The Corvallis gazette., October 03, 1879, Page 4, Image 4

WMKLCOBY.UMS GAZETTE
OCTOBER 3, 1879.
SWEET SIXTEEN.
Dear little Sadie was "sweet sixteen,"
Eyes of the softest, sweet blue,
Hair of the sunniest golden sheen,
Face of an angel, fair and true;
Daintier fairy there never was seen
Than dear little Sadie at "sweet sixteen."
The little white hand that lay in my own,
Timid its pressure, I feel it yet;
Tender the music her lips intene.
Sweetest of voices, I cannot forget!
Sweeter thn warble of song birds. I ween,
Sadie's low laughter at "sweet sixteen."
Sometimes I feel 'tis a dream, I know
Her dear face bending close to my own;
And I hear in the twilight, soft and low,
My own name called in her sweetest tone;
And. nonsense, when she was sixteen, you see
Bless you, my boy, I was thirty-three.
Burlington Hawkeye.
WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR!
BY ANNIE A. PRESTON.
"Oh, what a lovely bunch of pansies!
Is it possible they are for me?" I ex
claimed, to a tiny, brown-eyed girl who
nlacfid a fracrrant bouciuet of the gold
and purple dewey blooms in a hammock
in which I was idly swinging under the
big maple.
"Auntie Lee sent them." said the lit
tle child, "and she hopes the mountain
air will soon make vou well, and she's
vonr neighbor down under the hill."
"Who is this neighborly Auntie Lee?"
I asked the woman with whom I board
ed, when next day she came within hear
incr of my voice.
! "Oh, then, she's sent you some
?posies?" replied the talkative Mrs. Evans,
T comincr brisklv from the garden and sit-
ting down on the steps of the little porch
t so that she might entertain me while she
was shelling the peas, thus "killing tew
birds with one stun," as she said. "I was
a-wonderin' not tew minutes ago how
long 'twould be afore she'd find out
about ye an' send ye suthin'. I can't see,
for my part, how she can afford to do as
she does."
"Why, what does she do?" I asked.
"Oh, she says she aims to be neighbor
ly, and if anybody happens to be sick
anywhere around she sends 'em little
things to eat and flowers to cheer 'em up,
as she says, and she always has her knit
ting work in her pocket, and her odd
jobs of knitting, as she calls it, grows out
like magic into gloves and mittens and
wristlets, and stockin's that she gives
away."
"To her friends people fully able to
buy them, I suppose?"
"Oh dear, no. To poor children and
to ole men and women that I s'pose are
really needy, and that set great store by
her warm and handsome presents, for
her yarns are as bright as her flowers,
and I've told my man a good many times
that the color went half toward makin'
her little gift so welcomt . An' then she
has so much comp'ny."
"Rich people from the city, whose vis
its she returns?"
"Oh land sakes! no; poor folks that are
tickled almost to death to get an invita
tion to her pleasant little home. Yes,
her home is an amazin' pleasant one,
though her man is only a poor mechanic
She's always a sayin' that she'd rather do
a little good every day as she goes along
than to be a-waitin' tew do some great
thing when she gets able, an then, per
haps, lose her opportunity and never do
nothin'. I told her one day last year,
says I, 'Miss Lee, I should ruther be
-uttrrrI-Sr)Biehin, in the bank for a rainy
dav than be givin'-&way all the time.'
And says she, 'Mrs. Evings. that's your
way, and it's a good way. I lon'& find
no fault with it, but all these things that
I give away would never get into the
bank, and so you see they'd be lost, an' I
should pass away without ever doin' any
thing for my Master. An' I don't want
to go to bed at night without thinkin'
that I have tried that day to brighten
some fellow-mortal's burden, brought a
smile to some face or a streak o' sunshine
to some heart, if its only givin' a bunch
o' posies in the right speret.' "
"And those flowers cost her a good
deal, at first and last, I suppose?" said I
caressing my pansies.
"Oh, 'twould cost me a good deal to
run such a garden as she does, but Miss
Lee says she's not stong, so she gets
fresh air, sun baths and exercise in her
garden and spends her time workin' in
there instead of visitin'. She returns all
her calls by sendin' her compliments
with a bunch o' posies."
"She hires some one to carry them
about, I presume?"
"Massy, no. There isn't a child in
the village but would run its legs off for
Auntie Lee," and having finished shell
ing her mess of peas, my talkative little
hostess trotted off about their work again,
saying, as she disappeared through the
doorway,
"It's well enough to be neighborly,
of course; but Miss Lee might see the
time when she'd a wished she had a little
somethin' out at interest."
The Vermont air agreed with me, my
health gradually improving, and I staid,
oa and on, week after week spending a
part of my time, when the weather did
not positively forbid, in my hammock
under the maples.
Asyetlhad not once seen my neigh
bor, Auntie Lee, but grew to love her on
account of the pretty nosegays that con
tinually found their way from her hand
to mine by one and another of her child
ren messengers.
One night, late in August, there was
a heavy thunder-shower. The sudden
downfall of rain swelled the little river
that skirted our village to a veritable
mountain torrent. A milldam some
miles up the stream had broken away
and the angry flood came rushing down,
sweeping all before it.
"Auntie Lee's husband's shop is gone,"
shouted my hostess, Mrs. Evans, as she
knocked at my door in the early morning
after the storm; "and that's not the worst
on't, for her garden is all washed out
and undermined, so that'll take a pretty
pile o' money to fix it up again. I won
der now ef Miss Lee don't wish she
hadn't been so neighborly, and so had a
little somethin' out at interest," and it
really seemed to me as if the little wom
an was chuckling to herself as she patted
down the stairs.
In less than half an hour she came
back to my room with as doleful a look
ing vissage as I ever saw. "Whatever is
a-goin' to becomeo' me and my man?
she cried; "and we a-gettin' to be old
f olks,tew. Our savin's were all in the stock
oomp'ny up to Minotsville, in there be
cause they paid more interest than the
bank; we only tuk it out o' the bank a
little while ago, an' now their old mill
has gone clean off, an' they'll all go to
gin era J smash and we along with 'em;"
and this time she went groaning down
the stairs. I could hardly help pitying
the poor woman from the bottom of my
heart.
There was great excitement in the lit
tle village, as a matter of course, but
Auntie Lee was reported to be as "chip
per as ever. The nosegays came to me
every -day as usual, not quite so many
nor so great a variety as formerly, for a
part of the garden had been wasted away,
but enough to give me an increased ad
miration for the sweet old lady who was
so persistent and unwearying in her
neighborly acts of kindness.
The next Monday's local newspaper
had this unique notice at the head of the
village items :
All who have ever been the recipients
of kindly deeds from Auntie Lee, and
who would like to reciprocate now in
their day of misfortune, are invited to
bring their supper to Oak Grove on
Thursday afternoon at five o'clock, and
talk the matter up over a neignboriy cup
of tea.
At the time appointed I had a carriage
come-to take mv hostess and me, and my
basket of cakes and buns fresh from the
bakerv. to the beautiful grove. As we
were driven along I was surprised to see
so many people, lunch-basket in nanu,
speeding in tne same direction.
"Almost every body in town is going
said Mrs. Evans, "high an' lowvrich an'
uoor.
As I was being assisted to a seat, a gen
tle, motherly little woman spread a soft
shawl over the back oi the cnair intenoeu
for me and quickly folded another shawl
for my lame foot to rest upon.
"This is Auntie Lee," said Mrs Evans,
and the sweet-faced little woman and
looked into each other's faces with a lit
tle curiosity, perhaps, as well as sympa
thv. and shook hands cordially.
"I don't know what all these goodpeo
nlfi are to do with Elijah and me," she
said, with a smile that was as genial as a
sunbeam, "but the minister would have
ns come, and he and his wife drove
around for us."
The minister ascended the platform
inst then, and after tenderly yet impies
sivelv invoking tne divme messing, ne
looked down benighlv upon the faces up
turned to his, and with a touching into
nation of voice asked "Who is my neigh
bor?" He then went on to tell how
Auntie Lee answered that question in
regard to himself.
"When ihrst became acquainted wim
Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Lee," he said, I
was finishing my theological studies here
in the village with JJr. Mills, and tney
had just married and settled down in
their little house yonder, which they had
inherited. One day I was sent fee to
preach on trial in the adjoining town of
Liuxboro . My only , coat was worn
threadbare, extensively patched, and I
had no way of procuring another. Feel
ing sorely grieved and dispirited, I
started out for a walk, and for the sake
of telling my trouble to some fellow crea
ture, and with no tnougnt 01 receiving
any aid in the premises, I turned into
Mrs. Lee's house, and read to her the in
vitation I had from Luxboro', and frankly
told her why I could not go at present.
"Leave it to the Liord, said tne good wo
man, and forthwith she proceeded to take
my measure with a piece of tape. 'Go
home,' she continued, 'write your ser
mon and come here again on Saturday
morning.' I obeyed. I subsequently
found that the woman had actually taken
a piece of cloth that she had laid by in
the house for a cloak for herself, and,
taUoress as she was by trade, had cut
and made me a coat from it. I preached
my first sermon in it, and shortly re
ceived and accepted my first call."
"Oh. dear," whispered Auntie Lee
from her seat by my side, "he's paid me
for that coat every New Year's since, and
it wasn t much for me to do alter all
Major Sanford, the richest man in the
town, was the next to take the stand.
The old people smiled and nodded their
heads.- luu the young folks looked at
each other and wondered what he could
be indebted to Auntie Lee forr
"When I was a boy," the Major began,
I was bound out in H to a very,
very bad master, irom wnom deter
mined to run away. I availed myself
Lee, "you've been lendin to the Lord,
and he pays the best interest after all. I
never could understand before ; but I do
now.
There are some of ns so poor that wp
cannot give such as we have. A mHr
or a kind word even will conns ltk M
us in kind," said Auntie Loc, and wn an
brushed away the tears that we oottld not
suppress while these tnuelttng speeenes
were being made, and we went to our
homes.
Smitten with the Clrcm Fever.
After the performance waB over at the
circus, says a Nevada exchange, a young
man n,,i nn ( 'lii.u im and said he want
i tr, aM him on nrivato business. The
veteran took him into his omce, ana ru
noivod him with the usual politeness.
"I came up all the way from Uarson to
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see the show, ana j. a ue w
the young man.
"Gh, I see, said the circus man; you
are a well-formed, healthy-looking young
fallow nn.l T like to encourage mien aw
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vnii he von: l s race uhkiiibudu.
lou don t cnew, smoico or uhua,
linriA?"
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'Oh, no; honor origin except uu
and beer."
"Yon must leave off those bad habits
They weaken the muscles and paralyze
th nerves. You can soon stop drinking,
Vint vonr salary will not be large until
von have overcome these tendencies.
little lemonade circus lemonade is all
the performers drink. Call at 11 o'clock
to-morrow morning and I will see what
I can do. You musn't expect over $50 a
week, though, at first. We never pay
high salaries until we know What a man
can do."
The delightful Carsonite went away
and rihxt morning was on hand.
Chiarini took him to a tent where three
immense Bengal tigers were caged
Handing him a curry-comb and a pair of
shears, he remarked:
"Your duties will be comparatively
light at first. You will go into the cage
and eurrv the tigers down every morn
ing, and about once a week est their
flaws: keen 'em down pretty short, so
that when they attack the tiger-tamers,
Mr. Wilson, they won't lacerate him
much. Sometimes, but not more than
once a month, you may have occasion to
file their teeth. You just throw the ani
mal on his back and hold his head be
tween your knees. If he acts rough, belt
him in the nose a few times. Keep pelt
ing him until he quiets down.
"Haven't you got a vacancy in the art
department?" asked the young man from
Carson.
'Is art in your line? inquired Uhiar-
mi.
"Yes," drawled the young man. ."in
the circuses I have always run with I
was employed to print the stripes on the
zebra. I killed so many tigers keepin'
'em straight that the boss wouldn't let
me handle 'em. He said I used 'em too
rough."
Chiarini swears that the terror from
Carson shall have the first vacancy.
of an opportunity to escape one Satur
day afternoon, when I was sent to the
pasture to salt the cattle. I came straight
over the mountain to this place. J.
wanted to get out of the State as soon as
possible, so came directly to the bridge
down there at the river, which is, you
know, the New Hampshire boundary.
Just after I had stepped upon Vermont
soil, I overtook on the road Mr. and Mrs.
Lee, young people then. They had a
basket and a spade, and had been digging
up wild flowers to transplant in their gar
den. Although an entire stranger, they
accosted me kindly. Noticing that I had
been crying, Mrs. Lee asked me my
trouble. Before I knew it I had blurted
out the whole story, and had been in
vited by her to go home with them and
stay over Sunday. I was, of course, only
too grateful to accept the invitation.
After supper we set out the plants,
and then Mr. Lee took me
with him down to the hill to
the bank of the brook, as we called it
then, and into his little machine shop. I
evinced my fondness for tools, and con
fided to him an invention that had in a
crude form long had possession of my
brain. Being a natural mechanic, he
saw the utility of my invention at a
glance. The subject was not mentioned
on the morrow, which was a quiet, rest
ful day to me. Mrs. Lee loaned me a
clean linen suit belonging to her hus
band, and I went to church with them.
The next day Mr. Lee went over to H
and made terms with my master, because
Mrs. Lee said she could not allow me to
feel like a runaway. Then Mr. Lee took
me into his employment and gave me a
corner in his shop, where I could, at odd
moments, work at my model. My in
vention proved a success, and made my
fortune, as you all know. I am thankful,
my dear friends, that I am able to repair
the damage done to the dear little home
stead and to rebuild my old friend's
shop," and Major Sanford sat down,
wiping his eyes with his handkerchief,
while his delighted audience applauded
vociferously.
"Dear heart !" said Auntie Lee to me,
"what was he talking about? He's paid
us over and over, and he's tried and tried
to make Elijah go into partnership with
him, but he would not, and I won't let
him."
Then quickly followed one-minute
speeches by the score.
"They kept me three months when I
was sick and homeless," said one. "I
made their house my home for weeks
when I was out of work," said another.
Ten homeless working girls were mar
ried in their parlor, and went out into
the world with their blessing. There
"was a great number of touching little
speeches from those who had received
flowers and delicacies in illness, and
warm garments in time of need.
And so from them all flowed contribu
tions of money, the greatest part of
which was safely placed in bank for the
benefit of the Lees when old age and
failing strength should overtake them.
"Pear mel" said Mrs. Evans to Auntie
The Australian Exhibitions.
Mr. O. M. Spencer, United States Con
sul General at Melbourne, Australia,
transmits to the Department of State a
very full report of the proposed Exhi
bitions at Sydney and Melbourne. The
first opens on the 1st of September, 1879,
and will close on the 31st of March, 1880.
That at Melbourne opens on the 1st of
October, 1880, and closes on the 31st of
March, 1881. -This Exhibition will be
held in the Carlton Gardens, comprising
an area of 65 acres. Nearly all the leading
European govermentshave signified their
intention of being present by royal com
missioners. All of the Australasian colo
nies have entered heartily into the
enterprise. The English Government
has taken a warm and decided interest in
it. The Prince of Wales and others of
the royal family will visit the Exhibition.
The Duke of Geno& will- c.ns wut in rn
Italian man-of-war, and France and Ger
many will be represented in a similar
manner. The relation which exists be
tween the Sydney and Melbourne exhib
itors is one of generous rivalry and cor
dial co-operation. The two cities will
soon be connected by railway. There
are several lines of steamships now ply
ing regularly between the two places,
with low rates for freight. The expense
of transferring goods from Sydney to
Melboure will be moderate, including
storage. Goods will be received at the
latter exhibition building on the 1st of
June, 1880.
All the usual facilities accorded at pre
vious international fairs in other coun
tries will be liberally afforded at Mel
bourne. The protection of inventions
capable of being patented is fully
secured. Should the United States
decide not to send out a man-of-war,
it is advisable to ship all
heavy goods in sailing vessels, via the
Cape, not later than February, 1880.
Goods from the Pacific slope and parcels
of great value and small bulk may be
shipped via San Francisco by the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, which runs a
monthly line of steamers from San Fran
cisco to Sydney. Show cases, shelving,
belting, etc., may be procured in Mel
bourne at low rates, at the cost of the
exhibitors. Scientific American.
What Our Boys and Girls are Read
ing. Sunday Afternoon for September,
says: The flashy newspapers that are
sold upon the news-stands, and the vile
publications that are hawked about more
secretly, are not, however, the whole of
the mischievous reading that falls into
the hands of our boys and girls. The
libraries, the public libraries, the Sunday
school libraries, furnish them with a great
deal of reading that, as they use it, is ex
tremely hurtful to them. The statistics
that our librarians give us, showing the
great excess of novels over all other
classes of books issued to the patrons of
the libraries, give us food for rather dis
couraging reflection. From the Hartford
Public Library one boy took 102 novels
in six months, and a girl 112 in the same
time. Think of the condition of these
children's minds at the end of such a
carnival of sensations ! Even though no
books of positively immoral character are
admitted into the public libraries, it is
clear that the provision of so much men
tal exertement for our young people is
doing them great damage. The late con
vention of librarians in Boston discussed
this matter very earnestly and tried to
reach some practical conclusions. One
radical suggestion was that a city or town
has no right to tax the people for the
furnishing of mere amusement to any
body, and that therefore no fiction that is
not clearly educational in its character
should find room upon the shelves of the
public libraries. Another proposition was
that school children (and the restriction
need not be limited to children at school)
should not be allowed to take more than
one story a week. That rule ought to be
immediately adopted and rigidly enforced
in all public libraries. It is simple de
bauchery for any young person to read
more than one novel a week.
In rratse of Light Brahmas.
Every variety of fowlr has ono or more
points of excellence, but by almost uni
versal consent the light Brahma combines
the largest number of good qualities. A
ttosen poultry fanciers may disagree
about the merits of the breed of fowls
thev sevomlly prefer, but they will all
unite on tho light Brahma as their second
choice. "If fine feathers" alone made
fine birds," there would be no other
fowls in the poultry yard than tho Dom
inique and the silvor-spangled Hamburg.
If one desires "a cock that crows in tho
and a hen that will do a largo
amount of work in tho vegetable and
flower garden, he can not do better than
keep tho ordinary barnyard fowls. If a
B it. . . . i M i . , m . i y-v
person keeps poultry ior wo F"rv"
witnessing "lively chicken contests, he
will find tho game towis exacuy uiu
to gratify his desiros. The Java fowl is
more elegant than the light Brahma, the
black Spanish supports a more lofty
comb, tho Leghorn produces more eggs,
the buff Cochin will attain a larger size,
the Dorkin will endure more severe
without iniurv. and tho Houdan
will aStnvA more delicate flesh. There
are also breeds that mature earlier, that
are more persistent sitters, or that re
quire an incubator or a hen of another
breed to hatch their eggs. In short, that
i a breed of fowls that excels all others
in some desirable characteristic.
For a " general purpose " fowl, how
ever, there is none that compares with
the light Brahma. It has a comely form
and good size. It has fine plumage, that
is not liable to injury unless the bird is
confined in close, dirty quarters. When
allowed the run of an open yard or a
small, clean lot, the feathers are not lia
ble to become discolored. The white
feathers that cover the body of the bird
are relieved by the dark ones about the
neck and on the wings and tail. The
plumage of the light Brahma is not liable
to injury in the coops in which they are
sent to market. It is generally remarked
that chickens of this breed arrive at a dis
tant market in a more presentable condi
tion than those of other varities, and on
this account, if no other, they ordinarily
obtain ready sale. They have no droop
ing tail feathers to be broken, no large
wattles and combs to be injured during
transoortation .
The eggs of the Brahma are of large
size and well shaped. A dozen of them
will weigh more than an equal number
of those produced by hens of almost any
other breed. As winter layers they have
an established reputation. As eggs laid
in winter are worth from two to five
times as much as those dropped during
the soring or summer, the value of the
eggs produced by a Brahma hen is gen
erally greater than of those laid by fowls
that are regarded as better egg pro
ducers. The hens are faithful, but not
persistent, setters. They will rarely
abandon a nest of eggs on which they
have commenced to set. It is compara
tively easy, however, to break up their
desire for setting, when they will return
to laying. As the Brahma hen is heavy,
she is likely to break the eggs of those
breeds which produce thin shells, but
the eggs of her own production are of
sufficient strength to sustain her weight
on the nest.
As mothers, the Brahmas are kind
affectionate, faithfuL watchful and provi
dent. Being peaceable and quiet
their dispositions, they ney,er engage in
miarrels with other fond mothers who
are rearing families in the same neigh
borhood. Their example in this respect
might be followed to good advantage by
other birds, as well as by human moth
ers. As Brahmas seldom wander far
from the place set apart for their occu
oancv. their chicks are not liable to be
carried off by hawks or devoured by
small animals. As the body of iiie
Brahma is heavv and its wings compara
tively small, it Is not inclined to attempt
to fly long distances. It is easily fenced
in or fenced out of a yard. It uses its
feet for the purpose of walking upon the
ground, and not for that of scratching it
in pieces. It has respect for flower beds,
in which matter it shows its superiority
over many men. It endures confinement
submissively, but rejoices in the free
dom of the open field.
In short, the light Brahma is a comely,
useful, respectable and well-behaved
bird in all the walks of life. Its virtues
are many, its faults are few. Apparently,
it does not know the meaning of vice in
any of its various forms. During a some
what protracted stay in this country it
has endeared itself to thousands in every
State in the Union. It has made many
friends and few enemies. It is a favorite
with persons of all ages and of both
sexes. It has gained its excellent and
wide-spread reputation through merit
alone. It never sounds its own praise
with a loud voice. The male seldom
crows, and when he does it is not in the
tone or manner of the braggart. The
cackle of the female is only loud enough
to inform her owner that a visit to her
nest will not be unrewarded. Among
the gayer and more boisterous birds of
the poultry yard she walks a quiet, mod
est Quaker, conscious that her life is
well spent and that the world is better
for her presence in it.
But the benefits conferred by the light
Brahma fowl do not terminate with
death. Its body is left as a rich legacy
for the living. On the table, at the
market or the mansion, dressed or un
dressed, raw or cooked, plain or garnish
ed, it presents a tempting appearance,
and this appearance is by no means de
ceptive. The flesh is tender, white and
of delicate flavor. The fowl when tol
erably well matured is very plump, the
flesh well supplied with fat, the whole
covered with a skin of rich and most
agreeable color. A few very peculiar
people who delight in the rapid develop
ment peculiar to Young America, who
admire boys who carry a revolver at ten,
and girls who wear long dresses at twelve,
condemn the light Brahma because it
has not a full coat of feathers when it
has been out of the shell but eight weeks,
and because it is not in prime condition
for the gridiron when the first strawber
ries appear. These persons, however,
are chronic grumblers whose complaints
are unworthy of consideration.
The August Meteors.
A fine art gallery is to be opened in
London, the character of which will be
purely dramatic, and the object to bring
together a variety of paintings illustrative
of theatrical art, including portraits of
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ueceaseu unu living actors, it is intenoeu,
also, that the distinguishing feature of the
collection shall consist solely of contribu
tions from actors and actresses of the
British stage, although a collection of pic
tures by the most talented of onr scenic
artists will likewise be added. Most of
the leading actors and actresses have al
ready subscribed their names in the list
of contributors.
rScentlflo American. J
On the 10th of August last the earth,
in its accustomed iourney through space,
reached the outer edge of the supposed
meteoric ring which it annually passes
through at this period of the year. In
the vicinity of New York large num
bers of meteors were seen during the
night of August 10th, some of them be
ing of comparatively large size, very
bright, and leaving long trails. Doctor
Lewis Swift, in a recent letter to the
Rochester Expresm, gives the following
information concerning these remarkable
heavenly bodies:
Meteoric astronomy now takes rank as
a distinctive branch of astronomical
science. Not forty yeyrs have elapsed
since it was ascertained that star showers
are periodical. Even then, and for many
vears after, it was supposed there were
out two, called the August and Novem
ber showers. Now, not less than one
hundred have been detected, and others
are constantly being added to the list.
The accounts of the showers that occur
red in ancient times came down to us
clothed in such extravagant language
that, until tho great star shower of No
vember 13. 1833. astronomers were loth
to believe them. Now they know not
only the cause, but are able to predict
their recurrence with almost as much
exactness as eclipses, and the popular
mind observes these displays with equa
nimity and delight instead of fear and
W . - . -. . ii i 3 J.
alarm, or thinkmg tne uay oi uugiueui
has come. Science has disarmed not
only them, but eclipses and comets as
well, of their terrors.
All know what a shooting star looks
like, but no living man can teU us what
it really is, for not one has ever been
known to reach the earth. Those heavy,
stony, and still more weighty metallic
masses, called meteorites, mewjonu
stones, etc., which occasionally fall to
the earth from the celestial regions, of
which the one that recently fell in Iowa
was a remarkable example, belong to
another class of objects entirely, of the
origin of which man knows nothing.
A shooting star is only visiDie wuno
undergoing the process of combustion,
which lasts from one to three seconds,
seldom longer. Previous to this they
exist in a dark, probably solid condition,
not much, if any, larger than peas, too
small to be seen bv daylight, and at
night, being in the earth's shadow, are
eclipsed and consequently mvisiDie
Onlv while being burned are tney visi
ble to us, as then they shine by their own
light.
Each meteoroid moves in an orbit, re
volving around the sun with as much
regularity as the larger planets, m lact,
each is in every sense of the word a
planet, obeying strictly the laws of gray
itation and planetary motion. AU space
is filled with them; they are as numerous
as the sand. The earth and they in their
ionrnev around the son encounter each
other: the earth, bv its superior attrac
tion, draws them toward it, but to reach
it they must pass through the atmos
phere, which not one is able to do. Only
meteoric stones are able to reach the
earth, and they have their surfaces black
ened and converted to scoria by the ter
rible heat engendered by the friction
with the atmosphere and by arrested mo
tion.
Shooting stars move in all directions,
and at velocities probably equal to the
earth s. nearly nineteen miles a second.
One moving retrograde, therefore (from
east to west) , would plunge into the at
mosphere at a relative velocity of soma
thirty-eight miles a second, and; if allow
ance be made for accelerated motion
caused by the earth's attraction, proba
bly double that, or seventy-hve miles a
second. The encounter is fearful, and
but for the atmosphere which acts as a
cushion, the effect would be disastrous,
for not lees than 800,000,000 would rain
upon the earth every day.
The source from whence these me
teoroids come is comets, especially from
their tails. The tail of the great comet
of 1811 was 150,000,000 miles in length
and 15,000,000 in diameter. It is mi
probable in the highest degree that the
comet could gatner its tail to itseii again.
It is left behind, forming part of a ring
which in time may become continuous
Another comet comes and it does the
same, and during the ages which are past
this prooess has been going on till the
interplanetary spaces are filled with not
only meteoroids, but sometnmg stiu more
marvelous.
In about three thousand years that
great comet will return again and repeat
the process, forming part of another
ring, or adding to the first, depending on
circumstances which need not be consid
ered here. Whenever the earth, in its
annual journey, passes through any ring
made by some comet, no man knows
when, we get a star shower. The four
most notable ones in our times
take place at the following dates,
namely, on the mornings of August 11
and November 14, and the evenings of
November 24 and 27. The last two are
caused by the earth passing through the
track of meteoroids left behind by the
fragments of Bida's comet, which di
vided into two parts in 1845. In this
way meteoric rings are formed, of which
the solar system is filled, but none are
visible to us, except those the earth
passes through. By some such process
was the Aunist ring formed, which the
earth passed diagonally through on the
evening of the 10th and morning of the
11th of the present month.
The first August shower mentioned in
history occurred on July 25, A. D. 811,
and has appeared with unfailing regular
ity down to our time, except a break of
eightv-three years between 841 and V24
and another and much longer one of
three hundred and ten years, between
933 and 1243, owing, probably, to breaks
in the ring, or, which is more likely, to
a failure to record them. The period of
the above comet is about one hundred
and twenty-three years, and it wiU there
fore make its next appearance about the
year 1985.
The eccentricity of the August ring
is very great, its perihelion distance be
inr ennal to that of the earth, and its
aphelion distance far beyond the orbit
of Neptune, making the circumference
of the ring more than 11,000,000,000
miles, and as the earth is ten days pass
ing through it, its thickness must be at
least lb,000,UOD miles.
Tieed Men. The Colton Semi-Tropic
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is applicable to a great many localities
on the Pacific coast: We have no room
for men who are too proud or too tired
to work. We have now a large surplus
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work. These we certainly have enough
of. But men who can come with a small
amount of ready money, and who are
able and willing to work and economize
as they do in other States, we can safely
promise them a good living and a com
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twelve-month will see the tide of pros
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An infant daughter of John Wagner
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has sued to compel tne erasure oi tne
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RUPTURE
CURED!
Prom a Merchant.
Dayton, W. T. Feb. 10, 1879.
W. J. Borne, Proprietor California Elastic
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Sir: The Truss I purchased of you one year ago
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