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HILLSBOKO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1876.
NO. 34.
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Little Brook.
Sunny lawn and grassy meadow,
Fairy lakelet glistening bright,
Murmuring brook and elopes in meadow,
Steal upon the charmed sight.
Here the ripening clusters gather,
There the russet apples fall,
Bright parterres of gold and scarlet
Autumn sunlight over all!
Ah, how rich In peace and beauty.
Thou sweet home of genius rare!
Fame and faith and lore and duty
Find a resting ever here.
Ood be In thee, lovely homestead!
(Jod be with ye, gentle friends!
In a home stilt brighter, sweeter,
May we meet when this life end!
Clak D. M'Liih.
The Hill of Peace.
Far away in dim blue distance,
There are hills of living green,
And the sunlight on those hillsides
Kesteth with a smile serene;
There, not time, nor chilling winter,
Brings a touch of earth's decay;
Ah! within this gloomy prison
For those hills I yearning pray.
Gentle breezes wave the tree tops,
Wakening music sweet and low;
Crystal brooks and plashing fountains
Swell the faint harmonious How;
Flowers, in tints of cloud-like softness.
All the air with fragrance till
All things whisper, care benumbing.
Restless mortal! Peace, be still!
There, the depths of souls poetic
Find expression here denied;
There, the artist sees his pencil
With the hues of sunset dyed;
There, vague etrsdns of hidden music
Rise to melody divine
Golden fruits of hope's fulfilling,
Shall but longings e'er be mine?
Dreamer, wake! no longer languish;
Let thy prayer in action rise;
Through thine own Immortal spirit
See! a path before thee lies;
And a guide of radiant beauty
Leads thee on to thy release:
Faithful, follow thine Ideal
Thou wilt reach the Hills of Peace.
ii. G.
s' "The Power of Kindness.
1 Josbua Newlaad was awakened one
sight by a strange noise in the room oc
cupied by him as a sleeping apartment.
He aroused himself, sat up in bed, and
discovered a man in the act of ransack
ing the drawers of a bureau for plunder.
j "Friend," said Joshua, "this is an un
seasonable intrusion, and I would be jus
tided in having you punished for it; but
first I wish to talk with you a little.
Come and sit by me while I ask you a
few questions."
The man was frightened, but his
amazement at such treatment from the
gentleman he was attempting to rob was
beyond expression. His first impulse
pointed to flight, but the benevolent
countenance of Joshua reassured him.and
he drew near the bedside and seated him
self. "I wish to ask you," began the worthy
gentleman, "why you engage in a pursuit
so hazardous as this,, when the rewards of
honest labor are so remunerative and bo
well assured?"
"Because," replied the man, "I can
find no honest employment."
"Tut, tut, sir; speak the truth or not
at all. There is plenty of work for those
who wish to labor, and every man that is
blessed wita health can readily earn an
honest living for himself and family.
Have you no trade?"
"I served my time with a gunsmith,
sir, out have not worked as,a journey
man for several years, except "
'Oo on," said Joshua, "except what?"
"You will think none the better of me
for the explanation."
"Perhaps not! but certainly none the
worse. You owe me a little confidence
for the bread) of decorum in which I
have this night detected you, and you
must tell me the truth. Tell me all, aud
then if I can do you a favor I will."
The words were spoken in kindness,
and the burglar responded by nerving
himself for what he viewed an important
revelation.
"Well, I was going to say except
the penitentiary."
"So you have been there already?"
"Yes."
in
'For burglary?'
'No, sir."
"Tell me all about it, man. What
crime did you commit that consigned
you to a prison?"
"None whatever, sir."
"That is not the truth. It is simply
impossible that you were incarcerated if
you had, not offended against the law."
"I swear that I speak the truth. I
was sentenced for three years in the pen
itentiary for a crime I did not commit,
and that I did not know had been com
mitted by any one till I was arrested for
it. I was a decent man then; that I am
no longer such I do not view as my own
fault."
"Did an unjiist charge and punishment
necessarily makq a bad man of you?"
"I will tell yoa the facts in my case,
and then you can judge more understand
ing. I had finished my apprenticeship
according to agreement, and was making
arrangements to go into business on my
own account. My Wans were limited,
but I had managed o save a few hun
dred dollars; aud the girl I was engaged
to marry had the same amount. We cal
culated very closely, and found that eco
nomical management virould enable us to
commence business an housekeeping in
humble style without oing in debt. I
engaged a small shop, I jought some tools,
and had matters well a rranged for busi
ness, wheu we decided to marry. We
indulged in a little trip to Louisville,
where we stopped onlw three days, and
returned very happy; for we had no ap
prehensions of evil, aoM certainly did not
imagine what was inlstore for us on our
arrival in Cincinnati. We had scarcely
reached home when 1 was arrested for
grand larceny. The stolen goods, were
found in my shop, but how they came
there I know not; and I declare before
God that it is a mystery to me yet.
"The evidence was all circumstantial,
but it was twisted and distorted into
what appeared a perfect chain, and I was
convicted before 1 thoroughly realized it
The last dollar of our savings had been
exhausted in efforts for my defence, and
my wife was forced to labor for her own
suDDort. Her former friends deserted
her. because she was the wife of a con
vict, and she was often in distress for the
necessaries of life; but the climax of
her miseries came wheu she found her
self mother of a baby boy. Lack of
nourishment and nursing did the fatal
work, and only a few days after her con
finement she was borne to an humble
grave, with the little darling cold upon
that breast that should have given it life
and strength."
The man lowed his head upon his
hands and the tears trickled rapidly
through his hnsrers. while his strong
frame was convulsed by heavy sobbings
Nowland's eyes were not dry, and several
moments passed without a word from
either. The wonld-be burglar at length
resumed :
Itf cfirirofl if mv Full tnnft n n d if le
but just to say that I experienced better
treatment in the jwmitentiary than I have
outside of its walls since I left that insti
tution. A few days before receiving my
discharge I resolved I would not return
to Cincinnati, but go away into the world
where my disgrace was unknown, anil
work at my trade like an honest man. I
journeyed as far as Pittsburg, and ob
tained a situation there at the first shop
at which I applied. I had worked there
but little more than a week, however,
when a man named Hardin, who was a
journeyman in the shop where I learned
my trade, came along and applied to the
1kss for a job. He appeared very much
dissipated, and seemed just then recover
ing from the effects of a spree, so his
application was refused. Hut he had
seen me in the shop, and, probably to
console him for his ill luck, denounced
me as a 'prison-bird,' at the same time
greatly exaggerating the offence I had
been declared guilty of.
"I was immediately discharged; and
the boss said to me that he would be do
ing but the right thing to withhold my
wages, as a penalty of having imposed
upon him as an honest man. He called
me a 'rascally thief,' and hinted that the
sooner I left the city the better it would
be for my safety. This was discourag
ing enough, and I scarcely knew which
way to travel; but atter serious thought
it occurred to me that my best plan, after
all, would be to go back to Cincinnati,
and by a strict aud honorable course of
life, live down the false charge against
my character.
"I arrived here almut tour months ago,
and at once sought employment at my
trade, but was driven from every shop in
the city. I then attempted to engage in
some other pursuit, and even sought em
ployment as a commou laborer; but va
rious accidental eucounters with former
acquaintances continued to disclose the
fact that I was a discharged convict, ami
I have been denied even the most menial
employment. How I have subsisted is a
mystery to myself, out it is a iaci mat, i
have not partaken of one god, whole
some meal since my return to Cincinnati.
An old negress, who was my washer
woman during my apprenticeship, gave
me something like a dinner two days ago,
and since then I have not tasted food.
Breaking into this house is really my
first attempt at crime, as God shall judge
me; and starvation alone goaded me to
this. I rejoice that I am here, and that
I did not accomplish my original pur
pose, for now I feel that I can lie down
and die in happiness (having told my
tale to willing ears and a believing heart)
in the sweet consciousness that, whatever
may be the verdict of the world, J am
innocent of potitice crime."
"God bless you t" responded Joshua,
"but now," he continued, "you shall fast
no longer. It is uear morning, so I may
as well dress, and we'll take up some
plans for the future over an early break
fast. You have had a poor show for
your time of life, my friend, and I am
sure there is better fortune in store for
you."
Poor John McMasters was overcome
at such an exhibition of generosity, for
it disclosed a phase of the human heart
he had never before witnessed, and he
wept tears of j y; but Joshua went vig
orously to work to feed and clothe this
new subject of his bounty, for he was
convinced of the nun's truth, and saw a
promising germ of good in him.
These events happened in the second
year of the war of the rebellion, and be
fore breakfast was over, McMasters'
patron suggested to him the finest oppor
tunity to regain the reputation, so un
justly filched from him, could be found
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in tlie service oi ms couuiry. uc de
clared himself anxious to enlist, and in
three or four days subsequent to hi at
tempted burglary he was enrolled as a
private in an Ohio regiment.
The real gist of this sketch is in its se
quel, and it is more than usually inter
esting for the lesson it teaches, ine man (
who was falsely accused, unjustly con
victed and subjected to a punishment
that threatened to stamp him with ever
lasting disgrace, proved to be brave and
trustworthy wheu trust was reposed in
him; and within twenty months from
the date of his enlistment rose through
the different grades in rapid succession,
to the rank of captain of a company. At
the close of the war he returned, with
scores of honorable scars and minus an
arm, to attest to his service in the cause
of the Union; but he had established a
claim superior to that the highest patent
of nobility can bestow, and he is re
spected accordingly, lie is to-day a
revenue officer in one of the most flour
ishing cities of a sister state.
Had Joshua Newland raised an alarm
on the night of the attempted burglary,
and handed John McMasters over to the
officers of the law, he would have added
one more to the hordes of vagabonds that
infest our lands ; but by a contrary course,
he secured a valuable recruit to the ranks
of good citizenship, for which act he
shall receive an exceedingly great reward.
Egyptian Birds and Animals.
It is worthy of notice that among the
feathered and four-legged animals do
mesticated by the ancient Egyptians,
ducks are not represented; moreover, it
may be observed that there are no data
to show that the domestic fowl was known
to the ancient Egyptians. The object so
called on the cartouche of the builder of
the Great Pyramid resembles a chick,
both in appearance and figure, but it
might be the young of the quail, which
is still plentiful throughout the cultivated
districts. There is a picture on one of
the tombs, and another in the British Mu
seum, where geese, quail, and evidently
ducks are being salted aud preserved for
future use. i'lgeons, both wild ami do
mesticated, have been plentiful in Egypt
from very early times. The common rock
pigeon (C. litia) is generally distributed,
and its compeer oi the dovecot often re
turns to the rocky wilds. Every town of
any pretensions has a public pigeon
house, more on account of the economic
value ot the manure than for birds. At
Sioot it is a lively scene to sit in your
boat and watch them swarming about the
houses and sitting on the tops of palm
trees, or, like sea gulls, hovering over the
river for the purpose of picking up refuse
thrown overboard. The traveler inquis
itive on points connected with natural
history will do well to examine the walls
of the Thebau temples. On that of Med
inet Haboo, there is observed a very vivid
representation of the coronation of the
warrior monarch, Ilttneses III. (B. C.
1300.) Here, among all the state display
of the times, are shown priests in their
robes letting off carrier pigeons, which
seem to be conveying tiding of the event
to distant points indeed, Egyptologists
assert that there are notices iu ancient
papyrus manuscripts of tamed pigeons
having been used iu Egypt as articles
of fKd no less than 3,000 years and up
wards, before the birth of Christ, thus
testifying to the long domesticatiou of
the pigeon.
Nelson's Coat.
It has been stated in some of our best
biographies of Nelson, that he went into
the battle of Trafalgar with orders and
decorations on his coat; that his officers
pointed out to him that these would at
tract the attention of the enemy's marks
men, and requested him to change his
coat; and that he proudly answered, "In
honor I have won them, and in honor I
will wear them," or in words to that ef
fect. Some years past, my friends, Mr.
Francis Baily, and Admiral W. II. Smyth,
came in contact with Sir Thomas Hardy
(the Capt. Hardy of Nelson's 11 ig-ship),
and inquired of him as to the accuracy of
this report. He replied distinctly that
Nelsou did wear the decorated coat, aud
that he (dpt. Hardy) did represent to
Nelsou the danger; but that the ch trader
of Nelson's reply was materially different
from that reported. He only replied,
peevishly, "This is not a timu to talk of
changing coats." I heard this from my
friends very sKn after their interview
with Sir Thomas Hardy. I think it prob
able that Nelson was, at that time, in
great anxiety. The hostile tleet lay in a
deep horseshoe form, open to the wind
ward. The sintllcr British fleet, in two
nearly equal divisions, advanced in nearly
parallel lines into the horseshoe. The wind
felt to a very light breeze, and the British
advance was very slow. Daring this
time the British fleet was exposed to a
heavy fire from the enemy, which they
could not return. Had the wind sunk to
calm, the British fleet might have per
ished. There remained, however, enough
of breeze to carry them on, and, when
once mixed in the melee, their success was
no longer doubtful. G. li. Airy, in th
ALluiUMum.
An Idea for Tkamstei;s. A great
deal of lalxr and hard tuggiug may be
saved if every wagon or truck is provided
with a hundred feet of rope and a single
pulley. A snatch-block is the best, ar
ranged with a strong hook, and the usual
construction for slipping the bight of the
rope under the strap of the sheave, in
stead of waiting to reeve the line through
one end. If a wagon gets stuck iu heavy
mud or in snow the driver has only to
fasten his block to the tongue, reeve the
rope through it, and attach one end to a
tree or tost aud let his team pull on the
other. Their work of course is just halved,
or rather they bring twice the power to
bear in dragging the wagon clear. There
are plenty of other applications to this
simple devicu, which will readily suggest
themselves. With a couple of skids for
an incline plane, heavy logs could easily
be brought ou a sleigh by the unhitched
team. Another case where it is likely
to be useful is wheu loaded sleighs at
tempt to cross wooden bridges. Although
the horses draw the load very easily over
the snow, they are often unable to start
it over the usually denuded wooden floor
ing of the wooden bridge, and hence
would be materially aided by the tackle
hitched on as we have described.
Fioirr with a Catamocnt. The
Homesdale Chronicle says that George
Gillespie, of Scott, Wayne County, Penn
sylvania, while passing through the woods
in that township one day last week, on
his way to hunt pigeons, saw, crouching
on the limb of a maple tree, about ten
feet from the ground, a large catamount,
and thoughtlessly fired a load of shot at
the animal. It dropped to the ground
and glared savagely at the hunter. Gil
lespie eluded it and quickly put the con
tents of the other barrel into its face and
eyes. This blinded the infuriated beast,
but it was not inclined to surrender, and
sprang about wildly after its assailant,
guided by the sound of his feet. He
clubbed it with his gun, and by several
heavy blows succeeded in rendering it
unconscious, when be cut its throat with
a knife. The catamount was three feet
four inches long and weighed sixty
pounds.
Have your say out, and be the easier
for it all through life. There's no pleas
ure in living if you're to be corked np
forever, and only dribble your mind oat
bj the sly, like a leaky barreL
Malaria.
The stratum of air overlying typical
malaria marshes has been examined with
Darticular care. It has been found to con
tain an excess of carbonic acid watery
vapor in large quantity often carburet
ted hydrogen, and occasionally free
hydrogen, ammonia and pnospnuret
ted hydrogen. If the marsh contains
sulphates, suipnureueu nyurogen is pres
ent. Its organic matter uiacicens sui
phuric acid gives a reddish color to ni
trate of silver has a flocculent appear
ance, a peculiar odor, and affords
evidence of ammonia, lhese various ex
aminations, though interesting, bring us
no nearer to a solution of the question.
What i$ tlie nature of Jfalariaf All of the
many substances and forms thus far ob
served in malarial localities may be found
equally in districts perfectly salubrious.
That it gains access to the system
principally through the respiratory or
gans is quite certain. What we really do
know ot it has reference more particular
ly to its mode of action. It is most dan
gerous when the sun is down, and it
seems almost iuert during the day. It
appears providential that the same agency
which is so poteut in its production
should be the principal instrument of its
destruction. It loves the ground wherein
many regions it is so concentrated and
deadly as to destroy the incautious
sleeper on the earth almost as quickly as
the most noxious gas. Hence it is gen
erally regarded as having a specific grav
ity heavier than that of air, but this is by
no means certain. It is doubtless ren
dered heavy by combining with night
fogs and dews, but upon their leing dis
sipated by the sun it rises into the air and
probably becomes innocuous by wide dif
fusion and dilution. It is intercepted by
impediments, such as walls and groves of
leaty trees, which obstruct the winds that
bear it. Perhaps the latter also neutral
ize it by absorption. It is likewise neu
tralized and properly absorbed in passing
over a considerable body of water es
pecially salt water. The distance neces
sary to effect this result naturally varies
with circumstances force of winds, con
centration, intensity and abundance of
the poison itself. According to Blane, in
the channel between Beveland and Walch
eren, 3,000 feet of water rendered it inert.
In China, three-quarters of a mile, and in
the West Indies, one mile, have been re
quired to be effectual.
Recognizing the facts mentioned, the
precautious to be observed against mala
ria are quite obvious. Iu built-up cities
we are protected by pavements aud sew
ers to a great extent, and probably also
by the character ot the atmosphere, which
is artificially warmed by radiation at
night an. 1 impregnated with gases, which.
though injurious in other ways, are an
tagonistic to malarial em tuitions. B it
in malarial suburban ami country dis
tricts it is otherwise. There certain pre
cautions are necessary. If possible, ele
vation of a dwelling place, at least 500
feet alxive the source of the miasm, is to
be recoin mended in temperate climates.
and from 1.5JJ to 2,0 J) feet in the tropics.
If this is not practicable, thorough hub
soil drainage, filling up with tow and
moist grounds, covering the earth with
closely-cut herbage, belts of umbrageous
trees interposed between the dwelling and
the point of danger, but at a sufficient
distance to permit free ventilation, ami
the access of sunlight; doors and win
dows opening principally away from the
malarial quarter; the house, if possible,
to be raised on pillars or arches a few feet
almve the ground, otherwise a sub-cellar
thoroughly cemented all these are meas
ures of primary importance. The sleep
ing apartments should not be below the
second story and should be provided with
open fireplaces in which on damp or
chilly nights a little hre may be kindled.
Exposure to the ojen air after sunset, or
until several hours after sunrise, should
be avoided. As whatever tends to lower
the vital powers predisposes the individual
to malarial invasion, personal hygiene is
indispensable. It should of course be
dictated by common sense, with the ob
ject of establishing and maintaining, in
the words of the old maxim of the sani
tarian, men tana in eorpore $ano.
Ciiab-Afple Jelly. Fill your pre
serving kettle with apples, then cover
with water; boil until they are very soft;
when cool enough, squeeze through a thin
towel or coarse muslin. To each pint of
juice add a half-pint of loaf sugar; re
turn the juice to the fire and let it come
to a boil before adding the sugar, then
boil two or three minutes; pour off iuto
glasses or bowls; when cold, lay tine
white paper upon the jelly and fasten
thick paer over the bowls with muci
lage and paste. Quince jelly can be
made in the same way.
CnAB-ArPLE Preserves. Weigh the
apples and with au equal weight of re
fined sugar make a syrup; wipe the ipples,
and be sure to remove all of the calyx;
prick them; put them into the syrup and
boil till tender; when soft, take out and
let them drain on a sieve; when cold,
place them in jars; boil the syrup until
quite thick, then pour over the fruit and
when cold seal.
Lemon Pies. Three lemons, four eggs,
eighteen tablespoonfuls of loaf sugar, two
tablespoonfuls of melted butter; beat to
gether the yelks of the eggs, ten table
spoonfuls of sugar, the juice of the lemon,
the grated rind of two lemons, add the
butter and a little grated uutmeg. Bake
in an under crust until the paste is done.
Take from the oven and spread on icing,
made from the whites of the eggs and
eight tablespoonfuls of sugar. Return
to the oven till they are a delicate brown.
Tomato Salad. Take ripe tomatoes
and cut them in thin slices; sprinkle over
them a small quantity of finely chopped
green onions; add salt, pepper, vinegar
and oil, if liked. The oil should be in
the proportion of three tablespoonfuls to
one of vinegar. Serve with any roast
meat.
Chicken Soup Without Chicken.
Take one dessert spoonful of flour aud
rub smooth in one gill of milk, put in one
ounce of butter, pepper and a little salt,
pour in two gilla of boiling water, boil
ten minutes, poor over toasted bread and
serve.
Civil Service,
Both of our political parties who are
now contending for the control of the
government during the next four years,
claim to be in favor of "civil service re
form."
Every one recognizes that many and
serious abuses have crept into our civil
service; that men have in many instances
got into omce who have proved to be iu
efficient and corrupt; that the power of
appointing to omce has too often been
used to advance the personal favorites
of Presidents and of members of Congress,
without regard to their fitness; and that
one of the most necessary ami important
things to do is to get rid of these evils.
and to create a body of officials who will
do the work of the nation honestly, eco
nomically and well.
It is worth while to glance at the E ig
lish civil service, for that service gives us
a good example of the way iu which our
own system can be improved or purified.
Ihe way in which men are appointed
to oilice in England is this: There is a
body of three distinguished men, called
"the Civil Service Commissioners." To
these is entrusted the task of examiniug
all canditlates for public offices.
At stated times the Commissioners hold
examinations for this purp sc. The
Prime Minister, or members of the Cabi
net, uamu a certain numlnrr of aspirants
who are to enter the examination ; and he
who passes best receives tha olfice com
peted for.
Of course the examinations are con
ducted with reference to the especial
offices to be filled. There are some sub
jects which are proposed iu all of them.
such as writing, grammar, geography, and
historv. Then, if tha examination is for
a clerkship in the treasury, the candidates
are tested iu book-keeping, inathem ttics,
poliMcal economy; those tor consulates.
in foreign languages and commercial
law; those for places in the War office,
on subjects likely to come up iu that
service.
Thus, every official is tested as to his
knowledge and capabilities to do the
particular work of the office he desires
to enter.
Besides this, the Commissioners have
to find out whether the health of the can
did tte is good, and whether he bears a
good moral character. Ihese thing are
ascertained by certificates from physi
cians aud clergymen.
I he omcials are appointed, not as with
us, because they belong to a certaiu po
litical party, or have been useful to a
member of C tugress, but lccause they
have proved themselves fully fitted for
their places. When the opposition party
comus in, they have no fear of being
turned out.
The E iglish clerk is not only sure of
holding his place, bat, taking his rank
with the rest, ho is sure of being pro
moted when his proper turn comes. Tni
is as exactly as it is iu the army. Just h
the captaiu in time becomes a m ij r, and
the tn.ij r a colonel, so the clerk at XI 00
a year in time ries to a place that give
him JCJJJ, and so on until be reaches a
goodly income of 1000 r 1500.
More than this: the E iglish official
may look forward without anxiety to the
approach of old age. He need not fear that
when he has become too feeble to work
he will be cast out upon the world with
out resource.
After a certain length of service, he Is
allowed to retire, and then he is granted
a pension for the rest of his life. For iu
stance, a clerk who weut iuto ollioe at
twenty, and remains in until he is titty.
may retire, and receive an income tor
life, amounting to half the salary ho last
received. If this was 000, he gets 300
a year till death.
Thus we see that the English civil ser
vice is a permanent one, which gives a
life employment to its members, aud is.
very fortunately, entirely separated from
the politics of the day. A man 1 ap
X)iutcd because he has been found to
have the knowledge, character and health
needed for the performance of his duties;
he stays iu as long as he does his work
satisfactorily; and when he is old the
government sees to it that its faithful
servant is not left in want. Youth'
Companion.
How They Make Pins. The pin
machine approaches as near to the dex
terity of the humau hand as any machine
ever invented. It is ah ut the size of a
sewing machine, and its working is thus
decribed: A snappish, voracious little
dwarf of a machine pulls iu the wire.
bites it oil by luches incessantly, one hun
dred aud forty bites a miuute, aud just
as it seizes each bite, a saucy little ham
mer, with a concave face, hits the end ot
fie wire three taps and "upsets" it to a
head, while he grips it in a counter sunk
hole between his teeth, and lays it in a
groove, where levers and springs, playing
like lightning, point the pins, ami whence
they are dropped into a box. The pins
are then polished, and two very intelli
gent machines reject every crooked pin.
Another automaton assorts half a dozen
lengths, and a perfect genius of a ma
chine hangs the pins by the heads, and
transfers them to slips or paper, and by
one movement sticks them all through
two corrugated ridges in the paper, when
the work is finished
A Cold-Cocntkt Dhess. That last
was a hot country dress. Now you shall
hear how the the natives of Siberia array
themselves.
It's cold up there, I understand, and
that is why they dress so warmly. Two
complete suits of fur from neck to heels
one suit with the hair side in, the other
with hair side out. A hood, tied under
the chin, is made of the fur from the
reindeer's bead, aud besides the holes for
the eyes and mouth, it has often the ears
of the departed deer sticking up on top
of the man's head. He's an object to be
hold; but be is comfortable, and be
doesn't care if he does look like some
wild animal. His wife dresses in almost
exactly the same style, so do his children ;
in fact, everybody does. It's the fashion.
if
We should impart our courage, and not
our despair, our health and ease, and not
our disease, and take care that this does
not spread by contagion.
The Heiresses of New York.
The New York corresondent of the
Buffalo Commercial Adtertiter writes:
Probably no city in the United States
has so many beautiful and what club
men call "eligible heiresses ' as New
York, and as I have written of the rich
widows and bachelors, some facts and
particulars concerning the maidens "rich
and fancy free" may be as readable as
interesting. It is not inappropriate to
head the list with Miss Marcia Riosevelt,
although she is an orphan, her father, ex
Judge Roosevelt, having died two years
ago and her mother last winter in Paris.
The R Misevelts cuno of good Kuicker
bocker stock, aud were for many years
conspicuous among the elite. Mrs. R ose
velt was a Miss Van Ness, and her father
was Minister to Spain. She was a beauti
ful and talented lady in her younger days,
and a great entertainer at the old Roose
velt mansion on Broadway, near Thir
teenth street. At her deitli she left
property valued at $3,000,000 to Mis
Marcia, her ouly daughter, and, it is said.
to the exclusion of her sous. Tlie young
lady inherits many of her distinguished
mother's talents, aud is almost as general
a favorite.
Miss Steven, daughter of the late Paran
Stevens, of hotel fame, is heiress to a
million odd, and reported engaged to an
E iglish nobleman. She is young, pretty
aud stylish, foud of s ciety, h orseraciug.
yachting, polo, etc. S 10 sp jids s m) of
her winter in E irojxj and her summers
at Newport, where the Stevens cottage is
opposite the Ocean House. Mrs. Stevens
was a Miss Hied, of B ston, aud her sis
ter, who is completing her musical edu
cation in Paris, is engaged to Mr. Moses
II. Gfiunell, formerly collector at thu
port.
Miss Weed, daughter of Thurlow Weed,
will one day coiuo into p nsmsion of
many hundred thousands. She is a very
clever and accomplished young lady, and
acts as her father's secretary. They live
plainly, but handsomely aud comfortably,
in a large, double housa on Twelfth
street, just west of Fifth avenue.
Miss Andrews, daughter of the late
Loring Andrews, the millionaire, is des
tined to be one of the richest ladies in
America, her father's estate leing $3,000-
000, She is now in Europe with her
mother, and their mtgnificcnt country
seat at Newport has been rented to Mr.
li tvemeyer, tlie Austrian Conul-(i neral
at New York. Miss Andrews is uot yet
nineteen years of age and very beautiful.
Mis Josephine 11 ey i the daughter
f John II Kjy, heid of the A la n Express
Coup my, whose wife was once a leading
lady at Wallaok s thuttre. luo young
lady is possibly treaty-two yetr of age,
stylish, and the hitt "whip" at L ng
Branch, where the II ers have their sum
mer residence. Sio drives a pair of cream-
colored h res 1 1 a btsket c ti ritgo and is
known to all the htbitus of thu B.'ancli.
John Iloey began life at tho lowest ronad
f the la I ler, au I no is worth "all th
way up" IV mi $7Ji.Ji). Jnj.niu u
the ouly daughter.
The S un of S i nrWul Men.
Next to the I no iiry, " Vh tt becomes of
the piusf" an in tire ting question would
be, Wii tt bee mj of tlio sous of success
ful men? A fjw men and a fuw fir.nsare
u the h tnds of found jrs; but these are
exceptions. Toe old namti and tha old
trade generally ptss into the hinds ot
thers. "IJ you see that mm sh iveling
in coat? Well, his children, and children
like his, will j title your pampered s ms
ind rule this laud, said an old Now
Yorker, the other day. The old names
have ceased in the pulpit. Tha famed
men of the bar seldom have a successor.
fhe einiueut jurists carry their honor
with them to the grave. Merchant prin
ces are obliterated.
The reason is clear. The fathers laid
the basis of business one way, and the
sons build another. Men who earned
their fortunes by hard work, by diligence
that knew sixteen hours' toil, by personal
attention; that were their owu book
keepers, salesmen, cashiers, and often
porters, are followed by sons who do as
little as possible; who delegate to others
all the work they can, and who know
more of the road thau of the ledger.
Famous hotel men were gentlemen, men
of intelligence, men who were tlie equal
of the best of the land, and who never
sunk the gentlemen in their trade. Young
men who fling the example of their sires
to the winds, find it easier to squander H
valuable name, run through a fortune
quicker thau it was earned, and find
ihemselve, while young, at the point
from which their fathers started. One
thing i quite marked in New York. It
is thu fact that the heavy business is
getting into the hands of foreigners. The
heavy importers, the great bankers, and
much of the trade of value, is slipping out
of the hands of the Americans, its the
trade of E igl and got iuto the power of
the Lombards. Et.
Hiou Prices or in the Cloods. -A cor
respondent iu the White Mountains says:
The prices at the Summit House are one
dollar and a half for each meal and the
same for lodging, or a total of six dollars
per day. As the lessees have to pay eight
thousand dollars annual rent, and the
season is very short, this would not ap
pear to be so very exorbitant a rate in
comparison with hotel prices below, if
the fare were only up to the mark. Bjt
it is simple execrable, with poor meats
badly cooked; thin blue milk; last year's
egs; and highly salted bad butter. The
result is that visitors make their stay a
brief as possible and start down the
mountain to get something to eat.
A Rare Police Officer. Von M flat,
the Berlin Gjneral of Folic 1, is a Grand
Vizier of the Emperor. II t kaows all
the secrets of the metropolis, and faith
fully reports the most important of the in
to the Emperor's own ear. The peop le
never see him except on horseback, an d
in a resplendent uniform. It is his boas t
that be can concentrate 10,000 men at
any given point of the city, with fifteen
minutes' notice, to such stage of effi
ciency has his system of mounted police
Jvanced,
The English and the "Sick Man."
Ii. is true that Disraeli's government
deny that they are giving any support,
moral or material, to the government of
the Porte, any further than ti see that the
"Sick Man" Is not murdered; and prom
ise that if others will keep hands off, they
will do so likewise. But it is certain that
the fancied, if not promised assuranco of
such support agaiust all outside interven
tion has encouraged the Ottoman govern
incut to strain every nervo to stamp out
the rebellion anj to crush its Instigators
and abettors, the Serviaus and Montene
grins, with a degree of energy aud vigor
which recalls the days of the siege of
Rhodes, the conquest of Vienna, and the
ea-Uglit at Lepauto. Thu Viema, the
Schieck ul I -.lam and the Sheriff of
Mecca, the highest spuitual authorities of
a people, who, with all their vices and
apathy, have their religion bound up with
their lives, have with the approbation of
the Divan or Cabinet, who now actually
rule iu the uame of the poor imbecile,
moribund niouarcli, actually proclaimed
the "II y War," or leoee en matte of the
faithful against the inti icl, wherein lis
who falls fighting tor the taith is assured
of all the joys of Farad ie, with unlimited
II'Miiis sherbet, tobacco, opium and
"Kief,' Strange as it may seem in this
last quarter of the nineteenth century, the
green flay of the Caliphs, that formerly
led the lauatical Moslem hosts, with tho
sabre in one baud aud the Kjran iu tlie
other, from the desert of the Hedjax to
the conquest ot Alexandria aud Damas
cus aud Jerusalem aud Seville and C m
stautiuople; the flag that as late as 106 J
threatened to advance triumphantly from
the walls of Vieuna to the waters of tho
Seine; that tl ig which wheu displayed
ever rouses to frenzy thu slumbering die
of the Moslem heart, has been agaiu un
tuned; swarthy hosts are ou tneir way
Irom the upper Nile to the Dauube and
from the aud of Arabia Pctrer to the
defiles of the llerzegoviua. Summoned
by the cry of the holy war thuy corns
from the very con dues of civiliz Uion,l'roni
J) irt'our aud Mvicca aud Afghanistan, to
tight uuder the green flag aud their ad
vauced guard. Aruants, Albauiaus, Cir-
cassiaus, the undisciplined tribes of Asia
Miuor, who, beiug ueaicat was first iu the
field, have beeu committing depredations
aud perpetrating atrocities upon the un
arm ud iieasants of Bjlgiria, iu this year
of our Lord, 1870, aud iu a district not
live day J u uey irom London. tint rival
the atrocities wi the crusades aud uiako
thu hair of all Cnriateudoin bristle with
horror. Yet not of all Chiutendom, for
the leaders of thu Q leou's Parliament
laud up iu their places aud aert that
tiiee hideous ati'ocitlo, full detail of
winch aru published with sickeuiug clr
cuiiistautiaiity I it the L nidon pipers, us
collected ami reported by truatrvortuy
coi respondents, are cither unfounded of
exaggerated, or have beeu provoked by
and are iu retaliation for similar deeds of
honor committed by thu insurgents. But
this was stoutly coiitroveitod uy many, if
not all of the coiTu-poudcit ot thu Lon
don pies, who have gone to tint tcuuu of
the massacre, torturiugs, rapines aud
coull.igrations, aud they are utaiuud b
thu reporters ot tho contlueutal journals.
aud by the testimony of tho Ainericau
missionaries, a candid aud impartial bod
of uieu, who were ou tho ground during
the wholo time of tho alleged occurrences,
possessed Unusual facilities tor ascertain
ing the facts, aud whoso evidence will bj
accepted as truthful ou this side the At
lauiic, at least. S i tho truth must soon
como out; iudeed, I believe it his coma
out already to all except those stubborn,
prtjudicud miuds, woo, Having onco taken
up a position, wilt uot depart from it, uo
matter how untenable it becomes, aud if
facts fail to support them, thou so much
tho worse for tlio facts. Already the
Turks actually publish, uot to tho foreign
er, but to their owu ignorant, fanatical
masses, that E iglaiid actually approves of
these atrocities, aud is prepared to uphold
the Porte iu committing tlieui, and they
point to the imposing Btituu fljot in
liv'sika Bty iu support of their assertion.
But 1 cauuot believe that tho earnest, gen
erou, sympathizing heart of Ctiristian
Euglaud will supjiort tho Deroy D' Israeli
administration iu the lino of conduct they
have undertaken, but will compel tiieiu
either to recede from their position or to
give place to successors moroiu harmony
with tho spirit of the age.
How to Julge Books.
Would you know wuether the tendency
of a book is go.Nl or evil, examine iu
what ,tate of mind you lay it down. Has
it induced you to suspect that what you
have been accustomed to think unlawful
utay, after all, bo innocent, and that that
may be harmless which you have hitherto
been taught to tliiuk dangerous lias it
ten. led to make you dissatisfied aud im
patient uuder tho control of others; aud
disposed you to relax in that self-govern
meut, without which both the laws of
God and man tell us there cati be uo vir
tue, and consequently no happiuess?
Has it attempted to abate your admire
tion and reverence for what is groat and
good, aud to diminish In you tho hive of
our country aud your follow creatures?
las it addressed itself to your pride, your
vanity, your selfishness, or any other of
your evil propensities? lias it defiled
the imagination with what is loathsome,
or shocked tho heart with what is mon
strous? Has it disturbed the sense of
righaud wrong which the Creator has
implanted in the human soul?
If so if you are cousciou of all or
any of those effects or if, having es
caped from all, you have felt that such
were the effect it wss intended to pro
duce, throw the book in the Are, what
ever name it may bear in the title page I
Throw it iu tho tire, young raao, though
it should have beeu the gift of a frieud;
young lady, away with the whole set,
though it should be the prominent furni
ture of a rosewood b ok-cse. Souffoy.
Evert man stamps his value on him
self. The price we challenge for ourselves
is given us. There does uot live ou earth
the man, be bis station what it may, that
I despise myself compared with him.
Man is made great or little by bis own
Will,
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