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'' THE INDEPENDENT, FtlLIIBID Every Thursday Evening, THE INDEPENDENT Adrortiaing Bates. LEGAL tDVKnTIMKXEm (eoln.) One Miliars or lout, on Inarrtlun J Out qur aeli ubMquul lUkwrtioB Ov ton ' IndeBenden -4. ii. p.. 1. 1 c i:. n Tl M K. I ti. 81- 1 V COltf Cl J COl. Office, - - Old Court House,! 1 mouth ... I not 4 00 I 0u 0f) 7 OOIU 90130 00 TULLEOKO, OREGON'. 3 month. 400 ssrt 10 on; : 60 MOO tO 09 I months. . I Off 101 urn n M Trrun of AiiHerription (coin ritn- Mrle copy per far f 2 50 fctngle copy month 1 Su tinsl number month.. 11 S0 IS (II IT M WW VOL. 4. LLSB0R0, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1876. NO. 2 I JMf. 10 00 14 OJ 0U 23 (W 80 (M sooJ MOO Wash V I . On the Short. I urn growing old I fti-I it la the tieiublinsf of the lUiib; 'I'll silver luil r.- reveal it, Ami my sight is growing dim; While my friends urourn! remind me Of tlit dullness of my ear, Though I hear it said behind m, "(irand jni is gt( wing nueer." Ah! so deep the furrowed places Which flu: share of time dot It plow. That it nmj have left its traces On the hrain its welt as brow! Hut I know that still utifur rowed I have kept my better part; For though lines lie on the forehead. There lire none upon the heart. And, therefore, old and weary, I urn not ufmid to die, Tho' the shore seems long and dreary. And the waters wide and hili; For I know across the river There's a bright and sunny land, Where the hand doth never quiver, Nor the form decripit stand. Where the hair doth never silver, Nor the head unhidden bow, And the passing ages never In t a wrinkle on the brow! And there's One will "jo beside me Through the river's hri-uking tide, That no waves will over-ride me Till I reach the other side. 8. ('. Kikk. The Hidden Cause. In the neighborhood of Paris, a short distance from Morfoutaine urn) Ermcnon ville, there rises a pretty country-house, carefully built, ami ornamented with much taste. The traveler, in passing, pauses to regard it with pleasure, as we always do those habitations which seem the abode of atllueiice, happiness anil peace. This dwelling, w hich has neither the appearance of a chateau nor the luxury of a villa, is the house of a citizen which has served us the retreat of an artist; and the inspirations of genius are visible in its arrangement: for those who cultivate the arts have the secret of bestowing charms to the most simple things; and the house of the painter, the garden of the poet, the - pavilion of the musician, have an- asjH'ct which neither the riches of the capitalist, nor the pretensions of the upstart, can bestow' on the most semptuous propel ty. For those who would escape the iioie of the town, what more beautiful situation can be found than the country between Morfoutuine and Ermenonville i It was with feelings of sweet joy that the poet Delvigny entered on tho posses sion of this charming abode, all the ad vantages of which I shall not attempt to describe, because description is never more than si pale image of reality. I will merely say that nothing was want ing to supply all the charms of refined existence; there was a pretty drawing room with a piano, a handsome apart ment for billiards, a beautiful garden with grottoes and grove, and ju.-t such a piece of water as an angler would desire; in short, everything to satisfy an inhabitant of the country. Delvigny had quitted the city, on the death of his wife, whom he had adored; and, though still young, had not the res olution to console himself for the loss of one whom he had hoped to have had for the fi iend and companion of his existence. A son was t!ie only pledge of affection Hymen hud left Delvigny a son us beautiful as his mother, ami who prom ised to be equally amiable. The little Adolphe was the idol of his father, who promised to make a celebrated artist of him, and already perceived on his forehead all the bumps of genius, science and the arts. But death, who disarranges all our plans, did not permit Delvigny to accomplish his for the edu cation of his son. The poet died three years after his wife, leaving the little Adolphe to the care of two good aunts, who hail left their homes to attend the poet during his illness. Behold, then, our hero of live years old in the charge of two old maids, of whom one had never had a passion for any thing but sweettneats,.and the other a very de cided pinr'tiint for the game of ''pa tience." Delvigny had left his son three hun dred pounds a year income (which is not so bid otF for a poet), and each aunt pos sessed another, -all of which would ulti mately revert to Adolphe; he would thus We sutlieiently rich to live without active employment. All they had to do, there fore, was to disperse from his mind all vicious propensities, all ambitious ideas in a word, t make him contented with his lot. With this view the good aunts educated the boy as it' he had been a girl. They would not let him karn Grecian history, for fear he should acquire a taste .for .war; they locked up Kotnan history lest it should make him cruel. In fact, tin two old ladles suppressed a crowd of things which they judged to be useless and dangerous; but, on the other hand the boy learned to sing and to read in very old, respectable books; lie knew how to m ike tapestry, and wind silk, and to weave nets with.thre.nl. Thev had al.-o inculcated, in a good hour, h love of sweetmeats and the game of "patience." In the meantime Adolphe grew apace. He was gentle as a lamb; he lowered his eyes when anyone looked at him, and blushed w hen he was spoken to. He was not very learned, nr very industrious; but then he adored c'onfects, and passed willingly an hour or two at the game of "patience." The two old aunts were enchanted with their pupil. IIo is a jewel a real cherubim!" said they one to another. "It will be very easy to make him happy, for happiness is rather compounded of ignorance than knowledge." In this way Adolphe attained the age of eighteen years without ever going out, except to take a walk with Ids aunts in the neighborhood. They, good ladies, believed that their beautiful nephew would pass through life without any other idea?, other thoughts, or wishes; the poor girls never having had any others themselves, conceived the love of sweet meats ami the game of "patience" suffi cient tor human happiness. Hut one day a peasant happened to let fall a few words to Adolphe, about a fate at the vjluge ot J-.rmenonvilIe, to which he requested his aunts would take him. They consented, not toreseeing-how at a village jtte their gentle nephew could provide Jiunselt with new nenclniia Adolphe opened his eyes wide on seeing the people, the shops, the dance; lie opened them yet wider on beholding the young village girls, so lreh, and pretty, and coouettishly dressed. I hen he low ered them suddenly, and reddened with an emotion of mingled trouble and pleas ure, In-fore a young face so sweet, so gracious, that she resembled rather the ideal creation of a painter than the work oi nature. This charming face was that of CTo- tilde, a little peasant girl, the daughter of a poor but honest laborer. She was his sole possession the last hope of her old father, tor whom she worked Irom morn till night. She had the entire man agement of their little household; and when anfete days she was enabled to put on her pretty robe ot pink cotton, and take the arm of her father under her own oh! then the young girl thought her self as happy as a queen. After having lowered his eyes before the young girl, Adolphe raised them again, and hazarded another look at this charming face, so candid and so pure Uy a singular accident, it happened that ( lotilde was also regarding the handsome volmg man w ho stood near her, and it wajs now her turn to redden. Adolphe had no power to move away from C'lotilde; the company were dancing, but lie would not dance because the peasant girl hud no inclination to leave her father, hvery one solic ited them to take part in the pleasures of their age; and the young man hastened forward to invite C'lotilde to dance with him, telling her that thev would place themselves opposite to her father. C'lotilde tremblingly accepted the hand ot Adolphe, and during the dance they exchanged but few words. Adolphe only found that the lather of the little 'ime was named Dumout, and that he was very poor; C'lotilde, that her cavalier was called Adolphe Delvigny, and that he was rich.' The girl sighed at this news. Their dance lasted a long time. for Adolphe recommenced each succeed ing one with his pretty partner, whom he had the sense to engage in advance. Hut in the interim, the file drew to a close; his aunts desired to return home, and took the young man, who was habit nally obedient, with them; but though he left C'lotilde, Adolphe turned back very oftil n to look at her uiriin, and each time he found the little peasant looking also; so that accident already made them act alike. The next day Adolphe ate very little breakfast, and lens dinner; he seemed melancholy and disturbed. lie could do nothing; he even refused to eat sweet meats, though newly made. "Nay, then, the poor lad must be ill." said both aunts, overwhelming him with questions. "Where do you suffer?'' asked one. "How did it take you?" said the other. 'Does it pinchi" To all these inquiries Adolphe con tented himself with replying, "I do not suffer. I have no pain any where. I am not ill." Several days passed, during which Adolphe visibly changed, lie lost his color, his eyes had no longer their lustre, and a languor mixed with melancholy replaced his usual gayety and petulance. The aunts were disconsolate, and sent for the most skillful doctor in the neighbor hood. The medical man examined the patient, shook Ids head and muttered, "It is very astonishing; there is noth ing the mutter with the young man." "And, notwithstanding, he visibly drops off, sir," suid aunt I'rsule, weeping. "There must be some hidden cause, said the doctor. "What is there he would not tell us?" exclaimed the aunts. "We love him so much that we could refuse him nothing." At the end of some weeks, Adolphe became so weak that he was obliged to keep his bed; his aunts demanded with out ceasing, if there was anything he de sired; but Adolphe wished for nothing, only he often asked when the ftte of hrmeiionvilie would come again. "In a year," said they. At this the poor youth sighed, and said, half to himself, "In a year that's a long time; shall I last until then?" Hut the doctor, understanding that hit patient was in the habit of asking this question daily, hastily inquired of Adolphe what he had done at the fete to which the other answered, in a faint voice, that he had danced w ith C'lotilde Dumont. The doctor immediately sought the aunts, and said to them, rubbing his hands, "I believe I know the secret of your nephew's illness." "Oh, doctor, then you will save him?" "No!" "How no?" "Keeause I cannot; it will be a young girl of Krmenon villi, named CTotilde Du mont." "What do you say, doctor?" "That your nephew is in love with that young peasant, and that his passion is so consuming, that it will conduct him to the grave unless you permit him to marry her." "Our nephew in love! Impossible, doctor! Uliy he sees no one but us!" "I know very well lie is not in love with either of you; but send to Clotilde Dumont; it is she only who can restore your nephew." The two aunts regarded one another a moment in silence; but Adolphe suffered, and they could not hesitate long. On the morning of the next day, the aunts and the doctor entered the invalid's cham ber and announced a visitor. It was CTotilde, who had come with her father, in consequence of an invitation they had received, and who remained immovable and trembling at finding herself in the presence of the sick young man. On seeing her, Adolphe made a move ment as if he would have sprung towan her; but weakness prevented him, am he fell back ujHin his bed. Yet his heart leat strongly, and his eyes recovered their brightness. "I was not mistaken," said the doctor, addressing the aunts. Your nephew's malady is love; and as this cannot be treated by homu'opathy, love only can cure In m. I lie good aunts, willing t sacrifice everything tor the happiness of their nephew, demanded Irom Mr. Dumont the hand of his daughter for Adolphe, and presented her to him, saying, "She shall be your wife as soon as you recover. I need hardly say that his illness did not continue long. Rest. Multitudes of earth's toiling millions have died while striving to make enough money to retire from business, and in beautiful cottage on their own little farm to spend the remnant of their days in rest, in having nothing in particular to do. I'crhaps one m a million ot the hopers does make money enough to en able him to retire to his country seat, and for a year or two, while he is fixing it up to his notion, all goes on charm ingly, but when everything is completed to his mind, and he has nothing more to take up his attention, he eats and sleeps and lounges around for a few months longer, falls into disease and dies; or if he has unusual force of char acter and power of observation, he no tices that !oth health and happiness are passing from him, and tracing this to the true cause of an inactive body and an unoccupied mind, he resolves to ''sell out" and plunge again into the vortex of busiuess. IJecently an old schoolmate younger, graduating in the same class thirty-seven years ago wrote that "loth body and mind are worn out; the slightest phys ical labor exhausts him," and, "any effort to think or study or even read, so wearies the brain that life is felt as a burden." lie withdrew from his professional duties, which he had performed in the place for twenty-five years, with honor to himself, having secured the love and confidence and resjtect of all who knew him. He gave up Ida calling for the purjKse of obtainiug rest as a means of health. The number of families is increasing every day, who give up housekeeping as a means of rest from family cares, and resort to that miserable and most un wise mode of life, boarding at a hotel or in a private family, to get more dissatis fied than ever in a few months, mean while falling into bail health and bad habits of various kitfds. All these classes of persons fail, mis- erablyvfail, in their object because they mistake tho physiological meaning of the word "rest." Xeither body nor brain are safely, truly and happily rested 1y doing nothing. The only healthful rest. as long as our physical ami mental con stitution remains as it is, is to be busy. Men ot torco and industry will every where tell you, "It is the hardest thing in tho world to do nothing." No mortal man was ever made to be a loafer, to be a miserable drone. The true idea of rest is recreation, a making over again, a re turn to our accustomed vigor; and this is iccomplished, not by allowing the ma chine to come to a standstill, for inactivi ty is rust and ruin to all mechanical contrivances, and death to all physiolog ical structures. 1 he true object ot rest is recuperation, and that is best brought about as to the body, by exercising a different set of muscles; and as to the brain by calling into requisition a differ ent set of organs or powers, causing the mind toact upon new objects. A I letter plan is not to get into the unhealthful condi tions named, and they are avoidable by giving two hours daily to the exercise of a different class of muscles, or to the in vestigation and t-tudy of objects of com paratively trivial importance, and of a wholly different nature. The student should ride on horseback, or cultivate fruits and flowers ; the merchant should employ his mind in liberal studies, in active personal and elevating charities. while the overtaxed and worried wife should pay a visit daily to some prudent friend, some cheery neighlmr or suffering sister or cnild; the main idea in all cases being to spend two or three hours daily in open-air activities wholly ditierent Irom the ordiiiary business routine. It iitrhiwtii and Jit fifrtor. Let Uh Hem One Anothek. This little sentence should lie written on every heart and stamped on every memory. It should ue the golden rule practiced not only in every household, but through out the world. Hv helping one another we not only remove thorns from the path way and anxiety from the mind, but we feel a sense of pleasure in our own hearts, knowing we are doing a duty to a fellow creature. A helping hand, or an encour aging word is no loss to us, yet it is a benefit to others. Who lias not felt the power of this little sentence? Who has not needed the encouragemeut and aid of a kind friend? How soothing, when jer plexed with some task that is mysterious and burthensoine, to feel a gentle h ind upon the shoulder and to hear a kind voice whispering, "Do not feel discour aged. I see your trouble let me help you." What a strength is inspired, what hope created, what sweet gratitude is felt, and the great difficulty is dissolved as dew beneath the sunshine. Yes, let us help one another by endeavoring to strengthen and encourage the weak and lifting the burden of care from the weary and oppressed, that life may glide smooth ly on and the fount of bitterness yield sweet water; and He, whose willing hand is ever ready to aid us, will reward our humble endeavors, and every good deed will be as "bread cast upon the waters, to return after many days," if not to us, to those we love. All. truths, unless productive of holi ness and love, are of no avail. They may float upon the surface of the understand ing, but this is to no purpose unless they transform the heart. The Philosophy of Curing Cheese. 1. Hut little advance can be made in the quality of our best fancy cheese w ith out especial care in curing. 2. Uy proper attention in curing it is possible to reach the highest excellence in the cheese product. That by this means immense losses now uunually sustained may be avoided, while consumption will be uromoted. .'. The 4rojver temperature for curing cheese to get the best result in quality, has been determined by experiment to be from 70 to .o deg. t ah. 4. The temperature above named must Imj uniform, and that uneven tempera tures, by alternately checking and unduly increasing fermentation, cause bitterness and other objectionable taint in cheese. 5. Moisture is an impotlact element in cheese; that it should be properly dis tributed through the solids and soassimi lated as to form one homogeneous mass, mellow and plastic, giving the cheese the appearance of great richness. 0. At least from i!0 to 33 jicr cent, of moisture should be retained in curing cheese; that as we decrease the percentage of moisture from this point, the percent age of butter must be increased to obtain mellowness of texture; that the cheese is not improved in taste, by this substi tution, which is often a serious loss, and this loss may always be esti mated to be in proportion between the cost of water and fat. 7. Hy proper temperature and attention in retaining a proportion of moisture, the cheese is not only of better flavor and quality, but a saving in weight of from three to four per cent, is made to the pro ducer over the ordinary methods of curing. 8. Hy the use of refrigerator rooms a cheese may be kept at any desirable point of flavor, and thus by holding w hen the markets are dull or the weather unsuit able for shipping, the intervening space of time may be bridged over by the fac tories without detriment to the flavor or quality f the cheese. 1). With our present knowledge of cheese making a certain amount ot tat in the milk is needed to make a good, pala table cheese. Hence excessivei-kimniing. or a reduction of the fat in the milk be low l'i to 2 per cent., is not to be rec ommended where the milk is to Im? made into cheese, unless other fat be substitut ed to supply the deficiency. Moore' Jiu- rulew 1 urker. To Avoid Si.eeilessn ess. If you wish to sleep well, eat sparingly of early supiiers. Avoid all arguments or contest ed subjects near night as these are likely to havn a bail effect upon one who is troubled with sleeplessness at night. Avoid having too much company. Many persons become so excited with the meet ing of friends that sleep departs for a time. There is probably nothing better. ifer cultivating a tranquil mind, than ex ercise in the open air. Hy observing these simple rules, sleeplessness, in the major ity of instances, may be w holly enred. IlrsTY Nails. Every little while we read of one who has stuck a rusty nail in Ins toot or some other portion ot his per son, and lockjaw has resulted therefrom. All such wounds can be healed without any fatal consequences following them. The remedy is simple: It is only to smoke such wound, or any wound or bruise that is inflamed, with burning wood or woolen cloth. Twenty minutes in the smoke of wool will take the pain out of the worst case of inflammation we ever saw arising from a wound. Hheao IIamj. Break the bread in small pieces, and moisten with milk or a lttle warm water, season with salt, jHp er and nutmeg, adding a little tine sage or parsley and a small piece of butter; mix ami form into small cakes or balls; roast with beef or chickens, or fry after meat in a skillet. Smokei Geese Bkkabtk. Cut out the breasts of young, fat, and well-cleaned gKse, rub them well with salt, and with a little saltpetre, place in a jar or other vessel, with a weight Uon them, lct them remain thus for ten days, after which put them in smoke for two weeks. Lemon Tie. Take the juice and grated rind of one lemon, one cup of sugar, yolks of two eggs, three tah!cponnfuls of flour, one pint of milk ; after baking cover with a soft frosting made from the whites of two eggs and four tablesjioon fuls of sugar, ami brown slightly. Salt Kiiei'm. One ounce spermaceti. one ounce white wax, one and a half ounces sweet oil, and one-half ounce cam- hor gum. Melt all together, but do not I -oil. It is a cheap remedy and a splendid one. German Potatoes. Mashed potatoes well seasoned ami plenty of cream. Make in little cakes an inch thick, (made some hours beforehand they are better), lieut an egg and dip them in it; brown nicely on both bides. Indian Ki sk. Two light cups of In dian meal, one cup of flour, one tea spoonful of saleratus, enough sour or buttermilk to dissolve, one cup of sweet milk; stir in three-foui ths of a cup of molasses. Mrs. Smith's 'Potato Pie-Crust. Take six good-sied potates, peel and noil them, then mash them tine, add two tahlespoonfuls of shortening and a little salt, and sufficient flour to make a nice pastry. Saoo Pkddino. Two large spoonfuls of sago boiled in one quart of milk, the jieel of a lemon, little uutmcy; when cool add four eggs; little salt. Bake about one hour and a half, cream. Eat with sugar and Quick Pudding. One egg, one cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one cup of sweet milk, half a teaspoonful of soda, three cups of flour. Bake half an licur or more. L.at with sweet sauce. When the kerosene gets low and the wicks short, and you can't conveniently replenish the can, till up the lamp-bowls with water and the difficulty is sur mounted. Pancake. One egg, two spoonfuls of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, one tea spoonful of soda, two teaspoon fu la of cream-tartar, three cups or flour. Tho Klephnnt us an Executioner. Among the modes of punishment iu vogue in the East there are few that are not characterized by barbarity in a greater or less degree. We may, It we like, hold the theory in America that the execution of a criminal should be curried out as a deferrent to others rather than as society's revenge upon him personally tor the oltense committed ; but with In dians such an argument would not hold water for a moment, ami this is sutli eiently proved by the refinements of tor ture which many of their modes of pun ishment involve, and w hich seem sjiecially designed as much to ratify the morbid tastes of the beholders as to accomplish their ultimate design on the victim. Although the English have done much to abolish these barbarous modes of exe cution in the different native States um der their control, they still prevail in some parts of the Indian empire; notably at Hyderabad and at Baroda, from the latter of which capitals we have received the following account of the mode of ex editing criminals with the elephant: The wretched victim is bound hand and foot, and then by means of a rope tied round his wai.-t, is secured to the hind leg of the elephant, which is then driven at a brisk trot through the streets of the city. Of course, at every move ment of the animal's leg, the body of the man is lifted up and dashed against the ground; and it is well for him if one of these concussions should haply prove fatal, in which case his sufferings are ut an end. Otherwise the miserable wretch is taken outside the city, where he is placed with his head upon a stone, and the elephant, raising his enormous foot, crushes it as easily as a Xusuiyth ham mer would a Barcelona nut. . A Fiistidioiis Bride. Pleasant Valley, in the State of Iowa, has developed an uncommonly punctilious young lady. She lived near enough Daven- jHirt to catch the manners ot the town, and a city lieau into the bargain. She put slyle on her beauty, ami, as is generally the case with suburban belles, overdid it. Her wedding day was set, and her father's house was thronged with seventy guests, who were invited to witness the ceremony, and sit down to the wedding feast. 1 he preacher was there with his book; the bride swept into the midst of the company in gorgeous attire; the gr4Mm and his friends were there on time, and tho hour was five o clock in the afternoon. It was now first discovered that the groom had forgotten to provide himself with a our ot gloves. Glove- less and shamed he stixwl in that bril liant, expectant company. What was to be done? The town w as a long way off, the night was growing dark and the roads were bad; the shops would be closed, too, before the city's centre could be reached. The groom's next friend offered to lend him the lacking attiie, but he nobly refused to appear in borrowed "toggery." He was willing to take time by the fore lock, and be married without gloves. The bride positively refused to he mar ried without gloves. He sat down in a pet of perplexity, and she flirted out of the room. Here was a marriage mess, and severity guests in waiting. Two of the bride's brothers mounted fleet steeds and galloped to town through a storm of mud to buy a pair of gloves. In the meantime the wedding guests slumbered and slept. About midnight the gloves came. No matter if they were a mile too small, they were regulation white kids, and that was enough to satisfy the whimsical belle. She was married to white kids, and the feast went on. Life is long, and gloves are fleeting, and that fastidious belle may yet be handled with out gloves. The Catitai. ok Greece. I half ex pected to find here n half asleep people, azily following old fashioned ways of proceeding; but, on the contrary, a more wide-awake government cannot be found. It is, you know, a constitutional mon archy that rules free Greece. It is like England in having a king, but in every thing but the name he is much more like our president, since in many ways his power is circumscribed. Athens his some oitv-hve or lilty thousand eopIe. But within three or four miles are many little village--, thus making everything here more stirring, as the country tow ns do their "-.hopping" here. Indeed, I find it hard to realize that I am not iu a real live Yankee city. Here the king, queen, ministers, and of ficers dress like Americans, and thus, the fashionable example being set, fully two- thirds, if not more, dress exactly as we Io. We are in the midst of a wide awake, intelligent, go-ahead people, and it is hard to believe that they are "hea thenish in religious views. 1 he fact is thev stand where German infidelity does on materialistic grounds careless of the whole subject ot religion, saying it is no concern of theirs. They Love to "Walk. Colonel For .v writes from London that an English n woman thinks nothing of a twenty-mile walk in a day, and he has two valued .r..l lv no means iuvenile friends, a ircn- tlem in and his wife, who think lightly of going on Ix)t to me crystal i-aiace, Sydenham, which is twenty miles away. In a word, the English love their walk as they do their dinner. It is a part of their life, and they cannot and will not do without it. I heard of an English man who was condemned to le hung, and whose greatest regret during his imprisonment was that he could not take his 'constitutional.' This habit of walking makes most Englishmen and women iu different to what we call comfortable fires, and as to stoves, they consider them unhealthy, and they are rarely found in TU . lM,.l. - L I their noines. i ucj isugu a us w ueu wc for extra blankets, and shrut? their shoulders, evidently thinking us some what effeminate, to complain of a chill the existence of which their stronger con stitutions and weather-worn skins cannot recognize. Tbk rag-gatherers' trade is picking up. Mm. Belknap. The Washington correspondent of the cw lurk orld says of Mrs. Belknap wife of the late Secretary of War : "She is tall, has a well -developed and rounded form and graceful carriage. Her features are regular, her complexion clear am fair, while her hair is black, and her eyes black and very bright. When first Ihc camu to Washington Mrs. Belknap was the widow of a Mr. Bowers, w ho had died some months before in Cincinnati. Her family name was Tomlinson, ami she was a native of Ilarrodsburg, Kentucky Her father. Dr. Tomlinson, was an cmi nent physician, and highly connected He had a largo family of sons and daugh lers. All of the latter were noted for their beauty, and weic reigning belles of their native State. The mother of .Mrs Henry Clews, of New York, was one of the sisters and the second and present wile of General Belknap another. Mrs Amanda Tomlinson Bowers was married two years ago in December to the Secrc tary of War. She was heartily welcomed to the Cabinet circle here and has held a foremost place among tho ladies who are acknowledged queens In society. She has been especially distinguished lor her ready tact in receiving the strangers who each week throng the houses of tho mem bers of the Cabinet. She always had an appropriate greeting ready for each comer. She has appeared to the greatest advantage this winter aud has gone much into society, us from her position she was compelled to do. She displayed great taste in dress and wears the richest mate rials. All shades aud colors are becoming to Mrs. Belknap's style, and she indulge 1 i'l Worth's most effective combinations. At the many entertainments she has attended this winter he has looked equally beau tiful, whether attired in pale rose-colored silk, with soft, creamy lace, or turquoise blue silk, with long garlands of flowers trimming, the long corsage aud very short sleeves, as well as the tablier and trains of ivory-tinted silk, trimmed with lunge and ace, or even her carriage cos- tunics, one; of black velvet and lace, another of blue velvet, trimmed with bauds of pheasant's feathers. She has many other toilets of tho richest material. Mrs. Belknap is dainty from heud to foot. Hats ami boot match each costume. Her foot is the smallect in Washington. She wears numlier one and a half shoes, though she is five feet six inches in height. Slippers and lioots of satin for these dainty feet come from Paris, and are always enough neeii to be admired. The towel Mrs. Belknap most frequently wears consist of a string of large pearls around her neck, w ith a beautiful pendant of dia monds. Her ear-rings ure two solitaire hops for each ear. An aigrette of dia monds is the only ornament she ever wears on her t-ha-tcly head, amid the puffs of dark hair that are always ar- inged to suit Ihe contour of the hand some luce. The Mikado of Japan. The term mikado, used to designate the Emperor of Japan, is of doubtful tty mology. The word docs not occur in the most ancient Japanese books', but is the one, out of many names given to the enijieror, which has obtained the greatest currency. The derivation of mikado usually accepted by the Japanese is from mi. honorable, august, and kado. a gate. quivalcnt to the Turkish title Sublime Porte. Tenno is the official designation now used for the emperor, and all Japa nese. ministers and consuls are accredited as representatives of "his imperial ni i- esty, the lenno of Japan." The first mikado, Jim mil Tenno, who is usually regarded as an historical character, began to reign about 000 ii. c, since which time one hundred and thirtv-onc emper ors have occupied the throne. The reign ing mikado 18o) is Mutsuhito, sec ond son of the emieror Koinei Tenno and the Empress rujiwara Asako. He was born in 18 0, succeeded his father February '.I, 18GH, and married Huruko, laughter ot Iclnjo lad.ika, a noble of the second degree of the first rank, born in June, I8.1O. Abandoning tho habits of seclusion practised by his ancestors, the mikado appears iu public, aud gives uu- lience to the memocm ot the diplomatic corps in .In pan, to his own officers, ami to the foreigners employed in Ihe govern- ment service. He dresses, eats, rides ml acts like a European sovereign. Apphtont Amerif'tH Uydoptrdt'tt, recited edition. GkoUOE WlItTEKI eld's Nkvtness. V person who has no regular home, but is thrown among all classes of society, and sees life under many forim, is very apt to grow careless in his cr-.onal hub its. It is hard to retain a scrupulous re gard for personal neatness when mingling daily with those w ho arc slovenly. White field, the famous preacher, however, though moving from placn to place all his life,1 was fastidiously neat. His love of order amounted to a passion. He could not write unless books and papers were carefully arranged on his desk. He never retired at night until he had put every article of clothing and all the furni ture of the room In perfect order. If the tables at which he sat as a guest, or the parlors to which ho was iuvited, were slovenly in arrangement, it always dis turbed his comfort, though he was too much of a gentleman to show it by word or sign. More Doa than Mex. Dr. Il;d field writes from Nashville to the Cincinnati Commercial : "It is a humiliating fact that there are more dogs in Tennessee than men. Ke turns from the dog tax assessment from thirty counties, the first to reach the Comptroller's office, show 47,574 men and 70,780 dogs1. These thirty counties do not embrace quite one-third the State, but from them we can judge pretty fairly what the totals will be. When all the re turns arc in, the totals will no doubt show that Tennessee contains very nearly one hundred thousand more dogs than men. This is among the 'great inducements to immigration' to the farming class who would naturally want to raise sheep iu this favored climate," Uiitterwkk'n On Meter. During one of the few cold snaps that we have had this winter, says Max Add er, the gas meter in Mr. Butterwick's house was frozen. Mr. Huttcrwlck at tempted to thaw it out by pouring hot water over it, but after unending an hour upon tho effort he emerged from tlieconteit with his feet and trousers wet, his hair full of dunt and cobwebs, aud his temper at fever heat. After studying how ho should get rid of the ice hi tho meter ho concluded to uso force for the purpose, ami so seizing a hot poker ho jammed it through a vent hole ami stirred it around inside of the meter with a considerable amount of vigor. lie felt the ice glvo away and lie heard the wheels buzz around with rather more velicmeucc than uual. Then ho went to sleep. He noticed for three or four days that tho internal machinery of that meter seemed to bo rattling around in a re markable manner. It could bo heard all over the house. But he was pleased to find that it was working again in spite of the cold w eather, and he retained his serenity. AlxMit two weeks afterward his gas bill came. It accused him of burning, dur ing the quarter, 1,500,000 feet of gas, slid it calleti on him to settle to the extent of nearly $330,000. Before Mr. Butter, wick s hair had time to descend after the first shock ho put on his hut and went dow n to the gas oilicc. He addressed one of the clerks: "How much gas did you make at tho Blank Work last quarter?" 'I dunuo; about a million feet, I reckon." "Well, you've charged mo in my bill for burning a half million more than you m tide, and I want you to correct It." "Less see tho bill, llm in -111 this is all right. It's taken off of tho meter. That's what tho meter says," "S pose 11 it does; I couldu t have burned niore'u you made," "Can t help that. I he meter can t lie." "Well, but how do you account for tho difference?'' "Dunno. 'Taint our business to go nosing and poking around after scientific truth. We dejcnd on the meter. If that says you burned six million feet, why you must have burned it, even if w e never made a foot of gas out at the works." "To tell the honest truth," suid But- tcrwick, "that meter was frozen, ami I stirred it up with a poker and set it whizzing around." 'Price just the same." said tho clerk. "We charge for pokers Jut like wo do for gas." "You ain't actually Lolng to have tho audacity to ask mo to pay (f;)i),0()() on account of that porker. "If it was 8700.000 I'd tukv it with a calm lies! that would surprise you. Pay up or 1 11 turn oil your gas. ' "I urn it oft aud be hanged, exclaimed Huttcrwlck, as he emerged from tho office, tearing his bill to fragment. Then he went home, and grasping that too lav. ish poker, he approached the meter. It had registered another half million feet riuce tho bill was made out. It was running up a score of a hundred feet in a minute. In a month Buttcrwick would have owed the gas company moro than the United States Government owes its creditors. So he beat the meter into a shapeless mass, tossed it into the street and turned off the gas inside the cellar. He is now sitting up at nluht writing an essay on "Grinding Monopolies" by tho light of a kerosene lamp. m m Activity is Not Always Eneroy. There are some men whoso failure to succeed in life is a problem to others, as well as to themselves. They are Indus trious, prudent and economical ; yet after a long life of striving, old age finds them still poor. They complain of ill-luck. They say fate is always against them. But the fact is that they miscarry Iwcause they have mistaken mere activity for energy. Confounding two things cssen tially different, they have supposed that, if they were always busy, thev would be certain to be advancing their fortunes. They have forgotten that misdirected labor is but a waste of activity. The per. son who would succeed In life is like a marksman firing at a target ; If his shots miss the mark they are a waste of jiowder. So in the great game of lite, what a mtiu doc must be made to count, or it might almost as well have been left undone. Everybody knows so mo one in his circle of friends w ho, though always active, has this want of energy. Tho distemper, if we may call it such, exhibits itself in many ways. In some cases the man has merely an executive faculty when ho should have a directive one; In other language, he should make a capital clerk for himself when he ought to do tho thinking of the business. In other cases, what is done is not dono either in the right timo or in the right way, Energy, correctly understood, is activity propor tioncd to the end. An Intei.lioknt Don. Mr. Thomas E. Bent, of Sudbury, Mass., is tho ow ner of a dog of tho Newfoundland and St. Bernard breeds, which seems to ho pos sessed of more than ordinary instinct, taking into consideration the fact that he has hail no special training. Among other examples of his intclllgence.tlie most noticeable seems to be found in his will ingness to act as news-carrier, which duty he has performed for al-out two years for his master. The residence of Mr. Bent Is several rods from the main highway, from Wayland to Sudbury, and over which Moses Weston's Wayland and Sudbury stage coach passes every week-day even ing shortly after six o'clock. By this conveyance Mr. B. receives a Boston paper and his faithful canine messenger meets the coach each night, picks up the paper and carries it to tho house of bis own w ill, always waiting until he hears the con veyance approaching, before leaving home. Once in a great while the coach does not arrive at the usual hour, and, in the event of another heavy wagon being on the road, tho rattling of which re sembles that of the stage, the dog goes to meet it and consequently gets "fooled." The dog is about five years of age, and it a great favorite, 4 X r 2. I