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"VOL. 3.
PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1877.
NO. 11.
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Patient.
I was not patient In that olden time,
When my uuehastened heart began to long
For bliss that lay beyond Its reach; tny prime
Was wild, luipuMve. passionate nd strong;
I could not wait for happiness and love.
Heaven Mut,to come and nestle In ray breast ;
I could not realize how time might prove
That patient waiting would avail mc best.
"Let me be happy now, my heart cried out,
In mine own way and with my choen lot;
The future is too dark and full of doubt
For me to tarry, and I trust It not.
Take all my blessing, all I am and hare.
Hut sire that glimpse of Heaven before the
grave V
"Ah me!" God heard my wayward, selfish cry.
And, taking pity on my blinded heart
He bade the angel of strong grief draw sigh.
Who pierced my bofom In its tenderest part
I drank wrath's wine cup to the bitter lees,
"With strong amazement and a broken will;
Then humbled, straightway fell upon my
knees.
And God doth know my heart Is kneeling
still.
I have grown patient; seeking net to choose
Mine own blind lot. but take that God shall
send,
la which, if what I long for I shall lose.
I know the lo will work sme blessed end,
Some better fate for mine and me than I
Could ever compass underneath the sky.
Home Life in Japan.
TILS. ITS OF JAPANESE BEAUTIES.
The Japanese usually partake of three
meals a Uav. The noon meal is more
substantial than in the early morni
but that at evening, after the labors of the
dsy are over, is the chief. Jianr spend
hours over their evening cups and dishes.
At this time probably a majority drink
sake in greater or less quantity. The
drink is brewed from rice, and contains
from two to eight per cent, of alcohol.
The afternoon is generally chosen as the
time for visits to the houses of friends or
relations, the temple, sick persons, or at
tendance at festivals, pic-mcs, boating or
drinking partiefjOr in shopping. Theatres,
temples and shops are open every day
from sunrise to sunset. There is no regu
lsraay 01 rest, inougn mere are many
holidays, business being, however, but
slightly interrupted.
After the noon meal the ladies sit down
before their mirror, and, with the requis
ites around them,make their toilets, pow
der their face.', necks and bosoms, have
their coiffure arranged by the hair-dreiS-er,
end proceed to dre&s. Into the de
tails of this elaborate, time-consuming,
fearful and wonderful triumph of frmi
ninc intellect and art no masculine pen
dare enter. The Japanese lady wean no
jewelry; earrings, brooches," bracelets
atd buckles being unknown in Japan.
No buttons are ever used in dress, the
robes being held entiiely from the th-iul-ders,
and made to set easily on the per
son, with the aid of a girdle. Suffice it to
say that after teveral hours, with the aid
of a metal mirror and often of many pairs
of critical eyes and nimble fingers, the
young lady emerges "dressed." The
many details each of which may have
cost htr a heart-ache, blend into one ra
diant uxity of loveliness. Lit me at.
tempt description of this flower of Japan.
ese womankind, nor let it be suggested
by any of the Americans who hare so of
ten asked the writer, "Now, tell me, did
you ever see a really pretty woman in
Japan one whom tee" would call beauti
ful f that I am painting the lily or add
ing depths of blue to heartsease or vio
let. The picture I give is that of many a
Japanese yonng lady whom I have passed
on the streets, or seen at the temples or
in her father's house, or serving as a
Ganymode at the feasts in Fukni. The
portrait I give is one as seen by an alien
eye. Some of the adjtctires would sot
suit a native of Japan.
In height she is undersized, in figure
short and well developed. Her eyes are
black and lustrous, often wide open and
capable of speaking the language of
many emotions unmistakably of one.
They are her chief weapons. "Though
the daimio may employ soldiers, swords
and spears in war, the maiden," says the
poet, "need but send a dart from her eye
to conquer." Says another, "One look
into those eye?, and you loose your city;
another, and you forfeit your kingdom.
Their line of beauty is oblique, their
shape that of an almond. What seems to
mar the visage in our eyes is beauty itself
to the children of Japan. Her nose is
aquiline, her mouth small, lips are cherry
red, teeth white as pearls, cheeks round
and tinted carnation. Her hair is jet
black, glossy, and is dressed with skill,
symmetry and grace. S me anatomists
say the cheek bones of the Japanese are
double, making them an anomalous peo
ple; but cheek bones too higli, skin too
dark, lips too thick, eyes not of classic
shape, or dull eyebrows not arched, or
low, spoil the ideal. The Japanese maid
en likes them not, nor her lover. I have
seen not a few Japanese ladies who were
really beautiful.
The outer dress of the Japanese lady is
of silk, crape, or cotton cloth, in summer
of thin gauze, or stuff of silk and hemp.
or cotton. The inner clothing is of mus-
Jii or silk, made to snow a white orenm
on fold at the throat and bom. In
winter many folds are thus seen, lapped
over from left to right. Over all is the
plain velvet or gilt-embroidered collar of
the outer dress, reaching to the girdle.
The sleeves are long and sowing, cut In
a equare'thape, making excellent pockets.
The robe is simply a long wrapper, reach
ing from neck to feet. In fall dress it
flows out in a circle on the floar for a
foot around the lady, whose feet, though
never bound like the Chinese, yet are
delicately small. Neither opium-smoking
cor feet-binding are known in the
Sunrise Kingdom, a fact which differen
tiates them strongly from the people of
the Middle Kingdom. For six inches or
more from the bottom in front, the inner
robes are made to fold backward, with
out exposing the white sock-encased aad
sandalled foot, making elegant cob trust
of color, usually deep crimson and pure
wuiie. 1 ce areas u 01 soicr tints lor the
street. Slates, dark blues or greens, 1
blacks and grays predominate. Indoors j
the colors axe rich and splendid, rivalling
the rainbow. Only the singing girla,
M-mi-uublic characters, put on guy colors
out-doors; the lady never docs, except on
cei tain special occasions. The dress fits
the figure finely from waist to shoulders.
The flowing sleeves are graceful, just free
ing the plump little hand with its taper
ing fingers. From waist to knee tho dress
is absurdly tight,preventiog graceful mo
tion in walking, and turning a walk into
& waddle. The girdle, the most iuijwrtant
part of the drcs, clasps the wait with a
gorgeous criphcry of satin, embroidered
silk or rich damask, and serves as Inslt
and corset. The tying of a girdle is a
theme for an epic poem. Its successful
accomplishment makes the proud wearer
the target of congratulation. Several
fashions prevail, but by solemn opinion is
hereby recorded that, though the ladies
of Fukni, Kioto and Tokio do excellently,
those of Ozika excel them all. I have
never seen such countenances, expressive
at once of proud satisfaction, serene hap
piness and exalted sjmpathy fur less for
tunate womankind whose girdles were
awry, as I have beheld on the promenade
in Ozaka. The tic and pose of their gir
dles were simply inimitable.
The Japanese ladies, as well as their
lords and those who wish to be luch.have
plenty of shopping to do, and to visit a
bustling street full of gay stores in the
afternoon, affords a spectacle that never
tires. It is especially entertaining to go
to one of the large ilk stores, like Mit
sui's, the Stewart of Tokio, or those re
nowned for cheap bargains, and see the
gaily-dressed mothers and daughters
chatting, chaflening, laughing and buy
ing. The temple is also 00c of the bot
places to study hum in nature of the fe
male variety, white a groat tnaUvri or
Buddhist festival makes a picture of hu
man happiness as gay in colors as a flower-garden.
A Japanese city on a winter's night
does not afford a notably lively sight, but
in summer time, especially when it is
moonlight, flower shows, promenades,
dancing circles, markets, fairs, temple
festivals, boating parties asd games, give
the streets and houses and water-fmaU
the appearance of day. After sapper in
warm weather the cotton quilt beds are
spread on the floor, mosquito ceU made
to fit the entire room bung, the younger
children put to sleep, while the old folk
sit out on mats or settees before their
house, smoking their pipes, fanniag
themselves, telling stories, retailing news
or gossip. The older children play, aad
the streets bam with saunterers or peo
ple ca their way to and from the bath
houses, whither every one, of whatever
age or sex, retorts daily, once or often er.
Poor people usually ch ose the night f?r
burial, to save exposure of their poverty.
The artge moves through the humbler
street, but often the funeral of a noted
man is postponed until evening, when
greater public attention may be attracted
by the numerous lanterns. The proces
sion thea goes down the main avenues.
The tea houses, from which issue the
sounds of boitteroos revelers, are illumi
nated with festoons of large, gaily-col
ored lanterns, while the thoutasds of
moving lights on the streets, seen through
rich painted designs, oa translucent pa
per, and lighting the merry faces of the
people, make a sight not easily for
gotten.
As breakfast is the least important
meal, no care need be borrowed for the
morrow, so the evening is given up to re
laxation by all. h.rea the kitchen maids.
grovms, and poorest laborers aad their
boys and girls, can take the fresh air.
romp and play, walk, flirt, make love,
or indulge in the luxury of a little sake
at the lea bouse by the river, go on a
moonlight picnic to the mountain, or hire
a boat and enjoy a cool ride on the river.
These passionate children of Mature in
winter make up walking parlies for no
other purpose than to see the snow fall,
In summer the bridges are crowded with
star aad cloud gazers. U lotiu $an,
(papal, after the day's toil and bath, sits
down for a romp or more qaict jolly time
in bugging, tickling, or talking to his
little ones, or hearing their prattle.
Thus the day is made up of toil and
relaxation, the one helping to bear or en
joy the other. Caucasian grandeur might
bear with a disdainful smile the story of
every-day life of theJapanesencc-xlnner,
were it to be told m loll, but that be
bears the burdens of life as manfully,
and toils in as sunny a mood as the aver
age ot his confrtra, who in other lands
proudly boast a monopoly of religion and
civilization, cannot be gaiasaid. Prof.
GtiJU, in Home Journal.
Wise Maxims. Mr. John McDooough,
the Xtew Orleans millionaire, bad en
graved on bis tombstone a series of max
ims which be had pietcnbed as the rules
for his guidance through life, and to
which his success was mainly attribu
table:
Remember always that labor is one of
the conditions of existence.
Time is gold; throw not one minute
away, but place each one to account,
Vo unto all men as you would oc cone
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by.
Never think any matter so trifling as
not to deserve notice.
Never give out that which docs not
first come in.
Let the greatest order regulate the
transactions of your life.
Study in the course of your life to do
me greatest amount of good.
Deprive yourself of nothing necessary
10 your comiort, but lire in an honor
able simplicity and regularity.
Labor, then, to the last moment of
your existence.
A sestet at Chatham, when the cap
tain of the guard questioned him as to
his orders, replied : "My orders are. sir.
if a fire broke out, I'm to take my musket
and shoot the nearest .policeman." The
officer suggested be had rnadu some mis
take, but tho soldier stuck to his text
and with "I pity the policeman," the
captain of the guard walked on without
giving the correct instruction: "liaure
breaks out, fire your musket, and alarm
the nearest policeman."
A Turkish Appeal to Allah. .
La Illah ilia Allah, te Mrfuimmtd il
Ht.nml JUtah (There is no God but God, j
and Mohammed is his lllettout) etove
roriiJiairf j rings through the still :
autumn air, as from the numerous miaa-'
rets of the moqccaof Constantinople the
call to trayer floats down the banks and
over the deep blue waters of the Uospho-
rns. Iturriday the Mussulman bab-
bath and the monotonous chant of the
Muezzins calling "the faithful" to mid-
day prayer breaks UKn my cars as 1 am
writing. I say monotonous, fur residents ,
in this pari of l'era are habituated to
hearing this appeal some four or five
times daily, to say nothing of its disturb- '
ing them in the still hours of the night.
This muraing, however, the monotony is ,
somewhat relieved, as in additioa to the
ordinary noontide appeal to AlUh a spe-1
cial prayer has been drawn up by the
Sbeik-uMkUm the ."Head of the
Church" in Turkey, if I may thus trans-1
late the title which, if it be grauted,
will secure the utter extermination of all
Christians from off the face of the earth,
leaving it in the iocion .f the Mos
lems alone. I have been fortuaste la
ebtainias a ctHiv. in Turkish, ef this
follow, :
"O, most Bserctful God, have merev oa
cs and protect us Thy faithful people.
Almighty God, show no rcy to the in-
hdeis. Merciful Giver of all gvod tmagt,
strengthen the Ottoman arms; by Thy
powerful arm discomfit the proud aad
perfidious house of the impious. Glory
be to God, the Lord of the Uaivcoe. The I
grace aad the blosiags of God be upoa
our Lord, His Prophet Mobauad, aad
upon all His pious followers. O, Uod,
strengthen Thy servant our SulUa, tsej
chief of Ta v favorite people. Protect us J
and our couatrv aad sweep off the faceef I
the earth all iafidels opposed to us aad
to our holy aad true rdsgieu
Almighty GoJ, every vestige ef the im
. . I
pious Kusuaas, of the equally impteus
Hellenes, who are gropiag ia the dark
ness of impiety like swise in the mire,
and who have dared to rake their sacri
legious hands agaiast Thy faithful people
aad agaiait Thy Prophet Mohasataed.
Disperse, O God, their coalition; scatter
thetr assemblies; break, O God, their
wespoca, diminish aad aaaikilale tfcctr
ranks; send thesa, O G d, quickly to
their designed place of puauhmeat.
Pour ut-oa their beads, O God, all Tar I
ram aau jauigaauoa; ihxcc iscm. u
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God, in the ceatral abode of the wicked:
visit them with the ladigaatioa by which
Tbou bast hithcrte punished Taiae eae-
mts. O God, ounfouad their leagues;
let their blood flow in torrents; let their
heads be trampled upoa by Thy faithful
sorvaats the Otmaaht; break dowa their
authorities, their rulers, their slieeg
holds; exhaust their power. O God, make
their children orphans, their wives wid
ows, aad their mothers mouraers. Con
found their mental faculties. O, God ef
mercy, lei there be left no vestige oa the
earth of the impious Hessians, the Hel
lenes, the Slavonians aad ether inaoei
Fraaks allied to or svmpathiziag with
them. Eacompass them, O God, en every
side with grievous plagues. Overthrow
toem wiia isty temoie wraia wits ares,
with massacres, and shipwrecks; bv
strangling, by pestilence, and by cholera;
by famine, and by eartaqaakes. Make
their cities empty of inhabitants. Shake
them by the eight aveaging spirits. As
lbee mischievous and impious iafidels
endeavor to injure h, let them. O Gsxl.
suffer in their own eves, in their sesses,
in their wives, in their children, aad last
ly in their own lives. Let Thiae anger
and indignation, O God, be burled upoa
them like hail-stones; make them aad
their goods a plunder to all those who
believe ia Thee and Thy holy Prophet
Mohammed, with whom be the grace aad
the blessings of Almighty God." Ce-r-rtpondeet
Arc York Time.
A Good Stout. Perhaps the most
curious of the stories told by Iluttoa re
lates to bis own ancestors. A soldier in
Cromwell's array, passiog with bis com
rades over Derby s at. jiarja undge,
observed a young girl lading water from
the river, in the spirit of lrolic and mis
chief, be threw a large stone, intending
it should startle her by making a sudden
splash. Bat it struck her on the head,
and made a hideous wound. She fell
into the river. The soldier did net wait
to see that she was rescued. He galloped
on. leeliog that lie had been guilty of a
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wanton murder. The unknown conse
quences of bis lolly preyed upon his
mind. His conscience was always up
braiding him. 1 cars after, when dis
charged from the army, he settled down
in Dsrbr. He took a public house in
Bridge Gate, and after a short acquaint
ance with a woman of suitable age, got
married. Very soon after their wedding
lie saw his wife combing her bair, and
inquired how the got thai great scar
which disfiirured one side of her head.
She replied, "Same wretch of a soldier
bad once nearly killed her with a stone.
but If ever she caught that man the would
par him off for it." It is not recorded
bow she punished her husband when be
confessed being her assailant, or bow
great was his relief when the haunting
thought of a wanton murder was removed
from his mind. He was one of the five
troopers who rode under the oak where
Charles was hidden at Hoscobci; and 1
cordially recommend Hutton's quaint
story to novel-writers iu search of such a
plot.
Persons who practice deceit and art!
flee always deceive themselves more
than they deceive others. They may
feci great complacency in view of the
success of their doings; but they are in
reality casting a mist before their own
eyes. Such persons not only make a false
estimate of their own character, but
they estimate falsely the opinions and
conduct of others. No person is
obliged to tell all be thinks; but both
duty and tclf-interest forbid him ever to
make false pretences.
44 A kisd word spoken to a busbind
will go farther than a broomstick or a flir
tation," cays a woman of experience.
The Bad
Economy of
Too Much.
Attempting
Farmers, as well as politicians ami
newspaper men. often "bile off more than I
they can chew," although in a somewhat
different line. While they do not, as a
rule, perhaps, tell stories about their
neighbors (which, when traced back to !
them they are unable to prove), they often 1
do attempt more farm work than tbev are '
able to perform. This is one of the 1
points, and a very important one, which '
go to make up the mismanagement which I
never shows itself more palpably than on'
a farm. There is seldom anything gained ;
br laving out so much work that one is 1
la a chronic rush to get this done or that j
done. There are those who deliberately ;
ly out their work knowing that such j
will be the case. Tbey say, "Well, it
wilt keep me busy, but I can get it dose
if I work a little lively." And so they!
goat it, ami work very lively indeed.
Thus it goes all through corn -planting. I
harvesting and corn -cutting. They fuss
aad fume and wore themselves to death
simply because they have attempted to
de a little more than they arc able, ex
cept by the most strenuous efforts, to
perform, or, as is more frequently the
case, the work attempted is not more than
half doae.
There is another class who, while at
tempting too muck, are not aware of it
until they have it proven to them by the
appearance of thoir farm, Ac A case of
this sort is that of a neighbor, Doctor .
He is a doctor; a practicing physician.
That is where the trouble begins. When
be became a farmer he didn't drop medi-
cine entirely. The bid economy of hav-
tag two calliags was exemplified In his
ease e or oJ- ne wroomcrae
their many horses aad multitudes of
ea to thmh his grain. But ju.t as they
were about to set up aad bogia work the
doctor was wasted. Just when the"bead
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aliseat. And to il happened
utai iac
in twice
threshing wasn't arcosaptisaed
the time accessary.
Uat aiide from his profession the doc
tor attempts too much. Ia the spring he
detersBiacd to build a new board fence,
repiactag an eld worn-out eae. Te this
end he got out some posts asd hauled
thesa to the desired spot. But either he
had bgua a little too late, or it was too
big a job me way or other aayhew be
ceuhlnt get aay further, aad there those
potts have lain all summer.
ills cardea boars as cnucal signs ei
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aerlect as everything else. A row ef
cabbsges, aad aaether of tarns toes, aad a
little bed ol beets nave long age ocea
buried out of sight by the weeds. If
they are ever resurrected I am afraid
they won't be very plump at any rate.
Then hit oftra patch, too. And this will
be the most powerful argument, because
enra Is Bsaally the last thing a hard-
pushed farmer will neglect. His corn
patch is a first-das patch of weeds, with
a very thin crop ef very thia corn ameagst
thesa.
But such examples are setSdeaS. Al
most every farmer is able te trll how
mack be can do. Those who caaaet will
learn by experience. Bullet thosewbo
can use such knowledge to their profit.
make it a rale never ta plan more
work thaa they can do, always making
plenty ef allowance for tsosc jobs which,
though unlocked for, must, nevertheless,
always be attended to. 11. J. w.
"Scbtoised to Fi5D." Saviagi bank
ier savings bank fails; railroad after
railroad turns out to be insolvent; insur
ance company after insurance com piny
goes to pieces; and then as if it would
a Cord some satisfaction to the victims wno
have lost their money, the well-meaning.
but negligent trustees, come out with a
solema assurance that they are greatly
surprised to find that the in.titutioo with
wuicn luey nave ucca bubiisuuij uu
nectcd is in such a deplorable condition.
Thev are coed coined by the very plea
which they make ia their own defence.
A trustee, a president, a director, has no
right to be surprised at the state 01 me
company of which he has been appoint
ed one of the care-takers, surprise im-
Clies in itself previous ignorance, and it
1 an imperative duty of every principal
officer in a company to keep himself con
stantly informed in regard to its condi
tion. When an officer neglects this duty
bis negligence is most culpable. He has
accepted a trust and then ignored its ob
ligations.
Until public sentiment noidi persons
who accept places of confidence and trcst
to a more rigorous accountability, de
structive failures and defalcations may be
expected to occur. It is high time that
every trustee who admits that he is sur-
nnseu 10 nnu out; inc icai cuoumuu ui
j. , . l 1 it.; r
property entrusted to his keeping of an
institution wholly or in part nut in his
charge, his lost the good opinion and re
.
spectofbis neighbors and 01 toe com
munity in general. Nev York Ledger.
Ax I xro utant Element is x Bcst-
SEsa Edccatiox. We have plenty of in
stitutions, generally known as business
colleges, where the routine of business is
well taught, loungmcnare Instructed
how to transact all mercantile affairs;
bow to keep books; how to buy and sell,
and how to make collections and pay
ments.
The greater and more important ele
ments of a butiness education arc alwajs
to be honest and square; to deal, every
day, as though it were the lait before the
day of judgment; how to avoid reverses.
by keeping constant track of oae s bust
nets and shunning undue risks; and above
all, bnw to bear up bravely under re
verses, if, in spite of all precautions, they
do happen, instead of seeking refuge in
fraud or suicide. Why should not these
be added, so that every young man may
go forth to engage in the business of life
clad ia a panoply of integrity which no
temptation con successfully assail 1
Asn-EXDID item about a man being
kicked all to nieces by a horse yesterday
was utterly spoiled by the carelessness of
the maa himself, who citmoeu into iue
hay-mow and stayed there until tho horse
quit kicking. And yet a cold world may
blame the reporter for this.
The Xew York Canals.
The New York Legislature, at its last '
session, passed a law that three of the j
canals owned
bv the aute should be
abandoned, and that another should be
sold. The extent of canal which will I
thus be disposed of is about two hundred
miles, and the Sla'e will thea own about
six hundred aad fifty miles. Of this
amount, three liana red aBU any miles
constitute the Krie Canal, asd the ether
three hundred arc branches. ,
The reason for getliag rid ef these'
"lateral canals, as they are called, is
that they are coatlv, aad a burden on the
State treasury. The business dose on
them is very small, and the tolls do not
pay the cost of managing them and
keeping them in repair. Last year, the
Erie Canal was the only line owned by
the Stabs that paid its expenses,
The cabal system ef New York was
planned before the invention of railroads.
fne Erie Cacal was begun in IS 19, aad
the present system was completed,
leaving out of accoeat a small amount
afterwards added. abet the year leSS.
Altogether, the Erie Canal has cost nearly
seventy-five million dollars. It has been
so successful that il has altars t paid for
the entire system, but very few ef the
others have aflbrded aay profit at all.
In the early years of canal traffic ia
New York, the advantages it gave to the
country through which the caaala passed
were very great. Water carriage Is
cheaper than any other mode of trans
portation. When the Erie Canal was
built, it was considered the quickest
line of traaiportatioa from the graia
fields of the west to the seaboard. In
lS.'O, the country west of Ohio was hardly
developed at all. The Stales ef Indiana,
Illinois aad Mkhigaa, had set thea,
combined, so large a population as Itaode
Island bu to-day.
The most far-seeing statesmen ef that
time Bcver dreamed of a time when the
country west of the Mississippi river
would seed its graia to the sea -co lit for
shipment to Eorope. The great point
then to be gained was is ceuaeel the
lakes with the Hudson titer. It was a
noble enterprise, aad but for the inrea
lien of railroads, il would have madej
New York, even mere thaa it sew is, the
Empire State ef the L'nlee. j
For a great maav years after a rail
road had bees laid iiown by the side ef
the canal, by far the larger amount ef
bu tines 1 was dose ia caw it Ua'l. It all
west tu New York City, aad increased
the teadescr of commerce to center at
that magnificent port.
But at railroad science became
mere perfect aad mure exact, tae
locomotive began te eacreach uja
the business ef the eaa-aL, Tnc canal
was closed nearly half the year; the
freight trains ceetd ran alt the year
reuad. The boat-lead ef grain, which
it took weeks te tew from Buffalo to
Albany by herse-power, could be carried
by steam ia as many davs. By careful
management, the c l ef" railroad freight
was greatly lesseacd. Te meet this cum-
petitiea, the tells oe the Erie Canal have
been several times lowered, and every
time this was done the railroads also re
duced their rates. New, when the tolls
are very lew, the traSc en the caaal is
falling off, while that ever the raiirevds
Increasing.
Thus, while the caaal has beea ef won
derful service ia Near York, aad has
added millsoas upea millions to Ler
wealth, the day whea it can de mere taaa
compel the railroads te de besiaess at
fair rates has passed. IosiMy il will
not be leag before evea Use Erie Caaal
can only be used at a loss; aad whea
that time comes, 2ew lork will bepa
to think of selling it.
While the New York canals have dene
so much for the material prosperity ef
the State, they have beea a source of
much evil ia politics. The history of
their managemeat is a long story of cor
rupt jobs and of opea stealing. Rsform
ers put out one set of peculators, aad
put another set in, more eager tar the
spoils than those who bad grown rich
upon them. If it were all to be doae
ever agaia, it would be a very grave
qcestion whether the Injury the posses
sion of such a vast property brought to
the public morals, could be justified even
by the large benefits conferred on the
community.
JjvrAjEsx Theatres. -Whea a "blood-and-lhunder"
melodrama Is produced at
a Japanese theatre, the audience insists
upoa having real blood aad a thundering
racket. A play which was recently put
oa the boards at a theatre in, Yokohama,
was not wanting ia elements of horror,
such as the successful simulation of
wounds, but it afforded aa opportunity
for a more amusing bit of realism. One
of the most terrible scenes was supposed
to take place during a storm. The stage
manager disdained to have recourse to
the make-believe method of peas and
shot to simulate the sound of the rain.
He must give his audience real rain, aad
so, by meaas of concealed pipes, have a
regular pouring shower, continuing
throughout the scene, delugiogthe stage
and drenching the actors. The effect
was really admirable, not only aiding
the mimicry of the scene, but in wafting
a cool and refreshing moisture through
the house.
Soke years ago, a Parisian bailiff, dy
ing in extreme poverty, his friends or
ganized a subscription to defray the ex
penses of his interment, and oae of them,
who knew Alexendre Dumas pert in
timately, besought him to contribute
something. Dumas, without questioning
the applicant as to the destination of the
money, instantly gave him a levit; 00
which the other, alter thanking him, re
marked that the sum was now sufficient
toiniure poor M a decent burial,
"AhP said the novelist, "is that what
you want it for, to bury a bailiff! Take
another touts while you ore about it, and
bury ticol"
Siute creeps like a snake out of the
hedge of deceit or the sandbed of hypoc
an.l l..!r,r. f.,.l-A I,. T l.
MJI - MMIJCtg lUUiEUWU IV VGUWfcU
baiking in the sun of prosperity, aims the
m at deadly wound at the fairest game.
A Gentlemanly Conductor in a Fix.
Some months ago, it is best not to be
particular as lothe exact time. Conductor
Kusicll, of the Erie, wa in a fix, and one
from which his cheek could not extricate '
him. 1
On his train from the west was ahand
sotue youeg lady, who, sad to relate, had
becosie deranged and was on ber way to
the Asylum at this place. From some
cause, she seemed to take an aversion to
him, aad whenever he passed her, in hi ;
liae of duty, she would salute him with
exclamations mare forcible than flatter-'
ing. "Take this man away." "ThisJ
conductor must be removed," and other'
similar remarks saluted him every time '
be passed her. Nothing would please
her but his instant removal and official
decapitation, aad bad not the conductor
kcowa of her insanity, he would have
been greatly annoyed.
Arriving at Mlddleiown, as the lady
came to step off the cars. Conductor Bas
se!!, with his usual gallantry, tendered
her his baad to assut her to alight. She
took the proffered haad, grasping it firm
ly, then reached uat her other hind for
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his disengaged oae. Thus holding both
her bands, be assisted ber to the ground,
but, to his chagrin, she persisted ta hold
ing on to them. With a beaming face,
as sudden as her displeasure, she looked
at the writhiatr conductor, who was
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wishing the lady would let go his hands.
All at once she remarked, in a voice the
eppoite of quiet : j
"I think 1 will kiss the gentlemanly I
conductor." j
TA.ne Tffts.jL.jwJt v a si vsseftsiT we tfi ftn '
told agony, but the lady held on with a !
grasp that he could col loose, unless he 1
resorted to violence. In the meantime, j
the crowd was gathering about and en-1
Joyisj intensely the situation. Rsssell j
made up his miad that the easiest way j
proffered kiss, and so with a grace that
Chesterfield never rivaled, blushing like
a peeay, he tendered his cheek for the
salute. The maiden screamed, "No, no,
so, cot that way," and was only appeased
whea he brougai his lips into pjsitioa
for the salute. With a most satisfactory
smack the operation was performed, hb
hands released, aad as she turned away
she remarked to the bystanders
"The geatlemaaiy conductor shall not
be removed."
The frantic manner in which Conduc
tor Kassell signalled bis engineer to go
ahead has never beea equalled, aad as
the txaia saved out the Lady stood kill
ing her haad to it until it was out of
gat. Oftwee CVwaT (.V. F. Prut.
A Buisian Dare-devil.
Amesg
the
oncers oa the Grand
Duke s sti is a tall, handsome mac,
w ith a lithe, slender, active figure, a clear
blue eye. large, promises i, well-shaped
noe, aad a face young enough for a sec
ond lieutenant. It is Scobeleff, the
youngest general ia the army, the con
queror ef Khaki nd. He had the repu
tation, evea among the Russians, of be
ing a madman, who would fling away
his owa life aad those of bis troops with
out the slightest regard for coesequencea.
During the war which resulted in the
conquest of Khokaad, a Russian detach
ment of eight hundred men, with fear
hundred Cossacks, was compelled to re
treat before a superior force of the ene
my. General Trotsky decided upoa a
night attack, and confided his plan to
Colonel Skebcicff, then his chief of staff.
The latter entered Into the idea with
great enthusiasm, acd proposed to lead
the attacking column himself, and tike
only 150 Cossacks. Skobeleff, having
tecoaaoitered the ground, perceived that
the Khokaadiaas had encamped within a
mile aad a-balf of the Ruasiaaa in aa
open plain, which gwve every facility for
j. . a - r 1 - 1 . 1
we moving 01 cavairy. .u miumgui oe
took his 150 Cossacks, divided them into
three parties, aad cautiously surrounded
the enemy's camp. The party, led by
kebelcrL maaaged to pass the enemy's
outposts, who were sound asleep. Thea
be gave the signal lor ine attack oy nrtng
his pistol, and, followed by his 150 Cos
sacks, he rode headlong into the enemy's
camp, of G.000 to 7,0u0 men, shooting
aad yelling like aendr, and cutting dowa
everything in their passage. For a quar
ter ot an boar the plain resounded wiu
shrieks and jells, shots, and the tramp
ling of horses, shouts and groans, aad
all the uproar of battle. Thea all was
silence Skobeleff assembled his Cos
sacks, Aad whea moraiag came he found
that the whole army of G,000 or 7,000
men had disappeared, leaving oa the
field about 40 dead, 3,000 or 3,000 mus
kets aad sabres, all their camp material
and baggage. But what was his astoa-
ishmeat, oa calling the roll, to discover
thai be had not lost a man, cither killed
or wounded.
Mr. Macgban, who first met him on
the banks of the Oxuf, relates thia ex
ploit to show how much method there is
in this dare-devil's madness.
Dmiso the last twenty years England
has paid to foreign countries for food
according to the report of Mr. Stephen
Bourne of Her Majesty's Customs $10,-
000,000,000. The report states that each
member 01 the community now con
sumcs to the value of two and a-balf
times as much foreign food as he did
twenty years ago. With this immense
drain upon her resources, England would
in a few years be reduced to penury,
were it not for the immense sums of
money paid her as interest.
A uluo B order has been received by a
mica concern in New York for plates of
mica to go to China. The Chinese use
these plates, which ore about seven inches
square, for idolatrous purposes. They
paint upoa them the likeness of their di
vininities, and reverently adore them.
These particular ones are to be used for
household decoration aad devotion. They
are considered quite stylish among the
bettsr class of Chiaese.
Wealth and want equally harden the
human heart, as frost nod lire ore both
alien to the human flesh. Famine aad
gluttony alike drive nature away fro
the heart ot maa. jLAtoaor rarxer.
EpWewIea of Fraud.
The years 1&5S-7 were in England pre
eminently remarkable for crimes of an
extraordinary character. The criminals
were no vulgar thieves; they were, on the
contrary, men of brilliant abilities, who
were apparently led astray by ambition
and arithetic txites. On Sabbath morn
ing, February 17, 1855, a man, wander
ing across Hempstead Heath in search ef
a strayed donkey, found a dead maa ly
ing oa the rise of a mound on a spot
which seemed to have been carefully se
lected. Beside it was a silver cream-ewer
smelling strongly of pmsslc acid, and In
one of the deceased's pocksts was a piece
of paper bearing the words "Jean Sid
le ir, Gtoscester-square, Hyde Park." 3Ir.
Sadleir was a member of Parliament for
Sligo, ex-Lord of the Treasury, and had
been chairman or director of aay number
of banks and companies, and in fact a
better-known maa did not exit ia the
rxilitico-commercjal world of England
and Ireland. When the inquest was
held, a letter fouad in his boose explained
all. It ran : I cannot live; I have ruined
too maay; I could cot live and see their
agony," asd more to the same import. It
was too true, as many in Ireland at this
hour caa to their sorrow attest.
And then there came a crime ef which,
we have been reminded by the telegram
referring to the exteasire frauds safcl ta
have been perpetrated on aa Eagfisa rail
road company. About the year ISM
there entered the service of the Great
Northern Railroad one Lionel lied path,
who roie to the position of Registrar. It
was his duty to know who were the
sbarehetderswhat stock they held, and
what amount ef dividend dee to each.
and likewise to place against every name
the sum dee to bearer. Red path's cus
tom was to make transfers ef stock to im
aginary individuals, asd to sell out and
appropriate the money. In this way be
realized aaaeally a splendid sua, part ef
which be used for speculation and with
the rest indulged his really refined aad
aesthetic t astes. His bouse was a model
of luxury and elegance; pictures and
clrjU Sari abounded, and en eae occa
sion when the Emperor of the French was
very eager to gel a certain stalse at a fa
mous sale. Red path bid against bias aad
got it. Altogether it was com paled that
not leas thaa $750,000 had thai bees
stolen by bias, aad this case, ia connec
tion with those that had preceded it, cre
ated very grave reflections aad aaieiad
versions throughout the country. It was
beard before two particularly able aad
eaineat Judge, who expressed the opin
ion that frauds of this kind seemed great
ly oa the increase, aad that in thecase of
companies they were in some degree due
to the fact that no friendly rr h treat
grew up between employes aad employed,
to prevent men from commiuisg depredation-!
from feelings of attachment- The
frequency aad magaitsde of crimes of
this sort may, indeui, well make people
ask themselves whether a secular educa
tion is, after ail, of that value ia checking
crimiaahty which many of iu advocates
contend that it is, for in this country, as
well as in Ea gland, the number ef forger
ies, defalcations aad tnisappreprutiocs,
nowadays, is such as to make moss isea
feel very despondent as to moral progress.
Crimes of violence may show a decrease.
but do sot crimes of frand aad cunning
show- a corresponding increase! Are
there net in this community to-day num
bers of families ef the highest respecta
bility who Lave members guilty of crimes
for which thev are, or ought to be, in the
Stale Prison! Education ef the ietedect
wilt cot make men good. It will but
change the nature of their criminality,
aad too often sairpen their wits to a
point which will enable thea to evade
detection. There is a large and increas
ing body of thinkers who are of
opinion that our common school
system educates the intellect with
out enough consideration for the educa
tion of the heart, aad who contend that
thousands of boys and girls are annuaHr
ruracu out 01 inesc insumuoas wno lacs
set no moral or religious instruction,
either at home or at school. We hope
they are mistaken,. But the frightful
catalogue of all sorts of breaches of trust
which our columns are daily presenting
give a terribly effective handle to those
who bold to such theories. 2icc Tori
Tvw,
The Home of the Locust.
The State Entomologist of Missouri is
Prof. C V. Riley, a naturalist who at
tracted attention in Europe by his able
researches oa the iA,y&uro, on Ameri
can Insect that has piayed havoc with the
vineyards of France. The invasions of
enormous swarms of Rocky Mountain lo
custs, commonly called grasshoppers in
the Western States and Northwestern
Territories, during the years 1S7S,
and 1874, led him to investigate the hab
its of this national pest and search in that
way for some remedy to iu disastrous at
tacks. The result of his studies reveals
an extraordinary fact in the career of
CiiUpte&tu tprciut, as the devourcr is
named by the learned. Prof. Riley be
lieves that the insect is indigenous in the
higher levels of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming,
Montana, Northwestern Dakota, and
British America. For successful breed
ing of healthy individuals it requires hot
and dry soil. Experiments prove that
frost and severe cold have little effect
on the eggs, but a dry soil is necessary
to the development of healthy insects. Ia
the hatching-grounds of West Dakota
aad Montana, along the valleys of the
three forks of the Missouri river
and the Yellowstone the spring
sets in early, and gives place suddenly to
summer, so that vegetation ia often
burned out in the early put of July,
(f the locust hatches too soon, so that
vegetation shrivels up before it grows its
wings, then it perishes in vast numbers
for want of food. But if it gets time 'to
develop its wings, the drought compels it
to migrate; or an exceptional increase
in its numbers may cause the wingless
hoppers to devour avery thing green, and
tho same result ensues. A. Y. Tima.
It is one thing to love truth, and to
seek it for its own sake; and quite an
other to welcome so much of it as tallica
with our impressions and prejudices.