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VOL. II.
r WOMEN'S WAGES.
Some of the TTrak Spot, In Onr floaatcd
American tivlllzatltin.
There is something wrung about that
civilization which compels a woman to
work sixteen hour per tiny for six tiny
in a wee k in order to earu $:l.V). Un
fortunately there nrt women in the
large cities who have to work in this
wity. It is hard for people who have
tlij menus f supplying their l:ily
wniits to resiliiA thut any uf their fel-low-tjeiny;s
:ri tloniuetl tu a lift of tl:M'k-.
ness anil j-vimlin poverty such as
these wi'tneu cinlure. .
That women are in many ensM nn
ilerpu'ul for tlieir services as seamstresses
ant as saleswomen in stores is un
ipiestionahly true, llunl-heartctl as a
stone ami cruel a a serpent is the man
who will extort a profit from tho pov
erty of the women who work for him.
Hut UavouM he folly to seek the cause
of this evil in nothing but the flinty
he.tvtcilness of entploj crs. The trouble,
is tine, not to the form of (ioverinnent,
nor to the org-inizatlon of society, but
to tho civilization which tlrives womt-ii
by the score into certain employment
ami keeps them out of others.
When a tlry-goo-ls merchant may
take his choice from tmonj twen
ty applications for work at six dollar
per week it is not to be expecteil that
he will insist upon paying ten dollar.
The number of competitors in certain
line of work red uet tho waes. Wo
men will work for starvation wajjes in
a store or at sewin-j rather than secure
a comfortable living by doing house
work. Then is somet:dn wrong aliotit the
civilization which teaches a woman
that it is more honorable to sew six
teen hours a day for starvation ware
than it is to securo a eomfortabla liv
in in domestic service. There are un
doubtedly hundreds of women and
!rls working in stores or as seam
stresses who have not one whit tnore
refinement, and aiv not in any respect
iMMtcr educated than rirls who are cm
ployed as servants in households. Hut
the former hold tlu tnsclvcs far above
the latter. The civilization is wiin?
which teaches young girls and women
to make a distinction of this kind.
It is alo a wronj; civilization which
teaches younr women, whose parent
are well a bit to provide for them and
who aiv surroHiidcd by the comforts ol
home life, that they are in duty ttound
to po out into the world and compete
witli their less fortunate sisters in the
struggle for a living, lionut life and
home work constitute the proper sphere
for every woman, ami it is a false phi
losophy w hich teaches any thing eNe
Hie woman, whether married or un
married, who can not e at home and
find employment in homework is un
fortunate. Hut the unhappv condition
of those unfortunates is rendered all
the more unhappy by the competition
of jrirl who. although thev have eom-
fortahhs home, will, for the sake of
earning a pittance of pin money, seek
employ mont as 'salesladies. or clerks,
or Seamstresses. Denver Trituue.
A GROWING EVIL.
Overatndv Amnn "hl!lrt Rulnlns Many
Mnn l'hyal-l Conatltationa.
Dr. William A. Hammond read a
pair on "Hrain Foiving in the Educa
tion of Children" iwently, In-foro S')
memlK'i'S and guest of the Nineteenth
Century Club. He told of a little girl
brought to him one day afflicted with
St. Vitus' dance. Sh had been to
school and in her book-bag she had an
English grammar, an arithmetic, a
gi-ography, a history of tho United
States, an astronomy, a temperance
physiology and hygiene, a French
grammar, a French reader and a treat
ise on general science. These sul-
jects she was expected to master at
home iu six and a half hours, if she
gave thp needed time to sleep, to eat
ing, to dressing and recreation. Con
tinuing he said:
She had learned all thes things, but
sha was spending her brain capital, not
her brain income. Intellectual bank
ruptcy was staring her in the face. We
are living too much under the reign of
the schoolmaster. The brain of a child
at seven years is larger in proportion
to its body than is the brain of an adult
for after that age the brain does not
increase in size. Children in their first
ten years ought to learn solely through
the ordinary use of their senses. If a
child doesn't look at a book until he is
ten years old he will learn to read
quicker than a child who studied his
letters at three. Laws prevent phy si
cal overtaxation of children; why not
their intellectual overtaxation? Mem
ory is not knowledge. Because chil
dren recite well does not mean that
they understand. They recite by rote.
So do parrots. Such cultivation of
memory weakens the brain powers.
How much bettor it would be if we had
more objective teaching. What idea
can a child get from Dr. Johnson's
definition of net-work a reticulated
structure with interstices between the
intersections'? There is too much
cramming in the schools in spite of all
the teaching against it. 1 confess too
strong sympathy with tlie intelligent
truant. We must rememlw-r that man's
hrain differs vastly from woman's brain.
They ought not to have the same kind
of education until they have the same
Icind of brain and the same kind of
nervous systems. Jv". V. I'ritmiie.
The woman who shows her love
of admira'ion has not been spoiled by
fl.it tery. O dy the spoiled girls take
it as a matter .f course. J'hiiade'j hia
Ca'L
'Ihe man who lorrows one dollar
from you and neglec s to return it is
cften thought lo liavo a poor memory,
when, in fact, the mau is poor, and
not the mem-
There once was a lover narad B
Vith a voice like tbat of a fro3,
'Neath her window he'd ling
Fr of ev'nlngs and sing
Till his trousers were chawed by the Hogg.
A: Y. Mar.
American enterprise is felt at Her
nosand. Sweden, which has jnst beci
provided with tho most northers,
electric light station in the world. The
lamps there are lighted at half past
two o'clock in the afternoon, and put
oat at fifteen minutes past tweWe
o'clock, midnight.
Mamma "Who dwelt in the Gar
den of Eden. Freddie?" Freddie -O
I known, the Adamses!" Marvare
E
THE HCOSIER POET.
Tamo. Mhllrnmb Ktlry's tarty Struct!
anil Latar Kawwii
James Whiteomb Riley Is a native of
Hancock County, lnd., and about thlr-ty-sl.x
years of age. His early educa
tion was somewhat defeetlve.for though
Riley's opportunities were good
enough, his father being comfortably
oil" in this world's goods, hu preferred
a pursuit less dry than pouring over
books. HofM-o his school days were
over he abandoned his studies and took
up tho trade of a sign painter, and soon
began traveling from place to place,
apparently contented if his day's work
brought h;m enough to pay for his
night's lodging, lie would finptcnily
enter a town lis a blind slg't writer,
and solicit vi in k w hile being guided
from house to house by a boy. When
his ability to do ihe woi k was ques
tioned, he demanded a trial. Ituitntu.;
his hand over th sin face ns
if to taka the dimens'ous.
the Mind sig-i writer'' would
write the sign while thr( people would
gather around him aad express the
r -atest ntm shnieiit at the accuracy
of the work. Oa one of these tramps
Riley fell in with a vernier of patent
medicines, inl for a time tlie two
traveled together, Riley amusing the
crowd with his banjo an I comic songs
and saying, as "the medicine man" ex
tolled the virtues of his wonderful
catholicon and cold it to the people.
As a s'gn painter Riley became per
fect!' familiar w th the language of the
treet, the Ignorant and unsophisti
cated. Rtid thus laid the foundation fur
hi future success as n writer of dialect
pro and poetry. The signs he paint-i-d
have on them such peculiar ex--
ressloiis and charaeif r as indicate
lha odd iremus of the author.
'The first verse I ever remember
vriting." said Mr. IMey. recently
was a little four line valentine, 1
as just big enoiijr'ii lo reach the top
of a table, and 1 was pa:utiur a comic
sketch on a p'ece of pi per. Helowthn
sketch I wiote four comic lines my
first. 1 believe." Speaking of this ear
ly experience a a writer of ver-e for
publication, Mr. Riley said: "For a
long time I published in local journals
iid received the commendations of
my friends. At last I sent tlne verses
lo Lou . fellow, and he was kind enough
to send me nn encouraging letter.
Armed with this I ntw.ckrd th metro
politan press, and have inee been paid
for my productions." Hi first pr
diictions apv a red in print between
173 and l7l. To biing him
self the earlier into public notice, with
the consent of a country editor, R ley
published a shot t jmem which was an
ni.tation of Edgar A. Roe's sty le, in
!rodueinr it w th the statement that
h" poem had been found writtt n on
.he blank leaf of a l-o.ik once Ijelong-
n to Roe nd foil ml by a relative of the
ieccased poet, who moved to Indiana
from the K ist many years rn.ro. The
rick was discovered, but it seems to
'.lave answered the purpose it was m
ended for. a the merits of Riley's jmmi
acre ri cognize I. He pif ured em
ployment on a newspaper published in
Imli mapolis, nnd wlii'e thus i ngiped
wrot the most ef his dialect verse.
Wiihin tho lust few y ears he has con
tributed a number of pieces for Eastern
periodicals, nnd has published a lmnk
f selections, i which, however, the
piece in imitation tf Roe's style does
not appear. Riley's appearances as n
reader of his j-o. ins befoee- distin
guished literary people and their ail
niirers in Xev York la-t year were a
great success, lie wa the lion of the
occasion. Mn enp li Tribune.
JOHN SURRENDERED.
.V (.rnlte Hint llropitrd at tha Klglil
Tim. l.at to Happy Keautts.
"How funny some people a:c," she
said.
"Funny?"
"Yes, some people w ho are going to
he married."
D!"
"Yes, Fome wart to I e married in a
halioon, some on the mid tie an li of a
bridge, gome in a boat, some in a rail
road train, some on horseback, m
on the idge of a piecipice, some down
in a coal-mine "
"Yes, 1 have noticed it."
"What is their object, 1 wonder?''
"Marriage, of course;"
But I mean their object in getting
married out of the usual wrav."
Well. I'll tell you what 1 think.
Thev get married in this way so that
they can tell their children and their
grandchildren they were married un
der pecuiiar circumstances, as. for in
stance, 'your mo' her and me, chil
dren. were married in ac,al mine.' or
your grandmother and tae, children
were married in a balloon."
Perhaps it is the reason," said the
maiden.
"Olcourao that is the reason."
There was a pause. Then the maiden,
with a glowing cheek, said:
"I've l een thiukiu , John."
"Yes?" he said, interrogatively.
.'ve been thinking how funny it
would be " (a pause, and a deeper
blush).
"Well, Bella, you've been thinking
what?"
"I've been thinking how funny it
would be if"
Yes."
"If when the subject of marriage
omcs up thirty or forty years hence
you cou'd point to me and say: ' hy,
children, your grandmother proposed
to me in leap year and wo were mar
ied a few weeks later "
John is very 1 usy thce days furnish
iMI a nice little cot:ajr", and li -Ua is
superintending ;he making of her wed
dinsr-drcss. A't w ark Journal.
Mrs. Charlotte Simonton, of New
Richmond, Wis., has reached the full
term of one hundred years. Her only
care is that her young son he was
eighty-one last birthday may learn
to sincke, like all the other bad bops.
A young man of Brunswick, Ua.,
went duck hunting, and while at least
a mile away from the city fired at a
duck with a bre-ech-loailinff rine. llie
hall came to the city and went through
the door of a residence on Newcastle
street, just missing a child's head. X.
. Sun.
mom
Fourteen clocks keep the time at
the State-house in Augusta, Me., all
eight-day. Two of the clocks are over
forty years of age.
EBANON
LEBANON, OU12GON,
WEATHER-DOARDINQ.
A Vsoful and Nlmpta XI at hod Mot Kiowa to
Many Italldara.
The following method of weather
boarding is not generally known, and
Is a great saving of time on thn usual
method of guaging w ith compass nnd
living set nails every few feet. When
the frames are set reailr for weather-
boarding, take a rod. and, luiving
measured upon it the full height from
the starting of weather-hoarding to the
top of window or door frames, spacii
It off In proper distnnca for the weather-
board:ng to show to the wentli-r.
Then take nuother rod nnd gel thn
distances between each opening, mark
ing the same upon it Count the num
ber of pieces required for each space.
and proceed to cut Ihe required lengths.
squaring the left-hand end. lly these
means every piece of board may be cut
with as little waste as possible. Now
pick up a piece standing at tho right-
hand end, put the left-hand end, which
I squared, against the casing or corner
board, put tho weather-boarding hook
over the hoard nnd against the
casing at the riht-hand end, and
mark it accurately, take down ami
saw and put It up In Its place, when
it w ill fit sufficiently tight to hold with
out nailing. After a little practice of
this method the block plane need Hot
be used at all, nnd one can space six or
seven boards in position without pick
ing up the hammer to nail tin m. The
frames nnd col ner-boai ds being all
regularly and properly spared, it Is
not necessary to gaugo each board,
nor to use sit nails, which effecis a
considerable saving of time, besides
which, the spacing on different corners
will insure the boards all being on a
perfect level, nnd the method will
therefore have the further advantage
of producing more accurate work.
A second method of a somew hat sim
ilar kind may b used in fulnu door
and blind. Take a rod, and holding
it against the edge of a door, mark
upon it w here the hinges are to go, top
mid bottom. Ihen drive in the rod
sharp-pointed brads or nails at the
marks, and it will then form an accu
rate gsu ;e for all doitr of the same
size. 1 lace it against the door with the
top end even with the top of the door,
give it a t ip with the hand, and the ex
act position of the hinges Is marked.
tcteuttfic .America i.
SUNKEN IRISH CITiES.
LKnd 1'hat An nt a llorlilrUly KooaaatU
Origin.
There are ntmieriHislegends of sunk
en cities scnt'etvd throughout Ireland,
some of which are of a most romantic
origin. 1 litis the space now covered by
the bike of Inchiiigiils is reMrted in
former davs to have been a populous
and flouil-dilng city, but for some
dreadful and unabsolved crime tradi
tion savs, it was buried beneath the
deep waters. The dark spirit of the
K n: still resides in one of the caverns
w hich border the bike, nnd once every
seven years at midnightheisjiucsforth.
mounted on his charger, and make
tho complete circuit of the lake, a per-
formaneo which he is to continue till
the silver hoofs of his steed aro worn
out, when the curse will be removed
and the city re-appear once more in its
all by-gone condition. The peasantry af
firm that even now, on a calm night.
ono may clear.v see me towers ami
spirts gleaming through the clear
water. With this legend we may com
pare one told by Burton in his "History
of Ireland": "In Ulster is a lake thir
ty thousand paces long and fifteen
thousand broad, out of which arlseth
tiie noble northern river called Bane. It
is believed by the inhabitants that they
were formerly wicked, vicious people
who lived in this place, nnd there was
a prophecy In every one's mouth that
w henever a well which was therein, and
was continually and carefully covered
and locked up carefully, should be lefl
open, so great a quantity of water
would issue therefrom as would soon
overflow tho whole country. It hap
pened that an old lieldaru coming to
fetch water heard her child cry; upoo
which, running away in haste, she for
got to cover the spring, and, coming
back to doit, the land was so overrun
that it was past help, and at length she,
her child and the territory were drown
ed." Chritini Union.
Teaching a Crew a Lesson.
On a recent cruiso of the United
States man-of-war Michigan, a sailor.
who is a Chicago man, attempted to
throw an exhausted quid of tobacco
over the rail Into the water. His aim
was bail, and the quid fell on the deck.
An officer observed it. lie would not
allow -he Bailor to touch it, but order
ed the entire crew to rig up a gun
tackle. Tho gun tackle is a hawser
three and a half inches thick and
weighs 2,500 pounds. Being seldom if
ever used, it w as stowed away in the
hold and covered up. lo got it on
deck and rig it up is a long, hard task.
But the gun tackle was rigged up and
the commanding officer attached to it
a silk thread. He made a loop in the
thread, lassoed the quid of tobacco,
made it fast, all hands gave along pull
and a strong pull, and the quid of to
bacco was hoisted overboard. Then
the gun tackle was taken down and
stowed away in the hold. It required
eleven hours of hard work to get the
tobacco overboard, and it is the opin
ion of the commanding officer that no
more quids of tobacco will lie thrown
on tho deck of the Michigan for some
time to come. Milwauke Wisconsin.
It is a most hopeful sign ef the
times, when, as we are assured.
learne I professors in German Universi
ties urge young men to the utmost pur
ity of life in order that they may have
the highest possible amount of brain
power.
Faith without repentance is no,
faith, but presumption; like a ship all
sail and no ballast, that tippeth over
with every . blast. And repentance
without faith is not repentance, but
despair, like a ship all ballast and no
sail, which sinketh of her own weighs.
Sanderson.
We need to watch our tendencies.
They may be leading us in right direc
tions, but also in wrong ones, and we
should therefore be careful to know
whither we are moving. Are we
drawing nearer God and dwelling in
the love with which he surrounds us?
United Presbyterian,
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1888.
THE OLD BENARES.
Tha
I'laiHt Hh-r tiaularaa Tauaht HU
Itasauttfut riilttiaiiphy.
But I had forgotton to speak of Sar-
nath, the old Benares of many ceutu
rles ago. It lies Home four miles out
of ".lie present city, mid Is all eultirat
ed over, except where great heaps of
nokeii brick mark tho spot where its
i-om'Iv eilillces mica stood. A loflv old
round tower-looklug structure, about
a hundred feet in diameter and over
that iu height, a solid mass of brick,
marks the spot where (Sautama taught
his religion, and probably beneath it
Were buried some of his bones or hair.
A part of Its outer easing of stone Is In
good condition. exhibiting exquisite de
sign and finish iu its elaborate and intri
cate carving. It is said to be over two
thousand years old. mid Is prolmbly the
original "stupa" from which the pngo-
las of Itiiriuah were modeled, ther.
however, taking more of a bell form.
It was a touching thing to sit under
this old "stupa," and go back in fancy
twenty odd centuries, and to Imagine
myself listening to the gentle tones of
this man, who abandoned the liixm lea
of princely possessions, the power of
royal position, to become for long y ears
a recluse, that he might spin from his
bruin liie tluead which bin. Is and
unites man to his (Sod; and who.
after he believed he had found
the si-fi, silken bond, gave hlui
-elf up lo a life of labor and depriva
tion while he preached his beautiful
philosophy teaching loveliness nf
pirit, absolute purity of life, love lo
liod and a boundless charity toward
all living things. Here close by he
li"d for many years, 'louinling a relig
ion which has nvr Tu'aries than ntiv
it her faith professed by men; here he
preached that exqul -ite charity which
can give pain to milli ng breathing the
breath of life which can lake life
from no thing into which (iod has
lilown breath; which teaches that no
living thing is so degraded that it may
not hold a soul which (iod has nested
and which can liefer die. Here he
lived, who to-day Is worshiped by
comities millions as a god. Here he
walked and here he sat, tillering those
iU4iin which soon cry stalir.ed into a
fulth, and this is claimed to lw the
Light of Asia." I sat ami th. night.
Around me were more limn a dozen
Utile bo and girls, bright, but all
begging lithe, healthy and pretty.
but all steeH-d In poverty and igno
rance, nnd all followers of Hmhlha. or
rather the children of his followers.
How nn. ch had his teaching to do
with tlieir ib gradation f Though his
philosophy be so beautiful; though his
eligion be so full of chaiilv that
quality which proves that man Is akin
to Deity; though he t tiiiht love forliod
and for every thing He lias created,
yet hi religion has depressed nnd re
pressed his followcx. lie taueht that
a life of purity wn a life of tranquility
nnd of calm, inactive reflection.
Man must constantly step for
waiil. lie must not stand still. The
moment In pauses in an onward pro
gress, thai moment the uenu
weights of the earth from
which he sprang begin to pull him
downward. His mental as well as his
physical being sprang from a germ of
life id by side with which was the
germ of decay. When growth slops,
decay liegin its deadly work. (ian
tama may have caiiaeil the "Light of
Asi;i" to spread over the mighty East.
It wa a light beautiful, poetic, calm
and sweet; it was not a light to vivify
the dead into life; it was not a light
which warms the torpid into activity.
It lacked glow and was without intens
ity. The pale moon rises iu the east,
spreads its mild light over a sleeping
vorld. and all nature continues Its
-lumber. The sun rises later; its in
tense rays not only lighten, but warm
nature, and all il children awaken
from slumber into activity, man and
beast, tree and flower. Buddhism may
have been the "Light of Asia," but it
was not till close to the Mediterranean
a new and better brightness was born
that "the light of the world" arose.
Under the sweet, calm light the earth
lies iu the lap of a lethargy, from
which it may riot for nges free itself.
Under the other, the warm, burning
light, the West marches with giant
strides. Culler II. Harrison, in Chicago
Mii I.
a a.
Elder Willis Warren, a noted
colored Baptist preacher of Georgia, Is
a remarkable man. He is very large,
fat. jolly and bald. He can not read or
write, but he has gained . complete
authority over thousands of his people
iu Lee. Dougherty and Baker Counties.
Each of his followers is assessed one dol
lar a year, which is religiously paid, and
"I apa (Ilia income is very large.
He owns a targe plantation, which is
worked by members of his congrega
tion in turn without any excnse to
him. He drives into Albany, ("a.,
where he has recently built a large
church, seated in a handsome carriage
behind a high-stepping black horse.
It is said that he uses his great power
with his congregation for good and
that his advice to them is excellent.
The Rothschilds are said to bo en
gaged in an effort to control the dia
mond products of the world. The
Rothschilds are a powerful family, but
when they deliberately rush into a com
petitive fight with our native hotel
clerks their name is no longer Roths
child but Dennis. Front! Show Mr.
Rothschild to No. 4,149. twelfth story,
rear. Binghnmton Jiepublican.
Boware of mating your moral
staple consist of the negative virtues.
It is good to abstain, and teach oth
e:s to abstain, from all that is
sinful or hurtful. But making a bust
n ss of it loads to emaciation of char
acter, unless one feeds largely also on
the more nutritious diet of active, sym
pathetic benevolence. Oliver II endeli
Holmes.
Don't be afraid to let your children
see your love for them. Let a child
feel that no matter where he goca or
what he does, no matter whether
friends forsake or foes slander him, his
pnrents' love pnd trust will always fol
low him, and that child is not only
safe for all time, but the thought of this
love will shine out like a lamp in a
dark place, cheering and strengthen
ing against all odds.
PRESS.
WHAT IS PESSIMISM V
A Thaory In tha Air a I'aaonatantlal as
Many Oihar Silly 1 haorU.
We have heard of commentators
darkening w ith many words the sub
ject they set out to illumine. 1 trust
that no such misfortune Is to result
from the labors of the Browning
societies hi this country and England.
To class the keeii-sighied, but large
minded and genial-hearted Browning
mining the K)-simlsls seems a m'mtake
hard to account for to one who has
found In his hopeful philosophy, a
greater encouragement than almost
any other single writer, teacher or
preacher of to-day has to give. I
confess to Iteing akeptlcnt as lo the gen
uineness off much that calls Itself a
siiuism, or. rather as to the existence
of many thorough-going pessimist.
quest ion the propriety of clasHing
Pascal among pessimists called "re
ligious," for to my mind the ideas of
religion and pessimism are incom
patible cren religion as Rascal under
stood It. It were truer to say of
hlin that. In the struggle of his
intellect la-tween faith said under
mining doubt, his mind at times lost
hold mi religion, and then, for him. the
universe was darkened, and chaos came
again. If to "recognir.e that in this
world sorrow outbalances ji.y " he pes
simism, then I take it that the major
ity of person past their youth, who have
mind to think with and hearts to feel
with, are pessimists. But such recog
nition of thn fact of life does not settle
the question whether it is worth living.
Ilrowniug says, in the person of
the pagan piel Cleon: "Life's Inade
quate lo Joy. as the sou! sees It' thai
is, in unalloyed fullness of perfection;
yet the pagan could imagine a state of
clng alHtve the present in which the
"Joy-hunger" should be satisfied. If
Zeus the nil-wise were the all-loving,
loo. It seenis lo me that the true
eimist, like the true skeptic, is
nothing if not thorough-going, and
that to he one requires a greater hard
ness of head and coldness uf heart
than belong, thank Heaven, to many.
A gc nuiue pessimist should go out and
drown himself, as (he practical out
come uf his belief; if he does not. It is
because, in spite of theory, he con
trives to find life tolerable and if for
him. why may it not Iw, for his fellows?
The foi inula of "-simim is, or ought
lo be, that this is the worst of all h
sible worlds, and therefore let u each
and all get out of it. Schoctthauer.
the "great aMitle of esimim." so
far as he was sincere and consistent,
was so in virtue of his coldness of
heart, the "lumiuoii selfishness which
guided him through life.' He wa
never guilty of really associating with
anvlMMjy. we are tdd. But. granting
the existence of a few convinced and
more or les consequent contemner
of the world and mankind. I think il
remains true that pessimism Is mostly
a theory in the air. as liusubstniitiai
and harmless as many other theorie
that men have manufactured in all
iges of Ihe world. To return to tin
point whence I started -that Brow ning,
of all men. should be called a pessi
mist seem wonderful, most wonder
ful, and yet again wonderful. To rec
ognize the force of circumstance and
he fatality of chance in the life ol
man. the irretrievablenes of his mis
takes, his capacity for suffering, the
possibility of his deeest joys trans
forming themselves into his most
poignant griefs, the frustration of ho
and ihe henrtsickness of unfulfilled de
sire, "infinite passion and the pain nt
jnite hearts that yearn" to see and
feel all this docs not make a man
a pessimist. To put into a word
that diametrically opjiosite view I take
of Browning, it seems to me that, a
few great names apart, no poet with
so wide and deep n knowledge of hu
man nature and life has so uniformly
maintained a tone of steadfast and
lofty hope. His world is not made up
of saints and heroes, but of struggling,
sinning, sorrowing men and women ;
yet in his creed they have always the
power to erect themselves alnf e them
selves. Many of them find victory even
in defeat, Joy in Ihe midst of pain, and
honor, faith, and love worth, even in
this life, more than easy-going com
fort and the satisfaction of selfish pas
sion. The confidence of Browning's
tone contrasts with the uncertain utter
ance of most of his brother poets since
WordswortlL Even the latter spoke,
as it were, from Ihe lonely height ol
abstract contemplation, while Brown
ing's voice comes up from amidst the
throng of active human life, lie says
of it
"This world it means latensely, and means
Rood ;
To Ond lis meanlnir is my maat and drink.
And Ihe facts of existence which move
the shallower thinker to lamentation
and doubt, namely, the mutability ol
all things and the disappointment ol
hojie, siir and stimulate Browning, so
that he cries, of this "old woe of the
world, tune to whose rise and fall we
live and die"
'ltlse with It, then ! Rejoice that man Is hurieo
From ahaufe tu cuan&e unceasingly."
AUauttc Monthly.
ITH AND POINT.
-Aiuo ig the books that havehelpod
jm, pugilists always enumerate the
crap-book. Puck.
Tl e man who has workird himself
np in this world Is always the hardest
on thoso beneath hiai. Jnlge.
AH mon are b r i fne an I equal,
according lo law ; but nil of them do
not stay that way. -V. O. Picayune.
A goo I many of the people who
aresiillt.ig in Ci indti are t lime who
hare neglected to do a iv settling over
hers. Yonkers SI i'enn tn.
N thin?; will make a healthy man
lire i q rck ir than raadi.tg a long list
ot ru.es for good health. Marth '
Vineyard Herald.
R'tlcence, concentration and con
tinuity are characteristics which ca i
not infl tence one part of a man's life
without influencing the rest as welL
If the world were willing to accept
most men nt their own valuation it
would have to go Into voluntary bank
ruptcy in a fortnight- Somervills
Journal.
We si eon. but the loom of life
never stops; and the pattern which
was weaving when the sun weut
down. Is weaving when It comes up
t,o-aionow,
NO. 2G.
FISHING WITH BIRD3.
A Mataralist's Vary Muni aad Intratla
Atftra-Mtaro In Japan.
1 made a Journey of about twenty
five miles fraa Tklo to a small river.
Ihe Baungawa. lo witness this novel
sight. Il was a bright moonlight
night, said lobe a bad night for fishing,
a cloudy and dull evening being pie-fi-rri
d, a the fish were then not so
ncllvc. The river consisted of two
branches, miming very swiftly, and
each from Iwen y to fifty yards widi,
but iu flixid-time it extended over a
space of 200 ysrds or mora, running
between hih lilnflV. The man with
his bird was waiting for us on the stony
led of the river, wild his lurch of pioefst
burning brightly. The bird (Pbalaero
cornx sp.) was fery lame, and sal
percJieil on a rock ctoa by. A eord
w as tied fretlf llghlly ' around the
lower part of the throat and between
the shoulders, from which was attached
a piece of bamboo (having a salmi at
each end), long enough to extend be
yond Ihe bird's wings and prevent
fouling of lha cord, while the bird was
In the water.
Every thing being ready, the fisher
man takes the torch In his left rami,
an I clamping the cor. to which the
iird is attiehed, wades out iiifj th
stream, the bird following hiiu, and.
after perf inning a hasty toilet, dipping
hi bead and nck in th water an.l
pre niug himself, begins the business
of the night. The fisherman holds the
torch dir-ctly in front .m l above Ihe
bird's head so that it can see the fish in
be clear water. The birds seems l l
perfecily fear'ess. and as he comes ti
sparks of fir are const? stly falling oi
his hea l an 1 btck. Tue fishing is don
up stream, the man So ling it all tu
could do to keep pace with the bird, a
the water surge up nearly to his thighs;
iu f act, it was hard work for us on shore
lo scramble along among the rocks in
the unce rtain light an I watch the bird
U the same time. The bird dire,
swims under water for eight or ten
yards, coined up and Is down again,
.forking very rapidly and eon tan lit
taking fish. When the fishes are small
he bird is allowed to retain two or
three in his throat at a time, but a fair
sis -d fish la Immediately taken from
liim and put Into the basket.
During a space of half an hour fifteei
fishes were take i, which was pro
nounced a good catch considering the
brightness f the night. The large
-f th-se fishes, which were all of the
same species, wero nine to ten inches
in length, and having been taken im
mediately from Ihe beak of Ihe bird
w'-r- scarcely bruise. I. The larget and
Ih-sI of the) we had the next morning
for breakfast, the other we gave to out
friend, the corrn ir.tnt, who was kindly
assisted hy his master to get tliem pas
the cord which constructed his Ihroa.
, that ha could n it otherwise have
s w al lo w e I . A m eri-nn S"t urmliiL
INSANE PATIENTS.
an latrat'a Thai W!IH aa EiptTtoaeosf
Asylatai Kara.
The treatment of patients in an in
ane asylum Is radically different from
the mental picture that are drawn by
he families of those who have been si
nnfortunate as to require restraining.
Alter the first few days the patient
overcome the horror that imagination
attaches to mad houses, and through
lis wandering; intellect there comes a
gleam of light that makes him content
ed with his surroiindinrs. Thus he be
comes tractable, and the physician
and trained attendants ean quickli
grap his case, exposing the vulnerable
points of his character, which are said
lo control the pa'ient in his lucid
moments. Of course, where men or
women are seized by ft paroxysm, in
citing them to destruction ef them
selves or to damage property, there is
only one alternative they mint b
rendered helpless, so that in thos
violent moods they can do no harm.
Patients became very much attached
to special nurses, and this feeling
bettered by the physicians, as it denotes
an awakening of the mental entrgio
and renders the insane person more sus
ceptible. Ton would be surprised to
see a slender little Sister of Charity at
t, V incent a Aylum enter the room
if a patient w ho had torn his bedding
into shreds, smashed the few pieces of
furniture in bis room and chased the
male attendants like an infuriated
beast. It was my first experience ot
ihe kind, and I expected to see the poor
little thing torn to pieces by the nu.d-
nnn. I was deceived. Ihe Sistei
seemed to eaercise a spell over the big
'trapping flIow. who weighed ovet
wo hundred pounds aad stood six feel
in his stockings. She 6oke in the same
way that a n.other would addreas a cros.
child, told 111 in he was very foolish.
bat he wasn't doing right, and lhal
until he was ready to behave Ivimscll
she would have to punish him by put
ting on the "Jacket" and "muff." two
of the worst devices in an insanse asy
lum. That Bjan could have crushed the
brave little woman to a jelly without
making an effort, but he began crying
over the scolding and submitted. Nc
man. priest, doctor or attendant could
have approached him. and no other Sis
ter could hae controlled him. These
singular attachments must be of mes
meric origin. SL Louis (Jlobt-Dcmo-cral.
-De fluctuation of de mern'ry am
'stonishin. Ef yo owe a dollah,
annoddnh man mus putyo' in in in' ob
t:t; wh'rcHsef a dollah am com in tov
yo'. yo lain nebbcr needs joggin.
Judge.
M et difficulties with unflinching
perseverarcn, and they will disappear
nt last; though you should fall in the
struggle, yon will be honored: but
shrink fri in the task, you will be
despised. Church Union.
The real work of the world is done
by the mechanics and the farmers, who
are also mechanics in their special
sphere. Politicians and warriors are
merely policemen, wh se business it is
to keep order while the mechanics and
the farmers do the work. American
Machinist.
We are apt to think too much of
our own troubles, forgetting that we
are objects of affection to some heart
at least, and that while we are brood-
lag over our own misfortunes we are
saddening the hearts and darkening
the 1, "tthose who depend upon as
JOB PRINTING.
Star? dcrlUa of
Job Printiflz dm ca Stort Mce.
Legal Blanks. Business Cards,
Latter Head a. Bill Beads,
Circulars, Poatora, Ztm.
Kaacatad la food atyto aad at knraat HvtBa; prtama.
EDEN DILL'S REVENGE,
How an Old follow Hal Evoa with
ftpinator Who Had rfillo.1 fflaa.
There lived in my childhood home, a
rural dixtrU-t in the West, a quaint old
fellow named Ebep DHL who was al
ways doing and Maying things that gave
the entire neighborhood something to
laugh about. My father was a justloo
of the fioace and 1 have often heard
him tll this story about Uncle Eben,
as he was called:
When well along In middle life Uncle
Elion called at our house, and. taking
father aside, said In a confidential tone:
"Soe here, squire, I'm going to git
niarriad. Yos I be. I'm tired of gohi
it alone an' I want you to be home an'
marry me off In about well, say two
reek from to-nlghL"
"Very well." replied father, "but
whom are you going to marry?"
"Armildy Drake," replied Eben.
promptly. "Mighty nice girl Armildy
la, ain't she?"
Iflise Drake was such a very nice.
bright, self-reliant splnstor that father
wa greatly surprised to think that she
ha1 consented to become Mrs. DHL for
while Eben was good enough as far as
his moral character wa concerned, he
was not particularly desirable as a
busltand because of his Improvident
habits and his marked eooentrlcitiea.
After divulging bis plana at great
length, and enjoining secrecy on father,
ESn took his departure.
Two weeks from that night, at about
'Igbt o'clock. Eben drove up to our
1'Mir in a rickety old buggy with his
bride by his side. They came Into the
r-.ouse band in hand, and when the
bride removed her vail the face rt
reaied was not that of Miss Drake, but
that of Miss Cynthia Matilda Stout, a
homely, aged and by no means band
some spinster, who waa known to bo of
a sii re wish temperament.
lather married them, and meeting
Eben Uie next day, atsked him to ex
plain matters.
"h. that uppish Armildy Draker"
he said, scornfully; "ketch me marry
in' her I I went 'round last week and
told her "bout mr plans, an do you
reckon she'd have me? Not a bit of it!
No. sir; not after I'd gone to ail the
trouble of gettin' ready."
"Hadn't you said any thing to her
.bout it before?" asked father.
" Naw." said Uncle Eben. "I didn't
know as there waa any special necea-
ity of that. So when she flared up
an ordered me out, thinks to me, 'All
ri'jh'. Armildy IMU. I'll get even with
your An' so I put right off an aaked
Cynthy Slout to have me, an' she
jumped at the chance, an Armildy
hates' Cynthy like plsen. an It'll cut her
iike fury when she hears Cyntby'a got
husband. V hen it comes to spite
work it ain't easy to get ahead
A Eben Din!' Detroit Free Press.
The Rage for Ribbons.
There is a rage for velvet or moire
ribbon garnitures abroad. They are
asd upon every style of dreds from
lawn to Lyons satin, to drape skirts, to
trim w hole costumes, to decorate mati
nees, ten-gowns, " hammock toilets, "
wraps, bonnets, parasols, and to rim
through the open-work meshes of fancy
lace. The ribbons are also used with
a lavish hand upon white lace dresses
and for braces, shoulder knots and bre
tellea. lattice straps of velvet arranged
across the chest over guimps and
smocked plastrons of crepe llsse or
tulle, with dog collar and Swiss girdle
to match, are made to enrich the dainty
summer dreese. even those of the most
inexpensive kinds. Velvet bodices,
with short sleeves trimmed with white
ace. cut in a deep square or Y -shape
in the neck, are worn with diaphanous
toilets of every description, except.
:hose made with a long train. Rows
of watered ribbon set on in straight
ines are seen upon many of the plain
ly cut skirts of walking and visiting
dresses recently sent from London and
Pari. X. Y. Post
Camphor-Making in Japan.
Camphor is made in Japan In this
ay: After a tree la felled it is cut up
into chips, which are laid in a tub or a
large iron not partially filled with,
water and placed over a slow Ere.
Through holes in the bottom of the tub
steam slowly rises, and beating the
hips generates oil and camphor. Of
course, the tubs with the chips
has a closely-fitting cover. From this
"over a bamboo pipe leads to a succes
sion of other tubs with bamboo connec
tions, and the last of these tubs is di
vided into two compttrtmenta, one above
-be other, the dividing floor being per
forated with small holes to allow the
water and the oil to pass to the lower
compartment. The upper compart
ment la supplied with a straw layer,
which catches and holds the camphor
in crystal in deposit as it passes to the
cooling proces. The camphor is then
separated from the straw, packed In
wooden tubs, and is ready for market.
The oil is used by the natives for illu
minating and medical purposes. A". Y.
Mail and Erpress.
-a as
Decay of the Signal Service.
The meteorological work of the
signal office began In 1870, when an
appropriation of $15,000 waa made for
it. Instead of 15,000 a year, the
meteorological work of the signal
office now costs $900,000. and has cost
as much as $1,000,000. In eighteen
years, and with such liberal expendi
tures of money, this service ought to
have increased, not only in the extent
of its operations, aa it has done, enor
mously, but in the character of its
weather predictions. But such im
provement has not been made, at least
not to the extent that It ought to have
been. The public have found this out.
and, being more critical than former
ly, aa they have a right to be, com
plain when they suffer in health, com
fort or pocket through a faiure of the
predictions to be verified- Why is it
that while the percentage of success
ful indications in 1883 was 89.1 it waa
In 1887 only 73.9, or, allowing for the
fact that predictions are now made
thirty-two hours In advance, instead
of twenty-four aa formerly, only 80.911"
Science
Santa Barbaba. CaL, has an arte
sian well which yields over l,(XM,tX)Q
gallons of water daHTji -l: ; .
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