The east Oregonian., October 13, 1877, Image 1

tyt fet rnjoman.
4
rcsumro
EYERY S AT U HI AY MORN IMG.
KATC4 or AOTECrtHJfO IV COIJff
One inch, Sat 'nsertfig. ....... $2 00
Each ittbttfttat wieitJos, ....... I 00
oi i iok co.6kt mkk kt.
8MhII TBCCOCSTUH.'C
' RiTt KwWri'lUn In Cln :
Uae Yew ,, H Oi
Sis Month 2
Tfcreeilauu... . .... ...........
TIM 4nbn y
bf, A4aur
' t-
VOL. 3.
PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1877.
NO. 2.
I T) V (11) XT WtO.aMrem.4J
ptl s4 tl lr
The Fadeless Heart.
Clnuny eyes way lose their brightness,'
Nimble feet forget their ligbtoe;
Pearly teeth may know decay;
Riven tresses turn to gray;
Checks be pale and eye be dim ;
. Faint the voice and weak the limb.
But though strength and youth depart.
Fadeless Is the loving heart. ,
Like the IltUe mountain tiwu ers
l'ceplng forth In wintry hour.
When the summer's breath Is fled.
And the gaudier flowerets dead;
m , So when outward charms are cone,
-. Brighter still doth blossom on ;
Despite time's destroying dart.
The gentle, kindly, fadeless heart.
Ye In worldly -wisdom old,
Ye who bow the knee to cold,
Dje this earth as lovely seem,
- As It did In life's young dream
E'er this world has crusted o'er.
Feeling good and pure before
Ere you sold at mammon's mart.
The best Yearning of the heart.
-
' Grant me, hcx en, my earnest prayer.
Whether life of ease or care
- Be the one to me assigned
jThat each passing year may find
- fcoving thoughts and gentle words
Twined within my bosom chords.
And that age may but impart,
TUper freshness to my heart.
. '. Miss Euxa A. Wutoeu.
Savcd by a Flash of Lightning.
Hy came Ls Hunt. Yes, sir; Anthony
IlanL' 'I am a settler on this Western
prairfe.. Tftlldsl Yes,ir;it'a little el
than wilds cow, but you should bare seen
it when I and my wife first mored up
herel There was not a bouse within sight
fur mile. Errc cow we have not many
neighbors; but those we bate are down
right good one. To appreciate your
neighbors as you ooght, sir, you must
"live in these lonely places, so far removed
from the haunts of man.
What 1 am about to tell of happened
tea years ago. I was going to a dutant
town, or settlement, to sell some fifty
head of cattle fine creatures, sir, as erer
you "saw. The journey va a more rare
event with me than it is now; and my
wife had always plenty of commission,
to charge me with in the shape of dry
goods and groceries and such like things
. Our youngest chihl was a sweet little
gentle thing, who bad been named after
her'Aunt Dorothy. We called the child
Dolly. This time my commission in
cluded one for her a dolL She had
d ever had a real doll; that is a bought
doll; only the rag bundles her mother
made for her. Fr some days before my
departure the child couid tal k of nothing
ebc or we, either, fr the matter of that
for she was a great te, the darling of
u 1L It to be a big, big doll,
with golden hair and blue eyes. 1 shall
never forget the child' words the tnorn
iug I was starting, ai she ran after me to
the gate, or the pretty picture she made.
Ihae are some children sweeter and
prettier than others, sir, as you can't but
bare noticed, and Dolly was ose.
A Ttry gteat big doll, please, daddy,"
she call out alter me; "and please bring it
very fcooa."
1 turned to njd a yes to her as she
stood in her clean w hi ley -brown pinafore
against, the gate, her nut-brown hair fall
ingin co'rls about her neck, and the light
breeze stirring them.
-A. brare doll," 1 answered, "for say
little one almost as big as D.dly."
Nobody would beliere, I dare say, how
full' my thoughts were of that promised
doll as I rode alone; or what a nice one I
meant to bay. It was cot often I spent
money in what my good, thrifty wife
would bare called waste; but Doily wa
Dolly, and I meant to do it cow.
The cattle sold, I went about my pur
chases, and soon bad no end of parcel to
be packed in the saddle-bags. Tea, sugar,
rice, canaies but l neea not weary 50U
sir, with telling of them, together with
the calico lor shuts and niitfu-goan. and
the delaine for the children new frocks.
Last of all. I wtnt about the doll and
found a beauty. It was not as big
Dolly, or half as big; but it bad fl.ien
curls and sky-blue eyes; and by dint of
pulling a wire you could open or shut the
. ,
eyes at wiiu
"Doit up carefully,' I said to Ibe store-
Keeper. "Mr little daughter would cry
sadly if any- barm cornea to it."
The day was pretty well ended before
all my work was done4 and just for a mo
ment or two, 1 beaitattd whether I should
not stay in the town and start for home in
the morning. It would hare been the
more -prudent course. But I thought of
poor wony s anxiety to get her treasure,
and of my own happinets in watching
the -raptuie in her delighted eyes. So
with my,parcels packed in the bet way
uicyvumu ue, 1 mounted my horse and
started. It was as good and steadr
hoise as you erer rode, sir; but night be
gan to set in before I was well a mile
away from the towo; it seemed as if it
were going to be an ugly night.too. Again
the thought struck me auould I turn
w again and wait till morning? I had
the price of the cattle, you see, sir, in my
breart-pocket; and robberies, aye, and
murdeis also, were not quite unknown
tuiugo uh IUC IJjaiwc. uui 1 Hnj my
r " . i . 1 . . . f
uiju.c u buic puiuia wim me, and decid
ed to press onward.
Ttie night came on as dark as pitch.and
part. of the way ay road would be pitch
dark besides. Bat on that score I had
no fear; I knew the road well, every inch
of it, though I could not ride so fast as I
siiouia nave Gone in me light. I was
auout six miles lrosa come, l suppose,
and I knew the time must le close upon
Buuaigut, when the storm which bad been
brewing broke. The thunder roared, the
rain ell in torrent ; the best I could d
was to press onward in it.
All at once, as I rode on, a cry startled
me; a taint, willing sound like the cry
ofa.child. Reining up. I sat still aad
listened. Had I been mistaken? No,
there it was again. But in what direc
tion! could not tell. I coulda'tsee
thing It was, as I hare said, as dark aa
;piicii. netting off my horse, I felt about,
but could find nothing. And while I was j
seeking the crv catiie again the faintl
I moan .f child in pain. Then I brgan i
I to wonder. I am not superstitious, but'
, . - , I I . ... . .1
t !kcu inyscii now ns possttue inaij
a c um oouiu ucoui on tnepraneat sacn
an hour and in su h a niiht
o;real
I M l . .11 . t 1
it .... ,....-
1 " 1 u- "iV ss,-uuo
less aHBinif : W tt it II Iran tn himlrr mi
j ' .r - . T.
be midnifht roblifKoIm nnM !! rlicur'
of my almost certain ride hnme thai
night, and of the money I should hare I
about me.
I don't think, ir, 1 am more timid tlian
nther coplc; not -o much so, perhup,
as some; but I confess the idea made me
uneasy. .Mt best plan was to ride cm as
fast at I could, and get out of the rays-!
tery into safe quarters. Just here was i
about the darkest bit of road in alt the '
route. .Mounting mr hooe I was abtut j
to urge him on, hi , the cry came agam.
If rint tnnnil IlV'M a i-hilr1- lli ,ilintiri.
It did sound like a child's; the plaintive
wail ot a child nearly exhausted.
'God guide me!" I said.undeciJed what
to do. And as I sat another moment lis
tening, I once more heard the err, fainter
and more faint, I threw myselt on my
horse with an exclamation.
Iie it ghost or be it robber, An
thony liunt is not one to abandon a child
to die without trying to save it.
But bow wa I to sare it how find It 1
The aoie I searched about theirs
could my hands light on, an j thing, save
the sloppy earth. The voice hid quite
ceased now, so I had do guide from that.
While I stood trring to tteer into the
darkne-s, all my ears alert, fiood of sheet
Iitrhtm- suddenly illumined the plain.
At a little distance, jat behind a kind of
ridge or gentle hill, I caught a glimpse
of Kimething white. It was dark again
in a moment, bat I made my way with
unerring intinct. Sure enough, there
lay a poor little child. Whether b jy or
girl I could cot trll. It seemed to be
three parts insensible cow, as I took it
up, dripping with wet from the sloppy
earth.
"My poor little thing P I said, at I
hushed it to me, "we'll go and find mam
my. 1 ou are safe now.
And in answer, the child just pat out
its feeble hand, moaned once, aad nestled
close to me.
With the child bushed to my breast I
rode on. Its perfect silence soon showed
me that it slept. And, sir, I thanked God
that He had let me save it, aad I thought
bow grateful samt ioirmetber would be!
But Lwas full of wonder f-r all that.
wondering what extraordinary fate had
taken any young child to that solitary
spot.
betting in t'ght of home, I w all tne
indos alight. Deborah haddooe it for
me, I thought, to guide me borne in
safety through the darkness. Bat pres
ently I anew that something must be the
matter, for the Tery few neighbors we
had were gathered there; My heart stood
still with fear. I thought of some ca
lamity to one or other of the children. I
had tared a like one from perishing, but
what might not hare happened to my own.
ilardly daring to lift the latch wmie
my poor tired horse stood still and mute
outside, I went slowly in. the child in my
arms corered with the nap m my long
coat. My wife was weeping bitterly.
"What'a amiss I" I asked in a faint voice.
And it seemed that a whole chorus of
voices answered me:
"Dolly's lo.tr
Dolly lostl Jmt for a moment my
heart turned side Then some instinct,
like a ray of light and bnpe, seized upon
me. Pulling the coat off the face of the
child I held, I lifted the little sleeping
thing to the light and sav Dolly !
"its, sir. The child I bsd saved was
no other than my own my little D lly.
And I knew that God's good angels had
guided me to save her, and that the firvt
Jla-h of the summer lightning had shone
just at the right moment to sho me where
she lay. It was her white sun-bonnet that
bad caught my eye. My darling it was,
and none other, that I had picked up on
the drenched road.
D lly, anxious for her dolL bad wan
dered out unseen ts meet me in the after
noon. For some hours she wai not missed
It chanced that my two elder girls had
gone orer to our nearest neighbor's, and
my wife, musing the child just afterward.
took it fur granted she was with them.
The little one had cume on and 00, until
eight and the storm orertook her, when
she fell down frightened and utterly ex
baustcd. I thanked heaven aloud before
them all, sir, as I said that none but God
and his holy angels bad guided me to her.
Its not much of a story to In ten to, sir.
I am aware of that. Bat I often think of
it in the long night, lying awake; and I
aslc myself how 1 couid bear to lire oj
now. bsd I ran away from the poor little
cry in the road, hardly louder than
squirrel's chirp, and left my child to die.
Yes. sir; you are right; mats i.Miiy
oat yonder with her mother, picking fruit;
the little trim, light 11 ure in pint with
just the same sort of white sun-bonnet on
her bead that Bbe wore that night ten
years ago. She is a girl that was just
worth saving, sir, thougn 1 say m; and
God knows that a long as my life lasts,!
shall be thankful that I came ou home
that night instead of staying in the town
To locxo Mex. Henry Clay once
said: "I owe my success in life to one
fact, namely At the a c of twenty-seven
I commenced and continued fur years ihr
practice of reading and speaking uton
ttie contents ol some historical or scien
tific book. These off-band efforts were
made sometimes in a corn-field, at others
in a forest, and not unfrequently ic some
distant bain, with the horse and ox for
my auditors. It is to this early practice
in the great art of atti that I am indebted
fer the primary and leading impulse that
stimulated me forward and shaped and
molded my entire subsequent destiny
imprortt, wicn, young gentlemen, the u
lienor advantages you here enjoy. Let
no day pass without exercising your
power of speech. There is no pay like
oratory, twsar controlled men Ity excit
ing their fears, Cicero by captivating
their affections and swaying their pas
Dions, The Influence of the odc perishes
with lite author; mat 01 me other con
j tiuues to this day."
The Pennsylvania Strikers.
ruvxn statement ok okieyancm.
til,
9
"Yerw
t(Mj, for
our grievance,
lemp'ojcd for year. Our wage hare
been from time to time reduced, so that
. 1
now many oi us uo not earn an
average
of seventy-lire cents per day. We hare
sympathized fully with your director In
Z::"r "ZV ZZ::':: . T" . ...
bareliring.bBtinthe'la.-tmoTetoman,
nf . ... ii.nti . . ui.'
,t. , " .. . - . .
I an era, u ts not our nr.
complain, but vhen the result of this dis-
ti roo aaJ f44hionsble f u
- - - J .
the starving firesides of their emploje,
it uoes become us to
- 1 "
that the above doc not point U. you defl-
nitely now the prescntTto uS unhappy
stat of affairs a, T influenced by the iiti
........ .
uf your managtirs.
t4 fUttrviJ Cotnutuy
.ectfully cali yourattentiou to j ?J
iu connection w1th,nur4 ilZCl , S, ' T.l.
which many of us have been : Zr.Cl it. "r. . . t ,l
.ru in princely style. To this comfort-1 ?,nJ ?f Mtua'hfUient at the numlw of
able enJ-Wot :oa their part, under most ' h' T? W,,U
rfm,.. .. !. t. 4 ; ... wearing the rrgula:i..n pinafore, with a
T. -Inci.Ulr i.iHir"- ? ." " g-
call TOUT atteuVloo to a few fsAhowi
utai 11 is not tne deprcs
- o
Jeprcstino f boInes
that compels your director tn starve us
and our families, but the uobasicess like
management of the affairs of your road.
A FEW CA9E3 CXTKU.
"We will cite a few case
in point,'
me, mark !
Last year your road received some,
the figures, seven million dollar for
freight on oil shipped by the Standard
aad other refining interest, net owned
bv the Emnirc Potts, or other IVnatvI.
vania outside interests. Prior to these
large shipments being drawn upon the
Pcnnsylrania railroad, fielirht to the sea
board was about eighty cents per barrel,
but so soon a interest were harmonized
the Pennsylvania railroad rcceive-l two
dollar er barrel for the same xrvice,
seven-eights of which was paid by the
foreign buyers. X t tatWS-d with this
immense increase of their rwenae from
a legitimate source, the tnficeecc of your
road was used to destroy the buMaes of
its best customer for the purpose of build
ing up individual in erest, from which
you, the stock-bolder, hare income. And
what Is the result? The tratSc has almott
disappeared from the IVansylvanla rail
road, aad in place of seven million in
come this year, in which the shipments
are in excess of lat 5 oar, year road will
scarcely receive oce-hilf the aaosct
We call yocr attention to this fac'. which
aione wouiu uare enaoieu your company
, t f f 1
u!y u Bl icasi coogn jor a uriug.ith somebody to start a psper' Start
Then, again, your road has been used for j plper' This is tbocght bv almost
orer twenty-nre years trans porting coal
to the seaboard from western mines at a
rJ " ' """'ciwjw in do and so it is, tf von hare
power, CompeUtion did net necessitate 1 plenty of moey to start with;"butit is
this service. In this item alone "mil-. nol the starting, but the keeping of it g
lions have been lost to your road, while ! iBg . . proSt, that calls fur brains. I
atoealthy competition in trade which )rtcn 0w the reply, probWy proapted
U the life of a road was totally crushed ?by a day's severe and exhausting wWk,
out by the discouragements given to other Wn, ibtening as patieat.'y pj,
shippers. I ,je to tjje joanj. "msu's crud: notions
A TEW PERTTXEXr qCESTtOSS.
wWc again call your attention to the
existence of the manv "fast freight lines"
hich run upon your road, from which
you only rccetre a smalt pittance, while
others, who should bare your interests at
heart, are sapping the very life-blood from
yoar road lor their own aggrandizement.
Then in tlie passenger service the same l'11 'h1 t saint, a digestion equal
indifference to your interest is clearly j to that of an ostrich, and the endurance
shown. It is only oecetsirr to walchi0fJJaMt-'
each through
train to see
how
it is orer-
loaded with Cars belooging to a foreign
corporation, which pars 50c to L 50 per
car dividends annually to their stock
holders, among which you will find many
umillar laces. This comfort traffic is not
alone in this drain upon yocr passenger
trains as the express traffic for which
you receive a small return, will frequent
ly in fruit and oyster season, hare one or
two extra sess'oas on pasenger schedule.
If are you erer ex trained bow much your
road gets for this service I Tscn, again,
is it good economy that your rsd should
allow a sicgle firm to pocket hundreds of
thousand annually lor what should be
your earning fur a clerical transfer ser
vice! Iu the few of many similar po nt
above note 1, is it not jKmihle that your
road loses annually more than her pres
ent income from all other sources I We
think we can with justness and hope for
better tbingi in the future, lay our griev
ance before you; and assure you if you
do not give the save vigilance to your in
terest in this company that we are com
pelled to give in our duties u ion the road.
you will in a few year bare a wreck be
yond repair for your indifference. Dt
cot let high sounling titles or position
deter you from action, when yu hare
National Trust Company, the Freed man' i
- -j - - -
T t . . . . 1 . t . 1 " t 1
uini, cic, etc- to leu voq uiai uign-
tonel reputation, without strict business
qualidcatioks, will not suffice to guarantee
success.
Tuk postmaster at Corpus Christi,
Texas, is disposed to put on a little too
much of what you might call style, and
will bare to be looked after by the de
partment at Wa-hington. He actually
"refuses to pass snakes through his office
as mail matter. This is simply outra
geous. If we wiah to send a dear fricod
a present of some snakes, must we be
forced to hire a private coareyance for
them merely to gratify uio wnim 01 an 1
incongrurial po,tmastcr! Such whims
must be frowned down, or the general
diffusion of snakes will become impos
sible. "Ann there any woods about herd"
asked the seeker for summer board of the
proprietor of "a country house delight
fully situated, ten minutes1 walk from the
depot, large barn; hoises and carriages
can be had on reasojable terms; plenty
of milk, eggs, &c." "Waal, yei; there's
Jim Wood, he's postmaster, au' keeps
the West Indy goods store. "Slab Wood's
the blacksmith, an' Thomas Benton
Wood, he farms it up tu the corners. Be
you related to the Wood!" Bettdn Com
tnrrcial MaUttin.
The New York street cars carry 1C?,
000,000 paaseagcrs a year.
Patriotic Italian Women.
Throughout Kui the war-fcelim; is
exceedingly .trong. The Haitian women,
ntation of lUrone? lUdinah, I sjicnt an
hour in gng orer the building near Fort
Nichols in which the I ted Cross Society
is totalled, and anything o perfect in its
arrangement can scarcely be imagined.
1 Erery cooceirable
thing
that human in
?T.i!S " ?1 "?
C"'ort of the sick and wounded sol-
, men. m i uatscu inrou
red era, an their breast. But the Btma-
c told me that one was Madame Karitch-
kina. nte Princss Konrakiaa; another
tt. ' t . 1 .1- 1 ,, 1 .
1 " vwut" otuvumou, uu ait tauics
1 of rank and f..rlnn.l! worVlr, .. r
j5X I Z . " 1 11 t 8
nP0.
"H?00?: In. ""T .Jf mnK
their
n. in
C 1 U loa e mea .
1 , . ... r
infi rnf in. I rrht. Ih. vnrr
women are sllentlr
working for tbo-c who fall in its defense-
It b a national war, aad the sentiment U
the same in the breast of the Irincea as
of the peasant. From what I hare seen
I believe there is not a lady in Itoisia who
would not cheerfully place every jeael
she possesses and ladies here are rich in
jeeli to be diip-ned of for the cause
tn which her country has taken up arms.
If those who talk so loudly of "British in
terest, could see, as I hare seen, the de-
I rotedne of this people to the object for
which war is being waged, I believe they
would feel ashamed of the policy which
pat imagined self-interests before the
calls efhumsnity, and would leave some
millions of fcllow-Cbrittixns to toil on
under a barbarous yoke because of some
fancied detriment that rr,y ensue in
year to come.
Hxo.i-isrTEs roa a KEwsrarsa Max.
Curtis Guild, In a lecture before the
Bosteo newpaper men, said: "What
then, some one may inqaire, are the re
qaisites for the newspaper bailee,! An
answer to this suggest Itself ts my mind
In a reply, in somewhat powerful terms,
I will admit, that I made to a pale, hoi-low-chested
young man of twenty-two or
three, who once waited upon me with an
inqairy of a similar nature. He bad a
few thousand dollars, and hvd jutt grad
, mted from college, aad wanted, to Wn
! '
every one outside of the bosine one of
tb caiiest and pleasantct thing. In live
rerpecttcg a ba-ines in which he had no
experience, be begged I would tell him,
in as few words as ponible, tbeqcalifica
titns necessary to prosecute the busioen
asceasfully. He was somewhat startled
by the assertion that they were a fodow :
A bra'n as flexible and elastic as steel, a
mcrnarr as tenacious a iron, a temrwr
Meet Me is IIeavsx. O&e of the
rant affecting incident f the Pittsburg
rid was that ia onnection with the death
ofa little boy. He was shot In the abdo
raand wa carried into a saloon nearby.
Aphys!cianwassammoned,wbile the little
stfferer lay upon a piece of oil-cloth
tread upon the flVr. The life-blood
was ebbing from him and covering the
caitb witli g ire, but be was conscious and
aile to talk a little at intervals. He kept
cUliag for "water, water," and eagerly
d-ank the precious liquid banded bim
Jist after one of his paroxysms of pain
le seemed to become conscious of the
fct that things earthly would soss fade
fnm his view. He was a l.y of more
tlan ordinary intelligence, and as the
fct of bis approaching dissolution he
cane impresse-1 upoa him. he asked thst
lis mother be called. They told bim
tlat she had been sent for but might not
raeli him in time. "Then," said be, "if
Idie, tell mother to meet me in heaven."
le died s ion afterward.
The Birlington Prt says a queer
gnius live at East Barke a man who
t?olatilr haa nut snot-en tn innfhr man
1 urectiy for the past twenty-fire years.
( xe win uia wnu a woman or a minor.
Utnercrwitlia man; eren his own soas.a
ley arrive at twenty -one years of age,
ae talked to no longer. When he can
d- no better be will talk to the store, or
aiorse, or whatercr cle happens to be
nar, and say, -01d horse, yon tell Mr.
Stith I want to buy his farm." Mr.
Siith can speak for himself, but will
ocy get an answer as hi bear it d
drased to the "old horse." Tills eccen
trl iodiridusl will allow so man to sit
at lis right band: he will sooner stand
c or lcare, and has often stood up
ttuugh church services when he could
fid no seat with ut a man at hi right
bad. He speaks In meeting, and is
que an earnest and interesting
spiker.
)ctwahd Demeaxor. Much or the
btipiucs of life depends upon our out
wrd demeanor. We all have experieBced
Ms charm uf gentle aad courteous con
dct; we hsrc been draws irresistibly
tward those who are obliging, affable
td sympathetic in their demeanor. The
fendly grasp, the warn welcome, the
(eery tone, the cccouragiag word, the
Bpectful manner, li-ar bo small share
i cresting the joy of life, while the au
te tone, the stern rebuke, the acrid re
auk, the cold aad iadiffereBt raanBer,
te curt and disrespectful air, the super
cious scornful bearing, are responsible
ft mora of human distress, despair aad
e, lhaa their traasleat nature might
f.ta to warrant.
..J. .1 -
it 1 1 uic mumt l
The Great Sea-Wave.
The great.sea ware which, after the re -
cent earthquake af Peru, swept across
1.1 r 1 . in . . .1 : , 1 1. r
me 1 aciuc ui iuc aauuwicu inantii ai -
fords frrsh illustration of the vital en -
ergy which still pervade m frame of
our earth.
If those theories lie sound according
to which each planet during it extreme
tooth is as a sun glowing with fiery beat,
and in extreme old ape Is, like our moon, mused him. site sbod for a few min
coldfsave where the sun ray prtur npc . ute in tiie passage looking ahoat, aad
it; eten to it very centre, we shojld re-; suddenly saw a man oimiog out of a
grd the varioo portioo of the middle ; glore-slfp with a rather overdressed
age of a planet a indicating more or less ;' lady. Fr-itn the dUunce she aale acre
of vitality according as the sign of in-
term! heat and activity were greater or
lei. Assuredly thus viewing our earth,
we have no msou to accept the melan-
cmuy doctrine mat sue is approaching
the stage uf planetary decrepitaJe,
Site still show aigns of iotense vital-
ity, not indeed that all parts of her sur- j had replenished his cigar-case at a tobao
face are mured at this present time by j coni.tV, and was crovung the street,
what Humboldt callel "the reaction of; IVbstcouId she do! It goes without say
lier interior. In this respect, doubtless ing that site fainted in the arm of the
changes slowly take place, the region of
ditturbance at one time becoming after
many centuries a rrgion of rest, and tic , to avoid scandal. The stranger, who
wrw. Bat regarding the earth at aiwai a come liaa. wa astiinibed to find
whole, we find reason for tclieving that
: 1 . .
she still has abundant life in her. Tee
astronomer who should perceive, even
with the aid of the most powerful tele
scope, the signs of any change in another
planet Mars for example, our nearest
neighbor among the superior planet!,
tlie progress of the change being actually
discernible as be watched, would certain
ly cocci ede that that plaret was moved
by mighty internal force. Now it is not
too much tossy, thiugh at first it may
perhaps seem so, that the mighty sea
wart which, on May 10, rushed in upon
the shore of the group ef Sndicb Isl
ands would bars been discernible from
Venus, sepposieg aa observer there bad
been watching the earth with a telescopc
as powerful as the best yet made 00
this earth.
The ware was caaseJ. as we know, by
a tremendous soblerraneaa disturbance
in Peru a few boars earlier. Here, at
least, was the centre of subterranean ac
tion, for a land ware also travelled from
that region along the Pacific coast of
Mexico, and was felt at the Sandwich
Isles, where the Kllauea rolcaso was set
in action almost at the same time that the
tea-ware came in. Bat there can be no
doubt whatever that, as in the case of the
. t r , ..r , .
717 r.V:. "1 " I-:
bad it ungia cot in
the local subterranean disturbances, but
in the great upheave! by wfasch Inqsique
and other places were detlreyed. We
shall, no doubt, hear before long, a ia
that case, ef the arrival of the great
ware at the Sxm Isles, at the Japanese
Archipelago, a the shore of New Zea
land, Australia, and so frth.
Now, the great circular ware which
spread on May 10 last from the Pcrurian
shore as a ceo Ire athwart the entire Pa
cific wa probsbly not felt by a single
ahis ia the epea sea. any more than the
still vaster ware of the 13th aad If th of
Acgusr, l$fS, and fer the same reason.
With a height of some fifteen fret ior
thirty feet vertical diffrreoce between
creu aad hollow j. the ware had yet so
gentle a slope that though it rushed at
the rate of three or four hundred miles
an hour acma the Pacific, the rise aad
fall of a ship upon it surface woaid be
altogether imperceptible. The great sea
ware, a Mallet long since plated out,
consists, ia the deep ocean, of "a long,
low swell of enormous volume, hsviog
aa equal slope before and behind, aad so
gentle thst it might pas under a ship
without being noticed." And we are told,
in fact, by a modern writer that during
the rush of the great sea-ware across the
Pacific on August 13-14, 1S&3, though
where the ware reached islaad shores it
seemed as thoagh the land were first
sinking bodily in o the ocean aad then
rising bodily out of it, "there was not
one among the hundreds of ressels which
were sailing a pa a the Pacific wbeaitwas
trarcrted by the se-wave in which any
unusual motion was perceived." fndan
Spectator.
A Matrimonial. Fair. In the uth
crn part of Ireland a curious custom pre
vails, which is called "Shrafting," named
from Shrove Tcewlay, on which diy a
regular matrimonial "Tattersall" is held,
where all the "likely boys and girls" in
the parish are on view, and all the
"matches" iu the year are made. Fur
days before there is quite a stir in the
neighborhood, and a twitter runs through
the entire female population. There is a
universal stitching and a buying of rib
bons; erery girl you meet la the road
holds out her hand for sixpence; and you
can't speak to a domestic servant without
her hanging out signals of distress. Oa
the day of the "Shrafting," the girls
stand in a row on the Tillage green.
There b erery expression on their faces
anxiety, curiosity, timidity, dull stupid;
ity, sharp, shrcwdish interest; and here
and there you come on such a pretty
country beauty, with that indescribable
half arch, half sly look in the eye which
Macllse has caught fn perfection. At a
little distance are clustered together a lot
of shamefaced looking men "the boys,'
as they are called alf in their Sunday
suits, and evidently ill at ease, eyeing with
distrust the superior attraction uf the
coastguards, who are, like the red coats,
e ! . . . .1. - T... t. - - I
lavunics among uic lauics, uuk uiat tu
reality, matters little, a the real conduct
of the affair it in the band of "the pow
er that be" the fathers and mothers,
who haggle and quarrel orer their re
spective children, sometimes breaking
up the negotiation abruptly, and carry
ing off either son or daughter, aa the case
may be, as they would an unsalable beast
from a fair. Uf course little bits of ro
maccA crop up here as elsewhere; cases
of money reran lore, and young hearts
sold to the highest bidder, just as they
are in a fashionable drawing-room.
A oextleman who had left his opera
glasses ia a box at a West End Theatre,
aad had been unable to recover them,
coacluded an indignant letter to the
manager a follows: "Apart from the
moral rvlue oT those glaise, they cost
sac live pounds.
A Serioos Blnsder.
! Here i an amuiinir corned r of err of a
with a PariiUn edge: Mme. de V. was
i r . .
t very jeaioas, anil delcrmineu to watch
f her huibaad. One dy he told her he
ws going to Ycriille, ai.d wlien he
went out she put on her bonnet and fol-
lowed him. She kept him in sight nntil
he turned into a p.s-a" which tboiteneJ
the way to the railway-station, where she
, the man ws her husband, and uitixrat a
I word of warning she gare him three or
i fur sounding !ies on the ear. Wlutn
i the gentleman turned around to confront
his a-sallact, she perceired that she bad
made a mistake, and at ttie lame moment
i she caught siifht of her hestnnd. who
stranger wIuhc ears she hvl buxed, while
live other lady ran off v fast as be coold
' j - it . t
an aaaoowo laoy in 111s arms; ana wnuc
his cars were still tingling from her
blows, he was again startled, A gentle
man collared bim. and shaking him
roughly asked him what he in rant by
embracing a lady ia the street. "Why,
she boxed my ears and fainted T 'screamed
the actor. "She it my wife." shouted
the irate husband, "and wouU never hare
struck yoo without cause!" The infuri
ated gentlemen shook their fitts until the
lady, who had bewn carried into a shop,
recovered sufficiently to explain how it
had hippeoed.
A Scotch fUIa!
Loch and adjacent tarsataint were
steeped in rain and mist; darkness
brooded over ibsnoor; the green slope
of Ben Oig was changed to a yellowish
btown, aod streaked with brawling tor
rents; and the one rambling street of the
little town sloppy and deserted, ssd over
cast with that appalling dreariness which
i to be found in iu wery acase only in a
seaward town during a rain-aad-eaist
slrrm. Nit aa. boecst, blustering, an
gry storm. I am patriotic! Not only so.
but 1 caa gaze hopefully at a whirlwind
TCX , ; - r1. ,
I as the Scotch to call it, "struct,"
r . ir, r i . l
i a theiro.n very incisive bat no alao,t
discarded language Therefore give me
a merciless Vermont tempesr, that de
scends at ooce ia all its might and fury
and exultant ferocitr only to be forth
with rent and hurled back into Erebus at
the peremptory, resistless beck of his
solar msles'y, give aae that, trebly en
raged, bcf-re the mean, oozing, pervad
ing, silent, disheartening clamminess of
embrace of a Highland rain-mist. Was
there ever a Scottish poet who left his
own county to look oa other skirsTaad,bar
ic; returned to it, sang its soaking glories
ia the teaser but knew-aothiag-better
strains of his youth f It is not the
heareas that seem to rain in Western
Scotland; it is the earth itself that ap
pears to be throwing up this sombrcpate
exhalatioo of miasmatic vapor. When,
oh when, did the Princess of Thole lire,
that she should bare been so highly fa
ored beyond other mortals of the damp-aad-eerie-hating
order Jppleie" Jaxr
sbtL Tiie Useof Balloons tx Waefare.
It appears, from the repart of the result
of a series of experiments to determine
the utility of balloons for recoonoitcring
purposes, recently carried on in Germany,
aad extending over a coasiderable length
of time, that after repeated trials a bal
loon was constructed that could be packed
in a enmparatireiy small space, and
earned about without being damaged or
rendered ia any way unfit tor immediate
use. A second difficulty arose in provid
ing a portable apparatus capable of sup
plying a sufficient quantity of gas for
the infiatioa of ih ballo n whenever and
wherever it might be required to use this
Utter. But this impediment was likewise
overcome, and an apparatus was designed
which could generate, in from two to
two and a half hoars eaoegh hydrogen to
raise a lulloos carrying three persons.
Unfortunately, however, there has been
found to be yet another obstacle in the
way of using bill -oas for recoocoitering
purposes for which no remedy can as yet
ba devised. From the height to which
the balloons must a-cecd Useful observa
tions can oalv be mado by the aid of
telescopes. The balloon must, however,
necessarily I captire, that is, they
must be confined by a rope and prevented
irom uniting away, pernaps on.y to tali
into the hands of the enemy; aod it is
found that when there is the slightest
current of air such a captive ballooo. be
gins to rotate about St vertical axis, and
this so rapidly a to prevent observations
being mau4 with the necessary accuracy
and detail. Coaseqceally the conclusion
has bees arrived at that captire balloons
can not at p reseat be used for reconnoit
ring purposes, and that, therefore, em
ployment of ballooas in war must be
limited to carrying dispatches and iufor
mation. Poll Jfoll GatU.
Orrosso to Tortkdoiss. So aae of the
public men of England, including naval
officers, are trying to get the torpedo
, uanished iroai worla.-c. The reason given
is uiBk lorpeuues arc to suuuca aau se
cret ia their actios that there Is ao de
fence agatest thesa, aad that they should
be classed with explosive ball aad pois
ons, which are prohibited in cirilixed
warfare.
A whole licet can be destrojoi with a
few fish torpedoes directed among the
ships fro;n. a distance. The destruction
which these terrible aegiss occasion b
so sudden, so wholesale, that the fear of
thesa BBBcrres the bravest seamen. No
wonder, thee, that heeaaae mea wast the
cir tilled aatioas to declare against their
use. Bat, after all, if we tmut bars war,
isn't it just as well to make it short,
sharp, aad ikcisirel 2T, T. Lnljtr.
SraxtsH proverb: MWhea mothers-in-law
fall out, then we get at the fatally
facts."
The Turkish Minister of War.
The Pasha of Bag-Ud is the despotic
ruler of the largest anil most important
province in Turaey. He ha the com
mand of a large army which is stationed
at Bagdad and other tones within hi
pathalic, which is ! uaded on the east
and south by tlie Pcisian frontier and the
Gulf. 31 ire than 01.ee ambitioa men
holding this position, so remote from the
home government, hare bees suspected
of designs Vt reader thrn?!res iodepia
dent sovereigns a design which waasuc
ces.fally sccompIihed in 1339, by
Mohammed Ali, Pasha of Egypt. At
the time of my visit to Bagdad, the gov
ernor was the preseot Turkish Minister
of War. Bcdif Pasha, a successful gen
eral aod a man of unquestioned encr r
and ability. Once, while I was ia Big
dad, be hsd an opportunity to show hi
power as a despotic ruler, ami be acted
with a nerve and energy worthy of all
praise. The Tigris, which bad been 00
the rampage 1W two months, at last
broke through the dikes some ten miles
above the city, and the torrent sweeping
down with irrestible force, did ereat
damage to the crop, and in a single day
turned the broad plain back of the city
into an immense lake. The water wa
only kept from flowing into the city by
an etauanKment outside tee walls, which
ia many place was out of repair. Great
feax was felt of tech as iauBdatioa as
occurred in 1831 the year of the plague
when seven thousand bouses feat ia a
single day. Here was an emergency call
ing for prompt action. The pasha issued
aa order closing all the bazaars aad
shops, and for four days impressed the
whole male populatina 1 foreigners ex
cepted) to wurfc on the dikes. Half the
force was seat up the river, and the bal
ance set to work to repair the embank
ments around the city. I rode oat ia
that direction oce morning, and witnessed
a lively scree. Several thousand men
were at work, aad the pasha himself was
on the spot, surrounded by a brilliantly
uniformed staff, superintesding the oper
ations. These energetic sneasures saved
the city. The break ia the dike ap the
river was stopped, and the water gradu
ally subsided.
As there are no American ministers or
consular agents ia this part of tae world,
before leaving Cairo I had inclosed a Ut
ter of introdoctioa to our minister at
Cocstaatiaople, with the reqaeat that he
would forward 'to me at Bagdad sca
credentials to the pasha as might be of
service ia any excaraoa I desired to sake
to Babylon or other places of iatercst ia
MesopoUaiia. Upoa reaching Bagdad I
found awaiting me a jtraM from the
Turkish gorercment address to the
pasha, and comsaendisg the American
traveler in the strongest terms to his
hospitality aad protect-on. Upoa my
entrance to the andksce-rooa of 3se
pasha I found bim seated at the further
end of the apartment, near a-targe table
covered with paper, and as I catered be
rote aad advanced toward sac, shook
hands, aad courteously motioned me to
a seat beside hia. fie i a large nan,
talt and qaite portly, par saps furtv-lre
years old, with a fall face, brown beard,
aad eyes sharp and piercing. IIU dress
waseaureiy European, except tie fez,
without even a button to indicate bis
rank. His couateaance indicates eaerrr
aad firmness, aad bis manners are court
eous aad pleasing. Several ofiacers of
rank standing near were presented to ae,
but no one was seated except the pasha
aad myself. As he spoke only Turkish
aad Arabic, Mr. Sua no, a Levandn ia
the service of the governmecr, was susa
mooed to act ts interpreter. Our conver
sation was necessarily alow, but the
questions and replies were very readily
translated, and I felt quite at my vase.
1 found the pasha very intelligent at la
the geography and government of foreign
countries, and he seemed f ally to com
prehend that England and America were
two distinct and separate countries. He
offered me every facility for seeing Bag
dad, and said that, as I was the only
Amen can who had ever visited him, he
hoped I would receive a favorable im
pression of the country. W. P. iss. ia
SeriSmr.
Ax Iscidest. Gen. Santa Anna was
in command of the Mexicans at Cerro
Gotdo. He was utterly defeated and
compelled to retreat, with heavy losses
in prisoners material, aod killed and
wounded. Gca, Shield wa dangerously
wounded in the fight, aad uf course was
left behind at Jalaps. When he became
coaTalesseat he was informed that a lady
living opposite the house where he lay
bad bcea very kind, attentive, and had
been of much help to his attendants.
As soon as be was allowed to walk out he
went to thank her, when be learned to his
surprise that she was the dacchter of
Santa Anna. Ia the course of conversa
tion that followed he remarked:
'Butdid you know who it was that yoa.
were ministering to all the Unset
"Not at first, she replied. I discov
ered after a time that you we.w
Gen. Shields, who I had h eared was
killed."
'Perhaps, had you known at the first
that I was one who had a large shore in
the defeat of your father, you would not
have received tae,'
She drew herself up with an air of aa
old Castiliac 'Sir, she said, 'had you
with your own hand killed my father ia
fair fight, I would bare doae for you ia
your extremity just as much as I now
have.'
And she looked it as well aa spoke it.
"Stkasoe." sav the Lebanon tTaatt.
lleniliL "that the Murnhv mania
struck Lebanon yet." Yea, but just wait
a while loader. And voM htM- .rL
hold of a post or something, too, If you
doat want to be Jarred, for when it does
sirise 11 stnxee mighty hard. It has
been known to knock th atntKa nut srdT
a doxea gia-sailU at a single blow before
bust. ounrsoroi.
About 2.38 strawberrv fexlnbaim
bees held ia Iowa atece the season opened,
with aa arareata conwn.tstIaa uf a.dst?
strawberrtes, aad a gross iscocae of Si,-
xiHeye.
s I