the transit of vessels through the canal urgency of having a cool head in such an ! moderate amount, least important end of
mission, amid the hearty “God-speeds” of is reckoned at 4J days. If a vessel’s daily emergency, and told the other party to take atheletic training,’although it is often put
the famishing garrison. In his breast he .-expenses are $600, then the value of time ; things easy. He dropped the candlestick, I fl ret . The utmrat strenrfh that it is possi-
carried dispatches for Sir Colin Campbell, 'in making the transit would amount to the 811 ck of specimens and the hammer to the i ble for any one to acquire is strictly limited
with the contents of which he had been sum of $2,250. The Colon-Panama Canal bottom of the winze. .Then, bracing one j by conditions of age. height weight and
made acquainted, in case of their loss, ( would be 42 miles long on a level with the of his shoulders against one side of the hole I structure beyond the individual's ^control-
We have not the space at our command to sea, and nearly on astraight line, admitting a “ (i bis feet against tire other, he worked ! nor is it at all necessary to develop the
j hero, six feet tail, with hair and eyes like
,- T - , . ! the raven’s wing, and a melancholy face,
“Looks are nothing,’ replied Edward, : caused by ;< carkiag care ,” and the want of
stroking lus beard. ; a good bed to sleep in, for your hero of that
“Why, what’s come over you all atj description is found prowling around old
ruins and beside marshy lakes, gazing at
the moon and bewailing bis lonely condi
tion.
trouble to
once ?’
‘Nothing; only it’s such
shave every day.”
“But you didn’t shave yesterday.”
“I know I am just as well off to-day as
if I had. So much saved at any rate. ”
But Cora urged the matter, and her
husband finally yielded, and mowed down
the luxuriant growth of beard.
“How much better you do look!” said
tile young wife. “Now, don’t go another
day without shaving.”
“But why should I take so much trouble
about my mere looks? I’m just as good
with a long beard as with a short one. It’s
a great deal of trouble to shave every day.
You can love me just as well; and why
need I care what others say or think?”
On the following morning Douglass
appeared, not only with a long beard,
but with a shirt front and collar that were
both soiled and crumpled.
“Why, Edward, how you do look?”
said Cora. “You have neither shaved nor
put on a clean shirt. ”
Edward stroked his face, and ran his
fingers along the edge of his collar, remark
ing indifferently, as he did so.
* ‘It is no matter; I look well enough.
This being so very particular in dress is
waste of time, and I am getting tired of it.”
Aud in this trim Douglass went off to
his business, much to the auno3'ance of his
■wife, who could not bear to see her husband
looking so slovenly.
give all the particulars of this remarkable vessels of the greatest tonnage and length wa J U P inch by inch, the owner taking
journey. He succeeded, however, after i to pass freely. This canal requires 45,000,- m the slack of the rope with one hand,
many narrow escapes and great hardships, 000 cubic yards of excavation, of which Ten feet were thus ascended. Then the
—during which he often had to pass night! there are 17,000,000 cubic yards of rock on 6 ^ es the winze grew so far apart that
after night in the enemy’s camp, and to, dry land and none under w r ater. There are this plan could no longer be pursued,
march shoulder to shoulder with them in \ good natural harbors at both terpiini. The : There was but one salvation—the remain-
the daytime; and when he left them, to; time required to make the transit of this mg ten feet must be climbed “hand over
swim across rivers, or to crawl through the i canal is estimated‘at two days % This route band.” Releasing his feet from the knot,
tangled thickets were the deadly tiger a3- j has the advantage of being short, on a level be put the idea into practice. Exhausted
serts his sway — in reaching Sir Colin with the sea, and near a railway, affording by his previous efforts in walking to the
Campbell’s camp; where, to finish his stir-; facilities of transport The cost of con-; m l° e and exploring it, it seemed to him he
ring adventures, he was fired at and nearly struction of this canal is estimated by! bad climbed a mile, and, stopping to rest,
shot by the British outposts. Kavanagh’sj Colonel George M. Totten at $102,869,516. ( found by the voice above there were yet
narrative was listened to with rapt attention i The Paris canal congress estimate is $80,-jb ve f eet t0 go* With another super-
by Sir Colin, who immediately gave orders 1 000,000, according to one newspaper re-j human effort, another start was made. ,. iuw<tui w il± iuw
for the army to advance as soon as possible j port, and $240,000,000 according to an- j After what seemed an age one of his hands j t 0 their uses sothat *a symmetrical" 1 ^devek
to the aid of the gallant defenders of the'other. The greater length of tfce Nicaragua struck the edge of the mouth. His body i opment may be secured." The blacksmith
Residency. How the latter were rescued j route, as compared with that of the Colon- j and limbs were suffering the agonies of j w Jtli his mighty right arm but who is
is a matter of history. Kavanagh lived! Panama, the cost of construction, cost of cramps and soreness and his brain began to ! ‘‘blown” in a foot race of a hundred yards
long enough to wear his cross, though lie i maintenance, time of execution, time of r ^ el - All soists of frightful phantoms filled anf i t be ballet dancer, with her legs like
lost his life shortly afterward in battle with j transit and cost of towage through the re- bis mind. With a final effort, he reached ■ Diana’s ana her arms like stems are famL
the same enemy, but the noble example ! spective canals, would be in the ratio of up, and found he could get the ends of |], ar examples of the absence of symmetry.
he left behind him was not lost on the j their respective lengths as 42 to 181. ! one hand’s fingers over the edge of a board | mm
brave hearts who eventually saved India Therefore, if it would cost $100 to tow a that ariswered for part of the covering, j
for England. vessel through the Col«n-Panama canal, it; With the despair of a man who faces a , . T,ie New Bu °y*
! would cost $430 to tow one through the ! fearful death and knows it, he let go the ; ~
The Gem puzzle ; Nicaragua one.' Again, if a vessel’s daily | ro P e altogether, and raising the other hand, ' The- ‘breeches buoy,' which lias been
expenses are $500, the amount of time con-! obtained a precarious hold, nis body I brought into conspicuous notice by its effi-
sumed in passing through the respective swung back and forth over the dark abyss i cieut 1 J se . m saving lives on the New Jersey
r „ 0 _ 0 The gem puzzle or the boss puzzle, or the j. canals bein g ln tllc ratio of 42 to ] 8L then it an instant, and as he felt that his handsdunng the recent terrffic storm, is of
When slie is called upon for any useful j b°^ nuisance, whichever it is, has played a cos t ? [ n the value of time, $2,250 in j were losing their hold, he cried, “Save me construction. A buoy resembling
The modern little girl wears corsets by
the time she is ten years old, and is particu
lar about the fit of her boots, and the way
her overskirt hangs.
She could uot think of helping her moth- j
er wash the dishes, or put the rooms to I
rights, because housework spoils the hands
and sweeping will lodge dust in the hair.
strength of muscles to their utmost phy
sical perfection. Quite the reverse, indeed,
is the case. To develop these three quali
ties of tissue wholly different methods of
physical culture are required. They do
not go hand in hand. The country lout
with big muscles that can throw an ox has,
as a rule, little endurance and less responsi
veness. All army surgeons know how soon
these big strong fellows will break down.
The circus clown, agile as a cat, is often
physically weak, and with no more endur
ance than an ordinary mortal. Moreover,
all three of these qualities are to be impart
ed to all muscles of the body, iu proportion
service, she is so tired, and she must get all
those French exercises written before to
morrow morning. But when some young
friends come for her to go and play cro
quet, she wakes to new life, and goes with
them, and plays till twelve o’clock at night
easily enough, and does not get tired—bless
you, no indeed! Playing croquet is such
delightful exercise.
She knows all the gossip of the town as
well as any of her elders, and she can talk
over the broken matches, and the divorce
suits, and the various other scandals with
the best of them.
She has a great deal to say about beaus,
and speaks of setting her cap for this one,
and that one, and designates all single
women over twenty as “cattish old maids”
and wonders what they are always poking
themselves into society for?
By way of accomplishments she plays on
the piano, and every luckless caller at the
house where she resides must have his or
Gradually the declension from neatness her ear3 bomi wit h waltzes and marches,
went on, until Edward was quite a match thumped out in tiine ad Ubitum aud witl [
tT ! sma11 re s ar(i to anything but noise.
nnt o ,o int “* ” ” *“ The modern little girl ignores all girls
younger than herself. They are children,
and she will not associate with them. She
does not care for juvenile parties, she pre
fers entertainments which are not “so aw
fully dull,” and where they dance some
thing beside those “horrid quadrilles,” aDd
where they euchre, or some game more in
teresting than dominoes.
She likes to stay at parties of that kind
until other folks go home, and not be hur
ried away by “ma” before eleven o’clock,
just like a little girl! and he will lie in bed
half the next day, and in two days be ready
for just such another event.
By the time she is twenty she is passe
and faded, and if she marries, she is totally
unfit for the duties of wife aud mother;
but she is fashionable, and quite up to the
times, and what cause have we old fogies
to say anything about her?
had not taken the hint, broad as it was.
In her own person she was as untidy as
ever.
About six months after their marriage
we invited a few friends to spend a social
evening with us, Cora and her husband
among the number. Cora came alone,
quite early, and said that her husband was
very much engaged, and could not come
until after tea.
My young friend had not taken much
pains with her attire. Indeed, her appear
ance mortified me, as it contrasted so de
cidedly with that of tho other ladies who
were present, and I could not help sug
gesting to her that she was wrong in being
so indifferent about her dress. But she
laughingly replied to me:
“You know my fortune’s made now,
Mrs. Smith. I can afford to be negligent
in these matters. It is a great waste of
time to dress so much.”
I tried to argue against this, but could
make no impression upon her.
About an hour after tea, while we were
all engaged in pleasant conversation, the
door of the parlor opened and in walked
Mr. Douglass. At the first glance I thought
1 must be mistaken. But no, it was Edward
himself. But what a figure he did cut.
His uncombed hair was standing up in stiff
spikes in a hundred different directions;
his face could not have felt the touch of a
razor for two or three days, and he was
guiltless of clean linen for the same length
of time. His vest was soiled, his boots
b^ked, and there was an^uqgjistakable
hole in one of his elbows.
“Why, Edward ?” exclaimed his wife,
with a look of mortification and distress,
as her husband came across the room with
a face in which no consciousness of the
figure he cut could be detected.
“Why, my dear fellow, what is the mat
ter?” said my husband, frankly,, for he
perceived that the ladies were beginning to
titter, and that the gentlemen were looking
each other and trying to repress
their risible tendencies, aud there
fore deemed it best to throw off all reserve
upon the subject.”
'‘The mattei ? Nothing’s the matter,
1 believe. Why do you ask ?”
Douglass looked grave.
“Well may he ask what is the matter,”
broke in Cora, energetically. “How
could you come here in such a pli^
“In such a plight ?” and Edwari
down at himself, felt his beard, an*
his fingers through his hair. “What
matter ? Is anything wrong ? ”
“You look as if you had just wak<
from a nap of a week with your clotEes
on, and came off without washing your
face or combing your hair,” said my hus
band.
“Oh 1 ” and Edward’s countenance bright
ened a little. Then he said, with much
gravity of manner,” I have been extremely
hurried of late, and only left business a few'
minutes ago. I hardly thought it worth
while to go home to dress ; I knew who we
■all were (and he glanced with a look not to
be mistaken toward his wife) I do not feel
called upon to give as much attention to
mere dress as formerly. Before I was mar-
Plaiu Talk to Yoons; Men.
Remember, young friend, that the world
is older than you are by several years; that
for thousands of years it has been full of
smarter and better young men than yourself;
that when they died the globe went whirl
ing on, and that not one man in a hundred
millions went to the funeral or even heard
of the death. Be as smart as you can of
course. Know as much as you can; shed
the light of your wisdom abroad, but don’t
try to dazzle or astonish anytody with it.
And don’t imagintf-a thing i ^simple be
cause you happen to think it is. Don’t be
too sorry for your father because he knows
so much less than you do. He used to
think he was as much smarter than his
father as you think you are smarter than
yours. The world has great need of young
men, but no greater need than the young
men have of the w r orld. Your clothes fit
better than your father’s fit him; they cost
more money; they are more stylish. He
used to be as straight and nimble as you
are. He, too, perhaps, thought his father
old-fashioned. Your mustache is neater,
the cut of your hair is better, and you are
prettier, oh, far prettier than “pa.” But,
young man, the old gentleman gets the big
gest salary, and his homely, scrambling sig
nature on the business end of a check will
more money out of a bank in five
les than you could get out with a ream
ir and a copper-plate signature in six
'iis. Young men are useful, and they
Irnamental, and we all love them, and
couldn’t engineer a picnic successfully
thout them. But they are no novelty.
They have been here before Every gen
eration has had a full supply ot them,, and
will have to the end of time, and each crop
will think themselves quite ahead of the
last, and will live to be called old fogies by
their sons. Go ahead. Have your day.
Your sons will, by and by, pity you for
your old, odd ways. Don’t be afraid your
merit will not be discovered. People all
over the world are hunting for you, and if
you are worth finding, they will find you.
A diamond is not so easily found as a
quartz pebble, but people search for it all
the more intently.
serious -part ia tho history of myTamily-and-i pas8ing through the Nicaragua canal’, while | quick, I’m goinq!”
ol my friends. In an unfortunate moment, i t k at G f passing through the Colon-Pana- I Just then his companion, who is a man
801116 j a ^° ( i y ia l eCilc tions be on it) 1 in- ma one wou ja be of the value of $500. A ; great strength; dropped the end of the
vested ten cents in the ‘ fifteen” puzzle. I i eve i cana i wl thout locks, short, straight, j drum, and, grasping his coat collar, drew
thought I had obtained my money s worth, j would have maD if 0 ld advantages over a ! him out on the floor of the tunnel,
but alas I had purchased ten nights wake- cana i following the winding of a narrow I The mine expert was utterly prostrated
rapid river with a score or more of locks, i as bis rescue was effected. He was car-
Tlie latter would be quite liable to need i rie d out of the tunnel, his clothes dripping
purchased ten nights 1
fulness and fifteen times more family feud
than I had reckoned on. I thought as I
carried the wretched little instrument of
torture home in my pocket how himpy I
was to have it, and instead of that, I have
not known what it is to be happy since its
shadow darkened my doors. On the first
night I worked hard over it until 1 a. m.,
although the hardest work I had was to
keep my wife and eldest daughter from
seizing it. 1 went to bed with a headache,
disappointed and mad, but determined. I j At the door leadin int0 the roora of the
awoke in the morning with a headache and Secretary of the Navy, Washington, there
found my daughter of fifteen at ‘‘fifteen | stands a ' old colorod ' man taU 8traight and
She was late at school that day, and I reach-; (li ificd , The ^1!^’ covering of his
ed my office two hours behind time It; veaera ble head is getting gray with age.
was the 10th of the month but I dated all I His name u LmdK f Mule For fifty Uro
my let ers loth and one of them after tUe | ye wi t h out intcrnussiGn, He has swung
old style, “13—Id—14.. * That evening I j a „ A Cn/lrnfnr ,.- 0 «
frequent repairs, thus, impeding traffic,
which would abandon such a precarious
channel for one offering greater facilities
for a safe, brief, and a cheaper one, where
impediments would not be likely to occur,
and further from a volcanic region.
A a Aged Doorkeeper
was forced to use paternal and marital auth
ority to keep the peaces, I may add. It
never occurred to us to buy another puzzle.
I worked all the evening hard, and got
pretty mad not because I couldn’t do it,
but because that busybody of a wife per
sisted in telling me how to move the blocks
—as if she knew any better than I did !
The next evening my mother-in-law
came to tea with us. She said she had done
the “fifteen” puzzle several times. “Not
with 11—10, “nor with 15—14.” “Oh,
yes.” she replied. “Well, there must have
been some of the other numbers out of se
quence, too.” I said. “No,” she still in
to and fro the door of the Secretary’s office,
and every one of the 365 days of the year,
rain or shine, finds him at his post. Lind
say Muse has known almost every officer
of the army and navy, from
admiral down to lieutenant and ensign,
who have had business with the navy de
partment for half a century. He was born
in Northumberland county, Virginia, in the
vear 1805. Being more fortunate than
some of his colored bretliren he made his
way to Washington when quite a young
man, and, having worked about the Navy
Department at different times, his fidelity
and industry made him many friends, who
liad him appointed assistant messenger un
in perspiration, and laid in the snow. When
partially recovered he was assisted to a
house three miles away. His whole frame
was so racked with the ph}*sical and men
tal torture that for several hours he had no
use of his limbs. Two days after
he returned to the mine, and with au iron
bar broke the windless into a thousand
the painted life-preservers carried by ves
sels for throwing to the rescue of “a man
overboard” is its principal feature. Stich-
ed to the inner circumference of this cir
cular buoy is a nondescript sack, with two
holes in the bottom, made as nearly as pos
sible like the trunk of a pair of breeches,
that will fit anybody. The buoy is swung
to a “running block” by four small ropes,
secured to it at opposite and spliced or plai
ted into a single line up to the block. When
flie life-line is stretched from the* shore to
the wreck the “breeches buoy” is hauled
back and forth by small lines attached.to
the block, one extending to the shore, the
other to the wreck. Get tine: into the buoy,
pieces, then fished the sack of specimens ! getting into a pair of breeches with
out of the winze. During a w'hole lifetime j a waistband, which reaches
of adventures in some of the deepest claims : near ly to the armpits, formed of a mam-
in the world, he says he has never been so j mo *k cork ring. W hen a person on the
near the door of death as he was at the ! )' rrec k gets into the breeches and the signal
Santa Anita, and he hopes never to pass : * s gi ven those on shore, the shore line of
through the like again. the running block is pulled in by man or
t , t ! horse. Away goes the buoy with its pas-
a Famous Breviary. | senger—now in mid air, now on the crest
1 of a great wave now throng the top of
Chief among treasures of art is the Brevi-1 f![ e surf > ‘ben into the arms of
ery cherished in the old palace of the Doqes i th « st f wa f rt ' 3 [ ures ’ * ho 9 ? ake the n '[ n
;eneral and at Venice as a veritable pearl of price, j out of his breeches and signal those on the
Placed under glass, it is open at one page, ! wreckt0 haul ^ C \ ? er
and every day theleaf is tamed, so that if ! S e [- 11 ^i 11 be ™dmtood that the -breech-
the art siudent has 110 weeks to spare for f, sbu0 > 15 us f when the vicdence of
sisted, “nothing but 15—14.” “And you cerSecretary Samuel L. Southard in 1828.
are sure you didn t lift one out?” continued | ™ oi
I, skeptically. “Of course I didn’t,” she
retorted with asperity; “do you think I
cheat and tell falsehoods?” Whereupon I
gulped down my sneaking suspicions on
that subject, and replied very blandly (be
cause she has money and my wife, Fannie,
has only one sister), “Certainly not, mother
dear! but then 1 thought perhaps it was
accidental.” “Well. Mr. C.,” she said ex
citedly, and rising from the table. “You
must take me for an idiot to think that I
could lift a block by accident.” “Can you
do the puzzle again?” I asked, moved by a
Satanic instinct to prove to her that she was
wrong and utterly unmindful of her limit
less bank account. “I don’t know,” she
replied curtiy, as she swept out of the room
with that dignity which is born alone of
the consciousness of possessing cmjds of U.
S. leistered 4s or other truck o^piimilar
natu^ Fanny came down very cross and
said, “Edward, 1 think you were extreme
ly rude.” “Possibly,” said I, “but can’t
do 15—14, I was.” Nothing more was
said, and Fanny went off to bed early. I
did not.
Truthfulness runs in my wife’s family
and consequently I was tortured with the
belief that my mother-in-law had done “15
—14,” and if she had done it, it was possi
ble, and if it was possible, I would do it;
so I worked until halfpast twelve. When
I went up stairs Fanny was awake, but an
awkward slience reigned supreme. That
was the first night for sixteen years that I
had failed to kiss her good night, except
when we were not together. The next
evening my daughter declared she could do
“11—10—” or 15—14,” so after tea we
went at it vi et armis, or in other words,
determined to vie without arms. She fool
ed around over those blocks for an hour un
til I got so nervous and so provoked with
the stupid way she moved them that I would
have slapped her had she only been young-
A circle of five or seven is the only
legitimate way to move, and instead of that
she travelled all over the board. Finally
she changed the location of the vacant
square and declared she had done it. I sent
her to bed.
The next day was Sunday, and really,
for me, a day of rest. Throughout the Lit
any, when the congregation murmured.
“Good Lord, deliver us,” I silently added,
“from the puzzle of fifteen.” feut our cli
max came on the following evening, when
my wife asserted, and insisted, that she
herself, with her mother, had done “15—
I said she hadn’t; that it couldn’t be
Since that time he has been on continual
duty, and has served under the following
Secretaries: John Branch, Levi Woodbury,
Dickerson, James K. Paulding, George E.
Badger, Abel P. Upshur, David Henshaw,
Thomas W. Gilmer, John Y. Mason,
George Bancroft, William Ballard Preston,
William A. Graham, John J. Kennedy,
James C. Dobbin, Isaac Toucey, Gideon
Wells, Adolph E. Borie, George M. Robe
son, and the present Secretary, Richard W.
Thompson, of Indiana. The colored man
has outlived all of these gentlemen, except
two, viz.: George Bancroft, the. eminent
historian, and George M. Kobeso^member
of Congress from New Jersey.^^At the
time this old servant first appeared on duty,
John Quincy Adams was President, but
Lindsay sticks whether the adodistration
ii Democratic, Republican, or aU^hing else.
He never voted in his life, andflhi firm ad
vocate of the civil service ruieST - Almost
every Secretary when leaving the office has
thanked this doorkeeper for his faithful
and intelligent performance of duty, and
has given him an autograph letter testify
ing to his high regard for him., Tjiese let
ters Mr. Muse keeps locked up from human
eyes, but brought forth one for the reporter
to look at. He says it is a fair sample of
them all. The following is a cojfy of the
letter:
Lindsay Muse: I cannot leave the De
partment without expressing to you my
high sense of your fidelity and good con
duct as messenger of the Navy Department.
Your manner in performing your duty has
always met with my perfect approbation.
George Bancroft.
Washington, December 1, 1846.
When Mr. Thompson was made Secre
tary of the Navy, Mr. Robeson, bis prede
cessor, brought him out to introduce him to
Lindsay Muse. Shaking his hand warmly
Mr. Thompson said: “Oh! Lindsay and I
don’t need an introduction, we have been
friends for the last twenty years.” Last
year, when the officers of the Nav/Depart-
ment were removed into the new building.
Admiral Scott and several other gentlemen
about the department took up a subscrip
tion and purchased Lindsay a handsome
black suit of clothes, so that the depart
ment and its oldest servant could appear
together in a new dress. Lindsay is now
over seventy-four years of age, but |he is
still strong and active. He says that he
expects to be on guard for .many years yet,
and that when he is at last compelled to
retire he will do so with-great regret,
Venice, he may hope mthat time to make
himself acquainted with all the miniatures.
Even this is much more than was once per
mitted to the public. The old custodians
of San Marco cherished the Breviary as the
very apple of the eye, and it was considered
a worthy entertainment for kings and for
eign potentates to turn the leaves and in
spect the pictures of this priceless manu
script. No one of less importance than a
king or a foreign guest, whom the Republic
delighted to honor, was permitted so much
as to catch a glimpse ot the cover; so that
tor years it remained a hidden treasure,
almost lost out of the memory of man, or
mentioned now and then by some fortunate
lover of art to whom a fleeting glimpse had
been accorded, it acquired a fabulous splen
dor, and wa3 spoken of as being covered
with gold enriched by precious gems.
Nothing is certainly know T n with regard to
its origin. That more than one hand was
employed in its adornment is sufficiently
evident, for while some of the miniatures
are distinguished by a nobleness of design
—A moderate wind blows seven miles
per hour.
—A hurricane moves eighty miles
per hour.
—Chicago makes $15,000,000 worth of
cloth a year.
—The factories in Atlanta, Ga., em
ploys 1,500 girls.
—In 1870 the French army estimates
were $100,000,000.
—The school attendance in Japan is
now thirty-six millions.
—The Dominion of Canada is in debt
to the amount of $190,000,000.
—A full-blooded Seneca Indian is a
fireman on the Erie Railroad.
—Several chiefs have revolted
against King John of Abyssinia.
—Spelling reform pays. Josh Bil
lings has made $100,000 by his writing.
—Provisions and tallow to the value
of $9,499,000 were exported in January.
—Five thousand eight hundred im
migrants landed at New York in Jan
uary.
—The debt of Cleveland, O., is $85.-
918,000. $693,000 were paid on the deot
last year.
There are made yearly in Reading
and Berks counties, Pa., over 6,000,000
woolen hats.
—On bis farm at Beauvoir, Jefferson
Davis is preparing for a big cotton crop
next season.
Mississippi has decided to have an
entomologist. The State loses $6,000,-
000 a year by worms.
—The amount of United States cur
rency outstading at the present time is
$361,708,591.41.
It is said ther^are 40,000,000 acres
of public lands in the State of Califor
nia yet unsurveyed.
Accompany with a capitalTof $250,-
000 has been formed to work the petro
leum springs in Germany.
-Spain pays her ministers plenipo
tentiary $60,000 a year and her favorite
bull-fighter $30,000 a year.
—The fifteen car manufacturing es
tablishments in this country turned out
37,350 cars in eleven months.
—The Marquis de Talleyrand Peri-
gord, a relative of the famous Talley
rand, is visiting Washington.
•The total value of exports of pe
troleum and petroleum products for
December 1879 were $3,039,000.
—During the year 1879 three new
telegraphic lines were opened for ser
vice by the Government of Persia.
•The. total receipts of lumber at Chi
cago during 1879 were 1,467,720,000 feeU~—
an increase for the year of 25 per cent.
—During '1579 more railroad acci
dents occurred in the transportation of
coal than ol any other kind of freight.
—It is estimated that 'the increased
cost of railroad building at present as
compared with a year ago Is $3,000 per
mile.
In the United States navy there
are but forty-eight vessels of all sizes
and classifications that are *ble to fire
a gun.
—The Habeas Corpus—the people’s
writ of right, passed for the security of
individual right—was made a law May
27, 1870.
—The State ol Mississippi is about to
establish a college for young women.
The State University now has 377 stu
dents, and is prospering.
—The new Cathedral at Edinburgh,
built by the Misses Walker, is the
largest Protestant Episcopal church
ereeted since the reformation.
—The revenue from New York ca
nals in ’79 was $67,398 less than in ’68.
This is ascribed to the late opening last
spring. This year ought to compensate.
—Connecticut has a school fund of
$2,019,650, of which about three-quar
ters are invested conservatively in
mortgages on property within the state.
—At the end of the present fiscal year
the commissioner of pensions estimates
that there will be 250,000 applications
for pensions pending and unacted upon.
—The treasury of the State of North
Carolina has funded between $5,000,000
and $6,000,000 of old bonds in new four
per cents., bearing interest from July,
1880.
—Capt. R. F. Burton is now in Egypt,
the storm renders the use of life-boats im-. - . —. .
possible or too dangerous. To make the | 18 a ^ >out proeeed, with a survey-
life-line connection from the shore to the ! P art *V, to the gold mines which he
wreck, a shot with a long “whip-Iina” at- J . ,- ‘ 0 ,° k Te .[ ed near the 8hores of tbe Gulf
tached is fired from a mortar over the wreck. ; 0 a a *
This line is caught by those on the wreck, ! There are ninety-five lakes in Iowa,
who haul the life-line on board. Attached • c overiug an area ol 61,' 00 acres. Should
to the end of the life-line is a “tally-board” tbe3e i^es dry up as some of them are
hearing printed direction, including those : dom *’ tbe laad wl11 belon S w tbe
for signals. When “all’s right” the men prnmpn
on shore haul taut on the life-line secure it
to anchor which, by this time, they have
buried in the sand for the purpose. Then
a high crotch is “up ended” beneath the
shore end of the line, and the operation of
the breeches buoy is commenced. In case
of a wreck with many passengers the “safe
ty car” is used in place of the buoy. It is
constructed somewhat after the fashion of
a covered boat, which is practically water
tight, but admits a air for respirationj The
car is, of course, much heavier than the
buoy, and is suspended to the life line by
two running block (one at each end), and
is operated the same as the buoy. It was
and finish of execution, others are feeble P? means of the “safety car” that about
and confused, and a few, from their weak
ness, seem scarcely worthy a place. The
Breviary consists of 831 leaves of very fine
white parchment, on which are written the
Psalms, the Lessons, the Rubric, the Offices
to the Virgin and the Saints, the Service for
the Dead, etc. The margin of each one of
these leaves is enriched by exquisite illum
inations of every variety—arabesques of
gold and silver, and various colors, amidst
which are placed flowers and fruits of all
kinds; every sort of creature that creeps
on land, or flies in the air, or swims n the
sea; shell-fish, insects, birds, and beasts;
fairies, genii, and fabulous monsters, charm
ing little landscapes; representations of men
and costumes of various nations; scenes of
life in town and country, in palace and cot
tage—all on a minute scale, and all painted
in that delicate pointille style so exquisite
and so marvelous in its results. It is diffi
cult not to linger over each one, so charm
ing are they, and so well do they repay the
closest examination. Here we are brought
suddenly into the interior of a jeweler’s
shop, where a woman, seated, is weighing
out gold; there a lovely girl is leaning over
a balcony; a gardener is plucking fruit from
his tree; a pair of lovers are sailing on a
lake on which swans are swimming; a her
mit is prayiniy in the wilderness to an image
of the Virgin; an old peasant woman is
hobbling painfully along on crutches; a
road winds through a mountainous country,
with a glimpse of sea in the distance, an old
peasant woman is approaching, bearing on
her head a wicker cage of chickens, under
one arm a cock, under the other a basket of
eggs; a young girl is washing her hands at
a fountain in the middle of a square in a
Dutch Tillage.
—Tbe flood in Ohio and Kentucky
hes been very disastrous.
two hundred persons were rescued from
the wreck of Ayrshire, on the Jersey coast,
below Swon -each, a few years ago,' and on
several occasions mails, treasure and val
uable merchandise have been saved by its
means.
Leaf Fhotographs.
A very pretty amusement espetially for
those who have just completed the study
of botany, is the taking of leaf photo
graphs. One very simple process is this: At
any druggist’s get a dime's worth of bi*
! eminent.
—The trotter Rolla Golddust, valued
in his prime at $20,000, was sold at Eden
farm at auction for $190. He is old and
crippled, and is valued chiefly for what
he has done.
—The St. Gothart tunnel was com
pleted iu less than seven years—that is,
half the time consumed in piercing the
Mont Cenis, which It exceeds in length
by 2,700 metres.
—The gross earnings of the Northern
Pacific railroad for the year 1879 are
reported to the railroad commissioner
at $1,381,931, upon which the tax paid
the State is $27,981.
—Four thousand fig-trees, imported
from Europe, Asia and Africa, were
planted on Fairnie Hill, near Pensa
cola, Fla., last autumn. A neighbor
ing fig orchard contains 3,500
—There are about 292,000 Indians of
all tribes. Of these 40,000 can read and
write, 30,000 are members of churches,
and there are about 250,000 acres of
land cultivated by the different tribes.
—The Belgian Queen still so fondly
cherishes the memory ol her only son,
the Duke of Brabant, who died in Jan
uary, 1869, that she has never since
permitted any Court festivities to be
chromate of pOtafh Put this is at.* o ounce during that month,
bottle of soft water. When the solution I —Lyons, France, is about to erect a
become saturated—that is, the water has j statue to Jacquard, the Inventor of the
dissolved as much as it will—pour off some well-known loom that bears his name,
of the clear liquid into a shallow dish; on was D( > rr J an ^ died in 1834.
this float a piece of ordinary writing paper j Lyons had tbe first use of his loom,
till it is thoroughly and evenly moistened. ma J rem ® m b®red, was
Let it become ie-arlydrj', in the dark, n ; poWic'F burnt.
d be Of a. bright yellow. On this put 9* t * ie , Marquis of An-
‘ J; under it a piece of soft black cloth gtesey was insured in various com-
veral sheets of newspaper.- Put these P a nies for an aggregate amount of not
!D two pieces of glass (all the pieces !
should be of the same size) and with spring
clothes-pins fasten them alltogether. Ex
pose to a bright.sua, ‘placing the leaf so
that the rays wUrtall upon it as nearly per
pendicular as possible. In a few minutes
it will begin tp turn brown, but it requires
from half an^our to several hours to pro
duce a perfect print. W hen it has become
dark enough, take it from the frame and
put it in clear water, which must be chan-
quis will come into a magnificent and
unencumbered property, with an in
come of £100,000 a year.
—An enterprising American shipped
some wheelbarrows to Kio de Janeiro,
and the natives filled them with stones
and carried them on their heads. They
said it was a capital contrivance, and
wondered how they managed to get
along so many years withont it.
—Joseph E. Temple, a retired Phlla-
ged every few minutes, till the|yellow part : dcI hia mer chant, has made a gift,
becomes perfectly white. Sometimes the amount ing in all to $60,000, to the
venation of the leaves will be quite distinct.
By following these directions, it is scarcely
possible to fail, and a little practice will
make perfect. The photographs, if well
taken, are very pretty as well as interest
ing.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
on condition that the galleries shall be
free to the public on certain days of
every exhibition week, and that part of
the income shall be devoted to encour
aging art.