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THE ADYEBTISER. FAIRBROTHER fe HACKER, Publishers. EiROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA NANNIE OFTHE rOKD. BT ELIZA M SHEIIMAK, IK WESTERX ItCItAL. He met her In the meadow, Down 'mid the daisies white, Plucklngthc wild red'strawbcrry That hid in the shadowy light. Oft had he watched the maiden As she crosscdlthe village ford, For she was a rustic lassie, And he was an English lord. A grand and stately villa Over the blue sea's foam, . Among the purple heather, The English lord calls home. There are statues and rare old paintings In that stately home of his, But never a statue or painting To compare with a face like this. Like this upturned to meet him, So fair, so pure, so bright, With lips like ripe, red strawberries, And brow like daisies white. Her bare feet gleamed like marble "While coming through the ford, But she was a village maiden, And he was an English lord. Of all the rare old paintings That hung upon his wall, Was none like the broad green meadow Where slanting moonbeams falL Afar the purple mountains Like sentinel do stand. And peace, like a benediction, Environs all the land. Tet Etill the noble tarries 'Till sunset's slanting ray Has tipped with red the daisies Then turned their gleam to gray. Until the bells for vespers Across the waters fall, And thro' tr woodlands far away, The whip pojr- wills do call. He watched there in tbe gloaming, 'Till silvery moonbeams fell, And ihought of the village maiden And knew he loved her well. He thought of his stately parents Across the ocean's foam; Would they love the village maiden Bid her welcome to their home! "Ah!" he thought, niy love can shield her, From words and feelings cold, But rather the love of her true heart, Than hoards of yellow gold. So I'll try and win sweet Nannie, My fairy of tbe ford, Though she's but a village maiden, And they call me an Englieh lord. "True honest toil is no disgrace; Better a thousand fold, o bravely work for those we love, Than idle hands to fold." So he left the daisied meadow, Went to seek sweet Nannie Gray. Well he knew the maiden loved him, And would never say him nay. And soon to the stately villa, Over the blue sea's foam, Went the tidings that banished the English lord, From his stately English home. His parents were rich and haughty, And proud of their ancestry, And they vowed that a village maiden Their daughter never should be. So he bought him a little cottage, Where daisies bloomed so white ; And the robin in the lilacs. Trilled a carol of delight, And the love of blue-eyed Nannie, His fairy of the ford, Was more than crown of richest gems . To the heart of the English lord. The Female Form DiTine. Mr.". Scott Siddons, says the Eveiiirig World, of Toronto, has been often in viewed by tbe ubiquitous reporter, and has been ever willing to give her opin ion on all subjects, mit she was rather taken back by the proposition of a rep resentative who called on her last even ing. The proposition was no less than that the lady would talk about female beauty and handsome women. Once the subject was opened it proved a most interesting one. The lady was found in her quarters at the Queen's, where she says she has quite recovered from the fatigue of her journey. What with two rehearsals a day, the study of parts, the oversight of parts, and the hundred and one other things that require atten tion, Mrs. Siddons is a busy woman. But notwithstanding all this she finds time to receive callers, provided they do not object to her knitting, which she plies with some industry. "I am afraid," said she, "that though I am a great admirer of handsome wo men, my idea of female beauty would not accord with the common one, for I consider that regularity of features is rather tiresome perhaps because my own are so straight. I have a type of my own. Those I admire most of the people I meet those whom 1 think to be the most admirable are of irregular features, sensitive and mobile, and of rather fair complexion. I think" this is the case with both men and women. They have the most charm for me. In either blonde or brunette, where features are regular, you will notice that there is a great want of expression. "Miss Neilson had no regularity of features. Hers was not a satisfactory face. I have not. spoke to her more than twice just lately and before death and she fascinated me by a certain rich lux uriance of beaut', but I felt that I could not repose niy confidence in her, and did not feel that what she was say ing to me could be defended on. My first impressions never fail me. Mrs. Langtry is one of our irregular featured beauties, and, ai usual with them, she has a great deal of expres sion, and :i most mobile countenance, which, with blue eyes, make a most in genuous expression. Don't you think so? But I own that I don't myself ap prove of professional beauiies. Blue is ray favorite eyes, because there is some thing ingenuous in them. But there is r blue eye which borders on grey that gives you a very different impression. "The ladies of America and England ill not bear comparison, as the former .re the superior. " Boston and Philadel hia are the places where I have seen e greatest amount of beauty in the hortest time especially very young omen. In the south women have a jature are. It is in the first flush of girlhood that one sees the most hand some faces on this continent. It is rare that you see a beautiful face in England and I think that is why they make such a fuss over those that they have now hold of. Don't you think so? "I admire the freshness of the Cana iian ladies. I think the English and Canadian, rather than Canadians and ' jLmericans, should be compared or con trasted. I prefer the Canadian very much to the English women, as we have them in our own country, because they have a much greater ease of manner. There is an absence of that stiffness which spoils young English women in society. I think as a rule they are finer. Don't vou think so? "Australian ladies are very much more like English women than Canadi ans are, are generally much paler and almost always very tall. I don't think they have any particular characteristic of beauty. They are freer than English women, and not so free as Americans a happy medium. "In "my passage through France, I must say I did not see anything in the way of beauty. I saw the Bernhardt seven or eight years ago in the 'Filio do Roland,' and admired her very m but in 'Frou-Frou' I only admired part the scene where she upbraids her sister for having taken hor place in the household. In the earlier scenes she was wanting in the ehild-liko gayety necessary for her part she did not look young enough ami anyway to see an old woman plav the kitten is painful. Don't you think so? Her voice did not impress mc. In the scenes Jof violent passion I was struck by her remarkablo powers she expresses so much with little noise. "When in England lately 1 was too busy to go out much, but I saw many beautiful women. Of all the pictures of handsome women that I have seen, by far the loveliest was that of the countess of Lonsdale. She is queenly in her style, possesses symmetry of form, and has regular features, and yet not stony. She is a sample of a regu lar featured woman with agood expres sion. "The princess of Wales I saw for the first time lately. I was taken by the resigned sweetness of her expression. I was at the theatre and I satin the box opposite her and the princo. She is ex ceedingly like her pictures and remark ably young looking. She is a little deaf, and therefore I have a fellow feeling for her, and her mobility in trying to catch every word made her interesting. There is a charming complaisance about her. The Princess Louise told mo last winter that the princess of Wales had a most wonderful disposition, and that trouble Hies from her mind like water from a duck's back. She has so much sweet nessbut she is not faultless that it is impossible to disturb her equanimity. The Princess Louise thinks that tho princess of Wales looks so young is ever growing younger. "I hope to sec the Princess Louiso be fore I leave Canada. Last year I sat for her in order that she might make a. water color portrait of myself, and as it is not finished, she is anxious to com plete it. She does not think that I am handsome. She likes only the upper part of my face; she told me that she liked to paint eyes like mine. I said to her once that I observed that she gave a great deal of attention to the upper part of nry face. She replied: 'I am afraid it is because your eyes have such a fascination for me.' I said: 'I am glad you like my eyes.' She replied: 'Eyes like yours "niake me feel that I am amongfriends.' I said: 'I am sure you are looking at a friend when look ing at me,' She said it was 'a labor of love, and they do look perfectly liquid and translucent.' I never saw water color paintings give such a texture to the eyes; and she has got the exact ha zel. The princess hopes to present this picture of myself to the Old Water Col or society m ionuou, oi wumu auu member." is a Organized Public Spirit. Go! J en Rule. The characteristic thing in our dis tinctively American communities, is the spirit of enterprise, which does not stop with seeking private advantage, but considers, in all ways, the greatest good of tne greatest number. The in dividual is subordinated in important respects to the community, and the in evitable school-house commonly the finest building in town, the churches, the parks and other public improve ments, all show the real nature of the bond that unites people in a common effort for the common good. The en terprising western towns have carried the spirit still further, and have organi zations of business and professional men whose object is to serve the ma terial interests of the place in all possi ble ways. They encourage the estab lishment of manufactories; look after advantageous arrangements with rail road, express and freight companiesl see that the traveling public is wel cared for, and keep their town and its advantages well advertised to the coun try. We have often thought they might extend their sphere so as to employ a competent architect to make plans for all builders who would not otherwise have them. Nothing would add so much to the appearance of an average American town, as to have the hap hazard structures of the carpenters and joiners, and the shapeless piles built by masons one year graduated from hod carding, supplanted by buildings de signed by a skilled and trusty architect. The village improvement societies, originating in New England and rapidly extending over the country, are an out growth of true American spirit. Or ganization is the body through which the spirit works, and there will never be any quarrel over this form of local self-governnient. Simon Cameron. Hon. Simon Cameron tells the follow ing story of his life to Mr. Eugene Mon day, of Philadelphia, who is writing his biography: I was hound apprentice to the printers trade at Northumberland, Pa., in 1816. In about a yearl went to Harrisburg in search of employment, and there I engaged with Mr. James Peacock, proprietor and editor of the Harrisburg Republican, to serve with him the remainder of my apprentice ship. To fully learn the business it was then considered essential to master the working of the press. But owing to my ill-health ana physical delicacy of constitution, I was nearly killed by this exacting labor. After serving the term of my apprenticeship I went to Wash ington, where I found employment in the office of Gales & Seaton, publishers of the National Intelligencer. Here I worked for $10 per week, laboring 11 hours a day. Here I found Tillingnast K. Collins, who gave me the benefit of his friendship and aid; and to this day I look back on the fifty or sixty work ing men in that printing house as per haps the most intelligent I ever saw in a workshop. While working at Washing ton I heard that the Harrisburg Repub lican was for sale, and I concluded to buy it. I became joint editor and pro prietor with Charles Mowry. I was shortly afterward elected state printer, and was re-elected for seven years con secutively. This was the period of my hardest labor. I do not think that I slept more than five hours out of the twenty-four on an average during that time, "and then.utterly broken in health, I retired from the case with what was then a comfortable fortune, about $20, 000. After that I engaged in other pur suits and prospered well, and I have al ways attributed whatever I was, and whatever I was able to do, to the warm and intelligent friends I made in the old da-s whenl was a journeyman printer. How deep this feeling of respect for my trade was upon me, appeared in rather an amusing form when I was on my way to Russia, in 1S62, as the minister of the United States to St. Petersburg. Waiting for a few days in London to re cover from the effects of a seasickness on myself and family, I was invited to visit "the office of the London Times. There a book is kept, in which visitors are requested to register, giving their titles, business, etc., and when I came to sijrn, I instinctively iut down rav name, "bmion Cameron, nr:ntt-r. He who travels with his eyes open cannot fail to see that otbers. as well as himself have their discomforts and drawbacks, and he will thus be all the more disposed to meet his own with a brave spirit. We ought always to deal ju?t!y. not only with those who are just to us, but likewise with those who endeavor to in jure us; and this, too, for fear lest, by rendering them evil, we should fall ito the same vice. SEETHING IRELAND. Scene mid Incident of llio Grrnt Iinnd Agitation In tlm Grcon Island. Tho powder wagons from Ballineol ling mills arc escorted into Cork by a strong party of dragoons instead of tho usual police 'encorl. The Kerry l)st has been informed that owing to "the disturbed stato of tho country several leading families are pre paring to spend the ensuing winter in England or on the continent. Two weeks ago notices weio posted up extensively about Listowcl, threaten ing any person with destruction who would purchase the cattle which were seized belonging to a tenant named Thomas Walsh, on Lord Ormathwaito's property, under writ of rent. The con sequence of this was that the cattle were knocked down to tho tenant's brother at 1 apiece. At the "Bulla National Sports" polit ical feeling pervaded the whole proceed ings. Iu the centre of the field was a large green banner, bearing on one side tho words, "Liberty, equality and fra ternity," and on tho other sfde, "Thni ny gun kessa," or "land without rent," and even the admission tickets bore the words, "Hold the harvest." A IMUEST ON landlordism's "tkack of BLOOD." At a land league meeting at Killraal lock on the 24th ult., the Rev. Mr. Slice ley said: "There was nothing "for the farmers and tillers of that district but to flee from a land accursed with tho exist ing 'condition of land tenure, or else start to their feet as one man at last, and pledge themselves in the invincible right of their conquering manhood to sweep landlordism from their midst cheers and vow that they would re fuse to go; let landlord's go if they pleased." Cheers. A voice Let them go to , where King William went to. Rev. Mr. Sheeley Landlordism was an incubus that pressed down every fac ulty of mind and bod', and strangled every energetic and enterprising Irish man. A voice Some of the farmers are as bad as the landlords. Rev. Mr. Sheeley A voice had said from tho crowd that tho landlords were better than tho farmers. That was a lie. In 184G the farmers shared their last crust with the laborers, and last year the farmers did what they could to'employ labor. What did the landlords do? A voice Nothing. Rev. Mr. Sheeley They borrowed once million of money from the gov ernment, of which no account has been given. That money was a subsidy to maintain the English garrison in this country, but it would not maintain it now, nor the buckshot nor bullets of the police either. Landlordism had a track of blood through centuries, and it must disappear in the light of flashing eyes and flaming hearts. Cheers. it had beggared, butchered and banished mil lions of their race. Cheers. FOUCING DOWN THE RENTS. The Irish papers are full of items an nouncing the refusal of the tenants to pay rent or the surrender of landlords. Mr. Stephen Gibbons, of Westport, has offered his tenants a reduction of 25 per cent on the last and coming gales, but the tenants refused to accept this unless the reductions were granted per manently. Mr. Robert Kcogh attended at his office in Carrick-on-bhannon to receive his rents from his Roscommon tenantry. The majority of the tenantry were in attendance and tendered him the government valuation, which he re fused. Mr. Keogh was hooted at as he left the town. Mr. J. D. Meldon sum moned all his tenants on his Turlough more estate to pay their rent. All at tended and demanded that their rent be settled at the government valuation. The tenants refused to pay higher than the valuation, and left, taking with them their rent. It is stated that the marquis of Waterford, having several farms va cant, is about to reduce all rents to Griffith's valuation. At the Bantry land meeting, on the 24th, a farmer named manning, residing at Gloun thawn, was denounced for taking a farm from which another had been evicted, and paying a fine of 200 to the landlord for possession. On the day following Messrs. Walsh and Healy, of the Dublin land league, visited Mr. Man ning, who, after same discussion, con sented to give up the farm provided the 200 pounds paid as fine was returned. Manning's sou, for whom the farm was purchased, declared that he would never put his foot on it. A gentleman who has a property at Grees, near Bantry, attended on fair day to get hisrents.but the tenants refusing to pay more than the government valuation, he could get in no money. Another gentleman who attended the fair for a similar purpose could only get 3 out of a large rental on his estate. The Kerr' Evening Post says: "The county inspector's office is inundated each morning with copies of threatening letters to tenants, warning them not to pay more than Griffith's valuation if they intend to pay any rent at all. There is reason to believe that some tenants have had such documents sent to them advisedly, in order to have an excuse for not paying their rents." Farm Nuisances. Exchange. There is not sufficient care and atten tion on the farm to the health and com fort of the occupants. Frequently near the farm house there are patches of rank weeds and vegetation allowed to grow, fall down aud rot, from which arise a poisonous miasma, causing ague, fevers, neuralgia, and poisoning the blood generally preparatory to the whole catalogue of diseases. But worse than these are the ponds and holes of stagnant water into which the springs, the water troughs, and even the rainy day rivulets are drained. These sloughs aud mud holes are mixed with filthy water, decayed vegetable matter, and probably animal manure, which are the seed beds of disease. And frequently they are near the family residence. It is not necessary to be thinking if you have seen any such places on your neighbor's premises. You have nothing to do with your neighbor's private af fairs. Look at your own premises. The slops and garbage of the kitchen are frequently thrown in the back yard, and are left to rot, ferment and breed disease. An even if they be conducted from the kitchen in a pipe, at the cess pool where it is deposited is a worse pool of nastiness, fermenting and scat tering to the air toe seeds of death. These are small matters, but the health and lives of the members of the family are serious matters, and it is easier to remedy them than it is to pay tbe doc tor five dollars for rfding five miles, and charging for prescribing a dose of qui nine with some other innocent matter to complicate the prescription and con vince yon that he is wisely earning his money. Then the farm privy is often in a very objectionable condition. Some farms have no such institution, but the occu pants follow the example of the other brutes. Unless the vault is a good one. it is better to have none at all, but have it so that every day or oftener dry earth can be used as a deodorizer. It can be so arranged that it is easily accessible and the deposits with the earth can be removed te the adjacent lands. Many privies, on farms as well as in towns, send forth a loud ca 1 for reform. Health, comfort, decency aud financial prosperity demand it. Another source of ill health is the im purity of the water in farm wells. Thay are frequently located tco near the privy or the barn ard or the kitchen cess pool. Frequently wells are so filthy that tho water smells to h ven for re lief. The occupants ace med to the taste and smell, do not its foul condition. If a neigh'" their at tention to it, the mnt". .ssed over with tho remark, "If y. worousedto tho water in our well you would like it." Human excrements are the most nauseous.nnd most dangerous to health. It will pass with its deadly poison through tho earth from the privy vault to the well, and is the most probable cause of typhoid fever, which is only excelled in its deadly effects on the hu man system by the yellow fever. In locating privy, stable, kitchen houses, pig pens and cattle yards, it should all bo dono in view of preserving the puri ty of the water in tho wells. And while tho hog pens should be frequently reno vated, and their rich deposits removed to that part of tho farm most needing fertilizers, they should be located so the prevalent winils will not be toward the iiouse, nor so prominent as to be seen aud smelt before an other object. And there are various other nuisances on tho farm which can and ought to be abated, and which any observer or family of taste can discern without any special mention in this department. But let every family have a smelling com mittee with power to remedy all de fects, and with sufficient refinement and taste to appreciate the useful as well as the beautiful. SPIRITUALISM EXPOSED. A Boston 3Iei!!um'H TrlcU Duplicated to nifc IHaconitlture. Boston, November 10. Tremont Temple was packed full last evening on the occasion of the exposure by Rev. A. A. Waite, of the allleged spiritualistic manifestations of an "unknown medi um," which was the result of a chal lenge made by Col. King, in Music hall, at the close of Mr. Waite's lecture and exhibition there a week or two ago. According to agreement, a committee composed of three persons chosen by Mr. Waite and three by Mr. King, was appointed to watch the proceedings.and decide whether the performances of the medium were satisfactorily duplicated by Mr. Waite or not. The committee were: For King Dr. Dymond, Rev. Dr. Damon and Prof. Allen; for Waite Dr. Frank Dundy, C. M. Chase and S. W. Cliffoid. Mr. Waite, on being introduced, was enthusiastically applauded. He stated that eight years ago he was a sleight of hand performer and a dissipated man, but religion had changed all that. His friends never knew of his connection with sleight of hand performance, he having destroyed all of his apparatus when converted. He said that the tests which he had been challenged to go through concerned, first, his ability to duplicate and explain all the "manifes tations" and performances of so-called spiritualistic mediums, and secondly, the respectability of these mediums. Ho reiterated that all mediums are most certainly frau Is. Respectability or morality was not necessary in their char acter. He stated that he had offered to invite Mr. Charles Watkins, the well known "spiritualistic medium," to come upon the platform. He called several times for Watkins, and receiving no re sponse, added that he had offered Wat kins ten $10 bills if he would dare to meet him in public. Mr. Waite explain ed that the agreement between him and Mr. King was that the proceeds of this performance should be divided equally between them, and he added that if he failed in the test he would give all to King, but if he won he would give his half to the charities. A man then stepped uvi the plat form and was introduce ' r Col. King as Mr. Warren Lincoln !plewood, and as a genuine "me ' i'he latter briefly addressed the . . . and stat ed that he had met mos ry "expos er" in the world, some oj whom he had found to be mediums themselves. He stated that mediums claimed not to con trol or perform the "manifestations," but to be under the influence of some departed spirit; his "spirit" was that of Essimossett, an Indian chief, who had died some time ago. The tests were then proceeded with, the"medium ' and Mr. Waite each being provided with the usual cabinets and and other apparatus. The cabinets stood near each other on the platform, and the principal difference in them was that the medium's was closed in front by a curtain, and that of Mr. Waite by two doors. The first test was that known as the "tying test," in which the medium isshut up in the cabinet, and, when the cabinet is opened, he appears securely bound, hand and foot, to a chair, and while so bound a bell isruug, a guitar played, etc. These perform ances were accurately duplicated and ex plained to the audience on the open platform by Mr. Waite, by showing that the hands are so tied that they can be easily slipped out. A gentleman and a lady were shut up in the cabinet with the medium, while he was tied, and 'the lady testified that while the "manifesta tions" were going on, the medium mov ed his arm. Dr. Dundy declared that he exposed the same medium in Paine memorial hall, two weeks ago, and de manded that he should allow his thumbs to be tied and sealed up before he was closed up in the cabinet. This the me dium said he would do later in the even ing. Mr. Waite was equally successful in duplicating and explaining the test with handcuffs, and the "holding test" t-j the satisfaction and immense amusemeut of the audience. Finally the medium al lowed his thumbs to be tied and sealed, in which condition similar manifesta tions took place in the cabinet. This, too, was duplicated by Mr. Waite, who afterward showed the audience with how much ease the knot could yet be slipped, when the medium and his assistant lied from the platform amid wild derisive cheering on the part of the audience. Mr. Waite thanked his audience for their attention and offered a brief prayer, at the conclusion of which there were loud calls for "King." Mr. King after a time made his appearance, and stated that Mr. Waite had done admirably, and acknowledged that his "medium" v.a- beaten, but claimed that it was by spiritualistic power. An Inventive Genius. A genius in jail at Erie has invett e 1 a bed boat. At the head of the bed are three compartments, one containing pressed meats and other provisions, the other a sail, and the third a waterproof suit. The bed, with compartments and two small, light oars affixed to the.side weighs only fifteen pounds, and' is so hung up in the cabin that a girl can un hook it and cam- it under her arm7 In case of accident, one can unhook1 the bed, carry it on deck, and jump with it into the sea, first tying the pillow around the waist as an additional security. The bed lies flat upon the water; it cannot sink; you put your wateqroof cloak on and if "there is room for 3-011 in the boat, you can go alongside and get aboard; if there isn't it don't matter, for you can paddle your own canoe; you unhook your oars and row for land or wherever you want to. When you get tired you can ship one of your oa"s in a place made for it and attach the sail. A pat ent has been applied for. Every man throws on to his surround ings the sunshine or the shadow that exists in his own soul. Fact. Pondei on these fact you cannot be well or get well if your bowels" and kidnevs refuse to act properlv. Kidney-Wort will restore their healthful action. Buy it iu either the dry or li:midforms and give it a faithful trial. Druggists sell it. See advertisement. SCIENCE. For very heavy machinery, or for o-earing, tallow and black lead, rubbed up together, is the best lubricant, and also the best for wagon and carriage axles during the hot weather. All experience goes to show that alco hol as a daily food or drink, shortens human life. It may be taken under certain circumstances as a medicine, but its habitual use is an injury. It has been observed in Paris that when bees find their way into refineries or storehouses containing both syrup made of sugar cane anil syrup made from sugar beets, they collect only the former. If we mix a mustard poultice with the white of an egg, in place of water, we do not only get a mixture which will be sure to draw well, but one which can be easily removed and which will not blis ter the skin. The recent burning: of the Manhattan Market, in New York, the Scientific American says, is another illustration of the fatal mistake of putting into a would-be fire-proof building just enough wood to cause its destruction. The British war office authorities have now detailed a whole company of the royal engineers for instruction in the art of military ballooning. A very small detachment had, untilthe change was made, been engaged in balloon ex periments. Rawhide is said to make good journal boxes for machinery. A practical ma chinist says: "I have run a piece of machinery in rawhide boxes forfourteen years without oil; it is good yet, and runs at 4,500 revolutions per minute. 1 put it in while soft, and let it remain until dry." For light-running machinery sperm oil is the best; good olive oil, that has not become rancid and acid, is perhaps the second best, and for winter use lard oil is excellent, but is rather too drying to be a first-class lubricant. Castor oil is better for axles in the winter, and black lead with it is a help at any time. A comparison of extensive observa tions on the subject indicates that light ning is more prevalent in level regions than in high mountain chains. We find this statement in the current number of the Monthly Journal of Science (Lon don), which also states that according to official returns three hundred persons are killed by lightning every year in the island of Java. The first engineer of the Rhenish rail way, which has the longest experience in steel rails, has made a calculation, according to which the average dura tion of steel rails, where twenty-four trains pass over them every day, is thir- ty years, wnusi mat 01 nuu iuus, wim a traffic of seventeen trains, is eleven years. Steel rails according to this cal culation last four times as long as iron rails. An examination of many skulls of the Bushmen of South Africa has convinced Professor Bolleston, of Oxford, that the intelligence of people of this tnbe is of ten underrated, a view which is corrob orated by Sir Henry Barkly, late gov ernor of (Jape Colony, whose personal observation of the Bushmen shows them to possess considerable intellectual ca pacity and a rude artistic taste. Ill health is the most prominentcause of insanity, induced by insufficient ex ercise, intemperance, overeating and yielding to trouble, care and mental anxiety; the always certain remedy against these being a more general cul tivation of outdoor activities, a greater attention to stirring business, giving preference to those occupations which are congenial, absorbing and encourag ingly remunerative. A writer on animal intelligence, in the Westminster Review, mentions as proof that dogs really comprehend the meaning of language the fact that a dog brought up in one country does not understand the language of another country, but if transferred, say from England to France, has slowly to learn to understand French, just as a child would do. This view is opposed to the idea which we have frequently heard advanced, that dogs do not actually know their own names, but only recog nize that they are spoken to from the manner of the speaker. A paper by M. Trecul on a remarka ble case of vertically ascending light ning was lately read before the French academy of sciences. The phenome non occurred during a storm on Aug. 19th. The sparks appeared to come from some lightning-conductors in the place, some rising singly and disappear ing at a small height, after spreading into a magnificent, nearly circular flash, the light of which diminished from centre to circumference. In one case two luminous columns rose simul taneously, pursued a parallel course for some distance, and then bent at right angles aud struck each other. For making bronzes on a small scale boil any plaster figure or group in stear ine; then blacklead and plunge in a cop per bath. Attach a very weak battery, aud deposit very slowly a thin coating of copper. Now remove from the bath and bake in an oven until the plaster model shakes out in dust. You have now a very thin copper reporduction of your model. Varnish this outside so as to prevent the further deposition, and replace in the bath. The copper will now be deposited on the inside surface, and can be thickened up to any desired point. For this second process a much stronger battery may be used. An analysis of the edible earth which is eaten by the Ainos, in Japan, has been communicated by Dr. E. G. Love to the American Journal of Science and Arts. It is a light gray clay, of fine structure, and occurs on the north coast of Yesso, in a locality', the name of which signifies Eat-Earth valley. It contains a very small proportion of vo latile matter, which is believed to be due to the admixture of the leaf of some aromatic plant, but whether this is introduced into the clay by the peo ple who eat it, or is naturally present, has not been ascertained. The earth is made into a" soup with lily roots, and is eaten, not because it is regarded as ne cessary by the Ainos, who have abund ance of ordinary food, but becauso it is supposed to possess peculiarly bene ficial qualities. Immigration to the United States. The total immigration to this country during the last fiscal year was 457,257, 177,826 in 1878 '9. This is a most as tonishing increase, and one without a parallel in the history of this or any other country. The arrivals for the quarter ending June 30 alone were 242,647, which is a much larger num ber than in any previous entire year back to 1874. In 4874 the number'was 313,339; in 1875, 227,488; in 1876 it fell to 170,000, and went on declining until last year, when it rose to 177,826. There has" been but one larger immigra tion than that of l879-'80; that was in 1872-'3, just as the recent industrial troubles were ready to begin, the num ber exceeding 1879-'80 by 2,546. The arrivals for the quarter ending Septem ber 30 last were 154,832, against 68,651 in 1879. This is a large falling off from the probably unprecedented number ar riving in the previous quarter, but is only 23,000 less than in the whole year 1878-'9. The money brought in by im migrants was formerly estimated by the Castle Garden authorities at $68 per head, and has been by others estimated as high as $100. If it be assumed as $50, in order to be very safe, the immi grants of 1879-'80 should have brought nearly $23,000,000 an amount exceed-J the gross remilar imports of the precious metals in 1878-'9, and also ex ceeding those of fourteen other fiscal years since lSo'J. were it not mat we heve become accustomed to consider this country remarkable in its attract iveness and its development A'hich it admittedly is and to accept everything among the things of course, such an un paralleled" movement of population would excite astonishment. But we have a somewhat similar westward flow on our own soil. The census when we get it will contain as many delightful surprises to people who like to ponder the significance of matters of, fact as are found in the average novel. THE KABUL 3IIXT. How Afghan IHoiioj-1 Made Knslluli Kiipcen ICocoIncd. Kabul Correspondence to London Times. Let me now describe the process through which English rupees at present pass to bring them out from the Kabul mint in the shape of Kapulee rupees. In one of the rude shells which I have described as running around the court yard, are two rows of small, rouud clay hearths, elevated an inch or two above the floor, and depressed like a plate in the middle. A pile of rupees gener ally three hundred having been count ed and weighed, is placed upon one of these hearths in a carefully prepared bed of bone ashes, and is covered over with charcoal and wood The charcoal is then lighted, and when well aglow, 4 pounds of lead fr every 300 rupees is added to the furnace. The lead, in combination with the bone ashes, sepa rates, as is well known, the alloy. This first process converts the rupees into a dull unsightly mass of silver, free, or nearly so, from alloy. The pure silver thus extracted is then carried to anoth er shed, carefully weighed, and an amount of English rupees equal to its weight, added to it. Rupees and silver are then melted together in a clay cru cible, and the melted mixture is ladled by hand into molds, which give it the shape of flattened bars, about 12 inches long. The bars are then taken to a third shed to be annealed by hammering and given the form of slender round rods. The next process is thatof draw ing these rods through a plate of iron, perforated with round holes, to give it a uniform circumference. This is done by means of a rude hand wheel, after which the rods are cut by hammer and chisel into the length requisite to form the future rupee, each of which lengths is carefully weighed in a pair of scales. Any that are too heavy are handed to a workman whose business it is to slice off a fragment with the chisel; any that on the contrary are too light, are hand ed to another workman, who notches the little cylinder by a blow on his chis el, and inserts the" required fragment into the notch. The cylinders are next carried to a fifth shcd,ind, after gently heating, are hammered into small, round disks, which have ayellowish white col or. To remove this color and give them brightness they are next plunged into a caldron of boiling water, in which they are boiled for some time along with ap ricot fruit and salt. This process im parts brightness to the dull disks of sil ver, and thej' are then ready for the hist process they have to go through, thatof Stamping. "This is, perhaps, the most interesting part of the operation. The operators sit facing one another, half naked, on the ground, with a little iron anvil between them. Into the face of the anvil is inserted a steel stamp, des tined to give the impression which the under side of the rupee will bear. One operator places the little silver disks with great quickness and accuracy upon the stamp, and the other, who is armed with a heavy hammer in his right hand, and a steel stamp bearing the inscrip tion destined for tiie upper side of the rupee in his left, with one heavy, well delivered blow, impresses the device on the soft lump of silver. Lastly, each rupee thus stamped is again weighed, and if deficient in weight made up by the same rude process as noted at an other stage of the work, the amended rupee once more passing under the hand of the stampers. Such is the simple process by which money is now being coined at Kabul. It certainly makes one stare by its simplicity, aim the ab sence of all secrecy, fuss or show: and yet it is perfectly effective, and the mon ey turned out, though rough and unfin ished, is excellent in quality, if inar tistic in shape and appearance. It need hanlly be said that the rupees coined as I have descriped, contain only half the quantity of alloy which the English ru pee does. I shall only add that the es tablishment, as now constituted, can turn out 25,000 rupees per day, and is capable of any extension. A Baby Carriage in the Hall. Wheeling Leader. A baby carriage in the hall. The handsomest piece of furniture that any house can boast, always mak ing an honorble exception in favor of the cradle. That baby carriage means a home. Without it, only a place to stay in. It means a "dear, dimpled darling" that makes sunshine all the time when it hasn't got the colic. It means a happy mother, whose life is filled with all tender care, all sweet responsibilities, all wonderful hopes for the future. It means a father who holds up his head among men with the grandest dig nity that any man may know. To mother it is "babv." To father it is "my boy." The baby carriage in the hall means all the wealth of rosy hours as mother sings lullaby songs perhaps "Hush, ray dear, Me still aud Blumbcr, Holy angels guard thy bed." When all the time she is the angel that God has appointed to guard it, as none of all high heaven's host could do. It means a world of plans and pro jects, which all center in that one little life. It means a father who studies his bank balance with wonderful diligence, for my son must have a good educa tion and a good start in life," 3-011 know, and he goes home and catches the laughing toddler up, and reddens the dimples with his whiskers, and then put ting sturdy little twelve months old on his feet, sets him at his a, b, c of walk ing, addressing him with comical dig nity, "Well, governor, where shall we 0 now."1 P" And, although heonlv callshim "gov ernor," the mother's heart says and the father wouldn't deny it were she to put it in words that more likely it will be president in that dim, beautiful and certainly very grand future. Her choice, though, would be that he should be a good man and a happy one. Between them both tlu3 parcel out for his manhood's years all that makes life worth the living. That baby carriage in the hall means a good deaf, does it not? It means everything to the father and mother. It means more than can be told. If you have such a piece of furniture in use you know all about it. If you haven't, it's waste of raw ma terial to bother with you. FACTOKY FACTS. Close confinement, careful attention to all factory work, gives the operatives pallid faces, poor appetite, languid, mi-erable feelings, poor blood, inactive livr, kidneys and urinary troubles, and all the physic ans'aud medicine in the world cannot helpVuem unless thev get out doors or use Hop B.tters, made of the purest and best lemedie, and especially for such cases having a!iun. lance of health, "sun shine and rosy aheeks in them. Noue need suffer if they will use them freely. They cost but a trifle. See another column. mgr THOMAS CAELYLE. Pen Portrait of tlie Author of "Sartor Kesartua" Ills Views on tlie Decline or Life. Corr gpondence Baltimore San. Carlyle looked out from under his saagy eyebrows with the deep fire of his soul, earnestly, seriously and almost savagely. His thin, scraggy, scrawny face, with coarse, gray, grizzly beard, his compressed, determined lips, made a dual picture of the inner man of youth fighting the outer one of decay. His thin, bony, expressive hands made all his sledge hammer sentences come to my memory, and I could quote pages of tlipm by "sheer enthusiasm. Pres ently his niece reappeared and said: "La me, you've taken off the mittens!" Thereupon she encased those wiry hands with knitted woolen mittens so large and so loose that all the electrical expressiveness of the hands was instant ly gone. I remembered at once all the force of what Sir Arthur Helps wrote on "great hands and their greatness of expression." Not large and loose hands; great ones. Carlyle wore a black vel vet skull cap which did not improve his appearance, and around his body had his favorite plaid shawl. "I am not ill I never was ill," said he in his emphatic and broad Scotch accent, somewhat pettishly, if not peevishly; "I am only going going going!" And his eyes lost their grim fire of expres sion, his emphatic, rasping voice fell in to a lower tone, and I sat silent before the only livine: man worthy of my si lence; the only man when dead ever worthy of my loud admiration. The room was small and the fire made the temperature oppressive, yet the icy manner of the "Sage of Chelsea" re lieved the atmospheric oppression on my lungs. I saw some few books around, chiefly in the German language. A small bust of William of Orange and one of Peter the Great were readily dis cernable, while an engraving or two of Scotch scener made the rest of the or namentation of the close and well clos ed room. In taking my leave of the great old man he said: "Go on, and work with all your will uproot error." I shook the feeble and mittened hand and left Thomas Carlyle, who in the flesh may soon leave us, but in the spirit will ever remain. Libel and its Legal Remedy. E. L. Oodlclc In December Atlantic The only really efficient examination of the character of candidates for office is made by the press, and the most pow erful check, though not by any means the only one, in official misconduct is the inquisitiveness and railing of the newspapers. This is perhaps not an admirable system of inspection, much less an ideal one, but it is the only one as yet devised, and it may be said that without it popular government by fre quent election would hardly be possible in our time. Newspapers, however, could not, or would not, do this work if kept under close legal restraint. As a matter of fact they are virtually exempt by law or opinion from all check in the matter of criticism of official persons. The public virtually say to them, "Say everything that comes into your head about men in office; some of it, at least, will probably be true, and our interest will be served by having the truth come out in some shape." Mr Hamerton, the well-known author and painter, describes, in a recent num ber of Macmillan's Magazine, his ex perience in seeking redress for a libel on him, printed in a French newspaper, in the city near which he was residing. He called" on "a wise old lawer" about bringing an action for libel. Said the lawyer at once, "Nobody expects 3'ou to light the editor; it would be doing him too much honor; but you might, perhaps, challenge one of the highly respectable gentlemen who keep the pa per agoing with their money, and pay the editor to do their dirty work. You might be able to get at one of them. I dare sav, if it were agreeable to you." ! Mr. Hamerton thereupon observed that dueling was not much in his line, and that Englishmen did not generally fight duels. "This," he adtls, "was frank but imprudent. The lawyer looked at me seriously and sadly. A gentleman who was not strongly disposed to fight a duel could scarcely, I perceived, ex pect to maintain a very high place in his esteem. After a while he recovered from the shock, and said. "Well, nobody expects you to fight with the rascally editor, at all events.' " On the continent, the legal immunity believed to be enjoyed b3 the newspa pers in this country excites surprise so great that a distinguished French pub licist has described the American press as "despotism tempered by assassina tion;" his belief being that the only real remedy against libel enjoyed by the American citizen lies in the murder of editors. He relates, in illustration of this, that it is not uncommon for American newspaper offices to have a memorial marble plate over the door, inscribed with the names of the editors who have fallen in fight under the. weapons of persons whom they have slandered, together with the date of each trajredv. How They Do It. Register. Pecksniflian scribblers have often used as a text the claimed corruption of American politics, and pointed to the "purity of English elections" to prove that John Bull was a much better man than any other on top mother earth, when in" the management of politics. The real facts in the case are, that for corrupt purposes, for the direct pur chases of votes and voters, but little money has been or can be used at American elections. The stringency of our laws on these matters make the work one too full of direful risks for the profit attending. If we rnaj' rely on a writer in the Fortnightly Review, the condition of the English public on elec tion matters is one that need hardly be favorably compared with those of America. We are told by this writer the English politioian seems to care lit tle for public censure, perhaps because the custom of corrupting voters is of long standing, and so common that the public is not now surprised when it comes to light and treats the offender gingerly. Some English constituencies have a habit which has been copied, unfortunately, in a few instances over here of inducing men to stand for of fice for no other reason than that they were wealthy and unscrupulous, and will pour out morey like water to win a victory. Frequently the candidate thus nominated loses not only his money but the support of every man he buys, who are always willing to be bribed and at the same time to "sell out" the briber. A noteworthy case of this kind oc curred in the last general elections. It has been ruthlessly expo;ed by the elec toral commissioners who are now in vestigating the corruption so extensive ly practiced by both tories and liberals. Sir Julian Goldsmith, Bart,, a very wealthy man, was the liberal candidate for Sandwich. He is by no means able or popular, and never has been a suc cessful politician. It was at firi-t x jected that the tory candidate for Sand wich would have a "walk over," but finally Sir Julian proposed to stand for the liberals, and the Sandwichites were immensely pleased'to have an opportu nity of a fight. The reason why has since been made verr plain. Sir Julian had no sooner issueil bis addresses than his local agents began to ask him for money. The demands came thick and fast, and soon the unhappy gentleman's supply of check's was exhausted. He was so closely pressed that though a man of great wealth, he bad to send to Rochester to borrow $9,000, The out- come was that the election cost Sir Julian between $15,000 and $20,000,. and yet he was beaten by nearly two to one. The evidence seems to show the figures certainly do that the people of" Sandwich did not care anything for Sir Julian, aud did not want a liberal mem ber, but only a contest in which plenty of money would be spent on both sides. It is alleged ( that the bribery at Sand- ' wich was of the most bare faced char acter, men by scores and hundreds hav ing been paid so much money for their votes without the least concealment. Sir Julian was very wroth at the result and determined to have revenge. He petitioned against his opponent, not in order to seat himself, but in order to. expose the iniquities of Sandwich, and bring about its distranchisement. Whether or not he has succeeded in throwing out Sandwich, we do not know, nor is the result important- in ' this connection. The conspicuous fea ture of the affair is the frank admission of the lavish use of money in the can vass. No candidate for ottice in this country would expose his own corrupt methods in this unblushing manner." If guilty of using money he is heartily ashameil of himself, which shows some degree of moral sensibility, and at least a remnant of conscience. College Men. St. Albin's Messenger. Ever' little while the papers seize upV . on our college system and make it the target for their wit and penetrating sar- casni. Men who never saw the inside of a recitation room write in the most ' convincing style upon subjects of which they are perfectly ignorant. We have ' pictured to our mind the average coli lege graduate, a young man with glassT es and a cane, who sponges on his father for a living, looks upon the world as a very inferior place and scorns to work for" his daily bread. He is an ed ucated fop, and passes his life in visions and dreams which never amount to anything, while the typical young man of this inspired genius' creation picks stones until he is twenty-five and then bounds up the ladder of success into the presidential chair. The idea is indus triously circulated that college grad uates are a failure, and the picture.of a broken down old man with a college ed ucation is handed round as a fitting ex ample of the worthlessness of men whose notions are too high for any practical achievement or success. In a recent number of the Montpelier Journal the remark is made that, "Here in indus trial Vermont we have three 'institutions of culture,' where young men are un fitted for practical life, in an article which attacks our colleges on the ground that their graduates are not "practical" men. Now we do not hesitate to say that college men are the most practical of any in the world, as a class, and ive believe that the facts will prove it. Ev en here, in our own country, where self educated men are so common, this rule will hold good, while in Eugland and Germany a university education is al most indispensable to any great success in life. The record of England's states men, her warriors, writers and invent ors is composed largely of her college graduates. But here in America the charge is made that they are not "prac tical." Any man who has looked over the list of our great men will see the falsit- of this statement. Taking into consideration the comparatively small proportion of college graduates in the community it is astonishing to note how many of them have ands-ill hold positions of the highest importance. From the very inception of our national existence they, have occupied the fore most stations. Of our presidents the Adamses graduated at Harvard, Jeffer son, Monroe and Tler at William and Mary, Madison at Princeton, Harrison at Ilampden-Sidney, Pierce at Bowdoin, Buchanan at Dickinson, Grant at West Point, and Hayes at Kenyon, while Gen. Garfield is a graduate of Williams and Gen. Hancoek of West Point. Not a very bad record for colleire men. The supreme court of the United States has been largely recruited from the same ranks, and the list of men who have oc cupied the highest positions in national affairs would not be half completed were we to leave out the class whom we are now considering. But let us look at a few facts of pres ent interest. The senate of the United States comprises 7S members. Of these "3 completed the full college course and several others pursued classical studies but did not graduate. In the house of representatives the graduates number 123 and in the higher grade of govern ment offices the ratio is very high. Ev en here in our own state where "prac tical" men are chosen in preference to those of literary attainments, we have a governor and a considerable portion of each house of the legislature who are college graduates, while of our supreme court five are graduates, and among the most energetic and thriving men in this state, as in all others, are those who have received a liberal education. We" have no time to jjo into an exhaustive discussion of the" subject. The record speaks for itself in even.' branch of our soeial economy mid challenges scrutiny. There is no fear that college men will go to the wall, but young men should not be cautioned against such an educa tion on the ground that it is not prac tical when the facts are so few in the other direction. We have made no mention of our Bancrofts, Longfellows, Hales and Curtises, for they are possi bly not practical men, but whose lives and examples will aid in making many better men of hundreds of those who find inspiration in the lives of great and good men. The writer has had abundant oppor tunity of studying the influences of col lege life upon young men. He has known hundreds in many colleges of all aims and ambitions. He has seen young men who have gircn themselves up to the hardest work, have not been above the most" exacting labor and have scorned the little tricks that some men seem to think peculiar to college life. He has seen them go out and within a very few years, in almost every depart ment of our social fabric, easily outstrip those who have what is termed a "tech nical" education. He knows how groundless are the reckless words said against the moral and intellectual stand ard of the college boys, and how proud a record they have made for themselves. He has seen them teaching school, act ing as waiters, running into debt and then working for years to pa' off the incumbrance, yea, devoting the best years of their lives to gaining what is sneered at as impractical and then in due time reaping their reward in social and political success. Such being the case it seems more than careless to deter young men from seeki the best edu cation in their power to obtain, and newspapers would do a far better work in stimulating them to get the best edu cation, at any sacrifice, in the full con fidence that it is the bet paying and most "practical" investment that a vonnjr man can make. There are two things that will make us happy in this life if we attend to them. Ihe first is never to vex ourselves about what we cannot help; ami the sec ond nevei to vex ourselves with what we can help. What the country needs now is fewer scrub politicians and more thorough red schoohna'ams. Bennet. In October, when the woods are glo rious in their scarlet and golden drape ry, is the time to seek the Autumn leaves and ferns. A severe Cold is of ten the result of such pleasure trips. Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup always cures Coughs and Cold, Price 25 cts. 1 r v v- if 11
