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- FOREIGN EMIGRATION. Its effects on Portions o Ireland. Jxmdon Times. It xS probable that the emigration daring the past ten years lias not done much to relieve the congestion of popu lation in places where it was really dan gerous. The statistics of the census give us on'y general results, but we know from other sources of informa tion that during several years included in the period now under review the emigration from Ireland was almost suspended. During those years the United States suffered from prolonged and severe depression. When trade re vived, and prosperity returned with a swelling tide, America again began to hold out irresistable temptations to the small farmers of Ireland. The de velopment of American competition worked doubly to encourage the emi gration of such men. The competition of transatlantic produce in the home markets was not only injurious in its actual operation, but threatened to be come inlinitely more oppressive, if not altogether ruinous. At the same time it was clear that the seemingly limit less and inexhaustible fecundity of the far west gave the owner of a small capital who was earning a hard and uncertain living as the tenant of a little holding in Ireland a chance of be coming a prosperous farmer on his own freehold in Nebraska or Colorado. The recent emigration has been, in the main, drawn from this class, and we do not know how any legislative changes in the Irish land laws can pos sibly prevent the same causes from continuing to operate in the future. There is indeed, one feature in the sta tistics of the Irish census, from which it may be inferred that when the land bill becomes law, the withdrawal of small capitalists, generally men of en terprise and industry also, from Ireland will be increased rather than dimin ished. Between 1871 and 1SS1, the greatest decrease of population was in Ulster, where the tenant f aimers have had the protection of the custom recog nized by the act of 1870. The popula tion of Ulster in April last was less by over 93,000 than that recorded in 1871, while in Minister the diminution amounted onlv to G9.000, in Leinster 00,000, and "in Connaught to 29,000. It is evident that the small farmers who had the privilege of selling their tenant-right to the highest bidder in the open market availed themselves of it largely during the last few years, and carried off the proceeds of "free sale" to the other side of the Atlantic, where they were led to believe they ould employ a little capital to much greater advantage. There is strong probability that the same results will follow in other parts of Ireland when free sale is granted by law to every oc cupier unless some unexpected check to American prosperity should supervene. Those who consider it most expedi ent that the superabundant population, in those districts of Ireland where there is chronic pauperism and con spicuous absence of capital applied to the culture of the soil, should be re lieved by systematic emigration under the control of the state are by no means satisfied with the prospect of a drain upon the not too numerous class of industrious and enterprising small farmers. Henceforward this class will have something to turn into money, not only in Ulster, but in the three southern provinces, whenever they choose to sell. They will be tempted to do so whenever agriculture is unpros perous in Ireland, and prosperous in the United States and the colonies. The average price of the tenant-right of farms in Ulster is far too high to ad mit of a fair return upon the money, and there is no doubt that it will run as high or higher under the iniluence of the "lancWmnger" in the other provin ces, where there is no other industry to compete with farming. Hut what has been the result of emigration from Ulster? The abstraction of a large capital in the aggregate though small in each particular case from a coun try where the cardinal difiiculty is the want of capital is not to be contem plated with any satisfaction, especially when it is borne in mind that the man who sells the tenantrright and goes away to a foreign country leaves his suc cessor in the holding permanently, charged with the interest on the purchase-money. The benefits of the land bill, however great they may be, will scarcely induce enterprising men who can command a small capital by the exercise of a free sale to stay at home when domestic adversity is contrasted with foreign prosperitv. But this kind of depletion, which is altogether beyond the regulation of law, is not that which is needed to solve the social problem in the most miserable port of Ireland. It is note-worthy and instruc tive that while the small farmers of Ulster carried away so much capital, so much industry, and so much enter prise out of the country during the past ten years, the population of the pauperized counties in some cases, as in that of Mayo, was diminished only by a fraction, and in some, as in that of Kerry, actually showed a small increase. A FIERY RIVER, Making a Father's Grave. The Sandusky (O.) Begister relates the following story : A little girl with tangled locks peeping from under a cal ico hood, clad in a dress of chintz, loit ered behind as the great dusty crowd moved out of the gates of Mount Adna the other day, after they had scattered (lowers and done honor to the dead. Dreamily she gazed after them, her eyes filled with a far away look of ten derness, until the last one had disap peared and the rattle of the drums had died away. Then she turned and vaguely scanned the monuds that rose about her, clutching still tighter the faded bunch of dandelions and grass that her chubby hand held. An old man came by and gently patted her curly head as he spoke her name, but she only shrank back still farther, and when he told a passing stranger that the little one's father had died on ship board and been buried at sea, there was only a tear-drop in the child's eye to tell that she heard or knew the sto ry. When they were gone she moved on further to a neglected empty lot, and kneeling down she piled up a mound of earth, whispering as she patted it, and smoothed it with her chubby hand, "This won't be so awfully big as the others, 1 guess, but maybe it will be big enough so that God will see it and think papa is buried here." Carefully she trimmed the sides with the grass she plucked, murmuring on: "And maybe it will grow in two or three years, and then maybe papa will some times come back and " But she paused as though it suddenly dawned upon her young mind that he rested beneath the waves, and the tear-drops that sprung to her eyes moistened the little bunch of dandelions that she planted among the grasses on the mound she had reared. When the sex ton passed that way at night as he went to close the gates he found the little one fast asleep, with her head pillowed on the mound. Farm Laborers. Farm hands should be required to give satisfactory evidence from former employer, or others, of their honesty, sobriety, care of what is entrusted to them, a good, moral and industrious character, etc., to be 1H companions of the family, free from contaminating or corrupting the morals of children by vulgar and profane language, etc. Clerks anjl employes in many other branches of business are required to furnish certificates from good authority of their character as employes, and why not farm hands as well, as they should be equally responsible? Farmers fre quently sustain great loss from the willful carelessness, destruction and dishonesty of those employed about them, as well as the corruption of the morals of their children. They are frequently not fit companions for the children and family, and sometimes much harm is done before the parents are aware of it, as children are fre quently and much in the presence of hired men and boys, and on the other hand, men of good character will be employed more readily and on better terma, Overflow of Liquid Lava from the Sandwich Island Volcano of Mauna LoaA Magnificent and Terrific Sight. ' San l'nuickco Special to Chicago Times. Honolulu papers, per the city of Xew York, contain alarming letters from Hilo, which is threatened with destruc tion from lava from the volcano of Mauna Loa. The population is prepar ing to lly from the fiery Hood. Two streams of liquid lava are coming down in rocky channels, which are some times filled with roaring waters, but are nearly di y at this timo. These two gulches are too small to hold the seeth ing mass, and the fiery flood overruns the banks and spreads out on either side. The united width of the streams may vary from fifty to two hundred feet. Going down the steeper parts of these rocky beds the roar is like that of the surf and often like thunder. Under date June 30, the correspondent says: About AVednesday of last week the old mountain was observed to be more than usually active, the whole summit of the crevasse pouring forth immense volumes of smoke. By Friday noon the three southern arms all joined into one, rushing down the gulch in a rapid flow. Saturday noon it had run a mile. Monday morning it was reported to have leached the fiat back of the Halai hills. The stream was entirely confined to the gulch and intensely active when about a half a mile from the fiats. The flow on the average is seventy-five feet wide and from ten to thirty in depth and filled the gulch up even with the banks. The sight was grand. The whole frontage was one mass of liquid lava carrying on its sur face liugh cakes of partly cooled lava. Soon after we reached it the flow reached a hole some ten or fifteen feet in depth, with perpendicular sides. The sight as it poured over that fall in two cascades, was magnificent. The flow was then going at the rate of about serenty-feet an hour. About midnight we noticed a diminution in the activity of the gulch flow, and soon saw a bright red glare above the tree tops, and presently were startled by burning "gas-bursts," and the crack ling and falling of trees somewhere above. The whole sky was lined with the light of burning trees and shrubs. About 2 a. m. we made an attempt to reach the scene of the great activity mid succeeded bv croinir up the south side of the gulch a quarter of a mile. The oncoming overflow had swept over the banks of the narrow gulch, and was llowing like water into a dense grove of neneleau and guava trees. There they stood in a sea of liquid lava over a space of more than an acre, while the fires were running up their trunks, and burning branches and leaves over head. The (low was so rapid that the trees were not cut down for more than two hundred feet from the first of the How. In one place we saw a huge dome of hall-melted lava rise up in teen or twenty feet high, and twice that in di ameter, and apparently remained sta tionary while the fiery fiood went on. We watched this for about an hour, see ing how rapidly it was advancing. At early noon we started back for home. The reason of the quisle advance of th flow the past t wo weeks has been the increased activity at the fountain head, the junction of the streams mentioned, and the fact that this narrow rock-bed gulch has formed a Hume to pass the liquid lava along in a solid, narrow stream without any chance for spread ing out literally. It is impossible to say now when the How will reach the sea, but the probability is 'that it will take the Kaukwan gulch, now not over 1,814 miles from the sea. It may spread out on the fiat above Ililo, and run down to the north of the hills, but tho tendency is toward Fishponds. There is no hope now of its not reach ing the sea, and in a short time, proba bly before you hear from us again. If it goes through Xaukuan, probably all the lower or front part of the town will fall a prey to Mine. Pole. Misled by the Advertisements. Urooklyn Englc. "Boss in V ho asked as he threw his leg over the managing editor's, table. "What do you want?' "Do you obtain divorces without pub licity?" "Xo, I don't I" replied the managing., editor. "Perhaps I'm mistaken in the place," ' he muttered, looking around; "can 1 get an oyster stew, well done, and two plates of butter, hero?" "No, you can't. This is a newspa per ofiice." "Oh, ho I so it is. Just mix me anr absinthe cocktail with a double squirt of lemon." "Clear out, will you? You've got into the wrong place. Go across thev street." "Can't I get a night's lodging here?7' "No, you can't." "Lend me a bung starter till day after to-morrow ?" "I tell you this is a nowspaper office. We don't keep such things. Get along-, will you?" "Got any second-hand glass eyes?' "Look here, you," said tho editor ris ing in wrath, "you make for the door.,, now, quick!" "Want to rent that big room m theiv for a walking match?" askeda the stranger ba 'king out. "No. I don't. Leave, now! MoveF "I'll match you for drinks." "Get! Spry, now. Out with you.,r The stranger tumbled down stairs and approached the cashier. "Is the boss' word good?" ho asked. . "Certainly," replid the financial! man. "I don't understand it," mused the stranger sadly. "Here's your paper says 'divorces procured without pub licity,' and 'board cheap,' and 'finest of liquors constantly on hand and 'glass, eyes perfectly natural and 'parloT games to suit all ages,' and when II went up to buy some of 'em, the boss: claimed he was all out of stock. Is lie reliable?" "He certainly is," replied the cash ier. "Then your paper is a denned liar' proclaimed the exasperated1 stranger.. "1 thought so when you put me down as being locked up for a drunk and disorderly, and now I know it." And the misled citizen went around to a job ofiice and subscribed for a circus show bill 10 run the balance of tho. year. London Small-Pox Figures". lndon Truth. The figures of Dr. Buchanan, the medical ofiicer of the local government board, in regard to small-pox are re markable, lie estimates that during; the last twelve months 1,5132 persona, have died of small-pox in London. OF these, 325 had been vaccinated, and! G37 had not, while it was not knowjii whether the remainder had been vac cinated or not. It would appear, there fore, that vaccination reduces tho chance of dying of small-pox by one- half. .Against this, however, is to be reckoned the very considerable number of persons whose health is seriously in jured by impure lymph. That the present law, obliging all children to be -vaccinated, requires modification, isv shown by the fact that the parents of rich persons never allow their children to be vaccinated with the lymph which is considered good enough for those oft' poor persons. Every one knows that . when a child of wealthy parents is to-, be vaccinated some medical man is chosen who either has obtained tho lymph direct from a cow or from a very healthy child The Holy Man of JSenoussi, in Tripoli, who is only awaiting his 40th biilhdny which will be next year to reveal himself m the "Meliedi," or reformer of the Mo hammedans, destined to drive the Chris- thins from Northern Africa, is visited by thousands of pilgrims. "Can you spell 'donkey' ter'.m asked a silly man of "ys,"8he answered, "U." with one let a bright girl. J V Out of 387,000,000 in foreign gold coin re ceived at New York for the year, not one piece was British. The arrivals were main ly French 20-franc pieces and German 50' mark pieces, although Japanese vens .wero well represented.