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THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 31, 1883.
Sstirtd tb ?:itfl2:, Cdaafca. Neb., is se:i
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GRJCIEPS DREAM.
AU through ttas day our Gnicie
Had talked of Christinas j ys:
What Santa Claus mfyit bnujr her
Of books and. doll9 and toys;
But In the night I heard her
sob in her little bed.
And soon I held her in mr arm
And stroked her curly head.
What is it? Tell me, darling.
What makes my girlie weep?
O mamma, dear, 1 must have dreamed,
If I have boe.i asleep:
But oL, it seemed so real
I dreamed 'twas Christinas night,
Thero ms were trimmed with evergreens
And looked 30 warm and bright.
" Our pretty tree was loaded
With gilts for every one.
And Just as we wer. iMugning
At torn or papa's fun,
I looked out of the window
And in the street balow
I saw a little, ragged girl,
Her feet deep In the snow.
I thought that she was looking up
With eager, wondering eyes.
As If the lovely Christmas tree
Were such a great surprise.
" She looked so aad and wistful,
And I knew she must be col !,
She had no mittens on her hands.
And her shawl was thin and old.
But when I ran to call her
lo shore my gilts with me.
I found the street nil dark :ind still.
And no one could 1 see.
And that's why I was crying
To think she'd never know
How gladly I'd hive brnmrht her la
Out of the cold and snow.
And now. mv darling mamma.
When Christmas coiner, for true,
Ifyou know some poor little girl
rll tell you what let's do.
44 Whate'er you wnt to give :ne
1 wish you'd give her half.
And see how happy shu will be,
How gayly she will laugh."
Be sure T gladly promised.
And then she whimpered, low:
You re Just the dearest miiinma
That ever lived, I know."
I smiled on Grade's eager face.
Rut in my heart I sighed
To think how many little ones
Would know no Christmps-tide.
O happy ones, whose blessings
Are numbeiless and srreat.
Bemember those less f ivored
Who round your pathway wait.
" The poor are always with you,"
The blessed Savior said:
Oh, let our hearts be opened,
The hungrv ones be fed.
-MX. Buck.
PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS. ,
On a bright, frosty morning early in
December, there was an unusual excite
ment in Mrs. Sinclair a nursery, where
four brght, happy children were crowd
ed aronnd Aunt Helen, who had come
from her distant home to visit her neph
ew and nieces.
Oh, Auntie," said Helen, (the eldest
of the flock, who was now twe ve years
Id), "you must say until atter Christ
mas and see our presents andour Christ
mas tree."
Yes." said Harry (the next in age),
I know you will be pleased; mamma
knows how to trim I hristmas trees: she
always thinks of something to surprise
us. We gathered a large basket of
mosses in the mountains, and I am al
most sure they are to be used about the
tree!"
Then iittle Mary told of the beautiful
doli she had found sitting under the tree;
and even baby Emma, who probablj
had no remembrance of anything that
ad happened so long ago as Christinas,
idded her little prattle about toys and
dolls.
Aunt Helen waited until there was a
lull, which oame when the lour children
were quite out of breath. Thei she told
them that she fullv expected to spend
the holid ys w tli them, jind inquired if
they had begun to prepare for Christ
mas. They were quite certain mamma had
begun to prepare, for the large closet
was ker-t locked, and when Jano had
been seen carrying in some parcels, they
had been told to run away quickly, for
Christmas was coming.
Helen whi.pe ed that she had made a
case for pa' a's clothes' bru-h, a book
mark for m:imma. and was now knit
ting reins for Harry.
Aunt Helen was pleased that her
Christmas work was so far :tdv:inool,
but added: "While we try to make our
own dear ones hnppy and give them
pleasant surprises, we will not forget
the poor, but we will each try to bring
joy to some sad or neglected one'
The next day proved to be dark andj
rtonm, just the day for pulling out all
ibe old toys and with mamma's help de
ciding which .should be given awav.
There were dolls, animals, lurniture.and
many other things, which, when they
were piled in one corner of the nursery,
presented such a dilapidated appearance
that it seemed that children who could
ta e pleasure in sueh toys must be in
deed miserably poor.
But when Aunt Helen had brought
the glue and secured the broken pieces
to the'r places, when the dolls had been
supplied with new heads or arms, ac
cording to their need, when all the little
garments had been ui ely washed un-1
ironed which wa .lane's donation to
the poor children's box), you would
scarcely have believed the " were the
same things. Indeed, I 'fear Ham
would have restored some of them to
his own shelf in tl.e to clo-et, if Aunt
Helen had not rem'nded him of the great
pleasure they might aflord tosoraeehild
who might be sorrowful even on Christ
mas day.
Several days had been occupied in
these rej.airs. The children were liappv
to help in every way, holding the glue.
or the string, running up and down
stairs to bring such things as were re
quired. "And now," said Aunt Helen, we
must begin a new branch of busi
ness." Again mamma was called upon to say
which of the old books might be spared'
for the poor. She would have been
willing to have them part with quite a
large number, but the children were
loath to give them up. One h:d such
a lovely story, another such beautiful
pictures, for one reason or another there
were manv great favorites. Aunt
Helen was glad that they prized the r
bo ks: ,h did not reprove them, but
proceeded to show them how to improve
the ap, earanee of the few that were to
be given away, by securing loose
leaves or covers and
covering with
paper those that were soiled or de
faced. The next day was employed in mak- J
tag scrap book. Papa had brought
home several old directories, and litt e '
Emma, who was proud in the posses-'
ion of her tirst pair of scissors, was in-"!
strneted to cut out eery other leaf, '
that is, to cut one lea! and leave the i
next. This srave hr imnlnont fm.
several day?. The picture papers and
pretty advertising cards were gathered,
aad when the picture wore carefully
trramed and pasted into the books they
certainly were verv p ettv scrap-books".
The child en decided that getting ready
for i hristmas was very delight uT work".
Nor was the mother idle dn-mo- ti,;
time of preparation. ihc had brought '
fnrth 511 frlm mirnmnlo ,l. I.I,.-
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spared fiom the family wardrobe an I
had. with ane's help, 'been very busy,
darning. patching, replacing butLins
and puttins all in complete order.
When all was in readiness ihey were
tied into neat p-ircels and delivered to
the families for whom the' were in
tended, on Christmas Eve.
I have not space to follow each par
eel. No doubt each carried with it com
fort and joy, for Mrs. Sinclair was well
acquainted with the needs of those poor
Tftple, and in her Chrutmaa diatrib-
tion was especially oaref.tl vo suit her
gifts to the tastes, as wel a-- to the ne
cessities, oi eacn iamity.
I will, however, tell yr
ent to Widow Lee, a po
earned a living for herse
dren by washing and sc
home was but one room
the parcol
'oman who
d two chil
uig. Her
i crowded
tenement; she was a quLt. honest wo
man, work'ng early and late, to pa- the
rent and provide for her family. Now,
as the children were quietly sleeping,
she was carefully patching, the knees of
her son's pantaloons and the sleeves of
her daughter s dress, sighing as she re
alized tint they would soon bo too far
gone for even Iter skill to repair. The
thought that hristmas was near cheered
her. She remembered the very accept
able panel of clothing that a lady had
sent last year; she thought of the festival
at the Sunday-school, the children had
been we-1 pleased with the pretty book
and the nice box of candy which had
been given them on that occas'.ou. Then
her mind wandered "back to the dii3's of
her childhood; she remembered her
mother, a poor widow like herself, glad
to work for her children and always
striving to make them both good and
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Soon the garments are mended, and
now she proceeds to arrange the little
things she has prepared for Christmas.
On her way from work she had bought
for each an orauge and a few sticks of
candy. These she secured to a little
branch of evergreen, which was planted
in a flower-pot; she then tied on a few
little w& candles, which she intended
to light early on Christmas morning.
Moving the little table, with its clean
white cover, in front of the bed. she was
about placing the small tree in the cen
ter, when she was startled by a tap at
the door and a large parcel was handed
in, for Mrs. Lee.
ith eager, trembling hands, she un
tied the strings. You can imagine her
delight as she placed on one side of the
table a pretty warm dre?s for Mary, a
doll and a scrap-book. On the other side
a good suit ot clothes (which Harry
Sinolair had out-grown), and a picture
boo!r. Poor, hard-working mother! she could
have borne with composure these tokens
of kindness to her children, but when
she drew forth a warm shawl for her
self, the surprise was too great, tears
started from her eyes and she really
sobbed for joy.
There was a iTilliant scene on that
bright Christmas morning in Mr. Sin
clair's pretty home. The children
roused Aunt Helen at an early hour, she
acknowledged tha" the tree" was truly
beautiful, only a lady of great skill and
taste could have arranged the beautiful
bank of mosses, on which the tree was
planted; she rejoiced to see thofe chil
dren so pleased and happy. The kind
heart would have been even more glad
dened couid she have peeped into the
poor room where the little branch, with
its few camiles. lit the happy faces of
Ms ee and her children, while a lone
ly woman lrom the ne-;t room, who
had carried in her crippled child to ad
mire the tree, gratefuliy accepted the
widow's invitation to remain to dinner.
And now, dear children, there are
hundreds of families that might be made
happy by a little thoughtfulness on the
part "of others. Though we ought to
remember the poor at all times, it Is a
pleasing custom to remember them es
pecially at the holida time, when we
celebrate the birth of the Savior vho
came U, oring us the best of gifts; who
has said of every act ot" kindness: "In
asmuch us ye have done it to the least
of these, ye have done it unto Me."
Chicago Mandard.
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A Reproach to American Hotels.
The Lancet of London, one of the
foremost medical journals in the world,
warns all travelers of the danger which
it says attend a lengthened stay in an
American or a Canadian hotel. The
plumbing arrangements are declared to
be detective in many cas.-s, and con
spicuously bad in others. Frequently
there are no traps at all under the ba
sins, or, where the e are traps, the pat
tern is said to be such as to afford no
safeguard against the introduction of
sewer gas into the apartment.
Indeed, it would .seem that even a
short sojourn in a hotel of this descrip
tion would suffii e to sow the seedn ot
disease; an I a correspon lent of the
Lau.l avers that be was made serious
ly ill bv sleep n only one night in a
room where there was a lixed basin
c mmunicafng directly with the sewer
without any intervening trap. He kept
the windows wide open, and filled the
basin with water ou retiring, but the
whole of the water was "sucked out
through the waste pipe during the night,
and the presence of sewer gas was plain
in the morning. "It is dangerous,"
says the writer, "for any adult to re
.side in a hotel with such imperfect sani
tary arrangements, and tlie air of the
room would not-improbibly cause death
to a delicate child."
Now, this is a n.atter about which
American hotel keepers hotild be very
sensitive. We do not mean that they
should re-ent these statements as being
untrue or exaggerated, for we believe
there is a good neal too much truth in
them. But oi r landlords should be
sensitive enough to such-criticism to re
form the evils thus pointed out. It i
no answer or excuse to say that we
know of s. ores of hotels in (jreat Brit
ain which are no better or very much
worse; or to ; oiut to the numerous ho
tels on the continent of Europe whose
san tary condition is shameful. The
qu tion now under discussion concerns
our own hotels and there ought not to
be a single oue in the United States of
which the stitements of our dist'n
guished medical contemporary could
be true.
As matter of fact, we have reason to
believe that there are many hotels in
this ; ery city which are anything but
health "resort-- hotels, indeed, which
people had better keep out of, if they
want to keep their health. X. Y. Suti.
Sad Result of a Deer-Hnnt.
On Monday last two brothers-in-law.
James Roberts and William C'apps,
residents of Chuuchula, started out
from home on a short deer-hunt Not
far from the house they put the dogs in
a branch swamp and each took opposite
sides of the stream thatthevmio-ht bv
a better opportunity for a'sho. should
the dogs jump deer" A deer was start
ed, and Mr. Capps got the first shot and
missed his marc. The deer then ran
in sight of Mr. Roberts, and the
intervening undergrowth hiding Mr.
Capns. who was m direct range be
tween Roberts and the deer, the lat
ter fire i. The deer rcache 1 the sum
mil of a slight elevatii n and fell. Rob
erts ran up and was on his knees in the
a-.-t of cufi-ig the deer's throat when
Ca'jps walked up. As he approached.
Roberts. said to him: "Well. Will, Ttb
got him." "Yes," replied Capps,
"and you've sot me, too."' Roberts
sprang up and looking at Capps saw
blood trickl ug fr m a wound just un
der his left eye. Ro1 crts cried: "Mv
Hod, Will, have I shot vou? Are you
hit anywhere ele" Capps replied:
"Yes, here in the left side." After
this utterance he turned upon his heel
and fe 1 head lir-t down the hi 1 a dead
man. J while Register.
A Paris actress avers that each per
fume has its sjecial moral and physi al
qualities, which so far as her observa
tions have rone -she states as follows:
Musk predisposes to sensibilitv and
araiabilty; rose, to auda"itv, avarice
and pride; geranium, to tenderness;
violet, to mysticism and piety: benzoin.
w mcaius, poetry ana inconstancy
mint And VPrVinno n . r-. .l.
the
beautiful arts; camphor, to stupi
itr
- uiuiuiiiy; nussia leather, to
lence; white vlang-ylanjp is the
dangeroua of all.
indo-
moat
1 Sharper Skiaaed, -"
A very simple method by which a
skin" gambler was victimized out of
$800 was related yesterday forenoon in
the saloon of John Fury, No. 2H Federal
Street, Camdeu, where the woe-begone
victim landed almost penniless at twelve
d' clock in search of consolation and a
a drink. To gentlemen who sit in front
of the green-topped tables nightly and
take in greenhorns he is tolerably well
known. Rural dupes who have chanced
to meet him in New York or Philadel
phia know him to their sorrow. His
name is Thaddeus Pratt, or more famil
iarly "Poker Tad."
Philadelphia having proven rather a
poor pasture for the last two or three
months wherein victims came to gaze,
Mr. Pratt fell into rather an impecunious
condition. He manased to retiin his
diamond breastpin.however, andasuitof
very elegant clothes of pronounced pat
tern, but his purse was very
Hat. He declared repeatedly that
Philadelphia was the "meanest
town in the country for work,"
and when his funds reached the low ebb
of seventeen dollars Mr. Pratt determined
to emigrate for some western clime,
where victims grew on roadside bushes.
Mr. Pratt took a portion of his seventeen
dollars, or, as he would more elegantly
phrase it, "seventeen cases," and betook
him to the pool-room of McColgan &
Hughes, on Sansom street, above Eighth.
He'made an investment on a horse race.
He bought "Maid of Athol," and walked
into Eighth Street almost $200 dollars
richer.
Air. Pratt felt jubilant over his luck,
and, after taking sundry drinks, he went
to the Broad Street station and pur
chased a ticket for Pittsburgh. On the
trip westward his "luck" ran high. He
got into the confidence of aclerical-look-uig
young man at Altoona, and relieved
the voting man of 90 at a friendly game
of poker. In Pittsburgh an ancient
farmer, who thought Tie knew more
about cards than Mr. Pratt, left his pock-
etbook with the latter, after learning
that four kings were slightly inferior to
four aces. The purse contained a trifle
over S'100. To avoid any unpleasant
complications, Mr. Pratt purchased a
ticket for Massillon, on the Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad. In
that thriving iittle town Mr. Pratt was
fortunate. He formed the acquaintance
of a cigarette-young-raan, who, up to
the time he met the genial Pratt, was
possessed of a very handsome gold watch
and chain and 3200 in cash. When Mr.
Pratt said "ta-ta" and started for the
railroad station, bound for Wooster, the
cigarette-young-man was watchless and
penniless. In Wooster, a sophomore
belonging to the University, who knew
more about Euclid than he did about the
geometrical possibilities of "three card
monte," fell an easy victim to tho tune
of $30 the last remittance from a lov
ing father. These few windfalls gave
Mr. Pratt an excellent start, and for a
week afterwards he made three or four
similar strokes, eventually swelling his
capital to about $850. Fort Wayne
proving a poor field for successful oper
ations, Mr. Pratt thought he would start
east again. He bought a ticket for To
ledo, on the Toledo, Wabash & Western
Railroad, In order to avoid meeting any
of the gentlemen who had swelled his
pocketbook, and who mig ht possibly say
something rude. After leaving Toledo
for Pittsburgh without any particular
incident, Mr. Pratt thought it about time
to look about for a fresh victim. He
found one at Altoona, or at least he
thought he did. A tall, verdant looking
chap, with "greeny" written on every
feature, entered the car "and seated him
self beside Mr. Pratt. "Greeny"
immediately opened a channel
for acquaintanceship by asking Mr.
Pratt what time the train would reach
Philadelphia. Mr. Pratt told him, and
remarked that the crops were looking
beautiful. Mr. Verdant said they were,
and added that railroad riding was
"pesky bothersome." Mr. Pratt agreed
with him, and proposed a friendly game
of "kearils" to while away the tint".
Mr. Greeny was willing, and a deck
being produced by the gambler, the two
began at a game of "Old Sledge." On
the second hand Mr. Greeny remarked
that if he was playing poker he would
go c 100 on his hand. Mr. Pratt looked
at his own hand and said that he believed
that it was worth that, too, and backing
it up by producing the cash. The victim
covered it promptly, and then, throwi ig
down a trade dollar, said, "Just forluck
I'll bet that I win your money."
Mr. Pratt at once threw down a silver
dollar to take up the challenge. The
ring of the metal was a great ileal clearer
than that shown by Mr. Verdant. It
attracted Mr. Pratt's attention. He
picked up the coin and examined them
"Let us bet on our hands.
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aAiu lit;, iiu-
yours is no
patiently. "That coin of
good.
"Yes. itis." said Greeny. "I'm willin'
to bet 3500 it's good, au' don't you for
get it"
Mr. Pratt picked up the dollar and
examined it carefully. It was of a dull
leaden color, and when thrown down
had no "ring" whatever. Mr. Pratt saw
a chance'for a stake. "I'll bet $.500 it's
a counterfeit coin, said he, bringing out
three 8100 bills. "All right," replied
Greeny, pro dicing the same amount.
"I bet that the coin is good silver, and
will leave it to the conductor."
"Agreed," said Mr. Pratt, and the
card stakes were added, making the
wager 500 each.
The coin was held by the gambler
until the conductor came through the
car. He was asked to decide the bet.
One contemptuous glance was given the
coin, without any close examination.
"It's the worst I ever saw," said he; "a
blind man couldn't get stuck on that."
"Wait a minute," said Greeny, quiet
ly, as Mr. Pratt was about to gather up
the stakes. "Just take another look,
won't you? Here's a knife cut into it."
The conductor smiled, but did as re
quested. What was his astonishment to
find that the coin was covered with a
thin coating of tinfoil, which had been
cleverly pasted on with mucilage. It
had been pounded on so neatly as to
bring out the figures on each side in dull
relief, giving the appearance of being a
counterfeit. The foil gave it the dead
sound and the appearance of lead.
Mr. Pratt opened his mouth very wide,
but gave up the money. "As long as
you've beaten me so neatly," he said,
"3-011 might give me an insight. How v
it done?
Greeny obligingly showed the trie.,
and then very kindly ottered to give the
crestfallen gambler "a coin already pre
pared, ?o that he might have a chance
"to get even."
"A rich old countryman will get on au
Harrisburg," said Greeny, "and I'll
give you a chance to go for him. I in
tended to 'catch on' myself, but you
seem to be a pretty good sort of fellow
and didn't 'squeal!' so you can make all
there is in it. Just plav the same racket
as I did."
Mr. Pratt felt thankful for the chance,
and kept his eye on the car door. Sure
enough, a burly countryman entered a
few moments before the train started,
and as Greeny had left his scat the coun
tryman had dropped into it. In less than
twenty minutes he was holding five cards
in his sun-browned h'sL Mr. Pratt re
marked that his baud was worth just
about 81. The big agriculturist, by way
of reply. laid down a dollar-note. Mr.
Pratt produced his prepared coin. The
farmer laughed, and said he wasn't bet
ling against that kind of money. Mr.
Pratt became indignant, and offered to
bet S100 that the dollar was perfectly
good. "Wall," said the rural gentle
man, "P ve got $300 that says its a rank
counterfeit "
Mr. Pratt had his money up in a
minute. "We' 11 leave it to this gentleman
back of us. if you say so." said he, and
the aimer vutuig & man iu the rear
-
seat was called np to decide. Its a
counterfeit," said he, just taking one
glance. "But," said Mr. Pratt, "won't
you please cut into it with this knife?"
The gentleman took the knife and ap
plied its edge to the coin. It went
through as though the coin w:is made
of old cheese. The coi i was lead!
"Fury," said the gambler, after relating
this "dismal experience, "give me a
drink ril pay you in the morning."
Philadelphia t'ress.
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Symuies' Tiicnry.
The two most important features ot
John Cleves Symmes' theory are that all
obicutar bodies in the universe partaking
of a planetary nature are composed in a
greater or less degree of spheres con
centric, one withiu the Oi": 'r, and lo
some extent open at their poles: and tint
gravity is due to the pressure of an im
palpable element composed of minute
concentric spheres, existent throughout
all space, elastic, anil changing its mole
cules by any chang.3 of matter whatever
throughout space. To this substance
Captain Svmmes attributes gravity,
making it a pnshin.j instead of a pulling
force, as it is now ge lerally held to le.
But this latter theory of gravitation he
holds not to be essential to his theory of
concentric circles, which circles would
be formed upon the old theory of grav
itation. Captain Symmes' published notes or
explanations, of his theory, which he
called memoirs. Memoir No. II. says:
"With dividers describe a circle on a
plane of matter of loose texture, and in
the center add a very small circle; then
draw a line through the center. It is
evident (as matter gravitates matter in
proportion to quantity and distance) that
either half the inner circle, being almost
equally surrounded by matter, must be
very littlegravitated ceuterwise; so being
suspended, only a rotary motion is needed
to throw it compactly toward the outer
circle. This being admitted, it follows
that half-way from the outer to the inner
side of this "circle of matter so thrown
out, a like rarity, suspension, or balance
of gravity should prevail, and hence a
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aisposiliou lo coiiceiitrii; uiruuv; iiiuic-
fore it follows that successive similar
subdivisions should exist, gradually less
ening iu force orquantity. By applying
this principle to the earth, I found the
necessity of hoilow, concentric spheres.
A decision of school-men on these lines
shall be followed b3 additional positions,
further explaining my new principles of
hollow spheres, open at the poles, de
clared in a circular letter of the 10th of
April, 1818.
"John Cleves Symmes,
Of Ohio, late Captain of Infantry.
This is the basis of Synime3' theory.
This theory he maintained with great
earnestness, courage and disinterested
ness during a large portion of his life, and
were he living now he would in all like
lihood be doughtily contending for it
still, accommodating his theory to the
Nares expedition which went where he
declared irrefutable optical proof couid
be had of the polar openings and all
other discoveries whatsoever.
Among other arguments that he
brought to his support were the migra
tions of animals to and from the arctic
regions, atmospheric refractiou, and the
variation of the compass observed in high '
northern latitudes. He supposed that
there must exist "mid-plane spaces" in
each of the spheres, and believed the '
interior of the inclosed spheres to be
lighted by the direct and refracted rays
of the sun. Each of these spheres he
supposed to be widely open at the poles.
The planes of these polar openings were
said to be inclined to the plane of the
ecliptic at an angle of about twelve de
grees, so that the real axis of the earth,
being perpendicular to the plane of the
equator, would form an angle of twelve
degrees with a line passing through the
sphere at right angles with the polar
openings, and consequently the verre
(or edge) of the polar openings must
approach several degrees nearer to the
earth's equator on oue side than on the
other.
Symmes believed that there were be
neath our feet miles and miles of won
drous unclaimed domain; reindeer
roamed its colder borders, fish swam in
its seas, animals and trees and flowers of
curious aud unknown shape made its
life a primal gladness; splendid visions
of untold wonders, misty dreams of
splendors uunamable floated through his
nightly and daily thoughts, and greater
than all burned within him the ceaseless
desire to become the discoverer of this
unknown land. And the only thing
needful was for the Government to tra
verse the "icy circle," pierce the polar
opening, and sail in and take possession
perchance to find man. to meet a
mighty race of people, to come face to
face with some stupendous revelation of
nature, to explore some splendid barbar
ism, or disclose a civilization as yet un
dreamed. E. F. Madden, in Harper'
Magazine.
Industrial Education in the Public
Schools. There is a growing feeling among the
students of industrial problems that our
whole conception of education in gen
eral, and of industrial training in par
ticular, needs revision and enlargement.
This feeling is based upon such easily'
observed facts as the following:
1. Paupers are ou the increase.
2. Our schools too often educate their
pupils out of harmony with their envir
onment, thus justifying the charge that
education (falsely so called) unfits its
possessors for useful industry.
3. The simpler and less important po
sitions in the world's workshop are as a
rule greatly overcrowded, while in the
upper stories there is a vast amount of
unoccupied space
4. The work done in the lower stostea
is often exceedingly shabby.
5. Many who aspire to the upper stor
ies fail to enter or, if they apparently
enter, soon end in failure.
6. The chosen few who truly enter,
and build up magnificent industrial fab
rics, with the splendid fortunes which
such fabrics imply, fail to educate their
children to carry" on their good work, or
to do work of similar value in some oth
er department of useful industry.
7. A whole community of prosperous
workmen may be well-nigh reduced to
beggary by the incoming of some new
invention, or by change in the fortunes
or tastes of consumers.
8. When old industries are swept away
and new ones established on the wrecks,
there is usually little power on the part
of workmen to adapt themselves to the
new conditions.
4. The relentless law of the survival
of the shrewdest and most unscrupulous,
instead of the Christian law of mutual
consideration aud co-operation, too gen
erally prevails among individuals and
all kinds of human organizations.
That all education should be industrial,
and that everybody should be industrially
educated, we believe to be a perfect-
mj .avu piupusuiuu. x iuj. a. XI.
Straight, in Popular Science Monthly.
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Complaint is made in California
about the extortionate charges of court
stenographers. The Judges of the Su-
Eerior Courts get salaries of only 84,000,
ut their stenographers frequently make
$10,000 a year. When the Judges for
get or do not attend to the testimony in
cases tried before them without a jury,
which is often the case, they require the
stenographers to write out copies of theii
notes at the expense of the litigants. Jn
a recent case a judge at Alameda re
quired this to be done, and for transcrib
ing testimony taken during a five hours'
trial the stenographer charged 9110.
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A Cincinnati man in trying to break
a forty-dollar colt smashed up ninety
dollars' worth of property, but as he bad
the applause of some two hundred nan
and boys he didn't mind the loss much
Curitr-Journal.
'Superstitious About love.
From the earliest times' no' event in
human life has been associated with a
more extensive folk lore than marriage
Beginning with love divinations, these
are of every conceivable kind, the anx-
ious maiileu apparently having left no
! stone unturned in her anxiety to ascer
tain her lot in the marriage stnte. Some
cut the commou brake or fern just above
. the root to ascertain the initials of the
j future husband's name. Again, nuts
1 and' apples are very favorite love tests,
j The mode of procedure is for a girl to
i place on the bars of a grate a nut, re-
pealing this incantation:
If he loves me. p jp aui lly:
If he hates :ue, lie aad (He.
Great is the dismay if tho anxious face
of the inquirer gradually perceives the
, nut, instead of making tho hopeu-lor
pop. die aud make no sign. One means
. of divination is to throw a lady-bird into
1 the air, and repeating meanwhile the
subjoined couplet:
Fly &wiy east, and lly away west.
Show me wheru lives the one I like best.
Should this little insect chance to fly
in the direction of the housd where the
loved-one resides, it is regarded as a
most favorable omen.
Another species of love divination
once observed consisted in obtaining live
bay leaves, four of which the anxious
maiden pinned at the four corners of her
pillow, and the fifth in the middle. If
she was fortunate enough to dream of
her lover, it was a sure sign that he
would be married to her in the course of
the year.
In selecting the time for the marriage
ceremony precautions of every kind
have generally been taken to avoid an
unlucky month anil day for the knot to
be tied! Indeed, the old Roman notion
that the May marriages are unlucky sur
vives to this day in England. June is a
highly popular month, Friday, on ac
count of its being regarded as an inau
spicious and evil day for the commence
ment of any kind of enterprise, is gen
erally avoided.
In days gone by Sunday appears to
have been a popular day for marriages.
It is, above all things, necessary that
the sun should shine on the bride, and it
is deemed absolutely necessary by very
many that she should weep on her wed
ding"day, if it be only a few tears; the
omission of such an act being considered
omiuous of her future happiness.
In Sussex, a bride on her return home
from church is often robbed of all her
pins about her dress by the single women
present, from the belief that whoever
possesses one of them will be married in
the course of a year, and evil fortune
will sooner or later inevitably overtake
the bride who keeps even one pin used
in the marriage toilet.
"Flinging the stocking" was an old
marriage custom in England. The
young men took the bride's stockings,
and the girls those of the bridegroom,
each of whom, sitting at the foot of the
bed, threw the stockings over their
heads, endeavoring to make it fall upon
that of the bride or her spouse. If the
bridegroom's stockings, thrown by the
girls, fell upon the bridegroom's head,
it was a sign that they themselves would
soon be married, ami similar luck was
derived from the falling of the bride's
stockinsrs thrown by the young men.
Som.' Uiing lo Read.
The American Mother
The American mother the mother of
the men who usually become our Presi-
dents
.1 A 1 . .1 " .? . . 1 1
kuows uoiiungoi maicu-maKJUg,
01 laving baits to eaten eligible young
men of marrying her girls off. She may
not watch them as European mothers do,
and ma- trust too implicity in their
good sense, but, at least, she never tries
to get rid of them.
She is no more averse than the mother
in the Cotter's Saturday Xierht to see
"her bairn respectit like the lave;" to , farmers noWl(Ifl5 regularly lay by a
have "gentlemen polite to her:" but , stock of vegeuljtfes and green stuff for
when the "respect" and "politeness" their fowls. Cabbages, turnips, pota
turn into downright courting, and she ' toes and .arrets are all wholesome food
sees the danger signals ahead, and some- j and the refuse from these crops can be
body comes one day. hat in hand, blush- 1 turned to good account when mixed with
ing like a peony, to mention that "if she J meal, bran and other food. Where the
has no objections, Jane han't,' she is number of fowls ke,pt is small the refuse
in despair. To lose her girl by matri- j from the table furnishes the vegetable
mony is a fearful blow. Why, the girl, portion of the ration in potato and apple
is her own! The little baby Jhat Icpt on . parings, cabbage leaves, bits of turnips
her bosom and held her linger tight in ' and the like. Scraps of fat and meat
its crumpled rose leaf hand was all hers, j are also desirable.
The child that toddled af ter her, copying The poultry to be fattened is best and
her in miniature as she went about her .
household duties, aud who must have a 1
toy broom, and a tea kettle that held a ; Confined to short runs the fowls lay on
tablespoonful of water, and the scraps of more fat and in less time than when
dough to make a tin- loaf of bread with, j allowed a wide range. Then, too, the
and a doll to be treated in all respects .is feeding can be systematically done and
mother treated the new baby, was more ' food selected that tends to fat rather than
and more her own little Janey. ! the production of eggs. Fowls designed
Thebigger, Jauey, whogrewsofastaud ' for market from the lirst produce the
helped so with the little children, and 1 best and juiciest flesh when geuerously
was her mother's right hand always. ' fed from the stall to the time of disposal,
washer verv own, morning noon and' As heavy weight is desirable for market
night. And now, the pretty young lady, I purposes, a s-stem of fattening is usually
so capable aud bright, so "stylish" fi resorted to, and if the fowls have pre
her "best things, who has stopped! yiously received fair treatment, ten days
taking lessons, and plays on the pretty, I or a fortnight at the most gives sufficient
upright piano iu the parlor, who can cut 1 time fortius purpose. During this period
anu make everything tor the younger
ones, who helps her, and of whom she is
proud, is she not also her very own, to
love and boast a little about? Jane, her
daughter, her one grown-up daughter
shall young Smith, or young Jones, or
middle-aged Tomlinson, take her for his
own, anuearrj- her off to live elsewhere,
and have other interests?
The mother can not bear the thought,
and when that happens which dons hap
pen to most pretty girls, though she
cannot wish her daughter to "be an old
maid," her heart almost breaks and she
feels sorely injured. People congratu
late her. but she can only sigh.
Mothers like these, often nice, plain,
country mothers, are not jriven to much
reading of fashionable foreign news;
but if they should, by chance, take to it
in despair after all their girls are mar
ried, 1 think they would be astonished i
by the glimpses of the mothers forever '
plotting and planningtogettheirdaugh- corn meal while warm constitutes an ex
ters ofl their hands, marrying tliem to j cellent food. Barley meal, proveuder
anybody who has money, and always in 1 and wheat middlings are good and
a hurry to get the eldest otT that the
youngest may follow in her steps. That
is a pliase of domestic life of which the
faithful American mother knows noth
ing. if. Y. Ledger.
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A Reasonable Request.
An Austin young man has been boring
a young lady with his attentions for
some time past, although on various and
sundry occasions she had given him to
understand that he was distasteful to
her. A few evenings ngo he assured
her that he was anxious lo fulfill her
even wish.
"Is it really a fact that you will do
whatever I ask of you?1'
"Your slightest wish is law. Com
mand me, and I shall obey."
"Well, then, 1 wish you would see ii
you can induce my mother to marry
you. She is a widow, and is not as par
ticular about whom she marries as I
am." Texas Si flings.
Samuel Kennedy was sent to the
Massachusetts Slate Prison for life on a
conviction of incendiarism. He served
fifteen years with such good behavior
that the Governor released him, but
made a full pardon conditional upon his
leading a law-abiding life. But he did
not keep his pledge, and, on being
caught in a burglary, has been returned
to prison, with no prospect of ever again
being released. 3r. Y. Sun.
An engineer in the employ of the"
Philadelphia company that is reclaiming
11,000,000 acres of Florida lands says
tnat the ground so reclaimed will be
found most valuable for the cultivation
of sugarcane, rice and trophical fruits.
Philadelphia Press.
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A Colorado Sheriff undertook to ar
rest a cinnamon bear last sprint and if
iu bed yet.
- ' FAEM ASP FIRESIDE. .
Ink can be entirely taken out of
white goods with milk, if the milk bs
applied the moment after the spilling of
the ink.
Feed all the sweet apples that are
not marketable to the pigs and horae3.
They are healthful and especially rel
ished by those animals. N. Y. Herald.
Cream bake: Three and a half cup
of Hour, three cups of sugar, one cup of
butter, one cup of milk, live eggs, one
teaspoonful of soda and one of cream
tarter. This will make a large three
layer cake. Cincinnati Times.
--Bureau covers arc now made in
crash, a design of leaves and flowers
being generally worked iu linen floss.
They can be washed, aud on' this ac
count have much to recommend them.
The work is usually solid, and they are
finished off by an insertion of drawn
work and fringe. Al Y. Times.
C. H. Johnson tells the Fruit Grower
that by going carefully over his grounds
several tims each season and removing
and burning all plants showing raspberry
rust he has succeeded to such an extent
that no .nore than half a dozen cases of
the disease appeared lat year in the
whole of his three acres devoted to this
fruit, while another grower at some dis
tance "lost almost his entire sto:-k with
out knowing the cause."
Calves may generally be gradually
stopped off their milk after four months
of age. then fed on grass or hay. If to
this was a hied a pint of provender
night and morning, made up of nine
tent hs oats and one-tenth flaxseed ground
together, it would accelerate their
jrrowth anil keep them in fine condition,
if this cannot be had some advise scald
ing the grain and seed; let the two soak
awhile together and then feed. Rural
World.
As a general .thing, says a sensible
writer, all or our farm tools are too
heavy. Generally speaking, the farm
wagon that will bear up under a ton
weight with ease is plenty heavy enough
for all practical purposes to which a
farm wagon should be put. If you want
to haul two tons it is far better and
cheaper in the end to make two loads of
iL The saying in horse flesh and feed
vill, in a few years, amount to enough
to buy a new one and have something
left for profit. Ifyou are about ordering
a new wagon have it made light and of
the best material and you will never
regret it Al Y. Herald.
A new bug has turned up in Maine.
The farmers already dread it worse than
the potato-bug. It has so far been found
only in the town of Cherryfield and
vicinity, in Washington County. It
crawls at a snail's pace, but is diffusing
itself too rapidly. A local paper says it
resembles a large si ail. has the power
of elongation, and when extended to full
length is three or four inches long. It
is supyosed to have been brought from
Europe in a bundle of shrubbery. The
Irish say it is very common in the "old
( country" " It is a filthy-looking creature
and very destructive to almost every kind
of vegetable.
Winter iu the Poultry Yard.
I Poultry houses that have not been
; thoroughly repaired and made dry nnd
, warm for tin eold windy days and long
frost v nights ought to tie made snng at
once, so fo.vls will have not only'com-
lortable quarters to roost in at' night.
but a warm place ot retuge irom storms
I occurrius: dann
r the dav. V. hue all
! l 1. ..nilttttl- ftimi!l -tisii...il.. ..wv
c sneiiers lor """".t sumiiu n;i-uiai jjiwt-
tect from nun anu com. it is atso neces-
sarv that tli v be ventilated properly, for
fresh air. lik1 fresh water, is a necessity.
There should be withiu easy access of all
the fowls dusi-bins where the birds can
have a dust-bth in weathers of all sorts,
and gravel-bo?? ai well.
ri 1 ...
As oreen fr011 13 very desirable, manv
most economically managed
when
penned off from the rest of the tlock.
exercise is required, red three times
per day. confined in clean, airy coops
with all they will eat of corn meal mixed
with milk and provender for a change,
the birds will lay on a surprising amount
of flesh. As soon as fowls have attained
the required degree of fatness, dispose
of them at once, since they will lose in
weight from this time.
Fowls devoted exclusively to laying
eggs also require a regular supply of nu
tritive food, but care must be observed
not to overfeed, else the hens will fatten
but lay few eggs. The proper amount
of food v:iries with circumstances. When
i the fowls are confined to short runs they
, need more food than when at liberty. In
cold weather an increased supply is de
manded, and then some breeds require
more food than others. During the cold
weather a soft, warm food is exceedingly
beneficial, to be given every morning.
Hoiled potatoes mashed and mixed with
should be given one time and another for
a change. Whole grain is best feed at
night, as this is more slowly digested
than ground or 30ft feed, and furnishes
a more constant supply during the long,
cold night. While corn in one form or
another is always a staple food, wheat,
oats and buckwheat are all valuable for
the production of eggs. Laying hens
ought also to be fed meat in some form
at all seasons when they cannot obtain
worms and insects. Green food is also
beneficial to laying hens. Lime and
gravel are necessities, and a little bone
dust now and then is a valuable assist
ant. Milk furnishes, sweet or sour, both
drink and food. Where milk is not sup
plied, water, plenty of it and alwayg
fresh and clear, should be provided.
N. Y. World.
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A Marvelous Palm.
In the Village of Pedur, in India,
grows a marvelous palm. Some chil
dren plucked its fruit at five o'clock one
afternoon, and flocked early the nxt
morning to gather more, but they found
the branches now far above their heads.
They ran to their parents with the story
that a date tree which they saw on the
previous day lying upon the ground was
now standing. Observation disclosed
that the tree changed its position every
morning and evening. The tree is
eleven feet high, not including the leaves
and stems. One who has seen it writes:
"At 5:0 the tree was almost lying to
ward the west. The foot of the'tree was
at an angle of five to seven degrees with
the ground, and we were given to under
stand that it had already commenced to
rise from four o'clock. A handkerchief
which had been tied by the District Mun
siffto one of the leaves, so that its other
end might just touch the ground, had
risen six inches. At 8 p. m. the kerchief
ivas eighteen inches from the ground,
uidat 3 a. m. ninfeet.M
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