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HILLSBORO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1G, 1875.
NO. 37.
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The Fairy Shell.
Out- day, when wandering 'on the shore
That once, was ruled by MunnelJ,
1 found within a Hefted rotk
A htranfly twisted, curious shell
With spiral whorls of pearly white
And hollows tinged with roseate liht.
This shell posses-icd a wondrous power.
For, placed against the listener' ear.
He heard, though gentle faint and low,
The tours of those tie held most dear;
Though parted f ir hy land or wave.
The faithful shell an ci lio gave.
"i h! happy !ift to man," said I;
More precious than the painter' art ;
Mow oft tti it It thou, iu distant climes,
1'orn.ole the ever faithful heart,
thing back the cherished voice again, .
And tuke from ahsunee half its pain."
" Vain are thy thought," a nymph replied;
" For those who own it will lament
That never through its echoes faint,
'an tidings from the love be sent;
The distant sound is only caught.
Hi it never a word or message brought.
"Twill only waken yearning vain;
Twill only pierce the tieart anew,
Ami bring to mind with tenfold pain
The anguish of the last adieu.
When nil is lost beyond recall
Tis better far a veil should fall."
She ceased. I turned and threw the shell
Beneath the tossing, foaming tide;
Too well can memory waken grief.
That man should seek for might betide;
Love needs it not, for love can last
When ull the thing of Time are past.
The Nile 3Iysteiy.
. H.tl.w of H hnl II am -- Alrmtl)' 11
r0vrr.fl In Itrcard to th Nilt- Huurrr
An Intelligible Mlnlrniriil of Whai
Stanley ll l)on. and lTo Do.
The inarch of Stanley on this expedi
tion from the East African coast through
si wilderness of 700 miles of difficult
swamps, jungles, malaria, ami hostile
tribes of savages, furnishes one of the
most remarkable examples of military
sagacity, discipline and heroism, fortf
tude ami successful pcrsevei since of all
the heroic adventures into the heart of
Jilrigiiial Africa. Yet it is apparent,
from hi first report of his fifty-eight
days reeonnoissance of the Victoria
Luke, that the civilized world will le
amply rewarded for his labors, whatever
may he the fate in those African wilds
reserved for him. lie so completely
acclimated, however, to the pestilential
air of Equatorial Africa, so thoroughly
experienced as an African traveler, so
iiuick. 10 provide ior an procaine contin
gencies of danger, and so fully informed
as to tin field ot lalor still before him,
that we havr the highest contiilence that
hi' will return from his enterprise
crowned with all the honors ot complete
success.
lie has established the truth of
Spekc's report that tlie Victoria Laki
is one vast ioiy oi water, ami not a
chain of lakes, as conjectured to' he by
Burton ami as supposed to he y Living
stone, lie has shown to the world that
tlie wild tribes inhabiting the shoicsof
this great lake occupy large tracts of
amazing fertility, and that these people
are rich in their resources of cattle ami
elephants for a profitable trade with the
outside world. Unquestionably his dis
closures of these riches will shortly
attract the enterprising mercantile spirit
of England ami the United States to the
project of openings commercial highway
Irom tlie sealwuird to the V u tona Nyanza.
We anticipate a similar report from the
Albert Nyanza.
Sir Samuel Baker, in his famous mili
tary expedition up the Nile in the service
of the enlightened and progressive Khe
dive of Egypt, narrowly escaped w ith his
command from thetreacherousand warlike
savages and slave-traders on the peninsula
between these two great lakes; but he
gave those savages such a wholesome
chastisement that they have since been
comparatively peaceable. General Gor
don ami Captain Long, too, sit present in
the Khedive's service, having recently
impressed those tribes with the invincible
power of the white man, so that in cross
ing over from the Victoria to the AMwrt
Lake we expect that Stanley will find
friend among those tribes instead of ene
mies. In his circumnavigation of AIIert
Lake, which has been explored only by
Baker southward for 100 miles or so from
its northern outlet, Stanley may solve the
remaining mystery of the Nile, which is
its reported' counectioir with the Tangan
yika. It was by some of the natives re
ported to Baker, while on the borders of
this lake on his military expedition, that
there was a navigable connection be
tween this take and the Tanganyika; but
tliis report was treated us invention, with
the fact before the world that Livingstone
and Stanley, in a canoe trip from Vjiji to
the north end of the Tanganyika, found
tiieie a river with a strong current from
the north flowing into the lake. Tims a
dividing ridge was established between
them, as we shall presently show. Pro
ceeding now to a general "explanation of
1 the Central African discoveries, we find
! that thee recorded results of nianv ex
plorations within the last sixty year's an
iline to the lofty ambition and the inspir
ing temptation of discovering the source
r sources of film wonderful Nile, and of
its steady and never-failing stream, and of
its annual fertilizing inundation of Egypt.
Uruce, on reaching in Abyssinia the
sources of the Blue Nile, thought he had
discovered the head springs of the main
river;' but the III lie Nile to the White
Nile bears hardly the same comparison of
length and drainage that the Upjer Mis
sissippi bears to the great Missouri.
The Viceroy of Egypt's expedition,
over thirty year ago, was the first regu
larly organized ami equipped undertak
ing to determine the length and sources
of the White Nile or main river. This
expedition ascended the stream from the
cataract of Egypt to a point four de
gree north of the equator, and within a
hundred mile of Lake Albert, when,
dispirited and exhausted, it faced altout
and returned down the river to Cairo.
Tlie first actual discovery of one of the
fountain-head of the great river was that
ot Speke and (.rant, in their discovery ot
the great Lake, to w hich, in honor of
their Sovereign, they irave the name of
Victoria, coupling it w ith tlie native name
N'yanza or Niyanza. They traced it to
its outlet, and its outlet they found was
the Nile, or a branch of the Nile. Con
vinced on their part that they had dis
covered the fountain-head of the river,
they so reported it, and it was so accept
ed by the world until Sir Samuel Itakcr,
a few years later, in ascending the main
stream from Abyssinia, discovered west
of the Victoria and crossing the equator,
too, another great lake tributary to the
Nile, to which, to honor the consort of
his Sovt reign, he gave the name of Albert
Niyanza. Thus it was considered that
the whole problem of the sources of the
Nile was settled, excepting the extent
and the drainage of the Albei t Lake. Hut
it was inferred by the London lioyal Geo
graphical Society that this lake extended
southward only a degree or two Inflow
the equator, smd that, with the Victoria,
it absorbed all the fountain-heads of the
Nile, liut Livingstone, meantime, from
Lake Tanganyika westward, had been
quietly pursuing, unknown to the world,
his laborious explorations and his ex
traordinary discoveries in that great inte
rior region of fertile lowlands, and of
springs, lakes and riveis which we will
call Livingstone's Interior Uasin. All
ihis vast system of lakes and rivers,
through the Lualaba and the Lomame, is
drained into one great heavy stream flow
ing westward, ami that this stream, as in
an unknow n desert, is suddenly cut off.
This is the Nile mystery which still re
mains unsolved, and there lies the ulti
mate and paramount work of Stanley in
his present expedition, for here it was
that Livingstone was compelled to re
linquish the prize w ithin his grasp and to
abandon it from sheer exhaustion.
The great Interior Basin, extending
through over ten degrees of latitude and
stretching across twelve degrees of longi
tude, may, in general terms, be described
as covering an area equal to the section
of the United States embraced between
the latitude of this city and the Gulf of
Mexico on the one hand, and between the
Atlantic coast and the Mississippi river
on the other. And all the drainage of the
grat basin, from all its countless springs,
lakes and rivers, drawn from the enor
mous rainfall of Equatorial Africa, as
Livingstone believed fiom his researches
ami from the course of the great outflow
ing river, lelongs to the Nile. In this
belief he died, ami in this belief his wel
come companion on the Tanganyika and
his successor to his unfinished work has
gone out to finish it. If established that
this system of interior rivers and lakes is
tributary to the Nile, then the great river
of Egypt, flowing through forty-four de
grees of latitude, or with a distance in a
straight line of y,00i) miles between its
sources and its delta on the Mediterrane
an, becomes the longest river iu the
world.
Stanley has established its drainage by
the Victoria Lake as extending to four
degrees south of the equator, or thirty-
six degrees from its junction w ith the sea.
Thus, as our mighty Mississippi flows
through only twenty degrees of latitude,
it must be admitted that old Grandfather
Nile, leaving out Livingstone extension,
in his length and unfailing strength
eclipses the ''Father of Waters." Flow
ing 1,00 miles through a roasting desert
without a tributary, the volume of water
which the Nile carries to the sea is much
less than that of the Mississippi, while its
supplies from the clouds in the rainy di
vision of the continent w hich it crosses are
much greater.
Livingstone made this lake at Ujiji his
headquarter for several years, lie had
been up and down it ami far to the south
of it, but had not discovered its outlet
when he was found nnl rescued by Stan
ley. The two men in an e.edition, by
lxat, as we have said, discovered a xw
erful stream flowing into the lake at its
northern extremity, from which they
naturally concluded that its outlet was at
its southern extremity, and that the
stream in a southeastwardly course was
discharged into the Indian Ocean. But
L'eut. Cameron's discovery of the outlet of
this lake causes us to regret that Living
stone did not make it. This Cameron, a
young and active British explorer, in a
recent circumnavigation of this 1eautiful
lake, discovered it outlet on its western
side, ami, from our latest advices concern
ing him, we presume he is now treading
by boat the mazes of Livingstone's basin.
The fact is established that the Tangan
yika Lake is a tributary to the Lualaba,
and a the Lualaba joins the Lomame w e
have only to make a connection between
thisstrea'm and the Nile in order to con
nect the Tanganyika w ith Lake AUkmL
Cameron set out on hi voyage dow n
the outlet from Tanganyika fully satisfied
that he was on the waters of the Congo
and would come out by this river into the
Atlantic Ocean. But the Lualaba and
the Ijomame. which drain this interior
basin, pursue a course, not westward to
the Congo, but northward to the Nil?.
Nor can we resist the conclusion that if
the Lomame is not discharged into Lake
Albert it will be found to be the Bahr-el-Ghazal,
a great river which enter the
Nile on the west side some 400 mile
north of Albeit Lake. Petherick's ex
ploration of this great tributary or main
river does not overthrow this theory, for
he did not pursue the B.ihr-el-Ghazal to
its sources, while between the ascertained
basin of the Lomame ami that of the
Congo there is a chain of mountain of
5,000 feet alw.ve the sea, or some 2,000
feet above Livingstone's basin. On one
map Lake All.ert is given as over two
feet higher than Tanganyika, but careful
measurement will doubtless give a supe
rior elevation to the latter lake. It may,
however, have a lower surface level than
Lake Albert, and yet le tributary to the
Nile through the Bahr-el Ghazal." From
this brief review the reader will observe
that Stanley's present expedition embraces
a thorough exploration of the lakes Al
bert and Victoria and their respective bas
ins; that his c-irciiiiutavig:dion of the
Victoria Lake has b-.-i f. uilful of inter
esting discoveries and results; that his
establishment of the metes and bounds of
the Albert Lake will probably le attend
ed with very interesting discoveries; and,
finally, that in the ultimate task before
him he has the high reward for this cxje-
intion, in view ot the complete solution
of the problem of the Nile sources. In
any event, at the close of his labors in this
great geographical research, he will have
achieved enough to link his name and the
two public journals concerned in this ex
pedition in the roll of public benefactors.
to whom the world will be indebted for
the oiMMiing and the revelation of the
hitherto sealed books of Central Africa
Xea York Herald.
Satan and Old Aunt I'atieuce.
The unprincipled and dangerous at
tempt, here recorded, to frighten an in
noi .Mit peron, was quite as culpable as
the manner in w Inch it was met was vie
torious. A w riter in the AVir York Tsihjrr
says:
For an incarnation of true Christian
courage, piety, leace, and real content
inent, commend me to Auut Patience
Iluttou, whilom of Lovell, Me. She lias
passed on to the Ik tter world, but not
long since. Many who see this scrap
will remember her, ami surely none can
remember her but with pleasurable
emotion.
One cool autumnal evening, while
protracted meeting was in progress, a
numlfcr of young men were assembled in
the village tavern, ami as the conversa
Hon turned ujion female courage, it was
remarked that there was one woman in
Lovell who could not be frightened.
"A regular vixen, eh?" said an incrcdu
lous one.
"No, right the opposite. She is one of
the kindest, and mildest, and most ten
der-hearted, as well its one of the most
truly devoted ami pious women that I
ever knew. I allude to Aunt Patience
llutton."
But this thing could not be believed by
the others, so they resolved to put it to
the test. It was known that the old
lady had gone to the meeting, and that in
returning to ner home she would pass
through quite a stretch of lonesome woods
alone. Mine host Kimball had that day
slaughtered an ox, and, armed with the
skin, the party set forth for the wood.
It was a bright, moonlight night, and
though the shadows were deep iqutn the
wood-flanked stretch, yet objects could
be quite clearly discerned therein. Ar
rived at the appointed place Frank F
clad himself in the ox-hide, with the
enormous horns protruding from his head.
Certainly, if anything on earth could
have apeared utterly dialolical, at that
time and in that place, it ivas that satyr
like masque.
By-and-by the unsuspecting lady ap
proached, and she was alone. She walked
slow ly, her oaken staff keeping time w ith
her measured step. As she came nvar,
the representative of his Satanic Majesty
stepped forth from his hiding-place,
armed with a huge pitchfork, confronting
her with si sepulchral groan.
"Mercy sake alive! Who le your'
asked Aunt Patience, stopping.
"Hast thou not eves, woman f I am
the Spirit of Evil the Evil One himself !"
"Well, well," said sin in a tone of sin
cere commiseration, "you're a oor, un
fort'nate erect ur, sartinly. But you
never'd ought'r been so proud and so ob
strep'rous agin the Almighty. I can't
help you !'
And she quietly went her way. nor had
the young men the disposition to molest
her further.
There was what we call an inlxirn ami
indwelling faith a void of fear and guile,
giving peace and comfort.
Unless (perhaps) the old lady's calm
goxl sense enabled her to see through the
shabby trick which explanation en
hances the wit without abating the wis
dom of her words.
Voting in Wyoming.
Considering that the following oomes
from a Laramie paper, it is not very bad.
The paper have leen telling about the
Laramie woman w ho sat down ami tin.k
a good cry w hen her vote was challenged.
Now let them talk about the woman at
Medicine Bow, who, just a she was de
jiositing her vote last election day, was
surprised to hear a rough sing out:
"I challenge that woman's vote."
"On what grounds, sir?'
"She hasn't lncn long enough in the
territory."
Did the woman sit down and cry over
it? It is not to be recorded. Her dainty
little hand glided back into the folds of
her pull-back, and the next thing that
audacious cuss knew he wa gazing into
the muzzle of a deriner, while the fair
voter said :
"How long have I been in this territory,
sir?"
"Look out, madam don't. That cu-sed
thing might go off take it away; I beg
your pardon; I don't touch the trigger
I-I-I'm mistaken in the woman. Please
xint that the other way. I'll lick the
lyin' sheep-thief that says you haven't
lived in this tow n for ten years, I ww 'ar I
will."
He scitoted around tho corner, and she
smilingly p:iscd in her ticket.
Thick R was a woman passing the jost
office slowly, yesterday. Her head was
Ient and she was eyeing the pavement
most intently. An elderly man accosted
her:
"Iost anything?"
"Yes, sir, a breast-pin."
"Gold breast-pin!" he anxiously in
quired. "Yes, sir," she eagerly replied.
"Pretty good sizef" he suggested.
"Oh, yes, ir," said she, catching her
breath in painful expectation.
"Well." said the elderly individual in a
tone of sympathy, "I never lost a breast
pin myself, but I imagine it's no joke to
lose one," and he walked thoughtfully on.
Scrxe, an examination. Tutor sees a
mysterious and suspicious looking paper
fall to the floor. He also sees an oppor
tunity todistinguish himself. Cautiously
he advances to the attack and captures
the paper. He reads : u8old again"
A liar should have a good memory.
TKS PIHESIDS.
The Christniu-H Turkey.
After drawing the turkey, riuse out
with several waters, and in next to the
last mix a teaspoouful of soda. Tho in
side of a fowl, especially if purchased in
tho market, is sometimes very sour and
imparts an unpleasant taste to the stuffing.
if not to the inner part i ine jegs ami
sidel Mines. The soda will act as a cor
rective, and is moreover very cleansing
Fill the Ixnly w ith this water, shake well,
empty it out and rinse with soda water.
Then prepare a dressing of bread-crumbs,
mixed with butter, pepier,valt, thyme or
sweet marjoram, ami wet wun nov water
or milk. You may, it you like, add the
Iieuteu yolks of two eggs. A little chopped
sausage is esteemed an improvement when
well incoriforatcd with the other lugre
dieuts. Or, mince a dozen oysters and stir
into the dressing; and, if you are partial
to the taste, wet the bread-crumb with
the oyster-liquor. Tho effect ujmhi tho
turkey-meat, particularly that of the
breast, is very pleasant.
Stuff the craw with this and tie a string
tightly around the neck, to prevent the
escaiH of the stuffing. I hen nil the Iody
of the turkey, and sew it up with a strong
thread. This and the neck-string are to
Ik removed when the turkey i dished
In roasting, if your fire is brisk, allow
alxmt ten minutes to a pound, but it will
depend very much uiwni the turkey s agt
w hether this rule holds good. Dredge it
w ith flour !efore roasting, and baste often ;
at first with butter ami watr, afterward
with the gravy in the dripping-pan. If
you roast in an oven and lay the turkey in
the pan, put it in with a teacup of hot
water. Many roast always upon a grating
placed umii the top of the pan. Iu that
case the boiling water steam the under
part of the fow l, ami prevent the skin
from drying too fast, or cracking. Koast
to a dark brown, and if it threaten to
darken too rapidly, lav a sheet ot white
paper over it until the lower part is also
done.
Stew the chopped giblets in just enough
water to cover them, and when the turkey
is lifted from the pan, add these, with
the water in which thev were loiled, to
the drippings; thicken with a sjoonful of
browned Hour, wet with cold water to pre
vent lumping, lxil uponctf and lxtur into
the gravy-lxiat. If the turkey is very fat,
skim the dripping well lie fore putting in
the giblets.
Serve with cranlerry sauce. Some lay
fried oysters in the dish around the tur
key.
Lkmoxs foii Fkvek. When jhtsohs
are thirsty and feverish lieyond what is
natural, one of the best "coolers, inter
nal or external, is to take a lemon, cutoff
the top, sprinkle over it some loaf sugar,
working it downward into the lemon, and
then suck it slowly, squeezing the
lemon and adding more sugar as the acid
ity increases. Invalids with feverishness
may take two or three lemons a day in
this manner with the most marked Ix-ne-fit,
manifested by si sense of coolness.
comfort and invigoration. A lemon or
two thus taken at teatime, sis an entire
substitute for the ordinary super, would
give many a man a comfortable night's
sleep and an awaking of rest ami invig
oration, with an apM-tite for breakfast to
w hich thev would otherwise be strangers
Thkke is a movement on foot in Eng
land to establish "village school kitch
ens. 1 he scheme has len Iouml well
in some instances. The elder girls are
told off for the puriKtse and work to
gether, six at a time, two as cooks and
four a kitchen maids. The meat cooked
is sold at a low price, sometimes to the
parent of the children at the school,
sometimes to such of the scholars as come
from a distance and are glad to le spared
the burden of carrying their dinners with
them. The cooking is only carried on
on certain ilayo, and so well has the work
been arranged with respect to the other
school iH'cupations, that the needlework
ami general efficiency of the scholar has
not suffered in the least, and they have
been especially commended for their cul
inary triumphs by the diocesan inspector.
Lemon Puefs. One quart of milk, the
yelks of ix eggs, two cups of white sugar,
two tah!esHntu!s of flour, three lemons.
Beat the eggs, sugar and flour together
well; beat the egg first, then add the
lemon juice; have your dish lined with
paste; do not add the milk until you are
ready to put it into the ovon. Beat up
the whites, add fine white sugar, a large
teacupful, and lxat very light; flavor to
taste. hen the custard is done spread
the icing over it, set it back in the oven,
let it brown nicely. Eat when cold.
It is a decided mistake to supixise that
plants are unhealthful in sleeping apart
ments or sitting rooms. Of course, if the
flowers exhale a strong ierfume tuch as
that of tuberoses, hyacinths and daplines,
they make the air too iwlorous to Ikj de
sirable at night; but healthy, growing
plants absorb the canonic acid in the
atmosphere, ami keep it pure and agree
able. They are, in fact, the lest disen
fectants that can le employed.
Bakley Mrsii. Have soft water lull
ing in an iron or Mrcelain-lincd kettle;
sift in the meal with one hand while stir
ring with the other until of the consist
ency you prefer, say so thick that it will
not settle flat, or even a little thicker.
Cover close ami place where it will sim
mer from forty minutes to an hour. Trim
with sweet stewed fruits and fruit juices
or eat with fresh berries.
Crackers. To one cup of "A" and one
cup of "B" oatmeal, add two-thirds of a
cup of cold water; work it one or two
minutes, and then spread it with a spoon
about three-sixteenths of an inch thick on
a well-oiled pan; cut into squares of the
size which you would have the crackers
by merely running a knife smoothly
through from side to side; bake in a slow
oven until the moisture is well dried out.
Do not brown them at all.
Lick ox Roses. The best remedy is
tobacco water, made by pouring a gallon
of boiling water on four ounces of tobac
co, and covering until cold. The shoots
may be syringed, or dippeu m it.
Prayer-lunik Forgotten.
The follow ing story is unique iu itself,
and, though slightly bordering on the
sacrilegious, is strictly true: A hospitable
city rector, in the city of centennial glon
had a Western German missionary staying
with him during some convention or cler
ical gathering. One night he went some
distance to marry a couple at the bride s
father's house, and, for company's sake
the Western brother went with him. Sud
denly the rector exclaimed:
"There! I have forgotten my prayer
Ihmik, and these eopIe are Presbyterians
What shall I do?"
"Vy, zurelv, you knows de zervize by
dis dime," said the German brothel. "Go
on mitout any Ixtok."
"Well, let u see," said the clergyman
"how docs it begin? We will walk on; 1
will repeat it, ami you concert me if I get
it w rong.
"Yah vhole!" answered the GermsMi.
" 'Dearly beloved, we are gathered here
in the sight of God and the face of this
company ' That is right?" said the
minister.
"Yaas," said the German.
to join together this man and this
woman in holy matrimony, which w Inch
what come next? inquired the icr
plcxed lector.
"Vich? Let me see," replied the Ger
man missionary, "how dH;s it go? Oh,
yaas ! 'Vich, being so divine and comfort
able a thing to those who receive it
worthily, and so dangerous to them who
presume to receive it unworthily
"Hold on, man!" said the astonished
minister, "you have gone iuto the com
munion service; I can never get straight
now."
Another mistake like this happened to
a very absent-minded clergyman, who
stood up before a bright roomful of joy
ous people, and began the wedding-ser
vice as tollows:
"'Man that isliorn of woman hath but
a short time to live and i full of mis
ery "
"Stop, stop!" cried out the astonished
groom, "we came here to be married, not
buried."
A Gentleman.
W hat is a gentlrman? I'll tell you. It
is simply this a man of H-rfect and un
sullied honor. No man, however tine his
clothes, or how elegant his manners, can
be a gentleman unless his instinctive sense
of honor is line as the ear of a musical
composer, who listen to musicians who
play hi own works, so that he could not
do a "tricky," a dishonest, a mean or a
cruel thing for the whole world.
He will not Ikj honorable only in those
plainer path over which the law keep a
strict watch. Of course he w ill pay his
debts and forlxar to lie or steal, or to have
more wives than one; and his word is as
giMHl as oath or bond could Ik. Being
decently honorable he will keep his given
promise to a man ami his troth-plight to
a girl, ami will refrain from circulating
scandal concerning a woman, or showing
his love-letters; bat there are also a thou-
sand delicate jK-ints on which he has no
doubt whatever. Me knows w hen he may
give ami when he may take; when he may
kiss, and when a kiss is an offence; when
a thing may be forgiven, and w hen to tor
give, or rather to torget, would le an eter
nal stain upon hi honor. For in this
world to blot out some memories is to
blot out one's own life. Not that a man
need seek revenge, but he must remem
ber that he musn'tgive an honorable baud
to beclusjed by one which is stained with
dishonor.
He take no favor that it is not right to
take, and so he ever takes one generously
ami returns it when he may. Those who
trust in him trust well; they are never
betrayed.
The man of honor is the man w ith a
heart, therefore he is never a flirt. He
leaves uo woman in doubt as to whether
he is her friend or lover no, not the vain
est or silliest of her sex; and when he
marries he has no secret from his wifo,
nor does she have any from him.
He would lift a letter from the ground
with the seal uppermost, as certainly if
you were not present a if you were, for
lie docs none of these things because he
desires you to think him what he is, but
because he is what he is by nature. And
I suppose, after all, it is just that: he was
born a gentleman. God gave him all
these finer feelings, and he only acts up
to them; but still it is all the same, and
the broad dividing line that separates the
snob and the gentleman is, that this lat
ter is a man of honor.
Piuskim'm Pit Mill ess has lieen translat
ed into Japanese. The Athenrum says:
I he vernacular literature of Japan is
extending at a rapid rate, adaptations of
the Ijest English text book on geography
and physical science being published al
most monthly, and though far from being
iverfect productions, attaining a wide cir
culation. Japanese writers have the
greatest difficulty in hading accurate
equivalents in their own language lor r.u
ropcan words used to denote recent Eu
roiean studies and scientific terms. They
are almost always obliged to paraphrase;
thus dynamite becomes 'the powerful
thing torpedo, 'under water burster,' and
so on.
Dr. Am. en, of Philadelphia, told a
good story on himself in hi speech anent
the Irccdmen. He was preaching one
day away down iu Tennessee, when an
old Methodist brother, of the African per
suasion, came to him after the sermon
and said: "I like to hear you preach, for
I understand your preaching." Dr. Allen
replied, "I am glad of it." ."But I under-
.....! U'tr. 1 vm GUV T linrtA urt "
said the doctor, "for I try to make myself
understood." Again the old man came to
the charge. "Yes," he said, "I understand
you je"- at well as if you teat a nigger."
Dr. Allen thought it a rare compliment.
An inquisitive Freshman inquired of a
Senior what the President was lecturing
about this term. The Senior informed
him that he had been lecturing on Eras
mus and Luther. "O, I see," says Freshie ;
"he is lecturing on biblical charac
ters r
Thonian Xunt.
I'ew readers need to be informed that
it was the war which developed and
brought to light the caricaturist of the
United States. Thomas Nnsd. When tho
war began he was a boyish-looking youth
oi cigniecn, wno nan already wmi em
ployed as a draughtsman upon the Bins
trated press of New York ami London for
two years. He had ridden in Garibaldi s
train during the campaign of IS((I, which
freed Sicily and Naples, ami sent sketches
oi the leading events home to ew i ork
and to the London Illuttrattd Xntt. But
it was the secession war that changed him
from a roving lad with a swift encil for
sale into a patriot artist, burning w ith the
enthusiasm of the time, llarptr't Weekly,
circulating in every town, army, fort,
camp and ship, pi acini the whole country
within his reach, and lie gave lorth from
time to time thofcc powerful emblematic
pictures which roused the citizen and
cheered the soldier. In these curly works,
produced amidst the harrow ing anxieties
of the war, the serious element was of
necessity dominant, and it was this qual
ity which give him so much Influence
They were as much the exwessiou of
heartfelt conviction as Mr. Curtis most
impassioned editorials, or Mr. Lincoln's
Gettysburg sjeech. This I know, be
cause I sat by his side many a time w hile
he was drawing them, and was w itli him
often at those electric moments when the
idea of a picture was conceived. It was
not till the war was over, and President
Andrew Johnson lcgan to "swing round
the circle," that Mr. Nast's pictures Ie
came caricatures. But they were none
the less the utterance of conviction.
Whether he is wrong or right in his view
presented of a subject, his pictures are
a much the product of his mind as they
are of his hand.
Concerning the justice of sonic of his
political caricatures, there must be, of
course, two opinions; but happily his
greatest achievement is one which the
honest portion of the people all approve.
Caricature, since the earliest known eriod
of its existence, far back in the dawn of
Egyptian history, lias accomplished noth
ing else equal to the series of about forty
five pictures contributed by Thomas Nast
to llarper't Weekly for the explosion of
the Tammany King. Theso are the ut
most that satiric art has done in that kind.
The fertility of invention displayed by
the artist, week after week, for months at
a time, was so extraordinary that people
com hided, as a matter of course, the ideas
were furnished him by others. On the
contrary, he cannot draw from the sug
gestions of other minds. His more cole-
brsitcd pictures have been drawn iu quiet
country places, several miles from the
city iu which they were published.
James Pauton, i J farmer .Wngizine for
December.
What isi Men Want ! Office?
The universal mania for holding some
public ollice is surprising to us. Few
public places can be regarded us conlci'
ring honor on the incunilx-nts. Formerly,
to Im elected to a public office was a proof
of merit. It can hardly be considered so
any longer. Chicanery and partisan ma
chineiy are tin controlling forces in our
jHipular elections.
iheu as to coui'K-nsation, H a man
takes only honest pay it i seldom larger
than the compensation for private service
of a similar grade.
A candidate is subjected to all manner
of abuse; his indejH'iidence Is diminished;
his eace of mind Is destroyed; his feci
lugs are ciuuittered; his laniiiv is an
noyed ami made uncomfortable and
anxious. Why should a sensible lawyer
Im a candidate lor office! Ac i ork
Jsdger.
In Hememiikance. In one of the Hey,
DeWitt Th Image's sermons he introduce
the following anecdote : I saw an account
oi a litue ooy who was to Im; takeu by a
city missionary, w ith some other boys, to
the country to hud homes. He was well
clad and hud a new hat given him; but
while the missionary was getting the
other children ready to go,-this boy went
into the corner and took the hat he had
thrown off and tore the lining out of it.
The missionary said, "What are you doing
with that hat? You don't want it. What
are you tearing the lining out of it for?"
"Ah!'' said the Imy, "that was made out
of mother's dress. She loved me very
much Iefore she died, and I have nothing
to remember her by but the lining." And
so the boy tore it out and put it in his
bosom.
On one occasion a clergyman, after pro
nouncing the Ix'uedictiou ujmmi the kneel
ing couple before him, extended his hand
to congratulate the young husband, w hen
he, with an injured, indignant air, waved
his hand away, saying at the same time,
"It is alt right, sir; the first groomsman
w ill attend to that." I he same minister
ias another story of an old uncle who
brought his niece to the rectory on a cold.
rainy day, to Ik? married, ami, who, after
the ceremony, fumbled about for a two-
dollar bill, and, not being able to find it,
said, as he handed the parson a hve-doilar
note, "Take the change out of that for a
two-dollar job; it's a kind of wet-aml-cold-like
to-day, and I guess two dollars
will Ik about the thing.
The Act of Conirress which provided
for "celebrating the one hundredth Anni
versary of American IndeKndence, by
holding an International Exhibition of
Arts, Manufactures, and Pruducts of the
Soil and Mine," authorized the creation
of the United States Centennial Commis
sion, and entrusted to it the management
of tho Exhibition. This body is composed
of two commissioners from each State and
Territory, nominated by the respective
Governors, and commissioned by the Pres
ident of the United States. The enter
prise, therefore, is distinctly a national
one, and not, as has sometimes been stat
ed, the work of a private corporation.
The richest woman In America is a
miss, ner income is f l.uuu a day, ana
the gentle ferocity of her name is Kitty
Wolfe. 1 Poverty's phrase loses its pith,
for here is a Wolfe good to adore.
Wuyftfn Which the Sun Influence the
Earth.
If wc now turn to the sun we find that
there are three distinct forms in motion
which animate Uh fctirfaco particles. Iu
the first place, each particle is carried
round by the rotation of our luminary.
Secondly, each particle is influenced by
the gigantic nietcorologicnl disturbance
of the surface, in virtue of which it may
acquire a velocity ranging as high us 1210
or 140 miles a second ; and lastly, each
particle, on account of it high tempera
ture, is vibrating with extreme rapidity,
and the energy of these vibrations com
municated to us by means of the ethereal
medium produces the w trll known light
aud heat effect of the sun.
- Now, is it philosophical to suppose
that it is only the last of these three mo
tions that influence our earth, while tho
other two produce absolutely no effect?
On the contrary, we are, 1 think, com
(tcllcd, by considerations connected with
the theory of energy, to attribute an in
fluence, whether great or small, to the
first two as well as to the last.
We are thus led to suppose that tho
sun must influence the earth in three ways,
one depending on his rotation, another
on his meteorological disturbance, and a
third by means of the vibrations of his
surface particles.
But we have already seen that, a a
matter of fact, the sun does appear to in
fluence the earth In three distinct ways
one magnetically and meteorologically,
depending apparantly on his jteriod of
rotation; a second cyclontcally, ueiH?nd-
Ing aparantly on the metoorological con
ditions of his surface; and a third, by
means of his light and heat. Popular
Science Monthly.
Wanted A Minister.
A ne w.iii iter In Milwaukee. Wis., bub-
lished the following among Its advertise
ments the other day :
Wasted A rector for St. James'
Parish. Milwaukee. Wis. He must pos
sess all the Christian graces and a few
worldly ones: must have such tact and
diofeitlon us will enable him to side
w ith all parties in the parish on all (Mints,
giving offence to none; should possess a
will of his own, but agree with all tho
vestry; must be socially inclined and of
dignified manners; affable to all, neither
rnniiinLr after tho wealthy nor tiirninor
back upon the poor; a man of High Low
Church tendencies preferred; must le
w illing to preach llrst-class sermons and
do first class work at second class corn
pensation; salary should not be so much
of an object as the desire to be a zealous
laliorcr in the vineyard, should bo able to
convince all that thev are miserable sin
ners without giving offeuce; each sermon
must Iks short but compieia in iisen -full
of old-fashioned theology in modern
dress deep, but popular, and li'eo from
the eloquence (teculiar to newiy-gradu
ate.l theologians ; should i young
enough to In; enthusiastic, but posse
the Judgment of one of ripe year. He
only who possesses the ulvo qualifica
tions need apply. To such a oue will I
given steady employment for a term of
years. For further information apply to
any meiiiln'r of the congregation.
Separation After Tlilrty-Four Yohih.
A man of reputed wealth was recently
(tut under bonds, iu Brooklyn, for the
supjHM t of his w ife, w hom be had aban
doned after they had lived together
thirty-four year and had seven children,
five ot whom are living.
It is not strange that among tho mil
lions of marriages that take (dace there
should Iks some ill-sorted matches; but
ordinarily any Incongruity of temper or
character i speedily discovered. There
is Komcthintf marvelous iu the voluntary
separation of a husband and a wife after
they have lived together for the long
(H-riod of thirty-four years, and tho large,
family of seven children have been Inirn
to them.
There are but few causes to which such
a terrible domestic calamity can be at
tributable. The most probable of these
i the imbibing not of alcohol, but of
false notions of the conjugal relations aud
of family obligations. These notions
find their fullest expression in the affinity
theories advanced by the advocates of the
detestable free-love idea. Such doctrines
are among the most dangerous inculcated
by any teachers of the present day.
When accepted, they are most ruinous
in their operation and effect.
The interference and Intermeddling of
outsiders between married parties are
pernicious enough in many instances; but
hardly anything else than the false lights
displayed by teachers who teach error
can lead astray and to a separation mar
ried persons who have lived together
more than third of a century.
"Now go and learn a trade," said
Stephen Girard to a clerk, who, having
served him faithfully from boyhood, went
to him on his twenty-first birthday ex
pecting promotion.
"What trade, slrt"
"Good barrels and butt must be in do
mand while you live. Go and learn the
cooper's trade, and when you have made
a perfect barrel, bring it to me."
The young man went away and learned
the trade, and in time brought to his old
master a splendid barrel of hi own
make. Girard examined it, and gave
the maker two thousand dollar for it;
and then said to him:
"Now, sir, I want you in my counting
room; but henceforth you will not be
dependent upon the whim of Stephen
Girard. Let what will come, you have
a giKKl trade always in reserve."
At a recent "Centennial Party" held in
Terie Haute, Ind., there were displayed
a pair of silver knee-buckles, once the
property of George Washiodon : a i.ulr
of yellow buckskin gloves, worn by John
iiancocic; a watcn made in 1733; a coffee-pot
more than one hundred years old,
and a mahogany chest In which cruineaa
were brought from England to this coun
try in the time of the Itevolutton. to car
the Hessians with.