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PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1877.
NO. 45.
JOB WORK r?osT;
A Woman's Hand.
Only a lltUe, soft, white thing.
Made for wearing the costly rluir:
Made for flirting the daluty fau
At only tbe belle of the muoh ran ;
Hade for the stolen pressure or kfe
(Lone Branch fashion), raising to
By merely the touch of finders white.
Her escort down by the beach that ulght
Made for a "prize" for the highe-sl bid,
(And under the rose a Uiora lies hid
A thing which the honest summer suu
Has taught his honst beams to sbau,
Lett freckle or tan Its beauty spoil.
And make It too near a hand of toll.
Instead of only a dainty thin;.
Made for case and the diamond (in?.
Only a sunburned, ucful thin?,
To which the hearts of the needy cHng;
To which thev turn who hare learned the
worth
Of a woman's hand on this weary earth;
Made for healing, for smoothing e'er
The hearts of those who are faint and erc;
Made for honest work each day.
For driving the shadows of life away;
For holding the "cup of water" to all
Who, faint and thirsty,for succor call;
Made for leading the timid on;
For blessing all it may rest upon;
Made to be won by a loyal heart.
Who In Its labor will bear a part;
Made to be clasped by a loyal ham!.
Which chooselh the best in all the land.
Worth O! double its weight in gold.
This useful hand that can nerer grew old.
Utrirt HVWy.
Through Passengers.
'Where an? voa going. Dick!"
'Rack to chat with my through pas
sengers." And Dick Davis, the conduct r,let tbe
mail car, and enteicd the through coach
attached to the train.
Closing the door lie walked straight to
an old mm seated in the center of the
car. His hair aad beard were as white as
snow, but there was no crows fret oa his
forehead Dor crinkles n his checks. His
eyes flashed with the light f lusty mas.
hood, though his hair would iodicatethat
he had crossed the boundaries of bis
three-score years.
He smiled hen the pleasant-faced con
doctor dropped into the scat before him,
and leaning forward, made a remark in
a low tone of voice. Tin remark otused
Davis to raise his head, and gaze at tbe
beautiful fare of a jrirl who slept in a
seat beside the -white-bearded paenger.
"She sleeps like a child, the conductor
said, admiring the face, and wishing per
haps that he could enjy such a tluinoer.
-She always sleeps that way," respond
ed the passenger, with a smile; "and
when she wakes she is as fresh as a rose.
"Your daughter has company, I see,"
ob-erved Davis, glancing at toe remainder
tif t'je ear, who appeared to be sleeping J
soundly. j
-Yes; are they going through I"
"Oh, yes; iioae bat through passengers
are admitted to this coach. They are not
communicative fellow-travelers, I should
say.?
"They are not, replied the old man.
"Mr. Davis, I do not like my traveling
companions, and the spelter's voice was
lowered.
Tbe conductor looked surprised.
"Will you explain, Mr. Radcliffe!"
A short time previous to the present
conversation the conductor aad hu pas
senger had exchanged names, and were
thus enabled to call each other properly.
"I can scarcely explain, was the pas
senger's reply. -There is a man in the
fourth teat from the stove, whom, unac
countably, I do not like. He boarded
the train at Romney, and I have caught
him looking askance at myself and
MabeL TLeti the fellow who appears to
be asleep three seats behind him on the
opposite side of the aisle has been guilty
of tbe same thing, and I believe there is
a connection between the parties. I do
not want you to think that I fear them.
Never in my life, and I have passed
through the wild tribes of the Amazonion
valley, have I feared man. Over there
lies the only jewel to which I cling, and
he nodded 'toward the slumbering girl.
"She is the sole creature through whose
veins runs my blued, and you must
know that she is dear tome.
"Certainly, Mr. Radcliffe," aid Davis.
"Your entire solicitude is for her."
"Exactly T
"Do you know these two fellows!"
"I do not; never saw them before in
all my life.
Conductor Davis thought a moment.
"Yourself and daughter can avoid
thera by taking up quarters in the for
ward car. I assure yoa that you will not
be regarded as intruders, and that the ac
commodations will not lack comfort.
But the passenger gently declined the
conductor's offer, and said that he would
finish bis journey in the coach he had
been placed in for that purpose.
After a few more words Davis left the
coach and passed into the express car,
where be soon appeared to forget his pas
sengers in a conversation with the mes
senger. Too door had hardly closed on the con
ductor's form when tbe man nearest the
stove showed signs of animation. He
turned his bead and looked up the dimly
lighted aisle, not forgetting to let his
eyes rest on the old traveler aad his
daughter. He was a handsome man,
-about thirty-five years of age, and above
bis luxuriant crop of silky, auburn whis
ker-, shone a pair of mild blue eyes.
Not osc man in a hundred would have
chosen him for a rascal.
He was well, almost flashily, dressed:
there was a handsome diamond pin on
his bosom, and a crested ring on bis
band.
Allowing his gaze to return down the
aisle, be fixed it upon another man, who
appeared to be sleeping, a short distance
from him. This man was quite young;
his eyes were heavy, and the only hirsute
appendage on his face was a long-baired
moustache tliat dropped over his month.
Tbe two men exchanged looks, which
told that they were not travelers acci
dentally thrown together, but men who
were well acquainted with each other.
Again tbe firt-menlioned one looked
at the old passenger, whose bead had
dropped on his breast, and who appeared
to be drnppiug into a good slumber.
Seeing this the man motloued to the
other, who straightened up, and the next
moment the twain occupied the same
eat.
"Is he really accept" asked the young
est. "You can't tell anything about the old
dodger," was the reply. "He lookt as
though be was sleeping like Morpheus
himself, when he may be watching us
from one corner of his eye. We can't
afford to wait much longer,else the game
will be up. The girl is sound asleep."
"Ye, yes, you uW jerk ber from the
sat and not dUtarb her slumbers. Isn't
she a beauty!
"A perfect houri!
"Of course t.he dcsnt know that you're
on the train."
'Certainly not. Don't you recollect
that she was asleep when we boarded the
car at Homneyi
"If she knew I was here, shed keep
her eyes wide open aad post the old gen
tleman, who yet remains, I believe, in
blissful ignorance of the fact that I have
made love to his child. If he knew me
as you do, Burdock, he'd play the roll of
Virginias Iwfore I should w ed his JIabel."
"He would, indeed ! answered the
young man called Rsrdock. "But I say,
let's to work. I have the bottle shall I
use it now! What do you say!" I
"We are not there yet!" said the other, j
looking out of the window upon the star-1
lit earth. - f
"We mutt be very near. The road
where Morlev is waiting is one mile this
side of the town. There! look! there is ,
the clump of trees he told us about. The'
road is three milts from this point. We I
must work now." j
"What if the old fellow is shamming!" ,
"III use the handkerchief efeitelyT .
"All right." I
The ;oungct of the part j now rose and ,
walked nptheaiile to the further end of,
tbe coach.
He Cast a quick but scrutinizing look j
at the white-haired man who, despite his
suspicions, had fallen asleep. For three .
successive days he and his daughter bad
been on tbe train, and during the time
the father had slept but little. His child's
objections to the sleeping coaches had
been listened !, and the twain had not
quitted the through passenger car. ,
They were traveling to one of the larg-!
est cities in the east, where they h tped to j
dwell until death should tear them apart ,
zed call each from the world. j
Cyrus Radcliffe for such was the
father's name was a backer of eminence
in a city far west of the Alleghanics. His
wealth was tbe "open sesame" into tbe
highest society of tbe land, but be wa
not puffed up with the pride that is gen
erally found with riches. Having no
relatives, save his daughter, be fixed the
great love of his heart upon ber, and it
was a love vaster than bis wealth, deeper
than the sea.
But let us retam to the scene in the
through car, moving at the rate of t wenty
seren miles an hour.
The man at the end of tbe car glided
toward his victim, the old gentleman.
His movements were watched by the as
sociate whom be bad left in the seat.
When be paused beside bis victim, he
drew a handkerchief from his bosom.
Then tbe faint odor of chloroform be
came prevalent, aad the handkerchief
was held under Cyrus Kaiclifle a nostrils.
While this was being done the blue
eyed man left his seat, and came up the
aisle till be passed bis confederate, and
stood beside the sleeping girl.
"Shall I dose the others!" asked the
young man in a whisper as he glanced at
the three remaining passengers who were
asleep in their respective seats.
"No! they'll not awaken!" was tbe re
ply. "Now give 3Iabd a bit not too
much!"
The chloroformed handkerchief, with
drawn from Mr. Radcliffe, was applied
to his daughter, who unconsciously in
haled tbe powerful anxstbetlc
A moment later the agent of villainy
was restored to his bosom, and with a
look up and down the car the eldest man
lifted Mabel from the seat.
"We must be near the read. King
the engineer down to slower time.
Quick I"
These words were spoken to the young
man,wbo caught the bell rope and tugged
at it manfully.
"Curse UP he exclaimed. "It seems
to have caught somewhere. Tbe train is
increasing its speed."
Tbe face of the man who held Mabel
in his arms suddenly grew pale.
"Jerk H with all your might The cned
to his confederate.
Tbe man obeyed and the rope snapped
in twain!
"The jig is up, I am afraid. There
we've passed the road. It seenfs to me
that we're going at the rate of forty miles
an hour."
"Yes, fifty of them! said his comrade
between bis teeth.
At that moment the door before them
swungopen, and conductor Davis stepped
injo the coach.
Tbe blue-eyed man hastened to place
Mabel in the seat from which be had
lifted her without being seen by tbe con
ductor. But in this be failed.
"Gentlemen," said Davis, calmly, and
at the same time displaying a revolver,
you will oblige me by returning to the
stat you bare lately occupied. Your
little scheme of abduction has failed, and
I would inform you that you will be under
guard the remainderof the rua. Any at
tempt to escape might be attended with
serious results. I witnessed your vil
lainy from the platform."
The rascals did not reply, but with
dogged aullenncss dropped into the seat,
and two brakemen, armed with revolvers,
were placed over them.
A pbysician,wbo was a passenger on the
train, attended to Mr. .Radcliffe and bis
daughter, and In due time they recovered
from the effects of the chlorolorm.
When Mabel looked upon the blue
eyed man,she recognized Jared Abbott, a
rejected lover. His confederate, Burdock,
she did not know. The man who was
waiting near the station for the abduct
ing party never fell into the clutches of
the law; but it is certain that the princi
pal and his eager asitant saw the inside
or a penitentiary.
It was Dick Davis' hand that held the
bell rope while Burdock tugged at it, and
his signal that Increased the speed of the
train, thus effectively preventing the vil
lains' escape.
Cyrus IUdclitfa proffered Conductor
wick a Handsome check: for las emcc.
but It was refused, and the reward that
he finally accepted was the hand of hi
lovely through passenger.
Street Life In New York.
Among the verv maor strange noises
that go to make up the general dia ef the
-cw lone street, there commonly rfees
supreme one articular sound that may
lc beard from eight o'clock in the saers
ing until eighto'dock in tbe erraicg, artd
one that is hush and discordant bcyoad
description.
This sound Is the ringing ef the bcitr
on the cart of lite rag aad pJjvcr gath
erers. These may be heard in Harlem aad eo
the Battery, and on the North aad East
I tit-urs. They are everywhere. Each
cart is of the ordinary basd-cart list tern,
with two wheels, aad is propelled by the
owner, who walks and pn,he in ftoat.
The peculiarity of it i this: From
either side of the cart, mid-way along,
and abreast of the wheels, there arises a
stout stick three feet high. Between
these sticks at the top, there is stretched
a leather belt, extending, ef coarse, across
the load of rag and bottles, if there hap
pens to be any. Attached la this strap
are a number if bells of varioas sorts aad
sizes, ranging from a common tea-belt r
slcirh-be'L, to a large sixed dinner-belt,
with a wooden handle affixed. As if the
sounds made by the constaat swiagistgef
these articles did not prodece sutScieat
tumult, a few cow-bells are mingled with
the instruments of discord.
Tbe fashion seems tabethoaghtagood
one, for there is not another rag-maa in
the whole city that would dare to veatare
out without, at least-two cow-!!! to ad
vertix bis calling.
A fw of these junk ami coal -gatherers
use dogi to help them draw their often
heavy load.
In tbe latter part of May of every year,
tbe city is tormeated by a new trbte,
in the shape of Mrawberry -sellers. The
class of people who is BosUhi are railed
peddler-care called In New York licrased
venders. The title indicates that the
holders of it hare parcaased frosa the
city tbe right to sell in the pablic street
any goods that they may wish of coarse
within certain rales ud regulatieas.
When the strawberries from the Sestb
begin to onac in these licensed venders
load their wagons and start ep tows t
the streets where the residences are, and
then begin to cry their wraie.
They are usually acconsp&nted by small
boy, who hold ins reins aad look oat
for the property. With two boxes of
berries In each hand,thi species of Tender
walks along the sidewalk at a slow pace,
uttering bis calls, while his borse aad the
wagon with the little boy oa top follows
slowly behind.
This class of venders is mostly made
up ef young men, and they are, as a
whole, bealtby aad powerful follows.
They are sagadocs enough to be polite to
the people with whom they deal. They
sell everything in Its season lesnoas, or
asg, figs, vegetables, nets, apples
peaches and the like, aad they arc Tery
indastrious.
Bet there is another vender who has no
team and no one to help him; neither
does lie utter any cry. He weald if lie
could. I suppose, but it would be dan
gerous for him to make a singte move
ment of his bead. This Is the buaey
seller. He wears a long white apron coming
down to bis ankles, and a sort of Mb that
covers bis breast. Upon his arms he
wears a pair of false white sleeves, gath
ered tight at the wrists vid at the elbows,
in his left hand he carries a knife, with
which he raps on the iron railings as he
slowly pa-scs tbe hnue. in order to let
the occupants know that be Is there.
Upon a mat on the top of his beaJ he
carries a large, oblong platter, opoa
which bis honeycomb is piled In pyramid
fashion, looking, with its delicious white
and yellow, very nice and tempting.
Now and then a neatly-dressed maid
rushes out of au area door and cries out
to him. He slowly turns around and
goes back to her, tells ber bis price, and
where the honey comet from. This In
terview commonly ends in bis taking tbe
huge dish from tbe top of his bead and
cutting off & piece of tbe honeycomb,
with which the maid disappears Into tbe
region from whence she emerged.
Some of tbe ways in which people ad
vertise their business in New York are
very odd. On almost any bright day one
may see upon Broadway a file of half a
dozen men clad in painted boards that
is, with large signs three feet across and
five feet long suspended about their
neck',oae before and one behind march
ing in a row down the sidewalk.
One can see bat little of these men,
save their rough, unkempt heads, and
their stolid face, half-sccrcted under
ragged caps.
It is laughable when a sudden wind
springs up and blows the sign-bearers out
Into the streets and around the corners in
spite of their struggles against it. The
street boys sometimes make them miser
able by catching tli corners of their sign,
and twisting them around and around
most unmercifully.
Occasionally a man dressed like a har
lequin may be seen, all white and blue
and yellow, with a tall fool's cap on his
head. He distributes papers to the passers-by,
with a bow and a smirk that do
not possess the grace of a Chesterfield.
Little brass bells arc tied to bis cap, and
eight blue and yellow points fall about
his ears, and dance up and down when
ever be moves Ida head. These men or
dinarily go through' thcirsillylabnr-with
a great deal of composure, nod it would
be hard to say certainly that they do not
rather enjny "cutting a figure."
But pleasanter people to speak of are
the flower, fruit and candy sellers, chil
dren who move alout silently amid the
throngs of passers-by, mutely offering
their little trays of bon-bons or noiegays
for sale. In the eaa of violets, the air
of Broadway is perfumed for long dis
tances by the odor of tbe dowers, and one
looks with pleasure upon the little black
haired maids, with their neat dresses and
pretty face, who carry them about.
Oae of the best known of the strret
pcople is the "merchant knife-grinder," a
very monarch in his way, an Englishman,
with a thorough cockney accent.
He Is nothing bat a knife-grinder, bet
he does his basinesi In such a lordly way
that he might lust as well have been a 'Sena
tor as anything else. He has a four
wheel go-cart, very firmly made, and
very finely painted and decorated. The
color is scarlet, and the lettering upon
the sides Is of bright gilt. This lettering
nays, "Itolicrt Smith, of London, Eng.,
I'ractical Knife-Grinder. Work spirited.
Charges very moderate."
The cart it a very large affair, and is
fall of innumerable drawers. Upon it
front are two finely-toned bells, which
jingle at evtry step, and which are really
quite raeiical. The knife-grinder him
self pushes his wagon from behind,
swinging another beU in bis right hand,
aad crying. "Knives! knives T He is a
strong, raddy-faced man, aad is exces
sively jelly. He laaghs heartily at all
the jokes be hears. He laugh wbe-a
they ask him to do some work, and he
laaghs while he is about it.
It Is really a pleasant sight to see him
with hit arms stripped, standing before
bis spinning wheel, making the treadle
go aad the sparks fiy. and to hear him
tell short starie of his experience that
day. There is so tat thing to brave and
frank aboat kirn that he is very at
tractive. May he never grew ta be un
happy himself. He deserves a better lot,
aad all Nw Yorkers with he may get it.
How to Write to the Xewpiper.
The BarKagton duwaifovbjv recent
ly gave some advice to cerretpoedents,
w bch deserves the ceatider a'ien ef per
soas who undertake ta write ta the news
papers. A few ef its joints are as fol
low. "Never write with pea ar ink. It Is
altogether Uo plain, aad doesn't held the
aaiad of the editor aad priatera cl"wety
ea-agh to their werk.
"If yo are compelled to use iiV, sever
ase that vulgarity known as the bltti&g
pd. If yea drop a btotef iak on the;
paper, Kck it off. The iatrlKgeat cm
patar loves nothing to dearly as ta read
throe 3 h the smear this wilt make acres
twenty or thirty words. We have seen
him hangover sach a piece of copy half;
an hour, swearing like a pirate all the
time he felt that good.
-LV3t try ta write to plainly. It is
a sign of plebeian etigia and public
school breeding. I'oor writiag it an In
dication of genia. It is about tbe only
ladicatiee tT geetas that a great many
men pote. prawl year article with
year ryes aaat and make every word as
illegible as you can. We get 'the same
price for it from the rag man as thoagh it
were covered with copperplate sentence,
"Avoid alt painstaking with proper
names. We know the fait name of every
man, woman and child in the United
States, aad the merest hint of the name it
safSdent, It is a great mistake that
proper names thoahl be written plainly.
"Always write on both skies of tbe pa
per, and when yoa have filled both tides
of every page trail a line np and down
every margin and b&ck to the top of the
first page, closing year article by writing
the signature jatt a bore the dats. Hew
we d j love to get hold of articles written
in this style! And bow we would like to
get hold of the man who sends them.
Jatt for ten minute. Alone, In the
woods, with a cannon in our hip pocket,"
To thoe injunctions we may add that
whenever yoa ask a newspaper Air per
sonal information in regard to the char
acter of yiur literary style, for example,
or your chances of miking ten thousand
dollars a year out of literary work in this
metropolis you ought to be careful not
to enclose a stamp to pay the postage on
the reply. Editors not only have plenty
of time to write critical letters of this
kind, but publishers regard it as a great
privilege to pty the postage on twenty or
thirty such letters a week. Alto, if you
happen to be a woman, be careful to sign
your own Christian name, so that no hint
may be given as to whether you are mar
ried or not; and then if a mistake it made
by calling you "Miss," when jou are
married, or tbe reverse, you will have a
fine opportunity to correct the error in a
scornful way. Above all thlogt let not a
week past without writing to some news
paper office asking for the name of the
author of the line : "Consistency, thou
art a jewel."
Dov Pennod I.votrrEKOCK to Eti
quette. Dom Pedro's indifference to
the rules of palace etiquette, during hit
stay in Berlin, horrified the German
courtiers. He appeared at the Empress'
reception wearing a blsck cravat instead
of the regulation white uecktie, which, as
tbe Cologne GattiU obteivcs,"is indis
pensable even at tbe White House in
Washington," Kaiser William and bis
Empress called by appointment at the
Hotel de Home to return Dom Pcdto'a
visit, but the Brazilian tourist was not in.
Astonished and somewhat chagrined, the
Kaiser gave directions to bis coachman i
to drive back to the palace, when a
droshke rapidly drove up, and a stout,
elderly man in a gray overcoat, crying,
"Sire I Sircl" alighted, and springing
to the Imperial carriage, helped tbe Ger
man Empress out. The Emperor Wil
liam followed, and on reaching Dom
Pedro's apartments the latter apologized
for his apparently rude conduct by say.
ing he had gone to Professor Hclmholz
without previously setting his watch to
Berlin time, and a iliscusiion on physi
ological optica bad so much Interest for
him that he overstayed hit time. The
Brazilian sovereign had no desire to ice
the barracks and parade-grounds of Ber
lin, but the university, the art galleries,
the scientific Institutions, and above all,
the palace library, underwent bis careful
inspection.
A War Correspondent at School.
The wat correspondents of the London
papers are having ample leisure to dirt
with tbe Roumanian maids and study the
country. News there is none; their dis
patches are very brief, and tbe Associated
Press Agent, who sees them all In print
every morning before he closes bis nights
work for the New York paj-r, finds lit
tle to telegraph acrmi the ocean ; and
when they send letters they write about
anything and everything except the war,
about which there is absolately nothiag
to say. A correpoa Ieat of TA Stau&trJ,
for instance, writing from Bscharet on
May II, devotes a column to a school for
little girls. The Asile Hetne, or or
phanage, is an imms&se building, close
to the Villa Palace of tbe Priace, at
Cortoceai. It lodges 210 girls, of whom
-10 are kept at the expiate of private
individuals; the remaiatag 2&0 matt be
foundling or orpaaas, if ad ik? school is
always full. The usiforms of the school,
roagh, jet aot aacomfortalde aor on
sightly, are all ma le at home, w ith the
household necessaries; while ladic who
reqalre the mo-t delicate embroidery can
have it farnisked for theat by girls wW
show a talent for that class of work. The
idea it to supply all tbe Hoemaaita
schools with mistresses from tikis ettab
lishmeat. The amiable coafideace be
tween aathorities asd pupils wat shown
by a little isddeat. In one of the ap
per classes a baadsome girl was tarn
taoscd to recite ia Freach with scaaty
Keparatiea She broke dowa la spite of
ndly aid from mistreat aad companions.
Geo. d'Avila, e&e of the ephars, who
was present, seat far a yaeng papd,
of souther dat, who dedaiaud the
sceae with remarkable ability. The
plcaaat tone of the geaeral's reprimand,
aad tbe smiling aaaaaer ef all parties
coaceraed, were satSoeat proof of aa ex
cellent uaderstaadiag. While the war
eorrespocdest was visiting the orphan
age, Kssdan cavalry, artillery, aad Cot
sacks were fillag by, bat he saw net oae
yoang lady potp throogh the ojeo win
dows at that clanking, gUtteriag caval
cade. They saag, recited, answered aaes
tieas with saca graceful caaspwtsre as
Eaglish girls seldom shew.
Origin of tbe Military Salute,
A correspondent ef the Arm? aA
.Vary Uituttt gives the fotlewiag axeoaat
of the erigia ef the military salete
"Within the lat few years, asauac tbe
ataay change which have bees intro
duced into the army, is that of the salate.
Why the od-lime hesvorrd saiate was
abeKstted, do oe kaoas, but it it an ia
teresting fact, and eae probably usknewn
ta most of ear rraders,tsat lb- old saiate.
which consisted ef the hasd being breaght
into a borixasla! pod ion orer the eye
brews,ha a very aVd engia.dxtiag.ia fact,
from the cemmeacemeat ef the history of
Use ,egtia avy. Its oogia u XeanJ ta
the tournaments ef ta? Middle Ages, aad
was as fellaws After the
Qteea of i
Beauty was eethroecd. the kntgatt who
weret ttke part ia the tfortt ef the
dav marched put the dais a which she
sat, aad as they paued they shielded
their eyes from the rays ef ber beauty.
Soch wat the very is teres ting origin ef
the eld salute, asd it is a qaestioa
worthy the attentiaa ef ear military aa
thorities, why s boa Id not the eM saiate,
pose,ing sach aa origin, asd associated
with oar amy from the very earliest
times, be restored t It it ditScalt ta dis
cover to what parpose it was ever abol
ished. The principal part af the otScer'a
tatate, killing the hilt of the s word, dates
also from the Middle Ages. When the
Crusaders were oa their march to the
Holy City, the knights were ia the daily
eastern of planting their leag two-handed
swords npright In the greaad, thereby
forming a cross, aad before these they
performed their morning derations. On
all military occasioat they kissed the
hilts of their swords ia token of their
devotion to the cause of the Cross, and
this custom was perpetuated after the
Crusaders were nambered among tbe
things of the past, and when the relig
ious origin of tae saiate was forgotten.
A Hokrieix PcxtsnMKXT. The Per
sian government inflicts a terrible punish
ment upin robbers who are captured by
the authorities. Barbarous expedients
are resorted to In order to frighten them
from their illegitimate calling. Of fifty
who were recently captured, twenty-three
had their throats cut. Others were cru
cified, bring nailed to the wall of tbe
town by their hands and feet, aad then
left to perish slowly of exhaustion and
starvation. Others again were buried
alive in pits of brick-work, in which they
were placed erect, with their heads jutt
above ground. Pinioned and naked, the
robbers were placed in these short, open
columns of brick-work; and a white
plaster, not unlike plaster-of-Paris, wis
then poured neck deep over their bodies.
around which it set into the hardness of
stone. In their dying hours the misera
ble men were barbarously ill-treated, on
their exposed and defenseless heads, by
tbe rabble and the soldiery of Shi rax.
Despite the adoption of these frightful
measures for the punishment of highway
robbery, the crime is of constant occur
rence, especially in Southern Persia, and,
except in the most bitter weather in win
ter, the persons and effects of travelers
are In constant peril.
DAxncnr ,Ynrs. "He is a vegetable
dealer in Danbury. A lank personage,
spying hit exhibit of radishes, asked
'How much be them a bunch!' 'Twenty
cents.' -Twenty cents 1' repeated the
citizen, in astonishment. -Twenty cents
for a little bunch like themt Why, they
ain't worth ten csnts.' It was now the
vender's turn to be amazed. 'What are
you talking 'boutP he demanded, with
asperity. 'Onerin' ten cents for a bunch
of radishes I Guess you ain't heard of
tho war in Europe, her ychl "
WntLK she sat in tbe twilight, expect
ing her bcloved,her band wandered wist
fully over the keys as she sang, "Some
body, somebody's waiting for thee." She
was right. The old mnn.with a new pair
of double uppers and a club, was waiting
for him behind the front door. IV.
Commercial.
Hnlen for Matrimony.
Marry In your own religion.
Never both be angry at once.
Never taunt with a past mistake.
Let a kits be the prelude of a rebuke.
ever allow a request to be repeated.
Let self-abnegttion be the habit of
both.
A g"od wife It the greatest earthly
bleating.
"I forg it," Is never an acceptable ex
cuse. If you mutt criticise, let It be dose
teviajly.
3tke a marriage a matter of moral
judgment.
Marry into a family which jou have
long known.
Never make a remark at the expense
of the ether.
Nevar talk at ene another, either alone
or in company.
Give year warmest sjm'tathies for each
ether's trials.
If one it angry, let the other part the
lips only far a kist.
Neglect tbe whole world besides,
rather than eae another.
Never speak load to one another an
Ie the house it on fire.
Iet each strive to yield afteaest ta the
wishes of the other.
Always leave home with loving words,
for they nay be the last.
Marry Into different blood aad tem
perament from joar own.
Never deceive, for the heart, once mis
led, can never trust wholly again.
It it the mother who moalds the char
acter, aad fixes the destiny of the child.
Let all jour ran teal accosmoditiori be
tpootaneoas,who!e-oaIeiLand free at air.
Coatalt ose another in all that comes
within the experience, observation, er
sphere of the other.
Nerer reflect on a past action which
was dene with a good motive and with
the best judgment at the time.
Tbe beautiful in heart is a
cilHoa times ef more avail as steering
desBestic happiness, than tbe beautiful in
person.
A Mammoth Sngar Plantation.
A Heaeiaia paper printed early in
May contains the following: "Tbe Krall
estate, oa the island of Kauai, which
comprises some -27,GOD acres ef rich
sagaraad pastare lands well wooded
aad watered, together with 3.000 bead of
choke cattle, botltag-down works, and
valsable penaaacet improvements, was
recently purchased by bit majesty, Kala
kist, tapt, James McKee, and" G. W.
Macfarlaae, in the proportion of one
feerth, fire-eighths, anu oee eighth re
spective! r, for the purpose of converting
the same into a first-class sugar estate,
for which the property is admirably
adapted, having, perhaps, mora natural
advantages un the way of abundant .-supply
of water, rich soil, flat, dear asd un
broken land, woods, kz. than any other
nlaatalina nrnnrtr on its 51 irT
A
stock cmapinT has been formed for
carrying oa the basinets aad oa Satur
day last the Privy Co cadi received the
application of the company for a charter
from the Government to iscorDcrate
themselves as the Makee Sagar Compasr,
with a capital of 160,000, in 160
shares ef the par value of 1,000 each,
with liberty to increase their capital
stock to $-"kW,000. The application was
passed naanimoosly by the council. We
i earn that operatioss will be commenced
at once and cane planting begun with
out delay. It is proposed to adopt the
co-operative or ceatral factory system,
aad already we hear of parties with
means who have engaged with the com
paay to plant cane for the milL Natives
and foreigners alike will be allowed this
privilege,"
MoCTCCBaRcr Bravkst. At the bat
tle of Rogami the Turks, with tea bat
talion, supported by seventeen pieces of
artillery, bad succeeded ia carrying by
surprise the hill which was the key of
the position, aad which was at the first
attack only held by fifty men, Bjzo
Petrovicb, who commanded the whole
district, arriving at the battlefield found
the position so strongly held that he de
spaired of driving the Turks out, and,
calling Martinorics, co-aaaader of the
Cettinje battalion, said to him, "I must
retreat; we can't hold the position."
iw uuuuua cvsaisacucr sxiu simply,
"Give me the order aad in fifteen min
utes I will be In the position or dead."
"Go," said Bozo, and, yataghan in hand,
the living bolt shot against tbe tea bat
talions of Tarks and drove them from
the bill, and held It until two other bat
talions came up on right and left, and
drove the Turks in panic across the river.
There were few housis in Cettinje
where bereavement did not fall that day.
Bat the total force of the Montenegrins
engaged was four battalions and ose gun
against ten battalions in the attacking
column, two more of supports within
musketry range, and seventeen gens.
The difference was made up by the yata
ghans and the absolute indifference to
death of the mountaineers. Under the
eye and commands of the Prince him
self, there is no eateqirise, even involv
ing total destructioa, that they would
hedtate at, London Tima Comtpond
tut.
Pbetarixo roR PosstBarrtca. Mr.
Benson was out iu his garden Monday
d tubing a coat of tar on the trunk of a
choice cherry tree, when his next door
neighbor, with whom he is not on very
god terms, came oat and industriously
set to work nailing lath between the
pickets on the line fence.
"I thought I'd fix this tree so that your
dog wouldn't be able to get Into it when
the cherries are ripe," sarcastically ob
served Benson, as the work went oa.
"Yes I see," was the reply, "and it re
minded me that if the sptce between
these pickets wat reduced, your cat
couldn't reach through and pick my
raspberries.'
A deep md profound silence followed.
Fallon Timet.
The latcit investigator gives Jerusa
lem 3,000 Christ! tat, 13,000 Jews, aad
13.000 Mohammedans.
The .Steppes and Ox-sei of Central Asia.
Tbe steppes are the bottoms of ancient
teas which once rolled over a large por
tion of the continent of Asia, and which,
when swept by storms, rise in tamalt
uout waves, not of water, but of sand,
the particles of which might be likened
to spray, but that they bans like sparks
of fire. The terror Intplred by these
storms is sach as to deter even the most
adventarout merchants from traversing
the steppes In summer, unlets under tbe
mott pressing necessity. The aspect,
when covered with snow, is described as
strangely awfal and oppressive, exhib
iting tbe expanse of the ocean without
iu animation, ami the sofitsde ef the
Arctic regions withoat their subtfmity.
Woe to the traveller who is overtaken Wt
a snow storm in the steppes; his doom U
inevitable, and the bodies of troops
which have essayed the perHeas ta.k of
marching across the ateppas ia wiatar
have been overtaken and ererwhoimsad
by a tempest of snow. Dreary as are the
steppes in winter, their aspect in spring
Is not withoat a certain beauty. The
vegetation is rapid, and they are dothed
with short vivid green grass, inten persed
with scarlet poppies, wild ta&ps, yeMaw
larkspurs, geramamj, and many kiad ef
craciferons and legnminoas plants. The
oases of central Asia afford a ttrikio-'
contrast to the surroenoisg deelariea.
ana tne a ties w&ica in past ages sprang
up in these favored spots abounded in
everything that coald gratify the heart ef
aa Asiatic i.vea ia their decay they
posses attractions which excite the
enthasium of travelers, aad Bokhara,
Balkh, Khohaa, Samircaad. Khiva asd
Tashkead are still celebrated for their
babbling streams, babbling feaatains
deHgbtful gardens and deep umbrageous
groves, Tbe oases are very carefatty cul
tivated. "Watermelons are grown ever
extensive areas, and afford the most grate
fa I alleviation to the often overpowering
heat; fraiti of virions kinds are rabed
in great perfection, and tobacca of the
finest qcality is prodsced ia saca abaa
dasce at to place this necessary ef Mfe
for an Asiatic within the reach ef the
poorest individual, Tbe gardes-, Mr.
schayler sajt, coos tit ate the beantyof
this land. The loag raws ef poplar asd
elm trees, the vineyards, asd the dark
foliage ef the pomegranate, transport eae
at esce to the plains of Loaibardy or the
south of France. Ia the early spring the
cities and rlieir vicitury are eae mast aff
white and pisk with the Moot ef al
mand, peacs, cherry, apple, apriest and
plam trees, which perfsae the air tr
miles aroaad. These girdu are the fa
vorite resorts ef the people in naner,
and well they may be, ler nowhere are
fruits mare abundant, asd of some va
rieties nowhere are they betser. The
apricots and sectarices it will be isaos
sibie to snrpan. Peaches, tltocgh saaXer
in tire, are said to poe5 a latgner fiaver
than the best ef Esgitnd. The large
blue ptams ef Bokhara are celebrated
over the whole ef Asia. There are in
common calti ration tea varieties of set-
out. In that hot climate they are oaa
tidered particularly wholesame, asd in
summer farm one of the principal arti
cles of food. An acre ef land properly
1 -it I ir
prepared win pnxiece. ia onusary years,
from two ta three theasaad, asd ia good
years docble that qaastity. Xev Quar '
Business- Prostration la Germany.
There is ranch distress in this city
among the working classes. In the xsaa-
nfscturins
faubourg ef
Oraaieabarg
about one-half of the operatives in the
lactones ana loanaenes are on: at em
ployment, Un&rtcnateiy, also, there is
a rise in bread stuffs asd previsions gen
erally, while, owing to the heavy munic
ipal taxation, there is little abatement
in rests. In Northern Germany the
hipping interests are suffering from the
stoppage of the Black Sea trade, ia
which there was a profitable field of oc
cupation in the carrying trade, Berlin,
up to the war with France, was one of
the principal backing centers of tbe Con
tinent. The immense indemnity levied
on France stimulated speculation to
fever beat. No enterprise was too gi
gantic sot to be undertaken. Private
buildings in entire blocks were put up
as well as public edifices of all kinds,
and railroads were built in all directiaas.
The satirical journal here occe offered a
reward for any new invention for the ap
plication of capital, giving as a reason
that all known expedients had been ex
hausted. Over-production and over
speculation produced their natural ef
fects. A leading baaking institution
failed; next followed a manufacturing
establishment, and then the crash be
came general. To-day Berlin is covered
with the wrecks of speculative credu
lity. Many of the millionaires ef a few
years ago are in a state verging oa ab
solute poverty. The prostration is so
peneral that few have escaped unscathed.
Tbe Government' military reserve funds
are a specialty, devoted to war purposes
ard the protection of the empire against
invasion. They cannot be touched for
other uses. Could they be drawn on at
the proent time, they would obviate tho
necessity of imposing new burdens on
the people. Berti Ctrmpondexe of tXs
PhihdclpAia Prat.
Lkoxl Biblical Iasoa.vxct. During
the trial of the celebrated Deavenworth
baby case, in which two women claim
the same child, one of the lawyers, in the
course of his remarks, pointed to the
painting of Solomon ordering the child
to be severed in halves and divided be
tween the two women. His Scriptural
knowledge being small, he alluded to
Pilate instead of Solomon. The opposing
counsel, supposing he knew all about it,
instantly jumped to his feet, and called
him a foot, and said that the order was
by Oesar and not Pilate. After a heated
discussion they agreed to leave it to the
Judge. His honor decided that both the
attorneys were talking upon a subject for
eign to their knowledge, and. pointing to
the painting, said it was intended to rep
resent Herod, and not Pilate or Cte'ar.
The lawyers considered the matter settled
and proceeded with the case.
A gp.eix grocer one who trust.