Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1880, Page 2

NaF 4 VIRGINIA ROMANCE. (Philadelphia Times. } from the White Sulphur Spring-, Driving Weat virginia, to Lewisburg. a pleasant village situated on a platean two thousand feet above gea level, and which nearly equals in grazing qualities the far-famed Kentucky Blue Grass jon, I became much Interested In our driver, nactous old man, who had passed a life of sixty-five years in the immediate vicinity. Like many of his ki he had seen better days, hav- ing tilled the position of a sort of major domo in one of the first families of Virginia; at least he ‘Said $0, and his general deportment and conver- sation went far towards sustaining tne aliega- tion. His know! of the country and its in- habitants — ae ‘the local peared equ ‘ “po you see that old brick house over yonder, history ap- Major?” he said. “Wait tll we On this hitl- top; there now, do you see it? Well, away back inthe war times Colonel Tiiford lived there; the Colonel, of course, was away with his regiment, but bis family and slaves were all there all the same. Now, at that time some Yankee cavalry were encamped right near Lew- isburg, and, being pretty hard pushed for grub, fo1 parties scoured the country at ail tmes—night and day, fair weather and foul, there was no rest because of them. The slaves were {n mortal fear of these fellows, for if they didn’t bri down the butter and ham aud why the troopers would pretend to silt eir ears—not really meaning to do any harm to the niggers, but just to make them Work faster. “Toward the close of an afternoon in October, a company of this cavalry, under Captain B» mish, rode Into Colonel Tilford’s plantatioa. Pei | been out all the afternook without suc- cess, they were not in a very genial temper, and with a great many expletives told the slaves they hadn't long to walt; that they must have 80 maby hams and so much smoked beef, with* chickens, butter and milk—all in twenty mtn- utes. 1 believe every thing was furnished to their satisfaction; at all events the soldiers Moved on. As the distance to camp was short, Captain Bemish, who was a very young man and fond of having a little fun, thougat he would stay bebing and pay his respects to the family. le had just entered the dining- room, made his bow, and was com- mencing to say something about the fortunes of war compelling him to do that which he would not be guilty of otherwise, when Miss ‘Tilford, who had a dish-clout fn her hand, let him have tt right across the face. It wasthe funniest sight you ever saw There was the Captain wiping his reeking face and cloth:s, and the girl laughing as though she'd never stop. Mrs Tilford said: ‘Have you any shame left, to be going und robbing defenseless women? It Colonel Tilford was home somebody would have been shot for this insolence.’ “Madame,” sald the Captain, ‘If you are in reat need of that which we have taken [shail tm- mediately restore it.” And he was as good as his word. Ina very little time his men had not only ha ‘k the provisions, but apologized to Mrs, Tilford tor the annoyance they had put them to, “During tite stirring scenes that were con- ‘Stantly Deing enacted we soon ceased to think of this Uttle episode in the great strugyle, andthe chances are tt would never have Deen. thought of more had it not been revived last summer by the appearance in Lewisburg of a party of three gentlemen from the north. “They came over from the White, as you are doing now, and wanted to be «riven to Mr. Randolph $ Jace. One of the elder gentlemen knew Mr. Randorpn very well, he Said, having been a roorn-mate at collexe with him—Princeton Col- lege, 1 think—years ago. You know how it Is When two old cronies meet after a lapse of years. First they don’t remember one another, ‘then they slap each other on the back, and say: *You look younger than forty years ago.’ “anybody could tell from such a meeting that Mr. Randolph would not let them off that night. ‘No, he sald. ‘were going to have a litule party to-night, and while you and I sit on the porch discussing some very excellent Ma- Geire which, by-the-bye, was tiported by my grandfather, the young men can have a chance to compare some southern beauty with that of the north, and I think ours will pass must the meanwhile, tf not too tired, perha; Would not object to a short ramble over my grounds. . “Well, the party was a great success, I've understood; the ladies looked well, and all seemed fo be having a good time. After ome of the dances Captain Bemish (for he was one of the northern men) was talking to a group of ladies about the c Since the war. ‘rhe White,” he said, ‘was then a cavalry barracks, and then the people are so different.’ Then he told about a lady slapping him in the face with a dish clout—he could not remember her name. Ail admitted him to haye been badly treated, ajl but the handsomest lady tn the room, Miss ‘Tilford, whe sald: ‘It just served you right.” Capt. Bemish was so much Incensed at nis treat- ment that the next day he called on his old foe, offered himself, was accepted, and married, ali in two weeks. “That's the way we do things down here, Major; what do you think of it? What Is the Use? What is the use of all this eager strife For place and power since so soon we must Resign cur hela on all things—yea, on life, And he forgotten in the devouring dust? What is the use, Gear love? What is the use of th unceasing quest ince we ail niust die ave our gold: " And glory, at the best, a red flame inthe sunset ak . Dear love, what is the use! e use of hurrying so each day? odlier thinw is there in life than reat? waiting further on tae way Full soon enough we'll reach the shadowed west. What is the use, dear love? What is the rse of reaching past ab For unknown bleseinge froin a worl: In «uch a little, fleeting life as this What is the use of anything but Love? Dear love, there ix no use Evia WHEELER. es over “Ouida’s” Opinion of Reviewers. The English reviewer, when he is not a country clergyman, 1s, I think, generally speaking, a inndon man; generally speaking he has not Very suee he lives in cham- bers, leads a Mfe of routine, hurries over the Continent in short Antumn holidays, and knows the world of Kensington, or at best South Kensington, only varied by Some second- rate clubs. To this person life cannot be varied of aspect. It may be very consoling to say that London ts as beautiful a city as Venice, und when seen tna fog has effects as fine a3 Venetian moonlight can give. (I read a state. Ment to that effect the other day.) All the Satue, this opinion will not change the faet that Venetian moonlight 1s sometuing very differ- ent to London river fog, and that the man in a fog cannot understand the Itallan glory. What is ‘the Ife of thousands on thousands of educated London meu? They run in a we, whether the groove run down Pali fall or down Fleet street; they take their leasure sadly; they are pure machines of tml- petition; they generally live and die knowing little of love, nothing of passton: they go to their clubevery day, and ¢ sel dom read anything that tells against thelr fa- Vorite or their preconceived opinions; they marry and have children, aud go tochureh on @ Sunday because It looks well, not in the Jeast because they belleve in God;'they have a Mild atheisn of their own, which 1S dreary and indifferent; they say nothing, about it at home; they put on a tall hat. and very Ifkely hold the plate at chureh. When sucha man as this writes review: should he know what ts possible: oF iz in worlds of which he can tell nothing’ a jolie mondaine in b knows of an Otaheitan; be can no more under Stand what such @ min as poor Grammont- Caderouse was, or measure the force of bis temptations, than he can imagine the moon- light on the Rialto from the yellow light on Waterloo bridge. True, he thinks, himself on the very apex of civilization because he gues in cabs Or on omntbuses to and fro the bigest and buslest city in the universe: but this very concelt acts as a bandage to bis eyes, since it revents him from knowing all he mitsses. 1 wean immense respect for glishmen; I 3 teem immeasurably thelr probity, their’ nigh courage, their inumanity, thetr staunchness in friendship, fifty thousand other great and good qualities in them; I do not respect thetr intel- lectual judgment. It is always biundering, as it lately @undered about the result of the elec- Uons. It is narrow and myopist; it peers through blue spectactes ani Sees the world colored all a dull smoke-grey. It cannot un- derstand how for others the sunlight may be golden, how for others the earth may bloom ‘With a thousahd hues. THE ScN.—Poetsof all ages have sung the sun and tts splendors. A vast insjority of people are in favor of that golden luminary and foul in ! raises. it was reserved for a Parisian rier Nestor Roqueplan, to form bimself into a core! mittee of one and deliver the following diatribe against the suv: Te sun 1s the most bril tant Ven large planets; all turn aroun! it. ‘Only the moon is rebellious and shows su‘ficient ndence and good taste to abstain from this courtesan-like ‘rotation. The sun belag nothing more nor less than a planet and not a fod there is nothing to prevent us from taliing a plece of our mind. The sun gives the post, ‘the cholera, sterility of sot], shortness of life and wild oe es countries. And we wi Disadvantage of Wealth. {London Spectator. | We have no doubt whatever that, in this gen- eration more especially, the well-to-do have much more dimiculty in bringing up their enil. dren than the lers have. Formerly, this Was not so much the case, because the nocessity tor strong discipline was so thoroughly ed that it was maintained almost without an fort, and the habit of obedience was enforced by practically irresistible authority. But the ity of to-day is to concede freedom In ail directions, and especially freedom to chil- dren and those who are sul inate. Discip- ime in apy strong form is, among classes and over great tracts of the world, neariy dead. The bad effect of that change—we do not mean the change from severity to kindliness, but the change from studious government to comparative ition—is very great, but is Partly concealed by the fact that poverty acts a3 a disciplining atmosphere. It fixes condi- uons rigidly. girl must learn to do her own , or go untidy. The boy must goto work, or there will not be enough, and to that particular work, for only the rich have much choice of occupations. Economy is Imperative, for the money 1s not there, and no training 1a self-sacrifice acts dally, hourly, momentiy, Uke compulsory economy. The will 1s compressed by the facts of life, and becom: at once strong and pliable,’ like leati With the “rich, that ‘discipline fs absent and cannot be artificially produced, a1 the young have only conscious “traiulng,” in the athlete's sense, from direct authority, which as we said, it is the tendency of the age to re- lax. The resuitis not only that the passioas, especially the passions of self-will, grow too strong, though that 1s so clear as to have be- come a truism: but that among both good an@ bad a certain bonelessness of character is ep rent, a certain indisposition to endure, or to rm strong pi as to the work of life,a certain want not so much of energy as of de- cision and pertinacity. The children of the strugglers very often fail utterly, either trom inherent defects of character or from insupera. ble obstacles of position; but more ot them win than the children of the well-off, and, taken a8 a body, ey have stronger and finer characters. As their children grow up, the well-todo find them more burdensom2, more disicuit to manage, more troublesome to “settle,” than the poorer do; are moze anxious for thelr future and more displeased with their defects of character and conduct, which, in- deed, from the absence of the pressure of ‘cir- cumstances, are much greater. With the very Tich, anxiety about their children, crosses of different Kinds fntlicted by them, and their frequent totadfailures, make up. we believe, a definite and separate source of pain; and even Wich the well-off, greatly increase the burden of life, just ata time when burdens are most anxiously avoided. A man has not gatned much in the surge le of life whose children are protigate, babyish, claracterless, or given up to selfishness; and that is far more ofien the Jot of the rich than of the poor, and constitutes at least one true “pinch of wealth.” 23 Among the Mountains of Virginia. The journey occupled a day aud a half. The rode Itidian file along a trail which only Jerry's eyes could follow; it crossed heaps of rocks, swamps, fallen trees; ii led through an u.- broken forest of gigantic pines, oaks, birch, ash, und sugar-maples; even the’ nut-trees and black cherry had had Ume here to reach the height of a hundred and fifty feet. Ever- greens and deciduous trees grew allke leatless and brauchless side by side, spreading palm like at the top. The journey was, in fact, a Passage through interminable aisles of huze black pillars under’a Nat, leaty roof. The sides of the creeks were banked with flaming color; laurel and rhododendrons heaped up walls of dark green, scarlet, and creamy white; in the Sunshine late azaleas lifted wands of sheil-like Tose. Sometimes the horses literally broke the path for miles through waving forests of f ‘There was no sign that man had ever passed this way before. Huge trees, fallen a century before, lay In gigantic round furrows on the ground; furrows of deep moss, of fretted and tuted lichen, gray and golden, bronze and par- le, and of trailing myriads ‘of pink oxalis. Pity fern nodded from the sides, and a thicket | of young hemlocks pushed ambitiously up from the a“ of the ridge; but when Jerry put his foot on it, the whole furrow crumbled like @ puff-ball into a cloud of red dust. It was a dead body, which, undisturbed in the slow pas- sage of uncounted years, had made all tuls false show of life. Very few song-birds had made their way into this solitude. There was none of the multitudinous hum of life of woods near towns. The absolute stillness was strange and oppressive at noonday. Nature dwelt alone here, and kept silence, and there was something savage in her mood, now that they had come upon her unawares. Even jaunty, self-sufficient Mrs. Mulock felt like an intruder, and rode apart and quietly. ‘The utes led Sarah’s horse, which could not keep Its footing. Sometimes he pointed with bright, pleased eyes to a stately tree or a bed of feath- ery moss, but he said nothing, and never cailed on her to admire them. Mr. Merley rode up once, and said, in a grave and patronizing manner, that he must acknowledge there was a quality of freshness and new-born strength in this unexplored wilderness which any scene must lose after it had been tramped over by innumerable tourists. Miss Davidger assented civilly, but pushed on. Human voices were an impertinence in the great and worldless mean- ings of the woods. Monstrous fungous growths reared them- selves on every side as they began to descend tothe Blackwater. The thickets grew more dense; red and Diack ee swung themselves incessanUy across thelr faces from tree to tree; they found traces of bears on newly barked trees, and more than once the three-lobbed, clawless track ofa panther inthe wet Diack mould. The thickets of laurei and scrub oak on the banks of the rivers give to these beasts and to wolves an impervious shelter; they have the best chance there, too, of catching the deer as they come down to water. Browning pointed out a dark green Shrub, which he satd was “elk browse,” and “had been made by the Good Man to grow just that high to react the muzzles of the young elks.” No elks had been seen in this region for fifty years, though some mnight yet be hiding back fn Canaan. The party camped the second night on the bank of the Blackwater, a stream which emp- ‘Ues Into the Cheat, making huts of birch bark, and beds of hemlock boughs seion end to gi an elastic spring. The Doctor and Morley set out with their best white flies, reels, and lines to catch trout for supper in tue coifee colored, gloomy creek. Browning took a few from a rotten tree trunk ‘in his poc! old rod; the Judge built up the fire, Mulock and Sarah cooked some flit scoured the tin plates In the stream. Went the usual way In such cases. ‘Ti tifle fishermen came home dripping wet +, and swearing that there was not the fin of a ‘trout in the river, to find Jerry placidly trying forty in a pan. anes ate their supper by the light or the roaring firé,a great horned owl hoot the thicket. Every man had a hunting si totell.—RAwecca Hardin Magazine Jor Juli Hom: With the Empire began that epoch of 5 gluttony which has no parallel.‘ the Cursars, with some exceptions rative of a continual orgie. ‘Tak: group at random—Commodus, Caligal rius, Verus, Vitellius, Nero, hellogabalus, D> mitian. These men spent their lives {a a rousd of monstrous debaucheries. The day and the night, We are assured, were not loag enough tor their revels. Verus, the first to facrease tne number of guests from nine to twelve, prolonged his suppers throughout the night. Nero i table from midday to midnight. ‘Tiberius s two days and a night at the festive board ‘They had huge appetites—not only the gigantic Maximilian, who devoured 4) potinds of flesh meat and drank five gallons of wine at a teal, but finical dandies like Commodus, who at’ even In the bath; Vitellius, who ceased eating only while he slept; Domitian, who ate “out of his hand” to stay his stomach tn the intervals of regular repast. Hellogabalus was perhaps the most elaborate, Vitellis the most extrava- ant in his daily fare. The latter squandered Seven months £7,000,000, chiefly on his table. ‘The total staggers belief; Dut let us examine the figures on the other side. The Roman epicure is reported to have paid £65 or so for a mwiet; @ brace of pigeons cost €1 123, At an enter: tatument given to Vitellius by his brother 2,000 of the rarest fish and 7,0) of the most curious birds were served up. One Individual Spent £5,000 on a single dish, made of the tongues of the costilest smging-birds. The Ry man bon rirant, supping on the brains of pea- cocks and pheasants, the tongues of nigatin- gales. and the roes of the most delicate fisues, swallowed thousands of pounds at a meal; and we need only multiply the tndividual pense by the number of the guests to form a notion of the cost of a high-class dinner th the days of the Cwsars. A supper in the Apollo meant one or two thou- Sabd pounds thrown te the purveyors, Bat the emperors were certainly the most reckless in the proftligactes of the table. Seneca and Tacitus are among the authorities who teli us that Heliogabalus spent £20.000 on one sup)or: that Nero, master of “the House of Gold,” ate a dish which cost over £30,000, and drank a Dumper still more precious. ‘It is asserted tar. ther that the Emperor Verus treated 12 frieads Emperors was zens like the Apicit, like his son Clodius, like V tened his lamphreys on the flesh of ‘murdered Slaves. These, we know, were brave days for the players: but .Esop, the comedian, must oe rivate pee for the Gar- 4 real E 250.000 8 yen? gl lus, made bat e Rosci of his profession,’ an tncome which would hardly clear halt a dozen barel; Secent suppers to illustrious Patrons.—T7insley’s jazine. ee “: WOULDs'T You like to have a bow?” said the fold young igo ‘as they Sauntered down the sorbed archer ip- | Historical All the great historical diamonds of the world pales ppl, The Rajah of Mattan's 1 er Jewel, hadeay | is true, found in Borneo, it its existence hitherto been in the Oriental seclusion befitting tts mystical charac- ter, not amid the glare and bustle of the west- ern politics The “Bi since 1741, when it was mine, in the ion of the Portuguese Crown, and is still as jealously Suara my o vulj Inspection as a beau! harem. This suspieious gut oti fopenior with its e: traol of 1.680 carats, induces eneral belief that the stone is not paiement ut a white topaz, Its value, if genuine, wor to the usual mode of amount, acco , Calculation, to the fabulous sum of £55,350,000! As far as mere size ts concerned, the “Stewart,” from the South African diggin; 15 entitled to aforemost place among celebrated diamonds; but the jewels with the human interest of a tory attaching to them—the “Orloff,” the Florentine,” the “ Regent,”’ the * Koh-t-noor,”” the “ Sancy,”—hail from the banks of the Kist- Ra, or the inines of Roaiconda or Bundeleund. Two of these, the Koh-i-noor and the Orloff, have singularly shared the vicissitudes of succes- sive dynasties, and by their present position renin the Crown jewels—the one of England, and the other of Russia—seem to symbolize the division of the sceptre of the east be- tween these two great powers. | ‘Thess twin stones are lieved) to be the fragments of a mighty crystal of 793 carats, of which the tradition has been preserved by Tav- ernier, a French jeweler, who made a profes sional tour in the East in the time of the Grand Monarque. Their earliest history ts, as may readily be imagined, obscure. Coajecture, based upon their shape and size, makes them litter for ages as the eyes of some monstrous idol in Brahminical temple. History mets th: capture of Agra and the overthrow of the na- tu ince of Golconda, when they fell by sepa aprices of fortune into the hands of the ing Mogul dynasty. Baber exulted in the possesesston of the Kob-i-noor, and in hi; reminiscences estimates its value as equal to that of half the daily sustenance of the entire world. The same stose was seen by Tavernier in the treasury of Aurangzebe, and its com- panion was shortly afterward extorted b? What undutiful son from the possession of his captive father, Shah Jehan. They next appear as the spol of Nadir Shah, tu , and Were in all likelihood seen by Pallas shining side by side upon the throne of the Perstan conqueror, With the titles respectively of the “Mountain® and the “Sea of Lig! After his assassination in 1749, their stortes div was stolen by a French 5: tervention of reached the An purchased by Catherine Il, T: .oh-!-noor” was carried off by Ahmed Shab, cad under stress of prolonged persecution, was surrendered by his unhappy descendant, Shah $00} ih,to the greed of Runjeet Singh. At attempt was imade,on the plea of breaking the spell of misfortune which was sup- posed to accompany the jewel, to induc» Sik chieftain to bequeath It on his death-bed to the Temple of Juggernaut; he was, however, ob- durate, and the famous “Mountain of Light’ illumined the Treasury of Lahore until, atver the British conquest of the Punjaud, it was for- mally resented by Lord Daihousle to the Queen of England. Its weight was then 186 carats, b having been cut after the Indlan mann‘ a view to the preservation of {1s rather than to the display of its lnstre, it wag le33 effective than many acounterfelt 1G wi accordingly recut as a regular “briillant” by the best artist Amsterdam could pro: sacritice of Si carats, and a cost ot £3,000; bat, to the eye of a connoisseur, { » even sill, leaves much to d. Magi ‘The “Derya-i-norr” ler, and, by the i.- Armenian named Sha‘ras, ere it was 2 Empress Hope and Hope stood one morning by the way, Aud stretched her fair white hands to me, And eoftly whispered, ‘Kor this daz Tl company with thee.” it Hope,” I sighing said, ‘e you Joined me in the 5s But when the evening came you fled And left me all forlorn. «Tis better far to walk alone Than have your company awhile, And then to lose it aud xo on For weary mie on mile.”” She turned, rebuked. I went my way, But ead the sunshine seemed, and chill, Imiseed her, missed her all the d: And ob! I miss her still. SUSAN COOLIDGE. American Women. The men of a nation inevitably make the women what they will, and the women in re- urn impress upon their children what they have recelved from thelr own fathers. Hence it comes that the existence of the American woman has become almost as purely objective asthat of the man. Her ideal of life from her cradle has been associated with ube maximum of exertion. There {s no ee among Amert- cans, and wonderfully little egotism in their social life. It is a never-ending serles of sensa- es and mental shocks, which keeps the whole ‘LD **Ah no, de “Oft hav lays in a nervous quiver, and 1o.#S no time for any quality save that of enel to develop itself symmetric- Tey ally. The American woman is as unquiet in her thoughts and enslaved by her duues, how- ever light, as the man. Even when she visits she has no alr of repose. Her conversation is not thoughtful, but actual. She tel's you what she does or suffers. not what she thinks or fecis. ‘There 1s no reverie about her, no suggestion of that brooding spirit which indicates a capacity for impassioned affection, a capacity which to bachelors is always ideally seductive, however little the married man may appreciate or return Iu Yet, generally speaking, undemonstrative ag the American girl may be, she will wear her life out in working for the man she loves. She forgets all about ving for him in that merci- less energy which always drives her Into doing for btin. There fs, again, an other reason why the American girl seems cold to the supernea ob- server. Itis because she 1s ive. She is edu- cated to repress emotion, because her inde; dent movements expose her to contact with men of all classes, among whom there are many very ‘‘vl'e persons.” Her coldness of demeanor, therefore, Is her armor against i even worse things. Sue pass through crowds of men every day, not o: whom for one instant suspects ler of being other than she is, because Ler manner shows her at once to be a tree-born, spotl woman: They never dream that one Is watching her she mieans to go asi The defects of the American girl ma: away with by giving less prominence to the rely intellectual or purely practi er education. For while one cl: Striving to solve the probiems of life by educat- ibg women intellectually, there 1s another clase Which is shouting for education in domestic matters. While the prot ors at Harvard are rejoicing over some girl who can take in their Pullosopiies or their mathematics, the news- paper editor sings the praises of her who can Toast a turkey, bake tweas, or make her own dresses. Neither gives’ the poor giri apy chance to evs, “but only to work, with elther bund or brain No one no to her, “You are not only yourself, but possibly the future mother of other beings. “Do not Uierefore allow yourself to be driven by either School of aposties beycud what you mnay do easily, coinfortably, or pleasurabiy. The healt! balance of your nervous system {8 far more {ui- portant to you and your ruture family relations than all the mathematics or dress-making, or even roasting of turkeys. Occupy yourself steadfastly, Dut without strain, wituout hurry, and without emulation. As the apostle sald (and it must have been meant expressly tor Americans), ‘avoid emulation.’ Find out first what you can do best, and even ff {t does not come up to somebody else’s standard, learn to Coutent yourself with that."—July Abie, & 2 done Licut FROM OYSTER SHELLS,—It has long been known that certain compounds of ilme and sul- phur had the property of absorbing light, and giving It out again when placed in the dark. A stiuple way to do this1s to expose clean oyster Shelis to a red heat for half an hour. Wheao cold, the best pleces are picked out and packed with alternate layers of sulphur in a crucible, and exposed to ared heat for an hour. Wuen cold, the mass 13 broken up and the whiiest pieces are placed tu a clean glass bottle. Onex- ‘ing the bottie to bright Sunshine during the 'Y, 11s found that at night its contents will ‘ve out a pale light in the dark. Such a bottle filed more than a hundred years Ssull gives out light when exposed to ‘the sun, proving the persistency of the prop- eity Of reproducing light. Very many experi. nis have been more recently made tn this di- ection, and the lght-giving property greatly enhanced. The chemicals, ground to a flour, may now be mixed with oils or water for paints, Inay be powdered on hot glass, and glass cov. ered with a film of clear glass, or ed with celluloid, papter-maché, or other plastic mate- rials. Asa paint, it may be applied to a diver’s Gress, to cards, clock ‘dials, other surfaces exposed to sunlight during the day; the paint gives out a pale violet light at night sufiicient to enable the objects to be readi- y seen In the dark. If the object covered with ie prepared Paint ts not ex; the sun, or if the ight fades tn the dark, a short plece of Maguesium wire burned before tt serves to re- stare the light-giving property. The prepara- Con, under various fanciful names, is xbout to be made upon a commercial seale. "ARIS aithority on American affairs tells that berell the dancer, Sangalli: “On when a manageress of a traveling circus ie the Wilds of Ohio, she was suddenly attacked bya band of Rin Indians, led by the re- doubtable Sirt Bull. Everybody fled, and all Was consternation and despair, TSO! bein - ed ae reed tea wares or the unsaddied Kansas City commenoratt Colonel Butalo Bil of Heuu Gen Shondacg staff, knelt at her feet and offered her his hand and fortune.” —- "a-A murderer was hanged In Texas the P. the following trathful story about an adven— | LES INCOMPREHENSIBLE: BY VICTOR HUGO. PART TWO, BOOK I. Pelletier had shipped tn the n! The desti- nation of the vessel made no ference to Pei- leuler. He had escaped trom prison by lowering first one leg and them the other from his ceit Window until both legs reached the ground. Then he rap. ae ig A vessel was. sailin the harbor, Pelletier nailed = - darmes appeared on the quay. They ‘were too BOOK TI. Pelletier had been locked up for eighty years. His offense was selling liquor on Sunday. They are very particular about Sunday in France. ‘Sul his pr it was excessive. Pelletier said so himself. But he had escaped. The world was before him. He wanted to get outof France. So he shipped on the strange vessel. He didn’t ask where she was going, He just let her go. In the stern of theship siood a tall, command- ing figure. It was that of aman. He was giv- ing airections to the crew. * Who are you?” he asked of Pelletier. “ Pelletier,” responded Pelletier. “Good,” said the man, Pelletier siniied, BOOK M1, “Do you understand live stock?” asked the a De “Oul, you bet!” answered Pelletier. ‘“ihen go down to the gun-deck and look after them.” Pelletier obeyed. The gun-deck was roomy. Hitched to the carronade slides were 40) mules. Pelletier ex- amined them. The motion of the vessel made them nervous. One seemed to bechoking. Pel- letter unfastened the halter. ‘The mule dashed to the middle of the deck and glared around. “Whoa” said Pelletier. BOOK IV. The mule sprang to leaward as the ship careened. ‘The din of the mule's hoofs was awful. The timbers strained. As the vessel righted the mule rushed to the forward part of the deck. Then turned and rushed aft. Pelletier was very pale, but cool. “ Whoa.” he exclaimed again in a firm voice. The mule dashed to the starboard side and kicked two port holes into one. The waves me pouring in. From the other mules came startled cries. They were frightened. ‘The loose mule ran to the port side of the vessel and kicked out twenty-seven feet of planking. Ia the (rough of the sea the vessel rolled heavily and shipped tons of water. BOOK Y. The door of the companion way opened. “What's going on down there?” demanded the voice of the commanding figure. ““A mule,” responded Pelletier, ‘The commanding figure came part way down, 3 1U you, Pellewe itis K” answered Pelletier. ‘Who loosed the mul “I did,” said Pelletier. “TLen you wili catch him,” commanded the man. ‘The mule had kicked out the bow and stern during this conversation. The port side was torn out and tkere were great holes in the star- board side. BOOK VI. Pelletier took a capstan bar, He waited for the mule. Turning toward him the mule eyed him amoment. Pelletier put his hat and coat On the capstan bar and stood tt up in a ring on the deck. The mule turned his back to it. Pelletier laughed. “Whoa!” he sald. The mule backed up to the hat and coat. Pel- letler had another capstan bar ready. Tue whole crew was lookiug down oa the companion way. ‘The commanding figure stood at the bot- tom of the ladder. Inan instant the mule kicked at the same hat and coat. As he did so, Pelletier held up the other capstan bar with another hat and coat be- fore bim. The mule turned around to Kick at the second. When he had got all the way around Lesaw the first. Pelletier was standing by it. BOOK VII. The mule looked down at nimself. He was be- wildered. He didn’t know which was his kicking: end. Whichever way he turned the object of attack was before him. A mule ts different from acannon. The can- non shoots from in front and recoils backward. A Mule shoots out from behind and recoils for- ward. Pelletier knew this. When the object of at- tack was before the mule he could do nothing By having two objects, he paralyzed the mule. The mule looked deject Pelletier saw that, the vessel was sinking and that he must ac- complish something. He wiggled first one capstan bar and then the other. The mule undertook to kick both ways at the same time. He fell on the deck. “Whoa!” said Pelletier. He grasped the mule and tied him to the car- Tonade slide again. ROOK VIII. “Come here, Pelleuer,”said the man witha commanding figure. Pelletier went. “You have done well,” sald the man. “You caught the mule, ‘lake the cross—'tis the Legion ot Honor.” Pelletier took it. The crew applauded. “But you let him gO in the first place,” con- {tinued the man. ‘Take that,” and he pelted Pelletier’s brains out with a club. The crew applauded. The man with the commanding figure was Just, it was rough on Pelletier, Still 1t was just. Something Good, When over the fair fame of friend or foe ‘The blight ef deep diswrace shail fall, instead Of words of blame, or proof of thus and so, Let something good be said. Forget not that no fellow-being yet May fall so low but love may lift his head; Even the check of shame with tears is wet, {something g00d be said. ‘ing heart may vainly turn aaide of charity ; no soul #0 dead No pi uw Eut may waken strony and glorifit Hfsomething wood be ssid ~ And 89 I charge ye, by the thorny crown, And by the cross on which the Saviour b ed, id by your own souls’ hope of fair renown, Let something good be eaid! James W. Rey, ENGLISH OFFICIAL SALARIES, especially of the higher grade of office holders are much more handsome than those paid in this country. While the President's cabinet get a paltry $3,001) aplece a year, the principal English mini have $25,000; the postmaster general has $1: the three junior lords of the treasury $5,000 each, the permanent secretary $12,500, the flnan- Clal and patronage secretaries $10,000 ernment solicitor $12,500, parliamentary counsel $15,000, Clerk’s salaries In the treasury run from $400 to $4,500. ‘The permanent under-sec- retaries of the varlous departments have an average of $10,000 each; the lord chancellor ha3 $30,000, with $20,000 additional as speaker of the House of Lords; chairmen of parliamentary committees have’ 312.500; the speaker of the House of Commons has $25,000, and the clerk of Parliament $15,000. There are neariy 1.Gs persons attached to the royal household. Some of the more consequential of these of- Nelais, like the lords in waiting, master ot the horse, and equerries, have salaries ranging from #000 to $12,500. ‘Tennyson, as poct- laureate, has $500. ‘The prizes of the chureh are the archbishoprics, $75,000 and $50,000 respect- ively, while the bishops’ incomes range trom $10,000 to $50,000, Among the lucrative appoint- ments outside of England may be mentioned that of lord Heutenant of Ireland, $100,000; Vice- roy of India, $125,000; governor general of the Cape of Good Hope, $30,000; governor general of Canada, $60,000; governor general of Madras, $64,000; and a number more of the same sort who have an average of $30,000 each. “1 Hab Noricep in an opposite box a lady in cream-colored satin and superb ornaments who appeared to be more than haifasleep. As I was coming out I encountered her. A gentieman in faultless evening dress was addressing her in a low voice. J heard him say, as you can, the carriage will be ment. You must stand straight!’ A kind of desperate look was on his face. His companton Was intoxicated! A few moments later he almost lifted her into the carriage which rolled away to one of the stateliest ‘homes in Eagland,’ if home it can be called, where the master shuns the eye of his own servants, knowing that they are aware of his wife’s disgrace.”—London Truth, How 10 Train Taz MEMORY.—Your memory 1s bad, perhaps, but I can tell you two secrets th at will cure worst memory, One of them Is to read a subject when interested; the other is to not only read but think. When you have read a paragraph or page stop, closé the book and try to remember the ideas of the page, and not only call them vaguely to mind, but put them in words and speak them out. Faithuly fol- low these twarules and you have the golden keys of knowledge. les inattentive read- other things injurious to the mem- One isthe habit of skimming over news- pepe items of news, smart remarks, bits of formation, political reflections, fashion no! sothatallis a confused jumble never to be thought of again, thus dil uy cultivat a habit of careless reading to prea. ese other 1s the reading of trashy novels, ee ey ROTO. Smee Cuniovs Fact, not 4 Certain point in the close to the water's edge, the te Unually traveling up stream cession. Talk of the great march—what was that the talions that pace the marge of the mighty river? In comparison with might = elers, what ‘are the “leaves of se wiet summer 1s. ‘ni’ ‘Ehis sand is being contin ly Washed ashore, and as the water falls away with the dearth of the season it dries, is taken by the winds, carried stream, blown {nto the'water, Hoy beak nd forte Wang sak ea on forever andever. iors sp ee tune for vag IMPROMPTU. BY A MEMBES OF THE “LITERARY SoctErT.” ~ ‘Miles Standish sent John Alden ones In Plymouth’s olden daye, ‘To win for him a fair young bride With bis more winning ways; But the maiden chose the wooer’s self, To the Captain's sore amaze! And thus our Garfield went to woo For fair Columbia's hand; Not for himeeif but for his friend: She saw him—calm and grand, And beckoning, called him to her side ‘Fhe chosen of the land! Jane 17, 188—2 p m. re —___ A Precious Gem of Art—Bu J. Cc Hal. In the bronze hall of the Corcoran Gallery may Dow be seen a small bronze bust of the late eminent physician~Dr. J. C. Hall, and [a of the board of trustees of the Gal- ery. The history of this little gem is curiously interesting. Dr. Hall was ever averse to having his likeness taken In paint, photograph, bronze or marble, to the great tof his numerous relatives and friends. Ashort time before his last illness, a devoted friend, Mrs. F. B. McGuire, anxious to have something more than the mere memory of his person, planned, as if by inspira- Uon, the work of having his “counterfeit pre- sentment” taken secretly, while he was engaged in familiar conversation, wholly unconscious of the plot. Mr. Henry Brown, nephew and pupil of the sculptor, Mr. Henry K. Brown, a young man of great promise in nis profession, avas accordingly engaged to watch, mark and model the doctor's features and expression in his molaents of unstudied ease. The result of this secret work, So opportunely inspired and mod- eled, 1s now in imperishable bronze, It is elght inches high, the head forming half its heignt. The likeness is wonderful. The noble high fore- head, the strong brow, the forcible nose aud mouth, the ears, beard, hair, collar and cravat, will at once be nized as those of the de- ceased by the public—that public of which it tay be truly and not profanely said, “genera- tions can rise and call him blessed,” not only by his long active esieer ont services, but whea, age having nelther clouded his intellect nor chilled bis heart, he labored for the homeless orphan and poor sick children,—and last, but not least, cap) the column of medical and scientific merits by his devoted attention to the int ot the Corcoran Gallery, of which he was the honored president. There, when his health permitted, he was a dally visitor, making it a rendezvous with Mr. Corcoran, going through its galleries, ever eager to explain to visitors, delegations and schools, the history and eharacter of their contents—not confining these attentions to the cultivated, but aiming to interest the humblest visitors. He was ever the earnest advocate of giving to students, copyists and exhibitors of Pictures, the widest. privil in short, striv- ing In the broadest, way to advance the interests and objects of the institution, as designed by its vénerable founder. Without professing to be a trained connoisseur in art, bis taste Was pure, and ever inclined him to subjects breathing a simple or retined humanity, inspired by nature. The needs and improvements of the building itself were specially benefited by Dr. Hail’s Scientific and practical mind. He brought to ‘these the experience of a property-owner. More than one improvement was panes by him, and but shortly before his death he had directed some of the means employed externaily for Preserving the builaing;—thus in every way discharging the dutles of a watchful and ef- ficient president. Long will he be missed from the trustees’ room, Which he had enriched with the gift of Mlustrated books, «c., and where In his accus- tomed seat, after looking over new pictures, journals and photograplis, he would listen Teadily to suggestions of further work, and then close his visit with ready stores of anecdote and reminiscence. A notable trait in kis disposition Was the courteous greeting and kind word inv: Tiably extended to all the employ ¢3 of the inst: tution. Here, too, as has been said. were his almost daily pleasant mectings with Mr. Corco- ran, upon whose aged heart the loss of his long, closest confidential friend naturally falls heavily and beyoud replacement, There are no oS Of this bust, the property of Mrs. McGuire, but with her permission, and in recognition of its precious value and truth- fulness, the trustees of the gallery have promptly ordered from the gifted young sculp- tora life-size copy in bronze, as a lasting me- mento of their lamented president. M. The Khododendron at Home. It is only out of England that the glorious Thododendron can be seen in true perfection. and nowhere. perhaps, so perfect as in the Himalayas, There, in its native haunts, it De- comes a tree, rivalling in height the oaks among Which it grows, and lifting up its heen ruddy posies out of and above the glosay foliage of the tlex and the plumed shafts of the hiil- bamboo. For one interval of the year it holds an undivided empire over the densely-wooded slopes of the great range. Then all the other beauties of mountain and valley are forgotten for that interval of lovely SS and every one who can goes up to see “the rhododendrons in bloom.” If the rhododendron blossoms yielded a scent like those of the orange, the citron, and the lime, or like the petals of ‘that little rose which gives the East its “attar,” the whole Himalayas—a broad belt of land run. ning from east to west along the north of Indla— would be one huge picking ground, and all the fleets of commerce could not carry away its har- vest. The flowers le upon the hills tn sheets of Square miles, and the valleys are choked with the rosy bunches. The fallen petals, deepening in tint as they die, lie in drifts of flame alonj the jurgle paths, ‘and bank themselves rowid the mossy roots of the trees. In the hand they give out only the faintest odor of honey; but what a deluge of perfume there would ‘have been had the rhododendron shared the scent of the violet or the heliotrope! The Himalayas, while the glorious plant was in flower, would have been too overwhelming delicious for human habitation, and the stiiling intensity of the fra- grance must have made the exquisite scene de- serted.—London Telegraph, Model Marriage Certificate. (Galveston News.) The following marrt certificate, through course of legal investigation, lately found its way to the oflice of Judge Johnson: “GALVESDON, TEXAS, 3rd May, 1875, A. D. of our Lord.— Know all persons by these presence, | that Mr. Julious Johnson, and Miss Mackentire applied to me at, and at their resedence and where Duely Joined together in holy Wedlock, } in the presence of Witnesses, According to the Jaw of God and thease United States,the mutial Bond that God Ordained and was beautyried With the presence of our Savior, at canan of Gallalee, and is commanded of St. Paul. B* honorable. among all men, to which I set my hand and Seal as ininister in charge of the Metn- Odist Church. REY. SSE SHACKELFORD.” t of Dr. Keramos. e was a young lady named Nancy, ho tor bric‘a-brie had such 4 fancy ‘That a family jar *Anixt her maand her pa Del'ghted the soul of Miss Nancy. ‘THE Doctors said the man couldn’t lve and weeping friends surrounded his bedside. He was young and there was much to hold him to lfe. He struggled hard mentally to accept the situation, but he couldn’t feel right about it. At length he pene his eyes and asked in a feeble whisper if the leader of the village band Was at home. If so he desired as a last dying request that the band be brought out and al- lowed to pay One of their ‘avorite airs, No. 6, he thought, under bis window. The’ appeai Was granted, and before the concluding strain was reached a submissive smile hovered about the shrunken lips of the departing one as he murmured, “I’m—resigned—. Nothing—worse So nme Then his light went out. Es PERKINS laurels are indanger. Last Sun- day one of our Sunday-scheol superintendents, on his way to church, met a boy with a fishing- e. pole. “Where are you going with that pole?” asked the Superintendent. He had not seen the boy since the last time he filled up at a Sunday-school picnic. “Please, sir, I’ve got a wicked father, who sends me out to fish every Sunday morning, but, as soon asI get out of sight of the house, {am going to play hookey and come to Sunday- shook» °P A DENVER man has offered a reward that is brimful of business. See the following, from the Denver Republican: “On the sams night the stable of a Baker, in West Denver, was ‘he thieves took a fine horse, and Mr. er has offered three reward3s—gs) for the thief, $100 for the horse and thief, and $200 for the body of the thief. Now, who = Le the lucky man to fire the fatal shot? iorse was branded “R” on the left shoulder.” A fi of —Ni it set down in igure of speech—Naught &2~ Paris editors lead a duel life; one in the sanctum and the other in the suburbs. #2" Denny Kearney has left the working- men’s party; that is to say, he 1s ous of ‘workhouse. S2~ The cashier of an Sastern bank ran away With all the funds and the directors placarded ‘the door, “(No cashier.” §2~ The beginning and end of a chicken’s life —Hatchet. © The New Haven Register speaks of woman wip eooren. good oy Sid ina while you find a person who enjoys bad heal but hardly ever. = 2” A Salem youth calls his lady love “oleo- margariue,” because he hasn’t any other but f2- When man draws an inference should draw it we man who by an Irishman neue Las <Aynise these, seen with bis had of") Ay MAD actuss 4 xarden ferc3 alnlis on bow sides, ** offa goca deal eng ‘ald Tt already per- meates our existence,and the worst of it is, It is Spreading into the Provinces with all the fatal fecundity of the Colorado beetle, already named. "We went to the far West, hoping to see Dut, alas! a lady in the train was “doing” it, or trying to, all the way to Somer- setshire, on her lap: and the first thing we no- tced at the hotel of our choice was the Boots trying to explain the dre: tmystery to the cham! aid in the hall, a fiendish visitor having spi efully left one of the puzzles under his pillow;the previous wee! tous, {t is in town we need Hot, unfortunately, trouble to state. Rival makers ‘are pouring the puzzies, at a needlessly cheap rate, into the market; the comic papers are writing them up. Spurgeon has by this time probably worked In an apt religious allusion to them in one of his sermons; abd the pantomime writers have en bloc commissioned the property masters at the various theatres for which they write to at once prepare Brobdignagian sets of numbers, 80 that at Christmas we shall find the Boss Puzzle rampant on our stage. It 18 not trae, however, that the government has offered Prize of £500 for the discovery of a fair and Square solution of the “13, i5, 14” position, though this may well be ere long. At present, however, Mr. Gladstone ts busily engaged on & pane showing that Homer must bave ‘OWN Of the Boss Puzzie in his youth, and tll ‘this point is fairly before the public, the other matter will have to walt.—London Figaro, TRE Comrany happened to be discussing the approaching marriage of a young genjjem in of means with a prominent member of the demi- monde. * What a singular union!” said one. “ What motive can ape him to marry such a woman?” sala a secon, “Oh, is all simple enough,” sald a third; he’s infatuated with her and’ marries her to save himself from being ruined by her.” THE OTHER DaY a census-taker presents himself at_a house where all ts in confusion and several women are running to and fro Wiese Pieces of red flannel, camphor and the "ke, “Have you any children?” says the employee to the agitated head of the household. “T have two,” replies the latter, “an: will save you the trouble of cailing again—if you will have the gooduess of ta hog for a moment, I will have three—at three.” t%-The St. Louis newspapers, indignant over the census returns, publish the names of the enumerators and brand them as the authors of the city’s ruin. 1880 cnr xewsrarens 1880 OF TEE NATIONAL CAPITAL. 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