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) - - ammm THE INDEPENDtrJfT THE INDEPENDENT, PCBII!HED Every Thnrsl:y Evening, - II V ii. i;. j. r c j:, Office, - - - Cll Court House, HlLLsBOUO. OKEl.oN. Advertising Hates. M'ti W. AIIVKHTIUKIIKSTH. I oni iju,ir or liiw, ua tnaerllon fl V j Kin' tii.iri !. uli-cijUi'Ut Insertion i ItV t-t KhS A I V l-:i(T I HliM KST! irolli. ' i ii-, ( ': i i 1 1. :i ;.-J I Ci. i it, s in; ; a,: e yi JO 9. I i ndent. gton wasi J JO 00 J7 10 13 Ou 33 SO n so w so 37 M 9 inoiiilit.. Trm of Snbrlptiou (cuIm ram.) feluglecopy per year tl "J tingle copy uiuorh Single numbrr vi incutln . .! 7 5 10t U Ntj J3 J I VOL. 3. HILLSBOKO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OH EG ON, THURSDAY, "NOVEMBER 11, 1875. NO. 32. tyr ! 1m) j: oi! VO 00 23 CO 30 Ui 00 00 WW j Only Wnitiii": HY fi!.E.V ELLIOTT. Onljr waiting for a husbaiel With a pocket full of cash; Only Availing to lie married In it sulln robe and sash. For I know that youth is failing With the light cf closing day. Ami the star of hope 1 passing "Through the twilight soft soul : i a v. ' Only waiting for a loved one To accept me for his own; Only waiting yes, I'm waiting Ami ray heart is ad am! lone. How I long to hear his footstep Vet I fear he'll miss the way; fctill I'm watching,. wishing, waiting, "Only waiting to ohey." Only waiting for an echo Of a distant iiiglitl.ircTa song; Only waiting in the; shadow, Oh! why don't ho come along? Ah? how 1 mistook hi m aning In hi accents soft ami low If lie wishes me to have him. Well, perhaps, I might say no. Pavid Suan A Fantasy. 11V XATUAMKI. U.VWTIIOKM.. We can be but partially acquainted with the events which actually intluencc our course through lite and our final des tiny. There are innumerable other events if such they may 1 called which come close ujon u, yet pass away Without actual results, or even betrayin their near approach by the rejection of any light or shadow across our minds. Could we know all the vicissitudes of our fortunes, life would be too full of hope and fear, exultation or disappointment, to afford us a single hour of true serenity. This idea may lie illustrated by a page from the secret history of David Swan. We have nothing to do with David un til we find him, at the age of twenty, on the high-road from his native lac:e to the city of Roston, where his uncle, a small dealer in the grocery line, was to take Jiim behind the counter. Re it enough to say, that he was a native of New Hampshire, born of respectable pa rents, and had received an ordinary school education, w ith a classic linisli by a year atGilmanton Academy. After a journey on foot from sunrise till nearly noon of a summer! day, his weariness and the in creasing heat determined him to sit down in the first convenient shade, and wait the coming up of the stage coach. As if planted on purpose for him, there soon appeared a little tuft of maples, with a delightful recess in the midst, and such n fresh bubbling spring, that it seemed never to have sparkled for any wayfarer but David Swan. Virgin or not, he kissed it with his thirsty lips, and then flung himself along the brink, pillowing his head upon some shirts and a pair of pantaloons, tied up in a striped cotton handkerchief. The sunbeams could not reach him; the dust did not yet rise from the road, after the heavy rain of yester day; and hist grassy lair suited the young man better than a bed of down. The spring murmured drowsily beside him; the branches waved dreamily across the blue sky overhead; and a deep sleep, per chance hiding dreams within its depths, fell upon Pavid Swan. Hut we are to relate events he did not dream of. While he lay sound asleep in the shade, other people were wide awake, and passed to and fro, afoot, on horseback, and in all sorts of vehicles, along the sunny road by his bedchamber. Some looked neither to the right hand nor t the. left, and knew not that he was there; some merely glanced that way, without admitting the slumberer among their busy thoughts; some laughed t sec how soundly he slept ; and several, whose hearts were brimming full of scorn, ejected their venomous superfluity on David Swan. A middle-aged widow, when no body else was near, thrust her head a lit tle way into the recess, and vowed that tke young fellow looked charming in his sleep. A temperance lecturer saw him, and wrought poor David into the texture f his evening's discourse, as an awful in stance of dead drunkenness by the road side. Hut censure, praise, merriment, scorn ami indifference were all one, or rather all nothing to David Swan. He had slept only a few moments, when a brown carriage, drawn by a handsome pair of horses, bowled easily along, and was brought to a stand still nearly in front of David's resting-place. A linch pin had fallen out, and permitted one of the wheels to slide olF. The damage was slight, and occasioned mcwly a momen tary alarm to an elderly merchant and his wife, w ho were returning to Uoston in the carriage. While the coachman and a servant were replacing the wheel, the lady and gentleman sheltered themselves beneath the maple trees, and tlu;re espied the bubbling fountain, ami David Swan asleep Inside it. Impressed with the awe the humblest sleeper sheds around the merchant trod as lightly as the "-out would allow; and his spouse took "ood heed not to rustle her silk gown, lest Da vid should start up all of a sudden. C'TTo'i- soiimllv lie sh.eo.i ,.?.:., l the old gentleman. ''From what a depth he draws that easy breath! Such sleep as that, brought on without opiate, would le worth more to me than half my in come; for it would suppose health and an untroubled mind." "And youth besides,' said the lady. "Healthy and quiet age does not sleep thus. Our slumber is no more like his than our wakefulness." The longer they looked, the more did this elderly couple feel interested in this unknown youth, to whom the w aysiWe and the maple shade were as a secret chamber, w ith the rich gloom of damask curtains brooding over him. Perceiving that a stray sunbeam glimmered down upon his face, the lady contrired to tw ist a branch aside, so as to intercept it. And having done this little act of kindness, she be gau to feel like a mother to him. "Providence seems to have laid him here," whispered she to her husband, "and to have brought us hither to find him after our disappointment in our cousin's son. JUethinks I can see a likeness to our de parted Henry. Shall we waken him.'' 'To what purpose?" said the merchant. hoitatintr. "we know nothing ot the youth's character.' "That open countenance!'' replied his wife, in the sinie hushed voice, yet earn estly. "This innocent sleep. While these whispers were passing, th sleeper's heart did not throb nor his breath become agitated, nor his features betray the least token ot interest. let fortune was bending over him, just ready to let fall a burden ol gold. I he old merchant had lost his only son, and had no heir to his wealth, except a distant relative, with whose conduct he was dis satisfied. In such cases people sometimes do stranger things than to act the magi cian, and awaken a young' man to splen dor who tell to sleep m poverty. "Shall we not waken hims" repeated the lady, persuasively. "The coach is ready, sir," said the ser vant, behind. The old cot ple started, reddened, and hurried awr.v, mutually wondering that they should ever have dreamed of doing anything so very ridiculous. The mer chant threw himself back in the carriage, and occupied his mind w ith the plan of a magnihcent asylum tor unfortunate men of business. Meanwhile, David Swan enjoyed his nap. Ihe carnage could not have gone above a mile or two, when a pretty young girl came along', with a tripping pace, which showed precisely how her little heart was dancing in her hoom. Per haps it was this merry kind of motion that caused is there any harm in saying it.' her garter to slip the knot. Con scious that the silken girth if silk it were was relaxing its hold, she turned a.-ide into the shelter of the maple trees, and there found a young man asleep by the spring! finishing as red as any rose, that she should have intruded into a gen tleman's hedchambcr, and for such a pur pose, too, she was about to make her es cape on tiptoe. Iut there was peril near the sleeper. A monster ot a bee hail been wandering overhead buzz, buzz, buzz now among the leaves, now Hash ing through the strips of sunshine, and now lost in the dark shade, till finally he appeared to be settling on the eyelid of David Swan. 1 he sting ol a nee is some times deadly. As trce-hearteu as she was innocent, the girl attacked the intruder with her handkerchief, brushed him soundly, and drove him from beneath the maple shade. How sweet a picture! This good deed accomplished, w ithuuick- ened. breath and a deeper blush, she stole glance at the youthttil stranger lor whom she had been battling with a dragon- in the air. "He is handsome! ' thought she, and blushed redder yet. How could it be that no tiream ol bliss grew so strong within him, that, shat tered by its very strength, it should part asunder, and allow him to perceive the girl among his phantoms'' Why, at least, did no smite ot wHcome brighten upon his face? She was come, the maid whose soul, according to the old ami beautiful idea, had been severed from Ins own, and whom, in all his vague but passionate de- sires, he ycarneti io men. inr, oniy, could he iove with a perfect love him. only, could she receive into the depths of her heart and now her image was faintly blushing in the fountain by his side; should it pass away, its happy lustre would never gleam upon his lift? again. "How soundly he sleeps! murmured the girl. She departed, but did not trip along the road so lightly as when she came. Now, this girl's father was a thriving country merchant in the neighborhood, and happened, at that identical time, to be looking out for ju?t such a young man as Pavid Swan. Had David formed a wayside acquaintance with the daughter, he would have lx come the father's clerk, and all else in natural succession. So here again had good fortune the best of fortunes stole, i so near that her gar ments brushed against him; and he knew nothing of the matter. The girl was hardly out of sight, when two men turned aside beneath the maple shade. Roth had dark faces, set ti bye-loth caps, which was drawn down aslant over their brows. Their dresses were shabby, vet had a certain smaitness. These were a couple of rascals, who got their living by whatever the Dewl sent them, and now, in the interim of other business, had staked the joint profits of their next piece of villainy on a game of cards, which was to have been decided here under the trees. Rut, finding David asleep by the spring, one of the rogues whispered to his fellow "Hist! Do you see that bundle under his head f" The other illain mddvd, winked, and leered. "I'll bet you a horn of brandy," said the first, "that the chap has either a pock ctbook or a snug little hoard of small change stowed away amongst his shirts. And if not there we sh ill find it in his pantaloons pocket." "Rut how if he wakes?" said the other one. His companion thru-t aside his waist coat, pointed to the handle of a dirk, and nodded. "So be it !" muttered the second vil hna. So they approached the unconscious David, and w hile one pointed the dagger toward his heart, the other legan to search the bundle Iwneath his head. Their two faces, grim, wrinkled, and ghastly with guilt ami fear, bent over their victim, looking horrible enough to be mistaken for fiends, should he suddenly awake. Nay, had the villains glanced aside into the spring, even they would have hardly known themselves as" reflected there. Rut David Swan had never worn a more tran quil aspect, even when asleep on his mother's breaat. "I must take away the bundle," whis pered one. "If h? 'tirs, I'll sti ike," muttered the other. Rut at this moment a dog, scenting along the ground, came in between the maple trees, and gazed alternately at each of these wicked men. and then at the sleeper. He then lapped out of the fountain. "Pshaw!" said one y illain. "We can do nothing now . Thr doer's ma ter must be close lH-hind." "bet us take a drink and be off," s..id the other. The man with the dagger tloiist back the weapon into his bosom, and drew foith a pocket-pistol, but not of that kind which kills by a single discharge. It va. a ilask cf liquor, with a block-tin tumbler screwed upon the mouth. Ivieh drank a comfortable dram, and h ft the spot, w ith so many jests, and such laugh ter at their unaccomplished wickedness, that they might be said to have gone on their way rejoicing. In a few hours they had forgotten the whole affair, nor once imagined that the recording angel had written down the crime of murder against their souls, in letters as durable as eter ni'. v.s for David Swan, he stiii slept qui etly, neither conscious of the shadow of death when it hung over him, nor of the glow of renewed life, vh-n that s!i.:dovv was w ithdraw n. He slept, but no longer so quietly as at first. An hour's repo-e hail snatched from his elastic frame the weariness with which many hours of toil had buidencd it. Now, he stirred; now moved his lips, without a sound, now talked, in an inward tone, to the noon-day spi ctres of his dream. Rut a noise of w heels came rattling louder along the road, until it dashed through the dispersing mist of David's slumber; and there was the stage coach. He started up with all his ideas ..'unit him. "Halloo, driver! take a pas-enger?" shouted he. "Room on top !" answered th; diiver. Fp mounted D avid, and bow h-d away merrily toward Uoston. w ithout so mucn as a parting glance at that fountain of dreamlike vicissitude. He knew not that a nhantom of Wealth had thrown a golden hue upon its w aters, nor that one of Love had sighed softly to their murmur, nor that one of Death had threatened to crim son them with his bl od; all, in the b;i-f hour since he la v dow n to sleep. Sleep ing or walking, we hear not the airy foot steps of the strange things that almost hani!eu. Does it not argue a superin tending Providence that, while yiewless and unexpected events tliiUst continually athwart our oath there should still be regularity enough, in mortal life, to ren der foresight even partially available.' Rl.ick Mountain ; lacier, California. Tracing ihe stream back to the last of its chain of lakelets, I noticed a tine gray mud covering the stones on the bottom, excepting where the force of the entering ind outflowing currents prevented its set tling. On examination it proved to be wholly mineral in composition and re sembled the mud worn from a tine grindstone. I at once suspected its gla cial origin, for the stream which carried it came gurgling out of the base of a raw, frc.di-Iooking moraine, w hich seenu d to be in process of formation at that very moment. Not. a plant, lichen, or weather stain was anywhere vi-ible upon its muga, unsettled surface. It is from sixty to over a hundred feet in height, and come plunging do'vn in front at an angle of thirty-eight degrees, which is th" verv steepest at which this moraine material will lie. (.'limbing the moraine in front w as. therefore, no easy iimlcKaking. The slightest touch loosened ponderous blocks, that went rumbling' to the bottom, fol lowed by a train of smaller stones and sand. Picking my way with the utmost caution, I at length gained the top, and beheld asm ill but well-characterized gla cier swooping down from the sombre precipices of Ulack .Mountain to the ter minal moraine in a finely graduated curve. The solid ice appeared on all the lower portions of the glacier, though it wasgray with dirt and stones imlieddel in Its sur face. Farther up, the lee disappeared beneath coar.-e!y granulated snow. Tin surface of the glacier w as still fur ther charact. ried by dirt bands and the outcropping edges of blue veins that swept across front sine to side in beauti ful concentric curves, showing the lamin ated structuic of the mass of the glacier ice. At the head of the glacier, w hi re the t.fre joined the mountain, it w as trav ersed by a huge yawning JUram-h ri ml, in some places twelve or fourteen feet vid, and bridged at intervals by the rem tins of snow avalanches. Creeping along the edge of the SchruiHl, holding on w ith be numbed fingers, I discovered clear sec tions where the bedded and ribbon struc ture was beautifully illustrated. The surf ic snow, though everywhere sprin kled with stones shot down from the cliffs above, was in some place almost pure white, gradually becoming crystal line, and changed to jiorous whitish ice of different shades, and this again chang ing at a depth of twenty to thirty feet to bluer ice, some of the ribbon-like bands of which were nearly pure and solid, and blended yvilh the paler band in the most gradual and exqui-ite mariner imaginable, reminding one of the way that color bands come together in a rainltow. A series of rugged zigzag enabled me to make my way down into the weird ice world of the HeLmm!. Its chambered holUws were hung with a multitude of clustereiT icicles, ami.bt which thin sub dued light pulsed and shimmered with indescribable loveliness. Water dripiM-if and tinkled overhead, and from far In I iw there came strangesolemn murmurs from currents that were feeling their way among veins and fissures on the bottom. Ice creations of this kind are j.erfcctlv enchanting, notw ithstanding' one feels so entirely out of place in their pure foun tain lieauty. 1 was soon uncomfortably cold in my shirt-sleeves, and the leaning wall of the ScJirund seemed ready to in gitlf me. Vet it was hard to leave the delicious music of the water, and still more the intense loveliness of the light. Coming again to the surface of the glacier, I noticed blocks of every sie set ting out on their downw ard journey to be built into the terminal moraine. The noon sun gave birth to a multitude of sweet-voiced rills that ran gracefully down the glacier, curling and sw irling in their shiuing channels, and cutting clear sections in which the structure of the ice was beautifully revealed. Jonx Mi in, in Jftirpcr' Miigazine for November. Condiments, Such as pepper, mustard ami the like, are taken with food, under the impres sion th d they are "healthy," by promot ing digestion, although it is not asserted that they have any nutritive value. It i claimed" for them tint th-y are beneficial, by promoting the flow of the saliva, gas tric juice, and other fluids which are em ployed in digesting the food, and also that they promote tint movement of the alimentary can d which I- necessary to carry the refuse of what we eat d r.vn wards and outward. Takin" it f or granted tint th"yb t!r'-e things, it constitutes the strongest reason why a healthy per-on should not use them; lieeause, if a man is well already. he cannot be better than well. Inastte of health, nature throws out inf the stom u h all the gastric juice needed todi- 'est that amount of food w hich is rcqni-ute for the ne. ds of the system. Why com pel her to throw out more.' If a man is in health the bowels act regular! v,once in every t went y-foiir hours ; oftener than that i disease. Why then u e means to cau.-e a greater than the natu ral motion '. If they promote the secretion of the natural juices of the stomach, if they do stimulate the intestines to more active movements, then they ate good "medi cines," but to be used only when there is a deficiency as to the two points named; and to that extent their tendency is to make a siclv man well : on the other hand, they must as ine itably tend to make a well man sick that is, t i mid": mine his constitution, unless there are antagonistic influences in operation. In proportion as they have the qualities claimed f r them their list- should be deferred, as something to fall back upon in case of sickness, such as indigestion, want ol npp lite and cos tivene.ss. All medicines lose their power by repetition or frequent ue; and if their power for good is exhausted beforehand in health, there is nothing to fall back upon in disease. Kxercise is healtld'ul over exercise i hurtful. This hold true as to every put of the human body every muscle, every function, every gland. The eve requires a certain amount of watery fluid to enable the lids to work easily over the ball; but if it is stimulated to throw out more th in is natural, that is in flammation, and mllanim-dion is disease. So, if anything is taken into the stomach to excite an action greater than is natural, then there is excessive secretion, and that is disea-e. "Condiments," as they are called, stimulate the appetite; they tempt us to cat more than we ot lu rw ;se would, ami to that extent cause the stomach to be overtaxed, and dyspepsia and kindred ailments follow. We all eat nioie of foul that we consider "well seasoned" than if it wcie placed on the table ia its simpler, natural state, cooked plain and well. All admit that "highly seasoned" foods are injurious th it means -imply this, that a "lirlle" seasoning, like liquor, at tirst sat-i-fles u--, but inevitably ni'Te and more i rcquired. until at length nothing will an swer. We canr.ot cat a meal utiles, we haw tic strongest mu.st.ird, the mod fiery red pepper, and the sourest inegar v. hich -.lit be obtained, and when that point is reached the man find, himself in a condi tion f i be a regular liquor drinker, and fill an easy prey to bilious diseases, to apoplexy, or the intolerable gout. Hull' ,o'ii itu! of llnil'h. Kr.i i'Tiii: Fi.i.t W'aum. Many of the cold which people are said io catch com mence at the feet. To keep thc.e extremi ties warm, therefore, is to effect an insur ance ag.aiiisi the almost interminable list of disorders w hich spring out of a "slight cold." First, never be tightly shod. Root and shoe when they fit closely, press against the foot, and prevent a free circulation of the blood. When, on the contrary, they do not m brace the foot too figrftly. Site blood get fair play, and the place i -ft between th ! leather and the stocking are filed with a comfortable supply of warm air. Th" second rule i never to sit in damp sh ies. It i often imagined that uuies they are positively wet it is not necessary t i change Ihem white the feet are at rest. This is a fal lacy; for when the least dampness is ab sorbed into the sole it i attracted nearer to the foot itself by its own heat, and thus perspiration is dangerously cheeked. Any person may prove this by trying the cx pesiment of neglecting this rule, and his feet will become cold and damp after a few moments, although, taking otl the shoe and warming it, it will appear quite dry. To remove ink from piper shake well t ogethe- one pound of chloi ide of lime in four quart of soft wafer. Then let it stand for twenty-four lours, a!'t;r which strain through a clean cotton cloth and add one teasjMiouful of acetic acid to an ounce of chloride of lime water. Apply tills to the blot and the ink w ill disappear. Absorb the fluid with a blotter. Tin: bid taste of many bitter medi cines, sue h as quassia, quinine, aloes, etc., may be removed, almo-t instantly, by chewing a piece of liquorice root. Castor oil may also lie rendered palatable by adding to'half an ounce of it an equal portion of glycerine and a drop of oil of cinnamon, and mixing them thoroughly. To Ci.n.vN Fi n x iTt'KK. Take a large cotton rag well saturated with coal oil, rub etch article of furniture w ith it until all the mud stains and dust have disap peared, then go over it with a dry cloth rubbing each piece until it is perfectly iry. I lean once a week. Srn.uxs nr. Lameness. Two ounces camphorated spirit, two ounces sweet oil, two ounce ammonia, two ounces chloro form; shake well before using, and rub it in by a tire. It is very excellent for a fam ily liniment. A i.ami chimney may be made almost indestructible by putting it in a vesel of ctild water oyer the tire, and letting it re main until the water boils. It will be found tint boiling toughens in this case. Parsnips. Wash and scrape them, clean and boil in salt anil water until ten der, then cut in slices and fry in a little butter until brown. I'liiperop William's Palace. Ralielsberg is more interesting than San So.ici, writes Dr. Field to hi paper, as it i associated with living personages, who occupy the most exalted station. It is the home f the emperor himself when at Pot-dam. It is not so large as the new palace, but like Sans Souci, seems designed more for comfort than for grandeur. It was built by King William hiimclf, according to his own taste, and has in it all tie- appointment of an ele gant home, The site is beautiful. It stands on elevated ground, (it seem a commanding eminence compared with the flat country around lierlin), and looks out in a prospect in whichan ble p nk, and green slopes descending to lovely bits f water, unite to form what may Ik: called an Miigiish landscape like that fiom Richmond on the Hill, or some beetle in the lake district of Fnglatnl. The Itoii-e is worthy of such surround ings. We wre fortunate in being there when the royal family were absent. The empress was expected home in a day or tvo; they were preparing the room for her return ; and the emperor va to fol low the next week, when, of course, the house would be closed to visitors. Rut j now we were admitted, and shown through, not only th : state apartments, but the private room. Such an inspec tion of the home of a royal funilv gives tne some idea of their domestic life; we seem to see the interior of the loyal household. In this case the impression was most charming. While, there was Very little that was f-r show, theie wa everything that was tasteful and refined and elegant. It was pleasant to hear the attendant who showed U the looms speak in terms of such ielinir.it ion, and even affection, of th" emperor -as "a very kind man." One who is thus beloved by his dependants, by every number of his household, cannot but h ive some excel lent traits of character. We were shown tee drawing-room and the library, and the private study of the emperor, the chair in which he sits, the desk at which he writes, and the table around which he gathers his ministers Rismarck and Moltke, etc. We were shown al.-o what a New Kngland house'vecpe"' would call the "!ii:-'g rooms," where lie dined and w here he slept. The ladies of our party declared that, the bed tlid not answer at ill to their ideas of royal luxury, or even comfort, the sturdy old emperor having only a single mattress under him, and that a piettv lotrd one. Perhaps, how ever, he despises luxury, and prefers to harden hmsclt, li.ie .Napoleon, or the hmpcror N icholas, who slept on a camp bed-tead. He is cert only very plain in hi habits and simple in his ta'tes. De scending; the staircase, the attendant took Irmn a corner and put m our hand the emperor s cane. it was a roi:.gh stick, uch as any oandy bi .New i ork wouul have ilispised. but the old man h id cut it himself many years ago. at-.d . r,o-.v he always ha if in his hand wh-ui he walks abroad. And there through the uind.cv a e look down in the poultry yard, w In re the empress, we are told, feeds her chick ens w ilh her own hands every morning. I was glad to hear this of the grand old lailv. It shows a kind heart, and how-. after all, f..r the greatest a well as the humblest of mankind, the simpiisi pleas ures an the sweetest. I dare say ,t-he takes more pleasure in feeding her hick- ens than in presiding at the tedious court ccrcmonie. Such little touches give a most picasant impression ot the n'mple home-life of the royal house of Prussia. M Er.iisi ii a i"M Pipes. Meerschaum i a hydrous silicate of magnesia, ! mineral of soft earthy texture, somewhat resembling chalk, it is found in Spain and in sev eral countries at the head of the Mediter ranean. The toAvn of IConieh, in Aia Minor, furnishes the principal i-upjilie for the maufacture of pipes and cigar tubes. It is roughly shaped into blocks for importation, mid freed as fir it prac ticable from the associated minerals which impair it quality by interfering with the carving of its niifaee. It is made into pipes in various cities of Furope, peslh ami Vienna being especi ally noted for the manufacture. To pro duce the yeilow and brow n colors, whuh are brought out only after long smoking, the blocks are kept for some time in a mixture of wax and fatty matters. A portion f these is absorbed, and. being subsequently acted on by the heat and the tobacco-fumes, assume Various shades of coh;r. Artificial meerschaums, called massa-lwiw Is, are made trout the parings of the genuine material, which, lieing reduced to tine powder, are Imilcd in water and moulded into block, some times w ith the addition of clay. They caini'it easily be distinguished from the real, but they are generally heavier and freer from blemishes. Aii!eUn' Ai'.eri r in Cirli'jhS'U'i, rer it'll eiUtiou. One Nation a Histouic (ImnvTit. One of the most hopeful things to be said of these United State i that we are w hat we are not chiefly by any forecast of our ow n, still less by any intention to form a great Knglish-speaking nation on thi side of the water, but because his torical causes which could not be fore seen -shaped and moulded us into a toler ably homegeneous and compact jeop!e. This is the only nation of civilized men of which it can be said that we passed through all the stages of our life, from biith onward, through revolution to self government and political greatness, in a natural progress, so that what home call historical accident stand out, in our case most especially, to a man w ho we .. iz. Initio world, as His guidance r.ml 4k vji - - n purpose to make something good out of us, w Inch purpose yve can nivvari ; nut one is filled with hope by Iielieving that it is real. Harper Mayazine. The normal nchools for training mas ter in Italy have increased in twelve years to thirty-six, and supply each year an average of .iJi masters. Seventy nifle training-fchool for feminine teachers supply a yearly average of 1,5!)0 teacher. A women undertake the lower clase in Imijs school and all girls' s-liools, the demand for their service is active. Ci.easmxes? is nest to godliness. Universal Suffrage mid More. Philosopher and statesmen alike are in these days reviving the discussion a to the fundamental principles of govern liietit, especially of what h known as popti I ar government. I'veti the politician i lcginning to feci under the pic-sure of pei jK'tually repeated examining and in vestigating committees, that the oh stronghold of jHiwcr and the way lead ing thereto may at any day be closed against hint and himself sent to Sing Sing instead of to the Senate, In awwrd, there i a realizing sense of the fact that the people are thinking light at the heart of tin Constitution, and are acting not so much with regard totho supposed theoreti cal I V settled loinulatioiH ol government as with u view to the beciiring of their safety and the bringing of dishonest of ficial to justice. The underlying con victioit in all these movements i that goi eminent fr the good and rafuty of the people, not for it plucking and plun der ing,and in propoi lion ai in these day fails to fulfill lis mission it must take it self awav. Then out of these discu. sion has real i sen the questions, Is uni versal sulfrage after all the safe and only ba-is of popular government, and if we under it have reached the cor rujit condition of political machinery which has manifested itself In the last few years, and if these are the inevitable consequences of universal siifbage, when and where the people are generally on the level of our present civilization,' what is our escape.' Now, having reached thi poi.it in the consideration of the question, and having numerous stupid fact to go upon, we may be Hire the cc.minon-scnsc of our people will continue to work ujhui it till a satisfactory solution is reached. True, from the standpoint f the women, we have le t attaini-d to universal suffrage, and from th '.v standpoint the women have lot of arguments in their favor; but, in the popular language of the times, our (Jovernment i based and conducted upon the principle of universal MiiiYage. Our forefathers worked hard at this problem, and found but one w ay into it or out of it. The United State (Joveriunent is built on the manhood of men. There is no arir toi racy here, and it would take xotiie centuries to make one, even if it were worth while. Hence universal suf frage i the normal condition of the American people. Rut if it produces thieve instead of honest ruler we must in some way rid ourselves nf them and invent a way of getting the good men into power. Fx-Senalor Doolktlc, in a recent address, suggests that we add household suffrage to universal suffrage. That is, that we give the married man. th.? house holder, two votes t ) the unmarried man and the iion-householder one. And a lever writer in a recent number of the Atlantic Monthly, treating of an imaginary government suggest st hat thi plus quant it y might be increased in proportion to the wealth of the ho eho!dcr, po that a rich hit-band and father might p"ibap have given him by law rll th"W;.y In m live to fifty vote ;. The rich bachelor would of course have t be provided for in some other way. The theory lieingthat we are a democracy by nature, and canuot limit the siillVaee, hence mu-t liu K-ase it in ol der to put the balance ol power in the hands of those w ho have the I ngest inter est at it ike, and who, presumably, would work for the general good. Others again are looking to the possible development under more or less perfec tion of the organization of censorship such as have of late years sprung sponta neously out of the hearts and pockets of the people, and have brought some noted criminal t a justice; or. puihaps, the fin bodying of thi idea of censorial power in some present department of our Govern meet, or of instituting a new department, whose special function it shall be to act a censor in nil supposed corruption ol ollicials. The old lloinanhad such a de partment of government. It has been for thousands of years a recognized necessity among the ( 'hincse. There h ive been at one time and enothcr police commission and censorial committees appointed by the ex isting authorities!)) this State,at the insti gation of her better citizen. Jhigliml had such a reserve power bl her parlia mentary organization. And within cer tain limit this arrangement has been found not only necessary but Useful in all nations in the world. The time has prob ably not come yet for any general and fun damental change in our general (Jovern ment, and may not simui route. Rut it would f-e-A in that the evil which beset us, and which are admitted by all good men irrespective of party ties or association, mu.-t lie cured in one of the three way referred to; Ry alimitingof the suffrage, which seems impossible; by censorial legalized organizations, of which we had but little experience and are naturally jealous; or by universal sulfrage, plus household sulfrage, or, a yve have put it, by universal suffrage mid more. Hearth and Horn'. The Wohiii's CitMiir Ruihoe. The Fast River bridge, connecting New York City with Rrooklyn, will be the most imjxising highway across a liver in the world when completed. It is estimat ed to cost thirteen million dollars, some millions of w hich have already b en ex jiended thereon. It towers and anchor ages have so far progressed that by June next a temporary bridge for foot passen ger w ill be in operation. This temporary brsdge alone will cost f 10,000 to if tW.M, being romjKised f tjcl and Iron w ire, the galvanized iron ropes to wigh tweive pound to the foot and to be ho me six inches in diameter. The engineer of the t-tupendous work h. Mr. ll.tebllng, under whose father the undertaking was engi neered until Ids de ease. The bridge, ho long hindered in it progrcs by munici pal mismanagement, is now in a fairway of progressing to completion. ,S '. Call. A Kin end is a jiersonwith whom I may lie sincere. Refore Jiim I may think aloud, I am arrived at last in the presence of u man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments ofdissimu lation, courtesy and second thought, which men may never jut off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholene with which one chemical atom meets another. Unlimited Capacity of Growth. It is said that Iowa ha twice a much arable land as air Ireland, and if feo it could maintain double tho population of that island, or say ten millions. R.ivaiia i about half the sizn of Illinois, with a soil not nearly so fertile, yet it mpporta ue.uly five million of human being. Illi nois could therefore, easily support ten million. Indiana, Missouri, Knna ami several other Stale could support nearly or quite as many. California and Tela could each, we presume, support double that number, and these and all other fer tile State are bound to be thickly peopled sooiu r or later. The second centennial of these United States, will therefore, ii) all probability, be celebrated by a popu lation of at least two. hundred millions, an iiicien-e that would be obtained oy only doubling in about forty-four years, w hich i a U'iy slow rate us compiiid with that' of the past. What proportion of that population will be colored and what proportion Chinese no one can tell, nor what may be" the bound arie of the United State a hundred year hence; but luippily wo have no need to enter upon such question. The prcH- cnt and the immediate future nro our special care. Present duty i to occupy tld fair and fertile laud with a good pop ulation a rapidly us practicable. J no w ay ot Increasing the population, and also to promote education and social happiness to reduce the size of the farms. Small farm are, n a rule, much better cultivated, more productive and more profitable than large ones, and they bring the population much closer together, thereby enabling them to nup- poi t belter schooU and churches, a well us better roads, storus,faetorie and work shops. In this way Intelligence, conven ience unci comfort are all promoted. In f iance, by the law ol equal Inherit ance, a man' farm i shared by nil hi children, and i subdivided to (he utmost practicableextent, with a family on each portion I is, in co Million largecnoiigh to mn-taiu one. France nisequeiice o tin arrangement, probably the richest agricultural coun try in the world. Lvery acre is cul tivated to the best advantage. Poultry, or whatever pay best, U carefully attend ed to. Kuouglt wheat is usually raised for the whole population, w ith, fn favor able years, a suplu for export. It was the saving of these agricultural familie, with those oft he mechanic ami artisans supported by them, which were loaned to the government to pay its enormous war expenses and war ilebt to Prussia. No country butone in whicu almost every body had something to lend to ilsgovernment in time of nerd could have paid oft that debt so quickly. Small latin have several other advan tages: they obviate, to a great extent, de pendence on hired men. 1 hey relieve the women oi the family ironi me noiniage oi cooking for and tending a great house hold. Ihe tanner can supervise cvciy put of his farm personally, and make it almost like a garden in beauty and fertil ity. I he animulscaii be kept, a in 1' i iince, m an enclosure or park, inu saving an the expense and waste of land in fencing, xcrpt for boundary fence, which may also be oinitled some day, i i (lone on the Ctiitineiit ot Furope, and In inehuid, A. .., where it is found cheaper and bet ter for all interests to fence in the animal than to fence in the crops, The subdivid ing of farms will begin when desirable new land become scarce, When thi re form I rarried out the productive power of the country will be greatly increased, Mini the saving of timber will be very great. A'. Y, Wit nea. A Strange Case. A few year ag. there wa a pupil at tho Institution for the Fducaliou of the Rlind, who wan totally, and It wa supposed, Irrecoverably blind. She had been blind from infancy, we believe. Her mind wa active quick to grasp mid analyze such subject a were presented in her various studies; all her facultie were keen, with the exception fthe one great allllctlon sightles rye. She left the institution in due time, her mind well developed by the course nf in. struction received within it wall, and returned to her homo somewhere In thi State, but to u unknown her parent being ycll-to-d'i and respectable people. Rut now come the strangest part of thi account. On Thursday thi young lady, for she now about twenty year of age, re turned to tho city not n a blind girl, but to enter, a a pupil, the State Institu tion for Deaf and Dumb. She ha lost her sense of hearing and nlo of speech, but h i gained partially tho Dense of see ing. Thi yvondcrful transposition ha not eon the growth of years, but nature, ha effected in within a comparatively brief period. Here i certainly it strange case, and challenge tho investigation of medical and scientific men. Dr. Gillett, Superintendent of the Institution for Deaf and Dumb, I watching the rase with great interest, but give no expression of opinion, a it wa so recently brought under hi notice. We hope to publish hi diagnosis of the case, or at least hi opin ion concerning It, iu due time. Tho sensoof sight, wc all know, act strangely in individual case. There lives a peron in till city who can aeo kell enough In daylight, but uevenlnr appro iciicm ucr sigiii become rapidly dim until by night it i lost entirely. It i fcaid that there I a boy living in Quincy wh cannot see at all in tho daytime, is blind, in fact, but a daylight fades into night, hi vision become perfect, aud ho ran see plainly In tho dark where other jierson w ith good eye cannot see ut hII. Jddottrille (III.) Journal. Kip kmc Woman. 3Ielancholy wn tho fato of a bashful young man who the other morning rodo into Wilton, Minn., with hi blushing and beautiful bride to be, since it turned out that sho wan hi bride not to be; for while the Justice wa putting on a clean shirt before the cere mony, alio changed her mind; and ha sinco espoused another young man. What dire evcuta spring from little cause 1 If the Judge hadn't been ao fastidious about hi shirt, how happy that young man would have been!