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THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 20. 1SS2 latere! itt P:n;2:e, Csls lira, :Jet., is secssi HEROES OF THE SHORE. Alone the coast-ifiiard moves upon his beat. Where the mad ocean leaps against the land. With steady, sleepless eye and weary feet, Throuirh the wild bitter night alowr the strand. He pauses ah ! ft liyht a vessel's light Is r.sinjf, falling with the angry waves; O! must the awful tempest in its might Hurl lellow creatures helpless to their graves? Bed gleams his reaching signal through the dark; Beware! Beware the perils of the shore! Too late! the helm is gone; the fated bark Strikes on the shoals; the waters o'er her pour. O sleepers, wtken to the fearful cry That now comes speeding landward through the gale! Haste! noble coastguard, haste! For succor By: All. all are doomed to perish if you fail! Swift come the ir.cn, roused by the breathless call; Out o'er the wreck their saving line they send. Ah! women, children! see. they rescue all! Safe's;-re on hore where kindly arms ex tend. Honor the coast guard for true victories gained! KaW the glad voice of Joy, the song of praise! Let gratitude and justice unrestrained Give to these aging men some sunny days, AT. Y. Sun. AMICE'S WEDDING DAY. I was always glad when my rounds happened to lead through Sandridge-by-the-Sea; there were many place3 where I met until kind friends enough, who were pleased to see the old peddler, who had served them for so many years, since they were children themselves sonic of them, but somehow I liked the tramp to Sandridge best of all my jour neys. One bright spring day I came to Sand ridge in the afternoon, and as I neared the place I stopped to speak to an old comrade of mine, who stone bv the roadside. was breaking "Any news up yon?" I asked, when we had passed the time of day to each other. "News!" he grunted, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand; "news, you say? Well, there's more news than 1 care for, anyhow;" and then resumed his work. 'I'otne, Sammy," I said, laying down mv pack, "you're put out a bit. What's up?" "What's up?" he repeated he always had such a tiresome way of doing that. had Sam Penfold "well, a billet's up." "What's that?" I asked. "Why. jttt this: they ain't got room for tlie soldiers that are quartered at Ley, so they've handed them on to us; and neither with vour leave or by ver leave. in stalks a great six foot feller, right into yer house, with a piece of paper in his hand. 'That's his billet,'' says he, and there stays as free as you please, whether you want him or not," I laughed at Sammy's grievances, and reshouldcring my pack, prepared to walk on. "fJoing to Hen Ryder's" asked Sam, with a parting grunt. "Aye." "Then you won't get lodgings there," lie said, with a grim satisfaction; "he's gut a bilk-t, Uhj.'' somehow i iiui not 1 1 ice the ulca ot a rough oldicr being quartered at Ryder's house, though it was no business of'inine. It didn't M-eni just right of Ben toward his motherless girl, but p'r'aps it wasn't any fault of his. Anyhow, I would wait before I came t- an hasty conclusion on the .subject. Up theciilTI toiled with my load, and as I neared the top. Amice came out to meet me as usual, but whether it was fancy or not 1 couldn't tell, her face seemed to look paler and graver than it used to be. Slic wore her usi'al tish gjrl's drc-s of coarse home-spun; but stuck in front of it was a cream colored rose, a thing I never saw Amice wear before in my life. She wasn't given to frippery of anv sort. " Come in. Paul." she said, holding out her hand toward me. " You're as tired as you can be. I'm sure " .lust the same welcome as ever; but there was sm.iethiug in the ring of her voi-e that to!d me that I wasn't alto gether wanted there that day, or at least I thought so. However, .sitting down in the porch. I .stopped on for some little -lime, making her tell me all the gcusip of the village. Of course, the arrival of he soldier came up among other things, mil by the Hush that overspread the girl's pale ehivk. as she told me this bit of news. I felt sure that the mischief was Joiic, and that Amice Ryder was heart -.vholc no longer. " Did your soldier give you that rose, ny la.ss?" I asked suddenly. For the first time in my life I saw-Aiu-:ce angry. She did not vouchsafe any Answer to my question but. rising from ier seat, s'ie turned abruptly awav and Jiisied herself in the house, getting some refreshment for m.j. which I hardly de served after m impertinence. As I smoked my pipe peacefully in the (Kirch. I thought it all over, anil made up my mind that it was nothing to me f Amice had a lover. Her father could ook after her interests better than I ,'ould; only soldiers were such queer map: the' so often pretended what they never meant, aud I was too fond of Am ice to see her treated that wav c.i.i ...i.. t . .i - . - ouddonlv, as I sat in the quiet snnno-1 snnsn.ne, i saw a man toilinir tin the accent thai led to Ryder's cottage. His redcoat haiigingon hi j arm showed him . J I to W a soldier. His hat was off, and I 2otild see his face dtmctly. "Amice."' I culled out loudly, "Amice, coine lwre." Then as she neared me, 1 continued: "Is yon the man that is quar--ered here, at your father's house?" For a m mient she looked out a little nnxioush: then said, qnicklv: " Yes." that's him. Paul."" Without another word I left her and walked down the steep road within a short distance of the approaching figure; then I stopped dead and waited for the man p come toward me. He was look ing down on the ground as he swung limselt up the steep way. Suddenly he raised his eyes and they met mine "full. Ah me. how his face changed as he did so. " What do you want now?" he gasped jut. "Only to let you know that I am here, - and can gucs-j the game you are play ing." I returned. "As long as you re uieiuber that, ou' re. safe from me. Forget it, and I shall keep silence no lon-er." With a ni.igli laugh lie turned aud left me landing alone: then I slowly re mounted the nu:ky path with a heavy weTght at my heart, and prepared myseff for what 1 could ay to tlie girl who was waiting for my return above. She stood iatch!nir me from the porch, where the vse.s wele growing in their wild beauty, and I could ee a wondering sort of look in her face a I came near her; but she nevi-r .po!e :i word or asked a single question. I was a bit out of breath after - mv lug uu hill, aud as what I had to say wanted all the calmness an 1 quietness I could must.r, I waited silent f r a time; then took her hand in my withered one. Amice, my lass," I said. "I've known you since you were a wee thing toddling , the eclipse will take plate in the drill about here, and seen you grow up into ,' shed." ljondon Telegriph. the woman von are with near as much pride as vour own f: her could do, and on ihcstreiiglh of that old friendship I waul you to mike m- a promise." No answer, on'v she field her head a bit higher, and lKked'ine straight iu the Lee iiniiiich.iiglv. "'.Villyougrautan old whim. Amice?" I said again. "I must wait until 1 hear what it is kns, first, Paul?" she replied. 'Veiit it's this. Fvo a strange fancy to be one of the guests at your wedding. Amice, and the promise I want from you is this: five days before your marriage send me word to come to it." She laughed merrily, her old uncon scious laugh, that somewhat hurt me to hear. "O, you silly old Paul," she said, blushing slightly, "is that all you've been making such a mystery about? Well yes, I promise. I looiced at her earnestly. "Amice," I said, "you have given me your promise, and I trust you. What ever persuasion you may get to the con trary, you give me your honest word that old Paul, the peddler, shall come to your wedding?" "Yes," she said, "I do, Paul, really and truly." Only a few months passed away before the summons I had been fearing came. Amice was going to be married and wrote to bid me come to the wedding. There were few railways in those days, remember, so I had to start on foot and walk day and night in order to reach Sandridge in time, and a heavy jaunt it was, for I was not so young as I used to be. Many greetings met my ears, and many a laujrh was raised at mv sorry appcara tee, for I looked travel-stained anil weary enough I warrant. At last 1 reached the little lych-gate leading into the old churchyard, and there my spirit almost failed me, for on the ground lay the pretty Uqwers that the children had thrown before the bride as she walked up the path. But, uerv ing myself for what was liefore me, I entered the open door almost unnoticed. Then I saw Amice as she stood in her soft gray gown with her beautiful head drooping on to her breast. I only looked at her, I say. and the sight gave me courage; no man living should harm her while I lived to prevent it, but my task was a hard one for all that. Step ping forward through the little crowd of villagers that looked on, open-mouthed, to see me, I made my way toward the group in the chancel: "Stop!" I called out aloud, holding up my hand; "this must not go on." "For what reason am I to stop?" said old Parson Leigh, who was a-marrying them, startled by my voice, and not knowing how to act. "Because," I said, covering ray eyas with my hand to shut out Amice's face from my sight " because that man i my sou, and he's married already." " Is this true?" says Parson Leigh, his voice shaking a little with the sorrow he felt. "It's just a downright lie, sir." he said, siniply enough, " and I am ready to prove it. My father's here to speak for himself, anil heaven knows why any one should want to come between Amice and me like this." 1 looked up bewildered as the man spoke, and then in an instant the awful mistake I had made Hashed across my mind; this was not the man I had seen coming up to Ben Ryder's house at all; this was not my son, but a younger man, and difl'crcntin everyway from that poor wandering fellow. For a minute some thing seemed to come into my throat and prevent me from speaking. But pres ently the words came: "I withdraw what I said cntirelv. sir, and I humbly ask your pardon for the mistake I made, which I will explain later on." Outside the cottage I stopped, and beckoned the two out into the golden suuliirht. "Amice," I said humbly enough, "I have to ask your pardon for my beuavior toward you and yours this day. The man who lodged at your father's house was my son. aud it never entered into my stupid head that it might be another soldier who was courting you. 1 only thought of him. and. knowing his ways, made up my mind to have you from him, though he were a dozen times my son. He has never caused me anything but trouble since he was a lad, aud such trouble should never cross your path through one of mine. It is on his ac count that I have to tramp the country from year's end to year's end, and it is on hjs account I dare not settle in one place, knowing that he would only bring disgrace on me if I did so. It is from this man I tried to save you, and you must forgive a half-blind old man's mis take, when you remember how hard it was for a father to denounce his own son. Now good-bye, and heaven bless you both." Then I had to make my way off as quick as possible, for fear an old man's salt tears should bring ill-luck on Amice's Wedding-Day. French Marriages. The3' are so unlike anything in the same rottchc .socinle in England. All the wrangling about settlements is over, ami happy couples aud their relatives and fricuds lay themselves out to spend the day as merrily as they can. A wedding is in France a union "of two families as well a two persons. There have been many hitches and difiieuhics in the wav of fusion: but nowthatit has taken place it is thorough. The fathers of the bride and bridegroom are comperes, the mothers commerce, all the connections are "allies," and the relationship in which they stand to each other is really expressed in this word. It is an under stood thins that they are bound to ren der friendly services to each other. The whole of the fortune with which tlie bride has been endowed ma' go. if her husband survives her, to Ins family; and an ins money inaveveniua?iy eurcli tiers i .t i - r. - i " - i ..... . . , .. N IHI I IIIHI. XIIIMllI If 1II1I11IM-1MM I 1I" firilltl disasters overtake the newly-wedded couple, both families are to assist them. The principle of each family group main taining its unfortunate members, and not throwing them on the State, is even more distinctly recognized in French custom thau in the Code. Thi is why marriages celebrated in England be tween young Frenchmen and English girls are frowned upon by the relations of the former, and even- advantage is taken which the law gives to s-t them aside. Zola's pictures of bourgeois life are, in the main, false. They are more applicable to the aristocratic "than to the middle class. Loiulon Truth. An Eclipse Story. Apropos of the recent solar eclipse, a story worthy of Hacklaender has recent ly gone the round of tlie German papers. It appears that on the morning of the event alluded to Captain Von S , of the Fusiliers, issued the following verbal order to his eoinpany.Uhrougn' his Sergeant-Mnjor, to be communicated to the men after forenoon parade: This afternoon a solar eclipse will take place. At three o'clock the whole com pany will parade in the barracks yard. Fatigue jackets and caps. 1 .shall ex plain the eclipse to the men. Should it rain, they will assemble in the drill-shed. The Sergeant-Major, having set down his commanding officers instructions in writing, as he had understood them, formed the company into hollow square at the conclusion of the morning drill, and read his version of the orderto them thus: "This afternoon a solar eclipse will take place in the barrack-yard, by order of the Captain and will beattended by the whole.company iu fatigue jackets and caps. The Captain will conduct the .i i! : ! i . .. soiar eclipse in persun. OllOUlU it rain Mr. Fox, whose family have for generations acted as Consuls for the United States at Falm itith, England, comes of a most consular family. The linn of which he is a member were a. few years ago, aud probably are to-day. Consuls for the United States, Chili.and Turkey, and Vice-Consuls for Austria, Brazil Bremen, Denmark, Greece. Guat emala, Hamburg, Lubeok. Oldenburg, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia aud Tuscany. Migration ef Seals. Of tin different sorts of North-Atlantic seals, all but two are migratory that is to say. the whole liody of them move from north to south each autumn, and back from south to north each spring. Upon this important fact the great fleets of fisherman depend for their success. The annual southward journey of the restless harp-seal furnishes a vivid picture of these migrations which are so promi nent a feature of polar history. Keeping just ahead of tlie "making" of ice, or final freezing up of the fiords and bays, at tlie approach of winter they leave Greenland and begin their passage south ward along the coast of Labrador, freely entering all the gulfs and bays. They appear first in small detachments of half a dozen to a score or more of indi viduals: these are soon followed by larger companies, until in a few days they form one continuous procession, ftUingthesea as far as the eye can reach. Floating with the Arctic current, their progress is extremely rapid, and in but one short week the whole multitude has passed. Arriving at the Straits of Belleisle, some enter the gulf, but the great body move onwar 1 along the eastern coast of Kew font I and. and thence outward to the Grind Banks, where they arrive about Chri-tmas. Here they rest for a month, and tii-n they turn northward, slowly strug jliir agaiust the strong current tha-" aid'vl them so much in their south ward journey, until they reach the great ice-tields stretching from the Labrador shore far eastward a broad continent of ice. During the first half of March, on these great Uniting fields of ice, are born thousands of baby seals only one in each family, to lie sure, but with plenty of playfellows cloje by all in soft wooly dress, white, or white w'th a beautiful golden luster. The Newfoundlanders cafi them "white-coats." In a few weeks, however, they lose this soft covering, and :i- gray, coarse fui takes its place. In this uniform they bear the name of "ragg.d-ja':keLs"'; and it is not until two or tliiv- years later that the full colors of the adult are gained, with these i in. -nensc nurseries can be heard for a very long distance. When the babies are very young, the mothers leave them on the ice and go off in search of food, coming back frequently to look after the little ones; and although there are thousands of the small, white, squeal fng creatures, which to you and me would seem to be precisely 3like, and ll are moving about more" or less, the mother never makes a mistake nor feeds Any bleating baby until she has found tier own. If ice happens to pack around fhem. so that they cannot open holes, nor get into the water, the whole army will laboriously travel by floundering leaps to the edge of the field; and they show an astonishing sagacity in discern ing the proper direction. It is supposed that they can smell the water at along distance. Sometimes great storms come, break ing the ice-floes in pieces and jamming the fragments against one another, or upon rocky headlands, with tremendous force. Besides the full-grown seals that perish in such gales, thousands of the weak babies are crushed to death or drowned, notwithstanding the dauntless vou rage of their mothers iu trying to et their young out of danger and ujion the linn ice. And it is touching to watch a mouier-seal struggling to get her baby to a safe place, "oither by trying to swim with it between her fore flippers, or by driving it before her and tossing it for ward with her nose." The destruction caused by such gales is far less when they happen after the j'oungsters have learned to swim. Does it surprise you that seals, which re constantly in" the water, have to .earn to swim? Well, it might stagger the seals to be told that men have to be taught to walk. The fact is, a baby seal is afraid of tlie water; and if some acci dent, or his mother's shoulder pushes him into the surf when he is ten or a loeu days old, he screams with frigliU And scrambles out as fast as he can. The next day he tries it again, but finds him self very a wkwarJ aud soon tired; the third day he does better, and before long he can dive aud leap, turn somersaults (if he is a bearded seal,) and vanish under the ice. literally "like a bin streak," the instant danger threatens. But he had to learn how to begin with like any other mammal. Ernest Inytr oll, iu St. Nicholas. Superstition in Euglisli Soeiety. Nothing could have been more un fortunate than the death of the Princess of Wurtemburg last Sunday, except the occurrence of that sad event four or five da-s earlier, which would have brought wreok and every of her disaster upon the royal weddiug. As it was, tiie main ex citement was over when the news reached Windsor. The wedding had been cele brated, the royal banquet held, all the royalties and "Serene Transparencies" had dined with the Queen, and most of the men among them at the banquet of the Royal Academy before the terrible news arrived and broke up the fair meet ing in most admired disorder. No .sooner did I hear the news than the words ut tered by my neighbor in St. George's Chapel on the wedding daj' Hashed across my mind. This lady, who is a very grunu dame rfe pir le 1 it llfl.fs -k the bridesmaids than sie H ' IWMlO mlJ sooner saw turned pale to a visible extent despite the artisticskill expended upon her charming couutenauce. "What could they have b:!eu thinking of?" she asked me."Just th'nk of their putting violets on the bridesmaids" frieks. They must be mad." I had seen that the gowns were I looped up with primroses and violets and thought that, saving that the effect was rather "buti'-hy," the flowers looked well on the white skirts. It seemed quite otherwise to my neighbor, who went ou to say: "Violets at a wedding! Absurd! That is unless it were a Boua partist wedding. The violet, by virtue of its hue aud associations, is a liower of mourning. It is put on funeral wreaths. It is used to deck not a bride but a corpse. No good will come of it, I am sure. I wonder they did not put on a p.irure of opals while they were about it. But there is sure to be some misfor tune." On Monday I dined with my neighbor, who at once uttered that portentous phrase, "I told you so." I was not juite so astonished as I might have been, tor I know how .superstitious the British matron, even of the highest rank, very frequently is. The younger "damozels," wh re:id Herbert Spencer, and Mallock, and Darwin, are in many cases free from superstition, or indeed, belief of any k n I, but their mothers incline strongly to the fancies and prejudices which are still articles of absolute faith among the b ir.rger.isie. Women of the lower class always hive a "dream-book" hidden iwav. aud not spoken of before their husban Is. aud scores of them actually write every year to the Astronomer Royal to have their "stars iiut nVht " It is hoped that compulsory education in uoarii schools will put an end to this lui.seranie nmuisn in time, but my per Siinal experience is decidedly against the speedy eradication of sup'erstition. I have seen a man of fairintclligence and great fortune turn back on his way to a horse-race because the first woman he ni-t ou going into the street had a squint-eye. This, in his opinion, was fatal. To meet a "squinty-eyed" wo man tlie first t;i"rig in the morning signi fied ba1 luck all tlie day. and no amount )f persuasion could induce him to con tinue with the party. Concerning wed dings and weildtng engagements, ladies have superstitious concerning other things thau violets. Opals are so fear fully ualucky to (ire 'to bridegroom vr f ine ,.:t -u c.esnuc or uarp-UKB iuar Gran(l Duke of ,j t,,e pr5lu.es, "f.ih': baw,IK,!l Svethem the name Beatrice and the beautiful Princess Vie- ,. rPs" .. . , , . . , toria of Hesse. All were in deep mour- I he -mealing ana barking at one of .... . .i ,i. f,...' ,.,:i bride that the price of those beautiful gems is kept down in coiinc juence. It is of no use to argue with the British dowager that ths opal superstition has broken do.vn in a note woi thy case in our own time. Wii-m the Prince of n aie.s w;is niarneu nineteen yeans ai me cuv oi lXMiuoti av uie urate a si perb partire of opals aud diamou Is, an i the marriage cannot be said to have turned out badly. But the Dowager shakes her head orshrugsthe over-plump shoulders she is over fond of displaying, and retorts with a question whether you would, if you became engaged, give your affianced a turquoise engagement ring either with or without diamonds and other gems. Now tills is a searching and terrible query, for jewelers warn buyers of engagement rings against the turquoise in a clumsy kind of way by saying: "Don't 'avea turquoise, sir; ii'a aw'ful unlucky, as the say in' is." The meaning of this awkward indication is that the turquoise is a curious instance f tkc "survival" of the ancient delusion that certain geni3had certain properties, medicinal and magical. One stone would tell of poison in the cup, auothet of impending misfortune, and so forth. Now the opinion still held by the super stitious concerning the turquoise is that it represents the heart of the giver. So long as the lover remains tme the ston retains its brilliant color, but when his heart turns from the wearer of the gift towards a rival it becomes pale and dull. This is the reputation of the turquoise. and it will be easily understood that it is quite sufficient to make that gem un popular. It is an awful weapon to place on the hand of an affianced bride, much more on that of a wife. In the case of Shylock the conditions are reversed. When the Jew hears from Tubal thai Jessica has sold one of her rings for a monkey, he exclaim "Out upon her! Thou torturest me. Tubal; it was my turquoise: I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor; I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys." Probably Leah's gift to Shylock had never change! color. On Monday afternoon I was at Clare- mont when the Queen arrived with the nmjr, ot course: and the uueeii s post it lions and outriders in black. The Queen who was greatly shocked and grieved al the untoward occurrence, did not make a very long stay at Claremout, but drove down through Esher back to Windsor. There are weeping and wailing in the city of London also over tlie Princess ol Wurtemburg, whom the City Father have never seen. But their grief is deep and sincere, nevertheless, ana goes nigh to be inconsolable. For the King of tlie Netherlands was to have been received and dined and wined in the city on Tues day and had this been doi.e the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs would have been re spectively baroneted and knighted, as is the custom when a crowned head goei into the city of London. In no place will the poor dead princess be more sincerely mourned than in the Mansion House and Guildhall.- -London (Cor. X. Y. IHb une. mam Smoke Dispersing Frost. Among the dispatches which have recently come from the interior of Cali fornia respecting the condition of fruit aud vines are several stating that Jack Frost swept over the bay counties one night last week, aud brought the usual devastation to fruit and wine plantations. Iu Santa Cruz, noted for its line, though lot early, fruits and grapes, and in Napa and Sonoma, where the vine flourishes principally, the damage seems to have been very extensive. California is ties tined to be the greatest fruit and grajx region in the world, and it is rapid I j acquiring an enviable reputation for late, early and erratic frosts, which worry the fanner and make his life miserable. As nearly everything iu this State is pecu liar, it is perhaps meet that the frosts should be governed by no law: but it is somewhat difficult for a person engaged in fruit or vine growing to have his crop destroyed in this way and keep his tem per. It is estimated that many thou sand dollars' worth of grapes have been withered by the frost in Napa and So noma during the past week, which is a most extraordinary thing at this season of the year. Science has doue some thing already to obviate this trouble, and it may be that Time will perfect i system of thwarting the ravages of Jack Frost. It is not well-known to the gen eral public that a layer of frost upon i tender plant does not materially in jure it that is, me oare irosi, produced by dew being frozen by low temperature". It is the rays of the sun in the early morninjr thawing out the plant which withers and destroys it. This fact was first noticed when a heavy fog kept the morning sun off a Napa vineyard, and prevented the destruction of a crop of grapes. It was then sug gested that smoke would answer the same purpose, and it was tried with con siderable success. During- the last few years the vineyards of Napa and Senonia Lave been experimenting, until at pres ent, they have a regular system of "smok ing vineyards." Krug." Groezinger and a few others, who have extensive vine yards in Napa Valley, two years ago warded off the frost successfully. Be tween the 1st and loth of April, if the season is not unusually unpropitious. the blossoms annear upon the grape vines. If a frost occurs between those dates. -.,, At I.... 1 miiow uy a warm suu. u.e ...si, um, sometimes Hie scconu crop ot .un;inm:i is killed, while all the other varieties, Malvoise, Rose of Peru. Emperor. Kci-; ling, etc., sufler almost total destruction. To smoke the vineyard at the proper time, a watchman." a howitzer anil a thermometer are put on guard. From the 1st to the 15th of April the sentinel kcejxs his eye on the thermometer, from three o'clock in the morning until day light, and if it goes down to the freezing point he discharges his howitzer. A: once a small army of vineyardists wait ing for the sound 'turn out of wann bed and repair to their fields, around and through which have previously beei. placed small iron vessels filled with tar. or piles of dry wood. A flambeau quickly does the work, and Old Sol rises ovei the hills- to see the valley covered with an impenetrable cloud of smoke, and revelling in a smell that would offend his olfactors. if he were less than W.OOO.OOO miles away. The atmosphere is gradu ally warmed, the frost melts slowly of! the fruit crystals, and the grapes ar4 saved. San Francisco Call. A Choice of Terms. 44 1 see the Armstrongs have gone to light housekeeping," said Mr. Jones. i laving down the paper he was reading, "it will be quite a chauge for them." " I wonder if they will use gas or ke rosene?" asked Mrs. Jones. " Perhaps thev will have the electrio light," muscl Mr. J., "it ought to b just the thing for that purpose." 44 Whv, vou ean't cook by the electric light," retorted Mrs. J "I don't see what c cooking has to dc with it." growled Mr. Jones iu a dis- igusted tone. "They can cook as othei ; people ao i suppose. But vou said that they had gone to light housekeeping. 44 Yes. I know I did," answered Mr. J., sarcastically: but I should have ex plained it more fully and said explicitly ! that Mr. Armstrong was light-house keeper on Shad Islind. ana that the American Government had snthim and his family there. Understand Maria?" But Maria was sulking, and wouldn't answer. Dttroit Post and Tribune. Fortune is said to knock onoc every man's door. JNot only Unit, Me r'c fortune seems to climb into the wiudow of some folk and stay with then. JL Takoot in New York. A reporter for the Su yesterday found a Yakoot, probably the first man of that race ever in the United States. The l'akoots are a Siberian tribe of Asiatic origin: they live on the shores of the Lena, where Captain l)e Long and his party found- snowy graves. The name of this Yakoot is Mr. Brakhim. He is 'of middle stature, with hardly any hair on his chin and lip, though he is twenty-live years old. His promiuent cheek bones and the square contour of his face show his Asiatic origin, yet his eyes are rather those of a white man. His legs are somewhat liowed, owing to an apparatus which the Yakoots use in training their, babies. Mr. Brakhim speaks his own Yakoot language and also Russian, though with a peculiar accent, 44 What induced you.Mr. Brakhim, to leave Yakootsk and come to this coun try?" asked the reporter in Russian. 44 In 187G," he replied, "there was a Congress of Orientalists in St. Peters burg, and the Russian Government brought to that Congress a number of l Yahobts, Buriats, Ostiaks, Kirkhizes, and members of other Siberian tribes as sam ples of Russianization. I was one of the Yakoot samples. Once in St. Petersburg I decided to see more of the civilized world. I have been in France and in England, and now I want to see Ameri ca. I would like to stud' this country, its people aud its institutions." 44 Are the Yakoots a numerous race?" "There are atomt 250.000 of them. They lead a semi-nomadic life along the Lena and its tributaries. Twice a year they change their abode. In summer theysettle on the numerous islands of Lena and ou the shores of the other riv ers, where they mow hay and cultivate a little barley and still less rye. In winter they move to their winter quarters, where they stay for seveu long, cold mouths." " 44 What is the chief occupation of your race?" 44 We keep cows and mares. We use the mare's milk to make koumiss. The rich men among us own from 100 to 500 cows and half that number of njares. The poor own about a dozen cows. A man who is worth a thousand roubles (about $700) is looked upon as very wealthy. We supply the gold miners with butter and meat. We keep a few deer, and with them make excursions to the Ice Ocean. 44 Our villages consist of a number of tents, built regardless of any onler. so that we have no streets. The tents are square at the base and pyramidal in shape; they are built generally of rough posts, put side by side. The rich men, however, nti cut wood, or even make houses. There are small windows about a foot square, with ice panes during the winter, and with sheets of mica or small pieces of broken glass set in birch bark frames during the summer. Glass panes four inches square are the largest I ever saw in the houses of our rich people. The ice windows hist through the winter, although fire is kept on the hearths night and day, and when they melt we know that the time has come for us to move to our summer quartet's. We do not move our tents, which are left standing per manently in both the summer and win ter quarters. The stables in winter ad join thxj tents, so that our cattle have the benefit of the fires. Ample yards, with high fences, complete the picture of our village." "What about your people?" "The Yakoots are of middle stature, and have straight black hair, broad noses, prominent check bones, and eyes that resemble somewhat those of the Chinese. The men cut their hair short and leave a long loose lock on the back of the head something like a Chinese queue. The women have rich black hair, which they always cover with a handkerchief. The Yakoots are not prolific. A family usually has about three children. They are friendly anil peaceable, and the women are regarded as equal to the men in every respect. Monogamy is strictly observed. "In the morning we drink tea brick tea. We scrape it with a knife, boil it in a clay pot, aud drink it with milk. The rich families use also a little sugar, which they bite off iu small pieces. U'e have no bread at all, for we cannot bake it on our hearths. Bread is a great lux ury, and when one of us brings a loaf of it from the city of Yakootsk it is di vided into small pieces and distributed around. We have, howei'er. barley flour, of which we sometimes prepare a kind of bun or custard. About noon we cat buluhas that is sour milk mixed with fresh milk and water and a powder made of soft pine bark. Sour milk we keep for months in large pits dug in the earth. Of course it is frozen hard, and we cut it with axes. About three o'clock we again eat butuhas. Before going to sleep the well-to-do people eat meat, while the poor eat more butuhas. Some times we have barley gruel ami other preparations of milk. In winter we oc casionally have fish. N. Y. Sun. Revolutionary Peers. The upper chamber of the Legislature has of late displayed a curious disposition for violating the sanctity of entails and setting at naught the inconvenient wis dom of its ancestors. The Peers were aghast at rabbits being pronounced ver min and at the right being granted to farmers to shoot them with as much free dom and impunity as if the' were Irish process-servers. But to tie up an estate in order that it may go to a son who has been rioting in post-obits, or to a far-away cousin whose name is an abomination, is quite another matter. Lord Cairns' bill paves the way for all this, and when the owners of the Woodstock Library and the Hamilton Palace art treasures are Permitted to put them up to auction the ccrs mu.st be verging on the revolution ary. "Vathek, England's wealthiest soil," sold Fonthill for much the same reason that his great-grandson sells for a second time so many of its choicest contents. 1 lorace Walpole' s Strawberry Hill toy shop, the curiosities in which he st rived vainly to keep out of Beekford's rival collection, went because his heirs like guineas better than gimcracks. Stowe and many a vast bookstore since shared the same fate. But this is really the first time that a great historic house has been dismantled simply and solely to raise money, and this, too, with the acquiesence of the three estates of the realm. And there are evidences around us that it will not be the last We are coming on iron times. Scrimp rents, or none at all, will not admit of the luxury of huge mansions full of treas ures costly to keep, and yielding to those, who rarely inhabit them, barely the in terest of a pleased glance, but which hundreds of wealthy parvenus are eager to buy for a lordly price. Ever' acre of land which is in the market is eagerly snapped up bargain or no bargain so long as it confers some social prestige on the new men; and to-morrow, were all the old domains to be freed from the dead hands' grasp, they would find pur chasers, despite the fact of their being the poorest of investments, and not the most perfect of securities. London IVcrld. A distant relative of the father of his country, a Mrs. Washington, resid ing at Oharlestown. V. Va., visited the Capitol in company with her son, a deli cate boy. for whom she desired to obtain employment. She called upon a num ber of Congressmen and said: "Gentle men, I did not come here to grind an ax, I simply brought a little hatchet;" a witticism that was much more effective thau a long speech or a numerously signed petition, and which at once se cured for the boy s suitable position. N. Y. Herald, SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Dartmouth's income paid its expen lilutcj the jiast year -the first time in twenty-two years. X. Y. Examiner. Ever scaooi bo aud schoolgirl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. A:ti:ric-in History. A marble church to seat COO people is to be built as a memorial to his son bv Mr. B. F. Bennett, a wealthy citizen of Baltimore. He will present it free of debt to tiie Cross Methodists. Street congregation of A rare experience for a minister is that of Rev. W. F. Parker, of the Church of the Disciples of Christ. Indianapolis. In thirty years' active service in the pul pit he has been called on to bury but three members of the congregations for which he was laboring. liuliunnpolu Journal. -The Independent has kept up its examination of Methodist church statis tics, and from a study of the spring con ference figures finds that there are now J7.2;C probationers and C.l-'IG mem bers, an increase in probationers since last year of U.81G and a loss in members of 1.211. The officii! tablet of the church contained unfortunate blunders which made out a loss of 10,675 mem bers and lD.Oott probationers. A curious petition has just been pre sented to the General Assembly of the Established Chur-h in Scotland. It seems that the Rev. John Campbell. Minister at lona. uses his church for strange aud unusual purposes. Atone time pigs were kept in it, at another cattle were housed in the saored pre cincts; while every winter, for some time past, it has been converted into a stock yard. On one occasion the church was so full of corn and straw that service had I be h d outside. During the past six months the church has been closed altogether. One of the college jokers in Con necticut climbed a telegraph pqje and lied a fine copper wire around thirteen of the telegraph wires, and ran it to tlie ground, and connection with Boston ami New York was broken for two days. The college student had been studying chemistry or something, and the "first thing he learned was that the connection could be thus broken on a telegraph wire, and he hastened to turn his knowl edge to some practical use. The tele graph folks have learned that a heavy dub applied to a head causes great pain, and they are anxious to test it on the aforesaid student. .V. Y. Herald. Mr. Moody, the evangelist, met about one hundred gentlemen in London recently, to confer as to future plans. There were present representatives from many towns in the kingdom, as well a from London. Mr. Moody said that he had in hand sufficient invitations to keep him hard at work in Great Britain for the remainder of his life, and he was urged to return to Chicago at once. He pro posed, however, moving about Scotland for a short time, and then visiting Paris for a fortnight. After that he hoped to preach iu anumberof towns iu the south and southwest of England. Liverpool might probably lie reached next spring, ami London last of all, where a long stay was necessary. It was ultimately deci ded that all future arrangements should be left in the hands of the Loudon cora mittee. X. Y. I'ost. PUXiSKXr PARAGRAPHS. We are pained to learn from Pari.- that Bernhardt has "lost the irresistible grace of her smile:" but. then, whv does icsn't she advertise for it? Elmir'a t'reb Press. "Yes, judge," said the prisoner. "I admk that the back of my trousers was tangled in the dog's teeth, and that I dragged the animal away, but if you call that stealing a dog no man on earth is safe from committing crime." Boston Post. A young lady who hail been married a little over a ye'ir u.otc to her father in this city saying: "We have the dear est little cottage in the world, ornament ed with the most charming little creep ers you ever saw. The old man read the letter and exclaimed, "Twins, by thun der." "How supremely beautiful Nature is, this morning," said the city guest as she looked out upon the sunrise. "Nature is trying to rival you. Miss," said Farmer Robinson, gallantly. "But she has to get up mighty early in the morning to do it." Perhaps the morn ing coffee didn't taste better after a compliment like that. New Haven Reg ister. A debtor who was sued by his cred itor acknowledged that he had borrowed the money, but declared that the plain till knew at the time that it was a Kath leen Mavourneen loan. "A Kathleen Mavourueen loan," repeated the Court, with a puzzled look. "That's it. Judge, one of the 'it may be for years and it may be forever' sort." Brooklyn Eag'e. A fashion item says skirts of satin duehesse are very handsome in the SnlflsiL Helorn" titit V Iunlil flimtr they would dc. Why the Soldat Beige tints were not brought out in dress goods years ago is a mystery to us. What are they "Soldat" amiiow? Norristoivn Herald. What steadied the train: A commer cial traveler thus relates his experience: He aud his companion were the sole occu pants of the smoking car. They tried to converse, but the road was so rough they were pitched from side to side like ship's passengers. At last they were able to make each other understiMid. One said: "Dan, the old thing is running smoother." To which Dan replied: "Yes; I guess she has got off the track." Little John Fizzletop was a page in the Legislature when it was in session in Austin, Tex!, and his conversation has had a political flavor ever since. Yes terday, for instance, he asked his mother: "Am I to get a second piece of pie after I get through with this?" "Indeed you are not" Then, Mrs. Speaker, in this case, the sooner there is a change in the administration the better for the material interests of the country. She kept a boarding-house, was the mother of five romping boys, and had a nervous old bachelor lodger who was too civil ever to complain of the annoy ance their pranks caused him. One day, when they had been particularly frisky, and were galloping along the corridor on which his room was situated, she en-' countered him at" the doorway and ob served, with a feeling of maternal pride: Splendid little fellows, aren't they, Mr. Martin? What would you do if you had them?" For a moment fte looked like a man in whom the soul of a Herod was struggling for utterance, but resuming his natural reserve replied, with deadly calmness: "Turn them into an apple orchard, madam, while the fruit was green. Chicago Times. A Horse at the Pump. Our Dumb Anim.ils, of Boston, the organ of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is responsible for the following story: One day last month a lady whose home is at Portsmouth, X. H., was enjoyiug a ride through a vil lage near that cit, when her attention was drawn to a horse at the roadside, near a respectable looking house, trying to pump water into a trough to drink by seizing the handle of the pump with his teeth. Uwing to lack of skill or some defect in the pump the horse was unable to get the water. The lady cave the reins to her sister, alighted, and drew a bountiful supply to quench his thirst. The horse evinced his sense of obligation to his bene'ri'-foras intelligibly and po litely as a gentleman could express his thanks for a like courtesy, and the lady returned to her carriage and resumed her drive. KENDALL'S KENDALL'S the yor SsUC I-'-FUL REMEDY EVER DISCOV ERED; AS IT IS CERTAIN IN ITS EFFECTS. AND DOES NOT BLISTER. Awm. - -v . . -m--mm Boa From COL. JL,. T. FOSTER. Youngstown, Ohio, May lfltli. l.S). B. J. Keml.ill ,4 Co.. :ents:l had a very valuable Ilaniblt-tonian colt which I prizeil eiy hix'hty. h- hutl a larj;e bone spavin on one joint and a small one on the other which irride iiui very lame; 1 had him under the charge of two veterinary Ktirgeoiis wbti t tiled ' cure him. I wa. one day reading the advertisement of Kendall- Spin iu Cine in the Chicago Express, I deternu'ntd at onee to trv it. and got our dri ggixts ere to -ei'd Ur it, they ordered three hot tie. I took thenfull and thought 1 would giH it : thoiu- li trinl. 1 used It according to directions and the fourth dav the colt eea-ed to ! l:.nn- mid the lumps had disappeared. I used hut one hottiu : 'id tl e . lt limbs an- ir e from lumps and as smooth a.s any horse m the State Hi-i-iniireK cured. The eu was o remarkable that I let two of mv n.-i-hborJ have the rcni.i tiling two Mottle- who are now using it. " a Very respectfully, L.T.FOSTER. FROM TIIE ONEONTA PRESS, N. Y. Oneonta. New York, .Ian. fith, 1SS?. Karl Iat .summer .f- n. B. -I. Kendall ,fc Co., of Kiio.lmrgli Falls. Vt., made a. contract with the pu!liii. rs of the Press for a half column advertisement for one year -eti tr torth the merit" f Kendall Sp-u in Cure. At the amo ti'iie we secured fr m the nil a iuantit !" boi. . entitled Dr. Kendall's Treatise on the Horse and his l)isia -, which wear gi g to advance paving subscribers to the Prest as a premium. Al" ut lb time the adieitifeiiient tirst appeared in this paper Mr. 1. O. Seher inerhoi ii. who reside-lu-ar 'olliers, had a spavined hcre He read the advertise ment and riescl.i ted to tet ie etlieaey of the remedy, although his friends laii"hd at his eredin'itv. H I iigb a bottle of Kendall's Spavin Cure aud commenced umh' it on the hor.- m ;i -cord -no with the directions, aud he informed us this week that it effected . u ii a mpl. cure that an expert horseman, who examined the animal recently cot d iiui no trace of the spfYin or the place where it had been located. Mr Sehermerho n uas -.ince secured a copy of Kendall's Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases, which he piles very highly and would be loth to part with at anv price provided he.oiildni.t tu.wn another copy. So much lor advertising reliable articles! KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. Columbiana. Ohio. Dee. 17th. 1.-M3. B. .T. Kendall & Co., Gents: You will tind below a recommendation from our expressman. We sell Kondall's Spavin Cure and tind all who us-e it are pleased with it. You may send us more advertising matter, and a few nice cards with our names on them. COX LEY .t K1XG. B. J. Kendall .v Co., Gents: I am using your Spavin Cure for a bone spavin (bought of Conley .fc Kin-.'. Druggist, Columbiana. Ohio.) I tind it just the thiti" to cure a spavin: the luneness has all left my mare, and by further use of the cure I look for the lump to leave. The one bottle was worth to me ten times the cost Yours truly, KRAXK BELL. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. Horse auu tn Diseases, i uair i... a using vour Spavin Cure on "one or in v horses for bone spavin. One bottle entirely cured the lamene.s and removed iw.t ill the bun-"h. Yours respectfully, LEEROY M.GRAHAM. T , Milwaukee, U'U., Jan. stli. lsisi. B. J. Kendall Co., Gents: I have the highest opinion of Kendall's Spn in Cure. I tind it equally good for many other troubles named by vi.u. and partieiilarSi for removing enlargements. Yours very truly, '. K. BRADLEY. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. Kendall's Spavin Cure is sure in its effects, mild in its action a- it does not blister, yet it Is penetrating and powerful to reach anv de.-p seated pun or to n... move any bouj growth or an other enlargement ir used for several dai. Mich as spavins, splints, callous, -prains. swelliiiL'. any lament- anil ill enlur:eiuctit- of the joints or limbs, or rheumatism in man and tor any purpose in- which u liniment is used for man or beast. It i- now know n to I..- the best linim.-ut for in ,u .-cr ne I acting mild yet certain in its effects. It i- used in mil strength with perfect .-.if-tv it all seasons of the year. Send address for Illustrated Circular, which we think gives positive pr ioi". f i:, virtues. Xo remedy h is met with such uniiialiiii-d stice- to our know led-.;.-, for bea-tas well as man. Price $1 per bottle, or ix bottles for $.1. ALL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it for you. or it will be sent to auv address on receipt of pi ice. bv the piopriptoi-, 18 Dr. U. J. KENDALL CO, Enosbtirg Falls, Vermont. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. WHEN YOU TRAVEL ALWAYS TAKE THE b;& m. r. r. Examine map and time tables carefully It wilt be ceu that this line connects with C. B. AO.. R. K.; in fuet they are tinder one management, and taken together form what is called TUB BUEINBTON ROUTE ! Shortest and Quickest Line to mm. ST. tins. FEDBIA. DES MOINES, R01 K ISLAND, Aad Especially to all Points . in IOWA, WISCONSIN, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, MICHIGAN, OHIO. PRINCIPAL ADVANTAftKS ARK Through coaches from destination on C. B. t Q. R. R. Xo transfers; changes f.om C. B. .t Q. R. R. to connect ing lines all made iu Union Depots. THROUGH TICKETS -AT- LOWEST CAN MK HAD Upon application at any station on the t oad. Agents are al-o prepared to check J jaggage through; give all information as, .o rates, routes, time connections, etc , nd to becure sleeping car accomoda tions. This company is engaged on an exten-' tion" which will open a !EW LINE TO DENVER And all points in "'olorado. This ex- tention will be completed and ready for ' Misiness in a "few months, and the pub-i ie can then etijo. all the advantages of I i through line between Denver and Chicago, ill under one management. P. M. KtlMtlK. Gen'l T'k't A'gt. Wy Omaha, Nkb. LAND, FARMS, AND CITY PROPERTY II SALE, AT THE- Union Pacfic Land Office, On Long Time and low rate of Interest. All wishing to buy Rail Road Lands or Improved Farms will tind it to their advantage to call at the U. P. Land ! Ottiee before lookin elsewhere as 1 1 make a (pecialty of buying and selling! lands on commission: all persons wish-1 ing to sell farms or unimproved land j will tind it to their advantage to leave'. cilities for affecting sales are unsur passed. I am prepared to make tin at proof for all parties wishing to get a patent for their homesteads. j3TlIenry Cordea, Clerk, writes and speaks (sermaii. ..a.-.. ...M... . .... .. V. .?... .. ... T & : SAMUEL C. SMITH, ;t. U. P. Land Department. COLUMBUS. NKB C2I-T $66 a weeK in vour own town. .Outfit free. No risk. Every-' rliinir nnur 'nill lli.t re- nuireiL We will turnish vou ! vrrihi, t-...v ..r.. mikim? fortunes i Lailies mike as much as men, snu oo and girl make great pT. Reader, if J you want a business at which you cd make great pay all the time you work. write for particulars to 11. II allot & I Co., Portland, Jlaine. -fcan.y 7 .V -(? J -- . ".. ,. SPAVIN CURE ! ALM) EX ELLENT FOR HUMAN F L E S n : SPREAD PROOF belo w sm Koehester. Intl., Nov. :()th. lso. II. J. Kendall A- Co.. Gents: Please send iNj.npp.-iif adiertisin-r matter for Ken dall s Spa i Cure. It has a good sale here A gives the bestof satislaction. 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