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PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, EEBRUAKY 3, 1877.
NO. 18.
TOR W(l"RTT
tUa u si Saw pru.
The Child-Violinkt.
He liad played far his kri-iifV levee.
He had played (or kcr led t ship's whim,
Till the poor MtUe w as heavy.
And the peer lHtle brain wouW swim.
And the free crew peaked and cork.
And the large cyf strained' and bright.
And tbey takl, tee hue: "He U wear
He fhaH reft fer, at least, to-night!"
But at dawn, whro the Wrdi were waWio:;,
At they wetched In the stteut roa,
With the sound of a strained eerd breaking.
A something snapped i the gteeni.
Tki a striae: ef bit violoncello.
And they heard him stir ia bit bed:
"Make room far a tired Httle fetter.
Kind Godr was the hut I bat he raid.
ACsTtX DOBMI.V.
A Star Behind the Clond.
X matter hew dark the Bight,
No matter hew Mack the deudi may he.
Up in the shrouded ky.
Hidden from wale his- eye.
Glitter a star fer a&
Silvery bright and dear.
Out in the fields ef fadeless Mtt,
Hcedlcfs ef dead and rate.
Fearless fcf death and pais.
Golden stars in their silent sphere
Twinkle and born fer re.
Summer and winter the same;
Xe matter if stona-cloudf targe aud reit,
Like wares em the frenzied sea;
In heaves bright gallery
Twinkle and slew, wkh a qeacbles fiaass
These types ef the seed!
No matter hew dark thy Use;
No matter bew gloomy thy watch may he;
'Mhlserrew, and pa ha, sod care,
Stftt watclang .bee everywhere
Back of the curtain ef earthly strife
Twinkles a star fer thee!
Mad&me DeStael and Her AntagonteL
The greatest ooraptiment ever paid by
a man to a veman was that which Na
poleon Bonaparte in the plenitude of his
power, paid Madame De SsaeJ, ia exiling
her from Paris.
Here was a man, the greatest general
of hie age, at the head of a warlike na
tion, commanding an army of many hun
dred thousand men, the arbiter of .Europe,
and the lord of the world, except that
part of it which could be reached and
orerawed bj the English Navy; and here
was a woman, then of no .great fortaae or
celebrity, receiving everjxvening a circle
of friends in a modest drawing-room at
Paris. They were antagonists, those two!
Both were foreigner he an Italian Cor
sican, she a Swiss. The man was daz
zling and intoxicating France, while
using her fur perpo-es of bis own. The
woman would sot be dazzled. In a city
delirious, she kept her senses. In a
company drunk, she remained soixr.
Among a people dreaming, she was
awake. And gifted as she was by nat&re
with an excellent mind, a human heart,
and an eloquent tongue, she bad power to
waken and restore other minds.
There was danger in such a woman.
The conqueror felt it, and owned himsdf
unable to cope with her by sending her
to reside a hundred and twenty miles
from Paris ! If she ventsred to approach
nearer, he wrote with bis own hand (as
wese&inhis published correspondence;
an oroer to his chief of police to make
her keep her distance. "That she-crow,'
be styles her in one of these fierce notes.
"That bird of evil omen," he calls ber ia
another. In another he says, that her
approach bodes mischief," sad he will not
have heron French soil- In another, al
luding to her father, M.Xekar, the banker
and financier, he winds up ia angry or
der by saying: "that foreign family liave
done mucineX enongu already. flow
honorable to this lady, the rancorous bos
tility of such a mn in such a place.
Banished from the city whicb she loved
above all other place in the world, she
flew to literature as a resource against the
tedium of exile. f7orinriC,which contained
the results of an Italian tour, made her
famous, .iext, she turned her long rest
dence in Germany to account by writing
a work upon that country, whicb has
since taken it place, as one of the classic
of French literature. In its composition
she most scroupulously avoided writing
a sentence, a phrase, a word, an allusion
which the police at Paris could cons tree
in a sense hostile to the imperial govern
xnent. Corinne had been allowed to ap
pear: why not L AUanaaneT
The manuscript being complete, she
set it for publication to the house n
Paris that had published her Gorinnt,
some years before. A few days after a
decree was made public to the eilcct that
so wors could thenceforth be printed in
France until it had been examined by
censors. I notice in the Napoleon Corres
pondence that the emperor scolded the
minister of police fur employing in this
decree the odious word caueurt, because
it savored ol tbe tyranny of the Ifourbon
kings. lie did not like the word, but
events soon showed that he approved the
thing.
Tbe work was submitted to the cen
sors, and the author came to a place
ionj leagues jrom xaris xo msxe altera
tions and read tbe proofs. The inanu
script was read with the closest atten
tion, but nothing was found objectiona
ble in it except here and there a sentence
or a phrase. To afford the reader an
idea of the necessary timidity of despots,
I will give a few sentences ordered to be
suppressed. 23 peaking of the rclorms in
stituted by the Emperor Joseph of Aus
tria, Madame de Stacl had ventured this
terrible observation:
"But after his desth, nothing remained
of what he had established; since noth
ing endures except what comes pro
gressively."
The first half of this sentence she was
required to cut out. The reader will not
be at a loss to guess why. It was jut four
years alter that the French emiiirc.wliicli
never seemed so strong as in 1810, proved
the truth of the .latter half, which was
allowed to stand.
The sentence following excited the ire
et tae cessors:
4A witty womnn has remarked that, of
all places in the work, Paris is the ae
where a person can best do witheut hap
piness." The gcBtieman who marked this sen
tence fer stiiinrcssion cmuliMfpfMleJ to
give a reason for so doing. Under the
reign of the cmtKmr, he saW, there was
u . I I i - . .1 -
.- uiucH najijHnc5 ai i-ans M&i no ooc
need da without it.
In dicon4s neu Frederick the
Great, she satd, that a powerful man, so
long as he lived, could hold together the
Hio.-t discordant elements ; -'but at hi
death they separate.' The lat phrax-
was suppressed, the emperor having it
taken an important step to jvrcvoot the
ejmrati(.n of discordant eturnoat at hi
death. !I had divorced Joiophiae and
married Marie-L-xii-e.
She doMOMoeed the partition ef Poland.
and added this comment:
"It can never he expected that si4ects
thus obtained, will be faithful to the
trickster who calls himself thotr sov
orosgn.
&appresed, of coarse. The fotwwwg
also wt MMtmtarilv cut :
"Good ta-te in literature is, ia some re-
speets, like order under despotism; it
ooseoras us to examine at what price it is
purokaMttl.'
The longest parage suppressed was oe
ih wmoi sac raaioiaioeu iai s pcwK
man should never retain 14s dace for an
iataat, when he ooukl no longer hotel it
with honor.
Let Ma hut bcHu to negotiate
riih
oireurastancef, and alt i tost; fori here is
no one who has not ctrcuautances. &ome
men have a wife, children, nephews. Cor
whom a fortune is necessary. Others
need activity, oceupatioBf and poses I
know not how wanv virtues, which all
eonduee to the aecositv of havios a
place, with mouev and power attached to
it."
This passage, Madaae De Stael reoorda,
provoked the ceaors to extreme iil-humor.
They said thot, if those remarks wore
true, no man ooukl oMaiu, bot eves ask,
a place. Dot with it all!
The paragraph, bo never, that kMMled
their highest indignation, was a little
burst et ctoeuoacc which closed use
book:
"0, France! land of giorv ami of lore!
if ever ert.hu4iaj should be extinguished
upon thv soil if ever cold caleulatinu
rboutd disme ef everythiur:, and reasou
isg a'oae inspire contempt of peril
hat would avail thv beauuful skr, thy
geoiui so briitiaut, thv nature so atSeealt
An active Mtetbeeace and a wise impet-
uositv would lodeed render thee wirier
of the world, hut thou would tt leave upon
it only the trace of sand-torrents terrtfcte
as the waves, arid as tbe desert!
Thir, too, was suppressed. The pub
lisher, having submitted to every exac
tion of the censors, supposed it was sale
to proceed. The work was put in type,
and ten thousand copies wore printed
Soddealy the printing oftce was sur
roended'by sotdtcrs, and an otScor en
tered, who a ant uuced tost he was or
dered to destroy every copy. He obeyed
the order, and, K is said, died il latsgu
indoinsit. The spoiled sheets ere sold
to a paper-maker, and the proceeds of
the sale about oae huadred and twenty
dollars wore brought to the pebtither:
and this was the oaly compensation he
ever received. The author, in the mean
time, was ordered to leave France within
twentv four hours.
Twenty-four boar T It was the time
allowed to conscripts to prepare for
Having with her neUUer
money nor vehicle, fee wrote to the min
ister, asking for eight days. The nones'
was iiranted: hot in granting it, the
tniaisieref police iUed bis letter with
polite lasolenee. lie told her Wat,
in bis opinion, tbe air of France did
not agree with ber, and that tbe French
peonle were not reduced to seek for mod
els among the people she bad held up to
admiration in her work upon Oermany.
He was sorrv for the publisher's loss; but
"it was nU os9ible to let the work ap
pear. At the same time, be forbade her
to repair to any of the northern seaports.
whence she could escape inf.ugiana.
It cost ber nearly two years of effort
before she succeeded in reaching England,
so completely was Kapoleon master of
the contraent. Alter the expulsion oi
the tyrant she hastened to Pans, where
she remained darifcg the Hundred Days
unmolested. She spent tbe doling years
of her bny life in Saitzerland, her native
country, where she was secreteiy married
to a vounc omcer. sac veiled tais
second marnsge in secrecy because she
was unwilling to change a name to which
her works and ber persecutions had given
celebrity. Her first mamagc to tbe
Swedish Ambassador, liaron us staei-
Holstcin occurred when she was twenty
It was a marriage of convenience, not ol
affection, and gave her little happiness.
Her tombstone bears a curious inscrip
tion:
nic taxdbu qeinscrr quae xoqcam
QUIEVTT.
"Horc rests oae who never rested.1
She was among the very greatest of her
sex. Connne, which has long been used
in schools as a French reading-book, is
not excellent, not even tolerable, ai a
work of art; but ber writings abound in
passages of admirable sense expressed in
admirable words. Her book upon uer
many, with all the suppressed pasages
marked, was reprinted in Paris as re
cently as 180" ; and about the same time
was com plated the publication of the
works of her antagonist, who held her
in such well-grounded terror.
About 20 miles from Xikko, China, an
avenue of sugi, or cedar trees, begins, and
with an occasional break where there is
a village, it readies the whole distance
to the shrine of J,Tcyas tiie longest
avenue of shade in the world. These
great trees are from five to seven feet in
diameter at the base, and tower without
a branch for fifty or i-izhty feet, and then
lift their heads forty or fifty feet higher.
They resemble the giants of the 1 osttnite.
The trunks are faultlessly straight and
the bark is deeply veined. There are
about 30,000 trees on this avenue, and all
of them were planted after the foundation
of the forine, about years ago.
The Arkansas Tragedy.
The Iter. W. II. Methcny furnishes to
th WttUra Mttkriut, published at Ment
ions, Toon., the following particulars of
the shooting of three Methodist miuitors
at Fort Douglas, Arkaosas, a few days
since, a brief stateuseat in rogaid to
which has already beea publi4ed :
"On our return front Conference, sev
eral of us were the subjects of a very sad
incident, the particulars of which I give
you. It seem tbe United State Maisbats
had been ory active for soate time ar
resting parties for real, and ia some in
stances, otbap, supposed violations of
law, until a great many citizens bad be
come considerably excited on tbe subject.
Some parties bad resolved to reit the
.authorities and rumor bad it that sixteen
Marshals were expected ia that viciaity
to execute the law. Iters. 11. Williams
A. H. Williams, George liedger, and my
self had croed B-hUsu 3Inuataia oa the
morning of October SS, and come down
oa Hurricane Creek abHSt noon. Broth
ers A. II. Williams and iledger, young
men, traveled together, and they were
smc distance ahead. They arrived at
Fort Douglas, oa Big !iaey, about f re
o'clock in the afternoon. We had trav
eled all day without feedhng, and tbe
young men thought probably we would
like to put up for tbe aiglet. Brother
Williams went into a bou.e to make iu
uiry for accomusodatioai, and Brother
Itedger walked over to a shop ju it across
tbe road from tbe h"e. The back part
of tbe shop, toward tbe mountain, was
all open. He bad been staadiag there
but a few atautes wbea be was soot from
the tsouatain. He fell upoa bis face and
said, I am killed! Tbe owner of the
shop, Mr. Wallace, was tbe oaly pervoa
present or in the shop. He ran out to
Brother Williams and told hern not to go,
or try to go, to bis friend. Brother Wil
liams tried to get other parties to help
him bring Brother !iedger out of tbe
shop, bet none would go. So Brother
n illiams mounted bis horse to ride bacat
and hurry nav self and bis father. Brother
B. o illtams, to the sceae of carnage.
Wbea we got so tbe shop we found Brother
. P" J n
Weeding, and, we Usoesgbt, neariy dying.
Vt e put him oa a blanket aad earned aim
to tbe bouse of 31 r. Wallace aad seat oaT
immedialetv for a pbvseciaa. After we
gut Brother Pledger as cnasiWuMy situ
ated as we owe id. Brother B. Wdliaaa.
myself, and two or tihree friends who bad
cwme to our aid, went out hebiad a large
tiee from the shop to consult about tac
most judsooos course to pursue oortag
the night
and whale User tasking tbe
brush men changed their lxnitioo, or bad
others pasted across tbe creek. trues where
ottser 1'teatsor was soot. BroUser 0.
WilhaaM aad my self were shagled out.
aad be was shot tlsrwucb tbe night side
suit above tbe hip, aad I was shot ia tbe
ngat ssde, oaly nreakiog the skta, but
making a Tory sore place. I greatly fear
that Brother Pledger s wound is mortal.
Brother B. William has a very bad
wound, but tbe doctor think be will re
enver if his wouad is properly managed
iewere certainly mistaken for LuHed
SiaJes Marabals, and our canes aad um
brellas, sees from tbe mouataic, were
taken for guns. The w bole swagbherbvud
te caned to be in deep sympathy with as
and rendered us every asssstance ha tbeir
powor to make as cmfirtaWe, and we
left oar dear brethren with tbe doctor aad
kied people there, with tbe pledge thai
they would receive every needed assist
ance until their f needs could reach them."
Ciaaaadri GitUe.
Wonderful Surgical Experiment.
English surgical and pOTisoiocscal stu
dents will and ia the Giettt oV IIfn
Uavx interesting details of an oporatswu
of gastroietnv, attended so far with suc
cessful resells, wh, h bas beea performed
at the Hospital de la i'itse, by Dr. or
Beoil. The patient, a lad of seventeen,
had inadvertently swallowed a quaulitv
of the solution of caustic potass. Tbs
occurred in I ebrnary, aad M spite of tbe
most skillful treatment, the cnNsstrictsnn
at tbe sppcr oriace of the itoopbagus be
came so complete that death from inant
Una must inevitably have ensued without
an operation, which was accordingly per
formed on the Soth of July.
The results wilt be seen from the mod
teal bulletin of thv 10th September, which
states that the patient is ia good health.
remains up all day, 1 even helps the
hospital assistants ia their work; he has
almost as mucn strength aad energy as
he had before the accident. His diet is
composed of soups, fine-chopped meats
mashed vegetables and dnnat, which arc
iojected through a large otitic tube ia
sertcd in the incision taade ia the stem
ach. Under this treatment he gained
upward of ten iieunds In weight between
the 1 Sill of August and the l-l lb of Sep
tember.
At tbe moment of the injection of food
a flow of saliva in the mouth is produced.
tn the ejection of which a motion curious
ly resembling the action nf chewing is
reuiatked; be can distinguish between
warm and cold substances but otherwise
all are indifferent to him. It is stated
this is the first time the operation has
been successfully performed; tbe last
time it was attempted, but unsuccessfully.
was in 1840, by M. Scdillot, Professor of
the faculty of Medicine of Mrasburg.
ItowLANu Hill's Exuoktatios. For
ten years Uowland Hill, the great preach
cr, that singular mixture of wisdom,
drollery and piety, was an itinerant, and
his ministry was attended by vast crowds.
Hit wit never deserted him, for on one
occasion, preaching on Harapitead heath,
some rain fdl, and he deliberately put on
ins hat, saying: r.icuse my bat, friends
but do not let the rain alarm y-u so much.
hat would the condemned souls in To-
phet, parched for it, give for asioglcdroi
of this delightful rainf So, when he
was reproved - for not preaching to the
elect only, he asked some one "to have
tbe good nes i to mark them with a bit of
chalk, and then I'll talk to titem."
Tuctii is immortal; the sword cannot
pierce it, fire cannot consume it, prisons
cannot incarcerate it, famine cannot
starve it.
Cooklnsr for Health.
There is no more important branch of
preventive medicine' than oxiklivt?
Bad rooking may cause a dwindling of
the rc. ruinatHMi of the IfWcr, awl de
terioratioH of the morals. Gtid eookintr.
oa the other liand, I accompanied by
national prostteritv and domestic ldts.
M says the promoters of tbe national
training settooi of cookerv. who are un
doubtedly right in the main, and are de
serving of all imaginable success. sw,
cooking is both an art ami a science. Fori
its progress as an art we arc not greatly
concerned, alib soghour trofeiea aouhl
usMlouMediy aaHor in tiorket. should for
art c-Mtkery goout of fosbs. EI-gnt"
dishes are generally wbited sepulcbrrs.
aad the forerunner of blue pills aad other
disagreeable corrective. Tbe bulk of
people live in big cities and if we were
aked to name tbe most predwsaieatiat:
cisarscterittic of our urban population,
we s sold sav Myfep. Those who
spend their days ia stark utlces, chambers,
or eoosoltiug roomi, and keeptag their
aosos everlastingly upon their respective
grinalstones, seldom know that digestion
sbcuid w ait upa appetite.
liittserto thesr dinners bavenot been so
skillfully iwepsred as to demami tbe
least possible eaWrt from a jaded stomach .
but let us hope that tbe national disgrace
of ibdigestibility will no longer dim the
brightness of our hospitality, and tbe
number of patent medicines which are
seed so largely in tbii country as aids to
uHgeotioa will undergn a rapid dimi
nution. Young Housekeepers.
rraage year work sTssemitically; bv
sod nog you wiU accomplish snore have
tiase for visttiag. rtcerviag viilo, etc
Of too woasea oboea e kaow, of eoual
means aad time, oae arc jsnpUihos oae
tbsrd more than tbe other never iieni
ta a hurry, ber bouse is as neat as a psu,
herself likenite. while tbe other bo
sbalt we describe ber boasel Go ia a Kb
me. every chair is full -Oh, my! excuse
Use looks of tbe bouse, I am washing.
bakier. and trrioir to tret some cVeajstew;
done, and bad not lime to make the
bed and rig up." Nu system bore, you
mentally exclaim Better apportson each
day with its proper tasks. As we urged
you to be neat in your dress and house,
be partscuiarty so ta arranging yoer ta
We. km not neeessarv to avase toe aaost
iinen, cbtaa or sdvor. of c jutsc. they are
something to be desweai, and we do not
uaderralue either thesr beautv or worth.
bot with a tabse covered with aaoe abase
doth, of course, neat stoneware ( httc aad
peciVctly ptaias. good and wholesome
food well conked, you can raise yourseit
greatly in tbe esteem of a hungry
man; no matter if you are not as band
seme as van would like, vou will get bet
ter ieeksng M Ms eves cverv day. Ke
cbeorfut. Welcome your husband with
not only a neat house aad parson, but a
senile. Whatever aanoyancos the dsy
away bare brought barn, try to banish ej
tae'lorteg arts of which Mt makes you
mistress.
Dikectms rex Kalsomimsu. Buy
tbe best bleached cine, if the walls arc to
be white or some tight tint) if dark, it U
immaterial, so tbe gtue is cleai i, and esc
ia the proportion of a quarter : a pound
to esght pouanis of w Mtteg. Soak the
gtue over night, ia the marairJg pour oaT
she water, as it simply swells while soak-
lag. Add fresh water, put ia a pail, and
set that M a kettle of botstag water, nkes
dissolved stir it into the waiting, addiasr
enough water to make it, after Mixta, ol
the same c-sntstoncv of c a white
wash. It ovav he tinted any cash, and
is applied with a whitewash brush. It
the color is tubbed smooth ia a little wa
ter and thea mixed with tbe wash, it will
be more even. If tbe walls bare been
previously whitewashed, scrape away all
that will come off. and wash with a solu
tion of while vitriol two ounces in a
pail of water. Ifec vitriol will be dc-
mpoed, forming zsac watte and pias
ter of Parts, to which tbe Kalsotniac easily
adheres. It is important to dissolve the
glue tn a hot water bath, for if scotched
by too great boat, its tenacity is impaired
or destroyed.
Washixo Fl-onels ok Lines. To
whiten flannel made yellow by age, dis
solve one and one-half pounds of white
soap in fifty poands sett water, and also
two-third ounces tptntsel ammonia, im
merse tbe flannel, stir well fer a short
time, and wash in pure water. Wbea
black er navy blue linens are washed.
soap should not be Used. Take instead
two potatoes grated into teptd sett water
after having them washed awl jiccirU),
into which a tcatpooaftf! of ammonia has
I en put. Wash the linens with tins ami
rinse them in cold blue water. They
will need no starch, and shoaid be dried
and ironed on tbe wrong side. An infu
sion of hay will keep tbe natural color in
bun linens, and an infusion of bran will
do the same for brown linens and prints.
Coooasct Pcddixb. Grate the meat
of one cocoanut. Hill very tine and sift
through a coarse sieve, five Boston crack
ers; mix this with the grated cjoaaaut,
add a pint and a half of boiled milk and
three lablcspoonfuta of butter jut soft
ened enough to beat; or, instead, one pint
of thick, sw-e-it cream. Bsat six eggs
yelks and whites separately; add a cup
if sugar; beat all well together, and bake
tike a custard. Eaten hot or cold.
To Cook Cold Meat. Put the meat
into a chopping bowl, out it fine, season
wiih salt, Ieper and a little onion; add
half a pint of drawn butter. Fill a tin
bread pan two thirds full; cover over
with mashed potatoes winch lias been
salted and has milk in it; lay bits of but
ter over the top and set into an oven for
fifteen or twenty minutes.
Swekt Buuai). Parboil tha sweet
breads and let them get cold, cut thein in
pieces about an inch thick; put on salt,
pepper and sage; then dip them in the
yelk of eggs and fine bread crumbs. Fry
them a light brown in boiling lard.
Hud precipitate or red oxide of mer
cury is not made by precipitation, but by
heating the nitrate of mercury; when
precipitated it has a yellowish color.
Peace or War?
It is a peculiarity of this long confusion
ia Estern Europe, that every attempt at
settlement is iatrrrupted by some new
turn of fortune on one sble or the other,
which necesltatH a new beginning.
Wbea Serria and 3Ioalenegro were about
to declare war, Turkey woo hi doubtless
have contented to a peacefsl arrangement
of tbediiiculty; but the Great Powers
were not ia accord jost then. When
Tcberaayir was driven back over tbe
-ervtaa I roe Uer. and 1'nnce Jill an ap
pealed for aa armistice, Turkey was in no
ntood to graat it. Wbea tbe Powers per
suaded her to cnuteat, Serris. re-caforcod
by Itaiaa officers ami s'ddiers, and
boptag anew for military success, became
recalcitrant ; aad now wbea she sees ruin
approach aad cries oace more for a
suspension of warfare, the ewealioa
What w ill be Te key 't aess wer I Will she
use her opportunity and press on to Bel
grade in spile of the certain botility of
Kotsial Or will she halt, with victory in
full view, aad accept deasaadt whicb
mast be almost intolerable at such a lime I
Tbe course nf Servia cannot fail to
have all totaled from ber much d tbe aoa
Stavic sympathy of Europe. Her mili
tary campaign bas been a shameful lail
ure from tbe btgisaisM The iacompe
teaey of Gea. Tcneraajetf ba oaly been
eqaaled by bis arrogstst prti statical . but,
worse than this a race famous for des
perate courage bat covered itself with a
stigma of cowardice which it will take
much blood to wash out. Every re
ported victory, from tbe irtt, bat turned
out to be a defeat : after advancing aaoa
Xisch with boartfat prophecies the Ser
vian army bas steadily fallen bsck, losiag
one stroesg potttioa after anotber, until
now, beaten ia mast aad ia detachments
aad w bully deasoratued, all its reatain
iagpower ( detente is lost Oa the other
band. Turkey thwarted ia Bosnia aad the
Heraegoviaa, bankrupt ia iaaace. and
shaken by revolution aad double change
of rulers bas fought with a skitL per
sisteace, aad bravery very aaaiaai in ber
reeeat ass lory. But for the Bulgarian
atrocities ber present dehant attitude
would provoke sdusiratiou, if not some
decree of sympathy.
The last crtsss hewerer or Kit abase
of the prolonged emit will be speedily
resolved. Tac abstention of the etb-r
iTaropeoa Powers leases tie soUtioa ta
the htads of Kovssa. and she bxs acted
with the prtaaaet which the eaaergeecy
domandi. Taeec can be ao longer a
doubt that Keias policy it at last axed.
She bas deiatteiy marked the bound tni
hefWeea peace and war. aad imposed aa
immediate cbotcc ueseaTrfcey. Her ul
tuaatuan reached Csaitiatiaoplr oa Mon
day, and tbe answer of the Parte must be
given to-day at the latest. If it should
be aatrawati re. there will be deiars aad
comtaiseated nejotiatioas. with a possi
sibtitty of souse temporary settliimint; if
negative, there will be haoediate war.
A, r. rWeear.
How Tmaoosc Stevens EiBXtrat
fa.. Many tears ago, when Taaddeos
Mcvesss wias practictag lav M Lancatter.
1'a he was m ployed to dtfeml two beak
oaTtcers who had heea lalscSo for coa-
spttucy, tbey ha via used tbe funds of tbe
bank ia tpecaUattoa. All tbe legal taieat
of i'Mlaiifiphtc aad surrouudtag counties
had been easgaged to aott la the prose
ce boa. Wbea tbe trial was oponed. Mr.
ateveas rose, aad, aaalresstag the cmrt.
said, "If K please your boaors presumii
there are diaereat deriiat of guilt at
tached to the prtsnuers my clients. I
move tbey atay be tried separately. Tne
judge coeo-jlted for a few moments with
Ms nMCtatos wsk, coo'eolioj. tbe mo
tsoa wt sjranteat and so rueurded. Watt
ing some time for Mr. Steveat to go oa.
the ya4gu, at last becasutine; knpatieat.
satd tmpeluwitly, I n-oeoJ, Mr. Stevens,
pr cesd. We are witMsg for you, sir."
Steeoat ru-e deltberalely, and, looking
around tbe court nan 'for a moment.
said, Dtd your boaors ever bear of oae
man besng tried for coesi piracy I" Then
waving bsa baml to bis clients be said.
You can go bouse; you can go bouse.'
And they did go house. The jury were
discharged and the court adjourned. And
for this piece of legal ttratetry Tssad
b levees received 5,9&). ttkimrt
VCLAR Words. A dittiaguiihed an
tbor S'ivs: I resolved when I was s child.
never te ue a word watch I ouhi not
pronounce before mv mother without of
fending her. He kept hit res.dutioa and
became a pure-minhd, noble, honored
gentleman. His rule and example arc
worthy of imitation.
Boy s readily learn a class nf low, vulgar
words and expressions which are never
heard in respectable circles. The ut
ml care on tbe part of parents will
scarcely prevent it. Of course we can
not think of girts being so much exposed
to the peril. We cannot imagine a de
cent girl using words she would not give
utterance to before her father and mother.
Such vulgarity is thought bj some boys
to be "smart, the "next thing to swear
ing." aad yet "not so wicked. But it is
a habit which leads te profanity, and tilts
the mi ml with evil thoughts. It vulgar
ilea and degrades the soul, aad prearca
the way for many of the ros ami fearful
sins which now corrupt society.
Young reader! keep your mouth free
from impurity ami yssnr "tongue from
evil, for "out ot the abundance of the
heart the mouth spoakelh.
Election Bets. Prof. swing takes a
very gloomy view of betting in the last
number of the JitVuifir, and, caking on
behalf of that Urge class who are actus
tonied to lose, it is easy to sympathize
with him. But It is hard to believe that
the "new hat" won on a bet"conie down
over tbe eyes of the winner's soul,' as the
professor says it does. More likely it at
lects unfavorably the vision of the other
follow who has lost. Even tho prolific
imagination of Dinte never conceived
! of a lost sohI with andectlon-batjtmmetl
down over his eyes. Iu all seriousness.
however, the professor is right. Bcttic,
is a bad business.
DesrisE no one; for everyone knows
something which tbou knowctt not.
American Social Life.
In aa article summarizing and com
menting utf m the special letters bi the
IsHtdou TitMt from the Centennial, the
Saturday IUtine ay:
'Another feet are of American eharacter
is the fusty .and reatlestpursHitof peronal
prominence or notoriety. 1 nere wing no
formal distinction nf ranks in the repub.
lie, we see every human being there striv-
' at lite great end of existence ta
petk bis head at much at he can above
hi neighbor's. There is no countrv
which is so lroka up into sets and
clique, each scheming to find something
to give it a pretext for a "coag aa indt-
vidu d tuperiority. Tons it appear., that
amHsg the watering blare Gape May
look down on Atlantic Citr. that Cne
Mar is looked down oa by Liosr liranch.
aad that Saratoga thiekt ibeif decidedly
above L-sag Branch, while Newport, oa
the strength of its b'ac bwoi auaraes to
be aa ariitocratic eyrie perched altogether
ab-sve the rust of the world. It is much
the same ia or Jiatry society. New York
professes contempt f-sr Bnton priggish
nest. Bsttou retaliates on New York
with seavn of 'thoddv.' and twits Paiia-
ddphia with provincialism And so it
goes an through every grade aad section
of community. The quiet otxtrpttioa of
a settled and ac Vnowl edged posltsoa with
which the nccupint it coateat is scarcely
known in that land of freedom. There it i
room for everybody to aspire, and every-
body does so! The easiest platform to
mount upon ia seek a state of things is
money or the show of money; and thus
Americas ambtttos btc xnttt mualv axed
on iu acoutsition. Peraam. boeever.
whit it most waariag to tbe Amoricin
character, or at least to its peace of mied
and happiness it self-con hdeace and self
respect. It may be thought at frit sight
that the Amertcans are of a conceited and
coa id eat aature; bot the extreme sea-
stttreaest which thev display is regard
to almost erery kind of criuoim sbowt
that Usey arc not at heart thoroughly at
ease as to their own preteatioas. It is
hardly possible to sav aaytbsag to Amer
icans about their ctsntry without jarrieg
oa some tender potnt. They cannot bear
to tse told of their faults ? imart
umler any tbiag like praise as if it were aa
aj less ottos of sepeneritv. Tbey are in
ciined to pride themsdres oa their seaxc
of humor, tnl oc this particular point
their sense of humor is verv dull. The
sort of banter aad caricature wbeckpeo
pieof other nation, iro ia their owa faith
ia them -elves, onlv laugh at. Keens Us iro-
tale an Amencan exce,ive4y. He it like
a man with a raw tkia te whoca a midge
is torture. Even Mr. Lowell oace lathed
oat ia a pimphtet Oa a ceruia Cnsde-
sceesstoa ia Frcegners aad threateaed
Loglaad wtth war as a psai Aetna t, not
for hostile acu, bet for her atrs of pat
roaage toward America. Every scastMe
ersoa recognizes that the L nsted J-tale
are a great people ia their war, but they
are not beyond the teach of crusctsm
Tbey arc what the coadiriaat of their ex
eacu bare made tbeaa. They have
hitherto eaioved the material pro pari iv
watch lay at thetr hands ia the reueuicui
of a vast and virgin terrteiry; but tbey
bave not adraaced with ejxi socees ia
other directions nor' perhaps eoabl it be
exnected tnat they thostd do so, cotsstit
ertng She peculiar character ef tbe spu-
laUou, and the wort: uev bail laBedute-
ly ta de.
Aneolotrs of Dr. Parr.
Dr. Samuel Parr was a frank, eccentric
Korttsbr&aa. noted for bit great learawag.
Some one asked btca whom he considered
the nest Greek scholar in Eoropc -Tne
first Grecian scholar hving, answered
Dr. Parr, "is Person; the third is Dr.
Barney; I leave you to guess who is the
seessud.
D trine the trial of Warren Hastings i-
poached for crimes committed while
governor of India. Dr. Parr was oace ha
company with Barke, Fox and Sheri
dan, the three managers of the impeach
ment. The three memorable speeches
erery sehstol-boy has declaimed parts of
them had just been delivered by these
great orators in support of the charges.;
lr. rrr gave his opinion ot the speeches
of Fox and Sheridsa, railing censure
with praie. I-ut said nothing of liarke
speech. Barke paced the room for some
time, in evident expectation of bearing
from his learned friend; but Dr. Parr re
mained liteut. At latv Burke, who was
somewhat vain, said :
"i ou have made an able com ni eat en
the speeches of mv two friends with
acute, jeiiciou and eloquent impartial
ity; but as you say nothing upon my
tpeech en the subject, I condude you are
too delicate to meet me with mere praise.
aad that you could nut discover any
faults in It,
"Not so, Edmund," replied the doctor.
"Your speech was oppressed by epithet.
di'locatcd by parenthesis aad debilitated
by ampbnettion.
The cmiciin, though expressed in the
peculiar style of the dav, known as
Johnsonese, was c-irrect, and set forth the
fauits ef Barke s gre&t speech.
A cocrrnT gentleman was in the habit
of cntertaiuiug his fnends almost weekly.
and discovered that regularly some small
article of plate was missing, a cantor-top,
a salt-sifcxin, a napkin-ring, or something
of the kind. He suspxded his servant.-,
and to make sure, one night when the
guests had assembled, he said: "I tell
you w hat J Let's do without servants to
night and waitun ourselves! The odd
suggestion was greeted with applause and
(icals of laughter. The servants were
turned out; the meal was seasoned with
sparkling sallies at the expense of the
clumsiness of this or thatgues, and wheu
they had all gone the host took stock, and
discovered that two-thirds of the spoons
had gone too. Frtnc Paper.
Oxi: hundred years ago the cheapest
English liible in this country cost not
less than two dollars, aud sixty years ago
the price was little less, and the styles
and sizes of the books were poorly fitted
for circulation. Now tbe Bible is the
cheapest of books aud oft very form that
necessity, convenience aad taste may
demand.
An A need ite of Gea. Jackson.
When General Jackson was a candidate
for the Presidency ia 1S33, not only did
the party opposed to him abuse him for
his public acts, which if wteoastitutioaal
or violent, were a kgitiasate subject nf
reprobation, but they defamed theebarxev
ternf hie wife. Onone occasion a newt
paper published ia Nashville was Istd
apou the General's table. He glanced
over it, and bis eye foil upoa aa arttete
ia which the ebsracter of 3I. Jackson
was violently assailed. So soon as be
read it he seat for his traity old servant
Duaweodie.
s sddle my horse,' said he U him ia a
whisper, aad put my holsters oa him."
Mrs. Jackson watched bins, and though
she beard not a word, she thought she
sew mischief in hi eyes. The General
went out after a few tniaates, when the
biok up the paper aad aatlertod every
thing. Site ran out ta the couth gate if
tbe yard of the Hermitage, by which the
General would bave to pass. She had
not beea there more than a few teosads
before the General rode up with a enunte
aanceof a maslsBaa. She placed her
self before his horse, aad cried net
0. Geacral, don't ga to NashvMe!
Let that poor editor lire. Let that pear
editor lire. -Lt me aloae T he replied;
bow came you to know what I am go-
log forr aae asHvwered, "I saw it alt in
this paper after you went out; put Bp
your horse aad go back." He replied
furiously, "But I will go get oat of ray
way P Instead of doing that she graspeti
has bridle with both hand. He cried ia
her, -I say, let go my horse; IU have
ait heart's blood the rillaia that reviles
my wife shall not live.
She grasped tbe ream bet the tighter,
and begaa to exeosralaie with aim, say
ing that the was the oae wise ought te be
angry, but that sac forgave ber fvcriecstors
from the bottom of ber hearr, and
prayed for them that be should forgive,
if be had hoped to be forgives. At latr,
by ber reasoning, ber eeuouiet and tears,
she so worked upon her beubaad that he
seeased moUsSed to a certain extent.
She wound ap by sayio-" -No, General,
you shall not like the life of eves my
reviler yoe dare not da it, Ssr it is writ
ten. Veagenace is mine, I will repsr,
saith the 1srdr
The irou-nerved hero gave way before
tbe earnest pleading; of hit bstwved wife,
aad replied: I yield So yew; but had it
aot beea for you, aad tac wools of the
Almighty, the wretch should sot bare
Lived a.
An American Gyp.y Story.
I was eeife? young whoa I reoaeved my
irst lesion ia Cjrraae-tailing. Far the
irtt season I was oaly to soil sorsnees for
juaaag girl. I was at jtnige theo. aad
say aaost about love 3hecu. After
wards I was allowed tat test aaybedy. If
I eousd lay my bassa oa aaytaing wucta
havtag I eoutd do so, but it was no
awsste ess of aaybody where I gat it. I
was never asiTed where I got things. I
wJ pteajgd a: ttsg idea of fcssllag feftgoes
aad tied very well at the nainesm. I
pecked ap twU, and before the Stat season
dosed i knew bow So road busxaa alters
very welt, aad cotUd road character to!
erauty. 1 wilt aot say mack about steal
ing, for I aa juhsmest. Soene of our
wiagouts have false etSouas so that when
ever the camp was searched aotasseocid
be found. It the ohaccrs oame they were
given full privilege to soareh alt aratcud,
lad in thts wy utey were ted to believe,
many itencs, that we were really Msaoecet.
Tbere as no truth at alt ia tonoae-teMtag.
We said ju: what came sato oar nssstis.
One Bene a yoeeg man la Tennessee
come to me nod tusu me hrgo to a cer
tain house aad tadoec a..joung girt to
bare her tortaac toad. He told me what
to say. He was in lave w itfa. her and.
wanted to marry ber. I thtdcTstoSi Litu,
aad carried oat my part very weH. I
sang her a soag about tao voaog lorcr,
and the bountiful girt gut as wnite as
saow, thea red. and tbea gave me
eve dotlars. So coutd welt arford it.
1 got tea dotUrs from the mas. lie had
beea stiscarded, but before we left the
piaoe, 3Inrfreoboro, I thiefc it waa, I
saw the pair out dvtncr. There's nay
amount of trickery like tfaia among tbe
gypsies. I liked tac We at first, it was
tree and romantic; hut Sanity 1 tired of
it, because 1 wiu ill-treated. I always
wanted to keep up my appearance, whtca
made some of the other wouica jealous.
Thev commenced to spread evil reports
about me, and said Hut I was guilty ef
crime that I had fought hard to over
come and exsape. BosUtesa got bad, and
ail my money was either Ksat er stoics,
from the wagoa. It was not easy to
make my escape, for the men watched
wecloeiy; but I managed-it at last.
Talk about women beiu drudges aainog
decent white jwopte, ttiat's uolningl
Women who are cvmtscltcd to lead Wan
dering lives in tht country are couiperled
to lie, cheat, steal and commit almuatt
any crime to obtain money. There am
plenty of wemea who are situated the
same as I was aad w bo are buI litini
for a good chance to gtt oil.
Tne returning Kugtuh polar expedi
tion report an advance toward the uorth
lic of about one hundred mites beyond
Halt's fur the rest point. Toe Oueu Polar
Sea seen by Kane is no more iu iu
places a coutiuuous sheet of ice ranging
in thickness from seveuty-fira to one
hundred aad titty feet. DjuuiIcss the
waters about the wile have been free
from ice at limes in the past, but are not
so now. Toe up heaved aud tilted rictds
of ice render further northern progress
impossible, even were tbe cold teas de
structive of human life than it is. Geog
rapher now know all that can be kaowu
of those grim wastes. Tuey are destltuto
of life. Tuey are aileut except wbea
under a storm of wind, or wheu a glacier
topples over from its xw n weighr, and
wwkeas the echoes Mm cliffs and chasms
of ice No more witTTever be knows,
because there is nothing else to know.
It is time that the era of polar expedi
tions came to an end.
Of all the pioaaoiua uit we jug, of
all the pleasure we cujr, we carry no
more out of this world, than out oi" a
drtaaa.