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VOICTME VIII.
ble lerma.
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FACT, FATB AND FANCY;
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Marc Warn sf Urtac tbsa a.
Br Mas. A.-J. DDXrWAY.
acthok of "jcdot beio," "tun Dnwo,"
"Ajfw ajid mwmwr ixn Ttia kaptt
hoxb," twqprMMWsraatx."
"ma-doe xomsox," ..
etc., nr., ire
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Entered, according to Art of Congress, I n the
year 187. by Mm. A-J. Dunlw:'. lathe office of
Vhebrartan ofOoiigaaai ayWaahlnfoa Clty.l
chapwb xv ur. f
The good resolves that AUwso msdVj
Ut migkt perm -mat AFrm mtm Ty-
tha angel of mercy. And yet, so deep
! the bold of evil upon the spirit of soy
ooe who has once been weakened by It
tyranny, and hi concieoeeulorred by
its defacing power, that be was des
tined tostnmble Many time thereafter.
Oram and ber mother-in-law drove
for nilee In silence before either of
them felt inclined to speak.
The moonlit heavens flooded the
earth In sublime and radiant glory. Si
lent farm-It nestled here and there
in the shadow, and cattle slept lastly
by the roadside. The distant mountain
ranges marked an undulating line of
darkness upon the horizon's rim on
either band, and glistening snow-peaks
towered in majestic grandeur from al
most every poiut of the compass.
Finally Grace broke the silence, ber
voice startling ber by its hardness.
"The earth is so beautiful, mother
dear. It seems such a pity that beneath
all the glory and beatitude of tbe.e
magnificent surroundings, evil, like a
canker-worm, should in seme way lie
gnawing forever at everything. These
stately trees that bear aloft their feath
ery branches, appearing so serene and
aaJf-eooaeloos, are not ouly J, studied at
times by heavy winds and rains that
twist them, bat they are in
by parasites that suck their blood !
and
bnrrsw in their bark and roots,
And see," she exclaimed, as they passed
a blaefceoed clearing, "the fire fiend
has bean at work here, marking bis
rse with sad devastation, leaving
craei destruction and eternal ruin in
Ms train."
"But, my dear child, you forget that
there Is another side to the pictures yon
paint. These mighty forest trees never
you id have grown strong oat far the
vscy winds and storms that toughened
thesa. Then, the insects thai feed
- . . in...
.tpfwmwii wkhu rouiaare, iiuiaem,
creations of tbe Infinite whom it should
be, and doubtless is, the pleasure of
! trees to sustaiu out of their great
abundance."
"But what good does it do tbe tree to
yield np lu life for others f
"The tree, my child, is like everything
else ba nature, and eaooot die. Scien
tists say that its chemical change, which
we call death for the want of a more ap
propriate aignificatiou, merely resolves
back into its original element. But,
sa student of nature I doubt this. The
tree vanishes by tbe process of decom
position, and is gone from oQr sight in
the form which was first presenled to
us, but it rises again, a new creature,
fitted In its new form for the sustenance
f nssn, who devours Its riches un
thinkingly. Now we are passing a
beautiful farm. See the garden, tbe or
chard, the meadows, tbe wheat-field.
How very attractive tbey appear in the
moonlight. And yet, ouly a few short
years ago, this farm site was a black
ened clearing like that one we passed a
while ago. It is a grand aim of tbe
economy of nature, this yielding np of
life for life."
"I don't understand It," said Grace.
"There seems to be no each thing in na
ture as abiding individuality or personal
entity. Aod this fact and ltd accom
panying reflections cause me to doubt
my owo or any other human being's
immortality."
"There Is nothing immortal within
oraooui US luat, me liumau or material
eve can see mv child Xeith.r i-.!-!
j m Ht, mj cnira. tenner is there
aoy such thing visible to us iu the tree;
but I somehow feel as though there is
an immortal spiritual entity io every
thing that is, or even has been organ- i
ized iuto anything jnaterial'y ani
mate.
"Maybe so, mother; but you have
' carried me quite beyond my depth. I
never thought of these tilings hi this
way before, and I doubt if I compre
hend your meaning now. But every
thing in tbe world is to me so strange aud
full of disappointments. Do you know ?
I, . . . .
ji is scareiy Ajjo months since l was
.-.uS a meory coDceruiug my
coomtai me of which I have no more
experience the reality than you have
realized your long-cherisbed hopes'
"""" A.onzo s jire of rectitude. l
" lucre is anytuiug real under
tbe sun."
"Tbe ideal is tbe real, say .fear. 1
tftawiy fancy tbat every pure anPoble
, aspiration or longing of tbe human son)
wltl some time be realised by us iu
some way. It may not, and rarely
" does come as we anticipate, hut if we
will vvait long enough, its fruition will
be reached at last. Eternity is endless,
my chlid-M
"And I am Wry if it is so, mother;
for I would this bight prefer annihila
tion to anytning e'e in earth
beaveu."
or
"My darling, I tlo not doubt thatjother aud thrust a lifetime of his or her
you fancy thus. But, X it could poss!- personal existence upon thetn because
Wy be pat to the test, you would dis
cover that yonr fancy was by no means
fact.
"But I am so deeply disappointed awl
so thoroughly unhappy; be miserably
wretched. The first night I saw
Alonso wast time in my life's history
that 1 never can forget. YoH NMnem
ber that my sister lil been to the si li
on a visit, and had there become ac
quainted with him. She had fallen in
love with him, or fancied that such
was the fact; and when he came to
visit her, she believed that she had met
ber fate. My first impressions about
hla wj anything bat favorable. If I
raaoUeet rightly, I warn! mv,. sister.
against him, and took occasion, while
we were doing the evening chores, to
give her what I considered some very
sensible advice. But, as fate would
have it, Alouzo had not come alone
He and my sage brother-jn-law had
melon the Journey, bound on the same
errand. We all met at cross purposes
In some way; and that night, it was
just such a night as this, radiant and
calm beyond description, strange as it
all seems to me now, I went to sleep lu
my sister's irmt as Alouzo's affianced,
and Lillian lay awake till morning, the
betrothed of John Anders."
"Are you quite sure that your whole
heart was in your decision V
"My heart was much more deeply In
earnest tiiau my judgment."
"And your sister? What of her?"
"I'm sure I cannot tell."
They were Hearing the ferry now.
The neat, v, hite cottage on the bill nes
tled like a sleeping dove upon the bil
lowy bosom of tbe resting earth, while
a radiance that could be felt ww flood
ing landscape aud river with its influ
ence of harmony.
"Everything and everybody ought to
be happy in this beautiful world!" ex
claimed Grace, with a sigh, as tbe car
riage halted and Mr. Anders senior
I came out to the cat lu bis suirt
HiVM. m,ki., hi, toilet as he ad-
vauced.
"Can jrou entertain us to-night?"
asked Mrs. Soowdeu in a rather uncer
tain tone, for it had just occurred to her
bat this nocturnal visit was altogether
inopportune, and that had the condi
tions been reversed, and these persons
presented themselves at her home un
announced and at that time of night,
she would have speedily inforitted them
thai it wwe "m
for ber ,
to shelter them.
But country ways are not city ways,
as she speedily learned; for they were
heartily welcomed, and as heartily tu
vited to reaia;n an !oog as it should suit
their convenience or pleasure. Mr-.
Anders stid Lillian were sooo astir, ai,l
in spite of Mrs. Hnowdeti's proteM, a
tempting cop of tea was placed tefor
them in a lew minutes, accompanied
by snowy bread and golden bolter, cold
chicken and other delicacies, for which
their long ride bad given tbem keen
appetites in spite of their depression of
spirits.
"Isn't this very strange, Grace ?
Where's A ion bo V asked Lillian, ber
heart fairly In ber throat s she spoke.
"I left him at home to learn to lake
care of himself," was tbe jocular reply,
at which Mrs. Suowden laughed
with affected heartiness. "I'm
going home with Mr-. Suow
den, or my mother, as I iixe it is
proper for me to call her; and when tliey
get tired of me they can tell me so."
"But, how can you leave your hus
band T" and tbe shadow of a great dread
settled down upon Lillian's heart.
"There's some mystery about this,"
she said to John, aside, as Grace for
bore to reply and a bright flush man
tled her face and neck.
"Never mind, Lillian. Don't try to
wring anything from her that she
doesn't choose to divulge," said Johu,
bis heart swelling with unutterable
agony as he divined, from the depth of
his own noorlv-stitted aileetion for
Grace, tbe traces of a terrible suffering
1 in her pvm' suffering that ha knew was
.? I 8uner,DS lnl new
nuul i,e i nnui'ii nnuinrilil
Under pretext of looking after the
horses, he left the house and sought the
solitude of the glorious moonlight.
"I made a vow before human wit
nesses, in w liich I pledged myself to love,
protect and cherish Lillian so long as
we both should live, aud yet, iu spite of
myself, I registered a secret love for
Grace upon my heart's altar before the
throne of heaven. That fiendish imp
who married her has uo more concep-
, . .... . .
tlou of her merits than an ape, ami I am
sure she is distrusted with him adrMilt-
. " -
jjot my eiKli have lied my bands.
j cannot help myself or her. Lillian,
h. must not surfer because of
iny 8loe. Sbe loves Me truly, aod she
muh never know mv heart's true feel-
jng8 toward her
j ADtJUUU auucip. iiuuu .lUUTII. 1 IIU
; are not tbe first person wbo has made
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this sad mistake. Any love that is not
fully reciprocated is not true love; aod
ay person wbo fancies that it will be a Petersburg for the instruction of female
k indues to another to bind that other medical students, who will, on the
iu matrimony for sweet accommoda- completion or their studies, l.e regu
, . , ui.,.i. I 'arly attached to the medical stall of the
tiou's sake Is guilty of a blunder that 1 arlI)
will sooner or later manifest itself in i
open outbreak in some unexpected dl-1
reetion.
The sin of ignorance ht ouly equaled
by tbe sin of deception. And ths
very worst siu that one person can coin-
mlt against another is to marry that
of the mistaken notion that by so do
Ing the person that is so married ean
lie made happy at the other one's ex
pense. If the true were ever carefully
analysed from the false, It would
lie found In ever Instance that
the prime motive .which Influ
ences ode! i a taeeietoti and ueh a
step is simple vanity.
"I don't oh re much for her, but she
loves me, ami - H would be cruel IB dis
spiKiintaer," exel times hswhIu, whose
I wart is uot In lite dseisfnu. f
"Maybe III learn to lave hi hi after a
while, anil lie loves UM tswletf rlj that I
cannot bear togivn hlrtr pnUt," kIUo-
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And so the world wags. Men and
women marry in deception, and wbeu
too late, repent ill wretchedness, goiug ,
through life with a ball and chain drag-
glngat their heart-strings, or subsiding, !
as happily many of them do, into a
practical apathy from which all the .
elixir of existence is abstracted from its
poesy, and Its place usurped by the plain
prose of endurance.
Grace's determination to make a con
fident of Lillian was thoroughly shaken
by Lillian's hauteur. Through all their
st years they had been so much to
each other, these two; but now, between
themselves and their innermost lives
tbeie was a golf fixed. Would they
ever be able to bridge it? We shall
see.
To be coiilluu.il. 1
Han't Progress in the Fast a Hint of his
Future.
Think of the advancement man has
made since tbe time when lie was a can
nibal eave-dweller, shivering out of the
glacial epoch, and contending ith wild
beasts for a foothold on the earth, till
now that he enjoys the idealism of
Berkeley, wields the quaternion
Hamilton. uses the lightnings f..r his
red-saudaled messengers, holds hinspee-
trox-npe to a Mar and tells Htiat ele
ments compose it, or to an out-kmintr
! nebula ami declare it a man of incaii
I descent hydrogen. From xueh a hark
ground of accomplished fact he seenii
renliy to have a right to peer forth lot
the unbounded future and promi-e
himself an unbounded destiny. The
repetition of such a progress, nay much
lens, it may not unreasonably he imajr
1 iued, would raise the curtains from uu
HUKpected secrets, bring the family of
intelligences scattered over all world
into conscious communication, and ac
complish the deliverance of the whole
creation travailing and groatim; to-
gether unto this day for the redemption
ol llie craiure. What a splendid, al
most incredible tak man has already
achieved in disentangling the apparent
aiirotiomic motions and
liiem into the real ones.
couverting
J " " 1 ' 1 '
nieiiPily ubi iraer and more complex i
tin- poition of man on thi planet than
it seemed to tbe primitive savage, who
knew only what his crude eiie lauirht
him, although all the while the iihm.ii
was cirelihtt ahout him twenty-live
hundred mile an hour, ami spinuiiitr
around the sun over thirty thousand
miles an hour, and swooping with the
whole solar system through the blue
void with a still swifter gyre in a yet
valer cycle! This is demonstrated
physical fact. Its harmonic correlate in
the spiritual sphere would lie nothing
loan a irnw ui eiernni CAisieuie im
the soul which endless invitations
ahead, and exults at the i.rosoect of an'nn this system by a tall cadaverous-
eternal pursuit of them, its reason and
affection affiliated witii those of the
whole divitie household of immortals.
Two or three generations ago it would
have tieen more inconceivable that men
a hundred mile-i amrt could audibly
converse together, as they now do by
means of the telephone, than it is at
this day to believe that communication
may at some future time he opened tie-
tween the inhabitants of the earth and
tbe inhabitants of Sirius through the
vibrations of the ethereal medium. II'.
.'. Alger.
Li.kmkjiTs ok a Home. I never saw.
a garment too floe for man or maid; i umj er,ckerg amj clleeM enough to
there never was a chair too good fur ai, , , , . . , , ,
cobbler, or cooner. or kimr to sit ! i "uneh on the remainder of the day. The
j a boose too fine tosbelter a human bead,
1 hese elements about us, the gorgeous
sky, the Imperial sun, are not too good
for the human race. Elegance ills mail.
But do we not value these tools of house
keeping a little more than they are
worth, and sometimes mortgage a home
for the mabogouy we would bring into
it? I had rather eat my dinner off the
1 """" u " "rrei, r urces auer me imii-
Ion of John the Baptist In the wilder-
.,
bead of a barrel, or drees after the fash-
ness. or sit on a liiock all my Hie. than
consume ail myself before I get to a
home, and take so much pains with tlie
outside that the inside was as hollow as
an empty nut. Beauty Is a great thing,
but beauty of garments, lioufre and fur
niture, is a tawdry ornament com) tared
with domestic love. All the elegance in
tbe world will not make a home, and I
would rive more for a snonuful of real.
hearty love than for whole ship-loads
of luriiiture. and all the aoreeousnem
that all the upholsterers of the world
c'AuU Bthr together. Theodore
I 'trkir.
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i - k" nusiiu ueiieves iu me
' "ght of women to study surgery and
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I charter to a unl v ,o71V Kranteu a
j tbe Russian Minister of bas'now
oflicially taken up the subleat r train.
mg lauy uociors ror army practice.
It has been decided upon lu oonsequeiire
of tbe proof given in tbe late war of th.
otter Inability of the regular melu-ut
stall to cope with tbe enormous nuin'.-r
of sick ami wounded. Classes wi.i ht-
almost Immediately established in St.
Miss Charlotte L. Pnrteu, a negro lady
who contributes to the Atlantic and
Scribuer'K, recently married the Itav. E.
S. (irinke, a graduate of PfJnceloSi.
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for' four mouths for assaulting his
mother.
OUE WASHINGTON LETTEB.
To -rar. Editor e tiik Mw Xokthwckt:
People who have never li veil in a large
city little know the phases of life to be
dally seen there, and even those who do
live In cities, ICJhelr daily walk and
conversation In .ODnftned to respectable
society, have but little Idea of what Is
going nh around them. The men and
women whose Oafs are eut In seeking
their own amusement ami In the con
templation of pe ami plenty, know
little of the fihlfts and straits of thoe
who barely slst by their wits. And
when a eoklfnnj earned on, llku that
tbrougli which we have just passed,
there are matran)saaml d 1st replug
sights to lie witnessed by those wfio look
about them and some very funny
things to be observed as well. Warm
clothing is in demand at such a time,
though there are plenty I u every city
w10 haven't got It. And when old
iMirea8 whistles around the oorner at
ucn R urrifle rate. It is suggestive of
something to keep the Inner mun warm,
ami there comes an increased desire for
ImH "Scotch" am! "Tom ami Jerry," the
aroma of which flouts in a most tanta
lizing way from the half-open doors of
sample-rooms on every oorner. The
man who draws his decanter of French
brandy, and Ills flue old wines from a
well-filled cellar, knows nothing about
the dodges of the "old bums" around
town, wbo nin-t beat a barkeeper to get
even an "eye-oiener." A good-natured
manipulator of the vinous fluids, wiio
prides himself on being up to all the
tricks of the bumming fraternity, was
"done" by one of them the other morn
ing, in a way that makes him hang his
head ill grief. While arranging the
paraphernalia of the bar preparatory to
the day's business, a moderately seedy
bum appeared at the counter, and lu a
husineea-llke manner slapped lite hand
on the bar, wherein was heard the jiu-
Kleof coin, and asked for a "leeltle old
rye." Taking a drink which, in the
pari 'tore of the knights of the road,
would lie denominated a "snorter," he
raie I his hand from the counter and
disclosed a two cent piece. "By Jingo!"
exclaimed the hum, "I thought it was
a quarter;" at the same time fumbling
in his pocket for "change" that was not
there. One look at the quiet smile lurk
ing in the corners of his customer's
mouth, and the sling-maker realized
that he was sold, and as the bummer
slowly wended his way out, put the new
trick away in the cavities of his mem
ory. The other morning a rather gen-
t,H.ly-dressed individual stepjted up to
,i . r - r i . . ,.. i
inf our in one oi uur miieis, nuu uiier a
slight remark about the inconvenience
ol night travel iu cold weuther, borrowed
a quarter to get shaved, which he would
return as soon as the lundlonl opened
i lie safe, where his valuables were locket!
up. The safe has not been opened yet.
The Hrt of getting three beers and
enough crackers and cheese for a square
meal for fifteen cents, has been reduced
to an exact science by these chaps, and
they all have a regular route. But re
., . i.l , ,
cul,v " Improvement lies been made
looking individual habilitated some
thing like Mr. Broeklehurst In the play
of "Jane Eyre," a badge of mourning on
Iiis plug hat, and an old umbrella under
his arm. When the barkeeper Is busy
he glides gently up to the counter,
hsugs his umbrella near the eracker and
; cheese bowl, and when his eyes are
turned drops several flstsfnll of craekers
in his rain protestor. In tbe same quiet
I and subdued manner he lays down his
nlckle for a glass of beer aod stalks out.
The thing is done the umbrella con-
j extent of the tricks played in this line
ttmy be partly realized when It Is known
, lhnt e morning there awakens at
, . . . . , , ,
least Ave buud red dry, impecunious
chaps, thirsty fur a dram, and who man
age before the sun goes down to get
one. There is uo use of getting mad
and kicking them out, for they are not
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only used to tbat, but after their driuks
would as soon be kicked out as not:
i of ,,,.. mlu-,
feelings of warmth given by the dram
extend further down their systems,
lam not wrltinga lemraiie lecture,
though every story has Its moral. The
most practical suggestion I have lately
seen in the direction of temierance re
form is that of C. T. Campbell, who
lecommends to the man that must
drink, to make his wife the barkeeper.
Every time you wnntadrlnk twy her
i tha retrlllnr nrlee for It. ami she will
: make enough oil of every gallon yon
' consume to buy a dress. "When you
have become an Inebriate, unable to
support yourself, shunned and despised
ly tespeetabte people, she will have
money enough to keep you until you
t ready to lilt a drunkard's grave."
' digress It at it again. Tbe well-in-f
. r mediwilttlciuuH who are always stand
ing about the halls lu great numbers
, have settled tbe question of an extra
I session, which they now say Is to be
held. That is, they think there Is going
to be so much difference between the
H ue and the Senate, pn the important
appropriation bills, Tthat an extra ses
sion will he necessary. The theory is
, that the Democrats want it in order to
get po8ee8lon"of the Senate ofllees, hut
iuat .uey win so manage matters as to
throw the respooalbllltv on t...,h-
lieans.. One object Is to avert a great
jdatiger. If-both Hayes and Wheeler
should die, the White House would be
occupied by the President of the Senate,
and It is, therefore, Important that a
Democratic successor to Ferty should be
elected as soon as powdhle. Tltese
posted politicians, who are always reedy
to dispose of grave questions far either
party on very short notice, say further
that the first thing that the Seuato will
do after it becomes Democratic, will lie
to retire Win. Pitt Kellogg to private
life, on the ground that be was admitted
on ihecertiMcateof Packhni, who never
was Governor of Louisiana.
A nolher band of Indian chiefs are now
in Washington. They are quartered at
theTremnut House, where many curi
osity seekers go dally binok.At them.
They are Utes, from the Los linos
agency iu Colorado, and came here un
der the pilotage of Agent Kelly, for tbe
purpose of negotiating the sale of four
mites square of their reservation. An
Influential delegation of Cberokees are
also here to enter a protest agninn the
proposed opening op ol tbe Indian Ter
ritory. The Woman Suffragists are having a
grand pow-wow here this week, and I
will endeavor to tell you all about them
In my next. Felix.
Washington, D. C , January 8, 1679.
Counteracting Anjesthetics.
Tbe immense service rendered by
chloroform, ether, etc., in the allevia
tion of pain has been somewhat de
preciated by the danger of life incurred
in their use, and the numerous fatal
cases recorded as the result of tbeir ad
ministration. Many efforts have been
made to find a rapid and certain anti
dote, but without success, until a very
simple remedy was discovered by the !
late
celebrated surgeon. Dr. Nelaton.
His sm, while quite a lad, wai iu tbe
habit of amusing himself by catch
ing mice and harnessitig them to toy
carriages, like hones. In attaching
then to the miniature vehicles, they
sometimes hit him, and be induced bis
father to give him some chloroform to
enable him to perform his operations
without the inconvenience of I wing bit
ten. On one occesion having admints
tired tbe anesthetic, lie raised the lit- !
tie animal by the tall iu a perpendicular
direction, when it immediately turned
and tried to bite him. He mentioned
the subject to his fattier, who, upon re
flection, enucluded tbat the explanation
was due to tbe fact tbat tbe brain, while
tbe being is asleep. Is almost destitute
of blood, but that on the position of sus
pension with tlie head downward hav
ing been attached, the circulating fluid
rushes to the head aod awakens the an
imal. "Sot long after, he had au op
portunity of testing this theory. Two
emineul surgeons had to perform an op
eration at halnt-l'ermalii-ljHye, snd re-
5 nested tbe assistance of Dr. elalon.
le happened to miss the train, and
when he arrived ty t ne saoseqoeul one,
thenrocoediiiga had already commenr-d.
Tbe patient was iiudnr tbe influence of
chloroform, and tlie medical men feared.
from the symptnus, that a fatal result
might ensue. Dr. Nelatnu at once ad
vised tt at the head of the patient
should be hnng over tbe side of the bed,
aud his feet raised lu the air. Tbe ex
Iieriineut was successful, consciousness
returned, but upon tbe person being re
placed in bed, all tlie somnolency re
curred. Tbe trial was repented, aud
after a suspension of ten miuutes, bead
down want, tbe effects of tlie chloroform
were entirely diipated. So simple a
remedy is one which may be of invalu
able assistance to medical men, and
may be I he means of saving nisny lives.
p American Home.
Seventeen 8ennons.
The following "(Seventeen Sermons"
are from the n of "Itev. J. Joshua
Jenkins:"
Tbe perfectly conteuted man Is also
useless.
Try to see yourself through the eyes
of those around you.
Tbe ideal saint of the young moralist
is cut from sappy timber.
Tbe vigorous idea keeps warm though
wrapped in few words.
Great power of wquMtion Is common
to millionaires ami bug.
Faith that asks uo questions kills the
soul and stifles the intellect.
He who thiults poorly of himself can
not win the respect of his fellows.
Happy is the man wbo lias neighbors
willing to forgive his mistakes.
A Plies r to lie better than you are. aud
aim to be what you appear to be.
Tlie trouble with many communists
is that their dead men refuse to be
buried.
Ouly Infinite wisdom is able to distin
guish the difference between some
tueu aud beaais.
Man believes that to lie a lie which
contradicts the testimony of his own ig
norance. Tlie gilded calf, having wealth with
out soul, finds more worshipers to-day
than in tbe days of Moses.
He whose tnly claim to the title "gen
tlemau" is iu his clothes, must neces
sarily lie careful what he wears.
Whether he is great or small, set that
man down for a fool who boasts tbat he
does not rend tbe local papers.
The Lord can mure easily have faith
in the religion that wears an old coat to
church than the man in the coat can.
It is better to rise from your knees
and shut your hens out of your neigh
bor's yard than to Indulge in loud
prayers.
If signs don't fail, the commg winter
will be tbe coldest experienced in this
altitude since the counlrv was iirsi ui
eovered bya man named Mr. Columbus. . ,
Tbe squirrels are laying lu their wluter
cos i, uie ueavers are pimmR
tbe basement of their lodges, the
poor families are buying ","
ami we have hail a new c.. .
our overwat.- -y'r",r-
I saw fciToTst with bis lady-love, re-
pe.ting7'ry "' Jrtk'n w;',ue- ,2
ntVt, saw him before the bar; then iu
rambling hell. I s-w him leaning
- . .-. .....i- tiiMii iv
against u lamp post; tbeu, lyingin the
- -r-
miiteri at last, i saw
mm laiu in a
drunkard's grave.
have killed all tiieuronesnuo m Ushii, hail frencn now in vogue. Not
hives with sheet iron, the musk-rats are jn R ,)oIe tan tP whether they are
flying south, wild ducks are commityug njl,ticatiiig "Macaroni a la mushroom
suicide, the gxe bone is black 8,X;,T" ' ,Ie la iioot-top," or chewing away on a
Inches deep, Western e.liiora i are o tut- i )f nf olu rll(.kn livers ,pft overjrom
lnif wood iii exchange frsubiri.lion, .,. dinner. -A7iirri Gazette.
The Anchor of Oolnmbns.
On the night of the 2nd of August,
1493, the little fleet of Christopher Co
lumbus, the discoverer of America, he
then beitiEiinoii his third voyage, lay at
anchor Just oil the southwest point of
the ismiiil ol Trtnnlad, on tne matuiaiHi
of South Ameriea, which he had seen
thai day for the rlrt time. "Being on
hoard of his ship," says Washington Ir
ving In his history of the great navi
gator (Vol. II, Book X, age 123), "late
at night, kept awake by a painful ill
ness and an anxious hud watchful
spirit, he heard a terrible roaring from
tbe south, ami lieheld the sea heaped
up, as it were, into a great ridge or hill
the height of the ship, covered with
foam, and roliiug toward him with a
tremendous uproar. As this furious
surge approached, rendered more terri
ble in appearance by the ahseurity of
the night, he trembled for tbe safety of
bis vessels. Iliaowuship was suddenly
lifted up to such a beigbl that he
dreaded le-t it should be overturned or
east upon the rocks, while another of
the ships was torn violently from her
anchorage, (leaving, it was hardly nec
esary for Mr. Irving to add, her anchor
behind her.) Tbe crews were for a time
iu great eousternatiou, fearing they
should be swallowed up; but the moun
tainous surge passed on, and gradually
subsided after a vlolentcontest with the
counter-current of the strait. This sud
den rush of water, it is supposed, was
caused by the swelling of one of the
rivers which flow into the Gulf of
Paris, and which were as yet uuknnwn
to Columbus.
So far Washington Irviug, who of
course founds his text upon tbat of tbe
oiu authorities, anil especially
"Vita" of Ferdinand Columbus,
the i
the i
son of the great Admiral. The words
of Ferdinand, iu reference to tbe loss of
the anchor aforesaid, iu the original
Italian are as follows: "Ma piacque a
Dio cbe passo di sotto, n per dir migiio
cliegll levo in alto, senza iargil daimo,
anchorche d tin nanglio levruse le on-
core tli term" "although one of the !
ships left her anchor behind her."
The anchor thus lost on the night of
August 2nd, 1488 nearly four hundred
years ago from one of the ships of
Columbus, off the southwest extremity
of tbe Island or Trinidad Point Arrnal
as Columbus named the spot, vide Ir
ving lias recently lieeu recovered by
Seuinr Argoelluo, the gentleman wbo
now owns the poiut of laud iu question.
It has the rare and thrilling merit of
being the oldest relic extant ol the great
navigator ami oi me uiacovi-ry ol Amer-
ica.
As would be expected from the age of
this relic, it is an anchor in its simplest
form of expression. The shaft is round
and eight feet uine inches iiMeugth. At
the bead or the shaft Is a round ring
nearly a foot lu diameter, to whicli tbe
cable was fastened. The flukes have a
spread of about five feet. Its total weight
is eleven hundred KHiuds.
But the strangtat part is to come.
This anchor was dug up by Senior Ar-go-lino
in his garden, from a depth of
six feet, at the distance of three hund
red and twenty-seven feet from tbe
nearest hent-h of the sea. His first suu-
position was that he hail stumbled upon leratie nominee as Bish ip Simpson in
a relic of tbe Plnpuiclati-, or of some 1 the Vatican. After he agreed to stand
other of the ancient nations wbo have i for that high office the Southern Mtiti
been supposed by many to have visited eians called on him at Cbappaqua, bis
the coasts nf America thousands of I country seat on the Harlem road, ami he
years ago. But au attentive examina- j benevolently asked them to drink from
lion nf local facts and authorities soon
convinced him that a portion of ills
garden now occupies the very spot at
which the ships ol Columbus lay at an
chor on the night of August Slid, 1496.
The land is constantly rising from the
sea and encroaching upon it aloug this
entire coast, as has eeu shown by Hum
boldt, Findlay, and scores of ot'iers wbo
have written upon this subject, and tbe
rate of this encroachment is known to
have been quite sufficient to turn hi
400 years tbe anchorage of tlie great fleet
iupi iuv teamen ut a private ciiizeu.
There is uot a particle of doubt, tberer
fore, at the end f the rigid inquiry that
has been made, that tbe anchor recently
found by Seuor Argosliuo Is really anil
truly the ht anchor of Columbus.
Ami Tan Mytery.
Abolition of tha Training-SLip.
Tbe Board of Supervisors of Sail Fran
cisco recently received a couimunica-
lion from Governor Irwin, announcing I
that he bad complied with tbe resolu
tion of the Board, and had requested the
Secretary of the Navy to withdraw the
vloop-of-war "Jmetown" from her
position as training-hip. This ii a
.step In the right direction, and will be
welcomed by the tax-payers, iu that it
' will save this city and country alone
$4,000 per month, and in the State at
large considerable more. The present
' Board of Sujiervisors has not been dis-
uuguisneu oy any excess oi rai iu sav
ing the pockets nf the tax-payers, mid
the abolition of the municipial elephant,
though commendable, should have been
consummated a year ago. Tbe State
Advisory Board entered a vigorous pro
test agaiusl tne withdrawal of tbe
school-ship, claiming that with a fair
trial, combioed with the absence of tbe
industrial school element, it would at
ones grow iuto popularity a' a nautical
school. The grave error was made in
the first place, however, of permitting
the drafting of industrial school boys
Into the ship and in spite of the ract
that all of these were removed a few
weeks ago, the odor of a penal Instltn
lion hung about it, a majority of par
ents regarded the word "Jamestown as
a svuouym for wickedness and eo":
lion, and the board wisely concluded
to get rid of it as expeditiously as pos
! slide. Now tbat it is practical o
'ished, no one will mourn
: those' who, through its neeby the mu
i .i..ni.liiv liave
tieen rowif
,i,,rea from the city
Chronicle.
treasury. Snn
far as two-thirds of tlie guests are
".e.j, you might just as well print
. . ,l(n 0r fre oi a lasuiuuaoie noiei in
j as the brokeii-jointed Eng-
To be kept from wrong-doing by fear
of exposure Is not very exalted virtue,
but as far as It goes it is beneficial to
society.
. . . .--p,...,, IJUbCll I
eigui mr iuc wagon, pauted a
farmer as he assisted his three-hundred
us no uaatsieu UlS lUree-UUIll
wife to a seat In that
1 poi
und
I bit
Icle.
About Brinks and Drinking-.
Presld-nt ami Mrs. Hayes continue o
exclude wine from their table in the
bite House. Mr. Evarts, the Secre
tary of fctate, has secured an exception
to this rule at the diplomatic dinners,
although Mr. and Mrs. Hayes will pre
side without glasses liefore them.
The French statesmen use wine mod
erately, and spirits almost never. They
prefer tbeir own light wiues, leaving
champagne to the last; nearly all their
public dinners are ended without
speeches.
Tie cultivated English are far more
temperate than In former days. At
State dinners, which are costly and lux
urious, the ministry are proverbially
frugal, though Lord Derby, tbe late
Chief of tbe Foreign Office, was inordi
nately fond of sherry. Nobody smokes
iu a private house, unless itisin tbe billiard-room.
But the English etub men
are hearty drinkers. There are over
seventy clubs in Loudon alone. Gamb
ling is uot as common as It was in tbe
days of Chanes James Fox, who often
lost 1,000 a night while in the zenith
of iiis parliamentary fame, and thought
nothing of iu The Raleigh in tbe Pall
Mall is still believed to indulge in cards
for money, but modern John Bull pre
fers whist, brandy and aoda, and hot
Scotch or Irish whisky. Excessive dis
sipation is confined to London glu pal
aces, which abound in frightful profior
tlon, where men and women drink lire
water and bad beer till they are sodden;
and it is no infrequent sight to see u
child made stupid by the milk of a
drunken mother.
The ItuMans bear the palm. They
purchase most of the costly French
champagnes, and tbey prefer "a mixed
drink" of their owu a fearful compound
after dinner, which is something like
the English" claret cup, that Cbarles
Dickens loved to "compose," with flery
liquids added.
President and Mrs. Hayes are not al-
' together atone. They are doubtless
more rigid than other rulers; but tOeen
ictoria is
a model in tier own house,
like the good Prince Albert, and I hap
pen to know that Gambetta, Laboulaye,
Leon Say, Louis Blanc, Victor Hugo,
the Orleans princes, and the Bourbon
pretenders are moderate and careful
men; and it is hut just to say the seme
of the Emperor of Germany, the Rus
sian Czar, the young King of Italy, and
the widower monarch of Spain.
Deep driuking is not h much the
custom as it was, at least let us hope so.
There is no better way to cure the abuse
than to make it unfashionable. A good
example is better than an angry sermon.
' Gerritt Smith, who died at a great age
(TS I tbiuk), sat in Congress two years,
from 1853 to 1855, and was ooe of the
'. most genial, generoos and hospitable
oi men. lie gave many splendid enter-
tainments, and never had a drop of wiue
on his tahle. The jolly men were
amazed at his course, but he never apol
ogized for it.
My other good friend, Horace Geeeley,
was not so successful when he became
a candidate for President iu 1S72. He
was an extreme temperance leader, as
pure as cool water, even in his blunders;
but as much out of place as a Dsmo-
bis famous spring. They were su r prided
but submissive, until he offered them
a second draught, at whleh Governor
of Louisiana somewhat testily de
clined, with the remark that "This was
a beverage he never internally applied."
Tbe legend runs, that when tbe party left
the white-haired editor, tbe Governor
sadly observed tbat he hail to drink sev
eral cocktails to keep the nomination
down. l omey'r Progrest.
Josh Billings' Philosophy.
I hav no objeetshun to a man parting
his hair In the middle, I Hit I shall all-
whss insist upon his Hitisbing up the
job bi wearing a short gowu awl petti
koaU Tha re is soldi a thing as too mutch
energy. I hav seen those wiio were
like a yimg hound in the chase, get a way
ahead uv the fox.
Thare are a grate many road tbat
lead to heaven, hut after yu get thare.
only one gateway to enter.
if we would only profit bi our own ex
periences or the experiences uv others,
it would be hard for even lightning to
strike us; hut rather thau do this, we
prefer to knok out what fu branes w
hav got against somebody's stuu wall.
and then howl about the weakness of
reason or the malice of fortune.
Thare is nothing we hav got so little
uv, aud nothing we tbiuk we bav got
so niuch uv, as originality.
It iz the little hits uv things that fret
and worry us; we kan dodge an elephant,
but we kan't a fly.
It aiu't ao mutch tbe amount a man
knows, az the ability to use what he
dux knn at the right time aud place
that makes him a power.
I liav been triefng to find out for tile
last forty years at what time uv life a
man iz tlu most phoolish, and just az
soon as I And out, I will let yu kno.
The hardest man to convince, iz the
one wbo agrees to everything yu Bay.
If a tallow caudle be placed iu a gun
,:. lhot atadoor.it will go through
without sustaining any Injury; aud if a
,nket ball be shot into the water, it
will imt only rebound, but be flattened.
If fired through a pane of glass It villi
iiiaks a hole tbe size of the ball. with.
rut cracking the glass; If the glass is
suspended by a threat! it will make no
difference, and the thread will not even
vibrate. Cork, if sunk two hundred
feet uuder water, will not ri. nn ...
count of pressure of the water. Iu the
S ?ei?,OU8' wn the temperature
is belontaero.nersotts can mn vnu innu
tliaiiji mile distant from each other
flwntfian Observer.
,A... wnwpondent 'asks, "What did
illiam Tell?"6o far as we remember
rr? ' "',' 8Uoot the apple, anyway V
Ex. Why do you iuma at such an
arrow-minded conclusion? He was a"
howed down with grief and sarrow that
his feelings were oompletely unstrnng,
aud lie couldn't shoot his mouth otr at
allf hence his Inability to Tell auy
thlog. "Bias-eyed barbarians" is an epithet,
hurled at tlie moon eyed lepers by a'
Cincinnati editor.
One hour of justice is worth seventy
years of prayer. The Koran.