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WEEKLY Almlfs. Port Townsend. Jefferson County. W. T. ALL]! WEIR. ‘» . . Editor and Proprietor liirds oi the Forest. (Hollow! follow! follow! Across the pine-roofed hollow, Song-tinted breakers 0n the wood‘s wild acres; Knowiugthe mellow rush U! song is as the flush ()fthe first day that want, ‘ The dreaming, only day, I Lost in the sobluing awuy I (if sin and pain. ulna! I Sweet bird! the blessed place I In what glad world was set With glory face to face, Do you remember yet? lilo longs their circles trace Without annoy or (rat; They seem to interluce The faintly known and met. I 0! how the world of song May bloom, and throh, and grow, Or on the pathway: long Melodioua overflow! Through all earth's noise and wrong, Through all her pain Ind woe, How sweet, end purely strong, The tires of bung glow! The Mysterious Diamonds. BY swam nuswoo. A notable woman for decision of char acler and strictness of discipline. was “Ma'am” Price,“ she was called, who taught school in Portland, Me. Polly Price, her daughter, was an active, bright girl, whose nimble tongue was always ready with every and any body. The school-room was in Mrs. Price's own house, which stood in Turkey Lane, so-called from this circumstance: A man who lived in the street invited the Rev. Samuel Dean to dine with him and par take of a turkey. When the parson came, he found on the table not a choice, two~ legged bi ed, buta Cu )8 Cod turkey— that is, s hailed salt cod-fish. The_digni fled selectmen ot‘ the town christened it Newburg street, but the loss stately peo ple calls it Turkey Lane and by that name t was known for more than forty years. Wheuthe British bombarded Portland, Ma‘am Price. seeing that Turkey Lauel was directly in range of their flre,removed i has household goods to a place of safety.‘ Polly was determined to save'her pig. { A sea-captain at first assisted her. But as shot and shell came thick and fast, hel advised the determined girl to leave the animal, as it was not worth risking life for. Polly, however, was obstinate, and fastening a string to the creature‘s leg, tried to drive it to Bramhall‘s Hill, a long mile from Turkey Lane. The i 3 was as obstinate as Polly was determined, and the contention between them delayed their progress. Red-hot shot whizsed by her, shells fell around her, and one bursting flung a huge piece of the earth so nearas to strike the stick from her hand. But save that pig she would, and save it she did. Mrs. Price came to Portland from one of the West India islands. She was a woman of culture and decision, and very ‘ strict in her school discipline. If any 1 boy or girl refused to hold up his or ‘ her head, a fork was put under the chin. You may judge that she allowed no tri- ‘ fling with her commands. i Some years after the bombardment,the old lady was obliged to suspend her school, as the town was threatened with an epidemic of small-pox. A number of her scholars—among whom were my mother and uncles—were inoculated with small-pox virus and placed in a pest house. Ma’am Price (in whose experi ence and judgment the parents trusted, was employed to take care of them. It was customary, before the discover by Jenner, to inoculate a person with small- xmatterasapreventative ainst his tsliihg the dfiase. The patieangt was first put under a strict regimen of diet, and when the system was properly re duced, he was inoculated. Being care fully nursed, the disease wasnot much more severe than a mild varioloid. A patient seldom died,and scarcely one was disfigured by pits. The young patients over whom Ma‘am Price watched had long been kept on wa ter gruel, and were convalescent. Two of them, Stephen and Hugh McLellen, moved by a keen appetite, procured, through friends outside, two lobsters. All the patients had seated themselves around the table and were about eating, when, unexpectedly, Mrs. Price made her appearance. She peremptorily for~ bade their taking a mouthful of the lob ster, saying it would kill them. But they determined to eat, live or die. Seeing their obstinecy, end as the boys were lsrge, being unable to prevent their esting by physical force, she took out her snufi-box end strewed the yellow Scotch snufi' it contained over the shell fish, stirring it with a spoon. The boys were sngry, but Ms‘sm was calm. and they cherished no ill-will towards her. The good ledy‘e house was a resort for upteins of vessels who hld been acquaint ed with her end her husband when they lived in the West Indies. They brought her rnsny presents of fruits, slielle,conl, eye-stones snd vanilla-beans. People troubled with some foreign substance in their eyes would visit her to have an eye stone put in to take it out. Old ladies frequently went to her house for sweet. scented been: to nt in their smut-boxes. We children oxen tensed our parents for permission to carry some presents to Ml‘sm Price, end were always, rewarded ‘ for our charity. She would put the eye stuneu in u saucer uf vinegar, and we \\ ere delighted tn see them crawl nruund, us it'they were alive. Old pictures. noc tllemvfit and henutit‘ul shells were shown tn ua. and Moria-s were tnld nlmut the West Indies and the pirates. 'l‘amnrinds, or uuuvu jelly, nrsome other West India fruit, also cnntrihuted to our happiness. l mu guing to tell you about a most singular event in the life of this excellent wamun. I (loing one afternoonoluring rece<s,into ‘ her little garden. she picked a “mess of loans“ in her apron. Returning, she sat ‘down in her school-room and shelled them. In one of the pods she found lthrre diamonds. What a talk those dia ‘montls made for the towel People came from miles around to hear the story and to look at the diamonds which grew in a. bemt-yod. [have quoted the story as it was told to me. Mrs. Price and Polly ulways de clured mOst emphatically that the din tnonds grew in that bean-pod, and I cer tninly believe the old lady found them in the pod, as she did. Mrs. Commodore l’rohle saw her shell out the diamonds, and so did Mrs. Matthew Cobb, who lived in the large house on the eastern corner of High and Free streets. Mrs. James Deering also confirmed‘ Ma‘um‘s story. ; That is not all. The very day before? the old lady died, Miss Sarah Jewett asked her,— “Ma'am Price, did you truly shell those diamonds out of a beau-pod? Hndn‘t the pod been opened? Was it whole like the other pods?" “Bless you, Miss Jewett, how could I tell. You know folks don‘t look at every been or pea they shell, except there‘s one that won’t open easily. I was shelling and looking at the children to see that they were all in their seats, when I felt something hard undet‘ my thumb. I looked into my lap and there were two little shining things among the beans, and another rolled out of the pod under my thumb when I‘tookitup." Miss chett had one of the stones set in a ring,thst is now in possession of Wil liam Gould, of Windham; John Cnmp~ ball, a relative of Polly's, had another; but where the third one is I do not know. When thechild ren carried Ma’am a pres out, she would frequently take the dia ‘monds out of the cotton in which they were kept, and let them handle the pre cious stones, telling at the same time how she shelled them out of the bean pod, and how surprised she was. i I suppose if I don’t spoil this mystery [shall have a score or more of letters from my young readers inquiring how these diamonds come in that pod. This is not known certainly. What did the neinhbors think? Well, my father said that a vessel ar rived at Portland from Brazil, on board iof which were several varieties of pre— cious stones. The master or the vessel iwas an admirer of Miss Polly, and it was ‘enpposed tha't he stole the diamonds from ‘the precious stones on board the ship,and ‘put them in the bean pod. As he had stolen them, he did not dare to give them to Polly, or even tell about them. As Mrs. Pnce had only a dozen bean vines, he knew “Polly or her mother would find them shortly after the vessel had sailed, for he put them in just as he was going to sea. The vessel was never heard from, and therefore, the captain never came back to claim Polly, or to tell her where the die monds, which were not of any great value, came from. _ _ _ Thé mystery made a great stir at the ime.—Youth'o Oompam'on. A Naw Ins'ranuns'r FOR SCIENCE.— There is now in operation in the Labora tory of Central University, Richmond, Ky.. an interesting apparatus that re cords in a beautiful manner the motion of the earth in its hourly progress through alpaca. It is the invention of Professor .W. Tobin. The principle upon which the instrument is formed is, that a dell cately constructed pendulum will con tinue to oscillate in the same direction as started. and preserving that plane, mark the movement of the earth beneath it. The principle was demonstrated by Foucault. a French philosopher, in 1851; was verified in Boston at the Bunker Hill Monument, and lastly again at Yale Col lege. The apparatus hitherto employed has been cumbersome, and the results obtained somewhat vague. The experi ments, nevertheless, bear historical inter est, aad are related in modern text-books on physics. It has devolved upon Ken tucky to furnish the scientific world with ‘ atinished and mathematical demonstra tion of this beautiful phenomenon, to gether with the apparatus for producing the result so as to be proved in a school rOom or laboratory. The instrument is aboutsix fret high, consisting of an iron tripod and delicate pendulum. There is an index attached to the upper portion of the pendulum, and when the pendulum .is started this is perfectly still. In six minutes the earth’s motion becomes ap i parent, and the needle shows about one degree of deviation. In one hour the movement is so marked that the distance traversed by the earth may be estimated from its data. The pendulum is of such delicate construction that it will remain in motion for twelve hours, and yet may be retarded or even stopped by blowing upon it.-—Lour’svo’lle Comm-Journal. 11' in said that the famous Eddyetone lighthouse is about to fall. It was com pleted in 1769 end has consequently done nearly one hundred and twenty years’ service. The destruction with which itis now said to be threatened in not from any weakness or decay in the structure itself, but in the reef of rocks on which it is built, which is represented as being ready to crumble away. The Land of the Midnight Sun. i The Rochester ('m’wt makes the follow ing extract from a private letter dated at i’l‘romsoe, Norway, July 3: We Mean-ted 1 into this pretty Arctic town night hetero last, and shall make our hon c hm- u week longer. while a portion ot the [party ,‘linish their northern trip around .‘wrth ' Cape to Vsdsoe. We crossed the mount ,lains by means of horses and carriages, ,‘using one hundred and twenty for our :ride of twu hundred miles. The law re ‘quires eVery statiori—-from six to ten imiles apart--—to furnish traveler-i fresh ,horscs within half an hour of their arriv ial. We are now two days into the A rc : tic Circle. and'where we now live thex-un lshines brightly at midnight from May '3O Ito July 22. Even two days before reach ling this puint the sun was so strong at midnight that the ladies wanted shades. This coast is perfectly beautiful, or, I should have said, grand, as well as won derful. For nearly 2,000 miles the islands are so thick—so close together—that it is like sailing up a river which expands into lakes. The whole distance is overshad owed with snow-capped mountains from 3,000 to 5,000 feet in height. rising ah ruptly from the water, while in the dis tance are to be seen those which are much higher. We were exposed only once or twice to the open sea, and then only two or three hours at a time. The air here is very exhilarating. Yesterday the chil dren picked wild flowers as we were walking, and within a few feet snow balls. It is a wonder that in so short a season everything can be grown in this latitude, and yet grass springs up rapidly, often growing an inch in twenty-four hours. They have but two seasons really ——teu months of winter and two of sum mer. Although the season is so long yet the horde never freeze, and I think we often have as cold weather in New York. The occupation of the place is fishing, mostly herring and codfish. All are well to-do; no rich and no poor. The people are intelligent, the masses receiving a fair education. But what a queer place and what queer customs! From the belt‘ry of the church, between the hours of 8 at night and 6 a. m, a man shouts the time of night through a large tin horn at in tervals of every half hour. The clergy men wear large wide ruli's. We haveyust been to see the Lapps, some three or four miles from the town. They were notified the day before, and for a small surn spent the whole day among the mountainsgath erlng their reindeer, which they rove down for us to see—some 400 of them in number. It was such a novel sight to see them coming down the steep mount ains. They will not live low down, as they eat only reindeer moss, which grows where it is very cold. Cows will not eat where they have been, as the scent. of the little hair they shed is very offensive to them. We go from here to the tiords around Molds and Bergen, and purpose spending a few. weeks there; from thence we go to Hamburg, through Germany to Geneva, reaching Nice about the first of November. A Ghastly Picket Line. Judge Rowe, writing to the Philadel-i phia Weekly Times, relates the following? incident of the night‘after the battle on Fredericksburg: “When, on the return} to Marye's Heights, the command first tiled in from the road, there appeared to‘ be a thin line of soldiers sleeping on the} ground to be occupied. They seemed to make a sort of row or rank. It was asi if a line of skirmishers had halted and lain down; they were perfectly motion less; their sleep was profound. Not one of them awoke and got up. They were not relieved either when the others came. 1 They seemed to have no commander—at least none awake. Had the fatigues of the day completely overpowered all of them, oflcers and privates alike? They were nearest the enemy. within call of him. They were the advance line of the Union army. Was it thus that they kept their watch, on which the safety of the whole army depended, pent up between the ridge and the river? The enemy might come within ten steps of them without being seen. The fog was a veil. No one knew what lay or moved or crept a little distance 05. The regiments were allowed to lie down. In doing so, the men made a denser rank with those there fibefore them. Still those others did not 1 waken. If you looked closely at the . face of any one of them, in the mist and dimness, it was pallid, the eyes closed, the mouth open, the hair was disheveled, besides, the attitude was often painful. There were blood marks also. These men were all dead. Nevertheless, the new comers lay down among them and rested. The pail of night concealed the foe now. The sombre uncertainty of fate enveloped the morrow. One was saved from the peril of the charge, but he found himself again on Marye‘s llill, near the enemy, face to face with the dead, sharing their couch, almost in their embrace, in the mist and the December night. Why not accept them as bed-fellows? So they lay down with the dead, all in a line, and were lulled asleep by the monotony of the cries of the wounded scattered teverywhere." 0x ‘IIIE Fl.r.—“Landlord?" “Yes, sir.” “What‘s that?" "Butter, sir.” “Does it belong to the league?" “Sir?" “Has it. any ambition to excel as a base ballist?” “I don't as your meaning, sir." “Well, itglnhglld, for it's the best fly. catcher I ever saw.” “Oh, I Inc! John, tnke this nwny, and bring the gentleman some of the mufiin butter." Silence prevnilod.——Loumilla Courier- Journal. A Lynn Story. ~ Some time ago. in TUII‘. a Sm‘un of liinaldo's circus excited gem-[ll admin ltion by his manly lwauty and inh- ..t ‘streogth. He was in thr habit of our coming-lion during the tmrt‘urnun-‘vg which, it IICVI'I’, was trained to succumb The hey of Tunis. hearing nf this. I'll! ‘ him an oll'er ot‘ a thousand ducst- if in ‘ would kill a lion which hr [INN-turn! t The proposal was accepted, and on the : day appointed the hey and a large c-vm [puny gathered round the pit where the , lion was kept. The beast had breather.- l three days without food. and was l‘o-Ind ‘ furious. The iron door of the pit opened, ‘ but instead of the athlete, a trembling 1 dog was thrown forward, which timidly Itook refuge in acorner. The lion. who was at a distance, turned in surprise at the humble intruder. llis tail ceased to lash his side, his roar ceased, and he sat with paws extended, contemplating his victim. Propelling himself forward upon his belly, he finally made a spring. The dog, however, who had watched him with a vigilant eye, sprang in the opposite di- 1 rection. The lion seemed astonished at i missing his prey, but after rolling over a 3 few times, made anotherjump, which was also avoided. Pity for the dog induced the hey to order a cord to be lowered for him; and while the lion was gyratiag preparatory to a renewed spring the dog intelligently seized the cord with his teeth and was drawn up. As he ascend ed, the lion sprang again, but. was too late. At this moment the Sicilian ap peared, calm and fearless. He was in a rich circus costume, and carried a heavy mace. He took his position in the same corner previously occupied by the dog. At first the lion did not perceive him,bur, on turning, his eye expressed a vague in quietude. He slowly withdrew a few steps, watching his enemy with a furtive and sidelong glance. 'l‘he Sicilian, on the contrary, looked straight inJiis eye and watched every, movement. The lion evidently had misgivings, but, impelled by hunger, sprang upon the man with a terrible roar. The Sicilian slipped aside with agility, and before the pawa of the lion touched the ground, a violent blow from the mace on the head laid him in sensible. The mace was raised for the death blow when the boy interposed. He offered the man another thousand for the life of the beast. It was accepted, and the lion was allowed to recover. There Will be Rest in the Eventide. All day long the farm it may stand between his plough-handing turning the yielding soil; may endure the burden and heat of the day; may be burned by the scorching rays of the sun, or be drenched by sudden showers, but by-and< by the sun furls his banner of light, the birds cease their singing and fly home to their nests; the eventide has come, and tired man and weary beast find rest. All day long the smith may ply his hammer while huge dro s of perspiration roll down his smoke-Begrlmcd brow. He be longs to the class that must toil for their daily bread, and work with him has be come second nature. He likes the mu sic of his bellows and clink of his ham mer, and as the huge sparks fly 03‘ from the redhot iron he can almost imagine he is Jove forging thunderbolts and revelling in the forked lightnings as they wreath and twine around him. But as the sun goes down in the west, he lays by his leather apron, and washes the soot and smoke from his face, and goes home to enjoy the society of his family. For him there has come rest at the eventide. All day the patient mother may toil for her little ones, sympathizing with them in their childish sorrows, calming their fears and soothing their pains, until she is worn out soul and body; but as night approaches sleep touches their eye lids with its magic wand—and for weary mother and tired child there has come the rest at eventide. And for us all there will Come rest at eventide, it matters not what our occupation may be, nor where our footsteps roam. Life with its pitiful joys and bitter experiences, its feverish dreams and empty ambitions, its hopes and fears, its loves and hates, will be ended after awhile. As we grow older our trust diminishes, as one by one our friends fail us and our expectations are cut off, the apples of llesperides turn to dead sea fruit within our grasp, and the idols, we all, at times, so Wildly worship, lie shattered at our feet. Oh, the follies and vanities of life; the lessons we have to learn and unlearn; no Wonder we grow weary, many of us, long before the end of the journey is reached. But all we can do is to possess our souls in patience, and press forward for the mark of the prize. THE quantity of pins now produced daily in England is said to be 50,000,000, of which Birmingham produces 37,000,- 000, leaving some 13,000,000 to London, Warrington, Stroud and Dublin, where the article is also made. The weight of wire consumed annually in the pin man ufacture of England is set down at about 1,275 tons, one-eighth of this being iron wire, used in the production of mourning and hair pins. The consumption of brass wire amounts to 2,500,000 pounds, valued at nearly SOOO,OOO, and of iron wire some 345,000 pounds, worth about $36,000—t0 these values being added, of course, those for wages, paper, ornamental envelopes, boxes, wear and tear of machinery, man ufacturers’ proflts, etc. Mourning, hair, entomological, and japauned pins—that is, those stuck in rows—realize a larger profit than those sold by weight. Taking it altogether, the pin manufacture of the United Kingdom is not overestimated, it is thought, at the aggregate amount of 81,000,000. In the, United States, the ,waight of pine produced in e year is set 1 down at 1,120,000 pounds. A GENERATION in fifteen years. WWI... M mmfifidfi “.mm-uamum; outflhnllfitdddulddptlulq on winks-h 1... he Mn... mung“. t Influx-I'd myt u-(ll—ntbytnyd hiring-Incu mmnfiuhbmdmv‘n with .mnurudh-u. A as." m me. u cunt chin-9y ad | cool-ling lih Ila-nu: “{ am“ I“‘." 3'! that. union. than theme. A “at" chi-u, M Ihmionlrukkmtnl mun-dun. chimney Inau- it b the Which ad ooHM Witch full; ad .- fq . molding wife, thy uh. my 5. WI- ha huvhud pawn...” L h"! tippeflld Burma: 'A dirty wife is far mum. A wife any with], and yet lie clan and thrifty. But a scolding plattern is 1 terrible nuinncc at homc,nnd very won will succeed in making a home thoroughly intolersblo for even the m: st pacitic and contented dispositions. It with dirt there he auto, the acme of discomfort will be reached. Muncy spent recklessly. and without my useful product of comfort—what is the end of this but poverty and vice'l And drlnk, the great cause of waste in poor men’s houses—expenditure on tint which not only wastes u man‘s substance, but ruins his moral and physical capacities, and we have reached a point of discom fort beyond which we cannot go. Drink is the demon of tens of thousands of homes, which but for it might be happy. But there are many miuor sources of discomfort, which worr and fret impa tient minds,nnd render iiomes thoroughly uncomfortable. 111-trained children, un~ accustomed, because untuught by early discipline, to curb their little tempers,are a source of discomfort in many homes. The neglect, perhaps the ignorance of mothers themselves ill-disciplined in youth, is mainly to be blamed for this. 111-cooked meals—here is another source of discomfort—perhaps a small one; but not so small either. Bad cook ing is waste; waste ofmoney and loss of comfort. Whom the church has joined in matrimony, ill-cooked joints of meat. and ill-boiled potatoes have often put asunder. There is, indeed a sound econ omy which may be exercised by women in the culinary department, very much to the saving of the husband‘s purses as well as tempers. Among the “common things" which educators would teach the working people, certainly this ought not to be overlooked. It is the commonest and yet most neglected of the branches of female education. Perha sit is even thought below the dignity of going called “a branch"of education at all. But cook ing,which really is the art, when properly on tivated, of making a little go a great way,is iuiinitely more valuable and im , portant to the comfort of homes than tambour work, crochet, netting, or back stitch--not to speak of music and draw ing. The art 0 cooking eclipses them all in point of value. An unwholesome house is always un comfortable. The atmosphere is de pressing to the spirits, and it debilitatea the frame. Its influence may not be felt or perceptible—excepting by our sense— that of smell—and yet it is most power t'ul. Even the temper becomes peevish and irritable; and the depression leads to a craving for stimulants, which, in its turn, leads to an aggravation of the evil. Children become querulous, sickly and complaining; how can they be cheerful, breathing poisoned air, as they often do? The children cry, poor things, finding vent in tears and sohs; they are beaten when they should he sent out in the open air, or, later in the evening, put to bed. And thus the home is made very uncom fortable; These unfortunate children—how our heart pities theml Brought into the world helpless, they are lcit amidst the gloomy association of depravity, dirt, and disease; and they hang about the ser did dwelling an infant brood, imparting nojoy to the home—onlly so many gap ing mouths to be fet —increasing its squalor and discomfort. Often children are called and scolded for no fault of their own; the ill-temper engendered by dirt and drink is visited severely upon them. Tolerable tempers are made bad, and bad tempers are rendered cruel; and thus they grow up to mature years with the stamp of savage life upon them,wrth out any idea of the comlorts of home; familiar with the spectacle of daily re curring vice. In better‘circles home may be made intolerable in other ways. Peevish and querulous tempers spoil the repose of many households. “ etter is a dinner of lherbs, where peace is, than a stalled ox lwith contention.” There are people who ‘are always making afuss, and Will not ‘ let you be quiet; these have the knack of {making even dining and drawmg-rooms \intolerable. They are as unwholesome ;as even a roomful of bad air could be. iMoping and whining. discovering all lmannerof frets and aches and imaginary woes—grumbling at the maids—tinding :cause of alarm in everything— suc'h peo ple rarely fail in making homes intoler able, and driving forth those who had hoped for, and who were entitled to find, , peace and repose therein. AN eminent Scottish divine happened to meet two of his parishioners at the house of a lawyer, whom he considered too sharp a practitioner. The lawyer ijocularly put the question: “Doctor. these are members of your flock. Mnyl ask, do you look u on them as white of black sheep?" “I cron‘t know," answered the divine,dryly, “whether they are black or white sheep; but Iknow if they are here long they are pretty sure to DO fleeced." M 0m: person dies at each pulsation 0f the bout.