Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

iL- F The Heart. A blithe heart makes a bloomiDg visage. One Eorg by Two Voioes. One wore a wroa tli ab nit I er head, Her face, Joy-lighted, sought the skies, A.nd seemed her voice so s .veet and olear, An angel’s in a mortal guise. And all pure things did list to her, And all pure things did joy with her, As she sang her song, and her song’s refrain Over, and over, and over again, “I love him so, I love him so, 1 lova him so, I love him so.” One’s shoulders bore a clinging cross, Her lace, shame-flushed, drooped to the earth, And seemed her voice, as bitterest woe To sobs and tears had given oirth, And all sad things did list to her, And all sad things did weep with her; As she moaned her song, and her song’s refrain Over, and over, and over again, “I love him so, I love him so, I love him so, I love him so." We behold all round about ub one vast union In which no man can labor himself, without laboring at the same tftne for all others.—Longfellow. I am not what I was; I am not what I would be; I am not what I should be; I am not what I shall be; but, “by the grace of God, I am what I am.”—Jehn Newton. A Dream. Ah, to be across the sens, Where the summer-scented breeze Murmurs 'mid the lealy trees, And a silent sea Plashes on a silent shore; Where to dwell lorevermore Until love and life are o'er, Peaceful life would be. Such a vision meets my gate, Glistens through a dreamiul ha*e. Though the mist of these dark days Hides it lrom my view. Yet a touoh of love supreme Lights the mist with sunny gleam, In the land of which I dream Love shall e’er be true. There shall life begin anew, 'Neat such skies of azure bine Love could be naught else but true And its light shall gleam, Driving from our fair domain These dark days of mist and rain; No more sorrow, toil or pain— Ah, ’tis but a dream t 8eek not to please the world, but your own conscience. The man who has a feeling within him that he has done his duty is far happier than he who htngs upon the smiles of the great, or the still more fickle favors of the multitude. Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, and the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of heaven. An Indiana Meteor. The “Jolly Girl” in England. Professor Daniel Kirkwood, of Bloomington, Ind., describes in The Soien iflc American what is termed the great meteor of March 9th, 1882, At about 11 o’clock, he says, on the night of March r n, 1882, a meteor of great size and brilliancy exploded over Kos oiusko county, Indiana, in latitude 41° 21' N., longitude 18° SlK W. from Washington. The following account of the phenomenon is derived from the The Warsaw Republican of March 25, 1882, and from a letter written by Mr Albert Parker, an inteligent and trustworthy observer: Mr. Parker was one of a party of five young men who, at the time of the explosion, were riding in an open ^carriage or wagon about eight miles ^rtheast of Warsaw, the county seat Af Kisciusko county. The sky was entirely covered with clouds, and snow was rapidly falling. Conse quently the meteor could not be seen till it had passed below the clouds; and as the explosion took place within less than a second after its appearance trustworthy estimate could be \med of the time of flight. The mo- of the meteor was from south to )rth, and was accompanied by a loise resembling that of a rapidly loving traiu of cars. Its color was a jight red, and its apparant size nearly [to equal that of the full moon. Accord ing to Mr. Parker it was nearly over load—probably a little north of the [zenith—at the time of Its explosion, le report was distinctly heard at Warsaw, and excited much attention rom the fact of its occurring during a leavy snowstorm. The light of the leteor “was so brilliant as to blind person looking at it, and notwith- Inding the storm lightened the en- [e vicinity as clearly as the brightest at noon.” To Mr. Parker and his [anions the explosion and report ^ery nearly simultaneous. No ^ ' owever, if any fell in the A? ve yet been found. i broom facto* burned, loss,: si The women who copy the ways of boys. The special habits and interests of niec, their athletic and sporting tastes, their melancholy experience of what is called “life,” can no more be men at best succeed in resembling appropriated by a gin man our top- boots and riding-breeches. She only approaches that unnatural monster, the boy who is aping a man. I am not so old or such a misanthrope but that I find myself at timca among young people at a dance or a garden party. I see a handsome young fel low from Aldershot talking to a fine girl, the picture of youth and grace. “They aie flirting, I iiope, as they should be,” says a match making old thing. Flirting! my dear lady, he has been telling her about that awfully jolly run with the Quorn, don’t you know. And now she is asking him with an anxious look if it is really true that No, 7 is not fit. For an hour, as I Bat within hearing on the lench, snehas patiently committed to memory the merits of barrack after barrack and station after station— a form of feminine curiosity which he has but languidly satisfied, though he has no other topic with which to entertain her. “Aldershot,” says be, “is such an awfully jolly place, don’t you know.” “Is it really?” says she, with feeling. “I mean,” says he, “suoh a jolly place to get away from.” And she knows who is bound to win the mile race unless Jigger Mowbray can stand the training, which is not to be thought of, don’t you know? And so they go on, from mere habit, talk ing the talk of the smoking-room, or so much of it as can be dribbled into the ears of a pure young girl. By all that is sacred, I glow with shame when I see a beautiful woman thus put off her sex, when she certainly can never put on ours. What are they to gain, these favor ites of the regiment and the hunt, that they thus humble themselves, that they so disfigure and weary themselves in laboriously ceasing to be women ? It is not husbands, as suredly, they are seeking. Our young friend from Aldershot does not trouble himself to flirt with girls; he has not the remotest idea of marriage; nor,in deed, has his fair partner, at least with the like of him. She is not thinking of fascinating him at all; would, indeed, that she were! Mar riage is an affair of carriages and horses ; for these she must look to older men, and she does not like older men. No! she is only filling her ap pointed part—the awfully jolly girl— which her society expects her to be. Dolly and Darling, Judy and Jo, have to do it, and so must she. I wonder if she knows how little men really care for this strange recep tivity of hers. To the young fellow this girl with her manly acquirements just so far ceases to be woman without advancing a step toward man. She listens to him as the fag at school lis tens to the big fellow in the boat or the eleven. It is pleasant to him that the young ’un wears skirts and has lips ruddier than a fag. It is pleasant to him; but not wholly to us elders and fathers. Girls in my time expected us to treat them on the assumption that they were women, or that they very soon would be. If we could not en tertain them as women all the woild over love to be entertained they turned to oue another and amused themselves. When we sat with a sweet young thing in the verandah as the band played the last notes of “Kathleen Mavourneeu” we had something, I vow, to talk about besides cricket averages, the club cigars, and the right cut of a bulldog’s ears. And as we never saw cigarettes in the lips of our partners, it never occurred to us to smoke between the dances. I have no turn for satire; but I love to watch our solcial moods and to trace them to their causes and effects. I suppose the work began with that wave of athleticism which of late has swept over the land, turning the heads of not a few lads and importing some laughable customs; but, if its effect upon men was more or less manly and wholesome, its effeot indireotly on women was perhaps a more doubtful gain. When the gymnastio idol was set up, and the muscular type of virtue became the whole duty of man, there were found English girls to suppose it the whole duty of woman. Physically, it may be, it strengthened those whom it did not slaughter outright. But as the girl could after all only join in the at Now new worship as a proselyte of the gate, ,000. Ttoj she fell Into the social position of Ifie lagStafclqw The jolly girl, in fact, became a fag. When athletics are the business of life the tone of society is naturally set by men. Was not a second cause at work in the triumphs of the famous American beauty? This fascinating being, I doubt not, on her own side of the Atlantic has planted the geim* of new feminine epochs. There was nothing of the playground or hunt about her ; her important discovery was the free dom of her sex. It may be doubted if our ancient system on this side of the ocean is duly prepared for such dash, such originality, such angelic self- possession. The type, however brilli ant, is a perilous one to adapt. For the American girl, who so startles us at home, has her own traditfons and habits. When she shook from her airy skirts the conventions of the Old World, she founded the conventions of the New. At home she reigns still, and imposes her law on men, concern ing herself but little about mess-rooms and gun-clubs. Young ladies, you who think of adopting her adorable freedom of manner, be sure that you also adopt her shrewd and original spirit. But, be the causes whatever they may, the result is a curious social in version. The relative place of men and women is reversed in this rapid and dazzling world. Of old, the idea was that in things social the woman was mistress, queen and leader. Men in her presence were to study her tastes and submit to her law. If they could not exist without tobacco, they might go elsewhere; if they wanted to be killing something, to a shooting party; and the matches discussed in a drawing-room had nothing to do with Liord’a. Russian Peculiarities. The German wife of the Grand Duke Valdimir, has a will of her own, and is not disposed to submit to the pecu liar regulations of the Russian Govern ment. She discovered ,not long ago,that a letter which she had written to her family, and in which it is said she oom- plained of the dullness and insecurity of life at the Russian Court, had been opened by her own personal aid-de- camp before delivery to the post. The angry Grand Duchess complained to the Emperor, but to her astonishment met with no sympathy from him. Still more enraged, she delivered her emphatic decision that if the offender were not immediately dismissed sne would make a put lia scandal and quit the country. The aid-de-camp was dismissed, but only to receive a much more lucrative appointment. The Language of Flowers. [The intelligence to be communi cated is expressed by wearing the ap propriate vegetable in your button hole.] Daisy—Does your mother know you’re out ? Dandelion—Do yon know If your father is in ? Parsnip—Tie up the bulldog. Turnip —I dont object to freckles. Sage—You are too too. Chicory—I am going out to see a man. Clove—I have seen him. Cucumber—Ice cream. China Aster—Front gate. Mint—You’re a iamb. Bee t-top— Reserve the next clog for me. Holly hock—That other fellow is of no commercial value. Night-Blooming Cerus—Will take a walk with ice-cream? Day-Blooming ditto—Will you take a walk without ice-cream ? Gum-Drop-Leaved Mignonette— Come under the brim of my hat. Cabbage — Your hairpins are coining out. Calceolaria Anaconda—I think you squint. Lemon—Are you a soda water girl, or is your affection disinterested ? Rhododendron Megatherium—Just catch my eye I Lotus Flower—Are you going to the ball this evening ? Orange ditto—8’twother evening ? Best Family Self-Raising ditto— You take the cake. Burdock—The old woman appears to be getting on to this. Ranunculus Tuberculosis—Ta-ta. you Women and the Telegraph. The telegraph work of England haa now been very largely confided to women, and it is calculated that there cannot be less than 700 employed at the Central Office. The staff of the Telegraph Clearing-house Check Branch, which supervisee the whole telegraphic work of the kingdom, and acts as a check upon all the clerks in the department, is exclusively conf pwsed of womrn, to whom is also in trusted the entire financial business. Certain branches of the savings bank department are also in their hands, as well as the dead letter office. The number who apply whenever a va cancy occurs is enormous. None of the more important offices have yet been filled by women, which, it is thought, are better officered by thor oughly competent men. A T Stewart & Co.’s Retire ment. Location of New School- Houses. Select a site that is accessible to fresh air and sunlight, those facing to the west and south are the most desira ble. 2. Bee that the looation is eleva ted ; not 1 ow and damp. 3. If in u city, ascertain whether the building is on uatural or “made” soil. The lat ter is very unhealthy. 4. Have as much open ground around the school- house as possible. Ascbool-house with a yard,however small is rnuoh more pleas ant than one without a yard ; and have a garden if possible. 5. Ascertain with a certainty that the drainage is good. 8. Observe whether there are any bodies of stagnant water, or other con taminating influences near, and whether the prevailing direction of the wind will carry unwholesome va pors to the school-house. 7. U^rver choose a location so thickly surround ed with trees that the sun oan never penetrate to the rooms. Such places are very unhealthy. 8. Be sure that the water supply is abundant What Prominent New York Merchants Say Mr. H. B. Claflin said to a reporter : “Oh, they are ricb, tired of the busi ness and want to retire ; that’s all. It will have no effect upon the market other than to produce a sentiment of regret at the retirement of so promi nent a business houses. It is no sur prise.” Mr. Cooley, of Bates, Reed & Cooley, said that business men had the firm. It had been foreshadowed by long been prepared for the action of the abandonment of the down town house. Merchants would be sorry to see the house go, because it had stood as a mark of the result of the business oapacity of the late head of the firm. Mr. Bliss, of Bliss, Fabian & Co., re plied in a similar strain to the report er’s queries. “The action,” said he, “is no surprise and can have no effect. The business of the city is too large to have the retirement of any one house, however large, produce other than a ripple. The closing of so large a firm is a big undertaking and the symptoms are that long preparation has been made. I know nothing as to I he mo tives influencing the action,but I sup pose they have made enough money and are going to retire to enjoy it.” A prominent Broadway merchant, on the other hand, attributed the retire ment to the result of unbusinesslike management and serious errors of judgment. As to the report current in certain quarters that Mr. William Libbey proposed to re-establish the business in his own name, he said there was no credence given to the story by well informed merchants. Libbey had been practically out of the firm for two years, and had been investing his money largely in real es tate in his wife’s name. So far as the closing of the house was concerned, it was simply an act which had been found expedient in view of the gradu ally decreasing business of the house. The saying was common among merchants that witli Mr. Stewart’s death the brains of the firm died also. Mr. Hilton was a lawyer and did not understand the management of the dry goods business, and had carried it on, it was believed, at a loss of about $1,000,000 a year. Its custom had steadily declined, and from ftue move ment against the Jews in tkeWaratoga hotel kiatter the house ban directly sufferer^ loss of fully one hw its pat ronage. ■Lhe crusade in queHou was a stupe^^Bs mistake, and oB that a keen m^^Hnt would iieverBvn been guilty o^Hfimitting Tha^Bandon of^H* Ciuuubegy^^^^j-anch was anotJ^B unfortuu 11 wa^^ffect, the to the closing of the hot ment was faulty in the extr^ # firm, after Mr. Stewart’s dv^- ployed its assistants by the d^, and made no contract with the longer period. The result W£ there could not lie that spirit©! oo-operatiou between employ employe essential to the suevj maintenance of a large business. Often the treatment of the emphl was arbitrary, and as the men camej believe they had no permanent ipi| upon the firm, so far as continued ploymeut was concerned, they eov other situations as soon as opportu^.J ottered for a change. After the aba r donment of the down town house t policy of the firm seemed to be coil tracted. Instead of bidding for con’ tinuance of the wialtliy patronage the firm once possessed, the house seemed to cater to the humbler and less profit able f rade. Instead of advertising silks, satins and camel’s hair shawls, it announced “napkins three cents apiece” and the«| like. Under these circumstances it was not long before carriages which were wont to line the streets during 1 Mr. Stewart’s life-time gradually dis appeared and their place was taken by customers going into the Htore with baskets on their arms In search of cheap bargains. All this marked a radical change in th« character of ths business, and indicated its steady do cline. Simultaneously merchants., ceased to give large orders to the flri and it came to pass that eniy sue goods were ordered as could be gc there cheaper than elsewhere. This was not a satisfactory basis doing business and indicated ratht the methods of the small jobber ths the broad and comprenensive systel of a great business house. Being a lai yer and possessed of common sense, il was not long, said the merchant whf spoke as above, before Mr. Hiltoi came to the conclusion the beat thii he could do was to abandon entirely] the unprofitable business, and tW has finally done. It will bef honorably without doubt. Every outstanding obligation be fully met, as the heuse has d* less four dollars resources to mee] single dollar of its liabilities, the re irement will disappear a^ prominent mercantile establishme? There will be regret among merchant generally, but no effect upon the mar ket. Its place will be taken by othe^ and the name of A. T. Stewart <fc will be only a memory of former mercial greatness. A. T. Stewart when in active bu| ness did not have a particle of symi thy with any employe except it for his own interest or gain,and no mi ter what his condition or circumstanc were, he was summarily dlsmis from employment in his house if his family or relatives nmre st ing. He died unmournediCud^ men ted, and his millionali not found a resting the public. Judge Hilton, who was his lega viser and friend, succeed to a 11 portion of his prinoely fortune business, and notwithstanding handsome remembrance of Hilton his will, he never had the soul to gil his patron and friend’s bones a re ing place. To-day the great house Stewart & Co. retiree from business the wanPif patronage. f v If Edwin Forrest, the great ill? and his friend, Colonel Forney, alive to-day, with what a shout of light they would receive the news^ Hilton’s failure. Interesting to Shippers. Circular. Section 4218, Revised Statut makes it the duty “of all owne* agents, consignees, masters ar manders of vessels to whor receipt for fees shall be giver^ consular officer, to furnisl lereof to the Collector of tly ich such vessels shall f ' eturn to a Unit<7 e rl ty "co'J f " GV) in on t It also^Mtes it Colleoto the Treasu" as shall ha and also Invoices fwli office, gi/ving the dates of and thik names of the whom, fcnd of the consular o. whom, the same is certified.” you would be known anj )w, live in a village; if n< you