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ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, JANUARY ! 9, 1885.
NO. 23.
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THE HOUSE OF CLAY.
There was a house a house of clay,
Wherein the inmate sang all day,
Merry aud poor.
For Hope sat likewise heart to heart,
Fond and kind fund and kind.
Vowing he never would depart
Till all at once he changed his mind
Sweetheart good-bye!" 'He slipped away,
And shut the door.
But Love came past, and looking in.
With smiles that pierced like sunshine thin,
Through wall, roof, floor.
Stood in the midst of that poor room.
Grand and fair grand and fair,
Making a glory out of gloom,
Till at the window mocked old care
Love sighed "all lo-e and nothing win J"
He shut the door.
Then o'er the bred house of clay.
Kind jasmine ana -Vmatw gay
Grew evermore;
And bees hummed merrily outside
Loud and strong loud and strong,
The inner siientness to hide.
The steadfast sileuco all day long
Till evening touched with finger gray
The close shut door.
Most like the next that passes by
Will be the angel whose calm eye
Murks rich, marks poor;
Who, pausing not at any gate,
Stands and calls stands and calls;
At which the inmate opens straight
Whom, e'er tiie crumbling clay house
falls.
He takes in kind arms silently.
And shuts the door.
A MARVELOUS STREAM
Wherein Bird aud Ileasts arc Caught
and Hopelessly field Captive.
-Pampas and Andes."
At a distance of thirty miles south of
the river Diamante our route passed by
a natural object of considerable interest
a stream, or rather rill, of yellowish
white fluid like petroleum issuing from
the mountain side at a
height and trickling
sIojh? till lost in
soil of the valley below,
from which it flowed
considerable
down the
the porous
The source
was at the
junction, where a hard metamorphic rock,
interspersed with small crystals of agnite,
overlay a stratum of volcanic tufa. It
was formed like the crater of a volcano,
and full of black, bituminous matter,
hot ami sticky, which could be stirred
up to the depth of about eighteen inches.
floundering in it was a polecat or
skunk, having been enticed to its fate
by the desire of securing a bird caught
in the natural bird lime, till a bullet
from the revolver of one of the party
terminated the skunk's struggles to
extricate itself from the warm and
adhesive bath in which it vas hope
lessly captive. The overflow from this
fountain was, as deseriled, like a stream
of petroleum two or three feet wide
trickling over a bed of pitch or some
such substance, which extended to a
much greater width along the edge of
the running stream at its contact with
it. Tins material was of a very sticky
nature, becoming gradually harder
as it spread further out, assuming
the appearance of asphalt when it
became mingled with the loose sand of
the adjoining soil.
While engaged in examining this
natural curiosity, we came upon two
small birds, caught in the sticky sub
stance at the edge of the stream; the'
were still alive, but upon releasing them
both the feathers and the skin came off
where they had come in contact with
the bituminous matter, so that we had
to kill them to put an end to their suffer
ings. No doubt they had been taken in
by the appearance of water which
the stream presented, and had alighted
to drink, when they discovered
their mistake too late. -Their fate sug
gested the idea that in a district so
devoid of water others of the feather
tribes must constantly become victims
to the same delusion in a similar man
ner, and upon a close inspection of the
margin of the stream the correctness of
this inference was established by the
discovery of numerous skeletons of
birds imbedded in it; nor were those of
small quadrupeds unrepresented, among
which we recognized the rendns of a
for.
Plaster Decoration.
New York Letter.
A Broadway dealer says that the
house-decoration mania runs chiefly to
plaster now. Busts, statuettes, plaques,
relief, antiques, urns, and vases are a
few of the things sold every day by the
dozen. I hey are all made in the Italian
quarter by newly-arrived emigrants,
and cost almost nothing in quantity.
Ladies buy them almost exclusively.
They take them home paint, gild, silver
or bronze them. They then look almost
as handsome as genuine antiques, and at
.one-twentieth the price. Of course it's
shoddy, but it brightens up a sitting
room amazingly, and for people of
limited means it's a good thing. Be
sides, it gives a decent livelihood to
scores of young girls, who would other
wise be starving on needlework. The3'll
buy a dozen or two casts for $2, color or
fix them up for $1 or more, and then, if
they have good taste, and are careful in
their work, they can sell them all the
way f -ora a half up to $2 apiece.
A Cheap Home Zoo.
1 hiladelpLia Call.
Little Bob Oh, pap, won't you take
me to the Zoological garden?
Pap I am too busy, lm son, too
busy.
"Well, ain't there any menagerie near
your oHk e?"
"No, my boy; nothing but business
houses there."
"Oh, I do want to see all the hor
rible creatures that Tom Tuinpkins
tells about. He's been to the 'Zoo' and
three different menageries. "
"Well, Bub, ait hough I have no time
to take you anywhere, your love of ex
amining strange creatures s'lall begiati
fied." i "
"Ain't that nice? When?"
"This evening.. I will bring home a
microscope and Vt you look at a drop of
Schuylkill water.''
Decrease In the .! or Farm.
Albany Journal J
The average pi e of farms in
United Pt.'Ms.'c..t--! fv--n 2M a
in 180 to I.J-t kiva in : t'n- j
r nt'igT o' unimproved i..nd lecrea
r1.5 percent. yy.. icr rwt.. and
a sc ed valuation nlno t tr-l l.vl. .
the jiopulation pushes westward .
number of .-mall fasyns will iiicre :s .
great ranches of the west will !rj dii.
and th "evil" will remedy it self.
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THE "COON BELT.
A. District In Indiana Where Justice
Was Qneerly Administered.
The state library should secure, if
haply it j-et exists, the docket of an
early r?harpsville justice of the peace,
with its simple entries: "John .Smith
vs. Thomas Jones. 1 heard this case
and gave Smith judgment for $0.75 and
costs, as witness my hand, , J. P."
From the decision of this court no
suitor ever took appeal; they wero final
as those of Khadamanthus himself. The
advocacy of council learned in the law
was not encourged by this primitive
judge. The gein ral history of proceed
ings was- much in this wise: The
plaintiff went to the 'squire, who heard
his story and made distant and shrewd,
though non-professional, cross-examination
of plaintiff. Often he would say:
"I shan't hear this case. There's noth
in rite, and you ought to know it. If
you bother me with it I shall give it agin
you." Al r such an expression of opin
ion suit was seldom brought. But if the
'squire thought there was "something
rite in it," he would say: "I'll fix you
all right. You come and take dinner
with me at li o'clock on Thursday, and
get your critter fed. We'll try the case
at 1 o'clock, you can leave at half past 1,
and get home in time to do your chores
before night."
When the day of trial came the 'squire
(his name was Wilson) would hear
hear plaintiff's testimony, and, address
ing the defendant, would say: "Maybe
you have some kind of a lie to tell about
this, but 1 know you owe the man, just
as he says, and I shall give judgment
agin you, no matter what you say." He
always did give judgment in just the
manner indicated, if the defendant
suggested his desire to appeal the court
always remarked that it would be more
pleasant to go into the back yard and
settle the matter, and if the offer were
accepted the defendant's motion for an
appeal was generally overruled in two
rounds and one knock-down. X. W.
Halley, who now holds a position under
the doorkeeper in the house of repre
sentatives at Washington, yet bears his
raven locks unstreaked by graj, and he
remembered the only case in which he
failed to overrule a motion ef this kind.,
A long-haired and still longer-a.med
Teunesseean had come into "the settle
ment" (neighborhoods did not appear
until after the war;, and s t was
brought against him to recover $1.23
for "work and labor done at his special
instance and request." The squire gave
judgment for the amount; the Teunes
seean asked for a new trial. "Come out
in the back yard and get it right now,"
said the 'squire. The court and defend
ant, accompanied by the plaintiff, the
constable, the defendant's son, and a
crowd of spectators, adjourned to the
yard. In the first round, ..says Mr.
tiallev, the gentlemen from east Tennes
see simply stood stock-still and let the
squire hammer at him. A sock-
dolasrer on the right ear, that
sounded like the blow of a hammer
on a shingle nail, aroused his atten
tion, and, giving his hat in charge of
his son, he struck the 'squire a left
handed blow that covered his face with
a richer red than the rays of the setting
sun or the stains of pokeberry jaice
could impart. Ihe squire had com
menced to dig a well in his back-yard.
The Tennesseean picked him off the
ground, dropped him into the hole, and,
turning to his son, said: "Jake, take
the shovel and cover him up." Hold
on mister," said the 'squire, "that air
judgment is reversed." From -that day
the 'squire was a crushed man. He re
signed his office, and shortly afterward
went to Kansas. Kude as his decisions
were, they were generally correct. He
was a good judge of human nature, and,
if unfitted for quiddities of law, pos
sessed a clear perception of equity.
It was a rude era that endured until
the end of the 60's in central Indiana,
but it was an honest one. If a farmer
had locked his doors he would be laughed
t; the idea of burglary had not entered
the rustic mind, clothes were left hang
ing out at nights, grain was piled in
doorless cribs, each man knew his neigh
bor and trusted. We are wonderfully
improved since then. Old Jack McClan
ahan sat as 'squire in fourteen of the
most litigious years of Indiana, and
boasted, with truth, that no decision
given by him wjis ever reversed by a su
perior court. On two occasions the old
common pleas court overruled h's decis
ions, but, appeal leing taken higher,
the supreme court in turn reversed the
judgment of the common pleas.
One of his last judicial acts was to dis
charge a prisoner arrested under the
Baxter bill. "Gentlemen," said Jack to
the attorneys who prepared to argue the
case before "him, "you might ta'k ali the
afternoon and do no good; my minu is
made up. I have read the law, and it
isn't worth shucks; the caption don't
hold on to the text. Prisoner, go in
peace and sin no more; you are is free
as the wind." The matter dropped
there, so far as Jack was concerned, but
a circuit judge in another county having
convicted a prisoner, the case went up
to the supreme court, and the law was
held worthless on the exact grounds that
Jack had laid down. He died rejoicing
that he "was the first judge" who had
declared the bill unconstitutional. We
laugh at the uncouth speech of these
early 'squires, but many of them were
men of keen insight and of intuitive
clearness of perception.
Ihe Ilonaparle Willow.
Chicago Herald.
Mr. Frelinghuvsen, as the chatty gos
sips have learned, is going to plant on
his place at Karitan, N. J., a branch
from the willow at Mount ernon,
where the bones of the great George lie.
Years ago some persons who did not
realise the yawning gulf between Wash
ington, thediberator, and Napoleon, the
enslaver, brought a branch of willow
from St. Helena, Napoleon's tomb, and
the Mount Vernon tree is the Bona
parte branch grown big.
fie Wanted Death.
Texas S.f tings.
Moses Schaumburg has been quite ill.
Upon his recovery Dr. Blister presented
his bill for forty-three visits at $3 an in
terview, or $129.
"O mine Gott," groaned Mose. "Death
Tas de pest doctor after all."
"Why ''o you say that?" asked the
astonished physician.
"Peca oe he only makes one visit,"
replied Mose, glaring like a demon at
the doctor. '
The Hllnd Statesman.
New York World.
Any future edition of Samuel Smile's
"Self Help," which is generally re
carded bv the Sanford and Merton
school of social philosophers as emi
ncntly encouraging to the youth of Eng
land and elsewhere, will be quite in
complete without an extended biography
of that eminent example of sell help,
Henry Fawcett, who has just passed
away in the very prime of his
life and usefulness. Suddenly
made totally blind by accident
at the age of 25, but with
the adyantaga of a solid foundation for
an excellent education hrmly laid al
ready, he abandoned his intention of be'
coming a barrister, resolving to make
himself in every sense a statesman.
How well he succeeded, in the face
of such an apparently insuperable bar
rier as blindness, is now a mere matter
of current history. He has ably filled
a seat in parliament; in addition he has
been professor of political economy at
Cambridge, and he died literally "at his
post as the very efficient post
master general of England, introducing
many important reforms in that depart
ment during his term of service. As an
author he has not alone been distin
guished for his work on political
economy, of which science he made him
self master, but he has been conspicuous
as an earnest writer, speaker and
worker in the cause of the poor and in
suggesting remedies for the relief, if
not eventual removal, of at least some
of the needless pauperism that oppresses
all England. Fawcett's career of
work for almost any fully endowed
and equipped man would be wonderful
for a blind man his life wa . fairly
luminous.
Hooked-Noted Salmon.
Portland Oregonian.
Among the salmon now coming to
market are a large number having long
hooked noses and ferocious-looking
mouths armed with large and sharp
teeth. These fish are all males, and with
them are a few females, apparently gen
uine chinooks, Jlump, clean, silvery-
looking fish. It has been thought that
the hooked-nosed fish mentioned above
were a separate species, but from the
fact that they are all males, are caught
m company with the females of the cm
nook species, it is evident that they
belong to that variety. Hut what a
change their long stay in fresh water
has wrought. Their misshapen heads
and dingy, battered bodies bear no re
semblance to the plump, handsome chi-
nooks caught in season. Their strong,
sharp teeth would seem to disprove the
idea that salmon eat nothing during
their stay in fresh water; but it may be
that these are weapons to be used in
guarding the eggs deposited by the
females. Though the flesh of
these uncouth fish is of good coior and
many of them are in fair condition, they
can not be considered as very suitable
for food.
How They Made Ulm Angry.
Chron cle "Undertones."
I knew a delightful lady who was
wont very frequently to draw around her
hospitable board a little circle of pleas
ant people, tinged with Bohemia. We
always begged her to have turkey, for
we liked to see her husband carve that
bird! He used to get so imA about it.
We had one unchangeable course of
conduct. We allowed him to get the
carving fork well into the "bosom," and
when the light flashed in the gas-light's
rays, serene and clear, one by one we
would drop out of conversation, until
dead silence reigned and" every eye
was fixed upon him. Like the peculiar
warning of the typhoon, he grew sultry,
warm, then hot; little puffs of annoyance
grew into thunder-claps and finally,amid
a veil of laughter, he threw the knife
and fork down and sank helpless into a
char.
A Swiss Canton.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The lowest round of the ladder of
political organization is occupied by the
Swiss half-canton Nidwalden. It has no
bankrupt law, no written law of mort
gages, no property law, no criminal
code and no regular law of criminal
procedure. The administration is om
nipotent and does as it likes. The free
brrn Nidwalder, if he becomes suspect, is
simply put into prison and in a very
dark and filthy hole at that. Many per
sons under accusation confess them
selves guilty in order to escape the tor
ture of a long imprisonment previous to
trial, bread and water being the only
sustenance allowed to prisoners. An
indemnity to persons innocently incar
cerated i out of the question.
A Magnified Microbe.
Scientific Journal.
The relation of the microscope to
cholera is at presest an interesting and
close one. And when another potent
servant of man, electricity, is summoned
to aid the microscope, the power of the
latter is increased to an astonishing
degree. Recently in London such an
apparatus threw upon a screen ths
imago of a cholera germ, magnified
2,000,000 times, and in which these lohg
hidden and minute organisms 'appeared
the size of the human hand. The motto
of the modern microscopist seems to be:
"There is nothing hidden that shall not
be revealed."
Wales' Ways.
The prince of Wales is thus hit off by
a Kentuckian who writes from London
to The Courier-Journal: "He mixes a
good deal with the masses, and is very
democratic in his manner. Lie remem
bers names and faces so well and is so
pleasant that if he were living in Ken
tucky he would be elected to the legis
lature. He knows which side his bread
is buttered on. He seems to have sown
his wild oats, and has been behaving
himself. first-rate for five years."
One of Mr. Lowell's Happy Ideas.
Mr. Lowell at Birmingham.
Truth, after all, wears a different face
to everybody, and it would be too tedi
ous to wait till all wero agreed. She i3
said to lie at the bottom of a well, for
the very reason, perhaps, that whoever
looks down in search of her sees his own J
image at the bottom ana is persuaded
not only that he has seen the goddess,
but that she is far better looking than
he had imagined.
Whitehall Times: Men with plenty of
money to spend can make most any man
their, friend.
BOARDING-HOUSE CHILDREN.
A Boy and Girl Who Are so Self-Po
sesaed that They Will Die Early.
fCor. Chicneo Tribune.
We were seated ;;t a round table in
the middle of the dining-room, where
covers were laid for five. Ihree seat
were vacant. The door was opened by
the attendant and two children, a boy
and girl exquisitely dressed walked in
side by side, followed by their mother,
a hard-featurt'd and aggressive looking
woman, who bowed on either Ride as
she walked up the aisle between the
tables with ereat frigidity and solemnity.
She swept to hr r plaoe in the middle of
the three vacant seats at our table, and
the children were lifted into their chairs
bv tho waiters. I was conscious that
the little girl's eyes were upon me and
erlaneed down at her. She bowed
gravely with an air that said plainly, "1
don't know .vou. but I consider it onlv
proper to bow to strangers at our table,
untoldeu her napkin and began to chat
with her mother. 1 looked at the boy.
lie raised his head, said "good evening,
sir," politely, and then turning at once
to his mother remarked in the quietest
tones possible, "Mamma, Mrs. Blank is
evidently waiting for you to recogni e
her. The mother turned with seemed
and lined visage over her shoulder.
showed all of her teeth, and bowed with
cast-iron politeness to a lady who
nodded smilingly irom across the room.
I forgot to tut while I watched the
children. The girl was certainly not
more th?n 7 years of age, and the boy
less than 9. "Thev were delicate but not
frail looking. The characteristics that
made them most remarkable were their
entire ease and self-possession. The.e
was none of the robust, vigorous, and
careless flow of spirits which usually
distinguishes children, but a tranquil
and even demeanor. Not that thev
were at all solemn or melancholy. On
the contrary, they laughed and chatted
with one another brightly, but always in
the quietest voices and never With un
due hi'arity. The waiter leaned de
ferentially over the little girl and
handed he a bill of fare. She scanned
it thoughtfully as she held it in both of
her tiny hands for a time and then said
concisely:
"I'll have some bisque of crab, James,
a little striped bass, and and (turning
to her mother) I suppose you will never
aLow me to have croquets of veal again,
mamma, will vou?"
"Xo, dear; they aro too rich for you."
"Well, then, James," continued the
child, turning to the waiter, "yormay
give me some Iamb and a Roman punch,
vou know, and just a mouthful of roast
duck, an 1, I say, give me no end of
fruit, particularly grapes, James.
The man bowed, took the card from
her hand and went to the boy, who or
dered a dinner that would have made
one of our Puritan forefathers gasp with
amazement.
Tfio children sat thero with their
bright eyes roaming about the room and
conversed steaduv with their mother.
who was gorgeously arrayed in evening
dress, b't who nevertheless looked com
mon and was without even the sup2r
ficial refinement of her charges. In on
instance, after the boy had been silent
for some timj, he raised his eyes with a
quizzical sort of an expression and said
as he bowed to an old lady who trotted
down the room: "I never see Mrs.
Dash come in here that I don't think of
her last winter in Pome. Don't yoa re
member the day she fell out of a cab,
mamma? She always srems so blind.
She holds her nose in the air and her
eyes half closed, and just rushes right
ahead without looking where she is go
ing. There! There she goes now!"
As he spoke he leaned over the table
and looked eagerly down the room. The
erratic little old lady of whom he spoke
had just kicked a champagne-cooler
over and was expostulating with the
waiters for leaving it in the way. Both
of the children smiled and then laughed
quietly; but the outburst that one would
naturally have expected from little o:ves
of their years did not occur. The boy
reminded me of the anecdote we have
all read so often of the wonderful com
mand of words which Macaulay exhib
ited in his childhood. He tried to walk
down-stairs one day, lost his balance on
account of his diminutive stature, and
tumbled to the bottom. lie was taken
to the nursery and soothed, and the lady
of the house went to him a few hours
later, and said: "My child, how do you
feel"
"Thank you, madam," said the infant
Macaulay, "for your courtesy. I am glad
to say that. the pain in my head has con
siderably abate 1."
"God bless the child," said the hostess,
"how very old he is."
Macaulay lived for many years after
this.
The First .Tier id Ian.
Albany Express.
The original idea of a universal first
meridian belongs to France, aud as far
back as 1632 a decree, signed by Louis
XIII, and proposed by Cardinal Riche
lieu, established a universal meridian
on the island of Ferro. This meridian
was ultimately abandoned by Cassini
to gratify Louis XIV's pride, and tho
Paris one was retained by the metric
commission in l?:i under the pretense
than an arc of this meridian had been
measured for determining tin length of
the unit of measure.
An Interestlnz Case.
Three medical celebrities meet together
to consult at the sick-bed of General X.
After they go, the general rings for his
man servant. "Well, Jacques, you
showed those gentlemen out; what did
they say?" "Ah. general, they feem to
differ with each other. The l; fat one
said that they must have a little
patience, and at the autopsy- whatever
that mav be thev would find out what
the matter was."
frown' Language.
The language of crows has evidently
received considerable attention from Dr.
C. C. Abbott, as he avers that they have
twenty-seven distinct cries, calls, or ut
terances, each readily distinguishable
from the others, and each having an un
mistakable connection with a certain
class of actions.
Novel Solar Ilujtlne.
Paris exnprimeiiters have succeeded
in operating a pirating press by means
of sun rays concentrated on a steam
boiler bv reflectors, and thev think thev
are in a fair way of dispensing with
Gardening in Alaska.
Sitka Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
Socially and from an agricultural
point of view Alaska at present does not
present a particularly attractive appear
ance. Not only are its towns few in
number, but they are far from being at
tractive or thickly populated, and one
cannot but feel that a prolonged exist
ence at any of the settlements would be
a hardship compared with which almost
any other would amount to nothing. As
for agriculture, an honest statement
must be that there is none now, while
an equally honest opinion must admit
that there may be farms and gardens
and products if land is ever properly
tilled and if proper attention is ever
given the business. Talking 'with the
different inhabitants, one cannot dis
cover that the soil of Alaska is at fault
for the non-productivenessj but rather
that proper attention has j never been
given the question of gardening.
At Wrangell there are a few tracts of
land which have been cultivated and
which yield the more common and
hardy vegetables, and one farm in par
ticular, which has been worked by the
mission-school Indians, has made a
most creditable showing. At 1 uneau. a
new and very fagged looking village
around which are the largest and most
promising mines in the territory, there
are several small gardens surrounding
the different houses, in which such veg
etables as cabbage, beans, and potatoes
are raised with more or less ease in consid
erable abundance. The greatest diffi
culty, so far, has been that tho under
ground carrots, absorb too much of the
moisture which the sou contains. But
this trouble, as I have often been as
sured, can easily be . obviated by a sys
tem of drainage.
At Sitka one sees more gardens, small
to be sure, and carelessly attended to,
but in which there is a good- and large
assortment of vegetables, evincing a
growth which, although not rank, is
surely encouraging to those who believe
that Alaska can grow enough products
to more than meet the demands of its
possible population. That the country
will ever become noted as an agricul
tural region in particular, or that it will
even become a distributing center of
cereals, fruits and vegetables, no one ex
pects and no one really hopes. The
question is whether anything will row,
and the answer really must be in the af
firmative. Alaska has natural wealth
enough in its fisheries and mines, so it
seems now, and has no need to trouble
itself about its agriculture more than to
see that enough can be raised to keep
starvation from the door independently
of outside aid.
The lllack Man's Handicraft.
Joaquin's Miller's New Orleans letter.
Another strikingly newj feature of
this exposition will be the exhibit of the
black man's handicraft. :The colored
man has a department; ample, too,
spacious and complete, all his own.
Tho negro aspires to be an artisan,
something above and better than eter
nal hewers of wood and drawers of
water. And here he puts j in his claim
for popular consideration, for competi
tion by the side of the silk-weaver, the
cotton-spinner, the maker of fine fabrics
or coarse fabrics of allj kinds and
all classes. Here for the first
time in tho world's history,
so far as we are certain of it, the
children of Ethiopia and, of ancient
Egypt are permitted to call in the in
terest of their work. Others have
claimed and have lived off their handi
craft for all the years past; had the
honor of it and the profit of it; some
thing pathetic in this, I think? And it
was with especial pride that I looked in
upon the earnest and intelligent col
ored men in the arrangement
and the ordering of their j department.
They claim, and the man at the whole
stupendous work here claims for them,
that they areas cunning as old lubal
Cain in every kind of craft. Their dis
play here is going to carry them forward
and upward. Millions of these black
men can and are to do better work than
field work, and that right soon.
Ueds for the Sick Kuom.
Dio Lewis. j
Two narrow beds with fresh hair or
straw mattresses are the i best. These
beds are easily moved, and thus the pa
tient will not be compelled to look con
stantly at the same cracks in the wall,
or count the same three spots in the
corner, i ou can move him, now into a
shaded corner, now to the western win
dow to see the sun go down, again in
front of the fire, that he may look at tho
cheerful blaze, and anon into the most
secluded corner that he may rest and
sleep. All this is an immense g iin, and
is sure not only to comfort the patient,
but to shorten Ids sickness.
No matter what the malady miy be,
there is more or less fever, and, in every
possiblo case, the emanations from the
skin render the bed foul through and
through. All the emanations should be
got rid of as soon as possible. The only
way to manage is to have two beds, and
lift the patent from one to the other.
When the bed which has been in use
from four to six hours is! released, the
mattress and blankets I should be
thoroughly aired, and, if practicable,
sunned. This will not only shorten and
mitigate the graver stages of the malady,
but will greatly hasten the convales
cence. !
Their Ignorance.
Harper's Bazar.
Walter and his little sister arrived
early one morning in Albany, where,
with their mother, they were to spend
the day with an old friend of hers, who
has a home more elegant than the chil
dren had ever seen. After quite an
elaborate breakfast the children wero
overheard in conversation iby their
mother. j
"Wasn't it lovely!" Florence was con
fiding to her brother "so many .things
kept coming, and there was so much
glass, all dinerent colors, and such
beautiful plates, and flowers, and such
lots of fruit" I j
"Pooh!" interrupted Walter, who, in
reality, had been quite overpowered by
the breakfast, but who never lost an op
portunity to assume a patronizing tone
toward his sister, "why the poor things
didn't know enough to jhave griddle
cakes!" . I
J. Hall: To auarrel with a superior
is injurious: with an equal is doubtful;
with an inferior, sordid and base; with
any, full of .unquietnes.
THIBET'S TWO LAMAS.
A Description of the Principal Tem
ple at Lhassa.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
. Politically dependent on China, Thib-
Ato1 til'A I omaa o va nr iaii cl tt 4 r A rvan
ent, ana tne veritable popes oi a system
based 'on Buddhism, which was intro
duced early in the fifth century of our
era, and mingled with the Christianity of
of the Ncstorian missionaries, serpent
worship, and magical superstition. Its
curiously jumbled doctrines are taught
in a bible of over one hundred volumes.
Of the chief cathedrar-at Lhassa we have
the following description:
"The entrance is through a large hall,
where holy water and rosaries are sold'
and in which stand four statues of the
archangel. The walls are covered with
rude paintings of scenes from the le
gends of the Buddha. The church itself
is a long nave, divided by rows of pillars
from two aisles, and by silver screens of
open trelli3 work from two large chan
cels. Into the aisle on each side open
fourteen chapels. At the end
is the holy place, containing fif
teen jeweled tablets, with mystic sym
bols of Buddhist metaphysics, and in
the farthest niche Lr the magnificent
golden statue of the now deified Gau
tama Buddha. On the left is the throne
of the Dalai Lama; on the right, that
of the Pantshen Lania; and in order on
either side, gradually decreasing in
height and splendor, tlH) seats of the
Chetuktus, the abbots, and the eighteen
orders of inferior clergy. In front of
the idol is the high altar, or table ot
offerings, with images of gold, silver
and clay, bells, lamps, censers, and
other vessels used in the holy service.
"The service begins by the entrance of
a procession, with the living Buddha as
its head. When he is seated on his
throne each Lama bows before him. A
bell is then rung, and all murmur the
three Refuges, tho ten Precepts and
other formulas. After silence has been
restored, the bell sounds again, and the
priests sing in chorus from the sacred
books. The church is filled with in
cense from the censere. A monk with
a pitcher pours water mixtd with
sugar and saffron over a mir
ror, . which another wipes each
time with a silk napkin. Another
holds a mystic symbol of the world, on
which the water drops from the mirror,
to be caught in a cup. Thence the holy
mixture is poured into another pitcher,
and a drop or two allowed to trickle
upon the hands of each of the worship
ing monks, who marks the crown of his
shaven head, his forehead and his breast
with the sacred liquid. He then rever
ently ewallows tlut remaining drops, and
in so doing believes himself to be mys
tically swallowing part of the Divine
Being, whose image has been . caught in
the mirror over which the water has
passed. I
Fishing In Jalisco, Tlexlco.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Consul Lambert, of San Bias, trans
mits the following account of the pecu
liar mode of fishing at that place:
- The novel method before referred to
for catching fish in this vicinity may not
be instructive, but it will doubtless
prove interesting. There is a small
shrub growing wild here called "vaj
basco." The native fishermen procure
the fibrous root of this shrub, and, after
mangling it well, place it in the bot
toms of their canoes. At high tide
they proceed to the mouths of the
esteros and drive down a wicker fence.
They then partly fill their canoes
with water, which produces an intensely
white liquid from contact with the
root. Arriving at the source of the
estero, or some shoal place beyond
which the fish aro not likely to go, they
throw their preparation broadcast into
the water, which also turns white. The
effect is that the fish become blinded,
and in a very short time, upon the re
turn of the boat, they are found floating
on the surface of the water at the fence
erected at the mouth of the estero. The
larger ones are then gathered into tho
boat and taken to market.
Another method, more fatal, but per
formed les3 frequent, is in the use of
the mils of the ava ' tree. This tree
yields, when tapped, a white liquid very
much resembling the juice ot the india-
rubber tree. It is usad similarly to tho
varbasco, and blinds as well as kills tho
fish instantly. Fish killed by the "lache
de ava" have to be used immediately.
In neither case is there any visible sign
of how they are killed.
Systematic Goodness.
Sidney 8mith.
"When you rise in tho morning de
termine that you will make some ier-
eons happy during the day. It is easily
done, if you are young it will tell when
you are old; and if you are old it will
help to smooth the road down, to the
bottom of the hill. By tho most simple
arithmetical calculation look at tho re
sult. Suppose you live forty years after
you commence this course of medicine,
and you make one person a little hap
pier than they would havo been every
day; that is 365 days in the year, which,
multiplied by forty, amounts to 14.600
persons which you havo made happy
at all events for a time."
Change of Color or the Hair.
London Lancet.
A voung girl has just died in the asy
lum at Hamburg, who possessed the pe
culiar gift of changing tho color of her
hair according to the state of her mind.
In "periods of sedateness"; her hair was
its natural dull color; when excited it
became redish; and her anger was indi
cated by a blonde co'or. Three daj's
were generally required lor the change
to be complete J, and her complexion
also varied in tho same periods and in
the same direction.
De Lesseps' Children.
Cbicaj Tribune.
M. de Lesseps allows his ten children
to play freely . outdoors without wrap
ping ot hands, arms and necks, iiis
aeighbors think that he is careless of
their health; but only one of tho .Un is
delicate, and hi is a twin. Tho rest
never sufftr with colds. I ren.-h fathers
and mothers, as a rule, arc- careful not
to expos? to the weather thoir children's
ai'ms and necks, and they do not mider
itau l the De Lesseps family.
Charles Dickens used to siv that he
iudged the quality of housekeeping by
the conditions of the casters on the table.
Taking a Chinaman Ilotue.
Omaha Herald.
After Ching had been buried two
years a party of Chinese officials who
where en route homo stopped in Omaha
to get his body and take it with them.
The grave was opened and the remains
taken out, but they wero not in shape
for shipment, and wero reburied. Sexton
Medloek, at the request of the man
darins, took from the casket at that time
a hand mirror, an empty wallett, aud
about 89 cents in money, which had
been buried with the corpse. The threo
suits of clothes in which Ching was
dressed were also taken off and planted
under a .tree in another part of tho
cemetery.
The other morning Ching s grave
was opened the second time. Five or
six of the deceased's countrymen were
E resent with a "joss" man, and a num
er of Americans watched tho cere
mony from a respectable distance.
After considerable bowing anJ scrap
ing, a basket of eatables was produced,
and a goodly dinner spread about the
head ot the grave. A chicken roasted
with tho head on occupied the post of
honor, flanked on cither side by
large pieces of boiled pork and liver.
Tea was made in a curious little Chinese
caddy, and a number of cups poured o it
and placed on the ground. 1 hen, alter
more bowing and scraping, several
packages of cigarettes were strewn over
the grave, and innumerable sticks of in
cense lighted. More incantations by
the "Joss" man followed, and when
the mourners bowed themselves
tired the casket was opened and
the remains shoveled out. Tho
bones, which wero free from ilesh, and
perfectly dry, wero rolled up in a piece
of coarso sheeting and sewn up, after
which they were placed in the valise.
Whilo Mr. Medloek was busy packing
Ching's remains for shipment two of
tho Chinamen jumped into the grave
and pawed over the earth atithe bottom
with tneir fingers in order to make suro
that nothing belonging to the deceased's
anatomy was lelt behind.
Satisfied that, they had secured all of
Ching's bones, the Celcst rials drank tho
tea that had been standing about tha
grave, gathered up the eatables, and
came back to town, cliattenng like
magpies and smoking the cigarettes they
had offered up to their dead country
man. Tho valise was taken by the
journeying Celestial to his lodging nd
put v .der his bed, where it remained
until tho custodian started with it for
China.
Duplicate Master of Ceremonies.
Munson's Weekly.
George II had a master of the, revels
named Heidegger who was . eccentric
person. When In an intoxicated condi
tion a model from his face in plaster of
Paris was taken, and from this amask
was made A person of the same stat
ure and a similar dress was provided'
with the matk, and admitted to a mas
querade at court.
As -oon as his majesty was seated
Heidegger, as usual, ordered the music
to play "God Save the King," but his
back was no sooner turned than tho
false Heidegger ordered them to play
"Over the Water to Charley." It was a
great offense to play the latter tune.
Whenever Heidegger left the musie-gal-lery
the tuno was changed at the com
mand of the false Heidgger to the ob
jectionable one. The scene now 1 ecarao
truly comic before tho king. Poor
Heidegger stared at his likeness in an
other man. Then he staggered, grew
pale and could not utter a word. Tho
duke of Montague ordered the counter
feit to take off his mask, and hero tho
frolic ended. Heidegger dec'aied ho
would never attend any public amuse
ment until the mold was broken and
tho mask melted down before his face.
"Moon Blindness."
Chicago Journal
Vice Admiral Close, of tho British
navy, has offered a singular explanation
about tho loss of the gunboat Wasp re
cently off the Irish coast. There exists,
it seems, a form of defective sight known
as "moon blindness," persons afflicted
with which are unable to perceive a
light shining in darkness. It j- easy to
see the consequeuee of this iSrmity jn
a navigating odicer of a ship. Admiral
Close says he nearly lost the man-of-war
Trident "once from'this cause, only dis
covering in the nick of time that his
navigating officer was unable to see tho
light of a lighthouse half a mile distant.
If "moon blindness" is an established
fact in medical science, the sooner pro
vision for detecting it is mado tho bet
ter. A "Universal Column."
Chicago Herald.
A committee has been formed at Lu
cerne with a view of erecting what is
called a "universal column.' It is to
measure 300 feet in height, aryl is to
contain in iia interior relief portraits of
all the celebrated men and women of
the present era on bronze tablet. An
other project of tho committee is the
building of a "museum of the nineteenth
tentury," to be dedicated to art, scienco,
inventions, commerce and indtis:ry, and
to contain the busts and statues of all
distinguished persons of these domains.
The cost is estimated at 7,000,000 to
3,000,000 francs, and is to bo met by
subscription, lotteries, etc."
Sentiment and Common Sense.
Philade'phia CalL
Eulalia (sentimentally) O. no! I
have no desire for great wealth. I
should be happy, very happy, as tho
wife of a noble bread-winner.
George (practically) And I should be
happy, very happy, as the husband of a
good bread-maker.
She concluded to learn.
What Carljlo Lacked.
Helen Wilmans in Ch cago Express
He lacked the love element, without
which tho greatest intellect must fce bar
ren of lasting results. His brain daz
zled Europe aud America with its won
derful glare, but it was the g itter of thu
iceberg; there was no vivifying inluenco
in it; on the contrary, it chilled both
near and afar.
, The railway up Vesuvius has already
paid for itself; the trains, which ascend
night alid day, aro well patronized by
native and foriegn sight-seers, all
strangers ascending nowadays, whereas
formerly a foot ascent was so irksomo
that only the daring undertook the
round trip.