IT USCOLH'5 noiE.
Ox thb Caes, April 15, 1881,
"I want to find Mr.Spears."
"Mr. Spears?"
"Yes, Mr. Speara."
"What Spwrt"
"I don't remember tlio first name, bat
I was told bo lived a Iittlo west of the
depot."
'Is it J. Q. Spears?"
"I bolieve that's it J. Q."
"John Quincy?"
"I presume John Quincy."
"I don't know whother it s John Qniner
Adams or not," said the boy. "but its
John Quincy suro, and he's np at the
store. 1 II snow you.
Thus saying, he kindly piloted me
across the street and into a corner
store, whore I found tho objoct of my
scarcn.
This, be it known.was Thursdnv morn
ing, in the town of Talulu, in Menard
county.about 200 miles south of Chicago.
A pleasant place it is, with a rich coun
try surrounding it, and a population of
excellent people, numbering about 700
or 800.
This was Lincoln's old stamping
ground, ana a low nines away was oalcni
where the great President first began
life, and first showed some of those
qualities which alter ward mado him
fumous.
There used to be a mill, a store or
two, and a hotel or two at Salem, but
nothing now remains save the cellars
of the first and a dilapidated old build
ing where Lincoln used to board, but
which is now used as a stable. The In
ter Ocean had heard that there were
many old settlors around Talulu who
know Lincoln as boy and man, and Mr.
Spears had beon montioned as a gentlo
man who could give many facts about
mm himself and could put one on the
track of securing much information from
others.
So I introduced mysolf to Mr. Spears
and explained my errand. I found him
a most intelligent man, a wealthy farmer
whose land adjoins the village, and one
who entered heart and soul into the
spirit of my enterprise.
"Yes, I can help you," said lie, "but
although 1 know Mr. Lincoln very well,
there are otherj who can givo you more
interesting incidents connected with his
career than I am able to give. I, of
course, was much his junior, but he was
a great admirer of my grandinothor.Mrs.
Mary Spears, who was quite celebrated
as a doctress here about the time Lin
coln made his oppoarance, and he used
to visit her regularly every week and
talk to her by the hour. While thore I
saw a great deal of him. But come with
me a door or two away," continued Mr.
Spears, "and I think I can show you
some mementoes of him."
We went into the store of Messrs. Bell
Bros., and these gentlemen kindly
brought forth an old-looking case con
taining many of the instruments with
whioh Lincoln usod to work when acting
as deputy surveyor in that part of the
country, and which had come into their
possession. They are vory primitive
looking tools now, but Lincoln did good
work with them, and his surveys were
always considered reliable. There are
some maps and town plats also in the
possession of the Bell Bros, that origin
ated with Lincoln, and all theso souve
nirs of the great man are preserved with
great care.
"There are a number of trees down
here a little ways," said one of the gen
tlemen, "that I have been telling our
people ought to be preserved. When
the surveying party was out the boys
frequently took an axe and tried which
could mark highest with it on the trees.
Linooln most always won, his great
height giving him the advantage, and
there are several trees in the woods
near by which bear his mark high above
oil others. Some of our old citizens
were with the party here, and remember
the incidont well enough to identify tho
trees. ', J
"Lincoln was an ingenious kind of
man," pursued Mr. Bell. "When he
was at my father's house one day my
mother complained that she had diffi
culty in keeping the clock right, and
never knew whon it was correct. 'I'll
fix you,' said Lincoln, and ho went and
made a medium mark on the floor, so
that the sun coming in by the door
post would always tell when it was
noon. That mark is on tho floor yet,
and it's as good a regulator now as it
was nearly half a century ago."
Nearly every one here who has come
to middle age remembers something of
Lincoln. I went over to the elegant
farm-house of Mr. Spears and thore
met, beside his estimable wife, a
couple of ladies, neighbors of Mr.
Spears, who were quite ready to talk
of Mr. Lincoln and givo ' their recol
lections of him."
"I remember," said Mrs. Rule, one
of the ladies mentioned, "that Lincoln
came to my father's once and did some
surveying for which father gave him a
deer-skin to fox' his pants with.
Lincoln was much pleased with the
trade."
"And afterward I remember," said
Mr. Spears, "he concluded to have a
pair of breeches made entirely of buck
skin, and got them. They answered
firstrate until they got wet one day,
when they climbed half way to his
waist, and never got down again."
"Are there any of Lincoln's old
sweethearts around here?" I queried.
"I don't know of. any now," said
Mrs. Rule. "Lincoln was not much of
a beau, and seemed to prefer the com
pany of the elderly ladies to the young
ones."
"But he went to parties and Bocial
gatherings, did he not?" said I.
"Well, sometimes, but not often."
"You want to write a love story
about him, I suppose," said the other
lady. Mrs. Worth tnilnrlv
;Yeg, I'd like to."
"Well, Lincoln was a poor subject
for romance. I'm afraid you won't
succeed in getting anything in that
line."
"Well, I onght to find something
here in his old home," said I.
"He was very bashful," naid Mr.
Spears, "and about the gawkiest young
man yon ever saw. But the man to tell
joa if there was any love affair in Lin
coln's experience whila here is Mr.
j D' lives a few miles from town,
nd was his earliest friend and compan
ion. 7e will ride over there and see
him."
Thanking Mr. Spears for the trouble
Vaitftklnir u nninila.! - - .
horses a few minute later n,l mvi ,..
wen ' tlom town t,,fl wMi'Dea of
W. O. Oreen, Esq., one of the wealthiest
and best known farmers in tho West.
We found Mr. Green at his home,
which stands in a beautiful location
overlooking a large natural park and
commandinir a view of lu'u
" " " " 1HU VI
1WO acres which lies around it. He wol-
cuiueu us wun gentlemanly hospitality,
and when the obiwt nf m ,,-
made known, stirred the glowing coals
wa gnue buu sui uown io a quiet and
gossipy chat.
i lake a cigar, said thohost, and then,
with wreaths of smoke curling upward
toward the coilinir. ha ftntaftiil lit inn
most interesting account of his acquaint.
uvroui mm auniiiuiQ Jjincoin.
I have alwftVl hftjl tint imnwtti.n
Lincoln s various promotions wore sur-
vnuvn va uim, out alter hearing or him
from the lins of An nl.i nn.i intin.-t
menu, i am sausnod that he began his
life in that ouiet nook nf tha front Aaftli
Dmem inww upon making something
himself bcvotul thfl nr.l innrv nmliitinn
of ordinary men. It is, of course, not
. . ... .. .. . . .
iu uu nujjposeu mai ne looked to achieve
world-wide ilixtim-ti
v v aM. v uu
had something in him above tho com
monplace, and that visions of great
achievements appeared to him can
scarcely be doubted. He did not see
just how and whon the road would bo
onened and who ilnct lnt tin fnlt tlm
strength and power of intellectual con-
'!.(-. 1 ... . . .
niesi ia uini.anu every inon no climbed
that ho had abundant strength and will
w surmount.
"Lincoln's wonderful power and in
fluenco over men," said Mr. Green
"was felt as soon a lm onmn ia Mnlnm
Ho was alwava noiiulnr ftiiil nlnnr rn.
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garded as authority. Ho got tho sobri
quet of 'Honest Abe' by refusing to act
AS llld)7A At linrilA rnjna nnlnua tia nrn.
left free to decide the question fairlv.
1 a i: - ii i '
uu uvt ucL-unuug iu me jockeying sys
tem lllfln 1 11 vnfrtm. Prifil tn liia ntwninn
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the race was won by tho man luckiest
in choosing a judge; afterward the bost
horse took the race, no matter who the
Owner nu'ffllt 1)0. Aftnr nnnrrnlinnr tnr
0. . . -i n
hours over judges, the owners of horses
wuo nau eacn oeen irymg, perhaps, to
Put A frinndlv adliorAnt in iut. na nmnirn
O J wv ww
wonld finally settlo down on Lincoln,and
then everybodr said: 'Now look out!
This means a fair race, and the best
horso must win.
"Where did Lincoln learn his survey
ing," 1 asked.
Took it up himself." replied Mr.
Orcen, "as he did a hundrod things, and
mastered it too. When ho acted as sur
veyor here he was a deputy of S. M.
Neal, and not of Calhoun, as has so
often boen said. There was a dispute
about this, and many sketches of his life
gave Calhoun (Cindle-box Calhoun as
ho was known afterwards during the
Kansas troubles, and election frauds) as
the surveyor but it was Neal." Mr.
Green turned to his desk and drew out
an old certificate, iu the handwriting of
Lincoln, giving the boundaries of cer
tain lands, and signed "S. M. Neal, Sur
veyor, by A. Lincoln, Deputy," thus set
tling the question. Mr. Green was a
Democrat, and has leaned toward that
party all his lifo, but what he
thought aud thinks of Lincoln can be
seen oy an indorsement on the back of
the certificate namod.which is as follows:
'Preserve this, as it is from the noblest
of God's creation A. Lincoln, the 2d
preserver of his country. May o, 1865.
. enned by W. G. Oreen, who taught
Lincoln tho English Grammar in 1H31.
"bo you taught him grammar? said I,
after reading the inscription.
Well, yes, replied my host; "but
not long. You never could teach Lin
coln for a great while. I began with
him, but in three weeks ho knew more
of the English grammar than I did, see
ing and remembering every word he read
without effort."
"An amusing thing happened after he
was elected President," continued Mr.
Green: "I was in Washington and talk
ing with Lincoln in the room whore the
Cabinet meetings aro hold, and there
was a large tablo there. Seward came in
and Linooln said: 'Mr. Seward, lot me
introduce you to my old friend, Mr.
Green, of Illinois.' Seward was on the
opposite side of the table, and bowed in
his courtly way, but Lincoln was not sat
isfied. 'Come around here, Seward,' he
said, 'and shake hands with Green; I
want you to know him; he's my old
grammar master."
"1 was very much embarrassed, and
afterward said to Lincoln: 'You onght
not to introduce mo that way. Why,
everybody in Washington will be notic
ing me and testing my grammatical ac
quirements.' 'Never mind,' said Lin
coln, 'I want them to remember you.and
when I introduce you that way they 11
never forget you on earth.' And he
kept it up, introducing mo to evorybody
we met as his grammar master."
'Yon saw Lincoln frequently while he
was President?"
"Yes. quite often, considering that my
home was here and his in Washington.
When the internal revenue laws were
about to be put in operation, Lincoln was
told that this district would not submit
to the tax.and that the agents of the gov
ernment would be resisted. He sent
for me and said, 'Bill, that's my old
home, and it will not do have trouble
out there Now, I want to make you
collector; for I believe you can put
everything through peacefully.'
"Well, I snid, 'Lineoln, you know I
don't want any office, but if I can
help yon any I am willing to take it,'
and so he appointed me and I went to
work. I didn't have any trouble, the
law was enforced and Lincoln was very
much gratified."
Mr. Green did not mention it, but it
was no doubt owing to the fact that he
was a Democrat of wealth and influ-
on( tht th Hchemfl went through
peacefully. It is somewhat singular to
nota that some of Mr. Lincoln's warm
est friends were life-long Democrats.
When he ran for the Legislature the first
time be was what was called an Adams
man, while the majority of his neigh
bors, including Green, were Jackson
men. Notwithstanding this he sue
cecded, and in all his precinct, which
cast upwards of four hundred votes,
there were but three ballots against him.
"Where did yon first see Lincoln?" I
asked; as Mr. Green paused for a mo
ment in his recital.
"The first time I saw him," said he,
"was in Salem, on tha mill dam, that :
was in 1831. He was eat on the dam,
ha'
with his pants rolled up above his
qih', irving io gci a nui ooat over,
The boat had been built at Sanamon
town, and the owner, with some goods
aboard, had started to go down the river
nntil be stiuck a favorable town in
which to open np. They couldn't get
the boat over vary well, so tha owner
concluded ho might as well start his
store in Salem.
"Lincoln went to work for a man
named Kirkpatrick, who promised him
$13 a month. Ten waa about the usual
price, but Lincoln was very strong, and
kirkpatrick, who ran a saw-mill, said it
would save him buying a jack-screw to
bandlo the logs with u he got Lincoln,
so he promised to pay him 13. When
they camo to settlo up. Kirkoatriok
wouldn't pay but ten, and Lincoln was
pretty mod. By the way, thut led to the
nrst oath I ever beard Lincoln use.
"I don't know but it was the lost. too.
Yon seo, about that time the Blackhawk
war broke out, and wo organized a com
pany. The adjutant came over from
Springfield, and the mon about 100
were drawn up in Hue. The adjutant
toiu us that tho Govoruor would appoint
tho field officers, the colonel, major, etc.,
but we could elect our own captain. We
had understood this, and there wero two
candidate! Lincoln and this same Kirk'
patrick. When we wero in lino tho
adjutant asked tho candidates to stop ten
Daces in front of the men. and when
Lincoln and Kirkpatrick camo out lie
told us that all who wanted Lincoln
should form a lino by bira, and all who
wanted Kirkpatriok could go to his snlo
I was very eager for Lincoln, aud tho
minute the word was given I ran and
stood at his elbow. Ihe others followed,
according to their choice, and in form
ing tho two linos thoy becamo rather
crooked, every one wanting to see bow
many each candidate bad. Lincoln was
so tall he could seo over all our heads,
and when the lost man had taken his
place, and before tho adjutant had
counted noses, he saw that he had tri
umphed, and ho Blapiod mo on the
shoulder and said: 'Bill! I'll bo d d if
I hain't beat him!'
"I think ho was more pleased at boat
ing Kirkpatrick, and thus in a manner
getting even with him for his dishonosty,
than he was in souring tho captaincy of
the oompauy.''
Mr. Green paused here, and I ventured
to try again to gut something of Lincoln's
social lifo.
"You and Lincoln wore young mon
together, Mr. Green," said I, "and, of
course, wore going to parties and
gatherings of various kinds. Do you
romcmber any incidents connected with
them?"
"Well, yes, I supposo I can recall
some."
"Was ho"waitincr" unon anr cirls in
the neighborhood then?"
Mr. Spears remarked that Lo thoncht
Lincoln didn't go around among the
young ladies much.
"iot much," respondod Mr. urecn.
"He was vory bashful; but I romember
a case or two that may be worth tolling."
"Was he ever encased to any lady
hereabouts?"
"Yes, he was going to marry Mary
Owens, a distant relation of mine,but tho
match was brokon off."
"How was that?"
"A very silly thing. It all came about
in this way
But I find there is too much to tell in
one lottor, and I must defer a number of
incidents and anecdotes reluted by
Mr. Green for another article. f "G. A.
P." in Chicago Inter-Ooean.
nomo Life la Austria.
The old palace which we inhabit in
tbe Himnielpfort gasse is built around a
large court, and we ocouny the first and
third floors. The second floor belongs
to distant members of the family, who
come to Vienna to spend Christmas and
the carnival season. Tho children, gov
erness, tutors and sorvants occupy tho
upper story, but we "maids" generally
slept in an outer room or corridor beside
our respective mistresses. We rarely
have beds, but we sleep on sofas or di
vans, over which a damask Turkish cov
ering is thrown during the day, our
wash bowls and soap cups hidden , away
in a superbly carved Louis XIV casket,
and when strangers are shown through
tho palace, as they often aio, iu tho
absence of the family, no ono would bus
pect that tho exquisiU'ly curved oak ante
rooms could assume bedroom costume
in two minutes and a quarter.
Library, parlor, ante-room and dining-
room are often used ns sleeping rooms
by families of tho highest rank. A screen
is placed so as to hide tho bed in tho
daytime, and guests ore received in my
lady's chamber. Of coursa there aro
families of sufficient wealth to have a
palace all to themselves, but even among
theso such a lack of comfoitablo oasy
chairs and spring beds aro enough to
disgust an Amcricun, Long, narrow
bedsteads, a straw bed and a moes mat
tress, with heavy linen sheets (a big
coronet embroidered on them, of course)
and a plumean, which means a down
bed, as coverlid, is sleeping accoutre
ment enough for a European. Indeod,
our emperor has nothing better.
flow Ilogs May be lofected Remedies.
The report on trichinro compiled by
the Into Passed Assistant Surgeon Gla
zier, of the Marine Hospital Service, for
warded to the Senate by the ex Secretary
Sherman in answer to a Senate resolu
tion of December 13th, 1880, is now
passing through the press at the Gov
ernment Printing office, and will soon lo
ready for distribution. Tho work was
commenced iu July, 1879, and nearly a
year was consumed in the collection of
materials. The report deals with every
aspect of tho subject, states that nearly
all animals may be infected by tho dis
ease, and denies that hogs are infected
through eating kitchen slops. It is
further shown that hogs kept in stalls in
which tricbinosed hogs have been kept
will become infected, and that the only
means of prevention of this disease
among swine are, first, that the stalls or
1ens in which the animals are kept be
;ept scrupulously clean; second, the
swine must have good, clean food, and
not allowed access to diseased meat of
any kind. The not uncommon practice
of throwing dead poultry, rats or cats to
swine is shown to be prohibited by
statute; and third, as soon as any ani
mal is suspected of disease it should be
separated from the herd.
Social Afniitri.
The belief ia so wldoly hold that all
mon like all womon that it has como to
be regarded as a self-evident truth. But
a little observation shows that the belief
may be erroneous; that it cannot by any
means be accepted in its universality.
Indeed, there is reason to doubt whether
in high civilization, the rcvorso of this
may not be sustained. In a state of na
ture tho sexes are indisputably drawn
together; they are mutually dependent;
each gives what the other lacks; their
co-relation is noed no less than an af
finity. They aro forced by instinct as
well as mcagreness of environment to
like one another; a certain affection is
lgottcn of requiromont. They quarrel
violently; the men are irreprossibly
brutal; they beat their women, and from
such savagery emotional reaction is in
evitable, aud goea by tho nuiuo of love.
In cnlighteument, amid the epicurean
ism and artificiality of great cities, boxos
are more separated; their spheres are (lis
tict; their initios and their pleasures do
not clash. Men have their daily round;
women have theirs; the two uecd noth
ing iu common unless they be so in
clined. What a host of men tbero are
in every commercial center who scorn to
have no association w ith women. They
aro very justly callod men's mon, as
others are callod women's men, bocanse
these are forever daughug after petti
coats, and appear to be bound by flutter
ing ribbons, rue mens men are not
buohelors or widows only, as might bo
surmised. Many aro husbands aud
fathers, in the sense at least that they
havo been married aud have bad child
ren; but they aro never seen withthoir
wivoB; thoir marriage rests not on proof,
but on tradition. They aro not misogy
nistsmisogyny is usually a transient
condition, tending to the opposite ex
treme; they do not even disapprovo of
women as a body or iu tho austruot;thoy
simply feel no interest in them person
ally and keep out of their company. They
fail to like women. If they were com
pelled to be much in their society they
would disliko thorn heartily, and would
in timo becomo bitter foes. Women tire
and annoy them, and theso men preserve
mental peaco by letting women severely
alone. The fault is with the mon ; but
the absence of all partiality for the
othor sex is undenied and undoniablo.
It may be said that this disliko of
women on tho part of men is the result
of the artificiality of modern society;
that if men did not cultivato falso tastos,
were not corrupted by dissipation and
uuwholesome pleasures, they would not
have such feelings. Unhappily for this
argument, their indisposition to tho
other sex is unmistakably manifested in
childhood, when nature reigns supremo.
Small boys of a healthy, normal kind
hardly ever like girls of their own or any
ago. in truth, they detest them, so far
as eagerness to get away from them can
express detestation. They oanuot bo in
duced to romain any time in their com
pany on any terms. Their presence is
an annoyance, and to be forced into it
would be a chastisement. In many rural
schools, in fact, boys are made to sit
with girls as a punishment, which
usually proves effective in preventing
the recurrence of the offenso of which
they havo been guilty. "You are a reg
ular girl," is one of the severest things a
boy can say to another; so sovere that it
is taken, as it is intended, aa a gross in
sult, ami usually brings on active hostil
ities. Girls are commonly spoken of
with supreme contempt, with a sarcasm
designed to be withoring, by nearly all
boys from six to sixtocn.
Boys do not reach the spoony stago
generally until they are out of thoir
teens; aud then a Iittlo feminine society
goes a great way with thorn. , Thoy chor
itth in a very awkward manner a stupid
sort of sentimental attachment, but they
retain their appotito for rough sports,
and often on the eve of twenty would
prefer hanging cats, breaking street
lamps and fighting with other strip
lings, to kissing the rosiest lips that six
teen summers bad ever sweetened, or
holding undisputed possession of a score
of sohool-girls hearts.
The period when men are fondest or
least auverso to women is commonly be
tween 25 aud 35, and even then thoy can
seldom be absorb by ono passion, or
by many passions. At 40, having at that
age usually escaped the perils of matri- j
mony, they are firmly fixed in tha rou
tine and habits of bachelorhood. Men
are frequently very foolish, and make
themselves ridiculous enough, about the
other sex; but they rarely have tho folly
and take on tho ridiculous aspect more
than once in an ordinary liio-timo. lhoir
grand passion is apt to be short, and
they are subsequoutly so sensible of
what has been its effort upon them, are
ho conscious of tho ludicrous part thoy
then played, that they do not repeat it.
Marriage cures thorn of any tendency to
relapse; or if not marriage, tho observa
tion of the conduct of others in similar
circumstances. To havo boen onco in
love, and to have climbed out by dint
of reflection and with unassistod effort is '
prone to koep a man forever after, as ho
would probably put it, in the paths of
oommon sense. Tho fact that he has
made an ass of himself, and is conscious
thereof, rondors him merciless to all
other asses from the same cause.
That the great majority of men have
continually recurring spasms of tender
ness, of affection, of ardent love, for
womon, it would be idlo and absurd to
contradiot; but this is vory different
from liking them gonorally or uniformly,
from want;ng to be with them, from ex
periencing pleasure or happiness in their
habitual presence. Evon the men who
admit their delight in feminine society
are easily satisfied, not to say surfeitod,
with it. lheir highest raptures do not
hinder them from hankering after mascu
line friends and masculine modes of kill
ing time.
jinh-nnnapa whence women ars rigor
ously excluded, never lose their allure
ments for men; few homes can compete
with these successfully; tho joys of the
club-house seem to the average man to
be porenial. Incontrovertible-, all this
in due to the ineradicable barbarism of
our sex, to their inferior moral nature,
to their animal instincts and selfish na
tures. Men are as well aware of this as
women are. lint their undeveloped
morality, their lack of complete civiliza
tion, is not at issue. The question, "Do
men, as a rule, like women?" is cer
tainly an open one. New York Times, i
Compliments and small fishes are often
found in shallow plaees. -
Daniel Debater's Father.
Colonel Ebonozor Webster, tho father
of Daniel Webster, was born in this
town, and both his father end mother
were of the original Kingston stock. He
greatly resembled his illustrious son.
Personally, both were of remarkably
dark and swarthy hue, In his youth he
served in the French wsr, which Gen
eral Stark oonsidorod the only war New
Hampshire was over engaged in that was
really worthy the name of a war. Now
Hampshire sent four regimonts to the
army that captured Louisburg, and Col
onel Ebonozor Webster was undoubtedly
"there." When the Colonel ruovod from
Kingston ho settled in that part of New
Salisbury which is now called Franklin.
And Daniol Webster said he there sent
up the smoke of his pipe and log hut
chimney at a poiut nearer the North Star
than that occupiod by any other of his
Majesty's subjects. Webster oombinod the
occupations of farmer and inn-koepor, a
combination common in those days. On
the lonely, thinly settled roads of the
frontier almost every well-to-do farmer
was known to travelers as a person ready
to outcrtain man and beast iu tho most
hospitable manner for the most reason
able compensation. The rest of the set
tlers could be depended upon in an
emorgency to offer all they had for the
relief of passing travelers, uawthorno,
in his beautiful story of the ambitious
guost, wherein is detailed tho oft told
uley House tragody, speaks of this
general opon-houso lifo that prevailed in
upper and central New Umupsbiro in old
times.
Mr. Wobster took an active port in
public affairs, and at tho breaking out of
the Revolution led a Salisbury company
of volunteer soldiers to Cambridge Sub
squontly he fought at White Plains and
Bennington, and was at West Point at
the time of tho treason of Arnold. He
continued in service till the close
of the war, and left it with the woll
earned rank of Colonel. After the
war ho was several times choson Repre
sentative to tho Legislature, and was
made Judge of tho Court of Common
Pleas, which position ho retained to the
ond of his life.- Ho was remarkablo for
his integrity, his sound common sense
aud his unswerving patriotism. Take
hiin for all in all, wo must concede that
this town has novor produced a man
more worthy of respoct, or one who
oould more safely be held up as a model
for the young men of this or nuy other
day. Colonel Webster died at tho age of
09, Daniel Webster at 70, Ezekiol, said
by bis brothor Daniol to have been the
handsomest man he ever saw, at 10. Tho
Wobstors do not seom to havo boon a
long-lived race. A restless, untiring ac
tivity characterized them, and thoy wore
inclined to wear themselves out with
bard work. The great Daniol was an old
man at (JO; his father had gone through
more at that ago than most men of fur
more advanced years, and Ezekiol at 40
was one of the most eminont lawyers in
Now England. Boston Journal.
Monfj-earalng Wires.
It is frequently a subjoct for thought
and conversation as to why professional
women octrosses, milliners, dress
makers, toaehors, eto. have so much
troublo with thoir huBbands; and is also
frequently observod that tho husbands
of money-earning ladies are idlo or lazy,
or both, or are dissipatod, or else snriuk
into quiet nonentities who are apparent
ly eudured bocause of the fominfne be
lief that it is good to havo a man around
tho house anyhow. It is certainly true
that the husbands of money-earning wo
men are generally tbe nuiotost aud most
unassuming of thoir sex in their do
mestic lifo. To some, this oondition may
appear a cause for merrimout and ridi
oule, but in reality, it involves the Bori
ous question as to whothor it is good for
a man to marry a woman who desires or
will bo forcod to earn hor share of thoir
income in actual hard cash, and not by
staying at homo minding tho bouse and
economizing in groceries dry-goods, gas
and fuel. A man who marries with this
contingency Btaring him in the face risks
a , good deal conoorning his domestic
happiness. A woman who can contrib
ute a share of monoy earned by her own
labor to the common housohold fund is
naturally prouder of it than a man would
be, and naturally and womanlike, sho
wants to crow over it a bit, and it fre
quently happons that this crowing be
comes irksome and embarassing to the
man. His responsibilities as a man, a
husband and father, aro lessoned, and
with the burden that is lifted from his
buck goes somothing of his self-esteem,
something of his solf-respect and sturdy
indopendonco. His pride in himsolf and
his self-assurance reooivos a blow, we
know thore are many worthless shirks
whose unmanly selfishness and luck of
pluck have thrown the heavy burden of
providing for the home upon tho slender
shoulders of tho brave and pationt wives.
We know, too, bow nobly a woman as
sumes such dutios whon thoy arise bo
fore her, and we know of her marvelous
self-sacrifices and endurance, but those
are not tho money-earning wives we re
fer to. These generally marry with all
the pretty d roams and hopes of wifehood
that are natural to young wives, and
thon, whon it is too late, they discover
that it is tho woman who must be strong
and tho wifo who must provido.
Our oriKinal proposition is that a
rightly proud man will do any sort of
labor rather than have his wife work for
him. If his wifo has the time and the
fancy to employ cither her brains or hor
fingers in tasks that will bring remunera
tion, this money is hers, and not his, and
when he begins to look forward to her
earnings as a part of bis income, he also
begins to Ios3 his pride in being the
bread winner and protector of his family.
Another and very strong moral reason
why women whose husbands can and do
support them should not seok "paid
Trcrk," oxcopting literary work, of
course) is that they may be taking work
away from some woman who really needs
it. New Orleans Times.
A corporation has been recently or
ganized in Boston with a capital of
(1,000,000, to finish the bottoms of boots
and shoes by a new invention. It is
claimed that by the aid of the machine
600 to 800 boots can be finished by one
operator in one day, where 150 to 200
are now done by hand.
Honorable descent is in all nations
greatly esteemed; betides, it is to be ex
pected tbe children of men of worth will
be like their fathers, for nobility i the
virtue of a family. Aristoti.
nor Capacious Stocking.
"Dis ain't nothing to the tings I had
in my stocking," remarked the irreprosi
iblo Arianna, slipping herself upon the
edge of the bed and arranging her baro
toes comfortably on the back of the
chair which had sorved her as a stepping
stono.
"Really?'' cried Madge, in surprise
looking up from her treasures; "what did
yon have?"
"O, I had a looking glass a big looking-glass,"
wont on the young woman
ecstatically, "and a"
"Nonsense," said John, "pooplo don't
have looking-glasses in their stockings."
"Yes, doy do, Mars' John; and you
onghtu't to say uonsonse, when you ain't
seed it. It was as fine as any looking
glass in dis horo house."
"How big was the stocking," asked
Gerald.
"Dat's just it; it were blggor'enall
those stockings put togndder. De trnf
am, SanU Clau had such a lot of big
tings dat he just had to stop aud sew up
a shoot!"
"A shoot?" cried all Hhe children, in
amazemont; what else did ho put in it?"
"Well," said Airy, "dere was de looking-glass
and a pair of new shoes
wid real cotton shoe-strings; and a wax
daul wat shuts its eyes and den opens
em, when you say boo quick; an an
a new jows-barp; an one doiu tings like
Mara Gerald s dat you play musio on,
only aheap biggor'n hisn; why, its big
gor 'an mel"
"Oh, Airy," criod Gerald, looking
rather disconsolately. at his accordeon,
"is that really true?"
"Oh, well, dere'i lots nioro; dere was
a hoop skirt."
"Oh, Airy, what a funny present!"
"Yon jes wait till you soome wearin'
it. You won't think it funny don. An'
dere'sa pocket-handkerchief!
Don daro was a lot of fino books, all
bibles, wid picters and cows and sheops
an' alligators."
"Goon Airy," said Modgo. "Its the
queerest stocking I ever heard of; waa
thore any more in it?"
"Heaps!" ropliod Airy instantly;
"heaps. Dor was big rod beads, as bis as
you alls' fifty. Den
cloro was candy and applos and straw
berries and cream, chocsos and fire
crackers and more looking-glasses."
"Dear mo, Airy," interrupted madgo,
"Why did Santa Clans give you se many
looking-glasses? You know you aro not
at all pretty."
"I'll toll you why, Madge," said John,
who had gathered up his belongings and
now stood at the foot of the bed, listen
ing scornfully; "because thore isn't a
woid of truth in what thut girl is saying.
Aunt Dilsio, what did Airy have in her
stocking last night?"
"Nothin' as I knows of, honey, but
holes," romurkod Dilsie, frowning at hor
oil'spring. "She always is got dom, an'
do onliest way I knows 'or keeping 'oin
mended is to lock 'era up. Wat's dat
gal been a-saying?" sho continued, no
ticing tho reproachful looks tho children
cost at Airy, "Mars' John, you can't
boliove ono word dat comes out er dat
gal's mouth ; she can't talk do truf even
in hor sleep." "Five Little Southern
ers."
Ucorge Eliot's Face.
The faoo was one of a Kronn of four,
not all equally like each othor, but all of
tho same spiritual family, and with a
curious interdependence of likeness.
Those four are Dante, Savonarola, Cardi
nal Newman, and horsolf. We only
know ono such othor group, and that
consisted of throe only. It is that
formod of the traditional hood of (Jurist
(tho well-known profile on a coin).
Shakspoare and St. Ignatius Loyola. In
the croup of whioh Goorge Lnot was
ouo, there is tho same straight wall of .
brow; tho droop of the poworful nose;
mobile lips, touched with strong passion
kept resolutely undor control, a square
jaw, which would make the face stern
wore it not counteracted Dy the sweot
smilo of lips and eye. We con hordly
hone that posterity will over know nor
from likenesses as those who hod the
honor of her acquaintance know her in
lifo. Only some world s artist could
have handed her down as sho lived, us
Bellini has handed down the Doge whom
we all know so well on the walls of the
National Gallory. The two or throo por
traits that exist, though valuable, give
but a vory imperfect presentment. Tbe
more shape of the head would bo tho
despair of any painter. It was so grand
and massive that it would soarooly bo
poBsiblo to roprosont it without giving
the idea of disproportion to tne name,
of which no ono ever thought for a mo
mont when they saw hor, although it was
a surprise, whon she stood up, to see
that, after all, she was but a little fragilo
woman who bore this weight of brow
and brain. fO. Kegon Paul, Harpor'a
Magazine for May.
In the Fish SlarKct
The fish markets in Norway are worth
seeing. We went to one- in unriBiiana.
Tho fish men and womon wero all seated
in thoir boats and alongsido the stono
pavements, shut in from outer water by
groat locks. Sorvants and housewives.
with great tin uaskois jiuuging on iuuir
armB, wero bargaining for the day's din
ner. Codfish, mackerel, eels nnd lob
sters were in abnudance. Anchovies
or a small fish so-called might almost
bo counted by the million. The fish
women, with their loud voices, were
contending with their customers as they
havo from time immemorial, and will to
tho end about price. Now, one mode
believe to co away, whon a desperate
shriek would summon hor back again,
and fish and money would exchange
bands, buyer and seller each looking
thoroughly victimized. Tho sun was
pouring his hot rays upon the sparkling
water, in which boats were bobbing up
and down. At the stem of each boat a
great bough was raised, as large as half a
tree, and under the shade cast by the
leaves sat the fishwoman. The position
was strikingly picturesque. The scene
was lively aud enlivening; the water was
full of animation; a bubel of voices went
on around, chattering and bargaining,
interspersed with much laughter. Most
of the fish was out of sight, swimming in
tbe holds of the small boats, whence
they were fished out with nets as they
were required. These early mornings '
in the fish market are one of the distinct
ive sights in Norway; where people and
customs join hands for the benefit of the
traveler.