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HILLSBORO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1876.
NO. 38.
VOL. 4.
Anlenken.
I think of thee when the forest trees
Bend to the whisp'ring evening breeze;
When the song of the nightingale
Wakes music in the wood and vale.
W!Xu thinkest thou of me?
I think of thee by the woodland spring.
Where the oaka their shadows fling;
When the day and gloomy night
Mingle in the dark twilight.
Where thinkeat thou of me?
I think of thee with sruiles and tears;
With trembling hopes and anxious fears;
With longings for thy presence near
Thy voice to bless, thy smile to cheer.
How thinkest thou of me?
O think of me until we meet.
Beyond the bier and winding- licet;
Until our hearts in the world above,
Are one forever In joy and love!
Thus only think I of thee!
From t?u German.
Patriotism.
To one who loves his country, what can be
More pleasing than to gaze upon her free?
To see her surface Art's extended base.
The light and wonder of the human race;
To see her sons, just as their (iod designed,
That man should be ruled by the power of
mind;
Her laws Truth's dictates, based on Heaven's
own plan,
At once the shield and monitor of man;
Herself triumphant, mighty, but yet mild.
In war a giant, though in peace a child?
But what can pain him more than to behold
His country wretched, and her freedom sold;
Her commerce ruined, justice but a name,
And swarms of despots gloating o'er her
shame?
I love my country, love her everywhere;
I love her mellow skies and her pure air;
Her bold blue mountains, towering far on
high;
Her beauteous landscapes and their verdant
dye;
Her crystal fountains and her murmuring
rills;
Her flowery meadows and her sunny hills;
Her dark deep forests and her boundless
plain;
Her endless rivers and her stormy main;
Her stalwart sons, on land, and lake, and sea;
Her starry flag, the standard of the free;
Her mission, still to aid bright Freedom's
cause;
Her hope, to give the world benignant laws!
M. J. Haxios.
Love in a Glacier.
In an Alpine valley, one pleasant sum
mer evening, a couple might h:ive beeu
seen strolling through the pine forest.
Henri dwelt with his aged parents in a
neighboring valley, in which Marie re
sided with her widowed mother. A small
farm in a mountain gorge gave him daily
occupation. It was a hard contest that
in which he was engaged with stem na
ture. He had to raise bulwarks against
the falling rocks, and substantial angular
fortresses to resist the incursions of ava
lanches, otherwise his fields would often
have been covered with the debrin of the
mountain. The produce of this highland
farm was not likely to make him a
wealthy man. But the courage, industry
and tact necessary to hold his own from
constant conflict, preserved him from
the enervation of luxury.
Marie tended a few cows that rambled
over the mountain pasture. If simple in
manners and not retined in education,
she was not without that sense of pro
priety which so often distinguishes the
Continental peasant, and which confers
a sort of gentleness and polish only to be
procured by others in the cultivation of
society. She had not been wholly neg
lected in school-lore, and had been an apt
pupil in that grand seminary which na
ture had spread out there before her.
Those needle-points that rose above the
eternal Alpine snows, soaring towards
the blue heavens, led her thoughts far
onward and upward. Those cold glaciers
that lay as a bed of death between the
sterile mountains; those dread falls of
rocks, that seemed cascades of destruction
from the skies upon the blooming vales
below those yawning precipices, with
their dark and fearful depths all stirred
her imagination and unfolded her nature
On the evening of our story the young
man had paid a visit to the cottage in the
valley, and had then strolled forth
through the forest with Marie, this Alpine
flower.
It i9 not our business to pry into lover's
secrets, nor attempt to tell the subjects of
their conversation. Whatever it was, it
may be granted that mathematics and
logic.formed no part of the conference
This much may be said, however ; it was
there and then agreed that on a certain
day, not fur removed, the worthy cure of
the village should be asked to give his
blessing on their union.
Henri had resolved to go home by a
short route, over the neighboring moun
tain, though he would have to cross a
glacier on the way. Has rather hazard
ous journey appeared no great difficulty
in the eyes of the bold peasant of the
Alps, and the moon would give him light
across the icy passage.
But lovers in all ages have failed to
notice the march ot time, uur young
friends had so much to say, or what they
had to say was so interesting for repeti
tions of the story were not burdensome
that the evening twilight had long melted
into the soft moonlight before the dreaded
word farewell was thought of. When,
however. Marie caught sight of the new
moon rapidly sinking to rest, she urged
th nromnt deoartureof her lover. Yet
even then he had something else to say
and Bhe was so smilingly attentive that a
further delay took place.
But the quick approach of darkness
awakened the fears of the maiden, who
urged upon Henri the necessity of return-
inir by the regular road. longer as it was
instead of tempting the dangers of the
glacier. The young man, full ot tne ex
citement of happy love, laughed at her
warning, and assured her that she was no
fit wife for a mountaineer if she doubted
his power to thread his way in darkness
He comforted her with the promise of
his haste to reach the glacier, and his ex
treme care while passing.
"Be not afraid," said he, "I know every
block of ice in the path, and my good
alpenstock would steady my steps in the
blackness of midnight."
But loving confidence half swept away
her fears, and the parting kiss carried otf
the remainder. She watched his form
brushing by the pine branches till the
rocks concealed him, and then she turned
with a smile of happiness to the cottage
of her mother that cottage so soon to
be shared by another. Peaceful were
her dreams that night.
The aiguilles of the Alps had not yet
caught the rsy beams of the early morn,
when a knock at the door of the chalet
disturbed the slumberers.
11 Who could it be that unwonted hour?''
was the cry of mother and daughter. A
well-known voice, in broken accents,
called for Henri. It was the father seek
ing the son. A shudder of horror passed
through the frame of the girl.
Yet all was sadly true Henri had not
returned home. A search must be made.
The neighbors gathered in haste to the
summons. With the earliest dawn they
set out upon their melancholy errand.
Alas! this had not been the first time
that they had searched for lost ones in
their land of dangers.
Marie led them to the parting-place.
She marked the tracks the young man had
taken. With Iudian sagacity his foot
falls were followed till they led to the
edge of the glacier. Here greater skill
was requisite to mark the course. It was
summer, and the snow had disappeared
from the lower part of the glacier. The
hard ice leaves no tracks; but as, at the
hour of parting, some little softness re
mained on the surface Irom the day s
sun, Henri had left faint tracings on the
glacier, which the subsequent night's
chill had retained. These peasants noted
these with iealous. painful care. Here
the alpenstock had left the impression
of its iron point. Suddenly the foremost
of the group uttered a cry of dismay.
All crowded near. He said nothing, but
pointed with his ringer.
Poor Marie sickened at the sight, and
fell insensible. There was the trailing
mark of the slipped alpenstock, and be
side it was the sliding track of the young
man's foot. Both terminated at the edge
of a erevaaae, or opening in the ice.
They strained their eyes downward, in
vain attempts to penetrate that gloomy
passsage. They shouted, but caught no
voice in return. He had fallen, and the
depth was terrible.
"The rope! the rope I" was now the
cry. Several volunteered that perilous
descent in search of their friend. But
here the horror came upon them, with
all its fell, benumbing power. The aper
ture had so narrowed since the lost one
had sunk, that there was not space for a
human body.
Words cannot picture the consternation
of the party. One sought comfort in the
thought that the poor fellow must have
been killed by the fall. But another
told how one had been in such acham!er
is that from which he could not be extri
cated; aul, after he had been mourned
over for days as dead, he reappeared, a
hastly, but living man. Henri might
till be aiive. Still, the ever slowly mov-
ng mass had pressed the walls of his
risou so much closer together, no pros
pect appeared of rescue.
Marie revived to be made even more
desolate and terror-stricken by the news
f the closing chasm.
What a mournful group returned to
the cottage I
Here the matter was fully discussed,
and plans were successively proposed
and rejected. Marie listened with deep
est attention. When they found no way
of relief, all turned eyes of tearful sym
pathy to the youthful betrothed one. Jiut
it was no time yet for her to mourn. She
must think and act for her beloved, who
was not yet beyond hope with her.
Having heard the story repeated ot the
man who, returning to his wife, after
having been buried in the ice-chamber,
she recurred to it, demanded particulars,
and wondered how he had escaped. Then
-he learned that the poor fellow had
found a passage through the glacier, and
had issued from its mouth.
"And why?" said she, "might not
Henri so return?"
She nuaited again when told of the
depth of the crecasxe, and the certainty of
his limbs being broken, if his life was
not destroyed at once. How could he
escape? Love now awakened her imag
ination with another project. it ne
could not get out, might not others go
into the glacier in search? Sage heads
were shaken at the suggestion. The ter
rors of the glaciers were well known to
the peasants of the Alps. Chambers
were seen plainly enough. Extended
caves were believed to run oeneain ine
surface. The very exit of the rivers
from those icy recesses proved the exist
ence of subterranean passages.
But there was another point of view.
The surface of a glacier was inconstant.
A stone upon it was known to drift
down the valley, slowly but certainly.
The huge blocks of ice would rise from
the surface and then fall shivering toward
the vallev. The very height of the gla
cier was changing at the banks. If these
outward sitrnsof movement existed, couia
thev fail in affectim? the narts below f 11
the srlacier elided downward from the
lofty peaks to the plains, though but at
the rate of a few inches a day, would the
caverns retain their form ? As the prisons
cracked and parted above, might not the
icy walls below crumble and tallf
No there was no hope I The passage
of this hour would be solid ice the next.
The glacier was inconstant. To enter it
was certain destruction. A mass would
fall and crush the intruder, or the unejc
pected closing of an opening would shut
ud the adventurer in a prison of death.
Poor Henri must be left to his fate. They
were sorry, but must bow to Providence
Resignation " as the duty of those who
dwelt in ever present dangers. Not so
our heroine, who was not quite prepared
to resign her lover so quietly to his doom
Bat what could she, a woman, do,
when strong men yielded to the over
whelming p reu ore of circumstance I It
was just because she was a woman that
her spirits rose with the emergency.
Love is stronger than ordinary energy of
manhood. She must do something. She
must do all it was possible for her to do.
The lile of Henri was her life. To
rescue him was to sustain her own being.
What would be life to her without bimf
How could she dwell near the ice cavern
that had swallowed up her dearest treas
ure!
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nni.kriu.r,.rWr ho wnuM pntorthi
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tifnc lerous cave that Tanned above me I
valley. She would thread the gloomy
passages of the glacier. She might thus
mnh him. Shft mitrht thn nave him. or
die with him. If unsuccessful and the ice
close her in its cold embrace, would she
not share the shroud of her lover?
It was useless to speak of her inten
tion. So mad a scheme would lead to
her forcible detention. Leaving the
company, without attracting notice, she
fathered a few simple appliances which
she regarded as necessary, and then rap
idly stole off to the mouth of the glacier.
As she first passed under that icy arch
the chill struck her, and, for a moment,
fear possessed her. The contest was
brief, for the appeal of love was irresisti
ble. Onward she crept in this frightful
recess. The serai-translucent mass pro
vided her with some light as she slowly
made her way. It was no easy path in
deed. The sharp edcres lacerated her
flesh. The cold white stream that flowed
through the clacier. ted Irom the snows
above, and the partial melting of the ice-
rock through which it ran, was no agree
able route to the maiden. Thoroughly
wet and miserably chilled, she had to
struggle on.
But there were other trials. Now and
then the passage was so small as not to
admit her erson, though she lay in the
stream. She had prepared for this by
brinirinir a small hatchet. With this she
often had to cut her way, or widen a
breach.
Had she been removed from a sense of
peril, or unabsorbed by so deep a sorrow,
there would have been much to interest
and delisrht her mind. Beauties thronged
on every side. As the light pierced
through the ice,or descended the crevasses
from above, it revealed gems of marvel
ous charms, and disclosed colors of
gorgeous kinds. Fancy might people
nbers with genu ot wonderful
nature. Green and blue ot various
shades softened the brilliancy of the
white. Occasionally, the roof rose, arch
in over her. and the stalactites were as
pendant diamonds. Crystals of beauty
thronged blaces as the fret worK ot a
Gothic cathedral.
But poor Marie had no eye for Nature's
loveliness, and no ears for her most se
raphic harmonies,while her thoughts were
concentrated upon the rescue of her be
trothed. She heeded them not. but
pressed onward.
There was no difficulty a!out the
route. She had but to advance, for the
mountains disclosed the glacier on either
side. Fatigued to exhaustion, she halted
not. A miuute lost might endanger the
ife so dear 'to her. Anon she paused to
call upon her lover; and "Henri I" echoed
through those trembling chambers.
But she could not be wholly indifferent
to her position. As the ice cracked above
her, or as she saw the mass move about
her, she could not but shudder and close
ler eyes. The vast river ot ice was now
moving more vigorously than usual. The
nressure from the melting snows above
made it groan, as if in agony. The ex
pansion of the viscid substance, melted
and recongealed, thrust forward and
head Ion ir this strange living monster of
the Alps. rso moment was sate tor her,
and all seemed combined for her destruc
tion. It was, in very truth, a valley of
the shadow of death.
At last, when well-nigh sinking with
despair, and almost yielding to the tor
por which intense cold brings upon ine
brain, she heard a low moan. At once
ler frame received a new impulse ot en
ergy. Slie rusiieu lorwaru, overcoming
all obstacles. In a tew minutes sue uis
rovored the annarentlv lifeless body of
Henri, llestoratives were applied, and
his eves opened upon his faithful girl
What a greeting ot love in tne ice-grave i
No time was to be lost. Momentarily
strengthened by the 'cordial to his lips,
he told a hasty tale. He spoke of his fall
his consternation his sudden agony
Unable to rise, and thrown forward by a
shelving block, which partially broke his
tall, he knew no hope ot escape, unless
an adventurous friend would suiter him
self to be lowered by a rope to his assist
ance. He told not of his suffering
her account the mental ansruislt he en
dured at the thought of her distress.
In brief words, she referred to the
closing of the chasm above, and of her
passage up the caverns of the glacier,
whither she was now prepared to lead
him.
Alas! both of his legs were fractured
It was no time for grief. The brave
girl bound up his limbs with portions of
her garments, entreated him to take some
refreshment, and then arranged for de
parture.
The first agony of movement brought a
deep groan from the young man. But
he restrained himself immediately, and
supporting himself on one arm, suffered
Marie to drag him forward by the other.
Frightful were his sufferings as he thus
passed slowly along the narrow, tortuous
passages, wini nis iraciureu umos con
stantly striking against the rude ice-
rock.
Marie's strength was renewed, and the
vigorous powers of the mountain maiden
were needed indeed. There were times
when the space permitted ber to carry
him in her arms; but more often she
could but draw him after her through
the low tunnel. The same difficulties
which she before encountered were now
to be met under more embarrassing cir
cumstances. The only advantage was
the descent instead of the ascent.
All went on well for a time, though
the progress was exceedingly slow, and
th Bfrnrth of both narties was rapidly
ebbing forth. At length a loud cracking
i i i l : . . I - r. A
noise was nearu, anu liniueuiaiciy sivci-
ward, a huge mau of ice fell forward
near tnem, completely Diocauur up weir
path. The, water, for a time stayed in
its course, threatened tneir aesirucuon.
but it eventually formed for itself another
opening.
In vain did tne courageous uui
blow after blow utem ,the barrier. JNo
entrance could be gamed, they were im
prisoned, indeed, in a dath-chamber.
They resigned themselves, to, their end.
Thev embraced in silence, and calmly
waited their fate, iney naa & least ine
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comtort of dvinjr with each other.
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lint, with a sudden tnougur. inane
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soranjr up botib. a uc.
her, she would make another effort. She
resolved to try their axe on the side walls
of their cell. A few strokes revealed an
opening, ine axe was again anu again
hurled forward, until a noie was maue
sufficient for the entrance. Then, with a
look of gratitude to heaven, she once more
raised her drooping lover, now rapidly
sinking into the torpor of approaching
dissolution.
It was not long before the dear girl
found her lover senseless in her
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crrasp. v ainly sne caned mm, anu en
treated another word or glance. His
eyes were closed, his body utterly pow
erless, and no sign of life remained, ex
cept a feeble pulsation at the heart.
For a moment, and but for a moment,
the intrepid maiden yielded to despair,
and sank beside the corpse-like form.
With a prayer upon her lips she feebly
essayed once more to resume her t right
ful journey. But the cold and latigue
now began to oppress her so strongly that
her senses reeled and her arm was in
sufficient to raise her lover. She collect
ed her rambling thoughts; and, believing
that she could not be far from the valley,
she uttered a cry of distress.
Providentially it was just at this time
that the peasants, uneasy at her not re
turning to the room, and guessing her
heroic resolution, went hurriedly to the
cavernous mouth of the glacier, the cry
was heard and answered. Shamed by the
courage of the girl, two or three rushed
forward up the ice-chamler.
They were but just tn time. 1 he brave
Marie had sunk down into that danger
ous lethargy, the iorerunner 01 ueatu.
Both were carried off safely from the
erlacier. brouirht to the cottage and re-
stored to animation.
Surgical aid was promptly procured
for Henri s fracture. 1 1 is vigorous con
stitution soon rallied under careful treat
ment. As for Marie, her over-excited
feelings occasioned a long and dangerous
illness.
The heroism of this maiden of the Alps
was not likely to diminish the attach
ment of the man she had saved. As soon
as both were recovered, the acclamation
of the valley called for their union to be
made a public ceremony, and the day a
holiday for the villagers. The cure of
fered up a thanksgiving for their deliver
ance, joined them in happy wedlock, and
gave them a tearful blessing.
Aud long as love is known in the Al
pine valleys will the tale be told of Marie,
the heroine of fidelity, aud of the well-
tried Love in a Glacier.
Alont Life-Boats.
The first idea of a boat which should
be so constructed as to live and swim
amid the stormy breakers, and in the tre
mendous seas which surge and boil in
rough weather along our tempest-driven
shores, did not, curiously enough, origi
nate with a sailor, but with Lionel Lukin, I
a coacn-bunuer oi honuoo, an obscure I
but none the less true hero, who, in the
seclusion of his workshop, conceived and
wrought out the idea ot a boat which
should float upon the troubled waters of
a stormy sea. In 1785 he took out a pa
tent for his life-boat, and like most in
ventors, had many difficulties to encoun
ter and many disappointments to endure,
with little to console him except a brave
heart anil a good conscience, and the
blessedness of knowing that by meaus of I
his life-boats a few lives bad been gleaned
from the terrible harvest of wrecks which
annually bestrew our shores.
In 1 tSO, a short time after his death, a
shipwreck occurred which did more than
all his clamorous appeals to help on the
life-boat movement in which he was so
deeply interested. During a violent
(ft f lHICUt
storm at Newcastle, in the September of
that year, a ship called the Udcenturer
missed the entrance to the harbor, and
was driven right upon a ridge of rocks
outside the pier. The pier was crowded
with people of every rank, an
d many of
rmen shed
unavailing
them, even the hardy hshermen
tears in the anguish ot their unavailing
sympathy; but they could do nothing
else, and there they stood during the
long hours of that fearful afternoon.
watching, on the faces of the doomed!
men opposite to them, the ruddy hues of
health blanching into the ashy whiteness
of deatli, and listening to their agonizing
cries as one by one they dropped into the
black abyss of waters. When night
closed in all
were gone, and the specta-
tors of the
pitiful tragedy went home,
not to sentimentalize over what they had
seen, but to endeavor as far as they could
to make such an occurrence impossible
in the future. A life-boat committee was
formed, and a prize was offered for the
best life-boat. The successful competitor
for this prize was Henry Greathead. a
boat-buiiuer, oi onuiu omems; anu nis
t e 1 1 i. " I i
boat,with some slight variations,remained
until about 1851 the favorite model for
I life-boats.
In 1851 the Duke of North-
umberland, who was President of the Na -
tioual Life-Boat Society, offered a prize
of one hundred guineas for the best model
of a life-boat.
tun j" nwgamcu uj
James Beeching of Great Yarmouth; and
his boat, after it bad been still further
improved by the assistant master ship
wright at the royal dockyard at Woolwich,
was adopted, by the Itoyal National Life
boat Institution, as the model for boats
of this description.
The Crown Prince of Germany has re
cently written a little book, containing
a narrative of his trip to Egypt to attend
the opening of the Suez Canal. It is en-
titled "M Jonrnev to the Land of the
East in 1869 But forty copies have
I i s . i-S-i- i I J . l . i
i uecn pnnieu, wmcn nave uecn uumuuieu
among the Prince's traveling companions
i on tnat occasion.
Mr. Rankin on Female Attire.
In a late number of Fort Clatigera Mr.
Buskin advises his girl readers as
follows:
"Dress as plainly as your parents will
allow you, but in bright colors (if they be
come you) aud in the best materials
that is to say in those which wear longest.
V hen you are really in want ot anew
diess, buy it (or make it) in the fashion;
but never quit an old one merely because
it has become unfashionable. And if the
fashion be costly you must not follow it.
X ou may wear broad stripes or uarrow,
bright colors, or dark, short petticoats or
long in moderation), as the public wish
you; but must not buy yards of useless
stuff to make a knot or a flounce of, nor
drag them behind you over the ground.
And your walking dress must never touch
the ground at all. I have lost much ot
the faith I once had in the common seie
and even in the personal delicacy of the
present race ot average Loglisli women
by seeing how they will allow their
dresses to sweep the streets as if it is the
fashion to be scavengers. If you can af
ford it, get your dresses made by a ginnl
dressmaker, with the utmost attainable
precision and perfection. But let this
good dressmaker be a ioor person, living
in the country; not a rich person, living
iu a large house in Loudon. Learn dress
making yourself, with pains and time,
and use a part of every day in needle
work, making as pretty dresses as you
can for poor people who have not time
nor taste to make them nicely tor them
selves, louareto show them in your
. . i i
own wearing what is inosi rigui auu
graceful, and to help them to choose
what will be prettiest and most becom
ing in their own station. If they see you
uever try to dress above yours, they will
uot try to dress above theirs."
Sleep on Your Care.
Men of business, believe me. there is
now and men a proutaoie venture in
doing nothing at all; in the power to put
business aside, and abiding now and then
in a iierfect quiet, ihiugs sometimes
solve themselves when we give them that
that advantage, which refuse to come
clear for all our trying. We all know
how, by simply taking some perplexity
into the deettest silence this side ot deatli
a good night's sleep we can do better
sometimes than if we sat up and wrought
at a task all night. When Matthew Mur
ray, of Leeds, wanted to se? Ins way
through some sore erplexity in his in
ventions, aud all other etfrt was of no
use, he rested day and night from all
noise, aud all elfort an uctivo man has to
make to keep himself quiet; then the
thing he wanted would steal iu and look
at him, aud light on him aud stay, as
birds used to light ou the old hermit, uo
more afraid of them than the trees under
which they sat. And, mother, you may
care aud toil incessantly for your little
ones, never resting a moment iu your de
votion ; and then, because you never do
be quiet, but cuter into your very closet
with a little frock tn mend, you shall
never be quite able to take the whole sun
light aud sum of your motherhood iuto
your heart. You will be so full of care
about the bread that perishes as to miss
the bread that Cometh down from Heaven.
No person in the world needs so much
now and then to be still, aud open her
soul only to the silence, as an earnest,
energetic, whole-hearted mother, lins
eternal activity is alinot sure at least to
run into shallows
Good Advice to Motheus. No mat
ter how busy you are, which amounts to
the same thing iu elfect, take out-door
exercioe, without tail, each uay. oweep-
iug and trotting around the house will
its place; the exhilaration of
the open air and change of scene are ab
solutely necessary. Oh, I know all about
Lucy's gown that "is uot finished," aud
"Tommy's jacket," aud even his coat
thrown iu your lap, as if to add the last
ounce to the camel's back; still I say, up
and out! Is it not more important that
your children, in their tender years,
should not be left motherless, aud that
they should not be born in that feeble
constitution of bxiy which will blight
II. t c. I.....
eve.rJ euij u.og,
nng go; you will take ho dof .e
buttons aud
in
with more vigor aud patience when you
return bright and refreshed; and if every
stitch be not finished at just such a mo-
mcDt (an1 lt is "!cour,1e?luS not to
able to systematize in your labor, even
with our .be9.t eff.rt 5iU rememhJ,!;
that "she who nam uoue wnat sue couiu
is entitled to no mean praise.
Lioiit Plain Pie-Ciiust. Sift a quart
I of flour, and iuto the middle of it put half
I a pound of good, sweet lard; over the
I lard sprinkle a tca&poouful of salt. Take
I a wooden siMXn,and a pint of odd water,
I and proceed to mix by injuring the water
I in driblets on the lard, aud working it
down iuto the flour. Mix patiently till
it is thoroughly incorporated, and made
into a smooth, soft paste. Use as little
flour and friction as possible in rolling it
out. There is no necessity to touch the
hands to this paste, and the less manipu
lation the better. If wanted richer tor up
I uer crust, divide off part of it, roll it out
I . i .i i .1 . 1 .
i upon a noureu paaie-ooaru, anu uot u
I with flakes of butter, over which dredge
I flour, fold together and roll out again
I this operation may be repeated three
1 times, if wanted rich; but pie-crust by
I the first process will be tender, light, and
I plenty good enough for mince pies, apple
pies, etc.
Almond and Citron Pcddiso. One
half poifnd grated carrots,oue-half pound
chopped suet, one-half pound bread
crumbs, two ounces ground almonds, six
ounces sugar, two ounces candied peel,
three euirs, mix well together, boil two
hours, stick almonds over tne top, serve
with wine sauce.
Wheat Cakeu. Melt one tablespoon
fal butter in one quart oi miiic; wnen
lukewarm aau mree eggs, me wuiies uu
yolks beaten separately, stirring in alter-
nately with the eggs, three-fourths of a
I 1 -lftA 4tmir Host wall a.fjr fuld.
I wuua buma - -. T
I ing two laoiespooniuis jeasi. dci w iut
i ana oaac vu uu nuuw
Terrific Explosion.
Wednesday afternoon, November 1, at
3 o'clock, an explosion of a serious nature
took place at the Miami Powder Mills,
which is situated at Goe s Station, four
miles north of Xeaia rather three explo.
sions, for there was a slight interval be
tween each. Tlie first tccurrcd in a corn
ing or graining mill, where the grain is
made from cake. After the lapse of a
sufficient limn to allow a man to run
from COD to SOO feet, the second explo
sion, a press house, occurred. Then, after
another lapse of short duration, another
press house went up. I n the corning mill,
Michael Denear was killed. From the
pottitiou of his body, it is supposed he
heard something foul going through the
mill, and was in the net of stopping the
wheel when ho was blown into eternity.
Of course this Is only supposition.
Denear had been in the employ of the
company about a year, and was a very
careful man. He was twenty-two years
of age, and leaves a wife aud a four-months-old
child. The wife left yester
day, having the body in charge for his
friends in Ogdensburg, N. Y. Henry
Brown was in charge of one of the press
houses, but when be heard the fragments
of the Corning Mill falling on the roof
of his mill he ran, taking shelter behind
a tree, and thereby saved his life. The
other press house was not in use that
day, and hence no one was in it. The
first blow was very light, tearing ofF the
top, but not the siding. The second and
third mills were a complete wreck, as to
structure. The machinery, which was
very heavy, is comparatively uninjured.
The engine-house was injured to a con
siderable extent, the engineer escaping
without 8K!cial hurt. The fire, which
communicated to the leaves, and which
causes the chief danger at this season - of
the year, was suppressed eaily a slight
wind only blowing at the time of the
explosion. The effect of the blow was
terrific. The two press-houses are torn
to flinders, and the pieces thrown in all
directions, and the windows are broken
in most of the neighboring houses. The
doors are broken from their fastenings.
The shock was not heard with much dis
tinctness at Xenia, but at Yellow Springs
glass was broken and dwelling jarred.
Dayton heard it much more distinctly
than Xenia, as also Springfield. A. O.
Fay, President of the company, estimates
the loss as uot to exceed f 3,000. Work
men are busily engaged repairing the
damage, and the mills will soon be
grinding as before. 'Cincinnati Gazette,
The First Minister of New-Amsterdam.
In the same vessel which brought Wou
ter Van Twiller to Manhattan, Dominie
liogardus, the first clergyman of New
Netherlands, was a passenger. He was a
mau of a certain order r( talent iu large
measure, aud was honored for his piety.
He was large, graceful, sinewy, strong,
with a flue broad, open, frank face, high
cheek-bones, a dark, piercing eye, and
mouth expressive of the very electricity
f gKd-humor, which was partly hidden,
low ever, by a beard cut iu the peculiar
t . A I . 1 J I .
ashion prescribed lor ecclesiastic uunug
the reigu of Henry IV . of r rauce. He
was not without proiniuent faults. He
had a hot and hasty temjer, was brusque
u his manner, and addicted to high liv
fig; but he was greatly superior in both
mind aud character to Van Twiller, and
his sterling qualities stood forth in such
bold relief that now, at the very uicutiou
of his name, a figure seems to leap forth
Irom the mut ot centurie, instinct with
early, vigorous life, fearless in the
hji form ance of his own duties, lie never
allowed any failure on the part of others
to pass by uureproved. In several in
stances the govoiuors iu authority were
severely castigated from the sacred desk.
He desired a more convenient place lor
mbiic worship thau the loft iutlie horse-
mill; and the West India Uouipany Uis-
laved their zeal for the preservation of
the blessings of education and rellgiou
to their infant colony by building him a
church. It was a plain wooden edifice,
of a pattern similar to the New-EugUud
barn of the present day, and was located
on a High point oi lauu irouuog me
East Itiver, near what is now Pearl street,
betwecu Whitehall and Broad, it was a
conspicuous object to vessels coming up
through the Bay; and Luglisli travellers,
who were accustomed to a uiuereiu
style of architecture, criticised it Iu
anything but flattering terms. But it
was satisfactory to the conscientious auu
devout worshipper who assembled there
every week, uud thought only of the
eloquent words of their iteloved dominie;
and it is to be respected as ine nri
church edifice on Manhattan Island.
Mr$. Martha J. Lamb'$ JI tutor u vf Xew
York City.
Wit. Almost all the great poets, ora
tors, and statesmen of all time have been
witty. When wit is combined with sense
aud information, when it is softened by
iteiievolenco and restrained by strong
principles, when it is in the hands ot i
man who is witty, who loves'honor, jus
tice, decency, good nature, morality and
religion ten thousand times better than
wit, wit is then a beautiful and delightful
part of our nature. There is no more
interesting siectacle than to see the
effects of wit upon the different charac
ters of men ; thn to observe it expanding
caution, relaxing ' dignity, unfreezing
coldness teaching age and care and pain
to smile extorting reluctant gleams ol
pain from melancholy, and charming
even the pangs of grief. It is pleasant
to observe how it iieuetratcs through the
coldness and awkwardness ot society,
gradually bringing men nearer together,
and, like the combined force ot oil and
wine, giving each man a glad heart and
a shining countenance. Genuino and
innocent wit, like this, is surely the flavor
of the mind I
Neighborly Love. Genuine, neigh
borly love knows no distinction Of per
sons. It is like the sun. which does not
ask on what it shall shine or what it shal
warm: but shines and warms by the
very laws of its own being.
Dkixkixo among if omen is shamefully
on tne increase.
Outwitting the Drive.
. A company has been organized In this
city to provide a system of cheap cabs.
The extortions of hack drivers are so no
torious that an ingenious piece of mechan
ism has been adopted for the new cabs,
which, it is believed, will act as a con
stant and perfect check upon the Jehus.
The controller and indicator occupies but
small space, and all that is visible of it
from the outside, when tho cab is idle, is
a small glass disk bearing the words "To
hire." When the passenger enters the
vehicle, the sign is turned down by the
driver, and immediately in front of the
passenger apinsars a clock giving the cor
rect time. Underneath tho clock is a
printed schedule of prices, which, in Phil
del phia, where the system has been in
use for a year, are twenty-five cents for a
quarter of an hour, fifty cents for half an
h ur and so on, for one or two passengers.
If the driver neglects to turn down the
sign, tho passenger is confronted with
the printed admonition, "Look for the
clock." When he applies to the driver
for information that functionary promptly
turns down the sign, and the clock ap
pears. Attached to this apparatus is a
control -clock. Tho occupant sees noth
ing of it, except the dial iu front of him.
The other part is a dial with two differ
ent circles, around w hich three hands re
volve. The inner circle shows the hours
and quarters during which tho carriage
is engaged. The outer circle is divided
into forty-eight parts, and registers tho
money received, ant there must neccssa
rilly be an exact correspondence between
the records of time by the quarter of an
hour and of money by the quarter of a
dollar. Another dial registers the num
ber of hiring. When the passenger pays
his fare tho driver rings a gong for every
quarter of a dollar received, and, at each
ring, the hand on the outer circle moves
forward one space. lie theu turns up
the sign "To Hire," and the movement of
the sign sends the index of the back
clock forward one space. This shows ouo
hiring, aud the movement stop the con
trol clock, which has now recorded tho
time the sign was turned down, the
amount of money received, tho time of
thu trio, and the number of the hiring.
Should tho driver neglect to register
the money received, or fall to turn down
the sign "To Hire," his dereliction Is
made manifest, for the control-clock
shows the time he was iu service, aud his
money must corresiiond with his time,
quarter for quarter, and he cannot display
his sign dishonestly without being caued
to task by the passenger, who is vainly
searching for the clock. In short, these
n ward checks upon the outer man aro
beyond his control, and he must be hon
est iu spite of himself. Frank Letht $.
The Natural llmtory of a Scold.
I had not seen Mrs.- for a week, and
supposed her either sick or away from
home, Hhen she drove up to my gate ouo
morning Willi mi ncr cuiwircn in uur car-
iagc, and stopped to exchange saluta
tions. Hho really looked less bright and
blooming than usual, and I said, "You
lavo U'cii 111." "There It Is again," ex
claimed she, Isughiug; "everybody sees
the want of oxygen in my blood. The
truth is I have been sewing steadily for a
week UMm tho children's dresses, and have
not allowed myself a breath of air, w hich
I have always deemed essential to my
tealth, and upon which 1 am now con
vinced my good nature depends entirely.
At the cud of three days of unbroken
sedentary employment I begin always to
falter, aud cau hardly cat or sleep; but
on this occasion l held on to my woik.
aud finished article after article until my
head was in such a whirl I could hardly
count the garments as 1 laid them away.
But yesterday 1 became desperate; I
scolded poor Bridget for soinu slight mis
take till she looked at me Hi unutterable
ama7.emeut. I ordered every child out oi
the house, even baby Benny here, becauso
I couldu t bear the souud or a l.totlall In
and when my husband came at night
aud told mo I looked really ill and nerv
ous, it was the last feather that broke tho
camel's back I was sure it was only a
courteous way of saying I looked cross
and ugly, and I burst Into a nt of uncon
trollable sobbing, aud went to bed like a
naughty child at eight o'clock.
"this morning 1 locked up the unnn
shed pile of sewing. We have a dinner
basket there in the carriage, and are off
for the woods. The children say they are
in pursuit of fun, but 1 am after oxygeu."
Joita 8tat$ llegitter.
It will not be at all remarkable If Old
Maids come rapidly into demand in the
matrimonial market; at any rate It will
uot pay to neglect all of them. See what
a chance for some Impecunious bachelor
. l . a . M. .
or widower was lately lost at lowuers
Station, New York! A spinster named
Emma Cornwall recently died there, who
it whs Mfter ward ascertained was possessed
of $80,000 in bank stocks and United
States bonds. The bouds and stocks
tra found hid awav in old trunks, iu
dress iiockets, stuffed in rolls of caroling,
in bedding, and in fact the search for her
possessions was one surprise. 1 housands
of dollars would be found in the most in
conceivable places, and it is not positive
ly known but that a snug little fortune is
now somewhere concealed iu the house.
Cuiita boasts of trees as largo as those
in California, and of as much profusion
in some localities. About thirty miles
from Nikko, an avenue of sugl, or cedar
trees, begins, and with an occasional
break where there Is a village, it reaches
the whole distance to the shrine of Lycyas
the longest avenue of shade in the
world. These great trees are from five to
seven feet in diameter at the base, aud
tower without a branch for fifty or eighty
feet, and then lift their heads forty or
fifty feet higher. They resemble the
giants of the Yosemite. The trunks are
faultlessly straight and the bark is deeply
veiued. There are about 00,000 trees on
this avenue, and all of them were planted
after the foundation of the shrine, about
250 years ago. ,
Pout K ess Is like an air c uhion.
There may be nothing in it, but lt easef
oar Jolts wonderfully.