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ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, JUNE 19, 1885.
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WHAT MAKES HER DEAR.
It la not the snarklin-r liiht of hr eyes.
Nor the buuuiilul sin eu ou her rippling
hair;
Xorthe arching mouth 90 winsome wl.se.
Nor her rosy cheeks that makes her lair.
Nor is it tlio tint of Utr waxen skin.
Nor the lightsome ir. ii I or her dainty feet.
Nor her tiny l:lv-whue hands wherein
Lieth the charm that makes her sweet.
Nor is It t'ie rinir of her merry lauph,
Like ripplliiir iuusU-, low anil clear
An innocent t-uii!, : wtmian half
It is not the.e that m.isi- her dear.
It Is not the cllriiplt s in her pink cheeks,
Thoiiirh happy love inlclit lurk therein,
And ln'si'hiet'. like a fairy. s-eks
To hine aw.iy m lu-r di'mpled chin.
It is not tlie ch inn of her lovely face.
The snowy tl;o.iiileis nnl rounded arms,
Nor Hie dainty, delieat uh lisli pai'e
Of lender tiu-er, that wins and charms.
lint It is the I jii 1 i t of her .-';il so pure
That s!.i !c-f fim hfr beaming hazel eyes;
me sp rit heamy. t mt b.i:iii enuure
When every cliariu f giriiiooil dies.
'lis the tender heart. 5,(1 true and kind.
That clothes her with a isisi-zli- grace;
The beauty of a iru'l-lt-?s mind, -That
gives the cliurai to br sweet face.
'Tis pi;r.ty that makes her fair.
And i;uulncs m ik -s her dear and sweet;
'Tis these troo 1 mits beyond compare
That make my darling's charm complete.
A". )'. Ltdijtr.
LAST DAYS OF POMPEII
An Albany Clergyman's Sketch ol
Two Buried Cities.
Rev. Cliuile Wool Visit Ilerculanenm
and It Sister City Vivid tiliiupses
at the Horn.- Life of
Centuries Afn. .
Throuirh thick clouds of dust, and
between ni les of tall houses and long
lines of maeearoni drying in the hot
sud, wc drove along the Bay of Naples
toward I!ereii!ai.e un. Carriages
dashed by d -awn by three horses fast
ened abreast, w.th bright jingling har
ness, and filed usually either with
Engli.-h. Anier'eans or Germans bound
on the same errand. Cart mounted
on two large wh.-els, and packed even
out on ue shafts with men. women and
children, were be:n dragged along at
no mean rate by long-ha red ponies of
the most diminutive sort. High walls
shut out of v ew the larger Dart of the
way. but now au I then, through the
opened doors o" some of the larger
villas, we could look down to the sea.
We passed I a Kavorita. one of the
summer palace- of th.- King of Italy,
now occupied by the d -posed I'asha of
Egypt and Irs i-er:igl 0; and very soon
we'eama to a most unpretending sign,
which annour.c d the fact that llercii
laueum was just under our feet.
13y the ll.ckering light of a torch we
descended a long liight of stone, steps
into the exhumed corridors of an im
mense theater. Ileiculaneum was not
destroyed like Pompeii by soft ashes,
but by lava as hard as molten iron.
Because of the d.fFieultv of work'ng
such a material, and t 11 more be
cause a large town has teen built over
the old city very litlle comparatively
has been done toward it excavation.
Beside this theater, which is still large
ly under lava, the work thus far has
been carried on only in one other place:
vet, in the few-houses that have thus
been uncovered, a inimler of the finest
bronze statues in existence were found.
No one can tell but that huLdreds of
others as beautiful as the bleeping
hwn aud th.,' .Mercury m Repose now
1 e under the cellars of these retch' d
little Port.cian houses. Very near tin
sign that marks the entrance to the
Theater of llereulancuni the road
makes a sharp turn to the left up the
side of Vesuvius. la:;d- of little boys
and men wayla d tis here, half-entreating
at;d half demand ng that we should
accept of the'r seiv.ees as guides.
Every spot worth -ee.ng in Italy is in
fe. ted w,th these creatures. They stick
l:ke burrs, and to get r d of them is
fcuc h :.n unph-a ani i.rotv-s that almot
any oarae) i- oeuu by the average
tourist with a e.y aj)preeiable loss of
temper.
The road ri-e; gradually up th
in untain, guarded u eacli side by
th ck wal s of lava. The houses of the
peasants are 1 u It of the same ma
terial. The Utile vineyards by which
K- nil tlie-e li;)'i-es are surrounded.
are cuii.vated w .h great care, and
produce one of the most highly prized
of i he Ital an wines. Each mcment
the v ew bi ne.it h us became wider and
more beaut. ful. The city, and the
'amp.ijrna, and tlie b.iy, with t towns
and v.ll ges, and its great islands of
Capri and i-chi:t. were uml.-r our feet.
Abjveuswas the cone of the volcano
d:-tinc:ly outli .ed aga'nst the sky,
.-end ng out perpetually its s.oft cloud
of white smoke. Ofun ti.e road ran
by the edge of immense masses of lava,
look nsr 1 ke the twisted entrails torn
from some gigantic Prometheus im
prisoned in the mountain. The vegeta-
l on oecame le-s aou.iuanr. i ne iaa
was piled around us to a more stu
pendous he'ght; everything except the
la r vision beneath us was weird and
unreal. It would have been impossible
for the ancients l.ot to have peopled
this place with my-terious being. For
them tlie gods were the only possible
e phinathdi of all these wonders. Be
cause we. know more than they we felt
less. No old (J reek or Koman could
have gone on as calmly toward what
bethought the entrance to the abodes
of his gods ns we toward what we
knew was only the mouth of a vol
cano. Before we reached the observatory
the clouds closed around us, and the
wind that had been strong all the
morn'ng becain almost a gale. My
coin) an on, thou li he had successfully,
guided a great company a few mouths
ago through rone very temj e-tuous
weather, concluded, a . his broad chest
would oiler such a ia r sin ta -e of at
tack to the w nil, and. as ; he view from
the top would be n such a day ex
ceedingly c'.rcumscr bed, that the as
cent would sca.cely be worth tin
trouble, we spe;it an ho ir or more
in et'" n-' tie- v- de1 rate instru
ments which mark every moveui-nt
an I heart-beat of the monster. The
slightest preparat:ons to belch forth
fire, and ashes, and lava and rock re
cord themselves here. Hardly a peb
ble can be thrown up without the story
being told bv the needle of that indica
tor. Yet all machinerv. and the skilled
men who watch it night and day. mav
be swept down th- mountain anv mo
ment, should the volcano rouse itself
for one of its m .-t terrible efforts.
Even in the erupt on of 1872 the heat
was so intense that the men in the ob
servatory found it almost impossible to
breathe. It is dillieult not to adm"re
the American-like recklessness of th:
Neapolitan Company that has just
opened a railway from the observatory
almost to the tip of th volcano; but
unless Vesuvius h vs been frightened by
this impudence into something like im
potence, engine and train and station
house w 11 all probably be, before very
long, some fif y feet 'under lava.
, It is possible to go with horses di
rectly from the observatory to Pom
pe'i. This i- probably the most im
pressive way to ap;;rach the exhumed
city. We are descend ng upon it along
the track the ashes must nave taken
when they smothered it on that fearful
day almost two thousand years ago.
But there is no impressive entrance
w.th'n the walls of the city. There is
one lawful way of getting in, and that
is through a restaurant aud shop for
the sale of very ordinary curiosities,
and a turn-st le of. the most modern
sort. Butorce past these there are no
more incongruities. Then green slop
ing banks on i aeh side, marking the
d -pth to which the shroud of ashes
covered the c ty, led to one of the
arched gateways, under which you en
ter into a scene which, in spite of all
that innumerable pho ographs have
done to make you familiar with its
main feat-ires, impresses you as the
most remarkable you have ever look,ed
upon. The pavement on which you
tread is worn in hollows and ruts Oy
footprints and chariot wheels. The street
is lined o 1 both sides with houses so
perfectly preserved that a few hours
work would make any of them habit
able. Yet in this great c tv, through
wh ch you may stroll for miles, no l.v
ing thing has dwelt for twenty centur
ies. No cemetery seems so trulv a city
of the dead as this. It is bound to the
world of to-day by no ties. A t'.ious.ind
years and more a.o all its relationships
to the human race were snapped, never
again to be formed. This 1 ttle spot of
earth was then instantly and forever
cut olFby a great catastrophe from all
things terrestrial.
C'Sse bv the gateway we turned as'de
'into a museum where a larjre number
of objects have been so arranged as to
give the greatest po s ble assistance to
the imagination, in its eilort to form
some concept on of Pompeii on the day
of its destruct ou. Bread just as it
came from the oven, with the marks of
the knife and the bak.-r's name stamped
upon it, nuts cracked aud ready for the
table, wine soliddied in long-necked
bottles, and a hundred other articles of
every ort in daily use now as then, are
kept in these glass cases around the j
walls. But far more interesting are
thee petrilied statue like bedie.: in tho
middle of the room. Lying in the posi
tion in which th-y fall, with hands
clasped iu agony, or pressed over the
eyes to shut out the horrors of the in
describable sc -ne, these human form
convey a more vivid impression than
anyth ng ele in Pompeii of the terrors
wh ch smothered aud frightened away
their lives. A few steps brought us to
the l-'orum, the gathering-pl. ee of the
peopl.; to d scuss c;mmerc:al. ai.d
pol.tical, and social life. Even rel g
ious question must have found lierce
disputants here, for mass.ve temples
rise on everv ?ide to different gods.
whose worsh-ppeis mut often have
lingered in the Forum be'ore ascend
ing the steps to the altir, to argue for
the s.iperi mty cf the r own divinity
over all others. Passing under a tri
umphal arch we walked through street
aft r street where all the hull es were
built on the same plan, and seem.-d to
differ only, in i.e antl elegance. Then
out of another gate we came upon the
tombs where the Pompe ans. hke the
Romans along the Appian Way, bu'lt
ed lices for the dead almost a-i-stately
and grand as for the living.
( n our way to the Amphitheater, which
stands some distance from the outer-mo-t
1 m ts of the p es -nt excavations,
we stopped to wa ch th-m gradually
uncovering a ho ise that had evidently
belonged to ;-o;ne rich m -reliant or
noble. Yet h -had not. attempted to
introduce ary architectural novelties.
There was the same narrow entrance
iuto a small co..rt having a fountain in
the center, a room oeyond for the re
cept'on of ordinary guests, another
court 1 irger and more elaborately dec
orated, with a m nv pretent ous foun
ta'n for di;!erjnt so ts of lish, on one
vide a dining room, a id sleeping rooms
on ;:11 the others, and a second story
for the slaves. The Amphitheater
stands almost as t was on that "List
day of Pompeii." From one of the
h ghest rows of its stone seats, w.th
Vesuvius sending up its cloud ot smoke
in tiie distance, w.th the arena so of
te:i b'ood-stained beneath, it is almost
impossible not to re-pe.ple the scene as
Bulwer did, and to l.veover, with these
creatures of the imagination, the' clos
ing acts of that incomparable tragedy.
Mbahy Argus.
We have o' ten heard of the won
derful glass-eating dog Carlo, but al
v.avs believed it a humbug; but he was
called into the ollice of the Artesian
House, th s a' ternoon, and, in the pres
ence of live gentlemen and one drum
mer, he ate all the window-glass they
would give h'ui. The glass was broken
in smail pieces, and he devoured it
greedily, licking up all the pieces that
fell out of his ir.o ith. The dog is the
property of Colonel Thomas Wctmore,
of this place, and has been eating glas
since he was a puppy. He is a pomtei
and a line bird dog, keeps fat and
healthy, and the glass docs not seem to
hurt him in the least Livingston
(Ala.) Journal.
If vou can manage it at all, pay
your little debts promptly. It may be
a benefit along an extensive circle. An
old resident remembers an incident in
lis own business experience, wherein a
certain marked coin came into his till
three times in one day. Toronto (Can
aifaj (3 hie.
-Mr. G. W. Carlton, the New York
Vblisher, has snatched the laurel from
-e Mulhatten's brow. In a private
Iter, some time ago, he says an entire
amily was frozen to death wh le pick
ng strawberries near St. Augustine,
r'la.
ARMED WOMEN.
Tlie Extremity to Which the Mahdt May
be Kedueed.
The announcement that Osman Digma
has been arming the Arab women, in
view of a supreme effort to oppose the
advance of a . relief party by way of
Suakim, is not by any means absurd.
From the earl'est period of the history
th j women of the desert tribes were as
celebrated for their skill with lance
and bow as for that bronze beauty
which the-composers of the "quasidah"
or the "moallakat" were never weary
of describing. Before Islam it was the
b )ast of many Arabian tribes, as it was
afterwards of certain Tartar hordes,
that their women could fight as well as
the men: the Ilimaryites were among
the most famous of these. All through
those ancient Arabian poems to which
Mahomet is sa-d to have referred as
fin d authority for the meaning of cer
tain words or phrases in the Koran, one
tinds legends ot Arab grls celebrated
for their equestrianism, their dexterity
with the trimeter, and even for the num
ber of men they have overcome in sin
gle combat. Islam, by subordinating
the woman to man and destroying the
idea of female equality, did much to ex
tinguish the warrior-spirit of the fairer
sex throughout the greater part of the
Orient; but in the deserts of Arab'aand
Northern Africa something of those an
cient ideas st:ll prevail.
And the modern Arab woman who
acqu'res skill with any weapon might
well appeal to Moslem trad tion in just
ification of her use of such powers.
When Mahomet was struck down at the
battle of Ohod. it was a young Arabian
woman who stood over him aud fought
valiantly w ith tow and sabre in his be
half keeping back the enemy until she
herse'f was disabled by a severe wound
in the shoulder. Still it must be ob
served that among the very famous
warrior-womeu of Islam who" appeared
after tho death of the Prophet, all did not
fight in a strictly orthodox cause. We
need not refer to the prophetesses like
Sedjah, or female leaders of schismatic
movements s.me of whom displayed
great personal bravery and were treated
with shocking cruelty but will confine
ourselves to a brief mention of some
other renowned female warriors who
went into battle to engage iu hard hand-to-hand
lighting.
In the first century of the Ilegira two
remarkable women fell, sword in hand,
in a great battle Djahizah and Ba.a
lah. respectively the mother and the
young w t'e of Chebib, who aspired to
win the Caliphate by force of arms in
the days of Abdel Melik. Chebib was
perhaps the finest sold er of his time: he
won many victories, and his mother
anl wife fought always by his side,
l'a.alah on one occasion actually
made a vow to recte the second and
third chapters of the Korau in the
Mosque of Kufa while that city was in the
possession of the imperial troops. The
second chapter (Sura of the Cow) con
tains L'Sii versus: the third 200. Razalah
and seventy companions unexpectedly
forced a passage through the gates of
Kufa. galloped to the mosque and,
after, the vow had been accomplished,
cut the'r way out again. Several times
in battle the young woman attacked the
Governor of Irak, the ferociom lladd
jadj. and put him to flight. The army
of the Caliph finally overcame Chebib
in a bloody engagement by mere weight
of numbers, aud Razalah and Dja
hizah died fighting to the last. In the
second century of the Hegira lived the
famous Delhetneh, or Zat-el-IIemmeh,
who-e name signifies "Lion-heart"
the most renowned warrior woman in
the history of Islam, and the heroine of
an enormous Arabian epic. There was
scarcely a siege or battle during the
three reigns or El Mahdy, EI Ilady, and
of llarouu-al-Raschid in which she did
not take part. Joan of Arc could
scarcely be compared with her; the huge
work in which her deeds are recorded
pictures her rather as a rival of that
wonderful type in the Nibelungen,
Brtinehild. It dies not appear that
the men to whom such women
were opposed always lacked the true
spirit of chivalry. Whea. during the
re'gn of EI-Rasehid. the Chief of the
Kharejites, El-Wady, was killed in bat
tle, his young sister, Alfarca famous
for her grace, her beauty, and her poet
ical talents buckled on her dead broth
er's armor, ar.d charged, all alone the
conqueri lg army. Ye.id. the Chief,
shoute 1 to his cavalry, '-Let no mail
lay a linger on her!" but, riding up to
her. he struck her horse with the statl
of hi lance to stay its course, and ex
claimed. '-Shame! Will you disgrace
your tribe?" It was not Heath she had
to fear, but ill-treatment if captured
alive. The rough but kindly observa
tion effected its purpose, and she rodo
away in safety.
It is not very likely that the women
of the Arabs about Suakim a mixed
and swarthy race possess such physi
cal charms as might disarm the English
soldiers, much less the Ind an contin
gent expected. But they-might certain
ly in battle win the respect of those
against whom Osman Digma promises
to lead them by the ;ame warrior
qualities which once distinguished the
women of these ancient tribes to which
the Arabs of the Soudan are related by
blood. London Standard.
A Gambling Incident.
A clerk in a large German counting
house was spending his honeymoon in
Italy, and wh le therj a firm paid him
40.000f., o.vcd to his employers. Hav
ing the -lO.OJOf.. the clerk thought he
would go to Monte Carlo. He knew it
was the worst possible place for him,
because he would be tempted to gam
ble, but nevertheless being the foolish
and weak-minded c'.erk he was, he set
off for the spot. Lest he should be im
pelled to go to the rooms and speculate
with his employers' money, he hauded
tho sum over to his wife to keep.
Devoted to each other as bride and
bridegroom were they rambled about
this very small place independently of
each other. The wife, with 40.000f. in
her pocket, went to the tabls, lost all,
and jumped into the sea. .V, Y. Post.
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Professor Loomis, of Yale, says
that with two exceptions last Febru
ary was the coldest February known in
that section for one hundred years.
AMONG THE ARABS.
Slf-Torturo In Airier Anion; Religion
Fanatics.
Henry Menderson, son. of Nathan
Menderson of this city, is now traveling
in Algiers for his health. To his friends
he has written some very entertaining
ietters. The following is an extract from
one of them written January 2, 1885, at
Hammam It'Ihra:
Oa our way to the hotel we passed
an Arab house, from which confusing
sounds were i-suing. The door being
open .we ventured to enter. After pass
ing through n short, narrow corridor
we came upon an open court, where a
strange sight met our view The whole
court, with the exception of a few feet
near the wall opposite the entrance.
watilled with the fonns of Arab men
and women squatting on sacred mats,
or on the grouud. In the open spact
and against the wall was a sort of small
platform, upon which three musician
(save the mark) were seated. One was
beating the tam-tam and the other two
blowing instruments something like
flutes, made of bamboo. Over the plat
form hung a lamp and some candles,
but this light paled before the soft bril-lian;-y
of th.? moon, which shone into
th court and added weirdness to the
scene. Facing the platform were about
eight Arabs engaged in the most fan
tastic and at the sam time fascinating
dance. As the musicians began to play
slow ly they moved the upper parts of
their bodies forward and backward and
from side to side. Gradually the music
b came faster and with it the move
ment of their bodies became more rapid
Faster and fa-ter they went, throwing
their limbs and bodies about in- almost
inconceivable positions, until I could
s-areeJy believe that the rapidly
whii linir mass before me were human
beings. Now the women, who until
this time had remained perfectlv
qui1", regarding the dancers with
fixe I attention, their coal-b'ack
e es sparkling above their w hite
vads, set up an unearthly noise.
can liken to it . nothing I have ever
heard, although it seemed to encourage
the dancers, but would have frightened
another man out of his wits. The
music having risen to almost inconceiv
able rapidity, suddenly ceased. Then,
as if the music had been the only thing
to keep them moving, the dancers fell
to the ground, the'r tongues proiruding,
their muscles rigid and stiff. Immedi
ately those nearest the dancers jumped
and danced upon their prostrate forms,
in order, probably, to loosen their rigid
muscles. They were no sooner able to
move than they arose and began to
dance again, repeating it until utterly
prostrated, not being able to move
There was nothing uncouth about- tho
dance. On the contrary, the gliding
m ition had a peculiar grace. After
several pots of incense were burned,
which revivt d the dancers, another set
of men took their places. Each of the
latter held in h's hands a long, thick
piece of iron, pointed at one end an I
rounded at th - other. They stuck these
i..to their flesh, beating the rounded
knots with ' wooden mallets. The
points ha I probably entered about half
an inch when they Withdrew the instru
ments. Th's was followed by streams
of blood oozing from the wounds. This
was repeated s -vera! tim ,'s. Next came
th ordeal of biting into the leg aud
chewing the prickly pear not a pleas
ant task, as the -eaf is covered with in
finitesimal prickeis, that if only touched
with the hand produce the sensat'oa of
being pricked by need'es. The fanatics
were then ban led burning torches,
which they applied to their faces, hands
and arms. The odor of burning flesh
became so unbearable that we c.inie
away. The following day I inquired
about the origin and meaning of the
fv te, and was told the following leg
end: Several hundred years ago
there lived in a pashalik of Arabia a
very learned p.nd devout marabout
(priest), who by his learning and sanc
tity gathered about him many disciples,
whom he taught But as his teachings
were not in consistency with those of
the Koran, he having had revelations
from heaven, drew upon himself the en
mity of the reigning Pas'. a. The Pasha,
jealous of his i ower with the people,
banished him and his di. ciples to the
desert of Sahara, whither they were
taken and left without food or wa'er.
They wandered about the desert several
days until their thirst became unbeara
ble, and as they could find nothing to
slake it they threw themselves in de
spair upon the ground, praying for
death to relieve them. Then Ali l'en
Aissaoua, the marabout, arose and bade
fiem eat anything they could find, for
hj had received a revelation from
heaven telling him that nothing they
would eat would hurt them. Accord
ingly they feasted on scorpions, snakt s,
prickly pear leaves (and also, I believe,
celluloid collars and railroad sand
wiches, though not mentioned in the
legetid). Rut, strange to say, not only
were they uninjured, but they derived
nourishment therefrom, satisfied therr
hunger and quenched their thirst. Thus
they lived for some time until this mir
acle came to the ears of the Pasha, who,
suspecting some trickery, enticed them
by oilers of a pardon to his palace,
lie threw them into a dungeon
filled with sc irpions, bits of crocke.y,
glass and similar other tonics, and told
them that they couM not be released
until they ate everything. It was no
difficult task, as they had been growing
fat on the same kind of food. The
Pasha, having seen them eat the food,
granted them all a lull pardon and made
Ali Ren Aissaoua his izier.
'The descendants of Ali and his dis
ciples formed a sect called 'Aissaouas,
who every year on the anniversary of
the trial in the dungeon celebrate the
event iu the manner I have described. I
am told that at some places this sect
still eat scorpions and chew glass."
Cincinnati Enquirer.
m m
An augur that bores a square hole
is spoken of as a remarkable recent in
vention. Newspaper ollk-eswill hail
this as an innovation. For years they
have been bothered with bores who
are always round. Rockland Vouricr
Gazefle. Venezuela schools are supported' by
the Federal Government from the rev
enues of the post-ollico r.nd a trade li
cense 8stem.
Tb Sqnmw of Fact and Faucy.
I Canon City Mercury.l
The young laly who wore the contain of
Pocahontas at the firemen's masquerade last
Thursday evening, an 1 in pink hosiery and
kid slippers took the priza as the most real
istically costumed lady present, may have
been entitled to it in the minds of the judges,
but popular opinion seems to think other
wise. At any rate she was not dressed like
any Indian maiden wo were ever intimate
with. To those who are not familiar with
the early days of this country the Indian
maiden appears beautiful in her wild sim
plicity, wearing the fringed carments of her
tribe, as she stan Is outline 1 against j the
glorious sky dressed m a eoronet c I eagles
feathers and a rev! health corsat trimmad
with bead work. Shall we then, with ruth
less hand, shatter this beautiful picture
which was "represented so faithfully
by the young lady the other even-
Ingf Shall we portray the real Indian
maiden, as we have seen her in all
her unpoetic nature, clothed in a pair of sol
dier trousers, a horse blanket, with a neck
lace of the false teeth of the paleface, ! and
her coarse, unkempt hair hanging ovef her
smoky features and clinging to her warty,
bony neck! No. no. Far le it from us to
destroy the lovely vision of copper-colored
grace ami beauty, which the soft du le of
the effete east has erected in tbe rose-hud
chambers of fancy. Let her dwell there as
the plump-limbed princess of a brave j peo
ple. Let her adorn the dormer window of
his memory, proud, beautiful, grand, gauly,
and peculiar, as she was arrayed atj last
Thursday's masquerade. e will spare this
ideal Indian maiden with a back comb and
gold garters. Lather live in t-ie m-sur.iry
of those who saw her the oth?r evening,! jusc
as she was then, while the trui Indian
maiden eats the fricassed locust ofj the
plains an l wears th-j plug hat of progress
A Cannibal Christmas.
The Judge,
What a merry, merry Christmas poms of
our missionaries on the coast of Africa must
have had.
A Hit of Troth Spoken In Jet
Xew- York Sun.
"How are you finding business, doctjrf'
was askad of a physician. I
-Capital," be replied. "I have all I can
attend to."
"I didn't understanl that there was very
much sickness alout." I
"No, there isn't. But we physicians do
notdepend upon sickness for an income! Oa,
my, no; most of our money is made jfrom
neonle who have liothinir the matter I with
thera."
Kconomy is Wealth.
French Fun.
Master Well, Susan, did you mall my
letter, as I told you ?
Faithful servant Yes, sir; but I had it
weighed first, and as it was d-tuble weight I
put on another stamp.
Master Uood girl; only I hope you aidn fc
put it on so as to obliterate the address.
Faithful servant Oh, no, iudee.1, sir; I
just stuck it on the top of the other stamp so
as to save room. I .
He Was Junt Like Other Men.
Chicago News. j
They wero coming out of a dime museum.
'I don't believe that wild man of Bornao is
a wild man at all," she wTiispered. "Nrhy
notf he asked. "He's civilized just like
other men." "What makes you think not '
"Didn't you see the manager pay him a lot
of money I" "Yes; a f0 bill and a; lot of
small bills." "Well, didn't you notice how
careful tho wild man was to fold tha iu
outsider'
Col. Wales.
Merchant Traveler.
The Prince of Wales beats a Kentuckiaa
all to nieces. Ho is a colonel in sixteen
regiments, and never was in a battle
life.
iu hij
A Woman "Worth Her Weight in Gold.
ITroy Times ' j
A Newbury woman has recovered, $4000
for a broken rib, and anatomists estimate
that at this rate her bou .-s are worth $310,000.
MERCANTILE HONOR.
A Quality Which StillTMaa an Intrinsic
. - ValuV
At the recent meeting of the National
Board of Trade, held in Washington,
the speakers very properly took a high
stand for mercantile honor and the jus
tice which should govern the laws of
trade. This was right. From the days
. of the "merchant princes" of Jerusalem,
cf Tyre and Sidon, of Rome and Car
thage, down to the colonial periods of
American history, the business of trallic
on sea and land has had its advantage
takers, its time-servers, its impostors
and its cheats. But it has also had its
men' of ' enterprise . who have always
yoked their speculations to tlie car ol
honesty, and who would never consent t
make progress in any other way. In t !i
perilous times of the American Kexolu
tion there was the merchant John Han
cock,whose honored came star.d-. o.;t
in such bold letters on our Declarnt on
of Independence; there was that o her
merchant, Bowdoin, brought up in flu
very center of the mercantile life o
Boston; there were those contemporary
merchants, Hutledge, of New York, and
Morris, of Philadelphia.
In the even more perilous times of
the late war of the Rebellion, the mer
chants of our country produced many
of its best and most tried friends. Sone
of them poured out their money on its
behalf like water; and others, of the
rank and lile, rushing from the counting-room
and the store, laid down their
lives for the Nation in the fore-front of
battle.
All honor, then, to the patriotic mer
chants of America! f he principles of
commercial honor, by which such men
are guided, are a credit, not only to
their numerous and influential class,
but to the human race. There are. of
course, exceptions to every rule: but it
is an admitted axiom of ethics that all
such exceptions only strengthen the
rule. The very fact that a rule is ex
cepted to, proves not only its existence,
but that the rule must be good where
the exceptions are bad.
You might as well object to Christian
ity because there was once a Judas Is
eariot. or to patriotism because there
was a Benedict Arnold, as to object to
American commercial honor because
there have been, and still are, scoun
drels and villains in the ranks of Ameri
can merchants. As one swallow docs
not make a summer, neither does one
scabby sheep undervalue a whole flock.
It is a fact, susceptible of the clearest
proof, that American commercial honor
is the peer of any in the world. In these
days of magnetic telegraphs and fast
presses, the misdeeds of commercial
men are rapidly trumpeted abroad, not
only as legitimate matters of news, but
as sensations fitted to feed the cormorant
maw of the greedy public; a capacious
maw. indeed, that like the daughter of
the horse-leech, is perpetually crying,
as it gorges itself. "Give! give!" All
the while the modest members of com
mercial society, acting on the scale of
the level and the square, are passed by
unnoticed; or, if they are commented
on in any way, as likely as not it is to
be judged as'no better than they ought
to be, iu fact as tarred with the same
brush that has smeared some of their
villainous ne:ghbors.
The duty of the press in all such cases
is to keep constantly in view the invari
able distinct:ons between right aud
wrong. The good man shouhlbe com
mended while the bad man is censured.
The good man should be rewarded by
the applause of the community while
the bad man is punished by its laws.
Money is j)ot yet the god of our country,
and we devou-ly trust it never will be.
Commercial honor has still an intrinsic
value; a value more precious than jew
els, more inestimable than silver or
gold. I V; iltjddjJiia Call.
WALKING.
red striunliin. if I nt-lliKiitly Indulged in,
CoimIik-i-h to Health.
Every healthy person, manor woman,
should be a good walker, able at any
time to walk six to twelve miles a day
at least, and for double that when grad
ually brought up to it. The points to
be a '.tended to are, to see that the walk
be brisk and vigorous, not of a loitering
or dangling kind; that there be some
object in the walk besides its being a
routine constitutional (i. e., not like
the staid promenade of the orthodox
ladies" school), and if possible in pleas
ant, company; that there be no tight
clothing, whether for the feet or the
body, which will constrain or impede
the natural movement of the limbs and
trunk, and that the walk be taken as far
as possibh? in the fresh country air. In
regard to th's latter particular, al
though towns are increasing so rapidly
as to make it almost a journey to get
out of them on foot, still we have ho
manv suburban tramwavs and railway
lines that in a few minutes we can find
ourselves in the country, where the air
is fresh and pure. Whenever an oppor
tunity presents itself for a little r-hmb-
inT in the course of a walk, it slioum be
taken advantage of. We gain variety
of muscular action, as well as increase
the exertion, and we get into regions of
purer air and fresher breeze at the same
time. What may be considered as the
weak point in walking as a mode of
exereise is tlie comparatively small play
which it gives to the muscles of the
shoulders and c hest, while it is still less
for those of the arm. This should be
compensated for by the uso of light
dumb-bells or Indian clubs, or some
other form of exercise which brings in
play the arms anil shoulders. One of
the forms of exercise which requires the
action of the muscles of the arms and
shoulders, as well as those of the trunk
and legs, is swimming. - This, however,
for manv reasons, can not be used as a
means of exercise except by a few. aud
at certain seasons of the year, but
where .possible it should always be
practised. The great pity is that boys
aud girls do not learn it, as a rule,
while at school. Kvery large town
should be well provided with swimming
baths, and if it could be made com
pulsory for all sch iars at a cer;a:n age,
say twche, to learn to swim, it would
be a great advantage to all, and also bo
the means of saving many lives.
u era!.t ot Health.
A GALAXY OF NOTABLES.
Portraits of Prominent American and
DUtlnffuUheU Foreign Vbdtura.
MICHAEL, R. DE Y0UJTO.
The late shooting of M. II. De Young, ot
The Ban Francisco Chronicle, by Clans
Spreckles, son Of the great sugar monopo
list, brings to publicity again the career of
the De Young brothers, who almost penni
less and without experience built up the best
paying single newspaper property on the
Pacific coast. Though the - wildly sensa
tional and extremely personal style of jour
nalism which they adopted was repulsive,
yet tteir energy and enterprise in gathering
news in advance of their competitors gained
for The Chronicle a circulation greater than
any paper west of the Mississippi. There
were three of the Do Young boys, who In
their early life played around a mining
camp in northern California. Tbe family
was so poor that it is said tbe mother and sis
ters did washing to support the family. One
of the brothers Ia now in an insane asylum,
another, Charles, was shot at the Lands of
Minister Kalloch's son, and here tbe love
aud tenderness of the boys to their mother
was shown. While Charles De Young lay
dying from Kalloch's bullet a special edition
of The Chronicle was printed for their
mother's perusal'lcaving out the sad intel
ligence, i he hope that he might recover
witi-out giving her anxiety. ce tbe
death of Charles, Michael baa kept the
paper up to the same standard of 'per
sonal" journalism, and like his brother has
fallen a victim to it
An American fr'ongstrese.
EMMA NEVADA.
Miss Emma Nevada, who made a success
ful dd ut before an audienca in New York
n Nov. 4, it a daughter of Dr. Wixom,
well known as a medical practitioner in
California. She was'born in Virginia City,
Nov., in 1863. About eight years ago she
left America wiih a class of young ladies
tor Vienna to study, in charge of an agent,
their tuition b.-ing paid in advance. On their
arrival in Vienna, the teacher selected for
Miss Wixom had failed. With characteris
tic western pluclc Miss Wixom set about ob
tainin r the education sought for without in
form ng her father of their misfortune. Her
talent soon won for her friends, among
whom Was Mrs. Mackay in Paris, wbo in
terested themselves in obtaining for her the
best musical training Europe afforded. She
made ht-r debut at II r Majesty's theatre,
Loudon, in 1SS0, aud has since filled engage
ments creditably in Paris, and other foreign
capitals.
The IJine Kiln Club Philosopher.
Detroit Free rress.
There was great general satisfaction
among the large nunib.r j resent as Brother
Gardner took his accustomed seat ct the
opening of the meeting, bince the accident
mentioned at the last meeting several wild
rumors had been flying around. no was
to the effect that be had made his will and
resigned in favor of Sir Isaac Wal pole;
another that the doc-tors had held a council
aud found that his liver had been pressed
two feet out of plump; a third that th heavy
weight resting upon him solong had given
bim such a crook to his legs that a wheel
barrow could be. run letweon them with
plenty of room to spare.
"Gen'l-ni." begai the old man, as be
biniled Lenignly down upon tho shining
pates of the first rc w, "do presumdenshul
'lection am a thing of de p&t. It am gone
foreber. It am gathered into de arc-hives of
de forgotten, dar to be klvered wid de cob
webs of decay. It am well. Dar am some
things we doan want too much of.
'L;t us now turn ober a new leaf. If
rolitic d bigotry has for do pa' three months
prevented us from I orryin' coffee of a Demo
cratic naybur, it need no longer stall' in do
way. If de Lias of our feelings has made
as hf sitate to lend cur flat irons to a Kepub
llcan, we mus' now offer Li in our wheel
barrer as well.
De long night am otcr. nn' daylight has
lroken. Let i:s forgive an' forgit. Do ken
try am all heahyit, an' such of us as her
survived de struggle mus' purga our heart
of rancor an' han't up do house agin cold
weather."
The 'Famous English Jockey.
FRED. ARCHER.
Among the arrivals expected from Europe
is this remarkably successful jocky, m ho has
won on an average two out of five of the
numerous races he had entered in tho last
few years. Many race-goers hold that Ar
cher wins so often liecause ho is so often on
the favorite, but fnquently the favorite
bo'ds that position simply because Archer
rides. His success is no doubt dm to his
bravery, coolne&s and wv.ll-trained judg
ment , .
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