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VOL. I.
LEBANON, OREGON, FKIDAY, AUGUST ?6, 1887.
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J. 8. COURTNEY, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AMD SURGEON,
LSBAHOK OREGON.
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8WIS3 HOiTE LIFR
BaautlfiU Children Who Are Lin
guists and Merchants.
Triir Bade Tall.y Schools Indaatrlons
aad Cheerfal Laos Maker. Tbe
Leaf, Oay " Winters Fann
in on the Sides of
Moantalna.
Erary Swiss child, no matter what
His or her position or condition in life,
knows how to read and write if he is
capable of learning how. I have been
surprised to see how rapidly many of
f tli. guides and donkey boys can read
any handwriting, or how quickly they
will spell or write the name of any place
or mountain inquired about. I hare
been frequently assured by our drivers
and prides that all children mu fit go to
K-hool three months in a year. The law
they aaid was tthr, $ehr strong- (very
Jtriet) about that; none could be ex
cused. I have been told, too, that now
rery Swiss child wus required to learn
German, wht ther it was the language
of Hi. canton in which he lived or not,
and nearly all whom I have met could
speak either -French or German, or
would answer in the langnage in which
t aUlreed them, unless, quickly per
ceiving by my accent that I was Eugli sh
r American, they would answer a
question put to them in French or Ger
man in English.
In one of the deepest of these valleys,
into which the sun can only send its
rays a very few hours in the longest
days of summer, and in winter scarcely
at alU I went into the little school-;
house of the vnller. It was a chilly.
.:herles pi .ice, but there was a black
board, and maps were on the wall.
ne narrow struijcht-backed seats, of
tho cheapest construction, seemed such
a contrast to those pleasant, com
fortable desks and seats with which
nearly all our little country school-
honses are now furnished; such a con
Tast to our bright school-rooms fur
ai.hed, ofien, with globes and pict
ures, manv of thein with flowers, that
I could not but with little vanity con-
gratolate myself with having at homo.
tn our country, the bmt schools In the
world. Onlr that a terrible scarifrcr
f statistics which I found in a French
magazine, comparing our own reports
s to the numbers who could not read
and write in some of our bo-c ailed most
enlightened States that boast of a won-
lerful school system, with like report
f various countries in Europe, quite
took a boastful spirit out of me. School
houses are not schools, and tha latter
must be etim-tl according to what
they do for thai people who are taught
n them.
Every little toddling in Switzerland
must aUo e trn it living as soon as it
an lisp its own name, either in turns
work on iu taking care of one younger
than Itself. All alm the roadside
through the valleys are little board
heltera where, on shelves thus protect-
?d. wood carvings ami Swiss lace are
ffered for sale, or a little bright-eyed.
dender-limbcd chamois, tended by
some child, is t- be seen for a few cent
imes to be added to the store, which is
o ktep these people from starvation
luring the long winter, for which they
must look out with rare.
Under one of these sheds to-day I
aw two little giii. who bad it in
charge, and stopped to speak with
them. Both were making lace, their
little fingers flying so that I could
hardly see them, as they handled the
bobbins, any more than the spokes of a
wheel in full motion, and the smallest
f these children was no larger than are
lost children at five years old in our
.untry, though she told me she was
tight. When I patted the little head
and expressed surprise that such a lit
tle thing should be nb'e to mako lace
so nicely, the oldrr stster told
aaa with loving pride, that
Anna had earned her own living by
laee-working already for two years.
They begged me to buy tho
piece I saw her making, "for there are
Ave of us, they said; "two younger
than we are, and we are sehr arme, tres
pauvre, very poor," tlicy said, trying,
in three langusges, to make me com
prehend the situation and induce me to
buv. Both could read and write, they
told mo.
"And where is your mother?" I
asked. She was in the field, and their
father was a "trag r." i. e., one who
stays about .he hole's and gets any job
(bat comes to hand 'f carrying peopl
afraid or uunble to "J up the m iu::t:ii:i
n horseback or on mules, cp in a
hair set uimw a li 'cr, borne bv two
b men fr ex.ictlv tlC saiu.' or;c ai
s paid for a norse ana tne one man
vho leads him up with the man or
woman on bis back, ur a "trugor
carries up their trunks upon his shoul
ders while they thus ride up, borne by
other "trajrers." The Bisters begged
me to buy, assuring me again that they
wore very poor; they wanted to get
some breakfast, they said.
'And have yon had no breakfast
yctP" I asked, for it was now past
twelve o clock.
"Schr icenig," they said; very little.
The mother could not give them any
any this morning; she must go to the
field. The elder seemed, mothe: like,
most anxious that the little one should
make a sale of her lace, though little
Anna said: "You see hers is nicer than
mine, for she is older, you see, and can
make much nicer lace than I can; of
ourse, my lady, it is better that you
buy hers than mine."
I thought of Wordsworth s idyl,
We are Seven." The beauty of their
kindliness and love for each other in
heir poverty, if not of face or feature,
made me glad." Both were ex
quisitely clean face and hands and
hair. This was also neatly combed.
There were no bangs falling over their
foreheads, but every hair was drawn
back and fastened, as though not a
stray hair should blind their eyes or
hinder them in their work. We drove
back through this valley, and the sun
had long beeu out of sight behind the
high western mountains when we
passed their little stall. But both
were there still at work, their little
fingers flyingno lessnimbly than in the
morning when I first saw them. They
recognized me and bowed and smiled
gratefully for the poor, small pur
abas. I bad mad. of them. I dara say
it was the only sate they had made
during the day. Dear little Swiss lace
makers, in the valley of Lauterbrunnen!
you gave me far more than I did you
in the few franca I paid for your lace.
Your lives shall hencefotth be a part
of mine, and the red threads in your
lace will signify to me the life-blood
of two of my little sisters. I am
sure I shall find you again me
where, sometime! It was not chance
that led me to your little stall to
day. Your paths in life crossed mine,
to teach me a broader, tenderer hu
manity. I was never so thankful for
my very imperfect understanding and
use of the French and German lan
guage (over Which I have spent
months and years of late night and
early morning study. I did not know
why, only that I was irresistibly drawn
to read and know them), as Ihavebeen
for their help to get at the heart of
these poor people', livestheir homes;
to find put how they lived, what sun
shine came into them.
"And how do you live In winter?" I
asked of the guide who was leading
my horse through one of these passes
the other day.
"O' eAr gemuihlich," he replied,
which means both kindly and cheerily,
and he explained to me that the people
in these valleys were very "freundlich
mit einaniler," they visited each other a
good deal; in short were "sehr munter"
gay in tbe long winters.
"And what do these people live on?"
I asked. '
O, they had potatoes, he said, and the
vegetables that they raised in summer.
nd they had their goals, and they had
bread a few had a cow. They could
get wood from the mountains, thev
made their houea warm, and they lived
gaily.
"And what do you do all the long
winter when you can not work in tbe
fields and when the sun scarcely shines
on you for months?'
The women, he said, spun the flax
that I saw them spreading and turning
iu the fields; they tniule the lace that I
saw them selling; they embroidered the
handkerchiefs I saw in the shops. The
men got the wood and they carved the
articles that I saw in shops in all Swiss
towns, and that I saw in all these places
along the road. They were very indus
trious, and skilful, aud ingenious. The
latter traits I could well believe they
possessed when I saw them with sa
sharp-pointed knife alone turn a small
Mock of wood into a deer or a chamois
that really seemed alive and leaping
from crag to crag of the mountain
heights.
"Do you ever have meat to eat?" I
asked.
"Gar kein jfei'arA," was his reply.
'Ever have coffee or tea to drink?"
'Nothing of that kind," he said, and
yet like Wordsworth's little maid who
ate her supper oa her sister's grave,
"he had his way" and insisted that
they lived comfortably, though "seAr
erjn" very poor and were gay dur
ing the long winters.
"Do the slides of snow avalanche.
never come down here?" I asked.
"Yea, sometimes they did," he said,
and he pointed out a place where one
fell three years ago, burying a man and
four children, the mother was out and
escaped.
"And have the people never a warn
ing of their fall." I further inquired,
"so that they could escape to a safer
place?"
"They were more likely to fall tu
the spring," he said, but they never
knew when or just where they would
fall. And so they lived on. That they
could have their joys, gather somo sun
shine into their lives, live "gcmuthlich"
and "mnnter," as he said they did in
the long, sunless winters, I was glad
and thanked God. I was glad more
than glad thankful with the deepest
religiousness of my heart that by these
simple and sincere revelations of their
lives I could bring them nearer my own
life, and without loving nearer neigh
bors less, love my most distant ones th
more for these glimpses, if they some
times make my eyes hot and my head
ache Willi weeping over tneir nam
lives.
Shall I tell you how the Swiss of
these valleys make land and get their
farms? Passing along, I Bee on some
high, steep mountain slopes which have
a sunny exposure row after row of what
resembles tho milestones along our rail
ways, only these stones are not more
than three or four yards apart. Neither
are they all stones, but slabs of wood
fastened in the crevices of the rock or
propped up in some way. As I came
nearer to some of them lowest on the
mountain side, I noticed that they were
joined one to another by platted or in
terwoven withes and supple branches
of trees, making a fence of a couple of
feet in length. These rows extended
up the steep rocky sides of the moun
tains to dizzy heights that one can
hardly look up to, nor could I imagine
how people had climbed up these steop
bare rocks to fasten the posts, and then
to weave and twist the withes that
united them. On inquiring what these
fences were for, I learned that they
were made with g,-eat difficulty and
danger to make a lodgment for the par
ticles of rock that scale off and are
washed down the sides of the mount
ains by the heavy rains. In time a soil
is formed upon the top of these narrow,
sloping beds thus made, on which po
tatoes and somo coarse grains are
grown. But it must bo a trade, dread
ful as that of gathering samphire, to
make these little farms, and then to till
them and gather the crops. One can
not but ask -what will not a man give
Vr bis life? or what not do to forestall
starvation? L. H. S., in Detroit Trib
une. There are iasiuons in simues as in
everything else. For instance, when
the Atlanta Constitution says that "Bis
marck is as busy as a black pig under
a chincapin tree," it appeals directly
to the taste of its Southern readers. ' A
Kansas City newspaper would have
faid "as busy as a real estate dealei
loaded with corner lots;" a Philadel
phia newspaper would have remarked
"ns busy as a man eating shad," a
Boston newspaper would have ob
served, "as busy, to quote Emorson,
as," etc. ; while a Mew York or Chicago
newspaper would have simply said
"as busy as a boodler hunting bail."
Chicago Kewt. :
BUSINESS AMIABILITY.
Courteous Treatment of the Blob and Pear,
and Its Commercial Value.
Bishop Ames, of the llethodist Epii
copal Church, onoe delivered a Sermon
in W asbington in the presence of mem
bers of Congress, the l'resident and a
large number of other Government offi
cials on the subject of amiability in
business. His text related to the per
sonal characteristics of the prophet
Daniel, the leading characteristic of
whom was amiability of deportment.
winning to Daniel by his trait, nearly
sii with whom he cams in contact.
From this starting point the Bishop
pi-oceeded to sum up some of the ob
servations of his own long life, show
ing how men of his acquaintance had
succeeded in their several occupations
by the practice of habitual courtesy
without insincerity, this trait, of course,
accompanied by honesty -and in
dustry. "Other things being equaL"
snld the great prea-her, "I al
ways prefer to buy " my goods
at the store from that clerk who
has a friendly word and a kindly look
of recognition. So, too, I prefer to deal
with that business man who baa
pleasant demeanor, and treats me like
a brother. Other things being equal.
fuch a clerk and such a business man
will win where others of different social
qualities will fail."
The good Bishop long since passed to
final rest, but the lesson he sought to
impress njon the young, on the oc
casion of vhich we speak, is as Im
portant now as it waa then, and em
ployer aud employed in all branches of
trade and industry could heed it with
profit. In politics, the lack of amia
bility has sent many a candidate to tbe
rear, and in business depending upon
tbe voluntary favor of the publio (and
vhat tusioess does not?) it marked the
line between success and failure for
many a firm. Courteous treatment of
the rich and poor alike thus has not
only a commercial value above esti
mate, but it comes very near to the ful
fillment of a divine command. Laun
dry Journal.
AN OLD SOLDIER.
Ilfcav Political Union Defined by a
Great-Jfepnew atf Waebtaa-toat.
An octogenarian, formerly a Colonel
in the United States army, and brother-in-law
of General Robert E. Lee both
of whom married sisters, nieces of Mrs.
Washington lives at St. Louis, and is
now the oldest surviving graduate of
West Point. In a recent letter to one
several years his correspondent, he
writes: "A late number of the Boston
Herald contains, in an article headed,
'In These Now Quiet Times," the error
that President Pierce alone had tbe
honor, of the twenty-two Administra
tions, of having retained his Cabinet in
tact throughout the fonr years he was
in office." Colonel E. G. W. Butler,
the writer of the letter, who waa a
great-nephew of General Washington,
says: "In order to vindicate the truth
of history, I will state that L a stranger
to President Pierce and Secretary-of-War
Jefferson Davis, declined the
office of Secretary-of-War in the
Cabinet of President Pierce, tendered
me by Mr. Davis," With his eyesight
impaired and for the most part confined
to his house. Colonel Butler retains all
his faculties in all their pristine vigor,
lie is an interesting link of connection
between our own day and Washing
ton's, whose life was ending aa his own
legan. It may be interesting to recall
that his father was one of the fonr
fighting brothers, so called, memora
ble in the revolution and oar early
wars, while his own maternal -grandfather
was Colonel of the British grena
diers at Bunker HilL Fie says modestly,
in his letter, that President Pierce and
Secretary Davis appeared to have
placed too high an estimate upon bis
abilities; but he had laid down his
sword and embarked in sugar planting,
and was unwilling to resumo pnblic
office. Though his letter ia written
wish his own hand, he says be can not
rei.l iu for he is still suffering from his
wound, and nearly blind, but contin
je to take a deep interest in public
vents Boston 2'rantripL
STOCK QUOTATIONS.
Few Phrases Which the Beader May,
Perchance, Hare Heard Before.
If there is a modern drama in exist
ence in which none of the following
entences is to be fonnd, we would be
:lad to know its name:
Unhand me, villain!
Not another ward.
I am lostt .
All is lost!
Buck again to the old homestead.
To-morrow all the world will know
hnt D'Arcy O'Brien is a bankrupt!
You have pronounced your own
oom.
Fly, ere it is too late!
" Curses on yo all!
Is it thus that we meet after all these
ears?
No resource is left me but death.
Manderille Snooks, you are in my
power!
Man, man, have you no pity?
Would you know my story? Listen.
It -gin aid! Reginald! Great heavens,
ne is gone!
Aha! you tremble!
This, then, is the end of alL
Would that I were dead!
Hector Reilley, you see before yon a
desperate man.
If you have no pity for .ma, at least
consider her.
And this is the man I ealled my
triend!
You have sent for me I am here.
Oh, Percy, how I have longed for
;his meeting!
Can he suspect?
Villain, you have Defrayed me!
Have you no mercy?
She must, she shall be mine!
So, so! all my schemes prosper.
The priceless heritage ef an untar
nished name.
You cast me off so be It"
For years I have waited for this hour.
Wretch! would yon strike a woman P
Who will save me? Tid-Bilt.
"Why was eternity made, papa?"
asked Reginald. "So that a cricket
match could be played clear through,"
replied papa, who had lost three days
from the office in a busy time watching
the first half of one inning played half
through. Burdttt, t.-iv--wr'
A FINE WINGED RACER.
Death or a Carrier Plceon That Bad Hade
an excellent Record.
A carrier pigeon was found dead in
a farm yard at Chester, Va,, not long
ago. The finder did not know a carrier
from any other kind of pigeon, but as
he was idly examining the bird he
noticed a little tag attached to the
feathers. On this was written these
figures: 05C3, and the words, "If caught
or shot, report this number to Starr,
New York." It was a good deal of
mystery still to the finder, but after
speaking to a few friends about it, he
found one who knew that the bird was
a carrier and had been sent out on
race. A message was accordingly sent
to "trtarr. .New York," as requested on
the tag. "Starr. New York." is a little
woman who devotes herself to the inter
ests of pigeon flying, and keeps the run
ct about all the birds in this country.
To find her one has to climb four dark
flights to the top of a rickety old build
ing at the corner of Cortlandt an J
Washington streets. As she is an en
thusiast upon the subject, visitors wbo
want to learn any thiag about pigeon
find a ready welcome and no little in
formation.
All pigeon flyers, and their number
is increasing every year, send her ac
counts of their birds, and in the event
of a race the birds themselves are some
times sent also to be registered. But
as a rule sk-e is notified as soon as
bird is hatched, and she makes such
entries in her ponderous record books
as fix that bird's identity until be dies
of old age or by a shot from a careless
hnnter. When she received word that
0563 had been picked np dead, she
referred to ier books and found that
one oi tne most remarkable oirds in
the land had been' lost. To be sure.
all the pigeon flyers had given this bird
up months ago, for she ad not been
heard of since last October, but no one
knew what became of bih. The bird
was owned bv Wm. Bennet- of Newark.
N. J., one of the centers t? pigeon flying
interest. The bird had not been
named. It was a blue male and was
hatcheI in the spring of 1885. It had
been in three races, in one of which it
was among the six that made the best
recoru to ixewar. and tne teat was
second oaly to the best young fly bird
in America. The best record was made
by Philadelphia pigeons in 1883. In
the case of 05S3 the start was made at
Liberty, Va., from which place ti
Newark it is 358 miles air line. Th
birds were liberated at twenty-five
minutes past six on the morning of
October 1, 1885. and tbe first bird to
report at its loft in Newark arrived at
fourteen minutes past fonr p. m. of the
same day. A few minutes later 0563
came in, and his average speed for the
journey was 1,099 yards a minute.
About a week later thi bird, with three
others, was : takrn to Morgantown.
N. C, 527 miles from home. None of
them was heard from until Mrs. Starr
learned the death of 0563.
Mrs. Starr thinks that pigeon flying
has come to be standard gentlemen's
sport in America. At present -the
amusement is free from all objectiona
ble features, and as each year passes
Improvements ar made in the method
of keeping the records of the birds.
New books have r een opened this spring.
which in a few years will be of great
value to lovers c-f the sport, for they
will contain the minutest details of ail
birds that live long enough to make a
record in a race. But the roost im
portant change this season ia in the
device for marking the birds. It wa
formerly done by marking the feathers
and attaching a tag, bnt henceforth a
light seamless band of silver-plat-d
nickel will be put around the bird's leg.
every band sent out from Mrs. Starr'
headquarters having a different nambe
inscribed on it. The band is slipp-:!
over a pigeon foot as soon as it i
hatched, and so rapidly do the bin;
tpmw that in eight days the band coub
neither be removed nor a similar on.
put on. Yet it is never too small fo:
the leg. and in no way does it act to
the discomfort of the flyer. Speaking
of the general subject of pigeon flying.
Mrs. Starr said:
"I think you would be surprised if yon
knew how many people keep birds for
the actual work of carrying messages.
A great many men in ajl of the large
cities take birds with them to their
offices, and at some period of the day.
when they have occasion to send word
home, they attach a message to the
:igeon and release it. But I suppose
that the principal incentive to the culti
vation of message birds is for racing.
Although young birds, those hatched
within the year, often make good
records. I am inclined to think that
a pigeon does not become fully mature
nntil it is ten years old. They then
seem to have the maximum of sense
and speed. In this country "we have
a great deal of trouble with hunters.
If they would only let the birds alone,
we should lose very few from any other
causes. Pigeons are on record that
have won races at the age of twenty.
In Belgium a great deal of attention is
paid to flying, and the birds are highly
cultivated and live to a considerable
ase." AT. Y. Sun.
A Very Good Reason.
"Say, Tom, that fellow Stuppin
seems to appreciate a story."
"Yes, seems to." .
"Laughs at all your jokes."
"Don't vou knew why?"
"No."
"Why. I let him have five dollars the
other day." Arkansaw Traveler.
Ulysses is the only town in Grant
County, Kansas and Horace and Tri
bune are the only towns in Greeley
County.
The total egg crop of the United
States, or the product handled by thej
larger cities and towns, is estimated at
one hundred and fifty million dollars
annually.
The Chinese are said to manufac
ture an anaesthetic not unlike cocaine
in its action, and claim that the anaes
thetic property is the juice of the eye
of the frog.
Treasury clerks wjho count the
trade dollars have to wear buckskin
gloves or get sore fingers. Any sore
spot on the fintrer is socn' poisoned by
coatatt wi.' t1 res to.!.
RESlGNATfOM. -
x vj uoi rare - - .
If 1 mT sorer ckmb the b-t?.T. er r, ' -If
I may never win s glunout Drr, '
Nor bear, with well-pieawed ears, of , -.
acclaim, ;
I do not care. ' ; -
I should not care - ; -
Though all obscure and lowly be try J .
Though men pass idly by and kan &,
Though I should die and str!lrt'sy to - j
I sbould not care.
I would not eare .
Though all tbe world should shan ti
tread, - -" - .
Though words of Shame M ter re of
said , , . - -f "
Why, when tbe grasses waved abefe an
I would not care. i,,
t ti -
I would not eare a cent I
Were I a pious hermit, mast austere, V 1 TiA
tarring, In lowly hermitage se.sra, i'J
On thirty thousand dollars, say, a ;, L .
1 would sot care. 1 1 -
Bardfitt, ta Broetl-tn ,
RUSSIAN GIRL STUDENT..
The UesperaU Effort Made by lhe
Seenre tittle Education. ' .
The attempt on the Czar hri- r
Nihilist. again to the for?, a-'d. i
have the effect of exposing th" JVu --, s
lady students here to mat ti nsi:;
police espionage. 'One tae,y
them unless in the Q iarfler Latin, a",
though I came acros a nest of them
short time ago in a hotel in the O'sf ..
de la Heine. Quakers could not t." '
been more plainly dressed, and r:--ol
them had their hair crr.j- L T.
were good musicians, and one and l
hardened smokers. Russian girls t.:
to the fragrant weed like Ka!)!,.ik,
I am not- sure that their air of qu ''.'
settled sadness is , due to i ;
pecuniousness. A giudentess to
me that the only cheery ones amir '
them are Jewesses, and thai they e-
not very wealthy; bat they meet with
moral, and, indeed, often materia1
support from persona of their race set
tied in Paris. I also learned from he
that not a few of her companions are"
girls of influential families, and that?
they have broken away from home and I
come here nndsr assumed names to t
Stndv. Thrt diffienlriea with vrhieh '
some of them had to contend in mak
ing their way here would strike jlfZi.
were I to relate them, as belorjgfng to
the domain of romance. What do you
think of the daughter of the Governor
of a province wbo was sent soma by
her family to be out of the way of rest
less spirits with whom she came int
sympathetic contact in Moscow, work
ing her way as a cabin boy to Varna?
She there entered a hotel as "boots,"
stayed some time, and, when sbe had
money enough io buy a snit of cl jthes
initable to her sex, toot service as a
nursery-maid in a family abontto start
for England. When there, she
waa engaged ; ms a nursery gov
erness in a noble fan-"fT and as taken
to the country-sest of some cousins
of her own, high in the English per
age- Bat they had no idea who she
was. As soon as she had saved a
small sum she came to Paris, and be
fore she could find a lodging, she nssd
to pass her nights in m casual asyluTB'
Being a person of first-rate edacalion,
she now prepares girls wanting to hi
admitted to the new hlA schools. Tha
place where she resides is a big loft
over a cart-mater's fihed, which h as
been fitted hp as m -dormitory and living-room
for a bout twenty studentessea.
Another loft serves as a refectory,
where meals are cooked at a large
stove. Kach stndentess takes a turn at
cooking. The tables on which dinner
is served are made of boards placed en
trestles. , When the plates and dishes
are removed in the evening, all ait
down to study. The brain of the Rus
sian girl is a receptive one, and retains
what it takes in. I don't think that
the studentesses I describe are engaged
in dynamite conspiracies bat-they -wish
well to those who are.' Paris Cor.
London Truth.
USELESS PERSONS.
The Inertia ef Motion as Dasiw.M tw Sae-
eese aa the Inertia of Kest.
An inert person is likely to be a use
less person, iloiion is not necessarily
progress; action is not necessaiily ac
complishment. One may be as truly
inert in action as in inaction. Among
philosophers, inerfia'is that tendency
of matter to remain in the state in
which it has been pur. Once at rest
it continues at rest; once in motion, it
continues with the same boiIm-nr.iTl
acted upon by sorai external force.
Most persons are troubled with in
ertia. If they are at rest, they need
some one to ronse them into action. If
they are ia motion th-;y need some one
to vary the speed, or change the direc
tion of, or stop, thst motion. He who
waits for an external force- to cure bis
own inertia, will not be very likely to
be much of a force in helping to
cure the world's inertia. By slacking
your own speed, you may draw some
one else into action. By increasing
your speed yoa 7 may push someone
else into action. There is no vtrtne in
motion unless you move something;
no virtue in action, unless yoa act
upon something. If you would be of "
use in the world, avoid the inertia of
motion as well as the inertia of rest.
S.-S. Times.
The Bones of Marshal Ney.
Sensational reports have been sent
from Salisbury. N. C. that the remains
of the famous Mar-h-'l Njr, who com
manded the Old Gasrl at Waterloo, lie
buried ia the soil of that. State. It is
said that a man named Pjc-ter S. Ney
came t j North Carolisia ia 1816 and
died there, ilauy of his old friends
insist that this man ires M iria! Ney. t
It was said that Key's skull hat! been
trephined, and an examination' of the
remains would prove conclusively that
the remains were his. The remains
were disintenvd aud found to have
crumbled into dust, and it was impos
sible to ascertain whether or not the
skull had been trephined. Ckieag.
News. . " -
Owing to the increased electrical
tensity of the atmosphere, which is in
duced by the continual evolution of
steam and smoka. Dr. Andric, esti
mates that the danger from light ning is
from thro? t. five times srrfater ihan it
was lift v years a ro. A 3". I
He travels s;if' ;,
!i!t r,n'
Mitly, wlvo is giiaij'-V'.-n